AMERICAN VOLUNTEER.
CARLISLE:
THURSDAY, AUGUST 1830.
our Mm
“Now our fUg is flung to the wild wind free,
Let it float o’er our ‘father land,”
And the guard of its spotless fame shall be,
Columbia's chosen band
FOR PRESIDENT IN’lB4O,
MARTIN VAN BUREN,
. AND AN
INDEPENDENT TREASURY.
An fnde/iendeni Treasury^ —whose officers re
sponsible to the people, instead of privileged
corporations, shall guard the people’s money.—
Democracy asks in vain, whatv claim have* the
hanks to use this public treasure as their own,—
again to convert it into an engine ot ruinous ex
pansions and contraction* of the currency, and of
new political panics and pressures, to enforce
submission to .the Money Power.— lion* James
Buchanan's 7'oast.
"Wo understand from good authority that Sena
tor Penrose, at the Buckshotoriian meeting in the
County Hall on Monday evening' week, amongst
other unfounded assertions, stated in substance
that the Jury in attendance at Court were yacked
by the Sheriff and Commissioners—and, as an
evidence, said that out of forty-eight on the list, not
more than TEN belonged to his party!
Wo have enquired of the officers implicated in
this sweeping charge, and have likewise examined
the Jury list ourselvcS—and now pronounce the
said assertion of the said Speaker Penrosb, with
out any qualification whatever, a wilful and deh'b-
sraie FALSEHOOD! He knew it was false, for
ho received, but a few hours before, the list from
•ur pu v n liand r in the Court House, and was oc
cupied for- about half an hour in examining it.—
Wc again charge him with lettering a LIE, and
wc now dare him or any of his vassals to the proof.
On an examination of the list, wo find that out
of the 41 in attendance not more than 2*2 are known
~,.s»vbe\ong to the democratic party—and of the 7
who were summoned but did not attend, but two
or three are members of that party. Here then wo
have Itr—out of 48 Jurors, the democrats have 25
and the federalists 53. If any one doubts the cor
rectness of our estimate 1 , wo shall publish the
names of the Jurors to prove our asscrti6h. ,
,We also examined the Grand Jury’ Hat, and find
that out of 21 in attendance, bat 10 aro democrats
—and yet the foul-mouthed slanderer will assert
that ty reason of the political complexion of the
Jury, they [the federalists] could not expect to
- have justice done theml —Avauntll thou~hypocriti
cal defamer ofhonest men! Art thou not ashamed to.
look the men thou hast basely slandered in tho facel
Penrose, in his speech in the County Hall; de
nounced the democrats aa Gamblers and Drunkards
and JnJUela , and spoke of Mr. Pray, a member of
the Legislature from the county of Philadelphia,
in particular, as one of the .greatest blackguards
and most abominable infidels in all creation.
We do not believe a word of it—on the contrary,
we p'ronounce the assertion entirely destitute of
truth. Mr. Pray is a gentleman and an honest
man, and that is more than can be said of some of
his political opponents, A word to bis- accuser.
Admitting for the sake of argument (for it' would
be a slander on the democracy of Philadelphia
county to admit that the charge was true,) that-
Mr. Pray is an infidel—we would vastly prefer
him for a representative to a black-hearted, malig
nant, sneaking hypocrite, whoso touch carries with
it a poison more withering and blasting to the
cause of religion and virtue than the writings and
exaniplo of a score of avowed infidels. A Paine
ora Voltaire are known, and can bo met in the open
field of argument; but the hypocritical wretch, ele
vated to a high and influential station in the com
munity, who conceals under the garb' of our holy
religion, the blackest'designs and treasonable in
tentions against tho righ'ts -md the
liberties of, his.country, i man,
and a greater stumbling I 1 of the
Gospel, than any other obstacle we can possibly
think of; - -
This, it may be said, iff plain language. We
designed it.to be.so—and leave-thc application-to
the individual forwhose benefit it-was written.
William S, Ramsey appears to be a shining mark
for the'poisoned arrows of the profligate crew that
surround' the Herald. Nearly die whole side of
'the.last, number of thaj eheet is devoted to him.
During a short' absence of this gentleman on an
excufsionfor the benefit of his health; the occasion,
was stealthily embraced" to circulate through the
district he represents in Congress, the most delib-
crate and. wilful calumnies fbTttar purpose-of-irr*-
juring his private character —he was.pursued from
place to plaqe, by the blood-hounds whp have fol
lowed in his wake for years, intent, on slaking their
vengeance in hiS mangled reputation. Whilst far
away, forgetful of scenes enacting at home, and,
as an invalid, intent onlyonrecreation- and-exer
* creiso—the guilty, trembling assassin, seized the
moment to brandislutho glittering knife, and pre
pare-the faggols forhis immolation—but fortunate
ly the dagger returned bloodless to its sheath—the
miscreant who wielded it, foiled in his attempt,
the public"ga^T^asKed : ah'd t eph-'
founded, overwhelmed .with shame and confusion!
