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VOL. HI-
: WISDOM—JUSTICE—MODERATION.
ALBA .%. BAKER COUNTY, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY %ms.^
counties of Monroe and Crawford, so as
to include; the residence of Littleberry
Lucas m the county or Crawford, amt io
add Lot No. Cl, in iheSlh district of Ma-
Wl, l L ; h F ?" C,S H - Chewes
, to llie county of Crawford.
tjvertispments not exceeding twelve lines, will! the Superior Court
be inserted ut One Dollar for the first wrewkm, and ™ ..“ll. "f,.r° Url , V *»• c ? unl Y of Cobb.
Kiitv cents for each continuance.- Advertisements
not having the number of insertions specified, will
XSj3 ALBANY PATRIOT,
.. re ,i,smCD EVSRT WEDSESDEV KORNDcr. by
NELSON TIFT a SETH N. BOUGHTON,
Editors and Proprietors.
T KRAIS, " , w >yw W|J ^
xu t) D-illars per annum,- if paid in advance,of resl<les . l« the county of Crawford.
- " i at tl« end of the year. I 119. Requirin'? the ...
^pablished until forbid,
.Sales of Land and Negroes by Executors, Adminis
trators and Guardians, are required by law to be
advertised in a public gazette, sixty daysprevious to
^he sales" of Personal Property must be advertised-
in tiVe manner forty doy..
.Notice to Debtors utf Creditors of an estate must
be published forty dat s. f
Notice that application will be made to t»» Coot*
„f Odinary for leave to sell Land and Negroes, must
be published weekly for four montlis.
Jtfeiikly Advertiseraents.One Dollar per sqttari'
for each insertion.
jj-All laetter-s or business must be post paid✓
ff . • , - vuuiuy ui VylUJU,
for two weeks, and to ft* the lime of hoi-
wing the same.
„r!t 2 °’•T 0a r l, ^ I i aml . chan S e lbe charter
of the city of Columbus, so as to give the
electmn of the Marshal, Deputy Marsha!,
and Clerk of the Council and City Treas
urer, to the people of said city.
121. To alter and fix the lime of hold-
* . Superior Courts iti the counties ol tel-
foir, Irwrn and Pulaski, of the Sonlhern
Circuit.
—122.^ To changejlienome of Green Ar-
minta, Hampton Itowell Gee, and Nancy
Quick, to Green Arminta, Hampton Row-
UST OF ACTS OF THE GEORGIA imize said persons,^nd"!o dtang^fhe
LEGIsLA 1 UUE IN 1847. namesofoiher persons therein mentioned.
[Continuedfrom our lait.'] . | WSt To alter ami amend an act entitled
101. To amend an act to provide for i a . n acl lo mnen d Uie several acts regula
te education of the poor, so far as the * ln S roads in this State, so far as respects
i-eunties of Lumkin and Ltubun are con- lbc f) r- ei ' a ' R>3 of said acts in the counties
veined. . j orBryan, Liberty, McIntosh, Glynn.Cam-
lljo. To establish a Botanico Medical 1 ^ en aII( ^ Wayne, approved December Sill,
fl-iard of Physicians, in lilts Stale, and for ! * so Far as respects the county of Me
dic better regulation of the Botanic ©r i J ntosb -
Tliomsoniun practice of medicine. I I- 1 *- To repeal an act making perma-
]ti:j. To amend an act entitled an act j nent die site of the public buildings in the
to give »H persons employed on Steam- '°wn oftjlaikville, in the county ofLee,
(mats and other water crafts oh the Chat-1 on ' ol ^ 0l 241, in the 13lli district of said
talioocliee, Altamuha- and Okmulgee Riv- i county of Lee, assented tt> December 20lh
rrs, a lien on said steamboats nr water j IS3i-‘, to provide for the selection of a new
now being erected 1 , and to levy a fid col-
lect «yi extra (ax, and (or otlier purposes.
145. To make public the names of de
faulting tax payers, in the county or
Burke, and lor other purposes therein
named.
