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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. august a* FRIDAY MORNING, Jl LY 31. FOR PRESIDENT, WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, Os Ohio; The invincible 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 one 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* ® 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. POR 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 Jetferson. JAMES A. MERIWETHER, of Putnam. THOMAS F. FOSTER, of Muscogee. The Committee appointed to make arrangements to carry into effect the object of the meeting held to appoint Delegates to the Macon Convention, re quest tke Delegates appointed in each district in the county, and those appointed for the city, re make arrangements so as to meet at Fenn’s Bridge, on the Ogechee River, on Monday night, the tenth of August next. The Union Harrison Men. It is with no ordinary feelings of pleasure that we give place to the call of the Union Harrison men of Columbus, to their brethren throughout George, to meet them at Macon, on the 13th of August, and we have no doubt they will be met by thousands of their fellow citizens. It is gratifying to our feelings in many respects; for while it se res the success, in Georgia, of the patriot farmer of Ohio to the highest office in the gift of a nation, it is particularly gratifying, and presents the most sublime scene upon which the true patriot can look, to see men of intelligence, influence, and high in the confidence of a party, breaking the shackles of party, renouncing former alliances, and, with patriotic devotion,rallying to their coun try’s standard, and pledging their support to her noble institutions, lathei than a party. So mote it be. Such scenes increase and establish our con fidence in our sacred institutions, and con vince us that the true patriot will ever, in the hour of dan ger, rally to the support of the constitution and laws,by whomsoever their standard maybe borne. Mr. Van Buren’s Democracy. During the present canvass we have heard much about democracy, and particularly 31 r. Van Buren’s democracy ; so much indeed, if one should be cred ulous enough to credit all he heard, we should certainly be constrained to admit that he was the very quintesccnce of democracy. We know not what particular meaning the supporters of Mr. Van Buren would convey by the term democrat, but we frankly admit, if to have supported a restric tion to the right of suffrage, Mr. Van Buren is a democrat. Or, if they mean by it one who has voted to permit every male negro , of the age of wenty-one years, to vote at all elections in New York, then Mr. Van Buren is a rm-st consistent democrat, because he gave such a vote, and placed the negroes upon a perfect equality with white men. But should his friends mean to apply the term democrat to Mr. Van Buren, because he was in favor of keeping the elections of magistrates from the people, then we again admit that Mr. Van Buren is certa nly a Democrat, for he cer tainly advocated and voted for such a measure in the Convention of New York. If, therefore, the friends of Mr. Van Buren at the South, contend that these principles are the principles of Democ racy, no man will pretend to deny that Mr. Van Buren has high claims to that distinction. We have already shown his course in favor of restricting the right of suffrage, and his vote to permit negroes to vote, and we will now proceed to show from the proceedings of the same conven tion that he was opposed to giving the elections of magistrates to the people. In that Convention Mr. Van Buren himself sub mitted a proposition to prohibit the election of magistrates by the people, and supported h.s pro position by a speech of considerable length, and among other things, uttered this demoratic senti ment: © “ The further this power (the election of magis trates,) could he removed from the people the better .” And on the vote which was subsequently taken, he voted in favor of his proposition. This is a specimen of a democrat, and these his principles, as carried out in New York. We make these statements with a certified copy of the Journals before us, which exhibits his votes on all these important questions, and we therefore make the assertion without the fear of contradiction. That they are facts, the records of New York prave, and no man can deny them. A duel with rifles, at the distance of forty pa ces, took place at St. Louis on the 16th instant, between A. B. Chambers, Esq., the editor of the Louis Republican, and T. B. Hudson, Esq., a Van Buren candidate lor the Legislature. After three ineffectual shots the affair was com promised byMr Hudson declaring himself satisfied. • A Call.