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I *4———— CHRONICLE and sentinel. I if <; u s t a . MORNING, OCTOBER 21. ijfcjll PRESIDENT, WILLIAMIHENRY HARRISON, * Os Ohio; The invincible- iero of Tippecanoe —the incor ruptible Statesman —the inflexible Republican— the patriot FaiJjer of Ohio. FOH§ VIC E-PU KSII)ENT, JO W N TYLER, |Of Virginia; A State Rights republican of tlie school of ’93 — one of Virginia!; noblest sons, and emphatically one of AmericrS’s most sagacious, virtuous and patriotic statesfien. FOR ELECTORS OF V RESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT. GEORGE it GILMER, of Oglethorpe. DUN JAN 1* CLINCH, of Camden. JOHN WHAFEHEAD, of Burke. CHARLES J)OUGHERTY, of Clark. JOEL CRANFORD, of Hancock. SEATON GjLANTLAND, of Baldwin. CHRISTOPHER B. STRONG, of Bibb. JOHN W. CfVMPBELL, of Muscogee. EZEKIEL VIMBERLY, of Twiggs. ANDREW |I IDLER, of Cass. WILLIAM liZZARD, of DeKalb. THf* ELECTIONS. We give to-day*jll the returns we have been able to collect flm our exchange papers. In Pennsylvania the jlospect is most flattering. We have carried the Sute Senate, and the Philadelphia Sentinel, a Van Bijen paper, thinks probably the House of Representatives. We have also gained two members of Clmgrcss certain, probably four, and lost one. Ans should the returns we have prove correct, an I 'yiere be a corresponding gain in the counties to be biard from, the State is safe for Old Tip by a large riijority. In New-Jersey ekough is known, if our returns are correct, to makilour triumph complete, and to secure her for Old and Tyler. Ohio, too seems Uo:n our reports, gathered from a slip from the St *ie Journal, to be doing the “ genteel thing,” iila manner entirely adapted to our taste- Our corry arative vote is that of 1838 for whcl the Locofoco majority was 6746. "* | The Hon. John Flrsyth arrived in the Charles ton cars yesterday iEom Washington. Arkansas. The New OrleaM, Commercial Bulletin of the 14th says:—A gen*eman who arrived yesterday from the up countr | learned at Helena that returns had come in from of the river counties of Ar kansas, the whole o£ which have gone strongly for Harrison. We wa§. for further accounts. The log cabin inhabitant! of the new state, will show themselves not to bl all Locofocos. From the New YorhgCom. Advertiser of the 16 th. New Jlrsey Election. We have now th-returns from all the counties in which theeiectioi was contested, with the ex ception of two, CaplMaycnd Atlantic, and they will about balance other. The whig ma jority in the state is leer 1100, and our friends feel very sanguine llZ.t it will be larger when the question is Harrison|ar Van Huron. The result, satisfactory as it is, is no more than we expected from tii; patriotism of the Whigs of New Jersey. V\* knew them too well to sup pose for one momenr that they would permit the violation perpetratcdvipon their rights by the Van Huron party at the '*st session of Congress to go unrebaked. Ha| any thing been wanting to insure the votes ofiNew Jersey for Harrison, it was supplied at ihftime when its broad seal was disregarded and iishonored. The following convarative tabic embraces all the returns from the* contested counties except Cape May and Atlaijic. In these two we have estimated the majsi ill. It will be noticed that thus far the locofoi , *s have triumphed in no county where there i|is a contest. 1549. t 1839. IS3B. W. V.l| W. V.B. w. V.B. Atlantic, 2CI 230 161 Bergen, *22* 349 227 Burlington, 750 “ 299 523 Cape May, j:2o0 | 222 265 Cumberland 203 I 56 f 37 Essex, 1746 * 989 1552 Gloucester, 507 t 276 513 Hudson, 192 new co. new co. Hunterdon, *93| *932 *932 Mercer, 453 5 280 284 Middlesex, 156 £ 91 f 174 Monmouth, 53 V 47S 214 Morris, 186 * 134 320 Passaic, 197 c 97 255 Salem, 120 * 135 28 Somerset, 247 I 171 154 Sussex, *16397 *1639 *1639 Warren, *B3BI *B6B *B6B 5060 3S3tJ 2615 4031 4040 4106 # No contest, Mij f itv of 1838 substituted. i ' f Including the reje*‘ed voles, f No returns —majesties estimated. P. S. 12 o’clock.--J. gentleman just arrived from Monmouth the official returns of that county show a Miif majority of one hun dred. * The Legislature w|l stand thus—Council, Whigs 13, Van Bunli 5. Assembly, Whigs 41, Van Buren 12. Tvsijorily on joint ballot 37. Last year—-Council, 'Jfhigs 10, Van Buren 7* Assembly, Whigs 33, an Buren 20. Majority on joint ballot 16. j| « A Buck-eve u.