146. To amend an act entitled an- act
to raise a revenue for the city of Colum
bus, amendatory of an acl to impose a
special las on the persons and properly
of the citizens uf the city of Columbus,
residing and being in the same annually
hereafter, and to provide for the collectfcrr
thereof, and lo punish those who may re
fuse or attempt to defeat the provisions
thereof, assented to on the 10th day of
December, 1841, and also to make provi
sions for the poor residing in said city.
147. To change the line between the
comities of Marion and Talbot, so as to
adit No. 54 and 22. and 88 and 117, all of
which lie in the llih district originally
Muscogee county now Marian coonty to
Talbot county.
14S. To amend an act entitled an act
to amend and consolidate the several acts
which have been passed in relation to the
powers and privileges of die corporation
of the city of Savannah, assented to 24th
December 1825 ; and also to amend an net
entitled an act to alter the time for the
election of Mayor and Aldermen of the
city of Savannah, and for other purposes
therein mentioned, passed 25th Decem
ber, 1S45, &c.
149. To alter and amend tiie several
acts incorporating the city of Macon.
150. To compel Farisli Carter, a tem
porary resident of Murray county, to give
crafts for his, her or their'wages, and fori toun ’Y su e r afi<l for other purposes. I in all taxable property lie may" hold or
wood and provisions furnished, ami to! ’~' J ' Lo provide for the payment of own in the county ot Murray, to the Tax
point out and- facilitate the mode of the j l f acbers of poor children in ccitain coim- j Receiver of sard county, and topay for the
ileclion of the same, assented to De-1 *' ea '' ,er £j n named.
icr the lltli, 1S4L. so as to include ' , 1 ~ Sl To Incorporate Greenville Lodge, hr Murray.
er cur- i ^°* , 57 * Tree and accepted Masons, of lol. To i
same to the Tax Collector of the county
to Mexico a few months back, and who
indulged so freely in tlierr abuse of.the
Administration, because Gen. Scott bad
not been provided with thirty tbtwsam)
troops, and Gen. Taylor with as many
more, to operate conjointly against the
Mexicans.Although it may be very
convenient, (and very expedient and poli
tic withal,) lor the Whig politicians (o for
get or seem fo forget these things, we
warn them that the people will not forget
them, and that for every week they delay
fife passage ef the war measures called
for by the government, thousands rrfid
lens of thousands of patriotic Whigs will
desert their traitorous standard.
The people see no necessity of ar.
hour’s debate on those bills, nor of those
inquiries into the olyects and probable
results of the war, which some gentlemen
have evinced a desire to make. The
people understand that the war is to be
prosecuted for the same purposes that it
was commenced orr our part after Mexico
broke the peace and struck the first hostile
blow. Having broken the peace and sub
stituted war iu its stead by her own vol
untary act, it is for her to say when she is
tired of war—when she is" ready to sue
lor peace—and when she may be inclined
lo keep the peace, after entering into it.
.She has not yet eviuced any serious dis-
[msition for peace—she has not yet said
she is tired of the war—nor is it likely
that she will speedily take these steps,
whilst there arc Clays, Websters, Cor
wins and Battses among us, surpassing
the toryism of Hartford Convention Fed
eralism. Because some statesmen ap
prehend that the conquest and subjuga
tion ol all Mexico must take place lx-Hire
a permanent peace can be attained, in
stead of seeing in this a stronger induce-
NO. 42.
— ■->- -
ail liens on personal nrtfprriy under , .
lain regulations and for oilier purposes.! ^ env ,* er . count y* m
10L To change ihe lime oflioKting the | ^ A ? Y ‘* incorporate iLe Irisli cJnicn
Superior Courts in the county of Troup. | bociety of the city of Savannah.
