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WEDNESDAY MORNSKG, AUGUST 26.
FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON,
. Os Ohio;
The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe—the incor
ruptible Statesman—the inflexible Republican—
the patriotic Faimer of Ohio.
for vice-president,
JOHN TYLER,
0/ 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
3® patriot statesmen.
FOR ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT,
GEORGE R- GILMER, of Oglethorpe.
DUNCAN L. CLINCH, of Camden.
JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of Muscogee.-;
JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hancock.
CHARLES DOUGHERTY, of Clark.
SEATON GRANTLAND, of Baldwin.
ANDREW MILLER, of Cass.
•WILLIAM EZZARD, of DeKalb.
•C. B. STRONG, of Bibb.
JOI N WHITEHEAD, of Burke.
E. WIMBERLY, of Twiggs.
FOR CONGRESS,
WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene.
R. W. HABERSHAM, of Habersham.
JULIUS C. ALFORD, of Troup.
EUGENIUS A. NISBET, of Bibb.
LOTT WARREN, of Sumter.
THOMAS BUTLER KING, of Glynn.
ROGER L. GAMBLE, of Jefferson.
JAMES A. MERIWETHER, of Putnam.
THOMAS F. FOSTER, of Muscogee.
The President’s I'mnitme.
Heretofore we have had nothing to say of the
President’s furniture, because we had always been
willing that the mansion set apart for that high of
ficer, should be furnished in a manner becoming the
chief executive officer of this nation. But since
Edward J. Black has thought fit to electioneer for
Mr. Van Buren, on the ground of his extreme de
mocratic love of pine tables, we have deemed it
nothing but fair to show the people of Georgia a
few items of the bills for the President’s furniture’
that thev may be satisfied how much reliance is to
be placed in the statements of Mr. Black, and there
is perhaps as much truth in what he said about the
President’s furniture, as anything that has fallen
from the same source. The best and most plausi
ble solution of Mr. Black’s pine table story, was
given by a gentleman the other evening, who on
hearing his pine table story narrated,promptly re
plied, “Ac must have been shown into the. kitchen .”
We commence, therefore, in to-day s papei, the
publication of the vouchers filed in the office at
Washington city, and shall continue them, liom
time to lime, to show how much money has been
expended by Mr. Van Buren to furnish the house,
and, if Mr. Black’s story of the “old pine tables,
with cracks large enough to run his finger through”
be true, we shall then call Mr. Van Buren to ac
count for the expenditure of so much money for
furniture, when he is able to show nothing better
than such “ old pine tables .”
Here we have vouchers of the the expediture of
upwards of $13,000 for furniture, and Mi. Black
would feign make the people of Georgia believe,
that the president has nothing but “ old pine ta
bles.” This, as we shall subsequently show, is
but a small portion of the expenditure by Mr. Van
Buren for furniture, and if he has got no other
furniture than “ old pine tables ,” he must account
to the people for the articles charged in these bills,
for the payment of which the people’s money has
been drawn out of the Treasury by the warrant of
Mr. Van Buren’s officer.
Tippecanoe Boys Attend
The meeting this afternoon at the City Hall to
leceive the report of the nominating Committee.
The banner for old Richmond is about to be un
furled, and you must be present when it is given ,
to the breeze.
An Office-holder Cornered.
Col. A. B. Fanning, Collector for the port of
Savannah, has met rather a severe rebuke for his
dirty work in the cause of Mr. Van Buren, and
like all men when caught, the Colonel modestly
asks for a suspension of public opinion. Wo rather
guess the Colonel will in future suspend his expo
sures of impostors, more particularly if they should
happen to have belonged to the Petersburg com
p^y-
®
The New York Correspondent of the National
Intelligencer, says: “The Receiver-General of
this city, Stephen Allen, Esq., has so close a
connection with the Bank of America, that he has
an office in that hank. His deposAcs are made
there; his receipts are there; which is certainly
the dreaded 4 union of Bant and State.’ ”
.. ; ;
Van and the War.
The records of the Senate of New York pro
ving, beyound all doubt, that Van opposed Mr.
Madison, and supported the “Peace Candidate
Clinton, the Federal papers have taken anew'
tack to prove that Van supported the War.
Hear the Globe, and restrain laughter if you can.
From the Globe of the 14 th inst.
In the communication of J. D. Haminon, Esq.
the reader will find the reasons which induced
Mr. Van Huren to support l)e Witt Clinton for
President in 1812, and the regret he felt at the
necessity of doing so at the expense of a divi
sion in the Republican party. Mr. Clinton was
then considered as good a Republican as Mr.
Madison, andjhis Fiends thought him more effk
cicnt.
Most Dreadfi l Accident at Mosttn Coi
eieut : Loss of Eight Lives.—On 1 uesday
last, about six o’clock in the morning, a violent
explosionof firedamp took place at one of the
pits. The explosion was so powciful that large
lumps of coal were thrown up from the bottom
of the pit to the surface, a height of 130 yards,
and at the same time, an overpowering sulphur
ous smell issued from it. One young man rushed
through the fiery torrent below, over the bodies
• •
of hisul.lorwii.!.’ companion, without u* ■
.no much injury. Eight corf- lw* brought
‘I u,.; one man and a I~>J atom a most d.ngrroua
situation, they havinff lacn burnt most drradlully.
Five morci.yc been most seriously injured. A
fortnight ago, too others were burnt to death m
the same manner, one of whom lull eight children
and:» widow on the point of confinement. In
consequence of these dreadful accidents, five des
titute women have suddenly become widows, and
tbiily small children bereft of their fathers. The
poor men were hard working colliers. —English
Paper.
