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Jllebirints.
WMore Home Testimony.— No. 48 Union
atree/, Z?oston, April 18, 1846. —Mr. Seth W.
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THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. 19, 1848.
f The State as it should be.
Under the above ** caption” the South Ca
rolinian has a very sensible editorial, in the
’ course of which is the following:
* The profits of the soil concentrate in the hands
i of a few. and the great masses only draw from their
, laborious toil a poorly paid livelihood. Doctors in the
south are prosperous, because sickness generally pre
vails. Lawyers look as if they dined on their parch
ment, because of the dearth of legal business. Me
chanics are badly paid, and as badly patronized; and
the general system of spending the profits incident to
southern labor abroad, simply because they cannot
be spent at home, is annually impoverishing the
State.”
We are sorry to learn that mechanics “are
badly paid, and as badly patronized” in South
Carolina. No agricultural community can
long prosper, which supports its indispensable
mechanics, artizans and manufacturersat from •
one to four thousand miles distance from its
plantations. The positive loss on each bale of
Cotton in needless transportation, interest,
&c.. is twelve dollars. This is but one item.
The system involves the rapid exhaustion of
the soil, by excessive tillage, washing, leaching
and defective manuring. The constant cul
ture of land, and the unceasing exportation of
its products, render its improvement next to
impossible. Let the fruits of the earth be con
sumed in the neighborhood where they are
grown, and the fertilizing elements drawn
from the soil in crops can all be restored to it
again without inconvenience.
How the Sub-Treasury Works.—The Worces
ter Rail Road bad a claim against the Post Office De
partment, on account of the transportation of the
mail. In the ordinary way of business, as the mat
ter would be transacted in the absence of any re
straining law, the Treasurer would have received a
check upon a bank in Providence or New York, and
in five minutes thereafter the amount would have
been deposited to his credit. Under the Sub-Treasury,
he should have been paid in specie. He teas paid
in orders upon five different Post Offices, in a cir
cuit of fifty or sixty miles, and it was a good day's
work to collect them, and he was uniformly paid in
bank bills. It is so all over the country. — Provi
dence Journal.
Such is the trouble, such the unnecessary
expense of a ridiculous party humbug. What
does it effect for the benefit of the community ?
Only this; It demands gold and silver coin of
the people who have to pay duties, postage, or
for government lands; and permits subtreas
urers to disburse bank notes! Not content
with this, the great Sub-Treasurer in the city
of New York has been ordered by Secretary
Walker to loan $300,000 of public money,
on good security, in direct violation of law.
The object of this loan was to mitigate the mis-
J chief of hoarding hard money, just before a
3 Presidential election. The evils of an “ Inde
r pendent Treasury” are too severe and palpa
’ ble, not to operate most decidedly against the
» party which has brought them on the country.
Hence, the Administration has not hesitated to
violate its party law, establishing its hard-money
’ humbug, to save the voters from the enjoyment
1 of its promised blessings ■
What a pity that Messrs. Polk and Cass
cannot save the Electors of Pennsylvania from
i the great blessings of the tariff of 1846 ? Alas!
j that hypocracy which succeeded so well in
1844, is now utterly worthless in 1848. What
i consummate fools the democratic colliers, day
laborers, and mechanics of the Iron and Coal
1 districts must be, if not satisfied with the fos
i tering legislation of their party? Uncertain
employment, low wages, free trade and ex
r cessive importations, seem not to please men
' who were assured that “ Mr. Polk is abetter
tariff man than Mr. Clay.’* In this they are
most unreasonable, for Democratic journals
never misrepresent the opinions of their own
candidates, nor those of their opponents!—
I Honest souls, how sincere is their aversion to
public debt, the spoils of office, and every tiling
but the dear people!
Slavery In the Territories--A New View.
Under the above heading the Mobile Regis
ter and Journal has a lengthened editorial, in
which Mr. Tmist Treaty-figure to some
advantage. It is contended that the Treaty
secures to the pebple of the South the right to
hold slaves in the acquired territories without
any legislation on the subject. That print,
however, seems to have forgotten Mr. Cass’
! platform, which allows the present inhabitants
of New Mexico and California to exclude the
holders of slaves from said territories, as well
before as after they become sovereign States.
Will the Register and Journal please inform us
whether it goes for or against this policy of
1 Gen. Cass and his party T
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Still they Come.
Read the postscript of the letter of our Ala
i bama correspondent, in which it is announced
1 that a Cass sub Elector has repudiated “ the
t equivocal betrayer of the South," and declared for
“ Old Zach.” There are thousands of honest,
( patriotic democrats throughout the Southern
i States who, like Mr. Rives, will support Gen.
Taylor—they prefer their country to party.
Keep it Before the People I
1 The National Intelligencer says— Mr. Fillmore
I is not, and never pretended to be, a “ Northern man
with Southern principles!”
’ Keep this before the people. — Pointe Coupee Echo.
Yes, keep it before the people that Mr. Fill
s more is not, like Mr. Van Buren and Mr. Cass,
' a Northern man professing “ Southern princi
ples but a Northern man possessing national
principles, which repudiate all sectional appeals
ns unpatriotic, and calculated to distract and
divide the Union. A statesman so narrow
, minded as to be untrue to half of the Confed
eracy, has no claims to the confidence of the
1 other moiety. The only use we can safely make
of turn-coat traitors and sectional partizans, in
national affaire, is to let them alone.
South Carolina.—The following gentle
men have been elected to Congress at the re
cent election :
District 1, Gen. D. Wallace; 2, Col. J. L. Orr;
3, Joseph A. Woodward; 4, Gen. John McQueen;
5, Armistead Burt; 6, Isaac E. Holmes; 7, W. F.
Colcock.
Messrs, Orr and Holmes are Taylor Demo
crats.
Deserting In Michigan.
The Philadelphia American says —‘‘Almost
every mail brings us encouraging intelligence
from the State in which the Locofoco candi
date resides. There is a large and growing de
fection among the masses of the "Democracy”
in Michigan, who know Gen. Cass to have
been a black cockade Federalist, to be an aris
tocrat in all his political practice, and to have
, put on the cloak which lie now wears, only as
an expedient of the hour, to be cast aside when
-1 ever it has served the end for which it was as
sumed. A meeting was held on the 29th Sep
tember. at Springwdls, which was addressed
f by Hon. John Norvell, formerly a Democratic
; U. S. Senator, and other distinguished person
ages, who have recanted Locofocoism. withall
1 its destructive doctrines. An interesting inci
' dent occurred in the course of the proceedings.
. which we will relate in the language of the
’ Detroit Advertiser :
1 Alexander Davidson. Esq., of Detroit, being
■ present was loudly called tor. Mr. Davidson
’ rose and said: “ Mr. President and Gentlemen
■ —I did not come here to make a speech; but.
' while lam np, I will say this much. I ever
1 hare teen, am now. and. as long as I lire. shall
“ be. a Democrat ' I never voted a Whig ticket
in my life. I know Gen. Cass well, and hare
I known him for years; but. gentlemen. I shall
; not give him mv vote at the coming election.
If I live until the 7th day of November next. I
I shall vote for that true hearted, genuine Republi
can Major General Zachary Taylor—the man
who. while in the service of his country, 'asks
[of his government] no favor, and shrinks from
no responsibility.
There are tens of thousands of honest Dem
ocrats scattered through the country, who
' think and will act like Mr. Davidson. Cheated
bv a hollow name, which all experience has
' demonstrated to mean the very reverse ot
r what it professes to be. they are now deter
mined to abandon the shadow, and adopt the
substance of Democracy, by voting for that
‘•true-hearted, genuine Republican, Zachary
' Taylor."
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Interesting Petrifaction.
Wt hare just seen a log five feet in length,
and about a foot in thickness, at the office of
Messrs. Jeffers & Cothran* which is a per-
• feet petrifaction of.£wtf, in place of lime. The
rock is firm and compact, showing the annular
• grains of wood very distinctly. The bark and
most of the sap wood were apparently rotted
off before the lapidifying process began. It
came from the plantation of Got. HaMMOWD,
“ who supposes the tree to have been hickory.
The weigh: of the stone or rock is 357 pounds,
ff
e Asothxr Lakoi H. King. Esq.
has raised on his model farm, near George
•ft Ilow1 lown ’ C*, a beautiful pear measuring 13$
th I inches one way. and 14$ inches the other way,
i and weighing one and a hall'pounds
For the Chronicle if Sentinel.
The Canvass in Alabama,
Oak Ridge, Ala., Oct. 14, 1848.
Gentlemen— The campaign goes on bravely
and gloriously in South Alabama. I am not
one of those who think that lying is allowable,
even in politics,'and therefore will not say that
we expect this State to vote for Taylor ; the
Northern mountains and Southern piney plains
are too strong against us. But from one • side
of the State to the other, through [the strong
slaveholding and cotton growing region, we
shall give the old planter nothing but majori
ties This portion of Alabama, as is the case
in the other Southern States, has always been
Whig, but now we have democratic help ; Jno.
