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FOR FRF.SIDF.NT,
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON,
Os Ohio.; •
Th(? invincible Hero of Tippecanoe--—llie incor
ruptible Statesman —the inflexible Republican
he patriotic Fa.mcr of Ohio..
: FOR-VICE-PRESIDENT,
. .1,0 If N T If LEU,
■Of Virginia;
A'Statc Rights Republican of the school of ’98 — '
one of Virginia’s noblest sons, and emphatically
one of America’s most sagacious, virtuous and
patriot statesmen.
FOR ELECTORS of PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT,
.GEORGE R. GILMER, of Oglethorpe.
DUNCAN L. CLINCH, of Camden.
JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of Muscogee.’
JOEL CRAWFORD,'of Hancock.
CHARLES DOUGHEKTV, of Clark,
SEATON GR ANTE AND, of Ba-ldwin.
ANDREW MILLER, of Cass. . .
WILLI.\M EZZARD, of DeKalb. ,
C. B. STRONG, of Bibb. .
‘ ’ JOHN WHITEHEAD, of’Burke.
E. WIMBERLY, of Twiggs.
. for congress, * •
WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene:
11. W. HABERSH AM, of Habeishann
JULIUS C. ALFORD', of Troup.
EUGENIOS A. NTS BET, of. Bibb.
LOTT WARREN, of Sumter..
THOMAS BUTLER KING, of Glynn.
i ROGER L. GAMBLE, of Jefferson.
JAMES A. MERIWETHER, of Putnam.
THOMAS F-.' FOSTER, of Muscogee.
.Gentle reader, we give you not in this day’s .
paper the result of our sketches of the great and
glorious. Convention of the patriotic band at
Macon. -Would you know the reason ? Turn to
ouf paper of yesterday, and you will observe that
the eloquent, th •■charming, the immortal Preston,
was to address his countrymen at the (,'itv Hall
in the afternoon. Were ybuJthere, kind, generous
~ reader? W e know } t ou were—for none whose
good opinion we case ought would be away—
wild you spent the time froni four until six’in “the
afternoon,. as we did,, hanging in breathless si
lence upon his glowing, burning eloquence—
you will not only readily conjecture the cause of
our delinquency, hut We dare say’ that you
Will forgive us when we assure you that we
heard him again and again at Macon, and
that so far from satiating our thirst, we desired,
aye, were delighted at the opportunity, ’again to
sip at the same pure fount, to have our bosom
heave and swell with the same thrilling, patriotic .
glow. These, and these alone are the reasons
why we have not answered the expectation
which is felt l»y you all to see the result, the
glorious result of that great and. patriotic Con
ventiuu-
Llection Retnrirs.
The.lndiana elections returns, embrace ac
counts, official and reported, from 74 out of the
78 counties in the Slate—making the Whig ma
jority thus far between 10,00,0 and 11,000 votes.
The Kentucky returns make the W.hig major
ity thus'far between 18.000 and 14,000.
0 The Missouri Election.
The SB. Louis pape-rs of the sth, say that the
. vote in that county stood:
Clark, (W.) .2265
Key nolds, (L ,F.) 1456
One township to hear from.
From the Baltimore Patriot.
Illinois. . ,
W e have the following Iroin the W estern pa
pers received this morning:
C 01. Vrcher (W higj has been elected to the
Legislature in t, laik county 11, Letmdec Mun
sell,,( Whig) and J. M. Kelly (L. F,) have been
elected representatives, in Edgar county. The
W hig candidate lor clerk has also been elected:
. lil ,Coles county, Messrs. Threlkheld and
Cunningham (-VVhigs) have elected representa
tives.
It is reported that Gen. Ewing (L. F.) has*
been defeated in Fayette.
In Madison county. Alton, Edwards, Reynolds
and Ualaspie Whig Representatives, elected by
270 votes.
Andrew Miller, Wljig candidate far Sheriff, "
elected.
Moore, the Whig candidate for Senator from
the district of St. Clair, Madison, &c., was a
head 2d4.
Fiom the county of Jersey we have the fol
lowing— *• I’be Whig ticket- has .succeeded by a
majority ol 210 votes. All the Whig candidates
lor county officers are elected.”
In Vermillion county, Messrs. J. J, Browne
B. CanacL, and Isaac T roman are elected Re
presentative;, by upwards ol 300 majority, and
the whole Whig ticket, exceept, Coroner, pre
vailed by the same majority. Mr. Browne is a
young gentleman of a high order of talents, and,
as a Representative, will reflect credit and honor
on his constituents. His associates will* also
make able Representatives.
i ue whole whig ticket has also prevailed in
Sangamon, Morgan. Scott and Menard counties.
£® A Trot against Time.—A strong match against
time, (says the Bunker Hill Aurora,) came off at
Cambridge, yesterday afternoon. The horse-File”
was to trot one hundred miles in eleven hours, on a
l-ctol >3OO, round the course. He started at 6 o’clock
A. M., and trotted ninety-five miles, having forty -
© ,ive 01,111,108 t 0 accomplish the other five miles in ;
but believing that he had been round the course of
ten enough, he declined going any farther—wnip
ping would nut induce him to go—and so he lust
the wager.
Wisconsin and lowa, the young scions of the
West, have astoni-hed the nation by the recent
jet urn of the census. The former gives returns
for 31,U00, and the other 50,000 souls. Three
fourths of the inhabitants arc from New England
Par the Chronicle and Sentinel.: . ■
‘NTuststvop, >ve can t be worsted.
