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CHRONICLK AND SENTINEL.
A iHg ust a.
MONDAY {HORNING, MAY 25.
Sub-if reasnry Bit!,
We perceive by ’Che last Washington City papers
that this bill is art iast before the House, after
sleeping in its conjmittee room and on the table for
some months and d'ihe friends of the measure can
agree upon its details, it will no doubt ere long be
come a law. • :
Meeting in Ilnmbuig.
The meeting hi Hamburg on Saturday was
wet, attended. coujq o ;ed of the citizens of the
place and surrounding country, and some from
this city. The met ting was organised by calling
the intendant Mr. Green to the Chair, and ap
pointing Secretaries. Major Staike moved the
appointment of a; Committee, which, after retir
ing, returned and-reported through him a Pre
amble and Resolutions expressing their prefer
ence for Harrison snd Tyler. Major Starke ad
dressed the Meeting in a very forcible and cogent
speech, in support of the Resolutions. After
which, at the call|cf the Chair, A. J. Miller, and
Dr. F. M. Robertifon addressed the Meeting, urg
ing the importance of the support of Harrison
and Tyler for PiUsident and Vice President. —
When Dr. R. ha<? taken his seat, Major Starke
remarked that tht=i:« - was present an old revolu
tionary patriot, CpL Hammond, the acquaintance
and former friend! of Gen. Harrison, from whom
he should be pleased to hear, which was received
with the most, rapturous applause.
When the applause had subsided, Col. Ham
mond rose and approached the Chair, and address
ed the meeting in in voice so feeble that we could
not distinctly comprehend all of his remarks from
our position. Hpj was understood, by us, to say
that he had i novjh Gen!. H. in early life, had
been associated vfhh him, and knew him to be a
uniform and cos istcnt Republican. The ef
fect upon the meeting, to see a patriot of the Re
volution, borne dopn by age and infirmity, testi
fying to the virtues of the friend of his early
years, is more easily imagined than described.
After Col. H, l ad:concluded, the Chair railed up
Mr. Adam JohnsOfi, who entertained the meeting
with a few very . appropriate remarks, showing
the necessity of hr different man at the helm,
when the question was taken on the preamble
and resolutions and unanimously adopted.
When, on motion of Mr. Jeffers, the meeting
adjourned, to merit at the call of the Chair.
Correspondencepf the PMlad. North American.
New-York, 3 P. M May 19, IS4O.
Western flour b|>ntinues to be a great article.
The demand presses upon the supply, great as it is,
and to-day factors ask 6 cents advance, though the
commonest brands of Genes see have been sold this
morning at $4 7% .Ohio in flat hoops, Gcnessce
style, at $4 75, icjund hoops 12b cents less. Good
brands of Gone spec common $4 SI a 88; Corn is
plenty, so is Rye and without change in price.
The sales of Cotton go on at a fair rate. To-day
there are at least: dOOO I ales, prices firm.
The packet shiy : Columbns, for Liverpool, is de
tained, the wind prong ahead. She has thirty pas"
sengers, and mone! want to go. The “movement
party” is gaining daily.
■
Nevy-YoRK, 3 P. M. May 21,1540.
There is not njpth to say about business to-day
The sales ofCottijn are 600 or 700 bales, at former
rates. ; ;
The flurry in Canton Flour is over, and the arri
vals are now worjig than was anticipated, and the
prices I quoted ytfsterday are very firm. All brands
arc readily taken at $4 75 a 4 81. Very little is
doing in Southern Flour; Corn and Rye are plenty.
Southern Corn sold this morning at 25 cents per
bushel. Pennsylvania Rye 55 a56 cents.
Domestic Exchanges.—Philadelphia sg; Balti
more sg; Uichrapnd Cin a C|; Charleston 4 a
Augusta a 13!; Macon 14; Savannah Ba 9; Mobile
a 12; N. Oilcans 1} a St. Louis 10; Louis
ville 9; Cincinnati Sr; Nashville 15.
Bills on London 7 a 8; bills on Paris 5,27^.
Arrest of |Pbice axd Newcomb.—We
learn Irom the N. \ . Courier and Enquirer of
the 20lh, that William M. Price, late U. S. Dis
trict Attorney, wjho has recently returned to this
country from France, was on Tuesday arrested
at the suit of tip; United States, by the district
■j j : .
marshall. Anefsome hours detention he was li
berated on bail fa the amount of $82,000, winch
he readily procured.
Colin C. N ewcomb, late Teller of the Manhat
tan Bank, whose absence Las for weeks past been
the town talk, (juine on Tuesday with an officer
accompanied by; his father, to the police and sur
rendered himself a prisoner. After consulting
with the magistrate, bail for his appearance was
fixed at $I0.00(L which he procured,and was li
berated from culqody.
Exemplification of hard times,— When
two Dank Pfesijlents are seen riding into town
in a salt-box on|a dray. J.
Acc ibkxt t|« Ex-President Adams.—Mr.
Adams the distinguished Representative in Con
gress Irom Massla husetts, sustained an injury by
accident on Moil-day afternoon, which at first ex
cited serious aporehcßsion lor its consequences-
During the afternoon sitting of the House, in
moving from orie part of the House to the other,
one ot bis feet tjijuight in the straw matting on the
floor, and causetUhiru to fall with such violence
as to dislocate his right shoulder. After being
conveyed to biajrosidence, however the shoulder
was restored to ;its socket, and, regardless of what
most men woul| consider a very sufficient reason
for remaining at; home this faithful Representa
tive, with his bandaged shoulder and disabled
right arm, was again at his post in the House of
Representatives a? the usual hour of meeting yes
terday.—Ne t intelligencer. May 20.
