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r~ ir - )> tost side of Broad Street above Ran
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fas, sixty days before the day of sale.
Sales of Laud and Negroes, by Ad
naieitrators or Guardians, for sixty days before
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Sales of personal property (except negroes) for
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■ALAOA GHAFZS, FIGS, DATES
AND DfiaXONQ.
JUST receivrd bv
GREENWOOD & MORRIS.
Feb. I. 1948. •
GOSHEN BUTTER,
A Superior article, for *aie at 20 cents per lb.
bv GREENWOOD & MORRI S'.
Keh. 22, IS4B
PICKLES! PICKLES’!
MANGOES, l.inies. Peppers, Deans, Onions,
and mixed Pickles, in gal’s, half gal’s, q’ts.
sod pint*. Also, Spanish Olives and Capers.
Just received bv
GREENWOOD & MORRIS.
Dec. 7, 1847.
FULTON MARKET BEEF, dried Beef and
Beef Tongues. Just received bv
GREEN WOOD & MORRIS.
Dec. 7. 1847.
FISH.
Mackerel, No* i, 2 and 3 —No. 1 shad,
Salmon, Codfish and Herrings.
J ust received by
GREENWOOD & MORRIS.
Dec. 7, 1847.
JUST received. Gelatine, Preserved Ginger,
Dried Ginger,. Preserves, Jams, Pie Fruit,
topicc*, Saleratus, Sane, rhyme. Essences, Ex
tracts, Table Salt, White Black and Red Pep
per, Currie Po vders. Fancy Soaps, Perfumery,
Stationery, Ink, German Copying lok, Back
gammon Boards,Dice, Black Sand, &c. die.—by
GREENWOOD & MORRIS.
Dec. 7, 1847.
VINEGAR.
RED Wine, While Wine, Rasplierry and Ci
der Vinegar. Just received by
GREENWOOD & MORRIS.
Dec. 7, 1847.
MOCK Turtle Soup, Pickled Lobsters, Sar*
dineeand Knchovies. .Fust received by
GREENWOOD & MORRIS.
Dee. 7, 1847.
I ON DON Porter, Croton Ale, Champaigne
J Cider. Wines, Ijquors and Syrups of eve-
Ij description. Just received by
GREENWOOD & MORRIS.
Dec. 7. 1847.
S AIT <5 uS*
“ITTORCESTERSH4R E. Ashburton. Canton
VI Sov and John Bull’s Beef Steak Sauces ;
Al*o, Tomato, Mushroon and Walnut Catsup;
Laor Juice. True Syrup, &c.
Just received by
GREENWOOD* MORRIS.
Nv. 30, 1847.
BREAD.
QODA, Boston, Lemon and Sugar Biscuit,
lO Water and Butter Crackers, Pilot Bread, &c
Just received bv ->
GREENWOOD & MORRIS.
Nov. 30. 1847.
PICK!. ED PORK. Beans, Venison Hams
and Sugar Cured Beef. Just received bv
GREENWOOD & MORRIS. ‘
Jan. 18. 1943.
MOODY, GRIMES & CO.,
HIVE jast rrcriTfd a heavy and well se
lected stock of
GROCERIES.
T ; if*y invite purchasers to give them a call,
and te 1 confident that they can give entire satis
faction, both as to quality and price.
They will deal largely in
BACON AND LAUD,
•ml have commenced receivinff their supplies,
■mi offer a beautiful article of SIDES at 6£ cents
per 11*., ia quantities to suit purchasers.
Feb. S, ISIS.
FEMALE ACADEMY.
r pHI Trustees of the b’i male Arai rmy of this
§ city are Happy to communicate to th citi-l
tens and community adjacent that they have en- !
gage-i ti.e services of Professor HEN TZ, late ofj
the l*niversitv of North Carolina, assisted by his
My. Mr*. CAROLINE LEE HENTZ, as Princi
;m! of the Academy the ensuing year. These
ladivulails, coining as they do with the highest
r rev mine ruir. lions an i qualifications, as Instruct
ors of Tcunaies, the Board ofTrnstees flatterthem
•eives thatthc school will be successfully encour
aged nod sustained by nil those who wish to give
thc.r daughters a thorough and liberal education,
which can be as well perfected under the man
agement of these individuals, as at any other In
stitution ia the States.
No effort on the part of the Trustees shall be
wanting to place this institution on an equality
witn any other of similar character and thus af
ford an opportunity toour citizens of completing
the education of their daughters at home, and
under the watchful care oftneir own eve.
G. E. THOMAS, President.
Jons Forsyth, Josiah Beall,
Jobs G. Wiste*, Du. Thus. Hoxey,
Dr. Asa Fond, De. k. A. \\ are,
Jas. K. Redo, J. L. Mitchell,
It*. E. L. deGArrENRiED. Trustees.
Columbus, Nov. 30, 1547. 49—ts
COBB'S COIiTPILATION OF LEGAL
FCRKXS.
PRICE i4 erats. For sale by
B. B. DeGRAFFENRIED.
D*Cmhcr 21, IS-47. 52—3 m
WLW3OW GLASS AND PUTTY.
JUST received by HALL & MOSES.
Feh. 1, 1848.
Towmrnrmr
M*taiu and Ornamental ,
ISB riaUFLT EXECUTED AT THI
OFFICE OF
<£oliuntms 2T(mcs.
Pamphlets, | H and Bills,
* •• Cards, Wav Bills,
_*?. -r® v I Circulars,
Rail Ticket*, J Blank Notes>
Mir Id” j hin7 *■* ,n line of business
CHEAP, and with Despair*.
ISBIGIA AIR ALABAMA BLANKS
SOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.
W.. ■ -ww J . <WL J 11 1
®l)c Columbus Cintcs.
VOLUME VIII.
MERCANTILE.
COLUMBUS ““
SADDLERY WAREHOUSE,
At the sign of the Golden Saddle, next
door to Meesrs. Hall & Moses, hast aide
Broad Street.
