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\ CHRONICLE AN(j> SENTINEL. A U G U }||T A. SATURDAY MORNLj-'p, OCTOBER 24. == - - FOR PRES I'ENT, WILLIAM HENRI: HARRISON, Os Ohi'f; T.;e invincible Hero of Tippecanoe —the incor ruptible Statesman —the Republican — the patriotic Fanner of ■ H FOR VICE-PRfcjiIDEXT, JOHN T (lIEH, Os Virg 'riia ; A State Rights Republican|;)f the school of ’9B— —of Virginia’s noblesti sons, and emphatically one of America’s most sagacious, virtuous and patriot statesmen. r FOR ELECTORS OF PRESIDED AND VICE*PRESIDENT, GEORGE R. GILMERi, of Oglethorpe. DUNCAN L. CLINCIj ; of Camden. JOHN W. CAMPREijt, of Muscogee. JOEL CRAWFORD, |f Hancock. CHARLES DOUGHERTY, of Clark. SEATON GRANTLAKD, of Baldwin. ANDREW MILLER.|4f Cass. WILLIAM EZZAJVDt iof DeKalb. C. B. STRONG, of B&b. JOHN WHITEHEAI|, of Burke. E. WIMBERLY, of Twiggs. Magistrates- iElection. An Elertion for Magistrates will be held this daj' in the Four h Ward. S s lie candidates are, J. H. Clark, | K. P. Spellman,j 11. F. M. TucKEjg. Somethin:! New. From the Constitutionali?! of yesterday morning we clip the following beautjfal specimen of Loco foco veracity, taken from Lie New York Evening Post, the editor of which pa >£ris an avowed Aboli tionist and acknowledged Federalist. From the New Yorl] .Evening Post. But we will not admit piat Georgia will give her vote for Harrison in thU coming e ection. She did not give him her support in 1836, but cast her vote for White, and she will not give him her sup port now,—Even the Whiglosndidates for Congress at the election which has lust closed, were coin pc!l“.l, by the general approval which the policy of the present administration meets Irotn the citi zens of Georgia, to pledge nLemselves against Mr. Webster’s hobby of a National Bank, against Mr. Clay’s protective tariff, and?:i jainst the system of national internal improvements, supported by both these gentlemen. They were also obliged to pledge themselves to the support of the great mea sure of the administration, t|ie independent treas ury. They were made to undergo tnis purgation from the designs of whiggeryf, before the people of Georgia would accept them ias candidates. Does this look like espousing the Jlusc of Harrison ? What could have been thiijobject of the Corporal in giving place to this unblushing calumny, we cannot conceive, unless it if-as to exhibit to the people of Georgia the facility with which the Locofoco organs can manufacture any thing, how ever gross or absurd, to answer their purposes of deception. Tiie people of Georgia will no doubt be amused wkh this piece |f intelligence, and it will increase the claims of yie Locofoco organs to credence. The Congress! mg; ticket elected '■'■were obliged to pledge themselvetio the support of the great measure of the adminit* ration the independent treasury '!! Here is a trutijspecirnen of Locofoco veracity. Was ever anyth jig more unblushing, less regardless of truth ? S ifar from there oeing one word of truth in it, they were elected because of their avowed hostility to i ie Administration and the Sub-Treasury. And wi a a full knowledge of this fact, and of the character of the article, the Corporal has the hardihood tijjcopy it into his sheet and send it forth to his ream its, every one of whom is perfectly conversant howj utterly destitute it is of truth. And yet. the Corj| ral boasts of his fair ness, his political honesty, pis good breeding, and in the very lace of all these! boasts, gives place to such an article, the productuih of William C. Bry ant, an avowed Abolitionist* [ and defainer of the character of Jefferson. 5 People of Georgia, distinguish if you can, be tween tweedlc-dum and twepdle-dee, and you will discover tne difference in their regard for truth be tween the man who pcnnejl this article, and he who republishes it : with a ijsU knowledge of the character of its contents. U Death of It. C. Baldwin. We are informed by a gijitleraan direct from New York, that R. C. Baldwin, of this city died a few days since in New Yo'f. At the Charter election iij* Baltimore on Mon. Jay, the Locolbcos again cariied the day, turning out the Whig Mayor and CijunciL The major ity is not slated. 1 J ____ I __ Suicide. —The Ballimore American of Monday says: “We regret to state jhat Mr. William 8. Ramsav, of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, put an end to his existence yesterday evening at Barnum’s Ho tel in ttiis city, by shooting himself in the right eye. Mr. R. was a (Locofoco) mijijnber of the present and recently elected to the jffexi Congress, from the Thirteenth Congressional district of Pennsyl vania. Selling Whiije men. This charge says the Richmond Whig was very happily treated last we-k at the Tippecanoe Club in Farmville, by Mr: F. N. Watkins, a young gentleman of sterling* Whig principles and brilliant promise. Adverting to the fears enter tained by the Feds that the election of Old Tip would bung many of them under the hammer, he expressed his regret that Ud could not moder ate their fears, or minister toitijiem some consola tion. It was his hnn convkjton that their appre hensions were but too well founded. He referred to the many larcenies, grci& and small, which, have been committed by the -present incumbents, and he imagined it would be The duty of Old Tip on the 4th ul March next, to have a general sale of the Swartwouts, Prices, it arris’ and Spencers, and other defaulting Land ifihreiversand Custom House officers. Great bargains might, no douut be bought, as must of the dji'tnquenls would be sold running, and might btHiad dog cheap If all that has oeen more than;intimated touching land speculations, be true, i| is not dead certain that little Van bun self may come within the purview of the statute in Ihijii case made and pro- Great Triumph in Ohio I BULLY DUNCAN DEFEATED!! From the Baltimore American. Returns from 52 Counties in Ohio were brought yesterday by a gentleman who travelled in the mail line. They show that in these 52 Counties the aggregate Whig majority is already swelled to within a fiaction of FIFTEEN THOUSAND.