105. To authorize Andrew Mi Corvey! T *° ,nc °rporatc Hiram Chapter,
ol the couuly of Dooly, in this Stale, to I ™ 5, and Monroe Lodge, No. IS", of
pcAiilc upon goods, wears and merchan-! Monroe county, Gav
lliae within the said county, of DoolyH . 12<X To authorize and require the Jus-
xvithout a license and' without being sub- j , ' ces ° ! tl,e Courts of Marion and . ^ - c
pay any tax therefor. I Macon counties, lo run out ami define ac- to that ol'Emma Lonisa Exuins, and to
lUli. To rej>oat am acl entitled an act coiding to law, the countylme between j legiiamatise the same, approved Deccai-
joct in 1
said counties of Marion and Macon.
130. To incorporate St. John’s Lodge,
No. 45, of Buii3 county.
131. To revive and keep in force an
act entitled an acl to regulate the licens-
ot uccuior ami i nornas »>• esiaoiisn a i ,
cheek or plat of the towns of Bainbridge, \ l ' d . 1
in sail! cininiy ol Deciftur, and T'hontas-i 1 1C j52 Un ,V eS
vile, in Thomas county, to authorize the i * <>r
to cunsaliilale the otliccrs cl- Receiver of
Tax llvturns, and Tax Collectors of this
Stale, sii f.tr as nekue* to the county of
Sumter, assented ImDecember 4th, 1841.
107. To in ike it the duty of the Judge;. r
of the Coweta circuit, to conlince the I ,n S » r Phystcwn.|to practicei,n th.s fatale
Court in ileanl county two weeks. t,; ‘ lliC ***>■ da >' ol Deceraber -
1 OS. To empower the Inferior Courts! 1 . . . r
of Decatur and Thomas to- establish a | . IfOt Fo akerlhc tttnc of tl,e smmg of
i the rail lerms ol the fcupenoi Courts lor
• counties of Butlocli and Elfiiigliam:
,, , 133. For the relief of Mary H. Davis,
i county, to authorize Hie ..
, „ - _ i „ li.i ol lire eountv «C Monroe^ and also lor the
recording ol the same as Land iteecls arei . - T „ .
now recorded, and to make said check or 1 \ ehul <>' 'he Executors ol James Camak,
In,.evidence of the localities oC h»s in! lal « »f Glark counly.-deceased.
laid towns, and for other purposes there- . ^ Tomcorporam theGfesksvdleaml
1 1 Athens Rarilroad'Company.
tint T 0 i ,',i t» , M i 436t For the relief of John H. Mann,
109. l o repenl-an ae en.t.ledmr.mc o Kjtecu(or of Ja(RCS . Gl g^i; deceas-
incorporate the town ot r lorcnce, in the j ^
county of .Stewart, and appoint Commis-1 e ‘^ T tlie commissioners
sMorsior, he satne, assented lo Decern- ! >f|hc |w a-hoorfumbfonhe countyof
!|, ? ’ , , .-ii , Floyd, to pay the accounts of the teach-
110. o repeall an, act entitled 1 an sc h ^ rc hild re afo r ,h eyear 1644;
to repeal su much of the hlth secl.o, of 1 ) , naI Ui« the Inferior Court of Up-
imact, passed the tblli day of December; r-kxm.-W' A«bhitnv
ment to immediately provide the means of
incorporate the Atlanta and i performing this uddctwmil work, they de-'
LaGrange Rail Road Company. ! sire to spend weeks in debating the proba-
K-O; To simplify and curtail pleadings ! hie results of this conquest and suhjuga-
at lu vi 1 . ^ jtion, and affect lo see in it the seeds of
153. To amend the first section pf nil jour political ruin. Surely there will he
uo? entitled an net, lo change the names j other occasions for these debates if they
of Maria Ellen Allens to that of.Ma ria El- should be insisted upon, and we marvel
leu Chapman, and the name of Emma that they cannot he postponed until those
Louisa Waller, of the county of Twiggs, | occasions shall 1 arisen
According, to- present appearances in
Mexico, We admit that it looks like we
shall not speedily need strong reinforce-
ber 24th, 1845.
l'54v To alter and change the line be
tween the counties of Floyd and Cbat-
toorwi.-
155. to incorporate the village of
Ringgold, in the countyof Walker, on
parts of lots number one hundred anil
seventy and one hundred and seventy-
one, and lo appoint Commissioners lor the
same. .
