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& CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. g * AUGUSTA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 8. . A . - - FOR PRESIDENT, WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, O Os Ohio; ® o The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe—the incor- Q rnptible Statesman—the inflexible Republican— the patriotic Farmer of Ohio. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT, JOHN TYLER, 9 Os Virginia; A StS:e Rights Republican of the school of ’9S—• one of Virginia’s noblest sons, and emphatically one of America’s mast sagacious, virtuous and g patriot statesmen. FOR OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT, GEORGE R. GILMER, of Oglethorpe. DUNCAN L. CLINCH, of Camden. ©JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of Muscogee." JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hancock. CHARLES DOUGHERTY, of Clark. SEATON GRANTLAND, of Baldwin. ANDREW MILLER, of Cass. WILLIAM EZZARD, of DeKalb. ® C. B. STRONG, of Bibb. JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Burke. E. WIMBERLY, of Twiggs. FOR CONGRESS, WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene. R. . HABERSHAM, of Habersham. JULIUS C. ALFOR D, of Troup. EUGENIUS A. NISBET, of Bibb. LO'fF WARREN, cf Surate|j THOMAS BUTLER KING, of Glynn. ROGER L. GAMBLE, of Jefferson. JAMES A. MERIWETHER, of Putnam. THOMAS F. FOSTER, of Muscogee. The Constitutionalist and the Army Bill. In our notice of the attack made upon us, by the wise and worthy Editor” of the Constitu tionalist, in relation to our strictures on the Army Bill, we asked why he had not published the Bill. He replies to us, and says he has, and re fers us to the dates of his paper.—We have ex amined his file, and found that it was published in April, and that “the wise and worthy Editor” so far, endorses the plan of Mr. Van Boren and his Secretary that he thinks the “general outlines of plan ought to he adopted Will “ the wise and worthy Editor ,” inform his readers what particular features of the Bill he thinks ought to be adopted 1 Is it that which requires the militia to arm themselves at their own expense ? Is it that which requires them to be subject to the order of the President, to be called out of the State twice a year to be train ed 1 Or is it that which subjects them to the® articles of war, by which they are prevented un der severe penalty from speaking in disrespectful terms of the President, and may be punished o with death for striking their superior officers 1 Are t&se the features which “ the wise find wor thy Editor” believes ought to be adopted 1 Van Buren vs. Poor Men. Undqj this head we some days ago copied an article from the Steubenville (Ohio) Herald, in which Mr. Van Buren was charged with having advocated the restriction of suffrage in the New York Convention of 1821, and as proof of the charge, an extract from his speech was quoted, as in Holland’s life of Van Buren. The succeeding day there appeared in the Constitution alist, writer, who sported the imposing signature of “L. M.,” and in an article of some length, which surpasses any in proportion to its length for bold and daring recklessness, and utter disregard of truth, vve have yet seen even in the columns that print. Byway of attracting attention to his tissue of “ false ” statements, (“ we might use harsher words,”) the article was headed “ Beware of Counterfeits.” “Base political forgery and calumny.” This was imposing enough, and natu rally enough astonished us, for we did not know 0 but that had caught some of the writers, e leaders in some shop , and by some optical delusion, (produced by what cause wc knew not,) obtained their signatures to some instrument, which under different lights could not have been obtained. On examining his aiticlc, we however discovered it was an attack upon us fer having in serted the article from the Steubenville Herald> with an extract from Mr. Van Buren’s speech’ And, Ala Blair and Rives, as he could not well de fend his master, he was driven to the necessity of declaring that the Whigs had published a spurious life of Mr. Van Barcn, and charged that the whole was false. This was one way of defending their Loco Foco chief, and as the sequel will show, was ° not a very fortunnte defence for the writer, if he regards his reputation for truth, which we opine is rather problematical. * As is our Custom, generally, never to notice a nonymous scribblers, we paid no attention to this redouyable night of the quill, until we had pro cured a copy of Holland’s Life of Van Buren, an swering precisely his description of the “ genuine .” We then gave him notice through our columns on Saturday, that we should show him up in his real character, and lo and behold, on the next day, we were handed a note, purporting lobe from L. M., acknowledging that he had been in error. And yesterday, he again gained admission into the col umns of the Constitutionalist, to admit that he had stated what was“ utterly and unequivocally false.” “We might use harsher words.” And in his ad mission, he struggles desperately