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JOCR-VAL A MESSENGER.
j vHES T. NISBET & S. ROSE* Editors.
Nothin:; new (Jader the Sun.
The present age thinks it is in advance of those that
have gone before it. We pride ourselves oil our dis
ooveries in science, and the inventions which ingenu
ity and skill have nude in mechanics, and we look out
upon cultivated fields and beautiful gardens, covered
with grain tor food and 11 twers to enchant the eye,
and we say, what would itmse who have gone before
ushavesaid.il they could ever have anticipated that
such wonders were sn store for ns? And then w
have steam engines traversing the ocean in boat.’
and flying over the land on railroads —and crowning
all, the magnetic telegraph, which annihilates space
and is destined to bring the ends of the earth into in
slant communion. And then we have a thousand oth
er inventions, patented and in use as the discoveries ot
the age.
Bui row and then some curious searcher of the rec
ord-i of the past, will disturb oar complacency, by bring
mg to light memo!iai3 of the olden times, which look
as if the’ ages that hail gone before us, things w re
known winch onr world had forgotten, and that which
is new to us wasoid to them. And they show us too,
most provokingly, that the men ol the olden time knew
how to use and ho w to make works ol arts and science,
a knowledge which the wisdom and the skill ol this
age, h is not yet rec overed Horn the oblivion into wh:c!i,
in some of the eclipses of the mind, it passed. The
evidence that such things were known, and such works
made, is gathered Torn the records and memorials ih i
are lett; but when or how and by whom these tiling’
were done and ibis knowledge possessed, and how th. I
knowledge was lost, is a problem which every curious
inquirer will answer for himself—whilst the fact itsi il
will suggest to every mind, that if this knowledge was
lost to ihe world for ages, why may we not suppos.
that other things,or all that we regard as new, was
known to the men who lived in the times of w hich we
have no record ?
But we are passing from our subject. We had in
view’, when we took it up, some recent scene in tn<
House ot Represenmtives, which certuinly distinguish
ed the actors in it,%ut which, they must not suppose,
confers a new honor upon them. They are but follow
ers—bad imitators, perhaps, at that—of great men who
lived in the classic ages, and even of others who dis
tinguished themselves in what way we may claim tube
our own times. A correspondent of the New York
Times brags the record up. In the Epistles of Ciceio,
book ix. ep. 84. ad. Auicum.we hive an account of
a scene in the Senate House, when Julius Curenr was,
as our” members of Congress were doing, defining his
position. Cicero thus describes it:
“Having o.dy tr ties to write, I nevertheless send you,
mv Anicu', ail account ol the late shindy, in which
our Caesar wn9engaged. He was denying roundly an
allegation of Cato, w hen the crusty old man ll -w upon i
him, tooth and nail, tpugnis ei ealeikut,) and black
ed ins eye, in a most convincing m inner. The ve
racity of Cato is no longer doubtful, lor he proceeded :
to punish CiEsar’s lose, in a sum perlundete.) in a
and irrefragable st vie. Julius lelt lor ins Bowie knife,
igladiolti in. )but wasre9trained by the Conscript Fathers,
who shortly after formed a ring, and voted a civic j
crown to both orators.”
What Cato and Ciesar did, surely members of our
Congress may do—and if the Roman Senators were
voted a civil crow n, how can our Congress excuse
themselves for slighting its belligerents, by withholding
similar honors Irnm them ?
But even Cato and Caesar were imitators They
had an example for what they did. in a scene in the
Athenian Assembly long before, between .iwdiiues
and Demosthenes The former had made some re
marks personal to the latter, when—but Flutaieh tell
thestory. Life of .Es hi ms, sec. iff:
“He fetched the orator such a blow in the face as
was clieauerthan a syllogism ; but Deinosiheties, with
that deinosis which belongs to him,flew at Ins rival,
and was about to gouge oui hi-eye. when the Assent
biy cried out that they were satisfied with the argu
ments and virtues of the two (kalokngalhoi) gentle
men.”
So here it is in evidence that it is only Demosihene
an to do. as was done the other • ay in itte flail ot our
House ot Representatives.
Hi'torv thus stamps it as not only classical, but or
atorical—to pull noses and gouge out eyes in Senate
halls.
But the authority for such things does not stop with
the classics. It is lound in this age, if not la this c< -
tury. In the repoit of the proceedings ol the Engl i'll
House ol Commons, by Hansard, (vol. XCVII, page
Byd.) is reeorded th- follow ing scene between Pitt and
Fox, in ihe debate an the bid tor increasing the Span
ish line :
“Mr. Fox here assailed the positions of ihe Peimier I
with rapid sarcasu and keen personality, calling tin*
honorable gentleman a black uaid and a of a
To which Mr. Put replie I by spitting tobacco
juice in ihe face ot the other. Mr. Fox, nothing daun
ted, clenched with his adversary, and the two orators
were soon rolling in a true Cornish hug, with he occa
sional spirting of claret and several milling punches in
the breadbasket. After a suitable tune, the comba
tants made bows and apologies,and received the cheers
of the House.”
Thus is it shown that these Congressional brawls j
are not new, but that from the ages that have gone j
before us. they come down to ottr own. So here we i
have proof that fighting in Congress is not new.
Whether Cato and Cro-ar,and JE chines and Dem
osthenes, and Pitt and Fox, realiy did themselveshon
or.or thought they did, by the pans siiey ncteJ in ihe
scenes recorded, may be disputed. Our members ol
Congress will decide tor themselves. But if this tig it
ingm the halls of legislation is to be set down asa cus
tom, we should hope that membeisol Congress would
regard it a ‘ custom more Ignored in the breach titan
the observance.”— Balt. Patriot.
Nummary.
The Cabinet Difficulty —The intelligent corres j
pendent X. ol the Bait. Sun, deniespostively tbe rumor
that Gov. Corwin has been requested by the President
to resign.
The Nightengale a\d hex Mate going to Eu
rope—By private letter, received m Boston, the Com
monwealth learns that Mrs. Jenny Lind Goldschmidt,
and her husband, contemp ate sailing fur Europe m
May next. It ia rumored that they intend to leturntn !
the United Stales and re-ide permanently at Round I
Hill, -Northampton.
CP It is stated that, sod sastrous has been the com
mercial business of the merchants of Liverpool, daring
the past year, their losses during the time, are estimat
ed at tbiny-five millions of dollars.
G2F The Government ot Mexico has tendered to
this Government a project ot a treaty in rega:d to the
right of way across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. The
terms are different lrom those of the unratified treaty
Tlie Art-Union, New York, has been declared
by the Recorder of that city to be an illegal associa
tion. The case caine up in the Court ol Sessions on in
dictment against the ed.tor of ihe Herald lor a libel on 1
the managers. The Recorder delivered an elaborate
opinion, quashing the indictment for defects ol mrce as
on the ground that the American Art-Union is a lotte
ry, within the meaning <4 the prohibitions ol the cu
sti ration of the /Mate, and having therefore no legal ex
istence, cannot be libeled.
Ge.y. *Svott a.nd the Compromise.—A Washington
letter says:
“ A letter from Gen. Scott, written soon after the an
nouncement of the compromise and approving of that
measure, has been or is to be published somewhere, by j
some ot his friends, and upon that they are to rest ins
claim upon Southern support. The letter is Mot stmng !
enough nor new enough to prejudice him with the j
North.”
New Edition of Shakspfake.— The London cm- ;
respondent of the N. Y. Times stales that a marvel
ious sensation has been created among the modern iin- I
provers and emendatorsof Shakspeaie, by Mr Payne
Colliers discovery and purchase of a copy of an old 1
edition o/ 1632, ol the pays of the great Poet, contain
ing marginal correction, of the i< xt, and punctuations j
to the extent of some thousands, and inmost of the in
stances yet cited, felicitous enough to drive all his sub- j
sequent commentators crazy.
03F Two hundred and twenty-eight graduates left
Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, at llte late
Commencement, with licenses of M. D.
El?” The St. Louis Times*’. ates that there are ihrcc
hundred families in that city preparing to emigrate to
oau Lake city, to join the Latter-Day Faints.
DC# Mr. ( :ay’s health is again worse. There are some
twenty Senators and Representatives confined lo their
lodgings by indisposition.
f' ren eh Woman of most extraordinary fecun
dity, thirty years ol age, has just given birth to Irer
twenty-second, twenty-third and twenty-fourth ch i
dren. bhe has produced the whole twenty four in nice
years. They come three at a time, are all doing re
markably well. W hat is singular, and at the same,
time provoking to the husband, who desires to trans
mit kis name and title, they are every one ot them
girls.
Mortality among Generals.— Within the five years
which have elapsed since the commencement ol the
war with Mexico, no less than thitteen American
Generals have departed this iile.viz: —Taylor, Worth.
