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CHROMCLfc AND SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA.
THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10.
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 VICSS-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.
0 ANDREW MILLER, of Cass.
WILLIAM EZZARD, of DeKMb.
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. NISBET, of Bibb.
LOTT WARREN, of Sumter.
THOMAS BUTLER KING, of Glynn.
9 ROGER L. GAMBLE, of Jefferson.
JAMES A. MERIWETHER, of Putnam.
THOMAS F. FOSTER, of Muscogee.
FOR SENATOR,
ANDREW J. MILLER.
FOR REPRESENTATIVES,
CHARLES J. JENKINS,
GEORGE W. CRAWFORD,
WILLIAM J. RHODES.
®@ Lost.
The file of the “State Rights Sentinel” for
1536 has been borrowed from our office by some
person who has omitted to return it. We would
therefore thank the individual who has it in pos
session to send it home. In the event that we are
unable to obtain our own, we should be glad to
purchase or borrow a file for that year, and also o
the one of the Augusta Chronicle.
Vermont Elections.
The returns from this State are from 36 towns,
which Whig candidate 10,003 votes, ma
jority over his Locofoco competitor—a train of 7213
over the vote of last year.
From the remaining Congres-ional district,
(Fletcher’s, Locofoco,) we have not full returns,
but the returns show a gain of 222 votes upon the
last election, when he had only 341 majority.
The majority for Governor is estimated at 9000
votes.
Mr. Forsyth.
Some days since we noticed the anticipated visit
of Mr. Forsyth to Georgia, to reclaim the sinking
fortunes of Loco Focoism, to which theatre he had
been called by the drooping spirits who are now
endeavoring to prop the Administration. In this
dirty work, however, the office-seeking Secretary
has been disappointed, by a painful malady which
overtook him at Fredericksburg, Va., while on his
way to Georgia, and he was compelled to decline
Hie pleasure, but lias taken the occasion to send
his “ loving friends ” a Circular, not “ hoping to
find them in the same state of health,” but warn"
ing them against abolition and its evil consequen
ces. The Secretary, either from the influence of
his bodily malady, or from that mental agony which
a -plate man feels when anticipating defeat, has
perpetrated a very weak and feeble Circular, and
one for which the intelligent portion of his “r alued
friends ” will not feel under many obligations, in
their particular strait. He has not made the slight
est attempt to defend the Administration on a sin
gle charge that has been preferred against it, but
has contented himself with an account of the pro
gress of abolition in Europe, and concludes with
a letter from the Pope of Rome to his brethren in
Spain, in which he denounces siaveiy. Severe as
the Secretary’s “ disorder ” may bo, we opine that
the voice from Gcoigia, and the Union, will pro
duce upon him who loves office so well, a disease,
which will enable him to travel with more facility
Irom Washington, than his recent effort has evinced.
Since the above was in type, we have received
a letter from a gentleman now at the North, con
taining the following extract from his Washington
Correspondent :
“Mr. lorsyth started for Georgia a few days
since—got as far as Fredericksburg, Va—heard
that it was all up with him in Georgia—feigned
sick—returned to Washington, and is now here
more sick at heart, than in body.”
The Ceusus.
From the Savannah Georgian, we copy the fol
lowing details of the Census of Camden county, in
this State, which we believe is the first report we
have seen of any county in the Ntate.
W hile on this subject, we will again recur to the
Census of Richmond county'. It is now some months
since the appointment was made, and but a short
time has to elapse, lefoie a report must be made,
and nothing,that we car- hear, has been done. It is
a nutter in which the whole people of Georgia are
deeply and vitally interested, for it not unfre
quently happens that a State loses a Representative
in Congress fur the want of not a greater num cr
of inhabitants than are now in the county of Rich
mond. And yet, notwithstanding its importance
not only to the pecple of this county but to the
whole State, this work has been neglected, and en
tirely omitted to this time. Are ths people willing
to slumber over their rights in this manner, when
it is so desirable to increase their influence in the
National Councils ?
Illinois.
The Alton Telegraph of a late date says:—
“ How the popular vote stands, still remains un
certain, but the probab lily is, that the majority
on either side will he inconsiderable.”
Jacob F. Mintzikg has been elected Mayor of
Charleston.
A Voice of ’76.—The Newburg, N. A . Ga
zette contains the following eloquent letter from
Bexj-amix Eatox, one of the Life Guards ol
General Washington.
To the descendants of Revolutionary Soldiers :
An old soldier of the Continental Army asks
for the last time to speak to his countrymen.
