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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
A I G U S T A .
SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 23.
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 T i LEII ,
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, j
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 DcKulb.
C. B. STRONG, of Bibb.
JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Burke.
E. WIMBERLY, of Twiggs.
FOR CONGRESS,
WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene.
R. W. HABERSHAM, of Habersham.
JULIUS C. ALFORD, of Troup.
EUGENICS A. NISBKT, of Bibb, j
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 Delegates appointed by the different |
Tippecanoe Clubs in the city, and Captain’s Dis- i
tricts in the county, for the purpose of selecting
candidates for the Legislature, are requested 10 j
meet at the office of the Chronicle and Sentinel, at
4 o’clock p. m., on Monday, the 24th inst. a2O
North Carolina.
It is not a little amusing to hear the Loco Focos
speak of the late election in North Carolina. Oh,
say they, “ this election for Governor is no test.
Did not North Carolina elect a Whig G*. vemor in
lS36,by 4379 votes, and then give her vote to Van
Buren the same year,by 3767 votes majority ? Does !
not that show that the vote for Governor is no test |
of the public feeling on the Presidential election ?” j
This they think puts a quietus on North Carolina. |
Tiiev forget that the vote on the Presidential elec-
JO
tbn ia IS3G was 16,044 less than it was for Gov- ,
erncr. and that 12,093 of those 16,044 were Whigs,
and onlv 3,9 19 Loco Tacos. The recollection of
these facts does not set very well upon them, and
hence a damper is thrown upon their ion J anticipa
tions. These are facts to prove which, we wi!j j
give the state of the vote for Governor and Presi- |
dent.
Dudley, who was the Whig candidate for Gov
ernor, received 34.167 votes, and Spaight 29,7b5,
which gave Dudley 4,379 majority. \an Buren
received 25,839 votes, and Judge White 22,072
votes, which shows a decrease in the vote of 16,044
votes, as stated above.
But “ Old Rip” is now wide awake, her sons
eager for the contest, and they will be found at
the polls in November. None of that indifference
which exhibited itself iu 1836, exists now, and
old North Caiolina will be erect in November.
Later from Europe.
« Arrival of the President.— The new !
steam packet President, Capt. Fayrer, from Liv
erpool, was (says the New York Commercial
Advertiser of the 17th inst ,) telegraphed at 11
o’clock this forenoon, being at the time about 40
miles distant f om the lower station.
Elections.
Wc are again without further authentic news
from the North-Western elections. In a few days
we shall receive complete returns, when we shall
lay them before our readers. In Kentucky, at our
la-A account-, the Whigs were upwards of 17,000
votes ahead, and a prospect of its increase.
The impression is pretty extensively entertain
ed here abouts, that the North Carolina Elections
have given toe Feds their Quietus, Treasury
pap—a-King-cure all, can’t save them.
Mr. Fisher ot N. C.. whose district lias given
3200 Whig majority, and who was elected as a
hig, throughout the last session of Congress i
was one of the most thorough-going adherents of !
the Administration in the House. The signs,
we take it, portend Ins as well as his master’s ,
downfall.
Grand Failure.
The great dinner which has been in contempla
tion for some weeks back, to be given by the Lo
coiocos to that stock-jobbing politician, Edward J.
Black, came off on Thursday last, near the line of
Richmond and Burke counties. And notwith
standing tire great efforts to get together a crowd, |
lo and behold, when the assembled multitude had
collected, it was variously estimated by members '
pf their own partv, at from 100 to 300 persons.
\
Cjj* Lhere will be Divine Service in the Pres
byterian Church to-morrow morning at the usual
hour.
Stop that Ball!
i lie Kiioxt ille (! ennessee) Times contains an
address, signed by one hundred end sixteen citizens
of Blount county, formerly supporters of the Ad
ministration, who declare their intention to
“ Come out from among the foul party
And vote for old Tippecanoe.” r ' *
Gpop.—The Globs, who, just before the elec
tions West, swore point blank on 10,003 for Indi
ana, &c., row say s the result is a mystery that no
man can explain— rather “ a pressure that no hon
roan should regret.”
From the Georgia Journal.
Just as we expected—Gov. Troup.
The Van Buren party, notwithstanding Cov.