Messrs. Editors— In-conversation with a fami
liar old friend and neighbor, who is peculiarly hap
py in drawing comparisons, and who.is 'k.’iow n.bj
the usual affection ate cogn oman Os ‘‘Uncle Henry-,”
I was desirous to know’ if the iteresting topic of
who shall be-President, had • touched 'lris.leeßngs,
I sopppsc’, r aid Ito him. you are a thorough going
Harason man. The old gentleman’s lace lighted
up very expressively. ‘-Why, to he sine,- to be
f-uie I; m,” said he; “I Rave just heard, through
the papers, of-the fifteen hundred dollar bedstead)
the silk damask curtains for the east room % cos ting,
near ly four thousand dollars; the gilt .and satin
chairs;, gold ami silver vessels,.equal to the spie..-
dor and banqueting magnificence of Balshazzar,
King of Babylon. Why I almost see the hand
writing on the walls of 1 1 is palace ‘ mene , Tuenc,
tekel vpharsin.’ All this splendor, costing thou
sands‘upon thousands, to show oil to advantage a
man, who ought to’bo, like Dr. Franklin was, the ‘
plain, unostentatious ‘agent of a great, free and- j
happy people; and I think he must have felt happi*
er amongst the proud. Parisians, in all their court
splendor, in Iris plain, republican garb, than Mr-
Van Huron can feel, reposing on his ottomans, and
with his si. 1-6 damask pillows, and footstool's. But
surely,”-said Uncle Henry,‘(this agent of -the peo
ple cannot’be guilty of ruining’the country by
keeping in office men who do not do right: he cer~
• tainly did not know now much money these’rascal
ly leg-sub-treasufers had on hand, or- he would
have directed his officers to have drawn it out of
their hands.” “You say,’’he continued, “they have
run away with upwards of two millions ot public
rao.icy, and that the expenses of the government
have now reached the astonishing sum of forty
millions annually. ’.Tis awful : \\ lien I lived in
. Virginia,-I had a neighbor who had a mean, rickety,
lousy, no working horse,-who might be truly said
not to be worth a chew of tobacco. Ho was deter
mined to got rid of him at any rate. Well, he tied
him to a swinging limb near tae spring, and stood
in the road,‘waiting for a chance to swop him off
Presently t-bere came along a man diiving.a half
fed, lank-sided set of horses, who jaunted him for
.a sw’op. I’m ready for you, said-my man, with no
words about it. Just take any horse in j’our team,
and hitch’him in the place of one. you will find
down in.yonder bottom, and I will be satisfied. —
The man did so, and I-assure you he was not
worsted. So- it will be in the exchange of Presi
dents —we can’t be worsted.”
. “But, Simon,” said Uncle Hemy,-“I saw you at
the great discussion the -other day. What did you
think of our old friend, Major Cooper’s bank speech,
in defence of his favorite President? 1 ’ “1 tell.you
candidly, I nde Henry, I could no: understand
much about it; but one thing I do. know;, that the.
bank of the United Slates has paid all it owes to
the government, bonus and all,-which must have
been a considerable sum; and, 1 also understood
that it never failed to'pay all the’ govcrnment.de
mands upon it. ■ It’might have shaved and cheated
a little'to get along,- all the banking institutions do
this, I believe, so that /they may keCp the blight
side up. The Major, I believe, is largely, interest
ed in a/Trust Company which- possesses greater
[towers’ than any of bur banks,. It can loan out
money at any interest, shave and insure, and turn
its powers to hny advantage-, at least tire Columbus
folks say that it always has done it. When the
Major, .was prosing- aw ay. on his bank speech,.-j
thought of our‘old fiicnd Flanningham’s lale, of
the man who camped out, and awoke in the night
with a strong propensity to steal; and groping about
in the dark, picked up something arid hid it until |
morning, and behold, when daylight came, he found
lie had stolen his own shoes. 1 just tell you this
tale as a set off for yours about the horse.” “Si
mon,” said Uncle Henry, “I give it up, you are
pretty rough.”' ’ •. • scraper.
From th Richmond Whig,
Negro^Testiinony,
Contrast between the “Illustrious Predeces
sor,” and the “ Follower in the-Footsteps.”
Mr Poindexter introduced a striking illustra
tion of the d lforence between the old Hero and
. his successor, the par excellence , “ Northern man
with .Southern feelings.”
. A Cadet at .West Point was a few years since
dio missed, on negro-testimony. An appeal was
taken to Gen.-Jackson. Judge Rowan of Ky.,
[ presented the papers to the President. He com
menced stating the case by reference to. the ne
gro--testimony. Say 7io mare, (said the old Gen
eral) that's enough—/hefact of a Negro depo
\ Apt r against.a white man,is of itself,sufficient
■j tn my esh /nation, to vitiate the whole procee
- ding. The decision is reversed, and ihe Cadet
j re-instated
How different is this from the conduct of the
“Northern man with Southern feelings,’-’ and lha t
too, under circumstances of aggravation, when
the negro witnesses were the servants of the ac
cuser ! ' "
■ I can fnd.nothing in the.proceedings of Ihe ’
C use of Lieut, lime , Which /’(quires my inter
ference.” - ’- • . *
A Short Chapter, •
OH, VAN RUBEN LEADERS VS. THE ST B-TREASCR T.
“These treasurers, all appointed by the Presi
dent. und removeable by his will, with all the
public moneys in their actual possession in
) their pockets, desks and vaults.” — Globe.
“The proposition is disorganizing and revolu
tionary, subversive of the fundamental p.inci
ples of our Government, and its entire practice,
from 1789 down to this day ” — Globe.
-He (the President) lias never claimed that it
should be in the actual keeping of Executive o f.
;- fleers.”— Globe.
“Instead of suffering the President to appoint
one Treasurer, he would have him appoint as
many as should he convenient.”— Globe.
