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MISCELLANY.
From the A'. O. Cnaent.
FLOODING AN EDITOR.
Some year* ago, a populous town, locateJ toward*
the interior of Mississippi, was infested hy a gang of
blacklegs, who amused theuiseles at times by prey
ing upon each other. Anew importation of these
•porting gentry exciting some alarm among the
inhabitants, lest they should be completely over
run—they determined on their expulsion. A poor
devil of a country Editor, who waa expected by virtue
of hia vocation to take upon himself all the responsi
bilities from which others might choose to shrink, was
peremptorily called upon by Ins •• patrons'’—that is,
those who paid him two dollars a yeat for his paper,
and therefore presumed they owned him, soul and
body—in make an effort towards the extermination of
the enemy. The unfoitunate editor, liko moat of ed
itors, being gifted with just about as much hrsins as
money—skull and purso both empty —said at once
that he would indite a•• flasher,” one that would un- 1
doubtcdly drive the obnoxious vermin into some more
hospitshle region. And when his paper appeared, il
was a•■ flasher” sure enough. 11l the course of bis
observations, he gave the initials of several of the fra
ternity, whom he advised to leave town as speedily ss
possible, if they bad the slightest desire to save their
bacon.
The next motntng, while the poor scribe was com.
fortahly seated in his office, lietles-ly fumbling over a
meigrc parcel of exchanges, he heard footsteps on the
stairs, and presently an individual having trcumpli-h
----ed the ascent, made his appearance. His first salina
tion was slightly abrupt,
••Where’s the editor of this and and dirty, lying
paper.
Now, aside from the rudenesa of this opening inter
rogatory, there were other considerations to induce the
editor to believe that there waa trouble on foot. The
personage who addressed him, bore a cowhide iu bis
hand, and moreover, seemed to be exceedingly enra
ged, ‘This was not all—he recognized in him a dis
tinguisbd leader of the sporting fraternity, with whose
cognomen he had taken very irreverent liberties. It
was without the slightest hesitation, llierotore, he re
plied to the introductory query.
•• I don’t know.
•• Do you In long to this concern 1”
•• No indeed ; but I presume the editor will soon
be in.”
“ Well,” said the visitor, •• I will wait for him,”
and suiting the acdon to the word, composedly took a
chair, picked up a paper and commenced reading.
*• If I meet him,” said the frightened knight of the
scissors and qutil. I will tell him there is s gentle
man here who wishes to see him ”
As he reached the fool of the stairs, in hi* hssty re- j
treat, he was accosted by another person, who thus 1
made himself known :
•• Can you tell me where I ran Grid the anstkitig
rascal who hss charge ol this villain iui sheet ’ pro
ducing the last number *f •• Freedom's Echo and
Battle Axe of Liberty.”
“ Yea,” replied the editor, •• be is up there in the
office now reading, w ith his bark to the door,”
Thank you” exclaimed the stringer ss he boons- j
ed up: stairs.
“ I've got you have 1,” ejaculated be, aa ha made
a grasp at his brother in iniquity, and they came era
sing to the fl or together.
As the combatants, notwithstanding the timiltrily
of their vocation, happened to b* unacquainted with
each other, -• a very pretty quarrel'’ ensued. First one
was at the top, then the other—blow followed blow,
kick followed, and oath followed oath, until bruised,
exhausted and bloody, w ith fsees and features resem
bling Deaf Burke afier a two hours’ pugilistic encoun- ‘
ter, there was by mutual consent s cessation of hostili
ities, As tho warriors sat on the floor contemplating
each other, the first comer found breath enough to ask, ‘
“ U ho ore you ? What did you attack mt for 1
•■You abused tne in vur, you scoundrel.”
•‘ Me ! I’m not the editor ; 1 came here to flog him j
myself!”
Mutual explanations and apologies ensued, and the I
two mis'akcn gentlemen retired to •• kind up their ‘
wounds.” As the story comes to us, the distinguished ;
individual whose vocation il was to enlighten Ilia world ‘
by the aid of trial great engine the public press, esca- j
ped Scott-free.
THE HONEST BOY.
A gentleman from the country placed his win with
a dry goods merchant in street. For a time all
went on well. At length a tidy came into the store j
to purcha-e a silk dress, and the young mss wailed !
upon her. The price demanded waa agreed to, and
he proceeded to fold the goods. He discovered be- |
fore Le had finished, a flaw in the silk, tnd pointing
it out to the lady, said, •■ Madam, I deem il my duty ,
to tell you there is a fracture in the silk.”
Os course the did not take it.
The merchant overheard the remark, and immedi
ately wrote to the father of the young man to ceme
and take him home, for said be, •• he will never mike
a merchant.
The father, who bad eer reposed confidence in his
ton, was much grieved, and hastened to the city to tie
informed of his deficiencies.
*• Why will he not make a merchont 1” asked he.
“ Because he has no tact,” wt* the answer. Only
s day or two ago he told a wdy r'dMWfae* lf, who wst
buying silk of bim. that the goods wcie damaged, and
I lost the bargain. Furchssers must took oat for them
selves. If they rsnnot see flaws, it would be foolish
ness for me to tell them of their existence,”
•• And is that all bis fault 1” a-ketl the parent.
“ Y'es,” answered the mfcbsm, •• he is very well
in other respects ”
“ ‘Then I love my son l etter than ever; and I thenk
you for telling me oftliis matter; I would not have
him another day in your stole for the world.”
Lornrn!''—A colored men lately went inlo our
Pot Office, and putting hit note ehwe up to the d
livi rjr box, cried out to Davenport, “ kt/d'r.” The
Cletk supposing the negro to ha deaf snd that he was
making a request of him to speak loader, so that he
could hear, asked him in a very loud tana, the name
of the person for whom he warned the latter.
“ Louder !” cried the negro.
‘ What name V yelled the Clerk.
• Louder !!’ again balled the negro, who now suppo
sed the Clerk to be deaf.
