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POETRY.
FLOYD HOIST,,
b. s. nswcomb.
M.»co», Georgia. Oct. 19,1844—31—tf
' samSn ©sssjm
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Macon. Qeorgts. Oct. 19.1811—3l-‘f i
Pope <3c C!*|>ton,
attorneys at law.
TUSKEGEE. ALABAMA.
Y ILL hereafter attend the Court* of Macon, Pike.
Barbour. Russell,Chambers. Tallapoosa. Montg*>m-
f and Lowndes counties. They will also aUeud the Su-
sine Court of the ."tate. _ , ...
ilnininunicattana addressed to them at Tuskegee.will re-
ire prompt attention.
Iiii. II—16—tf. —
James N. Kins,
Attorney at Law,
Macon, Ga.
~ \VIiVI'KLY I- SIIDCIU,I'.Y,
** 1 ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Will practice io the follow!n" Counties :
npanj/ IIOU&TON.
PIKE BIBB. „
MONROE, mvRR V1Nr
BUTTS. IRvIaA*
/•HAW FORD XVViCjCx“,
111 business entrusted to his care will meet
union. Ollicein Dr.Thomaou’abutldlug.oppoeHe Floyd
use. Macon, Georgia. -
4iy5,1813.
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iVIlOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
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Neal the Washington Hall Second Street.
Jicon. Georgia, Oet. IP, 1844—31—tf
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WACO W. _
MEDLCA L NOITCK.
R.T. A. PARSONS lias returned to tbe city,and In*
re lamed the duties of Uia profession. Otbceai hit
lliog, brick bouse, two doors obpve the Method is
mL* Jan. 21.1813.
REMOVAL. ,
ThK- HOI.T haa removed to th, residence recently
.V occupied by B. H. Moultkie, where lie may be
fsend at night; and in the day, at his office over Mess'*
Wmship * pope * store.
M»eon, April 16. 1 .
J7M. BOA ROMAN,
DEALER IN
Law, Medical, Stiicellaaeons,
niid School Books;
Blink Bonks and Stationery of all kinds ; Printing Pa
per, Ac. &c.
Sign of the. Large 11 Me. ttea doort above .’holrefre
earner, teetl ride of Mulberry Street.
Macon, Georgia, Oct. 19,1814—31—if
TO. HEARING At SONS,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
CHARLES? OX. S. C.
_8epteiaber 2,1843. 49 Cm
FKA.UIS 1C. SlIACliELroKD,
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Charleston, S. C
J»fy 52.1845. m43 3m
Charleston Hotels
SUBSEQUENT to issuing the first notice in rcla-
lion the Charleston Hotel, by one of the undersigned, n
copartnership ha* been formed between him and J. Blakely
Hmith. of Newnan. Geo. The concern will be conducted
Under the firm of Bora k SutTH. They Hike great plea
sure in informing their friends end the public, that they have
engaged the services of L. H. Butterfield, for many year* at
the Charleston Hotel, ud J. M. Horst, for many years at the
Planter* Hotel; men of the highest quelifientior*. and agree
able manners—well known as such throughout the country.
J. I). BOYD.
J. BLAKELY SMITH.
September 23,1845. St 52
City Hall : : : Grinin, Georgia.
BY ROBT. S. LANIER.
CONDUCTED BY
8AMP80N L ANTER. late of die Washington Hall,
M.ifoii, Ga.
Griffin. January 1, 1?? IS*
A Ncio Republic.—A project for emigration
lo California lias been coneettrcil in Arkansas,
same of the details of which we find in the
Litt’o Rock Gazelle from the pen of Mr. B.
