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THE ‘jmnn^ssrg., Will b epublish ed every SA TVRDA Y Afternoon, In the Tuny-Story Wooden Building, at the Corner of Walnut and Fifth Street, i* THE CITY OP MACON, GA. By Win. B. II A It It I SO. TERMS: for the Paper, in advance, per annum, $2 if not paid iu advance, 00, per annum. Advertisements will be inserted at the usual rates—and when the number ©f insertions de sirod is not specified, they will be continued un til forbid and charged accordingly, U* Advertisers by the Year will be contracted with upon the most favorable terms. □"Sales of Land by Administrators,Executors or Guardians, are required by Law, to be held on !h ; first Tuesday in the month, between the hours often o'clock in the Forenoon and three in the Afternoon, at the Court House of the county in which the Property is situate. Notice of these Sales must be given in a public gazette Sixty Days previous to the day of sale. D*Sales of Negroes by Administators, Execu tors or Guardians, must be at Public Auction, on the first Tuesday in the month, between the legal hoursof sale,before the Court House of the county where the LettersTestamentary,or Administration or Guardianship may have been granted, firstgiv ing notice thereof for Sixty Days, in one of the public gazettes of this State,and at the door of the Court House where such sales arc to be held. □"Noticefor the sale of Personal Property must be given in like manner Forty Days pre vious to the day of sale. £)" Notice to the Debtors and Creditorsolan es iat« must be published for Forty Days. jyNotice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Ne must be published in a public gazette in the State for Four Months, before any order absolute can be given by the Court. jj'Citations for Letters of Administration on un Estate, granted by the Court of Ordinary, must be published Thirty Days —tor Lettersof Dismis sion from theadministratinnofan Estate,monthly for Six Months —for Dismission from Guardian ! ship Forty Days. £j*R.ules for the foreclosure of a Mortgage, ! must be published monthly for Four Months— for establishing lost Papers, for the full space of I three Months —for compelling Titles from Ex ecutors, Administrators or others, where a Bond hasbeen given by the deceased, the full space of Three Months. N. B. All Business of this kind shall receive prompt attention at the SOUTHERN TRIBUNE Office, and strict care will be taken that all legal Advertisements arc published according to Law. fj*Al! Letters directed to this Office or the Editor on business, must be post-paid, to in sure attention. IT. CTJSLE7 & SCIT, WAREHOUSE if COMMISSIONMERCHANTS U/ILL continue Business at their “ Firc- Proof BuildiiiffS,” on Colton Avenue, Macon, Ga. Thankful for past favors, they beg leave to say they will be constantly at their post, and that no efforts shall be spared to advance the interest of their patrons. They respectfully ask all who have C OTI OS or other FRODUCE to Store, to call and exam ine the safety oftheir Buildings, before placing it elsewhere. □"Customary Advances on Cotton in Store nr Shipped, and all Business transacted at the u<ual rates. june 2 2/ ly DAVID BF.ID, Justice of the Peace and Notary Public, MACON, G A . COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS, &c., for the Y_y States of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Missouri, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Penn ylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Arkansas, New j ergG .. *!ainc Depositions taken, Accounts probated, Deeds and Mortgages drawn, and all documents and instruments of writing prepared and authentica ted for use and record, in any oftlie above States. Residence on Walnut Street, near the African Church. □"Public Office adjoining Dr.M.S.Thomson s Botanic Store, opposite the Floyd House, june 29 2;> 1 y wn. §. LAWTON & CO. factors and Commission Merchants, Macon, Ga. WILL make advances on shipments of Cotton to LAWTON & DOWELL, Savannah, Ga. ; and LAWTON, DOWELL & CO., Charleston, S. C. julv 20 28 —if WILLIAM WILSON, HOUSE CARPENTER AND CONTRACTOR, Cherry Street near Third, Macon, Ga. IYIAKES and keeps on hand Doors, Blinds ill and Sashes for sale. Thankful for past favors he hopes for further patronage, may 25 20—6 m WOOD & LOW, GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS, NEW ORLEANS, LA. may 25 20— 1 y lec Cream Saloon, Cotton Acenue, next door below Ross Co's. OPEN from 10 o’clock, A. M. to 10 P M., daily, Sundays excepted The Ladies' f Slaoon detached and fitted up for their comfort, [ m a neat and pleasant style. June 22 11. C. FREEMAN. HALL A BKANTLEY, HAVE just received a well selected assort ment of DR Y GOODS nnd GROCERIES, | which embraces almost every article in their line of business. These Goods make their stock extensive, which has been selected recently by one of the firm, and they are determined to sell their Goods upon reasonable terms, and at the lowest prices. Whilst they are thankful for past Uvors, they respectfully invite their friends and public to call at their Store on Cherry Street, ai| i examine their Goods and prices, before pur. 