Georgia Historic Newspapers

    CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA.
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THURSDAY MORNING, JUNK 18.
FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON,
Os Ohio:
Tiie invincible Hero of Tippecanoe —the incor
ruptible Statesman —theinllexible Republican—
the patriot Farmer of Ohio.
for vice-president,
JOHN TYLER,
Os Virginia ;
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 EI.rCTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT,
GFORGE R. GILMER,of Oglethorpe.
DUN3AN L. CLINCH, of Camden.
JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Burke.
CHARLES DOUGHERTY, of Clark.
JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hancock.
SEATON GRANTLAND, of Baldwin.
CHRISTOPHER B. STRONG, of Bibb.
JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of Muscogee.
EZEKIEL WIMBERLY, of Twiggs.
ANDREW MILLER, of Cass.
WILLIAM KZZARD, of DeKalb.
FOR -CONGRESS,
WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene.
E. A. MS BET, of Bibb.
J. C. ALFORD, of Troup.
R. W. HABERSHAM, of Habersham.
T. B. KING, of G'ynn.
LOTT WARREN, of Sumpter.
R. L. GAMBLE, of Jefferson.
T. F. FOSTER, of Muscogee.
J. A. MERIWETHER, of Putnam.
44 Vaa Horen State Rights Men.”
This is the imposing title with which a new
class of politicians, recently sprung up in Georgia
and Carolina, have modestly dubbed themselves ;
they belong to tho genus (if they are to define
their position,) • conscientious, or devoted to
“ principles not men” politicians. How far they
can with any'piytentions to justice prate about
“ principles not *ucn,” and talk of consistency
we propose to enquire.
Without an exception then,so far as our know
ledge of particular individuals extends, these ex
traordinary politicians, were in all our former
contests, generally regarded by all moderate men
as ultraists, —tw;y were the loudest men in
1833-4-5-and 6 'n their denudations of Jackson
and Van Curen, and the whole parly, then advo
cating those two men, and their measures. The
la-t four years eff the administration of General
Jackson was pronounced by these very men as the
most corrupt winch had existed in this country,
and they not only sent out others, but they went
themselves into the highways and byways, to de
nounce Mr. Van Duren for promising to carry out
the princples of that corrupt administration, and
“to tread in the footsteps of his illustrious predeces
sor.” They denounced General Jackson and his
administration, for the violation of pledges enter
ed into with the people when he was elected—
those pledges were retrenchment in the public
expenditures, reform in the administration, which
it was asserted bad corrupted the elective fran
chise and Congress, by the interference of Feder
al officers with State elections, and the appoint
ment of Members of Congress to high and im
portant offices, find his implied pledge to confine
the term of service of the President to four years.
They denouncrjl him for his Proclamation and
Force Bill, and-lhe Administration party as Fed
eralists of the deepest dye,—they united with such
men as Clay anff Webster and the whole W hig
party of the Njlrth and West, in denouncing the
administration |jr its attempt at executive dicta
tion to the Senate —for the violation of the Coa
slitution by expunging the records of that body—
for removals from office of the most worthy men
for opinions sake, and conferring it upon others as
the reward for party services,—for its tinkering
with the currency of the country, and for its at
tempt to appoint a successor, thereby subverting
as they said the principles of our Government
and establishing on the ruins of the Constitution
and Elective monarchy. And when Mr. Van
Buren was elected, they charged that he had been
M foisted into office by the fiat of the Administra
tion at Washington, and not by the unbiassed
will of a free people—they shouted huzzas tor
the speeches of Messrs. Clay, Webster, Crit.en
den, Porter, Preston, Wise and a host of others
circulated read,and applauded them,together with
those of Calhoun and Pickens, glowing and
burning with the strongest denunciations of Mr.
Van Buren, and pledged themselves to the peo
ple of Georgia and S. Carolina, that these char
ges were true, that they were-undeniable, unan
swerable. and all efforts to repel them by the
friends of Mr. Van Buren had been and would
be fruitless.
But Mr. Van Buren has been elevated, he has
carried out the principles of his predecessor, he
has followed in his footsteps, he has increased
the public expenditure, he has permitted Federal
officers to interfere openly with State elections
he has continued to appoint members of Con
gress to important offices—to remove from office
long tried officers of the highest integrity for
opinions sake, to appoint brawling partizans in
(heir stead as the rewards for their degrading ser
vility—to tinker with the currency until he has
uprooted and entirely destroyed the best curren-
cy the world ever saw, —he is again seeking to
elevated himselfto the highest office in the coun
try and if we may anticipate the future by the
past, we may safely a-sert that his last act in re
peerning his pledge to carry nut the principles of
his predecessor, will be to appoint his successor,
—to foist into office another equally as capable
as himself of corrupting the administration,
throughout all its various avenues and ramifica
tions, ns these new and zealous “ Van Buren
State Rights Men,” have again and again asser
ted.
