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THE TORNADO AT NATCHEZ.
Tin’s disastrous visitation from the sky has left a |
train of destruction behind it most lamentable and ;
melancholy to think of. So destructive, so terrific,
«o appalling a disaster from the enraged wind has
never been known before —cannot he found on re
cord. Tornadoes and hurricanes have been known
before, but they have generally occurred in regions
nntenanted by man, and we have only heard of the i
forest being prostrated and the earth ploughed up hv
■the howling storm; hut here is a city destroyed and 7
hundreds of our fellow beings swept away into etor- j
nitv. We give here a letter received y< sterday from
a friend in Natchez. He gives a vivid picture of the
desolate and unfortunate city,
Natchez, Thursday, 5 P. 51., May 7.
To the Editors of the Daily Picayune: —By the
steamboat Meteor 1 hasten to acquaint you with one
of the most horrid and destructive hurricanes that
ever happened in the United .States. While nearly
the whole of our city were engaged in dining at the
hour of two this afternoon, vivid flashe the light
ning, loud roared the thunder, and black grew the
sky. In a few minutes the temptest came, and
for about forty minutes we were in that perilous
state which speaks only of destruction and death.—
First toppled down the chimuies, then went the roofs
of houses, and a moment after house after house fell
into ruins. In the hurry of this letter 1 cannot begin
to particularize the death and damage around me.
'“Natchez under the hill” is entirely swept away, and
she lovelicsts part of the South on the Bluff above,
is wreck and ruin; and those yet living will find diffi
culty in getting shelter to-night. My heart sickens
at the scenes before, me. As I walked to the boat
from which 1 write,the dead and wounded met me eve
ry twenty steps. Natchez is ruined, ruined, ruined!
Yours, truly.
In addition to the above we have gathered the fol
lowing particulars. The steamboat St. Lawrence
went down. It is said she was lifted many feet out
of the water and instantly dashed to the bottom of
the river with every soul on board. The enormous
body of water now rolling in the Mississippi and
swelling to the very topmost limit of its hanks, was
lashed into foaming billows, and flatboats were torn
to pieces and tbeir scattered planks flew about in
the wind like feathers. The lady of Mr. Halliday,
one of the proprietors of the Free Trader, was sav
ed by a miracle, with her young child in her arms. —
Every church and every public building shared in
the ruin. Steeples were dashed to the earth and
houses all over the town were unroofed.
The steamboat Prairie is now lying at our wharf
torn to pieces—“blown up” by the wind worse than |
ever boat was blown up by steam. The hull and
machinery is all that is left of her. Her cabin was
carried away, floor and all. The wheel houses
were unroofed, and what remains of the boat is rent
and shattered in an awful manner. Among the suf
ferers on board the Prairie was Emanuel Blanc, an
estimable young man of this city, but Captain F re
light cannot estimate how many persons were lost
from his boat. Himself and Mr.'James Wilson, the
clerk, narrowly escaped.
From an extra, issued from the shattered office of the
Free Trader, we learn that a public meeting lias been
held by the citizens in the court house, at which Col.
James C. Wilkins presided and F. L. Claiborne,
Esq. was secretary. Addresses were delivered by
J . M. Hewitt and J. M. Duffield, Esqrs., and resolu
tions offered by the latter gentleman and others, ap
pointing relief committees,&c.
The City H otol, through the kindness of the pro
prietor, Noah Barlow, Esq. ha 7 ; been thrown open
to the wounded. Doctor Pollard has taken the Tre
mont House for an additional hospital, S. Duncan,
Esq. having generously offered to be responsible for
the rent.
From the ruins of the Steamboat Hotel, Mr. Alex
ander, the landlord, his lady and bar keeper, were
dug out alive, us also Timothy Flint, the historian
and geographer, and his son from Natchitoches, La.,
besides Doctor Taliafero and many others. Mrs.
Alexander is considered dangerously injured; two
of her children were killed in her arms. As
many as nine dead bodies have been dug from tlic
Steamboat Hotel.
The number of burials which took place on the
Bth hist, was about fifty, and many are still in a dan
gerous and dying condition.
From an estimate made by Mr. Ruffner and S. J.
Boyd, Esqrs., the total loss is supposeed to be about
§1,260,000
The neighboring planters are generously send
ing in large gangs of slaves to assist in clearing the
streets and digging the dead from the ruins.
