Vevay Times and Switzerland County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 39, Vevay, Switzerland County, 3 September 1840 — Page 2

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VEVAY TIMES AND SWITZERLAND COUNTY DEMOCRAT.

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Yes, were we ml fearful it would wound the feclingt of some of the hoco pocos of tins place. “All hail, Alabama!” “Go it Tip, come it Tyler!” *

Awful calamity.

Important Disclosure. / - We copy the following article from a late; Evening Post, and invite the careful consider*) lion of it by every pure minded American 4 every party, lias it como to this, that the op position'are.openly receiving funds from Eng land la influence end corrupt our.elections. “Extract of a.letter, dated London, Jnly SStli 1S40, to a commercial house in this city: I

VEVAY:

, The following are a few items wo offer this week in proof of the systematic policy of lying adopted by the editor of tlie Statesman, and for which ha lias the iucrcamf confidence of the Whig party. North Carolina.—The returns from this Slate, where loco foco darkness has reigned supreme for many years, give evidence that the people are aroused.— Statesman. The Philadelphia Ledger, a neutral paper, pays:—

We learn from the Albany, New \orlt papers, an account of an accident, by which the lives of upwards of thirty-five individuals were in a moment sacrificed. ‘ .

Kentucky.— She has beat us all hollow. Letcher is elected by a majority of nearly nineteen thousand vote*.—Stafcrmnu, Avg. 27, 1840. ■ From the Louisville Journal we learn that Letcher, the Whig candidate for Governor, has a majority of 15,841.

Afflicting Calamity.— Falla/ theBratoof Ike State street Canal Basin Bridge.— Our city is the scene of a most distressing and calamitous dispensation. At 5 o’clock this afternoon, just as the steamboats were departing for New York, and when hundreds of people were crossing the bridge over the Canal basin, the draw broke and precipitated from seventy to eighty persons,and three or four horses and carts into the basin’. They fell about twenty feet into twelve feel water. The struggle for life among the sufferers was brief but awful! Wc shudder at the horrid recollection of it. Hundreds of citizens, with a dozen boats, sprang to the relict of their fel-low-citizens. At7 o’clock, 18 dead bodies had been recovered.

TIIUKSDAY,::::!:!:::SKI*TE3IBHR 3. IS40. Democratic Republican Nomination. FOR PRESIDENT, MARTIN VAN BUHEN, ' 1 FOil Vice PBESIDF.ST, RICHARD XVI. JOHNSON, . ELECTORS FOR INDIANA. William Hknduickb, of Jefferson. . Gcoitoc W, Kwimi, of Miami. 1st. District. Robert Dale Owen, .of Posey.2d, “ Hknry'Secrkst, of Putnam. 3d. “ Tuomab Ji Henley, of Clark. 4th. ** Joint L. Robinson, of Ilunh. 5ih. “ Andrew Kennedy, of Delaware, 6lli. ** - William J, Peasleb, of Shelby. 7th. . •• John 31. Lemon, of Lapone.

A mistake of 3 or 4,000, even after the official returns have been received, is a small matter with the con/cienlioiif editor of the Statesman,'

“I seo the New York Evening Post,- (whichX believe is one of the leading papers of the coua[ try in I he support of MV. Van Huron.) of the 4ia of June, in a I In ding to the probable change oy policy that would follow the success ovihe party opposed to him, contains the following: ** ‘The fundmongers of England and elsewhere will, of course, make common cause with the Whigs, and such means of persuasion as they can command, wilt not be withheld. “‘If by the expenditure of a million or two to promote the success of the Whig.candidate, the value of their immeme mass of American stocks can bo raised three or four millions in the market, the operation-will be a profltahlc one, and they will regard the money as well employed,— The preparations for the election campaign, on the part of the Whigs, have already been made on -a scale of prodigious expense and magnificence—witness their'great convention at Ualtimore. Let their future movements bo watched.’

