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TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH IS, 1845.
V. B. PAL.TIER.
Ij Agent for tl)e Telegraph in the Cities of
ft’atvYorJt, Philadelphia, Baltimorcand Boston.
J{il office in New York is 80 Ann Street.
" Philadelphia, 09 Pine Street.
*' Baltimore, 3. E. Corner of Balti
more and Culvert Streets.
•* Boston, 1C State Street.
• PRESIDENT POLK.
It is pleasing to see the multiplying testimo
nies, teeming in from every portion ofthe Uni-
ted States, of the pleasure afTorded by the sen
timents of President Polk’s Inaugural. That
hi* administration will give satisfaction to the
people generally, we have the utmost confi
dence. Even those who had prepared them-
iclvss to abuse him, right or wrong, seem to be
taken rather aback, and have to alter and mod
ify their cut and dried carpings.
He has given two evidences of good sense,
which have not always abounded nt the White
House, namely, the ability to keep hisown coun
cils and die resolution to ward off that horde of
office-seekers who have sometimes infested the
upartments and grounds ofthe President’s house
]ike the vermin and reptiles which plagued
Egypt of yore. “ Letter wriiers from Wash-
iofton” that mongrel pack, were utterly unable
to divulge the names of his cabinet before it
h»d been made known officially by the Presi
dent. Even the leading papers of his party
could give no prophetic hints. And as to that
relentless mob of office-beggars, whose uncea-
ling persecutions brought President Harrison
to nn untimely grave during the first month of
his administration, scarcely giving him time for
repose at night, and not even respecting the
sanctity of his sick chamber,—Mr. Polk’s firm-
cis hns prevented such disgraceful exhibitions
,fmendacity, even if the Democracy had been
i urgent for the wages of their patriotism as
tlier* appeared in 1S41.
It is true there is a lone exception or two to
;he general satisfaction, evinced by the press at
be inaugural of the President. But some
minds are so constituted as not to be able to feel
tiified under any* circumstances, nnd -who
cm in place only in a minority, where every
Ijhingisto be pulled down and nothing to he
luiltupor preserved. The rarity of such in
nances makes them novel. Johnny Wilkes or
John Randolph would never belong to a major
ky if they could help it. And there seems to
be as little field for the talents of the Charleston
Mercury as either of them. Well if he will he
iff without bidding his friends good bye, he
past travel alone, or get employment as a po-
itical Dalgetty m the service of the outs. It is
lore than likely he can obtain an eiilistmenl
d congenial duty for the term of his natural
(e among them, as from every appearance it
II probably be their fate to war against a ma
nly about that length of time.
fend it. The sturdy borderer at need can de
fend his own fircsiJe from enemies with red fa
ces, or red coats.
There are those who tremble like aspen
leave* *>t the thought of exercising even the
primitive right of self-protection, if English ra
pacity and insolence forbids. There ore others^
a canting crew of motley Colored faces, who
take up the hypocritical dogmas of England,
proinulged from motives of avarice, and turn
fanatics to aid her selfish purposes against their
own brethren; dupes who are blindly strug.
gling against their own interests with tho frenzy
of ignorant zeal, and all for ‘‘conscience’
sake,’’—a rate guide to conscience that policy
of old England ! But happily, a majority ofthe
people of the United States do not quake at the
mention of British power, nor affect to follow
her fashionable philanthropy. There is yet
some American feeling left us.
SENATE. HOUSE.
Nays. Year. A’ays.
ly venture into a foolish speculation now, when
lie has never entered into one heretofore that
any body ever heard of. Perhaps in less than
twenty years hence when silk begins to figure
respectably by the side of cotton, rice and tobac
co, in the Secretary of the Treasury’s annual re
port to Congress of our exports, this advertise
ment may be hunted out from a file of musty
papers, as an important part of its early history.
COCOONS! COCOONS!!
The subscribers will purchase cocoons during this tear,
and will give $2 00 a bushel for them. They should be
carefully cleared of the doss, and all the double and small
faulty ones picked out.
Arrangements will be made durir.g this year to reel the
crop of the next vear at this place. Those who engage In
the busi ness this year, will be more fully prepared to extend
it during the next, and will tind it the most profitable busi
ness they could possibly engage in
NEWTON tc LUCA9,
No. 2, Granite How.
Athens, Much 13,1845.
Ytai.
Not
voting.
Maine,
1
. 1
5
2
0
New H.mpthlre,
2
0
3
*1
0
Vermont,
0
3
1
3
0
Massachusetts,
0
S
2
8
0
Connecticut,
1
1
4
0
0
Rhode Island,
0
2
0
2
0
New York,
a
0
22
•11
1
New Jersey,
0
2
3
1
1
Pennsylvania,
2
0
10
12
2
Delaware,
0
2
0
1
0
Maryland,
n
1
0
6
0
Virginia,
0
9
9
4 „
2
North Carolina,
1
1
5
4
0
South Carolina,
2
0
6
0
1
Georgia
1
1
8
1
1
Alabama,
2
0
t7
0
0
Mississippi,
ts
0
4
0
0
Louisiana,
*1
1
4
0
0
Ohio,
9
0
10
10
1
Kentucky,
(i
2
5
4
1
Tennessea,
(1
• 2
6
4
1
Indiana,
1
1
7
2
1
Illinois,
2
0
6
1
0
Missouri,
t
0
4
0
1
Michigan,
0
2
3
0
0
Arkansas,
2
0
1
0
0
Total
27
S3
133„
77
13
'One a democrat
tone
a whig
otherwise the
vote in
each branch was a strictly party vote.
MR. G. J. IIVGERSOLL’S SPEECH.
