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rT - mirm I I -will .111 ■■■■ in' 1 * ■"" CUKoM iJLE AND SKN r nNEU au gi st a • a •' •_ ;• . ' TUESDAY -AUGUST 18- 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*