to plaster his del icate situation. As the writer was so desirous to regard us the endorser of the article, we do now endorse and charge Mr. Van Buren with having advocated a restriction of the right of suffrage to those per sons who, “ paid taxes, performed militia duty, la bored on the highways, and were House holders.” And we adduce as proof of the charge, the speech quoted in Holland’s life of him, page 182. Had “ L. 31.” extended his corrections to bis entire article, we should have spared him the merited castigation which a sense of duty imposes on us. But he has not seen fit to extend his cor rections beyond Mr. Van Buren’s advocacy of re stricted suffrage. We must, therefore, take one extract from his article, which demands a passing notice. It is in these words : “ In the convention of IS2I, when the amend ment was offered by the Democrats “ that all white male citizens of 21 years should be allowed a vote,” without the freehold qualification, &c., the Federalists as a matter of course, opposed it. When they found that that amendment would be carried, they, not the Democratic party, proposed that ne groes also should be allowed to vote w'ithout a freehold ! ! Then it was that Van Buren and his associate Democrats, came to the rescue, and by union together retained the old condition —very many, and among them Van Buren, wanted to ex clude negro votes altogether, but, finding they could not gain all they wanted, they did not allow, at any rate, the Federal negro supporters to gain any thing. “L. M.” says the Democrats proposed the amendment abolishing the freehold qualification — the Journal of the convention says it was offered by the committe. Again, he says the Federalists were in favor of negroes voting —the Journal shows that 3IARTIN VAN BUREN voted to strike out “ white,” so as to permit negroes to vote ; therefore, according to “L. M.,” Mr. Van Buren is a Federalist. Again, “L. 3L” says Mr. Van Buren wanted to exclude negro votes altogether — the Journal shows that he voted to permit ne groes to vote. Who is to be believed, the Journal or “L. M. ?” It may be however, that L. M. may endeavor to vindicate Mr. Van Buren against the charge he has made against him of being a federalist, upon that well known law of evidence, “ that when a witness is proven to have made false statements in one particular, he is not to be credited in another.” Very well, if L. 31. imagines that he is not to be believed, certainly we will uot complain., but in all conscience let him never again assert, either through the press or privately, that 3lr. Van Buren is no federalist. But, we are wearying the pa tience of our readers, and bringing an unfortunate individual into notice, who but for our kicking, would perhaps never have been again heard of. Here is the extract from the Journal of the Con vention. Martin Van Buren in favor of Negro Voting. Proved officially, by the Journal of the New York State Convention, held in IS2I, to amend the Con stitution —which Journal can be seen at the office of the “ KENT NEWS,” in Chestertown. The fact is notorious, that when a member of the New Vork State Convention, in 1821, Martin Van Buren voted in favor of negro suffrage. On page 134 of the Journal, the report of the committee on the elective franchise is given. That report contained the word “ white ” before the word “ citizens,” as follows : “ Every white male citizen of the age of twenty (►one years, who shall have resided in,this State six months next preceding any election, * * * * shall be entitled to vote at such election, in the town or ward, in which he shall reside, for Gover nor, Lieut. Governor, Senators, members of the Assembly, and all other officers who are or may be elected by the people.” The report of the committee, was warmly de bated, in consequence of a motion to strike out the •word “white” so as to read “that every male citizen of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have resided &.c. It was distinctly announced that the word “ white ” was inserted in order to ex clude the right of suffrage. I hose who wished the word “ white ” stricken out, also avowed their object in having it erased, was for the purpose of giving to the negroes the right of voting. The issue was fairly made on this question, and that it was so understood by the Convention, we make two extracts; tho first from the speech of Mr. Ross, who wished the report to read white male citizen, and thus exclude negroes. In giving his reasons why negroes should be excluded, he says : “ But why, it will probably be asked, are blacks to be excluded ? I answer, because they are sel dom if ever, required to share in the common bur thens or defence of the State. There are also al ditional reasons ; they are a peculiar people, inca pable in my judgment, of exercising that privilege with any sort of discretion, prudence, or indepen dence. They have no just conceptions of civil liberty. They know not how to appreciate it, and arc consequently indifferent to its preservation. 