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From the Southern literary Messenger,
VOL - NO ROM AME LEE.
I love to forget Ambition,
■Add Hoyt, in the mingled thought
Os v»lley end wood end meadow,
Where whilom* my spirit caught
•AfleetioaVbaiiaet breathing*;
Where, under the aides, with me
To&ng Roealie roved—aye drinking
From Joy'a bright Castaly.
! think of the valley and river,
The old wood bright with blossoms;
Os the pure and chastened gladness
Upspi inging in our bosoms;
1 think of the lonely turtle,
-8a tongued with melancholy ;
And the huo of the drooping moonlight,
And the starlight pur*and holy !
Os the best of a heart most tender.
The sigh of s shcll-tinct lip,
As soft as the land-tones, wandering
For leagues, over ocean deep;
Os a step, as light in its falling,
Op the breast of the beaded lea,
A* the fall of tho fairy moonlight,
On the leaf of yon tulip tree.
1 think of these and the murmur
Os. bird and katydid,
Whose home i* the grave-yard cypress,
Whose goblet the honey-reed;
And then I weep! for Rosalie
Hat gone to her early rest;
And the green-lipped reed end the daisy,
Suck sweets from her maiden breast
Winchester, V*. L. L.
from tho Greenville „Mountaineer ,
FAREWELL TO LOVE,
ax tbs non. waanxx a. Dans.
It it o'er, with its pains and its pleasures—
Tho dream of affection ie o'er;
The feeling I cherished so fondly,
Can never return to mo more.
With a faith, 0! how fondly believing—
A truth, no unkindnezs could move ;
My prodigal heart ha* expended,
At once an existence of love.
But a epirit is burning within me,
Unquenched, aiid unquenchable ycl 1
Ambition's now proudly sustaining
A grief, I can never forget.
g ■w i i I’via^gi^ggEa!*!
From the Auraria Recorder.
■ INDIAN TREATY.
The Federal Union ut the aistinst. re
marks, that “The Southern Recorder
quotes from the Auraria Recorder an ab
surd statement, that the treaty submitted
by the President to the Chorofcoes, owes
its existence to William 11. Underwood,
more than to any other individual.” The
Federal Union is in error, so far as it at
taches to the Auraria Recorder the pro
mulgation of an absurd statement.—ln
the article alluded to, we observed.
“We some time since expressed a
hope that our friend Judge Underwood,
tv ho was then on his way with an extra
delegation of the Cherokee Indians to
Washington, would “be enabled to re
trieve his character as a patriotic Geor
gian, and restore himself to public con
fidence, by using his best exertions in
bringing about a speedy termination of our
Cherokee difficulties. Weare now hap
py to communicate to our readers that
our hopes have been more than realized,
for we learn from a source, entitled to
the utmost confidence, that the comple
tion, thus far, of the project was mainly
brought about by his ejreat exertions,
and influence over the Cherokees, with
out which the question would have been
!elt in statu quo. The Senate’* resolu -
tion approving the $5,000,000, was a
measure which originated with him, and
was the only means at the then situation
ot the neguciation, which could have ef
fected the object.”
As a corroborating circumstance, we
further state from the same source, tha:
tfter the articles of a treaty were drawn
up and submitted to the delegation fur
their concurrence, with blanks to be filled
by them with the amount they were dis
posed to take f r their country, they were!
tilled up by John Ross wish the sum of
§•30,000,000. This circumstance brought
the whole negotiation to a close, ns the
government was nut disposed to give so
extravagant a price fur their lands east o
the .Mississippi j at this stage of the ne
gotiation, Underwood commenced tlu
laudable enterprise of relecmiag hs
character as a patriotic Georgian. —'T u
Secretary ut War was in tie very act «t
writing a mite to Riss, bringing t l ' -
wnule matter tu a final e nse. when the
proposal, to sub biit to the Sana'a the a I
jus mimt of the sum to be given, was mad ■
b< Judge Underwood. By bis greit ex
erlions and influence over the Cherokee's
he procured their, consent, in writin r , t
Ibis proposition.
Now under this statement of facts
which we believe tube subst in ally true,
we ask, if there is n it abundant Veas i ’
to support our position, that the plan of
tha ti,000,000 and the .Senate’s approve
cf *t, originated with Judge Underwood
and that without it, the whole negocia
tion woutd have been lefi in t f nht quo ?
But. according to the reasoning o*’ the
Federal Union, it is absurd to suppose
that Judge Underwood has done nnv
thing calculated to redeem his character
as a patriotic Georgian ; and here let it
be remembered that this is the gist of the
article in question, because he has labor
ed so long and so arduously to thwart the
policy of Georgia in her Indian relations.
The Southern Recorder, in the full
ness of its loving kindness for Gov
Lumpkin, imagines, that because J U <W
Underwood has come in at the eleventh
hour, and has, as a last resort, given ids
support to the consummation of the tre.a
ty, the friends of the Governor must feel
mortified to sea him stripped of the hon
or. We had not before supposed, that
the consummation of fhtsdesirable object,
owed its existence alone to one individu
ai, or that the hotfor of it was, like sover
tigoty. indivisible.
Ti conclusion, weare bv no msxas dis
posed to quarrel with.tbe Federal Union
or Recorder, about the honors of others
but hope to find them at all times and un
der all circumstances, as ourself, ever
disposed to “render unto Cxsar the
things that are Cosai ’s.
NORTHERN SLAVERY. ’
From the .V. Y. Journal of Commerce.