We make the following extra els from the
speech of Mr. Ingersoll, which will he found
highly interesting, as they relate to extending
the consumption of cotton. His expanded
ideas on this subject, as well as the correct view
he takes of the question of slavery, will com
mend his remarks to every Southern man.
His plan of causing an increase of consump
tion of cotion, is 1st an approach to free trade
with Germany and China; and 2J by a reduc
tion of duties on French wines and silks, stupid
ly imposed by Southern members of the extra
session of 1841, to the great detriment of our
great staple.
Mr. Ingersoll sayss
“A single Maple lias saved our commerce—maintains our
navigation, especially that of the not them & eastern States
—sustains our exchanges—preserves the American Union
—and, ifduly developed, will establish American mari
time supremacy beyond all control or contest; cotton, the
great fulcrum of commerce, navigation and manufactures.
The product of slave labor, the South, which alone can
produce it—mostly from tlienew region acquired from Leu
>siana—bears all the universal odium and assaults, Eng
lish, French and North American, of furnishing this im
inense reliance of commerce, legulator of national inter
course, and bond of international peace. Without any
help from legislation oi negotiation, cotton lias surpassed
iron,—hitherto always the priifiary staple and metal, and
the greatest material of civilization. a oollen is far be
hind it in usefulness and importance, though the applications
and uses of cotton are yet not fully discovered; for, ex
tremely cheap aa it is, it will piobably supplant wool in ma
ny of its present employments. Tobacco has for years had
its envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary from
the United States of America—the Austrian mission, which
he Convention to Nominate a Can
didate for Governor.
We notice in the last Athens Banner, a call
• the Democratic Party of Clarke, “for the
Impose of responding to tho nomination of a
•tnstor for that district, and to consider the
■ropriety of sending Delega’cs to a Conven
es, for the purpose of nominating a candidate
Jr Governor.’’ We are pleased to see this
H in the matter, and hope every other coun-
I will follow the exumple. The last elections
io*r conrlusively the preponderance of the
mocratic party in Georgia, and to make
: majority permanent for years, it is only
eisiry to select proper candidates. It is
* the matter was taken into consideration,
rticularly the preliminary step of appointing
egaies to the Convention.
He make the following extract from the Au
lts Constitutionalist, and think its sugges
ts worthy of the adoption of every county
*ting in the State, particularly in reference
ilia candidate for Governor, to “ abstain
m sattnutvtf their delegates to nominate
i support particular individualsIf any
Actions are given let them simply be not
participate “ tn any squabble about the
w* that may be urged, by the personal
'ndt of those citizens who may think them-
** entitled to the nomination.” Those are
ideas of the Constitutionalist:
v,
completion of the Western and Atlantic Rail
Road, and to devise the best mode of accom
plisliing that object. Second, He proposes a
Convention to follow it, of the friends of the
Centra! and Monroe Rail Roads, to devise
means of extricating tho Monroe road from its
embarrassments and enable it to proceed to
junction with the State Road ; and third. He
proposes the construction of a Rail Iload from
Macon to Columbus.
RAIL ROADS IN GEORGIA.
•*The receipts of cotion on the Central Ilnil Road since
1st September last, have been over 80,000 bales, and the
IMPORTANT SUGGESTIONS REL
ATIVE TO RAIL ROADS.
We copy the following from the Savannah
Georgian ofthe 15th inst., in which the edit
or makes suggestions worthy ofthe highest con
sideration : First, a Convention to be held in
May, of all the friends of internal improve
ments in Georgia, far the purpose of embody- originated in a cunvention ofthe tobacco-growing State., and
. . . . j , , j has been kept up for that purpose, butcotton has had no
mg public Opinion with regard to the Speedy | political aid. Yet it is two-thirds, if not three-fourths of
1 our exports, without which they would hardly, exceed
twenty millions. The export of grain is inconsiderable;
that of tobacco repressed by excessive duties; timber, flesh
rice, all of them far behind cotton.*
The export of cotton may be, I conceive largely increas
ed by good government. France. Germany, Belgium
Switzerland, Italy, Russia, China, the nineteen states of
the German trades* union known as the Zoll Verein—all
these may easily be induced to take much larger quantities
than now of American cotton.
On some other occasion 1 reserve to myself the attempt
to show tba: foreign commerce is no enemy to domestic
manufactures. Far from it; just the contrary. I am an
humble advocate of the protective policy. If its opponents
in the South and West perceive that cotton and coal, and
flesh, and lumber, and rice, lead, and sugar tobacco and
grain, may be more ex'ensively exported to Europe, Asia,
Africa, and South America, that will not prejudice them
against the impost Sufficient to protect our c wn industry.—
li northern and eastern adherents of it discover that free
trade with Germany, China, and perhaps other countries,
calls for more of our yarns, cloths, and other fabrications
some of their objections to free trade, properly understood,
may be obviated/'
Ol the policy of cultivating a liberal commer
cial intercourse with France, and reducing the
high duties on imports of her principal produce
he s-iys
“Great advantages to our commerce a Wait a more exten
sive intercourse between France and the United States
At present the French use a goi*d deal of inferior Egyptian
and Brazillian cotton; and their impobt on American cotton
is nn item of the budget too important to be readily relin
quished. But there is reason to believe that no insuperable
obstacle will be found in satisfying the French government
that it is as much their interest as ours to extend the indus
try of France by a large puichase cf the raw materials of
tliiscouniry, particularly cotton and coal. For this reason I
opposed the increase of duties on French wines and silks,
when enacted by an act of Congress, treading so close upon
the keels of our treaty with France as to be almost a perfid
ious infringement of that treaty. For the same reason I
attempted this session to gain the attention of this House by
an inquiry into the expediency of reducing the duties on
silks and wines, so as to conform with policy and with
treaties. But certain honorable gentlemen, not far from
me, laughed down as foolish that resolution, asother equal
ly honorable gentlemen have, to-day. interrupted and dis*
concerted the outset of my argument by insisting that my
statements of facts are erroneous. Carefully collected as
they were, having shown that they are correct I have no
doubt that the increase of our duties on the wines and silks
of Fiance was a n ostinjudicinus and unfortunate interfer
ence with the growing commerce between that country and
this, which, duly cultivated and developed, may be ren
dered much more profitable than it ever has beer.. Most of
it always has been and must be transported by American
navigators, very advantageously to Us ; and if we can in
duce the French to take a much larger quantity than they
road is, as all know, in a flourishing condition.