Troup’s expressed determination,sometime since,
to lake no part in the present contest tor the
Presidency— and notwithstanding he has said,
in language that could not be misunderstood,
that their party had been in power to “ steal and
plunder were not satisfied ; but as he had ex
pressed himself favorable to the Sub-1 reasury,
they still hoped t> get something from him to
1 aid their sinking cause. They knew that tit
prospect was a bad one—but knowing also tnat
their party was sinking daily, iu carr} ou ,l
the adage “that drowning men catch tu b^ r aw.,
they determined to try him any io\v. ; l^ c
inglv preparations were inade to gi'e a uin t
Sailders'-die, (about 30 miles from the residence
of Gov. T.) on tho 29th ult., and in the forma
tion of the committee of invitation, the only -m e
Rights Van Buren man in the county was ap
i pointed Chairman. In carrying out their design,
| he addressed a letter to Gov. 'Troup, inviting
! him to their dinner. We cannot suppose tor a
moment, that it was expected he would attend
the Chairman, at least, knew Gov. Troup too
well to expect any such thing—but tne hope
was, that in his reply, he might say something
which they might torture into a preference lor
Mr. Van Buren. In this, however, they wore
; most vvofully mistaken. The “old roman”
very politely declined their invitation tells them
that they may have seen in the prints the reso
lution ha had taken to keep aloof from the pre
sent controversy, and that nothing could induce
him to change it —that as they were near enough
to be considered neighbors, he would cheerfully
give them his views—but that he had written so
much to keep Southern men and bouthern prin
ciples united, without having effected any thing
—and that as, on the present occasion, *■ the
part}' to which he professed to belong,’ had left
him standing, as it were, alone in a little Oasis
of the Prairie, he claimed “ the liberty and inde
pendence of reposing and dying there without
further disturbing the tranquility of friends and
foes.” He farther tells them that whenever a
genuine State Rights man is nominated, with
the least prospect of success, he will be in tho
field, as ardent as any one—hut that, until then,
he must be excused from taking any part, as he
1 does not recognize the purity of that moral which
i inculcates a choice of evils, &c. &c. But the let
ter speaks foi itself. Here it is :
Laurens, 15th July, IS4O.
Gentlemen—Thanks for your kind and friend
ly letter received to-day. You will pardon me,
i ray friends, for not complying with your request.
You may have seen in the prints the resolution
i I had taken to keep aloof from the present con
| troversy, and nothing can induce me to change
it. My views you should have most cheerfully,
none being belter entitled than my neighbors,
and you are near enough to be considered and
I treated as such ; but I have written so much in
j the course of my life, for the purpose of keeping
| Southern men and what ought to be Southern
! principles united, without having, to my knovv
{ ledge, made a single convert, and having at last,
as on this piesent occasion, found myself desert
| ed by the Party to which I professed to belong,
and standing as it were alone in a litile Oasis of
the Prairie, I claim the liberty and independence
of reposing and dying there without further dis
turbing, as I have too often done, the tranquillity
of friends and foes, by my political vagaries.
One thing in extenuation of my neutrality—
Whenever a genuine State Rig-Jits man can be
j nominated for the Presidency, with the least
, prospect of success, you will sec me in the field
I as ardent as any of you—until then, excuse me
j if I do not recognize ihe purity of that moral which
1 inculcates the choice between evils—between
what is worst, what is very bad, what is equally
| bad, what is indifferent, what is worth nothing
i —I choose an honest and competent man, who
| is at the same time an honest public man, who
j is no constructionist, but who in pursuing the
letter of the Constitution in practice, whether he
! come from East, West, or South does best pur
j sue the interest of, and make safe the entire
j Southern country. No other public man is fit
I for us—if he is not our friend at the very core,
I amid the perils and dangers which beset us, he
i may as well be our enemy. The civilized world,
| that is to say, the knaves, fanatics and hypocrites
I of the world are against us, and if we ourselves
should, in the last resort, be found against our
selves—why—be it so—you have as much at
stake as I.
Very respectfully, gelleinen,
G. M. TROUP.
To Messrs Skrine and others, Committee,
fcandersville, Ga.
What a commentary is this letter upon the
course of that portion of the State Rights parly
i who have deserted their old friends—have joined
the enemy, and are “now loudest in theiu
denunciations,” of the party to which they
have been attached ! Gov. Troup knows that
the Van Buren party have no principle that they
would not give up in a moment to obtain power;
he knows that w hen they have power and act up
on the principles of their party, they are directly
opposed to State Rights, and a strict construction
of the Constitution ; and he knows too, that
while they profess one thing, they act to the
contrary. Gov. Troup is also aware that the
party that nominated and is now supporting
Gen. Harrison in Georgia, is the only true State
Rights party —that they oppose corruption from
any and all quarters; and that, however they
may differ with him in the policy of supporting
Gen. Harrison, whenever the rights of the State
are infringed, they are and ever will be found at
their post, ready to meet the enemy at the thres
hold, and to battle with them in any shape or
form, in defence of their rights and a strict con
stiuction or the Constitution ;—and knowing
this, he is not disposed to aid in putting them
down, because they differ with him only upon one
principle, which the other party profess to sup
port. i hat portion, who are now supporting
•Mr. Van Buren, know as much too, but how
different their course ! Differing with the party
to which iney proiesscd to belong, “ on the pre
sen, occasion, \iz: toe propriety of giving its
support to Gen. Harrison, instead of pursuing
the course Gov. Troup has taken, and as they
could not go with us, and stand off and letting
us battle U with t..e old and steadfast foes of the
principles of State Rights, they are found in the
enemy s camp, intriguing, and concoctin" plans
to defeat us, and foremost in the pusillanimous
and contemptible work of denouncing the old
State Rights party as Federalists, &c. & c . An d
in doing so, who are they aiding 1 A man who,
they acknowledge, has voted to place free negroes
upon a footing with white men—a man who has
been opposed to the interests of the Southern
slaveholder from the time he entered public life
down to the present day—a man who, in addi
tion to his “uniform support of a protective
. tariff and internal improvement,” his standing
army and corrupt administration of the Govern
meat, has given late and conclusive evidence that
he thinks it right and proper that negroes should
be permitted to testify against white men—
and a man, too, who they have been long con
vinced was one “ having no kindred feeling for
ihe South, or its peculiar institutions. A stran
ger alike to our habits—our feelings and our
interests distinguished for no ordinary public
virtues or public services—unknown as a states
man. ana unconnected with any of the great
| events of our national history, save only when
fraud in the ranks of those who were battling
1 against us— and who if we revert to his politi
cal history, we shall find nothing to approve,
Out every thing to condemn.”