-It he had suggested such a system, what peals
of patriotic indignation would have burst from
eloquent Senators against the usurper and tyrant,
who desired to get the millions of the- Treasury
into the very hands o’fhis partisans and parasites ”
Globe.
“B’uch a treasure would doubtless he employed
at some time, as it has been in all other countries,
when opportunity tempted ambition.” Gen.
Jackson.
“Who call for this measure, and who are to
he benefitted by its adoption 1 The enemies of
our Slate banks ; the enem ls of a w ll ngula
la led credit system,- the lev tiler; the money
lender; ihe recipients oj fixed salaries, and per
manent incomes.”—Albany Argus.
‘•To retain it in the Treasury unemployed in
any way, is impracticable.”— Gen. Jackson.
“It cannot succeed.”— Ritchie.
r ly ’ of Massachusetts, has recovered $360
o .iil- cost, .'or a breach of marriage promise. He
com ted her one yea)-, and the jurv allowed her one
dollar per day for the time.
From the 'New York. Courier Sr Enquirer.
3lr. Van JiiiiTii’s Letter.
We'have witnessed nothing of late. years in
the history- of the Federal administration, sa
cowardly and so shabby as the conluct of Mr.
Van Buren in regard.to the standing army scheme
of Mr. Poinsett. Theisaccessor of Gen. Jack
son.'so far from following in the footsteps of -h s
illustrious predecessoV and assuming all reypoii
sibililies, attempts to shrink from the responstbFli- .
ty of a measure.proposed to Congress by, a inem
ller of bis own cabinet, and strongly commended
to their attention, .in his own annual message !
Suppose dial Gen. Jackson had attempted thus to
avoid the responsibility of having removed thedc
ppsilcs. 'Suppose that.by such miserable 'subter.-
fuges he had put oil from his own shoulders the
weight of his gicat usurpations and abuses —he
would have added meanness to guilt, and his ca
reer would have lost .all the character, which it
now derives from the reckless andacitv ot his
.violent and profligate measures. ...
But, Mr. Van Huron manages his schemes; by
proxy. He uses the cat’s pa.w to pull the chesnuts
j out.rif the fire. He never burns his own fingers.
Mr. Poinsett is.tuined up as the trump egrd of
| this military game; the whole business is his '
thunder. Mr. Van Buren is'as innocent - of it,
as the babe unborn. IVot only-does he kuow no
thing about Mr. Poinsett’s scheme, but he pleads
.general ignorance of military affairs, to do away
with all suspicions of his having intermeddled in
this unfortunate business. Tn reply to the four
citizens dt Virginia, whoasked him a few ques
tions and one in particular touching’this scheme
of Mr. Poinsett, he says —“My knowledge ot
military affairs is" very limited.” This we have
always suspected to be the baseand our surprise
is, that it has not been the aim of Mr.’Van Bu
ret), as commander in chief of the Army of the
United States, to acquaint himself, in some de
gree with the duties appertaining to that impor
tant branch of public service. If he had turned
•his attention somewhat to the Army and Navy,
we plight have been-spared not - a little national
disaster and disgrace. The Florida War might
have been prffsecutcd under circumstances less,
dishonoorable’to the republic ; with more .spirit
and succeess, if with less plunder and, pecula
tion. It wc had better understood the‘spirit and
character of the Array, we should never have .
witnessed the -disgraceful ex-hibitiun of the Court
Martin] at Baltimore, that was summoned to try
honorable and high-minded officers, for purchas
ing provision's and supplies of. Whig traders.
If he had belter understood the spirit of 'the’Na
vy, we should dot have Seen the official organ, of
the Administration assailing our gallant officers,
as a gang of “ Coblers and tinkers.” Wc should
not have seen Commodore Elliott repeated!// in
flicting double the numfec of iu heS allowed by
law on American seamen under his*command,
and receiving as a reward for this conduct a'four .
years v. a! ion, with, full pat/for the whole derm. ;
Wccandolbut regret, therefore, that Mr. .Van
Buren is compelled to confess to S’,Veil a “ very •
limited knowledge of military affairs,!’ which we
cannot deny', whether in. regard to the naval or
. land service, hut winch is very much to he la
mented, and which is ’ extremely discreditable, *
when wc consider h\s position as .Commander of
the army ami navy.
Giving him," therefore, the lull benefit of au •
; ignorance which’ is extremely discreditable, we
■do not see by what process he is to escape from •
the charge of a 'Specific recommendation of a
scheme which he now pretends,’that lie-never
saw. If he never saw it he should never have ’
recommended it. But after haying recommended •
it, the idea of escaping from its responsibility on
the p'lca that he never had seen, it is quite too pre
posterous. Besides, it matters little whether or
not the President knew any thing of the odious
scheme which he is now compelled to repudiate; it
is enough for us.that he elevated to office, and that'
he retains in office a-minister wh6 is the author
of- a most daring and profligate project for cnsla
ving the People.
HoW far we may credit the repudiation by Mr.
Van Buren of the project of Mr, Poinsett, may
.he inferred by reading in connection the follow
ing extracts from the last annual message of the
President, and the last'annual report of the Se
cretary of War ;
From Mr. Van Burrn’s Annual Message, da
ted December *2, 1839.
1. “'The present condition of the.defences of:
our principal seaports, and navy yards, as repre
sented by the accompanying report of the Sel-re
lary ot \\ ar, calls for the early and serious at
tention of Congress; and as connecting itself
intimately with this subject, I cannot recommend
too strongly to your consideration the plan sub
mitted by that officer forthe organization of the
militia of the United Stales.”
2. “ The reports from the War, Navy and
Post Office Departments; will accompany this
communication, and oneTrom the Treasury De
partment will be presented to Congress in a few
days,” .