Mason. Brady, Kearney, Ham r. Hopping, Belknap,
Duncan, Croghan, Brooke, Abruckle, and Whiling.
A titan named Philips has been arrested in New
York for selling spurious California tickets, whereby
many persons have been swindled out of a passage to
San Francisco He was an attache ol the house of
Palmer &, Cos., No. 80 Broneway, who seem to have
been driving a big business in this line. Warrant*
have been issued for Palmer and the other members of
the firm.
03 s * One effect of Kossuth’s “starring,” says a Vien
na letter of the 11th ulr., is that Hungary is almost
hermetically sealed against English and Americans
I wo peaceably disposed travellers, one of whom be
longed to the United States, have just been refund the
rise tor that country ; and the Hungarians themselves
nn_ it equality difficult to obtain a passport.
Misunderstanding with Great Britain.—Accord
ing to an article in the New York Express, a mil
interpretation of the so called treaty ol settlement
(Oregon boundary) in .elation to British vessels navi
gating the waters under United States jurisdiction
within the boundaries and along the coart ol Oregon
territory, is the occasion of a correspondence wh ch is
just now going on between Mr. Webster and the
British Minister at Washington. Mr. Champion.
it has been the practice, it seems, of English sea
captains on the Pacific const, ever since the settlement
of theboundoty between the two Governments,“West
ward of the Rocky Mountains,” (by treaty, concluded
June Is*n, 1836,) to seek to land and del ver“tood
.and wares” at American ports without paying duly
More recently some of them, it is said, have gone
i*o far as to advertise to transport merchandise from *
.one American port to another; thus interfeiing with
oor coasting trade, which the vessels of no nation are
permitted to do. Notice has been repeatedly given to
-ueru, by the Amenoan custom house officers in Ore
i
g >n, that these liberties could not be permitted —and
j rurally, a formal notice was served on one ot them by
I the collector of Astoria, that for any future infractions
■ -f the revenue laws of the U. States he should proceed
t gainst them forthwith,condemning vess. Is and conlis
viting cirgoff, anti thus brought witters to a crisis
Tne notice was communicated to the agents of the
.ludson’s Bay Company by the shipmaster upon whom
* it was sc: ved", and by them communicated to the British
Government at home.
It was then made the subject of consideration in
,'ouneil and her Majesty’s Secretary for Foreign Al
ims thereupon transmuted the documents to the Brni'h
Minister at Washington, with instructions to bring ihe
natter to the attention of the Government of the U.
States, to the end that the American outhotitiesin Ore
gon might be advised that they were themselves guilty
f the infractions of the treaty stipulations between
he two Governments,and that the collector at Astoria
night be instructed to withdraw the* notice Ire had
served upon the masters of Brisi-h merchantmen on
he Pacific coast. For these interesting facts we ate
■hieflv indebted to the Washington correspondent ot
he Cincinnati Gazelle, who goi s on io intorni us fur
•h-r, that Mr. Crumpton has recently obeyed the ordeis
>f his Government, in good temper, hut with rather
art language, and that the whole mutter is now before
he American Secreiaiy ol Fute lie also predicts
hat the American aathoinies tti Oregon will be fully
ustatned in the course they have taken, a;id that the
iritish Minister, and not the collector ot Astoria, will
lave the privilege of withdrawing his complaint.
Br.oo3tßts.n--A Latter-Day Fragment — By
Thomas Fnakltlk —A ntatl world this, my tr end—
t world in its lanes, petty and other ; in limes oilier
itan petty now lot some time ; in petiy-lunes, petii
lettes,or pantalettes about these six weeks, ever since
when this rampart an 1 rogyttou- - B.oomerism first
rauie over trout Yankee land. A sortof sltetnale dress
ou call Bloomerism ; a L-htoii ol Sister Jonathan’s.—
Trousers, tight r.t ancles, and for most part trifled ;
unic descending u rh some degree ot brevity, perhaps
>o km es, ascending to throat and open at chemisette
roin, or buttoned there; collar do an turned over
; neckerchief; and, crowning all, broad brimmed hat;
’ aid gannettt severally leathered, trimmed, ribboned,
variegn ed, according lo the fancies, and the vanities;
these chiefly,” are the outward differences between
Bloomer dress and customary feminine Old Clothes.—
| Not much unlike nursery uniform you think this de
scriptton of costume, hut rather considerably like it 1
| compute! “To trie,” writes Glumm, in his own rough
way,“these Bloomers s-em to resemble, in great meas
ure, over grown school gills, kept backward, as they
i say, by juvenile Mamma, at a “Prepatory Establish
ment tor Young Ladies. 1 see noilnng at all admira
ble in them for my pari, but not much to lie admired on
j any account,and look upon th- in, at the best,as mere
i .trapp ng hoydens and audacious unfemmine tomboys.”
i No will yon, most likely, more than Glumm. discern
aught (audible in external Bloomerism ; a masquerade
I frippery ; an excresence of the conceits and the coquet
! ries. Invisible are the merits of the Bloomer dress; such
I as it I:a3. A praiseworthy point in B oomerisin the
I emancipation of the ribs; an exceeding good riddance
; ihe deliverance from corsets, trammelling genteel tho
rax with springs ot steel and whalebone, screwing in
waist to Death's houi gla-scouiractioii, and squeezing
I lungs, liver, and midriff into an utterable cram. Cont
j iitendahk*. ton. the renouncement olsou-jupc boiiffnile,
jor ineffable wadding, invented, 1 suppose, by some
Hottentot to improve female countonr after the type of
Venus,his fatherland's, and not Cythera’s. Whole
some, moreover and convenient, the abbreviation ol
trains,serving in customary temale Old Clothes the
purpose ol bosom, and no other real improvements,
doubtless, these abandonments of ruinous shams, ridic
ulous unveracities, ami idoiitaries of indescrible niuil-
Py.lions. But Bloomeries, inexpressible affectations,
and mimicries of masculine garments,iiethe*rand upper,
such. iy friends, I tak>* to bt* no more than dumb, in
articulaie clamoring tor the Rights ol Woman, George
Sand phantasms, and mutinous temale radicalisms
grown termagant and transcendant. — Punch.
Henry Clay.—As the career of thiseminent staies
man draws near itsoos< ,'lie fogsand mists which po
litical detraction had accumulated ari.uud him disperse
amt melt away, so that in a clear sky, and with lustre
unobscur*d, lie descends to the hoiizon ol lile in a sen
set ol splendor. A Democratic journal, the New
Orleans Courier, thus speaks ol hnn :
“ flenry Clay now belongs to history, and his tame to
his country. Front one end of its broad territories to
the other, he lias not a single enemy. Throughout his
ion- and tiiusnious career he has been the advocate
and champion ot freedom, and of those great princi
ples ot law and order, without which liberty has no
stability and no guarantees lor the repose ol society.
“ The opposition to .Mr. Olay, so long and so sleauiy
made t>y tiie Democratic party, must not be mistaken
tor a distrust of his patriotism, or a want of admiration
for his great and generous qualities. It was exclusively
political, growing oat of a difference of opinion on
matters concerning the administration of our govern
ment—our home policy.
His reputation and his fame are ns much cherished
by one party us th** other. And no American politi
cian c- r*id now make an attack on him w ithout being
condemned by he general voice ol the country.”
It is well that such acknowledgments as these should
come from adversaries—even although they are lute hi
coming. There is a virulence in political animosity
I which one can scarcely contemplate in calntners with
loui something like a feeling of terror. Os all hatreds
i .i seems to he tiie most remorseless, the most vindict
ive, the most blind and undiscriimitating; perverting
truth, delighting in < alumny. dealing with injustice as
though it were a vittue, and blending patriotism with
a spirit of relentless and proscriptive extermination—
Few men ever passed through an ordeal of the kind
more fierce or mere protracted than that through which
the parli ot Henry Clay led from youth to hoary age
Nor was lie at any time a man to turn aside lrom his
course in view ol any trials or terrors which political
hostility in its most ferocious paroxysms could array
before him. He went on his stately way with un
shrinking steps, carrying defiance in hre right hand
! We are told now that he has not a single enemy.—
Well, he has had many; yet he never sought to coti
ciliiate one by unworthy compliances or ignoble de
precation.
fie has carried with him die impress of his own no
bility, and he will bear it with him to his grave. It
was never in the power ol majorities or democracies
to impair Ins imperial prestige. He has lived as a
I King amongst men, and he will die like a hero—death
i obtaining no victory over him. His name will be a
cheiislied legacy to ihe American people, who behold
in him the noblest type of thems-ives. Salve, salceto,
ultimas Komi nor um — Balt. American.
A Stroll About Liverpool.
BY. JOSH StLSBEE.