The “ LOG t| ABES'” is a symbol of nothing
Boat Van Bur knows or feels, or can appro
bate It tells of virtue that lives in obscurity—of
the hopes ul i loihhncble—ot the privations of the
t’oor —ot toil are! danger—of perseverance and pa
tient enduraneej-bf hospitality, of charitv, and
Irugality—it i fa<j emhlero of the rights ilint the
vain and insol -nt (aristocracy of federal office hol
ders have lost d;|fit of, orrrushedand trampled on
T t is an emblemtof the simplicity that should char
acterize Republican Institutions, and which the
People ha\e de,;e minetJ to bring back to the ad
ministration of jibe if affairs Let our opponents
scoff at a det ’cf 'iyhieh the untutored sagacity of
l tie people is patting ttpon then'banners.' It w ill
he tound eio ioijgtthat there is « meaning in it that
will convey to hhorn a salutary lesson.— MU ny
Evening Journo •
Public Meeting.
At a meeting of ihe e ittzens of tke second VV ard
friendly to the cause of Harrison, Tyler, and Re
form, held at the Eagle and Phoenix Hotel, on the
21st of May, 1840. On Motion ol Col. Wra. T.
Gould, Martin M. Dye, Esq., was called to the
Chair, and on motion ot Capt. V* ra. M- Frazer,
Robert Clarke was appointed meet as Secretary.
Col. Win. T. Gould, then stated the object of
the meeting, and offered the following resolution,
which was seconded by Mr. Hatch, and unani
mously adopted :
Resolved, That a book of minutes be now opened
for the subscription of such persons as desire to be
come members, of the proposed assoc iat.on.
Book of minutes was then opened and signed by
those present, after which Martin M. Dye, Esq. was
chosen President, Jesse Kent, Ist Vice President,
and Dr. Wilson, 2d Vies President, and Robert
Clarke Secretary.
The following resolutions were thrn offered, by
Col. Gould—
Resolved, That th»-se persons who sign their
names to tke list of members in ihe book of min
utes, he, and they are hereby organized into the
Tippecanoe Association of the Second Ward whose
object shall be, to advance 1 y all honorable means
the cause of Harrison, Tyler, and Reform.
Resolved, That this association will co-operfite
in this cause, with the associations formed, in the
other Wards and with tlie Central Tippecanoe
Club of Richmond county.
Resolved, That the Secretary be ex-officio Treas
urer of the association, and receive from tiros to
lime, all voluntary contributions from members and
o:hers, fur the purposes of otir meeting, hut thal no
assessment be laid on members, and ihat all pay
ments be made by order of the association, or of the
acting President during the recess.
All of which were adopted.
On motion of Robert Clarke it was
Resolved, That the President be requested to ap
point a commilttce of eight members, whose duty
it shall be to present the book of minutes to our ab
sent fellow-citizens of the Second Ward, who are
friendly Jo the cause of Harrison, Tyler, and Re
form ffir their subsciiption.
On motion of Col. Gould, it was
Resolved, That the President, or in his absence a
Vice President, be authorised to call a meeting of
this association whenever he may deem it necessary.
On motion of Col. Gould, it was fun her
Resolved, That a delegation,consisting of all mem
bers present, to call on the meeting of the Bloody
6)0, understood to bo now assembled, and to con
gratulate them -on their organization, and that we
aljourn to meet again this night week.
The President appointed the following members
a< the Committee to take the names of those in the
2d Ward who wish to join the association :
Dr. Charles D. File., Cap . Wm. M. Frazer,
J. G. Dunlap, Esq. E. D. Cooke, Esq.
John Ki rkpatrick, Esq. B. F. Chew, Esq.
C. J. Coo t., Esq. John Holmes, Esq.
The Association then adjourned.
M. M. DYE, President.
Robert Clarke, Secretary
Trial of Green. —The Richmond Whig
of the 22d soys : the cross-examination of Mr.
Dabney was continued yesterday, without closing.
As much curiosity has been manifested to know
Mr, D's account of the beginning of the deficit,
we will give it as we understand it. The first
over-checking was permitted by another, then an
officer in ihe Bank.—When it came to his .(Mr.
D’s.) knowledge, he consented to conceal the
fact, for the purpose of screening the officer, under
a promise from Green to make good the defi
ciency next day, or in some very time.
That promise was not fulfilled ; on the contra
ry, it was alleged that more money was neces
sary to prevent exposure—and so it continued
from time to time—bankruptcy and consequent
exposure being threatened as the means of ex
torting larger sums—until the deficit readied live
present amount.
Appointments by the President.—Our
Washington correspondent writes that the Sen
ate. in their Executive session yesterday, confir
med the appointment of GHURCHILT, C
CAMBRELENG of New-York, as Minister
Plenipotentiary to Russia, and of Mr, NILES of
Connecticut, as Post Master General. I lie mes
sage was sent to the Senate at a quarter past two, I
and before half past two the appointments were j
confirmed.— Baltimore American, 20/7/ inst.
