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WOMAN.
at a. laii/rox ■ickx?>zii.
AVosiir—dear woman! all must own thy power;
All ranks, all ages, at thine altar kneel 1
All, from the natal to the final hoor,
Before thy beauty bend and deeply feel
Thy potency of heart. Tho‘ skies would lower, I
As heaven & earth conspired Against our weal,
Kvcn danger’s self could never yet unbind,
The viewless chains that blend us, mind to mind.
Pure love is thine—the most devoted known—
A ray of feeling borrowed from on high,
Gilding alike the cottage and the throne
In one bright sheen of rich reality,
Until all else seem worthless, and we own
Only one object of idolatry,
Whose passion glances shoot more radiance far
Than golden coronal or gemmed liar.
And Beauty with her hearted smiles is thine,
She robs thee in the charms that makes thee far:
O, far shove all tuneless praise of mine,
Not Disn in her cloud supported car—
Not Hope, when nf the heart she makes a shrine—
Not the bright gloamings of the Morning Star—
Not the rich hues that tint the Autumn’s sky
Beam half so far as thou, our heart’s idolatry.
O, if, us hath been sung thy charms of old
Drew from their star-lit home “the sous of < Sod";
If each, before his Maker's throne enrolled,
For thee would quit such bright Ablest abode—
‘The Heaven of Heavens’—so he might enfold
Thee to his heart—if thou their footsteps trod,
Drawn down by thy rich beauty, from proud Hea
ven ;
As they were tempted much, (hey might he much
forgiven.
l.ove, Beauty, Passion—each bewildering name
Men prize, is mingled in thy charm of heart;
We gather from thy impulse all the flame
Which thrills, electric, through our every part;
For, when wo feel thy presence, soul and frame,
Throb with delightful, sadly-pleasing smart,
All mysteries of mind to thee belong,
All give thee praise. Fain would I proffer song.
Liverpool, Eng.
Prom the Boston Transcript.
HOMEWARD BOUND!
I’m lioinlrward bound—and oh, the thought
Mine inmoat soul is thrilling;
With most cxlaclic bliss ’lis fraught,
My breast with aidor filling.
I’m homeward bound—l cannot stay
From its inviting treasures ;
Each moment seems a lingering day,
While absent from its pleasures.
’Tin absence binds the heart to homo,
And makes its joys the dearer;
And the dear friends from whom we roam
On meeting seem the nearer.
I’m homeward bound—and o’er the sea
My gallant bark is hounding ;
And kindly voices gtecting me
In nights’ soft dreams arc sounding.
I’m homeward bound—and oh, my heart
With transport wild is boating ;
Who would not for a season part—
To tsslc llie bliss of meeting !
Baltimore. OULIEI.MUB,
Prom the .Vcw Fork Sunday .Morning' ,Ww>j.
THE ABOLITION RIOTS.
The spirit of mob violence is gaining 11
fearful ascendancy throughout the whole
country ; and to no single cause can \vc
attribute its progress and universal preva
lence more justly, than to Hie exertions
of the abolition fanatics, with whom the
Most High, in the plenitude ofliis wisdom,
lias seen lit, for some inscrutable purpose,
to visit this unfortunate country. Their
infamous and treasonable doctrines and
practices, arc the immediate and exciting
cause of nine-tenths of (lie riots which
have occurred for some time past. Like
jealousy, the spirit of lawless violence
grows with what it feeds on; and the fre
quent occurrence of justifiable abolition
riots, generates mid fosters a disposition
in the minds of the people to resort to mob
force upon other occasions, when, if they
had not been excited, and goaded into
taking the administration of justice into
their own hands by the nefarious proceed
ings of the abolitionists, they would have
quietly suffered the law to take its own
course. Thus, the abolitionists arc not
only the immediate cause of the riots
which have been directed against them
selves,hut they are also indirectly the cause
of all the numerous instances of mob vio
lence, of whatever kind or character,
which, within the last few years, have
brought so much disgrace upon the coun
try. And yet, these bigoted violators of
property, law and religion, have the impu
dence to complain of the ills which they
bring upon themselves, by (heir own de
liberate misconduct. They unwarranta
bly interfere with the rights of others—
they wantonly jeopardise the comfort, hap
piness, and even existence oflhe black, as
well as the white population, of the South
—they endanger the preservation of the
Union, and the peace of the country—-they
outrage public opinion, and excite the pas
sions of the people. And when, for nil
these misdeeds, (hey are visited with a just
and proper punishment, they cry nut per
secution—complain that their rights arc
invaded—that the laws of the country arc
violated and endeavor, by their canting
appeals to the sympathies of a few old wo
men, to acquire for themselves the credit
of martyrs in the support of principle. Imi
tating the stolidity of the ostrich, who, pur
sued, buries Ins head in the sand, and fan
cies Ins whole body concealed, they dis
guise their faces the in mask of religion,
and foolishly imagine that the people can
not see the whole of their moral and poli
tical deformity.
For their sufferings, in person and pro
perly, from the administration of mob law,
the abolitionists have only themselves to
blame. If they will persist in amusing
themselves by scattering, indiscriminately,
the firebrands of social discord, they must
not be astonished if, in the sport, they
should happen to burn their own fingers.
