The Daily Cincinnati Republican, And Commercial Register

At a meeting of the Cabin Passengers of the steam boat Juniata, on her passage from Pittsburgh to Louisville, held on March 12th, 1836, for the purpose of ascertaining the sense of the passengers in regard to the candidates now before the people for the Presidency—on motion, G. Vanausdal was appointed chairman, and T. Dolan, Secretary.

The passengers then proceeded to vote which resulted as follows:

For W. H. Harrison, 13
Van Buren,
D. Webster,
H. L. White,

On motion, Resolved, That these proceedings be published in the Maysville Monitor and Eagle, and Cincinnati Republican and Gazette.

GARRET VANAUSDAL, Chm'n.
THOMAS DOLAN, Sec'y.—[Maysville Eagle.]

The foregoing proceedings on board the Steam Boat Juniata, on her passage from Pittsburgh to Louisville, are published by request. In complying with the request, some reminiscences of similar proceedings on board Steamboats pending the Presidential election of 1832, occur to us. Then it will be recollected, that the sentiments of Steamboat passengers and pic nic parties, were elicited as on this occasion, and it was no unusual thing to see paragraphs similar to the following:

"On board the Steamboat Snapdragon, bound from Pittsburgh to New Orleans, the sentiments of the passengers, amounting to one hundred and fifty were taken upon the merits of the candidates for next President: the vote stood as follows:

Clay, 140
Jackson, 10."

"Again, a respectable pic nic party of gentlemen and ladies, took an excursion yesterday, from this city (New York) to Hoboken; a vote was taken upon the subject of the Presidential election. The vote was unanimous for Clay." Taking the Steamboat and pic nic elections of those times and comparing them with the final result of the election by the whole American people, as a criterion by which to judge of the next presidential elections, we think the vote on board the Juniata, any thing but an unfavorable indication of the result at the next fall election. Steam is very good for some purposes; but the time has not arrived when it can be applied successfully to President making. It takes the yeomanry of the country—the bone and sinew of the land, to make Presidents.