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SYLVAN POLITICS.
The Hickory Tree is passing fast
Into the yellow leaf,
His days of pride are nearly past,
—Great tree, of trees the chief.
And all the trees on hill and plain
Are sorely grieved to think,
That such a very goodly tree,
Should wither, fade, and sink.
They cried, as loud as trees can cry,
“ Who now shall be our chief?”
And branches shook, both low and high,
And quivered every leaf.
Then many trees preferred their claim,
And for the king ship strove;
Trees tall and fair, of mighty name,
The pride of all the grove.
The Massachusetts Oak displayed
His princely head on high;
While midst his mighty brunches played
The breeze of Liberty.
The cast its graceful shade
O’er blooming Tennessee;
Its fragrance gladdened many a glade,
It was a gallant tree.
But hist! the Hickory’s self will speak,
Let every tree be dumb!
Let no leaf stir, or dry bough crack,
When forth his accents come!
" It is mj' will,” the Hickory said,
“ Throughout the mighty realm,
That every tree should bow its head,
“ To—to—the ‘ Slippery Elm.’
41 And next to him in rank shall stand,
“ Obsequious at his back,
•* A sapling from the Western land,
44 My favorite sprig, ‘ Black Jack.’
41 They stood by me, in many a blow, —
“ Shall I desert them now ?
44 1 swear by the Eternal —No 1
“ Let all the forest bow I”
From thousand hills and thousand vales
A deep voice swelled around;
As when the distant storm prevails,
Rolled on that murm’ring sound;
44 Hold! Hickory, hold! that ne’er cun be,
44 Bow to the ‘ Slippery Elm!’
“ Ere we shall crown so base a tree,
“May racking whirlwinds ’whelm
44 In splintered wreck each goodly trunk,
“ And crush the forest’s pride !
44 Better, far better, to have sunk
“ In ruin far and wide.
“ No! while our branches revel free
“ In the free air ol heaven,
" Never shall our allegiance be,
“ To creeping meanness given.
44 Thou, Hickory wer’t, in danger’s hour,
“ A useful tree and brave,
‘ And bravely did’st thou strike thy root,
“ Deep in the Lion’s grave.
“But what hath he, thy minion done
“ To claim such lofty meed ?
“No noble act is his—notone,
44 No patriotic deed.”
“FulLwell we know that round thy stem,
44 Hrs vine-like bough he wound,
44 And cringing, watched the slightest whim,
“Low bending to the ground.
44 His servile soul we deeply scorn,
“ Away with him ! away !
44 His yoke shall ne’er by us be borne,
44 Or felt his serpent sway.
44 But let him list in dark ravine,
“ The reptile’s croaking voice,
“Where noon’s clear blaze is never seen, —
44 The Buck Eye is our choice !”
The following lines on the openingofthe Mo
bile Theatre, were written by J. M. Field,
and delivered by him, on the 10th inst.
ADDRESS.
Tis done? Behold, our thrice erected dome,
’ To Genius gives a welcome, and a home!
Our JJikisAed Temple, bursts upon the sight,
Like a creation of some wand of light!
Art from her labor ceases with a smile,
And Rainbow hopes illume her work the while!
Hark! there is revel ’mid the blue eyed Maids,
Th’ inspiring Sisters of the sacred glades;
Circling thro’ air, their song of rapture swells,
With minglingmagic from their tuneful shells—
They fly from scenes where dark despotic hate,
Hath quenched the fires of Freedom Consecrate;
From feeble Greece’s desolated plains.
From lost Italia, torpid in her chains,
From ruined Temples, and deserted bowers;
To hail with joy, Earth’s brightest clime in
ours 1
And here, surrounded by approving hearts,
Warmed by the glow the Drama’s tire imparts ;
Genius, by high ambition bade aspire,
Shall wiilje the spells of poesy’s magic lyre!
Triumphant art, shall borrow nature’s glass,
And startled vice, shrink as her features pass!
