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NEWS & PLANTERS’ GAZETTE. D.. COTTIXfi, Editor. No. 7.—NEW SERIES.] NEWS & PLANTERS’ GAZETTE. terms: Published weekly at Three Dollars per annum, if paid at the time of subscribing; or Three Dollars and Fifty Cents, if not paid till the expi ration of six months. • ‘ No paper to be discontinued, unless at the option of the Editor, without the settlement of all arrearages. Advertisements, not exceeding one square, first insertion, Seventy-five Cents; and for each sub sequent insertion, Fifty Cents. A reduction will he made of twenty-five per cent, to those who advertise by the year. Advertisements not limited when handed in, will be inserted till for bid, and charged accordingly. U“ Letters, on business, must be post paid, to Jinsure attention. No communication shall be published, unless tee arc made acquainted u itli the name of the author. Sales of Land and Negroes by Executors, Ad ministrators, and Guardians, are required by law, to be advertised, in a public Gazette, sixty days previous to the day of sale. The sales of Personal Property must be adver tised in like manner, forty days. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must be published/orfy days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary, for leave to sell Land or Ne groes, must be published weekly for four months; notice that application will be made for letters of Administration, must be published thirty days; and Letters of Dismission, sLc months. THE FOLLOWING GENTLEMEN WILL FORWARD THE NAMES OF ANY WHO MAY WISH TO SUUSCEIBF. : J. T. G. H. Woolen, A. D. Ntetliam,Danburg, Mallorysville, It. F. Tatom, Lincoln- Fetix G. Edwards, Pe- ton, tersburg, Elbert, O. A. Luckelt, Crawford- Gen. Oner, Raytown, ville, Taliaferro, W. Davenport, I.exing- James Beil, Powelton, ton, Hancock, .S'. J. Bush, Jrwington, Wm. B. Nelms, Elbcr- Wilkinson, ton, Dr. Cain, Cambridge, John A. Simmorts , tio- * Abbeville’ District, slien, Lincoln, South Carolina. 05” We are authorized to announce Mr. JAMES BENTLEY, a Candidate for RE CEIVER and tax Collector for the County of Wilkes,- at the ensuing election. — July 16. 46 ts 05” We are authorized to announce Major JAMES B. LANDEItS, a Candi date for RECEIVER and TAX COL LECTOR for Wilkes County, at the elec tion in January next.—Sept. 17. (3) ff. 05” We authorized to announce Mr. JOSEPH J, POLLARD, as a Candidate at the ensuing election, for REfEIjLER and TAX COLLECTOR for the" County of Wilkes- — Sept. 24. (4) ts. 05” We are authorized to announce Mr. J. C. WILLIAMSON as a Candidate, at the election in January next, for RECEIVER and TAX COLLECTOR for the County of Wilkes.—Oct. 1. (5) ts. 05” We are authorized to announce Mr. HARDEN WOODRUFF, as the Harrison Candidate for CORONER, at the ensuing election. —Oct. 1. (5) (tT JYotice This, ~0 ALL persons who have borrowed money from JANE DANIEL, by CUNNINGHAM DANIEL deceased, are requested to make set tlement with SIMEON C. ELLINGTON, in Washington; or with ROBERT C. DANIEL ) Administrators D. W. McJUNKIN, S os C. Daniel. Oct- 1, 1840. (5) 4t. TOWN RESIDENCE FOR SALE. milE Subscriber has it in contemplation to re turn to his Plantation, and, therefore, offers his Town Property for sale; consisting of a FOUR ACRE LOT, with a large and conve- n.._a nient DWELLING HOUSE, eight fire-places, the necessary out-houses, JJjJgKi and a never failing well of excellent A water. Ibthe purchaser wishes, he can have Twenty thrco Acres of wood-land, well set with timber, six or eight hundred yards from the lot. Further particulars are not necessary, as the purchaser will examine for himself. , FRANCIS McLENDON. Sept. 24,1840. (4) ts. For Sale, A PLANTATION, THIRTEEN MILES FlfbM COLUMBUS, ON THE LAGRANGE ROAD. THE Subscriber would sell low and upon ac commodating terms, a PLANTATION, 13 miles from Columbus, on the Lagrange road, containing TWO HUNDRED ACRES of LAND ; forty acres of which were cleared last year. There are nnon the premises a n-A good Dwelling House, and every ne cessary outhouse ; and well supplied JJJjHj* with good water. For further particulars, apply to A. R. LYON. October 8, 1840. (6) s.m.3m. WAREHOuIPiiwHioMMISSION BUSINESS. undersigned have jsso ©Msß ciated themselves in the */) 7*l ;3j£HEWAREHOUSE and MISSION BUSINESS in the City of Augusta, under the Firm of BUSTIN & WALKER. They have leased the Warehouse lately occu pied by Captain A. they will be pleased to attend to any business confided to their care. EDWARD BUSTIN. JAMES B. WALKER. Augusta, Sept. 17,1840. (4) st. WASHINGTON, (WILKES’ COUNTY, GA.,) OCTOBER 15. IS 10. Segars ! ! have appointed Mr. WM JOHNSON, * * of this place, our agent lor the SALE ol SEGARS in this section of the State. They are WARRENTED TO SMOKE FREE,and lobe of as FINE FLAVOR ns they are represented, which our customers may rely upon. The Segars are of approved brands, and are offered at wholesale or retail. LASH & BROTHERS, Bethania, Oct 1, 1840. 