—One of the Harrison banners, at the gather-hg ir Guernsey county, Ohio, had the follow n; inscription: « We want no grand palice like Tyrants of old. Adorned with French C.A pets and vessels of GOLD; Wc want a “ Log Cal ill with a plain puncheon floor; ft /nd the SAME sort off.'Honey for Rich and for Poor.” | . i Make Room for Ohio . Correspondence of the Baltimore Patriot. MUSKINGUM COCNTV. Zanesville, Oct. 14, 2, p. m. Dear Sir :—We have achieved a most glori* ous triumph over the “Spoilers” at the election which was held yesterday. The following four counties are heard from— Muskingum 1310 Whig majority; Licking 180 Loco; Perry 065 Loco,and Guernsey 301 Whig —which elects a Whig Representative in Con gress from Muskingum & Licking by about 1130, where we nyw have a Loco (Jonathan Taylor,) We arc also almost certain to have elected a Whig in the place of Parish in the Bellmont District. I But better than all we have beaten Gen. Harri son’s vote of 1536 in these four counties about 354, indicating that Corwin is elected by at least 10,000, as it will be observed that the Old Gen eral got the State by about 9000. Wheeling Times Office, Oct. 15, 1840. Believing you have the returns as far as heard from of tho late elections in Ohio, I give you on ly such return as can ba fully relied on. It is thus far one of the most glorious victories tha t has occurred this year. The battle has been one to the knife, and the knife to the hilt. More votes have been polled in Ohio than were ever polled betore and Corwin will not have less than 25,000 majority in the State. We have thus far gained three Congressmen— Cowan, Collin and Stokely. There will not be more than four Van Buren Congressmen elected in the State. The following are the counties heard from: 1840. 1838. Whig. L. F. Whig. L. F. Belmont 707 maj. 2221 2670 Carroll 70 « 1455 1495 Columbiana 134 m. 2799 3519 Coshocton, 274 m. 1232 1840 Champaign, 750 “ 1412 1040 Clark, 1341 “ 1597 706 Franklin 882 « 2009 1672 Guernsey, 302 “ 1938 2090 Harrison, 205 “ 1657 17SS Jefferson 87 “ 1865 2372 Licking 228 m. 2218 3102 Morgan, 163 m. 962 1550 Muskihgum 1362 “ 3174 2531 Madison, 521 “ 695 507 Perry, 654ra. 928 1718 Pickaway, 2249 1893 1592 1712 Ress. 863 “ 2344 2026 Washington,474 “ 1384 1264 The Whig gain in the above 18 counties over the Governor’s election in 1838 is 8,702. Pennsylvania Popular Vote. Congress, 1840. Governor, 1838- W. L. F. W. L F- Adams, 2117 1552 3310 1535 Allegany, 2872 1339 And two districts to hear from. Beaver, 750 526 Bedford, 200 maj. 2386 2478 Berks,* maj. 3762 3215 7101 Bucks, 4089 3853 4147 4553 Bradford, 100 201 Chester, 5050 4484 4971 4527 Cumberland, 207 485 2316 2743 Columbia, 850 1528 Centre, 500 1122 Clinton, 200 (new county.) Dauphin, 2647 2117 2843 * 2157 Delaware. 1590 : 1030 1731 1263 Fayette, maj. 337 1984 2788 Franklin, 570 maj 2560 2815 Huntingdon, 1362 1126 Juniata, 874 1004 863 1049 Lancaster, 4325 560 8558 5503 Lebanon, 1782 1238 2228 1533 Lehigh, 1990 2289 2349 2460 Lycoming, maj. 450 1553 2496 Mifflin, 1174 1252 1109 1177 Montgomery, 3871 4486 3748 4558 Northampton, i; aj. 819 2566 3635 Northumb’d. 1174 1842 3748 4558 Perry, maj. 750 883 1916 Philad’a city, 7136 4631 7203 3156 do. co.’ 9967 12428 9299 10157 Schuylkill, maj. ' 450 1508 2271 Somerset 1370 1361 Union, 875 maj. 2262 1595 Washington, 300 maj. 3528 3461 York, maj. 425 3257 4197 * No Whig opposition at the late election. According to the above returns the Whig gain on the Governor’s election of 1838 is 6,125. A part of the Game. A letter was received in this city two ©r three days since, from the South, asking information as to the sobriety and respectability of General Harrison. Another camo from New England yesterday, wishing to know if there was any foundation for the stories circulated by the Van Buren editors and slump speakers throughout the country, that Gen. Harrison was in body a mere wreck of manhood, and in mind sunken to the verge of imbecility. About a week ago sim ilar inquiries were received from Virginia; and some of our old citizens may soon expect, if our Whig friends abroad continue silly enough to place any confidence in the damnable assertions of the Van Buren press, to be asked by letter whether Gen. Harrison is really a murderer, a seducer, a drunkard, a common street brawler, and a paralytic who goes on crutches—for all of these things have been asserted of him time and again, by those who would assert any thing for that grand “ consideration of John Brough, their “ daily bread.” Why do our friend allow these infamous ca lumnies to trouble them 1 Why do the few permit themselves to be made thus uneasy, by what the many behold in its true aspect, and treat with proper contempt 1 The People of the United States have Known Gen. Harrison too | long and intimately, as a gre»t public benefactor, a? an exemplary citizen, as a distinguished mem ber of society, observing with scrupulous ex actness almost all its conventional rules, to be disturbed now by the attacks on his private character of such sewer-rakes as the Extra-Globe the Albany Argus, the Ohio Statesman, the Lou isville Public Advertiser, and all of their kidney. And as to Gen. Harrison’s physical health, and the condition of his intellect, there is not one of his pusillanimous traducers who could endure the travel that he has undergone this summer, and produce half the number of excellent ad dresses that, at the pressing solicitations of his | fellow citizens, he has been induced to make in Jitferent parts of the B'tatc. These exhibitions of ihe cultivation and vigor of his intellect, are before the£ people; and with them have gone forth accounts of such journey tugs in the back-woods, as would have thumped the Albany minuet-dancer and While House sofa-lounger into a jelly. Let our friends give their attention to these things, and not suffer themselves to be bamboozled ly the calumnies of a set of scurrilous papers and speakeis, a prin cipal part of whose game at this time is to villify the private character of Gen. Harrison, and cir culate daily accounts of the decay of his mental and physical powers. Put down one of their lies to-day, and to-mor row they will go to work again and make two ot it.