Thisstage, and altar dedicate to truth!
By age encouraged, and admired by youth :
Instructive scenes shall picture to the sight,
Os mingled wisdom, and gay eyed delight!
Not here shall flow’rs exotic bloom alone,
While SpHng unheeded, and unseen, our own!
On worth alone shall cheering bounty beam,
And Soiithern hearts, and smiles, respond each
generous theme!
Anecdote of Cobbelt- s Married Life. —
4 I began iny young marriage days in
nnd near Philadelphia. At one of those
timea to which I have just alluded, in the
middle of the burning hot month of July,
I was greatly afraid of fatal consequen
ces to my wife for want of sleep, she not
having, after the great danger was over,
had any sleep for more than forty eight
hours. All great cities in hot countries
are, I believe, full of dogs; and they, in
the very hot weather, keep up, during the
night, a horrible barking, and fighting,
and howling. Upon the particular occa
sion to which I am adverting, they made
a noise so terrible and so unremitted that
it was next to impossible, that even a per
son "in full health and free from pain,
should obtain a minute’s sleep. I was,
about nine in the evening, sitting, by the
bed: ‘I do think,’ said she, that I could go
to sleep if it "ere not foTthe dogs. Down
stairs I went, and out I sallied in my shirt
and trowsers, and without shoes and stock
ings; and going to a heap of stones lying
beside the road, set to work upon the dogs
going backward and forward, and keep
ing them two or three hundred yards dis
tance from the house. 1 walked thus the
whole night, barefooted, lest the noise of
my shoes might possibly reach her ears,
and 1 remember the bricks of the case
way were even in the night so hot as to
de disagreeable to my feet. My exert ons
produced the desired effect: a sleep of sev
eral hours was the consequence; and, at
eight o’clock in the morning, off went 1
to a day’s business which was to end at 6 i
in the evening.’
From the Fedei al Union. _ |
Amidst the froth and scum which the
ebullitions ofparty have thrown to the view
of a sickening world, there is none more
revulsive to the lovers of truth and justice
than the charge of the editor of the Neie
York Star, that Georgia has been sold,
and of the Macon Messenger, that she has
been disgraced, in reference to the late
elections. How far this wanton outrage
upon charity-upon truth—upon the char
acter and principles of an intel igent and
generous people may becloud the glory of
the northern light and forfeit his place a
rnong the heavenly host, we leave to the
sentence of that eternal monitor which
“ ne’er speaks false when there is none to
hear,” Does this " fiery orb and eye of
light” really presume upon his ascendan
dv, and think us the Pnetorian bands
ofßome, that would barter our liberties to
an emperor for the vile trash for which he
writes. If so, it is time that he should be
told, he knows nothing of the character of
the people whose practical good sense,
whose love of country, could never be de
luded by the sophistry of ambition—who
have marched with a firm and unremit
ting step in the path ot Union and ration
al liberty, unawed and unsubdued by the
battering rams of the press—laughing to
scorn the legions of devils in the printer’s
art—those mercenary soldiers that, with
a few glorious exceptions, fighting alter
nately in the ranks of liberty or despotism
as interest may prompt them. Hear it,ye
listening stars! the publisher of an eph
emeral sheet, who solicits pay for his “ per
ishable trash,” asseverates, the people of
Georgia have been sold ! !
But the bile disgorged by the heated liv
er of this “blaspheming Jew” has not been
permitted to taint alone the point of space
which nature in her inscrutable decrees
has allotted him to wither and scathe—it
has been caught by his brethren of the
South as a precious gift—a pearly tear,
that shall win for the blessed Peris the
palms of victory and the joys of Paradise.
