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CHRONICLE AND SEN'"!NEE.
AUGUST .
WEDNESDAY MORNING OCTOBER 7.
FOR PF.ESIDE?
WILLIAM HENRY J LARRISON,
Os Ohio ;
Tli#» invincible Hero of Tipp( anoe the incor
ruptible Statesman—the infle ible Republican —
the patriotic Farmer of Ohio
for vice-presid; st,
JOHN T YU 311 y
Os Virginia;
State Rights Republican of t e school of ’9B—
—of Virginia’s noblest sons and emphatically
one of America’s most sagaci us, virtuous and
patriot statesmen.
FOR ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AN] VICE-PRESIDENT,
GEORGE R. GILMER, of Oglethorpe.
DUNCAN L. CLINCH, of lamden.
JOHN W. CAMPBELL, o Muscogee.
JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hi mock.
CHARLES DOUGHERTY of Clark.
•SEATON GRANTLAND, f Baldwin.
ANDREW MILLER, of C ss.
WILLIAM EZZARD, o' 1 iKalb.
C. B. STRONG, of Bibb.
JOHN WHITEHEAD, of urke.
E. WIMBERLY, of Twig< ;.
{fj- No Mail north of Richm ml last night.
First Harrison Gi n from
GEORGIA !
Old Richmond F irever!
We present our readers this ! orning with the
■official returns of the election in this county,
which sends forth a noble voice from Old Rich
mond. She was among the firs to summon her
sons to the rescue, and nobly lv 5 she home her
self in the fight, zealously have tl >r struggled, and
gloriously borne off the palm of ictory. It was
■a glorious day, and Richmond has 'on glory enough
for one day. It was the triumph c the people over
the slaves and office-holders of tl ; White House ;
*ye, and what is more, it is at; umph over the
office-holders and the suckers as neasury pap of
Richmond county.
What an avalanche it was to th Locos, no man
can imagine who has not seen tl *ir doleful and
elongated countenances. “ React i ’ll Reaction/”
they have proclaimed from one ei 1 of the Union
to the other, and many were the upes who have
been made by this shout. Where we ask, is the
evidence of the reaction ? Can yo answer, Loco
focos ?
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For Congress.
•TV. C. Dawson. .. 654 46 70 >S 102 900
R. W. Habn sham 656 45 70 ’8 102 901
Julius C. Alford. 649 45 70 IS 102 594
E. A. Nisbet 650 45 69 IS 102 894
Loti Warren.... 650 44 70 18 102 894
Thos. B. King... 651 46 70 JS 102 897
R. L. Gamble ... 653 43 70 >8 102 596
J. A. Meriwether . 650 43 70 >8 102 893
Thos F. Foster.. 652 43 70 18 102 895
Edward J. Black 416 22 9 !5 19 491
D. C. Campbell. 422 21 7 16 19 495
W. T. Colquitt... 420 22 9 ’’s 13 495
Maik A Cooper. 424 22 10 *.6 19 501
Julius Hillyer... 419 20 7 !6 19 491
Alfred Iverson... 421 21 7 16 19 494
J. H. Lumpkin.. 421 21 7 16 19 491
J.S. Patterson... 419 21 7 16 19 492
R.W. Pooler 419 22 7 >S 19 493
For Senate. -
Andrew J. Miller 617 41 60 25 100 843
•George Schley... 405 18 8 28 17 476
Represent a t’s.
G. W. Crawford. 60S 44 60 17 93 832
Chas. J. Jenkins,. 609 41 60 16 95 831
Win. J. Rhodes.. 607 37 65 il6 96 831
Thos Glasscock. 434 23 5 17 25 514
Garey F. Parish. 40S 15 5 15 16 469
W. Haynie 401 16 9 ’6 17 469
Annual, 29 .... 17 .... 56
Biennial 8.... 5-5 11 1 .... 64
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Congress. 5- 2 • ’. * I ?
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Dawson 4*o 402 S6O 518 632 514 494
Habersham. . .479 400 857 532 622 511 452
Alford 478 396 839 532 621 506 483
Nisbet 47S 402 855 530 674 512 487
Warren 478 401 856 519 615 509 480
King 480 400 854 519 621 507 480
Gamble 477 400 857 529 c 22 507 479
Merriwether .479 396 840 523 r>ls 510 481
Foster 478 396 850 523 §322 511 481
Blacs 272 59 97 271 354 510 323
Cooper 274 60 106 281 359 509 330
Colquitt 271 GO 96 287 352 511 312
Campbell 27 3 6 2 9 3 256 350 512 318
Hillyer 274 52 95 256 375 512 320
Iverson 27 3 5 2 9 4 260 352 612 320
Lumpkin 273 50 91 356 347 513 320
Patterson. .* .273 52 91 255 .344 513 320
Pooler 273 52 91 256 346 512 321
Legislature.
Columbia. — Dawson. — Jones , Rober son and Burt.
Warbev. — Harris. — May, Andersc and Darden.
1 gain.
Talliaferbo. — Harris. —Stevens a. J Chapman.
