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For the “Southern Miscellany.”
LETTER FROM MAJOR JONES.
NO. XXV.
Pineville, November 27, 1843.
To Mr. Tiiompson :
Pear Sir —l spose, by this time, you had
(,e<Tun to think I warn’t never gwine to rite
to you no more. Well, the fact is, old fel
ler, if you hadn’t tuck the course you have,
in conrn rite out flat-footed for Mr. Clay, I
don't blieve I could found much time to cor
respond with you. Mary said it was no way
to do, to be exposin family matters so, and
the galls said that no hoes wouldn’t come to
the bouse for fear I’d rite all about ’em in
the Miscellany ; besides, 1 had a monstrous
deal to tend to about home, and the crap,
and I bad jest about made up my mind to
retire from public life, and rest toy literary
fume on the lawrels 1 had already won in
usin up Crotchett and the Goat-knots. But
sense l received your letter containin the
new prospectus for the Miscellany, I’ve al
tered my notion on that subject, and 1 take
this occasion to compliment you on the pa
triotic course you have tuck with the Miscel
lany, and to assure you of my evei lastiu de
termination to do all I can to help you in the
glorious cause.
I used to think the Miscellany one of the
best papers in the world, and so it was—all
but one tiling, and that was, it never seci
nothin about the homitialde set of rascals
that’s beett playiu wild with the country for
the last ten yeats. You used to tell the po
litical news, and rite all round about, and
some limes hint monstrous close at a opin
ion, lmt some how you always seemed like
you was fi aid of somebody anil dasent speak
out. Now, the liberty of the press, 1 have
always understood, was one of the greatest
blessins secured by the Constitution, and i
don’t think any editor ought to plac e him
self in a situation whar he can’t enjoy that
liberty. It don’t make no difference wheth
er he is kept under by the laws of the coun
try, party dictation, or ptofessions of neu
trality—it all amounts to the same in the
eend; and a editor what han’t got no inde
pendence is like a pieaeher what han’t got
no leliginn—in ither of ’em ain’t gwine to do
much good in the world to therselves nor no
body else.
1 don’t tdievo in people rnnnin stat k motli
rr mad aliout politics nother. There lias
licet) times in this country when it was per
fectly riqdit er.nuoh for common people not
to trouble therselvrs much about politics—
the principles and policy of our government
was pretty well settled by the wise and pa
triotic men who built it up, and it was only
necessary then for the people to go to the
polls and put in tlier votes for the men who
they wanted to carry out them principles,
and who they could trust with the powers
of the government without fear of treachery,
ibit things has tuck a monstrous change in
llie last few years. To be sure, the same
patriotic Whig principles still exist, and are
upheld hy some of the greatest men in the
country —the good Harrison, on his dyin hed,
wished them to he understood and carried
out, and Mr. Clay has stuck up to ’em all
his life—hut the country is full of political
blacklegs, humbugs, demagogues, loky fit
kies and scheemin traitors of all sorts, grades
and characters, who are jined together in
one common effort to git the government in
to tlier own hands, so they can divide the
plunder amotig therselves—and my opinion
is, its the duty of every hottest man who
loves his country to come out boldly and
take his stand agin sicli a dratted set o’
scamps, and to give his heart and hand to
the support of the gallant old Farmer and
Statesman of the West, Henry Clay. But
I will give you more of my ideas on that
subject some other time. I want to tell you
Imvv your declaration of independence has
tuck in Pineville.
We was jest done supper and was all set
tin round liie fire when Cato biung the Mis
cellany from the post-office.
Now, Joseph,” ses Mary, “read all the
pretty pieces to ns.”
Well, I spread it all out before me, and
jest as 1 always does, looked at the editorial
first. The first thing that luck nty eye was
the name of “ Henry Clay,” in big letters,
right under the pictur. “Hello!” says I,
pretty loud, to myself—l was tuck com
pletely by surprise, and it was more’ll a
minit before I could see into it—
“ Come, Joseph, why don’t you read to
us?” sed sister Calline, who was workin
gir.ger-bred work round the tale of one of
the handsomest little flocks I reckon you
ever did see.
