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Extract ofa Letter from an American, a
resident in the internal States nj Mexico,
dated May 18, 1835.
“From Metamoros we have no news
for three months, except that they have
proclaimed that nothing will satisfy them
but the head of Santa Ana. A very dis
tinguished patriot and general, Alvarez,
in the South, has pronounced on the same
plan. (The head of the President, who
has changed more times than the chame
leon can.)
“Some time since the General Govern
ment passed an ordinance to abolish the
militia system, and ordering the regular,
army to be increased, so as to take their
place.
“This ordiance is one of the preparato
ry steps to crowning Santa Ana, and has
been aimed al the great State of Zacate
cas, which has always been republican
and very liberal. This State has a long
time been preparing for the war, knowing
that sooner or late it would come. Im
mediately on the receipt of this ordiance,
she issued her manifesto against the Gen
eral Government and her determination
to resist; calling upon God and the world
to be her witueses, that she was taking up
arms to def< nd her dearest rights. Her
commanding general, Garcia, was the
governor for several years. The second
in command is an American, or English
man, by the name of William Adams, and
has been an old soldier of Liberty. He
entered this country with the celebrated
Mina, and has arrived atthe rank of Gen
eral in the Army; but has embraced the
side of Liberty, and deserted his old fellow
soldier, Santa Ana. 'l’he latest accounts
we have here, are that Santa Ana was a
bont two days’ march from Zacatecas,
waiting troops from the South. Garcia
and Adams were two leagues from that
capital, waiting an attack. The friends of
liberty are wailing here in dread sus
pense; for they well know the tyranny of
Santa Ana, and that no dependence can
be placed on him. He has won his way
by treachery, step by step, to the Presiden
cy; pulling out of the way first one and
then another. Finally, he has encounter
ed Garcia, and that other friend of man,
Gomez Feri is.
“Ferias is of Zacatecas, and is legiti
mate Vice President of the Republic, but
in the year past, when the President reti
red to his seal in the country, Ferias was
acting as President, and sanctioned sever
al laws, such as one making the Bishops
dependent on the. Government; another
allowing toleration of religious opinion;
another taking off the “ Diezma” or tithes
from the clergy, making them dependent
on the voluntary contribution of the people
and then for reducing the Army. Sama
Ana then came forward and proclaimed
for the rights of the Church and Army,
expelled the Vice President, elected a new
Congress, declared the Vice Presidency
vacant.elected General Baragan to that of
fice, and ordered Feiias to leave the coun
try. He only retired to his native State,
where he has been ever since, dissemina
ting liberal sentiments, until finally the
time has arrived for taking up arms and
deciding, by the bayonet, whether this
country shall regenerate, or shall still be
ruled by the cowl and a worthless soldie
ry. The mail is intercepted so that we
can get no news from below. The city
of Valladolid has pronounced for liberty,
as also the State of Tamaulipas. No oth
er Slate has pronounced, but all appear to
be waiting the result of the battle. As all
the principal cities have large garrisons
of Santa Ana’s soldiers, there is but little
hopes from them.
“We hear that in the troops of Garcia
are a considerable number of foreigners,
Americans,English, French and German,
and that there are some of the first with
rifles. This last I know not if it betrue
or not. Texas is quiet yet; but should it
take a part, the end tnay be easily seen.
Thecause of the people must and will
finally flourish in this country, and how
ever depressed it may be al present, it can
not be permament.*
“The Camanches andApachies Indians
continue to ravage the frontier, and, in
three years past, have driven ofTfrom the
State of Chihuahua not less than 500,000
head of stock, horses, mules, bullocks, and
sheep. Nothing has been done to check
them. All communication, without an
escort, is cut off between neighboring
towns. They come when they please and
go where they please. They have been
within i wo leagues of the City of Chihua
hua. killing people and driving off stock.