For the Chronicle and Sentinel. j
On last Saturday I read a communication in the
Ham burg Journal, dated Avgusta, over the signa- ;
ture of “Public Opinion.” lam confident, from an |
acquaintance with a large number of respectable]
merchants in Augusta, thatnosuch scurrilous arti
cle originated from tnem, or any ot t ie citizens.
I would blush that such scurility should stigma
tize the respectability of Augusta. A f.icnd
whispered in my ear that it is the production of a
Hamburger. If the individual is disposed te garb
himself in false colors, we will thank him to hail
from some other quarter, not Augusta. As regards
the article itself, “rudis indigestaque moles.” M e
scatter it to the wind, that it may seek its native I
element across *he Savinnah. Hereafter date your ;
“Public Opinion” elsewhere than Augusta. Z.
For the Chronicle fy Sentinel.
“ Suus Cuique Jlos.”
Junius, in the Constitutionalist of yesterday,
says, “ Would it not seem more probable that Gen.
Glascock has forgotten more than the Editor ol the j
Chronicle & Sentinel has ever known r” I have no ’
doubt Junius thinks so, and the General too ;
in relation to the editor of the Chronicle & senti
nel, but every body eise. But was’ntthe General
vastly mistaken when he forgot that he had voted
for the Whipping laic of Georgia ? No doubt for
getfulness is a common thing with the General. I
Mark it. 1
Palace .Mirrors, Chandeliers, Looking-
Glasses, Lamps, Candlesticks, Ac.
The following ext act from Mr. Ogle’s Speech ,
will show the People how much they have paid to
decorate the President’s Palace with Mirrors,
Chandeliers, Lamps, &c., since Mr. Van Buren
came into power :
I will next call your attention, Mr. Chairman, to j
a schedule, which I have prepared from the “ offi
cial vouchers” on my desk, of some other articles
of democratic furnituie, with Hie price paid for
them. —Those articles consist of enormous mirrors,
looking glasses, chandeliers, bracket-lights, astral
and other lamps, and candlesticks; all of which I
have been purchased since the pure, plain, simple, |
frugal, economical, republican days of retrench
ment and reform commerced. 1 will read the
schedule:
Articles bought from Messes. Lewis Vernon <s• Co. '
1 Mantel glasses, rich gilt frame, French
plates, 100 by 58 inches, $2,000 00
1 Pier Looking-glasses, in rich gilt
frames 108 by 54 inches, 2,400 00
2 Mirrors for green room, 700 00
2 Mirrors for dining room, 700 00
Refraining 2 looking glasses, 100 00
3 Chandeliers for the East room, 3,300 00
3 eighteen-light cut-glass Chandeliers,.. 1,800 00
3 sets heavy bronzed Chairs and rockers
for do 75 00
4 pairs two-light Mantel Lamps, with
drops, 350 00
8 five-light Bracket Lights, bronzed ai d
gilt,. 300 00
4 Pier Table Lamps. ISO 00
2 three-light Lamps for East room, 150 00
1 two-light Lamp for the Upper Ha 11,.. 57 00
2 throe-light Lamps for Hie Lower Hall, 150 00
4 Astral Lamps on pier tables, 100 00
1 four-light Hall Lamp, . 100 00
1 pair Bracket lights, 60 00
1 three-light Centre Lamp, supported by
female figure, 65 00
2 Astral Lamps for the round tables,.... 65 00
2 pairs plated Candlesticks and branches, 85 00
2 pairs plated chamber candlesticks,.... 18 00
6 do do do 57 00
9 do Table do 76 50 |
18 extra cut Lamp glasses. 26 00
4 French Bracket Lights for East room, 300 00
1 pair Mantel Lamps for Audience uom, 20 00 |
All purchased of L. Veron & Co., $13,241 00
Bought from Campbell k Coyle, 3 Hall
Chandeliers, 150 00
Bought from Campbell and Brothers, 1
octagon Hall Lamp, 14 00 I
$13,405 00 1
What will the plain Republican farmers of the
country say, when they discover that our econom
ical reformers have expended $13,405 of the Peo
ple’s cash for looking glasses, lamps, and candle
sticks ? What would the frugal and honest lloos
iers tnink, were they to behold a Democratic pea
cock, in full court costume, sliutting by the hour,
before golden-framed mirrors, nine feet high, and
four and a half wide ? Why, sir, were Mr. Van
Buren to dash into the palace on the back of his
“Roanoke” race horse, he could gaze at and ad
mire the hoofs of his charger and his own crown,
at the same instant of time, in one of those splen
did mirrors.”
“Finger Cups” and “Wine Coolers.”
The following receipted bill, on file in the U. S. ;
Treasury Department, exhibits the following item ;
of Palace Expenditure. The Editor of rhe Albany !
Argus has been greatly distuibed by the 44 Hard
Cider” tendencies of the Whig party. Perhaps, I
i in his new-born zeal for Temperance, he will avail
: himself of this text to deliver another lecture:—
44 New York, June 8, 1837.
Col. T. L. Smith, for sundiy articles for President’s '
House.