‘'Yes.” Mary, • fpr I know there's
a pretty story in the Miscellany- Why, vvliat
are you npenin your eyes at so? 1 ’
“Good as wheat! good as wheat!” ses
I, shaking the paper over niy lieadj “ Hur
ra for Clay 1 hurra for the Miscellany, and
down with the Loky Fokies!”
“ Why, what upon yeath’s broke loose
now ?” ses old Miss Stallions, ruisin her eyes
from her nil tin. “ What's Mr. Clay dope
to the Loky Fokies 1”
“ Hurra for Clay and the Country ” ses
I; “the Miscellany’s come nut for Clav !”
“ Then he’ll he elected,” ses Miss ive
siah, “ won’t lie ]”
“ To he sure lie will,” ses 1.
“ Oh, I’m so sorry they’ve went and turn
ed the Miscellany into a political paper,”
ses Miss Calline. “ Now, we won’t have
no more of them pretty stories and pretty
pieces to read.”
“ Yes, you will,” ses 1, “the only differ
ence will be, there will be Whig politics in
it too. But the paper will be ten tunes as
■uterestin as it was afote.”
“ Well, I do bominate politiclea off the
2’eath,” ses old Miss Stallions. “ There's
old Nippers, the most oudacious old, pest in
the world, and he’s for ever talkin. bout pol
iticles. In your father’s time he used to
come to our house and quarrel with him ev
ery day bout politicles. He used to cus Mr.
Calhoun and his nnty Tariff, and all his re
lations and friends, and used to say that all
*he Stales Rights men and Nullifiera ought
In he hung up on the highest trees, and all
that— and two or three times it was as much
33 1 could do to keep your father off the old
sarpent—and only a month ago, wasn’t he
gwine all about with a bundle of Milledge
'ille Union papers in his pockets, tryin to
make Governor Crawford out a abolitionist,
and all that, and tellin people’s niggers that
they was fiee under the law—the oudacious
old scamp—and hurrain for Calhoun and
Cooper like all possessed 1 Oh, I don’t
blieve in no sich old wngabones nor ther
politicles neither.”
“ Yes, but mother,” ses I, “ that’s Loky
Fokyism—that aitit Whig politics, not by a
long shot.”
“Well,” ses she, “I don’t want nothin
to do with no Loky Fokies, if they’s all like
old Nipper.”
I soon spluiued to the old woman the dif
ference tween Whig politics and old Nip
per’s Loky Fokyism, and after I red the
story about the “ Orphar. Twins” fothe galls,
and set ’en. all a cryin two or three times,
they was all better pleased with the Mis
cellany than ever.
In the innitiiu 1 went over to town and
thar wns cousin Pete and old Nipper nma
tin away at a monstrous rate agin the Mis
cellany. Cousin Pete sed heal ways thought
you was a dratted Whig, and now lie know’d
you was, and sed he was gwine to stop his
paper rite off'. Old Nipper said you was
bribed by the Aristocratic Clay Federal
Abolition Anti-Republican Whig Bank,
and that the Miscellany shouldn’t never go
into his house agin, under no consideration.
All your other subscribers here say they
like the paper a monstrous sight better than
they did afore. You may put me down for
two papers, and don’t forgit to send the
Miscellany to the new subsciibcrs what I
have sent you, they’re al! Whigs and just
as good as wheat. I’ll send you some more
in a few days. Hurra for the six C.’s—
Clay, Country, Constitution, Commerce,
Currency, and that same old Coon ! !
No more from
Your friend til death,
JOS. JONES.
P. S. Who upon yeath told you all about
that Carloo scrape we had here last spring 1
1 never was so ’stonished in my life as
when l saw that piece in the Miscellany.—
We’ve all been tryin to keep that thing a
secret, jist for the credit of the town, but
somebody’s gone and leaked it all nut.—
Well, we deserved to be laughed at for
niakin sich fools of ourselves. I will try
to write you a better letter next week—my
hand’s been out so long it comes soit o’
awkward to me.