5 North Carolina. Fast JYotice, ALL persons indebted to us, either by or OPEN ACCOUNT, are requested to come forward, and pay up without delay. We shall place all debts due to’ us in the hands of an Attorney for suit, on the first day of January next; therefore,- those who do not wish to pay cost, &c., can call on us and settle. LAWRENCE & PETEET. Washington, Oct 8. (6) ts. MISCELLMEOT?^ From Alison’s Principles of Population. DESTRUCTION OF LIFE IN AN CIENT WARS. Accustomed as we are to the effects of war in civilized times, when the most bloody contests are followed by an increase in the numbers of the people, it is difficult to form a conception of the desolation which it produced in barbarous ages, when the void produced by the sword is not supplied by the impulse of public tranquillity. A few facts will show its prodigious influence in former ages. It is ascertained by an exact compu tation, that when the three great capitals of Khorassa were destroyed by Timour, 4,347,000 persons were put to the sword. At the same time, 700,000 people were slain in the city of Monsui, which had risen in the neighborhood of the ancient Ninevah; and the desolation produced a century and a half before by the sack of Genghis Khan, had been at least as great. Such were the ravages of this mighty conqueror and his Mogul followers, in the country between the Caspian and the In dus, that they almost exterminated the inhabitants ; and live subsequent centuries have been unable to repair the ravages of four years. An army of 500,000 Moguls, under the stms of Genghis, so completely laid waste the provinces to the north of the Danube, that they have never since regained their forme? number; and in the famine conse quent upon the irruption of the same barba rians into the Chinese empire, 13,000,000 are computed to have perished. During the invasions of Timour, twelve of the most flourishing cities of Asia, in cluding Delhi, Ispahan, Bagdad, and De mascus, were utterly destroyed; and pyramids of human heads, one of which contained 90,000 skulls, erected on their ruins. During thirty-two years of the reign of Justinian, the barbarians annually made an incursion into the Grecian empire, and they carried offor destroyed, at an average, oh each occasion, 200,000 persons. Nor was the depopulation of the southern and western provinces less during the same disastrous period. In the wars of Belisarius, in A'frica, 5,000,000 of its inhabitants are computed, by a contemporary writer, to have perished —and during the contest between that illustrious warrior and his successor, and the barbarian arms in Italy, the yffiole Gothic nation and nearly 15,000,000 which followed those sanguinary contests carried off still greater numbers than the sword ; and during the 52 years that it desolated the Roman 1 empire, it is said to have destroyed 100,000,000 of inhabitants. RAILROADS IN THE UNITED STATES. The Journal of the Franklin’ Institute contains srdetailed account of thfe railroads in a number of the Sitates, with fSe length, costs, Ac., from the tables of which the Na tional Gazette gives the following : In Pennsylvania, the number of railroads are 36; the number of miles opened, 576|; the total length of road, miles; and the amount already expended, $15,640,450. In Virginia, the Carolina*, Georgia, and Florida, there are 23 roads, and 994 miles opened; total length, 1,675 j miles. Amount expended, $18,442,000. In Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky, there are 27 roads—l9s miles ift operation ; total length of roads, 1,148;) miles. Already expended, $9,621,000. In Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Illinois, there are 29 roads—l 96 miles in opera tion ; total length of roads, 2,821 j miles. Amount expended, $5,523,640. Fe ! Faw ! ! Fum ! ! /—ln a late pa per “On Suicide,” it is said, that mar riage is, to a certain extent, a prevention of suicide. It has been satisfactorily esta blished, that among men, TWO-THIRDS WHO DESTROY THEMSELVES ARE BACHELORS! Lord bless us, how alarming ! You wouldn’t have men com mit suicide after they’re married—would you ? Surely, once is enough for a man to cut his throat.