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Edited by THOMAS HAYNES.
VOLUME Vlll.
OUR CONSCIENC E O UR COUNTR Y O UR PARTY.
P. L. ROBINSON, Proprietor.
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 29, 1841.
NUMBER I.
COURT CALENDAR, FOR 1841
Superior Courts.
JANUARY.
3rd
4ili
2nd
4th
1 ji Monday. 1 "iggs
“id “ Richmond
<• Pulaski
.* Chatham
FEBRUARY,
l.t Monay. Randolph
“ Paulding
44 Bibb
2nd “ Clark
•• Cass
Walton
Crawfo r
Wilkes
Early
C herokee
Jackson
Meriwether
“ Forsyth
*• Upson
“ Decatur
MARCH.
l*t Monday, Coweta
“ Raker
“ Morgan
•• Marion
** Lumpkin
44 Pike
** I,aureus
“ Sumpter
Taliaferro
Columhiii
Lee
•• Fayette
*• Greene
“ Harris
44 Madison
“ Union
•• Monroe
•• Gwinnett
rd Monday, Rutts
•• Dooly
•• Elbert
*• DeKal
•* Gilmer
44 Hall
“ Putnam
*• Talbot
Bulloch
Cobb
“ Macon
44 llariis
■* Newton
“ Baldwin
•* Walker
“ Murray
Washington
Effingham, Thursday after.
APRIL.
]»t Monday, Warren
“ Sumter.
44 Walker
44 Wilkinson
“ Muscogee
•* Campbell
Rahuu, Thursday after
Wayne, “ “
2nd Monday, Carroll
14 Dade
44 Camden
44 Habersham
44 Hancock
44 Henry
44 Montgomery
Tattnall. Thursday after
3rd Monday, Emanuel
44 Chattooga
44 Franklin
*• Heard
41 Glynn
44 Jones
•• Oglethorpe
44 Floyd
4th Monday, Scriveu
44 Lincoln
44 Jasper
44 Houston
44 Troup
44 Irwin
44 McIntosh
Liberty, Monday after
Hrvau, Friday alter
Telfair, Tliutsday after 4th
Monday
MAY.
1st Monday, Burke
•• Stewart
2ml Monday, Chatham
3rd •• Jefferson
4; h •• Thomas
Lowndes. Monday after 4th
Monday
Ware, Monday after
Apj ling, Thursday after
JINI.l
1st Monday, Richmond
JULY.
1st Monday, Tw iggs
2nd Monday, Pulaski_
4th 44 Wilkes
AUGUST.
'
Twiggs,
4th Monday
in March and September.
—' 9 1
Lowndes,
1st
do
in February and August.
Thomas,
1st
«io
in January and July. ;
Telfair,
1st
do
iu April aud 2d in October.
Irwin,
4tii
do
in January and 1st in July.
Laurens,
1st
do
in June and December.
Pulaski,
2d
do
in April and October.
Appling,
3d
do
in June and December.
1
YV'are,
4th
do
in do do
LA FA'JSTTS HALL.
FLINT
4 Paulding
Bibb.
1st Monday
4 Bibb
Houston.
4th
do
2nd 4
4 Clark
Butts,
2d
do
4 Cass
Crawford,
3d
do
3rd 4
4 Walton
Upson,
4th
do
4 Crawford
Pike,
1st
do
4 Early
Monroe,
2d
do
4 Cberokeo
Newton,
4th
do
Uth •
• 4 Jackson
lleury,
4th
do
4 Emanuel
CIIATTA1K
44 Upson
44 Meriwethei
44 Forsyth
I 44 Decatur
SEPTEMBER.
1st Monday, Pike
44 Baker
44 Sumpter
44 Morgan
44 Laurens
44 Taliaferro
44 Marion
4 * Coweta
Lumpkin
Stewart,
Marion,
Muscogee,
Talbot,
Harris
Paulding,
Cass,
Cherokee,
Forsyth,
Lumpkin,
Union,
Chattooga, 1st
Gilmer. 1st
in May and November,
in January and July,
in January and July,
in May and November,
in do do
in June and December,
in do do
iu do do
in January and July.