156. To exempt John Studsliil, of the
county of Lowndes, from the provisions
ol the laws of the General Assembly, con
cerning Peddlers, and lo authorise him to
engage in tfiaf business without license.
157. To authorise the Judge of the
From the European Correspondence of the JV. Y.
UerSUL
ITALY—THE POPE’S SPEECH.
Rome, Nov. 18, 1847.
Our population here is thrown into an
other debrum of joy.
The first session of the (few Roman
Parliament— for so it must be called—
has just commenced ; and lbe event has
been signalized as a grand epoch in the
history ofihelialian Peninsula. Warned
by the ambassadors of all the great pow
ers present at Rome; that the establish
ment of such a body would lead to revo
lution and anarchy, Pius IX, strong in
the consciousness of his own 1 rectitude of
purpose, and in his reliance on the intel
ligence and devotion -of his people, main
tained his policy of progress, in spite of
diplomatic threats. He established the
new Council of State, which has just as
sembled. This body is composed of rep
resentatives electee! 6y all the Roman
provinces. These delegates, previous to
opening their session, waited in a body on
the Pope at' the Quirma I. His Holiness
addressed them in a speech as Krriarfca-
ble lot its benignity as for its yvisdotn.—
The members of the Cou icil then went
in solemn procession -to St. Peter’sand'
in order at once lo mark- the respect in
which they were held by the Roman aris
tocracy, and to surround them with the
more imposing external splendor, the Ro
man princes and nobles supplied for their
use their state equipages end retinues.
The deputies ot each province went in
the carriage ol a Roman prince drawn by
six horses and attended by a multitude of
servants in state liveries. These carri
ages Were respectively followed by such
of the inhabitants of the provinces, se
verally, as happened to be in Rome at
the time. They were accompanied by
bands of military music, which made the
air resound with Rossini’s national hymn
to Pius IX. Each deputation bore the
banner of the country; they Wert! preced
ed by a troop 1 of dragoons in full dress
uniform, and followed by detachments of
the new Civic Guard.
Thu3 escorted, the cortege went to St.
Peter’s where, iti tile presence of thou-
rw ol spectators, the mass of the Holy
Ghost was celebrated. After this solem
nity. the deputies withdrew to the Grand
fear that the Mexicans will .make one
general and simultaneous effort to expel
their invaders, and that our armies may
again be placed in jeopardy as Gen.-Tay
lor’s was hist witttei ? Were the meas
ures called'for by the Administration pas
sed now, it would he tong enough, Heaven
knows, before the lroops»couM be organ
ised arrnl despatched lo the theatre of ac
tion. Why. then, should there be a
day’s delay ? And why should these
Churl of-Gommon Pleas and Oyer and j delays he caused by that party who wan-
Tertniner, foi the city of Savannah, to' ted Mfexieo overrun with troops six months
hold special-or- extraordinary Courts, for ago, and who declared that “ Polk ought
the summary trials of causes therein enu- to he hung for not sending ten troops
meraled, and to amend amactenlilfed 1 anjwhere he had sent but one!” If these
act, lo authorise the Judge of the Court of j troops were wanting six months ago, why
Common Pleas and Oyer and Terminer,]are they not wanting now? Is it because
for the city of Savannah; to holt! special') some fear that the war may result in Con
or extraordinary Chillis for the summary quest ? Il-so, it will not be the fault ot
menis tnere. lint when the contents ol j R;1 || of lhe Vatican, which is assigned by
Henry Clay s speeemahd Albert Gallatin s His Holiness ^ „!