During the suffering service of the Revolution I
was in sixteen engagements, and was one of the
little band who volunteered under Sullivan to
destroy “the Six Nations of Indians,” I was
one of that small company selected as the Lift
Guard of George Washington —but two of us
are now living. I was at the tough seige of
Yorktovvn, at Valley Forge, Monmouth, and
thirteen oilier hard battles, and saw Cornwallis
surrender to our old General. My service ceased
or.ly with the war. After all this hardship and
suffering, in the street when I go out m my
old age to see the happiness I have helped to
give you, I am pointed at as a British Tory
—yes, a British Tort —I have said nothing
when I have been told so, but have silently
thought that my old General would never have
picked out a Tory to form one of his Life Guard,
nor would a Tory have suffered what I have suf
fered for you. This abuse has been shamefully
heaped upon one of your old soldiers because he
is w'hat he was when the war broke out, and what
Washington told us we must always be when lie
shook hands with us as we all were going home
I was a Whig in the Revolution, have been one
ever since and am one now'. As a Whig I enlis
ted for the whole war, was in favor with the oilier
Whigs of Thomas Jefferson, went with the party
for James Madison, was in favor of the last war,
and to he consistent in my last vole, must give it
for Gen. Harrison. He is a brave man, and was
never known wherever he has been to take a
penny from his neighbor or the Government that
was not fairly his. We have trod over the same
ground fighting for liberty. His father (he w'as
one of the Revolution) signed our Independence
roli, and then we all went out together to fight
for it, and we proved it was true.
It really appears to me that this cannot be the
same government that our old soldiers helped
Washington to put up here. We fought to have
a Government as different from any in Europe as
we could make it.— Well, we done it; and until
laielv things have all gone on smoothly and
Europe was begining to get ashamed of the way
she made slaves of her subjects by making them
work and toil for seven poor cents a day with a
Standing army over them to force them to it.
But our President now tells the people that things
have gone wrong since the Old War, and there
are twenty-three miserable governments in Europe
where the Kings wear crowns, the rich purple,
and the poor people rags, that we must fashion
after them if we want to be happy and prosperous!
We had English law's here once and they were
the best in Europe, but w f e could’nt stand them
and we put them under our feet. Wo used to
work for mere nothing then, and we cannot do
it again. Working for a few cents a day may
I do for slaves, hut not for free men whose liberty
cost more blood than liberty ever cost before;
why, the very first thing that started the old war
was the Standing Army that the King kept quar
tered on us: we told him that we wanted no sol
diers over us in lime of peace, but he refused to
mind us and I saw Lord Cornwallis surrender
up a part of them to honest George Washington.
Our President now proposes to have a standing
force —what for]—Bew'are !
Jefferson never asked for armed men tore-elect
him or elevate his successor. Madison asked
lor them only in the time of the late war, and
warned the people when he left his office to be
careful about keeping soldiers in time of peace.
Our st eels are filled with idle men who were ac
tive laborers once when employment was to be
had. The men of enterpiize who once employ
ed them have been ruined by the government.
And now these honest but unemployed laborers
are told by the government that when they go to
work again they must do it for a few cents a day—
that labor must be as cheap here as it is among
the slaves of Cuba or the slaves of Europe.
Ambition and ignorance on the part of our
Government have shut up our shops and stores,
scuttled our ships, filled our streets with idleness
and bankruptcy and given no encouragement to
the farmer as ho looks at his grain. Are not these
things so] You know they are, and I have no
motive in saying what may be false—l am too
far advanced tor office or any thing else but death
—it will soon be here. My little pension, and I
thank you for it, will soon stop and I go home
with the rest of the Life Guards. There is one
remedy only for the safety of the country I have
served. Put other men to stand at the tiller and
round toe cables, and you will soon be back on
the old Constitutional track. Gen. Harrison is
honest, he never deceived you and he never lost
a battle, and the People wont let him bse this-
Accept my advice and you all have my blessing
—my advice is that all of you become the Life
Guards of the country, and my blessing is that
your old age may have less fears for liberty than
mme - BENJAMIN EATON.
One of the two surviving Life Guards of
George Washington.
Newburgh, N- Y, Aug 28, 1810.
A Tribute.— The delegation from Maury, at
the Great Southwestern Convention, was prece
ded by a large banner bearing a correct and fin
ished likeness of the lamented Hugh L. White
in the act of reading his Letter of Resignation to
the Senate of the United States. To the right
ot the portrait were the following lines :
4or sake of place, I will never cringe to
power. You have instructed me to do those
things winch, entertaining the opinions I do. I
fear I would not he forgiven for, either in this
world or in the next; and practising upon the
creed I have long professed, I hereby tender you
my resignation of the trust confided to me as
one of the Senators of the State of Tennessee to
the Congress of the United States.”
On the reverse of the banner was painted an
urn, sacred to the honored dead.