— These same Counties in 1338 gave a Van Buren majority of 9,508. The *23 Counties yet to be heard from gave a Whig majority in 1838 of 3,820. In the First Congressional District (Hamilton County, including the City of Cincinnati) Mr. Pen dleton, the Whig candidate, has been elected by a majority of 160 over Dr. A. Duncan, the Van Bu ren member. This gain, added to those in the other districts heard from, makes an aggregate GAIN OF FIVE MEMBERS of Congress. Pennsylvania Election, A slip from the office of the Pennsylvania Daily Chronicle, has been shewn us by a pas" senger, which gives returns of the majorities in forty-nine counties, (live to be heard from)shew inga Harrison majority of 140. This slip is more complete than any other statement yet received but differs in some of the figures from trie ac counts in the administration papers. The result is yet doubtful. The U. S. Gazette of Monday, says the Senate will stand 20 Whig to 13 Admin istration, and the House 51 Whig to 49 Administra* tion. —Charleston Courier. Arkansas, The New Orleans Picayune of the 18th,says: The Captain of the Steamboat Cherokee, arriv ed yesterday informed our marine reporter that Cross, Democratic candidate for Congress, has been re-elected by a considerable majority, but that in the Legislature the Whigs are going a head. Fir the Chronicle and oentmd. To the Bloody Six Hundredth ! You are this day called upon to select from your beat, a suitable individual to discharge the duties of Justiee of the Peace. Among the various names proposed for your support, need I call your atten tion to that of R. P. Spelman, Esq., a man who, for forty years, has stood to his rack, fodder or no fod der ; and who, in your late triumphant victory, had the moral courage to brave the displeasure of his Loccfoco friends, and put his shoulder to the wheel of Harrison and Reform, and shoved as hard as any of you. And as intimately connected with the subject, I cannot too strongly urge upon your se rious consideration, the necessity of selecting a person who will discharge the duties, not only Ju dicially, but honestly. Boys ! go to the polls— SpeLnan’s your man. Hard Cider. The New York Express of Saturday, 2 P. M. says : —An important movement is announced in Wal.street to-day. It is no less than the Bank of the United States has made arrangements to resume specie payments. The effect of this news, which is credited, has been to improve Stocks generally, but particularly United Slates Bank, which has suddenly run up three per cent. Mr. Jaudon is in this city; and what agency he has in the negotiation is not stated, nor do the public care. It will be enough that an arangc menl has been made. The resumption of the United States Bank of specie payments, will have a decided influence in effecting resumption with the Southern Banks. Exchange will improve immediately. A Scrap of History. Military character of Martin Van Bu ren. —We dip the following historical scrap from the Perry Eagle (Marion, Ala.) Out at last. — We find by a message of Daniel D. Thompkins, in 1812, then Governor of New-York, that Martin Van Buren was at that lime a Lieut. Colonel of the militia of that Slate. This probably accounts for his determined oppo sition to the war during that year. The poor man afraid he would be called into active service, opposed the war, doubtless, with the double pur pose of saving his reputation as a military man and retaining his commission without danger. The war becoming popular, however, the next year, we suppose, he threw up his Commission. and in a civil capacity gave u his support, as he couludo so. without exposing his sweet little per son to danger. No wonder his followers are anx ious to prove Gen. Harrison a coward. The reasoning of our opponents, on the Whig victories in Vermont and Maine is, that abolition, and nothing else, turned tl e fortunes of the day in our favor. Well, we suppose that the same argument in the mouth of the Democratic party, will apply to Georgia ; she too, has been swept, as if by a tornado, and by abolition votes too, eh? Stand up to your mark, ye Democrats ; what has extinguished your light in Georgia ? Do you say abolition, or what do you believe did it? Where are your new champions, the pink and essence of Van Buren Democracy, Messrs. Col quitt. Cooper, and Black! Where are they? Echo answers —dead as a mackerel. — Tuscaloo sa Monitor. Consul Trist. —We believe it is pretty well know n that some six months ago, Alexander H. Everett was despatched by the General Govern ment to Havana, for the purpose of inquiring in to the conduct, and investigating the charges pre ferred by the popular voice against N. P. 'Prist, the United Slates consul attnatport. Mr, Ever ett has long since returned from his mission, and made his report to the executive, but the charac ter of that report has never been promulgated. If favorable to Mr. Trist, justice to that individual requires that it should be made public without de lay ; if unfavorable the American people should know it, aud the individual referred to should be immediately removed from the lucrative and im portant office which he now holds as a sinecure. The people are anxious to know the resuit of Mr. Everett’s mission.