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Frjn Ike WOskingti* dontli/ut:on.
MOVEMENTS IN PARLIAMENT—
OREGON.
Those are extraordinary tunes. Great e-
vcnts are in cmhrvo. TbB government ami the
politicians of Etirdft°» an 1 the enemies of repub.
liam liberty o'ri Our own continent, ure in the
of Meas)’ schemes and plots to clip the
Jinfr of the young American giant, and rob him
of his strength ; or to prepare to overpower
him in their own time and way. They would
-S* adly quench the light of his example by de-
TARIFF POSITIONS DEFINED—WHIG
AND DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINES.
Wo have great ditliculty in finding out what
sort of a tariff modern Democracy is in favor
of. Will the Nashville Union inform us ? In
order to induce it to do so, we will tell it frank
ly and explicitly what kind of a tariff we are in
favor of, and shall strenuously advocate. \Ve
are in favor, in the first place, then, of raising
not a cent more of revenue than will suffice
for an economical administration of the Govern
ment. In raising the amount necessary for
that purpose, we are in favor of affording ad-
Tlie Course was not in good order, being
very dry and in some parts letlock-deep with
sand and dust. This was more unfavorable to
Fashion than to Poytona, the latter being the
strongest horse.
The excitement was great when the horsci
appeared at the tap of the drum, and betting be*
COMMUNICATIONS.
ties, on sucli articles as are exclusively ot for
eign growth or manufacture.—Nashville M hig.
\ In the first position laid down in this extract,
we most heartily concur—not one cent more
of revenue ought to bs collected than will sup.
port an economical administration of the Gov
ernment—and wc will add, that every cent of
revenue collected, whether from the public
lands or i'rom impost duties, should be fiithful-
ly applied to the current expenses of the G«y-
ernment. If the Whig agrees with us in this,
it of course gives up tlio distribution policy.—
The next posiiion laid down in the extract is
involved in such a confusion o( undefined
terms that it conveys no distinct idea. “ Ad-
iquale protection /” Wlial is meant by “ad
equate" protection ? Is it a rate of duties ad
equate for revenue purposes, or adequate for
manufacturing cupidity ? In 1810, Mr. Clay
said “ the protection of the Compromise act
will be adequate, in most, if not as to all in
terests.” In 1842 the Whigs iu Congress
thought that, to givo “adequate protection to
home industry,” the average rate of duties then
in force ought o he doubled, and therefore pas.
sed the present tariff' law.' Is 30 per cent, on
his might was better developed; and, they see
Nn his rapid growth and ripening manhood,
sufficient evidence that his strength and power,
notwithstanding his character for justice, peace,
and good temper, nro greatly to be dreaded.
All are willing to put out his eyes, but who
shall first bind him ?
Tlio course now pursued by British states
men, must eheit the attention and arouso the
feelings of the most apathetic. Wc see them
departing from a long settled principle of do
mestic policy; braving the displeasure and
the discontent of all those who synipatli'se
with the Established Church; making the lar
gest appropriation in money, and the greatest
concession in principle, in favour of Catholici
ty, that has ever taken place since the Refor
mation- And for what ? Why as Sir Rodf.ht
Reel says, “on the horizon of the West there
is a cloud—a cloud, small, but threatening
future darknessand in order to prepare for
the sweeping storm which may burst from that
cloud ho makes l aslo to conciliate Ireland.
Hu makes extraordinary concessions to the
Roman Catholics. He declares, in reference
to those who for centuries have been disfran
chised, that “he considered the pormament fi fiecol { on oods adequate protection? And
endowment of Mnynooth College just to tie j j g jgQ per cent, on coarse cotton goods noth-
Roniun Catholics of Ireland. It womd P'°_ j„„ more than adequate protection ? 11 Home
duce n kindly feelmgin Ireland among the pco- i° dustry Wi.at is meant by these termst
pic—it wou'd produce great good. I know Is the labor of the farmer embraced as well as
not what tho consequences may bo in respect |||elol , of tile mcc l.anic, and also the capital of
to the kindly intentions between Ireland and , he wea j t j iy manufacturer! “ The highest or
this country. I do not rest the measure on sn/ p cientl hi „ h (tulies /•> Prohibitory duties
any question of mere compact. I say, without ^ the /lihest _ u t!)at the moa ni«.g !” Sev-
hesitation, you | en , 7 . fjve j 0 )er ccnt . OI1 sugnr> and about the
same on iron, are now the dot es imposed—
Are these sufficiently high 1 But“ sutlicien ly
high” for what l For revenue or for mere
protection to home industry, and which branch
of home industry—the agricultural, the me
chanic, or the manufacturing! Amidst this
jargon of indefinite and vague generalities the
Whig loses itself, and yet professes to givo an
explicit and frantt. definition of its tariff posi
tion ! And lie prefaces his remarks with the
complaint that he has -‘great difficulty in find
ing out what sort of a tariff modern Democra
cy is in favor of.”
