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Newspaper Page TextTHE sP3B2ffi\srsya 9 ■„ published ceery S.i 1 UHD.I Y.dfternoot, J Uu-Story Hoyden Building, nl the ■„ t tr of Walnut and Fifth Street, If THE CITT OF MACON, GA. gy # *• B. II iKKI«O!V. terjusT ■ tie Paper, in advance, per annum, $2. got paid in advance, $3 00, per annum, qjvertisemen ts will be inserted at the usual ~nl when the number of insertions de j,not specified, they will be continued un and charged accordingly, tfvert'.sers by the A ear will be contracted jjon the most favorable terms. jj.esof Land by Administrators,Executors ,fj.jn.s, are required by Law, to be held on in the month, between thehours | o’clock in the Forenoon and three in the non, at the Court House of the county in lbe Property is situate. Notice of these 311 st be given in a public gazette Sit ty Days dus to the day cf sale. rjjtes of Negroes by Administators, Execu (fGaardians, must be at Public Auction, on j ;S t Tuesday in the month, between the legal s ofsale,before the Court House of the county tithe LettersTestamentary,or Administration birdianship may have been granted, first giv ,„tice thereoffor Sixty Days, in one of the ,!ja*ettes of this State, and at the door of Cwrt House where such sales are to be held. yXoticc for the sale of Personal Property' lae given in like manner Forty Days pre b w the day of sale. rXotice to the Debtors and Creditors ol an es jinst be published for Forty Days. • Mice that application will be made to the Ls Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Ne imust be published in a public gazette in the ( f or four Months, before any order absolute kenven by the Court. {■Citations for Letters of Administration on jitite, granted by the Court ofOrdinary, must ijblisbed Thirty Days for Letters of Distnis jfromthe administration of an Estate,monthly gj Months— for Dismission from Liuardian -1 foity Days. jßules for the foreclosure of a Morttraue, (bepublished monthly for Four Months— (publishing lost Papers, for the full space of niMonths —for compelling Titles from Ex ists, Administrators or others, where a Bond been given by the deceased, the full space of m Months. [ B. All Business of this kind shall receive opt attention at the SOUTHERN TRIBUNE ee,and strictcare will he taken that all legal rertisernents are published according to Law. 3>\ll Letters directed to this Office or the Boron business, must he post-paid, to in i'attention. $J 01 1 rg . [FOR THE SOUTH EON TRIBUNE j THE STORM OP I.IPE. chill blast is howling aloud, e rain falls in torrents around, aore drear the sad thoughts that crowd rthe heart in sorrow now crowned. lyless, forsaken I roam, kind friend to cheer me conics near, way from my kindred and home, fauder—the child of despair. it! despair did I say ? Oil no, r a Father in Heaven 1 have, can say to the billows of wo i still." Thy friendship, kind Father I crave. herub babe is with Time now, fefroni the storms of life is he ; lcrown upon his lovely brow, He sweetly sings, and sntiles on me. ike courage then my drooping heart, Thy toils and cares will soon be o’er ; om earth's rude blasts thou wilt depart, And then thou’lt sigh and weep no more. DOROTHEA. political. [for the southern tribune.] "illllic South Dcfi iid her Mr. Editor :— I see from the tone of Wur editorials, that you, as well as the editor of the Constitutionalist, have almos t repaired of any effectual resistance on the part of the South, to the continued and wreasing aggressions on her rights by the Northern States. While 1 vill admit that I Ae late election of Delegates to the Nash ?l'!e Con •ention is well calculated to pro- | dice despondency on the part of those see with such clear perception not the outrages that are constantly heincr Perpetrated on our constitutional rights, i>ut the ultimate, tendency of such a course ofignoble "inactivity,” yet so well am I Convinced that the great mass of the people | & re 6till possessed of enough of that spirit l Chat actuated their sires in the achieve ment of their liberty, as will cause them to to arouse and make it manifest in the pre* Be rvation of that inestimable boon. ‘We must not give up the ship.” I tave adopted this motto and intend to act u - Dto it, and it is time we should look tiie present crisis full in the face, and speak ®ut fearlessly, as well with regard to its e! C‘gencies as its causes. 