Disregarding their quondam theory, that
whatever a Sta 4 e may do “is right, and
none have the right to question it,” they
have repudiated their first and only love— ,
the vestal who kept alive the holy fire in '
their temple of liberty—not with the lofty '
spirit of a Caesar who could only demand ;
that she should be above suspicion—but
with the madness of Othello, they have
charged home upon her the damning sin
of prostitution, and are no doubt ready to
immolate her for the horrid deed. Shall
we of the sovereignty sing “will on—wil
low,'' and beg permission of our lords to
say but “ one short prayer! ”
The Macon Messenger, stung with the'
mortification of defeat—not in the holy '
cause, for which Washington bled, both!
in the cabinet and in the field, and to which j
he consecrated the unfathomable depths of'
eternal love—but in bolstering up the hi
deous moon calf of unsatiated ambition
breaks out the half choaked sentence,
“ Georgia is disgraced!” In the rooke
ries of nullification. this raven had been
taught to sing a different song, that a ma-!
jority of the people ot a single state are
right—will generally adhere to the prin
ciples of faith and justice—and iftheverr,
are responsible alone to God and to con
science. But since his party has ceased
to hold the sovereignty—there is no epi
thet so vile that he will not bestow it upon
those who do— and whilst his political
creed impels him to hold out as immacu
late, the sovereignty of a state in one hand,
his passions prompt him to represent the
people, who wield it as corrupt and disgra
ced, in the other! Like the emblem
which coils around his Medusa-crest, un
trammelled, he is destructive to others,
whilst fettered, he is destructive of him
self. GEORGIA. ;
Cherokee Affairs. — There are four
Cherokees in Milledgeville, who state,
that in the absence of Col. Bishop, the
second officer of the Cherokee Guard,
with a detachment crossed the boundary
of the State, proceeded to the residence of
John Ross in Tennessee, seized him and
brought him a prisoner into Georgia.
They stated, that this outrage was perpe
trated at the suggestion of Schermerhorn
and Currie, agents of the United States; 1
and that its motive was, to keep Ross from
going to Washington,to represent the Che
rokees with the Federal Government.
These four men are said to be as reputable'
as most Indians; but they belong to the
Ross party; and there is strong reason to
believe, that if there is any truth in the
statement, it is partial, and surpresses ma-i
terial facts. If it be true, an enormous out
rage has been perpetrated, which cannot
be too severely condemned, and which we
shall the more deeply deplore, because it
it may produce an impression unfavorable
to the continuance of a guard, which has
■ been found necessary to the peace and
. good order of the Cherokee country. An
officer of that guard may do wrong; and'
I so may a sheriff, and so may a judge, and
■so may the governor of the State. Who,
for the fault of one of these latter officers,
would think of abolishing our courts, or
i destroying our government? If a gross
outrage has been perpetrated, the offen-'
iders ought to be punished;’ but it ought
not to be permitted to exert any influence
over the decision of the question, whether
it be proper to continue or to abolish the
Cherokee guard.
Mr. John Howard Payne also, a gen
tleman well known to the literary world,
has been arrested under the suspicion of
his having conspired with Ross, against
the welfare of Georgia, and it is said that
his papers give evidence of the fact. We
have no precise information on the sub
ject; but ue fear that this gentleman has
suffered injustice, from the excited temper
of the times. An authentic report of these
transactions is hourly expected at Milled
geville. — Federal Union.
From the Savannah Georgian.
The ex-governor, Lumpkin, in his late
message to the Legislature, reccommends
a mission to London, for the purpose of
obtaining accessions to the Library of
Franklin College and restitution of our
Colonial Records. Why he should think
a Professor of the College the best quali
fied for these double duties, literary, and
in some measure diplomatic, 1 cannot di
vine—there is something more requisite
than the usually circumscribed limits of a
Professor’s classical attainments. A citi
zen to perforin with taste, judgement and
ability, the duties of the mission reccom
rnended by Governor Lumpkin, should
not only have psssed through a regular
course of collegiate education, but should
be a man of general information, have a
long intimacy with books in the gradual
march of science, but be something of a
statesman in corresponding with the prop,
er departmemsofth* l British Government
in efforts to obtain the historical archives
of the State.
