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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA. |
THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL : ).|
From, the Constitutionalist.
The abolitionists, as soon as General 1 afrison
will be placed in the presidential chair, w 11; com
mence the accomplishment of their plan Vy an
attempt to abolish slavery in the Distra c:f Co
lumhia. Are we prepared in the south to witness
such an attempt made in Congress unde the in
lluence of the executive and his counc; iors ?
Whatever way he the views of General 1 airrison,
respecting the important interests just sfo ted, he
will be obliged to follow the advice of th-; friends
who placed him in power ; and we are v ell con
vinced that those friends are not the fi|ehds of
the south; that they are neither the friends of
the democratic principles which have rlaracter
ized the southern section of the union, jl \
We cut the foregoing prediction from Con
stitutionalist of Tuesday morning. W 5 design
not only to enquire of the Constitutional sir, what
greater reason has the South to fear tli accom
plishment of the designs of the Abolitk lists un
«® der the Administration of General Harri .on, who
has long since declared that their desi :ns upon
slavery in the District of Columbia, wai uncon
stitutional—than under the Administration, of Mr.
Van Buren, who has indirectly admitted that the
abolition of slavery in the District was iconsti.u
tional, and whose only pledge to veto ch a Bill
if adopted by Congress, t is founded ipon his
views of the inexpediency of such a leasure*#
Jrfay not his views of the inexpedio; cy of the
measure be as easily overcome as those if Gener
al Harrison, who regards it not only j s inexpe
dient but also unconstitutional I —But v& design
to submit to the consideration of the Constitution
alist, the following from one of ?itiS Demo
cratic friends which we cut from th| Cayuga
Tocsin, a regular Abolition, Van l-ciRKx pa
per. Will the Constitutionalist persis lifter rea
ding t'ais document, in endeavoring to; repose up.
on its readers, by insinuating that the Abolition
ists are exclusively of the Whig pi ty at the
North ? The truth is, the Constitute realist has
no more fear of the designs of the Al ffitionists,
under an Administration of General Harrison,
than under Mr. Van Buren—but if it; ir; succeed
in making such an impression upon r, e-minds of
the people, and thereby make capital, it
is all well enough. ;
Does this letter which appears in c.ji Abolition
paper, which openly advocates Mr. 1 irj Buren’s
re-election, indicate a disposition to a Ivjance the
claims of Gen. Harrison? Does it ; all manifest
a fear that the speech of the Abolitij: list Slade,
may induce some of them to escape (i m the folds
of Van Hurcnism? And docs it not w irh the Van
Buren Abolitionists against its infill nee ? Let
those who are interested in this male-: look to
this and answer these questions. •
Pout Byron, 4tb Month.,j7. 1840.
Editors of the Cayuga Toc^ln:—l dis
cover that Christopher Morgan is; Hooding the
county with a pamphlet, entitled “ s| leech of Mr.
Slade of Vermont on the Right of If’ tition, &c.”
My object in writing this,is simply ||* inform the
real abolitionists of Cayuga, that t ie speech, of
“ Mr. Slade of Vermont ,” is the res d* of as foul
a conspiracy, as ever disgraced her class conspi
rators.—The parties to this conspi icy are the
slave holding whigs at the South , ai I the ojjice
seeking abolitionists of the North, ii nong whom
is “ Mr. Blade of Vermont,” and, I h vb no doubt
your own representative, of Cayug i Think you
that those masters Wise and Jo therm, would
have listened quietly to that speech, "uid they not
known that the slave who was delii|ering it, was
the selected instrument to proa re. abolition
votes? Suppose the election of th s slave hol
der’s, tool, Harrison, and the breed r Tyler, de
pended upon the securing abolition votes, could
a better plan have been devised ? : )r could any
other plan have been invented so kelj to suc
ceed ? Yet, after all the treason, i vjrill not suc
ceed. The consistency is too bare! iced—the pill
is too large. Abolitionists cant at: r<i to be long,
cr gulled, it’s too expensive.
W. O.JDUVALL.
From the Nero Orleans Picayum o' the 22 d.
From Texas.
The s'eam packet New York, ’apt. Wright,
arrived yesterday from Galveston, (ringing dates
from that place as bate as the 18th [irjst.
The news brought by the New ifprk is not so
interesting as was expected. :
Relative to the recent battle bet rqen the Fed
eral and Central forces and their sp sequent move
ments, wo have the following iten s, received at
Galveston by Mr. T. A. Stevens, i, met from Vic
toria. |
The four hundred persons on t e.Federal side
who fell in the engagement near >a;n Fernando,
are said to have been mostly Ai glb-Americans.
