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I J. W. & VV. S. JONES. AD6OSTA, Ga. THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 30, 1840. Vol. IV.—No. 61.
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AUGUSTA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 29.
The Reformer.
Regarding it now as almost certain, from re
cent indications in various parts of the State, that
qt the Convention to be held in Milledgeville will
nominate an electoral ticket pledged to the sup
port of Harrison and Tyler, we have determined
to adopt the most efficient means to affmd the
people light, by publishing a paper which may
Replaced in the hands of every man, however
limited his means.
In sending forth the prospectus of this paper,
which we propose to publish on a sheet the size
of our Daily and Tri- Weekly papers, we are in
fluenced by no other motive than a wish to lay
before every patriot the evidences of the justice
of the cause we have espoused, and to enable
them to correct the slanders of the opposition t
hence we have placed the price of the paper so
:low as to be at the eomman I of every man in the
•country. We therefore hope that every man,
-who feels the necessity ofa change in the Fcdcr-
will take an active interest in
procuring subscribers to the Work, and we pledge
them no exertion shall be spared on our part to
tender the RKronMF.it a valuable co-worker in the
•cause of Liberty and Reform.
We shall issue the first number of the Reform*
,er on Saturday the 9lh of May. and continue it
weekly till after the Presidential election.
“Bank-Ridden, Canting Knaves.”
Our citizens who have exorcised that indepen
dence which every citizen has a right to exercise
in declaring their preference for Hanison and
Tyler, will he somewhat astonished to find that
they arc denounced in the last Standaard of
Union as “ Bank-ridden, canting knaves.” The
reckless disposition which the Editor of this pa
per has manifested for a considerable time is hut
another evidence of the demoralizing influence of
agrarianism. W hat man who had the slightest
regard for his character for veracity, would ven
ture the assertion that the largest political meet
ing ever assembled in this city was composed of
•• bank-ridden , canting knaves.”? None we
answer unhesitatingly. We were prepared to
hear his slanders of General Harrison, regardless
of the most positive proof to the contrary, hut
we confess that wc were unprepared to hear
,u majority of the citizens of this city thus de
signated by any vile pandcrer, who had crawl
ed through the filth of his own kennel, to be the
(Oigan of a respectable party. Wc, in charity
howwvcr believe, that this vile calumny was penn
ed ly its unfortunate aulhrr after dinner.
from the Standard of Union.
“The Democrats are to have a meeting in the
city of August-, on Saturday c'cuing next, and
measures will be adopted to oppose the cobweb
pretensions of Harrison to the Presidency.
Then will the Democracy of Richmond county
speak in tones of terror to the hank-ridden, cant
ing knaves who are there trying to vamp up the
pretensions of a superanuated and disgraced sol
dier—a witless statesmen —a very questionable
patriot—and an avowed abolitionist. Rich
mond county is a Van Burcn county, and next
October will prove her so.”
Virginia Election.
AVc have compiled below all the news received
from the late election in Virginia, of course no cal
culation from these few returns can be prudently
made as to the result, altho they afford the most
cheering intelligence to the friends of reform.
From the Baltimore Patriot of the 26th inst.
The following cheering intelligence reached us
by the Norfolk steamboat, which arrived this
morning.
Herald Officf, 1
Norfolk, April 22, 3 p. m. 3
All is going we 1 for the cause of Harrison and
Reform in the first dist.ict, wherever we have
.beard from.
, | Norfolk Bor cob.—Whig majority last
year, 132.
R E Taylor (W.) 319
W. W. Lamb, (L.F.) 170
Probable majority at the close of the polls ICO.
Norfolk Countt. —Last year, Van Burcn
majority in Portsmouth, 116. Whig majority at
Great Bridge 152, leaving the Whig majority in
-the county 36. The polls now stand,
Portsmouth Great Bridge.
Elhercdge. (W.) 310 Not heard from.
Langhorne, (W.) 313
Smith, (V. B.) 276
Fisk, (L. F.) 264
We calculate on a Whig gain in Norfolk coun
f ty 0 f 200. The vote in Portsmouth last year
was Whig 275 ; Loco Foco 391.
L - Nansemond.— Last year Whig majority 14.
* Harrell, (W.) 105
Boykin. (L. F.) 35
Is not this cheering 1 Verily, old Virginia’s
coming too!
