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MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS. Monument at Waterloo.—“ While enga ged going oveivthe plains of Waterloo, my attention was often attracted by a most stu pendous work going on, men, horses and carts, in great numbers, being employed ; but from the interest I felt in the details of the battle, and guide’s description, iit was some length of time before I could inquire what the building was intended for; at length the opportunity served, and upon inquiry I found it to bo a monument which the Go vernment of the Netherlands had ordered to bn erected on the spot where the Duke of Wellington, and those who partook with him in the glory of that day, stood, and where he issued those commands which decided that great event. The Duke’s head quarters, at the commencement of the engagement, were between two hills, on the road from Brussels to Charleroi, behind the farm of La Hayde Sair.te ; but the French getting pos session of that farm, the Duke then moved his head quarters about two or three hun dred yards to the right, on the rising ground •on which this monument is now erecting. This monument, as it is called, has a very imposing effect in its unfinished state. It is an earthem mound or hill of a conical form resembling one on the Bath road, near Kennott, but of larger dimensions, and more vstriking appearance. It is of immense size Being upwards of seven hundred feetdiame ter at the base, or two thousand one hun dred and sixty feet circumference. fl was two hundred feet high, and one hundred feet in diameter at the top ; here is ar double carriage-road winding round it, in a. spiral form, and supplying an ea»y means ofaseeot, for carriages, to the very top; and by this road the materials have /been, and ate 'conveyed, to complete the 'work. In the .cerbre is a shaft of brick work,which has been Curried up from the bottom, and is still going* on. It is to be sixty feet higher Ilian the top of the earthem mound, making the whote'beight of two hundred and sixty feCfc It intended for a pedestal, to re ceive a Ikkji'Xwhich I understand,is the crest of anrorpf Belgium,) twenty-two feet long, and Wgh, which is ready to be put up'4feen the work is finished. The mound has bep*ei^<6«fr months in hand, and is to be completed “ g on mice, from i he great and carts, and ecend’ng by the win JFW ng road/ horses, and de- —Demo. A very curious scene occured ion Wed nesday uight, at the Dublin Theatre. The opera of Guy Mannering was performed, Miss C played Julia Mannering and sung her songs horribly out of time. In the duet “ Now hope, now fear,” her screaming was more discordant than the notes of the -peacock. The audience laughed, and Bra- ham tittered. The lady became enraged, and the audience became more funny. At length her fury rose to such a pitch, that his sing superseded the less angry manifesta tion of dislike. She darted forward and commanded the orchestra to cease and she addressed the audience in the following manner: “ To one of my sex it is painful to be obliged to address an audience, but my natural timidity [loud laughter] aye, to be sure, my delicacy [increased laughter" on this occasion, shall not prevent me. have been now tor two years endeavouring to please you and I have not succeeded. [Hear.] You are hard to be pleased, shall leave you. Cries from the galleiy, “ Oh ! don't; leave us a lock of your hair for a keep-sake!” “ 1 shall leave you; I quit you this moment for ever ; aye, for ever!” The Lady marched off and shouts of laugh ter and hissing accompanied her retirement. She did not appear afterwards.—London Paper*. Wc understand, says the Recorder, that in some of tiie counties, it has been detenuined to vote for Cor. Troup to succeed Col. Tatnall. Wc arc au thorised to say, that the 'private aTKairs of Gov. T. requiring all his attention, would prevent him from accepting that office, however honourably conferred. We are authorised, says the Journal, to announce George R. Gilmer, Esq. of Oglethorpe, as a candi date for Congress, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Col. Tatnall. In calling the attention of the public, in our last, to the claims of Richard W. Habersham, Esq. upon it9 suffrages, we were governed by the general sen timent as expressed upon this subject; and with a view of effecting a concentration of public opinion in favour of this individual, for whom, at least imme diately around us, a preference had been given* founded upon a knowledge of his patriotic princi ples, and upon a belief thaSvthe commercial interest of the state should be represented by the election of a member from the East. Mr. Habersham’s name has been suggested, not announced, as a candidate to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Col. Tatnall. His acceptance may' therefore be con sidered as predicated upon uncertainty even if elect ed. The above announcement of one as high in standing as he is eminent in talent, if it does not unite, will at least draw the attention of the public. Capt. Matthew Talbot is no more!