“ A White Slave.—A most extraor
dinary and outrageous abuse of usurped
authority over a fellow creature was de
veloped at the upper Police office on Sa
turday. Mr. James McEually, of Fourth
Street,applied to Mr. Palmer, the magis
trate, to tend a little eirl about fourteen
years of age tu the House of Refuge, as
he said she was so very badly disposed
that it was impossible to get any good of
her. Mr. Palmer consented to take the
girl & send her to the House of Refuge or
the Alms House, and Mr. McEually
brought her to the Police office. When
he was leaving the office, he stretched
out his hand tu shake hands with her, bui
instead of putting out her hand to meet
his, she shrunk back from him us if his
attempting to touch her had terrified her.
Mr. McEnally then left the office. Mr.
Palmer had observed the occurrence, and
perceiving that the girl was from some
cause or other in a s ate of extreme ter
ror, he addressed her in a solacing
manner and endeavored to encourage her
by saying that she should be taken good
caie of, and made comfortable. Whilst
he was.speaking to her he took her by
the hand. On doing so he perceived that
it was black and bruised from some hurl.
Mr. Palmer asked her what happened to
her hand, and the replied in the moat
piteous manner, “ Oh! sir, my muster
nas beat me, and my back is very sore.”
Mr. Palmer then examined her person
and found that from the small of her bark
down to the calf of her leg was covered
with black marks, bruises and cuts, some
of which were festering.
On making this discovery, Mr. Palmer
made inquiries into the inaWer, and from
what has as vet boen.dcveloped.it appears
that a Mr. R., formerly of this city, ob
tained possession of the girl, but by who*
means is as yet unknown, when she was
only a few years old and reared her and
treated her completely as a slave. A few
months back Mr. U. left this city and
went to reside in New Jersey, and when
going there, hired out the girl to McEnal
fy in the same way that any slave owntr
would hire out a slave, at twenty shill
ings a month, the money to be paid to R*
and the girl to get nothing but food and
raiment. Tho unfortunate little girl
possesses an extremely agreeable ami
rather pretty countenance —and evinces
too much simplicity in the history she
gives of herself, to leave any ground for
doubt of its being true. She is altogether
ignorant of her name or parentage, and
only remembers that she once lived in
the country. When she came into the
possession of Mr. R. he named hoi - Phila
delphia, which, when speaking to her, he
generally abreviated to the word Philip,
and this is the only name she recollects
to have been ever called by. By her
own account she has been always treated
as a complete slave, and since she has
been with her last master, with the ex
ception of food, of which she says she got
sufficient, elm has been treated worse
than most slaves have been treated in
this country during the last half century.
She was obliged to sleep on the garret
floor without any thing but one blanket
fora bed and covering, and as to her ap
parel, she says it was never better than
what sha now wears, and her outer gar
ment is seemingly composed of a piece of
an old sack.”
Narrative or tho state ol Religion.
The Presbytery of South Carolina
would present the following Narrative of
the State of Religion, within their bounds,
to the General Assembly of the Presby
terian Church.
UklovEd Huethuen - :—We desire you
grace, mercy, and peace, from God the
Eather, God the Sun, and God the Holy
Ghost.
In taking a view of the State of Reli
gion in the different Churches under our
care, we are sorry that we have not more
to communicate, which is calculated to
encourage our hearts, or cause you to
rejoice. It is true, we have been favor
ed, in some degree, with the preaching of
the Word. Our assemblies of worship
are generally large: the attention of the
people, respectful: and the use of means,
not entirely fruitless. The Sunday
School, and Temperance causes, have not
been without a salutary influence among
us. And we have reason to b-dfeve, that
I God has not left himself without a wit
ness, whenever we have been called, as
the Heralds of the Cross, to declare the
glad tidings of salvation.
But. Brethren, there are some things
which pain our hearts—which render the
preaching of the Gospel inure arduous—
and which have unquestionably impeded
the progress of truth and salvation in this,
. s well as in other parts of the vineyard
of oar common Lord and Redeemer.
You will bear with us. therefore, whilst
we unbosom ourselves to you, m C iris
dan affection, and relate to you turn! o.
our sorrows, that you may sympathise
with us, if no m rc.
, Firs', Tn? laui itablo heresies, which
have found their way info the Presbyte
rian C turd), (os have been no ieed In
, he “ Act an.i Tesripi nu” off, red by the
, •iiiii'iriiy of the Assum'd y, at their las
i nee ing.) have inflicted a w.mn I upon
if hat bia ich of the Church of Jesus C Vr.s
towhich we have the honor to belong,
which will not soon be healed. The ex
istence of these errors, in the m is: d.s
--r taut branches of ourZ in, would be an
e evil, not to be t derated. But when we
e find the majority of (he General Assent
r | bly. the guardian of our doctrines and
r discipline, winking, to say the least of it,
t at these errors in doctrine, and innova
; tionsin discipline—when we find breth
. ren whom we believe to be sound in the
> faith, from false delicacy, disposed to be
. moderate, rather than resist the torrent
which is preparing to sweep our borders,
. and to demolish our ancient, and beauti
s ful spiritual edifice, where our fathers
i worshippedwhen we discover that the
s Confession of Faith, and Book ofdisci
- plinc of our church,is assailed with almost
1 as much violence, as Tom Paine’s “ Age
-of Reason,” and that too, by men, who
t have solemnly swum that they believe
the (ruths which are contained in that
. hook, and (hat they will support and de
'* ~ them;—when \vc witness' these
things, our hearts arc sorrowful. We
- scarcely known how to preach to our fel
, l« w sinners. And, with an ancient fe
, male disciple of mir blessed Lord, who
- wept at his sepulchre, we are Constrained
r to say, “They have taken awav our
; Lord, and wc know not where they have
laid him.”
