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CHRONICLE ANlj> SENTINEL.
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FRIDAY MORMX;?, OCTOBER 23.
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FOR PRESCIENT,
\\ Ll'. I HUviiN HARRISON,
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T..e invinciMe Hero of Tippecanoe —the incor
ruplible Statesman —the ijiflexible Republican
the patnotic Fanner of Hhk».
TOE. VICE-PR-'JSIDEXT,
JOHN T it LE R ,
Os Virginia t
A State Rights Republican of the school of *93—
one of Virginia’s noblest ions, and emphatically
one of America’s most sagacious, virtuous and
patriot statesmen. i
FOR ELECTORS OF PRESIDED 1 A.XD VICE-PRESIDENT,
GEORGE R. GILMEjI, of Oglethorpe.
DUNCAN L. CLINCH, of Camden.
JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of Muscogee,
JOEL CRAWFORD, bf Hancock.
CHARLES DOUGHERTY, of Clark.
SEATON GRANTLAND, of Baldwin.
ANDREW MILLER, of Cass.
WILLIAM EZZARDj of DeKalb.
C. B. STRONG, of B»jb.
JOHN WHITEHEACh of Burke.
E. WIMBERLY, of fwiggs.
“ Wilson Enraged.
This spoilsman who has*: een attached to all par
ties “by the cohes>vepower of plunder ,” seems to
die rather hard, and in hit: savings to manifest ex
traordinary desperation. . We would advise you
Wilson to screw up your jnouth and lake things
cooly—console yourself wL;h the reflection that we
will fill your place with ft. man who will reflect
some honor on the State,;
From the Southern Whig.
Negro Voter,
We learn that a FRt]K NEGRO went to
the polls in Augusta, and ssitemnted to deposile in
the ballot box an entire V in Buren ticket, which
had been given him by Gen. Glnscock ! Yet
Wilson Lumpkin, when :he heard that the Gen
et al had been defeated, hi ! the audacity to de
clare, “ That there were Northern übolitioriists
enough in Augusta to defeat any one opposed
to them /” Thanks to the patriotism and intel
ligence of the people of Georgia, the man who
would utter such an insinuation against his con
stituents, will soon have leave to stay at home.
Arkansas Election.
The Natchez Courier of the I-sth instant, says
that the reports from Arkansas are very cheer
ing. Private letters give insurances that the whig
candidate for congress and that all the
counties heard from havc‘given large majorities
for the whig ticket.
From the Charleston Courier of yesterday.
ANOTHER FAILURE OF THE MAIL.
Arrival oJ'two Rrilish Steam Ships.
Yesterday the regular Northern Mail was only
from Welden, N. (J. What renders this failure
of the arrival of the Mail especially annoying, is
the fact that information was received by a pas
senger, who came through, via Portsmouth, that
the British Steamer Acadia, arrived at Boston on
Saturday, from Liverpool via Halifax, whence
she left or. the 3d inst., iad that on the follow
ing day (Sunday,) the President, Steamer, also
from Liverpool, arrived at New York
The gentleman giving' this information, was
the only passenger that came through, and was
in possession of a slip, giving details of the news
brought by these vessels, hut unfortunately for
our merchants, he was taken on board the Steam
er Southerner, outside the. Bar, and proceeded to
Savannah, taking the si p with him.
We learn from those who read the news, that
there was little or no change in Colton. The
sales for the last week w ere 30,000 bales; against
about the same amount of imports. The article
was in dull request, and prices looking down.
The business in the manufacturing districts was
also in rather i depressed condition.
'The question of Peace or War was still a sub
ject of excited discussion, and preparations for
the latter alternative were still going on with
much briskness. The Trench and English funds
had declined in consequence.
Beyrout, it is staled had been destroyed by the
Allies. 1
The King of Holland had formally abdicated
his throne in favor of hid son.
'The Princess Augusta, was dead.
The President was }|i days from Liverpool
to New \ ork, while the licadia made her run to
Boston in 12 days and 17 hours.
A Sub-Treasurer going back to Paper
Moxet.—The Boston A Idas states that the collec
tor of that port has giver, notice that the govern
ment dues will hereafter be received in bank
notes, and not one quarter in specie, as hereto
fore. It appears that much trouble has been ex
perienced in counting the specie and ascertaining
its value, and therefore Mr Bancroft determined
to go back to the old convenient system. His
right to abrogate the lawj may well be question
ed, but what a commentary on the pretence
about a specie currency ! The People under
stand it. > i
From Florida.
Correspondence of the Savannah Republican.
PiTatka, (Fa.) Oct. 17.
Gen. Armistead has suspended active opera
tions for the present, in or an agree
ment between him and |he Semino.e Chief, to
hold a "talk” on the 20th instant at which time
the chief says he is willing to make a treaty of
peace, which lie says djall not lie “ spoiled ” as
the other treaties have bben. No one here has
any conridence in him dr his treaties; yet you
know Heaven is alwaiy.* better to us than our
tears, and some good me‘v grow out of it.
