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solutions of the country and the spirit of]
freedom that hui.lt up those institutions, j
Coming Upo-'llia stuge*of action with pure 1
principS’tj® And liberal views. It augurs |
■well for the future. . Nnr is it strange that |
they should ernbitfco Whig principles, —• ;
The wtfich the disastijqus policy of i
our adversaries liavo thrown over the pros--
pects of thousands of young n>en during
the last ten years, gives poignancy and
force to a powerful appeal to their interest in
favor of Whig policy.— Columbia {Tcnn.)
Observer.
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NEWS AND OAZETTL
WASHINGTON, GA.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1844.
FOR PRESIDENT,
HENRY CLAY,
OF KENTUCKY.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
THEODORE FREUNSHOYSEN,
OF NEW-JERSEY.
EIGHTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT,
ROBERT TOOMBS*
03” The Whig nominating committee
met at Madison and selected the Hon. Wm.
Law, to fill Col. Lumpkin’s vacancy in the
Electoral Ticket.
. ,_Vr
The Madison Convention.
This was undoubtedly the largest and
most interesting political meeting ever held
in Georgia. The Milledgeville Recorder,
whose account we copy, wc think makes a
very fair estimate of the number present,
it could not have been less than 15,000 nor
do we suppose it more than 20,000. Opin
ions as to the number of large and confused
crowds, will always vary considerably.—
Wc are convinced that the gathering must
have been immense for the Democratic edi
tors are exerting all their unsurpassable
powers of falsehood, to make people be
lieve there was only a small number pres
ent. How some of them can have the as
surance to publish statements about this
Whig meeting, which thousands of the
people of Georgia, know to be outrageous
lies, is incomprehensible ! Can they expect
to retain any character for veracity ? Can
they expoct to be believed in oilier matters?
Nor can we perceive what good it can do
cither party, to underrate or overrate the
number present at their respective Conven-
such a course shows a very foolish
and petty jealousy.
Tho enthusiasm at the Convention was
tremendous, and tho returning delegates
will infuse it into every nook and corner
of the State. The Whigs of Georgia only
needed such a rousing up as they got at
Madison, to give a greater majority, than
they gave to Old Tip, to Clay and Fueling
HUYSEN.
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03“ The Democratic Convention for this
District, met at Augusta on Monday and
nominated E. J. Black, for the honor of be
ing beaten by Mr Toombs for Congress.
They also nominated Eli 11. Baxter of
Hancock, for Polk elector.
Theii barbecue, we suppose came off o:.
Tuesday, and it is worthy of remark, that,
notwithstanding the powerful array of tal
ent and eloquence they bragged would he
there, and though one of their flatulent
great men named Pickens, had boasted that
he was going to demolish on that day, a
Georgia Whig orator or two, yet when call
ed upon to allow free discussion, they would
not permit a Whig to address the crowd!
They invited Whig hearers to be present
biit, as usual in their meetings; Whig
speakers were not only not expected, but
not desired to be present. What sort of
principles have these Democrats, that they
thus avoid all public discussion, or what
sort of champions have they, that in such a
phalanx of great men, as they advertised
would be present,containing McDuffie, Col
quitt, Chappell and seventeen others, they
are afraid to meet one solitary Whig before
the peoplo. Are they afraid of the people ?
Then according to Mr. Jefferson’s definition
_(“ the timid man fears the people and is a
tory by nature”) they must be nearly the
same sort of folks with Polk’s grandfather.
Mr. Chappell too, we see by the Madison
Miscellanys has learned the ways of his
new party amazingly quick, having posi
tively refused to meet Mr. Stephens in dis
cussion at Macon, on the 13th inst. Oh
Absarom, shame on you Absalom.
‘■Jtt-iflon. Silas Wright, in a late speech
,J*R?ew.York
riff was defective,,)!! some points though lie
approved it generally.” How very “har
monious’Lt.be Democracy are on the Tariff
and Texas questions ?
[The Native American Party. I
We are not of the number ofthoso who !