“In the Legislature of North Carolina, last year, the Whigs had 93 mcrobera—27 in the Senate, and GO in the House; the Democrats 78 —30 in the Senate and 05 in the House. The Legislature is chosen every two years, and the new body will choose two U. S. Senators to supply the places of Messrs Brown and Strange, resigned. The administration ticket succeeded in ! 30, at the Presidential election by a majority of 338-1. Only three months previous, Dudley, (W.) had been elected Governor by a majority of 4.970 over Speight, (V. B.) Again in August, 1838, Dudley waa elected Governor by a majority of 17,931 over Branch, (V. B.) The Whig majority in 1839 was about 4,500.” Illinois.—By last night’s mail we received a few returns from this State. They are decidedly cheering. The indications are as favorable as tlie friends of reform could wish.—Sia/cinan. August 13, 18-10.

(KyFcderal Defaulters to the Government, as shown by tlie records:

G. W. Burns, $800,000 00. E. Thompson, „ 700,000 00. Edward Randolph, 31,155 07. Andrew dc James Erwin, 92,685 00. Mr. King, 13,000 00. J. Wingate & J. I). Swanton, 34,337 00, Mr. Arnold, ■ . , ■ 60,000 00, John Adams, 12,893 00. . Robert Brent, 88,54100, Samuel Chaplin, 70,502 00, Win. McMurty, . . ' 17,93100. Robert Randolph, 25,097 00. Samuel GoiiTornour, 20,000 00, ■ Gen. Gratiot, 30,000 00. Mites King, 10,30000, . James Morrow, -4,115 44. Loss by Banks'estimated at 0,000,000. Defaults by Ban ha 1837, about 30,000,000. Mr. Erwin is the father-in-law of Mr. Bell, the federal Bdl wether of Tennessee.-

Tliis dreadful loss of life was occasioned by the refractory conduct'of an insane man who was refusing to go with his keeper. His. resist-ance-drew a crowd, which blocked up the passage,until the mass of people and carls became too heavy' for the draw. - A largo number of citizens continued their search for the bodies until dirk. Several missing persons arc supposed to be numbered among the dead. ‘

Commissioners* Court*

The board of County Commissioners will meet at the Court House in this place, on Monday next, theYth inat.

On the first page of the paper; our readers will perceive an article taken from the New York Sunday .Morning News, diecanting on tlie Presidential election. The Nows is not a partisan paper, but its predilections arc Whig—entirely so. We hope our readers will give it an attentive and candid perusal. If our Whig friends will take the trouble of reading it, they loo will he amply repaid for. tho time speut. Its truths and suggestions are of vast importance to tho people of tills republic.

Medical gentlemen continued their efforts to restore lito'until hope expired. All tlicir exertions were unavailing. . Several bodies were recovered within five minutes after the fall, ant) we can only account for the oborliycncss of every effort to resuscitate life by supposing that the persons lost were, injured by tbc-fall, or wounded before they sunk.

.“The paragraph struck me at (he lime, and I have taken some little pains to ascertain what foundation there was for the insinuation it con-

Ilmxois. —Tho contest has been close here but the locos, by bringing to their aid powerfu local causes, have succeeded in clectnig-a ma jority of members to ihe Legislature. It is con' ceded on all hands that Illinois will go for Har risou in November.— Staltsman, August 37,1840. ■

tained) ami from a conversation with a prominent American-merchant whoso name ! will not incnilmi,' (but who by the way is very decided in liU hostility to Mr.'Van Iluren,) I apt veryniuch disposed. to think there is more in it than is generally supposed'on the other side, and that persons in this country interested in American securities have already, contributed and forwarded to America, a large amount of money, to bo used in. the coming election, in aid of the party opposed to President Van Duron, and that a'much larger amount will follow, if it can be used with effect. . \