In noticingthis we would .remark that as the Annual Con
vention of Stockholders will be held in this City on the 10th
of April, it will be advisable We think for the Stockhold
ers to consider the propriety of a Convention (say in May)
of all friendly to Kail Roads in Georgia, wh»» might embo
dy public sentiments not only in regard to hastening the
completion of the Western and Atlantic Road, but of devi-
siug the best mode of accomplishing it, by recommending
to every ccuniy favorable to the project to send tnert to the
next Legislature who will advocate it with zeal and with
ability.
A Convention might also be held, on a day or two'later,
of all those friendly to the Central and Monroe Roads, to
devise means of extricating the Monroe Company from its
present embarrassments, and enabling it to progress with
with the Road, with certainty, to the main trunk
Atthe first Convention the propriety of a Road from Ma
con to Columbus, might be discussed, and a plan matured
for its construction, for we deem such a Roan essential to
the welfare of cur State, and the prosperity of her citizens."
SILK TRADE IN GEORGIA.
In the last Athens Banner we find the adver
tisement of Messrs. Newton 6c Lucas, which
we publish below. We do so that our readers
ay see this first healthy germination of a
branch of agricul ture that is d- stined to be prof
itable and extensive at no distant day. This
opeuing of a demand for silk, is but the begin
ning of a trade in that article among us, and it
is but one of tlie suggestions of the depressed
price of cotton. It will grow into importance
in a few years, and others will follow.
b * tnuit have county meetings and a State Convention,
r £*tntecounty meetings, every district of every coun-
be previously organized, in Older to send dele-
11 Che county meeting. At this countv meeting, can
forth* Jegislntuie will ha ve to be designated, and
appointed for the State Convention at Milledge-
' At the county meeting delegates will have to be cho-
to meet the delegates of the other county to which
Inurfced. for the choice of a Senator. But let it be dis-
[* •' >:i»UMid that at each district meeting for delegates
leeoQQty meeting, no instruction should be given to the
■C , ’rs to choose particular individuals fqr candidates
l l r^»eT.ta:ivf.s t*» the legislature 1 . The delegates, enh-
county meeting, or to the meeting for the choice of
p*. should be left free to act as their best judgment
F; c ‘«:e. And the county meetings, when making choice
Fthe State Convention, should abstain from in-
Pjt *ocJi del egates to nominate and support particular
. It the county meeting think proper to instruct
■ ;$v.es it should be in general terms only, leaving
J Qrc 7*° them to nominate the candidate that is more
fJ‘3 be acceptable to the party, and to concentrate its
If they are be instructed, it should be «n a
Jpolitcd to prevent them from participating in any
*7* •boot the claims that maybe urged by the person-
those citizens who may think themselves enti-
nomination by :he convention.**
toE VOTE 0.\ ANNEXATION.
’ le following tabular statement exhibits the
°n the annexation of Texas. It will be
Cf ired that this glorious consummation re-
>he vote of every Democrat on both
r ' c of Congress, except two, one of whom
"faring'' at the hands of his patri.
^nstituents already, by being invited to re-
il koine henceforth. Four whigs voted
' lt 'ree in the Senate and one ‘‘lorie siar’’
Alabama;in the House*
J ,( * a and Iowa have added two more to
J, n>>er of glittering stars in our guinxy, and
y Il0 w hope that the long “lost pleiad”
mas will shortly beam among them.—
e ** room enough for ull. Each audition
nore sheagtli to the confederacy, whose
. n » unlike thut
r • » i- *!., I now do of the cotton, the rice, the flesh, and the timber of
It is easy to reason abstractly on the folly of tbr Uniied 6 < alcs< beiidcs olhcr
things which I need hot
planlinir excessive crops of cotton, but no (node ten tun* rate, in exchange for their wines, brandies, silks
* S* r I olive oils, madders, jewelries, porcelain, looking-glasses
and whatever .lse besides specie iliey may pay us with,
. , . , . o „ I surelv il will be for the manifest benefit of both countries
smt-ss they are accustomed to, & go to another | We j nDot want the increased duties on wine, nnd silk
Without thetn the tariff
. set of 1842, even modified in some respects wiil produce
con be made profitable. Nay, they cling to I more revenue than we require; and if the French govern-
. . f . . 4 * . .. . • • menthad not been disinclined to that worst of all wars, a
It 8S long as there IS hope of subsisting by It in I wor 0 p prohibitory duties, our sudden and impolitic in-
the absence of more profitable pursuits. But creaae ofthe duties on wioes and silk- might have provoked
r 1 their retaliation on cotton or something else exjrtmely de*
the time has gone hv when large [>rofi>s can be trimental to us. I hold it to be obviously the policy of this
„ , . , , it , * I country to cultivate the good will of that by liberal commer-
realized wilb little trouble and personal atten- chi intercourse/'
lion from a cotton plantation. And the time Mr. IngcrsolPs views, coming as they do
has come, when it must be supervised with an from a representative of a non slave holding
eye* to economy and neatness, to make it ptiy, state, and an avowed advocate ns he ?s of pro-
the cotton must be picked ciear of trash, be tectioh, stand out in glaring contrast to the in
neally ginned and put up In handsome packa- fatuated course of sortie men elected for and
ges, in order to sell at a fair price. The knowl- j professing to represent Southern interests
according to the lively narrative of a lady of their corps, the
Etigli.sli 4ftinisier with his owu hand pulled down the flag
which he took umbrage at in a public place. It is to me
one ot the moat gratifying attendants of our recovery of
Texas, that nearly all the Ministers of European govern
ments here opposed it; confronted, and, I believe, con
founded, as the most forward were* by the decided tone of
the expiring'administration. President Monroe used to
say that this country has an arm in reserve more formidable
• than any yet employed to repel European invasion or en-
' croachment—the power of propagandism. Till now, its on-
ward career has been guardedly inofl'ensive ; its influence
abroad has only been example. It has never interfered,
I- even in Mexico or South America—where England and
; France are perpetually fomenting iniestine troubles.—
\\ hat will be iheir case when the ministers of the United
States ate instructed to protest, to intrigue, and to manoeuv
re against English dominion in Ireland and India, French
in Algeria, or Russian in Poland. Surely our right is as
good asthei's to meddle in the Texas controversy.
