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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
AUGUST \ .
TUESDAY MORNING JUNE 9.
FOR PRESmji’VT,
WILLIAM HENRY jIIAKRISGN,
Os Ohio ;'
The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe—the incor
ruptible Statesrr an—the inflexible Republican—
the patriot Farmer of Ohio.
FOR ViCK-PBESiD£ST,
JOHN TYLER,
Os Virginia;
A State Rights Republican of the school of ’9S—
one of Virginia’s noblest sons, and emphatically
one of America’s most sagacious, virtuous and
patriotic statesmen.
FOR ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT,
GEORGE R. GILMER, of Oglethorpe.
DUN JAN L. CLINCH, ,of Camden.
JOHN WHITEHEAD., jjf Burke.
CHARLES DOUGHERTY, of Clark.
JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hancock.
SEATON GRANTLAND, of Baldwin.
CHRISTOPHER B. STRONG, of Bibb.
OHN W. CAMPBELL, of Muscogee.
EZEKIEL WIMBERLY: of Twiggs.
ANDREW MILLER, of Cass.
WILLIAM EZZARD, ff DeKalb.
FOR CONGRESS,
WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene.
E, A. NISBET, of Bibb.
J. C. ALFORD, of Troup.
R. W. HABERSHAM, of Habersham.
T. B. KING, of Glynn.
LOTT WARREN, of Sumpter.
R. L. GAMBLE, of Jefferson.
T. F. FOSTER, of Muscogee.
J. A. MERIWETHER, of Putnam.
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For some days circumstances which we could
not control compelled us to issue our paper on a
coarse brown sheet. Our supply is now received
and we present our readers this morning with a
sheet superior to any thing we have seen at the
South, —and shall endeavur to continue the pub
lication on the same.
Facts for the People.
The following article which we copy from the
National Intelligencer,contains some astounding
facts for the consideration of the People. Uis a
subject which comes home to every man who ,
consumes any article that is not made within the
limits of his own Stale, and ailho’ many do not
see the process by which they are made to pay
their portions of the exchanges, let not such im
agine that they do not pay any part of this vast
amount ot money. No idea could be more falla
cious or grossly erroneous. It is true, those men
engaged in commercial operations feel it more
ensibly, because it is a direct tax paid by them
but does any man suppose the commercial man
does not place an additional profit on his mer
chandize to cover the amount paid forexebange 1
Most assuredly he does, and the result is, that
whoever consumes goods, not only pay this tax,
but they pay a profit thereon, to the individual
of w hom the purchase is made. And we may
therefore safely add, that the actual cost to the
consumers of goods in this country every year,
that the currency continues in its present deran
ged condition, will be at least 35 millions of dol
lars. How so] The reason is ob.-ious, the
man who pays the exchange, not only puts on a
price to cover the exchange, but he also lays the
same profit on the amount paid for exchange,
he does on the invoiced price of the article, for it
is capital invested, and it is only reasonable to
suppose that on this thirty million which is paid
tor exchange, the merchants and dealers make a
profit before the goods get into the hands of the
consumers, of sixteen and two thirds per cent,
which will make them cost consumers the enor.
mous sum of thirty five mill ions of dollars pet
annum, more than they would cost with a well
regulated currency.
These amounts are astounding, and will no
doubt be questioned by many who arc not con*
versant with the laws and operations of trade’
nevertheless, it is a proposition which requires the
simplest calculation to demonstrate. We ask the
people to investigate this matter carefully, and
reflect that the mal-administration of the govern
ment by Mr. Van Buren, is drawing from their
pockets the enormous sum of 35 millions of
lars per annum. For when he came into power
we had the best regulated currency in the world*
a currency, which has neveirjhad its equal in the
history of any government. -Exchange could be
obtained on any point in U.e Union for one per
cent premium, a.id it was irjively as high as one
per cent, and by his contlm|cd war upon that
currency, it is now in its pieWmt deranged condi
tion. Tne consequences of? this war upon the
currency have been of the rliost disastrous char
acter upon the whole countrjr, so disastrous in
short, that no other country 16 i the face of the
globe, could have withstood;!! even half so welj
as ours, and it has hurled thei people of this coun
try the most enterprising inhfec world, from the
highest state of prosperity to tihe greatest pecunia
ry depression. We repeat, |<H the people reflect
upon this subject, and teach |hig reckless curren
cy tinker, that they wih not! submit to such vio
lation of duty with impunity, i
From the National j\itell:gencer.
Lost by the Veto of the United States
Hunk Chafer.
