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but there is no alternative. . should ever reach you, let it .moi a mighty warning, I am dying l . ■g;i land, surrounded by many to whom I might ..<y for iclief, wore I not a midnight murderer, shunning the day, and an irreclaimable sat. The weight ot my crimes has recoiled back upon my heart, with a keen and undying retribution. I have sewn the winds of intempe rance and unbelief—l am reaping the whirlwinds of un utterable monition. The fires of agonizing remorse tiro burning in my blood ; —the monitory voire of a struggling conscience is thundering in my cars, and I experience the ©•kindled pangs of a mental hell. Oh, God ! with what direful punishment have iny iniquities overwhelmed me! But I must on. You know the secret of my early love, lou know the embarkation of Emilie Barton for England, and that 1 fol lowed her soon. Oh! that I could describe to yon the Eden of happiness that dawned upon me the first summer 1 spent jn England. We were married; and time went by with his wings glittering in the pearls of hope, and bis brow clothed in sunshine. We made a delightful tour the continent, and returned with joyful hearts to our me tropolitan home and a lovely daughter was at last the pledge of our affection. But in an evil hour, I surrendered myself to the demon of drunkenness, and he bound my bosnm in fetters of iron. I became a frequenter of the hells in St. James’; a tippler of Johnson’s spirits, at the Surry Theatre, and a strut.,ger to my home. I wasted all my patrimony, ami the splendid estate of my kind Emilie, in one short week, at the gaming table. I reviled the Scriptures in her presence ; I neglected our darling child; —in short, ! became a madman. I returned home one night and found the bailiffs at my threshold. Our mansion in town was sold, and wo rented a pleasant cottage in Hampstead. Here, if I would net have been more remorseless than the grave, I should have paused upon my dark career. But I was too much de praved. I became more and more estranged from the an gel of my youth ; I repulsed her overflowing affection, and saw her fading away under the influence of my cruel ty. She had renounced fashionable life for my sake, and it had been our intention to return to America, whither her parents hud already gone, expecting us soon to follow. Let ne be brief. As I opened, one moonlit evening, the little gate th?’led up to our Hampstead residence, 1 saw my Emilie leaning upon the shoulder of a young man, apparently weeping. A hellish suspicion that she had dishonored me, rushed upon my brain; and stealthily ap veaching, I drew a stiletto from my bosom and slabbed -to the be?r', Site turned and fixed upon nie a look of lite surprise, reproach, and forgiveness—shrieked, 'i lifeless at my feet. It was her brother. aot long proceed. Since tiiat fatal hour, 1 have cheil with the lightnings of reproachful thought; been a scathed and skulking fugitive in the house erablc fish-woman. 1 have quaffed deeply of the cup of intoxication ; 1 have found its dregs to be ormword. My health is wasted—my hopes are the earth seems yawning to clasp me to its icy mid that I were dead! Would to God that I annihilation in which I once believed, hut ’ long ceased to hope! Twice have I the potent drug has lain harmless with -1! bids me live and suffer; My wife is ■lurch-yard at Hampstead; and my prevented me from indulging the ting at midnight over her peaceful ves; and is the fair and funny her. If she ever visits America, ,do not —oh 1 do not acquaint i of her parents ; of that father iiat spotless mother who loved me ll.” I can ” d. I give it to the reader as I re .l day the remains, of Graham were • tier’s Field of one of the alm’s-hpu;r«. .ad. ’er of my lost friend, is with the parents nerica. She is a counterpart of her 'ike her mother in her youth, beloved li enthusiasm. She is the only bro history of her mother’s sor- to the London ‘ handed me the' >re my direction, Post Office, re- ' >g my efforts in- | ickct boro my ’ of a guinea; i .in funeral ob- | arlv the next I valet from my i jpened the packet, | oki anl mutilated; I 1 read as follows : ; □X, October, IS—. nd, now that nil hope ver, may I now confide us mv awful life. I shud- MAN WHOLE. a feat of Sig. Blitz’s per- • same as swallowing an uld do it, and won the magician to swallow r s that lie could do ’ on tho spot in '•> out with his he following magician. heels of • to (li uu are licker" irtnieti’ tin r of the 1 'com the Macon Messenger. At a largo and very respectable meeting of the citizens' of the City of Macon, called to take into consideration the! annexed Circular addressed to the Cotton Planters, Mer chants, Factors, and Presidents and Directors of the sev eral Banks of the Southern States. Isaac G. Seymour, Mayor of the City, was called to the Chair, and Washing ton I’oc, appointed Secretary. The Chairman after staling the object of the