— Boston Merc. Journal. From the Failed Stales Gazelle. Joseph R. Chancier, Esq.—Permit us through the medium of your columns to express our sen timents in relation to Gen. Smith of Florida, whose temporary residence among us, has been characterized by much interest and enthusiasm in the cause ot the Whigs: a cause which, since the struggle of the patriots of the Revolution fur Constitutional liberty, has had no parallel in the history of the nation —charged as it has been with the same interest and necessities which marked that extraordinary contest for freedom and the just rights of man. At our city and county meetings, at the Lancaster Convention, at Valley Forge—“ the Bunker Hill ot Pennsyl vania”—and at other places, we have listened to his scund and lucid political arguments, and we j have been stimulated and enlivened by his i spirit stirring eloquence. His expositions of the profligacy and corruptions attending the Florida war, the total disregard of the interests or protec tion of the inhabitants of Florida, and the atlro ernes with which they have been visited in con sequence, have done good service, and nave in cited to fresn exertions against the present cor rupt and imbecile administration of the General Government. A sound and uncompromising Whig, and a gentleman, we tender him our confidence and thanks with our best wishes for his prosperity, his sale return to his Southern Menus, and his beloved Territory of Florida. • ’ < v' * From the N. Y. Herald Extra Oct. IS. Sixteen Days Later from Europe. The Koval Mail steamship Acad,a. Capt. Mil ler. arrived at Boston on Saturday morning, very 1 early, and reached the dock at half past 8 o’clock, ; making the run in the space of days from Li * verpool 31 hours from Halifax, and 10 days 17 > hours from Liverpool to Halifax,. She had 92 passengers to Halifax, and 72 to Boston. i The President arrived at this port this morning at 10 o’clock. This steamer brings out 145 pas sengers. • The news is of greater importance than any i that we have received from Europe for years. - Ever}- thing wears the aspect of a general, a long t and a bloody war, throughout Europe and Asia, although many of the English journals insist up on it, that the preliminary fighting in the East J will strengthen the prospect of peace. The substance of the news is this. As soon as the advanced division of the English fleet reach ed the Chinese seas, they went to work and batter ed down all the forts at the Bocca Tigris, and up 1 the Canton River. They then landed a force and sent it up to Canton to destroy that place. Ihe 5 English fleet in the Mediteiranean bomoarded and , nearly destroyed Beirout, drove out the Egypt ians, landed a force and took possession of it. It is also said that Cora. Napier has seized several Egyptian vessels and that he has stopped ail ' supplies from going to the coast. On the other t hand the French nave sent two line ot battle ships and two war steamers to rcintorece their Meoilcr ranean fleet; and have ready at one port alone thirteen other large men ot war, to send oil. All this time it is said that the Turkish Government has refused the propositions of Mehemet Ali; that the latter has therefore resolved to succumb and accede to the terms of the four powers ; and al : so that he is lying dangerously sick at Alexan . dria. In France, an additional credit of 50,000,900 francs has been opened to pay the increased ex ’ penses of the navy and army- Louis Napoleon t is still on his trial. Madame I*«ffkrge has been found guilty, and sentenced to hard labor for life. The war in Africa still continues. The King of Holland has abdicted in order to marry his former mistress. The Princes Augusta is dead. Capt. Fayrer has been dismissed from command of the President. An attempt has been made So destroy the dock yards at Sheerness and at Plymouth. The line of battle ship TJavera, and the frigate Imo gene have been burnt. Parliament was to be farther prorogued to Shi 16th of November. In commercial matteis, there is some change It is rumored ihat the Bank of England intend to increase its rate of interest to 6 per cent.— This is not believed. Exchanges are quiet. Con sols fell of course, on receipt ot the war news they are down to 86. At one time there was : general panic in the London money market. Th corn crops are very good; bemg uearly 25 pe cent over those of 1839. The importers of lor eign corn have lost a large amount of money There was an attempt in the cotton market, ; week before the Acadia sailed, to get up a specu lation to raise the price of cotton, and they sue ceeded in raising it i of a penny,and were just able to sustain it at that mark uptolhe day of saii ing. Bombardment and Diestrucxok of Beyrcut. —We copy the following important inte licence from the London Morning Herald vs October 3. Paris, Oct. 2, I hasten to inform you that the French Gov ernment have received the following most impor tant telegraphic dispatch : Marseilles, Oct 1. “ Malta Sept. 27. —The Prometheus, which, left Bayrout cn the 20th, announce* that, after a bom bardment of nine days, which reduced the town to asr.es, the Egyptians evacuated tire town in the night, and the allies took possession of it “ The Oriental, which quilted Alexandria on the 241 h, makes known that the human deposing Me hemit Ali, had been communicated ou the 2lst to his Highness by the Consuls General of the Four , Powers, who instantly struck their flags, and. re tired on board their shipping. (Copy) “ Director of the Telegraph Fiacon.” ‘‘The