Accomack.— In this county there is a great
e,ntest between Pill (Whig) and Baily, (who is
I an impracticable.) A letter received in this city
| 81iys that, at Pongoteague precinct, yesterday at
\ lee o’clock, p. m. Pitt was 40 votes ahead of
> Baily. The contest will be close. No opposition
1 10 wffin from a gentleman who passed thro’
Fredericksburg yesterday at three o’clock, that
Mr. Crutchfield, ( W.) was 90 votes ahead, and
no doubt entertained of his re-election. The re
ports from Caroline county were also favorable.
Virginia.—We received by the cars from
Winchester last evening, returns from Jefferson
and Frederick counties. In the former county,
the Whigs arc elected by over 150 majority, and
in the latter, returns from all the districts but
one render it nearly certain that cine Whig and
Loco Foco arc elected to the Legislature, being a
gain of one Whig. In the Senatorial district
composed of Jefferson, Frederick and Clark coun
ties, the Whigs have gained a great victory in
turning out 11. L. Opie, (the late Loco Foco
Senator.) In Jefferson, Conrad ( W.) Iras a ma
jority of 168 over Opie; in Frederick there is
about a tic; and Clark county, to he hoard from,
w ill give Opie a small majority—leaving Conrad
about 100 ahead in the district.
The following letter reached us by the West
ern mail this morning.
Bath. Morgan county, Virginia,
Friday Morning, April 24. $
This young county has flung off the Van Bu
rcn yoke, ami for the first time since itsexistcnce
of twenty years, has turned Whig. Myers, the
Loco Foco of last years production, has this time
been beaten by fitly four voles. Whig gain for
Cromwell Orrick, sixty-nine votes! The vote
of the whole county is fully 310.
The county yesterday flung out the signal that
she expected old Virginia would do her duty, and
depend upon it the return i will show that she has
most nobly done so.
From the Richmond Whig of the 24 th inst.
RICHMOND CITY.
Wyndham Robinson, (Whig,) 41S
James Uosber, (Loco) 51
Thomas Ritchie, “ 1 52
Whig majority, 336
Postscript—ll o’clock,?, m.—Rumors believ
ed however to lie authentic, s[eak of the defeat of
White in Hanover (certain,) of Fitzhugh in Staf
ford of Lipscomb in Louisa—and of the re-election
of Corbin in aroline, and Cruichlield in Spottsyl
vania. Wc hope this news is not too good to he
true In Powhatan the contest was close, and the
Whigs ahead at the latest dates.
Lipscomb i.caton by 33 votes.
White beaten by about 30.
From the Globe of the 26th.
Postscript.—Just as our paper was going to
press the - outhern steamboat arrived, and a pas
senger informs us. that
Crutchfield(Fed.) is re-elected in Spottsylva
nia by 33 majority.
Bamuf.i s (Dem ) is elected in Caroline by 5 ma
jority—Democratic gain.
The Democratic candidate has succeeded in
. Brunswick by a small majority-Democratic gain.
The Federal candidate is elected in Louisa by
19 majority—Federal gain
I The Federal candidate is elected in Hanover by
- 30 majority—Federal gain.
The Democratic candidate is re-elected in Staf
i ford by 70 majority—majority increased from last
year.
It was reported in Richmond this morning at 9
o’clock, when our informant left there, that the
Deirocratic candidate had been defeated in Powha
tan by 8 votes; if true, it is a Democratic loss.
Prospectus of The Reformer.
- The undersigned propose to publish in Augusta,
Ra. a weekly paper, to bo entitled The Reformer,
of extra imperial size, from the 10th of May to
1 the 10th of November next, for One Dollar in
1 advance. As its name indicates, it will be devoted
L exclusively to the cause of Reform, the elevation
r of WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, of Ohio, foi
President, and JOHN TYaJCR, of Virginia, fn
Vice President, and the subversion of the presenl
, Administration, —the necessity of reform in which
is be orning every day more and more apparent. —
It wi 1 observe a mild, dignified tone, and address
itself to the common sense of every class of citi
zens, for whose benefit it is designed.
This Prospectus is issued under the impression
that the friends of reform will make a united and
, zealous effort to give the paper a general circula
tion, in short to send it to the house of every man
who reads. The People want light, and if our
friends will aid us in our work, we shall he able to
counteract the thousand calumnies of the Van
Ruren presses, and carry the “war into Africa.” —
In the language of a distinguished co-worker, “All
we ask is to be heard by the people. It is for
them we speak, and if we can get a hearing, we
have no fears of the re-alt,” even in Georgia. —
“The people will vindicate their wrongs, and hurl
their oppressors from office.”
