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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. A I G U S T A . SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 23. FOR PRESIDENT, WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, Os Ohio; The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe—the incor ruptible Statesman —the inflexible Republican the patriotic Farmer of Ohio. for vice-president, JOHN T i LEII , Os Virginia; A State Rights Republican of the school of 9S— 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, j 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 DcKulb. C. B. STRONG, of Bibb. JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Burke. E. WIMBERLY, of Twiggs. FOR CONGRESS, WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene. R. W. HABERSHAM, of Habersham. JULIUS C. ALFORD, of Troup. EUGENICS A. NISBKT, of Bibb, j 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 Delegates appointed by the different | Tippecanoe Clubs in the city, and Captain’s Dis- i tricts in the county, for the purpose of selecting candidates for the Legislature, are requested 10 j meet at the office of the Chronicle and Sentinel, at 4 o’clock p. m., on Monday, the 24th inst. a2O North Carolina. It is not a little amusing to hear the Loco Focos speak of the late election in North Carolina. Oh, say they, “ this election for Governor is no test. Did not North Carolina elect a Whig G*. vemor in lS36,by 4379 votes, and then give her vote to Van Buren the same year,by 3767 votes majority ? Does ! not that show that the vote for Governor is no test | of the public feeling on the Presidential election ?” j This they think puts a quietus on North Carolina. | Tiiev forget that the vote on the Presidential elec- JO tbn ia IS3G was 16,044 less than it was for Gov- , erncr. and that 12,093 of those 16,044 were Whigs, and onlv 3,9 19 Loco Tacos. The recollection of these facts does not set very well upon them, and hence a damper is thrown upon their ion J anticipa tions. These are facts to prove which, we wi!j j give the state of the vote for Governor and Presi- | dent. Dudley, who was the Whig candidate for Gov ernor, received 34.167 votes, and Spaight 29,7b5, which gave Dudley 4,379 majority. \an Buren received 25,839 votes, and Judge White 22,072 votes, which shows a decrease in the vote of 16,044 votes, as stated above. But “ Old Rip” is now wide awake, her sons eager for the contest, and they will be found at the polls in November. None of that indifference which exhibited itself iu 1836, exists now, and old North Caiolina will be erect in November. Later from Europe. « Arrival of the President.— The new ! steam packet President, Capt. Fayrer, from Liv erpool, was (says the New York Commercial Advertiser of the 17th inst ,) telegraphed at 11 o’clock this forenoon, being at the time about 40 miles distant f om the lower station. Elections. Wc are again without further authentic news from the North-Western elections. In a few days we shall receive complete returns, when we shall lay them before our readers. In Kentucky, at our la-A account-, the Whigs were upwards of 17,000 votes ahead, and a prospect of its increase. The impression is pretty extensively entertain ed here abouts, that the North Carolina Elections have given toe Feds their Quietus, Treasury pap—a-King-cure all, can’t save them. Mr. Fisher ot N. C.. whose district lias given 3200 Whig majority, and who was elected as a hig, throughout the last session of Congress i was one of the most thorough-going adherents of ! the Administration in the House. The signs, we take it, portend Ins as well as his master’s , downfall. Grand Failure. The great dinner which has been in contempla tion for some weeks back, to be given by the Lo coiocos to that stock-jobbing politician, Edward J. Black, came off on Thursday last, near the line of Richmond and Burke counties. And notwith standing tire great efforts to get together a crowd, | lo and behold, when the assembled multitude had collected, it was variously estimated by members ' pf their own partv, at from 100 to 300 persons. \ Cjj* Lhere will be Divine Service in the Pres byterian Church to-morrow morning at the usual hour. Stop that Ball! i lie Kiioxt ille (! ennessee) Times contains an address, signed by one hundred end sixteen citizens of Blount county, formerly supporters of the Ad ministration, who declare their intention to “ Come out from among the foul party And vote for old Tippecanoe.” r ' * Gpop.—The Globs, who, just before the elec tions West, swore point blank on 10,003 for Indi ana, &c., row say s the result is a mystery that no man can explain— rather “ a pressure that no hon roan should regret.” From the Georgia Journal. Just as we expected—Gov. Troup. The Van Buren party, notwithstanding Cov. Troup’s expressed determination,sometime since, to lake no part in the present contest tor the Presidency— and notwithstanding he has said, in language that could not be misunderstood, that their party had been in power to “ steal and plunder were not satisfied ; but as he had ex pressed himself favorable to the Sub-1 reasury, they still hoped t> get something from him to 1 aid their sinking cause. They knew that tit prospect was a bad one—but knowing also tnat their party was sinking daily, iu carr} ou ,l the adage “that drowning men catch tu b^ r aw., they determined to try him any io\v. ; l^ c inglv preparations were inade to gi'e a uin t Sailders'-die, (about 30 miles from the residence of Gov. T.) on tho 29th ult., and in the forma tion of the committee of invitation, the only -m e Rights Van Buren man in the county was ap i pointed Chairman. In carrying out their design, | he addressed a letter to Gov. 