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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. AUGUSTA. SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 8. FOR PRESIDENT, WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, Os Oh io ; The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe—the incor ruptible Statesman —the inflexible Republican— the patriotic Farmer of Ohio. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT, - i JOHN TYLER,i Os Virginia ; A State Rights Republican of the school of ’9S— 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 Burk-. E. WIMBERLY, of Twiggs. 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 Jefferson. 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- c quest the Delegates appointed in each district in the * county, and those appointed for the city, to make ” arrangements so as to meet at Fenn’s Bridge, on s the Ogechee River, on Monday night, the tenth of r August next. s I Editors 1 Correspondence. Athens, Thursday, 6th August, 1840. The deep interest felt by Geoigians generally, n the prosperity of Franklin College induces me to furnish your readers some account of the annual I Commencement, the closing scene of which is about I being enacted this morning. As is usual on such 1 occasions, a large concourse of persons have been brought together, from various parts of the State, t drawn hither by as many and various objects, no c doubt. For you must know, that here are to be j found mingling together, without regard to their I having emanated from the genuine Jog cabin or the 1 palace, all classes, and, occasionally, in the dense mass may be seen, the couUeous candidate for . popular favor, tipping his beaver, as though he re- i garded it a pioud honoi to be permitted to exhibit s his civilities to the sovereignty. But, on this occa- 1 sion, I think there were fewer of this class of visi tors than usual. Os the other classes, and the va- ] rious motives tiiat might be ascribed for their ap pearance on the stage here, it would tax the pa- < tience of your readers quite too much to enter into J, details. I shall therefore be brief: 1 On Sunda}' the Commencement sermon was preached by the Rev. Thomas F. Scott, a graduate of the institution. Os this effort, as it was not heard by me, I can only give you the opinion of j others, “it was very 4 creditable. ” Commencement ( sermons, however, or rather the manner of con- s ducting the ceremonies, are like every thing else 1 in this age of tlie march of intellect,” giving away J to the fashions of the age, which we are so prone ■ to copy from our transatlantic friends, and a plain, s unsophisticated, pious worshipper would he much ] more forcibly reminded of the approach of a cara- ' 'an or ciicus, than that he was making his advent 1 into the sacred temple. < On Monday the Board of Trustees met, and, 1 what is quite icmarkable for them, found a quorum present. On Tuesday, the Junior exhibition came off, and ; the young gentlemen acquitted themselves in a i manner, alike creditable to all parlies. The fol- 1 lowing is the ORDER OF THE DAY. Prayer, by the President. MUSIC. —ORATIONS. 1 Z. L. Nabers, Laurens district, S. C.— I “Truth crushed to the earth shall rise again, '• Ihe etern? years of God are hers.” « Jos. Gibf.rt, Abbeville district,?.C. —Ingenium, I res adversae nudare solent.” Hor. ( music. Jos. Le Conte, Liberty county—Genius and Ap plication. G. A. Mallette, Effingham county—Patriotism. music. J. W. Williams, Henry county—Curiosity. L. J. Glenn, Henry county — Our Press—its < abuse. < music. j H. Newton, Athens—Moral Influence of Au- ( thors. G. R. McCalla, Abbeville district, S. C. —Party i Spirit. MUSIC. Samuel Hall, Crawford county—lnfluence ol| the dead upon the living. T. R. R.Cobb, Athens—The countenance, an index of the mind, MUSIC. Yesterday, Commencement Day, there was quite a large and fashionable audience to witness thd manner in which the graduates performed thei. parts, who were all more or less pleased with tlr display of the young gentlemen. The followin is the progiamme; ORDER OF THE DAY. MUSIC. « Prayer, by the President. A. L. Borders, Harris county, (D. S.) 2d Hon or—Latin Salutatory—“ Moral Courage.” J. W. Greene, Upson county, (P. K. S.) 3d Hon or —Gradual encroachments on the Constitution. William Henry Moseley, Abbeville district, S. C'., (P. K. S.) —Right of expatriation. MUSIC. W. J. Perdue, Greene county, (D. S.) Ist Hon or— “Alma libertas.” M. A. Graham, Talladega county, Ala., (P. K. S.)3d Honor—Chivalry. T. O. P. Vernon, Spartanburg district, S. C. (P. K. S.) —Moral corruption. MUSIC. J. Hubbard Echols, Oglethorpe county, (D. S.) —Mental wealth. W. C. Stevens, Liberty county, (P. K. S.) — Waste of intellect. S. W. Baker, Liberty county, l(P. K. S.) 4th Honor —Mental comfort dependent on moral recti tude. MUSIC. W. Williams, Jr., Athens, (D. S.) Ist Honor — “What is truth?” J. W. Quarteman, Liberty county, (P. K. S.) Ist Honor —State of