W. Campbell, (of the old Georgia stock) per
haps the most eminent lawyer in the State,
Hon. Jas E. Belser, Hon. Samuel F. Rice,
and Col. H. M. Judge, are advocating the good
cause with untiring zeal and masterly ability;
many other democrats are following their lead,
hundreds of them willvote for the old Hero,
, while a great many of them with, Yancey, El
more, H. F. Lewis, &c., will not vote at all.
They cannot see the consistency of talking for
Southern rights and Southern principles and
Torino'for everything else. Julius Coesar Al
ford, the old Georgia “ war-horse yf Troup,”
is on the stump for old Zack in Macon county,
where he resides. In ’44 he was a Polk man,
as you knew, but he is a true Southerner, and
cannot swallow Cass. Although we are in a
hopeless minority in the State, we shall make
large gains for our ticket. If you can do one
fourth as well in Georgia, you are safe beyond
a doubt, and why not ? When in South Caro
lina and Alabama hundreds and thousands of
Democrats will support the election ofa South
ern planter, in preference to Northern poli
ticians, are Georgians so yoked to party or
ganization that they can be driven about from
one extreme point to another, and none be left
to support their own peculiar interests ? Ra
ther let me ask, are there not many true-heart
ed Georgia democrats who are ready to join
with us in electing, for the first time, to the Pre
sidency, a genuine Southern cotton planter ?
We trust and believe there are many such, and
we know, that if the Whigs there do their duty,
Georgia will fall into the line, and a majouty
of the Southern States will cast their voles for
the glorious old patriot of Louisiana.
Your ob’t serv’t,
P. S. Mr. C. G. Rives—who was secretary
to a Cass meeting in July, and a Cass sub-elec
tor for the 3rd District, after battling a while,
has declined his post and come out for Taylor
and Fillmore !
For the Chronicle Sentinel.
Greene County, Oct. 17, 1848.
Messrs. Editors :—I have hitherto been a
silent, but not altogether an indifferent specta
tor, in the present Presidential campaign. I
have had no argument with an opponent, and
this is the first ink that has been shed by me on
the subject. I preferred Mr. Clay, and desired
to exercise the privilege of once more voting
for him for the high office of President; but the
Whig Convention decided for Gen. Taylor,
and as I believed him to be “honest and capa
ble, ” I have been all along perfectly willing to
vote for him.
As above remarked, I have not been an indif
ferent spectator of the contest; I have read
both sides of the question, and understand the
strongpoints— the points relied upon by each
party—to gain support for their favorites. I
have greatly regretted the course of the Dem
ocratic party —or rather, of their leaders. In
several Presidential elections, that party have
attempted to turn the election in the South up
on the Abolition question, and have industrious
ly strived to identify the Whig party with the
Abolitionists. The injustice of this course to
you, Messrs. Editors, is fully known. Its inju
rious tendency, I need not here mention. But
I must be short, and what I wished to say is
this: We are electing a President and Vice-
President for the United States—not for the
South or the North, but for the whole United
States. The North has it in her power to elect
both of these high officers from among her citi
zens, and to choose those who entertain semi
ments in unison with most, if not all her people.
But look at the facts as they exist. The
Democratic party have a candidate for the Pres
idency from one of the most thorough Aboli
tion States in the Union, and who himself “re
gards slavery as a stain upon our land,” and
“ prays for its abolition everywhere. ” Their can
didate for the Vice-Presidency lives in a State
very indifferent as to the continuation of the
institution; himself living upon the very bor
der of a Free State, not owning a slave, and
“ not interested in either the perpetuation or ex
tension of slavery. ” #
On the other side of the stands
iW Mtte ’ -Tlx* WUigs lu.Yw R eamHcMterimtig
in the South and owning a large number of
slaves. His own interests are identified with the
institution, and no candid man doubts his posi
tion. They have a candidate for the Vice-
Presidency, it is true, living at the North, and
doubtless deprecating the existence of slavery
in the United States; but who has declared,
when there was no motive for concealing his
true sentiments—“ I disavow most unequivo
cally, now and forever, any desire to interfere
with the rights, or what is called the property
of the Southern States. ”
Now, what I wish to come at is this: The
Whigs at the North are struggling hard to elect
a President from the South— with sentiments dif
fering from them upon the subject of slavery—
and only asking tho South to elect one of her
citizens to the second office in the gift of the
people—and who can exercise no control ex
cept in case of contingency. Yet the Demo
crats are trying to impress the South, that they
are in danger from the Whigs, while their candi
dates are such as I have named above!
We are yet, Messrs. Editors, a united people
—God grant that our union may continue to
the end of time. What more, under the circum
stances, could the people of the South ask of
their Northern brethren, in a Presidential con
test, than is now conceded ? Let th- people re
flect. When a President and Vice-President
is to be elected for the South exclusively, the
case may be different. A Whig.
Oregon News.
Papers and letters from Oregon city to the
4th of April have been received by the New
York Commercial. The intelligence in many
particulars is the same as we have had before.
Maj. Lee has been appointed Colonel in the
place of the late Col. Gilliam, (killed, it will be
remembered, some time ago by accident, just
after a successful action with the Indians,) ami
now commands the little army of the territory,
which appears to have suffered terrible hard
ships and privations on the Indian trail and on
its with the savages.
The intelligence of this battle and of the death
of the Colonel produced a great excitement in
the settlements. Gov. Abernethy immediately
issued a proclamation in an extra of the Specta
tor. dated April 3d, calling for three new com
panies to enlist for six months, urging die peo
ple to assist them in an outfit, &c.
In the Indian war the submission of the Nez
Perces and Walla Walla Indians, leaving the
Cayuse tribe alone in hostility to the whites,
has been mentioned. The commissioners had,
however, effected this submission in February,
and the fight above alluded to did not take place
till 23d March.
The missionary families were in good health.
Messrs. Roberts and Leslie had gone to the
quarterly meeting.
The regiment of dragoons recently dispatch
ed to Oregon will arrive out in season to ren
der valuable services.
Hostilities, it was hoped, would be confined
to the upper country.
The Spectator remonstrates against acts of
retaliation upon neighboring Indian tribes, for
outrages committed by them. The dwe’ling
house and goods of the chief of the Molalas
had been burned by some of the whites, in re
venge for a small theft committed upon a set
tler: and several of the Calipooias had been
severely whipped for stealing cattle. The
Spectator urges the duty of caution and for
bearance in the present alarming state of the
relations with the natives.
Accounts from the camp represent the men
to be in a very destitute condition—some al
most without clothing and many without hors
es. The term of enlistment of some was about
to expire. There was very little ammunition
and no bread. Some of the volunteers had
also learned that their farms had been taken
possession of by unprincipled fellows, who had
stayed at home instead of joining in the com
mon defence. Indeed, the disbanding of the
army appeared to be inevitable, although ma
ny friendly Indians had offered to join the
whites against the Cay uses, and would no doubt
have done so, had there been means to en
courage them.
The Spectator, of the 3d has the following:
“ Gentlemen of the Hudson's Bay Company,
in rescuing the unfortunate prisoners from
the Indians, performed an act worthy of eter
nal gratitude, the expense of which we hope
will some day be cancelled. Very much of
the ready means of the country is in the hands
of British subjects. Will not they render far
ther assistance in the present crisis ?”
Cottom Crop.—The Sumter (Ala. IRig
says that the Colton crop of the lower part of
Sumter and Choctaw counties is turning out
much better than was expected, and expresses
die opinion that, owing to the fiue weather the
crop throughout all South Alabama will be
much larger than last year.
The Natchez Free Trader of the 10th insL.
says: “ Our observations within the last week
m ine interior of this State, and the best infor
mation we can obtain from other parts of the
cotton growing region, induce the opinion
that the crop of cotton will be much less than
has been generally supposed. The boll-worm
has been very destructive, and the storm in
August did great damage. The crop, too. ow
ing to the great quantities of rain which fell,
had a much more flourishing appearance than
its yield in picking seems to justify as profita
ble* On the whole, we incline to the opinion
that the actual yield will be at least one-third
less than has been anticipated.”
The Memphis Eagle of the sth says : “ The
weather continues dry and pleasant, and our
planters are having a delightful spell to gather
. their cotton. The yield will hardly be as much
per acre, generally, as last year’s,’ though the
increased "acres in cultivation will make up all
deficiencies ”
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 25. 1848.
Sunday Mails*
As a part of the history of the times, we copy
the following correspondence. The reverend
y gentleman knows little of the public sentiment
t and the great commercial interests of the coun
, try, if he imagines that either will consent for
t the mails to be detained on the Sabbath on the
b great mail routes of the country :
9 REV. MR, LLOYD’S LETTER.
3 Hon. C. Johnson, P. M. G.—Dear Sir— l hope
it may not be considered an undue intrusion on my
» part to trespass upon your attention a short time, for
J , some little information in reference to your depirt-
♦ ’ ment of the government. Being the pastor of the O.