AT UOMtT AGAIN.
WADE & MDDLSERODX,
MANUFACTURERS OF
SADDLES, I TRUNKS,
BRIDLES, SADDLE BAGS,
HARNESS, I VALICES, <&..
Have constantly on hand, a large assortment, arid
are receiving every week from their own tnanu?
factory one of the largest and best assortments of
Gentlemen and Ladies Saddles, of every variety
of pattern, from the cheapest to the best, which
we are offering to sell lower than ever before of
fered m this market.
HARNESSES.
Coach, Barronch, Buggy and Sulkey arness
es, ot every style and quality.
WAG3M HARNESSES.
Collars, a nes, Wit p* aui Dn/ arnesses
Carryal arness—some very cheap.
S ADDX.BRS MATERIALS.
Saddle Tree Skirtings, og Skins, Pad do.,
Straining and Girt Web, and a large assortment of
Saddlery, Coach and a mess ardware.
CARIAGE TRIMMINGS.
Top and curtain Leather, Patent Da6h do. Rub
ber Cioth, figured and plain; Patent curtain
cloth, Patent mole skin, broad and narrow Laces,
Silk and Worsted Fringes and Tassels, &c.
Ail of which we are offering very low.
W Persons wishing to purchase any articles
in our line, would do well to call and examine
our stock and prices before purchasing else
where.
N. B.—Repairing in all its various Branches
done at the shortest notice and in the best man
ner.
WANTED, a lot of GOOD HARNESS
LEATHER.
Columbus, 23d October, 1847. 44-6 m
WOODRUFF k WHITTELSEY.
HATE jnst received From New York an ad
dition to their stock of
among which may be found Wide Black Gro de
Rhine, Silk, forVisittes, Cashmere Shawls, Cash
meres, Muslin de Laines, Orleans and Columbia
Plaids, and Fine Silk Hals, Shoes, &c., &c.
W. & YV. will sell all their stock oft Cashmeres
and Muslin de Laines, at from
Ten to Fifty per cent . below New
York Cost , f>r Cash.
Now is the time, Ladies, to buy Dresses cheap.
Please call and examine for yourselves.
December 14, 1847. 51 —ts
GROCERY AND STAPLE
war s*
J. B. BROOKS,
Is ft&w epeaiitg at Ms new Store on West
side Broad street, three doors below Hill,
Dawson & C 0.,, a
Well Selected Stoek of Goods,
to which he invites the attention of his friends,
ami former customers.
He will also give liberal pdees for COTTON
taiI'COUNTRY PRODUCE.
?fC]r N. B.—Those indebted to the late firm of
J; & J. Brooks, arc requested to cail and liqui
date their accounts, which are in the hands ofthe
undersigned 1 . J. B. BROOKS.
December 28. 1847. I—ts
CHOICE GE3SERIES.
r I"MIE Subscribers have received and are now
J- opening, a fresh stock of Groceries, fine
Liquors, choice Brands of Cigars, &c., consisting
in part of the following :
BRANDIES, Otard, Duptiy & Co’s.; French
and Cognac, American and Peach ; RUM, Jamai
ca, St. Croix, and New England ; GIN, Holland
and American ; WHISKEY, Old Monongahela,
Irish, Scotch and Western; WINES, Madeira,
Port, Teneriffe, Malaga, Sherry and Claret; CI
GARS, of the following brands, to-wit: Byron,
Washington,Rionda’s. Leitad Claranda,Lanorma,
Amerilla, Congress, De ’ Cabana, Regalia and
Americana; SUGARS, Loaf, West India, and
New Orleans t Coffee, Tea, Soap, Lard, Butter,
Cheese, Candles, Powder and Shot. Besides a
general variety of
FA VI ELY GROCEREF.S.
In the rear of our establishment will be found
a genteel Reading Room for the mental, and re
freshments for the physical man.
CODE fc CRICHTON.
December 28, 1847. I—3in
DRUBS, MEDToINES,
Paints, Oils &c,
JUST received, nnd now opining, a large and
and fresh supply of all articles usually kept
in our line. I shall continue to receive, as may
be wanted, from time to time, a general assort
ment of the above articles, which will be of the
very host quality, and may be relied on with
confidence ; and as money is in demand at this
time, I will make it to the interest of all wishing
to purchase lor CASH, to obtain their supplies
from me.
In addition to the articles of Medicine, I have
and will continue to keep Potash, SalJeratus,
| Fepper, Spice, Tanner’s Oii, Linseed Oil, Sweet
| Oil, Neat*oofs Oil, Sperm Oil, Table Oil, of the
■ finest quality, Shaker’s Brooms, Paints, White
Wash and Paint Brushes of all sizes and quali
ties, Head Brushes—the finest ever offered in
this market—Wash-Hand Soaps, of every varie
ty, Shaving Soaps of the best quality, Lorrilards,
Maccaboy, and Scotch t'nuffs, in bottles, and by
the pound in jais, Window Glass and Glass
Ware, Varnishes, of all qualities. Spirits Tur
pentine, White Lpad, dry and in oil, fresh from
the Factory, Surgical and Dental Instruments.
Gold and Tin Foil, Porcelaine Teeth, assorted,
Plate and Pivot. I invite ail wishing to purchase
to call and examine.
R. A. WARE.
Feb. 20, 1848. 10—4 t
INLAND MAIL ROM'S
TO THE NORTH,
I7fl Branchvilk, Columbia, Camden, Cher a tv,
Fui/cttevilU, Raleigh and Petersburg to Bal
timore.
A DAILY LINE of Fonr Ilorsc Post Coaches
has been established since July last, be
tween Columbia and Raleigh, at a speed of six
miles the hour, making the whole time through
to Baltimore, only twenty-four hours behind the
Wilmington Steotn Boat Route.
Passengers can secure seats in the Stapes by
paying through from Columbia to Petersburg
(fare $21,) or by application to J. D. Mathews,
Agent of the Omnibus Company, Augusta, Ga.
