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SOUTH BRANCH INTELLIGMCER
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PRINTED cV PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM HARPER, ROMNEY, Fa.
VOLUME V.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1834.
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Matters in General.
(t'r’ The Board of Health of Bald,
more, Nov. 25th, report but 4 deaths
by Cholera during the past week. For
some days past not a single case has
been heard of, and the general health
of the city was never better than at the
present period.
An expensive name.— Mr. Prince, a
respectable citizen of Boston, was re
cently journeying on the continent of
Europe. Before visiting Germany, as
is customary among tourists, he provi
ded himself with passports, in which
his name and residence were duly in
scribed, James Prince of Boston, and
set out in plain and unpretending style,
it, company with another American
gen 'eman. At the first town where
the tflivellers stopt, they were received
insist* y form,by a guard of honour,
and a gi and salute, for which they were
presenter, with a bill of an hundred
florins. A t a second and third town
they were received in the same style of
costly magnVficence. The Two A
[ mericans finding that, at the rate things
were going on,l iheir cash would be ex
hausted before fchey had arrived at the
centre to the firlst circle, inquired ofthe
host if private lgentlemen, like them
selves, could not! pass through the Ger
man towns without so much ostenta
tion and expenses- The host informed
them that they crftuld, if they pleased,
travel incog, but when,said he, bowing
obsequiously to wlr. Prince, “it will be
necessary for his ■ highness to take his
title out of (he I passport.” This at
once explained iAe whole matter, and
Mr. Prince, haviAg caused the proper
1 corrections to b^B made, went through
the remainder of^Btis tour without being
annoyed with anyW^urther regal honours.
» —Vt. Free PreMs.
bank of time united states.
We shall socM'n begin to experience
the effects of il^Ke hostility against the
( Kn of its own notes, the residue must
1 P?e paid in specie or in notes of other
| banks; which must, consequently,cause
j curtailments in those institu ions. The
pressure upon the community from
these combined operations, must pro
duce great distress. It cannot be oth
erwise; but, as it will gratify General
Jackson, the sufferings of the people are
matters of little consideration. We
shall see who will be the first to ex
claim against the “Monster” for doing
that which it is compelled to do. The
| ' sentence has gone foith against it, and
a prudent regard to the interests of
stockholders will demand that its cur
tailments shall commence with as little
delay as possible. It has foreborne
heretofore, under the hope, no doubt.
I that executive hostility might relax, or
I that the people would refuse to sane.'
lion that hostility—but, finding thm
there is no probability, under existing
circumstances, of either the one or th<
other, it must engage, in good earnest
in the settlement of its concerns, li
doing this,it may bting destruction 01
many, but the injury will be involun.
tary.—Balt. Chron.
Salt Mountains.—Mr. Jefferson’.
I statement of a Salt Mountain, was t
I subject of ridicule among the editor
opposed to his administration. Bu
time has fully proved that he was cor
■ red. Fisher slates that there is a sal
rock at Pinoso, Valencia, composed u
1 g0|id masses of salt, as hard as stone ii
some places, white—in others grey.
It extends, two leagues from east l
■ west, and one from notth to soutti
| without any variety in its componet
parts. .
prescription FOR CHOLERA.
The following recipe for the cut
I of the Cholera, was transmitted t
% Mr. Vail, our Charge d’ Affaires i
I London, by Dr. Hastings, who
I said to be a highly successful practitioi
■ er in that city.
H Recife. Sulphateof iron,4 drachm
■ distilled water, six ounces, mix.
fi One tea-spoonful of this mixlut
which ought to contain rather more
than six grains, should be given every
ten minutes or a quarter of an hour
for the first four hours ; the interva
between each dose may then be gradu
ally lengthened, until the twelfth hour,
when, in the majority of cases, the
medicine may be discontinued altogeth
er ; after each dose not more than twc
table-spoonfuls of cold water should
be drank. Stimulants of all kinds must
be avoided and even in the last extre
mities of collapse. I would recom
mend only one table-spoonful of Sher
ry added to three of water instead ol
water alone. When the secretion ol
of urine has taken place, and the vom
iting, purging, and cramps, have en
tirely subsided, a gentle dose of Castor
Oil is ail that will be necessary.