It is a well-ascenained fi»qt;(hat the entire do
mestic exchange of this cbjiUtry in 1832 and
1833, amounted, in the a2#i|njjatr. to $600,000,-
f
| 000 per year, which cost less than one per cent,
[ to those dealing in exchanges, or who had remit
; tances of money to make from one portion of our
country to another. Although it did not amount
to one per. cent, still we will just make an esti
! mate at that rate of exchange, and see how much
j wc have lost and sacrificed dimply by the destruc
i tion of that institution, for the four y’ears of
i Mr. Van Buren’s Adm. (including the present.)
j $600,000,000. at one percent, amount to $6,000.
| 000. This is the sum it cost the trading and
1 other portons of our community, while that bank
j pianaged our exchanges, per year. Now, this
! amount, multiplied by six, will show the ti ue state
of the case. As all will allow that our exchanges,
on an average, throughout our different Stales,
for four years past, have been far above that
per. centage, but meaning to be within bounds,
I estimate it at lh.it rate.
$600,000,000 at 6 percent is $36,000,000
Deduct the rate of exchange under
the United States Bank, say 1
per cent. 6,000 000.
This is the yearly loss caused by the
destruction of the United Slates
Bank $30,000,000
Now, multiply this loss by 4. for the
last four years, 3
Total loss in seven years $130,000,000
Who has lost this $120,000,000 1 The an
swer is plain and easy. Every one that buys a
coat, or any garment; every one that buys any
of the necessaaies of life, either food, clothing, or
what not, has lost his portion—it has fallen alike
on all. Can this be denied! I challenge an ex
amination by any Administration or Van Buren
man of our country. Let us have their statement;
deny it they cannot, with truth. Who is aston
ished that we have been hurled into a maelstrom,
and whirled round, and round, until we have
sunk into poverty and want! Do we not see,
with such tremendous losses, piain reasous why
we are thus situated ? Does it not conclusively
show that a safe and healthy business cannot be
conducted without a National Bank ! While we
had one, did not our nation prosper. Were npt
| our money transactions and business of every des
i cription fairly and properly conducted 1 Were
I not the remuneialien and income sure and suffi
| cientiy large to satisfy any and every rational
I business man! The response to this query is, in
j deed, gloomy and sickening to every one who
! has the feelings of a man, but not less appalling,
i not less melancholy than true. Go, visit the
j hardy yeomanry of our la J, and see them sacri
j firing their hard-earned productions to raise en
-1 ough to meet their taxes. Go, visit the inanu-
I factoring portions of this country, and then see
| the thousands turned adrift from employment
knowing no other business, poverty and beggary
is their fate. Many of them that could raise
money sufficent io pay their passage back have
already returned to England, and obtained em
ployment in the manufactories there. Why is
that so !
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First Ward Meeting,
The proceedings of the meeting in this Ward
will be found in tfiis day’s paper. We are
much gratified to learn that, notwithstanding
the boasts of the Loco focos that “ there were
I not fifteen Harrieon men in the Ward,” the
| committee have already obtained the names
of more than siixr legal voters, residents
of the ward, which is now more than half the
number of votes polled in that ward at the late
election for Mayor, —and there are yet others. A
close calculation that of the Loco Foco parly
they have certainly had a lecture from Mr. Black
on “ Fractions .”
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The Steamboat Conversation.
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Om readers will recollect that wc sometime ago
published the letter from the Jeffersonian, giving
an account of the Steamboat Conversation, when
we took occasion to pronounce it a mere fabrica
tion, a desperate effort of a desperate party. We
therefore lake pleasure in commending to theU
attention the article from the Richmond Whig,
containing the letter of B. Drake, of Ohio, a gen- j
tleman of the highest respectability, and who is
much and favorably known.
Public Meeting.
At a meeting of the friends of Harrison, Tyler
and Reform, in the Ist Ward in the city of Augus
ta, on Saturday evening, the 6th inst., on mo
tion of E. Muslin, Esq., Philip H. Mantz, Esq.,
1 was called to the chair, and W. E. Jackson appoint
ed Secretary.
The object of the meeting having been explain
ed, Mr A. Johnston offered the following resolu
j lions, which were unanimously adopted.
; Resolved, That all persons who shall sign the
book of minutes, of this Association, shall become
members, and constitute the “ Tippecanoe Club of
the Isf Ward,” pledged to the support of Harrison,
Tyler and Reform.
Resolved , I hat there be appointed a President,
three Vice Presidents and a Secretary.
The President, or in his absence a Vice Presi
dent shall have power to call meetings when ne
cessary.
The Secretary shall act as Treasurer, receiving :
all contributions, from the members and others,
and paying out monies by order of the club, or the
acting President; no assessment or admission fee
shall be required of the members.
The following persons were nominated to fill the
offices of the Society, which nominations were
unanimously confirmed.
PAUL FITZSIMMONS, President.
AMORY SIBLEY.
JOHN M. TURNER, L Vice Presidents.
