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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. AUGUS T A. THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 9. FOR PRESIDENT, WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, Os Ohio; The invisible Hero of Tippecanoe—the incor ruptible Statesman —the inflexible Republican— the patriotic Farmer of Ohio. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT, JOHN TYLER, Os Virginia ; A State Rights Republican of the school of ’9B— —of Virginia’s noblest sons, and emphatically one of .America’s most sagacious, virtuous and patriot statesmen. FOR ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT, GEORGE R. GILMER, of Oglethorpe. DUNCAN L. CLINCH, of Camden. JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of Muscogee.^ JOELfIPRAWFORD, 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, 0 WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene. R. vs. HABERSHAM, of Habersham. JULIUS C. ALFORD, of Troup. EUGENIUS A. NISBET, of Bibb. LOTT WARREN, of Sumter. THOMAS BUTLER KING, of Glynn. {jROGER L. GAMBLE, of Jefferson. JAMES A. MERIWETHER, of Putnam. THdftlAS F. FOSTER, of Muscogee. Interesting Correspondence. We giv# place to day, to the exclusion of any remarks of our own, to the correspondence be tween Gen. Harrison and Mr. Tyler and the Com mittee of the New York Legislature. We shall in our next furnish our readers with his letters to Sherrod Williams and Harmer Denny, to which Gen. H. refers, both of which we have had on file for publication for several weeks. The amount of Treasury Notes outstanding, on the Ist inst., was $2,129,717 36. * The proceedings of the Celebration at Skinner’s Mills on the 4th inst. have been received, and shall appear at an day, w Health of Charleston. —|prom the Charleston Courier of yesterday, we learn that the number of deaths in that city for the week ending, the 4th inst. was seven, —three whites, and four blacks or colored. From the Acte York Courier 4* Enquirer. General Harrison and the Whigs of the New York Legislature. We publish below an interesting correspondence between the Whigs of the New York Legislature, and the Whig candidates far the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United States. Albany, 2Sth February, 1840. Sir —On behalf of the Whig members of the Le gislature, being a majority of both the Senate and the House of Assembly, the undersigned have the honor to transmit to you the enclosed Resolutions prepared by us, and passed with perfect unanimity _ and the most enthusiastic feeling, by those mem bers, at a meeting held on Saturday' last, being the anniversary of Washington’s birth day. We have also the honor to transmit to you a pa per containing a report in full of the speeches and proceedings at that meeting • We have the fullest confidence that in the views there expressed as to the character and policy of the present Administration, as well as the tributes paid to your own character and public services, and to those of the distinguished citizen associated with you in the Harrisburg nomination, we h&ve given utterance not only to our own feeling-; and convic tions, but to those of a large majority of the people of this State. We ar?, with high respect. Your friends and fellow citizens, G. C. Verplanck, y Martin Lee, LOf the Senate. John Maynard, J C. E. Clark, A © Wm. Duer, Peter B. Porter, fOf the Assembly. D. B. Sx. John, J. Hubbard, J North Bend, 0., May 23, 1840. Gentlemen —1 have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 25th February, conveying the proceedings of a meeting of the Whig members of the Legislature, convened in the Capitol ot the State, on the 22d of that month. 1 beg you to believe, gentlemen, that I am deep ly impressed with the honor, which has been con ferred upon me by the distinguished body, whom on this occasion you represent. The great object of both my r civil and military life, has leen to serve my country, to the utmost of my abilities, and to obtain its approbation. The hope of this has often cheered me in circumstances of great dif ficulty and embarrassment. You will pardon me, I trust, if in this letter I go somewhat beyond the mere purpose of acknowledg ing the receipt ofy'our communication, and use the occasion for making a few remarks, which circum stances seem to require from me, in respect to a de claration of opinions, or pledges, as to my future conduct, required of candidates for high offices. My public life, not now a short one, is before the country. My op’nions on important subjects, have been expressed from time to time, as those subjects have arisen, and since my name has been mention ed among those from whom a selection might be made for the office of President, J have, in several letters to friends, fully and frankly avowed my sentiments. Farther than this, I cannot suppose intelligent persons could desire me to go. The peo ple of this country do not rely on professions, pro -49 mises, and pledges —they know,that if a candidate is unprincipled, he will not scruple to give any pledge that may be required of him and as little will he hesitate t > violate it. 1 have already made public the principles by which I should be govern ed, if elected President, so far as relates to the pro per Executive duties of that office. But aim st innumerable applications have been made to me, for my opinions relative to matters of legislation, or even to the