J.L —
Fatal Dt el. A young man of the name of
Spohx, an inolTensive and worthy Creole, whom
we thoroughly knew, siome six or eight years
since, in the Argus ofti. e, (to which office ho
was in some manner attached,) wa s killed in a
duel on the Bayou roaij yesterday. His adver
sary, we are informed, was a Frenchman—they
fought with rifles, at sh;ty paces, and at the first
fire, the ball entered Sp. . n’s oreast. He has left
a widowed mother and yfoter to regret his untime
ly demise. — Louisiana Advertiser of the 17 fh.
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i’l c Corporal appears lu be terribly shocked 1
at the idea of the Whigs of Baltimore importing
votes from Philadelphia to aid them in carrying
their municipal election, ft was entirely unm
cessary for him to have travelled so far to hunt
up a dark affair, as it strikes us very forcibly
he might have found a darker one in his own
city, and that, too, by his own party, or at least
c*ee of the leaders of it. However, for his
especial edification, we copy the following ac
count of the affair from the Philadelphia North
American :
"The administration papers of the city arc
telling a story of a letter said to have been re- :
reived by Mr. George Riston from Jeffers, depu
ty high constable of Baltimore, desiring Mr. R. I
to procure five hundred men to be sent to Haiti- j
more, to vo'e at the corning election of Mayor.— !
It seems that a letter of ibis purport was put into {
Mr. Riston's hands by some impudent fellow, a ;
■' few days since, and subsequently taken away j
j from his house in a stealthy manner, and then j
I brought out before the Van Buien party leaders i
! as a*• startling developcrnent.” A great noise
i has been made, of course, respecting this letter, j
for the sake of throwing upon the Whig party
the imputation of a design to perpetrate an ex
tensive fraud. This is like stea'ing. and then
raising the cry of stop thief—a poor cloak for the
foauds which have been perpetrated at the late
election in favor of equal rights. We are in
formed that Willis H. Blaney has been placed
under bonds at the suit of Mr. Riston, to answer
for his connection with this affair, and that mes
sengers have been despatched to Baltimore to
ascertain the truth in relation to the mysterious
transaction.”
Deviocract ix 1801 axd ix 1810. — Soon
after Mr. Jefferson’s election, on discovering that
the postmasters and other olficers were interfering
in elections, that distinguished republican issued
a. circular to all his office holders, of which the
following is an extract:
“ One thing I would say, that, as to the future
interference in elections, whether of the Style or
General Government, by officers of the latter, it
should be deemed cause for removal; be
cause the constitutional remedy by the elective
principle becomes nothing, and it may be
smothered by the enormous patronage of the
General Government.”
Now read the following letter, addressed to all
the Postmasters in the United Slates, who now
exceed the number of office holders under the
General Government during Mr. Jefferson’s ad
ministration, with the concurrence and approval
of Martin Van Buren, and then let every free
man ask himself if the whole power of the Gov
ernment is not exerted through its 12,000 Post
masters to destroy the “ constitutional remedy by
the elective principle,” of which Mr. Jefferson
spoke:
Washixgtox, May 20, 1840.
My dear Bir—Having embarked with con
sciousness of right and hearty good will in the
defence of the administration of which I have
formed a part, I earnestly invoke your assistance
in rendering my efforts effective, by dissemina
ting the enclosed address, and obtaining subscri
bers to tue Extra Globe throughout your region
of country. Every farmer, mechanic and work
ingman should have one, and if they cannot well
spare a dollar each, two or more should unite
together to take one.
I shall endeavor to take care that the true
hearted men who may aid me in reaching the
minds of the people shall have no cause to
repent their exertions. Your friend and fellow
citizen. AMOS KENDALL.
To , P. M.
President Jefferson told his office holders Inal
any interference in elections, whether of the Stale
or General Government by the officers of the
latter, would be deemed cause fur removal; this
administration to the Postmasters in every
corner of the Union, that those who do aid in
fighting its battles shall BE TAKEN CARE
OF, and (£/* “ shall have no cause to repent
their exertions ! /” It not only violates every
principle of old fashioned democracy, but makes
public proclamation of its own corruption.—
Torch Light.
From the Albany Evening Journal.
Electors ol the United Slates!
Before any citizen of the United States ue
posites his ballot fur electors of President, we
liescech him to read the following enumeration
ot the principal events in the public life of Mr.
Van Buren. They arc faithfully and plainly
stated, so that every man may judge for himself.
There is not one of them which might not be
substantiated in a court of justice before an im
partial jury.
Read, then, and consider before you finally
entrust the destinies of your country again to
such weak and wicked hands. If, after all that
Mr. Van Buren has done, he should be replaced
in power to carry into effect the plans he has
avowed, it is very questionable whether you will
iigain have the opportunity of expressing cither
your approbation or censure of the acts of the
Government.
Memorable t c nts in the political life of Martin
Van Buren.
After James Madison had recommended a de
claration of war against Great Britain, while en
gaged in its prosecution, and needing the en
couragement and support of the whole country
for its successful termination, his re-election was
openly and violently opposed by Martin Van
Buren, who voted for and procured the appoint
ment of electors in the State of N. York pledged
to support another candidate, and who gave the
vote of the State against Mr. Madison—thus
betraying the confidence of the democrats who
elected him to the Senate, deserting the party
which had fostered and cherished him. and do
ing all in his power to bring disgrace upon the
Government for its efforts to maintain the char
acter of the nation, and assert the rights of its
citizens.