A great yield.—Caleb Chase writes
(he Lditur of (he Portland Courier, a*
I illustration of (he advantages ol high
cultivation of land, that he raised in a
garden the past season from four grains
of wheat, eighty heads, one of which
measured six and a half inches in length,
and contained eighty grains, and sevei
al others were of the same length.
From these eighty heads, he obtained
four thousand five hundred and thir
ty six grains of wheat, measuring
little short of a hall pint—being one
thousand one hundred and thirty-four
fold I
This is worthy the attention of
r.hose farmers who are only desirous ol
increasing the number of Bcres on their
farms—without improving ths quality
of the soil.
Mr. Fox.—“Among the many great
and striking endowments of Mr. Fox,
there is one in particular to which 1
cannot help adverting, and which 1
trust w iil still continue to animate all
those who have admired him in public,
or loved him in private life. I mean
that d< ep and intimate feeling of hu
man mature, which has generally been
estranged from the bosom of statesmen,
but wnich was with him a part of his
existence, ever actuating him to allevi
ate the evils, to vindicate the rights, to
soften I he calamities, auu >o increase
by every means in l>'“ P°'v*ri **,e hap*
piness of mankind. In this respect
ire is c ot lost to us. As long as our
language remains, the powerful effu
sions ui his mind will continue to im
prove and enlighten his countrymen,
and to diffuse a milder and more be
nevolent spirit, not only in the recess
es of private life, but in the direction
of nations and the intercourse of states.”
—Life of IF. Roscue, by his Son.
DEMOCRATIC MEETING,
IN BERKELEY.
Friday, November 2lst, 1834.
Tn conformity to the invitation given
by (he Democratic Republicans of
Morgan, upon the occasion of their
late meeting, at their Court House, on
the 7th inst. to their Democratic fellow
citizens of the other counties compos
ing this Congressional District, to hold
like meetings for the same purpose ;
and more especially for the appoint
ment of a deputation to hold a Con
vention at a central point, to be here,
after agreed upon, to nominate and re
commend a lit and suitable person, in
the character of a candidate, to repre
sent this district in the next Congress
of the United States :—
A respectable portion of the Demo
cratic Republicans of Berkeley Coun
ty met at Capt. 1*. Gardner’s hotel, in
(he town of Marlinsburg, on Fiiday,
the 21st instant, agreeably to public
notice, and tire meeting having been
organized, by calling Mr. JACOB
SEIBERT to the Chair, and the ap
pointment of VV ILL I AM AIjBURTIS U!
Secretary:—
After the objects of the meeting bac
been stated,—
Capt. Feter Gardner, Maj. \Vm. G
Burns, Dr. Dennis Murphy, Michae
Seibert, Rickard Beall, and Georgt
Seibert, were appointed a committee
to draft resolutions, who retired for i
short time, and reported the following
which were unanimously adopted
Resolved, That this meeting hearti
ly concur with their Republican breth
ren of Morgan in sentiment, on the pc
litical points of controversy which hav
severed the good people of this Repub
lie into two great contending parties
and recognize them as beacons to war
political pilots and sailors to avoid rur
ning foul of breakers, and timely toes
cape for their lives, when the tocsin
sounded of au approximation to tli
awful whirlpool ot Scylla and Caryl
(ft's, and that, therefore, it would be si
peifluous for them to go over the *au
ground in detail.
Resolved, That this meeting is op
posed to the present U. States Bank,
or to a United States Bank, m an_
mode or form.
Resolved, That this meeting is op
posed to the principles of banking, and
to the banking system in toto, which is
nothing more nor less, in one point of
view, titan a money monopoly, concen
trating in a few sordid, avaricious, and
unfeeling hands, well calculated to en
snare and entangle a large portion of
the community, from whose mischiev
ous net they are scarcely ever enabled
fully to extricate themselves; and
thereby lays the ground work for blight
ing the fair prospects of thousands and
tens of thousands of uur unfortunate
countrymen.