pampbtbestiatt tiave oeen published and ) There they were addressed by the duke
read in Mexico, have not we reason- to jofTbil’enia, in the name of the Roman war of the revolution, ami a vaycqt 1 tictlcs-
thq democracy t 0 refuse the means to up
hold against foreign outrage the honor and
justice of the country. Such was not the
old demosraev of 1812—of Mr. Madison’s
■•me—whose “associations” yet ding, ns he
tells us, around Mr. Calhoun. As to the
increase ofExeculive patronage, we believe
that those wlio know most of its adminis
tration will be foremost to sav, that i?is
rather an embarrassment and burden than
a help to the government that wields iU—
It alienates more Strength than it gains to
any administration.- Bat 6c this As if may, 1
we deny that the democracy of the coun
try will ever choose to see its arm crippled,
its flag tarnished, and its justice, as against
Mexico, defeated, because the leaders who
go forth to fight the battle,must receive tjtp
credentials of the rank which they lioloj
and the part which they bear in the *6ft;
from the hands of those whom that same
democracy lias sot in high places to exe
cute the law, and wield the force of (he 1
nation against ilsfoes I'—fVushington Union!
The plan of the Washington monumcrit!
contemplated to be erected in the cily of
New Yoftr,- has been finally adopted, and is
thus described in a letter published 1 in the
National Intelligencer:
The material of the structure istd'be
granite, and the style of the architecture'
principally Grecian.- T.he form will be a
pentagon, rising to the height of (otif ndfii-
dred and fifty feet, divided into six unequal!
seetions, diminishing in diameter one above
another. The monument rests upon n iryi
race 158 feet in-diameter and 18 foec high.-
The base of the monument is 68 feet in di
ameter. The rotmido in the first section is
40 feet in diameter and 68 feet in height.
The rotundo in the second section 1 is forty
feet in diameter and 88 feet in height.-r-
Thc ihird section has d rolundcrof 3G by
85 feet. The fourth section rises 99 feet,
the fifth 52 feel, and the sixth and'Tnst 50
feet. The whole to be surmounted by a
statue of Washington 2\) feet in height.—
Each section is ornamented with buttress- 1
es,- cornice, andfonlusfrade.- Around- the !
rolunda in the first section are five rooms,
occupying the pentagonal projections, each 1
25 feet square and 54 feel in height, lo bw
reached by spiral staircases from ine rolun- 1
da, which also continues up to the second
section. Theee rooms are designed, one
for the use of the trustees, one ford 1 fegis-
fry of the names of contributors lo the mon-
uuicnt, one for the registry of the names of
tliC visilers, and two for a library of Works 1
and documents having reference to the rev
olution.
In llie-second section is tlie grand’ liribiitl-'
mental rotunda, which is lo coulain a Slat 1 -'
il, e ,?£ mkfok^Miiles
who distinguished themselves during the-
passed tlie 1-61 Ii Jay of December j 3 ' 0 r.eount v to pay Gbn’rge \V. Ashbonr,- trials of causes'tlierein ennutnerated, and j tiie Mexicans, or as some of the Mexican
KSMiicorperaling the town ol La-Grange j - ,,,| )er l leac i ler sut h sums ns they to empower the Mayor of the city of! writers themselves proclaim, “the decree
as gives exclusive government of all per- j d ; ■ f „ r t „ clling PlK>r Schools; Savannah, also, to hold special or extra - r n!li: "~
suas in said-town liable to work on the c ._ ,. J m 7 a ,, !1( . n .
people; after which; they proceeded to
resolve themselves into special commit
tees, for the tranaction of administrative
and legislative business, according to the
usages of representative assembles in coti 1 -
sliluiionul Stales.
Their delibeiations have just com
mented,-and we axValt'tfic issue.
fat 1 inscribed-with the tin me of tlie Irnildf
Arnold. The third seefion is divided inla
six stories, the rooms of Which may bo. de
voted to the uses of arilsis arid 1 olncr pur
poses; TheTOilrlii sfcciion is divided into
eight storius, and the fifth section into five..
The sixth section, which is ascended by. m
single spiral stairway, has a gallery at tlier
top-jo feel in diameter.
mails to tlie Commissioners therefor, and-
! also for the reliqfof lJarncbas-Paci
, . . r ,, | 137. To give the election of County
also, toexten l the corporate hmusol the T Q p lhe count , 0 f, Eutnpld.v to
town Of LaGrange ... 1 roup county, and ^ people ofs!lid coun ^..