proper mode of conducting business in the two Houses of Congress. My published let tars to Mr, Williams and Denney, will show that I do not consider the President a constituent branch of the Legislature; yet it is impossible to read the ’ letters that have been addressed to me, without be lieving that many of the writers had adopted the opinion, that the Presidential office was the proper source and origin of all the legislation of the coun try; an opinion, in my jndgment, at war with every principle of the constitution, and of deep and dan gerous consequences. The prevalence of such sen timents, more than almost any thing else, would tend to consolidate the whole substantial power of the Government in the hands of a single man ; a tendency which, whether in or out of office, I feel it my most solemn duty to resist. I have declined therefore to give any further pledges or opinions on subjects which belong to the future legislation of Congress —because. Ist. I conceive, for the reasons given in my let ters to Mr. Williams and Mr. Denney, that Congress should be left as much as possible untrammelled by executive influence in the discharge ofits legis lative functions ; and that a better guarantee for the correct conduct of a Chief IVlagistrate may be found in his character and the course of his former life,than in pledges and opinions given during the ' pendency of a doubful contest; and that, although recognizing the right of the people to be informed of the leading political opinions of the candidates for offices of trust, yet as it regards the subjects up- 1 on which the Legislature may be called to act, the pledges and opinions should be required, if requir ed at all of the candidates for Congress. 2d. Because, the habit of considering a single individual as the source from which all the meas ures of government should emanate, is degrading to a republic, and of the most dangerous tendency. 3d. Because, upon all the questions in regard to which under any circumstances, it would be at all proper for me to make answers, my sentiments have already been fully and clearly given to the public, in a maimer to entitle them td credence, as I conceive that no honest man would suffer his friends to publish documents in his name which were not genuine, or containing opinions which he was not then willing to endorse. Accept, gentle men, the assurances of my high regard. W. H. HARRISON. Messrs. Verplanck, Lee, Maynard, Duer, Clark, Porter, St. John, and Hubbard. In reply to a letter similar in substance to that from Gen. Harrison, Gov. Tyler thus writes: Williamsburg, Va.,March 20, 1840. Gentlemen —I owe you my acknowledgements for your letter communicating to me the proceed ings of the<Whigmembers of the Legislature of N. York, and the paper containing the addresses made at their late meeting. I have read them with deep interest, not because of my present political rela tions to the country, relations which yon are well aware are not in the slightest degree of my own seeking; but because whatever proceeds from the accredited representatives of a majority of the peo ple of the great State of New York, is entitled at all times, and more especially at the present, to excite the highest degree of attention. The influ ence and power which she exerts over the airs of the Union, devolve upon her a responsibility of the weightiest character, and when she announces herself on the side of the institutions of the coun try, the friends of civil libeity have cause to teel assured that all is safe. Such are the feelings which your late proceedings and addresses are calculated to inspire, and such, I am sure, will be the happy result. For the complimentary notice which has been takqn of myself by the Whig members of the Le gislature, I beg to be permitted to express my thanks, and to tender to each of you, gentlemen, wishes for your health, happiness, and prosperity. I have the honor to be, Yours, &c. &c., JOHN TYLER. Hon. G. C. Verplanck, y “ Gen. Martin Lee, v-Committe of Senate. “ John Maynard, 3 Messrs. C. E. Clark, A Wm. Duer, Peter B. Porter, >Com. of the Assembly. D. B. St. John, & 1 J. Hubbard. J Loco Foco Convention. The following notice of the late Convention we copy from the Georgia Journal, we had also de signed to make some extracts from a private letter, but they are unavoidably crowded out. The Van Bnren Convention. The morning of the fourth found assembled in this place, the devotees of Van Burcnism from almost every section of Georgia. At 10 o’clock, a procession was formed by the marshals of the day, which proceeded to the Wtale House, where the oration was to be delivered. We took a station near the gate at which the proces sion entered, and counted the number of persons composing it. Men and boys, there were 580 n the procession; and, we presume, there had as sembled in the Stale House, about 500 more per sons, men, women, and children, who did nut join in the procession. In all, we should judge, there were not, with our own citizens, who are attached to the Van Buren party, more than 1000 voters. 