It appears they were attacked v? icin entirely oIT
their guard. The Texians say tl ai the Central
ists lost 600 men on their side. The fugitives
have been received with open arr s by the Tex
ians. his a mistake that any po lion of the Fed
eral army has retreated or goneli Austin There
is a s.r.all scouting party yet on I u- Rio Grande,
and a small detachment are awaj ing their return
on the Neuccs river. All the bail iree of the Fed
eral army from the Eastern pc| i of Mexico are
now in and near \ ictoria. A | uidsome tlinner
was given to the Federalists t! the citizens of
\ ictoria. Col. Samuel A. Pluji inier arrived in
\ ictoria about ten days since dirlct from Austin,
with orders to raise men in ths;i county for the
protection of the frontier. Mr. Stevens also
brought on orders into Brnzori-jfcounty, address
ed to Capt. Gill, to raise 200 null m that countv,
to report himself with all possible h iste in Vic
toria ready for duty. All ttjj men are to be
mounted.
We may infer from these nu /ernents that pre
parations are making for a vigor ms defence of the
frontier. The Federalists are t ill in good spirits
and determined to recruit agab; end be in readi
ness to meet their enemy oncy more.
The Galveston Civilian say , “ Our govern
ment sustains Gen. Hunt on |! e question in re
lation to the line between Teijil? bnd the United
States, the U. S. Commission|r contending that
the whole of Sabine Lake is uithin the limits of
his country, and Gen. Hunt coiitending that the
line should divide the lake in "(lie centre. It is
to be hoped however, that Broiler Jonalhan will
have sufficient shrewdness to -fuk out before our
young Hercules of a nation fiiidfi it necessary to
drub him into a conviction of vtil error.”
There is no farther informa!|o|i relative to the
Indiana. j
business was dull at Galv s'ion, and money
scarce. J reasury notes were p assing at the rate
of 25 cents on the dollar. ' !
Mrs. Pamelia Brown (late h rjs Mann) and her
husband, hive been arrested njd imprisoned at
Houston, charged with stea l;*; negroes. This
woman is the same person w O; escaped the pun
ishment of death about a yea sjmee. through the
interposition of Executive njency. She had
been convicted of forgery, • djich is punishable
with death in Texa*. j j
Virginia Election.
We give below all the information we have
been enabled to collect from the late election.—
Our table showing the changes since last year,
is taken from the Baltimore Patriot, which we
deem correct. The other returns are obtained
through various other sources, and are supposed
to be so.
Thus far the work goes bravely on, and we are
quite confident the old dominion has elected a le
gislature decidedly opposed tc \an Buren. Bu“
the gain to the friends of reform in the popular
vote is immense, even beyond our most sanguine
expectations, being in Norfolk district alone, 400
votes. If thelreturns yet to come in show, a cor
responding increase, the Old Dominion may be
set down as certain for the hero of Tippecano.
Virginia House of Delegates.
This year. Last year.
W. ii. F. W. L.F.
Amelia, 1— 1—
Caroline, 1— 1—
Brunswick, 2 2
Stafford, I —1
Spottsvylvania, 1— 1—
Louisa 1— ‘
Hanover, 1— —1
Powhattan, 1— —1
Fairfax, —1 —1
Fauquier, 2 2
Dinwiddle, —1 I
Henrico, 1— 1—
Richmond city, 1— 1—
Culpepper, 1— 1—
King George, 1— 1—
Frederick, 11 2
Jefferson, 2 2
Morgan, 1— —1
Petersburg, 1— 1—
Norfolk borough, 1— 1—
Norfolk county, 2 2
Nansemond, 1— 1—
Princess Anne, 1— I
Elizabeth city 7 j j
& Warwick, 5
Loudon, .3 3
26 6 22 10
Whig gain, so far, 4 Delegates and 1 Senator
(Conrad) in the Frederick district.
In the House of Delegates, last year, the Whig
and Conservative vote was 72 to 60 Loco Foco.
The prospect now is very fair for a larger Whig
majority in the House; and we shall certainly
bring down the Loco Foco majority in the Sen
ate two or three votes. So far, then, the re
turns are all we hoped for, and go beyond the
expectations of every one ; but as there are a
good many more counties to be heard from, we
wait for farther advices before we shout “victory,”
We have detailed the following returns from
the Charleston Courier of yesterday.
Isle of Wight—Smith (V. B.) re-elected
without opposition—-last year Van Buren major
ity 403.
Albemarle —Messrs. Southall and Coles
(W.) arc staled to have beat Messrs. Randolph
and Gorkov (V. B.) about 200 votes —Whig
majority last year, 87.
Surry—Reported to have gone for the Whigs,
the Administration party splitting —last year 39
Whig majority.
Southampton—U R huh art , (W.) is said to
have beaten his administration opponent by 30 to
60 votes.
King William — Dabney beat Fontaine
(both Van Buren) 29 votes.
Cumberland —Irving (W.) elected by 6 ma
jority.
Buckingham — Messrs. Kyle and Flood (W.)
elected by 50 to 80 majority.
Fluvanna — Payne, (Con.) 249; Jennings
(V. B.) 58.
New Kent and Charles city— Coleman (W.)
re-elected.
Chesterfield—Cox (V. B.) re-elected—no op
position.
Correspondence of the Baltimore Patriot.
Washington, April 25.
house cf representatives.