Liverpool, Feb. 28, 1852.
Dear “Spirit ” —ls a stranger tie given to dust, dirt,
and a turpid atmosphere. Liverpool is a delighlul place,
but il he love purple clouds, cl-ur sunshine, and “fr.gid
moon tints,” then an Italian landscape would be tar
preferable A stranger in Liverpool is first e'ruek
with ihe vastness and magnificence of the quays, ev
ery dock ol which is complete in its minutesi arrange
ment. Then the names, too are high sounding and
expressive tor example,the Albert Dock, the Victoria
Dock, the Neln Range, the Wellington Slip, the
Trafalgar, Ac., to say nothing of Waterloo, anda hun
dred other martial and warlike cognomiuations. The
quays are the means of employing thousands of the in
habitants of the town, irrespective o( the very large
nautical torce engaged in the merchant service ot the
port.
Like all sea-port towns. Liverpool is constantly
thronged withjolivj ack ars, of ail nations, and in this
rej-p ct it isahnof-t as much a cosmopolis a.* San Fran
cisco and New York. Steamers run from here to eve
’ ry p it ol the United Stales, France, Italy, Spain, and
j ihe African coast, and the array engaged in iliis traffic,
lit may be conceived, is very large. A stranger is
i struck in walking along the streeis near the water,
j by the various lures held out by the cheap sailor hoard
; ing- houses, to catch the sons of Neprane. I trans er-
I red one or two into my irate hook, while strolling on a
lour of observation. I was passing through an di
lapidated street, lull of crazy, rickety old tenements, the
| trout.- ot winch were gaudily emblazoned in every col
or ot the prism. Over one door hung a picture ol what
was intended lobe an anchoi.but which in realtiy
looked mole like a frightened pot hook on a spree ;
under it were the words;
“SAY-LURS, TAKEN IN AND DUN FUR
HERE, AS CHEEP AS KEN BEE.’
These letter’ were inscribed in blue, <*n a white
ground, and I’ll Say a wager ot any amount within con
•iderable, that the itist was not a pupil of the R< yii
Academy, aid had never studied under Landseer
The allusion ‘ taken in,” I thought hugely appropos, as
ihe house looked to be one of that character wli-re a
man (and a raw, unsuspecting mariner, especially,)
would he “taken in” in more sei ses than one.
.Another house sported a smali tin sign, on which
appeared, done in a similar sty e ot art as the one de
scribed above, a couple of bottles, labelled “Gin,” both
of which liad a certain pugnacious look, and seemed
every moment as if they would burst their corks, and,
after the fashion of ginger pop, distribute their con
tents over the passers by. ‘Pile letters on this sign,
which were most irregmariy drawn, as if the artist
bad been influenced by the bottles, lead, alter a care- |
ful and deliberate investigation—
SEE-MENS HOAM AND
COMEFURT
A! LE
LOG
N B. Pay taken ihn iuxstalments.
Tins was the iy!e ot the rercll.aiid I inwardly re
solved, t om that moment, it I had forty sons, (which
of course, is violently impossible,) 1 should never con
sent to one of them going to sen, for tear they ought
fall into such a “lloam” ds that. My bloud curdles at
the very recollection.
After the sailor s'l aspect <f Liverpool, there is very
little peculiarity m its general style and appearance.—
The St. George's Hail, the theatres, the railroad de
pot, and the ma:k* t-place, are jis only aichncui
ral features The sky here is seldom as blue as the
creatures under it, and as lor rain, as Bjnuycastle siy
of his flannel, “there’s no end of it.” The inhabitants
of Liverpool, unlike the people of England getrerafv.
are warm, open,ond eon inuiiicative, but tbit-1 attri
bate to thej cosmo|Kilißn character of the town, u*
through the avenues an I traffic oi trade they are
brought into communication with ihe concentrated
world.
The taste for theatricals here is most enthu-iastie,
and with the exception of Loudon, and perhaps Bir-;’
mingham, ihe Muse is more fostered in this wave wis]g
-d br.<-k-and mortar town, than a~y O’her considera
ble community in the United State*. I have been (or
a few evenings “duin’ up the Yankee fixins” for tile
“guile folk” here, and find it pleases them immensely,
though in the Provinces generally, I believe, ihe lra
nm is on the wane. Scotland is poverty-stricken, snd
Ireiand in the Alms house ; there the theatres eke out
. a miserable existence by appealing to the whim bud
charity of the money-crats. Thus ihe poor Muse in
the Oid Country stalks about like the paupers iff the
soil, half starved, unui she finds an oasis like the West
End of London, the coal-scarred precinctsofßirinhig
harn, or the dust-and-sai'.or world ol Liverpool.
I
MACON, GEORGIA.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1.
ORDINARY BLANKS.
We have on hand a complete assortment of legal
Blanks—those to he used by Ordinaries having been
carefully revised and adapted to the new organization
of our Courts ol Ordinary.
Notice.
Persons sending money by mail, due the Journal
and Messenger Office , prior to the Is/ day of Janua
ty lust, or w riting on business ol the Old Firm,\v\ I
please address Thomas B. Goulding, Macon.
T> onr Subscribers.
In the change which has recently taken place in the
proprietorship of ibis paper, Mr Chapman’s interest
in the stock was purchased by J. T. Nisbet, together
with all thp accounts due (he Office,since the first of
January, 1052. Mr. Rose remaining in the concern,
no change has been made it the firm name. In collec
ting the accounts due prior to the Ist of January,
KJS2, which beloug to S. Rose and S. T. Chapman,
Mr. Chapman insisis upon the full rates of subscrip
tion, or $3 On per annum. This, Mr. Chapman lias
a right to do, as the published rates of this paper are
$3 00 per uunuin, when not paid in advance. What
we wish our subsc-ribcets to know is, that tins exac
tion is made without the approval or consent of Mr.
Rose, who slill remains a proprietor of the paper,
mid who is equally interested with Mr. Chapman
in the accounts prior n> the Ist of January, 1852.
Our acknowledgements are due to Messrs.
Stephens, Johnson, Hillyerand Chastain,of the House,
and Messrs. Seward, Stockton and Dawson, ol the
Senate, for valuable public documents.
Agricultural Fair for 1852.
We give to our readers to-day, the Premium List o (
the next Fair, complete, except in the department o
Mechanic Art. We regret that w*e have not been en
abled to furnish our planting friends sooner, w ith that
portion of it relating to Field Crops. In our next issue
we shall publish the names of the Committees of Award,
and the Rules and Regu ations which have been
adopted by the Executive Committee.
I) ath of Mr. < Lill ies Cotton.
We regret to annovnee the death of this old and es
timable citizen, in this city, on the 25th inst., in the
59ih year ot his age. Mr. Cotton was a native of
New Yoik, but had resided in Macon since 1825, and
|or the greater portion of that time, was a partner in
the well known mercantile firm of Rea fa Cotton.
Honest nndj ust in all his business transactions, intelli
gent, nffabie, charitable and humane, he has closed
his earthly career, leaving behind him no enemy !
Few men in our community have been more beloved
than Mr. Cotton,—the death of none will be more
generally lamented.
Flank Hoad Movement.
We give in to-day’s paper, the proceedings of the
Plank Road Meetings which were held in this city on
ihe2sih and 27th insts. At the adjourned meetmgon
Saturday evening, his Honor, the Mayor, stated tit >t
$20,000 dollars had already been subscribed by citi
zens of th s place, and that this sum, together with
what would be subscribed in Houston, and $•;() 000
subscription by the City Council ol Macon, would be
sufficient to i omplete a Plank Road front M icon to
Henderson ,in Houston county. At the same meeting,
a resolution was adopted, requesting the Mayor anil
Council “ to cause a poll to be opened at the Court
House, on the second Saturday in April next, and so
licit by proclamation, the duly authoiised voters of the
city, to determine by ballot, whether the City Author
ities shall subscribe the sum of twenty thousand dol
lars, towards the construction of a Plank Rond in the
direction ot Perry and Henderson, injllouston county.”
The construction of this Road now depends upon ihe
voters of this city. We are preparing, and shall give
in our next issue, some statistics in relation to Plank
Roads, which will enable every one to vole understanJ
ingly upon the question to be submitted.
Southern Right:. Democratic Convention,
This body, we suppose, will convene to-day, at the
Capitol. Will true Southern Rights men, and parti
cularly Southern Rights Whigs, place themselves upon
:lie sapless Democratic platform which it will doubtless
construct? Uous rerrons ceque nous verrons —wc
shall see what we alia 11 see.
The Policy of the Union Party.