i And to what party have they attached them
ei; * nd to whom ire they giving their aid in
1 * ‘ riu ‘y a e aiding the party who hold
to the abominable doctrine, that to “ the victors
belong the spoils”—that it is right and proper to
use life offices and money of the country to buy
up the people, and to use any means to acquire
’ power, and who use the most dastardly means to
retain it. And to.whom arc they giving aid in
’ this State! To men who believe the Tariti to
be Constitutional —who believe that the Supreme
Court has the right to control a sovereign State
in the exercise of her jurisdiction within her own
’ limits—who believe that Congress has the power
|to sell a State—to a parly who believe that there
’ is no remedy for the encroachments of Federal
. power upon the rights of a sovereign State, but a
; petition to the Congress of the Uunited States,
or an appeal to the Supreme Court, and to a party
whose * /coders* one of these very deserters has
charged with being the “ worshippers at the
footstool if Federal power** who were “ design
ing and corrupt'* “who live by office and the
hope of office ” —and whose “ doctrines' were
the honed farmers but correctly “ informed of
their tendency,” they would reject entirely with
INDIGNATION and ABHORRENCE.”
Thompson Dinner at Danville, \a.
We have received the Danville, (d a.) Re
porter, of the 7th inst. containing a description
of the dinner given to our Representatives in
Congress, at that place, on the 4th inst. It is
stated that the attendance was immense.
Below we give a letter from the Hon. Hugh S.
Legate, in answer to an invitaion to attention on
the occasion.
Charleston, June 24, IS4O.
Gentlemen; —I have just received the invita
tion you have done me the honor to send me, to
a dinner to be given in the town of Danville, to
my friend the Hon. Waddy Thompson on his re
turn from Congress.
I am sorry it will not be in my power to attend.
The importance universally attached in this coun
try, to the course to be taken by Virginia ; n the
momentous controversy now pending before the
people, was shown in the triumph left at the glo
rious results of your last election. Never did
event inspire greater confidence and joy on the
one side, or a more abject, trembling despair on
the other. For some reason or other to me, I
own, utterly inconceivable—the partizans of the
cabal at Washington, had counted with perfect
assurance, upon the support of your venerable
Commonwealth in all tneir monarfhial or oligar
chial schemes. It is true they boast of managing
“ the people,” who they profess to worship, as they
would a child’s puppet, and nothing can be more
contemptuous than their opinion of our intelli
gence and information. tStill it appeared tome
that if they reckoned without their host, they
were doing so in the calculation they built upon
the ignorance and gullibility of Virginia. That
State which posterity w ill admit has done more
than any other to secure to us the blessings of
our Republican system, with its multilarious
checks and balances, its jealousy of power in
whatever hands it may be placed, its division of
it into separate departments, watching and con
troling one another, its State sovereignties break
ing the unity and restraining the encroachments
of the central Government—that State which
was proverbial for its political metaphysics and
would it was known, cavil about the 9lh part of
a hair, where the principles of the Constitution
were but supposed to be involved—was now reck
oned the most servile, unscrupulous and unblush
ing of all the minions of a despotic Executive
and his secret council or “ Inquisition of Slate,”
facetiously called “ the party.” You who when
every thing about you was fast asleep in the pro
foundest security, kept watch and ward over tno
Federal Government, and sounded a note of a
larm at every deviation, however slight, from its
strict constitutional course, until your jealousy
became a matter of jokeheie in South-Carolina,
among reprobate wits since the most zealous of
i converts, were expected not only to acquiesce in
i what you, one and all declared a glaring and dan
! gerous abuse of Federal power, but to do all you
■ could to render its Executive Department ab
• solute. The measure was admitted to be (as all
his measures will be at this rate) “ anti-republi
can,'* yet you wcie to follow “ the man” through
thick and thin. He was only one of .sixteen
millions of people professing equality and in the
majority at least of whom it was no presumptuous
confidence to profess equality with him, yet he
was so indispensable to them, that he was to be
humoured at whatever sacrifice of principle of
our Constitution. He was by such a policy
(for it was iL ant i-Rcpub. lean**') changing the
spirit and character of the Government, yet he
must be indulged in his forwardness, for his
services were invaluable—those services, which
so far as I have been able to discover, con
sist in putting forth once a year, on a holiday
ceremony of mere parade and profession, a pom
pous declaration of abstract maxims, every one
of which is meant to be violated, and is notorious
ly' violated with or without his consent, at every
session of Congress, in bills passed with a view
to conciliate the jarring interests of his hetero
geneous supporters.
