The Albany patriot. (Albany, Ga.) 1845-1866, October 15, 1845, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextWladtnn, Justice,'VfkbtleratUmS* VOL. L ALBANY, BAKER COUNTY, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 15,1845. NO. 27; THE ALBANY PATRIOT, | r i»!P»M> BVERY WEDNESDAY MOKN1NC. BY NELSON TIFT & SETH N. BOUGHTON, Editors and Proprietor^. TERMS. r«VO Dollars per annum, if paid in advance, or JL Dollars *i the end of the year. Urrtis'in-nto net exceeding twelve linen, will . •', rtr j at One Dollar for the first insertion, and -4 cents for each continuance. Adrertisemcnt« 1 V^avtnS *he number of insertions specified, wffl IC*!tJish«l until forliid. "4lc5 ofland and Negroes by Executors, Adrainis- . jwsuid Guardians, are required by law to He VKtiicil in a public gazette, sixty days previous to • uv of “ ale. •jV -ales of Personal Properly must be advertised i- like manner forty days. Notin'to Debtors and Creditors of an estate must . . : b!Uhed forty days.' ' Not;ce that application will lie made to the Court /ftliazty f°r leave to sell Land and Negroes, must ,ioUisW weekly for four months. ’ jionthly Advertisements, One Dollar per square ,'etch insertion. ;7.V11 Is tiers on business must lie port paid. POETRY. Prom the Philadelphia Saturday Courier. COLUMBUS IN CORDOVA. BY JPUN t. LAWKIE. Vti.cn Columbus arrived-in Cordova, lie found MCH'nt and warlike city fdled with tlie glitter • V tie din of arms, and ill all the hustle of military mention. ****** ' All the chivalry of Sjotn had lieen summoned to (M; the streets of Conlova cclioed to the tramp .. Aid and lonnd of tnunjiet, as day by day the (AivalnHis nobles arrived, leaning tlieir feudal rctain- jr.il (kins with each other in the number of tlieir r^.ps. ami the splendor of tlieir appointments.— ini*.'* Life and Voyages if Christopher Columbus. TV light grew dim amid the orange trees, An) scarce a murmur breathed along the plain, Five the low whisper of the scented breeze, Tint sighs hr night in Andalusian Spain: A fervid glow was mantling on the wave, And iu the West was that voluptuous light nf mi|.l and pnrpie, with a darker stain Scattered amongst it, like the coming night, llvatiicg its gentle sadness o’er that curtain bright. H it few there were in all Cordova’s street, That marked the beauty of that golden sky ; There rose the sound of many mustering feet, The prance of chargers, and the battle cry; And proud Hidalgos swept in triumph hy, Or paused in converse in the crowded way, Whilst others hurled the swill jirced on high, Hot lor the light, and ready for the fray, burning tu meet the last of the proud Moore' array. And merchant* moved amid the living mass, And men of God, with slow and stately mien; And one loue son of Israel strove to pass I’nhccded onwards, through the moving stream; •lad at the easements tender eyes were seen, Aad high-born maidens in youth’s rosy bloom, find an the glittering armour’s warlike sheen, Or watched the tossing of some stately plume, They knew too well amid the crowd and gath’ring gloout. Soil Cold and solemn her thousand mosques* Rose ’mid the tumult, silent, vast and high, The pointed minarets, the gay kiosks, Touched by the glory of the evening sky, Ad one be neath their shadow wandered by, Silent and sail, and heedless of the throng, Art bannered pomp, and flaunting chivalry, That waved around; for still Iio went along hike one who brooded o'er some keen and.bitter wrong. ' Shout fur our king, onr glorious Ferdinand; On to the conquest; on to Boabdii; bw banners carry victory o’er the land. Oar spears arc gleaming owr every hill.” '"ach was the joyous sliout that seemed to fill '."lie very air, and archways quaint and old, Asd then that lonely stranger paused, until His eye had caught the pomp of blazing gold, Then slow lie turned away from it most sad and cold. And fitful words broko from his lips the while, A* to the river's vine-clad bank he strayed, And saw the moonbeams in tiie water smile, . And li:l the dew-drops on the flowery giade. Hen from his noble brow each angry shade Parsed swiftly, and his hand to heav’n ho raised, While in his eye a wondrous radiance played, And on the soft and silver moon he gazed, W’bo,c glory broad and far upon the mountain blazed. Ah, then, how gladly would I brave each gale, liquid flowed into his nostrils. Instantly El— c e.