Daily chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1837-1876, September 10, 1840, Image 2
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CHROMCLB AND SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA.
THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10.
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 TVL ER ,
Os Virginia;
A State Rights Republican of the school of ’9B—
—of Virginia’s noblest sons, ami emphatically
one of America’s most sagacious, virtuous and
patriot statesmen.
FOR FIECTOHS 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 DeKalb.
C. B. STRONG, of Bibb.
JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Burke.
K. WIMBERLY, of Twiggs.
. FOR CONGRESS,
WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene.
H. 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.
FOR SENATOR,
ANDREW J. MILLER.
FOR REPRESENTATIVES,
CHARLES J. JENKINS,
GEORGE W. CRAWFORD,
WILLIAM J. RHODES.
Lost.
The file of the “State Rights Sentinel” for
IS3G has been borrowed from ojLr office by some
person who has omitted to retufn it. Wo would
therefore thank the individual ijvho has it in pos
session to send it home. In thesevent that we are
unable to obtain our own, we should be glad to
purchase or borrow a file for th at year, and also o
the one of the Augusta ChronicT.
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Vermont Elections.
The returns from this State *re from 36 towns,
which giveSjthe Whig candidate 10,003 votes, ma
jority over his Locofoco competitor—again of 7213
over the vote of last year.
From the remaining CongyesGonal district,
(Fletcher’s, Locofoco,) we hav? not full returns,
but the returns sho w a gain of 122 votes upon the
last election, when he had only 341 majority.
The majority for Governor if estimated at 9000
votes.
Mr. Forsyti|,
Some days since we noticed tj|ie anticipated visit
of Mr. Forsyth to Georgia, to i|iclaim the sinking
fortunes of Loco Focoisin, to wjfdch theatre he had
been tailed by the drooping spirits who are now
endeavoring to prop the Adm inistration. In this
dirty work, however, the office-seeking Secretary
has been disappointed, by a painful malady which
overtook him at Fredericksbuig, Va., while on his
way to Georgia, and he was compelled to decline
the pleasure, but lias taken the occasion to send
liis “ loving friends' ’ a Circular, not “ hoping to
find them in the same state of |eath,” but warn'
ing them against abolition and l ts evil consequen
ces. The Secretary, either fnjm the influence of
his bodily malady, or from that Cental agony which
a place man feels when defeat, has
perpetrated a very weak and eeble Circular, and
one for which the intelligent portion of his “raffed
friends ” will not feel under many obligations, in
their particular strait. He has .hot made the slight
est attempt to defend the Administration on a sin
gle charge that has been preferred against it, but
has contented himself with an account of the pro
gress of abolition in Europe, >ind concludes with
a letter from the Pope of Ron*' to his brethren in
Spain, in which he denounces Slavery. Severe as
the Secretary’s “ disorder ” may be, we opine that
the voice from Georgia, and the Union, will pro
duce upon him who loves office so well, a disease,
which will enable him to trave l with more facility
Irom Washington,than his recent effort has evinced.
Since the above was in type, we have received
a letter from a gentleman noy at the North, con
taining the following extractom his Washington
Correspondent :
“Mr. Forsyth started for Georgia a few days
since—got as far as Frederi iksburg, Va—heard
tiiat it was all up with him ja Georgia—feigned
sick—returned to Washington, and is now here,
more sick at heart, than in body.”
The Ceusits.
From the Savannah Georgian, we copy the fol
lowing details of the Census of Camden county, in
this State, which we believe is the first report we
have seen of any county in tbi* State.
While on this subject, we will again recur to the
Census of Richmond county. 1 1 is now sonic months
since the appointment was made, and but a short
time has to elapse, leloie a Eeport must be made,
and nothing,that we car. hear has been done. It is
a matter in which the whole people of Georgia arc
deeply and vitally interested, for it not unfre
quently happens that a State loses a Representative
in Congress for ihe want of not a greater mini cr
of inhabitants than are now in the county of Rich
mond. And yet, notwithstanding its importance
not only to the pec pie of this county but to the
whole State, this work lias been neglected, and en
tirely omitted to this time. Are the people willing
to slumber over their rights in this manner, w hen
it is so desirable to increase their influence in the
National Councils ?
| Illinois.
j The Alton Telegraph of a late date says:—
“ How the popular vote stands, still remains un
certain, but the probability is, that the majority
on either side will he inconsiderable.”
Jacob F. Mintzikg has been elected Mayor of
Charleston.
A Voicr of ’76.—The Newburg, N. T . Ga
zelle contains the following eloquent letter from
Benjamin Eaton, one of the Lite Guards ol
General Washington.
To the descendants of Revolutionary Soldiers .■
An old soldier of the Continental Army asks
for the last time to speak to his countrymen.