Georgia—Valedictory. J. Kendall, Upson county, (P. K. S.) Ist Hon or —Valedictory. MUSIC. Degrees Conferred. MUSIC. Address to the Graduates, by the President. MUSIC. Prayer. D. S. and P. K. S. are the initials of the Demos thenian and Phi Kappa Societies. When the declamation of the young gentlemen had concluded, the degree of Bachelor of Arts was conferred on the following members of the class’ ogether with the speakers: Baxter, r Brownlee, Bonner, L. Goueke, Gray, T. Saftbld, Pope, and Winn. After which the President closed the ceremonies of the day, with an address to the graduating class, which was delivered in his usual forcible and im pressive style, abounding generally in sound prac tical views, and, but for his sweeping denunciation of the political press of the country, which was as unjust as illiberal, was a production admirably adapted to the occasion. To-day the scene closes with an address, before the two Societies, bj r the Rev. Bishop England ) who*e high reputation as a ripe scholar has excited no little interest to hear him. That it will be all his mest sanguine friends anticipate, we have no doubt. A word on the great and exciting question of the day, the Presidential question, which, I discover’ pervades all classes in a more exciting degree than was ever known in Georgia. From almost every section of the State, I have had an oppoitunity to obtain information, and the result of ray enquiries fully confirms my former opinions, that Harrison and Tyler will get the vote of Georgia by a hand some majority. The intelligence has equalled my most sanguine expectations, and proves, conclu- | sivcly, that the people are deeply impressed with the necessity of a change of rulers. Yours, &c. From the Wilmington Chronicle of the sth. North Carolina Elections. The following counties voted on Thursday lasi : Hyde, Pitt, Washington, Beaufort, Edgecombe, j Franklin, and Wayne, and Granville on Friday. We have nothing from Hyde or Washington. We hear in general terms from Pitt and Beau fort that both have elected full Whig tickets for the Legislature, and given Morehead,the Whig candidate for Governor, large and increased ma- I jorities. In Granville, the Whigs have gained a Commoner, returning a full Whig Legislative ticket—the Gubernatorial vote not precisely known, but a Whig majority. The vole in Edgecombe stands 11 30 for Saunders (V. B.) tolll for Morehead (VV.) This is the same Whig vote given in this county at the Congres sional election last fall, and a diminution of the V. B. of 262. As compared with the Gubernatorial vote of 1836, it is a Whig gain of 36, and a Van Buren loss of 49. Franklin and Warren have both elected full V. B. Legislative tickets, and given Saunders (V. B.) majorities. Particulars not known. 'These two counties have ever given large V. B. majorities. From the Southern Whig. Seaborn Jones Balanced. Col. Bonner, Sheriff of Muscogee County, and heretofore a warm Union man, has published a circular, in which he declares his intention to support the cause of Harrison and Reform. Our limits will only allow us to extract the closing paragraph. Fellow-citizens, I have already detained you longer than I wished or expected, and in conclu sion would exhort you to throw aside all your prejudice and party feeling—read and think for yourselves—contemplate the wide spread ruin which threatens to desolate our whole country— confidence lost—commerce prostrated—credit ru ined—the currency deranged—the prices of labor and produce reduced to almost nothing—and in a word every interest of society has been most in juriously affected by the unnatural warwdiich the administration has waged against the credit and institutions of the country. I call upon the U nion men of Muscogee, the old Jackson party with whom I have battled time and again in de fence of our principles, to rally around the Re publican standard of the Hero of Tippecanoe and put down the corrupt and corrupting rulers by whose measures the country has been brought to the very verge of ruin. Elect General Harri son and the sun of prosperity may once more arise with healing on his wings, bunging good prices for our labor and produce, with their atten dant blessings. Let the voice of Muscogee be heard in even louder tones than in 1836—when she told a majority of 400 against Van Buren. Your fellow-citizen, SEYMOUR R. BONNER. . Our Prospects. The prospects of the United Opposition to the General Administration, grow brighter and bright er from day to day. Our opponents yield the Empire State, and they yield all when they do that. The Prairie fires burn high and clear in the West, whilst every mountain top in the Old Dominion sends up a beacon light that illumines the horison, far and wide. The shouts of the yeomanry of New England, gathering for the conflict, are echoed back again by the “Hunters of Kentucky” and the Back-Woodsmen of Ten nessee. General Harrison has passed through the probationary ordeal, come out from the trial without even “the smell of fire upon