-To Union Harrison Men. The undersigned, citizensof Columbus and mem bers of the Union party, deeply impressed with the truth of republican principles and of the the im portance of defending them at every hazard, view with alarm the rapid concentration of power in the hands of the Executive —a concentration which we believe will be fatal to the Constitution and dangerous to liberty'. The paity was formed upon its opposition to Federalism, and, honestly devoted to the Constitution, has been ever vigilant and ready to keep in check those who would violate the sanctity of their rights. We charge that those old and notorious blue light Federalists, Taney, Buchanan, Vandcrpoel, Inger soll. Wall, Williams, Nc., have crept into and led our party astray from the simple path of repub licanism into that of federalism. We charge that the project lor organizing a standing army of 200,- 000 men, so strongly recommended by Mr. Van Buren, gieatly increases the power and patronage of the President, therefore, is a federal and dan gerous measure. We charge that the Sub Treas ury hts the same effect, and that it is intolerably oppressive to the people who have to pay the ex penses of the Government, and that it must result in direct taxation, or an increase of the tariff. We charge that Mr. Van Buren’s administration has been one of unparalleled misery and ruin to the whole people. We charge upon the Administration a design of reducing the prices of labor, and thercoy perpetu ating its own pow er by reducing that of the people. We charge that the expenses of the Government have increased enormously, bringing upon us a heavy debt, in a time of pro r ound peace. We chaige that the purity and freedom of elec tions have been violated, by the unwarrantable in terference of Federal office holders. We charge that Mr. Van Buren has usurped au thority, dangerous to the republic, by claiming to be a constituent part of the National Legislature. We charge that 3lr. Van Buren has recommend ed a bankrupt Law, applicable to State Coporations, a direct and dangerous invasion of the rights of the States. We charge that friends of the Administration, known to be defaulters, are retained in office as a reward for partisan services. We charge the party in power with having es tablished a Government Bank under the entire con tro! of the President. We further charge that Mr. Van Buren is in fa vor of a high Tariff, having twice sustained that system by his vote in Congress. He is also in fa vor of works of Internal Improvements by the General Government —witness his vote to establish toll gates on the Cumberland road, and during the present session of Congress, he has sanctioned a bill making further appropriations to the same work. We also charge him (Mr. Van Buren) with being favorable to the mad schemes of the Abolitionists —witness his declaration that he could not pro nounce the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia unconstitutional. He also voted to re strict slavery in Missouri and Florida, and support ed free Negro Suffrage in New' York; and since his elevation to the Presidency, he has appointed many decided abolitionists to high and responsible offices. And finally we charge upon the Administration, a system of measures calculated throughout lo benefit office holders—to curtail the power of the people, and bring general ruin and distress upon the country. And for the mnpose of defending the principles of the Constitution, and of the South, always the palladium of the Union party, we invite, from all the counties, delegates of that party opposed to an unnatural war upon the institutions and credit of the country, and opposed to amalgamating with Northern F< deralists, to meet at Macon, the sec ond Thursday in August,"then and there to adopt such measures as, in their judgment, may be best calculated to preserve and protect our principles, and rescue the Government from the foul hands of the spoilers, and place it in the hands of honest, able and faithful public servants, who will admin ister the Government for the good, not of a party, but of the whole country. S R Bonner, W Beach, Lewis C Allen, M McQuaid, F Toby, H C McKee, L W Wells, Wm. Toney, John C Young, James Rosseau, A Lyman, Wm. H Atwoed, Thos. Fleming, R N R Bardw ell, Daniel McArthur, Win. Rankin, Wm. R Jones, John Floyd, F A Wright, S Dumraer, Wm. J Kellett, Ragner Butler, John S Allen, Martin Brooks, E Wells, Minatt E Snell, Peter Crichton, Israel Monington, James Sullivan, Richard Yarborough, Wm. Rankin, Robert Yarborough, E L DeGiaffenreid, Willis PMuiphy, W S Chipley, A F Alfred, James Kivlin, Geo. W Aldcn, S M Grayson, Jas.T Ballemy, Homer Hurd, Laurence Duncan, George A Hyde, Anderson McXea, 1 W Roberts, Joseph McGowen, H Middlebrook, Thos. Duffee, Daniel Rowe, John Liggon, L J Davies, Leon Le Prosgot, B Wells, Geo. C Yarborough, A L Prickett, Asher Willet, Wm. Brooks, .Tas. G Williams, Charles Wise, D Hudson, James Rankin, Arch. Fincher, G G Parker, Hiram B Plott, H H Woodruff, Rory McNeil, S W Fielding, R H Jaques, John Paredise, William Momon, A M Terry, A Sinead, Wm. Green, Simon T Hardcgru, John A Deblois, P G Pickett. Meeting in Columbia County. In pursuance of public notice, a large and res pectable meeting of the citizens