During the suffering service of the Revolution I
was in sixteen engagements, and was one of the
little band who volunteered under Sullivan to
destroy “the Six Nations of Indians.” I was
one of that small company selected as the Life
Guard of George Washington —but two of us
are now liv ng. I was at the tough seige of
York town, at Valley Forge, Monmouth, and
thirteen other hard battles, and saw Cornwallis
surrender to our old General. My service ceased
or. ly with flie war. After all this hardship and
suffering, in the street when I go out in my
old age to see the happiness I have helped to I
give you, I am pointed at as a British Tort 1
—yes, a British Tory —l have said nothing j
when I have been told so, but have silently
thought that my old General would never have
picked nut a Tory to form one of his Life Guard,
nor would a Tory have suffered what I have suf
fered for you. This abuse has been shamefully
j heaped upon one of your old soldiers because he
I is what he was when the war broke out, and what
I Washington told us we must always be when he
| shook hands with us as we all were going home
; I was a Whig in the Revolution, have been one
ever since and am one now. As a Whig I enlis
ted for the whole war, was in favor with the o'her
Whigs of Thomas Jefferson, went with the party
for James Madison, was in favor of the last war,
| and to be consistent in my last vote, must give it
for Gen. Harrison. He is a biave man, and was
never known wherever he has been to take a
penny from his neighbor or the Government that
was not fairly his. We have trod over the same
ground fighting for liberty. His father (he was
one of the Revolution) signed our Independence
roli, and then we all went out together to fight
for it, and we proved it was true.
It really appears to me that this cannot be the
same government that our old soldiers helped
Washington to put up here. We fought to have
a Government as different from any in Europe as
we could make it.— Weil, we done it; and until
lately things have all gone on smoothly and
Europe was begining to get ashamed of the way
she made slaves of her subjects by making them
work and toil for seven poor cents a day with a
Standing a-my over them to force them to it.
But our President now tells the people that things
have gone wrong since the Uld War, and there
are twenty-three miserable governments in Europe
where the Kings wear crowns, the rich purple,
and the poor people rags, that we must fashion
after them fwe want to be happy and prosperous!
We had English laws here once and they were
the best in Europe, but we could’nt stand them
and we put them under our feet. Wo used to
work for mere nothing then, and we cannot do
it again. Working for a few cents a day may
do for slaves, but rot for free men whose liberty
cost more blood than liberty ever cost before;
why, the very first thing that started the old war
was the Standing Army that the King kept quar
tered on us: we told him that vve wanted no sol
diers over is in time of peace, but he refused to
mind us and I saw Lord Cornwallis surrender
up a part cf them to honest George Washington.
Our President now proposes to have a standing
force—what fori—Beware !
Jefferson never asked for armed men tore-elect
him or elevate his successor. Madison asked
lor them only in the time of the late war, and
warned the people when he left his office to be
cartful about keeping soldiers in time of peace.
Our st eels are tilled with idle men w ho were ac
tive laborers once when employment was to he
had. The men of enterpiize who once employ
ed them have been ruined by the government.
And now these honest but unemployed laborers
are told by the government that when they go to
work again they must do it for a few cents a day—
that labor must be us cheap here as it is among
the slaves of Cuba or the slaves of Europe.
Ambition and ignorance on the part of our
Government have shut up our shops and stores,
scuttled oi, r ships, filled our streets with idleness
and bankruptcy and given no encouragement to
the farmer as ho looks a*, his grain. Are not these
things sol You know they are, and 1 have no
motive in saying what may he false—l am too
far advanced for office or any thing else but death
it will soon be here. My little pension, and I
thank you for it, will soon stop and 1 go home
with the rest ot the Lite Guards. There is one
remedy only for the safety of the country I have
served. Put other men to stand at the tiller and
round the cables, and you will soon be back on
the old Constitutional track. Gen. Harrison is
honest, he never deceived you and he never lost
a battle, and the People wont let him lose tins-
Accept m\ advice and you all have my blessing
—my advice is that all of you become the Life
Guards ot the country, and my blessing is that
your old age may have less fears for liberty than
mme - BENJAMIN EATON.
One of the two surviving Life Guards of
George Washington. J
Ntwui RGH, N- Y. Aug 28, 1810.
A Tribute. —The delegation from Maury, at
the Great Southwestern Convention, was prece
ded by a large banner bearing a correct and fin
ished likeness of the lamented Hugh L. White
in the act of reading his Letter of Resignation to
the Senate of the United States. To the right
of the portrait were the following lines :
“ b or the sake ot place, I will never cringe to
power. Vou have instructed me to do those
things which, entertaining the opinions I do, I
fear I would not be forgiven for, either in this
world or in the next; and practising upon the
creed I ha-'e long professed, I hereby lender you
my resignation of the trust confided to me as
one of the Senators of the Slate of 'Tennessee to
the Congress of the United States.”