above is the must important and alarming intelligence that could be received, as members o' the French Government have sadalhat if the treat} w r ere executed a V outrance, there must be war. I dare not say more to alarm the public mind, but 1 view it as most fatal news, and L have good reason to do so.” The above intelligence has produced a complete panic in the city, and Consols kave fallen nearly if per cent, viz: from to 86£. We may also add that 1( 0,000 ( onsols were offered at b6,aml no takers. Purchasers were however, shortly af tei wards obtained at that price. Ten thousand additional troops hare been order ed to embark at Constanlinop.e for Cyprus. Wc have already stated that Mehernet Ali either was or feigned to be seriously indisposed. His disease is said to be a boil on ‘he spine, a.n. affection pecul iar on the Nile. His late apparent humility to the Sultan, and his offer through Rifat Bay to surren der Canada and Adana, are believed to have been a mere ruse to gain time, and had his offers been accepted, he would probably not have abided by them. IMPORTANT FROM .CHINA. Extract of a letter da'ed Bombay, July 23, at 9 o’clock in the evening, received by the Mediterra nean packet: — “ The steamer is already under weigh and dre-p --p.ng down, but I will try to catch iser with tluee lines, to say that a private express from Calcutta has arrived, which stales that intelligence has been received there Irom China, by the steamer Eater prise, of the arrival of part of the expedition in the Canton river, and of the total destruction of the forts of the Bocca Tigris. We shoal know the truth of it in a day or two: il is doubted hy none.” The following, from a correspondent of the Lea don Standard, is additional to the above. “ I send you in haste the accompanying extract of a letter from Bombay, received by a friend of mine in Liverpool— ‘ After the vessels &id destroy ed the forts of the Bogue at the entrance of the Bocca Tigris, some troops and seamen -were sent on shoie to put them in a state of defence against the Chinese. The expedition then proceeded towards Whampoa, having pressed two Chinese pilots ; but on leaching Second Bar, the passage for large ves sels was impeded by the Chinese havinj.taken the precaution to sink some large junks —however, the smaller vessels and steamers will almost im mediately proceed with a strong military force, to raze Canton to the ground.’ ” Russia. —St. Petersburg. Sept. 11.—Dread ful Earthquake. —The Abeille du Noul of yes terday, published the lollowing letter from Tolls, August 13; “ You have doubtless heard of the terrible earthquake of Mount Ararat, which has the town Makitchernan, damaged all the buildings at Envan, and devastated the two districts of Sharour and Sourmate, in Astneaia. All the villages in these districts have been de stroyed. The earth is lent in such a nianaer, that all the cotton and rice piantations have perished for want of water. But the most awful event has taken place in the neighoorhood of Mount Ararat. A considerable mass was loosened from the moun tain, and destroyed every thing in its way for the distance of seven worst, (neatly 5 English miles). Among others, the great village Akhouli has met the fate of Herculaneum and Pompei. About 1000 inhabitants were buried under heaps of rocks. A thick fluid, which afterwards became a river, ran from the interior of the mountain, which was open ed, and lollowing the same direction,swept over the ruins, and carried with il the coipses of the unfor tunate inhabitants of Akhouli,. Hie dead animals, Ac. The shock continued to be bet S’every day in the above mentioned uislncts, arid entirely laid them waste; then the shock became less freqont. Ararat is not yet quiet; the day before yesterday I was awakened by two violent subterranean com motions. Create of Amity and Commerce with the Republic of Texas.— (From the Amsterdam Han delsblad.)—We have learned with much satisfac tion Ihat a treaty has been concluued between this country and the republic of Texas, and which was I signed at the Hague on the >Sth lust., by the re- V •. - ... . -* - Venstolk van Soelon and General James Hamil ton, although we forbear to communicate the par ticulars of this agreement, as the treaty necessa rily requires ratincation, we have the perfect as surance that the principle of true reciprocity has been adopted. from the Richmond Whig of the 1 \th. AddrC'ses of Messrs. Webster, Leigh , Barbour and Lyons, to the Ladies assembled at the Log Cabin. Mr. Webster having signified a willingness, since he was unable, from the shortness of his stay, to pay his respects to the ladies of Rich mond individually, to meet and address them in a body, the Lug Cabin erected hy the Whigs of the City was cliosen as the place of meeting, and accordingly a fair assemblage was there collected on Wednesday morning ; when our distinguish ed visitant was introduced to them with a few appropriate remarks oy Mr. Lyons. Mr. Webster thereupon addressed the interest ing auditory collected before him, nearly in the following terms: Ladies.