The writer has now before him an origi
nal schedule ofcorrespondence in the State
Paper Office of Great Britain, relative to
the history of Georgia, communicated by
the Lite George Canning, Secretary of
State for the Foreign Department, to our
then Minister, Mr. Rush, from which it
appears that there were in 1825, the follow
ing important documents, comprising fif
teen folio M S. volumes, which may y»t,
no doubt, be obtained, or copies at least,
hy a suitable application; they consist of
the following.
Ist. Original Letters and papers from
General Oglethorpe and the 'Trustees of
the Colony, from 1735 to 1744.
2d. Letters, Memorials, Information,
&c. from the 'Trustees and from individ
uals, to the Secretaries of State, respecting
Georgia, from 1747 to 1751.
3d. Original correspondence of Sir
James Wright, Governor of Georgia, and
President Jamis Habersham, With the
Secretaries of State, with the drafts of an
swers, from 1751 to 1780.
4th. Copies and abstracts of correspon
dence between the Governors and officers
of the Province of Georgia, and the Sec
retaries ofState, from 1767 to 1781.
sth. Copies of Letters from the Seer -
taries ofState to the Governors and Offi
cers of Georgia, from 1768, to June 27th
1782.”
Looking around we see no citizen bet
ter qualified for the mission, than our “ ve
teran democrat” Judjje Thomas U. P.
Charlton, and it is sincerely hoped that
his name, past services and acknowledged
talents and capability for the purposes of
Governor Lumpkin’s reccommendation,
will attract the attention of the present Le
gislature.
AFR IEN DTO MERIT.
New Echota, Oct. 31, 1835.
Col. John IL Lumpkin,
Dear Friend—The Red Clay Coun
cil has closed and the result of their delib
erations has been of vast consequence to
the Cherokee people—l consider that the
Indian controversy now be closed. The
Ross party have united, and have agreed
to close the Cherokee difficulties by a gen
eral treaty. To effect this object the
people in general council assembled hav
ing elected twenty delegates, with full
power to treat at Washington City.
These delegates, to wit: John Ross, John
Ridge, John Martin, Elias Boudinot,
Charles Vann,Soft Shell Turtle, E. Hicks
John Baldridge, John Benge, James Dan
iel, Sleeping Rabbit, Joseph Vann, Rich
ard Fields, Richard Taylor, Lewis Ross,
Thomas Foreman, Jesse Bushyhead, Pe
ter of Aquohee, James Brown and John
Hass, were all nominated to the General
Council,and confirmed - and then the ap
pointment ofthis delegation clothed with
full power to treat, was ratified by the peo
ple. Besides the names of the members of
Council, there were upwards of one thou
sand men s gned the power to this delega
tion, then commenced a negotiation with
Mr. Schermerhorn, & as they did not pro
curefrom him positive terms,they have ad
journed over to meet at Washington City,
on the 20th December next to treat at
head quarters. In consequence of sick
ness, Gov. Carroll, to my great regret, did
not attend. Against Mr. Schermerhorn’s
official labor I have nothing; tosay; he has
served his government with zeal and ener
gy. But candor requires of me to express
my fears, that his zeal will carry him a
way from the true course which the gov
eminent ought to adopt. I believe that he
has written letters to the President to re
ject the Delegation at Washington, and
contrary to the will of all parties among
the Indians, has appointed the 3d Monday
in December to hold a treaty with the
people at the New Echota. You know
the difficulties I have encountered in per
suading my people to treat, and just at the
point when that great object is to be
consummated, these difficulties have been
raised; I have told him that no people will
beat New Echota; &. they will not —there
is no reason in it, if it is at war against the
wishes of a combined nation. This com
bination has willed that a treaty shall be
made. I wanted this, and our affairs will
now be wound up without bloodshed and
excitement among ourselves. But anoth
er important subject will be presented for
the action of the Georgia Legislature. The
commissioner affects to disbelieve our in
tentions to treat, and the States adjoining
us will be required to oppress us before
we go to the west! Just ?t the moment
when an afflicted people are going to treat
—those who have been advocatesof a trea
ty, and all are io be consigned to a speedy
ruin and affliction. But I have better
hopes of your Legislature. Wisdom pre
sides in her councils, and honor, justice
and humanity attend it. If laws are to be
passed, let themffie conditional and pros
pective. In the month of July next, if no
treaty is made let the laws operate against
us. If it be made and ratified, let the
Legislature protect us, and let us depart
out of the State in peace. I feel a great de
sire to avert the great calamity ofa people
expelled out of their houses in winter,
whi h leads-me to make this appeal in be
half of my people. They have agreed to
treat, and this is all the State required, I
had some thought of going to Milledge
ville to make these representations in per
son—but do it for me—Read this letter to
the governor, and let him consider it as
addressed to him and to the members of
i the Legislature. I have understood that
■ Major Curry is sent on to urge you to
j pass these oppressive laws. If it is not
i so, he will excuse this letter. This letter
; is confidential, and I would be glad if the
Governor would send it to the Secretary
of War, and also have it published. To
the correctness of these views I pledge to
you my sacred honor.