On the reverse of the banner was painted an
urn, sacred to the honored dead.
This touching memento excited universal re
mark, and as the line moved by it, hundreds
of heads were involuntarily uncovered as they
passed. 3
The steam ship President, and the Cambridge
packet ship for Liverpool, the St, James for Lon
don. and Utica for Havre, all sailed from N. Y,
on the Ist jnst. for Europe. The President takes
out 56 passengers and a light freight of Flour,
with hut little specie The Utica takes out 100,-
000 Mexican dollars. Four steam packets will
be in from the old world this mouth : the British
Queen, which sailed from London on the Ist;
the Brittannia, from Liverpool, the 4th; the
Great Western, from Bristol, on the 12ih, and
the Caledonia, from Liverpool, on the 15th.
Trying them. —We learn the Whig delega
tion to the Bunker Hill Convention from New
Bedford, will bring them a whale boat, filled and
manned with genuine “Long Tom Coffins.”
1 heir Banner will represent Van Buren. Wood
bury, Kendall, Blair, &c. with other blubber, in
a Urge try-pot, with the motto—“ We have tried
1 hem m office-we will now try them out of
office. —Boston Mer. Jnir, J
Defence ofllte administration abandoned.
So untonably are the acts of the Administra
tion, that even the most unscrupulous of its par
tizans have given up in despair the task ofdclence.
They are perfectly sensible that the profligate
waste of public money which aas marked the
whole of Mr. Van Suren's career, has shocked
and will receive the unqualified condemnation of
the People, and that their only hope of escape
from a just retribution is by diverting public atten
tion from these enormities to some imputed dere
liction of General Harrisou.
It is with ths view that they rake up exploded
calumnies from all quarters, and deal them out
with new glosses and fresh infusions of malig
nity. But all will not do. The People cannot
be blinded to the facts—
That Mr. Van Buren’s Administration has ex
pended, per annum nineteen times as much as
the Administration of Gen. Washington ;
That it has expended, per annum, seven times
as much as the Administrations ot John Adams
and Thomas Jefferson ;
That it has expended three times as much, per
annum, as those of James Monroe and John Q.
Adams;
That it has expended twice as much, per an
num, as that of Gen. Jackson;
And, worse than all, that it has expended
j twice as much, per annum, as that of Mr Mad
' ison, notwithstanding the latter was engaged in
| a THREE YEARS’ WAR—had ships to build,
: a navy to equip, an army to recruit, military to
pay in nearly all the States, and provisions and
munitions of war to transport through the wilder
nesses of the West.
The People will not forget that Mr. Van Hu
ron opposed the re-election of Mr. Madison at the
most critical period of the war, not that, while
thus engaged, the “Democratic General” (as
Ritchie called Harrison) was overcoming innu
merable difficulties on the arena of Hull’s dis
grace—was renovating the tarnished honor of the
country —and eventually captured the united
bands of Proctor and Tecumsch,
Now will the People be satisfied with the an
swer of Benton and Woodbury, that the expen
ditures have been extraordinary. It is for the
very reason that they have not only been extraor
dinary, but monstrous, that the freemen of the
country are about to hurl from power the pack of
shameless plunderers, who, vampire-like, have
for years deen exhauslting the nation’s life-blood,
and paralyzing its energies.— -Hick. Whig.
Shipwreck and Loss of Life.
The British ship New Grove, Cousens. mas
ter, was lost upon the rocks off the East end of
the island of Jamaica, on the night of August
Ist, having left Port Morant on the morning of
that day. She was driven upon the rocks by a
strong current running to the Eastward. The
captain, crew and one passenger, Mr. Sprouil,
got into a boat, with such provisions, &c. as could
he got together in haste, hut as they were shoving
off the sinking ship caught and upset the boat.
Mr. Sprouil was drowned, but the others were
all saved. It was supposed that Mr. Sprouil be
came entangled in the rigging and was thus car
ried down. He had been a wealthy proprietor
in the island, but some years ago removed to
Ireland; he svas now on his return, having visi
ted Jamaica to conclude the sale of his estates.
The Jamaica Gazette contends earnestly for
the erection of a light-house on Point Morant and
another on Morant Keys, to the want of wlrcli
the Joss ot the New Grove is attributed.
From the Savannah Georgian.
tSr. Muirs, August 31, 1840.
Dkau Sns;—Annexed you have an abstract
of the sixth census of Camden Count}'; it has
increased since June, 1830, 1476 inhabitants.
I am truly sorry to inform you that the Indians
have murdered several of them since their names
were placed on the schedule. Mr, Davis’ family
was the first, at the head of the liver near tlio
Okefenoke Swamp, and contained seven; Mr.