“ The Clerk took along breath, and with all his i
might, again In lowed out in the negtoa'a face the same
question,—• What name f’ This was done in so loud
a tone, thot the echo seemed to return from the fair
off hills.
“The negro started back in alarm, shouting at th/\
very top of hit lungs, • Louder, an I Louder. I told ;
you louder nty name is nothing else !’
’ Oh ! ah ! oh. ho !’ said the Clerk, ’ your name is
L iuder, eh 1 Dtd*nl think of that—here’s your let
ter, Mr. Louder, here’s your Irtlet V— Hartford *
Timet,
“ Tom, a word with you.”
” Ue quick, then, Pin in a hurry.”
” What did you give your sick horse t'other day V
” A pint of turpine.”
John hurries home and administers the aame doaa,’
to a favor,te charger, who strange to sav. drops off de
funct in half an hour. Ilia opinion ol his friend Tom's
veterinary ability is somewhat staggered. He meets
hitn the next day.
•’ Well Tom I”
” Well, John, what is it 1”
*’ I gave my horae a pint of terpentine, and it kil
led him as dead aa Julius Caas .r.
Bo it did mine,”
PRESERVING rooiTIN AIR-TIGHT TIN
CASES.
In a lata English paper we are it staled that a Me.
Gunter has invented a method of preparing the meat
of Turtle at Honduras, and securing it in ait-tight tin
re*. is which state it is conveyed to England at
much less cost and risk than by iha old method of con
vey mg live tallies. Mr. Canter, it arsine. Us secured
a patent for Ins invention.
We arc informed that an aaUbfialnwent has been in
active operation for some (lore, at Eastporl in this
State, for Ilia purpose of preparing lobsters, clams, and
flthaf various kinds, also turktes, ducks, sea fowls,
A#., for tha table, and securing the articles, cooked and
tiroasaJ, in air-tight tin ruaee, when they are shipped
in different parts of the world for a market. The
waste and llvh thus prepared, it is said, will keep fir
anun'ha and even years. The businesie appear* to be
{ csriisj on quite ryvlonsallcaU?. **J Catholic countries
’ ure supplied with fish ni rtesb in every variety, and
prepared in every style of luxury to suit the pallates
of those who delight in good living and have the ahil
i ity to pay for the indulgence. The mode of sealing
up tho tin eases or boxes, after the air is exhausted by
means of the air pump, is kept a secret —no person
being allowed to visit the part of tho establishment
where this part of the work is performed.
We do not think it very desirable to have many new
contrivances for the encouragement of luxurious liv
ing by the indulgence of the appetite, but if people
will indulge in this way, who more likely than a Yan
kee, even at the lip end of Ysnkeedom. to turn an
honest penny in the business? —Bangor Courier.
DOMESTIC.
From the National Intelligencer,
THE FIFTH WEEK. OF THE SESSION.
The last se’nigiit has seen but little brought to an
end; but it has witnessed some facts of such a nature
that they may he looked upon as events; foi ilu ir im
portarice, their uncertainty of issue, and their complex
ion in politics and morals, unite to lift their mere in
troduction into an event, let the rvsult he what it may.
We need loudly explain that we speak ol the Texas
and Rhode Island questions,
Tlieso two are not inaptly matching side by side, a
double spectacle t f subversion within and aagiessioti
without. The father that encourage* wrong and
brawl among his own children, aiding with the patei
ual hand itself to pull down all household law, may
well he a faithless and fierce neighbor; and they who
last year, in our National Legislature, dissolved, for
the mere pleasure of a party, all Federal law, and
pronounced, in effect, that their own nets were no law,
may naturally apply the same wild and perlectly arbi
trary principles in any other direction, make tumult
the only thing legitimate at home, nd a passion for
arquisitioa the only rule or sanction abroud.
How little such a system can he resolved into any
idea, or obey any maxim hut that of a sovereign law
lessness, guided by nothing hut its own headlong will,
and iu that trampling as much on what itself vrsterday
declared as ori all other things, the present proceed
ings aie admirably fit to establish. The very men,
many of ti.ein, who last year solemnly decided that a
Stale cou'd, ut its pleasure, render totally void an act
of Congress, now lake upon themselves to set aide,
in rffi-ct, the entiie institutions of a State, and to le
galize un abortive attempt to overthiow them.
Surely, if such chaotic principles are to prevail, are
the only true ones, Freedom—tho establishment in
known and settled forms of a legal will of the body
politic, acting only by its own voluntary and deliber
ate engagement between all the men who compose it
is resolved hack into the in. essant law of mere force :
Society is all the while in its me e original elements,
and tumult is the only legislation. That hordes of
men—detesting all order, the enemies of anything de
liberate or stable, sworn foes to property and to peace,
and bent on turning society into that most dreadful of
all despotisms, the revolutionary fury of the moment
should Sit up such docilities, is not surprising; but
that legislators should conspire to oveithrow all law,
and to leach that nothing Linda but the popular fury
tl.m MAmanl, la a nnw fdienomefion, „a ulrangr aa n
would he to see priests teaching in the very temples
that there is no Odd.
The Dorr insurrection is now known in all its his
tory. Its original pretences, if ih*y had possessed
any validity, were all falsified by its subsequent con
duct; for when the legal Government gave what had
been demanded, it refused to accept any thing but a
violent subversion of the existing laws aud Govern
ment. In tile first place, the object avowed was one
at which it was esy to arrive by lawful methods, such
as, every where else in this country, have, with ■ lit
tle time sad juslice, always succeeded; for a true
popular will his never failed, and never will Isil in ,
this land of ours, to accomplish whatever it steadily (
desires, for this the Dorrite movement refused to I
sim ; ail I when, merely to avoid s tumult, it was of
fered sit this, it doggedly rejected it—would submit to
no legal settlement—challenged nothing short of e
resort to anarchy and arms—drove from it, by it* ob
vious purposes of mere disorder and misrule, all sober
men; snJ, in the appeal to force which it would alone
accept, opposing U wise, calm, firm, patriotic courage,
nothing but ra*hness, fully, and cowardice, was over
thrown wuh the most ignominious circumstances that
ever yel signalized any such attempt, from the time of
Jac k Cade to that of .Massamello; or, to lake a case
in our own hialory, down to the Whiskey Insurrec
tion.