Second. The miaguided, and mistaken
zeal which fanatics in the North, .have
attempted to manifest for the people of
color among us; and which ha» received
imprudent encouragement, not, perhaps,
from the General Assembly, but from
Synods and Presbyteries of our order,
has had already ah unhappy effect; and
is tending to close, and we fear, unless
i something is done to prevent this inter
fcrcnce, will finally close the door of our
usefulness, as Presbyterians, among this
: class of our population. We look for
■ ward with horror to the day, when Pres
byterianism, will only be another name
i for Abolition, or Emancipation; as some
1 are evidently disposed to make i’. Do
t not mistake us here, brethren. Do not
l suppose that this horror anticipated, is in
i consequence of any pecuniary loss which
. we may sustain by such an event. In
. view of other, and more awful conse- 1
1 quences, that is truly a matter of minor,
i indeed, of no importance. \V e allude to
• the misery, and bloodshed, which would
; necessarily follow in (he train of such an
i - event—and the total exclusion of any
1 man, professing to be a Presbyterian, from
t the privilege of preaching the Gospel of
f Jesus Christ, to this people. If brethren,
t who profess to love the cause of Christ—
• to love the colored people who are in a
> state of bondage among us—only knew
t how great an injury they were doing this
r people., by their untimely, imprudent, in
-15 judicious interference—if (hey could be
a lieve that their measures and efforts,
k would ultimately prevent Presbyterians
J from ever preaching, or instructing our
e servants in the truths of salvation; we
must think, they would nn longer attempt
r (» mar our peace, by meddling with our
i cir.ilinstitutions.
i With these errors,countenanced by the
- Assembly; and the of
this match in the North which is prepaN
i ing to blow up our usefulness among a
1 certain class of our population, it is no
' strange thing to find, from the statistical
1 reports of the General Assembly, that
i (he increase of our number is less, the
• last, than in former years. It is no
'■ that ministers of our or-
IresdrscTmtoged—that the friends ij£
’ Jesus Christ, generally, so far as our
branch of the Church is concerned, are
1 found without either joy or song.
Brethren, pray for tls.
i That the great Head of the Church may
be with you, to direct and bless you, is
the prayer of your brethren in the Lord.
By order of Presbytery.
ANTHONY W. ROSS, Moderator.
S. B. Lewers, Clerk.
—63*
Peculiarities of men ol Gonitis.
Homer, it is said, had such an aversion
to natural music, that he could never be
. prevailed on to walk along the banks of
a murmuring brook; nevertheless, he sang
his own ballads, though not in the char
acter of a mendicant, as recorded by the
infamous Zoilus.,
Virgil was so fond of salt, that he sel
dom went without n box full in his pocket,
which he made use of from time to time,
as men of the present day use tobacco. ’
Zoroaster, it is said, though the most
profound philosopher of his time, theore
tically, was very easily put out of tem
per. He once carried his irritability so
tar as to break a marble table to pieces
with a hammer, because he chanced to
stumble over it in the dark.
Shakspeare, though one of the most
generous of men, was a great higgler.
He was often known to dispute with a
shop keeper for halfan hour on the mat
ter of a penny. He gives Hotspur credit
for a portion of his own disposition, when
he makes him say “ I would cavil on the
ninth part of a hair.”
Peter Corneille, the greatest wit of Ins
time, so far as concerns his works, was
remarkably stupid in conversation, as
was also Addison, who is acknowledged
to have been one of the most elegant wri
ters that ever lived.
Handel was such a miser, (hat at
the same time he was in receipt of fifty
pounds a night from the Opera, he was
frequently known to wear a shirt for a
mouth, to save the expense of washing.
Burns never remained sober so lolio
as he could get drunk. It was in the
fits occasioae I by this peculiarity, that
i he wrote so many of those simple dogge
rils for servant girls, that we frequently
find attached to beautiful airs, under ihe
i title of poetry, such as Wandering Wil
• lie, &c.
Byron was also sadly addicted to the
; “malt stoup.” Some of his atanzis, how
■ ever, were produced under the influence
• of the jolly god. According to his ser
' ant, Peter Conroy, lately deceased in
, this city, a pint of brandy was his night
-1 ly allowance. " °
. Samuel Rogers is «n inveterate pun
ster. albeit from his poetry, one m ght
suppose Inm to be the gravest man in
Chris endom. He has one peculiarity
that distinguishes Inn from all poets
vast, present, abd to con e, j. c., three
i hundred thousand pounds.
Tin mas C mpb.-11, though t n ugly
man, it is said, is very vain of his per
-* sunal appearance; lie once d scharged a
Servant lor hinting to him the propriety
i of get ing a wig, as his hair was turning
gtev.
, iir II ul er Sco t was add to have ‘a
kca no pride in the wonderful creations
• it ids genius, at the same time that he
was extremely vain of his title of sheriff
: of t e county-.
/I J SS> however, is the victim of a
1 still more unpardonable vanity. When
, ever he is asked out to dinner, he inva
• riablr says, “I shall do ye the pleasure,
■ and then ye will ha’ it to say, that ye
: had the honor to sit in company with tne
- Ettrick Shepherd, allowed on all ban’s
t to be the greatest sang writer in the
. warld.”
--aca—■
U B ea f an< t Dumb.— The Legislature et its last
- session msde a small appropriation, probably e
nough for one year, for tho education of this un
t fortunate portion of our youth. The charity ap
plies, it will be seen, losuchonlv os are between
, lllc “Uenuf 12 end 20 years, but is no doubt in
, u ' nJeJ f nr those of either sox, though not die.
tuiclly so expressed. The character of Mr.
t Sinclair, the Agent, Is s guarantee to the tender
■ est |urouL that nothing uo.-essary to the safety &
- comfort of the child wi Ibe neglected An arli
, clc on the subject will be seen in another column.