You will permit me, gentlemen, to say, that
the recent triumph ol the good old cause in Vir
ginia, was particularly agreeable to me, interested
as I am in seeing your late distinguished Sena
tor vindicated in a manner worthy of him, and
oi you, from the calumnies of his enemies, and
vicioiiously upheld by a noble people against tire
mort unprovoked, the most unjust and honest
hostility that an honest man ever brought upon
himself by doing bis duty. Virginia could not
have abandoned him without stultifying and dis-
I gracing herself. You know and every° body ad
mits that in maintaining his own deliberate and
proclaimed opinions, he was representing yours.
He iiad been encouraged, incited, instructed bv
y ou. almost unanimous voice to oppose, as a most
dangerous innovation, the measures which the
Executive chose to make a test of fidelity to his
person; yet because it pleased his majesty, to
make war upon him for doing so, you whose
convictions he shared and whose orders he obey
ed, were to denounce him as a traitor, for not
throwing down the arms he bore in your defence
and begging for quarters as soon as be was at
tacked. I his is the plain state of the case. His
crime is that he was more in earnest and had a
higher sense of what was due to his dignity as a
man and a Senator, than some of the loudest of
his backers, who, it seems, never from the first
meant to engoge themselves in the contest, how
ever important they affected to think it, so deep
ly as to cut ori ad retreat. As soon, thereafter
as it was evident that Mr. Van Buren, treating
their hollow protestations, and sham opposition
with the cool contempt which he then knew and
we all now see they deserved, was bent on having
his way, it became treason to resist him further,
lest he should indeed take serious oftcnce at it and
no longer own them for his liegemen! liis
t/A-ase became from that moment the law of “the
paity, and the most intolerant preachers of con
jurmity to his declared will, are now those self
hty ed organs, and chiefs w'hose opinions he had
u ns pe.eraptonly and contemptuously overruled.
Gentlemen, this infamous subserviency, this
espotism by cabal and intrigue, this worse than
cneuan oligarchy, this mysterious, itresponsi
ble, inquisitorial dictatorship in the da k must be
pu cnvn - t must be put down novj or it
never u.i e, undoubtedly the ineligibility (in
practice) of the President a second tin*3> will be
tOWards SUct * a result,' but that
alone will not effect it. I tell you that the issue
now before the people is bank or no bark, hard
P^ rcunenc y important matters but
in. gmheaut by compar.ion-it is monarchy or
repubhc, a government of law's or a government
of men a limited Constitution or an absolute
Executive In such a contest, indifference is
ticason. Much depends upon you. We all
look to \ trguua for an example and expect to
be cheered by her voice—“ that voice so often
heard in worst extremes, or on the perilous edge
of battle.” Let her but be true to her principles
and worthy of her glorious history. We de
and now hope, to see them live again in the
Administration-of two of her sons. Let her but
will it and it shall b« eo —beyond all doubt.
With respect to my friend, your guest, permit
me to suggest that in addition to many other
claims upon your consideration and thanks, he
has this veiy high and peculiar one. It was his
fortune to meet one of the most formidable of his
adversaries in the field of open controversy be
fore the people—a field in which that adversary
was a volunteer at home. The result as you
know, was a signal victoiy. lie shewed clearly
how important a thing sophistry is in a fair dis
cussion. and that there are no belter judges of
the right than popular assemblies, where they
can be brought to listen, with impartiality to ar
gument. Weowe him. in the name ofour insli
tions, our thanks, for having done so. His re
election, I regard as the greatest tiiumph I have
witnessed (in that kind) of those Dcmoratic
principles, about which of course, most is said by
those who drive a trade of ambition in them, but
of which no man who can either desire or toler
ate dictation or dictatorship of any sort, can have
the remotest conception.
In the name of that real Democracy, of that
Government of equal rights, of free, untrammell
ed opinions, and of true popular supremacy—we
summoned to one more struggle against the au
thors of the most audacious attempt that has ever
been made in any country pretending to be tree,
to master and manage the people by cabal and
intrigue. If that people is as every thing leads
us to hope, at length penetrated with a sense ol
the issue really to be submitted to them at the
approaching election, the clique of usurpers at
Washington with their slavish abettors elsewhere,
will at least in their deaths, render an important
service to the country, by a “negative example
to posterity” too glaring to be forgotten.
I ha*e the honor to bo.
With high consideration, gentlemen,
Your obliged and ob’t. serv’t
HUGH S. LEG ARE.
From the New Orleans Bulletin.
Attempted Revolt nt Tampico.
