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SOUTHERN TRIBUNE.
WM. u. HaIM(JS»\.)
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CARRIER'S ADDRESS
the FitU'oiu of the Southern Tribune.
Another Twelvemonth now is past arid gone !
The Eastern have fledged the maiden dawn
Os stranger hours, whose courses will be run
Within the realm of Eighteen Fifty-One.
A few short moments o'er the punctual hell
Proclaimed our loved protector’s dying knell,
And threw the shroud ofde>ious afterthought
On all the good or evil that we wrought
Whilst yet his kindly admonitions rung
Upon our ears, or stirred our hearts among.
Os all the pleasures past we are bereft,
Their glad remembrances alone are left
To stamp their image on the fertile brain—
Who vyills, may plant the fruitful seed again,
And bear the bud mid flower to cheer the sight
With unseen incense to afford delight.
Vet! there are memories in which the mind
Drinks deep the evidence of joy refined,
When looking back on the receding main
Os days escaping to return again
Only by fancy’s bright reviving art
Or retrospection’s half-unerring chart.
Just here and there a short memento brings
Dreams that were coined in the Elysiun springs
Os youthful beauty, whose experienced powers
Were nursed to being in this world of flowers !
A word, a look unfurls a kindred sphere
For loving hearts to dwell in rapture there.
The hours of social con verse, too, have marked
The signal when the freighted ship embarked
Wish fond affections for its destined port,
At the command of that imperial Court
Which, though to seeming consequences blind
Still links the fate of man and woman kind.
But ah ! tlio melancholy thought will cotna
For thuse who fill their sad and dismal home,
Whose blooming vigor presaged many years
Crown’d with the fruit deserving manhood bears,
When last the song of merriment was heard
Whore scores amid the youthful concourse stirr’dj
And jest and playful prank, and laughter free
Adorned the welcomed Mew Year’s Jubilee—
The quiet cemetery’s verdant sod
Contains their clay— their souls have fled to God;
The hoary-liendcd relics of the age
Have stooped and tottered, then forsook the stag 0
Pf care-worn life, and calmly laid them down,
With heirs and subjects to the kingly crown
With coward frames beside the warriors brave—
With noblemen and the notorious knave, —
With curtained splendor as in regal gloom
Ami flowers tha' deck the peasant's huiul let >nib
Hoiilh Carolina weeps, and well she may,
Relentless Death has cast a withering ray
Os grief across her intellectual sky,
And plucked the zenith from Itis dwelling high
Above the rest of men— Calhoun, of yore
Her sovereign master-spirit, lives no more !
That form —in Senatorial chambers true
To Southern Rights and Southern Honor too, —
Not even the dark and wildly rolling deep—
M’hose inmost cells each wat'ry trophy keep,—
His marbled likeness would presume to claim,
And thus forbid the stone to speak his name
To the admiring millions yet to trace
The truly chiseled features of his face :
But yielded to his fellow men the prize
To cheer their hearts, and feast their gazing eyes.
He does not breathe among us the pure air
Os vital being—yet his past career
Has stamped its nature aqj uo minds of men,
And in the forum, and the silent pen
The echoes of his honored counsels sound
With galh'ring strength atoacb successive hound
A dark appalling cloud has covered o'er
The glorious Union of the days of yore,
And pendant thunderbolts of horror hang—
Concocted by a rude, and lawless gang,
But held by powerful enemies abroad,
To scatter death and ruin in the road
Os Southern honor and of Southern fata—
To burst an avalanche of active hate
On our defenceless heads, if, calmly tame
To the abuses heaped upon our name,
\Vc give up all we know to be our own,
And woo aggression by our sullen tone
‘Til all our strength is lost, and the sad hour
Which marks the demise of resisting power,
Shall note our hist'ry with the clanking chain
Os servile bondage to a demon’s reign
More terrible than Pandemonium's walls,
Or deep Tartarus, 'midst its echoing halls,
E'er crqwqcd a missionary to this earth
Os mingled multitudes, of motley birth.