Mas©©Hl®ie.jo
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Friday, Dm ember 1, 1813.
f OR PRISIEOTj
[MI IE MOS Y (OLAY s
The Parmer rs Ashland’’ the American
Patriot, Statesman and Orator.
FOR CONGRESS,
GEN. DUNCAN L. CLINCH.
[Election on the first Monday in January. ]
THE WHIG NOMINATION.
Second only to the gratification of un
furling the banner of the great American
Statenian and Patriot, is tie pleasure we
feel in inscribing upon it the name of the
gallant soldier and amiable gentleman who
has been put in nomination by the Whig
Party to fill the vacancy in our Congression
al Representation. General Duncan L.
Clinch needs tio panegyrist in Georgia.—
He is ton well known and appreciated hy
the people, for every noble and manly qual
ity, to be eitbpr in need of the praises of his
friends of in fbar of the detraction of his
enemies. Huzza, then, sot the “ Volunteer's
Friend,” the gallant old Hero of th> vVith
lacooc’nee ! With thousands Georgians
we have stood by him ’.n j'ne hour of peril,
nnd, now, with teni of thousands, we will
sustain him v.t <J,ie strife for victory over
politic** 1 , enemies!
e have heard but one expression in re
Pcrcncc to the nomination of Clinch,
and that is, universal approbation. Identi
fied with the sea-board section of our State,
no man enjoys a tpore cprdial popularity
throughout upper (Georgia. A firm and
unwavering. Whig, lie is entitled to the full
est confidence of his party, while he pos
sesses nil the requisite qualification of an ef
ficient and able representative.
THE LEGISLATURE.
In another column will he foqnd'a synop
sis of the Bills passed. It will be seen that
the hill to altei the Constitution so as to re
duce the number of representatives has
passed both branches of the Legislature by
a large majority. This measure will be
hailed hy the people as an omen of better
days—hy it not only will the expenses of
our State Legislature he greatly reduced,
hut we shall have better laws and i;ewer of
them. Heretofore, we have not only had
too much government but we have been
governed too much for our good. Would
it not he well in framing the law to carry
out this measure, so to arrange our elec
tions as to do away with the necessity for
3Dut*m mm it sa a ®is il
our January elections for County Officers I
We are burthened with too many elections,
and while we are retrenching, why not re
duce them as well as the number of ofliceis
to be elected 1 We see no reason why
County Clerks, Sheriffs, Receiver of Tax
Returns, Collectors, Surveyors, &c. could
not all be elected at the same election at
which we elect our Governors, Congt ess
men and members of the Legislature. By
such an arrangement, there would he no
occasion for calling the people out in Jan
uary, the most inclement season of the
year; and the public mind would be allow
ed to enjoy some degree of repose. As it
now is, we have hardly got the returns of
one election before we are called upon to
decide another, and what with the regular
State elections, county elections and elec
tions to fill the vacancies, the public mind
is kept in one continual ferment. There
are many evils growing out of this system,
which we need not enurrieinte, and it has
occurred to us that while engaged in the
work of reform, our good Whig Legislature
which has already proved itself capable of
the accomplishment of great things, night
so adjust matters as to relieve the people of
a burthen so onorous. Our suggestion may
or may not bo thought worthy of considera
tion.
1 be bill alteiing the Constitution so ns to
give the election of general offices of thc
Militia to the people, and the bill repealing
the fi mr months’ Justices’ Court law passed
last year, (that great and wise relief meas
ure of the session) have both became laws.
No other important measures have been
finally acted on. Several important bills
are in ptogress before the Legislature, and
the messages of Governor Ci a wford, on sev
eral important subjects, afford the best as
surance that the public business will not be
retarded, nor the interests of the State neg
lected, for want of the prompt and efficient
eo-oneration of an able Executive.
LOCO FOCO INCENDIARYISM REBUKED.