Your friend JOHN RIDGE.
GAMA GRASS.
Though we have been unable to per
suade our valuable correspondent “Sile
nus” to unmask himself and to add the
moral force of his own thrice honored
name to his excellent communications —
we are not the less indebted to him for his
response to our call for information, upon
the subject of the Gama Grass. His exper
iments as detailed, are truly interesting,
and we feel not a little flattered in finding
our opinion backed by that of l Melib<eas.'
He has given to this grass a fair and en
ligthtened series of experiments and ar
rives at the following satisfactory conclu
sions:
1. That it will grow in any good soil
that will produce wheat, corn, or tobacco.
3. That the peculiarities and vicissi
tudes of our climates do not materially af
fect it,
3. That its growth is so rapid it may
be cut every 15 days from the middle of
May, until frost; at that age it makes bet
ter and more delecate hay than when suf
fered to stand longer.
4. 'That it is the best hay he ever saw
resembling in odour the finest cured corn
blades.
5. That it is more easily cured than a
nvother hay, in containing but little suc
culence and less woody fibre.
6. That it is prefered by stock to any
other cured hay; and
7. That for the purpose of soiling and
feeding green there is no grass to be com
pared to it
Certainly no intelligent firmer or plant
er will hesitate to follow the very laudable
example of “ Melibreud' after an array of
such reasons are given above for doing.
With regarJto the objections to enter in
to its culture, upon the score of the diffi
culty of setting a meadow, they are han
dled with so much force and propriety by
our correspondent, that we shall refer the
reader, who may be among the corps of
objectors, to his able exposition.
The example given by Melibaus of
setting out between 4 and 5 acres in three
years from a begining of 20 plants is a
very strong illustration of the ideal char
acterof the objection urged against the cul
ture; but if a meadow of 4 or 5 acres in
extent, which would yield 30 tons of hay
to the acre, and upwards, annually, would
not be sufficient by puchasing- 5 ounces
of the seed 13 1-2 acres could be set out
after the second year. There are about
260 kernels in an ounce, of Gama grass
seed—then, as 5 times 260 is 1500, and
each seed will give 10 offsets the Ist year
and 20 the 2d, so will the 5 oz in 2 years
give 250,000, w’hich would plant upwards
of 13 1-2 acres from the offsets alone,
and if subdivided the 3d year would occu
py upwards of 268 1-2 acres and this mea
dow when once set, will last, as that ex
cellent gentleman and enlightened practi
cal farmer. Dr. Magroffil of Alabama,
says, for seventy years.— American Far
mer.
