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CHRONICLE AND SF: nTINEL.
AUGUSTA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEP' EMBER 30.
WILLIAM HENRY IIAiRISOX,
Tjie invincible Hero of Tippecao. — the incor
ruptible Statesman —the inflexibP Republican —
the patriotic Faimer of Ohio.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT
.1 011 N TV'LE):,
Os Virginia;
State Rights Republican of the : hool of *9S—
one of Virginia’s noblest sons, a. emphatically
one of America’s most sagacious virtuous and
patriot statesmen. \
FOR EJ ECTORS or PRESIDENT AND Vi E-PRESIDENT,
GEORGE R. GILMER, of 0| eth rp«.
DUNCAN L. CLINCH, of Ca den.
JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of M iscogoe.
JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hanc ;k.
CHARLES DOUGHERTI, oltClark.
BEATON GRANT LAND, of ialdv/ir.
ANDREW MILLER, of CassJ
WILLIAM EZZARD, of Der|lb.
C. B. STRONG, of Bibb. I
JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Suite.
E. WIMBERLY, of Twiggs. I
FOR CONGRESS, w-
W ILL IAM C. DAWSON, of Ireene.
R. W. HABERSHAM, of Hatrsham.
JULIES C. ALFORD, of Trcfp.
EUGENIUS A. NISBET, of libb.
LOTT WARREN, of Sumter
THOMAS BUTLER KING, t Glynn.
ROGER L. GAMBLE, of Jell rson.
JAMES A. MERIWETHER, of Putnam.
THOMAS F. FOSTER, of M scogee.
FOR SENATOR,
ANDREW J. MILL! I,
FOR REPRESr-KTATIVI ,
CHARLES J. JENKINS.
GEORGE W, CRAWFOJ D,
WILLIAM J. RHODES.
CC/'No mail northof Charlestoi last night.
Second Ward Aleeti ig t
The meeting at the Eagle and Phoenix Hotel
takes place to-night, when the fiiei Is of Harrison,
Tyler and Reform are expected wo be at their
posts. j
Handsome Tickets.
We have noticed with much pltisure the beau
tiful style in which some tickets f d| the approach
ing election have been gotten upi The ticket is
surmounted with a beautiful and <|||iaste miniature
engiaving on steel of Gen. Harri rn, and is said
to be a fine likeness. They are for sale at the
bookstoie of Mr. Stoy.
From the Charleston Conrier c yesterday.
In advance of the 1 iil.
The Northern Mail yesterday failed beyond
Weldon, N. C., but through the ohte attention
of a friend who came through by ie Chesapeake
and Portsmouth route, we havtj been tavored
witn the New York Commercial Advertiser of
Friday, and Baltimore papers of aturday, from
which we have copied some few paragraphs.—
They wiii be found below.
We are informed that the Be ton Courier, a
W'hig paper of Thursday's daU was seen by
the gentleman alluded to, contain ig a s.atemi nt
that the admmihtra ion candidate for Governor
had a plurality of 60 odd voles, knit the scatter
ing votes were, it is believed, silficienl in num
ber to preclude any election —alnajoiity of the
v holt voles is necessary to elcctii candidate.
Ni, w York, ‘September 25.
From Vi.ua Crcz.—'Fhe fc rque Eugenia,
Capt. James Fis'oe, arrived at th port this mom
tog •"'he left Yota Cruz on th 26th August.
We are n. h ..ted to Cspt. Bisccl fur he lollow
ing report.
The government conduct.!, co sisting of about
$300,000 dollars, had left Mexic on the 10th
August, destined for V«ra ( ruz, it which place
money had become exceedingly farce, owing to
recent revolutionary movement of the Federal
party at the capilol.
The revolt ol the sth and 6ih iegimehts on the
15th July, had been compromisil, and settled on
the 27th. The lives of those irnccrned being
guaranteed by the supreme Gova.Ti.ncnt. but the
principal chiefs had received tfc ir passports to
quit the country, and were prep ring to leave.
President Bustamente has asl ;d to be invested
with extraordinary powers, but vhich Congress
had not granted on the 19th At gust. His min
isters had sent in their resignalhi ). but who con
tinued to discharge the functionwoi their respec
tive oflices.
Tranquility prevailed at Tan ;>ico on the 6th
ot August, a revolt ot the troop having been an
ticipated.
The I'exian navy, or a pa; thereof, under
command of Commodore Moc 3, was cruising
otT Vera Cruz on the 241 h Aug st, out not, as
supposed with any hostile into- 1 ion.
Maine Election.—We h' re nothing in ad
dition to what w.i gave ycstcrdi" relative to the
gubernatorial election. The jjVhig papers ap
pear certain that Kent is electid while the Lo
cofoco papers maintain that Falfield is chosen, or
that there is no election by th<f people.
P. S.—A letter from Bangui, received in this
city states that the returns arl at! in, and that
Kent is elected by two hundrel majority.
Congress.—lt is now dciijitely settled, we
believe that the Whigs have eleltcd four members,
viz: Win. P. Fessenden, (iain) ; Benjamain
Randall, George I Ivans, and R'llisha H.J Allen,
(gain.) The Administration iiave elected two
members, viz: Nathan Cliffonl and Alfred Mar
shall. In two districts there flno choice.