Alas! Land of the South ! my mother-land !
I dread to see you shrink beneath the hand
Os Legislative tyranny—a Time
Was once recorded in this sunny clime
When halfthe wrongs that you have suffer'd now
Would bring the blood to every Southron’s brow
In stem defiance of the reckless will
Which feeds upon us, yet degrades us still—
There was a Time uo coward spirit dare
Whisper a word, or utter forth a care
In common with the base invader’s crew—
When all were pure,and every patriot true.
Alas ! my native Georgia ! shall I p&iut
A shadowy picture of your sad restraint
When clasp'd in bondmen arms your former pride
Must sink in deep oblivion's murky tide ?
Fair daughters of this heaven-favored land !
Must I behold you tortured by the hand
Os menial spirits ; sunk in deep disgrace
By those the most inferior of your race ?
Shall I behold your pitying cries for aid
When on the tlireshhold of your dungeons laid.
And hear your plaintive shrieks of suffering wo
Yet feel I can no help nor aid bestow ?
Great God ! avert this horror-striking doom,
Or point us to the sweetly resting tomb !
Exert thine own omnipotence to draw
These poisonous fangs from scorners of the law—
Stay the sw ;,, i tide of innovation strong,
And place its leaders where their crimes belong ;
Force these invaders from the tented field
Who wear Religion as n eloak to shield
•"tas base design against our sovereign State,
That they may leave us to our wretched fate.
The humble efforts of the Triboe’s pen
Have been to hold the rights of >soothern men
From the aggressor and the traitor free
That we might taste the boon of Libnty.
True, we have stemmed the overwhelming tide
With banner'd fortress and our breastworks wide;
Have boldly warned the oft-insulting foe,
Tliat farther, injury should never go.
Unless it met resistance firmly placed
Upon the guaranties they hate erased
From the time-honored instrument we signed
When first the 13 Sovereign States combined
To form a Union, —and our ardent soul
lias wept to see the dread-inspiring goal
Preparing by the coalescing strength
Os ignorance, and the Satanic length
Os the tnisnnmcred throngs, who daily form
United legions for the coining storm.
Yet ’tis Our Coostkv th&t we dared sustain,
Which has received and will receive again
Whate’er of virtue or of real good
-May spring to being from our Southern blood.
Kind Patrons, here accept my honest hope
That each with every enemy may cope,—
And that success may crown your constant aim,
Be that for riches or for honored fame,
For ease and quiet, or commercial strife,
.May rosy health prolong your valued life,
And peaceful smiles, and hearty welcomes greet,
Your generous forms, from ev’ry lip you meet —
'Til friends and fortune banish carking care
Throughout thu moments of this Hatty Yeah •
Mutoii, Ca., January 1, 1851.
From the .Avgusta Republic, 2 t*th ultimo.
IIoss• 11. S. Eootc «f llivsisisippi
We have heretofore alluded to the fact,
that Mr. Foote one t>f Ihe Senators of Mis
sissippi. was censured by the Legislutme
of that Slate for his support of the late ad
justment of the territorial and slavery
questions. He is defended in some of the
public journals for his course, and the I.e
gislature of Mississippi is charged with
wanton and undue seventy. Never, in
out opinion, was political guilt mote mani
fest than in his case, nor punishment
more justly inflicted. Mr. Foote wilfully
perverted the power confided to him, to
accomplish objects ditec'ly at vaioince
with the wishes of the State, and in u let
\i latum of instructions which he had
s night. This we will show. We were
aware of the fact 4, hut we find documents
ty evidence in the Mississip; inn.
The following is the letter addressed by
Mi. Fo >te and others to the Governor of
Mississippi:
Washington, Jatiuaty 21,1840.