PHILIP H. MANTZ, J
W. E. JACKSON, Secretary.
On motion of Mr. A. Johnston,
Resolved, That the President appoint a vigilance ;
committee of fortj', whose duty it shall be to use
II honorable efforts to complete the organization of
the Cl ;b, and promote the cause in which we are
engaged.
Col W T. Gould, from the committee of the
Tippecanoe Club of the 2nd Ward, notified this
: Club of the organization of that, and their desire
; to co operate with us in the objects of the Club
i and addressed the meeting.
The meeting was also addressed by Charles J.
Jenkins, Esq., and Dr. F. M. Robertson.
On motion of Mr. A. Johnston,
Resolved , That a Committee of three be appoint
ed by the Chairman to receive additional members
to the Club. Messrs. A. Johnston, C. B. Martin,
and F. Blodget, were appointed that Cornmitte.
On motion of Mr. A. Sibley,
Resolved , J hat when this meeting adjourn, ti
adjourn to meet again on Wednesday evening the
17th inst. at this place.
On motion the meeting adjourned.
P H. MANTZ, Chairman.
W. E. Jackson, Secretary.
Legal Decision. —It lias been decided at St.
Louis, that a stipulation for a release of a debtor
contained in an assignment, makes it null and
void.
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, From the Richmond Whig.
- Another Falsehood nailed to the Counter.
r We are inebted to the Fredericksburg Arena
1 for the following conclusive refutation of a cal
’ umny, which a few weeks since, was paraded
1 through the columns of the Enquirer. These re
‘ peated evidences of the inveterate habit of lying
f among the Federal press, will satisfy the public
) that nothing they say can be believed. '1 heir
• game is to traduce and misrepresent General
1 Harrison in every shape and form in which they
L can, and we need not be surprised at any false
-5 hood they may concoct, however gross and mon
! stsous it may be.
’ From the Fredricksburg Arena, May 29.
[ In our paper of the 15th inst., we published
the following article, taken from the Richmond
Enquirer of the 12th—
> From, the Richmond Enquirer.
The hard cider candidate has placed himself
in the custody of a ‘“confidential committee,” —
. and they have played Orator Mum. They say,
that policy will prevent his answering any more
questions. Witness the result of the correspon
dence with the association of Oswego, with the
I citizens of Mobile, and of Fayetteville, and with
Mr. Andrews of Indiana. It would appear, how
ever, from the following article in the last War
renton (Fauquier) Jeffersonian, that the General
i when not in the surveillance of his privy coun
cil, will sometimes slip the collar, and speak out.
We give the article as we get it:
From the Jeffersonian.
Mr. Editor—The following is an extract from
a letter written by a gentleman of the first re
spectability, and who is ready to substantiate the
truth of the charge made against Gen. Harrison.
I hope every man will read it for himself, before
he determines to support a man entertaining such
principles.
* * * “I am assured,
by a gentleman of high standing in society, who
! travelled with Gen. Harrison, a few days
on board a Steamboat, from North Bend to Cin
cinnati, that he was brought out on the subject
of Abolition ; that he expressed himself freely
upon that topic, and advocated every principle
which characterizes the shameful doctrine, (if it
be allowable to apply this term to such a fac
tion ;) that he explained his vole in Congress
upon the question of admitting Missouri into the
| Union as a slave-holding slate, in the following
1 way:—He said he voted in accordance with the
i wishes of the people in that State, but intimated
j that he voted against his conscience; declared
: that he was entirely opposed to the extension of
1 slavery in the West, ami boasted that he would
j get the support of Abolitionists; and I am fur
ther assured that all who heard him were satis
fied that he was thoroughly and radically an
| Abolitionist.
“8o much for General Harrison’s Abolition
principles. Now if the people are willing with
j their eyes open, to lake this man for their ruler,
with all his odious doctrines, and bis total want
, of capacity as a statesman, in the name of God
! be it so! In sackcloth and ashes will they mourn
j the consequences of their consummate folly, and
in the bitterness of their souls will they be forced
to cry amen’ to their own ruin.”
We prefaced this precious document by some
in which we looii the liberty of denoun
' cing the whole story as an awkward fabrication
and impudent falsehood—and called for the proof
which was said to be at baud. Wc did more.
We wrote to a gentleman of the highest respect
ability, in Cincinnati, on the subject, and have
now the pleasure of presenting his answer—
Cincinnati, May, I‘J, 1840.
Dear Sir—Vour letter of the 12th of May, re
ferring to an article in the Jeffersonian, repuh
i lished in the Richmond Enquirer, of the 12th
invt., touching General Harrison’s vote on the
admission of Missouri into the Union, and his
present views on the subject of Abolition, was
received this morning.