This touching memento excited universal re
mark, and as the line moved by it, hundreds
of heads were involuntarily uncovered as they
passed. J
The steam ship President, and the Cambridge
packet ship for Liverpool, the St. James for Lon
don, and Utica for Havre, all sailed from N. Y.
on the Ist jnst. for Europe. The President takes
out 56 passengers and a light freight of Flour,
with hut little specie The Utica takes out 100,-
000 Mexican dollars. Four steam packets will
be in from the old world this month : the British
Queen, which sailed from London on the Ist;
the Brittannia, from Liverpool, the 4lh; the
Great Western, from Bristol, on the 12th, and
the Caledonia, from Liverpool, on the 15th.
Trying theji. —W e learn the M hig delega
llon to the Bunker Hill Convention from New
Bedford, will bring them a whale boat, filled and
manned with genuine “Long Tom Coffins.”
aeir Banner will represent Van Buren. Wood
bury. Kendall, Blair, &c. with other blubber, in
a large try-pot, with the motto— “ We have fried
them in office—wt will now try them out of
office. —Boston Mer. Jnir. J
Defence of the administration abandoned.
So untcnably arc the acts of the Administra
tion, that even the most unscrupulous of its par
tizans have given up in despair the task of defence.
They are perfectly sensible that the profligate
waste of public money which nas marked the
whole of Mr. Van Buren’s career, has shocked
and will receive the unqualified condemnation of
the People, and that their only hope ol escape
from a just retribution is by diverting public atten
tion from these enormities to some imputed dere
liction of General Harrisou.
It is with ths view that they rake up exploded
calumnies from all quarters, and deal them out
with new glosses and fresh infusions of malig
nity. But all will not do. The People cannot
be blinded to the facts—
That Mr. Van Buren’s Administration has ex
pended, per annum nineteen times as much as
the Administration of Gen. Washington ;
That it has expended, per annum, seven times
as much as the Administrations ot John Adams
and Thomas Jefferson ;
That it has expended three times as much, per
annum, as those of James Monroe and John Q.
Adams;
That it has expended twice as much, per an
num, as that of Gen. Jackson;
And, worse than all, that it has expended
twice as much, per annum, as that of Mr Mad
ison, notwithstanding the latter was engaged in
a THREE YEARS’ WAR—had ships to build,
a navy to equip, an army to recruit, military to
pay in nearly all the States, and provisions and
munitions of war to transport through the wilder
nesses of the West.
The People will not forget that Mr. Van Bu
ren opposed the re-election of Mr. Madison at the
most critical period of the war, not that, while
thus engaged, the “Democratic General” (as
Ritchie called Harrison) was overcoming innu
merable difficulties on the arena of Hull's dis
grace—was renovating the tarnished honor of the
country —and eventually captured the united
bands of Proctor and Tecumseh.
Now will the People be satisfied with the an
swer of Benton and Woodbury, that the expen
ditures have been extraordinary. It is for the
very reason that they have not only been extraor
dinary. but monstrous, that the freemen of the
country are about to hurl from power the pack of
shameless plunderers, who, vampire-like, have
for years deen exhaustting the nation’s life-blood,
and paralyzing its energies.— Tick. Whig.
Shipwreck and Loss of Life.
The British ship New Grove, Couscns, mas
ter, was lost upon the rocks off the East end of
the island of Jamaica, on the night of August
Ist, having left Port Morant on the morning of
that day. She was driven upon the rocks by a
strong current running to the Eastward. The
captain, crew and one passenger, Mr. Sprouil,
got into a boat, with such provisions, &c. as could
be got together in haste, but as they were shoving
off the sinking ship caught and upset the boat.
Mr. Sprouil was drowned, but the others were
all saved. It was supposed that Mr. Sprouil be
came entangled in the rigging and was thus car
ried down. He had been a wealthy proprietor
in the island, but some years ago removed to
Ireland; he was now on his return, having visi
ted Jamaica to conclude the sale of his estates.
The Jamaica Gazette contends earnestly for
the erection of a light-house on Point Morant and
another on Morant Keys, to the want of wh : ch
the loss of the New Grove is attributed.
From the Savannah Georgian.
St. Marts, August 31, 1840.
Dear Sir;—Annexed you have an abstract
of the sixth census of Camden County ; it has
increased since June, 1830, 1476 inhabitants.
I am truly sorry to inform you that the Indians
have murdered several of them since their names
were placed on the schedule. Mr. Davis’ family
was the first, at the head of the river near the
Okefenoke Swamp, and contained seven; Mr.
Patricks, nine; Mr. Combs six, and from report
seventeen of those have been murdered. There
were twenty-nine families in what is called the
Big Bend of St. Marys River, ft is reported
they have moved to Trader’s Hill, about thirty
miles from where Davis was killed, which I hope
is the case, for their settlements are from three
to eight miles apart.
