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iJfc Joseph Clisby. MACON, MARCH 29, 1859. "Volume XXXIII.—No. 27. GEORGIA TELEGRAPH n nl.l-HED kvkiiv S1 , A V M OH NINO. US. IX A UVAKl’E. rv rare where the snlerriptior i !)T.t of the OlHee. ,nh C. Lovejoy’s Letter. I* m ,h, Washington t nion. . ^ Abolition*"* *" NIew Enjr- LAND- Uostos, Match Hi, 1£39. .. i i,«vc read your speech hlT hiim. delireriHl tu the House of )■ ,?l “ 1 hm iKtiute of eonsidcra- 1 ‘ iud will Lc praised by your • ,, e | c vi>r effort; but I sec no other iiit «••«« l>™Uucc but to irritate the I jjiciate ouc section of the Union ! ■'iv.sn t lie other. Have we not at the ■ lU |,(ed our owu solf-rigliteouancss, t (he sins of the South. quite up Y-,1 the healthy point? Would it Y'lforus. for a time, to look more at ' failing* and at the virtues of our Lat the South ? rak of the chango of tone and sent- ’! t i, ; e taken place during the last ■ f v car» on the subject of slavery. Lei's* t® the truth of this charge. It • Y >li emits of nyr early liic, that L**f mankind might be greatly jYiuddcu i>olitical changes. The came to my youthful car, , it,. eloi|Ucut breath of cyc-witnes- ' Viremia and New Jersoy. Almost a at the South, at that time, admitted L,rv was an evil, moral, social, and po- llirh wr«r» of the middle passage, the cruelties of Jamaica, came to us |j! IVilherforce and Clarkson Irda ivorld-widefame by theirsingu- tu the abolition of the slave trade; Lu.t sa< -oou made upon slavery itself i;iii,li West Indies, aud the first of I-.;-, was entered in the calendar as ..days of the year, i.ei painted the wild chieftain on his ,„u>. so noble, so free, so happy— liuiaed. doomed, suffering, till the ,? iu the West Iudics were commission- usage his wrongs. The plaintive ,rat out his compassion in the touch 'd would not have a slave for all the ,i mucks bought and sold have ever and these tones of suffering, of com- ; pity, were echoed by every harp, - ed by orator and preacher, till the »phere of New Knglnnd wns vocal rics of the slave. 1 have dono my Ire «C it; but greater men have becu | n, and have in ripcT years been com- i revise and revoke the opinions of car- Jturkc ouco wns enraptured with •• of Liberty, as she cried from across Lucl; but in the full strength of his 1 he was compelled to denounce the [uminitted in her name. Sir James Lli wrote his •• Yindicia Galliciebut helled. by a longer experience and a (•nation, to cancel the opinions of e by those of maturcr years. I am hi to cancel many things that I have ike subject of slavery, and substitute i the opinions of riper age. I might ce .aid what, or nearly what you have [i utlate speech in Congress; though I tVuM have left out thoso portions t so other end than simply to irri- .convincing. But my convictions rai time, arc uot only that the slave- >i- a complete vindication of their ■U.uu, but'thcy arc entitled to bo vjun a. benefactors to the country aud -a race. It ground which I can claim their pa- i forbearance toward us for meddling sffsin, and for abusing them as much •. sad .umo still continue to do, is py we us t lie false premises on which cl correctly to falsa conclusions, away their case by concession; for be a .-in, a wrong, or an evil, no fair I --t the conclusion that efforts made as soon as possiblo to do This philosophy, that slavery is up in Virginia, and wasadopt- i-. iiraged in nearly ull the slave -i theu the seed was thence, in con- 4 tho correct and grand principles government, scattered wido over the . They have had their growth, and lot a little difficult to pull them up; hall take tho wheat with them also. |^li are impregnable. The Constitu- them, aud the experience of man- them. (lur fathers made a cove- their fat tiers. They came into the lb their African slaves on terms of « :b us and with all the rights and it ire can claim under the same c They would make no covenant iwvmis of equality. We accepted ro could get no better to-ilny; 1 I- aid be glad to make it, if it were Mo renew it if broken, and on the -i- as we now have. The South •:ht to go into the new territory, r *ke land with their slaves, till the ter- a sovereign State, and then 1 will, as before all other sover- •i*s just and equitable claim, fouu- th iut.rprctat ion of the Constitution. •M be permitted to flow by nat- to regions for which it is bestadapt- go nowhere else. You could not t-to New Hampshire, nor keep it there ; '«l. The experiment has been tried • Slavery was given up in the North' not by the force of mural but natu- tiir discussions of the last 25 years a cd a great deal of sentiment on the * slavery in the Northern States; but ' how utterly barren of any good I ■os been to the African. In icords wise their number is small, and will con- •esiiiaJl—wc have iu the extreme North in the rights of a'tzenshjp luidcquali* 1 ” irjrkt we deny them. The most re- ( 'orvil men in Boston would not be * hire or to onn and quietly enjoy a * 'road aisle of any fashionable church. *>»hm your soil ia more fertile, and rw colored men would be likely to . re 'tringent; and the black laws Iowa, and Oregon, and the still ■ Topeka Constitution of Kansas -I believe, you and all your repub- voted—proclaim, as with trum- fbe imate and ineradicable preju- Hrican, lurking, as it still docs, i f those whose tongues are olo- * tights. | 3 little surprised at the manner in d I Noah. The Bible calls him . and perfect in bis generation lie, by Divine inspiration and F*'Jemand, foretold the slavery of the •utii. you give him some very hard * leave him on the pages of your 1 »rharactcr by no means so fair as ! him by the sacred historian. Was ►Y; "f.' our tlieory, tliat you strike i ’ ns tbough you would hew * mi say that lie mistook Canaan 'oppose he did, the prediction ami rv-t "lucwliero—on some nation. It?.** *h« same in the Divine admin- are the children of Canaan ? ,. history unite in the belief that n r f,, mntinent of Africa. Their jhyS witli rcmarkablo fidelity, the that •figliujona man and.preacher , Noah. “A servant of ser- '' we double curse, which has rested Mirn-m and race for many centuries, da r l "* l . a nct 'Vvark of double slavery | having bis retinue of slaves, while to Muno higher chief or petty grvat stress upon the lact wera not black. How do tiH- ’’ r - *l‘ om pson, who has written, ,1 ‘“f* 1 thorough work on Syria and * Ter h<*u published, says the * nUnts of that country came from Bill 1P* 1 painting of Samson grinding woirg his Philistine driven very dark, if not blark. BuYvou miss the point of the .Scriptural precedent Xml example for slave ry. You prove, as you think, that the Canaan- ites were not black*, and then jump at once to tho conclusion that, if they were not black, they must have been enslaved because they were laboring men. This docs very well to stir up prejudice at the North; but is it the truth? The Israelites were permitted to enslave tho Ca- naaliites not because they wore laboring men, but liccause they were heathen, and thereby so degraded that a transfer to the Hebrew Com monwealth, where the true God was worshipped, was a privilege and a blessing. This furnishes the parallel point on which X nieriean slaveholders rely with great confidence. Tho Africans wctc taken (Wan the worst heathen ism, and here taught to worship the true God; anil, iu the opinion of every Bible man, more of them have licen fitted for and gone to heaven from the thousands in America than from the millions in Africa. Dr. Dwight said, after long experience and wide oliscrvation, that he never knew one lacy man converted. And os God had chosen ncopk in Africa, it was necessary tliat they should be taught to work in order to their conversion. But In the South they are not al lowed to read the Bible. Well,- in Africa, they neither read it, heard of it, nor from it. Faith eoincth by hearing; and is it not better to hciy the truth than to Uvc entirely destitute of it? You quote the eighth commandment as a pro hibition of slavery. This is singular. Were your ancestors thieves ? They brought, or as sented to the bringing of slaves to this country. It is a singlnr fact, tliat while wc boast of our Puritan ancestry, the laws of the present day would hong half the men tliat lived a hun dred years ago, as engaged in the slave traf fic, directly or indirectly; ami another law would imprison all the men who lived forty years since. The eighth commandment was given on the way out of Egypt. It was the charter—the constitution of the Hebrew nation. All their other laws were controlled by the Decalogue. Well, now they had slaves by Di vine permission under this charter. How conld they, if the eighth coniandment forbids it?