■ All right-minded foreigners must at last acknowledge the
right, the policy, and the destiny of these United States to
resume the great cotton and sugar region which v/e fairly
and peaceably once owned. I have reason to believe—and
now I speak as chairman of the Committee of Foreign Af
fairs—that this acknowledgment is fast spreading through
out Europe; and that, notwitustanding the hectoring tone
ofthe English press, together with the truckling of some of
our own to it, the opinion has rapidly advanced that Mr.
Calhoun s argument of the Texas as a commercial question
is unanswerable. Whether Great Britain or this country
shall supply the world with the great means of cnmmerciai
power—that is the whole question, slavery and all included.
Cotton amj Sugar are the apples of discord which, if we
firmly hold what we have, will not only never provoke
war, but will best prevent it.
Great Britain lias now more land in North America than
the United States have. The Uniied States are by far her
best commercial customer. Suppose the foreign commerce
of England to consist of one thousand parts; this country
takes and pays lor one hundred and eighty-one of those
paru, which is eighty more than her next best customer.—
Germany cornei next, taking one hundred and one of the
thousand—Germany, whodesires to take leas from England
and more from as. British Asia takes but aeventy*four
parts—less than half of wiiat we take. British America
only forty six—scarcely a fourth of oura. The British
Vv est Indies take sixty-nine paru ; Italy and Holland each
sixty; Brazil fifty.five ; Russia thirty-seven About half
of our exports are to England—a large part of them to one
of her ports. At Liverpool, through national sympathies,
colonial habits, the greater facilities of British capital, not
withstanding the enormous charges of British agency, we
absurdly place in depot the American products which might
be belter warehoused at Havre, Trieste, Antwerp, Smyr
na, and other marts. Yetis Great Britain exclusive and
jealous of us. She wants more of us. She, forsooth, accu
ses us of restless ambition, unprincipled aggrandizement.—
Maine, Texas. Oregon—she wants them all, and California,
too. Like the gambler who packed the cards, she declares
there is cheating at the table. She is insatiate in commer
cial rapacity.
At least and at last, however, we have the comfort of per
ceiving that she is not sudden in quarrel or quick to combat.
•* Willing to wound, but yet afraid to strike-'*
And why alraid 7 Why does the magnificent empire of
Great Britain withhold her blow and condescend to protest,
to intrigue, to call on her ojd French enemy for help 7—
I he cause is cotton. Colton bags effectually save Texas,
aa in 1815 they rescued Orleans. Franklin, eighty years
ago, told a relative of mine, when coming home from Eng
land; just before the revolution, but after the stamp act, to
advise his countrymen to get children fast as possible for
the coming conflict. Twenty millions, of free people alrea
dy prove that his provident injunction was not disregard*
ed. They have founded an empire on the pursuits of peace,
the adventures of commerce, the culture of vast territories.
1 his is their destiny, which Great Britain cannot prevent,
nor Frauce with her. But even the twenty millions, al
ways armed and ready for oction, are net so formidable to
England as the cotton with which their slaves clothe the
world, and extend commerce—that of England, as I have
shown, in a few years to more than twice its former magni*
tude. Let us. too, develop that prodigious element of
wealth and refinement. Let us recur with earnest devo
tion to the primary object of our national Union, and wor
ship that sun which sheds select influences on golden days
of commercial prosperity- Let us hold fast to cotton and
MACON PRICES CCKKENT
J CORRECTED WEEKLY.)
iJAUGING Durnlee aud Ru.sm (>i
Gun ny. - - .
Domestic, •
Kentucky, -
BLANKETS—Negro, each. -
Saddle. - , . - .
Dutfil,
Whitney. - - * pair
BLEACHED Shirtings. perjard,
Sheetings. “ - -
BROWN Shirtings, 11
Sheetings, •' - .
CALICOES. ...
CANDLES,—Tallow, per Ik. -
Sperm, *• - -
COFFEE,—-ltio, **
Cuba, ,§
Laguira •*
Java, '•
IRON,.- Per lb. - .
nails ••
MOLASSES.—West India, per gallon,
New Orleans, “
SALT,— —Bulk, per bushel,
Per Sack,
SHOES, Neero, ...
SEGAR3, —— American, per m.
In , ^
20 a 21
Havana and Principe,
16
> a
24
Regalia.
25
a
40
81/GAR, St. Croix per lb. -
9 a
10
Clarified. do.
00 a
14
New Orleans, do.
-
-6a
8
Muscovado, do.
.
8 a
9
Leaf. do.
13 a
16
Lump, do.
00 a
12,
Crushed. do.