'The procession, by the way, was headed by the notorious“ black hand'' that gave so much of fence on a recent occasion, to a certain editor in this place. For our own part, we saw nothing to condemn in the “ Democracy” availing them selves of the services of these coloured musi cians, on such an occasion, but every thing to approve; for it was demonstrative, at least, of the little influence which the offensive article had of which complaint has been made, among the very party for whose benefit it was advanced. There was one thing, however, that we did re gret, but which wc arc certain was not intended by the committee of arrangements. This was the placing of these coloured men directly near to the orator, where they could hear so well his dissertation upon the movements of the aboli tionists, the false premises advanced by him on this question, and the erroneous conclusions drawn therefrom. But how were they to know that the orator intended to harrangue his audience upon this exciting question ? Certainly, no one expected thal such would be the case. The Declaration of Independence was then read by Gen. J. W. A. Sanford, and the Oration was delivered by Matthew Hall McAllister, Esq. —a production which wc hope the“ Democracy” will not fail to publish, for we should like to have ; an opportunity of dissecting it.—As our readers, however, may desire to know our opinion of this address, we have here to state that we had not the pleasure of hearing it; hut from all that we could learn, from intelligent gentlemen who listened to it, there was in it no little of froth and foam. After the Oration, the “Democracy” proceed ed to the consummation of that which had been planned, and set in motion, by their leaders and oar vjould he leaders “a longtime ago.” Messrs. Cooper, Colquitt and Black do now supply the places on the Democratic ticket, of Messrs. Glas cock, Holsey and Cone, who have declined for that purpose. On the Electoral ticket, Messrs. Anderson of Burke, Gen. Harden, and Seaborn Jones, Esq., supply the places of Messrs. Ten nille, Walker and Anderson. This is a “glo rious” combination, and will certainly conduce no little to the defeat of both their tickets. The feast was then served up. The marriage having taken place, th ejollification commenced— the GOVERNOR of Georgia presiding. Many speeches were made, many toasts were drank, and no one failed, we understand, not even His Excellency , to abuse “ Old Tippecanoe.” We also learn that there have been jarrings and bickerings among the “Democracy.” To what extent it exists, and how far their little dif ficulties among themselves may affect the politics of the State, the ballot box will tell. To our friends we say, we have witnessed their efforts, we have heard their arguments, we km w their hopes, aid we are conscious of their fears. Let us then go on in our good work, for we, at least, have nothing to fear. We can meet effort with effort—argument with truth—ourhopeis as cheer ing as we could wish—and fear has not rendered us either timid, 01 vascillating. Our cause is that of our country; and our success will depend, we feel certain, upon our perseverance in its ad vancement—our defence of it when assailed, and our continued assaults upon those, whose corrup tions and abuse, in conducting the affairs of the government, demand reform and change. From the New York Courier fy Enquirer. The States Rights Men and the Presiden cy.—lt is now universally conceded that Mr. Van Buren derives his only strength and hope from his connection with ihe leaders of the States Rights Party of the South. In all other quarters, his cause is desperate. The four Whig Stales of New England will give at the approaching Presiden tial Election largely increased majorities against the Administration. New York will show a Whig majority of at least 15,000 votes. In Pennsylva nia, the results of recent elections indicate that the federal dynasty so long ascendant in that State, is utterly trampled and crushed. Mr. black-cockade Rush, and his ally Mr. Buchanan, with the aid of Commordore Eliiot, cannot save the dying faction. The W 7 est in a body, will go for General Harrison. North Carolina and Louisiana are Whig to the core. In Tennessee there is good ground for hope ; our friends say for confident assurance. Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey, are safe to the Whig cause. In Virginia there will be a desperate strug gle ; but we do not believe that the people of that State are prepared to sacrifice Mr. Rives, and two of their own distinguished citizens, who are can didates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the Republic, to perpetuate the present corrupt, and profligate dynasty. Nor can we believe that the people of Georgia are prepared to follow the lead of Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Pickens, to the sacri fice of so many of their ablest and most popular men. We have still therefore much reason to hope for the South. The vote of the Sothern States will be at least divided. The only chance for the Admin istration in that quarter, is based on its recent alli ance with. Mr. Calhoun. W T e propose to review some of the circumstances of that connection ; and we shall show enough to prove it without excep tion, the most shameless and contemptible coalition on record. We would invite the attention of the American people, and particularly of the State Rights Party of the South, to the language and acts of those who aspire to be considered the State Rights leaders ; for if the Republic is to be the victim of the factious and ambitious intrigues of its powerful men, it shall not be without a full understanding of their tergiversation and base ness. First of all, let us look a moment at Mr. Pick ens. This gentleman occupies a distinguished po sition