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BMEllil— LBMBMMWBMpWMMlWB ■ ■ '""HI ■ Mil. liuNTUlTS Wkika IN BOONVILLE. Thu Hoonville •• Union” contains thu substance oft wo 8|u echos mnde by Mr. UknTon, in Bnunville, on tint ITth urtd Wth instant, wriiieu oui by him. self. The following notice of one of them is cop. ied from ilie St. Louie Republican : In itu* commencement of his remarks Mr. Bun. ton is said to hnvo “disclaimed u'l personal or in dividual feeling in the approaching election; his sole object Incoming to thu meeting being to ndvunce tiie great Democratic cause, and w ithout the slight, esf regard to himself. He had been elected four limes in tho Sunnle of the United Stales by the will of lire people, and he was more disposed to re. turn them thanks Tor these four elections than to ask them to elect him a tilth time. Ho felt him. self neutral and passive in this question, asking for nothing, paving no uttention to himsell, and only desiring to contribute his part to the success of lira great cause in which tlney are all engaged." Mr. Benton then referred to Mr. Van Buren and Mr. Senator Wright, and was warm in his pruiae of these gentlemen. He declared his personal und political friendship for Mr. Polk, and expressed himsell plcasud with that part of his letter of ncccp l«nc» in which ho pledged himself to a single term of four tears in the event of his election. “Though in favor of two terms, and believing that time short enough for a President to establish systems and consolidate great measures, yet in this particulur case there was reason for nil exception ; and lie was rejoiced to see that Mr. Polk had voluntarily made it. The reason wns this The North hud given but three Presidents in the fifty-five years which the Union had existed, and not one of these had tiecn re-elected. The Southern Stales hud given all the rest, and re-elected every one. While this difference was confined to Federal Presidents it might ho considered as a political clloct, and lull no sling behind it ; but after the same thing began to happen to Democratic Presidents, tlie political | cause for it might begin to disappear, and tho re- | volting spectre of a sectional or geographical, or ;peculiar institution' reason rise up in its pluco I • No such hideous nod anti-national reasoning for putting down Northern Presidents could be allow- ! ed to exist, without irritating and arraying one-half of the Union aguinsl the other; and, therefore, it was of the highest possililo moment to deliberate the memory of what had happened in the ease of Mr. Von Buren in the shortest possible lime. Mr. i Polk’s voluntary pledge to a single term opened the I door fur consummation ; and he,for one, was in fa vor of seeing the Democratic candidate in 1848 la. j ken from the North." Passing a brief eulogium upon Mr. Dallas, Mr. | Benton proceeded to “ the subject on which all were , anxious to hear him speak, namely, the annexation of Texas." Much of the first pail of this speech was luken up in the cstah'ishing the positions w hich he had maintained upon the uegociuliuu of the first treaty, by which Texas was lost to as through the instrumentality of Mr. Calhoun and other Southern members of Mr. Monroe’s Cabinet. Hu read the bill introduced by him at the last ses sion of Congress, giving authority In the President to open negotiations with Mexico and Texas, and proceeded to explain and defend it. “ Let those who want Texas with the Union,” he suid, “go for tho hill; let those who want Texas without the Union adhere to the dead treaty.” Mr. Benton proceeded— ‘ Disunion was a primary object of the treaty ; an-intrigue for the Presidency was its secondaiy objects ; land speculation and stock-jobbing were auxiliary objects; und the four objects together brought it forwnrd at the time and in the manner in which it came forward, just forty days before the Baltimore Convention, and at the exact moment to mix with the Presidential election, and to make dissension, discord, and mischief between the North and the Suuth. Mr. B. said he meant this for the prime movers ard negotiators of the treaty, and not fur those who supported the treaty without par- ticipating in the views of its makers. He had in various speeches exposed the disunion scheme, ami the intrigue for the Presidency ; he had not shown the part which land speculation and stock jobbing acted in concocting the treaty, and pressing its rat. ilioation. He iiad not noticed this part; but it was a conspicuous one, and was seen by every body at Washington. The city was a buzzard roost! the Presidential mansion and Department of State were buzzard roosts ! defiled and polluted by the foul and voracious birds, in the shape of land specula, tors and stockjobbers, who saw their prey in the treaty, and spared no effort to secure it. Their own work was to support the treaty and its friends —to assail its opponents—to abuse the Senators who were against it—tu vilify them, and lie upon them in speech and in writing—and to establish a committee,still sitting at Washington to promote amJ protect their interest. Tito treaty assumed ten millions of debt and confirmed all tho land claims under the laws of Texas. Tho treaty cor respondence chiinied two hundred millions of acres of land in Texas, of which two thirds were repre seined as vacant and claimed ns a fund out of which the debt assumed was to be paid. Vain and impo tent attempt at deception ! Open and fraudulent attempt to assume a bubble debt for the benefit uf stockjobbers without any adequate consideration either to Texas or the United States ! Texas in all its proper extent—in its wh do length and breadth, from the Sabiue to the west of the Nuece9, und from the Gulf of Mexico to tho Rod river—contains but 135.000 square miles, equal to 64 millions of acres, and to get tho remainder ol the quantity of 200 millions of acres they have to