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r i f fa '-JVVW . j ~; fiPcchlu ChtonicK & - j »,• ■.: / :W . ♦ - • afl J, W.&W.S. JONES. AUGUSTA, GA., THURSDAY MQRNING, JULY 9, 1840.. ' VOL. IV.— NO. 2§^H - =====fc = = ■ ■ =—*— : ; "-- v ■ ~ ■• • *. ' •■ *■• * THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL IS PUBLISHED AT Three Dollars per annum,‘in advance. At Ko. 390 Broad strddfa **■4 ssaaesssssssasss^ssssaßssss^as^mmm^ss! CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. AUGUSTA. FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 3. The Army Bill. „ In a former notice of this Bill we showed that y it was unconstitutional, and therefore, dangerous to the safely of the Republic and the liberty of the citizens. We now proceed to show the force of another objection, viz : that it is onerous and oppressive upon every citizen who may be sub ject to do military duty s The first section ol the. Bill requires every citizen who is not exempt, between the ages of twenty and forty-fisc years, to furnish himself, at his own expense, with a good musket, bayonet and belt, two spare fl n(s, a knapsack, a cartridge JT bol to contain twenty-four cartridges, and a snf- quantity of powder. The second section " di'.jfi Gill shotvs you what portion of tire citi zens of Georgia, or any other State are exempted from performing militaiy duly, unier this Bill. Now let us address ourselves to the people, the common working men of this country, and ask them if they are willing to incur the expen ses necessary to equip them to lake their places in this standing army of 100,000 men, which Mr. Van Buren is endeavoring to fix upon the country. Will they not incut a debt to procure arms, which in many instances, will be onerous and oppressive in the extreme. We do not ask the rich man these questions, but we ask the poor man, and we expect him to answer like an honest frreeman and one who desires to perpet uate his freedom to his children. But if this feature of the Bill is oppressive to the poor man, how much more so are some others which we shall point out. The 14th section lays off the Union into districts, and forms the fith district of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. The 17th section the Presi dent to call out the militia of each district at such times and places as he may think necessary —not exceeding twice in each year. Now we ask the people of Georgia who are liable to be long to this active force of 100,000 men, how thqy would like to be called from their homes and their business twice in each year, at the command of the President. How wiH you be pleased at the idea of leaving)'out own State, and marching into Florida, North Carolina, or South Carolina; for you perceive by this 17th section, that Mr. Van Buren can order you to assemble at any place within the district, to perform mili tary duty under officers not of your own selec tion, and be then subject to all the odious regula tions of the regular soldiery of the United Stales 1 Are yoli prepared.for these things'! Are you prepanm to submit to such an outrage upon your to be called from your daily business, the endearments of Loire., 1 anO receive these privations r the pitiful reward which a regular soldier gets ? I Thete is no exaggeration in all this. The Bdl ' and all its odioiis provisions are before you, ex amine it for yourselves, and judge of its odious features. But there is yet another feature of this 17th section, to which we must call your attention. It also declares that during the period you remain at, are going to and from the place of rendezvous, pointed out by the President, you shall be deem ed in the service of the United States, and the 20th section declares that you shall be subject to the articles of war, when in that service.* Now what are the articles of War!—asks the unsuspecting, honest man. We will show you, andVe will also show you that these articles . will not permit you to enjoy that freedom of speech which you enjoy while roaming at large ■ _ -over your beautiful fields and fine forests in Geor • • gia. On the contrary, Mr. Van Buren and his , Secretary desire to put into your mouths A ' GAG—more odious if possible, than the famous gag law of alien and sedition memory. Gagged ! What, gag an American citizen !! Yes, gagged, and that too by Mr. Van Buren’s Army Bill. You will not be permitted to speak in contempt uous or disrespectful terms of the President .or Vice President, &c. This is the very essence of the gag law of ’9B. Read then the sth section of the Articles of War, under the government of which the citizen is U be placed, who may belong to this active force. “Art. 6. Any^officer or soldier, who shall use contemptuous or disrespectful words against the President of the United Siates, against the Vice President thereof, against the Congress of the United States, or against the Chief Magistrate of any of the United Stales in which they may be quartered ; if a commissioned officer, shall be cashiered or. otherwise punished, as a court mar tial shall direct; if a non-commissioned officer or '' —HbUlier, he shall suffer such punishment as shall be inflicted on him by the sentence of a cou t martial.” What think you of this, you plain, hard-fisted workingmen of Georgia! are you prepared to submit to such an outrage upon your liberty of speech ! But again, we want to call your attention to another Section of these famous “Articles of War,” to the government *f which Mr. Van Buren and his Secretary desire to subject you, while in this service. The 9th Section of the Articles of War is in the following words: Art. 9th. Any officer or soldier who shall strike his superior officer, or draw or lift up any weapon, or offer any violence against him, being ■ in the execution of his office, on any pretence whatever , or shall disobey any awful command of his superior oj/icer, shall suffer death, or such punishment as shall, according to the na ture of his offence, be inflicted upon him, by the sentence of a court-martial.” Thus it appears that any soldier who shall strike his superior officer on any pretence what ever—no matter what or how great may be the •provocation—the grossest of insults to bis wife— the most tyrannical