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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 183?-1864 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1844)
n „r.._ - ■ - ■ ~ ~ P— r OK? Mi llrt rJ tel PL ij /' J HI 4 " ? 'i ‘XI z J IL '.v/'wVz zv /ML , ML teK/Rvz IILz Jal pLz OLD SERIES, VOL. LVIIL THE CHRONICLE & SENTINEL IB PUBLISHED DAILY, TRI-WEEKLY, AND WEEKLY BY J. W. & W. S. JONES. The Weekly Chronicle & Sentinel IS PUBLISHED AT Three Dollars per annum—or one subscriber two years, or two subscribers one year for 85. 'Tri- Weekly paper, at Five Dollars per annum. Daily paper, at Ten Dollars per annum. Cash System.—ln no case will an order for the paper be attended to, unless accompanied with the money; and in every instance when the time for which any subscription may be paid, expires before the receipt of funds to renew the subscrip tion, the paper willbediscontinued. Depreciated money received at its value in this city. FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 25. Another Locofoco Circular. The “Whig Standard,” published at Wash ington City, has brought to light the following extract from a circular, which the Standard says has been extensively circulated through the Union under the frank of Senator Walker. The “ Standard” seems quite indignant at the degrading suggestions contained inthe circulai to the faithful of the party, to take a bribe if of fered, and then vote their own ticket. Really, the “ Standard” ought not to interfere in this purely family matter. Senator Walkerand Mr. Chairman Towles, have been long associated with their party, and are doubtless familiar with their capacities and propensities, or they would never have suggested the adoption of such a course. Mr. Calhoun declared that the part}' was “held together by the cohesive power of the public plunder,” and Messrs. Walkerand Towles advise that the principle which unites them be practised. “Impress upon the mind of every Democrat the importance of going to the polls on the day of the election. Send carriages lor those who may from indisposition or otherwise, be unable to attend. See that the ballot-boxes are clean before t! e voting commences! Watch the Fede ral Judges alter the voting commences, they are generally corrupt, and will cheat if then con. If you vote-viva voce—in your Stale, watch the poll book; above all, see that the Whigs do not ns their money to oat disadvantage. . Tdllhe Demo crats to lakh all the money they can get jf the Whig Corruption Fund, and then vote lheirsentiinents. Thus we will quarter upon the enemy and preserve thepurily of the ballot boxes. “ Tell your friends to place no reliance upon Whig documents, or Whig election returns. — They have originated and matured a plan of falsehood and deception upon those two jpoints to benefit their sinking cause. “JAMES TOWLES, “Chairman Executive Commitee. “C. P. Sengstack, Sec. Ex. Com.” ' How forcibly are we reminded, by the course taken by the locofoco editors and clec tioneerers in the present eanvass, of a dialogue between a lawyer and a client, for whom he had a difficult cause to manage. “You r.nd your witnesses,” said the lawyer, “ will have to swear very hard, if you expect to succeed.”— “Oh,” replied Clod, “if it comes to liein’ and sweatin' we’re sate enow!” And so is it with locofocoism. If it comes to “lying and swearing," and forgery and ca lumny, or anyiother profligacy, they “ are safe enough!” The mind palls over the depths of iniquity to which the leaders have already de scended, while the heart sickens in anticipation of the frauds to which, in the’r desperation, they may jet resort io ensure their triumph overlaw, ordor and political virtue.* Well, might Mr. Browns^WiP**»— Kir t i’- 1 mefiled'" the wrath of Heaven,” for their “wantof firm principle, nobility of soul, and fidelitytothe sacred cause intrusted to them”— that of civil liberty—in conducting the canvass on their part. Never was truth more fitly spo ken! Fact vs. Belief !—Shortly after the Mary land election took place, and the extraordinary increase of the locofoco vote in Baltimore led the Whigs to bring the charge of false voting against their opponents, the Central Locofoco Committee, and a Mr. J. V. L. MeMahen, gravely published cards, expressing their belief, because they did not see il, that no illegal voting had been practised by the jacobins; and these cards were as gravely published in the locofoco prints as proof positive that no such false voting had taken place. Well, time rolled on, and one justice has already had before him and fined Ucentydwo locofocos, for this offence, 5*20 and costs, each: some of whom paid their fines, .and others were sent to jail because they had not the wherewith to pay. Now, in the lace of these facts, what becomes of the belief of the honest Mr. McMahon and his compatriots? The first named person may have believed that no illegal voting was had; but it would lake pretty strong proof to make us believe that the committee aforesaid did not know that a thousand or more illegal votes were cast for them ! A Mayor’s election took place in Baltimore on Monday last, and wc doubt not like illeg il voting has again carried the city for the enemy. Fraud seems to be as essential to a fwo ti i umph, as breath is to man’.? existence. The Hon. Jon n Al acphbrson Berrien arrived in this city last evenin?. Alarming!—The Baltimore American, of the 21st inst, contains a list ot twenty two persons, furnished by one justice of the peace, who were brought before him, and tried for illegal voting at the late election! All these were locolocos. Sever 1 writs are still out forother illegal voters. With such gross vio lations of the election laws on the part ot the locofocracy, what are popular elections worth 1 ! Whose property, rights and liberties are safe? These facts are alarming indeed. How much of the late great increase in the locofoco vote o{ Georgia is to be ascribed to like causes? Ths “Native” Party.—The American Republican, the organ of the party i:> New York, says, there has not been, anil irill nolle, any coalition of the American Republicans, with any other party’. We-have nothing to do with the Presidential election, as a party. The Louisiana Courier came to us yes terday without that “Chanticleer” rampe..®!, as was the case for a week previous! The. nevys from New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, tec., has at length reached the Crescent City! ss* “No Meat Williams” has again been nominated for Congress by the locofocos of the Second Congressional District of Maine, where there was no choice at the fust trial. This man obtained his sobriquet from having declared, while making a speech in Congress, in lavor 01. Van Buren and Polk's Sub-Ti usury scheme, that laboring men ought to be content with meat three times a week ! One ol the great leaders ol the Pol: Democra cy says that “ten cents per day” is enough lot poor laboring men and mechanics ; a second says they must be “con’ent with meat three times a week;” a third, that no “gentleman-de mocrat” ought to do such “discredit to himself and his taste,” as to “confound himself with the herd ot ignorant, hireling, pot-house demo crats!' How happens it, with such words in the mouths of the captains of the corps, that “ poorlaboring men and mechanics” will still be content to labor longer in the political gutters for men who only speak of them as “ the dear people” when they want their rules lo help them into a tat office? and that, too, when the oppo sing party, the Whigs, are striving to make per manent a system that will benefit them more than any other class of our citizens? What good did the laborer or mechanic fver derive from any measure that the “gentlemen-demo crats” of modern times devised and carried out when in power? We should like to see the real laborer or meahanic that could potnt u» to any such maasur*. From the A'. O. Picayune. | Tremendous s. fleets of the < ale. y Lossof the schooner Vigilant, Capt. Taylor, and all on board. For the following melancholy intelligence of I the lossof the Vigilant, Capt. Taylor, with all on board, we are indebted to our townsman, Robt. T. Armistead. The particulars of the j destruction by the hurricane we abridge from an extract the Light of the Reef of the 9th inst. All our citizens will mourn the loss of the gallant Capt. Taylor: Ou Friday evening last -t commenced blow -5 ing quite fresh from Hie northeast and c n * tinuedincreasing in violence until 3 o’clock. P. M., onSaturday, the ssh inst. During the time ’ of lhe gale, which lasted about eighteen hour-, . damage was done to property toan almost in credible extent. The unparalleled fury of the gale, when at its height, can scarcely be con ceived! It swept everything before it—houses, lences, trees, vessels, and almost everything in itscourse was levelled to the earth or borne off with frightful velocity. On ihe morning of the sth, previous to the gale having reached its height, the revenue schooner Vigilant dragged her anchors and was driven out to sea, where it is supposed all on board perished. The following ts a list of the officers cl the Vigilant: William B. G. Taylor, Commander; Win G. Taylor, Ist Lieut, commanding; Mr Coop