Our readers will recollect that just previ
ous to the last election a tiemendous ado
was made about “ Mr. Crawfotd’s Law” hy
the editors of the “Federal Union” and
one or two other Locofoco papers in the
State. The “Federal Union” was partieu- ,
larly industrious in exciting the fears of the
people in regard to the design and opera
tion of this obnoxious law, which the edi
tors did not hesitate to pronounce “the
most stupendous scheme for the amalgama
tion of colors and the emancipation of
slaves that had ever been devised this side
of the Potomac.” His article on that sub
ject—which he gave two successive inser
tions in his paper, and published and circu
lated all over the State in an immense num
ber of extras—was headed, in large letters,
“ Mr. Crawford’s Law setting free five thou
sand Slaves in Georgia, and giving them the
rights of citizenship,” and he went so far as
to declare to the people of Georgia, that
under that law a certain class of their slaves
ire re legally fee, and entitled to the rights
of citizenship. Well, as a matter of
course, no honest Locofoco could rest while
such a law disgraced tie statute hook, and
at the present session a hill was flamed and
brought forward to repeal this vile Law.
This hill came up, on its final passage, on
Fiiday last, when, upon the yeas and nays
being called the vote stood—Yeas FOIJR,
qay-a 161! Now, what are we to infer from
(his ?—that we and our institutions are sold
to the Philistines hy our own representa
tives—or that all this hue and cry abc
Mr. Crawford’s law was but a incen
diary attempt to excite the fe'. rs 011( ] delude
the minds of the pccp' e? We would
manifest a want t,f ~e 9pect f nr , he g(lot ]
sense of our readers were we to urgf thv
latter < 'T,ncj us i on- Four mortal Lncofbcos
0I ‘ y were found to record- there names
against that infamous law—Messrs. Cannon,
of Gilmer, Rowe, of Meriwether,
and Tittle. The latter gentleman is one <>f
the illustrious trio, who, last year, voted for
a lull entitled, “ A hill to grant the light of
cit izenship to certain free persons ts color.
and their descendants, and to remove their
legal disabilities.” Mr. Crawford’s law was
framed to prevent “ free persons of odor”
from exercising the rights of citizenship in
Georgia. No wonder, then, that it teceived
the opposition of Mr. Tittle. We have
not the same reasons for supposing that the
other gentlemen were actuated hy a similar
sympathy for *• free persons of tolto:,’.’. and
being unwilling to attribute it to them with
out evideuce, or to do them such great in
justice as to suppose, for one moment, that
they could possibly he gulled into a belief
of the ridiculous assertions of the editor
of the “Federal Union,” we areentirely at a
loss how to account for their vote. Perhaps,
they ate opposed to one-sided legislation,
and despise to be unanimous on any subject!
fly We understand that Col. AnderJCW
W. Redding, Representative from Harris
County, has been appointed by Governor
Crawford, Principal keeper of the Peniten
tiary, \n place of General C. H. Nelson, re
moved. -
fly Hon. Howell Cobb, of Georgia, and
Hon. Dixon H. Lewis, of Alabama, passed
through our town on Tuesday last on their
way to Washington City.
COTTON MARKET.
The sales of the week, ending yesterday
evening, amount to 9GI bales, at prices as
follows—4 at 4| —3 at 5—3 at 5£ —4 at 5$
—l2 at 6—5 at 6J—4O at at 6jj—B2
at 6J—l7 at 65—161 at at 6-SO—
-93 at 6£—l’ at 6-93—361 at 7—79 at 7 1-16
59 at 7J—3 at 7 3-16.
The w eather of the past week has been
very inclement, highly conducive to rheu
matism and muddy boots. We have not
therefore circulated as freely in Beavertail
os is our wont, or mixed “on ’Change”
sufficiently to catch the tone of the buyers
and sellers. We have heard of some
“ Cottons” that have been sold at 10 cents,
payable on the election of Mr. Van Bitten ;
indeed, we have heard belter prices offered
on the same terms, though we think the ac
tual sales given above a better criterion of
the market. The truth is, we have nothing
setinusly to say about the market, mote
than what our figures speak fm themselves.