— .:n .a » there wits a short, muck gasp, a struggle, his eyes opened, and when the death men cuiuc again, they found him sitting up in bed. He is still alive, and has enjoyed unusually good health Airs. Child’s Let ters. Front the Baltimore 'American. THE NAVAL SUPREMACY OF ENG- LAND. From the period of (lie overthrow of the naval power of Holland by Great Britain in the time of Charles the 'Second, down to the war with the United States in 1812, the supremacy of England on the ocean wa3 tacitly admitted. Dc Ruytcr and Van Tromp, Inc last of the great Dutch Admir als, close the list of distinguished naval captains in Europe, save the names of those who illustrate the maritime annals of En gland. Cape St. Vincent anilCamperdoun Copenhagen, Aboukir and Trafalgar, re call the signal victories which again and again prostrated each rising cIToit of the Continental power? to contend against the overwhelming mastery of British seaman ship. Tiie trident came, at length, to lie regarded as the undisputed property, the cnibjcin of supremacy, of the Island Queen. With this idea firmly established in the world, the war of 1812 broke out between the United Slates and Great Britain. It will not cause much surprise, pet haps, although tltc fact may he new to many, ihtrt our Government was with the utmost dilficttily induced to allow our ships of war to go to sea al the begining of hostilities, dreading to enter into"naval contest with Great Britain. Our frigates were to be laid up intlic harbor ofNcw York,at which point an attack was expected, ami convert ed into batterirs, for the defence of tlint city. Mr. C. J. Ingersolt, in his forthcom ing History of the tear of 1812, gives an in teresting detail of the particulars relating to this subject. We find extracts from sheets of the work in the New York Cou rier. It appears that immediately upon the And bleu oach favoring breeze, till its blue shores I hail. “Oil do I dream I stand upon its shore; The home of my proud hopes, and watch the breeze Toss tfco green pines, or see the rivers poor Their sands of gold into the dancing seas; Then wake 1, but alas! the vision flees. And all its bright, bright mockeries pass away, Swill as a summer cloud before the breeze, And still 1 Unger on in aad delay, My spirit sick with hope deferred from day to day. “ Hark to their shoots, those tinselled cavaliers! They deem me mad, and mock when passing by. Hark! Ye*—though in the shade of former years, The poet told my hopes in propliccy.f Proud thought for me! the lolly hope that I Was chcocn of God to find that world unknown.” lie ceased to speak, and turned towards the sky. And breathed God’s name in scarce t\ whisper’d tone, Then slowly turned away, as he had como, alone. Georgia, 1846 ♦There were no less than 1,000 Mosques in Cordova | Vcnicnl annis Saccuto scris, qiribits orcanas Vincula return taxet, ct iugens Patent Tellus, Typliis—que ervos, Detynt Arboo, rec sit torris Ultima Thule.—Seneca Medea. It was a singular bi.t most fortunate hallucination which led Cuhwibus to fancy himself predestined of God to discover America. It might lie a curious speculation, if lie had not lieen buoyed up hy this conviction, and had abandoned the enterprise, what would now be the history of this Continent. MISCELLANY. A ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE. An extraordinary incident that occured in the family of tltc authoress when the yellow fever prevailed like a plague in Boston, will powerfully interest tnc reader. One of my father’s brothers, residing* nt Boston tit the time, became a victim oi the pestilence. When the first sunptoms ap peared, his wife sent the children into the country, ami herself remained to attend up . _. i up- declaration of war, Captains Bainbridgc on him. Her friends warned her against and Stewart went to Washington to solicit such rashness. They told her it would lie j commands, and there learned to their inftn- dcntli to her and no benefit to him, for he |ite surprise that the national ships were to would soon be loo ill to know who attended he kept safe in port, instead of being ex-r •ration where he had been accustomed to fide by Jefferson’s high estimate of his a- bilitics for any subject, naval, military, fi nancial, commercial, lorcign or domestic; and Mi. Gallatin’s mistake was nearly that of the whole community. The merchants, almost to a man, labored under absurd im pressions of English nautical supremacy, pervading the seaports and most