Patricks, nine; Mr. Combs six, and from report
seventeen of those have been murdered. There
were twenty-nine families in what is called the
Big Bend of St, Marys River. It is reported
they have moved to Trader’s Hill, about thirty
miles from where Davis was killed, which 1 hope
is the case, for their settlements are from three
to eight miles apart.
I remain, with respect,
Your obedient servant,
THUS. H. MILLER,
Assistant to the Marshal of Georgia,
Mr. W. 11. Bo liocii, Savannah.
Abstract of Ike Sixth Census of Camden Coun
ty, far the \sl June, 1810, viz.
White males, 1050
White Females, 954
2004
Free colored males, 8
Free colored females, 14
22
Slave, males, 1978
Slaves, females, 2071
4049
GO 75
Centrevilie contains 59 inhabitants,") including
Jefferson, 68 C the above
St Marys 913 3 nuraber.
Os that number there are 105 white males and
84 white females under 15 years of age in St
Marys.
St. Marys has one Academy and three private
schools, at which there were 128 sluuents, 14 at
public charge.
'i here were seven private Schools in the coun
ty at which there were 74 sudents.
STATISTICAL REPORT, IX PART.
Mules and Horses, 770; neat cattle 17,072;
sheep 1463 ; swine 7182 ; huslicls wheat 68 ; do.
oats 443 ; do, rye 82 ; do, potatoes 45,875 ; lbs.
wool 1659; do. hopps 31; tons hay 138; lbs.
rice 875,440; do. cotton 2,032.745; do. silk co
coons 120; do. sugar 20,450 ; cords wood sold
1i33; sides sole and upper leather tanned last
year 1148; products of the dairy $1468; four
steam saw mills, value of lumber sawed §45,000.
Our friend, Dr. Palmer, administers strong
doses in his Wbig Republican. Some of his pre
scriptions are equal to those of the Atlas. Bos
ton Post.
We hope the doses will operate well, and pro
duce the desired effect. Should they not, we
would recommend the following:
R. Pil Sub. Treas.
Pil. Bent, mint drop, a. a. one scruple.
Pulv. army Poinsett, 200,000 grains.
Dent. Blood Hounds. 33
Not. Treas. Rag, 4,500,000
Fiat Bolus.
lo betaken morning, noon and night,—fast
ing. Eat nothing but sheep's head and pluck,
and as soon as the medicine operates, abstain
Irom meat altogether, and the patient will be able
io live tor 7d. a day. If this does not effect a
cure, the case must he considered desperate, and
beyond the power of the Med. Fac. to relieve—
Wfug Republican.
The Loco Foco Rooster. —Chapman, the
great Rooster of the Locofoco party, who lives in
llmois, was formerly one of the editors of an
Infidel paper, the Boston Investigator. He at
tended the celebration of Tom Paine’s birth day
in that city hist summer, and ga\e the following
loco foco toast —“ Christianity and the Banks—
both on (heir last legs.”-- X. V. Times.
From the Macon Messenger.
The following fragment of a Drama, was handed
us a few days since by a young man of a neighbor
ing county, who lives alone on his farm i • a log
cabin. It would appear that he has some ideas in
his bead, that he may have gathered by attending
a political meeting or reading a newspaper, and
we should suppose that he has, withal, some gen
ius in embodying those ideas.
SCENE — Washington. Van Buren'sHouse —Van
Buren discovered sitting in his royal chair of
state, reading aloud in Shakspeare.
“ Gold ! Yellow, glittering, precious gold !
Thus much of this will make black, white; foul,
fair;
Wrong, right; base, noble; old, young; coward,
valiant ;
Why Ibis
Will buy your priests and servants from your sides.
This yellow slave
Will knit and break religions ; bless the accurs’d ;
Make the foul leprosy ador’d ; place thieves.
And give them title, knee and approbation.
With Senators on the bench.” —
Van (soliliquizing.J This is the only true phi
losophy
Thtt ever yet was uttered by a man :
1 know of many poor vile wretches now,
Whose minds will change —even like the weather
cock’s,
I nto the point where the strong current runs
Os public favors, and the country’s gold—
Enter Walter Squirt.
Walter, give me thy hand: j
How is your health ? I’ve had an awful fear
Vour late indispositions would weigh down
Your manly foim, and great Herculean mind ;
Yes, Walter, since you voted for rny seif.
To write in praise of my supreme command,
There has laid hiddden in my secret heart,
(Provided thou wilt further go with me.)
Great store of good for thy most lustful soul.
By my gieat magic wand ! I now invoke
That all the gods may speedily rcstoie
Thy loving self, to health and rose-bud cheeks. j
Walter. O ! thou, the living shade of Jeffer
son !
I thank thee for thy mod loving care :
The great perplexities I have in mind.
My Doctor says, will surely kill my body.
Could you have only heard gieat Dunk-an tell
About affinities that did exhl
In the corporeal system of mankind,
I think, by the appointing power you hold,
You would appoint him Doctor General,
Os all the empires in the universe.