3lr. Clarke, who like Mr. Van Buren, voted in favor of striking out the “ white,” which thus con ferred the right of voting on negroes, remarked in a speech, “ I am unwilling,” said he, “ to retain the word ‘ white’’ because its intention is repugnant to al the principles and notions of liberty, to which we have heretofore professed to adhere, and to our declaration of independence, which is a concise and just expose of those principles. In that sacred instrument we have recorded the following incon trovertible truths. ‘We hold these truths to be se f evident —that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain un alienable rights ; that among these arc life, liberty, and the pwsuit of happiness .’ ” The people of color, are capable of giving their consent, and ever since the formation of your gov ernment they have constituted a portion of the peo ple, from whence your legislators have derived “ their just powers,” and by retaining that word, you deprive a large and respectable number of the people of this State, of privileges and rights which they have enjoyed in common with us, ever since the existence of our government, and to which they are justly entitled.” Mr. Jay, on page 190, moved that the word “ white ” be stricken out. The vote was taken by yeas and nays, (see page 202, of the Journal,) and resulted as follows : Ajes —Messrs. Bacon, Baker, Barlow, Beck with, Birdseye, Bimkerhoff, Brooks, Burroughs, Buel, Carver, R. Claike, Collins, Cratner, Day, Dodge, Doer, Eastwood, Edwards, Forris, Fish, Hallock, Hees, Ilogeboom, Hunting, Huntingdon, Ja} r , Jones Kent, King, 3lodre, Munroe, Nelson, Park, Paulding, Pilcher, Platt, Reeves, Rhinelan der, Richards, Rogers, Roseburgh, Sanders, N. Sandford, Seaman, Steele, D. Sutherland, Swift, Sylvester, Tallrnadge, Tuttle, VAN BUREN, Van Ness, S. 11. Van Rensselear, Van Vechtcn, Ward, A. Webster, Wendover, Wheaton, E. Williams, Woodward, Wooster, Yates —63. Noes —Messrs. Bowman, Breesc, Briggs, Carpen ter, Case, Child, D. Clark, Clyde, Dubois. Evek man, Fairlie, Eaton, Frost, Home, Humphrey, Hunt, Hunter, Hold, Knoles, Lancing, Lawrence, Lefforts, A Livingston, P. R. Livingston, McCall, IVlilliKin, Pike, Porter, Price, Pumpelly, Radcliff, Rockwell, Roof, Rose, Russel, Sage, R. Sanford, Schenck, Seely, Sharpe, Sheldon, J. Sutherland, Taylor, Ten Eyck. Townley, Townsend, Tripp, Van Fleet, Van Horn, Verbrych, E. Webster, Wheeler, Woods, Young —59. The word white was accordingly stricken out. Progress of the Cause of Reform. —Ex- tract of a letter in the U. S. Gazette, dated Pitts burg, Pa,, June 29. “ I have just arrived here from Mobile, and I have travelled up the Mississippi river, from its mouth to the mouth of the Ohio river, and up the Ohio to the Keystone State ; anil I assure you that I have heard only seven men huzza for Van Bu ren ; but the united huzza for General Harrison,is truly astonishing. People on both sides seem de termined to elect him. \.ou would laugh to see the hundreds of log cabins and liberty poles strung all along the many wood landings and cities. No thing is more sure in the West of his majority be ing very large—So all I sav is, go ahead.” To this it may be added,' that the Pittsburg Sat urday Visitor, hitherto neutral, has hoisted the Harrison flag. £> The LocoJPoco Convention. The treaty of alliance between the renegade ’ State Rights Loco Focos and the Loco Foco 1 party proper, was finally ratified and confirmed at MilledgeviUe, on the 4th inst. The consider ation paid by the Loco Foco party proper, is, that E. J. Black, Mark A. Cooper, and W. T. Col quitt should supply the place of Cone, Holsey . and Glascock on the Congressional ticket, and ; that Seaborn Jones, of Muscogee, Edward Har r den, of Clarke, and James Anderson, of Burke, should supply the place of Gen. Walker, Gen. Andeison, and Col. Tennille, on the Electoral ' ticket. Pretty fair price, think wc, considering ' the character of the commodities. i The Hon. William R. King was on Friday last i elected President pro tempore of the Senate, the Vice President of the United States, having left Washington. Samuel, alias P. Q. Cushman, has been ap ' pointed Postmaster at Portsmouth, N. H, This is the man who said during the last war, “ that he hoped to God, that every soldier who marched to . Canada would leave his bones there.” He is a i fair specimen of Mr. Van Buren’s “ Democratic ; friends.” Another important Change. —By a letter ‘ from the Hon. Charles Downing, a Delegate in Con ; gress from Florida territory, which appears in the the last Tallahassee Star, we are gratified to per ceive that gentleman has renounced Van Buren, 1 and taken his stand in favor of General Harrison, lie gives his reason in the following extract from his letter: “ Although we may have no vote in the election, and hence are told by many it is folly to meddle — yet I think that Florida has if deeper interest in . the Presidential election than any State in the Union. Independent of having all our officers who J administer the laws, selected by the President, we i have a series of savage butcheries, almost nightly L enacted among us, the like of which for atrocity, for damning disgrace on the Government which 1 should protect us, has no parallel in