of the At lantic States, that it was not only in .the greater number of ships and scntncn "the English excelled the Americans, but that British seamen were superior beings, trans cending all others, with whom Americans, man to man, and ship to ship, still less in squadrons or fleets, would have less chance t linn the Dutch, Venetians, Spanish, or French. In the most popular national song of that day, which was always sung in fuR chorus at the repeated celebration of our naval victories, not only the preposterous language, bnt tho deep-rooted scniintenis of the inhabitants of our seaboard tva*, that although the “sons of Columbia would never be slaves, while the earth bears a plant or the sea rolls its waves,” yet “the trident of Neptune must never be tiurled to incense the legitimate powers of the ocean.” Those legitimate powers by divine right, and that popular prejudice which istho ba sis of that right, were the English mariners, against whom the judgment of at least the maritime portions of the United Slates, coinciding with tlmt of Mr. Gallatin, was that in a war undertaken for the redress of flagrant wrongs by sea, it would be folly to trust cither a vessel or n man there, except in die predatory and irresponsible cruises of private armed vessels. To such adventures Bainbridgc and Stewart resolved to have recourse, if tlieir prayer for permission to take public ships of war to sea should be unheeded. Slew- art had built a privateer called the Snapper, eventually commanded by Captain Pere grine Green, and captured as soon ns she cleared the Delaware rapes. In that pri- Thc glorious victories which fpUowVl are familiar to the whole countrytin will never be forgotten. Whch the due: rier went down under the guns of the Cot. dilution, all Europe, at first ’ incredulous, then exulting,' haded with joy this chain pion of the West, as the bold niscrtQr of tin freedom of the seas. From the forced that blow England has not* yet recovered: It was an ominous stroke,portending the ft: turc downfall of that supremacy' with which she has so long scourged the oceaq. 'flic charm of her naval invincibility was bro ken forever. A new star beamed forth, its rays pointing to a glorious culmination, be fore whose, radiance her own must “pale ineffectual firy.” From the KashrSle Union. PICTURE OF AN ABOLITIONIST— C. M. CLAY. After reading the foilowingekctch of tho true character of Cassius M. Clay, drawn by Ex-Governcr Metcalfe, wc can find no language foexpress our detestation of tho hypocritical wretch. When the reader has perused Gov. Metcalfe’s sketch, let him remember that this same C. M. Clay pre tends to be overflowing with zeal in behalf of the slaves! that nis conscience is so much shocked at the idea of holding n fel low' being in slavery, that he has resolved to dedicate his life to the removal of thei evil from Kentucky ! that he is the same man over whose late treatment at Lexing ton the abolitionist arc shedding floods of sympathising tears, and holding up his name as that of a martyr in the cause of human liberty ! But we hare said enough, to enable .the reader to appreciate the fol lowing sketch by Ex-Governor Metcalfe : “•loti, sir, arc not the first brawler, alias braycr, about “Cod and Liberty,” whoso' acts, speaking much louder than words, proved him to be a notorious tyrant. Tho reproach which you attempt to'lhrow upon vatccr, iVdetdedatilitori'ly^io goforVhin'fri- ,1,,: 1 fo . r 1 ’‘holding interests antagonist to yours" these gentlemen moused to seek :uul > therefore, l !»™& no ri S*>l <° “> upon him. These arguments made no ini' pression npoifltcr affectionate heart. She felt that it wofiicl be a long hfc satislnclion to her to know who attended ti|>on him, if lie did not. She accordingly stayed and watched him witliunrentiliiiigcare. This, however, did not avnil to stive him. He grew worse and worse, and fiuully died.