I remain, with respect,
Y'uur obedient servant,
THUS. H. MILLER,
Assistant to the Marshal of Georgia,
Mr. W. 11. Bulloch, Savannah.
Abstract of the Sixth Census of Camden Coun
ty, for the Ist June , 1840, viz.
White males 1050
While Females 954
2004
Free colored males, 8
Free colored females, 14
22
Slave, males, 1978
Slaves, females, 2071
4049
6075
Centreville contains 59 inhabitants, A including
Jefferson, 68 C the above
St Marys, 913 j number.
Os that number there are 105 white males and
84 white females under 15 years of age in St
Marys.
St. Marys has one Academy and three private
schools, at which there were 128 students, 14 at
public charge.
There were seven private Schools in the coun
ty at which there were 74 sudents.
STATISTICAL REPORT, IN PART.
Mules and Horses, 770; neat cattle 17,072;
sheep 1463 ; swine 7182 ; busliels wheat 68 ; do.
oats 443 ; do. rye 82 ; do. potatoes 45,875 ; lbs.
wool 1659; do, hopps 31; tons hay 138; lbs.
rice 875,440; do. cotton 2,032.745; do. silk co
coons 120; do. sugar 20,450 ; cords wood sold
1133; sides sole and upper leather tanned last
year 1148; products of the dairy $1468; four
steam saw mills, value of lumber sawed $45,000.
Our friend, Dr. Palmer, administers strong
doses in his Whig Republican. Some of his pre •
scriptions are equal to those of the Atlas.—Bos
ton Post.
We hope the doses will operate well, and pro
duce the desired effect. Should they not, wo
would recommend the following:
R. Pil Sub. Treas.
Pil. Bent, mint drop, a. a. one scruple.
Pulv. army Poinsett, 200,000 grains.
Dent. Blood Hounds, 33
Not. Treas. Rag, 4,500,000
Fiat Bolus.
To betaken morning, noon and night,—fast
ing. Eat nothing but sheep's head and pluck,
and as soon as the medicine operates, abstain
trom meat altogether, and the patient will be able
to live for 7d. a day. If this does not effect a
cure, the case must be considered desperate, and
beyond the power of the Med. Fac. to relieve.—
Whig Republican.
The Loco Foco Rooster.—Chapman, the
great Rooster of the Locofoco party, who lives in
Illinois, was lormerly one of the editors of an
Infidel paper, the Boston Investigator. He at
tended the celebration of Tom Paine’s birth day
in that city last summer, and gave the following
loco foco toast —“ Christianity and the Banks—
both an their last legs." — X. V. Times.
From the Macon Messenger.
The following fragment of a Drama, was handed
us a few days since by a young man of a neighbor
ing county, who lives alone on his farm i \ a log
cabin. It would appear that he has some ideas in
his head, that he may have gathered by attending
a political meeting or reading a newspaper, and
we should suppose that he has, withal, some gen
ius in embodying those ideas.
SCENE — Washington. Van Suren's House —Van
Buren discovered sitting in his royal chair of
state, reading aloud in Shakspeare.
“ Gold ! Yellow, glittering, precious gold !
Thus much of this will make black, white; foul,
fair ;
Wrong, right; base, noble; old, young; coward,
valiant ;
Why this
Will buy' your priests and servants from your sides.
This yellow slave
Will knit and break religions; bless the accurs’d ;
Make the foul leprosy ador’d ; place thieves,
And give them title, knee and approbation,
With Senators on the bench.” —
Van ( soliliquizing.J This is the only true phi
losophy
Thit ever yet was uttered by r a man :
1 know of mauy r poor vile wretches now,
Whose minds will change —even like the weather
cock’s.
Unto the point where the strong current runs
Os publi: favors, and the country’s gold —
Enter Walter Squirt.
Walter, give me thy hand:
How is your health ? I’ve had an awiul fear
Your late indispositions would weigh down
Your manly form, and great Herculean mind ;
Yes, Walter, since you voted for my serf.
To write in praise of my supreme command,
There has laid hiddden in my secret heart,
(Provided thou wilt further go with me,)
Great store of good for thy most lusltul soul.
By my great magic wand ! I now invoke
That all the gods may speedily' rc-stoie
Thy loving self, to health and rose-bud cheeks.
Waiter. O! thou, the living shade of JelFer
son !
I thank thee for thy most loving care :
The great perplexities I have in mind,
My Doctor say r s, will surely kill my body.
Could you have only heard gieat Dunk-an tell
About affinities that did exist j
In the corporeal system of mankind,
I think, by the appointing power you hold,
You would appoint him Doctor General,
Os all the empires in the universe.
Van. Come, tell me true,
Is there no medicine in this vast world.
That can heal up thy raging maladies ?