—l am very sure I owe the pleasure I new enjoy to your kind disposition, which has given me the opportunity to present ny thanks and my respects to you thus collectively, since the shortness of my stay in the city does not al low me the happiness of calling upon you sever ally and individually. And, in the first place I wish to express to you my deep and hearty thanks, as I have endeavored to Jo to your fa thers, your husbands and your brothers, lor the unbounded hospitality I have received ever since I came among you. It is registered, I assure you on a grateful heart in characters of an enduring nature. The rough contests of the political world are not suited to the dignity and to the de licacy of your sex, but you possess the intelli gence to know how much of that happiness which you are entitled to hope for, both for your selves and for youi children,[depends on the righ'. administration of government, and a proper tone of public morals. That is a subject on which the moral perceptions of a woman are both quick er t ’and juster than those of the other sex. 1 do not speak of that administration of government whose object is merely the protection of industry the preservation of civil liberty and the securing to enterprise its due reward. I speak of govern ment in a somewhat higher point of view. We live in an age distinguished for great benevolent exertion, in which the affluent are consecrating the means they possess by endowing colleges and academies, by uniting to build churches, and sup port the cause of religion, and by establishing Athenaeums, Lyceums, and all the other modes of popular instruction. This is all well; it is admirable; it augers well for the prospect of en suing generations. But I have sometimes thought that there is a point of view in which government is to he considered—l mean in its power and its duty, to augment the morals of the community, and to inspire it with just sentiments of religion which is too often overlooked. A popular government, is more powerful than anv other influence (and I have sometimes feared than ail other influences put together) in its ac tion on the morals of the community for good or for evil. Its example, its tone, whether of re spect or of disrespect to moral obligation, is most important to human happiness; because il is a mong those things which most affect the political morals of mankind, and hence their general mor als also. I advert to this, because there has been put forth in modern times the false maxim that there is one morality for politics and another mor ality for other things; that in their political con duct to their opponents men may say and do that which they would not think of saying or doing j in the personal relations of private life. ’There has been openly announced a maxim which I consider as the very concrete of false morality, declares that “all is fair in politics.” If a man speaks falsely or calumniously of his neighbor, and is reproached fur the offence, the ready ex cuse is this—it was in relation to public and po i litical matters, I cherished no personal ill-will whatever against that individual, but quite the contrary; I spoke of my adversary meiclyasa political man. In my opinion, the day is com ing when falsehood will stand for falsehood, and calumny will lie treated as a breach of the com mandment, whether it he committed politically or in the concerns of private life. It is hy the promulgation of sound morals in the community, and more especially hy the training and instruc tion of the young that woman performs her part towards the preservation of a free government. | It is now generally admitted that public liberty,the perpetuity of a free constitution, resls on the vir tue and intelligence of the community which en joys it. How is that virtue to be inspired, and how is that intelligence to be communicated? Bonaparte once asked Madame de Stael in what manner he could promote the happiness of France. Her reply is full of political wisdom. She said, “ instruct the mothers of the French people.” Because the mothers are the affection ate and effective teachers of the human race. 1 he rpother begins this process of training with the infant in her arms. It is she who directs, so to speak, its first mental and spiritual pulsations. She conducts it along tne impressible years of childhood and of youth ; and hopes to deliver it to the rough contents and tumultuous scenes of life, armed hy those good principles which her child has first received for maternal care and love. If we draw within the circle of our contempla tion the mothers of a civilized nation, what do we see? We behold so many artificers working, not on frail and perishable matter, but on the im mortal mind, moulding and fashioning beings who are to exist forever. We applaud the artist w hose skill and genius present the mimic man upon the canvass—we admire and celebrate the sculptor who works out that same image in en during marble—but how significant are these achievements, though the highest and the fair est in all the departments of art, in comparison with the great vocation of human mothers! They work not upon the canvass that shall tail, or the marble that shall crumble into dust—but upon mind, upon spirit, which is to last forever, and which is to bear, for good or evil, through out its duration, the impress of a mother’s plas tic hand. I have already expressed the opinion, which all allow to be correct, that our security for the duration of the free institutions which bless our country, depends upon the habits of virtue and the prevalence of knowledge and of education Knowledge does not comprise ail which is con tained in the larger lean of education. The feelings are to be disciplined ; the passions are to be restrained ; tiue and worthy motives are to he inspired; a profound religious feeling is to he instilled, and pure morality inculcated under all circumstances. Ali this is comprised in educa- i lion* Mothers who are faithful to this great duty I will tell tell their children that neither in politi cal nor in any other concerns of life, can man ! ever withdraw himself from the perpetual obliga- I tions ot conscience