Elections were held on Mo day to till vacan
cies in the House of Rcpres ntatives, by those
towns which faded to elect c the 14th. We
have returns from five towns, rhich have elected
three Whig and two Van Bu» n members.
Extort Coukteocs,—Th Louisville Journal
says :—Dr. Duncan, in a late speech at Cleves,
shook his Bowie-knite at obtain Whigs who
were present. —A Whig, by »|ay of retort, shook
a whiskey-bottle at him; a weapon that has often
laid the Doctor low.
Census of Alexandria D. C.—Town of
Alexandria, 8493; County o Alexandria, 15U8.
Total, 9970.
Fi r the Chronicle and Sentinel.
Kendallism in Carolina.
Mr. Edjtcnd Bellinger, Jr., a candidate for the
Legislature in Barnwell District, South Carolina,
in a fate letter to the editor of the Charleston Mer
cury, regarding the Presidential question, thus ex
presses himself: “ I do not worship Mr. Van Bu
ren, but I prefer him to Jff Tappan, Tyler, the
Takiif and Tippf.canoe.”
This association of the infamous Tappan, whose
character as an abolitionist of the blackest dye is
so well established—for whose person it is report
ed that a reward 01 $20,000 was once offered in
the city of New Orleans —who is a theoretical
amalgamatiocist, to the extent of advocating a so
cial abolition of all distinction oetween white and
black, by matrimonial alliances. See. —the associa
tion of this monster in human shape with John
Tyler and William H. Harrison, two Virginia
gentlemen, of unblemished purity of character —
both distinguished for their attachment to the
South, and uncompromising hostility to all fanati
cal interference with Southern institutions—the
one an Anti-Force Bill Nullitier, the other an Anti-
Missouri restrictionist, — is not only grossly insult
ing to the Whig party of the South generally, but
must be felt to be particularly so by those gentle
men in the district of Barnwell, (of whom we un
derstand there are not a few,) who prefer General
Harrison and John Tyler to Martin Van Buren and
Richard M. Johnson as presiding officers of this
government. We are truly astonished that Ken
dallism, which is, we fear, but another name for
Vandalism, should so far have prevailed in Caro
lina as to have betrayed one of the promising sons
of that gallant State into such apililul exhibition ■
of rancorous parly scurrility—so utterly beneath
the dignity and self respect of an enlightened and !
generous mind.
John Tyler, the staunch friend of Carolina in
the gloomy hour of trial and utmost need—when
she stood deserted and frowned upon by nearly :
every State in the Union—when the vindictive
Jackson, eager to wreak his vengeance upon her
rebelious sons, demanded of a subservient Congress |
unlimited control of the purse and the sword, those ,
instruments of destruction, which, with private
aims to gratify and a military reputation to sus- !
tain, would have been wielded by that “ Old Ro
man” with a Sylla-Hke ferocity and vindictiveness
that would have deluged the country with blood,
reduced the fair plains of Carolina to a wilderness
of smoking ruins, and lit up the flames of civil war
from the Sabine to the Potomac ; —John Tyler’ j
who then stood the fast fiiend and unyielding ad
vocate of the rights of Carolina—who ;dared to
oppose, almost “ solitary and a’one,” the formica
ble and over-ruling exactions of the Executive ;
John Tyler, who never was known to vote for a
protective tariff, is now remorselessly hung up, by
a Carolinian, on the gibbet of public execration
between Arthur Tappan on the one side and the
tariff on the other !
And with what show of justice or propriety i s
the high minded General Harrison, who has bat
tled against the enemies of the South not less man
fully than against she enemies of his country, con
demned to this ignominious association ? A man
who, if he lives, is destined to preside over the
American people almost by acclamation—whose
views upon the great questions affecting Southern
interests have already been pronounced satisfac
tory by a majoiity of the citizens of Virginia, j
North Carolina and Louisiana, and who will pro
bably receive more than three-fourths of the votes
of the slave holding States !
We know but little of South Carolina politics—
still less of Mr. Bellinger; but we are much de
ceived in the spirit of the high toned and enlight
ened people of that State, if they are prepared to
approve of such degrauing evidences of party ser
vility as those exhibited in the letter of Mr. Bel
linger.
We have heard it intimated, with how much
truth we cannot say, that Mr. Bellinger was once
an apologist for the tariff and a defender of the
force bill. Can it be that he is influenced in hi®
bitterness towards Mr. Tyler by old paity recol
lections ? Is it not to be feared that in this case,
unless very guarded in his blows, the lash with
which he inflicts his old enemy may light upon
some of his new friends ?
ANTI-FORCE BILL.
From the Savannah Republican.
From Florida.
By the arrival of the lor ester last night from
Black Creek, we received the St. Augustine News,
of the 18th inst. forwarded by our attentive cor
respondent at the latter place. Our Jacksonville
correspondent writes us that the Advocate of that
place was not published last week. We give be
low two or three articles extracted from tiie News,
which is all we observe of interest:
Extract of a letter to the Editor dated,
Fort Jackson, M. F. Sept, 8, 1840.