his garments.” It cannot so soon have been forgot ten, with what a yell of fury, hate and defiance the old Patriot was greeted, by the watchdogs of the Administration, when he first made hisappear ance in the field as the antagonist of Mr. Van Buren! How like blood hounds have they pur sued him since. What opprobious epithet have tiiey not hurled at his devoted head—what dis graceful slander has not been engendered to sully his fair name —what envenomed shaft has not been launched hissing with destruction against his honorable deeds! But how harmless have all these missiles fallen at the Old Hero’s feet! How signally have they failed of the designed effect! Indeed he has only been endeared the more to the people, who burn with impatience to avenge the indignities he has received for the) t sakes, atthe polls. He has already triumphed Scandal and calumny have ceased to rouse cot. tempt. Complete success at the ballot boxe?, will only be a confirmation of the victory ahead, won. Courage’and constancy, friends, and tb day is our own!— West. State Journal. Meeting iu Taliaferro County. Tuesday, August 4, 1840. According to previous notice, a meeting of tl ; citizens of Taliaferro County was this day held i i the Court House, for the purpose of appointir ; delegates to the Macon Convention. Gen. Aarc ( W. Grier was called to the Chair, and P. O, Lear appointed Secretary. On Motion, Resolved, That the Chair appoint a committee i t two from each district, for the purpose of nomina ting delegates. The committee having been appointed retire , and nominated the following persons, viz: Aaron W Grier, A Colluugh, John M Anthony, M Brown, Joshua Morgan, J C Echols, Pierce O’Leary, J Fluker, James Moore, B Fluker, Elisha Moore, G Hixon, John Wright, I) C Daniel, John Magruder, W Sagurs, Joseph Brooxe, E Meadows, G Overton, G Griffith, Win B Clemmons, W Lunsford, C C Luckett, H P Bowls, May ward Chandler, W T Fluker, Fleet Fallen, J Bowles T Moore, J Mulligan, Wm Little, S Taylor, W H Carter, W Green, A H Stephens, W Lunsford, Thomas Chaffin, J Davis, R Burch, W II Rhodes, C Blister, J Pollard, John Rodes, S Pollard, sen, W M Harrison, J W Towns, W II Wilds, C Wallace, D S Ander son, Wm Evans, jr. R Edwards, J Evans, L W Shackelford, E Edwar Is, J Woodall, R Ogletrec, J F Mims, D Thompson, Z Adam«, H D Murden, M L Jones, M Murden, A A Smith, C Morris, W Bird, P Berry, Wm A Cunningham, J Mitchell, George Tilly, B Simmons, Stephen Stephens, B Gresham, Samuel Chapman, N Cooper, James Farmer, G C Morris F Scott, R S Mitche , G Kent, G F Mercer, J M Sandford, J B Derricote, Thomas Brister, J B Lenard, R Gunn, A R Taylor, J Gunn, W Colclough, A G Rhodes, J M Harris, J W Harris, J G W Taylor, T Pittman, John Edwards, P Jones, B Edwards, Thomas Holden, T Edwards, S V Luckett, M Stewart, James Allen, Allen Rodes, Wm Gunn,jr- Samuel Alexander, James Ballard, J Jordon, W J Overton, Wm Reed, A E Moore, E Jordin, Samuel Saxon, C H Colclough, James Edge, James Peck, sen. J R Lockett, Singleton Harris, D A Farmer, A N Brister, U Fanner, James Reed, jr. D Ogletree, James Jorden, J R Campbell, Win Brister, T Rodes, Thomas Peck, TC Overton, A R Howell, W ft Watson, S Johnston, W Mattox, J A Lightfoot, T T Towns, B Jones, jr. R Swain, J H Chapman, W B Moore, J W Moore, W Cherry, Wm Johnston, Jacob Johnston, J Vcasy, C Johnston, W C Swain, J Anderson, R Swain, F Billingsbea, Wm R Luckett, I M L Pittman, J R Brooke, D Cohran, Isaac Moore. Resolved, That all our fellow-citizens in this county, who are opposed to the election of Martin Van Buren to the Presidency, be requested to at tend as delegates from this county, as fully as if their names were mentioned. A H. Stephens then addressed the meeting with great force and eloquence, portraying in the most vivid terms, the abuses of the General Government, and defending General Harrison from the foul slan ders cast upon him by his enemies. Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be signed by the Chairman and Secretary,and pub lished in the Refoimer. The meeting then adjourned. AARON W. GRIER, Chairman. Pierce O’Leary, Secretary. And vet they come ! — Messrs. Samuel Terry, Thomas Dehart, James Via,Nathaniel Akers, Pey ton Ross, Baines Carter, Jeremiah Eolcy, Thomas Morrison, Henry Crum, James Jefferson, Edward T. Jefferson, Richard Pilson and Moses Pilson, who had been placed on the locofoco committee ot vigilance for Patrick county, Virginia, have au thorized the withdrawal of their names from that committee. The Whig Convention met at Little Rock on the 13th inst. There were about 800 present. Large numbers were prevented from attending by the impassable condition of the roads. The Arkansas river is still very high, but falling. The application of the hatters of New York City and State for relief from the importation ol foreign fur bodies and silk hats, has it seems, been successful; the bill embodying the protection sought for having passed both houses of Con gress. Toledo (Ohio) Blade.