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NEWS & PEANTEItS 9 GAZETTE. ID. G. COTTIMW, Editor. No, 51.—NEW SERIES.] News and Planters' 1 Gazette. * .• ‘ TERMS: Published weekly at Two Dollars and Fifty Centi per annum, it paid at the time of Subscri bing ; or Three Dollars if not paid till the expi ration of three months. No paper to be discontinued,unless at the option of the Editor, withoutthe settlement of all arrearages. iOT f, liters, on business, may/ bopvs(paidjlo insure attention. No communication shall be published, unless we are made acquainted with the name of the author. TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisements, notexceedingone square,first insertion, Seventy-Jive Cents; and for each sub sequent insertion, Fifty Cents. A reduction will be 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. 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 forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary, for leave to sell Land or Ne groes, must be published for Jour months— notice that application will be made for letters of Administration, must be published thirty days; and Letters of Dismission, six months. Mail ilrrangemeßts. POST OFFICE, ) Washington, Ga., Sept. 1, 1843. ) EASTERN MAIL. By this route, Mails are made up for Raytown, Double-Wells, Crawfordville, Camack, Warren ton, Thompson, Dearing, and Barzelia. ARRIVES. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 9, A. M. CLOSES. Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at I£, P. M WESTERN MAIL. By this route, Mails are made up for all Offi ces in South-Western Georgia, Alabama, Mis sissippi, Louisiana, Florida, also Athens, Ga. and the North-Western part of the State. arrives —Wednesday and Friday, by 6 A. M. closes —Tuesday and Thursday, at 12 M. abbeviLle, S.C. MAIL. By this route, Mails are made up lor Danbury, Pistol Creek, and Petersburg. arrives. Tuesdays Thursday, and Saturday, by 1 P. M. CLOSES. - Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 6A. M. LEXINGTON MAIL. .By this route, Mails are made up for Centre ville, State Rights, Scull-shoals, and Salem. arrives —Monday and Friday, at 9 A. M. closes —Tuesday and Saturday, at 9 A. M. APPLING MAIL. By this route, Mails are made up for Wrights boro’, White Oak, Walker’s Quaker Springs. arrives —Tuesday and Saturday, by 9 A. M. closes —Monday aud Friday, at 9 A. M. ELBERTON MAIL. By this route, Mails are made up for Mallo rysville, Gsosepond, Whites, Mill-Stone, llarri sonville, and Ruckersville. Arrives Thursday 8 P. M., and Closes same time. LINCOLN TON MAIL. By this route, Mails are made up for Rehoboth, Stoney Point, Goshen, Double Branches, and Darby’s. Arrives Friday, 12 M. | Closes same time. O’ The Letter Box is the proper place to de posits all matter designed to lie transported by Mail, and such as may be found there at the times above specified, will be despatched by first pOst. COTTING & BUTLER, ATTORNIES, HAVE taken an OFFICE on the North side of the Public Square, next door to the Branch Bank of the State of Georgia. October, 18-13. 28 NELSON CARTER, DEALER IN Choice Drugs and Medicines, Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Surgical and Dental Instruments, Perfumery, Brushes, Paints, Oils, Dye-Stuffs, Window Glass, ts-c. <s*c- RED MORTAR. | AUGUSTA. Ga. October 12, 1843. ly 7 HAVILAND, RISLEY & Cos. Near the Mansion House, Globe and United States Hotels, AUGUSTA, GA., DEALERS IN CHOICE DRUGS AND MEDICINES, ‘ Surgical and Dental Instruments, Chemicals, Patent Medicines,. Perfumery K Oils, Window Glass, Stuffs, See. See. t; Being connected with Haviland, Keese & Cos., New-York, and Hav taßTff iland, Harral & Allen, Charles ton, they are constantly receiving SSSIW f res h supplies of every article in ihsirTme, which they are enabled to sell at the lowest market prices. EP All goods sold hy them, warranted to be of the quality represented, or may be returned. Augusts, August 1843 31 j THE HORSE AND HIS RIDER. BY LAURIE TODD. “ Up hill, indulge him—down the deep descent, Spare—and don’t urge him when his strength is Impel him briskly o’er the level earth, [spent; But in his stable don’t forget bis worth.” Many who keep horses are. not aware that they are thinking animals, and have feelings, passions, and affections very much like human beings, although they cannot talk. People who do not appreciate the character of them, are apt to treut him without love or mercy, and without any ap peal to his natural intelligence. “ The horse knoweth his owner,” and much more; he knows when he is used as a horse should he; and in respect to treat ment, the Turk and Aral) have much the advantage of many Christians I could name. The Pagans make friends of their horses—they love each olher—and on the sandy desert, or the wild plain, they lie down side hy side, and each is equally ready to resist the approach of an enemy. A horse may be taught like a child by those who have who have won his affec tions ; but the method of teaching is by siiowing distinctly what you wish him to do, not by beating him because