Further Particulars. —The Albany Argus extra, af-tSunday afternoon; says: At sun down, 10 dead bodies had been recovered, which, with one rcct'vered to-day, make an aggregate of TWENTY persons ascertained to have been drowned.. One of the natrawest escapes was that of A. Ga>lup,jr, He was passing to the boat with a package of moncy. v Feeling the downward motion of the bridge, ho threw the money forward on the unbroken part, and caught the foot or boot of a person, who in hii turn, clung to the timber above. Being on that part of the draw which came up by the force of .the weights, lie wasre* Keyed from bis perilous situation and recovered his package. - ' ' , V Wo learn from a gentleman, says tho;N. Y. Star, who left Albany yesterday afternoon, that no less than 39 bodies had been found before the last boat left. ' 1

The Southern papers give an account of the murder of several of the mhnbiiants of Indian .Key by the Seminole Indians, who passed from Florida in their canoes to the Island to the number of.IOO, or 155.. All the houses were burnt to ashes. Dr. Perrin, Mr. .Mott and his wife and two.children, Mrs. Smith, and some two or three more, were killed.

Illinois. —From' official returns received at Springfield, Illinois, it is ascertained that there is a Democratic majority in the Senate of 13, and in the bouse 9. Majority on joint ballot 31, As regards the popular, vote, the returns from tlie different counties, so far known, eland as follows:—

Air. Wingate since his defalcation, has been a whig member of Congress, and most lovingly embraced by the whole party. Mr. Swanton for his defalcation, has been rewarded by the late federal Governor of Maine with a responsible office, the function! of which require a particular tupereision of the finance! of ike county of Kencbeck.

“To say nothing of the abstract impropriety

of this thing, 1 think they misconceive their in-terest.-My interest intvhatare considered public American securities, compassed with that of many others, is hardly worth considering; but such as it is,, from my ideas generally of our pubaffairs, I should consider it unfavorably affected by the instability that would be'iotroduccd by a change of Administration. . ••In your next will you please favor mo with your .views as to thc.prob&blo result of the election, and when it will be known with reasonable certainty.!*

Education ix Russia.— A work on the state of public instruction in Russia has recently been published in Hamburg, which says there are 100,000 scholars in the public and private schools in the Russian Empire. In tho seven Universities there arc 3700 students. There are at St. Petersburg!), under the patronage of tho government, nine gymnasiums, filly high schools, and one hundred and four national and private schools.

Democratic majorities, 5,044 Federal " 2,210 Democratic majority, 3,438 which will probably be increased from 1,000 to 1,500, as the balance of tho counties to be heard from are Democratic. Last year the parties stood in the Legislature thus: SENATE. Federalists, 22 Democrats, 18 Federal majority, 4 BOUSE. Federalists. *6 Democrats, 44 Federal majority, 1 Federal majority on joint ballot, 5 Van Buren’s majority over Harrison in 1830, 2,083.

1,00k at This, The Wheeling Argus, after a close and labored calculation, gives the number of banks, their officers and debtors, dec. Banks, • 925 Presidents, 035 Cashiers, 025 Clerks, Runners, dec, 1,850 Tellers, 925 Directors, 5,420 Stockholders, 41,350 Bank debtors, 500,000 551,295

"The Kent Bugle is not the first puppy who has attempted to avoid a true issue, by substituting an imaginary, for a known individual, as bis antagonist.”— Statesman, . Does the editor mean to be understood as having, no other existence, but an imaginary onol Ur is the insinuation intended to apply only to tho twin renegade Sub-editor. If to the latter,-wo have ample testimony, that when we directed our. aim at this imaginary antagonist, the sound of the:Kent Bugle had. hardly .died upon our cars, before Wo discovered we had severely wounded this ideal. betng; and like alt other wounded animals, be became ten times more furious than ever.'

. We cut .the following from the New Orleans Commercial Bulletin: -

In 1836 seven hundred and seventy-seven original works were published in tho Russian Empire, and fifty-one periodicals. In 1839,500.000 works wore imported from foreign countries into Russia.

; Havana, 23d July, 1S40, Five Pirates Soot.