and of duty; that in every i act, whether public or private, he incurs a just : responsibility ; and that in no condition is he ! warranted in trifling with important rights and I obligations. They will impress upon their I children the truth, that the exercise of the elec tive franchise is asocial duty, of as solemn a na- 1 tuie as man can be called to perform ; that a man may not innocently trifle with his vote; that every tree elector is a trustee as well for others as j urnselt; and that every man and every measure ! he supports has an important bearing on the in teresis of others as well as on his own. It is in CaU ° n 0t ¥§h and pure morals such as .ie«e, that in a free Republic woman performs her sacred duty and fulfils her destiny. The 1 1 .ench, as you know, are remarkable for their \ fondness for sententious phrases, in which much 1 it. condensed into a small apace. I notice- latelv. 1 instruction in France, this motto: ‘‘Pour in struction on the hi ads of the people; you owe them that baptism.” And certainly, if there be any duty wh.ch may be described by a reference to that great institution of religion, a duty ap proaching it in importance, perhaps next to it in obligation, it is this. I know you hardly erpect me to address you on the popular po.itical topics of the day. \ou read enough, you hear quite enough on those subjects. You expect me only to meet you, and to tender my profound thanks for tins marked proof of your regard, and will kindly receive the assurances with which I tender to you, on parting my affectionate respects and best wishes. Mr. Webster having resumed his seal — James Barbour, Esq., the President of the Con vention, rose to give notice that the meeting would then he adjourned to the Capitol Square, when the call for some remarks from him became so loud and so imperative, that he relinquished his original design, and consented to address, for a few moments, the ladies assembled. He said ; Ladies —I tender to you my profoundest thanks for the very high compliment which in your goodness you have bestowed upon me, in the very unexpected call I have now received. Nothingcertaiuly,could have been more unexpec ted on my part. There are a thousand reasons why I, above all, should not have been called out on the present occasion. One will be sufficient: after wnat you have heard from the lips of the highly distinguished gentleman who has just re sumed his seat, every one must.be satisfied that, any thing from me will be calculated, instead of rendering'any'sarvice to the cause, only to weaken the impression which cannot but have been made by one of those bursts of eloquence which are the peculiar prerogative of superior genius. What can 1 add to what has been already so well spo ken ' In my plain, old-fashioned way, I should rejoice to proclaim to you the deep gratification j I have expeiieneed wherever I have lecentiy gone in seeing ihe ladies every where coining out, to countenance, by, their presence and smiles, those assemblages of the rougher sex, which, in throngs, are gathing throughout the length and breadih of this land—all animated with the one holy pmpose of redeeming from destruction those liberties earned for us by our fathers, which are equally dear to woman as to man, and which she, with us, is equally bound to transmit untarnished to our children for ages to come. I hail this with joy, as a happy omen and guarantee of our suc cess. I have heard that Mr. Van Buren lately said to a gentleman, with whose vocation he happened not to be acquainted—“l understand that the lawyers and ail the clergy are against me.” Now, if both saint and sinner, and all the ladies, 100 are against Mr. Van Buren, what prospect can he possibly have of success? (Laugh ter.) I entirely accord with the views which have been so eloquently expressed by the gentleman who has addressed you. “Albeit unus’d to the melting mood.” I found whilst he was expressing them the tears involuntarily stealing down mv cheeks, and I am persuaded that the heart of every lady here present more titan responded to mv own. You will not suspect me, especially at mv time of file, of any such disign as flattery. I never was remarkable for that propensity in other days; and now you will all readily admit that it is totally out of the question. (Laughter ) But I have proclaimed it when you were not present and if I say it now. you will not infer that I sup pose the female heart is to be affected by that paltry flattery which you sometimes have to deal with. No: while the pitiful flatterer hugs him self in the persuasion that he is prevailing with j you by such arts, although from your exceeding i politeness, you may be induced to conceal your ' feelings, I am sure, did you utter them, they would be expressive only of contempt. But I have said, when you were not present, that I did verily believe, if the liberty of this country is to saved, vve shall owe its salvadon to the virtuous women of America. It is they, after all, who must turn away the sword of the destroyer. As mj distinguished friend has so well said, it is you who lake the infant in your arms, and commence | the training of the future man. Your part is per j feet—all the ev.ls he afterwards acquires is from us—you have no share in it. And, in contempla ting the gratifying spectacle to which 1 have al ready alluded, 1 have indulged the pleasing hope; not only that you would work out our own de liverance from the danger now impending, but that you will lay a deep foundation in the minds ! of the youth now rising to manhood, ofsuch prin | ciplos as sha’l secure and perpetuate our freedom, j