— But arc the slaves stolen ? Certainly not by Americans. They buy them, pay for them, transfer them, and provide for them, in the on ly and most benevolent manner in which it can be done. As to the metaphysical abstraction, that man cannot have property in man; it lias been contradicted from the foundation of the world to the present time. Holding, use, and transfer, arc the elements of property; and this has bcert done by men to men in all ages; and vet you say that there is no word in the good old Hebrew tongue tliat conveys the idea of property in man. When a master inadvertent ly killed his slave, no blood was to be shed, for "he iran his money.’’ Does not that mean prop erty ? It cannot be denied tliat the idea of slavery runs all through the Bible; it was stamped up on the entire history of the Jewish nation, and upon the history of every vigorous nation upon the face of the earth; indeed I strongly suspect this is the normal condition of large portions of a depraved race, and I can readily believe that a man may sustain the relation of slaveholder, in all good conscience, and with the Divine appro- bation. There are risible footprints of God’s disapprobation of the abolitionism of this rottn- try. Look at tire flocks of unclean beasts and birds that have come up out of its train. Infi dels Hint curse Cod, abuse every man of good character, and then praise humanity in general to counterbalance their malignity and blasphe my. Out of the abstract rights of man have grown the more abstract rights of woman; and once respectable wives call St Paul a crusty old bachelor, nml Abraham a tyrant, because Sarah obeyed him, and Paul makes mention of the fact. 'The second edition of the rights of woman is divorce, “affinity,” and universal con cubinage. Wc have far more of these immoral tendencies ill the northern States than they have at the South. It is not time to look at home ? The troth is, wc have licen wont to contem plate the condition of the slaves at tho South from a wrong point of view. We compare them with races or nations mom highly civilized, and their condition seems a harsh and degraded one; but what were they when Christian nations took them by the liand and led them across the Ocean? American slavery has produced and culti vated more African intellect, more Christian emotion in two hundred years than all Africa (Central and Southern) for two thousand years. American slavery is a redemption, a deliverance from African heathenism. “The dark places of the earth arc full of the liabitations of cruel ty; and no part of the earth was more filled with cruelty than Africa. Treading beneath their feet one of the most fertile soils, they cultivate almost nothing—live on fruits and nubs with few cattle, and little commerce. They arc it tho first place lazy beyond all hope of self ini provement. They will not work. Now, God has ordained the law of labor so surely, and so universally, that if barbarians will not work, civilization will yoke them up and drive them to it This is fixed, sure as light and gravity. Why not? Why should one quarter of the globe, one section of the globe, one of the hu man family do nothing for the race ? If Ham will not tiring timlier for the ark, Shem and Japhcth will drive him to it But Africa is not only a great wilderness of loungers, but out tliis idleness grow all man ner of vice. Work is salvation. Work regen erates the earth and man. Work is progress, and without it nothing. The title doed of Un earth to man had Uiis proviso: that lie should subdue it and multiply upon it Now, if he on ly multiplies and does not subdue, lie lias only a squatter sovereignty—no certified tiUe till he builds his house and tills his farm. Honco the Indian must lie driven out; he will not work on any condition, neither self-moved nor driven by the hand of another, and, therefore, the last tomahawk of the veil man will soon hang as a trophy in the halls of conqueror. Now, the African works paticnUy and well when driven to it; he will work on no other condition. His climate is a terrible protection from white inva sion, thereforwhe must be transported and taught to work, thereby civilized, thereby christianiz ed, thereby improved every way and, perhaps voted missionaries. British philanthropy, and i rock began to make its appearancejnbovc the “Something glided by me in the water, and lathy, is fast receding through water, and in a little.while ita bard bald head then made a sadden halt. I looked upon the American sympathy idleness to barbarism. Half a million of peo ple there in twenty years have not lifted as many spades of earth as twenty thousand Yan kees in California in one-third of the time. If this half million had the twenty thousand to lead them and guide them and jilan for them, then that island, which was once a fruitful field, would not be going back to a wilderness. The best thing that could be done for Africa, if they coaid live there, would be to send them a hundred thousand American slaveholders to work them up to some degree of civilization. It is charged that the life of the slave at the South is sometimes at the mercy of the master. In Africa the immediate body servants of every chief at his death, arc at once beheaded and hurried forward to attend the new wants of their old master. Is it wicked to buy thcscdc- voted victims of heathenism aud put them un der the protection of civilized, and often Chris tian masters ? Just in proportion as tlic price of these slaves is raised in Afrien, just to that degree is there a motive to the heirs to spare their lives. So far os Africa is concerned, the slave trade was and is humane in its operations; its abolition was the result of sentiment, and not the determination of calm and deliberate states manship. That it was not called for by the condition of the world nor by any deep-seated moral sentiment, is proved from the fact, that the nation foremost in its abrogation lias now revived it on other shores and under another name, adding to whatever sin there is in the di rect open slave trade, the other sin of hypocri sy and false pretence. Jamaica wants laborers, not because there are not plenty of them on the island, but be cause they will not work; and the same British philanthropy which stands guard over the stal wart and immensely lazy son of Ham, brings in the feebler children of Shem, and dooms them to the same bondage under another name. Honor to the sagacious and far-seeing states men of Georgia and South Carolina, almost