-
14 a
16*
Powdered do.
-
15 a
17
w i
f BRANDY,Domestic, per gal.
75 a 1
00
\ " Cognac, do.
1
50 a 3
50
p
1 GIN, Domestic, do.
35 n
45
* “ Holland, do.
1
00 a 1
50
o'
i RUM, New Eng’d. do.
35 a
45
S i
i Jamaica, do.
1
00 a 1
50
' VV HI3KEY, common, do.
30 a
37
l
< 41 Monongahela, -
•
50 a
73
VV INES — --Malaga- per gal.
60 a
75
Port do..
1
50 a 2
00
Teneriffe, do.
1
SO a 2
00
Madeira and Sherry 1 50 a 4 00
PORTER.——London, pt, bet’s pr. doz. 2 25 a 3 00
“ quart bottles “ 0 00 a 0
OF COtTJTTMtX' PKOltVCH.
su“ar, however raised, as indestructible bonds of peace
and pledges of national welfare.”
TIIE BEST THING YET.
Wo find the following courteous retort, in
Neal’s Saturday Gazette.
“ A.REr.tnTKE.—Mr. Packenham. the British Minister,
was in the lobby when the House concurred in the amend
ment made by the Senate to the bill for annexing Texas |
and when the result was announced, he turned to Mr. Sli
dell, of Louisiana, and said **vou Americans are indeed a
a grasping people.” “ Yes,” replied Mr. Sidell, “ we have
a strong mixture of the Anglo Saxon blood in us.” This
was touching Mr. P. in a quiet manner.”
BACON Ha
Sides.
Shoulders,
BEEF,
BUTTER,
CORN.
CHICKENS,
DUCKS,
EGGS.-
FODDER,
GRITS,
LARD,
MUTTON.
MEAL.
PORK.
TURKIES,
VEAL,
pr lb.
per bush.
•• head,
per doz.
per cwt.
per bush.
" lb.
per busk.
“ lb.
“ bead,
lb.
CJVfFitjiB.Tr .wo.rj! i\
City Council Mscon. . . *
** ” Columbus, ....
" " Milledgeville, ...
Ocmulgee Bank, . ...
Phcenix Bank, . .
MonroeRail Road, ...
Darien, .....
Alabama, -
Exchange on N. Y. j prem.
- 8 a 9
- C a 7
. 5 a G
4 a 5
,12 a 15
45 a 50
10 a I2J
18 a 25
00 a 8 '
62Ja 75
50 a 62J
7 a 8
7 a 8
50 a G2j
4 a 5
50 a 75
7 a 8
55 a 62]
- - . CO a 65
• • 70 a 75
10
- no sale.
12 J
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8 a 10 per ct. disc
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>f despotisms, carries
wcrcasc of armies to govern and de-
edge of this must change the habits of our peo
ple from a helter-skelter, wholesale way of car
rying on their business and spending their mo
ney, to a more pains-taking and saving method.
/Afier a few years of necessity has ihorough-
ly accustomed them to their new mode of doing
things in detail, and experience has shown the
practicability an& profit of raising silk, and oth
er articles which require pains, it will be an ea
sy matter to induce them to divide their labor,
making less cotton of a better quality and some
silk ; rearing a few horses or mules every year,
and in the larger moiety of the slate muking
their own sugar and molasses. But the habits
of a people cannot be changed in a day. It re
quires time, and the stern teachings of necessi
ty. Conventions of intelligent agriculturists
may do much if their suggestions are confihcd
to details that are practicable, and suited to the
circumstances of our people ; but if they deal
in wholesale maxims of what ought to be done,
and nobody is disposed to undertake, their labors
Ytjffi be fruitless.
But to return to the silk advertisement. We
do not give it more importance than it deserves,
when we consider it as the beginning ol a new
and important branch of Agriculture in Geor
gia, And that it is such, we have faith because
of one of the names to the advertisement—tha^
of Mr. Newton. Having amassed as much of
this world’s gear, by his own prudent, yet ener
Incidentally alluding to the question of the
annexation of Texas, he goes on to s;ty
The Texas question, loo, what is it but a queatiatl Of
commerce—a question of cotton 7 Aa such England re*
gards it. The question ir, whether we shall hold what na
ture Ins given to us, all the best cotton country in the
wot Id, or let England take a part of it from us now, nstliir-
ty years ago she attempted to lake the whole by the inva
sion of Louisiana 7 I do not mean to renew any ofthe po
litical considerations of the Texas controversy. This House
has passed upon it, as 1 hare no doubt the oilier will be
fore this scseion of Congress closes ; and, before long.^the
whole country, the whole world, will be satisfied that it is
not for mere territorial aggrandisement that we insist on
withholding Texas from British or any other European
sway. I cannot, however, deny myself the reflection—
which, may . not say. patriotism and philosophy combine 7
to suggest, that the European power which, within the life
lime of some upon this floor, refused to surrender the
ground where Cincinnati now stands to the Uniied States,
ar.d insisted on confining them to the east of the Ohio—toe
same European power is now intriguing, not warring, to
keep Texas from becoming a part of this republic. I am
spenking not as one of the Committee, on Foreign Affairs,
or from any official knowledge, but on tny individual re
sponsibility. The two greatest maritime powers of Europe
unite to prolest against the United Slates accepting the
proffered reannexation of Texas. One of those powers, at
the same time, is accidentally detected in a c'andestine at
tempt to get California from Mexico, and i ffe-ito the nthdr
to resign her usurpation as high constable ofthe seas, pro
vided that other will unite in an endeavor to frustrate the
Union of Texas with this, its mother country. The minis
ters of these great powers, anxiously watch debates in an
other part of this building, and superintend constitutional
arguments against the power of our government to accom
plish the wise resolution of President Monroe, more than
twenty years since, that European possessions and princi
ples must be no further extended on this continent. About
that lime the ministers of those great European kingdoms
are said tn have drawn their swords upon each other in
that President’s ante-chamber ; but now the eiani enmity of
the two greatest empires of Europe which, for centuries,
maddened their subjects to prodigies of bitter warfare, are
all at once hushed in the niehtmare dream—
11 Dulcis ct alta quies sintilima morti”
of ministerial or royal repose; and they do now lie in the
same bed of protest against our recovery of Texas, cun
ningly and wisely, lest it should unite all parties in the
United States. Boston with Orleans, to resist such interfer
ence. Vice regal ministers tender vicarious congratuU
From the Georgia Constitutionalist.
