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MADISON, GEO :
Friday, December 29, 1843.
FOR PRESIDESTj
[KKIKmY ©LAY,
“ The Funner of Ashland” (he Ante?icon
Patriot, Statesman and Orator.
FOR CONGRESS,
GEN. DUNCAN L. CLINCH.
[Election on the first Monday in January. J
05 s * liev. Mr. Case will preach in the
Presbyterian Chureh, in this placp, on next
Sabbath morning, at 10 o’clock.
OUR HALF SHEET.
We hope none of our subscribers will be
so ungenerous as to find fault with us for
giving them only a half sheet this week. If
any mortal being on earth should he allow
ed a little hreath'ng time between Christ
mas and New Years—if any should be al
lowed time to draw one good long bieatb,
between the cessation of the duties oflhe
oid year and the commencement of those of
the new, it certainly is the printer, whose
incessant round of toil is never done, but as
days and weeks roll on, is only ended to be
begun again. It is a custom observed by
the city press to suspend their publications
for one or more issues, during the Holiday
week, in order to give those employed in
their publication an opportunity of partak
ing of the festivities of the season. We
are not, however, so extravagant in our de
sires. The issue of half a sheet will suffi
ciently lighten our weekly task, and we
trust we shall find our readers in such mer
jy good humor over their Christmas cheer
that they will grant us this indulgence with
out a mutmur.
THE ELECTION.
On Monday next the election for county
officers and one member of Congress will
be held throughout the State. \Y e need
hardly remind the \Y higs of Morgan that
this is an impottant election —important in
the bearing it will have upon the great
questions of National policy now agitating
the country, as well as upon the interes t and
honor of our county. In General Dun
can L. Clinch, we have a candidate who
stands above reproach in all the relations of
life, and a man richly endowed with all
those attributes of character and talent w hich
are requisite to render him an able and in
fluential representative in the council of the
Nation. Such a man, the people of Geor
gia should be proud to honor, and we feel
that we are but asking the Whigs of Geor
gia to confer honor upon themselves when
we call upon them to give him their cordial
support. His should he no meagre majoii
ty, but one that will tell abroad that Geor
gians know how to appreciate the brave, the
generous, and the good. To the polls,
t hen, Whigs of Morgan ! and on Monday
next let your whole strength bo recorded in
favor of your c n lidate.
We have said that the result of the
election on Monday will be important in its
bearing upon the interests and honor of our
county. So wili it. And every voter should
seal the responsibility which devolves upon
him in selecting such men to fill the respon
sible offices of the county ns are trust-wor
thy and capable. It is one of the beautiful
features of our system, that while the hum
blest among us are eligible to office, every
citizen is entitled to a voice in the election
of those to be clothed with official power;
and while this is borne in mind, it should
never be forgotten, that it is a duty commu
nity owes to itself to elevate only such as are
competent and worthy.
That man has too higlTan opinion of
himself who is only afraid of thunder Bnd of
ithquakes.
ADJOURNMENT OF THE LEGISLATURE.
Our Legislature adjourned on Satuiday
night last, at a few minutes before twelve
o’clock, after a session of forty-eight days ;
and considering that many important mea
sures were made necessary by reason of
constitutional amendments, and that pro
vision had to be made for two years, we
think the people of Georgia have reason to
be abundantly satisfied with the length of
the session. Os one thing we are confident;
it has been one of the most working ses
sions held for years. Upon the Whig par
ly was the responsibility—as they were in
majority in both branches of the Assembly
—and we are perfectly content to take the
verdict of the people upon their actings and
doings.
The Constitution has been amended, re
ducing the members for the future one-half;
the State has been divided into Congres
sional and Senatorial Districts, in a spirit of
fairness and liberality; provision has been
made for the poor and destitute to enable
them to be educated; the Appropriation
Bill has been pruned of many of its hither
to unnecessary excesses ; and while every
one who presented his claim, with proof of
its validity, has been promptly responded to,
waste ami extravagance has been avoided.