'hasing elsewhere. inarch 23 11 Macon Candy Manufactory* THE Subscriber still continues to mar.ufac- T ture CANDY of every variety, next door ®'OW Ross & Co's, on Cotton Avenue. Hav i ‘"8 increased my facilities and obtained addi 'onal Tools, I am now prepared to put up to 'mer, CANDIES, of any variety, and war l' l nt«id equal to any manufactured in the South. '! 10 manufacture a superior article of Lemon and h V SYRUPS, COR DIALS,[PRESER FF.S, sc. an '?y srticles are well packed, delivered at a - v P o, nt In the City and warranted to give ‘Action. H. c FREEMAN, Agent. tli «tcif*r ’ ** 9 THE SOUTHERN TRIBUNE. NEW SERIES-VOLUME 11. $> o e t r s. [FOR the southern tribune ] LIDIES. BT D. POSTELL. I m sad—there’s still a cloud upon my heart, That hath long fix'd its sullen shadow" there ; A melancholy, that will not depart,— But of existence seems a part, a share. Oft have I stolen to the surf-beat shore, And gaz and upon the wild majestic sea ; Ive watch'd the spangled surges oer and o'er, Until enchanted with their brilliancy ! I’ve often listen'd to old ocean’s roar, That seems to sound one grand, eternal bass, As wave chas'd wave along the sea-wash’d shore, Till from my mind it did each care erase. I've seen the full moon rising o’er the wave, And felt my heart rush out to meet its li<rht ; Till earth, with all its griefs, it did enslave, And wrap me in a dream of fond delight. Oft have I wander'd o’er a sunny isle, And brush’d the morning's freshest, brightest dew ; And when surrounding nature seem'd to smile, I’ve snatch'd a fleeting gleam of pleasure too. And I have wander’d forth as Phmbus rose, And boldly threw aside the veil of night ; As the fresh morn its beauties did disclose, And fill the world with brilliancy of light ; Then have I follow’d in the thrilling chase, And rous’d the wild buck from his grassy bed; Till joy, full joy suffus'd my anxious face, And dark brow’d sorrow seem’d forever fled. But all was vain ; that cloud rests darkly yet, And hangs a veil, a shadow on my joys : All, all is vain,—thero is some deep regret, That peace ; that almost even hope destroys [for the southern tribune.] IDA MAY. A. TALE OP LIFE. BV SAMIVEL OF SAVANNAH. CHAPTER I. “The blessings of the skies all wait upon her Health, grace, inimitable beauty wreathed Round every motion : On her lip the rose Has left its sweetness for what bee to kiss ? And from the dark’ning heaven of her eyes A starry spirit looks out.” Burry Cornwall. A beautiful oasis in the midst of a dark pir.c forest was Ellerslie, the woodland home of Ida May. A neat white cottage adorned with trellised vines and almost hidden from view in the cool shallow of a thick foliage of moss-clad oaks, was the consecrated temple of this beautiful crea tion, from whose flower-wreathed portal onlythe sweet toned voice ofjoy ascended, as the devotion of a pure and happy heart. The whispering wind, stealing sweet odors from each flower gem in un petit jardin, filled the atmosphere with a fragrant joy, then sighing on, now greets us, “With a song among the trees, A dvep-toncd melody which treats of heaven!” Her home was beautiful for it was the home of the poet’s fancy where thought would enter and people it with beings pure and holy. Ida May was a charming woman. In her seventeenth year, she was not esteem ed strikingly beautiful, yet her appearanc e was pleasingly interesting. Her figure j was elegant and her voice W3S but a music, i al appeal to the senses. Her countenance j was marked by a sweet and thoughtful j serenity, yet she eminently possessed the power to “Call round her laughing eyes in playful turn® The glanee that brightens, and the smile tha burns !” Her manners were graceful without af fectation and her mind was adorned with those delicate graces, which are the chief; ornaments of female excellence. Her conversation was cheerful with stiffness, i and each pleasurable return of her society become a treasured memorial of the past- Life, it is said, is a daily strife between ! our inclination and our duty, and oh, how many painful lessons the young, the beau tiful, the loved and the loving, treasure up in their store-house of memory. We