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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA.
MONDAY MORNING, JULY 20.
FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON,
3 Os Ohio;
The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe —the incor
rigible 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—
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.
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.
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0 FOR CONGRESS,
WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene.
R. W. HABERSHAM, of Habersham.
JULIUS C. ALFORD, of Troup.
EUGENIUS A. NISBET, of Bibb.
LOTT WARREN, of Sumter.
THOMAS BUTLER KING, of Glynn,
ROGER L. GAMBLE, of Jeßerson.
JAMES A. MERIWETHER, of Putnam,
THOMAS F. FOSTER, of Muscogee.
Amos Kendall.
The relations which this man sustains to Mr.
Van Buren and the present Administration, neces
sarily attaches importance to whatever comes from
him, because he, as the editor of the Government
argan, is supposed to (and no doubt does) utter the
sentiments of Mr. Van Buren and his Cabinet.—
He has but recently been associated with, and an
adviser of, the Administration, and he has now
assumed the important function of the Govern
ment’s month-piece. It is therefore fair to pre
sume that he makes no pledges but such as Mr
Van Buren authorises him to make, and assures
him will be fulfilled to the letter. This is no far
fetched presumption,—it is fully justified by the
relations which have heretofore existed, and now
exist, between Mr. Van Buren and Mr. Kendall.
Mr Kendall has held, during the administration of
Mr. Van Buren, an important cabinet appointment,
from which be has retired, no doubt, with his pre
viously obtained consent, and the preconcerted ar
rangement of his present relation. No impartial
or candid man, who knows anything of the circum
stances, but must come to this conclusion. What
ever, then, comes from Mr. Kendall, is no doubt
spoken by authority, and expresses fully the senti
ments of Mr. Van Buren, whose organ he is. If>
therefore, Mr. Kendall offers office either directly
or impliedly to those who will espouse the cause
of Mr. Van Buren, it may be regarded as a tender
from Mr. Van Buren himself; because it is made
through his acknowledged organ.
It is known to many of our readers, that when
Mr. Kendall resigned his office of Postmaster
0
General, he signified his intention to assume the
editorial department of the Globe, in which new
station he is equally the confident of the Adminis
tration as formerly. For the purpose, therefore, of
extending as far as possible throughout the United
State the circulation of the Globe, lie issued a
Circular to the Party, casing upon them to aid
him in his project. This Circular was enclosed to
a Postmaster of Burke County, Ga., in a letter ad
dressed to him, which contains the following sig
nificant language ; “I shall endeavor to take
CARE THAT THE HONEST HEARTED MEN WHO
MAY AID HE IN REACHING THE HINDS OF AN
HONEST PEOPLE, SHALL HAVE NO CAUSE TO RE
PENT THEIR EXERTIONS.”
Let the people of Georgia calmly investigate the
full force and meaning of this sentiment of Mr.
Kendall, which was addressed to a highly respecta
ble citizen of their own State, —a man whom he
knew not but as a Postmaster, —and determine
whether or not such language, emanating as it
does from the acknowledged organ of Mr. Van
Buren, is not a violation, in the most charitable
construction of its import, of our republican insti
tutions. No candid man can or will deny that it
does not extend to the individual to whom it is ad
dressed the promise of reward, provided he will
aid him. Here, then, is a beautiful commentary
upon the professions of this Administration, at the
head of which is that pink of Loco Foco Democra
cy, Martin Van Buren. This is an evidence of the
estimation in which they hold the people of this
country; it is an evidence of the truth of their
professions with regard to the unbiassed suffrages
of the people, when they are endeavoring by such
means to pollute the source of all power, the peo
ple themselves.
We ask our readers to consider dispassionately
the import of this letter, and the relations between
the writer and Mr Van Buren, and we unhesita
tingly assert it as our opinion that every candid
man will draw the same inference, that it is nothing
more nor less than an effort on the part of Mr
an Buren to bribe the people of this country into
his support.
Copy of a lettei addressed to a Postmaster of Burke
County, Georgia:
Washington, May 20, 1840.
My Dear Sir —Having embarked with conscious
ness of right and hearty good will in the defence
of the Administration, of which I have formed a
part, I earnestly invoke your assistance in render
ing my efforts effective by disseminating the en
closed Address, and obtaining subscribers to the
Extra Globe throughout your region of country.
Every farmer, mechanic and workingman ought
to have one ; and if they cannot well spare a dol-
lar each, two or more should unite together to take
one.
Stimulated by an enthusiastic devotion to the
pure principles' of Democracy, and by the daring
efforts now making to conquer them and to extin
guish for ever the beacon light which our beloved
country is holding up to mankind, I shall endeavor
to take care that the true hearted men who may
aid me in reaching the minds of an honest people,
shall have no cause to repent their exertions.
Your friend and fellow citizen,
AMOS KENDALL.
Another Falsehood Nailed.
In a late number of the Richmond Enquirer was
a long editorial article, in which was introduced
an article from the Cincinnati Advertiser, endeav
oring to fix upon General Harrison duplicity, to
wards abolitionists, and particularly with the ed
itor of the Philanthropist, an abolition paper, and
as it will no doubt, be extensively copied into the
Locofoco Journals, we take pleasure in laying be
fore our readers the following article from the
Cincamate Gazette, and the letter of Dr. Bailey,
the editor.