1 am satiated v 'ith long preambles and resolutions adopt at town meetings, resolving on resist *nce ,0 a ggression on Southern rights, ‘at 'nzards and to the Inst extremity,’ when P 'haps a large number of those voting for lr adoption, if pressed to define what mea » by resistance with a naiveness y to be looked for in a boarding school ; S ‘ W, N l °H you that our Representatives p" 8t res ' st by their voice and votes in n -> r ess a measure that they will readily 1° 60 w ' l '’ you is insulting and degrading ~~and of what avail is such resistance? NEW SERIES —VOLUME 11. Let us at once go to work and endeavor to understand each other. Let us have r.o more resolutions so ambiguous as to teem to meet the views of* all, when in reality the construction placed on them by some is so far from what is intended. I have, un til the last few months, thought that when we were speaking of resistance, we meant something, and did not suppose that any one who was subscribing to the doctrine, was advocating anything short of effectual resistance. I am well convinced that we need look for nothing like an honorable settlement of this difficulty by Congress. The North are determined to exclude us from all par ticipation in the common property of these confederated States, and any attempt by the present Congress to settle this question will result in a so called compromise, by which the South will be called on to sur render valuable rights, without one iota of consideration, but the delusive hope that she has purchased her peace. And shall the South accede to it l If she does, it is one more rivet in the fetters by which she is being bound, and will cause her the I greater effort to free herself, when at last she opens her eyes to her true condition, and makes theeff.rt to maintain her rights. Should we submit to further encroach ments ] What are we to gain by it ] Can any man be so deluded as to even hope that our oppressors will respect out- rights after we have cravenly yielded all power into their hands I If they now oppress us when they have barely a majority in Congress, what are we to expect from them when we have yielded to them un disputed control of the Government for all time to come? At what point shall we commence practical resistance ? If left to me I would say make California the test question, and on her admission under her present constitution, let us leave the con federacy and fall track on our original sove reignty. 1 mean a dissolution of this “glorious Union” which would exist only in name. But it is urged that it is a con stitutional measure, —if so, the Wilmot Proviso is also, for certainly the Congress acting as general agent for all the States, has as much if not more right to say what shall be the regulations within the limits of this domain, as an irresponsible body of squatters, who have no right or title to any portion of the territory, and who cannot have any political existence, unless it he proven that men have more than one such. Take the case of Thomas Butler King, we see him a member of Congress from Ge r gia and emissary of the Executive of the United States visiting California—Socn he is standing a canvass for the office of Senator from this so called State, defeated and 1 would add disgraced, he returns to the States and loses no title to citizenship in Georgia. Can it be contended that such a body have a right to do what tiie authorized agent of these States is denied the right to do ? But some even in the South admit the constitutionality of the Wilmot Proviso—To those I would only say read the last clause of the third section and fourth At tide of the Constitution : “The Congress shall have powerto dispose of and make all needful rules and regula tions respecting the Territory or other property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in lit is Constitution shall he so construed, as to prejudice any claims of the United Stales, or of any particular State.” Have the Southern States no claims that would be prejudiced by an act of Congiess prohibiting their citizens from going there with their property in slaves ? Most assu redly they have. But it is contended that if California is refused admission and a Territorial Gov ernment given her by Congress, that i l would not change the result—that she would still come forward with a Constitu tion prohibiting slavery—that the laws of nature has interposed against it. I say let us have a fair trial and let the Califor nians have fair and uncontrolled action— and as to these natural laws prohibiting slavery it is a humbug unworthy any intel ligent Southron, —and I confess it ever causes me to look on any Southern man with the utmost contempt, to hear him (whether wilfully or ignorantly) aiding and abetting our enemies by such absurd argu ments. After tbo General Government by its action lias driven these people to prohibit slavery or remain without any form of government, to attempt to prove it is nature, is absurd in the highest degree; and such language from the North is an insult to Southern intelligence, and is but another proof of the contempt in which we MACON, (GA.,) SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 18, 1850, are held by the Northern people, caused by our tame submission to their encroach ments— and to hear a Southern man using such language is like a fool proclaiming his own disgrace. When a man car. make from one to two thousand dollars per an