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.1iscellaneotes. From the Clrleston Mercury THE WEATHER-THE CROPS. Few days have pa;ssed within the last two months in which we have not had heavey falls of rain. The season indeed from the commencement should he char acterized as rainy. For two weeks scarce a day has passed' without inore or less of showers-generally sudden and violent. This has endcd in, apparently, the equi noctial storm, which, though not marked by very violent winds, has deluged us with Min almost without intermission for three days. Yesterday the weatherseemed to re turns its former inconstancy-light showers and sunshine. Tie storml is probably at an end. If ibis weather continues, the cot tou crop in our region will be nearly ruiti ed. At the lest it cannot recover fron the cfTects of excessive wet, though a dry aututm would do much for it. In sotne parts of the State, however, the prospects of the season are not unfa vorable. Corn in the up country is said to be generally good, and cotton has not, we believe, sutTered there as it has with us. In Georgia and Florida, the accounts are very various. In North Alabama, cot ton has been seriously injured by excessive rains, and in some parts of Alabama, Mis sissippi and Louisiana, tile caterpillar has committed great ravages. It would be well for those interested to begin to arrane such information as is obtainable, with re ference to the general prospect. It seems scarcely doubtful, that the cotton crop of this year will be a short one, though we have as yet very insufticient materials for any estimate, We shall be obliged to the planters generally for such intelligetce us they can give from their own estimation, and editors will undohteilty do a service to the South by publishing all the anthenntic information they cun obtain on this most interesting subject. The cotton mal;rket usually opens amid a gr-at conflict of opinion as to the amount of the crop, and to that circumstance are perhaps mainly to be attributed the disastrous fluctuations that render the dealinz in cotton almost as hazardous as dealint in cards and dice. THE HON. E. J. BLACK. This gentleman partnook of a dinner with his fellow citizens at the edge of this county and Burke on Thursday last. Be fore dinner he was loudly called on to ad dress the meeting, and did so to the satik faction of all present. except a few harri. son men, some ofwho had to acknowledge that they were staggere'l in the belief of the rectiiude oftheir cont rse itt giving surt port to Win. 11. Hlarrison in prelerence to blartin Vat Buren. He portrayed in a strong liglt who were our friends itt the Congress of tle U uited States, and satified all that they were not to lie found in the ranks of liar rison. lie d welt on the actisaion against him, that ie had left the State Rights par ty, and proved conclusively that tile re verse was the fact, for he still found hin self opposed to the latituditntus construe tion of the Constitutiom; opposed to a Ui ted States Bank; to a Protective TarifT, . . ...-a, -I, -, - - * . .. .. ..., ".. with whom lie formerly acted were now to be found in the ranks of a party who sup port all these odious and Ati .Republican measures. At this meeting there were about 400 persons present. On Saturday last he partook of a am ner with his Iriends in Richmond, and af ter dinner delivered one of the best ad dresses we have ever heard tram him. On this occasion there were between live and six hundred persons present-all of whom, that paid particular attention to hie address, camne away sattidhied with the correctttessonf his course while ini Conttres<, anti the justice of t he cause in which he is embarked.-Conlstiutioalist. TilREE DAYS LATER FROM EUTROPE. By the steam-ship Acadia, ait Boston, from Liverpool, we have Londton papletrs to thte evening of thte 3d tilt., and Liver pool to te 4th 'rThe Acadia left Liverpool at 3 P. M. on the 4th, arrived1 nt Haullihlx att 7 A. 31. on the 15th, in 10 days andt 16 hours. Shte was delayed lhv ing 10 houtrs, anid did not get into pot until5 P. M. She remiained there six hours, and at 11 P. 31. left for Boston, and made the passage in84S- hours. The recetnt turn of aidhirs in reeard to the Turkish and Egyptimn qluestioni, has created a strong; sensation in France; which feels its pride wounded by being omitted from the Treaty between Enuland, Rus sia, and other powers, for the adjtistimetn of that dispute. There was even tilk of war; and some warlike demonstrations had been made on the part of France. But ini our opintion there is no dantmer of actual