* 1 S. Presbyterian Church in this village, which lies
i upon our great western mail route and thoroughfare,
1 have felt much interested to know precisely the
i views and position of the Post Office Department
in reference to the transportation of the mails upon
’ the Christian Sabbath. Throughout this section of
! country there is a deep and growing conviction of the
impropriety of this practice. Indeed there is an in
' creasing disposition throughout our land to respect the
> sanctity of this day. lam one of those who love my
, country, and withal am strongly inclined to believe
, that “ the powers that be,” which it is manifest by his
i providence giving expression to the will of the people,
. 1 God has ordained to rule, are inclined to order our al-
• fairs in his fear, and respect his holy day.
1 have always supposed that the post office depart
ment felt itself, in a measure, obliged to continue the
transportation of the mails on Sunday, in order to
satisfy the wishes of the great majority of the people,
whose sentiments on this subject seemed to demand
the continuance of the practice, and that as soon as
public opinion would warrant its discontinuance, the
department would gladly act accordingly. This
seems to be evident from the steady perseverance in
a system of retrenchment, which would be greatly
promoted by such a course. The head and members
• of your department must also need and desire rest on
the Sabbath as greatly as any other class of men.
As this subject is receiving considerable attention
and occupying a large space in the public mind, con
ventions are frequently held for the promotion of the
observance of the Sabbath.
At those meetings it was quite a common occur
rence for the Post Office Department to be represent
ed as insisting upon the Sabbath transportation of the
mails by the railroad companies and other public car
riers, in many ca c cs contrary to their expressed wish
and expostulation ; that many of these public carriers
would prefer to discontinue their Sabbath convey
ances, but are obliged by the government to continue
them in order to transport the mail. It is also com
mon to speak of producing such a state of public sen
timent as shall remedy the evil, by compelling the
Government to discontinue the transportation of the
mails upon the Sabbath. Now allow me to ask, are
these representations correct ? Is the government the
originator and efficient cause by its own will of our
Sabbath mail transportation; or does it yield herein
to an apparent necessity of gratifying and meeting
the public desire and wants'? Does it wish to per
petuate the system or abolish the practice as soon as
possible ? By giving me the true views and position
of the department, in reference to this matter, you
will greatly oblige one who is, with great respect,
Truly yours, A. LLOYD.
The Poslmaster Gene Reply.
Post Office Department, Aug. IS.
Sir— l have the honor to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter of the 31st ult. After condemning the
practice of sending mails on the Sabbath you inquire
—“ Is the Government the originator and efficient
cause, by ite own will, of our Sabbath mail transpor
tation, or does it yield herein to an apparent necessity
of gratifying and meeting the public desire and wants?
Does it wish to perpetuate the system, or abolish the
practice as soon as possible ?” Speaking from iny
personal sentiments and feelings, I should he gratified
to see the transportation of the mails, as well as every
other species of labor, rest on the Sabbath. But the
Postmaster General is the agent of the public. It is
his duty to make and carryout, so far as in his pow
er, such mail arrangements as the wishes and in
terests of the public require. The department does
not set on foot of its own will any Sabbath mails, ir
respective of the demands and necessities of the
community; and where it is obliged to require such
service in compliance with such necessities and de
mands, it is done, so far as my personal preferences
are involved, with a feeling of regret. This regret,
however, cannot be indulged in so far as to set aside
the known wishes and interests of the public.
Where the stated means of conveyance on mail
routes are kept in operation upon the Sabbath, whe
ther the mails be sent or not, general inconvenience
and much individual loss and injury would inevitably
result unless the mails be dispatched by them. In
such cases it is unquestionably the duty of the de
partment to forward the mails on Sunday. When
the proprietors are disposed to withdraw these means
of conveyance on that day, and there is no likelihood
of anv other being substituted, so as to give facilities
to a few to the disadvantage and injury of the many,
I take pleasure in acceding to the arrangement so far
as the mails are concerned, as has lately been done
upon the line of railroad between Albany and Buffalo,
following the example set by the New York and Bos
ton and the Boston and Albany lines.
The means of communication are never withdrawn
by the proprietors, but upon the best evidence that
the public, ora large majority nf it, are wilting to dis
pense with them. And although rny own feelings,
under the influence of the considerations alluded to in
your letter, are gratified by the suppression of the
Sabbath mails, my official action in sanctioning it is
founded upon the conviction that their withdrawal is
in such cases warranted by the general consent of the
public. lam respectfully, vour ob’t serv’t.
—C. JOHNSON, F.M. General.
Rev. A. Lloyd, Phelps, N. Y. •
Daniel Webster on Abolition.—Hon.
Daniel Webster said in a late speech :
“ I say that all agitations and attempts to dis
turb the relations between master and slave, by
personsnot living in the slave Stales, are un
constitutional in their spirit, and, in my opin
ion, productive of nothing but evil and mischief.
1 countenance none of them. The manner in
which the government of those States where
slavery exists are to regulate it, is fortheir own
consideration, under their responsibility to their
constituents, to the general laws of propriety,
humanity and justice, and to God. Associa
tions formed elsewhere, springing from a feel
ing of humanity or any other cause, have no
thing whatever to do with it. They have nev
er received any encouragement from me and
they never will. In my opinion, they have
done nothing but to delay and defeat their own
professed objects.”
Religious Toleration in Chili.—A letter
from Valparaiso, Aug. Ist, says :
“ There has been an English chapel, located
here for some ten years. It is sustained by the
British government, and within the last two
years a second chapel has been opened in an
other portion oi the town, in a spot of very
great publicity. The government at that time
answered the American minister. Dr. Crump,
of Virginia, that leave could not be granted—it
was unconstitutional —but no hindrance would
be offered. And we believe that has been sedu
lously fulfilled. This is the more to be regard
ed. since the fifth article of the constitution of
the country disallows all liberty of worship in
any mode different from the Romish.”
Presidential Election in Wisconsin—We
learn from the Milwaukie Sentinel, that the
Legislature of Wisconsin have made no pro
vision for the election of Presidential Electors
io that State. The Sentinel says:
“ A bill for that purpose was introduced into the
Assembly, passed by that body, subsequently amend
ed in the Senate, thence returned to the Assembly,
and there, through some culpable neglect, dropped.
This defect, though not a fatal, is a serious one, and
might embarrass the election.”
Governor Dewey has. however, issued a
proclamation appointing the 7th proximo as a
day for a General Election, as is usual by the
Governors of the other B‘ates.
The Southwestern Kailroad.—The Road
is carried forward, so far as the grading is con
cerned. with an energy and perseverance well
calculated to insure success. There are at this
time about 400 hands at work on ten different
points, all within 35 miles of Macon, and that
number is to be presently increased. It is ex
pected that twenty-five miles of the Road will
be in operation in one year from this date.—
SaranwaA Republican.
Letter from Gen. Taylor*
The following letter from Gen. Taylor, re
garding the Texan volunteers, is published in
the Galveston News of the 3d instant:
[Private. 1 Baton Rovgb, July 24, 1848.
Sir : I hare the honor to acknowledge the receipt
of your friendly communication of the 7th instant,
in relation to a statement represented by Gen. Hen
derson, in a speech recently delivered by him, to have
been made by me to the Secretary of War, respect
ing the discharge of the Texas Volunteers, shortly
before the battle of Monterey.
In reply jjto your inquiries on this point, I have to
say, that the terms of the remarks attributed to me
by Gen. Henderson, are incoirect, and that it* Gen.
Rusk, or any one else, saw such language over my
signature in the War Office, it must have been pit
there by himself. 1 enclose you, however, the ex
tract from the communication to the Secretary of
War, to which I presume Gen. Henderson refers,
and you can therein see the language used on the
occasion.
The discharge of the Texas troops there reported,
was ordered by me at their own solicitation, in which
Gen. Henderson himself jotoed: and agreeably to
a promise made to them at Camargo. The miscon
duct also alluded loin this consisted in the
depredations committed by some of them upon the
inhabitants of Monterey and its vioinity, after the ca
pitulation of the town: and whatever might have
been the language which Gen. Henderson held to
these troops respecting their conduct, it was quite cer
tain that there was no one who used, when addres
sing mt on the subject, severer or harsher language
in denunciation of it, than did he and the officers
about his person. lam therefore no less surprised
than mortified on the General’s account, to learn that
he is atierapting to torture, lit the purpose of injuring
me, an official statement of mine made to the Secreta
ry of War in the discharge of my duties to the Gov
ernmeut, in the justice of which statement 1 believe
that he fully concurred at the time, and which was
at all events, partly based upon in formation officially
laid before me by himself.
I have no right, of course, to object to the General’s
political hostility to me ; but I cannot refrain from
expressing, in conclusion, the regret that in yielding
to his feelings on this score, he should have’become
so strangely forgetful of events and circumstances cf
comparatively recent occurrence.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obe
dient servant, Z. Taylor.