Resolved, That monopolies of every
sort and grade are incongeniul to dem
ocratic principles, subversive of the
dearest rights of freemen, and odious in
the sight of God and man.
Resolved, That this meeting is op
posed to the election of any candidate
for legislation who is an advocate for
the present United States Bank, or oth
er United States Bank, or to the bank
ing system at all.
Resolved, That this meeting approve
of the principles upon which the pre
sent President of the United States has
based bis Administration, and that it
will jointly and severally oppose the
election of any person to a seat in Con
gress who shall controvert them.
Resolved, That the Hon. Thomas H.
Benton, of Missouri, in determining to
use his utmost influence to expunge from
the records of the Senate of the United
States, the rr solution charging the Pre
sident of the United Slntes with assum
ing powers not granted by the constitu
tion or laws, but in derogation of both,
meets with the approbation of this meet
ing, and the friends of democracy
throughout the Union.
Resolved, That the thanks of this
meeting are due to the Hon. Edward
Lucas, our worthy representative in
Congress from this district, lor his firm
ness in sastaining the measures of the
Administration, during the late impor
tant session of Congress.
iUoi/ttuu, n»ui SLrr* uvttn mugn,
David M. Cushion, William Alburtis,
Hezekiah Hedges, George Seibert,
Edward Winning, Peter Gardner, Mi
chael Seibert, Dr. Thomas Page, Hen*
ry Everhart, Jaeub Seibert, and Rich
ard Beall, #r any four of them, com
pose a deputation from this county, to
attend the pioposed Convention, to be
held in Winchester, or any other een.
tral point that may be named hy the
Frederick democratic meeting, to go
into a nomination of a candidate for
Congress, with the foregoing resolutions
fur their instructions and guide.
Resolved, That this meeting respect
fully urge upon the democratic citizens
of Jefferson, Frederick and Hampshire,
the necessity of holding meetings forth
with, to appoint delegates to attend the
said convention.
Resolved, That the foregoing resolu
tions be signed by the Chairman and
Secretary, and published in the Virgin
ia Republican, Winchester Virginian,
Charlestown Free Press, Romney In
telligencer and Richmond Enquirer.
The meeting then adjou.n'd.
JACOB SEIBERT, Chairman.
William Alburtis, Secretary.
‘Valuable Manuscripts.—'The Globe
says lhat General Jackson’s valuable
manuscripts (!) were destroyed in the
late fire at the Hermitage. Now that
the originals are destroyed, it is not
probable the world will ever know the
authors ol the numerous papers to which
the President hus signed his name.
With regard to many of them, however,
there is little doubt in the public mind.
For instance, it is generally understood
that General Jackson’s ollicial docu
ments during the Seminole War, were
written by Dr. Bronaugh—his state
and oflicial papers, while Governor of
Florida, by Judge H. M. Bracken
ridge— his celebrated amalgamation
i letters to President Monroe, by It.
1 Goodloe Harper: his electioneering
i letters and correspondence, while a
candidate for the Presidency, by Maj.
’ Lee—his inaugural speech, by Ru
‘ dolpb Bunner, of New York—his Pro
’ clamatiun by Edward Livingston, who
; also wrote his despatches from New
” Orleans—his famous Veto Message,
i ‘‘Read to the Cabinet,” and sundry
1 other documents, by Amos Kendall &
' Co.—the Protest, by Taney and Butler
* —the explanation by Butler and Van
s Boren—and the elegant reply to Ever
e ett, on Bunker Hill, by Governor Cass.
" —Salem Gas.
A Buenos Ayrean lion and lioness bavt
arrived at Boston in the brig Ottoman.
IN TKLL1CEMCEK.
licmncn:
SATURDAY, DECEMBER S, 1834.
THE RAIL-ROAD RIOTERS.
05“ The Baltimore papers of the
27th say, that the detachment of City
Volunteers under the command of Col.