It they will persist in outraging public o
pinion, (hey must not be surprised if the
consequences to themselves are sometimes
as summary and severe as they are de
served. As well might the abolitionists
amuse themselves with goading an animal
to phrenzy, and then find fault with him,
because he turns and rends (hem.
These remarks have been caused by the
various notices which we have been of (he
late abolition riot in Cincinnati, No
one regrets more sincerely than wc do,
the frequent occurrence of such disgrace
ful scenes, but vve are free to confess our
gratification at the result, The city of
Cincinnati has been purged for some time
at least from abolition fanaticism—a most
pernicious establishment broken up, and
I a few obstinate bigots who persisted in set
! ting up their opinions in opposition to the
j dictates of religion, law, common sense
I aqd decency, have been taught u lesson,
I by which vve hope they will profit in future,
j Wc look upon this riot precisely like the
! one directed against the gamblers at Vicks
burgh. Whether in cither case the end
sanctifies the means wc know not, neither
do wc care to inquire,
Prom the Stair Bights Sentinel.
THE RIGHT OF INSTRUCTION.
Much has been written and spoken by
the Van Huron parly, insisting upon the
nmpialilied right of instruction on the part
of the constituent, and (lie obligation of the
representative to yield implicit obedience.
Our object at present is not to discuss that
question, or to set forth the extent of our
own faith in the modern doctrine of in
structing Senators out of their seats; 0111
opinions upon that subject shall not he
withheld whenever it is necessary or pro
per to let them he known. Our object is
to show that if it is the hounden duly of
the representative to obey (he known wish
es ofhis constituents, that then our own
representatives in Congress, with (he hon
orable exception of tien. Glascock, have
set at nought the known will of the peo
ple of Georgia, & violated that very right
which has of late been the constant theme
of party panegyric. The newspapers of
thta partyjin this State, have literally pour
ed out the vials of their wrath upon the
Senators in Congress from other Slates,
for refusing to obey the instructions of their
Legislatures, and aid in expunging the
journals of the Senate; an object, the ac
complishment of which, couhi neither ho
salutary or noble in the example which
it would set, or actually beneficial to the
people or ( lhu interests of any section ol the
country. Hut now, when their own par
tizans in Congress have been guilty of a
flagrant dereliction of duly to their consti
tuents, and have violated the instructions
ofqur own Legislature, upon a subject of
unlimited importance to onr future happi
ness and peace, we hear not a whisper of
disapprobation ; wc see not u paragraph
of reproof While the right ofinstruction
can avail any thing (or the benefit of Van
Ilmen, it is the subject of their highest
eulogy, the theme of their unceasing cla
mor; hut when obedience to instructions
will place their partizans in opposition to
the position of that gentleman on the ques
tion of the right of Congress to abolish sla
very in the District of Columbia, thoy ore
as silent ns iftliey hud gone to (ho resting
place of the dead.
It will ho remembered that onr Legisla
ture at its last session, passed with uncom
mon unanimity, a preamble and resolu
tions on the subject of Abolition.—ln that
preamble it is declared, after selling forth
the determination and duty of the people
of the State, to defend and protect their
domestic rights, that “ upon thin jwinl
there can he no discussion-—no comprom
ise—no doubt which explicit declara
tion is followed.up by those decisive reso
lutions :
fill). Resolved, That (lie District of
Columbia, and (ho several territories of
the United States, are (ho common pro
perty of the people of those Slates; that
the right of exclusive legislation in the
the former, and (ho right to make all need
ful rules and regulations for (ho govern
ment of (he latter, which arc vested in the
Congress oflhe United Slates, are derived
from (he Constitution, which recognises
and guaranties the rights resulting from
domestic slavery; and that any interfer
ence by that body, with those lights, will
be unauthorised by, and contrary to the
spirit ol that sacred charter of American
liberty.
7th. Resolved, That copies of the fore
going preamble and resolutions ho trans
mitted by His Excellency to the President
ol the United Slates, the Governors of
Iho respective States, and to (he Senators
and Representatives of this State in Con
gress.
In the first of the above resolutions, it is
distinctly set forth that although Congress
lias the exclusive right to legislate for the
District of Columbia, yet (he same consti
tution which gives that power, guaranties
the right ol slavery, and that any interfor
i ence by Congress with that right, (viz. the
rigid ol slavery in the I listrict of Columbia,)
will be a violation ofthal constitution. Such
is (ho plain meaning and sense oflhe reso
lution—such was the intention of the Le
gislature—and snob is (lie opinion of the
people of Georgia. No oilier rational
construction can lie put upon it, for it will
admit ot no other. The next resolution
directs the Governor to transmit copies of
the preamble and resolutions to our repre
sentatives in Congress. For what pur
pose ? To be thrown under the table or
■ cast Into the fire ? or rather was il not for
1 the purpose of being to them a letter of in
-1 structions, if the subject should in any
1 manner be brought lip before Congress,
informing them ofthe opinions and wishes
. of the people of Georgia upon the subject
1 of Abolition, mid expressly telling them
I that it was one upon which there could he
. no discussion, no compromise, no doubt ?