Passengers wishing to take the Inland Route,
having through tickets to Charleston, can use the
same to Columbia without additional expense.
E. P. GUJON & CO.
Columbia, S. Dfc. 21, 1547. 52
N. B. Th* only Stage travel is from Columbia
to Raleigh.
wmmsim rail-rdab co.
AN Instalment of Five Dollars per share.
(being the second Instalment) on the Stock
of this Company, is called for by order of the
Board, payable on the Ist day of May nex
ELAM ALEXANDER, President.
March 7, 1848. (G. J. &M) il—3t
MERCANTILE.
EWW i&JNHBS*
JUST Kcteived a lew very liamlsemt pattens
French Muslins, L iwr.s, Ginghams, &c. &c.
Aiso some rich Lace and Embroidered Capes,
I rilled and Needle Worked Collars &c. &c. and
Linen Cambric Handkerchiefs from lowest to the
vcTy beat quality. GEO. A. NORRIS.
March 7, 1848. l] —
~ AT COST.
THE Subscriber will sell tbr remainder of
his Mock of* Cashmeres, Muslin De Laines
&c. Sic. at Cost for Cash. GEO. A. NORRIS.
March 7, 1818. li—3 m
FRENCH QUABRILIES.
ANEW article for ladies Dresses, just rt
ceived and for sale at
WOODRUFF & WHTTEDSEY’S.
November 2, 1847. 4a —tf
NSW BOOK STORE.
B B. DeGStIFFOKIED,
IS pleased to announce to the citizens of
Columbus and vicinity, that he has just open
ed a Store next door beiow Winter & Epping’s,
where he has on hand, and will be receiving, a
New and select assortment of
BOOKS AND H'FI’riONF.RY;
among which.may found School, Classical, Med
ical Law and Miscellaneous Works; a good as
sortment of ANNUALS and GIFT BOOKS; to
gether with Sunday School and Children’s Books
ofalmost any kind and quality.
Numerous kinds of ENVELOPES; Fancy and
Note Paper; Printing; Visiting and Pjaying
CARDS : Bristol and Perforated Boards; Trans
parent and Motto Wafers; and all other articles
usually kept in a Book Store.
S£rTeachcrs and persons wanting Libraries,
are invited to call and examine.
Columbus, Dec. 21, 1847. 52—3 m
~MjBST WONDERFUL WGRkT~
W/ E have just received afresh supply of
v T the “ Married Woman's Private Medi
cal Companion ”—that book of all books.
The public should be on their guard against
base imposition.
It is now a marvel, a wonder to all those who
have read this book, and particularly to the
medical profession, that humankind could have
suffered so long without this great masterly and
philosophical work. We believe we have good
authority for saying that this book is not the work
of Madam Restall. Every woman should have
a copy or tw-o, whether married or single.
Beware of imposition.
The genuine work and very latest edition now
for sale at the New Book Store of
TARBOX & MARBLE.
March 14, 1848. 12—ts
W. J. RIDGILL,
( Formerly of Eufaula, Ala.)
HAS taken the Siore two doors below Ilall
fcc Moses, where he will keep at all times,
a well selected stock of
STAPLE DRY GOODS,
AND
GROCERIES.
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, SAD
OMIItV, &c. Ac.
Also, a large and well selected stock of
Negro Goods, Blankets, &c.
Ail of which, he offers at the lowest possible pri
ces.
He will also give liberal prices for COTTON
and COUNTRY PRODUCE.
He hopes that his old friends and the public
generally, will call and examine his stock be
fore purchasing elsewhere.
Columbus, November 23, 1547. 48—ts
NOTICSTO’IERCHANfS.
TIIE Subscribers take this method of in
forming the Merchants of Middle and
Southern Georgia, and Alabama, that they are
making at the FLINT RIVER FACTORY, in
Upson county, a very superior article of heavy
SHIRTING , i wide. They offer this article to
the friends of Southern enterprise and industry
as cheap, or cheaper than it can be obtained from
the North, while it is in every respect much su
perior. It is remarkable for the evenness and
soundness ofthe thread, and for the compactness
of the cloth. Specimeris may be seen at Rich
ard’s & Jeffesdn’s, ’ in Columbus; Ross &
Brother's, Macon ; and at Thornton’s, in Grif
fin. Merchants and others wishing an article of
the kind, and who are disposed to patronize
Georgia labor and capital, would do well to call
and examine the specimens. It can be had low,
and, if necessary, on time.
FLINT RIVER MANUFACTURING COMPANY. •
February 22, 1848. 9—sm2m
CROCKERY! CROCKERY!!
r | > IIE subscribers having removed a few
I doors below Messrs. Hill, Dawson & Cos.,
are now opening a splendid stock of
consisting in part ot French and English China
Dining and Tea Sets ; Flowing Blue and White
Granite, do ; do do Toilet Sets; C. C. Edged and
Sprigged Ware. Also, Rockingham Tea Pots,
Flower Pols, Covered Butter Jars, Soup Tureens,
Sauce Boats, Fruit Baskets, Fire Proof Pie Plates,
and Napier’s,China, Flowing Blue, White Granite
and common Teas and Coffees, Covered Dish
es, and Bakers, also a general assortment of
GS.M3 f4l .
comprising in part, cut, pressed, engraved, flint
and common Tumblers and Decanters, Goblets,
Champagne, Wine, Cordial, Esrjf and Jelly Glass
es, Specie Jars, Bowls on foot, Flower Vases,
Castors and Extra Bottles, Cut, Mould, Solar,
Lard, Side and Hanging Lamps.
Globes, Chimneys, Wicking, Sperm and Lard
Oil, together w'ith a general variety of Merchan
dise. Having made arrangements to import di
rect from Liverpool, we are enabled to furnish
country Merchants at New York prices, adding
the lowest rates of freight.
