Madison Daily Courier, Volume 1, Number 82, Madison, Jefferson County, 4 August 1849 — Page 2

ati'i tht-n waferiug them up over the fire-place of hiw counting-room, in doubt, apparently, whether lie rightly understands the contents. DAILY COURIER.

,n . c . ; a n is i: u , r.,i nor. MTl H1IA1 KVi-.M.X;, AKJJST i. B E.TIOC It AT I C? TiOll I AT I (). FOR GOVERNOR, JOSEPH A. WRIGHT, OF TARKE COUNTY. lOK LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, J A M ES II. LAN E, I OK DEAKEORN COUNTY. lOR CONGIIKS, SECOND DISTRICT, CYRUS E. DUNHAM, OF WASHINGTON COUNTY. MADISON, August 3, 1843. To my Fellow-citizens of Jefferson county: I arrived here to-day, expecting to address you. on the subject of the approaching election. I find wince the appointments were made, the President of the United States has recommended this day to le observed as a Fa.st day. Feeling it my duty to pay proper respect to recommendations from the head of our Government. I withdraw the appointment, and leave the matter with you, confident that in the selection of your Lieutenant Governor you wilt be governed by a sincere desire to advance the true interests of our State. Yours respectfully. J. H. LANE. V. Dunn. This gentleman paid his respects to the Courier on Thursday evening last, in his speech at the Lower Market-House, in the style usual with men who have run out of ideas, and who have to make up a long speech in declamation and abuse. Mr. Dunn has treated us in a manner very unbecoming a gentleman, lie taid that we have published false insinuations, and matter which we "knew in our heart to be untrue," and the same charges have been reiterated by the "whipper-in'' in the Banner, yesterday. Mr. Dunn paid our friend S. F. Covington a deserved compliment, but somewhat at our expense. Of this we do not complain. Our friend had lived here until, in the language of the proscriptive class, he was "to the manor born," while we are a stranger. This Mr. Dunn noticed, with the intention, we suppose, of reminding his friends of the enormity of a stranger of three weeks' standing daring to have opinions, even upon trivial subjects, contraty to those which he and his friends entertained. Our being a stranger, however, did not prevent Mr. Dunn from saying as many hard tilings of us as he could, without the use of Billingsgate. We are a stranger now; but we hope to remain long enough to live down all the vile insinuations and accusations Mr. Dunn lias been Y'leysed to make against us, although we have not had the ad vantage of having had two brothers in the war with Mexico with tore feet. Now, have we committed the crimes and misdemeanors charged upon us by Mr. Dunn, and by his satellites of the Banner? We have said that we believed the circular a Whig fabrication. We did so believe at the time the article was prepared; and why? Because we had never heard of such a paper until 3Ir. Dunn exhibited i: at North Madison on Tuesday evening lat; because no Democrat that we had conversed with in this city had heard of it until Wednesday , and then from Whigs; because the circular and the Salem News of Tuesday, July 31, was at North Madion and in the Banner office on Tuesday, the day the News purported to have been issued at Salem, lauding Mr. Dunn and abusing Mr. Dunham; because this circular was in the hunds of Whigs only; because Mr. Dunham declared at North Madison thai he knew nothing of the contents of that circular, and had not read it until it was shown him by Mr. Dunn; and, finally, because we find in this circular no chaige against the Whig party, with but one exception, but what has been ctarged upon the Whig party time and again by the Democratic press and speakers during the last five yeas s. j As our paper was coins to press on Wednrsdav eve nine we learned for the first time that the circular is genuine, and we intended to say so to-day. It has been pubhi-hed in the Democratic papers of the District, in ihe Banner, and Mr. Dunn has bought and distributed them among the people, and he is welcome to all he can nuke out of them. We learn that Mr. Vawtcr on Wednesday, at Vernon, distri