num in California, to say that slave labor is not profitable, is indeed too ridiculous to he listened to by the most credulous. No Sir, this Government by its action has pre vented slaveholders from settling in Cali fornia, and now says nature has excluded them —and the people who claim to have 1 erected a State there, have not had fair and unbiased action—for they well knew that they never could be admitted unless they did prohibit slavery, for it is a fact clearly apparent to any man who will see t that it is the settled policy of this Govern ment, never to admit another slave State, and it had failed for two successive ses sions to give California a territorial gov ! ernment, solely because the North were determined to force the Wilmot Proviso on it Then I say that the present Consti | tution was formed with the knowledge that no other could give them admission. 1 liis of itself would be sufficient to justify the South to resist eveu to a dissolution of this Union, the admission of California as contemplated by her present Constitu tion. There are many other valid objec tions which will be readily suggested to the mind that looks to equality between the sovereign States, and consequently to Southern rights. But 1 fear that this thing of State Sovereignty is about to become an obsolete idea, and what met such deter mined and successful opposition in the earlier days of the Republic will be quiet ly consummated now after its old friends had given it over as hopeless, viz : a consolidation of this Government. If things are not tending to this, and that most rapid ly, then I confess we are in no danger, I see some most excellent suggestions in your paper, in reference to the course to be pursued by the slaveholding States, towards protecting themselves from North ern aggression. They are practical and 1 do most earnestly hope that they will be • aken bold of and carried into operation- We can yet legislate within our own State limits, and if we will carry out the sugges tions made by you, and also by a writer in ;n the Federal Union, signing himself “Warren,” we can do much towards con vincing our enemies that we are not yet enslaved or lost to all sense of insult and injury. But it will he urged that the Union would only exist in name. To that I would only reply by asking if it exists otherwise now 1 Is there anything of fraternal feel ing between the two sections ? Is there any harmony ? Is justice or equality pro moted ] 1 presume no man who has the rights or honor of his country at heart, or who could he insulted by having his nose pulled, will give any but an affirmative an swer to these questions. Then why delay longer our action ? Wait for a unanimity of sentiment is the cry. If we were to wait until the last link in the chain with which we are now being hound was forged, wo would not see that unanimity desired. I should certainly rejoice to see it, but it [s hoping against hope to expect it. There has ever been traitors and there ever will be—Our fathers had to contend against Tories in the days of the Revolution, when they were toiling for the very rights that we are so tamely surrendering now. They did it successfully. We may expect to have to do the same thing in any struggle we may make to preserve those rights ; and if we will go about it at once, and as the high-sou!ed Ramsay said in his speech in the last Legislature, “put them with our enemies and conquer them,” we wil] find them diminishing in numbers—hut as long as we court and cajole them we are but giving strength to our enemies. But some of the strongest friends of the South think the mass of the people are not sufficiently aroused to a sense of the danger to their liberties. This I do not believe; but grant that it is so, why do not those who do see it arouse them ? If it was a party conflict, mass meetings would be held in every direction. Why not hold a mass meeting at some conveneient point, say Atlanta or Macon, and I will warrant you will see the yeomaury of the country out in numbers that will deceive many of the submission men alias Tories. I would not he understood as applying that name to all those who do not rally now to the rescue,for many good and patriotic citizens are waiting to see if there will not be some adjust in wot, and think action now premature, but when they realize disap- j pointroent will come foward with zeal. ! For such I have respect much as I deplore their policy; luit those who can see no wrong inflicted on the South, who are con stantly using argument to excuse our ene- j mies, and denouncing all who are dis- j posed to defend the honor and rights of their country, as agitators, disunionists.and l raitors and using every effort to induce the people to Ire quiet and suffer them selves enslaved, I have no feeling but of loathing ; they are fit subjects for the yoke they covet so much, and if it could only fall on them would he well