L. L. & G. W. COWDERY.
December 28, 1847. I—-ts
LOOK HERE !
L IBERAL advances will be made on Con
signments of COTTON to our friends in
New York.
Jan 25. (5 ts) HEUjRY KING & SON.
LAND SALE.
PIBLIC sale of official Assipee in Bank
ruptcy. —I will sell at Public Auction before
the Court House in the City of Columbus, on
Wednesday, the fifteenth day of March next, at
11 o’clock, A. M., all the property and rights es
property of every name and nature, which be
came vested in me, the Official or General Assig
nee in Bankruptcy for the District of Georgia, in
the following assets, and which are particularly
set forth in the papers of file, as by refereoee
thereto will more fully appear; and the same will
be sold subject to all setoffs, liens and incumbran
ces, as well as all title which may have been ac
quired under such setoffs, etc., subsequent as well
as prior to the decrees. TermE cash—purchasers
paying the expense of a formal deed.
In the matter of George W. Ross, of Muscogee
county —Ail his interest in those certain Lots of
Laud, with the improvements thereon, lying in
the town of Apalachicola, Florida —known as
Lots Nos. 10 and 11, Block G., and Lots Nos. 10
and 11, in block G., 2. Also in the same Town,
six and one quarter acres of Land.
In the matter of John J. Bennett, of Bibb coun
tv. —Ail the parcel ofLand, known and distin
guished in the plan of the Town of Thomaston,
Upson county. Georgia, as Lot No. 10, in the East
back square of the said Town.
In the matter of William Marion Elder, es Mon
roe county. —Lot ofLand in Early county, Geor
gia, known as No. 5, in the Fifth District, contain
ing 250 acres.
MORDECAI MYERS,
Official or General Assignee in Bankruptcy for
the District of Georgia.
Feb. 22, 184S. 9“*•
THE UNION OE THE STATES, AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATES.
COLUMBUS, GA. TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1848.
X*OETXfX 1 .
[From the Louisville Journal.]
FAREWELL.
Farewell, farewell, the struggle’s past,
We are forever parted,
And thou art now another’s bride
And I am broken-hearted !
I never told thee howl loved,
By word, or look, or token—
I never knew it till the doom
That parted us was spoken.
I did not tell thee that my love
Was fonder than a brother’s,
And only knew it, felt it, when
I saw thou wast another’s.
Bright angels sometimes visit us
On earth, and yet we never
Know they are angels, till we feel
That they are gone forever.
Farewell, farewell, dream pleasantly
Os each untried to-morrow,
Recall the past with all its joys,
And leave me to its sorrow.
I would not that thy gentle heart
Should feel what mine is feeling;
A rush of sad remembrances
Across it darkly stealing.
The anguish and the agony
Os hopes forever banished;
The darkness, a bright vision leave*
Behind, when it is vanished.
Oh no, forget me if thou canst,
Thy gentle heart will only.
Be saddened when thou think’st of one
So desolate and lonely.
And think not I am murmuring,
Think not I would'reprove thee,
My heart is only telling how
Devotedly I love thee.
The flower that lifts its gentle form
When balmy winds are sighing,
Though crushed beneath the foot, will give
Its fragrance out in dying.
Farewell, farewell, the struggle’* past,
We are forever parted,
And thou art now another’s bride,
And I am broken-hearted 1
Taylorsville, Ky. C. W. A.
THE WAGONER.
I’ve often thought, if I were asked
Whose lot I envied most—
What one 1 thought most lightly tasked
Os man’s unnumbered host—
I’d say I’d be a mountain boy,HF
And drive a noble team, Wo, vy t
Wo, hoy ! I’d cry,
And lightly fly
Into my saddle-seat;
My rein,l’d clack— A
My whip I’d crack;
What music is so sweet J
Six blacks I’d drive, ot ample chest,
All carrying high the head ;
All harnessed tight and gaily drest,
In winkers tripped with red—
Oh yes, I’d be a mountain boy,
And such a team I’d drive, Wo, hoy !
Wo, hoy ! I’d cry,
The lint should fly —
Wo, hoy ! you Dobbin ! Ball !
Their leet should ring,
And I would sing—
I’d sing my fol de rol.
My bells would tingle, tingle-ling,
Beneath each bear-skin cap !
And as I saw them swing and swing,
I’d be the merriest chap—
Yes, then, I’d be a mountain boy,
And drive a jingling team, Wo, hoy !
Wo, hoy ! I’d cry—
My work should fly ;
Each horse would prick his ear I:
With tightened chain
My lumbering wain
Would move in its career.
The golden sparks you’d see then spring
Beneath my horses tread ;
Each tail I’d braid up with a string
Os blue or flaunting red ;
So does, you know, the mountain boy
Who drives a dashing team, Wo hoy 1
Wo, hoy! I’d cry,
Each horse’s eye
With fire would seem to burn ! :
With lifted head
And nostrils spread
They’d seem the earth to spurn.
They’d champ the bit, and fling the foam,
As on they dragged my load;
And I would think of distant home,
And whistle on the road—
Oh ! v ould I were a mountain boy—
I’d drive a six horse team, Wo, hoy !
Wo, hoy ! I’d cry—
Now by yon sky,
I’d sooner drive those steed*
That win renown
Or wear a crown
Won by victorious deeds !
For crowns oft press the languid head,
And health the wearer shuns,
May do for Goths and Huns—
Seek them who will, they have no joys
For mountain lads, and Wagon-boys.
A Hit —A Capital Hit! —The Rochester
Democrat relates the following clever anecdote of
Mr. John Van Buren :
Shortly after John Van Buren’s famous fire
andiow-p ech at Albany', on his return from
Herkimer, we chanced to meet Dr. L , of this
place.
