Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1839 : Weekly), 1840-04-08

              Sfnc Willi Stote 7 - VOLUME XXX. COLUMBUS, WEDNESDAY, AritlL 8. 1810. NUMBER 50. V FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1840. IT-jJ wnnl to the Whir) if Mr'-t city. The party lines liave been drawn in the township election which takes pines on Monday next, nnd great exertions tire making by the opposing party to carry their candidates, or at least to reduce iho Whig majority. Let this lie remembered. There are also great efforts making to carry the corporation elections, on Tuesday week "A word to Iho wise is sufficient." CELEBRATION (IF RAISING THE SIEGE OF FORT J1EIUS. .Some misunderstanding havingarisen as to the proper time for celebrating this event, in consequence of the indefinite language of the Resolution adopted at the State Convention of the 22d February, the Stale Central Committee gave notice that it would take place on thc9ih of May next, on the morning of which day the last sh-oe. was raised. Hut, our friends at Perrysburgh (whoso proximity to the place, and the part it is expected tin y will take in the celebration, entitle them to be heard on the subject) considering that the language of iho Resolution, "to celebrate a day early in June, commemorating the raising the siege of Fort Meigs," as referring rather to the event, thin to the day, have fixed upon the ELEVENTH DAY Of' JUNK, as iho day for the celebration We are authorized by the Slate Central Committee, to signify their acquiescence in this arrangement, and to givo notice of the change requesting all editors who have given publicity to the former arrangement, fixing upon the 9'A day of May, to notice this change as conspicuously as possible. Tbero were two sieges of Fori Meigs whilst commanded by Cen. Harrison, neither of which occured in June: And us the celebration is intended to honor the character of Gen. Harrison, and the devoted army under his command to whose skill and gallantry the whole North-western Frontier owed its safety at that time not only for their conduct on this memorable occasion, hut fur their paiient valur through the whole campaign lo gloriously terminated at the Thames the disregard of the titty on which the siege was raised, will appear highly fit and proper. There are other reasons which have weight with the Committee, and not the least amongst them is the holding of the National Convention of Young Men, at Baltimore, on the 1st Monday in May. The celebration of events in history, by which the character and actions of the good and the brave are brought in review, are calculated to awaken nnd strengblen the patriotism and love of liberty in the young: It is to them the country must look in future days of peril and danger, and no obstacle should be placed in their way of coming up on this occasion and renewing their pledges to drfrnd through future time what their fathers, through the sufferings of two wars, have so gloriously icon. From the assurances of our friends on the Maumee, we feel warranted in saying that ample preparation will be made fur all who will come. The friends of the country are invited to come come without distinction uf party, "in pairs, singly, or in companies' let the PiopLt come, and all shall be welcome! AVm York Rrgittry Iaw.I Raw I We noticed in our lael ihe probable passage of this law, and the threatened nullification of the Tories. After the bull-enders and office-holders had held their meeting in peace, the Whigs advertised a meeting to express their opinion on the measure. They assembled at Masonic Hall in great numbers, on the evening of the 27th. The Tories attempted lo prevent the organization of ihe meeting, by dispersing through the crowd to the number of some 301), and making hideous noi ses. To rid themselves of these troublesome visitants, a signal was agreed on, when on the instant the hats of the Whigs were doffed, leaving the Tories still covered. The offenders being thus disclosed, they were soon hustled out. Ilnl these lovers of liberty and equal riglus, w ho hold that cheating at elections i s honest, were not to he put off in this way. They rallied llieir friends lo the number of some COO, and made a regular attack on Iho meeting. The Wbigs drove the assailants oir, bet the meeting was broken up without finishing its deliberations. There was no interference on the part of the police, the ciiy being under Tory government. After the mob had been driven hack and ihe meeting liad dispersed, leaving some fifty or sixty behind, the mob rallied and finished their patriotic work hy healing the Whigs, J ust to show that a registry law was not necessary ! lly this time the police had mustered in sufficient force tu arrest some half dozen of the gentry nnd take them to the watch house. They sent for Mr. Alderman O'Neal, a Tory magistrate sworn to support the laws, who forthwith ord red them to be liberated, without recognizing them 1-j u;pear and answer for the offence, or even taking their names ! As might he expected, iho city was thrown into a feverish state uf excitement hy these events, The mob were incited to this outrage by a publication in the New Km, a leading Tory piper. Since Ihesa events, the Hcgistry law Ins pased. Our friends in tho cnuulry can see on what tenure lliry hold the right of voting, t HC7.n llim'f (..fin.' The duties of Superintendent of the National road, herelufore performed by one person, were divided by our late economical legislature, and another office created. The former salary