Who are the Federalists ? —The Globe and
the Loco Foco papers are in the habit of charging
the Whigs with being Federalists, and the same
slang lias been caught up by the Loco Foco de
claimed in Congress.
That compound of dullness and vulgarity, Par
menter, of Massachusetts, made an elaborate ha
rangue a few days ago for the purpose of show
ing that the Old Federal party were now all found
acting with the Whigs, and among the zealous
of Harrison’s supporters. Hence this subtle lo
gician inferred that the Whigs and Federalists
aie identical, while the parly that supports Van
Buren are all true republicans. I mentioned that
Mr. Morgan, of New York had given an effective
answer at the time to this tissue of parties and
declamation.
To-day he presented, according to notice, and
by leave, some striking illustrations of these pre
tences and impositions of the Loco f oco Editors
and Orators.—Besides oilier things, lie read some
: remarkable extracts from a newspaper published
at Cooperstown, N. Y. and edited by Mr, Pren
tiss, the present representative from Oswego.
These extracts contain the most ferocious denun
ciation of the republican administration of Mr.
Madison and of that great statesman’s supporters;
and also oppose the war, and all the means that
were necessary to sustain the honor and glory
and safety of the country in the conflict with a
powerful and wealthy nation.
These extracts galled the Loco Focos very
severely; for Mr. Prentiss is a prominent mem
ber in the modern Federal-Loco-Foco-Sub-Trea
sury-Tory Party.
Some of them tried to throw discredit on the ar
ticles, by insinuation ; declaring that the extracts
were made by a Whig editor.
Mr. Morgan challenged any member to deny
that the extracts were not correct copies.
Being thus hard pressed, Mr. Smith of Maine,
interposed, by raising a question of order, for the
purpose of precluding the idea that the challenge
could not be accepted. The extracts are true
copies, and they demonstrate the miserable hypo
cncy and affectation of the slang-whangers, who
are continually prating about “ Federalism and
Federalists” in connection with the Whig party.
general appropriation bill.
The House resumed the consideration of this
bill at the usual hour.
The Official organ of last evening, contains
another flagrant falsification of the course of par
ties in Congress in reference to this measure.
It charges the Opposition with obstructing the
public business, and has a half a column of la
mentations over the suffering condition of the
public service in all its departments from the de
lay in passing the General Appropriation Bill.
The comment on this is, that a young conceited
Loco Foco dcclaimer from New Hampshire oc
cupied much of the last two days in abusing Gen.
Harrison, and that another Administration man.
Mr. Clifford, of Maine, after him, kept the House
till midnight with a string of shreds and patches
that were just as applicable to the Moon Hoax,
as they were to the business before the Commit
tee.
All the irrelevancy that has been brought into
the dabate may be justly charged on the Admin
istration Party. Until Duncan began his mis
cellany of coarseness and maudlin nonsense, re
cently" published in the Globe, the debate was
strictly confined to the merits of the Bill. Hi
attack? on the People s candidate for the Presi
dency weie followed up by others of a sitnilai
character entitled to more attention and respect, 1
e and the Opposition necessarily were called on to
defend themselves, and the eminent citizen se
lected for their sulfrages, and the principles of
’» public policy identified with him.
e Mr. Dillet, of Alabama, obtained the floor last
j night just before the House adjourned; and to
day he made a masterly speech against the prin
-1 ciples and policy of the Administration, as indi
cated in the leading measures —the sub-Treasury
e and its affinities.
Mr. Dillet was speaking when this packago
was closed.
■
m
r To Billy Brevity.
c “One hundred Northern men,” Whigs, have
3 read your text, when shall they look for your
commentary 1 A Northern Man.
6 Fire.
The Macon Telegraph of the 28th says: —
About 4 o’clock yesterday morning a fire broke
out in the Ware House occupied by Messrs.
Hamilton and Reynolds, situated on First st.
The building was consumed, but no other pro
peity lost. Recent occurrences should admon
ish our Police to be on the alert.
Fire. —The cotton shed immediately in the
rear of, and belonging to, Hitchcock’s Press, with
all its contents were entirely consumed by fire
last night. The shed was filled with cotton —the
number of bales is variously estimated—probably
2,500. We have not been able to ascertain on
whom the loss falls, or the amount of insurance.
The fire broke out about 9 o’clock, and was evi
dently the work of an incendiary.— Mobile Ad
vertiser of the 25th.
A letter from Garey’s Ferry, (E. F.) publish
ed in the Army and Navy Chronicle, states that
various and repeated trials have been made in
pursuing the Indians by the bloodhounds, all of
which have proved ineffectual. On one occasion
the dogs were laid on, but would not follow up,
the trail of two warriors whose rifles, pouches, &c.
had been captured half an hour previous, the In
dians being so hotly pressed as to compel them
to relinquish their much valued weapons. A
second instance: when two Indians were shot
near the head of Ahapopka Lake, the dogs could
not be induced to take the slightest notice. These
and others, added to the trials made at Garey’s
Ferry, in attempting to follow Indian Billy, and
even the negro guide, arc evidences sufficient in
• themselves to put an end to all reliance upon
| them for the service expected from them.