It is certainly true that the tariff ques
tion always has been one of difficulty,
from the fact that the terms employed in dis
cussing it arc vague and indefinite. Mr. Fos
ter felt this truth in 1839, when lie declared
that “ the mysteries of a system which steals,
in silent impunity, from unconscious purses
moy easily deceive a well-informed communi
ty, whilst it imposes heavy burdens on their
industry.” Iftlie suggestion of the Whig to
its friends to abandon the use of the term “ in
cidental protection” was enlarged and adopt
ed, so as to reject altogether the term “protec
tion” and adopt the true word taxation in our
discussions, the question would be relieved of
its difficulty. This however would not suit the
purposes of modern Whigism—the strength of
its argument lies in the flippant use of sucli
vote-catching terms as “ protection to homo in
dustry”—“a home market”—and sucli indefi
nite and mysterious expressions; and to give
up these would be tantamount to a surrender
of the high tariff policy.
An equitable system of taxation, whether by
the direct or indirect policy, is tli.it in which
“every citizen pays according to his wealth
and means.' 1 In arranging a tariff' of duties,
this cardinal principle should be kept in view
as far as practicable. This was the great prin
ciple in the compromise act of 1833, in which
duties were imposed according to the value of
the articles imported. It is the total disregard
of this fundamental doctrine of justice and eq
uity in the present tariff law that we condemn.
It was in view of this same principle that Mr.
Polk declared in his Inaugural Address:
“ All are equally entitled to the fostering
care and protection of the Government. In
exercising a sound discretion in laying dis
criminating duties within the limit prescribed,
(the revenue limit,) care should be taken that
it be done in a manner not to benefit the weal
thy few at the expense of the toiling millions,
by taxing lowest the luxuries or articles of su
perior quality and high price, which can only
be consumed by the wealthy; and highest the
necessaries of life, or articles of coarse quality
and low price, which the poor and great mass
of our people must consume. The burdens of
Government should, as far as practicable, be
distributed justly and equally among all class
es of our population.”
In this extract will be recognised in explicit
Iangunge the great principle on which the peo
ple of Tennessee stood united a few yeais
since. How perfectly Mr. Polk’s views ac
cord with those so eloquently expressed by Mr.
Foster in 1839, when he advocated the entire
repeal of the duty on sa’t. [ New York Plc-
bian.
for the telegraph and republic.
Mr. Editor: If the Whigs are distinguished
for any one talent more than another, it bare
faced impudence. The Recorder and some
other kindred prints coolly complain that the
came sfill more favorable to the Southern liorsi j Demociats should have the assurance to even
when she was stripped. The North had beca ta |k about running a candidate in opposition to
backing Fashion heavily, but there was now i Governor Crawford. “ Why is it,” ask they,
disposition to hedge, and odds could be had o» j .«that lie should be opposed, seeing lie makes
Peytona. Both horses appeared to be perfectly so good a Governor? Tlie great restorer of
right, although Pnvtona had rather the most Georgia’s credit it can be nothing but factious
lively and gamely look. Roth horses have been
described in several of the city papers, acd we
think it useless to repeat the description.
The horses got off well together at the first
start, Peytona having the inside, which she
kept, as well as the lead, and won the first
heat by three lengths, amid tlie shouts of the
excited crowd. The betting was now 100 to
50, and even occasionally larger odds on the
Southern horse, and few takers.
When the horses came up for tho second
heat, they did not appear to have cooled off well,
Fashion being apparently the most distressed.
After one false start they wont offat a slashing
pace, Fashion getting the inside. During the
first three miles the horses ran together with
opposition"! Now in the first place, I ask
when did ever a Whig, or rather a Federalist,
forbear to hurl from office any and every De
mocrat whenever they have had the power, no
matter how able and faithful they were. Wlien
dd they or Governor Crawford, ever confer
tffice on a Democrat ? Ah ! but, say they, we
die Whigs, have all the talent, all the virtue,
sll the law and order—in short, we are horn to
rule ! Well, gentlemen, I beg pardon, I en
tertain very littlo respect for your ‘divine
rights.* It may bo that you are all you pretend
—it may be that you were * foreordained’ to
govern Democrats—yet, nevertheless, poor re
bellious sinners that we are, we shall vote you
and your divine rights into a ‘cocked hat,’ so
scarcely a perceptible difference between them, that you will have cause once more to sit down
and the interest in the raco became intense.— 1 and pondvr upon the ‘inscrutable decrees of
of
Providence.’