erof Hingham, Mass., 2d Lieut, do.; six sea men, and the cook and cabin buy, slaves, belong ing io Capt. Taylor. Mr. Robert Cooper, one ot the Louisiana pilots, and two of the negroes who deserted with the pilot boat from the Balize, were on bead. J C. Johnson, pilot, belonging to the Vigilant, and Mr. Robert T. Armistead, o! New Orleans (passenger) were providential ly ashore, and saved. Schr. Hudson, Capt. Millen, of New York,, recently from Washington, D. C., drove to sea with two anchors dragging, in the early part of . the gale, about 10, A. M., and is supposed to be lost with all on boaid, viz: A nibrose Cooper,- passenger from St. Augustine; James Millen, (the captain) of New Orleans: Wm. Mellard, mam, of the Eastern shore of Virginia; John Saunders, Englishman, and A. Thompson, Nor wegian, crew and owners. The four owners of the schooner were lately petty officers on board the Colnmbus, 74, and had employed their sav ings in the purchase and fitting out of their ves sel, purposely (or freighting and passage on this coast. The had made their first trip from St. Augustine, with crowded patronage and suc cessful promise, when they were suddenly swept from their last harbor into the Gulf of Mexico and eternity. Mr. Cooper has been long and well known in the peninsula of Florida as an experienced navigator and coaster, and his loss will he appreciated by many. He was a native of Lancaster, Eng. The pilot boat Louisa, belonging to Capt; J. H. Geiger, dragged her anchors and was last seen making her way into the Gull with not .a soul in sight, though there were four men on board, who have, beyond a doubt, perished at sea The schr. Pcquot, Capt. Pent, belonging to Messrs. Fontaine & Weaver, lying at Wall’s wharf, was. by the violence of the wind and waves, and coming in concussion with the wharf and vessels lying alongside, stove in at the stern and sunk. Valued at SI7OO. The sehr. Orbit, Capt. Sully, broke loose and was run on shore. The brig Statira, Capt. Babbidge. late from St. Marks, with a cargo of 282 bales cotton, 85 boxes tobacco, and a lot of chains, rigging, and anchois of the brig J. D. Noyes, lately wrecked near St. Marks, dragged her anchors, 4000 pounds, weight, and drilled out and struck upon the dry rocks, where she now lies a complete wreck. Her decks arc cut up fore and aft. and she is broke in two by parting abaft the main mast. Her cotton is now being taken out by wreckers. The Captain’s trunk, containing ■slooo, was washed awav at the time the cabin went. Os this sum S7OO belonged to the brig, and the balance was the individual property of the captain. The officers and crew were all saved. _ The wrecking sloop Ludlow, r “-i lay Tit to Mr was also sunk. Estimated loss SSOO. The schr. Empire, commanded ami owned by Capt. Wood, was lying between Wall’s and Filer's wharves, and was cut down to her heel, from her stern to hei mainmast, by the British brig Victoria, from Nassau, which the extraor dinary power of the wind and waves forced through her, as if no obstruction was in her way. Valued at SIOOO. Schr. Rome, Capt. Kemp, lying at anchor in the harbor, dragged her anchors and went ashore during the height ot the gale. Efforts are mak ing to get her oil’. The British schr. Britannia, Capt. Kelly, Irom Nassau, N. P., was driven on shore. In driv ing ashore she encountered the schr. Rome, and knocked in her bulwarks on one side. She has i een got off and is now taking in cargo for Nas sau. Sloop Texas, Capt. Bethet, ashore on Ta vanier, in 2 leetwater, SO fathoms from 4 feet; masts standing. Means were being used to gel her off. The sloop Reform, Capt. Roberts, ran ashore near Indian Key; but was got of! with the loss of her mast. British brig Victoria, Capt. Hudson, re ceived considerable damage from coming in contact with the wharf and vessels ; chafing holes through her bow and otherwise injuring her. Wrecking sloop America, Capt. Green, injur ed to the extent of §SOO. Schr. Saratoga, Capt. Malony, ran ashore, but would be got off. Schooner Ranger got ashore at Tavernier, where she laid during the gale, with the loss of masts. No other material injury—damage Sloop Rival, belonging to Mr. J. 11. Geiger, lying at Mr. Tift’s wharf was sunk during the gale—damage §IOO. - The schr. May Flower, fro 1 Newport, R. 1., reports having sei n a brigantine, bottom up, off the Double-Headed Shot Keys-, supposed to be Spanish. She was eoppered. The salt Works at the upper end of the island, belonging to Mr. Charles Howe, were Severely injured by the late gal “. Damage lo the salt works and other buildings on the premises, §2OOO. The large building at the barracks, which stood over the water, k own as the Adjutant’s oilice, was blown completely down, not a pari or stick left standing. No other damage done at the U. S. Barracks. One or two other houses weie injured and the wharves at Key West suffered much dam age The Sand Key Light house was severely injured. At Indian Key, the few remaining houses were all blown down and the wharves carried away. To ascertain the fate of the unfortunate mi n cn board the revenue schooner Vigilant every exeriimi in the power ot man has been made. Mr. Howe, otthe Custom House, after the gale, despatched a boat to the numerous keys, in the hope that they might have run on shore, and theiUesot the officers and the crew be thus saved. Mr. Johnson, pilot ol the Vigilant, and Mr. Armistead, a passenger, who were on shore al the tiineot the gale, also weut m search. Mr. J. offered Sl.OOOtdany one who would take him out to her at the .time she was drifting to wards the Gulf; but no vessel could have lived, and it would have.been worse than madness to have attempted it. Mr. J. will proceed to St. Marks to-moirow, in the brig Samson, e>i route to New Orleans. It is due to the citizens of Key West to state the eagerness and alacrity with which they Linefeed their various crafts, tfiafhad been blown ashore, and started off with the expectation and hope of rescuing some Inflow-being from a watery grave or a lingering death by slat vation. B. S. In addition to the above too lamentably voluminous details, from the Light ol the Reel, ■we have been permitted by the Secretary of the .Meichams’ Exchange Reading Room to copy tbe following from the bulletin board: Ship Atlantic, Mallett, from Liverpool for thin port, went ashore on Caryslord Reef on the morning o! the lilt inst. Same day’, the gale increasing, cut away her masts, she then got itito deep water, when her chain parted and she struck on the rocks. Part of the cargo, consisting ot dry goods and hardware, were saved and brought to Key West. The crew and passengers bad also arrived there. Ship reported to have bilged. Sloop Mount Vernon, a wrecker, was lost near the ship, and 1-1 souls who were on board perished. Brig Algonquin from Philadelphia lor Mo bile, arrived at Kev West on the 10.lt inst., in distress, with loss of sails, &c. Reports having seen a large number ol vessels at sea dismast- C Schr. Foam, from New York to Barataria— loss of sails, ckc. Reports having spoken ship Reform, dismasted, standing lor Nassau. Brig Josephine, from Norfolk for this port, four davs out, was spoken the day of the gale by the schr. Orator, and was seen afterwards dis masted. The masts of the schooner, seen standing about 25 miles eastward ot the Sand Key Lights on the marning of the 9th, was reported to have li en the c.’.t’er. A boat was despatch ed t > her, and when our informant left, the news had reached that it was the pilot boat Louisa. “ A darned smart man'." — An Editor out West boasts that he had a talk wftb a woman, and got the last word. LAI’EST FROM EAGLAiNO. ARRIVAL cf the STEAMER ACADIA. Fifteen Day s Later. From the N. V. Herald, Exira, of Monday. The steamer Acadia has at length arrived. She left Liverpool on the 4th instant, and arriv ed at Boston, at about 4 o’clock, P. M., on Sun day, the 20.1 i inst. We have London and Liver pool papers to the day ot sailing. All her mails destined tor the south, came on by government express, which left Boston at hail past six o’clock on Sunday evening. She was detained two hours at Greenport, and ar rived here at halfpast seven o’clock this morn ing. The intelligence is of an highly important and interesting character. Stocks and Securities were improving in England. Particular American slocks were looked lor by capitalists lor investment. Commercial.