wvar. The occa~ioni is not sitllicient, and there are too many countteratctotg tro tives and tendiencies, to renider such nu evenit probable. The case is rightly view ed, as we deemn it, in the extract copied below from the London Moninti lierail. There arc no later adlvics frott China. The overlanid mail wonhi he due about the 8th of Aucust. TIlE BOUNDARY. The reptort of Col. Mudlge antd Mr. Fa therstonhtaugh had been comtmutnicated to Parliamen:!, forming a vohumte of 88 folio pages. It had inot yet been published, but the Tnines ofJutly 31, hiasa long and hom bastic article about it, fromt which we learn that it "goes the whole figure" in supporting the pretensions of Great Brim ain, and~ even sets til a claim to portiotts of what has heretofore becen rocognised, without dispute, as a part of the State of Maine. WVe ought .0 he thankful, no doubtt, that the whole ohf Newv Englantd is not set down as British grountd by the modest comtmissioners, Messrs. M udge and Featherstonhaught. The following paragraphs are given as the conclusion of the report. "We report that we htave found a line ofbhighlatnds agreeing wvith the hinguaige of the second article of the treuty of 1783, extending frotn the ntorthwestermost bead of the Connecticut river to the sources of the Chauderf, antd passitng thentce in a north-easterly direetlion, south of the Roos tue, to the bay of Chaleurs. "WVe farter report, that thtere doe5 flat exist in the dispnted territory any othe.. line of' highlands which is in accordance with the second article of the treaty of' 1783 does not pass nearer than from -1 10 50 miles of the northwesterio.t head of the Connecticut river, and therefore has no pretension to be put forward as the une intended by the treaty of 7%3." The Times gives the subtoined as the substance of the result arrived at by the coi tistioners. They have satisfactorily ascertained by a strict investigation of the face of ihe coun trv, by -in industrious perusal and com parison of charters, treaties. transfer of territory, and other historical records, the absolute arid indisputable conformity be tween the intent and spirit of the treaty of' 1783, and the demarcations of territory originally coitended for by Great Britain; that no portion of the "disputed" districts ever could, under the authority of that treaty, or with any color of justice, have been claimed liv the United States; t hat the award of the King of' lolland, which translerred to the republic about three filths of' the "disputed territory," was founded on erroneous data, and on entire ignoratce or facts which have been sub sequent ly developed, that tie award of that Severeit. if accepted by the parties, could never have 'een executed under any circumstances, tle struitetre of the cotnt try interposing thereto physical and irre moveable obstacles, that, so far from the smallest fraction of due disputed territory falling withit the line of the United Stites, a rigorous construction of some authorita tive documents would actually prove a just title on the part of England to a liar tion of what has heretofore been regarded as part of the State of Maine itself; and that, in ite, the conclusions upon which certain "official agents of the republic have rested the American case, instead of being the legitimate resuhls of practical investigation, are unsubstantial inventions brought forward in the absence of all real iovestigntion, conveying erroneous ideas of the nture of' the country, and calcula. ted to nisl-ad not only their own atuthori ties. but public opinion inl the United States aund in Etrope, as to the merits of the question.'' All this may pass for Gospel with the times, in its profoud ignorance of the whole suliject, but we bhll be able to tell a difllrent story perhaps, when the report is at our dispoval. Antd by way, our Gov ernment should cause it to be published at once. From the Augusta Constitutionalist. TIlla ELECTIONS. The result of the recent elections in 7 of the Siates is now knowr.. unti wo eni Formi an estim ate of' the influence that re stlt will have ott the eleetion in Noveitber for President and Vice President of lte U. Sta;ttes. Lousim.-In this Stare the democrat ie party has gained a otember of Congress, a mNjoritv of one in tihe Sen-tie, and re dutced [he whig majority in the [louse of' Representatives of the state to 3. North Catrolina.