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CHRONIOLE AND SENTINEL.
A U G U S T A.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AVGUST 5.
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—
—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.
ANDREWSfMILLER, of Cass.
WILLIAM EZZARD, of DeKalb.
C. B. STRONG, of Bibb.
WHITEHEAD, of Burke.
E. WIMBERLY, of Twiggs.
FOR CONGRESS,
WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene.
R. W. HABERSHAM, of Habersham.
JULIUS C. ALFORD, of Troup.
EUGENI US A. NISBET, of Bibb.
LOTT WARREN, of Sumter.
THOMAS BUTLER KING, of Glynn.
ROGER L. GAMBLE, of J Perron.
JAMES A. MERIWETHER, cf Putnam.
THOMAS F. FOSTER, of Muscogee.
The Committee appointed to make arrangements
to carry into effect the object of the meeting held t
to appoint Delegates to the Macon Convention, re
quest the Delegates appointed in each district in the
county, and those appointed for t:ie city, to make
arrangements so as to meet at Fenn s Bridge, on
the Ogechee River, on Monday night, the tenth of
August next.
The Delegates appointed from, the county of
Burke, to the Convention to be held in Macon, on
the second Thursday in August next, are requested
to meet in Waynesboro’ on the first Tuesday in
August, to make arrangements preparatory to their
journey.
Burke county, July 27, 1840.
Enough Said.—The Central 1 ippecanoe
Club of Illinois, says the Newark Daily Adverti
ser, have recorded thenames ot seven thousand
voters in that State, who have renounced Van
Burenism, and ate now the advocates of “Tip
and Ty.”
A meeting of the citizens of Philadelphia was
held on the 28th ult., at which a committee office
persons was appointed to devise the best mode of
organizing a company for establishing a line of
steamers between that city and Europe.
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For the Chronicle and Sentinel.
Hon. Edward J. Black—Sir—ln your letter to
the Milledgeville committee of invitation for the
fourth of July last, you assume the responsibility
of asserting that General Harrison’s “whole life
has been spent in warring against the South.” —
Were you with him when he was “waning against
® the South,” by fighting in the far West, the mighty
battles of Tippecanoe, Fort Meigs, and the river
Thames? And can you boast of honorable wourd'
received whilst there battling with your country’s
enemy? Should this be the fact, tell your consti
tuents in what regiment you fought, and by whom
you were applauded, as Gen. Harrison was by
“Mad Anthony.” if you were not in those battles,
or any of them, come out like a man, and prove the
truth, in the best way vou can, of what you have
asserted. is looked for, and nothing less will
screen you from the odium of asserting what you
cannot prove.
In the same letter you proclaimed to the people,
as “a notorious fact,” that “ three members cf the
Convention , '‘ that met in Milledgevide in June,
“were nominated by that Convention ” to be candi
dates for Congress at the next election. Now , sir,
I deny the existence of such “notorious fact,” and
unless you prove what you have said (0 be true,be
assured that, at the ballot box in October next,
“thousands and tens of thousands” will rebuke a
representative who can be induced, for the purpose
of injuring others, to depart from the straight for
ward line of rectitude.
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A RICHMOND COUNTY FARMER.
From the Neio York Times.
Another Van Bnrea Flag Struck.
The “State Eagle,” an ably conduced week
ly paper published at Hartford Connecticut, has
just expunged the name of Van Buren from the
head of its leading column and enlisted in the
people’s caqjfliaißcr the banner of the people’s
The editor in commencing a manly
and conclusive article, informed his readers of the
change and stating his resaons for abandoning
the administration party, says :
“TO TUE PUBLIC.”
“ Those who have been accustomed to look
into our paper from week to week, will no doubt
at once discover that the names ot Martin lan
Buren and Richard M. Johnson no longer occupy
a conspicuous place in our columns. As an ac
tive, though humble partner in that distinguished
firm we this day publicly dissolve our connection
—if not by “ mutual consent,” with the hearty
, approval of our own conscience. In other w ords,
as a friend and supporter of the present admin
istration, we have issued our last sheet.”
The Heroes and their Preference.—Gen.
Scott, Gen. Games, Gen. Miller, Gen. Taylor,
and most of the other Generals who poured out
their blood for their country in the last war, are
in favour of the election of General Harrison to
the Presidency.
Proceedings of Council.
Council Chamber, August 1, 1840. £
Saturday, 10 o’clock A. M. 3
Present—Hon. D. Hook, Mayor—Alderman Mil
ler, Jackson, Bones, Crump, Dunlap.
The proceedings of the last Meeting were read
and confirmed.
The Report from the Board of Health was read
and ordered to be published, as follows:
The Committee appointed by'the Board, on the
state of the Health of the City, for the month ot
July, Report:
That the City continues unusully healthy for
the season, and that they are not aware of any dis
ease existing within the range of their duties.