The Detroit Daily Advertiser says that “in
consequence of the growing increase of crime
in the State since the abolition of capital pan.
ishment. and a particular manifestation of it to
the Grand Jurors of Wayne county, at the pre
sent term of Court, they have unanimously
adopted a memorial to the Legislature, asking
for a restoration of that penalty which alone
prevents man from assailing the life of his fel
low.*’
N. York Congressional Nominations.—J.
Phillips Phcemx has been nominated as the
Whig candidate for Congress in the 3d district
(part of the city.) in New York: James Monroe
for the remainder of the term of the 30:h Con
gress to occupy the seat made vacantby the oust
ing of Mr. Jackson; and Jas. Brooke, editor
of the New Express, for the same seat in the
31st Congress
y Augusta, :
d FRIDAY MORNING, OCT’R 30. 1848.
It 1 ; ' 1 -- ---. =
I- Bagging and the Tariff of 1840.
r Mamy planters of Georgia were persuaded
e to vote for Mr. Polk and free-trade Congress
men, to repeal the Whig tariff of ’42, that for
eign bagging might come in at a low duty, and
0 be sold fifty per cent, cheaper under Democrat
r ic rule. Well, Mr. Polk was elected, the ta
■ riff of’42 expunged from the statute book, and
j the glorious principles of free trade were fairly
, established. What now is the price of bagging
“ which the Cotton growers have to pay 1
j Every one knows that an article which sold
f in this city, under the tariff of ’42 at twelve j
’ and a half cents a yard, now commands eigh- ■
i teen and three quarter cents. Instead of the
promised reduction of fifty per cent, under the
j tariff of ’46, consumers are now paying an ad
vance of fifty percent, for American bagging !
Planters, what think you of political quacks,
who advocate the free importation of foreign
bagging, because it will make the article cheap
and cotton high ? Does the abandonment of
hemp-culture in Missotri and Kentucky, and
the stoppage of baggrig factories under the
no-protection-policy of Mr. Polk, operate to
cheapen bagging,and et the same time raise the
price of cotton in Li'erpool? Such should
have been the result of the’present tariff, had
the theory of its advocates been- sound. If
there was any truth or virtue iu their new fan
gled notions about political economy, the tariff
should have caused cotton to advance, and
bagging to fall in this market. Bnt the reverse
has been effected by the unwise, uncalled for
quackery of the Party in power. The people
are sick of its Kane letters and its humbugs.
Protection from Cholera*
We published last week some remarks upon Pro
fessor Davis’s theory of electricity and atmospheric
phenomena being the cause of cholera. Chambers’s
Edinburg Journal, in an article on he {subject, main
tains that electrical changes are tbetrue cause of such
migratory diseases as cholera andiplague; and, in
deed, of all epidemics. The true remedy, therefore,
is the purification of the atmosphere, |nd the chief sub
ject to effect this is Chlorine Gas, which is an ingre
dient in common salt. Whole streets and townscan
be fumigated with chlorine gas, as easily as single
dwellings. In the year 1832, the town of Dumfar
line, in Scotland, was affected with cholera, from the
3d of September until the 23d of October. At that
date every street, lane and alley was fumigated with
chlorine gas. II ithin five days the pestilence was
entirely annihilated. In Edinburgh the gas was used,
but rather late, and in several other towns with equal
effect. It was ascertained beyond a shadow of doubt,
and to this fact we beg the earnest attention of our
readers, and the public at large, that every house in
the infected districts in which chlorine gas was used
as a disinfecting agent in the cholera of 1832, enjoyed
! an absolute immunity from the disease, and this fact
is the great preservative against that frightful disease,
and a positive proof that cholera owes ts origin toelec-
I trical changes in the atmosphere. We request our
chemists to prepare in time the necesiary quantity of
this gas ; care must be taken in using it, as the gas in
i a pure state is destructive of animal liie, and must not
be inhaled in the lungs. In all other epidemics it is
equally good.— N. Y. Star.
Chlorine has a strong affinity for the light
pestiferous gases, which are generated by de
caying animal and vegetable substances, and
rise into the atmosphere. Hence fumigation
with chloride of lime, or chlorine in any other
available form, operates to disinfect the air so
far as this chemical agent extend*. It is suc
cessfully used to purify hospitals, ships, cellars,
cess-pools and the like well-defined sources of
disease. But how chlorine can chsnge, or mod
ify the electricity in the clouds or atmosphere
over a city, for a single day, hour or minute,
does not appear. The disinfection of “hea
ven’s artillery, ” by decomposing common salt,
and discharging its chlorine into the face of a
strong wind, may be a brilliant idea; but we
think it will not disturb the lightning much.
The same paper says:
Another very simple prevention is iecommended
by a medical writer who saw much o r the cholera in
1832 and 1834. The weakenedNJnfe of the stomach,
he says, which predisposes to cholo, a, is so decidedly
obviated by eating freely of common salt rt our meals,
that it is believed that three-fourths of the cases which
would otherwise occur, may be privet ted by this
simpie addition to our food. TTfe nrommends
for an adult a small '■ a day.
, dh - ♦. r,
eaten with fish, animal food, p< t< • game, bread,
toast, or bread and butter. The au e beneficial re
sults are not obtained by using salt m ats, broths, &c.,
in which salt is dissolved, because, by the action of
heat, a long admixture of salt with other matter, a
change is produced in its properties, and the prevent
ive power destroyed. This is very simple, and should
be remembered if the time for using it arrives.
It was the writer’s fortune to witness some
thing of this appalling malady in the city of
Buffalo in 1832 and '34, where it was very fatal
at the earlier period. The habitual dosing of
one's stomach with a “ small teasponnful ofsalt
three times a day, ” instead of imparting
strength to that organ and tone to the system,
would hardly fail to debilitate and favor an at
tack of cholera. Little credit should be given
to what may appear as professional prescrip
tions in newspapers. As a preventive and pal
liative, however, which all can appreciate and
practice, nothing is better than temperance in
all things, perfect cleanliness, and cheerful
ness of mind when death is nearest.
“ The result of the elections in Georgia, Maryland,
Pennsylvania, and Ohio, has, on the whole, been
cheering to (he Democratic party. It has conclusive
ly shown that Gen. TayloHs personal popularity has
not been sufficient, as was hoped by those who gave
fiim his nomination, to sweep every thing before it.”—
Savannah Georgian.
We congratulate the organs of the Democ-
- racy upon their ability to draw consolation from
sources so entirely meagre. Florida, Georgia,
Maryland, Pennsylvania and Ohio, all have
given unmistakable evidence to the reflecting
mind, of their determination to support Old
Zxch in November, yet we are told “the re
sult has been, on the whole, cheering to the
Democracy.” The Georgian must have anti
cipated the entire abandonment of Cass.
Gen* Butler an Abolitionist.
The democrats assert that Mr. Fillmore is
“ an Abolitionist 1 ’ and adduce as evidence in
support of the charge his vote in Congress on
the Creole case.
Now, it so happens, says the Alabama Jour
nal, that Gen. Butler, the democratic candi
date for Vice-President on the ticket with Cass,
voted on that matter at the same time, and vo
ted exactly as Mr. Fillmore did. What, there
fore, are the democratic presses and speakers
doing by this charge against Mr. Fillmore, but
declaring, in fact, that Gen. Wm. O. Butler,
their candidate for the Vice-Presidency, is an
out and out Abolitionist, and an enemy to the
South. Do they believe it ?
A Storm a Brewing.
The Macon Telegraph perpetrates the follow
ing :
“We must do our duty, and in doing it, carry
the State of Georgia by storm, the seventh of Novem
ber, so sure as God spares this world that long. Only
put out your strength, Democrats, and the work is
done and Whiggery extirpated from the land. ”
The news from Pennsylvania can not have
reached Macon yet.
Illinois.—George R. Weber, Esq., recently
State Printer and Editor of the Springfield State
Register, has bolted Cass, and offered a series
of resolutions and made a V an Buren speech on
the Ist inst. at the Capital.
Gen. Arista.—This officer, says the Corpus
Christi Star. after holding the office of Minister
of War long enough to be paid some three
years back pay due him. has resigned, and we
hear has returned to bis beautiful residence in
Monterey. The General was once very favor
able to the plan of separating the Northern pro
vinces from Mexico, and it may be that his re
turn to New Leon may again revive the old
feeling.
A Survivor of the Boston Tea-Party.—
The editor of the Chicago Democrat lately re
ceived a call from David Kennsson, the only
surviving participator in throwing the tea over
board in the Charleston harbor. He draws a
pension of 8 dollars per month. He is one
hundred and eleven years old, and has a son
over sixty years of age. We consider him the
greatest curiosity of the day. and almost the
last link between the American celonies and
the United States.
Excited “Public Sentiment.” —A. Van
Wormer, a lawyer, at St. Charles. Kane coun
ty, 111., was recently tarred and feathered, and
then ordered to leave the village, by a gang of
persons who charged him with getting up use
>ess lawsuits.
A Whig State Address has just been put
forth in Pennsylvania congratulatory of the
Whigs of the Union. They speak of the laie
election as‘a triumph as brilliant as it is destin
ed to be permanent.’ and promise all that the
L friends ot Gen. Taylor may desire on the 7th
J of November.
The editor of the St. Louis Republican ac
r knowledges the reception of a lot of apples.
> some of wnich weighed twenty-six ounces and
measured fifteen inches in circumference.
Dinner to the lion. A. 11. Stephens.
