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VOL. L
ALBANY, BAKER COUNTY, GEORGIA, MAY 21, 1845.
NO. 6.
THE PATRIOT,
.. rcBl.UQIED EVERT WEDSESDAV HORXIXO, BT
NELSON TIFT & SETH N. BOUQHTON,
Editors and Proprietors.
TERMS.
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1,0 £feiofLud and Negroes by Executor*, Admin is*
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drntised in a public gazette, ««ty day* previous to
tjjrd'y of sale.
The sales of Personal Property must be advertised
, like manner forty day*
Notice to Debtor* and Creditor* of an estate must
nuWishcd forty day*.
Noi.ce that application will be made to the Court
rf Oil in-try for leave to sell I And and Negroes, must
p, Wished weekly lor four month*.
Monthly Advertisement*, One Dollar per square,
f-.* rich insertion.
r/All Inters on business must bo fost paid.
R. la. Sc J. B. HINES,
ATTORNEYS St COUNSELLORS AT LAW,
OiTtccs ix MJU.-OX &. Albany-, Geo.
Th'j trill practice in the fjloicing Counties.
Pihh, .Witcr.it. tThomas, Thomat title.
Honrton. Perry. Decatur, ltainbridge.
Dooly, Vienna. Stewart, Lumpkin.
Micon, hosier. Sumpter, Amerieus.
ire, S’trierille. Randolph, Cuthbcrt.
Parlv, Blakely. Pulaski, llawkinsiille.
Baker, Albany,
rnsd in the Circuit Court of the United States for the
District of Georgia.
They will attend any other Court, not conflicting
with the above, when engaged specially to do so.
The attention of both partners will be given to all
hnsiness entrusted to their care.
letters may be addressed to the firm at either
place.
IticiiAKD K. Hints. John B. IIines.
April 16, 1815, 1 3m
The Deserted Wife,
BT JAMES O, PEKCIVAL.
He comes not; I have watched tho moon go down,
But yet he comes not Once it was not so.
He thinks not how these bitter tears do flow,
The while he bold* his riot in that town. 1
Yet he will come and chide, and I shall weep;
And he will wake my infant from its sleep,
To blend its feeble wailing with my tears.
! how I love a mother's watch to keen,
‘.which rbccra
fix'd and deep,
nc; now
He ever wears a frown upon Us brow,
And feed* his passion on a wanton’s lip.
As bees, from laurel Sowers, a poison nip;
But yet I cannot late. Oh ! there were hoars,
When I could hang for ever on his eye,
And Time, who stole with silent swiftness by,
Strew’d.ss lie hurried on, his path with flowers.
I loved him thou; he loved me loo. My lieart
Still finds its fondness kindle if he smilo;
The memory of our love* will ne’er depart;
And though he often sting me with a dart,
Venom’d and hord'd, and waste upon the vile
Carasscs which hi* babe and mine should share—
Though he shonld spurn me, I will camly bear
His madness; and should sickness come,and lay
It* paralyzing hand upon him, then
I would, with kindness, all my wrongs repay,
Until tho penitent should weep, and say
flow injured and how Cutlifu) I had been.
RICHARD F. & J. LYON,
ATTORN1E8 <J- COUNSELLORS A TLA IV,
ALBANY, Baker Co., 6a.
H AVE recently entered into a Partnership in the
Erectile of I sue, and will continue tho prac
tice in tlic several Court* of tho counties of
Baker, altucon,
tree, Booty,
Randolph, Decal up,
Sampler, Irwin.
Ail matter* submitted to their rare in any of these
counties, will meet with prompt attention, and he
brought to a speedy conclusion,
aprii 30th 1645 3 ly.
JOHN BILBO.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
ALBANY OA.
Will practice in the several Courts of the South-
Western Circuit, and Thomas and Stewart coun
tie*.
aprii, 16,1845. 1 tf.
RICHARD U. CLARK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Albany, Geoboia.
Will practice in the Counties of Baker, Lee, Deca
tur,. Dooly, Sumter, Randolph and Early, of the
South-Western Circuit, Stewart, of the Chattahoo-
thec, and Thomas, of the Routhem Circuit.