One of the State Banks, in Vermont,
having been suspected of a violation of its
charter, a committee was appointed, by
the Legislature, to overhaul its affairs and
report thereon to that body, In their re
port, the committee, among other devel
opements of the mysteries of banking,
state, that “the banking room of this in
stitution is in a wooden building occupied
as a store: that the place of deposit for the
notes, bills, papers, and specie ofthe bank
is a wooden desk— and that the books of
the bank consisted of one or two sheets of
paper pinned or stitched together!”—This
no doubt, is one of these well managedin
stitutions which is to take |the place of
the United States Bank, and is to supply
the country with a currency superior to
i the rags of Nick Biddle!!— [Dover Enq.
There is a good anecdote told by the
Norfolk Beacon. It is as follows:
Col. L. was a man of fortune and arist
ocratic manners—possessed considerable
talents,and was generally very popular. In
a canvass proceeding an election, he en
: countered a poor man, of whom he had
been in the habitoftaking no notice what
, ever. He approached and saluted the vo
ter in a familiar manner, and tendered his
hand, which was refused. “Excuse me,
Col. L I will vote for you because you
are a faithful and able member, but
• will give my hand to no man who oiler
me his but once in seven years.”
AUGUSTA,
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
Our intelligence from Milledgeville is mea
gre. But little of interest has been done since
our last. The outrage upon Ross, that is, if
we have the true story, is the only exciting item.
We cannot conceive how Bayne got into such
a scrape. If he is as guilty as alleged, he will
probably’’ have leisure to write several “ Sweet
Homes, ” and sing them too. ere he sees one.—
See article from Federal Union.
A bill to sell all the Bank Stock owned by the
State, is the order of the day for to-morrow, in
the House.
The names of the persons in the bill to incor
porate the Iron Steamboat Company’ arc those
of Messrs. Amory’ Sibley, G. B. Lamar, John
• Bones, Moses Ross, Charles Lippett, John M.
Adams, David W. St. John, J. Hubbard, Wm.
P. Rathbone, Samuel D. Corbett, and David L.
Adams.
The bill to pardon George T. Hardin is re
jected—yeas 19 ; nays 128.
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT.
The following are some of the movements of j
Georgia on this subject:
A bill to aid the Geoigia Rail Road Compa
ny. It proposes that the State shall execute
bonds, on which the Rail Road may effect a
loan. The sum is not specified ; but it is not to
exceed at any time, the amount paid into the
treasury of the company, and expended in the
construction of the road, To secure a redemp
tion of these bonds by the company, it is to exe
cute, to the State, a mortgage of its stock, of the
rail road, of the right of way, and of the cars,
&c.
A bill to incorporate a company’ for con
structing a rail road from Forsyth, in Monroe
county, to West Point, in Troup county.
A bill to construct a turnpike road from Au
raria, in Lumpkin county, to Auricalola.
A bill to incorporate a company for naviga
ting the waters of Georgia in iron steamboats.
A bill to incorporate a company to construct
a rail road from Milledgeville to Grecnsbo
rotigh in Greene county.
A bill to incorporate a company’ for the con
struction oi a rail road, from a central point in
the State, to Columbus.
A bill to incorporate a company for the con
struction of a rail road from the Florida line to
Brunswick. It is intended to connect this road
with a rail road from the Gulf of Mexico thro’
the Territory of Florida.
To charter a company for the construction
of a rail road from West Point on the Chatta
hoochee, to some place in the interior of Geor
gia.
The resolution of Mr. Dawson, relative to
the Cincinnati rail road, amendments and all,
after the re-consideration, were laid on the ta
ble, on the 17th, for the ballance of the session,
and on next day’ this was ordered to be recon
sidered—46 yeas; 33 nays.
The Senate has rejected the bill abolishing
the circulation of bank bills under $lO.
The Legislature is asked to charter a bank
at Cassville, and a bill is before the House re
quiring the Central Bank to publish, semi-an
nually, the names of its debtors.
Gen. Walker introduced two bills in the
Senate, on the 20th : one, amending the acts in
corporating this city, and the other confirming'
to the City Council the tide to the Town Com
mons.
The bill incorporating the company’ to con
struct a rail road from Forsyth to West Point,
&c., has been passed in the Senate; as also that
concerningthe Central Rail Road and Banking
Company in the House of Representatives.