I would court the political influence of any
set of men by flattering their sectarian feel
j ings—but tho vile and false charge which
i lias lately been made by the Locofocos,
that the Native Americans were Whigs,
calls for some answer. Tho Native A
merieau party has alieady been indisputa
bly shown to have originated with the Lo
cos, and it can be as easily proved that the
Whig party never has attempted to pro
j scribe any man for his religious principles,
i nor have they desired to make religion an
| element in excited political contests. Far
different lias been the conduct of the Loco
fbeos ! They have flattered and cajoled
every sect und persuasion by which t hoy
thought they could gain votes. They are
now attempting to take advantage of tiie
schism in the Methodist Church ; they have
persuaded the Catholics that tiiey were the
peculiar friends of their creed, and they
have even descended to court the Mormons
and Fanny Wright’s corps of infidels. As
to their friendship for Catholics, we only
need look at New Hampshire, a State
where time out of mind they have held full
power, whose Constitution shamefully pre
cludes Catholics from holding any office of
high trust, and even prevents their incorpo
rated towns or churches from employing
teachers of the Catholic religion. No State
is so intolerant, as this “ Gibralter of De
mocracy,” and yet the Democrats would
pcrsi/ade us that they are the peculiar \
Guardians of religious freedom ! For the
following extracts from the Constitution of
New Hampshire, we are indebted to the i
Mobile Advertiser :
The 14th section of her constitution corn
tains this provision:
“ Every member of the [louse of Repre
sentatives shall he chosen by ballot, and tor
two years at least next preceding his elec
tion shall have been an inhabitant of this
State, shall have an estate within the dis
trict which iie may be chosen to represent
of the value of one hundred pounds, one
half of which to be a freehold.”
It contains a further provision that the
representative shall be of the Protestant
Religion.
The 29th section of the constitution con
tains the following provision :
“ Provided, nevertheless, that no person
shall be capable of being elected a Senator
i who is not of the Protestant Religion, and
seized of a freehold estate, in his own right,
of the value of tioo hundred pounds, lying
within this State.”
In tlie 42d section of tiie constitution is
this provision :
“And no person shall he eligible to this
’ office (Governor) unless, at the time of his
1 election, he shaii have been an inhabitant
i of this State for seven years next preceding,
1 and unless he shall be of the age of thirty
t years; and unless he shall, at the same
time, have an estate of the value of Jive
1 hundred pounds , one-half of which shall
consist of a freehold, in his own right,
within this State; and unless he shall be of
the Protestant Religion.”
03“ We notice that the Locofoco papers
and orators still persist in insinuating that
Mr. Clay is an Abolitionist, (they dare not i
make the vile charge directly,) and they
assert positively that Mr. Frelinghuysen
belongs to that sect of enthusiasts. As to
tiie first, they will find nobody to believe
their accusation, they don't believe it them
selves; as to Mr. F. they have not only
failed to prove the charges, but their false
hood has been clearly shown. We think
it would be well for them, when they ar
raign others, to come into court with “clean
hands” themselves. How do they justify
their party leaders in the U. S. Senate who
voted for Benton’s hill for the Abolition of
Slavery in Texas ?
03” Oregon. —At the multitudinous Tex
as and Oregon Mass Meeting at tiie Indian
Springs, we learn that Oregon was not
once mentioned, although it was emblazon
ed upon their banners and badges. Wiiat
do tho Polkers mean—are they not only
going to steal the Whig principles, but al
so repudiate their own ? Why don’t they
tell the people something about Oregon ?
03“ We are glad to find that there is some
respect for truth and decency left in Wai
ter T. Colquitt yet. He acknowledges) it
is said, that the Whig party of Georgia are
* ‘ immaculate ,” a fact which we scarcely
supposed tie would confess, as it was only
by the desertion of him and his accomplices
that our party became so.
03” The following Toast was sent by an
old soldier of the. Revolution to the Whig
meeting here on the 24th ult. Liktall
those patriotic veterans a Whig now as he
was then —ready” as one of them said at
Madison, again “to fight the British under
their new disguise.”
Washington and Jefferson. —The most
illustrious names in the annals of our his
tory ; could their spirits be revoked from
the dead, they would Down down with a
holy indignation on the measures that have
been and are still being practised by the
self-styled Democratic—but in reality, the
disorganizing, plundering, and repudiating
party, which huve no principles of their
own, and that study nothing—but opposi
tion to hoDe'st \Vliig principles.