We confess we are not displeased to see these
things, it will show the reflecting people to what
means the Administration party will resort to ac
complish their object, and so far from securing the
support of such men, they will tarn from them with
loathing and disgust.
From the Cincinnati Gazette.
Misrepre.sentation.
We have received from Dr. Bailey, editor of the
Philanthropist, the following exposition of a vile
misrepresentation contained in the Advertiser and
Journal of yesterday morning. If ail the distor
tions of language, and misrepresentation of senti
ment, published in that filthy reservoir of a foreign
mercenary’s venom, were to be noticed at equal
length, the Whig papers of the city could have
room for nothing else. Between it and the Ohio
Statesman, there is a regular *• speed Dick, speed
Devil” race, in the coining and circulating of gross
falsehoods. That noticed below is but a small spe
cimen of their handicraft.
To the Editor of the Cincinnati Gazette.
Sir : In the Daily Advertiser of this morning,
the following statement is made by a cosrcspon
dent.
“ Dr. Bailey, the present editor of the Philan
thropist of tnis city, one of the leading Abolition
journals of the country, has said in presence of
members of the Democratic party, and 1 presume,
if caked upon, will tes ify to the same, although
opposed to the present Administration, that Gen.
Harrison has declared himself at different times, to
them, to be a warm and devoted friend to the cause
of Abolition; and I call upon General jHarrison,
in person, to refute or acknowledge this charge,
and not to permit the Black Lister and his coadju
tors to do it for him.”
Justice to General Harrison and myself demands
a prompt denial of the truth of the above statement.
What I could ever have said, that could afford
ground for such a statement, I cannot conjecture.
At different times, in the presence of my f riends,
whether Whig or Democratic, when conversing on
the subject, 1 have remarked, that my conversa
tions with General Harri-en had led me to believe,
that he was a very good anti-slavery man, and
I had no doubt it was his pleasure to convey such
an impression. Stronger language on this subject
1 have not uttered ; and this language has not been
used by me with a view to political effect. Os
course, Knowing the different meaning attached by
the public generally to the terras “ anti slavery ”
and “ abolition l could not for a moment sup
pose that 1 should be misunderstood.
The same correspondent, in a note says, that the
editor of the Philanthropist “ abandoned him ”
General Harrison. It is sufficient to say, that I
have never supported either Mr. Van Buren or Gen.
Hairison, as a candidate for the Presidency. The
Philanthropist has nothing further to do with pub
lic men, than as their acts may affect the anti
slavery cause in this country ; and it has been en
tirely impartial, (it is claimed,) in censuring what
we, as abolitionists, believe to be, the pro-slavery
tactics of both political parlies.
Respectfully, G. BAILEY, Jr.
Cincinnati, July 8, 1840.
Mr. Merrick has reported to the Senate, a bill,
retroceding the District, with the exception of
Washington, to the States of Maryland and Vir
ginia respectively. He said he did not propose to
pass it at this session. He would answer for Ma
ryland, that she would willingly receive back any
part of the District ceded by her.
Renunciations. —The Tippecanoe Club of Cin
cinnati have received the names of THREE HUN
DRED AND THREE citizens of that Congression
al District, Van Buren men at the last election,
who requested that they may be publidy announ
ced as seceders from the administration.
Sub Treasury, No Go. —On Saturday, Mr*
Hoyt, the Collector, gave notice that the Sub
Treasury would go into operation yesterday. But
it seems it is “no go” yet, for the same authority
has announced that no instructions have been re
ceived from Washington to enforce that bill of a
bomiuations. What is the matter? Have the
destructives wasted all the powder th y have
burnt in triumph on the passage of the bill ? or
have the getters up of this outrage began to fear
the effects to be produced by its enforcement ?
We know the destructive leaders never intended
it should pass Congress. Will they humbug their
agrarian partizans by giving it the go by ? Nous
verrons. — N. Y. Times of the 14 th.
Trade of Apalachicola.
We have been lurnished by the Collectors with
the following statement of Cotton exported from
the Apalachicola District, taken horn the books of
the Custom House,including the Port of Bt. Joseph.
From Apalachicola, horn Ist October, 1839, to
30th June, 1840, inclusive, —
To Liverpool 25,313
Havre 8.699
New York 25,270
Baltimore 1,798
Boston 893
Providence 547
New Orleans 929
Charleston 1,546
Philadelphia 41
Fal. River 49
Total cleared 65,085
Besides the above, we have cleared since the
30th June, 871 Lales, leaving a stock of 5,549 bales
now in store, and on shipboard, not cleared.
It will be seen by the above, that our export of
Cotton to Liverpool has been greater than to New
York, which has until this season been our chief
port of trade, and shows an inclination in many of
our merchants to keep up a direct line of com
munication beiween the great Seaport of the World
and our City, which will add greatly to our com
mercial prosperity.
We have also procured from the same source,
the number of vessels entered on the books during
the same time, which are, 23 ships ; 12 barques ;
54 brigs ; 80 schooners, and 7 sloops.
The total amount of Cotton cleared from St.
Joseph during the same time, is 28,561
And only leaving a stock on hand,of 1,800 bales;
the whole receipt 30,361. — Apalachicola Gazette.