'Troup, inviting ! him to their dinner. We cannot suppose tor a moment, that it was expected he would attend the Chairman, at least, knew Gov. Troup too well to expect any such thing—but tne hope was, that in his reply, he might say something which they might torture into a preference lor Mr. Van Buren. In this, however, they wore ; most vvofully mistaken. The “old roman” very politely declined their invitation tells them that they may have seen in the prints the reso lution ha had taken to keep aloof from the pre sent controversy, and that nothing could induce him to change it —that as they were near enough to be considered neighbors, he would cheerfully give them his views—but that he had written so much to keep Southern men and bouthern prin ciples united, without having effected any thing —and that as, on the present occasion, *■ the part}' to which he professed to belong,’ had left him standing, as it were, alone in a little Oasis of the Prairie, he claimed “ the liberty and inde pendence of reposing and dying there without further disturbing the tranquility of friends and foes.” He farther tells them that whenever a genuine State Rights man is nominated, with the least prospect of success, he will be in tho field, as ardent as any one—hut that, until then, he must be excused from taking any part, as he 1 does not recognize the purity of that moral which i inculcates a choice of evils, &c. &c. But the let ter speaks foi itself. Here it is : Laurens, 15th July, IS4O. Gentlemen—Thanks for your kind and friend ly letter received to-day. You will pardon me, i ray friends, for not complying with your request. You may have seen in the prints the resolution i I had taken to keep aloof from the present con | troversy, and nothing can induce me to change it. My views you should have most cheerfully, none being belter entitled than my neighbors, and you are near enough to be considered and I treated as such ; but I have written so much in j the course of my life, for the purpose of keeping | Southern men and what ought to be Southern ! principles united, without having, to my knovv { ledge, made a single convert, and having at last, as on this piesent occasion, found myself desert | ed by the Party to which I professed to belong, and standing as it were alone in a litile Oasis of the Prairie, I claim the liberty and independence of reposing and dying there without further dis turbing, as I have too often done, the tranquillity of friends and foes, by my political vagaries. One thing in extenuation of my neutrality— Whenever a genuine State Rig-Jits man can be j nominated for the Presidency, with the least , prospect of success, you will sec me in the field I as ardent as any of you—until then, excuse me j if I do not recognize ihe purity of that moral which 1 inculcates the choice between evils—between what is worst, what is very bad, what is equally | bad, what is indifferent, what is worth nothing i —I choose an honest and competent man, who | is at the same time an honest public man, who j is no constructionist, but who in pursuing the letter of the Constitution in practice, whether he ! come from East, West, or South does best pur j sue the interest of, and make safe the entire j Southern country. No other public man is fit I for us—if he is not our friend at the very core, I amid the perils and dangers which beset us, he i may as well be our enemy. The civilized world, | that is to say, the knaves, fanatics and hypocrites I of the world are against us, and if we ourselves should, in the last resort, be found against our selves—why—be it so—you have as much at stake as I. Very respectfully, gelleinen, G. M. TROUP. To Messrs Skrine and others, Committee, fcandersville, Ga. What a commentary is this letter upon the course of that portion of the State Rights parly i who have deserted their old friends—have joined the enemy, and are “now loudest in theiu denunciations,” of the party to which they have been attached ! Gov. Troup knows that the Van Buren party have no principle that they would not give up in a moment to obtain power; he knows that w hen they have power and act up on the principles of their party, they are directly opposed to State Rights, and a strict construction of the Constitution ; and he knows too, that while they profess one thing, they act to the contrary. Gov. Troup is also aware that the party that nominated and is now supporting Gen. Harrison in Georgia, is the only true State Rights party —that they oppose corruption from any and all quarters; and that, however they may differ with him in the policy of supporting Gen. Harrison, whenever the rights of the State are infringed, they are and ever will be found at their post, ready to meet the enemy at the thres hold, and to battle with them in any shape or form, in defence of their rights and a strict con stiuction or the Constitution ;—and knowing this, he is not disposed to aid in putting them down, because they differ with him only upon one principle, which the other party profess to sup port. i hat portion, who are now supporting •Mr. Van Buren, know as much too, but how different their course ! Differing with the party to which iney proiesscd to belong, “ on the pre sen, occasion, \iz: toe propriety of giving its support to