13S More effectually to secure tHe col-
lection-oPtolU on*ceptain Turnpike Roads.
139. To enable Sheriffs or Coroners to
sell tracts of land divided by a county
fine#
140. To incorporate the Savannah and
Albany Railroad Company, with powers
to extend tire said road, and to construct
brandies, and to amend-the acts-incorpo
rating the Georgia Rail Road and Bank
ing Company-
141. To ornenil an act entitled an act
to incorporate Muscogee. Railroad. Cobi-
pany, and to piftiis't persons-, for violating
the provisions of the same, approved De
cember 27lh, lS45, and to authorise said
company to take and bold in fee simple,
the plat ofground granted to the same by
the Mayor and Council of the city of Col
umbus.
142. To alter and amend an act enti
tled an act amendatory of an act entitled
to revive and make valid an aet, lo make
permanent the site of the public buildings
in ami for the county of Troup at the
town of LaGrange, and- to incorporate
the same, assented to- December 16tb,
1828.
111. To compensate the Petit Jurors
ol the county of Troup.
112. For the relief of Peter Trezvant.
113. To make the person holding the
office of Gleik of the Superior Court and
Clerk of the Inferior Court or cither of
them eligible to the ollice of Clerk ol the
Court ofOrdinary, in the county of Burke.
114. To incorporate the Washington
Rail Itoad Company with powers to con
struct a. Hail Road from- the town of
Washington, in Wilkes county, to the de
pot to the Central Itarl Road, known as
Tetinille, or to some other convenient and
suitable point on said last mentioned
Road; to punish those who may wilfully
and maliciously
ordinary Courts, and to regulate seamen
and mariners 1 arid lo prevent them from
being- harboured or running i t debt, pas
sed Decembei 26ih, 183f.
[Continued next week.']
Fm.vt'it Baltimore Republican:
CONGRESS AND THE WAR SUPPLIES—
FEELINGS OF THE PEOPLE WITHOUT
RESPECT TO PARTY—WHAT THEY EX- the Democratic ranks by tHfeir delays in
of Divine Providence?”
Lest the Whigs in Congress may dis
regard all admonitions 1 from the “Loco
Foeo sources,” we shall introduce to iheir
notice the views of Whigs about the mode
and manner of prosecuting the war, and
see if they will follow the counsels of
their own 1 friends. So laras party is con
cerned we can have no objection lo the
Whigs driving thousands of their memo
PECT AND'WHAT THEY WILL DEMAND. ! increasing our military forces in Mexico,
In this State, and, we believe, in every hut this is a question which soars far
otlier quarter of our country, there is a
large body of the Wliigs in fitvor of a vig
orous prosecution of the war wiifi McXito;
but lieeause they voted for Whig candi
dates who declared the war- lo be tlie acl
of our government, their leaders are act
ing under the false presumption that they
endorsed their unjust accusations against
our country, and favor a discoritlfi0ar.ee of
hostile operations against the Mexican
rulers. The number of the Whigs who
know that Mexico commenced the war in
spile of many efibrts to prevent it, and
who are in favor of continuing vigorous
hostilities against that country until all
-..u uioticiuusty injure the same, and to-...-- — ,v Conveti- hostilities against mat oi»mnr .......
confer all powers necessary io effect saij an act to incorporate the " a P u ' , 1 her ruler3 shall declare themselves ready
- L: - * ’lion of the State of Georgia, anu to au , .. ., . <•—.
lion of the State of Georgia, «j ercer 1 to make peace, is so large that we feel
change the time for ihonse certain trustees , " , ; confident, if the question was put to the
.i r..rie Ilniversilv to make By Laws ana regie a 1 .. t i,_ i,.i:
object.)