— I'here has not been much ac tivity in the produce markets since our last publication, but jirices have in nearly all in stances been well sustained. The prospects of the future are still encouraging. Fine weather has enabled growersto secure the crops in a good condition, even in the most backward dis tricts of Great Britain and Ireland, thereby en suring a good supply oMood. In ihe manutac luring districts, less animation was apparent throughout September than ex sted during the month preceding, but stocks ot cloths and yarns have not accumulated, owing to the-deinand from the home trade, which is in a more settled state than for some years past. The foreign trade, weakened by ihe entire absence of orders lor Brazil, has considerably decreased; but ru mors ot anew cominereiai treaty having been completed, afford hopes of a renewal ot opera tions for that country. Our cotton market is-still much depressed by the heavy stocks and shows symptoms, of de clining, though at present a reduction of id per lb. cannot be quoted. Foreign Wheat and Flour have undergone a slight improvement in London; but here, where the weight ot Ihe imports from abroad is most felt, there is no amendment. Money is much scarcer, and commands high er rates lor commercial purposes; first class Bills are discounted at 2 and others 2f to 5 per cent. We regret having to announce, that die house of Messrs, Roskell, Ogden & Co. of this town, have suspended payment. Their liabilities amount to-625,000, and it is reported that all their debts will ultimately be liquidated in full. Their difficulties are attributed to extensive cot ton speculations. Humored Treaty with Brazil. — Rumors have been current for some days that a new treaty has been recently entered into between Brazil, and the British Government. Nothing positive is known as to the terms, and in thcabsence ot definite information, .speculation has been very lite. At length the Brazilian packet, the Pete rel, which sailed from Rio on the 27th of July, arrived, but her papers do not confirm the re ports either ot a commercial treaty with Eng land, or of a war between Biazil and Buenos Ayres, although they contain some warm ar ticles on the latter subject. The Journal do Commcrcio of the 21st contains an order, reduc ing the present extravagant anchorage dues on foreign and native vessels. Air. Falconnet, who effected an arrangement for the Buenos Aylean shareholders, lias arrived in England. The Peterel Was detained fourteen days be yond her time at Rio, the object being that she should bring home the treaty, Al the time of her sailing, it was generally understood that the treaty had not been signed—it, indeed, it exist ?A«Aeqr<tins to another authority, the Linnet. ;~KSFtyhfe;£inav belied IvHn a weckziHU: ■ olt" -T ihr- cl;;;;;;:.; ol b;‘;re:;iv ; k. ■ silent as to whether the sugar of Brazil is to be admitted on the same or more favorable terms than by the treaty which will expire next month. Dreadful Loss of Life near Sunderland.— AccOums from Sunderland give an account of an explosion in a coal pit at Haswell colliery, about ten miles from Sundetland, which has caused tbe destruction of ninety-six human be ings! It is said, that at the time of the acci dent there were a hundred persons in the pit, and that only three or lour have been saved. The calamity appears io have been more dieau ful than we at first anticipated. The number of men in the pit at the time of the explosion was nearly one hundred and fifty. Only' one man, it is said, has escaped alive, uninjured. Upwards of one hundred dead bodies have al ready been brought to the bank. It is utterly impossible to describe the dreadful anguish ot the surviving relatives. One man was found unsinged, w ith his cap in his mouth; lie had probably placed it there in order Io prevent the foul air getting into his mouth. Several had their fingers closed in each qtiier, and pressing tin their mouths. Fifteen putters (boys and young men employed in taking the coals from the hewers lo the bottom of the shaft) were in one lump—they were all clasped together. I’hey had their clothes on, prepared lo ascend. When working they are nearly naked. The state ol the relatives beggars all descrip tion. Each cottage had its dead fatner or brothers, er both. Three men at the bottom ol the shall were saved; the shock was so great that the roof near them had fallen down, and so blocked up the passage as to stop the further progress ol the bad air. These men, thus Pro videntially rescued, were the first who brought the intelligence to tbe bank’. The explosion was not heard by those outside the pit. The men, when asked the cause ot the dreadful ac cident, say that the state of the pit must have been known to some persons; but it d .-es not appear that any complaints had been previously made. y\n equally disastrous explosion oti curre I twenty years ago, at Wall’s end, about four miles from Neweasile-on-’l’yt.e. One hun dred and one i-eiisheil on that occasion. INDIA AND CHINA. The India Mail by the overland route arriv ed in London on the 24 instant. The dates are from Bombay, 27th-August; Calcutta, Aug. 15. The intelligence, though not of striking in terest, is inteicsiing. Sir 11. Hardinge airived al Calcutta 231 July, and was immediately sworn into his high office. He immediately appointed Mr. Bird governor of Bengal; on sub sequent days lie held levees and durbars, and was likely to become popular. Lord Ellenbo rough embarked on the Ist August, and pro ceeded to Suez. A subscription was advertised to erect a testimonial to him, which was vio lently oposed by his enemies. The rainy sea son in the north-west provinces has stopped all military operations. Sir 11. Hardinge would proceed to Allahabad, where the Lieutenant Governor of the north-western provinces would meet him. it is said he will visit ali the prin cipal military stations in those provinces, and minutely examine the details <4 the army, with whom lie is likely to be popular, as it is report ed that fee is empowered to raise new regiments, and add one captain to each ol the actual corps, and re-introduce Hogging into the native army. The ringleaders ot the mutiny of the filth regi ment were under trial at Sukkttr, and it was ex pected that a severe example would be made of those found guilty. There is but little sickness in the Scinde district this year. The Punjanb continues to be a scene ol anarchy and confu sion. The British India Government is the ob ject of their bitter hatred; an I, it is said, that, as they contemplate a conflict with the British, an alliance has been formed with Dost Maho med and his son, Akhbar Khan, to aid them with a large army, in tbe hope of conquering and plundering in the north of India. These inti igues are well known, and although it is tbe avowed wish of Sir 11. Hardinge to preserve peace with the sheiks, it is probable he will be forced into an attack upon their threatening po sition. The rulers ol Cabul, Kandahar, and He: at, are acting with great unanimity, and Hecra Singh, notwithstanding Ute difficulties of his government, is eager to side with and ba supported by these chieftains. Gwalior and Bundlekund arc tranquil. The last mail from London had reached Bombay in 28 days and lt» hours, which had given great satisfaction. Sir 11. Bollinger had airived from China in the Driver, and had been received at Bombay with great rejoicing; he was .welcomed with addresses, dinners, balls, &c. In answer toan adurcss ot the Chamber ot Commerce, he re viewed in his speech the late proceedingsand negotiations in China, referring to the opium question in particular, showing it iu its proper light. He embarked at Bombay on 27th Aug. tor Europe, and has come home iu the Great Liverpool, 'lie news from China is not of par ticular irrmertance. In the papers great dissat i-factiini- expressed at the meddling of the Flinch and Americans in our settled aff.irs with China. Mr. Davis, the new Governor, had been introduced to Kemy by Sir 11. Porrin ger before his departure, and they had held a conversation together without the aid of an in terpreter. Lord Ellenborc-ugh arrived at Malta in the steam trigate Geyser, on the 25th Sept. Com. Smith, with the United States squadron, was still at Malta. The American and French ..men-of-war Brandywine, St. Lottis, Cleopatra, and Ale tnerie, had arrived almost simultaneously in tbe Chinese waters. «. . . AUGUSTA, GA., THURSDfS MORNING, OCTOBER 31, 1844. IRELAND. Repeal association.— The last meeting of this association which Mr. O’Connell attended be fore leaving town, was densely crowded. The chair was filled by an ax justice of the peace, Francis Cornyn, Esq The speakers were Air. James K'dly, M. P., who eulogised Mr. Greg Porter’s pamphlet in lavor of a federal parliament. Mr. Porter was the son of a Pro testant clergyman, and was hiah sheriff of Fermanagh. The sentiments of such a man were entiilad to much respect. Mr. James Grattan, Al. P., moved that the municipal de claration in lavor of the repeal ot the Union should be engrossed, and enrolled amungsttheir records. Mr. O’Connell, in the course ot his speech denounced ribbunism, which had made its appearance in the cou.rty of Antrim, as the greatest curse to Ireland. He proceeded to compliment the gentleman who attended as reporters on behalt of the government; but he was not equally pleased to see a policeman taking note of their proceedings. He next,re pudiated, in behalf of the association, the harsh language which Mr. Gray had used at the rc peal banquet, in speaking offhe people of Eng land. - This association met on the 30th September. . The meeting was addressed by Mr. O’Connell and others, and the rent was announced to be £349 18. France. Treaty.