Bought of James P. Drummond, No. 47 Maiden
I Lane, between William and Nassau streets, Impor
! ter of, and dealer in China, Glass and Earthen
ware —wholesale and retail —
6 quart and 12 pint, all flute, Decanters, cone
stoppers, barrel shape, S2O. SB4 00
6 dozen Claret Wines, tut pillai stem,s7, 42 00
| 5 do GREEN FINGER CUPS, s3f,. 42 00
; 6 do CUT WINK COOLERS, $9,. . . 54 00
I 2 do cut Champs, $9, is o<)
IS pint Water Bottles, flint and flint, 20 00 ;
| 2 casks, 75
$240 75 I
Bottles returned, 20 00
Duplicate, $220 00 1
Received payment,
JAS. P. DRUMMOND.”
Here, then, is upwards of $13,000 for ornaments
of a single class ! And these ornaments are in ad
dition to the Mirrors, Chandeliers, kc. previ
ously purchased by Mi. Adams and General Jack- 1
son. Such is Mr. Van Buren’s notions of “Glory
and Refoim.” It is making the People pay rather
too dearly for whistles !
J’alace “ Liquor Stand.”
Mr. Ogle in his most valuable speech, gives the
following item of expenditure which appears in a
voucher for Furniture:—
“ 1 LIQUOR STAND, $25”
We marvel that the Editor of the Albany Argus. ■
and otheis who were so nervously apprehensive of
injury to the Temperance cause from the preva
lence of" Hard Cider” opinions, should allow the
President's 44 LIQUOR. STAND” to pass unre
buked. Mr. Van Buren taxes the People $25 fora
j 44 Liquor Stand” without calling out a murmur
from those who are shocked to see a 44 Hard Cider”
motto upon a Whig Banner !
ihe Hill of Costs,—Reader! are you a
poor man 1 Have you a wife and children who
are dependent upon your daily labor for support
and education ] If yes, before you vote for Mr.
Van Huren just got his standing army bill, and
surrounded by that family you love, examine its
provisions, and ascertain the deep injuries it may
inflict upon them as well as yourself.
sec * >ou Will fiud that EIGHT
I HULfeAM) men are to be drafted from Ohio,
[and in the same proportion from N. Jersey and
other States. j-V. u are as apt to bo drafted as
anv other. V'heii drafted, what must you deg
In 14th section of the b : ll you will tin'
that, if drafted as a dragoon, you most fu -nhh
ymii&'rj' witfcl tlie fallowing articles. We affix
the probele cost of each «■
\ good horse at least 14 4 hands high. S7O 00
saddle, 15 00
“ bridle, 3
<• valise
“ breastplate, 1
“ crupper, 1 011
I A pair of boots ®
i 1 “ spurs, 100
pistols 6 GO
A snore, 8 00
! A carlouch box, 2 GO
Whole amount sll7 00
Thus you see that, besides your wearing ap
parel, your accoutrements will cost you about
sll7. If you are too poor to purchase these ar
ticles, what will be the consequence !
The 28lh sec'ion provides that those who fail
to perform the duties required of them, shall be
liable to be fined by a court martial. You will
be fined for a failure, and it unable to pay that
fine the 28lh section provides, that you SHALL
BE IMPRISONED ONE MONTH FOR EVE
RY FIVE DOLLARS OF THE FINE!—
Now suppose your fine should be assessed by a
court martial at SSO. and you could not raise the
: monev. You would be dragged troni the bosom
| of yoar family by an armed force, cast into pri
■ son, and compelled to lay there lor ten months.
In the mean time, what is to become of ) r our
lamily, thus deprived of your support! They
must either starve or be thrown upon a cold world
for prelection.
If you raise the means and equip yourself, the
president, you will find under the 17th section, is
to have power to order you oil to Wisconsin Ter
ritory. In your absence who is to support your
family! if you are a poor man with a family
and have the misfortune ot being drafted under
this military despotism, the inevitable result
1 must be the destruction and starvation of your
j family. Yet all this must be done by Mr. Aan
Buren in times of profound peace, under the garb
l of Dcmocrary. We say to you, read, examine,
and reflect upon the cxTect that 'his militaiy
i scheme is to have upon you and your family. —
Recollect, too, that it will have a similar cllect
upon thousands of your fellow-citizens, and thou
sands of helplest families, situated like yours —
then cast vo«r vote. — Harrison O J Democrat.
From-the Columbus Enquirer.
To the Public.
I In n late number of the Wetumpka Argus I
i have seen the following paragraph:
“Fed. kai. Whig Tactics. —The Northern Dc
-1 mocratic press styles the opposition British Whigs!
1 We have an item of proof to sustain this. A for
-1 eigner,a resident of Scotland, who claims to have
i been in the battle at Fort Meigs, is travelling thro’
i our Stale electioneering strong for Harrison. We
understand that the British Whigs in one of our
I towns offered him a public dinner. He was in
this city on Tuesday last on Ids way to Columbus,
Georgia.”
Seeing the above, and knowing as I do that this
; article refers to no other person than the venerable
Greif Drummond, with whom I became acquainted
at Columbus,Miss., who has now left for Scotland,
shortly to return and spend the remnant of a use
ful life among us,l have felt constrained to inves
tigate tlie claims of Mr. Drummond for truth in re
ference to all he stated about bci ig with General
Harrison at the battle of Ft. Meigs—and find him
honorably sustained for meritorious services in the
field of battle under Hanison, and for high moral
standing as a gentleman of honor and veracity. I
learned from Mr. Drummond that he emigrated to
the U. Slates in 1797, and settled in Virginia : n
1812; he there attached himsedf to the Petersburg
| volunteers and marched to the North Western
frontiers and joined the army under Gen. \\'m. 11.