It is this miserable abortion of unprovoked mis.
chief, the dttestation of the good, the scorn of the
brave, that the proceedings in question are meant to
redeem, fioin its deserved defeat and all its shocking
mixture of absurdity and atrocity with poltronsry, into
credit, countenance, and a sort of legal existence.
W hat purpose it is to serve, except tiiat of preparing
fresh troubles, of shaking the good and moderate
authorities of the Stale thus brought to trill for hav
ing preserved itself, and of indoctrinating the minds
• oi tho bad or weak with sedition, and preparing for
some new occesion—petheps the anti-Kent disturb
ance in another State—pillage and massacre under the
: name of Liberty, il is difficult to imagine. There is
I and can he no pretence for interfering with Rhode
Island aud its now well-settled and mercifully-admin
istered domestic laws, hut such ss might equally well
claim to vindicate again*! the acts of Virginia the ex
ecution of the negro-leader Gabriel, or that of Nat
I Turner. There, too, the tame indefeasible right of a
majority—(oi the slaves are such in most of the
i Southern Stales—inigbl he set up. Let the South,
the*, pause, and consider what to it and its gravest
interests are the legitimate consrquences of such De
mocracy ss this!
Well did Mr. Emxn, though of that party, stigma
t:*e these its principles, as art forth in the resolutions
attached to the committee's report, as nothing short of
Jacobinism. They breathe in their application—a de
cisive interpretation of their meaning—nothing but
the ovetthrow af all law, of all constituted society, of
all properly, of all personal security. Under such
there can be no rights: the greater number (real or
assumed) is the only thing valid. Set that up, truly
or falsely, and there is an end of all existing authori
ties and laws: the loosened society may do what it
likes. Nor that alone. Broken up by this fiction, it
is a bommunity no longer: each man recovers his in
dividual indejiendence of all others: it becomes strict
ly a state of Nature as to all: men may band them
selves as they please, ander what agreement they
please, for or against what ass lately one community;
and, nothing being left out this iinpiescuptiblc right
of the gicatvr number, whatever two who consent
meet a third, they may atrip or murder him, snd if is
i legal!
Let us turn, however, to the kindred measure of
“ Annexation”—the same, except that it belongs and
1 is te lie acted upon a larger theatre—the world.
It is now well understood that, upon this subject,
two caucuses of (he party moving it have been held
the one on Thursday night last, the other on the Sat
urday preceding it; and that at neither of three utter
ly unwarrantable instruments of deciding upon a for
eign question so momentous, could even a party con
; cet*. bo procured in favor of any safe principle or
(without u principle) any prudent mode of accom
plishing the object. In spite of this, however, the
; open events of the House testify what was known in
d. prudently of them—that it was decided only to try
f ,ho *hteou wager of battle or chance on the floor—
to cast in all plans, and take up with that one, which
i < ' ,eT ** might lie, in favor of which a majotilv of votes
coll Id lc ter u i rt).
j .°” Friday, accordingly, all the plans were thus
j I’* 11 *"* and 11l figh‘ began—not, however, without
some magnanimous and most edifying declarations on
the part of several, who bad each of them pirsented
j l"* Pl, that it was all the same to them—law, or
. ttaaty, or resolution; constitutional or legal forms
were, in their estimation, of small consideration.
These thingi were, in their eight, mere ceremonies,
formalities not worth carrying about, and would not
stand upon etiquette. Os as little consequence did
they consider how the Republic of Mexico was treat
i ed or what cause of resentment might be given her.
, Boundaries were to them, of courts, worthy of but
• light thought. Bo of assumption, the distribution of
the sutlace into free or stave territories, the consequent
disturbance and discord of the North and Mouth—all
j these were small matters. Clearly, the only point
; with three gentlemen was, per far out nr fat, Texas.
•• I want a provinte”—quoth the good Fiedcrick, tu
, the historic la anecdote which we hare lately related—
• ’• y nothing about God dr Religion I”
W# shall not here repeat the demonstration hereto
lore made of the unconstitulionslity of tny proceed
ing liy act or joint resolution of Coxeirxss on this
subject. The passage of such an act or resolution,
and the submission to it by the l’eople, would he a
deep wound to the Constitution. Vl'e do not aay that
the Constitution itself may not survive it. and, for a
greater or less number of years, the Government con
tinue to perloiui its ordinary functions; hut the be
ginning of ns final dissolulion will dale from that act
by which, in the true spirit us Dorrism. u majority in
the two IL •ues of CongfFM shall, by meie might,
without the shadow of right, atrip the Senate of the
tienty-making power.
YVc cannot bring ourselves to dr see fid, from the
cone deration of a nutter of such transcendent conse
quence. to inferior matter* which have occupied any
part of the attention of Congress during the lust ‘
week. Our renders will, however, lose hut little by j
our want of condescension, a* nothing t-Uo of much
interest wai touched upon in the House of Represcii- i
tutives, and nothing but private business transacted in ■
the Senate.
From the Hutton Adv. and Patriot.
OVEIi-PRODUCTION OF COTTON.
We publish, on the first page of ‘.o-duy’s Daily, an
article from the New Orleans Bulletin, on the over
supply of cotton, in all the markets of the world. The
depression of prices from this over-supply, occasions 9
loss, which fills Midi severity, upon the five most
southerly States of the Union. The steady tendency
to this result has been perceived, we suppose by every
body, for many years. The extreme effect* of the
over-production to an extent sufficient to produce re
action, have been delay id longer thuti could have been
reasonably anticipated, by the immense im reuse of de
mand ter the article, aiismg from the improvements of
machinery, and the degree of skill and industry appli
ed to the manufacture of it, and also from the widen
ed limits of civilization, which have ltd to a lur greater
consumption of cotton manufactures, than could have
been possible thirty years ago. Notwithstanding how
ever the steady increase of the manufacture of cotton, j
the increase of its culture has as steadily out-run the I
demand for the raw material, and the natural conse- f
quencc :s an extieme depression of price, which at last
embarrasses and alarms the producers.