1st Monday. in Feb. and 2d Mon. in July.
3d
do
in May and November.
4th
do
in January and July.
3d
do
in June and December.
4th
do
in tlo
do
CHEROKEE CIRCUIT.
3d
do
in May and November.
4th
do
in do
do
1st
do
in June and December.
1st
do
in do
do
3d
do
in do
do
4th
do
in do
do
do
do
in August and February.
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA.
riNHE undersigned having taken this ES TABUSIIMEN I , anil
M. fitted it up as a
HOUSE OF PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT,
IT IS NOW OPEN UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF
COL. THOMAS HAYNES.
WHO WILL SPARE NO EXERTIONS TO RENDER IT
WORTHY OF A LIBERAL PATRONAGE.
lLIF* The favorable location ol the premises, with the admirable c-on-
slruetion of the House, for comfoit and convenience, are consideration*
which recommend it to the attention ol Travellers and \ isitors.
P. L. ROBINSON.
Milledgeville, March 17,1S40.
Globe Hotel.
AUGUSTA, Georgia.
rnHK UNDERSIGNED, late of the Merchants Hotel, Charleston,
.1 (S. C.,) would inform bis friends and the public, that be has taken
the above Hotel, and is now ready to accommodate those who may favor
him with their patronage. He will make no boast of what be will do,
further than to sav, that his tables will be furnished with llie best the
markets atl'ord, and the establishment receive his personal attention;,
and if those who call on him once are not satisfied with his bill of faro
and accommodations, he will not solicit them to call again.
WILLIAM GOSS.
It) till
Oct. :
2nd
44 Columbia
Murray.
2.1
do
in do
do
44 Lee
YValker,
3d
do
in do
do
44 Greene
Floyd,
4th
do
in do
do
44 Madison
Dade,
1st
do
in June and December.
44 Union
COWE
L A CIRCUIT.
• 4 Monroe
Fayette,
Monday
in January and June.
•• Fayette
Carroll,
1st
do
in February and August-
•* Gwinnett
Meriwelh
r, 4th
do
in April and October.
3rd
44 Elbert
Troup,
3<l
do
in June anil January.
44 Dooly
Coweta,
4th
do
in June and
December.
44 Butts
DeKalh.
2d
do
in July and January-
44 Delvalb
Campbell
2.1
do
in June anil December.
44 Gilmer
Cobb,
3d
do
in do
do
“ Hal!
Heard,
4th
do
in May and
November
DR. C. E. HAYNES.
4th
Talbot
Pulliam
Stewart
Newton
44 Baldwin
“ Cobb
“ Macon
44 Harris
44 Walker
44 Murray
44 Bulloch
: 44 Washington
OCTOBER.
1st Monday, Warren
44 Wilkinson
“ Campbell
.Muscogee, Tuesday after
Sumpter, 44 “
Walker.
{Rabun, Thursday after
2nd .Monday, Hancock
44 Camden
44 Dade
I “ Henry
44 Habersham
44 Carroll
1 44 Harris
i 44 Montgomery
Tattnall, Thursday after
bird Monday, Emanuel
44 Chattooga
| 44 Oglethorpe
“ Franklin
44 Jones
44 Heard
44 Floyd
[Wayne, Thursday after
|:3d Monday, Scriveu
44 Lincoln
44 Jasper
| 44 Houston
44 Troup
44 Irwin
(Telfair, Thursday after
'Bulloch, hist Monday
NOVEMBER.
Effingham, Friday after the
1st Monday
2nd Monday, Jefferson
3rd 44 Burke
4th “ Thomas
Lowndes, Monday after 4th
Monday
Ware, Monday after
Appling. Thursday after
4th Monday. Camden
Glvnn. Monday after
McIntosh, •*
Liberty.
Bryan, Friday
SOUTHWESTERN CIRCUIT/
iu May and November,
in do do
in January and July,
in do do
iu March and September,
in June and December,
in February and August,
ill June and December.
[Southern Recorder.