The Tampico Desingano of the 30th ult., states
that a plot had just been discovered which crea
ted great alarm in the city. It w'as laid by vari
ous Federal leaders, among whom Gisosola was
the most conspicuous, and had for its object, to
raise upon the Central "authorities and capture
Tampico. The Federalists were betrayed by a
Central spy; their plans were frustrated, and ail
their papers seized.—The editor says, that at a
proper time he shall lay before the puolic all the
particulars of the affair—showing forth the horrid
catastrophe which the city has escaped, through
the activity and energy of the local authorities ;
and the result of which would have been the ass
assination of a large number of persons, and no
doubt all the other excesses which accompany
unbridled licentiousness.
The same paper says—“We have received in
formation from an undoubted source on the fron
tier, which confirms our previous accounts, that
Canales had received as.-istance in men and
money from the Texian government, to aid him
in attacking Mexico. It is also ascertained that
he has entered into a treaty to pass over to that
government the sovereign!}' of New Leon,
Coahuila and Tamaulipas. Wc learn this from
a source that admits of no doubt. Canales has
ceased to be Mexican, and is now essaying to
conquer his own country.”
The editor asserts, that there is no rqom to
doubt that the operations of Canales are closely
connected with the troubles throughout the coun
try, especially with the late attempt at Tampico.
From the Georgia Journal.
Mr. Grant land.
A few' weeks ago, a very scurrilous attack was
made by the Editors of the Federal Union, upon
the Hon Seaton Grantland. To-day, we take
pleasure in presenting to our readers, a letter from
that gentleman in reply to the unprincipled at
tack. Our readers will find it below, and wc
feel satisfied that they, with us, will agree, that
the course pursued by Mr. Grantland is the on
ly one left to an individual who when improper
ly assailed, desires to be heard through the press
in reply. Charges against the po itical integrity
of individuals, when totally' unfounded, had bet- I
ter be met, whenever it is thought proper to meet I
them at all, as Mr. Grantland meets them. We
commend his letter to the perusal of our readers,
as well as to the Editors of the Federal Union.
Fo the Editors of the Federal Union :
Sirs ;—My attention has been called loan im
pertinent and scurrilous article, published some
weeks ago in your paper, while Iwasin Alabama,
intimating that the Union party had brought me
up by running me on their ticket for Congress in
1834 ; and that the expectation of being chosen
an Elector, had induced me to espouse the cause
of Gen Harrison.
These insinuations are not only false, but you
must have known them to be so, when you made
them. It cannot but be remembered by many
of my ft lends, that I had taken a decided stand
against Mr. Calhoun’s doctrine of Nullification
long before I was nominated by' the Union par
ty. The circumstances attending that nomina
tion, and my declaration at the time of my accep
tance, that I would make no pledges, but should
act independently, voting for men and measures
according to the dictates of my judgment, are
well known to Dr. tort, who is understood to be
a pioprietor and editor of the Federal Union-
My determination not to vote for Mr. Van Bu
ren under any circumstances, was mentioned to
several'friends more than a year ago. I was
among the first in this country who* advocated
the election of Gen. Harrison, and before it was I
know'n that he would find favor with a lame por
tion of the people.
M hether the article in question was written by
nm who claimed for Congress the power to sell
a -Mate, or by his man Friday, I neither know
nor care. Its assertions arc basely false.
. S. GRANTLAND.
August 8, 1840.
From the Pew Orleans Picayune.
From Texas.
The stcampackct Columbia, Capt. Windlc,
arrived yesterday, bringing us dates from Hous
ton, only, to the Bth inst. Nothing very impor
tant is contained in the papers.
The Houston Morning Star says,—“According
to the Austin Sentinel, a detachment of the
Federalists have marched upon Laredo, w hich is
in posseasion of the Central forces. It is expect
ed that they will take the town with ease, and be
reaoy to join the mam body in an attack upon
Matamoras. ~
The San Antonio was struck - with lightnin
about the dawn of the day after leaving the Pass
waicn shattered her main top gallant mast to
pieces, and did considerable injury in her main
mast. She parted company with the squadron
on Wednesday the 21st ult., about 180 miles
South and 30 miles East of the Pass, and took
despatches irom the Commodore to the Govern
ment.
Tbeßouston Times oflheslh inst. says
ViV;;; ; i;ln arrm 'his morning from
•!, S„Tp,T “ at Cana ' cs anJ arc
. Kin I atrtcio Ins force is said to be 900 men, of
wmcl. number 300 are Americans, all well armed
AmeTS o 0r ;“" le; 400 and 80
I Tla r fn bnut 10 da ? s since for the nciMi-
Sl;' ,he «ronde to attack a party "of
P r° ‘° ■» dancing to
has
There was a battle lately fought on Rio Frio,
between the Camanche and Lipan Indians, in
which the latter it is said killed thirteen, took
seven or eight prisoners and sent them to Bexar.
Every thing is quiet at the city ot Austin.
The health of Ex-President Houston is pro
nounced to be good T here had been a repor
that he was very ill.
The body of a man named Silas Ferguson was
lately found murdered on the road leading from
Houston to Montgomery.
The old Democrats lor Harrison*
The following extract of a letter from the lion.