Gen. Harrison, instead of pursuing the course Gov. Troup has taken, and as they could not go with us, and stand off and letting us battle U with t..e old and steadfast foes of the principles of State Rights, they are found in the enemy s camp, intriguing, and concoctin" plans to defeat us, and foremost in the pusillanimous and contemptible work of denouncing the old State Rights party as Federalists, &c. & c . An d in doing so, who are they aiding 1 A man who, they acknowledge, has voted to place free negroes upon a footing with white men—a man who has been opposed to the interests of the Southern slaveholder from the time he entered public life down to the present day—a man who, in addi tion to his “uniform support of a protective . tariff and internal improvement,” his standing army and corrupt administration of the Govern meat, has given late and conclusive evidence that he thinks it right and proper that negroes should be permitted to testify against white men— and a man, too, who they have been long con vinced was one “ having no kindred feeling for ihe South, or its peculiar institutions. A stran ger alike to our habits—our feelings and our interests distinguished for no ordinary public virtues or public services—unknown as a states man. ana unconnected with any of the great | events of our national history, save only when fraud in the ranks of those who were battling 1 against us— and who if we revert to his politi cal history, we shall find nothing to approve, Out every thing to condemn.” i And to what party have they attached them ei; * nd to whom ire they giving their aid in 1 * ‘ riu ‘y a e aiding the party who hold to the abominable doctrine, that to “ the victors belong the spoils”—that it is right and proper to use life offices and money of the country to buy up the people, and to use any means to acquire ’ power, and who use the most dastardly means to retain it. And to.whom arc they giving aid in ’ this State! To men who believe the Tariti to be Constitutional —who believe that the Supreme Court has the right to control a sovereign State in the exercise of her jurisdiction within her own ’ limits—who believe that Congress has the power |to sell a State—to a parly who believe that there ’ is no remedy for the encroachments of Federal . power upon the rights of a sovereign State, but a ; petition to the Congress of the Uunited States, or an appeal to the Supreme Court, and to a party whose * /coders* one of these very deserters has charged with being the “ worshippers at the footstool if Federal power** who were “ design ing and corrupt'* “who live by office and the hope of office ” —and whose “ doctrines' were the honed farmers but correctly “ informed of their tendency,” they would reject entirely with INDIGNATION and ABHORRENCE.” Thompson Dinner at Danville, \a. We have received the Danville, (d a.) Re porter, of the 7th inst. containing a description of the dinner given to our Representatives in Congress, at that place, on the 4th inst. It is stated that the attendance was immense. Below we give a letter from the Hon. Hugh S. Legate, in answer to an invitaion to attention on the occasion. Charleston, June 24, IS4O. Gentlemen; —I have just received the invita tion you have done me the honor to send me, to a dinner to be given in the town of Danville, to my friend the Hon. Waddy Thompson on his re turn from Congress. I am sorry it will not be in my power to attend. The importance universally attached in this coun try, to the course to be taken by Virginia ; n the momentous controversy now pending before the people, was shown in the triumph left at the glo rious results of your last election. Never did event inspire greater confidence and joy on the one side, or a more abject, trembling despair on the other. For some reason or other to me, I own, utterly inconceivable—the partizans of the cabal at Washington, had counted with perfect assurance, upon the support of your venerable Commonwealth in all tneir monarfhial or oligar chial schemes. It is true they boast of managing “ the people,” who they profess to worship, as they would a child’s puppet, and nothing can be more contemptuous than their opinion of our intelli gence and information. tStill it appeared tome that if they reckoned without their host, they were doing so in the calculation they built upon the ignorance and gullibility of Virginia. That State which posterity w ill admit has done more than any other to secure to us the blessings of our Republican system, with its multilarious checks and balances, its jealousy of power in whatever hands it may be placed, its division of it into separate departments, watching and con troling one another, its State sovereignties break ing the unity and restraining the encroachments of the central Government—that State which was proverbial for its political metaphysics and would it was known, cavil about the 9lh part of a hair, where the principles of the Constitution were but supposed to be involved—was now reck oned the most servile, unscrupulous and unblush ing of all the minions of a despotic Executive and his secret council or “ Inquisition of Slate,” facetiously called “ the party.” You who when every thing about you was fast asleep in the pro foundest security, kept watch and ward over tno Federal Government, and sounded a note of a larm at every deviation, however slight, from its strict constitutional course, until your jealousy became a matter of jokeheie in South-Carolina, among reprobate wits since the