From Mr. Poinsett’s Report from the War
Depart mail, dated November 30 1539. .
3. “It is proposed to divide the United States
into eight military districts, and to. organ’ze the
militia in each district so as to have rr body of
twelve thousand five hundred men in active ser
vice; and another of equal fiumher as a • reserve,.
This would give an armed militia force of two
hundred thousand men, so drilled and' stationed,
so as to be ready to take their places in the ranks
in defence of the country, whenever called upon
j to. oppose the eiilfriy. or repel invader. The
| -age of the recruit to be from twenty to thirty Se
vern Tfie whole term of service .to. be eight
' years; four years in (lie first class, and four fin
j the reserve. One fourth part, twenty-five thou
[sand men, to leave the service every year, passhig
at the Conclusion of the first term, into the
serve, and exempted from ordinary military duly - •
altogether, at the end of the'second. In this man
ner, twenty five thousand ihen will be discharged
from military duty every year, and twenty five
thousand fresh recruits be received into the ser
vice. it will be sufficient for all useful purposes
that the remainder, of the milita, under certain
iegulations provided tor their government; be en
rolled and be mustered at long and slated inter
vals; lor in due process of time, nearly the
whole mass ot the militia will pass through the
first ami second classes, and be either members of
the active corps or reserve, or counted among the
exempts, who will be liable to be called upon only
in periods of invasion or imminent peril. The
manner of enrolment, the number of days of
service, and the rate of compensation ought to
he-fixod by law ; but the details had het.rr be left
subject to regulation ; a plan of which lain pre
pared to submit to vou.’’
5 M e learn from a gentleman directly from Old
Point, that twenty-three workmen employed in
the ordnance department, of Old Point,' were
ischaiged this week from employment; and at
our informants’ leaving, they had not been paid
otl, and were very much dUatisfied. Out of the “
twenty-two thus discharged, -there are thirteen
votes—all of whom have in return doffed Van
!uTro‘* m j and declared themselves in favor of
Ol.i 1 ip, the true friend of the workingman.—
hath more Patriot.
AVO Mr - John‘Smith !—Mr.- John Smith, of
1 ol ’’ l "’bdst on his passage Born
{ harloston to Nassau, N. P.,tr> the schooner Mary
Tho'w-’ was " nockcd oveffioaid by the boom.
Ihe v\ i.mmgtoi Chronicle says: “ Th° Mr--ei
was running at the mte-of seven knots, and before
she could be put about, lie was lo<t soffit of A
very heavy shower of rain came on directly! and
he was ot course given up as lost. • But after the
ram had ceased, and whilst the schooner was on
another tack, ho was discovered swimming, and bv
means of the yawl taken on board having been in
the sea something like an hour!” ' 8
From the Chat ledoh Courier. .
To the Hon. George 'M’Duflie*.
Sir : J proceed here to mytask—and that no in
justice should be done, I quote the precise language’
that yoii have employed. -
. ! t hofig-Ji 1 am constrained, by • circumstances,
to deejine your, in citation,'! concur fully inyour
• oppasiticn to" the election of. Gen. ’Tiarrfrbn. If
' there were no other objection to his election* tfie
. andac-ipus pnd insuilting.positiohhe’lias assumed ot
.’ refusing to disclose lii.s opinion to the people on
subjects of vital importance to thr,ir welfare; while
asking their suffrages far tne-bigh;si office in tneir
gift, and the disgusting miin meryof log cabins
• and-beer-.barrels, which .would disgrace the orgies
of the lowest demagogue, by which bis nomination,
bn* been heralded forth even" by Hie highest of bis
.'pntizans. would bevjuile conc'usive'with mc. s ’ .
If this thunderbolt Were aimed at General Har
rison, it lias certainly spent itself in air. To your
Late assertion, that Gen. H. lias refused to disclose
ids opinions on vital subjects, 1 have only to op
pose an absolute denial, and to plant myself on the
facts.of the case, ft is- not true, that his opinions
have not been disclosed i’ui?y. x freely, unreservedly.
•Sir, it is pot in your power, to make and unmake
truth at your pleasure, and of all contra
diction, i make the positive assertion, that-there is
not one subject tis Vital impoitanCe—not one, sir,
upon which he lias not .-expressed lus opinions and
seated lus views—fully,frankly,and unreserved.y.
.1 have regarded 'this chaigc,.when coming from
others, as The merest cant of designing politicians,
and I should not have known how to account for
your endorsement of it, it you had not youcself
supplied the reason. 1 find it in your letter that
vou have ■‘■‘■'withdrawn yourself entirely from the
field of politics."’ It is a chance whether ydur
eye, consequently, ever liglits upon apaperdhat is
not devoted to tlic destruction of General H arri
son. And-1 will here remark, in the way of justi
fication.of your bold dogmatism, that never bid a,
• press exhibit sbeh recklessness of tiie .interests
they professed to serve—never was suppression.,
perversion and imputation, employed so unscilq u •
lously. to deceive, inflame, and madden a people
• against one to whom they owe a debt of lasting
gratitude. Lean readily believe, sir, that “ having
withdrawn entirely from the held.ol po’itics,” anil
confining your reading to the \ an Buren press of
the State, that you can be’ievc any thing against
the candidate of the Wbig.party. It is only t» be
regretted that on a question upon which you must
necessarily, from.want of interest and. propffi in
vestigation, be ignorant,.that you should have,
rashly put forth a- misrepresentation,’calculated to
do all the injury which such a charge, sanctioned by
' your character," could*do.. This crying injustice to
a soldier apd a paliiot, and above all, to an honest
man, this greater wrong to yourself,*would have
been impossible, if you could have taken sufficient
interest in the politics of the day to read occasion
’ ally any one of a hundred of the opposition papeis.
of the country -Is there one question of vital im
portance,, now before the public, besides the follow
‘ing: " . • *
The Bank.