— Those who went round with the death carls had visited the chamber and seen that the end was near. They came to lake the laxly. His wife refused to let it go. She told me she never knew how to account for it, but though lie was perfectly cold and rigid and to every appearance rpiite dead, there was a powerful impression on her mind that life was not extinct. The men were overborne by the strength of her con viction ; though their own reason was op posed to it. The half-hour again came round, and again was heard the solemn words, “Brin<» out your dead.” Tho wife again resisted tlieir importunities ; but this time the men were more resolute. They said the duty assigned them was a painful one, but the health of the city re quired punctiiul obedience to the orders re ceived ; if they ever expected the pestilence to abate it must be a prompt removal of t he dead, and immediate fumigation of the in fected apartment. She pleaded and pleaded, and even knell to them, in an agony of tears, continually saying, “I ant sure he is no! dead.” The men represented the' utter absurdity of such an idea ; but finally, overcome by her tears, again departed. With trembling haste she renewed her efforts to restore him. She raised his head, rolled histimhs in hot flan nel, & placed hot onions on his feci. The dreaded half-hour again came round, and fbnnd him as cold and rigid as ever. Site renewed her entreaties so desperately, that the messengers began to think a little gen tle force would he necessary. They ac cordingly attempted to remove the body against her will; but she threw herself up on it and clung to it with such frantic strength that they could not loosen her grasp. Impressed" by the remarkable ener gy of her will, they relaxed their efforts.— . To all tbeir remonstrances she answered, ‘■•Dapglrtcr of night I?* be murmured sad sod low, “ Would I could seek with tbee thy place of rest! n ould that my spirit on thy breeze could go, To welt the wondrous islands oi the blessed. . . bh, whisper comfort to my sickened breast; <*If you bury him, you shall bury me wit n I hive no friend save thee and my bright dreams; him.” At lost, by dint of reasoning on the necessity of the case, they obtained front her a promise tl\at, if be snowed no signs Ob, teU toe of that for mysterious West, Of its bluo islands and ita golden streams, •W its prond ciliea,wbeie the costly diamond gleanp. '* Rick an; I at my heart-^and there are tears— Uh, tattoo! tint they should dim my manhood's eyes; let flow they not Grom shame, or craven fears; Have I yet shrank beneath the riven skies, Or trembled at the ocean’e thunder cries I No, No—it is the sickneae of delay, tlic weary longing for what most I prize, The anxious hoping on from day to day, And still that worlds* dun,.remote, and fer kway- '1 was not made for courts, to bow the neck, And fellow meekly hi a lordlin&’i train i fa °n the vast and heaving deck, “ y J??** Cmvel U "W UI could feel the fresh foscz* sweep again, * ” r 8* bw onwards V>ath the straining anil, Toths for gator* .. promise that, ,* _ of life before they again canto round, she would make no opposition to his removal. Having gained this respite she hung the watch up on the bod-post, and renewed her efforts with redoubled zeal. She placed kegs of hot water about him, forced brandy between his teeth, breathed into his r.oatrils and held hartshorn to his t>C3c; but still the body lay motionl*?* and cold. She looked anxion.tVy.al the watch; in five minutes Lite promised half-hout would expire, and those droadful voices would be hoard post ing through t ho street. Hopelessness coins oyer her ^ jhp dropped J.l\c ■HP®* lently aSTlwifartshprn shin had been hold- J iknln* Ills? fni*o A r.r.lflpTlw ..,5 Was spilled on thrfpnllid face. Acciden tally the position of tho head had become slightly tipped backward, and the powerful pusrd to w hat was regarded as unavoidn tile capture nt sea. The narrative goes on tints: “Bainbridgc and Stewart remonstrated with the Sccclary of the Navy against its suicide, by the hands of its own comman der in chief. Tltc Secretary listened kindly to their np|ical, but told them that the thing had been settled, on ftijl consideration, in council. The frigates were to be laid up in the harbor ofNcw York, their guns tak en out of one side, the other side to be so fixed as to be rendered water batteries, to lie manned by their crews, and commanded by l heir own officers. Stewart and Bainbridgc explained to the Secretary why they were convinced our ships were superior to the English, and would, eight times out of ten, capture them in equal combat. They were so urgent that the Secretary,unable indeed not inclined, to refute their arguments of fered to take these gentlemen with him to the Prcsidcnlal mansion, there to repeat what was deemed so clear and so impor tant. Mr. Madison listened with the grea test atlcn'ion to all they had to say , can didly and anxiously weighed