paid was UOII dollars, now the two receive 1800 dollars! Dr. Drake, the old superintendent, has been engaged in making politicul speeches most of the spring, and no doubt needs a little relief from the burdens of his office, iTy"It is due lo the Superintendent of Ihe Ohio Lu natic Asylum lo any, thai the Senate Heporier for the Journal, owing to indisposition, was not present on the morning of the adjournment, which "ill account for the non-appearance of a notice of the report, unanimously agreed lo in lbs Senate, highly approving the management of said Institution, The pointless elfvision of Mr. Ui'presenialivn Morris, in the Statesman, .and his attempt to get up some excitement in Ihe House, are alike dead failures! Street .Iff my. K fight took place in the streets of the city of Buffalo, a few days ago, between a young man by the name of Vielo, and the editor of a penny paper called the Hnflalonian, named Stlmson. The editor, in dispensing his indiscriminate abuse, bad rehVctcd upon the memory of Viele's father. The young man took tho law into his own hands, and commenced caning the olfender, when the editor drew a pistol upon his nssailaul, which in the a Ifray was discharged, tho ball passing through the left hand of the luckless editor. Let lbs law now punish Vide, , .anil the account will be balanced. THE LAST DISCOVERY. Tho Globe and its kindred prints, including the veracious Ohio Statesman, have found a new venl-holo for their mendacious abuse of Gen. Harrison. In this we feel to gratulate them, as we shall presently show. It would seem from the statements given, that the kindness of friends and ihe mischievous inquisitiveness of enemies, has so overwhelmed the Old Hero with letters and papers in most instances kindly meant that he has been obliged to delegate lo a committeo of his friends, in whose judgement and faithfulness he feels at liberty to confide, the power of opening and answering such communications as do not require his persona) altention. Of such n character was a communication recently received from Oswego, in New-York, signed by a Mr. Miles Holchkiss, who subscribes himself "Corresponding Secretary" of tho "Union Association" of that place. The gentlemen in queslion David Gwynne, lohn C. Wright, and O. M. Spencer (men whose standing and honor need no endorsement to give them "additional brightness") returned to Mr. Ilotchkiss a civil answer, referring him and his associates to the expressed opinions of Gen. Harrison fur full satisfaction "in regard to all the important and exciting questions of the day." The answer was based on what would seem to be an erroneous assumption, that this Mr. Hntchkiss was a gentleman honestly seeking for information, for the. use of himself and others. In this, at least, the committee misjudged, as is plain, from the disposition the man made of it, by transmitting it for publication to the Now-Y'ork Evening Post, (a paper printed 300 miles from Oswego,) as a matter out of which something could be made to call off the public attention from the open corruption and nbuses of the general government. Henco it is that tho Globe and its co-laborers have set themselves so earnestly at work. Out their patriotic exertions will not turn the current of popular indignation from the "architects of ruin" who throng the capitot and government offices at Washington. The questions propounded, nnd to which this answer was meant to be a satisfactory reply, were three in number, lo wit: First. Are you in favor of receiving and referring petitions for the immediate abuliiion of slavery in the District of Coluiulii.i1 Second. Are you in favor of a United States Dank, or some insiituiioii similar to that, for the safe keeping and disbursing of the public moneys, and for giving a uniform currency throughout the Uniied Siatesl And last. Would you favor the passage of a General Bankrupt Law, hy Congress, so that its operations might bo equal in all Ihe States in the Unionl lly themselves considered, these questions are well enough, and any intelligent man could have easily framed an answer to satisfy himself, from Ihe full and voluminous published opinions already given by Gen. Harrison more full and satisfactory than were ever before furnished hy any candidate since the days of Madison. The answer, therefore, of Gen. Harrison"! friends, was pertinent and proper, and would have sat' isfied any honest inquirer. But who is this Mr. Holchkiss, with his "Union Association," for whom the sympathies of the States' man are so sensibly awakened! Far nobile fratrum! a precious pair truly. On this head our information is satisfactory. The following extract from the Mad. iaoninn of ihe 2s)lh March, shows him lo be a fit cone panion for the Knight of the Uroken Quire : " On ihe authority of a letter before us from Oswa-go, ke is the keeper of a nine pin bawling aljry, nnd i groggery for loafers. The "Union Association" is i litle assumed for thu nonce, by a band of graceless in fiilelsand Loea-foco!, who whilom were known as the "Pennyless Aristocracy," and whose custom it is to meet at the uloresaid bowling alley lo revile religion by mock prayers and assumed lilies of Reverend, as well us to deride, insult and slander their belter ncigli bors. Their great apostle is Fanny Wright, and the reconl ol tlieii proceedings, we are Informed, is a tin- sue nf obscenity sod profanity, interspersed with de signs ol Ihe most beastly and disgusting character." We would here leave the pair to enjoy their honors jointly, did not the occasion