enough, hut they seek to involve all of us in their degradation. Is it not strange that people seldom ever discover that they are being enslaved until the fetters are rivited ? That “Eternal vigilance is the price of lib. erty” is as true as holy writ, and we, in stead of exercising that vigilance are in a lethargic slumber from which it is to be feared,we will not awake till we are slaves. Why, Sir, we are now being bound as fast as any people ever were on earth; still there are men who will laugh at such an asser tion, and point you to the fact they possess the patent to liberty in the elective fran chise. Do not the Irish vole for members to the British Parliament; hut of what service can their members be after they have chosen them ? SOUTHRON. From, the Augusta Constitutionalist. Monument to the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. The Legislature of Georgia at the Ses sion of 1847, appropriated fifteen hundred dollars for the purpose of removing the remains of the three signers on the part of Georgia of the Declararion of Indepen dence, to the city of Augusta, and of erec ting a m.onument to their memory. This sum was placed at the disposal of the City Council of Augusta to carry out the pur pose and to it that body added an appio priation from the city treasury of fifteen hundred more making the entire sum three thousand dollars. A contract has been made with Messrs Rigney and Hen dee, and is now in progress of fulfilment, for the erection of a monument of Granite, on Greene street opposite the City- Hall. We have been kindly favored by Mr. Conley, Chairman of the Monument Committee, with a view of the place, and permitted now to publish the specifica tions They are as follows: “Foundation to commence 7 feet below the top of the earth, to be 20 feet square at the base, and 15 feet square at the top, built with a good quality of building stone —the bottom course to he laid with large flat stone, all laid in cement. “The base to he 12 feet 8 inches square, and 2ft 2 inches high to the bed, imme diately on the foundation, from thence to have 21 solid blocks each 2 1.4 inches high ; top block to be 4 feet 9 inches high. The shaft to he 6 feet S inebessquare at the bot tom, and “ feet 4 inches at the top, when it commences to bevel off, all as per drawing. “All the outside of the stone to he cut similar to the front of Mechanic’s Bank.— The beds cut flat and solid, and laid with putty mortar, such as is usual for such stone work.” The entire height of the monument will be fifty feet, composed of a beautiful gra nite quarried in Oglethorpe County.— From the drawing we have before us as we write,we are prepared to say t hat it will present, when completed, a chaste and imposing appearance and be an ornament as well as an honor to our city. In the year 1848 the remains of Lyman Hall and of George Walton were re moved to the spot on which the monument is to be erected,and on the Fourth of July of that year the cottier stone was laid with Masonic honors. It is a source of universal regret that the remains of Button Gwinnett, the patriotic co-laborer of the above named revolutionary worthies, and co-signer of the Declaration of Inde pendence, are not destined to repose be neath the monument to be erected lo their common memory. He was buried in or near Savannah, but, though diligent en quiry has been made,the spot has not been identified. His ashes now mingle with the undistinguished dust of his mother earth. Misfortune of being in Advance ok the Age. —The disadvantage of being a few years in advance of the age is exem plified in the case of the eccentric Eng iiliman, who first introduced front China umbrellas among his countrymen. Be ing the first ever seen in that country, it attracted such curious and indignant noti ces that its owner was pelted with mud and other missiles in attempting to screen himself from the rain, which all true born Englishmen, from time immemorial, had allowed to beat upon them, without resistance,as the visitation of Providence,! Now none too poor to own an umbrella,or if that is saying too much,considering how many are stolen annually, none so proud as to be above its use.— Phila. Ledger. NUMBER 19. The LlieeiTtil Heart. “I cannot choose hut marvel at the way In which our lives pass on, from day to day Learning strange lessons in the human heart, j And yet like shadows letting them depart." j Miss London. llow wearily the little news boy plod- ■ ded along the deserted streets on that New ( Year’s eve ! —The cold rain was beating fiercely upon him, ami a few tattered gar- 1 ments served to protect him from its rage, j All day long had he been out amid the storm, and was now returning weary and hungry, to his humble home. The street: lamps were lighted, and as he passed by them, you could see by the gleam that his lace was pale and emaciated—could see that, young as he was, something had been there