Randolph,
2d
Monday
Lee,
4th
do
Early,
2d
do
Baker,
4th
do
Decatur,
2d
do
Dooly,
4th
do
Macon,
1st
do
Sumpter,
1st
do
HAS resumed the practice of MeJicine, urn! will give I
prompt attention to professional i alls.
He niav be consulted at llie offco occupied by him, I
for several years past, or at his readenca on tha eoulh ;
side of llie public square.
Sparta, 15.1. January, 1841.
Drugs, Medicines, &c.
DR. LITTLE.
HAS JUST llKCKIVKD FROM Till .SOUTH
at IIIH DRUG STORE, IN MILLEDGEVILLE,
1 C4LLPHATE OF QUININE, a.superior Freii.li articlo.
! PIPERINE.an invaluable adjunct to Qninhe.
BALSAM t'OPAIVA CAPSULES, n new Freich article.
CAYENNE PEPPER, (ground) African, pure llrd.
BALSAM COPAIVA, Solidified.
OPIUM GUM , Turkev, selected.
LOXA or CROWN DARK, a very superior artiilo.
f CALOMEL,English, best.
ALOES, G uni. Socotorine, true.
: CARRAGEEN orIRlSH MOSS.
! AQUA AMMON, douidt—Do. treble,
i SU1.PHATE OF ZINC, Crystallized.
Besides which lie lias a regular aupply of MEDICINES, DRUGS,
I PAINTS, &<•. Also a good assortment of English and French
CHEMICALS—together with PATENT MEDI AXES, consisting af
Last words of Emmett.
1 have but feiv more words to say;
I'm going to the silent grave-:
Soon o’er my tomb the cypress bough
Its broad and drooping leaves will wave !
My lamp of life is near burnt out—
My race is run ; pronounced my doom ;
One after one around me falls
The cold damp curtain of the tomb.
On leaving this ungrateful world,
I make but only one request—
I ask its silence : in the grave
Let me and mine together re»t.
Till other times and other men
Can justice to my memory do.
Till ages shall have slumbered by.
And reason can my acts teview.
Till thou no monumental slab
May mark the place where rents my heed :
No lettered marble to the world
Tell that he lived—that he is dead.
But when among the powers of earth
My country shall assume her staud.
Proudly erect—her Hag unfurled.
Acknowledged free by every laud—
Then may my epitaph lie traced
Upon the marble’s snow white face,
And it may stand above my head,
To mark a patriot’s resting place,
The sti anger, as he passes by.
May pause to think of other years.
And as he calls to mind my fate.
May pay the tribute of his tears.
And now farewell ! I'm going where
My fathers have before me gone;
My deathless spirit takes bis flight
To regions yet untried, uiiknowu ;
I give my body to the earth,
'Tis all that it can justly claim ;
And dearer than the life I yield.
Bequeath posterity my fame.
Inferior Courts.
EASTERN CIRCUTIT.
Wayne,
Last Monday, in
December and May.
Camden,
1st
do in
January :t
old June.
Glynn.
2d
tlo in
do
do
do
McIntosh,
3.1
do in
do
do
do
Bryan,
4th
do in
do
do
do
Liberty,
2.1
do in
do
do
do
Bulloch,
1st
do in
February and July.
E Hi n sham,
2.1
do in
do
do
do
Chatham,
3d
do in
do
do
do
G-SOaG-IAs
A PROCLAMATION.
| By His Excellency CHARLES J. McDOSALD, Governor
| and Cominandcr-iu-chiefof the Army and Navy of this State
{ and of the Militia thereof.
W HEREAS, by the first section of ail net of the
General Assembly of this State, assented to on the
! eighteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and forty.
| entitled “an act to compel the several BANKS of this State
I to redeem their liabilities in SPECIE, and to provide for the
forfeiture of the charter or charters of such as may refuse:”
! it is made the duty of His Excellency the Governor on the
| Frst day of January, eighteen hundred and fortv-one, to issue
his Proclamation, requiring- that the several Banks of this
State, their Branches or Agencies, which have heretofore
; failed to ledeetn their liabilities in GOLD and SILY F,R. and
all other Banks in this State, shall on or before the first day of
i FEBRUARY, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED and FORTY-
ONE, pay to any person or persons, (Banks anil Biokersex-
i cepted.) in SPECIE, every bill, note, draft, check, receipt or
money ondeposite. except incases where such ileposites are
I bv teims of exiting contracts, payable otherwise than in
! specie, issued or received, or which may hereafter be issued
or received by them respectively, upon demand or presenta
tion.