We ask the press throughout this and the ad
joining States, to insert our Prospectus, and wc
especially invoke the friends of the cause to he
vigilant in procuring subscribers and forward their
names by mail as cany as possible.
The paper will contain nothing but leading mat
ter being entirely free from all advertisements,
1 and is p aced at so low a price as to bring it within
the means of every man.
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Augusta, 29th April, 1840.
A Court Martial.—The Army and Navy
Chronicle stales officially that a naval co irt mar
tial will assemble at the navy yard in Philadel
phia, on the 4lti Monday in May (being the 25th
day of the month,) for the trial of Commodore
Jesse D. Elliott.
Correspondence of the North American.
New York, 3 P. M. April 24, IS4O.
There have been engagements for 2olton on
board the Liverpool packets to-day, at 9 to 1 l-16d.
The sales of Cotton have been but 600 to 700 bales
this morning, and the maket is rather heavy. Li
verpool fair Uplands may be quoted B,f els., south
ern fair. Mj cents. The stock of Colton is estima
ted at 26 000 bales. There is very little change
in Flour; southern sorts are $5 12J a 25, a light
stock and lizht demand.—A cargo of Pennsylvania
Wheat of very good quality so.d this morning at
* 103 cts. cash.
Domestic Exchanges—Boston. 4; Philadelphia,
51 a 5?. Baltimore, sf; Richmond 6sa 6J; Chai; s
-1 ton 3J a4; Savannah, 7a 8; New ; n'ean-, 7A a
3 8$; Mobile, 9$ a 10; St. Louis Hq Nashville, 15.
I
t Extract from Mr. Hoad’s Speech,
f Since retrenchment and refoim seem not to he
i practised by Mi. Van Buren and his friends,
whatever may have been the professions of the
’ parly, let me inquire, whit measure of relief is
I I proposed by them I The only one which I have
I heard of is the bill establishing n sub-Treasury.
- And is this indeed a measure to heal our ills and
relieve the wants of the people l A measure
i which has strangely united certain politicians,
i heretofore openly discordant and hostile! We
, find Mr. Van Buren recommends and Mr. Cul
-1 houn sustains it. Their political relation aic 100
well understood to require any illustration at my
I hands, Let us hoar what the official organ (the
i j Globe) said of Mr. Calhoun when he was resist
ing Executive power. The article appears in the
| Globe of the 30th of January, 1834, and that
i paper speaks the language of the Court. It is
i in these words:
“Ncllifikr. —We have sen a caricature in
: which Mr. Calhoun is designated Ivy a label
, ‘Nulla fide.' It points out an apt derivation for
1 the parly name with which ho lias distinguished
ids partizans. In plain English, it would warn
• us that ‘no trust is to he reposed in the wearer of
the label. Certainly no man ever nullified truth
with so Utile remorse as Mr. Calhoun. A thou
sand instances could bo given ; but a particular
- instance in wind he distinguished himself by an
> unusual pertinacity in pressing a statement wh ch
3 ho knew to he untrue, will he given.”
e I he instance i r then given, but the parties now
r being Irionds, must decide upon the justice.
b Again: In the Globe of the 31 si of August,
1836, the following editorial remark is found,viz;
t ‘ Mr. Calhoun, who never told the truth when
1 a falsehood would servo his turn.”
) Having thus shown what the Administration
organ said of Mr. Calhoun, let us state the ac
count. ;?cr contra, and see what Mr, Calhoun slid
of Mr. Van Buren. In a debate which happen
) cd in the Senate, whilst Mr. Van Buren was its
presiding officer, Mr. Calhoun said :
> “General Jackson would soon he out of pow
. cr, mid the Administration that may succeed him
i could not keep the South divided. He would
- tell the coming Administration to beware. If
f there bo any who expected the President’s nomi
nee (Mr. \an Burcn) could successfully play
the game which he has, ho would ho wofully mis
. taken. With all bis objections to the President,
> lie (Mr. Calhoun) would not deny him many
high qualities; he had c mrage and firmness;
was bold, warlike, audacious, though not true to
hi- word oi faithful to his pledges. He l.ad, he
sidi a, done the stale some service; he terminated
j the late war gloriously at New Orleans, which
. has been remembered greatly to his advantage.—
Mis nominee (Mr. Van Buren) had none of these
recommendations; he is not of the rare of the
linn nr the tiger; he belonged to a lower order—
the fox and the wcazel; and it would be in vain
to expert that he could command the respect or
1 acquire the confidence of those who had so Hide
, admiration for the qualities by which he was dis
tinguished. By the dexterous use of patronage,
r tor which he and his pa’ ty were so distinguished,
an individual here and there, who preferred him
- self to the country, might ho enlisted; but the
* great mass—all that were independent and sound
( in the South—would be finally opposed to him
and his system.”