His Excellency,
Jn'o. A. Quitman, Govern- r, &c. Ye.:
"Sit—\\ e, the Senators and Repiesen
tatives in Congress from Mississippi, feel
it incumbent to advise you. anil through
you, our common constituents, that we
have a well defined opinion, tlist Calif M'-
fornia will'he admitted as a S-ate of this
Union, duting the present session of Con
gress. The President earnestly recom
mended it and we cannot be mistaken in
supposing that a majority of both Houses
of Congress will be found to vote for it
our individual positions have undergone
no change. We tegard the proposition to
admit California as a State under all
the circumstances of her applicacation,
as an attempt to adopt the “Wilmot
Proviso” in ano her form. But separ
ated, as we are, from our constituents,
and having no convenient means of con
suiting them as to their views tin the new
phase of this perplexing question, we de
sire, through you, to submit the single fact
to the people and the legislature, that Cal
ifornia will most likely obtain admission
into the Union with her constitutional pro
hibition of slavery—and we beg leave to
add, that we shall be greatly pleased to
have such expression of opinion by the
legislature, the Governor, and if practica
ble, by the people, as shall clearly indicate
the coutse which Mississippi will deem it
her duty to pursue in this emergency.
A r ery respectfully,
Your ob’t servants,
[Signed,] JEFF. DAVIS,
H. S. FOOTE,
J. THOMPSON,
W. S. FEATHERSTONE,
WM. Me WILLIE,
A. G. BROWN.”
The Mississippian appends the follow
ing certificate, to show that the letter is
genuine:
“Executive Chamber, I
Jackson, Feb. 11,1850. 1
1 do hereby certify that the wiihin and
foregoing letter is a true copy of the
tial as tiled, in this office, the 11th day of
February, 1850.
james McDonald,
Private Sec. Ac.
This letter was laid before the legisla
ture, (then in session) hy the Governor, ac
companied wi h a special message, the 11th
day of July 1850.
The legislature took action upon tho
subject, and passed the following resolu
tions as instructions to the senators, and
as expressive of their opinions to the re
presentatives, of that State.
“Resolved, That the policy heretofore
pursued by the Government ofthe Uni <’d
S:ates in regard to said territory [Califor
nia j in refusing t • provide leniitorial gov
eminent therefor, has been, and is, t uii
nently calculated to promote, aud about to
effect, indirectly, the cherished objects of
ihe Abolitionists, which cannot be accom
plished by direct legisla ion, without a
plain and palpable violation of the Coysti-.
tution *'f the United States.
" Resolved , That the admission of Cali
fornia into tin* Union a> a s > eieiirn State,
wiib Us present rousti uli n the lesult • f
tho aforesaid fi se and unjust policy on
die pait <»f the Govemnirn ofihe United
States, Wntdd he an act of fra <1 and op
pression on the ii*;lits of the people o| the
slaveholding bliles, and it is the sense of
the legislature that out senators and repte
should, to the extent of their ability, resist
it by all honorable and constitutional
means.”
Now, is it not as clear as a sunbeam,
that Mr. Foote has committed an act of the
highest enormity. He declared that
the admission of California under the cir
cumstances would he the passage of the
“Wilmot proviso in another form!”—
He deemed the prospect of the wrong to
be so great, as to lay the case before the
Governor, the people and the Legislature.
And for what ] To ascertain their wishes.
It was clear that Mr. Foote himself view
ed the admission of California as a viola
tion of the Constitution, an outrage and
insult to the South. He voluntarily sought
instructions from the Legislature. That
body coincided with him in his views, and
said, in reference to the admission of Cali
fornia, “it is the sense of this Legislature
that our Senators and Representatives
should, to the extent of their ability, re
sist it by all honorable and constitutional
means.” What did Mr Foote do] Af
ter sustaining the proposition to hold a
Southern Convention at Nashville—after
wri ing and publishing letters to arouse
the people of the South against the ad
mission of California—after getting his
name up as die high priest of fire-eaters,
one who could swallow red hot coals with
out chewing them—after sounding the
tocsin of alarm through ut he holder of
hi. State, asking for, and getting, instriir
thins how to act. he gave up eating fire
coals, to devour his own words, Ii- pledg
es and hi*. honor! Is it surprising then,
that the Legis attire, tit its called session,
in November, should have pmclaimed to
the country and the world that ‘ the course
of the Hop. [lemy S. Foote on all these
questions is not approved, and this I egis
I aure <1 es not consider ti e inteiests of
the State of Mississippi, committed to his
charge, safe in his keeping.'