— Cincinnati Gaz. Expenditures of the Government. It is still a mystery to thousands how the Feder al Administration has managed to increase its Ex penditures from Twelve Millions of Dollars per annum in each of the years .827 and 1828, under John Quincj'- Adams, to more than Thirty Five Millions, (alter deducting for the redemption of the , Treasury Notes) in the years 1837 and 1838, un der Martin Van Buren. Thirty-Five Milugns per annum, aforesaid, include no portion of the vast . suras stolen by b’uh-Treasurers or peculated in va rious ways. It embraces only the moneys drawn from the Treasury in pursuance of regular appro ■ priations. Where has the money gone ? We are enabled to discover in part by a recent Report from the Secretary' of the Treasury, in obedience to a , requisition of the House of Representatives last winter, calling for the amount of Annual Disburse ment, under each material head of Expenditure, from 1535 to IS3B inclusive. We have not room for the whole this statement, but we notice a few items at present, and may recur to the subject ’ again: For “ Compensation and Mileage to the U. S. Senators the Treasurer has paid — In 1835, In 1836. In 1837. In 1838. . $109,540 $94,188 $95 627 $175,728! It will be remarked that the Senate was a Whig body in 1835, but had become bitterly \aa Buren in 1838. To “ CJUcers of the Senate ,” $12,452 were paid in 1835, and so up to $18,753 in 1838. The “ Contingent Expenses of the Senate ff were $85,550 in 1835, and had swelled to $127,823 in 1838. '1 he expenditures of the House have been in creased in nearly equal proportion —its “ Contin gent Expenses ,” lor instance from $199,950 in 1835 to $373,090 in 1838. In the Treasury Department, the salaries have , increased $246,201 to $337,013 and the “ Contin gent Expensesff in proportion. In the War Department the salaries have in creased from $84,328 to $122,111. In the General Post Office, under the manage ment of that eternal babbler of economy, fidelity, and efficiency, Amos Kendall, the salaries ha e increased ia three years from $91,288 to $136,995 ; and the “ contingent expenses” from 59,140 to $23,626 The territories are found veiy convenient for pensioning oIF and stall feeding damaged politicians who cannot be provided for or will not be endured where they are better known. For the Govern ment of loway Territory alone, the United States paid in IS3B the enormous sum of $78,976, which is more than the entire annual disbursements of either of the Whig Governments of Connecticut or Vermont. The expenses of the Judiciary of the U. States have not increased. They were $405,069 in 1835; $352,433 in 1836 ; $399,708 in 1837, and $378,873 in 1838. On “ Public Grounds ,” there were expended $6,100 in 1835; $44,500 in ’36; $47,564 in ’37 ; and $34,496 in 1338. Three-fourths of this is throw'a away, and the remainder not needed. For “ Budding Custom Houses ,” there was ex pended the sum of $3G3,G39 in ’35; $57G.959 in ’36; $174,600 in ’37; and $264,225 in 1838. A geod poition of this is shamefully misapplied and wasted—being paid to partizan Inspectors, and other mere lookers on, who receive large salaries, and earn them in electioneering for Van Buren. Under the head of “ Additional compensation to Collectors, Naval Officers, Surveyors and others,” there were paid $30,200 in 18: 3, and $190,351 in 1838. As these gentlemen are all paid very good salaries by law*, wc believe these “ Additional ” thousands belong in the same list with Mr. Harry’s “Extra Allowances” to Mail Contractors for valu able political services. Under the head of “ Smithson Legacy it ap pears that that interesting and stern-souJcd patriot, Mr. Richard Rush, was paid $15,000 in ’3G and ’37, for going to England and getting the money bequeathed in trust to the United States by Mr. Smithson. The duty might well and properly have been performed by our Minister or Consul at London wiihout an expense of fifty dollar, nut it was neecssaiy to pay Richard in some way, and no opportunity offering, one was created. The increase in the cost of the Army, Navy, and Indian Departments is enormous, but we must leave them for the present. We wili-congratuiate the country, however, on our discovery of eneitem in which a saving has been effected..* For “ Sup pressing Piracy and prohibit ion of the Slave Trade ” there was expended in 18: 5, $1,905 ;in ? 36, $560; in ’37, $974 ; and in 1838 , Fifty Dollars, being a reduction «l more than ninety per cent in three years. We believe this branch of the public ser vice (Suppression of the Slave Trade,) is not a spe cial favorite at Washington, though the Trade it self under the flag of the United States is now more extensive r.nd demoniac than ever.