s Such was the object, the solo and only ob
> jectof the Legislature. It would have
; boon folly, absurdity, to have sent these
resolutions to our members of Congress
; for any other purpose. And how were the
instructions obeyed ? 1 low were the wish
■ cs and opinions of the people of Georgia
■ maintained on the floor of Congress, by
those to whom she had entrusted that sa
cred duty ? Let facts answer; let the truth
be told. The resolutions of Mr. Pinkney
declared that it was unconstitutional to in
terfere with slavery in Iho States, mid in
■ expedient to interfere with il in the Dis
, trict of Columbia, leaving l!i« inference to
i be conclusively drawn that it was not nn
> constitutional,or at best, that it was a mat
, ter ol doubt. For these resolutions onr
I members,.except Gen. Glascock, all voted,
’ thereby violating the instructions of the
, Legislature and iho will of the people, by
. s tillering the question of slavery to be made
1 a subject ot discussion ; hv tngloriously
1 compromising the constitutional question
as (0 the District, and leaving u“loop
or hook” for the abolitionists to haim
hopes of future excitement upon. Reso
lutions were offered (by Mr. Robertson of
Vhgtuiii, we believe,) declining in unequi
vocal language, (hat Congress did not u
possess the power to interfere with slavery a
in the District; yet our representatives t
voted down these resolutions and sustain- t
cd those which compromised that question, «
and which Mr. Pinckney introduced ex- I
pressly as compromising resolutions, to >
calm the public mind, by which Southern <
members forbore to press the constitution- I
al question as to the District, in consider- 1
ation of Northern members yielding the
constitutional question as to the States, 1
and the expediency as to both. Our mein- i
hers it is true, voted (hat it was inexpc- ;
dienl to interfere w ith slavery in the Dis- j
irict, hut voted to leave the constitutional
point in doubt. And what was their vote
worth? Nothing J Expediency relates
only to the present time, and what may he
inexpedient to-day, may become expedient
to-morrow, or the next day. If they had
decided as they should have done, the
constitutional point, then the whole qnes
lion would have been foreclosed to the
abolitionists, and a stop been put to their
insulting memorials, and (lie public mind
at (he South relieved from that uneasiness
which is justly felt for tlio triumph of the
incendiaries on that point.
Hut the worst part of the whole story is
yet to he told. These members are the
partizans and friends of Van Huron, and
their guilt in deserting the rights of the
South and violating the instructions ofthe
Legislature, is rendered ten fold deeper
■ by the fact that it was dictated by a de
grading subserviency to his interests in
preference to those of their constituents.—
'I hat such a course was necessary to save
Mr. Van Huron in the South is as easy of
demonstration ns any problem in mathe
matics. Ho himself believes that Con
gress has the right under the Constitution
■ to abolish slavery in the District of Colum
bia, and if his partisans had decided other
wise in Congress, it would have placed
them in opposition to him upon a question
ot all others the most tender to the South,
and shut their mouths forever from elec
tioneering in favor oflhe man whose prin
ciples they hud voted down in Congress
upon that important subject. In addition
to that, it would have placed his own opin
ions in too bold relief before the South,
and have made them too conspicuous an
object of attack, when unsupported by the
antagonist position of his leading friends,
lienee the necessity ofevading the direct
• constitutional question, a vote upon which
would have placed them cither in opposi
tion to Van Huron or to their contitnonts;
the first of which alternatives would have
mined him, and the latter, them.
And now wo ask the intelligent people
of Georgia if they are content thus to ho
sacrificed for tho-benefit of Van Huron
or any one else ? Is (he consideration of
, electing that political cormorant, whoso
motto is “to the victors belong the spoils
of tlio vanquished,” and whose appetite is
satisfied with nothing short of supreme do
minion for himself, and offices for his fa
vorites, and universal proscription of his
opponents, a sufficient one for the sacri
fice ? Are they willing thus to ho sold
and bartered with all their dearest rights
for the benefit of those who arc to reap of
fice by the success of Van Huron, as a re
ward for their treachery ?
Trom the XJ. S. Telegraph.
" The world is governed 100 much .”—
This has been (lie motto of this paper—
the philosophical, political (ruth under
which its ellorts have been directed since
its establishment. The government of ,
the world has been entrusted through ages t
of crumbling crime to the hands of a few, (
while the mass have submitted them- ,
selves to flic direction of those whom cir- ,
cumstattcc of birth or popular acclama- ,
lion had raised to the chief command. Al J
times a Solon with all the wisdom inci- (
dent to a peculiar age, has lifted its head ,
among (he forests of men who have flour- j
ished upon the bosom ofthe earth, and ,
by his superior talents been enabled to (
give warning of the hurricanes that sweep
at limes with devastating violence over
them. Again a Nero, smiling like a wo
man, has stood amid his rich and gorge
ous palaces, and set the world in ftanies
and agony by the ferocity ofliis acts, and ’
the dangerous tendency of his principles. <
These have been incidents natural to the *
old republics and tyrannies. In latter '
days, man has awakened, hut only for a
moment at a time, to the knowledge or 1
the dim perception of his rights—he has 1
shaken off the chain that hound his intel
lect to the chariot ot custom, and assert
ed, even il he tailed in sustaining them,
(he privileges of equality. Out of those
efforts at liberty, which have made the
struggles of Greece, and England, and
France, the scenes of bloody tragedies,
a demoniac spirit has been enkindled—
produced full grown, Richard like, to
glut itself with blood, and desecrate the
temples of freedom, and bring into dis
repute the principles of her creed. This
excrescence ol the passions—this growth
of savage liberty has become bloated hv
its drunken victories gained under the
anti-christ of France, the infamous Robe
spierre, and (hough it has since slept in
a deep debauch since the last night of
that terrible revolution, still we see evi
dences of its rewakening among our
selves. Wc hear the quick breathings
ofthe monster ns he turns in his lair, and
already it behoves us to prepare for the
disorganizing and dangerous encroach
ments consequent upon his entire rising.