furnish an opportunity too good to be passed hy, of exposing alill farther the weakness as well as wickedness of Gen. Harrison's slanderers. The Statesman triumphantly asks-"If iho hero of all the federal wars ever fought is no un- fit lo be entrusted with his own mind, and is in need of a conftdenliul committee, to stand between him and Ihe public, what would be tin) casn if he should ho made President" We again quote from the answer of ilia Madisonian to ihe Globe, which, under the circumstances, will suit the case of the Statesman equally well : Has ihe Globe t soon forgotten the 'example' set by Gen. Jackson 1 Has its editor forgotten that Gen. Jackson had a confidential committee to relieve hint of the burden uf his correspondence! Has he forgotten that the late Harry Lee, one uf the most powerful ufour politicul writers, was one uf thai committee, and Ibat David Gwynne, who is now reported aa a memuer ol Uen. Harrison s committee, was another! If so, it is a great convenience fur certain purposes lo possess a thurt memory. We wore a Jackson man, and wa know something of ihe doing of our party: nnd we therefore consider the altsck upon this 'example' as amounting to an assault upon the policy of Gen. Jack.on." Before the editor of the (Statesman again arraigns the integrity or capacity of bis betters, we hope lie will recruit his slock of the former commodity by republishing the majority reporl in ihe broken quire investigation, so that an "additional brightness" may be thrown around his short-comings and political reminiscences. When he makes another ditcovcry, we sincerely hope he will be enabled to make a better use of it. The Statesman of Friday last puMlshea a communication under Ihe signature of "A friend of the Poor," charging the Whigs in ihe Senate with a defeat of tho bill lo provide fur the valuation nf personal properly sold on execution, as in Ihe sale of real estate. With out discussing the policy of such an enactment, w e wuuld say, Ibsl it was permitted In full, in the Senate, without any one nf Ihe 25 t.relative fmnds to the poor man extending lo il any aid or countenance! Il was in the hands of tho Judiciary committee, and reported hack with a auggeslion that It he indefinitely postponed which was carried without debate, and almost by common consent. It is rather a poor show for politi cal capital, lo defeat the action nf twenty-five oncol "friends of the poor man with eleven bigs! Gullahilily, or U'iekcdnen. Tho Globe publishes a story set silent In a paper printed at Detroit hy Canadian Rtfugee, charging Ihe British authorities in Canada with nn intention to alir up the Indians on our Northwestern frontier to active hostilities! Il may he so, hut the evidence is loo flimsy to be entertained hy a rational man for one moment. Such things are understood on the frontier. The homily of the Globe on Iho "shocking cruelly" of employing Indians in a "warfare beiween christian nations," had belter be read at the head of Blood-hound Brigadaln Florida ! TREASURY NOTE BILL. This bill finally passed the House of Representa tives on the evening of the 27th, and is now under discussion in the Senate. Its passage was anticipa ted but the frinnds of a sound currency and the con stitutional exercise of the powers of government, felt their duty to oppose it to the very last. The prin- pie oncerecogniied, that the government may issue its promitei to pay, anil all wholesome restraint over Ihe revenues and finances of the country cease forever. The Treasury, instead of being thn receptacle of ihe government funds, becomes the head of a moneyed power as new as it is unnatural : It beoomes, to all intent! and purposes, a Govsrnmknt BANK, whose chief officer is the Secretary of Ihe Treasury, whoso duly it is to Buporintend the manufacture of Paper Money, instead of attending to the collection and dis bursement of the public revenues ! To this humiliating resort has the government brought itself. It has become bankrupt by its own acts, and lias published lis shame to the world. The hard money advocates in Congress, like the Bunk reformer! of our own State, have given the Ho to their professions by their practices, adhering to only one article of their faith, the par';, ri lit or wrong ! Tho hill in question empowers the Secretary to is sue Treasury notes to the amount of 5,000,000 dollars, ami to rc-imic them, as often as lliry may bo redeemed ! The only restriction is, that the amount outstanding shall not at any one time exceed five mil lions, the law to remain in force for one year. In plain words, the bill is n charier for a National Treaiury Bank with a capital of Fiva Millions of Dollars ! Is sue, and re-issuo what more could any Bank dot And under this bill, what is to prevent the creation of a National Debt lo the extent of iho credit of the Government! By the precedent established in Ihe memorable removal of Mr. Secretary Duano, the Pres ident is the head of the Treasury, and have we a right lo expect the courage (not to say honesty) in Mr, Woodbury, to resist tho commands of Mr. Van Buren, should he be ordered lo inue and reissue theso notes wherever and whenever he could find purchasers! We have no such hope or expectation. the Whigs hi Congress were in favour of a resort to a loan, specific in amount and fixed in its uses- I'his is Ihe old and Republican mode punned uni formly under former administrations, with the memo rable excepliniiliiring the last war, when the government amid nut borrow. During the discussion, Mr, Barnard, of New-York, put Ihe following questions in writing to Mr. Jones, the chairman of the commit tee of Ways and Means, who reported this bill, and demanded un answer: Mr. Jones declined answer ing, but referred the querist to the "opinions of the President of the Uniied Slates, and of Ihe Secretary of the Treasury"! The merits of ibis important national queslion may be negatively drawn from Mr. B.'a queries, which follow : 1. Does not this hill authorize Ihe issue of " hills of credit," to circulate and be used as money by Ihe Gov ernment and the People! 