-The federal whig can didate for Governor. Morehead, has bwett elected by about 1.800 votes majority over his democratic competitor, Sautnders. The f6d-ral n hics have ntit intereased ma iority in buth branches of the legislatore. n y wil m E ne now, ,it 1,. .,... , ,-... -.. two federal whigs to the Senate of tet U. States. This result,which we did not no ticipaie. does nt look very well for a echange between this atd November. tho' in 1836, the whig governor was elected. and ye"t the vote of the State was given to Mr. Van Buren. A similar result may take plae, but we doubt it, the majority oflthe whigs is too great, it) exp Iect a chanIt sulficictly large to carry the democratie electorial ticket. Kenutiucks.-IlThis State, as it was ex pe'ted, htas cotte foir t he fe'deral nhligs, by an intcr'ea-ud maotityt. Itliaue.-We never caulttatild on thti State for thi' adm'ginuiitrationi. 13utt we didt ttot expect they would hian b eetn abule to carry thte State by so overtwhelmiing a mta j1urity. No doubht the State will vote far Alabama.-We have not been deceived ini thte result oft the electio'i ini tis Suauie. Though the mtajori ty itt thI e iailatture has been redultcedl, yet thte pop~lulat vote has in' crea;sed nuearuly 5.100li votes, in favor of' thue democratic mta~jority of' 7 votes int the' Senate, anud 8 in the [louse; maikiug 15 on loint ballot. IIlinos.--The result of' thte election in this State is biably f'brutale to ithe demno cra;tic party, atnd mtuch better I han we an ticipatedl. Last yecar thtere wats a whtig maujority of 1 in thte Settnue, andI I. in the House. Thec result of the presettt elect iont is a demtocratie majority of' II int the Setn ate, atnd of' 14 in thte I loutse,attl an incr'ease of thte poiptular vote, fr'ott I.0C0 in litvour of te demttocratic party, of' tneatrly 4.000 votes. Thtis is a glorious tr'iumph for the demtocr'acy of the West. Missouri.-Wec hatve not ftull reports frtomu this State, bnti snificientt retturnus havt e been received to show thtat the dleauoratic catndidates f'hr Governtor, l,ieuuetnant Gov ernor, andl tmettbers of' Congress, ha~ve been elected by incereased ntuajortities, anud thaut the deuterats will htave ant inc'reatsed majority in botht branches of' thte legisla ture. INDEPENDENT TREASURYl.-Tlte fuol lowing is the fouttth se-liotn of an act ent titled "an aict to establish the Trreasury Depiarttmettt, "approved the 2d1 tf Sep tembler, 17S0, b y George WVashington: Sec. 30. Antd lie it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Treasurer to receive antd keep thte mtonteys of thec Untited States andt~ to dlishnrtse the same, &c. Ilie shall at all times stiutmit to the Secretary of the Treatsury atnd thte Comnp. ttrotler, or eithter of thema, the inspiectiont of' ithe monueys in htis hands." The' f'olloinig is the 30)tht section of the samne act; "5ce'. 30. And be it further enacted, Thtat the duties anud fees to he collected biy virtue of' this act shtall be uecceivcd in goll andi silver coitn ontly." It will thuts be seer. that the act to es tablish a Treusury, apiproved by Marttitn Vatn Burent on thte 4th of' . uly, 1840f, is identticaf in principule, with the act appr'o ved on theo 2dl of' Sesptemnber, 1780,. by George Washtingtott; tthat thte lnd.'pentdem Trreasury Systenm is a returtn to theo gooed old plant tif theo fratners of thte Constitution. '[hat anrina Vnn Jntret, n r.. .............. ing and approvimg the systen, is omly doing just w.hat the *ather of his country did, and that now, in establishing this system, we are only changing practices silemy introduced by Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Tiensury, and the grrat patron of Futdmontigerintg. Fed eralism, nod Aristocracy, and getting back to the original purpose of the ConsiLutiot, and to the origitit practice under it. Augusta Mai Age. PLATTBUrO AGAIN INVADED--Lake Champlain in the hands of the British! American waters explored, and sounded by the authorities of Great Britaitin!! Yor several weeks we have been informed by Captains or schooners upon our lake, that a number of British officers have been explorim and sounding our waters, tider the preence that they were out upon a fishing excursion! This reminds us of the spy which the Persian army sent out to view the Spartans: Ile reported that the Spartans were doing nothing but combing their hair. A k nowing one remarknd. that this was the mode the Spartans had adop ted to prepare for battle. The British have perhaps adopted asimilar plan to pre pare for war under the preence ofa fish ing and pleasuire excursion, [t is cer tuin that they have been sounding and ta kinlg chart ofour lake. We mention this because our Custom House olficers are so friendly to the British that they would never mole-t them sounding our waters in the vicinity of the breakwater! They then came a,hore-iarched through our streets --and tonk a chart of our village and roads!! The editor ofthis paper. in company with a young- man, proposed to his companion, that we should go and meet the British and demand of thetn what right they had in thus proceeding? Oar associate agreed to this, and we accordingly made the in quiry. They inforied it- that they had pertitission from our rulers!!