6. W. Leavitt, of Napoleon. The purpose of
tho |irojectors is to raise a company of one thou
sand—“a number sufficient to give stability
a r ‘d P'r.nancncy to the settlement, and al o
give it a commanding infloctics on the spareely
Hilled coa-t.” It is proposed to send the film*
•1 es and frciglit of the emigrants by sea from
Ne.v Orleans. Tin: young men, and others who
prefer ii, to take the overland rout from Fort
itluo Santa Fe, and tlicncc to the Pacific
^hicli it is proposed to strike near the bay of
Fernando, Io lal. 34 deg., there to meet
families going by water. " A site is then to
•o chosen, alter a thorough exploration of the
coist for n permanent settlement. Mr. Leavitt
^•ders at length into tlio attractions and advan-
‘ a .?cs which California holds out Io Western
n,C( i, and predicts that ten years will seo tbe
coast of California well settled, and that benu-
111 country‘‘the Great South Western Rc-
P u tc of North America.”
GOD RLE SS AMERICA!
BT R. St. IllIlD.
God bless the land that gave us birth!
No prayer but this know we—
G'k] bless ibelaud of all the card),
The happy and the free.
And where’s the land like ours can brave
The splendor of the day.
And find no son ufiier’s n slave I
God bless Amciica!
God bless the land.
The laud beloved .forever and for aye 1
God bless the lan J that gave us birth !
God bless America!
Fot liberty our grandsirei trod
The wide ard stormy sea;
They bought the treasure with their blood,
Their children all are fiee.
And free amid earth’s servile hordes.
To point the patriot’s way,
With plough shares turn’d in war to swords,
God bless America !
God bless the land, &c.
And from ourland.io hour of need,
Avert thy dark’ning frown;
Bind up all patriot hearts that bleed,
And strike the traitor down.
And shall tbe serpent foe prevail?
Shall foe or fiend betray 7
Up with the star flag to the gale!
God bless America!
God bless the land, Jcc.
The banner of onr Union loved
Shall wave for ages oil;
While time shall find no stripe removed,
No bright star quenched and gone.
And singly slates, convulsed sballdie
From earth be swept away;
While millions still upheld tho cry
God bless America I
God bless tbe land, Ac-
THE SONG OF STEAM.
UT G. W. CUTTER.
Harness me down with your iron bands,
Be sure of your curb and rein;
For I scorn tbe power of your puny bauds
As the tempest scorns a chain.
How I laughed as I lay concealed from'sight
For many a countless hour,
At the childish boast of human might,
And the pride of human power.
Wlteo I saw an army upcti the hud,
A navy upon the seal,
Creeping along a snail-like hand,
Or wailing the wayward breeze;
When I marked the peasant laintly reel
With the toil which he daily bore,
As he feebly turned the tardy wheel.
Or tugged at the weary oar;
'When I measured the panting courser’s speed,
The flight of the carrier dove.
As they bore the law a king decreed.
Or the lines of i npatient love;
I could not but think how the world would feel,
Asihese were outstripp’d nfar.
When 1 should be bound to the rushing keel,
Or chained to tbe flying car.
Ha! ha f ha I they fiiund me at last.
They invited me forth at length,
And I rushed to my ihrone with thunder blast,
And laughed in my iron strength.
Oh! then ye saw a wondrous change
On the earth and the ocean wide,
Where naw my fiery armies range,
Nor wait for wind or tide.
Hurrah! hurrah! the waters o’er
The mountains sleep decline.
Time—space—have yielded to my power—
The world 1 the world ia minr !
Tbe livers, the suit hath earliest blest.
Or those where bis beams decline;
The giant streams of the queenly west,
Or the orient floods divine.
The ocean pales where'er I sweep,
To hesrmy strength rejuicc.
And the monsters of the briny deep
Cower, trembling at my voice.
I carry the wealth and the lord of earth
- Tbe thoughts ofbis god-like mind.
The wind lag* after my flying fottli.
The lightning is left behind.
In the darksome depths of the fathomless mine
My tireless arm doth play.
Where the rocks never saw the sun decline,
Or the dawn of the glorious day.
I bring earth’s glitteringjewcls up
From the hidden cave below.
And I make the fountain’s granita cop
With a crystal gush overflow.