When the honor of the country had been vin
dicated and democracy was again triumphant,
Mr. Van Buren advocated and caused the elec
tion to the Senate of the United States ofßufus
King, whom he and his parlizan presses had de
nounced, and to this day continually represent
as a Federalist of the Hamilton school.
Martin Van Buren openly and violently re
sisted the demands of the people of the State of
New York to be restored to the right of choosing
electors of President, which had been usurped
by the Legislature, and his train band in the
Senate, consisting of the men ever since denom
inated “ the infamous seventeen,” acting under
his personal instigation, defeated the measure.—
One of these men, Edward P. Livingston, is now
appropriately presented by the friends of Van
Buren as a candidate for elector.
His contempt of the rights and intelligence of
the people was further evinced by his vote in the
(Convention of New York against their electing
their own justices, and his impudent declaration
that “ the further the power was removed from
the people the better.” And by his vole in the
same body against the proposition for a broad
and line-al extension of the elective franchise, so
as to allow any male citizen of lawful age to vote
who had resided in the State three years and in
the town one year, whether he had or had not
paid taxes, and supporting this vote by the most
violent denunciations against universal suf
frage.
The electors of tho State availed themselves
of the first opportunity to rebuke the course of
Mr. Va» Buren, by adopting amendments to the I
constitution giving the election of justices to the
people, and providing that a residence of one
year m the Stale and six mein Us iu the county
should c ititlc every citizen of full age to vole for
every officer.
His contempt of the people was still further
exhibited by h:s audacious charge in an annual
message to Congress, and in the face of the civil
ized world, Inal whole Stales had been bribed
and corrupted by tanking institutions to vote
against him and his measures.
And again, his utter contempt of popular
rights and public sentiment was exhibited in his
arrogant declaration that the people expected too
much from the Government, and that the Gov
ernment must take care of itself and the people
of themselves; thus disclaiming the first princi
ple of our institutions, engrafted in our declara
tion of independence, that “government was in
stil rsted for the ocnefit of the governed.”
He has openly and contumaciously resisted
the dearly expressed will of the | eople in rela
tion to his proposed measures, appealing to what
he called their sober second thoughts, and after a
second and a third expression of those thoughts,
still persisting in the obnoxious measures thus
i condemned, and bv dint of proscribing the most
I prominent of their opponents, by the appliances
of terror and patronage toothers, and above all,
by a shameless COALITION, he has finally
succeeded in fastening them upon the country
after they had been thric a rejectee by the repre
sentatives of the people in Congo ss.
He has thus usurped the functions vested by
the constitution in the Legislature chosen by the
I people, has broken down the independence o.
Congress, bv rendering it the mere echo of the
Executive will, and has evinced an utter disre
gard and contempt for the democratic principles
of our Government, which recognized the will
. ofl the people as paramount to 'all other autho
i rity.
In the office of Secretary of State, he dis
graced the country and degraded the station, by
: instructions to our Ministers at London to re
present to the British Government that a new
.party had gained the ascendancy, more favorable
to the vietvs of that government;—thus mingling
our foicign relations with our domestic politics
and seeking to interest the British Government
in the maintenance of the power of the adminis
tratirm to which he belonged.
He condemned the Bank of the United Slates
as unconstitutional, and signed a petition to its
Directors to establish a Branch at Albany. ,
As a Senator in Congress he expressed the*
deliberate and decided opinion that the Genera'
Government had not authority to include corpo
rations in a Bankrupt law; and as President!
United States he recommended the passage o.
such a law’ which should include corporations.
He and his partizans denounced the “ unregu i
lated spirit of speculation” at the very time wherj
he was connected with a company of specula
tors i.i buying up village lots ai d an immens
quantity of land in and about the village of Au
burn, and when the speculation turned out to 1
a loss, meanly shrunk from his share of the defi
ciency.
Although placed for more than thirty years it
public stations the most favorable for accomplish
ing designs for the public good, it is a lact i
well known as it is astonishing that he cannc
point to one solitary measure during his who!
life, originated by him for the improvement. <
the condition of his fellow-men. Not one pre
position to advance education, to improve juri
diction, to increase the public revenue, to tacil
tate trad ■, to encourage enterprise or to rcwai
lauor, was ever made by him in the Legislator
of New York or in the Congress of the Unite
States. And in looking back upon a long life, h
can find it occupied only with petty schemes i
political intrigue for his own selfish purposes.
He was elected to the Presidency, not for an I
merits or virtues of his own, but wholly in cons*
quenceof having gained the favor of Gen. Jacl
son by means of a female intrigue, by whom h
was nominated as his successor, and was chost
in obedience to the wishes of the General.
To acccomplish his own elevation, he mine
the political fortunes of .John C. Calhoun, an
drove him to acts of desperation, and thus a
object of abhorrence to the American people, b
formed with him the most unprincipled COAL’
TION recorded in history, and received him n
to his confidence and his counsels.
For the purpose of purchasing the support o
Mr. Calhoun and his faction, Martin Van Bure
consented to the insertion of the Specie clause i
the Sub-Treasury Bill requiring gold and silv«
in all payments to the Government, by which ti
currency will be diminished, trade and commerc
embarrassed, free labor at the North reduced t !
the standing of slave labor at the South and ii j
dustry checked and enterprise baffled.