3. Is it constiiulionally competent to this Govern ment to emit bills of credit! 3. Admitting the power, is it right to create a cur rency which all experience and all authority unequivocally condemn! 4. Coder Ihe authority nfthis hill, may nol the Gov ernment discount commercial paper lo the amount of many tunes five millions uf dollars, lending the rredit of the Government in ihe shapd of notes which shall circulaie as money! 5. If, under thn authority of this bill, the Government may issue bills of credit lo circulate as money, and may dicoutti commercial paper, does not Ihe hill authorize a "Treasury hank, founded on the revenues and creilit of the Government!" 6. Is it competent lo Ibis Government, under the Constitution, to establish and maintain a Treasury bank! 7. Is a bank less a bank because its charter is limited, and may expire in a year, unless renewed! 8. Is it competent for this Government, hy the Con-siitutinu. In provide a medium of payments and receipts for itself other than cash that is, specie ur its equivalent! 9. Is a Government paper, bearing different rates of interest from one mill in six per cent., n medium of payment of equal and uniloriii value, anil alwnvs e.iui valent lo specie! If one creditor of Government is paid in Government paper bearing six per cent, in terest, and another is paid in such naner hearing one per cent, or one mill interest, are the Iwn paid equally and notn incasni ur, n one is paid in icw l nrk. where such paper, hearing Interest, or only nominal interest, is at or below Ihe par of specie, and another Is paid In Charleston, where the same paper is h vi per cent, above par, are Ihe two paid equally, ami both in cash! And if dmira are paid to the Government in New ork and In l.harhstnn in paper of such un equal value, are duties uniform throughout the United Stales! 10. Have not Iho Treasury notes heretofore issued under this Administration been issue,) bearing differ ent rates of interest; and have not different notes burns dilTereiil values in the same place, and Ihe same de scription of notes borne diff-rent values in different places! And will nol mis no the case again! II. Does not ibis bill autuoriio ine receipt ul these notes for the public dues, and Ihe payment of litem to the public creditors! Anil does not your sun I reasury bill, as you pmposo to pass il, cmitcmphiH a resori to specie, and specie alone, tor all tiovernnicni receipts and payments, Hh an express prohibition at all p per! lielween Iht-se antagonist measures, which Is In prevail! Whal is lbs intention of Ihe Administra tion! Is it lis purpose to make this exclusively a hard money Government, or exclusively a paper money Government! Or is il its purpose fo employ a currency partly of specie, and partly of Government paperl 'i I'o all these questions, in ihe name nf ihe People, and fr the sake of the People, I respectfully demand from Ihe Chairman of the Cnniuiittco i,f Ways and Means an explicit nud direct response. J7 The bill has pajsid the Senate, nnd is now a law. - Cumhcrlaud Rood Harbor Improvement!. Wo learn by letters from Washington, lh.il our fears respecting an appropriation for the onntinuince of the Cumberland Head, are likely to he realixed. The majority of the committee of Ways nnd Means, which consists of friend of the administration, decline lo report any appropriations for Ihe Cumberland Mad, or for the improvement of llaihors, unless specially instructed so lo do hy the House. It was for Ibis reason that Mr. Casey, of Illinois, moved his resolution for this purpose lotne days ago, and which was promptly voted down. A member from N. York, Mr. Mar vin, has made two attempts lo engage the favorable attention of the House for appropriations Inwards Ihe completion of Harbor Improvements on the northern waters, ond has met wiih like success. This policy is oltribuled lo Ihe inltnenro of Mr. Calhoun, who now hulds. the balance of power nnd conlrouls the conrso of the administration. The free West is lu he sacrificed in the vain hope of promoting Mr. Van Bu-ren'i schemes of persnnul ambition! When will the ceainlry see there things in their truo light! Another SivarluxmUr Mr. Deerher, ! deputy sheriff, is advurined at I'ontiac, (Mich.) as a defaulter lo a large amount. EX-GOVERNOR MASON. This hair-brained and intemperate young man seems determined to hasten his own destruction. With a moderate share of talent and some spriglitliiuss, he was early thrown before tho public in n conspicuous situation, occasioned hy Ihe death of Gov. Porter, soveral years ago, Mr- Mason, then a mere boy, was Secretary of Michigan at that lime a Territory! and, hy the occurrence above alluded to, he became acting Governor, under the operation of the law of Congress. In his new and responsible situation, thinking that place made the man, he commenced a course of mad pranks and mismanagement, which, after a variety of incidents, terminated in the Toledo war, and the erec tion of Michigan into a State, of