It will be well for parents and guardians to apply
early, both to secure a berth, and to enable tho
agent u complete his list and make his te
lurna.—Geo. Jour.
-~e#a—
Specie.—The ship Congress, from Vera Crux,
arrived at Ncw-Vor., has about $63,005 on
board.
FROM NEW YORK.
CaAALEiTo.T, May 7.
The steam packet Columbia, CapL Coffey, ar
rived yesterday from New-Vbrk, having .sailed at
4, P. M. on Saturday last.
The Columbia experienced tha late gate on her
outward passage, bat was enabled to continue her
voyage without interruption. Wo observe no
further particulars in the A’. York papers, of the j
damage done, of sufficient importance to notice.
To the East of Ncw-York, its effects had also been f
very severe, doing much damage to tho coasting f
vessels, causing many of them to sink at their
anchors.
165 shares I?. S. Bank stock sold at N. York,
30th ult. at 1U; ISd.do. do. do. 110 J. Ist.inst. 1
203 do. do. do. 110}. 2J inst. 50 do. N. O. City
do. at 111 i ; 350 do. do. do. Ill; 50 do. do. do. ,
(20 days and hit) 111}, 50 do. N. O. Com
mercial do. 108 J ; 30 do. do. do. 103}; 270 do. (
do. do. 108. 3
The Welland Cano! was to have been opened
on the 17th April. " j
Captain Church, of ship Cloy, reports from
Saint Helena papers, the arrival of ship Susan, 1
I from Boston, at Capo Town, with Mr. Isaac
Chase, and family, (late of Boston,) who had
been officially recognized as Americal Consul by
the authorities. ,
The brig Helen Mar, Capt Stuart, from Tam
pico for New-York, with a cargo of jalap, fustic,
Ac. and $109,000 in specie, consigned to E. K. 1
Collins, was totally lost on the 22d ult. on the I
Washerwoman’s Shoal. The crew saved, but
the cargo last, as the vessel went down imme
diately.
Wc loam from the Albany Journal that the
SiockholJe«ln the Utica and Schcnectably Lino
of Packet Boats, divided teven hundred per cent.
; ns the.prolita of the last season. A new line has
- been started this spring, hut the fare is not rsduc
. ed. They charge $3 SO for 80 miles.
H. M. echr. Firefly, was lost on a sunken and i
| unknown rock, off Belize, previous to April 21,
by which accident Lieut. Macdonald, and twenty
two of his men were lost, after taking to their
! boats. The Firefly went dawn in a few minutes
after her striking.
The number of arivals at New-York from for
eign countries during the month of January, was
144; February, 87; March, 124, April, 186.
■ Total, 504, of which 88 were foreign vessels.
Last year during tho same months, the number
.ijus 551. More lastyear, 11. The proportion of
American vessels this year is much greater than
it was last. A great many vessels are now due.
The number of passengers which arrived there
in January, was 409; February, 288; March,
421; April, 2316. Total, 3434. In the same
months last year, 6293. Less this year 2859.
New Yohk, May 1,
The Ttnmor a Hoax. —lt has been ascertained
> that the late rnmor touching the result of our ne
gociations with Prance in the matter of the imlem’
nity, was entirely of home manufacture, got up"
somewhere “down east,” probably for speculating
purposes. A brig called the Bt, Mungo, arrived
at St. Andrews on the 12th of April, from Lon
don, whence she sailed on thc22d of March, but
she brought no “ rumors” from France or else
where. In fact, her intelligence was not so late
by two days, as that received in New York pre
vious to her arrival. Operations in the slock
markets of this and other cities, are said to have
been affected by the hoax to a considerable extent.
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prom Jamaica.
Accounts from this Island continue to be any
thing but favorable as to the effects of the gradu
al abolition system recently adopted by the En
glish Government; but the evil seems to have
assumed quite a new shape and semblance. Mis
chief is represented now to arise, not so much
from tho indolence or obstinacy of the manumit
ted slaves, as from the vices of the white emi
grants from England, by whom they were to be 1
replaced as laborers. We copy the following i
remarks on this subject, from the Herald of the
10th inst.
Kijtostox, April 10.
It is with much regret wc have learned that the
emigrants from England have not been selected
with any regard to tho moral influence which
their example is likely to have on the black race,
which they aro intended physically to control.
There are many crimes, of which the negroes
are as yet guiltless, to which necessity and star
vation have driven the lower orders in England;
and habits once formed aro not easily relin
quished, even although the causes which’created 1
them have ceased to exist. i
The rock which tho West Indians are likely to |
split on, in their endeavors to stem Lie new tide of [
events, is the ridiculous supposition that Euro
peans can never cultivate sugar—and if persons, ‘
instead of carrying on a white slave trade under '
this illusion, would at once face the evil by re- i
moving Ihe flattering unction from their minds, i
sugar might still be cultivated by negro free labor
—the only means by which it ever can be contin
ued as a staple of these Islands,
Every day’s experience tends to confirm ns in
the opinion entertained by our contemporaries,
that Sugai cannot long be continued as a lucrative
staple in our Island. Those estates which pro
duce a long succession of ratoons, and are culti
vated at little expense, situated near a Barqua
dier.and unencumbered with mortgages orannui
ties, may be maintained fir a few years, and in
the event of any successful introduction of emi
grants capable of working on sugar plantations
may continue' productive—but the majority of
the old estates which give only a second ratoon,
those which aro involved in debt, those which have
only nn animal power to work their mills, and
especially those which have a long carriage to the
sea side, must and will bo abandoned. The most
sanguine planter cannot help observing the real
progress n( things, and if he bo not of our belief,
we fear he will be so. The negroes feel no inter
est, general speaking, in the success of sugar pro
perly. They expected wonders and miracles, and
happiness and delight, from their emancipation.