The great mass of the submission party
may be, and iio doubt, ate patriotic. They
were not solemnly ami deliberately pled
ged this wav or that, and may act fi ni the
la'st and purest motives; hut Senator
Foote s ands out, prom ine lit lv. t hi* falsifier
of his public declarations and pledges, and
the betrayer of his rotate. His declarations
now find no echo in the hearts of the peo
ple he lepreruesents, and we doubt not,he
is himself, beset with dreary memories of
the past. Ihe Southean Rights party can
never confide in him again, and the c ut
-stituti Mial Union party, while receiving
him into its ranks, will h id him in suspi
cion.
How different the cases of those other
gallant gentlemen whose names are assn
ciated with Mr Foote’s in the letter to the
Governor of Mississippi. Their conduct is
approved, and they are cheered on as faith
ful public servants who have merited the
approbation oftheir admiring constituents.
From the West Indies.—By the arri
val of the barque Brothers, the New York
Journal of Commerce has dates to 12th
December. Abundant rains had fallen
throughout the Island of Porte Rico, by
which the picking of coffee was retarded.
It was thought that sugars would open at
from 3to 4 dollars, as per quality. Mo
lasses 10 a 12 cents per gallon.
Mayaguez, Non. 30. —We have not
much tiews in this Island as yet, though
the prospects are that we shall have large
crops of Sugar and Coffee. Planters ask
11 cents for the latter.
Cuba—lncrease of Duties. — A Havana
paper of a recent date, publishes a Royal
Decree, dated at Madrid, November 3rd
1850, increasing the present duties one
and a half per cent, an all foreign goods
•imported into tho Island of Cuba, for‘the
purpose, as the Decree slates, of ensuring
the future happiness and protection of the
people of the Island, by reinforcing the
army and augmenting every means for
lire suppression of any further attempts to
change the established order of things.
This decree is to take effect on and af
ter the Ist of February on vessels arriving
from the Linked States ; on and after the
first o? April tin vessels arriving from the
Rio de la Plata, the Brazils, and other
points of South America ; and on and af
ter the first of March on those from ports
in Europe.
Goods of national importation will pay
an additional one per cent., and Flour an
additional two reals per barrel. Every
box of Sugar exported from the Island,
will pay an addiiional foil' reals; every
quintal of Tobacco an additional t wo reals;
and on every thousand segars an addition
al two reals.
So much of tlie Decree as relates to
the articles contained in the last paragraph
takes effect on and afici the Ist of Jan.,
ISSI. — Ck . ties!tin Cm rier, 30/A ult.
An Editor Drowned. —The Montgo
mery (Ala.) Journal of the 25th ult., says :
“YVe learn just as our papet was going to
ptess, of the melancholy death of Mr.
John McCormick, recently editor of the
Advertiser, by drowning in tlie river, near
the wharf at the landing He had been
dut ing the day shooting with a companion,
Mr. John Hughes, in a bend opposite this
place, and on recrossing the river, his
imat was upset by coming in contact, with
aflat or steam boat. Mr. Huehes was
saved. Mr. McCormick was swept under
the boat, and probably was severely in
jured, as he was not able to reach the
shore. He was a gentleman of much
worth, talent, and amiability of character,
and had many tvniln ft tends who will u*-
gard his untoward fate as a deep and most
melancholy affliction.
11 is said that the Hon. Daniel
W erst Kit is disposing of Itis property in
Boston, witii ti view to take up his resi
dence in New Yotk.
From the Southern Sentinel.
STATES’ RIGHTS.