“Well, Doctor,” said we, “what think you of
Prince John’s greit effort I”
“ I’ll toil you,” said he, “I was very forcibly
reminded of an accident that happened to me in
New Hampshire. I was riding along one day
very leisurely in my gig, and ou arriving on the
brow of a steep hi 1,1 was attracted by loud cries
proceeding from below, and on looking down be
held a load of hay overturned and a long. lank,
stripling of a boy spiiaging about it, and from
one side of the road to the other, row seizing
with both hands the wheel of the cart, and all
the time screaming and shouting like one mad.
‘Here, my son; said I—‘stop crying now that’s a
good bov. I will help you on again with the
hay V ‘I don’t care a d—n for the hay, but
Dad's under it.'"’
Moral Suasion. —A traveller travelling in a
public sleigh from Newburgh to New York, see
ing that no amount of whipping, could make
one of the horses increase his speed, proposed
that he should be ‘treated.’ To that end, at the
first stopping place, a pint of gin was poured
do-vn the animal’s throat. The horse shook his
head at such treat-'. nent; but instantly he started
off at high speed, which he kept for several
miles without abatement. The driver was de
lighted.
“I would’nt a thunk it,” said he. “ It’s the
first time I ever see moral suasion tried unto a
boss! It beats whippin’ ail tonothin ! ”
Riots. —The N. Y. House of Assembly pass
ed to its third reading the bill making cities, towns
and villages, liable for all damage occasioned by
riots within their limits respeativcly. An amend
ment to make the operation of the bill retrospec
tive as well as prospective, so as to cover the case
of the buildings destroyed at the Poor House
Farms, L. 1., was lost,—yeas 42, nava 48.
From the Pennsylvaniaß.
We heard to-day an anecdote of a Federal
merchant consulting a friend as to the best ari
ticles for an assorted cargo in the Tampico trade.
He was gravely informed to lay ia a large stock
of engravings of the portraits of Hemy Clav
and Daniel Webster, as they would go off“ like
hot cakes.” The Mexicans are fond cf pictures,
and the heads of these gentlemen, no doubt,
will soon be as popular in the cinnamon colored
republic as the Napoleons and Guadaloupes,
which are said to adorn every Mexican dwelling
ia the cities.
WHAT DOES JOHN BULL SAY ?
We take from that admirable paper the Bos
ton Post, the following article, which presents,
in a striking manner, the growing greatness of
our glorious Democratic country. Even the
bitterest Whigs must feel a patriotic pride in this
involuntary tribute to our physical and moral
power trom one whose national prejudices are
silenced by the success of Democratic princi
ples.
From the Boston Post.
Great Britain and America.— lt is as
curious as it is gratifying to see the evidences of
the influences which this country—its political
and religious institutions, and its unparalleled
mercantile enterprise—is exerting on the Old
World. They are seen in the journals, the de
bates, in the movements of the masses, and in
every walk of science. They appear oftenest,
however, iB the mercantile affairs of Great Bri
tain, and because in these the two countries are
so closely connected. The word America, for
instance, occurs at almost every step in the pro
gress of the discussion on the navigation laws,
where the jealousy felt by John Bull appears in
strong colors.
An instance of this has just occur red in a let
ter written by George Frederick Young to Lord
Palmerston. His feelings of “sorrow and amaze
ment” were powerfully stirred by reading, in a
letter from Washington, that the American Min
ister and Palmerston had been in amicable ne
gotiation to establish a more perfect system of
reciprocity. That the remains of the old restric
ted system should be further disturbed, is viewed
with perfect horror. Mr. Young thus addresses
Lord Palmerston :
“For by what process of reasoning will it be.
that if your policy should chance to fail, you
will defend the infatuation which prompts you,
at this critical period of Britain’s history, to play
the game of by far the most dangerous of her ri
vals in commercial greatness and naval suprema
cy! Well, indeed, may Americans exclaim,
that ‘the importance to the United States ot the
concessions you are now voluntarily tendering,
‘cannot be exaggerated.’ Weil may they say
that the annihilation of our commercial system,
‘promised by Lord Palmerston,’ will be far mor
beneficial to America ‘than any commercial
treaty ever made by their own government.’
But is it come to this? Is the Lord Palmerston
of whom they speak a British statesman, a Brit
ish minister, the chosen depositary and the seri
ous protector of British interests'! Or is he the
vindicator of American privileges, the unfaithful
steward of the nation that trusts him, flinging to
the winds her interests and her safety, and pour
ing into the lap of her competitor her wealth and
her strength! My Lord, my Lord, dressed
though you be ‘in a little brief authority,’ play
not, I conjure you, ‘these fantastic tricks.’ If
they make not‘angels weep,’ they make your
countrymen and your friends wonder; and those
who are opposed to your native land, who are
jealous of her glory, and envy her power, rejoice
and exult.”
Now what, supposing the rumor to he true, is
the head and front of Palmerston’s offence 1 —
Simply this: that the vessels of Great Britain
and America should be reciprocally admitted in
to the ports of each other, home and colonial, on
a perfectly equal footing,. This arrangement, it
is contended, with a warmth that betokens the
sincerity of the convictions of the writer, would
play little short of downright ruin to British
•ommerce, the British navy, and British power!
Mr. Young addresses Palmerston in the follow
ing strain:—
“My lord you have been outwitted by Mr.
Bancroft. You may be a skilful negotiator in
general politics, but you are no match in com
mercial diplomacy for the minister of America—
America! which exulting in the triumph of free
trade, under our adoption of its principles, ex
ports annually upwards of 500 millions of pounds
of her cotton for the supply of this liberal coun
try, in which it is received duty free; while in
return she saddles the articles manufactured from
that very cotton, and exported from hence for
her use. with duties on imports of 25 and 30 per
cent; while our iron, our linens, our silks, our
wro’lens, our hardwares are all discouraged by
equally enormous imports.—America! whose
President, in his speech at the opening of the
present session of Congress, plainly expresses his
hope that this anti free trade and unsocial sys
tem ‘will be regarded as the permanent policy ol
the country’—America! whose shipping amount
ing in 1830 to only 1.191 776 tons, Lad in
creased in 1845 to 2,417,002 tons —an earnest
of the fulfilment ot the prediction contained in
the same speech, that ‘the time is not distant
when the tonuage and commercialjmarine of the
United States will be larger than that of an
other nation in the world;’whose shipping en
tering our ports, increased from 153,475 tons in
1824, to 435,399 tons in 1846. No, my lord
you can neither rival this progression by our own
boasted official returns, nor will you ever induce
a departure from the American system of domes
tic protection by all your un-English concessons
of British interests. If you need information or
advice in future in commercial matters I fervent
ly pray that you may seek it from British mer
cantile authorities, and not from ultra free-trade
pretenders or United States diplomatists.”