Mr. Bond said he thought there was a great
deal of truth in this paragraph; and he would
leave it for others to say whether Mr. Calhoun
had not himself furnished an illustr.tion of his
own pophecy. I do not know (said he) what
estimate Messrs. Van Burcn and Calhoun in
t tended the public should place on their mutual il
lustrations of character, hut it is now certain that
neither has taken any personal offence at what
n was said Ivy the one or the other. It is under
-1(' stood that “ Montague and Capulet have shook
n hands.” “Good Heavens! what sweet tempers
>r politicians have!”
„■ The country, however, may well be alarmed;
jl for out of this union the sub-Treasury has grown.
I ( It is not the first time that the union of discord
ant matter has produced a monster in tlie world.
~ By means of ibis union we are to have the
13 happy privilege of paying up all taxes and revr
- nue to the General Government in hard money!
And is this hard money currency, which lias op
n pressed the farmer, the mechanic, and laborer of
( l the old world whereever it has prevailed, propos
ed for the people of this country in their daily
and common t-ansactions? Ves, sir, C v e(l s? J
1 to this “complexion has it come at last.”
r
3 From the National Intelligencer.
1 Further Reflections upon the State of the
Country.
1 < If ever a country had occasion to condemn un
-1 sparingly the reckless excesses and ruinous mis
-1 rule of apolitical party, syrely this People have
- abundant reason to reprobate the disastrous poli-
I ey by which the dominant party has laid waste
the’fair field of their prosperity. If ever any
. portion of a great and free People had reason to
mourn over the consequences of their own indis
: cretion. then have the majority of this People had
! abundant motive to repent, in sackclolli and ashes
r the fatal error of bringing into power the party
which has controlled the present and preceding
. Administrations of the Government.
In the frenzy which followed the success oflliis
’ party, they made an Idol of their leader; and
their slavish discipline, recognised no right of
opinion hut his will. Right or wrong that will
was to be obeyed; and intoxicated power found,
in the blind confidence of its credulous followers,
immunity for every usurpation and every abuse.
The principles ot this party, besides, were revo
lutionary, ami they struck at all that was lime
honored in policy and glorious in example. The
maxim of the party,“to the victor belong
THE spoils or the ENEMY,” is a principle that
belongs to the code of pirates, and from which
honor and humanity turn away with loathing.
Yet was it openly avowed in his place in the
Senate liy one of the most honest and most re
j spected leaders of the party in a debate upon tiro
political merits of Mr. Van Buren, as a doc
trine which that citizen and ins friends practised,
- and were therefore not afraid to preach.*
, The startling exclamation of another lead
er of the same party in the other branch
of Congress, Perish Credit! Perish Com
merce! (rather than a favorite measure of the
parly should fail through) is still freshly remem
bered. So monstrously was this malediction
against the elements of national weal, and pros
i perity, that it was at first regarded as an inadver
tent slip of the tongue ; but it wis soon found
3 to lie tiie watch-word of the parly and the policy
of tire Administration, which has but too faith
, * As some years have elapsed since the date of
t the avowal here referred to, and some of ourread
t ers may never liuve seen, and others have forgot
t ten the exac t terms of it, wc quote from the speech
which contained it- as follows:
“ It may lie. sir. that the politicians of Vow York
’ are not so fasti lions as some gentlemen are, as to
l developing the principles on which t'lev act. They
bold y prcac'i what ti ry practise. When they are
I co deeding for victory, they avow their intention
of enjoying Ihe fruits of it. If they are defeated,
the- expe< tto re ire from office. 1 f thev are suc
( cessful. they claim ai mat er of light, the advan
r" tages of success. They «ec nothing wrong in the
’• rale, that to the victor belong the spoils of the cn
-3 j emy.” —Senator Marcv’s Speech in the Smote.