Walter. Thank heaven there is; but ! tis a ;
costly' drug,
Dug from Ihe mines of Chili and Peru ;
And very few physicians in these days,
Can hold enough to cleanse the appetite
Os foul diseased stomachs—such as mine.
Van. Now, by my Cuba dogs in Florida
And the nice waltz f ambled in New York !
I am a better Doctor in your case,
Than even Dunk-an.
Enter Van's Secretary.
Sec. My lord,
I come to tell you I’ve paid off the sum,
That you commanded should be paid unto.
Oil Bea-born-Jcnas —a very' tine, good tare —
For services that he will render you.
Van. Keep silence now. Walter, speak out
your mind,
You need not fear betrayal by this fellow :
And tell me your sad misfortunes, son—
What ! not a w ord !
Your merchandize, I fear, doth make y ou sad.
Walter. Yes, Van,
You then did hit the nail upon the head ;
I must admit that all my' “ filthy lucre,”
Got by hard speech against the orphan world.
Will shortly, like the death-knell of old time,
He wrung like rattling thunder in tiie skies,
Under the sheriff’s hammer in Columbus,
Unless you will extend a helping hand.
Van. Give me ore pledge, one only pledge, and i
say
That thou wilt be my friend ; and promise me,
When y ou return back to your native home.
You’ll deal in clam’rous speeches for my cause,
And like a good man, argue well my acts :
Twist, turn, and cut the ideas of “ Old Tip.”
Like 1 intend to cut my r enemies, (Van saws the
air,;
When others of the self same stamp as you,
Shall give your King two hundred thousand men. —
My Secretary!
Sec. My liege, what is your pleasure !
Van. Go to my iron chest, that’s painted Black,
Cooper[ed] by one es Georgia’s good mechanics,
Whose name heieaflcr, shall be Ca//[eJ] Quitt,
And bring to me a dozen bags or so,
Os Benton’s gods. Exit Secretary.
Now tell me true: will open thy wide mouth,
According to the jewels 1 shall give.
Waller. Yes, by my rotten sockets, will I sire.
But ‘mum’ must be the word with us my liege.
For should the people by some scent find out
What passed between your majesty' and me,
’Twould quite undo us ; I pray y'ou list my tale.
Your Secretary, Sire, will soon return —
And let me tell you 1 am not prepared
To store away the yellow gods I’ll get.
You know, sometimes an outward show does best
To captivate the silly multitude ;
But when it ccmcs to squander their hard rights
The case is different: therefore, great sire,
Concealment must go hand in hand with vice.
I have a cunning device in my head,
Pray let me tell it in a short extract;
On my return from Georgia to this place,
I slop’d at Barnesville, being very feeble,'
And there I purchased such a strong emetic,
(’Twill vacuate the stomach in no time,)
And by this ‘means’ I will be gaunt and empty'.
For to receive your gracious antidote,
And by that ‘means’ I can conceal and hide
My' acts from the observance of the world,
By carrying your golden pills inside :
Enter Dr. Dunk-an.
Here comes the great Physician in good time—
Doctor, will t please you *ake this nauseous drug
And give to me such portions as seems fit
To fit my stomach for a good rouad sum,
Os Benton’s boys?
Dr. I will rny' brother;
For brother I must call you ; I once did think,
We ever should be hateful enemies.
About an Abolition letter that i wrote.
And said hard things about your folks at home ;
They lately like yourself, on finding out,
1 hat I was right, have sent to me a summons
To come down South, to eat their richest meats,
And quaff their „urstmg stores of sparkling wine ;
King Vandeipoel will now embrace you 100.
And Black will make his Cannon rend the air,
Here—by the near guess of my rnemorv.
This is a d.-»so.
(Walter drinks and lies down on Van’s French
bed, and appears quite sick.)
Walter. Soon Doctor, in this longing breast of
mine.
My liege w'ill make a great ‘experiment,’
By putting bis ‘deposiles’ in my ‘chest,’
My ‘Price’—is taken—like the Swartwout, I’ll be
The ‘monster’ walking great Sub-Treasury.
(Walter vomits; in the mean time enter Sec’y
with a spade and bags of coin.)
I feel now Doctor, like my country’s coffers—uh!
Disgorged and empty. W r hat else shall i do?
Van. Down on your knees, that I may with
tnis spade,
T ,.„ . (Walter kneels.)
rill up your well dilated maw with gold.
Here goes—your mouth a little wider—
Is that enough to secure your vote?
Walter. Little mo’.
lan. Doctor, he hardly speaks—think’st it safe
to give another drench?
Dr. Yes, King, a little more;
His vote we must secure ;
Just gage it so it will not kill.
By Pope, my Urge, he’s hard to fill.
Van. Will that suffice?
