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mmujjim KmiWiiniiii •■"-i Agricultural. than two-thirds as great a crop on the part ma- j Texas to this Union is the blast of the trumpet nured in the hill, as on the other part of the J for a foreign, civil, servile Red Indian war. of piece. Nor is this all. Last year the same which the government of the United biatcs, field was sowed with oats, and there was as • fallen into faithless hands, has aheady twice gi- grea! a contrast in them as in the potatoes of v cn the signal—first by a shame.ess treaty re tire previous year. This year we have cut two jected by a virtuous Senate; and again by the ho^v we are to provide fences for our fields.— j crops of grass on the same piece of ground,! glove or defiance hurled by the apostle of nolli- M my kinds of livo fjnees have been suggested which goes to prove none the less the truth of ficafion at the avowed policy of the British em. [ have never seen one of! the above assertion. So far as my knowledge extends, I think this to be a correct criterion in From Ihe Southern Agricultural is:. Fences—Stack —.Uannre. In anno parts of the State, timber is becom ing SO scarce, that U will be a serious question, any and recommended, any groat length in any countrv, that would turn a vicious hog; l have my doubts whether \ „]| instances, any can bo inule that nny he relied on, and T ; 2d. Potatoes manured in the hill, are, in nine am sure that none can without vast trouble and j rases out of ten, eaten badly by the worms. I expense, and many years of unremiltcd perse- know the worms are a great trouble, even if the Ver.incc. 1) tubes are but little better—being ! manure is spread on, but much more so where equally unsafe and expensive. What is to be ' it is put in the hill, done then ? I suggest, that instead of fencing j 3d. Also, where thi our fi dds, wo fence our slock. There are few i hill, tho potatoes grow farmers who have not a mile, many twenty ; part of tho season, too much of the essential part miles or more of fencing to keep up, while a j of the manure is expended in promoting the few hundred rails or feet of plank, will fence growth of the tops. their stock io securely. Tho ready objection is, that we can not ra se stock without range or If the manure expends the principal part of its strengtli in the earlier part of a season pastures. Let us see. It is stated by an ex- [ will not bo sufficiently felt in the latter part to perienced breeder tint a hog may be kept in n ] cause tho potatoes themselves to grow to a good thriving condition on an ear of corn per day. I ; size; but spread on the manure, and it does not am sure he may he mi two ears. And if they i relax iis agency, but continues to 'exert Itself are crmhel and boiled, he wdl fatten rapidly. | the whole season. Seven hundred and thirty average ears of corn will not make over six. or at most six and a half bushels of corn, which will be his yearly uflotrance—say ten bushels to feed him until 4th. Corn and potatoes, as well as every thing else that is planted where the manure is spread on, will endure a drought much better than if manured tho other way. Where the eighteen mouths oid. It is a good hog that will manure is put in the hill, the hill must of ne at this age, with our common treatment, weigh 150 IHs. nett. Iffi.il in a pen, well watered a d supplied with rotten wood nr charcoal, which cost nothing, 1 will guarantee that he will weigh 200 lbs. Tho pork, therefore, including the cost of attention, will not bo but three cents per pound. Do we raise it cheaper now, when we consider that we have to keep so many sows more, ill in we should on this plan, to ensure a sufficient number of pigs; that we lose so ma ny sho es hv the accidents of the range, and that we hnvc to feed thin lings so bountifully for a month or six weeks before killing? But ecssity be made higher than if it was spread on—and being increased every time of hoeing, it becomes of such n shape that the rain runs off as freely as from a stack of hay, irrigating the ground between the hills, and leaving the hills themselves almost entirely dry. Another reason is, the seed being planted upon the manure, the mots grow too near the •ip of tho ground, so that when there are a few days of dry weather, the gr.rnnd becomes dry down to the roots, which, as a natural conse quonce, will greatly injure the growth of the plants. But as I am growingsomewhal prolix (here arc other important considerations. We ( 1 will close this meagre communication by re might with this system keep only the improv-i questing those who have heretofore been nc ed breeds, and by such steady feeding secure customed to manure their land in the hill, t all the benefit, of