But to return to his Excellency. Now the
Democrats canr.ot be so easily gulled as you
supposed. They aro capable of seeing and
despising Whig nonsense. They know and
it was evident that her immense stride was do- acknowledge that there has been a Crawford
When they passed the judges’ stand on the
fourth mile Peytona was scarcely the breadth of
tin ear behind. Both jockeys were plying spurs
and cowbiding the horses to their utmost speed.
On the last quarter Peytona made a brush and
confederacy which exists in that country against
the British connection." And he admits, be
fore lie assumed an altitude of defiance to
wards this country, tiiat lie had anx ously stoop
ed to conciliate Ireland, llis words are: “Yet
I did feel it to he my duty—tlio duty of the
first minister of the Crown—to state that, if
our rights were invaded, we were determined
and prepared to maintain them- I aver that,
when I was called upon to make that declara
tion, I did recollect with satisfaction and con-
solation, that the day before J had sent a mes
sage of peace to Ireland." That is he had
sent O’Connell word that an appropriation of
twenty-six thousand pounds should be made to
Mnynooth College, and that Queen Victoria
and* Prince Albert should be sent to visit and
amuse them during the summer. For which
O'Connell breaks forth in fresh terms of abuse
upon tho peoplo of the United States, and
threatens to “bring down frem his proud flight
the American Eagle.” The British Premier
knows what he risks in endeavoring to soothe
Ireland, and even looks to the probability of
losing his place; yet, so anxious is he to con
ciliate the sons of Erin, and to enlist their
feelings against us, that he is willing that the
Cabinet of which ho is a member should be
broken up, and pledges himself to support the
.one that may succeed him, in the line of policy
towards this country, which he was then pur
suing.
Wc do not doubt the sincerity of Sir Robert
Peel, when he declares the most anxious de
sire to settle the Oregon question by negotia
tion-even amicable negotiation; but we are
not inattentive to the demonstrations which his
government is making to illustrate and enforce
these amicab’h wishes. At the moment of the
final effort to settle by negotiation the Maine
boundary, they threw some fifteen thousand
regular troops into Canada, near the line in
dispute. So now, they are not merely risking
everything to allay discontent in Ireland, but
eight thousand additional troops are hastened
off to join the unusual number already in Cana
da. Large numbers of soldiers, also, are pla
ced in tho West Indies. Immense depots of
coal, munitions of war, four thousand beef-cat
tle, and dupl cute machinery for steam-ships,
are put in convenient position at Bermuda.—
Choice ships of war, with picked crews, are
despatched, it is believed, to the mouth of the
Columbia river. And the extraordinary sum
of eight millions of pounds is put at the control
of Ministers, to enlarge and strengthen the na
vy for any contingency. These are the means
which John Bull adopts to hasten amicable
negotiations and insure peaceful results!
So far as these proceedings arc any part of
n menace, or intended to support an attitude of
defiance in reference to the assertion and en
forcement of our just title to Oregon, they will
not weigh tho inilucnco of a feather; neither
will they prevent an amicable adjustment of
tho question, if that is attainable, without the
suirender of our honor or our rights. The
course of Sir Robert Peel, however, most clear
ly shows tho ilillicultics of his position, and that
the very means to which lie resorts to appease
Ireland, hut exasperates die pub ic mind and
spreads new difficulties amongst all those who
are opp*»si;d to the Catholics. It was hut tho
other day that this same Ministry, which is now
so conciliatory, sent thirty thousand troops to
Ireland, es evidenco of their friendly feelings,
and to nsi isi the development of that republi
can spirit which was then so generally mani
festing itself in the movements of the Iiish peo
ple ! How far Sir Robert will be able to sur
mount the difficulties in which he is placed, re
mains to be seen.
In the meantime, wc look with feelings of
pride and pleasure upon our own position, in
contrasting its strength and security, with j hat
of Great Britain. A government springing
from the will of the people, lias its efficiency
and strength in the fact, that those who are cal
led to administer it, must agree in sentiment
with those who created it. Mr. Polk chosen
as ho has been, as well for his thorough Democ
racy, ns for liis perfect agreement in opinion
with those who elected him, in regard to our
national rights now called in question, knows
that lie will he sustained and supported by the
whole people, first in all proper efforts to ad
just our rights by negotiation, and ultimately, if
necessary, to the last extremity of life and for
tune in defending them hv force.