Van. Come, tell me true,
Is there no medicine in this vast world,
That can heal up thy raging maladies ?
Walter. Thank heaven there is; but ’tis a
costly ding,
Dug from the mines of Chili and Peru ;
And very few physicians in these days,
Can hold enough to cleanse the appetite
Os foul diseased stomachs —such as mine.
Van. Now, oy my Cuba dogs in Florida
And the nice waltz I ambled in New York !
1 am a better Doctor in your case,
Than even Dunk-an.
Enter Fan’s Secretary.
Sec. My lord,
1 come to tell you I’ve paid off the sum,
That you commanded should be paid unto.
Oh Bea-born-Jonas —a very fine, good tare —
For services that he will render you.
Van. Keep silence now. Walter, speak out
your mind,
You need not fear betrayal by this fellow :
And tell me your sad misfortunes, son—
What! not a word !
Your merchandize, I fear, doth make you sad.
Walter. Yes, Van,
You then did hit the nail upon the bead ;
1 must admit that all my “ filthy lucre,”
Got by bard speech against tiie orphan world.
Will shortly, like the death-knell of old time,
Be wrung like rattling thunder in the skies,
Under the sheriff’s hammer in Columbus,
Unless you will extend a helping band.
Van. Give me ore pledge, one only pledge, and I
say
That thou wilt be my friend ; and promise me,
When you return back to your native home.
You'll deal in clam’rous speeches for my cause,
And like a good man, argue well my acts :
Twist, turn, and cut the ideas of “ Old Tin.”
Like 1 intend to cut my enemies, (Van saws the i
air,y
When others of the self same stamp as you.
Shall give your King two hundred thousand men. —
My Secretary.’
Sec. My liege, what is your pleasure !
Van. Go to my iron chest, that’s painted Black,
Cooper[ed] by one es Georgia’s good mechanics,
Whose name heieafter, shall be Callfd] Quitt,
And bring to me a dozen bags or so.
Os Benton’s gods. Exit Secretary.
Now tell me true: will open tby wide mouth,
According to the jewels 1 shall give.
Waller. Yes, by my rotten sockets, will 1 sire.
But ‘mum’ must be the word with us my liege.
For should the people by some scent find out
What passed between your majesty and me,
’ I’would quite undo us ; 1 pray you list my tale.
Vour Secretary, Sire, will soon return
And let me tell you 1 am not prepared
To store away the yellow gods I’ll get.
You know, sometimes an outward show does best
To captivate the silly multitude ;
But when it antes to squander their hard rights
The case is different: therefore, great sire,
Concealment must go hand in hand with vice.
1 have a cunning device in my head.
Pray let me tell it in a short extract;
On my return from Georgia to this place,
1 slop’d at Bartlesville, being very feeble ,’
And there I purchased such a strong emetic,
(’Twill vacuate the stomach in no time,)
And by this ‘means’ I will be gaunt and empty,
For to receive your gracious antidote,
And by that ‘means’ I can conceal and hide
My acts from the observance of the world.
By carrying your golden pills inside :
Enter Hr. Dunk-an.
Here comes the great Physician in good time—
Doctor, will t please you *ake this nauseous drug
And give to me such portions as seems fit
To fit rny stomach for a good rouad sum.
Os Benton’s boys?
L>r. I will rny brother;
For brother 1 must call you ; I once did think,
\\ e ever should be hateful enemies.
About an Abolition letter that 1 wrote,
And said hard things about your folks at home ;
I hey lately' like yourself, on finding out,
1 hat 1 was right, have sent to me a summons
To come down South, to eat their richest meats,
And quaff their masting stores of sparkling vviuc ;
King V andeipoel will now embrace you 100.
And Block will make his Cannon read the air.
Here—by the near guess of my raemorv.
This is a dose.
(Walter drinks and lies down on Van’s French
bed, and appears quite sick.)
H alter. Soon Doctor, in this longing breast of
mine,
My liege will make a great ‘experiment,’
Bv putting his ‘deposiles’ in my ‘chest,’
My -Price’—is taken—like the Swartwout, I’ll be
r l he ‘monster’ walking great Svh-Treasury.
(Walter vomits; in the mean time enter Scc’v
with a spade and bags of coin.)
I feel now Doctor, like my country’s coffers—uh!
Disgorged and empty. What else shall J do?
Jan. Down on your knees, that 1 may with
tins spade,
(Walter kneels.)
1 ill up jourv'ell dilated maw with gold.
Here goes—your mouth a little wider— '
Is that enough to secure your vote?
Walter. Little mo’.
lan. Doctor, be hardly speaks—think’st it safe
To give another drench? 5
Dr. Yes, King, a little more;
His vote we must secure ;
Just gage it so it will not kill
By Pope, my Urge, he’s hard to fill.