the history of ’ the world. He must have a deeper confidence in , a government professing democracy than I have, who can believe that after nearly five j'ears of 1 scenes like this, o f continued impotence, of dis r grace and defeat, this same government, adminis t tered by the same men, can do, or will do, better in the next four years, than they have done in the last. ? Who is there that can see any probable or possi t hie chance of closing the war, if conducted as it has been ? Who will give us protection, but a change of the constitutional commander in chief • of the army and navy of the United States ?” More Political Changes. THE PROGRESS OF THE GOOD CAUSE. Changes among the people in favour of the Hero of the Thames, continue to pour in upon ■ us. The Lebanon Star of a late date mentions having counted two hundred and forty-nine [ renunciatioJis in Ohio, in less than a dozen ex i change papers. The greater number of those that change, do so without publication, preferring 1 a quiet exertion of their inlluence for reform, to a public recantation. We have also a valuable auxiliary in the Gren ada, Miss. Reporter, one of the ablest of all the I Van Buren papers in that State. The Editor thus accounts for his new position: “ We frankly confess, we arc convinced we have been in error—doing wrong to ourself, our country and posterity, in the humble and hearty support we have hitherto rendered the Adminis tration; wc therefore abandon it. We have be lieved that the policy of the Administration would promote the prosperity and happiness of our country. It is now plain to our mental vision that a more ruinous policy, one more destructive to all the great branches of industry and trade, which make up the sum total of our country’s business, wealth and prosperity, could not be pur sued. We see the most energetic and enterpri sing of our citizens daily failing around us ; we can see every branch of business stagnant—every trade and profession suffering, we see all the chiefstaples, and particularly the great staples of i the South, depressed to a degree totally ruinous 1 to the producer; we see the government itself, with all its boasted self-sustaining powers, after • separating itself from the people, anti floundering ■ in the mazes of a labyrinthine “Experiment,” reduced to the necessity of issuing batch after ’ batch of treasury shinplasters to pay off its credi tors. We have seen all these things more in pity 1 than in anger; and seeing them, instead of reali ; zing the prosperity and happiness so long promi sed by the Administration, and believing ourself in error in sustaining it, wo now abrogate our al legiance to loco focoism, and renounce thereto all | favor, affection, and fealty.” 1 j A highly respectable member of the Virginia ►Senate informs us, that he travelled the other day | from Vicksburgh to Helena with a brother Virgi- I man, a loco foco. The latter had passed about i three months in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Lou -1 isiaua; and, on being asked how those three States would probably vote in the Presidential election, he answered : “ Louisiana will go for Harrison by a very considerable majority—as for Mississippi and Arkansas I hope they may go for Van iinren, but I consider them very doubt ful, for very great changes are continually taking place in both of them in favor of Harrison.”— Louisville Journal. Government draft Protested. —The gov ernment committed an act of bankruptcy last Tuesday, by allowing a draft drawn by the Treas ury Departmet upon the Collector of this port to b e protest / Thisdra.t was drawn in favor of Captain Hewes of the topographical corps, and endorsed by him payable to P. T~ Ellicott, in payment of a government contract. The draft was made for ten thousand and six ty dollars, and is now in the hands of the nota ry. Thus we go! It is a beautiful commentary upon the sub-treasury system, and particularly recommended to the consideration of those who have been dosed with homilies respecting the hard money doctrine. The money due by government isowing to laboring men who have earned it by the sweat of their brows. The contractor can not satisfy the claims upon him so long as the government withholds his claims upon it. Would it not be as well for government to pay its own debts, before it makes such a humbug about oth er people ? Shin plasters are better than nothing. Why don’t the administration sue its creditors— go into court and pay off their dues at ten cents in the dollar ? Such a course would be more honorable than to draw drafts and suffer them to be protested. — New Orleans Bee. Representatives in Congress. —Louisiana elects three, on the 6th of July; Illinois three, on the 3d of August; Vermont five, on the Ist of September; Maine eight, on the 14th of Septem ber; Georgia nine, on the 15th of October; Penn sylvania twenty-eight and Ohio nineteen, on the 13th of October. New York and New Jersey in November. John Quinct Ad ams, in a letter to a friend, a few days since, says in a postscript, “ Harrison will come in like a whirlwind V’ A capital idea ! and one which well exemplifies the force with which the long pent up and restrained pub lic sentiment will prostrate and sweep away every obstruction with which Loco Focoism may at tempt to oppose its resistless course.