The greatest loss of life was among the flatboats,
which were ewamped and destroyed before the un
fortunate men could escape, to the shore. One pa
per states that upwarcs of 200 were lost. A hoy is
said to have been taken up in the air and lodged in
a tree half a mile from his father’s house.
The citizens of Concordia and Madison have hold
rpublic meeting and adopted measures for the relief
of their friends in Natchez. This awful calamity i
has created a sensation here in New Orleans that
will not soon be forgotten.
[From the New Yorlc Evening- Post.]
Why is it that tlic friends of a strong and splen
did government—the men who desire great national
establishments, great national works, many offices, (
and a code of laws officiously regulating the private !
occupations of the citizens, —why is it that they |
have all at once become silent about their favorite j
projects ? Why have they dropped the discussion
of their schemes for making one part of the commu
nity rich and powerful, at the expense of the rest,
and taken to shouting tor the candidate whom they
have proposed for the presidency ?
For the same reason that a rake, when ho has a
design to be married, takes a temporary leave of his
bottle and his other vices, makes an effort to keep
sober, and absents himself from the haunts of de
bauchery, with a full determination to indemnify
himself for his abstinence the moment he has won
and married the lady. The day after his wedding
you find him as drunk as a lord.
The whigs know very well that with a full and
honest declaration of their views it would be utterly
impossible for them to succeed. On all the great
questions of public policy which they have raised,
one by one, have they been beaten, and will be bea
ten again as often as they bring them up. Their
principles and measures when fairly presented areun
popularand odious. Suppose they were to say to the
people “Elect our candidate, and we will give you a
national hank, we will restore the prohibitory tariff,
we will occupy Cougress with projects of canals i
and rail roads, compared with the extent and mag
nificence of which your state works are but mere j
fragments and beginnings; we will pay the debts of j
the slates, prodigious as they are, out of the public I
treasury; we will do these things and others like
them; ton know our method ofinterpreting the con- 1
stitutiou, and how easy it will be to connect these 1
projects with others of a kindred nature, till the go-1
vernmeut of this confederacy shall be every where
seen, every where felt, and become in power, iuflu- I
ence and magnificence, a rival of the great monar
chies of the w orld.” Suppose they had brought I
lorward their candidate tor the presidency with such
a frank and honest declaration of their political
creed as this.—They could not have obtained for
him the electoral votes of a single state in the T
nion.
The mismanagement, the mischievous specula
tions and insolvency of the Bank of the United States,
have within a year or two made the very phrase
“national bank" a hveword of acorn and detestation;
the extravagance of many of the States in wasting
their resources on projects of canals and rail roads,
‘ w 'bich they must leave unfinished, has fully justified
i the course ol General Jackson and his friends, even
on the score of policy, in shutting the doors ofCon
i gross against that frenzy; the very friends of a high
tanti begin to see that its effect is to raise prices and
to ruin the manufacturer by tempting an increase of
importations. 'Fhe last great project of the whigs,
tuat of taxing the people to pav the debts of the se
veral States, was hissed down almost as soon as
I brought forward.
i bus beaten on every issue,foiled in every attempt
to apply their principles to practice, with so many
j 'visions of the people against them, what could the
; wings do? To state, their favorite principles and
nt-ge tneir favorite measures, would he certain defeat,
j limy, therefore, change the subject; they resort to
I .'-pics tuat have no relation to the great questions
; * l3 country, trifling and personal matters;
Kiev r ok of tiie hero of Tippecanoe, insist that he is
; f ui to those who call upon him, that he lives in a
; mg cabin, which, by tire way, is not true, and that
; , K lv . or **° leverage is hard cider. Such is the
cuiiiiisn prattle by which they expect to turn theat
tention of the people from controversies in which
their most important interests are involved. Will
| t,l ° M -‘ctors ol tiiis republic he won over by thus
| treating them like idiots? VVill not the people, “the
i m««v headed monster,” as he is called in the aristo
cratic dialect, recalcitrate against this silly coaxing?
\i rom Lie Columbia South Carolinian.]