—It becomes our melancholy duty to announce the death of Capt. Matthew Talbot, who departed this life at his resi dence, in Wilkes county, on Tuesday morning the 18th inst. at 3 o’clock. A sympathising public-, gene rally, cannot fail, on this occasion, to mingle their and esteem of his fcltbw citizens, to whom he was endeared, and by whom he has, through a long life, valued and respected. a Supplement to the “ Truth Teller,” of Sept, iblished at Now* York, to which we refer our we have intelligence of the death of the Hon. George Canning, Prime Minister of En- London papers of the 4th ult. sjieak of Mr. Owning’s sickness, and of his having “ continued much indisposed at Cheawick,” the place of his de ceased but the source whence this intelligence is de rived is stated to be an arrival with dates to the 15th ol August; from which, however, this is the only item that has yet reached us.—The death of Mr. Canning, from the high and commanding station which he occupied, may be supposed more or less to affect the feeling, if not the policy, of every go vernment politically connected with Great Britain. “ When vulgar minds Expire, they drop beneath the stroke of fate With no more tumult than autumnal leaves Forsake their sapless bough. But majesty With noise and pompous horror rushes down, As if the violence of nature tore A planet from its orb.” mercantile part of age ct Athens. This appears to him obvious to require elucidation ; he mil therefore proceed to notice the other point embraced in the report, why the compara tive goodness of the ground through which the proposed new road was to be opened, with that of the road now in use. On this, as well as all other subjects, it is known that good men, often differ in opinion, al though acting with equally good intentions ; and plthough the writer believes those gen tlemen to have been actuated by the purest motives in making their report, he would ob serve that such is the frailty of human na ture, that the*best of men are sometimes liahle to err, and to that opinion he would oppose the united voice of the inhabitants of the district, who, with three or four excep tions, are of an opinion directly the reverse, and who, together with the writer, confident ly believe that with equal labour, even ad mitting the distance were equal,- which is far from being the fact, the road now in use would be mvjch the best for many years to icoaie. It has beep before observed there are perhaps four gentlemen residing in the district who differ with their neighbours in this opinion. The writer is willing, in con sideration of their superiority of intellect, to suffer those gentletnen to indulge in this opinion ; but he |annot help observing that it is strange, parsing strange, that among so many respectable inhabitants, there are only three or four possessing discernment to enable them to judge what is best for their own interest. There are many weighty and in the opinion of the writer, unanswer able arguments which might be adduced, did tinife 'permit, to prove that the proposee alteration, if carrieff into effect, would be at tended with serious injury to the inhabitants of the district, as well as to the citizens of Athens : these ho proposes to reserve for a future communication. If in the foregoing statement he has omitted or misrepresented any fact or point of material importance such was not his intention nor is he sensi ble of,it. He acknowledges that in com- regrets with those who, coanected with him in at bond of pvliUaa! uqi6n, w<a»»oon to join in the ad-imon with therestaf the inhabitants, he feels vancement of his claim to .an office of high trust and' ti trust and interested in the result of the proposed al- rcsponribility, , CaptrTalbot, uniting in ltis charaq- teration, but he. Spurns with indignation the t»f* aa a citizen, qualifications as rare as they arc ex- cellen*-, presented strong claims to the confidence grovelling idea of seeking to promote that interest at the expense of his peaceable neighbours or the public good. The writer will close this Communication with only one other remark on the difference of distance : this he conceives impossible correctly to ascertain until the precise spot is known on which the contemplated new road is to be placed, and until that road is opened, should that ever take place, which he thinks highly improbablo, he has no hesitation in saying that this difference will be still more in fa vour of the road now in use. ' A PLAIN CITIZEN. Getting into Notice.—The best talents in the world must be known in order to be patronised. Mao is the child of opportuni ty-circumstance either makes or mars him —bathe may sometimes make circumstance. Some years ago, a young lawyer of fine ta lents and deep learning, and a graceful and powerful orator withal, settled in one of our western villages. He took no letters of in troduction, and knew nobody. He united in vainjor clients, his abilities were'un known, and of course, unappreciated. At length he devised a plan for bringing himself into notice. He took a rattan, walked over the way to Mr. Smith’s store, and without saying a word astonished the unoffending Mr; S. with a terrible flogging. A prosecu tion followed—our young lawyer made a .splendid speech, showed what he was, was fined an hundred dollars, and was immedi ately retained in three suits of importance. He has since made a large fortune by Us profession—JY. F. Courier. Mrs. Hemans—The pr Philadelphia Album have ors of the . „ asaIar 7 to Mrs. Hemans, to- , rent free and furni accept the Editorship of thei; ow not whether the propos ccepted, but we should rejoi " i-hearted* and gifted wo; ica.