Ample provision has been made to pay
pioinplly, and in good funds, the interest
j on the public debt, and to sink the ptinci
[ pal at least fifty thousand dollars annually.—
| Already has the effect of these measures
been felt by the people. Central Bank
hills are at par for the first time for years;
State Stocks are rapidly advancing to pat
value; the credit of the State is put upon a
footing with that of any State in the Union, so
that her sons are no longerashamcd to stand
up anywhere in Christendom and proclaim
! themselves Georgians; and what is best of
all, these happy results have been accom
plished without, auy increase of taxation !
Will not the people natutally ask the
1 question. How have the Whigs managed to
| biing about these results? Why, reader,
simply by doing their duty, as men looking
more to the interest and welfare of the whole
i State, than to the momentary ascendency
of a parly to power. We know that our
Democratic brethren will attempt to mis
lead the people upon these subjects, by every
1 plausible pretext in their power; but one
tiling we are assured of, they will never be
able to convince the simplest intellect, that
some cause has not “been at work, when lie
j feels and knows, that a bit of paper, which
six weeks ago, w-as worth eighty-five cents,
has grown to adollar just lying in his hi eech
es pocket. This is a fact which will defy
i all argument.
Is not this regeneration of our State cur
rency alone a matter worthy the considera
tion of every Democrat in Georgia? The
Whigs closed their session in 1840 with
Cential money from 3 to 5 per cent, dis
count ; the Democrats carried the State in
IS 11, and the money commenced a decline
in vaiue, even before they assembled ; and
in 1842 they left the Seat of Government
growling at the necessity which compelled
them to baiter their pay at 40 percent dis
count for good money. The Whigs can ied
the State at the lust election, and it took an
upward tendency the moment the fact was
known, and the session closed with the
money at jiar. There is no theory in this
—they are facts, which every one linows
to be true. We call, then, upon eveiy man
who loves Georgia and che ishes her good
name as a jewel above price, to come out
on her side, and go with the party that has
never yet lost sight of her true interests: and
we know of no better time to commence
this good work, than the approaching New
Year—a good resolution may then he
Clinch'd, and an earnest given of a politi
cal leformation which shall redound to the
honor and prosperity of our State in all
after time.
NEW YEAR’S ADDRESS.
Our Carrier will visit his patrons and
friends op New Year’s morning, with a
shining face and buoyant spirits, to serve
them with his annual lay and to wish them
the bountiful blessings of the new year.—
We may add, that his joy on the occasion
will be much enhanced by their liberality.
Remember the old adage—” give the Devil
his due I”
Wo are indebted to Hon. Howell Cob
for a copy of the Appendix to the Con
gressional Glolie, containing the Reports of
the Secretaries of the Treasury, War and
Navy, and of the Post Master General.
MADISON, MORGAN COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 29, 1843,
major Jones’ popularity abroad.
Apprehending that our friend Major ,
Jones does not see the New Yoik papers, I
and not doubting but that—like other men |
of genius—his organ of approbativeness is j
large, we have thought proper to extract for j
his benefit, and the gratification of his mi- j
merous fiien'ds, the following highly com
plimentary introduction to one of his letters, j
which we find in the New York “ Spirit of
the Times.” We do not know how the !
Major takes such things, but we are certain j
that if we were to receive such a breeze of
adulation from such a source, we would not 1
he able to sleep o’ nights for a calender
month at least. We expect to learn in the j
Major’s next letter that his family had to
“ sit up with him” on the night after the J
reception of this paper.
We will add, for the Major’s information,
that h:s “ writiris” are acquiring a very gen
eral circulation, both at home and abroad.—
We meet them in many of the best papers
of the country, and have heaui them extoll
ed by ladies of the most fastidious taste. —
We hope he will hear in mind that “there
is a tidein the affairs of men,” and that he will
not neglect to take it “at the flood.”—
Who can tel! what “ glorious fortune” is in
store for him, should he continue to press
on in his literary pursuits! We hope, how
ever that he will not permit himself to be
seduced away fiom the columns of the
“Miscellany” by any liberal offers which the
editor of the “Spirit,” or those of other
Northern papers may make for his contri”
lint ions. We feel that we have a joint prop
erty in the Major’s popularity, inasmuch
as we vveie the first to introduce him to the
public, and we would not like now for oth
ers to reap the harvest of his fame.