From the Richmond ( Va.J Yeoman .
A gentleman who had this anecdote from the
! lips of the lute General Tipton himself, has been
so kind as to commit it to writing for our use:
Anecdote of the Battle of Tippecanoe.
During the last Presidential canvass, the rnili
i tary claims of General Harrison was freely can
vassed and sonic of his opponents did not scruple
to charge him with a want of courage. The late
General Tipton, of the United States Senate,
who had served as an ensign at the battle of Tip
pecanoe, was asked by a friend, “ what think you
General, of Harrison’s com age !” He replied,
“ I think him as brave a man as ever lived—no
man could have behaved with more true courage
than he did—while the engegement w r as hotost
and when the bullets flew thickest, he was to l>e
seen speaking in his ordinary tone, and giving
commands with the greatest precision.
“ The company to which I belonged,” said
General Tipton, “went into action eighty strong,
and only twenty survived—the firing upon us
was almost tremendous. After the General had
made his arrangement for repelling the attack of
the Indians at other points, he rode up to where
I was, and made the following inquiries: ‘ where’s
your Captain!’ “He is dead,” sir— ‘ Where is
the first or second Lieutenant 1 ’ ‘They are both
dead,’ was the reply. “ Well where is the En
sign 1”—“Ho stands before you, General.”
‘Well my brave fellow,’ said Harrison, ‘ hold
I your ground for five minutes longer, and all will
; be safe.” In fifteen minutes the emeny was re
s pulsed on all sides. Tipton gallantly led on his
- few remaining comrades to the charge, and vic
tory perched upon the American banner.
As an evidence of Harrison’s coolness in the
■ the midst of danger, Gen. Tipton stated, that at
■ the moment the conversation ended hewcen hitn
-1 self and General Harrison, and as the horse on
? which vvas mounted his aid, the late Gen. Tay
lor of Ind. was in the act of turning, a rifle ball
3 pierced him through the body, and brought him
i to the ground, catching his rider’s leg under him.
t It was a favorite black horse of the General's
3 and he exclaimed, “ Ah, is my gallant old black
1 gone! Well, rise and mount again, for we have
no time to mourn the loss of a horse, when so
I many brave ones are exposed to a similar fate”—
- and having remounted his aid, he dashed into the
3 midst of the danger. In a few minutes the bat
-3 tie was over.
From the Albany Journal.
. Thevvhole history »f Vanßurenism will seem
. apocryphal to posterity. Such an unbroken se
. ries of experiments upon popular credulity the
; world has never before witnessed. “ The art of
t governing mankind by deceiving them” has been
r practised to a greater extent by the federal minis
i try at Washington than it was ever before car
ried by the most profligate Government under
j Heaven. There is not one solitary profession
- made by these promise-breakers to gain power,
- that they have fulfilled. There is not an evil of
which they complained, that they have not ag
gravated. There is not a remedy proposed, that
s has been supplied. They have been constant in
nothing but duplicity—true to nothing except
r iheir own base interests.
There is no surer index to the character of a
, Government than the condition of the People.—
e While the administration of our national affairs
3 was conducted by faithful, capable and honest
a Statesmen, the Country was piosperous and hap
- py. The National Debt was paid off, and a sur
a plus of forty millions of dollars accumulated in
d the Treasury. But no sooner was Burenism i.i
. troduced into our councils than the Country com
menced sinking. The surplus vanished, and the
s foundations of a new national debt was laid.—
Calamity and mildew have settled down upon all
s classes and all interests. The Roman Triumvirs
- did not hesitate to make a reciprocal sacrifice of
?. their best friends to each other’s animosity, to
e preserve a detestible union among themselves.—
i- It remained for Van Buren, Calhoun and Benton
e to copy and blacken the example, by sacrificing
>- the happiness of a whole People for a similar ob-
I. ject.
d It is time that an Administration which has
:- exercised unlimited power for ten years, and pro
i. duced nothing but misery and distress, should
i, cease,
e
s The Young Wh’g’s National Convention,
which is to assemble in Baltimore on the 4th
\i a y—next Monday week bids fair to be in num
bers and composition, the most imposing scene
0 ever seen in this country.
From the number of delegates chosen in the
j. different States, it is computed that some fifteen
thousand young men will be in attendance; and
,s the preparations making in Baltimore are upon a
s scale commensurate with the great occasion,
i- It will be an era in the life of any one who
r shall be present at this Convention.— American.