—Massachu setts Bpy. From the New Orleans Picayune of the Ist instant. Latest from Texas. The Texian man-of-war steam ship Zavala, Capt. Laihrop, arrived yesterday afternoon from Texas, bringing dates later than those previously received. By a gentleman who came passenger we learn that the Texian navy, consisting of the sloop ol war Austin, the brig Wharton, and schooners San Jacinto, San Bernard, and San Antonio, all under command of Com. Moore, will shortly ren dezvous at the South West Pass, where the squadron will bejoined by the Zavala. Its desti nation is not known, as the commander has sealed or secret orders, but the probability is that they s are to cruize in the vicinity of Matamoras. What strengthens this belief is the fact that Arista, commander of the Government forces Mexico, is on this side the Rio Grande, and the Tcxians look upon his movements with jealousy. The gentleman who communicated the above facts also informs us that the Ist and 2d divisions of the Texas militia have been called out, and further that Col, Karnes, the celebrated partisan leader, is now at Galveston, where President La mar is located for the piesent. Karnes has orders from the Secretary of War to raise 1,000 volun teers, which only wait the signature ol the Pres ident. The piobability is that the Tcxians are deter mined to take possession of all the territory on this side of the Rio Grande, and if they do not next pounce upon Matamoras we are mistaken. Canales, the Mexican Federal leader, is at Gal veston. The above are the only items of impor tance we could gather. From the Richmond Whig. „ The Negro Witnesses.^ The Feds are still struggling to extricate “ the Northern man with Southern feelings” from the odium, of sanctioning the introduction of negro testimony against an officer of the Navy. We cannot discover that all their exertions avail any thing. On the contrary, the more they strive, and the more the matter is investigated, the worse does it appear for the advocate of free negro suf frage. A feature of the affair not yet adverted to, or at least not dwelt upon as its importance deserves, is, that there exists no law on the sub ject, whatever, and consequently, the President had full and entire discretion to act as he might choose. No law authorizes the admission of ne gro temstimony against white men, and there ne ver has a case occurred within the waters of the U. S. This is the first that was ever brought to the notice of the President. Without any law requiring it, or any usage to excuse it, and with full power to gratify the bent of his own inclina tions, Mr. Van Buren, after mature deliberation, established the principle of admitting negro testi mony, and thereby placed the officers of the Na vy and the Army upon a footing of equality with negroes. In making this decision, as if to add to the indignity, he treats the matter with cool indifference, and without stooping to give his reasons, contemptuously remarks that he could find nothing in the case of Lieut Hooe, contain ing the admission of free negroes to testifty against an •fficer of the Navy, which required his interference! We defy Mr. Van Buren’s friends here or elsewhere to adduce an act, or all the acts put together of all the Abolitionists, more insulting to the South, or more deeply imbued with the spirit of Abolitionism, or half, so practically in jurious to us. What has Tappan or Garrison or any of the band, ever done to compare with it ? Their operations have been mainly confined to theories and abstractions, to preachingequality while they were preparing to swindle their black dupes. But Mr. Van Buren’s course is practical and so is co-extensive in its effects, with the limits of the Union. At one blow it strikes the officers of the Army and the Navy to a level with the African race, and admits negro testimony in to all the Federal Courts. Is it surprising that an extraordinary feeling of indignation has been excited throughout the Southern States by this gross outrage upon their feelings by the Chief Magistrate of the Republic 1 ? —by one too, who affects to be their especial friend and most devoted admirer ? It is only wonderful that the indignation has not extended to every man —that there is a single one in the South so completely the slave of party as not to feel the resentment of a man. We believe it can be asserted with strict truth, that Martin Van Buren has been the advocate of two principles or measures more thoroughly and practically Abolition,in their character and re sults, than any other man of the day. We allude to Free Negro Suffrage in New York, and Ne gro testimony against White Men. Who can boast as much? What Abolitionist can say he has achieved as much towards bringing the two races to an equality. Broad Grins, or living Caricatures.