count the wild country under the dominion of Comanche Indians, and the left bauk of Rio Grande from head to mouth all of which is under Mexican dominion, and a great part of w hich has been settled und granted above two hundred years. It is nonsense to talk of Tex as possessing vacant land. If there is any thing vacant, it is because it is not worth having, Tex as itself has been settled ul Sun Antonio, Nucog. duches, and other places above one hundred years and has been under the dominion of three ditfijrenl Governments, each of which has been granting away ils lands, and that not by 40 acre and 80 acre tracts, but by leagues and parallels of latitude and longitude, and by hundreds of thousands and mil- lions of acres at a t lime. Thu King’s Government made grants there from 1720 to 1820; then the Slates of Coahuila and Texas, united as one Stale, .made grants from 1820 to 1835, when the Texiau .revolution broke out ; and since that Texas has been grunting by wholesale and retail, having a General LandOffi -e at the seat of Government, and a local one in every county, all employe J in grant ing land, and that to the Anglo-Saxon race whose avidity for land is insatiable. After all this, wlmt vacant land can there be in Texas 1 Not an acre worth having; so tiiat the assumption of hur debt by the treat) was gratuitous, and without consider ation. And what a debt ! created upon scrip and cei tificales at evory imaginable degree of depreciu. lion, and now held by jobbers, most of whom pur. chased at two cents, and fivo cents, and seven cents in the dollar, tile! would have seen their scrip, where it boro six per cent, worth upwards of one .hundred cents to ihc dollar the day thu trealy was ratified; and where it bore ten per cent, interest, ns throe millions did, would have been wurtli up wards uf two hundred cents in tho duliur on the day of the .ratification ol'the Irmly. And all this to go to the benefit, not even of'l’i xas, but of speculators; und that while the Unfed Stales refuse, ami right fully refuse, to assume the debts of their own Slates. These scrip holders were among the most furious treaty men at \\ nsluugtoi). nnd cannot bear the idea of huvjiijg thei; - scrip scaled as the coniiiienliil hhjs of the Ame rican Revolution (issued Under the same circumstances) were scaled, so as to give ibeni h ick their nullity Bud imercst; but they want iliruf f,i ded,iis lint soUlieis’ certificates were in the your 1701, mu for the benefit of soldiers, bul for the benefit of j ibbers nnd members ofCongres^ who hy Ian, turned two nnd sixpence into thirty sliil- Jjnj; - ' in their ow n pockets, ami litctl 10 the amount ot millions of dollars. The Yaaoo land specula, tion, and the soldiers' corlificate speculation, were grains of mustard to tho mountain compared to the Texas land and scrip speculation which the rejec tion of the treaty balked. Under the bill justice will be dune. The scrip will be scaled, and vuidol grants of land annulled. To show the oxlent of these land grants, and to exposo tho fraudulent statements in thu treaty cor- respundenco, that only sixty.sevon millions of acres hud been granted, Mr. B. produced an exhibit to all present a lurge pamphlet with a map attached to it, containing the claims of u single individual, bud ull of which were ussurtud to be valid under the treaty. Tlioy were grants derived from tho second of the Governments which hud granted land in Tex us, to wit: thu Slates of Cuuhuilu and Texas when untied as one Slate, which was their condition from 1820, when tho Mexican revolution broke out, to 1805, when Texas revolted. The grants were made to a Mr. Jolla Churlcs Beales, un liugliah- man, married to a Mexican woman, or tu Mexicans und purchased hy him; and nil obtained fur little or no consideration—some in reward fur introducing manufactures—some on condition of settling fund, lies—some on condition of introducing cattle—und some unconditionally. They are now all transfer, red to u citizen uf the United Status, Mr. John Woodward, of New York,and amount too lar more tliun the whole quantity which the treaty curres. pondenco admits to have been granted by all the Governments which ever held Texas. Mr. B. then enumerated these grunts and point ed out their positiun on the map, the quantities in ail cases not ascertainable because they extended from rivers to rivers, from mountains to uiouutuins, and from parullels to parallels oflatilude anil long itude. Tne first was u grant uf forty five millions of ucre9, being n fraction less Ilian the Slates of Kentucky and Ohio united, extending from north latitude 32 degrees to 37 degrees and 20 minutes, i ud from longilude 102 degrees west from Green- wieh to the Sierra Obscura mountains, and cover ing the upper waters ol the Colorado, the Red riv er, und the Arkansas. Another covered three de grees of latitude—from 28 to 32 degrees—bound ed west on longitude 100 degrees west from Green- wich, and extending eust to the Colorado, on which it bound fifteen leagues. A third extended from the Nueces tu the Rio Grande, and covered two de grees of latitude, from 27 to 29. A fourth claim consisted of a set of grants, nine in number, each for eleven leagues, making ninety-nine leagues in the whole, lying oil the Nueces, und all made to Mexicans, from whom Beales purchased. These ninety-nine leagues were absolute and un- conditional giunls, in fee simple ; (lie others were empressario grants, or upon the condition of set. liing a number uf families on each. The families had not been settled, being prevented hy the Indiun wars and the Texiau revolution ; and the pamphlet sets out the decision of the Supremo Court of the United States in the cuse of the Aretlondo claim, and the Clark claim in Florida, to show that in such cases (the performance uf the condition becoming impossible by tho act of God, of the public enemy, or the grantor) the