We have heard his deep muttcrings in
the cry of Northern fanaticism, which
under the guise of philanthropy, is aim
ing its daring and impious hand towards
(he property of Southerners. For years
back it bus been calling religion to its
aid, and, with vizor down, the magician
ol the passions has kept up his crusade
against the peace and welfare of the Un
ion.
Under other various guises, the spirit
1 of French jacobinism has been seen mar
| shalling its followers and ripening them
' fee the bloody harvest. It lias made am
' bilion its auxiliary, and policy has direct
' C( 1 a course of appeal to mobbish passion,
1 which, il not cheeked, will drive the lib
erty of speech, the liberty of the press,
from the possession ol those who have es
teemed those rights the peculiar preroga
tives of freemen. We say that it has
made ambition its tool. SVe know (hat
for the last few years, mobs have increas
ed throughout our country, in conse
quence, 111 some sections, of the means,
of its first agent, religion, and in others
by the second and equally' dangerous
agent, ambition. Letters have been writ
ten to elicit from distinguished men a
declaration of political opinions in liar- ■
nuniy \> Uli those which tend to place man i
upon the condition of his natural rights, |
and' in one case (Richard M. Johnson) I
they have succeeded in obtaining a sane- !
lion to their abominable doctrines by the !
endorsement of a name which, in spite ol
the most immoral stains, is used as a,
spell-word among a nation characteriz
ed for its virtue, or should he so, for its
high estimate of moral and religious I
worth; and in the second case (Mr. Van \
Buren) they have succeeded in obtaining (
from him a negative answer, which he
intended should he used by them as -an
acquiescence, but which (hey refused to
accept as such. These are signs which
fill us with alarm and dread. We know
not where to turn for sympathy with our
feelings. The passions ofthe people are
redressed, and they are taught that the
cool language of reason !s not a fit me
dium of conununition with thorn, and we
and all who love liberty and morals are
hooted at and disbelieved. Thus is this
country becoming every day more and
more corrupt —it will go on in the path I
nf public and private dissolution, until to
commit sin in the public streets will be
applauded by the crowd, and to be vir
tuous by the domestic hearth will be stig
matized as unnatural to the age of free
principles and agrarian precepts. We
arc governed too much by these multifa
rious traps, by which the people are first
cajoled and then conquered—conquered
by their own arm, made willing victims
to the altar of personal ambition, to a
waken, 100 late to revive, to a sense of
their hopeless slate when their bodies and
their sacred constitution will be hut par
cels of the great hetacomh raised by for
eign doctrines to the genius of jacobin
ism.
Prom the Southern Whig.
THE APPROACHING ELECTIONS.
The day of Georgia’s redemption is fast
approaching. The time, when she is to
choose whom she will serve is near at
hand, and we should consider ourselves,
as acting in violation of the trust impos
ed on us, and unworthy the station vve
occupy, did we not remind (he people of
the great responsibility which rests upon
them. Every State in the South is wak
ing up, and rising superior to the influ
ence of corrupt rulers, is throwing oft’(lie
manacles of slavery} and will Georgia,
once the boast of the South and the ter
ror of the North, keep hack ? We can
not believe it. Is site determined never
to he redeemed from the disgrace, which
office seekers and designing politicians
have caused her to commit? If you are
not, then fellow-citizens you have it in
your power to make the first Monday in
October one of the brightest days in your
history. Premising thus far, we come to
the question for which this article was
intended. Whom will you choose, to
represent you in the next Congress?—
Will you again send men thePe, to sit si
lent during the whole session, and when
the direct interest of your State is agi
tated, suffer members from other Slates,
tolly to your rescue? Will you again
elect those, who, when an investigation
in the Creek frauds is sought, frauds to
which may be attributed the cause of
the. war and (lie consequent destruction
ot file and property attending it, vote it
down, and that too because it is the wish
of those at the palace? What have our
delegation done? Some have written
letters, and some have made speeches
and some have never been heard of; hut
take them generally and they have done
nothing. It is a mortifying reflection to
every Georgian, to know that it is con
sidered not only the weakest, but the
most decided collar delegation in Con
gress. But although they have done that
(hey ought not, and left undone that they
ought. Yet the fact that they are the
strong adherents of Mr. Van Buren is
sufficient nf itself to condemn them for
ever with every Southern man. More
of this in our next.
i 'Vohi the Charleston J\[ercury,
MAJOR WILLIAM GATES.