Richmond. Miller. Jenkins, t rawford and
Rhodes. 1 gain.
Greene. — Stocks. — Rea, Daniell, C iddle.
The first name in each couuti is Senator.
The names in Italics are Whigs.
la the counties of Richmond, Tali: erro, Greene,
and Columoia, we have gained 405 ).:s upon our
majorities of 1839—and 264 gain up n 1838.
Georgia is standing erect, with th sledge ham
mer of her political integrity, ready o inflict ano
ther blow, south of Mason and D .on’s line, to
drive Locofocoism back to Kinderho . New? Ha
usn Herald of the 29th ul
Mr. Herald, just advise your Locc friends to
give themselves no uneasiness about leorgia. The
Whi*s of Richmond county applied that hammer
on Monday in away that will ma>e Martin trem
ble when he nears its sound.
Attention, Corporal J
Tub Flag on board the Spip England, at
New-York. —The Evening Post of the 29th u!t
had the ; andor to admit the inaccuracy of its state
ment in relation to this flag, in the following par
agraph. We will see if the Corporal is possessed
of as much liberality as his abolition contempora
ry-
“We leam that the flag hoisted yesterday on
board the packet ship England was an old one,and
that it bore the inscription, ‘ The England expects
every man ti do his duty,’ evidently meaning the
crew of the ship England. It was raisedacciden
ta'ly in hoisting the other flags, and as soon as it
was discovered to be Jlying,it was lowered. We
told the story yesterday exactly as it was related
to us by half a dozen persons; but having discov
ered tha: it was inaccurate, we hasten to set the
matter right.”
Anniversary of the Surrender of Cornwal
lis. —Th o people of Virginia are preparing for a
mighty'gathering at Yorktown, on the 19th of
October. The multitude are to encamp on the
greund.
From the Ohio Republican, Sept. 26.
And still they Come.
Thehx is yet room.— EIGHTEEN citizens
ofßumford, Maine, SEVENTEEN ofMontville,
Me. have renounced the spoils party, and come
out for c !d Tip.
THIRTEEN voters of Wayne township,
Jefferson county, Ohio, have in the Steubenville
Herald, assigned their reasons for abandening the
spoils psrtv, and declared for Harrison.
ONG HUNDRED AND ELEVEN citizens
of Washington county, Ohio, among them two
Revolutionary soldiers, have abandoned the “spoils
party” and come out for old Tip.
TWENTY-ONE citizens of Union township,
Brown county, Ohio, have abandoned Van Buren
ism and declared for old Tip.
TWELVE voters of Wayne county, Ohio,
heretofore supporters of the locos, have abandoned
the corruptionists and come out for old Tip.
SIXTEEN citizens of Medina county, have a
bandone.l Van and come out for old tip. Sub
treasury, the standing army, &c. have caused these
changes.
Nkw-York. Thursday, 4 P. M.
There has not been a great deal of business
done in stocks to-day, the departure of ihe Bri
tish Queen having absorbed the attention of all
who had not contracts to fulfil. Rates varied but
little—U. S. Bank declined per cent. State
stocks still firm—sales of Indiana at a slight ad
vance.
Very 1 ittle was done this morning in exchanges,
and no alteration on yesterday’s prices. Domes
tic exchange is precisely in the same position
and value.
Cotton is very heavy—no disposition to buy
without a reduction. The Flour market is quite
firm, the receipts being \er£ light: small sales
for home use have been made at §SJ, per bbl.;
Genesee selling at s4|, which remairs the same
A parcel of North River Barley sold at 62£c.
The sr.eam-ship has taken out about 80 passen
sengers, a full cargo of merchandize and letters
on which the postage amounts to §3OOO. The
steam-sh ip Natchez got up her steam at the same
time and proceeded on her voyage to New Or
leans.
There is no truth in the story that our insu-
I ranee Offices have advanced the rates of insu
rance on French property in consequence of their
apprehensions of a war.
We are now hourly expecting later accounts
from Bos.on by the British Post Office Steamer.
Baltimore, Get. 3.
Flour. —The transactions in Howard street flour
have been very small this week, the sales being
confined almost entirely to the city retail trade. —
Sales of a few hundred barrels of good common
brands were made fro n stores for shipment, on
Wednesday, at $5 We are not advised of
any other operations either yesterday or to-day.
Holders s.re now offering to sell at §5 We
continue to quote the receipt price at 5 to 5 06.
City Mills Flour. —We note the sales of 1000
barrels extra, at $5 25 per barrel. Standard qua
lity is held at §5, but we have heard of no trans
actions for some days past.
United States Bank.— The Philadelphia
North Arr erican of yesterday says,—“ Mr. Jou
don has arrived in this city. He brought out
100,000 sovereigns in gold for the United States
Bank. The following Banks have agreed to aid
the United States Bank to the amount of up
wards of three millions of dollars, in order to en
able her to resume specie payments, viz:—Penn
sylvania, Philadelphia, North America, Northern
Liberties, and Moyarneusing.”