-Plattsburg 11-hig. Extract of a lelter to the Editors. ofthe Charles (on Courier. dted "WiL'nUNoTON. (N. C.) Aig. 21. Recent cirounstnnces have made their appearinee in so prominent manner, that not thte lea-st doubt retnims, but there has been a robbery of the Southern miail, per hap, to soie extent. The facts, as Ar as I have learntt hem. are from a person who saw the mail bags, and therefore may be relied on as being correct, as flar as they go. They are as follows: "On the 19th instant as some person or persons were crowsitg the bridge over the Rotioke, at Veldon, they perceived a bag, no.l stupposed it to contain meal or sotnething of the kind. and gave notice to that eflect to other4, otte of whom procur ed a hook mid line (the bridge a consider. able distance above the iate ) and soon flsitned on in it, but found it so heavy thati he cottd not raise it, until he had procured Ithe assistance of several negroes. They finally got the bag on the bridge, and fotnd it to contain a qantity of lrae stIOes, and also a smaller bag, aul in this small bag were a number or letters and papers thoronghly saturated with water. They were taken up to Weldon and ex iaminecl. The letters had all been opened, and drafts. checks, money. &c. extracted 1heriri. n. some or ihti -:ters them selves clearly inidicated they contained ,ich. Among them was Onie directed to Col. R. M1. Johr.son. from Alabana. There were also papers-atong them a Constittitiouists (Aigtst) of Atgtist 11. "A nwssenger %%as forthwith sent on to Washingtotn to make knwnrv the ciretim stance, and to have the mater sifted, which will he done itt a few dlays, aud then you will have the partictlars." CoLM IA S. C. Aitg. 26. S-ront.--On TIhursdlay nightt latst we had a violeui strm. Tomrrents of' trtin poutredc dowc'n fromt the black cloutds whicht patssed cover us-the dauzzling brillancy of tihe lightenting wats fearful-ithe freqiet atnd heanry peals tf thunder appalling, Dutring a half htour t hte rever beratiotns were conit inut tita intiervals anud severn'tt hteavi ly cha~mrg.elcttnIds exp)loded wvih igareal via lenice over ottr towtn. The Ar-ettal wa~s cck--thce contdertctr probably saivedl the hutdding; the electric fluid ptassedi doiwn to Ite loiwer story, wthich it entteredl, tlhrowintg downt sonme ofthec bricks of the wtall, atl tough thte ins.ulation of the conductor ap-. peared perfect. in this room ,vas two rows of1 motinteti catnnont-the fluidt tra v ersed the metalh andm irott mountimigs anti pastd oilf itt four direetions, having shiv cred att old carriage which had the iron ta ken oli. The flocor was scorched whtere thte fhutid passetd off, and the doors sotme whtat sphitntered. The Theological Seminary had a por tion of thIe rtoof torn oilf, andI a qutantity of sicot thtrown downt the chitmney was igniited ott the floor itt the btasememi sI ory-whtich being cof brick pirevented the exertion of the lire. A itmall store at the Bridge was same what intjutred butt nmot sericously. The bonctse of M1r. S. Botat wright "was struck, buit thle conductor preven~tted atny iury* exceptinig to at few panes of ghamss wvhic'h wvere brocken by the shouck. The coceu~sion wvas felt by sorne of thc family, an re xtend to otir owtnc dwellitng opucosite. Tw" o pesn wtere jarred andc thrown down, arid thte lights itn the lower stotry ex Seve.rah other places were strttck but no material detmage stustaine d.--Planter, Tux~ WVnER~i.-Tlhe elouds have been philg ont uts like forty fire engines f'or a whole week. A little ctrchin four years old, assures us with the gravity of a patil osophler, that "fhe never knew it rain so easy before." You cannot step ittto the streets btut somie cortner of a cloud empties its bucket on yoiur head. If there is a bit of vatnor as big as a common "soaplock" in an'y ocbscutre cortier of the glitteritng sky, look out for a perfect deluge tin half an htotur at the miost. We arc till in a stip and~ on the high w~ay to drowiing-ratin for' breakfast, intner amnd suppc~er--.ratin for "stir'ru p'p and "ntighitenip"-in shotrt, we' have mtonuirous wet wveather.-Chtar. Mlercury'. The WVashtingtoni Globe denie's the re port via Norfolk. that tihe Secretary of W ar hadtc becoime the .