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*<Girr .Tic Three Cirains of Com, Tlolher.*’
By .MRS. A. M. EDMUND —BROOKLINE.
[The above words were the last request of an
Irish lad to his mother, as lie was dying from star- i
ration. She found three grains in a corner of his
Ragged jacket and gave them to him. it «as all
she had; the whole family were perishing from
famine.]
Give me three grains of corn, mother.
Only three grains of corn.
It w ill keep the little life I have
Till the coming of the morn.
I am dying of hunger and cold, mother.
Dying of hunger and cold,
Ami half the agony of such a death,
My lips have never told.
It has gnawed like a wolf at my heart, mother,
A wolf that is fierce for blood.
All the live long day, and the night beside,
Gnawing for lark of food.
I dreamed of bread in my sleep, mother,
And the sight was heaven to see;
I woke with an eager famishing lip,
Rut you had no bread for me.
How could 1 look to you. mother,
How eonld I look to yon,
For bread to give to your starving hoy.
When you were starving, too ?
For I read the famine in your cheek
And in your eye so wild.
And I felt it in your bony hand
As you laid it on your child.
TheQn<*en has lands and gold, mother.
The Queen has lands and gold,
While you are forced to your empty breast
A skeleton babe to hold—
A babe that is dying of want, mother,
As I am dying now,
With a ghastly look in its sunken eye,
And famine upon its brow.
What has poor Ireland done, mother.
What has poor Ireland done,
That the world looks on and sees us starve,
Perishing one hy one.
Do the men of England rare not, mother,
The great men ami llie high.
For the suffering sons of Erin's Isle,
Whether they live or die?
There is many a brave heart here, mother,
Dying of want and cold.
While only across the channel, mother,
Are many that roll in gold.
There are rich and proud men there, mother.
With wondrous wealth to view.
And the bread they (ling to their dogs to-night
Would give me life and you!
Com'* nearer to my side, mother,
Come nearer to my side,
And hold me fondly as you held
My father, when he died.
Quick, for I cannot see you, mother,
My breath is almost gone,
Mother! dear mother! ere I die,
Give me three grains of corn !
[From the. Western Continent.]
LETTER FROM.
GVORGIA TO MASSACMISETTS).
NO. I.
Dear Sister Mass:
R’ad this letter, attentively, patient- j
Jy, and candidly; and when you shall I
have read if, place it amor.tr your ar.
chives, where History may find if, when
Aoblilionism, of which you are the mo
ther, and the chief supporter, shall have
accomplished its now undisguised pur
pose. In addressing you, I shall endeavor
to observe she respect due lo an elder
sister; but, at the same time, I must j
guard you against confounding truths j
which prove you to he entitled to no re
spect a - all, with a breach of courtesy.
Certainly, after the unsparing and un
provoked abuse which you have heaped
upon me and my nieghboring sister for
many years, I might be pardoned for the
most bitter recrimination; but if I were
not deterred from them by self-respect,
and the dread that I have of being thought
like you in any respect, 1 should certain
ly forbear them nowihal I am about to give
to the world so much of your history as
involves mv interest, and the points of
difference between us; for if you he not
invulnerable, this will inflict a wound j
upon you, deep enough, and painful
enough, to appease even malignity itself; j
and I am sure I have not a particle of
that in my composition It will irritate
you, 1 know it, sister Mass.—what that
comes fiom the South does not? Hutto
this fam indifferent; not because I de
light in provocation, but because it will
give you some little apology for wrath ,
which you have enkindled without cause,
and cherished without excuse, for many
long years. Some things that I have lo
say to you will be equally applicable to
your neighbors, who have imbibed your
principles. To such I have a caution,
hut no apalogy to olfer; the canton is,
that they avoid the common fault of pro
selytes, which is to take to themselves an *
over-share of the disgrace which may at
tach to their new faith, in the belief that
ibis will entitled them to an over share of
its honors.