— Newark Daily Advertiser. Tablet of itelbrin. 1- Hirhisox—and one term! 2. Haukisox —and reform ! 3. Harrison—and retrenchment! 4. Haukisox—and no corruption ! 5. Haukisox—and no interference by office holders ! 6. - Haukisox —and no standing armv ! 7. Harkisox—and no direct taxes / / 8. Haukisox—and better times! 9. Hahuisox,Ty leu, and tuck democracy ! ; Os what the People Complain. We complain that the official agents of the Government are allowed directly to interfere with our elections, and thatsuch interference is indirec ly compelled by a tax levied on their salaries, pro rata, as was proved before the late Committee of Congress in New York. We complain of the extravagant and unprece dented expenditures of the Geneial Government, rising, with all their promises of “economy and reform,” from §12,000 000, to §40,000,000 per annum, thereby grsssly departing from the puiity and simplicity of former limes. We complain of the treatment of Public De faulters—for in more than one instance, when their frauds have been known, they have been retained in office for the sake of political servi ce*. Wc complain of the gratuitous aspersion of the honor and honesty of our States—the base and wanton attempt to injure their credit and reputation abroad, and thus cut off our works of Internal Improvement, and stop the develope ment of the vast National wealth and resources of our country. We complain of the inglorious and destructive war waged by the Government against the cun uexcv of the country, because it has brought ruin on the manufacturer and merchant, and sunk to the depths of poverty the mechanic and laborer. We complain that while all debts due to the Government can be paid only in specie, their own debts to the People are daily protested for no pay ment at all. We complain of the grand schemes ofthe Ad ministration —the great Sub-Treasury Laic , be cause its influence is for the Rich and against the Poor! reducing the wages of the laborer, and the prices of the Farmer, and every thing but the Sal aries of office-men, and prostrating all business before the worst kind of monied power —a g;>an tic Government BANK! We complain of the corruption and dishones ty shown in the whole matter of our Jersey Rep resentatives. We complain of the project I* place at the con trol of the President, and in time of peace, (in army of two hundred thousand men ! because it is dangerous in itself, and against the Consti tution. We complain of the want of consistency in not adhering to the declared principles of the admin istration ; for years past, the cry has been— “ Down with the Banks”!—“No currency bet Gold and Silver”!—and now they offer us in pay ment of their own debts, POST NOTES (the very worst kind of Dank paper) of their own G jvernment Bank, and tell us in the “Evening Pest,’ the New ork official, that they have ne ver thought of a currccy exclusively metallic ! The Magic of Steam.—The chief engineer of the Britannia has made three passages across the Atlantic in less than two months—of which lime he remained in port about eighteen davs. The number of days occupied in the passages was 35. A Log Cabin Letter. We give below the letter addressed by Gov. Seward to the Westchester County Committee, in reply to their invitation to him to attend the log cabin dedication at North Castle, on the 24ih inst. It is one of the most eloquent and touch ing productions we have ever read, and cannot fail to awaken the sympathies of every honest heart. Alkaxt, September 11, 1840. Gentlemen:—Your letter of the 25th ult. in viting me to join the citizens of Westchester County, in dedicating a log cabin at North Cas tle, on the 24th inst. was duly received. lam prevented from accepting the invitation by en gagements which call me into the western part of the State. I wish, nevertheless, that it were in my power to visit Westchester. I have recollec tions which can nevei leave me, of the hospitali ty of her citizens; and there is abundant evi dence that the patriotism of her sons has not de clined since the days when three ofher incorrup tible wings spurned the bribe of British gold, and saved the country from Arnold’s treason. I should with great pleasure, too, bear my part in dedicating the log cabin- The structure is peculiarly American, and is associated without* dearest recollections of (he past, and our best hopes of the future. There is scarcely one among us of American birth, whatever may be his condition in life, who if required, to trace his genealogy, would not find his ancestors in a log cabin, within one or two, or al most three gene rations, The emigrant who seeks an asylum here from the storms of the old world, may meet a cold reception in the paved city, but if he follows w'here (he spirit of adventure leads, he will al was find in the log cabin a generous welcome. The memory of man runneth to the time when only log cabins graced the sight ot almost every city, town and village in the land, and wherever the humble structure is now found, it gives prom ise of u farm, a village, or it may be a capUol. When