In the position which we have assumed, upon the
question of the policy of the Constituiional Union
Party, we deem ourselves safe, and certainly secure
front any charge of inconsistency. The principles of
the Consiiuttional Union Party, if tfie Georgia Plut
torm embraces them—lead it to adopt the position of
neutrality, w ith regard to the Whig and Democratic
Parties. This is the status which out principles give
us, whatever may he the position which !he passions
and prejudices of individuals may lead them to as
same. Accordingly, we have favored tlie proposition
made by the Union Convention of Alabama, that the
Union Party should hold a Convention in Washington
City subsequent to the meeting of the Whig and
Democratic Conventions If this *e done, the Pariy
will not necessarily be committed to the support of a
fluid candidate ; but will hold its strength in reserve,
until the Whig and Democratic nominations are made,
until their candidates are exposed upon their platform®,
and then give its support to the candidate and the
Party which best represents its principles.
There is no argument which can be employed
against this view of the duty of the Union Party, if it re
e >gnists and acts upon the principles of the Party.
The only reason which has been urged against tiie
idea that the Union Party should maintain ns separate
organization, and adhere to its principles, is that this
unreasonable,childish and simple regard for principle,
will make the Party “ contemptible in size.” We can
not appreciate such reasoning. We are perversi iy
bent upon be ieving that size alone will not constitute
a Party—that great size w ill not make it respectable,
in the sense in which we understand the term, nor
small size make it disreputable, and, in short, that
size i3 not the criterion by winch we should judge
Parties when we decide to abandon them. It this
were so, tfit- ques ion of political allegiance could be
summarily disposed of. It would be a simple matter
of arithmetical calculation/—sometimes complicated,
as the Faculty would say, by a calculation of chances.
We cannot understand ihe strength of this reasoning
with any man who docs not expect a shire in the
patronage of a triumphant Parly—-of a Parly n>t
contemptible in size.” The vast majority of tiie
Constitutional Union Party neither expect or desire
this kind of patronage. Such a desi.e, or expectation!
is nut the bond which binds them to the Union Party.
1 hey will not be disappointed if that Party lias no
pnlionuge to dispense.
The objection which we have to sending delegates
to Baltimore is, thut we cannot anticipate the act mi
of that Convention. From present indications, we do
not believe that the finality of the Compromise will he
recognized by it. We are not in favor of sending
delegates to the Whig Convention of Philadelphia (or
the same reason. At the same time, if we were dis
posed to transfer the Union Party to the support o! n
Whig candidate, we imagine we could present a
stronger case than the one which is made by those wlm
desire to transfer it to the Democratic Party. We
might refer to the fact that a National Whig Adminis
tration p issed the Compromise through Congress—that
this Administration, since the passage of the plan of
Adjustment, has occupied the identical position of the
Union Party of Geotgia—that it has gone before the
country upon ibis Compromise issue- that il has haz
arded every dung upon it, and made itself unpopular
wail the Free Soil wing o! the Party, as the N- Y. Tti
tune asserts for its uniform and unswerving support ot
Southern Rights. We might refer to tiie fact that a
Whig Congressional caucus d< pled the Compromise,
us the basis oi Whig National organization, whilst a
Democratic caucus r> pudialed it. VV’e might refer to
the fact ot tin* soundness of the Southern Whig Party,
up.m t tie Compromise issues, an Ito the strength of
the,W Dig c ement in the Union Party—and we ni'ght
.-g ely leave the question of ihe relative claims of the
\%h.ig and Democratic parties to the support of the
Union Party, with flic inieliigeni voters ol that party
But not des re to raise this issue—we do not
wish to depend upon past or present developments in •
determining to which party we shall give our support.
We desire to await the action of the Conventions of
the Whig and Democratic Patties. Peritaps, when
that action is known, we will cheerfully support the
nomill ?e oft e B tltiit re C mvciiti >n. We object,
however, to the disposition which is manifested by
certain presses of the Union Party, to pre-judge this
question, to assume that the Democratic Party of the
North is the safest lor the South, and that th** Demj
c,attic Convention will acknowledge and assett the
fi tality o| the Compromise, and upon these bare as
sumptions, to commit the Union Party to the suppt rt
of the nominee of the Baltimore Convention, and to
c nsequent co-operation w ith Free Suffers and South
ern Rights nief-
Our Bonk Table.
Mr. J. M. Boardma.n has laid uponc-urtable the fol
ding new and interesting publications, a notice of
which has been until now deferred, tor waul of lime
and space:
The House of the Seven Gables—a Romance, by
Nathaniel Hawthorne. Boston—Ticknor, Reed
&. Fields. 1851.
The best work of fiction we have ever read by an
American, excepting “ The Scarlet Letter,” by the.
same author. General Taylorncver did a betterthing,
than when he removed Hawthorne from the Custom
fiouse at Boston, and gave him leisure in retirement,
to illustrate the literature of his country, by his “ Scar
let Letter,” his “House of the Seven Gabies, ’ and bis
“Wondei Book.” His style is luutless and chaste as
that of Irving, whilst he is as simple, as quaint and as
fanciful as Elia. In the conduct of his siorie6, lie re
sembles Prolessor VV ilsou. i here is nothing dramatic
about them; he employs few characters and little ac
tionor incident, lie does not re y upon the intricacies
ol a tangled plot, a multitude ol characters, and end
less incident, to fix the attention of his readers; but en
gages their interest, by a minute and elaborate vie w of
the workings ofa single passion. His characters never
act. He telis the story himself, and we are always
conscious that it is Hawthorne who speaks Though
we cannot assert that his characters want individuality,
we must say, they all have in common, the indtvidua l !-
ty of the author. There is generally in his writings, a
slight admixture of the marvellous; just enough to give
flavor to the intellectual repast which he places before
us. He has a mental proclivity towards superstition—
or perhaps hiS sombre fancy is captivated by any thing
mysterious, strange and unreal. He certainly is fond
of ghosts, and witches, and haunted houses. This
mental characteristic, whilst it gives an attractive
quaintness to all es his wor.ts, gives them at the same
time,a saJJened tone. They are iike autumn evenings
—beautiful, but sombre and sad. Hawthorne is too
uiycroscopic m his examination of human nature ; be
sees too much error,and meanness, and hollowness,and
| corruption, to have the heart to laugh, or make his
readers laugh at it. In the “House ot the Seven Ga
bles,” Iris object is to expose the meanness and hypoc
risy, and avarice, and selfishness,and urcharitableness,
which are often hidden from our view, by externals—
by a lair position in society—by a good repute among
men—by a respectable suit of clothing—by a broad
smile oi kindness and benignity—and by a skilful and
every day-acted lie of seeming. He lua successfully
accomplished this, in his delineation of the character of
Judge Pincheon. There are many men in tins wo:Id
like the Judge, who are thoroughly and essentially bad
and mean, and yet, who look and act so respectable,
and who are considered so respectable, that they ure
not themselves conscious of their own meanness. But
we do not design to review Mr. Hawthorne. Wesim
ply wish to chronicle Ins complete success as a writer
of fiction, and our belief, that bis works are'destined to
live forever.
The Sunny Side, or the Country Clergymans Wife.
Philadelphia—Sunday School Union, 1852.
This is a simple and well-told story of New Eng
land lilt—one of tiie thousand cheap, instiuctive and
unexceptionable publications of the S. S. Union, which
aie intended'to do good. Any one acquainted with
the manners, customs and domestic economy ol New
England, will recognise its truthfulness.
The Women of Christianity — by Jane Kavanaugh.
New York—D. Appleton fa Cos., 1851.
This volume is intended to supply in part, a deficien
cy which exists in.all histories. Stately history deals
)vii!i public events—the atiiiirs of nations—wars—
treaties—the acts of public bodies, and of public rnen>
and pusses over much that is more worthy of record’
though less prominent. M;ss Kavanaugh has attempt
ed to redeem from oblivion the unebtiusive piety and
heroism ol some of the pious and heroic females who
have lived in this world.
Essays from the London Times— D. Appleton &
Cos. New York, 1852.
Tins is not a collection of tlie “leaders” of the great
P>u mu ol E .gland, but of sketches, personal wid his
tone, winch iiuve been contributed to it, and which
are eminently worthy of being thus collected, and pre
served in a volume.
Templeton's Engineer, Mill weight and Mechanic's
Pocket Compatuon. D. Appleton fa Cos. New
York, 1852.
From the examination which we have been enabled
to give it, this is a convenient book of reference upon
subjects indicated by its title.
We are indebted to Messrs. Walker Richards,
of Charleston, tor,
The Golden Christmas, lately issued by them—a
Southern Story—the last lrom \V. Gilmore Suns,
which we read with a great deal of pleasure, as it first
appeared in the seini-ntomhly supplement ot ihe Lite
rary Gazette.