„ Since Mr. Ramsey’s return,, these outlaws have
,the impudence to charge him with setting the - ex
ample in traducing private-character, : and on that
ground placed extenuation for their depravity.
When; and how has My.,Ramsey.assailed private
character? . We pointto his speeches and writings
on recent occasions, and'darc his libellers to show
a single instance ia which, as they say, ho “has
pursued individuals oftheir party into the trans
actions of private life?” In the keep jackall no-
smg.foi materials to, patch up fish woman, tales of
slander, against him, the very ashos-oj the dead
have-becn uncovered bythat master-spirit of ini
the,saintly .scoitm4reVof bank-bought noto
riety, but we have yet to leant m whatmarmer Mr.
Jlnmsoy has merited the roedntdaubteg his ohar
_ustw has received-from the rogues, in budkraih,'
“Who olbtho thoir villainy in odds and ends stolon
forth of holy writ.t’
. Ladiea' Cbmjwm’pn.—The. August No-, of:this
■valuable, periodical is before us, and - contains, as
■usual, a variety of excellsnt'roading, ; The Cpm
. panion is .edited by Mrs.'iSnrt S/ SUphe™, tFTj JV,
SnowtUn ani-Benry F, Barrington j whoSenaiiifig
alone are sufficient to rocbmmcnd tba work.to the
.putfonnje ofth.a.pnlilis.; .; V i, : : I v
Three States arc yet to elect, vlzn Maryland,
Rhode Island and, Mississippi, with 13 members
in all. Of these we shall undoubtedly carry sin
Maryland and 2 in Mississippi, which will make
the Democratic majority in the next Congress 14
Huzza for the Independent Treasury!
We bespeak for the subjoined letter of Gov.
Porter to the democratic committee of Bedford
county an attentive perusal. “It is written,” says
the Keystone, “with the same pith, point and
force, that characterises all the productions of his
Excellency—and breathes that firm, fearless and
dignified spirit, ho is so well known to possess.—
It adverts with groat propriety, to the scenes in
December last, and the ruffian attacks on the pri
vate character of the Governor. It also contains
a weirdeserved notice of tiic often abused “Com
mittee of Safety.”
.“What'jviH the cravcn-heartcd traitors of feder
alism [such as Penrose, Burrowes and Stevens,]
who figured in December, and the poltroon calum
niators, who were allied with the Peg Beattys,
the Stonebreakers and Sturgeorts to LIE DOWN
Gov. Porter, say to this bold and scorching rebuke?
tlic_.dark, like’detected.bur
glars, and vent their venom through the columns
of their miserable lying journals.;—
“This letter, we venture to predict, will raise
the Governor in the respect and esteem of all true
hearted democrats. ..The similarity of character,,
for fearlessness and manly resolution,-between
Gen. Jackson and Gov. Porter has been often re
marked, but never was it more strikingly exempli
fied, than in the tone and temper of; this letter.—
We see the *old Roman’ in every lino and every
thought. Witliouftho slightest effort at imitation,
the directness and vigor of the style of the-produp.
Übhs”dri)btirtKese excellent men dre“surprisirigly
alike. 'Both the object of ca
lumny and abuse- without measure-;—both
~aTC~objects~of-federabhatred—und-bqth are beloved"
and respected by the greatdemocratic party. ,Wo
are pleased that Pennsylvania has a governor who
can, and who dare set his foot upon and crush the
federal vipers, that- are.hissing about him on all
sides.”. • , ■'
For the flattering manner in .which ycmTiavo
been pleased to advert to my public' course' be
'Pcased to accept my thanks. I was but the can
didate in whoso election democratic principles tri
umphed, and it was to the indomitable firmness
and inflexible republicanism of the people of Penn
sylvania and not to any personal merit or claims
.of the candidate that tve are indebted for the result.
Still,, after the crusade against private character,
to which y ou.have referred, it would bo worse
than affectation not to admit that the result was
personally gratifying to ipo. But the trials of the
democratic party of Pennsylvania did' notend with
the known result of the election of thrfii Tuesday
of October last. A daring attempt was'made-by
some reoldeag politicians to ‘retain, by force’ or
fraudf situations of Which -the public-'voice bad
ocolas-ej tboia ottworthy.aiid the scenes which
oofiunenosdrdn thedth of December last,'dt Jlarris
trarg,-ana-Wore continuod for. some wteks, afford
lamentable proofof. what bad men will attempt,
anff gratifying evidence of what FREEMEN, de
tetianled tp “ask.for nothing but What Upright arid
to bothingiAat is accomi
TheDemoCTitlC'RepuhlicanPepfesentati'irStjf
the Senate,deserve-immortal honor for their final
ness 'and: patriotism during^thosertiying.-aoencs!
