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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.”
