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THE CRISIS. OF TftE COUNTRY.
By Junius.
THKCRKPIT V*T*M AND.T1IK HO CREDIT SYSTEM.
How the rperation of this Government Bank trill
work a revolution in ominous depreciation of the
prices of property and labor.—It is on uncoiitro-
verted maxim, that tl»o prices of property and la-
horarc graduated by tiio amount of tho circnta-
tin* medium. Ilis also obvious, that the schema
of the Independent Treasury is to reduce and
confine Uto currency of tho. country to hard mo-
not; ZWd this is likely to bo the eftcct of its full
operation. "Study, says Mr. Benton, of the
United States Seuate, "the financial history of
Holland, Franco, Cuba. Follow tlmir example.
Imitate them.” This is known to be the doc*
trine of onr A’atlonal Administration.
The averagoprites of labor in some few bard
money couhtries are ns follows t—In France 5
shillings and 8 pence sterling ner week. Hours
of labor 12 in the day. or 72 lor the week. In
Switzerland, 4 shillings and 5 pence per week.
Time of work. 82 hours. In Austria, 4 shillings
per week. Hours 76. In Tyrol, 3 shillings and
9 pence per week. Hour* 88. In Saxony, 3
shillings and 6 pence per week. Honrs72. In
Boon, on the Rhine, 2 shilling and 6 pence per
week. Honrs 84. In Egypt, 3 to 3$ pence per
day. Tho average price for the above named
Enropenn countries is 3. shillings and 11 pence
and Storthings per week: and the average num
ber of hours 79. This average price of labor per
week, amounts to about 07cent* of our currency.
lit England the prices of labor perweek.iango
from 15 shillings sterling, (or $o 63 cents.) to
30'shniings; (or $7 26 cents.) 'Average, $5 43
cents. Ititho United States tho prices of labor
hazc'heretqfore ranged from $3 to $6 per week.
Average, $4 50 cents.
Ylii* comparison will show tho difference -be
tween the prices of labor in hard money countries
and mixed currency countries. *Great Britain
arid Ilia United States ore known to have been
- the most prosperous countries in the world,
^bq cause is to lie found in the high prices of
property aud labor. It may be laid down as a
maxim ofuniversal truth, that the highest state of
prosperity in any country is that condition of
things which maintains ns a permanency the high
est prices of property and labor; more especially
of labor ; and the state most remote from pros
perity, is that wltlch reduces the prices of prop
erty and labor to the lowest point. In all the
world arid in all ages this will tic found true, oili
er things being equal. The lowest prices of
picpeny end labor will be found under absolute,
Uttn despotic governments, and in a state of bar-
bafism, where also will he found the greatest pov
erty, and the mftst misery.
.'It is not sufficient fo say, that the depression of
these nominal prices does not dep r oss prosperity,
when other thingsnre cqnkl, because oilier things
fra never equal, ns we shall see in what follows,
us, then,proceed to consider how the op
revolution m wll] naowrily U brojMfcl uliom hy
reducing tho circulating medium of this country
to a hard money level, m ould incrouso this in
debtedness of individuals to three tnnre the val
ue of oil tho property to ho found in tho whole
country! • * „ . ,
Taking the assessment list of tho state of Now
York as n standard or the valuation or its prop-
orty—which; as Is woll known irt nil such cases,Hs
much Mow the truo Vrflne—and adding to that
her public works mid other apcciaa of propurty
not taxed.nil of w hich must suitor alike in tho
general w reck of this revolution—and it would
probably be n moderntn estimate to mto her loss*
cs in passing*from the old to the hard money sys
tem, on the principlu established, at $50d,000.*
000! For our present purpose it may hoautfi*
dandy accurate to assume, that all our Stntosund
Territories would suitor in tho same proportion*
to New York, ns is-tlio proportion of their res
pective representation* ill tho House of Repre
sentatives in Congrats—which would show an
aggregate loss to tho whole United Statosof $2,-
500,000,000! ... , .
Besides all this, by withdrawing two-thirds or
the circulating medium, we withdraw two-thirds
of the active capital of tha country, or which is
the same thing, two-thirds of the means of public
prosperity. Tho productiveness of tins capital,
by the application of skill and labour w ould he
twice ns much to tho nation nntho prosperity bas
ed upon the one third rctaim d. \ cs, much more
than that, on the principle, that every increase of
capital augment* the power of acquiring w ealth
in u mnnitold proportion. We might probably
say with truth, that the failure of fifty banks n
year in tho United States, of half a million of
capital each, all falling on the people, would, not
he so greatn loss to the nation.
It is to be observed, that a dollar under a sound
mixed currency, is ns good l* a dollar under an
exclusive metallic currency, so. far as respects
public luith.because it will always procure hard
money. A dollar is a dollar in America, in Eu
rope', in Africa,in Asia, every whore, atoll times.