While at home we have such periodical croak
ings over our national decline, and our ruin is
predicted every four years with as much certain
ty as the rising ot the sun, it is consoling to read
such tributes as these to our progress and pow
er. Ail our enterprising manufacturers, mer
chants. and agriculturists need, or ought to ask,
is equal rights in the markets of the world. Abo
lish the Old World restrictions and enormous tax
es. and they will clothe, feed, and cairy as cheap
as others; and John Bull knows it, and fears
it.—[ Richmond Enquirer.
Tow* Swallowed bi an EABTHariKB. —
Matin. —The Neapolitan steamer Capri, has
brought intelligence from Syracuse, that the
earthquake which was felt here on the 11th, had
laid the city of Agusla in ruins. The first shock
was felt at 1 P. M., and was so violent that all
the people fled from their houses. The follow
ing one a few minutes afterwards, destroyed the
whole place except twenty-seven houses; the
mole sank, and where it formerly stood there
was no bottom at fifty fathoms. The last ac
counts received at Syracuse state that thirty-five
dead bodies had been found and fifty-nine wound
ed recovered from the ruins. The earthquake
was also felt at Noto, Syracuse, and Catania,
with partial damage, and at Messina, without
damage.-— [Ch. Courier.
* The Price of a Kiss.—A French girl, at a
store, being solicited to allow a kiss, declined ex
cept at the price of a little bag which lay on the
enamored cavalier’s counter, and which, he said,
was filled with cents. The bargain was struck;
but to the surprise of the dulcinea, as to her sat
isfaction, on opening the bag, it was found to
contain, in the place of cents, good, full weight
florins. The gentleman claimed the bag. but the
girl was unyielding. Thereupon resort was had
to the tribunal, the plaintiff alleging that there
was evidently a mistake, and that a simple kiss
could not, by far, le appraised at such a sum.—
The tribunal, however, gave the case to the girl
the value of a kiss cannot be estimated.
Rcxors of Mr.ClatVDeclexsiox. — The
numberless rumors, at various times put afloat,
in regard to Mr. Clay’s purposes, are all set at
re t, by the declaration of the last Cincinnati
Atlas, founded upon information derived direct
ly from Mr. Clay himself, that “Mr. Clay will
not decide the question of his withdrawal till af
ter his Teturn home : and then only under a de
liberate sense of the duty he owe* to himself,
his principles and his country.”— [Rich. Whig.
NUMBER 13.
From the N. O. Delta.
BRITISH DESIRNS QN CMJSTRAI.
A M KRICA.
When Mr. Polk was inaugurated President,
he adopted, in strong end emphatic terms, the
declaration of Mr. Monroe against the interfer
ence by any European nation in the affairs of
the States “Df this continent. -What has become
of this principle and this resolution, that our
Government should stand by in silent indiffer
ence, whilst English intrigue and ambition are
making an outrageous assault upon the rights
and territory of one of the North American Re
publics! We refer to the thinly-veiled and most
unprovoked invasion of the State of Nicaragua,
under the pretence that the principal part of that
State, which has been for years in the quiet oc
cupation of the Nicaraguans, and is a place of
considerable trade, belongs to the Mosquitoes, a
miserable race of wandering Indians, who never
knew what a village was, until Mr. Patrick Wal
ker, the agent of Great Britain and guardian of
the King of the Mosquitoes, collected a few of
them together, and called them a tribe, a race, a
people.
We have shown, in our previous articles on
this subject, how John Bull, not content with
the thin slip of territory which he stole from the
Spaniards some years ago, and called Honduras,
hungered for the vast, indefinite, interminable
country through which the Mosquitoes have been
buzzing for manv years; and how the ingenious
old scamp practised on the shores of Honduras
the policy so successfully pursued in India, of
adopting a native Prince, and in his name pro
voking quarrels, reviving antiquated claims, and
other grounds of disagreement with neighboring
States, and thus opening a way for English con
quest and usurpation. With this view, Mr. Pa
trick Walker was instructed to put the Mosqui
to king into breeches, and deck him off in a red
coat and cocked hat, call him King George, (a
name which it will take him a life-time to learn
to pronounce—the oily, snail eating savage!)
and in his name to prosecute all claim* to any
neighboring territory near which the Mosquitoes
‘have ever flapped their wings, or to which they
ever fancied they had any claims. Hence the
claim to the ports of Truxillo and San Juan,
which have for years been in the possession ot
the States of Cential America. A few English
having settled down ii.toa village, within which,
by famine or violence, their Consul succeeds in
collecting a few of the Mosquitoes begin to estab
lish a settlement, which is shortly afierwards con
siderably increased in strength and numbers by
the timely arrival of some poor Prussian emigrants.
This was the origin of Blewfields. Here resides
the Mosquito king under the protection and tu
telage of Mr. Patrick Walker, the British Con
sul. Having failed in negotiating the Central
Americans out of their fine port! in the neighbor
hood, the British resolve—the intrigue was hatch
ed in Jamaica—to employ force in asserting the
imaginary claims of the Mosquitoes.