The Ist Infantry leaves Middle Florida immedi
ately for Tampa Bay, except two Companies, ‘B
and E ’ which proceeded to Fort Gilmer. Ga. Mid
dle Florida will be piotccled by the Volunteers
alone.
Sergeant Hessen, of ‘B.’ company Ist Infantry,
left Fort Jackson on the 2d insl., on Express for
Fort Macomb. On the 4th inst. his horse went in
to Fort Macomb ; a scout was sent
ly, and they found His overcoat a few miles below
Charles* Ferry. Nothing has been heaid of him
since.
On the morning of the sth inst. a soldier of ‘H.’
Company, Ist infrntry,was rescued by some Vol
unteers from two Indians, who were carrying him
off to a hammock near Booth’s, about a mile from
Chailes’ Ferry. The soldier was drunk; the In
dians had no arms, and escaped
A letter from Black Creek states that Lieuten
ant Hanson, 7th infantry, went out iron* Wacahoote ,
and had had a second fight with the Indians. —
The enemy retreated leaving 4 dead on the field.
John Barry a native of Ireland, and lately dis
charged from the U. S. Army, was accidentally
drowned yesterday, near the Powder House. He
has left a wife and two children in Philadelphia.
John J. Abernethy, a painter, formerly of South
Carolina, was accidentally drowned last night, by
falling between the Central wharf and a vessel
alongside.
Practical Van Buremsm in Maine. A
correspondent of the New York Journal of Com
merce concludes a letter from Hallo-well, Me.,
with the following anecdote of elections:
An incident occurred at the town election in
Hallowcll yesterday, which is worthy’of note. A
Locofoco, who has figured in the Brandon Bank
transactions in Mississippi, but who now resides
in this town, came up to the polls with a negro
man, whom he had brought with him from Mis
sissippi, and attempted to gel in his vote for the
Van Buren Governor. He did not pretend that
he had emancipated his slave, but contended that
in this slate he became free by being brought here
by his master. The Selectmen rather hesitated
to admit the vote of the slaves, and the idea of
freemen being voted down by slaves created so
much excitement in the hall that the democrat
master and slave withdrew. In conversation,
the master said ; “Sino is a true democrat—he
will vote just as massa says.” This is said to be
the best definition of Modern democracy extant.
They will vote just as massa pays.
From the St. Jo&ph Times of the I '2th.
More Indian Murders*
It becomes our melancholy duty to record further
sickening details of Indian barbarity. On Thurs
day morning the 10th instant, the house of Mr.
Wyley Jones,on the Econfina in Washington coun
ty about sixty miles north of this place, was at
tacked by a party of Indians, the premises all burnt
and Mrs- Jones and one of her children an iulant,
snot. We have converged with Mr. Jones, who
says that he was returning from one of his fields
about 10 o’clock, in the morning, and when witn
in two hundred yards of the hoase,he beard four
or live rifles fired in his yard, he ran for the house
and on rising the hiil, found the house surrounded
by Indians an 1 eight or ten in the piazza. The In
dians discovered him at ihat moment and pursued
him firing and wnooping at him like devils. Be
ing entirely unarmed, without even a knife, he
fled and escaped in the hammock. Mr. Jones
daughter, a girl about 13 years of age, states that
her mother, a negro woman and four children were
in the house when the Indians were discovered
in the yard. Mrs. Jones caught up the youngest
child and was shot attempting to escape out of the
door, struck by three balls,one passing through the
head of the child in her arms. The daughter above
mertioned took the two children and while the In
dians were ransacking and plundering the. house,
passed unmolested and hid them in tue bushes.—
The little heroiae then returned to the house, in
the midst of the Indians, helped hei mother up, who
was lying in the Forch who assisted her about tluee
hundred yards into the field, when becoming faint
from loss of blood, the little girl left her in seaich
of water. She returned with it, but her mother
after drinking, died in afe w moments. She then
covered her mother and the dead infant with bush
es and carried the remaining children to the near
est neighbor. The Indians destroyed all the fur
nituie, and stole about S3OO the most of which was
in specie and carried off, or burnt the notes and
other papers of Mr. Jones, One singular fact con
nected with this outrage is that the only money
found in the yard was a five dollar bill on a brok
en bank in Wetumpka, Ala. Was it instinct that
enabled the Indians to discriminate between good
money and bad. A few days before this outrage
Mr. John Logarthy, while descending the Chipola
river, in a boat laden wita potatoes, eggs, and
chickens, was killed probably by the same party,
as pieces of tarpawling belonging to the boat were
four dat their camping place about a mile above
Jones’. Mr. L. ftad with him on leavining Marian
na, from 3to 300 dollais. A company of volun
teers started in pursuit of the Indians and tracked
them to the Dead Lakes on the Chipola. Volun
teers are now being raised in this county to con
tinue the pursuit, but we fear that t ie Indians can
not be oveL.aken. Where are the 1300 volunteers
authorised to be raised for the protection of Flori
da ? Are Middle and East Florida alone entitled to
protection ? An offer was made sometime since by
a volunteer Company from lola and its neighbor
hood to be m«slered into its service and to scour
the country along St. Andrews and Apalachicola
swamps,holding Ibemselves equipped and in readi
ness to march at a moment’s warning, but the of
fer was rejected —no arms or provi'ions furnished
the company who were consequently disbanded. —
The inhabitants near St. Andrew’s Bay hare most
ly fled to this place for protection, and those on
the F.conlina have abandoned their homes and for
tified at the house of E. Bobbin, Esq. How long
is this state of uncertainly and alarm to exist '
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
“ Boys do you hear this V 9
“There is a fact, in the history of Gen. Win. IP
Harrison, that of itself should be sufficient of itself
to win our gratitude and respect Most of us are
familiar with the history of tne revolution of 1790.