I have just had an interview with General
Harrison, and have shown him your letter, as
well as the article to which it refers, as repub
lished in the Enquirer: and I am authorized by
him to declare that the whole statement is abso
lutely false. No such conversation as the one
detailed in the Jeffersonian, and copied by the
Enquirer, ever occurred between Gen. Hanison
and any individual, on board a steamboat or at
any other place.
I am further authorised by Gen. Harrison to
say, that the opinion which he entertained on
this subject, at the period ol his vote on the Mis
i souri question, remains unchanged; and that,
from the time when that vote was given, to the
present hour, he has uniformly and upon ell oc
casions maintained the correctness of the doc- j
trines then held by him, in regard to the consti
tutional righ of Missouri to admission into the
Union wittiout restriction as to slavery ; and fur
ther, that in doing so he has never done 4 * \io-
Icnce to his conscience.”
As a further answer to your letter, I may add,
: that I have be n a neighbor of Gen. Harrison for
more than twenty years, and have enjoyed good
opportunities of knowing his opinions upon the
leading public and political questions of the day.
I can assure you that he has been uniformly
consistent on the subjects icferred to; and that
he is not now, nor has he ever been, the advo
j cate of the doctrines of the Abolitionists. His
present views on that subject may be gathered
most clearly and at length from his Vincennes
; Speech in 1835—a copy of which I send you.
\ our obedient servant,
B. DRAKE.
Wm. M. Blackford, Esq.-
Thus is another slander nailed to the counter.
But what does it avail! The mint of party ha
tred is in full activity, and every day witnesses
a new coinage. The Enquirer copied the article
from the Jeffersonian, not vouching for its truth.
It knows now-, at least, that the whole story is
fabricated from beginning to end, and that it did
great injustice to Gen. Harrison in publishing
such a tissue of malignant falschoood. Will it
; repair the injury by copying the above 1 jYotis
Verrons. We will not oiler to pay for it as an
advertisement, as the Tippecanoe Clua did for !
the insertion of Mr. Poinsett’s Bill. Nor will we
I attempt to question the Editor’s tight “ to paddle
his own canoe,” ,o use his phrase. We simply
I appeal to his love for truth, which wc know to
be stronger than his love for money. We appeal
to his sense of tight and justice, which we should
hojie is stronger than his sense of obligation to
do the dirty work of parly,
j Reference is made, in the letter of our friend,
1 to the Vincennes Speech, which contains Gen.
Harrison’s present opinions on abolition. We
republish so much of the speech as relates to this
subject, and we ask if any thing in the course
of our political literature can be produced more
eloquent and effective on this topic? What
man, at the North or the Mouth, has gone further
than Gen. Harrison, when he declares that the
mere discussion of the question in the non-slave
holding States is against the spirit of the Consti
tution ? Some have expressed their perlect sat
isfaction with the sentiments of the Vincennes
Speech; but affected to doubt whether they were
now entertained by Gen. Harrison. These gen
tlemen have no longer any ground of scepticism
on that point. The speech is recognized and re
issued by Gen. Harrison as containing his opin
ions at the present moment, unchanged from
what they were in 1835.
Not B ad. —A Tennessee paper of u late date
says : Conveising with a friend, the other day on
the subject of the many political changes which
have taken place lately, in favor of the Whig
c-use, he observed that “ he would’nt be much
surprised if Van Buren were to come out for
Harrison, as he always likes to he on the strontr
side.”
From the Cincinnatti Republican.
Gen. Harrison and his Opinions.
The Van Buren press, in the recklessness of
party spirit, is laboring to create an impression
that there are measures of public policy connec
ted with the administration of the General Gov
ernment, on which General Harrison has never
expressed an opinion; and that he is now in ihe
keeping of a Committee who will not permit him
to open or answer the letters addressed to him on
these subjects, lest he should commit hi.nsclf up
on them.
Both of these charges are gratuitous and un
founded. On the following matters, we fearless
ly affirm that Gen. Haris-on stands publicly com
mitted before the nation; and that there may be
no further misrepiesentation on this point, we
add our authority for saying so, in each case :
1. Selling the Public Lands in small tracts. —
Speech in Congress 1800.
2. Policy towards the Indian tribes.— Corres
pondence wiih President Jefferson, and Address
to the Indiana Legislature.
3. Organization of the Militia of the United
Slates. —Speech in Congress.
4. The Tariff. —Letters to John C. Calhoun.
5. Ban!; of the United States. —Letters to
Sheirud Wiliams.
Government.— Letters to Sherrod Williams.
7. Distribution of the proceeds of the Public
Lands.— Ditto.
8. Distribution of the Surplus Revenue among
the servcral States.— Ditto.
9. Power of the Senate to expunge and oblit
erate its journals.— Ditto.
10. The Veto power of the Presidet.— D.tto.
11. The expediency of the President of the I
United Sta es serving but one term.— Letters to !