Mr. B. F. Griffin ol our city, has furnish; and us with
a copy ot his “Southern Orator,” a judicious compila
tion of extracts from many of our must distinguished
Southern Orators, to which we would call the attention
of teachers, who have not already adopted it as a text
book. Mr. Griffin informs us that he has in press, and
will soon publish,a number of elementary reading books
for schools.
An Oration pronounced before the Literary So
cieties of Oglethorpe University , at its Commence
ment, Nov. 12,1851. By Rev. E. P. Rogers, Augusta,
Ga. IV. S. Jones’ Power-Press. 1852. We have
received from the author a copy of this Address, which
is, like every thing he writes, highly finished, elaborate
and instructive.
Plunk Hoad Convention.
Macon, March 25, 1852.
Agreeably to previous notice, delegates from Junes,
Bibb and Houston counties, convened at the Council
Chamber this day at 10 o’clock, A. M.,to consider the
subject of Flank Roads, and were organized by calling
his Honor E. L. Strohecker to the Chair, and appoint
ing A. R. Freeman as Secretary.
The object ol the meeting being stated by the Chair,
.Ylr. E. J. Johnson offered a seiiesot resolutions to
the meeting, winch, after being read, were, on motion
of Jas. A. Nisbet, referred to a Committee of two from
each delegation present, with (lie Chairman added,to
consider and report to an adjourned meeting, this even
ing, at 5 o’clock. Said Committee consisted of E. L.
Strohecker, L. P. Strong, E. J. Johnson, ol Bibb,
Judge Pringle and J. D. Havis, oi Houston, and Dr.
Bowen and John Pitts,of Jones.
A letter was received from the Hon. Joint G. Win
ter, o Columbus, regretting bis Inability to be present,
but giving hearty encouragement to the l’lank Road
enterprise. Adjourned to SP, M.
Evening Session, 5 P. M.
Convention met according to adjournment. The
Committee a'ppointcd at the. morning session, reported
tiie following resolutions, which were unanimously
adopted:
Resolved, Thut the Chairman appoint a Committee
of three persons, in Macon, Busby vilie. Ferry, ilen
derson, Drayton, Starkville, Palmyra and Albany, to
receive subscriptions to,the contemplated Flunk Road
lrom Macon to Albany.
Resolved, Thai said Committee report to the Macon
Committee, lrom tunec to time, the uiuounts of stock
taken in said road, and thut as soon as subscriptions,
at the rate ot S2OOO par mile, are made by resp ni'tole
parlies between either Macon and Perry, or oilier
point? beyond, that said Macon Committee shall cause
a meeting ol the stockholders to he called, tor tire
purpose of organizing the Flank Road Company ac
cording to the terms ol the charter.
Res deed, That a Commicee he appointed at vari
ous points in Jones, Crawford and Twiggs counties, to
ascertain what subscriptions can be obtained to Flank
Roads from Macote to Cliti'on, Jeffersonville and
FrancifVille, respectively, and as soon us reliable sub
scriptions, at the late ot as>—2>ov* per mile, are made,
along the lines of said road, to report the same to the
Macon Committee, who shall convene the stockholders
for the purpose of organization.
Resolved, Thut a Committee of three he appointed,
of winch the Mayor shall be Coairman, to procure and
publish, for general cfieuiaueii, all tne necessary mtor
inaiioit lit tegaid to Flank Ru ms, uhich may (* cal
cuiated to enlighten the puolic mind, upon then utility
and pri-lii. *
Resolved, That ihe j e procetdings be published in
ihe city papers.
committees under first resolution.
Macon. —E. J. Johnson, James A. Nisbet and B. F.
• R <>ss ,
Busbycille. —Ben. H. Gray, 1). F. Gunn and S. J
Dinkins.
Perry. —Coi. J. D. Hu vis* Samuel Felder <„nd WmJ
H. Tdltotl. _ |
Henderson. — Win. Davis/ Wm. R. Brown and
tones Kendrick. ,
Dray lam. —Elijah Butts. Jus.-Pope and A. Tyson.
Starkville.— Reuben Williams, James Bond and A. 1
E. flariis.
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Palmyra. —Dr. L. B. Mercer, Col. Jno Mercer anti
Thomas Hill.
Albany.— Col. Nelson Tilt, D. A. Vason and N. W.
Collier.
COMMITTEES UNDER THIRD RESOLUTION-
Zoom Con/y.~Dr. Bowen, Jno. Pitts and Taylor
F. Gibson
Jeffersonville —Green H. Brazen!, 11. Durham uiul
Josiah Murphy.
Jiciggs County. —B. B. Smith, Co!-Fitzpatrick and
Col. Wiggins.
Marion —Col. Crocker, Ira Peck and Peyton Rey
i olds.
Turkey Creek District.— John Guilimore, Hayden
Hughes, Huy wood Hughes.
Francisvilte. —C. F. Fichlin, Samuel P. Corbin and
A. M. K Swift.
Knoxville. —Geo. R. Hunter, Stephen Wright and
VVrn. Saunders.
Crawford County. —C. M. Lucas, Jack Reynolds
and Gideon Newsom.
Bibb County. —Cicero Tharp, 11. Newsom, W. D.
Mims and Judge John Bailey.
Meeting then adjourned.
E. L. STROHECKEU, Chan.
A. R. Freeman, Sec’y.
Adjourned Plank Hoad Meeting.
An adjourned meeting of the ctizens of Macon was
held on Saturday evening, 25th inst., at the Council
Chamber, tor the purpose of taking such further action
in reference to the various Plunk Road enterpriz s
projected as should be considered advisable.
Dr. E. L. Strohe< ker, Mayor, was called to the
Chair, and George Patieii appointed Secretary.
The proceedings of the Plank Road Convention,
held on the 25th inst , in this city, were read.
The Committee appointed at a previous meeting to
solicit subscriptions to a Joint Stock Company for the
construction of a Plank Road from this city to Albany,
in Baker county, reported the sum of Twenty Thou
tand Dollars as subscribed by individual citizens for
that purpose.
Severul propositions were submitted by gentlemen
present, in reference to the subscription, by the city, ol
such amount as shall be necessary to ensure the con
struction of the Road lo Henderson, in Houston coun
ty, with the aid of the subscriptions anticipated at
Henderson, Perry, and other points on the line of the
contemplated Road.
The different propositions having been discussed at
considerable length, the following resolution was ofler
ed by J. 11. R Washington, Esq., arid adopted, viz.
Keßolvrd, That the Mayor and Council be requested
to cause a poll to be opened at the Court House on ihe
second Saturday in April nest, and solicit, by procla
mation, the duly authorized voters of the city to deter
mine, by ballot, whether the city authorities shall sub
scribe the sum of Twenty Thousand Dollars towards
the constiuctiun of a Plank Road in the direction of
Perry and Henderson, in Houston county.
‘l'lie meeting then adjourned.
E. L. STROHECKER, Ch’mn.
Geo. Patten, Sec’ry.
Railroad Convention.
Lumpkin, Stewart Cos., Ga., March 23d, 1852.
A Convention was held at this place, by a portion of 1
the citizens of Batbour, Sumter and Stewart counties j
on the 23J inst., for the purpose of considering and d:s
cussing the propriety, expediency and practicability of
extending the S. W. Railroad from its present termi
nus to Eutaula, Ala.
The meeting was organized by calling Gen. Hunter
of Ala.,to the Chair, VVm. B. BESNETand E. H. Beall
as Secretaries. Gen. Hunter explained the object of
the Convention, and in a few appropriate remarks il
lustrated the great importance ol a Railroad connec
tion with this section and the Atlantic.
Upon motion of Mr. Boynton, Judge Clarke, of
Stewart, Dr. Reese, of Sumter, and John McNubb,
of Batbour, were appointed Vice-Presidents of the
Convention.
Maj. Buford, of Eufaula, proposed the following res
olution, to wit:
Resolved, That it is expedient and practicable to
continue the South-Western Railroad from Oglethorpe
to Eufaula, Alabama. |
Capt Charles S. Gaulden, Col. Janies M. Clarke,
Maj. Buford and H. K McKay being then severally
called upon, addressed the Contention.
The speeches of the above gentlemen elicited a great
deal of statistical information, proving conclusively
the expediency and practicability of building the Rail
road. They advocated its extension through this i
country, as a necessary means of affording a sufficient j
outlet for the productions of our fertile soil, and also a
■ate and profitable investment of the capital necessaiy
to build it. Their positions were clearly and satislac- j
torily established by the production of tacts and figutes
that do not tell false tales. The impression produced j
by the speeches was, that the Railroad must and shall i
be extended from Oglethorpe to Eulaula.
Capt. Gaulden moved to amend the resolution of
Maj. Buford, by inserting “through or near Lumpkin,
Stewart county.” The amendment was passed. The
resolution, as amended, waS then passed unanimously
by the Convention.
