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SOUTHERN TRIBUNE.
WH. B. lai(KISO.V)
•AVI) > EDITORS.
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Appoint mt-nis
Vs Preachers in the Georgia Conference for I^ol
Arorm Uistbict—Joriah Lswih.P. E-
Sa ran*ei *. Trinity Station -W . R Bra nha in.
“ Andrew Chapel—R. A. Connor.
Chatham To l>e supplied.
Syr ins field —\V. 1). Bu-sy.
ScriccH Circuit— Jim. M. Marshall.
Sixteen Mission — A. J. IteynnhU.
Darke Circuit —Thus. F. Fierce.
Dvrke .Mission —Alex. Avrett.
Farrhaten Mission —Alex. Gordon.
Richmond —John S. Dunn.
Lmtisnllt —Allred B. Smith.
Augusta Station \V. («. Connor.
“ Colored Charge —L J. Davies.
Cohimb'a— Freeman F. Reynolds.
l.inrolnton —W esley P. Arnold.
Washington —\V. H. Evans,VV. M. Poller.
Warren on Diviil Bla'nck.
Sparta —Daniel Kelsey.
Hancock Mission —Robert T. Jones.
At it r: ns District— \V. J. Parks, P. E.
Athens —Eustace \V. Speer.
L-xington Circuit —Haruu.l H. Parks.
U ltkinscille —Geo. Bright, J. 11. Hanis.
factory Mission —Andrew J. Denvers.
fiber.'on Wm. A. Florreuce.
Carnrsri'le —W.ll.C.Cone, i . R. Stewart.
G recu shoret Richard Lane.
Madison Station- Tamos B. Payne.
Mad non Circuit —Edward 1.. Stevens.
K’ngston Minion —lleni v Cranford.
C'lrington. and Oxford —C. W f . Krv. J.
It. Littlejohn.
Monroe —Andrew Nee»r.
]. 010-1/ College —Geo. F. Pierce, Presi
dent, A. Means, J. M. Bouneli, and
Y\ . J. Sassnett, Professots.
Madison. Female College —J. H. Echols.
* r m.vsviu.i: Drsrmcr—J.P.Tt »skr, P.E.
Gainseil'e Circuit —Wra. J. Cotter.
Lawrence oil!c —Albert Gray, J. It. Owen.
Clarksville—J <>lin H. Washburn.
Daldanega H.P.Pitchford.il. L. Harwell.
Clayton Mission— T. A. Bell.
Cun t on—.—A. Wright.
Murphey Mission —\V . A. Thomas.
State Ij'ite M ss on —To ho supplied.
Rlairst’il/e Mission —M. A. Cl uitz.
El ijay Mis.sim-J S lickland.J.H.Ctogan.
Marietta District —A. T. Maw, P. E.
Mar*rt'a Station —Jas. W. Hinton.
Marietta Cirvuit—S. J. Bellah, James M.
Dickey.
Cussviflc —"C. A. Crowell.
Rome Statitm —James 1,. Pierce.
Rome Circuit —James H. Ewing.
'Qothculoga — W indsor P. Graham.
Springplar.c—?>. 0. Quillian, L. B. Payne.
Ha le Mission To be supplied.
LaFayet'e—J. D. Adams.
Summerri/U —James L. Gibson,
las We it Mission —Claiborne Trussed.
LaGrange Dirt. —G. J. Pearce, P.E.
l.aGrange Station —l. P. Duncan.
Greenville —J. W. V at'h rough.
Troup —J. B. Wardlaw, J. Simmons.
Zebulon —M. Bel lull.
Griffin, Station —W. D Matthews.
M Donough —X. Smith.
Jackson — MeCatroll Purif.iy.
Allan'a Station —Chas. W. Thomas.
Decatur —J. T. Lmilh, J. T. Seutell.
Netcnan —J. W. Talley, F. L. Brantley.
Carrollton Mission —T. 11. Whitby, Wm.
B. Mcllnn.
1 ayetterille— Alfred Dorman.
Macon District —J. W. Glenn, P. E.