Sub-treasury Whigs.— The Cincinnati Ga- I
zellesays: We have a few of these anomalous !
personages in this city, among our personal ;
friends, and vre believe that the following para- !
graph from the Louisville Journal describes their
case exactly:
“I am in favor of the sub-treasury,” said a
! worthy old gentleman of this city the other day,
‘but I shall vote for General Harrison. Igo for
the sub-treasury, but I want an honest man to
superintend it.' 1
“The ruin or prosperity of a state,” says Ju- I
nuts, “depends so much upon the administra- ;
tion of its government, that, to be acquainted
with the merits of a ministry, we need only oh- '
serve the condition of the people. If we see them
obedient to the laws, prosperous in their industry ,
united at home, and respected abroad, we may
reasonably presume their affairs are conducted bv '
men of experience, abilities and virtues. If, on
the contrary, we see a universal spirit of distrust
and dissatisfaction, a rapid decay of trade, dissen- i
sion in all parts of the empire, and a total loss of j
respect in the eyes of foreign powers, we may ;
pronounce, without hesitation, that the Govern
ment of that country is weak, disfi acted and cor
rupt. * ■
In how remarkable a manner docs the present
condition ot our country illustrate the above max
im of Junius. Our halls of legislation have be
come arenas for the exhibition of violence and
outrage, our industry is prostrated, our best citi
zens are calumniated and proscribed ; our credit
abroad ruined and our honesty suspected; in a
word, a universal spirit of distrust and dissatis
faction, a rapid decay of trade and dissention in
all parts of the Union, ait; indisputable evidences,
that the government of the country is weak, dis
tracted and corrupt." —Newark Sentinel.
Tre Great Arctic Problem Solved.—The i
New York Journal of Commerce says that Messrs, j
Simpson and Dean, of the Hudson’s Bay Com-;
pany, after two previous attempts (in 2837 and j
1838.) which were but partially suceesful, have ■
at last succeeded in effecting a complete solution
of the problem relating to a ‘North West Pas- i
sage’ to the Pacific Ocean. They have ascertain
ed that such a passage exists, and that Boothia is
an island. This great island is separated from
the Main lanJ by a strait from 3 to 1 0 miles wide,
running from the S. E.to N. W.atid connecting '
the Gulph ol Boothia w-ith the Northern Ocean.
The Journal promises to give particulars.
The Vote of Pennsylvania.—Fifty thousand
was General Jackson’s majority in 1524, twenty
six thousand in IS2S, twelve thousand in 1832,
four thousand for Mr. Van Burcn in 1836 ! Divide
this last among the fifty-four counties of which the
State is composed, and a change of fifty votes in
each cgunty will defeat him next fa l.or a change l
of two votes in each election district hi the State, j
and the Keystone i» redeemed.
Correspondence of the Courier and Enquirer.
W ashington, May 17.
Mr Van Buren, During the War of 1812. —
It is frequently asked—what was the policy r' ,r *
sued by Mr. Van Huren during the war al 1812 ?
His friends buldly reply he was the zealous advo
cate of that measure, arid supported the administra
tion of the general government in its pros union.
His opponents speak doubtingly, and give evidence
in their answers to the interrogatory of a want of
correct information on the subject. Nor is this
strange or wonderful. The actoisinthe scenes of
those by gone days, are rapidly passing oil the
stage- ot hie. Another generation has sprung up.
Men born after that war was declared, may now be
in the councils of the nation ; and thousands of
such .are amongst the most anient, and are of an ago
to l>s the most efficient, in the mighty political
struggle that agiiates our country'. They are older
than a majority of those gallant spirits which com
manded our battalions on the battle field of the
revolution, and shed a lustre upon the land of their
nativity.
No man s position was more easily defined, than
Mr. Van Buten’s in 1812. A very few historical
facts, which are matters of record, will remove all
doubts on ibis point: and no matter how much
they may be absorbed by sophistry and metaphys
ical refinement, they stand m bold relief, placing
him in the ranks of the opponents of the i cor and
Mr. Madison, and the champion of the 1 peace party,'
candidate for the Presidency,selected and nomina
ted 'V the New England high-toned Federalists,
designated in those times, as the ‘ Essex Junto.'
In April 1812 Mr. Van Buren waselected a mem
ber of the Senate of the State of New York. —
The whole country was then convulsed with the
question of war or no war with Great Britain. In
1 I those days the democratic parly designated presi
s: dt-ntial candidates by Congressional caucuses. —
j They were the test of party men. In this way
! Mr. Jefferson bad been twice nom.nated and elected,
and Mr. Madison once. On the 23d of May, 1812,
Mr. Madison was nominated a second time by the
Detnocralc members of Congress He was ( lect
ied by them the known and acknowledged war
1 : candidate.
I On the 29th of May, seven days after the nomin
ation of Mr. Madison, the New England Federal
ists, with certain distinguished Federalists of the
Slate of New York anti elsewhere, held a caucus
in Broad street, in theciiy of New York. Their
j d.liberations resulted in nominating what they
i termeu a ‘pe ice party,' candidate for the Presiden-
I cy, in opposition to Mr. Madison, the ‘ war patty'
i candidate. On the 7th June, 1812, war was de
clared against (-beat Britain ; and from that time
until ihe meeting of the State Legislature on the
3d of November lullowing, Mr. Van Buren denoun
ced the war and its authors. He was actively en
i gaged with the Federalists in disparaging Mr. Mad
ison, and m untiring efforts to defeat his re-election.