They find themselves much as tli-y were nr, as
the drill Sergeant said—“ as you was, Quasilie.”
Com. .idv , May 1.
Destructive Fire in IVJmington, .V. C.
Extract of a letter received in Charleston, dated
“ Wiimisstox, N. May 2.
I am sorry to inform you that we have just re
turned from a ve.y serious conflagration. About 1
10 o'clock this morning, a building near to Mr. 1
Lazarus’s new steam Plwilig Machine, and be.
longing to him was fire.l, 'tis supposed by a spark i
from the chimney of the machine. There was a i
very great quantity of planed A other lumber with i
Slav j .& abort 8,000 bbl«. naval stores in immedi- I
ate contact, ami in a ve.y few moments these were i
all on lire, mi l e 'mourntented to the Planing Ma- <
chiog o i the north 1 ,, an Il ie steaih rice mill, he- i
longing to the heirs of the late W. G. Beatty, on ,
the south an 1 all this property is now a blazing
ruin. By greu exertions, the AJrquhart brick i
house on the wharf, now belonging to Mr. O’- <
Haulm, wax saved; Hud this not been tho case,
. the conflagration must have extended up the s
wharves, and 'tis imp mibte to say where it could i
have been arrested. .Most of the rice was saved 1
from Beatty’s mill. Tho rice mill of Holmes & £
Potter, to the south of that destroyed, though in \
peril escaped. The total loss is computed at a- r
bout one hundred thousand dollars. We learn
that amongst the sufferers are A. Lazams, Estate ?
W. G. Beatty, Woodhall & Mimtura, and Scy- f
mour, Bergen & Co. N. York.”— Char. Courier a
We aro obliged at last to announce the decease r
last Saturday evening, of Mr. John R. W. Clark, 5
the young gentleman that has so long suffered a
under that awful malady the Small Pox. His f
sufferings must have been inexpressibly groat,and i
his loss must, no doubt, be aggravated if possible, 3
to his numerous relatives and friends, from the pe- j
culiarity of his case—a peculiarity that inexorably t
cut off many of those attentions and solaces, that f
a sick and dying person so much needs. Mr. C. 0
was the youngest of the two surviving sons of the c
the late Gov, Clark, and being not more we think i
thud 19 or 20 years of age, had lived just, and s
only just long enough for future promise. There c
are several crises in this disorder; and as ho had c
passed the first, we thought him almost safe, not h
knowing or not recollecting, that he had to pass r
yet another. [,
.We can hoar of no other case. It is certainly r
true that infection might have been communica- s
led before measures wore taken to prevent it; but s
if it had done so in a single instance, it muat, we tl
think.have shown itself before a, w.— Georgia s
Journal, s:h inst. f,
Auofiyr At :
SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1835.
“ Be jut*, anti fear not.”
111,1 -
HANK OP THE. STATE OF GEORGIA.
The following gentlemen were, on Monday
last, re-elcctcd, on the part of the stockholders,
Directors of tho Bank of the State of Georgia,
for the ensuing year. 1
Messrs. William Taylor, Mordecai Myers, J. 1
W. Jackson, J. B. Gaudry, Frederick Denslcr, 1
Wra. King
At a meeting of tho new Board of Directors,
Wm. B. Bulloch, Esq. was unanimously re-elect- 1
cd President of said Institution for the ensuing 1
year.
The Directors on the part of the State are
Messrs. Wm. B. Bulloch, George Schley, M.
Hall McAllister, and John Millen, Esqr s.
MUSEUM.
“ A recent correspondent, under the signature
of “ Noil,” reminded us of the contemplated
effort to establish a Museum in this city. We
thank our intelligent correspondent for bringing
the matter so early before the public. We think
there will be no difficulty in the arrangement.
An annual subscription for families or individuals
(say for five years,) would be an important step
byway of inducement, and precluding the appre
hension of loss by any persons disposed to under
take the enterprise. We understand that about
SISOO were subscribed once b.fore, in the way
suggested ; but the design then failed from tho
impossibility at that time of getting a suitable
room. Now, we area - ,‘horised to say, this dis-
Acuity will be immediately obviated. A gentle
man, who is beginning to build a brick range on
Broad-strcct, in a central part of the city, will
arrange a whole tenement to suit this object, in
the most extensive and elegant manner, with an
appropriate ornamental front and entrance. Wc
are certain that a suitable Museum would not on
ly be a profitable matter to the undertaker, but a
source of increased intelligence among our citi
zens.
Wc would define a Museum to be a collec
tion of interesting oljccts, both of Nature and
Art, brought together for the instruction of the
student, or the gratification of the curious. The
word originally signified a grottc. or temple of
the Muses. From this definition and significa
tion, may bo conceived the unlimited extent of
the interesting objects which, within its walls
may be made to increase the intelligence, or gra
tify the curiosity of tho visiter.”— Geo. Courier.
THE PRESIDENCY.
Extract of a letter dated,
“ Colombia Cooktt, April 29,1835.
“ I embrace this as a favorable opportunity of
informing you that I have been highly pleased
with the matter contained in the columns of your
valuable paper, and particularly in regard to the
course you have pursued, and the advice you
have given to our party, in relation to the next
President. Sir, I have been astonished to hear
some of the State Rights party maintain that we
should support White, for President, in preference
to Van Buren. I see no difference between them.