Macon —James li. Evans.
Colored Charge —Wm. A.Simmons.
Vinrville —Wm. R. Foote.
Aft/lcdgccille —J. Bradford Smith.
Jr a ton on —Vi. 15. Hebuaru.
Putnam Mission —,T. T. Flanders.
(■l'mton —Charles R. Jewett.
Monthello —Sidney M. Smith.
Forsyth— J. C. Simmons, *Sr.
Cul/oden —C. A. Fill wood.
fort T alley —J. Blakely Smith.
I'i.rt I alley Mission —'l'. C. Coleman.
Perry— J. H. Caldwell.
Or/nulgre Mission Wm. Norman.
M r airy an T 'cmale College —\V. H. Elli
son, President, E. 11. Myers, and O. L
Smith, Professors.
Collmbus District —S. Anthony, P. E.
Co'umbus Station Wm. M. Crumley.
“ Colored Charge —To l>e supplied.
Ta'batton Station —R. W. Bigham.
Fart cry Mission —M. H. White.
Talbit Circuit —J. P. Dickinson.
I a!hot Colored Mission —To be supplied.
Thoniastuh —J. W." Knight.
Hamilton —D. W illiamson, J. W. Perry.
Mwscogte —J. T. Turner
Lumpkin S'ation —J. S. Key.
Stewart —Y. F. Tigner.
Cuthbcrt and. Fort Gaines —V*. P. Kerch,
T. H. Jordan.
Randolph Col'A .I hssion —To lie supplied
Star koillc —J. C. Simmons, dr.
Buena Vista —E. \V . Reynold.-.
Lamer —Clms. L. Hayes.
America*—J. \V. Twiny.
C'luittahooehie Mission —\V. Brooks.
Callings worth Institution—J . B. Jackson
Superintendent.
Jkht.rso.vvh.lk Dist. --W.G. Parks, P E
Jejjersanvillc— Frederick D. Lmverv, Jas
N. Treywich.
Irumton —J. M. Bii^lit.
Stsnder^vdlc —James Jones.
Telfair- James M. Ans'in.
V l/ nna M. C. Smith.
JJcidnil/e -T. L. Harwell.
Duh'in Mission --To he supplied.
Emanuel Mission— W . C. W. McDuflfv
M In tosh and Darien Mission—John YV
Fanner.
Jesse Boling, Superintendent of Cali
f«*rni:i Mission.
Alex. M. Winn, Missionary to Califor
tiia.
Titos. C. Stanly, U. S. Navy.
Lovirk Pierce, Agent of American Bi
h‘« Sor’et v.
Prom Arthur's Home Gazette.
TIK Iff SHOES.
I»Y T. n. ARTlll’R.
"W hy Lizzy, dear,” exclaimed Uncle
Thomas, to his pretty neice, Miss Walton,
as she stepped upon the pavement from
her mo hers dwelling, one morning in mid
winter. "\uu are not going in this trim ]”
"Li what trim,” said Lizzy, glancing
first at her gloves, then upon her dress,
and then placing Irer hand upon her neck
and then upon her bosom to Teel if all was
right there. “Is anything wrong with my
dress, L ncle ?”
"Just look at yi*ur feet.”
“At my feet!” -And Lizzy’s eyes fell
ito the grourid. *T don’t see anything the
matter with them.’'
* Why, child, you have nothing on your
feel but paper soled French lasting boots."
“They have thick soles. Uncle ”
"Thick ! If you call them thick, you
will have to find anew term fa thinness.
Go right back and put oti your leather
boots."
“Leather boots!” Lizzy’s voice and
countenance showed an undisguised a
inazetncut.
“Yes, leather boots. You certainly
would’nt think ofigoitig out on a day like
this without having your feet well protect
ed with leather boots."
“Leather boots ! Why, Uncle Thom
as !” And ilit* musical laugh of Miss Wal
ton echoed on the air. “Who ever heard |
ofsuch a thing 1"
Uncle Thomas glanced involuntarily 1
down at his own thick, double soled, call }
ek'n understandings.