We adverted last week to a few of the
indications of the change, which we think
our government is undetgoing, from one
of confederated States to a grand central
| power. And we then alluded to the fact,
that while in the earlier days of the repub
: lie, its friends had anticipated most danger
i from its centrifugal force, that is, its ten
dency to separation among its members, it
|is now apparent that we have more to ap
prehend from its centripetal, or the tenden
cy to a consolidation of power in the gen
eral head. The statesmen of the last cen
tury feared, that when theoutwaid pies
sure, which had forced the colonies into
j confederation for purposes of mutual pro
tection, was removed, they would lehound
into their original independent relations to
each other; the statesmen of this day ate
beginning toappiehend that the Union
which was thus formed, may be transform
ed into a sovereign unit, obliterating Stale
lines, and annihilating State Rights. We
confined our remarks in the preceding ar
ticle to the indications of this truth as de
veloped in the operations of the Govern
merit. We attempted to show, that in the
executive, legislative and judicary depart
ment* of the general government, there
was an increase of of power and preten
sion, altogether incompatible with the ge
nius and seen itv of our institutions Lea
ving tbe government, if we analyze the
state <>) popular sen'imeii , we shal find
there e ,ual grounds fin- the apprehension
which we feel oil this subject. Ibe peo
t»|e, North and South, are willing to c«>n
cede mote to the Federal, and claim less
tor the State g vernmeut, than they were
in our earlier history. M u ate more lilt
eral in their construction of powers con
felted by the Constitution upon the gener
al government, anil they are less tenacious
••f the rights which were reserved t > t e
States, than they used to be. Some poli
ticians seem actually to deprecate their n
pinions and principles of die idea, that the
federal government was the original fi>un |
tain, and the States recipients, of power,
in other words, that the Slates are the
creatures of the general government, and
not the general government of the States.
Not that tliay are really so ignorant of the
true nature of nnr institutions, but they
have been so accustomed to ho k to Wash
ingloti as the seat of power, and to the
government there as the great dispeusato
ry-chief of political benefits, that, in theii
estimation. State authority has been o*m
pletely overshadowed. The beneficiaries
and expectations of government patronage
in the various departments have grown in
to a mighty multitude, powerful in uum
hers, intelligence rind influence. Begin
nig with the Presidential chair, and em
bracing every office of honor or emolu
ment at home and abroad down to the
poorest consulship or the most insigtiifi
Citllt |»'>nt oftea \f\ tlin fl«»nntry
like so many magnets,are attracting the at
tention of tens of thousands of onr people.
Compared with 'he glittering array of
tempting prizes, uninviting appear the few
petty crumbs at the disposal of the States.
These things have told like magic upon
public sentiment, and its fi uit is ripening
in the increasing indifference to State, and
the growing regard for national authority
Nor is this feeling attributable only to the
influences of which we have been speak
ing. Mistaken patriotism has deluded many
honest men into the unconscious embar
rassment of this pernicious sentiment. The
proud position to which our country has,
under the direction of Providence, attain
ed among the nations of the earth; the
universal respect which is paid to her
name; the brilliancy of her military a
chievements; her unprecedented progress
in wealth and power her gigantic propor
tions, and the splendor of her operatin' s;
all these have very naturally invested the
Union with a charm which spell binds the
hearts of her justly proud sons, and forget
ful of its origin and natnre they ha'e in
sensibly yie ded themselves the subject of
a false idolatry for its greatness.
We need not, however, spend time in
support ofthe proposition, that in this re
sped, public sentiment has undergone and
is undetgoing a very material and a dan
gerous transformation. We say. a dange
tous transformation. For great as may he
the evils which some anticipate from a
disruption of the ties which now hold
these States together, they are light com
pared with the disasters which must result
fmm their consolidation. Destroy the al
ready weakened conservative influences
of State sovereignty, obliterate the lines
which now mark State distinctions, and j
concentrate in one the powers >4 nil. and
the wildest federalist would .sta t from j
contemplating »lit* fit ure. Then, indeed j
might demagogues hewai the flight of li’n
ertv from our shores; then, indeed, might
they lament the failure of the latest and
noblest effort in hehalfof the rights of man
in this our Western world.