Hurmer j Jenny.
12. Control of the Executive over the Nation
'■ &1 Treasury.— Ditto.
13. Removals from office.— Ditto.
14. The Doctrines of the Abolitionists.— Vin
cennes and Cheviot Speeches.
15. Interference of Federal office holders in
elections. — Letters to Harmer Denny.
16. Pensions to Revolutionary soldiers.—
Speeches in Congress.
I 117. Nullification as held by South Carolina.
Cheviot Speech.
18. The duty on Salt.— Speech in Congress, j
19. The Pre-emption Law in favor of settlers j
on the Public Lands.— Letter to Church '-11, Edi
tor St. Louis Bulletin,
20. The Sub-Treasury Bill.— Speech at Pi
qua 4th July, 1837.
21. Power of the Constitution of the L’nitcd
Stales.— Chevoit Speech
22. The necessity and justice of the late war
against G eat Britain.— Message to Indiana
Legislature , Siege of Fort Meigs,' and Battle
of the Thames.
If there be any other matters of public policy
which General Harrison's opinions are not known
we will thank the papers devoted to the Admin
istration to designate them.
The lolly, as well as the falsehood of the
charge, that General Harrison is in the keeping
of a Committee, who will not suffer him to an
swer the letters of inquiry addressed to him, is
abundantly established b\ the simple fact, that up
on all the political questions now agitating the
public mind of this country, his opinions have
been openly expressed and widely circulated.
General Harrison has no “ Confidential Com
mittee,” —he needs none. Overwhelmed with
letters from political friends and opponents from
all quarters of the U aion, calling for his opinions
on the foregoing subjects, or asking for the docu
ments containing those opinions. General Har
rison. at the suggestion of several of his friends,
handed over to a member of the Harrison Cor
responding Committee of Hamilton County, a
few ot the many letters be was daily receiving,
with he request that the Committee would pro
cure and lor wand the letters, speeches, and other
documents railed fur by but correspondents.—
This we affirm to be the sum and substance of
General Harrison’s connexion with Ibis Com
mittee. notwithstanding the indefinite terms in
which some of the replies of that body are
couched, and notv. itastanding the calumnies of
Senator Grundy, &c.
We lake this occasion to say, that Gen. Har
rison's mind is now as active, his judgement as
sound, and Ins' pen as vigorous us at unq pe
riod of lus life. As to bis physical condition,
the thousands that so fiequently meet with Gen.
HaiHaon, either on his farm or in this city, will j
testily for us that bis constitution remains un- j
broken, and that he is in the enjoyment of a green
old age. And for the truth of our assertion. ■
j which is deliberately made under circumstances J
of close and accurate observation, we boldly ap 1
pea! to the hundreds of his friends and fellow- j
cil zens, who are in daily intercourse with him,
either in the social circle or the transaction of l
business.
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V\ e will thank our editorial brethren through
oi.t the Lnion, to give currency to this aitic’e in J
their rc • papers, and as far as we arc per-
son ally known to them, to tell their rea ers
whether our statements, in regnul to ‘•Gcncial
Harrison and his opinions,” are entitled to cic- t
| deuce.
From the Baltimore American.
Ihe House or Representatives.— The scenes
ot turbulence and disorder, exhibited during this
session in the House ot Representatives, are n«>
less alarming, as indications of a growingspirit us
violence than they are disgraceful to the hou->e 1
ilscll. During the evening session on Monuav
a resolution was offered by Mr. Smith of Maine,
going to escind a rule of the House, which en
act* that no rule shall be suspended except ova
vote of at least two-thirds of the members present
—the object ot Mr. Smith’s resolution being to
give to a majority the power of suspending the
rules and orders ot the House tor the purpose of
going i ilo Committee of the Whole on the stale
ot the Union. Befoie this resolution had been
read or its purport stated, Mr. Smith moved the
previous question upon ts adoption. The debate
which followed this strange proceeding was of
t ie most exciting kind, in which wore mingled i
discussions on points of order, appeals from the
C hair, personal vituperation, noise, clamour and
universal turhulance. The reporter of the Na
tional Intelligencer in the record of proceedings
say s:
“A scene of confusion and tempestuous uproar
followed, to which no parallel can be found even
in the annals ot the Ist session of the 26th Con
gress. 'I he voice of the Speaker was lost; the
spirit of disorder, goading some members, as it
seemed, almost to acts of present violence, was
observed to pervade the Hall more generally than
the reporter, with all his paintul experience, had
ever before witnessed.