“Boots like them !” exclaimed the mer
ry girl, laughing again.
“But come along my good uncle,” she j
added, more seriously, drawing hefatm
with his, and attempting to move away.—
“W e’ll have all the neighborhood staring
at us. You can’t ho in earnest, I’m sure,
about my wearing clumsy leather hoots.
Nancy, the Irish, cook, has a pair; but
“And pray, Lizzy,” returned the old
gentleman, as lie yielded to the impulse
given him by his neice, and moved down
the street beside her—“ate you so much
heartier than Nancy—so much stouter and
stronger, that you can hear exposure to
dump and even wet pavements in thin
shoes, while she will not venture out un
less with leet well protected by leather
boos."
“My shoes are not tliio. Uncle,” persis
ted Lizzy; “They have thick soles."
“Not thin! Thick soles ! Look at
mine.”
Lizzy laughed ah ud as she glanced
and >Avti at her uncle's heavy hoots, at the
thought of having her delecate feet en
cased in leather.
"Look at mine !" repeated Uncle Thom
as. “And am 1 so much more delecate
than you are ?”
But Miss Walton replied to all this seri
ous remonstrance of her uncle, who was
on a visit from a neighboring town, with
laughing evasion.
A week of very severe weather had fil
led I lie gutters and blocked the crossings
with ice. To this had succeeded rain,
but not of long enough continuance to free
die streets from their icy encumbrance.—
A clear, warm day for the season followed;
and it was on tins day that Miss Walton
and her uncle went out for the purpose of
calling on a friend or two, and then visit
ing the Art Union Gallery.
Uncle Thomas Walton was the brother
( f Lizzy’s father. The latter died some
few years before, of pulmonary consump
tion. Lizzy, both in appearance and bodi
ly constitution, resembled her father. She
was now in her nineteenth year, her veins
full of young life, and her spirits as buoy
ant as the opening spring. It was just four
years since the lust visit of Uncle Thomas
to the ci y—four years since he looked up
on the fair face of Ids beautiful neice.—
Greatly had she changed in that time.—
When last lie kissed her blushing cheek,
she was a half-grown school girl now she
burst upon him a lovely and accomplished
young woman.
But Uncle Thomas did not fail to ob
serve in his neice certain signs that lie un
deistood too well as indications of a frail
and susceptible cousti ution. Two lovely
sisters, who had grown up by his side,
their charms expanding like summer’s
sweetest flowers, had, ail at once, drooped,
faded, withered and died. Long years,
had they been at rest ; but memory
vvos still green in his heart. When he
looked upon the pure face of his niece, it
seemed to Uncle Thomas as if a l«ng lost
sister was restored to him in the freshness
of beauty of her young and happy life, ere
the breath of the destroyer was upon her.
No wonder that he felt concern when he
thought of the past. No wonder that hy
made leiooiisi i aiicu against her exposure,
in thin shoes, to cold and damp pavements.
But Lizzy had no fear. She understood
not how fatal a predisposition lurked in
her bosom.
The calls were made; the Art-Union
gallery visited, and then Uncle Thomas
and his noice returned home. But, the
enjoyment of the former had only been
partial; for he could think of little else,
and see little else beside Lizzy’s thin shoes
and the damp pavements.
The difficulty of crossing the streets,
without stepping into water, was very
great ; and, in spite of every precaution,
Lizzy's feet dipped several times into lit
tie pools of ice-water, that instantly pene
trated the light materials of which her
shoes were made. In consequence, she
had a slight hoarseness by the time she
reached home, and Uncle Thomas noticed
that the col*>r on her checks was very
much heightened.
‘ Now 70 and rbnnj'p vour shop;,- ;m,t
; stockings, immediately,” said he, as soon
ns they euteied the House. “Your feet
must bie thoroughly satuiated.”
"Oh, no, indeed they are not.” replied
Lizzy. “At the most they are only a lit
tle damp.”
"A little damp !" said the old gontle
! man, seriously. “The grass waves over
many a fair young girl, who, but for damp
feet, would now be a source of joy to her
friends.”