The speculation in U. S. Bank Stock in Phil
adelphia is somewhat subsiding, as we learn from
Bicknell’s Reporter. The Bears, it seems, have
been making a bad business. ‘Thus,’ says the
Reporter,-the time sellers have been borrowing
stock, and paying at the rate of 50 cents per share
for it per week. Their idea was that it was bet
ter for them to sacrifice §SO per week on 100
shares, and to run the risk of a decline in the
price, than to supply contracts made at §6l and
§62 per share, by purchasing stock at 62£ a 64.
They feared moreover, that any large sales for
cash, would make their case still worse by advan
cing the price of stock. This game, however, is
one which must effectually end in ruin to those
who practice it extensively. This, an individu
al bound to deliver a thousand shares of stock
would lose §2OOO a month, and we learn that se
veral “ bears” as they are called, are short from
1000 to 1500. Most of these individuals, how
ever, have made very considerably by the extra
ordinary ciecline in the stock for the last six
months, and hence can afford to lose something.
It will be seen on reference to the sales for the
last month or two, that large amounts have been
sold on time, ranging from 30 to 60 days, and
at §6l §62. —Their position would be perilous
indeed, should the stock advance above 70, and
this is by no means imprt bable, should buna fide
holders refuse to sell at present prices, and should
this system of paying an enormous premium for
the loan of Stock, be persisted in much longer.
Hairison a Republican of 1793,
Gen. Joseph Darlington, of West Union, Ohio,
one of the three surviving members of the Terri
torial Legislature in Cincinnati, in 1799, has writ
ten a letter to William Creighton, jr., of Chili
cothe, in which he states that Gen. Harrison was
supported and elected a Delegate to Congress as
the Jeffersonian Republican candidate in opposi
tion to Arthur St. Clair, the federal candidate.
He says: “During that session I was well ac
quainted with Gen. Harrison, and weli knew that
he was believed by all the Republican members
of that Legislature to be a firm Republican and a
supporter cf Mr Jefferson’s polit : ral principles,
and under that impression was elected a Dele
gate to Congress by the Republican members of
the Legislature of 1799. It will not be neces
sary for me to say to you, who have been acquain
ted with mi; for more than forty years, that I was
at that time a Republican, and well acquainted
with, and engaged in ail the acts and proceedings
of the Republican party in that Legislature.”
Chalk. —Professor Ehrenberg has made some
remarkable discoveries in the course of his various
experiments on chalk. He found that a cubic
inch possessed upwards of a million of microscopi
cal animalculae; consequently a peund weight of
chalk contains aoove 10,000,000 of these animal
culse. Fromhisresearches.it appears probable
that all the strata of chalk in Europe are the pro
duct ofraicroscropical animalcules most of them
invisible to tne naked eye.
From the Richmond Whig.
The Feds routed at all points.
The discomfiture of the Feds at the polls, sig
nal and disastrous as it has been, has not sur
passed that which has attended them before the
people. It is a remark m every body’s mouth,
all through the country, that of all the charges
made by the orators and hireling presses of the
administration against General Harrison, not
i one has been sustained by any respectable au
! thority. The charge of abolitionism was tho
; first, and at one time most relied upon, but this
was soon found not to have even a shadow to
rest upon. So far from it, by comparing the
acts of the old General—his vote against the
Missouri restrictions—his speeches at Cheviot,
Vincennes and Carthage, with the acts of Mar
tin Van Buren —his vote for the Missouri re
strictions, for free negro suffrage, his admission
of tho constitutional right of Congress to abol
ish slavery in the District of Columbia, and his
sanction of negro testimony against white men —
it was ascertained that ‘‘the Northern man with
Southern feelings” would come off second best
in the comparison. The Feds therefore per
ceived the necessity of varying their charge. The
old General was no longer an abolitionist him
self, but the abolitionists would vote for him !
This was a damning sin in their eyes. The
South w r as exhorted to rally as one man against
an individual who would permit an abolitionist
to vote for him ! Well, several Southern States
voted, with the plague-spot resting upon the
skirts of the old hero. With one accord, \ ir
ginia, Louisiana, Kentucky and North Carolina
responded, that if the charge were true, of which
there was no better evidence than the say-so ot
the three greatest liars in the country, it was a
matter of no moment, and they all recorded their
votes for the farmer of North Bend, rejoicing in
an opportunity of giving honor to one who had
rendered greater public services than any man
living, and who had made greater personal sacri
fices in support of Southern rights than any roan
north of Mason and Dixonn line, and who was
absolutely sounder on the subject of abolition
than a large portion of the South.
Next came the charge of being “Gen Mum,”
the “ tongueless candidate”—“ caged, gagged and
guarded—in the hands of a committee, ’ &c.