condition becomes discharged, the grant is absolute, or the party inny have lime nfiter the cessation of the obstacle to fulfil the terms. Under these decisions and the terms of tits late treaty, all these grunts, amounting to seventy or eighty millions of ucres, equal to three or four such Status us Kentucky, are claimed to he valid ; and that claim would go to tho same court which decided tho Aredomlo and the Clark claims, for the treaty annulled none. Tho Florida treaty of 1819 annulled tho great grants to the Duke of Alagon, the Count Punon Rostro,, and Don Diego Vargas, and they are not recognised by the courts; but it omitted to mime the claims of AredonNo and Clurk and these have been confirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States, and it is notorious that members of Congress liecume rich upon the shares of grants. The grants, Mr. B. said, collected in!o the hands of Bcaies, stood upon the same footing w ith that to Aredondo. They were not annulled hy it. All the grants were confirmed which were good under the laws of Texas ; and the laws of Texas, bo far as the right of property is concerned are the laws of Spain nnd Mexico, and Coahuila and Texas, under which the right of property ac crued. Mr. Il.said tiie President’s message enmmuni. eating tiie treaty to the Senate wns as untrue in re lation to the granted nnd to the vacant lands in Tex as as it was in every other particular. Instead of two hundred millions of acres, there were only eighty.four millions of Acres in Texas proper; the rest was thu one half in Tauinulipns, Coahuila, Chihuahua, and New Mexico, und had been grant, ed away centuries ago ; and the other half in the wild country of the Cutnanehes and the Sierra Ob scura mountains, und must be fought for and bought from these Indians before it can he possessed, and will be then found to be covered by Beale’s forty five million acre grunt. Instead of thirty seven millions of acres granted, every inch of Texas pro per, and all the Indian country besides was granted away. Instead of one hundred and thirty millions ol acres of vacant, there was no vacant iand , for even the steril mountains and barren prairies bad been granted to speculators to sell to the Uuited j Stales and in Europe ; and the assumption to pay | tiie scrip debts of Texas in consideration of the va- l cunt lunds, was a naked und fraudulent assumption j to pay ten millions for nothing—and that to stock j jobbers who had given two cents, and five ceuts. | and seven cents in the dollar for tiie claims, and j whose agents were ut Washington infesting the | Capitol, tne President's house, and the Department I of State, und doing all that w as in their power to j sustain the treaty, and to pull down the Senators I who despised them and their scrip. The treaty | was a fiuud in not annulling the great grants, made j for considerations not fulfilled, and for not scaling j the depreciated scrip debt. It was a frauu in these i particulars, but this fraud created a voracious und | clamorous interest for the treaty. Mr. B. said the i patriotic people uf Missouri were mistaken in sup- j posing tliut every body were like themselves, uclu- ! (tied by laudable motives in wanting Texas, lie- ! cause it was geographically connected with the Un- , iled States, and essential to its political, cummer- I cial, and social system. There were others who wanted it fur very different purposes—tho disuu- ionists, for example, who w anted to use it for sepnr as tea Slate i it only admitted it ua u territory. , to take care of that labor in preference to any ve The question of admitting the Sm|*s would have to , to, or any power, foreign or dornest ie. Henco we oome on afterwards in Gougrejw; and the non nd. want a dutncstice and protective ttiriff.—Annapo mission being previously made sure of, then the se cession from the North and adhesicu to Texas was to become the “rightful remedy." Texas be ing in the Union as a territory by the supreme law- olTlie land, a trealy, hur mm admission by Con gress would becumo a bread) of that supreme law,, uud many under those circumstances were counted upon to secede who would ulhciwisu abhor seces sion. Mr. B. said he saw the first signs of thin scheme- of disunion during the session of Congress in 1842 -43. He saw other signs uf it In the summer of 1843 ; uud by the end of the lute Congress the signs hud become so thick and clear that he was able to denounce it on the flour of the Senate. His reply to Mr. McDuflie on Saturday, the 15th of June, wus the lirsl public denunciation uf this new trea son uguinst the Union. Hu had denounced it long; before to many persons, and particularly til the late session of Congress io Mr. Aaron V. Brown, a member of Congress from Tennessee, who bad vi cariously nbiuined the Texas letter from General Jackson, and who seemed tu be vicariously charged with some enterprise on himself, uud which was nipped in the bud, be it wlmt it might. He hud furelold ut the commencement of tho session ull that he hud proclaimed at the end of it. He knew the treasonable design, and the Presidential intrigue, long before lie proclaimed it in tiie Senate. He cuuld not speak uul until the signs were sufficient ly developed tu command the attention and tiie cre dence of the public. Before tile end of the session Ibis was the cuse. Believing in thu strength of tiie Texas question, nnd that the patriotic sympathies of tho people might blind them to the consequences of rush councils, tho old nullificis and disuniunists of 1832 went boldly to work to accomplish the do. sign which they admit they begun too soon tliCH. Disunion, as a consequence of nun.annexation, was proclaimed in hundreds of resolutions. Measures werejopenly concocted for carry ing the resolutions into effect. Members of Congress from the South, ern Slates were invited to act together ; commuui. cations with the Texiau