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from the advent of our Saviour-beginning
with the then existing Jewish hierarchy—
L w n to the present time,has been the nu.se
nf Knotty and superstition, and the parent
r li/t,. rrl'nnous persecution which has dis
ia ed tkc annals of our speedes; the fruit
-1,, soul ce of tyranny on the one hand, and
r , and corruption on the other.
Tli def its baneful influence, the Church has
been made a of political pow
pr and ambition, and Christianity itself, from
be in o’ the great and paramount object of an
•mmortal existence, has ucen degraded to a
1 bordinate means of terrestial and tempo
ran; distinction. These, then, are the ends
which Republicanism proposes to itself: no
exterminating war,but that of roason against
force ; no destruction, but that of tyranny ;
no division, but of lights; no supremacy,
but that of principle; and the prevailing ten
dency of our institutions is, to place the
common enjoyments of life within the reach
of all- . . ... _ .
The Christian Religion is a powerful
miarantee for public morals. Greece and
Rome had not this powerful restraint. Its
code of morals is perfect —its sanctions are
as powerful as it is possible for the imagin
ation to conceive ; it is never satisfied with
the improvement of its disciples—it will nev
er cease to make converts until it embraces
the universal race of man. The Christian
Religion not merely preserves our morals
from*corruption, and’ gives them a decided
mid continuous impulse towards improve
ment, but it tends directly to the institution
of Democracy. Make men just and they
must he democratic. What will become of
usuipation and force, corruption and fraud,
as Christianity takes its march overthe earth?
It respects no abuses, however ancient—it
sanctions nothing but what is wise and good;
it abhors the corruption, extravagance and
vanity of courts; it imbues men deeply with
the fear of God—and those who fear God
aie inaccessible to any other fear; it fills us
with a sense of the absolute equality of the
species; it teaches us to respect nothing so
much as principle ; it inspires the most dig
nified independence. It is truly democratic
in its author. Our Saviour himself came
from the common people; born in a man
ger ! The son of a Carpenter—of a Mechan
ic! It was democratic in its apostles ; they
were fishermen, poor, ignorant tyid despis
ed ! It, in this, as in other particulars, ex
presses its preference for the poor.
The Christian Religion is emphatically a
religion for the people. It impregnates the
masses with something better than humani
ty. What a religion for the many ! what a
basis for popular government! how eleva
ted and how substantial the hopes of the
friend of popular rights, when he feels that
the progress of human liberty must keep
pace with the progress of Christianity, and
of Christian illumination, (we mean by hu
man liberty the liberty of our common coun
try—the liberty of conscience, for which our
fathers fought and bled—the suppression of
which caused them to flee from their mother
that the cause of man —the
cause of Democratic Repulican liberty—is
thus identified with the cause of God !
Paul, the Apostle, in his advice to Timo
thy, Ist epistle, sth chapter, when speaking
of Church government, says, “ I charge thee
before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and
the elect angels, that thou observe these things
without preferring one before another, doing
nothing by partiality .” This is the partic
ular popular principle governing our civil
and political institutions; the military school,
for instance, at West Point—a perfect mod
el of impartiality —the rich and the poor, the
small and the great (the great in wealth,) all,
all are under the same impartial government
—the same rule of action administered to
all. Our academies and seminaries, colle
ges and theological institutions of learning,
are all marked for their strict adherence to
justice, democratic republican government,
and impartiality, in its administration. This
is the declaration of one of our distinguish
ed statesmen, while advocating a certain
popular measure in Congress : “ If no oth
er hand,” said he, “ can save it, I will call
upon the people to come to its rescue .” And
we are told by an eminent historian, and
experience also teaches, that the voice of
the people is the voice of God : and where
do we find that voice literally laid bare to
the eye of our undeistanding—to the im
partial eye of conscience ? In the Biisle *
B.
Savannah, Georgia.
For the “ Southern Miscellany.”
ADrunkardreformed. —The only instance
I have ever known of a confirmed dram
drinker giving the practice up, was Mr. S—,
who once drank to such an excess that he
fell into a stupor, in which he continued for
many hours without any visible signs of life,
and was thought to be dead. He was
stretched out accordingly; a cabinet-maker
being summoned to measure the body for a
coffin, and the funeral ordered to take place
the next morning. An old woman who
watched by the corpse had fallen asleep, but
was awakened by a noise resembling sneez
mg; she jumped up, and perceived the bo
dy stirring its hands. Her fright and as
tonishment may be imagined ; and sallying
forth, she alarmed the whole family. The
doctor who had been sent for was still in the
house, and found the dead man come to life.