meeting, preceded to read the said Circular—after which the fol lowing resolutions were ofl’ered by Absalom 11. Chappell Esq., and seconded by Mr. Jerry Cowles—and uuani mously adopted by the meeting. Resolved, As the opinion of this meeting, that cotton, the great staple of the Southern and Southwestern part of the Union, Laving become, in a very eminent degree, the controlling commodity of the commercial world, and tires influence which it exercises over the agricultural and commercial prosperity of our own country, and espe cially of the cotton growing region of it, being of the most absolute and paramount character. Therefore it peculiarly behooves the citizens of the Southern and South-Western States, earnestly to deliberate whether any and what system can be applied to the cotton trade, that shall impart to it greater steadiness and certainty, & secure to the commodity, with at least some approach to uniformity, what may be properly called its due and natural price—that is to sav, a price based on the pro portion of the annual supply, to the annual demand of consumption—thereby protecting it as far as possible from those violent, ruinous and incalculable fluctuations which are of such frequent cccttrence, and which are in numer ous instances, the tlirect offspring of artificial causes aad combinations. Resolved further, That this meeting concur in the views set forth i r , the circular w hich has been read to the meeting from the Chair, and that we believe the measures therein recommended, are sanative in their character, and if ear ned out ns contemplated, will be conducive to the interests of the cotton growing States and therefore should commend themselves to the consideration of qgery citizen of the South, whatever may be his calling or profession. Resolved, That fully appreciating tire compliment be stowed upon our city, in selecting it as the place of meeting for the proposed Convention, we do most cordially, and earnestly solicit our Fellow Citizens of the Southern, and South Western States, and the Territory of Florida, to meet us at this place on the fourth Tues day in October next, to deliberate on the important mat ters disclosed in the before mentioned Circular. Resolved, That a committee to be composed of twen ty-one, be appointed by the Chair, to effect the object embraced in the last Resolution, and that said Commit tee have full power to adopt such measures as to them may seem proper to obtain a foil meeting of all interested in the subject set forth in this circular. Whereupon the Chair appointed tiie following gentle men that Committee. A. 11. Chappell, Everard Hamilton, J. Cowles, Jas. Goddard, Richard 11. Randolph, Eugenios A. Nisbet, D. C. Campbell, Elias Beifll, L. L. Griffin, Chas. Cotton, Geo. Jewett, Leroy Napier, N. C. Monroe, Ambrose Baber, A. Clopton, Richard K. Hines, E. D. Tracy, Henry G. Lamar, Levi Eckley, Wm. B. Parker, and Isaac Scott. Resolved, That the Chairman be added to the com mittee. On motion of Henry G. Lamar Esq., it was Resolved, That the Editors of News Papers in this, and all the States interested in the subject, be requested to publish the said Circular and Resolutions. Resolved, Tiiat the Editors of papers in this City, are requested to publish the above proceedings. On motion the meeting adjourned. ISAAC G. SEYMOUR, Chairman, Washington Poe, Secretary. July 17, 1839. To the Cotton Planters, Merchants, Factors, and Presi dents and Directors of the several Ranks of the South ern States: CIRCULAR. Fellow Citizens: Interested like yourselves, in the cultivation and disposal of the groat staple of American agriculture and commerce, we have accidently met in this city, in the midst of a crisis which discloses some striking ly momentous features in the history of this most import ant branch of the trade of our country. When the Cotton Crop of the United States was a mere item in its trade, and did not reach a production exceeding five hundred thousand bales, it was perhaps safe to con sider it as one among many articles of barter and exchange, which, left entirely to the fortuitous circumstances of com merce, would find its level under the influence of the or dinary laws of trade, without the necessity of resorting to «."y means of precautionary protection. Times, nC wevcr » * iave ‘ hanged. Cotton has passed from the condition of a mC.