Internal Improvements,
The Tariff. . ..' . *
The Sub-Treasury. .
Aboiitioh= . * • ’ .
The Veto.
Public Lands. . .
The general character of tlic Government —Nul-
lification —or the “ Force ’Bill r” •
' Tlic last war. . ’ •
The alien and sedition laws'.
Imprisonment for debt. .
i Bankrupt law. •
Arc not these nil the “ subjects of vital im
portance,” which agitate and occupy the nation ?
. If there uc any other question mooted either by
politicians or people, what is it ; lam entirely in
the dark, cannot read what is'.plainly: written, or
■ hear what is loudly spoken, if there be a single
other one question discussed as of vital importance,
.beyond the-list 1 have given.- Yet upon tvhirh of
all these has’not General Harrison expressed his
Opinions, so plainly', pointedly, and fully,
honest man can possibly misunderstand.him J Up
on which.has lie equivocated, and used lire double
tongue? 1 can readily beL'cve; sir, that you may
think me audacious in my intenogatpries: If your
sources of information'have been confined o such
portions of the admipistralioa picss ? as lam a; ens
tomed to pee (and of such journals i alone here
would be undec lood to speak, or to have spoken,)
! '-an well conceive your astonisliment-at my sup
posed tetneritj*. You, sir,mnd the ingenious, con
fiding people of our State, have been grossly abused
and practised Upon-by the organs of-pclitical infor
.mation. Would you believe it—could you imagine,
that editois.boi n- and bred as gentlemen, recogniz
ing in their private walk the cour’tesies’ol'Jife, the
obligations of stric t truth—could be so far seduced
from that which js due' to themselves and to their
responsible and re pCclable position—as u on.the
great question of our interest arid our feelings—
our existence an I our point of honoi —tb»t they
could be induced, to injure one whom in need liad
proved’himself oiir friend to bis own hurt —by cut
ting one of his letters in two, and suppressing the'
portion which vindicated the consistency of bis life
.and his opinions—gloiied in the martyrdom he had
suffered for us, and repeated and enforced the'ge
nerous principles of an enlarged patriotism and
devotion to the Constitution, which prompted the
noble-sacrifice oC self, to Hie South and -the Union,
If, sir, you have ever read the whole of the letter
or address, written to the people of ills’ District, by
Gen. Harrison, when a candidate for’Congress,.im
mediately after the Missouri question, 3 0U can ap‘-
preciate the extent of the ungenerous and unfeel
ing injury which has been done him.
If your information has been cop fined to the
fir-H portion of that address—rtlie only knowledge
permitted or enjoyed by a large poiUqn ot o r pop
ulation—you will have read of the -fidelity of a
Virginian, to the abstract principles entertained bv
Washington, Jefferson, Madison and .Marshall, and
not Iren allowed to read of that ovf.rrulin'u fi
delity to the which confined the ap
plication of these.abstract principles to his own in
dividual State, an;l forbade them to be intruded
upon others; —this overruling fidelity, contained in
the latter portion of the address, being,' suppressed,
and the unsuspicious'.people of our State induced’
to believe tiiat Gen. Harrison is an abolitionist,
when be cheerfully and deliberately laid down lus
political life*, rather than be .one and violate the
. rights of ot hers. Incommentirga:pon th is instance
ot mutilation, perver-ion and suppression, it was
not rny intention-to'vindicate Gen. Harrison from
tiie wicked, imputation of Abolition—but to offer
it -as an illustrationof the manner • in which you
and-dnr people have been informed and "abused and
. to account to the world for your otherwise unac
countable delusion. And here I would remark
thathoweverculpahle the press may be. it is scarce
ly to be censured, for tlius betraying ’hose who de
pend upon it for light; when we consider the licen
tiousness, of stitemcnl, which has been exhibited
by- leading public men, moie'- distinctly charged as
more deeply intruded with the welfare of the
State, and the faithful theirfellow citi
zens The. p « in fu 1 conviction lias been forced upon
rae, that the State, has received a deep wound bv
the utter looseness of principle with which tins war
has been waged. 1. may put too high an estimate
upon its past character, bu., sir, it has seemed to
rnc, tbat.tirere lias been a precipitous descent irom
that candor and lairncss of spirit which 1 have al
ways regarded as the marked attributes of our
date, and the sources of its unequalled moral pow
er and elevated'standing in the confederac y. Wc
are but a handful, sir, arid our strength depends ur
°n our character—valor—truih—eloquence—wis-
dom—arc our numbers and our power—and he who
brings our integrity into question destroys ns
It is hardly pertinent to remark upon vour sol
emn detestation of log cabins and hard cider as m
objection to Gen. Harrison. With this you will
admit he has nothing to dd-no more than Genera
Jackson, with the groves of hickory which some
time since shaded and adorned our cities It s
no: reasonable to Impe for any sympathy from you
m the buoyant outbreak of popular fee I in-, which
has converted into a rallying cry and a sign of vic
toiy , hords ot contumely and scorn. The shouts
wlue.i rise up f.om those vast and cheerful and en
thusiasfrcasseml Ingesof your fellow citizens,must
till with an ungrateful and harsh dissonance upon
a spiritt in love with solitude and gloom, and bum
-mnt ot all gay sights and sounds. But, sir 1 would
even expect from your calmer judgment in a ffiea
SSS wio“/frti gi ’v h “. thc r ttnjed >»-
th« it is in tiie lieait „f man ’ t„ o™
“G/cc Gen. Harrison S2OOO a year and a barrel
of hard eidn , and our word for it he mill
tent for the remainder of his days in his /
on th banks of the Ohio” J l ° S Cahin
Tlus, sir, of the soldier and the farmer who had
lel armies to victory and wen the solemn ’thanks of
lii-: cbtmUy. Deeply read, as yo.u. are, sir, in ti e
history bl.yjur race,! amsui'pnsed-thalyou shou d .