The number of deaths during the past month,
viz., from the Ist to the 31st July, have been eight
White persons, fiom the following causes:
Consumption, ..2
Debility, 1
Scarlet Fever,. 1
Dropsy, 1
Teething, 1
Cholera Infantum, 1
7
From the Country,. 1
8
And 6 Blacks, 2 of whom were children.
A reference to the above, is all that is necessary
to be said on the subject, except to recommend that
this Board do not, from the present favorable state
of the city, relax in their efforts to secure a con
tinuance of the health we now enjoy.
F. M. Robertson,Y
CoNES > V Health Committee.
W. E. Jackson, {
T. W. Miller, J
Messrs. Harper and Richards, appeared and took
their seats.
The petition of N. K. Butler &: Co. C. W. Dough
ty and others, to open Gumming street, South of
Broad street, was read, and on motion, was laid on
the table for the present.
Messrs. Fleming, Warren and Parish, appeared
and took theii seats.
The Clerk informed the Council that he had com
pleted his copy of the Recoids of deaths in the
citv, commencing from September, 1817, to the
present time, a period of 23 j'ears, and that he had
compiled a set of tables :
Ist. Exhibiting the number of deaths in each
month, from Sep'ember, ISI7, to uly, IS4O.
2d. Tables of diseases, showing f .the number of
deaths in each month, from each disease.
Sd. A Table showing the deaths annually, from
the different diseases, from 1833 to 1840.
The Records and Tables having been presented
and examined, Mr. Miller offered the following
Resolution, which was passed ;
Resolved, That the sum of one hundred dollars
be paid to S. H. Oliver, Clerk of Council, for the
labor bestowed by him in compiling the Sexton's
book.; and that the thanks of Council be tendered
him for the great ability with which he has per
formed the duty.
The following returns from the Officers of Coun
cil, were received, with the Collector and Treas
urer’s Receipt, for the amount annexed to their
names :
Clerk cf the Lower Market —Fees and
Scales, $166 18
Citj'Maishal —Fines and Guard-house fees, 131 00
Jailer —Ballance cash this month, Gl 79
Keeper of Magazine, 00 00
Clerk Upper Market —no return, 00 00
The Sexton made the following Report, which
was ordered to be published in full:
Report of Interments in the City of Augusta,
for the month of Ju'y, 1840.
Nativity. Disease, Age.
July 1, Andrew Steele, Scotland, Consumption, 40
“ 1, Alex. Drew, do. Debility, 68
“ 8, Jas. D. Hatch, Augusta, Scarlet fever, 4
“ 16, Chas. Banta, do. Cholera Infa’m, 1
“ 19, T. Hammond, Boston, (br’t fm c’try.) 48
“ 27, John King, France, Consumption, 2;3
“ 27, Geo. P. Turpin, Maryland, Dropsy, 47
“ 29, Jos. A. Gardcile, Augusta, Teething, 1
And 6 Blacks, 2 of whom were children.
Signed, J. SIMPSON, Sexton.
The following accounts were severally read and
ordered to be paid.
Thos. Hopkins & Co., on account of Freshet, $74 25
Jas. Harper, do 8 25
P. H. Mantz, do 88 80
S. H. Oliver, do.. 2 94
Moore & Davis. do 119 24
D. L. Curtis, on account of 5treet5,.......62 87
M.'Grady, do. 28 75
Martin Gill, do 11l 75
G. T.’Pavish, Salary, 250 00
?. H. Oliver, do S 3 67
L. T. Shopp, do 85 27
11. H. Watson, do 60 00
W. D. Brown, do 60 00
Thos. Tant, do 60 00
E. G. McGoulrick, do 60 00
J. W. Meredith, d 0..,. 58 33
Watchmen, do 324 00
J. W. Houghton, Hospital, 15 37
J. Simpson, do 3 50
C. Kaple, do 8 75
T. Richards, Incidental,.. . 11 00
B. Picquet, do 3 50
C. A. Greiner & Co., do 13 50
F. Blodget, do 16 00
A. J. &. T. W. Miller, do 320 00
Luther Roll, City Hall 37 50
J. J. Maguire, Engines 60 50
W. Cathn, pr. J, H. Mann,... .do 150 00
Charles M. Cox, Drains, 300 00
Gardelle & Rhind, Magazine, 21 00
On motion, one thousand dollars was ordered to
the Contingent Fund, under the control and direc
tion of the Mayor. Council adjourned.
S. H. OLIVER,
Clexk of Council.
We understand (says the New York Commer
cial Advertiser) that one hundred and thirty per
sons have already engaged passages imhe British
Queen.