The following gentlemen were appointed a comm t
tee to report suitable forms of subscription lists, to wit:
J. Buford, Thos. Flournoy, Chas. Gaulden, J. N.
Copeland,Capt.Ott, W. Boynton, J. W.Stokes, John
McNabb, R. J. Snelling, ILK McKay.
Maj. Buford, from the Committee appointed tore
port suitable forms of subscription lists, reported the
following resolutions:
Ist. Resolved, That the subscriptions for Stewart
county, be on condition that six hundred thousand
dollars in all be subscribed, and that the Road run
within one mile of Lumpkin, mid that subscriptions of
other sections be unconditional, or on such conditions
as they may respectively prescribe.
2d. Resolved, That the President appoint Commit
tees for different sections, to obtain subscriptions and
report at the next meeting of tins Convention.
3J. Resolved, I'hat the President appoint a com
mittee of five in or near Lumpkin, to give notice of the
time and placed the re-assembling and this Conven
lion, with instructions to correspond with R. R. Cuy
lerand L. O. Reynolds, requesting their attendance at
ihe re-assembling <>< ihis Convention.
4th Re.n Bed, Tout the Secre ar es furnish c >pies ol
the proceedings of this Convention, to tiie Macon and
Eufaula papers, with ihe request that they and other
papers iriendly to the enterprise, publish the same.
All of w hich resolutions were adopted.
Capt. Gaulden offered the lollowmgiesolutions.
Resolved, That the President appoint two commit
tees of five persons each, one committee resident in
Eulaula, ad the other in Lumpkin, to correspond
with ihe olficers of the Central and South Western
Railroad Companies, and with othet persons, in rela
tion to the objects of this Convention.
Resolved, That the several committees on subscrip
tions, be recommended to employ agents to procure
bubscriptious, il they deem it expedient.
Which resolutions were also adopted.
The President then made the following report of
Committees in accordance with the above resolutions:
Committee under the 3 d Resolution. —Charles S.
Gaulden, James 31. Clarke B. May, E. and. Vernel, John
A. Tucker.
Committee of Correspondence for Gen.
It. C. Shorter, J. Buford, J. N. Copeland, John 31c-
Nabb, and G- A. Roberts.
Committee of Correspondence lor Lumpkin —C. S.
Gaulden, B. May, James 31. Clarke, E. S. Vernal,
John A. Tucker.
The followingcomtnitteesofsubscription fur Geor
gia were appointed :
Lumpkin, Stewart county. —R. C. Thornton, W.
Boynton,.!. W. Stokes,L Bryan, .T. M Scott, David
ilarriil.
Florence.— James Hilliard, Henry J. Pope, William
Carter.
Weston's.— J. G. M. Bill, FI. V. Maikey and Jerry
Bel!.
Richland. — R. .1. Sneliing, J. W. Gtegory, William
Nelson, Solomon Ilarriil.
Lannohassee. —Sampson Bell, 31r. Baty, Ju*ep!t
Wood, John D. Stapleton.
Pan Handle— Jar. R. Cox, Jae. P. Ellis, Join
Williford,Chas. Applewhite.
21s/ District.— Samuel Latimer and John Dorsey.
20/A District —Samuel A. (Leer.
Friendship. Sumter county —Grantland Statham,
Shed rick Crawford.
Pondtown. —Thomas Bivins, Sidney Turner, Thcs.
J. Baisden.
Americas. —N. B. McCain, Dr. A. Reese, W. Brady,
I. K. McKay.
Georgetown, Randolph county —D. Munis, Jas. 1
Harrison, Robert Hicks, Levi Mercer.
Larne committees ol subscription were also appoin
ted lor Alabama.
On motion, the Convention then adjourned
, n HUNTER, President.
W. B. Bennett, ) a
E. H Beall, $ Secretaries. ,
Jackson, 31;>s., March 23. —Kossuth was received
by Governor Foote in the House of Representatives
last evening, ami made a lengthy speech in reply to
one delivered by the Governor. Little or no enthusi
asm has been shown in Kossuth's regerd ‘ny the citi
zens of this place, and tt is not at all probable that his
doctrines will be received with any cot siderable de
gree of tnvorin Mississippi.
ll 1 1 - - ‘rnxrx ij 11. -Ai A.SUP
fetter fron Mr Rush, late Minister to France, I
to the Committee of Invitation of the Congees I
sim al Banquet in honor of the bit th day of Wash ]
ington.
Sydenham, (near Philadelphia,)
February 14, 1852. |
Gentlemen: —l am honored by your invitation to be
es'-nt as a guest at a Congressional Banquet lorcele
rating the anniversary of the birth of Washington, to
“ given on Saturday, the tw'-ntv first of ibis month,
tt this juncture, when the tide of European emigra
on is sitting in upon our shores wiih a toice aid ei
ct far greater than hitherto known; when million*
egin to conte in place oi former thousands, and when
:e are invoked lo iluow ourselves into the jarrmg
>ntests of Europe; at such a juncture, an important
oe. and altogether new to us, your promised celehta
on appears to me very opportune. 1 de ply lament
>y inability to be in the city of Washington on an oc
isiou so insert snug ; but the honor of you r invitation
■etiss to gve me ilie semblance of a claim lor reply
g io it with something beyond a common-place
pologv, though mme to do so presu nptaously. Ido
ot fail to perceive that, by th- terms and your invita
oti, the celebration is not alone for the purpose : f
evincing a becoming respect to ihe high churactei
nd illustrious services” ol M ashington, but also for
■ affirming and re asserting the principles of his Fare
well Address to the American people.”
The principles embodied in that solemn document
have by universal consent become of such peculiar
value and magnitude, under national views, that mere
•voids can no longer desciibe them. We must lake
results. Combined with V'asiiington’s enforcement
of them during the first Administiation of our Gov
ernment, thty have been the chief moral cause in
making us w hat we are. We have stood upon them
as on adamant. In a wonderfully brief period they
have rai.-ed us to a high pitch ot greatness and glory :
only juvenile, however, as y< t, but sufficit nt to have
drawn forth the rational admiration of mankind.
Had we not adhered to them, there is ample room for
die belie! that such quick and extraordinary results
would never have been witnessed. We owe it, then,
to ourseives, if not to the world, whose trusiee lor the
preservation of human liberty we have often desired to
be thought, to pause, to rtfleet, to avoid haste, before
departing from them in any torm Especially should
we be distrustful ot taking steps in anew dneciion
under temporary excitements appearing to be now in
operation, some or others of which might not be favor
j ibis* to the cairn exercise of judgment.
How tar, in the fullness of time, some of the maxims
1 •( our great founder may disappear under the political
* lorizon over which the power of this country is des
’ lined to sweep, if remaining under the panoply of our
1 glorious Union—and sweep, let us hope, as justly,as
’ proudly—must be solved by time itself, that greatest of
innovators. But, for the times we live in and have to
reason w ith, a continued adherence to them will, in
all probability, do more for the cause of rational liberty
ibx ad, than any implied menaces or constructive in.
peaehnients we could frame against despotism, certain
ly moie tnun any wars we could wage against it
wars into which we might be drawn from slender be
ginnings, with no such intention at first. Under our
liberal institutions, foreigners casting their iot here
soon become part of us. They blend with our fortunes,
share our prosperity, and augment our strength. Let
us ask ourselves whether, by being able to lilt up their
ow n lot in this country, there will not thus be reflected
back upon the countries they leave, toan extent greater
at least than we could hope to effect by any other kind
of interterence, the political meliorations which those
countries are in need of, if prepared to receive them
Sib lice is a power—example a power—often the most
efficacious of all others, in aii affairs. Under the guid
ance of Washington’s principles, anew nation from a
fine old stock has risen up in the new hemisphere,
. under auspices the most remarkable for laying broadly
I the foundations of freedom. It lias passed through
: the portals into the family of strong nations. All
: watch it. It is full of promise. Amazing also has
j been its performance for tbe time of its existence. I
j is aspiring in the extreme, and has materials the richest
| for aspirations the very highest. Its maturity is still
undeveloped, and trials and risks are still b.dore it.—
Such is now this nation ; and what a losiiion of incipi
ent authority with other nations has it not obtained by
its course hitherto! How radiant the beams on its
early banner! What good hope, at this era, do they
not hold out, of a magnificent future, in the great
sphetes which this young America may fill! To re
volve in them full-orbed, to play her first-rate part, she
must go on longer as she has begun. This is the
condition. The day for her w ork on other continents,
whether ol beneficent intention by her protests, or to
enforce such ends by an array of her power, has not
arrived. Her eagle wings, strong as are the growing
pinions, are still unfledged to boundless soarings in the
distance. Encompassed by her own nearest duties
and obligations, w hilst advancing to the meridian she
has not yet reached, though able now to beat back a
world in arms should it approach her, no better study
can there possibly be, even for the most gifted and pre
eminent among her sons, than the advice ct Wash
ington.