b 1 January, 1832. ’ 1
fully and successfully carried it out. Nor can
we forget Ore kindred avowal, by the President of
that day, when, from iris own mid-administration
disastrous oonsequencea, were crowding upon the
country, and many of its most enterprising citi
zens wore sinking under the pressure of the
times. Appealing to the Chief Magistrate for
sympathy ami relief, they were sternly and harsh
ly repelled with tile unfeeling taunt that all
who trade on borrowed capital ought to
d hear. This was a sentiment no less unjust
than it was cruel, and as short-sighted as ignor
ance could make it. But the Pautt responded
to it; and, us said “ the second Washington,” so
said his faithful followers. More recently, in the
Senate Chamber, it has been argued, in substance,
that the wage* of labor ought to he reduced in
this country to the standard of wages in other
countries; an avowal which mocks at calamity
and which, if carried out, would cover with dis
tress that usclul portion of society which is least
aide to boar the slightest reverses. Il is a refine
ment in cruelty to take from the daily laborer the
hard earnings which at most arc barely enough
to give a scanty support to those who ure depen
dent upon their bodily exertions for food and rai
ment, Yet such are the objects of the parly;
an.l, under tlio present Administration, if it hold
to its ci nsistency, nothing ran uvmt the fulfil
ment of the anti-republican, anti-social, and hard
hearted policy defined liy the maxims and senti
ments which wc have quoted.
It wc were to stop hero in the history of par
ty misrule, by what mode of computation could
wo reckon up that amount of loss to the country
which has all hut imnkruplcd a whole nation,and
has completely benumbed that spirit of active
enterprise which once gladdened and made pros
perous our land 1 The task is beyond our pow
ers, and vve must ho content to ask every one to
estimate for himself how many millions of value
must have been sacrificed to have brought our
country w its present state of paralysis and
stagnation.
But this is only one item in the account.
There is another, which is not to he estimated by
dollars and cents. Who run measure the extent
of suffering that pervades society, through the
ruined fortunes, the blighted hopes, and the beg
gary of families who were hut a short time since
happy in their plenty, and cheered by still bright
er prospects? This must ho answered by those
who fed the sting of want, and those who sym
palhizo in the sufferings of their fellow-men.
Happy would it ho for the character of the
country could we here close the history of this
parly misiulc : hut there is vet much to he told.
There is a high moral standard hv which nations
as well os individuals are to he judged, and, judg
ed by which, this nation once stood in the proud
est rank. That glory has been tarnished and
made dim by the same hands that blighted our
prosperity and happiness. Who that looks hack
upon our better days, when honor and honesty
were regarded as the grout conservative principles
of society, dues not see in the moral depravity
which is stalking over the land with unblushing
front, the evidence of lamentable decline? Who
that remembers the period when the social rela
tions of life we o cherished with unbroken har
mony, and opinion was as fnu as the nir we
breathe, and looks to tithe present condition of
society, when every social tie is severed by the
demon of party, ami the sacred right of opinion
is punished by the arbitrary hand of power, does
not feel that the sweets of life arc embittered and
iUjujs saddened? Who so Mind as not to see,
or so wilful as not to acknowledge, that whilst the
vital apilit of freedom is chained down by the
shackless which feller the right of opinion, the
doors have been wide opened to the infidelity of
the Owens and the pestilential heresies of the
Fanny Wrights? These heresies have corrup
ted and arc corrupting the whole frame of our
government. They are poisoning the fountains
of religious truth, and are undermining those
venerated institutions which uphold society and
dignify and illustrate the noblest attributes of hu
manity.
If the great,end of Government be the happi
ness and prosperity of any People, where, let us
now ask, is tin; evidence that the Administration
of this Government for the last ten years has se
cured the one or protected the other ! Js there
any portion or elass of society whose condition
has been bettered or made more happy by this
party rule ? So lar from this being the case, tens
of thousands have been reduced to want, and all
feel that they are poorer. No one so Is that his
happiness has been increased, and multitudes
look to tiro future with fearful apprehensions.
So far from the Government proposing any
measures with a view to change this stale of
things, for the belter, wc have been told, from
the highest authority, that it would lie almost if
not quite unconstitutional for the Government
to attempt to do any thing for the relief of the
People. This is in fact the Court doctrine.