— N. O. Picayune. D’lsraeli, the younger, says:—“ A smile for your friends, and a curse for your enemies, is the only way to govern mankind.” PUBLISHED’ EVERY THURSDAY MORNING. From (He St. Ltiiits Bulletin. SINGULAR IM'ODE OF COURTING. The Rev. Dr. L -n, an emhrbfit Scotch divine,. And professor of Theology, Was re markable for absence of mind, und indiff erence to worldly affairs. His mind, wrapt up in lofty contemplations, could seldom stoop to the ordinary business rtf life, and when at any time he did attend to secular affairs, lie generally went about them in a way unlike any body else, as the history of his courtship will show. He was great ly beloved by his elders and congregation ; was full of simplicity and sincerity, and entirely unacquainted with the etiquette of the world. Living the solitary, comfort-’ less life of a bachelor, his elders gave hint frequfetit hints, that his domestic happiness would be much increased by his taking to himself a wife, and pointed out several young ladies in his congregation, any one of which might lie a fit match, or compan ion for him. The elders, finding all the hints had no 1 effect in rousing the doctor to the using of the means, preliminary to en tering into a matrimonial alliance, at last concluded to wait upon him, and stir him’ up to the performance of his duty. They urged on him the advantages of marriage —its happiness—spoke of it as a divine in stitution, and as affording all the pleasures of friendship ; all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and, in short, all the sweets of domestic life. The doctor approved of all they said, and apologized for his past neglect of duty on account of many difficult passages of Scripture he had of late been attending tct, and promised to look after it, “the first convenient season.” The elders, however, were not to he put off any longer; they insisted on the doctor at once making use of the means, and requested from him a promise that, on Monday afternoon, he would straightway visit the house ofa wid ow lady, a few doors from him, who had three pretty daughters, and who were the most respectable in the doctor’s congrega tion. To solve any difficult passage in the hook of Genesis—reconcile apparent dis crepances, or clear up a knotty text, would have been an easy and an agreeable task to the doctor, compared with storming the widow’s premises. But to the arising of the siege the doctor must go, and, with great gravity and simplicity, gentle reader, you can image you see him commencing the work. After the usual salutations were over, he said Mrs. W n “my Session have of late been advising me to take a wife, and recommending me to call upon you ; and as you have three fine daughters, I would like to say a word to the eldest, if you have no objections. Miss W n enters, and the Doctor, with his characteristic sim plicity, said to her “my Sessiou have been advising me to take a wife, and recom mended me to call upon you.” The young lady who had seen some thirty summers was not to be caaght so easily ; she laugh ed heartily at the Doctor’s abrubtness ; hinted to him that in making a sermon, was it not necessary to say something first to in troduce the subject properly before he en tered fully upon it; and as for her part she determined not to surrender her liberty at a moment’s warning—“the honor of her sex was concerned in her standing out.”— This was all a waste of time to the Doctor, and he requested to see her sister. Miss E. W n then entered, and to save time the Doctor says, “my Session have been advising me to take a wife, and I had been speaking to your sister who has just gone out at the door, and as she is not inclined that way, what would yon think of being Mrs. L n.” “Oh! Doctor! I don’t know, it is rather a seriousfquestion. Mar riage you know binds one for life, and it should not be rashly entered into—l \U)uld not consent without taking time to deliber ate upon it.’ My time, says the Doctor, is so much occupied, and as my Session has said so much to me, on the business I must finish it to day, if I can, so you had best tell your mother to send in your young est sister to speak to me. In a moment comes the honest, lively Miss Mary W “come away iny child, it is getting on in the afternoon, and I must get home to my studies; I have been speaking to both of your sisters on a little business, arttd they have declined' —I am a man of few words, and without mispending presious time, what would you think of being made Lrs. L n I —lndeed, I always thought a deal of you Doctor, and if ray mother does not say against it I have no objections. — The Doctor left Miss Mary in a few min utes, enjoining her to fix the day, for any would suit him, but to send him up word a day before- The Doctor was scarcely home till a keep dispute arose in the family among the three young ladies, all claiming the Doc tor. The eldest one said the offer was first made to her, and she did not positively re fuse. The second declared that she wish ed’ only a little more time to think upon it; and the youngest insisted that it was com pletely settled with her. The mother of the young ladies was in such a difficulty with her daughters, that she was obliged to call upon the Doetor himselfto settle the dispute. She called, and the Reverend Doctor, in his characteristic way said, — “My dear Mrs. W n, 1 am very fond of peace in families ; it is all the same thing to me, which of them, and just settle it among yourselves, and send me up word.” The Doctor was married to the youngest, and one of his sons is at this day a respect able clergyman, “in the land of the moun tain and the flood.” SLAUGHTER OF ELEPHANTS. Elephant shooting is commonly practised in Ceylon by a single spoilsman, with ortl v a steady servant or two to hold his spaj'e gunsaitd stand by him. Thus equip ped, ho will boldly encounter a whole herd. Thus provided, Captains R —and K both now of the Ceylon rifles, 1 went out shooting together, and fell in with a herd of six. , The elephants made tor | the jungle, and were pursued by both offi cers ; hut Captain R being the youngest and the most active of the two, gained upon them and lost sight of his friend, and while j toiling up a hill, heard three double barrels j ftred in rapid succession', pnd,on reaching the scene of action, found Captain It coolly reloading, with five dead elephants i around him. In the end of 1836, or the be ginning of 1837, five gcntlei'M'ii in Ceylon, j who are known to us, killed, in the course ; of five days shooting in the jungle,•no’ less ! than 104 elephants ! The gentlemdtt who was the best shot and the must active of the party (he had killed about thirty the first day,) was taken ill anil Obliged to leave the party on tlie third day. Two of the remai ning sportsmen had not much experience, and consequently coulu not he expected to \ do much. The feat of Lieut. G **, of the 90th, is well known here. This gentle man killed 83 to his own gun, and that too on his first trip. Several gentlemen in Cey lon, who are in the habit of practising ele phant shooting, think nothing of killing fifty in the course of four or five days. There are those amongst them who are ready to bet (and who will he backed for arty sum of money) that they will individually kill fifty elephants in one week. The directions \ for killing an elephant are simple enough, i In fact, pluck and coolness are the chief re- j quisites. For front shot allow the brute to j come within twelve yards, and then hit j him somewhere in the line from temple to j temple, not below the level of the eye, and 1 notmorethan two inches above it—lie will in most cases fall instantaneously. Fora j side or slanting shot, the butt of the ear or | just before it on the temple,are deadly shots, j We have known an elephant, when in the j actof running away, killed at twenty yards, by a diagonal shot taking him behind the ear. As for firing into the body or neck, or upper parts of the head, or lower down than the trunk, it only serves to infuriate the animal, and does hot give the most re mote chance of killing him. No elephant shooter eVer thinks of pulling trigger beyond fifteen or sixteen yards. Thousands of ele phants have been killed here by single balls fired according to the above directions ; Capt. R , above mentioned, has killed upwards of five hundred, ami we could take on us to say without expending a single —not to say “ salvo”—of either round or grape. Perhaps the proof of the little risk that is run by encountering these animals, is, that only two European sportsmen have lost their lives by elephant shooting in sd many years. —Ceylon Herald. PUBLIC SPEAKERS. When you mount the stage, be puzzled to know where to put your hat. Look round as though you were quite cool and collect ed, and suddenly put your hat upon the floor. Turn then to the audience—-pass your fingers lightly and gracefully through your hair, and