most zealous of i converts, were expected not only to acquiesce in i what you, one and all declared a glaring and dan ! gerous abuse of Federal power, but to do all you ■ could to render its Executive Department ab • solute. The measure was admitted to be (as all his measures will be at this rate) “ anti-republi can,'* yet you wcie to follow “ the man” through thick and thin. He was only one of .sixteen millions of people professing equality and in the majority at least of whom it was no presumptuous confidence to profess equality with him, yet he was so indispensable to them, that he was to be humoured at whatever sacrifice of principle of our Constitution. He was by such a policy (for it was iL ant i-Rcpub. lean**') changing the spirit and character of the Government, yet he must be indulged in his forwardness, for his services were invaluable—those services, which so far as I have been able to discover, con sist in putting forth once a year, on a holiday ceremony of mere parade and profession, a pom pous declaration of abstract maxims, every one of which is meant to be violated, and is notorious ly' violated with or without his consent, at every session of Congress, in bills passed with a view to conciliate the jarring interests of his hetero geneous supporters. You will permit me, gentlemen, to say, that the recent triumph ol the good old cause in Vir ginia, was particularly agreeable to me, interested as I am in seeing your late distinguished Sena tor vindicated in a manner worthy of him, and oi you, from the calumnies of his enemies, and vicioiiously upheld by a noble people against tire mort unprovoked, the most unjust and honest hostility that an honest man ever brought upon himself by doing bis duty. Virginia could not have abandoned him without stultifying and dis- I gracing herself. You know and every° body ad mits that in maintaining his own deliberate and proclaimed opinions, he was representing yours. He iiad been encouraged, incited, instructed bv y ou. almost unanimous voice to oppose, as a most dangerous innovation, the measures which the Executive chose to make a test of fidelity to his person; yet because it pleased his majesty, to make war upon him for doing so, you whose convictions he shared and whose orders he obey ed, were to denounce him as a traitor, for not throwing down the arms he bore in your defence and begging for quarters as soon as be was at tacked. I his is the plain state of the case. His crime is that he was more in earnest and had a higher sense of what was due to his dignity as a man and a Senator, than some of the loudest of his backers, who, it seems, never from the first meant to engoge themselves in the contest, how ever important they affected to think it, so deep ly as to cut ori ad retreat. As soon, thereafter as it was evident that Mr. Van Buren, treating their hollow protestations, and sham opposition with the cool contempt which he then knew and we all now see they deserved, was bent on having his way, it became treason to resist him further, lest he should indeed take serious oftcnce at it and no longer own them for his liegemen! liis t/A-ase became from that moment the law of “the paity, and the most intolerant preachers of con jurmity to his declared will, are now those self hty ed organs, and chiefs w'hose opinions he had u ns pe.eraptonly and contemptuously overruled. Gentlemen, this infamous subserviency, this espotism by cabal and intrigue, this worse than cneuan oligarchy, this mysterious, itresponsi ble, inquisitorial dictatorship in the da k must be pu cnvn - t must be put down novj or it never u.i e, undoubtedly the ineligibility (in practice) of the President a second tin*3> will be tOWards SUct * a result,' but that alone will not effect it. I tell you that the issue now before the people is bank or no bark, hard P^ rcunenc y important matters but in. gmheaut by compar.ion-it is monarchy or repubhc, a government of law's or a government of men a limited Constitution or an absolute Executive In such a contest, indifference is ticason. Much depends upon you. We all look to \ trguua for an example and expect to be cheered by her voice—“ that voice so often heard in worst extremes, or on the perilous edge of battle.” Let her but be true to her principles and worthy of her glorious history. We de and now hope, to see them live again in the Administration-of two of her sons. Let her but will it and it shall b« eo —beyond all doubt. With respect to my friend, your guest, permit me to suggest that in addition to many other claims upon your consideration and thanks, he has this veiy high and peculiar one. It was his fortune to meet one of the most formidable of his adversaries in the field of open controversy be fore the people—a field in which that adversary was a volunteer at home. The result as you know, was a signal victoiy. lie shewed clearly how important a thing sophistry is in a fair dis cussion. and that there are no belter judges of the right than popular assemblies, where they can be brought to listen, with impartiality to ar gument. Weowe him. in the name ofour insli tions, our thanks, for having done so. His re election, I regard as the greatest tiiumph I have witnessed (in that kind) of those Dcmoratic principles, about which of course, most is said by those who drive a trade of ambition in them, but of which no man who can either desire or toler ate dictation or dictatorship of any sort, can have the remotest conception. In the name of that real Democracy, of