The character which his own political friend)
at the South give him, “a northern man wii i
southern principles” while it illustrates his dupl (
city, is in itself a reproach which every honora i
ble man would spurn.
He has had the unblushing audacity to dcclai j
in a letter to a committee of his friends in Kei I
lucky, that the system of finance which has pr« i
vailed in our country for the last fifty years, wa
a departure from the principles of the Revolulio
and was devised for the purpose of strangiin
our liberty :—thus libelling the patriotism ai.
wisdom of Washington, Jeflersen and Madisoi
and vaunting his own virture and intelligence i. j
superior to theirs!
To find a system congenial with the republics j
principles of our Revolution, he made inquirh J
of the monarchies and despotisms of the o |
world, and discovered that hard-money and lu j
wages were best adapted to the enterprise, the ii t
dustry and the skill of free Americans—and gravi
ly urges upon them a plan so beneficial in keej
ing the subjects of Kangs and Emperors in di
suboridalion.
The system thus imported from Cuba, Ru i
sia and Austria, he has caused to be adopti
through the forms of legislation, as avowed 1
him, solely for the benefit of the Governmen
It affords no currency for the People; it suppli
no aid to business, no facilities to enterprise ; at
thus he carries out his own principle, that tl
Government must take care of itself, and the Pet <
pic of themselves.
While he would thus reduce the means of th |
People, he is himself indulging in princely extrj
vagance surpassed by few of the inonarchs of Ei|
rope. Despising the artists of his own countr j
he has introduced into his palace the most expei j
sive fabrics of foreign manufacture, and lavish )
the public treasure upon baubles and trinkc \
adapted to the effeminate court of some degene *
ate Oriential Nabob.
He has brought indelible disgrace upon o. J
arms, by the conduct of his w’ar against afe j
miserable Indians of Florida, by the imheci {
movements which cost the Nation millioi |
upon millions, without accomplishing any thii j
but disaster and dishonor.
Professing economy, he has increased the e: t
penditure of the Government from 13 millioi j
to 39 millions annually, and has actually incu |
red a National debt to sustain the extravagam j
of h s administration, in the very form which I j
adherents have most loudly condemned, — that > {
irredeemable Post Notes.
And such have been the prouigality and extr; J
vagance of his administration, that works whirl
had been commenced in various parts of tl ,
Union, for the improvement of harbors and ll j
navigation of rivers, have been suspended, an j
the materials and implements sold at public au ■
tion; —and those which arc continued, are carrit \
on by requiring the workmen to give credit to tl i
government until Apiil next.
He has fctought the patronage of the Exectl
live in direct conflict with the freedom of electio?
by instigating and sanctioning the interference i
his mercenary army of office holders in the elei
lions for State and United States officers, and w
behold them at this moment traversing the com
try in every direction and endeavoring to s tooth
er the voice of an indignant People. Ships of
war arc ordered to ports where elections are about
to be he’d, that tbeucrew s may be marched to the
pvdls and overcome the vo'es of our c.tizens.—
The harpies of the Custom Houses, whose name
is legion and whose number has been increased
to suit the occasion ; the pirates of the Post Of
fice and the deputy marshals appointed to lake
theeeusus, overspread the land like the locusts of
Egypt, to influence control and overawe the
ELECTIONS OF THE PEOPLE.
He has retained in office PUBLIC DEFAUL
TERS, with full knowledge of their delinquency,
and after they had been repeatedly threatened with
his “displeasure” for not rendering their accounts
and paying over public moneys; he has nolonly
permitted them to resign with the public treasure
in their pockets, without punishment or exposure,
but has appointed the successors whom they were
pleased to recommend. Millions upon millions
have hcc<i lost by the speculations of the receivers
and collectors of the public revenue, exceeding in
his administration the whole amount that had
occurred previously since the adoption of the
Constitution; and “public defaulter” has become
as familiar to our ears as “ the spoils of victory.”
He has trafficked the PUBLIC LANDS, the
common heritage of all the citizens of America,
for political support, and has sanctioned a system
of rapacious plunder, alike violating the rights of
the Slates and destructive of a fund adequate to
the education of all the children in the United
States.
And that there might not be a single odious fea
ture wanting, he lias recommended to Congress
a plan for a standing army of 200,000 men, to
consist of the miliiia of the Stales and to be call
ed into the service of the United States, for the
avowed purpose of being drilled and disciplined
under officers of the Federal Government, in di
rect opposition to the very words of the Constitu
tion, which give to the States exclusively the pow
er of training their militia and which limit the
cases in which they ca., be called into the service
of the United States, to those of insurrection,
invasion and the execution of the laws.
It is submitted to the People of the United
States whether a ruler, whose character is thus
marked by every act which may define a heart
: less, demagogue, whose protessions ot love for the
I People arc equalled only by his acts of contempt
! and insolence, and by his measures to degrade
and impoverish them, —is fit to be again elevated
to the same station.
From the Geo r gia Journal.
Messrs. Editors. —As it is understood that
the Harrson party will have a majority in both
branches of the Legislature, permit us to suggest
through your paper to the consideration of our
Harrison friends of the Senate, the name of our
worthy fellow-citizen and Senator, Gen. John N.