in the House, as the Representative not of South Carolina, but of Mr. Calhoun. He is the re ceived exponent of the views and feelings of that errat ebut distinguished Senator. When Mr. Pick- j ens speaks, he is supposed to speak the sentiments { of Mr. Calhoun. We shall treat their common re marks therefore, as in some degree, the emanations of the same mind. W T hen Mr. Pickens abused the administration, he abused as the proxy of Mr. Cal houn ; he now eulogizes the administration in the same capacity. Let us go back then only to January, IS37—a little more than three short years, and subsequent to the election of Mr. Van Buren. What then thought and said the chivalrous and fearless Mr. Pickens ? W T e hold to something like the show of consistency in our public men. When the people see a statesman “ turning his back on himself,” they are not disposed to sustain him in his tergiver sation. On the third of January, 1537, in the debate on the resolution of inquiry into the condition of the Executive Departments, Air. Pickens observed, with his usual insolent pretensions to immaculate purity, that he was not one of those demagogues who were continually pouring forth professions of love for the people—but that he was still Demo crat enough to proclaim their rights in opposition | to the insidious encroachments of Government “ I avow,” he continued —“ that lam for the pow er and rights of the people being felt practically in this Government, while those who are always declaiming for those rights seem to come here but to smother and suppress them. They profess to be the advocates of the popular cause, while they are all found arrayed in close phalanx on the side of power, pouring out eulogies upon the administra tion; screening its officers , justifyifg acts of fraud and CORRUPTION, and opposing the people in their demands for inquiry and investigation. Though the party to which 1 have the honor to be long, has been stigmatized and traduced as the ene my of popular rights, I profess, sir, my attachment to them. I avow undying attachment to the liber ties of my country, and 1 hope yet to live to see the daj when the rights of the people, when the rights and power of this House, shall no longer be trampled under foot by base subserviency to Ex ecutive power,by those who bow the knee to its mandate, and crowd in eager anxiety to beg the crumbs that fail from the table of a royal master.” Pretty well, this,for a gentleman who has aban doned the party to which he once claimed the ‘•honor” of belonging, to associate himself with the tools of the Executive power, and the beggars of the royal table. Once more to the record. Mr. Pickens is speaking of the interference of Presi dent Jackson in the nomination of his succersor. “We heard,’’says Mr. Pickens,“of his interference in this matter, of his labors and dignified speeches, in the contemptible work of raising into power one who lived by fawning upon ms hand. Morti fying and disgusting as these facts are, not less astonishing did it appear to me, when in answer to them we heard the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Glascock) and the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr Ripley) rise in their seats, and instead of of fering apology or denial,exert themselves to justify and vindicate the interference. Sir, I well remem ber the ‘Gwinn letter’—which indirectly ordered the Ruckerised convention al Baltimore to do the bidding of a master. I knew well that the suc cessor was appointed, but I did not know, I did not believe, that I should see the day w r hen a repre sentative of a free but betrayed People would rise in his place in this House and vindicate such appointment.” Alas ! Mr. Pickens has lived to know and be lieve that a representative will rise on the floor of the House and insult a “free but betrayed people” by a baser vindication than this. But once again, we will let Mr. Pickens speak for himself. There is nothing so noble as a man of sentiment. Mr. Pickens like Mr. Surface is a man of sentiment, and acts up to the sentiment he professes very much in the same fashion. “We live,” says Mr. Pickens, in a land of constitutional law,'every principle of which sustains the freedom of the elective franchise, from the highest to the lowest. If this great principle of American liberty be vio lated and defied by Executive dictation, no matter what character is raised up as the successor of power under such a dynastry, we are slaves and I dastards if we tamely acquiesce. As far as prac ; tical liberty is concerned, there is no difference of effect, as to the people interested, between the Government of him who comes in, trampling over the freedom of election through dictation.bribery and fraud, and bin who comes into power waving over the desolated fields of his country the bloody sword of a conqueror and usurper.” Here Air. Pickens takes the broad ground that under a dynasty constituted like that now in pow er, no matter what may be the character of the in cumbent, the people are “ slaves and dastards if they tamely acquiesce.” Mr. Pickens acquiesces, and for all that wc see to the contrary, he is suf ficientty tame. He roars you as gently as a suck ing dove. If we should call hi u a “slave and dastard ” for such acquiescence, we should only be guilty of affixing his own epithets after his own direction. We make no such application of them, but we ask the people of the South to look