The severe pressure of this state of things leads
people, who never before troubled themselves w ith re
flecting upon the subject, to inquire intuits causes, and
the remedy. The causes are sufficiently appaient.
The remedy in its general principle is equally so,
though there is doubllese room for much judgment
and discrimination, in the mode of applying it. That
is to say, by judicious course of actiun, on the part of
individuals who ate involved in this disastious state of
things, they may lighten the burden of their own los
ses, nnd at the same tune open a way to the gradual
relief their ft How sufferers. Subject to this modifica
tion of a general principle, the sutlereis from 111. a stale
of things must rely upon the natural operation of the
laws of trade to afford them relief* Tbc over supply
of one product of industry, must drive its producers
into some other field of labor, which will afford them
and subsistence, and the greatest degree of profit. The
law of trade is far more effective and remedial, than
the recommendations of councils and boards of trade,
or the resolutions of conventious. These me liable
to do more mischief than good.
But the question is, what other occupation can b®
more productive to a planter, than that which he has
pursued for a course of years ! Perhaps none, and
therefore, so long as this 10 true, each planter will for
himself continue in the same track. But there must,
of course be a limit, at which it might cease to he
true, universally,and • far higher limit at which it
will he true, in its application to many planters who
arc so situated that they may avail themselw sos some
advantageous change of pursuit. This, as we have
observed, must be the result of individual, and not of
general and combined action. Something might |>er
hapa be advantageously done in aid of measures of re
lief, by concerted action, and perhaps legislative in
terference, if wisely directed but the probability we
think is much greater, Ilian any such interference like
ly to be attempted, will bo productive of more harm
than benefit.
1 he great effort of tho Southern politicians, w hile
this slate of things has Ireen steadily and obviously
moved onward to the present crisis, has been to exert 1
their influence against that system of legiDiion which
has been directed to the encouragement of manufactu
ring industry—a system which they allege is hostile
to the agricultural and planting interests. They have
neglected, in the mean time, all effoits to encourage
th. direction of a portion of their own industry, to
any other pursuits than those which they insist are
discouraged and burdened by this system of legi>la
tion. W hat can now be more apparent, than that
their greatest embarrassment—the calamity which
threatens to overwhelm them, is tire excessive employ
ment of capital and labor, in that very hianch of cul
tivation, which they allege has been overburdened and
ruined, by the encouragement of other branches of in
dustry ? They now admit, for nothing can be clearer,
than tha ruin of the planting business is over-stimu
lus* or of the inducement held out by the promise of
higher profits in this branch of industry, than in any
otner.
In the xcal of these politicians to comhxt a policy
which they have imagined to bo designed exclusively
for the benefit of other pails of the country, they appear
to have overlooked one important incident to the situ- 1
ation in which thpy were placed. They were ena
bled by their position, in a country favoiable for the
unlimited increase of production of cotton —anew ar
ticle otcommerce for which a remarkable concurrence
ol causes had produced an enormous, and steadily in
creasing demand—to pursue an immensely profitable
branch ot industry, the profits of which they suppo
sed to be susceptible of indefinite extension, in propor
tion to the amount of ca| ital and labor devoted to the
pursuit.— Every thing which in their estimation ten
ded to limit these profits, by rendering other pursuits,
in other Slates, comparatively eligible, they regarded
as a positive injury to their own inleiesta. They now
find, however, that their great enemy has been exces
sive encouragement, and their situation is such, that if
Providence should send a blight throughout the whole
planting trgions of the world, which would cutoff,
with an even hand, one half of the year's crop, they
would regard it as a most merciful dispensation.
There is anolhrr view of their interests, which al
though it has attracted the attention of many intelli
gent men in the cotton producing Btßtes. seems to
have been entirely overlooked by the mass of the peo
ple. 1 list is the effect likely to be produced on the
amount of cotton culture, by the incot puratinn of Tex
aa with the American Union. Texas is in its present
•tale, to a small exlenl, a rival of the cotton producing
Steles. Unless some material change should take place
in its | oluical condition, it is not likely to become tor
many years at least, a very formidable rival in
any. In the opinion however of those who are well
acquainted with the advantages whtch it possesses of
soil and climate, it is capable of becoming in a fetv
years, in case of its admission to the Union, such 8
competitor with (he cotton grow ing States, both in our
own and :n foreign mm kits, in the supply of every de
scription of produce whieh they are capable of raising
as must materially aggravate the embarrassments
which we have been considering. If tbetefore there
is any moke of joint action by which they can hope to
! produce an effect likely to prevent a further aggrava
j linn of their embarrassments, we think it is in using
i their efforts to ptevent ihc annexation of Texas. They
) are surely more deeply interested in ibis question,
than we ate at the North.
lux Expillxs SrsiTon.— We havo already sta
ted that Mr. Emmett, a Loco Foco Bcnator had been
expelled bom his scat in the North Carolina legisla
ture. for having presented a forged certificate that he
was elected. VVenow learn that subsequently, three
M hig Senators having gone home, advantage was ta
ken of the acridrnt.il nujorily thus obtained by the
opposite party expunge the whole procerdinga on
the aubject from the Journal, and reinstate the Sena
ator in Ilia place.
GEORGIA K \IL ROAD.
We are gratified to he informed that the Georgia
Hail Road haa been opened for Iho accommodation of
both Freight and Passengers to Covington, 2fr miles
baynnd the late terminus at Madison, The Road be
yond (hat is graded as tar aa Whitehall, where it con
nects with the Blate Road, and will tie finished for that
distance in September next. At the same period the
State Road will be in operation aa far aa Caeaville,
within 17 miles of tha Cooea.and #0 of the Tenntsacs
Qtver.~-Charfct/oti Mercury,
Frsmtht Sets York Weekly New*.