1 do therefore, in conformity thereto, issue this my Procla
mation, hereby requiring the several Banks of this State,
I their Branches or Agencies, which have heretofisre failed to
redeem their liabilities in Gold and Silver, and other Banks
in this State, on or before the Frst day of February, eighteen
l hundred and forty-one, and thereafter, to pay to any person
or persons, (Banks aud Brokers excepted,) in Specie, every
! bill, note, draft, check, receipt, or money on deposite. issued
or received, or which may hereafter he issued or received by
them respectively, upon"demand or presentation, in cases
where such deposits are by terms of existing contracts paya
ble otherwise than in Specie. And I do dereby charge and
| require each and everyone of them, to he careful and punc
tual in the strict observance and faithful performance of all
1 the duties enjoined on them by the aforesaid recited act of the
General Assembly.
Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the State, at
the Capitol in’Milledgeville, this the first day of January,
in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and
forty-one, and of American Independence the sixty-fifth.
ciiarles j. McDonald.
By the Governor:
\Vm. A. Tksnillk. Secretary of State. 50—4t.
1 O'?" The Sentinel & Herald, Columbus; Macon Georgia
i Telegraph, Macon; the Southern Banner, Athens; Constitu
tionalist, Augusta; and the Georgian Savannah; will insert
the above until the first of February.
CASH FOR CORN.
C4E VLED PROPOSALS will bo received up to llie 16th in«t. for
i 1^ furnishing the Peiiileniiirv with One Thousand bushels prime Bread
I Corn, for which the cash will be paid on delivery.
Dr. I- Ivans’ Camomile Rills,
“ Soothing Syrup,
Dalm of miii'*,
llav’s Litiaiipnt for Piles,
Harrison’s Specific Ointment,
Rowutul’s Eubroiation,
Swaim’s Panacea,
“ Vermifuge,
RowamPs 44
l>r. Dran.lreth’s Pills,
I)r. Ilavne’s Pills,
Lee's Anti-Hillious Pills,
Peters’ Pills,
Tonic Pills, an invaluable remedy for ftcak and debilitated peraons,
especially females.
Row a lid’s celebrated Tonic Mixture, for Fever aid Ague.
• 4 Alterative Extract of Sarsaparilla,
44 Oriental Powder of A labasfer, in boxes, for beautifying tha skin.
VALUER’S CKLEURATED FRENCH PILLS.
Tomato Pills, a substitute for Calomel.
Carpenter’s Compound Extract of Sarsaparilla.
44 < ’onccntratcd Compound of Sarsaparilla, Cubaba and f op.
44 Compound Syrup of Liverwort.
44 44 Fluid Extract of Duclm.
44 •* 44 44 of Pink Root.
Mill.de.ville, Sept. 1,1840. - g
JOHI BEES,
If 'arc-1 Inu sc
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANT.
APALACHICOLA, FLORIDA.
January 15, 1840. 51 — IQt
JolifiB HViflliiBiia il&bGaii,
Savannah, Georgia,
R ESPECTFULLY tenders his services lii liis friends and the public
- generally,in purchasing, receiving and forwarding Goods; receiv
ing and selling Cotton, and other Produce.
All business entrusted to him, will have prompt attention after 1st
A11<T11<<1 next, at which time his office will be opened.
June 23, 1810. _ 23 tf
Georgia Agricultural Repository,
AUGUSTA, GA.
Jan. 15,2840.
51—tf
MIDDLE CIRCUIT.
C olumhia,
4tti Monday
in
January and
June.
Washington,
4th
do
in
January and July.
Montgomery.
1st
do
in
February and August.
Tattnall,
2d
do
iu
do
do
Emanuel.
1st
do
iu
January and July.
Seri veil.