(•Subsequent advices have informed us
of the overthrow of Garcia, the capture
of Zacatecas and the complete triumph of
Santa Ana ]
Hout to be rich.— Nothing is more easy
than to grow rich. It is only to trust no
body—to befriend none—to get every
thing, and save all we get —to stint our
selves and every body belonging to us—
to be the friend of no man, and have no
man for your friend—to heap interest up
on interest, cent upon cent—to be mean,
miserable and despised for some 20 or 30
years— and riches will come as sure as
disease and disappointment. And when
pretty nearly enougth wealth is collected
by a disregard of all the charities of the
human heart, and at the expense ol every
enjoyment save that of the wallowing in
filthy meanness —death comes to finish the
work; the body is buried in a hole, the
heirs dunce over it aud the spirit goes,—
Where?
EXCERPTS.
Genius, Talent, Cleverness. Genius
rushes like a whinwiml. Talent, march*
ches like a cavalcade of heavy men and
heavy horses. Cleverness skims like a
swallow in a summer evening, with a
sharp, shrill note, and a sudden turning.
The man of genius d veils with men and
with nature; the man ot talent in his st-dy;
buttheclever fellow dances here and there
and every where, like a b' tiefly in a hue
icane,striking every where, enjoying no
thing, but too light to be dashed to pt ices.
The man of talent will attack theories;
the clever man assails the individual, and
slanders private character: but theman of
genius despises both; he heeds none, he liars
none. —he lives hi himseif shrouded m
the consciousnes of his own strength, he
interferes with none, and walks forth, an
example that “eagles fly alone: they are
but sheep that herd together.” It is true
that should a poisonous worm cross his
path, he may tread it under foot; should a
cur snarl at him be may chastise it; but he
will not, cannot, attack another. Clever
men write verses; men of talent write
prose, but the man of genius writes poet
ry.
YOUTH AND MARRIAGE.
Youth is easily attracted and decided
soon. It forgets that the faneiml prefer
ofa moment may not safely determine the
prospects $f life. It is unmindful that;
looking to this world merely, occasions
will come for which the graces of tlu ball
room are no sort preparation. Il rashly'
takes the eyes which will weep meekly
in sorrow’, and kindle with a steady en
couragement in the midst of care and hold
a light which can cheer, when ail other
light on the earth has waxed dim, It is
so wiid as to mistake the flutterer of the
hour, for the same being who will be the
ministering angel of sickness and decline.
It needs to be reminded, that if there is a.
ny engagement in lie, which is nut to be
formed under the arbitration of caprice, it
is that which is not dissolved, till the part
ing shall come at the laden bier, and the
open grave. It must be conjured to re
member that if there is’ any step in life
which requires beyend others to be made
reverently discreetly, advisedly, soberly,
prayerfully,and in the fear of God.it is the
step which day by day’ is the most incon
siderately taken.— Palfrey's Sermons.
Mcdhcrs andDa.ugh.ters.— lt was a judi
cions resolution ofa father, as well as a
most pleasing compliment to his wife,
when on being asked by a friend what he
intended to do with his girls, he replitd,
*1 intend to apprentice them to their moth
er, that they may learn the art of improv
ing lime, and fitted to become like her—
wives, mothers,heads of families, and use
ful members of society,” Equally just,
bitterly painful, was the remarks of the
unhappy husband, of a vain, thoughtless
dressy slattern. “It is hard to say it, but if
my girls are to have a chance of growing
up good for any thing, they must be sent
out of the way of their mother’s exam
ple.”
Out of Sorts.— When a man is worried
and gets into an ill humor at matters go
ing wrong, we sometimes say “he is out
of sorts.” Thq origin to this expression is
to be found,we think in the technicality Os
a printing office.The term sorts is applied
by printers, to types, iu reference to the
due proportions oft he various letters which
they must have before them in composing.
Type founders in furnishing a font of
types, havecertain rules to go by in mak
ing up the proportions ofdiflerent letters,
some being use d much mor than others,
and this assortment is called sorts. When,
therefore,a compositor runs out of any par
ticular letter, so as to be obstructed in his
work, he is said to be “out of sorts.”