Van. Will that suffice?
Walter. M—u—h—u.
°5 ]orious day! Dunk-an behold the change.
Go and tPn e \ ll Tt' VroU A , l t - by m - V great alch J mist.
a i iJ C ‘^ mos Uus glorious news,
ThlV, C , my st ribes directly Blair it our.
i h n a ( Tom e ,. Cau - !,t Wall er with a silver hook—
Til f v 1 ai p es u ord to write it in his‘Book.’,
If we
it we amt horsoi, I wish I may bo
iou make a wrong request—keep daik.
[Curtain falls.
• j^ n Alabama and Georgia, if not
n Louisiana, must of the banking privileges have
h e e„ g ™„,edl, y De„ W c,a«cle s i.f a r„c^C„“!
ter lo th .4 ug. 1840.
New Rules of Grammar— By M* V. B.
The following attuning inscription copied from
one of the banners at the great Whig Convention
at Spiingfitld, Illinois, is the best hit at the practi
ces of the party in power, we have met with fox
many a day:
l*t The President is independent of tiie coun
try, and stands in the governing case absolute.
2d. When an address is made to Congress, he
is in the imperative mood, and they in the submis
sive. e f
3d. Loco Focoism alone qualifies a man lor ot
llcc, and a'l the office-holders must agree with the
President in evert/ case.
4th. Cold and silver belong to the office-holders
collectively and individually. Treasury rags be
long to the people. ,
On the same banner, appeared this novel rule ol
Arithmetic:
To change paper money into metalic. Rule—
Subtract the latter from the people, add it to the
Treasurv, and divide the amount among the office
holders.
An intelligent traveller, we suppose a Phila
delpian, who has made the tour of Palestine,
gives the following interesting information, rela
tive to the persecution of the Jews there. The
same writer has furnished several entertaining
and well written articles touching his travels, lor
the U. S. Gazette, in which paper the article
below appears. Every Christian must respond
' to this broad philanthropy* which includes the
j rights and well being of man every where. His
i information is peculiarly interesting, as being
i gathered on the theatre of occurences, and his
j sentiments arc the more to be respected because
I they a~c called forth by a personal observation
I of the indignities and cruellies practised upon
| the Jews ;
The Persecution of the Jews at Damas
cus.
Being in the neighborhood of Damascus about
the commencement of the persecution ol the
Jews in that city, I made myself acquainted with
the facts of the case. A greater outiage on liu- j
I inanity was never committed. One of the 1* ri
; ars of the Latin Convent in that place suddenly
I disappeared. He was an inoffensive, kind old
man. who had, all his Hie, most ot which was
I passed in Damascus, being engaged in works ol
; Christian charilv, and was respected by men of
; all sects. The Jews, at the time of his disappear
ance, were engaged in the performance ot some
religious rites. A cry was immediately raised
by the Turks, that the Friar had been victimized
in some sacrificial rite by the Jews. The Jews
are oppressed to the last degree in all Musselrnan
kingdoms, and no where more so, than in Syria
and Palestine. In Smyrna, Constantinople, and
Syria, they daily suffer the most atrocious wrongs;
j and though they are among the industrious of
the people there, and constitute a bodv ol tire
most valuable subjects, they are harrassed and
bunted down like dogs, and treated with a con-
I tuniely that only long and patient suffering could
■ make endurable. The disappearance of the Fri
i ar wjs immed'ately siezed by the Turks as an
opportunity of •u.ng their spleen upon the
poor Jews. It was asserted that the .ie.vs, hav
ing occasion for Christian blood, had carried off
the Friar, and made him a sacrifice.—The Tur
kish authorities, delighted at an opportunity of
extonion and revenge, with little or no ground of
suspicion, set on foot a most horrid persecution.
The only ground of suspiciclon, was the find
ing of a few rags in the Jewish Quarter which
wore said to be part of the cowl of the .Monk.
Upon examination, however, no identity could
be established between the cowl and the rags.
Upon this, however, a number of Jew.® were ex
amined, and not divulging any thing, as they
knew nothing, they, with many others, were pul
Ito the most infamous tortures. Theears of one
j were cut off, the noses of others; and of one his
| right eye was put out, and other cruelties rcsor
; ted to too disgusting to record. Terrified at these
enormities, five Jews confessed, who had been
submitted to these tor uies confessed that they
had murdered the Friar. The European Con
suls interposed, and obtained their release, as it
was evident that the charges against them could
not be substantiated, and as these confessions
were nothing more than the cries of men for life
in the agonies of torture.
My fellow passenger in the packet from Bey
roul to Alexandria, was the colleague of Mr.
' Nicholayson, the Missonary of Jerusalem. He
was a converted Jew, and now a Christian
missionary to the Jews of Palestine and Syria.