the improvement which is lost, when wc turn them into the woods. An accurate and very judicious farmer in Virginia, estimates that a hog well littered and properly fed, will make 250 bushels of good manure per annum; and hog manure is, we know, at least twice as valuable as stable mat nure. Now, how much corn will 250 bushels of good hog manure, put upon two or throe acres, increase the corn crop ? At least twenty bushels—probably much more. Here then you have a return of twenty bushels for six and a half fed, or certainly for ten fed—giving you 200 lbs. of pork, and leaving you ten buslvls, to remunerate you for feeding, littering, and hauling out and spreading you manure. At this rate, 1 am not sure—paradoxical as it may appear—thnt a firmer would not make hy fee ding his neighbor’s hog for the manure, and returning him his hog when ready fur the knife. I am positively sure, that he will find it more profitable to pen and feed his own, than to give them the best range and pastures. And now that wo must plant corn largely, because wo cannot plant cotton at present pri ces, I hope tho experiment will be generally tried. 1 believe that the same thing would be true as regards cattle, if the best breeds were selected, a dairy established wherever it is at tempted to raise them, an 1 their manure care fully saved. Our winters are mild; cattle standing still require less food than those rang ing at will; our shocks, pea-vines, potato and pindar vines, and crab and crow.foot grasses, afford an incalculable amount of forage, which wc mny secure ifour cotton crop is light. And our Indian corn is a treasure for feeding stock, which, in our propensity to imitate everything foreign* and to introduce grasses which our hot and dry summer will not allow to flourish, wo overlook to much. It is worth all the grass es in the world. Every inch of it from root to tassel is rich in nutriment; cured and cut, its stalk is equal to sugar beet; and the cob, shock and grain, ground together and boiled, is as good as any equal amount of food known-oil cake scarcely excepted. If then wc turn our attention to it, we shall find tint we can raise stock for our own use, and also for market, in enclosure, as well or better than it can be done in any other coun try ; and what a world of rail splitting it would save—of fence making, and fence mending— of corn destroyed and potatoes rooted in des pite of all we can do. And how many violent and sometimes fatal quarrels among neighbors would be prevented. Perhaps the most fruitful source of bickering and open war in every neighborhood, is the lawless incursions ofstock upon foreign domains. In Europe and in some parts of America, stock are mostly enclosed. On tho other con'inent, there is rarely pretence of a fence or hedge, and sn England hedges arc of little real use. They would lie of none against our swine and cattle, which aro mostly of the “Liberty Boy” brc<d. It may seem pnnvuure to talk of enclosing hero. I do not think it is. I believe it would lie profitable wherever manure is wanted; and I think few will deny that want hero. I en close for profit, though I have to keep fences against my neighbors’ stock, the value of which would purchase my meat for five years to come. I in»ito planters to consider the matter. HOLKHAM. try the other way, and I am fully persuaded that they will be richly compensa'eri for the experiment. LECTOR From Ike American Farmer. On manuring in the Hill. It is a deplorable fict that there aro many who think they mu-t manage their farms just as their fathers, or even, perhaps,as their grand-1 screen him from the odium which has fallen From tke Nashville Union, Fire of (lie Flint. The National Intelligencer, of the 12th inst contains an elaborate paper purporting to bo an address made by John Quincy Adams, be 1 fore the whig young men of Boston, on the 7th instant. We have taken special notice of it in adjacent columns. Tho entire superstruc ture rests on Mr. Adams'day book of his own sayings. loings, «fcc. regukirly kept by himself, and which is just no evidence at all. He states that, according to this “diary” of his General Jackson «*was more than indifferent to any ac- qui a jtion w° st °f die Sabine.” in Feb., 1819, is true th* 1 Ge' 1 - Jackson was at Washing ton that winter; hut it has been repeatedly shown and p rn ved before ‘-■’ c P ub,I f» that he went there under the imprest 1011 l * iaI ll " aSi r ' Adams and Mr. Crawford, "ho, as members ofthe Cabinet, had movpdhi 8arr<?s h there- fore, he refrained from having any intercourse with either. This point wa s settled long ago to every bodv’s satisfaction. That Mr, Adams has the pretended details of two pretended conversations with Gen. Jack, son, concerning