Singular ('inversion.— When Crom
well entered upon command ofthe parlia
ment army against Charles I, he ordered
all his soldiers to carry a bible in their
pockets. Among the rest was a wicked
wild young fellow, who ran away from
his apprenticeship in London fur the sake
of plunder and dissipation; but he was ob
liged of course tocarry a bible. One eve
ning after having been in a skirmishing
party,ho pulled out his bible just as he was
going to bed and observed a little hole in
it. His curiosity l> d him to trace the depth
ofthe hole, when he found the bullet had
gone as far as the 11th chapter of Ecclesi
astes, 9th verse, where he read the follow
ing:
‘Rejoice, O young man in thy youth,
and let thy heart cheer the in the days of
thy youth; walk in the ways of thine heart
and in the sight of thine eyes; but know
thou thatforall these tbingsGod will bring
thee into judgement. From this singular
coincidence, the young man became
thoughtful on his past wicked conduct, re
formed, and lived many years in London
alter the civil wars were over.
The Creator.— “ Who but the Omnipo
tent could have formed the Sun; could
have marked out its destined course, sus
pended it without support in the blue
vault, saying ‘this be thy station, and this
thy brilliant seat. Could any power,save
that of the Eternal, have created the earth,
the moon, and ail the planets? these unde
viatingly performtheircour.se within the
orbits ne has prescribed them.
Morning.— At the morning’s dawn
when nature, refreshed by the dews of
the night, smiles around and revives a
fresh, she cries aloud-—O mortal! Why
art thou n prey to oare and anxiety? is not
God thy fither? Shall he who made thee
lorsake his child? The term of thy exis
tence is not confined to thy pilgrimage on
earth, it extends to eternity!’
True Friendship.— “ The water that
flows from a spring does net congeal in
winter, and those sentiments of friendship
that flow from the heart, cannot be frozen
by adversity.
Agesilaus was asked:“What ought chil
dren to be taught?”
His answer was “They ought to learn
that which it will be proper for them to
practice when they reach mature age.”
What is this but the most concise and
the most excellent description that ever
was given a right education?
“Inform me,” said a friend to Agesilu
us, “of the means to establish a high rep
utation.”
His answer was: speak well and act
better.”
“Genponics,''— ‘Well, Sambo, what are
de agricultural prospects dis season!” Oh,
Pomp, 1 hardly know. Dat tutor hill oh
mine grow nicely—but I gosh dat reddish
don’t grow none.” Dat’s cause yon be ig
norat ob de scientific principle ob Horti
culter, Sambo. 1 unerstan ’em you see—
I sign fur de Horticultral Magazine. My
corn is all turnin yaller —dat’s a sign ob
ripeness;—l. got dem cabage stumps you
gin me all pooled, and I just been plantin’
some silk woims.” Yes; sir, I spec to
have a silk factory goin’ her nex fall. I
gosh! Pomp, you goahead righlish, that’s
sartim Tell us de scientific principle of
du-silk worm, will you Pomp? Not as
you know on!; shan’t do it, my Boy!; I soe
gin tomorrow!”— Dedham Pat.
Borrowing.— my marm wants to know
if your will lend my marm your marm’s
pick axe to make our iiog a hen coop? O
certainly; and when you go home just ask
your mother if she’ll be kind enough to
lend us a keg of that firkin butter she
bought to day, that’s a nice little man. and
just clean us a mess of them pouts and eels
that your father caught this afternon, and
bring th'-m down with the butter,my dear
and I’ll certainly give you the first bright
cent I find in the ashes.” “1 guess on the
whole;” said the toy, “we shan’t want
that pick axe of you\n." Dedham Pat.
Scott’s Opinion of Campbell.— ln the
following passages, it will be seen that
the kindliness of feeling which distin
guished Scott as a man, was equally con
spicuous in him as a Poet—placing him
above the meanness of literary jealousy,
and actuating him not only to do justice
to ti e merits, but to draw out and display
the genius of a poetic rival.