Hundreds of our country men fled to the United
States as an asylum, from the ruthless persecutions
which were then inflicted upon them. In the city
of Kew York the number became so large, that it
was found necessary to form their relief. It was
called k the “New York Irish Emigrant Society.”
At the ses-ion of Congress, in ISI6-—l7, the Soci
ety petitioned Congress,for a grant of land to their
countrymen, who w'ere then destitute, having lost
all their property in tire rebellion. The question
was debated in Congress, and the petition was re
jected by a majority of twelve voles. Among those
who advocated the measure, and whose name is
recorded among the yeas, stands the name of Wm.
H. Harrison, now a candidate for Piesident. In the
remarks he made on that occasion, he repudiated
the idea that is often entertained, that the influx of
foreign emigration would be dangerous to the lib
erties of this country. He was willing to extend
them a helping hand —to relieve the destitute —and
to contribute our public domain to those wno had
suffered as martyrs in the cause of liberty. This
one act of Gen. Hanrison—performed at a time
when the sincerity of his motives cannot be im
peached —should commend him to the favoiable re
gard of every United States Irishman. At the com
ing election, Ictus prove “ Irishmen never desert
an old friend in time of need.”
Tire Amistad Africans. —At the CircuitConrt,
held at Hartford on the 17th inst., (the case of the
Amistad Africans having been continued fiom the
last term of the Court, to enable the counsel to
agree on a statement of the facts preparatory to an
appeal to the Supreme Court,) a motion was
made by R. S. Baldwin, Esq., to dismiss the
appeal from the District Court, on the ground
tliart it appeared from the record of the District
Court that the allegations in tire libels of Ruiz and
Montez that the Africans were their property',
were not true ; —and that no appeal having been
taken by them from the degree of that Court, the
question of properly was conc.usively settled ;
that the United States had no interest to authoiize
an appeal in their name ; and that it appeared from
the published correspondence between the Spanish
Minister and the Secretary of State, that the Afri
cans w ere not demanded by the Minister “as slaves,
but as Africans,” for trial and puui.-hment in Cuba.
Judge Thompson, however, considered the ap
peal as taken Horn his pro forma decree at the last
term of the Court, though not entered on the re
cord, and that consequently the motion could not
f e enterlaincd in the Circuit Court. He remaiked
that no prejudice to t!ie A ricans could be occa
sioned by the refusal to cnteilain the motion here,
as it could be made in the Supreme Court.
It was stated by Mr. Baldwin that in the case of
Hoimcs, a majority of the Judges of the Supreme
Court had expressed the opinion that in the absence
of a treaty stipulation, no power exists in the Ex
ecutive or any department of tiie Government, to
surrender fugitive criminals to a foreign govern
ment for trial. — N. Y. Jour. Com.
From the Baltimore. Patriot.
Maine and Mmkspeare.
Dr. S. Collins closed his speech last night to the
five thousand assembled near the Lexington Mar
ket, with a quotation from Shakspeare, a copy of
which has been furnished us, at our request. The
only words varied from the reading in the original,
are i» italics.
In Henry VI. Part 11. Act I. the Duchies of An
jou and Maine are stated to have been given to
the King of Sicily, whose daughter Henry had
married. The Earl of Warwick is speaking of this
to the Duke of York. The Duke of York repre
sents Mr. Van Buren, who is said by the English
papers to have desires for royalty, and the propri
ety of substituting Kendall for the Earl of War
! wick is apparent, as the Earl is known in history
as a “King-maker;” and the editor of the Extra
Globe aims at being a President-maker.
Scene. —The east room in the White House.—
Mr. Van Buren sitting alone on a sofa, in deep
thought. Enter Mr. Kendall.
Mr. Kendall, (Earl of Warwick ) President ,
Maine is lost!
Thai Maine, which by main force Old Hickory
won,
And would have kept, so long as breath did last.
[Exit.
The President, (Duke of York.) Soliloquy—
Vermont and Maine are given to the Whigs ;
Old Rip * is lost; the State of New Hampshire
Stands on a tickles point, now they are gone.
Vermont and Maine, both given unto the Whigs !
Cold news for me—for I had hopes of Maine,
Even as I have of rich Missouri’s soii.
* North Carolina, f Tickle is used by old wri
ters for ticklish.