The study of his character will be the more apt to
iend in right convictions, the more deeply it is gone
into. There is a strength and universality in his
i principles for governing nations which it is not easy to
conceive of any tiling human surpassing. Tney are
not fur this age or that—for this exigency or that.—
Duration is written upon them. They will be ot force
to hold empires together, which would be shivered to
pieces under the maxims as under the conduct of a
: Napoleon. Whilst oilier men, called great in their
jday, ground, or sink, in going down tlie stream of
time, his proportions become more visible and grand.
Intrinsic superiority entered into every element of his
moral and intellectual being. All his passions were
j so controlled that none of evil tendency ever intruded
{into the government of his conduct. lie secured the
‘deliberate veneration of minds the most exalted and
’ pure. He forever carried with him the confidence and
j hurras of the masses. He was immaculate in honor,
| inflexible in justice, invariable in dignity. He trad
| resources of w isdom w hen others were baffled, and ot
I firmness when others were shaken. Kings respected
j him. The people adored him, his transcendent quali
ties and deeds being felt by all classes of mankind.
As tokens of this, il any single one may be pointed
out when the world is so full in all ways of his prodfgi
ous fame, may I dare to mention the homage rendered
to it on two occasions, omitting others, which it hap
pened to me to witness officially abroad. Une of them
was in the palace of George 111, whose subject our
great Chief was before becoming the victor over his
disciplined and formidable legions in the hard-fought
fields of the long war of American Independence”—
Being in the apartments of that palace as the repre
sentative of my country, in the time of the Prince Re
gent, his son and successor, it was my lot to hear
tributes to his extraordinary virtues and illustrious ca
reer, from a member of the British royal family, utter
ed where the assembled ambassadors ot Europe might
have heard them ; and need I udd how gratefully they
fell upon the ear of an American minister ?
The other instance which, under your permission, I
will recall, was more signal, more historical, more il
lustrative. it was in France, where also I was honored
with the representative trust (rom this our great Re
public, whose roots have been laid as if for centuries
m our soil. And it was in that memorable Februaiy
of ‘4B, at the epoch of the blessed anniversary you are
to celebrate. Then it was that the French monarchy
leii at a blow, and a Republic was proclaimed upon its
ruins. Wild shouts ot joy went up from sacked and
burning paiaces, as their inmates fled lor safety through
the avenues and bowers of their ancient gardens. Not
singly either did such shouts go up. Even the sober
minded gave way to hope, as if the heavens had
opened with bright and cheering illuminations on the
troubled path ot France. So. at first, seemed the
vision ; mid millions wished at first to read in it a gold
en ftiture for this gallant, powerful, and highly-advanced
I op e. But when difficulties came, when the shock
in Forte vibrated ihroug i continental Europe, up heav
ing the people above thrones; when the -truggles ot
rival interests and passions, the keen clashing-? of op
posite theories and dogmas, the fierce jenlou-tes, and
selfishness, and violence,of alternate factionscontend
ing for domination, were all sten to be featfu.ly com
mingled ; when these were revealing how hard is the
task of reconciling public liberty with public order and
tin- security of private rights, in great communities
that suddenly thtow off their foims of government;
when w se and good men were appalled, and k ew
not what to do, or were jostled and thrown off the
stage by the cunning and bad—what was it I then
hemd? Let Americans remember it, native and
adopted, who deem lightly ol the work of revolution- I
izmg foreign despotisms, tumbling down European
monarchies, or contending at this day from our shores
i*ny manner with transatlamic tyranny. Why, u
under this dark aggregate of accumulated and ac
cumulating perils that 1 heara.asdid others, the master
spirit ot the Provisional Government,Lamartine, say—
the man who saved France from torrents of blood by
the sell-possession, courage, and eloquence of a
minute—it was in these terrible times i heard him
despairingly say. that “tee want of the age was a
’ European Washington!”
What a mighty name is his! What a tower of
strength! How lilted to cover nations as with an
of wisdom, and safety, and true glory!
1 pray you, gentlemen, to receive indulgently this
my answer to your obliging invitation, and to accept
my (hanks for t tie- honor oi it Knowing Washington
as we knew him, and ail time will know him, shall we
hastily swerve from his counsels, at a season when
more than ever, perhaps, they should be as a lantern to
our feel ? Ihe grounds are s* lid tor thinking that, if
among us, Lis consummate wisci© o would es little, at
mis juncture, iurn aside to embark in efiorts to over
throw tyranny in Europe, or wrestle with it in any
mode, as to overthrow the domestic tus'iuitions of any
f the; e States Lot us hope that his counsels may no; !
be forgotten. L t us still hold on to the broad spi it j
>d litem. They are of force to shield us fioin woes at i
home, and stave oft trouble in in abroad. As one j
citizen ot the Republic, i hail ihc < bject ot your Bail- ;
quel. Taking place at ilie national metropolis, where j
are assembled so many names prominent in intelii- ,
genre, character, and patriotism in tore the country,
rajs of influence will be shot Ironi that C mre, to ,-ub ,
serve throughout all our borders its high design j
Hoping this result from it, and renew mg my legit is at j
tnv inability to be present. 1 beg to tender to you the i
fell assurances ot my distinguished consideration and I
resptot. RICHARD KLSii. ,
Ho, for Florida .'—The Edgefield Adveitisei in- j
forms'us that several of its best Edg* ti Id families have
determined upon removing to this land ol flowers, as j
eaiiy in th * coming Fall as the nature o’ the c .s. wib |
admit. There is a small mania liing up on the sub |
ecf, and we would not be much surprised if a liltle j
•migrating colony were the result. It is somew hat re- j
narkhble, that ot ail the acquaintances we have in
Florida, who removed from I his? State, there is not one !
>f them who has not become devotedly attached to his !
tew home. There really seems to be some strange j
•nclinntn.ent in this Southern clime, w. ich uii leel j
itid obey.
1 wonder,” said a Scottish mn.dep. “what j
my brother John sees in the lasses that he likes them j
rue well ; for my part, I wad no gi’e the company o’ue ’
lad for twenty lasses.” *
j [Correspondence of the Mobile Daili >,/ I
j-Tung, inery meet with'the ci/rd”ft I
men m ihisse. lion of the State 01 ‘■* I
gameu a- an ab.e and irutidui “* sme r e . I
and pmp„es o, die i Utu.u p iny ZZZZ I
<- et os .io,,••it.sm of print-,pies, I
s i vc p.ai-c for their clearness Jim.,.; *Kuniy ■
t t.ry present an a, nnrable pLiK ■* a,,u I
parties who regard the pffserU,j„ n “, Z ‘r” -’‘l. I
tie teniit at ion ol sectional suite as „t. e J 0: *d I
mmm importance,and who are wt Z. F ta- I
common * florin, stain them it J a
nton is agam to be fought in Alabin ‘V o| die I
t ons piesent in a distinct, substantive u : “ re -'’ -
sues winch leg tin.; tely belong to d.l"‘l*’ ““ lhe ‘ I
the ivcessotnsts controveit them and tlieV‘!! ! ‘? 1 ’ W
defeat mure disastrous even than then t “ ln, * er -a
Waterloo. 11 ia st sunime^
i he Union men here regard with much a
late movement in Georgia j dtsiavwr t h e
•Vluledgeville caucus will neither be obey£i"m/’ ,h ‘-
ded in any manner by the Alabama I , Rl ” r T ,r ’
attempt to commit tin* Union party 0 t Hr
through it, by sympathy or example
to send delegates to the Baltimorefive m™*™’
bold manoeuvre and betrays its origin .V r - ? &
which it proposes. The MilledgevTlle ZZZ e
mistake the chaiacter of the Union par i o § .lu ‘ >’
1 iiot . tfansternble by the endo, semen;
pullets at State (..apitois, and is totally ipr -, ,> r ”
abasement ol a fraternization w ith the FuUlv' ,e
1.. e north. It came into existence under if ‘
of an acknowledged mists in our puLl.c alii
wtil e dissolved only when ns pair,one 5,!
accomplished. It has an organization, a e dT‘ I
purposes—distinct, , n some measure, non. b, t ‘ I
o dpames. It numbers in its ranks a large nS I
of the people o tbe States in w inch it exts.s h ‘ I
acmeved already one signal victoty, and need bu I
campaign more to determinate the heresies it ’•.
gamzed to combat. The bate idea that such
to be disbanded, or what is worse, matched a b n ‘
into the camp of a party which not only refillu Z
Congressional caucus, to endorse its cardinal tenet m
is,at this moment, r. eking with the odor of lUlo
coalmens w th the Freesoilism, is, to say tC
preposterous absurdity. It is bad enough i„ ’ ,
science, for the southern F re-eaters to go jam the R
tiinore Convention. They compromise, by the nr-,
both their principles and their position, and tun mh -J
scathing commentary upon ttieir past profes<icns
But asa defeated part),something tm,\ be pardoned
to the feelings engendered by perpetual reverse* 1
is an old truism that extremes meet, a: and the airaga I
manon ot southern ultraism with uortliern faniit
ici-m :n the Baltimore Convention, w be only a,l|i
tional proof of the truth of the maxim. But tor the
Union party of the south, organized tor the
put pose ot counteracting the mach ations ol ‘both
those errorisis, to go with them into N-nn ic r,.
vendor and become pledg dto support its m n tmes
would he a humiliation deeper than any recorded in
the annals of the party. L would be worse :! C o ii.
olanus confederating with the Volscia: for t!- over
throw ot his native city. It would !>• . r p e .
traying the citadel into the very h; nls .n-t which
he was commanded most vigilantly :o and it.