Getting on of Ma jor Junes’ Courting. —
We would walk five miles “like all wrath’*
to shake hands with the writer of the fol
lowing letter. And if we did not succeed
in procuring an introduction to Miss Kesi
ah or Miss Carline, we would bet long odds
we secured anew correspondent for the
“ Spirit of the Times.” If the writer—of
whose identity we liavenot theleast “notion”
—should chance to see this paragraph at an
early day, we shall esteem it a particular
favor if h“ will communicate to us, in .sea
son, the precise town an county of Georgia
in which “the galls are gvvine to hang up
their bags” at the ensuing “Ciismus.” As
we are pretty sure to be thar, lie will con
fer an additional obligation by suggesting
ti, his sisters-in-law, that the altitude of the
bag lobe bung upon this occasion should be
increased “ about a feet ;” —something be
tween a lamp post and a lightning-rod would
best suit “this child.” We are as anxious
“ as the mischief” to know our fate in the
premises.
(Ur 3 The Editor of the Fort “Gaines
Whig” publishes Major Jones’ Letter, No.
26—in which the Major relates the “cir
cumstance” of General Clinch’s generosity
in dividing his rations with the. volunteers—
with the following prefatory remarks. The
Editor, Mi. Wilson, was a member of the
same corps with the Major, and, like all oth
ers whose good fortune it was to be quar
tered at “Lang Syne,” lemembers with
gratitude the kind hospitality of its brave
and generous proprietor.
“ Below is a letter from Maj. Joseph
Jones, an intimate acquaintance and occa
sional correspondent of the Madison Mis
cellany. The Major is a queer customer;
but queer and old fashioned as he is, lie
deals in that valuable and (we are sorry to j
say) scarce commodity called truth. YVe j
stood side by side with the Major, when, af
ter setting aside his rank, he had enlisted ;
ns a ‘high private’ in a corps of volunteers.
YVe considered it honor enough to he n
member of such a corps. True, as the Ma
jor says, * there was plenty officers along
that day didn’t rare a tinker’s cus whether
the men staived to deth or not, so ther was
enough left alive to keep the Indians ofl’l
’em ;’ but with one exception they did not j
belong t o our crowd.
‘ The Major does sheer justice to the j
brave, the noble, the generous Clinch. His
plantation at Fort Drane wasdepopnluted—
pigs anti poultry were slaughtered, and eve
ry thing that his plantation afforded was
furnished at liisown expense, (and no trifling
expense either) to feed hundreds of hungry
volunteers. We have a vivid recollection of
a long pine table, and cheer such as is sel
dom seen in camps, at a time when the
troops marched some twenty seven miles
on empty stomachs. YVho furnished it,
Major? YY 7 us it the Commissary? Dili
Uncle Sara settle for that ration 1 No. I
hoar you say, it was GEN ERA L CLINCH.
Well may • the boys’ love him. Without
• seeking the bubble reputation,’ and with
out a thought of aught but his country’s
good and his country’s honor, he dsred—
not only the ‘ cannon’s mouth,’ —but more,
the dangers, the fatigues and untold priva
tions of Indian campaigns in the wilds,
swatspe, hammocks, and fastnesses of Flo
rida. He led —and every volunteer gloried j
in following where he chose to lean. But !
we detain the reader. Let the Major speak \
for himself.”
COTTON MARKET.
The sales of the week ending last even
ing, amount to 660 bales, at prices as fol
lows—2 at 6jj—3 at 6jj—2 at 6% —20 at 7
21 at 7J—26 at 7i—23 at 7jj—ss at 7-70—
7at 7-65—46 at
S6 at SJ—74 at BJ—5 at Bg—7 at B.J.
The following extract from a Liverpool let
ter to a planter in our county, dated 4th in
stant, gives, we think, a very favorable ac
count of that maiket. Those who believe
with us, that the crop will fall short of even
the lowest estimate given, will look with
confidence for an advance upon present
prices.