these unpretending dwellings begin to cluster in the valley, or on the hill side, it is cer tain that there the church and the school house will soc n appear. As soon as the patrimonial fbrin is found too small for an increasing family, the enteiprising sons hie away to the west—the beeck, maple and hemlock fall beneath their stur dy arms, and the smoke from their log cabins gives notice to the settlers that new emigrants have arrived among them. When prosperity for sakes, and kind, familiar friends forget us because we are poor, the west invites us to erect our log cabins there, and try once more. The log cabin is the cradm of patriotism and valor. When the Indian foe hung upon our western border, and the British upon the Atlantic and northern fron tiers, and Harrison, Scott and Jackson called to the rescue, the cry ran through the log cabins, and their fearless riflemen rushed to the battle-fields of Tippecanoe, Chippewa and New Orleans. In-childhood I attended my-father in his visits as a physician to the halls of the rich, and log cabins of the poor; I saw the offices es affection performed with equal assiduity in both. Health restored gladdened as many hearts, and bereave ment produce as bitter tears, in the one as in the other. In inaturer years I have visited the mar ble dwellings in cur own cities and abroad, and I have been a guest in the log cabins of Cayuga and Chautauque. I confess that in the latter I found always the most cordial greeting and largest wel come. I can bear witness, too, that while no condidition, high or low, exempts us from the cares the disappointments and the sorrows of life, and while faith, hope and charity, withhold their consolations from none who cherish them, their choicest influence will he observed in the hum blest abode.—Let us honor the log cabin, and let us take care that wherever the unpretending structure is f»und, no matter what may be the birth, language or condition of its occupants, the school house is erected near it, and its rus ic shelves arc graced with the cheap volumes of the Sunday School and Common School Libraries, and we may then be assured luxury and ambition can never undermine .he foundation of the re public. I am, with great respect and esteem, Your friend a- d fello.\-citizen, •'Signed) WILLIAM H. SEWARD. James A. Hamilton. Henson J, Lockwood and William L. Dowron, Esqr?.,Committee. Van liureu and the ,Late War. Mr. William Pea rcc, an old and respectable inhabitant of Streetsborough, Ohio, certifies in the Cleveland Herald, at the call of a gentleman of that city, that he was at an assemblage of the people of New Lebanon, N. Y., in 1812, when Martin Van Buren, who was present, “ made a warm and earnest speech AGANST THE WAR of that year , and against Ihe election of James Madison to the Presidency, and strongly urged it upon the people to join the “ peace par ty,” so called, and support Dewitt Clinton, the Presidential candidate of the Federal party.— Cincinnati Gazette. More Testimony.— How many foreign gov ernments was it Mr. Van Buren called as wit nesses, to establish the merits of the sub-treasury] We forget the exact number, but it was not far from twenty. Some more foreign testimony has been provided, in a new shape. We have before us—what do you think, reader]—nothing less than a stick of “ Sub 'Treasury sealing-wax /” It bears on one of its sides a large tablet-imprint, at one end whereof is a profile portrait of Mr. Van Buren, in bold relief, and the other the re presentation of a strong box ; between the box and the head arc the words “ Sub Treasury wax warranted to hold fast.” A large consignment of this wax has recently arrived from abroad, having been ordered by government. Hurrah for the Sub Treasury sealing-wax ! Pity it did not arrivo in season for distribution through Maryland, Delaware, Maine, Georgia and Now Jersey ! Query—Was it ordered from the same Ger man house that furnished the patterns tor the standing army ]— N. Y. Com. Advertiser. Skasoxaule Anecdote. — A gentleman has told us a little incident which occurred at Canan daigue, N. \ ~ which is too good to be lost. A number of travellers had slopped for the night at the stage house of a locofoco mail contractor,*’ who like all the spoilsmen was very unrese ved in his wholesale abuse ot “General Harrison”— denouncing him as a coward and a knave, and calling him every thing but what he is. Directly one of the strangers present, who]iad manifested a good deal of uneasiness, approach ed him and inquired if he knew “enough about hi™”—he then asked him if he knew any ©ne who was personally acquainted with him—to which he replied in the negative. “Well,” said the traveller, “I know and have knowm him for a number of years and have resided in his immcdi ate neighborhood, and I know him to be an hon est, intelligent and brave man. I, sir am a sup porter of the present administration and an of fice-holder under Government. I shall vote far Mr, Van Buren, but it is such unprincipled ras cals as yourself, and such lies as those you have just uttered, which will, if persisted in, be