Erastus Root to Mr. J. Whiting, will show on
which side the old Jeffersonian Democaats are
now to be found. Os the twelve individuals now
living who as electors and members of the Legis
lature, voted for Mr. Jefferson foi President in
1800, eleven now support Harrison and one \ an
Buren:
Delhi, August 1, 1840.
Dkau Sin, — I have received yours of the 28th,
in which you request to be informed the names
of the electors now alive who voted for Jefferson
in 1800, in this Stale, and Senators and represen
tatives now alive who voted for them. Then this
State had twelve electors, and chosen by the
Legislature.—Three of them still survive, to wit.
James Burt of Orange, Pierre Van Cortlandt of
Westchester, and John Woodworth, then of
Rensselear, now of ' Ibany. Iwo ot the Sena
tors still survive to wit, Ambrose Spencer, then
of Columbia, afterwards of Albany, now of
Wayne, and James W. Wilkin of Orange. Se
ven of the members of Assembly still survive, to
wit, Nicoll Floyd of Suffolk, Samuel G. Verbryck
of Rockland, Peter Townsend, then of Orange
now of New York,‘Smith Thompson, then of
Dutchess, now Justice of the Supreme Court of
U. S., Erastus Root of Delaware, Aichibald Mc-
Intyre, then of Montgomery now of Albany, and
James Merrill of Saratoga ; of the twelve survi
vors, all are for Harrison except Mr. Merrill. He
is a very aged man, and has I understand, very
little of mental vigor remaining to him.
I have the honor to lie with great respect,
Your obedient servant,
ERASTUS ROOT.
The subjoined statement of the legal requisites
for the naturalization of foreigners, will he read
with interest. The subject is commanding consid
erable attention at this lime, in consequence of the
elections now going on and soon to take place:
.Legal Requisites lor Naturalization of
Foreigners.
Editor of the Cincinnati Republican: —
Sin —As frequent applications are made to me
for information relative to the legal requisites for
the admission of aliens or foreigners to citizenship
in the United States, and as I find a strong dispo
sition in the public mind, (in consequence of the
excitement occasioned by' the approaching elec
tions, j to be accurately informed on this subject, I
have thought that it would be valuable to foreign
ers, and satisfactory to the public generally, to
have published in your paper, a plain and brief
statement of what the Naturalization Laws, now
in force, absolutely require. As there have been
ten statutes passed by Congress upon this subject,
some of which alter and amend, or repeal the
whole or parts of others, I And a very general un
certainty or doubt existing as to what the require
ments for citizenship now really are. 1 have,
therefore, carefully examined the law, and here
with furnish you with ai lain and condensed state
ment of its indispensable provisions:
Ist. Either of the Circuit or District Courts of
the United States, or any Court of record in any of
the States or Territories, having common law ju
risdiction, a seal, and cleik or prothouotory, (add
no others) can naturalize foreigners, and give cer
tificates of citizenship.
2d. To enable a person, 21 years of age or up
wards, to become naturalized, (who imigrated to
this coun ry since the 18th of June, 1812,)he must
make a declaration to some one of the Courts above
mentioned, (or its clerk) of his intention to be
come a citizen of the United States; and su<di dec
laration must be made two years at before he
applies for admission, or can be admitted, to citizen
ship. fie must also have raided at least./ice years
within the jurisdiction of the United States, imme
diately preceding his application for admission, and
the last year of his residence must be in the State
or Territory where he manes application. During
these five years, he must at no time have been with
out the jurisdiction of the United States.
od. Any free white alien minor, who shall have
resided within the jurisdiction of the United States,
for three years next preceding his arriving at the
of twenty-one years, and who shall have con
tinued his residence therein to the time of his ap
plication for (i izenship, may, after he shall have
arrived at twenty one years cf age, and after he
shall have resided live years within the jurisdic
tion of tne United States,including the three years
of his minor!)y, be admitted a citizen without hav
ing made any previous declaration of intention to
become a citizen; provided he shall declare on oath,
and satisfactorily prove to the Court, at the time of
his application for admission, that it had been, for
three years next preceding his application, his bona
fide intention to become a citizen.
4th. Any free white alien who resided within
the jurisdiction of tire United States,between 14th
April, 180.2, (or any previous time) and the 18th
June, 1812, and hassii.ee continued to reside there
in, may be admitted to citizenship, without having
made any previous declaration of intention to be
come a citizen; provided he satisfactorily proves
that he had so resided, and the places where ho had
resided; and also that he proves, by citizens cf the
Lnited States, that he had actually resided for the
five years immediately preceding his application,
wuliiu the jmisdicti n of the United States.
sth. The children of persons duly naturalized,
being under the age of t.venty-one years at the*
time their parents were so naturalized shad, if
dwelling in the United States, be considered as
citizens of the United States; and the children of
persons who are now, or have been such citizens,
shall, though born out of the limits or jurisdiction
of the United States, be considered citizens, But
the right of citizenship shad not descend toper
suns whose fathers have never resided within the
United States.