“ In the early part of last, week consider
able activity prevailed in our Cotton mar
ket, anticipating decisive accounts by the
Steamer as to the extent of the crop, and
|d per pound advance was obtained on cur.
rent descriptions. It does not appear, how
ever, that any serious injury has been done
by frost so far, and, in consequence, the
speculative demand has subsided for the
present —hut there continues a steady de.
maud for consumption at full prices. ‘ The
still large stock here, and approaching the
advent of the new crop, will tend to check
early improvement; hut with an active H ade
in the country after the turn of the year,
which we confidently look for, for we have
a favorable opinion of prices eventually
ruling higher, even with a crop of two mil
lions of bales. The general impression
here is, that it will range between 1,800,000
and two millions. Any material difference,
when better ascertained, will influence prices
accordingly.”
MAN KILLED ON TIIF. RAIL ROAD.
Mr. Thomas Harper, of this county, was
killed on the Georgia Rail Road, on Satur
day last. Mr. H. was subject to fits, and is
supposed to have fallen on the track where
he remained until the freight train, which
passed the spot about eight o’clock in the
morning, passed over his body. Owing to
a curve in the road, or some other cause, ho
was not discovered until it was too late to
prevent the train from running upon him.
ft/ 88 In our last “ Miscellany” vve stated
j that “ Mr. J. R. Ingersoll, of Pennsylvania,
the gentleman who aspires to be the ‘big
mogul’of the locofoco party in Congress”
had introduced a resolution in favor of tax
ing tea and coffee. In this we committed
nil error by mistaking the name of Mr. J.
R. Ingersoll for that of Mr. C. J. Ingersoll.
We owe the former gentleman an apology,
not for attributing the resolution to him. (for
we do not hesitate to say that we would vote
for such a tax, while there exists a deficit in
the revenue under the present tariff of du
ties) hut for insinuating that he is a locofoco.
YVe desire to call no man out of his name,
and the last thing we would do. would be to
cast such an aspersion upon any honest
Whig. We will endeavor in future to bear
in mind that there are two Ingersoll’s from
Pennsylvania, and that while one of them
is a renegude and apostate, the other is a
good YY’hig and true.
CANDIDATES FOR THE COUNTY OFFICES.
The following is a list of all the Candi
dates for the County Offices :
For She, if.
HILLIARD M. HARRIS,
JAMES O’NEAL.
JOHN S. WALKER,
RICHARD J. YVILLirf.
For Cleric Superior and Inferior Courts,
JOHN C. REES,
ERNEST L. YVITTICH.
For Receiver of Tax Returns,
BENJAMIN YV. BEARD,
JOHN R. HUBBARD.
For Tux Collector,
THOMAS V. ALLEN,
JOHN LAUNIUS.
For County Surveyor,
YVILLIAM L. WEST.
For Coroner,
RICHARD DOWNS.
Tuesday last, the Governor com
municated to the General Assembly the re
signation of Gabriel Nash, Esq., the lately
elected Solicitor of the Northern Circuit;
and on the same evening, Lucius J. Gar
trill, Esq., of Wilkes, was elected to fill the
vacancy.
CONGRESS.
YY r e have no news from Congress. The
members are keeping the Holidays, by
snoring the old year out anil nodding the
new year in. They will hardly go earnest
ly to work till 1844.
07- A recent arrival ut New York brings
intelligence that a Constitution had been
prepared in St. Domingo similar to that of
the United States.
(ff” One of the Dublin editors lias been
indicted by the British government for pub
lishing from the New York Sun, the Re
peal speech of Robert Tyler, Esq.
(t/ 8 * A cotton factory has been established
in St. Louis. Others we see are daily
springing up in different parts of the South
and West. The Tariff is working out the
regeneration of the land.
(£/*• The Editor of the Eufalia “ Shield”
was presented on the 12lh instant, with
“ fine, large, richly flavored straw-berries,”
being the second growth this year.