treatment of himself—if he dare to resent it, and strike a petty sergeant oi a corporal, h*e SHALL SUFFER DEATH, &c. And to all this Mr. Van Buren has given his I sanction, for he said, “ I cannot recommend too I strongly to your-cuitsiaerutinn the plan for the \ , organization of the militia of the U. States.'' I t • Ll i^m^,^—l General rfarrison was in favor of punishing,- in certain cases, thieves and other criminals by whipping them. Mr. Van Buren is now in favor of punishing with DEATH, thnocenfmen •—any one of ns it may be—who shall resent sn outrageous insult. People of Georgia, if you are prepared to sanction these things,—if you are willing to place yourselves and yoor children under the odious regulations of this Army Bill of Mr. Van Buren and his Secretary, you will give your support to Martin Van Buren for President; but if, on the other band, you are opposed to such measures, you will certainly manifest your oppo sition by supporting General Harrison—the pat riot farmer—the man who knows your rights and feelings, and who will represent them. It matters not whether Mr. Van Buren suc ceeds in getting this law passed ; he has, as we have already shown, endorsed its provisions, and recommended it to Congress,—and thereby ad mits his anxiety to have it passed; and if he is again elected, he may endeavor to force it upon the country in the same manner he has the Sub- Treasury. From the New York Courier 4- Enquirer. “Ileave this great People prosperous and happy.” These were the memorable words of General Jackson’s farewell address—this the declaration to which the friends and supporters of Martin Van Buren pointed in triumph in the spring of 1837, as evidence of the great National blessings flowing from the Administration of one, in whose footsteps their pliant tool had pledged himself to follow. “ I leave this great people prosperous and happy” said Gen. Jackson,—and |now after nearly four years of the -Administration of Mr. Van Buren, what is our position as a people ! What has it been during nearly the whole period that the destinies of the country have been under the control and direction of the present corrupt Administration! Let the bankrupt merchant, the impoverished manufacturer, and the embarrassed tarmer, with bis large but comparatively worthless crops, an - swer these questions. Let the friends of the Lo co Fnco Presidents and of Loco Foco Legislation, be directed to our ships rotting at our wharves; to the death like silence which pervades many of our largest njanufactories, and to others convert ed into County Poor Houses for the reception of Paupers created by Tory misrule; and to the barns and granaries of our farmers slocked with the produce of the earth, produced by the sweat of their brows, but absolutely worthless, because it will not command a price which will pay for its transportation to market ! We have General Jackson’s testimony of what tears the situation of this people in 1837, and of the then existing prosperity which even his eight years of misrule had been unable to check or destroy—and we have now the testimony of every man woman and child in the United States, to the wide-spread ruin and disaster which has been produced bv the profligate and unprincipled administration of Marlin Van Buren. The object of all Government is the happiness of the people; and hence it is, that the right of revolution is admitted by all to be a natural right of which man can never be deprived. When ever a form of government is found lobe oppres sive or less calculated to render the people hap py and some other form, it is their right to feeling which of Indepen dence. our glorious - V/ it .... satisfied j the People ot Kis model Replete —we, who boast of being the xtily cation of ITeemen on the face of the Globe, and who have demonstrated our ability to govern ourselves —we, who assume to look with pity upon the enslaved of the old world—we, the en lightened, free, and educated people of the Uni ted Slates, are at this very time the most oppres sed, the most embarrassed, aiid the least prospe rous people in the civillized portion of the world. If this lie true, we believe there are none who will deny it, what is the cause of this universal distress? Is it to be found in the character of our Institutions, or has it its origin in the inal ad ministration of the Gevernmenl! If in the fipr mcr, et us get rid of them ; but if the true and only cause of this sudden change from the height of prosperity to general and universal embarras ment, is to be traced to want of honesty and want of talent in our rulers, then are we called upon by every consideration of patriotism and of duly, to hurl from power and place the unfaith ful public servants, who have so administered their stewardship as to bring widespread ruin upon a people whom Gen, Jackson in 1837 ‘ left prosperous and happy,” and disgrace audoppro brium upon those institutions and that form of government which was dearly purchased by our Patriot Sires, and which are alike the subject of envy and jealousy to the old world. Let the creatures of the rotten manarchies and iron despotisms of Europe laugh as they may at our present distresses, and continue to point to them as evidence of the baneful consequence of Free Institutions—the people es the United States will never faulter in their patriotism, or for a moment visit upon our form of government the cosequenccs which are only chargeable upon the corrupt and unprincipled men who have ob tained control of our National affairs. But the simple tact that, the mal-administration of our public affairs, has given to the enemies of the peo ple an argument against free governments, de mands at our hands more than ordinary efforts to pnt down so vile and dangerous a slander. We repeat therefore, that patriotism as well as duty, call upon us to use all the means in our power to hurl from office our present corrupt and inefficient rulers. W e are well aware, that whenever a friend of the existing administration leaves the ranks of its supporters and arrays himself on the side of the people, pointing to the state of the country as the cause of his change of politics, it is the cus tom of the creatures of power, to taunt him with acting