Southern Steamers. —There is every
probability an appropriation will he made
at the present sessi u of Congress, for the
purpose of establishing a semi-monthly
line of steamers between Norfolk and En
rope, and also to Chagres, to connect with
a line of steamers on the Pacific to San
Franciaco. A company at Phildelph a
h s made proposals to ronstrm t ten ships.
(cuiivertihle at the pleasure i fthe Govern
|', ’ ,
ment into war steamers, j rmrto he run <ni
tin* Atlantic and six "ii tin* Pacific, wbje-h,
it i- said, has met with favorable recep
tion at Washington. Mr. S anion, chair
man of lhe Committee on Naval Atfiiis
has prepared a report recommending tire
project, which will he presented I the
House in a few days. —Nurf.llt (Va.)
Argus.
From the Federal Union.
Watchman ! What ofthe night ?
The question of late, has often been
asked us, what we are for—-union, sub
mission, resistance, or what ?
W e answer, once for all, we are for the
rights of the South. A democrat from
principle, we cherish too highly the creed
itl that time honored party with which we
have been associated, to peril its principles
by any political association of a national
character with those who have contemned
them, and who under anew name, are
seeking theii destruction. We have no
faith in any “Constitutional Union party,”
headed by Robert Toombs and Alexander
Hamilton Stephens. We are 100 old, if
the truth must he told, -o be caught hy
names, or to be entrapped into the sup
port of Millard Fillmore, or anyotber nor
thern or southern whig, even though the
bait held out to allure us, shall be the name
of the honored democrats Buchanan, or
Dallas, or Dickinson. We understand
fully the game. Itis worthy of the genius
<d the demagogues and political tricksters
who have conceived it. We cannot in this
or any other way he brought into
political affinity witii those whose object is
protective tariffs large expenditures for in
ternal impovements, a nati ttal Bank, and
who will when they can, ride rough shod
over all the resetved rights of he States,
tout it may hy asked, li**w do we propose
to maintain tlie rights of the S nth? We
answer no by secession, f | that we have
never advocated, hut I• v biiitgiug the,
entiie South to plant heiseifon the Con
titil ion and unflinchingly deniainlino the
literal execu ion f all its requi-it ons.
I may he replied, this can best lie done bv
affiliation wiili those ut rite North whose
sympntl ies are with us. Our rejoinder is.
that will not only hazard the dem rratic
creed, hut it is an expel intent that already
as been tiied and signally failed. Van
Bureti when a candidate f r the Pres
idency, was sneeringly hut truly termed a
"Northern man with Southern principles.”
The Southern democracy hen had to a
dipt theii pla form to suit the views of his
tun them supporters. Ihe same thing oc
curred on the nomination of Mr. P,,|k and
tgain upon the nomination of Gen. Cass.
Southern Whigs pursued the same course
in relation to Gen. Harrison and a I theii
subsequent nominations for the Presi
deucy, Both patties at the South, have
in his way, for party purposes made con
cessions to the North. What has been
the consequence ? Divisions at home and
conviction among ihe masses ai the North,
that Southern poli icians will for patty
purposes sacrifice and put in jeopardv
their domestic insiitutions.
If the South wishes her power feh, she
must stand aloof from all entangling alii
ances, with those who have the ability and
the will to injure her. In a doomed mi
nority she ought not to place before hei
... lifI if g> mnm t»* * j ivm jo oih'x*, *•> v
bet for their own aggrandizement. Let
her for the next Presidential campaign
keep aloof from all caucuses, and the votes
of her fourteen Sta es will he coveted and
Sou hern platforms w 11 then he construct
ed bv Northern politicians mote con
sonant with Southern rights and Southern
views.
In conclusion this is not the time in our
opinion, for Southern men to embark in
President making. They have enough to
do at home, to repair the breaches occa
si tied hy similar euterprizes in times
gone by.