When I first settled in this country, as
you may remember, I proclaimed to the |
world that I intended to have nothing to
do with Slavery; and I adhered stead- |
lastly to my resolution, until it was over
powered by the complaints of my child
ren. They comparedmy situation with my
sister’s on the other side of the Savannah.
I was gaining but a bare subsistence, : <
they said, by the labor of my children,
while she was grow ing rich by the labor
of slaves. Her sons were sent over to
England, lo recieve a liberal education, ;
while mine were kept constantly employ
ed delving for bread in my unhealthy
lowlands, or nursing silk worms on my <
arid barrens. They censured my squeam- i
ishness in regard to Slavery, and pointed ;
to all the other sisters of the family, es
pecially to you and sister Penny, who ;
made great pretensions to piety, as enter- i
taining scruples upon that subject. In
deed, the prevailing opinion of the w hole <
family at that time was, that it was a
mercy to the African race lo bring them,
even as slaves, from the miseries of their
own country, to this. Urged by these
considerations, any many other*, and find-
T-Ts—i» ■ it mm, ■■■■■■■■■
ing myself unsupported by a single mem
ber of the family in my opposition to
Slavery. 1 at lengih yielded a reluctant
I consent to the introduction of slaves into
|my domain. My consent was no sooner
I obtained lhan you and mother Brilania
: filled my ports, my fields, and mv houses,
with these unfortunaie being* —Slaves —
! “kidnapped” at their parents’ doors, hy
I “man-stealers,' in very truth, carrying
1 your blood and our mother’s blood in
their veins; but not a dropof mine. Man
| stealers, who are verily complimented hv
| lliß name, as you would readily admit,
had you seen them, as I have seen them,
; coming into port with an escort, of sharks, |
j and landing their cargoes of naked, starv- i
ing, sick, and dead, and dving human
beings, from the most infernal fetid pits j
that man ever lived in or ever died in.—
[ have of’en seen mv children weep over
these wretched victims of Yankee ava
rice, while yours drove their trades. with
all that same self-sufficiency, pertness,
humor and disgusting suppleness, which
marks the character of your Pedlars at
the present day. I have known these
miserable w retches, when just from the
hands of the Britton and Yankee, todis
; pute with the vallures fur the halfdevoured
! carcass that lay by tlie highway, and
! wi h difficulty restrained from feeding
upon the loathsome mass of putrescende.
Indeed the first care of the purchaser
from the slave-ship used lo he, to prevent
them from killinir themselves hv surfeit.
For the part which my sons took in these
* shocking scenes, God mav, for aught I
know, have judgments in reserve for me;
l>nt I cannot believe that he will ever
use you as the instrument tor executing
them. That my children, in purchasing
slaves from yours, delivered them firm
the most cruel bondage that man ever
groaned under, is most true —that there
! was pity and compassion on the side of
the pruchasers, and none on the side of the
venders, is equally true; but for these
things I give them no credit, because self
ishness and not humanity urged them lo
the traffic. But if they ho guilty, they
who never owned a slave-ship or sailed
on board of one—they who never en
slaved a freeman—l hoy to whom the slave
j rushed with joy from the cruelties of
your sons—they who would not look into
the floating dungeons, from which your
doys daily drew their famished dead, for
many long weeks—in mercy’s name,
where do you stand? Os all the sister
hood, you should he the first to sympa
thise with rnc and the last to upbraid me.
Cut you are the file-loader in this modern
crusade upon Southern rights; and die
end of it will be just what might b? ex
pected from such a leader in sucha cause;
trouble to us both, hut a thousand times
more trouble to you than to me. Laugh
at the prediction if you please—but hear
j it in mind, the result of your movements
j will he more disastrous to you and your
allies, than to me and mine. Why, 1 thus
| judge, will be disclosed in the sequel,
w hen 1 shall return lo this subject. As
a [>roper introduction to it, lei us pursue
your history in order.
You and mother Bril, having “'put the
price of human flesh in your pockets,”
went ofTglorying in your profits—leaving
me to manage this flesh as I could. In
process of time, the Old Lady grew
weary of making money hv the slow pro
cess of traffic with her daughters; and
she determined to get it in a more sum
mary way—by virtue of her authority.