The packet ships Ontario, for London, Europe,
for Liverpool, and Baltimore, for Havre, which
likewise sail to-morrow, have also a large num
ber of passengers engaged.
Washington Irving is said to be engaged on a
new work, the subject of which is the incidents
connected with the visits of Columbus to this con
tinent.
The reason why.—The question has been
often asked, why Isaac Hill should receive the
appointment of Sub Treasurer for Boston 1 A
very satisfactory reason was assigned yesterday,
by a Locofoco, who said that Mr. dill being a
lame man, could not so easily run away with the
public funds. —Boston Allas.
Mormons lynched.
The Quincy Whig of the 17th ult. states that
ihe citizens of Tully, Mo. have recently missed
several articles, and laid the theft to the Mormons,
living ut Nauvoo, 111, immediately opposite. At
length, a number of the citizens of Tully crossed
the river, in the vicinity of the Mormon settle
ments, where after some searching, they found
several of the stolen articles. .'Shortly after, fall
ing in with a party of three or four Mormons, ,
they were charged with the theft and forcibly
taken across the river and severely lynched. One
of them escaped, and running to the river, seized a
canoe and reached the other shore, where he feU
exhausted.
A public meeting of the Mormons has been
held in Nauvoo, at which the following, among
other resolutions, was passed;
That the people of Missouri not having suffi
cently slaked their thirst for blood and plunder,
are r.ow disposed to pursue us with a repetition
of the same scenes of brutality, which marked
their whole course of conduct towards us during
our unhappy residence among them.
Notwithstanding they have already robbed us
of our homes, murdered our families, stolen and
carried away our property, and their exertions to
complete the measure of their own infamy as a
State, has caused unoffending thousands to be
banished from the State without even the form
of trial or the slightest evidence of crime.
They are now sending their gang of murder
ous banditti and thieving brigands to wreak fur
ther vengeance and satisfy their insatiable cupid
ity in the State of Illinois, and that too, before we
have even had time to erect shelters for our
families.
United States Mist. —Total amount coined
from 1793 to 1840, of gold, silver and copper,
$80,109,258 59, It will require after a year or
two operation of the “Independent Treasury,”
more than all of this 47 j’ears’ labor of the mint,
for the use of the office holders, using this Gov
ernment Bank alone. The people if they get
specie, must import it on their own account.
From the Hartford Courier.
The following ietter from our Western corre
spondent, contains some capital hits, too good to
be lost.
LETTER TO AMOS KENDALL.
“ While holding a high public station, I have
seen my children spring in terror from their beds
at the dead hour of midnight, in the belief that
* guns were fired mto the window of their cham
ber. It was (he cannon of Federalism in the
street.” — KendulC s Add rest.
Por N’T Look Oct, ?
Lake Erik, July 4, 1810. y
Mr. Amos Kendall —Dear Sir:—Your ad
dress, letter of instructions, and a lew copies of
the Extra Globe, were duly received at this of
fice. No exertion in my power had been want
ing to comply with your wishes, but all effort,
and the influence of my office, have proved in
sufficient to stem the current of public sentiment
in this vicinity. Not a single subscriber for your
your paper can be obtained. Those who once
quoted the Globe as proper authority on all occa
sions, now loathe the very name.
With one exception, the Harrison flag is car
ried bv every steamer and vessel that floats upon
the Lake; and the waters of Niagara pass the
rapids at a snail pace, compared with the increase
of Harrison’s popularity in the West.
I pity your children—poor souls!—to he thus
disturbed by the rascally Whig victories. Can
not you do something to stay the popular voice,
1 and thus * the day of your resignation of
1 the post office .department, the most fortunate of
i your life V
I have not heard that your family were ever
annoyed by the firing of Locofoco guns, nor have
I heard of any one being disturbed very recently
’ by any Loi ofoco victory. But do try to calm
your children ; it is possible thi t a fire may take
place in Washington before the 4th of mxt
March, thereby preveniing the public from ever
knowing the full extent of the corruplionof your
department. This may possibly culm them thro’
dog days. But I fear that the grand blaze of
November will arouse not only your children,
but those of other office-holders, to an alarming
extent —(to use the words of your address) * fit
only to amuse the wild natives of Africa.’ And
when the grand Huzza is sent forth by the mil
lions of freemen, who will rejoice to see our
blessed institutions about to return into the hands
of those who are honest and capable, it will so
operate upon lire whole Locofoco system, as to
cause them to cry for the hills and mountains to
i cover their iniquity from the sight of the dear
, people.
( I admire the honest concession of one sentence
in your address, which is in the following lan
! guage: “ Laics are violated with impunity „•
■ moral obligations are scoffed at and derided ;
' knavery walks iht steeds with the boldface of
, honesty ; plan ors of the public and of public
I institutions, obtain sympathy and forgiveness .”