Restoratives were administered, and he was
putin a warm bed, where he slept off the
fumes of his debauch, without any knowl
edge of what had occurred. He was so
horrified, however, on being told how near
ly he escaped being buried alive, that he
made a resolution to drink no more. The
doctor recommended a gradual abolition;
and in six months his daily dose was reduc
edfrom a quart to a wine-glassful which
was soon followed by total abstinence. His
health was perfectly restored. Seven years
after he met the man who had made his cof
ftn. This fellow was a wag, and sort of
licensed character. Addressing the Squire,
he said, “ Major, you have, I dare say, seen,
ln your time, many a strange sight; but saw
you ever before, an account for your coffin,
due seven years, and not paid yet ?” and,
at the same time, thrust the bill into his hand.
The Proposal. —Miss M , a young
heiress of considerable personal attractions,
chanced to be seated, at a dinnor party, next
to a gentleman remarkable in the fashiona
ble circles for the brilliancy of his wit, and
who had long made one in the train of her
admirers. The conversation turning on the
uncertainty of life, “ I mean to insure
mine,” said the young lady archly, “in the
hope.” “ In the hope of what ?” said the ad
mirer; ‘ a single life is hardly worth insur
ing ; I propose we should insure our lives
together, and, if you have no objections, I
should prefer the alliance.”
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MADISON, GEO :
Saturday, September 17, 1842.
TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS.
We are not disposed to permit the discussion of theolo
gical or even abstruce metaphysical subjects in the
“ Miscellany.” We have admitted the reply of “Ed
gar” to our correspondent “Harrington,” but shall
decline the publication of any further articles on the
subject, from either, unless of very moderate length
indeed.
We have been compelled to omit the Greensboro’ cor
respondence. We will endeavor to find room for it
at some future time.
We have noobjection to admitting occasional morccaus
of fugitive doggerel, when we have nothing better;
but while we are “in pocket,” as our preseut number
indicates, we have no use for the lines cl the writer
who boasts—
“ I’d rather be a wagoner a* whipping up my team
Than to be upon the rail road a gwine by steam.’’
Every one to their taste, say we—but let us go by steam
every time.
“ The Sentiments of ” and “An Acrostic,” are
declined.
“The Hard Labor Poetry” is laid on the table for the
present.
We trust we may soon hear from our friend, C., again.
His “Lines to a pressed Violet,” in our present num
ber, are what we esteem true poetry. lie may look
for a letter from us soon. Is that against the Pest
Office Regulations, Mr. P. M. 7
tt'r’ The Rev. George W. Petrie, we are
requested to say, u-ill preach in the Presbyte
rian Church To-Morrow( Sunday) Adorning,
at ten o'clock.
“NEW FEATURE.”
At the suggestion of several of our friends
and correspondents, we have resolved to is
sue—so soon as a sufficient number of sub
scribers are received to warrant the under
taking—a handsome quarto sheet, arranged
for binding.
The. new publication will be conducted
after the manner of the “ Augusta Mirror”
—with such improvements as our experi
ence may suggest. It will be printed on
good, fair paper, and new type —such as that
now employed in printing the “ Miscellany”
—and will be issued weekly, at the very low
price of $2 50 per annum, in advance.—
Many of the former contributors to the
“ Mirror” will give it the aid of their pens,
and every exertion will be made to render
it, not only the cheapest, but equal to the
best literary weekly in the country.
We desire to commence the publication
of our quarto, on or about the Ist of January,
and we hope our friends throughout the
South, who feel disposed to encourage the
establishment of a cheap, independent Sout
hern literary journal, will interest themselves
in its behalf, and give us the result of their
labors between this date and the first of De
cember next. The work will have a hand
some engraved head, and shall not be sur
passed externally or internally in any of the
requisites of a spirited literary periodical.—
We do not promise to illustrate, or illumin
ate Georgia, or the South, but we have some
things in the way of pictures in progress,
which we trust will add to the interest of
our work.
05 s * Will those with whom we exchange
do us the favor to allude to our project ?
GEORGIA SCENES.