115. To alter and
bolding the Superior and Inferior Courts
in the county of Bibb, and to enable the
Judge of the Superior Courts of the Flint
Circuit to Ivohl the Superior Court in the
county of Houston, two weeks, and lo
draw two panels of Grand and Petit Ju
rors of said county of Houston.
110. To grant certain privileges-and
nnmuiiities to the Jefferson Riflemen, a
Volunteer InluiUry corps, in the county-
°fJefferson.
117. To provide for the payment ofarr
rearages due teachers for -leaching poor
University to make By —- - ~ ..
lions for the government for the said vil-
fage of Penfiuld, assented to 2Slb Decem
ber, 1S38, so far as to place the govern
ment of the said village of Penfield in the
hands of commissioners, and for other
^ 143. To incorporate the Evergreen
Cemetery company of Bonaventure.
144 Toadda part of the county of
•carages due teachers tor teaching pcxjr^io proviuo Tazewell; to
children in the years 1844, 1845, Dnd'of the public buildings of ^
J846, s„ f ar as respects the counties El-! remunerate the.owners [ for lhat p arl ywho were ICT «o clamorous,
krt and Thomas. " : of property j for sending fifty thousand additional troops
.US. To change the line between,the 1 ment for undertakers o .
American people to be decided at the bal
lot-box next fall, at least three fourths of
them would say—“let'the war go on even
if it shall result in the conquest and an
nexation of all Mexico.”
Such being the feelings of three-fourths
of the American people without respect to
party, it is natural that they all should
feel indignant at lbe neglect of Congess
to provide the means of active and more
extended hostilities that were so earnest
ly called for by the head of the War De
partment. 1 Especially i* il natural that
they should feel indignant ot the members-
- 1 who were 07* so clamorous
above parly, and which calls for the heap
ing of coals of fire upon every Congres
sional terrapin’s baeff, to stif hlm op-lo a
prompt and speedy performance of bis
duty, It is a question which should cause
tlie people lo congregate in every town
and village of the Union, and let their
will and wishes be thundered into the
cars of every Mbxican iff Congress. II is
a question which, being so well under
stood by every, roan, woman and child in
the nation, cannot he a mystery to'any
Congressman or Senator—it is the ques
tion “shall we obtain indemnity for the
[last and security for the future from
Mexico,” or " shall we abandon every
thing we have been fighting for, because
the conquest of Mexico may be the result
ofi Mexican obstinacy or American des
tiny ?”
The Senate has confirmed, it is said;
the nomination of the Hon. John W. Da
vis, late Speaker of tbe House, as Com
missioner to China, lo taks the place va
cated by tbe death of the Hrin. Alex. H.
Everett; also that of Col. Rowan, lo Na
ples, to take the place of Col. Polk; also,
Dr. Niles, to Sardinia.
TRY IT;
The best cure for a sore throat is to get
married to a pretty girl and sleep every
A WORD MORE OF THE LINE
POLICY.
In our remarks last evening, on Mr. Cal
houn’s speech, We said hut little of his plan
as a muuc of conducting the war to compel
a treaty of peace. Mr. Calhoun cannot—
and, if we understand hint; docynot—con
tend that his line of policy has any merit in
this respect. On the controry 1 , he looks to
our armed occupation of his defensive line,
without a treaty, as a state of things that
must last “for years” at least, and which
may continue indefinitely,- tiff Mexico be- 1
comes tired of assaulting us and ready to
negotiate. In this point of view—his own
choscR-ose—»wc looked at llie nature of his
plan and its consequences.