from interested motives ! We admit the charge. We contend that the whole object ol government is the happiness and prosperity of the people; and surely we should not desire any better grounds of opposition to an administration than that it has failed in the great object for which alone governments are instituted. What matters it to the Fanner and Mechanic whether he lives under a monarchy or a republic, so long as the measures of bis rulers are calculated to lessen the value of his labor, destroy his useful ness, impoverish his family, and keep him forev er in a state of dependence and poverty ? And it should always be borne in mind by the people, . that whenever their rulers so administer the gov ernment as to deprive them of the great object of Free Institutions, it becomes their duty—a duty from which they may not shr.nk—to unite in producing such a change as will secure to the country that prosperity and happiness which can never fail to flow- from our republican form of government when faithfully, ably and honestly administered. The present, wo contend, is a crisis which calls for the prompt actionjof the whole body of the People. Not only have the measures of the Administration reduced us from a state of unex ampled prosperity to one of general bankruptcy, distress, and ruin ; but it is openly avowed by the organs of the present Executive, that the great object of these measures, is to reduce the price of labor—to lessen Jhe wages of industry— and ultimately, to produce the same state of tilings here that now exists in the despotic coun tries of Europe. Mr. -Van Buren avows,that ,- his object is to bring every thing to a bard money , -standard ; and in his last annual message points to the state of things now existing 'ha Openly -1 three European Governments, as tost which he > desires to see in this/ree and independent coun -1 try. Mr. Buchanan tells ns. that never will the manufacturer accumulate wealth until be can hire his operatives at seven pence a day, and by ’ means of the Sub-Treasury, compel the Farmer > to sell his produce at a fourth of what it has 1 heretofore brought in market. In abort, the fol , lowing declaration of Mr. Tappan, the Loco Foco _ Abolitionist Senator of the United Stales (root Ohio, and the especial organ of Mr. Van Rdren, 1 embodies the whole creed of the Administration 1 on this subject, as expounded by Mr. Van Buren . himself, by Messrs. Buchanan, Benton, Calhoun, and indeed, all who speak the sentiments of the Loco Foco party: 1 OC7 - “TAe price of labor is entirely too high. The laborer in this country can afford to work for eleven pence a day, and the bard money sys tem will bring down wages to that sum—wheat 1 will also come down sixteen cents a bushel, and i every thing else in proportion. This is the best tariff you can have, and the only one that can enable the manufacturer to compete with Eng land. The Sub-Treasury will effect both objects —it will put down the banks and bring wages ■ and every thing else down. ”£3 »' , It would be useless to multiply words on this subject. These are the avowed principles administration ; results which they are pledged to produce if Mr. Van. Buren should be re-elected; and this the issue upon •which the Whig and Tory parties go before the public in the coming contest. If the farmers and mechanics of the land are desirous of seeing the price of wages of produce reduce to the European standard, they will of course give their support Mr. Van Buren, as it is their duty under such cir cumstances to do; hut in the mean time it may he well to call their attention to the following plain fads from the Wheeling Times, portraying the difference between what the situation of the farmer teas when Mr. Van Baren came into pow- j er, and what it now is. Let the Sub Treasury be- I come the law of the land and permanently fixed i upon us by the re election of Mr. Van Bureifeand ! in three years, produce and labor will fall as much below their present value, as they now are below their value in 1836. In one woid, the professions of Tappan, Benton. Calhoun ana Buchanan wil be realized, and the Farmers and Mechanics of the United Slates will be placed on the same footing as those of Italy, France and Cuba. From the Wheeling Times. The farmer can raise no more wheat on an acre, no more wool from a sheep than he could in 18- 36, and he gets only a third as much for what he does raiseT In 1836, a farmer brought 100 bushels of wheat to market. He got for it $125, cash. He bought 100 lbs, of coffee at 14cts„ sl4; 10 lbs. tea at 75 cts., $7,50; 10 yards of cassimere at $1,50, $15,00; 8 yards of calico, $1,00; one bridle, $2; and 1 lb, of Cavendish tobacco, 37 j cts. He then hail $85,12) to carry home. He goes to market in June, 1840, with his hundred bushels of wheat, sells it and buys the same articles. What does he have now to carry home! twelve and a half cents. Is not that farmer the loser of SBS by the present state of things? . The Barbecue. The late hour at which we write, will not per mit a detailed notice of the proceedings at the dinner yesterday. Os the dinner itself, it- will j be sufficient to remark, that it was sumptuous, I and one of the best served, in the true’old Vir- ] ginia style, that wo have ever portaken. There j were from five ts persons present, ; the coun| T y> —bone ar »d , —and an seemed to mingle with tude nsembled and in obedience to their call were most forcibly and eloquently addressed by Dr. F. M. Robertson, George W, Crawford, C. J. Jenkins, and A. J. Miller, Esqrs., and Mr. Lloyd and Major Stark of S. C. an 4 when j we took leave, our enterprising and zeal:us me- 1 , chanic, John W. Walker, had mounted the ros- j trurain obedience to repeated and loud c .lls, and was holding forth to an enraptured and delighted ' auditory. Altogether, it was amongst the most agreeable, spirit stirring festivals we have attended. St. Augustine, June, 26. Lieut. Ashton, 2d Dragoons, writes from his camp, near Wahoo Swamp, that an Indian Squaw, with her child, came in, and leaving the child, she went out again promising to return. The next day she brought in two warriors, who • informed Lieut. Ashton that they would bring in I 30 warriors and their families, on