What a change have a few years produced.

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Ats Jackson Meeting in Tennessee, Pleas ant Henderson, Esq. was nominated as an Op- position ElectOr for one of the districts.- The following letter from Mir. Henderson, while It exposes the misapprehension of his political feeling, which must have led to his nomination, succintly gives his reasons for Op- posing, instead of supporting the Military chieftain :-

 To the Editor cfthe National Baner.

 have seen in the Murfreesborough Cour- fer, an invitation which has also been copied into your paper, for me to run as an ElectOr in favor of General Jackson in this district With this request decline complying, for va rious reasons some of which will briefly as- sign:

 I. do not consider General Jackson qual- fled 10 preside over the affairs of the United States.

 2. His whole course of life denotes want ofcapacity and disposition adapted to civil pre- ferment.

 5. do not consider a man who would not submit to any will but his own, and who had been in the habit of violating all orders, and laws when conflicting with his inclinations, fit to govern others.

 4. do not believe that Gen. Jackson, ,lnde- pendant of the battle of New Orleans would ever have been thought of for President, and l cannot perceive how that one victory can l qualify one. before considered out of the ques- tion, for so important an office. PLEASANT HENDERSON. On the 4th inst. the first stone of the Balti- more and Ohio railroad was laid by Charles Carroll of CarroIlton. The procession on the occasion was composed offpersons of every business, trade and employment in Baltimore Many were at work on platforms--on wheels. The manners naNigated the streets in a ship called the Unlon.

 Commodore Porter is expected to return to ! the United States in d few weeks. Whether he will remain. or return to the service of the Mexican Government we have not ascertain | ed.

 1 RemiaeScence.-A correspondent of the Phil adelphian has ascertained by Magazine of 1778, that there was splendid celebration of the 4th ofJuly that year in Philadelphia. when l7,OoO persons assembled on green where they had an entertainment. at which they drank nothing but beer and cider.

 LIGHTNING.-During. the months of July and August, greater number of barns are struck by lightning, by twenty to one. than any other objects of equal height and timber The reason is the calculations which arise from barn, filled with hay and grain, recently ga- thered are great, and form cloud of rarefed air,which reach to great height in the atmos- phere. This column is direct attractor and conductor of the electric fluid as much so as the smoke ofan extinguished candle is to an approximating flame. Erect lightning rods ttS your barns, and the fluid is conducted to the earth. ".