1 Ilia PRESIDE^C Y.
Scorning the character of a pnrtizan, and desiring
to promote an adherence, by this State, to the ele
vated and dignified position it has long held, in re
ference to the ’’residency, we have heretofore stu
uiousl v avoided all interference in the canvass, be
yond the publication of facts connected with the
news of the day ; and though our preferences, and
those of our politq al friends, have not been disguis
ed, and cannot but be well known, tuev have never
prevented us from speaking freely and decidedly of
whatever wo disapprove, in the candidate or party
preferred. Toward those who differ from us, too,
we have exercised, in common with the great ma
jority of the State, a degree of liberality, forbear
ance, and conciliation, which is any thing but com
mon in the party warfare either of the present, or
the past; and it this state of things is now to cease,
on them he the responsibility, not us. What they
have to hope, from arousing party excitement and
discord in the State, we are utterly at a loss to con
ceive ; but it seems clear, now, from their called and
proposed meetings, and the concert of action mani
fested in various ways, that they are determined to
hoist the Harrison banner in this State, and enforce
upon our people the claims of a man utterly obnox
ious to them, in his political principles, and entire
party associations; and against one to whom tuey
owe much, and who with his party, lias rallied with
them intrepidly upon their principles and interests,
and stood by them again and again, in the hour of
trial and difficulty, when others shrunk from them
in dismay, or joined with their enemies.
Can wo be indifferent to a contest like this, or he
sitate in our preferences ?—Can any generous, gal
lant, true-hearted Carolinian? Never ! Yet, while
the Administration and its party were proceeding
ward in seeming triumph or success, and no oppo
sition was urged in this State, we scorned to join in
a useless advocacy, while our services seemed not
wanting, and the purity and disinterestedness of our
motives might be mistaken. Our people have look
ed not to the honors or offices in their gift, or to
ought but the principles and interests thev hold in
common with them, and therefore have had no de
sire to gain any claim to those honors or offices, by
idly swelling the onward tide of their success, and
shouting to their triumph!
But this tide may be turning. Already the. shout
of partial triumph is raised by their opponents and
ours, in a quarter where it was least expected, and
is taken up by our immediate opponents here at
home, and tauntingly and sneeriugly vociferated in
our ears, with all the swelling elation of newiledg
ed success, and confident triumph. They and their
Federal allies abroad may have over-rated their fan
cied success; but what of that: have we not in
their taunts and sneers, and persevering efforts, a
significant foretaste of what were to he expected
from the downfall of the present Administration ?
And can we longer coldly and indifferently fold mu
arms, and indicate no sympathy, no regard for or in
terest in those who have dared so much for us, and
generously stood by us in our difficulties, regardless
of all consequences to themselves ? Never! This
is not the part of true Carolinians, and hereafter will
not he taken h v them. Others may shrink from them,
in their time of trial, and look only, in their choice
of sides, to that which promises most of triumph and
its spoils ! Be it our part,now, to supply the places
of such, and stand by our friends, as they have
stood hy ns regardless of consequences to ourselves
—to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Admiuis
tiou and its party, against its enemies and our ene
mies—Harrison, and his whole Federal party, Whigs
and Abolitionists, “black spirits and wliite, blue
I spirits and grey.”
We would fain say much mors on this subject, but
must pause, for the present, for want of room. In
our next, however, we shall continue it, confident
of satisfying our readers, that the true course of
principle, honor, and safety, is no longer one of neu
trality or inactivity between Van Buren and Har
rison.
British Steam Packets to Boston. —The Great
Western brings letters from Loudon under date of
April 14th, to E. 11. Derby, Esq.; of this city, which
j state that the continued wet weather of last season
has a little retarded the steam packets. The first
i will, however, be ready for sea June Ist, but will not
| commence her trips before June 15th or July Ist, af
i ter which they will sail for Halifax and Boston in
( regular succession every fifteen days. We learn
I from a gentleman who has recently examined these
vessels, that in symmetry, speed, strength and per
fect adaptation to the business, they are not rivalled
! by any steamer afloat.
The Hon. Samuel Cunard will probably leave
England for Halifax the loth of the present month,
in a steamer of 300 horse power, intended to ply be
tween Plcton and Quebec, and may visit Boston in
her about the Ist of Juno.
Extract of a letter from a mercantile house in
London to another in this city, dated April 14th:
“The writer has had a conversation with Mr. Cu
nard, and we are pleased to inform you that the first i
regular boat of the line will leave Liverpool on the j
15th June, and from that period will depart on the Ist '
and 15th of every month throughout the vear; on
their arrival at Halifax, they will remain not exceed
ing six hours to deliver the mail mag and small par
cels, and thence proceed to Boston. The boats will
take no freight for Halifax, and will not carry ex
ceedingone hundred tons for Boston; and the writer
has assured Mr. Cunard he has no doubt tiiat some
of the leading importing houses will pledge them
selves to take a certain amount of tonnage for each
trip, to encourage and aid the undertaking, and to
prevent Mr. Cunard from retaining the large boats at
Halifax as their final destination, and despatching a
small boat thence to Boston with the mails which he
has a right to do by his agreement with Government.