-e article of commerce, to the per formance of the mighty functio*" o * r being in a great de gree the regulator of the exchanges, anJ the standard of value of our country. If the nature of this materia! for bids its entering into our circulation, it is scarcely less the basis of our currency, than the precious metals; for the fluctuations in its price arc felt with a sensibility equally as acute and searching, as any of those variations which belong to the demand and supply of these sensitive and mysterious tokens of national value. The production of this staple, has now become so im mense, that it behoves those who produce it by a large in vestment of capital at a high rate of incidental cost, and in a climate perilous to human health, to consider well, whether there are not some material circumstances in re ference to the mode in which this product of their labor is shipped from this country, and is brought to market at the point of its final sale and consumption, which demand the application of a prompt and effective remedy. In one word, is not the important fact disclosed, that such is the unwieldy amount of this great staple of Southern industry, that it cannot be sent forward and disposed of at fair re munerating prices, through the ordinary medium of the mercantile establishments of this country and in Europe, without the direct co-operation of our banking institutions! If we have become satisfied of this fact, ought we not to otganize a system, which shall give perfect security to this rcat interest in the commerce and finances of our conn ry ? The unwise and ruinous system of sending the crop forward to houses of circumscribed means on the other 4e of the water, who are incapable of holding their con signments an hour beyond the maturity of the bills drawn ag-antst such shipments, subjects in fact, nearly the whole amount of American interests to foreign combination, which might act, wot only with entire concert, but with a pet feet knowledge of the period, when from the maturity of the acceptances in question, propeity to a stupendous amount belonging to this country, may be ready for sacri fice. The great and vital change which must be operated, is to sustain American interests, by American credit. To realise at home, the resources necessary for the protection of our property abroad, without the necessity of large and inconvenient drafts on the capital and means of our jreat customer. In other words, the commercial reform ■■ desire, is to send our great staple to market, without cried being determined by the date of a Bill of Ex when it is to be brought forward fer absolute and -try sacrifice. We believe that the steadiness in ■'ild result from a portion, at least, of the ■rnpt from the disastrous fluctuations would in the end be scarce ’ consumer in England, A fact, which we ''dates, which the one hand from any great and undue speculative action, which might inflate prices above the natural rate —and on the other, from any derangement in the money market, or any other accidental cause, which might depress it below that rate. The effect of great and'tmdue speculation be ing to derange the money market and to produce reaction, with an undue dep ession of prices. 3. Ihe state of the currency mainly depends on the means which the country possessesses, to pay its foreign debt, by shipments ol its produce. To the extent its pro duce or manufacture falls short of that object, exports of specie may be induced, the effect of which must be a re duction of the circulation, with depreciation of propeity atid general distress. 4. Cotton, in this country, being by far the most import ant produce, and affording the great means of paying its foreign debt, it is the interest of the community, and pai ticularly of the monied institutions, that the price of it in England, (the great market,) should be steady, and that the article should be of current sale, so as to be the means of large and effective remittance. It follows, that the in terest of the banking institutions here, are the same as those ot the three classes first mentioned, namely, that the price should be natural, that it may be steady, and of easy realization. 5. The interest of the British Government, of the Bank of England, and of the banks of that country in respect to this article, are the same as the interests of the banks here. The importation there being immense, and the em ployment of a most numerous body of the laboring class es, depending on the steadiness of prices. When they are not steady—the foreign demand for manufactured cotton is reduced greatly, the operatives are thrown out of oinploy ment, and the great means of settling the balance of trade, without the exportation of the precious metals are with drawn. Manufactured cottons affording by far, the most important branch of their export trade. 6. Consequently, any arrangement that could be formed, by which the article would be protected from the effects of undue speculation, and from depression in the money mar ket, and by which steadiness of price, with currency of sale, would be promoted—would save some of the greatest and bestginterests in both countries. 