say—Feller Citizens”—- Extend your right hand—put your left on your vest, on which ever side it might be your private opinion that your heart lies— swell out your chest ds though all the God desses of Liberty in the world had left their respective Countries, had taken hoard and lodging in’your expansive bosom, and Were now struggling to find their way out at the front door. Repress their generous efforts for a little While, and then out with them in a blaze of g lory. The effect will be tre mendous. At a Whig meeting at New Bedford, Capt. McKenzie, who commanded the whale boat on thi; cruize to Bunker Hill, being called oti for a whale story, related the fol lowing : He said, that in his last whaling voyage he had a boat named “ Daniel Webster,” which was always remarkably successful. Whenever she fastened to a whale, it was sure death. Off Cape Horn he spoke aU. S. man-of-war, which gave him a file of the Globe,- and having leisure he perused them with great attention, and relying upon their assertions, he came to the conclusion that the Whigs were a mutinous set of fel lows, and ordered a boy, who went in his boat to erase the name of “Daniel Webster,” and paint over it that of “ Martin Van Bu ren.” The boy happened to be a good Whig, and neglected to obey the order, un til it had been repeated the third time, when the captain told him if it was not done by the next day they should be obliged to have a round turn together. The thing was done. “ And,” exclaimed the gallant cap tain, “ I could never after that get the boat within a mile and a half of a whale !” A lady was recently teaching a boy to spell. The boy spelt, c-o-l-d, but could not pronounce it. In vain his teacher asked him to think and try. At last she asked him— “ What do you get when you go out upon the wet sidewalk on a rainy day, and wet your feet ?” “ I gets a whipping.” Any man so base as to strike a woman should be placed on the back of a hard trot ting horse, and made to collect newspaper accounts for the balance of his life. I ANTI-VAN BUREN TICKET. FOR PRESIDENT : WILLIAM 11. HAUL ISON. . ’ KOII VICK PRESIDENT : JOHN TYLER. IF® OS ELECTORS, (Os President and Vice President.) ELECTION ON THE SECOND OF NOVEMBER. GEORGE R. GILMER, of Oglethorpe, Gen. BUNCAN L. CLINCH, of Camden, Cm.. JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of Muscogee, M*J. JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hancock, CHARLES DOUGHERTY, of Clark. SEATON Git\NTLAND. oj Baldwin, Gen. ANDREW MILLER, of Cass, Gen. VV. W. EZ//ARD. of De Kalb, C. I!. STRONG, of Bibb. JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Burke, Gen. E. WIMBERLY, of Twiggs “ Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the. Slate of Kentucky, That, in the late campaign against, the Indians upon the Wabash, Governor William Henry Harrison has behaved like a hero, a patriot, and a general ; and that for his cool, delibe rate, skillful, and gallant conduct in the battle j of Tippecanoe, he well deserves the warmest thanks nf his country and his nation.” Legislature of Kentucky, Jan. 7, 1812. j “ General Harrison has done more for his I country, with less compensation for it, than ! any man living.” President Madison. “ I profess to be somewhat acquainted with the history of General Harrison’s political, j military, and private life. 1 am his neighbor, and live in his county. As to his private life, 1 know of no stain that for a moment sullies | him.” Dr. Duncan, of Ohio. Colonel Richard M. Johnson, now Vice Pre sident of the United Htates, 6aid, in Congress: “ Who is General Harrison ! The son Os one of the signers of the Declaration of Indepen dence, who spent the greater part of his large fortune in redeeming the pledge he then gave, of his ‘ fortune, life, and sacred honor,’ to se cure the liberties of his country. “ Os the career of General Harrison, I need not speak; the history of the West is his his tory. For forty years he has been identified with its interests, its perils, and its hopes. Universally beloved in the walks of peace, and distinguished by his ability in the coun cils of his country, he has been yet more illustriously distinguished m the field. Dur ing the late war, he was longer in actual service than any other General Officer; he was, perhaps, oftener in action than any one of them, and never sustained a defeat.” Colonel R. M. Johnson to General Harrison, July 4,1813, says : “ We did not want to serve under cowards or traitors; but under one [Harrison] who had proved