I O iT Democratic Predictions. —That Ah-1
! salom 11. Chappell will beat Washington !
Poc in • the 3d District 1500 votes; tiiat
Absalom Janes (Go it ye Absaloms!) will
be elected over Stephens, by a large ma
jority, in the. 7th District; and that Seaborn
Jones’ majority over Wm. H. Crawford in
the 2d District, will lie 1000 or 1500. Let
us sec how many of these prophecies will
be verified !
03” The fight between the Texas and
anti-Texas divisions of the New.York De
mocracy “ goes bravely on,” and wc hope
it will end like the Kilkenny eat fight.
The Plebeian, the organ of the Texas men,
denounces tiie anti-Texans as Federalists,
Abolitionists, &c. The Evening Post re
torts on the Plebeian, abuses the clique who
cheated Mr. Van Buren out of the nomina
tion—says if Texas is made the issue, the
Democratic party must be broken up and
defeated, and speaks thus of the Texas
scheme and the Resolution of the Baltimore
convention :
“ It is worth while to notice, that the
whole movement on this subject is in the
strictest sense a party juggle—and a very
poor one. It would disgrace a thimble
rigger of the most ordinary pretensions.
We were informed by the Baltimore
Convention “that the Annexation of Tex
as at the curliest practicable period,” w as a
cardinal feature in modern Democracy.—
Now, we should he glad to know what the
“ earliest practicable period” means. Who
objects to annexing Texas at the earliest
practicable period ?” Wc see no reason j
I why the moon should not he annexed “ at
the earliest practicable period”—tiiat is to
say, as soon as it can. As soon as the just
claims of Mexico can he disposed of—as
soon as the question of Slavery can ire got
out of tho way, we abandon our opposition
to the annexation of Texas.”
03” The election for Governor and Le
gislature took place in North Carolina last
Thursday. The last Legislature was Lo
cof’oco,though the Whigs elected their Go
vernor by a majority of about 4,700. The
only news we have of this election wVt find
in the Augusta Chronicle, as follows :
North Carolina Election. A slip from !
the office of the Wilmington Chronicle, of
Aug. 3d, furnishes accounts of tiie election
in theeountiesof New Hanover,Brunswick,
Bladen, Columbia, Wayne, Duplin, Hali
fax, Northampton, Johnson and Warren,
which show a Whig gain of five members
of the Legislature and in the popular vote
a loss of 143.
New Colton.
The crop has began to go in to market
much earlier than common, and seems ‘
v
likely to prove uncommonly abundant :
The Augusta Chronicle, of the 31st ult.
says : “We have the pleasure to announce
that a bale of new cotton was received yes.
lerday at the Ware-house of Messrs. Hustin
& Walker, in this city, from the plantation
of James Gardner, Jr. Esq., of Columbia
county. It is of good staple and fine qual
ity. The first bale of new cotton received
last summer, was on the 24th day of Au
gust, 25 days later.
New Colton. —A bale of new Cotton,
says the Savannah Republican of the Ist
inst., from the plantation of Isaac C. West,
| Esq. of Houston county, was received in
this city yesterday afternoon, by the Rail
road. This bale (the first of the season) is
oifuir quality-—was purchased at Macon,
by Messrs. Cowles & Nieoil, and consigned
to Messrs. J. D. Carliart & Scott, of this
city, who sold it on arrival, yesterday, at 8
cts. per lb., und it will leave to-day in the
brig Augusta for New-York. The first
bale last season, reached us on the 21st
August, it was from the plantation of the
same gentleman, was sold in Macon at 6
cts. and re-sold here at 8 cts. per lb. for the
Charleston market—the quality about the
same as the present bale.
Anew Locofoco Candidate for President. )
The Evening Post, in tho course of an arti- !
cle on the Texas affair, proposes anew
“available” candidate, thus:
“Is it to be supposed that these gentle
men [Messrs. Van Buren, Benton, Wright,
&c.J are all to come to the right-about face,
because a few men in Baltimore see fit to
pass a resolution in regard to which they
received no mandate from the people ? If
the Demociatic party lias such ability to
‘jump about and turn about’ as they would
imply, not Mr. Polk but Jim Crow should
have been our candidate.”