the only consistent slave States in the Union ; for they breasted the united streams of British and American fanaticism, claimed and maintained their rights and saved the South from barren ness and desolation, the North from a civil war, and the negroes from barbarism. If more la borers are needed for Texas, Central America, parts of Mexico and Cuba, they ought to be brought, without objections, under sucli humane regulations as are made in other cases for the comfort of passengers. These laliorcrs should come from Africa, because they arc stronger and make better slaves than any of the copper- colored races—because they are more suscepti ble of transformation, and tlicir improvement will be greater, and, lastly, because they arc the most degraded. As to the influence of slavery on the char acter of the whites, that is quite another ques tion ; but so far as the political history of our country is concerned, it is oat easy to see how wc could do without the slaveholders. See how their names shine along and adorn the past his tory of our country:—Washington, Jefferson, the Randolphs, Bayard, Pickney, Madison, Monroe, Crawford, Kutlcdgc, Jackson, Calhoun, Clay, Benton—blot out these names, and a countless host of others, from the slave States, and what a blank is left in our hlstorv. And do you not find men from these States now in Congress, fully the peers of any tliat you can name from the North in statesmanship, honor, integrity, patriotism, and high moral and reli- was entirely dry. Tim now proposed to set black mass, and, as my eye run along its dark me oat upon the rock, while he rowed nsborc outline, I saw, with horror, that it was s shark; to get the jug, which, strange to say, we bad the identical monster out of whose month I left at the house. I assented to this proposi- had just broken my hook. He was fishing tion; first, because I began to feel the effects now for me, and was evidently only waiting of the sun upon my tongne, and needed some- for the tide to rise high enough above the rock, thing to take, by the way of medicine; and to glut at once his hunger and revenge. As secondly, because the rock was a favorite spot the water continued to monntabove my knees, for rod und reel, and famous for lock ; so 11 he seemed to grow more hungry and familiar took my traps, and a box of bait, and jumped At last, he made a desperate dash, and ap upon my new station. Tim made for the Is-1 proaching within an inch of my legs, turned land. upon his back, and opened his huge jaws for “Not many men would willingly have been an attack. 'With desperate strength, I thrust left upon a little barren reef that was covered the end of my rod violently at his mouth: and by every flow of the tide, in the midst of a the brass head ringing against his teeth, threw waste of waters, at such a distance from the him back into the deep current, and I lost shore, even with an assurance from a compan- sight of him entirely. This, however, was but ion more to be depended npon than mine, that a momentary repulse; for in the next minute he would return immediately and take him off. | he was close behind my back, and pulling at But, some how or other, the excitement of my the skirts of my fustian coat, which hung dip- sport was so high, and the romance of the sit- ping into the water. I leaned forward hastily, uation was so delightful, that I thought of and endeavored tn extricate .myself from the nothing else bat the prospect of my fun, and dangerous grasp; but the monster’s teeth were the contemplation of the novelty and beauty too firmly set, and his immense strength near- of the scene. It was a mild, pleasant afternoon, ly drew mo over. So, down flew my rod, and in harvest time. The sky was clear and pure, off went my jacket, devoted peace-offerings to The deep blue sound, heaving all around me, my voracious visitor. was studded with craft of all descriptions and “In an instant, the waves ail around me dimensions, from the dipping sail-boat to the were lashed into froth and foam. No sooner rolling merchantman, sinking and rising like was my poor old sporting friend drawn under sea-birds, sporting with their white wings in the surface, than it was fought for by at least the surge. The grain and grass on the neigh- a dozen enormous combattants 1 The battle boring farms were gold and green, and grace- raged upon every side. High black fins rush- fuiiy they bent obeisance to a gently breath-1 cd now here, now there, and long, strong tails ing soutbivcstcr. Father off, the high upland, scattered sleet and froth, and the brine was and the distant coast, gave a dim relief to the thrown up in jets, and eddied, and curled, and prominent features of the landscape, and seem-I fell, and swelled, like a whirlpool in Hell ed the rich but dusky frame of a brilliant fairy I gate. picture. Theu, how still it was ? not a sound ‘*Of no long duration, however, was this could be heard, except the occasional rustling fishy tourney. It seemed soon to be discov- of my own motion, and the water beating a-1 ered that the prize contended for contained gainst the sides, or gurgling in the fissures of I nothing edible but cheese and crackers, and the rock, or except now and then the cry of no flesh; and as ita mutilated fragments rose a solitary saucy gull, who would come out of to tho surfoce, the waves subsided into their his way in the firmament, to sec what I was former smooth condition. Not till then did I doing without a boat, all alone in the middle I experience the real terrors of my situation of the sound; and who would hover, and cry, I As I looked around me to sec what had be- and chatter, and make two or three circling I come of the robbers, I counted one, two, three, swoops and dashes at me, and then, after hav-1 yes, up to twelve, successively, of the largest ing satisfied his curiosity, glide away in search sharks I ever saw, floating in a circle around of some other fool to scream at. I me, like divergent rays, all mathematically 'I soon became half indolent, and quite in- equidistant from the rock, and from each oth- different about fishing; so I stretched myself I cr; each perfectly motionless, and with his out at full length upon the rock, and gave my- gloating, fiery eye. fixed full and fierce upon self up to the luxury of looking and thinking. I me. Basilisks and rattlesnakes.' how the fire The divine exercise soon put me fast asleep- of their steady eyes entered into my heart 1 I I dreamed away a couple of hours, and longer was the centre of a circle, whose radii were might I have dreamed, but for a tired fisbbawk sharks! I was the uuspruug, or rather un who chose to make my head Ins resting place, I chewed game, ut which a pack of bunting sea- and who waked and started me to my feet. , dogs were making a dead point 1 “Where is Tim Titus ?” I muttered to my- I “There was one old fellow, that kept with self, as I strained my eyes over the now dar- i n the circumference of the circle. He seem kened water. But none was near me to an- cd to be a sort of captain, or leader of the band: swer that interesting question, and nothing I or rather, he acted as the coroner for the oth was to be seen of either Tim or his boat. Tic cr twelve of the inquisition, that were sum should have been here long ere this, thought I moned to sit on and eat up my body. He gli I, ‘and be promised faithfully not to stay long I ded around aud about, and every now and —could he hare forgotten, or has he paid too I then would stop, and touch his nose against much devotion to the jug V some one of his comrades, and seem to