Vevay Times and Switzerland County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 36, Vevay, Switzerland County, 13 August 1840 — Page 1

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VEYAY, INDIANA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1§40.

VOLUME IY.

XU3IBEII 36.

Publishcil cvcry Thursday Morning, Comer of Ferry and Market streets , ferny) Indiana.

i posed to consolidation and in favor of a Federal 1 | Republic, to whose exertions wc owe our pres- ;j lent admirable system, are facts as certain as any j ‘ tin our political history. Nor is it less certain, ( ■ that llio two parties, alter tha adoption of the f jCcussitution, took very different views of lhoj £ I principles and policy, on which the Government: j sought to lo administered; and that the views ol L ithc consolidation, or Federal parly, as it was i < [afterwards called, triumphed, at llio outset, over j iliosc of tlie Republican, and gave an impulse to j jthe Gt)verumcnl.fro:;i which it has not yet fully 1 recovered., To Ibis false and dangerous impulse ;j jwo owe the funding system, connection of the Government with the Lank.-, tin.- creation of a j 'National Dank, the oppressive protective fys- ; ;lctn, and the unlimited application of ibe money ; [power lo otjJcls not within the limits of the f t Constitution, with the wasteful and extravagant I j expenditures, which have dune so much to dis-i, : tract, divide, and corni pt the country, nnd weak- ‘ jen the foundation of enr free institutions. { j This corrupting and pernicious system of leg* ( ielation was consummated in the oppressive L j larilf of tul a reaction has since commenced, , and has been in progress slowly, but steadily,! ( for the last seven years, and, if it should continue, ( will in a few years sweep away the last vestige , of tho system, and leave the Government Tree to lake a course more congenial with the true character of our Constitution, and in accord with the principles and policy oftho founders of ; the Republican party. The great question at issue-is, shall the reaction bo completed, and the Government bo'restricted lo the few great I objects specified in tlic Constitution; or shall it 1 be counteracted, nnd the Government turned back, and made to repeal the course of policy ' from which it is just escaping! This is.the 1 real issue—this the groat question at bottom, ' more felt than seen, which gives that deep, uni- 1 versa!, and agitating interest to the _ present con- 1 lest; and welHl may; . A question jnbroiiupor-, 1 lant Jias ricver-lcoa presented for decision since the adoption of the Constitution, T.U is an in*> ' . eianco of good fortune, enjoyed by' none other, 1 for a people, a lialfa century aflertho adoption 1 of their Government, to have an! opportunity,' with Tho lights of experience before them, , to 1 choose anew, without revolution or bloodshed, ' . or embarrassment for past errors,'the policy-it ought to pursue. "■ On tho choice, the fateiof our country, and our free' institutions depends. If tho people shall have the patriotism and wisdom to avoid the errors of the past, and to select , tho course in accordance with the genius and character of 1 our Constitution, our institutions may survive for ages, and the country attain a prosperity and happiness not heretofore allotted to human raco in any ago or country; but ifj'forgetful of the past, and unmindful of tho future, paT errors shall bo again repeated—the same pernicious course adopted, short would be tho duration of iour political system, and convulsive its termini;tion.‘ ’ ‘ With great respect, I am, Ac. i J. C. CALHOUN.