the treaty of 1819, entered o n the pages of his “diarv,” is nothing new. Nor is it new that he received from Mr. Mayo a confidential letter (so marked on the env»| 0 p P ) from Gen. Jackson to the late Gov. Fulton, of Arkansas, which he openly and puhhc'y read from his seat in the Congress of the U. States. Perhaps there may be no minutes of this in his “diarj\” It is. nevertheless, a notorious fact; and we pul the question to all honorable men, whether a person who would make public use of a purloined letter, knowing it 'o bo strictly confidential, would be likely to entertain any very unconquerable scruples in composing his own “diary.” Why not, knowing it to be a stolen (nt least a stray) piece of private proper ty, hand it over to the person to whom lie knew it rightfully belonged instead of using it for his own benefit? The law says, “the receiver is as bad as the thief.” But enough. As we have already devoted much space to Mr. Adams in another place to-day, we shall not do more in this connexion than state that the Intelligencer containing his address having been forwarded to Gen. Jackson, he sent the following note to his friend, Gen. Armstrong, with a request that it be published in this paper. Hermitage, Oct. 22, 1844. Dear Sir:—I thank you for the copy of tho Intelligencer containing the address of John Q. Adams to the Young Men’s Club of Boston, do- livrrcd on the 7th inst. This address is a labored attempt on tho part of Mr. Adams to discredit the testimony of Mr. Erving, whoso statements were referred to in my letter to the Hon. A.V. Brown of Feb’ry 12th, 1843; and like most of ihc productions from n diseased mind, proves little else but its own weakness and folly. My letter to Mr. Brown was published on tho 20th of March, 1844, in Washington City, where Mr. Adams was nt the time. It has been the subject o r comment in tbenewspaper presses of both parties in all portions of the Union; and the statements of Air. Erving, and the inferences from them have not been deem ed worthy of tho notice of Mr. Adams until now, just before the close of the Presidential canvass, he pretends to have discovered that great injustice has been done h ; m, and he makes a childish appeal to his own “diary” to pire, peacefully to promote the extinction of slavery throughout the world. Young men of Boston: burnish your armor—prepare for the conflict; and I say to you in the language of Galgacus to the ancient Britons—think of your forefathers—think of your prosperiiy!” What is this but delusion—or what >s worse-—*a di rect appeaFto arms to oppose the decision of the American people should it be favorable to the annexation of Texas to the U. States?. I may be blamed for speliieg Air. Erving’s name wrong, hut I trust I shall never deserve the shame of mistaking tho path of duty where my country’s rights are involved. I believed from the disclosures made to me of the trans actions of 1819, that Air. Adams surrendered the interests of the U. States when he took the Sabine river as the boundary between us and Spain, when he might have gone to the Colo rado, if not to the Rio del Norte. Such was the natural inference from the facts stated by Air. Erving; and there is nothing in the ac count now given ofthe negotiation to alter this impression. Tho address, on the contrary, does not at all relieve Mr. Adams. It proves that he was tlien, as now, an alien to the true interests of his country; but he had not then as now, the pretext of co-operation with Great Britain in her peaceful endeavors to extinguish sluvery throughout the world. Is there an American patriot that can read the above extract, and other similar one9 that may be taken from the address of this monar chist in disguise, without a feeling of horror?— Grant that the thousands of those who think with me. that the addition of Texas to our Union would be a national benefit, are in er ror—are we to be deterred from the expres sion of our opinions by threats of armed oppo sition? and is it in this manner that the peace ful policy of Great Britain is to be carried into execution, should the American people decide that we are not in error? Or does Mr. Adams mean to intimate that tho will of Great Britain should be the law for American statesmen, and will be enforced at the point of the bayonet by those who descended from the patriots of our revolution? Instead of going to British history for senti merits worthy of the republican youth of our country on an occasion so vitally affecting our national safety and honor, I would recommend those in General Wash ngton’s farewell address and particularly his warning to us, to avoid en tangling alliances wiih foreign nations, and whatever is calculated to create sectional