At a meeting of the Officers and Pri
vates, volunteers on the three months
campaign in Florida, residing in Charles
ton, & other volunteers who were present
in the City, at the Washington Hotel, on
Monday Evening, the 23d inst. Cant.
George Henry was called to the Chair,
and Lieut. W. W. Smith, appointed Se
cretary.
The object of the meeting having first
been stated by the Chairman, the follow
ing resolution was unanimously adopt
ed :
Resolved, That a Committee of five
be appointed by (lie Chairman of (his
meeting to express our approbation ofthe
conduct ot Major AV AL GA TES, during
the late Florida Campaign, to signify our
regret at his dismissal from the service
<;1 his country, and to solicit in respect
ful terms a restoration to his rank by the
President ofthe United States.
Upon the adoption of this resolution
the following Committee was appointed
by the Chair:—B. B. Strobe!, A. G.
Magrath, P. M. Douciu, M. M. Cohen,
and Thomas Ryan.
The Committee retired and after a
short interval returned and submitted
the following report: —
W HP’, REAS, we have heard with deep
regret of the dismissal of Major WIL
LIAM GATES from the service of his
country—a service in which he had long
sustained an honorable and meritorious
character; —and as we cannot for a mo
ment believe that Andrew Jackson, (him
self gallant soldier,'} would intentional
ly do an act of injustice, or he guilty of
oppression.—We are impelled by a love
ol equity, and the hope of reinstating
Major Gates, not only in the good opin
ion ol his fellow-citizens, but also to that
service, upon which wc consider him
likely to confer honor, to make this pub
lic expression of our opinions. There
fore,
Resolved, That under the circumstan
ces in which he was placed, we cannot
conceive but that he discharged his duty
to the best ofliis ability. He could form
no estimate oflhe number of the loe, and
even had he been able to do so, it seems
to us to be very questionable, whether an
officer placed in charge of the sick and
provisions ol an Army, with orders to ,
“defend his post at all hazards,'’ would
have been justified in leaving his en
trenchments to attack the enemy, more
especially when where was no possible
chance of doing any thing which could
in the remotest degree aftect the results
ofthe campaign; and when defeat would
have been ruinous to his own command,
I and disastrous to the Army, which dc- d
! pended upon the position he occupied for m
' its supplies.
Resolved, That a copy of these Reso- I
lotions be signed by the Chairman and a
Secretary of this meeting, and forwarded ti
to the President of the United States, tl
and that he be respectfully solicited (if it li
be not incompatible w itli his sense of duty I
\to the service,) to restore Major Gates to 0
| his rank, or at all events to grant him the t
privilege of a Court Martial, and an op- t
portunity of vindicating his character. 1
Resolved, That we are under many qb- ?
ligations to Major Gates for his polite I
and kind attentions to the'sick and woun- (
ded of the Soutli Carolina Troops. _ 11
Resolved, That we entertain for Major s
Gates the highest respect, believing him g
to he a gallant soldier, and an honorable 1
gentleman, and that we deplore sincere- <
ly and sympathise deeply in tlio issue by :
which he has been deprived of his com- s
maud.
Resolved, That a copy of these reside- I
lions lie sent to Major Gates, and Edi
tors of Newspapers throughout the Coun
try he requested to publish them as an
act of justice, and in order that Major i
Gates may have the full benefit of the
unbiassed expression of our sentiments. 1
GEORGE HENRY,
Capt. of'lrish Volunteers,Chairman.
Wm. VV. Smith, Ist Lieut. Co. B. Sec’y.
From the New York Herald.
Negro Rial at Jiurlinglon, New Jer
sey.—The peaceable city of Burlington
has been the scene of a disgraceful riot,
similar to the slave case of Boston. The
circumstances are these:
About seventeen years since a mulatto
arrived there, called Severn Martin. As
he was skilful and industrious he soon
obtained employment and has remained
there ever since. By being frugal he
1 had saved from four to live hundred dol
lars, with which he purchased a piece of
. land, and was doing very well, until a
black man from Virginia chanced to come
1 there, recognised him, and informed his
' former master where lie was.—His mas
ter, Col. William Christian, went there,
■ found the report to be true, and laid
claim to Severn, by the name of “ Sam.”
: He had purchased “Sam,” not because
1 he required his services, but because, lie
• had married one ol Ids females slaves by
whom he had eight children.
On the 13th the case was heard before
* the Mayor, John Larzalere, Esq. The
1 particulars of the case were most careful
' ly examined into, and after granting
1 “ Sam” every possible chance to procure
witnesses, he was adjudged to he a slave
and delivered over to his master. He
1 undertook to remove him, hut a crowd of
; five hundred assemb'ed, and the majority
1 declared lie should not he taken. The
steam boat State Rights, observing the
crowd approaching, started ofl - before
“Sam” arrived. The Master then wish
ed to put him on board (lie ferry boat, but
the ferry master would not receive him,
and defending his boat with a log of wood,
pushed off into the stream. The steam
boat Linnaeus (hen came along, and a
strong effort was made to put “ Sam”
and the constable on board, but the most
determined resistance was made by the
mob. One negro attempted to strike Mr.