Thniigh it may not procure so much oClho nec
essaries of life under a hard money currency, it
counts the sainons an acquisition or Investment;
and a dollar under tho former system Is worth just
ns much in our relations to all tho world ns n dol
lar under the latter. Conseoiiently, in our so-
cm!, commerrial, and political t-mnriiug with all
the world, we should be worth three times as
mnch, and have three times the strength under tho
former system, which we should have under the
latter. Besides, wo should be able, and on that
system alone able, to uiaiutain our rivaUhip w ith
Orent Britain, and our relative standing w ith other
nations. *
There, loo, Is our foreigu debt of some $200,-
000,600. standing against some of our States and
against individuals, and in that way against the
country, which, by the principle already recognis
ed,would rise to $600,000,000,under tho new sys
tem, not nominally indeed, but really, w ithout a
fraction of that abatement which is ascribed to our
domestic condition under such a change. Tlu
true reckoning would he on the other side For
it must all he paid in specie.- It would even he
more difficult to pay $200,000,000, after this
change, than $600,000,000, before it had begun.
All the gain of such a new state of things would
he to the rich, >md all tho lorn to the poor. The
latter would still have to pay the same for their
tea, cofleo, sugar, cloths, and all foreign produc
tions, if they could ever get money enough to
have either. But this Jf makes a very doubtful
case. It is the doom of the poor in ull hard mo
ney countries to remain forever poor, with scarce
ly the means of subsistence. So would it be
with it*. They w otik! he ground to the dust.
"America,” said a distinguished foreign states
man, 4 is (teas we must say now) the heaven of
the poor man.” And why! Because, first, of the
exceeding facility of getting enough to live on;
and next, because of the numerous and great, fa
cilities of getting rich. But introduce this new
state of things, and it will he comparatively a hell
10 him*.
We ore not aware, that there is any ground for
the charge of fallacy, or of error, in the calcula
tions we have made, or in the results to which
they have conducted as. Is it not, tlion, high
time for the people of tins ebuntry to look this
tremendous reckoning in the face r
n a v
TriSTST
\VE»NKHDA-¥ MOHNlNa, 8BPT. fl, 1810.
Union ofthe Whig* for the sake
- of two Union.
NOMINATION
by run irma irzfjwui cokvsxtiox
FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON,
of Ohio.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
JOHN TYLER, of Virginia.
For Fiction qf Prttlrlcnl and I’ire-Vrrrhfcnt.
OKOROF. II. OII.MER, nfOglclIiotpn.
(ion. DUNCAN L. CLINCH, oCCamden.
Col. JOHN W. CAMPBELL. nrMincojoo,
Mol. JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hancock.
CHARLES DOOOI1EUTY, of Clnrk.
SEATON CiRANTLAND, oflUldvrln.
Con. ANDREW MILLER, nfCnw.
Gen W W. KZZARD, ofDoKoll).
C. B. STRONG, of Bibb.
JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Brno
Gon. E. WIMBERLY, of Twlgg*.
For Congress.
WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene.
RICHARD W. HABERSHAM,ofllnbersham,
JULIUS C. ALFORD. ofTrottn.
EUGENIU8 A. NI8BET. of Bibb.
LOTT W A R R EN. of Sumter.
THOMAS BUTLER KING, ofGlynn.
ROGER L. GAMBLE, of Jefferson.
JAMES A. MERIWETHER, of .Putnam.
THOMAS F. FOSTER, of Muscogee.
I , THE NIESIDPI
Mr. Van Burin in ftniworlng U106U1 question
lately put by Motsr*. Okhv aud others, viz— 14 Do
you approve ef Mr. PoinstU's scheme for the organ*
Station rfthe milltM" after contouring that hi*
••knowledge of military ajfairs is very limited
proceedsos follows:,
44 It is hut lately that mu attention has been partic
ularly drairtt to this subjectt and a* there is no
doubt4h<M the great uion to whom I have alluded
contemplated an organkatioii of the militia, and
provisions for ita better instruction, embracing
substantially tho principles contained in Mr.
Poiusotl's plan, it becomes me, in the face of so much
apparent authority, to hesitate before I pronounce dc-
jtnitirely upon its constitutionality. I shall, 1 am
confident, tn the opinion of all candid minds, best
jterform my duty by refraining to do so until it be-
ermes necessary to act officially in the malhr. In
the mean time. I will content myself with saying
that the inclination if my mind is, that the desired
measure cannot be syfrly accomplished in the form
projtosed under the Federal Constitution as it stands. 11
So the President and Mr. Poimsktt are at va
riance. It soetns not a little surprising that Mr.
Van Buw:h should countenance a measure which
he now is iuclitied to believe-unconstitutional.
It teems (6 be rather late to make that discovery.
Is it to be supposed that the President and tho
Secretary did not put their houds togellierand
talk over this subject?
Ifyoii vote wifi* fho So*itli»®nl<I
n‘ frlriirt to Gen. Harrison* you
will <lc*troy yourself.
“ That Is prohnhlc,” he replied,
“hut It Is better thtotlslionld de
stroy myself than lo destroy the
Constitution ofmy country.—HU-
itim Henry Harrison.
Peoples’ Ticket for Aldermen.
W. T. WILLIAMS,
WM. II. DAVIS,
C. P. RtCHARDSONE,.
M. PREN DERG AST,
WM. HERB,
HENRY HARPER,
t!. B. CUM.MING,
JOHN B. GAUDRY,
J. C. HABERSHAM,
THOMAS CLARK,
LEONIDAS WYLLY,
T. HOLCOMBE,
WILLIAM LAW,
’ S. GOODALL.
TIPPECANOE CLUB, NO. 1.
Tho regular meeting ofTippecanoe Club, No,
1, takes place THIS EVENING, at their Cabin,
Court House-Square.