Notwilhsanding all these things, the truth of
which not one man of them who values his re
putation will have the hardihood to deny, these
men who have been so loud in their denuncia
tions of, and so ultra in their opposition to Mr.
Van Buren and his administration, are now found
rallying under his standard and are beating up
for recruits in a seivice which they have so repea
ted declared to be the most servile and degrading
—they are not only allying themselves with an
administration and a party which they have char
ged with being so corrupt, but they are invoking
the people to such an alliance, in the face of all
these assertions made and repeated by them, and
in their new born zeal, they are loud and vocif
erous in denouncing those with whom they
formerly stood shoulder to shoulder in battling
against this same administration and its measures,
as Federalists.
Such is the history of their “consistency,” their
devotion to “principles not men” and where and
when, we ask, has there been a change of the
principles of this administration, upon which
these very devoted adherents to “principles not
men” can found their claim to consistency ?
What pledge or guaran.y have they, that the cor
ruptions which they charged to exist will be re
moved or repudiated 1 On the contrary, havewe
not their own admissions that every pledge which
this and the pieceeding administration made to
the people, havo been violated and trampled un
der foot? Is it not then reasonable to suppose I
that any new pledge, if it were made, would share
the same fate as those that have been made, and
in the language ot these men violated, ruthlessly
violated ? How, wc ask, are we to judge of the
future, if not by the past acts of a man’s life 1
There is no other rule. If then, the people are {
deceived once by the pledges of an individual or a |
party, it is their own fault if they arc deceived a
second time.
But why this new zeal in the cause of one whom
they have so often denounced as unworthy of
Confidence, as corrupt, aye, more corrupt than
even his predecessor. Why this denunciation of
those with whom they have heretofore struggled
as Federalists, and associated with abolitionists ?
and this association with those whom they have
so soon learned to call “ democrats ” the “demo
cratic party” whom they so recently called |
** Federalists,” “ultra Federalists” the Federal i
party,” and hard money humbuggeis, with the
yellow boys shining through the interstices of
their silk purses 1”
People of Georgia, would } r ou hear the reasons
for this change ! Change did wc say I Pardon
the expression, in their vocabulary it would no
doubt be “ consistency .” Ah, consistency ! Con
sistency ili-fated word, in these days, wc think
thou will he made to mean any thing but what
Lexicographers originally defined. Reasons did
wc say 1 and have they reasons fur such a course ?
They say they have, and as we design on this occa
sion to impute to them no improper motive, we
will give you what they give us.—“ They have
been forced into the support of Mr. Van Buren.h
Forced into the support of Mr. Van Buren! and
how 1 Simply because their old associates have
determined to support General Harrison, they,
rather than continue to associate with those they
have heretofore admitted by their acts to be hon
est, fall at once into the embraces of that party
they have uniformly denounced in such terms as
we nave repeated, end are now about forming a
constituent portion of that party which they have
admitted, were “ held together by the cohesive
power of plunder.”
But they offer yet another reason, “ Mr. Van
Buren is the advocate of the sub-treasury” in
other words he is the consistent “ democratic
republican,” who has again, and again, presen
ted another experiment upon tiie currency of the
country w hich has as often been indignantly re
jected by the people through their representatives-
This is a democratic President for you. And for
his support of this isolated question, a mere ex
periment, a question which will in all probability
be settled by Congress during the present session,
they are not only willing and ready to renounce
their old associates, but they are actually affilia
ting with that party which is led on by Mr. Van
Buren, a parly which many of their own leaders
have denounced in the most opprobrious terms
and such terms as they have sanctioned. The
Sub-Treasury isperhapsthe only important meas
ure of the administration which they have not
condemned, and by their former opposition they
have sealed their disapprobation of the general
tenor of the administration, and what they have
been pleased to term its corruptions.
It is true they express a most holy horror of
being merged with the “great Whig party of
the North” Yet from 1833 to 1838, they have
been battling shoulder to shoulder with this same
party, in opposition to the administration, not only
of General Jackson but that of Mr. Van Buren.