I blow the bellows. I forge the steel
Iu all the shops of trade;
I hammer the ore and turn the wheel.
Where my arms of strengili a-e unde;
J manage the fornace, the mill,the mint;
I carry, I spin, I weave:
And all my doings I put into print
On every Saturday eve.
I've n-s music to weary,no breast to decay.
No bones to be “laid on tbe slielf,”
And soon I intend you may "go ami play,*
While I manage tliis world by myself.
Butliarncss me down with your ironbands
Be sure of your curb and rein.
For I scorn the strength ofyonr puny hand*
As the tempest scorns a chain.
THE SOUL’S DESTINY.
Thus slialt thou leave this world of sin.
And soar into the sky.
Where angels wait lo let thee in
To immortality.
And those who bad nowhere to rest
Their wearied limbs at night,
Shall lay their beads upod God’s breast
And sleep in sweet delight.
There Dcalli’s dark shades no more shall be
The mystic veil between
The World which we desire to see.
And that which we have seen.
There father, brother, husband, wife—
There, mother, sister, friend—
Shall be united, as in life.
In joys that never end.
No pangs shall there disturb the thrills
Which animate thy breast;
But Angels, on the Hcavenlyhills,
Shall sing thee into rest.
No slanderous tongue shalljftdre inflame
Thy heart with words of fall:
For alt’sliall be in heaven the same,
And God shall be in all.
A G E M.
« The twilight hours, like birds, flew by
As lightly and as free;
Ten thousand stars were in the sky,
t thousand on the sea;
• every wave with dimpled face,
That leap up in the air.
Had caught a star in its embrace
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Ten
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it tremblins there
NATHANIEL MACON.
Somemontlis since, wc noticeJ the announce'
ment of an historical sketch of the late war, by
C. J. Ingcrsoll, Esq., (M. C.) Within a few
d tys, we have been favored by the publishers
with a look at some of the sheets, and have per
mission to make an extract. The following
portraiture of Nathaniel Macon is as curious as
it may be' instructive. There are few persons
w.io have kept themselves an courrant with the
leading political events t*f the last forty years
who will not turn with interest lo ihcso pages’
which describe the political hi nry of this
leader of a peculiar sect of politicians, as one
of the purest men and sternest republicans of
whom our country can boast. The volume is
nearly ready, and will be out in a few days.—
Washington Union.
“Nathaniel Macon wisa practicil apostle of
asset of politicians radirally democratic, invin
cibly opposed to that small mnjoriiy of the
American people who organized the federal
constitution, modified to republican institutions,
on the English model of regulation. Mr. Ma
con was opposed to it, as by far too monarchi
cal. Hamilton dreaded anarchy, and deemed
the English goveri nient the mildest form of
republieanized monarchy. Jefferson dreaded
monarchy, and thought the American govern
ment should be original. Washington, per
haps, doubted the republ can experiment; but
was resolved to make it in good faith, though
as be said, it cost bitu the lust drop of his blood.
