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volume 11. I JX, H©ws]psi]p©ir § 3Lii4®ira4Tiiiip© 9 Mssßaauna© <&©<> j number 40. BY C. R. IIANLEITER. S©n4lhi®ffm Mns©@llllaiimjo PUBLISHED EVERY F R I RD A Y MORNING AT THE VERY LOW PRICE OF TWo DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS PER ANNUM —ONE DOL LAR AND FIFTY CENTS FOR SIX MONTHS ALWAYS IN ADVANCE. 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., .