Ji‘ Offer under the “ Courier” Office, Broad st.
E. H. PLATT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
aprii 16, 1815.
Albany, Geoboia.
D. Su J. VASON,
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW,
Albany, Geoboia.
aprii 16, ISIS. 1 tf
THOMAS PINKNEY SMITH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Albaxt, Geoboia.
aprii 16, 1S45. 1 tf
PETER I. STROZMER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
POETRY.
humanity, of her country, and the relative
of Lafayette.—S. C. Tan. Advocate.
MJSCELLANY.
aprii 16,1815.
Albany, Georgia.
A Wife Worth Having.
The distinguished William Wirt, within
six-or eight months after his first marriage,
became addicted to intemperance, the ef.
feet of which operated strongly upon the
mind and health of his wife, and in n few
months she was numbered with the dead.
Her <J cal h led him to leave the country
where he resided, and moro to Richmond,
where lie soon rose to distinction. But his
habits hung about him, and occasionally he
was found with jolly and frolicsome spirits
in bacchanalian revelry. Ilis true friend*
expostulated with him to convince him of
the injury he was doing himself. But he
still persisted. His practice began lo fall
off, and many looked upon him ns on (lie
sure ronil to ruin. He was advised 10 gel
married, with a view of correcting his hab
its. This he consented to do, it the right
one offered, _ He accordingly paid his ad
dresses to Miss Gamble. After some months
attentions, lie asked her hand in marriage.
Sho replied—
• Mr. Wirt, I have been well aware of
your intontion9 for some tune buck, and
should have given you lo understand that
our visits and attentions were not accepta
ble, had I not reciprocated the utlcction
which you evinced lor me. But I cannot
yield my assent until you make me a pledge
never to taste, touch or handle any intoxi
cating drinks.’
" Tins reply to Mr. Wirt was as unexpec
ted as it was novel. Ilis reply was, that
lie regarded the proposition as u bar to all
further considerations of the subject, and
he left her. Her course to him was the
same asever—notwithstanding his neglect.
In the course of a few weeks, he went a-
S ain, and again solicited her hand, but
cr reply was, her mind was made up.—
lie became indignunt, and regarded the
terms she proposed os insulting to his hon
or, and vowed it should be the last meet
ing they should ever have. 11c took: to
drink worse and worse, nnd seemed to run
headlong to ruin. One day, while lying
in the outskirts of the city, ncui a little gro
cery or grogshop, dead drunk a young Judy,
who it is not necessary to name, was pas
sing that way to her home not far off, be
held him with his face upturned to the
rays of a scorching sun. Site took her
handkerchief, with her own name marked
upon it, and placed it upon nis face. After
he Imd remained in that way for some
hours, he was awakened, and his thirst be
ing so great, he went into the little grocery
to get a drink, when ho discovered the
handkerchief, which lie looked at, and the
name was on it. After pausing a few min
utes, he cxcloimod—
» Great God ! who left this with me 1
Who placed it on tny face?’ No one knew.
Hedropped the glass,exclaiming, ‘Enough!
enoughV
From the N. O. Jeffersonian RejrMican.
Home’s magnetic Telegraph.
The Commercial^ Literary and Intellectual
change to be effected by this great invention.
The adoption of Professor Morse’s inven
tion as facility in the transportation of the
mail intelligence, and placing a section of
this electrical line of coimtiunicaiion tinder
the sole supervision and control of the Gen
eral Poet Office Department, invests the
telegraph with an importance which belit
tles ana distances almost every philosophic
discovery made within a hundred years.—
A moment’s reflection will convince any
one of this fact.
The incipient proposition with which we
start, that this telegraph communication
must, of necessity, be a government organ,
the uses of which are but shadowed- forth
in the Post Office regulations which gov
ern the line of communication from the city
of Washington to Baltimore. The power
whicli the sole ownership of snch a line of
instantaneous communication would give
to individuals and associations would be a
dangerous monopoly, and, therefore ‘ must
be finally under the control of a department
of the government, pledged to diffuse its
benefits with an impartial hand, reserving
to the government the first right louse it as
an organ of official command and inslruc
tion.