■ He knew the Talmud and ail the holy books of
the Jews; and he told me, what of course I
previously knew, that the- presumption of a use
of Christian Mood in Jewish rites, was as repug
i mint to their feelings of humanity as absurd. He
had examined minutely the whole affair, and he
was then on his way to lay the mass of testimony
he had collected before Mehemet Aii and the
European Ministers at Alexandria. He men
tioned that a Turkish butcher had frequently been
heard to threaten the life of the Monk, for some
petty difference he had with him, and yet this
man had never even been questioned*. This
gentleman, who thus so generously came forward
as the Christain advocate for the Jews, was Mr.
Peirilz; and I take pleasure in mentioning his
name, even in this distant land, as an advocate of
the persecuted and oppressed. He went to Alex
andria, and there created such an excitement in
this matter that the European Consuls, in a body,
requested of tire Pasha an investigation into the
conduct of the authorities at Damascus. In the
highest legislative body in the world—the Biitish
Parliament—tne voice of Christain statesmen has
been heard exclaiming against this horrid revival
of the tortures of the Spanish Inquisition.
It is a gratifying reflection to the friends of hu
manity to witne-s the generous indignation tnat
men of all sects feci upon this subject. The
time has now came when, even in the most re
mote corners of the world, and under the most
unlimited and oppressive of despotic govern
ments. the rights of man be he of what color or
sect he may, cannot lie invaded without exciting
the indignant remonstrances of all Christendom.
I have seen the descendants of Abraham, Isaac
bird Jacob gathered from the four quarters of the
world, around the site of the temple of their fore
fathers at Jerusalem ; and never have I witness
ed such an imposing spectacle of patient suffering,
and heroic endurance, for opinion and conscience
sake. Though I could not hut wonder at the
tenacity ot their prejudices, and their want of en
iightcnment on the events which have transpired
in the Christian era, yet I could not but sympa
thize with their sufferings under persecution, and
he reminded that being men, thev have the rights
ofmen - * E.J. M.
Capt. Thomas, of brig Charlotte, arrived at this
port, this morning, from Matanzas, states that ac
counts had just been received there of the loss of
the Spanish ship Rosina from Hamburg for
Havana on one of the Keys in the old Bahama
Straits. Cargosaid to be valued at $250 000 and
to he partly insured in Boston. The National
has *SOOO on Ireight; and it is reported there i •
*IO,OOO at another officc—ZWon Transcript .
Gnvr. A writer in the Norfolk Herald who
has suffered much from this painful disease re
commends, from h.s own experience and that of
loTng recemt? 0111 " ° f **
i Q!v.C Burdock leaver nnt L a :j*
ll,em ,o i>art -“s' •“>"
leave, over the “ Zl
be repeated two or three lime, a tlav-lvvo 1°
tic's Whll remoVe 11,0P»"andsorc
or sock T ' ,realm<mt "<”‘ r “ cloth shoe
drved in H e ** gaU,ereJ 01 *•>« —>n and
P emr, t a " SWer as "' HI ■» winter,
p*eparul in the same way.
From the Boston Morning Post.
Police Court.—Return ol Mrs, Kiuirev
Boston. * 10
Constable Clapp, who held the executive w ir
rant, grounded on the inquest upon the sump ■»
of the death of George F. Kinney, by puh ~
brought her to this city on Sunday night, gi,.[
was simply brought into court to havu the com
plaint read to her, and immediately withdrawn
At the request of her counsel, the sheriff iriv ,
her a carte blanche as to the style in which her
room in piison should be fitted up for her cm
fortablc accommodation, and. after taking din-m
with Mr. Adams, she was conducted to "her dr
cumscribed quarters in jail.
In several papers her personal attractions hav
been emblazoned, as if she were a second Cleo
patra, whose fascinating glance was irresistible
to mrrtal man, and could Jure the sex to jnev
table perdition; but the fact is, Mrs. Kj nnev
simply a d irk-complexioned, decent Iookin» \ v ■
man, somewhere between the latitudes of g.
five and forty. In conversation, she is f rat ,j,
easy and intelligent, and the expression of her
countenance, for the time being, unaffectedly
amiable, and nothing more. As for the brilliant
flashing of her eye, we might as well sneak of
striking a light with a piece of India-rubber,
her present severely trying predicament, her eon,
versatlon and demeanor are characterized bv iL e
most scrupulous propriety. Not a look, g,>t Ule
or accent, betokening bravado or tbol hardiness
has escaped her on the one hand, nor any p X i
piession of conscience-stricken weakness, or - u |; t .
confessing aversion of glance, on the other’, Las
1 been detected, since Mr. Clapp first met her at
Thelford.