Minister were recommend ed to be opened ; all the slave States were to bo roused and excited, and to crown the scheme, u Hartford Convention, under the pretext of a South- ern Texas Convention, wns propused to be held at Nashville. All this he, Mr. B., had denounced in the Senate. He denounced it in the hearing of thousands, with the concurrence of almost all, and without denial from uny. Whigs and Democrats applauded him. Happily there was one green spot in tiie political field where Whigs and Democrats united, and that wus in the patriotic field of devo tion to the Union. Whigs cheered him as well ns Democrats when he denounced disunion in the Am- erican capitol; and since that time a still more striking spectacle had been seen when, on the 6th day of July, the present month, Whigs and D lemo . cruts assembled at Nashville in joint meeting , am j in energetic resuiuliuns protested against tho desi >. oration of Tunnesseo soil by profaning it to tl ,e pu r- poses of a disunion Convention. These reso lutio ns will repulse the Southern Hartford Conventb in fn jm Nashville, and drive it to seek some other In calit y.” A Distressing Occurrence.—The Nt .ntuijkot Inquirer contains the following parlicuis rs of a truly shucking ulluir: On the afternoon of Saturday last, two daugh ters of Oapt. Geo. Rule, who resides at Pol) iis, (one 14, the other 12 years of age) were about baif a mile front their father’s house, picking berr ies, and bad with them a small dog, when a large dog be- longiug to Mr. T. Eldredge, came along, - and be gan to worry the smullcr one. The youngi ;st one attempted to drive tits bigger dog away, wl i.en he immediately attacked her. The other sister pick ed up u piece of slick, and tried to heat tiie bru ie off, bul this only infuriuled him, and ho turned upon and bit her several limes, setting his teeth into the fiesh. The girls gut on to the fence, but were drugged oil' by the dog. Tho eldest was badly bitten in two or three places, besides some ten or filieon minor wounds J on the arm, appearing, us though the dug had snap- pud at her, while she was endeavoring to beat him ofi’. The younger sister was not so budly bitten us the oilier, her principal wound being in tiie uppe c purl of the thigh. After repeated trials.the poi ,r victims succeeded in escaping from tho J'erocio us brute, and went into the water, whither he did ' jot pursue them. There they stood, up to thei r ch ms, bleeding, in pnin, and naturally very much fr igh .tail ed, for had lie followed them there, they v /ould have been unable to resist, and doubtless , ,'uave been killed outright by him. After the do, g had been gone a few minutes, they succeeded with j ;reat difficulty, in getting to the land, and started for home, but were met by u neighbor, who car. ried them to his house, from whence they i (ere soon conveyed home. Dr. Nathaniel Ruggle s was sent for, und on arriving at Polpis, he found tl. cm suffering very'much front tiie effects of their d lu ge rous encounter. Their case is consider! d i Ex tremely critical. It is feared that the brute was mad, allhoug ;h t .lie children have not yet exhibited, very lully , tin ise symptoms which are common in cases of hyd, -o- phobia. Yet, such is their appearance and metio us that the attending physician is inclined to the boll of that the animal was in the incipient stage of liydr o- phobia. We sincerely hope that in this belii if, o jr experienced professional friend is in error, for it seems too shocking to indulge fora moment tl. e thought that he may be correct in his opiuiuf As soon as the girls escaped from the ( log,! e started fur the house of their father. Mrs . Uul <„• wns outside the house with her child, whs n she.- saw- the dog coming at full speed, but succee ded in getting into the house, and closing the door .before lie got there. Tho dog then attempted to jump through the w indow, but fortunately did not sue- ceed. Baffled in ibis, lie started homeward, » hith er lie wns pursued by the neighbors and kille d. lit Rep. Tax Texas Debt.—lit the Texas Treaty, about which DemocruU have run inad. it is provided that the United Stuies shall pay all her debts, esiimated at ten millions of dolluis. Take notice, it is not provided that tho United States shall pay no more than $10,000,000; it is that the United States shall pay alllhe debts,and if tho estimate of 810.000,000 should be a little tvror.g, say hy fifty uru hundred mil lions,-why it is a small matter—the high conlruct- -ng parlies wero only u litilo mistaken in their fig- •jrei, which do sometimes lie when great mer. are greatly interested. The Florida war, with only a few miserable Semi, soles, unfed, unclothed, without any friendly Puw- er to aid them, held out some sevon years, and cost us upwards of $40,000,000. Texas bus been at war eight years with Mexico, nnd n good part uflhe time with the Cnmanches and other Indian tribes— lo you suppose it has not cost her five or ten times is much money as the Seminnles have cost us ? Her debt may exceed $10,000,000, but if wo scale t down, as we did our old Cuntiiieuiul und Proc. vionny—$800 for$l—then, perhaps, her dehis at hut rule will not exceed $10,000,00(1, usestiinnted. Uul this would be repudiation, uud must not be i .bought uf. But why take this debt on estimation ? The Tex an Government sent u special Minister here to nako this Treaty, or rather lo conclude it, for it I uul been under consideration for months before. I’lieir books show, or ought to show, to a dollar vital they owe. Why did that Ministcrcome here vithout bringing that precise ainuunl ? Because t was more convenient to estimate- Suppose we ire cheated in this mutter, tu whum and of whom hall we complain? They will then be a pan of air own family, and we cun have no redress. They estimate their Public Lands at many mil- ions of acres, but to swell that estimate, according o Mr. Benton, and