Will any man believe that there is any sincerity
in such professions as those 1 If they arc sincere
in making them, let them account to the people
for having previously made common cause with
them I—ls they have just discovered any new,
and heretofore hidden principles of this monstrous
party by which the people of the South are en
dangered, let them declare it to the world, or ex
press no more sickly fears of such an alliance.—
Did they not in common with the whole oppose
tion party at the South, boast of the services of
Webster and Clay, in the great struggle on the
expunging process, and on all the other questions
which agitated Congress at that time'? most assu
redly they did, and every man recollects with
what interest the speeches of those men were read
• and circulated at the South, and the mede of ap
plause received from those very men that are now
so alarmed at the idea of such an association.
People of Georgia, weigh well these facts, be
fore you suffer yourselves to become parties to
such an unholy alliance, as that which is now
sought to be formed by this new sect of poli
ticians.
Harrison’s Popularity at Home.
One of the latest and most pitiful efforts to de
ceive the people is, the repablication from the
Globe, by most of the V r an Buren papers, of an
article exhibiting the votes for Governor in Ohio
1 some twenty years ago, in which election some
four thousand votes were cast for Gen. Harrison,
when it was well known that he was no candidate.
And so far from its proving what they desire to
prove by it, the document establishes the very
opposite, that Gen. Harrison was then as now the
■ most popular man in Ohio. In what election in
| any State in the Union has any man who was
not a candidate for an office, received four thous.
and votes, when there were two other candidates
for the office 1 And who will believe that under
such circumstances, a man receiving such a num
ber of votes could bo otherwise than popular 1
These very veracious prints, are very careful to
omit telling their readers that Gen. Hanison beat
their favorite Van Buren, near 10,000 votes in
Ohio for President, at the last election.—Such
news as that partakes too much of truth to find a
place in their columns.
Extract from a private letter received in this
city, dated,
Greenville, Tenn., June Bth, 1840.
C. A. Foster, the Harrison Elector, is to address
the people here to-day, and I suppose there will be
two days speaking, as a number of other candi
dates are present on both sides of the question.
A Log Cabin loaded with hard cider within, and a
pair or two of buck horns, a dead fox and a few '
I coon-skins will be attached externally, drawn by
eight white horses. The people are gathering in
from all quarters —I have no doubt but there will
be more persons in our village to-day, than ever
was before at any one time. There is groat ex
citement in Tennessee, and Harrison will no doubt
carry the State by 10 or 15,000 majority, if not
more; he will beat Van Buren from sto 8,000
in this end of the State, this is not boasting but
°
| true, O King ! I hope Georgia will do her duty in
‘ redeeming her State from bondage—things look
well well for her doing her duty for the cause of
freedom. We shall have a high day here to-day,
the Whigs are determined to go ahead.
Reform Meeting in Morgan.
At a meeting of the “ Morgan County Tippeca
noe Club,” on Wednesday the 10th inst, for the
purpose of lecciving Ihc report of delegates to the
recent Convention at Milledgeville: Major M. VV.
Warren appeared in behalf of the Delegation, and
gave a full and cheering account of their proceed
ings.
When the following resolutions were presented,
and after being ably and eloquently sustained by
Col. N. G. Foster, passed unanimously.
Resolved, That vve the people of Morgan County,
opposed to the measures and abuses of the psesent
rulers of the General Government, do most cor
dially acquiesce in and approve of the proceedings
of lire Convention lately field at Milledgcville, as
reported to us by our delegates. And that we will
by every open and honorable moans in our power,
strive to carry through triumphantly the candidates
presented for our suffrage.
Resolved, That we disdain all secret manoeuvring
to obtain the votes of the honest and industrious
portion of our people, who have not flic opportu
nity of investigating fully the principles and prac
tices of the different candidates presented for their
selection, by misrepresentation or perversion ; lhat
wo desire the use of but one engine to carry' for
ward the cause wo advocate, —“THE TIIUTH,
THE WHOLL TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT
THE TRUTH.”
Resolutions were then passed 1 1 celebrate the
approaching anniversary of our national independ
ence, and suitable committees were appointed to
make the necessary preparation.
On motion of Hon. A. G. Saffold, it was ordered
that the proceedings of this meeting be signed by
the President and Secretary, and published in the
Augusta “ Chronicle 6c Sentinel.”
On motion of Col. N. G. Foster, the Club ad
journed. A. ALDEN, President.
A. A. Overton, Secretary.
P. S. The Committee for the selection of Ora
tor, &c,, have appointed Col. N. G. Foster Orator,
Alfred A. Overton Reader of the “ Declaration,”
and William O. Saffold, Esq., Reader of the “ Fare
well Address.”
Correspondence of the Courier and Enquirer .
Washington, June 4, 1840.
LEGISLATIVE USURPATION.