Jlehold (lie Change* j another nose ion *n:i: sums lo smn their ‘ STOMACHS. ! To tlic bright galaxy of great men who have j deserted the hard eider party in disgustwo are) enabled to odd the name of George McDuffie, J Ms-Governor of South Carolina. ThU hcicto-j fore able and distinguished opponenlof the demo- | cratic parly and the present Administration,; has at last been compelled by the foolcry and j humbuggery of his old political associates to re- 1 nounco the cause of Modern Wldggory. -And'j is it any wonder that so many eminent men have I since the nomination of General Harrison, for the first lime in llij ir livCs, taken their stand: under tho glorious llag of Democracy! No longer do our opponents contend fur principles hard cider, log cabins, and rolling ball?, as their only idols. Reason is totally discarded and nothing appears to inihicnco their actions, save a raven- | ous desire for the spoils of office.—With'such a ; man George M’Duffid.will-not act, and his renun-' ciatiun bespeaks tho dignity and independence I of a man.' The subjoined spirited letter was' written in bnswer''.to an invitation to' attend a convention .of- the cdd’Slato Rights party of Georgia, hell al Millcdgiville, in that state oh the 4th inst.—IFurWng'/oK.i.TrtHiiHfr. ; Cherry Hitt.,Juno 2-lih, 1310. : Gentlemen:— I. havcjiad the honor to receive, your invitation, in behalf ‘the citizens of Raid; win county, who are bpposed‘ : lo Wm. II. Harrison for the Presidency of thc',11. States,* to .be present at the celebration of the approaching Anniversary ofAmoricah IttdepcndencoJ.il Millodgcvilic. Though 1.atn constrained byVcircumstahces to 'decline your invitation, I concur, fully in' your opposition to lhc election of General Harri-' son. If tiicru were no other objections to his election, the audacious and insulting position ho’'has I assumed of refusing lo.discloso his opinions lb the people; on subjects of vital importance to their welfare, while asking ihcirEufffagcs rar.the highest office in their gift, and the disgusting Summery of log cabins and beer barrels, which would disgrace the orgies :of tho lowest demagogue by. which his nomination.has,been -heralded'forth eVon.bythq iiigticst brhfs'parilzana, would'bo quite conclusive with me,.- . • ; • • ; I consider this a gross, and contemptuous insult to the people of the United States; and’.jf;a" weak and supcranualed old man, utterly/ destitute of qualifications to sustain the - or perform the duties of the office, could bo elected President under such auspices, I,should considcr it a reproach to our common country. Dpt as a Southern man, 1 have much graver objections do him. lie is a National Republican, holding ail the doctrines and principles of that party, and willsuuainbvery meaauro-which may bo proposed by its great leaders. Mr. Webster never uttered, an unconstitutional doctrine and .Mr. Clay never proposed a measure that Gen. Harrison has not supported, or approved. In fact ho will- bo a tviil in the hands of those two gentlemen, and to elect him, would bo to adopt their principles- and measures. If southern statesmen are prepared for this, I cannot believe tho. people arc. Having withdrawn entirely from the field of politics, disgusted with t|io everlasting scramble for office which-gives;a party coloring to every public measure, I beg -it to bo understood, that while l am utterly opposed to tlicjolcctioDof Gen. Harrison, l am not the jiartizan of .Mr, Van Dttren,though! would greatly prefer him to his opponent. The principles he has not only avowed, but maintained openly and firmly, are dear to tho South; and what is equally important they arc tho principles of Ins party. I am gentlemen, with great respect, Your ob’t scf'vl, !•