Summary of Election Wows.
Tennessee.— ln addition to electing a Governor
id six out of thirteen members of Congress; the
imocrats have carried a.jnajority in the State
Vgislature. “This will secure two administration j
jenators in Congress. time of Judge White
will expire -tfith the next and as tho
clcctions in that State arc biennial, it will de
volve on tho Legislature now chosen to elect his
successor.' Mr.\ Foster, the other Senator, has
been elected for the next six years, but had pub
ished a statement prior to the election, that in case
a majority were elected to the Legislature opposed
Jo him in political sentiment, ho would resign his
seat, and glvo them an opportunity to select a per-,
son of their own views. In the last Congress, tho
democrats had only three members.
North Carolina. —The democrats have elected
JVlessrs. Bynum, C. Shcpperd, McKay, Hawkins,
Montgomery, Connor, Hill and Fisher, making
eight out of the thirteen members of Congress—
In the lost congress the federalists had eight mem
bers, and tho democrat but live. Now tho tables
are turned, and democracy triumphs.
Indiana.— This young giant of the west has
come up to the mark in fine, style. Two years ago
our friends only elected one out of the seven mem
bers of Congress. Now they have six , and their,
opponents only one. There will also be a decided
democratic majority in the State Legislature.
Kentucky.— Even here, where tlie people have
heretofore been led captive at will by Mr. Clay,
democracy is in tho ascendant. In the last Con
gress wc had barely one member dut of thirteen
now we have three, besides a largo increase in both
branches of tho Legislature.
Alabama.^— This republican* Commonwealth
that never flinches, has also dorte nobly—and, al
though ihe Congressional delegation remains un
changed— three democrats to two federalists—tho
.republican majorities are largely increased. Gov.
Bagby is re-elected*with scarcely any opposition". ;
This is glory, enough fo last a whole year. ■ *
The following table will show- the relative -
strehgUi'of 'parties.-in the next Congress, so far aa. 1
results of the elections are known. ‘
Democrats. Federalists, \
6 2 •
Maine,. ..
New Hampshire,
Vermont,
, Massachusetts,
Connecticut,
Now Ywky ---O'. .
New Jersey,
Pennsylvania,
Delaware,
Virginia,
North Carolina, „
South Carolinti,'
. Georgia,
Louisiana, •
Tennessee,
Ohio,
Indiana,
Kentucky,
, Alabama, •
Illinois,
—Michigan,
Missouri,
, Arkansas,
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GOV, PORTER’S LETTER.
— : —-—Bedford, August, 1833.
Gentlemen’.^ The state; of my health, and. a dis
position to avoid. parade, will deny to me, what
otherwise would be,the pleasure of partakingof a
public dinner with my Democratic friends of Bed
ford county to which your letter of this morning
has invited me. , ■
Anxious, however,' to maintain and preserve an
unrestrained intercourse, between, the people
their , public ftitictionaries, it will give me , great
pleasure during my smoum at Bedford, to.seeand
converse with such of my fellow citizens as-may
find it.convonient to call. •- ' .
and the citizens whom the occasion brought to the
Beat of Government, by their more than Roman
firmness, as well as moderation and prudence, have
earned for themselves .never fading laurels, and
.justlywntitle-them-to-thewame of- “Thu Commit
tee of Safety.” To them aro.thc people of Penn
sylvania indebted for the frustration of the nefari
ous attempt of theec,traitors to the liberties of our
country: an.attempt which for recklessness and
corruption was never equalled since the dpys of
-Cataline. Terrified at the consequences to them
selves of their own guilt, they fled the Halls of
Legislation, to brood in secret over some new and
less dangerous mode of tampering with popular
rights, much as they desired they dared not
carry out their declared purpose to defeat the ex
pressed will of tho people. Tho calling of troops
to the seat of Government to overawe the legisla
ture and intimidate the people signally failed—
They wore called there without and against au
thority of lawj and it is fortunate that no excesses
were committed by tho military upon the citizens
and their representatives, dr it might have been
that the instigators of the mischief might have
been made to answer with their blood for their
treason. '
There is however a sublimity in the spectacle
of beholding the sovereign people calmly yet firm
ly and unflinchingly rebuking the usurpers of
power, and teaching them anil all who hereafter
would endeavor to Jo tho like, that tho people are
tho source and depository of all power, and that
their will “must and shall be obeyed;” and that
he who dares to prevent the legal operation of the
will of the people constitutionally expressed at
the Ballot Box, will be put down by tho strong
and irresistible voice of public opinion.