Accordingly site issued her orders that i
we should all he taxed. This was a di
rect approach to the seat of your sensihili- |
lies, and of course you became despe- j
rale. You called upon ns all to unite
w ith you in resisting her exactions. The :
other sisters responded promptly to the
call; hut what was Ito do? I was very
young, and very weak. Father Ogle
thorpe had with difficulty saved my life j
from the Spanish sword. My mother had
for a long time, as 1 have intimated, kept
me poor by confining me lo the silk busi
ness, instead of lotting me choose my i
own occupation. I was surrounded by j
Indian tribes, numerous and warlike.— |
Your importations of “flesh and blood” |
had by this lime increased upon me to |
rather an alarming extent —and of course
[ was in no situation to throw off parent
al authority to meet the inevitable
consequences. Withal, I was just be
ginningto gain health and strength. My
affairs were intrusted to the supervision
of James Wright, a most amiable, excel
lent, prudent man, w ho left me no ground
of complaint. As the for tax it did not hurt
me; for the plain reason that I had little or
nothing to he taxed. As for tea, not one in a 1
hundred of my children ever used it; and
most of them, I believe, had never seen
if. To espouse your cause under these
circumstances was, it seemed to me, to
sacrifice everthing and lo gain nothing.
And yet to stand by and see you flogged
into submission, to unrighteous exactions,
was abhorrent to every principle of my I
nature. I did wdial you never do—l sa- ;
crificed interest to principle and joined j
you—l say I joined you;far you were the
only one of the family who had come to
blows with our mother. The rest of us
were foolishly hoping for a compromise:
but you took the better course, you re
sisted oppression at its first approach;
and you did well, as the event clcaily
proved. In cases of doubtfully right,
compromises are excellent things; but
w here there is flagrant injustice, cruelty
and extortion on the one hand, and clear
right on the other, a compromise is
no better than a reward to iniquity for its
daring, and a promise to double the pre
mium at short payment, when it becomes
doubly villainous. He is a fool, or a
suicide, or both, who tries to apnease the
bloodhound by giving him a lap of his
blood; and man bereft of every moral
sense, is but a bloodhound with human
sagacity. You did right, therefore, sis-
ter Mass, in resisting oppression in lirnone,
though it seemed a desperate adventure
at the lime. My support of you, ruined
me for a lime.
\\ e conquered, and having severed the
connexion with our unnatural parent, we
"ere now all, by common consent, at
liberty, to manage our own affairs in our
own way. Not one of the sisters di earned j
that she had any right to intermeddle
with the domestic concern of another.
Withal, these were days of decency and
courtesy, which protected each from the ,
intrusions of another. That such was the
general understanding at that time, was
I proved beyond questions by the fact, that '
when the social compact was formed, two
| of the sLters refused for a time to unite
in it; and during this time they were con
sidered by all as entirely independent of
the rest. This was “the Government of the j
People, ’ as we learn from high judicial !
authority, which three millions could not j
enforce upon four hundred and sixty ;
| thousand, and which eleven communities I
I could not enforce upon two! I beg you to j
remember these things for future uses,
j Absolved from maternal authority, we
agreed to hand together for common dc- j
fence and general welfare. To this end
wedrewnp articles of confederation, in i
which we confided to deputies chosen by
us all, the management of our foreign re- '
lations. and such matters as were of gen
eral interest; while we reserved to our- I
solves individually the enure management :
of our local concerns, (t was in settling
these articles that you and I divided for
the first lime; and as we have never
agreed mdcc, I hegleave to submit to the
judgment of the world the points of differ
| enco between n<q with the, course of us
both incur opposition. You were for
i clothing the Deputies with powers to force
: us to a perpetual union, and to revise, if ,
not to direct, all our household move
ments. You supposed there would be a
perpetual tendency in the sisterhood to fly
fiomeach other, and you would have
made the Deputies “whippers in ’ to us.