■ be revolu dat any: extent. of homage that, should
be-shown -after this, to the simple luxury winch
gratifies the palate of labor, and the humble dwe -
ing that protects it. They have both been sconced
—it was enough, that a man- had been content to
, occupy a .l)g cabin and think hard mdei, m .e
though 1 as a mattcrof bourse, .incnpabfco genet
. ousJmlttiia. Yes, even, when the one.insi.lted,■
had served-his country,.-it wars enougn tlibfi he hail
lived in a log cabin, to have him doomed, to ultet
poornc sos spirit, and to permit it-to be- justly sa;d
of him, that he-coukt be bought off-from honor and
■ the servicedf his country ny giving him inmgkffn
cat and dr in'-! •- Sir, I olFer no defence'for the spirit
• which'has rrret the insult—and 1 make no apology
" foVth'e log cabins-which cover eur land, and Lie,
banners which hear their image. Let the insult be
■varied and it maybe/e)t • ’
« Give George M’J)utße.s2ooO a year and a bar
rel of peach brandy, and he will be content to plant
Cotton and eat hog, and hominy, the rest ot Ins
. days.” ’ •
Is it.understood sir P Cannot our people unaei
.stand it P I foci, sir, that I have descended even m
giving expre -sion to an analogous case—no, sii,
the analogy has not been completed —I shod Id have
been compelled, to make it pciTept, jo have gone
' hack to "your boyhood, and selected the humble oc
cupation in which it passed to give vent to an igno
ble scorn ! Then, sir, would the.people have felt in
their own iifdignath h the wretched -attempt *o .
degrade’ a mme rendered illustrious, by its posses
, sor; what'V. is and tchy it is that “ Ibg-cajain, artd
hard cider” should he shouted with enthusiasm
borne in processions, and 'naiutcd upon flags.
i must not trespass further at present, but re
serve the /emairider of your com.nriun cation- for
another or other-occasions.
- ' Respectfully,' your obedient servant,
CHAW FOR a
Moke Tkocki.es in the Aroostook Quar- ‘
tku. —'I’he Bo.'iuij.Courier says: . ..
Eleven citizens of Norridgewock, Somerset
county, Me. who state that they “have been, until,
within a few months, the unwavering and steady
supporters' oflhe present administration,” have
-come out under their proper in the
Somerset Journal, and renounced all adhesion
to Van Burcijism. - •- •
William Jordan mid nineteen other citizens of
'Bath, Me., “Original supporters of Jackson’s ad
ministration, and many of them of Van lluren’s,”
have, in a letter to Mr- F. O. J. Smith, of Port- .
land, announced their intention, to quit thc-paitv
in power, and to go for Gen. Harrison for Presi
dent. In compliance with their invitation, Mr.
Smith will deliver an address before them, and
their friends, on-Tuesday next.
The organ’oflhe Administration party in 3t- ’
Louis, Missouri, the “Argus,” has a cUTTepreserj
. ting “a- Log Cabin blown up by the Sub-Trea
sun/ /' r Fhe St. Louis Republieanjuslly remark 6
“The representation is the best we have seen. P
will, if continued long in force, blow up thousands
of log cabins. It will, drive the tenants of many
now peaceful and happy log cabins'forth into the
world poor,and penmjess. It will strip honest
industry of its reward, and beggar the noblest part
of the American people, the humhlebut industri
pus occupants of log cabins. W ill the Argus
• loan us the cut! We wish the whole State to see
the effects you anticipate from the Sub-Treasury
' ’ WII.” ‘ * .
Gex era lHa u u iso x —A Republican <f 1798,
General Joseph Darlington, of West Union, O.’
l’ one ol the three surviving members of the Terre
; torial Legislature in Cincinnati, in 1789, has
written a letter to' Win. Creighton, jr.. Esq . of
■ Chillicotho* in.which’he states that Gen. Harri
-1 son was supported and- elected a Delegate Ip
Congress as the Republican candidate in ppp isi
( tfqn to Arthur St. Clair, the Federal candidate.
He says: “During that, session I was wefl a't
. quainted with General Harrison, and well know
) that he was believed by 7 , all the Republican mem
■ bers of that Legislature to be'a firm Republican
and a supporter of Mr. Jefferson’s political prin
-1 pies, and under that impression was elected a
Delegate to Congress by the Republican mem
bers ot -the Legislature of. 1799. It will not he
, necessary for me to say to you, who-have been
1 acquainted with me for more than forty years,
that I was at. that lime a "Republican, and well
• acquainted with,and engaged iri all the acts and
proceedings ot the Republican pgrty in that'
’ Legislature.” •
. 'I he old Dominion, —A friend in Winchester,
> Va. late a\ ah Buren man,-writes us as follows:
I " “In a lew days 911 address .will he published,
. signed by something like one hundred voters of '
this county, who in 1836 voted for Mr. Van
Buren, setting-forth the reasons which have in
- duced them to abandon his Administration, and
to give a zealous support to G(?n. Harrison. You
may rely upon it with entire confidence, that if
■ the changes elsewhere in the State bear any pro
portion to the number bore, there is not a State
, * the I nion which may be ielied on with more
, certainty tor Old i’ip than the Old Dominion.”
| SfenvEn him Right.—A friend in Indiana
j writes us that a few days before the election, eight
hundred Wayne county men went 011 hor.-eback
. to meet Gen. Harrison at Greenville. They had
not proceeded far on their way when they" di.-
f covered that some British Tory-had hung a petti
-1 coat on a tree, about 30 feet from the ground, arid
’ to secure it from the Republican Whigs, had
Besmeared the tree with filth. A few Hoosiersa
’ lighted from their horses, and notwithstanding
the federal loco locos were armed • with guns, *
; knives and tomahawks, the Hooishiers compelled
, One of them toolimb the tree through his own filth
i- kin rig down the petticoat, put it on himself, .-and
parade before the-company, and perform certain
federal loco foco evolnt oris, to the ineffable cha
grin ot his federal confederates. —* Madisonian. ”
. A Bachlou’s Familv.—The deputy marshals
. -in taking .the census, must have witnessed some '
1 strange scenes, both of grave and the ludicrous.