Harrison, and was wounded at the battle of Fort
Meigs —Heaftc wards returned to Virginia and re
mained there till the year 1836 —a resident of Vir
ginia nearly forty years. Having lost his wife be
was vis elby a sister from * otland, who engaged
to take c-.re of his children if he would return
wiiii her to Scotland. He did so, since which lime
he man i. d in Scotland. That the object of his
I present visit to the United States was to bring his
; two sons to their native country. That he landed
in New Orleans 19th June, 1840, took tiic first pas
sage boat to Mobile, the first conveyance from
thence to Selma, and the first stige from that place
to Columbus, Miss., wuere lie left his two sons with
a relation, a Mr. Stark, and at which place I met
with him on the 10th July, 1840. At night of the
same day we loft together for Tuscaloosa, where
| we arrived on the evening of the 11th about iO
o’clock p. k. —we were necessarily detained here
the ensuing day, the 12th, it being rest day with
the stages. It was there that the ‘■British Whigs,' 1
as the Messrs. Yancey, editors of the Argus, have
been pleased to call them, invited him to icrnain
the next day, and tendered him tiic honor of a pub
lic dinner. He declined doing so on account of his
great anxiety to return to his family.
At 8 o’clock p. m. on the 12th, we set out for
Montgomery, and on our way stopped at Wetump
ka,ou Tuesday, the 14th of July. Mr. Drummond
took his seat before the door of the American Ho
tel, where wc were to remain till the signal for
dinner, and as is usual it was told by some of the
I stage passenger, that Mr. Drurn.nend was with
Gen. Harrison at the seige of Ft. Meigs. Some
gentlemen present remaiked to Mr. Drummond that
Gen. Hanison was frequently called a coward! and
asked him for his opinion of the truth or falsehood
i of the charge; to which he replied, that whoever
i called Gen. Hanison a coward either did not know
him or told a lie if he did. He then went into a
| general detail of the most striking incidents of
Gen. Harrison’s life, establishing his claims to the
confidence and gratitude of his countrymen; an
; swering all questions propounded to him both by
the friends of Harrison and Van Buren. During
I this conversation some one announced to Mr.
Drummond that the i ost Master of that place, Mr.
Couch, formerly of Petersburg, Va., knew him: he
expressed a desire to see him. Mr. Couch then
I came up and introduced himse.f to Mr. Drummond,
and while they were in conversation, a gentleman
by t’ e name and style of Col. A. B. Fanning walk
ed up, who, I understand, is collector at the Port of
j Savannah,and who is in the pay of the Government,
and stopped in front of Mr, Drummond Mr. W.
L. Yancey, one the editors of the Argus, re
marked to Mr. Couch teat Col. Fanning was at the
battle of Ft. Meigs also. Mr. Couch then intro
duced Col. Fanning to Mr. Drummond, stating at
the same time that Col. Fanning was in the battle
with him at Ft. Meigs. Mr. Drummond asked Col.
i Fanning if he was at the battle of Ft. Meigs, to
which he replied he was. Col. Fanning then com
menced interrogating Mr. Drummond in a very un
courtcous manner by asking such que lions as the
following: Where did the battle commence? Mr.
i Drummond answered him promptly. Then asked
him to what company he belonged? Mr. Drum
mond informed him. He then asked him if lie saw
1 Gen. Harrison on the ground during the ba‘tle ; —
He answered he did. The asked him if he was
1 very certain of it. He said yrs, and lie would
swear it on the Holy Evangelist.
He then asl-ed him if he knew a certain compa
ny that was there, naming the officers of the com
pany at the same time? To which Mr. Drummond
replied no, he did not. Col. Fanning then observed
that company did most of the fighting. Mr. Drum
mond’s reply to that declaration was, that there
was one thud of the Petersburg Volunteers, to
i which ho belonged, killed and wounded, and be
thought that they lougfit bravely enough. Mr.
Drummond then asked Col. Fanning something in
relation to his company, t» which Fanning made
reply, and left Mr. Dramn oad,and as he walked
i ll said, you might have been there, but you had
i better go and tell Harrison of it.
Col. I aiming showed by every expression and
movemei t that Ids principal object was to confound
. li. Di unimond by bis impertinent and disconnected
j course of interrogation, and leave the impression
on the minds of those present that Mr. Diummond
was an nnposior. The insinuation of Col. Fanning
i ,s "’! ,o!y groundless as will be seen by the letter
of Major I bos. M. Nelson, who happened to pass
; t lough our < ity a few days ago, and who replied
to a note addressed him by Dr. E. L. DeGratfcn-
Maj. Robeit Hardaway, J. B. Green and K.
ij. Gieen, Ksqrs , asking what lie knew as to the
charactei and services of Air. Drummond, and
which are submitted to the public. The statement
cunt lined jn his rep’y to their note wholly refutes*
the foul slander attempted to Lc promulgated to thel |
prejudice ,«f Mr. Drummond, aud thus to lessen the* :
influence flf that testimony which he is willing to
leirin tins country', while he sojourns'among is .
in behalf of the gallant Harrison.
As to the charge of his being an eraissaiy in the
cause of Harrison, and being busy in his dibits to
speak of Harrison’s c aims—this charge is equally
unfounded, so far as 1 know or believe; forduring
all my journey with Mr. Diummond to this place,
he seemed no way anxious to speak on the sub
ject, unless it was introduced to his consideration
by others. The fact that Mr. Diummond was be
lieved by his fiTow passengers to have been in the
battle of Fort Meigs, always led to some inquiries,
and drew forth his narrative. I travelled with him
from Columbus, Mississippi,to this placc,Coiumbus,
Georgia, as speedily as possible in the stage, and I
know that it is true that be acted with diffidence,
and did not speak oft!» n battle at Fort Meigs, his
own services, or the claims of Gen. Harrison, un
less the su jeel was first introduced by others. Air.