It will be seen by the correspondence below,
, says the Columbus Enquirer, that our patriotic
and whole souled neighbors of Harris county
intend to give little Alec a public dinner at
j Waverly Hall, on the 28th inst, This merited
compliment, to one of Georgia's most talented
representatives, is as well deserved as it will
be handsomely paid. Stephens is one of the
men that any State may be justly proud of;
and while his immediate constituents have tri
umphantly sustained him in the face of every
| personal and political assault, we rejoice that
he has consented to pay a visit to the western
: part of the State, where his talents, his inte
grity, and his public worth, are as highly ap
j preciated as in his own glorious county. We
; look upon Mr. Stephens as belonging to the
I whole State, and shall expect him, therefore,
' to extend his visit to our own city, that all of
I us maysee and hear himonthe great questions
, that now agitate the country.
We are at liberty to say that the dinner at
Waverly Hall will be given to all that can at
tend. There will be enough for all. The
friends of Old Taylor in that vicinity not only
can do these kind of things up tolerably brown,
but on the occasion referred to, it is their pur
pose to excel themselves if possible. A por
tion of our Democratic friendshave condemn
ed Mr. Stephens, .without■» hearing, Car his
course in .lie last Congress. They will now
have an opportunity of hearing his defence of
* his course on the Compromise bill, as it was
called. Will they go and judge forthemselves ?
J Our friends at Waverly Hall may rest assur
3 ed that there will be the gathering together of a
r vast multitude on the occasion of their dinner.
5 From Harris, Troup, Talbot, Meriwether and
Marion they will come , and Old Muscogej is
some herself when she gets her nap up. Rus
sell, just over the creek, whose sons are true
• blood Georgians in sentiment and feeling, will
5 aid to swell the meeting. It will be a kind
l of junior mass gathering, and our friends in
■ that vicinity may make their arrangements ac
cordingly :
Hamilton, Sept. 17th, 1848.
, Hon. A. H. Stephens : —Dear Sir— At the last
, meeting of the Rough and Ready Club at Waverly
Hall, Harris county, it was unanimously:
, Resolved, That tho Hon. Alexander H. Stephens
is entitled to the thanks of the whole South for the able
, and fearless manner in which he represents her in
f terest in Congress, and especially for that motion
which defeated the so-called compromise bill.
Resolved, further, That as an evidence of an obli
gation to, and an increased confidence in him, we
hereby tender him a Public Dinffer, to be given at
such time in October as may meet his convenience.
It has been made our duty to extend this invita
r lion to you, and it affords us much pleasure to trans-
mit the above resolutions, coming as they do, not
from your own immediate constituents, but from those
who feel equally proud of a capable, honest, and in
dependent public servant, who represents them so
• honestly and faithfully in the Congress of this nation.
And we must be permitted to say, that your motion
to lay the Compromise Bill, as it was improperly call
ed, on the table meets with the entire approbation of
every Whig in this, one of Georgia’s strongest Whig
counties. Respectfully, yourob’t serv’ts,
MARTIN J. CRAWFORD, )
JAMES N. RAMSEY, [ Com.
GEORGE A. B. DOZIER. )
Crawfordville, Ga., Oct. 6th, 1848.
Gentlemen:— Your favor of the 17th ult., enclos
ing the resolutions of the Rough and Ready Club at
Waverly Hall, Harris county, tendering me a pub
lic dinner sometime in this month when it would suit
my convenience, “ as an evidence of an obligation to,
and an increased confidence in me,” has been re
ceived sometime, and should have been acknowledged
sooner, but for my inability to write. I have <is yet
no use of my right hand, and can only scribble a
little with the left.
I feel profoundly sensible of this testimony of re
gard and confidence on the part of the members of the
Rough and Ready Club at Waverly Hall, and the
more so as it comes from those who are not my im
mediate constituents, but who have the same interest
in the great questions which now agitate the public
mind, and I should do violence to my feelings, were I
to decline an acceptance of their tendered compliment
and honor.
You will be pleased, therefore, to make known to
them how highly I appreciate this manifestation of
their kindness, and if the day will suit them as well
as any other, and nothing providential shall prevent,
it wilt afford me great pleasure to meet them on Sa
turday the 28th inst.
Please accept for yourselves, gentlemen, individ
ually and personally, my highest regard and best
wishes. Yours, most respectfully,
. ~
Messrs. Martin J. Crawford, James N. Ramsey, Uw;
A. B. Dozier, Committee.
Pennsylvania.
The ingenuity of our Democratic friends is
much tasked, says the Baltimore American, to
account for their late overwhelming defeat in
Pennsylvania. “We went into that contest, ”
says the Pennsylvanian, “ with high and exci
ting expectations. We heard not.a whisper of
disaffection—not a murmur of complaint. Even
the Whigs were free to admit that ultimate suc
cess must be ours. From every part of the
State no intelligence was heard that was not
singularly favorable. ”
It is hardly in keeping with this condition of
things to say, now that the election is over, that
the Whigs were making the most prodigious ef
forts to secure Johnston’s success, and that ex
traordinary appliances were used to draw over
to him the laborers in the coal mines and manu
factories.
These extraordinary efforts could not have
been made so secretly as to escape all observa
tion before the election. The fact that in the
manufacturing and mining districts the greatest
changes did take place in favor of the Whigs,
only proves that those very people would have
voted for Clay in 1844 if they had not been
deceived into the belief of Mr. Polk’s sound
ness on the Tariff question.
Whenever a party is defeated at an election
there are, no doubt, causes, the operation of
which did bring about that catastrophe. If the
defeat comes unexpectedly the causes are the
remarkable matters to be looked into ; and in
the case of the Pennsylvania catastrophe the
defeated investigators have found out causes
enough, without once alluding to the true ones,
to account for a dozen such disasters.
But leaving the theoretical part of the sub
ject, which must always abound with conjee
tures and doubts, the event itself is one of
those fixed tangible facts concerning which
there need be no exercise of casuistry or of
speculation. There probably was never an
army beaten in battle, which would not have
been victorious if this or that had not been done
or left undone. Nevertheless the victory is
none the less a victory. Its results follow and
its force is felt.
Thanksgiving in Maryland.—The Gover
nor of Maryland has issued a proclamation de
signating Thursday, the 23d November next, to
be observed by the citizens of that State, as a
day of prayer and thanksgiving to Almighty
God for the numerous blessings both civil and
religious which they have been permitted to
enjoy.
The following is an extract of a’letter to the
Editors of the Milledgeville Recorder, dated
“ Gwinnett County, Oct. 11, 1849.—0 n
yesterday, Colonel James Austin, of this coun
ty, was horribly murdered by one of his own
negroes. A difficulty took place between them
vesterdav. between midnight and day. The
Colonel went into the boy’s room perhaps to
correct him. The negroe stabbed him in ten
places very severely, letting out his entrails;
he died immediately. The negroe then gave
himself up to the civil authorities, and no doubt
will be executed soon."
The Mormon Temple in Ruins.—A des
patch in the St. Louis papers, dated Nauvoo,
October 9, says: “This magnificent temple
was observed to be on fire in the cupola, this
morning about 4 o'clock. The flames spread
rapidly, and the building was totally consumed,
leaving nothing but the naked and blackened
walls. The fire is supposed to be the work of
an incendiary.”
South Carolina. —In the grand avalanche
which w about to sweep over the land, we
should not at all be surprised to hear that South
Carolina had been carried away like the rest.
From the Charleston Courier we learn that she
has elected to her .Legislature 76 Cass men,
• 62 Taylor men, and 28 men who are not
• pledzed to vote for Cass, but are pledged to
nobody else. A combination of These latter
with Gen. Taylor’s friends, will give him the
1 electoral vote of that State. Ifit should not be
thrown away on Mr. Calhoun, such, we have
i no doubt, will be the result. At any rate, it
, seems to be reduced to a certainty that Cass
cannot get it.— Richmond
The Courier speculates thus :
“From this it appears that there are 62
votes for Taylor, 76 for Cass, and 23 doubt
ful or neutral votes: if these doubtful
1 votes be added to the 62 Taylor votes, it
- will give ninety votes for Taylor, or a ma
j jority of 14 on joint ballot. And it is not at
all improbable that these votes will be cast
‘ for Taylor; for in some cases the question
• of preference has not been raised ; in many in
stances. whilst a preference has not been ex
pressed for Taylor, the candidates say that »»
no event can tkej snffort Gen. Cess.”
e Kite Cuu Gardxss. —It is rather too
L common for people to allow weeds to grow up
® toward the close of the season, and particularly
“ on plots where early cropshave been gathered.
This is decidedly bad economy, to say the least.
Weeds are at all tunes unsightly ; besides they
i, exhaust the ground of its riches, and sow it
d with seeds that will require mush labor to sub
due next season.
The Crops.—The weather continues most
glorious for the planters, says the N. O. Bulle
tin, of the 13th mst., both for cotton and cane.