be come acquainted with ourselves while wcaringthe dress of childhood’s innocence, then everything is new, everything de lightful. We care not whence we came. We rejoice because we are. But this bliesful period passes away like a dream, and too often visits us no more. Our pros pects become suddenly darkened, some faint idea of sorrow, of evil and of death passes through the mind. We banish the careless romance of childhood and acquire the fear, the indwelling uncertainty and dread of the future. Blessed childhood! Thou art the coo! spring in the desert of life, and happy, thrice happy is that being who retains through life, the sweet influ ences of thy pure and sacred power ! It is thus with the bear! of the affections, — its alphabet, the bright smiles and winning MACON, (GA.,) SATURDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 3, ISSO voice of a fond mother—and its first lesson of reverence anil awe, the commanding, yet affectionate sternness of a much en deared father. As vve progress in exist ence its education becomes only the echo of a theusand fairy dreams anil the soon acquired knowledge of disappointment, of the cold and selfish realities of life. Is it a subject of wonder that we grow false, hearted ?—that with the multitude we put on the specious smile of affected happiness, and, revelling in the fairy halls of imagina tion, fancy that we are “the great, the good, the beautiful,” the only ones upon whose pa'li blooming flowers are strewn, and for whom alone the thousand fragrancics of life are shed. But to our story. Ida May had been reared like a sweet violet bidden from the gaze, adulation, and consequent sorrow of society. She was happy in the circle of her home and seemed to wish no other enjoyment, save to live always beneath the smiles of her estimable parents. But the spirit of change bad whispered words of strange import, its dark wing disturbed the peaceful atmosphere around her, and henceforth a city life became a reality of thought. Ida seemed happy with the ar rangement. A city life, and her imagin ation pictured the gay scenes, the crowded streets, the fashionable society, and the thousand sources of every dav enjoyment. Yet the past could not be eradicated even by her present anticipations. Her wood land home, and the many haunts around which hours of idleness had woven charms of delight, and many a sigh (the sweet ex pressed language of the heart,) was breath ed when she thought that soon those pleas ant haunts would become a source of wished for visitation. CHAPTER 11. It is midsummer—The twilight shadows fall gradually as a cloud upon the pleasant city of S , softening the radiant glare of non-waning brightness—a thousand fire flies, mimicking the dull city lights, seem like spirit’s eyes ever upon our pathway, while the slowly ascending moon is fling ing her first smile of joy upon that tall and graceful steeple. Fronting a tree-embowered square i where the oak and India’s pride seem vie iiig with each other fur precedence of beauty, and whose emerald lawn is so smoo'b and beautiful that it seems a fit playgtound for the elfin tribes, where they are wont to meet, to revel and rejoice at midnight hour, the dawn of fairy day.— Fronting this square, with its neat white porch, was the city residence of Ida May. Like all story tellers we must imagine an interval in our simple recital of two shoit years —short indeed when innocent and simple pleasures yield their calm and self-satisfying enjoyment, and the heart is happy and content in its ignorance. Ida May bad learned the lesson of others the easiest to learn, — The sweetest dream of youthful meditation—the poet’s most enrapturing incentive—the shadowy twilight of the heart’s future bliss—the awakening into anew and more beautiful existence than that of the past, an entire forgetfulness of self—the feeling of respect merged into that of earnest and endearing faith, pure and hallowed devotion. Ida had learned the fairy lesson of love ! Allow me my dear reader to introduce to your notice the object of that love, that faith and that devotion : Frederic Wal ters had been the petted son of an affec tionate mother, but alas ! that mother had passed away from earth a seraph bride, ere that bereaved son had attained the age of sixteen years. Tossed by every wave of fortune, and exposed to the many temp tations incident to a city life, he bad pass ed through tho fiery ordeal unharmed, and that high and noble brow told, and told truly, that conscientious motives, that rec. titude and honor were the guiding princi ples of Frederic Walters. By accident thrown into the company o* Ida, he had been charmed by her gentle and