he does not understand and perform the utmost of all you desire. Horses, like men, have very different intellectual capacities and tem pers ; but all may be mastered by kindness, while the best, the most high-spirited, and the most generous, will be ruined by harsh l treatment. At the circus, you have occular demon stration that the horse understands the lan guage of man, and man may learn more virtues than one if he will observe the hab its of a horse. “Ask the beast, he will teach thee!” To illustrate the position that a horse, by kindness, may become as docile and as fond of his master as a dog, 1 will tell the readers in the New World something of my horse, Billy. I was out with him be fore a light wagon; and on a part of the u'ay a fence was being made with lime, and the road was encumbered with large stone, lime barrels, carts ox chains, &c., which rendered it almost impassable, even by daylight. I was detained beyond my expectations, and by the time 1 arrived at this dangerous spot, on my return, it was so dark that l could not diminish the head of my horse. I thought of getting out to lead him; but this was impossible, as the frost was coming out of the ground, and had I left the wagon 1 should have sunk to tile knees in mire. When wo came to this spot, Billy stopped of Ids own accord.— “ Now,” Billy said I, “ I can’t see and can’t walk; you must try and not upset me.” So saying 1 slacked the reins, and gave him his own way. It was a ticklish job, but he managed it nobly ; he stopped now and then and made a survey, as care fully as did the men who run the boundary line two years ago ; he turned, and tack ed, and wore ship like an old seaman among breakers, & brought me out as safe as a steamer, beyond the overslaugh.— “Well done, Billy,” said I. “You shall have a good bed and four quarts of oats, as soon as we got home. While I kept talking, he was at a slow pace as if listen ing. “Now, Billy,” said I, “ye may gang yer ain gait.” lie clapped his feet to the ground—he is a racker—and in ten minutes we were at home. As I was ta king off his harness, I kept patting and praising him occasionally, and then made a comfortable bed and gave him his oats, for which he seemed more grateful than some of those two legged gentry who scour the third avenue, for they neither thank God nor man. Billy is a white Canadian Poney. I have fed him for ten years past with my own hands and generally caress and talk to him while feeding, so that now he seems to un derstand every word I say as well as if he had been born in Scotland. Sometimes he cuts up a few capers in the clover field, and will let no one approach him, but as soon as I go out and call him by name, he comes stepping gingerly along, as sober as an old continental bishop. The war horse, the race-horse, and the horses in the circus, all partake of the feel ings of their rider; yet this noble animal is more abused by a set of twa legged brutes than perhaps any other animal that treads upon four feet. To induce rationul beings to treat their horses with kindness, (fora merciful man is merciful even to his neighbor’s beast,) I will give you a few an ecdotes to illustrate his sound sense, do cile qualities and attachment to his mas ter. Some years ago, a baker in London hav ing purchased an old horse, placed a pair of panniers on his back next morning, fill ed with bread, and, mounting himself, sal lied forth to supply his customers. One day happening to pass the gate at Hyde Park just at the moment the trumpet was sounding for the regiment of Life Guards to “fall in,” no sooner did the sound as sail the animals ears, than he instantly, in spite of his master’s resistance, dashed like lightning through the park, with the baker on his back, into the midst of the regiment. The poor baker was sadiy confounded at this adventure, and began to whip, kick, spur and swear, but all to no purpose ; the poor old charger was so animated at the sound of the soul-stirring trumpet, that to move him from his station was impossible. The soldiers were much amused at tho gro tesque appearance of the baker, and his horse’s deportment, and were expressing PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING. WASHINGTON, (WILKES COUNTY, GA.,) AUGUST 15, 1841. their surprise, when on old comrade recog nized the animal as having formerly be longed to the regiment, but had been dis charged some years previous, on account of an infirmity. Several of the officers kindly greeted their old companion, and the colonel, delighted with the circum stance, gave the signal to advance in line, I when finding all his resistance, useless, the baker calmly resigned himself to his situation-; the trumpet then sounded the charge, and the baker was carried between bis panniers to a great distance, with the rapidity of the wind. Various other evo lutions were performed, in which the ani mal displayed his martial spirit and disci plinc with the best of them. At length the sound of retreat was given, when off went the sagacious creature contented, having performed his duty in the field. In