he is good authority with the )umocrucy, they put in it a tract 2,000 miles long nd 100 wide now an integral part of Mexico, mu. .ing two hundred thousund square miles, or 120 i aillions of ucres, to which they have no more pre- ence [uf title than to the island of Great Britain. Yet, with all this fiaud as to the Public Lands, nd all this danger nnd uncertainty as tho true mount of the Texiau debt, aside from any other o bjeclinns, wo find Polk and IluKE ard every ped- ling Democratic politician in the country run mad ami imlrioiic Spartanburg Minister The Hon Waddy Thompson. ^ . Plenipotentiary lw Mexko, „ublicaiion. A through our town s.noe our Ml ° aod number of his old friends called J 0( „ they were highly gratified ,n Official nave long held m ffi° K P difference of polit- respect und esteem, me me . i.j H |, icsl opinions coulp detract oot 'ing esteem in which Genera 1 '"’Twlll known in a community where “ m0Itdcci dely us lio is in Spartanburg. . * in opinion from General Thompson in ^moofl.l. political views, and shall as occa.ton may off r oppose .huso Views, bul whilst we do so, w« desire to snv, ilmt we, in common will. '^ P^d and South Carolina, hold him ns an Wonerst, tale patriotic gentleman, worthy of the g . and esiimatio n lie baa won, and that e p opposition he may mr«t wtih in his own. Kite evidence that Soull.-Garoli.ia has lost one pnrttc e of the confidence she has heretofore reposed m him. . Nkiv Cotton.—We received in this city, yesterday a bag of New cotton, weighing 478 pounds, sent in from the plantation ofCapt. Bartlett, by Mr. M. F.Stott. Wo are (old by good judges, that ,t is of a fine quality, and in good condition. The cotton crop, we aro inform- ed by the planters, is much earlier this season than usual. Many of them in this section are already gath- erin ' at the rate of two and three bags per week. Albany (Geo.) Courier. NV'v Cotton.—The first load of New Cotton seen n our streets this season, wns from the plantation of lichard Sondloy. Esq., on the tnoree river. '“ New- C l) f 50011^ *1 ft*. uleriiy, Jtss nut firmness enough to repel the *1* is acquired by cant and claptrap—since lie popularity which is run sftcr. rather than that Prtf.*- Lettkr from Guv. Jones—The follow ing Inter from Gov. Junes, of Tennessee, was react ut: a great Whig gathering in Bucks county, Fa., last Saturday : Nashville, July 25, 1844. Charles Gibbons, Esq.— Dear Sir :—Bv the mail I enclose you two puls ating the sluvehoiding from tiie non-sluveholding | licaliuns of Col. Polk’s during the lust summer’s States; Presidential intriguers, who wauled it to | canvass, on the subject of tiie Tariff, etc. Fiona make und unmake Presidential candidates; und j these publications you will perceive that the CG, laud speculators and stock-jobbers, who wanted to is dead out against Protection, and particularly cfi. enriclt themselves, j posed to the Distribution of the Proceeds of the Throughout his speech, Mr. II. presented it as 1 Public Lauds, because, lie says, it is a Tariff men- the design of tiie Texas ireuiv not to gel Texas in to the Union, but to get the Southern States out of it, and allowed tliut the whole treaty, and all the correspondence relating to it, w ns studiously nnd artfully contrived for that purpose. To pick a quar- sure. It sounds strangely tu us who have been ac customed to hear it staled that he is a Tariff naun, or in favor of Protection. 1 have met him on noore than one hundred and fifty fields, and 1 never braid him make a speech in my canvasses w itl. with Great Britain, and also with the non-slave- him, that he did not denounce tho principle of holding States on the subject of slavery, wns the ! Protection, ludeid, this was tlie main ground on pen, undisguised object ol the negotiator from the beginning lo the ending. To array the slave- holding against thu non-sluveholding hull ol'the LJiiiou wus his open and continued effort. To pre sent the acquisition of Texas as a Southern, sec- lionul, sluvehoiding question, wholly directed to the extension, perpetuation, are’ predominance of slave ry, wns his express and avowed object. And after all this open effort to make the Texas question u slave question, the admission of the Texiau Suites into the Union wns to ho submitted ton House ul Representatives where there wns a majority of for ty-six members from the non-sluveholding States ! What could all this he for except lo have the Tex- iuu Status refused admission, and u pretext furnish ed the Soullieru States lor secession? All this wus so well understood in South Carolina tliut the cry of "Texas or Disunion" wns raised in that quar ter nut only bcfoie the treaty was rejected, bul be, fora it wus made ! Let it never bo forgotten, said Mr. B-, that a treaty cannot admit new Slates. Tiie Constitution grants that power to Congress, file Texas treaty did not and cuuld not admit Tex- which he and his friends relied to defeat me. [ was for Protection—he against it; \ for Distribu tion—he against it. 1 would say, do your duly—we will do ours; Tennessee will maintain tier posilion. Respectfully your servant, ' JAMES C. JONES. The Whig Sv»tem.—Home labor, work ut home—buy ut home—spend at borne—employ our own countrymen in preference—help Americans first—protect American labor—assist American industry—let tiie South feed the North, and the North supply the South—wltal we duu’l want we will ship away—wltal we can’t moke or produca we wiil buy from foreigners. This is the Whig; system—this is Harry Clay’s policy. We lova our own dear country, and our own countrymen, before any foreign nation—and mean first to taka care of Amerirau men and American boys. and. American women and American girls. Wo aro not an idle people—wc must and we will live by our labor. It feeds us and it clothes us, and we mean » ,fter Texas Friends of the Union ! Let us show these run- t nud annexationists that we greatly prefer “the Un- i on without Texas,” to “Texas w ithout the Union.” Raleigh Register. Mr. Frelinhuysen and Abolition.