winning manner, and his heart claim ed from her the pure sympathy of friend ship. The calm observer of the heart’s mysterious workings will tell us, "that friendship aided by sympathy of thought, of purpose and of education, soon ripens into love.” Ida’s bidden offering became the true abiding faith of woman, but Fred eric doubted. He had been told that Ida was the betrothed of another—and soon, too soon for their after happiness, he ban ished the fiist bright dream of life and sought from hei lips the common place name of brother. I aulton Dari.ey, the one upon whose brow the busy world bad cast the wreath of victory, and to whom the imagination of many had betrothed our heroine, pos sessed a selfish and ambitious nature.— Handsome and graeeful, his manners were easy and affectionate, and his earnest voice and singularly beautiful smile, gave a fas cinating influence ever to his presence.— He had heard praises lavished upon the lovely and wealthy Miss Ida, and his ima gination revelled in anticipated wealth and station. He loved her not, but around her wealth he entwined pleasant hopes of en joyment. Base deceiver! an uncertain future will be thine through life, and when death comes—when th« last grand scene of earth is spread out before the gaze of every created intelligence, and thine every act, word and thought is known to the as sembled multitude, how bitter will be thy pain ! CHAPTER 111. Months and days and hours have passed away, bearing hope and joy, sorrow and pain to many of earth’s mortals. Could we lift the veil of futurity and know our destiny, how painful would be each day’s pilgrimage. Yet, whence arises the hap piness of life ? Is it owing to the novelty of the scenes which surround us, or to the superficial view we take of persons and things I It may be so. Nature clothes her face in smiles and we resign ourselves witli enthusiasm to appearances. We re joice—whether the sun rise in glory, and the leaves of the forest are spangled with the dew of morning : or whether, setting in the western ocean, he dye with stream ing gold the eastern mountains. We re joice—whether the rushing of the north wind be beard among the hills, or the east ern breeze sigh amid the tops of the pines. Wc rejoice whether the south wind breathes on spicy groves, or the gales rs evening curl the bosom of the flowing river. We rejoice—and we wish others to share the happiness we feel. We think that all mankind are possessed of the same feelings of which we ourselves are con scious—the young tendrils of our affec tions lay hold of every object they can reach—and we resign ourselves to the raptures of friendship and of love. Must this dream have au end 1 Can no charm make the delusion coeval with our exis tence I Shall the frosts of adversity nip the young shoots of our affections ? Hap py, thrice happy are they, whose life ter minates ere the blind confidence of the heart is destroyed. Titus mused Fhedertc Walters, as with heavy heart he thought of the ap proaching marriage of his sister friend.— And Ida, was she happy in view of this contemplated union ? Could she return this new and selfish affection ? Could she banish thefirst waking joy of her existence, and transferring the hopes and anticipated joys which her every thought created, build another altar from whence incense would become tlie offering of a pure and truthful heart ? No? in truth she could not. Yet it often seems so. The spirit of convenience and of pride usurps the place of youthful affection, and the heart becomes a beauti ful cenotaph for its past hopes. It is un natural. The vine that clusters its thick foliage around some stately tree is crush, ed when the whirlwind prostrates its proud dependance. It may not wholly die, but years must pass away ere its first tender leaf springs from the ground, to wind its affectionate charm around some moro fa. vored forest inhabitant. * * * * * * Lights were dancing in Ida’s home, and laughing, merry voices stole out upon the evening air. Tarlton Dar ley and Ida May were one! Their mutual vows had ascended to heaven, and methinks a sorrowful emotion stirred the breast of that bright recording angel, as he caught a glimpse of their futurity. The youthful couple seemed happy in their new relation to each other, — a radiant joy lit up their pathway, and the dim horoscope of the future opened to them a fairy scene of existence. Their bridal tour became a visit to Ida’s home, her own bright Eller she. There, in her long-neglected garden, arranging the varied flowers with her care fully cultivated taste,—drinking in the fra grant breath of summer in her cool green wood bower,—or, upon her well remem