Tho Pedigree of the present Whig Party,

! An ft'ddrt-ss lo Urn Republican citizens of Xcw jYork, which ire find in the Albany 'Rrv;\ \ \ Hewer' Is one of the ablest political compositions - 1 1 | we have read for many a day. Wo extract from It [tho following; sentences, wherein tlio ancient 1 ; federalists and modern whigs arc so plainly idea- {< jlilted that they cannot dispute their parentage || [in these days. i Look at the facts and principles.—More than U nine tenths of the individuals as Federalists in ! former days now rally under the banners ofji Whiggory. - The principles and practices of j i Federalism and Whiggery arc identical. Who j, •wore in former tinu-o, (ho aHvoeati's and snp-ii : porters of the bank of the,United iSialcsl The [i Federalist. —Who arc thcy’nou! The Whigs. —Who, in former days opposed the' extension or j i the right of sudrage, and derided the capacity of : i (if the people for self-government 1 The Featf- j alislt. ' Who are now distrustful Of tho people, S and seek Dy'registry laws and other devices to ji embarrass the exercise of a right-they cannot !i withhold! The whigs. Who passed laws for *( the expulsion Uf foreigners from the country, and ; to prevent migration hither,-though ‘obstructing tho laws of naturalization of foreigners and re-1| fusing to pass others to encourage migration hither,’ by the King of. England, was eel forth in tho Declaration of Independence as otio of the causes cf the rcrolut*nl— The Federalist*. Who arc now in- favor of cxoludir.g’foroigncra from office and from the right of suffrage, and j are geuipg-up'.Nativo American Societies, and i resorting to other means to embarrass natural!- j zation, with the samoviews*' Thewhigt’ Who ! passed jho sedition act to prevent men from speaking'with freedom upon the doings of tho Congress'or President of the United States! The Federalists, ■ Who art now pressing a'bill in Congress;to ..curtail the political rights and privileges uf & large number of otir government! ThelFfiigs, Who .under the reign of Haimilto'n ahn Adams. wcro thc advocates, of a National' debt/ r X*Ac Federalist. Who are now attempt-. ing,;by withdrawing from! tho general-govern*. - riiQn't its. means of support, to force it again into debt!; The whigs. Who wert the advocates in the time of John.Adams, of'high taxes and oxUavagant expenditures! The FtdoalUU. Who arc uow the advocates ot -high taxes,' under.the name of duties on imports, and assuming direct power qrcr.the uilcrnal affairs of tho country; such as">oads and canals,'*in doing the - same' thing indirectly, by giving money to tho States to bo expended upon them, thus enlargirig lhcalcuUbly - tho -public bxpenditu res! . The. IVhigs. Whb in the timp of Jellersoh and Madison', took, aide’against,their own eovernment in'every.'dis-, pute .tilth a foreign po w c f.—TAe. FedtrailHi; Wbo did tho samo thing.in the. timo of GehV Jackson’— The whigs. Who iD lbodays.of John Adanis, offered personal indignities at. tho capital, to Jcfferson. IU'ndolpli and .other loading republicans! The Federalist. Wlro'in their ipbbbish parades with ehouts and mocks.music nowinsull and'deride leading democrats at Washington amT alarm their families In-the dead *of night. 7 a principle or practice can be named thaft ancient Federation and modern iehiggery are not entirely parallel; who remember tho history-of the. times,'cannot' have forgotten that tho ono namo.isahc. direct - descendant of the olher, onlyin the second dc- ' gree. Federalist was originally.a popular name. It was homo with pride by. ilia anii-dcmocraiic party,-until It was disgraced-by its owners, and came to signify pn enemy to liberty/-, The party then cast it o!T, and took the nirao of 'Afrio'nqf a. popular appellation.-^ 1 ,This they spots disgraced and repudiated, i They; then af- - ter casting.opium upon oTory-factidh-tb^which chance-gave birth, by adqpiing ita cognomcn, assumed tho.ancient and honored name of\xehigJ. and .fdr a few years* have, inscribed: that upon their banners. It was aid party- id‘each case they .thic'w off, one name and took'another; asa parljfi they threw off tho name .of and ' took (bat of National Republican; n/flj>ar/y,ilicy : threw off the name of National. Republican and took that of whig; Me party, ’was esscnlially lhe samc undcr cach namei for how ‘esn lho Eihibpeanebange bis skin,'or the leopardhisispotsV.’ Iri'tho ianguage of Alr. JclTersonj Tories; are lories still by whatever nampthey roay.be called.’

Cicu.-Harrison Living become sensible of llio ridiculous r.ttumlo in which ho lus been placed ! by the letters of h.is “Confidential Committee,” | tool; occasion, in Isis speech at Columbus on the !oih June, to deny all knowledge of-any such JcouipuUcc. We .quote his own words, v as. re* j ported by his friendJ. He Raid— - "’*V

Jlntrison’s Committee.

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j "J hste no c tVllaw citizens, confiden* itial or other. It is true that I employed my friend IMajor Gwymto io ; aid me in'returning reptioo |iohumool the numerous questions propounded ilo me by 'letters.' Hut to such only as any man 'could answer, one as' well as -tasked j the service of, h>m, because* he was my friend, |aud I confuted in him, and it-was plain and sira* ! pic. Hut it £coii:j u.at Major Gy nno was Chairj man of a Committee of the Citizens of Cmcinna* ;li or of Hamilton county, when the fanious Us* jwc-’o letter. w;>5 received, it was read, and as ’usual with such tetters, I endorsed it and handed ;ii to .Major Gwym.e. -Hut, »7 items, when the iauswor was prepared it was signed also by hifl ’colleagues oft Ujo conntv'or City, Committee. >OF"ALL THIS I KNi:\V NOTHING—norm i/Acir cayacit 1/of Cummillcc hud Mfy any things (6 dnxsWi nvj UUnt” ■ g • . This declaration by tho Gctieral, loll H knew nothing of 1< most remarkable. It directly contradicts his ou;i admission iha lelter written by him to Joseph L. Williams, mem* bor of Congress from Tennessee, dated 28th iMay, an (*Uaci of Which was published in iho i National Intelligence^, 'of June llh, to wit; \ K.“All tho"- connection which;.!- ever bad with