The writer hopes that the people of Boston will
make the present route a permanent one, by using all
their endeavers to make it a profitable one; for such
a result is more powerful than influence and patron
age in all commercial .undertakings. We should
mention that the boat “Unicorn,” taken up by Mr.
Cunard, will leave Liverpool on the 15th May" as a
sort of pioneer to the undertaking, which boat will
remain permanently at Halifax in event of accident,
but will not be considered as one of the line. Mr.
Cunard is most sanguine as to the speed of his boats,
&c. &c., and says that he expects to perform the
passage in ten days to Halifax, thence 36 hours to
Boston. They shall not carry, he says, over SO pas-,
sengers, and many of the rooms will contain single
berths, and ail other arrangements shall be such as
will insure comfort and elegance.— Boston Daily
Advertiser.
mmim n ii uimMwMßiuii-UwW 1 —*
WASHINGTON, May ll.—ln the House of Re
presfu|atives to-day, the bill to prevent frauds on
the revenue, after much discussion, and various
amendments, was reported from the Committee of
the Vhole on the state of the Union. Mr. Holmes
of Keuth Carolina gave notice of his intention to
m.tk« some remarks in opposition to its passage.
Glole.
The Hon. Amos Kendall, Postmaster Genet al, re
signed his office this day, to take effect as soon as his
succassor shall be appointed. — lb.
[From the Globe.]
TO THE PUBLIC.
Find in? it Impossible, in consequence of onfee
bled health, to perform the duties of Postmaster |
General iu a satisfactory manner, I have resigned
that office, to take effect" as soon as my successor
can be appointed.
Not having been fortunate enough to accumulate
wealth in a public office, I am under the necessity of
resorting to such private employment as is suited
to mv strength and condition, for the purpose of
1 meeting the current expenses of a considerable fa
( milv.
A few hours each day devoted to the pen, leaving
an abundance of time for relaxation and exercise, I
have found by experience, from the excitement of
composition, to be rather conducive to health than
injurious; and this is the occupation, above all oth
ers, most agreeable to my taste aud my present in
clination.
Messrs. Blair and Rives have kindly offered me
the profits of such subscription to the Extra Globe i
for the present session, as may be raised on my ac- |
count, and L have consented to contribute to it until
November next, if such a number of subscribers
shall be obtained as will warrant that step.
i am the more inclined to this devotion of my time
from a desire to prevent any misconstruction of the
motives which have led to my resignation. I wish
to satisfy the whole world that no dissatisfaction with
I the President or his administration, no indisposition
; to render it the utmost support in my power, no dis
trust of its measures or its designs, has had any effect
in determining me to prefer a private to a public sta
tion. On the contrary, my confidence in the Presi
dent, in Ids integrity, his principles, and his firmness,
have increased from the day I was first officially as
sociated with him; my relations with every member
of his Cabinet have been uniformly of a most friendly
character; and my devotion to the great measures
which have been, and still are, sustained by the Ad
ministration, knows no abatement. The leading
principles avowed by the President 1 look upon us
essential to the preservation of liberty and a Govern
ment of the people; aud if I had supposed that rav
resignation could endanger their success, 1 should
have clung to office as 1 would to life.
As soon as the necessary arrangements arc made,
proposals, with a more extended address, will he pre
sented to the friends of the Administration.
AMOS KENDALL.
May 11,1840.
[From the Mississippi Free Trader .]
THE COTTON CROP.
Few persons are aware of the amount expended
in the production of cotton; or of the vast importance
of the product, to those engaged in other business.
Tim fid lowing estimates are sufficiently accurate to
establish the results, as far as our own crop is con
cerned.
The crop of Mississippi for 1831) may he assumed
to bo 4t)0,0()0 bales, of the average weight of 400 ibs.
The expenses of preparing and getting it to market
may he thus estimated.