buted the circulars to all who asked for them to both Whigs and Democrats; and that Mr. Dunn, thinking Mr. Vawter would refuse to let him have some of them, and that he could made capital out of the refusal, sent a friend with an offer of $10 for one hundred of them, which were cheerfully sold to him; and Mr. Dunn's friend was informed, at the same time, that he could buy more, or that, if he was not disposed to purchase, Mr. Vawter would furnish him all he could distribute gratuitously. The fact that the circular has been published in the Democratic papers proves that it was not intended to be secret, and we think, justifies us in the belief that no secret movement would have been attempted without the sanction and privity of the Democrats in this city. XxMr. Milton Hill, postmaster at Paris, received from Mr. Dunham's brother quite a "quantity" of the infamous circular, for distribution, but refused to let Mr. Dunn or any of his Whig friends have one copy, "for love or money." We love Milton as a man, and always thought he teas a man. We have been requested by Mr. D. M. Hill to say, that the above statement in the Banner of yesterday morning, and which, he was told by the editor, was furnished by Mr. W. M. Dunn, is untrue; that he distributed the circulars to Whigs and Democrats, until he four i out by Whig authority, that the object was to bring the circular into Jefferson county, to defeat Mr. Deputy and the other Democratic candidates of Jefferson county. The following certificates are Aom Whigs who know the facts, and have had the fairness to state them: I, James A. Samson, a Whig, do certify that I was at D. M. Hill's store when Mr. Dunham's brother left some Democratic handbills at said Hill's store, I asked for one of them, and William B. Hill, deputy postmaster, gave me one of them, and I gave it to another Whig. August 3, 1819. JAMES SAMSON. I, Joseph Davies, a Whig, do certify that on last Monday I called at D. M. Hill's store, and asked for one of the Democratic handbills left by Dunham's brother with D. M. Hill, for circulation, and William B. Hill, deputy postmaster, gave me one, which I gave to Mr. Dunn. August 3, 1849. JOSEPH DAVIES.

07" The mild and gentlemanly Mr. Dunn, in electioneering with a Democrat in this city for his vote, a day or two since, asked the Democrat if he would vote for the d 1 before he would vote for a Whig. On being told that a Democrat would not be likely to go so far, he (Mr. Dunn) said: "You might as well vote for the d 1 as vote for Dunham, for he is as mean as the d 1." This kind of molality, we undertake to say, Mr. Dunn never learned in the Sunday-school. For the Courier. Mr. Editor: The impression has gone abroad that I was selected by the Democratic Congressional Convention as one of the Central Committee for this district, and that 8aid committee published and circulated a circular to promote the election of Mr. Dunham. I desire to say, through the columns of your paper, that I am not, and have not ever been, a member of any such committee; and 1 did not even know of the existence of the circular referred to, until Mr. Dunn read it in his speech at Dupont. This circular, I learn from several members of the Central Committee, was published by a citizen of New Albany, without any authority whatever from any committee. I disclaim any and all connexion with it. There is not time now left me even to circulate extensively this disclaimer, bnt I hope that no one who intended to vote for me before the publication of this circular, will suffer it to injure me at this late period in the canvass. Respectfully, -tc. JOHN A. HENDRICKS. Interesting to Bachelors. A boarding-house keeper in Baltimore advertises to "furnish gentlemen with pleasant and comfortable rooms; also, one or two gentlemen mth trircs." I 7Among the sixteen brass cannon taken by Commodore Stockton or the Pacific, now at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, is one dated 1675, which was probably used by the Spaniards in their conquest of Mexico. Carrying out the Jokk. The Whig editors are exhorting their friends to elect Whigs to Congress, in order to carry out the principles upon which Gen. Taylor was elected. SETThe Catholics and Protectants of Montpel her, France, are indulging their mutual hatred J with a bitterness not known since the period of the edict of Nantz. At dinner yesterday we put this question to the guests "Which is the stronger, lie or the truth ?" After a moment's consideration Mr. Proctor answered "Truth, for you may re-y on it."

