South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-06-13


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~I In another column will be found
nm account of dreadful Earthquake,
which happened in CHILL, on the Goth of
February last, destroying upwards of 500
persons.
T There are published in Tennessee "a
Newspapers, s2 of which support Judge
White for the Presidency.
In the vicinity of Winchester, on the
9Th inst, ELI MILLS, well digger, lost
his life by descending into we'll and suf-
locating.
G' The st. Louis Republican mentions
the arrival there of the Steamboat Males.
tic, on the Goth ult. Relative to her ex.
plosion at Memphis. the editor learns,
shat Forty passengers were more or
less scalded; of whom EIGHT had died
when the Majestic left Memphis. and se-
veral others were not expected to recov-
er. THREE others are supposed to have
been drowned by Jumping overboard,-
All ofthe cabin passengers escaped un-
harmed; the injury was confined to those
on deck"
T The Philadelphia Herald of last
week. says:--"From Chester, Lancaster,
Bucks, Berks, and Northampton counties,
in this State, as also from the upper parts
of New Jersey, we have favourable re-
ports ofthe coming crops of grain. Also
from Delaware and the Eastern Shore of
Maryland"
The Repository" published at Can
ton, Stark CO. Ohio, says--"In this sec.
ton of Ohio, the prospect is good for an
abundant crop.
o. 1t appears by letter Of eight Of
the Tennessee delegation addressed to
the Hon. Cave johnson and published
in the Globe of the 9th inst, that Mr..
Johnson stated to the members compos-
ing the meeting of the delegates for the
purpose of nominating Judge White for
the Presidency, that Mr.. Grundy and Col.
Polk did agree to support the Judge for
that high Office ifhe would become can
didate. From this letter then we con.
clude that Messrs. johnson, Grundy and
Polk, did last summer, at Nashville. ORR
ginate the scheme for bringing the Judge
into the ield as a candidate for the Pre-.
sidency.
1t further appears from the same letter,
that it was to be distinctly understood
that the Judge was to be USED or with
drawn as it might suit the pleasure of
those who BROUGHT HIM OUT. The
originators of this scheme of course
must have had some special object in
view, or why did they make this pro-
vision as to contingencies il! Why was
the Judge. prohibited from withdrawing
himselffrom the candidacy if he thought
proper1 From the whole transaction
from beginning to end, as now developed
in the "Globe''--we must infer that the
object ofbringing out the Judge was not
to break up the Jackson Van Buren, par-
ty, but to furnish certain party in the
south with candidate. As to the BAR
GAIN the Judge admits it in his reply to
the address of the delegates nominating
him as candidate--he says,
"When applied to, I have said "tha
Office was created for the benefit Of the
people, and they have the right to fill il
with whom they please; that have had
no agency in causing my name to be
used, and that my political friends have
my consent to continue, or discontinue
its use, as in their opinion will most pro-
mote the public good"
In our next number, as we have been
particularly requested, we will give this
letter place in our columns.
o. tits intimated that Mr.. BELL, will
be the successor of Judge White in the
Senate of the U. States, from Tennessee.
" An inquest was held at the house