At that time the Legislature of the Htalo of New
, York chose the Presidential Electors. Mr. Van
I Huren was a member of the Legislature. The
i Electors were chosen viva voce. Each member
I rose in his place and read off the ticket for which
j lie voted ; the clerk taking down the names of the
i persons voted for, ami by whom, and then enter
ing l hern upon the j mrnal They could not he mis
taken, therefore, as to w hom the members voted
. for. War had now been raging for nearly five
! months. The disasters which the country had ex
perienced, were well calculated to awaken the na
tior.ul feelings of every pitnolic American, and to
1 prompt him (if he had any sympathy in common
: with the administration) to act in concert with, and
■ give his support to it. What was Mr Van Boren’s
course ol conduct at this eventful period ?
On the 3J of November 1812, : he Legislature of
i New Yoik -convened in Ihe city of Albany. It was
a special session, held lor the purpose of appointing
| presidential electors. On the evening of the4lh,a
j caucus was held in the Senate chamber, for the
purpose of designating c.-.n idates to be voted for
las electors. There were three parties in the Legis
lature. First. The Democratic party, the friends
and supporters of Mr Madison and tho war.—
Second. The partv which has since acquired, and
is in possession of the administration «i the Feder
al government —self styled now as then Democrats
. j —consolidaiioriisl*--ihe advocates of the executive
power—professing economy, hut practicing extrav
i agancej And third. The high toned federal party.
> ‘1 he ttoo first met in caucus together. Great vio
i h nee ensued. Mr. Van Huron's speech or some
leiTglh assailed with violence, Mr. .Madison; the
I staie.-man ol the South, the war, and all its sup
porters. He then lauded in a most fulsome man
ner, the Presidential candidate of the ‘ Essex Jun
to,' ami avowed his determination to support that
candidate, winch pledge he redeemed. He was re
j plied to by Gtaeral Hoot, now in ihe Senate of Now
I York, by tho late Chancellor Hanford, and by
I others, General Root and the other friends of Mr.
Mad son, finding themselves in a minority, wnh
j drew from the caucus. Each of these pa-ties sep
arately nominated their candidates for Presidential
Electors; and on tho Uth of November, 1812, with
Mr Van Buren’s influence and vole,electors for the
I ‘ peace party’ candidate were chosen.
Such was Mr. Van Huron’s position, preceding
and during tho first year of the w ar. Subsequently,
i when Mr. Madison had been re-elected —when
I brighter prospects began to dawn on the path of
; glory w hich was opening before us—w hen he had
; rect ived from the govi rnment liberal fees as a
Judge advocate, and when “certain other good
j causes thereunto moving him,” had full force and
; effect, he suddenly dodged the Federal party, and
1 by an adroit sumrnersti, was found in the ranks of
j Democracy; but not during the year 1812. I will
j pursue this subject no further. These facts are of
j record. The Spy in Washington.
From the Philadelphia North American.
The New York Courier contains the following
i item of new s by the British Queen.
I Mr. Levis, tho Cashier of ttie Schuylkill Bank,
1 had been arrested m Paris, and was under the sur
veillance of t lie Frencn Police.
Letters received in this city state that he was re
leased alter a confinement of a few hours on ac
count of the want of authority. Tins glaring de
tect of inten alional law should he so that
fugitives Horn justice from one friendly power
should not find a safe refuge in another. Other let
ters state that a Dr. Brown an American residing in
Paris, who was a stockholder in the Schuylkill
I Bank,had instituted proceedings against him-but
of what character, does not appeal.
j
i Some say Gen. Harrison is a Federalist, if he is
he m a Madisonian Federalist, as is proved hv ih i
annexed extract from his letter to Mr. Madioon, on
1 resigning the command of the North Western Ar
-1 rny ‘
“ I have no other motives for writing this letter
than t<> assure you that my resignation was not pro
duced by any diminution of the interest I have al
| ways taken in the success of your administration or
;of re-pert and attachment of your | eraon The
I former, can only take place when I forget the fie
| publican principles in which I was educated, and
the latter, when 1 shall cea a e to regird those princi
ples which must actuate every honest man who is
conscious of favors that it is not in his power to re
pay-” ___
St. Augustine, May 15—Gen. Armstead has
ordered a concentration of 90t) men at Fort King,
on the 22d of this month They will he compose l’
of footmen and horsemen, and operate in di\isions
of one hundred each, independent of each other, in
the enemy’s country. Ti e season lor gathering their
grain is near at hand,as well as assemblages for their
; green corn dance, w hen purification (or war and a
I relation of their enterprises, strengthen them to re
-1 nevved efforts in their aggressions on the whites
j Should these scouts, now charged with the duty
of hunting fir the enemy, coma upon them, wo
may hope for results, differing at least from those
which have been had (or the last twelve months.
If the enemy shall have dispersed into small parlies
a great and invaluable gain will be effected in the
destruction of his planting grounds and he will
j learn with trembling, that though he has sown in
j quiet, he snail not reap in security'. Gen. Armstead
j has taken hold of affairs in Florida with a vigor
J ous hand. Success must , and should accompany
j such effort ; acd if he fails, he will have the proud
j consffaiion of having deserved it.
Harrison’s Birth Peace Unanimous !—Let
I the honorable fact be proclaimed through the land
, that James t ity Go , the birth place of Gen. Harri
son and John Tyler, gave the Whig, a unanimous
vote. —Newark D. Adv.
A Burning Mountain.— The Miner’s Journal
says: “The Burning .Mountain, at the head of the
West Branch Rail Rond, which attracted so much
attention last year, is still raging, even moie furious
jly thnu ever. It is burned out about 3UO yards
j Irom its place of starting, and as it reaches the crop
j w here vent.llation is more freely afforded.it incrcaJ
les it* intensity. The water running from the mine
is very hot, undso strongly impregnated with alka
line substances as to have eaten off all (he non
i irom the rail road track. It is weil v orth a visit
iknii ilic curious.