“\V hy, Uncle, how strangely you talk !”
exclaimed Lizzy, becoming a little serious
in turn. Just then Mrs. W'ulton came in.
“D» sister,” said the old gentleman,
“see tnat this thoughtless girl of yours
changes her wet stockings and shoes im
mediately. She smiles at my concern.”
"Why, Lizzy, dear.” interposed Mrs.
W alton, “how can you be so imprudent 1
Go and put on your dty stockings at
once.”
Lizzy obeyed, and she left the room,
her unde said—
“ How can you permit that girl to go up
on the street, in mid-Aviuter, with shoes al
most as thin as paper.”
“Her shoes have thick soles,” replied
Mrs. Walton. “You certainly don’t think
that I would let her wear thin shoes on a
day like this.”
Uncle Thomas was confounded. Thick
shoes! French lasting, and soles of the
thickness of half a dollar !
“She ought to have leather boots, sis
ter,” said the old gentleman, earnestly
"Smut leather boots. Nothing less can be
called a protection for the Teel in damp,
wintry weather.”
“Leather boots !”
Mrs. Walton seemed little less surprised |
than her daughter had been at the same
suggestion.
“It is a damp, cold day," said Uncle
Thomas.
“True, but Lizzy was warmly clad. 1
am very particular on this point, knowing
the delicacy of her constitution. She nev
er goes out in winter time without her
furs.”
~ “Furs for the neck and hands, and last
ing shoes and thin cotton stockings for the
feet !”
“ Thick-soled boo s," said Mrs. Walton,
quickly.
“ There are thick soled boots”
And the old gentleman thrust out both
of bis feet, well clad in heavy calf skin.
M rs. Walton could not keep from hi**!.,
tug. as ihe unage of her daughter’s feet,
thus encased, presented itself to her mind.
‘Perhaps,’ said Uncle Thomas, just a
little captiously ; ‘Lizzy has a stronger
constitution than 1 have, and can bear n
-great deal more. For my part, Hiad al
most as leiftakea small dose or poison as go
out, on a day like this, with nothing on
my feet but thin cotton stockings and last
ing shoes.’
‘Boots,’ interposed Mis. Walton.
‘I call them boots,’ said the old gentle
man glancing and >wn again at bis stout,
double soled calfskins.
But, it was to no avail that Uncle Th<»
mas entered bis protest against thin shoes,
when, in the estimation of the city ladies,
thev were ‘thick.’ And so, in due time,
lie saw his error and gave up the argu
ment.
W lien Lizzy came down from her room,
her color was still high—much lusher
than usual, and her voice, as she spoke,
was a very little veiled. But she was
in hue spirits, and talked away mer
rily. Uncle Thomas did not, however,
fail tn observe that every little w hile she
cleared her throat with a low /t h em; and
he knew thin this was occasioned by an
increased secretion of mucous by the lin
ing membrane ol the throat, consequent
upon slight inflamation. The cause, he
attributed to thin shoes and wet feei; and
he was not far wrong. The warm boa
and rnufT were not sufficient safeguards
for the throat, when the feet wete exposed
to cold and wet.
That evening, at tea time, Mr. Walton
observed that Lizzy eat scarcely any thing,
and, that her face was a Title pale. He
noted an expression that indicated
either mental or bodily suffering—not
severe, but enough to make itself visible.
" Are yon not well I” he asked.
“Oh yes. very well,” was the quick
reply.
“ You are fatigued, then 1”
"A little.’’
"Go early to bed. A night's sleep will
restore all.”
Mr. Y\ alton said this, rather because
he hoped than believed that it would be
so.
“O yes. A night's rest is all I want,”
replied Lizzy.
But she erred in this.
“ Whefe is Lizzy ?” asked Mr. Walton,
on meeting his sister-in law, at the break
last table on the next morning. The face
of the latter worn a sober expression.
“ Not very well, 1 am sorry to say,” was
the answer.
“ What ails her ?”
*' She has taken a bad cold; I hardly
know how, perhaps from getting her feet
wet yesterday; and is so hoarso this morn
ing that she can scai eery speak above a
whisper.”