Important to Babies —The last num
ber of the Scientific American contains an
engraving and description of anew inven
tion for the amusement, soothing and
comfort of babies. It consists of a swing
ing cradle, which is made to swing hack
and forth for several hours without stop
ping by means of cFck work machinery,
the motive power being a heavy weight.
Attached to the maehineiy is a musical
apparatus, by which the tune most suited
to the babe’s ear can also be played, and
so lull the little one to sleep. The machine
is so arranged as to play the music with
out moving the cradle, if desired, and vice
rersa The invention is t lie happy
thought <ff Mr. L. F. Whitaker, of
Raleigh, N. C.,
ITEM S.
It is stated that the Neapolitan Government
lias granted a sum 0f2i1,000 ducats for continuing
the excavations at Pompeii-
Some valuable propefty us the late Gen Zt* h
ary Taylor, located in Louisville, Ky , is adver
lised for sale.
In Gardner, recently, a woman of ill health
died of starvation. She became possi **. dos the
idea that her sickness was caused entirely In
eating,«ml sis refused to lake am mine food.
The Sons of Temperance in New Jersv have
according to the Trenton True American, I 17
Divisions 6,010 members. They have s’te,ooo
securely invested, and paid during the last qoar«
ter for benefits mid funeral expenses, $1,914,H5-
The schooner J. Rusling encountered a gale
of w ind on the coast of New Jersey, while on
lo r passage a few days ago, from Philadelphia
to Providence, R I, in which Captain Enoch
Smith, us Decinsvillc, New Jersey, was lost, and
the vessel much damaged.
Two women were baptized in the Delevvnro
river on Sunday hist, just below the Trenton
ridge, bv a Second Advent preacher The
Gaze le states tha the society of Second Ad
vends!* htv • a church at M •ri-ts.vilin with near*
y 40 members, and a Sunday Schuol ot 40 chil.
dren.
There are three fines of sub-marine telegraph
w ire in working opcraii >n under the Hudson
river, fiinr hrefer the Connecticut, two under the
D'lew are. and eight under the Harlem river
Alienated with gnttn perelia. And ono on O’-
Reilly's lino, under the rive at Chicago.
MACON, G A *
SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4.
The YVeather.— For the last week we have
been literally water bound, and our river, for the
first time this season, is in good boating order
The atmosphere has been dull, dark and dreary
and uncomfortably cold. The New Year has
not made a very favorable impression upon our
minds ns yet, but has given us a feeling testimo
nial of the sort of weather which keeps one at a
loss for something to do, and mortified because
nothing can be done. On Thursday night we
had a fall of snow several inches thick, and
yesterday the weather became clear and quite
cold.
Latest from Europe. The Baltic has »r.
rrived with Liverpool dales to the 14. h ult.
All descriptions of American cottons had ad
vanced from Jd to sd. per lb. The sales of the
week amount to 41,150 bales. German affairs
more peaceful.
Advance. —The late Foreign news lias caused
an advance in cotton here and the seap irts of g
a 4 cent per lb.; and in New York about g cont-
Provisions ofall kinds are scarce and high in
our market—Bacon hams 124 cents per pound ;
sides 10—Lard 10 a 12c—Pork 64c. —Corn and
Meal 90 <*D. All these articles are in demand
and will find ready sale heie at these prices.
Inquest A Coroner's Inquest was held yes.
terday hi llie 481st District, G. M ,over the body
of Robe a T Radford, found dead on Thursday
night near tins city- Verdict, that the said de.
ceas- and came to Ins death Iroiu intemperance.
Tllli SEW YEAR.
Since our last issue, we have entered upon
another year. Time, the ceaseless wanderer
still pursue* his onward course through the dun
and trackless regions of the future—not a day,
an hour, nor a moment, doc* lie cease his mi as
ured *• tides, hut whether gay or sad, in sickness
nr in heal h, in poverty or wealth, the aged pil
grim prints his steps upon the cheeks and hearts
of all.