— A chap with carbuncles on his nose and brandy blossoms illuminating the whole breadth of his visage exhibiting great alaim lest the whole land shall be filled with drunkenness by a little cheer ful talk about Hard Cider. —A big-bellied fellow, who rode into office on a Hickorky Pole, and has been kept in by a suc cession of barefaced humbugs, cursing Log Cab ins, and protesting that “the Federalists always exhibited a contempt for the understanding of the People.” —A Loco Foco who has w i #ut his whis tle in denouncing Post Notes a Irredeemable Paper, justifying the Federal Administration in issuing millions of those same, because “circum stance alter cases,” although the Government, which might easily borrow money regularly at low interest, has not the poor excuse in necessity which is pleaded by those who “ follow in the footsteps.” —An Editor with both hands in the Treasury and his pockets stuffed with “blanks, paper and twine,” solemnly denouncing that our precious liberties are gone to the deuce if the present tribe of Federal Office holders are not kept in eter nally. —A voter who had “ always stuck to the same principles, contending in 1828 that no President should be re-elected while in office, and then vo ting for the re-cleclion of every one that comes along. —A friend of honest banks and a sound mix ed “ Currency” advocating the Sub-Treasury, which exacts Specie inflexibly and treats honest and dishonest, solvent and insolvent banks all alike. —A Loco Foco talking about the “ economy” and disinterested patriotism of our present Rulers. Oh hush!— Log Cabin. Van Buren and Gen. Harrison. —The Pe tersburg Intelligencer, in reviewing the public services of the two candidates for the presidency, says: “We have been led into these reflections by a remark made by Gen. Waddy Thompson, in his Speech at Hanover” on Saturday. After drawing a comparison between the lives and ser vices of Harrison and Van Buren, Gen. T said —“ I have it Loin the best authority that, on the night of the battle of Tippecanoe, when General Harrison was sthanding ankle deep in blood, and when his camp was illuminated by one continued flash of the Indian Rifle, Martin Van Buren, per fumed like a milliner, w T as leading oil’ a minuet at a Ball in Albany.” What a contrast is here presented ! If a volume had bee n written on the subject, it could not more comcpletely have depicted the characters of the two men. We fancy now that we can see the two individuals in their different positions. There is General Harrison cheering, urging on and rallying his men, driving back the savages from one position 1 and gallantly attacking them in another; and here is little Van Ticking With cologne and stiff with pomatum, an oppress/veil/ odoriferous as ever was a civet cat, bis dapper body arrayed in all the habiliments of a petit maitre, his w his kers curled “in the last agony,” and his smir king little face distorted by one everlasting, gri mace, leading olf his partner with the practised ease and grace of a French Dancing Master. Who can dwell on this picture without being sickened and disgusted, that such a thing as .Mar tin Van Buren should ever have been Chief Magistrate of this great nation. The next Arrival. —The Boston Atlas of yesterday says:—“It is well known that the steamship Britannia leaves Liverpool, and the British Queen leaves Portsmouth, on the Ist of July—the former for Boston and the latter for New York. Mr. Cunard, we learn, expects to make the passage from Liverpool to Boston, in cluding the stop at Halifax, in 12 days, if lie should have good weather.—On this supposition the Britannia will arrive on the 12th of July. We have received a communication proposing to the merchants of Boston the expediency of running an express to New York, immediately on the arrival of the Britannia, should she arrive on the 12th, or a few hours before or afier the steamboat train leaves for New York. This is in case she has a short passage. Thus the Bostoni ans will be able to get the news into New York before the British Queen will arrive.” What have we got for the one hundred and eleven million cf dollars that we have j aid t) Mr. Van Buren for the last three years] Answer. —We have got a deranged currency, low wages, property reduced in value manufac tories shut up, laborers without employment, cor ruption in high places, distress amidst the poor, bankruptcy in the National Treasury, and last, but not least, gold for the office-holders —very cheap ! Shall we try him again I — Bellows Falls Gazette. From the Madisonian. Didactical. —We are overrun we confess, but wc beg, in self-defence, to suggest to thorn, very respectfully, a few rules for their observa tion : 1. Condense your articles, and make them as brief as possible. 2. Never send us a communication unless you are sure it has point. 3d. Never expect to see your communication in print unless you can write grammatically, and can do your own spelling and punctuation. 4lh. Never write on both sides of your paper, if you intend your article to be printed. It is a great inconvenience to the compositor, and can scarcely be tolerated, unless the communication is from a distance. 