The Whigs have not the power to prevent the
violation of the laws, or to extend forgiveness to
the plunderers of the public. I cannot longer sup
port a party having the power to prevent, and
I permitting “KNAVERY to walk the streets with
1 the BOLD FACE of honesty,” and extend for
, giveness to those who have plundered the pub
( lie Treasury of MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.”
The Light House Keeper,
Point Look Out, Lake Erie.
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' The most impudent pretender in existence is
! Jeremiah G. Harris, the abolition editor of the
N uahville Union. Here is a fellow, who, when I
editor of the New-Bedford (Mass.) Gazette, de
nounced Gen’l Harrison, because he was not an
* abolitionist, and praised Van Buren because he
) admitted the power of congress over the District
> of Columbia—who was himself an abolitionist of
j the deepest dye—who more than once appealed
( to negro voters to cast their suffrages for the loco
j focos because they were abolitionists—here is a
fellow, we say, now editing a locofoco paper in a
* slave holding state, canting daily about southern
) institutions, and attempting to affix the stigma
) of abolition on Old Tip., and to prove Van Buren
) pure as snow. Such a cheat could not live in
New-Orleans. He would be sent back to the
nigger voters of New-Bedford, his fit associates.
— JN. O.Bce.
Anecdotes of a couple of “Grannies.”—
The British in the days of the revolution were in
the habit of calling General Wayne “ Granny .”
At the storming of Stony Point, Old Mad An
thony was the third man that entered the breach,
i He was met by a British Grenadier, who inquir
ed, “ Wno are you ?” Old Mad Anthony level
led him with the ground, exclaiming, “/ am
> Granny Wayne, and by G — d, sir , / intend to
i deliver this fortress in aoout Jive minutes .”
1 he Van Burenites apply the term “Granny
to Harrison. Gov. Wickliflfe of Kentucky, in com
menting upon this epithet sometime ago, remark
-1 that Harrison was the most efficient granny
3 he ever knew ; for said he, I saw him deliver
General Proctor of five hundred children in
about forty minutes.
The democrats must sustain themselves in this
1 contest or the Angel of Liberty will foreverbid
J farewell to the Republic.— Globe.
Don’t trouble yourself about that Angel.
, W hen we last heard from her, she was flying
i back and forth through the clear blue heavens of
> Louisiana, and blowing the trump of victory.
Louisville Journal.
General Harrison has written the following
letter to a Committee in Indiana, on a subject in
regard to which he has been grossly misrepresen
ted:
North Bend, July 4, 1840.
Gentlemen, —l have to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter on the 27th ult. informing me that
a report prevails in your neighborhood “that I am
averse to emigrants from foreign countries being
naturalized short of 20 years, and that in my
feelings I have no sympathy in unision with those
who have sought an asyulmin this land of liber
ty.
I have heard of this calumny before, and have
‘never ceased to pronounce it such, and to declare
that it has not a shadow of foundation.
On the contrary I have done every thing in
mv power to facilitate those who have been near
to me to acquire the rights of citizenship—and
when in Congress to give them (before the nat
uralization) the same privileges in taking up and
purchasing the public lands as the native citizens.
It appears to mo to be impossible to keep pace,
by contradiction, with the numerous falsehoods
which are daily raised against me, some of the lat
ter indeed supported by the basest perjury.
Respectfully, W. H. HARRISON.
From a correspondent of the New York Star.
Mr. Editor: The following historical fact riiay
not be uninteresting to those especially who claim
that the present administration party belong to the
Jeffersonian school.
Os the twelve Electors who voted for Mr Jeffer
son in 1800, the following survive;
John Woodworth, of Albany ;
Pierre Van Cortlandt, of West Chester;
James Burt, of Orange;
Os the Senators who voted for those Electors,
the following survive;
Ambrose Spencer, now of Wayne Co;
James W. Wilkins, of Orange.
Os the Members of Assembly who voted for
those Electors, the following survive.
Nicoll Floyd, Suffolk;
Samuel G. Verbryck, Rockland;
Smith Thompson, Dutchess;
Peter Townsend, Orange;
Erastus Root, Delaware;
James Merrill, Saratoga;
Archibald Mclntyre, Albany.
It is a singular fact that, with possibly the ex
ception of one of these worthies, all of them at
this day arc deciued Whigs.
I make no commentary upon this fact but leave
those who arrogate to themselves and their party,
that they alone are sustaining the principles of
Mr. Jefferson, to explain how it so happens that
those distinguished men in our State who, in
1800, were the strong and unflinching advocates
of Jefferson and Jeffersonian democracy, are now
found in equally decided opposition to the policy
are principles of Mr, Van Buren.