Walter. M—u—h—u.
Fan. O glorious day! Dunk-an behold the change.
That has been wrought by my great alchymist.
Go and tell Amos of this glorious news,
And te!l my scribes directly Blair it our.
<; c^ u gbt W alter with a silver hook—
. end Pom Haines word to write it in bis‘Book.’
If CIOS ' lhe door ’ 1 wish to take a dram:
H we amt horses, I wish I may be
—\ on make a wrong request—keep dark.
[Curtain falls.
‘‘ln Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, if not
in Louisiana, must of the banking privileges have
been granted by Democratic legislatures.”— Cour
ier loth Aug. 1840.
New Rules of Grammar— By M. V. B.
The following amu<ing inscription copied from
one of the banners at the great Whig Convention
at Spiingficld, Illinois, is the best hit at the practi
ces of the party in power, we have met with for
many a day:
l,t The President is independent of the coun
try, and stands in the governing case absolute.
2d. When an address is made to Congie>s, he
is in the imperative mood, and they in the subnus
3d. Loco Focoism alone qualifies a man for of
fice, and all the office-holders must agree witli the
President in every case.
4th Gold and silver belong to the office-holders
collectively and individually. Treasury rags be
long to the people. , , ,
On the same banner, appeared this novel mle ol
Arithmetic:
To change paper money into metahe. Rule
Subtract the latter from the people, add it to the
Treasure, and divide the amount among the office
holders. __
An intelligent traveller, we suppose a Phila
delpian, who has made the tour of Palestine,
gives the following interesting information, rela
tive to the persecution of the Jews there. Phe
same writer has furnished several entertaining
and well written articles touching his travels, for
the U. S. Gazette, in which paper the article
below appears. Every Christian must respond
to this broad philanthropy, which includes the
rights and well being ot man every where. His
information is peculiarly interesting, as being
gathered on the theatre of occurences, and his
sentiments arc the more to be respected because
they a-e called forth by a personal observation
of the indignities and cruelties practised upon
the Jews :
The Persecution of the Jews at Damas
cus.
Being in the neighborhood of Damascus about
the commencement of the persecution ot the
Jews in that city, I made myself acquainted with
the facts of the case. A greater outiage on hu-
I inanity was never committed. One ot the In
ars of the Latin Convent in that place suddenly
disappeared. He was an inoffensive, kind old
man. who had, all his life, most ot which was
passed in Damascus, being engaged in works ot
i Christian charity, and was respected by men of
! all sects. The Jews, at the time of his disappear-
I ance, were engaged in the performance of some
I religious riles. A cry was immediately raised
I by the Turks, that the Friar had been victimized
in some sacrificial rite by the Jews. The Jews
are oppressed to the last degree in all Musselman
kingdoms, and no where more so, than in Syria
and Palestine. In Smyrna, Constantinople, and
Syria, they daily suffer the most atrocious wrongs;
and though they arc among the industrious ot
the people there, and constitute a body of the
most valuable subjects, they are harrassed and
hunted down like dogs, and treated with a con
tumely that only long and patient suffering could
make endurable. The disappearance of the Fri
ar was immediately siezed by the Turks as an
opportunity of • ung their spleen upon the
poor Jews. If was asserted that the Jews, hav
ing occasion for chrisftan blood, had carried off"
the Friar, and made him a sacrifice.—The Tur
kish authorities, delighted at an opportunity of
extortion and revenge, with little or no ground of
suspicion, set on foot a most horrid persecution.
'The only ground of suspicicion, was the find
ing of a few rags in the Jewish Quarter which
were said to be part of the cowl of the Monk.
Upon examination, however, no identity could
be established between the cowl and the rags.
Upon this, however, a number of Jews were ex
amined, and not divulging any thing, as they
knew nothing, they, with many others, were put
to the most infamous tortures. The ears of one
were cut off', the noses of others: and of one his
right eye was put out, and other cruellies resor
ted to 100 disgusting to record. Terrified at these
enormities, five Jews confessed, who had been
submitted to these tor'uies confessed that they
had murdered the Friar. The European Con
suls interposed, and obtained their release, as it
was evident that the charges against them could
not bo substantiated, and as these confessions
were nothing more than the cries of men for life
in the agonies of torture.
My fellow passenger in the packet from Bey
rout to Alexandria, was the colleague of Mr.
Nicholayson, the Missonary of Jerusalem. He
was a converted Jew, and now a Christian
j missionary to the Jews of Palestine and Syria.