well to the leaders who would now carry them into the camp of the administration. Let them judge of that administr lon by their own invectives. Let them look at the original sin which in the opinion of Air. Pickens, made it the part of a slave and dastard to acquiesce tamely in the election of Air. Van Buren. Have things changed since 1837 ? , Have virtue and vice lost their distinctive charac ters ? Or is it Air. Pickens who has changed ? One passage more from Mr. Pickens, and wc leave the subject for the present in the hands of a “ free but betrayed people.” “ Our country ” —said this chivalrous, indepen dent, consistent son of South Carolina, on the 3d of January, 1837—“ has been foully deceived; we have been basely deluded by all the arts of in trigue, bargain and corruption ; and I ass, sir, if we confirm by re-election this fraudulent appoint ment, will not posterity say we too are free on ly in name ? We are told that the South is to be reconciled ‘ by the sucessor falling into Southern principles.’ and that it is policy to acquiesce in the appointment. Sir, there may be at heart TRAI TORS in the South, but it will be TREASON to the Constitution and the country to SUBMIT TO THE DICTATION. No ! never, never ! We have been foully betrayed, and against the princi ples of the succession we declare uncompromising, unextinguishable war, ‘ war to the knife.’ It may he that we shall be but few in numbers ; it may be that our flag-staff shall be shattered and broken, hut we will nail the flag to the gunwale. and conquer, or perish under it.'" Now we ask the Whigs and State Rights men of the South, if they can be brought to abandon their principles, and enlist under the banner of a Prcsi- f dent thus fastened upon the country, at the call I of a man who by his own emphatic and conclusive [ demonstration is a slave, a dastard, and a trai- s tor to the Constitution and the country ? t { Harrison, Tyler and Reform Meeting in , Jefferson. j A large and respectable portion of the citizens of Jefferson county, assembled in Louisville on the \ 4th of July, to participate in the festivities of the r day. When, agreeable to a suggestion in a cir- 1 cular from the Alacon Committee, addressed to the j Delegates at the Millcdgeville Convention, that this would be a suitable occasion to nominate De’e- j gates to the Alacon Convention. The citizens us ( sembled in the Court House, and proceeded to or- i ganize the meeting by unanimously calling Judge ' Asa Holt to the chair, and James T. Bothwell j secretary. When the object of the meeting was made known by Col. J. W. AI. Berrien, in a brief and } interesting manner, and closed his remarks by moving tnat the Chairman nominate a committee of seven, to select the names of one hundred per sons opposed to the present corrupt administration, 1 an I in favor of Reform; which motion being agreed to, the chair nominated J. W. AI. Berrien, P. B Connelly, Isaac B. Davis, Anthony W. Turner, , Edward R. Carswell, W'illiarn Clements, Esqrs., and Dr. Benjamin Ayer, to compose that commit tee; who having retired for some minutes, returned the following names as suitable persons to repre sent the State Rights and Reform party in the said Conv'cntion, to be he’d on the second Thursday in August, viz: 11 L Gamble, Robert Patterson, John J Jenkins, John C Harman, H P Turner, Thomas Hannah, James Spear, Thomas D Key, j A B Walker, Elijah Hudson, j Edward R Carswell, E C Williamson, William Clements, James Cain, P B Connelly, T M Patteison, R E Cunningham, J R Prescott, John AI Douglas, J W Bothwell, Elbert Hudson, Wm S Lowry, David T Smith, James C Frances, James Alathews, Joseph Price, James A Carswell, R J Farmer, William Little, S B Tarver, Aloses Brinson, John Crook, James McKigney, II B Gregory, William D Stone, Lewis Lamp, William T Jordan, James Fleming, Hardy Morgan, J imes L Cheatham, James AI Sinquefleld, Robert Little, J W Whigharn, Luke McGlohon, T W Batty, Nicholas Diehl, James T Bothwell, Wm H Hayles, I Asa Holt, II B Todd, Benjamin Ayer, L Q C Brown, Henry Arrington, Benjamin Gobert, Samuel Bigham, Thomas Alatthews, Jonathan Lyons, Bennett Crafton, William A Baldy, Joham Evans, L B Covenah, Robert J Pugesly, A E Tarver, Benjamin Hadder, L C Alatthews, John Peel, Lemuel Thompson, L L AlcNair, Sherrod Arrington, J T Parker, George Stapleton, John Gunn, P S Lemle, S W Robbins, John Bostick, James Kenady, Benne.tt B Smith, W H Fay, John W Alexander, Alatthew Jordon, Wm H Connelly, P AI Wasden, Robert Boyd, Ebenezer Brown, Samuel Denny, James Gobert, Charles Cunningham, Arthur R Cheatham, Wm O Young, James Williams, SG Jordan, A W Turner, Isaac B Davis, Jefferson Williams, John Wren, Obadiah Thompson, Rufus King, James W AI Berrien. John Alcßullers, Which report being then unanimously received by the meeting, after authorizing the Delegates to fill any vacancy which might arise, in case of any of the before mentioned delegates failing to attend, and requesting all those who could conveniently leave their homes to attend. Col Berrien then moved that the proceedings be signed by the Secretary and Chairman and pub lished in the Chronicle and Sentinel and Macon Alessenger, with as many others as wish to do so, which was adopted, and on motion of Captain Connelly, Resolved, That this meeting now adjourn sine die, which was agreed to. ASA HOLT, Chairman. James T. Bothwell, Secretary. Extensive and Interesting Discovery of An cient Royal Treasure. —About 6 o’clock on the evening of Friday week, a large collection o val uable Anglo Saxon coins, and other relics of olden time, were discovered close to the river Ribble at Cuerdalehall, near this town. It appears that a number of workmen were employed in repairing the embankments or the Ribhle (which had become partially undermined by the action of the water,) in order to prevent the further encroachments of the river, when daring their operations, they were suddenly surprised and overjoyed at the discovery of the buried treasure. It was contained in a leaden chest, which, however, had become so de cayed and cooded, that it broke asunder in the at tempt to extricate it from its hiding place, and the inclosed valuables of course rolled out before the astonished gaze of the “ bankers.”