—■Sav. Republu [COMMUNICATION.] Mr. Editor—The writer of the following communication has always been of the opinion that one principal advantage of a free press is the opportunity it affords .of public discussion and disseminating correct information on subjects but imperfectly un derstood or perhaps purposely misrepresent ed. Under this impression, and with this sole object in view, he proposes through the medium of your useful paper, to submit a few observations on the subject of the pro posed alteration of the road leading from Trail creek Meeting-House to the village of Athens, which, if effected, he is of the opinion would operate to the injury of the inhabitants of that district, and also, although in a less degree, affect the citizens of the former place. The writer, being a plain matter of fact man, will confine his present remarks to such as are within the knowledge of the public generally, at least that part of it interested^ in the proposed alteration; and first, he believes it is known to be a fact that seven commissioners were appointed by the Honourable the Justices of the Inferior Conrt to examine and report on the expedi ency and propriety of the proposed altera tion, and that six of those gentlemen signed a report in its favour, on the principle (cer tainly a very correct one) that the contem plated nq’w road would be placed on higher and better ground, and that the difference in distance would, from information, be only 7 1-2 chains. Never having saw the report, the writer does not assert that those are the exact words, but believes the tenor or mean ing of the same import. Here it is but jus tice to those gentlemen to state that (through inadvertence, not intention) they were guilty of an oversight in acting on a supposition that the road now in ubo was actually two miles from the bridge to the post usually called the two mile post, on the Trail creek road, whereas, it is mow pretty correctly ascertained to ho only one and a half miles 1€ chains, making a difference of half a mile less 8 1-2 chains in favour of the old road now used. This great difference be tween the report of the commissioners and what is now understood to be the actual dif ference, is not imputed to those gentlemen as a fault; they only acted as the writer him- ed,* sfcli* would no doubt hdVc done in believing the distance to be what it was usually said to be. THe writer thinks it superflous to dwell on the effects'this difference (adding ^ u -ut or nearly ^one thin! to the present dis- i) would have on the inhabitants of the MEETING IN ELBERTON. ■■ Pursuant to previous notice a number of the citizens of Elbert county assembled in Elberton, on the 16th ult. to take into con sideration the expediency of adopting some measure opposed to the extension of the ex isting Tariff. €fen. John.A. Heard was called to the chair, and Benajah Houston appointed secretary; and on motion, the chair ap pointed A Stinchcomb, Esq., Capt. James Oliver# May. A. Hammond, Simeon Oliver, Esq., and Maj. Isaac JV*. Davis, a commit tee to prepare and report a Preamble anc Resolutions expressive of their feelings and opinions on the subject, and were directed to report to a convention of the citizens of said county on this day, to which time they then adjourned.—-Pursuant to adjournment, a very large number of the citizens of the county met at tWe Court-house, when Gen. Heard resumed the chair, and Maj. Davis, from the comrhittee, reported the following preamble and resolutions, which were unani mously adopted:— PREAMBLE. If our constitution breathe a spirit of equa lity, and if public policy^requires impartia legislation in 'all cases, the present antici pated extension of the Tariff, and more par ticularly the . Bill commonly called the * Woollens Bill, 1 is an unwarrantable in fringement on the one, and wholly uncalled for by the other—It would be an infringe ment on the Constitution, because it would be partial in its operations, and contrary to public policy,—First, because it would not only he oppressive^ but because it would have a direct tendency t? make agriculture and commerce dependent on and tributary to the manufacturing interest.—Secondly, because it would extort from poverty its hard earnings, and suffer wealth to escape without imposing on it any additional bur dens.—Thirdly, because it would destroy competition in the market, making the agri cultural and commercial classes dependant upon the mercy of the manufacturing capi talists, to give them what they please for the raw material, and ask them what they please for their manufactured article.—Fourthly, because it would create ; aristocracies and monopolies, and cool down that laudable emulation and industrious excitement which ought always to characterize competition.— Fifthly, because it would give rise to a sys tem of smuggling and per jury, much to be deprecated in any. country.—Sixthly, be cause it would destroy the revenue, thereby compelling the government to resort to the direful necessity of direct taxation to sup port itself.—And finally, it would be contra- ry to public policy, because it would inevi tably excite feelings which would be well- ca calculated to interrupt the harmony of this ife union.