The following extract of a letter to one of
our planters, dated Liverpool, 3d Novem
ber, contains the principal features of the
news brought by the Caledonia :
“ The quiet tone of the Cotton market
noticed at the date of our advices by the
last Steamer became more decided with in
creased anxiety to sell at a decline of § a be.
per pound from the highest point until re
ceipt yestetday, of letters by the “Great
Western” generally rating the yield of the
crops below previous estimates. The effect
has been a withdrawal of many parcels from
the market, and a better demand having
sprung up, the decline has oeeti partially re
covered.
“ It is thought ourreceipts next year from
the East Indies will be the
quality improved; hut as we seWwhing to
interfere with the now healthy course oftrade
in this country, we have full confidence in
some improvement on present prices, w ith
occasional fluctuations, being maintained by
tbe necessary demands for consumption, if
von are satisfied that the supplies into tbe
United Kingdom from tbe United States
will not much exceed a million of Bales.”
DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.
We have been irifnimed of a most dis
tressing occurrence which took place on
Sunday last, near the plantation of Mr. Thad
deus B. Reese, in this vicinity. Mr. Lane,
Ihe overseer of Mr. R. with his mother-in
law and two children, were conveying to
the burial place the corpses of his infant
twins, when the horse which drew the vehi
cle took ft ight. In Lis efforts to restrain
the horse, Mr. Lane was thrown out and
his leg, which had become entangled in the
wheel, dreadfully crushed and mangled
from the knee downwards, his molho.r-iti
law was killed and the children more or
less injured, though we believe not serious
ly. We know not when we have heard of
a calamity more truly lamentable, or that is
calculated to awaken a deeper sympathy fin
the afflicted. Mr. Lane is a worthy, indus
trious young man, upon whom this misfor
tune will fall heavy indeed.
Since writing the above, we have learned
more of Mr. Lane’s truly deplorable situa
tion. Crippled, perhaps, for life, his fami
ly are, in addition to their severe affliction,
in a destitute condition, worthy objects of
the charitable sympathies of the benevolent.
Some effort lias been made to relieve them,
and we ore requested to 6ay that any contri
butions which their neigltlxtis and. UVlovv
citizens may he disposed to Ynijke will be
transmitted to them, if \c r IX Bt t fc e store of
Messrs. T. B. Rp* JS q ()
IMPORTANT LEGAL DECISION.
I i.e absurd and arbitrary post-office laws
now in force, and of which the people in
cessantly complain, are fast working their
own cure. It has been the custom for
some time past, among the merchants, and
business men of the large cities, in order
1,0 avoid the extravagant rales of postage
charged upon letters containing one or more
pieces, to send them hy private carriers, as
gackages of ft eight. An action was recent
ly brought against Adams & Cos., carriers
between New York and Boston, for a vio
lation of the post-office laws. The defend
ants proved that they carried nothiug but
“ packages and parcels,” tfie contents of
which they had no right to know. The
verdict was “for the defendants, the Ju/y
notfinding any law applicable to the cose.”
Thus, letters may he carried out of the
mail, hut they must he enveloped in a pack
age, and be called “goods” or “samples,”
or anything you please but letters. The
Nevi( York “ Express” remarks—” We
would not give much for the post-office rev
enue between large towns after this decis
ion gets abroad—for who will pay four or
five dollars postage on a parcel of letters,
when they can be legally sent as freight, for
25 cents 7” We apprehend Congress will
take the matter in hand early io the session.
The Post-Office Department, under its pres
ent regulation, has become extremely odi
ous to the people, and will become a bur
then to the Government unless the system
is materially reformed.
A bet of $5,000 has been uJJered in Rich
mond, Va., on Mr. Clay’s being elected
President if he runs. It has not been ta
ken.—Huntsville Advocate.
Nor will it be hy any man in his
senses. One might he persuaded to risk
his money upon a mud-turtle against a loco
motive, but betting on a loco foco against
Harry of the West is quite another sort of
a venture.
(E?* The “ Jeffetsonian,” speaking of the
Democratic nominee for Congress, says—
“ In addition to the ‘.nany other excellent
qualities,of which we might speak, (hereisa
patriotic chivalry, if we may use the term,
in the tone and bearing of Gen. Sanford,
which Americans must ever admire, and
which would make him a highly acceptable
and influential member of the popular
branch of the National Legislature.”