the means of electing General Harrison to the Pre sidency.” The effect ofthe honest rebuke upon the contractoi was such as to make him look as cheap as if he had been caught stealing a sheep, and the merriment of his guests was not a I'ltlc excited. As there is every prohaoility that the race of oco focos is fast becoming extinct, it is suggested iat a specimenought to be preserved in gin for the gratification of the curiosity of future genlrations. —LtuisvUte Journal. “My dear wife!” as the man said when he look ed al his last milliner’s bill. , From the Erie County CPa.) Democrat. For YiX-Presideni —Marlin Van Buren. Martin Van Buren will undoubtedly be elec ted by the people to this office on the 4lh of March next/ How very delightful to the high It cu lti vated sense of his “Democratic Highness s oltac torics, will be the sweet scented fragrance ot the Bouquet contain, d iu the following receipt: “ Received, Baltimore, Bov. 14//), <JV T. L. Smith, Esq., OISE HUN DOL LARS tn/“ W for ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS fur the President's table. 0 „ J JOHN THOMAS.* “Certain.” —The Enquirer, a few days ago, in making its estimate of the Presidential election, in which it could do no better than give Van liu ren 115 certain votes, placed among these‘-cer tain” votes, Maryland MO) and Georgia (IE) We have seen how Maryland has gone—and the returns so far from Georgia, leave little doubt as l® her vote in November. Now we propose, as a question in simple arithmetic, if the “certain” States for Van Buren thus go, what will be the destination of the doubtful l~i' rederic/c&burg Arena.. Prentice pays: —The Pennsylvania Mercury, in its rage against Maine, calls it the ‘land of on ions. We do not wonder that the poor locofocos think it an onion State. Every breeze from it brings tears into their eyes. (Jjp* Laborers, Men of Business, Fuiexds of youii Country, look, ahead ! and consider seriously the interests which are involved in the event of the contest, and whether they can he promoted by the re-election of Martin Van Buren! Front the New Orleans Picayune. Recorder’s Court. The Presidential Election.— Frank Smith and Thomas Keddin were up before Recorder Baldwin on Sunday morning. They were arrested for being noisy and intoxicated. “ Smith,” said the Recorder, “ about w hat did you and Redden quarrel ?” “Vy, about the old thing, your honor,” said Smith.” “ What do you call the old thing!” said the Recorder. “ Vy, this here presidential helection,” said Smith. “O, you differ in polices, do you 1” said the Recorder. “ Certainly ve do,” said Smith—“ he is a rab bit locofuco and I is a vig.” “ A what ?”sai«i the Recorder. “A wialent politician and in favor of Wan Bu ren,” said Smith. “But I’ll tell your honor as how it is. Ve both lives in the same yard, and ven ever I passes him he says there goes Hard Cider; there is von of the party wot aint got no princi ples; there’s a supporter of the man wot’s been made brave by certificates and not dv his sword; and he goes on in that ere vay vich no good vig can stand. Ven he finds tlie other vigs out what live in the yard and the locofocos at home, he is sure to take the wote and then he calls it a Wan Buren wictory and a sign of the limes, and all that. The fact is, your honor, if the feller vasn’t looking out for an office I doesn’t think he’d be half as patriotic as he is.” “ Redden,” said the Recorder, “is your con duct such as Smith describes it?” “Nut a biton it,” said Redden—“lf I vas to be let alone I’d never do nothing to nobody, but he’s heternally talking politics. Ven my old vo inan locks the door and goes out, he makes a fox on it vi»ri chalk and writes underneath it, ‘this here is Sly Reynard, from Kinderhook, vet vos for sometime in the London Zoological Gardens, but now is in the Menagerie at Vashinglon ; he’s the most cunning hanimal vot’s known to natural ists.’ This is not ail, your honsr. Ven I vants to sleep at night I’m blovved if I can get a wink, he kicks up a rumpus, singing Harrison songs the whole lima and crowing like a reg’lar rooster, I ha'e challenged him over and over again, but I never can get him to toe the mark, no how."’ “Do you know,” said the Recorder, “ that by challenging him you have been guilty of inciting to a breach of the peace.” “ 1 doesn’t mean a duel, your honor,” said Red den, “ but to a discussion of principles; but I’m ■ blamed if I don’t believe he haint got any.” “ But can’t you both retain your respective po litical opinions without quarreling?” said the Recorder. “ Veil, then,” said Redden, “ your honor must bind him over not to sing Arrison songs between the hours of ten o’clock at night and six o’clock in the morning, and not be frightening my chil dren out of bed by firing off that old rusty mus ket in celebiation of wiclories when he haint gained none. Yes, and prevvent him, your hon or,” continued Redden, ‘from making his big dog stand on his hind legs in niv presence, and saying, as he points to him, -there is von of Wan Buren’s present standing harmy ;’ nor I wont stand no more fiom him about negro