“The conversation here turned upon
Campbell’s Poem of Gertrude of Wyom
ing, as illustrative ofthe Poetic materials
furnished by American scenery. Scott
spoke of it in that liberal style in which
I always found him to speak of the wri
tings of his cotemporaries. He cited sev
eral passages of it with great delight
‘What a pity is it,’ said he‘that Campbell
does not write more and oltner, and give
full sweep to his genius. He has wings
that would bear him to the skies, and he
does now aud then spread them grandly,
but folds them up again and resumes his
perch as if afraid to launch away. He
don’t know, or won’t trust his own
strength. Even when he has done a
thing well, he has often misgivings about
it. He left out several fine passages of
his Lochiel, but I gut him to restore some
of them ’ Here Scott repeated several
passages in a magnificient style. ‘What
a grand idea is that.’ said he, ‘about pro
phetic boding, or in common parlance,
second sight:’
“Coming events cast their shadows be
fore.’ It is a noble thought, and nobly ex
pressed. And there’s that glorious little
poem too of Hohenlinden; after he had
written it, he did not seem to think much
of it, but considered some of it ‘d—d drum
and trumpet lines.’ I got him to recite it to
me,and I believe that the delight I feltand
expressed bad an effect in inducing him
to print it. The fact is,’ added he, Camp
bell is in a manner a bug-bear to him
self. The brightness of his early success
is a detriment to his further efforts. He
is afraid ofthe shadow that his own fame
casts before him.
SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.
A disclosure of cne ofthe most extraor
' dinary incidents we have ever heard, was
made a few days since to an individual in
this city, by means of an anonymous note.
It stated that the proprietor ot one
of the most fashionable dry goods store
in Broadway near the Park, was in the
constant habit of testifying a most atro
cious and criminal curiosity, by means of
holes bored through the floor of his shop
near the counter, over which his unsus
pecting female customers were obliged to
stand. The suspicions of persons were
first excited by observing that when any
young lady of respectability entered, the
master, on some pretext or other instantly
absented himself. At length a watch was
i sot upon him, and he was seen by a per
son previously concealed, to enter into a
coal cellar under the store, of which he
always kept the key, place hipiself on a
barrel, ami draw from the roof several
plugs which exactly fitted augur holes in
the shop floor, and through which he
could plainly see all that was passsng a
bove. The witness having satisfied him
self as to the motive which prompted the
frequent visits to the cellar, imparted his
discovery to a friend who made the anony
mous communication above mentioned.
The person to whom it was sent being
a timid man, was fearful of giving publi
city to the affair, lest it should not prove
true. He, however, resolved on commu
nicating it to the police, and shewed the
note to Huntington the officer, who im
mediately repaired to the store, and satis
fied himselfby actual inspection that at
least a part of the charge was true. The
auger holes were there and the plugs
nice ly fitted to them. The master of the
store the moment he saw the officer com
mence his scrutiny, absented himself, and
we believe did not again return to busi-
ness, but with all haste engaged his pas
sage and sailed fur Europe on Saturday
last: since which the store has been kept
closed. From the subsequent statement
of those acquainted with the aflair it ap
pears that the criminal has been in the
commission of this vile practice for up I
wards of two years past. He has been j
most fortunate in absconding before his I
crime became known to an outraged com- ;
munitv. Had he remained, his punish
ment iu all probabiliiy, would have been
most summary, and perhaps fatal to
him. —Y, Y. Courier.