He knew the 'Talmud and ail the holy books of
the Jews; and he told me, what of course I
previously knew, that the presumption of a use
of Chr.stian Mood in Jewish rites, was as repug
nant to their feelings of humanity as absurd. He
had examined minutely the whole affair, and he
was then on his way to lay the mass of testimony
he had collected before Mehemet Aii and the
European Ministers at Alexandria. He men
tioned that a Turkish butcher had frequently been
heard to threaten the life of the Monk, for seme
petty difference he had with him, and yet this
man had never even been questioned. This
gentleman, who thus so generously came forward
as the Christain advocate for the Jews, was Mr.
Peiritz; and I take pleasure in mentioning his
name, even in this distant land, as an advocate of
the persecuted and oppressed. He went to Alex
andria, and there created such an excitement in
this matter that the European Consuls, in a body,
requested of the Pasha an investigation into the
conduct of the authorities at Damascus. In the
highest legislative body in the world—iheßiitish
Parliament—tne voice of Christain statesmen has
been heard exclaiming against this horrid revival
ol the tortures of the Spanish Inquisition.
It is a gratifying reflection to the friends of hu
man! yto witnes the generous indignation tnat
men of all sects feel upon this subject. The
time has now came when, even in the most re
mote corners of the world, and under the most
unlimited and oppressive of despotic govern
ments, the rights ot man be lie of what color or
sect he may, cannot be invaded without exciting
the indignant remonstrances of all Christendom.
I have seen the descendants of Abraham, Isaac,
hnd Jacob gathered from the four quarters of the
world, around the site of the temple of their fore
fathers at Jerusalem ; and never have I witness
ed such an imposing spectacle of patient suffering,
and heroic endurance, for opinion and conscience
sake. Though I could not but wonder at the
tenacity of their prejudices, and their want of en
lightenment on the events which have transpired
in the Christian era, yet I could not but sympa
thize with their sufferings under persecution, and
he reminded that being men, they have the rights
of *nen. ” E.J. M.
Capt. Thomas, of brig Charlotte, arrived at this
port, this morning, from Mstanzas, states that ac
counts had just been received there of the loss of
the -Spanish ship Rosina from Hamburg for
Havana on one of the Keys in the ®!d Bahama
Straits. Cargosaid to be valued at §250.000 and
to be partly insured in Boston. The Nation-,I
has §SOOO on freight; and it is reported there is
§IO,OOO at another ol)\cc.~J3usfon Transcript.
G. W t—A writer in the Norfolk HeralJ who
has Buffered much from tins painful disease, re
commends, Iron, Ins own experience and that of
many others, a source of great relief in the
lowing receipt: luc 10 ‘
i ake Burdock leaves, put boiling water on
Ls“'ov" an'!! 'I ‘ !lern ' he p “ rt «• hot
feavl?„r the
be repeated two' or three
r<,n,ove and sore
or s ick T eU ," Jer ,rea ' raent »*““ cloth shoe
drvcdVn ,ls gatl,ercd lhis season and
p-enir.d t,T '" a "' er < l ui,c aa ' vell in winter,
p.epancf in the same way.
From the Boston Morning Pont.
Police Court.--Return of Mrs. Kj ln ,„
Boston. U,le > to
Constable Clapp, who held the execute
rant, grounded on the inquest upon the
of the death of George F. Kinney, |, v
brought her to this city on Sunday nighY'q/ 1,
was sitpply brought into court to havnth’ e
plaint read to her, and immediately withd C ° m ‘
At the request of her counsel, the
her a carte blanche as to the sly le in w jp
room in prison should lie fitted up f or 1 * ler
sortable accommodation, and. after taki r C ° ni '
with Mr. Adams, she was conducted to S [ l ' nn . ef
cum-cribed quarters in jail. er c ‘ r -
In several papers her personal attractions ’
been emblazoned, as if she were a secondV’T 6
patra, whose fascinating glance was i rn L -f 0 *
to mortal man, and could lure the sex t 0 •
table perdition; but the fact is, Mrs. Kin
simply a d irk-complexioned, decent look//)!/ 18
man, somewhere between the latitudes of I * o '
five and forty. In conversation, she uY'*
easy and intelligent, and the expression nj’
countenance, for the time being, unalleln
amiable, and nothing more. As for the K r ar y
flashing of her eye, we might as well sJiY
striking a light with a piece of India-rubber ° f
her present severely trying predicament hero
versation and demeanor are characterized bvT
most scrupulous propriety. Not a look J,
or accent, betokening bravado or Ul hasi£?
has escaped her on the one hand, nor anv ’
piession of conscience-stricken weakness, or IS
confessing aversion of glance, or. the other hi
rTj*r J ’ sinc ° Mr - Clapp
In relation to the reports about her dangerous
charms, she yesterday related an arnusin-denon!
ment which occurred on her so called S
flight to Concord.