Our Country.
Hunt’s Merchant’s Magazine indulges in the
following bold strain of prophecy, in regard to
the progress of our glorious country. To see
what'lie predicts, would be scarcely less won
derful than it >s to. reflect on what our country
is now, compared with what it was twenty
yeurs ago. ’
“ There is but little doubt that the United
States art destined ultimately to command all
the tradeL.in the India and China seas. The
supply of cotton in the United States including
Texas, is fur beyond what the wants of Europe
require.
The English government hope, by command
ing the exclusive route to China over Egypt,
by way of the Nile and the Isthmus of Suez,
(to effect which, .a negotiation is now pending
between that power and the Paclia.^ to obtain
news several weeks earlier than it can be bad
in the United States:—an advantage which will
give her. merchants control of the markets.-^-
Their diplomacy may succeed temporarily in
this, but tite march of events will ultimately
give the United States the masiery. Her po-
pulation is pushing, with a vigorous, rapid, and
unceasing -march, along a line 2100 miles in
extent, westward towards the shores of the
Pacific,
The occupation of the vast territory known
as the Oregon; is already going forward; and
twenty years will not have elapsed, before a
powerful State will have sprung up on the
shores pf the Pacific. The great tract of the
Oregon is drained by the Columbia river and
the San Francisco, which debouch upon the
ocean at a point six days, by steam, distant from
the Sandwich Islands-“-a group; the indepen
dence of which is guarantied ; who^e popula-
n is 100,000, mostly American ; the surface,
000 square miles ; of a soil the most fruitful,
and a climate unsurpassed in salubrity.
Titese Islands are situated in the middle of
the Pacific, on the great highway from Oregon
to China. The great whale fishery of these
regions is conducted mostly by Americans, num
bering 200 vessels, whose annual products are
about $5,000,000. This fleet, in the summer
months, cruise between the Islands and the
coast orJapun/ fur sperm.whale, and carry on
a large trade in furs, &c., which are now sold
in China, nnd the proceeds in tea sent home to
the Uniied States.
The whole of this vast trade, and that of Chi
na, via the Sandwich Islands, will be com
manded by tbe State of Oregon. Those per
sons are now living who will see a rail-road
connecting New York with tbe Pacific, and a
steam communication from Oregon to China.
For the last three Centuries, the civilized world
has been rolling westward ; and Americans of
the present age will complete the circle, and
open a Western tfteam route with the East.
■ Committee.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
march 14,1845
REGULAR MEETING.
Present.—The Mayor.
Aid. Collins, Holmes, Watts, Ross, Graves, Denton,
Rylander, Bond.
The minutes of the two last regular meetings being read,
the select committee to whom was referred the petition of
several bank agents, reported as follows: That from thei
formation whicli your committee has been able to obtain l~
to the profits of the various agencies ofBanka doing business
iri Macon, we are forced to the conclusion that one hundred
dollars a year is as much as they can pay, without making
the tax upon them oppressive. Your committee cannot eon
sent to grant the prayer of the memorialists to allow them
to pay one per cent, on their nett profits, as they regard the
tax which the council proposes to impose upon them, as be
ing for the privilege of doing business in our city, and all
of them consequently are privileged to do an equal amount
of business. And your committee beg to be discharged
from the further consideration of the memorial.
JAS. DENTON, ?
ELIJAH BOND, J
The report waa read.and
On motion adopted—*the yeas and nays were as follows
Yeas.-—Watts, Denton, Bond—3.
Nays.—Collins, Holmes. Ross, Graves, Rylander—5.
So the report was rejected
On motion aid. Ross to confirm the minutes of 28th Feb ta
embracing the tax ordinance, the yeas and nays being called
for, were as follows :
Yeas—Collins. Holmes, Ross, Graves, RylanJer—5.
Nays—‘Watts. Denton, Bond—3.
So the minutes were confirmed
The minutes of the last meeting, 7th March, were ah
confirmed.
The bridge keeper repc-rts tolls for the week end in* th
day $92.6^.
The committee to whom was referred the application of
Lewis J. Groce for a reduction of ;he license to lumber
waggons, report it to be inexpedient to make any reduction
in said license. The report was received and adopted.
The committee on finance report adversely to granting
the petition of C» A. Ells Lj reduce the license on venders
of lottery tickets, which was xeceived and adopted.
A bill of Chd*s Crawford’s for a coffin and fees, burysn
a negro girl owned by Wm Hargrove of Houston,
amount, $7 00
and M. McGraw’a bill for a ahrowd, Jcc. for same
negro, amount $7 00
were’both referred to the finance committee.
His Honor the Mayor entered upon the minutes the fol
lowing protest:
A majority of the council having included in the tax ordi
nance a tax. of $200 on Bank Agencies. I have not felt it
within my power IQ refuse my signature to the said tax ©r-
dinarice, but hereby protest fcgainst said tax for tbe follow
ing reasons t
First. Because saiJ tdx is oppressive, when taken in con
nection with the fact that a lax is levied upon the whole
capital stock of ihe mother banks by the respective cities
in which they are located.