At the time of my induction into office I set forth
tho principles on which I intended to act, and have
thus far faithfully endeavored to live up to them,
notwithstanding the unwarrantable, and factious
opposition which almost every measure recom
mended for the public good has had to encounter
in one, and that the least Democratic branch of the
Legislature. Time and the deliberate action of the
people, tho sure .correctives of all abuses in. a re
public; will purify this, and we may then see a
consistent and harmonious action of all the de
partments of Government, and' tho State flourish
ing as she ought to do under united Democratic
councils. i “ ' • r
That Divine Providence has these blessings. in.
store for us I fervently hogo ariij sincerely believe;
and that our past triads may be the cause of in
creased watchfulness’in preserving invioldfb the
sacred rights to which we were born isythe sincere
prayer of
Your fellow citizen,
DAVID R. PORTER. ‘
To Mr. Nicholas Lyons, and others Committee on
behalf of the Democratic citizens of Bedford.
3 /
10.
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HYPOCRISY.
Tho “flying phenomenon,” and his valet
place of the Herald, have recently mounted the
hobby of religion to “witch the world with horse
manship,” and display their ground and lofty tum
bling to greater advantage than was recently ex
hibited to an admiring audience in the Senate
Chamber. These _ sober, moral, consistent and
upright harlequins, have recently.charged full tilt
into the very front ranks of the drunkards, atheists,
gamblers and debauchees, who infest our common
wealth, and singular to Telatcrhavc exhibited pro
digies of valor in contending these mons
ters. An amazing quantity of ink has been shed
in the ofcrocodilo tears have scarce
yet ceased to flow, and by the latest advices we
-discover that “Charles the Bold” and - his trusty
squire, Captain Bobadil , are in the very heart of
the country infested by the “Blackfeet and Rat
tlesnake bands,” slaying their thousands, and
carrying devastation before thorn. What a 'truly
sublime spectacle do we behold in this magnani
mous devotion of these two anchorites to the cause
of morality! ” Peter the Hermit and John Rogers
will hereafter be scarcely mentioned—the bright
star of their fame pales before the rising luminary
that now attracts the attention, of all observers.—
How truly fortunate are we to live in an age adorn
ed by the heroism and piety of these worthy
knights errant!
After the complete and final extermination of the
“Blacltfeet and Rattlesnake tribes,” it is under
stood that these heroes, who are as valiant as
wrathful doves or more magnanimous mice, in
tend to carry the war into Africa, or may be into
Kentucky, where a notorious gafhbler, cock fight
er and horse racer, by the name of Henry Clay
holds his orgies—thence they will proceed to Ohio
and chastise a certain debauchee by the name of
Harrison for polluting the land with his vices, and
with the object of putting an end to the crying of
certnin children in the wilderness—thence they
will advanefc into the New England States .and
“stop the grog’” of a certain Webster, who, in vio
lation of the five gallon law, is wobderfuUy ad
dicted to “sack and sugar,” They will tlien visit
the halls of-Congrcss and enquire whether f-Pise,
Graves, Prentiss, Ac. are secundum' or
ient, or whether they are bungling assassins of the
Robespicrian schod.. They will then march into
Poland with drums beating and colors Hying,.and
seek out a certain Tlmddeus of Warsaw, a famous
blackleg, and formerly a companion in arms of
“Charles the Bold”~undoubtodly tfiey will bind!
hirp together, with Speaker Cunningham back to
back, and hurl them into 'the Baltic sea. These
great and 'valorous deeds being performed, it is
'SurmiSHl'tliartlurmagnanimQUsCharlcs ..wiirgtT
info, a state, oTretiracy and disgorge his-ill-gotten
gains, mduch some pa*ple do-say'-were the price
of bribery and corruption; and the creditors of Cap
tain Bobadil cannot fail to have their accounts sat
isfactorily adjusted by the payment of at least ten
cents in the dollar—landlords’ bills and gambling
debts included.