Contrast them together wherever their political
characters maybe brought to bear upon the great
interests of the people, & White can claim no pre
ference over tile other. If Van Buren is objected
to, because ho was perhaps in favor of the Force
Bill, White can claim no exemption from such a
charge. Some of our friends argue, that of two
evils we should choose the least; but I see no
difference between the two men. They aro both
alike, and I was never better satisfied with any
political movement than your opposition to them
both. You aro right, in objecting to our party’s
engaging on either side. It cannot honestly, or
consistently with its principles, lend its aid to the
advancement of cither ; and, as a friend said not
long since, what cannot be done honestly, in pub
lic as well as in private affairs, had better be lot
alone. Could this rule be adhered to, by voters
of every class, instead of intrigue, favoritism, cor
ruption, and despotism, we should soon see
equality, patriotism, and liberty, the order of the
day.”
THE SILK CDLTURIST.
“We have received (says the Milledgcville
Times,) the first number of a very neat periodical
published monthly at Hartford, Connecticut, en
titled the Silk Ccltpbist, at the low price of
fifty cents a year. Tho cultivation of Silk is
beginning to attract much attention at the North,
and we do not see why, in a climate so favorable
as ours is, it docs not retommend itself more ex
tensively to our planters. We are apprised by
the Silk Culturist, of a fact highly creditable to
the stale of Connecticut, as evincing a desire to
extend a liberal ail to advance the useful arts.
It is, that a bounty is given by the state, of one
dollar for every hundred Mulberry trees, which
shall be set out in such manner as may favor
their growth. The Legislature of that state ha
also incorporated a silk Manufacturing Company,
We make the fallowing extract from the columns
of the Silk Culturist in'relation to tile propaga
tion of Mulberry trees:”
“ 'The tree is not ordinarily propagated from the
seed, though there have been instances of it. It is.
however, redly multiplied by layers, or engraft
ing or imioculaling upon stocks of the white mul
berry. The only difficulty in the way of its en
tire soccess, in this country, is tho severity of our
winters, but tiiis, in a great degree, may be over
come, by suitable local on and cultivation. It L
well Uno n that the immature and succulent
wool of .ill our native trees cannot resist tue ac
tion ot frost, Ali the native trees in our forests
complete their growth in season for the wood to
harden sufficiently to withstand the (lasts of the
succeeding winter. The loss of the extremities,
is, however, very far from being fatal to the tree; '
for it will not usually amount to one fourth of the ■
annual growth, and as they become older they i
will better endure the frost, or at any rale a less
proportion of tho tree will be destroyed !-y it.
But Mr. Davenport, an experienced culturist of 1
Massachusetts, says, that their destruction by I
frost can be prevented by appropriate and season- ,
able cultivation. His remedy is to encourage ,
their growth in the fore part of tho season, and
prevent it in the latter part, thereby giving every *
year s growth time to harden, before the autumnal i
and winter frosts. This ho docs by hoeing them 1
frequently, before the Ist of August, and neglect
ing them entirely after that time. By this means
ho produces a vigorous growth to as late a period 1
in the season, as will leave sufficient time for |
the shoots to harden and mature before severe
frosts. From repeated experiment of this mode
of treatment lie Is satisfied, that tho multicaulis 1
can bo cultivated in this country, notwithstand- 1
ing the low temperature of our winters. The
selcc ion of a suitable location and soil, will also 1
conduce to the same result With respect to lo- 1
cation, it is only necessary to say, that it should i
bo such as presents tho greatest and longest ex- r
posure to the sun. With regard to soil, the ests- t
Wished laws of vegetation furnish the best crite- t
rion. It is a well known fact, that the more c
sterile tho soil, tho earlier the season, trees and I
shrubs cease to grow. Hence, it is apparent that r
tho multicaulis will best endure the winter in poor t
soil. But as land which does not contain the t
food of plants in sufficient quantities to promote I i
their growth early iu the season, will not bring
them forward, resort must be had to such kinds
and quantities of manure, as will promote their
growth to about the first of August, and then,
having exhausted its fertilizing qualities,will leave
them to harden and mature for the succeeding
winter.”
WELL DONE, COLUMBIA!
M c recommend attention lo the spirited pro
ceedings of a late State Rights Meeting in Co
lumbia county, nominating delegates to the June
Convention, and instructing them to vote for no
man who docs not accede to the creed of the par
ty, as set forth at Milledgcville, in Nov. 1853,
and to resist the introduction of the Presidential
question into the deliberations of the Conven
tion. This exhibits a spirit worthy of that pa
triot creed, and of men struggling for principles >
and the public good.
STATE RIGHTS MEETING.
At a meeting of the State Rights party of Co
lumbia county, held at Appling, on Monday, the
4th instant, Judge Avast being called to the
chair,andC. H. Shockley, Esq. appointed Secrc
fctary, the following Resolution was offered and
adopted ;
Resolved, That the State Frights party of Co
lumbia county, concur in the Resolution of the
Central Committee, requesting tho friends of
State Rights, in their respective counties, to send
delegates to meet in Convention, at Milledgcville,
on the 3d Monday in June, for the purpose of
nominating suitable candiJates for Governor, and
a member of Congress.
The meeting then proceeded to the election of
four delegates by ballot; and, on counting out
the votes, it appeared that Dr. Nathan Cbaw-
Fonn, Gabriel Joxks, Harmoxo Lamau, and
Jesse H. W altox, Esquires, were duly elected.
On motion of Wexslet Hobiit, Esq. it was
Resolved, That tire delegates from this county,
be, and are hereby, instructed to sustain, for no
mination for Governor, no individual who dues
not accede, lo the fullest extent, to the political
creed of the State Rights party, as set forth at
Milledgcville, in Nov. 1833.
Resolved, That they be further instructed, to
resist the introduction of the Presidential ques
tion into the deliberations of the convention.
Resolved, That when this meeting adjourn,
it adjourn to the 13th instant—to meet on that
day, to nominate candidates for the Legislature.