2d
do
in
do do
do
Burke,
1st
do
in
do do
do
Jefferson,
3d
do
in
do do
do
Richmond,
1st
do
in
April and 3d Mon. Sept.
NORTHE
RN
CIRCUIT.
Madison,
2d Monday
Elbert.
3d
do
< tglethorpe.
4th
do
Lincoln.
1st
do
Hancock.
1st
do
YV arreu.
2d
do
Wilkes,
1st
do
Taliaferro,
1st
do
YVES I F.
Franklin,
4th
Monday
Rabun,
1-t
do
Gwinnett.
2.1
do
J acksoti.
1st
do
Clark,
4th
do
Habersham
•2.1
do
Hall.
4th
do
M altoti.
3.1
do
ocyhtx
” ilkinsoii.
2.1 Y1
oinlay
Jones,
4th
do
Jasper.
4th
do
Halil w in.
4th
do
Uiecne,
2d
do
'(organ,
1st
do
ftRnam,
3-J
do
in J unitary and J illy,
in do do
ill do and J title,
in February and July,
ill Feb. and A tig.
in February and August,
in May and 4th Sept,
in June and December.
IN CIRCUIT,
tit January and July,
in July and January,
in June and December,
in jV'.t’.iarv and July,
in October and 2d in May.
in July and January-
in do tin
in May and November.
EE CIRCUIT,
in Juiv aud Jar.uary
in do do
in January and July,
in January and July.
in June asd December,
in do do
iu ds dj
DIVIDEND No. 45.
BANK STATE OF GEORGIA, ?
Savannah, 23d Oct., 1840. ^
T HE Board of Directors having this day declared a Dividend (No. 45J
„f four dollars per share from the nett profits of the Bank, for the
! last six months, ending the 5th instant; the same will be paid to the rc-
I spective Stockholders on and after W e.lnesdny next, the 2othilist.
1 I. k- TLFFT, Acting Cashier.
| Oct. 27.
DARIEN MONEY.
I am directed to receive no more DARIEN MONE\ , at this Institu
tion, either in payment of Debts, or for work done.
C. H. NELSON, Principal Keeeper Penitentiary.
December l, 1340. __
^f/ = PAY UP.—All persons indebted
bv note or account, to either nfthe undersigned firms are requested to
make immediate payment. Those failing to attend to the above re
quest, will be indiscriminately sued. ... ,
1 BEECHER & BROUN. nnd
BEECHER, HAMMOND <fc BROU N.
Milledgeville, Dec. 21st. 1840. 43 J
JD SS.C9 mnfki? EJ3B
F O U N DRY,
Corner of Jones owl Cummin!? Streets, first corner above the ruins oj
the Planters' Hotel.
fnilF. subscribers offer for sale a large and extensive assortment of
l Agricultural Implements, comprising nil that is required to stock
the most extensive plantations: Ploughs, Wood's patent, Freeborn.
Dali-’, Howard’s, double mould board, &c.: Cultivators lor corn and
cotton, Harrows of all kinds and sizes ; Wheat Fans ; U at kins patent
and Dutch Cvlindricnl Straw Cutters of different sizes; Corn Shell era;
Corn and Cob Crackers; Thrashing Machines, HorsePowers; 1 urn-
in-r Lathes, Tvre Rending Machines. &e.
Our IRON and BRASS FOI N'DRY is now in complete opera
tion- having a large slock of materials, nnd first rate workmen, we are
able'tu furnish all kinds of Castings, & of j*.-p"pH n V'l P’SON
no,l< ' , '' trw-tf—40
Oct. 29, K
T-XOTICE.^}
Notice to Laborers.
Hr ANTED, 200 men on the 43th section of the Central Rail Road, to
Vf whom liberal wages will he given. .....
Persons having negroes to hire, will please call on Mr. AM. RliO.E
on the work.or the subscriber at Marri-ttn, Cobh, ro. Ga.
"C The Southern Recouler. Federal I nion, and Standard of l nion,
wilTplease publish the above or.e month, and send their accounts to
"'iiS^mo.