{£/** John P. Ilalc is lecturing in various
parts of tho State, advocating his re election to
congress. Wlmt a modest fellow Jack is. The
federal papers give very favorable notices of
> .s efforts, and seem to think him quite ail ac-
quUition to tlie ranks of their party. Jack we
presume feels at home again, as much so as he
did when ho peddled coffin hand bills through
Strafford county.—Nashua Gazette.
ing the business. Coming down the straight
turn to the judges’ stand she gained slightly at
every jump and came in (Fashion under whip
and spur) winning the heat and race by half a
length. The shout that rent the welkin was the
signal for the transfer of at least one hundred
thousand dollars from the pockets of the North
to the pockets of the South.
The time, it will he seen, was not very good,
the first heat being seconds longer than
Fashion’s first heat with Boston. The fust
heat was run in 7 394, and the second in 745.
Peytona lias now won for her owners $62,-
003 in purses in six years, never having been
beaten. She has probably won much more for
them in side bets. Having conquered the vic
tor of twenty three fields, she may he considered
the paramour horse on the Turf iu this coua-
lr J\ .
This has bren »nc of the most exciting races
the North has ever known, and as Fashion was
freely backed until within a few days, by our
sporting circles, we suppose Park Row and
Vesey stree t are nearly cleaned out.—N. Y:
Tribune.
Recites.— Perfume for Gloves.—Take of
damask or rose scent half an ounce, the spirit
of cloves and mace, each, a drachm ; frankin
cense, a quarter of an ounce. Mix them to
gether, and lay them in papers, and when hard,
press the gloves; they will take tlie scent in
twenty-four hours, and hardly ever lose it.
To perfume Clothes.—Take of oven-dried
best cloves, cedar and rhubard wood, each one
ounce, beat them to a powder and sprinkle
them in a box or chest, where they will create
a most beautiful scent, and preserve the appar
el against moths.
To restore bad Yeast.—Mix with it a little
flour, sugar, salt, brandy, and heor, and these
will confer on it all the qualities of good yeast.
Good yeast may also be mndu by adding tho
same mixture to the grounds of ale.
To restore Flowers.—Most flowers begin
to droop and fade after being kept during
twenty-four houis in water. Place the flowers
in scalding water deep enough to cover about
one-third of the length of the stem; by the time
the water has become cold, the flowers will
have become erect and fresh; cut off the ends*
and put them into cold water.
To destroy insects on Plants.—Tic up sc me
flour of sulphur in a piece of nmslin cr fine
linen, and with this the leaves of the young
plants should be dusted; or it may be thrown
on them by means of a common swans-dowo
puff, or even by a dredging box.
Useful Directions.—New iron should he
very gradually heated at first; after it has be
come inured to the heat, it is not us likely to
crack.
It is a good plan to put new earthen-ware
into cold water, and let it heat gradually until
it boils—then cool again. Brown earthen
ware, particularly, may be toughened in this
way. A handful of rye or wheat bran .thrown
in while it is bo.ling, will preserve the glazingV
so that it will not be destroyed by acid or
salt.
The ofteaer carpets are shaken the longer
they will wear; the dirt that collects under
them grinds out the threads.
If you wish to preserve fine teeth,^always
clean then thoroughly after you have eaten
your last meal at night.
Woolens should he washed in very hot suds,
and not rinsed. Lukewarm water shrinks
them.
When molasses is used in cooking, it is a
great improvement to boil and skim it before
you use it. It takes oJt the unpleasant raw
tasie, and makes it almost as good as sugar.
It is easy to have a supply of horse-radish
all winter. Have a quantity grated while the
root is in perfection, put it in bottles, fill it
with vinegar, and keep it corked tight.
Do not wrap knives and forks in woolens;
wrap them in good strong paper.—Sfecl is in
jured by lying in woolens.
on whom God had bestowed a giant intellect,
but they also know that great men die and
leave a litter of pigmies to their name—tiiat
talent is not hereditary nor diffusive among
collaterals, and while Whigs are shouting and
blowing their ram’s horns loud enough to shake
down tho walls of Jericho, over every thing
that bears the name of Crawford, the Dem-
crats will inform them that William H. Craw
ford is dead, and that nil who hear his name
are very good citizens!
His Excellency has had the singular good
luck to be ‘left alone in his glory,’ under the
amended constitution, njpi troublesome Legisla
ture meets to annoy him. But let not either
him nor his knights of brass ‘lay tho flattering
unction to their souls,’ tiiat because they have
basked in tho sun ‘during the long summer’s
day’ that there are no thunderbolts in store for
them. I now write only to warn them that
the lime is it hand when they must forego their
‘ tilthv dalliantjo’ and ‘ prepare to guard.’
PORCUPINE.