Yesterday) were shot on the Mole, Francis Dennis . o/«u-David,‘ Francis La ores, John do Armas,'Juan Romero, natives ofCanary Islands; Augustin Lopez altos San Martin,.a native of Portugal; and Lorenzo Fernandez, a native of Porto Rico; convicted of the crime of piracy by the Marine Conn, and the sentence being approved by his excellency, the Governor of this Island.. (These are culprits who cnplnred the English brig Vernon, on her voyage from Falmouth, JaHalifax—and murdered captain Cunningham, and several sailors, plundered the cargo.and burned the vessel.) Tho’sentence was, that the head of David should bo cut off, and placed on the highest point of Cape Antonio—the scene of the piracy. The heads of the others were to betaken off, and placed in conspicuous places about the harbor of Havanna. Some of . the appellate tribunals changed a part of the sentence. ; .-The Havana papers give the names of about a dozen more of the piratical gang, who were sentenced to imprisonment Tor life in solitary dungeons, to wo'ik in the docks, dec., dec.

Beauties op the Daneixo Svsteh is England—The people of the manufacturing dis* tricta of England are in a slate of starvation. It only costs the tmall Hem of $3,500,1100 per annum for tlie support of iho Royal family. And the leaders of the Federal party say the British .Government forma the best model iho world ever produced.

Fifty-one thousand two hundred and ninetyfive Bank office holders, including an army of about 500,000 Bank debtors, exercising the mighty power of iix hundred millions of discounts.

Missouri.—Our returns from this State arc also incomplete, but what wo have are by no means discouraging. If we do not carry Missouri, wo shall greatly reduce the loco foco majority.— Sfalemcm. August 12, 1840.

What a formidable influence has the democracy to encounter! Yet if they will but bo true to themselves, this immense power will be wielded against them in vain.

- We are informed by the agent of. the .German society,''that 1 since tho 3d March; upwards'of 14,000 German immigrants liayo arrived.al this port, almost all of whom without delay removed to the west* to scute down on the lands pur* chased by aud for‘lhero,.m the now.states and territories of tbo countryJY. F, Sun. ■ Welcome— thrice do wo, welcome the frugal and industrious Germans to this land of freedom and equality. 1

The news from Mexico is, that Gen. Urrca has taken the capilol, and driven II us lament a into the country. Whether this revolution wilt succeed, is yet problematical, we should suppose. I here had bceh fighting in the capilol for several days.

Missouri.—This State, as we expected, and slated in our Iasi, is still in Benton’s breeches pocket, but by n greatly reduced majority. She has elected a loco Governor, and a loco Legislature, and it is probable that loco foco darkness will prevail there for some lime yet. The November election will decide the question.

{£f-Tho editor of the Statesman begs the in* dulgence of its readers while it once,more briefly takes notice of the. Kent. Bugle, This editor is a very neighborly fellow. He must be very fond of our company, as he has been in the constant habit of paying us a weekly visit for nearly two.months past. . ’Tis true, ho is not very troublesome, as his visits are remarkably regular and short, and as we keep a sharp look out that he does not steal any thing from us,

[S/a/eiman, Aug. 27,1810.

Horrid Murder.—Dio Indians an gives an account of a murder in that county on the night

Missouri.—The triumph of Democracy in Missouri is more complete than even our warmest hopes had anticipated. The majority for Governor, Lieut. Governor, and Congressmen, will exceed seven thousand five hundred. The Missouri Argus of the 17th ult., says sufficient returns Lad been received fo put down tbe Slate of parties in tlie Legislature thus;

Q£p-Tbe editor of the Statesman says, he understands ‘‘the owner of acertain building contemplates bridging an action of trespass' in the premises, and is quite certain he wilt not be the defendant.” / ' - • • ■•••"

of the 15lh inst., of a Mr. Lewis Izzard by Isaac Cole.' Mr. Izzard is a highly respectable young man. Cole bos been arrested; but has given no cause for tbs perpetration of the deed.