Under the date of the 31st ult. I announced the
arrangements of the Loco Foco party, for annihi
lating the rights of the minority in the House of
Representatives. They have executed the foul
deed, it is the act of mad desperation. Perfectly
aware of the fate that awaits them, in their fall,
they will carry down with them, so far as they
have the power, constitution, law, order and all
that is estima'de in the social codes.
The twenty-sixth Congress will form an epoch
in the annals of our country. It commenced its
demoralizing career, by' a gross violation of the
Constitution —by' a despotic and revolutionary act
that in 1708, when t c same party possessed pow
er, would have severed the Union of these States.
Steeped to tiie chin in corruption, as the dominant
party' are, the recent conduct of their friends in
the House of Representatives, exhibits such a de
gree of bold usurpation, as would appal the stout
est h iris among them, if they could be made to
understand the extent of the wrong that has been
wantonly indicted upon that Constitution which
they profess to venerate. A calm and dispassion
ate review of the proceedings during the present
session, would be an interesting document; but it
would not be read, and could not be appreciated.
The angry passions must first subside, and men
must be so circumstanced as to examine these pio
ceedings without the fear of punishment, or the
hope of reward, from the actors in the scenes.
Mine be the task, for I have witnessed them all,
to record the facts, and leave them to be read,
when I shall go hence. The names of the most
conspicuous shall be handed down for fame or fur
infamy, as posterity may decree.
By' the rules of the House, as they' heretofore
existed, all the business must come up in regular
order, unless the House, by a vote of two thirds
agreed to take up a particular bill, for special rea
son, which reason must be so cogent as to satisfy
two thirds of the member* present.
By the rule, as altered, a majority takes up any'
bill, at any time it pleases, and then excludes from
Legislation, or even a hearing, any' class of bills
that are not palateable. Let me explain how this
is to be done. By the present rules a majorily
goes into committee of the whole, whenever they
please. A majority can refer any bill to that
committee ; and a majority of that committee, can
consider such tills and such only as suit their own
views. This will be the practical effect of the i
alteration of the rules. Let us, then, hear no ,
more after this, of the minority embarrassing the
majority. They are powerless. One movement
yet remains; and one only, that the Whigs may'
make. It is, in my opinion, their solemn duty to
make it. Whenever a motion is offered, on Fri
day or Saturday ( private hill daysJ to go into
committee on the Sub-Tieasury bill, or any other
equally odious measure, refuse to vote; and thus
compel ihc attendance of a quorum of members
from the ranks of the dominant party. If they'
cannot form a quorum, it is because their own
party'neglect to attend. They' have no right, to
cali upon the opposition to enable them to commit,
what that opposition considers an outrage upon the
country. On all other bills let them aid in form
ing a quorum, and in transacting the public busi
ness.
Another measme of oppression, is the previous
question, which is constantly applied, whenever
the majority become alarmed at the freedom of de
bate. While another instrument of usurpation, is
the appeal from the decisions of the Chair, which
the majority overrules, on the clearest point of or
der, whenever party phrenzy renders it necessary,
or even expedient, to accomplish a particular ob
ject. But I will drop the subject, in the review of
which my r heart sicken*.
THE SPY IN WASHINGTON.
A Proper Rebuke.
We copy the following brief but pithy paragraph
from the American Sentinel (an administration
paper.) It breathes at once an independent and
a patriotic spirit. The cause of Mr. Van Buren
coruot but be injured by the bitter and violent
abuse in which some of the organs of the Ad
ministration indulge, when alluding to the Hero
of the Thames.
“Crito” cannot be admited into the Sentinel.—
Gen. Harrison is not our choice for the Presidency,
but this is no reason why we should v give our
columns to the propagation of slanders against
him which have been a hundred times related.
We may add that he who could write or endorse
the assertion “that Gen. Harrison was always a
coward, always a foe to the people, always as ra
pacious as Verres, and as infamous as Arnold,”
deserves the scorn and reprobation of every com
munity in which the grateful remembrance of
generous deeds is not a damning crime.
33r. Lincoln of 31 ass.
The federal loco foco papers are highly de
lighted with the speech of this gentleman, in de
fence of sonic of the appropriations for the Presi
dent’s furniture. They publish it with high ap
probation, but vve do not find in any of them the
following remarks, as delivered by Mr. Lincoln,
and contained in the report of his speech.