\ Attack on the Post Office. — The recent
abuse ofthe U. S. mail to the purpose of
disseminating the vile and criminal in
cendiarism ot northern fanatics, has caus
i ed a great and general excitenunt in our
i community, and led, on Wednesday night,
las may have been expected, to an attack
'on the Post Oilice, wh'ch, although per
haps not to bejustified, had much to excuse
I it, in tl.e cause of provocation. Between
the hours of 10 and 11 o’clock, that night,
la number of persons assembled about the
i Exchange, and, without any noise or dis
turbance, baton the contrary, with cool
ness and deliberation, made a forcible en
j try into the Post Office, by wrenching
I open one of its windows, and carried off
the packages containing the, incendiary
matter. We trust that this proceeding
will tend to open the eyes of our northern
triends to the necessity of some energetic
step to prevent the unwarrantable and
criminal interference of northern fanati
cism with southern interests, and even in
duce our northern enemies to pause in
their work of reckless mischief. Ihe
exposure ofthe U. S. mail and Post Offi
ces to inob violence, which, however tem
perate now, may ultimately fall into its
usual ai d dangerous excesses, is an evil,
efserious magnitude and general concern
and one that ought not to be thus wanton
ly provoked.— C. Courier.
Imprisonment For Life. —At the
term ol Baldwin Superior Court, which
hasjust closed, Jackson Mahon, a youth
about eighteen years of age, resident in
Milledgeville, was convicted of the mur
der of Martin P. Smith, a citizen of this
j county. The testimony against the pris
oner was only circumstantial, and if he is
I the perpetrator of the fatal act, his guilt
I was mitigated by the fact, that his feelings
i were exasperated by a combat at the n o
' merit pending between his brother a> d the
j deceased, who was much the stronger
. man. Under the humane provision of
, the penal code of 1833, and influenced in
I part, we believe, by this mitigating cir
cumstance, Judge John G. Polhill, who
presided, commuted the punishrmnt of
death for perpetual imprisonment at hard
labor in the Peniter liary. 3 his is the
first example of the operation of this part
of our penal system. — Fed. Union.
The Office holders in Illinois are re
■ newing the effoits so unsuccessfully made
before the late Baltimore Convention, to
get up meetings of the people to espouse
the cause of Van Buren. But, it does’nt
seem to take.
A meeting was, three or four weeks a
go, held at Carlisle, Clinton county, 111,
at which all the chiefapostles of Van Bur
ensisin from the adjoining counties, were
present. Resolutions of a general char
acter, in favor of the Administration,were
proposed and adopted, without much dis
fiddly. But, before the managers could
get out a resolution favorable to Van Bu
ren for the Presidency, a cunning citizen
of the county —who had, however, no love
for the leaders ofthe Democratic party in
his own State—proposed a resolution, de
claring it to be the opinion ofthe meeting,
that Thomas Humbug Benton was the
most acceptable to the people of that State
for the office in question. [They have
strong stomachs, the Suckers!] '1 he res
olution was the subject of a warm and
long debate, and every exertion was made
to induce its withdrawal, or to give it the
slip in some way. But it would’nt do
The mover slu-'k to his resolution; and
those who went there to procure the nom
ination of Van Buren, left the ground fu
riously angry at the course uhich things
j had taken.— Missouri Rep-
APT COMPARRISON.
In a discourse delivered before the be
nevolent Fraternity of churches, recently
by Dr. Channing,, the following compar
ison is found:
“When I compare together different
classes as existing at this moment in the
civilized world, I cannot think the differ
ence between the rich and the poor in re
gard to mere physical suffering, so great
as is sometimes imagined. That some of
the indigent among us die of scanty food
is undoubtedly true; but vastly more in
this community die from eating too much
than from eating too little; vastly more
from excess than from starvation. So as
to clothing, many shiver from want of de
fences against the cold; but there is vastly
more suffering among the rich from ab
surd and criminal modes of dress, which
fashion has sanctioned, than among the
poor from deficiency of raiment. Our
daughters are oftenerbrought to the grave
by their rich attire, than our beggars by
their nakedness. So the poor are often
overworked, but they suffer less than
many among the rich who have no work
to do, no interesting object to fillup life,to
satisfy the infinite cravings ofman for ac
tion. According to our present modes of
education, how many of our daughters
are victims of ennui, a misery unknown
to the poor, and more intolerable than the
weariness of excessive toil! The idle
young man, spending the day in exhibit
ing his person in the street, ought not to
excite the envy ofthe over-tasked poor,
and this cuumberer ofthe ground is found
exclusively among the rich.