We hear very favorable accounts as to the
picking, both in this State and Mississippi, and
a continuance of this weather will go far to
wards making up the apprehended shortness of
the crop. The cane also is improving, but the
injury to it from the great quantity of rain in
the summer, and the general backwardness of
the season, can only be partially remedied un
der the most favorable circumstances which can
now occur.
The Planters’ (Miss.) Banner of the sth*inst.
says: “On Sunday and Monday mornings
last there was a slight frost in some parts of
this parish, and from the appearance of the
cane (being slightly scarred) we should say
that it is ready for the mill. It is now reduced
to a certainty that the crop of sugar will be
short fully one third, the cane being small and
dry.”
From all that we can learn, the crops in our
parish are equal, if not superior to those of
any other part of the State. The cane is at
least two weeks in advance of what it was at;
this time last year. Ten hogsheads of sugar
have already been shipped from the plantation
of Dr. Ferrier, and on the other sugar planta
tions, the roulaison is about to begin. Never
was weather more favorable for cotton-picking,
though the plant does not yield well, in conse
sequence of the constant summer rains that
we have had. But, better than all, in our opin
ion, is the fact, that our planters, this year, have
made and secured immense crops of corn.—
Point Coupee Echo, Ith inst.
The Sugar Crop.— The Franklin Planter’s
Barixiar.of iR® Sdi, imys Itisiluw -educed to a
certainty that die c.op of Sugar, in the Parish'
of St. Mary, will be short fully one-third—the
cane being small and dry.
The St. Martinsville Creole, of the 30th ult.,
says: “Several of our planters intend com
mencing sugar-making in a few days—the cane
is reported as very ripe and juicy.”
Texas Land Titles.—Considerable difficul
ty exists in Texas regarding land claims. The
Galveston Civilian notices several suits now
pending before the U. S. Court for the District
of Texas, for lands claimed under grants made
prior to the Texas declaration of Indepen
dence. The case of Whitney vs. Ham, in
volves the ownership of eleven leagues of
land—and that of Garcia vs. Giddings, also
eleven leagues, on the Guadeloupe, with $50,-
00C. There is also under advisement, in the
Supreme Court of the State, the case of Jones
and others vs. The German Association, in
volving eleven leagues, held under an old
Spanish title; the Perry claim,for four leagues,
but surveyed for sixteen, on the Medina ; and
the great case, Smith vs. Power, involving
fifty-six leagues, extending up the coast one
hundred miles from Point Isabel.
The Civilian tays:
“ Here are upwards of two hundred leagues of
land, all claimed under conditional grants, now in
suit, and depending upon the decision of the Courts.
Some of the lands claimed embrace |>opu!ous and ex
tensive settlements, and have undergone extensive
improvements from the occupants who are now sought
to be dispossessed. Many similar suits have also
been brought in the Circuit Courts of different coun-
oeen nrougni in ine circuit oi uiuereni coun
ties. The only defence of the settlers against these
' heavy claims, in most cases, is that the grants are
void because the conditions attached to them have
’ never been complied with.”
i The Corpus Christi Star, of the 26th ultimo
learns that Mr. Miller, who came from Rio
f Grande City to Corpus Christi for a supply of
> goods, says, that the idea of the country being
flooded with goods is entirely erroneous. In
Monterey and Saltillo there are large quanti
ties of goods, brought there during the occu
pation of the country by our army, but they
are not suited to the trade. The Mexicans pre
fer crossing the river to make their purchases,
because goods are cheaper, and also on ac
count of the saving in duty. The Mexicans are
moving to the east bank of the river in num
bers. A town has been laid out at the Garcia
rancho, fifteen miles above Rio Grande City,
called Roma, and about thirty Americans have
already settled there. Settlements have also
been established opposite Mier, and at a place
a little below Guerrero. All these points, says
the Star, look upon Corpus Christi as their de
pot—it having the advantage in cost of freight
and transportation.
A quantity of carts left Corpus Christi on
the 25th ult. with goods for Loredo.
The Star says that an enterprising gentle
man intends to run two vessels regularly be
tween N. Orleans and Corpus Christi, to leave
on the Ist and 15th of every month.
Schools are springing up among the
Creek, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians. The
“ Choctaw Telegraph” is the title of a new
paper about to be established at Doaksville, in
the Choctaw Nation, to be edited by D. Folsom,
a native Choctaw. The MLwioD**-® 0
fee ting much good among these tribes.
“BKXzTlian Trade with Africa.—A circu
lar from the mercantile house of James Brick
head, dated Rio Janeiro, Aug. 16th, says :
“ An earnest effort is now making by Government
to stop the trade to Africa, in which it is sustained
and encouraged by public opinion. Few doubt of
success, and it will materially affect business, as it
is estimated that near one-third of the imports of
cotton goods has hitherto been taken for that trade.”
Business of the State Road.—The Macon
. Telegraph of the 17th inst. says: We are in
debted to the politeness of a friend for the fol
lowing exhibit of the income of the State Road,
for the year ending the 30ffi September, 1848.
Freight, $69,541 22
Passengers 57,355 15
Mail, 8,571 00
Income over previous year, 525,983 51
The Price of a Kiss.—A young man in Fall
River, was fined three dollars and costs for kiss-*
ing a young lady in the street. The charge is
only a dollar here, by the last decision ; but per
haps the Fall River damsel was the prettiest,
which makes all the difference. — Providence
Journal.
A.Temperance Town —A company of two
hundred persons in New York city have pur
chased a tract of two hundred acres of land, of
Gouverneur Morris of Morrisania, which has
been laid out in streets and avenues, and on
account of the large number of applicants, in
to quarter halfand one acre lots. The pur
chasers formed an association in taking their
lots, stipulating that no ardent spirits should be
bought, sold or drank on their respective pre
mises, and that within three years they would
erect dwellings of not less than S3OO value up
on them. Arrangements have been made with
• the Harlem railroad to go into operation next
spring, for running an early and a late train
expressly for the accommodation of the vil
lage.
Defining his Position.—“ Get up. get up I”
said a watchman to a chap who had fallen a
grade below the door-step sleepers, and who
had taken a lodgment in the gutter. “You
must not lie here.” “ Lie ! you’re another .'—
must not lie UCre. Ujic • io auuuici .
you lie yourself!—N-n-not lie here ! I tell you
wh-what, old fellow, that may do to t t-tell in
them slave States, but I’ll let you know, ” said
the agrarian, sputtering out a mouthful of mud,
“ that t-th-this is free soil ?”
Twenty Miles an Hour.—lt is under
stood that a match against time has been enter
ed into by the owner of the trotting horse
Trustee. The distance is twenty miles, and
the time allowed for the completion of the task
is one hour. No horse, either in this or any
other country, has ever trotted twenty miles
within the hour; and if accomplished in this in
stance will stamp Trustee as being one of the
best horses of the day. The stakes are $1,500.
—AT. Y. Herald.
A Small Room. —The Duke of Cumberland
once invited himself to dine with Foote. On
his arrival, finding the house very small, he ob
served —
‘ Why, Foote, this room is not fit to swing a
cat in.’
, Foote replied—‘May it please your Royal
Highness, I never swing'cats!’— Poynder'B Lit
erary Extract*.
Boston Water Works —The water of Coci
tnate Lake was for the first time let into the
i aqueduct of the Boston water works on Thurs
day morning, in the presence of the mayor,
i the water commissioners and engineers.
‘ The last of $3,000. —A five dollar bill of the
Fulton Bank passed through the hands of the
New York Journal of Commerce on the back
of which was written as follows :
“This is the last of three thousand dollars
’ left me by my mother at her death, on the 27th
’ day of Aug/. 1840. Would to God she had
never left it to me, and that I had been learned
to work, to have earned my living. I would not
now be what I am.”
s Tp 3 A Treatise on Campanology, published
» in Norwich, England, states, according to an
■ accurate calculation, that the number of com
binations of definite sounds, that can be pro
! duced in twenty-four bells, is so great that at
‘ the rate of two in a second, it would require to
strike them 117.000.000.000 years. This gives
*••».»** “ a • . J J J - - --- c
an idea of the endless variety of tones that may
be made from a few primary notes.
The question of the constitutionality of
the law, in Kentucky, by which free negroes
coming into the State, are arrested and «oid for
one year, after remaining 30 days, (unless they
give bond to leave.) has just been decided up
on by Judge Bullock. In the case ot Turner
Roberts, from Indiana, he decides that the law
was valid and binding, and R. having violated
it, must submit to its penalties.
Bishop Hughes, of the Catholic diocese of
New York, is opposed to the establishment of
the Cistercian order of monks in his diocese.
He desires the recall to Ireland of the two Cis
tercian monks who have come out for that pur
pose.
The annual report ofthe Comptroller of
New York, shows that the expenses of that city
for the current year, are $2,709,452, equal to
about SI.OB on every SIOO of taxable pro
perty, being about cents on the SIOO over
the assessment of last year.
Thomas D'Arcy Magee, the Irish refugee
patriot, is in Philadelphia, having escaped from
Ireland under an assumed name.
The Secretary of War acts as the Secretary
of the Navy during Judge Mason’s absence
from Washington.
The Louisville Courier mentions the ship
ment of 1,000 barrels of lard from that place
for Liverpool.