$eeretary oif the Na vy, atnd Mr. B~euton had become Secrct a r of' WVar. From the Saaninal Georgian. FRom FLOnIDA,--BY tie stCaIer Charles Downing Capt. Dent, we have received the Jacksonville Advocate of the 14th uh. and the Sr. Augustine News and Herald of Ite 14th ult. frot m hich we extract the toIlonl iug: Indian neews.-We have been permittred to lake the following extract from a letter to a gentleman (if this place, dated 'New uansville. A ugust 10lt. 18-0.' "1r. John Delancy, jus.t arrived at this place from Fort Tarver, on Payre's Prai ne, informs us, that while a negro fellow, the property of Mr. .lohn Hlope, was hunt ing on Traver's Field, he discovered five Indians in the act of carrying oill' corn. The negro being arned with a double bar relled gun, charged with slugs, immedi ately fired upon them. Or the discharge or tie first barrel, he kill-d one onl the spot. The owher four immediately fled. when he discharged the second barrel, wounded one scverlj. The truth of this may ble relied on. It addition to the above, we learn that on Wednesday of last week, lur families were massacred in the vicinity of New River. Signs of abooit filly Indians were seen. A company of Dragoons had been started in puirsuit. It it is rmnored, that on Thursday, seven Draigoots with two women, proba. bly soldier's wives, were killed fifteen miles from Black Creek, on the Newnatis ville Road. We give this as a doubtfil rumor, however. Thesteamer Santee, Capt Poinsett, has' gone down the coust, to convey the freight of the Wm. Gaston from Smyrna to the military posts South, Front the Savannah Georgian 27. ult. JEFFERSO. Camdem Co., Ga. Angn-.t 24, 1840. To the Editors of the Savannah Georgian. Dear Sic-You will pilenne tublish buch portints ofthte enclo.ed letters as relate to the hostility and movementsofrte savages, for the informatiion of the community at large, and ollige Respect frlly yours, GEO. LANE, P. MI.Jetbr:,nton. CENTaItsILLAGE, Aug. 19. 1840. Dear George-I am sorry to inform you, that the Iidians have done a anod deal of mischief otn tie Suwany,aid it is thought that they have again cante into the Oka faooke; last Friday they killed Joseph Howell's wife and twochrildren, and Dan iel Green's wife. and shot his daughter through the shoulder; they have, robbed and burnt out the inhabitniits as they went. begirning at Green's. they have turnt nearly all the dwelling; op to Fort Gil mer. Jiseplt loiell and George John. got in here to-day; they followed them up the Soiany several miles, and founil 14 dwelling burnt. 'lhev all are forted inl at old Bill C.mio's and Calitin Sander laii's. The Itndians fired on Sanderlait's htoe, all night on Friday nigin, thle next morning took the road ip the riyer, andl only went five or six miles, to old Sutnar Lill's place, and killed some hogs and cat tie, and stayed all night. This is the mtost hold and daring act they have com mitted since the comm itelceienit of tile wr; I le peple- above this are 2enerally very m111m are' ate some of thein tire lready movinig ol-whether n ith sulfici ient cause, I ctiot say. Absaltn Cos iey's chrildren, six i miber, wert killed lasi Weainesday. on the South Prong of tle St. Mary's; some suppose, iy the same party. I ha e nothtiug more worth your attention it presvr. I remain yours, most truly, STEPIlIEN 3lcCALL. P. S.-Thomas Wright is burnt out amongst the rest. ('.:s raigi'tLaa , Augt. 23, 18-10. Deaer George-All is excitemen'tt and alarmt upl cihis-wey; the iins hav'e kil led 'Thoimams Davis undet'ioof hisc'hiiIrent, andtc Johnr Pat rick's wife. TI'l-y hatd gath-i e~ced at Archi. I lortan's (Moin,) and ott Wed nesdaly jusc abote tnight fall, they at tacke'd theit lactLe' and killed lie aboive per souls an d lburnred every hlibiline on thle placed except rthe one ricat thery defencded: They hav e bitrtnr Davis' plamce and hilmey's and rihene oilier icr thre coun cty. It ise aboue 30 mriles fr'om here. I edo noiLt thinikw are in edange'r hiere as vet. tou.th others think editl'erentt. Tfhere is a par't of two compilanics eel D)'ragons fromri Black Creek already scountg abourt thle OJkethttke, and Tracy is tryicng tel raiso flftamen lr thirty days, utndran order l'romt Gen. C. F'leyed. What will be thre final isstue,iie only will show. It' I think there is arty danger here, I shall at once take niy family away fromi here. Yeiurs int btaste, STIEPIlE~N McCALL. AtJous-rA, Autgust 25. Murde-r.