All friendly to the cause of Harrison, Tyler
and Reform, arc invited to bo present.
100 GUNS FOR MISSOURI.
TIIK 1114*0 or CHArr.LL HILL CORMKnr.ll,
By returns from Missouri, yesterday, wo find
that tho Whigs have elected to tho House of Rep
resentatives, 48 members, aud the Locotocos 45.
In ono county which last year elected a Whig,
there is a tie. Should a Wliig bo clectod they will
havo tho majority In tho Ilotiso. In tho Senato,
the Van Burcn majority .is 3, should another
Whig be nlcctcd in the remaining district, the
Van Bureu majority will he ONE. Thrco conn*
tiesto bo heard from. Well dono Missouri.—
We may even hope for bcuighted New Hamp
shire.
The Cottom Chop in Liberty County.—
Extract ofa letter from a Planter in Liberty Co.,
to his friend in this city:
‘The crops ore completely destroyed. Blight,
blight, blight, is all I see. The bolls wo had, have
shrivelled and turned black—the top makes a
■how as usual at this season, and no doubt many
will say crops are improving, but spring will
prove tho reverse. Thu crops iu this section will
not be one-third of list year.”
ition ofdus-GoVenmient Bank scheme will
the property, and labor of tho country.
amount ofa sound mixed currency of a From the Baltimore American, ^
VJfift*hrec,iIfilIn, ;T.f.jt,Invp'ft eTectloris in this iioEte State cannot but he ’n Uir •
which We are therefore entitled to
K7*No Northern Mail yesterday. We under
stand from the Stage Driver on this end of tho
rente, that the freshet has carried away the bridges
between Charleston and this place, so that is im
possible to cross with the Stages, or got nearer
than forty or fifty miles from the town.
For the Republican.
Wo have been misapprehended in some re
marks wo have made, relative to Mr. Brownson’s
Review. We nevor intended to charge upon tho
whole party, the adoption ofthe Loco Foco creed
ofNew-kftrk. Wo did charge Mr. Van Bureu
with having sanctioned their views for his own
aggrandizement. A man whoso supporters say
for him, tliot they will carry tha North by pnrty
machinery, and tho South by nn adoption of
Southern principles, is unfit to be trusted; un
worthy tire confidence of tire American People.
We arc not ashamed of the extract in a recent ar
ticle, from a Now-York paper—wo adopt tho
opinions expressed there, as our own. Wo are
perfectly well acquainted with the origin of the
present party iu Now-York. In 1835, the Loco
Foco faction numbered about 4000 voles in that
city. They noiuinatcdat the Charter Election an
Independent Ticket, with a Mr. Jacques as can
didate for Mayor The leaders were followers
« _j assume as
giving die greatest advnutogo to our opponent-*.
By tip’s rule tho following calculations arc made
for the purpose of illustration, the principle of
which may he accommodated to nny supposnblc
or actual state of things. It will be seen that the
standard we assume is perfectly immaterial to the
argument In the assumption of any other, to
Butt parties or persons, Uie grand result would be
the same for nil purposes.
- Consequently, by the principle laid down,
which will not be controverted, viz. that Uie a*
mount of currency graduates the prices of prop-
erty.ind labor, it will follow, thnt the introduc
tion and full operation of tho Government Bank
nystam will reduce the prices of property and la
bour at least two-thirds. How much the reduc
tion will exceed this fraction may be guessed at
by a review of the comparative prices of labor in
dittereutcounfries given above.
Lei us. then, estimate the amazing change.
The working man who, under tho old system,
received his dollar a day for wages, would find
them reduced lo 33 cents under the new. The
dollar and a halfper day of the journeyman car
penter, mason, tailor, ieweller, cabinetmaker,
printer, bookbinder, dud ofnumerousolherlrndes
which it would fill a pugo to mention, would he
reduced to fifty cents. The six-pcnce ofthe
milkman, who makes his daily round through the
streets of nur cities, would be reduced to two
pence. Iu tho samo proportion would those
inaiket people-suffer v.t.o supply the table* of
oar towns and cities from the surrounding cnuii-
try. BeeT. instead ofttina cents n pound, would
be three; potatoes would fall fromUOtolOceuts a
bushel; corn from seventy-five cents to twenty ;
wheat and flour in the same proportion ; and so
of all kinds of meats, all kinds of bread stuff*,nuri
all kinds of vegetables. The saddler's $18 would
dwihdle down to $6, snd die bootmaker's $6 to
13. The man who under the old system could
layup $300 a year, under die new could lav up
only $100, or $50 instead of A75. The farm
worth $1500 under the old. would be worth only
$500 bndor tho new. In tho same manner snd
in tho same proportion will every species of prop
erty be depressed ; lands farms, houses and ten
ements, city and country egntes, horses, cattle,
sheep, Wool,'the products of tho soil aud ofla-
hour, labour itself, service of every description,
and id every capacity of common life, iu town
aud country ; every thing, indfied, except the salary
ofthe President of the United Stake, aud Uio»u of
. the officers andngents of Government, amoun
ting to one hundred thousand; all which would
be raised in vuluo in proportion to the increased
value of money, be it more or less. They suv
twiWhirds. Of course, the President’s salary
would be worth $76,000, and those of other ofli-
cere and agents of die Government in propor
tion to their nominal amount.