consult, “I began to feel uneasy, for the tide was I 0 r to give instructions as to the time and mode rising fast, and soon would cover the top of I 0 f operation. Occasionally, he would scull the rock, and high-water mark was at least a himself up towards me, and examine the con- foot above my head. I buttoned up my coat, dition of iny flesh, and then again glide back for either the coming coolness of the evening, I and rejoin the troupe, and flap his tail, aud or else my growing apprehensions, had set me have another confabulation. The old rascal trembling and chattering most painfully. _ I had, no doubt, been out into the highways aud con- tocrit- by-and-by sent back to yoke up and subdue his whole continent, according to the partem tliat has been shown him in this working bee-hivo of America. Yon touch in no very fraternal manner some of the social vice* of your brethren at the South. Perhaps if they deserved the stone, it should hardly come from a northern hancl; the garments of our cities are dripping with the waters of Sodom, aud some of the western States sunder the marriage covenant with as little consideration as the most rothiess slave holder. Sensuality is not at this hour produ cing as much social degradation nor destroy ing as many lives at the South as at the North; but this is not the point. What were the blacks socially when taken from Africa ? The King of Dahomey has four hundred wives, whom he employs in carrying palm oil to the coast, and thence new rum and tobacco back to tho palace for their husband and king. This rum and tobacco are the joint production of slavery and freedom. Slavery produces the tobacco and molasses, and then we Yankees make the rum and send them both in our ves sels to tho coast of Africa to buy oil gathered by women and carried on their heads in jars from fifty to two hundred miles. They arc driven ulong by a herd of lazy men, and step ping carefully every minute under the express condition that if one pot of oil is spilled, one head of a woman and a wife must be cut off to atone for it. Now, is it any great sin to catch a set of these lazy fellows, that live on the earnings of their wives, learn them to work, make them work, teach them to love one another and to love their children, so that their highest am bition shall no longer be to buy an extra num ber of wive* that they mar have a few “pick aninnies” (children) to sell! A wild African recently brought to Boston by a merchant begged for an old gun which he saw. When asked what he wanted of it, he replied, ‘to buy a wife and have pickaninnies to sell.’ Is it any harm to yoke np such men and work the laziness and brutality out of them T l ®L> but you say there is a better way to do it. There may be, but it wants tho evidence of a suc cessful experiment. The Moravians once kin dled their altars of devotion all around the Af rican coast, but the waves of barbarism have extinguished them. Jamaica, iu »p»te of de fer twenty years they had insulted < barrossed and put under tribute ou: . . melancholy merriment 1 I started and I could not help but thinking of a tea party broad-iuinded, candid, fair, patriotic Stephens, ! shuddered at tne doleful sound of my own I demure old maids* sitting in a solemn circle, of ticorgia, or his associate, Jackson. In tlicir voice. I am not naturally a coward; but I with their skinny hands in their laps, licking speeches they seem to me model.- for smaller ; should like to know the man who would not, I their expecting lips, while their hostess bus- statesmen to look up to, and strive to equal. , ; n such a situation, be alarmed. It b a cruel tics about in the important functions of her A few words as to your motto at the head death to die to be merely drowned, and to go preparations. With what an eye have I seen of your speech: “The fanaticism.of the dem- through the ordinary commonplace of suflbca-1 such appurtenances of humanity survey the ocratic party. If there could be found in the , tion; but to see your death gradually risiDg I location and adjustment of some especial democratic party or in its history any of that | to your eyes, to feel the water rising, inch by I diment, which is about to be submitted to element, certainly no .one ought to be better j jneb, upon your shivering sides, aud to antici-1 icism and consumption. qualified to deal with it than a gentleman from pate the certainly coming, choking straggle I “My sensations began to be, now, most ex- thc republican ranks.—They were born of it , or your last breath, when, with the gur- quisite iudecd; but I will not attempt to dcs- nua nutured by it: it is their meat and drink, g]; n g sound of an overflowing brook taking a I cribe them. . I was neither hot norcold, frigh- tlieir nervine and anodyne; zeal in conflict j new direction, the cold brine pours into mouth, teued nor composed ; but I had a combination and their consolation in defeat. . The dcmocra-! ears, and nostrils, usurping the seat and avc-I of all kinds ■ of feelings and emotions. The tic party needs to defence; a simple recital of, UUC s of health and life, and, with gradual flow, present, past, future, heaven, earth, my father its biography is its lughest eulogy. When the stifling—smothering—suffocating! It were and mother, a little girl I knew once, and the * * ‘ ” — ' better to die a thousand common deaths. sharks, were all confusedly mixed up togeth- “Tins is one of the instances iu which, it I cr, and swelled my crazy brain almost to burst- must be admitted, salt water is not a pleasant I ing. I cried, and laughed, and shouted, and subject of contemplation. However, the rock I screamed for Tim Titus. In a fit of most wise was not yet covered, and hope, blessed hope, I madness, I opened my broad-bladed fishing stuck faithfully by me. To beguile, if possi- I knife, and waved it around my head with an ble, the weary time, I put on a bait, and threw air of defiance. As the tide continued to rise, it out for fish. . I was sooner successful than my extravagance of madness mounted. At I could have wished to be, for hardly had my I one time I became persuaded that my tide- line struck tbe water, before the hook was waiters were reasonable beings, who might be swallowed, and my rod was bent with the dead I talked into mercy and humanity, if a body hard pull of a twelve foot shark. I let him could only bit upon the right text. So, I bow- run about fifty yards, and then reeled up. He I ed, and gesticulated, and threw out my hands, appeared not at all alarmed, and I could scar-1 and talked to them, us friends, and brothers, cely feel him bear upon my fine hair line. He I members of my family, cousins, uncles, aunts, followed the pull gently and unresisting, came people waiting to have their bills paid;—I up to the rock, laid his nose upon its side, and I scolded them us my servants ; I abused them looked up into my face, not as if utterly uncon- as duns; I implored them as jurymen sitting cerned, but with a sort of quizzical impudence I on the question of my life; 1 congratulated, as though be perfectly understood the preca- | and flattered them as my comrades upon some rious nature of my situation. The conduct of I glorious enterprise; I sung and ranted to them, my captive renewed and increased my alarm, uow as an actor in a play house, and now as And well it might; for tbe tide was now run-1 an elder at a camp-meeting; in one moment, ning over a corner of the rock behind me, and roaring. a small stream rushed through a cleft, or fis-1 'On this coldfliuty rock I will lay down my head,’- sure by my side, and formed a puddle at my und iu the next, giving out to my attentive very feet. I broke my hook out of the mon-1 hearers for singing, a hymn of Dr. Watts so ster’s mouth, and leaned upon my rod for sup-1 admirably appropriate to the occasion, port. “Where is Tim Titus!