Pretty Good.- —We yesterday saw a man,wear
ing the L. S. uniform, lying on the banquet in a
hoii'ontal position. He had evidently mixed too
much brandy in his ice vvatei to be able to stand
erect.
“ What is he ?” said one.
“ Can’t you see,” said another, “ he is one of the
U. S. army ?”
“ He may belong to the U. S. service,’’ said a
third, “ but he is certainly not one of Van Buren ’s
standing army.” — Picayune.
Look hi this, Freemen !•
Martin Van Buren in the last struggle between
this country and England sided with the British,
and
Opposed the War,
In the Convention which amended the Con
stitution of New York, Van Buren offered and
urged a proposition requiring a Property Qual
ification FOR THE RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE, and
Robbing the poor Man of his vote !
In the great Democratic struggle which elec
ted Madison, Van Buren sustained the Federal
Ticket and openly and bitterly
Opposed James Madison !
In the Presidential contest which brought Gen.
Jackson before the people as the Democratic Can
didate Van Buren.
Opposed Andrew Jackson !
As Minister to England, Van Buren to effect
his own purposes,
Slandered his Country !
As a politician, Van Buren is known to be
treacherous, selfish and corrupt, and boasts of be
ing the
The Father of the spoils System,
By which the public treasure is used to cor
rupt the people and dispoil them of their rights.
He also boasts of being the author of the Sub
treasury Scheme; —a system avowedly got up
for the purpose of
Reducing the wages of the Laborer
to the lowest standard of Despotic Nations in
Europe; a system in its mildest form has proved
itself to be rags for the People and Gold and Sti
ver for the office holders—a system of Aristoc
ratic Plunder by which the poor man is robbed of
his earnings to pamper an idle
Office Holding Nobility.
Van Buren, though he has richly served him
self, never served his country. He has made mil
lions from the people, and now t ides like a
Foreign Prince I
in his carriage and four, with footmen and out
riders. As for his principles, they are everything
and nothing.
He has in his turn sustained and betrayed all
parlies and all principles. His latest expression
of opinion may be found in his recommendation
of a
Standing Army of two hundred thousand.
Van Buren has nothing in common with the
people. He is an intriguer, an aristocrat and a
federalist—corrupt and selfish without genius or
principle.
Ql3 3 §
Mr. Van Boren s Opinion,
As to the Right of Suffrage.
“One word on the main question before the
committee. We have already reached the verge
of universal suffrage. There was but one step
beyond. And are gentlemen prepared to take
that stepl We are cheapening this invaluable
right.”
“ The character of the increased number of
voters would be such as would render their elec
tions rather a curse than a blessing, which
would drive from the polls all sober minded peo
ple.”
As to the election of Justices of the Peace.
“ He had, at every stage of the discussions be
tween the committee been decidedly opposed to
the election of Justices."
OTj* The further this poicer COULD BE
REMOVED FROM THE PEOPLE THE
BETTER.”
6 '5 k & &
The result of the Vermont election is consid
ered by the Abolitionists the greatest triumph
they have yet achieved.— New Era.
The above is considered by good judges the
greatest lie the New Era has yet achieved.’ The
LocoFoco candidate for Lieut. Governor, Mr.
Barber, is and for some lime has been, the Secre
tary of the Vermont Anti-Slavery Society. He
is one of the most prominent Abolitionists in the
Slate. The Loco Foco candidate for Governor,
Mr. Dillingham, is also a member of the Aboli
tion Society, and received the nomination be
cause it was thought that he would be supported
Anti-Slavery men— Bridgeport Standard.
“British Whigs.” —The opponents of Mr*
Van Buren’s administration complain of this ti
tle, which has been given them by a party in pow
er, Senseless as the designation may appear, we
do not see why the opposition should take it so
much to heart. They must be ashamed of their
ancestry, when they arc ashamed of being called
British Whigs. The pilgrim fathers were Bri
tish Whigs. John Milton, John Hampden, Al
gernon Sidney, Henry Vane, John Elliot, Joseph I
Addison, John Locke, Barre, Fox and Sheridan,
the early vindicators of our colonial liberty and
rights, were all British Whigs. Nay, Patrick
Henry, Thomas Jeflorson, John Adams and
George Washington himself, were, before the de
claration of independence, British subjects and
British Whigs.
If the appellation then, is meant to be an invidi
ous one, it is an insult upon the ancestry of nine
tenths of the people of this country. If it is
meant in a complimentary sense, still it is false
and inappropriate, inasmuch as the epithet can
with propriety he given to those only who were
born British subjects and not native Americans.
—N. Y. Signal.
We have been requested by a personal friend
of William Pitt Fessenden Esq, member elect
of Congress from Maine, unequivocally to deny
the statements made in the Standard of Satur
day, and the New Era of yesterday, imputing
abolitionism to that gentleman. He is not now
and has never been an abolitionist; but, on the
contrary, has always declared his opposition to
the principles of that party.
The error arises from the fact that Samuel
Fessenden, Esq. of Maine, is an avowed aboli
tionist.—JV. Y. Eve, Signal.