—There are we undorstmd, abo t 10,0( 0 coins, and the average weight is about twenty grains each, which arc principally of the reigns of Etheldred, Alfred and Edward the elder, besides which there are ingots of silver, bracelets, bridle bits, some ring-money, &c. &c. The money, we are informad, weights about 290 ounces, and the other articles about 756 ounces,in 986 ounces of silver.—The probable time of the deposit of this valuable treasure was, as nearly as can be estimated, about 1000 years ago. The pre vailing opinion, from the extent of the property and other circumstances, is that it was Royal treas ure. Some odd pieces of the booty have found their way into the hands of a few individuals, and are, of course, highly treasured. Indeed, the num ismatic collectors and connoiseurs are quite in a furor about the matter, and the spot where the treasure was found lias, since the discovery, been more zealously scratched than any dunghill in the best populated poulty yard. The appropriation and ownership of the propetry, will, we apprehend become a question between the Crown and Air. Assheton, but, in all probability, the claim of the latter will not be interfered with. The circum stance has created a lively sensation in this neigh borhood. —Preston England Chonicle. The. Power of Truth in Michigan.— The Detroit Advertiser of the 17th has the names of ninety deserters from the administration ranks. Among the numerous renunciations of Van Burenism we observe the names of thirteen per sons in the Newark (N. J.) Daily, b ung former supporters of the general administration. A buck who lately turned out a splendid tan dera, named his leader Xerxes, and the whee‘ horse Arter Xerxes. From the New Orleans Picayune of the 2d. Steamboat Explosion and Loss of Life. The steamboat Chester, Capt. Cable, le!t this port yesterday at one o’clock, P. M., for Baint Louis. When about twenty miles up the river her two flues collapsed, causing a drcadlul explo sion. Three men—the mate, a deck hand and the second cook were blown overboard ; the two first were drowned, the latter swam to shore and was saved. Four of the deck hands were severe ly scalded; none of the passengers were injured. Capt. N. O. Trouard, of the steamboat Ajax, who came up immcdia'ely after the catastrophe, rendered all the aid to the sufferers which hu manity could suggest; he took the wounded per sons on board his boat, and towed the Chestei back to this city. We have beed told by one of the passengers on board when the accident occurred, that no blame can attach to the engineer, as the boat was going moderately slow and the boilers were filled with water ; and we have further het#d that the inspec tor was on board immediately before the Cnester left, and pronounced her boilers and engine in good order. Still ’tis evident that all was not right. Dying Rich.—The following lines from the U. S. Gazette, have all the eloquence of truth to recommend them. “An active business man is a rational man, and a great blessing to the community. He keeps in gratifying exercise the talents which God has given him, which of itself, is a blessing to him. He gives employment to the hands of industry, which is far better than giving alms to the unemployed. These aie the legitimate and rational ends of active business pursuits and wealth getting—the gratification of the active powers, and the promotion of industry. But the desire of growing rich, merely to‘die rich,’ is one of the most foolish intentions which ever entered the heart of foolish man. What can the praise —if praise it be—have to do with “the dull, cold ear of death 1” What can it profit one “when he is lower and more insensible than the sod” to have it sounded around, huw thick he cut up” Experience has fully and emphatically toughl the lesson, that much wealth left to heirs, is eight times out of ten, not a blessing, but a curse. Its expectation beguiles and spoils the manly pow ers ; —its possession leads to mis judgment, excess, and final exhaustion and ruin. The time will yet come, when men of wealth will be wise enough to make a gradual disposition of their property while living—not prospective, but opera tive —thereby have an eye to the use which is made of it, and participate in the greatest enjoy ment that wealth is capable of giving, that of see ing it do good to others. They will dismiss the foolish aspiration of “dying rich,” with the al most certain reflection that their heirs, sooner or later, will 'diepoor. But to use borrowed, but energetic language on this subject—“Aftar hy pocrites the greatest dupes the devil has, are those who exhaust an anxious existence