Macon had full faith in the most democratic
institutions, willing to trust the people farther,
perhaps, than Jefferson would have ventured—
far beyond Washington—and to an extent
which Hamilton considered anarchical. Mad
ison, the disciple of Jefferson aud admirer of
Washington, took middle ground between them
all. Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and
Macon all proved the sincerity of their profes
sions, by praclising them through life, and to
the last, when beyond lib's common climacte
ric, when no selfish or improper motive could
induce it; calmly dying as they lived, entire
ly faithful to their respective principles. Ham
ilton was cut off* by an untimely death, in the
prime of life, killed in a dud at 47 years tf
age, by Burr, on the same spot and about tbe
same time where and when bis eld’ st son was
also killed in a duel. He, too, no doubt, cher
ished to the last the politics he professed. Sc
luctirg from the government of the Uld World,
ranging from the bowstring despotism of Tur
key, to the domocratical royalty of ourjmotber
couutry ; the founders of an American consti
tution chose the lutler as a model, reduced it
to republicanism, confederation, and much en
larged suffrage. Mr. Macon, a soldier of ■*>"
American revolution, tlie native of a State
where English tories were most vindictive and
mischievous, and born, as he must have boon,
an innate republican, detested Engish monar
chy, despised English aiistocrucv, and never
could have been reconciled to the turbulence
of English democracy. He was a man of
middle stature, between 50 and GO years of age,
when I first knew him, with a.round, shining,
playful countenance, bald aud gray, always
dressed iu tbe same plain but not inelegant man
ner, and so peculiar fn his ideas and conversa
tion, that one of the Jersey members told him,
that if lie should happen to be drowned, bo
should look for Macon’s body up the stream, in
stead of floating with the current. Of a dis
tinguished family, brought up to riches and
accomplished education, he left Princeton col
lege in'tlte revolution, not for an epaulette and
small sword, but the musket and- knapsack of
u common soldier ; as such, enlisted and re-
cnlisled in the American army, served long in
the ranks—at one lime as a private under the
command of his own brother—never, it is seid,
desiring to be commissioned as an officer.—
Lest this strange perversion of common am
bition should seem lo imply any dissolute vul
garity of disposition, it should be added that his
hnbiis, tastes, and associations, were all genilo-
manly, petfcctly temperate, and without the
slightest touch of unsocial, gloomy, or coarse
propensity. E'ected to tiie House of Com
mons of North Carolina, lie unfurled there his
radical banner in the same quiet and inoffen
sive way that always marked bis singular ca
reer, opposing tbe adoption of tbe federal con
stitution with all bis ability. In 1791, chosen
to the House of Representatives of the United
Stales, he remained there five-and-twe tiy years
by continual re-elections, having filled llie great
station, for a time, of Speaker of that house.
But neither his principles nor his habits fated
him for its industrious, onerous, and absolute,
if not arbitrary, functions. To rule or govern
was disagreeable to him, or to labor. As a
speaker, he practised the principles he always
professed, of the utmost freedom ; letting the
house alone lo keep itself in-order, without the
presiding officer’s interposilion—a principle,
in theory, so true, lhat seldom docs a newly-
elcctcd Speaker return thanks for that honor,
without reminding his suffi-ngans of the house
that lie is but their reflected image, aud that un
less they keep themselves in order, it will be
vain for him lo attempt it.
In 1810, Macon was translated to llie
Senate, :s a representative of North Caroli
na in that body. In 1S28, be voluntarily re
tired from public life, and spent the rest of ins
days at Lome, a planter and sportsman ; to the
last, fond of bis game of whist, the chase, ?md
other recreations. Beloved by liis family,
neighbors, and slaves, in charily with all mat.
kind, at peace with himself, he died at tv good
old age, with much more veneration and in
fluence than fall to the lot of many more con
spicuous personages. His system of govern
ment was, io govern as little as possible, Ex-
Icns've dssension, and little legislation, heboid
to be tile policy and duty of Congress. Let
alone, was liis poliay for nations, for parlies,
and for individuals ; his strong preference in
this respect being probably strengthened by
plunta'.ion life aud property, which beget in
tractable independence, and embolden propri
etors to claim a sort of Polish veto against
whatever crosses there homestead, or requires
their submission. Six years’ service fora sen
ator, were, in bis opinion, five too many, and
one enough for a representative in Congress.
Tyranny begins where annual elections end,
was one of Ins maxims. Nothing is more inis-
seable than a splendid and extensive government
was another. lie was a constant advocate of
frequent elections, that all offices should bo
elective, and for short terms.of office—not as
ilia only democratic, but likewise as the most
durable tenure. High salaries he considered
mere baits for irregular trmi ungovernable am-
l/ bition. I have often heard him triumphantly
argue, that the annual, and even semi-annual
judicial elections in parts of New England,
were best guarantee fur faithful and permanent
service; and lie would mention families kept
in office from general ion to gene rot ion by such
elections, as irrefi. table proof of his opinion.—
Annies, navies, ci ies, and all coercive author
ity, including taxes, he opposed, as well as the
good-behavior tenure, and political authority
of the judiciary. Unbounded confidence in
popular virtue was tho religion of his politics.