We have the very great satisfaction of
presenting to the readers of the “ Miscella
ny,” a sketch from the distinguished author
of “ Georgia Scenes, Incidents, &c.” which
we doubt not will be read with peculiar zest
by all into whose hands our present issue
may fall. The description of the “Kentuck
Major” is in Judge Longstreet’s happiest
style ; and we will venture to assert that
there is not another pen in the country that
could have made so much risible capital out
of the simple circumstance of an ugly old
man and woman, and a pretty girl, taking a
family snooze in the cars: and who but the
historian of the famous “Ned Brace” could,
with so little effort, have made such use of
the Frenchman’s aversion to snoring?—
But in just such a picture as this, lies the
writer’s particular forte. Boz may excell
him in the over-wrought limning of artificial
characters, but even lie must give way to the
Judge when real flesh and blood is on the
stage —nor hope to cope with him in that
peculiar dramatic effect which is so promi
nent a feature in all his happiest achieve
ments. The reader of this sketch becomes
a passenger in the cars, without paying for
acd irrti' m it it mus ©isa* && p ,
his ticket—enjoys the rich domestic scene—
laughs himself into a glorious good humor—
and is only sensible of his whereabouts when,
at the end, he reflects that he lias no bag
gage aboard to be lost.
We are the more proud of the treat which
we are enabled to afford our readers in “A
Night in the Cara,” because it is purely a
good will offering to us from the distinguish
ed author. We hope and trust that the
same kindly partiality which has induced
him to make this donation to our paper, will
prompt him to a continuance of his highly
esteemed favors. In this hope we know we
have the hearty concurrence of our numer
ous readers.
MADISON MARKET.
Our Cotton market has been quite anni
mated the latter part of ibis week—the re
ceipts have been heavier, and business is as
suming a lively aspect. 317 bales of Cot
ton have been received at the Rail Road
Depot, to forward to Augusta, since our last
report. About 100 bales have been sold in
this place, during the same time, at the fol
lowing prices: 30 bales at 6£ to 7—50 at
7J — 20 at 7J. Our market closes firm, at
7£, round, and 7J square bales. This quo
tation is upon new Cottons which are unusu
ally fine.
• Several wagon loads of Cotton have ar
rived from the Western Counties—such as
traded heretofore at Macon and Columbus
—this season. Our currency is the best in
the State. Specie paying bills are paid out
freelyfor Cotton,and an advance of thirty per
cent, on Central money. Planters will find
it to their interest to trade with us.
Our quotations for leading articles, are—
Salt $1 per bushel; Iron 6toGJ ; Bagging,
18 to 23 ; Sugar, Bto 11; Coffee, 12 to 13£;
Molasses,
Flour, 6 j to 7 ; Corn 40 ; Cora Meal, 40 ;
Bale Rope, 8 ter 13J ; Rice, ; Factoiy
Bagging, 18; Bacon 6J to 7; Lard, 7to 8 ;
Cast Steel, 25 ; German Steel, 17 ; Blister,
(American,) 12; Blister, (English,) 10;
Powder, $8; Shot $2 50; Lead, 9.
DEATH OP MRS. TYLER,
The papers contain an account of the
death of the President’s wife, who died at
Washington, on Saturday, the 10th instant.
The “ National Intelligencer” pays the fol
lowing just tribute to the memory of the
deceased— *•’ This most estimable lady was,
in life, more truly than we can represent her
in words, a Wife, a Mother, and a Christian
—loving and confiding to her husband—
gentle and affectionate to her children—kind
and charitable to the needy and the afflicted.
Deeply impressed in early life by her high
ly respected and pious parents with tffe
truthful and heavenly doctrines of the meek
Jesus, in all her actions, with whatever
sphere in life connected, self was forgotten
by her, and the good of others alone re
membered, which won for her wherever she
was known the love and esteem of all. The
pure spirit which animated her to such vir
tuous and exemplary deeds, fled to the bo
som of its God at eight o’clock on Saturday
night.”
Mrs. Tyler is said to have suffered several
years from a severe attack of paralysis. She
was 51 years of age.