which the valorous little man was elected Governor, in spite of General Jackson and Gov, Horner! His doughty deeds of war (in the due perform ance of which, according to rules adopted by the modern chivalry, much good liquor was poured out) had woo for him the favor of the boisterous multitude. Phis the young man mistook for the evidence of pop ularity founded on his great merits. He had not dis crimination enough to see that he was surrounded by a set of Ignorant harpies who were devouring the substance of Ihe Stale, and earning for Michigan, in the estimation of the wise and the good, the reputation nf being the worst governed Slate in the Union. Ilo wna in due course re-elecled Governor the current was slill strong in his favor, swelled hy the creaiion of wild-cat Banks, magnificent projects for Rail Roads and Canals, State loans, and Stale Bank financiering! In all this, the only thing wanting, was, sufficient honesty nnd intelligence to carry him through. Ho had taken a falio step nt the start: he had discarded from his counsels the experienced and faithful servants of the State, and had drawn around him a set of needy expectants and hungry speculators. The result was foretold: The ungrateful multitude lo court whose favor he had lent himself, instead of attending to ihe duties of his office when they saw the effect of causes which his improvidence had provoked, left him, to breast the storm as best he might. And, at the last election, he was Buffered to return lo thai quiet insignificance for which nature intended'him, and from which the partiality of friends should never have drawn him. Ilia day had coino: But it would seem that the same infatuation which marked his oarly career, slill attends him. Instead of gathering up his robes and retiring with dignity, he now is seeking lo lurn the public attention from his many and gross delinquencies in the management of the affaire of the State, particularly of her finances, by getting up an issue with his successor, the venerable Judge Woodhridge, on some matters of etiquette and fact; and, by again attending ward meetings and mixing in politics, to raise a smoke in which lo shroud his public abuses, or lo manufacture a new slock of small-beer popularity for some new crusade. For Ihe credit nf Michigan, il Is to be hoped his public course is run. With attention to business, he might become respectable in bis profession, and rise to that order of happy mediocrity at Ihe har which would enable hitn lo sustain himself respectably. But the demand for politicians of his order, possessing more impudence th in wisdom, has become so great since Mr. Van Buren came Into power, that his State may expect again to he saddled with iho load of his official pretence in some form or other, should the present rule be continued. He has recently been indicted fur nn assault upon a highly respectable citizen of Detroit thus, under the present order of merit, affording new evidence of his character, and creating new claims for preferment. Violence, a disregard nf moral sanctions, and a con-lempf of the law, seem now, both here and nt Waah-inglon, lo he a passport lo favor, and to give " additional luHre" lo character. We shall therefore con- fidenily look to see ex-Governor Mason soon preferred to some place of honor and profit. Vide tho lliniorilv Report of the While-washing committee appointed by Mr. Speaker Itiirbnnan, to clear the state rniiicr ol the ouium ol canuaging nic broken qmrei. 17" Wo cannot sparo the room nccessnry for the insertion of the correspond, -nee between Mr. I ox nud Mr. Forsyth, on the Dmiudaiy question, laid before Ihe Senate nn Ihe 2t!tb ull. In Its character, this correspondence does not materially differ from the prece ding, on ihe same subject, nor does it change the relations of the two governments. The points at issue are subordinate to thn main facts, w hich depend on treaty stipulations. From these Ihe government of the U. S. cannot recede, nor is it expected it will Tho adjustment of the Boundary lino according to the treaty of I7H3, carries wiih It all other difficulties, and to tliis object the two governments should turn their attention with due dilligence, regardless of the nelulance of the Goveniuurs ol either Maine or New Brunswick. Mr. Fox announces his expectation of early leceiving from his governmenl a reply to tho lasl proposition from our government in relation to the Boundary question. On the reading of Ihe correspondence, Mr. Davis and Mr. Webster, and Mr. Williams, of Maine, hrh fly addressed Ihe Senate, and lb subject was then rvferr, d to the committee on Fjrrign delations, j r.itsKY 1!1.it."ku;i: of the i-mxt. Al a recent meeting at Trenton, ihe Hue blue Jersey spirit boih-d up. After spurning the idea that their delegation lo Congress should longer seek justice from the hands i f a tyrannical majority, Iho meeting adopied the following declaration; Itrtnlved, That (he people of this Siato elect their own represenlaiives in llieir own right and hy their own voies and the scenes of her Ituvolutionary fields the spirit lluil belongs to Trenton and Princeton and Moiiini'iHh the Revolutionary blood Ihat has long coursed, and now boils in our veins, forbid that Ihe Slate of New Jersey should proslrale herself, as a auppliatit,4icfore those who would oppress her. 7'ic "Aug robin." number of this spirited little sheet, primed at Dayton, came to baud a few days since. Il rontains a notice of the early life of Tiiom- CoawtN, our popular and talented candidate for Governor. We