In execution of this resolution, Mr. Patrick
Walker, together with the young King, full
breeched and booted, some twenty poor Prussians,
who hoped when they left their native land, that
they were done with soldiering, and some forty
or fifty Mosquitoes, were landed on Ist January
last, at Port San J.uan, by Her Majesty's steamer
Vixen, and reinforced by seme sailors from the
steamer, marchad into the Plaza of San Juaq,
tore down the flag of the Central Americans, and
bending on that of the Mosquitoes, the band struck
up “God Save the King,” and the town was sol
emnly proclaimed as belonging to the King of
Mosquito. Leaving two naval officers and tour
sailors in charge ol the Customhouse, Mr. Patrick
Walker departed with his victorious troops, and
got back safely to Blewfields. They had hard
ly got away before the Central Americans recon
quered the place, taking the British officers and
sailors prisoners, and sending them into the in
terior.
This the British consider a declaration ofwar,
and the steamer Vixen proceeds to Jamaica for
troops, to recapture the town and avenge the in
sult to the British flag. In the meantime the
Central Americans have collected a force of 1000
men, under Gen. Menoza,{at a place called Suri
foque, some distance up the river San Juan, and
are prepared for a brush with the Mosquitoes and
their British allies. The course of events, as we
predicted in our former allusions to these difficul
ties, is rapidly progressing to the end which En
gland had in vi w when she undertook the pro
tection of the Mosquito King. This port of San
Juan commands the mouth of the river of the
same name. The river San Juan communicates
with the Lake Nicaragua, which, it is thought,
presents the most fea-ihie route for a water com
munication between the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans.
There can be no doubt that the Government
of Great Britain has long desired to command a
route for a canal across this Isthmus, and several
surveys have been made by English officer®, with
this view. Our operations in Mexico, the intro
duction of a clause into Mr. Trial’s Tacubaya
project, in regard to the canal ot Tehuantepec,
have awakened their zeal, and jealousy on this
subject. They have now fairly started their
scheme, and we expect soon to hear of a strong
British force being landed on the shore of Nica
ragua, and the consequent conquest of this narrow
and indefensible country. Now', is it the inter
est or tbeduty of our Governmentto remain quiet
and indifferent to such a palpable usurpation and
outrage, perp; trated against one of the Free Re
publics of this Continent! Shall we permit our
powerful rival, by acts the most jnjustifiable, to
obtain the command ofthe Isthmus which barely
divides the two great Oceans, and to have it in
his power either to prevent the great iriteriommu
nication which we have so long desired to estab
lish, or to impose burdens and taxes upon our
commerce, both galling to our pride and injuri
ous toour interests! Our Governmental Wash
ington a| pears to he altogether absorbed in the
Mexican war &in President making. It seems to
have notime to guard our interests in other quar
ters o! the world. The President, “three months
ago* urged upon Congress the necessity oferea
tingaCbargeship for Central America. Thoogh
an exceedingly simple matter, that might be de
termined in five minutes, Congress has not taken
the first step to carry out this recommendation.
We arp consequently without a representative in
this important part of our Continent, and English
intrigue and violence may proceed to any excess
es, without the possibility of a protest, remon
strance, or opposition of any kind, from any offi
cial representative of the United States. Some
persons affect to consider this a small matter.—
They will open their eyes when they find the
whole Isthmus in the possession of the British,
and when our southern overland communication
with our remote State o( California will be de
pendent upon English favor; when that great
project, to which we have looked forward as the
grandest undertaking of the age, one of 6ucb in
calculable piomise to our own country in partic
ular, and to the world in general, shall fall under
the control of the nation that viewa our power
and greatness with more jealousy, and is less
disposed to grant us favors and facilities than any
other on the globe.
Ax Irishman’s Wit.-— Some years ago I
was lounging on a sandy plain in England,
awaiting the arrival ofthe drill and guards; the
day was hot as Africa; I observed two men work
ing bard, sinking a well; they had got down
about ten feet, and were apparently finding sand
drier and still more dry. The only apparent
moisture was the sweat ofthe brow, which was
most copious. “Do you expect to find water
here 1” “Ob, plase your honor, I’m afeard we
shall.” “ Afraid to find water i why what are
you looking for 1” “Oh, plase your honor, I’d
like to find beer jist for wansu ’— Passages in
the Life of an Hydropatkist.
From the Charleston Courier.
MAJOR GEI. WORTH.
HIS mxlitaht character and services.
General William J. Worth is said to be tbd
handsomst and most soldieily looking officer 4n
the army. His height i? over six feet, and his
person commanding. On horseback he presents
a. figure of unequalled grace. His nature is
somewhat impetuous* like many brave and
frank men. He is exceedingly popular among
his soldiers. As one of the heroes of Monterey,
as the victor at Molino del ‘Key, his name will
go down to posterity second only to that of Scott
and Tayler!
Worth, like many other able men in the ar
my, has risen from the ranks. He began life as
a clerk in a mercantile house in Albany, New-
York, the latter being his native commonwealth.
On the breaking out of the war of 1812, how
ever, fired with that patriotic ardor which is a
leading trait in h s character, he enlisted as a
common soldier. Another clerk was his com
panion. Fortunately for Worth, his Iricnd soon
committed some indiscretion, for which he was.
placed under arrest. In this emergency he ap
plied to Worth, who undertook to write a petL
tion for him to the Colonel. This officer hap
pened to be Scott, who, struck with the elegant
style of the memorial, enquired the name of the
witer, and seuding for him. made him his pri
vate Secretary. He procured for Worth tho
commission of a Lieutenant in the 23d regiment
of infantry. From that hour up to their unhap
py difference in Mexico, tho closest intimacy ex
isted between Worth and Scott.
In the battle of Chippewa Worth proved tho.
correctness of Scott’s estimate of character, by
signalizing himself especially; and was conse
quently rewarded with the rank of Captain. In
the battle of Lundy’s Lane, Worth, after severe
fighting, received a dangerous wound. In con-,
sideration of this he was raised to the rank of
Major. After the peace, he was, for a consider
able period, Superintendent of the West Point
Military Academy, a post which is always a.
guarantee of high ability on the part of the oc
cupant. In 1824 lie was appointed a Lieut.