The way in which this calumny has been blown
up is known to the whole land. The old Gen
i eral gave it a practical refutation, by taking the
, stump in person, and speaking to thousands and
thousands of his fellow citizens. This he has
done repeatedly, and in a manner a little mar
vellous, certainly, considering that he is a tongue
less candidate. His speeches have been of a
character to win for him the confidence and tho
admiration of all who heard or who have read
. them. They are all replete with sterling good
! sense, lofty sentiment, and sound republicaa
principles. This striking mode of refutation
ought to have silenced forever his traduccrs. —
It w ould have silenced any others than the blood
. hounds who have been unleashed to hunt hint
down. They stood branded with falsehood—
they ought to have been covered with shame
and confusion by the brilliant oratorical displays
by which their falsehoods were made familiar to
i the whole nation. But all this only served to
inflame their wrath, and make them more eager
in the pursuit of their victim. They look ano
ther tack. The old General was a Federalist —
wore the black cockade in 1800. They called
upon him as a witness against himself. He re
sponded, and gave them the lie direct. They
then called upon one Fowler, a man removed
from office by Mr. Monroe for pilfering the pub
lic treasure —a very suitable witness for such
men, and for the purpose they had in hand.—
rle swore up to the mark point blank, and no
mistake! But such testimony, contradicted by
the whole life and all the acts of General Harri
son, was deemed insufficient by his accusers
even, and they brought forward another ch irge
to aid them in their exigency. The old General
was a “mock hero,” a “petticoat General,” a
“ coward,” &c. This was a crack weapon with
them for a season. All the demagogues in the
land had it pat, and rang the changes upon it
with great glee. Bye and bye, however, it be
gan to recoil upon them; like a hot poker, it
became too heavy to hold, and the last we have
heard of it was a declaration in the Enquirer:
“ We have no respect for the opinion of any
man who calls Gen. Harrison a coward .” So
much for that.
Another most heinous offence allcdgcd against
General Harrison by the Feds, which although,
thrice refuted was as often repeated, was, that
he was in favor of “ selling poor, respectable
neighbor men and neighbor women for debt.”—
This was a matter which excited very great
fears among the Feds. As the law which Gen.
Harrison supported contemplated the sale of
horse thieves and grand and petty larceners,
some of them began to feel the halter around
their own necks, They felt conscious that they
came within the purview of the statute, and
they were under serious apprehensions lest jus
tice should overtake them. We hope that all
who indulge such anticipations may not be dis
appointed.
While thus routed at all points before the peo
ple, in their criminations of a gallant soldier,
sterling patriot and honest man, they have neen
unable to rebut any of the numerous and heavy
accusations which have been preferred against
the administration. They stand confirmed by
the record, and a verdict of guilty must go, by
default.
The True Issue.—The infatuation which
pervades a portion of the administration party,
on the subject of the currency, is very extraordi
nary.
If the Government were by law to reduce the
value of coin, say one hair, by increasing the al
loy, it would, by enabling the debtor to pay his
creditor in the depreciated standard, reduce the
debt one half. This would be denounced by
every honest man as legalized plunder—as rob
bery.
Now, if the Government, by legislative war
fare on the currency, contracts the currency one
half, it does the same thing, with this difference,
that instead of the creditor, it robs the debtor. It
reduces the va'ue of the debtor’s property, and
requires twice as much to pay any given debt as
it would have done but for the action of Govern
ment upon the circulating medium.
We quote the language of Mr. Calhoun, who
says that the currency is “the CREDIT of the
country. CREDIT, in every shape , public and
private ; credit not only in the shape of paper
; but that of faith and confidence between man
i and man ; through the agency of which, in all
its forms, the great and mighty exchanges of this
commercial country, at home and abroad, are
. effected. To inflict a wound any where, particu
; larly on the PUBLIC FAITH, is to embarrass
all the channels of CURRENCY and EX
i CHANGE ; and it is to this end, and not to
, the withdrawing the few millions of dollars from
. circulation, that I attribute the present moneyed
f embarrassment.”
Mr. McDuffie tells us that in proportion as
. we reduce the money of the country, we affect
5 the value of property. Mr. Woodbury’s reports
1 show that the circulation of the banks has been
5 reduced from 154 millions to 94 millions. Mr.
Calhoun tells us that the comparative reduction
of property is thirty to one, and yet those who
> would inflict this policy on the country claim
; to be opposed to the rich, and, par excellence, the
friends of the poor!
Are they not alike the enemies of the rich and
f the poor ? Do they not ruin the debtor without
. enriching the creditor I —Baltimore Pilot.
Mons Specie.—The ship Natchez7frorn Val
paraiso, arrived at New York, has on board two
hundred and seventy-two thousand and forty
dollars in specie. —journal oj Commerce.
From the Commercial Advertiser.
Speech of Gen. Van Rensselaer,
At the gathering in Westchester, JW Y.
After Mr. Hoffman had concluded a soul-stir
ring speech of an hour and a half. Col James A.
Hamilton introduced to the meeting the venera
ble and brave General Solomon Van Rensselaer,
the youthful champion in arms of the gallant
Harrison, and the fast friend of his riper yeais.
As Gen’l Van Rensselaer’s lungs, having been
perforated with a bullet in the Miami, are too weak
to allow him to speak to affield meeting, he pla
ced the manuscript of the following address in
the hands of Col. Hamilton, which was read to
the meeting by that gentleman, and received with
the highest demonstrations of approbation. We
insert it at length with the gratest pleasure, as the
testimony of one brave man to the high military
and moral worth of another:
Fellow-Citizens :
If I have been so fortunate as at any time to be
of service to my country, it has not been upon
the rostrum. I am not accustomed to make
speeches, yet, on the present occasion, I should do
myself injustice, and the cause ot my country
wrong, if I withheld my testimony in favor ot
the man whom “tho People delight to honor.”