3eeondIy. Because in the present commercial condition
of our city, it is the interest of all classes to invite a sound
circulating medium, and not expel the same from our midst
by overseers and unreasonable taxation) upou safe specie
paying banks.
Third, Because I regard not only the ittlitfediate citizens
of Macon, but the entire section of country trading with it,
as deeply interested in the circulating medium paid for the
produce brought to this mhrket. end hence it is bad policy
in our City council to do any thing calculated to throw the
community back upon the evils of an irredeemable paper
currency. Signed, JAS. A. NISBET.
Council then adjourned.
Attest. A. R. FREEMAN, C; C.
NEW FAMILY GROCERY.
W. A. KOIIEKTSOJV f
H AS just received and offers at WHOLESALE AND
RETAIL, on reasonable let ms, tbe following com-
plete assortment of Fstiufiljr Groceries* Every thing is
of lfie very best quality. Country merchants, planters and
tulies m the city fan now supply themselves with every
they want, and will do well to call and examine for* '
a Entrance opposite Scott, Carhart & Co.’s, and next
to Geo. M. Logan’s.
Black Tee,
Cloves,
Nutmegs,
Spices of all kinds,
Cyanne Pepper,
Beans,
Canal Flour,
Rice dc.
Rice,
Tobacco,
Segars,
Snuff*, «
Brooms,
Blacking,
Carb. 8oda,
SaliEratus.
Lemon Syrup,
Copperas,
Glue,
Isinglass,
Indigo,
Madder,
Mace,
Matches,
Mackaroni,
Vermacilla.
Rose Water,
Cologne do.
Rotten Stone,
Barth Bricks,
Starch,
Washing Soda,
Pipes,
Powder and Shot. '
Saltpetre,
Epsom Salt*,
deidlitz Powders,
iSoda do.
Turpentine,
Table t*alt,
Cbampaigne Wine,
Claret do.
Madeira do.
Port do,
Malaga do
London Porter,
Fine Brandy,
Do. Gin,
Lard Lamps,
Solar do.
Sup. Sperm Oil.
Do. Lard Oil, Ac.
ickled Beef,
Smoked do.
Pickled Pork.
Do. Tongues,
Smoked do.
Codfish,
Fresli Salmon,
Sardines.
Mackerel No. 1,
Do. 2,
Scaled Herrings,
Butter,
English Cheese,
Lard,
Butter Crackers,
Soda Biscuit,
Pilot Bread,
Pic Nic Crackers,
Adamantine Candles,
Sperm do.
Col’d Wax do.
Family Soap,
Toilet do.
Castile do.
Capers,
Olives.
Olive Oil,
Pickles,
Catsups,
Mustard,
Preserved Ginger,
Dried Figa,
Currants,
Raisins,
Prunes,
Almonds,
Hazlenuts,
Pecan Nuts,
English Walnuts,
Cocoa,
Chocolate,
Java Coffee,
African do.
Rio do.
Crashed Sugar,
Pulverized do.
Loaf do.
Brown do.
N. O. Molasses,
Sugar House Treacle,
Hyson Tea,
mperial do.
TOGETHER WITH A LARGE LOT O*
Maeon, March let, 1845. 23—tf
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Fashionable Arrival.
J & E. SAULSBURY. will -*pen this dav. a aaperio
• lot of FRENCH CLOTHS, FANCY CASSI
MERES & VESTINGS, direct from the French market
via New York, which the*' will sell very w for Cashj
8ej»t 17, 1844.SI
getic exertions as fftinerally falls lO the lot of tions to member* in the Csp'uol for speeches against Texas.
b ® * They openly display m >v ashtngton the insolent diplomat*
any on© in this region, we think he would hard- j ic superintendence commas in Mexico, where, not Iorg ago.
G EORGIA. Dooly County.—Whereas Nicholas Red*
dick and Jonathan Platt, administrators on the estate
of Anthony Lewis, deceased, apply to me for letters of dis
mission from said administration :
These are therefore to cite and admonish ail and singular,
the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be ana ap
pear at my office, within the time prescribed bylaw, to shew
cause, if any they haye.why said letters should notbe grant
ed. Given under niy hand, this 5th March. 1845.
PLEASANT H. KEY, c. c.o,
March 18—25—6m*
II«ti4loii April SnVtfa.
W ILL he sold at the store house in Terry, in said coun-
t\, lately occupied by John B. Davis, on the fi.rst
Tuesday APRIL next, within the legal hours of sale,
ami from dny today, till all is sold, a!', the Stock of Goods.
Wares and Merchandise of John B. Davis, an absconding
debtor : all levied on by virtue of two attachments, returna-
t le to the April term. 1845, of Houston Superior Court, in
favor of James M. Davis vs. said John B. Davis, and sold
by an order of the Honorable Edward D. Tracy, Judge of
said Court, as perishable property.
WM. H. TALTON. Dep. Sheriff.
The above comprises a general assortment of Dry Goods,
Ac, Ac. well selected, and suited to _tnis market. Persona
wishing iobuy bargains will do well to attend.
WM, H. TALTON. Dep. Sheriff.
lf*rch I?, <3.
Office Moftuos R R. axd Ba5K. Compact, ?
Macon, March 5th, 1845. )
T HE MONROE RAIL ROAD is open to within 2}
miles of Jonesboro, and will be open to Jonesboro, 80
miles from Macon, in two weeks. Schedule of running
time as follows, via : Leave Micon 6 o’clock A. M., arrive
nt Forsyth 8 o'clock 5 m. A. M. t Barnesville 9 o'clock 50
. A- M., Griffin 11 o’clock 30 rn. A. M. Jonesboro 2
o’clock 30 m. P. M. Leave Jonesboro 10 o’clock A. M..