For bagging rope and twine per hale §2 50
For freight, insurance, commissions
and other shipping charges in New
Orleans, 2 50 ,
For freight, insurance, duties, town
and dock dues, commissions and
other charges in Liverpool, 14 00
For plantation expenses (which in
clude clothing, pork, farming uten
sils, horses and mules, &c., which
must he furnished every year,) nut
j less per bale than GO9
For overseers wages and necessary
repairs of gin and mill, not less per
bale than 2 59
Making the aggregate of expenses
equal to —per hale $27 59
Os which the sum of $25 per bale is paid to per
sons who arc not employed in the culture—who are
non-residents, and who arc engaged in other pursuits.
Tims the crop of Mississippi alone in 1839 contri
buted the enormous sum of ten millions of dollars to I
those who had no direct interest iu its growth!!! j
And who will say that the production of cotton is :
not intimately connected with the prosperity of the
whole country, when more is realized from it by j
those who arc not employed in the culture, than by
those whose capital, skill, and labor are engaged in |
it? And who will dare to say that the preservation j
of our southern institutions is not essential to the
wealth and comfort of the whole Union.
Let us next enquire how much of the profits of
the production go towards the remuneration of the
producer.
We will assume the price in Liverpool (for the |
price in the European market must ha the test of
value,) to he 6d. per lb., which is equivalent to II I
j cents in United States currency.
| A bale of cotton weighing 400 lbs.
when it leaves New Orleans, will
weigh 375 lb. nett in Liverpool,
alter deducting the tare aud the
ropes, and will produce at 11 cts.
per 11). s4l 25
From which deduct expenses in Liv
erpool, 14 00
And the nett proceeds will be $27 25
To which add 19 percent, for premium
on the foreign exchange, say 2 75
S3O 00
! Deduct expenses in New
Orleans $2 50
do do bagging
rope and twine 2 50
do do plantation
expenses 8 00 sl3 09
And we have for the remuneration of
the producers per bale sl7 00
Let ns assume the value of a plantation capable of
producing an annual average crop of 350 bales (say 1
80 negroes, 50 of whom are effective, and 1,500 acres
of land, with stock, improvements,
&c.,) to be SIOO,OOO 00
And the annual interest which the product will yield
will be less than 6 per cent.
Do not these results admonish us of the necessity
of reducing the expenses of production? How very
few of us have taken the pains to enquire how much
per hale it costs us to supply our parlor? How i
much for clothing, for horses and mules; all of which
ought to be, and might be, raised at home? Is it pos
sible for a planter to relieve himself from embar- ■■
rassmeuts when he is paying 8 and realizing only 6
per cent, on his capital?
Every bale ot cotton costs the producer an aver
age of $3 per bale lor overseers wages; $2 50 for
pork; $1 50 for clothing 1 And is it not high time to
calculate the cost of production when prices rule so
low? The crop of 1839 will be fully 2 millions of
hales. The consumption in the United States will
fall oli 50,000 bales aud the consumption in Europe
cannot be increased, compared with 1839. The
stocks of cotton in Europe,at the close of the present
year will exceed that of last year fully 400,000 bales,
"without allowing any thing for the increased import
from India. Is there any prospect for better prices
for the crop now planted? Certainly not. On the
contrary, there is at present every reason to believe
that if the production of this year reaches 1,400,000
hales (or 800,000 jbalcs less than tiiat of 1839) the
average price in Liverpool will be less than sd. per
ib. There is every thing then, in the prospect before
us to admonish us of the necessity of economy—the
most rigid and pecuniary economy —iu all our plan
tation expenditures.
—JIXMIWfcB—I I
a#
Saturday Morning, I»Iay 86, 1540.
Such is toe demand for the able and nnan
sicerable address of Judge Colquitt “to the People
of Georgia, and especially to tho State Rights Par
ty , and such is the effect already produced bv it,
that we have been called upon to issue 2000 extra
copies, which we shall most cheerfully do. We
therefore call upon our fellow-citizens, generally, of
this county, without distinction of party, to apply
at our office, and procure a copy, aud request them
j to read it and judge for themselves. It will be rea
dy for delivery on Monday.
KF’We have received letters from various sections
of the State, from persons in whom we have implicit
confidence, stating that the utmost enthusiasm pre
vails among the supporters of the present adminis
tration, and that all the questions which formerly di
vided the republican party of the State, have been
consigned to oblivion, in order to form hereafter but
one solid phalanx. We hail with gratification this
information, as the harbinger ofsignal triumphs, and
i the organization of a party which will he composed
of the bone and sinew of our population, with a great
many ot our most able, distinguished, and patriotic
citizens in its ranks, all striving to ensure and main
tain the ascendency of democratic principles.