Broiiglit to Jail,
*"h\' the Cth April. 1839, a"" negro man calling himself A RMSTEAD
O l, e j* feet, one or two inches hi^h; about or -•> jea u
t ■; th . property of a Mr. Chambers, a negro trader, who pur
chased him in Kbto
Carolina, whilst on the way to Mis.i=sip P i, anon ^ 5HICK j ai)or .
apprehension in thiseity. j v
Savannah. 15th April, I«lo
T HE SUBSCRIBER > WO I iM inform their friends nnd the public gen
erally, that thev still continue the
; WAREHOUSE AND COMMISSION
beg 9S E2 rxah. 0-’
I N S A V A N N A H .
j Thankful for the liberal patronage heretofore extended, they hope bv
industry and strict attention to business,to merit '/'/" 11 n " a "^• £ . *
! thev respc.-tf.illv solicit. WIMBERLY A. JONES.
I < >r t. 6. 1340 ~' il “
: rHIIIF Subscribers having ibis Hay taken the entire Stork
& of goods belonging to Messrs NICHOLS & DF, MING,
i solicit snili a share of patr< nage as their frietnK may feel dis-
j nosed to give th"m. They will keep constantly on hand a
good assortment of GROCERIES, which will he sold as
I low for cash as can he had in the city, nnd for cash only.
NICHOLS & CATIIAN.
January 8th. 1841. 50—3t.
notice.
I HEREBY' f.invarn all persons from trading for a promissory note,
signed bv Thomas House and mvself, payable to J. M. _Ans!ev, or
in-arer, bv the tenth dav of January next, amount of note. Eighty Dol
lars. dated 10th January. 1810. as the consideration for winch saidno.e j
was given has failed, and l am determined ncu to pa^.Mt. ^ HOUSE
Lumokin,Stewartco. 13th lal^. 36 1 h
From the American Statesman.
THE ANATOMY OF THE LOU CABIN. .
Our simple minded anceslors were not aware, lit?!
in the sel«ction of the head of the Government, the
particular species of house, in which the candidate
lived, was the point of supereminent interest. They
were so benighted in the mists of ignorance, as to
suppose, that a man dwelling in a stone house, might
be honest—that the inmate of a frame tenement might
he w ise, and that even the occupier of a brick struc
ture miirlit, l»y possibility, be competent to (ill the
highest functions. In a!! this they were wrong. It is
true that Washington did the State some service at
Trenton, at Monmouth, and at York town; hut Wash
ington lived at Mount Vernon, and llie house there
is not a locr cabin. Mr. Jefferson, it lias been sup
posed, contributed something towards the indepen
dence of his country, the illustration of her history,
and the establishment of ihe true foundation of repub
lican liberty—but it must be admitted, that Mr. Jef
ferson labored under the fatal disadvantage of dwell
iiuz at Monticello, which house is not a log cabin.
In the progress of civilization, it having been dis
covered that loir cabinism is the true elixir, llie lotig-
soutrht philosopher’s stone—the summum bonum ol
the ancient stoics—it is important to analyze the com
position of one of these primitive edifices—to di-cy
pher ns far as possible, the hieroglyphics of a log cab
in. Some persons, who have not sufficiently weigh
ed the matter, have asserted that there is no similarity
between the Whig party and a log cabin. They are
in error; there is a striking analogy between them in
six points:
First. A log house is constructed of a VARIETY or
LOG8, cut down and hauled together, with very little
care as the building is in its nature of a temporary
character. Oak, gum, ash, hickory, and pine—sound
and hollow, green and dry, smooth and knotty, crook
ed and straight, light and heavy—ihesc-, all, are ilia
hurried, bungling style, joined together.
This is all a type of the heterogeneous and incom
patible materials of the modern, halched-iip, new
fangled, patch-work, bed-qui!t Whig party, Mason
embracing Anti-mason, Bank check by jowl with An
ti-bank, Federalist hugging democrat, loafers, vaga
bonds, Shvlocks, majority men, and the vast swarm
of office seekers, “strange bed-fellow s” “pigging to
gether in a truckle-bed.’