It is really amusingto hear, the bitter wailing
and groaning of the “Buckshotonian” federalists
at tlie result of the elections in thoSoutKaridsbutb
west. They lied about it as long as they could
have any'prospeot of gulling the most credulous of
their used-up party, and denied that the first ro
portsJrom Terincseeo, Kentucky, North Caroli
na and Indiana had any thing ip them worthy of
boliof. -Their papera held back thQ 7 nows from
their readers as long as they could, and even now
they are loath to" of their irretriev
able defeat. But;the glorious tidings have been
spread-t 6 the fpurwjUds of Haiven, and the oppo
nents of an dotuocracyare reluc
tantly compelled to acknowledge' that they are
prostrate irv-Jhe dust-i-discomfited andf'dismayed
entirely annihilated by tho ropublican
legions of those patriotic States, y
These false prophets, for such they ato , noty
bo,; who so confidently predicted
the overthrow-oif Mr^, Van Buren’s administration,
and wbo induoedithe rank' and filo } efdtoir
tha'BUokshotohians; oh asmall seile-—Ur believe
that,the .administration was fast, going down, and
that ,thd' “odious" - Sub Treasury. would sink ,its
projectors and. adyhoates lower than the grave of
political dissolution, haye suddenly , disappeared,
add instead of boasting and bravado ;they are now
?snesT)£lKoTntterest agony -and distressV rnf : i73
'.ll?(!Ltff.fellDwa!.they,;hayb. had their day-rand-a"
sofrjt o'ndltihfe. been for .theeconhtry. ’ • Thdy-have
denied out panics and pressures with a liberal
hand for tho last four or five years, in tho hope of
blinding the eyes of tho people, and riding into
power on the strength of their delusion. But “a
change has come o’er tho spirit of their dream,”
and now after years of toil, and Hardships innu-
the Websters and Clays and Harrisons
and ’Whites and Bells and Wises and Tallmadgos,
find themselves immeasurably farther off tho goal
of their ambition than when they first set out in
their wearisome journey. And then what still
vexes their minds and embitters their feelings yet
morn, is tho fact that Mr. Van Btifen enjoys him
self “calm as a summer’s morning,” and looks
down, from tho lofty pinnacle of fatno to which ho
has been raised by the suffrages of a free people,
upon these grovelling, hanb-hnught and battle ridden
earth-worms, With tho most supremo contempt.—
Conscious of <the rectitude of his conduct, and
never doubting that tho people will sustain him in
his efforts to keep tho money power of the coun
try in subjection, ho pursues tho “even tenor of his
way,” alike impervious to' tho assaults of his ene
mies or the flattery of his friends. .
Blit, now: that tho elections just held have ter
minated so gloriously for the administration, and
now that the passage of tho Independent Treasury
bill is no longer a matter of doubt, wo should not
bo astonished, as we observed some two or three
weeks since, to sec these same supple Buokshot
onians, chamelion-like, change their professions of
hostility to tho Sub Treasury, and comb out ip a
few- months tho open-mouthed brawling advocates
of the measure. So destitute of principle are tho
federal leaders, that wo should not bo astonished
at any thing they do. Office is their god—and if,
by so doing, they could succeed in.their
they would not hesitate to shout louder than the v
loudest for Martin. Van Buren and tho Sub Treas
ury. ‘ .
Bo all this as it may, the dejected appearance of
these poor devils in our borough for a week past,
is tndypitiablc. From Mr. Speaker Penrose, who
had wot yet fully recovered from his fright last
December when he escaped from the “ugly big
butchers,” down to tho meanest of his lackeys and
jowlera who infest tho "streets and not a
word can be heard. They are as mute as mice.
They pass along without opening their mouths,
and can (Va-iily he. known by their elongated chins
and the wo-begono expression of their countenan
ces.’"
- The glory of federal whiggery is departed, for-;
'Over, and these fellows are now beginning to feel
if. Alas! for poor, pitiful contemptible federal
abolition antimasonic banlc ehinplaster Peg Beatty
“BUCKSHOTONIANISM!” ' It is thrice dead
and buried in.the. ocean of oblivion.
The Chebokees. —lt is stated that a sanguinary
war is now raging among the Chorokeos, between
the Ridge and Ross parties. 'ljhe account states
that the Ross party had murdered all the chieftains
of the Ridge party but one, and ho rallied his party
on the 28th of June, and a battle ensued which re
sulted in tho death of from 40 to 70 on both sides.
Ross yvas amongst the slain. Bushy Head, a
chief of great.p apu lari tv, who has always acted av
pacificator, is now endeavoring to reconcile. the
parties. The Cherokees, it is said, refuse to re
ceive the beef tho contracting agent has furnished
them, and threaten to take his life unless he pays
them the money.
Shocking MvaDEif— Mrs* Elizabeth Rick, of
Scott county, Ky., was most cruelly murdered on
the 9th-ult. by a negro woman, her slave. The
woman had been ordered to make a fire, and she
threw on such a quantity of brushwood that it soon"
blazed furiously. Her mistress aUempfcxTto~ex
tinguiah the fire, when the negro threw her into it
—but she extricated herself, when the fiend knock
ed her down with an aXe, and then endeavored to
cut her throat, but stabbed her in the mouth and
cut her tongue in two, She continued to use the
knife until she supposed Mrs. Rick dead, and then
ran into the field and told her master that her mis
tress l?ad fallen into the fire and. burnt herself to
death.. Mrs. R., however, was yet aide to relate
the circumstances, and the negro was committed.
Correspondence of the American Volunteer
New Vork, Aug. 14, 1839.
I have gratified with the re
ceipt-of several numbers of the “American;
Volunteer.” Their contents have for me a
deep ami peculiar interest, and I arise from
their perusal with the- conviction that Car
lisle, with all its bad habits, and infamous
blacklegs,- and.
women, is worth-,,atleast,-'-an-effort to re
claim it. Its reformation can only be ac
complished by elevating the,moral and in.-,
tejlectual character of the press.: That,task'
is’yours, and you are about.to accomplish it.