From the National Intelligence/.
Gen. Harrison's Poverty.
Those who w rongly claim the name of democrats
when Gen. Harrison was presented as a candidate
for the Presidency sneered at the obscurity ot n s
office of cle<-k, at his humble residence, and frugal
fare. Thev soon found that such positions were
not likely to be favorably received by those who cs
teemed honest industiy and republican simplicity
of The’n the tone was changed, and we heard of *he
princely revenues of the “ obscure clerkship 11C
splendid magnificence of the “log cabin, and ie
luxury of the farmer’s beverage ot “ hard cider.
A letter from Gen. Harrison hirasdf, addressed
to a friend, without the intention of publication, on
the 13th of February last, has been printed in the
Boon’s Lick Times. The correspondent ol the
gallant soldier, prudent statesman, and true-hearted
farmer of North Bend, believed iHat he might take
the liberty of giving to the public a comrauncalion
designed for his own eye atone, lor the purpose ol
refuting *he slanders which have been so unjustly
circulated.
Look at ihe extract which follows, from a letter
containing statements made with the sincerity with
which Inend speaks to friend, bearing the e\ idence
of truth in its plain and direct style:
“ 1 have actually from necessity, been obliged to
give up the correspondence of rr.any ot my best
friends. Having given up my office to my son-in
law, which, from the creation of a new circuit, with
similar civil jurisdiction, affords only to him a de
cent support, it became necessary to raise the lam
ilies ol three deceased sons, and one living one
solely dos endent upon me, and to pay the intnesl
of some ten thousand dollars of debt, to make the
greatest personal exertions with the means which
mv farm afforded. 1 accordingly mide contracts
for supplying large quantities of stone and iin.e,
and wood (or burning three millions of brick, for
the use of a tunnel of a canal which is being made
through my land. Throughout the summer and an
tumn I w as employed almost daily, from early dawn
until night, in this business. Every moment of my
spare time was occupied in the attempt lo keep up
my correspondence, but it was in vain. .Many other
letters, I assure you, besides yours, of the same pe
riod. remain unanswered to this day ”
Those who claim to be peculiarly democratic re
proach Gen. Harrison with the crime ol poverty.
They say that a man vvli » doss not lake good care
of Ins own individual intere.-ls is not lit to be trust
ed wit h those of the Public, it is unhappily too
t rue I hat Jefferson suffered under pecuniary embar
rassments —that ho parted with his noble library
to supply his necessities —and that lie permitted
measures to he taken whkh were really appeals to
the gratitude and charily of his native State and ot
the nation. j
Do the modern pa ri its moan to assert the general
principle that a poor man ought not to receive the
confidence of tlie People?
Whatever troubles rn iy have disturbed the pri
vate affairs of Gen Harrison have sprung from
causes so honorable to him, that eten those who
havesought to cast reproach upon his character can
nol fail in their secrei th ughis to admire th ■ manly
spirit which has furnished them with occasion for
the indulgence of the bitter hatred of party hostili
ty* . . ,
The explanation of some circumstances in the
private affairs of General Harrison given by one of
the most respectable citizansof Cinc.nnati, his been
published in one of the Western papers, and will he
read with interest
Whose Funeral is that? While some 20,-
000 of the members of the Whigs National Con
vention were'*listening to the impassioned elo
quence of the speakers in Monument square Balti
more, on Tusday, and while all were engaged
with the most devout attention, a small hand of
some hundred or hundred and fifty, were seen
slowly wending their way across the square. As
they passed along, two and two, w-ith eyes bent
to the ea'lh, and ears apparently closed against
ail that was going on around them, the sight
is said lo have home a very striking resemblance
to a company of mourners met to perform the last
sad office to the leraain sos a departed friend. AII
was a busy throng around them ; hut they appear
ed to move along altogether unmindful, and to be
looking to the earth as the final resting place of
man ! Thus they moved—when some one in
the crowd through which they were passing,
more knowing than the rest, called out in a loud
and thrilling voice: “Whose funeral is that?"
—The truth struck in a moment upon the minds
of all—and with a most hearty and well-timed
response, they answered “ MARTIN VAN BU
REN’S!” for the procession proved to be none
other than that of the delegates to the Van Buren
convention ! !—Auburn Journal.
From the Boston Monthly Chronicle for May.
The French Host Office.
In sorting letters to be dispatched to the de
partments, at the Paris office they are mostly
handled three times, first in distributing them
from the roads; 2d, on account of the number
ot post towns, for portions of each road ; and
3d, for the post towns. At the London office,
from the greater number of roads and smaller
number ot post towns, the second process is un
necessary. In assorting the letters at the Paris
office, they are thrown into boxes; at the Lon
don office they are laid on a tabic in such a man
ner as lo keep them,‘faced,’ or with the directions
uppermost, to faciliate the subsequent operations.
In assorting the inward letters, including as
well those from the department, as those of the
banlieue, and of the pette paste, they are first
distributed, in these distinct offices, for nine dis
tricts. They are then carried into the letter car
riers offices, and the letters for each district are
thrown upon the centre of a separate table, round
which the letter carriers of the district (generally
about 20 in number) are seated, each having be
fore* hi in a portion of the table, divided off by a
space reserved for the purpose in the middle.—
Each man takes a handful of letters from the
heap in the middle of the table, and deals them
out like a pack of cards, to the several compart
ments of the table to which they belong, putting
into his own those which belong to his own walk.