Major Jack Downing is quick in dis
covering any black clouds that threaten to over
shadow the party. In a late letter published in
the New York Express, he mentions several
scenes, the like of which are frequently occurring
in every town in our country, where there are
mechanics, farmers or fishermen. The Major
says—
“ I dropt in to have a talk with my old friend
Bangum, the blacksmith, who was a spell ago
one of our stand-bys, and found his fire out and
bellows leathers breathless. “Why, says I,
Bangum, how goes it!” “Bad enough,” says
he, and so he went on talking about want of work,
Sec. —that horses even went barefoot.and no shoes
j wanted.” “But, says I, hear that—and I jingled
two pieces of gold that I had placed in my pock
et, and with that he seized his large hammer and
slammed it on an anvil. “ Hear that, says he,
Major—and which makes the most noise 1 but
what does it amount to •” I seed at once that
he was over the fence, and so I trudged round to
old Plankum, the ship carpenter, and found him
and his children scraping up chips in the ship
yard—and so I dodged round the corner and said
nothing there, and so from one calling and trade
to another, found pretty nigh nil busy doing no
thing, and every one I talked to grit his teeth,
and that is what I call rale grit. And some say
the farmers too are complaining, but this cant be,
for the General and Mr. Van Buren said that the
farmers would all get rich, and happy and con
tented, provided the merchants and bankers, and
all that train was broken down. There is one
class of folks, however, who are doing well, and
we must stick to them, no matter how much oth
er folks complam, for it is for their interest to
work sharp together to keep the party under—and
that is the office holders. No matter how hard
the times be, the worse they be the better for
them, for their wages dont change. The scar
cer money is, the more they can buy with their
wages, which never lessens; and happy is the
man who holds an office and the bigger the pay
and all in the rale hard currency too.”
The One Term Doctrine.— De Tocquevillc,
in his admirable work on this country, holds the
following language. It possesses the more force
at this time, from the fact that General Harrison
had announced his determination to continue in
the Presidential office only for a single term.
* * * * By introdcing the princi
ple of re-election, they (the American legislators)
partly destroyed their work ; and they rendered the
President but little inclined to exert the great
power they had vested in his hands. Il ineligi
ble a second time, the President would he far
from independent of the people, for his responsi
bility would not be lessened ; but the favor of the
people would not be so necessary to him as to
induce him to court it by humoring its desires.
If re-eligible (and this is more especially true at
the present day, when political morality is relaxed,
and when great men are rare) the President of
the United Slates becomes an easy tool in the
hands of the majority.—He adopts its likings and
its animosities, he hastens to anticipate its wishes;
he forestalls its complaints : he yields to its idle
cravings, and, instead of guiding it, as the Legis
lature intended that he should do, he is ever ready
to follow its biddings. Thus, in order not to
deprive the State of the talents of an individual,
those talents have been rendered almost useless;
and to reserve an expedient for extraordinary
perils, the country has been exposed to uaily
dangers.
The Paris correspondent of the New York
Commercial writes : “ Commercial men here arc
beginning to ciy out against a menace of the
United Statesto affix a prohibitory duty on silks.
They talk of retaliating by excluding your cot
ton. The silk manufacturers at Lyons are repre
sented as being in a state of sufferance, and vast
numbers of operatives are out of employ. The
bankers refuse to make any advances to the man
ufacturers.”
The Richmond Compiler of the 25th, says—
The trial of B. W. Green, as we have before in
timiated it would, came on Friday, before a call
ed Court of Hustings, composed of Alderman
Cullen, Cowels, Evans, Dove, Duval and Grubbs.
He was arrainged upon the substance t of the char
ges contained in the two warrants, which we have
before alluded to and recited—and the counsel for
the defence declared themselves prepared to go in
to the trial, but in consequence of the absence of
several material witnesses en the part of the
Commonwealth, the prosecution were obliged to
ask a continuance of the case until next week—
Wednesday was agreed on. Application was
made by the counsel of Green, that he should be
discharged from custody upon his bail—where
upon considerable discussion The motion
vvas warmly pressed by the one side and as warm
ly repelled by the other. Court, however, refused
to admit, him to bail; and he was remanded to
the city jail to await his further trial.
Yankee Notions of a Rotal Marriage
—The editor of the Monticello (N. Y.) Watch
man, talks on this subject like a common sense
I man. Hear him :
| “ Nearly one whole page of the big newspa
! pers is niied with a detailed account of Queen
i Victoria’s marriage to Prince Albert. In casting
1 our eye over it, we involuntarily ejaculated
| “ fudge !” and the more we think of it, the more
; we exclaim, “fudge !” We plain unsophisticated
! Republicans, do this kind of business in another
| way We first find a“ fair one” that we are wil
i ling “to have,” and then ascertain whether she
j will “ have us.” If so, tic day is appointed—a
few friends invited—the ceremony pefonned with
out delay, and then—well, what then! Why
the simple fact of marriage is announced, the cou
ple start on the journey of life, are happy, gel
rich, grow fat, bring up half a score of sturdy
young Democrats, not to wear crowns, or coro
nets, or stars, or garters, but to wear the livery
of honest, independent freemen—a distinction
| far more eviable than they enjoy, whose only
; claim to honor is founded on oirth.”
Loco Foco Figures. —A new county, called
Lake, was recently established in Ohio. An elec
tion was about to take place in it, the leading loco
focos made and published an elaborate estimate,
! proving, to their own complete satisfaction, that
i they would carry it by a majority of precisely
j 23. Well, the election took place—and what
was the result! Why the Whigs swept all be
fore them by a majority of from 960 to 1,000 !! !