Williamson, as one suitable to preside over the
Senate. In addition to Gen. Williamson’s quali- j
fications in every way to discharge the duties of
President of the Senate, with credit to himself and
to the State, he is one of the oldest members of
the Senate, and is from a county that has been
for a longtime firm in its supoort of republican
' principles. The citizens of Newton, for their
firm support of Republican principles, claim
nothing for having performed their duly to their
country, yet when this county has a son whonas
contributed as much as Gen. W. has to the ■
advancement of the principles of the constitution I
Harrison and Reform, —and when he is as well !
qualified as any other spoken of, to discharge tne
duties of a station so important as tr,al of Presi
dent of the Senate, we hope that they will not be
considered as presuming at all, in presenting
through the press, for the consideration of that
body, his name, as one who would do honor to
the station. Please publish this and oblige
MAXI CITIZEN'S OF SKWTOX COCSTT.
From the New York American.
Foreign Rambles.
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GLANCES AT SIES AND THINGS.
London, Sept. 1840.
Going up New Broad street yesterday, to look at
Bartholomew Fair —famous in the annals of Raga
muffinism —I saw a barefooted and bareheadedfel
low, ghastly in visage and half covered in rags,
eyeing me from the opposite side of the way with
the rapacious look cl a hungry shark. As I came
opposite him, he leaned forward, glared upon me, i
and crossing the street with two or three long ;
strides, laid a convulsive grasp on my arm, and ,
darling a wild look in my iace, ciied out, “ For
G —d’s sake. Sir, have mercy upon me !” StarlL-d
at such a salutation I tried to release myself—but
in vain. “ What do you want ?” said I. “ A few
pence—for I am staiving ”
Notwithstanding England has more wealth, prob
ably. than any other nation in the world, no incon
siderable portion of its [ eople a,c mendicants.
Some according to law', others against law. Some
are gross and obtrusive in their manner of don g
it, others modest and insinuating. Some are bog- .
gars from necessity, others from custom: some ;
made »o by misfortune, others are born beggars:
some legitimate, others illegitimate: some w r ear j
full-bottomed wigs and robes,others go bareheaded
and in rags: some aie Royal beggais, some rascal
ly: some Lords, some loafers. You meet them
every where, and in all grades of society, from
Prince Albert in his poney phaeton and six in :
Hyde Paik, who begged £oo,oto for the privi
lege of marrying the Queen, and got £30,000
down to “ the King ol the beggars’’ on his rickety !
sledge in Cheapside gutter, who asks the passen- :
gers lor a penny, and “ gets more kicks than cop- I
pers.” The former is so well known, that I need
not pencil him. He is of that fortunate family,
the Saxe Coburg, who “ win kingdoms in the mar- j
riage bed.” The lattei—•“ the King of beggars” ;
as he is called—may be met any day in the vicini
ty of the Bank.
He is a mo-t disgusting object, wears a woeful |
countenance set ofl by a long, white, filthy beard, I
and garments to match, has no legs, and diaws his
aged form on a four-wheeled sledge whose axles
almost touch the ground. He is one of the greatest
villa : ns in London. Give him a sixpence, and lie
showers you with blessi gs—decline, and a hearty
curse is hurled at your head. Audacious and im
portunate, he will chase you 100 yards if you re
fuse to drop something into his tattered woolen
cap, and will steal your pocket handkerchief if he
can. He is the head of a numoio.is gang of beg
gars who have their respective prowung districts,
in various parts ot the city. They are mostly
boys—some w’ith still knees, broken arms, or have
lost a finger, or a father, or have a mother in New
gate, or have not a bit of bread to-day, &c. &c.
VVhoever may doubt these tales, none will ques
tion v who sees them) that they are Oliver Twists
in shadow leanness, and Jack Shepards in the em
bryo villainy, which lurks under their eyebrows.
Old Fagan reigns supreme in his ragged clan. He
dresses them in some of the miserable clothing
they have begged or pilfered, treats them with
great cruelty, gives them mendicants’ fare, while
he dines on ducks, roast beef, and “ the delicacies
of the season.” The police haVc more than once
ferreted out his den, and frightened him to compar
ative decency for a few weeks, when he mar
shals his fortorn hope and sallies forth. °
London furnishes more specimens of refuse hu
manity than can be found in all ti e cities of the
United States. Boz’s graphic portraitures have
their rentable originals in hundreds of its
alleys. Every day m the vicinity of the Post Of
fice 3‘ou will meet a walking desolation in the
shape of a tall, spare shred of manhood, with pale
and gloomy visage, whose person is half exposed
to sun and storm, notwithstanding the attempted
shelter of his tattered garments, his feet bound up
m masses of rags, who slowly stalks through the
streets on crutches, with a placard hanging on his
breast, bearing this inscription, “ a real case of
distress.” Bet your eyes on him, and he will
groan most piteouslv, and stietch out his bony
h ind for charity. Turn away and he will pur
sue you, hobbling by y our side, and filling your
ear with his sonowiui tale, and your face with his
inebriated breath—.,,-, till he discovers a po iceman.
SI I,n i' oster was, not lung since,
traced to his hiding place in one of the dark lanes
of London, where he was found decently clad, and
-eated round a lull board, discussing wild fowl,
roast mutton, and Dublin stout, with half a score
ol boon companions.