Resolved, That the above proceedings be pub
lished in the Augusta Chronicle and State
Rights Sentinel, signed by the Chairman and
Secretary.
ARCHER AVARY, Chairman.
C. H. SnocKLEv, Secretary.
SOUTHERN SLAVERY.
We continue our reply to tho letter of “ J. H.,”
as abruptly broken off on Saturday last.
( C -J This is precisely what they told us in
New York, at the time the riots ocurred; viz.-
that those riots “should convince the south, that
those, in the north, who have or will meddle with
slavery, in any way, are few; and that the ma
jority there, care little about it, and wish to have
nothing to do with it.” Before analyzing those
riots, wo would ask our correspondent to re
member the numerous petitions to Congress, a
gainst slavery, during the last session, swarming
with tens of thousands of signatures, and openly
Sustained by several speakers, and 77 votes, in
one house!—Also, the Anti-Slavery Stale Con
vention in Maine, the Anti-Slavery Missionaries,
and the Abolition and Colonization Societies in
almost every northern town or village—the de
clarations, even of the latter, that they are in fa
vor of “ gradual abolition”—the multitudes of
Reports from such societies—tho advocacy of the
negroes by northern papers, and sympathy with
them, and tho condemned insurgents, and as
saults on the whites, after the attempted insurrec
tion at Charleston,in 1823—the general excite
ment and opposition manifested throughout tire
whole north, during the I‘Missouri question”—the
great Now-Engiand anti-slavery society ofßoston,
recently formed, and sustained by both Abolition
ists and Colonizationists—the extensive Anti
slavery measures of the Northern Temperance
Societies and Temperance papers, and also of the
Northern Religious sects, Conferences, Synods,
&c,—the numerous assaults on slavery, in letters
from northerners at the south—and the repeated
attacks on it by northern newspapers, of all kinds
—while not a single counteracting society, letter,
or paragraph, opposing all interference in the
subject, is ever to be found within the whole
northern region! Let him, wc say, remember
all these things, and numerous others of like cha
racter, and then say, if he can, that “ those, in
tho north, who have or will meddle with slavery,
in any way, are few; and that the majority there,
care little about it, and wish lo have nothing to
do with it.” Among the many other simitar evi
denccs, too, we would suggest lo him the remark
of a highly intelligent member ol the Georgia
May Convention of 1833, against the removal ol
the federal basis of representation, that lie would
solemnly warn them against an act which would
furnish to the northern people a st.oug pretext
far the removal of that basis from the representa
tion in Congress—that h knew well the feelings
ot the northern people on this subject, particular
ly in his native state of Connecticut, and that
they were deeply, strongly, sensitively, opposed
to 1 lie representation of southern slaves in Con
gress, and, considering it a disgrace to them, would
promptly seize upon any pretext that might be
afforded, for th prevention of it. We would also
remind him of remarks of the Northern Tariff pa
pers, during the late discussion of the Tariff ques
tion, that it was a question of slave icbor & free
labor, and tho people of the north would never
submit lo have their free labor placed un a foot
ing with the slave labor of the south !
Now, then, for the character of the abolition
riots in New-York, which “ J. H.” calls a mani
festation of “ the right kind,” and says “ should
convince the south”!! We were in New-York
when they occurred, and took no little pains to
ascertain the true nature of them, and tho feel
ings and opinions which actuated the rioters,
which will be shewn in the following extracts of
letters written from that city at the time, and pub
lished in our paper—plainly indicating that re
gard for southern rights, interests, or safety, or
opposition to abolition, had no more to do with
them, than regard for public order, law, decency,
honesty, and private right and property.
“The city has been in a state of almost general
riot, for several days past. Churches, chapels,
houses, theatres, etc. have been demolished or
injured, and individuals wounded, and a state of ’
restless, wild, brutal excitement prevails among ,
the mobocracy, which is ready for almost any
thing, and prepared to enact almost any species of 1
outrage. And why? They tell you, very grave- t
ly. because Tappan and his associates have ont- 1
raged public feeling and decency, in their aboli
tion principles and measures, and the people will
tolerate it no longer. Pshaw! What public feel- c
ing or decency is there in a wild, ignorant, he*.- 1
w —■
strong mob, or in raising riots, and tearing down
houses, churches, etc.? The gre'at mass of the
rioters is composed of the aery worst species of
human nature, actuated by the worst passions,
and bent, chiefly, no doubt, in their destruction of
property, on individual plunder. What interest
have such men in public feeling or decency, social
order, or public virtue; and what must be the gen
eral state of society, where such men control pub
lic opinion, and their acts are Set down as the truo
exponents of it t True, the gross actings and do
ings of the abolitionists furnished the pretext for
it, and, the great mobocracy here, have shewn
themselves ever ready for any outrage, whenever
any pretext occurred to them. Why, when frus
trated by the police, in one of their attempts on
the property of the abolitionists, the other evening,
some one cried out “to the Bowery Then tie,"
and away all went there, broke open the doors,
rushed in en masse, stopped the play, insulted
the performers, defaced the ornaments, etc. etc.
and all because one of the performers (Mr. Bar
ren) was falsely reported to have said something,
in a private quarrel, derogatory to the character
of Americans.”
“Mr. Barren threw himself afterward, indis
creetly, and contrary to the earnest advice of his
friends, into the mob, and boldly denounced the
charge as false and unfounded, and its authors as
calumniators; and it was expected that he
would be torn to pieces; but he was not. They
assailed only harmless houses and churches, and
almost always fled immediately, before any vigo
roua attack from the police or military—changing
the object of assault as often as they met with any'
material resistance: Their sudden change from
the abolitionists, and their houses, to Mr. Barren
and the Theatre, when resisted at the former,
shews that they were merely bent on violence
• and mischief, and that any one object or pretext
suited them quite as well as another.”