another regiment of cavalry was a horse of great spirit and beauty, which from age, had lost his teeth. The two hor ses which stood on the right and left sides in the stable would take his rations of hay arid oals and having chewed them, push the food thus prepared before their blind comrade; thus even feeding the hungry, which is more than some rational beings will do. “ Ask the beast, he will teach thee.” Some years ago, an old horse was regu larly worked in one of the royal dockyards which would labor all the morning very diligently till he heard the twelve o’clock boll ring; after that neither coaxing nor whipping could induce him to move till the laborers dinner hours had expired. He was perfectly satisfied he had performed his task without stopping an hour in the time to talk about Bonaparte and the com bined armies, as some of his twa legged companions had done and was resolved to have his dinner hour as well as the best of them. Sume months after the battle of Water loo, on the reduction of the Army, about twenty horses were to be sold from one troop belonging to the regiment of cavalry known bv the name of Scotch Greys, the horses being grey and the soldiers all Scotchmen. An officer in the troop being loth to see the noble animals—who had scattered Bounaparte’s invincibles like chaff before the wind—placed before butch ers’, bakers,’ ash and dirt-carts, and being a man of vast wealth and landed property, boughttho whole of them and turned them into a fine park, to spend their latter days in peace and comfort, like the old pension ers in Greenwich Hospital near London.— After being in the park a few weeks, there came up a thunder-storm ; at the time, the horses were busily engaged eating the grass; with the first flash of lightning the horses raised their heads, pricked up their ears, and stood in the act of listening; in a moment the sound of the thunder came roll ing from afar, when every horse galloped, each faster than his neighbor, to the centre of the field, where they fell into line as regularly as if backed by the most experi enced Life-guards. In a few minutes finding it a false alarm, they quietly re turned to their grass. Where is the man, having a soul, that can abuse such an ani mal ? I knew a gentleman, who occasionally got intoxicated, whose horse knew when his master was drunk as well as he did him self, by his vacillating motions when mounted. Upon such occasions the horse would regulate his movements so as to pre vent his master from falling, if possible.— One moonlight evening he staggered out of Cato’s, or some of tiiose hell holes near the Third Avenue, and was helped on the saddle ; but lie fell off before he had gone a mile, and his foot hung in the stirrup.— His horse stopped and stood still. Here was a theme for a picture—a comment upon the text: “Ask the beast, he will teach thee.” There stood the compassion ate horse, the big tear rolling in his eye, looking with sorrow upon his drunken mas ter, and revolving in his mind how best he should help him. At length he griped the brim of his hat with his teeth, but this gave away, and again the drunkard’s head smote the ground. He then seized hold of the collar of his coat, and thus hold him up till he was able to extricate his foot from the stirrup. His master having now be come somewhat sobered by the loss of blood and his fright, was able to mount again and keep his saddle, and arrived home safe. Soon after this the man joined the Temperance society, and is now a useful and happy man. It is now more than ten years since this occurred, but the horse is still kept and treated like one of the fami ly, and will be till he dies. I have seen a horse, at an exhibition, which upon a watch being held before him and he asked what time it was—happening to be four o’clock—struck the floor four times with his foot. A friend of mine, in Brooklyn had a horse which, when asked by his master to salute the company, will place himself against the wall and, standing upon his hand feet, nod with his head to the com pany. A friend of mine had a valuable horse stolen for which a large reward was offered and diligent search made, but to no purpose Having changed masters several times, he was at length rode by a gentleman whose business led him through the place from which the horse had been stolen, and when he came opposite his old master’s house, he marched directly up and put his head over the half door, and commenced neigh ing. His rider, kicked, spurred, coaxed, and whipped, but to no purpose; to move him was impossible. A crowd gathered -1 around him, and among these was his old (master. The rider gave a fair account ot his purchase, and so did the next and tho next, until it came to the thief, who was committed for trial. Some years ago, a favorite old hunter belonging to a gentleman in Somerset^iire, I England, being locked in the stable, and : hearing the sound of a hreneh horn and i the cry of the hounds, became very restive, j The hostler going into the stable thought I thespiiited animal wanted some sport, and instantly saddled him. and placing a large monkey upon tho saddle, turned him loose. The horse following the sound soon joined the pack, and was one of the first in at tho death of poor Reynard. But tho amaze ment of the sportsmen was greatly height ened by observing the monkey holding the reins with all the dexterity of a true spoils man. A gentleman who owned a great many horses, was in the habit of turning them loose in a field to graze in the summer.