—It is therefore unanimously Resolved, That we will co-operate with our fellow citizens generally, in all legiti mate means, to-oppose anv extension of Tariff, and especially the passage of is-cailed the ‘Woollen’s Bill,’ and that will unite with them in the most efficient means by which, in the event of its passage, its oppressive operations can be defeated. Resolved, That we hold agriculture, com merce, and manufactures inseparably con nected ; and that when the government fos ters one, it must be done at the expense of the other. * Resolved, That we recommend a conven tion of all the states whose interests would be materially injured by the increase of the Tariff, in order to adopt such measures as in their judgment would countervail the evils meditated against their growth and prosperity. The meeting was addressed by Gen. W iley Thompson, Col. Philip H. Alston, and Maj. Davis.—On motion of Maj. Isaac N. Davis, Resolved, That a copy of the foregoing preamble and resolutions be transmitted to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress from this state, at the next session. On motion of Thomas J. Heard. Esq. it was further resolved, that the proceedings of the meeting be signed by the chairman and secretaiy, and published in the Georgia Journal and Athenian. JOHN A. HEARD, Chair'n. B. HOUSTON, Sec'y. September 4th, 1827. From the Constitutionalist. A numberof the citizens of B countv, in this'state, assembled en the 1st Septem ber, at an appropriate place, for the purpose of partaking of a Barbacue given in honor of Captain M. Talbot, at the hour of two o’clock, P. m. A long table was prepared, covered with meats of almost all descriptions and a quantity of fine liquor, to wit, potatoe whiskey.. Two hundred and ten persons fared sumptuously. After getting through j all. with th^ir meats, it was unanimously agreed by the company, that a President and Vice- President of the day, should be appointed ; after which, the President rose and feeling ly stated the object of the meeting :— “ That the object of their assemblage to day, was to partake of a few festivals, and mingle a few sentiments in honor of their old friend Mathew Talbot; as it was alto gether probable that he would be hard run for votes, on the first Monday in October next, his friends should resort to all strata gems.tjiey can, in order to make an impres sion with the people in hts favor”—after the President had proceeded thus far, one of the compahy made a motion, “ that it should be ascertained how many persons were in favour of Capij. Mathew Talbot for Governor ”- and the jquestioc being put by the President, it appeared there were but twenty-three out of two hundred and ten, including the Presi dent and Vice-President, found in favour of our friend Talbot’s election. There was a complete pause : the President and Vice- President stood as electrified.—“ Well, gen tlemen, you do not understond the question I put—I will put it to you in a different shape—all those in favour of the Honoura ble John Forsyth to the Executive chair, will signify it by rising”—one hundred and ninety-two rose in favour of Mr. Forsyth’s election; five more than were found in his favour on the question first put. “ Well, well, well,” says the President; “as we find our ends completely defeated, we had better try to get a “ unionnimity ” of senti ment on this subject. “ Yes, Mr. Presi dent,” says one of the Talbot men—“ I will suggest to you to put the question the third time, and let us try to be of the same side of the question.” “ Well,” says the President —“ once more—those in favour of Mr. Forsyth’s election will signify it by rising ” All rose ! After this, the Vice-President asked leave to offer a few words—“ Gentlemen, as it appears that our sentiment is unanimous in favor otf Mr. Forsyth’s election, we should not adjourn our meeting without offering a few toasts on the occasion—I offer this :— John Forsyth, the patriot and statesman, and able defender of state rights—may he be our next Governor”—drank standing cheers. Says the President, “ permit me, gentlemen, to give a toast—John Forsyth, our candidate for the next Governor—may he succeed in his cause ’’—after which, one of the gentlemen asked leave to draw up a resolution which was accordingly done as follows : Resolved, that we having assembled here Ihis day to partake of festivals and mingle our sentiments on subjects of public interest, do unanimously agree to give our suffrage to John Forsyth, our worthy fellow- citizen., on the first Monday in Octobef next, which resolution was agreed on and ordered to he published in the Constitutionalist when the company adjourned, well pleased and in perfect harmony. FROM THE RICHMOND WHIG. “ These were the signs which called forth from that great apostle of freedom, Jefferson, his last but terrible warning: “ My coun try !” said he, 44 thou too, will experience the fate which has befallen every free go vernment—thy liberties will be sacrified to the glory of some military chieftain. I had fondly hoped to have found in thee an excep tion ; but thy support of Jackson—a man who hai» disregarded every order he receiv ed—who has trampled under foot the laws and constitution of his country—-and who has substituted his own ungovernable will as his own rule of conduct—thy support of man shakes my confidence in the of man for self-government, and I lost.” This is the language of the triot. "\nd if we followed him with d confidence, and with un pled success, in times and seasons emptation. what deference ie to his opinion when delivered u i solemn circumstance, and condition little less imposing than if he had just risen from the dead! Under such high authority, I the more confidently assert, that the effort to elect Jackson, is the fruitful fountain of the prevailing mischiefs, which every sober man must deprecate, as dis turbing