—Andrew Palmer, Esq., has become editor of this paper. He wields a ready pen, and the Blade, under his charge, cannot be otherwise than an efficient ally in the Whig cause. Let it be remembered that three months ago, Mr. Palmer was an active member of Van Buren party, and President of the Toledo Hickory-Jackson-Van Buren club. “Boys, do you hear that ?” The documents to which we refer are subject to as many constructions and misconstructions as the Christian’s Bible/’ —Extra Globe. Read that , fellow-citizens. The documents and speeches here referred to arc General Harri son s letters and speeches explanatory of his poli tical sentiments. Amos Kendall says, that these letters and speeches are as vague, uncertain, and : * unintelligible as the word of God!!! Let a nation s curse follow the hoary headed blasphemer to his grave! —Louisville Journal. Col. O’Fallon’s Address* | ei Mr Fellow Citizens :—I feel deeply sen- 0 sible of the honor you confer upon me, by calling me to address this vast concourse of intelligent a freemen. My pursuits in life have led me to re- r ' tirement ; lam wholly unused to speaking in s public. This fact, although well known to ma- h ny of you, I had reason to believe, would not ex cuse me on the present occasion. Aware that 1 my known acquaintance with the eventful scene* which we have this day assembled to comniemo i rate, is the only reason for this call, I shall, con ( sequently, in responding to it, state something of < what I know in relation to them. It was on the first day of February, 1813, that the army of General Harrison, pitched their tents upon, and adjacent to the ground where 1* ort Meigs was erected, and commenced the construc tion°of a stockade, which was afterwards sur rounded by a ditch and embankments, embiacmg several acres of ground. The snow was deep upon the ground, and the weather extremely cold; and although the troops were raw and greatly un accustomed to such severe exposure, their ardour never abated. L'nder many deprivations, they performed their several duties with zeal and alar city—that zeal and alarcity which spring from the soldiers deep confidence in the tried skill and courage of his commander, and his warm attach ment to his person. Early in April, 1813, the garrison of Fort Meigs numbered about 1,000 ef fective men; two brigades of militia having been discharged in consequence of the termination of their period ofservice. This fact being early as certained by the British general commanding at Malden, an expedition against Fort Meigs was immediately projected. His army of British and Indians was near 4.000 strong, and he gave his Indian allies the most confidential assurances, that he could carry the Fort by storm, should his invitation to Gen. Harrison to surrender with the honors of war, be refused. He had a heavy park of artillery, and this, with imagined weakness of our defences, he fancied would give him a ready and easy conquest of the Fort. And it was even stipulated between the British general and the celebrated Tecumseh, that, should the garrison be taken and General Harrison to remain alive, the American commander was to be delivered to the Indian, who designed to wreak upon him his savage vengeance for the death of his many braves and warriors who fell at the battle ol Tippecanoe. Vain calculation ! Vain, this premediated pur pose of base and barbarous malice! The God of battles was with the brave American General, and he was reserved by a wise and far-seeing Providence, to be, in after times, the proud hope, the high blessings, the bright prospects, the noble deliverer of his country ! Fort Meigs was invested and cannonaded with bomb shells, and red hot balls for seven days, du ring all which time General Harrison was ever at the point of danger, planning and directing the defence, and by his manner, his voice, his sa gacious conduct, and his undaunted courage, in spiring his officers with an abiding con fidence of ultimate victory. Gen. Proctor, was, at length, driven to confess that he was contend ing with a commander whose courage and mili i tary talents were equal to any emergency ; and I despairing of redeeming the pledge he had given ! to his army, to make an easy conquest of the gar rison, and being informed by intercepted commu nication, that Gen. Harrison was in daily expec tation of reinforcements, he determined to effect that by stratagem, which he now despaired of accomplishing by open warfare. He calculated, by a timely and well concerted deception, to de ; coy into an ambuscade, a large detachment ofour garrison—then scarcely sufficient effectually to man the defences. Should he succeed in this, the ready sacrifice of the Fort would inevitably | follow. Suddenly a brisk and sharp firing was I beard in a thick woods near the Fort, through which passed the road to the interior. The alarm strongly represented, as it was designed to do, an Indian engagement. Shortly afterwards, loud wailing and groans were heard, as would natural ly