In the course ofa very high seasoned
puff of the “ Knickerbocker,” the umbug of
the “ Horion,” says
“ In this connection we may as well al
lude to the notion that seems to be prevalent
—and to which some have rather enviously
given expression, that the Orion is an imita
tion of the Knickerbocker—a notion which,
although we deem it quite complimentary,
is notwithstanding somewhat less true than
it seems. * * In our type and arrange
ments we have more points of difference
from our elegant contemporary than are
generally found to exist between two dis
tinct magazines of the other style. To a
likeness to the Knickerbocker in beautiful
white paper and fine typography, we cheer
fully plead guilty. But in our general fea
tures and plans we disclaim any imitation—
we copy no contemporary. To our neigh
bors we are certainly very “ unlike,” upon
which we greatly felicitate ourself and our
readers.—We design to maintain a unique
appearance,” &c.
This sounds oddly in the ears of those
who have heard the editor boast his inten
tion to copy after the “ Knickerbocker,”
even in the arrangement of his paragraphs,
size of type, and other minute particulars.
But we are abundantly prepared to concede
the editor’s assertion that it is only in these
material matters that the resemblance can
be traced—there is nothing in the etherial
spirit—the soul of thetwo works-—that bears
any affinity to each other. They are as
like in external appearance as the diamond
and the paste imitation, and approach about
as near each other in point of intrinsic value.
The one is an excellent Northern magazine
—American in tone and spirit—and is edit
ed by a gentleman of acknowledged genius,
notwithstanding his slight obliquity of vision
when looking into certain subjects—an ac
credited lion of the magazine press. The
other is athrippenny pamphlet, printed—so
says the editor, under an injunction “of secre
cy—at the north, published at the south, and
edited by a petty sonneteer whose only re
semblance to the beast of his country is but
skin-deep, through which his ears, like those
of his fabulous prototype, will show them
selves. His appearance in the eyes ofa
discerning public is really “ unique.”
05 s * Merchants and business men who
desire the circulation of their advertisements
in the upper and middle counties, will find
the “Miscellany” a desirable medium.
THE FAMILY COMPANION,
For August, was received at our office a
day or two since. As heretofore it is well
sustained by able contributors, and were it
in worthier hands we could wish it well.—
Cousin Betsy opens her literary court with
a sort of mad-dog speech about ourself, but
we have long since learned to adopt the
maxim of her neighborhood which declares
“her tongue no slander.” The number
contained another edition of “the Card,”
upon which we learn our postmaster has
exacted letter postage, as also for the pamph
let containing it, in compliance with the post
office law; which having been refused by the
subscribers, the numbers will be sent back,
and letter postage required of the publisher.
We know nothing of the Post-Office Law,
and do not exactly see the justice of pre
venting a publisher from enclosing a bill or
printed card to his patrons; but we are of
opinion that if all the postmasters tbro’ whose
offices the “ Companion” is sent to our old
subscribers, adopt the same course, the
Griffins will pay dearly for the issue of their
libelous publication against us.
Insult to the President. —At the dinner
giving to Lord Ashburton, in New York,
when the health of “ The Prisident of the
United States” was proposed, not an indivi
dual rose from the table; but when the
“ Queen of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland” was given, the whole
company rose simultaneously, and the ban
quetting ball rung with acclamations. The
large bulk of the company consisted of what
are called “ The Merchant Princes of the
Commercial Emporium.” Avery small
portion of the New York press notices the
insult.— Transcript.
So we go —so much for patriotism
and national honor! This is only one of a
thousand instances in which the servile spir
it of the Northern aristocracy is daily mani
fested. But what else can we expect from
a city where every foreign rope-dancer or
vulgar danscuse, or mock duke, or debauch
ed earl, or marquis or count is feted and flat
tered—where the press is mainly under the
controll of renagade foreigners, and where
the stern manliness of character which char
acterised our forefathers has long since de
generated into the soft effimenency arid
pliant sycophancy of European fashionable
life. We have not lived long in the world,
but we have lived long enough to lament
over our national degeneracy. The day
has gone by when the ‘spirit of patriotism
and republicanism warmed every heart from
the lowest to the highest. It has become
vulgar to be patriotic, and one is only held
to be a gentleman who can claimtheacquain
tance of some titled nobleman, who can pay
20 dollars to fete a prince, or as many
more to see Fanny Elsler’s legs. We see
in the papers and hear much more in con
versation about the health of the Queen, her
prospects in the family way, and the health
of Prince Albert, than of any of our own
statesmen or revolutionary patriots. Every
arrival from England informs us of the
health and habits of all the nobility, and a
little paragraph about her Majesty the
Queen sneezing three times at precisely
twenty-three minutes past four, in the morn
ing, upon which his gracious highness, the
Prince, repeated distinctly “ God bless your
Majesty,” three times without any body tell
ing him, or some equally important domes
tic occurrence, in the royal family, will go
the rounds of half the papers in the Union,
while the announcement of “ another revolu
tionary hero gone,” made in the village’ pa
per where he died, will meet with the re
sponse, perhaps, from a few, of “ bless him,
let him go,” and there is the end of him.