himselfto be wise, prudent, and brave.” On (he night before the final question on the Missouri restriction was taken, General Har rison was warned by one of his associates, that if he voted against the restriction, he would ruin his popularity at the North ; he fearlessly replied:— “ I have often risked my life in defence of my country —I will now risk my political po pularity in defence of the union.” General Wm. H. Harrison says : “ In all ages, and in all countries, it has been observed, that the cultivators of the soil are those who are the least willing to part with their rights, and submit them to the will of a master.” On the subject of selling white men for debt. General Harrison says, in a letter to Mr. Pleasants: “ So far from being willing to sell men for debts, which they are unable to discharge, l am, and ever have been, opposed to all impri sonment for debt.” In a letter, on the same subject, to the Editor of the Cincinnati Advertiser, he says: “ Far from advocating the abominable prin ciples attributed to me by your correspondent, I think that imprisonment tor debt, under any circumstance but those where fraud is alleged, is at wai with the best principles nf our Con stitution, and ought to be abolished.” In a speech at Cheviot, Ohio, on the 4th of July, 1833, General Harrison made use of the follow ing language : “ There is, however, a subject now beginning to alarm them, in relation to which, if their alarm has any foundation, the relative situation in which they may stand to some of the States, will be the very reverse to what it now is. I allude to a supposed disposition in some individuals in the non-slaveholding States, to interfere with the slave population of the other States, for the pur- 1 pose of forcing their emancipation. * * * * i If there is any principle of the Constitution of the United States less disputable than any ! other, it is, that the slave population is under the exclusive control of the States which possess them. * * * * What must be the conse quence of an acknowledged violation of these rights, (for every man of sense must admit it to be so,) conjoined with an insulting interference with their domestic concerns! * * * * j Is there a mail vain enough to go to tiie land j of Madison, of Macon, and of Crawford, and tell ! them that they cither do not understand the j principles of the moral and political rights of man; or that, understanding, they disregard them ! Can they address an argument to the interest or fears of the enlightened population of the slave States, that has not occurred to themselves a thousand and a thousand times! To whom, then, are they to address themselves but to the slaves ! And what can be said to them, that will not lead to an indiscriminate slaughter of every age and sex, and ultimately to their own destruction! Should there be an incarnate devil who has lma- 11. J. KAPPEL, Printer. gined with approbation,iuch a catastrophe to his itdlow-citizens as 1 have described, let him look to those for whose benefit he w ould produce it * * * I will not stop to inquire into the motives of those who are engaged in this fatal and unconsti tutional project. There may become who have embarked in it without properly considering its consequences, and w-lio are actuated .by benevol ent and virtuous principle?. Bid, if such there are, 1 am very certain that,should they continue their present cOurse, their fellow-citizehs will, ere long, * curse the virtues which have undone their country.’ ********* It I am correct in the principles here ad vanced, 1 support my assertion, that the discus sion on the subject of emancipation in the non slaveholtfmg States, is equally injurious to the slaves and their masters, and that it has no sanc sion in the principles of the Constitution.” In a speech, delivered at Vincennes, Indiana, (when General Harrison was before the people as a candidate fur the Presidency,) speakingof the abolitionists, he says : “ 1 have now, fellow-citizens, a few- out wore to say on another subject, and w ! . ,in my opinion, of more importance than her that is now in the coune of discussion my part of the Union. I allude t the ... rues which have been formed, and the ‘ m , milts of certain individuals, in some oi the Slates, in rela tion to a portion of the population in others. The conduct of these persons is the most dangerous, because their object is masked under the garb of disinterestedness and benevolence; and their course vindicated by arguments and propositions which in the