The total number of immigrants arrived at
New York, from the Ist to the 12th of October,
inclusive, is 4.609—fr0m Ireland 2,467.
I An incendiary was shot at St, Louis, a few
nights ago. while setting fire to a lumber yard.
He died of his injuries.
VOL.LXII.-NEW SERIES VOL. XII., NO. 43-
2lugusta, ©£U.:
| SATURDAY MORNING, OCT. 31, 1848.
I Appreciation of Agricultural Publica
tions.
E. Newton, Esq., in his address before the
Mahoning county (Ohio) Agricultural Society,
observes:
” Agricultural publications are the best and cheap
est mode of obtaining information upon all subjects of
I husbandry. They cost but little, and are within the
power of all. One good day’s work will pay for one,
and all have an abundance of time to read them. They
contain the experience and observations of the most
scientific farmers in the country; the prospects of
crops in all countries, and the condition of the mark
et; facts all important to be known and understood.
I have been surprised to see how few are taken, and
have often been told by farmers that they were not
able to pay for them. 1 can hardly appreciate the
remark. Every one is able to pay for that which
will immediately return them a hundred fold. I be
lieve that a single number of any of the publications,
if thoroughly read, would be found to contain some
■ fact, if adopted, that would more than pay for a full
year. By raising an extra bushel of wheat, it would
pay for the year.”
It is difficult to comprehend the unwilling
ness of planters to teach one another, through
the medium of a cheap periodical which all
can have constantly by them for reference.
The great value of the Press lies in the won
derful facility it offers alike in all trades, arts,
and professions, for the most skilful artat best
informed, tG
Society is advanced in knowl
edge, virtue, wealth and happiness by a system
of mutual instruction. Hitherto the farmers
of this country have done next to nothing in
the way of condensing professional informa
tion in books; and carefully studying these in
connection with the practice of agriculture.
This neglect operates most disastrously in pre
venting any general improvement in tillage,
rotation of crops, the rearing and feeding of
domestic animals, garden and fruit culture,
and above all in retarding the elevation of the
agriculturists themselves. Why should they,
as a class, be less educated, generally, and less
instructed professionally, than lawyers and phy
sicians? What is a dollar a year to expend
for a volume, filled with the recorded expe
rience of several hundred of the best practical
and scientific husbandmen in ten planting
States? Nor is this all. Whatever of value
to Southern agriculture can be found in all the
periodicals of this class published in America,
and not a few of those printed in Great Britain
and on the Continent, is condensed, and fur
nished at tho merest trifle, and in an enduring
form, to the readers of the Southern Cultivator.
Have the business men of villages and cities
no interest in preventing the wearing out of
e plantations, and the slow but certain depopu
e lation of the surrounding rural districts? Who
e does not know that if a community fails to ad
vance in knowledge, population and wealth,
3 it is sure to decline, fall backward, in each of
f these? Society can not stand still. Cultivated
? lands which are not improved, become impov-
• erished; as does the community which attempts
. to grow cotton on exhausted soils, and sell it
< at the lowest market value.
’ View this subject in whatever light you will,
’ its paramount importance must be obvious to
> every intelligent mind. What should be done?
• Simply this: Let a common effort be made
1 to diffuse light—the light of experience and
’ modern science—among all the planters and
• farmers of the South. In this noble work of
disseminating agricultural information, all can
' participate, without injury to anyone. The
; benefits to accrue by augmenting the profits of
rural industry, will return to reward every mer-
1 chant, mechanic, and professional gentleman
that may promote the improvement of the soil,
and the elevation of those that own, or direct
i its culture. Turn the Press to the best possi
ble account in collecting knowledge of rural
s economy, of the most successful husbandry;
5 and send it home to the fireside and under
-1 standing of all that lack in that regard.
, The intellect devoted to rural pursuits must be
lurtbc. —J ajUUt tu vUuipYVntTiia
those Natural Laws which transform earth, air
and water into the several crops harvested by
man. Ignorance of these uniform, unbending
t Laws, leads to a prodigious waste of honest
j toil, by its misdirection. Why throw away so
t much labor, when it may be prevented ? Why
f encourage in a nation of farmers, the weakness
of ignorance, rather than the power of know-
1 ledge? Better aid the best, to instruct the poor
est among them.
Not a Slaveholder on the Ticket.
525* “ Resolved, That the charge that the Democ
racy are in favor of extending Slavery, or of perpetu
ating its existence, is founded in falsehood, and those
who make it know it to be a lie, and by no means ob
ject to it because it is a lie !
“ Resolved, That the only ticket now before
I the Republic, which can command the support of
• the real friends of free soil, is that which tears the
i names of Lewis Cass and William O. Rutler—
%jfas it has not the name of a Slaveholder on it,
nor that of any man interested in either theperpe-
’ tuation or extension of Slavery / /”<CI
The Cassites adopted the above resolutions
, at a public meeting held in Concord, Massa
chusetts, on the 12th ult.
Is an illustrious son of the South to be scoffed
at and put down, because he is a planter, and
owns slaves, by the Cass Abolitionists of the
North? The Hero of Buena Vista is to be
conquered, is he, by a party, which boasts that
there is “not a Slaveholder on its Ticket;”
nor a man interes ed in either the perpetuation
or extension of slavery ? It is for such a ticket
that the enemies of General Zachary Taylor
ask the people of the South to vote! Let no
man plead ignorance of the fact hereafter, that
Mr. Cass is more of a free soil man than Mr.
Van Buren.
“The Hearts of the People must be prepared for
war. ” —Lewis Cass.
Those that think that “the hearts of the
people ” need no preparation to sustain all
needful contests, will be slow to make a man
President, who is so regardless of human suf- (
sering and life, and so fond of the spoils and 1
national debt, inseparable from War, that his '
administration will be ever seeking for what it
loves so well. “ Prepare the hearts of the peo
ple for war!” Is this the true policy for our
National Government to pursue ? It is the road
which has led all former Republics to civil dis
cord and ultimate destruction.
Scholars’ Fairs. —A public exhibition of school
products is held at the close of each semi-annual ex
amination of the New York Public Schools. The
specimens exhibited are by and for scholars, and can
sist of writing, drawing, needlework, mechanism,
&c. A portion ol the specimens thus exhibited are
designed for the patriotic object of instituting similar
and reciprocating measures in other schools, not only
in this but in all States and countries. Dr. Nichols,
Professor of Astronomy in the University of Glasgow,
Scotland, on his returning home from a recent visit to
this country, took with him school products, docu
ments, &c., filling a box containing more than a bush
el. He remarked, respecting them, “ I never saw
anything so beautiful. ”
Many of the maps of different States drawn,
lettered and colored by boys and girls under
twelve years of age, in the Public Schools in
the city of New York, display remarkable skill
for so young pupils. Specimens of mechanical
tact and powers of combination are exhibited
still more extraordinary. From what we have
seen of these, it is no wonder that Professor
Nichols should take home with him to Scot
land, “ School products and documents, ” as
objects of interest in a country where common
schools are held in high esteem.
Mr. Webster, in a speech at Abingdon.
Mass., on the 9th inst, closed as follows:
“ Gentlemen, the Whig party may encoun
ter misfortunes ; it may commit mistakes; but, I
for one, I shall follow its fortunes ; because I
am more willing to trust myself and trust the
country upon Whig principles and Whig poli
cy, than upon those of any other political parly
or association. (Great applause.) I believe
that those principles and that policy have come
down to ns from the days of Washington. I
nee that this Whig party stretches from the
North to the South, from the East to the West,
comprising much of numbers, much of intelli
gence and virtue, much of disinterested patri
otism. In a country like ours, it is not an easy
thing to form a party that shall not be local,
butthat shall be sound and constitutional, and
that shall spread all over the country, posses
sing in every State more or less weight, influ
ence, power and numbers. I look to the pre
servation of that party; I look to it as a great
security, even ifit prove to be a minority. The
Whigs, if united and strong, and a patriotic,
and persevering, though they may be a mino
rity twenty years, are capable of rendering the
country great service. For one, therefore, I
am for supporting decidedly and with alacrity,
the nomination, which, under all the circum
stances, the Whig Convention has seen fit to
make, looking to its influence as the only
means of escape from great and threatening
dangers.
ForOregom.—Judge Bryant, lately appoint
ed to the Supreme Court of Oregon, expects
to leave for hi* destination about the 10th ol
November. He will embark al New-York or
Norfolk for Chagres, across the isthmus, and
meet a mail steamer, which will take him upto
Oregon. His family, under the care of a bro
ther, will leave St. Joseph, Mo., about the first
of May next
“ My Wou tiled are behind me, and 1 snail
never pass them alive.”