5. Never bore an editor by reading your arti cle to him. Leave it to his discretion, and bide your time. 6. Never ask an editor the news—it is like get | ting professional advice without fees, or smug gling goods. Take his paper, pay for it, and then you will get the news without inquiry. 7. It is a great mistake to suppose that an ed itor’s sanctum is *a public reading room. To tumble and read an editor’s exchanges, is as bad as riling the fountain where the spring folks arc dipping w r ater for their customers. 8. When you wish to discontinue your paper do it with as rnuoh decency as you ordered it, al ways remembering that an editor forever sets him down as no gentleman, who after requesting his paper compels the postmaster to send an abrupt notice, that the paper “is refused;” and, that an editor can never regard him an honest man who discontinues his paper without paying arrearages. 9. Never flatter yourself that an anonymous communication, addressed to, or touching per sons, will be noticed. Mi gratort Expf.diton of Ants.— The ant cities, as they ought to be called, of Brazil, are of such amazing size that they have more the char acter of structures reared by human hands, than of monuments of insect industry and skill. They are conical moulds of ten or twelve feet; their cir cumference is nine or ton feet —A hard yellow clav form the external coat; the inside is divided by a number of horizontal floors or stories of hard black earth in thin plates, which sometimes shine like Japan ware. These habitations peopled by myriads of ants of a large size, and brown color. They have the power of exuding from (heir bodies a viscid fluid, by which they moisten the clay to a consistency fit for baking floors. Some species form covered ways in this manner, and tunnels and avenues of this description have been found stretching for a considerable distance from one settlement to another, and through which these ants are enabled to make pretty longjourneys unseen.—They sometimes migrate and their ex peditions are attended with truly remarkable circumstances. In fact, they resemble on a small scale, the inroads of Attlla and his million of mounted barbarians, into the fruitful and glowing plains of Italy—leaving parched deserts in their wake. When these insect Huns set out on such enterprises, they proceed right forward in a straight line, just as the laden bee flies to its hive, and they devour every thing in their way which is esta ble, like a cloud of locusts “ warping on the wind.” It once hapened, during one of these expedi tions, which was undertaken near the city of Rio de Janeiro, that a garden obstructed their line of march —a deep ditch of water in particular see med an insurmountable obstacle; however, a stick happened accidentally to be lying across it; this the ants used as a bridge, and over it they poured by myriads, so that in a few hours the garden was swarming full of them, and every thing of a vegetable kind disappeared. From this they proc ded on till they came to the Swe dish Consul home, through which they actually made *heir way. The gentleman who inhabited it was suddenly awakened during the night by a horrid sensation, and starting from his couch, he found himself covered with these insects, whose crawling and biting had awoke him. The house was full of them ; there wes neither recess nor apartment nor closet exempt from their presence. Impelled by their instin ve tendency to advance, they pursued their onward course until the whole body passed through, and next morning not a single one of t was to be seen. Strange to say, the ants devoured every other insect in their progress, so that the singular visitation was not without its use. Spiders, cockroaches, and every thing of the kind which infested the house, be came the prey of these nocturnal visiters; and when they disappeared, it was found every other species of insect had disappeared along with them.— Connecticut Courant. Anecdotesof the Russian Government.— When cne of Alexander’s visits to Warsaw was announced, there was not time to clear the streets of a quantity of mud which had been scraped in heaps. The police (Ku ans) ordered the win dows on the ground floor of the houses in these streets to be opened, and f ew the mud into the rooms ! One of the bells Moscow was profes sedly banished to the borders of the icy ocean in Siberia, three or four hundred years ago, for hav ing tolled the accession of some pretender to the throne. This man passed himself off as an em peror who was reported to have been strangled; but the deceit was discovered, and his accom plice, the bell, punished by the knout, as it was found impossible to send it to Siberia, according to the sentence. On his accession the present emperor published an ukase, allowing the bell to return to Moscow, but not to sound; on the birth J of a son some time after, Nicholas j., ukase, granted it a full pardon, and itV Sec ° lowed to sound. Prince Roman San * "i. 0 "1JB banished to Siberia after the revolutf a * father had never given him an establishp 0 ’ the Russian Government obliges him them, annually, the income his son ou.»h received. A Jew, whom he (the fath formerly been instrumental in bringing to h-d returned from banishment, and incu I '™ samepunishme.it; to aggravate Prince IV punishment, this man was chosen as ? V - 0llIa!, '| * panion on the journey, and chained wiiht' C °B the same iron bar. From forty to sixiv M pled in the same manner, and then strung C 6 58 erun the same chain. When they half f 'H night they are not unchained, but are -" into a small space enclosed by high ed at the top, without any roof, and so smffll there is not always space to lie side by sid gentleman from Cracow, being a; Wars" ST I imprisoned because he wore a ring *4 the letters N. P., which, it was insisted " mean, “Nouvelle Pologne.’