I will merely add, would it not be gratifying
to our fellow citizens again to confide the high
and responsible duty of selecting a Chief Magis
trate to many of those who have, from 1800 to
1840, always sustained the republican institutions
of our country.
Food lor Thinking People.
Tiie following dialogue, which we find on its
travels through the newspaper circuit,is worth forty
columns of declamation, and as many more of ab*
struse reasoning. It is plain to the capacity of
every man, and is as true as it is plain. Every la
boring man —and how few the numbers in this
country wiio are not compelled to earn their bread
by the sweat of their brow —should read this little
tract, and ponder it well: —
Plain quest ions and answers between
Poor Richard and an Office Holder,
with a salary ol two thou-and dollars a
year.
Poor Richard —Captain, I see by the papers that
our President has been sending off across the ocean
to find out what kind of money the Kings and
Emperors take of their people and how they keep
it. Do you know if he’s got any answers yet?
Captain—Ohyts. The U. S. Consuls, you see,
have attended to it, knowing it was to help them
to get the gold for their salaries
P. R.—Well, I reckon they got answers to please
them then?
Capt.—Why d’ye sec—The answers from Ham
burgh, Bremen, Cuba, Jamaica, Berlin, Frankfort
in Germany, Leipsic in Saxony, Munich, Smyrna,
Genoa, Laguira, Leghorn and Constantinople, show,
that they require every dollar of the people, or re
venue in any shape, in specie. Not a single dollar
does the Emperor of Austria, the King of Prussia,
King of Sweden, the Grand Sult;m, or any of those
arbitrary monarebs, take of their subjects) but the
real Benton shiners, sir, or tbc hard silver —they
don’t touch a dollar, sir, of bank rags, nor don’t
put a dollar in the banks.
P. R.—Well, well —I reckon specie must be
easy got in these countries, the people get likely
wages there for work, as there is no bank aristo
cracy. These specie Emperors and Brokers, &,c.
give fine prices for work, don’t they?
Capt.—Why as to that d’ye see—their subjects
don’t need as much as ours do here —as things are
cheaper there.
P. R. —Well, is land cheap too.
Capt.—Oh —the subjects don’t own the land, it
all belongs to the Dukes and Lords.
P. K. —What does the word subject mean?
Capt. —Subjects means that they are under their
Kings, Dukes, See., just like you are under Presi
dent Van Buren.
P. R. —Why how long have these subjects been
working for their Kings and Emperors and Dukes
and Lords and han’t got no land ol their own yet?
Capt. —Why it's sometime since I studied geome
try, but I guess these emp resare rather older than
the American Revolution.
P. R. —What! and the subjects hain’t carnt any
land of their own yet, and yet getting specie for
wages —why how much do they get for a day’s
work ?
Capt. —Why the President don’t report what
wages the subjects get, for htjj thinks the subjects
ought not to expert too much from the government,
and he never thought of asking how much they
got for their work.
P. R. —Well, Fm sorry our“democractic” Presi
dent didn’t think a litile about the people, while
he was learning how the Kings and Emperors take
care of themselves. Well. 1 was asking George
Jacobs the other day, who came from Holsteen,
and he says they only get seven-pence a day for
work and board themselves ; and there’s some in
our neighborhood came from Dantzic, from Ham
burg, and from Bremen, and they saythey got from
to 8 pence a day and boarded themselves —they
get from 52 to lUU shillings a year and find them
selves. Why captain, ain’t that the reason they
can’t get to own any land tnere —they get such
starving wages ?
Capt.—l’m very busy now, my dear sir the mail
is just coming in—but you ain’t going to vote for
old granny Harrison I hope —are you ?
P. R. —Why Captain, you’re in a great flutter—•
I’ve seen you ’fore now stop and talk an hour and
let all the mails in the country come and go.
I wish you just to answer me one question, and
if you can’t do it, nor none of the otiPe-holdeis
•about here, just send on to Amos Kendall, and get
him to answer it in the next Extra Globe you give
me.
Capt.—Well —what is it ? Be quick, for I’m in
a hurry.
P. 11. —Be patient Captain ; perhaps you’ll have
leisure after a while. It is this : How long would
it take a man at 7 ponce a day and find himself and
family, to clear enough to buy 80 acres of land ?
And another query is, if it is such a fine thing to
have specie wages and low prices, what on earth
is the reason that these people are coming over by
hundreds and thousands from their specie king
doms, and going to work at a dollar a day in this
bank-ridden country to get land. What on earth
is the reason Captain ! Can you tell ? And what’s
the reason the common people own their own land
in this country, and don’t in the specie countries ?
What can it be ?
Capt.—Pshaw ! I see you are a Federalist.
“Pa, ’ said a little fellow the other day, “was’nt
Job an editor !” “Why Sammy 1” “Because
the Bible informs us that he had much troublo,
and was a man of sorrow all the days of his life!’’