—Having already laid before our readers what should satis fy any reasonable tnan ns to tho soundness of Mr. F. in reference to abolition, we lmd determined not again to recur to the subject, bul the following letter of Mr. Frelingiiuysen to Dr. Joseph G. Hall, of Hernando, Miss,, is so explicit, that we cannot forego laying it before tho reader, and ask ing thereto his attention. This letter is sufficient to satisfy all reflecting men of the character of the opposition waged by the Loco focos and their or gans against tiie Whig candidates—they scruple at tho employment of no mentis however debased, which affords the Ie a6t prospect ol gaining a few voles lo their desperate cause.— Chron. Sent. New Yor,k June 11,1844. Joseph G. Hall, Esq., Dear Sir—I received your kind favor, and thank you lor the friendly interest you Ituve taken in this matter. I very cheerfully respond that I am not nn Abolitionist, and never have been, i have been an ardent friend of the Colonization Society, and still am. Slavery, in the States, is a domestic con- cern, that Congress has not the right or power to interfere with, in its legislation. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, TI1EO. FREL1NHUYSEN. Our distinguished fellow.citizen the Hon. Wm. C. Preston has returned home from his Georgia mission with renewed health nnd zeal in the good cause. Although warned by bis physician of the danger of over exertion in tho feeble state of his lungs, he persisted in encountering the risk, and his patriotic devotion has been rewarded by improved health, as he thinks the effort was rather beneficial than otherwise. We are informed hy a spectator, that his journey through Georgia was like a irium. phal procession ; the citizens of that State known ing how to prize him better titan his own; but this re. proach, we trust, will not long be deserved Gen. Thompson, too, lias returned home, after striking some stalwart blows with all his old force against this modern Democracy, to the gratification of the good Whigs of Georgia, with whom he is a deserved favorite. With two such leaders, the Whigs of Carolina need not despair ; the hour of triumph must come. Let them buckle on thei armour and be ready for the fight. Columbia Chronicle, Let eveiy Uody Kemembcr, 1. I hat JAMES K. POLK NEVER voted for the Cumberland Road 2. 1 hat JAMES K. POLK NEVER voted for a pension for the Revolutionary soldiers, unless tiie hill had "other puposes,” connected with it. 3. 1 hut JAMES K. POLK DID vole against a law to exempt the old Revolutionary veterans, who fought and hied for our Liberties, from im prisunment for debt. 4. 1 hut JAMES K. POLK DID vote aguinsl relieving thu suffering poor at Georgetown because it would take one day’s pay out of his pocket. o, i hat JAMES K. POLK DID vote to lay n duty of TWO CENTS u pound on Coffee and SIX CFN'l’S a pound on Tea. and finally to levy a duty ol l’\V EN i Y PER CENT, on both those articles, thus showing himself to he emphatically the poor man’s friend. 0. flint JAMES K. POLK DID vole to admit li e silks, linens, ice. FREE OF DUTY. 7., Hint JAMES K, POLK DID vote against grunting relief to Ex President Monroe, who bo came a poor man, by his liberality in belia If of his country.—Ohio Jour. The alliteration in thu names of the Presidential ‘and Vice Presidential cundidutoe is remarkable, it speaks for itself and speaks truly— Polk and Patriotism— Dallas and Demociacy — Cloy and Coonery — Frelingiiuysen and Federalism. The foregoing is from the New Orleans Jefler. Isonian. Since Mr. Campbell seems so fond of al literation, we commend to him thu following which •‘speaks for itself nnd speaks truly Cass and Catastrophe, Calhoun and couldn't, Tyler and treachery, Wright nnd wouldn't. \ Voodbury, wretched and well Walerloo’d, J ahnson, judged justly, jilted und Jewed, B uchunun, beaten, bewildered, bewailing, S towurt, sorrowful, up Salt River sailing, D alias, destruction, despair and derision, P-alk, puke and poverty, pimp uud perdition. Clay, concord und conquest, cuonscoming up clev er, Frelingiiuysen and fortune, fame, freedom forev. 1 er! j Put that in a Clay pipe and smoke it. Death op Gen. W. S. Murphy.—We learn, by the nrrival of the U. S. schr. Flirt, Lieut. Comdg. J. A. Davis, that Gen. W. S. Murphy, our late Charge d’Affuirs at Texas, died at Gal veston, (Texas,) on the 13th ult. of yellow fever, lie was buried with all the honors due his distin guished station. MILLEDGEVILLE: Tueadajr Moruins, AuguM 80, 1844. For Presideut* HENRY CLAY. Tor Vice President,’ THEODORE FRELINGHUYSEN. ELECTORAL TICKET Foil THE STATE AT LARGE. JOKL CRAWFORD, of Early. WILLIAM LAW, of Chatham. roll THE DISTRICTS. 1. Wm. P. McCONNELL, of Liberty. 2. THACKER B. HOWARD, of Muscogee. 3. CHRISTOPHER B. STRONG, of Bibb. 4. R. A. T. RIDLEY, of Troup. 5. DAVID IRWIN, of Cobb. 0. CHARLES DOUGHERTY, of Clarke. 7. Wm. C. DAWSON, of Greene. 8. CHARLES J. JENKINS, of Richmond. WHIG CANDIDATES FOR CONGRESS. 1st Diet. THOMAS BUTLER KING, of Glynn. 