of Columbia coun ty, friendly to the election of William Henry Har rison, of Ohio, to the Presidency, and John Tyler, of Virginia, to the Vice Presidency of the United States, was held at the Court House on Monday, the 27 th Ju'y, 1840. On motion of Abner P. Robertson, Esq., Archer Avary, Esq. was called to the Chair, and George 31. Magrudcr, Esq., appointed Secretary. When A. P. Robertson, Esq., offered the follow ing Resolution, which was adopted : Resolved, That the Chairman appoint a Commit tee of five, lo report to this meeting a Preamble and Resolutions. The Chair appointed the follow ing Committee, viz: Abner P. Robertson, Isaac Ramsey, Nathan Crawford, James F. Hamilton, and John Hanson. The Committee retired, and after a short ab sence returned, and reported the following Pream ble and Resolutions, which was adopted without a dissenting voice: Whereas, the State Rights Party of Georgia, as sembled at Milledgville by their Delegates in Con vention, on the first Monday in June last, for the purpose of selecting candidates for Electors of President and Vice President of the United States, and candidates for Congress, and did select such men as candidates for said offices, as are well known for their patiiotism, and long and tried devotion to Southern interests, and Southern principles. Therefore be it Resolved, That we most cordi ally approve of the nominations made by said Con vention and will most heartily unite with our friends throughout the State, in any and all honorable measures to secure their election, and to defeat the re-election of Martin Van Buren. Resolved, That the administration of Martin Van Buren is unworthy of the confidence and sup poit of the enlightened freemen of Georgia; and that as republicans of the Jeffersonian School, we believe that his measures and principles have, and will result in great injury lo the South, and the Union. Resolved, That we are opposed to him, for his opposition to the admission of Missouri into the Cmon unless slavery wa- j rohihited by her Con stitution. Because in the Convention of New York, he advocated the privilege and right of free ' negroes to vote at elections, with the white citi zens of that State. Because he believes IhatCon -1 gress has the right to abolish slavery in the Dis trict of Columbia. Because he was opposed to ■ the election of Mr. Madison, and his Adminhtra -1 tion of the Government, and sustained opposition with a view to defeat his election. Because he 1 has sanctioned the admission of negro testimony, 1 against the officers of our Navy. Because he ap proves of the organization of a Standing Army : of 200,000 men ; whereby our citizens are to be taken from their homes in time of peace, and placed under the army regulations of the federal officers, which we consider subversive of the Constitution of the country, and dangerous in the extreme to our liberties as a nation. Because the expendi tures made by government since he came into of fice, have been enormous and profligate, and far exceeding any previous administration. Because he has turned good and honest men out of office, because they have, as true Americans, dared to entertain opinions hostile to his administraiion. Resolved, That in William Henry Harrison, of Ohio, we find all those traits of character which adorn the patriot and the statesman; that he is the descendant of one of the signers of the Declara tion of Independence; and at an early age rallied to the standard of his country in the defence of its liberties, which he did not desert until a domes tic foe was beaten into submission, and a foreign foe expelled from the country; that he has been honored with the confidence of Washington, Jeffer son and Madison, men whose characters we rc- J vere, and whose memory we delight to honor. Resolved, That inasmuch as he nobly sacrificed . himself for the South, by his vote given upon the admission of Missouri into the Union, and has de voted bis life to the service of his country, and that upon His character as a man and patriot, there rests no stain or blemish; that the nation may trust to his keeping those rights guaiantecd by the Con, ■ stitution, with the firm reliance that he will sup port and defend them. James F. Hamilton, Esq., offered the following i resolution, which was adopted without a riissent : ing voice: , Resolved, That in the person of John Tyler, of , Virginia, the candidate for the Vice Presidency, ’ we recosnize the inflexible Republican, the devot r ° ». ed friend of State Rights, and that’we cordially re commend him to the support of our fellow citizens, Thomas H. White offered the following resolu -5 tion, which was adopted: Resolved, That the Chairman appoint a Commit . mittce of thirteen, to report to this meeting the 1 names of suitable persons to represent the friends , of Reform in the Convention to be bold in the city of Macon, in August next. The Chair appointed the following committee, viz: Thomas H. White, Isaac Ramsey, George M. Magruder, R. M. Gunby, Thomas