There has nothing occcurred within the re
membrance of a iong life, which has so aroused
my indignation as the attempt now making to
to underrate the courage and talents, and to
falsify the character, of a man whose public
services, taken together, in extent, and calmly and
dispassionately viewed, ate immeasurably beyond
those of any American living. Show me another
man, if you can. now prominent in the public
eye, who was brought up and educated by a bet
ter father—patriot rather! Show me, if you can,
any other candidate for office, who, at the age of
19, entered the service of his country, aud expo
sed his life to the tomahawk and scalping knife.
Show me any, who, from that early age to the
present time, has incurred greater responsibilities,
encountered greater dangers, held higher and more
honorable stations, been a greater favorite with the
People, more efficiently promoted their interests,
protected their fron;iers, or gallantly conquered
in their cause, than Gen’l Harrison.
A historv of the far West, and the annals of
the late war, would lose half their interest if the
name of Gen. Harrison were effaced from their
pages. The star-spangled banner would be de
piived of its most glorious triumphs, if his
achievements were to be forgotten or decried. I
cannot contain my surprise that any man who
calls himself an American, should for an instant
attempt the disparagement of a chief who has
reflected such immortal honor on his country.
Parties must exist, and they are necessary in Re
publics, this is no reason why the national honor
should he assailed in the persons of our bravest
and most gallant defenders ; none, why our na
tional records should be mutilated or discredited,
to serve the purposes of political Demagogues.
I know that yon, who hear me, would resent
at once any imputations on the memory of Wash
ington. You would not consent that the History
of the Revolution should be written without giv
ing him his meed of praise. You would not like
to have your childern taught that he was a cow
ard and an imbecile. Such an attempt would
inflame your blood, and rouse your resentment.
The wretch who would attempt to rise on the
ruin'of his fame, would be condemned to univer
sal execration. And shall the character of our
second Washington be blasted by the base at
tempts of mere political pretenders] Shall the
long and arduous, and the honorable career of a
man who never deceived the people, and never
lost a battle, be assailed and vilified, because he
has been called from the plough again to serve
his country] Have Mr. Van Buren’s friends no
other hope than what arises from slander and mis
representation ] and do they rale the virtue and
intelligence of the people so low, as to believe
that they can be so duped and deceived ] Is this
their boasted confidence in their cause —that its
success depends alone on falsehood and abuse ]
I know too well the temper of the people, to be
lieve that they can ever be brought to dishonor
their flag, forsake their friends, or falsify their
history ! No ! thank God ! He and the3* mis
calculate, when they hope to triumph by such
disgraceful means. The national gloiy and the
national gratitude are not thus to be sullied for
so insignificant an object, as the success of a
mere partizan leader. Could I believe this, I
could wish, from the bottom es my heart, that the
lead I now carry in ray body, received in your
defence, had not left me alive to witness such in
famy.
What must the enemies of free institutions
think if we tolerate such enormities] What
must they say of free governments, when party
so ruthlessly assails our greatest benefactors]
What has Mr. Van Buren done for his country,
that a braver and a better, a more accomplished
scholar, and a profounder statesman, is thus vil
lificd, and abused by the pensioned presses at his
command ] Is it come to this, that the candidate
of the people is to be put down, if possible, by
the vilest slanders, because he is their candidate 1
I trust not; hut should there be any here, who,
for a moment believe them, I hold myself ready
to contradict them at every hazard.
“ I have been the companion, and have been
honored by the friendship of General Harrison
from my earliest youth. When sabre and rifle
clashed together in deadly fray, I saw him bear
ing the orders of Gen. Wayne into the thickest
of the fight—cool, collected the undismayed. He
who dares to call him a coward utters the gieatest
of falsehoods, and forever covers himself with
shame. I here bear witness to his undaunted
bravery, and pronounce that man a knave or a
fool who asserts so base and so groundless an un
truth. No! Let the Administration pension
its presses, and scatter its treasury notes ; and let
it perpetuate its atrocities in what shape it will;
but let it pause ere it fasten on the reputation of
the spotless, or calumniate the favorite of the peo
ple.
It was but a few weeks since I had the pleas
ure of being a guest of this great and good* man
in his cabin at North Bend. I saw him there for
the first time in several years, and found as all
his friends have found, the string of the latch on
the outside. No golden cups, or silver plateaus,
decorated his simple, but generous hoard. The
plenty of an American fanner, not the extrava
gance of foreign manners, alone, distinguished
his hospitality. Hundreds and thousands had
visited him the past summer, and none left him
without acknowledging the beautiful conformity
of his life with his principles , none bade him
farewell without feeling assured that they should
meet him again, not, perhaps, on the banks of the
Ohio but Potomac—and there putting in practice
those republican doctrines to which the White
House has been too long a stranger.