A plough to dig potatoes was shown
at the Ameiican Institute, recently, which is
represented as capable of uprooting six
acres or 1,500 cr 2,000 bushels per day !
Q 7“ The Creek Indians have passed a
law expelling all white men from the limits
of the Nation who play at cards, whether
they have Indian wives or not.
fl^ 8 ’ A line of steamers is about being es
tablished in Richmond, Virginia, to run
from that city to New York. Passengers
will be taken from Richmond, Petersburg
and Norfolk to New York for $lO.
(L^ 3 The abolition vote in Ohio at the late
election was 7,480.
(L/- Bishop Onderdonk, of the Episcopal
Church, New York, receives a salary of
nearly seven thousand dollars per annum.
(U 3 It is stated that there are in the Uni
ted States, at the present time, 650 clergy
men of the Universalist denomination—
-1,000 societies and 700,000 private mem
bers.
(t/ 3 Major Noah boasts that of the im
mense number of Jews in the city of New-
York, not one has ever demanded aid as a
pauper from the overseers of the poor.
YVe give below on extract from the
Washington Correspondent of the L T nited
States Gazette, one of the few writers from
the Capitol whose letteisare entitled to cred
it. and worth the time spent ill the perusal.
He refers in the extract to our able repre
sentative, Mr. Stephens; end we are well
convinced that the character which has gone
in advance of him to Washington, will be
more than sustained, should Jiis health per
mit him to do justice to himself. He is a
man whom Georgia may well he proud to
send forth to represent the interest of the
State, and who will not fail to do
great credit to her. Our only fi-ar is that
he will not be able, owing to bis feeble con
stitution, to exert the powers of his mind to
their full extent. — Columbus Enquirer.
‘• I have scarcely bad an oportunity yet to
form an opinion as to the amount of talent
in the House, hut have seen enough to know
there are those in the body, as usual, who
come here sadly afflicted with the cacoethes
loquendi. One or two have already estab
lished their characters as talkers, and can
even now, scarcely obtain a hearing from
the House.
“ There is a member here from Georgia,
whose feeble health has prevented him from
taking his seat as yet, who is said to he a
most extraordinary man—not less so than
Mr. Prentiss of Mississippi. He is very
small, not weighing over a hundred pound-;
but be is all mind, and has been compared
to a diamond, whose casket was too slender
for its weight. I have great curiosity to see
and hear him. He is a whig; and to his
exertions and eloquence, it is said, we owe
the late levolution in his Slate. He is the
only member of the delegation from that
State. Whig or Loco, that believes they
have no right to ait in this Cnngioss. When
the important question comes up, we shall.
1 hope, hear him in defence of the single
district law.”
So lively was the competition in express
ing the message in Baltimore, that the edi
tors bad horses at the tailroad depot to car
ry it to their offices. Two of the riders ran
a little risk of theii lives. One of them was
thrown by his horse’s stumbling, but picked
himself up and footed it bare-headed to his
destination. The other ran his horse full
tilt into a loaded wagon, which was knock
ed to pieces, while the rider was pitched
“ about a feet” into the gutter, and the
horse mortally wounded. This ridet, too,
picked himself up, collected his “traps,”
and went off again ala pas dc charge and
reached the Clipper office in safety.— Pic.
To do evil for evil, is human corruption;
to do good for good, is civil retribution; to
do good for evil js. Christian perfection.
W. T. THOMPSON, EHITOB.
The January Election. —The Whigs of
Western Georgia will do their duty in the
coming election. We feel fully authorized
to make this pledge in their behalf, to our
friends in other parts rtf the State, because
the result of the October elections bore
ample testimony to their zeal and fidelity,
and because we are sure that every occur
rence since that time which could have any
influence upon the approaching contest, has
tended rather to increase than to diminish
the zeal displayed on that occasion.