The last sear leaves are dropping from our
liberty tree, and we trample them under
foot while we gaze with admiration upon
the gaudy trappings, and hear with delight
the sounding titles, over which they triamph
ed in the greenness of their youth. Shame
upon the degeneracy of the age! Shame
upon the recreant sons of such noble sires.
Well for their patriotic hearts that few are
left to witness the disgraceful servility of
such an act, as the one recorded above.
John Tyler is President of the United
States, and as such is more worthy the hom
age of a free people than all the Queens in
Christendom.
{£"?* We have received fromMr. Ilolmea.
of the Literary Depot, at Augusta, the
New World edition of “ The Life and Pub
lic Services of Henry Clay.” The history
of Mr. Clay is contained in one double num
ber of the New World, and is accompanied
by a wood engraving, representing the dis
tinguished statesman seated in his study.
The likeness is not good—rather a carica
ture than otherwise. We have not yet had
leisure to give the work a perusal, and can
not speak of its merits. We presume it
will be generally read, as it lias been pub
lished under the sanction and approval of
thetwoNew York Whig Committees. Mr. H.
is in the regular receipt of all tho cheap
editions of popular works which he sells at
very inconsiderable prices.
(C7 ** Dr. Richard D. Arnold, has been
elected Mayor of the city of Savannah, by
the new board of Aldermen.
NARROW ESCAPE.
A negro man belonging to Rev. E. L.
Wittich, of odr town, having set about
cleansing bis master’s well, was about to
descend into it by the bucket when the rope
to which it was attached slipped, precipita
ting him to the bottom, a distance of thirty
five feet, without his receiving any serious iu
jufy. The well is very narrow, has a rock
bottom, and is walled with stone tq near the
top. We venture he could not perform the
same feat again without the breakage of a
few bones, at least.
(Cfo J. Brown says, the table of the
Washington Hall, in Macon, is the most
bountifully piovided table in the State, for
they have a whole Bullock there, every day.
The one they had when he was there, he
says, was remarkably fat, which was ac
counted for by bis having a Stubblefield all
to himself.
(t/ 3 One hundred and fifteen banks have
failed in the United States since IS4I. The
“Trade Register” contains a list of them,
with the amount of capital, circulation and
specie of each. The capital ot the whole
of them is stated at $132,362,389 —circula*
tion $43,320,554 —amount’ of specie on
hand $10,288,571.
(t/ 5 * The Crescent City mentions'the ar
rival of two hundred'strangers ‘from the
Northern cities, whom it very properly
terms victimsfor the disease. How deplora
ble must be the condition of the poor labor
ers at the North, when they are driven to
seek employment, in New Orleans, at this
season of the year. They fly from starva
tion to become the victims of fever. The
editor of the Crescent City says, “if they
escape the disease with which our City is at
present afflicted, which is not probable, they
will find no labor to earn a livelihood, as the
city is, and has been for some months past,
filled with mechanics and laborers out of
employment. To these able bodied young
men with the rose of health upon their
cheeks, we would say goto the West.”
05 s ” “ What upon earth” is the editor of
the “ Lynchburg Virginian” doing with the
Pennsylvania Coat-of-arms at the head of
of his columns ? We believe he has as good
right to tlie motto, “ virtue, liberty and in
dependence” as any other Jiriight of the
quill in Christendom, but that’s no reason
why he should hoist the banner^ - the key
stone State in tho Old Dominion. We won
der Admiral Ritchie permits it.
TO THE PUBLIC !