I seldom fail to make a fine crop of turnips of
some kind. A good many of my triends tell
me tiiat it is a matter of great importance that
turnips should be sowed in the old of the moon;
and if this is true it ought to be known, and if
it is all tt ridiculous whim, that ought to he
known also; for persons that have to wait till
the moon fulls, sometimes like the Spartans,
lose the favorable time for action, and so make
poor turnips. I don’t intend to say that the
moon has no influence in such cases, for I don’t
know positively that it lias none; hut perhaps
I have a right to tell whut 1 do know; and I
certainly do know that I have cultivated tur
nips with considerable success for a long time
without paying the least attention to either the
moon or stars. In foreign countries, and even Were the Norti ge pame,i politically, a, .he u eccle.i.,,;.
I!) some 01 the far oft states, I learn the people cally,from tlie South, her hold upon slavery would ontiraly
have every thing in much treater perfection > censc ’ precisely what Northern Abolitionists
Ilian vve nave the same tilings here ill Creoigia* . It ou«zlit to be understood and remembered, that the eccle-
Their sun somehow shines much more clear siastical separation which tins taken place, was forced upon
and bright than the sun we have here in Geor- j
gw. I lie lightning is more forked than our [ avoided.”
lightning, anil dashes about frntn plaGo to place |
We record the education of the masses as the strongest
! safeguard ami defence to our liberties, and cherish tlie
| hope that the day is not far distant, when it will he a rare
circumstance to meet one so illiterate as not to l»e able to
, read and write.—Grand,Jury presentments of Houston
\ county, April Term, 1845.
ttnlly silenced because he was a slaveholder, not by pur
chase, but by marriage. The separation in the Piesbyteii-
an Church, although not made iti strict accordance with geo
graphical lines, was, we have no doubt, precipitated by the
same question which has now divided the Baptists and
Methodists. Thus a line of demarkation has been drawn
between almost the entire body of Northern and Southern
Christians, and henceforth those of each section will act
independently of, each.
“YVhat political consequences may ultimately flow from
the separation, it is impossible to foresee. Hut it is obvious
that the bonds of our national union are weekend thereby.
The American Hible. Tract, and Missionary Societies,
which have had the wisdom to adhere to their appropriate
work, without tnmirg asi^e to questions with which they
have nothing to do, will still operate to some extent as a
bond of union, but tlie strongest bond—that which united
tlie more than% million Methodist church members through-
out tlie Union in a compact mass, and the half a million of
Baptists—is broken. Southern ministers and delegates will
•no longer come to the North to be insulted—and ss they
are beyond the reach, so the)* are, in n great measure, be
yond the influence of Northern ecclesiastical associations.
THE RACE.
This great contest for superiority in horse
flesh between the North and tho South drew to
gether a larger collection of people than we hairs
ever before seen at the Union Course. From an
early hour in the morning until about noon the
streets in the neighborhood of the Ferries were
jammed with all kinds of vehicles waiting their
turn to cross. Every thing upon wheels, from
the showy turn-out of the millonairc or tlie dan
dy to wagon of the vender of clams, was put in
requisition to convey the lovers of sport to the
Course. Tho largest number of foot passen
gers went over the South Ferry and took the
Itnilroad, but a largo number also went over
tho Fulton Ferry. From good authority wo
learn that 35,000 persons crossed tlie South
Ferry and 20,000 the Fulton Ferry, up to 10 p . in o re S ,onsl u P on the^ upper Mississippi, du-
o’clock. Tlie Railroad Company carried in r ' n o l ^ ie * ftSt winter. I ho mineral lands of
Unprecedented Trotting.—A great trotting
match came oft*at Albany on Monday. Gen
eral Dunham’s mare was entered to trot one
hundred miles in ten hours, in harness. Tho
feat »vas accomplished, and more than accom
plished. The animal trotted one hundred and
one miles within the time, and had twelve min
utes to spare—time, nine hours and forty tight
minutes, ( viz: from 6 A. M. til! 12 minutes
before 4 P. M.) The last mile was accom
plished in 4 minutes, and the animal, after
having the usual attentions, appeared as fresh
os if nothing had happened.
Our Mineral Wealth.—Upwards of forty
new lead mines have been opened in the mi-
round numbers 30,000 passengers to and from
the Course at an average of something over 50
cents each, which will make no inconsiderable
addition to their week’s income. The Compa
ny received on the last great race day about
$4,000.
The gathering on the Course was much lar
ger than we have evcrscen there,and accordin'
Iowa and Wisconsin aro supposed to he more
productive of this metal then the whole of Eu
rope, with the exception of Great Brittan.