Let the- entiie chain of communication
Ire completed, as doubtless it will be in four
or five years, from itoston to New Orleans,
and the most vivid immagination can hard
ly keep pace with its operations, or the
most utopian of utilitarians with the time
saving and immense changes it wiil effect
in the nature and modes of every descrip
tion of business, diplomatic, monetary and
commercial. It wiil bring New Orleans,
destined to be ilic Memphis of the earth’s
noblest and broadest vale, nine day’s nearer
lo European intelligence. Before the steam
packets Irom Europe shall cool of their
panting energies in the harbor of Boston,
the merchants and pliticians, tho pro
ducers and speculators of New Orleans
will be in possession of (he leading intelli
gence which lias been brought across the
Atlantic. Guided by Europcn advices, the
government at the city of Washing'on may
communicate an important order os far as
Netv Orleans, lo the squadron in the Gull'
of Mexico in hall an hour; or that squad
ron, by communication with our city, would
be uble lo put the Secretary of the Navy
in possession of an important demonstration
within a few days of its occurrence, no
matter in wlmt part of the Gulf it should
take place. The great facts of peace or
war, of trade or production, of national poli
cy or individual enterprise, of “ star-eyed
science,” nnd soul purifying morals, would
be transmitted over the enure length of the
country like the flight of a thought, or an
electric flash. Health and prosperity, or
disaster and death, would be known and
felt by kindred sympathy within an hour,
front Bunker’s Hill to the battle ground of
New Orleans. Prices would be regulated
at meridian for every exchange in the Uni
ted States—on a sea-board of two thou
sand miles. The sicknessor death of a
friend would be known before the nr*
after publication, when the New Orleans coming within the range orretfch of the
papers of the same date will contain the floating batteries; The entrance, by-the
Commercial items, the details of trade and ' East nver from Long Island Sound could
the arrival of ships in Boston harbor, the ■ also be defended and prevented by Having
verdict of Boston juries, and the nets of] two frigates on the same plan stationed
their State Legislature 1 The advantage i near “ThrogV Point.” All our harbours
will bo clearly in favor of the southern: could be defended in the same way by.
press, os establishing its paramount value | such formidable, economical steam floating
at home, where, ever since the introduc- j batteries, already^ at hand. Philadelphia,
tion of printing in the south-west, the im
mense circulation of the cheaply printed
and often disparaging and disorganizing
northern nnd eastern journals,-has operated
most injuriously upon soutItem newspaper
establishments; and opinions not manufac
tured for home consumption, when connec
ted with intelligence, will have to go beg
ging when found at a distance from the
factory. This single consideration will
have a most impprtant influence in secu
ring the identity and perpetuity of our lo
cal habits, traits feelings and institutions.
Such are but faint and imperfect outlines
of the advantages and changes to be effec
ted bv an invention which should make
the lightning-driver Morse, the happiest
nnd proudest man in this land of genius
and freedom.
New York, and’Boston; oil have greater or
less number of packet ships, from 6(>0 to
1200 tons, all built man-of-war style, high
bulwarks, ports, fitc.-ond capable Of moun
ting from 12 to 20 guns each: these ships
could, if required, be sent to the smaller
ports on the coast, nnd convened also into
steam floating batteries, pa river steamers
are always lobe had at any moment. To
make these latter ships still more formida
ble, a long 42 pounder could be added, pla
ced on a pivot amidships to throw hot shot.
All of which I have the honor most res
pectfully to submit for consideration.
JOHN H. SHERBURNE.
Prom the [Philadrt’kia'] Saturday Courier.
AN IMPORTANT PAPER.