Walking one iia< near the Tower, my eye .aas
caught by some loathsome living object, lying in a
pile on the sidewalk. On appioacning it, a wo
begone fcrr.a e face peeped from under a covering of
rag«. Her sunken eye was reAmg on a little in
fant iying by her side almost naked, and her ema
ciated finger pointing towards an inscription in
chalk on the flag-stone, which read," I am reduced
to the last extremity.” Even suspicion could not
withhold a .esponse to sue: an appeal.
Notwithstanding the great improvements made,
chiefly through the influence of Lord Broughan, in
the poor-law system of England, I have seen more
beggars during my sojourn of lluce or four months
in th s country, than I ever saw in the United
States in my whole life. The causes are obvious.
The people are taxed to death to support royally
and rank, while the rate and tylho gatherer will
sell the poor Dissenter’s last Bible (a literal truth)
to support a Church Establishment which he repu
diates. But, there is one species of mendicity in
England deserving a universal reprooation, to which
I cannot but allude. You have just settled your mil
at a to'erablc hotel, at tnc rate of $5 per day, and
are ru>hing through the hall, umbrella in hand, to
mount the coach whose driver is shouting “ time
is quite h’up.” You run over the waiter, jostle
the chambermaid, tread on the porter, and are
brought up all standing by the boots—each looking
greedy and expecting, in the aggiega:c,a sum nearly
equal to what would cover your entire bill at an
American Hotel. You take your seat by the driver
i who is dressed so finely that you hardly dare speak
1 to him during the ride. Before leaving you he tips
his hat and asks you to “ remember ” him to the
; amount of half a down —for tiie privilege of Hav
ing held his reins at every stopping place on the
I route
1 rode with the dandy driver of the Dover Mail
last week, who, on getting down at IX/Vcr, touch
ed his hat to each passenger, and fcegg d for his
gratuity with the same abjcctness, and po keted
the shillings with, as much noncl alance as the
King of Hie beggars aforesaid. This coachman
| was tne best dressed man of the party, resides in
! in an elegantly furnished house with tine pleasure
j grounds, and is worth $50,00). The guard, too
ihe must not be forgotten. For, is he not decked in
a scarlet coat and armed to the teeth, to defend
\ ictoria’s leliculc ; and his he not clanged iris
horn in your ears every moment for the laT seven
hours ? Besides the coachman and guard, y.u
must remember another appendage to the estab
ment —a burly beef-fed, and ale-saturated biped,
| called the porter. 'I he following dialogue took
place recently at Hastings. Scene—top of a coach
just leaving town.
Biped—(touch’tig his cap, and locking signifi
cantly.) I leaves you heie, sir.
Bambier. —Very weil —good bye.
Bi,ed. —Please remember the roach porter, sir,
what put your honor’s luggage on.
Bambier. —I have nothing but a carpet-nag,
which I put on myself.
Bibed.—But, sir, I gets my living in this way.
Gents always give me a sixpence. w
Bambier. —Here it i*.
It is no pica in abatement to this filching, that
you pa d lor your seat at the “ Booking Office,” at
the rate of 10 cents per mile.
Professor Arndt, after being shut up in a for
tress for twenty-one years, his struggles, his suf
j ferings, and his name almost forgotten, has, we
| learn by the German papers received last night,
been restored to liberty. Young men will as!;,
\vc are afraid, in Germany as they ask in Eng
land, who is Arndt ? Four or five and twenty
years ago, a professor of his name was t e terror
j°f the German government. He was imprisoned
; not for his misdeeds but his popularity.—The
I students sung his hymns to liberty, repeated his
burning words, and frightened kings. By the pa
triotic exertions of the Germans, the French
were driven across the Rhine, and when they clai
med their promised reward of a liberal constitu
tions, they were answered with stripes, dungeons
and fetters. Arndt, we believe, was one of those
who felt most deeply the faithlessness of the
king of Prussia, and most loudly and elaq !ently
■ expressed his indignation. For that he was im
! prisoned, and for that he has l>ecn kept in prison
for twenty-one years. The present king us Prus
i sia has the merit of releasing him, of restoring
| him to his professorship, and of compensating
; him for a part of the pecuniary loss he has sus
tained by liis imprisonment. But the tyrant who
confined him could no more restore Arndt the
years of which he deprived him, than he could
| restore the dead to life. Arndt has been robbed
of his fame, past all human power to give him
redress. For twenty-one years he has been dead
to Europe, and he comes forth from his dungeon
only for men to ask, who is Arndt I — London
Sun.
The New York Times and Star of the 17. h
says :
We learn from the New Era, of this morning
that “ two colored females, over 100 years of age,”
in the tweltih ward, are “in favor of Martin
Van Buren”!!
From the United States G izette.
The Mechanic’s Reply.
BY THUS. DUNN ENGLISH.
“ Work harder, and the hard times will cease.”
—Van Buren.
“ Where is the cry of panic and distress ? among
the penniless loafers of y-our country.”— Lr 5 .
Duncan.
Slander our brave mechanics —they
W ho»e hands are browned with honest labor—
Mock their distress witli such sneers—
Pass it from neighbor unto neighbor !
j Rough hewers ! thiow your chisels down !