or geographical parties at home. I am, very truly, Yourobedient servant, ANDREW JACKSON. Gen. Roicrt Arms*-one. From the N. Y. Weekly Mirror. Gold Inkstand lo the Authoress of Scottish Chiefs. The works of Jakb Porter have probably brought more monev into the hands of book sellers, than those of any writer, except, per haps, Scott, and at this moment steam-presses are employed in printing large editions of her delightful novels. An enthusiastic man, a great admirer of Miss Porter, lias, for the second time, started a subscription among the book sellers of this city to present hi r with a gold T JB JL JE €r JR nl JP JEf disclosed a degree of inconsistency which would haved proved fatal to their cause at the outset. But in the mean time a new and im portant question arose, and one on which three had hitherto been no difference of opinion a- morg Georgians—we allude to the Annexation OursdTCS. j of T cxns — A question entirely National i n it s character, was converted into a Party one br 1 he Presidential contest being over, as far , 11M . cr , . L ) MACON: TUESDAY AIORNING, NOV. 12. 1814. , , tho Whtcrs of Georgia, because it was a stum, as tho vote of Georgia is concerned, we pro- 1 ° , T - , , - . . i blmg-block in the path of Air. Clav ; and f or . raA-iW, and the Harpers. Appletons, Lang- ; pose to devote a portion of our columns to such | s - J : ‘ u *' matters of general or special interest, as wo' ‘ ° ‘ * ’ '" ' fathers did; and who bi lieve that lo derive the upon his treachery to the best interests of his greatest profit from manure, they must “dung country. in the lull.” I propose in this brief article to ; Mr. Adams has been seven months in pre show, in my feeble manner, that this is not the I pnring ibis tissuo of deception for the public, bettor way to experience the greatest pecunia-! I plpdge my countrymen ns soon as I can ob- ry advantage, from the following considers- tain the papers not now in my possession, re- lion-: ! ferred to in the letter to Mr. Brown, to prove 1st. It has been proved by trial that tho first not only thnt Mr. Adams has n<i cause of corn- crop is invariably smaller where the land is 1 plaint against mo, but that his veracity, like manured in the hill, and if the first is poorer, I his diplomacy, cannot be propped up by his suppose there is not tho least doubt that the “diary.” succeeding ones wdl be, Two years ago last i I sav in advance of the review I shall take spring, we planted a small field, containing a- | of this extraordinary production, thus heralded bout three acre--, with corn and potatoes, ma- ; before tho public on the evo of the Presidential nuring tho principal part of it by spreading on; 1 election, that the assertion of my having advis- tve, however, manured about half on acre in ed the treaty of 1819 is a barefaced falsehood, tho hill, which even had a bettor soil than without the shadow of a proof to >ustaiu it; much ot tho other. 1 his was planted and heed ; and that the entire address is full of statements at the time with the other, and in the early part at war with the truth, and of sentiments hostile of the season nny one would have supposed to every dictate of patriotism, firm tho appearance of the potatoes, that there, Who but a traitor to his country can appeal would have been us great a crop where manu-; as Air. Adams does to the youth of Boston, in red in tho hill as of those that were the other. the close of his nddres»? - Your trial is np- way. But this was not the case. No; in dig-' preaching. The spirit of freedom and the spi- ”ing them the difference was vety clearly per- J rit of slavery r.rc drawing together for the relations, and secure as far as practicable, tho ccivid: I should judge that llirrc was not more j deadly conflict of arms. The annexation of I peace and prosperity of the people nt home. Correspondence of tkeJournulof Commerce. COLUMBIA. Maury co . Tenn. ? October 16 1844. $ I reached this town yesterday, in the stage :oach from Nashville, 40 miles, on a good turn pike road. Tills is one ofthe finest counties of land in the State, and inhabited by an intel ligent and wealthy ciass of people. As you aro aware.Gov. Polk, tho democratic candi date fur President, resides in this place. I had the honor of taking tea at his house last even ing, and of enjoying the society of himself and his aimable and splendid lady. His features are strongly marked by evidence of intellect, blandmss, firmness and benevolence. His head would be esteemed a splendid model by phrenologists, in which the intellectual and moral faculties are largely predominant. His forehead is high, broad and full, and perpen- ‘ cular, il not projecting. The upper part of the bead rises high above tlicears. The