proceed from wounded and dying men. The whole garrison, at once concluded, that an attack was made on our brothers in arms on their way to our relief, and who had the strongest claim to our assistance. Not so, however, with General H arrison. Ho alone was incredulous. Many of his officers waited upon him, and almost demand ed permission to fly to the rescue. For a time the greatest excitement prevailed in the garrison at the idea of the sacrifice of their gallantcomrades; without an attempt to save them. Gen. Harri son’s sagacity caught the design of the enemy in a moment, and it required the exercise of all his s powerful influence and authority to subdue the ; impetuosity of his officers and men, and to con vince them of this cunning device of the enemy, j planned for ‘.heir destruction. About 2 o’clock on the morning of the sth i " May, 1813, two officers came, expresses from General Green Clay, who had passed the Indian lines, under cover of the night, at the most immi nent hazard of their lives. They brought infor mation that General Clay with his brigade of Kentucky militia, was encamped on the river, a few miles above the Fort, to which he would pro- I ceed early that morning. This was most cheer ing intelligence to General Harrison; and with this addition to his force, he determined at once, to commence offensive operations, by attacking the enemy at every assailable point, dislodge them from their position, destroy their batteries, and thus terminate the siege of Fort Meigs. With this view, two officers were immediately despatch ed to General Clay with orders to land about a mile above the Fort, on the opposite side of the river, a detachment of 800 men under one of his most trustworthy officers. To move upon the | British batteries, to carry them, spike the cannon destroy the ammunition with their carriages, and immediately upon the accomplishment of this, to cross the river to the Fort, under cover of our ar tillery. The brave Col. Dudley did, in a most gallant manner, take the British batteries and spiked some pieces of their cannon; but, too confident of his own strength, and ignorant of that of the en emy. to be soon made available, he was induced in violation of his instructions, to occupy the ground taken until the enemy had time to collect their forces in an adjacent wood, into which he was cunningly enticed by a partial firing of a few Indians, where, after a bloody conflict, the largest of his command was taken. Gen. Harrison displayed, in the judgement of all his officers, the highest order of military ta lent during the siege—for his efficient plans of defence, by traverses through and across the en campment, as a cover for his—the manner of protecting his magazine, the object of constant attack as well as for the plan, and direction, and most opportune execution of the grand objects of the two sorties, made by detachments from the garrison of Fort Meigs on the sth of May 1813. The first sortie was directed against that por tion ol the Indians, and Canadian militia, inves ting the south and west end of the Fort, for the purpose of drawing them from the river, whilst Gen. Clay s detachment was effecting the entrance into the Fort, The second sortie commenced its movement just at the moment of the appearance, on the op posite side, of Dudley’s detachment, advancing upon the British batteries, having the double ef fect of engaging the Indians and preventing them from crossing the river to co-operate against Dud ley, and accomplishing the destruction of the en emy s batteries on the south east side of the riv er. On no occasion during the last war, were great er honors acquired than by Gen Harrison; who conceived and directed, and the gallant men who executed his orders m these two brilliant sorties. Jn both engagements our troops, whiht utter ly exposed, advanced upon and repulsed the en -my, sheltered as he was by his position, and mtnumbering our men 4to 1. f , In the last sortie our mm marked as lirm y M veterans, to the mouths of the British cannon receiving unmoved, their constant, hre o grape shot, accompanied by a galling and destructive fire from thousands of Indians and militia on our front and flanks. Although a large number ot men fell and peiished upon the bed of honor, their surviving comrades never paused intheir forwar march, until the batterries. with a large portion of the British regulars in charge of them, were captured, and the whole Indian and militia force was dispersed and routed. Thus ended the memorable siege of Fort Meigs. In conclusion, fellow-citizens, allow me to say that I had the honor of serving under Gen. Har r:son at the battle of Tippecanoe, during the siege of Fort Meigs, and at the battle of the Thames. Ic m say that, from the commencement to the termination to his military services in the last war, I was almost constantly by his side. I was familiar with his conduct as Governor and superintendant of Indian affairs of the Territory of Indiana, and after the return