Cwwmerclnl Conselida'ion •( Fiirejrc
The great movement of ihe present century
is undoubtedly the ascendancy of commercial
interests over every other. War, as a means
of strength and aggrandizement to nations,
ceased with Waterloo. From that hour the
progress of commerce lias been gradually re
composing Europe into one vast empire, gov
erned by mutual in ercsts, cemented by rad
roads, connecting every considerable point.—
The-first great step towards freedom of inter
course, was taken by Prussia in 1827. That
power, by the disunion of the German States,
was brought to the brink of destruction under
the strokes of Napoleon. On the promulga
tion of peace in ISIS, Germany was cut up in
to numerous petty sovereignties, each having
its own custom house, surrounding their few
acres of territory, collecting scarcely sufficient
revenue to maintain their guards, and prevent
smuggling under the onerous taxes imposed
upon trade. The grievous inconvenience and
expense of such a system was so severely felt
in IS2G, that eleven of the small Stales, whose
total population was 894,778, entered into a
union called “ Dor Milted Veroiii,” for the
purpose of consolidating the customs, and hav
ing but one line of custom bouses uiound their
extreme frontier. This event gave direction
to the enterprise of the King of Prussia, who,
since the calamities of the war. had become
thoughtful and laborious, and with the experi
ence of the past before his eyes, was eagerly
looking for some means of strengthening the
power of Germany by a union of its material
interests. This was presented in the plan of
the “Middle Union,” and overtures were made
to all the powers of Germany to join in a gene
ral union. It appeared, however, that former
jealousies were not yet extinct. Bavaria,
Wurtemburg, Saxony, and Baden determined
not to enter into a union in which the weight of
Prussia would give her the preponderance.—
Prussia, however, with infinite skill in the use
of the events of 1830, viz : the Polish Revolu
tion—the French Revolution—and the Belgian
Revolution—all the result of the growth of
popular rights, succeeded in drawing all the
German States into the union for mutual pro
tection. By this means Prussia seized the
control of affairs in the north of Europe. In
fact, in a commercial form, she has succeeded
in recomposing the ancient Germanic empire
of 30,000,000 souls for her own advantage, and
Belgium and Holland have made overtures,
which followed by the assent of Denmark,
and the Haase towns, will eventually throw
the whole sea coast from Dautzic to the
Scheldt, open to the interior States.
This has led to a movement in the south of
Europo of equal importance. Austria did not
regard without extreme jealousy this continu
ous aggrandizement of a monarchy long her
inferior, but now her equal. To counteract
the movement, or partake of its advantages,’
was long her object. To join tho Leogue and
overshadow Prussia was at first proposed.—
Her agricultural aristocracy, however, prevent
ied the removal of the barriers raised against
the German States. Another project present
!ed itself. Austria has magnificent oorts on
the Adriatic, Trieste in particular ; and the
Adriatic opens to her the Mediterranean.—
On the shores of these two seas exist a num
ber of small States, the combination of which,
1 commercially, under Austria, would form a
i counterpoise to the Prussian League. The
i statesman at the bead of the Austrian govern
ment immediately seized this plan—u prelimi
nary treaty has been concluded with the diffe
rent Italian States, drained by the Po, as well
as the Sardinian States, the object of which is to
remove the duties that obstruct the navigation
i of tb* river, and is to be followed by a conven
tion for the establishment of a uniform turiff
for the south of Europe. The opulent city of
Trieste will thus become the centre of vast
commerce, and of a prosperity which may in ;
some degree restore the mercantile honors of
the Adriatic.
The two leagues thus formed, will embrace
50,000,000 consumers of goods. France oc
cupies a central position, and her government
I is already preparing a closer commercial alli
ance with both. She draws large agricultural
supplies already from the Sardinian States,
and necessity exists for removing some of the
existing commercial relations. The march of
events is so rapid, that, at no distant day, the
intercourse between the Slates of Europe will
be as free as between the States of North Ame- ’■
rica. The war of bloodshed ceased in 1815,
and the war of custom houses will also be ex-j
tinguished in a few years j and, with the ex- 1
piration of the latter, the means of reviving the !
former will have perished. The prosperity i
which Europe must enjoy under the increasing
liberulity of her governments, will involve a
great benefit to the United States, and seem
ingly calls for a prompt response on our part.
’ The late accounts from England stuto that a
commercial treaty between the Prussian league
mid the Brazil is on the point of being conclu
ded, on grounds of reciprocity, similar to these
contained in our own reject! and treaty. The
Germans offer an extensive market to the su
gars and coffee of Brazils, who, in her turn, is
a large consumer of those goods in which the
Zollverein is now rivalling England. Thus,
while England is playing off her anti-slavery
’ pranks, the Germans will have quietly secured
; the Brazilian trade, and Northern Europe will
. eventually command all the American markets
, to the exclusion of England, and will have
I bound Europe to American interests by the
f strong band of commercial consolidation.
Nr.nr Ohles, Dr.cr.Mtua 24, 1844.
I have never witneased here at tlii* seaeon of the
year euch dullneea in buainra*. Produce ia crowding
to our city, and out Levee ia literally encumbered with
il, but the pricra arc ruinoua. The planlet* must .ell
to meet their preaaing call*, and ihe factor* their ac
ceptances, huttbry can only realize at heavy disad’
vantage. In the wholesale stores ot the city the com
plaint is most loud a* to an almost eeaaalion of de
mand within (he last few weeks ; not aro these com
plaints confined to any paiticular btanch, but dry
goods men, hardware, grocers, are all similarly situa
ted. A favorable change is looked forward to by soma
after the holy-days, but I think they will in a great
measure he disappointed, as the cause of it lies deep
er than there persona suppose. The low rates ol pro
duce have curtailed the means of many, ami the gen
eral want of confidence in the future induce all to
keep their allairs on a very limited m ale ; ond these
motives will continue to opetale until something more
certain is known as to the future policy of the country.