-Cosierabhle e'xcitemntt was prduced in thle city ye'sterdary bty the re piort i' ot r mn bteirg fthicun ciure'r'ed nlea r the Sari lBar Fe'rry. The Coroirer wet itrmediately' tel the sptot. anid f'rom tracks, discovered thatrte body hadr been drag aced fcrm rhe roadl, anil throwns i doiwn aa baink into) tie riv-r. \~ jury w5as sumt coed from: the cityv, andct ot breinrg able to atgree, the biody wais btrought urp to ttis phlice', antd a post mronrn exacinairtieon mitole hs J)r. Ga;rdnrer'-there wa.;s conid erable ext ravacsratitn ef bloio I under the frontal hiotte, andI his steirteumt f'racturedl, the injurie's, evideuntly iniflicteed by a club, andI by beittg stamtped upon. No personi trecogised the indlividlual, w'ho appeured to be a laboring mani aborittforty-lfive years of age; nor any clue discovered as to the perplerractor's oh' rte deed. The body will be exposed at te gravc-yard tn-day until 3 o'clock. Death ~y Lightninrg.-Wec learni that Robe'rr Tar'ver, of this ttct v, wa's intstant ly killed biy lighitning while stanintg in the dooirr of his dwelling on Thtursdaty last, during the fall of' a shiowser oh' rain. TIhere wer'e oilier cmetmberse of his famnily itt thre borirse at tte uietime, whto we helies e,~esca ped u ninijured .-C'onstituionalist. Augus-rA, August 27th. Tihe Reent M1urdr.-No elewv lia, yet beent tad to the perpietratolrs of'theo horriel mutrder' noeticed in outr last. The urnfor'tn nate indiividuial is thought to lie a mant biy the name oIJohtn Wagner, a German by biirth and sheotmtaker' by trade, u Iholft this city fotr Chiar-lestont tin htrrschrarkt a nd it is money saved fron his hard earnins, as ou pa ing for the stablin:: of his hurse he was observed too have a roll of bllls. Ev cry exertion has been made by our city ai iborities to fiud out the perp.etraors of the horrible deed, but so far m illiout sticcess. It %%ill be seen by an advertisement in this mornin;g's iper hiat t he Ma.or Ias oifered a rewrird of two hundred dollars for the apprehension nid conviction of the murderer and as I descriptit (it ih horse is given in Ithe advert;Seismit. It may 1:c the imenns of leading to his detection, we would Call attetion t to it. We hope continued exertions will be made by our citizens and City Authorlics, to find out the murderer, for it would be a disgrace to our city, that a deel so horrid should be Cnrtinitted in open day so near our city, and the culprit go unpunished. ib. New Cotion --The first hale of New Cotton,. rceived here this -cn'on, was yes terdIay handed at the warehouse ofii es-s S. Kneeland & Son, frem the prlanration lf Charles T. Beall, Esq., of Columbia County. We did not see a sample of this Cotton, but understand, it was or dinary.-ib. ETfji el 1Y itr t is tr. EDGEFIELD C. 11 TitunsDAY, SEPTEMBDER 3; 18-10. We refer our readers to the a Ivertisement of Dr. E. Marks, anid Rev. IV. 1H. Tyler, which we publish to-day. Rain! Rain ! 1-Will the floods of heaven never cense to ponr down upon us? Since our last. several heavy showerslhave falen. and on Monidiy evening thel 31st tilt.. the streets of our vitnge: were floatinag in water. E.spaey now sways the sceptre over this broad land. One can scarcely take a walk, or rid- for pleasur-, or go to see a friend in the country, wirhoit be iing drenehed to the skin. Tht lover cannot, these dyis, ride by the side of his lady, unless he caries cloak aid umbrella. to shield the dear one from the pitiless stoirm. Black cloudis and driving slivers allow him no time as ha! speeds along, to discourse on the beauty of the scenery oii the road, or to whisper swee: things in the williir ear of his mistre-s. Alas! rain coo's love ter rily. lie and shei must run for life, to escapa- the ailling flood. We are no erimblers, bitt we pray far a littae dry weather. Let all good Chri:tianas uniite with us. Dr Duncan.- Whigr papers have said a great deal nlortit the Abolition principles of' D. Duncan, a Van Buren member of Congres., from Ohio. This gentleman in a letter from Wtshington, repels the charges made against him by the Whigs. After statinr that the Phi lanthropist, an Abmlition paper paliubliebed ill Cinciiiati. denoiuced him, and his an ti-.\hoi tion pm.ciples, in ito .i asuired terms, advising all good Abohtionists to witritiold their vowas from him in the comiing e!ection, Ite says; "I int not an Abohi ionlist. Whraiever feel. ing I have on the subijec; aif etan.