As about 20 men are thus employed at the same
tine at one table, the letters cross one another in
all directions producing a very curious appear
ance. Ihe process is carried on with groat ra
pidity, and by long practice each man learns to
aim with sufficient accuracy at the proper com
partment ot the table, without taking his eyes,
from the parcel of letters in his hands. If mis
takes arise, as they occasionally will especially
from two letters meeting each other in the way
and falling into the wrong box, these are conec
ted when each carrier arranges his own letters in
order for delivery.
Tne postage on all letters, in the French mail,
being charged according to weight, the clerk, in
taxing them, first taxes those which appear to be
single postage letters, laying aside, as he proceeds
those which he supposes will weigh 7£ grammes.
He then weighs the selected letters, marking on
them their weight as he proceeds. On an ex
periment for determining the average time re
quired in taxing the letter of ordinary delivery,
it was equal to one minute so 26£ letters. A
greater length of time is occupied, than would be
required if the subdivisions were less minute.
It was found on investigation in the London
Post Office, that the time occupied in taxing let
ters in the English mode under the last practice
was equal to one minute for 33 letters. Under
the present regulation, the practice of taxing by
weight is introduced, k oz. being allowed for the
weight ol a single letter, every letter weighing
over J oz. being taxed as a doable letter.
In Paris thcie are six deliveries of letters bv
the carriers per day—the first commencing at 7
o’cloc v, and the others following at intervals of
two hours.
Provision is made in the French Post Office
for the registration of letters, when demanded.
As a security against the loss of valuable letters'
on the payment of double postage in advance up
on any letter, it may be registered; in which case
the party to whom it is addressed receives, free
of postage, a printed notification of its despatch
j and on application at the office of his district he
j gives a receipt, and obtains his letter. If the lct
| lers be loot, vvha ever may be its contents, the
Post Office indemnifies the party to whom it is b
add-eased, by a payment of fifty francs. J 1
Provision is also made for the transmission of i
valuable articles, of small dimensions, in the tol- b
lowing manner. The article must be brought to
the office open., I s value is agreed upon, not to s
be less tnan 30 nor more than 1000 francs, and ]
a commission of 5 per cent is paid. It is then
enclosed in a case, which mu-l not exceed certain
established dimensions and weigh*, and is soiled
with the seal of the sender. The Post Office ,
gives a receipt, the sender paying for the stamp. |
This receipt is sent to the party to whom the ar- |
tide is addressed, who gives it up on receiving (
the article. If the article he lost, the Post Office (
pays the price at which it was valued.
Money orders arc also given by the Post Office,
for any sum not less than a half franc. What
ever be the amount of the order, a commission of
5 per cent is paid, and the office takes the respon
sibility of its being safely transmitted. The util
ity of this provision is proved by the extent to
f which the public avail themselves of it. In the
year 1837, the amount paid into the Post Office,
throughout Frame, for orders, was 16,15/,8/1
fiancs. A provision of this sort would be of
great convenience, if introduced into this coun
try, for avoiding the hazards and trouble ot ma
king remittances of small sums.
A Beautiful Extract. —We copy from a
sermon by the Rev E. Peabody, ot IVew Bedford,
lately published by James M unroe & Co., the
following exquisitely beautiful passage, illustra
tive of the blessings ot Christianity :
‘ Go abroad in some great city in the night.—
Behold, before you brightly shine the lights in
that stately mansion—where pleasure has collec
ted her votaries. The dance—the song are there;
and gay voices,and exultant hearts, and lair fea
tures, that grow fairer in the excitement, and all
goes merry as the marriage bell. And most nat
ural and fitting is it that the hearts of the young
should glow with vivid pleasure in the whirling
and dazzling scene.
But here is but a part of the scene. At this
very moment —within sight of the brilliant win
dows—within the sound of the rejoicing music,
sits in her dreary room, a widowed mother; and
to her frame, consumption has brought its leeble
ness, and to her cheek its flush, and to her eye
its unnatural iigiit. Her children sleep around
her—and one that ever stirs with the low in ran
ings of disease, slumbers fitfully in the cradle at
her feet. Her debilitated frame craves rest; yet
by the light of a solitary lamp, she still plies her
needle that her children may have bread on the
morrow. And while she labors through the lone
ly hours, her sinking Irame admonishes her that
| this resource soon must fail them, and she be call
|ed away and leave her children alone. And
while her heart swells with anguish, the sound of
! rejoicing comes on the wind to her silent cham
ber. Not one of all that gay circle whose eyes
will not close before hers this night! One by
one the wheels that bear them to their homes, de
part —the sounds of mirth and pleasure grow si
lent in the mid-night hours -the lights of the
brilliant mansion are extinguished—but still from
her chamber shines her solitary lamp. The dy- !
ing mother must toil and watch !
All this in substance might have been seen be
fore Christianity, in Athens or in Koine. But
there is something more which may be seen eve
ry day in a Christian city. And il shows how
Christianity has modified all social relations—sof
i toning the pride of the high—making those tempt
' j cd to daily self-indulgence, self-forgetful—and
; giving hopes, high as heaven, to those that sit in
; | the darkest place of earth.
When the morning, and brighter than its foot- |
steps upon the mountains, behold one of that gay
[ throng—in the bloom of youth, and fitted to be
; the idol and envy of gilded drawing rooms, has
left her home—she has entered the narrow lane,
and opened the door of that obscure chamber.