Hancock, the constable, but he drew a
pistol, and had not his arm been arrested
by a gentleman present (he consequences
might have been serious. Another negro
flourished a.dirk, hut (he Mayor ordered
him off, and lie Went quietly away. The
Linnaeus now moved away, amid the huz- '
zas of the mob. “ Sam” was then march- 1
ed to the front of the City Hotel and put
in a Dearborn, hut the mob now became
furious. The Mayor ascended some *,
steps and addressed them. They dis- '
persed,and “ Sam” was carried ofl*. The 1
conduct of the Mayor is spoken of in •
the highest terms, and all unite in prais- ‘
ing his coolness and firmness.
Prom the Columbus Herald, 23 nt hist.
CREEK WAR INCIDENTS. 1
Ihe past week has developed no new ,
circumstances ot interest connected with
the Creek war. The report of Paddy 1
Carr, a friendly Indian commander, which 1
we insert below, will be read with inter
est, as it is lice from bombast and e«o
--tism, and relics for its merit upon what
actually took place. The Indians which 1
were in Chickasahatchce, wc feel confi- 1
dent are scattered. Some have gone to 1
Florida, and others have returned to the 1
Creek nation. ,
Gun. Sanford': , |
Sir; —l have the honor herewith tore- ,
port (lie movements of the force under
my command, consisting of friendly In
dians—also, their present number and 1
position. On the -Itli instant, wc receiv
ed orders to march to the Cowagee and
Hatchachubhce creeks, for the purpose
ol scouring those creeks, and in company
with a body of Tennessee Troops, that
duly was performed—thelollowingcrecks
and swamps were thoroughly hunted;
Cowagee, llatchacluibbec, Wilarni and
High Log, we also extended our. search
as far as to the Chewala, only about 5
miles above Irwiuton. The first dis
covery vve made of hostile Indians, was-,
on (he first day wc went out, and on the r
waters ofthe Hatchachubhce; they con
sisted of 13 in number, 3 Warriors, l
Woman, and the balance children, which
we took prisoners without opposition. ■
The next party wc overtook on the Cow- ,
agee, on the next day; this gang contain- ,
oil about 40 Indians, who, when they first
discovered us, shewed signs of fight;
they were all stripped perfectly milked. 1
painted in aval like style, and several of '
them in the act of shooting, having their '
Rifles raised to their shoulder anti cock- 1
cd. 1 spoke to them in Indian, and told
them to stand, to which they agreed. My
party was about two hundred yards in
advance of the Tennessee Troops, ami <
before the latter up to me, (he <
hostiles jumped down (Tie bank into (lie i
creek, and were out of sight in a moment, ,
we fired on them, but without doing any
injury. We gave chase and followed j
them about 6 miles, we never could get
sight of them afterwards, they took to the '
middle prong of the Cowagee swamp, ‘
where no doubt they scattered them- '
pelves. Night overlook us and wc quit 1
the drive. On our return, and during 1
the next day, we discovered fresh trails
111 Cowagee, and I ruin the foot prints to
be seen, there were some 15 or 20 in a
gang. VYc followed these trails about 9
miles, but coufil not find the Indians. 1
We then returned to Fort Mitchell and £
tiiete slmck Camps. Alter wailing two 1
days we started out alone —no white men
with us—during this tour of four days,
we ca'me upon, and captured a party of
12 Indians, consisting of men, women,
ainl children, whom we brought with us
to Fort Mitchell and secured. We look
these Indians on the Ali-liagee creek, a
little way above the old Chehaw Town.
From this party, vve learned that the most
of the Warriors had left the Creek Na
tion, and gone over to Florida. A por
tion of my command is now quartered at
Fort Mitchell. Some of them are at Ben
Marshall’s and a party of 61 sent out to
talk with (lie hostiles, and say to them,
they had better come in, for, if vve were
obliged to hunt them again, vve would
shew them no quarters —this party are
still out. 1 have now under my com
mand, 117 friendly Indians, only apart
of them, however, are mounted. If vve
all had horses vve could be much more
serviceable.
I have the boner to be, very respect
fully, your most obedient serv’t,
PADDY CARR.
Suicide. —A melancholy case of sui
cide occurred in this City on Friday last ?
An individual by the name of Charles
Green arrived at Guinn’s Hotel on
Thursday, to all appearance, considera
bly under the influence of liquor, lie
visited a gentleman of his acquaintance
in town, and arranged some matters of
business with him, his deportment, how
ever, being such as to attract attention
by its singularity. He was d’seovered
the next day, in his room, about noon, in
a state of stupor, occasioned by his having
swallowed a heavy dose of Laudanum.
Physicians were immediately called in,
and every eftort was made to relieve bis
system by the use of the Stomach-pump,
&c; but all in vain. He was too far
gone to be benefitted by medical aid. A
letter couched in most affectionate lan
guage, addressed to his mother in Jones
county) was found in the room, in which
lie apprizes her of his intention, and ad
vises her to remove to Alabama. He as
signs no motive for the act, but vve find
the opinion pretty prevalent, whether
well or ill founded vve know not, that he
had, by some means, lost his money, and
in a fit of desperation resolved on self
destruction. His body was decently in
terred in (he city burying ground.—Ra
leigh Register, August 23.