Indeed. 1 think I would hazard nothing
in saying, that you would gladly have
adopted the Old Lady’s system of gov-
I eminent which we had just thrown oft.
Nor have 1 a scruple of blame (o attach
Ito you on this account. They Were
i strange views, to be sure, under the cir
| curnstances, and in point of coiuislenci).
in perfect keeping with your views ever
| since; but then tLey were sincere, and
I therefore they received from mo the most
liberal indulgence—an indulgence which
i I would gladly have repeated, had you
afforded me an opportunity like favorable, j
i within the last fifty years.
• -
On the other hand, f believed that the
i ties of friendship, kindred, and common
interest would keep us together in love and
harmony, without the aid of a driver’s
thong—our children intermingling and
intermarrying, 1 could not conceive how
we were ever to fall out. Nor could 1
see, nor can I yet see, the propriety of I
keeping any sister in the family, who
might wish to leave, it. My dread was of '
the Deputies. Power! know to he self
i sustaining and self-increasing. All history
had proved this. My plan, therefore, was
i to clothe ihe Deputies with just power
enough to discharge the trust confided to
them, and no more. My plan previled;
and one would suppose—or rather, one
have would supposed , that you possessed
modesty enough to await the decisions of
experience, upon the questions of differ, j
j ences between you, and a large majority
of the family. Not you, however. That
your judgment was not considered author
itative, seems to have been considered an
1 ample apology to yourself, at least, for i
laying aside all modesty, all courtesy j
all decency, and all consistency, when’
you slept into the confederacy. As you
could not have the articles cut to your
pattern, you determined to stretch them
I to it; and accordingly you have been for |
: sixty years, engaged in the singular rm-
I ployment of fitting your rejected suit to j
i the Deputies, and then abusing them most
unmercifully, for wearing it—or to speak |
| without a figure—yet have ever been
i labeling to increase the powers of the
| Deputies, by construction; and you ever
I complaining, most bitterly, of their abuse
of power. Counting out Washington’s
administration, about which there is a
sanctity, which none of us dare invade,
you have qua rrelled with every other save
one; and that one every body else quar
relled with. If was but recently your
J •
son John cried out, “we have been under
slave domination for forty years;” and
yet, you are as ripe for incresing that
power as ever you were. And here lies
the secret of your desperate abolition
efforts. That you have not half the sym
pathy for the slave that I have, I will
prove to the satisfaction of every unpre
judiced mind. 1 could excuse your zeal
in behalf of freedom, if you had wit
enough to conceal its true object. But so
palpably does selfishness—a yearning for
the loaves and fishes, evince itself, in all
I your mock philanlhrophy, that to credit
you for the virtue which you feign, would
be to discredit myself for common sense.
But let me not anticipate.
The confederation established, we all
got along pretty well. Your children came
in great numbers to my domain, and I
received them kindly. I did not like their
wavs in all respects —they were too for
ward, too tricky, and too covetous; but
as these were hereditary faults that I,
knew would soon wear away in tin's lat
itude, and asthey possessed some redeem
ing virtues, I gave them a hearty wel
come. They tarried with me, arried into
mv family, and raised a numerous pro
geny, who now carry into their veins the
blood of us both. Let me impress this
fact upon your memory, as it has an
important connection with what 1 have yet
to say.
We had not long set up for ourselves,
before the war between France and Eng
land commenced. The blood of the first 1
had hardly dried up from your fields,
and the stripes of the last had hardly
cured up on your back, and yet you look
sides with the latter. This you did be
fore you could plead the horrors of the
Revolution as an apology for your unna
tural preference. Indeed those horrors
were the result of misdirected zeal in a
really good cause; like your burning I
down Catholic Churches to advance the
cause of Religion. France was your
ally, England was your enemy. The !
first struggled lor the people; the last i
struggled for kings. The one, lighted j
the torch of freedom at your altars; the !
other, at the same altars, mingled vour
blood with your sacrifices. The one was
a reformer; the other was an ii.termed- I
dler. And yet you took sides with the
| latter! I could not follow you, and here !
we split again. In that contest both |
j trampled upon our rights, but it was for I
the last to seize our children and make ;
| them lift the sword against their henefac- !