You have.an exceedingly valuable accessary
in your matchless correspondent “Carlisle.”
He wields' a ready and vigorous pen and
brings with him an intimate knowledge of
the miscreant clan he is called to encounter
.—secure luslltalenL-by^alLmeans.—Bu t-ono r
word foryourpri vate ear, : my friends—tran
sact a--ready,.cash business and thus do your
patrons a (Stiver; and “put money in your
purse.”
For me, in return for the gratification I
receive from the perusal of your paper, lam
willing to glean from any and from every
source within the precintsof Great Gotham,
whatever is novel or peculiar that can be of
interest'to your numerous .amL intelligent
readers, f wdlyisit WaU_Streefljnd_talk_
to . you of finanec. When those.,splefidid
transatlantick steam packets arrive, I will
discourse to you of their relative speed and
beauty, or the intelligence tliey bring—ahd
when the-.Vgreat available,”, who now so
journs at Saratoga, shall come among us, I
will advise you ofhjs "stately steppings.”
At present we are wholly destitute of “lions”
—a few, however, who are' “lions”' on a
smalt scale, are now with us, and are creat
ing a sensation in their own peculiar sphere.
One of these is Stephen BUrr.ows, the noto
rious counterfeiter and preacher.to the Pen
namites ivho was the author of infinite mis
chiefand 'drollery'while he was a student of
Dartmouth College. He is, now about 75
years of age, and is a venerable and intelli
gent citizen. In this enumeration I would
'also mention the name of the notable hero of
the Patriot War, Bill Jonson, & his charming
'daiighter Catharine. The authorities of'Ca
nada have; offered a reward .for Bill’s head,
and as he is not yet entirely reconciled to dis
pense with that rather necessary appendage
tij a : cbmplete'man. he concluded ■ to leave
the border where he resides, and sojourn a
while’in Gothain. He Seems about fifty 1 is
frrnik 'and.hianly' in his deportment, .arid.ex
hibits just fhat fearlessness, and reckless-!
ness ar character whiclv ought to character
ize Bill.: Ipnssn. and whicn; nobody would
expect to find him without! His daughter
partakes, of all,that is spirited and daring in
tier father, and is besides mild and gentle
and fawn-like. The following story con
’‘cerning~her.iß wcllworth relating—when I
tell you that I gathcred it from her own lips,
you will nut wonder that it excited my in
terest and admiration. But as my paper is
nearly filled, and ns I have'another very im
portant communication to makc, I will beg
your permission to defer the story until, my
next. A day or two since I chanced to be
strolling along Broadway. when my curiosi
ty led me to call fit the Astor House. Among
the Jast arrivals whose names appeared on
tho register,yl discoveredwritten in a fair,
dashing, business like, clock peddling kind
of a hand, the talismanick name of your co
temporary and particular friend Theophilus
Fenn. This fact, abstractly considered, is
probably of no kind of consequence.. Theo
philus has- as good a right to come to New
York antiput up at the Astor House, ns any
blockhead with huge whiskers pnd mustaches
who disports himself Around that establish ■
ment. But then,,what occasion has brought
him here? what business? what motive? what
inducement? Has he come to effect a loan
to enable the whig-party to redeem the bank
ruptcy of its late administration. Does he
intend to make the fashionable tour of Sara
toga and Niagara? —or is he simply pursuing
his unobtrusive way to Connecticut for a
fresh supply of the latest patent spinning
jinnies? To a person less-interested in this
matter than, I am, or than I think you will
be, and to a mind less difficult to satisfy than
our minds aw£ upon points of magnitude and
importance, the reasonableness of the latter
conclusion might afford a .satisfactory solu
tion of the problem. But still lam notsat
isfied. I have , the best authority in the
world for believing, that some “secret Ser
vice”—some important state secret has
brought him herc. The late Canal Commis
sioners and other incumbents of office under
Hither, like so many large hungry calves,
since they have been obliged to renounce
the public teat, have grown lean anff ema
ciated. Somebody, must.be prepared to make
speeches, to talk considerable nonsense, and
to do a great deal of wrangling from this
time until, after tho election.-* These must
be well fed, and
with a full stomach..; To this’end 'Theophi
lus is sent here as minister plenipotentiary
and envoy extraordinary, to negotiate with
the steward of the kitchen at this splendid
establishment, for all tho “cold wittals” that
may be needed for this laudable and praise-;
worthy objectr He:is alsO'inVesteirwitli dis
cretionary power to call oir Noah of thp
“Star” or some other of the tribe of Levi
who is in the ‘told clothes business,” and
effect the purchase-of a second hand suit for
each of the bankrupt whig and antimasonic
editoFk-in~Harrisburg, and a new pair of
breeches, made to order, very naf row in the
seat, for the new whig editor in Carlisle.—
If these can be procured on terms so reason
able- as (hut-the-fiintls a ppropriafed will au
thorize it, he is further accredited to obtain
three large flannel petticoats—one forT, H.