2nd 3tl 4th 5th 0th 7th 8th WM. H. CRAWFORD,of Sumter. WASHINGTON POE, of Bibb. JOHN J. FLOYD, of Newton. H. V. M. MILLER, of Floyd. J. W. H. UNDERWOOD, of Habersli’m. ALEX. H. STEPHENS, of Taliaferro. ROBERT TOOMBS, of Wilkes. follows t-~aod as lie lias clioeon lu be coaijfettj “Cooit Killer,” wo hope be will not take offence atX_ hereafter, as long as he ie before tile public in a cal character, calling him the “Coon Killer." ■». The Colonel must have felt bis bristles rising • '* deed quite currish for the nonce—when lie ventin’ ed to aunounce the purpose of his visit to EAtoniM^ and his audience cheered him, and patted him on |L '' back, at thin manifestation of courage. Thl« —..feTll and caressing was probably right necessary, jf lt ,jT* moment lie barked so loudly, a faint, dim, remini lceDe> ' of his encounter with "a Coon" oil ibe l*t|, u |t;.». - should have flitted over his memory. Believing that the Coons aro more easily tnanuy' elsewhere, than he lias found, by a sad experience ’ him, at home, lie ventures to Ealonton—assailable a* lie doubtless considered Major Meriwether to be, in |Z‘ thus venturing upon that ground. We make no do^ that lie caught a Tartar for a customer. Wo shallhesr'' particulars by-aud-bye. If our advice would not be unpalatable to “the Killer," we would commend hint to another trial of lie powers in his own county, and be sure and establish ha title at home lo so e'eganl h designation, as lie has rbo,- sen, before ho seeks, like another Hercules, hbon abroad worthy his fame and prowess. Of Col. Janes, the eloquent dumb speaker, the | whom “the Coon Killer" :s making profert of, we hm" nothing to say, but simply, that by bis speech here,hi" lias satisfied the people that the Eatonton Convention' made a little mistake in the man. This certainly i l(l , cusable as the Democratic Convention at Ba It, more sen the example, by nominating fer President a man caly Polk, that no human being had ever before heard ipok n of in connexion with the highest office in the worli ' As we are in the midst of “ Dog Days," we will a*' lice the father progress of Coon Killing! The ltiC.k est Leltei’ of the Season, Read the following, people Baldwin, you tdnfatd what transpired on the day Mr. AcsALik' 1 -Lne« made Its appearance before a Baldwin audience—anu readil» what the writer says about 300 pledged to go lo hTaeod and 150 majority for Polk and Janes. Such statemen are too rich for cominenL Surely some one has hen "poking fun" at the Augusta Constitutionalist, in whith, paper the letter appears. If not, the writer uiideriUni well "Arithmetical Progression.” To the Editor: Mili.edgeville, Aug it, isp Dear Sir :—This day tins indeed been a proud one fori democracy ol old Baldwin. It having Leen announced u yeslerday, that Col. Absalom Janes, onr candidate for Cm- gresa ill ibis district, would address ihe people to-dly, at | o’clock at ihe Court House, upon (he several political igpin of the lime ; and notwithstanding the day was rather uni™- able, a large number of the citizens, amounting lo over d hundred persona,collected ut die oppoiuled hour. Col. Johnson introduced itlr. Janes lo the meeting,she it nn address of one hour and a half, characterised by a grin deal of sound sense, laid bare, in a plain, unsopliulicuiio manner, the corruption, illiberalitv, and hypocricy ef lb federal whig principles. Mr. J. is a plain, bluut-spnken, practical bueiaen mu- just such as the yeomanry of the couutrv want in Conmi. He denounced a U. S, Bank—distribution of the proceeds rf I ■lie public lands, and a tariff fur protection, in such plu and nume spun-like manner, as to carry conviction lo emr ET“Dky SwAJir” has been received, and will appear next week. 03'Read Mr. Benton's speech published on our se cond page. It is a death blow to the Texas disunion men, and Texas Speculators. Everyman in Georgia should read it. Pass it round to your neighbors, when you are done with it. The Elections, All is well for tho Whigs! What has been mani fested of the Whig spirit in North Carolina, Kentucky and Indiana, gives full assurance that IIenby Clay will bo the next President of tho United ,States. Re- jolce, Whigs, at the prospect before you, for another 1840 result is certain. We give the latest news. Nouth Carolina. The exact result not known. The Raleigh Register sets down Graham’s majority (Whig) at 30G5 front the counties heard from; six counties not heard from—Hyde and Tyrrell (almost unanimously Whig) Cherokee (where a correspondent writes that Graham got the almost entire vole,) and Gates, Macon and Currituck, The Whig majority in Ihe Legislature, on joint ballot is 24 or 20. Nobly has North Carolina sustained herself! Kentucky, The latest news is from the Intelligen cer of the 15th in6t. That paper says, “The complete returns received, added to a number of imperfect re ports which wo find in tho papers, indicate Owsley’s (Whig) majority, thus far, to be about 8000 votes.” The Legislature is largely Whig. Col. Butler, the Democratic candidate for Govern, or, although personally one of tho most popular men in the State, could not “come it” over a Clay man in Ken- tucky at this crisis. Great hopes wero entertained by the Democrats, of his success—but Mr. Clay's popu. larity at home, in old Kentucky, lias “settled the hash." That Siate will go for Clay by, from twenty-five to lliir. ty thousand cotes. Indiana. This Slate too has been redeemed from Locofoco rule. Tho Whigs have carried the Leg islature and Ihe popular vole, (so says the Cincinnatti Chronicle) in an unequivocal manner. This is a TRI UMPH indeed ! WELL DONE, INDIANA ! Missouri. We have learnt enough from this State to satisly us that the regular locofoco candidate for Go vernor is beaten, by tho independant candidate, and that tho Whigs have gained largely in that Stale. The L»gis!aturc, the Reporter, a Democratic paper, says will bo nearer equal than it lias been for several years The Editor blames Col, Benton for it—so donl ice! Alabama. \Ve give her up now, but look for her REDEMPTION in November. Cheer up, ye gallant Whigs ef Alabama, and in November next, do your best, even though defeat attends you. Better to be defeated in such a cause, as yours is, than to be victori ous under the banner of tho destructive Democracy- Let onward, be your motto, and ere long success will attend your efforts, and crown you with victory ! Death of Mr. Mulih-uhurg Wc regret to learn, says the Intelligencer of the 15tli, that the Hon. Henry Muhlenburg, tho candidate of the Democratic Party in the State of Pennsylvania, for the office of Governor, died of apoplexy, at his residence in Reading, on Sunday morning between