In regard to the contest for the sent
in the United States House of Representa
tives, we shall certainly expert a larger
majority for the Whig Candidate tl.ar, has
been received by any of those recently
elected. Gen. Clinch deserves sn over
whelming vote. He has claims upon the
people of Georgia of a high order. Apart
Irom his political principles, which associ
ate his name with that of our tiohlo leader
—apart from that thorough devotion to
those great doctrines and measures of the
Whig party, upon the success of which we
are dependent for national and individual
prosperity, the name of Duncan L. Clinch
is endeared to the hearts of thousands of
his countrymen, on account of lire arduous,
self-sacrificing and valorous services which
have f<n a series of years been promptly ren
dered by him in the dnys of t.ial and of
danger. Among the thousands who have
served at his side, or under his command,
in the defence and protection of his coun
try, the name of Clinch is indentifled with
every quality that makes up the fir m, decid
ed, energetic, humane and benevolent sol
dier—and not only among the people of his
own Slate, hut amidst the citizen soldiers
from other Stares, who rushed to the help
of Florida in her recent conflicts with the
savage Seminole, there is hut onefeeling to
wards the gallant old soldier, nrnl that is the
feeling of confidence, respect, and devoted
attachment. Long will we remember with
pride, the testimony of a gallant officer Horn
Louisiana, to the noble spirit of our whig
candidate. We were conversing with him
after his return from a six months’ four in
the swamps of that ill-fated territory, and
he was lecnouting to us the perils, battles
and piivntions of his brave little command.
“On one occasion, (said our friend) we
were on the point of starvation. We had
been tan days without bread, and our only
meat was the flesh of disabled horses, and
such roots ns we could pick up. We were
surrounded by the enemy, and hod otdy
three rounds of powdet end hall. In our
extremity we detailed six men to leave our
breast-work, under cover of the night, and
seak tilt; nearest military post, thirty miles
from us. 1 hey went and returned next
night, but brough us hail news. Our fellow
soldiers at that point, like nut selves, were
in extiemity, and were waiting with much
anxiety the arrival of stores and munitions
by the boat, which would probably not ar
rive before we all fell victims to the cruelly
of the enemy that now yelled and revelled
within long gun-shot of us.” How then did
you escape! was our anxious enquiry.—
“ Why, sir, we despatched another com
pany forthwith, as soon as night set in, to
find Gen. Clinch. We had heard of his
magnanimity, his courage, his kind-hearted
ness, npd we sent for him.” But what
could HO do for you! we enquired. “Do
for us—by heaven, sir, he called ne
groes and his neighbors and every body else
that could crack a whip or carry a gnn, and
sent us Ins whole corn-crih, butcher-pen and
smoke-house, powder, shot and all, and
came with it himself to enquireof ourhealth.”
This story of our fiicnd may have derived a
little romance from the enthusiasm with
which a grateful heart remembered the gen
erosity of a brave old soldier, but we doubt
not many similar incidents of disinterested
generosity could be gatlered up in the
eventful life of the hero of Withlacoochee.
But Duncan L. Clinch is more than a sol
dier. He is a statesman of no mean pre
tentions. His position in life has brought
him : n contact with the principal statesmen
of the nation. Withseveial of them he has
long been intimate; and he has not failed,
while imparting to others the knowledge of
military affairs, with which he is best ac
quainted, to gather up a store of the most
useful and practical information upon the
affairs of state. He is thoroughly acquaint
ed with the politics of the times, and would
go into the councils of the nation with a de
gree of influence, firmness and practical
good sense which few men carry to the
House. We are sorry that the opposition
did not for once act like men, and unite cor
dially in sending such a man, by a unani
mous vote, to the Hall of Represertatires.
He deserved this much of all parties; and
parties would have respected themselves
more hereafter had they rendered this just
tribute to his merits. But as party drill
and party policy has forbidden it, we tiuat
the Whigs of Georgia, to a man, stid all
un'rammeled Democrats, will unite in show
ing to the country, that they are able to
make a just discrimnation, while they with
hold their support from the Democratic
nominee, whose claims are purely and sole
ly of the narrowest party complexion; and
give a cheerful and hearty vote for ohe
whose services alike endeef him to all par
ties, and entitle him to be honored aim re
spected by all.— Columbus Enquirer.
Sf A communication on Mr. Reming
ton’s Inventions is excluded. .51., .