7. It is therefore proposed to form a system by which, with the commencement of the new crop, advances on Cotton shall be made with the capital or credit of Banks here, thereby relieving the consignee in Europe from all care or consideration, except the advantageous sale of his stock, which would promote all these interests, and afford general satisfaction on both sides of the water, provided it were not made the means of directly or indirectly, of undue speculation or monopoly. Having thus indicated the principles on which the pro posed system must find its justification and basis, we will now as succinctly as possible, detail of carrying it into effect. We are far from imputing any premeditated hostility of the Bank of England to American interests; on the con trary, it is one of the benevolent influences of commercial intercourse, to promote peace and good will among nations and men. Hence this great engine of the commercial grandeur and opulence of Great Britain, acting under an enlightened instinct, must rather desire that its best custo mer should at all times be in a condition to meet her en gagements with entire punctuality and success. But there are epochs in the commerce of England, whether from insufficient harvests a languid demand for her manufactures, or political combinations, when the bank may, from an urgent policy, limit her discounts, and increase her rate of interest. This event can never occur without its having a blighting influence on any surplus of our great staple, which might be unsold in England. Sure ly, if the Bank of England can exercise (unavoidably,) an influence thus prejudicial, we may resort to our own American banks, as a means of security and protection, without the invidious clamor of combination and monopo ly. It is time that the absurd and senseless cry on the subject of hanks making advances on Cotton, should be understood, and finally put down. The truth is, that by the mere purchase of the foreign exchanges of the coun try, they advance on nearly every bale of Cotton subject to foreign export, and this without the security of the bill of lading and policy of insurance, on the mere personal responsibility of the drawers and indorsers of the bill. Hence these losses are most comprehensive and disastrous after every commercial crisis and revulsion. New we propose giving to the banks ia all cases, the higher protection of these seeurites, and that early next autumn, one or more banks in each of the great commer cial Cotton markets of the South, should commence making advances on the crop, according to a scale to be graduated by what will be a safe calculation of its proba ble amount, assuming 12J cents at home, to be about the fair natural average and remunerating price of this staple, on a product of sixteen hundred thousand bales, which is about as large a return as the actual labor of the country now engaged in this branch of iifflustry, is capable of har vesting. The embarrassments of the South Western States having prevented the planters in these States from making any purchases of slaves from the Atlantic Slates, during the last two years, whilst not less than 10 per cent, of ill? slave labor of the South, has been abstracted in the same period, from the cultivation of Cotton, and applied to tho raising of provisions, and to the construction of those expensive rail-roads now in progress, throughout that portion of the Union. For these advances, we propose that the Banks should issue to the planters, merchants and factors of the coun try, on the production of the bill of Lading, and the as signment of the policy of insurance, Post Notes of such description, and payable at such periods as a Convention hereafter contemplated, may suggest; notes, which may be made to answer both tho purposes of currency and ex change, the details of which we refer to that body. By this arrangement however, we feel satisfied the credits can he so distributed, that from the day of the shipment of our cotton, it may probably bo held at least six months in Eu rope, without the foreign consignee being underan advance of one farthing, and we think it quite easy to confer on the houses, to which tho shipments are confided, sufficient strength, to enable them to hold over for even a longer pe riod, should safe remunerating prices not be obtained on the maturity of the bills. With the view of securing this strength, it is indispen sably necessary, that the consignments should not be too much diffused, but confined to a limited number of houses in Liverpool and Havre, who, acting as the agents of all those who’will come into this conservative system, will feel a common interest, and will naturally aid and assist cadi other under all and tvcry contingency. 