Gth. Any alien, who shall have legally declared 1
lus intention to become a citizen, (according to the
first section of the act cf April 14th, 18U2.) and
shall have died before lie was actually natuial
ized, the widow and child)on of such alien shall
be considered as citizens of the United States
and shall be entitled to all the rights and privile
ges of such, upon taking the oaths prescribed bv
law.
7th. No alien, except he be both free and white
c..n be admitted to citizenship. Nor can anv al
ien be admitted until he prove a good moral char
acter; that he is attached to the principles of the
Constitution of tire United dates, and wed dis
posed to the good order and happiness of the
s.irne; and takes the oaths that he forever re
nounces allegiance to all foreign powers or poten
by C la\ t 0 Sl ‘ PPolt the Constitut:on > ect., as prescribed
Sth. All the proceedings in relation to the ob
taining naturalization must be faithfullv and fuPv
recorded by the Clerk of the Court where they oc
cur. J
9th. Forging, counterfeiting, or fraudulently
procuring any certilicate of citizen-hip or naturali
zation papers, or falsely or f audulently usin* hose
belonging to, or intended for, another person is
punishable by imprisonment in tiie penitentiary
not less than three nor more than five years
by line not less than five hundred nor more tirn
one thousand dollars, at the discretion of the Court
d ucse are all the necessary and important r ■-*
quueinents of the law now in force, relative to the
naturalization o; foreigners. I have not detailed
he provisions of the statutes in the order in which
they were passed, because there have been so ma
n> alt tations and amendments, and so much re
pealing, that to do so, would render the Inex
plicable and confused to most readi-c ' t
aimed to exhibit it so plain tw ti * have
mind can rapidly LdcrV£?d t U - COn ?, nnonest
tempt. I shall have cohtrit nth f; 10 th - ,s
tho-e who may wish (o hll 1d any Bervice , for
frauds at* the* 1 Lap
P-d for the hVvftiu-n.
Cincinnati * JAMES F. CONOVER.
Cincinnati, August 3,1840.
Bovs do YOU HEAR that?—The Detroit Fj- C *
Press, a leading Van Buren paper, thus charii-t GIJ
zes the Pioneers in the West:
“ Log cabins ! what arc they ? Rendezvousf
the depraved (trrf dissolute —nurseries if dr uni
ness. idleness and dishonesty. Yes sir the
AVENUES AND VESTIBULES OF HELL.” * 7
From the Scioto Gazette.
Asserting their Rights—“.Straight-out,*,
“And still they come
What crowds of honest hearls!”
The daily conversions from error to truth- f
the rank and tiie of the patent democracy of^i* 8
present day, to the substantial and genu hi a
cracy of the illustrious Jefferson, and his co-a o°'
tors, which arc occurring throughout the
and breadth of our land, are unparalleled j n ih
history of the world. The deceived andViu
supporters of the -rotten administration of
Van Buren are crowding by hundreds and tL
sands— ‘‘ JU *
“A multitude! like which the populous nortl '
Poured never from her frozen loins'’—
into the suppoit of the gallant old farmer ot Xortv
Bend. This is no fancy piece purposely w ro JIJ
up to deceive the public mind. It is all real s*a
incontrovertible truth; and alt tiie pensioned
es and hireling oral ,rs of the land cannot premi
it. They may dip their pens in the poison ot asm
and they may belch out their bombast and fury— d
is entirely in vain. “The destruction of the
ministration waiteth not, and its damnation y
gereth not.” ‘ a *
The farmers and mechanics—the bone and sinew
of the c Min try, begin to see, nay, more! to feelthi
the government of our glorious Union is subjected
to the power and caprice of a childish crew otAcl
Ash and mercenary demagogues, whose sole p Ur I
pose is to roll in wealth, and luxury and splendor
at the expense of the sweat and toil of the poor
but industrious laborer. They feel already that lh
fruits of a life of excessive struggle are to be
wrested from them by the merciless grasp 0 f h f
man harpies. And to such a system they are re
solved no longer to bow their necks. They hay*
risen in their might, and in October next— ’ 1
“Fly swifter louml, ye wheels of time
And bring the promised day,”
they will expel every recreant knave of the Godis
and Vandals from the Capitol, Nor have they sim
ply determined for themselves, they have, in some
instances, like Hamilcar, brought their sons to the
altar, and made them swear eternal enmity against
their countiy’s foes.
“Following in thk Footsteps.” — The Ar
gus of yesterday says, “the Democrat Green
Mountain Boys assembles at Bennington on the
1 sth instant,” &c. Some years rince Mr. Van
Buren declared that “our sufferings, owing to the
rescality of deputy postmasters, is intolerable,and
cries aloud lor relief.” He lias corrupted the
grammar as weii ns the government of the country
—Albany Advertiser.
One Term.— Mr. Jefferson in a letter to John
Adams of the 13th November, 1787, «aid,“ I wish
at the end of four years, they had made him, (the
President,) ineligible a second timed ’
Martin Fan Buren claiming to be a Jefferson
democrat, asks the people to elect him a second
term .