AUGUSTA,
MONL> AY , AUGUST 3 , 1 83 5 .
“ You assert that if any conflict shall occur
between the State and General Governments, 1
‘each party has the right to judgs for itse'f.- |
I confers I am at a loss to know how such a 1
proposition should he treated. No climax of I
political heresies can be imagined, in which j
this might not fairly claim the most promkient i
place. It resolves the Government at or.ee |
into the elements of physical force, and intro
duces us directly into at archy and blood.—
There is not a single power delegated to the I
General Government, which it would not be i
in the power of every State Government to
destroy, under the authority of this licentious
principle.” GEORG ih V’DUFFIE.
FOR GOVERNOR,
WILLIAM SCHLEY.
FOR CONGRESS,
JABEZ JACKSON.
JESSE F. CLEVELAND.
We have certainly carried the war into the
enemy’scamp. We had submitted to their private
insinuations and public inuendoes so long that
forbearance ceased tube any longer a legitimate
requisition at our hands. That we know the
great mass of those who call themselves “ State
Hights''' men are not obnoxious to the general
suspicion entertained in regard to certain aux
iliaries of their camp—we have admitted—ad
mit it again ; but if circumstances, become noto
rious, do not implicate the honor of the whole
party, we have lost the faculty of drawing a fair
conclusion. We are said to be too violent —
our remarks denounce too strongly. None but
the guilty wince. But can any thing equal the
charges and infamous insinuations they make
against us ? It was insinuated, for a long time,
that the Union Parly winked at the Abolition
schemes of the North; but now, grown more
1 bold and open, as they think their plan has
i ripened, they charge us directly with favoring
these fanatical enthusiasts—that Mr. Van Bu
ren is the candidate of these crusaders, and our
candidate for the Presidency, and that they
will triumph in the perfect success of their pro
jects by’ Mr. Van Buren’s election. Shall we
be silent under such falsehoods, and not indig
nantly expose the infamous means they adopt to
fasten their accusations on us I Shall we suf
i fer the public mind to become poisoned by their
I rattlesnake venom, without an effort to remedy
it? We will not. They shall be held up to
public scorn and indignation, as long as our
fingers can draw their disgusted features.
Look at the matter farther. Where origi
nated, do you suppose, this New York meeting
of Southerners, its object disguised under the
most pleasing exterior ? Who first questioned
its propriety and denounced its tendency ? Did
<he Nullifocrs even mention it as in contempla
tion. till its scheme was blown up ? After that
event, some of them coldly regret, that it was
ever attempted, and others, like the Chronicle,
are “ sadly disappointed at the result.” Not the
least doubt of is—they are all sadly disappointed
at the result; for it v:as directly the opposite of
their wishes and design. Men, that they thought
would stay away fromit,attended, like Col. Fos
ter, because they heard mischievous projects
were to be started. Thus the design of the
secret movers was frustrated, and because it
was frustrated, they turn round, and with an
unblushing impudence, no where else to be
equalled, say, it was a Buren meeting, to
propitiate the South! Why was the Nullifying
Press so silent in relation to this meeting ?
They were not igno».nt of it. The first meet
ing was on the lOih July, aud agreed to call
another on the 20th. Did they make a single
remark, till their Southern Convention and
other instruments of public agitation were
blown sky-high ? Nor does the studied absence
of a single representa:ive from South Carolina,
j in the preliminary meeting, hide the cloven foot.
■ Were there then no Carolinians in New York,
[ panting for the lists—their spurs on and their
j lances couched? Louisiana, Mississippi, Ala
, bama, Florida, and Georgia, were all there
tneit Knights in full armor and burning for the
tournay.
“ Where—where was ‘ Car'lina ’ then ?