organs of benevolence, veneration and firmness, are prominenilydeveloped. Col. Polk’s character, through a long public life, is known to corres pond wiih these characteristics of his mind. He represented the Congressional district in which he lives, for 14 years. While lie h"S at all times had strong political opponents in Ten nessee, lie i< without a personal enemy in the State. All, with one accord, declare, tlint they know of no spot or blemish on Col. Polk’s whole private life; abetter neighbor, a kinder muster, a more indulgent arid faithful husband, or a more upright, honest, benevolent and mor al man, they never knew. When the Roor back slander reached Tennessee, even the Whigs cried out, “shame, oh! for shame.”— Of all the slanders ever started against him, this was the most unlike the truth. All his oppon ents in Tennessee admit that there is not a kinder man to his servants to be found in the State. Col. Polk is not rich. He has a mod erate properiy, and owing nothing, is indepen dent. He dots not own forty slaves in the world. What he has, consists of families, ma ny of them small, having inherited them princi pally through his lady. He has parted with some of his best men servants to gratify their wish to be with their wives. In olh- r instances ho has purchased at high rates the \viv« sofliis men from other parties, and also the husbands of liis women, in order, as far as possible, to keep fatni.ies together, and by that means to niaku them more comfortable and happy. . His lady is both beautiful and accomplished, and is a consistent member of tue Presbyterian Church. There is not a human being living, that is an enemy of hers. It is pninhil to find that a man like Col. Polk, whose whole life has been pure und without reproach, should be so shamefully assailed as he has been. During his whole life, he has been strictly a temperance man in everything—in liquor, to bacco, in eating, and in all respects. He never gambled. In ull his life he nover gave or ac cepted a challenge io fight a duel. He is an anti-duellist on Christian principles. He be lieves duelling to be morally wrong, and has the moral courage to put in practice the moral principles ho proicsses. He is a much greater man, and much better man, than the world, and especial.y his opponents, have ever given him creuit lor. He is a modest and retiring man, but bold and firm in the discharge ofins official dunes when call, d upon by the people to exercise them. 1 should say the most pro- m nent trait of his mind was that of moral cour age, a rare and valuable trait of character. Ho made a good and faithful representative, an able and efficient Governor, a prompt, able and impartial Speaker of the House of Repre sentatives, and if eleett-d, will make an able, judicious, sound and safe President ofthe Uni ted Stutes; one that will aim to maintain the rights and honor ofthe country, in our foreign leys and others have subscribed with enthusi aslic liberality. The list of the subscribers will be published when the sum is sufficient. Alean- time perhaps a description of Jane Porter with a little of her hitherto unwritten history may not he unacceptable to our leaders. Mt-s Pouter was the daughter of a gallant English officer who died leaving n widow, and three children then very young but all destined to remarkable fame—Sir Robert Ker Porter, Jane Porter, and Anna Maria Porter. Sir Robert, as is well known, was the celebrated historical painter, traveller in Persia, soldier, diplomatist and iltuhor. lately deceased. He went to Russia with one o! his great pictures when very young, married a wealthy Russian Princess, and passed his subsequent years be tween the camp and diplomacy, honored and admired in every station and relation of his life. The two girls were playmates and neigh bors of Walter Scntt. Jane published her “Scottish Chiefs” at the age of eighteen, and beenme immediately the literary wanderer of her time. Her widowed mether, however, withdrew her from society to the seclusion of a country town, and she was little seen in the gny world of London before several of her works had become classics. Anna Alari.i, the second sister, commenced her admirable series of novels soon after the first celebrity of Jane’s works, and they wrote and passed the bright est years of their life together in a cottage re treat. The two sisters were singularly beauti ful. Sir Thomas Lawrence was an unsuc cessful suitor to Anna Alaria, and Jane (said by Sir Martin Sbee to have been the handsom est woman he ever saw) was engaged to a young soldier who was killed in the Peninsula. She is a woman to have hut one love in a life time. Her betrothed was killed when she was twenty years of age, and she has ever since