The resolution of Mr. Smith, remarkable as
it was and as were the circumstances under which
it was pressed upon the House, was adopted
without any debate upon the merits of the reso
lution, Mr. ProffU, upon a motion to reconsid
er the vote just taken, spoke, we fear, prophetical
ly as well as true. He declared that the minori
ty had no rights left, and that the resolution was
entirely unprecedented. He predicted that this
resolution would be followed up by another giv
ing to the majori.y a right to lake the Sub-Treas- ,
ury bill out of committee when they pleased, to
bring it into the House, and there, by the aid of
the previous question, to pass it at once.
The Editors of the National Intelligencer say
in reference to the report ot Monday evening’s
proceedings:
“In the madness and fury of party, during |
fifty years, we doubt whether any such violations i
of the most sacred of the usages of Congress
and of Rules established under the positive in' 1
junctions of the Constitution, have ever taken ,
place as are there recorded.’'
Extraordinary or’ Temporary Expenses,
This is the excuse of the Feds for their profli
gate waste of the money—this their apology fur
squandering more public money than any two
administralions which have preceded them in
time ot peace—and outstripping even the expen
ditures during the war. They admit the fact
that the aggregate ot their expenditures exceeds
all former time—but their permanent expendi
tures are small, they say. These, however, ac
cording to the official table published yesterday,
are nearly double the expenditures of the extra
vagant Administration of John Q. Adams. They
amount to upwards of 13 millions, while Adams’
were little more than 7 millions.
But the excess over the 13 millions, running
up to 37 millions, is allowing to the ‘•extraordi
nary or temporary expenditures !’ Benton
must suppose the people to be the veriest fools on
earth to he gulled by such an excuse I These
extraordinary or temporary expenditures are
the very ones of which they complain. The
permanent and necessary expenses for the sup
port of Government, they are willing to defray.
But these stupendous contingencies, lavished up
on favorilies or employed in electioneering, are
those which excite and justify the censure of the
. public.
The country is un ler obligations to Benton
for calling upon Woodbury to seprarte theper
manent or necessary expenditures from the tem
porary or unnecessary, and placing them in jux
taposition, that every man may see and under
stand them. As will be seen by the Treasury
i statement published yesterday, the permanent
■ expenses for the last three years, and the tempo
rary or extraordinary, or unnecessary for the
same time, are—
Permanent Expenses. Temporary nr nnneersary
1837, $13,068,331 93 1837. $37,265,037 15
1838, 13,037,594 43 1838, 39,455 533 35
1839, 13,325,800 03 1839, 37,129,369 80
Subtract the first from the last, and the differ
ence will give some idea of the immense amount
of public money uselessly or corruptly squander
ed.—Richmond Whig.
From the New York Courier S,- Enquirer.
One Day Later from Liverpool.
We have received from Capt. Thornton, of the
ship Alexander Grant, arrived yesterday, a Liver
pool paper of the Ist ult. As might beexpected,
it does not contain a word of political intelligence
that has not already reached us by the British
Queen. The 1 .test commercial and shipping
news we copy.
Liverpool, (Friday) April 30.
The sales since Friday amount to 17000 bags,
of which 4000 are sold to-day. Prices have re
ceded ibis week about as much as they advanced
the last, and the rnaaket is flat. Arrived, 24 ves
sels from theUniled States, one from Maranham,
and one from Bombay.
\ enr Con fi nr.nt.—By the subjoined article,
trorn the Petersburg fiazette.it would seem that
President Van Burn hasgreat confidence in se
curing the vole of Pennsylvania, which says, will
“swallow him without greasing.” We shall see:
1 he American Sentinel (a Van Buren paper)
says that much disappointment is fell because the
late Loco Foco convention in Philadelphia .ailed
to “ ex press the warm regards which are entertain
ed towards the character and administration of
Gov. Porter;” and intimates that “ possibly the
interests of the parly may be jeoparded by so
significant a neglect. ’ The editor adds, “we do
not profess to be very knowing about the future
but we have an opinion that the suffrages of Gov.
Porter s fri mds may all be needed to carry the
State for Mr. Van Buren.
Phis opinion of the Sentinel sounds amazingly
like one which, report says. was ex pressed to the
President by a near friend of Gov. Porter, a week
or two since, which drew from Martin the reply
that Pennsylvania would swallow him “without
greasing.’’
fnr it again.—Loco Foco'sm waxes des
desperate. The Philadelphia Spirit of the Times
winds up an editorial article against General
Harrison with the following touch of the ir.-
| vective ;
“ Always a Coward, always a Foe to the
People, always as Rapacious as Vkrres, and
as INFAMOUS AS ARNOLD. we know not
whether most to scorn his imbecility, to bate his
principles, or wonder at his impudent effrontery.”