shall lake an early opportunity to transfer it lo our columns. il- The ultra Tory paper! are trying lo "fun Iho embers" between this government and Groat Britain, en the Boundary question. One thing ia curtain, if War becomes inevitable, the American people will be content with nothing short of Old Tippecanoe lo lead them, The Florida War has settled that affair. lyl. W, Bear, Ihe Pickaway Blacksmith, address- rd a full house last evening. He is an original lean a genius and should he heard, wherever he speaks, hy his Mlovv-uicchaiucs and working men. LITERARY. The Pathfinder, or the Inland 8oai By the author of the noneers, slc Cooper, (James Fennimore,) has been universally styled the American Novelist. Why! is naturally enough a fair question. Some readers will answer, ecause he has written so much ; others, because be has written so well : and both may be right, Cooper is but human, and we all know that it is extremely human to err. Cooper has done and said some very foolish things, for which he is undoubtedly sorry, and hich, when we consider hitn as a mere author, a pleasant and agreeable writer, and good story-teller, we are compelled to overlook and forgive. The book, whose litle we have given, is his last production. It may, perhaps, now be expected and presumed that we are going lo tell the reader just what a pleasant good humored sort of a book it is how many characters it calls imo action, and how well and prettily they be have themselves whether the story is a good or an indifferent one and, in short, give our official opinion on Ihe merits and proprieties of tho book, wi.h a few running notes, touching its scenes, ytcidculs, fee- But we are going to do no audi thing, Messrs. Caroy, Lear and Blanchard have issued a sufficient number of copies into the world. Mr. Whiting, who is never eliiud in such matters, has promptly "brought it out," and we have good naturedly announced its appearancewhich, hy the way, it gives us great pleasure to do and here we must real, . Every reader at all interested in the matter, will of course use all diligence and expedition in procuring the work for him self, reading It for himself, and make up a judgment on its excellencies best suited to his own feelings, and best calculated to keep hitn in good humor with himself. We have done so, and find ourselves not only in perfect good humor with ourselves, but with Mr. Cooper and his "Pathfinder" also. From Canton News to the 5th Dec. h ive been re ceived at New-York from China. The trado with England is "stopped forever" by imperial manifslo. That with the Americans continues uninterrupted, and will so continue unless cut off hy English blockade. Rapid lMoinoliun.Tle journey between New- York and Boston, by the new route via Norwich, is performed in about icvenleen hours distance 213 miles. Sleain-hoat lo Norwich, Rail-road to Boston, passing through Worcester. New York. Mr. Graham has declined the nomina tion for Mayor, and the Whigs have nominated J. P. Phoenix. The recent Tory dislurbancea in tho city have given the Whigs strong hopes of being able to carry the ciiy. For tlis Ohio Bute Journal. HARD TIMES. No. V. Th i'ltimatr Rrmedv. If the present Legisla ture will attempt no cure for the disorders of Slate, Ihe peopli must sel about it themselves. In the first place, personally. Every man in debt should, al all events, aim to cancel his liabilities as speedily as possible. Everyman who has to collect debts, should do il with as little injury aa may be to the debtor I Ins is as truly Ihe dictate ol sound policy as of kind ness and good neighborhood, Theircnrra prtaperilu of the community is the life of business transactions. W hen business men deal leniently with their custom ers, Ihe latter have good encouragement to industry and energy In discharging present liabilities and creating new ones. Dealers who crush theirruslomers, are like him who killed ihe goose that laid Ihe golden egg. By leniency, however, 1 do nol mean slack- ss. bvery mnn should be incited to punctuality. Men who have spare capital would do well, when pricea become moderate, lo prosecute improvements. 1 hey may thus increase their own means, reward la bor and stimulate industry. ill recommendations of the practice of strict fru gality be now heeded! There are few that seem to know how much all classea are running into extravagance. I am no advocate for penuriousnoss. But I am satisfied that a large portion of Ihe householders ol Ohio might live quite as comfortably us now if they spent lar less than at present. Keckon up, II you can, Iho amount of useless drinking, (or worse;) over eating, and the sums derated to vanity and fashion w hat is spent lo please Ihe eyes or the taste of low- My elte and you might soon find a sum sufficient to piy our 13 million debt. I would remark, with leave, that no plan ol llior ough going reform can be fully effective without lbs concurrence of the Indiea. They command iho purse strings of the community to an extent far greater than is generally apprehended. Will they ask what they can no! i answer, much rtry much. I bey can introduce greater simplicity of living, without at all di minishing the real enjoyments of life. They can encourage their husbands and friends to live within their income!