- But debtors, who probably comlitute nine-
of the population, would he the grcnlest
I of all, inasmuch as they would not only
iually.ii) the depressipn of their property,
laveony, but in the same proportion tor
they owe. ' fu many instances a debtor
- aotually rich under the old'system, may
J > nothing by die substitution of die
he will he at much' worse than noth-
-hts exceed one-t^pl of,hio proper-
mlc:—Ifu man's properly was worth
nia debts were $30,(K>0. ho wjll bo
nodiing by the change,
un estate worth .$1500, and
ould find himself $230 worse
range. A farmer who could
wi'Ji 300 bushels of wheat
must part with 900 hfisli-
b new, besides sacrificing
inner value or his farm, if h«‘
■ to jell it.. In die same two-
I all debtors, having proper-
It authority—widt how
i we know not—that the aggregate of
i debts in every commercial country like
s ordinarily cqnql to all (Jut property of that
iu which case* as w ill be sect:, such a
highest degree gratifiying to die heart df every
patriot iu the ranks of tho Opposition It was
uo doubt expected by the other side drat some,
feelings of discontent would stir in the minds of votea *
Kentuckians lit the courso pursued by the Harris
burg Convention last winter. Nor were
efforts wfinting on the partofthe Administration
press, to nxcitr such emotions. How signal dieir
disappointment! The tnognanimou* course of Mr.
Clay, both prior to the Harrisburg nomination
and subsequent to that event, has called forth a
corresponding spirit iu Kentucky, high minded
and generous as she ever is. Nor tn Kentucky
alone. Throughout the whole Union wherever
exalted giriutercstednes* is prized, wherever true
patriotism is appreciated where honorable and
manly feelings meet with a congenial response,
the act of that distinguished'man on the occasion
referred to, gave an electric impulse to the pa
triotic spirit of die nation. diffused itself through
all tlw elements o/ the Opposition, to coalesce
to blend, and to concentrate. Never was tho
Whig party so firmly united before. Never, since
the days of the Revolution, were higher motives,
or more patriotic purpose* quickened iuto action
than those whichanimatc tlic great reforming host
that now move omvard to redeem die country
from misrule.
The N. York Cotirier,*penking of the elections
in tho West, soys—"The zealous support which
the whig* of Kentucky have rendered to General
Harrison i* the highest and most hoimrublo com-
plitr.lt:! which ho can in nny wise receive; and
reflects no less credit upon themselves than up
on die distinguriied orator and civilian who wus
the first choice of the State.”
But this is not tho first time that Kentucky has
innoifctitcd her confidence in Gen. Harrison; nor
will the victory of next Neremhcr he the first
to which her sons have followed him. During tho
most trying period' ofthe last war, when disasters
on tho North Wfesi frontier had brought disgrace
upon our arm* and spread general alarm among
the people,Gen. Harrison was the man to whom
tho state of Kentucky looked as tho ono in whom
sho could tru*l for tho redemption ofthe nation
al honor, and die security of die settlements. Her
volunteers flocked to hi* standard, led ou by the
venerable and gallant .Shelby, who though the
Chief Magistrate of a sovereign State, came with
ull the ardour of his younger duys, to fight for his
country under die command of a general of whose
bravery mid skilffle had the highest opinion. Gov
ernor Shelby uftcrwnrd* in a letter to President
MAdisnn expressed himself ill these words in re-
torenec to Gen. Harrison.
"Having served a campaign with Gen. Harri
son, by which I hnve been enabled to form some
opinion of his military talents und capacity to
command, I fuel no hesitation tn declare to you,
dial I believe him to be one of the first military
characters I ever knew, and iu addition to this,
he is capable of making greater personal exer
tions than any officer with whom I. have ever
sutured. I doubt not but it will hereafter he found,
diaj thecommund of tho North Western array,aud
dio various duties attached to it, has been ono of
the most arduous and difficult tasks ever assigned
lo any officer.in the United States; yet he sur
mounted all.”.
The moral power emanating from die result of
die Kentucky elections will he to!t all over the
Union—to strengdien more firmly tho bonds of
confidence which were strong before, to give en
ergy to evory effort yet to4>o made, to afford an
other guuraiiteo of ultimate success. Kentucky
has taken her position foremost in the line; she
calls upon her Whigt-inter States to wheel in and
stand by her sido. l^et die October election*
show how, promptly die summon* will bo an
swered. ^
Prentice, of (he Louisville Journal, was so
elated at the result flf tho election, that ho was
notable to coiu hut ono witticism on the day af
ter the election. Spenking'of Mil ejected Loco
Foco member ofthe ilouso, hesays—"Our friend
Mcrriwendicr has been u Representative for a
■Mai l... i ... ,
*^1gEUt
tato will amount to at
whose opinion* are entitled to confidence, say
that Harrison's majority will be at least 17,000
Kj* a letter was lately received in this city
from a gentleman ih.die Btatq. of New York, ^
who ha, a» b«.t poMihlo iu«'an« orinrorm.linn, L of F|mny w '-,ght, and. tho instigator, of tho
What else could be expected from a State in
which the Legislature last winter was so strongly
Anti-Van Huron? Things have gone on from
good to better since then. Now log cabins peer
out from every sequestered nook And hold head
land ofthe Northern Lakes. Wherever you see
a log cabin, depend oil it diose who erected it,
know die necessity of Retrenchment, Reform,
Economy. Tho log cabin is the only spontane
ous growth which is indigenous to die savan
nahs ofthe South, the prairies of the West and
the cold mountain peaks of New England. No
wonder the product grows apace which has so
mnch attention, so much nationul warmth and
enthusiasm to foster and cherish it. Lookout
for the Ides of Murch—diis hardy tenant of tho
American soil will scud forth blossoms about dial
KFA resolution was passed in Council on
Monday, requesting the Mayor to call a public
meeting ofthe citizens of Savannah, on Thurs
day at 12 o’clock, to express thoir sentiments
in relation to lb* persecution of tha Jews
of Damascus, by the Government of Syria.—
Similar meeting* have been lield ill New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, &c.