POLITICAL.

From the Ilichmoml Fuquirer. Interesting Letters.

Wc laid before our readers in our last paper a terse, butmemorable letter, from Geo'. McDullie,. and wc shall lay before them in our next a brief, sketch of the speech which he delivered on the I 4th inst. to 3,. r jW) citizens of SoulluCarolina. Wo now lay before the.piiblic two letters, from ! two of bur most .distinguished citizens, addressed for tho celebration of the same day, (the Anniversary of bur Independence,) lo the extreme points.of the Union.' Gen, Jackson’s letter was addressed to the Democratic Committee of Baldwin county at Millcdgevillu, Georgia—and Mr. Calhoun’s to the Committee ofCumberland county, at Portland, in the Slate of Maine.' It is remarkable how they, harmonize-in their views of the,great issue, which is involved in the present contest, viz: .the preservation of the .great Stale Rights principles of Virginia. Wc bail these tributes to the caOso of truth, with tho greatest gratification. Twenty years,ago, in tho midst of all oar struggles for Ibis glorious cause, wc | scarcely dared to hope fur so. brilliant a.conjunction—and' fur so early and triumphant a result. Wc arc still battling underthe samo banner of Slate Rights, which waves over tho republican party and their candidate—whilst-' the. Federal party are contending, for their principles Under the auspices of Win. II.‘Harrison;

| ... 4* 4k VUI1UUVUVH * 1 ;the corresrmndmg; Committee of the whigsof Hamilton county is;lbat.1 UEUUESTED THE CQMMITl’EE, Ihjrough- its Chairman,-Major - Gwyitne, to give the information sought for, in roots of the numerous letters I received, in rela* ■ tioit to my political opinions, and events'iti my pail life. WiliniciihOrof the' oilier members of. * tiiii commiUco did l ever,'exchange ono word, > of by - loiter, give or receive any suggestions as to THE .MANNER IN WHICH THE TASK I HAD ASSIGNED TO THE COMMITTEE was to be - performed.” ' \ . ' We tpr the present leave the task of rcconcil* trig this discrepancy to (ho fticads of the Conor* " al, if they can do so.-, \ ' . > /John bnvls a Speculator. -The Hay Slate Democrat assigns the follow* * iog reasons for the great change Senator Davis* opinions Haveundergone since he advocated an increase ofepccie in the currency, in 183-1,' "Mr.'UaVis is a large holder of western lands, purchased of the government at duo dollar and, a quarter siri aefe—lhat land must be advanced In price lobtglil dollars pdrbcro, which cannot bcdddi},upIcs3”wo hare thoOlJ planofhanking bight dollars of pa'per to one. of gold and Eilvon - Then tho lands.will bo' valued atV ten dollars per.acre, flour ton dollars per barrel, -> pork a shilling per pound;blitter trto and aU other articles, including rent, in like pro-" ! portion; but the price of labdr will remain where ‘ it i«.’'. i. | .

nERMiTXOB, To in* Junc‘22,1*340,'