bered “Fan,” her favorite pony, visiting the many scenes and kind neighbors of her childhood, with her Tarlton ever by her s iffe ( Ida seemed to the careless observer perfectly happy. But a cloud would rest sometimes upon her brow, and shadowy forms, the true and loved of other days, would pass by with their sad and sorrow ful looks, and seem to say, “ Farewell, foreverl CHAPTER IV. Ihe winter season had commenced in the city of S . In a handsomely fur nished parlor, before a comfortable fire, reeiined a fair anil graceful woman. Deep, earnest thought bad placed its un mistakable stamp upon her brow, and her quivering lip seemed to forbid its utter ance. Ida Daulky was a bankrupt in affection. She loved not now neither was she loved. Taught in the school of aßlic lion, Ida had raised her hopes from earth to heaven, and tho sweet consolation of religion, suited more to our sorrows than our joys, filled her breast with a calm and peaceful resignation. She had need nl religion. That brother of death, consump tion, had become her daily teacher, and she knew that a few short days would pass away, and she would ascend from earth to heaven. * * * # * * * It was a beautiful afternoon in midsummer, calm, radiant and cold. The setting sun was wasting its rich, golden light, and the far off" clouds seemed like waiting angel messengers. Ida was on a bed of death. Around her were weeping friends, distressed relatives—all, save her husband ; where, oh, where was he ? Could he be in scenes of gaiety and folly, wasting the precious fleeting moments of his wife’s existence ? Yes ! Tarlton Darley had become more than brutish. No single moment had witnessed bis lone ly watching by her pillow,—no voice of sympathetic affection, and no tear of sor row had been uttered or expressed to cheer the partner of his purest moments, ere she passed away to heaven. Ida's lonely grave is beneath an India tree in the old brick grave yard in S . A rose bush lias been planted by its side, and on her tomb-stone Frederic Wai ters has written these lines : “ Rest sister spirit rest, From every sorrow free ; The ills that wring the aching heart, No more shall torture thee. Oh! that my lingering soul, Like thine might flee away, Enchanted by such sweet control, Up to the realms of day. YVo will not weep for thee, Thou dweller oftlie heart ; Thou needest not our sympathy, Bright seraph as thou art. For us whoyetromain, Be given the tearful eye ; 'Tis ours to mourn, thine is the gain, Thine is the victory !” The Teachers’ Convention. The Convention assembled at Columbia. S. C., on Friday, 12th ult. Delegates wer present from about one half of the Districts. We rejoice at this step of the friends of education, and hope they will not cease their efforts, until the character of cur school-books is radically changed and materially improved. From the fol lowing our readers will have a fair under sianding of the proceedings of the Con vention. The discussions and deliberations of this body were quite interesting, and all present seemed animated and inspired by the hope that they might render some services to tho State, in one of its most essential in terests. A Committee was appointed to consider the subject of School Books, and report thereon to an adjourned meeting of the Convention, in December. A plan of a Constitution for the perma nent organization of the Teachers of South Carolina was adopted. The following gsntlemeh were then elected officers of this body which is expected to meet on the Tuesday after the first Monday in Decem ber next, in Columbia, S. C. Thomas Curtis, D. D., President. Prof. M. Laborde, Pruf. It. T. Brum by, J. W. Hudson, Rev. J. R. Gilland, Isaac Auld,' M. I).; Major John A Leland> Samuel Jones, Vice Presidents. J. H. Carlisle, Recording Secretary. J. R. Shirley,Corresponding Secretary. L. McCandless, Treasurer. Candles. —Take 12 lbs. of alum for every 10 lbs. of tallow, and dissolve it in water before tbe tallow is put in, and then melt the tallow in the alum water, with fre-j ;>mt stirring, and it will clarify and harden tbe tallow very much. If the wick be dipped" in spitits of turpentine, the can dles will give a bright light.