Hurrah for Lake county ! The waves of free
dom run high in that lake. —Louisville Journal.
Imprisonment for Debt.—We congratu
late our follow-citiziens upon the prospect of eras
ing from our Statute Books a vestage of law
which consigns non-resident debtors to imprison
ment. This benign bill passed the Assembly
yesterday, and has promptly passed the Senate
to-day.
If Congress will now do its duty in relation to
a General Bankrupt Law, the Country will begin
to breathe again.— Alb. Journal.
From the Hagerstown fMd.J Torch Light
Some amusing incidents occurred on Saturday.
—We will relate one.
One of the Marshals of the day, at the close of
the procession, as we have been informed, address
ed the committee of arrangements thus : Gentle
men of the committee, I thank you for the marked
attention you paid me. You presented me with
a sash—l put it on. \ou gave me a badge of
office —I took. it. \ou offered me a splendid grey
horse for the day—l mounted him. I have march
ed with you. I have assisted you through the day
I have acted and fought with you for twelve years.
I can go with you no longer. I wish to quit your
party in peace. I return your sash, your badge,
your horse; and again thank you for the distinc
tion you have canferred upon me. But, gentle
men, I’ll vote for Harrison. lam just on my
way tojoin the Tippecanoe Club.
And he did join it. There’s no mistake.
The Galveston Daily Courier says—“ The lit
tle sloop Breeze, which arrived a day or two
since all the way from Cincinnati, Ohio, brought
a family on as passenger, who have come with
the intention of remaining as citizens of Texas.
They brought with them a house frame, lumber
j and other conveniences of living.”
Military,—Just as our paper was ready for
the press, we learned that Brigadier General Tay
lor had been relieved, at his own request, from
the command of the troops in Florida, and that
Brigadier General W. K. Armistcad, of the 3d
Artillery, had been ordered to succeed him. The
change to take place on the Ist of May. —Army
4* Navy Chronicle.
The Rev. Mr, Newton, said to be the most cel
ebrated Methodist preacher in England, is short
ly expected to arrive in this country. He will
attend the General Conference in Baltimore,
Bragcisg.—lt takes us Yankees to outbrag
all creation. A jockey at a late race in England
asked a Yankee if we had such swift horses in
our country. “ Swift!” said Jonathan, “why I
guess we have—l seen a horse at Baltimore on a
sunshiny day start even with his own shadow,
and beat it a quarter of a mile at the first heat 1”
Keep Torn Couxtkxasce.— Somebody wri
ting from New York to the editor of the Globe
is of opinion that the Charter Election here se
cures Van Buren. The federal locofocos have
gained a loss of more than 300 votes in this city
since last fall and therefore the State will go for
the little magician! Clear as mud.— N. Y. Times.
Ma xcfactures in Egypt.—Among other
instances of the improved state of manufactures in
in Egypt, it is said that there are now 30,000
linen looms, 7000 cotton looms, and 4,500 wool
len looms in various establishments in that coun
try. At the same time the corn and other veg
etable products of Egypt are on the increase,
A singular state of public affairs indicated in
the fact that a vessel arrived in this city from Nor
folk with building timber for the Navy Yard,say
about 494 white oak knees, and there was not
enough public funds in the hands of the person
diiectmg the Navy Yard lo pay the freight, say
less than §4OO, and a refusal to pay demurrage
was also given the'eaptain, who was referred lo a
broker to get his certificate shaved. This is a
loose way of managing public business.— Phil.
U. S. Guz.
We observe, that the editor of a loco foco organ,
the N. Y. Evening Post, has an occasional hit at
the administration. Is it because he thinks that
the troasur}' pap is doled out to him too scantily?
Is the calf butting tlie Treasury cow to make her
give down her milk?— Louisville Jour.
The Advertiser pretends, that the administra
tion has carried Michigan. The administration
has the pleasure of carrying that slate just as a
fish hawk carries a kingfisher, that fastens to his
hack, making the leathers fly like thistledown in a
high wind. —Louisville Jour.
From the New York Journal of Commerce.
French Indemnity. —The following statement
prepared in obedience to a resolution of the House
of Representatives by the Register of the Treasu
ry, was communicated to that body on the 11th
inst. The amount of claims was $9,36.2,193 21.
For the Ist, 2d, 3d and 4th instal
ments, §3,682,001 09
Constituting a dividend on §9,362,-
193 27, the aggregate amount of
claims of §39 37-100 pr ct.
For t he sth instalment, 842,586 08
Dividend on do. 8 9575-10C00 pr ct.
For the 6th instalment, 826,191 52
Dividend on do. S 5248-10000 pr ct.
For additional interest on tiie 4th in
stalment, 207,329 38
Dividend on do. 2 2145-10000 pr ct.