— Among them was a horse stone blind. One of tho horses attached himself to this blind horse, and whenever the blind horse strayed from his companions, this good tempered creature followed him, and hy laying his head on his neck, and other signs which they perfectly understood, would lead him ; back to his companions. And what was j still more remarkable, this horse was so gentle and peaceable that he incurred the character of a coward, when only himself was concerned, but if any of them made an attack upon his blind friend, he would fly with such fury that not a horse in tiie field could stand before him. I thought the conduct of this horse might put man to the blush. One of the horses belonging to the Ox ford Dragoons, having got loose in the sta ble, marched up a crooked staircase into the hayloft. When his rider came into the stable he was thunder-struck on missing his horse ; and flew like a madman to inform an officer of his loss ; but he had scarcely got twenty yards when the animal put his head through the pitching hole aud neighed aloud. The astonishment of the soldier and his neighbors was beyond description. Every strategem that could be devised was made use of to lead or force him down, but in vain : he saw the danger and was obsti nate. He kept trotting and snorting round the large hayloft for nearly two hours, un til at last he stepped upon a trap-door, made of thin boards, which let him down upon the floor, about eight feet, without the slight est injury. A few years since, the servant of Mr. Walker led his horses to the corner of New and Broad streets to drink, and was always followed by a fine Scotch terrier dog, which had fondly attached himself to one of the horses, and always slept under the manger, by the fore-feet of his favorite. On going tod rink one morning,the terrier was attack ed by a powerful mastiff, (the prototype of Buonaparte, the great bull-dog of murder ers,) and was in a fair way of being torn to pieces. The favorite horse, seeing the unequal contest, slipped his halter, gallop ed to the spot, and with his hind feet gave the tyrant a blow so well directed and pow erful, as to send him, head over heels, a cross the street, and down tho steps of a cel lar. Having performed this act of justice, he returned to the well, finished drinking, and then escorted his canine friend to his soft bed under the manger. Sir Walter Raleigh makes mention of a horse which lived in his lime, belonging to a Mr. Banks, of w hom it is related that he would restore a glove to its owner after his master had whispered the man’s name in his ear. When shown a piece of money, and asked how many pence it contained suppose it to be a shilling—he would strike the ground twelve times with his foot. This renowned horse is alluded toby Shakspere, in “ Love‘s Labor Lost,” Act 1, Scene 3. The following sublime description of the horse, is from the book of Job, chapter 30, v. 19. God speaking to Job, says, “Hast thou given the horse strength ? Hast thou | clothed his neck in thunder ? Canst thou ! make him afraid as a grasshopper ? The glory of his nostrils is terrible ; he paweth 1 in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength ; ! he goeth on to meet the armed men, he mocketh at fear and is not affrighted ; nei ther turneth he back from the sword ; the quiver resteth against him, the glittering spear and shield. He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage; ncilher believeth lie that it is the sound of the trum pet ; he saith among the trumpets, ha, ha ; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thun der of the captains, aud the shouting.” This eloquent description of the horse was written about 5000 years ago; yet no language could better portray his nature, though it were written the day after the bat tle of Waterloo, where the British horse contributed so much to gain that splendid victory over Buonaparte and his invinci bles. I might fill a volume with such anecdotes; but fts I intend to continue the subject, I will with a few hints on their treatment, whiejp I have learned from experience. When a horse shys, don’t beat him— that only makes him worse next time; check him to a walk, and give him time to see the object, and he will take little or no notice of it. If a horse stumbles, don’t strike him for it; that will add the fault of springing for ward ; for the next time he stumbles he will expect the lash to follow, and will natural ly spring forward to be out of its way. The remedy is in keeping a good look-out, and when yon come to a rough or stony part of | the road, tighten the reins, and enliven the i horse by