worn mourning, und remained true to his memory. Jane is now the only survivor of her family, her admirable mother and her sister having di ed some tw elve or fourteen years'ago, and Sir Robert having died lately while revisiting Eng land after many years’ diplomatic residence in Venezuela. Miss Porter is now near sixty. Slfe has suf fered within the last two or three years from ill- hea’tb, but she is still erect, graceful and ma jestic in person, and still possessed of admirable beauty of countenance. Her large dark eyes have a striking lambency of lustre, her smilo inspires love iu all who see her, and her habit of mind, up to the time wc last saw her, (three or four years ago.) was that of reflecting the mood of others in conversation, thinking never of herself a> d endeavoring only to make others shine, and all this was a tact, a playfulness and simplicity, an occasional unconscious bril liancy and penetration, which have made her, up to sixty years of age, a most interesting, e gaging, and lovely woman. We have had the good fortune to pass several months at dif ferent times, under different 'hospitable roofs with Jane Porter, and, c«nsuleriiig the extent of her charm, over old and young, titled and humble, roasters and servants, we sincerely think wo never have seen a woman so beloved and so fascinating. Shu is the idol of many different circles of very high rank, and passes her time in yielding, month after month, to pressing invitations from the friends who love her. The Dowager Queen Adelaide is one of her warmest friends, the highest families of no bility contend for her as a resident guest, dis tinguished and noble foreigners pay court to her invariably oil arriving in England, she has been ennobled by a decree of tS* King of Prus- sia, and with all this weight of honor on her he 'd, you might pass weeks wiih hcv, (igno rant of her history,) without suspecting her to bo more than the loveliest of women past their prime, and born but to grace a contented me diocrity of station. This is an impartial, and truthful sketch of the celebrated pereon for whom the abovetimn-* tionod compliment is intended. We trust it may find her alive and w.th her accustomed bright smile upen her lips—God guard and preserve her! may think most profitable to our readers. In our columns to-day, will be found an unusual variety, and we shall hereafter attend more strictly to the wants of our country friends, while we hope to make our paper more agree able to all classes of our readers. Third District. Previous to the recent election, the Whigs were confident of carrying their ticket in this district by a much larger majority than they obtained in October. They argued that Mr. Chappell’s personal popularity had secured to him many votes, which the Democratic party could not retain in the Presidential contest.— We make the following statement for the bene fit of our readers. associations, and country—all, for the fortunes of a man who at best was but a new ally, they resolved with the ardor of fanatical devotees to cut adrift from every thing once cherished, and rise or fall with Henry Clay. Such is a brief history of Whiggery in Georgia. The people ofGeor- gia have set their seal of condemnation upon it and future parlies hence may learn that while Georgians have the intelligence to understand their rights and the virtue to maintain them,— Party trickery and political treachery, alike must fail and fall. October Election. November Eteciion. Chappell. Poe. Polk. Clay. Bibb, 123 m 136 m . Crawford, 70** 77“ Pike, ^ £11“ 213 “ Talbot, SC “ 60“ Twiggs. Harris, 100“ 3d I m 77 " 392 Monroe, 31 “ 93 Upson, S3* “ 359 S30 6o9 583 714 Majority for Poe, 139 Mojoritjr for Clay, 161 Whig gain, SS Southern Quarterly Review. Mr. Barnes the agent of the Southern Quar terly Review, has politely la d on our table, the October number of this truly Southern Period ical. It come? richly freighted with literary lore, and we consider it one of the best num bers since its revival. We regret that we have not room for a more extended notice.of its con tents ; but we are pleased to learn that it con tinues to grow in popular favor and is begin ning to yield the talented and enterpriziug edi tor a reward for his indomitable perseverance We trust its patronage may increase for years to come. Otltl Fellowship. The first Anniversary of Lo Jge No. 5, of this city, was celebrated yesterday. Tiie two Lodges, comprising a large portion of our most respectable citizens, marched in procession to the Presbyterian Church, where, after singing by the choir, and a short, eomprehenrive and appropriate prayer by the Rev. Air. Bragg, of the Episcopal Church, an oration was deliver ed hy W. A. Robertson. Esq., a member