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AUGUSTA!
S VTI IUIAY, AUGUST 27, 183fi.
‘ ‘ lit jus! , and fear not.”
CONGRESSIONAL TICKET.
JULIUS C. ALFORD, of Troup.
EDWARD J. BLACK, of Scrivcn.
W. T. COLQUITT, of Muscogee.
WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene.
K. W. HABERSHAM, of Habersham.
JOHN H. HOWARD, of Baldwin.
JOSEPH W. JACKSON, of Chatham.
THOMAS BUTLER KING, of Glynn.
EUOENIUS A. NESBIT, of Morgan.
STATE RIGHTS MEETING.
Tlio MoiubcrH ol llio Stale Kiulils As
sociation of Barite count)', arc ro
ll nested to assemble at the Court
House, in Wuynesborougli,on the Ist
Tuesday in Sen (ember next.
Burke County, August 10, IB3G.
HEALTH OP CHARLESTON.
Thu Charleston Board of Health reports the
deaths of twcnly-oiic persons in that city during
the week ending 21st inst—five whites and six
teen blacks and colored.
SMALL BOX.
The Raleigh (North Carolina) Register of the
22d instant, says:—“ There has been one death
from Small-pox since our last, a servant of Mr.
John Dcvcreux’s. No now case has occurred,
and there are only two now, in all.”
KENTUCKY ELECTIONS.
The National Intelligencer says that “returns
from 48 counties give to J.oin* Clauke, Iho
Whig candidate for Governor, a majority of 7,-
500 votes over his Van Buren opponent.” We
have no certain information as to the election of
members to Iho State Legislature.
NEW COTTON.
The second bale of Cotton, of tiro new crop, was
brought to lilts city yesterday morning, from the
plantation of Gen. Josecii D. Thom as, in Burke
county. The quality of this halo of Cotton is
said to be very fine, and it was evident that great
care had been taken in picking it out. It was
purchased by Messrs. Ci-inKE, McTieb & Co.
at SIJ cents per lb.
Another bale was received from Burko county,
yesterday, (from what plantation we have been
unable to learn,) and was purchased by Amo 11 r
Siu lev, Esq. at 20 cents per lb.
GEORGIA BE NITE NTIA RY.
The Standard of Union of the 23d inst. stales
that Mr. Wilkins Hunt, the Principal Keeper of
that establishment, had resigned the appointment,
and that Mr. John Milleii, Book Keeper of the
Institution, had been appointed by the Inspec
tors to conduct it, Until a successor shall be ap
pointed.
t
• UTI’ELL’S museum,
Os Foreign Literature, Science, and Art.
We have received the August No. of Lit
thll’s Museum, which contains 192 pages of in
structive and amusing matter, the table of which
may be found as usual in our advertising columns.
It is embellished with a handsome lithographic
portrait of the Rev. William Lisle Bowles,
author of “Fourteen Sonnets, 1780,” and another
of F kancis Place, Esq. author of “ The princi
ple of population.”
ALABAMA ELECTIONS.
The following is the latest account we have
of the Alabama elections. The Mobile Chroni
cle of the UHh instant, speaking of the persons
elected to the State Legislature, says:—“So far
as wc have hoard, there ar c forty-one certain for
Judge White and thirty-eight decided for Van
Buren, giving the former a majority of commit
ted votes over the tatter of three votes, leaving
seven doubtful to bo divided as the representatives
may choose to enrol themselves. In tl le Senate
the White paily has a decided majority, conce
ded on all hands.”
THE SURPLUS REVENUE.
1 he Philadelphia United States Gazette of the
20th instant, says “ Something is brewing at
Washington. When the public is to have the
advantage of the labors, we know not; but we
have a rumor that some of the Van Buren men
arc in (rouble about certain tlircaU made by the
President relative to the surplus reveriuc, viz. that
it should never go to the States ; that ouc diffi
culty or another should keep it back, and
those difficulties should be multiplied just in pro
portion to the demands of the Staler. \Ve art?
not acquainted with the particulars, but it is
that the exposition will bring dismay into the"
ranks of the Administration. Our correspondent
speaks with certainty of the result. ”
NORTH CAROLINA ELECTIONS.
The Raleigh Register of the 23J instant, stales
that Gen. Edward 13. Dcdlet, the Anti-Van
Huron candidate for Governor, is elected by a
majority of at least four ihousand votes over his
opponent Gov. Scaicrt. The statements publish
ed in the Register, as far as the returns have beert
received, shew that the Anti-Van Buren party
will'ccrtainly have a majority of one, in the
State Senate—in the House of Commons, par
ties are equally divided, 60 of each.—Mr. Gra
ham, the Anti-Van Huron candidate for Congress,
is elected by a majority of 1614 voles over his
opponent Mr. Nkwland.
WHAT ARE WE COMING TO I
We hear mobs justified : we sec the most guil
ty culprits acquitted : and now, so respectable a
paper as the Philadelphia United States Ga
zette is pleading in advance for the release of the
Buffalo forger!
11 Hev.iahin Ratiiiius. —We-hear it general
ly stated that there is a strong probability of the
ultimate acquittal of Mr. Ralhbun, at Buffalo,
notwithstanding the enormous charges resting a
gainst him. It is said there is no doubt that the
value of the property which he has assigned, will
be quadrupled in the course of a very few years.