“ I found him hard at work on his farm,
rising with the earliest dawn, to attend to husines,
and literally earning his bread by the sweat of his
brow. Age has scarcely touched him. His fig
ure is erect and unbent. His eye, full of fire,
bespeaks his energy of purpose, and his whole
appearance give the assurance of his being in
the vigor of health and strength.
“ In conversation he is agreeable, instructive,
and kind. When he speaks in public, “convic
tion follows his periods.” To extraoidinary mer
it he adds the utmost modesty, and he, of all oth
ers, says the least of bis own achievements.' In
timate as I am with him. I never heard him utter
a sentence, or saw him do an action, unworthy
° S j•°k. a r ? an : he himselfhas never sought
the distinction which the people are now resolved
he shall attain. In short, no one can be with him
without leeling deeply the excellency of his char
acter, and his fitness for the situation of Presi
dent.
I again repeat that he is worthy of his reputa
tion, anu quantum to discharge in everv respect,
the important duties about to devolve upon him.
My friends, what can I say more to you on this
subject, than to ask whether you will permit one
of your earliest and truest friends to be slandered
out of your esteem 1 I know you w*l not.
I leave to abler hands the vindication ot our
bleeding constitution. I will not point to those
calamities which have, more or less, found their
way into every man’s dwelling, ami affected every
man’s prospects. I will n.t allude to thousands
of broken-hearted fellow-citizens, who, without
any fault of their own, have found their haru
earnings reduced to naught by the fiat of an un
-1 feeling Administration. I will not allude to those
who, having abundant means, which in these
1 times avail nothing, are unable to meet their
1 ordinary expenses. I ask if our Government was
' formed to attack the commerce, the industry and
the property of the people; and whether it is
called on to regulate the affairs of American free
men 1 Will you consent to become mendicants
1 at the door of the rich man, begging the privilege
1 ol working for him at 10 cents a day 1 Or, if
! blessed with the ample fruits of your own indus
* try, to see them snatched from your hands, to car
, ry on the theories of madmen.
! Gentlemen, the scene around and before us
has its recollections connected with many stirring
’ events of the revolutionary war. Not many years
ago a British fleet passed up the Hudson, almost
* in sight of this spot, conveying the incendiaries
5 of Europe, and carrying terror into the humble
: cabins of the friends of liberty. But that danger
and that crisis, and that fleet, have passed away,
and beautiful towns, and a numerous population
r have risen upon the banks of this mighty river;
and yet the Inst state of our political existence
may be worse than the first, if we permit a do
’ meslic policy to triumph, which is to level every
work of art. stop the busy wheel of industry,
strike the sails of your river and your ocean craft,
drive contentment from your doors, and hand
B you over to be the slaves of domestic tyrants.
’’ But I rejoice in the conviction that this state of
things is not to be permitted. During a period
“ of near half a century I have closely watched the
j gieat strife of parties, and never before have I
observed such a settled determination to effect a
wholesome change, or such enthusiasm, as is
now evinced by the friends of “Harrison and
Reform,*’ in this and other states lately visited
by me. Persevere then, in your praiseworthy ef
forts. May your exertions he unremitting in the
j cause of your suffering country, and procure for
it the return of happier days, an j a restoration of
that prosperity without which no government
should be for a moment tolerated.
s _
• From the New York Courier and Enquirer.
Ohio.— I The Battle Ground.
We stated the other day on the authority of
an intelligent correspondent, writing from Frank
fort, Kentucky, that the administration were con
centrating all their means and money on the
t State of Ohio. The Cincinnati Gazetie of Tues
day says that every mail brings something to con
firm the belief that Ohio is to be the main battle
_ ground of the administration. “The President and
his friends”—says the Gazette —So look upon it
—-his own son proclaims it ! We have before
j us a letter from a gentleman of high respectability
in New York, to his friend in this city, dated the
’ 12th of September, stating that Mr. John Van
' Buren, son of the President, had observed to his
friend a few days before, “that very much depen
ded on the result of the election in Ohio— that
the election there, was among the first, and being
' General Harrison’s own Stale, if it came oft' in
r favor of his father, would exert a great influence
B upon the election in ot he" States, particularly
. N. York, and being thus considered. THE PAK
' TY WOULD PUT FORTH THEIR BEST
EFFORTS TO CARRY THAT STATE
, —he expressly said that ALL THAT COULD
. BE DONE, WITH MEN AND MONEY,
\ WOULD BE DONE TO CARRY OHIO and
s that they confidently calculated on success.”