Thursday, I 25th inst. The steamer Santee, Poinsett, arrived here j from southern posts. On Tuesday last, five In- j dians had shown themselves in sight of Indian : River Bar. On the night of the 18lh inst., an ■ Indian approached within fifty yards of Fort Dal- ■ las, and placed a book in the road, with two I sticks laid across it, and made several marks a round. The book had the name of Col. Harney ! written in it—supposed to have been taken at Coosalatcbie. It ts said the Indian gave a yell and retreated, after having placed the book. We are indebted to the same gentleman for the following additional information : Col. Harney has brought into Black Creek the child and mother of Coacoche, together with a negro, who can read and write, and who says the Indians are regularly supplied with the St. Augustine papers and amunition by some per sons. The scout is broken up in consequence of sickness, 120 soldiers being sick at Fort King. Gen. Armistead is expected at St. Augustine in a few days. It is contemplated to remove the principal de pot located at Garcy’s Ferry to Pilatki. Gee. Jackson and Gen. HAnmsoN.—We j have recently heard it hinted, on respectable pri- I vale authority, that Gen. Jackson, though oppo sed, of course, to the election of Gen. Hakiiison i to the Presidency, is far from endorsing the abuse . and rudeness displayed by a portion of the Ad t ministration party towards that war-worn patriot. ‘ The foul epithet of “coward” he is said to especi , ally deprecate, as being wholly unwarranted by | the conductor Gen. Harrison during the war. If this be true, the fact is highly creditable to the magnanimity of the venerable ex-President, and , should serve as a warning to the enemies of Gen. Harrison against the violence of party malig -1 nity. j. We are aware that the relation subsisting be tween Gen. Jackson and Gen. Harrison during j the war, and particularly while the latter wasact ing as Governor of Indiana, were of the most courteous character, and we confess it would have j sounded strange, after what then transpired, had the ex-President suffered himself to be made a 1 party to the abuse heaped upon the veteran Hero of Tippecanoe by the leading friends of the Ad ' ministration In Tennessee. —Nashville Whig. r Mahch op Intellect.—The editor of the - Montreal Herald says that a gardener remarked . to him, “ that this was the most retrograding sea . son his professional reminiscences for twenty c five years in Canada permitted him to judge of.” i We heard of a waiter at a hotel in New York, - the other day, requesting a gentleman if he need s ed his professional assistance at any time, “ just - to agitate the communicator,” in other words to t ring the bell. —Brooklyn News. ! SATURDAY MORNINGML . i —— The Army Bill.— Tie It was not a little ainusiag Me el forts of the Editor of tbe Caktitotianalist, ii bis paper of Thursday, to shpw that we bad mi: represented facts, in saying that Me. Van Bare had recommended the Army Bill to Congress, an to any intelligent reader the Editor mist have a{ peared extremely rediculous when hjs testimon was read. The pi oof given by hint > s all w want to prove our assertion. It is this, the St cretary of War, sends his annual report with th Presidents Message to Congress, report th Secretary gives to the President an J to Congres the Skeleton of his Army Qi!l, and in conclusio remarks: “ but the details lad better be left suf ject to regulation, a plan of which I am prepca ed to submit to you." What meajs this expre: sion “1 am prepared to sumbii" • the detai's < this plan ? Does it not prove that the detail were then written out ? Most tsjpredly it doei Mr.' Van Buren in his litessagßviich goes t 1 Congress with this tepormars.Sjfl cannot n> COMMEND Too consideratio the plan submpted by the organ! zation ot the MtHila df thoTßfc-Slal^-.” ‘ “But, says the editor, with apparent tri umph, the President’s Message is dated 2d Dt cember, 1839, and the army; ’njl is dated 20t March, 1840. “Hew could tat President rt commend a bill in December l's 39, which ha existence only in March 1840 V _ We will answer this quest}?.' for the especit information of the editor, atii. as he professe : such a high sense of justice, eld such a hoi 1 horror of misrepresentations, ni hope be will i j turn afford his renders the neccqary infarmatioi to solve the seeming mystery, lest some one c them might charge him with i) ; srepresentatioi But to the answer. At the Isjt session of Cor gress a resolution was adopted jy the Commute on the militia, requiring the S cretary of War t prepare and report to the presell Congress, a pla for the organization of the L.itia. He accord ingly did so ; and in his regular annual repor (which was sent to Congress by Mr. Va; Buren with his accompany in document, and considered a part thereof,) h introduced his skeleton of the Bill, which is a that is ever done in those reports, and remark; “I am prepared to submit ” the details. Non if the Secretary of war is to 1 e believed, does an man suppose that he did not then have the d< tails written out, and read;, to submit to Cor gress? Most assuredly he did. Here the matlt rested until the 19th March, 1340, when th House adopted a resolution requiring him I submit his plan, in the course of that day t night Mr. Poinsett was infirmed of the passag of this resolnlion, and lo and behold ! on tl morning of the 20tli, the v< ry next day, he sent | to Congress his Army Bill, which no doubt n 1 qutrad whole days to prepare. But, says tl j editor, Mr. Poinsett say *in his letter ta M ; Ritchie, “ thisj-eyort and bill were not sul | milled 19 the care not whetbi Mr. Van Buren own mri delails.it isjufficicnt Hit tour puipose that 1 endorsed it, and bos it, and if h friends desire to place bty in the dilemma of r< commending a measure to Congress, that I knew nothin* about, they are perfectly welcom we will then have another Charge to operate u] I on, and one which we wil! urge with some sm , cess. How comes it Mr. Editor, as you seem to infi 1 .that this bill and Mr. Van Buren have been tl 1 subject of misrepresenatiom, that you have nevi afforded your readers an opportunity of secin it? It is an administration measure, and we bat watched carefully