Packed lip Humanity.—A Baltimore pa
per states that information has been received
in that city of a negro servant girl, belonging
to Mr. Benjamin Ross, who has been missing
for some time. It appears froin the facts that
FOR THE TELEGRAPH AND REPUBLIC.
Mr. Editor: I am pleased—very much
pleased nt the determination expressed in the
last number of your paper, to exclude from its
columns thedscussic n of the merits or demerits
of any candidate for Governor, whose uame
will be submi'ted to the Democratic Conven
tion to assemble next month in Miiledgeville.—
Will not the other Democratic papers pursue
the same prudent course? Surely they need
not lie told of its great importance to the party
at this moment. In your last to\ you speak
warmly in reference to tho approaching elec
tion for Governor, and with the confide ce of
a mind firmly assured of success- In this you
arc l ight, perfectly right. Alai mod, wearied,
and disgusted, with the principles an I policy
of the whig party of Georgia, a very large ma
jority of her people look forward to the .over
throw of this party next fall, ns uti event as cer
tain as die connection between cause and ef
fect. The political schemers who constituted
a powerful and tyrauical majority in the last
Legislature, and their leader the present incum
bent of the Executive chair, will soon receive
their just reward at tlie hands of tin honest and
indignant constituency. Tlie Senatorial dis
trict b ll—the measure which was to bind the
young lion of democracy in fetters, will as sig
nally fail to accomplish the object of its nuthois,
asuid the Congressional district bill. „
After the passage of these execrable parly
measures, it was the favorite boast of the whig
members of tlie Lcgis'attireof 1843, (with sour
honorable exceptions,) that the democratic par
ty of Georgia would never he able to engage
in another struggle for Rs principles; and that
henceforth the whig* would control both branch
es of the Legislature—a majority in Congress,
and the Executive office at Miiledgeville.—
They were then warned of their folly and mad
ness, and told by at least one democratic mem
ber of the Legislature that they were only forg-
ing chains for themselves. How terribly true
was the remark I Asa parly the whigs are
very unfortunate. Who has not observed that
the harder the whigs work to establish their
ptinciples. the farther do the people move off
from them ? Like the lover in Drydcn,
“The more he strove
To od vance his suit, tlie farther from her lore.”
Filled with vanity and self-conceit they de
lude themselves into the idea that to win the
affections of the masses, specious promises
alone arc necessary; and that to entangle the
public judgment, it is only necessary to call
public attention to the policy adopted by
George W. Crawford, Esq. for restoring the
lost credit of the State, and particularly of the
Central Bank. Web upon web do these po
litical spiders weave around the public mind ;
but with a suitable candidate for Governor and
a united party, vve may very safely hid defi-
an.ee to our political enemies. LUMLEY.
in half the time that our lightning does. Th
thunder, too, is much better than any thunder
we have here in these backwoods. The days,
nights, weeks, months and years, are much
longer atul more numerous than ours. Now
in these countries we may expect that turnips,
and every thing else, grow to an amazing size.
One man informed me that the turnips in his
country were generally two feet in diameter;
and another one, (n yankee this time) gave
pretty much the same account of the turnips in
the country where he was raised. He said
he had seen ruta bagas considerably larger than
any nail keg. I thought ho was taxing my
credulity too high, and was about to enter my
protest; hut lie proved it every word by an
other yankee, and so set that to rest and put
me to silence.
But it is not a matter of so much conse
quence to us how turnips grow in other coun
tries, ns it is how they grow here. I learn
from agricultural papers that thirty tons of
turnips is a good crop in any country, and I
am well satisfied we can make that much here.
The winter before last I found a spring turnip
in my patch that weighed 84 pounds; uml last
winter I found a ruta bagu that weighed 13
pounds when first pulled and washed, and I
hear of larger ones in the neighborhood. Last
year I cultivated for the first time what I have
called the seven-top or salad turnip. This tur
nip must I think he fine for cattle or sheep.
Some of them have very fine roots, and at the
timo when stock arc in most need of green
food, they throw out a top that is calculated to
astonish persons unacquainted with the article.
A. E. ERNEST.
Til TELEGRAPH AID liEITOIC.
Tuesday, May 27, 1S45.
FOR THE TELEGRAPH AND REPUBLIC.
Mr. Editor—I have been asked a good ma
ny questions first and last, about turnips, my
inode of cultivating them, See., and should you
allow me to respond to these questions through
your paper, it would save me from much talk
ing, and pet haps benefit such persons as have
not adopted a better mode of cultivating the
article than the plan I have adopted. It is
useless to cultivate turnips on poor land. Land
to produce good turnips ought to be rich
enough to produce at least thirty bushels of
corn to the acre, and before the seed aro sown
the ground ought to be put in good order.