“ I feared as much,” was the old gentle
man’s reply. “ Have you sent fur your
doctor 1”
“ Not yet.”
“ Then do so immediately. A constitu
tion like her's will not bear the shock of a
bad cold, unless it is met instantly hy ap
propriate remedies.”
In due time the family physician came
He looked serious when lie saw the con
dition nfhrs patient.
** To what are you indebted for this?”
he asked.
”To thin times," was the prompt ieply
o. the Uncle, who was present.
" I have warned you against this more
than once," said the doctor, in a tone of
gentle reproof.
“ Oh no; brother is mistaken,” spoke
up Mrs. Walton, “."she wore thick-so.'ed
shoes. But the streets, as you know, were
very wet yesterday, and it was impossi
ble to keep the feet ilry.”
“Ifshe had worn good, stout, sensible
leather boots, as she ought to have done,
the water would never have touched her
feet,” said Mr. Walton.
oit had on your gums'?”-remarked the
physican, turning to Lizzy.
“■! hey ate so clumsy and unsightly—l
never like to wear them,” answered the
patient, in a husky whisper, and then she
coughed hoarsely.
1 he doctor made no reply to this, but
looked more serious.
Medicine was prescribed and taken;
arid, for two weeks, the physician was in
daily attendance. The inflammation first
attacked Lizzy’s throat—descended and
lingered along the bronchial tubes, and
finally fixed itself upon her lungs. From
this dangerous place it was not dislodged,
as an acute disease, until certain constitu
tional predispositions had been aroused
into activity. In fact, the latent seeds of
that fatal disease,-known as tubercular con
sumption, were, at this lime, vivified.
Dormant they might have lain for years;
perhaps through 1 ito, if all exciting causes
had been shunned. Alas! the principle
of vitality was now awakened.
Slowly, very slowly, did strength return
to the body of Miss Walton. Not until the
Spring opened, was she permitted to go
forth into the open air. Then her pale
cheek, and slow, feeble steps, showed too
plainly the fearful shock her system had
received.
A week or two after his remonstrance
with his neice about her thin shoes, Mr.
W alton returned home. Several lettets
received by him during the winter advised
him t>f the slate of Lizzy's health. In
the spning her mother wrote to him.
‘Lizzy is much better. The warm wea
'her, 1 trust, will completely restore her.’
But the o'd gentleman knew better.—
He had been a rleetily interested party in
a case like her’s before. He knew that
summer, witlfits warm and fragrant airs,
would not briiijFliack 'lie bloom to her.—
In July came an ither epistle.
Ihe hot weather is so debilitating f>r
Lizzy, that I am about taking to the sea
shore.’
Uncle Thomas sighed as he rend this,
permitted the letter to drop before bis
eyes, and sat for some time gazing upon
vacancy. Far back bis thoughts bad
wandered, and, before the eyes of bis mind
was the frail, fading form of a beloved
sister, who had, years before left her place
and her mission upon the earth, and pass
ed up higher.
‘The doctoi says that I must go South
"ith Lizzy,’ wrote Mrs Walton earlv in
December, 'and spend the winter. We
leave tor Charleston next Tuesday, and
may pass over to Havana.'
Uncle 1 homas sighed as before, and
then became lost in a sad reverie. He
had been to Havana with both of his sis
ters. ] lie warm South had been of use to
them. It prolouged, but did not save
their lives.
And so the month passed on—the sea
son came and went—hut health, alas !
returned not to the veins of the loiely
gill.
It was an autumn day, nearly two years
after that fatal cold, taken in consequence
of wearing thin shoes, that Mr. Walton
received a lettter sealed with 3 black seal.
‘As I feared,’ he murmured, in a low,
sad voice, gazing half abstractly upon the
missive. He knew too well its contents.
'Dear child ! I saw this from tho begin
ning.’
And the old man’s eyes became dim
with moisture.
He had nut erred in his conjecture.—
Lizzy Walton was dead.