Seay, M. H_ Wcllbpurn, A. P. Robertson, R. H. Jones, Willis Palmerf W. L. Chamblin, R. W. Bell ; Wm. Han son and Wm. Stovall. The Committee retired, and after a short ab -1 scnce returned and reported the following names , to the meeting, as suitable persons to represent the friends of Harrison and Reform, of Columbia coun ty, in the Macon Convention, to be held in August next, which report was adopted. Marshall Keith, Benj Bugg, James T Don*, Edward Harrison, Dr Henry J Smith, P Pettit, Dr Robert, B T Rees, Snoden Griffin, II Winfry, J C Perrin, Luke Lansdcll, J W Burrows, S Roberts, Thomas Beale, T E Massengale, Jesse S Walton John Low, Isaac llarnsey, Edward W Jones, H Bastion, Curtis G Low, I N Heggie, James D Green, Jas Heggie, Dr. II Neeson, Wm B Tindell, Randal Newsam, Benj Berry, H D Lcitner, Jas Knox, Jas Washington, Arcner Avary, sr. Allen Green, Humphrey Evans, B F Verdery, John Boyd, G W Sims, Wm Evans, Thos Olive, Wm Merreweather, W B Cochran, Sami Crump, Richmond Harris, John Gray,jr. John Langston, Moody Burt, David Halloman, Benj Blanchard, Ellis Jones, AJ Avary, N Bacon, James Avary, G Alford, Thos Hardin, M L Thomas, Jas Cartledge, D P Stanford, J S Dunn, A C Wilson, Wm B Tankersly,sr. Wm Borum, Alfred Sturgess, Wm Hardwick, A J Hutchenson, John Dougherty, Wm C Avary, D Marshall, i Jno Cartledge, Jas Fleming, Danl P Marshall, John Edy, Wm S Dunn, Absolem Edy, , Wm L Blunt, Jesse H Morn.*, , S A Gibson, John W Beale, Peter Wright, Thos Rooney, . John Lumkin, John W. Maddock, Edward Ballard, Elias Wilson, . G Jones, David VV Wilson, . Thos H Dawson, Wm Adams, . Isaac Jones, Reuben Winfry, , S W Gibson, J G Tankcrsly, , WmS Jones, Wm W Seay, W T m Yarborough, Wm Murray, Water Jones, Wm J Sanders, Duncan McKenzie, Charles Wilkinson, ifenj Watkins, Asa Davis, A Dozier, Wm Parks, . Elias Scott, N. Crawford, . E P Ivy, WA II Marshall, > O W Baldwin, Jas M Dorsey, f John A Stapler, Jas M Wellbourn, , John Dozier, Richard Eubanks, i Booker Sutten. i On motion of James D. Green, Esq., it was > Resolved, That the nominating committee of thirteen, with all the Harrison men of Columbia . county, who can conveniently attend, be invited to attend as delegates, and be considered as regularly appointed. Thomas W. Miller, Esq. being present, was re quested to address the meetin<' ■ . ('n motion of A. P. Robertson, it was Resolved, 1 hat the proceedings of this meeting be signed by the Chairman and Secretary, and pub_ lished in the Chronicle and Sentinel, and Reformer of Augusta. The meeting then adjourned. ARCHER A VAR V*, Chairman. Geo. M, Magruder, Secretary. The New Aork Express of Saturday says— -1 hcie aie extensi'e orders from England to I purchase old sound wheat in choice parcels at 110 cts., which cannot be filled. Neither old nor new wheat can he found in the market/’ From the Few Crleans Beeqf the 25th. The Elections. By the steamboat Creole, last evening, we have received the final returns, which confirms the election of Judge Moore in the third congres sional district. We have abstracted the result which follows, from the Red River Republican, of Alexandria, of the 22d instant—a paper, as our readers well know, devoted to the cause of Martin Van Buren; Third Coxgrkssioxai. District. Winn. Moore. St. Martin 000 292 majority. St. Landry 000 205 “ St. Mary 000 228 “ Lafayette 13maj....000 Natchitoches .......191..“ 000 Catahoula 108,.“ 000 Avoyelles 121.. . ...000 Rapides 43..“ 000 Concordia 000 137 “ Carroll 68..“ 000 Caddo 8..“ 000 Madison 5..“ . ..-000 Ouachita 000 50 “ Claiborne 142.,“ 000 Caldwell 76..“ 000 Union 101.000 879 912 879 Majority for Moore 33 The Red River Whig, of Alexandria, gives Winn a majority of only 41 in the parish of Union, whilst the democratic paper which furnishes the preceding details, claims 101 in the same parish. Should the report of the Red River Whig be cor rect, our candidate will have received a majority of 93 instead of 33 votes. Whatever the result j may be, the election of Mr. Moore is now certain, ‘ and placed beyond a doubt. From the St. Augustine Herald 2\th inst. From Florida. A sergeant and a corporal belonging to com- j pany 13 2d Infantry, were killed by the Indians ! on the 12th inst., about 4 miles from Fort White. I The bodies were afterward found horribly muti lated. 