already to attenuate his features, and l give him that wan and desolate look which can he given only by some great affliction, some pinching want or overwhelming grief. \ou could tell at a glance that a dark shadow was resting upon his path way—a shadow out of which there seemed, just then, no hope of escape. Bom amid poverty and wretchedness, and left father less while yet in his cradle, his life up to that hour had been nothing but misery ; and the whole record of that life was whi ten in his pale face and tattered rags. Yet, with all ibis, as he passed along, a close observer might have noticed a strange light in his clear, blue eye —an expression of kindly cheerfulness, such as we may not often see in this world ofca e and grief ; for God’s blessing was upon him— the blessing of a cheerful heart. Thesor sow of his life, however deep and abiding the gloom upon his pathway, however dark and fearful,dimmed not the light that burn ed so quietly, and yet so steadily, within. Like the Vestal fire of old, it grew not dim, but threw its rays far out over the great gloom around him ; even now the cold storm beat upon him unheeded.— There are waking dreams that come upon us sometimes when we least suspect them —bright dreams of love, and home, and heaven—beautiful visions of the future, all glorious with its burden of song and gladness I And such a vision of such a feture, row gilded and crowded and blessed the heart of that forsaken boy. He was dreaming, as he walked along, of belter days to come —of the time poverty in his pathway should depart, and the beautiful flowers spring up to bless him with their presence —of a bright home far away from that great city, upon whose cheerful hearth the fire should never go out, and where hunger should never haunt him more.— And then, into that dream of a better life— into that vision of a cheerful home far oft* among the green hills—came a pleasant face—the face of his beloved mother, lie could sec her as she sat by the lattice at the quiet evening iiour, reading the sacred Bible, with t lie last red rays resting like a glory upon her brow, while the rose-leaf trembled at the window, and the little vio lets folded themselves to sleep. Very pleasant was the picture there passing be fore the gaze of that ragged child—very glorious the panorama of green hills and flowers and singing birds—very beautiful that humble cottage, half covered by the clustering foliage : and his heart thrilled and heaved with a strange rapture, such joy, as the stricken poor can never know, save when some good angel comes down from the blue heaven and beckons them away from the hands of wo and want in which they suffer, to the free air and the blessed sunshine. But the dream had passed ; the sun had set; the flowers faded ; the cottoge disap peared. Os all that healthful vision, so cheering and so glorious, no trace remain ed; no vestige of leaf, or tree, or bird, no letter of his mother’s Bible—no love-light of his mother’s eye. The darkness came around him, and he found himself there amid the storm, in the silent streets of that great and sinful city. So, gathering his garments more closely about him, he hur ried along to his home, with a prayer upon his lip, and God’s sunlight in his heart— Turning into an obscure street, a few steps brought him to the door of a wretched dwelling, which he entered. Follow now, and behold a scene of want and penury, such as may he found sometimes in this world of ours—a scene upon which men look in unconcern, hut nevertheless, thank God ! the angels gaze with joy ; a home where poverty struggles with a brave heart and is unconquered. Before the fire sat a pale, sad woman, upon whose features the traces of great loveliness were still visible, though sorrow had sharpened them somewhat, and ghast ly want done much to their beauty. Upon her high and placid brow the blue veins were clearly visible, as the blood coursed them with unwonted rapidity. Hear large dark eyes were dim with tears. Some new sorrow had started afresh the sealed foun tain of her grief; and now, as she gazed silently upon the red embers in all the ut ter agony of despair, it might seem that hope had gone forever, and God forsaken her. “Mother!” said the boy, as he entered all dripping with rain, “I have come ai last, and I am tired and hungry.” “My son! my son!” replied the mo ther “there is no morsel of food in the house,” and her lip quivered. “Wemust starve ! we must starve ! God help us!” and her tears broke forth afresh. Thus had it been for many a weary month. With scucely food sufficient to BOOK AND JOB PRINTING, TI ill he executed m the most approved style and on the best terms,at the Office of the SC’JTHEPsIT TRIBUTE -BY— WM. B. HARRISON. support life, that mother and her hoy had struggled, and suffered, and wept, and prayed ; and now that the cold winter was coming on.no wonder that the heart shud dered and her cheek grew