For the Courier. In the Banner of the 31st ult. is to be found an article signed "A Whig," which I suppose is intended to be a reply to a communication over the signature of "T," that appeared in the Courier ef the 27th, giving what was, and doubtleag is, a correct statement ia reference to the Circuit Court expenses of this county, during the administration of our present prudent and worthy Sheriff. The statements of "A Whig," in the main, are slanderous and untrue, and if he is as intelligent and keen an observer as he pretends to be, he knows that the impression that he has undertaken to give publicity to, is malicious and false; notwithstanding he does not "wish to enter into a controversy with "T" upon the subject," for the the reason, doubtless, that he ia aware that "T"' would throw him hard in the investigation of their detailed statement of facts. Here is one evidence that he knows his own statements to be untfhe. "A Whig" says, "Mr. D. has the impudence and boldness to ask to be re-elected to the office of Sheriff" of Jefferson county. An J then to fore close all Mr. Deputy's aspirations to re-election, asks, "shall custom make you submit to be taxed so enormously to raise funds to meet the whims and extravagance of an individual, although he should be Sheriff of Jefferson county?" Why did he not direct the attention of the tax-payers to the Judges of the Circuit Court, and County Commissioners, who ordered the payment of every dollar of these enormous and extrnxagatit expenditures, and whose duty it was, and who did investigate the necessity and correctness of said expenditures? Why did he not tell the public as he should have done in justice to Mr. D. that it was the business and duty of that officer to see that men, as bailiffs, were in atteudence, to carry into execution with promptness and dispatch, each and every order of the Court during its session; and that the Court had as many, and no more, as they deemed proper sworn as such, and directed what should be their compensation? In his sycophantic lamentations over the cost of guarding prisoners in the Court House, the necessity of which he lays chiefly to Julius Standing, a black man, sentenced to six months' imprisonment, at the last sitting of our Court, why did not "A Whig" inform himself of the facts, and say that it would cost the tax-pryer more than fifty per cent, less to pay some person or perrons to guard the only place of confinement for prisoners that we have had since the old jail was pulled down, than to transport every person who had been, or might be, committed by the Mayor and Justices only for a few days for some pettit offence, to some adjoining county, and then go after them again when their term of imprisonment expired? Why did he not go to Mr. Kirk, one of the commissioners resident in this oily, and learn that Mr. Deputy was carrying out the plan adopted by approval of said Commissioners, as the better and most economical that suggested itself after mature consultation on the subject? Those would have been the proper channels for seeking tr utfi and justice. And if in the investigation "A Whig had found anything to complain cf, then it would have been time to wake the slumbering tax-payers and tell them of their danger! But it Is evident that was not his purpose. His heart was filled with malice, and with a pen dripping with falsehood, he publishes a column of slander and misrepresentation, the apparent object of which was to destroy the official reputation and private character of a man who, in point of both, will compare favorably with any of his gentlemanly predecessors. He saw that Mr. Deputy's chance for election was good, that the people are prepared and willing to continue to employ him to do their business, in his official capacity, because he is honest and trustworthy. Hence this unwarrantable and malicious attack and unfeeling persecution of "A Whig" upon the official and private character of Mr. Deputy. Let us take a glance at the individual "A Whig'' proposes as a substitute for the present Sheriff He too, has been in the public employ of those who are now called upon to make him Sheriff by their votes. He has, by accident I think, been Assessor and lister of the taxable property of this county for some years past, and as is his custom, farms out his business of the several out-townships to others, reserving only Madison township as his own field of labor. One instance of hit official honesty, and I have done with this communication, which I would gladly have closed ere this.

On one occasion, I do not remember the year, in going the round:) of this city, and while taking the amount of stock ou hand irom the merchants for taxation, in which case it is his duty to put each man, giving in the amount of his taxables, upon oath, that he may approach the facta, in order to do exact justice to ail alike. He called upon one merchant the second time, saying that the merchant had better reduce his amount of merchandize on hand as reported on the taxable list, to half the sum, or thereabouts, as others having as many or more goods, only gave half the amount; alledging as a reason that the merchant should take hid advice, that it was nonsense for him to pay tax on bo many goods when he (the assessor) would let him (the merchant) off with half! What think you, voters of Jefferson cojsirty, of a man acting thus under oath to return a full and true list of the taxable -property in his county for taxation? Is the man thu

guilty entitled to public trust and confidence? Or is he to go acquit on the ground that ha did not knew any better, or that "he tigntd it trithaut reading it?" These would be beautifal pleas for a man aspiring to the sheriffalty. Let no man say that this statement in relation to the official act above referred to, is slander, or untrue, till he calls on Mr. Wra. Fitch, dry goods merchant, and hears hia statement of the case. I only ask in behalf of justice, that men should draw the contrast between the official conduct and private characters of the two men before casting their votes, and no apprehensions are felt in regard to Mr, Deputy's election. MR. TUCKER.