- ipationi. is ill fa or ti rol.mzatioi. I eitnt buit look upui.. the praclicn operations of Abailition as more dangerous tiatn oay evil that could belil our cotintry and out ution." The United Stales Bank of Pennsylrania. Tiiis itistittion, as soie of otr readers wijl remember, at the close of thel last six mnoiitla. did noi declare a div dend. li consetnence oh this, inny inlividu a's atd poor famiiies wl. depended in these dividetds for a support. were not able to iteet their engagements, and were teduced to di.,iress. .Mlr. ientot, some years since. snid that tmis bank. which was then in tire ph-nitiide aif its pouwer, was biroke, atnd that the bills wouaild ere laong be wonrless. Ii is highty probable, that it is iatterly insovint. and hans beeti so for yeairs. Daaabiless, the bn wa~s brake, when .\!r. Biddlle,in spite of law aind public opiniutn, threw out its atid bills upon the cortn anity. aied baiught cottonl tto the uni of milIliotns. This he did under, ite pretext o relie vinig tihe great piessaire of the coutrity. Bitt we woitld inot war upon tire dea:d, for we regnaid the Pennsylvanaia Uited States bank, as niow defunct, at least so fair its we are con cerned. Onr object in specaking of it at this time, is to rermiind thre advoc:ites of anathecr Na tional Bank, of somne of the evils bron-:ht on the comnnmtliitt by the late in-tituion. The whole coandnet if this hank, teaches the pteopilae a whole some lesson. Let them beware of establishiing antothIer. A Bedouin Arub.-An Amearican travelling in thte deaserts of Arabia, amontig thre Bedoiiis. a tribe distin inishied for threir wvildntPs, and ignorance of the' arts of civilizatioin, in a con versnliiit with oe of them, askeda himt whno ga~rrned thteii. Ie si iatcheid haimself tip arid answered iin otte worh. "God." Tniere is a stiblimrity in thi< answer oaf the uit rned snry age geeniliairly striking. There is also a reli gints fi-eltig in it. whichr shlont~d put to the bhiish, the sk piirs andr scorfiners itt Christiant ciunitries. lIonu trite ii is. that Gord wvill trot le:;wer hinwesalf wiuthoiir a witrnes! Thoiingh somre ouf the lc::rn-i ed have dlenied him, :md~ e-tn dliszpned his ex ist'ncet, tire simpalle chiildreit of tire desert still ownr him, anrd acknowledge hris power over rTe same traveller asked ithe Arab, if hris couiniry-mienr were; goverrned bry threir Shaeik, tire head ol a tribe, lie ranswered, "No, we gov crnr him."' The sturdy inidepentdenace of tire wild edloiii, canitnot hut cormmanrd or rami ration. This is thre true Reptublicant doctrmie. it free cemmtrie<. rlers ad mn itt anitharity do tnat govenrn th: jpp/c tire lntter govera hem. Gioverniors anda lRepreseta~tives in our counrtry, cannot too often, bae remirnded of this. Fromt the Georgia Argus. The Richmtonrd Enrquirer chuarges thuat Mr. P'reston dlidi, on the iiht of the 2:3d J1 uly, inl a speech in the "Log Caibin"' in lI ichmondl tuse hingugit to the etlicer, that "if Mr. Vann Biuren conl not ihe displaced hrong~h the ballot boxu inl Noivember next. Ihnit if lhei evil orf which Ire comirplaitied couli d niot lie remroveda by ain a ppeal ta the polls, hre, for oni.-, was ready' to resort ho such means as Godr and nuatiuro lhad ptt m'int his huandls to foirem a chntea." Are threse the prinicijh-4 if tc pnrry? We ha1ve; heard hcrC of bribery, ihrigue and corruption in elections; we Iv lieard of party attempts to carry a precinct or ;a conmy letition by fraud or force, but this is the firt time thtl we have heard of this broadcast threat toi deluge the country iII tlloit'd, in, re-isttance to) the wilt f tie ma joritv, corishiutionality expres-ed in a mat ier, in wihich the imijurity h;t e the con slit utional right to govern. h is the first timep, tai ansy leader (if a party has said to the people of the c.1tt1y, "we will go ilt. power, peneenlity it' we can, forcibly if we uinst." Ir is the first rime, that anl atteipt has been made to awe the tinii from the rree etereise of the right of suf. frage, by warning them that they cannot exercise that right according to the die totes of theirjudgement, but at the peril of imvolving their country in all the lor rors (if a civil war. But whence come these thireats! Are they from an obsesre, drunken partizan, who seek, notoriety from the recklessness. of his course? Not so. They conic fronr a man high in office and charaeter-the chosen orator of great party, who travels from State to Staie, stirring up men's minds to mI'adness by exercisei of powers ordecla mation which fall to the lot of few men . of any ag- or coutitiy; from a man hold and ardent in temperament, and perhaps ambitious in his feelings. who seeing his prospects blighted at home, may feel hope for the gratiication of his insatiable era vines in the fearful scenes of a bloody revo lution, for powers such as his admirably qualify their professor -to ride