Mr Bander's Equesteran Corps arrived in
this City’ this Morning, and by way' of a large
Poster, moved thro’ the Streets in full caval
cade, headed by the splendid Band of Music
which accompanies it.
Between thirty and forty' volunteers for Tex
as, under command of Capt. Wadsworth, left
Columbus last week, and about the same num
ber left Macon same time, under command of
Col. Ward.
In the Alabama Legislature, Samuel B.
Moore is chosen President of the Senate, and
Mr. McClung, of Madison county, Speaker of
the House. The latter beat Mr. Phelan two
votes.
A charter is expected to be asked from the
present Legislature of Alabama for a bank in
Mobile of five millions.
Mr. Dexter reports, that the Rail Road from
Montgomery to West Point is “altogether
practicable.” Forty miles are expected to be
soon let out by contract.
A new Post Office named Lodi, has been es
tablished in Coweta county, Ga, eight and a
halfmiles from Newnan, on the road to Rother
wood, of which Mr William M. Stoy is Pest
Master.
Resignation.— Gen John W. A. Sandford,
has resigned the agency which he held under
the federal government, for superintending the
removal of the Creek Indians, to the territory
allotted to them, west of the Missisippi.
Van Biwcn Men in Alabama. The Montgo
mery Journal of 18th states, that there were so
many of them on the Steamer Caroline, that she
could not cross the bar below Cahawba.
Deaths of the Silk Worms.— The American
Farmer says, “It is estimated by well informed
persons that no l.*ss than 19,000,000,000, of silk
worms, die annually, victims to the production
of the amount of silk consumed in England in
one year. These worms according to the ratio
of 3,000 to the pound of silk, which, by the way,
is a safe one, make 5,353,333 lbs. of silk, which
at $4 per lb. would be $25,333,442, and as En
gland can never be a silk growing country, ow
ing to the physical defects of the climate, the i
silk culturists of our country have a fine oppor
tunity of soon becoming competitors to supply
the raw material.”
The public will remember Mr. Mifflin, a
talented young Pa inter, a Pennsylvanian, who
spent last winter in this city. His paintings
were then favorably criticised in this paper by
a gentleman, whose approbation, if he were
known, would give reputation to any pencil.
We have always regarded the highest inspira- '
tions of a Painter, as prompted by the very ;
Spirit of Poetry. Mr. Mifflin has not been I
without such a prompter; for we are indebted
to his kindness for a little volume of Poems,
entitled “Rhymes by an Artist, by J. Houston
Mifflin,” which have more than rhyme and
smooth versification to recommend them — lite
rary taste and purity of sentiment. We copy”
j the following for its local interest—and w’e be
i lieve the volume may be had at Mr. Plant’s.-
■ “ Tho’ on Savannah’s sunny shore
An earlier flow’r may blow,
And nature here her vernal store
I With richer hand bestow;
The stranger by’ your glancing stream
With pensive step may roam,
And dearer far that river deem,
That freezes near his home.
j In vain your rich luxuriant groves,
May breathe the blandest air,
That filled with perfume idly royes
And wantons every where; —
In vain your sweet melodious bird
The soul of song may pour —
The stranger even then preferred
His wind-swept forest’s roar!
But not in vain the glorious eyes'
; That light y’our southern clime,
■ And brighter than your sunny skies,
Make ever summer-time!
And not in vain the kindly’ hearts,
That welcome those who roam —
From these with pain the stranger parts,
As from a native home.
Augusta, Geo., April, 1835.”
MOBILE, Nov. 16.— Cotton.— Six or seven
hundred bales were sold during the past week
at 15J a 16 cents, showing a decline of some
thinglike J cent. This has been occasioned by
the late unfavorable accounts from abroad.—
Du ring the week the receipts amounted to 3071
bales, and the exports 1501, leaving on hand a
stock of 4445 bales. — Transcript.