The People will carry out Mr. Jefferson’s wish, I
and make Van Buren ineligible a second time— ]
(Jin. Gazette.
Ancient Funerals.—lt was a custom in France,
during its early and barbarous ages, that whenever
a monarch died, his horse and page weie killed
and buried with their muster, that they might be
in ready attendance on him in the next world. In
the year 1653, the tomb of Childeric, the father of
Clovis, was discovered, and within it were found
the skeleton of a man, that of a horse, and port of
the skeleton of a youth, concluded tu be ihe re
mains of Childeric and Ids companions. On fur
ther search in the tomb were found a puise con
taining above an hundred pieces o; gold and two
hundred pieces of silver, bearing the" heads of dif
ferent emperors of France. A crystal ball or orb
a pike, a Lattlo-axc, the handle, mounting, and 1
blade of a sword ; gold tablets and style; the bit
and part of a harness of a horse ; fragments of a j
dress or robe ; and more than three hundred little j
bees of tho purest gold, their wings being inlaid
with a red stone like cornelian. ( i lie appropria
tion of this emblem was hence suggested to Nupo-
Icon.) A gold signet ring was taken from the lin
ger ot the larger skeleton ; upon it appeared an en
graved. having long hair flowing over the shoul
ders, and around it the words, “ Childerici
several buckles, massy gold bracelets, anJ a gol
den head of an ox, supposed to be an image of the
idolatrous worship of the deceased.
The splendour with which it was the custom lo
encircle the mortal remains cf majesty, during the
oaili ages in France, is remarkable. The empe
ror C hariernagne was interred superbly, adorned 1
with all the insignia of royalty. He died »14, A.
D. Ihe body, alter being embalmed, was wrapped
in a shirt ot hair cloth, over which was placed bis I
imperial roles ot state, and upon his head a chain
of nne gold, in the form of a diadem. The corpse i
thus ati lied, was deposited in a vault of the church
o Notre Dame d’Aix laChapelle: the body vr.s
placed in an uptight sitting posture, upon a throne j
ot pure gold. Mis sword Joycusc (for svvonls sc- j
cording to the singular custom of the times, were j
named,; wat girded to his side, and his head ros
fixed in a raised position, as if looking towards I
heaven, in one hand he bore a golden ball, the
o:her was placed upon a book of the four Evangel
ists, which he held upon hi. knees. His shield
and golden sceptre were hung upon the wall, fa
cing the body.
Abundance of rich treasure, and a great quantity
ot aromatic perfumes weic also ‘-placed within tiie
j vault, and tiie whole was closed uu with great so
lidity , °
There is a volume of instruction in the following
incident which is mentioned m the Northern Jour
nal: —
i he way our subscription list is reduced, by the
euorts ol a certain class, can’t bobcat. The only
, instance in which they have succeeded, came tu
| our knowledge on Monday morning. A lad en-
I tered oui office, with a good-humored smile upen
his iace, wishes you to stop hi*
paper.” \\ e set the boy down a loco-foco in wi’fl
iature, and answered, “very well,il shall be done ’
“But,” said the urchin, il molher wants you to send
1*- her, and she will pay you.” We shall send
the Journal most certainly, well knowing tha! it
will reach as staunch a Whig, and as good a sub
scription, as stands on our Looks; and if that toy
grows up a locofoco, we are nistaken!
M A UIN E 1 INTELLIGENCE.
Charleston, August 21. .
Arrived yesterday —U L bug Lawrence, Cobh, j
New York; line brigs Aldrich. Cope, Philadelphia;
Leu Sumter, Hobbs, Baltimore; sclu Ajax, Coopeu
New \ork.
&AI Quarantine —Solus Magnet, Kelly,’.Boston;
Delight, Tluane, Havana.
Cleared —U L brig Moses, Loveland, New York;
sclus \ irginia Antoinette,Place, New Orleans; P* 1 *
nck Henry, Kcrwan, Baltimore.
(JCF Tae subscriber will resume the practice ol i
LAW , and attend to any business entrusted to him,
in the counties of Richmond, Burke and Columbia.
au g n lw \VM. T. GUILD.
(Hz’ Miss TRAIN will resume her School at
Summerville on the first Monday in November,
aug 12 if
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Attached to this office is open to subscribers, and
strangers introduced by them, every day and c' e *
uing (Sunday evenings excepted) until 9 o’clock* M
Subscription $.5 ; fur a Arm of two or more $' j ■
ROBERT Y. HARRIS,
Attorney at Law ,
Augusta, Ga.,
Has removed his office to the Law Range, I
door over the Post Office. He will practice in t,ie j
diffeient Court* of Richmond county, and in the I
perior Courts of Burke, Columbia, Warren and m
Hancock. j u ]y 2S__ff_ I
C ) Haring the remaining Summer and I jB
mouths, I will be in my office on Mondays, Toes- ■
days and Wednesdays; "on other days at Eclair; ana ■
will ha happy to serve those who miy honor me ■
with their confidence, [jy 23] W. W. HOLD