: j She has gone to sit with this poor widow, to car
ry her needed aid, to watch for her over her fret
} ful child, and to whisper to her the sweet words
of human sympathy. Blessed is she who can
i thus forget herself, and find her highest happi
ness in carrying happiness to those who sit un
friended and alone. And the heart of the lonely
mother is warmed by her coming—for blessed to
the desolate is the fresh sympathy of the young
| and happy! She is no loncrr alone. They
have a common hope. They can bend together
j before the same father,—they read the same gos
pel—they visit the cross together—and together
watch at the tomb on the morning of rcsurrec
. turn
j j And when she is again left in her lonely cham
j her, she is not alone. And her visiter retires,
grateful thoughts of human sympathies linger
! behind, lise sunset in the air. The sense of
. 1 God’s kind providence rests on her soul. To her
j faith, the distant are brought near, and the dead
live, and await her coming to a better land. Her
, j mind goes forward to the future.—She rises above
; the clouds. Serenely shines the sun. Gently
j falls the love of God on her heart. Silting amid
, i trials and darkness, and the ruin of earthly pros
pects, with calm spirit ‘she builds her hope in
heaven.’
The prosperity—the adverse fortunes—the joy
—the griel—all this might be seen in every age.
It is Christianity that has brought sympathy to
suffering, hope to the bereaved, and resignation to
the afflicted ; which has brought light to dark
i hours, and faith in heaven to those that dwell
j amid the sorrows of earth- It is Christianity
that has softened and melted the ice of prosperity
—which has smitten that rock and made it a
fountain of living water to those that dwell in
the valleys below.’
The following is a humorous specimen of Tex
as editorializing. It is a leader, under the head
of‘Aquatic Scenery,’ in the Morning Star, of
Houston, April 3d, and is full of quaint humor, a
la 13 cz:
Daring the haroest of the storm the day before
[ yesterday, we took a lounge down to the steam
boat Landing;—while standing on the brink of a
| deep gulley that emptied its torrent of water into
| the bayou, our attention was attracted to the bot
i tom of the gulley, where a drunken loafer was
i stemming the torrent, holding on to a root fust
j anchored in the bank. The poor fellow, not
; knowing any one was near him, was combating
; his f a te manfully, and in calculating his chances
i of escape, gave utterance to the following:
‘ Haynt this a orful situation to be placed in,
nohow ! If I wos a steamboat, a rail, or a wood
i pile, I’d be better worth fifty cents on the dollar
than I’ll ever be agin. Unless I’m a gone case
I now, there haynt no truth in frenology. I’v e '
weighed all the chances like a gineial, and find
: only two that bears in my favor ; the first is a
; skunk hole to crawl into, and the second a spe
| cial inter persition of Providence; and the best
chance of the two is so sl m, if 1 only had the
change, I’d give a premium tor the skunk hole—
them’s my sentiments. If I could he a mink, a
mushrat, or a water snake, for about two monthsf
prehaps I would nt mount the first stump tothcr
side the Lio, and flap my wings and crow over
; evcrlastm’ life, skientificaliy preservated. But
what’s the use boldin’ on this root! There haynt
no skunk hole in these ere diggins; the water is
gifting taller about a leet, and if my nose was as
long as kingdom come, it would’nt stick out
much longer. Oh, Jerry ! Jerry ! you’re a gone
suci-ier, and I guess your marm don’t know you’re
out; poor woman! won’t sheciy the glasses out
of her spectacles when she hears her darlin’ Jer
ry has got the whole of 13offerk> Bio tor his cof
fin f What a pity ’tis some philanthropis or
member of the humane society never had fore
sight enough to build a house over this gutter,
with a steam engine to keep out the water ! If
they’d done il in time, they might have had the
honor and gratiScalion of saving the life ot a feller
*
being; but it's all day with you i
harbor to ca.-t anchor in. Ip S ’J^
in thUorful manner, when they k
hated water ever since I was l,i. p „° Ws I JJ*'
’iwant whiskey. I fed the root els.
since 1 don t know a prayer, here’ ?** ‘ >al(
Doxologer, to prove I died a chri ? bltof t
“On the bank where droovi 1
Long tune ngo.’ ° o?dthe^ r *o.
Before Jerry got to the concha. in t*
washed into the bayou, within ' 0n ’ fc, the
large flat that had just started fe r J, ewf 'P of n
his eye caught the prospect of deliv "V®
changed the burden of his K !!.■'
cry of-Heave to! pass mger at f
mg, with a belt full of specie! th
saves me makes his fortune!” p e 6 sal*:
ashore by a darkey ; and to show? i I
invited Quashy to ‘go up to the JJ* 3; !
quor.’ Pe ;
American Home Missiox Aßy I nat
This Society held its Fourteenth \ • ,l b cts.
the Broadway Tabernacle last e ‘ v nniv %' 1
Dwight, Esq. of Geneva. N. V. p *ti<
Society, in thechair. From the r
Society, it appeared that 680 missio n S Ibl
in commission duiing the year, i*
in the year preceding. The fields of*?" 11 wc
copied are in 22 different States au lt* an(i
and in the Province of Lower Can i ■
to the churches during the vear i - a ‘
.1 • .. • Jear - 4,76(1 out
more than in the previous year. , i ‘» a
hath School Scholars 60.000. Bul> f 1
Temperance pledges, 70,000. Keep) 0 1
year, $78,345 20. Addresses were 5 Ab
Rev. Thornton A. Mills, of Cincinn? fS
Rev. Hubbard W mslow, of Boston - p - ev*
mas Brainerda of Philadelphi, and k ' sal
Peters, of this city. p ol
The occasion was one of deep i, Jtc
friends of the cause, and the prospect/? prt
"**• bc s , g the >i - c[a y ,m W*Mjr cucol*
Jnir. of Com. - •*
J rat
B rock’s Monum ext. Some exertioni s > Sp
mg in Canada, to have the nioDmr. eot
memory of Gen Brock, which was dev- lai
short time since by some miscreants' t o
and a committee has been appointed at y o
for the purpose. At a meeting in that citv yI
Wier said it waspleasing to hearof the pc
and almost unanimous feeling of J (
which has been manifested by their ?