From an Administration which proclaims as a
cardinal principle such a doctrine as this, what
relief or improvement of our condition can he
rationally expected? What measure of that char
acter, indeed, has the President proposed ? What
act for the relief of the commercial, manufactur
ing, or farming interests has been presented by
“the party” in Congress ? The only act which
the Executive has particularly recommended, and
which “the parly” in Congress appear to lake
any sort of interest in, is the sub-Treasury bill.
Is that a hill for the relief of the. People.? Far
from it. Allow it the highest merit claimed for
it, and it is a bill to enable the Government to
collect its revenue and make its disbursements
exclusively in gold and silver. It is a hill to eon
film to the order of office-holders the exclusive
privilege of receiving their emoluments in specie,
whilst the wages of honest labor are paid, when
paid at all, in paper; and this advantage is to be
secured to them at the expense of the People,
from whon the revenue is to he collected in gold
and silver, whilst the eirculaliojr (in three-fourths
of the States) consists wholly of paper. This
sub-Treasury bill, then, instead of a measure
which will bring relief to the People, is a hill, the
pure and only effect of which will he to increase
the power of the Executive, and the emoluments
of his subordinates and dependants.
What prnspect, then, is there of a change in
the present state of the country without a change
of Administration ? Wc do not ask the question
whether a change in the present condition ot the
country is desirable. What need to ask of the
laborer if he desire work and wage* enough to
buy him bread with? Os the planter or the far
mer, whether he desire a market for the produce
that he docs not himself consume ? Os the man
ufacturer, the artisan in every department of life,
the merchant, the capitalist, whether they look
with anxious interest for a renovation of their
wonted occupation and prnspeiity? From all
the-” wc should ha> e for response one common
cry. Reform! Reform! How is the desired Re-j
form lobe effected, we repeal, otherwise than by j
a change of Rulers ?
1 be ease, appears so plain to ns that we do not
see how any man eon doubt about il who will set |
himself once to thinking of it. This process of j
thinking is that which is now visibly working a
change all over the country- I’ is n process,
however, which every good citizen ought yet to
omit nothing in his power to facilitate. Unhap
pily it is in every man’s power now to bring homo
to his fellow-citizens the importance of a change
in the Administration. Whilst not only the gen
j era! state of the country, but the wages of labor,
the prices of produce, and the value of properly,
are in a state of obvious, palpable and sensible
derangement, no one can be at a loss for argu
ments against the authors of it, winch the dullest
intellect can be made to comprehend.
Difficulties with Virginia. —The Jour
nal of Commerce, in noticing the points of dis
pute between this State and Virginia, makes the
followingjudicious remarks, the truth of which
cannot bo without effect:
“ The question, in its bearing upon the slave
holding Slates, is one of manifest importance;
for if men IK m the fee States may enter the
slave holding Slates and carry off slaves, or entire
them away, and there is no redress to the master,
he holds his“ j roperly” by a very frail tenure
Wc have no doubt that within the last five years,
many hundreds of slaves have been thus carried
off and smuggled into Canada, or elsewhere, and
that there are regular receivers and agents at dif
ferent points along the ui°st feasible routes, in
the free Slates, whose business it is to facilitate
the process of escape. Fur further particulars, en
quire of the Abolitionists.”—JV. V, Star.
Proceedings of Council•
Council Ciiamdku, )
April 25th, 1840. $
Council met pursuant to adjournment.
Present, Hon. D. Hook, May >r —Aldermen
Bones, Flemming, Crump, Warren, Harper, and
Dunlap.
The minutes of the last meeting wore read unjl
confirmed.
Messrs. Robertson, Parish. Jackson, and Miller,
appeared and look their seats.
On motion of Mr. Robertson, the Mayor was
requested to add one member from Ward No. 2,
to the Committee on Streets, and Mr, Dunlap
was appointed.
The Mayor added Mr. Miller to the Com
mittee on lloulih.
Messrs. Bones, Bishop, Harper, and Jackson,
were appointed wharf directors for the present
year.
The Committee on Bridges made the (bllovr
ing report:
That the titles for the remaining moiety of the
Upper Bridge has been perfected and arc consid
ered satisfactory : and the sumo with all papers
appertaining accompany the report ; in conclu
sion, the Committee offered the following resolu
tion which was agreed to.
Resolved, That his honor the Mayor, have is
sued and sign six thousand dollars of Bonds of
the City Council of Augusta, to he dated 21sl
January, 1840, payable ten years after dots, to
James Harper or bearer, bearing an interest of 8
per cent, per annum, payable half yearly, which
is in full for the purchase.