We Stoop to Conquer. —This motto of one of i
the Whig wards of Baltimore, contains the avowed
principle upon which Whigery conducts the Presi
dential contest. — Globe.
This “wilful and impudent falsehood has re
peatedly been exposed in the columns of this paper,
and the originators of it have, we believe, become
ashamed of it. The lie was too good to b© lost;
and, seeing that it is abandoned in this city, the
Globe has taken it up and adopted it. Having
gone through the round of falsehoods, forgery and
deception, the Globe is about to commence again.
The next thing it publishes will, most likely, be
the Ohio circular, written by one of its own Iriends,
and to which he forged the name of a Whig. It
must be very pleasant for the originators of these
falsehoods and forgeries to find, after every body
else had deserted them, that they are picked up by
the official journal, and rc-dresscd for new service,
and return upon the authors to remind them of the
skill with which the original was concocted.—
Baltimore Patriot.
From the Boston Atlas, July 18.
In this city, yesterday, the thermometor stood at
welding heat all day. It was ‘shockin’ hot, that’s
a fact. But we learn that it has been hotter than
this in New Orleans* In proof of this, the German
American of that city, relates the following story:
While walking down Canal street, yesterday, like
“Saul of Tarsus,” at noon day, we saw a rough
looking man, with a coarse garb and hobnailed
shoes on. Ever and anon as he walked, we caught
a sight of what seemed to us a beautiful pair of
long,curved, silver spurs. That such a man, with
such shoes, should wear such spurs, astonished us;
so we approached him, in order to be sure about it.
And what do you think we saw, reader? Nothing
in the world but two streams of water coming out
through the awl holes in the back part of his shoes!
The man perspired so, that his shoes were full of
water, and at each step it gushed out, making jets
d'eau that glitered brightly in the midday sun!
Ft rthe Chronicle and Sentinel.
“Hail to the Chief.’’
Hail to the Chief now in triumph advancing.
Honor and glory are wreathed with his name,
Proudly he stood, where the death-shot were glan
cing,’
On the fields of the West, where the red foemen
came.
Twine for him the chaplet now,
Bind it on the hero’s brow,
Unwithcred its bloom and unfading its hue;
While every rock and glen,
Echo his praise again,
The statesman and victor of Tip-pe-ca-noc.
Hark! from the West, where Thames’ stream is
laving,
On the breeze the glad shout of the people is
borne;
Where the bright prairies roll, there our banner is
waving,
On its folds in the East flash the beams of the
morn.
Moored in the people’s hearts,
Proof to the traitor’s arts,
Gay to the breeze floats our banner so true;
Martin, the cabbage-man,
Quails when our noble van
Sends a shout on the winds for old Tip-pe-ca-noe.
Proudly our watch-word has shrill’d in the Union,
And Van Buren’s groans to its echoes rep'iod;
Once more to the held then and hurl the proud min
ion,
From his throne to the cottage on Kinderhook’s
side.
When no longer friends await,
To humbly kiss the robe of state,
He’ll think on his cabbage sprinkled with dew;
“Puning o’er his petty schemes,”
Starting in his troubled dreams.
While rings the glad triumph of Tip-pc-ca-noe.
R.
For the Chronicle «$• Sentinel.
A Cold Day Early in December.
Scene —Kendall’s chamber in the White House.
The little Kendalls are hastily dressing for their
departure. Enter —pale and trembling, without
ceremony, Van Buren and Blair: Amos meets them;
throws his left arm fondly and familiarly around
Marlin’s neck: grasps Blair’s right hand in his,
and sings; Martin with his face half aveitcd, hums
or sobs a bar at intervals; while Blair stands petri
fied with terror, staring at the pair, with an awful
breach in his countenance, looking like a young
bird, when its mother is coming with food.
The storm has burst in fury o’er us ;
Black and lowering is the sk} r ;
Around, above, beneath, before, us,
Darkness spreads her panoply.
Days of cold and cheerless sorrow
Dreary nights of sleepless glxun
Retrace each other —still the morrow
Wafts us nearer to our doom.
Time goads us on, but yet he brings
No recompense for misspent hours ;
He bears no healing on his wings
To soothe remorse for wasted powers.
We have soar’d thro’ airy regions.
On clouds of wild experiment!
Now the Democratic legions
Rend our ears with merriment!
Whoever heard such guns before ? oh !
Sure the earth is rent in twain ?
They’re loaded by the old “ mock hero ”
With our Extra Globes:— we're slain !
Farewell Francis —kiss me Martin I
Meet me on Oblivion’s stream:
The hour has come that we must part in—
This hour dispels our golden dream !
i S.