Leave, Carpenters, your h.ilf-foivned dwellings,
And with the thunderolyour votes—
Vour indignation deep be telling.
; The blighting course they held as theirs,
Do they not at this time pursue it ?
And shall we ding unto their band,
Wither our right arms e’re we do it!
j Work harder ay I and to thy cost.
In that thou canst not take a pari ir,
{ The hurling of thee from thy throne,
Insulting, would- be monarch, Marlin.
This saying, vulgar too! of thine,
Tiiis coarse, ibitTate, shame-faced doctor,
Who dares with ruffian tongue malign
The glorious conqueror of Proctor, —
We scour him—out his master owns
The hate that is not due his minion,
And to the white house, every breeze
Shall Lear it on its waving pinion.
Come from thy gilded palace-halls.
Come Irom thy avenues, made wide,
\\ it’.', sweat of ours:—in coach and six,
On every horse a British rider.
With thee let trusty Duncan come,
.fresh fiom the lowest bar-room borders,
Tocringe unto tby royal self.
And patiently await thy orders.
We*re poor, but honest too, thank God I
Our limbs our sole and only coacnes,
And we can sleep content at night.
As thou canst not, without reproaches.
We are nut slumbering now—out souls
Arc ranged with those who lake to lead ’em.
i he knowledge teat their cause is just,
The cause of Harrison and freedom.
Philadelphia, Sept. 13. IS4O.
MAKES E UNTELLIGEiXCE.
Savannah, October 21.
Arrived. Ship New-Jersey, Dickson, Boston •
brigs New-York, Abbot, I‘,evidence: Gazelle’
Glover, Camden, (Me) ’
IVent to sea. Ships Charles, Gorham, New Or
leans ; Emily, Mead, New-York.
Charleston, Oct. 22.
Arrived. Ship Victory, Lennox, New-York.
Cleared—>lnp Louvre, Penhailow, Boston.
Went to sea. Ship Louisiana, Wolfe N York-
U. L. brig MooiMfclen, NewtYoVLV
Hull, New-York. °
TIIE READING ROOM
Attached to this office is open to subscribers, and
• ' nt, °duced by them, every day and eve-
unday evenings excepted) until 9 o’clock,
8u ascription $5 ; fur a firm of two or more $lO
barbecue at spring kiu.
We are requested to announce that i i>, .
, **
will be given at Spring Hill on Saturday t h
31st. inst, to which the citizens cf this ard ?
adjacent counties of Columbia, Wtrren Jeih,-* 6
j and Burke, arc respectfully invited.
The ladies are al-o invited to honor us wit, ■
**■ * xis
presence on the occasion.
BARBECUE AT KIKKPATRICIcJ'''
A Barbecue will be given at Kirkpatrick oa
the Bail Road, on Thursday, tiie 29th mst
The friends es Harrison and Tvlcr in
- ’ UII !e ad.
joining counties, are invited to attend.
£5“ The ladies arc invited to attend, oct 2->
Consignees per Mouth Carolina iOuTiiu^
Hamburg, October 22, b-io. ’
j Crawford k M.; E. B. Beall ; Stovall, Simmon.
Co.; S. Kneeland; T. J Pannelee; T. Dawson
Hand i; scrantun ; B. Baird; W. E. Jackson-
Havßand, Kis'ey Co.; Gpuld k Buiklcv-V
Hatlicr; C. Hall ; Rankin, Boggs - Co.; L.'b’wek
le b Co.; Force, Brolheis k to.; Kerrs b Hot*"
Wrigut, Bull & Co ; J. Norton; C. L. Braylun-
H. 1. Hoff; J. W. Houghton ; J. B. Ford; J. dub.’
bard ;E. Adams ; Howaid Garinony; H, jl
Jelfersj G. Parrott; J. V. Benson.
COMMERCIAL.
Latest dates from Liverpool, September 19
Latest dates from Havre, September 1,
New O rleans, Oa. 17.
Cotton.— Arrived 'ince the 13t.i inst, of L ou ,
iana an 4 Mississipui, 10206 bales. Tennesseean*
Arkansas 197, together 10909 bales. Cleared '
the same time, for Liverpool IS 15 bales. Ne-.v w
812. Boston 1596, Philadelphia 73, Baltimore ni
together 47]U bales—making an addition to stool’
ol 6190 bales, aixj leaving on hand,'inclusive of nil
on shipboard not cleared 0:1 t;ie I6;h irur.nt
stock of 4-52 S bales. ' ’ 1
Uur market Opened on Wednesday laa ni*h 1
rather belter demand than had orevaUed for <orr (
days belore, the sales on that day having amount
to about 3UUU bales, and generally at rates with -
the range of our previous quotations. On Thursdr
prices ruled about the same, though there wi
much P-ss activity in the market, no; over ](j
bales having changed hands.