— The papers announce the arrival at Paris of the Duke de Glucksburg with atrea ty between France and Morocco. The Empe ror stipulates that he will communicate to lire French government the names of the Moorish chiefs who evaded the Algerian territory; that Abd-el-Kader be outlawed throughout the Afri can possessions of the Emperor and France; that he may be pursued by the troops of both governments, until expelled or captured; that if he fall into the hands ot the French, he is to be treated with every■ respect due to his station; that Mogadore island and the town of Ouchda be evacuated by-the French; that prisoners of war be immediately exchanged; and that the ratification, of the treaty be exchanged within two months. The accounts ot the vintage in the Beaujolais arc flattering. The grapes are ripe, and in the mi st perieel state of preservation. The wine crop will be. it is said, unusually abundant, and the price will consequent!}' decrease. TAHITA. Tire Paris Monilett' of Wednesday the 251 h uit., conveyed the following intelligence as re ceived by the Government from Tahita, dated 21th April:—“ Alter having vainly endeavored to bring back to their obedience the rebels who made tne attack at Taravau, Governor Braut went out to meet them at Mahahan, where they had made themselves entrenchments, defended by three thousand men and three pieces of can non. On the 17th, G-.vernor Braut landed with lour hundred and forty-one men of arms. The redoubts were taken with the bayonet.; the ene my having 102 men killed, their colors taken from them, and their cannon spiked. The next day we destroyed their works, and carried away their arms and ammunition. On our side we have to lament the loss of two officers, M. Nau sdnty, cnseigne de vaisseau, and M. Seignette ofthe Artillery. We had, besides, 52 men wounded.” SPAIN. A letter from Bayonne of the 221 ultimo, in the Morning Post, announces that a movement on a grand scale had been intended by the Car lists of Navarre; money and munitions of war, along with a large number ot printed procla mation, having been for some time past in readiness. Colonel Jose Maria Ladron, the nephew ofthe Carlist General, Santos Ladron, who was shot in Navarre in 1833, by the Chris tino General Lorenzo, with 400 to 500 men distributed in concealment along the frontier, was waiting an opportunity to commence the .movement. Colonels Elcharte and Corteta, chiefs who are highly popular in Navarre, had undertaken the organization ofthe Carlist forces in that province, and had gathered about 4,000. So stood mailers, when orders dated in London were received from General Balmaceda, for the discontinuance of the pt eparalions. reasrm yjsiguadfor this j L SndTTftWm? h. -e tint -;ii. be adjusted by a marriage between his soil the Prince of Asturias and Glueen Isabella. It is, however, doubted whether the-order wi'l be obeyed by the organized Carlists. Meanwhile, the Spanish government is despatching rein forcements to Navarre, with all possible expe dition. The Captain-General of Valencia had been directed to send thither 2.000 men. SWEDEN. Popular disturbances have been occasioned by the rejection of the measure of reform re cently discussed in the Diet; and.there were riots on the 28th and 29th of August. The me thod of their suppression was curious. The police hired a number ot assistants, miners, day laborers, and others, all of them tall and powerful men, who mingled with the crowd, anil who not only inflicted summary punish ment for every attempt to create disturbance, but also arrested the most conspicuous among tbe rioters. Great Storm on Lake Krie. Extract from a Letter to the Editors doted “ Buffalo, October 18, 1814. “We have had a terrible time here for the las twelve hours. About 12 o’clock last night, it commenced blowing heavily,and continued all night. This morning it was a dreadful sight to behold the dead bodies strewed around the ca nal and flats, houses blown down, and pro perty destroyed. Thirty-seven bodies have al ready (1 o’clock, P. M.) been found, and how many more were lost. God only knows. “ The steamboat Chautauque is on shore be low the light-house. The steamboat Julia Palmer is on the shoals above the light-house, with 600 passengers on boaid. Wc have not heard from above yet; bull am airaid that a great many vessels must have gone ashore, as a large fleet left our port within the last two days. “ The full extent of damage done here, has not yet been ascertained. “ Yours, in haste, &c.” COMMUNICATED. What’s to pay in the nest of vipers on Mac intosh street? From the writhing, hissing and spitting < f venom exhibited in the “Constitution alist” of yesterday morning, I should suppose some unexpected castigation had been inflicted up. n the slimy cw. Call him “Corporal Mum” no longer. He has been brought lo his voice, and “discourses most eloquent!u." Fatal Accident.—James C. Cook, Esq., a worthy and respectable citizen of Columbus, Ge<j., was suddenly killed on the 22d inst. The “Enquirer” says: “ He was abort leavins home, and was stand ing by his boggy, when a boy in pullinga halter from his horse’s head, accidentally drew off the head stall of the bridle, the horse look irightand run, Mr. Cook in attempting to hold him by the reins was thrown againtt a tree, and survived but a short time.” Will Silas H'r ’sh! resign? Why should he not. it lie expecied t.> be chosen Governor?— -Mr. Van Buren did it when he ran—why does not Wright! Can the Evening Post inform us? —-V. I". Tribune. If an answer from a distance will serve our friend ot the Tribune, instead of the one he can’t get from his near neighbor of the Post, we will say to him that Mr. Wright knows too well on which side of his bread the butter is, to resign a Senatorship in possession, for a Governor" ship in such diPi'ii'prospect as is that of New York. The great rogue caught!!—The Wash ington Standard states that David Miller, charged with having procured fourteen memo vote the locofocoticket each three times at the late Gubernatorial election in Baltimore, was fully committed for trial by Justice Schaeffer, atthe present term of the City Court. Do you wonder, reader, that the locofoco go vernor got 1222 majority in Baltimore, after such rascality'! Purge the ballot-boxes, and the Whigs would be triumphant everywhere. Look out, Geor gians, that locofocos here do not play their Bal timore game I The Lexington, Ky., Observer of the 16 h inst. says: Mr. Clay, yielding to his feelings excited in behalf of the sen of a Revolutionary Patriot, who wascaptured at Mier,a citizen of Alabama, addressed a letter to President Santa Ana, re questing his liberation. We understand that he has just received a polite letter from President Santa Ana, informing him ot the prompt discharge of the captive according to his re quest. Pennsylvania —We havereceived a copy of the Address put forth by the Whig Central Com mittee of this State, showing the vote given in each Congressional District, from which it ap pears that the majority tor the Whigs is four thousand seven hundred and forty-one. W» have not yet received the official returns ' of the governor’s election. SATURDAY MINING, OCTOBER 20 The Man fur Polk— Votes to restore of Public Defaulting, by which the Treasury was robbed of mil lions, and the coaWry dishonored : He votes to restore 'foe Monarchical Sub-Trea sury System, wlri*. will give site Presi dent the control of-«|fcS‘Public Purse,” as well as the Nalivnal S&td: He voles for a revrraloi die infamous scheme ot a standing ar- hundred thousand men, to enable Huecutivc to overawe and put down the Pc- He votes to restore irrt ivstism of “ Experiments” and “ Expedients, the country has been qnce already and will be again, if Polk and his »^4*.ant ingested, with He votes to lesforc Exl-'ovaganrean'A Profligacy in the public expenditures, instead of Econo my and Honesty: He voles for a system ofpailrc loans and Public D Id. by which “ETERNAL TAXATION” will be entailed upon the country: He votes for the issuing of Treasury Notes— “ Exchequer bills”—by which the Chief Magistrate and his Cabinet may expend as much money as they please, without consult ing Coagre.-s, and in violation of the s' irit of the Constitution : He votes to sanction the principle that the Presi dent may, on all occasions, set up his indi vidual will in opposition to that of the People, express 'd through their Representatives, and thus to control the legislation of the national Congress—thus to establish firmly the “ One- Man-Power,” andpreparc the wiry for an arm ed Master for thy People: lie votes to restore the system ot “jobs” and party favoritism, by which abanilof govern ment hangers-on—“ Pritlorian Guards''— are constituted al the public expense, to perpetu ate an in-iividval or party dynasty: He votes to restore a governmental policy, by which FREE AMERICA will be bound hand and foot, and brought back to a condition of COLONIAL DEPENDANCE upon Great Britain: He votes to BREAK DOWN American In dustry, American Capital, and American Prosperity and Independence, that foreign na tions and foreign interests may ride rough shod over them! and finally, , He voies for a DISSOLUTION OF THE UNION, that a “Southern Confederacy’’ may be built up, to give power and place to a disappointed, discontented and traitorous clique, who would rather “reign in hell than serve in Heaven!” Voterot Georgia I here is a list, plainly writ ten out, of what yod will be required to do, among other equally dangerous things! How like you the work that demagogues, and plotters against