Drummond is a man of six y yrais oi age, and
must have been worn down wi’.h iaague. 1 so
licited him to spend a day or two with me to rest:
but his great anxiety to return home to his family,
and his determination to return forthwith to spend
in this country in Petersburg, V a., the remainder
of his life, induced him -o hasten to Scotland. He
did not remain in this place many minutes. I saw
him leave in the express stage for Greensborough,
Geo.gia.
This is the British Whig, who is travelling
through Alabama, electioneering for Harrison.
This is the man whom Col. Farming wished to
confound and prove an impostor. Ihe annexed
certificates will show how much truth theie is in
Col. Fanning’s statement, and how near lie comes
to oeing in the battle at Fort Aleigs —all ot which
are respectfully submitted to a candid public.
JOS. M. TERRY.
Columbus, July 2S, IS4O.
This is to certify that I met with Air. Terry and
Mr. Drummond in Tuscaloosa, from which place 1
travelled with them in the stage to Columbus, 6a.,
and concur with Mr. Terry in relation to ail his
statements made between those places.
Respectfully,
CURRAN BATTLE.
Wetumpka, August 2, 1840.
Dear Sir—l have just received your letter of
the 30th inst., and hasten to answer your queries
in relation to Air. G. Diummond, an old soldier
under Gen. Hanison at the bade of Fort Meigs.
To your first inquiry as to what were the expres
sions of Col. Fanning, made on approaching or be
foie the American Hotel, I have the testimony
two gentlemen of respectable standing in this place
to this effect, that they hea d him (Col. Fanning)
say that there were many damned impostors going
about the country lellmg tlie same tale, that he
would go up and expose this one, that he himself
was in the battle at Fort Aleigs. They al:o «’ate
that Col. Fanning did come up in front of the
American Hotel, in company with S. W. Harris
and W. S. Yancey, of this place, and put questions
to Mr. G. Drummond in a stylo and manner calcu
lated te produce distrust as io the character of Air.
Drummond. Those gentlemen referred to,Messrs.
House and Adkins, arc willing their names should
be used if it is necessary, ( apt. Couch, a gentle
man whose word would not be questioned here,
formerly of Petersburg, Va., stated that he had
known Mr. G. Drummond from character and per
sonal knowledge at Petersburg, Va.,from hi® youth
up, and always knew him to be a man of honor
and veracity ; that he had never heard it question
ed ; that lie had often seen on the list of the
Petersburg Volunteers, who weie at the battle of
Fort Meigs, (which I i-Is are yet preserved in many
families at Petersburg.) the name of Mr. G Drum
mond, marked as wounded in that battle. Mr. Hy
land, a gentleman residing here, also fiom Peters
burg, conti ms the same. I have also ore more
remark to make and then I 'hall close. The De
mocratic or Van Buren party had a meeting and
invited Col. Fanning to attend —they called upon
him to speak—he a;ose, and after a few remarks,
stating something of his services rendered, and that
he had served under Harrison, but that he had not
one word to say against him, for at the battle of
Fort Meigs (I was under him,) I was too young to
know much about him ; and arn now too old to
appreciate his merits, which was the close of his
speech.
The friends of truth and liberty in this place
and countrj , will rejoice to see your publication of
the facts, you well know and understand them.
Please let mo hear from you. Charge the whole
to rne. I did send you the Argus, and expressly
wished you should see how tilings arc mana ;ed in
Alabama. 1 am truly yours forever,
R. LANIER.
J. M. Terry, Esq.
Wetumpka, August 7, 1840.
We, the undersigned, understood Col. A. B- Fan
ning, in conversation with S. W. Harris and W. S.
Yancey of this place, at the time the said Air. G.
Drummond was in Wetumpka, in front of the
American Hotel, on his way to Columbus, (Ga.) to
say that he expected him to be some damned im
postor, as there were a good many such persons
travelling through the country, telling the same
tales —that he himself (Col. Fanning) was at the
battle of Foit Aleigs, under Harrison, (and an offi
cer at that battle,) he would be able to expose him.
He said Fanning asked Mr. Drummond if he knew
him ? Air. Drummond replied he did not. Mr.
Fanning said he was at the battle of Fort Meigs,
hut Vr. Drummond did not still remember him.
Air. Drummond then remarked he, himself, was
there, and was wounded in the battle. Col, Fan
ning then, in an incredulous tone, remarked that he
(Drummond) had better go and inform General
Harrison of it.
SAMUEL W. HOUSE,
WILLIAM ADKINS.
Wetumpka, August 7, IS 10.
We, the undersigned, understood Col. Fanning
to say in substance, when his name was proposed
as an honorary member of the State Rights Demo
cratic Club, at Wetumpka, that he was in the bat
tle at Fort Meigs, under Gen. Harrison, in 1813, as
an officer, [a Lieutenant,] that he had nothing to
say against Gee. Harrison—that he believed him
to be a good and brave man, but that he was then
too young to know his merits, and now too old to
appreciate them.
AARON READY,
L. WOODRUFF,
HORATIO N. MORRIS,
L. A. KING,
THOS. B. KING.
I understood Col. Fanning to say, when his name
was proposed as an honorary member of the State
Rights Democratic Club, a. Wetumpka, that he
; served at Fort Meigs, under G-neral Harrison in i
1813, as an officer. [I think lie said Ist Lieutenant
of the Infantry,] that lie did not wish to say any
thing against Gen. Harrison, for at that time he
was 100 young to know his meiits,andat this time
100 old to appreciate them.