“ But who are they who thus attack the abo
litionists here, or who assume that this violence
is an evidence of regard for the south, and of a
disposition to protect us from the mad projects of
the fanatics or immediate abolitionists I They
are the Colonizationists, (for all who are not Abo
litionists are Colonizationists,) and consequently
more dangerous to the south, and its institutions, ‘
than those whom they assail; and though they .
pretend no little astonishment at this declaration,
when I make it to them, they find it much easier
to express surprise at it, than to refute its truth.”
i “ The Colonizationista are all opposed to slave
ry, and all their speakers have so declared them
selves of. late, at their public meetings, even
while denouncing the abolitionists; but say they
are in favor of “gradual abolition” only, while tho
i Abolitionists are for “ immediate abolition.”
“ It will be remembered, that the Colonization
papers strongly urged tho introduction of a bill
into Congress, to abolish slavery i n that District,
, at the last session —& that it was several times dc
t dared,in letters from Washington, and.never once
denied, that a bill was already drawn up for that
purpose, by tho Colonizationists, with the concur
■ rence of the principal Society at Washington,
» and would shortly be introduced—and I presume
I the only reason why it was not introduced, was,
that the TJ. S. Bank men, being generally Colo
nizationists, feared that the introduction of it
would excite the anger of those Southern men
who went with them for the restoration of the
Deposites, and that they therefore delayed it for
the present, for fear of a split on that subject.”
“If the Colonizationists are desirous of satis
’ fying the south, let them at once come out boldly
against ail interference with its slave institutions,
in any way whatever, either by “ immediate ” or
1 -‘gradual” abolition ; for nothing else than this,
! can or ought to satisfy it All we ask of cither,
t is, to let us alone.”
, “The true secret of the late Abolition Riots in
this city, is this : The lower classes, who were
engaged in them, sec that the Abolitionists give
* the negroes the preference, in all competition
. for labor and wages, and struggle to the utmost
to exalt them above them—and that the tendency
of marrying their poor sisters and daughters to
tho negroes, is to degrade their class, not only
; to a level with the negroes, but even below
them, and render them objects of disgrace and
ridicule; and- hence, their attacks upon the
Abolitionists and negroes, are dictated solely by
interest, pride, hatred, and jealousy, without
, the least spark of principle, or regard for southern
i rights or interests.”
■ ('!•) He may “ express his surprize” that
. those riots have not ” convinced” us and “ the
f south;” but wiiether they are “ such unambi
. guous testimony, that the opinions we promul
: gate are not correct,” the above description of
. them will shew. If this be his best “ testimony"
. we think ho will scarcely be successful in mak
ing converts to his faith, in this section. And
for own part, we regret that the northern peo
i pie have not more respect for themselves, if not
for us, than to urge the conduct of an ignorant,
. lawless, brutal, plundering mob, as an exponent
, of their regard for our rights, interests, and safety.
God forefend that we should ever look for sym
pathy or benefit from such a source! We never
so fully appreciated the great virtue of Lafayette’s
uniform regard for public order, as in contempla
ting the numerous northern mobs of lust summer,
; in New-York, Philadelphia, Charlestown, Ac.
(e.) This statement is in opposition to all
experience, on such subjects. “He is aware that
stories of a marvellous nature are sometimes cir
, culated among the ignorant; butlhey are nothing
more, to such people, than a strange dream or
fairy tale ; and excite no indignation against tho
south, or love for the negroes, for the very cogent
reason that they do not place sufficient confidence
in the veracity of such accounts,” &c. Now,
do not the “ ignorant” give credence to all “ sto
ries of a marvellous nature,” and “ strange dreams
or fairy talcs,” even more readily and promptly
than to plain troths I And, to say nothing of
the more ignorant, do not the great mass of nor
thern people seem to place more 11 confidence” in
the imaginary sufferings of the “ Heathen” peo
ple, thousands of miles distant, and our negroes,
and to be “ more afflicted with their miseries,”
Ilian those of the thousands of poor, miserable,
degraded, starving wretches who ara continually
before their eyes 1 And would it not bo far more
easy to convince them of the “ marvellous sto
ries” about Jane Ryder, the « Newark mystery ,”
Jemima IVdkinson, Matthias, ,3ntl-.]faso?try,
Catholic Convents, Sea-Serpents, !/c. iic.
than of the plain fact, to all who investigate it,
that southern slavery is not only not an evil, hut
a blessing, even to the slaves themselves I Tell
us not, then, (hat they do not place confidence
in the “ stories of a marvellous nature, circulated”
among them respecting our negroes. And pray
how same tnoy to be circulated, if they are not
believed 1 By whom are they circulated I And
what northern man circulates them under the
least seeming douhtof their being credited I
(/.) As to his and our conflicting statements
of what each has seen or heard at the north, of
the reports there respecting our slavery, by nor
therners who have been at the south, they involve’
in some degree, a question of veracity; and with
out pausing to impugn what he has said, we shall
leave it to the judgment and experience of those
who have read both, to decide between them.
We will merely remark, however, that the “ Infe
mous falsehoods” which led to this discussion, in .
the letter to the north, of a noithcrner at the
south, is but one among many evidences of the
kind that have appeared at various times, and
which sustain our statement, while it would be
difficult for him to point out a single letter or
other publication, from a northerner, doing jus
tice to our slavery, and opposing all external in
terference with it of any kind.
(j-) Yes, wo “ leceived such testimony,” no»
only in “ Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New
i ork,” but in Maine, and Pennsylvania, also.