—I cried aloud— Curse on the drunken vagabond ! Will he never come ?” My ejaculation did no good. No Timothy I and ratiocination—out it came. ‘Quamdiu, appeared. It became evident that I must I Catalina, nostra patientia abutereV—I sung prepare for drowning, or for action. The reef out to the old captain, to begin with—‘My measure of the British insult was full—when our flag, col our commerce; when they bad’ seized our sailors and fired in to our ships, and bung innocent men for being found on board an American vessel, then Hen ry Clay, Felix Grundy, and John C. Calhoun, and their associates, performed a lustration;— then tbe democracy of America vindicated the national honor, and established a new name and a new flag over the ocean ; and from that day to this all tbe progresa and expansion home aud honor abroad have been won by the meas ures of tbe democratic party. This glory will remain, in spite of all tliat enmity or mistaken zeal can do to mar or de stroy it. Yon may possibly succeed (bat may heaven prevent you) in the attempt you arc making to trample under your feet the covenant of our fathers, and exalt asectional party with sectional aims to places of power and trust; but the day of your success would be the hour of your dissolution. Like the last day of tbe arc tic summer, yonr sun would only rise to go down. Opposition is your cohesion—tbe only cement of your party. Your party can con struct nothing; they lay down no principles ; adhere to no name. Mr. Banks goes for the absorption of the colored races, while Mr. Blair goes for their expulsion. Which shall be tbe policy of the party 1 The democraticparty lias carried the country from small beginnings to its present prosperous and happy condition ; and, only occasionally being taken out to be aired and purified, is de stined under that name, and with essential and present principles, to govern this nation while we remain a republic. Equality among all the Sfates—each State to manage their own affairs —slaveholders not to be taunted nor insulted for that fact—equal rights in the new Tcrito- ries, and new lands annexed and new States welcomed, as fast as they wish to come. These are the principles, mottoes and ban ners of success which wave around the demo cratic party. Affectionately, yonr brother, Joseph C. Lovejot. To Hon. Owes Lovejot. A Shark Story. By “J. Cypress, jr.,’ - the Iste W«. T. Hawks, Esq., of New York. Well, gentlemen. I’ll go ahead if you say Here’s the story. It is true, upon my honor, from beginning to end—every word of it. I once crossed over to Faulkner’s Island to fish for lautaugs, as the north-side people call black fish, on the reefs hard by, in the Long island Sound. Tim Titus (who died of the dropsy down at Shinnecock Point, last spring) lived there then. Tim was a right good fellow, only he drank rather too much. “It was during tho latter part of July; tho sharks and the dog-fish had just began to spoil sport. When Tim told me about the sharks, I resolved to go prepared to entertain these aquatic savages with all becoming attention and regard, if there should chance to ba any interloping about onr fishing ground. So, wc rigged out a set of extra large books, and ship ped some ropeyarn and stem chain, an axe, a couple of clubs, and an old harpoon, in addi tion to our ordinary equipments, and off we started. We threw out our anchor at half ebb tide, and took some thumping large fish—two of them weighed thirteen pounds—so you may udge. The reef where wo lay was about ‘ laU a mile from the island, and, perhaps a mile from the Connecticut shore. Wc floated there very quietly, throwing out and hauling in, un til the breaking of my line, with a sadden and severe jerk, informed me that the sea attor neys were in'waiting, down stairs; and we accordingly prepared to give them a retainer. A salt pork cloak upon one of our magnum hooks forthwith engaged one of the gentlemen in our sen ice. We got him alongside, and by dint of piercing, and thrusting, and bang ing, wc accomplished a most ciciting and mer ry murder. Wc had busines enough of the kind to keep us employed until near low wa ter. By this time, the sharks had all cleared out, and the black fish were biting again; the On slippery rocks 1 see them stand, While iiery billows roll below.’ “Wbat said I, what did I not say! Prose and poetry, scripture and drama, romance was completely covered, and the water was I brave associates, partners of my toil,’—so ran and he glided off into deep water, and went to the bottom. “Well, gentlemen, I suppose you’d think it a hard story, but its none the less a fact, that I served every remaining one of those nine teen sharks in the same fashion. They all came up to me, one by one, regularly and in order, and I scooped their eves out, and gavi them a shove, and they i^ent off into deep wa ter, jnst like so many lambs. By the time ~ had scooped out and blinded a couple of dozen of them, they began to seem so scarce that thought I would swim for the island, and fight the rest for fun, on the way; but just then Tim Titus hove in sight, and it had got to be almost dark, and I concluded to get aboard and rest myself.’ The Disbanded Volunteer. The following communication appears in the New York Sunday Times. The “Disbanded Yolunteer” moralizes occasionally, it would seem: Saint Nicalas Hotel, March 10, li?50. Edyturs of the Sundy Times: Iievin ben lade up for a week apast with the hives—I spose it must a ben the hives, bekase my hed felt jest ns ef thar was a sworn of bees inter it—I’ve ben cogertatin on things in gin- eral, and spashally that article of the Lord’s makin and the Devil’s spilin called howman natur. The konclusions at wich I’ve nrriv is no ways flaterin to the speciments of the genus homer as is jamed together in big citys. Peers to me that ecnamost every sekind man—wal, yes, and fur that matter every sekind womun, too,—gits all-blessed jolly over the misfor tunes of thar naburs. Dreadful tradeges, liccnsus intreegs,—in fac ennything outrajus, scandal us,or unkomin sangwiunry, with pikturs to match, it as wclcurn asmanuain the dessert to this hewmin kumunity. Even the rchjus edyturs, wbic is lams by perfeshun, aud ban kers artcr green pasture and still waters, pitches in, addin fuel to the flames, whenever the pub lic mind is in a state of halloosiunsin on cuuy subject. I beieve tha call this “ improvin the okashnn,” but accordin to my idea it maks it thundrin site wust. Howsincver, its likly thar intcusbins are lordible, and as the Pop sed- to sin is nateral.’ Tliare considabul tork of siinpcrthy and fcclin and sich truck in polisht society ; but I wisht I may be marred to a Digger Injun squaw, if 1 hcv not seen more rale brotherly luv in a hunter’s kamn than I ever did in pol isht society. Iu texas and Californy we coud alius keep our sperits up by killiii bars and Injuns, and never thot of huntin down nun anouthcr. That’s fashunabul ainusmeut. I lied jest finished tbe abuv paragraf, wen a feller they call Sliucum, as doos nuthiu else but run arouud tcllin more’n he nose, kum in ter my apartments. He was tu full up his nek of what he called an astowndin rumor by wich manney most respccktablc famelccs was to be branded with infamy, and he emmejentiy be gan to spit it owt. But,’ says I, ‘cf all this is troo, witch I per- soorn it aint.its nun of yure busyness nor mine.” O!” says he, “ my deer felier, its evry body’s business; thars no livin withuwt egsite- ment in this steein-skrecmin, flash of litniu age. Its moral meet and drink tu us; keep us on the fount and weel never say die; cork us up and we bust. This story I’ve ben telliu you will awl be in prent iu a day or too, and won’t it make a a shidy! A sely Grated artist alredy took a likenes thru the key hole thru witch Biddy seen the affair, aud a “billcy doo” she founded on the stars is to be fac simmyleed for private distribution among the particklcr frends of the parties. Wal,” I reinarkt, “ iu my opiniyoun, thars only wun rayshunal way of explanin the de- lite sum peepul seems to feel w#h enny grate anormity turns up.” Screw loose here!” ses he, tappin his emp ty upper wurks. ‘No!” ses I “tharc onfoundout black sheep, cvry wun of ’em ; aud, as raskality as Well as misery is of soshil natur, and luves kumpany, it makes ’em happy to feel that uthcr fekes is tarred with the same brush as themselves.” ‘Ef that’s the case,” ses Slincum, “New York must be in purty good trainin for a fire and brimstun shower-bath, for the bull poppy- loshuu goes inter extrasccs whenever enny- thing extra atroshis cams off.” 4 Your rong agen, Slincum,” I obsarved: thars a class that feels nutbin but sorror and shame and disgust at setch disclosures, but its class setch as hes no ackwaintcncc with, and as doosent want to hcv enny ackwaintcnce with setch as you.” The disagreabul morril vulture was slitely tuck aback at this, and puttin his hat on with jerk, started off agen on his carriun hunt. Wot Slocum told me confidenshal will be all the papers fore a week’s over, no dout. fack, a hundred able artists is sed to be already emploid in cxcutin to the life all that Biddy seen throo the kee-hole. The hull story, and specially the cuts, will be iinproovein to youth ful minds, ef they take ’em as warnins; but yungsters bes setch kweer idees, that mcbbec they’ll take ’em as paterns and examples—who nose ? Sartainly not Yours alius. A Disbanded Volunteer. ““■SSSw"" JotJHjitaMplifa,S.0., -fee. SAVANNAH n n U CHARLESTON- CABIN PASSAGE 913 STEERAGE M Excursion Tickets good to return until Jsnu- usry 1,1960 SSI3 The well known first class side-wheel Steamships Keystone State, CAPT. C. P. MARSHMAN, anil State of Georgia, CAPT. J. J. GARVIN, Now form a Regular Line for the North, leaving Charleston and Savannah alternately, as follows : The STATE OP GEORGIA, from Savannah, the 5 th, I5th and ~»th of every month. Tho KEYSTONE STATE, from Charleston, the 10th, 30th and 30th of every month. For safety and comfort, having superior STATE ROOMS, these Ships are not surpassed by any on the coast. One hundred miles of this route on tho Dela ware River and Bay—two nights at sea. FOR NIAGARA FALLS, THE LAKES & CANADA SHORTEST AND CHEAPEST ROUTE. This Line connects at Philadelphia with tho Great Northwestern Railroad Route through to Niagara Falls or Buffalo, in 18 hours from Philadelphia.— Through tickets, with the privilege of stopping at Philadelphia and intermediate points, for salo by tho Agents in Savannah. Fare to Niagara or Buffalo, 933. Elmira, 930, to Canandaigua, 931. C. A. GREINER tc CO., Agents at Savannah. T. 8. A T. G. BUDD, Agents at Charleston. A. HERON, Jr., Agent at Philadelphia, mar 33—3m “LA CRIOLLA,” ©f Charleston, 5. (£. HAVANA SEGARS of direct im portation at Wholesale and Retail. T HE subscribers beg to inform the publio that they have established in tho city of Macon, a branch of the large Importing House of “LA CRI- OLLA, at Charleston, 8. C., which receives by ev ery trip of the Steamer “Isabel,” from Havans, a large assortment of the best and most approved brands of Havana Segars. By this arrangement, they are able to.furnish the trade and their friends the genuine article, at Charleston prices. We invite the public to come and see their large and well assorted stock, among which are: La Criolla Imperials, La Criolla Londres, 1st, 3d and 3d, . La Criolla Regalia de Londres, La Criolla Regalia de Conchas, La Criolla Cilmdrados, La Criolla Flor de Prensados, La Criolla Millar Comun. 1st, Sd and 3d, Upmau Brevas, Ypman Londres, 1st, 3d and 3d, llpman Cosadores, Uges Millar Comun, Cabanas Londres, _ Jenny LindRegslia, Cachucba Londres, La Eapanola Flor de Prensados, Rio Hondo Londres, Larranaga Vegueros, Cerrantes Conchas, La Escacesa Conchas, La Manola Londres, 1st, Sd and 3d, La Virginia Millar Comun. Eg^Chewing Tobacco of the finest quality. Smo king Tobacco, Pipes, Snuff, etc., etc. Ep*Orders taken for any kind of Cigars from Havana at short notice. MEES A SALCEDO, Sole Agents of “La Criolla” brand. Corner of Cherry St. Cotton Avenue, Macon, mar 8—4t Spring Trade of1859. CALL AND BE CONVINCED. T he bazaar of fashion and temple OF TON, by ROSS, COLEMAN & ROSS, again throws her banner to the breeze, and pro claims in thundering notes, her unrivalled and pre eminently BEAUTIFUL STOCK of FRESH and ELEGANT STYLES of everything pertaining to Choice and “Recherche” Goods for the ladles. Ours is no humbug. We have the Stock of Goods to back our sayings. do r 'Call and see. ROSS, COLEMAN & ROSS. Macon, March 8th, 1859. Fancy and Staple DRY-GOODS. NEW STOCK. W E havejust opened a large and elegant Stock of Goods in one of the New Stores under GRANITE HALL, Selected with great care to suit the trade of Macon, and adjoining country—among which are: SILK ROBES A LEZ, SILK ROBES DOUBLE JUPE, SILK ROBES VOLANTES, or 3 FLOUNCES, FANCY SILKS in great variety, PLAIN and FIGURED BLACK SILKS, EVENING DRESSES, DeLAINE and MERINO ROBES A LEZ, PLAIN and FIGURED DeLAINES, Pl,AIN nnd FIGURED MEKINOES, VALENCIAS, POPLINS, PLAIDS, POIL de CIIEVRES, MOURNING, and vari ous other styles of ©@©[B)©p Embroideries, Real French Cambric and Swiss Collars, Setts, Handkerchiefs, &c. Valenciennes Collars and Setts, Linen and Pique Collars and Setts, Mourning Collars and Setts, Illusion Berthas, Real Thread and Valenciennes Laces, Hosiery and Gloves, great variety. Dress Trimmings, Ribbons, Cloaks, from Brodie’s, SHAWLS—Nett, Stella, Long, Mourning, and otbet varieties. A full assortment of STAPLE GOODS, jyPLEASE CALL AND EXAMINE. IV. 8. PRUDDEV A- CO., oct!9 Granite Hall Block. Macon, Ga. NOW READY, A SPLENDID assortment of Silks, Beregef, Or gandies, Lawns, Ac., at WATERMANS. White Goods, Embroideries, Laces, Ac., at WATERMAN’S. Domestic Goods, Bleached and Brown Home spuns, Tickings, Stripes,Pantaloon Goods, and Coat ings, at WATERMAN’S. Irish Linens, French and American Prints, White, Colored and Figured Brilliants, at WATERMAN’S* Challies, Ginghams and Mourning Goods, at WATERMAN’S. Hosiery and Gloves, good and cheap, at WATERMAN’S Mantillas, Berege Shawls, Talmas, Dusters and Travelling Basques, stU WATERMAN S. The place to get good Bargains—at WATERMAN’S. mar 33 Cotton Avenue. Macon, Ga. AND Summer Trade. £. J. JOHNSTON & CO. H AVE in addition to their former Hock received and made recent selections of WATCHES, JEWELRY, SILVER & SILVER PLATED WARE, FANCY GOODS, CUTLERY, &C., AC. Making one of the largest and most elegant assort ments of goods to be found in the Southern cities, and offered on the most moderate terms. {jAn inspection and careful comparison of qualities and prices, respectfully solicited. Three doors above the Lanier, Macon, Ga. E. J. JOHNSTON. G. S. ODEAU. mar 22 Pianos O F elegantly carved Rosewood, and all the plain er varieties, just received and for sale on the best terms, by E.J. JOHNSTON A Co. lyobt Pianos taken in exchange, mar 33 Silver Forks, Spoons. &c., <S;c- It and best stock ever offered in Macon, ranted of sterling quality, being 925-lGOOths 5r e. Also, a fine lot of warranted “U. S. Coin,” at low prices. [mar 22] E. J. JOHNSTON A CO. Hair Work to Order. O VER 350 designs from which to make selections, by (mar 33) E. J. JOHNSTON A CO. B ILLIARD BALLS, Cue Leathers, Wax, Ac , al ways on band and for sale at low prices, nar 32 E. J. JOHNSTON A CO. M EERS1LAM PIPES, warranted genuine, for sale by E. J. JOHNSTON A CO. above the soles of my feet. I was not much I the strain ‘On which side soever I turn my of a swimmer, and as to ever reaching the is- I eyes,’—‘Gentlemen of the jury,’—*1 come not land. I could not even hope for that. How- I here to steal away your hearts,’—‘You arc ever, there was no alternative, and I tried to not wood, you are not stones, but’—‘Ilah!’