that Government of equal rights, of free, untrammell ed opinions, and of true popular supremacy—we summoned to one more struggle against the au thors of the most audacious attempt that has ever been made in any country pretending to be tree, to master and manage the people by cabal and intrigue. If that people is as every thing leads us to hope, at length penetrated with a sense ol the issue really to be submitted to them at the approaching election, the clique of usurpers at Washington with their slavish abettors elsewhere, will at least in their deaths, render an important service to the country, by a “negative example to posterity” too glaring to be forgotten. I ha*e the honor to bo. With high consideration, gentlemen, Your obliged and ob’t. serv’t HUGH S. LEG ARE. From the New Orleans Bulletin. Attempted Revolt nt Tampico. The Tampico Desingano of the 30th ult., states that a plot had just been discovered which crea ted great alarm in the city. It w'as laid by vari ous Federal leaders, among whom Gisosola was the most conspicuous, and had for its object, to raise upon the Central "authorities and capture Tampico. The Federalists were betrayed by a Central spy; their plans were frustrated, and ail their papers seized.—The editor says, that at a proper time he shall lay before the puolic all the particulars of the affair—showing forth the horrid catastrophe which the city has escaped, through the activity and energy of the local authorities ; and the result of which would have been the ass assination of a large number of persons, and no doubt all the other excesses which accompany unbridled licentiousness. The same paper says—“We have received in formation from an undoubted source on the fron tier, which confirms our previous accounts, that Canales had received as.-istance in men and money from the Texian government, to aid him in attacking Mexico. It is also ascertained that he has entered into a treaty to pass over to that government the sovereign!}' of New Leon, Coahuila and Tamaulipas. Wc learn this from a source that admits of no doubt. Canales has ceased to be Mexican, and is now essaying to conquer his own country.” The editor asserts, that there is no rqom to doubt that the operations of Canales are closely connected with the troubles throughout the coun try, especially with the late attempt at Tampico. From the Georgia Journal. Mr. Grant land. A few' weeks ago, a very scurrilous attack was made by the Editors of the Federal Union, upon the Hon Seaton Grantland. To-day, we take pleasure in presenting to our readers, a letter from that gentleman in reply to the unprincipled at tack. Our readers will find it below, and wc feel satisfied that they, with us, will agree, that the course pursued by Mr. Grantland is the on ly one left to an individual who when improper ly assailed, desires to be heard through the press in reply. Charges against the po itical integrity of individuals, when totally' unfounded, had bet- I ter be met, whenever it is thought proper to meet I them at all, as Mr. Grantland meets them. We commend his letter to the perusal of our readers, as well as to the Editors of the Federal Union. Fo the Editors of the Federal Union : Sirs ;—My attention has been called loan im pertinent and scurrilous article, published some weeks ago in your paper, while Iwasin Alabama, intimating that the Union party had brought me up by running me on their ticket for Congress in 1834 ; and that the expectation of being chosen an Elector, had induced me to espouse the cause of Gen Harrison. These insinuations are not only false, but you must have known them to be so, when you made them. It cannot but be remembered by many of my ft lends, that I had taken a decided stand against Mr. Calhoun’s doctrine of Nullification long before I was nominated by' the Union par ty. The circumstances attending that nomina tion, and my declaration at the time of my accep tance, that I would make no pledges, but should act independently, voting for men and measures according to the dictates of my judgment, are well known to Dr. tort, who is understood to be a pioprietor and editor of the Federal Union- My determination not to vote for Mr. Van Bu ren under any circumstances, was mentioned to several'friends more than a year ago. I was among the first in this country who* advocated the election of Gen. Harrison, and before it was I know'n that he would find favor with a lame por tion of the people. M hether the article in question was written by nm who claimed for Congress the power to sell a -Mate, or by his man Friday, I neither know nor care. Its assertions arc basely false. . S. GRANTLAND. August 8, 1840. From the Pew Orleans Picayune. From Texas. The stcampackct Columbia, Capt. Windlc, arrived yesterday, bringing us dates from Hous ton, only, to the Bth inst. Nothing very impor tant is contained in the papers. The Houston Morning Star says,—“According to the Austin Sentinel, a detachment of the Federalists have marched upon Laredo, w hich is in posseasion of the Central forces. It is expect ed that they will take the town with ease, and be reaoy to join the mam body in an attack upon Matamoras. ~ The San Antonio was struck - with lightnin about the dawn of the day after leaving the Pass waicn shattered her main top gallant mast to pieces, and did considerable injury in her main mast. She parted company with the squadron on Wednesday the 21st ult., about 180 miles South and 30 miles East of the Pass, and took despatches irom the Commodore