A year older are we ! whether in the deep
recesses ofthe red mail s lores! In me, or in llie
towering mansion of the civilized and ictilled,
it is all one—the light, buoyant heart, and the
melancholy soul ; the prattling infant, and the
gray headed sire, aieall ayear older! Thieo
hundred aud six y-five days aie gone, to return
no more ! the yaw ning gull of the past has swal
lowed them up, and their mt mortea can alone
bring pleasure to us now.
But there are thoughts connected with tho
departed year, we should pau-e over, and draw
Irnm them for future use, the valuable lessons
they contaiti. When last year commenced*
there w ere young and brilliant minds, just peep,
iug into the meridian day of genius, who are
now withered hy neglect, and giving way under
the rebukes of an unmerciful world. This
should teach us the value and importance ot
well-founded purposes aud views, and untiring
perseverance in our undertakings. Men ol bus-
predate, in a moment, and at the first presenta
tion, tbe merits of the mind ; but w hen again
and again their attention is directed to that
which appears to he unniistakeable worth, they
are prompt to render iheir meed of praise.
There were vigorous bodies, too, that hid fair
to battle against the storms and tempests of lite
for full many years, b-o t disease has wreathed
its serpent coil around thee,, and they are now
the inhabitants of the dreary toaib. How short
is human life ! how visionary are &|| the pros
pects of men, that have not a Reparation for
the future ever in view! A fl iwe r
was never more uncertain, nor the bloo. Imira ]
susceptible of the fatal tendency of frost, t.. in j
the human frame of sickness and death.
There were reverend heads, whose snowy
locks had felt the beatings of many w intry blasts, j
that have calmly breathed out their last breath, j
and were laid in the earth in the joyful Spring,
when warbling songsters sung the funeral diige>
and the modest flowers stood sentinel upon thei r
graves. Dow surely is the mandate followed
“tor dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt te- j
turn”! Though we live to the age of Alethuse- j
lab, y et we ruust die—“and alter death the judg
ment."
There were merry hearts, and joyful face*’
then, that now are sad and wrinkled hy prema
ture sorrow and difficulty. Let us remember,
however, that there is One who cnrelh for us,
who will provide and protect, when our inge
nuity and power fail.
Hut this is a New Year ! New thoughts, new
hopes, new prospects, and new cares are before
us. But, dear readers, let us face our difficulties,
and boldly dare to combat with the array el op
position, aud the hull te shall he won. A hr-oe
heart, a determined sou , a fixed mind, and in
domitable resolution can make the world *U' IJ
in awe, and win the greenest laurels loin nia" I
kind.
We congratulate you, kind friends, on tD I
rieiuni Mviia-nl ol ihe New Year, aint hialil * I
wi h you tuny live to see ami enjoy many iu" re - j
Amit.icas Aur Isms. — This instil' 11 ' 1 "
held its annual distribution on the 2!Mb uIU" 1 ’
in New York. The following prize* " l
drawn by citizens of Georgia :
Landscape, by D VV. C. Boutclle— dra" n
James B. Ayres, Macon „
Flowers, by J 11. Wright—hv Mrs- '
Jones, INI neon. .
“Battle of Hunker Hill.” nod “Death «f>
gomery,”—by I) llogreeve, Augusta ; 81111
P. Hunter, Savannah. j
Moonlight, hv M Halting—by Mrs ~ar>
llrqulinrt, Coluinhiis.
View on the Sound, by J. L. Mart ßß
Battershy, Savannah.
Fruit and Flowers, by S Roesen —by
liams, Ciilhertoo t , p
Middle Ages, by F A Chapman—by -
Isi 11, Savant all.
Holt Thoughts, by i B l lags—by
H izelton, I.a Grange . ; n
hull Medals in Bronze, St-mH Med-1
Drone* and Altston Med ils, drawn >y J
Hill. Columbus; snd Shepherd A- Dune.