As during most of his life British power and
influence were thcmonslersof republican aver
sion, ho was invariably set against those Jef
ferson called Anglomen, looked with contempt
upon all the imported aperies, and what many
consider refinements of fashionable life, and
with a stronger feeling titan contempt on that
American idolatry of England, which predom
inated till the war of IS 12, and which is not j’et
extinct. Jefferson, a free-thinker, would level
up to tiie doctrines of Franklin, Penn, Locke,
and Milton, and extirpate aristocratic and re
gal encroachments which iiave usurped the
place of aboriginal liberty and equality. Ma
con, not so deep in thought, literature, or sci
ence, as Jefferson, would have outstripped
Inm in actual reform. But be was a passive,
i:o. ac.ivc radical, except by example. Nega
tion was his ward and arm. His economy of
the public monej’ was tho severest, sharpest,
most stringent aud constant refusal of almost
any grant that coulJ bj proposed. Every one
with legislative experience knows that many,
if not.mi>s% public donations, bounties. Solem
nities and allowances are unjust, often uncon
stitutional, to individuals, commonwealths, cor
porations, or companies. It requires courage
however, and fortitude, to vole against pen
sions, compensations for alleged wrongs, and
t!ie various other demands on congressional
charity. Mr. Macon had no such charity, dis
claimed it altogether, and kept the public purse
much more stingily than his own. Wi h him,
not only was optimum va:tigal parsimonia—
parsimony the best subsidy,—but unicum—the
only one. No device or contrivance could se
duce his vote for such objects, which aro the
common contrivances for local popularity of
most members of Congress, but were with him
repudiated to the great gratification of a North
Carolina constituency, not rich, and sharing
few national favors of the kind. In the needy
forty J’ears lie served iu Congress, no ten
m mbers gave so many negative votes. IIo
was in opposition throughout much of the eight
years of Washington's and all the four of John
Adams’s administration ; did not coincide with
all of Jefferson V, and part of Madison’s ; pre-
government, whose ascendancy shoirid be pre
vented. But natural aristocracy, by virtue and
talents, bo regarded as tbe most precious gilt of
nature for the ii slruction, trusts, and govern
ment of soc ety; and that form of government
tbe best, which provides most effectually for
their pure sel.ction into the offices of govern
ments Some think that the aristocracy should
be put in a separate chamber of legisla
tion, where they nny be hindered from doing
niischii f by co-ordinate brandies, and be a pro
tection lo wealth against the agrarian ami plpn-
ferred restrictions and measures of passive suf
fering, that be tbouebt niitrht (Movsut war.
which ne cons'dered dangerous to republican
insiitu ions, though he voted for it ns necessa
ry evil, and then against most of the strong
acts proposed to carry it on. Though sup
porting the war with all his heart, according to
liis own peculiar politics, when Monroe, ns
Sec e ary of War, called on Congress for con
scription to raise an army, and Dallas, as Sec
retary, icq lired all the luxes to he much in
creased, aud others superadded, Macon voted
against all these measures. It was alleged,
however, by others besides him, eminent sup
porters of the war, tliatstfmc of these measures,
especially conscription, were of rigor beyond
law. When .Mr. Eppes, the son-in-law of Jef
ferson, chairman of the Committee of Ways
and Means, during the war, had constitutional
scruples as to some of these measures, Monroe
said dial we should look to the constitution af
ter war ; but that, with the capital sacked,
and tho enemy threatening us at all points
from Plattsburg to New Orleans, we must put
forth the Whole force of tho nation, without too
scrupulous regard to what was constitutional.