of peace, as Com missioner.to treat with all the hostile Indians ol the last war, in the Northwest for the establish ment of a permanent reconciliation and peace. I saw also much of Gen. Hai risen whilst he wa in the Congress of the United States. Opportunities have thus been afforded me ol knowing him in all the relations of life, as an officer and as a man, and of being enabled to form a pretty correct estimate of his military and civi' services, as well as his qualifications and fitnes for office. I know him to be open and brave 11 his disposition, of active and industrious habits uncompromising in his principles, above allgui ■ and intrigue, and a pure, honest, noble mindec man, with a heart ever overflowing with warn generous sympathies for his fellow man. As a military man, his during, chivalrous courage in spired his men with confidence, and spread dis may and terror to his enemies. In all his plans, he was successful. In all his engagements, he was victorious. He has filled all'he various civi' and military offices committed to him by his coun try, with sound judgement and spotless fidelity. In every situation, he was cautious and prudent, firm and energetic, and his decisions always ju dicous. His acquirements as a scholar are varied and extensive, his principles as a statesman, sound, pure and republican. If chosen President he will he the President of the people, rather than of a parly. The Gov ernment will then be administered for the gener al good and welfare. His election will be the dawn of a new era! The reform of the abuse.-, of a most corrupt, profligate and oppressive govern ment. Then will end the ten years war upon the currency and institutions of the country. The hard money cry and hard times will disappear together. Then will cease further attempts to increase the wages of the office holders, and re duce the wages of the people to the standard o European labor. Then shall we see restored the general prosper ity of the people, by giving them a sound local currency, mixed with a currency of a uniforn value throughout the laud. The revival of com merce, of trade enterprise and general confidence | Then the return of happier more peaceful and more prosperous days, when cheerfulness am’ t plenty will once more, smile around the poi man’s table. From the New York Express. We have heretofore suggested the idea that the Van Burenites, if they should find that they were likely to lose the election of Van Bure >, would, i they could muster up courage enough for the pur pose, resort to Baud, and even force, to avoid suci a result. Some persons considered the bare sug gestion as too extravagant to be entertained for v. moment. There arc two ways in which an un principled and desperate patty may, in the last re sort, attempt to defeat General Hatrison’s e!ei tion, should they find the prospect so dark as fi leave them no ground to hope for the success o their own candidate—one hy some fraudulent act for the suppression or prevention of votes for thei opponent, or by actual pc.sonal violence and fore That these are not nere phantoms of the itnagina tion, we present our readers with an article from the Extra Globe, and of course, from the pen o Amos Kendall, lately Postmaster General of tin United States, and a member of President Vai Bureu’s Cabinet. It is the first and only article we have ever seen from tne Extra Globe, not hav ing hitherto met with a single number of that pub lication. And we call tiie particular attention o 1 our readers to the style and spirit of this extraor dinary publication. It exhibits the ferocity of a bandit, and tne desperation of a corsair. Tak« for example, the following passage. After bavin, informed the “ Democrats” that it would not be come them to celebrate the anniversary of Indepen dence “this year with hilarity and mirth,” bi with “ solemnity and fervor,” and moreover de daring that the danger to liberty is not less now ! than it was in 177 b, addressing himself to the “ Democrats,” he makes use of the following lan guage: “ it is not note that they are called upon to de fend their libeity in fields of blood. Through you own right of suit rage, Democrats of America, tin enemy attacks you, and in that is your presen defence. Vour weapons aie, as yet those o peace, and, by a resolute use of them, the occa sion for a resort to other means of defence may bt for ever averted.” Can any person of the most ordinary discern ment fail to understand the meaning of this r Tin article was published before the 4th of July ; : day on which we usually expect to find feelings o festivity prevalent. If there is any day in the yea in which the virulence of party animosity migh naturally be supposed likely to be laid aside, it i the anniversary of independence. The man who, on such an occasion and for such an object, could use such language and utter such sentiments as these, is farmoie dangerous than tin miscreant who plunders a house at midnight, and to protect himself, sets fire !o