The women of America have presented examples I worthy to stand in history by the side of the Greek and the Roman mothers, which its pages have rendered immortal. You have, in substance, often repeated the famous injunction of the Lace demonian mother, who pnsenteda shield to her son, just going into battle for the first lime, with these words—“ Take this, my son return homo with it or upon it.” Ladies—l have been induced to say thus much, : because the command to speak came from a quar ter which always shall be sovereign with me. I shall treasure up the memory of that command as one of the most pleasing incidents of my hie, and shall never think of it but with gratitude and pride. The call having proved so effectual in the case of Governor Barbour, it was, immediately on his caking his seat, renewed lor Mr. Leigh ; who not to be outdone in gallantry and submission to the expressed wishes of a female auditory, responded, without hesitation, ana proceeded to address the meeting nearly as follows; My Fair Countrywomen:— l have in the course of now, a pretty long life, been not a little used to public speaking; but it is the first time I ever had to face such au audience, and I feel, I confess, somewhat embarrassed as to what I shall say to you. In a certain very orthodox paper, with which most of us are acquainted, I have seen it stated, that I have been deputed, by Tip pecanoe CjubNo. 1, to go to Massachusetts and there to negotiate a marriage between the States ut Massachusetts and Virginia. I declare to you, that I had not been before apprized of this duty’s having been imposed upon me, and I will venture to alFirm that the honorable gentleman from Mas sachusetts had as little knowledge of it as I. Ne vertheless, it such a marriage was to take place I snould be very happy to have my share in the matter. But, according to our usual view's, both States are equally female, and before a marriage could take place between them, it would be neces sary that one should be acknowledged as the hus band and the other as the wife. Now as you all know me to be a very zealous Virginian, 1 should insist that \ irginia should have supremacy: and understanding something of the holy matrimoni al relation, as it exists in Virginia and especially on Shockoe Hill, it is very natural I shouln there fore insist that Virginia be the bride and Massa chusetts the bridegroom, (a laugh)—but whene ver it came to that point, depend upon it, I should have a very serious contest with the gentleman horn Massachusetts : and he would be quite rbffif for if he should not do his best to make Massa chusetts the bride, he would bring an old house upon his bead when he got home,—(much laugh ter)—for lam well assured, the same devotmn to the best pai l of God’s creation exists there which obtains here. But the metaphor was rather an unfortunate one; lor the marriage, or rather the sisterhood of the two States, is not to he formed ; it already exists—having been formed inthedavs of the Revolution. The mothers of Massachu setls sent their husbands, their brothers,and their sons, and the mothers of Virginia sent theirs—to mingle their olood on whatever fields the oauie of freedom were to be fought. But, more, the holy Union has been already established by the , ,° “ eav en, who hath made us both of one Dlood ; and we acknow ledge the tie with pleasure ' —-. -VC » a fact net icnpptopriats to the subject• Cornwallis invaded Virginia. General VV i n ton deputed the then youthful Lafayette t tain the military power of the State rail h ° rn3, «- troops having oeen sent to the CJarolin- f °* n Geeen ;) and with him he sent two N? U J? er > land Regiments, who got os far as Bah? En? ' ' most without clothing. The laoies of {j p 6 ’ al ‘ | immediately volunteered and clothed t [ 3 Um ° re j Yankee Regiments, with which Lathy? 6 tw ° I dertook to do battle against the enemies" “ ,1 ' ginia; and he did tio battle with iheniVu Vir * were beaten. So that to the ladies of B a V il we owe. at least, all the success of I.ufJvit ' nore ’ ' ultimately the glorious triumph of y ,° an d Keep this example before your eyes, I fathers, brothers and husbands w«l and moreover, the b.essiugs of Aimi.o. y ,° u i j will be upon your heads. ’ l - v | Mr. Lyons was next called upon, and ded in a few words modestly professing hi? 0 * I hility for the task after the addresses of p "j 13 i tinguished gentlemen who had preceded 1??" 1 he would only, in the name of every I Virginia, return to the ladies the most nr la 1 thanks. Alluding to the sentiment express?? f Gov. Barbour, that the countenance extent i the ladies was a means and a guaranty o f, • cess.—He observed that, w ith Whig n * Uc * there must be Whig sons and Whig with Whig daughters there would heVv’ sweethearts. Give me these, -MMrT « great Whig family is formed at once.which | be irresistible. Cheered by the smiles of be” ? and guarded by the shield of female p UriU {?' cou’d they do otherwise than conquer? ’j’T Lacedemonian spirit had not departed: ; t * survived in Virginia.