The Cincinnati Times says, that
lit looking over a file of the Western Spy
and Hamilton Gazatte, published in Cin
cinnati in ISO 2, they found a letter copied
from a Philadelphia paper, in which is
stated that Gen. Lee, of the American Ar
my. had privately declared himself the au
thor of the Junius Letters; and the writer
of the communication, on comparing the
manuscript letters by Gen. Lee, with
those of Junius, was of opinion that the
similarity of style was sufficient to estab
lish tho General’s claim to the long dis
puted authorship.
Mount Vernon, the residence of
Genera! Washi!i"to n s*» Virginia tvoa
O ... . - - r) ***--i *■ **
named afierthe English admiral Vernon,
a brave officer,who fiist brought Washing
ton to the notice of the English Cabinet,
and which led to his getting his first com
mission.
(&r A gentleman having returned from
the East Indies, without having amassed
so largo a fortune as had fallen to the lot
of many, being asked by a friend, what he
had brought with him, replied, a lack of
rupees.
o^7”lf the stars appeared one night in
a thousand years, how would men believe
and preserve fir many generations the re-
Ttombrsnco of God which had been shown?
But every night comes out these preachers
«f beauty, and light the universe with
their >Jtri Miishiogsmile.
MACON, GA .
SATURDAY MORNING,JANUARY 11.
Imtortaat Movement.— Tha City Council
met on Thursday evening last, and paised Reio
: lotions authorizing the connexion of the Rail
Roads in this city, in accordance with a petition
1 of a majority of the voters of Macon, substantially
upon the following basis, viz : that the said Kail
Roads pay to the City of Macon $5,000 annually
and the rale* of freights between Griflin and
Oglethorpe and Savannah, shall always be at
least onefifth more, than between Macon and
van nali—the property of the Companies to be
subject to common taxation—and no toll to be
charged on the Railroad Bridge across the River
other than for ordinary Rcilroad purposes. The
proposition will be immediately presented to
the Railroad Companies, and if agreed to the
bargain will be consummated forthwith.
The Georgia Confkkkkck.—The List of
Appointments of the Preachers of this body
held at Savannah last week, will be found in
another column. The next Conference will be
at Griffin in January next.
Counterfeit Coir.- We saw yesterday a
counterfeit dime bearing date 1849. The letters
on one side were distinct, and on the reverse
the stars and figures were very much defaced.
I he piece is lighter and smaller than the genu
ine andean be easily detected by any person.
It is stated that counterfeit eagles, half eagles
and quarters, ore in circulation, which can only
be detected by weight. The die isquite perfect
but the impression is not quite so sharp nnd de
cided us the genuine coin, and the counterfeit
pieces have a dull sound in ringing, and ure
composed of silver overlaid with gold. The half
eagles, which arc, perhaps, the most numerous,
bear various dates, such aa 1844, 1845 and 1847.
Os the quarter eagle, only one date, 1843, and
hearing t lie O. mark, has as yet been detected,
but doubtless there are others in circulation.
The value of the halfeaglos assayed at the Mint
in Philadelphia, where they were pass, and unde
tected, was from $3 io $3 40, and the quarter
do. $1 25.
Df.cidedi.v Rich ! —The case of the slave
J esnv, said to have been delivered up under the
Fugitive Law of 1850, over which Southern
Submission papers crowed so much recently,
turns out to boa case that happened forty years
ago ! She was the property of Peter V. (Jev
scliso, of Schenectady, New York, and was
purchased from her owner for SIOO. But the
Sub. organs have not heard of this fact, yet—
when they do, they will mention it, perhaps !
Doctors will Disagree. —The Washington
inion., in an article upon the subject of the
National Union Convention, —advising the a
bandonment of this magnificent project—says:
“In the present exciting nnd cri ical condition
of our public affairs, it is unjust and ungenerous
to faithful and well-tried public servants to throw
suspicion around their patriotic efforts to save
the Union and preserve the integrity of the Re
public.”
Yet the Unions friend, Mr. Clat, savs the
country is free from agitation, and restored to
peace and safety ! Ci iite a difference between
an “exciting and critical condition of public
affairs," and “public quietude and freedom from
agitation !"