to the Govern ment. Tbeßouston Times oflheslh inst. says ViV;;; ; i;ln arrm 'his morning from •!, S„Tp,T “ at Cana ' cs anJ arc . Kin I atrtcio Ins force is said to be 900 men, of wmcl. number 300 are Americans, all well armed AmeTS o 0r ;“" le; 400 and 80 I Tla r fn bnut 10 da ? s since for the nciMi- Sl;' ,he «ronde to attack a party "of P r° ‘° ■» dancing to has There was a battle lately fought on Rio Frio, between the Camanche and Lipan Indians, in which the latter it is said killed thirteen, took seven or eight prisoners and sent them to Bexar. Every thing is quiet at the city ot Austin. The health of Ex-President Houston is pro nounced to be good T here had been a repor that he was very ill. The body of a man named Silas Ferguson was lately found murdered on the road leading from Houston to Montgomery. The old Democrats lor Harrison* The following extract of a letter from the lion. Erastus Root to Mr. J. Whiting, will show on which side the old Jeffersonian Democaats are now to be found. Os the twelve individuals now living who as electors and members of the Legis lature, voted for Mr. Jefferson foi President in 1800, eleven now support Harrison and one \ an Buren: Delhi, August 1, 1840. Dkau Sin, — I have received yours of the 28th, in which you request to be informed the names of the electors now alive who voted for Jefferson in 1800, in this Stale, and Senators and represen tatives now alive who voted for them. Then this State had twelve electors, and chosen by the Legislature.—Three of them still survive, to wit. James Burt of Orange, Pierre Van Cortlandt of Westchester, and John Woodworth, then of Rensselear, now of ' Ibany. Iwo ot the Sena tors still survive to wit, Ambrose Spencer, then of Columbia, afterwards of Albany, now of Wayne, and James W. Wilkin of Orange. Se ven of the members of Assembly still survive, to wit, Nicoll Floyd of Suffolk, Samuel G. Verbryck of Rockland, Peter Townsend, then of Orange now of New York,‘Smith Thompson, then of Dutchess, now Justice of the Supreme Court of U. S., Erastus Root of Delaware, Aichibald Mc- Intyre, then of Montgomery now of Albany, and James Merrill of Saratoga ; of the twelve survi vors, all are for Harrison except Mr. Merrill. He is a very aged man, and has I understand, very little of mental vigor remaining to him. I have the honor to lie with great respect, Your obedient servant, ERASTUS ROOT. The subjoined statement of the legal requisites for the naturalization of foreigners, will he read with interest. The subject is commanding consid erable attention at this lime, in consequence of the elections now going on and soon to take place: .Legal Requisites lor Naturalization of Foreigners. Editor of the Cincinnati Republican: — Sin —As frequent applications are made to me for information relative to the legal requisites for the admission of aliens or foreigners to citizenship in the United States, and as I find a strong dispo sition in the public mind, (in consequence of the excitement occasioned by' the approaching elec tions, j to be accurately informed on this subject, I have thought that it would be valuable to foreign ers, and satisfactory to the public generally, to have published in your paper, a plain and brief statement of what the Naturalization Laws, now in force, absolutely require. As there have been ten statutes passed by Congress upon this subject, some of which alter and amend, or repeal the whole or parts of others, I And a very general un certainty or doubt existing as to what the require ments for citizenship now really are. 1 have, therefore, carefully examined the law, and here with furnish you with ai lain and condensed state ment of its indispensable provisions: Ist. Either of the Circuit or District Courts of the United States, or any Court of record in any of the States or Territories, having common law ju risdiction, a seal, and cleik or prothouotory, (add no others) can naturalize foreigners, and give cer tificates of citizenship. 2d. To enable a person, 21 years of age or up wards, to become naturalized, (who imigrated to this coun ry since the 18th of June, 1812,)he must make a declaration to some one of the Courts above mentioned, (or its clerk) of his intention to be come a citizen of the United States; and su<di dec laration must be made two years at before he applies for admission, or can be admitted, to citizen ship. fie must also have raided at least./ice years within the jurisdiction of the United States, imme diately preceding his application for admission, and the last year of his residence must be in the State or Territory where he manes application. During these five years, he must at no time have been with out the jurisdiction of the United States. od. Any free white alien minor, who shall have resided within the jurisdiction of the United States, for three years next preceding his arriving at the of twenty-one years, and who shall have con tinued his residence therein to the time of his ap plication for (i izenship, may, after he shall have arrived at twenty one years cf age, and after he shall have resided live years within the jurisdic tion of tne United States,including the three years of his minor!)y, be admitted a citizen without hav ing made any previous declaration of intention to become a citizen; provided he shall declare on oath, and satisfactorily prove to the Court, at the time of his application for admission, that it had been, for three years next preceding his application, his bona fide intention to become a citizen. 