; tors. Our children, did I sav ! Not ours, i
but yours. Not one did 1 loose by this
S daring assumption; but you lost many.
For this and many other insults and
i wrongs, we declared war against Britain.
And where were you now ? There were !
1 your own sons really “bondsmen” in j
the bands of “manstealers;” and there 1
I was your property confiscated by their
“masters.” Yon, of course, warmly e-.
poused the war which was declared to i’s |
punish these outrages; did you not ? I
Not you: you opposed it, you denounced
it, and you interposed every barrier to ;
success that you possibly could. With I
one eye upon Bunker’s Hill, and the j
other upon \ orktown, you landed George i
the 'I bird, and calumniated Madison;
and when you found that all your efforts
to arrest the war proved abortive, you
; sent one portion of your children to plot
j a dissolution of the Union, and another
i to your Waterfalls to supplant your be
loved friend in manufactures,
! The war ended, we next find you mak
ing your conges to that much abused .
government, and humbly soliciting a lit
tle protection for those generous sons of
yours, whoso magnanimously slept for- ;
ward, in the lime of distress to supply the
country with clothing. You told us that
if the government which you had so ;
kindly befriended, would only fling its pro- ■
tecting arms about them fora few years,
you would release it from further obli
gation, throw yourself, like other people,
upon your own resources, and make a
; wonderful return for the boon extended
to them. It was granted; and surely, af
ter what had transpired, if you could
stoop to ask it, they who granted it may
be excused on the score of heroLm, if not
of justice and policy. The favor grant- i
ed, you returned to your abuse— ihe sow
that was washed , to her wallowing in the
mire.
'Hie time expired, you again appeared
before the Deputies, not to verify vour
i former promises, hut to ask fora little in
crease of protection. This time you told |
1 many incons’stenl stories; but as they
were matters of course, little was thought
of them; and you were auain favored.
In a few years you were hack again,
supported by sister Conny and sister
Rhody, who had got a sipof the pap upon
which you fattened so lustily, and who
had become as ravenous of it as your.
| self. Here was now exhibited to the
world a sublime moral spectacle—the
file-leader of the Hartford Convention, at
the City of Washington—not “to take
measures to protect their citizens from |
forcible draughts, conscriptions, and im
prcssmenls,” (so our military requisitions
were called.) but modestly to request the
American family to tax themselves for
the third time with increased severity, in
order that this darling Triplet might do
a money-making business.
But 1 must conclude this long letter.—
I thought, when I commenced it, that it
would, within less space, contain all that
[ had to say; but I find that it will not; 1
and to do you and myself justice, I must
address you again. In the mean time let
me say to your children who have op
posed your strange and wayward course,
that so far from attaching blame to them,
I look upon them as among the noblest,
if not the very noblest spirits of the land. ;
To stick to their country audio principle,
amidst the influences which surround
them, argues a moral character and a
moral firmness which deserves the high
est praise, and of course a higher paren
tage. Your injured sister,
GEORGIA.
P. S. If I can find a vehicle in Sister
Mary’s family, which is not already char- |
tered bv politicians, I shall avail myself |
of it for this communication, because !
from her position, both local and moral,
she is most likely to deal justly by us
both.
iarnniiah Kaccs.
The result of yesterday’s race was as follows.
Three mile heats:
Mr. Singleton’s s. m. JMaid of Lodi, t 1
Mr. McAlpin’s b. h. BUI Gordon. 2 drawn.
Time ot first heat ti. 11.
The following are the entries for to-day’s race
—best 3 in s—purse $150:
Mr. Singleto« enters his b. f. I\lary Stiles, four
years old, by Gano, dam Sally McGraw, Rider’s
dress, fancy.