of the Order. We have barely room to say, that this gentleman acquitted himself in a manner most creditable, presenting the praiseworthy objects of the institution in a clear and convincing light, and succeeding in removing every ob jection that his audience might have entertain ed to it. His address was replete with pro- ( found views, and sentiments of sound morality, I and must have pleased nil who had the oppor- j tunity of hearing it. Wc regretted to observe that hut comparatively a small portion of the ladies of Macon graced the assemblage with their presence. It is on occasions like this, when morality and virtue are to be promoted, that they should he (bund encouraging by their presence, the efforts of the’sterncr sex, to ren der man more in the imageofhis maker, ELECTION RETURNS. Below we place in order the returns wind) come io hand by last night’s mail. They are far from complete but ate a pretty sure indie*, tion of the ultimate result. In our next we shall be able to tell our friends who James K. Polk is. GEORdA. We hnvc reported majorities from 84 coun. ties,which give a gain on the October cle-ctit,n for the Democrats of 1673 ' And for the Whigs 1496 i Nett Democratic gain 177 PENNSYLVANIA. Polk’s majority will not fall far short of 10,000 CONNECTICUT. Clay’s majority, as far as heard from, 2811, > 24 towns to be heard from, which gave last! April, a Democratic majority of 17. RHODE ISLAND. Whig all ovtr, the ‘-700 free negrots” in-J eluded. OHIO. The returns show that this State will in crease Iter recent Whig vote. NEW HAA1PSH1RE. Polk carries this State, of course, by an in creased majority. AIARYLAND. Whig majority so far 2919| St. Alary’s lo be heard from, which will probably give 308 Making Clay’s majority 3245/1 From the \cic York Herald. (Poscript.) NEW YORK. By tho steamers Rochester and So. America, arrived at 5 o’clock this morning, we have re-1 ceived the following returns in add tion to ihosel aheady given, liom which, as well as from all | we could learn front persons arrived from sev eral parts ofthe State, it appears the Dcomcm-I tic ticket is at present on the increase. Tltfil friends of Polk and Dallas ii om the interior o/l the Slate, urc inure conGdent than ever tint ti c majority presented below will be largely augu- mented. 30 counties give Polk. Clav. * 43,614 34,459 Rail Roads in England. Canals are getting entirely out of vogue in England, and although the country is penetra ted in all directions with these lines of aitifi- cial navi alion, they are now considered as en tirely inadequate to furnis * the facilities for travel and transportation which arc afforded by Rad Roads. The Liverpool Timesof the 12th instant, just received by the steamer Great W. st T«, says— One of ihc most remarkable features of the day, is the speculation which is now going for ward in new rail way projects, and ofthe num ber and extent of these projects, the crowded columns of the London and country papers nf. ford daily evidence. It has been stated hy persons practically acquainted with the subject, that the railway acts obtained from ti e Legis lature, during the lust sessions ol Parliament, will requirefur die completion of the undertak ings. wiihin a tnfle of twelve nidi or s sterling —sixty millions of dollars; but if all the par- lies who propo-e going to Parliament in the next session, succeed, at least six times that unto mt of monev will bo abstracted from tho ordiunry channels of trade ! Power of Eloquence. The eloquence of the celebrated Whitefield it is said was at times irresistible. The ac complished sceptic Chesterfield was present when this popular preacher presented the vo tary of sin under the figure of a blind beggar, hd by a little dug—the dog had broken his string. The blind cripple, with his stuff be tween both hands, groped his way unconscious to the side of a prccip'ce. As he felt along with his staff, it dropped down the descent, too deep to send back an echo. He thought it on the gro uid, and bending forward, took ore careful step to recover it. But he trod on va cancy, poisi d for a moment, and as he fell headlong, Chcsteifield sprung from his seat, exclaiming, “By Heuven he is gone !” » Presidential Election in Georgia. We have not been able to obtain the official returns ofthe recent election, and therefore de fer publishing our table until next week. Suf ficient is known ofit, however, to render it cer tain that the State of Georgia will cast her elec- toral vote for Polk and Dallas. As the contest is over, it may be profitable to look back upon the past and derive a lesson for the future. Gcoigia has decided in a manner not to be mistaken, that she will never coun. tenanco Federalism when she is able to mark