9 On the 14th inst. five dragoons under a ser geant in passing from Pilatki to Camp King, 1 were fired upon near Fort Russel by a band of j Indians, numbering from twelve to twenty war riors. Two of the so'diers were wounded, and one of them, as we understand, was shot in the thigh and fell from his horse. He was assisted by his companions to remount, and effected his ; escape with the rest. Colonel Harney has not been deterred by the | heat and rains and insects of the summer, from seeking the Indians and destroying if possible, the grain crop before it shall have been gathered and taken away. He is again in the field with a command of dragoons, scouring the country i between Fort Mellon and New Smyrna. Cou-: rage, and untiring energy such as this, must one day' go far to achieve a repose for Florida. From the News. Fort Downing, which had been abandoned on account of its unheallhiness, was burned, since j the 3d inst., by Indians. Several new rafts were ! seen on the Suwannee by the steamer Okce- j chobce. On Saturday last, a stick, to which was at- ’ tached a hair like substance and a small bundle of 15 slicks, was found on the ground where the last murders on the Picolata road took place, j The solution of this is said to be, the sticks indi cate 15 killed, and the hair like appendage, trial they wore scalped. The detachments of Volunteers which led on Tuesday, 14th inst., for the South, proceeded as far as Spring Garden, and returned on Friday night without having seen any of the enemy. Gen. Armstead, it is understood, will make his head quarters, during the summer, at the new depot of Pilatki. The change of the old loca tion is considered most favorable, both as regards economy and the facility of transportation From the Savannah Georgian of 29th inst. Latest Attack.—We learn from a passen ger in the steamer Florida, that a party of mount ed men, recently scouring near Fort Mellon, fell in with a parly of Indians, who sho.ved some signs of battle, but retreated to a hammock. On the troops dismounting and charging them, the Indians got in the rear ot the troops, and killed j two out of four men, that were left to guard the horses, and taking also ten of the horses with them, and making good their escape. JmlgevColquitt in Petersburg. The Petersburg (Va.) Intelligencer, furnishes the following notice of the speech of Judge Col quitt before a locofoco meeting in that town, to which the Judge had been invited, in company with Messrs. Calhoun and Black, both of whom addressed the meeting. When Mr. Calhoun had finished, Mr. Colquitt of Georgia, was introduced to the meeting, and was received with a round of plaudits which showed that, from him, the Locofoco part of the audience expected something “ werry consider able. Mr. Colquitt advanc ed upon the rostrum pretty much in the style of a filth rate tragedy actor in the exciting parts of Richard 3d, evidently pre pared to “ churn up a rage,"’ and “tear a passion to rags to split the ears” of the Loco Focos. He commenced by telling us that in these times, of riot and confusion, when nothing but the clamor of Hard Cider and Log Cabins was heard, that an intelligent audience, like the one then assembled, would appreciate the treat which a calm and intellectual discussion of public mat ters was calculated to afford. It was kind, in Mr. C. thus to inform us that we were to have a treat, for no one who saw him expected any thing of the kind, and no one who heard him through his speech could po.-sibly have told that Mr. C. had “ treated” the audience unless they had been informed of the fact by Mr. Colquitt himself. Mr. C. reminded us strongly of the man who having painted the figure of what he called a horse, feared that the world would not know what specimen of the animal creation it was designed to represent, and in order to place it beyond all doubt, wrote underneath the picture, “ this is a horse.” In the beginning of his “ treat,” Mr. C. dwelt learnedly and forebiiy upon*- log cabins and hard cider,” “ coon skins and pepper pods,” and car ried his audience captive by some loftv flights of eloquence which Demosthenes never dreamed of, and of which Patrick Henry was in capable. During the greatest part of his speech, he dwelt so much in the airy regions of fancy, that a poor worm of the dust like ourselves could not follow him ; but when he did touch ground he was literally of the “ earth, earthy.” We need only say that Mr. Colquitt’s dis course proved beyond question that he was not content with embracing the politics of the editor of the Globe, but had endeavoured to adopt his chaste and decent stvle. Mr. Colquitt flattered his audience by telling them that he was born in Virginia. This is a great honor, truly, and a beautiful feather in Virginia’s cap ! If the truth could be known we have not the slightest doubt that Mr. Calhoun alluded to Mr. Colquitt in his famous toast, when he said “Virginia like the mother of the. Gracchi, when asked for her jewels, points to her sons.” A bright “jewel” in the Virginia casket is Mr. Colquitt! “ A pearl of great price.” of which the Old Dominion is truly proud—and which the State of Georgia would doubtless be loth to surrender to the original owner! Mr. C. travelled over the old ground of Abo lilion, Bank, Tariff* 6cc. t &c.,and entertained his hearers with all the stereotyped phrases on those subjects which the vocabulary ot party can fur nish, and came at last to the Standing Army. Here he Was peculiary eloquent, and pailicularly indignant. He said the Militia Scheme did not contemplate a Standing Army, because Mr. Van Buren said he did not intend to raise a Standing Army „• and that he wished the fingers of all Edi tors