After putting the ground in good order, then
run furrows two feet apart with a very narrow
scooter that is too much worn for any other
service, and in these furrows sprinkle tho seed
and cover them by running another furrow
with the same scooter in the edge of the first
furrow. Then wo have a piece of timber of
proper weight, and cut in suitable shape for
sliding with handles like a plow; to tin's we
hitch a mule and slido it over the drills. This
causes the ground to retain the moisture lon
ger than it would otherwise do. Then we
let matters rest till the plants get about the size
of a dollar, when we hoe them, and thin them
to the best estimates reached 70,000 persons.— have transpired, that she had been safely de- out to a stand, leaving them two feet apart in
1 he stands were all crowded to the utmost ex- | livered in York, Pa., as per invoice, snugly | the drills. This leaves.over 11,000 turnips to
. ... . . per invoice, snugly
tent; the track was so much encumbered that a packed away in u good sized box adapted to
strong pohee force could scarcely keep i t free her dimensions. This is an entirely novel
for the running horses, and the field was full of i style of abducting slaves, we apprehend, and
carriages and omnibusses filled with passen- 1 ntay serve us a caution to common carrie rs, as
gers. In ihe members’stand were about sixtv the same system might possibly be practised on
packed away in a good sized box adapted to I tho acre, and left that distance and properly
her dimensions. This is an entirely novel I cultivated, they grow very large. I sow ruta
ladies, belonging to tho first, families ofthc citv.
sys
a larger scale.
bagas from the 15th of July to the 20th of An.
gust, and should they tail to come up or stand
I sow winter turnips in the missing places, and
should they fail I sow spring turnips—so that
Office Telegraph & Republic, 1
Macon, May 27th, 1845. )
The ni-w post-office law going into operation
on the I*t of July, will deprive Postmasters of
the privilege of franking.
Wc hope our subscribers in the country will
avail themselves of the intervening time to re
mit their respective dues to this office for sub
scriptions, and save us the postage that rnu.-t
accrue after that period. Arrangements have
been made to ( iilargeand issue this paper on
a new press and type on and after the first of
July. Willi tlie commencement of the approa
citing campaign the Telegraph will be prepared
to bear its portion of the “dust and heat"’of
buttle. If not as ably, it will at least as zeal
ously sustain the consecrated and time-honored
principles'of Republicanism as any journal in
the State. Will our friends aid us by tl.eir
co-operation ?
Hereafter, cut.I the present mail arrange
ments from tlie east are changed, this paper
will be issued on Wednesdays, instead of Tues
days as formerly.
RELIGIOUS DISUNION.
We transfer to our columns to-day the fol
lowing well timed and truthful article on the
results of the recent religious conventions, from
the New York Journal of Commerce. It is
most true, as the Journal remarks, that the ec
clesiastical separations which have taken place
have been forced upon the South by the viru
lence and violence of Northern men. The nar
row-minded bigots who have forced these divi-
ions while they have justly made themselves the
ridicule as well as the contempt of the liberal
and enlightened, even in their own States,
must be awarded full credit for that worldly
wisdom ; that self-denying spirit so frequently
displayed by those who fly to the church for
sanctuary from their vices and regard all others
as “ outside barbarians.” They have very
modestly taken care because they had the pow
er to retain all the money and valuable proper
ty belonging to the common fund, contributed
by the South as well as by the Noith for the
Bible, Missionary, and other charitable purpo
ses. But whatever consequences may hereafter
flow from these separations calculated to wea
ken the bonds of the union or the great cause of
Christian progress and toleration will be deep- ■
ly regretted by the South, hut cannot in any
way he chargeable to the people of this sec- :
tion of the union, because they have forborn i
and entreated for peace and toleration, until
they were unable longer to hear the insults and
persecutions heaped upon them by their north- j
ern brethren. For our own part, while we
deplore these separations, and look upon each
as so many links struck from the glorious chain \
of union which binds ns as one people, we can
not hut applaud the moderation and dignity as j
well as the spirit of the southern clergy evinced
throughout these angry discussions.
••Thrice is he termed who hath his quarrel just/*
From the M Y. Journal of Commerce.
THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH.
Scarcely any thin" 1ms occurred of late, more deeply to be •
regretted "than the division of some of our principal religions |
connections by geographical lines. Our readers are aware i
that a Southern Methodist Convention is, or has recently j
been, in session at Louisville, Ky., and a Southern Baptist
Convention at Augusta, Ga., and that both have adopted |
measures fora separation from their brethren at the North, j
And why 1 Not from choice, but from necessity. Not be
cause they lacked Christian charity toward their Northern 5
brethren, but because they found it was impossible to meet
them on equal terms ; because in fact, whenever they met, .