the glory of the Republic, have laid out for you to do? One little Fact- Voters of Georgia—we wish you lo bear in mind, when you go up; to the polls; to deposit your ballots on the 4th day of Not ember—and that is: that in voting lor James K. Polk, you will be voting TO RETAIN A TAX upon your property ol.about niueli/WieVsand dollars. a wth tiye etsoy TAX?! you can escape by supporting Hifery Clay and the Whigs. Ifthe money paid for the public lands were distributed among the States, which rightfull}' own the public domain, GEORGIA would be receiving, annually, at least one hundred thou sand dollars per year: a sura sufficient to gay all the interest and leave a clever pilefora sink ing fund, that would, in time, absorb the princi pal, and then put in the public treasury an amount sufficient to delray all the expenses of the State Government. By voting for CLAY and the WHIG POLI CY, voters of Georgia, you willobtain this good among others: for the Whigs are determined that the States which ceded the lands, and which own the lands, shall reap some benefit from But if you vote for POLK and LOCOFOCO SCHEMES, you will vote just so much of your own money out of your pockets, to support par ty favorites—for Polk and his party want the public lands and their proceeds tor a great elec tioneering fund—the sub-treasurers, who are to come in again under Polk, want it to line their own pockets. Now, then, voters of Georgia, if you wish to be tree of debt and taxation— if you wish to have an abundant treasury—if yon wish to create a great public school fund, that will disseminate the blessings ot a good education to your latest posterity—if you wish to deprive demagogues ot an enormous CORRUPTION FUND which will be used to destroy your rights ant! subvert your liberties—VOTE FOR CLAY AND THE LAND BILL, and you will secure all! 11, on the contrary, however, you the TAX-GATHERER lo be eternally calling at your doors, and those of yourchildren andyour children’s children—it you wish the honor and credit of your State to remain for ever Under a cloud—it you would have your posterity grow up in ignorance and vice—if you would prefer to have defaulting public officers carry off your substance—if, finally, you.would place at the control of a corrupt taction, the means of STRIKING DOWN FREEDOM at her very altars, and making you the SLAVES OF A CABAL—then vote for POLK and AGAINST THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE LAND MONEY, and you will have all these evils meted out to you and yours, to your and their hearts’ content ! The choice is betore you ! Vote as you shall choose! The English and our Tariff.—The Bos ton Atlas gives a brief extract of a speech made by the Hon. Abbott Lawrence, before one of the Clay Clubs in that city, Irom which wc have taken the paragraph below. Our readers can see from it what high hopes foreign capi talists base upon the election of Mri Polk! But is it not strange—worth a passing thought, at least—to find Americans strenuously urging the election of a man to the Presidency, because that election will militate against American in terests and advance those of foreigners—nonre sidents of our soil—men who spend in their own countries, instead ot ours, the moneys ta ken from American pockets? As a mere ntat let of dollars and cents how much more ot pro priety is there in sustaining our own people than a strange people ; but when patriotism and love us country are calledin, who is there that will not exclaim, in all the fervor and sincerity of an American all others 1” “ Some sixteen months ago, Mr. L. visited Europe, for the imnrovement of his health, which had long since suffered by a too close at tention to business. sVhile there, he came in contact with many of those most deeply inte rested in manufactures. He found ali those gentlemen most thoroughly opposed to our Ta i ifl’ollß42. They expressed great confidence in its repeal, at the then next (last) Session of Congress; and exhibited to him many letters, from their free trade correspondents in the city ot New York, informing them that itcould not outlive six months. Such were then, and are now, the hopes of the British capitalists. Their onlj hope of realizing this expectation* is tn the election cf Mr. Polk.” Baltimore Charter Election.—The Lo colocos succeeded at the late charter election in the above city on Monday last, but by a greatly reduced majority, compared with the late State election. The Whigs have gained since the last election seven hundred ami twenty-four votes. The locofoco majority is now but 598. On governor it was 1222. Very good. By Novem ber, the ballot boxes will be purged *f all il legal locofoco ballots, we Remember I We wish every Georgian to bear it in mind, that the Great High Priest of Abolitionism, James G. Birney,—who is now stumping it through some ot the non-slaveholding States indirectly to make capital for locofocoism, of .which party he is the nominee lor a seat in the Michigan Legislature, as well as Ihe Abohtwn i candidate fur the Presidency,— has distinctly an nounced under his own hand, that he “ more dept ecates the election of Mr. Chy [than that of Mr. Polk] because, possessing abilities superior to Mr. Polk’s, he would proponionably weaken those truths on the minds of our countrymen"— that is, “the political truths of the Declaration of Independence—the perpetuation of liberty 10 • In ether words, citizens ot Georgia, Mr. James G. Birr.ey, a candidate cf'the loebfocos and abolitionists, is determined to"do all he can to elect Mr. Polk and.’defeat Mr. Cloy, because Polk being a man of feeble intellect, and there fore incapable of exercising any great degree of influence “tn the minds of our countrymen,” THE ABOLITIONISTS WILL STAND A MUCH BETTER CHANCE TO SUCCEED IN THIER PROJECTS, Under his Administration, than they would under that ot Mr. Clay, whose ability, firmness and capaci ty for influencing his countrymen, WOULD PROVE AN IMPASSABLE BARRIER TO ABOLITIONISM, so long as he occupied the Presidential Chait! Fellow-citizens—this is the translation of Mr. Birney’s locifoat Greek; and we play you to remember it when you come to vote. It you cast your ballots for POLK, you will in so do ing, indirectly, but yet powerfully, AID THE ABOLITIONISTS. Bear in Mind— Whigs o( Georgia—that since this month has come tn, locofocoism has LOST; in the State elections that have occurred, three Slates, three Governors, two Legislatures, a United. States Sena tor, and. a reductum in the popular rote, compared with the last previous elections ofthe kind, of 1,200 in Maryland, 18,500 in Pennsylvania, 6jooo in Ohio,.and 4,000 in New-Jersej-! What more would you have to encourage you? “Go ahead!” therefore, and give, as you know you cangive, the vote of Georgia to CLAY and AMERICAN INTEREST’S! Labor.— Trw. IVhig Doctrine.— The follow ing passage from Mr. Webster’s last speech in New. York, expresses the true Whig doctrine concerning the wages oi labor : Now, gentlemen, i 1 understand' anything of the great Whig principles, as they have been transmitted down from the days of Washington until now, they are exactly the sam.i by which he sought to maintain the commerce and agri culture ofthe country. IE; claima government for protection-, and our first object is to protect the interests and maintain the independence ot the artisans and mechanics of out cities and villages. (Applause.) A great attempt is made now-a-days to draw away attention from this part ofthe question, by representing the dan gers of having manufactures on too large a scale. That is but the dust of the balance. The prniqiple of ■protection is for tne ben-fit of all classes and more especially for l/ie laborer, whether it be in wood, brass or iron, the weaver, shoe maker, tailor, every body who lives by the exer cise of his own industry. No one desires to carry the tariff so far as to be ruinous to the commerce of the country. Else why was the constitution of this country adopted?lf you will go back, or iIT to-rnoee v:s:ly pertMS 6Tthe’ ednsfi lutfotr, rcoulaslK.Wyou what I now avow to' he'tr'ie, that the great interest which carried it was the manufactuting interest, and that it was framed with a desire to protect the labor of this country against the low priced labor Os Eng land. For my part I never wish to see labor cheap in the United States. (Applause.) God forbid that I should. I look on a high rate of wages as the greatest possible proof ot tht general pros perity ot the great mass ot the community. Yon may go through all possible calculations, denounce it as a narrow policy, talk about the leaning to capital as you please, still I say that where labor is highest and best rewarded, there always has b&en, is now, and ever will be, the best state of things. (Immense cheering.) Treaty with China. The accounts by the Steamer contain the fol lowing gratifying intelligence: “A treaty had been concluded between the United Stales and the Celestial Empire, based upon the same principleas dictated that between England and China, in which America will en joy all the advantages which Great Britain se cured.”” Jj’To show how our Presidential Election is looked at from the other side, ihe New York American makes the following extract from a letter from Liverpool, of 3d instant: “It looks here as if Polk would be elected. Be that as it may, he has the best and most anxious wishes of all Manchester spinners for his success, They are to a man all tree traders to the hub, and never fail to desire 'free trade with America,’ ‘Cotton three pence per lb.,’ ‘protection to British Agriculture,’ and other like patriotic sentiments. Ohio.