The advices per steampacket Caledonia, 50 f ar
have not had any material influence on our on
markets, as the transactions of 3 esterdav, vrbir
amounted to 14‘JU bales, exhibited no v-a-iat M
whatever in prices, and we, consequently, comin.
ue our previous quotations. Nothing scarcely 1«
been done in the nner grades, buyers'* bavin* ajai
confined their operations to qualities below jjod
fair, i lie sales fur the week embrace about jttfm
bales, and for the last three days 4300, which we
no ice as follows, viz: 200 nales Louisiana j D( ]
Mississippi at 9; 100 at 9; 420 at 9j; j:j ? atsi
-2:9 at 9; 130 at 8*; 614 at 9J; 65 at b|; Cb
595 at 8*; 405 at b£; 22 at -
43 at 9; bu at 9; 152 at 9*; 200 at Mr; bS at >’•
60 at S; 480 at 9; 100 at 9; 100 at 10 cents. *’
LIVERPOOL CASSIFICATION.
Louisiana and Mississippi —Ordinary- <g._
Middling, 8 ®
9 9 5 ; Good fair 10* (a) GooJ and fine. Hi
(ft—. Tennessee and Sorth Al/bama—Ordnm
~ ® “' a ~ 5 Good
fair, [tv ; Good and fine, none.
statement of cotton.
IS4O. Oct. 1. stock on hand bales 279 H
Receipts last throe days p. 900
“ previously... 24478 3557 S
Lxports last three days 47)0
Previously... 10051 1475!
Slock on hand
Sugar.—Louisiana.— The market continues ei
tremely dull, and tiie only transactions we hareU
notice are a few small sales of fonds citernes at 4-
(d 0 j cents, bince uur la l report, the first pircei
10l the new ci op (in all 55 hlids.) have appeattd 11
j market. They have auived at adate exactly cw
responding with the first receipts of last season.
1 hey are held at ‘ (V 7A cents, but no >a!e nad takes
place at the time we closed our enquiries yester
da}-. Iho quality- is said to be lair for sugar so ■
newly mad.*, but the planters yvho manufactured \
discovered by the small quantity y ielded tel 1
: they had commenced gathering their crop too w l|
! l.v, and have disconl.nued ope rations unti the Jy
weaMior, which is now too warm, becom.s men
favorable, and the cane is more fully matured.
| have no change to make in our quotations for Hi*
vana bugais, but remaik that the demand is very
limited.
Molasses. lue planters are sending the remain
of their last crop to market in order to prepare
their houses for the recc-| tiuii of the new
crop. The receipts, therefore, w.tirn the last few
days, have been large, consido; ing tiie very 'i®
ted demand, and this circumstance, together
the anival of some 60 barrels and 2b neices
molasses, has had a matcrilielfect on prices,
yve find reduced to 18 (a) .9 cents gallon, »
quote accordingly. The new is iield ;.t -8 cenß .*
gallon. An oiler of'2s cents yvas teliised.
Flour . — ihe re r;pts since our last report In sl
been very light, 1 u: as there is no ii-np.ovement'
the demand, prices have remaiuei tiie same as
quoted say -4 37 j (a 50 for Supeilinc.i*
latter, however, being the prevailing rate for;*
brands in good order. Some few small parre*
have been taken far export to Mexico and the
Indies, but generally, the transactions have if*
confined to limited parcels for consumption. f f ’ I
rived 532 hbls. \
Whiskey There has been a little more dewU 1 I
during the la-1 tiuee day s, some few hundred T ■
rels having been taken for northern markets.- 3 ' I
no improvement has taken place in p; ices, nor $
any be reasonably anticipat. d yvluie so heavy* ■
stocK remains upon the market. We still q , u £) - f *’
22 cents & gallon for Rectified, and 21 forC®B
mon. I
Lead. — there have been no further recei? ft
since our last, and the market continues H
any lots for sale. The article is cn'juupd k’ r "‘ B
yvould readily command our quotations, "hkh BB
$4 37* (a) $-i 50 4> 100 lbs. . k ß|
Bacon. — Tome fuithcrparcels have ndvd ffl L
in the last feyv days, and as the demand i (ve - I
limited, prices of bides have slightly ?‘ vcn * 3; . ■
Other dc criptions yet maintain former r-tes- ■ ■
quotations are for Canvassed Hams l2 3 H
uncanvassed do. II j 2; bides, JO (d) U>t; I
ders S* (2> 9 cents. : 1
Fxchunge —> n New York 60 day: sight, P 3 ft
1 ct. p.em ;on Boston 60 days sight,! f‘ |:
prem.; on Philadelphia, 69 days sight, 2 p ct ' c w
freights —Cotton to Liverpool, 9-lhd P ‘L, *
Havre, l|c.; to New York, $1 sUi> bale; t° “ *
ton, 9-16 (d) f lb. ' |
A CARD. —Mr Richards' Painting Scj I
rtop9n on Monday, the 19th inst. oct '’-trff^ ■|
CjWe are authorized to announce I'-
TUCKER, as a candidate for Justice 11
Peace, in the Bloody Gi.Cth. _ jB
(JO* JEREMI yII 11. CLARK is
as a suitable person for the office of dus£ice
Peace, for the 6t’oth Distiict, and will he s»PH* ■
by (octS)
(fff The undersigned, if elected, will sci' e ||
600th District as Justice of the Peace. IM
oct 7-ts R. P. SPKbM AIN '- ]
GCj* Mr. ADAMS n sumes his SCHOOL
Oct. 12th,) in the room adjoining the
Church, on Green street. oc