The President has remitted that part of Commo
dore Elliott’s sentence which suspends his pay' and
emoluments for two years, and approved the rest -
Swallowing a Needle. —A gentleman, who
conceived himself afflicted with a cancer in his left
breast, and has been making the proper application
for its cure for several months, happened to be in
the drug store of Mr. Stafford in Sixth street, be
low Catharine, yesterday afternoon. Dr. Ford, of
Catharine street, being present, the sufferer show
ed him his breast, and was expatiating upon the
probability of its cure, when the Doctor informed
him that he had mistaken his disorder ; that he had
not a cancer, and pressing the inflamed part exhib
ited the point of a needle, which with some diffi
culty he extracted. The man was surprised as
well as overjoyed, and admitted that he had swal
lowed a needle some ten months before. He is
now doing quite well. — Phil, Spirit of the Times.
> Dinner to General Van Rensselaer.
A Public Dinner was given at Cincinnati on
r the 2d of this month to General Solomon Van
■ Rensselaer, as a testimony of respect to adistin
-1 guished veteran of two wars, at which the Mayor
T r of the city presided. At this Dinner the follow
, ing Toasts were drank, with the greatest enthusi
asm :
1, The President of the United States.
2. The next President of the United States —
William Henry Harrison.
3. The old Thirteen States—The mothers of the
s new Thirteen; cradled themselves in the princi
j pies of Liberty, tney cemented by their glorious
Constitution the rights asserted in their llevolu
• tlonary struggle. j 'O
4, The new Thirteen States —The daughters of
the old Thirteen ; like their mothers of yore, they
despise at once the seductions of corrupt influence
■* and the terrors cf arbitrary power.
; 5. The People of the United States —Let them
. “do their own fighting and their own voting ,” and
all will be well.
6. General Solomon Van Van Rensselaer —Our
, distinguished guest. His wounds at Maumee and
Queenston, attest his valor in two wars. Ohio
} ewes him a deep debt of gratitude, which we de
light this day to acknowledge.
1 7. Kentucky—The blood of her sons was poured
- out like water in the war to maintain the freedom
J of the citizens ; she will not fail to honor the no
ble and gallant chief who so often ied them to vic
-1 lory and glory.
8. Ohio—The young giant of the West; she,
too, will rally around the standard of her “first
Delegate” who, at Maumee and Fort Meigs, sig
nalized his own name in the protection of her Iron
j tier.
j 9. New York —First in number, first in wealth,
] first in enterprise; may she be the first at the
. polls in November, in support of sound principles.
10. The Northwestern Armies of 1794 and 18 13;
the one closed the war of the Revolution, the other
I suffered and triumphed in the second war of inde
, pendence.
j 11. Cincinnati —The site of old “Fort Wash
j ington,” now the seat of industry and the arts
, her enlerprizing citizens will honor, for his civil
. virtms, the venerated chief whom her soldiers,
when a frontier fortress, delighted to obey.
12. Our Country—Glorious in war, more illus
trious in peace : the example and hope of nations ;
, may hei honor and prosperity be immortal.
• 13. The Fair —Their smiles, the reward of the
soldier and statesman ; their counsels, the founda
• lion of the virtue and intelligence of the youth of
the nation.
After the sixth toast was read, Gen. Van Rens
, selaer returned his thanks for the compliment,
i by the following remarks, which were read by his
friend Col. Pendleton, in consequence of Gen. Van
1 Rensselaer’s voice having been impaired by the
’ wound in the lungs received at the battle of Mau
mee :
, Gentlemen : I am altogether unaccustomed to
public speaking : my life has been one of actions
rather than words ; my hand more conversant with
the sword than the pen. I cannot, however, suffer
the sentiment which you have just given, to pass
without the expression of my most grateful ac
knowledgments. While that sentiment, gentle
men, received with so much cordiality, is justly*
flattering to the pride of an old soldier, it recalls
events and scenes products e of other and better
emotions. Your allusion to the Maumee, carries
me back to the year 1792, when a youth of eigh
teen years of age, with the commission of General
Washington in my pocket, and, I trust,some share
of his principles in my bosom, I first landed in Cin
cinnati. And what a mighty change has been
wrought in that short period ! What higher eulo
gy can be passed upon the enlightened enterprise
of your people, than the simple fact that the hum
ble individual who now addresses you saw the site
of your noble city, where there were no houses,
but a few rudely constructed log cabins along the
bank of your river, and the challenge of the senti
nels on the parapet of old Fort Washington, alone
interrupted the universal silence. The line of the
canal was then our northern frontier, beyond
which the lurking Indian made it unsafe to pene
trate ; and the pursuit of a stray horse among this
magnificent amphitheatre of hills surrounding your
city,w r as conducted with little of the pomp, to be
sure, but much of the precaution of a military in
cursion. With the exception of a few old set le
ments on the Wabash and Mississippi, whose in
habitants had become almost incorporated with the
surrounding Indian tribes, there were no white
■ men in the whole Northwest Territory, comprising
now your own great State, and the States of Indi
ana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin Territory.