When, in patriotic effort, Dallas poured out a
flood of paper in treasury notes, one of Ma
con’s maxims was, that paper money was nev
er beat. Without ever losing the confidence
of his party, no member of it so often voted
against them. Tenacious and inflexible, re
monstrance availed nothing with him. He
never quarreled about bis frequent speaker, al
ways good-humored and jocular, but always
sell-opinionated. Macon bad ingrain prefer
ence for tbe advantages of rural over city life,
to form the faculties, both mental and bodily,
for distinction, for courage, eloquence, endur
ance. and everv kind of eminence. No man
should live, ho said, where ho can hear h;s
neighbor’s dog bark. Sometimes, when n city
member addressed the house to his satisfaction,
he would jocosely sav, I like! that ; what a pity
you were born und brought up in town ; but
for that, you might have come lo something.
Towns lie thought unfavorable to the fervor
and fortitude which stimulate excellence. Friv.
olous occupations take place of earnest con
templation and enterprise. Reading is not of
tbe right sort, if there be not even too much of
it. Rural lifts is less stagnant, more racy,
more thoughtful, and self dependent. When
it is .hot only rural, but border life, full of ex
posure, adventure, and exploit, it obviously con-
duce* to greater strength of character. Some
savagism may become mixed with it, which
dnes^ot detract from the strengili, however^ it
may occasionally tarnish the cmlization. Net
one of the greatest Presidents of the United
State? laid the basis of bis elevation in a city.
Washington, Napoleon, Jackson, were sylvan
jj 0rn . born to effort and endurance. 1 believe
Macon never held any office by oilier than
popular election. Indeed, lie was too fond of
enso for the laborious responsibility of execu
tive place. He is an illustrious example of
the eminence and celebrity attainable by lnith-
ful service in Congress, with moderate abdi-
ties, constant integrity, and no ulterior or un
toward ambition.
Few public speakers, secretaries, ministers,
or judges, aspirants or incumbents of place by
executive choice, fill, with posterity, so large a
space in jmbl c esteem as Nathaniel Macon, or
jpxeicked ns much influence while in any rim e.
Burn aud educated among what Jefferson cads
natural aristocracy,tbe aristocracy of virtue and
talents, Macon’s distinction is that he loved too
people. Learning, eloquence, and action vere
not Ins merits. During his nearly forty years
of life in Congress, lie hardly ever proposed
any measure; but sincerity, simplicity, modern-
tion, forbearance, ahd integrity gave bunnies
to respect which make even bis memory mrla-
on'ial. Artificial aristocracy, by birth or wealth,
Jefferson deemed a mischievous ingredient m
during enterprises of a majority of the people.
“That,” wrote Jefferson lo Adams, “is your
opinion; while 1 think that tho American con
stitution provides a better remedy, by leaving
the free separation and clertiou of the natural
aristocracy from ihc mass, who will, in general,
choose the good and the wise. Wealth will take
care of itself. Cabals in the Seuute of the Uni
ted Stales furnish marry proofs that lo give an
cleva’cd class power to prevent mischief, is to
arm them fur it.” Macon’s equality and radi
calism went beyond Jeff;rsoil's, l’ut lie was an
inactive refbimer, and merely by’ the lorcc of
example, as the American republic acts on the
rest of the world. A planter of moderate for
tune*, coveting no more, disliking the labor-gain
ed wealth of professional life, and the chances of
trade, be disregarded the vexatious vanities of
riches or office, except tint of serving the peo
ple as one of many law-makers, among whom,
too, Ins rule was to do as little as possible. Af
ter serving a quarter of a century in the House
of Representatives, what most would consider
promotion to the Sen tie, was, perhaps, depart
ure from bis principles. Did be deem it rota
tion in offico a principle of republican govern
ment, of which Macon’s twelve re-elections to
the same seat in Congress, proved that he did
not consider it applicable to elective places.—
Mefi grow insolent, said Tacitus, in a single
year’s public trust. Doubtless they should, by
frequent recurrence of popular election, be con.