There is no question about tbe General’s
“ patriotic chivalry.” None who ate con
versant with the annals of tbe battle of
“ Leather’s Ford,” will, for a moment, hesi
tate to concede the editor’s assertion. Be
sides, there issome evidence of this fact to be
drawn from the well known similitude of
great minds, “if we may use the term.”—
History informs us that Caesar once ad
dressed the Roman Senate, on die achieve
ment of a gieat victoiy, in the following la
conic sentence: “ veni , tidi rici !” Our own
Perry, aftei his victory on Lake Eiie,
wrote —“ We have met the enemy and they
arc ours" —and so the gallant General, after
that signal exploit, the captuiing of some
twenty or thirty vagrant gold diggers, with
their spades, mattocks ami cooking utensils,
gave vent to his “ patriotic chivalry” in the
same remarkable words—“ we bare met tbe
enemy and they are oicrs /”
POST OFFICE REFORM.
A great meeting of the merchants and
business men of New Yolk was held in
that city on the 25th ultimo, at which the
following petition was adopted to he pre
sented to the next Congtess. As we have
said, the evils of our present post office
system are rapidly working their own cure.
Petition to tbe Senate and House of Repre
sentatives of tbe United States :
The undersigned citizens and payers of
Postage, respectfully represent ;
1. That the rates of postage now impos
ed by the government ate exoibitant, op
pressive to the people, and calculated to de
feat their avowed object of making the
Post Office Department pay its own expen
ses.
2. That tbe flanking privilege, as it is
now authorized and exercised, is unjust, un
equal, anti-republican, and ought to be ut
teily abolished, except as it may be expe
dient to allow it to cover the strictly official
correspondence of tbe Post Office Depart
ment itself.
3. That not one tliiid of the correspon
dence of the country now pay postage in the
mails, nor will it until the rates of postage
ate gieatly reduced, and the franking pri
vilege abolished.
4. That a uniform charge of five cents,
in advance, on tiach letter weighing not
more than half an ounce, anil of five cents
additional on every half ounce thereafter,
for all distances, would afford at least as
much revenue, and he vastly more benefi
cial to the public, than the present exorbi
tant rates.
5. That the present arbitiary, capricious,
and excessive charges on the conveyance of
printed matter, ether than newspapers, in
the mails, seem directly calculated to drive
away custom from the Depaitment, when
its plain interest should lead it to court and
attract business, as all of us are obliged to
do if we would live by it. We would
therefore, request the adoption <-,f tt unifotm
tate of postage of one-half cent on every
newspaper, pc*",nil,cal, or piinted sheet,
conveyed Vn ‘.,ic mail, when the postage is
paid in advance, and double that sum on
c'uch sheet which may he so conveyed, when
it is not so paid in advance.
6. That the reduction of our rates of post
age to sums computed, and payable in tbe
Federal currency of this Union, is demand
ed by a just regard to National character,
no less than to the obvious convenience of
tbe people.
7. That the penal enactments and denun
ciations, by which it is sought to compel
the. people to support the Post Office, when
tlifewown interest and convenience may be
better subserved without it, are absurd, ty
rcnical, inefficient for any good purpose,
and ought to be abolished.,
Wherefore, we entreat your honorable
bodies to take early, decided, and fficient
measures for the relief of the people fiom
the burdens under which they have long
gioaned, and which threaten the destruc
tion of the utility and solvency of the Post
Office, by the total withdrawal of the pub
lic confidence and patronage.
AN ELECTION
Writhe beld to-mmrovv (iSaUmlny,) ab the
usual place of holding elections in Mann’s
District, for Major to command tbe sixty
third Battalion Georgia Militia. [See order
on fourth page.]
CONVENTION OF CLAIMANTS.
Wm. Y. Hansell, Esq., President of the
Convention of 1842, lias issued a notice
calling a Convention of all claimants, agents,
and attorneys representing claims against
the United States, to be convened at the
City Hall, in the C' l )’ °f Washitfgtym. at 12
o'clock. M. on Monday, tho fjth of JBir
uaty, 1844. The object of the Convention
is to procure the organization by Congress
of a permanent tribunal for hearing and ad
judicating claims on the Government.