§59 3071-10000
$5,555,108 07
Origin of Gunpowder. —The greatest improve
ment which the military services ever received,
was in the invention of gunpowder, which, as Polv
dorc Virgil relates, was about the ycai 1380 of
Christ, by Bartholdus Schwartz, a learned Fran
ciscan Monk, who, having applied himself to che
mical investigations, happened to mix together, fur
some particular purpose, such ingredients as from
the constituent partsofgu: powder, viz., salt-petrc,
sulphur and chaicoal. This composition, being
put into a mortar,and covered with a stone, hap
pened to take fire, and blew oil' the stone to a con
siderable distance. Monk was at first greately
surprised and frightened ; but recovering himself,
: he soon discovered some of those particular uses
| to widen it was afterwards so successfully applied.
! Schwartz first taught the use of it to the Venetians,
in the year 1380, daring the war with the Geoncse ;
and it was first empio3*ed by them in a place called
Fos-a Clodia, against Lawrence de Medici s; and
all Italy complained of it as a manifest innovation
on the rules of lawful war.
Rut what contradicts this account, and shows
gunpowder to be of an o’derdate, is the fact men
tioned by Peter Moxia ; that the Moors, being
besieged in 1343 by Alphonsus XI,, king of Castile,
j he discharged a sort of irou. mortars upon them,
! which made a noise like thunder.—And this is sc-
I comled by Don Pedro, Bishop of Leon, who relates,
in his Chronicle of King Alphonsus, that in a sea
combat between the king of Tunis and the Moorish
king of Seville, above five hundred years ago, those
of Tunis had certain iron tubes, or barrels, with
I which they threw thunderbolts of fire. Du Cange
| a Ids, that there is mention made of gunpowder in
j the Registers of the Chamber of Accounts in France,
as early as the year 1338.
It appears that Roger Bacon knew the ingredients
of which gunpowder is compounded, one hundred
years before Schwartz was born. That philosopher
mentions the composition in express terms, in his
treatise ‘ De Nuliitate Magiac, published in 1316,
twenty-feur years after the author’s death. ‘You
may,’ says he, raise thunder and lightning at plea
sure, by only taking sulpher, nitre and charcoal:
which singly have no effect, but mixed together,
and confined in a close place, cause a noise and ex
plosion, greater than a clap of thunder.’
Macon; April 25.
Cotton. —We quote for yesterday 5 a 7g—some
animation in the market, notwithstanding we are
at the close of the season. The river is falling
rapidly, and boxes will soon be in demand.
Consignees per South Carolina Hail Hoad.
Hamburg, April 30, 1840.
' Rankin, Boggs & Co; S Hewlett; J K & II Ho
-1 ra; T Richards; Wjatt & Warren; H Parsons; R
V Goetchius; E D Cooke; C Hall; W E Jackson;
O& J Carmichael; Haviland, Risley & Co; B Pic
quet; Stovall, Simmons St Co; Reese St Beall; G R
Jessup; T Dawson; I Levy; G Parrott; Kernc
- ghan St Wray.
C Cj" The Annual meeting of the Augusta Bcnevo-
I Society was held on last Thursday' Eve
t ning, at the Masonic Hall, when the following
. officers were elected for the ensuing ear:
„ Dr F. M. Robertson, President; J. S, Cohen
' Vice President; J. W. Wightman, Secretary; j’
■ Winter, Treasurer and Collector ;W. M. Kennedy!
' Assistant do.
BANK REPORTS.
Bank ol' Milledgeville,
April 14th, 1840
H s Excellency, Charles J. McDonald.
Sir, —I have the honor to hand you herewith
the semi-annual return, shewing the con lition of
this Bank on Monday morning the 6th instant
and also the additional returns required by acts
passed at the last Session of the Legislature. •
Very respectfully, Si r ,
Your obedient Servant,
S. Grantlanr, Prcst.
State of the Bank of Milledgeville. on Monday
Morning, the 6 th April, 1840.
DR.
Capital slock, paid in, §425,250
Notes issued, payable at principal
bank, 640,000
On hand, 508,885
In circulation, 131,115
Payable in Au
gusta, 50,000
On hand, 47,375
In circulation. 2,625
Total amount in circulation, 133,740
Checks on time, 114,000
Deposite account, 53,434 81
Certificates Deposite, 5,413 51
Discount and Premium account, 5,877 63
Due to Banks, 3,568 05
§741,273 00
CR.
Notes and Bills, discounted, viz:
Maturing in N. York, §80,200 00
Do. at princ’l. h’k. and
other places, 153,729 58
Past due and Notes in
suit, 130,526 78
In suit and in judgment, 196,092 44
Banking House and Lot in Macon, 14,000 00
Profit and Loss Account, 1,232 72
Protest Account, 253 05
Incidental Expenses, 1,286 04
Salary Account, 3,767 27 g
Agency Account, 8,03 5 25 I
Office Augusta, unsettled balance, 2,635 18 I
Office Macon, do. 44,125 08 I
Office Columbus, do. 4,233 09 I
Due by Banks, 13,884 79 v
Cash balance, viz :
Notes of other Banks, 39,545 00
Certificates Deposit
(Banks this Slate) 3,585 27
Gold and Silver, 44,141 46
§741,273 00
We, the undersigned, a Committee of the
Board of Directors of the Bank of Milledgeville,
appointed to examine and report upon the Notes
and Bills of Exchange of said Bank, have per
formed that duly, and are of opinion, that there
is the sum of Forty-three thousand two hundred
and twenty-one dollars, and eighty-three cents,
doubtful—and the sum of thirty-four thousand
six hundred and thirty-four dollars, bad paper.