in the disap pointment and vexations of business, and live meanly and miserable, only to die magnificently and rich. For like the hypocrites, the only dis interested action these men can accuse themselves, is, that of serving the devil without receiving his wages ; for the assumed morality of the one is not a more effectual bar to enjoyment, than the real avarice of the other. He that stands every day at his ledger, until he drops into the grave, may negotiate many profitable bargains ; but he has made a single bad one indeed, that it counterbalances all the rest; for the empty fool ery of “dying rich,” he has paid down his health, his happiness and his integrity ; since, as a very old author observes, “ as mortar sticketh between the stones, so sticketh fraud between buying and selling.” Enterprise and activity in business, and a passion for honest money-getting, are good things in the world ; and he who uses his tal ents and capital in this way is a benefactor to bis race—but he who does all this for the sake of “ dying rich,” is a—not a wise man in any way.” The Winneragoes.—Genera! Atkinson and stall arrived at St. Louis on the 21st ult., having succeeded in completing the peaceable transport ation of the Winnebagoes to the west side ot the Mississippi. SgciitßEL Huxt.—The Troy (N. Y.) Bud get states that 21,000 squirrels were recently kil led at Grafton, by two paities of sportsmen. One party killed 12,000, and the ether 9,000. The Whig papers are full of hard cider.— Globe. And what are the Loco Foco papers full of 7 Hard lie. — Prentice. Toasts.—Among the toasts drank at the Prin ters celebration in Boston, were the following, the first by Col- Green, of the Post. Printers. —Intellectual smelters, who receive the dross for their labor, while the world gets the metal. Newspapers.—The intellectual spring into which every body dips his bucket, whilst few tfiank the fountain for its supply. From the Natchez Courier. Harrison and Victory. “ Scots, wha ha wf Wallace bled.” Sons of those who fought and bled, Who leaved not death,—knew no dread, Whom Washington olt h.th led, On to glorious victory ! Hear ye not your country’s cry. Calling you to do or die, ’Gainst the might of tyranny. For your rights and liberty ? Now’s the dny, and now’s the hour; See the front of battle lower ; See approach proud Martin’s power, Martin, wiles, and trickery ! Who will be a traitor knave ? Who tan fill a trickster’s grave ? Who so base as be a slave ? Traitor ! Trickster ! turn and flee ! Who for dearest rights and law, Freedom’s swo.d will strongly draw'. Freemen stand, or f.ennen la’, On, Americans, wi me ! By your honor’s dearest fame ; By the dread of deepest shame ; Your duty do, —fear no hirnne, And we shall be —shall be free ! Lay the Goths and Vandals low ! Tyrants fall in every foe! Liberty’s in every blow ' Forward ! let us do or die ! Long a would-be king we’ve had, Whose best acts have e’er been bad, Making all things drear and sad, Changed to gloom, prosperity ! But night is past: mom awakes, - And, as mist, dark error breaks ; While blanched with fear, faction quakes. Quivers, trembles, fearfully ! Change is sweeping o’er the land ; Shouts of joy on every hand, Call from every patriot band, Harrison and Victory ! * • ;>» . •:> ; Fearful fright and misarray, Mark our loreman’s dread array ; Signs to them of bootless fray With the sons of Libert}’. Amos, with Iris wily lore ; Benton, with his frothy roar ; Blair, with falsehood’s wondrous store, Prop the throne of tyranny. Those, and worse, a hungry swarm, Truth pervert and falsely charm, With error decked, lies yet warm ; Nurse corruptive villainy ! Judicial Decision.—The Canton fiu- I Advocate states that Judge Nicholson I the late term of the Madison Court, that i.a* I charter of a bank could not be attached I |y, and that the non-compliance of a bank I the provisions of its charter could not be cm., • I evidence to defeat a recovery upon a • l!> pi to «uch a bank.” " I A Picture to the Life.—-Shakspeare e } acterized-the loco-foco rulers of his time i n ,i’ I following manner, and we leave our readers t O , I whether the picture does not suit those ofT \ own day : “You have not as good patriots should do Studied the public good; but your particular end I Factions among yourselves; preferring such * * % To offices and honor as’ne’er read * The elements of saving policy : But deeply skilled in all the principles That usher to destruction.” “ There’s a chiel among ye takin Notes” the pick-pocket said when he was mingling • the crowd at the Rail road depot. “Very cheap, hut most wretched accom® ■ dations,” as the fellow said ven they gode hi® * I a rail. Broadway Tabernacle New T f!i£ This great church building, the largest/•„, jjj' B country, was purchased at auction on the 2d jJI by David Hale Esq, of the Journal of Commercf ■ for §27,500, subject to a mortgage of §SOOO, H The Emperor Adrian very innocently asked B Epicus, ‘why Venus is painted naked!’ Tc I philosopher replied, 4 because she always reduced I her followers to such poverty that they have - I clothes. The smiles of a pretty woman are i ts I tears of the purse.’ Reward Offered.—The Governor of Ne» I York has offered a reward of §250 for thear- t . I hension of Lett, sentenced to seven years prisonment for arson, and who escaped" from the I sheriff while on his way to prison. It j s suppo-B sed that he escaped through the aid of somV.iß his “ patriot” friends. ‘Silent contempt is the best whip for a profane I blackguard,’ saith the Syracus Signal. From the North American. 