Further advices confirm the general injury to the
outstanding cane duting the late severe weather. Our
crop, however, will still he s large one, and not lea*
than 160,000 hogsheads. If our tariff was permanent
ly settled, we would ioa few days lurnish tha whole
supply for the Union. Sales of prime quality at 4
cents ; fancy lota of courao higher: good middling
quality 3j to 3 j cent*. Colton range* from 3J to 4
cent*. Yet at these prices we see Southern men advo
cating the annexation of Text*, in ordar to grow more
aupar and cotton, when, even under our present ex
tensive culture of these article*, scarcely ■ tithe of our
own vugar ami cotton hinds are occupied. Exchange
continues high, and will probably remain so, a* long
aa the low prices of produce reduces so greatly the
amount to ba drawn for.— G*rrettj>enii-.r,t of the Sat.
intelligencer.
From the Churleiton Mercury,
THE PROURESS OK AGGRESSION.
It ia one of the expedients amt results of cowardice
to reaaon nw iy tile importance of all difliculliea. Aa
soon as they are yielded—their importance becomes in
significant. Thus we now hear, after the South has
been overthrown in Congress, on the Slat Rule, anil
Congress by ibis act lias declared its supremacy over
the subject of slavery, then apologizing for our de
feat! •• It i* the beat thing after all. It will remove
a false is-ue ; and thus will put an end to abolition
ism.” This is n t reason. Reason and experience
both tonch, that in a gri ut question like that of our In
stitutions, every point yielded, is a point lost. Every
defeat, ia the precursor to renewed assaults. To have
expected abolitionism to be weakened or intimidated,
after a great conquest, obtained after a ten year's war,
was absurd. New points of attack—new and more
insolent pretensions and aggressions, will now be
brought into operation. This the Southern men said
ir. the debates on (lie 21st Rule the last year, and they
appealed to the whole history of these agitations to
prove it, The Northern men. Democrats and Whigs,
nevertheless, have joined together in overthrowing
them —and what ia the result 1 Not one month after
the repeal of this Rule, the Abolitionists propose to
have an Abolitiun Convention in the City of Wash
ington on the Ist ol .March next. They will apply for
the Hall of the House of Representatives, and if this
is not granted, they are to hold their meeting in the
grounds before the Capitol, For ourselves we are not
surprised ul this. It the subject is a legislative con
sideration by Congress, which the House lias solemn
ly determined—the whole North Hnd West upholding
the pretension, why should it not be the subject for
popular assemblages ? Why should not Abolition
Committees go to Washington, to examine snd inform
Congress, of any subject over which they have juris
dict.on 1 The fatal ground of jurisdiction being as
sumed, all tile rest, Abolition Conventions and legis
lation itself, becomes legiiiniate. Tho refuge now of
those who are prepared lor no strong measures to ar
rest the fstal tide sweeping down upon the South, is—
“ let them act in Cungiessthen we will move,” They
may rely upon it, Congress will not act until it ia safe
to act; but when Congress does act, are those filse
comforters sure that they will he for action 1 Will
they not say—• what is tho District of Columbia to us!
we are live hundred utiles off. l.el Virginia and Ma
ry land arrest and redresa the evil.’ Ate nut all such
arguments for submission to these encroachments upon
our rights and inroads on our safety, the mare subter
fuges of a craven and coward spirit 1 And as we are
beat back step by step —as insults humiliate—and
self-re-pect and self-confidence departs from the once
proud spirit of (South Caiolina, will not the power and
the will to resist grow weaker and weaker; until at
l ist, our successlul enemies naed do no mote than
leave u* to the last resort, and the last futu of weak
despair—aelf-slaughter.
Wc publish from the Albany Patriot the proposed
Abolition Convention in Washington—which we in
vite the attention of our readers. Tha •• Constitution”
has committed a very iin|Mifint ertor in its notice of
them. It says, “tired of the hateful strife—the ikoulb
at last yielded quietly to a repeal of the 31st Rule.”
Ihe South was not tired of the strife. No debate oc
curred at this session, for two reasons—lst, Ilia repeal
of the rule was unexpected,and 2J, the parlimetilary
forms hindered the ISouihern men from debating it.
Nor did thvy yield quietly at all: They were forc
ed to yield- In a Democratic House of two to one
’ against the Whigs—the Northern nd Western Demo*
i cratsjoined with the Whigs from those regions and re
pealed the rule. The act is the act of the Demociat
ic party, a majority of lliam carrying the measure.
Uul two men from tha whole South voted with them.
Ihe South was conquered, and conquered by their
Nothern allies. Let this tiuth be ever remembeied in
the tiam of consequences that will Bow from it.
Clerks nf the Courts of Ordinary and Land
Courts. —Many of the Interior Courts of this Stale
have elected the Clerks ot the Court of Ordinary on
the fust Monday of tins month. This it appears, has
been premature. The act of 1843 changes the regu
lar tenns from the first to the second Monday. The
question having thus been brought up, the Governor
has decided that in all cases the Clerks of the Coorls
of Ordinary and of tha I,and Courts, elected oil the
frst Monday, cannot he legally commissioned, but that
the election of such oflieei should be made in accor
dance with the act of 184$. Where this shell not
have been done, the Courts have au’bority under the
old law, we presume, to proceed and fill forthwith any
vacancy that may exist.— Southern Recorder.
Cr.XTRii Bine.— Five years having elapsed since
the last accommodation discount was made at this
Bank, the Governor lias dispensed with all the officers
hitherto connected with it. but the President and Cash
ier, and consequently, of any fnrther renewal of notes.
In lieu of renewal, the annual reduction is, we learn,
credited on the old note—which practice is, we pre
sume, to be pursued till ultimately paid in full.—. So.
Recorder.
SLacoHTaaise bursa.— We learn from the Olen
taugy Gazette, published at Delaware, Ohio, that on
one day, recently, about two thousand sheep passed
through that place on their way from Marion county
to Columbus, where they are to be slaughtered for the
owners, who propose pressing the tallow from the car
i tsss (except the hind quarters) and disposing of the
pelts for shipment to England where the demund is
good and they are admitted duty free. These sheep
1 were bought lor the purpose of stocking farm for wool
| raising—but the election of Polk and the consequent
: uncertainty as to the fate of the Tariffi has caused the
business greatly to decline, and this course is adopted
by thoxe who had gone largely into it, to savt them
selves from loss.