At this early stage of the business we
wish to have it distinctly stated what the
opinions of Mr. Crow upon the tariff’ are ;
and does he think, with another distinguish
ed “ Democrat,” tiiat “ the duties imposed
by the existing laws on importations are un
just and ought to be reduced”—at the same
time avowing it as his opinion that “ woo!
is not sufficiently protected ?” Let us
start fair with Mr Crow, so that we may
know where to find him “ every time lie
turns about.” N. F. Tribune.
Coster the Swindler. —The Paris corres
pondent of the Boston Allas under date of
July Ist. says: “Mr. Casey, who was sent
out here by one of the Columbus (Georgia)
banks, to endeavor to arrest Coster, who
had swindled it out of a large sum of mon
ey, found him in Switzerland, living like a
prince. He admitted that he had the funds,
but defied Mr. Casey to obtain them, or ar
rest him, and he was unable to do either.
The Swiss Government are anxious to en
ter into a convention with the United States
mutual extradition of malefactors,
similar to that concluded with France, it is
to bo hoped an arrangement mav beef
! fected.”
FOR THE NEWS'Me PLANTERS’ GAZETTE.
Mr. Editor :—I see in vour paper of tiie j
Ist inst., an assault upon my poor little !
squib in the Constitutionalist. The last |
paragraph which you attacked and which I
seems especially to have provoked your J
ire, is incorrectly copied from tiie manu- ,
script. There were no words in ‘.hat para
graph intended to bn included in quotation
marks but tho two\“ that Irishman,” which
were used by one of the gentlemen referred
to. The inclusion of tho others is a typo
graphical error. There is one view of tho
matter which I am surprised both you and
the compositor have failed to take. It
would be extremely silly in these gentle
men to give utterance to the opinion, that it
was presumption in any one to oppose them,
even if they entertained it. WILKES.
August 3, 1844.
[So far “ Wilkes’” explanation will do,
—now let us see if the “Constitutionalist”
will have tho fairness to correct its error.
The words “tiiat Irishman” were used,
but in this connection—tiie Democratic or
ator said that he had the misfortune to be
born in Ireland ; in noticing tiiis, the Whig
speaker spoke of him as that Irishman J
who is ashamed of his country.” That's i
tiie whole story. — Ed. News.]
FOR THE NEWS AND PLANTERS’ GAZETTE. I
Mr. Editor :—Allow me a small space I
in your valuable columns, to notice tho j
charges against Mr. Harris, contained in j
J the following extract from a communication j
published in the “ Georgia Constitutional- i
ist” of the Ist inst. over the signature of I
“ Wilkes.”
“ l'iie second speaker was a Mr. Harris from |
Tahaierro, a renegade from the Democratic |
ranks. And allow me, Messrs. Editors, to con- j
gratulate you and the party generally, upon tins 1
event. This gentleman entirely mistook bis au- |
dience. lfis speech was a mere bundle of an
ecdotes bountifully spiced with profanity ; and I
the blush oi shame and mortification might have
been seen on the cheek ol more than one of his
new friends, who had more regard for decency
and ixorality, and who considered a laugh and a
shout from a thoughtless multitude as dearly
purchased when the price was an insult to their |
; religious professions. Again, I say, let us con- j
; gratulate ourselves when our party is being
j purged of such characters.”
The substance of the charges contained
in the above is, tiiat Mr. Harris is a rene
gade from the Democratic ranks, and that
his speech was characterised by profanity ;
und in connection with these charges,
“ Wilkes” congratulates the party that Mr.
I H. has left it. I will briefly notice these
positions, by inverting the order in which
they are placed.
j Some of the Democratic papers in this
Slate were loud in their praise of Mr. H. in
1840, when he left the State of Alabama
in which he was then living, to meet the
Democrats at their political jubilee at the
Indian Springs. He was then patriotic,
eloquent and worthy ; a bold and ardent
champion of popular rights, and correct
principles. Well, he is the same man now
that lie then was, only, he has advanced a
little farther in life ; seen, heard and
thought more ; had some more experience,
and in the opinion of “ M.” has hon
estly changed from an erroneous set of
principles, to those which are sanctioned by
reason and sound argument, experience
and practice, and upon the success of which
depends tiie best interest of our beloved
country. If the estimate of Mr. Harris by
the Democrats was correct in 1840 —
“ Wilkes” congratulates them upon the i
loss of a talented, patriotic and eloquent
defender of Democracy—verily, if the par
tv in Georgia lias many such renegades,
though it may still have some sort of prin
ciples, and masses to back them, it will be
without orators to defend the first, or able
I and skillful leaders to direct and marshal
j the latter upon the field of battle.