—The Columbus Journal of the 17th inst. contains cheering advices from the coun ties, in reference to the coming Presidential election. Speaking ot the recent State election, the Journal says: The Whig gain in Ohio, since 1842, when Wilson Shannon was elected Governo- by more than 3100, is about 5000, taking the Gov ernor’s vote as the test. Taking the Legisla tive vote as the test, our gain will proveto be nearly Ten Thousand. That will do pretty well for the present, but we must roll up again of Fifteen Thousand on the first day of Novem ber. An Inhospitable Jailor.—A few years ago the good people of Apalachicola set themselves about building a Jail and Church; they were both finished about the same time, but the jail was filled before the other building. Three of the prisoners, not having a partiality for a life of such retirement, contrived to loosen a stone in the wall, and made their escape. Alter wan dering about for a few days, and finding no very agreeable accommodations, as the social system had not progressed so far southward, they concluded to return to their old quarters. On presenting themselves before the Jailor, they offered to surrender at discretion, and expressed their sorrow for their elopement. “I can’t help it,” w s the answer, “you thought fit to break out and now’you may stay, you don’t gel in here again, 1 tell you.”—A". Y. Sun. We suspect the Jailor had, in the meantime, received more new boarders than he could ac commodate I Irish Wit.—An Irishman, who had exerted himself very strenuously, in favor of Mr. Car roll’s election, called ata public house in Lom bard street, to treat himself after the laborious exercises of the day and the annunciation of 1222 majority for his candidate. After the usual gratulations, between him and the landlord— from whom we have the story—had passed, and he had complacently emptied his glass, he re marked, '‘lsay, Mr. G , I think aflerwehave another such electionin Baltimore, ourpofula- TION WILL BE AQUAL TILL NEW York.” ’ This is not only an excellent specimen of genuine Irish wit, but it contains a taciradmis sion that he was perfectly aware that the votes taken were greatly disproportioned to the sta tionary population of our city—and that the ad mission of one ot the locofoco judges of that ejection, of their having “laid pipe,” was too true to be considered a yike.--Baltimore fV/lig. The Ship Mary Kingsland Burnt.—An alarm of tire was given yesterday morning at about 5 o’clock, winch proceeded, as was soon discovered, from the fine ship Mary Kingsland, Capt. Wear, of New York. She was lying at the foot of Esplanade street, taking in cotton for Liverpool. She had already on board over 1700 bales when the fire broke out in the hold. Every exertion was made to extinguish the flames, but in vain. The vessel was immediate ly towed across tbe river and moot ed to the levee at McDonoughville. Several ol the city fire engines were pumping water into the ship for several hours, but owing to the buoyant nature of her cargo, it was im possible to submerge the ship. The Mary Kingsland was a New York built ship, of 797 tons burthen, custom house mea surement, and belonged three-fourths to the Messrs. Kingsland, of that city, and the re maining fourth toCapt. Wear, who purchased his interest since she has been lying at our wharves. The New York owners are supposed te be insured, but Capt. Wear’s interest is en tirely unprotected. Os the cargo, about 700 bales of cotton are aupposed to be insured in Liverpool ou open policies. The balance is not covered. The rigging and cabin furniture ofthe ship were saved, and some hopes were entertained that when the vessel should sink two tiers of cotton might be saved in a damaged state. But upon the whole, the loss can hardly fall short in all of one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.— Picayune 20th inst. The Gaue and Storm on Lake Erie, of which we gave a brief statement yesterday, was terrible, and the destruction of life and property at Buftalo immense. -Up to the last accounts, 32 dead bodies had been found —besides several known to be lost oil'steamboats and sail vessels in the lake. Besides the Chautauque and Julia Palmer, mentioned yesterday, the steamboats Dole and Columbus, and the U. S. Iron steamboat Abert, were also driven ashore m the harbor. The steamboat St. Louis Was eaught in the gale about 40 miles above Buffalo, broke one of her shafts, and was forced to put back under her jib, having had three deck passengers washed over board. The steamboat Oliver Perry also came in, literally a wreck; and several brigs and other sail vessels, and a large number of canal boats, and ashore and otherwise damaged. The wharves were also broken up, and large quantities of flour, salt, and other property, lost or damaged. The lower floors of all the store houses on the docks and wharves were also submerged, and much valuable property therein damaged. The damage to buildings was very great. A. large white lead factory, costing $20,000, was entirely demolished by the gale; also three brick dwelling houses, nearly finished; also a large brick building, intended as a railroad de pot, nearly finished, blown down; the new cot tonfactory was also partially injured. One brick building and upwards of 70 frame build ings, used as dwellings and workshops, in the vicinity ofthe Canal, were either blown down or swept away by the waves. There were several buildings in other parts of the city blown down or damaged; and two build ings, one brick and the other wood, each 103 feet in length and 55 in depth, built about a year since, at considerable cost, by the Attica Rail Road Company for a depot, was utterly demolished by the witid and waves —not a ves tige remaining. Almost half a mile of their road was also torn up and demolished. The pier erected by the United States, to pro tect the harbor, was also materially injured; several churches were also much damaged about the roofs, &c.; while immense quantities of staves, lumber, and other loose property, piled about the harbour, were floated off, or piled up in heaps in the streets. A great many cows, &c., were also lost. The steamboat Fulton, a fine vessel ot some 450 tons burthen, was driven ashore at Sturgeon Point, about 12 miles up the lake, and is a tola wreck. This storm, altogether, has been the most de structive to life and property of any ever experi enced at Buffalo. At the last dates the storm was still threaten ing. * How to grow a falsehood I—There is an ingenious way of covering up losses, so as to make them appear as gains —just as some banks and other corporations used to employ the words “ profit and loss,” in giving their state ments, without specifying which had the upper hand. As a matter of course, therefore, it any opportunity should offer for covering up the truth, locofocoism will adopt it—yea, in preference to all manly usages. In giving the returns from Pennsylvania, therefore, instead of taking the governor’s election of 1841, when the locofoco majority was upwards of 23,000, or even that of last year, when they elected their canal com missioner by nearly 15,000 —or indeed any one of the elections beginning with ’2B, when they had upwards of 50,000 majority, save the Pre sidential election ot 1840—they invariably quote Harrison’s majority of 349, to show that the ja cobins have gained hugely ! They have, it is terrain, done a smashing business at the late election, but it is one that has not brought them much “profit!” The “loss” is overtopping! The same game is played as respects Mary land, New Jersey and Ohio—in each of which, although the Whigs have beaten them glorious ly, carrying everything, from Governor down, they contrive, by going back to 1840, to cipher up “great democratic gains”—and some of the newspaper chaps even get out their “chap mans” to crow over them 1 “ VivelabagateUe!" as certain jacobin editors say, when they wish to raise a little smoke, under cover of which their falsehoods and forgeries may go abroad as truths! 