For the Courier. Flllow Citizens: I am a candidate for the office of ASSESSOR. I should not think it necessary to address you in this form, if it had not been industriously circulated to my prejudice, by personal foes, that I lost my arm while engaged in a charivari. I think it hard, that in addition to this severe calamity, (the loss of my left arm,) which prevents me from working at my trade, that of stonemason, I should be assailed by malice and falsehood, when endeavoring to gain an honest livelihood by one of the few means left open to me. I have the most ample proofs in my possession that the misfortune referred to happened by the explosion of a musket, under circumstances which all persons around me considered innocent certainly not unlawful. Since that period I have been engaged chiefly in teaching a small country school, and seek this office only as an addition to the scanty pittance which I have earned thereby; since the most complete and faithful performance of its duties will not preclude me, during a part of the year, from pursuing that avocation. PLEASANT R. VERNON. A Novelty. The Philadelphia correspondent of the Washington Republic says that some ingenious gentleman has converted the fourth story of the extensive building at the corner of Tenth and Chesnut streets, into what is called "Townsend 's Elysium," where the ladies, or fairies, or angels, or what you choose to call them, daily congregate for the purpose of amusement and recreation. The establishment contains a reading room, an archery gallery, a bowling saloon, babyjumpers, swings, and a riding room, where can be seen, at almost any hour of the day, six or eight young ladies galloping around on spirited steeds. He understands that "smoking is strictly prohibited," and that "brandy-smashes" "and "mint-juleps" are not allowed to be manufactured on the premises. 07" M'ss Blackwell, the female Physician, who was educated in this country, and left for Paris some months ago, is creating some excitement in Paris. The lady has quite bewildered the learned faculty there by her diploma. She is young aud rather good looking, and entered on her singular career from motives of duty. After about ten day's hesitation on the part of the directors of the Hospital of Maternity, she has at length received the permission to enter that institution as a pupil. High Priced Religion. "Dow Jr.," the eccentric, in allusion to the exclusion of many would-be-church-goers from the sanctuary, by reason of the enormously high pew rents in our fashionable churches, characteristically remarks: "There is a high duty on the fashionable waters of divine grace; and you have to pay at least a penny a piece for a nibble at the bread of life. To go to church, in any kind of tolerable style, costs a heap a year; and I know very well why a majority of you go to Beelzebub, i3 because you cant afford to go to Heaven at the present exhorbitant prices." The only class of men in the world who are not in the habit of disparaging their neighbors, are the assessor of taxes; for it is well known that they never 'under-rate' any body in the slightest degree. "Job Printing,1' exclaimed Mrs. Partington, "I'm glad on't, I allers thought he would do better business than moping over his losses, an J he must be just the man to print in sich hot weather if he's as patient as he's called." The old lady leaned back, wiped the perspiration from her face, and violently agitated the paper. O" The respectable individual so often alluded too in the public prints, under the somewhat ambiguous description of "the oldest inhabitant" has at last been discovered. It is said that the oldest inhabitant of this country, and some say of the world, is the celebrated Miss nn-Ttqui-ty. Who knows? The town of Gloucester, Mass., has a fleet of one hundred and twenty-seven vessels, manned by upwards of one thousand men, now fishing for mackerel and halibut. A new patent stove for the convenience of travelers has just been invented. It is placed under the feet, and a mustard plaster upon the head draws the heat through the whole system. 0The following curious sentiment was drank at one of the celebrations on the 4th : M13. Womas Gentle, patient, self-denying ; without her, man would be a savage and the earth a desert. " ' "Without her," we guess, "man" wonhi le a scarce article even to make a eavage of.

fjT-Admire with us, reader, most "flowing" stanzas. Yoa f , them a long time; for, to my Bothii,. Ument, there is such a happy words in the piece, that somehow impossible to forget it. We read it pf time near twenty years ago, and it id, at Lit moment, aa virid as ever. Read, and you will x think the same of these silver-Sowing W-.w STANZAS. One eve of beauty, when the sa . . Was on the stream of Guadalcjttirer To ffold converting, one by one