K. M. Gume,
April 6, 1840. Jer. Beall.
The aggregate amount owing to the Bank liy
its Stockholders is one hundred and thirty-four
thousand two hundred and fifty-three 83-lUO dol
lars. Os this sum, eighty thousand dollars is in
paper discounted for the purchase of Cotton, and
made payable in New York; which there is every
reason to believe, will be paid at maturity, a few
weeks hence. Two of the Stockholders, Col.
Farish Carter, and Mr. Wm. G. Lane, owe the
Bank each upwards of ten thousand dollars.
1 List of Stockholders. Shares. Total am't. Paid in. if
Kcr Bovce, 125 12,500 12,5d0
Jeremiah Beall, 100 10,000 10,000
Farish Carter, 415 41,500 31.125
Tomlinson Fort, 100 1 0,00 0 7,500
B. Gildersleeve, 20 2,000 2,000
Seaton Grantlaud, 460 46,000 43,250
W. W. Gordon, 10 1,000 900
R. A. Greene, 30 0 30,009 22,500
Miller Grieve, 150 1 5.000 1 5.000
C. VV. Howard, 22 2 22,200 19,980
Wilkins Hunt, 260 26,000 19.500
A. Jarratt, 75 7,-500 6,875
W. D. Jarratt, 100 1 0,000 8,750
Bcnj. S. Jordon. 580 58,000 48,500
Green H.Jourdon, 150 15.000 13,750
Wm. G. Lane, 300 30,00 0 22,500
Thomas Moughon, 160 1 6,000 14 500
Nichols & Deming, 160 16,000 12,000
R. M. Orme, 1(>0 1 0,00 0 7.500
Thomas Ragland, 35 0 35,00 0 26,250
Win. Sanfoid, 228 22,800 20,620
Wm. Sanford, agent, 250 25,000 25,000
Thomas B. Stubbs, 50 5,000 5,000
Apphia Thacker, 10 1,000 1,000
L. M. Wiley, 125 12,500 12,500 |
John W. Gordon, 200 20,000 16,259 |
5,000 500,000 425,250 S
Georgia, 7, Personally appeared, Bea*
Baldwin county. 5 ton Granlland, President, and
Thomas Ragland, Cashier of the Bank of Mil
ledgevilie, who being sworn, depose and say
that the foregoing is a correct exhibit of the state
of the Bank of Milledgeville, as shewn by the ,
books of said Bank. They further depose ano j
say, that they have not directly or indirectly vioj|
lated the provisions of the act of the 23d Dcccnv f
her, 1839, relative to the selling of Exchange, -!
and that no other officer of the Bank of Millcdge
ville has done so within their knowledge, for the |
benefit of said Bank; and they further depose
and say, that the indebtedness of stockholders to
the Bank, as required by the act ot 23d Decern’
her last, is correctly stated.
S. Granti.and, President.
T. Ragland, Cashier.
Sworn and subscribed to, before me, this l3tu
April, 1840.
Tho, H. Hall, Notary Public.
The undersigned Directors of the Bank of Mh‘ m
ledgevilie, depose and say that they are not attbi- J |
time indebted to the said Bank, in any sum cither m
for Capital Stock or for money borrowed fro® ■
the institution, on Bond, Note, Bill of exchange ft|
i or other obligation, and that they have not
| so indebted within the proceeding six months-
IS. Grantlaxd,
B. S. Jordan,
R. J. Nichols,
R. M. Orme-
Sworn and subscribed to before me.
Taos. H. Hall, Notary Public.
THE READING ROOM
Attached to this office is open to subscribers,
strangers introduced by them, every day ,
ning (Sunday evenings excepted) until 9 o cloc . A |
Subscription §5 ; for a firm of two
Cj* Dr. JV. FLINT offers his services to the ci
tizens of Augusta in the different branches o j-,
profession. He may be found at all hours 3 1
late residence of Mr. A, M. Egerton, second “
from the corner of Mclntosh and Reynold stu>
nc v 29 1
rrlV. G, NIMMO , General Commission
chant, olliee on Mclntosh street, next door
Constitutionalist. »
(ry EXCKANG E ON NE TV YORK- At
and at one to tw ty days sight. For sate
nov 23 GARPELLE &
C Doctor J. J. WILSON offers his
sional services to the citizens of Augusta ao
vicinity. He will be found at his residence,
first brick building above Guedron’s stable on
street, recently occupied by John L.Ad-uns
aug 17