Odt at Last—The Boston t hronotips lies
recently issued some twenty thousand copies of
that paper, which have been sent to all the edi
tors and lawyers in the country, whose location
was known, in which an address appears having
for its object a neto interpretation of llie Consti
tution, so as to permit Congress to abolish slave,
ry in the Sta es Wc have long since believed
that this was a primary object of the Free Soilers
i and which in a few years hence they will ac
complish through an amendment of the Consti
tution prohibiting slavery—and then the Union
loving South will be called on to “acquiesce in
the peace measure."
Conquests of the South.—Wo are told hy
the “pacificators ' that the North will gee justice
done to the South, and will undoubtedly enforce
the fugitive Slave law. We have had, as yet,
no intimation of the fact that Southern men
have in reality, trer recovered their property
under its operation. True, some three or four
negroes have been delivered up from the thous
ands of fugitives there, but not until Northern
lawyers and courts had received the full amount
of their value, and sometimes more, in the shape
of fees, &c. The Southern Press says :
“We learn from unquestionable authority,
that in the much talked of Harrisburg case, the
owner was compelled to sell the slates to pay
expenses, and was left out of pocket af.er that
operation.”
Yet this is a “glorious Union” and the “Com.
promise" the ne plus ultra of the age !
Vaiui or Property in Hancock County.—
On the Ist inst., acre* of old land, belong
ing to the estate of John Rouser, in Hancock
county, about seven miles from the village of
Sparta, ware sold at auction for $3,050. Sir
John Sikes was the purchaser. At the same
sale, likely nagro girls of 16 to 17 years of age
broght $llOO each.
Cityllond*. —The City of Savannah ha* just
sold $30,000 of in Central Rail-Rosd *tock »t
par and interest. With the proceeds tho same
amount ofCity bonds has been redeemed. These
bonds notv command a premium of five per
cent.
Henry Long. — The fugitive from Virginia in
whine behalf such vigorous efforts were made
in New York, ha* been returned to his master.
Water Gas. — Pure gas, it is said, has beon
made from water, by someone in Pari*. The
flame is at first blue, but by placing a hoop of
plalina above the burner, a beautiful white light
i* produced, wliieli does not flicker nor smoke.
Paine, the inventor of the new light in this
country, ha* received letter* patent from Great
Britain
The New Tariff.
Gradually and cautiously the sagacious poli,j.
cians of the old Whig, now the Constitutional
Union Party, are beginning to show their hands,
and to make manifest the true object of their
patriotic ardor. “Union” is a great thing with
them, doubtless—particularly if it can forca a
majority poll al the ballot-box. It matters not
where these votes come from, nor who the voters
,re— whither they be Northern Abolitionists or
hot-beaded Southern “fire-eaters,” is all one—a
vote is a vote, and enough of them will elect.—
And when once a Federal head is in the chair
at Washington, they have gotten a modern Atlae
with the political world upon his shoulders, and
the ability to cast it where he pleasea.
But wc think they are a little too faet this
time. They have made too many presumptions
upon the will of the people in bye-gone days to
manage their concerns in such a summary way.
It sometimes proves true, that a man, in endea
voring to do too much, accomplishes nothing
go it will be with the pseudo-Constitutional
Unionists, we believe, unless the people of
Georgia are more inclined to the doctrines of
Federalism than we suppose. Scarce hnd the
new party passed one moon of its infantile ex
istence, before it was saddled with the parti
colored Coat of II igh Protection by its god.
father 11 v. art Clat- The great “compromiser*
thought that inasmuch as the people oftheSouth
had given some premonitions of their gullibility,
he would just then furnish a cue for subordin
ate performers upon the "light fantastic toe" o f
humbuggery, and call it an effort to preven.
“fraud and abuse. There has been no response
to this pioneering blow as yet among the wire
workers of the “harmonious" Unionists, but the
notification has served the purpose. Heart
Ci-av is still nn aspirant for the Presidency, and,
with his love for “the Union" at the South, and
of High Protection measures nt tile North, he is
perhaps quite confident of success.