Mr. Harrison enters his s. m. Bcnrictlt , four
years old, dam imported Emily. Rider’s dress,
fancy.
H. K. Burroughs enters his b. h. John Wat
son, aged, by John Dawson, dam imported Le
viathan. Rider’s dress, fancy.
Fifteen dollars will be given for an after race
for saddle horses.— Savannah Republican , 1 Ith
inst.
Death.
The young girl, about 13 years of age, who
was shot in the head last week in the streets
of Columbus by a fiend in human shape,
named Jones Butler, died on Monday morning.
Butler, the Enquirer states, was originally
from Baldwin county, and is the same indivi
dual who shot Jacobs, the accomplice of Dr.
E. A. Roberts, at the lime of his attempted
escape from the officers who had him in
charge.
aTTgiista’/geo"
SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 14. 1847.
To u Correspondent.
We are pleased with the tenor of •‘Troup’s”
communication, and agree with most of his
sentiments. We have, however, two objec
tions to laying it before the public, either of
which would decide us. Ist. The author’s
name did not accompany the communication.
2d. He did not pay the postage. “An old
subscriber, and a constant reader,” should
have been aware of our inflexible rules on
both of these points.
!>«■. Webster** Lee urc on „Tle»iucri*ni.
We hope that our citizens will indicate
their established reputation for patronizing
rational and scientific entertainments, by at
tending Dr. Webster’s lecture to-morrow
evening. We anticipate some most salislac
tory and marvellous specimens of Clairvoy
ance. Tins is what our community has long
wished to witness. This portion of the ex
hibition will be conspicuous. It is Dr. W.’s
forte, and he expects to produce on his audi
ence a powerful impression. Dr. W.’s tes
timonials are of the highest character. They
are from names well known in the scientific
world.
The Kivcr.
We noticed in our last the sudden rise in
our river, and it continued on the rise up to
ten o’clock last evening, when it was thought
to be at a stand. The water reached on
Bay-street the Church walls, and considera
ble damage has no doubt been done to the
wharves and stagings, as several of the lat
ter were seen floating down stream last eve
ning. A portion of the Commons lias been
covered; the water making an entrance in
the upper part of the city through Hawk’s
Gully, Several small bridges over the Bea
ver Dam have been washed away, but no se
rious damage has so far been sustained,
j The Canal, for the safety of which great
fears have been entertained, we are glad to
i . . .
learn has received but little injury. A small
brake in the embankment at a place called
the Rip Raps, was made by the back water
from the river, but we understand the damage
j can be repaired for six or eight hundred dol
lars. The greatest injury has been sustain
ed, on the outlet for the water of the canal,
which was in an unfinished stale. This
freshet will have the effect to give those dis
posed to erect factories on the canal, more
confidence, as the present flood will test the
faithfulness of its construction.
Ceorgiu lo JliiMatUiiuetts.
\Ve give this morning the Aral of a series
of letters under the ab >ve title, now in the
course of publication in the Western Con
tinent, the editors of which paper, in inlro
i ducing them to their readers, say—“We de
sire to call the attention of our readers, of
j all parlies, to the series of letters commenced
in our present number. The author is a
distinguished Georgian, whose character, as
a statesman and philanthropist, were we per
j milled to give his name to the public, could
not fail to command the respectful attention
of those whom he designs to address, how
ever much they might differ with him in
views and sentiments. We deem that there
is no apology demanded from ns for giving
publicity to these letters at this time. An
alarming crisis in our national affairs is ra
pidly approaching, and unless the voice of
j sober reason may be heard now, and the
S spirit of unholy fanaticism stayed in its
course of homicidal aggression, the days of
our Union urc numbered.
“it is lime that the South should be heard
by the people of the free States, —and it be
comes all who prefer peace and harmony to
discord and anarchy—who prefer the count
less blessings which flow from our present
glorious Union, to the untold evils which
would inevitably follow its dissolution, —to
give her a dispassionate and unprejudiced
hearing.”
Tlic Xrxl C’o«i#rr**.