your columns to see it sprea before the country—and asjiet we have not see the bill, or any thing but apologies for it-you bat not dared to defend it editorially, nor have yc . had firmness enough to disapprove of it. Willyc then as an act of justice Unk/Van Buren ar f his Secretary, give you! 1 cJHn" a l * epportuoil j of reading this bill and judging for themselvi I of its merits or demerits ? Southern Chronicle. We hail with much pleasure, the appearsm ; of the first number of this able advocate of R form, published at Columbia, S. C. It is a pap of large size, and the number before us man j Tests much zeal and ability in the good caus 1 We therefore cheerfully recommend it to tl I friends of Reform in Carolina, and we sincere 1 hope they may receive that patronage whit they and their cause so justly merit. Hollands Life of Van Baren. After some little effort, we have succeeded obtaining a “ genuine ” copy of this work, at allbo’ we do not bold ourselves bound to notii every anonymous scribbler, who can obtain place in the columns of the Constitutionalist, v shall, nevertheless, pay our respacts to a verit ble(?) wight, who igbde his appearance c Tuesday, under the imposing signature ofL, M and if we are not very much mistaken, he w disappear very much after the manner of a certa “ Van Buren Slate Rights Man," “with a flea his ear, and a lie” recorded in the Conslitutio alist. a i By (he way, can the Editor inform us what h .become of their Correspondent, “ A Van Bur State Rights Man ?" He seems disposed to tre ' his “pretended friends” rather cavalierly, does call on his “real friends?” Probably the thii desires to sneak. ’ The Philadelphia U. S. Gazette states that t Hon. Samuel McKean, late United States Set . tor for Pennsylvania, attempted suicide in a fit I insanity on the 23d ult., at bis residence in M 1 Kean county, by cutting his throat with a raz Although Gen. McKean was alive when the let giving this information was written, it is add that there was not the slightest prospect of I J surviving many hours. r Salt.—Capt. Godfrey, of the bark Plato, at ’ ved at New York on Saturday, from Rio de . , nciro and Bonaire, was informed by the agi that a very little salt will be made this year, 0 t ing to the heavy rains having injured the t 3 pans, there not being on hand a sufficiency another cargo. BBaBfiBSBBBBBBSBi Public Meeting in Burke. At a meeting of ■ portion of the citixens cf rs BPlb —mn.Vibttowghtg to tjltfllate Right* Par es ty. Held at the Court House in Waynesboro, on Tuesday, the 23d June, 1840. ln On motion, Homer V. Mulkey, Esq. was. callj is- Al to the Chair, and Edward Garlick requested to en act as Secretary. . Alexander J. Lawson, Esq. rose and stated the n object of the meeting, and read the call of sundry >p- citizens of Columbus, disapproving the proceed ny ingsof the late Convention, held at Milledgeville we the Ist. Monday in June, and moved the appoint , ment by the Chair, of a committee to nominate ie ' suitable persons to represent this meeting, at a he Meeting or Convention to be held at Miliedge he ville on the 3d July next, of such persons as do not approve of the proceedings of the late Con vention. When it was proposed that this be con °n sidered a preliminary meeting, and that the cili ib- zens of the county generally be invited to attend a meeting, to be held at this place on Saturday I next, which proposition was agreed to. es " j Satuhiiai, June 27, 1840. of In pursuance of the invitation as above spcci ,j|s tied, the citizens convened at the Court House this day, when after being organized, and called es ’ to order— to On motion of Wm. Bennett, Esq. J udge Law ie- son proceeded to read the call of sundry citizens on of Columbus, to those agreeing with them, and opposed to the late Convention, to send delegates Iu * to a proposed * ’nnvpnnan 'to meet at MiUedgc villeon the 3d July next—when Judge Lawson r j. introduced a resolution, that the Chairman ap- I , point a Committee to nominate suitable person to L represent this meeting to the said Convention, to 'th be held the 3d July at Milledgeville. re- Which was opposed by Major Marsh, who in aj traduced a counter resi lution, approving the act ings and doings of the late Convention held at Milledgeville, who supported the same by a leng ial thy and able speech, which was replied to dear ies 'J an 4 fully by Wm. Bennett, Esq. in an ablead . dresa, who was followed on the same side by Dr. y E. L. Antony, in a handsome, pertinent and elo ln quent manner. Judge Lawson then followed in on an able and lengthy address, in answer to Major 0 £ Mar-h, and in opposition to the proceedings of the late Convention at Milledgeville, and advoca -111 • ting the resolution appointing delegates to the 3d m- July Convention; be was followed by Judge ee Jones, who instituted a comparison of the presen: administration with former ones, by reference lo reports of expenditures and other public docu an merits of the various expenditures of different ad •d- ministrations, with suitable commentaries on the r , same, to show the necessity of a change of rulers and in justification of the course of proceedings an of the late Convention at Milledgeville. When ng after much desultory and running debate, the be question was taken on Judge Lawson’s resolu aH lion, which was carried in the affirmative by a close vole. is > The Chairman then appointed a Committee to w, nominate suitable persons to represent this meet nv mg in the Convention as aforesaid; who after rc , ‘ tiring returned and reported to the meeting the Je " names of Dr. E. L. Antony, Col. Augustus H. >n* Anderson, William Sapp, Esq. Col. Wm. B. ter Douglass, Joseph A. Shcwmake, Esq. Win. S. . C. Morris aud Isaiah Carter, Esqrs. which was agreed to. t 0 On motion of Major E. Byne: or Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting ige be-published in the Chronicle & Sentinel and , Constitutionalist, Augusta, Geo. 1 0 Resolved, That the thanks of this meeting be ids tendered to the Chairman and Secretary.' re- The meeting then adjourned sine die. [he HOMER V. MULKEY, Chairman. Edward Garlick, Secretary. dr. jb- From the N. Y. Commercial. ier q, q q q ■**" StotroßaLmont t/ud 1 16 When the Appropriation