W. H. HUGHES.
OCT Ns references call on A. Brady, Esq., Dr.
Morris, Win. McLuug, Esq., J. W. Bates, L. L.
Beecher, L. A. King, Thomas B. King, J. \v.
Burdsong.
Columbus, Ga., July 17, 1840.
Major Thomas Nelson, Dear Sir:—A few of the
friends of Gen. W illiam 11. Harrison, formerly re
sidents of the Congressional District in Virginia
once represented by you, have seen with regret
and mollification an attack made through the Fdi
tonal columns of the Wetumpka [Ala.] Argus an
the character of G. Drummond, of Brunswick Co
\ irginia, will you be kind enough to inform us
whether you are personally acquainted with Mr.
Diummond, and whether lie was one of the "■al
lant band of Petersburg \ oluntecrs who went dur
ing the late war to the defence of the North West
ern frontier ? Are you informed whether Mr
Drummond was at the siege of Fort Meigs, and
" hether in that desperate defence and sally he
was shot through the body, and supposed to be
mortally wounded ? Were you of the U. S. Army
at that tune ? ”
, n ?£® reason of our addressing you this note is to
rah mnv n mCC ’ ‘ epel the ,onl and unfounded
calumny propagated by the Wetumpka Argus,
charging Mr. Drummond with being a Britiih
\\ big, a resident of Scotland, engaged in election
eering lor Harrison, &c. We have known Air
Drummond a number of years, and regarded him
trvTn lime r of a f? °° d fliend to COUD-
Ii \ in time of peace, and a fearless, patriotic soldier
in the campaign alluded to. Will vm, he kind
fZIs " f S T w '-"K you have known
him as a citizen of tins country, and what is
voui.o|>mioii .of l»i* character ami standing in Vir
: jjinia) - Rfepcctiully,
Your obedient 4elv.rn.ts,
f £. L. FeGRAFFE V RRID,
ROBERT S. HARDAWAY,
ROBT. H. GREEN.
Columbus, C a., July 17,1840.
Gentlemen —1 have received your note of this
date, and in reply to your inquiries, relative to Mr.
G. Drummond, inform you tnat I have known lurn
personally for nearly thirty years; that I know
him to nave been one of that gallant band who
composed the Petersburg Volunteers in the war of
ISI2, who leaving the comfoits and ease afforded
by affluence, nrarcbcd front Petersburg)!, \ a., to
the North Western frontier, then tire scene ot sav
age war, and joined tire army under Gen. W 11.
Harrison,forming a small but important portion of
his command.
During the various battles of that comparer par
ticularly that of Fort Meigs and Sandu.-ky and t c
sOilie from Fort Meigs, more than one th.rd were
killed, and another third wounded. Antong trie
laGer was Mr. G. D.unmond, severely.
At tills day may be "ccn in ineny of the house of
lower Virginia, a list of ;he names of lire members
of that corps, printed and framed, and hanging in
conspicuous situations. In that list is the name of
G. Drummond, wounded.
I have seen the Wetumpka Argas charging, tirat
“a foreigner, a resident of Scotland, &c.” was
electioneering strong for Harrison, &e„ little stts
pe' ling until informed by you,lliat Mr. Drummond
was the object of the Editor’s commuication.
Mr. Drummonds is a Scotchman by b rth, but
when his adopted country was invaded, he shoul
dered liis musket and marched where the invaders
were to be found, and not only marched, but fought
and bled, in defence of the rights of America whi e
many of those who take advantage of his birth
place to abuse his testimony were unfit or unwil
ling to incur the hardship and danger of that de
fence.
In reply to your inquiry I inform you that 1 be
longed <o the army of the United States, from
March lis 152 to July 1815, after which I served with
General Harrison three or four years in the House
of Representatives of he United States Congress,
and during the session when the Northern Politi
cians[Mr. Van Bui on among the number] endeavor
ed to exclude Missouri from the Union, unless she
would aboPsh slavery from her limits knowning
him, [Gen. Harr',sonj thoroughly as a soldier, the
politician, agenilcman and a virtuous citizen,
gave him a hearty support for the Presidency in
preference to Van Brren, who was an opponent of
the war of 1812 and a Missouri restrietionist in 18-
19 and ’2O.
With great Respect,
Your ob’ut Sv’nt,
THOS. M. NELSON.
Mess s DeGraffenried
Hardaway,
J. B. Green,
R. H. Green.
Columbus, July 30, 1840.
I have known Mr.G. Drummond of Brunswick
county, Va., above alluded to, since the war of IS
IS. He joined the Petersburg Volunteers under
the command of Captain Met ca; and marched to
the relief of our Inen bleeding North-Western
frontier, under the command of Gen. Win. H. Har
rison. I had a b other, a member of the same
corps, Wm. B. DeGuficmied since dead, and have
repeatedly hea d him say he saw Mr. G. Drum
mond shot down on the.battle fiild at tire soUic of
Fore Meigs and was one or iiuee or four of the
company who assisted in rescuing him from being
scalped by the Tccumpsha Indians.
E. L. DcGRAFFENRIED.
Columbus, July, 30, 1810.
This is to certify that we arc natives of Bruns
wick county, Va., and have known Mr. G. Drum
mond from our infancy up to the time of our leav
ing that State for this Country. We know he was
a member of the Petersburg Volunteers; that he
left all the comforts and endearments of home and
friends and shouldered his musket in the defence
of his adopted country, and that In his county no
man stands higher, and in all the relations which
elevate cue man above another he stands conspic
uous
A list of the names of the company which he
was a member, has been printed on satin and hung
in many of the houses in lower Virginia, and Mr.