We find in tiie New York Herald a state
ment croing to show the political complexion
of the next Congress, from which it appears
that the Senate will consist of (so far as elec
tions have been held) thirty-four democrats
and twenty wings—democratic majority four
teen. There remains to be elected, one Sen
ator from Georgia, one from Tennessee, two
from lowa and two from Wisconsin, which
is put down as doubtful, but should whigs be
selected to till the vacancies, the democrats
will still have in that body a majority of
eight.
In the House of Representatives, as far as
heard from, 60 democrats, 76 whigs and 1
native have been elected. Elections have
still lobe held in the following States, viz:
Maine (to fill vacancies), New Hampshire,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maryland, Vir
ginia, North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi,
Ohio (vacancy), Louisiana, Kentucky, Ten
nessee, and Indiana. To the last Congress
the above States returned 63 democrats, and
28 whigs, and should there be no changes
this year, the democrats will have a majority
in the House of 18. Wisconsin is not added
to the above list—she will probably send two
members.
For our own part we do not think the de
mocratic majority in the House will be over
10 or 12—but this is sufficiently large for
any useful purpose, and we think will in
sure more unanimity of action.
o*The Alexandria Gazette states that the
vote in the Senate, on the nomination of
Charles J. Ingersoll as Minister to France,
stood 21 to 22, Mr. W'ebster did not vote.
Mr. Calhoun was also absent in consequence
of a severe cold.
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lirTlie Western mail due yesterday morn
ing;, failed to come to hand Irom offices west
of Montgomery—four will be due this morn
-1 ing from Mobile and New Orleans. Both
the Northern mails due last evening came to
hand.
The Savannah Republican of the 12th in»t.
says—“ We understand, on good authority, that
Col. Gumming has declined accepting the ap
pointment of Major General conferred upon him
by the President. The reasons that have prompt*
j ed Col. C. are, as we understand them, in keep
ing with the other acts of his public career, and
' reflect singular honor upon him.”
o”The Washington correspondent of the'
| Baltimore Sun says, that Col. Benton has
not as yes accepted the appointment of Major
| General, but that there is every probability
j that he will.
The National Intelligencer of the 1 Oth
inst. says—“We understand that the Hon.
Thomas 11. Benton declines the appointment
of Major General in the Army, tendered to
him by the President and Senate.”
The grand Jury of Laurence, [Geo.) Superior
Court, in the rase of Gibbs, indicted for the
i murder of Mr. B. B. H ussey ,have refused to find
a bill, on the ground that the defendant was of
unsound mind.
VCT We are authorized to announce THOMAS
HOPKINS, as a candidate for Council, from
Ward No-2. March 12
53“ BENT. CON LBV will be supported for re
election. as a Member of Council in the I bird
Ward, at the ensuing election. March 11
{gjT We are authorized to announce Hr. L. D.
FORD, as a candidate for re-election to the May
oralty of this city. [March 6 131
53“ We are authorized to announce Dr. L. A.
} DUGAS,as a candidate for re-election to ' 'ouu. il
1 from the second Ward, at the election to be held
! in April next. March 3
i 53“ We are authorized to announce Dr. J. G.
McWIIORTF.R as a candidate for Mayor of the
; the City of Augusta, at the election on the second
Monday in April next. Feb. 16
Mr. Editor —Please announce the follow
i ing named gentlemen as candidates for Members
I ofCouncil forWard No. 1, at the coming election
in April next:—JAS. GODBV , A. P. iSCIII I. I'X.
Eel*. 18 *—
53“ Mr. Editor —Please announce Dr. I. I*.
GARVIN as a candidate for Member of Council
1 I for Ward No. 1, and oblige Many Voters.
Feb. 20 —* IW
53“ Mr. Editor — Please announce the name of
• CHARLES E. GRENVILLE, E>q., as a candi
date for Council in Ward No. I, And oblige
i Feb. 17 *— MANY VOTERS.
i i 53“ DR. J. A. CLEVELAND, has returned
j to this city, and may be consulted at the office of
Cleveland Spear, over the store of Messrs. Al
drich Green. Feb 28
53“ We are requested to announce H. !)•
BELL, as a suitable candidate for Council in
| Ward No. 2. *— Feb. 17
{ j - -
00c We are authorised to announce Col. G. F.