Akabus Letter.— TfieNcw York Signal, publishes a letter from an Arabian passenger, if fab: came. in ‘the Sultana to N, York, to bis friend a in Muscat; The following ex tra c i will show the -ideas ibis stranger had formed upon American goIiiicii V ."

Who in the name of cpmmon sense will bo the defendant, excppt llio man -“in ikepremitet!” And was not the editor''in the premil erf'*-

editor of the Statesman complains most piteously of our insinuations, as ho calls them, and challenges us to throw them into a tangible shape. We And it impossible to please this renegade editor. When we charge him with selling himself for money—with collecting money under false pretences while the editor of this paper—and with swindling several gentlemen out of a few thousand dollars in New Orleans, vc arc charged with making inxtnua/mn* against his character. This reminds us of the following story; ; A citizen of this place, had on several occasions’ charged one Mr. - - ■ with Bleating paint and oil from one of his neighbors, and that ho broke open a desk and stole $17,50 from it; These inxinuo/ionx reached the ears of Mr, , I who became very much enraged, aud swore he would have satisfaction. He called to sec the man who had thus freely intinuated against him; and in the conversation between the two, the citizen frankly told Mr. —■ —, that all he had said against him was, that he had stole paint and oil, and that ha broke open a desk and stole $17,50 out of it. Mr,. —— tcplicd, that if that was alt he had said against him, he' was satisfied—he was informed that he had been slandering him, but if that was all be bad said, ho had nothing more to say.

Awful effects op Gahdlisu. — A young man at Badlen, in Germany, white on a visit at tbe baths, shot'himself in despair, at having lost 10,000 francs at a gaming table. -

Seized bva Hod.— Yesterday morning’a little girl, while standing in the street near Kensington market, was seized by.i hog, which caught her by the hand and’dragged her sotpe considerable distance before she was .rescued. Her thumb and several of her fingerswere more-or. less lacerated/ A piece of bread she had tn her hand, it is supposed, induced the swinish outraged [Philadelphia Timet.

. “They ; kay. there will be a new President, lie is a;GetieralJ liis name is Hard Cider, and lives' in- a place very,distant fn.ni'-this, which iscalled Cabin. The principles he is to carry,out; a* the whig* say, aria Harrison and Refbrnl—tiro words, which I do not knbw;lhe,8igniBcationbf,though Tbelieve tbe lait means, thVt all persons who are now in offices of |Goyernmcni, are to bo turned out, and

Tbe editor of the Statesman has given us a full definition of the words Steal—Stealer—and Thief* Having a practical knowledge of their meaning, be ts fully prepared- to expound their definition.

We would suggest the propriety of Iho editor in his next paper, giving the definition of the word bribing, and an account of his success in bribing Judget, when brought before them for

Little childron.’bivCftre how you cbme:in the neighborhood of the editor pf ; the Statesman,- as he too is very noviith that wayl ’•

' Umos op the Canadas. —The bill for uniting the Canadas has passed the British parliament. The following arc among its provisions. In the first place, a governor-general islo bo appointed by the British government, with a salary of L7000, and a lieutenant-governor, with a salary of L1000. Then come a Itost of other executive and judicial functionaries, such as judges, attornies, and solicitors general, civil and provincnl secretaries, inspector general, executive council, &c., whoso aggregate salaries amount to near $35000. There is to be a legislature composed of a council and an assembly, the assembly to be elected by lhat.class of tbe people who are possessed of a certain amount ot property, and no one can bo elected who does not possess properly to the amount of $3500. Any act passed by the provincial parliament may bo vetoed by the governor, and If he approves it, it must be sent to England for the approval of the home government.