abstract no one can deny. But, however fascinating may be the dress with which their schemes are presented to their fellow citizens, with whatever purity of intention they may have been formed and sustained, they will be found to carry in their train mischief to the whole Union, and horrors to a large portion of it which it is probable some of the projectors, and many of their supporters, have never thought of; the latter, the first in the series of evils which are to spring from this source, are such as you have read of to have been perpetrated on the fair plains of Italy and Gaul by the Scythian hordes of Atilla and Alaric; and such as most of you ap prehended upon that memorable night, when the tomahawks and war-clubs of the followers of Te cumseh were rattling in your suburbs. 1 regard not the disavowals of any such intentions upon the part of the authors of these schemes, since, upon the examination of the publications which have been made, they will be found to contain every fact and every argument which would have been used if such had been their objects. lam certain that there is not in this assembly one of these deluded men, and there are few within the bounds of the State. If there are any, I would earnestly entreat them to forbear, to pause in their career, and deliberately consider the conse quences of their conduct to the whole Union—to the States more immediately interested, and to those for whose benefit they profess to act. That the latter will be the victims of the weak, injudi cious, presumptuous, and unconstitutional efforts to serve them, a thorough examination of the sub ject must convince them. The struggle (and struggle there must be) may commence with horrors such as I have described, but it will end with more firmly riveting the chains, or in the utter extirpation of those whose cause they ad vocate. Am I wrong, fellow-citizens, in apply ing the terms weak, presumptuous, and uncon stitutional, to the measures of the emancipators 1 A slight examination will, I think, show that I am not” The following paragraph, from a memoir of General Harrison, by J. R. Jackson, Esq., bears valuable testimony to his religious character: “An incident which occurred at Philadelphia, will serve to illustrate his character. On the evening preceding a Sabbath he was to spend in that city, two gentlemen waited on him, and stated, that there were two sects there, more nu merous than others ; and, therefore, it would be good policy in him to attend one of these sects in the morning and the other in the afternoon. ‘ Gentlemen,’ he replied, ‘ I thank you sincerely for your kindness, but I have already promised to attend divine service to-morrow ; and when I go to church, I go to worship God, and not to electioneer.’ ” In a letter to the Hon. Sherrod Williams, dated “ North Bend, May 1, 1836,” General Harrison says: “ I have before me a newspaper, in which I am designated by its distinguished editor, ‘ the bank and federal candidate.’ I think it would puzzle the writer to adduce any act of my life which warrants him in identifying me with the interests of the first, or the politics of the latter.” POLITICAL! From the Chronicle and Sjpnunt WILFUL AND DEL ilF.ilA i, SLANDER. “ 1 am not unwilling to belie- . that many of the Southern Whigs cordially hate abo lition—although 1 cannot help suspecting that some of them would like to see raging its threatened storms, in the delusive hope of attaining, amid the general confusion, some personal distinction.” Dallas’ Letter. Remarking on the above, and another similar extract from the late letter of G. M. Dallas, the Fredericksburg (Va.) Arena says: “ The insinuation here made, that any Southern Whig would be so false to him self, to his family, to his own interests, to his country, as to wish to see the consum mation of the fell schemes of the fanatical abolitionists, and that for ‘ personal distinc tion,’ is a base and infamous slander—such as could have been uttered by no one but a fool or the lowest party hack. In another place, he says, ‘ they, (the abolitionists,) do not, perhaps, constitute the whole of the opposition.’ Mark this perhaps. Os the Southern States, three-fourths are well known to be in opposition, and will vote for General Harrison, and yet this well paid partizan has the audacity to do more than insinuate that abolitionism and opposition to Van Buren are identical.” BETS are offered in Philadelphia, and not taken up, that Harrison will carry Pennsylvania by 15,000 votes. (VOLUME XXVI.