- They can encuurugn the raising of II ix and ran revive I tie use or a musical instrument, very pleasant and much in vogue in my younger days the npinniny, wheel. Ohio, if she will, may become one of tho three foremost Slates, if not Ilia very hrat in our Union Ohio, thus far, has advanced like a young giant. If tlnf ptmile of Ohio will hut be Hue to themselves, nothing can stay Ihe ir onward progress. It hehnves them lo look well to their affairs to understand their interests; and, abort all, lo discard the quackery nf political dn nagoguea, to choose for their public servants, men w ho Know those interest! ond w in attend to lb Lei ihe Freemen of Ohio remember Ihat, under heaven, Ihey have their destiny in their own power. If ihe interests of iho Male are not promoted, it is (lie fault of Iho electors. Whatever hlame may be due to llieir agents, Ihe employers mint blame themselves, II Is high lime uir the alliens nt Ohio lo feel Ihat they have concerns and interests fnr more important than the claim! of Henry Clay or Martin Van llun ti to Iho Presidency or those of Wilson Shannon or Joseph Vanet, or oll.ets. In ihe Governorship or whether A, II, V (1 lo. or IV, L, M H t o. shall en joy Ihe spoil! office. Iho prtmiiru ohjecla of all governmental establish mems oiik'iI to be what we have pmfiuci ill our Na tional compact "lo form a more perleci union, to establish justice. Insure domestic tranquillity, provide lor the common defence, promote the general weltare, oud secure the blessings uf liberty." Ill the general we'fart Is included tho highest attainable well being uf the community, aa amass, and of every individual member of il. clrery measure or movement, therefore, intended to benefit the few, or a party, as such, is aa contrary to our professed principles si it ts to reason and right. Whenever wo can come to act on these professed principles, no difficulty or grievance will long remain unadjusted or unredressed. LUIIU. Ihtnlivt srrngA''pirift.The Louisville Journal says, that a vote upon the next rrcsiuency was lusen nn board the Edward Shippen, on her late passage from New Orleans lo Louisville. The result was as follows: Harrison 130, Van Buren .0, Clay 3 "'i'his vote," says our informant, "was a test of Ihe feeling of the sinew and hone of ihe country of which the Democratic party have so much boasted more than two-thirds of all tho voters consisting of the honest and hard working yeomen of the Western Stales." .am llumpkrry!. We are eifdibly Informed that' some of Mr. Humphreys' political friends, have, nt this lule day, ascertained that he is just such a man as his opponents havealwnya supposed him to be. They have been so illy satisfied with his conduct ill the Legislature this winler, that a petition was prepared and numerously signed, asking him to resign his lent in Ihe Sanale 'Marietta Int. THE REDUCTION OF WAGES.' ' ' Ths nrogresa of the country toward a apecie cur rency, brings with it, as was to be expected, a reduction in all aorta of property, and wages, except where temporary causes, as in the case of (hips, keep up prices. Lands, Houses, the Products of the Mechanic and Farmer, Labor, all go down. The laboring man here is lo have his labor measured by the pricea of Slave labor in Cuba, or Peasant labor on the Continent of Europe, thus perfectly illustrating the oftea ) proclaimed Whig argument. Ihat credit ia ihe system 1 for a free country, and no eredit Ihe system for an enslaved country. I' ; i his reduction of wages the Whigs beran to reason I in 1834, would, necessarily follow an approximation ' towards a specie currency. The paper inflation can- , sed by the removal of the depositee from the U. S. i Bank to prop up the Mote Uanka in making paper money plenty, prevented the laboring classes from feeling the force of the argument, but now, as there are nearly as much Gold and Silver In our banka aa paper afloat, the argument is brought home in an uni versal reduction ot labor and property. They who are in debt are thus fearfully screwed down. 1 he reduction ot wages Mr. Buchanan broached the idea in his speech will enable our Manufoctu- reri lo compete with Europeans, for when our laborer! work as cheap as Europeans, we can afford to sell ,' as low. This is in part true, and in part not, true . when there ia no intervention of genius, enterprise, : machinerv, but untrue when intended for us, inasmuch as iu a new country, a new people will not work asartizana for European prices, inasmuch, as such ' prices throw all business into the hands of great capi-. talisls, and paralize all Ihat enterprise of Ihe Labor- , ing classes that have made IheseStates what they are. But what an argument for a prfeuinig "Democrat" to a Brrmfcliwi,, People! If we have any sound rs- , tional boast, it is that Amerre.-l.aiM,(l are better off than European Laborers, that this is the Paradise of the poor, if it be, aa alledged, the Pandemonium of tho rich, but here is an argument for reducing Amer- ican labor to European labor at once, and thus abandoning the credit and the enterprise of Ihe thousands to Ihe cash of the ono! An expanded currency, the intelligent Radical! of England, such as Mr. Atwood, rationally armio ia the interest of the poor, and a contracted foven aoecie', . currency the interest of the rich. The more money , there is, the more chance to the poor of having a share, but the less, it ia all for Ihe rich. The mere mo- . ney, the more enterprise, and the more demand for labor, but Ihe less, ihe cheaper labor, and what money ine nen nave, commands more ol it. The condition of the country now perfectly illustrates this. The ye- ; ry rich were never so well off aa they are now, and ' the poor and middle classes never worse off. The . r armer toils, and with abundant harvest!, gets but lit tle