“Mr, L. commented with great severity on the
conduct of the Secretary in this matter, declaring
that, should this amendment fail, he never would
vote another dollar for that (the Treasury) build
ing. If the chairman chose to stop the work, let
the responsibility, he on his own head. If there
was a change of administration on the 4th of
March next, as he trusted in God there would be,
he would vote one more appropriation for this
building, and that should be to fix on the front of
it a tablet, and inscribed thereon, in large letters,
the “Sub-treasury,” and then let the building
stand without ends, without a colonnade, without
a roof, without access or recess—with no stairs
to the upper story, and no light in the lower, it
would remain to posterity an appropriate monu
ment of the Van Buren Sub-treasury administra
tion.”
Festival at Clarksburg, Tennessee.—
There was a great gathering of the people at
Clarksburg, Tennessee, on the 28lh ult. and no
ble indeed (says the Louisville Journal) was the
festival on that occasion. From all quarters the
delegates poured in, till the congregation number
ed upwards of eight thousand. A hundred ban
ners gleamed in the sun, among which was one
inscribed with a majestic eagle bearing in his
beak this sentence from the Louisville Journal:
“In war, Harrison defended the Log Cabins; in
peace, the Log Cabins will defend Harrison.”—
Prominent among the Hags was one trimmed with
black crape ; dark black ground, with a monu
ment surmounted by an urn; inscription; “In
memory of Hugh L. White,” Wherever that
solemn emblem moved, abash as ofdcath perva
ded the assemblage.
Tennessee’s noblest orators were present, a d
nobly did they sustain themselves, and their cause
in their addresses to the multitude. Not a man
left the ground but with an abiding and undoubt
ing conviction that Tennessee would go for Old
Tippecanoe by a majority of at least 12,000.
Who is Ahnkh Lacock? —And who is this
Mr. Abner Lacock, who made the motion in the
Senate of the U. States, to strike the name of
Gen. Harrison trom the resolution proposing a gold
medal and the thanks of Congress to him and
Gov, Shelby 1 He is the same Mr. Lacock who
once moved to censure Gen. Jackson lor his con
duct in the Army ; the same Mr. Lacock whose
ears Gen. Jackson once threatened to cut off.
He is the same Mr Lacock who was a contrac
tor for furnishing the army of Gen. Harrison
with provisions, who was so negligent of his
duty that the army was obliged at one time to
subsist for days on raw beef; aud who for this
neglect was, through the influence of Gen. Har
rison, deprived of his contract.
When the people arc once informed that Mr.
Lacock had been previously disgraced for just
reasons by General Harrison, they wdl not he
surprised at the circumstance of this same Mr.
Lacock striving, at a subsequent period, to fix
the badge of disgrace on Gen. Harrison without
any just cause whatever.
We copy the following from the Vicksburg
Whig. Don’t they cornel
Scarcely a day passes without our hearing of
some new accession to our ranks. x\s one deserv
ing particular notice, we will take the liberty of
mentioning that the gentleman who some weeks
since declared, when excited, that “he would lose
his right arm before a log cabin should be raised
in Vicksburg,” came forward on Tuesday,stated
the fact of his having said so, hut added that he
had became convinced that a change of rulers was
necessary, and that he would assist in carrying
up the logs, and would vote for old Tip.
Attempt to illow up a Steamboat.
We learn from Capt. Childs of the steamboat
Oneida, which arrived at this port yesterday fore- I
noon, that as the s’eamboat Great Britain was
about leaving the wharf at Oswego, on Saturday
last, a Trunk which had been brought to the
wharf a few minutes previously, and which was
soon to have been put on board that boat, explo
ded—injuring two persons slightly, and doing
some little damage to the boat. Upon examina
tion, a parcel of G pounds of powder was found, to
which the fire had not communicated. There
can oe no doubt that the explosion was intention
al, and that it was caused by a slow match being
placed in the trunk. 'The Great Britain, as hei
name imports, is a British boat, and it is supposed
that this fiendish attempt to Mow her up, or at
least to injure her and those on board of her, ori
ginated in ferocious feelings toward that govern
ment, or some of its subjects.
Lett, the murderer of Capt. Usher, has been
arrested on suspicion of having been the getter
up of the plot.— Rochester Democrat.
At the lime of the explosion, Lett, the reputed
murderer of Capt. Usher, and who it is said
boasts of having blown up Brock’s monument,
and for the apprehension of whom, wc believe
about £IO,OOO reward has been offered within the
* two last years by the authorities of Upper Cana
(la, was seen walking upon the Jock at no great
distance from the boat. He was soon after arres
ted in front of the U. States Hotel by constable
Reid, to whose promptness and energy on the
occasion much credit is due. Lett was armed
with four pistols and a bowk* knife, and made a
desperate but unavailing effort to use them and
escape.