Griffin 1 o'clock 30 m. P. M. Arrive at Barnesville 3
clock, Forsyth 4o'clock 35 m.. and Macon 7 o’clock P. M.
freight Trains leave Griffin and Macon three times a
week, and will be extended to Jonesboro as often as the
business may require.
March ll—24—tf
A Chance for Great Bargains.
Improved Property in Marietta.
W ILL BE SOLD in Marietta
on the 26th March, 25 or 30 im
proved LOTS, belonging to the Ma
rietta Depot Association, fronting the
Public Square and running back to
the Rail Road. Each lot has from
22£ to 27 feet front, and from their 1,.
cation are well calculated for business. The teims wi’ d jj 0
irntde known on the day of sale.
March 11—24—31
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Remaining in the Post-Office at MACON,
Kcturn Your Citv Tax.
T HE Hooks are now op en for recvj.tng the City Tex
Returns, and will continue Qpe„ until the 15th April
next, alter which tune, all defaulters will be double taxed.
Olfiee up stairs at the M.,rket-House.—epen every dav,
(Sundays excepted) frot.;, 9 till 12 o’clock, A. M.. and *roin
3 to 5 o cloc A , i>. M, where returns must be made.
A. 11. FKEKMAN, A.m-Jior.
Macon, M.'«rcli 11, 1845. 24—td
L Adams,
B
L Beckell*
Bangs & Harman,
R Bryce,
B R Burry,
E 8 Braswell,jr*
W Barnee,
Mary Brooks,
WrA Brown,
J Bassell,
Miss L Barnts,
N Baker,
S A Bailey.
Henry Brown,
S Boon,
Buckley,
E Block,
C
G Chandler,
A Carmichael,
T Cherry or A HoldeH,
II N Clark,
John Conner.
Creswellj
H Cone.
H Case,
o Courier,
Champion,
Charles Carut,
T>
M J Doyle,
' W Dent,
iss L Dees,
A Drew ry,
Dickenson,
F
L Fulton,
Mrs E Freeman,
iss R J Fuller,
sse Failes,
Ferris,
S P Fuller,
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Greentre#,
Gurganus.
Martin Grogao,
H
W Heath,
A B Hobbs,
.Miss M Heath
W L Koge,
J R Hill,
S R Hotchkiss,
P Hydrick,
Sarnh .1 Holme, k
D L Hawley.
J R Hill, ‘
.Ino Hi* 1 ,
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GaMarch 1st, 1845.
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J H Kinsler, 8
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Mrs E Low., a
L A Livingston,
R Y Little, a
J A Lee„e,
Miss W Lock.t,
Isaac Langfi.ld,
1 J R Lowe.
Benj La»fcl*y.
P B Latnalic..
M
Ja, Morton,
L Myers,
Geo Micklejohn.jr. (
Mis, K Maynard,
Jesse Morri,,
Oden Martin.
Geo G Miller,
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A Olford.
P
Rob’t Pritchett,
Geo W Pr,R.
H P Peck.
B C Fiivm,
R
Tho’. Roger ,
»°k«ru.
Jacob lluf -.11
a-'naXn.
er Tax Ret.rn.,
Randolph,
J* o’* B Rutharford.
Mary Ann Rebiwioa,
Ezra Root.
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Char.j©* Sexton,
L Sbaw,
^lisa Rebecca A Slmpiea*
Mrs A J Simonton,
Wra Spear,
A R Smith,
Miss A Shelby,
B t’pight,
Jnn Smith,
( Miss S A E Slaughter, %
I Joseph Silra,
I Benj Sheppard.
T
Adeline Tharp.
Charles E Tailor,
I Jno Tiilmsn,
i Jno W Trotter.
I Miss M J Took*.
V
| Morris V anburgb.
Hunt,
lien Hall.
A Halcomb,
S Harcey.
VV L Hugh,
Mary E Henderson,
J
Miss S M Johnson,
Jas Jones,
W Johnson.
Miss E Jones,
“ R Justice,
VVhiuak*r, (painter) 3
Charles J VVood,
Richard L Wood,
Sarn’i YVickey,
Mrs Tem Woud,
Simon Woolf,
| Jos Williams,
i Jno Wyman,
j Miss L E Wood,
i “ L M Walker.
J Y
i Mr N Yosoc,
James Young.
[CPPersons calling for any >f the shore letter* will plewc
state that they are advertised.
March 11—24—3t.
K. TYNER, P. M.
erts, administrator, and Elizabeth Burgess, administra
‘.fix on the estate of William Bcrgess, deceased, apply to J
me for letters of dismission from said administration :
The?? are, therefore to cite and admonish all and singu
lar, the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be and
appear at my office, within the time prescribed by taw, to
shew cause, (if any they have,) why said letters should not
be granted. Given onder my hand, this .'hh of March. 1645.
PLEASANT H. KEY. c. c. o.
March 18—25—6tn.
JUST RECEIVED,
A LARGE assortment of Summer Ac Spring Good.
which will be «nld at a l .w price for CASH ONLY,
at Messr,. Ray 5c McNiel’s former stand, oo Commerce
Street, nezt to Graves, Wood & Co.
A. M. BETTMAN & BRO S,
Macon, March II—24—tf.
FRESH
GARDEN AND FLOWER
KfMm PAPERS fresh,
•<-r"‘"Vr Garden and Flower Seed,,
Hyacinths, double and single.
Tulip, assorted,
Crocus.
Atn.ryllis,
Gladiolus,
Tuberose,
Clover, Lucerne, and Herd, Gr„,Se»d.
Just received by GEORGE PAYNE.
. Druggist under Central Hotel
Macon. Feb. 11, 1845.