53= The locofoco papers, in order to smooth over the ugly looks of the Arkansas returns for Governor, say that the jacobins “ have two can didates in the field.” This is not true. There is but one locofoco running, a Mr. Drew. If he has not drawn out large “ democratic” majorities for his brethren to crow over, that is not his fault. Perhaps the majorities they de. sired were not there, any more than they were in Ohio, New Jersey, Maryland, or Pennsylva nia, or “all alongshore.” They must be re turned “ non esl The case stated. —The National Intelli gencer gives a caretully collated table, showing the comparative majorities given in sixteen States, during the present year, with those of the preceding ones in the same States, from which it appears that the Whigs have gained 43,511 votes. It is also shown by the same table that we have, besides, carried nine States out of sixteen, which give 102 Presidential votes, while the seven carried for the present by our opponents give only 76. Surely this state of things af fords subject for exultation and satisfaction, and is an abundant earnest ot the glorious victory which will repay us fora few more day’s exer tion. O" Capt. Sherwood, of brig Cohansey, ar rived at New-York, reports that when he sailed from Rio Grande on the 31st of August, it was rumored that the Brazilians had taken part with Montevideo, and were going to war with Buenos Ayres. They had an army ot 6000 troops ready to march. Disturbed state of the Indians—We learn by a passenger who arrived here from Shreve port in the steamboat Robert T. Lyttle, that the Indians in the neighborhood of Fort Ouachita had risen, anefwere in a state of open hostility with the neighboring whites. So very alarm ing had become their position, that on Sunday last an express was despatched to Fort Jesup for a force ol three companies of U. S. troops to quell them.— N. O. Pic. Advertising.—Blackwood’s Magazine for July, puts tbe utility of advertising thus pointed edly and truly :—“There is but one way of at taining business—publicity; one way of obtain ing publicity—advertisement; the newspaper is the fly wheel by which the motive power of commercial enterprise is sustained, and money the stream by which the advertising is kept going. Quicksilver from China.—This metal, so extensively employed in medicine, in the amal gamation ot the noble metals, in waler gilding, the making oflooking glasses, the filling of ba rometer and thermometer tubes, &c., has hither to been imported chiefly from Spain, Germany and Peru. Now, however, there is a prospect of its being obtained from China, some of the provinces of which have been long known to yield it in considerable abundance. One of the main novelties in the Chinese import consists in the mode of package, ’he metal being simply poured into a piece ofbamboo, aboutafoot long 7SI three inches thick, having each end firmly closed with rosin. This rude form of package is found quite as serv.ceable as the iron boule in which mercury is usually brought, while it is tighter, and in every way more convenient for shipment. Specimens were recently shown in the London market, and from the remunerating prices which they brought, it is expected that renewed shipments of the article to Europe will take plaee on an extensive scale.— Timts, MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 28. A Momentous Matter. While Abolitionism is making such momen tous strides in the nonslaveholding States, and, under the guardian care and nursing influences of the Locofoco or “Democratic” party at the north, is made to take such a prominent position in the present Presidential contest, for the pur pose ot SECURING THE ELECTION OF MR. POLK, the People of Georgia, who are so very deeply interested in this important ques tion, should ponder with care, before casting their votes for a Chief Magistrate, the position in which either candidate is placed in reference to the institutions ot the South, so that, in exer cising the rights of freemen, they may not aid in pulling down ruin and desolation upon their own heads. la our paper of the 15tli inst., as our readers will recollect, is an article taken from a Ten nessee paper, in which is cited a charge made by Gov. Jones against James K. Polk—and which the latter is called upm to deny it, if he dared— that while “ Speaker ot the House of Representatives, he lent his official station to the presentation ol a petition, praying Congress to abolish, slavery in the District of Columbia, and the Slave Trade among the Stales." This charge against Mr. Polk, so far as we have seen, he has notyet denied —and we believe it is not contradicted, by any person under his . authority, or in any other way. If therefore it is admitted—as admitted we deem it to be, by the studied silence of the per son most interested, individually, in placing this matter in a fair light before the world, it he was charged unjustly—that Mr. James K. Polk did lend the aid of “ his official station,” did travel out of the strict line ot his duty, (as the language of Gov, Jones imports,) to procure the presenta tion of a petition which militated against an im portant and delicate institution ofthe South, aud in reference to which, it is well known the people of the slaveholding states are required to be ex ceedingly vigilant, to prevent an improper, illegal and dangerous interference with it, are not the tol lowing inference in references to that gentleman lairly deducible from his conduct in the premises referred to ? 1. That he is in favor of, or acknowledges the. power of Congress, to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia: 2. That he would not thus have used the influ- ence of his official station to procure or aid the presentation of the petition in question, unless he favored the objects of that peti tion : 3. That if elected President he would not veto a bill having for its object the abolishment ol slavery and the Slave Trade as aforesaid—be cause, by his action in reference to the said petition, and his silence since Gov. Jones’s charge, that he secretly, at leagt, approves both objects of the petition. Fellow-Citizens of Georgia, in view of the position in which the Democratic candidate has placed himself in reference to the great question to which we have thus called your attention; and taking into consi leration the movements which are now going on in his favor among the Abolitionists of the tree States; jve dn aerious . ly call upon you to ponder well what you are about, if any considerable number of you, who own slave property, intend to vote lor JAMES K. POLK. We warn you, in season, of the danger which you are heedlessly running into. We tell you, that in voting for that man, you will be casting your suffrages, to say the very least that can be said, for a very doubtful friend. You have no warrant in his former conduct, as pointed out and charged home upon him by a man of as high standing as himself, that he will not, for the sake ot his own personal aggran dizement, sacrifice your rights and your safety. You have Ro security, however favorable his feelings maybe towards your peculiar interests, that the stability of your institutions will be maintained through his capacity, firmness or influence over the people, as Chief Magistrate. He has no capacity—no influence. He is a third rate man—and literally unknown. What influence, then, could, such a man have, except in building up a cabal through a distribution of “the public plunder?” But would such a ca bal care aught for your individual rights or hap piness, provided they rioted in “ the spoils of the vanquished?” Be warned while yet the staff of power is, in a measure, in your own band. No prudent or wise man, under existing circumstances, DARE VOTE FOR POLK. Those only can do so who have nothing at stake, or are reckless of cansequences. But again, fellow-citizens, bear in mind that James K. Polk has NEVER DECLARED THAT HE WOULD VETO A BILL TO ABOLISH SLAVERY in the District of Co lumbia or elsewhere! We tjefy his friends to point out a single declaration to that effect un der his hand I We therefore ask, what Georgian DARE RUN THE RISK of voting for James K. Polk, in view of the various circumstances which connect him so closely with the projects of those who are straining every nerve TO CRUSH SOUTHERN INSTITUTIONS, and to TRAMPLE ON SOUTHERN RIGHTS ? In contradistinction to Ihe position of James K. Polk, in reference to this question, let us, fellow-citizens, without note or comment, call your attention to that of HENRY CLAY, as manfully assumed by himself, in the following declaration made in 1841, and never recalled: “I would suffer the tortures of an inquisition before I would sign a bill having for its object the abolition of slavery in theDislrictof Colum bia, or in any manner give countenance to the project.” The Constitutionalist—The Birney Letter. It any manifestation of a positive and gross disregard of truth on the part of the “ Con stitutionalist” could astonish us, the article in that paper ot Saturday morning would excite our organ of marvelousness. In attempting lo vindicate its party against our expose of their coalition with the Abolitionists, and to ward off the effect of the editorial of the Philadelphia “ Spirit nfthe Times,” and the extract from Bir ney’s letter, the “ Constitutionalist” says: “ But on what authority is the declaration of the Spirit of the Times based, and the charge that the abolitionists have formed a coalition with the democrats? On the authority of a let ter from Mr. Birney himself. This letter was published in the weekly Chronicle & Sentinel of last Thursday, and the same respectable gen tlemen who certified that the extract from the Spirit ol the Times was truly copied, certify also that the letter ot Birney is truly copied from the New-York Tribune. The editors of the Chronicle & Sentinel and the gentlemen certify ing to the extract of the letter, would have spar ed themselves much trouble, if they had referred to the Constitutionalist of the 15th of this month. In that paper they would have found the whole letter as copied from the New-York Tribune.” The assertion that the Constitutionalist of the 15th inst. contained the whole of the letter of Birney, from which we made the extract pub lished by us, Is such a bold and barefaced violation of tbe principles ol truth, as to strike every man with astonishment atthe reck lessness of that print. Indeed, it would seem that the editor has grown .so desperate that he knows not what he does; and he has incorporated into his own article the evidence which exposes bis reckless disregard of truth, by republishing the letter which was published in the Constitu tionalist on the 15th inst. The letter of Birney, from which we made the extract, was first published to the world in the New-York Tribune of the 15th inst.