Gextlemex: t have received your: favor of the uiti instant, Inviting me to-unite with the citizens of Baldwin county in the celebration .of the next anniversary ofour'N’ational Independence, and regret sincerely that it will not bo in my'power (ocomply with it. I agree with you in the views .yon express, of tbe contest now going on between the Uepnbl:can and Federal panics—the former'running Mr. Van Uitren, and ilio latter General Harrison, as a candidate for the Presidency; and that (he occasion - calls fur the patriotic and determined efforts of.tUc people to preserve the -ascendency of those'great principles in our system of Government which it was the object of the devolution and of the Reform in I SOU lb establish'and pre-; Eervc. If the doctrines of the Federal party arc : not now resisted, .Mr. Jefferson will have warned us,in vain against the dangers of.consolidation, and the people may lose,.before, they arc aware of it. the blessings of free Government. Grant to-the Federalists the principle of constructive powers, and the Constitution is no longer a guarantee for the rights and eovcreigniy of the States. The discretion pfCougrcss will be substituted fur the checks and balances of a limited ,Governmonl r and ail the poircrs of legislation will be at once absorbed by that body. Against such doctrines it is our duty to contend, as the.fathers of .the Republican church have done before ps, relying upon the justice of our cause, and never doubting the power of truth. 1 am with sentiments'of great respect, your obedient servant,

Who arc Use Plunderer*?

A Stox;—Al a very large and enthusiastic;, Iocoroco «|cinocraiic> : .-njcolmj, held JhMcrccr county, Pd./cn 1 thc'I7iho? Junolast, there wero . seventeen; Vice* Presidents, appointed, all of uhomVcrvL'd under Qca. Harrison al Fort Moigs, . AvUIi tlm exception. of one. who scrredtlio npblo Croghau at "the glorious defence of Fori Stephenson. Verily, all who /ougfit under Harrison, do. not idccm it expedient for tho prosperity -and' happiness {of their';couiitry, lo role- for him. These soldiera.kiiow. and condemn thcGeiieralj • politically,; and v cojiscqucnily cannot brook the idea preupportiug him for the Presidency of ibis Uepublic.-i• -

Verily we answer tbo Banks, ibo Banks—they are the 'plunderers! The female stockholders of Hie Schuylkill Bank, in (heir desponding state of poverty, answer, the Banks, the-Banks, they are the plunderers! Who is it that causes a plenty and scarcity of papku Jioxnr at will, but the Banks; and activity or oulmss in business, blit the Banks, by their expansions ond contractions. Who is it, therefore, that plunders the poor of their power to earn an honest and permanent living, but the Banks. We could go into a detail of events that would clearly show the Banks are tlic plunderers of the best portion of society. The honest, worthy and industrious middle classes are deprived of the advantage of buying the necessaries of life at r.\m rtucta, by the fictitious prices given to them by the paper issues of Bapks—insolvent plundering Banks. The Banks—these soulless moneyed corporations are plunderers, as well as tho oppressors of the poor, the needy and the virtuous. Law’s famous paper system of Banking in France, | could scarcely hive exceeded the iniquity of the I Banks of tire present day and generation.- Weil j jtlion may the Banks fie called tho plunderers—j 'they strip people of their money, corrupt incut-I i bers of the legislature, and boldly cuter the poltli-! 'cal field in opposition to Democratic men, nua-' isurcs and principles. They arc plunderers in | every sense of the word, and should be denounjeed as such.— Phila, Statesman.

GEORGE ilcDUFFIE.

ANDREW JACKSON. Messrs. William A. Tenniile, Chairman, and T. Fort, Wm. Saodford and others, committee.