Many of our cotcmpornries have, of late,
expressed their opinion that in the event ot
a war with Great Britain or Prance, all our
cities and towns on the seaboard would Ire
at the mercy of the enemy in a few weeks
alter hostilities commenced—os we liave
no actual force (say they) to cope with
their war steamers lo prevent them from
entering our harbours and laying them un
der contribution, or in ashes, at their op
tion. Wc have the pleasure, this week, of
giving to the public, a plan for Harbour
Defence, by Col. Sherburne, which, we are
iitiorined, has been submitted to govern
ment, and that ninny of the Navy Officers
have expressed their favorable opinion of
its practicability and success. The plan is
simple and economical, and we wonder it
has not been thought of or brought forward
ere tltis by some one of our scientific Navy
Officers.
The following is tlie plan proposed to
government for Harbour Defence, by Col.
Sherburne, in Ihc event of war, or to show
that wc need not be intimidated through
the apparent nakedness of our settbourd
cities.
Harbour Brfenca.
At all the United States Naval stations
arc Ships of the line and Frigates, with
their armament at each simion, housed, mid
ready at a day’s notice to place on hoard,
should they be required for immediate ser
vice. There arc also at the Naval stations
Ships of the line, of the same class, on the
stocks, ready for launching. To man and
equip these Ships for sea would be attended
not only with a delay of months, but with
an enormous expense of public treasure:
also, with a chuuce of being captured by
ihc war steamers of the enemy, nnd thus
prove a dead loss to the nation, without
rendering any service nl such a critical pe
riod at the commencement of hostilities
with a powerful foe to coptcpd with on the
ocean. A war with England or France,
nations who have already in commission
rival of the physician, or the melancholy [fleets of war steamers, could invade and
call of the undertaker, to friends as far (blockade our harbours on the seaboard in a
distant as the “old thirteen” from their
more numerous sister States in the West
and South. The astronomers of Cam
bridge College would announce to the
saenns of Louisiana the coming on, the
greatest obscuration, anil the passing away
of a solar eclipse ; and the southern astron
omers in turn would send back to Ihc East
MEDICAL CARD.
PRACTICE OF PHYSIC, 8UROERY AND
MIDWIFERY.
DOCTOR SLAPPEY,
¥8 permanently nettled fat this etty, (whore he ex-
X pret* to remain .through all *ra*ans of the year.)
Ik it dented to Ms Profession and it is emphatically
'•■e lobby tf kis heart. lie will do agential prac
tice, and exact a fcir equivalent, when his roiron*
lwwem pecuniary responsibility. He would add,
flat he ha* had thirty yean comtant Intercoune
and observation, with almost every disease which
man isheir to,and he know* well that Hi* do
1* matter to deal in the principle* of life and death,
•malm a weighty and special accountability.
O'To Scientific pwfewlonSl brethren oftrue
hxw, vrorth and uxrS every, where, b« nxteSd* tbe
Kady and warm band of iellpvMiip;
let a* be unitsd to elevate the
Hu> rewdenoo I* in Mr Rat
Anan, jms. * tf
few week’s notice, thereby rendering our
ships in ordinary and on the stocks appar
ently useless. To save this expense ol botli
time and tnonev, and to be prepared at once
at a small expense to meet an invading foe,
and save our sea ports from conflagration
and bombardment, 1 propose lo convert these
■hips in ordinary into firmdablt steam float-
stups in orqiuaiy rum jurmiuuvic - . .. Hudson’* Bav Comnanv tiv the exnress
their reports of its progress, Espy would batteries, by attaching to each a power-. of their charter, boldSootiw hndTtlisn
be able to note the temperature, the mete- fm steamer, which, with such i:«ciiities I ,j l0iC c l»ioxedBy *Ut»p» entering Hudson’* Bay;
orology, the course of the storm, sunshine, arc always at command at Naval stations, ■ cx'-!».ding of course,all West of the Rocky moun-
*’*■ could be accomplished a't two days’ HotiCc. tain*., 'i he belief tl
The ship* to be without topmasts oi yards, —.nt—-j-
exectrted atfoijflflk*
He retired instantly from the store, for-
retting his thirst, but not the debauch, the
landkerchief, or the lady, vowing, if God
g ave him strength, never to touch, taste, or
andle intoxicating drinks.