—the very day on which the editor of the Constitutionalist says he published the same letter The fact that the letter was published in the Tribune of the 15th inst., was distinctly stated in the certificate which was appended by us to the extract. It is possible, however, that these things might have VOL. VIII.--NO. 44. been overlooked by this truth-loving editor; ana yet tew who have watched impartially his tor tuous course, will have charity enough to be lieve so—but how, or by what posaible mean*, can he excuse himself to the community, for a»- serting that he had published the letter from which our extract was taken, when the letter published in the "Constitutionalist" doe* not con tain a single sentence ot the extract published by us 11 Strange as thi* may seem, even to locofoco ears, it is nevertheless true. There is not one single sentence ot the extract from Bir ney’s letter, published by us, contained in the letter published in the “ Constitutionalist. Oat the contrary, they are distinct and different let ters: and yet in the face ot these facts, the editor asserts that the letters are the same 1 Was evw such bold and barefaced effrontery exhibited by *hny paper affecting the slightest possible regard tortruth? We should think that even Locofo ism would hang its head in shame, tor its pros tituted organ. Does the “Constitutionalist” deny that O. A. Brownson wrote the article from which we gave extracts a day or two since, and that it was published in his Review? Or did our co temporary merely design to say, that although Mr. O. A. Brownson,an approved “democrat ic” writer of the “gentlemanly” school, did write the article in question, the “ Chronicle &. Sentinel” was wrong in saying that it appeared in the “ Democratic Review ?”—from which pa per, as we now recollect, since reading the re mark of the “Constitutionalist,” Mr. B. was excluded, because of the boldness and» truth of his writings—qualities that rendered them inad missible in that work—and we were in error, in saying that they appeared in that “Review,’* as well as the paper from which we copied. There is a handsome way and a small way of doing almost everything; therefore it is not sur prising that the “Constitutionalist,” even in point ing out a slight error ol ours, should adopt the latter system. It hesitated to tell a lalsehood outright, and therefore took the sneakingcourse of insinuating one. Southern Men I—-Loos Ahead i “On my passage from Detroit to Buffalo,” says Mr. Birney, the Abolitionist in Chief, “ I did not hesitate to avow my preference for Mr. Polk and the Locofoco Policy generally I" Oh, certainly not, when the Abolitionists con sider that an immense spoke wil* be put in their wheel which is to run over and crush Southern in stitutions, by the election of Mr. Polk, a man of such feeble intellect, and withal ot such little in fluence, according to Mr. Birney, that he will, it elected President, present no barrier to the Abolition movements! Nor should Mr.Birney object, either, lo the “Locofoco Policy,” when that policy is, as facts show, that the Jacobins of the North, in return for the aid which Birney and his brother Abolitionists may render in de feating Mr. Clay—who, the locofoco and aboli tion leader fears will “ influence his country men" against his fanatical designs—will no doubt do all they canto push along the ABO LITION “POLICY GENERALLY I” Birney is a shrewd man, and good at driving a “ BARGAIN.” He well knew, also, the tra ding propensities and easy pruiuipls* ot the Northern “Democratic” leaders. In coming out for “Polk and the locofoco policy general ly,” therefore, he well knew what he was to re ceive in return for his services 1 Citizensot Georgia, the locofoco-abolition pit is plainly open before you. The northern “de mocracy” expected so little from the South, and so much from the North, by a conjunction with abolitionism, in electing Polk—who will give office to the leaders, which is all they care for— that they took no pains to cover it up. Do you intend to jump into this pit with your eyes open? By the action ot this same “democracy” on the tariff, in the last Congress, you can readily gvesn what will betheir action upon Abolitionism! “A word to the wise ought to be sufficient!” Look Out for Illegal Votes t One thing we wish our friends to look to care fully at the coming election, namely, that when the locofoco voters present themselves at polls out of their own counties or precincts, they be required to take the oath below. The locofoco party have such an alacrity for growing “demo cratic” majorities by gross illegal voting, as in the Baltimore election, that too much care can not be taken in guarding the ballot boxes against their knavery. “I. A. B. do solemnly swear that I have not this day voted at any election, held at any place in lhisßtate for Governor,members of Congress, electors ot President and Vice-President, &c., so help me God.” yV The Newark Advertiser gives the follow ing, from the Worcester Palladium, as a new version of the fable of the “ Fox and the Grapes." The locofocos certainly did think New Jersey “very fine” before the election, though new they look upon her with very sour countenances I New Jersey.—A small State, a very small State; long, lean, and much of it barren; lying along shore, and extending out into the sea a good way, but not half so far as it ought; a bur row for coons, ot which, at this time, there are about 1200 more than we wish there were; yet as the creatures must have a living somewhere, we like to have them congregate thick in spots. The expectation that the world was com ing to an end on the 22d or 23d of this month, according to the calculations ol the Millerites, had the effect of inducing sundry persons, who had defrauded the government and individu als out ol certain moneys, to make restitution. But these were all small sums—the largest be ing about §2O, we believe. What a pity ’tis, that the fear of the coming of the “ last day,” and the close reckoning which they then anticipated, had not come as well on the big rogues, as the small ones, who defrauded tbe government. We should then have had some millions re stored to the Treasury, which was stolen thence by the locoloco leg-treasurers of the Van Buren dynasty—th* gentry who wish to come in again under Polk. Jj* We hope our friends in the counties na med below, have taken note of the warning of our Alabama friend. The vote in some of the locofoco counties was strangely increased at the late Congressional election—that is, the increase would appear strange, if voting on the “ Balti more plan” was not Iresh in our recollection— and this hint ot the editor of the “ East Alaba mian” may lead us to infer "how it was done!” Look out for the Knaves !—We trust that our friends in the western border counties ot Georgia arc on the alert, and will defend their ballot-boxes from the polluting touch of the Alabama Polkats. Troup, Heard, and the counties directly north of them, may expect a perfect inundation ol fraudulent voters from Ran dolph and Benton, in this Stale. Will our friends take efficient measures to guard the pre cincts on the State line? Hire a guard, Whigs of Troup, and place them wherever there is dan ger. It help is needed, send lor the young Whigs of Chambers, and unless we greatly mistake, money or active hands can b* hail to assist you. Prepare for the 4th, anddoso speed iiy- The Ohio State Journal has the following. It records facts which are common everywhere: ’■ Many of the Germans voted, on Tuesday, according to their honest convictions, and not as expected and demanded by the demagogues who seek to make use of them. Since the elec tion, they have been denounced without measure, by the very men who smiled and fawned on theta while they had a hope of securing their votes. Before the election, they could speak very blandly of “the honest Germans now, with scorn and disgust in every feature, they speak of the ” Black Dutch” ol the South Ward. In view of such things, several ot them have al ready left them, and pledged themselves for ‘Harry of the West” on the Ist of November." China A letter received at Boston, dated at Calcutta, August 17, bas tbe following, -which we do not believe entitled to credit: “Calcutta, August 17.—We have a report from Macoa that all the factories (at Canton) have been burned. 1 don’t know il true. There hare been riots tb«r«; I know.”