B. Li. Campbell, returned to the city
on the previous day, from the Wash
ington Rail Road, bringing with them,
under guard, about three hundred labo
rers, some of whom are said to be im
plicated in the late outrages committed
on the line of the Road, and others de
tained as witnesses. They were escort
ed to the Jail, where they will remain
until the law takes its regular coutse.
05“ A Cleaveland (Ohio,) paper,
of the 13th ultimo, relates the following
fortunate escape :—The stage which
left this place lor Columbus on Mon
day evening last, in descending a hill
m Brooklyn, about five miles south of
this village, the night being very dark,
ran off the road, and rolled down the
steep bank, probably 50 or CO feel,
[ making several somersets and dragging
| horses, driver, and all along with it, &
I finally lodging in one promiscuous heup
at the bottom. There were six passen
gers, among whom was a lady and
| child, all of whom, with the driver and
horses, escaped without the slightest
injury. Yery trilling damage was done
ta the coach.—This is one of the most
extraordinary escapes ever heard of.
FOB J'RESIDBNT OF TUB U. STATES,
HENRY CLAY.
No mnn has so strong a claim upon
the States, or upon the gratitude & res
pect of his countrymen, as Henry Clay.
His ((Torts to promote the union and
glory of the former, have only been e
quailed by his devotion to the prospe
rity and welfare of the latter. His ca
reer and history are well known to the
country, it is not our object at this
time, to speak of either, but simply to
To announce him, in preference tu on
other men, as our candidate (or the Pre
sidency. We believe that he is of all
others the most deserving : and that he
is more likely than any man who has
yet been named, to unite those who ate
opposed to the present incumbent. 'I he
public confidence in Mr. Clay is un
impaired, and the zeal and anxiety of
his old friends and supporteis are una
bated. They have determined, at we
have, to adhere to and sustain him, so
lung as he will consent to be the defen
der of the institutions of his country,
and the fearless champion of its liber*
ties.—Pittsburg Statesman.,
G1LDIUU3 AND GOLDIBUS
In another column will fie found the
address of J. Washington Mason, the
opponent of Mr. Lytle in the Cincinna
ti Congressional district. As the elec
tion is now over and it is said, Mr.
Lytle is elected by a majority of 47
voles, the address might seem to be
out of date—but it is loo good to be
lost or thrown aside with the ephemeral
productions, usually ushered forth to
the public on the eve of elections. Ev
ery one will read it with delight, and
none without regret that the author
could not muke his appearance in Con
gress.— Wheeling Times.
RIOTS IN MONTREAL.
The Montreal Advertiser of the 15th
says—“We regret to state that the
peace of the city was again disturbed
last night and several houses inhabited
by peisons attached to each pai ty were
attacked. Among them, English’s ta
vern was assailed, and we leurn with
sorrow that (ire-aims weie resorted to.
Most contradictory accounts have
reached us ; some of them implicating
the watch. If this be true ; if those
who have been constituted the guardi
ans of the public peace cannot abstain
from acts of political partizanship, we
see no course to be pursued, but tor the
householders to unite fur mutual pro
tection, and form, as they can do, an
efficient and powerful police. The
excitement which renders this step ne
cessary cannot last longer than a few
days, consequently the sacrifice of time
must be small. From the part which
all men take in politics, it would be
impossible to find a man without a po
litical bias, but we hope and trust the
class we have named ate suificiantly
impressed with the necessity of repress
ing the spirit which at present exists,
, to make them sink all political feelings
in the strong necessity of the occasion.
We write under the impulse of the mu
ment; we leave it toothers to improve
upon the hint, if it be thought judicious
and practicable.”
Famine in the IVest.—The Cincin
nati Chronicle states that “the want of
mast in the woods this year is not on
ly driving the wild tuikies into Cincin
nati, where they have been chased a
bout from one chimney top to another,
and driven the squirrels to devour whole
cornfields, but it hes forced the bears
upon the mountains to levy contribu
tions on the flacks and herds, and some
oay th<3 children of n«jg]>bo«0.^
GOLDIBUS vs. GILDIBUS.