Mr. H. is not justly chargeable with pro
fanity ; because, in tiie course of debate
he happened to relate an anecdote or two
in which profane language was used by
those whose words or actions constituted
the anecdote itself. We have often heard
similar jokes related on similar occasions
by gentlemen of great moral worth and dis
tinguished abilities. The writer of this,
from a long and intimate acquaintance
with Mr. H. knows, that he entertains the
highest regard for propriety and decorum
in private and in public, and no one would
sooner defend the sanctity of conscientious
religious profession from indecent and wan
ton outrage, than himself. I shall not un
dertake to defend the abilities and oratory
of Mr. H. against the detraction of‘Wilkes,’
wlio says of his speech, that it was a mere
bundle of anecdotes. To those who heard
him, who followed him in his arguments,
iiis beautiful illustrations and thrilling ap
peals, no such defence is necessary. The
main object in view, (and the one, without
which tiie communication of “ Wilkes”
would have passed unheeded by “ M.”) is
to notice the malignant charge, that Mr. II
is a renegade from the Democratic ranks.
The implication contained in this is, that
he has changed from unworthy motive, not
from conviction of error. Who has consti
tuted “ Wilkes” a keeper of the conscience
of Mr. Harris ? By what authority does
he appear as a public censor of private mo
tive and opinion ? Whence did he derive
| tiie superhuman wi-dom and inspiration j
: that gins him the key to unlock the b suns
jof his fellow men? Or, destitute of this j
I authority and inspiration, is lie tho shame- j
i less and arrognnt pretender to powers which -
! lie does not possess ? Is he the low-mind- J
ed conjecturer of motive, and if so, upon i
what principle of gentlemanly intercourse :
does lie found his right to publish his pitifui j
suspicions? lias ho any positive proof!
ihut Mr. H. is a renegade ? None, none ! j
All is ill-natured guess-work—there is no j
proof, no testimony. A whole party, not ,
only in Georgia, but the entire South, has
changed its opinions upon some measures; I
old and greyheaded politicians, legislators !
und senators have (to their immortal ered- !
it,) given up prejudices to which they have j
clung for a quarter of a century, and he- ,
causo a young man, warm in. his feelings, !
ardent in his temperament, may have onco
advocated with accordant zeal the princi
ples which he learned from these grey- |
headed statesmen, and may also have j
changed upon more mature reflection—lo ! j
according to the immaculate wisdom and I
shining charity of “ Wilkes, lie is a ren- ;
j egade from his party! Mr. H. is to bo j
j singled out as the object of his ridiculous, j
j impotent, public censure, coarse and mali- ‘
| cions vituperation. “ Wilkes” pretends to I
: admire the address of Mr. Jenkins, because
■ of its “freedom from abuse and slang.”}
| We can see how much his professions are |
I worth fiom the “abuse and slang” which ;
j in immediate connection he heaps upon Mr. !
iH. W e can see the value of his criticism J
! in the fact, that after the most unbounded <
i praise of the speech of Mr. McM., he de- j
scends from his lofty flight of eulogy upon I
; the speeches of Messrs. Toombs and Ste. |
phens, (replete as they were with powerful |
arguments, stubborn facts and withering j
I sarcasm,) and says, that those gentlemen j
“told some good stories and cracked some ;
good jokes.” |
I do not undertake to criticise the entire j
production of “ Wilkes,” hut in conclusion j
j I will say, tiiat fidelity is requisite for the j
Historian—candour, consistency and free- !
dom from the faults complained of in oth- I
ers is essential for the censor of public mor
als and private opinion—and proof and tes
timony indispensib/e to exempt a man in bis
attacks upon his fellow man from the
charge of wanton aggression and dctestible
malevolence. M.
Washington, August 5, 1844.