To meet Mira U, again was the hardest
effort of his life. II he ibet her in her
carriage or on foot, ho would dodge round
the nearest comer.
Sho at last addressed him a note, under
her own hand, inviting him to the house,
which he finally gathered courage enough
to accept. He told her if she still hore af
fection for hhq, he would agree lo her own
terms. Her reply was—
‘Mv conditions now are what they efer
have been.’
‘ Then,’said the disenthralled Wirt, M
accept of them.’
.They were soon married, and from that
day he kept hie word, nfidWf aflfcirabrigh-
Cened; while honors and glory .gathered
thick upon his brow. Hit name hu. been
enrolled high in the'temjde'of lame, while
hj* deeds,- hU patriot jam aiffi renown^uve
vminrr Indies
,I. m , 0 '-'i'T ' *
win'd or cloud, in fourteen States of this
Union, hour by hour, without waiting the
slow and often uncertain result of a scatter
ed correspondence.
If Napoleon in the palmy days of his
military power, had been in command of
such on agency? he would have occupied
himself in the pauses of the dreadful bat-
I tics of Wagram and Aflslerlitz, in giving
orders for battle M» his generals and armies
hundreds of miles distant in other coun
tries, Such extreme probabilities are only
to arrest reflection to the stupendous results
that must follow this, the most wonderful
climax of American inventive genius.
Like steamships and railways, this rapid
ity of intercommunication must strengthen
the bonds of national union, by making ns
moro and more one people in knowledge,
action sentiment and feeling. What one
hnows all must know ; and the sentiment
or feeling, correspondent to a fact known
to all, must bo felt simultaneously by tbe
majority of an entire nation within the
hour, or a segment of time nedrly extem
poraneous, National resolves, the result
of exciting public fooling, will not as here-
tofore, rise like a wave in ope section of the steamer al
From the Wast.in’-tai Union, BA itut.
Oregon.
The Debate in Parliament.
In our last nnmhcr we presented a rapid review of
tlic discoveries of foe 8ponian2s and of the British
on the northwest coast of America, anterior to the
period of tho recognition of the independence of the
United States; in which we (bowed that every part
now cla’med by oar rcjinblic, was discovered and
claimed by 'he Spaniards before it was seen by tbe
people of tny other nation. This feet far always
studiously kept oat of viow by the British, who avoid,
us far us possible, all mention of any other discover
ies or visit* to tint part of the world, daring tho pe
riod in question, except those of Drake and Chok—as
they in like manner reject all account* of subse
quent examination*, except those of Vancouver. At
this point, it will be necessary for ns to take leave of
the Pacific coast* for tin time, in order to follow
lord John Russell'* arguments relative to treaties of
an curlier date.
•• Tlic next description of title to which wc come,
(continued Id* lordship) is that founded on. treaties
and conventions; and here I will, before I proceed
hrthrr, state what I conceive to be the position of
the Oregon territory. It may be considered to bo
the territory which extend* cast and west between tho
Rocky mountains and the Pacific Ocean, and which
extend* north and south between latitude 4ft and 1st-
itud* 54. So lar as I can ascertain, this largo terri
tory doc* not appear to hare been a subject of stipu
lation between any of the countries of Europe until
late in the last century. It is said I bolievo by tho
Americans, that the treaty of Utrecht referred to the
territory; hut I have foand nothing, either- in that
treaty, or In tho history of the ncgociation* which
preceded it, to show tint It wo* so mentioned,”
Thu position and extent of Oregon are here cor
rectly described. Under that name are inoluded all
the countries drained by tho Colombia River, and
those intermediate between the former and tbePncif-
ie, a* well as the adjacent islands in that ocean; and
those countries extend from tho 42d parallel of lati
tude, which lias been adopted by treaty t
Oregon from Cuiafornia, to the vicinity
parallel, where tlic northern sources of i
are situated. We may here bo permitted to oxprere
our gratification on seeing these countries recogni
zed ax belonging to tlic United States by a high sci
entific authority in Great Britain, namely by a globe,
the largest ana most beautiful cvrr constructed with
mi engraved surface, which has beta recently jnib.
lished in I/ondon, under tbe auspices of the celebra
ted “ Society tor thp Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.”