Fellow-Citizens.—Having present
ed my self before the people of this Dis
trict, as a candidate fot Congress, I
hope it will not be deemed too presum
ing upon my part, as 1 am not gifted
upon the stump, that 1 should, in my
own way, and after my own manner ot
thinking, ofl'er a few remarks to the
consideration of my fellow-citizens. 1
go straight to the work, then, without
further ceremony, and inform them, in
the first place, that I am the can
didate OP NEITHER PARTY. Let not
my friends, and let not the people be
deceived on this subject. 1 belong to
the old school democracy ; I have been
a good soldier in the cause, and have
helped fight her battles manfully—
have 1 not ? I appeal to my old friends
and acquaintances who have known
me for years—let them stand up and
say yea or nay. 1 went for Jackson
and reform, and shouted for glory and
the battle of New Orleans. 1 voted fot
the General three times—and three
times, and out let it be,—for he is satis
fied and so am I. But it is tiie ‘spoils
' of office-men,’ that now call in his
name, and 1 will not answer them. 1
go with the people—I go for princi.
plb and my country, and they have
no principle, but that of the‘five loaves
and two fishes.’ Rotation in office was
the watchword and battle-cry of De
mocracy. Some go up and some go
down—it must be so ; but let the ball
keep rolling, and we shall all find our
■-.--1-4
1 gu "goms", iuu, as every true ocm
octal should do, the monstrous doctrine
that a mechanic and a laborer is un
worthy to become the competitor of one
of the true legitimates of the office see
king gentry. For I ask on what oth
er grounds it is that the press of the
office-holders proclaims me unworthy
to be a competitor of Mr. Lytle. 1
have worked more and labored harder
than be lias—J have, for myself, and
I for my father, Benjamine Mason, had
the charge of paying off of, from first
to last, hundreds of hands in our em
ploy, and not a man of them can say
! that I ever wronged him out of the first
| cent—‘no not one.’ Can Mr. Lytle
say more ?—ay, as much us this ?—J
admit that in my young days, 1 have
had lots of fun—and su has he. He
was the son of a general, and I was the
son of a mechanic ; what was right in
him, 1 thought could not be wrong in
me,—he was a bright and shining light
that led the way, and l a true satellite
that followed after. But I have re
formed from my youthful errors, and I
hope he has done the same.
For years I stood by Mr. Lytle—
stuck to him ‘tooth and toe-nail;’ and
like ‘six feet two,’ was ready ‘to go my
death’ for him. Jt was then, how are
you Wash ?—How d’ye do, Bob ? A
hearty shake of hands, and a little good
chat, and a social glass, were all in true
time—we met and patted ftiends. But
now, how changed the scene ? The
Hon. R. T. Lytle, on one hand, and
unworthy Wash, upon the other.
Oh, Bob I ‘should auld acquaintance
be forgot.’
Yet, so wags the world ? We poor
mechanics are line fellows, when we
setve like dogs, but unworthy the first
moment we ask the least participation
in the honors and offices of our govern
ment.
1, however, run upon my own hook
and like General Jackson, take the ‘re.
sponsidility’upon myself, il l am de
feated there is an end of it, and I am
Wash Mason still ; but il l am elected,
i trust there will be us much reason to
change this familiar cognomen to that
of the Hon. J. W. Mason as there was
in the change and improved modifica
tion of Bob Lytle, to that of the Hon.
R. T. Lytle, member of Congress &c.
Who knows the virtues of a name—ur
how much pure metal may be extract
ed from rough ore, until it is tried ? At
all events, 1 pledge you my word, that
if I am elected, i will not resign, and
ask you to re-elect me but, like a true
mechanic, will toe the mark and do the
best l can.