— encourage myself, by reflecting that neccessi- ‘Begin, ye tormentors, your tortures arc vain,’ ty was tbe mother of invention, and that des-1 —‘Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir peration will sometimes insure success. Be-1 you up to any sudden flood,’—‘The angry sides, too, I considered and took comfort from flood that lashed her groaning sides,’—‘Ladies the thought that 1 could wait for Tim, so long and gentlemen,’—’My very noble andapprov as I had a foothold, and then commit myself ed good masters,’—’Avaunt land quit my sight, to the uncertain strength of my arms and legs let the earth hide ye,’—’Lie lightly on his for salvation. So I turned my bait-box up-1 head, O earth !’—*0 ! heaven and earth! that side down, and mountiug upon that, endeav- it should come to this,’—‘The torrent roared ored to comfort my spirits, and to be coura-1 and we did buffet it with lusty sinews, stem- geous but submissive to my fate- I thought ming it aside and oaring it with hearts of con- of death, and what it might bring with it, and troverey,’—‘Give me some drink, Titinius,’— I tried to repent of the multiplied iniquities ‘Drink, boys, drink, and drown dull sorrow,’ of my almost wasted life; but I found that —‘For liquor it doth roll such comfort to the that was no place for a sinner to settle his ac- soul,’—’Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear counts. Wretched soul, pray I could not. me for my cause, and be silent that you may ‘The water had not got above my ankles, hear,’—‘Fellow-citizens, assembled as wc are when, to my inexpressible joy, I saw a sloop upon this interesting occasion, impressed'with bearing down towards me, with the evident the truth and beauty,’—‘Isle of beauty, fare intention of picking me up. No man can im-1 thee well,’—‘Magnum verilas e(precalebiC— agine what were tao sensations of gratitude! ‘The quality of mercy is not strained’—‘Truth which filled my bosom at that moment. is potent, and’—‘Most potent, grave, and rev- Whcn she got within a hundred yards of crend seigniors, the reef, I sung out to the man at the helm to | R)h, now yon weep, aud I perceive you feel luff up, and lie by, and lower the boat; but, to my amazement, I could get no reply, nor i Oor cicsaFs vestnre Wounded.'— notice of my request. 1 entreated them, for Ha , h# ; ha ._ and i broke out in a fit of most the love of heaven, to take me off; and I prom- |, 0IT j b i e i ang hter, as I ihought of the mincc- ised, I know not what rewards, that were en- meat p« t lde9«f ll »y lacerated jacket, brely beyond my power ofbestowal. But the ,. In * tIl0 mean time, the water had got well brutal wretch of a captain muttered something I up towards my shoulders, and while I was to the effect of‘that he hadn’t tune to ?top.’ I shaking and vibrating npon my uncertain and giving me the kind and sensible advice to foot .hold, I felt thecold nose of the captain of pull off my coat and swim ashore, put the helm tbe band snubbing against my side. Dcspcr- hard down, and away bore the sloop on the ately , without a definite object, I strock other tack. | m y kl] ;f e a t 0 ne of his eyes, and, by some sin- Sut Lovcngood and Hie Dog. When I wer a boy, and my legs not longer than John Wentwcrte’s, dad fetched home durned, wutbless mangy, flea-bitten, gray old fox honn, good fur nutbin but tu swaller up what orter lined the bowels ovc us brats Well, I naturally tuck a distaste to him, an hed a sorter hankerin arter hurtin his fcclins and diseumfurtin of him evry time dad's back wer turned. This sorter kept a big skeer al ters afore his eyes, and a orful yell ready to pour out, the fust moshun he seed me make. So he larnt to swaller things as he run, and allers kept his Iaigs well onder himself, for he never knowd how soon he must want tu use em totin liis infurnul carcus beyon the reach ov a Ilyin rock. Ifo knowd the whiz ov a rock in|raosbun well, and he never stopped to see who flung hit, but jist let his head fly open to gin a howl room tu cum, and sot his laigs t gwine the way his nose happened to be a pin tin. He d shy round every rock he seed in the road, for he looked on hit ns a calamity tu cum arter him sum day. I tell you, Georgy, that ruanin am the greatest iuvenshuu on'yearth when used keerfully. Whar would 1 a bin by this time ef I hadn’t relayed on tu these here laigs ? _ D’ye see em ? Don’t tiiey miud you ov a pair ov cumpusses made to divide a mile inter quarters ? They'll do. Well, one day, I tuck a pig’s bladder ni un to the size ov a duck’s aig and filled hit with powder and corked it up with apiece of spunk, rolled hit up iu a thin skulp of.meat aud sot the spunk afire, and flung hit out; he swaller- cd hit at one jerk, and sot intu gittin away fur doin it. I beam a noise like bustin sumthin, and his tail lit top ov my hat. His hed wer way down the bill and had tuck a doth hold onter a root. His forelegs wer fifty feet up the road a makin runnin moshuns and his hine ones a straddle of the fence. Es tu the dog, hissclf, asadog, I never seed him agin. Weil, Dad, durn his onsnnetified soul, flung five or six hundred onder my shut offen a bull’s tail, and gin me the remainder next day with a waggiu whip what he borrowed from a feller while he wer a waterin his bosses; the wagon er got sorry fur me, and hollered tu me tu turn my beggin and squalliu inter frustrate runuin, which I emejutiy did, and the last lick missed me about ten feet. “Heartless villain!’—I shrieked out, in the I gular fortune, cut it out clean from the socket- torture of my disappointment; ‘may God re- The shark darted back and halted. In an in ward your inhumanity.’ The crew answered I slant, hope and reason came to my relief: and my prayer with a coarse loud laugh; and the I it occurred to me, that if I could only blind cook asked mo throngh a speaking trumpet, I the monster, I might yet escape. According- ‘If I was not afraid of catching cold V The I ly, I stood ready for the next attack. The loss black rascal! I 0 f an eye did not seem to affect him much, for, ‘It was now time to strip; for my knees felt after shaking his head once or twice, he came the cool tide, and the wind, dying away, left up to me again, and when he was about half an a heavy swell that swayed and shook the box I inch off, turned upon his back. This was the upon which I was mounted, so that I had occa-1 critical moment. With a most unaccountable sionally to stoop, and paddle with my hands I presence of mind, I laid hold of his nose with against the water. In order to preserve my my left band, and with my right scoped out perpendicular. The setting .sun sent his al- his remaining organ of vision. He opened his most horizontal streams of fire across the dark I big mouth, and champed his long teeth at mo waters; making them gloomy and terrific, by I in despair. But it was all over with him. I the contrast of bis amber and purple glories. | raised my right foot and gave him a bard shove, American State Convention. We dip the following, in reference to this subject, from the Macon (Ga.) Journal & Messenger, of the 23d inst : At the last American State Convention, tho following gentlemen were selected as an Exe cutive committee: Col. J. H. R. Washington, of Bibb, Chairman; Gen. J. W. A. Sanford, of Baldwin; Foster Blodget, Esq., of Rich mond ; J. M. Calhoun, Esq., of Fulton ; S. A. Wales, Esq., of Muscogee. The last named gentleman has since deceas ed.' Wo learn from the chairman of this commit tee that he has addressed a note to the surviv ing members relative to holding a convention, and wHi, at an early day, communicate their determination upon tho subject, to tho public- Hardeman & Griffin ARE NOW RECEIVING THEIR IF^ILIL i&N® WflMTi STOCK., AT THEIR OLD STAND. T HEIR Slock consist in part of tho folic wing GOODS, to which they invite the attention of Merchants nnd Planters: so bales Gunny Cloth 300 coils Richardson Rope 1000 pounds Baling Twine 150 bags Coffee, Java, Porto Rico, Kio and La- gufra 10 chests Black and Green Tea 75 barrels ABAC Sugar 35 barrels crushed and Powdered Sugar 5 boxes Loaf Sugar 15 hogsheads fine Porto Rico 300 sacks Liverpool Salt 100 sacks Alum Salt 150 boxes Adamantine Candles 40 boxes Sperm Caudles 75 boxes No. 1 Soap 30 boxes Family Toilet Soap 30 boxes assorted and Fancy Candy 125 kegs Nails 50 boxes Starch 100 jars Snuff 50 whole, half and quarter kegs of Powder SO cans Duck-shooting Powder 100 bags Shot 100,000 Segars, various brands 50 boxes Tobacco SO cases Magnoliaand Combination Tobacco 30 bales Osnaburgs and Stripes 5 cases Homespuns, bleached 10 bales Georgia Kerseys 5 bales Northern Kerseys 15 bales Blankets, all sizes VO baskets Piper’s Heidsick Wine 75 cases Ginger and Blackberry Wine and” Brandy 50 barrels Rye and Corn Whiskey 10 barrels Extra old Bourbon 50 barrels Gin, Rum and Brandy 10 casks Madeira, Port and Sweet Wine 10 cases London Dock Gin 15 cases Bokcr’g and Stoughton Bitters 10 esses Lemon Syrup 30 casks Ale and Porter io boxes Ginger Preserves, Prunes and Figs 30 boxes Asiorted Pickles 30 boxes Super. Carb. Soda 30 barrels and boxes Soda and Butter Crackers 35 boxes Herrings 5 sacks Ashton’s Table Salt 10 dozen Well Buckets 5 esses Ashton's Table Salt 35 dozen Blue Buckets 10 nests of Tubs 30 d oze Wool lists 30 boxes Leverit Axes 10000 pounds White Lead and Zinc loo barrels Linseed Oil 10 barrels Tanners’ and Machine Oil ALSO, A FISK LOT OF CHROME GREEN, YELLOW. PRUSSIAN BLUE TERRA DE SIENNA, BURNT UMBER, Ac., Ac. PAINTS AND VARNISH, BRUSHES AND SASH TOOLS. Macon, Sept. 38,1858. ROCA’S BALSAM for Pulmonary & Tubercular Consumption. T HE public is now put in possession of one of the most extraordinary remedies extant, for what has heretofore been considered an incurable disease; being an OUTWARD APPLICATION, tbe action of which is seemingly miraculous, and its having none of those attributes which make np the numerous compounds now in general use. ' A Pamphlet containing directions, letters from dis tinguished aud well known individuals, and other documentary evidences will accompany the remedy. Mr. James Rees having ceased to be the Agent for the sale of this Balsam, the price baa been re duced to 84 a Jar, aud 50 cents for the Bandage. It can only be obtained of the proprietor by letter directed to G. ROCA, dec 14 Box 1708 P. o- Philadelphia, Pa, CHEAP CLOTHING. (TRIANGULAR BLOCK.) EF0TOH1 & ©©o Mb. Clisby.—We wish to make it known to the people of Macon, and the country generally, through your extensire circulation, that we are now offerinij our large Stock of Clothing: very reduced prices. Our Stock of heavy Over Coats and thick Clothing generally, is veiy large; we do not intend to summer them over. We shall offer inducements for the next thirty days. CP"A large stock of HATS and CAPS at cost. dec31 HOBACEFITCH A CO F ANS in large variety. Travelling and Ueiicule Baskets, Leather Batchels, Ac., for sale by mar 22 E. J. JOHNSTON A CO. ■y^'ATCHES and Jewelry repaired_and warrant- l by mar 22 E. J. JOHNSTON A CO. lliglily Important Information for The LADIES. L ADIES! We are now prepared to show you ^ some of the most beautiful GOODS ever seen in this country, to which we are making daiiy addi tions. W. W. Parker is still in New York, select ing and sending by every Steamer, all the new and desirable things in PI3HSS ©©©©©„ <&©», as they arrive weekly from Europe. We do not hesitate to say that we shall be able to show you from this time, throughout the season, one of the most desirable and elegant Stocks of Goods ever seen in any city. We also guarantee to price you every thing as low as any other House in Macou, or elsewhere. We are determined to have it said, that (notwith standing we have always brought the finest and most desirable Goods to.Macon) this season, in the selection of onr Spring Stock, we have surpassed all former efforts. Respectfully, mar 8 W. W. PARKER A CO. DRY GOODS AT Wholesale only. Spring & Summer, 1859. F oote;*: JAIDO.V, take this method of in forming MERCHANTS, that they .ire now receiving, and have in store the largest ifock of SPRING and SUMMER JDry G-oods, ever brought to this market, which they offer to Merchants on snch terms as are unsurpassed by any Jobbing House either North or South. AH of their Goods are purchased under advantages stcoLd to no House either North or Sooth. Thei-t arrange ments with the various Northern and Southern Man ufactories enable them to offer all DOMESTIC GOODS\ on as good terms as they can be had in any market in the United State*. They keep, in addilion to a general Stock of DRY GOODS, a variety of FANCY GOODS, wanted by Merchants. They respectfuliy solicit calls from Merchants, be ing fully satisfied that an examination will b-> wo-th v of their trouble. FOOTE A JAUDON. Savannah, Ga. f e b 15—2m* POST A MEL, Commission Merchants, 64 Poydkas Street, New Orleans, La. REFERENCES.—Mesire. J. B. A W. A. Rosa. “ Hardeman A Griffin. ** Lightfoot A Flanders. Elijah Bond, Esq. Joseph Clisby, Eaq. feb 22 NOTICE. T HE Ware House formerly occupied bv Patteu, Collins A Co., now by tho undersigned*, having been sold, lease to expire 1st July, all persons hav ing Stored Furniture with either, will pay charges and remove them by 1st ot April, or they will sold to pay expenses. J. COLLINS A SON. Macon, Ga., March 1st, 1859. For Sale on Long: Credit. OFFER for sale, on long credit, at a fair price, ihe Plantation six miles from Americas, formerly owned by T. L. HOLT, containing six hundred and •® v ®n acres. Two hundred and titty acres cleared. There are all the necessary buildings on the place. Negro Cabins, Gin House and Screw, and a great trade will be made. Apply to T. AI: FURLOW, Fsq., at Americas, or to the undersigned, oct 5 1858 tf JAMES W. GRIFFIN. I or BBLS. Old Oorn Whiskey for sale by XZD mar 15 AYRES, WINGFIELD A A CO. Negroes "Wanted. A A FOR the New Orleans Market. Apply at \J U Thos. Bagby’s Negro Mart, on Poplar St., near Adams A Reynold's Cotton Ware Home, where you can get the highest market price in cash. ■ova Bacon, Flour. Molasses, Ac. rn AAfl LBS. New Bacon, hogrounc. OU.U U U10,000 lbs. old Shoulders. 300 sacks S. F. Flour. 150 sacks extra and Family Flour. 20 hhds. old Molasses. 15 hhds. new do 150 bbls. Planting Potatoes. 500 bushels Seed Oats. 50 hhds New Orleans Sugar . 250 sacks prime Rio Coffee. For sal 3 by J feb 22 AYRES, WINGFIELD A CO.