“ One blast upon her bugle bcm
“ Were worth a thousand men.”
iAlas! Carolina’s chivalry arc dead! Whence
comes all this? Do the wire-drawers in this
great scheme of disunion, think thepub'iceye
■is not burning upon them? This last effort of
■ their insidious treason has failed, and lo! it is
, all at once a Van Buren conjurement to gull
that poor old fool, the South! Now Mr. Van
Buren is a magician, we suppose, as he is so
; often seen, where he is not; but we think a
| worse spirit, much nearer akin to the devil,
I originated this whole affair. Its great proto
j type was blown up at Milledgeville in 1832.
Since our last publication, and probably at
! our suggestion, the Nullijiers talk of a general
meeting at Athens, or elsewhere, to give a pub
i lie disclaimer of all privity with the agency we
i charge upon them. Let them do so. We will
accept a good act even from them; but they
cannot, and we will not, conceal from the pub
lic the ill-grace with which it will be done.—
Now, when their plans are exposed, the public
in a perfect ferment at the detection of their
I villainy, and the consequences about to recoil;
| with an overwhelming blow upon their own:
heads; forsooth, they will make a merit of ne-1
cessity, and disclaim all the badpractices, with I
which irresistible evidence has connected them !
It is never too late, we suppose, to repent; but
such death-bed repentance deserves, and, we
think, will receive but little charity here or!
hereafter. Now, we are blamed lor following!
up our blows on a party, so utterly unprincipled
who stick at nothing to accomplish t„eir ends, j
! and who will go thus to the Confessional with a i
lie in their hearts! Spare their feelings! —I
Under what reciprocal obligation do we lie?!
Spare them indeed ! Spare traitors, who in the ;
open street tell us publicly to “ dissolve the ,
Union," and ice will hear no more of this distant \
thunder! Till you do so, this thing shall ding
dong in your ears—you shall be constantly
alarmed and exasperated, till we end with what,
we aie sorry we did not begin,— disunion!! “ He
speak what we do know"—what these cars hate
heard. And such schemes must receive quar-1
ter ! —their contrivers’ feelings m 'st be respect-:
ed! They mu-t look, then, lor such regard to
some other quarter than the Courier or its
readers. We hold, no fellowship with such
traitors; but could not, while we are upholding
the law, countenance its breach in giving them
the summary justice, which has recently dis. '
tinguished the public spirit ofthe West. Let
them meet and purge their souls, if they can, of
this black treason, which they’ have been hatch
ing at the imminent peril of their hearthsand all
who surround them. Our consolation is, histo
ry will do them justice, if the meek spirit of their
opponents let them escape present infamy. Let
them swear, that injustice is done them. That
we will admit—not half justice has been done
them. They have brought their country to the
verge oi ruin, and are still laboring for its dis
memberment. Y’et their feelings must be spa
red they must be allowed to purge themselves
j —ihe traitor to swear he is no traitor, with the
damn mg proof staving him in the face—the open
i unqualified avowal of such a design scarcely
ceased ringing in our ears from the mouths of
■ their leaders!
In connexion with this subject, we find a lon-
■ and well written article in the last Richmond
I Enquirer, who regards these lactionists in the
j light we do.
j “It is such politicians as these (says that pa-
I per of the 28th) who would gladly play the Sla
' very card, if they could; to strike a Panic in
( the South, and alienate us in feelr-'gand in
; politics, from the North. Aud yet they are the
first to cry out thief! Their game is to reproach
j their opponents with indifference to Southern
I Interests—and with devotion to Van Buren.
The very man, who is trying to play his last
i desperate card for his own Party, is the first ta
reproach otl ers with Party purposes. He who
is himself, a more 1 wretched and bigotted hack,
unworthy the name of Patriot,’ is the first to
reproach others. His game was to exaggerate
the dangers in the North, to swell out the num
bers of the anti-Slavery Societies, to strike a
Panic in the South, and to get up a local feel
ing, and a Southern Convention. But the pis
tol will miss fire—and wetrust the country will
be saved, both from the arts ofthe Fanatics, and
the arms of the Factions.”