To shew the utter shameless of the Van Buren
party in ascribing the great Whig triumph in
Vermont to Abolition and Anti -Masonry, it is
only necessary to slate that Mr. Dillingham, the
late candidate of that party lor Governor, is a de
cided Abolitonist, and Mr. Barber, the late can
didate for Lieut. Governor, is one of the prin
cipal officers of the State Abolition Society ; both
were supported on anti-slavery grounds, and
received the votes of the most of the abolitionist
electors; and both were influential members of
the Anti-Masonic party also—Mr. Barber having
edited an Anti-Masonic paper and been appoint
ed Secretary of State during the Anti-Masonic
ascendancy.— Newark Advertiser.
Starting Children in the World.
Many an unwise parent labors hard and fives spar
ingly all his life for the purpose ofleaving enough
to give his children a start in the world, as it is
called. Setting a young man afloat with money
left him by his relatives is like lying bladders un
der the arm of one who cannot swim; ten chan
ces to one he will lose his bladders and go to the
bottom. Teach him to swim, and he will never
need the bladders. Give your child a sound edu
cation, and you have done enough for him. See
too, that his morals are pure, his mind cultivated,
and his whole nature made subservient to the Lws
which govern men, and you have given him what
will be of more value than the wealth of the In
dies. iou have given him a start which no
misfortune can deprive him of. The earlier you
ach him to depend upon his own resources, the
better. ’
True and StssißLE. — Buiwir very
pertinently observes that the newspapers are the
chronicles of civilization, the common reservoir
into which every stream pours its living waters,
and at which every man may come and drink It
is the newspapers that give to liberty its practi
cal life, its constant observation, its prepetual vig
ilance, its unrelaxing activity. The newspaper
informs legislation of public opinion and it in
forms the people of the arts of legislation. And
this is not all. The newspaper teems with the
most practical morality; in its reports of crime
and punishment, you find a daily warning against
a case in a police court, not a sin
gle trial of a wretched outcast or a trembling felon
that does not preach to us the awful lesson how
imprudence leads to error, how error conducts
to guilt, how guilt reaps its bitter fruit of anguish
and degradation. The newspaper is the fami
liar bond that binds together man and man —
no matter what may be the distance of climate
or the difference of race. The fiewspiper is
a law book for the indolent, a sermon for the
ihoughtle-s, a library for the poor. It may stim
ulate the most indifferent; it may instruct the
most profound.
Railroaus iv the United States. —The
Journal of the Franklin Institute contains a de
tailed account of the railroads in a number ot the
States, with the length, costs, &c., from the ta
bles of which the National Gazette gives the fol
lowing : In Pennsylvania, the number of rail
roads are thirty-six, the number of miles opened
five hundred and seventy-six and a halt, the totil
length of road eight hundred and silty miles and
a quarter, and the amount already expended $15,-
C 40.450. In Virginia, the Carolines, Georgia
and Florida, there are twenty-three roads, and
nine hundred and ninety-four nrles opened; to
tal length, sixteen hundred and seventy-five miles
and ahalf. Amount expended, $18,442,000. In
Alabama, Lou : siana, Mississippi, Tennessee and
Kentucky, there are twenty-seven roads, one hun
dred and ninety-five miles in operation; total
length of roads, eleven hundred and forty-eight
nrles and a quarter. Already expended, $9,621,-
000. In Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Illinois,
there arc twenty-nine roads, one hundred and
ninety-six miles in operation; total length of
roads, two thousand eight hundred and twenty
one miles and a half, amount expended, $5,523,-
640.
Ax Affecting Incident. —We saw a letter,
within a few days, written by a young lady who,
not many weeks since, was journey ing from this
place to the West. It narrates a very exciting
occurrence which took place on board the steam
boat in which she was an eyewitness. In passing
down the Mississippi river, our narrator was sum
moned from the cabin by alarming shrieks and
great commotion on deck. On going up, she
found that a young lady had fallen overboard, and
the boat in its progress was fast leaving her be
hind. A gentleman on board immediately divest
ed himself of a part of his clothing, and sprang
into the river He reached the drowning person,
and upheld her in the water until a email boat
came to the rescue of both. The young lady,
thus snatched fre m a eudden death, was the
daughter of an elderly gentleman who was on
board the boat—foreigners, neither of whom could
speak English. On reaching the deck, and re
covering from her fright, she passionately embrac
ed her deliverer and bestowed hiss after hiss upon
him, as the only way she could express her grati
tude and thankfulness ; while the father rushing
from the cabin eagerly proffered roll of
bank bills. These being refused, he ran to his
cabin and returned with a bag of gold, which he
likewise pressed upon his acceptance ; nor could
either father or daughter be made to understand,
or feel satisfied, why the proffered reward would
not be accepted. —Salem Observer.