None of our readers ever saw this expression
before, and yet they know instinctively who
spoke it. They know that it was that old man
Zachary Taylor. They can see him in imagi
nation in the thickest of the battle of Buena
Vista. The firin determination of his brow
struggling with an expression of deep sorrow
for the brave fellows who had fallen and those
who were yet to bite the dust—when on being
interrogated as to his purpose, he replied, while
the fire of an nnconqnered will gleamed in his
eye—“ My wounded are behind ine and I shall
never pass them alive. ” A sublime sentiment
sublimely expressed. This incident in the life
of Gen. Taylor is related by Col. Jefferson Da.
vis, in a political speech made at Raymond,
Mississippi, on the 22d ult. Although Colonel
Davis avows his intention to support Cass, we
should like for him to make such speeches in
every county in Georgia. The following is
from the Vicksburg Whig:
He [Col. Davis, says the Whig,] ran over
some of the prominent measures of public pol
icy in which he took an interest during the late
session of Congress—in terms of severe con
demnation concerning the “defection” of
Benton and Houston on the Oregon Bill—said
nothing about Polk—gave out that the North
ern Democrats were no longer worthy of being
called “allies of the South, ” and that he should t
never again speak of them as such, and came
at last, with evident reluctance, to the Pi eviden
tial contest. Ha said that if any persons ex
pected him to speak evil of Gen. Tayior, they
would be disappointed. He knew no evil ot*
ii..,,.',) of him one ‘
purest and noblest men the world had ever
seen. The Colonel seemed greatly movedin
peaking of Gen. Taylor, and his eulogy on the
old man was beyond all question, the finest we
ever heard. It was received with thunders of
involuntary applause. He referred to the
kindness and almost parental regard shown by-
Gen. Taylor to the Mississippians under his
command,and was again interrupted by a storm
of cheers. He said the old General stood god
father to the sons of Mississippi when, amid
the war and smoke of the fight, they were bap
tised in blood on the heights of Buena Vista—
and was again compelled to pause bv a hur
ricane of applause. He said that during the
progress of the battle, after he (Col. Davis) was
wounded, Gen. Taylor came and sat down by
him—the firm determination on his brow seem
ed struggling with an expression of deep sor
row for the brave fellows who bad fallen and
those who were yet to bite the dust—when, on
being interrogated as to his purpose, he replied,
while the fire of an uuconquered will gleamed
in his eye—“ My wounded are behind me, and
I shall never pass them alive!”
Abcut this time, the crowd became so ex
cited that they were almost ready to carry the
Colonel from the stand But he was not done
yet. He said that, after all, Gen. Taylor, in a
political point of view, must be regarded as
identified with the party which had nominated
him, and that, therefore, he (the Colonel)
would be obliged to vote for Cass and Butler.
This announcement was received with loud
shouts by the Democrats; and the Colonel,af
ter scolding them a little for seeming to sup-
i_ pose that he ever intended to do any thing else,
o proceeded to remark that Marlin Van Buren
was a very corrupt man—very .’—that he had
Iways been so, that he had stuck up to his
i, pledges so long as he remained in office, and
( f that Cass would in all probability do the same!
. He told us that the doctrine (advocated by
some) of leaving the question of slavery to the
mongrel population of our Mexican territories,
s was palpably wrong and exceedingly contempt
t ible, and, being pressed for time, he omitted
mentioning that it was lhe most prominent doc
trine advocated by Cass in the Nicholson letter.
He also took occasion lo inform us that though
o he was going to support a Northern man hirn
-7 self the South must rely upon herself in the
* great struggle which must soon come upon the
3 slavery question, and that lhe Presidential can
-1 vass should be conducted with such forbear
’ ance as to prepare the way for that amalgama-
P tion of parlies which the coming crisis would
render necessary.
1 The people will take the honorable Senator's
j advice without following his example. They
p cannot consistently do both. The first intima
tion of that truly self-reliant spirit which the
Souih intends to evince, ought to be, and will
1 be embodied in an almost unanimous support
, of Gen. Taylor.
t Queer Petition for Uncle Sam. .
The colonial subjects of France appear to
I have a pretty liberal idea of the liberality of f
» the U. States of America. Acorjgspondent of
’ the N. Y. Herald from Martinique, St. Pierre,
• Sept. 9, forwards the following copy of a peti-
5 tion of the white inhabitants of Guadalpupe
1 tne rresident ol me L. States :
r To his Excellency, the President of the U. S.
Y of America,in Congress assembled, Washington:
» —Your Excellency:—We the undersigned, in*
j habitants of Guadeloupe, belonging to white
population, whose families had, ever since 1793
J emigrated to your shores. We are French ci-
K tizens, landholders and merchants, most of us
? having resided, been brought up, or educated
amongst you, or traded with the Union, beg to f
crave your attention to the following subject:
Since the French revolution, the provisional
Government having emancipated our slaves,
without previously paying ns a just and equita
ble indemnity, which has thrown us into ruin,
discouragement, and the greatest desolation,
we have in this predicament, cast our eyes to-
5 wards your friendly nation, as being the only
one whose sympathy to the French emigrant's
in other times, has already been experienced.
J. From what is above stated, and the present
situation of this island, we are all of opinion
that it cannot longer afford shelter and security
to the whites ; nor do we even think we can
remain in safety for the future, from what has
already occurred in Martinico, and the bad dis
, position of the blacks here ; it being proved by
experience that, after ruin and misery, disturb
ance must follow. We, in consequence thereof,
cannot refrain any longer from applying to
I your excellency, with a request that you will
I favor us with such facilities as would enable us
to retire and set lie in such part of the United
States which you might deem convenient to
> grant us.
t We indulge in the hope that the generous
, nation you are at the head of will make no dif
ficulty against admitting us as brothers—for
1 such we are, by the blood spilt by our fathers,
t when siding with your ancestors in lhe glori
ous battles fought for independence and for the
defence of that soil, some small portion of which
we now beg from you.
The American people and their government,
are already possessed with all our sympathies,
and an aggregation to their population, we
trust, will be no incumbrance to tho public
r welfare.
We remain, with deep respect, your excel
lency’s humble and obedient servant.
[Signaturee follow.]
Points a Petre, Guadeloupe, Aug. 25, 1848.
The original of this petition was forwarded
on the 30th ult.. per schooner Eleanora, Capt.
Gerard, bound for New York. Two other pe
titions are now ready to be forwarded, both
from the Moule, and Port Louis, in that Is
land.
The Arts.—The celebrated painting of Na
poleon Crossing the Alps,by Paul DeLaßoche,
has been seen by the editor of the New York
Mirror, who pronounces it a decided master
piece. He says:
It is greatly superior to the other paintings
that we have seen by this artist, and worth near
ly all the paintings of the modern French
school that have been sent across the Atlantic.
David’s miserable theatrical show piece, which
represents the youthful conqueror dressed in
a gaudy suit of regimentals, and rearing his
horse like a mountebank in a circus, will here
after be only named to be ridiculed. De La
Roche is shown by this picture to be a much
greater artist than we had thought him. The
point represented is the following, from Thiers’
“ History of the Consulate and the Empire
“ Before Napoleon set forth he received news
from the Var, informing him that on the 14th of
May the Baron de Melas was still at Nice. As
it was now the 20th of May it could not rea
sonably be supposed that the /Yustrian General,
in the space of six days, could have marched
from Nice to Ivrea. It was then the 20th that
he set out to pass the defile- His aid-de-camp,
Duroc, and his secretary, Bourrienne, accom
panied him. The Arts have represented him
bounding across the snowy Alps on a fiery
charger! but here is the truth unvarnished.
He ascended Mount Saint Bernard, mounted
on a mule, dressed in the gray coat which he
always wore, conducted by a guide of the
country, displaying in the most difficult path the
abstraction of a mind occupied elsewhere, dis
coursing with the officers whom he met here
and there on the road, and then at intervals con
versing with the guide who accompanied him,
I making him talk of his life, his pleasures, and
his troubles, like some idle traveller who had
no better occupation.
There is nothing in the picture extraneous to
the subject, while it contains all that is neces
sary to impart a feeling of the reality of the
scene, and the dignity of sentiment worthy of
the grandeur ofthe theme. The countenance
of Napoleon is noble in the extreme, full of deep
thought and mighty plans; you read in the mel
ancholy grandeur of expression which covers it
like a veil, the last solemn scene of his life on the
desolate rock where he expired. Napoleon is
the prominent object of the composition, with
out being in the least degree obtrusive. He sits
rapt in contemplation on the back of his mule,
which is led by an Alpine guide. All the ac
cessories of the picture, which are grand but
simple, are produced with unequalled skill.—
The mule itself is a grand picture, and the Al
pine scenery, the snow,the lowering rocks, the
icicle, and the wintry clouds, are all depicted
with marvellous effect.
The finish of the picture is wonderful; it is
I touched with an exquisite delicacy which seems
, incompatible with such a breadth of effect and
grandeur of expression. This work will be as
» well received by the public as the Greek Slave
by Power, and will render the name of this
i great painter as familiar as a household word
among us As one of the people, we feel our
selves indebted to Messrs. Guupil, Vibert &
* Co., for introducing this noble work of art into
’ this country, where its influence cannot fad to
1 have the happiest effect upon the popular taste,
and teach our people to appreciate the works
! of our own great artists.
Daniel Webster is to deliver the annual ad
dress before the Mercantile Library Associa'
uou of Poston in November next.