Drummond’s name stands recorded among the
wounded at the sortie at Fort Meigs.
Gov. Cass in discharging this gallant band, says :
In granting a disc large to this patriotic and gallant
corps the General feels at a loss for words adequate
ly to convey his sense of their exalted merits. Al -
most exclusively composed of individuals, who
had oeen nursed in the lap of ease, they- have for
twelve montns braved the hardships and privations
of a military B e in the midst of an inhospitable
wilderness, with a cheer fulness, and alacrity which
has never been surpassed—their conduct in the
field has never been excelled by no other corps.
G. B. GREEN,
ROBT. S. GREEN,
ROBT. S. HARDAWAY,
JAMES DRUMMOND.
Columbus, August 9, 1810.
The undersigned being a citizens o’ Russel
county Alabama, at the request oi Mr. Jos. M. Tcr
rey, says that he was a member of the Petersburg
Volunteers that joined the North Western Army,
un ler the command of Gen. Wm. Henry Harrison,
and that Mr. G. Drummond was a member of said
company, and said Drummond was wounded at the
sortie at Fort Meigs, about the first of May, 1813,
and was an unexceptionable and brave soldier du
ring the tampaign. THOS. W. PERRY.
Macon, August Ist. 1840.
Mr. Jos. Terry—Sir: I have received a letter
from Mr. Jos. B. Green, requesting me to write
you and sty whether Col. A. B. Fanning of Savan
nah was at the battle of Fort Meigs or not. I can
say positively and uneqivocally that he was not.
He was living in Milledgeville the spring of 1813,
and in September, ISIS, received the appointment
of Deputy Quartermaster General, from the Gov.
of Georgia, and I was appointed assistant Quarter
master General and a few weeks thereafter joined
the troops that assembled at Camp Hope, near liiis
place, and were afterwards placed under the coin
: niand ol Gen. John Floyd. 1 accompanied the
Army to the Creek Nation ; and Maj. Fanning re
mained at Fort Hawkins to forward on supplies for
the army.
Respectfully Yours.
E. HAMILTON.
The undersigned being personally acquainted
with the facts referred to by Col. E. Hamiliton cer
tify to the correctness of every statement.
JAMES ABERCROMBIE,
WILLIAM DUDLEY,
A. ABERCROMBIE,
THOS. HOXEV,
JOHN TOWNSEND.
(£/ Since the foregoing was in tj-jo, we have re
ceived the Georgia (Milledgeville) Journal of the
18lh insl., containing the following note from Col.
Fannin, which as an act of Justice to that <'entle
man we publish :
lo the Editors of the Georgia Journal „• —
Gentlemen. —Will you oblige me by giving one
insertion of this note in your ucxi paper. My de
sire is to request my friends and the public gener
ally, to suspend their opinions in regard to the truth
oi falsehood, of certain charges made against me in
the Columbus Knquirerof the 11th inst. As soon
as I can collect a few evidences, I shall make my
explanations. J
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
A. B. FANNIN.
Milledgeville, 17th August, 1840,
Spirit of the Ladies.— The following inter
esting passage is an extract from the reply of Mr
Ilalsted, one of the representatives from New
Jersey, to the ladies of the stale on the presenta
tion ot a whig banner on the 23d ull:
At the recent Whig Convention held at
Worcester in the Slate of Massachusetts, the lady
ot Honest John Davis, the present wor-hy and
aide Senator from that Stale, smt word to the
committee of arrangements that she had nine beds,
in which she could accommodate nine Whi"
delegates, or, if they were good natured men’
eighteen; and she invited 4b or 50 of the dele
gates to dme with her. Having made all prepara
tions for her invited guests, she repaired to the
Convention to hear the Whigorators. After the
was over she hurried home for the pm-
J* ose °* rece ‘ v * n g her expected company ; but she
had scarcely reached her house before the sound
of martial music saluted %ct ear. She approached
the window, ank? there saw, drawn up before her
door, a band of 150 or 200 men, who sent a
deputation to her to say they would do themselves
the honor of taking dinner with her. At th s
unexpected annunciation her woman's heart nt
first sunk within her, Inn immediately th c „ 00( j
old genuine Whig spirit, which is always eq Uu |
to any emergency, (par icularly when it has a
dash of Bunker Hill blood in it.) rallied, and be
lts recuperative energy, at onco restored her loher
wonted composure. And what do you think she
said ? ‘-Gen lonian,” said she, ‘-the string of mv
door is nevei pulled in. You are welcome to
partake with me my log cabin fare. Waik in
Gentlemen.” They did walk in, and she at once
set about enlarging her tables and replenishing
her board with provisions for this accession of
unexpected guests: and with that admirable
management which is characteristic of Yankee as
well as Jersey matrons, she was coon able to ac
commodate the whole of her guests expecled, an 4
unexpected, for they are and were filled. How ma
ny baskets of fragments there wc-e left, I did not
learn ; hut, I suppose, at least enough to suptdy
all thc poor in the neighborhood fin a week to
come. In her letter to her husband, this Bay-
Slate Whig matron says, “that the wine and wa
ter beer and hard cider, flowed in streams, and
the way that honest John Davis’s wife’s cake
disappeared was a caution.” When Honest
John received this letter describing in those true
and graphic colors which a woman's pen alone
can give to such a scene, he was silling in the
Senate chamber, and as he read it, “the big
round fears coursed one another down his manly
cheek and as he w,ped them away, he taid to
himself, “what a fool I am to be so affected. ’
After ho had perseud the letter he handed it to
Mr. Webster, saying. “'There Webster, you say
you take pleasure in reading my wife’s letters,
read that.” Webster took the letter, and as he
read, Honest John watched the workings of his
noble features, and he soon saw the tear glis
tening in Ids large black eye, and then roiling
down the bronzed cheek of this intellectual giant,
and Honest John said to himself,“Well, I’m not
so great a fool neither.” When Webster had
finished reading, he drew a long breath, giasped
the hand of Honeut John, and said. “Sir it is (h e
finest letter I ever read in my life.” Now mv
fair hearers, have you any idea of the worth of
such a fair Whig ns that I I tell you such a
Whig is worth a kingdom ; and the tears which
she drew forth from the eyes of such men as John
Davis and Daniel Webster, were more precious
than all thc gems that ever sparkled in a royal
diadem.