Gen. Ilanlson and the Land System*

The whig 1 press with its characteristic perversion of truth and history, ascribe to Goa; Harrison, the esiablishmcnioftlfe present land system. We deprecate the idca’of robbing the dead of .the merit of their deeds to weave chaplets lor iho brows of the living.. To Silas Hein, of Massachusetts, belongs the honorofharingsuggested the plan and devising tho mode, of survey and sale of the public land; and in'pursuance of his plan, Congress authorized a survey of seven ranges of townships in the North Western’ Tor* ritory in 1735, which was-offered for salo. in New York in 17c0; and there'are many of llie original .settlers in the adjoining counties of Oina, who can present original patents for see-' | lions am! factional sections of land dated in 1730, . „ , , (signed by Osgood, Livingston and Lee, coramtsAn honest Confession. jsioncra of the United States. Does, this not “Out of their own inouthsarc they conumncd. j show, conclusively and irresistibly,, that tlio The Fayottc Republican, a federal paper, con*; claim set up for Gen. Harrison is a false and inI tains the following emphatic paragraph. famous fabrication, designed to rob the dead of have frenuomf)' asserted that before the election : ihc just merit of their noble acts, the opposition would hoist their true colours of ( What aro the facts! Re fore Gen. Harrison “Harrison and Abolitionism," and how near our j ever saw iho west—before ho was released from l [predictions have come true we leave the impar-;the pupilage of his federal guardian, Robert ilial reader to judge. The poor fellows have be-j Morris, land had been surveyed according to I come so completely confounded mid hemmed in {scientific principles, ami sold in lots of lets than : by these charges, which they know to be truo,! 0 no hundred acres, of which we can produce that for fear of a greater exposure of itic. ; r hypoc* jtfio deeds in testimony. Gen. Harrison never Irisy by longer denying'the fact* they at length saw the west until ’01-2, five or six years after !appear willing to admit that Harrison is an abo- {the land system was in complete operation; nor 'litionist. Had they began sooner to act upon did itc take a scut in Congtess as a delegate front the principle that “honesty is the best policy,” tho North Western Territory until December, [they would perhaps have fared belter; but it Is 179U. 'loo Jato in the day for'/Am to begin to confess The declaration that land was surveyed into sins, which Iho people have already discovered, four thousand acre tracts and that no less could 'But to tho paragraph, which says that Harrison bb purchased until Gen. Harrison effected the lintcnds to show”what he Is after the election., change is a reckless unblushing falsehood. The “The locos insist upon ihit—and tee admit the truth is, that the land surveyed into four thouaGeneral will be an abolitionist of the Jirst tra/cr!and acre tracts, was United States military land, after the Ath of March next.” j not designed or intended for sale, but approprU ——— I Bled for the officers and soldiers of tho revolu*

■Tciisif{o-':OcT.—The. federal Legislature of Nciv Vork bave mado 510 partyappoialrnenta and removals in.forty,day S.‘. While each things have bccn'.dono oii’llic part of our opponents, wherever and whenever they bavcjjad the op-* portuhity, the publicofficcs in Washington and aro .filled with individoals who aro. bitterly* opposed to the'administration, and do not liMitalh’to Vise dl.thomcans'mtheir poorer, to; bite ihoTlianda |hal s feeds them. J3y studying and practlslngon the moral contained in the fable of tho‘'Fapner. andiljo Viper,” those who have it in their power, would not only fulfil the wishes of the Democracy of the country,but do nothing more than'shccr justlce tothd countryilsclf. ■

Wasuisotox, June 5,13-10. Gssntatsi Tho Invitailon which you have tendered mo in behalf of the Cumberland County Democratic Atf5oc;?tion to attend their celebration on the -llh of July next; is at once so kind : and urgent, that it U with much reluctance 1 am compelled to decline it. I have made it a rule j from which 1 have never departed) as long as I 1 bavo been a member.uf Congress, not to be ah- | eent from my post here when I coui.1 avoid it. Acting in obedience to it, I have already declined in the last eight or ten days several ohmjar invitations from different parts of the Uu 10 0 » which I .trust, will be a sullicicnl apology fori not accepting yours. I remember, with iho grateful feelings I ought, the occurrence personal to mysclt, to whom you allude, and receive with the same feelings your approbation of my efforts in iho cause of “civil; liberty, in its broadest sense,’ 1 to borrow your own expression. If tbero ever was a people, who ought to be ; devoted to their country and its institutions, we are that people. Taking it all iu all, what portion of the Globe can surpass ours, or what system of Government, ancient or modern, can be compared to it. 1 Dover turn my eyes towards them, without emotions of gratitude to the giver of every good for casting my lot in such a comrtry, and under such institutions, and feeling that all the sacrifices 1 have made, or can make, la their behalf, is but a poor return for the blessings beitowtfd. Thus feeling, and believing that the issue now before the country involves questions of vital importance, I have looked on with corresponding interest. I fl do not greatly mistake, the long struggle, which commenced jo the convention that formed iho Constitution, and which, under one form or another, has continued to the present time, between the National Consolidation party and the State Rights Republican party,, is brought lo a point, where it must be speedily decided, and that decision, bo it in favor of which it may, will be irreversible, at least for the present generation. That thero was a powerful and, at ono lime, a dominant party, in tho convention, to favor of a great national consolidated Government; that It was finally overpowered by another parly op-