upon the whirlwind and direct the storm." l isi time for the people to begin to think, -it is time for them to throw away their mummery and ask themselves fo'r what purpose it is that all this show, and parade, anid excitetnent is resorted to, before they pe-rinit themselves to 1e led away by men who entertain such sentiments and avow such purposes. We have forbnrne until now, to notice the remarkable expression of Mr Preston, at Rich. mond, as we hoped to see a denial, or at least an exp'anation on his part. of the language im wnted to him. So far as we know, he has made it ither We yet hope, that he will either deny it, or explain it We are unwilling to believe, that a Senator whom dontlh Carolina once trnsted. could so far forget himself as to utter laimunge only worthy of a political incendiary, or a maddened revoluionist. Conmmunications. IAM.BURO, Ang 27, 1840. Mr. Editor.-Plee publish in your paier the follon ing : The IEdgiefield Harrison and Tyler As iicialtioln conivened at the Baptist Church, on attirday e'eiing lost, it receive the report of the nomininaug conmmittee,. The President in the Chair, the minutes of the la-t ueeting were read and con iirned. Tie Chairman of the Committee being abs-ent, 31r. I. L. J'-fier, one of the coim mitnee, reported --iva1 %ee,' that they had cofuerred with s.v-ral gentletmsn, up on the subject of stillering their names to .ippiear as candidates on the Whig ticket :oir the Le-iiature. aiul that Cpt. Wm. Garrett and Mr. Andren% J. lammond iimve consented to run upon that ticket and ht the cominiittee recoinmend the nomi iation of those gentlemen. V herenpon Mr. Da% id L. Adams of lered the flhlowiu Resolution which was 9 u1inaninously carried. Resolved, That this Association con eur n ith the citizens of Abbcville, in the lomiination oh 319j. W. W Starke for Congress, and that this association do fur . oneur in the report of the nonina tig cottimirtee. all itn so doiie, we pledge i~unr umividled suflrages to the support of thlose't cidat es. Tlh.- Comminee of Vigilance reported pr1 'are.,s. N1 r. Kierun~gha m111toved,se'cond edi biy 31r. .Jamec 11. An-'leriion, that the lla.muurg Jottrna:l tand Edgefield Adver liser lhe regniested to publis. these pro-. reedings. Th'le meeting then adjourned. J. WS. STIOKICS, Pres't. D.ivtu G. TAYLtOa, S'y atnd Tres'r. TTl OR FA LSEHOOD. M~r. Edit .r:-Peuminig that your ciilumnns ure- iipen to all honioratble means of suplportinlg those principles of truth, whieht, as gentlemenel anid :as freemen, weo hol inviolable, we beg perlmiission, birief ly to) answer a garhlcd ail false account u hielt appeared in the "-Pendlleton Mes se'nger," of the 15th instant, of a Harrison mee-ting held at A bbeville C. 11. on Sale Daty last. Thi-, account was dotubtless produced by a trio of villnge upstarts. whto with mtore presuniption than ciommotl setnSe, : e in in their spleeni itpon thoseC, wh~o either fortunaltely or unfortumntCy, htave beeni se lecedei to run be'fore them, in the race for which they are gaspingt hti if we are not ver~y mneith mtistak~en itn the freemnt of Ah bi'ville Districtr, it wmill he long before either of threse, is ente re I orn the list. untless indeed thev solic'it eacrh o ier, as mthey have mu tually ;trrtrnged to trumpet each otther by loii i. Perhapls, t!:e mnamle of Elijah w hic'h thley wtrshty emg fall uipon them, in somei propiionts any! Theii'e h-'arued crities, or' embryo stites men set out by declaritng -llarrisonismt dlemolished in the bnd"-a decclar'ationt whieb savours more of bravado than pru dan'tce, sn1ce the second Mondai3 in Octo ber lhasyet to de':ide bietween the falso prophelts atnd the tr-ue- of the two regi mentts in thtis dlistrict, one has declared (hr llarrisonismt-t ti Savannah regiment is ours-thme other has a mnjority for ourop ponenuts, anid will have unless truth can be presetd to the vmecrs previous to the VTe "tissue of party slanig," of wvhich these gentitlmen comlalin, ito dflnht fell rather harshly', tipon net-ves relinedl by sneh exqutisite pollej ats i heirs-:a policy which with henutfutl consistency', hrts beetn able ini tihe com-rse oif at low yeatrs, to create ont of thec '-high Tartit fle"' "the Iinternal lmn provemetint mitm" thte "Aholitionlist" '"the corrupt Politician" -"the worst ettemy of the South" who crawledt into the Pr'esi dential c hair' thtottght the slime of execu tive pattr-onage'" the "Fox ninid . Weasel"' ctc--a conisistent mnt with Southcrni feelinmgs since 1812, a fact, hiowever, never disecovered till the Extra session of' Con I ress. 18'7-Tis, it musttt be admitted,