The Wilmington, Advertiser, of the 4th inst.,
says:—“ We wilt remark, for the information of
l U!-e interested, that the President of the Wil
mington and Weldon Rail Road Co., is now in
W ashington. for the purpose of urging the im
portance of lighting the Cape Fear River, upon
the serious conditions of the Post Master Gen
eral. We are happy lo slat* 1 , further, that in a
[ conversation with an influential member of the
Administration party, who belongs to the House
of Representatives, he assured us that he thought
it evidently within the power of the Post Office
Department, and promised to lend his influence
in procuring its action, should it be necessary.
New Hampshire.—The annual session of
the Legislature of New Hampshire commenced,
its session on the 3d inst. A Senator in Con
gress is to be elected in the place of Mr. Hubbard
whose term of service expires on the 4th of
'•larch next.
Dr. Duncan on the stand. —Dr. Duncan, a
member of Congres, from Hamilton County,
Ohio, is the great gun of the Administration par
ty in I lie House. Whatever he says, would
therefore pass current, among the faithful at least,
without challenge. Premising this, we copv from
the Slat and Banner, the following paragraph
from a speech ot Dr Duncan, published in the
Globe, and other Administration papers:
“ I profess to be somewhat acquainted with
the history of General Harrison’s political mili
tary, and pri'-ate htc. lam his neighbor, and
live in bis county. As to his private life, I
know oj no stum that for a moment sullies
him."
Selling White Men.— While the Adminis
tration prints, with a mendacity which would
put to shame the “ Father of Lies” himself, charge
Gen. Harrison with voting for a law to sell white
men for debt, they entirety forgot to inform their
readers that Mr. Van Buren has advised Congress
to pass a law, one of the provisions of which
will subject the citizens (£jT to be incarcerated in
a common jail, for the space of one month, for
every five dollars of militia fines which he in ay
be unable to pay. —Petersburg Intelligencer.
Admirable Rebuke. -The Lowell Adverti
ser, in alluding to the late row on the floor of
Congress, says, “ It seems to us that we might
have our fighting done at a lower rate than eight
dollars per diem. b
Correspondence of the New York Star.
“ I was passing down the Arkansas River I
could not bit be amused at an instance of the
perfect coolness with which the sturdy back
woodsmen are apt to contemplate circumstances
which one would think, to say the least, exceeding
ly uncomfortable. Two or three men having been
dislodged from their cabin by the rapid rising of
t tie water, nad succeeded in constructing a raft of
loose timber, on which they had embarked with
furniture and cooking materials, precluded, how
ever, by a thick growth of wood on the. natural
bank of the river from access to the main curent
of the stream. As we passed, one of them hailed
the boat. 'I say, Capting, u thera a rise above”
•Yes.’ ‘How rnich:’ ‘Twelvo • ,
Well, let it rise, ! reckon it wont ‘l**** J
One anecdote is very ant tp « *
I and t he above, though without mS* at * ot V *
be tween them, reminds me of a ™ n . ne <
by a friend of mine a few weeks ■ n W,ltle *w
Springs in Arkansas, My friends hTI T lhe
mg several days at the Springs, confn !!g
row quarters by the incessant rains r. t 0r 4r.
turally be supposed that he gladly n a .
of the first intermission of the element
walk out and see something of p,!* Str,le * to '|
Having walked about a mile from tl C ° Uiu, J. f
j where he lodged, he saw a »mall house‘!S
. surrounded by trees as not to be observ K| C ?
1 the opposite direction, he per ce ved a iq* , 1
■mg six footer, clad in a buckskin hum’ looi! -
with a large Bois d'A rc strickinhis h an^*S
dently not knowing his proximity ta a 1
any human being, this individual sndd e °r
himself up to bis full heigbth, and with U *
force of his lungs, produced a sound w v W|lo! «
friend declares to have been the best h ■
the braying of a Jack that he evc/heard **
parently pleased with his performance, h
the act of drawing himself up for ano'the ***
when a stout fellow rushed out oftiic h,, f
a rifle in his hand, and in no very i*
polished terms objurgated him for
horrible noise, which he said had alrnoat PIf 1 *
ed his little daughter into fils. The other I
gized, on the ground that he was not J ‘
his being so nigh a house. ‘lt makes
ence,’ said the owner of the soil, ‘y 01l \,
make such a noise here, and if you do It a ■
break every bonde in your body.’ h
stranger,’ was the reply, -If you come' to t
whipping that’s a game that two can rlav ,
reckon you ha’nt got much of the 1
me there. Iv’e been wanting to bray all da
came clear ont here where I thought j |
interfere with nobody. Ji pretty d K
country, to he sure, that a man caw I brauP
he pleases /”
Africa.—The American settlement atU
ria has been disturbed by a party of VtV *
and many on both sides have been* killed r"
is to be regretted although it creates no surp 1
the Colony is a favorite one, and there s
ry prospect of its increase, but until it bccoll
formidable by numbers, it must be exposed) *
tacks from'the natives. —New York Star *
Methodists.