SENATE. Democrats, 13 Federalists, 15 Democratic majority, 3 HOUSE, Democrats, 56 Federalists, 43 Democratic majority, 13 Majority on joint ballot, 16 Van Boren’s majority over Harmon in 1836, 3,659. The popular vote for Harrison in Louisiana, is over 5,006. — Statesman, Avg, 4, 1840. The popular vote for-Harrison in Louisiana, is 2,055. — Statesman , Aug, 20, 1840.

in Tampico.

(£7“Tlie editor of the Statesman says ho wishes to stand or fall upon his own merits. . The insinuation that bo stands st all, in's moral sense, is highly preposterous, and gains no credence here, even among his political friends. The insinuation about his own merits, is supremely ridiculous. If he has any; it isdefined by Webster to be, “ii an i It xenxe.”

About 35,000 emigrants have landed in NewYork, since tbs 1st of Aprillast. It is supposed they brought with them several millions of dollars in gold and silver.

Alabama. —The returns from this Stats are not complete, but sufficient ft knows to warrant us in stating that the friends of reform have carried iho State. AH hail, Alabama! Cannot the Van Burenites of this place lot off a little more loco thunder from the famous Swiss piece, in honor of Alabamal—5/a/erwau, .lug. 27,1840.

Slam Band.— A Mr. Gun of Ohio, was recently married to a Miss I>ock; Probably he thought a gtm without a lock was a useless thing.

An excess oy Politic.vl uomcstt. —A person who refuses to lake a paper primed in his own town, because of i(a political creed, and borrows it of his neighbor before ho has had an opportunity to read it. ’ ■

Alabama. —The Nashville Union of the 21st itlt., has received returns from all the counties in the State of Alabama: The result is thus;

PoCiTtcxt MAncn or itrsn—Pronouncing condemnation against men and measures, without having a knowledge of, cither.

SENATE.

Q3~The editor of the Statesman i/ujiaia/es that we have made an attack upon bis private charac-

New Orleans Market, on the 15th August.— Hay, per 100 lbs. 80 a $1.00, Corn, shelled, per bushel, 65 it 70c. Corn, in ear, per barrel, $1,00, Flour, per bbl. $6,50 a 7,00. Bacon Hams, per lb. Ill a 12ic. Middlings, 91 a 101c. Shoulders, * 71 a 8c Louisville Market, on tbo 1st inst, —M heat, (old) 75;. new, G2ic. per bushel. Corn, 40 a 40c. Oats, 25 a 31.

“Generous Confide nee.”

The “generous confidence” asked of the whig parly by its party leaders, and manifested by all whom they can drum'into ibeir ranks, is something similar to that confidence which the young robin reposes in the old one. Whenever the old bird makes her appearance, the young ones stretch up tl\eir necks, close ihcir eyes, open iheir mouths to the fullest, extension, and whether she drop in a barley-corn, a yellow wasp, or a gravel stone, they gulp and down it goes:—-Erie Obierttr

There is a Whig paper in Florida called the “Slop Tub.”—Hair. Rep, That is the paper for the'sfoping Editor of the Statesman to edit.

He is certainly mistaken. Notwithstanding wo aro free to acknowledge, that we have committed a great and heinous sin, by associating with, the eomcienlioui editor, yet we aro certain of never making an attack upon bis private cAaracler. Private character! Indeed, such an tntinualion as that in Mexico, would hang the in/amoui wrotcb—the base and cowardly liboler.

The editor of the Statesman has promised his readers not to contfejcend to notice us in future, unless his duty to them should render it necessary. Condescend! Why the poordevilhaa not iho power of hndescenlion, only in rendering himself more base and degrading.

Mo be Giraffes.— A vessel arrived at New York from Egypt* has-brought out four beautiful Glraffes.and three Gazelles, all in fine condition. The largest one elands about fifteen bands higtu

Democrats, 21 Federalists, 12 Democratic majority, 0 house, • Democrats, 64 Federalists, 40 Democratic majority, 8 “All hail, Alabama! Cannot the Van Buren-

ites of this place Jet off a little mare toco thunder from the-famous Swiss piece, in honor of Alabama!” -