Bea t this if you can.— We learn that
the schooner Exit, of this port, owned and
commanded by Capt. Noah B. Sisson, of
our city, has made in one year, which ex
pired yesterday, sixty four trips between
Charleston and Savannah. This unex
ampled despatch is a convincing proof of
the activity of her enterprising Captain,
nnd ofthe celerity with which his schoon
er moves through the element of Neptune.
The Exit was constructed in Charleston,
after a model furnished by Capt. Sisson,
( and her cabin furnished in Boston, with
, the wood ol the beautiful China Tree, the
, growth of our city.—Her tonnage is 124
40,95 tons, and her actual cost $13,440,
She was built expressly to run as a pack
et between Savannah and Charleston, and
her accommodations are ample, having
upwards of thirty berths.— Georgian.
FACTS.
Animalcules are not to be found jn all
fluids. None are to be found in wines, or
. any other fermented liquor which has not
passed into the state of Vinegar, or which
: has not become completely vapid, neither
are they to be found in distilled or spring
: water.
Sickness.— lt has been computed that
’ nearly two years sickness is experienced
by every person before he is 70ye:»rsold;
and therefore, that ten days per annum is
the average sickness of human life. Till
' 40 it is but half, and after 50 its rapidity
increases.
Jews.— Edward Ist*—first bannished
this persuation from England; but Crom
well permitted their return. As they
. could hold no property in land, in any
Christian country, they were the univer
sal exchange brokers, and dealers in mo
-1 ney and government funds. They enable
all Christian governments to-borrow and
to carry on wars, The Goldsmiths were
the agents of the Pitt administration, and
Rothschild, the modern Jew, is necessary
. to all the government ofEu rope,confer ring
on each, on due security, the mometary
strength of the whole.
Gas Pipes.— ln 1830 the gas pipes in
and around London were above 1000
miles.
Solomon's Temple.— This building,
though extolled as one of the wonders of
the ancient world, did not surpass our lar
ger sort of private houses. The generality
of the hibitations their, were probably
no better than what we call huts, or cotta
ges. The Temple was 107 feet deep, the
height from 30 to 54 feet. The porch
was 30 feet long, and the breadth 18 feet.
Among other scientifiic discoveries, lu
nar, astronomical, &c. made by the editor
of the Sun, we find the following.
Extraordinary Fad.— The polarity of
any magnetic needle will be destroyed in
a few minutes by thrusting it into an on
ion ! Upon what chemico magnetic prin
•ciple can this be accounted for! We, how
ever, claim the merit of the discovery.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
SAVANNAH, NOV. 19.—ArrTship"Bra
ganza, from Bath, (Me.) steamboat John T.
Lamar, Darien.
Nov. 20.—Arr. Br. brig Cartha, Greenock;
steamboat Free Trade, Augusta; Caledonia,
do.
Nov. 21. —Arr. pole boat A. Sibley, Augusta;
Cotton Plant, do.
■ CHARLESTON, NOV. 21.—Arrived, Ship
Langdon Cheves, Philadelphia; Schr. Magno
lia, Norfolk. In the Offing, ship Saluda, New
York; brig Washington’s Barge, Gibraltar, 40
days;' schr. supposed the Randolph from Phila
delphia.
PRINTER WANTED.
A Journeyman Printer is wanted for a few
weeks at this Office.
Nov 23 139
Or WE are authorized to announce WIL
LIAM O. EVE as a candidate for the office
of Tax Collector, at the election in January
next.
Or WE are authorized to announce Capt.
WM. H. MAGEE a candidate for Major to
command the 75th Battailion Georgia Militia,
vice Major Tobin resigned.
O’ WE are authorized to announce Cap!
AARON RHODES a candidate for Receiver
of Tax Returns at the election in January next.
Oct 7 wtd 119
Or We are authorized to announce WIL
LIAM SKINNER, Jr. as a candidate for the
office of Receiver of Tax Returns for Richmond
County at the election in January next.