Of* The last ‘Officiary Harvester,” pub
lished in Hartford, Connecticut, republish
es our sketch entitled “The Mystery Re
vealed”—which fills four pages of that pe
riodical—without the slightest acknow ledge
ment of its source. We confess it is rather
a small matter to make a fuss about, but we
hold that the same principle is involved in
such petty lateetiy as in thefts (we mean
literary thefts) of greater magnitude. If
our story was worth copying it was also
woithy of tho customary “ credit.” We
hope the editor will bear this in mind in fu
ture.
C?* Hooper, of the ** East Alabamian,”
is one of the funniest fellows living. The
follow ing is his sppnitionment of the populci
party emblems. We would have liked it
better if lie Imd not given chanticleer bodily
to the Nullifiers. We think •• the rooster”
should he common property, and should ba
allowed to take up Ins lesidence in the vio
toiious emnp. We expect to have much
need of him ourself between this and No
vember next.
Party Emblem*. —Some democratic pa
per, discoursing lately about parly emblems,
gives to the Whig* the ‘Coon, and lakes for
the Locofocn party in general, the Coe*.
‘1 his is not altogether tight; and as we ate
in favor of “ fair play,” we insist on an
equitable division of the emblems. The
’Coon is, most unquestionably,’ Whig prop
erly, and though he does stroll o’ nights, oc
casionally—what of that 1 lie loves the
“stars” and affects the “ shipes ” upon hie
tail. A true Republican, he is found, W’e
believe, only oil the North American Cont : -
nent. He is a gallant fellow into the bar
gain, and whips a puppy at each paw, easi
ly ! And homely though his coat be,
worth money in the market. Give us the
’Coon by all means ! But the Lindenwnld
folks must let go the cock—lie’s none of
their’s—lie’s the exclusive property of tbeir
State Rights allit s. The Cock is vain of
his military clothes; flaps his wings like a
gasconading braggait; crows defiance to
the world ; and often rvnt at the jpinch /—-
Who shall say then that the Nullifying
Branch are not entitled to quarter him upon
their coat! As for the Van Burenites they
must content themselves with the Weasel
long ago presented to them, by Mr. Calhoun,
Let them take the Weasel —he's a stinking
little fellow, fond of creeping through
cracks, and none, therefore, may dispute
their title to him. He’sthevery animal, too,
that they wont at this particular juncture—
lie’s so good at thruttlirng Cocks, that we ate
certain they’ll find him useful.
mtn.
At the house of Dr. William Johnston, in this place,
on the 18th ultimo, of Pulmonary Consumption, Mr.
HUGH MONTGOMERY JOHNSTON, of the
County Firmanah, lieland.
Off’
Auction!
BY JAMES O'NEAL.
TIT ILL be sold at public outcry, on Tuesday nest,
” the s:h instant, at the store formerly occupied by
L. L Wittich & Cos. ns a Grocery Store, the (olio* 1 *
ing, union; other articles, v\a ;
6 kegs No. 1 White Lead,
5 boxes Tallow Candles.
4 Saddles ; Bridles and Bridle Mountings,
2 Double barrel Guns,
4 Pairs Pocket Pistols,
1 Lot Crockery—com-i*Ußgof Cups aud Saucers,
Plates, Pilchers, and Bowls,
r’ecenther 1. . v 1” 36
Groceries and Staple Goods.
AfRESH supply of the following articles has just
been received by the subscribers :
Bacon, Flour and Corn Meal,
Cheese, Rice and Molasses,
Sugars and Coffee—a fine lot.
Puddles, Bridles and all kinds of Leather,
Croekcry-Ware, of sll the common kinds ;
Hurd-Ware. Tools, M It Saws and Anvils,
New Calicoes,Ginghams, W’oolertGoods, Broad Cloths,
Kentucky Jeans Sattinets, Gentli men's Hata
and Caps; Youth's Hats and flaps;
Medicines, for Family use :
Linseed. Lair; 1 ,, and Tram Oils}
rrbi'e and Red Lead : *
Spanish Brown, Indigo, Madder and Coypeassj
Together with almost every other article commonly
used on plantations or in families.