— Am,Farmer. BOOK AND JOB PRINTING, 11 ill hr executed in the must approved sft tc under thel"it term*,aYihc, Of.ee.of the SCTJTEEPwH TPJBTJITE -BY W)I. B. HARRISON. NUMBER 30 Northern Conservatism. M hat do some Southern papers meanlrv Northern conservatism? Do they mean by it some kind of check upon raving fan aticism? In what doce it consist ? Who uses it? \\ hat Northern legislature, con - vention, meeting or man ? Is it an abstrac tion, a spirituality, the shads ofa reality? Is it found among the clergy, or the peo ple ? Wlm can make it tangible orbiingit to light ? We would subscrible liberally, (much more than the Bostonians paid to see Gliddou’s Egyptian Mummy,) to see Northern conservatism showed up in its true colors. The Mummy was a horrid chest, for it proved to be n negro of hid eous aspect* which, process, had been shrivelled find dried'iip so a4 to look as if were tbiee thousand years old. We think this Northern conservatism is as great a cheat. Those, who are so sedu lously engaged in trying to flatter and se duce the people into silent submission id aggression by it, ought to show them what in is. Or are they fearful that it is some I thing far worse than a political gyascutus ? We should like to see it uncovered. The Whig State Convention, which met at Montpelier, Vermont, on the 17th July, passed a resolution unanimously that slavery should be prohibited in all the ter ritories and future new States ? Is that Northern conservatism with whose spon taneous beauties some of our editors and a few others too, have become so felici tously moonstruck. It may be a very in sinuating thing, but it is as hard to find as the new comet. Perhaps it takes an aristarchian percep tion to see into it. Will not some flippant user of the term conservatism, as applied to the North, bestow some ataxary upon those anxious minds which have a longing curiosity to see a picture written or paint ed, of Northern conservatism? It is used so often that some people have connected it with a sort of necromancy. It would doubtless be easier to practice divinatu n by the term, than to give it a practical defi nition and application. Northern conserv atism on the slavery question ? Who can give it a practical illustration? Is it a figment of fancy or a chip of fact? We should like to know. It is bad en ough for people to be cheated oat of their rights in any way, but it is absolutely hor rible to be made the victims of idealism or the idiosyncrasy of a few. If we dont seem to express ourself with remarkable clearness, we hope the reader will recol lect that we are upon a deep subject.—. Augusta Republic. New Mexico. Mr. Rusk, of Texas, made the follow ing remarks in the Senate of the United States on the 20lh ult. "As this question of boundary between Texas and the Uni ted is point, and as it sword, l rise to say that Texas came into the Union claiming these boundaries, and that, in all tho negotiations and transac tions that took place between this Govern ment and Mexico, this Government insist ed upon the boundaries of Texas as defin ed by herself. This fact all the negotia tions show. All the intercourse between this Government and Mexico asserted the boundaries of Texas to tbe Rio Grande.— This was asserted over and over again.— Every acre of that territory claimed by Texas was included in the treaty of peace between Mexico and tbe United States.— And sir, these boundaries, which were in sisted upon as against Mexico, and for which war was declared to assert them, are denied, when Texas is concerned. And by whom ? By tbe Congress of the United States? No, sir. Under any au thority of the Congress? No, sir. By whom, then? Under an order of the Secre!ary qf YVar, reversing the former order! And we are told that if we at tempt by force to restrain a portion of our citizens, in our territory, who under this advice are attempting to make a Stale, we shall be making war against the Unitid States, and shall thereby be committing treason. I hope and trust that this no* cessity will be avoided. 1 hope and that the action of this Government w ill fall back into its proper train, and that some of that kindness of which Senators talk so much, but of which I must confess I have seen so little, will be exhibited, and that matter will be amicably adjusted. 1 am sure I have thrown no obstruction in the way. If the question is left to be dermin ed whether Texas has a right to extend her laws and if, under the advice of the Executive of this GoAermnent without tbe authority ofCongress and the consent of Texas, these people should form a State for tho purpose of being brought into ibis U nion; if, under these circumstances.thister ritory belongingto Texas is to be held un der the military force of the United States, Texas will resist; even if it be treason, she will resist—and the full share of that treason that shall attach to one citizeu sliali to me. With all my hopes of peace and all my attachments tothis Union,l will never tamely submit to the exercise of un authorized militiary power, and you may be sure that Texas will hot. Thtaf is k j contest between right ah J n rang, 'and the right is with Texas.