|, He was obfe ( send to Cracow to obtain certificates that k ■ letters were the initials of his mother . |, ,ei H she had given him the ring.—4fAc/ja!u w . « From the Journal of Comm rce. ’ Commerce and Navigation of the U. S dnr' year ending September 30 th, 1839.a The annual statement of the Commerce H Navigation of the U. S. has just been W J|l Congress. Ihe following summary i s Kat r jH from it : ° a ‘ e: iH Import for the year ending 30lh Se Pt- !839 $162092hi Exports do 121',023tH Imported in American vessels Ug'firiwH Do in foreign vessels U2178M Os the exports. §103,533,891 were ofdomfl and §17,494,525 foreign articles. Ofdomestic articles §82,127,414 were expo J in American vessels, and §21,404,377 in foreiS vessels. C 'H Os the foreign articles. $12,660,434 were jj ported in American vessels, and §1,834,091 foreign vessels. American Shipping. J^ tcrc ?’ 1,491,279 to J Cleare(3 > to*! Foreign Shipping. "M Entered, tons! Cleared, 611,839 tons! Registered tonnage, 834,244 Enrolled and licensed 1,153,551 Fishing vessels, 108,682 ° | Tons 2,096 478 I Entered in whale fishing 131,845 tons! Tonnage of Shipping Built in U. S. Registered, 55,064 Enrolled, .... 65,922 ' Tens, 120,986 Temperance in Purgatory !—An old ho! man, who had some time since joined Fatbrfl Mathew’s Temperance Society, being last week! on her dying bed, requested that her “medal”! I would be suspended to her neck after death, anjfj buried with her. On being asked her reasonfor|| making this request, she replied—“ Wisha agraji shure it would be worse to dhrink whiskey. J purgatory than here itself, as the burning withiS and the burning without would be too had—J in the name God, I’ll take the medal, and if! meets Mick Brien, or any' of them ould neighbors! that used to bo threating me, I can show then I the medal, and faix then they’ll not mind niakic;! me dhrink in spite, of me, whether I liked it cil not as they used to do at the fairs and patterns, I —lrish Vaper. BANK REPORTS. Hank of Augusta. April 22d, IS4O. t To his Excellency, the Governor of Georgia; Sir —I hand herewith, a minute statement of tin I condition of this flank, prepared from its books,oil Monday the 6lh Inst.; together with a list of stock! holders, and have the honor to remain, Re-poctfully, Your very obedient servant, JOHN MOORE, President. I A statement of the condition of the Bank of Aguim as taken f rom its books, on Monday »ior»wjl 6th April , 1840. To capital stock 12,000 shares, SIOO each paid in $1,200,000 I Notes of this bank issued... 1,726,175 89 On hand 1,354,700 In circulation 371,4761 Balance due to other banks payable in current notes 57,553 Sj Amount due individual depositors pay able in current notes, 17.2,552 ;j do do do cash 1,700 a Amount due stockholders of this bank for dividends and distribution of sur plus jrofits payable in current notes 4,336 ij do do the flank of Charles ton, payable in Charleston 10,326 ij Surplus profits 62,762 c| $1,880,709 J By' bills and notes discounted, running to maturity' at Augusta, 584,267 do do do New York, Charleston and Savannah 111,380 34 do at other places, 11,176 49 Total amount of assets not matured,.. 706,824 w By' bills and notes discount ed, lying over not protest ed, nor in suit or judge ment 10,384 86 Protested but not in suit or judgement 42,934 44 Protested and in suit or judgement 213,087 61 J J fe 1 266,406 9| Total amount of discounted paper,... .973,231 '1 Jly' Real Estate, including Banking House 44,575 By stocks, viz. Geo. R. R. and Banking Co 204,360 Sav. Ins. k Trust Company, 6,030 Geo. Ins. & Trust Company Augusta 5,000 State of Ga. Sterling bonds, 302,500 Augusta city r bonds, 10,000 By Geo. R. R. & Ban’g Co., loan on interest 25,000 By notes of the Bank of Darien, on interest 13,692 611,1^ Total amount of investments, \,b64, Protest account “ Amount due by individuals in open account, ■ Amount due by B' nks in N. Y., Philad., Petersburg, Va., Char eston “and Sav. 12,337 5S Amount due by otlaer banks 0 ,, ij and agents 81,886 52 94,21 J Specie belonging to tbisb’nk in its vault ‘6,-l J 1 do order from N. Y.,and shipped lor I Savannah, Treasun draft on collector of customs, Charleston, 270 | Note? of the banks in this Stale in good credit, and city corporation bills re- .i n 241 i deemed from circulation, 11 279,933 4 Notes of the Bank of Darien, and I branches on special deposit, 4 Incidental expenses, jj —i $1,880,709 ’I Extract from the Report of the character of the discounted paper >■ 0 j this Bank. lask'l The Committee appointed on Ihu.. j