testi m«ny, cause it’s all gammon.” On the partoi Smith it was provided that Red den was not to call him a hard cider cask nor a worshipper of log cabins, any more. They made mutual promises to act wilh more forbearance towardsone another in future, and to display a greater degree of political charity than they have evinced heretofore, and were discharged. Wellington anti the Fainter of Napoleon. In the whole annals of Napoleon Bonaparte, there is nothing so touching as the fidelity evin ced towards him in his adversity by many of those who had shared the good fortune of his earlier days. The time is come when wo can look on the career of the wonderful Corsican with some degree of impartiality, and can do jus tice to such traits of peisonol devotion as those alluded to, which arc rendered the more remark able by the numerous instances recorded in his tory ot an opposite line of behaviour. Among those most attached to Napoleon, alike in his prosperity and adversity. David the painter held a prominent place. He was the favorite artist of the emperor, and showed, by iris pictures of Beh sarius, of Socrates, of Brutus, of the Horatii, of the Passover, of Leonidas, and finally of the Crossing of the Alps, and Coronation of Napo leon, that, as an aitist at least, he well merited the patronage of his master. After the Corona tion picture just mentioned, had been finished, Napoleon went to see it in the studio of ihe ar tist. The courtiers who were with him, being all well acquainted wilh David, addressed him with congratulations of a very familiar kind, on his success. The emperor checked them, ob serving, in that pointed manner which gave a historical force to many of his sayings, “ Gentle men. be aware that M. David is a Baron of the empire ” —the first announcement which the painter had had of the honor intended for him. David, as has been said, repaid the favor and friendship of Napoleon with the profoundest ad miration and reveience. It may be supposed, therefore, that the disastrous events of 1814 and 1815 were productive to him of unmitigated sor row. He also suffered personally from the change of affairs, being proscribed and compelled to fly from France. He remained, however, as near its confines as possible, Brussels btino- ’the place where he took up his residence. Shortly after the downfall of his old master in 1815, an incident took place which seems to us to have something afiecting in if, and to be worthy of relation. J David continued his artislical labors at Brus sels. Indeed, within a few months he collected around a number of young painters, who sought with avidity Ins instructions in the art. From e s.uring nature in the scenes in which he had passer us ie, he was enabled to mingle his pro fessional lessons with numberless anecdotes both pei.ona and histoiical, and these he always man- aged to make interesting, in spite of rnent in utterance with which ho 1 liT Wi He had received this mishap j., , While prosecuting his schoolboy st l!? oUs W “T. poorly provided with money, he n board with people of the humblest ’ , ged to the wife of Ins landlord, on one , Jcc b de; a nd he was, as she thought, improper!?*?, struck him a smart blow on the ch 7 Uativ «. table spoon. The consequence n ast i . u ' il!l a ing arose on the interior, which h?? a ?* ci| ‘ { life, and materially obstructed the mov ' his tongue in articulation. The mmu e L le “ u of of the painter’s converse, made u>j so? a ?***' of manner. Above all others, N'ipub | favorite theme, and one of which ??? r Wa,ti ‘ I ried. Fund regret mingled with !fi? r ? of the emperor. Nor did David checi, h ; his discourse on account es any Da ? , ‘I* 13 * 11 >•» I viduals who might be present. Princes* i and other august personages, someth?’. I the painter’s studio, and however imndeM? 1 subject might be, were compelled tolis/I • patience to David’s laudatory iemir7,?' 1 the emperor. ' eiJt ’ e M j The Duke of Wellington, generalise nf . I allicu armies, and special inspector 0 f tl* j S Country fortress, came to Brussels. ]j,? '° s 1 aware of the presence of David in 1 formed the resolution of visiting the an?’ ** ' getting a portrait of himself executed *v? I this view he entered his carnage, acini by several of his officers, and desired thee?? man to drive to David’s house. “R n »p C ° aili ‘ I Loups.” °fseauj. j On stopping before the little green gateoftK painter, the Duke and his company *J real " : admitted. They were Hiown into £ decorated in a more splendid way, m one re?, 0,1 I than the halls of mcnanns. Pictures i’??” I hand cl David, covered the walls of the°?,*? I ment, and in almost all of them NapJeoS 1 his deeds formed the subject. In one I was seen scaling the Alps, in form and a??’ I ance the same as when the ancient sides of mountains echoed in reality of “ y« Bn » V-? parte’s battle cry.” In another place,°b e seen in his imperial cabinet, dictating’missiv? on which hung the fate of nations. Allan? the apartment, in short, the English visiters? the lineaments of their late great enemy. " Madame David was informed by herdomeii that an English party sought admission to ? presence of the painter, and she went to her bus hand’s studio to know whether or not he would see them. “ Yes,” said he, in reply toiler; mit them here.” Although he said so, bo’wpv! cr, a change came over his countenance, which k indicated that the name of the English was liot | : associated in his mind with agrccaole emotions ft He was at the moment engaged in painting ? ■ fine picture ot Eucharis and Telmiachus, and ■; K was perhaps to dispel the feeling which had been ■ excited by Madame David’s announcement, I after answering her, he turned again to his task. I He bad his pallette in one hand, and his brush I elevated in the other, when tar Buki of Wet ■ lington and his attendants entered the studio. 1 David had already become so re-absorbed in tii I occupation, that he did not turn immediately I round; but a movement of the visiters soot ;i made him aware of their piesence.and he, turd his face to them. Then, fur the first ttoae.be 7 saw their uniforms, and knew they were so- t diers. “ Gentlemen,” said he bowing slightly, “» I whom have I the honor of speaking?” The chief of the parly answered, “lam tin j Duke of Well ington.” At that name, (he old painter—for he wasiicw sixty-seven—grew first red and then pale, show ing how much he was moved by the presented ; the conqueror of his master and hero. He re- m covered himself, however, and said, in coldly 1- civil tune, “ in what can I serve you ?” Madame David, who had come lo the door tfj the studio with the visiieis, now retired, vrniß some apprehension of a disagreeable scene. “ I was desirous,” said the Duke, in reply toB the artist’s qu stion, “ to sec a painter so ctlo-H brated ; and us you have painted Bonaparte”—l| “ You mean the Emperor," said David,inter-B rupting his visiter hastily, and reddening w;l ■ I anger. “ Precisely,” returned (lie Duke; and I canell to beg that you would execute a likeness ct m- ■ \ self.” Tho old painter looked at tlie Duke fxcJlvft ■ a few moments, and then, with additional ni p ness in his manner, he said, “ You know that* IS paint history only.” “ Well,” returned the duke with a smile,“ H am no personage of romance. You have cdf H brated with your pencil, the features of-nM great man,” pointing to a figure of Napok I “ and I, 100, am ambitious to be painted bvyef H “Sir,” replied the artist, with a mixittrefH emotions legible on his countenance, - I dor. I paint the English— l cannot paint ihe. Engk- \ David averted his head as he spoke. See*l the strength ot the feelings which actuated ts| ; || the Duke of Wellington and his party retired all silence. The Duke was evidently disappoint-* but he was in all likelihood disposed also-- 5 ® some measure, to respect the emotions of the diR painter of Napoleon. David could not paint d'H overihrower ot his master and friend. Postage to England.—We were not aware of the fact that no postage is charged heH on Letters forwarded to Eng nud by Mr. tunawH line of steam packets ; liut finding such u ment iu a Xew-Yo.'k paper, we have taren t'-'l pains to inquire, ami find that it is even io. * H that is needful to be done is. to have them at the Post mice in this city before ten oVIccLH the Island 15th of the month. The Post charge one cent on each letter, thick or thin,Kß there is no other charge. If letters are ; ent ftj mail to Boston, by paying postage to thisci:y tit Bj will be forwarded.— Boston Journal. I Purlic Speakers.— When you mount -Bj stage, be puzzled to know where to put your I- H Look round although you were quite coo! collected, and suddenly put your hat open ‘-'H floor. Turn then to the audience —pass p- ■ fingers lightly and gracefully through yourfc- I and say—“ Feller Cit'zens”— Extend your hand—put your left on your vest, on which side it nnglu be your private opinion that heart lies—swell out your chest as though Goddesses of Liberty in the world had left d H respective countries, had taken hoard am! 104 in your expansive bosom, and were now H gling to find their way out at the troni door. 1 ■ press their generous efforts for a hide while, - then oat with them in a blaze of g‘ or f' I effect will be tremendous. Col. Johnson.— ihe old Col isa ve, y 1 8 specimen of an orator. Much as wc hav‘ “ ■ ways esteemed him for his courage, w ' B ' n ~j ft most sickened to hear of his permiting T : be EXHIBITED by that branded “co*arJ m poltroon,” Petticoat Allen. ‘J he Col. in anxiety to win vo cs offoreigners, iOmel>^ c? | himself into an awkward position. r< a ° U r the Germans in Cincinnati, he said, “s‘ nt | seen so many of you in Ohio, Move the I love them almost as much as the K shrewd son es Eiin in the crowd thoug-*- ‘sawder’ rather too soft, and he sung oU * you, Curnel, but I’m lould you like the - better than ather iv us!”— Harrison Dc iltl ‘ I | Peace is the evening star of the 6° u b as u fl ;s its sun, and the tw r o are never far apart. uH Praise tho fineness of the day when it j —a swmrd when you have proved it a Il!a^ jf) | when she is married—the ice when you | crossed it—and a newspaper when yo l - • tl,u paid for it, i