The ripple of the mighty river Beside me on the bank was seated A Seville girl, with auburn hair, And eyes that might the world have cheat A wild, bright, wicked, diamond pair. She stooped and wrote upon the sand, Just as the loving sun was going, With such a soft, small, shining hand, You would have sworn 'twas silver flowi Her words were three, and not one more; What could Diana's motto be; The syren wrote upon the shore, "Diath! not inconstancy!" And then her two large languid eyes So turned on mice, the devil take me! I set the stream on fire with sighs, And was the fool she chose to make me; Saint Francis would have been deceived By such an eye, and such a hand, But one week more, and I believed As much the woman as the sand !' Irish Dew-Drofs. "Arrah, Pat, and why did' I marry ye? Jest tell that for it's meself that's had to maintain ye ever since Father O' Flanagan sent me home to yer house." "Swate jewel," replied Pat, not relishing the charge, "and its meself that hopes to live to seethe day that ye're a wido,' waping over the cold sod that covers me; then by Saint Pathrick, I'll see how you get along without me, honey dear." Pope Pius a bad example sets, To all the Catholic laity While they are collecting 'Peter's pence, Why, he's been living in Gaeta (gaity.) Rogers' Association of TJniveraaliats Will hold its next annual meeting in Rising Sun, Ohio county, commenciaj: on Friday, August 10, 1849. ' B. J. HATHAWAY, Clerk. Rising Sun, July 30, 184. Mr. Editor: Please announce the name of JOHN CHAMBERS, as a candidete for County Treasurer at the ensuing August election. Many Voters. A TENT AXLES. 20 left of the PATENT AXE e-eived p -! steamer Madison Belle, which Ur strength. U'llity. and neatness of nniht i not q ia!led by any n jw In use, for Buggies, Phaetons, or Carrriage', a d r. ad and lumber Wagons. Car la.'e l.Uilders and others wanting a firm and afo Axle, will plpase call and examine iheut, at the new Iron Store on Mulberry street, north of Main Cr OA street, ad joining Lodj-e Ac Wilder b dry gota store u4 . WILLIAM II. FRY". Banner cony IT IIS. and ITIiss I'Oiy' Hcliool wilt re iTA (pen on Mot. day lh 27th of August. an? 2d IS T"J TICK. Having ascertained that it is generally lf tup.. o-el that my name is attached to the petition pray in ihe Legislature to make the retailing of piritaon 1 q'tor a penitentiary ollence, I deem it proper to say that I did not sign that petition, and that I had notiln to da wiih it. JAMES M. GKF.EN aug Tobacconist. Main io?a street. HATCHES! MATCHES!! F ust received 150 pro of the celebrated F.xcel5lr Matched in paper boxes; a!o50 gros do. in wood box-s. FRAN". Id E. 1 'IRK. au 1 TTALK COCNIAC BR,IVI)Y.-A fine and U. per tecily pure articie of very superior Pale Cogniae Brandy, just received direct from the importer, and far saleby j.ily SH SfDDALL. REEVES St CO. g AUO, Tapioea. Farina and Arrow-root, for the nse of lO the sick, for eale by p. e. SLMRE. 400 j-,Mr'',-Bi.kinr'-just received and fr sale hy p. jj. SUIRE. Tn "m"'f '''i Candle Paper, for Pale low to close V conizmnei,t. by p. E, SCIRE. VST received a frr cmpp'y of P.rar dy , of the Otard anil Se'iiiieae brand: w r. anted nure and for .. x,y julyiW p. e. 8UIRE. ' Protection IniiKaucc Company, OF HARTFORD. CONN. CAPITAL IIN"CItEANEI TO $OO,C0O. rniHK under? gnei 'eke ,,'ea urein i,.f. r.i.inr the pn. i li- that the ate heavy Urn at t. I ouu fr 1 1 jk . - . .. .. "... iii . win jiiin v hhsphsmpii tq ieet i rr wiih.ut d-awii e upon its capital s o k, bein naif receiv d i rem , It U ronfidenUy hoped that the well known pr nes and Iitrallty of the company in ihe adjustment losses, for a period of twen y hve ear in this city will still entitle it tja share of t ub'ic patronage ' 0 Office iu the Post Office building, entrance on Pec on,i street R. E. STRATTuN . Agent. j ily 2j-dif 6 A . D E A IV, MARBLE SHOP, X ON MULBERRY' Stkeit, "7 Nearly ojrposttt: the new Hotel. j''y 24 MadUon Indiana. BRAN, OATS A!D COHX ketH eonntantlv for ale v fiilv'iri WM. riilTITOV. POUMTKY II A CO. t for ale in lots hy v' j-ilv 23 WM. MfUUlSTON.

City L,u in Ixr Yard. RR. PAYNE &. S. G. DAILY, having formed a partnership in the Lumber Business have now on hand at their new yard on econr treet, two rquare he low the prt rffice a ful' aortmnt of Pine ai.d Poolar Lumber, Cedar Posts, drewed Pine Flooring, etc All wwhine to purchase would do we'l to call and examins nur stork, as we are determined to sell fer eish at the lowest rae. J(Jne CONVERSATION BY THE PEOPLE, So.t7 'Ano, vonr ..mn of late w rough and full or pimples Hut now i u smooth, except Hbewiih dimples; our onee pale chees are beauteous as the rr.e How cam it? -SootDethis anxious bosom's woes." "J W Vh.V L'U crhnc'd- dfT Mwi; o may you Be retider'd beautiful behe,e me, it is trueAnd it for ttich transcendent loveliness yoa hope L'e Ha le.'s Eau Divine de Venus or Nymph Fnin Jt'LL-S HUI'I Perfumer, No. Cacnut street, Philarfel'ph.a. Ant..

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