talking to him, but never strike ! him after accident. As you would save the strength and wind of your horse, drive him slow up a hill; and as you would save vour own, and your | horses limbs, drive slow down a hill. Do i not feed with grain: especially corn; | when your horse is warm, or much fa. I tigued ; if you do, you may founder and I ruin him. Never wash you’ horse with cold water ; when he is hot, or let him drink f'eelv ; hut if the water is quite warm it will not hurt him. Yours, T. P6LIT IC AL. “ORATOR PUFF HAD TWO TONES TO lIIS VOICE.” The position which tho Locofoco candi date for the Presidency occupies relative to the Tariff is certainly an unenviable one. So long as views on this subject were to be applied to his own State of Ten nessee, where the Locos one and all are open in their opposition to that measure, he was safe enough. But when, with great unanimity he was nominated for the Presi dency on the ninth ballot, after all the oth er candidates had been pitched overboard, it became necessary for him, like his great prototype, Orator Puli', to assume “two tones to his voice,” on the subject of the Tariff. in his address to the people of Mecklen burg in 1843, he said—“ [ am opposed to the tariff act of the late Congress,” and “ I am in favor of repealing that act.” The Harrisburg Union, a Locofoco print, says Polk is in favor of a tariff’ that will afford the amplest incidental Protection to American Industry. The Charleston Mercury says, “ that he (Polk) is for free trade,” &c. The Harrisburg Union says, “ we hap pen to know that he (Polk) holds the doc trine of free trade in actual abhorrence.— Ife has never advocated it, and he never will.” “ A Protective Tariff,” said James K. Polk, at Jackson, Tenn., in April, 1843. “ is a measure which 1 consider ruinous to the interest of the country.” “James K. Polk,” says the Harrisburg Union, “is opposed to the disturbance of the present tariff.” “The provisions of the present tariff,” says the Nashville Union, “are viewed with abhorrence hy Gov. Polk and his friends.” “ James K. Polk,” says the Harrisburg Union, “ is opposed to the disturbance of the present tariff, believing permanence in our laws to be of incalculable value.” “Mr. Polk’s views on the tariff are Southern to the back-bone,” says the Charleston Mercury—that is, he is for Free Trade. “Mr. Polk holds the doctrine of free trade in actual abhorrence,” says the Har risburg Union. “I am opposed to the Tariff’ act—l am in favor of its repeal—l view its provision with abhorrence—l am for free trade—l consider a Protective tariff injurious to the interests of the country,” says James K. Polk. “1 am in favor of a tariff with reason able incidental protection—l hold the doc trine of free trade in unqualified abhor rence—l never advocated free trade and never will—l am opposed to the disturb ance of the present tariff, believing perma nence in the laws to be of incalculable value. lam in favor of the amplest inci dental protection to domestic industry—l am the special friend of the coal and iron interest,” says James K. Polk, through his Locofoco organs; and, say they, “we state these facts upon the eery best authority. and caution the democracy against listen ing to the misrepresentations of the Coons.” Hurrah then, for Polk and free trade ! Hurrah for Polk and no free trade !! Hurrah for Polk and a Protective tariff’!'! Hurrah for Polk and no Protection !!!! [ Albany Advertiser. FACTS FOR CANDID LOCOS, 1. Every candid Locofoco should be , startled at the undisputed fact, that the mo- | ment one of the leaders of his party is pla- | ced on the bench of the United States Su- j preme Cpurt—where he is above and be- | yond the influences of party—he becomes a ; Whig in principle, and gives Whig deci sions ! 2. It should strike every candid Loco- ! fooo with amazement to reflect upon the well-known fact, that for the very first hon orable, high-minded, open-hearted act ever performed by Martin Van Buren, when a contest was going on in which his prospects were at stake—his late Texas letter—he was, by the demagogue leaders of his party, unceremoniously thrown overboard ! Too honest, for once, to answer their purposes. 3. It cannot but cause any candid Loco fooo to pause in wonder when he reflects upon the ludicrous fact, that James K. Polk, who has for years been fishing for the rep utation of being considered a free trade man, and who last year denounced the pre sent tariff from one end of the State of Ten nessee to the other, and wrote out and pub lished those denunciations, now, being un expectedly nominated for the Presidency, and wishing to get the votes of as many of the friendsof the tariff as possible, writes a soft, smooth, demagoguical letter to a tariff man in Pennsylvania, for publication, in which he professes to he in favor of a “ju* ! dieious tariff,” that will raise revenue e- ITI. J. KAPPEL, Printer. i nough to carry on the government, eco ! nomically administered, and at the same ! time afford incidental protection to our home ; industry ! 