W bile going from Nashua to Concord, in the
-t.igc, two ladies, utter strangers to her, comm.n
in u“ rsa ' ,0n abOU ‘ ““ “ hO “ iJ «
Says one “ Her name is Kinney, and she i s
one of those jiltimr beauties who know how to
attract the men, and lead them where she has a
mind to. When she was a widow, she came m, *
to Lowell, and dashed about till she gotawa
ibe Lev Mr. Freeman from the daughter of the
woman he boarded with, when every body thounllt
he would have married her as a matter of course
as he had hoarded a long time in the family ”
“ Ves,” replied her friend, “ and the strongest
circumstance against her now is, that she rn I
away the very next day after her husband was I
buried.* But I guess that her rig is now up. and I
that is the last husband she will finish.” ft
While in the stage, Mrs. Kinney listened in
silence to this charitable colb quy ; hut upon her
arrival at the hotel in Cone, rd, she invited one
oi her censors into her chamber—(the other had
proceeded on her journey)—and after a link
preparatory conversation, Mrs. Kinney asked lie/
if she had not been talking in the stage about
the poison case. The stranger replied “Ves,"
and Mrs. K. then said she had overheard part of
the conversation, and should like to hear the
whole of it. The garrulous guest complied with
her request, with embellishments, and then, after
a short pause, Mrs. Kinney said to her—“lam
the Mrs. Kinney you have been talking about!”
i he lady was literally dumbfounded by this
discovery, and attempted to apologise to Mrs. I
Kinney as well as she might. Mrs. K., by her
genuine affability of manners, soon however.re
lieved her from her embarrassment, and acquired
her friendly sympathy.
* Mrs. Kinney left Boston eleven days after J
Mr. Kinney’s funeral, and five days after she had
been informed (hat he had died of poison, and I
that she-was suspected of administering it. Mr, |
K. was subject to fits of low spirits, and he irtt
in very embarrassed circumstances.
The following item was picked up near Bo-
Chester and handed to us for publication;
1539 Mi, WoDroF
juliye Ist tu jane WiLsoN debet |
4 to Waten and tenden ire das SOO 75 1
G to digin Sc bffin taters 12 4
7 to needing and beking bred 10 j
9 te mending trowsers 6 I
9 to goin 3 times fur gin 10 |
i_9 to rrd.n ye globe for ye G J
Jl 19 I
The last item in this interesting catalogue, |
strikes us as being a remarkably low charge.— J
Any peison who can afford to be, ‘redin yc gM* 1
for ye’ fur sixpence, must be in ralhcr a ‘ueedin I
condition. By the way, this worthy couple must
have had crackin limes on the night of the memo- a
radio “jmy y e 9th,” over the Globe and gin bottle. ,|
I be price lor mending the. trowsers, is not quite ||
so much as Gov. M arcy charged for mending hh.®
—Richmond Whig.
Galen a Gold.—'The Galena Democrat sayH
—“ We were yesterday shown a lump of \ if- H
gin Gold picked up on the surface of the grouft- ■
in lowa Territory. a short distance from tialfW ■
This is tlie first piece of gold that has been louts ■
in this section of the country, and we have ft I
doubt, when search is fully made, :hat it will b I
found in large quantities.” It is possible it* I
gold may be discovered among the other minerak I
of the north-western region of the United Staid I
but the surest and easiest method of procurig I
it there as well as eslewhcre, wc imagine, I
be to plough for it.
The New York Express says:—“lt isa® 1 11’ 1 I
extraordinary fact, that within the last vveeke 1 ’ I
siderable purchases have been made of rye, to ■ I
shipped to the Mediterranean, supp r . ' I
Kusians in the Black Sea. Last year at this tiiM ■
there we;e large arrivals of rye from Odessa,' 3 »
tho BlacK Sea. So changeable is commerce.
The Wiue Cup.
Shun, shun ye the wine cup,
For madness is there;
’Tis the ruin of all things
That’s gladsome and fair;
’Tis the blight of affection,
The downfall of fame,
And no hope can survive,
The brealh of its shame.
O, shun it when glad ones
In revel are high —•
When the song and the jest
Are bright’ning each eye—
When the tempter is waiting
'To blast with his siniic—
Then heed not his seeming,
’Tis falsehood and guile.
And quaff not the goblet
'To absent ones now —
’Twill tarnish the laurels
That wrqath round their brow;
Far beltci in silence
Their names should remain,
Than their rr em’ries should bear
On their impress that stain.
And banish the wine cup
When woman is near—
’Tis the siioc that ships them
Os all they hold dear —
’Tis the monster that hastens
Their friends to their doom,
And sinrs in his triumph
His songs on their tomb.
Then haste to the rescue —
The banner is seen ;
’Tis as bright as the halo
Os night’s beaming queen.
On, on to tiie battle,
bold hearted and brave ;
And this is the watch-word,
We conquer to save.