Curiosity. —A gentleman informed us a few
days since that a short time previous, while in
pursuit of wild turkeys, in Hart county, Ken
tucky, in company with a friend, they discover
ed on the summit of a knoll or elevation, a large
hole that would admit a man’s body without much
difficulty. Curioisly led them to make prepara
tions, and by an ascension, they entered this mys
terious place. At the depth of about sixty feet
they found themselves in a subterraneous cave or
room apparently cut out of solid rock, through
which they passed many feet, and which appear
ed to be sixteen or eighteen feet square. Our in
formant was the first that c.-tered the room, and
he was not a little surprised that the first object
that met his eye was a human skull with all the
teeth entire. Upon further examination it was
found that the whole place was filled with skele
tons of men, women and children.
Under the small aperture through which they
descended, the place was perfectly dry, and the
bones in a state of ervation. An entire
skeleton of the human body was obtained. They
concluded to examine how deep the bones laid,
and penetrated through them in one place be
tween four and seven et, but found them equal
ly plenl'ial as on the top; but there seemed to
rise an offensive effluvia as they approached where
it was a little damp. There was no outlet to the
reom, and a large snake which they found there,
and which appeared to be perfectly docile, passed
round the room several limes while they where
in it. The discovery is a subject for the specula
tion of philosophers, with regard to the period
and circumstances attending this ancient charnel
house.— Central Watchtower.
New Musket for the British Army.— Mr*
Wilkinson, a London manufacturer, has submitt
ed for trial two muskets to the Master General of
the Ordnance, on an entirely new principle.
The following is from an English paper:
“The barrel of this musket is of the same length
and thickness as those used by the soldiers of
the line at present ; the only difference is that the
touch-hole, instead of being placed at the side, is
under the stock, immediately in front of the trig
ger, which is secured from the possibility of dis
charging the musket by accident, even under the
most careless circumstances.—lnstead of flints,
percussion caps are used, and the force necessary
tc ignite them is effected by a steel spring, about
seven inches in length, and so simple that it can
scarcely ever get out of order. Owing to the
locks of the present muskets, the slock is much
weakened by having to cut out a portion for their
reception, and twenty screws are required to fix
the various parts to each other and to the barrel.
By Mr. Wilkinson’s plan, which he has secured
by patent, five screws only are required, and there
is no cutting requisite for the adjusting it to the
stock and bar;el.
“This improvement makes the musket a pound
lighter, and will be of immense advantage not
only to the army, but also to sportsmen and every
person who has occasion to use fire arms, as the
percussion cap being discharged under the stock,
the motion cannot be seen by the eye, which ren
ders it particularly safe for that organ, and se
cures the certainly of a good aim; and this is
greatly assisted by an elevation at the breech of
the barrel, about half an inch in height, formed
like the Roman letter V, and similar to those
used on t.ie large guns of the Ordnance Depart
ment.”
Kj* Miss DUEL will resume her School on the
first Monday in October. sept 2S-3t
(p 3 Mrs. CHAPMAN will resume her School
in Augusta on the Ist Monday in October
se P l 23 d&trwlw
AI GU STIJSK ~E ES ,
A I TORNEY AT LAW ,
- se Pts-ly Madison, Morgan county, Ga.
JOHN R. STANFORD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Clarkesville, Ga.
OBiIU A ii V .
Departed this life: at Windsoi.on the 2*ts
Co!. Paul Fitz-ihmons, aged 40 yea** p. lnst
in early life with an abundant fortune he
use! it to dispense aiound him its b-essinW v*
indeed have possessed suh ample
fewer have applied those means <o generou .* Stlll
usefully to the benefit and happiness of thrift aRd
Eminently enterprising in tae avocation to Jp*'
he was reared, his greatest enjoyment spran- r
success in those agricultural schemes wind, In
vention prompted and his skill and persever* ID '
consummated. Relying on Him who cend^tk* -
sunshine and shower, he was seldom if ' l ‘ e
brought in angry collision with his fellow ma
’Tistrue against so mu h benevolence pers ■
sentmen s can not thrive, as it is equally
after him have followed to the grave the
friendship and warmest gratitude. In the *
and sincerity of those feelings, his friendsf
fer their full and fervent aspirations to p e .
that their friend may arise from his cold and p?' 60 ’
bed pure as the trumpet blast which snail t/'f'
herald of his resurrection. e l “ e
Died, at his residence in Burke county, 0n L
morning of the 271 h instant. Edward ll\ T , u,e
in the 47th year of his age, after a protracted’
ness of thirty-one days, leaving a wife ard '
children, and numerous relatives and friend
mourn their irreparable loss. He tore his to
tions with a most Christian fortitude, Lt;n
fectly resigned to the will ofG'd. Bein'*
few hours before he expired, his feelings re w ! *
to eternity, he answered, “All is clear-” ' Ve
while a brother in the church was at pra’vc/f
shouted, “Glory to God!” Just before he di^*
he called his iriends to him and gave them ,
structions concerning his family, and prai<i R " -S'
Lord, said he would soon be’in Abraham 1 ’f
som; and folding his arms, the spirit toot it
flight from the moital body.
Mr. H. has been an exemplary member oft'-.