4. No candid Locofoco can retrain from [ surmising that something must he wrong ; with his candidate for the Presidency, when he ponders upon the tell-tale fact, that that j candidate is eagerly striving to borrow and : appropriate as his own, two of the cardinal ! principles supported by Mr. Ciav and the Whig party, to-wit : “ One T> rm,’’ and I “ Friendship for the Tariff.” 1 Let all candid Lrccfocos reflect upon [ these four considerations, for to them .hey I are in good faith addressed. Baltimore Patriot. “THE BLOODY MAN.” A Loco Foco editor out in Ohio, who is ! quoted by the Globe, arraigns Mr. Clay be fore the people as the “ Man of Blood.” He charges Mr. Clay in the first place, with having been horn in 1777, a blqody epoch in the history of the country : next, he charges that Mr. Clay challenged'a gentle man in 1805; next, he was challenged in 1808 ; and next, he challenged Mr. Ran dolph in 1825, but no injury except a scratch resulted from the three duels.— Next, Mr. Clay is charged with having been consulted by one of the parties to the Cillcy duel, which resulted in the death ot that gentleman; and lastly, he is charged with having been challenged by Mr. King, of Alabama, the present Minister to France, but no fight ensued ; so that the Ohio editor, backed by his worthy and pious compeer of the Globe, have only succeeded, after all their efforts, in proving that a friend of Mr. Clay has killed a man in a duel. Now, let us try Mr. Polk. It was about tho bloody period of Mr. Clay’s birth, 1777, that Mr. Polk’s grandfather, a Tory, “saved his bacon” by joining the British. But for that act of “ discretion,” which he thought “ the better part of valor,” the Lo cofocos in this campaign of 1844 would have been minus a candidate for the Presi dency—that is to sav, such would be their predicament unless Mr. Polk could have found his way into the world without the aid of a grandfather. It was about the year of our Lord 1812 or ’l3, that Mr. James K. Polk escaped out of Rutherford in Maury, in order to avoid the service of a draft for soldiers to fight the British—the friends and protectors of his grandfather. Mr. Polk and his grand father have improved upon the advice of Hudibras. That facetious author lias 1 in his quaint way, that He who fights aial runs away, Will live to fight another day. Mr. P., as well as his ancestor, read the couplet thus: He who runs and gets away. Will live to run another day. In the tiiird place, Mr. Polk displayed his hereditary dislike of “ vile guns,” when Mr. Wise called him “ a d—d petty ty rant,” and grossly insulted him in the House. It is true Mr. Polk’s brother lias “ killed his man” in a most brutal fight, which he provoked by striking a gentleman of weakly frame with a cowhide ; and it is likewise true that Old Hickory has kill ed two men in duels ; and that in reference to one of them, ho wrote to a friend that he had “ left the d — d rascal weltering in his blood;” and since “Young Hickory” has been thrust into the shoes of Old Hickory, he must vicariously answer for these bloody deeds- a: the bar of public opinion. But Young Hickory, in his proper person, never did and never will fight. As the representative of General Jackson, never theless, he must he held to a strict account for the blood shed by the old heto. Some persons may wonder where, upon what field, in what “ imminent deadly breech,” Mr. Polk won for himself the ap pellation of Colonel. We can inform all such, that Mr. Polk was some years since, at a time of profound peace, the command er of a regiment of Tennessee militia, and that, like his friend Crary, of Michigan, whose prowess has been celebrated by Gov. Corwin, he has won his laurels hy charg ing, sword in hand, upon a patch of water melons ; while his reputation as a tactician has been acquired by retreating out of a shower of rain into a neighboring barn.— Whig Standard. The manner in which a portion of the Lo cofoco press is crowing over professedly favorable anticipations in regard to the Presidential election, reminds us of the similar course which they pursued in 1840 even after the election of Gen. Harrison was absolutely certain. Thus we find the following evidence of the foresight and sa gacity of their nominee for the Vice Presi dency, George M, Dallas, in a letter to John Willis, Esq., of Virginia, written as late as August, 1840, declaring as follows : “I shall be surprised if Pennsylvania does not give Mr. Van Buren a majority exceed ing twenty thousand. My information jus tifies a confident expectation of the same enlightened patriotism from New Jersey, Maryland and fiorth Carolina. Os Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York and Ohio, our friends sends us ac counts which relieve us from every appre hension.” Now, when it is remembered that every one of the States, except solita ry New Hampshire, gave a majority for Harrison amounting in the aggregate to 88,042 votes, some estimate can he made of the present random calculations of the “ Democrats,” as well as of the honesty or ‘ greenness of their leaders Beg. rVOLUME XXIX. k-