The carman immediately recognized Lett as the
person who employed and paid him for carrying
the trunk on board. Such was the excitement
and indignation among our citizens, that Lett was
forthwith tendered to the captam of the British
boat Gilderslceve, then in port, bound to Kings
ton, on condition that he should lie surrendered
to the Canadian authorities. —Very properly no
doubt, the Captain declined the proposition, and
Lett was well secured in jail.
Suspicion also settled upon a man by the
name of Dafoe, supposed to be an accomplice of
Lett. He was discovered and arrested at tHe
Centre House in the village and committed to
jail.
Lett and Dafoe arc Canadian refugees, who
we understand have been lounging about this vil
lage for some days.— Oswego Herald,
From the Spirit cf the Times.
Gano’s Challenge to the Union !
To run Four Mile Heats for SIO,OOO a side.
Augusta, June 6th, 1810.
W. T. Porter, Esq : Dear Sir, —The friends
of GANG are willing to back him to ihe amount
of Ten Thousand Dollars a side, half forfeit,
against any named horse, mare or gelding, in tho
Union, Four mile heats, agreeable to the rules of
the ('lab over the Lafayette Course, on the day
preceding the next Fall meeting.
This challenge will remain open until the first
day of August next, subject of course to be with
drawn should any accident happen to him previ
ous to the acceptance, which is not likely to oc
cur as he is not in training.
The forfeit shall be arranged to the satisfaction
of the acceptor.
Any communication on the subject, addressed
to the subscribers will receive prompt attention.
Yoms truly, Taos. J. Waltos.
Augustus Lamkix.
We have great pleasure in laying this spirited
challenge before the Sporting Woild. It will he
accepted at once. Two hours after its receipt here
there w-cre among the crowd of gentlemen in out
office no less than three who would have taken
the responsibility of accepting it with a certain
horse, arql doubled or trebled the stakes. AVe
should not he surprised if the match was taken
up by three dillerent horses, and in that case beg
to suggest to Gano’s blends that they make a
Post or Sweepstake of it, with a subscription of
SSOOO each. Play or Pay. This would ensure
four subscribers, and the terms of the race being
play or pay, of course four horses would start.
J ho certainty of this fact would cause more ex
citement than any race ever got up in the coun
try, and thousands would assemble to sec it from
the remotest sections of the Union. The high
mettled Racers of Virginia, Kentucky, South
Carolina, Georgia and Louisiana, would proba
bly be represented, and the race being a post
match, the very best horse in each State would
contend lor the meed ol honor and applause.
The Philadelphia North American of Friday
says—
Col. Isaac Wayne, who presided at the late
Harrison festival, in Chester county, is the only
son of General Anthony Wayne. He has repre
sented his natne county several years in the
State Legislature and in Congress, and was an
active and slrcnous supporter of General Jackson,
in 1828. It wa* owing very much to his influ
ence that the county then gave its vote to Gener
al Jackson, and we are pleased to find that the
same influence is about to be exerted against his
successor. The enfeebled health of Col. Wayne
lias prevented him from taking an active part in
political life, and nothing hut the belief that it is
the duty of every man in the community to exer
cise such influence as he possesses to change the
present state of affairs, could have on the present
occasion drawn him from his retirement
The same paper says—
We are informed by a respectable gentleman
from Chester County, that of the 150 Delegates
from Phoenixville to the great whig gathering at
West Chester on Tuesday last, furty-two had
seceded from the Van Huren ranks since the Ist
of Jlprll last.
Jewish Marriage at Whitchurch. —On
Sunday last, a circumstance, as novel as pleasing,
took place at Whitchurch. For the second time,
the interesting ceremony of an Israelitish wedding
was there performed. Every lover of scriptural
antiquities must venerate the ancient customs of
the patriarchs of old. These customs have been
preserved by the Jews to this day, as confirmed
by the lawgiver of Moses. Through all the
vicissitudes and persecutions of their nation it is
almost miraculous that they should so carefully
have adhered to the customs of their fathers with
out the slightest deviation, yet such is the fact.
None amongst nations have been so strictly zeal
ous as the Jews of their ancient ceremonies, to
remain in fact a “peculiar people.” The marri
age of the Jews in itself has so much scriptural in
terest from the circumstance of its being perform
ed precisely as it was some 3000 or more years
since, that a correspondent who was an eye wit
ness on Sunday, has favored us with this account
of it.