In relation to the reports about her dangerous
charms, she yesterday related an amusing denoue
ment, which occurred on her so called “ raoid
flight ” to Concord. 1
I While going from Nashua to Concord, in the
stage, two ladies, utter strangers to her, comm* n-
I ceil a conversation about the “ horrid poison case
I in Boston.'’
Says one—“ Her name is Kinney, and she is
one of those jilting beauties who know' how to
attract the men, and lead them where she has a
mind to. When she was a widow, she came uo
to Lowell, and dashed about till she got a \vav
the Rev. Mr. Freeman from the daughter of the
woman he boarded with, when every body thought
he would have married her as a matter of course,
as he had hoarded a long time in the family ”
“ replied her friend, “and the strongest
circumstance against her now is, that she i m g
away the very next day after her husband was 1
buried.* But I guess that her rig is now up. an j
that is the last husband she will finish.”
While in the stage, Mrs. Kinney listened in
silence to this charitable coll, quy ; but upon her
arrival at the hotel in Cone-rd. the invited one
ol her censors into her chamber—(the other had
proceeded on her journey)—and after a little
preparatory conversation, Mrs. Kinney asked tier
d s!ie had not been talking in the stage about
the poison case. The stranger replied “Yes,”
and Mrs. K. then said she had overheard part of
the conversation, and should like to hear the
whole of it. The garrulous guest complied with
her request, with embellishments, and then, after
a shoit pause, Mrs. Kinney said to her—“l am
the Mrs. Kinney you have been talking about!”
i he lady was literally dumbfounded by this
discovery, and attempted to apologise to Mrs.
Kinney as well as she might. Mrs. K.. by her
genuine affability ol manners, soon however, re
lieved her from her embarrassment, and acquired
her friendly sympathy.
* Mrs. Kinney left Boston eleven days after
Mr. Kinney s funeral, and five days after she bad
been informed that he had died of poison, a»d |
that she-was suspected of administering if. Mr.
K. was subject to fits of low spirits, and he was
in very embarrassed circumstances.
The following item was picked up near Ro
chester and handed to us for publication :
1839 Mr. WoDroF
juhye Ist in jane WiLsoN debet I
4 to Waten and tenden ire das SOO 75
0 to digin & briin taters 12 -|
7 to needing and btking bred 10
9 te mending trowsers 0 j
f 9 to goin 3 timesybr gin Isl
A lo rrd.n \e globe for ye fi M
$1 IS 1
1 ire last item in this interesting catalogue, |
sti ikes us as being a remarkable low charge. — J
Any peison who can aflord to he, ‘redin ye globe 1
lor ye lor sixpence, must be in rather a ‘eecdin |
condition. By the way, this worthy couple must
have had crackin limeson the night of the memo* cl
rai>!c “jmy v c 9th,” over the Globe and gin bottle.
I be price lor mending the trowstrs, is not quite |
so much as Gov. Man y charged for mending his. J
—Richmond Whig;.
Galena Gold.—The Galena Democrat say?: I
“ We were yesterday shown a lump of A it' I
gin Gold picked up on the surface of the ground H
in lowa Territory, a short distance from Galena I
1 his is the first piece ol gold that has been tbucJ I
in this section ot the country, and we have I
doubt, when search is fully made, .hat it will h |
lound in large quantities.” It is possible that 1
gold may be discovered among the other mineral* |
ot the north-western region of the United State*; »
hut the surest and easiest method of procuring -j
b there as well as eslevvhere, we imagine, will
be to plough tbr it.
The New Yurk Express says “It is j
extraordinary fact, that within the last week con- 9
siderabie purchases have been made of rye, to be j
shipped to the Mediterranean, supposed lor the j
Rusians in the Black Sea. Last \ ear at this time, jj
there weie large arrivals of r\e from Odessa,in
tho blacK Sea. So changeable is commerce.
The Wine Cup.
Shun, shun ye the wine cup,
For madness is there ;
’Tis tbe ruin of all things
That’s gladsome and fair;
’Tis the blight of affection,
The downfall of fame,
And no hope can survive,
'i he breath of its shame.
O, shun it when glad ones
In revel are high—
When the song and the jest
Are bright’tang each eye—
\N lien the tempter is waiting
To blast with his siniic—
Then heed not his seeming,
’Tis falsehood and guile.
And quail’not the goblet
To absent ones now —
’Twill tarnish the laurels
That wrgath round their brow;
Far bettei in silence
'Their names should remain,
Than their nr. cm Ties should bear
On their impress that stain.
And banish the wine cup
When woman is near—
’ Tis the siioc that sti ips them
Os all they hold dear —
’Tis the monster that hastens
Their friends to their doom,
And in his triumph
His songs on their tomb.
Then haste to the rescue —
The banner is seen
’Tis as bright as the halo
Os night’s beaming queen.
On, on to the buttle.
Raid hearted and brave ;
And this is the watch-word,
We conquer to save.