It is oho certain, that these countries were never
tlic subjects of specific stipulation between any of
the powers of Europe before 1790, in which tbe
Nootka Convention was concluded between Spain
and Great Britain. We ore not aware tint tbe trea
ty ot Utrecht had been ever said by tbe American* to
refer to the territory in question- That treaty docs
indeed provide for the appointment ofconmissionere
to Bittlo the boundaries between the Hudson’s Bay
territories I clanging to England, on tha .north, ana
the French posscssflons on the south; arid it bap
been said; and Generally believed in tbe United States,
that tlic 49th degree oi latitude was thus adopted on
tlie dividing Kik. westward from a point north of
lake thq i por. Rut there i> pot the slightest evi
dence ol the correctness of this betiefi or of the dc-
Irmiinaticn of any line for that purpose; nor would
tiny line so adrpted have applied in any way to Orc-
to have merely n jib and storm stay sails, to
assist the steamer in case ot emergency,
which can be furled or set at a moment w
warning in aplion, without the men lenv-
ing the deck, or exposing themselves above
the bulwarks to tlie shot of Utc enemy.—
One half of tlie complement of men would
only be required in these steam batteries
which are necessary (o sailing ships, and
one half of the crews, enlisted landsmen,
to work the guns, .who could he fought in
two days to train tbe guns on even keel, the
ships always being stationed 1 in smooth wa-
ter t hence there would be no delay in pro
curing volunteers as soon M wanted at any
of the porta and the diffierenej of a sea-
man and a landsman would also be an im
mense saving to ‘he nu**on. To protect
New York, for instance, have twowptpsof
the line on «he plan proposed stationed In
the vicinity of the Narrow*; these ships
would show each a battery to the approach-
belief that aucb demarcation of bounda
ries w»s really made, which baa so better foundation
ti on an old map in Ikwtiewhait’* dictionary of cent-
tnerce, nevertheless formed the basis of th* adoption
of the 49th parallel, in 1818, a* the line of separation
between tlie territories of the Uphcd States and those
df Great Britain, from the lake of tbe Weed to rim
{b clty mountains; as well asof the offer made by
the United Slates and rejected by Great Britain, to
continue tbe line on foe same parallel westward to
the Pacific. Fortunately, as regards the bounda
ry already fixed, none better for both parties conn,
under exuding circumstances, have been selected;
tlx- policy of continuing it farther westward appears
by no nyrp* so clear.
We continue foe extract from Lord John Rumel’e
*peech:
“It has been said,oo foe part of America that foe
treaty oMV63, atpre peace of J’aris.gave to Franca
or Spain (to one or the other, foritta* been pot va
riously by American claimants) all the territory tofoo
ing enemy of fifty 44 po ndpts, qnd, nt
option, throw hot shot heated either by a
furnace within the ship, or in *he furnace of
ship, or . . .
After delivering
the country,; and roll on- to. another, uptil their Kvernl breewdeson the,approaching
when the extreme boundary is reached the enemy, who would he eomptUal fo.rcfem
may be forgotten where it origina- them in a raking positum. the shr*
contrary, opinion and action under stsam pipwtr, could vary tl
1 be simuliancous over the country. tieti* ifwMf WW(ef : M*(l ® t»®8:
^Hhreganjtothe organa of intelligence, posite side of the battery under the eqel^r
an entire change muxt, ensue in regard Jto M the shift would bo rafe from W WfP
tljeir local and relative importance. Of shot. : Ordnance could also pp mounteff,
April 16,1845.
after him with impcrislmhlo 1
rav^tf^ey^oScL^fiow^eexampie'of what *use"wilTa'Bostonjourmtrhe~tofiTe"th^hei^foriFthe'fj'aijowe, Miich
~ Mi<ra G., the friepd of j pitmens of New Orleans received ten days j prove troublesome to the enemy before