We learn that before they commenced killing,
Messrs. Comstock A Cos. of Columbus, had contrac
ted to slaughter 13.000—and we see that at Sandusky,
Cleaveland, anil other places, thousands are being
slaughtered daily. The lands that would have been
devoted to the support of there sheep, will now be de
voted to the production ot grain, to compete with the
already super;,bunds t quantity which gluts eveiy mar
ket—thus giving the farmers a alight foretaste of the
glorious results that would flow from the repeal of
the Turin.
•f voice from the M*copies Store
Great rioariiiß-out Snle of
DRY GOODS.
fIXHE determination of the manager of this eatablish-
J. nient to carry into “(feel new ni rangemenl*. to take
place on the first of March, 1845, renders it important,
as well aa absolutely necessary, that the entire and val
uable stock of Dry Goods be for the next seventy daya,
thrown upon tho market, to be disposed of nt *i.toe price
or other—Coat or no Cost. However unrennonahle it
mny appear, yet the subacriher ddeina it absolutely ne
cessary to made the sacrifice, in order to close up his
oast and present business previous to March, 1845. We
have no lime to particularise, but would merely snv,
tlmt we have pot to dispose of a great many Goods in’a
short time. This is to lie accomplished hv cheap prices
—mid tire People shrill have these price's for the next
seventy days, rhatikfu! for the favors ol a benevolent
public in limes pnat, the subscriber lakes this method to
say, that a continuance of the same will aid ua much
in closing up our business with despatch.
GEORGE CLARK, People’s Store,
Macon, Dec 17, 1841. 44
Ib'iigNt iTlcilicincfi, Ac.
TO PLANTERS AND PHYSICIANS.
IIK auhttunlirr is rrerivin# every clay, frvsh sup
■ plies of Medicines, which are very carefully se
lected for him in the northern markets, nnd having ado-,,
ted the Cash system entirely, is enabled to sell etvery
reduced prices. Physicians and others liavi'-.g oppor
tunities nl sending to him, may relv upon navinr tlieir
orders executed upon the most favorable terms—the
quality of the article will he the very hr* Tnd l e
prices ns low a* if they attended pevsonUy u, ffiem'r
chaeeof them. lIARVty HIIOTWEIX.
Mny 16,1844. COr " ,r C * n,n ‘ l “ o,e, ’, 3
F a tent •! Medicine**
pXiRACTS Ssisnpnrilla,
* 4 .l* o ’. Pink Root.
Tunic Mixtures,
I’ll.LS—Hull's, Peter*’, Beckwith’*, Spencer'*,
J Tomato, and others.
A general assortment of Patent Medicines, Thompso
nian, Arc. receiving add for aafe by
June l (7 “ J. 11. &W. S. ELLIS.
IVAiicP <0 Creditors.
A f.L person* Imviug dnMns against the estaln of
£. Elijah North, arw hereby netified to rsudor them
in according to law. I. F. STEGALL, Adrn'r.
Jail 7, 1845. 6w47
ttOVVUXIO.i TED.
AGRIITLTItRAL JIEI.TIVC
A large and respectable number of ibe'eiti
zens of B.bb county, assembled at the Court”
bouse, on Tuesday 7th inst., for the puruosw
of organizing an Agricultural Society.
The meeting was organized upon motion nf
Col. D.C. Campbell, calling Col! John £ ar
to the Chair, and requesting Samuel R. Dluk
Esq., to act as Secretary. e ’
After a few pertinent remarks f rora ~
Chairman, announcing the object of the , ne f
ing, and urging upon the Planters of the coun
try, the necessity of meeting frequently
Council, to devise some mentis for better
their condition, it was moved and •ecotidei/hf
Thomas King, Esq., “ That a committee bo
appointed to draft a Constitution and laws f,
an Agricultural Society to be formed j u thil
county, to report at an adjourned tneetino o ,*
jhe Ist Tuesday in February, by proxy.”” ‘
Whereupon, the Chairman appointed tlm
following gentlemen members of said Commit
tee, viz : Thomas King, Asa E. Earnest, Sam'i
Strong, J. 11. U. Washington, and’C
Dean, Esq*. Cs
Upon motion of D. C. Campbell, Esq., th r
following getilleiinn were appointed by the
Chairman, committee to prepare and publish
an Address to the Planters of Georgia v ; 7 .
D. C. Campbell, E. A. Nisbet, T. G ‘ Holt
J. D. Winn, and James Smith, Esq*.
On motion, S. M. Strong, Esq., such persons
present as were willing t„ unite in the f orma .
lion and support of an Agricultural Society, be
requested to come forward and enrol their
names ; whereupon n large number of the most
substantial planters of the county, appeared
and handed their names to the Secretary.
On motion of Col. Campbell, “the presses
of this city are requested to pubbsh the pro
ceedings if this meeting, and to urge upon the
farmers of Bibb county, the propriety and im
portance of the adjourned meeting on tho Ist
Tuesday in February next, and earnestly to so.
licit their attendance upon the summ
Signed, JOHN LAMAR, CA'm
Sim’l. R. Blake, Sec'\j,
■’ ii.
S'awurif < iriiuihci , Jnn. 10. INXi
REGULAR MEETING.
AMermaa Hj lander, cl. airman of tire committee on street*
and ln:*eg otters the toUtmiivg resMutioto ;
Resolved, TImK the He. k of eonatil arivertifr for
proposals to he handed m *0 on or before the 17ih ,j nv
of this month, for keeping hi repair the streets nnd alley/,
bridges snd sewers m the city ot & aeon, phe Macon bydxe
ami the main aewer excepted) upon the following ttrms sail
conditions :
Ist. The contract to last for on* year from its date.
2nd. The contractor to furnish ami keep fniistantlv at
work nwt leaa than eiglrl able heefned men, two boys and an
overseer. Also, not less ffcft* fcwr mule*dr horses, snd four
carts, ami the necessary implement a.