, The following resolution* were offered and
1 passed.
Resolved, That the Committee on the water
works lie instructed to have a drain and dam
made around the City property, at Turknelt
Spring, so as to prevent water from flowing from
the high ground toward the Spring and Spring
Branch above the road ; to make a dam across said
Blanch above the road below the Spring, to col
lect Iho water flowing into the Branch above the
rand, and to lay down a line of logs firm said dam
to tbo reservoir below the road, and mark tho
boundary oflhc City property immediately around
said reservoir, by making a small ditch on said
boundary ; also to have the Spring and Spring
Branch cleared of all substances likely to injury
the water.
Resolved, That three persons from each Ward
be appointed who shall, with the Health Com
mittee, constitute a Board of Health—who shall
organize an I appoint their own Chairman The
said Board to examine the condition of the dif
ferent lots in each Ward, at least twice a month,
from tho Ist of Juno to the Ist of October.
Mr. Robertson addressed Council on the sub
ject of services rendered tho City in medical at
tendance on the sick at tha Catholic Hospital du
ring the epidemic of last season ; stating tho offi
cial appointment by tho Mayor, &c., and conclu
ded by osking leave of absence before any action
on the subject by Council. Leave was granted.
On motion that the sum of Ten Dollars for
each patient was ordered to be paid to Dr. Robin
son, and the same amount to Dr. Wilson, who
also attended the same Hospital, under official
appointment; the question was pul and curried.
Tho yeas and nays being required, they were
taken and arc as follows;
Ayes,—Harper, Dunlap, Flemming, Millci,
Jackson and Bones.
Nays,—Crump and Parish.
So the motion was decided in the affirmative.
Resolved, That the Committee on Streets lie
requested to have taken, the level of Reynold
strect from Centre to t 'ampbel-alreet and the ad
joining streets, with the view of ascertaining tho
best mode of draining said Reynold-street, after
it shall have been so lowered as to drain the ad
joining lots and alleys.
Resolved, That the Street Committee be au
thorised to build ahrick bridge across tho drain gt
the intersection of Mackintosh and Tclfair-strcels.
The following bills were read and ordered to
be paid:—
Jenkins and Mann, drawing papers
relative to bridges, $) 15 00
(/’. M’Coy, to work on streets, 15 00
E. Cl. McGoulrick, for hands employ
ed on street**. 48 75
Council adjourned.
H. il. Oliver, Clerk Council.
The Giant Boy. —This wonderful hoy, who
1 is to bo exhibited to the public during the present
| week in this city, is the son of Mr. Denalow 1
Barber,of Richmond,Chittenden co. Vt. was
born in May is now shout thra* Tn<(r»,
and eleven months old. He is four feet in height
weigh about 100 pounds; and with the exception
of a slight curve of the legs below the knee, oo
casiomd by walking too early, and the greet
weight of tlie body, is in oeesy respect peefof
tioned like a man; and bee the mmeutar etrMgth
of a boy of sixteen. The mind and genera! et<
pression of the face exhibit the sprightHnese and
prying curiosity of tliechildof six or eight tears,
while the hair, whiskers, voice and physical It*
neaments arc those of a man of fcfl'or#9.
Wo understand that Drs. March, MeSFaughton,
Armsby, Hun, and several other gentlemen ttavo
examined the buy, and the testimonials relative to
his age and early dcvelupemenl, and are satisfied
as to the authenticity of the accounts which are
given of him. —Albany Journal.
Pray what do the Whigs mean by the Tippt
canoe fire! —Trenton Emporium.
They mean a fire, which, having originated
from spontaneous combustion in the hearts of a
million of freeman, is now sweeping wildly thro’
the country before the storm-breath of public opin
ion and making the loco focos shriek in terror
and agony like wild beasts pursued by a prairie
conflagration. —Louisville Journal,
Mr. Thomas K. Brace (Whig) has been elec
ted Mayor of Hartford, Conn.
Appointriicnts by the President,
By and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
William Marvin, to he Judge of the United
•Slates for the Southern District us Florida,
Vinton Butler, of Florida, to be District At
torney of the United States for the District of
West Florida, in the place of George Walker,
resigned.
J. (i. Searcy, to be Marshal of the United States
for the Middle District of Florida, in the place of
S, W. Duvall, deceased.