'Phis, Fellow Citizens, is but the brief outline of a great scheme, for the protection of our Commerce, Finance, and Exchanges, the details of which, must be left for profound deliberation, and concerted action. To accomplish this object, we hereby invite the planters, factors and cotton merchants of each district or county in the Southern States, and Territory of Florida, together with the Banks, in each of the said States and Territory, to send Delegates to meet us in Convention at Macon, Georgia, on the Fourth Tuesday of October next, which will be on the 22nd day of that month, that we may carefully consider the impor tant matters disclosed in this Circular. We invite a candid examination of this whole scheme, for the protection, not alone of southern interests, but for the security of the commerce of the whole country. Let it at least be tested by patient investigation, and enlightened research ; if by this plan one third of the en tire cotton crop of the country can be placed beyond the possibility of sacrifice, it will give security to the residue, not by entrenching it behind the guards of a speculative monopoly, but by holding it in that state of security, which the jnst relations of supply and demand will always in the long run, establish and sustain in the trade of a great and civilized country. r, 'hat no time may be lost, we beg leave to apprise you ’. having our confidence, will leave thisshort -1 vV’itli ample instructions, to make rents with the houses in Liver . by the sanction of the Con ”3'.gnmcnts. We arc aware of the very potent opposition, which a plan looking even to self-defence, must invite both at home and abroad, as it runs counter to a variety of inte rests, too powerful and 100 susceptible of combination, not to be aroused into active, and perhaps inexorable hostility. II our apology is not to be found in the plea, that we have a light to hold our own property by the means of the credit of our own country, then we fearlessly say, we mean at least to attempt it, in despite of an opposition however eager and implacable. We have seen in the face of a crop of 1,350,000 Bales, an effort made, and very nearly resulting in success, to coerce the acceptance of the same prices, which were incident to one of 1,500,000 bales. We ought not to rest our security on the adverse omens of the crop, which is now growing under the will and dispensation of Provi dence, which has already suffered in many quarters from an intense drought, and in others from the ravages of the insects so destructive to its growth and maturity. We should look beyond the era of the short supply of the last year, and an apprehended deficit during the coming season. The lessons of economical wisdom belong to all seasons, and all times, and there is a salutary truth in the homely aphorism, that those who do not take care of themselves, are not likely to be taken care of by others. We there fore submit this call and invitation to you, with the earnest hope, that you will be prepared to co-operate with us in a measure, in which we believe the highest interests of our common country are involved. We remain, very respectfully, Your ob’t. sev’ts. NATH’L. A. WARE, of Mississippi. JOHN G. GAMBLE, Florida. THOMAS E. TARTT, Alabama. W. 11. PRATT, Alabama. D.P. HILLHOUSE, Georgia. J. J. HUGHES, Yazoo Miss. NATHAN McGEHEE, Louisiana. GEO. McDUFFIE, South Carolina, D. K. DODGE, Florida. J. L. HUNTER, Alabama. JAMES HAMILTON, South Carolina. A. B. DAVIS, Georgia. HENRY W. HILLIARD, Montgomery Ala. JOHN BRANCH, North Carolina. New York, July sth, 1839. P. S. All tho Southern Papers, will oblige the signers of the above Circular, by giving it an insertion in their re spective papers. STATE RIGHTS AND UNITED STATES RIGHTS. THE TKITE ISSUE. Shall ours be a GOVERNMENT OF THE BANKS, or a GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE? Shall we hare a CONSTITUTIONAL TREASURY, or an UN CONSTITUTIONAL NATIONAL BANK? Shall we have a CONSTITUTIONAL CURRENCY of gold and silver or one of IRREDEEMABLE PAPER? Shall u>e live under the despotism of a MONIED ARI STOC RACY, erunder the safeguards of a FREE CONSTITUTION.? [Washington Chronicle. MILLI-DGE VfLLEt TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 30, 1839. DEMOCRATIC TICKET. FOR PRESIDENT, MARTIN VAN BUREN. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, JOHM FORSYTH. FOR GOVERNOR, CHARLES J. MCDONALD. TWIGGS DEMOCRATIC TICKET. We announce the following Ticket for Twiggs county, al the coming election. Well known—well tried—good and true—the Democracy will stand by them. Maj. Benjamin B. Smith, For Senate. Gen. Hartwell H. Tarver, ) Represen- Josiaii Daniel, Esquire. ) tatives. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have received two communications upon the retail question: “Fair Play,’’ in favor of repealing the licence law, and “Equal Rights,” against it; both of very great length, and from the bands of talented individuals; but which, | in accordance with a rule prescribed to ourselves, and pub lished several weeks since, are excluded from our columns. We cannot for a.momeut, think of making the Standard of Union the arena upon which this battle is to be fought, to the exclusion of matter far more interesting to our readers. More over, this subject is one, which iu our judgment should not be connected with politics, or made a test in candidates for public favor, but finding that it is running rapidly into that channel, we can see no occasion for fanning the