Chip of the Old Block. —The following j
is part of lhe letter from the Hon. J. W. j
Crockett :
“You know I arn peculiarly situated, j
Texas is tlit- grave of my father, and lam j
warmly and zealously in favor of her an- j
nexation as soon as it can be done upon !
principles consistent with the honor and in- !
tegrity of my own country ; and I am sat
! isfied that Texas has a clear and perfect •
right to cede her territories, and that the
acquisition of that country upon proper con- ;
ditions would prove highly beneficial to
every portion of this Union. But still lam i
among those who regard the peace and j
harmony, the prosperity and glory of our |
country as paramonnt to every other con- j
sideration ; to bring in Texas without con
sulting the nation, and the sanction of a
clear majority of the people of this Confed
eracy. lam for my country and Henry
Clay first, and for ‘lexas next, and for •
Polk never under any circumstances.
As ever, vonrs,
JOHN W. CROCKETT.”
POLK AND TIIE COMPROMISE.
No one can have failed to observe tiiat
the Loco focos have been suddenly seized
vvitb a very remarkable and ardent love
for the celebrated Compromise Act of 1833,
the act which prevented Gen. Jackson from
making war upon South Carolina, and
hanging Calhoun, McDuffie, and the other
ringleaders ot Nullification. Even their
candidate, J K. Polk, professes for it a pro- 1
found degree of reverence, and in a letter
addressed to the people of Tennessee, da
ted May 26th, 1843, he spoke of it as fol
lows :
“ When the Compromise Act of 1833
was passed, ► very interest in the country
stood fledged, in the most solemn manner, j
to adhere to and abide by it. It was hoped
that this agitating and disturbing subject
was put at rest for a long term of years, if
not forever.”
Our purpose in alluding to the compro
mise now, is simply to call to mind Mr.
Polk’s professed views of the nature of that
act, and then to quote the following
sage from Mr. Clayton’s Delaware speech,
in which he fixes upon Mr. Polk himself
the attempt to violate this cotnpror.,'ise, by
which, according to his pretended theory,
he was • pledged’ to abido :
“On the 28th February, 1834, within
one year after tiie passage of ihe Compro
mise, Mr. Hall of Ninth Carolina, in the
House of Representatives, introduced a res
o.ution, the object ot which was to procure
from the Committee of Ways and Means a
report of a plan accompanied by a Bill to
Repeal the Protection guarantied by the
Compromise. 03'” James K. Polk of Ten
nessee, who was at that time the Chairman
of tiiat very Committee of Ways and Means,
voted for that resolution. There were
69 yeas in favor of the resolution, and 115
nays against it. In voting for that resolu
tion, the deliberate design of which icas to
violate all the pledges given in the Compro
mise, Mr. Polk was backed by six of the
nine members of that same committee, and
by all the Nullijiers and ultra-tariff men in
tiie House.”
We trust that J. K. Polk at least, will j
say nothing hereafter about the “inviola- ‘
htl’.ty of the compromise
l Too Good. —ln one of the Eastern towns
I iri our State, a meeting of the Loco party
i was called by hand-hills posted at the oor
'nersof the streets, headed in largo letters
I “ Young Hickory.” The meeting ‘[a ‘
j not very fully attended, and ori inquiring
jof the leaders the next morning ns to the
.cause, tiiey were astonished to find a gen
; erni complaint of want of notice. “ Why,
didn’t you see tiie bills poste d about tiie
i streets headed “ Young Hickory ?” “Why
; yes, indeed, we saw those bills every where
I but wo thought they w ere stud It >rsc bills.’
Bangor (Me.) Courier.
03” General Jak-oon orico said—“AH
I who do business on borrowed capital ought
ito break.” James IC. Polk, the present
! lucofoco candidate for the Presidency, an
-1 nounees that there are two principles
which he advocates ; one is, “ incidental
i protection lo American Industry,” and the
| other the “one term principle.” Both of
• these are Whig principles, and have been
recently assumed by James K. Polk, taken
or stolen from the Whigs, which you
please ; no one doubts that Polk lias niere
! ly adopted them for temporary purposes. —
j If Gen. Jackson’s doctrine titen, was ap-
J plied to Polk, ha would he essentially bank
! rupt, because there is no other known prin
! ciple that he does advocate. I’ake trom
j him these two, and the remainder <>. Ids
j capital is of a negative character, lie is
{ opposed to what the Whigs are for. — Tropic.