Among the latter w.e have heard of one. where
; l . he ofhcer ra PPed at the door of a small tene
nient f and his summons was answered by a brisk
little man, whose Independent air shqwed that
he luxuriated in all the, luxury of single blea'sed
r.oss. “\Vho is the head of this family 7”
1 J he marsh al. “ I am. sir,” was the reply. -Qf
1 bow many does it consist I” “Eleven, sir*’
“ How many males I” “Six, sii.” “Six males
and live females, chi Well, what are their a^cs?”
. “ bive of nine days old. sir.” “ Not ail b v
■ OI ]? mother, surely.” “Yes, most positively.”
. “Gracious me, here’s an item for my friend of
» me Sun. r ive children at one birth ! Well
this is increasing and multiplying with a-ven
■ geance. Pray sir, what color might this fruitful
l mot her bo 7 febe is not your wife, for I know
1 youare * bachelor.” “ She is partly black and
> P art, y white, and she is not married.” The
i lnarshal became more and more bewilder d
, “ Do. sir, if you please, tell me what sort of a
. household you keep.” “ A very respectable one
■ -sir, and quiet lor there is not a woman in it’
’ J ;‘ y household, sir, consists of myself a bov a
; ? r °e- a cat and -, llve kittens,'and two canary birds
1 1 h T, S ar ‘\ m -V household, and a liap F y family we
are. “Good morning, Mr. J.” Si 'i ( i f i.„
j shal, and vanished.— Balt. Sun. " mar “
' Extensive Fire at Clevklano r> •
the niglit of Friday, the 7th, the Exchange Mus
■ sLtOook f.nio 0 W S .S La " e “" ,1 M «»i«
, .her wilh scvaral adjoini„ g bJiu' U,td - '°**
; -,r w
. h mouth
rL.S,m r i^rr irelyconsu “ ed ' L,JSi
. ~ ■-
f
The Fire.—We gave yestgid iy a brief a ero .. ls V
of the fire in Front-street whi li was i-agi ß(r 111
. time we wrote.* We have since asccitaihed ! 6
the-building belonged to Mr, Lorilard, was j! ' ac I
for s4o'.>o, and worth at least IOA)JO. R VV;i 'J ! ' ,( | k
cd by Mr. Charles' Past ley, tvml contained
1200 bags cotfee, a quantity .of sugar, niol. '
horns, cttickcry; &c-, the value of whi*'h L -’
.estimateda: §<60.000 a «.7t»,U00, and insu.ed o*■ - 1 '
feient. ill.the city.— ‘N. Y. Cou vr ' 01 ' j’*
ai izth. ■ ••. ’ i? - ■/ |i
• 4 .* : 1 — ■■ —■- •
A Private Aliair.
The-Vlcksburg Whig, spcakirig of ti )e
.‘•Tory Failure” in that city on the Fourth oITT I
• says:—. . . . ■ u '- v
- .“As this a .private alV.tir entirely ‘.l ’
Whigs of course did not intrude, hut about- ■
thousand’of them got up a little meeting 0 f ' X
own in another part of the town.”
Old Fort Pickering, on JLhe Mississippi ' f
mediately below Memphis, has. hern purchase I
lately by the La Grange and Memphis Hailroad '
Company, with a view of establishing a.cdii. m p r
ci-aLcrty. ’• 'The first public sale of lots-will take
place on the JOth of November next.
No Growing.—We are sorry to. hear that th
'. very Chapman who. received orders to crow \
“cooped up,” Ins comb cut, and his gaffs off ’
From the Indianapolis Journ d., of July 4
Chapman, the Loco Foco editor-ofthe'Wa .a-h
Enquirer, stands indicted in the Court of \q t
county for pea jury.’ 1
A meeting was held in London on the third ,
Julyi compgsed of the merchants hankers, ani l
tradesmen, of the city, on the subject of the per • ■
secution of the Jews in the East. Copies ofii u .
proceedings of the meeting were transmittal by t h e -I
•Lord Mayor lo'the several ambassadors. AmoiK
the published answers of the ambassadors is ihe'
Billowing from Mr. Stevenson :
- 32, Upper Grosvenor street, Juin 13f4840. ’.
My Lord—l have the honor to acknowledge
the'receifit of your letter of the Bth instant, cu- J
closing .to me, for the purpose of transmi-don to 1
my Government, the resolutions, adopted -at the
meeting of flic merchants, banker, traders, and
.(■others of the city of London, held, at the E >vp- |
j tian Hall,.on the 3d ot July, in relation to thy
cruellies practised, towards the Jews in the Bast.
I beg-to assure your Lrirdship that I will take
• an early opportunitv of these reso- I
lutioiis-to the United -Biales, and I cannot belter
do justice to my own'feelings,.or those which'! 1
feel.confident wIU be entertained bv the Presi- I
dent ana peiiple of the United States, in relation I
to the subject of tb»sc resolutions, than to seize
the. occasion of expressing my deep sympathy in I
favor-of those oppressed people.