Methodist Episcopal church for eleven year? I
part of which time he held the office* of
ard and class-leader, which he filled with honor
to the church and a blessing to the community
In the death of Mr. H. the church has lost one
of her most valuable members, the widow a nio
tector, the orphan a father, and the poor a friend*
His house was a home for the preachers, and his
door was ever open to the needy. It seem* that
in Mr. H. were concent.ated ail the usefulness
of a neighbor and the graces of the Christian-
Our loss is his gam. “ Blcs*ed are the dead who
die in the Lord, for they ie«t from their labors
and their works do follow them.”
W ARD MEETINGS.
Wednesday night, in the SECOND Ward.
Thursday night, in the FOURTH Ward.
Friday night, in the THIRD Ward,
Saturday night, a General Meeting at the City
Hall.
MARINE INTEI.LIGFACE.
Charleston, Sept. 29.
Arrived yesterday—C L brig Perry, Hamilton,
New York; U £ Mail sclir ii ay nc, Griffiths, Ha
vana.
Went to Sea yesterday —Line brig Token, Tan
ner, Boston ; Line brig Randolph, Goldsmith,Phil
adelphia ; schr Brilliant, Giikey, New York; schr
Cordelia, Pendleton, New Y'oik ; schr Henrietta
Parker, Baltimore ; D L schr E P Cohen, Shepherd,
Baltimore.
Savannah, Sept. 28.
Cleared —Br brig Six, Perry, Chatham, Eng.;
brig Clinton, Lyon, New York'
bailed —brig Madison, Stewart, New Y'ork ; brig
Clinton, Lyon, New Y'ork; brig Sterling, Kisley,
New Y'ork ; schr Intrepid, Weeks, St. Johns,P.K.;
schr Faith, Johnson, PL;!aJelohia.
li. H. OVLRBV,
A T TORSE Y AT LA W,
feb 2-5 ertsc-r.. J.vkson co .nly (la.
rj' Miss TRAIN wiA -c ; unie her School at
Summerville cs the Lrst Mod ay iu
aug 12 ts
GAR ONER, n• t i.crly resident surgeon
n the Now Yoik Hospital, and physician atßelle
j vue Hospital, New Yoik, tenders to the public his
professional services.
Ohice in Washington street, between Broad and
Ellis streets Resucuce, United States Hotel,
ap 2
(Tj=> EXCHANGE ON NEW YORK —At sight,
and at one to twenty days sight. For sale ov
nov 23 GARUELLE ir RHINE.
Dr. ( . B. DILL offers his professional ser
vices to the citizens of Augusta and its vicinity.—
He will be found at the Drug Store ol J. L. Houston,
sept 8 " Bn
Dr. J. J. WILSON has removed for the
Summer to the house of James Gardner, Esq., Ist
door below the Academy'. June
Dr. WM. FLINT, member f the Massa
chusetts Medical Society, would inform his frierds
that he has removed his place of residence to the
boarding-house of Mrs. Camfield, at the comer of
Jackson and Broad streets, where he may be found
at all hours during the summer season. His pro
fessional services are respectfully tendered to the
citizens of Augusta. if—June 6
(Uj' NOTICE. —The Rail Road Passenger Tro >n
between Charleston and Hamburg, will leave**
follows:
upward.
Not to leave Charleston before 7 00 a” u.
“ “ Summerville, “ - -8 30
“ “ Georges’, - “ - 10 0
“ “ Branch vKle, “ - 11 00
* “ Blackville, - “ - 100 p. m]
“ “ Aiken, - - “ - 300
Arrive at Hamburg not before - 400
downward.
Not to leave Hamburg before 6 00 a. m.
“ Aiken, - “ - 730
“ Blackville, “ - . 915
“ Midway, “ - - 10 30
“ Branchvill “ - - 11 00
“ “ Georges’, “ - -1145 m.
“ “ Summerville,“ - -1 lop. M -
Arrive at Charleston not before 215
Distance—l3o miles. Fare Through —$10
Speed not over 20 miles an hour. To remain -
minutes each, for breakfast and dinner, and no>
longer than 5 minutes for wood and water at an}
station.
To stop for passengers, when a white fi a
hoisted, at either of the above stations; and als° ‘
Sineaths, Woodstock, Inabinet’s, 41 mile L •;
Rives’, Grahams, Willcston, Windsor, Johnsons
and Marsh’s T. O. ,
Passengers uo will breakfast at Woodstock air
dine at Blackville ; aoivn , will oreaiiiast at Arec
an d dine at Charleston. jnav4^
FASHIONABLE BONNETS.
JUST RECEIVED, .
Ladies fashionable Florence Cotttage Eonne
do do English Tabinet, do.
Misses do do Straw, do.
do do Florence, do.
do do Swiss, do.
White and Colored Palm Hoods,
Ladies Palm Leaf Cottage, do.
French Wreaths and Sprigs.
Together with a variety of new Fall and Vvintf
Goods, to which the attention of the public is ie *
spectfully invited by WM. H. CRANE & 60.
sept 22 2w
\[EW FALL AND WINTER GOODS.— The
lx subscribers aie now receiving and opening
their fall and winter stock of Fancy and j
Dry Goods, among which are many seasonable am
desirable articles, to which the attention ol 1
public is respectfully invited. _
sept 4 W.Vi. H. CRANE & (0 -