It has been truly remarked by someone,
that a single departure from truth entails the
necessity for many falsehoods—that one lie
is the father of many more. I wms never
more forcibly struck with the truth of this
assertion than on the perusal of the addi
tional paragraphs which Mrs. Griffin’s man
has appended to his “ Card”—an enlarged
and improved edition of which he Iras just
sent out to my former patrons, enveloped
with the “ Companion” for August. This
edition was not intended for the Macon pub
lic, where its falsehoods are hut too well
known, but, as I understand, lias been print
ed secretly, for circulation among the sub
scribers to the “ Mirror,” whom he hopes to
retain to his work. By the kindness of one
of them I am enabled to give his appendix;
“All who have seen Ml*. Thompson’s re
ply to the above, will perceive he has not
disproved any of the statements I have
made—but that he admits the grossest act
ftf meanness charged against him—that of
indirectly making an attack upon his asso
ciate.
“The certificate of his Augusta physician
cannot change the meaning of the extract I
take from his letter, and all that it proves is,
that lie made an engagement to render ser
vices he was not capable of performing.—
His assertion that lie informed me he was
in ill health, is unqualifiedly false—he never
wrote any such letter; if he did, why does
he not produce my letter in reply, which lie
says he has in Augusta ? Strange he has not
proved a point so important, when it was so
easily done!”
Os the first paragraph I have but a word
to say : It is oftentimes easier to utter false
hood than to refute it. This man, of whom
it has been so justly said that he deals in de
ceit, and is so versed in falsehood that the
truth comes halting from his tongue—this
wholesale vilifier, has put forth a parade of
statements as little akin to truth as his char
acter is to that of an honest man—to these
statements I have opposed my denial—l
have refuted them by the same character of
evidence with which they are sustained.—
Our antagonist assertions are before the pub
lic, and all that 1 have to regret is, that we
are not equally known to those who may pass
judgment in the premises.
Os the latter paragraph, which contains
as unblushing a falsehood as was ever utter
ed by craven hypocrite, I have more to say,
and that those who are willing to grant me
their patience through a brief -bearing, may
understand the deep villainy of the man
with whom ithas been my misfortune to deal,
I will explain the secret cause which has im
pelled him to put forth this blackest false
hood of them all. When our matters of
difficulty were submitted to arbitration—l
stated to the gentlemen present that one let
ter, which 1 had written to Griffin,and the one
most important fora proper understanding of
our contract had not begn produced,and that
I did not pretend to have all of Mr.Griflin’s,
as 1 believed some of them hail been left in
Augusta in the hurry of my departure. I
.attached no Importance to his letters, but in
sisted that 1 mid written him one in which 1
not only stated explicitly what I was able
and willing to perform, but what I could not,
giving os a reason mv iiifirmbeulth. I furth
er stated that I bail acted strictly in con
formity to the stipulations of that letter near
ly up to that time, a period of five months,
without one wosd of complaint from Crrifftn.
This circumstance was considered by hie,
and I believe all the arbitrators-—l know it
Was by two of them—as evidence that lie
had received that letter. His treachery wts
too glaring—he felt the deep searching of
every honest eye in the room—and he could
not rest under it. Shortly after he took one
of the gentlemen aside and represented to
him, that I had said something about a letter
of his of the 10th, which 1 had in Augusta.
Restless to remove the foul suspicion that
rested upon him, and to divert the minds of
those who knew any thing of the matter
away.from the subject, lie spoke frequently
of this letter of the 10th. I finally asked
him wliut of ibis letter of the 10th ? what
importance bad I attached to it—and why
was be harping upon it? He said I bad al
leged that it was-in answer to the letter of
mine, winch I charged him with having sup
pressed. I immediately pronounced his as
sertion false—that I had made no such
statement —that I had no recollection of any
particular letter of his, and defied him to
bring either of the arbitrators, or any one
else, to whom I had made such a declara
tion. 1 heard nothing more directly from
him about the letter of the 10th, until I saw
the paragraph above quoted, which makes
its appearanee more than a month after he
had issued his first tissue of falsehoods against
me. Why was not this pitiful subterfuge,
•his conscience-smitten lie contained in his
first publication ?