[CP In ourpaper of Thursday morning, a mistake
occurred in our commercial department, which we
hasten to correct. It was in tho quotation of the
value of South Carolina Bank Notes, which, acci
dentally, were not altered from the specie basis.
They should have been quoted as follows, to corres
pond with the other quotations iu our table.
SOUTH-CAROHNA NOTES.
Bank of Charleston, 9 prem.
Bank State of South Carolina, 9 *»
All other Charleston Banks, 7 ® 8 “
Commercial Bank, 7 ® 8 “
Bank of Hamburg, 7 Po g “
Merchants Bank of Cheraw, 7 v?> 81 “
Bank ofGeorgctown, 7 -g) gj “
STEAMBOAT COMPANY OF GEORGIA.
At a meeting of the Stockholders of the Steam
Boat Company of Georgia, held in Savannah, on
Monday, 11th May, the following gentlemen were
elected Directors:—
At Savannah —W. R. Waring, S. C. Dunning,
C. H. Campfidd, S. H. Fay, T. Purse, A Porter,
R. H. Goodwin, F. Sorrel, John Balfour, M. Dillon.
At Augusta —A. Drew, F. McTeir, J. Bones.
And on the following day, R. M. Goodwin, Esq.
was re-elected President.
POST OFFICES IN GEORGIA.
A Post Office has been established at Chattooga
ville, Chattooga County.
The following Postmasters have been appointed :
W. T. Crawford, Fosterville, Henry Countv.
W. W. Smithwick, Orange, Cherokee County.
Samuel Ramsey, Dogwood, Walker County.
R. \V. Glenn, Chattoogaville, Chattooga County.
VIRGINIA ELECTION.
The result of the Virginia election is thus given
by the Richmond Enquirer:
We have now hoard from all the counties in Vir
ginia except three, sending two delegates. One of
them (Scott county in Little Tennessee) has always
given a large Democratic majority. There is then
no doubt hut the result, as stated below, is as favor
able as could he expected by the Opposition. The
Senate is equally divided.
After all t He exultation on the part of the Federal
ists about the triumph in Virginia, let us scan it, and
see with how much reason they rejoice.
1. it will be observed that the Democrats have a
clear gain ofoae member in the House of Delegates.
2. Toe Federalists carried one of their Delegates
in Buckingham county, by the casting vote of the
Sheriff-—the other by two majority. The election is
contest’d for fraudulent votes polled by the Federal
ists, and there is scarcely a doubt hut that the De
mocratic candidates are entitle to their seats. The
reversal of this return, and giving effect to the polls
j as closed in Caroline, would make it a tic in the
| House, as well us the Senate—giving the Opposi
j tion the member from Wythe, who is pledged to
I vote for Senators as his constituents of that Dcimi
j cratic county may vote in the Presidential election
I in the fall.
Even supposing then the election in Buckingham
I to be fair and irresistible, tho Federal party can Only
boast of the power to carry Mr. Hives by a majority
of two of the popular votes.
3. it is worthy of remark, that besides Bucking
ham, Hanover, .Spottsylvaniapind Povvhattau, which
we have set down to the Federalists in our table, are
I all contested. Tho resident majority oftho legal
| voters in all those counties is unquestionably on the
side of the administration. The Federal papers
cannot with decency deny if. Ail these counties
were carried by votes from Richmond, ft is believ
ed that more than a hundred citizens of Richmond
voted in virtue of deeds to lands and stocks in the
surrounding counties. Korns individuals voted, we
are assured, as many as five times. Where a man is
bona fide owner ot lands in several counties, of the
value ot $25, he is entitled to vote in the several
I counties. But where a fictitious title is made by deed
to constitute such right to vote, it is a fraud. It was
in this way that many of the Federal votes were
manufactured, to carry the counties referred to,
that a majority of 5G votes, in the aggregate, gives
the counties of Hanover, Kpoottsylvauiu, and Pen
dleton, to the Whigs.