The roaming Indian alone possessed it. Where are
they now ? They are gone, like the falling leaves
of their own boundless forests; but, unlike those
leaves no reviving spring' shall witness their
return. Such was Cincinnati. What is it now,
after the lapse of forty-eight years ? I was in
debted to the politeness of the directors of the Me
chanics’ Institute for an invitation to their Fair
last evening, and had a catalogue of the articles
there exhibited, I would produce it as the eloquent
and comprehensive answer to the intt resting ques
tion, “What is Cincinnati now?” The exquisite
symmetry and beauty of the various articles bore
amp'e testimony to the skill of your workers in
wood, and in brass, and in iron ; while nothing can
exceed the good taste exhibited in the many orna
mental specimens of the Institute. I cannot, how
ever, omit to remark, and, if it will not be consid
ered invidious, to commend, the vast proportion in
which the useful exceeds the merely ornamental.
The combined effect of the whole exhibition for
ces upon the mind the reflection that he who
would discover the secret of the unparalleled
growth of Cincinnati, and its comparative exemp
tion from the general embarrasment of the times,
must seek it in her workshops and in her facto
ries.
From this balcony, fellow citizens, my eye rests
upon the ground where it was my daily duty to
manoeuvre my troop; and when I recall the scene
as it then existed, and compare it with what 1 now
see, it fills me with emotions which no language
!is adequate to express. The thoughtless inco.isid
eration of youth is proverbially short-sighted ; but
what imagination could then have bodied forth the
grand realities which now surround us ? The en
closures of some dozen miseiable huts, Fort Wash
ington and the low ground, on what is now Co
lumbia street, then called Hobson's Choice, weie
the only points which had been cleared of the for
est. Your handsome private buildings, your noble
public school houses, your magnificent churches
have succeeded, and a log cabin is not to he found
within the bounds of your fair city, except as an
appropriate emblem of the youthful ardor, the in
domitable spirit, the pure and disinterested public
virtue, which, through years of toil and danger,
such only can conceive who have felt them, have
watched over the infant settlement of the great
West, and protected the leg cabins and their hardy
anu adventurous inmates, from the tomahawk and
scalping knife of the relentless savage.
At this period 1 first became acquainted with
Harrison; he nineteen years old, and I one year
3’ounger. We were, for a long lime, the youngest
officers in the army', and I am happy to say', at this
distant period, that the friendship thus formed upon
youthful sympathies and congenial dispositions
proved 100 strong for time and absence, and we
met in New York in 1827, after a separation of
thirty years, the same warm friends as had parted
on this spot in ’97. This period recals to my mind
the inauguration of the elder Adams, and with it
the charge against Harrison of “ ancient federal
ism” lam a living witness that, at the period to
which I refer,'the charge was without the slightest
foundation. The republican principles of Harrison
were then as well known as his chivalric spirit, and
’ he had no superior in either. It has been reserved
for the politicians of the present day, even while
surrounded by the monuments of his civil and mil
. itary virtues, to question both. Gen Wayne was
a severe disciplinarian as well as an able general
1 and a gallant soldier. He exacted the most punc
-1 tilious conformity to all the rules of military life;
particularly did he exhibit himself, and require his
staff toexhibit, a constant example of the conduct
he required of others. Brave, temperate, and la
borious himself, he selected his staff for qualities
similar to his own. Os such a military family thus
organized, Harrison became a member in the confi
dential relation of aid-de-camp. The delicate du
ties of that responsible station he performed, not
only with the entire approbation of Wayne, but the
satisfaction of every officer of the army with whom
its duties brought him into almost daily inter
course ; and such was his uniform urbanity and
kindness to the soldiers, that their respect for him
as an officer was only' equalled by their love for him
as a man. ihe first Northwestern army', while in
winter quarters in the wilderness, had few' amuse
ments to vary the dull routine of camp duty.
There was no society out ot the army. The conse
quence was, that habits of dissipation were acqui
red by many of the officers whose rank and age
made the habit contagious. Harrison, though of
an age peculiarly w r eak against such temptations,
was strengthened to successful resistance by an
unquenchaole thirst of knowledge, both general
and professional. Temperate, active, and studious
then, as now, he lost no time. Then, as now, the
sun never found him in bed, and the intervals of
military duty were devoted to a course of extensive
historical reading.
The battle of the Maumee, on 20th August, 17-
94, was fought by the Indians with the most des
perate courage. There was no point of the line at
which the danger was no* imminent. As aid-de
camp, it was Harrison’s duty to carry the orders of
the General to any part of the army. These or
ders, of course, were most frequent w’here the fight
was thickest, and in those parts of the fight I gen
erally saw him on that eventful day.
I can attest the truth of the remark said to be
made by General Williamson and Col. Shamburgh,
that Harrison was in the front of the hottest bat
tle ; his person was exposed from the commence
ment to the close of the action; whenever duty'
called, he hastened, regaidless of danger, and by
his efforts and examples, contributed as much to
secure the fortune of the day as any other subor
dinate to the comman er-in-chief.
Gen. Wayne,in his official account of the battle
after naming saveral officers who distinguished
themselves, says: “I must add the names of my
faithful and gallant aids-de-camp, Captains De
But s and T. Lewis and Lieut. Harrison, who,
w'ith the adjutant general, Maj. Mills, rendered the
most essential service, by communicating my or
ders in every direction, and by their conduct and
bravery, exciting the troops to press for victory'.”