if." Eight times out often, sir, said they, with ctjual force, we can hardly fail; our men arc btt r ler men, belter disciplined: our midship men arc not mere boys, only fit to carry or ders, but youug men, capable of reflection and action. Our guns are sighted,' which is an improvement of our own the English know nothing of. While we can fire can non with ns sure an aim ns musketry or al most rifles, striking twice out of three shots, they must fire at random without sight of tlieir objest or regard to the undulations of (lie sen, shooting over our heads, seldom hulling us, or .even hitting our ducks. Wc may be capl tired and probably shall be, even after taking prizes from them, because their nnmhets nro so much greater than ours.— But the American flag wiil never be dis honored, seldom, if ever, struck to equal force. The nation can lose nothing but vessels, and a few lives dearly sold. You will give us victories then, you think, said the President, inclining to their advice. We do, sir, most confidently, and not upon irrational premises. Which vic tories, he added with animation, will give us ships ; for with victories Congress will supply them faster than they can be lost. Such, tao, said he, recurring to the lessons of t he Revolution, was the case in that war, when, notwithstanding a greater disparity of force than now, and much greater dirpar- ity of nautical equipments, our officers and men proved themselves entg;* to the Eng lish. Encouraged bjr this" reception, Bain- hr.age and Stewart perse rerrd so strenuous, ly with Mr. Hamilton in another interview with Ilim, that ho told them tjie President had resolved to hold a cabinet oouncil that evening to consider the matter, and they were desired tocorqe to the Secretary’s resi dence and wait them till he returned from tWcouncil to apprize them of the result. At a late Hour ho did so, informing them that no change had taken place, but the vessels were to be laid up and used as har bor defence. Mr. Gallatin was inflexible against sending the ships- to nt, with all hra preponderant influence in the aduunis- gates, these gentlemen proposed to seek fortunes on the ocean, serving each, in ro tation ns ‘captain or firs', oiiiccr. It was not with them, therefore, matter of merely national character: nor were they mere youths to be moved entirely by puerile or uusefish considerations. They wanted for tune as well ns fame, livelihood besides ilistinrlion. .If the navy um laid »u> ilioy ! til ' * *’ * beir occttpniion gone for all advance- ail acquisition. mcni and all acquisition. Impelled by tlicsc strong motives to study remonstrance persevering, after tho Secretary of the Na vy hnd announced to them the confirmed resolve of that Executive to order all the ships of war to be laid up, Captains Bain bridgc and Stewart occupied most of the night in composing a joint letter to the President, strongly setting/ forth reasons why that resolved should nc rescinded.— That letter has been lost, perhaps burnt in the conflagration of thu public buildings al Wellington, possibly not deemed proper for the public eye, as it staled advantages ofthe American Navy, which, though now known to and participated hy the English were then exclusively American. Among these were not only the superior discipline, seamanship, and ardor of our seamen, burn ing witli passion to take vengeance for op pression, out several material improvements, one of which alone proved decisive in the naval engagements of that war. Tlieir "joint composition of that anxious night was couched in such plain language, that, when presented to the Secretary of the Navy next morning, lie objected to il ns too strong for conuiiunication'to the chief magistrate, and advised them to soften its terms: But as it was with them an affair of subsistence, involving livelihood ns well as reputation, they insisted on its being sub mitted without alteration. Diffident as Madison was of his own judgment at all times especially where lie was not familiar with the subject, and having long felt Mr. Gallatin’s aptitude for almost any subject, the President was the man of his own ad ministration, nevertheless, most resolved, as in duty bound, to carry into effect the net of Congress declaring war. After, therefore, cundidly,' wisely, and ingenuous ly weighing the manly remonstrance against his own deliberate and twice considered determination, he yielded to the wishes