The Mississippians are protesting against sher
iffs and marshals demanding gold and silver in
payment at their sales. They say that in these
days of depreciated paper currency such a demand
is intolerable and not to be borne. In Hinds
county, at a late marshal's sale, several persons
collected, well armed, and threatened instant
death to any one who would bid for the property
on such terms. —N 0. Picayune.
A Alcthodis Miuist and General liar*
risen.
The following circumstance was mentioned
during the session of the Harrisburg Convention
by Judge Burnet, us Ohio, a warm personal friend
of General Harrison. Many years since while
the great tide of emigration was flowing through
the western States, the hero of the Thames hav
ing for a while, exchanged the arduous duties of
a statesman and a general, for the more peaceful
pursuits of agriculture, was on a hot summer
evening, at the porch of his humble “Log Cabin”
asked for shelter and a meal, by a Minister of the
Gospel of the Methodist Episcopal persuasion.—
The jaded appearance of the steed, and the soiled
garments of the rider, proclaimed the fatigue of
the day, with his usual courtesy, the General
welcomed the stranger.—After a plain and sub
stantial supper, and the guest joined with his host
in social conversation; and the latter, laying aside
ih i character of the soldier and statesman, will
ingly listened to the pious instruction of the trav
eller. They retired to rest, the good old soldier
thankful to a munificent Providence that he war
enabled to administer to the wants of a fellow
creature, and the worthy minister of Christ, in
voking the blessing of Heaven upon the head of
his kind benefactor. Morning came and the
Minister prepared to depart. lie was in the act
of taking leave, when ho was informed that hi*
horse had died during the night.—This loss, how
ever severe, considering that he had yet two hun
dred miles,to travel, did not discourage him in.
the exercise us his duty; but taking his saddle
bags on his arm, he rose to depart with thanks
fur the kindness us his entertainer. The old Gen
eral did not attempt to prevent him, though ho
offered bis condolence upon tlie loss; but an ob
serving eye could have detected a smile of inward
satisfaction, which the consciousness ot doing
good alone produces. Tlie guest reached the
door, and to his astonishment found one of the
General’s horses accoutred with his, own saddle
and bridle, in waiting for him. Ho returned and
remonstrated, slating his inability to pay for it,
and that in all probability he should never again
visit that section of country. But the General
was inexorable and reminding the astonished Di
vine, that “be who giveth to the poor lendeth to
the Lord,” sent him on his way, bis heart over
sowing with gratitude, and his prayers directed
to Heaven for blessings on the venerable Hero.—
Penn, German.
[Heaven reward the farmer of North Bend.
He could net bestow his charity and hospitality
on a mUrc deserving object, than upon a Minister
of the Methodist Church; that Church has done
mure towards evangelising the poor of tlie United
States than any other in the country.]
I!*n txc itt. —We copy the following as a speci
men of ingenuity :
A Gsnerat. Toast—We find the fallowing
toast for tho 23d of February in a Nashville pa
per :
“ Gp.nirai Washington—a great man and a
great statesman—but nothing like such a genera f
as General Jackson. General Jackson has proved
himself the most powerful conqueror of the age.
Ho lias vanquished and annihilated both General
Confidence and General Prosperity— while
his Aidsde Camp, General Distrust General
Ignorance and GViiera/RASCAiiTrJaremaneu
vering throughout the States—soon lojhc super
seded, by b'cncre// Dismiss, General Loss, Gen
eral Vr.xsrioti, General Dr.HANor.MBRT, Gen
eral Confusion. General Beggary, and Gener
al Bankruptcy —unless wn rally under the glo
rious banner of General Harrison!
Remedy for the Rots.
Messrs. Editors. —ln looking over (he Jan
uary number of the Cultivator, I was surprised,
in reading the article on hots in horses, although
the subject was ably treated, that there was no
remedy pointed out to relieve the noble animal
from suffering and death. Having seen many
horses die with hols, and many remedies given
without effect, I was induced by a merchant in
Cambridge, to try the following for a horse of my
own, alter I had tried most of the remedies in
common use without effect, and had given np for
fust:
Half pint vinegar, half pint soap, half pint gin.
ami half pint mohigiea, well shaken together, and
poured down while foaming. To my great sur.
prise, the horse was in five minuis wholly free
from pain, and ale frrely—ibe next morning I
was on my journey. I have since recommended
and given the same in fifty cases, with the same
good effect; not in one instance has it failed to
effect a perfect cure.— Cultivator.
ISAAC LOTEJOY,
Troy, Jin. 36, IBto