K7*A correspondent of the Georgian, has fur
nished the editor of that paper, with tho particu
lars ofthe late Indian murders on the Siiwnnee
and St. 3Iar)s, a notice of which was published
in our paper last week. It appears that fifteen
persons in all were murdered, viz; Mrs. Courcy
aud six children ;'Mr*. Howell snd one child;
Mrs. Green and one child; Air. Thomas Davis
and two children, and Mrs. Putrick. A Miss
Green was severely wounded with a rifie ball,
but with the assistance of a snider made her es
cape. Mr. Howell who was a short ‘distance
from home when the attack was made, on hear
ing the report ofrifiesaud the yells of the Indians,
rode up to within about one hundred yards ofhis
house, when he discovered three of his children
jumping over the fence. He ran and seized them
and although piiraued by the Indians, fortunately
succeeded in rescuing them from die tomahawk
of those savage-dovils. There were eleven set
tlement* hiirued in all. Truly, in die language
ofthe Editor ofthe Georgian, "it is heart rend
ing'to hear of such deeds being enacted, and to
prevent a repetition wediitik the whole disposa
ble force of tho couulry should be collected iu
Florida.”
K7* A letter lias been received in diis town
from a gentleman now at the Indian Spring*,
which states tliot he hns lately travelled dirough
a large number of tho counticsiii the up country ,
and Iroin all the indication* he witnessed,*no
doubt can romniu that the State of Georgia will
reject Air. Van Bukkn.
•Tho letter writer has rare opportunities of
forming a correct opinion in this matter.
The Augusta Chronicle 8f Sentinel, says—" Wo
understand drat Exchange on Philadelphia is of-
great while, bntevcry thing must havo an end. I tored by some of the Banks in diis city at 2 per
Docs his mother know he’s out I cent.
-»»ui ufiEue 1 b&mnfiifradbn
upon tho Bank, gave many accessions to their
ranks, and in tho following year they obtained
possession ofTanunany Hall, and drove out din
Regulars, who then formed an Independent
party and for a while under tiro name of Conser
vatives, observed a strict neutrality, hut finding
the measures of die administratiou directly at war
with tho old established republican principles of
the party, they joined the Whigs, and haveVmco
fought with them in defending die Constitution,
and preserving our Institutions inviolate. Wo
say, that the ruling parly arc responsible for the
doctrines propngated by a large portion of dieir
friend*, and until they disconnect diemselresfrom
such associations they must content themselves
with the stigma affixed to their party. Wo quota
facts and when they are shewn to ho untrue, wo
shall abandon our ground—and not till dicn. We
hold the administration responsible for all tho
evils under which wo are mfleririg. In our last
article, we alluded to tho assertion, relative to
Gen. Harrison, at die head of the Georgian. Wo
did not intend a personal application of our re
marks to the editor, for whom we entertain a
high regard, but wc nevertheless consider it a
riauder against a brave soldier nud tried patriot.—
We challenge any one to prove that he signed
the law Uiere quoted. X. X. X.
To the Editors of the Republican:
I scud you die enclosed communication, jhat
your readers tnay have some small respite from
the eternal pother about politics; and however
trilling it may appear at first sight, tho subject hns
coinmandcd'the attention of some of tho wisest le
gislators that ever lived—surely then itlswordiy of
a passing thought front diis community, where
there is so much heavy transportation.
A CHAPTER ON HORSES.
I find die followingTlost remarkable sentiment
in one of die lecherous and demoralizing works
of Godwin. It seems to me like a diamond in tho
midsLof a desorl:
44 It is suffering oi^hlmt can inspire us with
true sympathy—that can render its nlivo lo those
trifles, which constitute so large a portion ofearth-
Ijr misery or happiness—Hint can give us a feel
ing of that anguish, which somedmos in human
beings, as most evidently in the brute creation-
work* inwardly, consuming tho very principle
of life, Imt has no tongue, not the smallest sound,
to signify itsexcosses nud domand our pity.”
Among the manifold objects which shock our
imperfect reason, and tiiuko us wish that the con
stitution of diings was, iii certain respects, other
diau it is, I confess there is nopo which has at
all times been more impressive with me, than
diis—the vast variety or speech less misery
WHICH IS EVERY WHERE TO BE FOUND IN TIIK
WORLD.