—To that spirit all mu?? homage. Uu f A Vote. A vote is the honest expression of a man’s I judgment in relation to a candidate, presented for 1 h:s approbation for some place of destiny. J therefore an exercise of power that advances ? dignity in proportion to the importance of the ot fice, for which the individual stands a candidate The Presidency for instance, is the most distini guithed office in this country. And the vote f ur that office, is the highest exercise of the ruin a i power in the Republic, and it becomes the voter carefully to examine his heart, before he depus- * ites his ballot. The vote cannot be said to lie long to the individual exclusive. For uis given to him not to barter away—not to use indiscreet ly or rashly, but with the greatest circumspection and honesty. His vote may deeply wound the prosperity of the nation, nr greatly add to i ls | happiness. Hence, every man in America is in- I lerested in the vote that he may give, and wc in I: turn are interested in the vote, that every other II man shall drop into the ballot box at the ensum> I Presidential election. In this view of the voliu 8 powers Ihe freemen of the country should rea' carefully and dispassionately, the arguments so .J and against the two candidates, and give their j votes as an enlightened conscience shall dictate. Every man should consider himself as Doom? hj S an oath before his God, to discharge the high, trust of voting with the strictest probity. The Presidential vote is eminently important, because it cannot he recalled for four years. Because it fastens upon the country tor that long term a course of policy, that may wither our best hopes, or shed upon us the golden showers of prospers fy. Because, one single vote may settle the question of the Presidency in a .State, by can ing a whole electoral ticket. What a n.<ble legacy therefore, did the fathers of the Republic hand over to us, in this right of voting lor our public officers. But they secured us the Constitution, under ihe implied under standing, that we were to put in one votes with j clean hands and pure hearts.— U. S. Guz, Importance of Individual Action—-Vis 1 stated in the Cincinnati Chronicle, that, atan iC Education meeting lately held in that city, the * Rev. Dr. Beecher related the following “dream,” being a beautiful illustration of the importance of i individual action, and showing that inourrepuh- J lican conntry, although it is only the mass which| ! acts through ihe laws, it is the individual which H | moves the mass. ■ He said he cad a dream which like other dreams t j did not wholly explain itself, and in which some 1 j of the natural objects had the newer of sjeecb, ■ : He was travelling near the sources of the Mo- 1 i nongahela, and in passing O'er a rough countir, 1 I at every short distance, met a little stream, wbfei he could step> over; hut all of them were goiw the same way. At last, he asked one, where he l’ ; was going; “Why,” replied the little rill. “1 | am going to New Orleans. I heard the people y ! there want a great canal, a thousand miles loo; I and fifteen hundred feet wide, and I am going ps. :to help make it.—“ And pray what can youdj! I ; I can step over you. What can you do?' ■ i don't know what I can do; bull thall be there." : And so saying, it hurried on. He came to another, and a.ked the same ques- | I tion, and received the same answer. All w« [ ; hurrying on to make the grand canal, on which I the steamships of the West, with their hca; | burdens, were to be transported. On the beis r of the Alleghany, the Sciwto, and ths Mississippi I he found thousands more of hide streams bar- | ried by the same impulses, and which while hep’ I spoke to them, pas.-ed out < f sight. Nonekie* what he could do, but all were determined to A f something. He passed on, till he came to li f mighty Mississippi, and there he found thecas [ was made ! The noble steam-ships rode proov | ly on its suilacc, and its waters diminished, tb ; were again replenished to the bring by e yfr mountain spring and every stream. Thus the little rills make the stream the river, till I united waters of the whole pour on their vf< E j rejoicing, to the glorious ocean. So is man a Lg | the mass, and the mass to the grand tide of h* I 1 man affairs. Each little mortal, weak and venj i | though he be, can do something in making U P . the mighty stream of human events, as it roll*® 0 b to the ocean of eternity.” Punishment of Parricides in F*-**™*;" 8 Two brothers, named Vincent, were brought w j fore the last Assizes for the Nievre, upon an | dictment for having, as long ago as IS‘~B, dered their own father and mother, and robe# M their house, at Bruyeres Radon, of £5,000 'i t gold. Although their crime was suspect - I the time, they could not be brought tojw» uct J| because the witnesses had been at;aid. to dep* '■ jas to all they knew. They had at last, h°" e ' | <r, come forward, and deliveied their evciik |lf . (| One of them deposed that, being on the night • 1 li-e murder seated under the hedge of the j of the deceased, while tending some horse** pasture, he overheard the brothers plotting 1 * \ ) murder, during which one of them said, “1 p 1 t very well kill our father, but I should not | courage to kill tur mother.” To this, the ot h c j replied—\V ell, for my part, I am ready 10 ’ them both.” This testimony being corrobcf by other circumstances, no doubt of their could bu entertained, and the jury ieturneu 8 ' L diet accordingly, but with extenuating c ‘ rCt . l ' j ' r jL stances ; and the parricides, instead ol reCd ! ,j» capital punishment, were only sentenced labor for life at the hulks. The latter pad ul u | finding, no doubt, arose from (lie feeling s ° £ e “ t 1 eral in France, against the infliction ot the ! R ' r ‘ ally of death in any case, however atrocious- Major Noah.— lt is stated in one of the city P J pers of N. York, that JVI ujor Noah, late of them' f riiug Stai, is to receive the appointment ot - ciate Jucgo of the Court of Sessions, m the j ■' j ot Judge landlord, resigned. The | would be a capital one, and would add g rt ’ al - I the mercy which would temper, as well asth* p tice which would govern the decisions and p lt)l