I The writer of the letter, from which the extract
is taken, is a gentleman of great respectability and
was a member and an officer of the Harrisburgh
r Convention. He received the information he
communicates from the lips of the gentleman to
whom Mr. \ an Buren made the declaration.
i
r “The ladies all are Whigs—God bless them” —
t Prentiss, of Miss.
j Anecdote. —A few evenings since, the daugh
ters of a very respectable Locofoco gave a party,
; to which were invited a number of theii male and
r female acquaintance. The evening passed oft’plea
- santly, as a matter of course, though politics were
frequently introduced during the evening. After
3 the adjournment of the party, it fell to the lot of a
t young lady, who was a strong Whig, to be escort
r cd home by a young man who was a Locofoco. —
i During their walk homeward, politics were again
introduced, and he, among his conversation, termed
j the W higs Tories. In an instant the lady drew
I her arm from li is, and said, “ Sir, my father is a
• W big, and no Tory, and so was his father before
him, and fought, too, Sir, ior the liberty which we
> now enjoy. And further, .Sir, I take pleasure in
expressing to you that I have no further use of
your services.” “ Hut you are not going to walk
such a distance as you have to walk by yourself,
are you ?” “Yes, Sir—sooner than walk with one
who would disparage the name of Whig.” And
she did walk heme by herself.— Balt. Pat.
i Hcura for the Spoils—sl6 a Dii/forme,
and 12 Cents for you. — Our old friend Benjamin
Tappan, he who is for reducing the poor men’s
wages to 11 pence a day, and wheat to 17 cents
a bushel is, it appears, not contented with $8 a
: day, but has procured an appointment from the
administiation lor one of his sons to CARRY A
LETTER to some port ol South America at $8
a day more !! ! This is a glorious administration
for Tappan—well may he go about the country,
and talk about bank reform. Sixteen dollars a
day, in one family, is a pretty comfortable little
; sum these hard limes. This would pay for the
labor of one hundred and twenty-eight laboring
men, every day, at eleven pence a day; or lor
one hundred bushels of wheat at sixteen cents a
bushel. One hundred bushels of wheat adav!
This is farming on a large scale.— Steubenville
Herald.
Steamboat Accident.—The steamboat Fay
ette, Field, master, and Pike, Powers, master,
came in contact with each other, on the night of
the 19th inst.. about 8 o’clock, opposite to Widow
Gillam’s place, about six miles below Alton, by
which accident the 1 ike was sunk—she went
down in about three minutes, after the collision,
and fortunately only one life was lost, (a little
child.)
The St. Louis Republican of the 21st ultimo,
savs a report was in town yesterday that four oth
er lives were lost, which turns out to be untrue,
as those persons left the wreck after the accident,
in a yawl, and came down to St. Louis and are
safe.
The boat was laden with lead and some few
packages of merchandise. The cabin separated
from the hull and drifted several miles, and was
towed ashore by the Fayette. It is thought the
engine will be recovered. She sunk in 10 feet
or more water.
Another.— On the 17th instant, the steamer
Euphrasie, in descending the Missouri run on a
snag about 4 miles below Glasgow, and sunk in
about 10 feet water. Boat a total loss. Had on
board 71 hhds. tob.cco, and 150 pieces of bale
rope and and bagging. The engine, and possibly
th« furniture and cargo may be recover*d.
The Caroline— We learn that McLeod, a
conspicuous actor in cutting out and burning the
Caroline, was arrested yesterday at Lockport.. and
committed to the jail in that place. He was indic
•* d i b /^ he r Grand Jur J of Niagara County early
in 1838. if we remember rightly, and will proba
b v be tried at the next Oyer and Terminer.—
tSuJjato Aav.
GLORIOUS NEWS!
We have returns by this morning’s mail
we cannot insert them. We have beat 210 i
Hancock, 250 in Warren, 80 in Wilkes, 325 i„
Upson—carried Bibb and Baldwin, and hav
elected a Senator and two Representatives •
Jasper.
Union of the Danube and the R f , lyt ,
The grand project frequently contemplated by
poleon, of uniting the Rhino and the Danubeh*
a canal, is nearly accomplished. The works -\\
bring it this year from Bamberg to Nure, n J'
and the whole length will be finished i n
A portion of the line will be opened next jca r *‘
After observing the number of Public defau]
ters, we feel inclined to look at the Sub-Treasu
ries as Morgiana did at the oil jars in Ali Baba’
garden. “Forty jars, and every one containing
robber. Alla preserve us.” —Boston Atlas. *
New Printing Press.— In Oporto, P orUl .
gal, there is a printing press constructed upon I
principle entirely different from any we ever g aw
or heard of before. The impression is imparted
from the types to the paper, by the weight of a
large stone which is raised and lowered bv a ro
and pully attached to the ceiling. * **
Gen. Lewis, a Van Buren Elector, opi>o SE n
to the Sub-Treasury.—We have long know
that Gen. Lewis was opposed to the sub-treasury'
and have frequently heard him express his disan
probation of it since it was brought foiward by Ai
Van Buren. Seeing, however, that the Locofoco
party had nominated the old General for an elector
we concluded that he had changed his views in re-’
gard to this measure ; but his own declaration"
when he took the chair at the Locofoco mass meet
ing at Poughkeepsie, shows that his opinions in
relation to the sub-treasury scheme have under
gone no change. He there, in the face of the Van
Buren party, boldly proclaimed his hostility to the
leading measure of Mr, Van Buren’s administra
tion. The fact that he did on that occasion avow
his hostility to the sub-lreasuiy, is unquestionable
and, indeed, unquestioned. It has been extensive
ly published, and never denied, and we have con
versed with several persons of high respectability
who were present, and heard the General’s decla'.
ration. —A. Y. Times.