Which we pledge ouiyelvee to sell at the’tuost reason-,
able prices. Call and see us !. fhtr stock of Goods is
Hist rate- JOHN ROBSON Se CO.
Georgia Rail Road Depot.
95” We are always prepared to pay the highest pri
ces for Cotton, paftK'ulari.y when Goods or Grocer
ies are wanted by the selleb. J. R. St Cos.
december 1 36
White Lead.
QA KF.GS No. 1 White Lead, for sale yerv low.
6V doermber 1. J H. WILLY.
Administrator’s Sl<\
AGREEABLY to as order of the Honorable Jnferi
-tl or Coutt of the County of Morgan, when sitting a*
b Court of Ordinary, will he sold on the frst Tuesday
in February next, before the Court Hotie door in ba
town of Aiadieon, the undivided hstf’nfThe Lot and
improvements on the SoHth corner of the square, in
said town, the property of the late firm of Porter &
Burney, it being the interest of William porter,, de
ceased. Terms on the dtty of sale.
JOHN W. PORTER. Administrator.
december b 36.
Admin strator’s Sale.
TIT ILL.be sold on the first Tuesday In February rear,
‘t before the Court House door in Eatontpn, Putnam
County, fifty acres of Land, being a psr| of Ifot-We,
57, in the 4th District originally Baldwin now Putngtp,
County, adjoining Lands of S.Walker Sntj r. S- Heart).
Sold as the property of Alexander Vass,deceased, fog
the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said estate.
THOMAS J. VASS, Administrator.,
december 1 36
Georgia, Morgan County
WHEREAS,, depths Ball and WilliamGTowell ap
” plies to me for Letters af Adtiiinistrntion oa thac
portion ol the estate of John Sidwelßlals of:said Coun
ty, deceased, w hich was not of by tHe last
Will and Testament of said deceased : 4 ‘
T hese ore, therefore, to cite and admonish aH and
singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased to
be snd appear at my office, within the yme .prescribed
by law-, to show cause, if any they have, why said let
ters should not be granted.
Given under my hand, at office, in Madison.
E- L. WITTICH, Clerk c.o.
december 1 4*36
Georgia, Morgan County:
Wil EREAS, Samuel Darden applies (o me for Let
ters of Administration upon the estate’of'John
Sid well, late of said County, deceased, .so.far only as
relates to the Negroes and other prdptrty W disposed
of by the Will of said John Sidwcll: ’*
These are, therefore, to cite ond admonish sll and
singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased to
he and appear at tny otjk'e, within the time prescribed
by law, to show cause, if aii/tHdyifpve, why said let
ters should not be granted. v
Given under tny hand; af office, in Madison.
E. L. WITTICIJ, Clerk c q,
december 1 ‘• - *^*?6
Morgan Sheriff’s Safek
WILL be sold on the first Tuesday in JiWIY
“ next before the Court House door, in the Town of
Madison, in ssid County, within the usual hours of
sale, the following property, vik t • • ■’
T'wo acre Ixtts, with the improvements (hereon, m
the town of BehohoihvjHp, levied on as the property es
Anderson W. Smith, by virtue of fifauK
sued from the Supsrfor Conn of MorgktiLoutitytlri nff-.
vor of R. H. H. Hester and Robert W. Smith, vs. Am*
derson W. Smith. Levy made by orderof Plaintiff’s
Attorney. J AS. O'NEAL, Deputy Sheiiff, -
decenther 1, *•’ . 4 \.-, *- v \ *• “ ■
Also, on the first Tuesday in Fpaintqry next;
One unfinished two-borse SiageCosdb, Uyted OB tit.
the property of Timothy Goodyear, hy virtue ofe BDHt
gago fi fa in favor of F, C McKiule*, tm TinupUiy,
Goodyear. Property pointed out in said 64*. *
JAS. O'NEAL, Dsputv Sheriff,
december 1 .’ , J*’