3d. The contractor to furnish the lumber necessary to 1
keep all ihe bridges anti sewers in the city in good repair
(the Macon bridge and the stain sewer excepted.)
4th. The contractor to work under the direction nf the
committee on streets and alleys snd of the Mayor of the city
and his work and hands to be subject to the daily iuspsctiu,-
of the Marshall or the deputy Marshalls.
5. The contractor to do the work of city scavenger.
6th. The contractor to be paid quarterly on the first day
of April. Ju'y. October, and nt the expiration of the con
tract. The street committee first reporting on his work for
th* quarter.
7th. The contractor to give bond and ample security. so
be approved of by the council in double the amount of hir
contract for the faithful discharge of his duties.
Resolved, That si the meeting of council on the 17th dsv
of this month, we proceed to elect a street contractor upon
the foregoing terms and conditions, reserving the right of
•electing that proposal which may be deemed most advanta
geous to the city.
Adopted by Council—
Notice is hereby given thnt proposals will be received at
my rffice as set forth in the above resolutions, until the eve
ning of the 17ih day of this month.
• A. 11. FREEMAN,
Clerk of Council.
Council Chamber, January 10, IMS
REGULAR MEETING.
Tuc following ordinance to regulate the price of licen
sing, ard to raise the revenue for the year 1845. was read
the first time, when, on motion, the rules were suspended,
and the ordinance unanimously passed:
Re it ordained by the Mayor and Council nf the City of
Macon, and it is hereby ordained by the authority of the
same, thnt from and immediately after the passage of the or
dinance, the following shall be the rates of licenses :
Section Ist. *
For each and erery dray with one horse, sls 00
For each and every dray with two horses. 25 00
For each and every waggon used for the purpose
of hauling lumber only. 40 00
For each and every one horse hack er carriage for
the conveyance of passengers to and from the
rail road depots, 20 00
For each and every two horse hark or carriage so.-
the conveyance of passengers to and from the
t rail roaddep>ta, 5 0 00
For each and every omnibus with four horses, 100 00
For each ond eveiy omaibts with six horses, 125 00
Bridge free—Feea fur each of the above, 1 50
Section 2d
Foreaoh ond erery license for retailing of spiritu
ous liquors, 10 00
For each and erery billiard fable, 25 00
For each and erery pin or ball alley, 5 00
For each vendue license, 50 00
For each render of Lottery tickets, 50 00
Feea for each, 1 23
Section 3d
For each and every male free pefaofi of Color be
tween the age of 18 arid 50 years, 15 00
For each and every female free person of color be*
tween the age of 16 and 45 years, 10 00
Fee for each, 50
flection 4th—
For a badge to permit a slave whose owner lives in the
city, to work about the city for hire, as follows:
For a mechanic o- handier* fttnan, 25 00
For a drayman, porter, coachman, or common laborer, 10 00
For a washerwoman, house servant, fruit seller, or
seller of any other article not prohibited by or
dinance, TO 00
Fees for each, $0
Section 5
For a badge to permit a slave whose owner is not
a citiien of Macon, to work about the city for
hire, as follows:
For a mechanic or handecraftman; 30 00
For a dray man, porter, coaebntah, or common la
borer, 25 OO
Fora washerwoman, house servant, fruit seller, or
•eller of any other article not prohibited by or
dinance, >5 OO
Fees for each, &
And be it further ordained. That the said licenses and
badges shall ieaue on application to the clerk of council, snd
shall expire (and be so woided in their face)on the lOik day
of January next ensuing after the date. f
Re it further ordained, That all ordinances or pans 0
ordinances militating against this ordinance be am) tbs MM,i
nie hereby repealed. .IAS. A. NISBET. Mayor.
Attest. A. R. FrfkmsN, c c.
Council ihanilcr l
January >
WIDKItBAT RTIKIKO*
Council elec t rnet to organize.
The Mayor, Members of Council, and Clerk tna
Treasurer appeared and look tite oath of office—vt*-
Jamks A. Niibkt, Moyor.
I none llolma , Henry G. Ron , ('ha*. Collin*
E. Rylander, Jama Denton , Edwin Grave* , Elijah
Bond, ami Wm. li. II att* Aldermen.
A. R. Freeman Clerk and Treasurer.
Alderman Rut* was elected Chairman of Councir.
The rules of Council, bh they aland in the Ordtpaice
published in 1040, were adopted.
The following anlariea were fUed,. and ftcoyicu sty
Council, for the present yer ;
The Muvor’s salary,
Clerk nP'iT'.eafurer,
CI- Board of Health,
M GoineM” fc* fer of * l:; * *• pro—ruing officr,
■ ntl for attmtiuii tu tlm rexorit, anil the work ■
the alrerl..]
Two |i<-|Hity Marahala.earh |4flo
llriilge Keeper,
1 font i*t which lie pay. hi. nui.l.ntj
Clerk of the Market, Fees.
Sexton, Eeea.
Keeper of Mrvpazine, fee*.
Ceiinnl elected Alexander McGregor Maehal, Cam
pinrt llnrler and l.yman IL llarnna, Deputy Marh*l*;
Kobeit Cunninglmm, Wen., Bridge Keeper: Slept***
Menard, Clerk of Market j Charle* Crawford, Sexto* J
Tlinnia* HI. Self,Keeper of Magazine.
The Mayor reported the following Standing ComHiil
fern.for lhe political yenr. 184. r >. vix:
ON KINA NGE—Roan, Holme*, (Irnye*-
ON STREETS ANDJ.ANESe-Ryloi.der, Dentoav
Bond.
ON THE MARKET.— Grave*, Ro**, Wnrtn. ,
ON FIRE DEPARTMENT.—C*IiI, KylanM
Bond. _ _
ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.—HoIme*, Collina, De
---f to*.
’ UN PUMPS—Watt*. Bond, Denton.
ON ROME 1111.1. CEAIETEIIY--Bnrl, Oreve*.
Oimeil then adjourned, A. R. FREEMAN, C. 1.