lire bin ding anddes troys the family. This is the language, and thes« arc the sentiments of the savage butcheis of Pari duiing the most bloody period of th. ir revolution The language and the sentiments are those of Mu rat and Robespierre, and their tendencies are t lead a desperate party to imbrue their hands in th blood of their opponents. “ Swear on the Fowl. of July,” says the American Robespierre, “ to a vei that catastrophe that is, suffering the opponent ot Van Buren to get possession of the Government its 1\ easury, and its Army —“band together, an prepare to march to the polls, not with arms, o knives, rr clubs, to beat and butcher your fellow citizens, but with hearts firmly resolved by a honest and independent exercise of tire right c suffrage, to avert the possible necessity of march tug hereafter in battle array to put down usui pat ion.” Let it be remembered that the writer of thes daring, desperate, and sanguinary sentiments w; lately one ot President Van Buron’s confidentia counsellors and advisers ; that he was taken from station at the head of one of the Departments t the Government, and put into the office of the Glob* the confidential paper of the Executive; that 1. writes what is published in an extra sheet, and i distributed by thousands and tens of thousands int the hands of the most desperate members of th community, where it is read in secret, and, to great extent, is concealed ftom the public eye, an of course, is left to produce its full effects, unex posed and uncontradicted, upon the minds of thos to whom it is addressed. Has it not become nece sary, indispensably necessary, for the opponents . Van Buren to rouse themselves to new and moj vigorous exertions in defence of their rights, priv. leges, and freedom I From the third number of the Extra Globe. Fourth oi July. “ H becomes Democrats this year to go into th celebration of our great anniversary, not with hi lairty and mirth, but with solemnity' and servo. They should go into it with something of the feel mg whch our fathers did in 1778 and 177 P, whe British hirelings were attempting to quern h tl. flame ot liberty in the best blood of America. Th danger is now less than it was then. The hirt lings, not of the British Throne, but of ‘ that powt behind the Throne greater than the Throne itself, the British Bank, are marching and countermarch ing through our land, exploring and invading even nook and comer where liberty has b , camp, to mislead, debase, and corrupt he eJ hr and induce them to desert her gloria,, * soll hi-i In the Congress of the United States a i st . ID! W led by the people of the Stales to watch* Crtl * ramparts the movements of the enerm an organized band of adherents resolmVl S ’ e fin 'b in seducing the garri on from its ail e .r' V en * a N preparing to throw open the gates to Im^ 00 ’ a °>i approach. The power and privileges vesica • C ° aie Representatives of the people lo° facilit lnti * business and make liberty perpetual ai t ganized and resolute effort, now pei vc-it T ai1 ° r ‘ debasement of the people and the tl)e I all they weie designed to secure. Uctl °u of I “ Let Democrats reflect on these thi n <« igo to celebrate the Fourth of July, jjn * S t,le I P: flection make them serious and thought!’ re ‘ ! them remember the pie Iges of their I'oTefath each other on this sacred day in 1777 ? ~e rs to and ’Bl, when fire and the sword droy’ ihem, and the penalties of treason iveio them Let tuis remembrance inspire the resolution of then fathers, and induced? swear their father’s oath, to livf, frf.f. ,ern, ° It is not now that they are called on ta°a i their liberty in fields of blood. Through v i i right of suffrage, Democrats of America u 0 * 1 Jp j my attacks you, and in that is you prf s ‘ lteile * fence. Your weapons are, as yet, those qT 11 and by a resolute use of them, the occasion*?** l resort to other means of defence may be f ° r a j averted. But should you, by IN ferencc, suffer the enemy to get possession I 1 Government, of its Treasury, and its Arm • W may not be able hereafter to place in Co'^‘ VOu in the Executive Chair, or even in your Staf f'' I gislalures the representatives of vour choi e> . f usurpations attempted at Harrisbuig ma\ b c °*’• where successfully consummated,°and voaf j Government be at once transformed inr.