A more truly noble sentiment I never came n*
cross, and yot tho work from which this is ex
tracted, betrays'die least possible tooling toward
die true interests of the author's own race, ho-
cause it ministers from beginning to end, to those
puissant fancies or youth, which need no alluring
pictures to urgo them on. This much by die
way : my real object in making the extract is to
coll the attention of our public authorities to tho
gross abuse of dumb beasts in our streets, which
is enacted daily hotoro die eyes of our citizens,
and porhaps before the eyes of tho vory function-
lines whoso duty it is to suppress it,
Ifany ono
cost His oyo nli„ fc ..
tho blnfl; north Of die Exclmngefttnd diore lm
eeo that noble animal, the Horse, heluhoit 3 with
’loaded.whips—both but and lush—hoop poles,
staves and bludgeons, and sometimes from two
persons st once, .
I stood tho other day, and witnessed such a re
volting scene, and I could not but look Into tho
oye of the poor animal—nature hnd denied it
tears, hut there was inexpressible dejection aud
despair in its aspect. I recollected, vividly, the
first toolings of pity excited in my breast by my
nursery to&chors, .ivhoil they pointid out to tno
that these dumb creatures had no hands, and were
wholly dependent on tho morcy of man for-his
emutori mid subsistence. If grow u man havo
not theso proper feelings of humanity, should
they not bo rentrained by thoso who havo ? Hnve
our statuto hooks no provision against such a-
buses? Are tlio correction of theso things whol
ly dependent upon tho public spirit of single in
dividuals 1 I suppose not! Tho lows of almost
every Christian community have made tomo pro
vision against tho brutes of our own raco impos
ing upou their more sonsitivo fellow brutes.
The Horso is a noblo animal, and even less
than others, provided by nature with means of
n(fence or defence. It is trun indeed, that lie
can kick; but even, this seem* to havo boon a
provision against tho lower order of auimnli, and
thus to havo left him wholly dependent on the
Iminnuity ofhis owner.
He is ofa generous and ambitious nature too,
and all generous and ambitious creatures are en
dowed with sensibility aud suffer unmerited abuse
keenly.
It is trite that many of theso town hacks are
shabby and much tho worse for wear, but who
knows their history. Alanyofthoin may have
seen bettor days; tlioy may have belonged to mas
ters of whom they were os proud as their inns-
were of them, aud it is not a little hard thnt they
nro thus turned adrift when thoy are old and
weak, and ugly. G rat Kudo to animals is one of
Uie rarest of human virtues. Who ever thinks of
taking care ofa worn down Horse-notone in
tan thousand, and notone in nhundred thousand,
of Uie inhabitants of oities.
Tho late Dr. Parish of Philadelphia, (thin
whom our race never produced a finer specimen)
left a provision in his will, that tho Horso which
he hod driven so long in his daily rouud*, should
bo tended most carefully, without work, more
than was sufficient for his exercise—and that he
should be daily lod out to a green pasture and
roam at will for a certain number of hours. For
this purpose, lie appropriated about oue hundred
nnd fifty dollars a year.
Iii this act (I havo no hesitation in believing)
there was more genuine humanity and good feel
ing, than was possessed by Stephen Go rare! in
willing his millions toward the education of or
phans—praiseworthy as the act itself was, and
buueficqnt as will bo all its results. Tho latter
was building the most enduring—aye, and Uie
most magnificent monnmeiit to his own fame
But imagino the feelings of Uie good old Quaker?
There was no ostontalion there. His quiet-old
Horse could emblazon no gaudy architraves and
sculptured columns to add to his master's posthu
mous honors; and win n tho old Horse dies, both
him aud tho liable deed will aliko bo forgotten
Long may Uie old Horse live—green he his mead
ows, and kind-hearted his present guardians, and
may Uiis oxatnple bo taken to heart by tho hard*
JiaartcJ of our city, until, they are softcued and
humaiiizod, utut their HjunpsUtuui at least as ten
der for Uieir Horses as their Horses are tor them
AIUSCOG'EE.
If you trade on borrowed capital, beware i Mr.
Van Buren follow* in the fbotsteps of him who
declared that nil such ought to break.
In submitting himtoir us a candidate torre-elcc.
lion, Mr. Vau Huron specially demands the judsn.
mniit of tho country upon his past measures and
.courso of noliey. If Uiose. affecting your inter,
osts; hnve been wise and proper, give him Um
ooutitennuco of your names and tho weight 0 r
your liifluonco. ■
Men or Business, in evert department or
active uvr woe ahead! What will he your
prospects If the present Incumbent be HfXXfr
cd? Examine the past; reflect. In 1837, whet)
Gen. Jackson surrendered Uie Government kite
the hands ofhis successor, he declared the conn,
try to be prosperous and happy. Ho Imd, In-
deed, planted the soods oi that hitter fruit we arn
now leaping, but it was reserved for him VthbM
lotted to water nnd mature the plnm. The conn
try was then free from deht, businoss was active
audit general prosperitywas admitted to nravnir
IIow is It now? The Government sreSri
In debt. Tlioy denounce paper money mld utk!
fy Uioir creditors with Treasury notes. Proneriv
of ovnry description is dopreciuted, ltidustrvnn
rnlvznd, ntul business at n stand. 1
These results grow out of the measures of the
Government, auu they are hut Uie first fruiu of
thnt policy which Mr. Van Bnren is pledged to
carry out.
Aien of Business, Friends of vour Country
look AHEAD! and consider seriously the interests
which arc involved in the event of Uie contest
which I* now in progress, nnd ask yourselves
whether tlmy enn be promoted by the re-election
of Martin Van Bureu !