neighbors,against the infamous perpetrate y
\ outrage. ' v
° - Hi
Great Pedestrian Pf.rfoumiscm at
the celebrated pedestrian, yesterday unde- 3H
a wager of 60/., the amazing task of *. T1
twenty miles in three hours and twenty? P r
—a feat twice before attempted, but with a °
cess; and for a further wager of 5/. to
fifty stones a yard apart (the distance!*? sc
yards) in thirteen minutes. He started?, at
minutes to three, and at eighteen minute 1
i four had walked the first ten miles. An? a1
fie appeared much fatigued, hut continm at
j labor with great perseverance, accomplish ?
j whole twenty miles by two minutes tosi, V
; ning by two minutes. He tht-n rested lon ai
ter of an hour, and won the other bet.--
paper. ' O
Corn Plaster.—A celebrated corn-dot
present in this city, happened the other 6
at a public house when a man, who had r
his elbow too feely, fell, and bruiseiihisk
: ther severely. The doctor made his ffJ vi
i and immediately applied one of his plasters.
I the crown of the drunkard’s head.
‘ What are you doing that for!’ asked,
j standcr.
‘I am a corn docter,’ was the reply; 1 :
my celebrated corn- plaster, and, as tkiss
most shockingly corned, I know of no bet
medy.— Balt. Clipper.
A man has been hound over in thesnnti
at Richmond, Va. tor kissing a married.
Well may the editor of the Boston Post a:
“ Oh ! human nater!”
Two Hibernians conversing on the subr
working evenings, one ol the i exclaimed.
: luck to the msyi who first invented woilm S
! tiie din\ r iigiit of a lamp, when the biesse. i
: ot heaven is enough for any man.” “Mc
luck,” rejoined the other, -to the dirty j.
him who first invented working at all! ’ j
The lAst Invention.—The ever fertile? £
ol i tie \ anhees has invented a new kind of ci
let! “ the love lelit-r ink*” The virtue oli
toasists mns being a sure preventative agua i
cases ol “ breach ot promise,” 8s t)ieik :
away and leaves the sheet blank againmaMi 1
weeks after being written imqii.
I
Neighbor A. do you know whether Mr, h>
ren tias to pay any rein tor the “White H ,
I sUf»p >se ho ooos, as the p ‘oolc, I iiadersW
teiid lo send in i heir n xt spring.
( alignani’s Messenger in noticing th?
* evis, styles him “ t.ashier ot the llankm* •
of Messrs. Schuylkill, at Pliiladelphia. s
From the New Monthly for April.
Spring.
BV MBS. C BARON WILSON.
Spring is buisting Iroiu euc’a bud,
Spiring is blooming in each fljw«r;
Dancing on the cry« al flood,
iilusinng in tbe verdant bower;
Every bright and joyous dring
Heralds the approach of spring.
Bur, the Heart, whose bloom is P ,ls£ >
iNc-’r a second spiring can know;
Cold eternal 'A inters cast
O'er its waste uuraelting snow;
Nature’s smiles can bloom impart,
An I makes all venlar.t, save —ihellff
d Ted,
On Monday morning, I Ith inst. in thcb‘-
of his age, Mr John Howard, one of 1
and most esteemed residents of tins Ci y
uniformly exemplary condu. t in all the•
of life, had endeared him to all who to®*"
He was a kind husband,an affectionate h
an indu gent master; and his loss bn s
’chasm in the domestic circle which csn ' f _
filled Yet those who mourn his
not as those who have no hope, for God P’
even in his dying*hour,a full assurance oi
don and acceptance through the merit' 0,1
Chr.st.
COMMERCIAL.
Latest dates from Liverpool,
Latest dates from Havre
Charleston,
Cotton —On Saturday last, and in th( j J?
of the present week, there was an evu - ,
tion on the part of buyers to operate ,
as readily met by holders, and agoj. *
consequently done in all qualities, at ■
quoted in our review of the 16th i nst -i \
vices from the other side, received on
being considered of a decidedly lavoram
has somewhat clianged the as .’ eCl ,.
Throughout that day the Upland 11,31
feverish stale, and the operations, ;
chiefly confined to the middling and ■
were at an advance of fully Jc. per' ■ f‘ .
of the previous day. Cu Wednesday
day, however, the excitement liaU J tat tl;«.
tiie market yesterday was rat,i( y r( p; o3 ry b 1
low quotations, viz : interior and °., fairSi 1
mid. D mid. fairS la,r c Mf'
guo 1 fair to good 9A a 9;, and stmff
fancy lots 19 a H’i per lb. I 1 17 a! ‘.
6552 bags at the following P> t gS 9B‘i
H, si««, 1 wor ?■ -
Uo at 7,« at 7*. 24.. at u, J-j S) «>>
10 at 7i, 0-Jo at / 4 , t>J at