for his loil. Produce hardly pays, in many places, for carrying it to market. The mechanic is corn ing down to Uermany, and Italian, and Cuba prices of labor. The banka have but little more paper out than Gold and Silver in, anJ almost a apecie curren-, cy exists; quite in the city of New York, and Til I 1- L1 . ' 1 . nam, bb iii rjuiupa, uiu muonng man sees no more i ; gold than ever, but rather less, for whal Ihere is, tlie ncn nave noaroed up, and there la no credit to tempt It out. AT. Y. Erpreu. Life of llarriion.Yit learn from a private letter received by ua from New i ork, that roes hundsid thousand coeiis of Urook'i life of Harrison was atrnck off at the Express office, and every copy diapo-' ud of. One order from Georgia was for 80,000. It waa aold at Ihe low price of 1 SO per hundred co nies, we nno me loliowing editorial on the subject, ' in a late number of the Exptess: Cincinnati Pep. "This prodigious demand of the People fur the history of General Harrison, which ia 1 in fact the history of the West and North-Wost, is ; ? one ol ine very significant sioos of the timea. ' it are certain Ihat we have made nol Ilia least eff; ( to f circulate what we have published, yet the nombi-t we. 'j have struck off ia truly amazing. Our first set of store- - J otype plates is already used up, and we are otlired f to get otners. una suetcri, however, we have rah- , lisbed, is but one among the many. Ouri has m n ;, ' re-pubiuned In Inrge editions iu Uallimure, hy fa , V atriot, and in uloucealer, (Mass.) by the Telearapu while large editions of Gushing s aie in circula'' a I in Massachusetts. There is also a Life with pictoul illustrations published in Philadelphia, in addition' .o I the valuable Biographiea of Hall, Dawson, Burr, Ilil drelh, and others." I Such and other signa of Ihe times convince ua, that . the People themselves, not the Politicians this tints,' haveao taken up ihe election of General Harrison, that the One Man Powca of the Constitution, with all ita patronage, cannot prevent IU Hta name and fame grow upon the People, and the pnblio condition makes a civil revolution absolutely necessary and Irs '. resistible. llyW'hydonot the Van Buren meawhoare ouotlna the motion ofLacock in the VI. S, Senate in regard to lien. Harrison, tsu the people more particularly tvA Mr. 1ieoek teas. Some of them claim to have a remarkable memory of all the incidents of the last war!. Do they recollect that this is the same Mr. L acock who waa a contractor for furnishing the asroy of tien, Harrison with provisions! Da Ihey also seoolloct that lie waa ao negligent of hie dmy,. that the army at one lime subsisted fot days on rev beef, and that for this neglect he was, through Ihe commander'! influence, deprived of his oonlracl! Can they trace no oon-nsction between Ihe disgrace Ihey cast upon him, and his subsequent conduct ia Congress! We should like to refresh their extraordinary memory also, by reminding them that this ia the same Mr. Lasock who offered a resolution censuring Gen. Jaekton for his conduct in the army;, for which the "Old Hro" threatened to cut off his esrs ! Have they forgotten this! The fact Is, if these men know any thinf about the matter, they know that the only opposition ever made in Congress lo Ihe heatowment of Ihe highest honors upon Gen, Harrison, was made by this Mr. Laeock. The reasons which prompted Ibis oppositioe are fully shown in una journal! of that day MaritUa Intel. Selling mile .Vm. When this alrociuus slander upon Gen. Harrison w as started, Mr. Gardiner, Ilia editor of ths People's Press, wrolo as follows, in rela--lion lo II: "We say again and again, In the informs- , tinn of distant readers, ihe low on which Gen. Harrison voted had nothing to do with debit nor diblon. It waa no part of our civil. code, Il related solely la , the punishment of acoVNnatu and ai . iJ. (,.f like character wiih those who circulaie His calumay.) such aa break into their neighbor a hot "s at night, to steal and plunder such as burn hay-si.cks, kill horses and coltld, remove land-marks, obtain money uailei falsa pretencea, destroy bridges, break down tomb-, atones, rob the graves of the dead, live in a stale of fornication, assist prisoners lo escape from justice, etc It had no ootineciion with Ihe debts nor the busineaa of an honest man. fWoru and Vtllaint. alone came within ill cognizance and none bill a h'tbm'i ur a nmiVi heart, could lie so base as lo attribute to a valiant and faithful poor old soldier like Harrison, t, design to sell his poor neighbor for debt! 1 can have, no charity for such men meaa such aa have Keen . Ihe low, or are acquainted with the true fact! if Iht cau."Xcnia, 2Vc Light. ' Recantation. The New York Evening Poet, (the organ of Ihe Van Buren party in Ilia! city,) having published ihe infamous atory that Gen. Harrison voted "to aell poor while men into slavery for debt," magnanimously published the following recantation: "A letter of Ren. Harrison's has been lately prnV (". j ;. - :.. ....l.. M iisitt-u, irnin wnicn il appears, mui mi out itmitiin up on Ihe subject of his attempt to introduce whiteslave ry into Ihe Stale of Ohio, we did him some uninien. tional injustice. The letter il dated- Ueceiuber 1, lrt-Jl, and aupeare to havu been drawn forth by a newa paper attack upon his course ia the Legislature in relation to the lame law. Ha ert glad lo tea, (ia! aetordtnr lo llarrtion i endanalion rf we mailer. Ihcr he nor Ike qentlenun who voted vilk him wtrtjn fantr of itlling human being for crVi' Jrbli." 1 H ft