A few words more, and I have done. As
well might one battle with the four winds
of heaven—as well pursue the wandering
ignisfiatuus, as attempt to vindicate himself
from the foul-mouthed slanders of a mail
who resorts to truth only when it will serve
his purpose better than falsehood. I have
no defence against such a man, save such ns
may be supplied by common sense
son. I beg tlie reader will pause a moment
before he gives credence to his statement,
and reflect whether it does not bear some re
semblance to those tales of fiction which lark
the merit of plausibility. He says that the
certificate of Dr. Eve only proves that I
“ made an engagement to render services
that I was not capable of performing.”—
Now were 1 to adopt his moral ethics, I
might, probably, with the little share of com
mon sense I lay claim to, engage to deliver
property for money in hand paid, to pay mo
ny at a stated time for goods [delivered, to
perform certain acts for certain considera
tions already realized, without any intention
of doing so, for then I would be safe, and
would profit by my own breach of faith; hut
1 cannot think that any will do my good
sense so much injustice, whatever theiropin
ion of my veracity or honesty, to suppose
that I would surrender up all interest in my
publication, remove myself and family to
Macon, to enter upon the performance of
duties which I was conscious I could not
perform, when 1 must have been equally
conscious that the uon-perfonnance of them
would at once release the other party from
all obligation, and deprive me of all the ad
vantages sought to be thrived by the ar
rangement. Such a supposition is preposter
ous in the extreme, and could only be urged
by one w hose mind, unswayed by truth, has
lost its balance. Equally absurd is the ly
ing climax to his catalogue of falsehoods.
He says that 1 say I have a letter in Augus
ta in reply to his. When did Isay so? to
whom did I say it ? No such assertion is con
tained in my former publication—nor was it
made to the arbitrators. If I made such an
assertion, what was my object Jh doing so?
To vilify and slander Griffin, of course.—
This being my purpose, would I not have
made the statement to someone of my friends,
with whom I spoke much more of tfie mat
ter than I did with him, or to the arbitrators,
of the public, in cider that it might have
the desired eflect—bis injury ? It is but rea
sonable to suppose I would. Certainly it
would have been a harmless lie to have told
him so, and no one else. Now I defy him
to bring any respectable man in Macon, who
who will say I ever uttered such a word in
his hearing! And if he will make affidavit
to the fact that I ever made such statement
to himself, or any one else—l will then he
convinced that if his assertions are not as
good as the truth, it is not because they are
not welt stuck to.
I crave thetpardon of the readers of the
“ Miscellany,” who have already been trou
bled too much with this affair. Those who
have suffered calumny will excuse the feel
ing which has prompted me to say thus
much ; those who have not w ill, I trust, for
give the liberty I have taken with their pa
tience, when I assure them, that I have no
other medium through which to meet a man,
who, not content with deeply wronging me,
seeks to rob me of all that he has left me—
my character.
W. T. THOMPSON.
AWEBTTOIEMI&Cm,
YVani-llouse and Commission Bu
siness,
Broad street, Avgusta, Georgia.
WM. A. BEALL & CO.
INFORM their friends, and the public generally, that
* they continue ihe alove business, at iheir fire nrocf
ware-ho!y?n Br.nd strte',(P rnierly occupied by Kcc3
Si Benll)-wdl receive and forward Goods of every des
cription, collect Drafts, Notes, Bills or Acceptances,
anil liope by strict attention to business, to merit a con
tinuance and extension ofnatronage.
VJ~ John Robson & Cos., Grocery Merchants, at
Madison, will net as our agents.
September 17. 31nt2S.
Groceries and Dry-Goods.
THE arc now daily receiving fresh supplies of Bagging
” of all the usual widths, some two pounds to tho
yard. Also large and full supplies of Manilla and
Hemp Rope for baling, Bagging Twine, Sic. A gen
eral assortment of handsome Calicoes, Ginghams,
Muslins, and Spool Thread, Bleached and unbleached
Homespuns; 30 Cases of Slues, finely assorted. We
have a most superior lot of Ladies’ Walking Shoes
and Slippers. Our Goods are all for sale at the lowest
cash pnees. Call and look.
JOHN ROBSON &, Cos.
Sept. 17, 1812.
Executor’s Sale.
WILL be sold, on Wednesday, the 10th day of No
” vember next, at tire Court Ilonse, in Madisc n, Mor
gnn County, all the real and personal property belong
ing f> the estate of James Hanson, deceased, late of
said Countv, consisting of Thirteen Negroes, men, wo
men nod ohilJren. Land, Household end Kitchen Fur
niture, Slock, Crop, Sic. Sic. The sale is made by con
seat of the lega'ees. Term* made known on the day
of sale. JAMES HANSON.
JOHN II ANSON.
Sept. 10,1312. Excelllois. ->