4th. Any free white alien who resided within the jurisdiction of tire United States,between 14th April, 180.2, (or any previous time) and the 18th June, 1812, and hassii.ee continued to reside there in, may be admitted to citizenship, without having made any previous declaration of intention to be come a citizen; provided he satisfactorily proves that he had so resided, and the places where ho had resided; and also that he proves, by citizens cf the Lnited States, that he had actually resided for the five years immediately preceding his application, wuliiu the jmisdicti n of the United States. sth. The children of persons duly naturalized, being under the age of t.venty-one years at the* time their parents were so naturalized shad, if dwelling in the United States, be considered as citizens of the United States; and the children of persons who are now, or have been such citizens, shall, though born out of the limits or jurisdiction of the United States, be considered citizens, But the right of citizenship shad not descend toper suns whose fathers have never resided within the United States. Gth. Any alien, who shall have legally declared 1 lus intention to become a citizen, (according to the first section of the act cf April 14th, 18U2.) and shall have died before lie was actually natuial ized, the widow and child)on of such alien shall be considered as citizens of the United States and shall be entitled to all the rights and privile ges of such, upon taking the oaths prescribed bv law. 7th. No alien, except he be both free and white c..n be admitted to citizenship. Nor can anv al ien be admitted until he prove a good moral char acter; that he is attached to the principles of the Constitution of tire United dates, and wed dis posed to the good order and happiness of the s.irne; and takes the oaths that he forever re nounces allegiance to all foreign powers or poten by C la\ t 0 Sl ‘ PPolt the Constitut:on > ect., as prescribed Sth. All the proceedings in relation to the ob taining naturalization must be faithfullv and fuPv recorded by the Clerk of the Court where they oc cur. J 9th. Forging, counterfeiting, or fraudulently procuring any certilicate of citizen-hip or naturali zation papers, or falsely or f audulently usin* hose belonging to, or intended for, another person is punishable by imprisonment in tiie penitentiary not less than three nor more than five years by line not less than five hundred nor more tirn one thousand dollars, at the discretion of the Court d ucse are all the necessary and important r ■-* quueinents of the law now in force, relative to the naturalization o; foreigners. I have not detailed he provisions of the statutes in the order in which they were passed, because there have been so ma n> alt tations and amendments, and so much re pealing, that to do so, would render the Inex plicable and confused to most readi-c ' t aimed to exhibit it so plain tw ti * have mind can rapidly LdcrV£?d t U - COn ?, nnonest tempt. I shall have cohtrit nth f; 10 th - ,s tho-e who may wish (o hll 1d any Bervice , for frauds at* the* 1 Lap P-d for the hVvftiu-n. Cincinnati * JAMES F. CONOVER. Cincinnati, August 3,1840. Bovs do YOU HEAR that?—The Detroit Fj- C * Press, a leading Van Buren paper, thus charii-t GIJ zes the Pioneers in the West: “ Log cabins ! what arc they ? Rendezvousf the depraved (trrf dissolute —nurseries if dr uni ness. idleness and dishonesty. Yes sir the AVENUES AND VESTIBULES OF HELL.” * 7 From the Scioto Gazette. Asserting their Rights—“.Straight-out,*, “And still they come What crowds of honest hearls!” The daily conversions from error to truth- f the rank and tiie of the patent democracy of^i* 8 present day, to the substantial and genu hi a cracy of the illustrious Jefferson, and his co-a o°' tors, which arc occurring throughout the and breadth of our land, are unparalleled j n ih history of the world. The deceived andViu supporters of the -rotten administration of Van Buren are crowding by hundreds and tL sands— ‘‘ JU * “A multitude! like which the populous nortl ' Poured never from her frozen loins'’— into the suppoit of the gallant old farmer ot Xortv Bend. This is no fancy piece purposely w ro JIJ up to deceive the public mind. It is all real s*a incontrovertible truth; and alt tiie pensioned es and hireling oral ,rs of the land cannot premi it. They may dip their pens in the poison ot asm and they may belch out their bombast and fury— d is entirely in vain. “The destruction of the ministration waiteth not, and its damnation y gereth not.” ‘ a * The farmers and mechanics—the bone and sinew of the c Min try, begin to see, nay, more! to feelthi the government of our glorious Union is subjected to the power and caprice of a childish crew otAcl Ash and mercenary demagogues, whose sole p Ur I pose is to roll in wealth, and luxury and splendor at the expense of the sweat and toil of the poor but industrious laborer. They feel already that lh fruits of a life of excessive struggle are to be wrested from them by the merciless grasp 0 f h f man harpies. And to such a system they are re solved no longer to bow their necks. They hay* risen in their might, and in October next— ’ 1 “Fly swifter louml, ye wheels of time And bring the promised day,” they will expel every recreant knave of the Godis and Vandals from the Capitol, Nor have they sim ply determined for themselves, they have, in some instances, like Hamilcar, brought their sons to the altar, and made them swear eternal enmity against their countiy’s foes. “Following in thk Footsteps.” — The Ar gus of yesterday says, “the Democrat Green Mountain Boys assembles at Bennington on the 1 sth instant,” &c. Some years rince Mr. Van Buren declared that “our sufferings, owing to the rescality of deputy postmasters, is intolerable,and cries aloud lor relief.” He lias corrupted the grammar as weii ns the government of the country —Albany Advertiser. One Term.