A Bonfire was made on Thursday night, on
the Parade Ground in front of the Citadel, in
I Charleston, of the incendiary publications ab
stracted from the Post Office, on Wednesday
night last.
The people of Washington, Wilkes Co have
had a meeting on the subject of establishing a
College institution in that place, to be under the
patronage of the Presbyterian Church of this
Slate.
Will a certain portion of our opponents stick
to their name ? When pushed to the wall, don’t
i say, “we are not Nullificrs—-we are ‘Slate
I Rights men.’ ” We are all State Rights men.
If ashamed of the association alluded to, let the
“ State Rights ” men part company. Tbe peo
ple will think of the old piovcrb, in spite of al]
: we can say to them—“ Birds of a feather," &c.
We received this morning the first No. ofthe
Herald, printed in Covington, Newton county,
Geo. It has raised the White and Dougherty
: colors, and is published by Wm B. Harrison,
i Esq. We copy the following notice of the
i Crops from it:
“ We understand that the Cotton crops
in this section of the Slate, although ra
ther backward, owing to the lateness of
the spring, arc equally if not more pro-
■ ir.isiug than they were last year. 3he
Wheat has rather fallen short, but the
difference will be more than made up by
the Corn crops which promise an aburi-
I dant harvest.”
The agitators, from Duft’Green down
wards, who havu’ been for more than two
years attempting to turn theNcrtheni fana
tics to some account, have burst out into a
louder chorus, since the Anti-Slavery So
i ciety have made their Report—and since
Thompson and Garrison have been fight
ing intheNoith. While we are prepared
j to put down the designs of these miserable
i Fanatics, we are equally ready to resist
those Factious politicians who are attempt
ing to enfeeble the bands of our Union,and
I to declare its dissolution rather than sub
mit to the election of Martin Van Buren.
We wish distinctly to be understood.
"The Richmond Whig” and the “Peters
burg Intelligencer ’ may calumniate us as
; much as they please.—We despise their
I attempts to misrepresent our course; but
wo deprecate all possible mistake upon
the subject.—We abominate these Fana
tics as earnestly as any man. We des
pise the whole crew, from Arthur Tappan
down to the foreign emissary, Thompson,
the madman May, and the incendiary
Garrison.— Richmond Enquirer.
The New York Commercial Adverti
ser, announcing the refusal of General
Harrison to permit his name to be used
as a candid :te for the Vice Presidency on
any terms, regretting, as we do, that de
termination, proposes that Gen. Joseph
■Vance, of Ohio, should be the candidate
for the Whigs for that office. What a
glorious ticket (says the Commercial) is
this:
For President— Daniel Webster.
For Vice President— Joseph Vance.
Nat. Intelligencer.
COMMERCIAL..
From the Savannah Snipping and Commercial
List.
Savannah Market, July 31.
Colton.— Arrived since 2d inst. 3969 bales Up
land and 99 bales Sea Island and cleared in the
same lime 7208 bales Upland and 244 bales Sea
Island, leaving a stock on band inclusive
of all on ship-board not cleared on the- 30th inst.
of 2890 bales Upland and 13 bales Sea Island, of
which 1611 bales Upland are on ship-board
not chared The sales during the last week, as
far as they have come to our knowledge, will
amount to about 400 bales at 18| a 184 for lair to
fully fair and 19 a 19J for good fair cottons. The
stock at present for sale will not exceed 700 bales
most of which is limited at high prices. There
is now very little to come in
.Receipts of Jotton at the following places
since Oct. Ist.
Savannah, July 31 209,378
Darien exports direct to New
York, &c. 8099—217477
Charleston and Georgetown,
July 24 , 202537
New Orleans, July 17, 523,754
Less received from Mobile and
Florida, 27292—503569
Mobile, July 17, 196920
Appaiachicola, June 1, 40000
St. Marks, 17000
Pensacola, 300
60000
Less exported to Charleston,
Savannah Ac. and included
in their receipts, 8000— 52 000