Extraordinary Speed on a Rail Road.—
The first trip made by the new locomotive en
gine of Messrs. Laird, Kitson & Co. with passen
gers on the North Midland Raihvav, proved the
power and the speed of the engine. It travelled,
on Friday week, from Rotherham to Derby, ta
king a veiy heavy train of passengers—the latter
part of the distance no less than five hundred—
and most of whom were going to Derby fair; and
the journey, which is upwards of 39 miles, was
performed in an hour and twenty-five minutes.
In returning, the engine with only the tender at
tached, ran ten miles in eight minutes, between
Helper and Clay Cross Tunnel, being at the rate
of seventy-five miles per hour!
Bonaparte’s Wounds. —Napoleon showed
me the marks of two wounds—one a very deep
cicatrice above the left knee, which he said he
had received in his first campaign in Italy, and
it was of so serious a nature, that the surgeons
were in doubt whether it might not be ultimately
necessary to amputate. He observed, that when
he was wounded it was always kept a secret in
order not to discourage the soldiers. The other
was on the toe, and had been at Eck
muhi. “At the siege of Acre,” continued he, “a
shell thrown by Sidney Smith fell at my feet
Two soldiers, who were close by, seized, and
closely embraced me, one in front and the other
on one side, and made a rampart of their bodies
for me against the effect of the shell, which ex
ploded, and overwhelmed us with sand. We
sunk into the hole formed by its bursting; one of
them was wounded. I made them both officers.
One has since lost a leg at Moscow and command
ed at Vincennes when I left Paris. When he
was summoned by the Russians, he r plied, that
as soon as they sent him back the kg he had lost
at Moscow, he would surrender the »
“Many times in my life,” continued K "V
been saved by soldiers and officera th rf > n ‘V 1 0
selves before me when I was in lhe v
nem danger. At Areola, when I V v as a T < I
Col. Meuran, my aid-de-camp, threw
fore me, covered me with his body T Sel f b, i
the wound which was destined for’ 1 4
at my feet, and his blood spouted un He H I
He gave his life to preserve mine \ ,ny ‘Ve |i
believe, has there been such devotion? *
soldiers as mine have manifested form M? M
my misfortunes, never has the soldier » In »l R
expiring, been wanting to me -nevp iS P
been served more faithfully by his P has % to
the last drop of blood gushing om S’- M 11
they exclaimed ‘Vive TEmporeur'’’!? fl
Voice from St. Helena.” “.j | *
. T " e “ £
ion of removing postmasters and other, f 6f4 !y
ion s sake, was early set by Martin V ° f °k 1
His famous lottei on this subject is n «
print, and as we find it in the Boston Ail olHof
turday wo give it to our readers T h aa of S*. Q
marked out in the letter were cf conrJ , Vlctir «« II
-“ My Dear Sir-Our Suffering* #1
rascality of deputy
and cries aloud for relief. We find it ft I
ly impossible to penetrate the interior h
papers and unless you ca« attain them K 05 i,
or three prompt removals, there is no li ni :/ '** I
injurious consequences, that may result B
let me therefore entreat the postmaster R
do an act of justice, and render us a F |
vice by the removal, of Holt of Hereto
the appointment of Jabez Fox, Esq: alsJfV 51 S 8
ell, of Bath, and the appointment of an eir? jS
young friend, W. B. Rochester, Esq !** 1
man of the first respectability and worth'lnT? ' 1
State ; and the removal of Smith, at Li u u ! , 1
and the appointment of Hollister- and A
moval of Chamberlain, in Oxford, and th 1
pomtment of Lot Clark, Esq. I aminVv. M
haste, and can therefore add no more.' JJsl7 I
enclosed papers according to your distil I
find if anything is done let it be quick J ' k
and you may rely upon it, much good I
suit from if. b Urt ’
Yours, affectionately,
Ti -r tt ~ . M - buren
ihe . lon. Henry Meigs. April 4, iga,
e —■ ■ a
Statistical Information.—“ The Air m
can Citizen’s Manual of Reference,” a paninhW M
of about 100 pages, just published, and for ■
at E. French’s book store, 126 Fulton street,!! %
tains a fund of valuable statistical knowled-v 9
regard to this country. The Declaration of K ■
dependence, the Constitution, the inaugural
farewell addresses of Washington and JeffersTTß
a bacf biography of all the’ Presidents nil "
great variety of useful information in regardn * *
the Treasury, Post Office, Army, Navy. COQ . In
merce, and many other matters may be fo Un j;J I
this cheap and useful publication. We <*!« t
from it some facts that may be interesting to oar f
readers.