hill was on its pas his sage through the House of Representatives, va re. rious Whig members were indoeed to bestow some pains upon the investigation of Government “ c expenditures, and.some very curious details wert ne i brought to light, illustrating most remarkablj ip- the emptiness of Administration professions tc ac . the eirreise of a just and prudent economy in dis posing of the public money, From among the instances thus brought to light, we select a few fer which formed the subject of a witty and sarcastit ihe speech delivered by Mr. Stanly, of N. Carolina ver on the 29th April. The appropriation under view was the sum o, n 8 $12,000, for expenses of the branch mint ri tve Charlotte, North Carolina; and the motion ofMr , a( j Stanly was to reduce the salary of the superin tendent to SISOO, on the ground that he hat len wasted the public money and abused his authori se ty. ■on In support of this allegation, Mr. Stanly show ed, by official documents, that tne expense of the 1 branch mint was $1466 greater in 1837 than lr ind 1838, although it did not go into operation unit ity December, 1837. The compensation of officers rcs in that year was $10,466; in-1838 only $7,000 and the sum charged for wastage of gold and con tingent expenses in 1837—that is for onernontl —was $5,500, being SIOO more than in the whole of 1838. ice Curious to ascertain by what magical process J e . this result could have been effected, Mr. Stanle) betook himself to the vouchers on file in the Tree- P er sury Depat merit, and among the first that h< n *' drew forth was the annexed bill of “conlingcn! ise. expenses.” .1 Philadelphia. Nov. 3, 1838. U. S. Mint, Charlotte, N. C. per Col. Wheeler, e, y Bought of D. Landreth & Co ich 50 Alianthus trees $1 00 SSO 01 50 Horse chesnutdo 1 00 50 0( 5 Magnolia grandiflora 5 ()( 5 do macrophylla.... 150 75( 5 Tulip poplars 1 00 5 0( I in 5 Silver leaved maples 1 00 5 01 in j 5 English walnuts I 00 5 01 5 Chinese arbor vitae 75 3 7i lce 5 American do 75 3 7i a a 5 Balm of Gilead 1 60 7 51 we 10 European lindens 100 10 01 10 Morusmulticaulis 624 6 21 ita- , J I Chma rose 51 on 1 Tennessee do 5( M., 1 Macrophylla do 7! 1 Green box tree 5i 1 Variegated do 5i a | n 100 yards box edging 12 5 ain ] Chacorus Japonica 5 on- 1 Pyrus do 10 12 best doable dahlias 50 6 0 1 Lonicera fluxuosa 3 “ as 1 Monthly honeysuckle.... 2 ren 12 Apple trees assorted 25 3 0 reat 6 Peach do do 25 15 . 3 Plum do do 1 8 ’ e 3 Apricot do do 75 2 2 ing 3 p car do do 62 J 18 1 Garden reel 12 1 do line 5 ( jj e 1 Scuffle hoe 5 1 Swan neck do. .44 and 31 7 ; na " 1 half round do. 50, 56 &69 17 itof 1 p’rfancy flow’rpols.37&s4 87 Me- 1 copy Amer. Orchardist.... 10 1 do do Gardener 10 1 do Florist’s Guide 27 t,er Ido Lindley’s Outline.... 2 !dcd 1 Transplanting trowel 87 bi* Packing 11 bundles & 2 b’x’s with porterage.! 6 5 $2lB 2 Received, Philadelphia, 7lh November, 1831 irti- of John H. Wheeler, Superintendent of U. i Ja- branch mint at Charlotte. North Carolina, tl gent above amount of two hundred and eighteen dn ow- lars and twenty five cents, salt D. LANDRETH & CO. for Horse chesnuts, magnolias, tulip poplars, rose honeysuckles and morus multicaulis! All ve useful and •indispensable, doubtless,. in coining if Benfftn ‘mint-drops. Garden-reels, scuflle-boes, ■- swan-necks and flowenpoU I Necessary ynple a ments in stamping eagles and halfdoUars. 'Two hundred and eighteen dollars and twenty five I, cents expended in this vwf, to-illustrate the econ -0 omy of the Administratieq. But farther. The branch mint commenced e operations, as we have said, in December 1837 ; y the superintendent’s salary commenced in Janu . ary of that year, that of the coiner in March, and e that of the clerk in May. Moreover, from Jur — 1837 to January 1838, the superintendent was B allowed $lO per month for pay of his servant j for attending the offices, making fires, &c. . He was also allowed $l5O sot his expenses in a going to Philadelphia to make purchases of gar . . den seeds, flower-pots, &c., and stationary; of . which last here are a few specimens from among his purchases, j 2 reams superfine satin post gilt edge pa s per sl3 00 4 pair office shears ’. 6 00 4 large inkstands 5 00 3 Rodgers’ four-bladed pen-knives 7 50 L . 1 Bennett’s book-keeping 200 j 1 large inkstand. 875 Then come various items of furniture, as fol lows : s 1 scroll sofa, boxing,cartage, &c $Bl 50 j 1 mahogany bedstead 25 00 s I hair mattress 22 50 1 case of shelves for superintendent’s office. 90 00 Making and binding 10 00 J 2 floSr'clolhs, $8 16 00 0 2 hearth rugs, $lO 20 00 2 table covers 14 00 j. 5 Venetian blinds, $8 40 00 [. 2 do do $lO 20 00 t G mahogany chairs, $5 50 33 00 Box for the chairs 3 00 !_ 1 chair covered with morocco, for office.... 34 00 j. Box for the chair 150 Pretty well, all this, for an economical Admin y. istration. Sofas at eighty dollars, bedsteads at a twenty five, easy chairs at thirty-four, and ink ir stands at eight dollars seventy-five cents ! No wonder the “contingent expenses” amounted to so large a figure, j But now let us look for a moment at the bull e ding itself, erected for the purposes of this branch mint. 0 The principal edifice cost $29,800 For extra work on mint edifice not in l_ eluded in contract 1,758 e For building fences, summer house, icc .g house, &c., 5,500 , s Summer-house! ice-house! $5,500 ! Were j, these things necessary for coirfing ? But these c were not all. There were also a carriage-house 0 and stables—a bathing-house, moreover, of which a the following descriptions are given iu the con tract : 0 “Stable and carriage-house —all the walls lo [_ be a brick and a half thick; the windows in the 5. upper part of the stable to be in the form of a e crescent, with green slats fixed or moveable; roof [ to bo covered with heart shingles; roof, doors and 1 windows to be painted with three coats of paint,” - &c. &c. ls “ Carriage-house to have a firm plank floor, doors to be uniform and batten; door and window sills to be of stone,” &c. “ Ice-house to be 16 feet deep, at least, with a j well and roof as per plan No. 4; the roof to be shingled with heart shingles; the well to he 14 le feel square at the top, walled with skid pine poles, good strong batten door, with lock, and a floor above.” „ “ Wood-house to be 35 feet long by 24 feet wide, and 15 feet high, to have two doors on the end and one in the centre: to be underpinned with stone, to be weatherboarded and shingled, and to be painted with three good coats of paint.'’ “ Bathing-house to be eight feeU square, at tached to one end of the kitchen, as per plan No. s _ 2, eight feet hign, covered with a L . string ed; one window in the rear, of the same i v size, and finished in the same manner as the kit chen windows, plastered and whitewashed as the rfi kitchen, with a fixture for a shower bath; panel ■ door, with a transom light; tin pipes, lo run from well and engine to kitchen and bath, and a drain g _ from hath to lead off water to culvert.” [What snug arrangements for coining money! —What glorious specimens of Democratic econ jc omy !!] “ Summer house, [for a branch mint!] to be ‘ ’ octagonal, and plain, about twelve feet across, to . stand upon eight posts, with a shingle rtmf, lo be painted, to have seats of plank, marked W in “ plan A.” ’ “ The whole of the buildings, &c., herein de l(j scribed to be finished with good and suitable knob and stock locks and hinges, and all the walls to be of the thickness of a brick and a hal/, and all to be rough castj’except tha wood-house, and all the wood work to have three good coats of paint, except where otherwise specified.” ( l All very comfortable, no doubt, for the super intendent, but not quite so economical as might bo” J; • - < . From the Richmond Whig. ,h le Negro Testimony. Case of Lieut. Hooe.—The principle es-. ;s tahlished in the case of Lieut. Hooe, and appro •y ved by the Secretary of the Navy and the Presi r- dent, of admitting negroes lo testify against offi re cera of the Navy, has excited much feeling in this irt Stale. It is one of those questions on whit h the people feel more than they reason, and it is one which wai rants the strongest indignation which can inflame the bosoms of a free people. I lis a o. measure, more deeply imbued with the spirit of 10 abolitionism, than any which has come to our 10 knowledge, and in its practical effects, it goes 10 farther to put the negro upon a footing of equality )0 with the white man—the great object of the Ab -10 olitionists—than any thing ever achieved by Tap -10 pan or Garrison. The social equality between 10 the white and black races, preached and practiced r 5 by a few fanatic women, such as Miss Grimke, Jo Miss Abby Kelley, &c., and a few designing hy -50 pocrilical men, has produced, aud can produce no )0 bad effects. Examples set by such characters, 15 cany no weight and influence; they only serve >0 lo bring their authors into odium and contempt. 50 But the allair assumes a very different aspect, 75 when the first officer of the Government, and the :0 Minister of the Marine, sanction a principle, 50 which reduces every gentleman in the American 50 Navy to a quasi level with free blacks. Here 50 the elevated stations of those who set the exam -00 pie, and the high authority with which they are OO invested, conspire to attach importance to their 37 precepts and practices. No man in the public 25 service can disregard the one or dispute the oth -00 er, with impunity. Their ipse dixit is law to the 50 Army and the Navy, and whatever regulations 88 they may adopt, arc imperative upon all connect -25 ed with either of those important branches of the 87 public service. 25 It is in this light, in which we regard the prin -50 cipie established in the case of Lieut. Hooe, and 50 which invests that decision with a pervading and 75 enduring importance. It is a direct insult offered 75 by the President and his Naval Minister, to the 7) feelings of a large portion of the American people 00 and in subjecting the conduct of Naval officers 00 to the surveillance of the black servants ol tin 7j commander reduces them to a stale of degrada -23 tion to which neither Northern nor Southern gen 7J tlemen can submit. This cannot fail to exert ( 50 most baneful influence upon that favourite arm o the national defence. Gentlemen of honour ant 25 sensibility will, by degrees, be banished from th< 38, service, and they will be succeeded by a mean S. spirited generation, willing and fit instruments ti the do the kidding of a master. 10l- But there is another consequence resulting from tho principle hero established, of not lesi . consequence. If negro testimony is admissible it ics, the Navy, is it not also admissible in the Army ery and even in the Federal courts! We canno conceive of a reason for a .i is \yr. sume there is none. An .be cashiered upon of my, since a Lieut, fa the Navv manded and dismrei-d upon the t(“>ttomriyeTOHHP9n| servants of Capt. Uriah P. Levy ! And in the Federal Court, -any individual, it this principle be recognized, may be prosecuted by (he Govern ment for a breach of the Revenue or any other laws, and by the testimony of his ov.o servant,be amerced. Suppose, for example, thuGovermncnt should arraign a citizen of Richmond upon the charge of smuggling English cheese, or any other article paying duty.—The case comes before Judge Peter V. Daniel.—Suppose the accused to be an incorrigible Whig; his servant or that of some other man is summoned to give testimony —conviction ensues, as a matter of course, —end his Honor, the Judge, has the suptemc felicity of passing sentence upon the political reprobate. This is not an impossibility—it is the legiti mate sequence of the principle established in the case of Lieut. Hooe—i. e. that negroes arc compe ten^,witnesses in cases in which the UnitedStatc-s' or any of its officers are interested. Since the facts in this extraordinary ease were brought to light, several efforts have been made by the understrappers of the Party to relieve the Administration of the odium. The Globe Mias put forth sundry articles, distinguished much more for their violence than respect fur truth. The Enquirer, always Charley at the hole, has lent a helping hand. This worthy, in his other self, os Ttottor of im* a Crial-, lias procured a letter from Mr. Paulding to exonerate ,’Tr. Van Bttren from all blame in the premises. The de sign, as in the case of Mr. Poinsett and the Stan ding Army, is