excitement. Under this view of the subject, we shall continue to act upon our own judgment, standing ns we always have done, in the clear, open ground of self-control, where there is inde pendence of word and will. In what we have written upon this question, there has been but a single object, and this was to allay, if possible, the ex citement existing in several counties, and not to provoke a controversy with anyone, or wound the feelings of a solitary individual. We have but spoken our own sentiments like free citizens, and leave to others, the freest exercise and en joyment of their own. We may write again upon tho subject, or not, as the spirit may move us. We may publish communications or not,just as our reason and judgment may dictate, but that we shall open our columns to a general, or indiscriminate discussion of the controversy, cannot be expected, to the exclusion of “the weightier matters of the law.” The articles above referred to, are at the command of their authors. ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT WESTERN. The news by the arrival of the Great Western at New York, is of the most important character. Cotton has declined throe fourths of a penny—there is great pressure in the money market, and a series of bloody riots have taken place at Birmingham. War has commenced between Turkey and Egypt, and great apprehensions are entertained of disturbances in India. The wo: Id is shockingly out of joint. “ Where was Judge Dougherty in those fearful times?” Answer—Tn the Legislature of Georgia, declaring by his vote, that tho President could rightfully arrest the authorities of Georgia in tho exercise of her sovereign rights, as follows: “ And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act con tained. shall be so construed, tts to authorize tho Governor to order the surveyors to proceed w ith the survey as contempla ted by this act, until he shall be satisfactorily informed by the. President of the United States, that the public rosew of the United States will not be employed to prevent said sur vey and occupancy.”* Judge Dougheity voted for this section, “in those fearful times," fearful were they indeed, to him, when ho bowed in humble submission to the will of the president, and the terror of the public force." They call him the “State Rights candidate," too? * See Journal House Reps. 1830. Pago 243. MR. CLAY AND THE RECORDER. If the Recorder has announced the name of Governor Troup with the wish or expectation that he may be elected, it could well devote a part of the time it occupies in getting Mr. Van Buren out of the way, to pointing out such objections t» Mr. Clay, as might also very probably lessen his influence with the Southern people; for let it be disguised as it may, ho is a formidable candidate ; and admitting for the sake of argument, that the Recorder succeeds in driving Mr. Van Bu ren from the field, it would be found a pretty tolerable labo rious job to make Governor Troup beat Mr. Clay. There fore, if the Recorder desires tho election of Governor Troup, *t must firs: prostrate Van Buren and Clay, it being essential to such a result, that both these aforesaid gentlemen Mtftould be killed off,” and at pretty short notice, too. But wo can assure our neighbors, that their present plan o f operations, so far from weakening Mr. Clay, has a tendency to encourage his friends and advance his cause in other States, from the fact, that they do not consider Governor Troup aa a competitor, and that this movement of the Recorder is mere ly a russe for Mr. Clay’s benefit; indeed some people nigher home are inclined to the same opinion. For ourselves, we award to them, sincerity in their professions, and as they may peradventure trip Mr. Van Buren, (a pretty severe job by the way) and as in that event we should prefer Governor Troup to Mr. Clay, because he is in favor of the Sub-Treasury, and opposed to a National Bank, we take leave to offer a few hints to our neighbors, and to point them to certain incident* in the life of Mr. Clay, which will enable them with proper amplification, to hold him up in nn attitude sufficiently de formed, to scare off the largest kind of children. First—lie is a duelist. lie fought Mr. Marshall, of Ken tucky, many years ago, and received a bullet in his leg,—not many years ago, he fought Mr. Randolph of Roauoke, and received his life as a present, from the hand of that high min ded and chivalrous Virginian. " Secondly—He was an early advocate for negro emancipa tion—-so avowed himself in Kentucky, a long time ago; and for several years past, was the advocate of abolition petition*, and voted in the Senate, to receive and discuss them; and it was not until last winter, that he came out against them, to curry favor with the Southern people. Thirdly—That in 1811, he opposed the recharter of the U. S. Bank, in an unanswerable speech, aud that bo is now s Bank man. Fourthly—That he was the father