I was stationed with my troops on the extreme
left, and the orders to me to charge was delivered
by Harrison. In that charge I was severely, it
was thought mortally wounded. Perhaps I owe
my life to the prompt attention of mj young friend,
who carried me to the General’s tent, and nursed
and watched me with the tenderness and affection
of a brother.
Os tne officers of that army, so far a- my knowl
edge extends, there are but four who survive—
Generals Hairison and Brady, and Major John Po
sey', of Kentucky, who was a Comet in my troop,
and myself. Gen. Wayne,whose best eulogy is the
grateful and affectionate remembrances of the Peo
ple of the West, was wholly unnoticed by Congress
and died at a miserable hovel in Pennsylvania ; and
there, without a sone to mark the place, his body
was deposited. And now, when the People are cal
ling your friend and neighbor from his farm, by ac
clamation, to redeem the country from the distress
and degradation to which it has been reduced by a
selfish and designing politician, the orders have
gone forth to charge upon him, even him whom the
People assemble in unheard of numbers to honor,
the detestable crimes,civil and military, which the
wildest imagination, unrestrained by a single mor
al sense, can conceive—militaiy crimes which if
true, would long since have consigned his body' to a
felon’s tomb, and his memory to general execra
tion —civil offences and delinquencies which, if
true, think you he would now stand first, as he
does stand first, in the hearts of his countiymen.
People of Ohio and Indiana ! you who have been
the objects of his civil administration, upon y r ou es
pecially devolves the grateful task of ass, rtingthe
civil virtues of your old and best tried friend; to
raise his fair fame far out of the range of the puny
shafts of low ambition ; and 1 hesitate not to be
lieve it will be efficiently performed. You are
now called upon in his old age to repay' that im
mense and accumlating debt of gratitude, which
I, an eye-witness, not from hearsay', now testify
your fathers incurred, in his early youth.
The inheritance has descended upon you, and I
will not do you the injustice to doubt that in No
vember next you will entitle yourselves to a re
ceipt in full from my gallant old friend. Is this
the language of General Harrison' 1 No ! disinter
ested and generous as brave, he advances no claim
upon his country for services he has rendered. It
is the language of his friend, and your friend —of
one removed by age far from the temptation to flat
ter either friend or foe.
What shall I say of charges against his military
chaiacter ? Nothing. One old soldier cannot be
brought to vindicate the reputat.on of another old
soldier from a charge of cowardice; indignation
would choke my utterance. I appeal from the liv
ing to the dead —I appeal from Van Buren and Ken
dall to Shelby and Perry'.
I thank you again gentlemen, for the kind manner
in which you have been pleased to refer to my' ear
ly and humble services.
Permit me to propose the following sentiment:
The city of Cincinnati. —The wonderful crea
tion of virtue, intelligence, and enterprize Her
name associates in our remembrance the patriotic
farmers of old Home and young Ohio.
During the entertainment a large concourse of
persons had collected in the street opposite to the
hotel, and a solicitation being expressed to hear
addresses from the balcony, the company adjourned
to that place, when a call was made for the reading
of Gen. Van, Rensselaer’s speech. When it was
concluded, Gov. Poindexter, an invited guest, was
called for by the crowd, ami addressed them exten
si/elyupon the subject of general politics. Ani
mated addresses were than made, by request, by
Messrs. White, of Indiana, Major Chambers, and
W W. Soughgate Esq., of Kentucky, Win John
son, Esq. of Cincinnati, and Mr. Turner, of Balti
more. This entertainment continued until the ap
proach of night, when the crowd dispeised in great
harmony.
The Sub-Treasury Act.
The Washington Globe publishes an official copy
of this Act, entitled “An act to provide for the col
lection, safe keeping , transfer, and disbursement of
the public revenue.' > '‘ We propose to give an ab
stract of it, section by section.
Section 1. —Provides for rooms in the new Trea
sury Building at Washington for the Treasurer of
the United States, his assistants and clerks —also
fire proof vaults and safes for the keeping of the
public moneys.
Sec 2—declaies that the Mint of the L'nited
States at Philadelphia and the Branch Mint at New
Orleans, and the vaults and safes theieof respec
tively, shall be places 01 deposit and safe keeping
of public moneys at those points respectively—the
Treasurer of the said Mint and Branch Mints respec
tively to have the custody and care of all public
moneys deposited in the same, kc.
Sec. 3 —relates to the providing of suitable rooms
vaults, safes, &c , in the custom houses now erect
ing in New-York and Boston, for the use of the
Receivers General hereafter to be appointed at
those places respectively'—the said Receivers Gen
eral to have the custody and care of all the public
moneys deposited within the same, and to perform
all the duties icquired to be performed of them in
reference to the receipt, safe keeping, transfer and
disbursement of all such moneys, according to the
provisions of this Act.
Sec. 4 —is of a similar import in reference to the
cities of Charleston and St. Louis, and the Receiv
ers General at those places.
Sec. s—provides for the appointment of four Re
ceivers General—one at each of the cities above
named.