So convinced, we learn, are his friends and credi
tors on this point, that they express themselves
ready to take all his paper, for value received, in
their apportioned share of his property. That
some such disposition will be made of the vast
estates, after the payment of his workmen, we
are at last induced to believe plausible; and the
1 liberated speculator will ere long have it in his
power to raise another El Dorado in the Farther
Wcst, and make the wilderness around him blos
som os the rose. We desire the sway of Justices
but we believe that the strong and sleepless ener
gies of such a man as Rathbun, directed to good
ends, would confer far greater benefits on thou
sands of his race, than could be accomplished in
the way of example, by confining him for life
within the walls of a prison.”
If a man forges a note for ten dollars; he is to
. be given up to justice; but, if his “ strung amt
sleepless energies" can circulate a million and a
half of forgeries, and accident makes him able
to pay them, ho is to go at largo, because ho can
do more good there, than in prison !!
If these sentiments prevail, and this man is
discharged; the community, who release him,
will be fully exempt from all further legal re
straints. They will feel the effects of lawless
outrage, and they will deserve it,
EMIGRANTS.
We copy the following article from the New
York Courier & Enquirer of the 18th instant.
We arc greatly surprised that a portion of the
vast number of emigrants, ( who yearly flock to
the United States, do not seek homos at the South,
where there is held out to them many induce
ments, that will not be found by them at the
North. Here, thousands might find profitable
employment, mechanics as well as laborers, who
by staying in the Northern cities, whore their ser
vices are not wanted, arc reduced to beggary, and
oftentimes resort to crime, to obtain n subsistence.
Wo have hoard it said that fear of a Southern cli
mate, keeps a number of emigrants from coming to
the South ; but, if rightly informed upon this sub
ject, they would find that there is as little to fear
on account of health here, as there is at the North.
Laborers, particularly, are now wanted at tho
South, on our works of internal improvement,
and we believe they can obtain near twice tho a
mount for a week’s work, that they can at tho
North.
“ Emigrants and laborers. —lt is almost as sin
gular as improper, that most of tho laborers who
emigrate from Europe to this country, generally
settle themselves in this city, or some other oh
the seaboard—particularly those from the Emer
ald Isle, The Hibernians are a gregarious race
—as fond of society as fighting, and therefore in
variably congregate in cities. If they reflected
on this practice, they would conclude that it was
evidently impolitic on their part; for in such ci
ties their employment is less certain, and their
means of living less sure or adequate, than if they
went into the country parts, where competition is
not so great in their line, in consequence of tho
want of workmen.
In the Southern States, particularly, mechani
cal labor is greatly required. The railroad from
Charleston to Cincinnati!, will require some 30,-
000 laborers; and at least an equal number will
be wanted for tho construction of the New Or
leans and Nashville railroad, which was commen
i ced some months ago. There are about two
, railroads in Georgia in progress or contemplated
-—three or four in Virginia, and a similar number
in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, TeOACssce,
' and Kentucky. The employment of laborers ota
these roads is certain; and their wages higher in
proportion than they can receive probably in any
of our northern states.
If those who emigrate from Europe to this
country would adopt the practice of going into
the country parts of tho Union, instead of so
positively and uniformly remaining in the Allan
• tic cities, they might be of great service to the
cause of internal improvements, now in vogue
and progress; and they assuredly would obviate
most of the objections now urged to their natu
ralization, and their interfering in our domestio
elections—at the same time that they would in
calculably promote their own prospects in life.”
From the Mobile Chronicle, August 10.
CROPS IN MISSISSIPPI.
We make the extract below from the letter of
one of our most intelligent citizens, who is him
sell a planter and has been travelling through
some of the best cotton counties in the State.
Though the prospect is more promising now than
any period of the season, there is still a great fal
ling off from the early anticipations of the planter.
Extract of a letter, dated
Columbus, (Miss.) July 28, 1836.
“ Since I left Mobile I have had an opportunity
of witnessing the prospect of the glowing cotton
crops, and I assure you, from my observation and
all the information I have been able to obtain from
the most experienced planters, lire crop is a short
one ; I should say at least one fourth, I have
been pretty much through Monroe, Wilcox, Dal
las, Lowndes, Montgomery, Autauga and Green
counties, in Alabama, and these counties, you
know comprise the largest portion of our cotton
growing region, and I feel confident, that let the
season now be ever so favorable, they cannot
make over two-thirds of a crop. The black lands,
that have heretofore yielded such large products,
will scarcely made anything, at least not more than
half crops. In the cane brakes, 1 learn, in some
neighborhoods, there has been almost an entire
failure. On one plantation, where there are up
wards of one hundred hands worked, I am told
they will not exceed 60 to 70 bales and scarcely
any corn. The cotton on the sandy lands
where they had a stand, is fair ; but all have suf
fered much from an insect denominated lice.
They have literally devoured large fields, and at
such late periods that the owners were compelled
to plant them in corn. From these facte fam . , : p.~-
firmly convinced that all receipts the next season.
will fall short of those of the
fifty thousand bales.
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