might .stilfen,and the tongues of all Electors might be palsied, who should dare to write or speak the word “Standing Army” in connection with Mr. Poinsett’s plan. Well, “ thought wc to ourselves,” this is “chrisdan charily” with a vengeance : and so frightened were we at the im precations of this modern “ Dr. Slop,” that wc actually moved our fingers several times to ascer tain whether they were “stiff” or limber, until happening to look at Mr. Colquitt’s fingers, and seeing that they were perfectly limber, we knew that ours were perfectly safe. And why did we think so 1 Because we knew that if the fingers of a man who could basely garble extract from a gentleman s letter could escape destruction that ours, which have never traced a line in the truth of which we did not religiously believe, were in no danger. And wo further knew, that the “curses of the wicked, like young chicken?, return home to roost.” We have given the sum and substance of Mr. Colquitt’s speech. If we have spoken harshly of it, we have done so because he insulted the in telligence of the citizens of Petersburg by an harangue w hich was only suitable to the purlieus of Billingsgate and St. Giles. Notice.— lnformation is hereby given to the public on the following points: Under the “act to provide for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue,” any money which parties may desire to pay for lands at other places than the land offices will be received at the Treasury of the United States in this city, at the Mint in Philadelphia, the Branch Mint at New Orleans; at (he offices of the several Receivers General, as i soon as organized and opened, and at such other places as, on application here, in any particular case, may be found mutually convenient to the purchaser and Treasurer. Money, which parties may desire to pay for patents, or which Marshals and district attorneys . wish to place in the Treasury, will be received 1 at all trie offices above mentioned, and also by Collectors of the Customs at Detroit, Michigan ; Buffalo, New York; Wilmington, North Caro lina; Savannah, Georgia; Mobile, Alabama; Nashville, Tennessee; and the Receivers of Pub lic Moneys for lands at Jackson, Mississippi; Little Rock, Arkansas; Jeffersonville, Indiana ; Chicago Illinois ; and Cincinati, Ohio. LEVT WOODBURY. Secretary of the Treasury, The Loco Foco Convention at Syracuse was a complete failure. After the most indefatigable i drumming and dragooning, and all the aid of railroads, the whole number counted fell short of one thousand '1 he remarks of Mr. Porter who attempted to be witty on the subject of the Har rison mania, had 100 much truth in them, as the reluctance of the people on this and other occa sions to turn out for Van Buren, too clearly l shows. Mr. P. said of a Whig orator, that he | had discovered that all nature was hard at work I tor jjGen. Harrison ; that even the apple trees ! were groaning under the weight of hard j c der, and that the brute creation, particularly those whicli .ire first heard in the morning, cry ing out “ Tip pe-ca noe," and the bull frogs , would very significantly bawl “North Bend, North Bend." The speaker was peculiarly hap py in imitating the two last named quadrupeds ! i — JV. Y. Star, | j Contrast between the Nile and Mississippi. ! The following is the conclusion of an elegant ' sketch from the pen of the late learned savan and traveller, Doctor Nutt, of Rodney, Mississippi. “ The vale of the Nile, so long the admiration of the traveller, is deserving of praise, both for i the fertility of its soil and the absence of frost, j It is formed entirely of the deposition of the river, I which carries within its bosom one-fifth of the : earthly matter found in the waters of the Missis sippi, and is more fertile than this river, but less I so than Red River of Louisiana. When the river is rising, and even until it returns within its banks, the water has a very dark color, which it exchanges for a light red after a fall of ten or sis ) teen feet. The blackness of the water and soil j seems to be communicated from the decomposi | lion o( basalt. This we infer, from finding the basalt to underlay the red granite at the first cataract and the sand-stone of the second cata ract, and may constitute a great part of the mountains of Abysinia. Egypt, in an agricultural point of view, is pe culiarly situated. While all the regions of the Mediterranean are favored with rains during the winter and spring seasons—plenty, the result of moderate and repeated rains, and famine, the offspring of excess or deficiency of rain—Egypt is a country of perpetual growth—a country where rain never falls, and where cultivation en tirely depends upon the waters of the Nile. Nor is the Nile more certain to arrive at the conve nient and happy point of elevation than the Mediterranean regions to be attended by mode rate and timely rains. The Nile is not subjected to ihc same extremes of elevation as the waters of the Mississippi, but a double fatality