— Mr. Jefferson in a letter to John Adams of the 13th November, 1787, «aid,“ I wish at the end of four years, they had made him, (the President,) ineligible a second timed ’ Martin Fan Buren claiming to be a Jefferson democrat, asks the people to elect him a second term . The People will carry out Mr. Jefferson’s wish, I and make Van Buren ineligible a second time— ] (Jin. Gazette. Ancient Funerals.—lt was a custom in France, during its early and barbarous ages, that whenever a monarch died, his horse and page weie killed and buried with their muster, that they might be in ready attendance on him in the next world. In the year 1653, the tomb of Childeric, the father of Clovis, was discovered, and within it were found the skeleton of a man, that of a horse, and port of the skeleton of a youth, concluded tu be ihe re mains of Childeric and Ids companions. On fur ther search in the tomb were found a puise con taining above an hundred pieces o; gold and two hundred pieces of silver, bearing the" heads of dif ferent emperors of France. A crystal ball or orb a pike, a Lattlo-axc, the handle, mounting, and 1 blade of a sword ; gold tablets and style; the bit and part of a harness of a horse ; fragments of a j dress or robe ; and more than three hundred little j bees of tho purest gold, their wings being inlaid with a red stone like cornelian. ( i lie appropria tion of this emblem was hence suggested to Nupo- Icon.) A gold signet ring was taken from the lin ger ot the larger skeleton ; upon it appeared an en graved. having long hair flowing over the shoul ders, and around it the words, “ Childerici several buckles, massy gold bracelets, anJ a gol den head of an ox, supposed to be an image of the idolatrous worship of the deceased. The splendour with which it was the custom lo encircle the mortal remains cf majesty, during the oaili ages in France, is remarkable. The empe ror C hariernagne was interred superbly, adorned 1 with all the insignia of royalty. He died »14, A. D. Ihe body, alter being embalmed, was wrapped in a shirt ot hair cloth, over which was placed bis I imperial roles ot state, and upon his head a chain of nne gold, in the form of a diadem. The corpse i thus ati lied, was deposited in a vault of the church o Notre Dame d’Aix laChapelle: the body vr.s placed in an uptight sitting posture, upon a throne j ot pure gold. Mis sword Joycusc (for svvonls sc- j cording to the singular custom of the times, were j named,; wat girded to his side, and his head ros fixed in a raised position, as if looking towards I heaven, in one hand he bore a golden ball, the o:her was placed upon a book of the four Evangel ists, which he held upon hi. knees. His shield and golden sceptre were hung upon the wall, fa cing the body. Abundance of rich treasure, and a great quantity ot aromatic perfumes weic also ‘-placed within tiie j vault, and tiie whole was closed uu with great so lidity , ° There is a volume of instruction in the following incident which is mentioned m the Northern Jour nal: — i he way our subscription list is reduced, by the euorts ol a certain class, can’t bobcat. The only , instance in which they have succeeded, came tu | our knowledge on Monday morning. A lad en- I tered oui office, with a good-humored smile upen his iace, wishes you to stop hi* paper.” \\ e set the boy down a loco-foco in wi’fl iature, and answered, “very well,il shall be done ’ “But,” said the urchin, il molher wants you to send 1*- her, and she will pay you.” We shall send the Journal most certainly, well knowing tha! it will reach as staunch a Whig, and as good a sub scription, as stands on our Looks; and if that toy grows up a locofoco, we are nistaken! M A UIN E 1 INTELLIGENCE. Charleston, August 21. . Arrived yesterday —U L bug Lawrence, Cobh, j New York; line brigs Aldrich. Cope, Philadelphia; Leu Sumter, Hobbs, Baltimore; sclu Ajax, Coopeu New \ork. &AI Quarantine —Solus Magnet, Kelly,’.Boston; Delight, Tluane, Havana. Cleared —U L brig Moses, Loveland, New York; sclus \ irginia Antoinette,Place, New Orleans; P* 1 * nck Henry, Kcrwan, Baltimore. (JCF Tae subscriber will resume the practice ol i LAW , and attend to any business entrusted to him, in the counties of Richmond, Burke and Columbia. au g n lw \VM. T. GUILD. (Hz’ Miss TRAIN will resume her School at Summerville on the first Monday in November, aug 12 if THE READING ROOM Attached to this office is open to subscribers, and strangers introduced by them, every day and c' e * uing (Sunday evenings excepted) until 9 o’clock* M Subscription $.5 ; fur a Arm of two or more $' j ■ ROBERT Y. HARRIS, Attorney at Law , Augusta, Ga., Has removed his office to the Law Range, I door over the Post Office. He will practice in t,ie j diffeient Court* of Richmond county, and in the I perior Courts of Burke, Columbia, Warren and m Hancock. j u ]y 2S__ff_ I C ) Haring the remaining Summer and I jB mouths, I will be in my office on Mondays, Toes- ■ days and Wednesdays; "on other days at Eclair; ana ■ will ha happy to serve those who miy honor me ■ with their confidence, [jy 23] W. W. HOLD