MARINE J NTELLIG Ei\Ce7
Charleston, October 6.
Arrived yesterday— U. L. biig Lawrence, Cobb,
Now Yoi k.
Cleared —brig Powhattan, Martin, New Orleans;
schr W. A. Caldwell, Cromwell Baltimore
Went to sea yesterday —line ship Lucas Eldridge,
Boston; brig Powhattan, Martin, New Orleans;
steam packet Savannah, Wade, New Orleans.
Savannah, Oct.-P
Arrived —schr La Giange, Kelly, Boston.
Went to sea —brig Wilson Fuller, Soullard, New
York.
C3* The Office of the AUGUSTA MIRROR is
removed to the brick building on Mclntosh street,
directly opposite the Post Office. oct 7-trw3t
The undersigned, if elected, will serve the
600th District as Justice of the Peace.
oct 7-ts SPELMAN.
Q3 3 The Subscriber has taken an office in Jlrs.
Camfield’s buildings on Jackson-strect,nextdoor to
the one formerly occupied by Judge Longstreet,
where his professional services can be at all times,
commanded lie intends to re-commeuce, on the
first Monday in November, the LAW SCHOOL,
which he formerly conducted, on the same plan,
and the same terms, as before.
oct 2 dlwwlm WM. T. GOULD.
dj'Lr. GARDNER, foimerly resident surgeon
n the New \ ork Hospital, and physician at Belle
vue Hospital, New Aurk, tenders to the public his
professional services.
Office in Washington street, between Broad and
Ellis streets Residence, United Slates Hotel,
ap 2
(rj> EXCHANGE ON NEW YORK— At sight,
and at one to twenty days sight. For sale dv *
"ov 2b GARDELLE ic RHINC.
o j* AUGUSTA BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.-
For the benefit cl the sick poor of Augusta. Ihc
committee lor the present month are as follows;
Division No. 1. —p. H, Ma:,tz, Nathaniel Green,
Miss Margaret Smith, Miss Mary Wightman.
Division No.%.— VV. K. Pemberton, J.M. Newby,
Mrs. H. F. Roberson, Miss A. C. Righton.
Division A o. 3.—John Cashin, James Panton
Mrs. Tremiey, Mrs. E. Camfield.
sept 7 J. W. WIGHTMAN, Sec’y.
AUGUSTUS REES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW ,
sept 5-ly Madison, Morgan county, Ga.
JOHN R. STANFORD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
j.v!7] Clarkesville, Ga.
QJ* NO TICE. —The Rail Road Passenger Train
between Charleston and Hamburg, will leaven
follows:
UPWARD.
Not lo leave Charleston before 7 00 a" n.
** “ Summerville, “ - -S 30
** t( - Georges’j - “ - 10 0
“ “ Brauchvrile, “ - 11 00
* “ Blackviile, - ** - JOO p. iff
“ “ Aiken, - - “ - 300
Arrive at Hamburg not before - 4CJ
DOWNWARD.
Not to leave Hamburg before 6 00 a. u.
“ Aiken, - “ - 730
“ Blackviile, “ - . 910
“ Midway, « - - 10 30
“ Bmnchvill “ - - II 00
“ “ Georges’, “ - -1145 m.
“ “ Summerville,“ - -1 lo*- m.
Arrive at Charleston not before 215
Distance —13(i miles. Fare Through —$10 °O.
Speed not over 20 miles an hour. To remain 2(
minutes each, for breakfast and dinner, and do;
longer than 5 minutes for wood and water at any
station.***
lo stop for passengers, when a white
hoisted, at either of the above stations; and also f
Sinealhs, Woodstock, Inabinet’s, 41 mile 1.0-i
Rives’, Grahams, Willeston, Windsor, Johnsons
and Marsh’s T, O.
Passengers uv will breakfast at Woodstock and
dine at Blackviile; aown , wTU breaKtast at Aiken
an d dine at Charleston. may 4
SAVANNAH REFECTORY.
f fcIHE undersigned respectfully informs his fiiends
J- and the public, that his Oyster Establishment,
and general Ordinary, is NOW OPEN for the sea
son.^
He will have every luxury that the market or
country can afford, and prompt and alteuli'®
waiters.
He also returns thanks to his friends for the ve
ry liberal support extended to him last season, an
he can assure them, that neither pains nor expense
will be spared to merit public pationage. .
Orders from the country' filled immediately, 3°
the Oysters put up sound and freshen the best or
der. JOHN McMAHON,
Whittaker-street, near the Bay.
N. B. Public Dinners and Suppers supplied i°
the best sty le, and on reasonable terms,
oct 1 lw
I^TOTICE. —All persons having demands ag»i n *
Am the estate of George Murry, deceased, late o
the county of Richmond, will present them withi
in the time prescribed by law, and those indebte
to said estate will settle with the under-igned.
ALEXR. McIVER, Qualified Ex’r-
August 10.1840. wbt