The increase of the Methodist E| iscopal Ch ’ 1
: during the four years ending in September list J
| 515 mini ters and 89,781 church members, j- *’|
the accounts had been made up in beptemiwr *
| ascertained increase is 14,000, making a toti j “f
! crease ol upwards of one hundred thousands,£ M
; At the General Conference of 1536, the number
l ministers belonging to the Methodist Kpisc'J I
Church was 2,731, and of members 640.675 h M
September, 1839, 3,299 ministers,and 740,4 W *
bers. 1 H
The gain of this donomi.iation of Christians
not merely nor chiefly in a numoiica! view. ■
enlarged philanthropy and intelligence thereV;
J marked advance. The strain of preaching hy.
; coming more elevate 1 and instructive, and at
| same lime not less fervid. Seminaries of leirr’-
■ a high grade are receiving ample eucouragenas*
and are sending forth yearly into the rainistj,
i Christian scholars not inferior in talents andattai,
ments to their brethren of any other branch of "J
church. —Philadelphia Sentinel.
■
Conclusive Argument.—Soon after UeCor
ican System of Astronomy began to be gener.
understood, an old Connecticut farmer went to:
parson with the following injury ;—“Doctor!:,
you believe in this new story ihey tell of the esc
J moving round the sun “Yes certainly.”
vou think it is according to Scripture.’ li it'si.;
! how could Joshua have commanded the sun Ik/
still ?” * Ump*. !” quoth the doctor, no
zled, “Joshua commanded the sun to stand still.,
j he ?” “Yes.” “Well, it stood still, did it not
“Yes.” “Very well.—Now did you ever hear ta
. he set it a geing again J?”
MARR I E D .
In Washington city cm the 4th inst. at St.
| Church, by the Rev. Dr. Hawley, William'u
don, tv»q. Treasurer of the United States, and rj.
ilv, daughter of the late Nat aan ill Cii.ipui
Hunter, Lsq. of Virginia.
Consignees per South Carolina Rail Road.
Hamburg, JuneS, ISft
i 7
T Dawson; L Dwelle; Cress Turpi?; U
Mullory & Co; C J Jenkins; Scranton & Smitb;>
Wyatt; W L Roll; W H Hattie:; S Kneeiss
; Gould St Bulkier; Hand & Scrantor; G RJ«e
j Stovall, Simmons i>c Co; Clarke, McTier tfo
j Snowden & Shear; C B Hitt; Aldrich & Shove:
K Galphin; I S Beers; T N Poullaine & Son; B i
I k W S Jones; Rathbono & Baker; P Flett;
! Reese & Beal!; T II Plant; Jeffc., k Boulwat
Tj* Consignees will please sttend ’
! ther notice.
I COMMERCIAL.
Latest dates from Liverpool, April
1 Latest dates from Havre .Affti*
1 I J
AUGUSTA MARKET,
Cotton —Our Cotton market to-dav has
quiet, with rather a downward tendency
quantity for sale has been small, and thatsol*! |[l
slight decline of j to i cent for prime, oa
prices of our last report. We now quote
Ordinary to middling, sjto*- |
Fair, 8 toS}
Good Fair, Sjto^
Prime and choice, — W?J
j Groceries. — We have no change to notice.
j market is generally well sunp icd with J*
i leading artic.es, and prices are as lowaG f
! ranged state of our currency and the eso&z
I
rates of exchange will allow.
Paeon—ls in better demand, and is so.- •ree
: from wagons at 9 cents, hog round.
| Freights —To Savannah, 50 cents pet
j to Charleston, by rail road, 25c per 100
j square, and 35c per 100 lbs. for round bales-
Exchange. —On New-York, at sight) H 1 '
| cent, for current funds; Charleston at — 3 -J
I cent; Savannah Philadelphi* (
j ct.; Lexington, Ky. 4 a perct.; Richmomi h
j cent; specie commands 9 a 10 per cent. P rt
Bank Notes. —
, Savannah Banks, 2 |
| Columbus Insurance B’k 4
44
Commercial Bank, >iacon, 4 ,
Mechanics’, “ (Augusta,) 9 “ ,
Agency Brunswick,” 9
Planters’ and Mechanics’ „ ..
_, t i « ii>
Bank, Columbus, u
Central Bank, 5 a 6
slilledge\i!le Bank, 5 a 6
Ocmulgee Bank, 6
Monroe Rail Road Bank, 7
• /' 66 4<
Hawkinsville Bank,
Chattahoochie R. 11.& B’k ,
ol “ ‘
Company, „ * •
Darien Bank, ~ {>
Bank of Rome, , 50
All other Banks now doing business) a
Specie Paving Banks. — Mechanics
ranee Bankof Columbus, Commercial an
C 3«, and Brunstvick Agency in thiscJt’-