The Navt is composed of 65 vessels of war
as follows :—ll ships of the line, from 74 t 0 ujj
guns, and one razee 54 guns—l 4 frigates k
class. 44 guns—2 frigates 2d class, 36 guas-21
sloops ot war from 10 to 20 guns—l 2 bri«saad * :
schooners from 4 to 10 guns—2 steam ships ad
a store ship.
The order of precedence and command in
ship is as follows: -1, Captain or Commander, I
2, Lieutenants, according to the date or nurasc f
of their commissions. 3, Masters. 4. Master's 1
mate. 5, Boatswain. 6, Gunner. 7, Carpenter, i
8, Midshipmen. _ c
When the President shall visit a ship of the
U. S. Navy, he is to be saluted with 21 gna, i
Vice President 19 guns. Heads of Departments,
Governors of States and Territories, and Forefe 1
Minister 17 guns. Major Generals 15 gam, !
Brigadier Generals 13 guns. The Fourth of Jalr
and the anniversary of Washington’s birth da;
are to be celebrated by salutes of 17 guns.
The vimr contains of officers and men!!.- - j
577 in all, as follows :—General staffs7,Medial I
Department 83, Pay Department 3, Corps of *
Engineers 43, Corps of Topographical Engineers
25, Ordnance Department ?22, t wo regimentsoi
Dragoons 1,498, four regiments of Artillery 3,020.
eight Regiments of Infantry 7,496. The total, ,
number of the Militia of the United States i I
about 1,400,000.
Post Offices.—There were in 1839 infer
United States 12,780 Post Offices— receiptslff s
postage $4 476,638; expenditures $4 620,117 1—
extent of post roads 133,999 miles—annual ;
transportation of the mails 34,496.878 miles.
The P ress.—There are in the United States HI,
1555 newspapers, magazines and periodic H
Ot these 274 arc published in the State of
V orb, and 71 in the city of New York. 116S'*
published daily ; 14 tri-weekly; 39 semi-weekly
999 once a week.
Th e Punishment of Death,—Among fe
crimes still punishable with death in Great Britain,
are—highway robbery, with violence—burglar!. *
with violence ty the person—piracy with vicience
—holding lights to cause shipwreck
setting fire toTkhips or buildings, to the danger®
human life—Aurder, treason, and embezzle
ments by officers of the Banks of England. *|
A Compliment.—Whilst Judge
addressing the audience, a Jack Ass in then#;
borhood brayed, when Col. Jones requested himt'
to stop and listen to the Harrison men shout.
COMMERCIAL.
Tjatest dates from Liverpoot, \
Latest dates from Havre, J® l *
Philadelphia, August!- |
Coffee —There has been some improvements
the market this week, at about former rates. I®* |
week’s operations comprise a recent import 9
1200 bags Laguira,on terms not reported; 6tK) 0 i
the same description at a lIA cts, cash am. I ,
raos: 400 Rio, at a 11$ fur common to pn® ||
green; 50 Maracaibo, 16, and 100 old Governing ||
Java, deliverable in New York, al 13£ cts, 4 ® o, j I
Cotton. —The market continues quiet, wit-- .
moderate enquiry, chiefly for the liner I
and prices have not varied since our last. , I
sales reach 320 bales, and include Upland, at |
Ilj cts; New Orleans, 9a 1 witb'eoiuedam 3 - ||
at Florida, 11, and Mobile at 10 cts h*, ;
and on lime. . I
Provision*. —Bacon.—Hams continue in
request, and sales, to a moderate extent, ha'
made, at 9 a 10 cts. for inferior to prime, an "
prime covered at a 12 cts. per lb. sl
Shoulders are dull; small sales have been
7 a S for the former, and 6 a 7 cts. for
Lard—ls slow of sale at Hi cts. per lb. f° r
Flour. —The demand for Superfine o ' jr a !i
been limited; but owing to the light
limited receipts, prices have been steady, 3t t |
for fresh ground Pennsylvania, at which ra.' • a
bbls have been sold; 700 bb!s. old stock = ' , j
$5 per bbl. Western is steady at $5
ground. leS in I
Whiskey —Supp’ies come in slowly. 0 . n ,i M
bbls at 24 (S> 25 cts, chiefly
22£, and to-day holders ask 23 cts.
Baltimnbe, 1
Coffee. —At auction on Wednesday, j
Rio were offered, and 3800 bags sold, 3 \ tl t j
ranging from a life. Aboutsoo bag* J |
also been sold by private contract. ;3 .- J
show no variation in prices from recent
tior.s. • _ . fair 1
Cotton. —We note the sale of 55 bales -
Uplands at cents.
Flour. —Howard street Flour, —Both the j
and stock of Howard-street Flour cont i, r j l i ar tsd e
but sufficient!}- large for the demand. 1 1
has been exceedingly dull throughout j,jVf
and sales of good common brands from_sU . >
been generally made at $5 12| (0 $3