Sec. 6—We give entire in the words following :
And be it further enacted. That the Treasurer of
the United States, the treasurer of the Min*, of the
United States, the treasurers, and those acting as
such of the various Branch Mints, all collectors of
the customs, all surveyors of the customs acting al
so as collectors, all receivers general of public
moneys, all receivers of public money's at the sev
eral land offices, and all postmasters, except as is
hereinafter particularly' provided, be, and they are
hereby, required to keep safely, without loaning
or using, all the public money collected by them,
or otherwise at any time placed in their possession
and custody, till the same is ordered by the proper
department or officer of the Government to be
transferred or paid out; and when such orders for
transfer or pay'ment are received, faithfully and
promptly to make the same as directed, and to do
and perform all other duties as fiscal agents of the
Government, which may be imposed by this or any
other acts of Congress or by any regulation of the
‘Treasury Department, made in conformity to law ;
and also to do and perform all acts and duties re
quired by law, or by direction of any of the Execu
tive Departments of the Government, as agents for
paying pensions, or for making any' other disburse
ments which either of the heads of those depart
ment may be required by law to make, and which
are of a character to be made by the depositaries
hereby constituted, consistently with the other of
ficial duties imposed upon them.
Sec. 7—requires the Treasurer of the Mint and
Branch Mint and the Receivers-general to give
bonds in such form and for such amounts as shall be
directed by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Sec, S—directs the Secretary of the Treasury to
require new bonds, to suit the nature of the new
duties imposed by this act, of all depositories of
public moneys already in odice.
Sec. 9—requires the subordinate receivers and
collectors of public moneys in the various cities to
pay over the funds in their hands to the T.reasurers
of the Mint and Branch Mint or the Receivers-
General—or, in the District of Columbia, to the
Treasurer of the United States, as often as they
may be directed so to do by the Secretary of the
Treasury or the Post Master General —and such
directions must be given at least as often as once a
week.
Sects. 10 and 11—read in these words :
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That it shall
be lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury to
transfer the moneys in the hands of any depositary
hereby constituted, to the Treasury of the United
States; to the Mint at Philadelphia; to the Branch
Mint at New Orleans; or to the offices of either of
the receivers general of public moneys, by Ibis act
directed to be appointed; to be there safely kept,
according to the provisions of this act; and also to
transfer moneys in the hands of any one depositary
constituted by this act to any other depositary con
stituted by the same, at his discretion, and as the
safety of the p>ublic moneys, and the convenience
of the public service shall ■seem to him to require;
which authority to transfer the moneys belonging
to the Post Office Department is also hereby con
ferred upon the Post-master General, so far as its
exercise by him may be consistent with the pro
visions of existing laws; and every depositary con
stituted by this act shall keep his account of the
, money paid to,or deposited with him, belonging to
the Post Office Department, separate and distinct
from the account kept by him of other public mon
eys so paid or deposited. And for the purj>ose of
payments on the public account, it shall be lawful
for the Treasurer of the United States to draw up
on any of the said depositaries, as he may think
most conducive to the public creditors, or both.
Sec. 11. And be it further enacted. That the mo
neys in the hands, care, and custody, of any of the
depositaries constituted by this act,shall be consid
eied and held as deposited to the credit of the Trea
surer of the United States, and shall be, at all times
subject to his draft, whether made for transfer or
disbursement, in the same manner as thougli the
said moneys were actuaJly in the Treasury of the
United States; and each depositary shall make re- #
turns to the Treasury and Post Office Department
of all monies received and paid by him, at such
times, and in such form, as shall be directed by
the Secretary of the Treasury or the Postmaster
General.
The sections of the Act previous to the two last
quoted, were mere preliminaties referring to less
important details, and icquiied no comment, al
though as parts of this most monstrous system they
are all objectionable. The tenth section contains
two important provisions: Ist. By the power it
confers, the Secretary of the Treasury is authori
sed to transfer specie to any particular point, or
from any particular point, at his pleasure; he may
accumulate an abundance at one city and create a
scarcity at another; he can cause fluctuations in the
money maiket, he can cause the financial arrange
ments of Banks, he can exercise a despotic control
over the currency, at any t:me and in any place,
according as it may please the Executive, whose
instiument he is, to direct. The disastrous influ
ence of the Specie Circular of Gen. Jackson, we
presume is not forgotten. Aet that was on y a par
tial measure affecting one branch of the public re
venue. The power which this tenth section of the
Sub-Treasury Actconfers, embraces all the xeven
ue* of the Union from whatever source received.
With the known hostility of the Government to
wards State Banks in view, it is not difficult to im
agine how the unlimited power here granted will
be exercised. A stable currency can be looked
for only on one condition; what that one condition
is, the community will soon be made to feel—un
less the strong arm of deliverance shall come in the
might ofj the people to aid the struggling etfoits of
liberty contending against a foe more dangerous
than any which has hitherto dared to aim an insid
ious blow at the free institutions of the country.
The second provision to which we referred in
I this tenth section i? contained in the last sentence,
! by which the Treasurer of the United States is
empowered to draw upon any of the depositories
of public moneys enumerated in the Act, according
as he may think most conducive to the public inter
ests, or to the convenience of the public creditors, or
both. It was this provision of the Act which Mr.