Slavery, Slavery, SLAVERY, was the perpetual, never- '
ceasing song sounded in their ears, and often in tones of bit- |
terness bordering upon malignity, and of censure indlscrim- J
mating and without measure. At the last General Confer
ence of the Methodist Church, a Southern Bishop was vir- j
These are the aspirations of men who wish
well to their country, but when and how are
they to he realized ? The public lands of
Georgia, a portion of which if applied to pur
poses of common school education, would havo
given us a system equal to any in the world in
point of endowments, are all gone through the
maelstrom of the lottery wheel, and to tlio
permanent benefit of few, very few. The spij
rit of demagogues ruled the hour, and poster
ity will mourn over the wrong. Are we to
look to “the poor school funds,” to educuto
that host of boys and girls whose parents are
in reduced circumstances? It is a mockery;
no care and attention, if bestowed — which
never has been — can galvanise that into use
fulness. In the first place, the amount receiv
ed by each county, is utterly insufficient; in
the next place, it is rarely applied judiciously,
even when it is applied for any other than pri
vate uses, by those who have charge of it; and
in the lust place, the plan is uncongenial to the
feelings of our population; many are notable
to educate their children at their own expense,
and unwilling to have them educated by what
they esteem charity, and none like to have their
offspring pointed out in a large school,and dis
tinguished as hetr-ficiaries.
“Tlie poor school system,” of this State,
has been successful in hut one object of iu
author, to procure him a seat in the Senate of
the United States; it has failed in every other
end. It stands in our statistics us so many
empty words, only to ntock at the rising gen
eration, who crave knowledge and hope for it,
from such a source. It.is a very Tantalus cup,
promising much and yielding nothing. Will
some statesman — if nil that race have not
dwindled into mere party politicians — deviso-
a feasible plan of common -schools, and bring
to its aid a well directed zeal and talent suffi
cient to ensure its adoption, and thereby win
for himself a name which shall endure beyond
the term of an office or even a life time, and
with it the gratitude of other generations I
Conscious as every one must bo, that re
publican institutions are based on the intelli
gence of the people, it is startling to think of
the deficiency in the simplest rudiments of ed
ucation, disclosed by the last census; and no
steps in progress to diminish the evil. What
are paper constitutions guarantying rights to
an ignorant people? Look at the South Amer
ican re; 111 hlics. at Mexico, with institutions mo
delled after our own ; their permanence was
insured as much as words could avail, but there
was something more wanting—an enlightened
people ; this they had not, and free institutions
have failed it: consequence. Our government,
although many invasions have-been made on
its purity, is dear to us ; and in order to retain
it as it is, it behooves every man to reflect that
our population doubling itself as it does every
twenty-five years, is multiplying in that ratio
the number of persons illy qualified to under
stand their rights, from a want of education.
Any one who troubles himself to think, looks
on at the tempest of excitement which precedes
the election of aPresident; hears the shallow*
sophistry of demagogues; sees the paltry ap
peals to the vilest prejudices, by emblems, signs,
and catch-words; and wonders that there are
any so ignorant as to be deluded by such des-
picablo expedients. Yet both parties havo
resorted to them. Can there be a more hu
miliating inference than tlie only one which tho
people are to draw from all this—that politi
cians think appeals to their understan iing use
less, and play on their prejudices as with so
many children. As the population of tins
country grows more dense, and if ignorance is
to increase with it, what must those periodical
excitements result in finally ?
History teaches tis that tlie government may
gradually lose its characteristics, until it lias
assumed an entirely different form, insensibly
to the people. Rome was a republic in tlie
days of Cato, and wc find it still called by
that name under Caligula! The artful Octa
vius, in the interval, had while retaining an
cient forms and names, to lull the jealousy of
tlie people, stripped it of every attribute of a»
popular government, and-prepared the way fur
open despotism under his successors. Wlmt
safeguard is there that our government may
not undergo a similar change? And while- wo
hold on tenaciously to empty names, every es
sential of a constitutional government may gliJ 13
imperceptibly from us. Tlie only safeguard H
an enlightened people.
The Oregon Question.
The Washington Union speaking of the Ore
gon question, says:
?r suggests arbitration.
iu declined this proposition
i-uer—and declined it. it i* sa
We are content
We un
hen
id.
The New York Gout
dersfnnd that Mr. Calh<
made by the British M
upon grounds of the strongest character,
to wait lor the publication of that document, with the ge ^
end remark, that it is seldom, if ever, that tlie unip> ra 8 e u
a third power has been able to settle satisfactory the con
troversy between two Slates in relation to disputed terr *