From the Staunton Spectator.
Tho Scntinal of the Valley being brought to
taw by a correspondent for publishing that Gon.
Harrison voted lo sell poor while men for dobt
instead of for fines and costs, after admitting tho
mistake, labors to justify it by attempting to show
that it is a distinction without a difference. Ill
all sincerity itnsks, what are fines and costa hut
debts? What!—is thorc no difference, in the edi
tor's opinions, between virtue audcicc— crime aud
misfortune 7 No/Hflcrence between a mere pe
cuniary obligation resting *on contract, and tho
penalty inflicted on tho violr.torof the law ? No
difference between the man confined in jail for
debt, nud the fellon, who is a tennnt ofthe sninn
walls ? Hoaven save us from Uie prevalence of
such morality. But tn let unr renders see that
we do the Sentinel no injustice, wo give its own
words:
44 But, in all sincerity, we ask, what makes it
so exceptionable 7 It is tlm substitution of tho
term debt for fines and-costs ? What are tines nnd
costs hut debts 1 It is true, they are not debts
due to individuals-hut are they not debts duo
to tho State, within the hounds of which nnd un
der tho oprntion of whose laws they have been
imposed? And is nn individual guilty of such
monstrous impropriety, in making tlm substitu
tion referred to, when fines and costs, to make
the lcn*t of them ortho most, nro debts at lust ?
Wn think Uiisisn distinction without adificrenco
aud it seems to us, thnt the design of tho Whigs
in denying Ufe charge, from tho technical teerding,
of the act itself, thnt Gen. Hurriion voted to soil
white men for doht—for debts duo individual
creditors—is to make the impression, thnt Gon.
Harrison did not vote for any law to sell white
men : when, iu truth, thoy must know, that ho
didwote to sell them fordeht* due the State, for
finesaud costs.
From the National Intelligencer.
LOOK AHEAD!
People of America, look ahead I See coun
sel oftlm future, und act for the good ofyonrael
ves, your children, nnd your country. Ifyoti re
elect Martin Van Burcn to the Presidency, what
do you gnin by it / Will ho promote any one of
the groa t interests upon tho success of which tho
prosperity of tho country depends?
Planters and Farmers, look ahead! Think
you thnt the policy pursued by Mr. Vnii Burcn,
if persevered ill, will tend lo furnish to the culti
vators ofthe soil a just reward tor their untiring
labors? Is it to nromotoyour interests thnt the
price of cotton, tobacco, wheat, flour, wool, and
the stalled ox is reduced to onc-lialf of what it
was two years ago? Will it benefityou to redude
the prices of what you soil to the slnndurd of pri
ces which provnil in "hard money Governments?”
Laborers, Workingmen, look ahead! Can
you gnin by the re-election of Martin Van Bureu!
His doctrine, ns put forth nnd enforced by his par
ty friends, is, that wages in this country are too high
that laborers aro too veil paid, that prices should
be reduced lo an equality with prices in those
countries where, by hard labor, moil earn from
five jo eight pajico it dny. American freemen, if
tins ho your belief, vote to continue power in tlio
hands of the present Executive.
A!eciianics, look aiikad! If powor be contin
ued in tlio hands that now wield It, what arn
your prospects? With a dornnged curreuoy,
prostrated credit, and a wreck ofall healthful eii-
terprian. will tlio promulgation of an edict tor tlio
"collection, sato-koopingf nnd disbiisement of tlio
public moiioys” cull /or'.li tlm busy hum ol'IndiiH-
try in our streets, or being into notion*the dor
mant energies of the American nrtisnn?
Tho great truth evolved hv Mr. Vou Bnren
iutlio course ofa four years’Administration k
Hint "the People expect loo much of the Govern-
monl;” and tho great measure lie lias proposed
to meet the exigency of embarrassment into which
tho rcoflo havo fallen is, to collect, and after his
own maunorlo keep and pay may their money
MARK A. COOrER.
Would any person who know nothing of the
politics of this State, hcliovo that the sccom/w-
nyiii/t sentences were'written in 1638 by one
who is now so much of a Van Bnren mnn ,4 .st
heart” thut lie Is travelling through the State o-
icctioimeriug tor him—and hns suffered himself
to ho nominated by tho <4 Uuiou Sub Treasury
nnrty?” Yet it is so; but if wo mistake not, die
people 44 think him umeorthy.” As ho has spoken,
so may ho ho judged.—Southern Whig.
41 Iii common with all sub-treasury men, you
say I am "ut heart» Van Bnren man.” Sir, I
cannot entu the charity that dictates this charge.
As to this I havo said enough : yon who diserwit
this # witncBB thnt has gouo before, will you not be
lieve 44 though oue should rise from the dead ”
Those who know mo. better than yourself, will
believe what I have said and now repeat, that
whilst I honestly think tlio sepnratidnor bank and
state tho safest policy, tho one best calculated to
lesson executive influence, I shall set with the
administration on that question, ifelscted. But
as lo the 44 heart," it only feels tor that cause
which Van Bnren contributed to prostrate, and
Clay is pledged to trample under the toot.”
41 Tho explanation of (he difference between a
44 State Right Sub Treasury man, and a Union
8ub Treasury-man," dnsirep by you, canrfht bn
furnished by me, if your intelligence is not suffi-
cient to dictate it
44 If to gratify an aspiration to represent the
pnrty, I could change my opinion. I should feel I
hnd noted with one ofthe cardinal virtues ofa
Nullifier—you ought to think me unworthy.”