1 In the Convention which formed the Constitu.« tion of the United States, seventeen bundled and® eighty-two speeches long and short, were deliver-1 ed, according to the Madison papeis, from white I the following has been compiled Os this number B Governor Morris, of Pennsylvania made 173 i| James Wilson, Pennsylvania jgjjijj James Madison, Virginia pp fl Roger Sherman, Connecticut B George Mason, Virginia p^B Elbridge Geiry, Massachusetts ■•••UsH Edmund Randolph, Virginia 7,1] Hugh Williamson, N. Carolina 758| Rufus King, New Y'ork El Oliver Elsworth, Connecticut 73 H Nathaniel Gorham, Massachusetts 759 Charles Pinckney', S. Carolina gjra John Rutledge, S. Carolina, 47 fJ Pierce Butler, S. Carolina, 47*’ John Dickinson, Delaware. 3ii ' Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, S. Carolina,.... Sjj Luther Martin, Maryland, 31 k George R,ead, Delaware, 27 J John Langdon, New Hampshire, i-tfj Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania, 2SI Daniel Carroll, Maryland, 2o ■ Alexander Hamilton, New Jersey, 231 John Francis Mercer, Maryland, IS I Wm. Samuel Johnson, Connecticut, U I Jonathan Dayton, New Jersey, 121 Wm. Patterson, New Jersey’, 111 Gunning Bedford, Delaware, !>i| Abraham Baldwin, Georg.a, I Caleb Strong, Massachusetts, i| George Elmyer, Pennsylvania, il James M’Henry, Maryland, d| Jacob Brown, Delaware, oa Thomas Fitzimmonds, Pennsylvania, Si Richard Dobbs Spr; ight., N. Carolina.’ l| William Richardson Davie, N. Carolina,.:.... John Lansing, jr.. New Jersey, James M'Clung, Virginia, 3| | William Pierce, Georgia, 3| I William Houston, Georgia, 31 i Daniel, of St. Thomas Jenifer, Maryland, 3a | David Brearly, New Jersey’, 31 ! George Washington,* if | Jared Ingersoll. Pennsylvania, \ William Blount, N. Carolina,. !| THE SILENT MEMBERS WERE — Nicholas Gilman,New Hampshire, Robert Gates, New York, William Livingston, New’ Jersey, William C. Houston, New Jersey, Thomas Mifflin, Pennsylvania, Robert Morris, Pennsylvania, Richard Bassett, Delaware, John Blair, Virginia, George Wythe, Virginia, William Few, Georgia, * Gen. Washington was President of the Con vention. His two speeches were on taking tin chair and at the close-of the Convention. Mr. Calhoun and General Jackson.—Geai Dulft frecn has been reviewing the quarrelbetween these two individuals, and exposing the partwliifi Van Buien and Kendall acted in it. He maM some pretty severe charges against, the old Here] and defies Kendall to defend him. A Washingwij correspondent of the Pilot writes : ‘T find in one of your recent num. ers, tliaa Messrs. Blair and Kendall would not dare to del fend General Jackson against your charges, f«J fear of offending their new patron and friend, Calhoun. 1 have reason to believe that Mr. Kendall’s at tention has been diawn to this matter wi.hin last few days, by a friend of Gen. Jackson, wte he remarked “ that it would not be prudent« politic at this time, to revive the controversy tween Gen. Jackson and Mr. Calhoun, but that ft w T as now engaged in writing the life of the Gener al, which he hoped to have ready’ for the press tj next winter, when the friends of the old Here w’ould find, that he had not only defended him 5-1 gainst every suggestion contained in Duff Green; 5 numbers, but that he has carried the war into 1 ric.a, and if after reading his exposition of that cos-, troversy, Mr. Calhoun did not stink in the nostri j of every honest and candid man, he (KenM 1 should conclude that the har d cider fever had com* pletoly blunted the senses of tire American pie.” But said this friend of the General’s, wou’d J 55 thus treat Mr. Calhoun, after he had been so actr ,! and efficient in your cause? “Yes,” said Kendall, “ we understand him perfectly well. wishes to use us, and we are resolved to use * first —and when we have no further use for I*; we’ll use him up.” “ However, of this convey tion say’ nothffig, till after the November elect- General Jackson and Mr. Van Boren undents our game.” A Night among the Dead* By Joseph R. Chandler, Esq Editor °I * I Philadelphia United States Gazette. It was some time in the month of July °r | IS 12, w’hon I was on a visit to Portland, - J that several young people accepted an invit- . J make an excursion among some of the I islands that stud that princely bay, and alior e r| < es of delightful recreation during the su.| months. Captain Tucker, of the Gun bo - H —; was the master of the feast, the Aren 1 - B nos of the day, and mo t bountifully dr I charge the duties he assumed. By’ ten 0c 0 I M. the deck of the gun boat was croW . f I youth and beauty, and taking advantage 0 $ and a moderate breeze, we were soon m , f 0( of some of the 365 Islands, of which the that vicinity justly boast. Fish were c:l '^ rc j-' cooked, raspberries were gathered and I and the young ladies were delightful am 1 1 A merrier day withal we scarcely num el^ g j, s ,il the very few’ v hich, in nearly a century , . eD ; given to pleasure. £ong, —dance, and the day away, and it was not until 9, * eS to that we left the shore of our island P !ea ” 11 sume them upon the deck of the gun - oi ‘ and joy ous were the hearts that beat on and brilliant were the eyes that glistenc f o f some fortunate pun. —The ruddy un made redder in the excitement of the NV bd e lie dimple deeper in the hearty nor