Burrowes, one for Peg Beatty, and one for
the amiable and pious speaker of the Senate.
But this is the extreme limit of his commis
sion, and it is by no means certain that he
will not omit the petticoats altogether. I
cannot vouch for the authenticity of this in
formation, butit looks extremely probable.
Yours, &c. SLAMM.
■y
, For the Volunteer
A Chapter on Gambling.
to “The talented senator.”
• Sir: —Your position in society is by no
means equivocal. The “painful pre-emi
nence” you now enjoy entitles you to all the
•honors usuallyatfcndant on a successful sys
tem of trickery and deception. A gambler,
amongst his associates, is estimated accord
ing to the skill with which he throws the
dicejand the manner in which he stocks the
cards, so as to cheat to the greatest advan
tage, the innocent and unsuspecting. He
becomes a great in proportion to
the amount he thus niches from his victims,
and enjoys a.notoiiety. in character with
that of Erostratus who applied the torch to
the temple of Diana at Ephesus. This kind
of-fame is'sometimes confounded by those’
‘who are tolerated in. the society of the virtu
ous, withthe reputation-achieved
of honorable actions; but the wise and the
good neyer fail to discriminate ju-tly be
tween and cheat, and truly
honest man. It is true sir, you are not of
ten seen at the Faro banks; but, if I may
credit thq- evidetice of my senses, and the
loud assertions.ofjthdse who were but re
cently your devoted friends,, the. fact js. con
clusive, that you have been gambling in an
other banking concern, to the tune of thou
sanda r _(ind-tensof_thbitsands!-rT-Yc!i&h',your.
abused,' insulted and'cheated-constituents,
are to a man. satisfied .of the opep.and noto
rious profligacy with which you bartered
their interests to an organized band of black
legs and brokers,:and became a share holder
in a concern which you had censured much
in the same manner; that you now. condemn-
Faro banks. -I will prove sir, what I assert
—when elected-to the Senate of Pennsylva
nia, you weie_l!aa.poocan<l ragged-as-Xaz- ;
arusiritHerpainted'.cloth’f—ymir-creditors
were loud and clamorous, and none of your
ftiends claimed for you the possession of the
means to meet your pecuniary engagements.
You had incurred the enmity of the federal
ists, by your ultra and rabid animosity to
the Bank of the United- States, to such a de
gree, that you were shunned by them as if
infected with, some loathsome disease. You
were denounced in the'usual polite terms
known'to that school,, as a leveller and an
agrarian, You, iti turn assailed the “mon
ster” with, the bitterest invectives, and
mouthed most verbosely all the sayings of
Jackson and Benton, and wound up
with the flourish that when the Bank was
chartered, 1 "freedom tvould shriek; and out
liberties would be locked up in the vaults of
the miser!” You made thedSenate chamber
'ring'with Bombastic tirades against an insti
tution, which you said, was “aparti/ bellig
erent iti d great political controversy, claim
ing to exercise, apd-ejcercising. potoeis dan
gerous to the liberties of the people!” and up
on, 1 the, whole, your,hypocritical cant had se
curcd you the confidence of the democratic
party,’to such a degree, that; you were look
ed upon as an amazingly disinterested friend
of the people. In this, position we find you
but three short years ago. Since that peri
od, a mighty revolution.haslakcn place in
al 1 your affaireii the poverty-strickch taler
demalion has become rich and luxurious,
sports his carriage and horses, lives at his
case,and, indulging Id's'taste for architecture, ,
erects splendid.structurcs at the-expcnsc of
thousands—the despised advocate of humble
democracy is received into social commun
ion with the bank aristocracy of the land,
and is even feasted as a cringing paratutc at •
the table of the Emperor Nicholas—the bold
and impetuous opponent of the Bank of the
U-. States, is how as “gentle as a sucking
dove,” having safely “deposited the liberties
of his_cpuntry in the vaults of'the miser,”
when he mounts,guard over them with the
rusty firelock of anti-inasonry!—in fine, by
some mysterious agency, the poor, degraded,
democratic opponent of the “great monster,”
has been converted into the rich, affluent,
sycophantic supporter of the golden calf!—
Will you explain, sir, by what hocus-pocus
or legerdemain, by what system of gambling
or slight of hand this wonderful change has
been produced? You will see the necessity '
of this, I trust, before you commence your
promised crusade against private character
under the cloak of holy religion, which .fits
you so slovenly as to reveal the black leg at
every step you take in the mire and filth by
which you.are encompassed. But I should
suppose; if your haggard and spectral visage
is an index,to_the.workings-of a.heart steep
ed in gall and bitterness, that you are even
now, ready to exclaim.