Second. Any man acquainted with log cabins, is
aware, that as the logs begin to rot, they become infes
ted with a multitude of BUGS, worms, sawyers, and
insects. Sortie of these are known by a peculiar hum
ming noise that they m »ke, while boring their way
into the logs; these answer to the Whig humbugs,
which they make use of when boring their way into
office. The family of humbugs is extensive, and
lately thev have made a ereat noise in ihe world; but
they are fast falling into disrepute with sensible, think
ing, honest people of all parties. Of this genus, may
be mentioned as familiar examples—the Hone ease,
Standing army, Expenditures, Florida war, Blood
hounds, Brownson, and the Practical Monarchy.
These all, like other dogs, “have had their day,” and
now bv general consent, are consigned to oblivion,
being kicked down like the bouse-builder’s scaffold
ing, having answered the purpose for which they
were raised. These humbugs are dead, but their
ghosts shall yet survive to terrify those who first gave
them being.
Thirdly. The Whig parly rcienudes a log cabin
in ihe article of SMOKE. A bona fide log cabin,
a real Simon pure, is usually but little encumbered
with those curious luxuries, windows; few have more
than one, and that very small, and perhaps consisting
ofa board suspended by leaiher binges, cut out ofan
old shoe; and indeed many log houses have no win
dow at all. The reason is plain: the house consist
ing of logs, to make a w indow you must saw through
the logs, you weaken the w all anti endanger its falling
down. So it is with Whiggery—only once display
its principles, or rather its w ant of principles—show
its hand and the w hole fabric tumbles to pieces.
44 Tiie charm tlissolves apace;
And ax the moruini; steals upon thenisht.
Melting th- tlurkne**, so their rixins «en«et
Bejiu t<> chase the ignorant fumes that mantle
Their clearer re-.son.”
The Whig party is a smoky party—the Harrisburg
Convention was a smokv Convention.—Whiggery
delights in smoke: and according to the W liigs, the
philosophy of governments nothing but the philoso
phy of smoke. By this rare invention, men of all
creeds and actions, “all sorts and conditions of men,”
fish, flr:b and indifferent red herring, may co-operate
under cover of a dense fog of smoke, and with a clamor
of spoils! spoils! burst into the citadel and divide the
prize money of llie victory. In fine, the Whig doc
trine as deducihle from the Whig practice, is; that the
only way to govern men is to smoke them, and the
only way to argue with men, is to throw ilust in their
eyes. Accordingly one of the presiding genii and tu
telary gods of ihe log cabin of Whiggery is thetur/—
a bird fund of darkness, afraid of light—apt to look
very big aud wise, and a habitual poacher and noto
rious devourer of young chickens.
Fourthly. Log houses are commonly erected by
what is called a log rrwuiig party, wlu> accommodate
one another with an understanding of this sort: “If
you will help me to lift my logs. I will help you to lift
your logs;" and the custom is to lift the logs, whether
rotten or Sound, hewed or unhewed. So the Aboli
tionist of the North, under the broad protective mot
ley banner of Whig-federalism, ar« associated with
the Southern Slave-holding Whig, Bank with Anti
bank, Internal Improvement w-itli Anti-Internal Im
provement, Tariff, with Anti-tariff, &a\, Ate., positive
and negative, white acre and black acre. Zenith and
and nadir, ebony and topaz, arctic aud ami-arctic,
odds and ends, all together, conglomerated by w'con
currence of atoms’ not ‘fortuitous’ but attracted by the
hope of office or gain. At these log raisings, where
cider is freely drunk, the men sometimes light, and
the frolic breaks up in a row. So the Whig party
may come to /og-gerbeads, get by the ears, aud the
curtain may fall on a grand battle-royal among the
devout idolaters of the hero ol Tippecanoe. Then
>hall the spirit of Whiggery exclaim
‘•I’ll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the eaitli,
And deeper than did ever plummet sound
I’ll drow n my book.” [id. est- Tippecanoe Text Cook J
Fifth, Log houses arc daubed with ClaY- Tlji»
clay will last for a w hile; hut w hen it comes to be
scorched by the rays ofa summer sun* or pinched by
the rigors, ofa winter’s frost, the clay-daubing cracks*
falls to pieces, amid great dust, being tuit< uipered and
without any principle of w bat chemists call the attrac
tion of cohesion.—The spoils will not make them co
here, because over the spoils they will quarrel, and
the disappointed office-hunter will retire, like 4 Ibui-
islied wolf with fierce vindictive eye and ferocious growl
from these w ho have denied h in his expected njorsel
of the federal carrase. The log cabin wiil fall; “inene
mene tekel upliarsin” is already written over its door-
wayj'it-,vi!l fall, anil ‘threat will be the fall thereof.’
