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vfcir m —■ ■■■■' . -. * 1 JMSyl \ts -vi.-_-j “ W*l*doM, JiittiM, Moderation.” 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. 7\V0 Dollars per annum, if paid in advance, or ThrPP Dollars at the end of the year. 1 Yitve-tisements not exceeding twelve line*, will tf ia^crtcd it One Dollar f* the fir»t insertion, and Piftr cent* for each continuance. Advertisement* {at Win? the number of insert! in* specified, will 1,0 £feiofLud and Negroes by Executor*, Admin is* Won *nl Guardian*, are required by law to he 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