GREAT CONCESSION.
Tlm Globe at last admits tho possibility of Gen
eral Harrison's election. When Napoleon land
ed from. Ellm, Louis the 18th’s Moiiiteur spoke
ofhimin most contemptuous terms; atGrcenob'e
it condescended to call him Napoleon; at Lyons,
when the whole city flocked to his standard, he
was the Emperor: and when inadny or Mvohe
entered Pori* in triumph, it'was 44 His hnperiri
Majesty the Emperor Napoleon nrrived at the
Tiulleries at so nud so.” So Harrison, the hum
ble tennnt of the North Bend logcabin, is s drive
ling coward; ntTippecauoonndt’ort Meigs, right
divisions ofthe Whig army, Win. H. Harrison;
ut the Nashville and Bunker Hill outpouring* of
Uie people ho will bo Gen. Win. H. Harrison; and
at the White Houso in Afnrch, we shall hear the
obsequious language, "His Exeelleifcy the Pre
sident of tho United States, nrrived at the Whit*
House ftom North Bend on , nnd on td-mor-
row will hold a levee.”—AT. V. Star.
Amos Kendall's last and best.—‘Amos line net
vet enlightened tho world ns to the degree of a-
Win which his "children” exhibited on hearing
tlio late thunder from tho South aud West. Hi
has got upon another track. Tho Globe ofS>
turduy contains an article from his pen, enden-
oring to nlunn the hard-cider boys by the rcimbl
cation of an old law of the territory of Indian
approved by Governor Ilorrison. imposing
penalty of twelve dollnrs tor tho retailing ofllsn
Cider, "in any quantity less tlmn twogallom,
without license.
Amos now desires to persuade all the
of Log Cabins, that ‘.he moment the old imu „
into tho White Houso, ha will mnke Congri
pass a law of Uie Indiana fashion, and then brii
up all these poor deluded devils, who have l
selling Hard Cider without license, with a
of twelve dollars, and a contingency ofTHIRTl
NINE STRIPES. This is just like Uie cruri
old Turk, who is Uio notorious persecutor of *i
dows and orphans, compared with whom Celt
gula was a monster ofhumnnity.
Tho Hard Cider Boys.must bn ob easily fright'
ened os Atnns's children, if they are to be Vmn>
hngged by such norisenso ns this. We befirre
they will be willing to run the risk. They «•
willing at any rale in KTInmana.^Q] if we
judge by Um results of tlio' loto election in uw
State.—JV. Y. Courier fr Enquirer.
Not Bad.—A wandering locofoco investigntsf
nnd marker of tho paople, called it fewdiyiwnu
on a good woman nnu enquired in rolatioaa
sundry young intelligent me**hsnies whoboarM
with her. 44 W ill you give me, my good wonttl
the names of your hoarders?” 44 Yes sir." Alw
taking them, "Do you know whether theyJJ
Whigs or Democjrats?” "No sir, I do not.’
agent turned to go away, when the woman w**i
called after him, "Ono thing I con tell yon, th^H
uipt any of them locofocos.” They wore
marked in his list, doubtful—Bangor Whig.
.Moms Changes.—Tho Gloucester
of Saturday publishes a card over the signature*®!
thirty-tour inhahitautsofthaltown who hive btrel
totore heon supporters of Air. Van Bnren; 4
believing now,” say they, '• that it 1* raf® f° r
People to place confidenr.o inMm wnoMfJJi
068* i vc ly enjoyed Uie confidence of Ws»I | ii , !'A1
Jefferson, Aladisoti. nnd Adnins, who hwpvj’-i
worthy of that confidence in every station J* J
filled, we do hereby declare ourselves » v ®J% rt> |
tho election of Win. Henry Harrison lo rw'M
sidcucy of Uio United grates.”
Hard Hits.—Tho following ore among |jjj|
volunteer toaats, drank at tho celebration .■
Into anniversary, at Puiosvllic, Amelia co
Vo.
By Robert S. I.igon.-Tho "Northern
with Southern feelings
Ho wires in nnd wires out,
And leaves a body still In doubt,
Whether tho snake that makes the tracs,
Was going South or coming back. .J
By Jnhn,A Jetor, Trooper—Mortta > ]
ren, tho advocate of free negro gufirngc*- JP
upon tho Missouri Restriction, and his j*
provnl of free negro' testimony, m w® . J
Lieut Hooe, define pretty accurately* *JV
sentiment* of this "Northern man with b
feelings.”
There hns been nn import of 4,000 b^ L
corn ironi’Afrioa inlo tho jiort of HnlcjL^^l
suit* J®
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE- OP THE 1
VAIINAH.
Northern Mad. ’ . ■
Duo It, A. M. daily. | C .i«e» J2, M. |
Augusta Mail.
Duo 3, P. M. daily. | ClW, 7. P- «■
miJgaUlc, Macon, S,c.
Duo overy othor day at 3, V. M ■ { df| , K i
Closos every other day at 7, Jr. hi • ) I
Southern Mad.
Duo Sundnyaand Wodoo-daf-ty. 1 jr
Clofoa Tuciday aiidl-riiloy at 13) A. 5