attends | it, in rising too high or not high enough—for, in | either case, a famine follows. If so high as to pass freely over the banks, the summer and fall crops will be lost; and if not sufficiently high to cover or soften the land in the rear, not only are the farmers unable to irrigate (be first crop, con sisting of cane, rice, cotton, flax, beans, and dura or guinea but are unable to procure water to soften the back lands by which to sow the wheat and barley crops. The Nile, like the Mississippi, has its limited region for the growth of the cotton plant. While the Mississippi contains three degrees of latitude most profitable for cultivation, the Nile has one and a half degrees which admit of such a culti vation. The product is one-fifth in quanty of that ot Mississippi. The difference in quantity to the acre is in part owing to the high water which occurs at an unfavorable period—a lira* when the cotton bolls are mare rapidly forming than at any other time of the annual growth, and when the tap root having descended fifteen feet, suffer decay from being soaked in the water. J he fibre is long and silky, possessing a like number of nodules, and is often found to partake of the cream or orange color, which it acquires from a union of the oil and alkali of the fibre. This occurrence less frequent with the cotton of the Mississippi, on account of too much damp ness of the climate—but where it does exist, can be detected by entering a gin cotton room at night, as it fails not to impart the smell of soap. The cotton of Syria, Palestine, and Asia Minor, is without this color; the fibre is short and less* fine, and the product to the acre is about one eighth of that of the cotton regions of Mississippi. Such a difference in the quantity and quality of the cotton may proceed from too much dryness of the growing period, and the coolness of the spring and fall seasons. Thus it appears that in all countries where the summers are without rain, and the atmosphere as dry as in those ot the countries above mentioned, the cotton plant cannot be very profitably cultivated. We are inclined to think that all the coition regions of Sou.h America, as well as those of Asia and Africa, are accompanied by such cir cumstances, or, as in the East Indies and Mexico, attended with too much rain during the growing season. Hence the conclusion is, that the cotton plant is most profitably cultivated in the United States and that considering the continued wan ing of the people of all other C oti the article tor centuries will con-; 0 ' 1 most profitable cultivation of a |i tC^H the American States. P r °Vu f The Nile, unlike all rivers kn vides a desert of two thousand mil!" ,0 Us . * P" consisting o( frightful plains of shift ‘ n «»l* » m .untains of lofty and precipiLl ram never fulls, and vegetation ran n ’< Amidst these dreary abodes of pol?'? a majestic river flows from south t Si K’ , like the Mississippi and Red R ivpr ° n ° rtl h to the eastward, and ever wearing,** e that side. This river consists of a % T 'f ? ter about four hundred yards wider th sissippi, with less than half its drptl **- one third less in velocity. Tlie^jJ’i Mississippi, has its oceanic lakes. V' 0 ’ uration distinguish them from thnl I . the cut-off. They are traced one U IT eighty miles up the river, lake Meri-‘I- * ± highest; while on the vale of the M,-.- e "H ♦ j? C tached portions of the Gulf of Mexico* 1 * Tat. four hundred miles above its mouth The vale of the Nile, for one thousand , WL extent may average fifteen miles m the Mississippi, for the same distance , age forty miles. The Nile appears !h > two th:rds more arable land than the Mi f Sr and when we take into consideration iPW' cumslances of the two rivers, are rnnJS’i W , allow to the Nile a term o, yea’s I ?J since the alluvial land has been in a W. cumulation. dle(| f* jHJ But for the damp and chilling south w ; n j the winter and spring seasons, Egypt w f the most healthy country in the world baneful influence of the damp air of these * wh is detected in a derangement of the fund? the lion, whose centrifugal forces fall im, r froi eyes and superficial glandr of the ® ei the dreadful scourge of blindness, and ih e T r ° r calamity of the disease called plague, wl{ The beneficial results already experienced.'. eX . c the partial clearing and cultivation of lhel an ? the legion of the Mississippi, goes to shoTj * P*- great advantages to be derived from such ’J n ®‘ ures as will render the atmosphere of the C' |d| the Mississippi still drier; and when its jjj? fjf shall avail themselves of the valuable which float within the bosom of its waters - system of canaling, which shall relieve sissippi of its annual accumulation ofwatcnj! Pv i only will it serve to obviate the r of inundation, but increase the accumula -P ® L earth at distant points, bring up the, low 2 P # vel . treating swamp, obliterate a'forest of usele*C S and cause the great vale to smile with thef* of her clime, give to the inhabitants the PP f” healthy summers, and winders with adv IS less disjointed and of less frequent occurr’ J?I than that of the Nile, whose nature is K mortality ignorance. Thus we may hope to* an extensive region of most valuable coanbrV'SE no very remote period, disarmed of that supsi 3 ij* bundance of moisture in the atmosphere, flB if it should not, as in Egypt and Syria, dear' n ie reptiles poisonous quali ies, and secure tj I- thii safety from canine madness, will, at least, pres - bre a climate, for health and salubrity, hitherto g. WU ; known in the American States. Anecdote OF A Lion.