decidedly good ; but hero as there, the execution is decidedly bad. The Hon. Secre tary hits wide of the mark, and does not touch the true matter in issue. In other wools, he ad mits the offence charged, and does not eve n oiler matter in mitigation of damages. He admits that negroes, and they the servants of Captain Uriah P. Levy, were introduced as witnesses ogainst Lieut. Hooe ! This cannot bo palliated by any combination of circumstances, or be made ] data ble to tohUe gentlemen, cither north or south. His apologies for approving proceeding so no vel revolting, are ; 1. “ The admission of the de scription of testimony objected toby Mr. Hooe. - is a universal practice on board of cur ships of war.” So much the worse, if it be so, and the greater the necessity for arresting such a ptacliee. But can another instance of the kind be adduced! We never heard of one before. ~. •• This decis ion was no doubt made on the ground, that no disqualification of a legal nature, which could on ly exist by a law of Congress, was shown.” This admits every thing—and claims what we before stated was a legitimate sequence of the decision, that negro testimony is admissible in tffe - Aitov and in the Federal Courts! 3. “The evidence , of the negroes may he entirely rtjidtd without affecting the sentence of the Court.” How does the Secretary know this J But it is a rule of law as well as common sense, that irrelevant testimo ny shall not bo admitted, for there is no calcula ting what undue bias it may exert on the minds of the jurors—and if admitted, it is good cause for an appellate jurisdiction to set aside the i , cision. But all this has nothing to do with the main point. Os the merits cf the decision, so far tut relates to Lieut. Hooe, we kpow nothing i and they have nothing to do wttff the question . we arc discussing—i. c. the admissibility of ne gro testimony against while men. This is the , great matter —this it is which does violence to r the feelings of the people, and which the Secreta , ry of the Navy and the President have approved.* t The 4th excuse is for the President, mid is full > of quibbling, a la mode his associate, Poinsett. I It is as follows : , “ It is not deemed nccessaiy to go further into ’ this subject than merely to add, that the Preside nt - had nothing to do with the Court or its procctd . ings. The judgement of the Court w-as tippro t -----g, on,-! v Tried O'Cl lii e order c* tins —s 3 Department;—um approval or opinion of i-ity - higher power was not necessary.” . No one supposed the Presi lent had any tiling | to do with tile “ Court or its proceeding,” which i were held according to the Secretary, '• on board ’ i aU. S. Ship of War in the Bay of Pensacola.” But he had si mething to do with them afterwards I at Washington. The facts arc these ; /Lite pro . ceedings were sent to Washington ; they were endorsed by the Secretary ; ; “ APPROVED, J. K. Pauldixo.” i Lieut. Hooe then appealed from the decision of ■ the Court and the approval of the Secretary.Ho i the President. In his memorial- to lhat high Functionary, he expressly complained of the il legallily of negro testimony, and asked the espc ■ ctal attention of the The Presi dent examined the record anti re turned the same to the with the following endorsement “THE in the CASE . OF LIEUT. REQUIRES : HIS INTERFERENCE. M. V. B.” This leaves no loop-hole fin escape, 05> of his own month he Rot •.ve-'WttT J do the President the justice to say, his conduct in this particular is Consistent with his past life, and in perfect keeping with his advocacy of Free 'if Negru Suffrage. He who had maintained the fitness of the African race to exercise the highest rights of afieeman, that of electing Legislators and rulers, could not consistently object to their ‘ competency as witnesses before civil and military ! tribunals. t Aatiot Butin.—ln the course of Mr. Leigh’s t argument yesterday, he adverted to Aaron Burr’s f case. He said that what was Burt’s intention r he never knew, and he did not suppose it ever , would be known. Pending his trial in the court r in this city, he, (Mr. L.) then a young man, - paid the most incessant and studious attention - to the evidence and every tiling connected with x i it; but he could not find out what Burr had do -1 signed. Years afterwards he made the inquiry , of the late Mr. Wickham, who was one of Burr’s - counsel, if he knew what were Burr’s intentions. ) He replied lhat he knew nothing more than any , one else might have known who paid the same ; attention to the case that he was compelled to . pay to it. Mr. Wickham gave as his opinion, :, however, that Burr’s design was to get up an a expedition against the then Spanish province of -, Texas, with a view to establish an empire there a for himself; and that he intended to borrow the e money to defray the expenses of the expedition i- from the United States Bank at New Orleans. 3 It this were the case, it displayed the tact and r clear sightedness of Burr, as time has prowd ; : for he lived to see, first Mexico freed from Span - ish dominion, and then Texas sever herself from o the Mexican Republic and become an independ s ent State. He was arrested in 1807 —three l- years ajterwardjs an insurrection broke" out in e Mexico against the government of the V iceroy, and in three years more, after several hard-fought t- battles, —the independence of Mexico was declar d ed by the Mexican Congress. He only com d menced preparations a little too soon, if his d object was such as Mr. Wickham supposed.— te Richmond Compiler. Largest Iron - bridge.—The largest Iron rs bridge in the wotld is in China, near Kingtung, le where it forms a perfect road from the top of one l " immense mountain to the other. It is formed of J * chains, twenty-one in number, and bound togelh a. cr by other cross chains. This bridge is more than 150 years old, and yet the Chinese arc con sidcred fools bv foreign barbarians.' te a- Mysterious.—The St. I.outs Bulletin, of to the 18th ult., -.-tatesthat while the steamer Czar was passing Cairo, ruthcr way from Pittsburg to tg St. Louis, some bodies had 33 been found there, floating in the appearance of the bodies, it is V, were fl.itboat men, who had met ot some violent means. I