Sixth and lastly. Whatever may be ti e other pecu
liar features of a log cabin, it is certain that of all
places on eartii, a sealed log cabin is the worst harbour
for rats—it is a complete rattletrap. It is »«riou»Iy
to be apprehended, that the Whig party will turu out
to resemble a log-house in this particular. We advise
General Harrison to procure the pti'ent arcanuq) for
catching rats by the basket-full. Already we star
the vivacious squeal of the ravenous Norwegian ol-
fice-htinter, as w ith keen sagacious nose, and tho eyo
ol a lynx, he peers through the cl inks of the'log cabin
and snuffs around the purlieus of the treaaurv-vrib,
and scrutinizes each nibbled bole aud dark cranny,
and solaces himself with goitlt n dreams ofa paradise
of rats that is to be ushered in, under the auspices of
Harrison and Reform, w lieu cats shall be extermina
ted, and the great federal rats shall enjoy at) exclusive
monopoly of all the bank bread and cheese. So en-
deth the history of King Log, the epilogue of Whig-
gery.
There are to be four eclipses Of the son Ibis year;
aud two of the moon. None of the former will be
visible in this country, and even where largest, they
w ill be only partial. Both the lunar eclipses will be
total, and visible throughout the Foiled States. One
occurs on the 5th «»f February; site other on the 2d of
August.
Mysterious and Interesting.—By the com
munication of B. Chew, President of the Male Or
phan A-xltim, a recent mysterious occurrence in this
city has appeared in print. It seems a boy by the
name of (Hirer Grice, who has been some three of
four years iu llie Asylum, was on la-t Tuesday per
mitted to leave the establishment with a stranger, and
neither man or boy has since been si en. The strang
er represented to one of the directors that the hoy
Oliver was interested in an estate in Hamburg, South
Carolina, of w hich estate, the father of the stranger
was the executor or administrator. The boy, it was
supposed by the superintendent, had a sister living
across the river, opposite the town of Lafayette, and
permission was given to the stranger to take the boy
to vi-it his sister, and on Ins r< turn lie was to give such
information as would lie of interest to he known re
specting the property of the two children.
The man was tali and younrepresented himself
as on itis way West where it is conjecturetf, he may
have taken ti e boy. Oliver is described as being
between 10 and 12 years of age, interesting and de
licate, light complexion, light brown hair, and was
dressed in dark satinet cl"tb«*?. The president and
directors of the institution display much benevolent
anxiety concerning the fate or condition of their or
phan charge.
H«»w forcibly all this falls to mind Dicken’s touch
ing story of Oliver Twi-t. In name as well as cir
cumstance here we find coincidence and resemblance
sufficient to excite a very novel and lively interest.
Some mvsterv evidently is connected with this poor
orphan’s storv, anti perhaps conjecture could frame
notiiing more romantic than is the real history. Where
there is secrecy villanv will always be suspected, and
if the designs of this man were honest, his conduct
would of course have left no room for suspicion. At
»nv rate, information relat.ve to man or boy, obtain
ed in any quarter, should he immediately communica
ted to tiie direction of the Asylum in this city.—A.
O. Tic.
A history of mobs in all ages, and countries, such
ns Jock Porteous iu Edingur<:h, De Wilt’s in Hol
land, Lord George Gordon’s in London, the \ er-
s lilies mob, the Baltimore mob, the Mississippi mob,
kr., would be a curious work.
As the meeting of tw » cloud- produces rain, the
meeting of tv. n emoiions in the mind prodaces tear*.