nine and ten o clock, Mr. Muhlenburg had served in Congress and as Minister to Austria, and was one of the most distinguished members of his party in Pennsylvania. “t'oou Killing.” " e loarn that Ihe Democratic Elector, Col. Herschel \. Johnson, and tho new light, eleventh-hour Texas Democrat, Col. Absalom Janes, the opponent of Steph ens fur Congress, started out, on Thursday last, “a Coon Killing ! !" Neither tho would-be Congress man, nor his mouth piece in this place, the would.be Elector, could lake iniio to givo their Decocratic friends a talk, previous to the grand hum, although the streets were scoured lo furnish an audience—and Col, Johnson gave as an ex- cuse, for himself and his dumb coadjutor (as we have been informed) for their failure, that they were going “ a C'oon Killing." I>e gustibus non disputandum ett, is an old saw, again illustrated by the very choice soubriquet which CoLJohn. son has cauacd to bo affixed to bis person, of the "Coon Killer" by Ins descont in his language, from the eleva- lion ot the polished and educated gentleman, to tin vo. cabulary of iho low and vulgar slsng.wlianger. We trust that he may acquire Ihe distinction which invari. . ably attaches Hath to tho man, who, in his love of pop. not condemning them. one present,ofits dangerous tendencies and injiirious efieela, if carried out, upon our country and the aoulli in particolir. Alter Mr. Jones had concluded, Col. Johiulon wu did fur, but na lie bail lo go off that evening, ur Uc suid,B“c«as killing," be hoped bin fellow-citizens would excuse him. The meeting theu broke up with the ulmusidecuruui.ig all went away with a determination iliai at ilus balloi-kn I old Baldwin would givo lo the tune of 150 luajeiity lor NIL Dullue,Texas, and Janes. Itespecfully, Arc. I*. S. Ala meeting of the Democratic AssociiiiaD ( beWi few days ago in this county, the committees of Ihe Trios' districts reported 300 names as being plcdgei] logofothi Mass Meeting at Macon. We ure contending for the Bu- ner. Now for the truth. Mr. Janes make nospeechil all. lie merely stated that he was opposed to a Tu( to Distribution, to a Bank, and to everything the whip were in favor of, and took bis scat, disappointing eveiy We present, not by taking his seat, but by his evident incapacity to discuss political topics. Por 300 going to Macon, write 150 at tho outset—and for the 150 Democratic majority in old Baldwin for Polk and Jaaa —write 50 majority forClay and Stephens. O'We have just received the Augusta Constitution - alist of Saturday last, in which we notice reraarknf the Editor on the certificate accompanying an article! ours, made necessary by a denial of the Hon. JohnH. Lumpkin, that Mr. Polk ruled against Revolution!!? Pension bills. To the “Constitutionalist," as well* its extract from the Columbia Tennessee Democrat;*» shall, as we have not time now, reply next week. Is the mean time, we refer tho Editor to Col. Ksturt communication in our paper to day. That will suffire to show that the Journals have been thoroughly Mi* ined. The Texas Fight in New Yoik—Locos vs. Lore. Wo have been no inattentive observers of the 5jk going on in New York, between the Texas and Texas portions of the “unterrified” Democracy, sod b- gur from its results no great benefit lo Mr. lWs os- didacy. The organ of the anti-Texas Democracy is4* New York Evening Post—of the Texas iiuiuhoggrn that notorious sheet, the Plebiin. Tho latter deooui- ces in unqualified terms, the anti-Texas Deinocncj,!* Federalists and Abolitionists, and heaps the grosnd abuse upon them. The former retorts with great spirit- —charges tho Texas clique with cheating Mr. Yu Buren out of the Presidential nomination, and declares if Texas is made the issue, the Democratic patlywH be defeated—that the movement was a party juggl*v and a very poor one at that—one tiiat would disgrace a thimble, rigger of the most ordinary pretensions, lullu mean time, the Whig party are united, and actively engaged in promoting the cause of their gallant leader. They are not only determined lo defeat Pout, W* give Democracy a death blow in the Empire Sta'e,hf polling a vote which will give lo CLAY A MAJOlt TY OF AT LEAST TWENTY-FIVE THOUS AND. Indeed, if ihe Kilkenny Texas fight above al luded lo, continues until November next, there i» * knowing what majority the Whigs will poll, sotol* will it be. The Texas nud Disunion Party of South Carsh* It cannot be denied by any fair or honest inindeAM* mocral of Georgia, that there is a large body of!■*•!* South Carolina, who have no attachment forthisgktn* eus Union. Look at their lourili of July colebnW* and see how they have desecrated tint sacreddhf.Jn every patriot heart, by the utterance of sentime 011 ''^ able only to thoso vylio meditate treason! their public meetings and resolutions, and they e»W, nothing else but execration of the Union! l- u '®*** of 1833 and 1834, ye who denounced loading to Disunion, why arcyou mute i wic ’ has become of that holy love lor the Union then possessed.! Why have you not throughyourf** your public meetings, your Democratic dubs, M , cd the Traitor, and the Treason I 1 We call upon you, if you were then sincere—Ijjjl love tho Union of the twenty-six States 1 "" le the Whigs and denounce that portion — . ...... Carolina, who arc engaged in the unholy work o' atlngthe affection* of the people from tho g°'‘ , . established by the blood of our Revolutionary No longer countenance them by your s '' euc8 ' ^ show them, by yonr bold, manly conduct, t scorn ami loathe a traitor, though lie weir tbs d Democracy:.. tafhrf Do thiuv and. free your polk ieal church ff 010 * contagion of their fellowship, and alliance. ^ L'uion umiu of Georgia, will aland acquitted and our people ot participation ut their gei ^ this is done, anJ done in no measured and f*' Dl ^ g we will hold you as public journsliala, their doctrines—you continuing to act » ’■