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
Snd every tongue brings in a several tale, ■
Jlnd every tale condemns me for a villain!
Yours, &c. MACDUFF.
T'or the Volunteer.
Messrs. Editors:—While in Carlisle last
week attending Court,' I was not entirely in
attentive to .political, movements, and was
somewhat surprised at the course pursued ,
by some of the opposition gentry. Itwould
appear, from what-leaked out in conversa
tion in one of the taverns in town, that the
federalists have already fixed upon their
candidates for the different offices to be filled,
this fall, and will stick to them to a man.—
Rut, then, they have ho hopes, of electing
any of (hem, unless they can produce a split
in thc,dcniocratio party. To efiect this they
propose, “aiid have their ageutsjit work-al.-
rcarfivtd (/fieri?#'UpSff’'t'iic~Tnincls •HVSttma v “
unsuspecting democrats and induce them to
come out and offer themselves as Volunteer
Ry this means, (if they succeed
in gulling those who they expect to be able
to operate successfully 7 upon,) they 7 fondly
calculate in dividingthc democratic, vote of
dhe county, and thus furnish themselves with
the means of an easy victory.
Hut these federalists “calculate without
their,host.” The stern democracy of the
county is not to be defeated so easily. Our
party is firmly united and will support the
Tcgularlynomihafed ticlTefbe it what ifmay.
—and will elect it into the bargain. This
the democratic party will do, even if some
who have heretofore been numbered with us _
sliolifd sutler themselves to-be made-tools of
by the-federalists and'come out “on their
own hook.”
Our opponents have tried this game re
peatedly in this county, and as often with
out success. So will it be again. Mark
what an old democrat predicts, who for thir
ty years has been a resident of
SILVER SPRING?.
. For the Volunteer.
Messrs. Editors:—The groat and main ob
ject of the County Convention, which as-
the 3d of September to form a ,
ticket to be supported at the approaching e
lection, should be to place before the people
a ticket inferior to none, less objectionable
than any, and preferable to all, independ
nnt of sectional feeling and personal pre
ference. For the object of. our existence as
a political party ismot a blind devotion to
the interest of any particular section, or to
the person of any individual, but to establish
the salutary arid perservatiye principle that
the ‘‘laws shall be supreme.” Such is the
desire, the end of the democratic, party, and
to effectuatd this, we recognize the princi
ple, that the “majority in all deliberate as
semblies shall rule.” Thus to the decision
~of fife County Convention, we will say, “a
mc.n,” be the candidates selected from'what
portion of the County they may. .It would
however be politic, if it were possible, in the
selection of the candidates to-consult the
wishes and satisfy the scruples of every-in
dividual and township in the County, but
such is impracticable, hence the necessity of
being subject to the decision of a County
Convention; and thus in the coming contest
no siderioay differences . will draw any man
from; his principles, into the'political death
ejnbrace. of.a party, with which we hold no
principle in'common, no affinity—no sym
pathy. As is natural it requires" a strong ef
. fortmf;fnfsral‘COuTage"to^yield^ppiftxeFprc
judices, but when patriotism depiands the
sacrifice, no true partizan, no honest demo
crat will hesitate to- make the offering, so
thatshoulcPthe Convention nominate for any
of the respective County offices or for a seat
hr the Legislature, any individual or indi
viduals against whom transient differences
might operate, it seems to be the current o
pinion in this end of the County, that inde
pendent ofl “sectional feelings arid personal
preferences”'theywilkabidebythcde'cislon
of the Convention.- Our motto iseoery thing
for our principles, union and harmony. But"
Messrs. Editors, that our views here.Tela
five to. some of the respective candidates r
may be made, known to the people of the
County generally, I am requested by:piany. ;;
democrats, to say, that their preference of
candidates to fill the several County offices
isT-the “ present incumbents—the Governor’s
■choice?’ which bespeak }he people’s confi
dence in their executive. In audition to the
above I am solicitcd'to present through the
medium of your paper, to.the people of this
County,, the name of JVUliam B. Cummins,
of this place, as that of a man, suitable to
represent them, in the" next Legislature.—
Should he be nominated by the Convention,
his nomination.will be hailed with pleasure,
arid that he will receive .a majority of the
votes of the people of tills County, of the
mechanics, the farmers &c., the t-'bone and . -
sinew” of our party,, I have the most con
firming assurance. He is a gentleman of ,
general information,-liberal and elevated in
liis views ond sentiments, and. altogether ■■ w
epialified to perform the duties of that, sta
jion, He ia known as orthodox on all tho -
greatquestio.ns of national policy, which now
agitate the an. uncompromising
friend of an indeperiilent treaßury—‘as fav
orable. to n sound and uniform currency—a*