The way Van Buuenism thrives in Vm
r,tnia. —The last Winchester Republican con
tains an addresss to the people of Virginia, signed
by- upwards cf one hundred citizens of Frederick
county, heretofore friends of the administration,
hut who now come out in favor of Harrison and
Reform. An hundred good and true renouncing
Van Burenism, and rallying under the banner of
the people’s candidate, in a single county is a
tolerably fair sign, and evidence of “change’’ in
the Old Dominion.
Another Sign. — lt is stated in thc Petersburg
Intelligencer, that Mr. Beirne, one of the mem
bers of Congress from Virginia, as he passed
through Richmond, on his return from Washing
ton left this memorandum with the Clerk at the
Enquirer office, for the benefit of its veteran
editor; “Tell Mr. Ritchie not to bet any more on
the Presidential election, or he will be a ruined
man.”
Bishop Soule’s Opinion of General Har
rison.—We give the following communication a
conspicuous place, and trust that it will net be
without its effects in silencing at least one of the
many wicked slanders of the enemy.
Wc ask you to look at tlie following statement
of facts
Bishop Soule, D. D. one of the most pure and
distinguished melhodists in the United States,
was asked in the presence of thc Rev. Leonard
B. Grilling, (who heretofore has been a suppor
ter of Martin Van Buren,) —“What is the pub
lic and private character of William Henry Har
rison The Bishop replied,—“7 think Gen.
Harrison's character without reproach. He
has been my neighbor. I have often been an in
mate of his family, and I consider his house as
one of the best houses for Ministers in all Ohio.
The Bishop is well known for his great pru
dence, and in tlie same conversation, when asked q
how he thought General Harrison would admin
ister our Goveimnent, replied—“l believe the as-
I fairs of this nation would bo us w ll administer
i ed tty General Harrison ashy President Van Bu
rcn.or any of his friends.”
Napoleon.— The following paragraph possess,
cs interest as well for such of our readers as are
natives oi France, as for all who admire the car
eer of the modern Alexander.
On Thursday week King Louis Philippe
having at his side the Dune de Nemours, and
surrounded by all his Ministers and aides de camp,
received in the hall ofthe throne the former Grand
Marshal ofthe palace of the Emperor, General
Count Bertrand, who delivered into thc handset
his Majesty the arms ol Napoleon at Auslerlitz,
and thc only one he had used since ; two pair ot
pistols richly worked; the Roman sword he wore
at the Camp de Mar; a sabre which belonged to
.1 dm Sobieski, and a poinard, given by- the Pope
to I lie Grand Master ofthe Order of Malta, Lava
lette. The king ordered them lobe deposited in
thc treasury ofthe Crown until the completion of
Napoleon’s tomb, upon which they are to be de
posited. “He no doubt thought,” says the Jour
nal des Debats, “that the glory of the Emperor
was not a family inheritance and that it belonged
to France, who had paid for it with her blood.
“The sword,” says thc Courrier Francais, “which
Gen. Bertrand has presented to thc King, was
laid upon the bed ol Napoleon during his last ill
ness, and after his death the English intended to
seize and retain it, but the General, with piou®
fraud substituted his own for it. Napoleons
sword has engraved upon it, in letters of gold.
‘Austerlitz, 2d December, 1805. The hilt is ot
solid gold, simple in form but inlaid with three
antique medals, hearing the effigies of Hannibal)
Cmsar, and Alexander.”
An American traveller, writing from*London
to the editor of the New York American, saysot
the House of Commons:
‘ I was speaking of the construction of t-*e
room. The only redeeming fe, .ure is, that it t*
admirably adapted to compel members to despatch
business, and nothing but business. No elegant
ly cushioned chair and neat mahogany desks
tempt gentlemen to write long letters to their
wives, or frank electioneering pamphlets to lh c * r
constituents, or read the newspapers of lh e a )’
while the member on his legs makes a nine hours
speech about every thing but the question betore
the House. In all the debates to which 1 have
listened, I have been struck with this sact —there.
is no wandering from the point immediately at f
issue—no adverting to irrelevant topics —no dis
quisition on the general politics of thc country - • ,
Many of our American Congressmen would 1 A
promptly coughed aod scraped down in the Bri
tish House of Commons.
Eloquence. —The following “touch of the
sublime was delivered before a court ot Justice
in Pennsylvania:
our honors sets high upon the adornabh
seat ot justic like the American Eagle perched up
on the Asiatic Rock of Gibraltar, while the eter
nal streams of justice, like the cadaverous clous
ot the valley flow meandering at vour extrude
feet.” '