On entering the room was seen Rabbi L. Chap
man, priest of the Jews, from Binningham, oc
cupied in writing the marriage contract upon a
parchment. The Rabbi having concluded the
contract,.handed it to others to read and then to the
bridegroom, who, after apparently well consider
ing the contents, which were written in the He
brew language, signed the same, as also did two
witnesses. This being duly executed, the bride
groom was conducted, from the room again, the
bride being all this time invisible. A canopy was
then erected, being supported by four persons of
the Jewish faith, and solemn strains of music an
nounced the approach of (he bridegroom. The
reverend officiate having placed himself beneath
the canopy, the bridegroom was introduced, sup
ported on both sides by two male frien Is.
Again the sound ot music proclaiming the ap
proach of the bride, who was similaily supported,
hut by two ladies. The bridal dress was strictly
scriptural, the maiden was attired in pure white,
covered with a veil, as in Genesis 31, 65. The
music having ceased, the bride, still supported as
before, was thrice led round her future husband.
We believe this emanates from the marriage of
Jacob and Leah, Jacob having his bride veiled
married Leah instead of Rachael, Genesis 29.26.
For this reason the bridegroom has an oppor
tunity ol ascertaining from the gait or figure of
his intended wife, as he has no opportunity of
reading her countenance through the folds ot her
veil. Having thus circled round him, she was
plac td on the right side of her future Lord.
The priest proceeded then to pronounce-a bles
sing upon all present, holding at the lime a gLss
of wine in his hand which, alter the conclusion
of prayer, was handed by a friend to the happy
couple, in token of peace with all the world;
they, having sipped lire same, modestly returned
it. The reverend and venerable Rabbi then pro
ceeded to read aloud the document before descri
bed, and then a second glass was filled, and a
prayer offered up for the future grace of the new
couple, and the second glass was tasted by both
the young people, in token of consent to each
other. Then followed a solemn silence a mo
ment of suspense—the ring was to be placed on
the bride’s finger. The fair hand was extended
(as wo thought) rather willingly, and the ring
being handed to the Rabbi, he lir'st exhibited it to
the others, and then examined it himself p
then gave it to the bridegroom, who p! a L. 0
upon the finger of the right hand of his i,I- 1 11
pronouncing the talismanic words. “Hah-tv*
kadasilh Leh, Bethubath Zu Kadth Most v ,
Yesrael.” (Anglice—Thus I wed thee accord?’
to the laws of Israel as 1 v Moses comm mi??
left the ring on the hand of the bride. A A-u *'
placed upon the ground, and in a moment— • >a , s
—the brittle vessel was shattered in ath . ' 1
pieces by the right foot of the bridegroom aSt n '
ken of the uncertainty of life, and that n
all our
joys may bo shattered in a moment.
The sudden change of this solemnity to '
was electric ; no sooner was the glass int) ie
than the music struck up in lively note, ih e .| Ust
j sounded with the words “MozklTouh” /• ,UC( ,’
joy!) echo upon echo seemed to sound' *'
our ears, congratulations were heart-felt-\ T
exhilarating was tho scene. The veil of
bride was in a moment respectfully nioV( . ( j
she stood before us with eyes streaming t!i'. u
ful yet happy and fearful, yet smiling on^th o
py husband. A look—a prayer—they wercMiu
rieJ—all the ceremony was over.
The lady is Miss Priscilla Lazarus, of AVI-.it
church, the gentleman, Mr. Adolph Cohen,of fib.
mingham. The reverend Rabbi was ex press
Birmingham for the occasion. —Salopian J oi , r "
Hazardous Adventure.—A correspondent
of the Madras Herald gives the following account
of an adventure with a cobra di capello, which
ocrurred to a gentleman who was reposing under
a (an irind tree alone, after a day of shooting
•I was aroused by the furious baying ofniy don
on turning round, I beheld a snake of the cobra
di caj ello species, directing its course to a point
that would approximate very close to my position
In an instant I was upon my feet. The moment
the reptile became aware of my presence, in nan
tical phraseology, it boldly brought to, with ex
panded hood, eyes sparkling, neck beautifully ar
ched, the head raised nearly two feet from the
ground, and oscillating from side to side, in a man
ner plainly indicative of a resentful foe. I seized
a short bamboo, left by one of the bean rs and hurl
ed it at my opponent’s head. I was fortunate
enough to hit it beneath the rye. The reptile
immediately fell from its imposing attitude, and
lay apparently lifeless. AViTumt a moment’s
reflection, 1 seized it a little below the head, haul
ing it beneath the shelter of the tree, and very
cooly sat down to examine the mouth for the
poisoned fangs of which naturalists speak, so
much. \\ hile iu the act of forcing the mouth
open with a stalk, I felt the head sliding through
my hand, and to my utter astonishment, became
aware that I had now to con tend against the most
deadly of reptiles in its full strength and vigor.