* !r( * usurj ation and of arms. ' “ Swear or, the Fourth of July to avert that cal trophe. Band together, and prepare to mar ,*" the polls, not with arms, or knives, or clubs t beat and butcher your fellow-citizens, b ut 0 hearts firmly resolved, by an honest and inde" dent exercise of the t ight of suffrage, to avnnf j possible necessity of marching hereafter in CVT - array to put down usurpation. TIE j “ Organize democratic associations every uie, * There is no more fitting time for it than the F u 'w , of July. Call upon every Democrat vvhocanf til : to discuss our principles, and challenge the adve-' 1 sary to the discussion. But discussion is not ai* that is necessary. Work in season and oul j season,’ is the motto of the enemy, and by ‘wort’ he must be countcrai ted. By ‘ work ’ 1() . be sent among the people. By ‘work’\ he j must be aroused, the wavering stiengthened, aij , the honest among the adversaries converted. ' finally, by ‘work’ every Democrat in every coviatv • I and town in the country must be brought to poll?. “ Let us organize—organize for ‘ work’ as well 1 as for talk —organize in such away as to pemjc ! every neighborhood, and reach every freeman. *• Let us make the Fourth of July, 1840, memo. , rable in the annals of our country' for the rallyc: i the People to preserve the libeity and indepeaj. - ence which were proclaimed in 177 ti. A decide! I 1 ! rally on that day will stiike terror into the ray. i . of our already' wavering enemy, make the confer j short, and the victory decisive. | Serious and resolute, let every dcmocratc; out to the celebration of the glorious day, foe;, j mined, by' devoting himself anew to his countr. to brighten its glories and make them perpetui — • ‘ Another Slick.-—We understand,says % I Fort Wayne Sentinel, that Col. Spencer of _ s f i place is a defaulter to the amount of from slots * $15,000. Suit is brought for 33,000 wliicii is f i the balance of account against him. 1 ! understand the Marshall to say that the Colonel * had funds on hand and on deposite, which y | * not been passed to his credit, sufficient to reduce s ! the claim to the amount first mentioned, L i p j The following puzzle we find in the Vermont $ Herald it will afford ample employment for tie I ingenious : * A Puzzle.—What has Martin Van Bures * clone either before or since his elevation to the c presidency, to commend him to the intelligent * people of the United Slates, or-to entitle him to * a re-election ? An early answer is desired. j All Thieves at Washington; BEING A FREE PAR APHRASE OF THE ROMAIC SOIL. 11l fl Klepteis pole PargaA , Tune—“ There’s na luck about the home.' ! js \\ hi 1c Benton rules the Senate, ooys, And Dr. Niles the Post, And Frank Blair turns the Kitchen spit, Where Kendall rules the roast: p f With Levi in the Treasury, s And little Van for Chief, O' who would be an honest man? J W ho would not be a thief J r For ah are Thieves at Washington, ' And many Thieves they be, 1 O! the ranting Thieves of Washington, Are just the bovs for me. 5 ’ c ( O! some are Thieves for love of pelf, I And sevne fur love of pleasure, a i And some to keep the People pure, By stealing all their treasure ; < I For Gold’s the bane of Liberty, Philosopher’s agree, * * So let the Palace slaves be rich. The People pure and free. Hence all are Thieves, £kc. Each crime there stalks personified, In cveiy shape and mode ; For Benton’s murder, Van is Fraud, Kendall Ingratitude. Blair’s Gorgon-head is Falsehood’s mask, V H is Pen —her poisoned Lance ; I And beastly' Lust, in greasy Dick, Is Vice, par ext etlence. But all aie Thieves, &c. &c. * £ * Aot having Greek letters, we arc cotnpfb to use Eng ish. 6 < From the Boston Mercantile Adveriser. - * Slander. ( “He who filches from me my good name, j® Takes from me that which not enriches f But makes me poor indeed.” S The freedom of speech was never greater thw ( |at the present time. A man or a woman utter all sorts of stories discreditable to I j neighbor, with impunity. We have laws again j slander, but it is seldom that they are eutdae ’ j i A prosecution for defamation of character is I dom resorted to, excepting on occasions offence has been of the most aggravated th - ■ |p It is thought the wisest course to treat | | tory tales, and the slanderous rumors, they may be the very essence of talsehoodi silent ante nipt. The result of a trial in 3 of justice being uncertain, and all legal i n? , gallon requiring a great sacrifice ot patience, and money. ,a er . But our ancestors managed these thing s [ -y| ently. To “ bear false witness against 3 dj bor,” was regarded as a heinous crime, of severe and disgraceful punishment. - •■ character in olden time was worth s>e m g , To rob him of that, was to deprive h l ® treasure worth more than gold or lane*- We have now before us an account ot t at a Consistory Court, held at the chtirc rj Peters, Tunbridge, England, ot ley, on a charge of being a general dej his female neighbours—he having sau. ■ English, “ There is never a S oo^! 00 ,’^’pv J cpt my wife and three others, in Cm 1 ff ; t , tU ish.” Plenley denied the charge ‘' ut , l^_ a nd N te, nesses testified to the fact under ° at 1 3 was convicted. The sentence of “ iC , c ° j gVi lit that in the morning of the next Lor 5 should be whipped at the head of d ie P r . in his own parisii church, being c ° vcre .^ 3 iiil .t| linen cloth, after the manner of l ic ! llt j wt vtl# holding a wax taper in his hand; an 1 the procession was ended, ho s^oU |. P -qft' knees, declare to bis neighbours, ‘ worse of your wyffs than I do f and therefore } pray you all men forgive my prait/ngf j w th^ Henley very unreasonably 1,1,111