)
PARISH as a candidate so re-election as Member
of the City Council from Ward No. 1., at the en
' suing election in April next. [Feb. 17 * —
NE A POUT A N IS ONNE TS .
I’ATTiSON. NOE & CO.,
I ; Patentees and Manufacturers, 23 DTancy Street,
i . New York.
Feb. 23 3in— 121
53- LAST NOTICE TO CITY TAX
| PAVER'S.— Persons who have not made their r< -
turns w ill please do so to the subscriber, at his of
fice, before the 15th March instant, as the Digest
’ will then be closed.
l I W. MILO OLIN, Clerk of Council.
. I N. B.—Females and infirm |«rsnns wII be call
r ed upon by .sending their names to the Clerk.
’ March 10 5 134
DAGUERREOTYPE MINIATURES.
j- 53“ Mr. C. E. JOHNSON returns bis sincere
thanks to the citizens of Augusta, for their very
liberal patronage, and would inform those wim
i have not already availed t!iemselvcs,'of his services
f —that he leaves fur New York on the Ist of April.
Feb. 23 —hn 126
DCr* R- S, Jackson , Teacher on
i the Piano Forte, Flute and Violin, respectfully
) tenders his services to the citizens of Augusta.
References—HenVy Parsons, Thus. Richards
. and T. S. Metcalf, Esq’rs.
N. I>—For terms, <kc., inquire at 11. Parson’s
t 1 Music store. 6m Dec. 1
> CONSUMPTION.
i , There is, perhaps, no disease with which nnr
| country is affected, which sweeps off' annually so
many victims, as that fell destroyer of the human
race—Consumption. What a vast amount of suf
■ j sering might he saved the human family if-lhey
would but avail themselves in season of the reme
, dies which nature has provided for her cltildern,
and which science has reduced to a form as to
i he within the reach of all. Far be it from us to
tamper with those who are suffering with this
painful tiisea.se. In offering you a remedy, we do
not a.-k you to rely upon t he representation of those
who might he actuated by selllsl and pecuniary
motives, but we give you the deliberate testimony
of some of the most respectable Physicians, that
WrsTAß’s Bai.sam of Wild Cherry has estah,
lished for itself a reputation that cannot be assail
ed. Dr. Wra. A. Shaw, of Washington, N. C.
writes, under date of May 1, 1816, as follows:
“I have heard of many cases of decided benefi
cial effects from its use, especially in Asthma and
chronic cough of spasmodic character. I have
used the Wild Cherry a great deal in practice, ami
with marked good results, in those causes of great
i nervous mobility, and irritability, to w hich phthis
; ical patients are subject. I have no doubt it is the
j
| best form in w hich the effects of Prussic acid may
i he had as a sedative on the constitution without
! danger to the patient. Every one knows the rep
utation of the Turpentine and Balsam constituents
in protracted coughs. The combination of these
principles in VVistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry is.
ingenious and judicious.
Medical men are justly distrustful of Patent Me
dicines in general, but candor must discriminate
between outrageous humbugs and nostrums and
i those medicines which have proved salutary, and
j in many w ell attested cases curative.
For sale in Augusta, wholesale and retail,, by
| HAVILAND, RISLEY & CO., and also, by
THOMAS BARRETT & CO., and Dealers in
j Medicines generally in Georgia.
March 13 *3— 137
OBITUARY.
Died, in Sparta, on, the6tb instant, Bcrweu,
Jackson, second son of General and Mrs. Wynn,
in the 18th year of his age.
It is melancholy to see any one die; but how
mournful it is to see the young and the gifted, who
have just gone forth into the world, suddenly ar
rested iu their course and fall into the grave. To