There are two other counties in striking distance
of Richmond, which were carried by very meagre
majorities—Charlotte by G, and Prince Edward by
1G votes; but we have not heard of frauds having
been committed there. Persons residing in Rich
mond have a right, under the Constitution of Virgi
nia, to vote in every county in tho State, in which
they own land.
fThe table of the Richmond Enquirer shows the
result of the election to he this year, 63 democrats
! elected, in 1839, C 2; federalists elected this year 67,
and in 1839, GS.]
Note. —We have heard the result of the vote in
Caroline and Wythe counties, but do not know how
to place them in our table. The following have been
stated to us as facts, in relation to them :
In Caroline, (represented in the last House ofDcl
j egates by a Federalist) it was a tie when the polls
were closed and certified. Afterwards, two persons
| were permitted to vote for tho Federal candidate.—
j The sheriff, who is a Democrat, would have voted
i for the Democratic candidate, and elected him, if the
1 polls had not been re-opened. As it is, he refuses to ,
return either candidate.
In Wythe, A. S. Fulton, (Fed.) elected hv 13 ma
jority, under a pledge to vote for Democratic Sena
tors, if the county goes for the Democrats in the
fall. This county has always given a Democratic
majority at Presidential elections.
THE VICE PRESIDENCY.
The following card from 3lr. Forsyth, appeared in the
Globe of the Bth instant:
The convention friendly to the present administration,
which met at Baltimore on the sth of May, to recommend
candidates at the next election for President and V ice Pre
sident, having adjourned, after declining to nominate for
the Vice Presidency, Iconsider myself authorized to inter
fere in that question so lur as I have been made personally
interested in it.
The Union party of Georgia, which did me the honor,
very unexpectedly, te make an unconditional nomination
of niefor tiiat office, la.->t year, had the kindness, iu confor
mity to my wishes, to change that nomination in an ex
pression of preference, and to refer the subject to the de
cision of those who were expected, lairly representing
their political friends, to decide upon it.
No decision having been made, union and concert of ac
tion .are now to lx* anticipated. According to the present
state of thing*, no friend of the administration can hope
for an'election by the people. The more lortiurate can be
thrown only hich enough on the electoral poll losecure the
chance ofbring chosen hy tile Senate. Whoever succeeds
then, will occupy his place witK the perfect knowledge
that he owes his elevation to the partiality ofu fragmentof
his own party, and holds it against the decision of a majori
ty of his fellow-citizens.
Withhold the sustaining power of public approbation,
and the honor and emoluments of public otfice in all free
countries, and particularly in this, arc but poor recom
penses for the labor performed, the responsibilities incur
red. and the gross misrepresentations inevitably encoun
tered in fulfilling the duties. Ihirine a large and not un
successful public career, 1 have never yet been placed in a
situation to doubt that the position f occupied was agreea
ble to the wishes of the great majority of those to whom
belonged the power to control it. 1 desire public station
on no other terms. Without denying to the Union party
iu Georgia, or to any other portion of my fellow-citizens,
the. right to use my name, if, in their opinion it will b*»
beneficial to the public, it will not be further mixed ftp in
this contest if my wishes are respected. While the con
test continues, it would he a source of vexation to me, ami
what would he considered a successful result, if attainable,
would afford me uo personal gratification.
JOHN FORSYTH.
[from our correspondent.]
MILLEDGEVILLE, May 13—11} a. m.
The Democratic party of tliiscitv, held a meeting
last night, at the Lafayette Hall. Gon.Sanford was
called to the Chair, and Mr. Charles 1). Hammond,
i appointed Secretary. The object of the meeting
was explained hy Col. Thomas Haynes, who intro
j dneed a resolution providing for the appointment of
commutes to carryout the following purposes.
A committee to make arrangements for the cele
bration of the approaching fourth of July— another,
to draw np a report embodying the principles of the
Democratic party, to be submitted to the meeting
in July, for their adoption— another, to invite the
friends of Democracy throughout thisandthe adjoin
ing States to unite with their political brethren of
of Baldwin county, on the approaching Fourth, in
all the festivities of that hallowed occasion.
The meeting w as very respectable and numerous
ly attended and the utmost harmony and good feel
ing prevailed.
Mr. V\ m. C. Springer, of Carroll, who happened
i to be in this city, was present at the meeting and
some other strangers from other sections of the
! State.
The recommendation from the Democracy ofllich
j mond has found a hearty response iu Baldwin—and
i am satisfied that a very respectable and numerous
meeting wiil be lid 1 here on the fourth of July.