the repose and threatening the safe ty of the Republic. This infirmity of a blind and idolatrous devotion to military success— the bane of every republic tha\ has gone be fore us—is the prolific soil whose harvest of bitterness we are now teaping. In the phrensy it produces, reason is no longer heard. The grossest falsehoods are propa gated and believed—every object is sneri • ficcd without scruple to the success of the idol. Monticello, December 26, 182.5. EXTRACT. Dear Sir—“ I see as you do and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government, is advancing towards the usurpation of all the rights reserved to the states, and the consolidation in itself, of all power, foreign and domestic, and that too by constructions, which, if legitimate, leave no limits to their power. Take together the decision of the federal court, the doctrines of the President, and the misconstructions of the constitu tional compact acted on by the legislature of the federal branch, and it is btt too evi dent that the three ruling branches of that department, are in combination to strip their colleagues, the state authorities, of the powers reserved by them, and to exercise themselves, all functions, foreign and do mestic. Under the power to regulate com merce, they assume, indefinitely, that also over agriculture and manufactures; a$d call it regulation too, to take the earnings of one of these branches of industry, and that too, the most depressed, and put them into the pockets of the other, the most flourishing of Under the authority to establish post roads, they claim that of cutting down mountains, for the construction of roads, of digging canals ; and aided by a little sophis try on the words “ general welfare,” a right to do, not only the acts, to effect that, which are specifically enumerated and permitted, but whatsoever they shall think, or pretend, will be for the general welfare. And what is our resource for the preservation of the constitution ? Reason and argument. You might as well reason and argue with the marble columns encircling them. The Re presentatives chosen by ourselves—they are joined in the combination, some from incorrect views of government, some from corrupt ones, sufficient voting together tor out number the sound parts, and with ma jorities of only 1, 2 or 3, bold enough to go forward in defiance. Are toe then to stand at arms ?” [A few words arc/here omitted, relating merely to an individual.] “ No! that must he the last resource, not to be thought of until much longer, and greater sufferings. If every infraction of n compact of so many parties is|o be resisted at once as a dissolution of it., none can ever be formed which would last one year. Wo must have patience andJUmg endurance then, with our brethren,. While uBder delu sion. Give them time for refit-ction and experience of consequence^}; ketlffcourselves in a situation to profit by tlie chapter] of ac cidents—and separate from ovr companions, only when the sole alternatives? left, are the dissolution of our union with them, or sub mission to a government without'limitation of powers. Between these two evils, when we must make choice, there can be no hesi tation ; but in the meanwhile, the .states should bfe watchful to note every material usurpation on their right—to denounce them as they occur in the most peremptory terms, to protest them, as wrongs to which our present submission shall be considered, not as acknowledgements or precedents of right, but, as a temporary j ielding to the lesser evil —until their accumulation shall overweigh that of separation. I would go still fur ther, and give to the federal member, by re gular amendment of the constitution, a right to make roads and canals intercommunica tion between the states—providing suffici ently against corrupt practices in Congress (log rolling, &c.) by declaring that the fede ral proportion of each state of the monies so employed, shall be in works within the state, or elsewhere, with its consent, and with a ' due salvo of jurisdiction. This is the course, which I think, safest and best as yet. You ask my opinion of the propriety of giving publicity to what is stated in your letter, as having past between Mr. John Q. Adams and yourself. Of this, no one can judge but yourself. It is one of those ques tions which belong to the Forum of feeling. This alone can decide on the degree of con fidence implied in the disclosure.—Whe ther, under no circumstances, it was to be communicable to others. It does not seem to be of that character, or at all to meet that aspect. They are historical facts, which belong to the present, as well as future time. I doubt whether a single fact, known to the world, will carry as clear a conviction to it, of the correctness of our knowledge of the treasonable views of the federal party of that day—as that disclosed by this most nefarious and daring attempt, ’to dissever the Union, of which the Hartford Conven tion was a subsequent chapter n an<i both these having failed, consolidation becomes the first book of" their historyi-r-OBut this • opens with a vast accession of strength,' from their younger, recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or j * of ’76, now look to a single government of an Aristocracy, banking institutions and me r * tions, under the guise a favoured branches of mt merce and navigation, riding and ruling < the plundered ploughman, and omanry. This will be & lbfem a nex v - rii