Clay delarcd laid the foundations, deep and broad,
of a Goveinment Bank. The Treasurer’s drafts
may be drawn in any sums, say of ten, twenty,
fifty or a hundred dollars — to suit the convenience
of public creditors —or what is equally satisfactory,
to conduce to the public interests. They may be
of the shape and size of bank notes, or they may
appear in any other shape that may seem conve
nient. But what is to prevent their going into the
ciiculation as a paper currency ? There is a sub
sequent section professing to guard against thi~.
I We shall consider it in due order.
The eleventh section quoted above is worthy of
special attention. The moneys in the hands of the
various depositories throughout the Union are to
be considered and held as deposited to the credit
of the Treasurer of the United States. He is au
thorized to draw at pleasure on any point, it
matters nothing whether there is any money or
not in the Treasury at Washington. Does it mat
ter anything whether there be money or not in any
of the Sub-Treasuries ? It appears from the lan
guage of this section that the Treasurer is author
ized to draw indefinite!} . There will be no need
of issues of Treasury notes by Act of Congress to
supply the extravagant expenditures of the Gov
ernment ; for here is ample provision made to use
the credit of the nation to any extent. Is it not
so ?j The diafts of the Treasurer will be good
whether there be specie in the vaults and safes of
the Treasury or not —they will be good so long as
the credit of the country is worth anything ; for it
will be pledged for their redemption.
Sect. 12 —authorizes the Secretary of the Trea
sury to cause examinations to be made of the books,
accounts and money on hand, of the several de
positories constituted by the Act —and for this
purpose he may “ appoint special agents, as occa
sion may require, with such compensation as he may
think reast naWe,” <s-c.
Sect. 13 —provides that in addition to the above
examinations it shall be the duty of each Naval
Officer and Surveyor to act as a check upon the
Receiver General or Collector of the customs —of
each Register of a Land Office upon the Receiver
of his Land Office —of the Director of each Mint
upon the Treasurer of the same —by examining
books, accounts and money on hand once a quarter
or oftener as the Secretary of the Treasury shall
direct.
We pass over several sections referring to the
appointment of clerks, the returns of subordinate
collectors, prohibitions against loaning or using
the public moneys, arrangements for the temporary
accommodation of the Receivers-General. Treasu
rer, fee. We shall continue our abstract and com
ments to-morrow.— Balt. American.
From the St. Louis Lepublican.
“There is no Pressure that any Honest
Man should be Ashamed of.”
To-Moirow is the last day in which action of
debt, for next term of the Circuit Court for this
county, can be brought. The lawyers have, there
fore, been busy for a few days past. On yester
day, at noon, we understood that seven hundred
and twelve writs had beee issued, returnable at
the approaching term; and it is probable that by
to-morrow evening the number will be swelled to
nearly, or probably above eight hundred. This
is a new and mortifying slate of affairs in this
city. Heretofore the number of suits have not
' been near this, but at the present time business is
completely prostrate, or at a stand. There is next
to no money in circulation, and we know many,
very many men with thousands of dollars due
them, and who owned large amounts, and yet,
1 from the scarcity of money, cannot raise enough
to meet their debts. The moral feeling is becom
ing blunted, and that mercantile pride which is the
very life and soul of business, the pride of punctu
ality, is fast passing away. We know men who,
but a lew days since, would have spent their last
farthing rather than to suffer their names to be pro
tested, are begining to reconcile such a contingen
cy to their feelings. All is gloo.n and darkness
around them, and to many the catastrophe appears
inevitable.
The Philadelphia Inquirer states that the
amount abstracted from the Bank of Pennsylva
nia by Mr. Benjamin Smith, one of its clerks,
whose mysterious disappearance has been alluded
to in our columns, was about SIOO,OOO. The
money was taken at various tin*> 9
of seven years. It was invested i n % M
the city, which, together with the I f
Mr. S. will, it is said, save th« Bank ijj
Hurricane.—A tremendous storm tJ
Shrewsbury, York county. Pa., J
—lt commenced about 8 o'clock in tl* wl
the wind blowing with the force of a . SI I
and the ram pouring down in torrenu > i
every house in the place was soon '■
and many wholly destroyed ; several
also unroofed. In one of the back stre I
was prostrated, burying two families' I'S a
ruins, Mr. Ndfer's and B. Greveli’s 1)
was killed and Mr. G. dangerously" . ■ d
several of the children were so severe!
it is supposed they cannot survive. *]'{
tion ot property was very great', r<
amount of the damage, it is feared ha* ' *
ascertained. " #
•From the Sangamo Journal. f<
King -Matty and Blair. 11
Air —“ Lord Lovell and Nancy •> @
King Matty he sat in his big “ white house.. \
A curling Jus whiskers line, ' *
And the Globe man Blair sat at his side
A drinking his champaigne wine, wiaV v I
A drinking his champaigne wine. 1
Then awful shook King Matty’s locks *
And fearful glanced his eye,
And he stamped his foot upon the floor r *
And he heaved a monstrous sigh, sigh, slsk
And he heaved a monstrous sigh 8 ‘ (
0! what’s the matter, King Matty.said Llai i
O what’s the matter ? said he ; U| j
I’m gwyne to go to Kinderhook, ®
My family for to see, see, see.
My family for to see.
Say? Blair, you’re a good hearted man,
And love your family dear ; ’ .