Colonel; in 1832. a Major of ordnance; and in
1838, Colonel of the Bth regiment of infantry,
which is the rank he still holds in the line. Sub
sequently he was raised successively to the bre
vet ra?dc of Brigadier and afterwards of Major
General, the first for his gallantry in the Flori
da war, the last for his brilliant conduct at Mon
terey.
When Taylor, Twiggs, and Worth* met at
Corpus Christi, before the Mexican war broke
out, a difficulty arose as to who should command
in case ot Taylor's absence. Twiggs claimed
it, though only a colonel, because an older colo
nel than Worth. The latter claimed it also, be-,
cause a breveted Brigadier. But Twiggs assert
ed that a brevet conferred no right to outrank a
full commission. The matter was referred to.
Taylor, who adopting the rule laid down by
Jackson, decided against Worth. On this.
Worth, following a precedent set by Scott, resign
ed his commission and hurried to Washington..
During his absence the battles of Palo Alto and*
Rrsaca de la Palma were fought; on hearing the
intelligence of which, Worth recalled|his resigna-.
tion and rejoined the army. Every one knows
how gallantly he fought at Monterey ! He was
rewarded for that bloody day with the brevet
rank of Maj, General.
M hen it was determined to besiege Yera Grua
Worth, with mostol the other generals, was de
tached from Taylor’s army, and placed under,
command, of Scott. At the landing at Vera,
Cruz, Worth commanded the first division, and
took the lead consequently, in leaving the ships..
Having effected his disembarkation in the face of
the enemy, be drew up his troops in gallant
style, and awaited the arrival ofthe other division*.
On the capitulation of Yera Cruz Worth was at
the convention that dictated the articles, and
when the city was taken possession of by tho
Americans, rode in advance, at the head ofa bril-
liant cortege, into the public square. He was
now appointed Govoner of Vera Cruz. When,
the army began its march for the interior, tho
van for awhile, was Under tho command of
Twiggs, but subsequently.it fell to Worih again,,
who was the first to enter Puebla in consequence.
It was at this city that the unfortunate series of
misunderstandings between him and Scott arose,
which have interrupted a friendship of thirty-five,
year’s continuance. This is not the place to.
canvass the amount of blame rightly belonging;
to each party. Both, perhaps, have been some
what in the wrong.
At the battle of Cont-ens, Worth was not pres*
ent—the hero of that day was Gen. Persifor F
Smith. But at Churubusco, his division waft
engaged at the tete du point , and fought, under
his own eye, with astonishing intrepidity. It ift
the characteristic of Worth taat he can inspire,
his soldiers with a portion of his own headlong;
and thus secure victory. The march a
ifl&d the southern side of Lake Chaleo waft
suggested by Worth, to whom the practicability
ofthe road was communicated by Col. Duncan,,
of Worth’s division. The change in the route
of the army thus induced,placed Worth again in.
the van. When Scott determined to storm,
Molino del Rey he committed the almost despe
rate attempt to Worth. Owing to an insuffi
cient reconnoisancs the loss ofthe as-suiting col
umns was immense; they were even repulsed at
first, and would have been defeated but for tho
arrival of Cadwallader with the reserve.. At
Chapuitepec the storming party was principal
ly selected from Worth’s and Pillow’s regu
lars.
Throughout the whole war Worth has carried’
himself in the field with a splendid gallantry
that has fascinated the popular imagination. As
an officer he may be said partly to resemble
Murat, and partly to resemble Nay: for he has
the dashing air of one, with the indomitable
courage of the other!
Steax Pr-oroH.—A French paper, La Se
maine announces the invention of a steam plough
or rather the mode of digging by means of steam,
from which wonderful results are anticipated.—
The inventer is a young medical man, named
Barat. The journal states th t one oftwo-horsn
power was in operation at the residenceof the
maker, who was constructing another double
the power. The machine proceed* along the
field, and digs the ground with the greatest pre
cision.—Two beams furnished with five mat
tocks each, act successively upon the soil loos
ening it to the depth of 12 or 15 inches, and
pounding it as small as compost. By using only
one of the beams, a tillage of the usual depth can
be effected.—[ Mechanic and Farmer.
Who can doubt, after we have seen the vart
ous uses to which the power of steam has been
applied, that much of the work of man and cat
tle in the field is destined 6oon to be done at ft
much cheaper and more rapid process by steam >
How easily, by a simple process, might otic
fields be ploughed to any depth ! how conven
iently could manure be carried over and evenly
spread ! with what facility might field* of grain
be cut down and gathered, or fields of hay mown
down, gathered and loaded 1 Is not Yankee in
vention equal to all improvements, when thft
proper time shall arrive !— Gov. Hill.
As locomotion and mechanical power esn be
generated much cheaper by the consumption of
coal and wood in an iron engine, than by burn
ing grass, hay, roots or grain in an animal en
gine, there can be no question that the latter
powef will le superseded by the former in all til
lage operations. Up to this lime, science ha
done next to nothing for the benefit of agricul
ture. Most men connected with this ancient
art, entertain strong prejudices against all inno
vations in farming.
This unceasing opposition to all change* ift
old customs and tong cherished habit*, will ever
keep agricultural improvements in the mechani
cal trades, in commerce, manufactures and tho
learned professions.—[ Chronical <j* Sentinel.
Coksistkxct. —The whole whig parly ift
the House of Representatives voted in favor of
a proposition declaring the war with Mexico to
have been “-unnecessarily and unconstitutionally
begun by the President.” Yet when it waa
proposed to reduce this declaration to practice*
and a proposition was offered to withdraw one
army from the country with which we are fight
ing this “ unnecessary” and “ unconstitutional”
war, only a corporal’s guard could be found ta
sustain the resolution. They dared not carry
outtheir own declaration. —[Bristol County
Qemcrat.