and champion of the Ta riff, which oppressed us so much, and about which the Union was endangered. Fifthly—That he elected John Quincy Adams, the federal abolitionist, to the Presidency, for the chief seat in his Cabi net, and became a federalist himself. Sixthly—That ho voted for the bloody bill because ho thought it was right. Seventhly—That he voted for the compromise tariff, not because he thought it right to do so, but to save the necks of the nullifiers from the halter, as he s;ud himself in the Senate. Eigthly—That he is opposed to tho sub-treasury, and that Governor Troup is in favor of it. Ninthly—That be has been uniformly in favor the Chero kee Indians, and has done every thing in his power to fasten them upon us. Tenthly—That he is the open antagonist of State sovereign ty, and claims for Congress, the exercise of every power,, which may be deemed expedient—lnternal Improvement*, Banks, &c., &c. Eleventhly—He is in favor of gag laws, and opposed to the right of suffrage—witness Mr. Crittenden’s bill ol the last session. Here you might end the first chapter, unless it may be con sidered advisable to allude to his moral habits, particularly that of gambling, in which it is said, he figured very largely for many years of his life. • If our neighbors will act upon this hint, they will kill two birds with one stone. They will do much to weaken Mr. Clay, as well as to convince the people that they are in ear nest about Governor Troup. Unless they do this, very few. (ourselves excepted) will put the least faith in their profes sions, and treat it as humbug, from beginning to end. THE RECORDER. We publish from the Georgia Macon Telegraph, the follow pig palpable bit at tho Recorder, in which the zig zag course of that print is admirably taken oIT It is true that the Recorder has shifted and veered so oft*n. t hat it is difficult to trace out all its windings and turnings, but enough is very well known to furnish the engraver with one of the crookedest subjects imaginable. The route of Mr. Van Buren to New-York, would be no more to it, than tho cuive of a reap hook, to the doublings of a sagacious old Fox, in a four hours chase. “ The Southern Recorder makes matter of grave comment, the route taken by the President of the United States, from Washington City, in his recent visit to New-York! And to give piquancy to their remarks and inuendoes, the Editor* have gone to the expense of procuring an engraving, showing, the supposed track of the President, during his join ney. It appears strange to them, that the President instead us pur suing “ the usual route of all travellers,” who are in a huiry to get over the ground, and actually fly as last as wind and steam can carry them, chose to travel in his own carriage, and on such roads, and through such villages, as his leisure, inclination, or friendship dictated. We are glad they have nothing more serious to bring against Mr. Van Buren, than that he does not travel over the land, while in search us health, and recreation, with the speed of a U S. Bank Circular, or the haste of a Whig panic speech-maker. By the by, wo leave it to the Whig moralists to decide, whether this dogging the steps of a political opponent, while enjoying a temporary relaxation from severe mental labors among his personal’ friends, from house to house, aud from room to room, with such precision as to give an accurate diagram of the whole) route, without a single break, hiatus, or interruption whatev er, comes under the cognizance of lheir moral code? It strikes us, the political course of tho Southern Recorder itself, has not been the most straight-forward imaginable.—. Had that immaculate journal been giving a chart of its own political course, it would not have presented fewer zig zago ries, than does the spirited engraving in their paper. W? recommend it to the Mouse-Owlery Club of Milledgeville, tn pieserve the plate among their valuable collections, not only as a sac simile of the autog-raph of the Recorder, but as a compendious auto-biography of the same illustrious hebdotn edal. Is it not a “ most admirable delineation of its zig zag political road ? For Van Buren and against Van Buren— against nullification and for nullification—for southern rights, yet hurrahing at tho success of Northern Abolitionists— for an Independent Treasury and against it—against a U. States Bank aud for it—for Clay secretly, and against him openly I —against the “Divorce” (in Martin Van Buren) and for the* Divotce (in Goo. M. Troup)—opposed to the Bloody Bill (in Andrew Jackson) and for the Bloody Bill (impersonated in Hugh L. White)--against Jackson and for Jackson and against him again ? and so on to the end of the chapter. Are the old consistent State Rights men of Georgia prepa red to follow the dictation of a leader, whose course is *n “awfully crooked ?” WELLERISM. “ The day we celebrate,” as the fat pig said to tb« turkey on the last 4th of July.