Indeed, I was in a moment convinced of it; for as
I tightened my hold of its throat, its body became
wreathed around my neck and arm.
1 raised myself from my sitting position to one
knee; my right arm, to enable me to exert my
strength, was extended. I must in such an atti
tude have appeared horrified enough to represent
a deify in the Hindoo mythology, such as wc see
rudely emblazoned on the portals of their native
temples. It now became a matter of self-defence.
To retain my hold it required rny utmost strength
to prevent the head from escaping, as my neck
became a purchase for the animal to pull upon.
If the render is aware of the universal dread in
which the cobra di capello is held throughout In
dia, and the almost certain death which inevi'a
biy follows its bite, he will, in some degree, be
able to imagine what my feelings wcie at that
moment; a shudder, a faint kind of disgusting
sickness pervaded my whole frame, as 1 felt the
cold clammy fold of the reptlc’s body lightening
round my neck. To attempt any delineation of
my sensations would be absurd; let it suffice, they
were most horrible. I had now almost resolved
to resign my hold. Had I done so, this tale
would never have been written: so no doubt the
head would have been brought to the extreme cir
cumvolution to inflict the deadly wound.
Even in tho agony of such a moment, I could
picture to myself the fierce glowing of the eyes,
and the intimidating expansion of the hood ereit
fastened its venomous and fatal hold upon my
face and neck. To hold it much longer would be
impossible. Immediately beneath mv grasp there
was an inward working and creeping of the skin,
which seemed to be assisted by the firmness with
which I held it—my hand was gloved. Finding
in defiance of all my efforts, that my hand was
each instant forced closer to my face, I was anx
iously considering how to act in this horrible di
lemma, when an idea struck me, that if it was in
my power to transfix the mouth with some sharp
instrumcnt .it would prevent the reptile from using
its fangs, should it escape my hold.
My gun lay at ray feet, the ramrod appeared
to he the very thing required, which, with some
difficulty, I succeeded in drawing out, having one
hand disengaged. My right arm was now trem
bling from over-exertion, my hold becoming less
firm, when I happily succeeded in passing tin
rod through the lower jaw up to its centre. I:
was not without considerable hestation that!
suddenly let go my hold of the throat and seize!
the rod with both hands, at the same time bring
ing them over my head with a sudden jerk, dis
charging the fold from neck, which had lutteilj
become almost enough to produce strangu
lation. There was then little difficulty in free
ing my right arm, and ultimately throwing tin
reptile from me to the earth where it continue!
to twist and writhe into a thousand contortions
of rage and agony. To run to a neighboring |
stream to lave my neck, hands and face, in i L ‘ |
cooling waters, was my first act after despatch- J
ing my formidable enemy.
Steam Frigate.— lt is stated that (wo hun
dred and fifty men are now employed uponthrp
steam frigate now building at the navy yard in B
Philadelphia. The engine of the frigate is to k t
ot GOO horse power ; and she is rated at two thou- H
sand tons, and will, it is said, be the largest steamß
frigate afloat.
Fire.— N. U. Chaffee’s distillery, on Penn
sylvania avenue, was burned to the ground»boot
two o’cloak this morning. The grain house at
tached was also destroyed. The distillery **
worked by steam. Loss about eight (house I
doollars, and said to be insured to (be amount -
seven thousand dollars, in the Western In su: ’
a nee and Trust Company Columbus, (^ r
gia. — Baltimore Pul riot of Sa-turday•
Nothing exceeds the modesty of the Ha" 1 '
girls. They wont be courted by daylight, no- -
tiie evening unless t re candles are extmg uis “
Chicago Democrat.
And here in the Granite State the girl s ntU
pretend to waste candies in such business
by,” said a certain old lady, “Debby, don t ''
me catch you burnin’ candles out a-spaiiO 1 "
tallow is scurse, and perhaps vou mayn t get 1 '*
schoolmaster after all /” Debby dutifully o®*?
ed her ma’am.—iY. 11. Argus.
Bombast. —Visiting the Mount. St. I? rn
we found a parly of Englishmen at the co»«f
One young man having signed his name in
traveller’s book, put afle?r it the letters M- P* .
S. Curious to know what this signified,
the liberty of asking him. “Oh,” he replied*
is proper to keep up one’s consequence a" 11
these foreigners.—The letters 1 have added ton.
name signify ‘Member of the Paddington lu3 "
ing Society.” ,
Dinner Fashions. —Gov. Cass, in bis r
work on “France, its King, Court and s
ment,” mentions,in reference to the ready
of European customs in our country, that
knife is used in the best company in Europe
serving the mouth at the dinner table-