Irishmen! and Sons of Irishmen! . ' - '■ IVh&t think you oJ_ihhl; : -• ' Statlhew Ji. Davis the "Spy in. who slandered Jefferson, andslinders Van-Ou* ren in alottcrpublUhcd ituhe federal papers, publicly declared In one of the hotels of vvashirip-. (on city,‘uponrcceipt of the heirs ofthoNew York city elcclionlhis spring, “lhai had he the pouer, hy~—-fie tcouW CTectdgaUowi upon even/ wharf til the city of JS't'u York,' and hang every 'd Irishman at fat! as they would come on thorc!" Such was Matthew L. Davis’*'■ language in the presence of a number of responsible persons.

’ ,\Vhi5ge_rTghiD&up'lhoGhost._ Tha*‘^ivoli'ranc!ii , 'a.whig paper, heretofore published inrDanvlilp,- ini-this Statp.has just folded'up its.arms andgiyenup-lhc ghost—a termination which,- it sat** has Jlcch brought about hv,“want of support.,” VTlie.Oliyo Branch his been a iealohs champion of Jho whig cause, areal log cabin and hard, ciddr organr-ana its violent dissolution goes far to show that the cauio ofwhiggcry in Kentucky— inuch as they aro whistling to keep ihorr courage up’ —is: on Urn wane. - Wo marvel much that* this same party* who “move, heaven and earth” |6 preserve ap* pearancu, had not managed to keep this paper bn its legs until after the elections, seeing, .asIhcy must, that its discontinuance furnishes a palpable refutation of their cry that their .cause is gaming ini the ‘‘dark.and bloody ground.” Pul they arc a “doomed” party, and their .end is nigh, happily for Kentucky, happily for tho cause o I good government every where. Their fate, we trust, will be a salutary lesson to rising generations! —Kentucky Teoman,

This is not the only evidence or federal con* tempt of this industrious and respectable portion of our community. The federal Stale Gazelle in this city lately contained a contemptible hit at the Irishmen, and llio Democratic state con* vcniion.—IVenton Emporium,

’It ia a remarkable fact that theonly two events in Gen. Harrison’s military career, which his friends recard as worthy of celebration arc the. scige of Fort Meigs and the surprise at Tippcca* noo in both of which eases Harrison was etir* rounded by the enemy, and compelled to fight in self-defence and for life! What great crl* deuces of skill and generalship they must be. f [wVeio Kra,

■ Senator Davis, of Massachusetts, has been nominated as a candidate for Governor of that Slate, by the Whigs. The Worcester palladium says ofhim:— - • , _ We shall hare a few things to say of Senator Davis before the election of Governor takes pUcc; and we begin by ..saying, thatJiois the same man who gave tiibgb ciikbrs. m the streets of Worcester, when he received the noyta i that the British army had sacked the city ot Washingloo, and burnt the Capitol*

Epfbcts OPTIIB Sud-Tbbascry os Prices.— lionary war. If any man doulla that to Silas Since the nows of its passage the price of Hour Dcan { belongs tho honor of the land system, let advanced at Massillon from $2 75 lo $3 28, per him refer to the diplomatic correspondence of (he barrel; wheat from 5d to GO cents. - United States, vol. 1, page 76; and if any whig At Pittsburgh hams have risen two cents on doltbts it, let him refer lo Webster’s speech, in the pound: flour from $2 50 to $375, and retail reply lo HayneWifwe recollect correctly) where$3 25 per bbl, and other things in proportion, in he claims lbr t Massachusetts, the distinguishWon’t the sub-lroasury ruin us, .at this raid cd honor, of having given to the west her land [Sentinel and Famef, system.

Tbe True Reason.— A Whig living.in Beacon street, Boston, gave as a reason for building the log cabin in Charles street, the following:— “Wo do not wint the mechanics and laborers to visit us at our houses, therefore wo arc building a log cabin to lucct them' in.”—Democrat tnd Herald.