I have Uie.ncnioi lohe.youF Lrirdship's oliedi
ent servant. A. Stevenson. if
■ A letter-from Alexandria, quoted'by'the Or. k.f
stitutional, states that' len-of the rabbis accused
• of the alfair of Damascus have been set at liheitv.
• One onJv.Antebi. remains in prison. »
- - • ' I
• Counterfeiters.-^The New Albany (Inff.jGa
zette says tliat, “ for some -lime an extensive
combifittlion of counterfeiters and coiner'have in* I
fos.tcd a large portion of Michigan.- Ariiohgthpm a
arc sheriffs, magistrates,. lawyers, doctors, colo
nels,-majors, landlords,and other dlgnilnr.es-iheir ’f.
. principal licld of labor being the-counties of Wayne,
Macomb,' Oakland, Ft,* Clatr, Washtenaw, aid
Jackson. The wife of one of them Iras now
made disclosures’which will prohably lend to fie
arrest and conviction of -many of them, and (he |
dispeision.of-tlie remainder.”
One Hundred and- Thirty Jo under.—The S
experimental pioots of another taigo-cannon,(one S
hundred and thirty pounder.) made 1 y Cynh Alger ||
& Co., commenced yesterday at South-Boston Po.r.t, M
under the direct ion us Col. George ilorriford, chief
of the Oidn.mto Jlo’iartmeirt. '1 his gun is cqn>id- W
evably larger th; n the one experimented upon some K
months since.— Lostxui Journal. •
U. IS; Bank.—-A u tter from Ainstcrdam, snvs n
the London Spectator of 11 th July, states, that
j “the;remainder ol the loan contracted by Mc,<r.-, Bp
’•I Hope arid <’o. lur the service of thcUnited F.:!es
Bank, Was readily, taken there «.n Friday at l)sj K
| per coin., the first instalment to be paid by the 2
'i 21st, and llie rernairider (there are but two in- J
i stalmcnts) by tiro- first of September acxl, ’ •
1. . Atr< cion's Brutality. *
. Alarietta, ((mo.) Aug. 6. B
j Stage Accident. —( n'l ngsday last, tlic mail
i and opposition lines of stages, I et'weer Zstusviix ■
and Alaii 7, tta, were ic quentiy -engaged in incirg,
, but without any injury toeitliei until within at.out M
1 six milc.s ot .Marietta, when the opposition stage, a[
| containing nine passengcis, w-?s tluow.i off the road U
\ and'capsized. Nearly all the passengers wcie
1 more or less injured and a Air. Peck, from New *|
! N 01k, very scricuFly. before the accident, the dp- ||
position stage was'ahead,and in ascending Match
I Run Dili; ai) attempt w 7 as made By the mail, to pass P
it. .The mail stage was on the right hand side, ■
and the two 1 an-abreast for some distance, when I
I the leaders of the mail were reined in,-the two ■
; coaches thus brought in contact, and the .opposition I
[-stage thrown entirely olf the bank.
. j 'J he whole matter will doubtless very soon un-
C dergo a legal investigation, and we wi hliokl any
j opinion as to who wgs most blameworthy in this ||
iiiatter.—\\ hethei'ccns.ure cauattadi to m, re .than 9
, one party at tie time off the accident , iapci’iap',
a matter of doubt, but’liom the account.ot the pas- a,
sengers, we feel no hesitancy in declaring that the u
. .drivers of both lines manifested a perfect reckless- j
ness of the-safeiy cf* tlie passengers previous to 1
the accident. W orse than all, alter the road was •’!
cleared by the opposition being upset and thrown I
offthe bank, the'mail stage drive into town with- J
out sfoppjn-g to relieve tire wounded,'and retimed
. ta return I.a bring in the passengeis, the road agent
coolly remarking-that “ the otticr line- might' bring- 'I
m their own dead 1 — lntelligencer.
Th« Falls pi itiukan-Fos, Norway.
llut hark ! we are still far away from the Falls,
and yet.their roans already heaah We had been
climbing without intermission for several miles, ■
and there is another terrible hill before we ihs- i
mount- at its’fqot several large and dange roUS *
I torrents are yet to he crossed. As we rise, houses,
j even at this remote and elevated point of thevcl-
• ley, are seen nestling among the copse, or com*
i pletely overshadowed by some trees ol noble
growth. The track rises higher, and higher, so
steeply that.it seems impossible for our wearied
horses to reach the top. At last the path seems
to terminate— ; a huge precipice bars all ad'ance.
Leaving the horses in a deserted hut, we get
round the interposing rock—climb on our liana--’
and knees— turn a soft green point—and in an *
other moment the Vail bursts upon us in ail ds
beauty and sublimity. Above the Fall, the river
is seen slanting through a naked ravine in a long
inclined bed, where it flows smoothly and swiftly,
w ithout a pool to rest in, or a rock to break an,
till in one moment, from clear and foamless vvati 1,
it vanishes in white clouds of spray; with a
glc plunge it has fallen four hundred and fiU
feet into a vast gulf scooped from the solid m- 1 ;
Me ! So tremendous is the shock, that even at J|
this distance the mountain trembles. From U
immense height of the Fall, the body of the water |
is lust sight of long before it reaches the bottom;
instantly 7 it recovers itselt, however.and rises ac
to the very summit in light vapory clouds, bound
ing and curling upward, till the whole basin and
the retreating hollows are full of wreaths upon
wreaths ot fantastic beauty. A matchless sigh'.
Ihe floating masses are ever varying their forms, ,
now they are like the rich foliage of lofty trees
waving in tne summer gale, now like the gil'**’
clouds at even. Their beauty is singularly heigh*