Why is Pennsylvania so essentially “Ameri
can" as tn desire the exclusion of foreign pro
ducts ? Because her coal manufacturers feel the
competition of the British minerals, and wish to
have the monopoly of the whole market But
why cannot Pennsylvania afford to sell her coal
and iron cheaper than that which must be im
ported three or four thousand miles ? Probably
the Protectionist w ill answer, because the pri( #
of labor is not so high in England as America.
And pray, wliar is the price of labor in America?
A bare support. And how much in England >
A support, nothing more. Are provisions then
higher in this country, than in Great Britain ?
They are not. Who pays, then, according to
tais estimate, most for the producing means ?
Certainly the English miner. And does his
freight to this country, transportation from the
mines to the seaports ofEnglai.d, etc , cost him
nothing? Most assuredly not. How then can
the foreigner afford to undersell the native miner,
so as to be a dangerous competitor ? Ah! tha,
is the question. The foreigner is willing to sell
his produce at a smaller profit than the Ameri
can, nnd consequently, the Protectionists wish
him excluded. These lords of ihc mine nnd of
the loom persuade their unskilful workmen that
without 30 or 40 per centum realized clear upon
their investments they will he bankrupt, and of
course the employed must he ground to the very
lowest possible point above starvation, in order
to insure them a li»ing at all, while the capital
ist is doubling his outlay every three or four
years. Southern farmers must toil from year t<*
year to furnish ths consumers of his cotton with
a profit unequalled by any other ordinary invest
ment, and then be forced to vote them nn exclu
•ivo use of Southern patronage, with the privi
lege of reduced prices fur Southern cotton, nnd
increased prices for Northern manufactures.
And this is what Mr. Ci.at call* the preven.
lion of “frauds and abuses.” It i* not fair tha*
Southern planter* should be permitted tochoose
markets, and to have an alternative in case ofa
combination of money against labor—but they
must be compelled to sell and buy at the price*
fixed by the Northern consumer, and the North
ern producer. But, say the Protectionists, er"
tablish high import duties and you.g«t high pri
ces for your cotton, and our goods at low
The reverie is thn fact. A monopoly in the
sale and purchase of any article never did give
the dependent party a voice in fixing the prices.
If Southern men want the North to assume
guardianship over them, they may tacitly con.
sent to these merciless drafts upon their purses,
but if they are disposed to do their own thinkirg
they will treat this attempt at legal robbery with
due indignation and contempt.
1 lie property of the South may be stolen from
its owners ; judges from tho bench, statesmen
from the forum, and ministers from the pulpit,
may justify every mean of practical nullifica
tion of the laws of the land, to thwart the own
ers in arresting and procuring their constitution
a! rights, without at all exciting the placid feel
ings of Mr. Clay, or calling down a word of.
condemnation or warning from Ilia lips upon
the perpetrators of these deeds ; but when he
thinks the California opiate has sufficiency
lulled the nerves of the lethargic Southerners,
lie has an Argus eye and a Stentorian »oico for
the cheated and wronged capitalists of the North!
It is only, however, to prevent“fraud and abuse!'*
State Legislatures may openly nullify the expli
cit acts ofCongress ; the people may “abure”
the Constitutional rights of Southern men, just
as much as they please, and Mr. Clay is ailent,
for lie hopes to gull tho South, and buy the
North into his support,—but when there is *n
opportunity to gain votes beyond Mason & Di *,
on's line, he is prepared to take advantage
of it.
Now, be it remembered, this is the veritable
Henry Clay, of 1844 memory, and the “Com
promiser'' of 1850—the “embodiment" of prin
ciples for tho “ Constitutional Union Party !
This is a part of the rtatform on which South
ern Democrats are earnestly besoeched to rally •
Protection to Northern manufacturers and degra~
dation to Southern mechanics and farmer* ! !
Well ! truly we hare arrived at a lamentable
epoch in popular wisdom, if this game of sur
render and insult to common sense is suffered
to pass without the effective dentMtciahsn oftli*
working ntrrt of the South