Polk on Tea and Coffee. —Mr. Polk was
i a member of the Committee of Ways and
! Means which in 1833 reported a bill in
I which tea and coffee, then duty free, were
!to be taxed. When these duties were un
; <ler consideration in the House, a propose
j tion was made to strike them out und toad
| mit tea and coffee into this country free of
; duty. Mr. Polk voted against taking the-
I duties from these articles.
03” The Southern Traveller, lias the*
j following :
A Sign. — ln 1840, (lie Whigs carried.
\ Michigan by 2000 votes majority, now
- whiggery is considered neariy extinct in-
I that Slate.
The Detroit Advertiser says, that 15,000
| Whigs assembled at Marshall, on the 4th
! inst., in Mass Convention for the purposeof
j nominating Presider.tal Electors, and that
; it was admitted to be tin* largest Conven
j tion ever held in Michigan. Is this a .sign
! that Whiggery is nearly extinct in that
►State ?
Cool Impudence. —The Danville (N. \.)
Republican, a particularly enlightened and
modest Luco-foco concern, has the follow
ing :
True to Instinct !—Not one W big paper
have wo seen which does Gov. Polk the
justice to correct their misrepresentation of
j his views in relation to a Tariff !
Will they have the honesty to proclaim
I that he is in favor of precisely such a Ta
-1 riff as Mr. Clay ? Such is the fact.
’ SWALLOWING THE EVIDENCE.
j Sailors are proverbially grumblers, and
• even when well treated are very apt to find
’ fault. The provisions good or bad, and
; sometimes they’ are bad enough in a!! con
science, furnish an everlasting subject of
: complaint; they are never so good as they
i were “ last voyage.” We lately met with
j an anecdote of Judge Peters, of Philadei
-1 ptiia, having a bearing on this subject,
I which is too good to be lost:
Complaint was made to the Judge in be
\ half of the crew of a vessel who had made
a voyage to some port in Russia that they
had been furnished with bad provisions.—
j While the counsel for the seamen was ar
guing the cause, one of them stepped for
j ward, and drawing from his pocket a piece
of bread, the color of brown soap, presented
i; to his honor as a specimen of their fair.
To persons accustomed to fine wheaten
: loaves it appeared disgusting indeed, and
the bystanders, one and all, cried shame to
fill men’s stomachs with such unwholesome
aliment,
The Judge applied the bread to his nose,
and finding nothing in it offensive to his ol
factory nerves, was tempted to taste it : he
nibbled a little piece, it tasted well, and he
took a large bite. The counsel proceeded
j at much length, though the dinner hour
was fast approaching, and, as he rounded
the periods, the Juago nibbled around the
black biscuit until none remained. At this
moment the sailor stepped up, and with a
countenance in which was depicted real
distress,said “why, you have eaten my best
witness.” “ Yes, (said the lawyer) 1 have
| been remarking that the Judge, has been
swallowing the evidence as well asthe/aut.”
“Never mind, (replied his honor, as if a
wakeoed from a dream,) I am the better a
hie to digest your cause.” So saying, he
arose, and ordering the libel to he dismiss
ed, went home to dinner. Boston Journal'.
DIED,
On the 3J inst., in Harris county, Ga., Mr. G.
L. RAKESTRAVY, of this Town, in the 55th
year of his age.
pWWBBaMPWMB—iI—IMI IIWH I MU’ W f.l I—O—fM
FRANCIS T. WILLIS,
WILL CONTINUE THE
Commissioii Bus in css,
At the same stand, in Augusta, and res
pectfully solicits patronage.
August 8, 1844. 50
CRENSHAW’S Improved Antifriction Gins,
warranted equal to any m the Southern
States, for sale by
A. A. CLEVELAND.
Washington, July, 1844. ts 50
Found,
ON the 21st ult. in the Road near the Sub
scriber's house, a Pocket-Book containing ,
:t sum of money. The o+ner can have tha same
j by paying for this advertisement, anti applyiac to
JAMES R. DUBOSE
August 8.1844. 50