—Poor Gert Sch«n ? aves-boor of the Cradock district was outbid* the in company with a neighbor—whose name,*! , bee is yet alive, and has perhaps been sufficeutljp hac ished, I shall not make more notorious. Cote’ e ve to a fountain, surrounded, as is common, t to ’ tall reeds and rashes, Gert handed hisguotts the comrade, and alighted to search for water, fc Shi ;he no sooner approached the fountain, than sev enormous lion started up close at his side, a • fae seized him by the left arm. The man, tho® Te! taken by surprise, stood stock still withouteig gliii g. aware that the least attempt to escape ing ensure his instant destruction. The animal a son remained motionless, holding fast the boor’s a* too in his fangs, but without biting it severely-a the shutting his eye's at the same time, as if heed Jot not withstand the countenance of his victim... they stood in this position, Gert, collecting L| presence of mind, began to beckon tohiscomx to advance and shoot the lion in the foreLa | This might have been easily effected, as the t , JH | mal not only continued still with closed eyes,i IP* | Gert s body concealed from his notice any oh ; advancing in front of him. But the fellow' I a vile poltroon, and in place of complying '■ | his friend s directions, or making any other rsr. | tempt to save him, he began cautiously to res to the top of a neighboring rock. Gert com: i ed earnestly to beckon for assistance for a k time the lion continuing perfectly quiet—and: lion-hunters affirm, that if he had but perse* _ a little longer, the animal would have at lee U . relaxed his hold, and left him uninjured. J- ■ t cases, at least, they maintain, have occaski- isi: occurred. But Gert, indignant at the pusilL No ity of his comrade, and losing patience wilt lion, at last drew his knife, (a weapon whictf*i back-country coloni-'t wears sheathed at libs- lea xnd with the utmost forcef of bis right arm;: cle ged it into the animal’s breast. The thrust® a deadly one, for Gert was a bold and man; but it did not prove effectual in timeU* ex his own life—for the enraged savage, strivin: grapple with him, and held at arms length bys iSS utmost efforts of Gen’s slength and despera:-' so dreadfully lacerated the b-east and arras# ing unfortunate man whith his talons, that his >' ho bones were laid open. The lion fell at lastflu loss of blood, and Gert fell along with him. cowardly companion who had witnessed ful struggle from the rock, however, took con? tQ to advance, and suceeded in carrying his ids# pg friend to the nearest house—where such si# is, aid as the neighbors could give, was irnmedi^ 1 IK but vainly applied. Poor Gert expired on ® , Be< third day after with locked-javv. — Thowf 1 ' JJPj Travels in South Africa. ha — T1 lUK IXDUSTRT OF MASSACHUSETTS.-- cording to an official report made to the L e P lure, it appears that the product of the great dies of manufacturing industry in Mas® M: setts, during the year ending in April, 1- 11 was $9 1,700,000, of which sura the three g N. cipal items were, cotton fabrics, m woollen fabrics, $10,399,000; and fisheries.?- 592,000.—1 fto the products of manufa 1 - gj, industry, he added the earnings and agriculture, it is estimated that the * annual product of the industry of exceeds $ 100,000,000; which divided by J| the population of the State, gives ast jf erage v due of the annual labor of each m 1 - ' man, and child iu the community. gt< The Pausox.—He is called parson ( l ie nc becuse by his person, the church, which 1 ’ visible body, is*represented ; and he is in £ a body corpoate in «rdcr to protect andd e ‘’ c CQI rights of the Church, which he ' ke perpetual succession. He is sometime* . 4^ the rector or governor of the Church, u , bo appellation of parsons (however it may .* . an cated by familiar, clownish, and in t J* scrl j"s® use) is the most legal, most beneficial, honourable title a parish priest can eoo< ~ C jj such an one (Sir Edward Coke pj, alone is said to personate or represent ba — Blackstone. h , u - eIJ . oer iou * Youthful Resolves. —There is f r of a young man’s life,says the Montreal C a^ t( f L . in which he is determined never to taW pj,. fice, and in a girl’s when she is determine| to marry. The duration of both is abou on - ad Dn. Dxott.—A story was current that this individual h: d been pan!o' ie Governor. We do not vouch for the p' at but give it as we heard it.— Philaddf ii t American.