of the two captains, who were told in another interview the same day by the Secretary of the Navy, likewise gratified with the result that tho" President would assume the re sponsibility of overruling the judgment of his cabinet, and ordering the strips to sea. It cannot be .shown that any oraer to lay up the frigates in harbor was given by the executive: but it in certain that such a dc- you, docs indeed prove you to be a man of daring and consummate impudence. Oth erwise you would have been the lost man to taunt me, or any cnc else, about that. “antagonistic interest.” Were I to act tho manly part that you have done, I might very soon rid myself of all that interest to good advantage." That interest is, at best, of small amount, consistingofa few old slaves about one half in number of my brothers and sisters. By throwing them into jail as you dare not "deny that you have done, without the imputation of crinie, then by taking them out? and exposing them for sale for a distant market, I too might soon be prepared to cry out, God and Liberty!! God and nature !! shocked at hypocrisy* profanity, scoundrclism, I will turn frotti litis hideous picture witli the remark, that my negroes never run away from roe. They arc never put into, or taken out of the Nich olas jail, or of Fayette, as yours hare been of late. They do not poison my children; nor are they ever falsely clmrgc'd with poi soning as an apology for their imprisonment and sale of their innocent relatives below. Much less are they treated, as you treated Rachael, Solomon, and Margaret, the first about fifty years old, the boy about seven teen, and the child about 6cvcn, without even the imputation of crime. Dare you deny that they were recently brought front Madison county, put into jail at Fayette; on the 14th of March last, taken out and fettered with iron handcuffs on the next morning, and sold into banishment by the heartless wretch whose very soul weeps arid bleeds nt the very thought of banishing emancipated slates. TIIE HEART. A modern writer thus beautifully .treats of that “harp of a thousand string*,” thi human heart: “What on odd thing expe rience is! now turning over so rapi dly the book of life, now writing so much on a sin gle leaf. We hear of the head turning gray in a single night—the same change passes over the heart. Affection is tne tyrant of a woman, and only bids her to the bo no uct to suspend a cutting sword over her (lead, which a word, a look may call down to inflict the wound that strikes to tliH death or heals bnt with it scar. Could wo fling hack the veil which nature and soci ety alike draw over her feelings, bow muck of sorrow—unexpected because unexpress ed, will be found!—how many a young: and beating heart would show disappoit- ment graven on the inmost core! wnnta history of vain hopes, gentle endeavors, oud anxieties and mertiflcations laid batw I There is one phrase continually occurring tcrainaaonwa8Vqnned“a^d“inTrucTioi prepared for the order which wes prevented mainly by the timely remonstrance of Bain- bridge and Stewart. To risk the ships of war at sea was more than government thought wise. And the first capture of an English by an American frigate, an event the cflfeot of which was prodigious through out Europe and America—arid may have consequences of still greater magnitude than yet experienced—that capture was made, if not in breach of orders, at least contrary to tho timorous calculations ofthe navy department. If Mr. Hull had not hastened to sea and taken the Guerrierhe- fore his countermand reached him at Bos ton, he would not have made tho capture, if indeed any such, would ever have been made at al). rieothc man to whom she was first attach ed.’ How often—how lightly ;* thie «tid! how little thought gives to iho world of suffering it involves I Cheeked by circum stances—abandoned from necessity, tho early attachment may depart with the ear ly enthusiasm which youth brings, but leaves not,” GOOD kUNNPRS: Good manners are the blossoms of good sense, and, it way be added, oF'gqOd 'feel ing too; forifllmlawof kindness bb.writ ten in the heart, it yrill lead to that disin terestedness in Hole as well as in great ti ings—that desire,to oblige, arid attention to the gratification of others whichB tho foundation of good manners.

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The Albany patriot. (Albany, Ga.) 1845-1866, October 15, 1845, Image 1