I Almost every mail and every visitor brings cheer
ing intelligence Irom the distant portions of Georgia,
. that the Democracy are linn, and their prospects
| flattering. Hnrrisonism is making sad havoc with
I tic State Rights party. “June” is a familiar and
1 emphatic term in our legislative halls, when the
j members desire to destroy any measure before them,
i There may he something in a name. This June-hup
| of the llarrisouians, will turn out to be a hum-bug!
and the people will “June it ’ in October. Their con
vention, which meets here, next month,
“»V ill come, like sacrifices in their trim,
And to the fiery eye’d God, of xw/defeat,
All hot and bleeding, w ill we oiler them.”
It is reported here,and I believe the report is well
founded, tint the lion. Waiter T. Cohjuitt has sent
in his adhesion to the principles of the present ad
j. ministration in preference to those ofGcn. Harrison,
, : Fuat letter, 1 learn, is in the possession of the edi
! tors of the Georgia Journal, and may appear in that
• paper,—of course, after giving the major sufficient
time to dissect the subject. IVrhaps it may he pub
lished next week, and then you will sec w hether ma
dam rumor is correct when she ussserts that it is al
together Democratic in its tone and inclination.
[communicated,]
I T'o the editors of the Chronicle Sf Sentinel:
Gentlemen :—lf you arc not disposed yourselves
to “suppress truth and suggest falsehood,” you arc
called upon, as editors of an independent press, and
as an act of Justice to Judg3 Colquitt, whom .you
; have mostshamefu !y slandered, to publish in vour
■ j paper bis address “to th ■ people of Georgia and cs
’ ' pecially to the State Rights party.” A failure to do
[ this, can hut satisfy an impartial community of your
want of ail those feelings which should regulate
i and control high minded and honorable editors.
' BILL BREVITY.
j [COM Ml’ .VI CAT ED.}
, j Messrs. Editors, —It is houstingly affirmed hy the
i j advocates of General Harrison, and that too upon
i tiic authority of the last letter of the General to
' ; Judge Berrien, that he denies to Congress the power
; I of abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia.
But, if the letter of General Harrison, to Thomas
i Sloo, Jr. of New Orleans, is to he taken ns the best
test ofhis opinions on that subject, there must he a
1 mistake in the matter. So far, indeed, is lie from
denying the power in question, that he savs Con-
I gross may abolish slavery in the district, by the con
| sent of the States of V irginia, Maryland, and tho
j people of the district!! It will he seen that General
Harrison, in this letter, refers to the one written to
Mr. Berrien, and states that he had written to him
more, at large “but to the same import.” See the
I letter as it follows, takon from the Nashville Banner
of the 17 tli ultimo, whig paper:
| “CINCINNATI, Nov. 2G, 1836.
My Dear Sir, I answer the questions you pro
posed to me this morning with great pleasure.
Ist. I do not believe that Congress can abolish
slavery in the states, or in any manner interfere with
the property of the citizens in their slaves, but upon
the application of the States, iu which case, and in
no other, they might apppropriute money to aid the
states so applying, in getting rid of their slaves.
These opinions I have always held, and this was the
! ground upon which I voted against the Missouri re
striction in the loth Congress. The opinions given
above are precisely those entertained by Mr. Jeffer
son and Mr. Madison .” (Not true.)
| 2d!y. Ido not believe that Congress can abolish
slavery in the District of Colombia, without the con
sent of the people of Virginia and Maryland, and
the people of the District."
“1 received a letter some time since from John M.
Berrien, Esq. of Georgia, proposing questions simi
lar to those made by you, and 1 answered them
, more at length than 1 have now done, but to the same
\ import.
In haste, yours truly,
W. H. HARRISON.”
“To Fliomas Sloo, Jr. of New Orleans, now in Cin
cinnati.”
Here then, it is in proof that General Harrison
speaks for himself, and so far from denying the pow
er in question, expressly admits tiie power of inter
ference, hy the consent of the parties named, and
thus surrenders the principle. What, therefore, is
to become of the assertion, so boastingly paraded in
the columns of the Recorder, and reverberated by
its echoes, that Gen. Harrison is “constitutionally
and every other way” opposed to abolition ? It can
not be otherwise, than that the assertion is not war
ranted by the facts. I suppose the Recorder had
not seen the foregoing letter. But it is said he is not
only “Constitutionally” but ‘•'every other way ” op
posed to the emancipation of the slaves. Just turn