The fact is, Mr. Advertiser, the'or : : and purposes
of this Georgia movement are so w understood here
in the interior, that sensible men ot all parties lauoh
at it nearly, or quite as much, as they do at the abor
tive attempts of the Democracy to effect a reon ani- I
za'ion. These, you know, have been the iruittnl
themes for merry-making all over the State. Never
before has the Democratic party of Alabama been m I
such tribulation The attempt to marshal its sunder
ed fractions under one banner ltßve thus far most sii
nalty failed. The smiles and smirks have been abun
dant, the coquetting brilliantly deceptive to the unini
tiated, but the result ol the flirtation has been, as u-ual
only a greater estrangement of the parties. It would
seem to be almost a moral impossibility to unite the
Democracy of this State again. But such are the mar
vellous cohesive affinities of that party, that I would I
not be surprised to see it accomplished, and that quite I
speedily. It is to be hoped, however, that the Union
portion ot it will remain true to their allegiance to the
Union party.
You must excuse the political complexion of this
letter. Materials for gossip are quite scarce here at
present, and asj purpose to write, currente calaim.on
all sorts of subjects, I thought a dish of up-country
politics would be not altogether unacceptable to you
during the present scarcity ol more interesting items
IKE RAMBLER.
[From the National Intelligencer ]
3li. Harney and Kossuth & Cos.
The subjoined letter from tbe Hon. John Barney, of
Baltimore, has reference to a publication oi a compan
ion or follower ol M. Kossuth, (named Pulszky,) in
which he endeavors to be impertinent towards those of
our citizens who have ventured to dissent from the
anti-American schemes and false assumptions of his
chief. We did not think it worth while ourselves to
notice Mr Pulszky’sjimpudence, but as Mr. Barney has
chosen to do so, we yield him, with pleasure, a place in
our coiums;
Gentlemen :—Gratified by the excellent company
with which I ant associated fy the amanuensis of M
Kossuth—“ Russia und Austria have formed their army
in battle atray ; Mr Barney of Baltimore, the invitd
lady ol Virginia, and the sexagenarian ot t ,e National
Intelligencer fottn the staff’—l feel confident to re
main there, with a brief vindication of the motives
which induced my intercourse with this accomplished
but ill-judging exile.
Aware that the sentiments of the Executive and
Legislative authorities of the general Government,
when coerced to express them on “intervention,”
would proclaim more chills than words could speak
after three month’s discussion, the first word in favor of
available intervention remains yet to be pronounced—
I desired to present to Mr. Kossuth the alternative ct
transferring the patriots of Hungary to a land of liberty,
“where Nature wantons as in her prime, and plays at
will her virgin fancies,” where they could iuxuriatein
“file,liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” no despot
daring to make them afraid, and however agonizing
the parting pang on relinquishing the “faderland,” yet
true amor patriae would find consolation in the knowl
edge that the boon ot freedom could only be obtained,
in a doubtful contest, by fertilizing its fields with the
blood ot a hecatomb of martyrs, whose usufruct would,
in all probability, revert to their tyrant conquerers
armed with half a million of bustling bayonets.
Here, in the vast regions of our Western World, a
elimaie more congenial, a soil more fertile, he might
administer liberty and law, the chosen governer or’ a
new Hungary, in preference to wasting his energies,
his genius, and his talents in the severest lessons in the
school ot huniilliation ; a man of pride and of self-re
spect, could present himself to a generoos, confiding
and sympathizing nation alms,and earning the title of
tf;e Hungary Governor.
But I soon ascertained that he was deaf to convic
tion,determined to appeal from “Ca'sar tothe people,”
and to spread discord and discontent broadcast through
the land by inflaming the passions ot the populace
to instruct and coerce ttieir representatives into the rec
ognition and adoption ol the principles'ot the Harris
burg resolutions, “qui ont ete suggestt par moi
meme
W hen he proclaimed himself an insensate ingrate,
witfi the taunting reproach that we had m nt an agent
“'pour temoigner le bouleversernent de m i patrie. oien
aimeep I could only deplore that talent ranscendent
gemug, accomplishment, a net profound le; rning should
be controlled and rendered useless by wiid imaginings
ot absurd, impracticable, and fitful fancies ■ t glory and
conquest, and the prompt liberation of an - ion remote
an inaccessible to all the world, its ruthless
conquerers and their invading a ly
iie se< med to gather courage frotn des ; ir. foi wine
admitting that the retirement of Lord P '’ nerston had
crushed at hope ot “operative sympaih, from Eng
land, yet the recent assumption of arbitiar newer by
Louis Napoleon would fan the embers c! itionnry
tire throughout Europe, and caus tyr; - tremble
on their thrones, while they tottered rumbled
into one chaotic ruin ; and such was ti. c ot his
eloquence and the perfection of his fine i ug. that tor
a moment I beheld in his bright anticipui tons the over
whelming waves of universal emancipation inundating
the barrieis ot despotic power, and all the world
breathing the refreshing atmosphere of republican
liberty.
I had seen John Kemble, Mrs. Siddons. T dma.and
j Mrs Jordan, in their palmiest days. In tragic and
epic their delusions were not more optical than tue
shadowings of this perfect actor, and the lover ot tbe
drama has to deplore the misdirection ot his genius,
although he seems to consider all the world a
and all the people in it as but players. To act we;
your part, there all the honor lies, looking attentively
to ihe profits, which, however, appear to be growing
“ small by degrees and beautifully less,” as I learn that
in Baltimore, wiih all tbe excitement of ti e grand pa
geant, the operative sympathy amounted to but
Bewildered by the coinage of his prolific brain. I
passed a night amidst restless dreams of levered steep,
and with the morn,not “cold difference,”hot calm re
flection came, and even now 1 cease to wonder at tfe
spell he casts around all who listen to glowing linage X
and impulsive eloquence.
Your friend and servant,
JOHN BARNEY.
*His own words.
Gs.n. Scott and the Compromise. —The General t
Position Defined. —A Washington correspondent cl
ihe Nashville Banner recently hud an interview’ with
Gen. Scott, who, it is alleged, is indignant atjhe charge
made in some of the newspapers that hts position
reg-iid to tiie compromise tneaauies, is ambiguous-
According to this writer, General Scott, in his con
versation wiih him, said :
“ How can anyone doubt my past or present supp’ ’t
<'f the compromise measures l Did I •'<**■ al ‘“t
meeting of ihe iriends of lhe Union, held ill Lad ‘
Garden, New York, publicly proclaim my .approval <
them—ala period, 100, when tut a lew in “ :nt 1
advocated the propriety of their adoption ? Am ll
mediately alter my peru'-ai ol Mr. Ck> ‘
speech ll their a- fence, made in the Senate oi the
Mates, c <i 1 not sit down at my residence in the i
of New York, and write to him in substance as toi-
I ‘ 1 hove, in my day and generation, fcntht li /” ’’
which have gained f.r our c< nnnon ccum,t toi.n ■ 1
j renown and glory. Tlh-o, however, might have*
won by other men.or if lost, would i.avebeMi * I";
I ny the indomitable chivalry ol our orave so” - .
j But the great bailie wt.-ch you alr . n ‘. 4 ?’ t ‘
I ail that is glorious or imnioitul.ol the pre_ ■ *’ “ \
! past, ail that is dear and hopeful ot .'-ZZ-i nd ‘he
j the battle at the preservation ot the 8
| constitution, the perpetuity of our republican n
| tioris. I trust in God that you may
j your patriotic undertaking. Tor i mo* a **- ■
! prove oj oil the iue<isiiycs of tfow
to them a cordial and energetic su; } ot y
* He also addfpp?wl a similar letter, 10