———
And morethan ibis, >6eing the only
real cabinet maker ia (Congress I n-jjj
get David Crockett to' move that I be
appointed a committeeWooe, to exam
ine into, and regulate the cabinet ofoui'
present worthy Chief Magistrate, even
that of Andrew the First, with the fore- ■
shadow and coming of the trne legiti- I
mate, Martin the Second. |
1 exceedingly regret fellow citizens, I
j that in a contest like the present in- I
volving great national questions, it
should be necessary to make any allu
sion to the personal character of my
CUIlipCillUl j iiUt lb nu« /v. W|evn Ulu
by an attack upon my own, and I have
done it with as sparing a band as
truth, and the nature of the case would
admit of. To do Mr. Lytle justice,
however, I grant that he is my superi
or in some things, but I claim that I
am not his inferior in other. He has
had a more liberal education and better
opportunities for information than I j
have ; and his talents are of a more bril
liant and shining order than mine. But
I think I have proven on a former oc
casion, that “all is not gold that glit- ]
ters.” He makes a splendid speech
against the monster, and a splendid
speech in favor of the abuses and cor
ruptions of the post office department
—he is horror strickent at the facttbat
the Bank has loaned a few thousand
dollars to certain printers ; but he aint
frightened at all at the thousands and
lens of thousands squandered by the
post office department for electioneer
ing purposes—he is equally splendid
right or wrong. 1 do not say that I
could make a speech for or against ei
ther but I would vote to reform them
both. He came home with splendid
notions of the re-election to Congress,
and to dazzle the eyes and bewilder the \
people, he mounted upon the splendid
hobby called goldibus, and I, to break
the charm and set them right again,
mounted upon gildibus—the delusion
immediately disappeared, “and they
sato as clear asever.,>
He made splendid declarations, du
ring the canvass, of pattiotism, and said
he would abide the result of the elec
tion, and be governed by *1~* will of
(kuons tailed, and he would not stand
it—he takes the pouts, and to spite the
people beyond measure, resigns his
office for the remainder of his term,—
Who has not seen a spoiled child get
mad at his mother, and throw away its
p iece of pie because she would not give
him a whole one, and then cry to get it
again—so with Mr. Lytle, he now
wants bis office again. He should have
thought of this before, and not have let
his splendor eclipse his judgment. But
he threw away his office as unworthy
of him, and sent, I suppose, his title,
and somewhat of his dignity, along
with it. If go, the case, as I take it, is
materially altered, and now stands
Legitimately, Bob against Wash, and
Wash against Bob. So clear tbe course
boys—Fair play and no tricks, and we
shall soon learn whether a mechanic
is to be despised because he is such,
and considered unworthy to be a corn
petitorofthe ‘Gifted —but no grum*
bling, THE PEOPLE HAVE TO PAY THE.
cost—and all’s well that ends well.
J. WASHINGTON MASON.
N. B. I could have made a much more
splendid address, had I acceptod of prof
fered assistance, but I said no. ‘Let eve
ry tub stand upon its own bottom.’ I
did not wish to sail under false colors, or
to tako upon myself the plumage or deco
rations of other men ; so I sat down and
wrote it out just as you see it published ;
but, not being used to the business, t
confess it put me up to all I knew.
OC?* It is stated that near two thou
sand persons have visited the Chinese
Lady in a single week since the ope'
ning of the exhibition.
05s* It is stated in the Globe, that a
Jackson Convention in Mississippi, of
130 delegates, has unanimously nomi
nated Martin Van Buren for the Presi
dency, and Thomas bl. Benton for Vice
President. The Convention nomina
ted Robert J. Walker for the U. S.
Senart, in place of Mr. Poindexter;
and Col. Claiborne and Judge White
| for Representatives to Congress, in
place of Messrs. Plummer and Cugc, ~
the present members.
“The price of liberty is eternal vigi
lance.” This truth, so often repeated,
never deserved to be inure warmly
urged than at the present time. The
nation is now reposing from the toils of
party strife, but its repose should not
be lethargic. —
The Prince de Lamiitz., who has been 4
years in the St. Pelagic prison at Paris,
for debt, is ..about to bo released by his
brother-in-law, Metternich.