But now we say that this his policy can
never be carried out. If Congress should
vote it unanimously, and the people ratify
iheir vote—which can never be—still the
policy vviir surely foil f The American
people, when they come to-try it, will nev
er endure its inevifoife operation. Ourtroops
will never stand on a mere defensive line,
receiving^ succession of murderoitS-assaults
from Mexico, and awaiting repetitions of
those assaults, without advancing to avenge
and” chastise them. Let such-advance be
made beyond the fine—let our'ariny march
in pursuit of the foe into his country—and
the fine of policy, however solemnly voted,
is practicalfy at an end'. Wir are,- then, a-
gain waging an invasive tear. The case of
Gen. Taylor, attacked in his posts or on
his way to them, is again; in substaiice, up
on us, and again the cry goesforlh lo rescue
and revenge ! And"this is tfrir—war ax we
novY fitive it—war, not on the enemy’s line
—but war lo bis hiding place though in the
heart of his land! But il is war with our
advantages all surrendered, and again to be
achieved. For the Hrifc polity We shall
have given up all these; and then giving
up the fine policy ns unendurable, we must
fight the war over again to avenge the out
rages perpetrated and the blood shed on
the line! No statesman ini this country—
nor_all the statesmen in the country—nor
any policy, line or or other—can stay, in
the case vve have staled, this just at}d re
sistless impulse of the 1 popular heart!
Mr. Calpoun urges that th4 policy which
would seek indemnity from Mexico by a
vigorous prosecution of the war, is a rever
sal of the policy hFWhich the democrat ic
parly has beciMo long- devoted, arid-tt de
feat of all its great issues—a liberal com
mercial system, a sound currency, a dimu-
nition of executive patronage, and freedom
from public debt. How, under t his admin
istration, the war policy has defeated free
trade and a metalic currency, let the reve
nue tariff of 1846, arid tbe warehousing
THE LATE GEN .HAMER’.
Gen. Hamer was born in Pennsylvania,-
and came to Clermont couuly, Ohio, when 1
lie Was a young mnn (nr iritfiet* a Itld,)
without money, without-frie>4(l?r,.mfif'With 1
no more than a common Fnglisii 1 educa-
night with her sleeve enveloping an arm, tear,
round your neck, instead ofa “ stocking.”; leari
His first iiusiheso effort was Lbachirtg a'
common schoolnext' he bet time a slu- 1
dent at law. He was admitted to'ljhc 1
liar in 1821, ami the same year seltlhd if?
Georgetown, Biown Snuey. fc).,-whicVho
ramie iiiS 1 permanent residmee. He Was 1
a member of the Legislature of Ohio sev 1 - 1
oral sessions, ami was once elected SjlfA 1 - 1
kerofthe House ofdVepresenimives. He
was elected lo Congress in 1832, nndeoH-
tinued a member fur siNyenrs. Hd then
declined a re-election, and ilevoied him- 1
Self td" business as a lawyer until'1846.
Tbe ability which be displayed 1 dbring 1
this period removed aH*doubl,iifiriliy be
fore existedeol bis* capacity to 1 atlrtrti his 1
profession in its highest departments,
either on the Bench or at the Bar. i t
Iti June, 1845, he was unanimously
nominated’ by n 1 Convention of the party
lo which lie "belonged as a candidate-for
a seat in tbe U. S. House of Represerita- 1
lives, and on the second Tuesday of Oc
tober following was elected without oppd*
sition. . ' : fSj
When our soil bad been invated by Mftt*'
ico, and whem-he people were called up
on to sustain lhe rights anJ honor of the
nation hy arms, Gen. Ha offer was ariiorigSl'
the first who crowded forward. He vbl--
unteered as a private, and as sunk entered
Camp Washington. He was there elect,
ed Major of the 1st Ohio Regiinent, and
was -soon after appointed a Brigadier
General by the President; arid' lhfs last
promotion was,oil his'partJiaaWfave been
told, unsolicited. ygFl. ,; W
In his brief military careerj lSe became
a ihvbrile of the army. His knowledge
of men served to more thin supply-his.
want of a military education.
He endeared himself to the private: sol
diery by bis kindness and attention;- and
hrU bravery and conduct, as welt at,lbe
battle of Monterey os elsewhere, elicited,
-at -his decease, frorri the commanding
General; the high' encomium Hliatjbi*
place could riot be supplied.’ ; ,• ,v
, !,Xhe capital invested jn the cotton man-
pfacturo iu England, is stated in a recent
•• “ :,h *
learn that it has.terer bceitm the creed aqjmmecse snip pi 8350,000,000., - -