pale at the hope less prospect ahead. How could they pass the dreary days and long nights, tbo storm and the terrible cold, without food and raiment and shelter] And then where could they go, when the heartless landlord should thrust them from theii present wretched dwelling, as he had threatened to do on the morrow] Verily, the gloom and the dispait were great and fearful! And yet even at that desolate hour an eye looked down from Heaven upon that , friendless widow. There by the hearth* : stone, by the dying ember, an angel hov. nred—an earthly angel, even in the guise of that earthly child. For “Earth has its angeis, though their form* are moulded But of such clay as fashions all, Though harps arc wanting and bright pinions folded, We know them by the love-light on their brow.” “Mother,” said lie, “we will not starve. God has not forsaken us. There are bet ter days to come mother! I saw it in a dream, and in it I beheld your own dear self, and you were singing a pleasant song i away in that blessed home. Oh, mother, cheer up ! cheer up !” \\ hen the little boy lay down upon bis wretched couch that night, ho was chang ed. llis mother’s great dispair had trans formed him from a suffering child into a strong-hearted man—from a weak and de pendent, into an earnest, thoughtful work er; henceforth his path was one of duty alone, and no allurement, he it ever so bright, could turn him from it. Before him glitiercd forever a guiding star; anti his intense, absorbing gaze, neither the cares nor the vanities of life could for an instant divert. Existence had for him but one object, and his utmost energies were taxed for its attainment. Never did the sun rise in greater splen dor than on the New year’s morning fol lowing that night of hunger, gilding the spires and domes of the city with its rays. 1 lie streets were already rapidly filling vviili the gay crowd seeking pleasure, and men walked as though new life had been "ven them by the general hilarity and the bracing air. In the most crowded street was the news-boy, but not the disconsolate wrech ed lad who had plodded his way through •he storm, the night before, to a desolate homo and supperless bed. You would not have recognised him as he hurried a long, eagerly intent upon his avocation, and his face all radiant with the great hope that struggled in his heart. 1 hat night joy visited the forsaken fire side. I fiey had paid the landlord his tent, and still had sufficient left where with to purchase food. It was a merry New Year for them. 4 ears came and went. Great changes had taken place. The boy had grown to manhood. High honors were conferred upon ipm. Wealth flowed into his cof fers; his praise was upon every tongue. — And at this very hour, upon the hanks of the majestic Hudson, his mansion stands conspicuous among a thousand others for its taste and elegance. He has but one companion—bis aged mother—the lonely widow whom wc saw some years ago, gazing mournfully into the fire, and watching its flickering light. His influence is felt far and wide, and the poor and wretched of every class and kind come around him with their blessings. I hank God ! thank God ! for every suffeiing son of man, who thus comes up irom the deep shadow of despair into the blessed sunlight, and, turning, gives his words of cheer to the groping millions beneath him. 1 hank God ! thank God ! that, scatter ed here and there throughout the world, in many a humble home, may be found men and women, unto whom life presents but little of love, or hope, or joy, and yet who pass along amid its desolate paths without a murmur, sustained and soothed and blessed, by this alone—a cheerful heart. Gravity vs. Folly — lt was a saying of I’uley, that lie who is not a fool half of the time, is a fool all the time. Robert Hall, who held a similar opinion, on being reproached by a very dull preacher, with the exclamation, “how can a man who preaches like you, talk in such a tri fling manner?” he replied, “there, brother,is the dirtercnce between us ; you talk your nonsense in the pulpit—l talk mine out of the pulpit.” The eminent Doctor Smith, being in the midst of a frolic on one occasion, and seeing a dignified unbending acquaintance approaching, exclaimed: “Stop ' we must be grave now, there is a fool coming !” To 'iou.NQ Men. —Don’t rely upon Don’trely upon the good name of yourances. tors. Thousands have spent the prime oflife in vain hopes of aid from those called friends—thou sands have starved because they had a rich father. Rely only upon the good name which is made hy your exertions, and know that tho best friend you can have is an unconquerable determination, united with decision of character. (ETGallson Horses may be cured by applying white lead, rubbed on dry, or diluted with milk or grease. A few applications are sufficient.— This will also prevent white hairs from growing over the wound, unless they arc naturally so.