I’d thought that yon would not go back
TilTafter another four year, year, year,
Till after another four year. * 1
Nor would I go back, my dearest Blair,
But what the deuce can I do ?
.The people say I must make room ,
For the Hero of Tippecanoe, noe, noe,
For the Hero of Tippecanoe.
Then (he Globe man’s chin sunk on his breas;
And his eyes fell to the floor, |
And his nether lip hung on the ground,
And it couldn't drag any lower, ower.ower
And it couldn’t drag any lower. ’ |
Alack and alas ! said Globe man Blair,
We’re deep in the mud and the mire ;
Alack and alas, said Matty the King,
The Sub-Treasury fat’s in the fne, ir*, i re
The Sub-Treasury fat’s in the fne. ’
Now Matty and Blair they raised their eyes
Each other’s face to see.
And they placed their thumb upon their nos*
And their fingers twi led twiddle-de de-de4
And their finger’s twirled twiddle-ds.
ExTßAonmxiiii Discovr.nv of ax Axciej-
Printing Prkss in India.— When Warm
Hastings was Governor General of India,
served that in the district of Benares, a little* !
low the surface of the earth, was to be fourc,
stratum of a kind of fibrous wooden substaiia,
of various thicknesses, in horizontal layers. %
jor Roebuck, informed of this, went out loa.-t
where an excavation had been made, display
this singular phenomenon. In digging somewi*
deeper for further research, they laid open a vat;
which an examination proved to be of somesa
and to their astonishment, they found a kinds
printing press, set up in the vault, and on it a
vable types, placed as if ready for priming.—E*
ry enquiry was set on foot to ascertain the pro
able period at which such an instrument cod
have been placed there, for it was evidentlywi
of modern origin, and from all the Major cod
collect, it appeared probable that the place had*
mained in the state in which it was found ion
least 1000 years. We believe, the worthy Mijor
on his return to England, presented one of to
learned associations with a memoir contalniE!
many curious speculations on the subject, Pape
we know to have been manufactured in the Ess
many centuries before we had any knowledge,
it; and we have many reasons to think thallS
Chinese have been acquainted with the mode!
printing they employ many centuries beta
Faust invented it in Europe It certainly da
no credit to the inventive genius of the Ron®
to know that they approached so near as to #
grave in a style not equalled in the present if
on gems and stones, and of course the taking!
impressions from them, that they should stillba
remained ignorant of the art which has bestow
so many blessings on mankind.
From a Forthcoming Novel. (Not Coot
eh’s.) —’Twas midnight. Like lonely waadf
ers upon the desert a few clouds were slor
travelling across the vast circumference of it,
sky. The pale moon gleamed upon a form ltd
stood upon the very centre of the old stone hritld
contemplating the dark mass of water that rolke
below, bilence, dreary as that which dwells for
. ever in oblivion’s depth, lay sleeping in theair*
i among the shadows of the bridge. Not a rippi
j was on the water, not a motion in the air, non
sound came from the compressed lips of that to
itary form, but lost in some wild and sorrowii.
abstraction, the midnight watcher leaned uponi
stone abutment of the bridge, watching the site
sky. Another form appears. Why with sud
thief-like steps and cautious movement does lb»
new figue steal toward the solitary star-gaze’
Is the knife of the assassin grasped in the hand*
a blood-thirsty foe ! Will the next momenta
tie the midnight echoes with shrieks of deati
Hark I Hark! Ah pity!—what sounds
these 1 The lonely dreamer is awakened br *
fierce slap upon the shoulder, and theearofnifi
is pierced with the extraordinary cxclanwM 1
“Harr//, my hoy, dues your mother knowyw 1 *
out — N. O. Picayune.
3laria’s Dower.
In the year 1540, a fisherman, having
in front of the palace of St. Mark, crossed
celebrated place and stopped before the door of a
inn.onwhich wasvery roughly painted a
blematic of Venice. The man was tall and athlete
his dark complexion and bown hair had that de
coloring indicative of strength and
peculiar to the inhabitants of southern counts
but his eyes had lost their animated expre ssloC
and thoughts of a most painful nature bu« f
the head of this robust gondolier.
In entering the tavern, he perceived in then)
obscure corner of the room, a stranger, V
appeared buried in deep meditation. He, too. -
one of those manly and imposing
which denote moral energy. His e*P res *' (
lace reflected the flames of a thousand
passions, and there were seen incontestable &
of the brilliant mission which God had given* 11
His dress was simple in the extreme; a dou
and trunk hose ot black velvet covered bis m
cuiar limbs; a silk cap sloped out over the *
pie, and with two bands tried under the c
according to the fashion of the times, part 5 c
cealed a luxuriant head of hair, the
which, a little verging on the grey, tell neghg^ ll
over his neck. . ,
“Gianettini !” said the gondolier.
man with a broad chest and a red face, who
walking about the tavern, do “you still perse'
in your refusal I’,
“ I do!” answered the Venetian.
“I am too poor to be your son-in-law» a m ,
Before you consider the happiness ot y our a
ter, you think of her fortune ! Hut to p« rs
you, Gianettini, must I recall to your n J! n^ evo u
debt of gratitude which is due to me ? Ha r
forgotten that I saved your life at LcpanM
all Venice, men and woman, were arm? 1