its coming. In 1840 the Whig parly byasj’s- tem of trickery, succeeded in carrying the State for Gen. Harrison, by a majority of 8000 votes, Democratic majority, y,i55 Same in 1840, 674 Dem> crat e gain, 8,481 Frum the conflicting opinions of the final re- suit, ns gathered fit»m the' New York Press, wc are disposed to put down that State as doubtful, but the chances are strongly in favor of James K. Polk. It depends entirely on the vote in Western JN’ow York. Tnerej if the W bigs do not sustain their majority of 1840. which was about 16.000, they might as wcllf begin to sound Suit River. NEW JERSEY The Wings have carried this State by 400^ majority. Their majority in the recent election for Governor on the whole vote was 1363.! Virginia clean out of the Woods! In other columns, there will be found returns! from 54 counties and 4 towns. Our gain since 1840 is thus fur, 1886! and what is most re markable, the variation between the returns and the estimates of the same counties anil towns hy Dr. Butler, is only ninety-three—» our favor! Upon these dita. wc may safelyl predict, that the majority for Polk and Dallas i in Virginia will be not far from 6 000! Richmond Ettq. fob the Macos telegraph. To the lion. G. B. Strong: It is out of no disrespect to you Sir, that your ,, .. . i , , i piece in the Alessenger, of the 24th nit. ha: At th ° t,me it Wa8 te ° ked u P on as a been neglected until now; but lest you might. ,^.,i . ... i _ . difficult to bo ac-| complain, that if it had been let alone it might truordinary event and one counted for. The Whig party in Georgia only a few weeks before their espousal of Gen. Harrison’s cause, had denounced him in un measured tenm, branding him with the epithets of Federalist and Abolitionist—names which at that time, consigned any man who bore them, to the blackest infamy. Shortly after they found him to be “a marvellous proper man,” and by a system of electioneering never before known, succeeded in electing him—In a year have helped you in your election, I have here tofore given it a fair field ; hut now the election is over, you cannot complain if tho Dcmocracj whom you have so carelessly assailed, should presume to poke a little fun nt that same piece,j even at the eminent risk of “disorganizing” some of its ‘-historical facts You do not tell us what “developments In thei last three weeks,” have so confirmed your ; Whigerv—doubtless it is the dev elopement thnt; all your co-workers at the North are Abolition ists and Federalists. You say that you “have after, the people repenting their course, rover- calmly reviewed the whole ground and come sed their decision and condemned the Whig 10 l ^ e coedmemuhat the Whigs of modern dat° party to a signal defeat This they again con-M Re ? vo ' u ‘ ion occ,, P? tI,c 7 ? anie ~ j • ° 1 on ground!! Whew? Judge you make us Dem- hrmed m 42, and would have continued to do ocrats out Tories! Now I conclude his/ori- so up lo this time, but for distractions in the caUy, that you stole that idea from Poe, and I democratic party, ariaing from tho choice of a udvisc you to put on your spectacles, and Gubernatorial candidate in 1843. These dis- ' his lon S fa ce, and “review” these historical . • . , ,.. . m i ~.. t* facts. As neither of \’ou know anv thing “Aie sensions not only caused the defeat of the Be- L • „ . , r, , r. . s .„ • J toriciunf about Greek, we Democrats will in* mocratic party in that year, but inspired 'he f orm you ^“Democracy" is a Greek word, Whigs with confidence in being ablo to carry ! and means the “Sovereign power and Govern- Mr. Clay in 1844. Such might have been the J nient ,lie P e °plc ; with th s “historical fact case had they as artfully concealed then* real b 1 efo . re >'° u> perhaps you may come to the con clusion that the Whigs of the Revolution were designs as they had done previously; but em boldened by success iu electing Gov. Craw, ford, they announced ihemsehesthe suppor ters of a man whom they had ever despised nothing more nor less than Democrats. They j established the ‘‘Sovereign power and Govcrn-j; Technical Tnnst \/ supper- ment of tho people,” against and in spite 1?-,, m; .i # .M • , . tens of a man whom they had ever despised. B^^h aristocracy and Briiish Tories. Ag® 1 "' fjenjamm Franklin, the ot his profession— . f . . • , • x . A , to 1812, tho Democrats standing in the shoe*! lb, type of lK.IKWJ-.bo ! Of obboojh “f principles wb.ch boy bad olwojs w ^ ^ hlgs of ^ the ft/** of dtftth has put a • to his existence, | re “ °gainst. lo have done less than advocatd ‘ those very old grey headed veterans thcinselve- 4 J every § of his life is without a ||. a Bank and Tariff'with Mr. Clay would have 'again look the field and fought the battles <*1