linuully subjected to that ordeal. But when
i c niibents of elective posts, like Macon, are
f lilbful, they are r.ot often supplanted without
detriment to the constituency. When one
party vanquishes another, it is but just that the
principal places should be filled by the victori
ous. But abuse of ibis unquestionable princi
ple as to others, demoralizes communities by
pampering morbid thirst and insatiable yearn
ing for cm dument, subsi.t ites avarice for am
bition. Does not Macon’s success demonstrate
that no American statesman can bo successfully
both ambitious and avaricious? That ho can
no more prefer himself to the people, than serve
Mammon before God? To bo of tho aristo
cracy of the democracy, is common ambition;
but Micon’s desire was to be of the demoeracy
of the aristocracy.
Whatever (says Burke, writing of the French
National Assembly) the distinguished few may
have been, men of known rank or shining tal
ents. it i-i the substance or mass of the body
which constitute its character, and must finally
determine its direction. In all bodies, those
who will lead must also, in a considerable de
gree, follow. Macon was a leading follower—
not a summit, but part of the m iss of Congress;
not a commanding nctor of writer, no dema
gogue, hardly communing with bis constituents
but by the monosyllables of votes, always before
them in print, but taking no undue means for
soliciting their good will. Yet liis popularity
never failed, Ids success was transcendam, and
the influence of bis example is still enduring
and increasing. Tbe centralism of Hamilton
lias almost disappeared. The federalism of
Washington and the constitutionalism of Madi
son have been, in a measure, superseded by the
republicanism of Jefferson, which may be swal
lowed up in tbe radicalism of Macon. Will
that be declining or advancing?
’J ho most frequent disparagement cast by Eu
ropeans on American republicanism, is its al
leged tendency to degenerate—a downward
teudency, which is to swallow up learning,
wealth, liberty, and refinement, and establish a
despotism of mere vulgarity; that public life is
less sought by respectability than elsewhere or
formerly, and that talents avoid it. Whether
this be so in America, is it more so than else
where? G reat talents arc the creations of great
conjectures; and the tranquility of the United
Slates lias been almost stagnant under the pre
sent forms of government. In such circum
stances, commercial, professional, and oilier lu
crative pursuits, are morp attractive than poli
tics; and with the growth of luxuiy, which has
been prodigious since the introduction of paper
money, there will always be a large class pre
ferring fashionable idleness io political notorie
ty. Mine, de Stael says, in her considerations
on tlie French revolution, that many of the old
nobiiity of Europe despised tbe Emperor Alex
ander as an upstart, not to be received into
good society. Social and ancestral distinction,
a sirong desire, more prevalent in Europe, is
not without acknowledgement in America —
Descendants of celebrated Americans are often
chosen into p ditical life, for that reason. Con
gress and the State legislatures abound with
members boasting some family merit, sucli as
kindred with soldiers oftlie revolution; and it is
common to meet with Americans who preserve
their ancestors’ certificates of service in the rev
olutionary army, ns if they were patents of no-
bdity. Besides the merits of personal pedigree,
Burke eloquently vindicates those of honorable
national lineage. Yet the country attorneys,
village lawyers, notaries, brokers, traders, and
clowns, whom lie enumerates as.the mejority
of (he third estate «f the French National As
sembly, inferior, in bis judgment, to the noble
men and gentry be pxtols ns hereditary legisla
tors, enacted Ijws which reformed the crumb
ling has s of society* and reconstructed France
so as to render that declining kingdom not only
freer, but incomparably happier, richer, am.
greater than it was before the days ol vl’.at
Burke calls its downfall. If DeTocqu’ v.lle s
idea be true, that American democracy is irre
sistibly swallowing up everything else. Am -'ii-
can, and such bo tiie decline which Europe im
putes to this country,at all events Great ]>r.:air,
France; and all tlie freer kingdoms of Europe,
arc pa slag dbw.i the same declivity with more
violence and precipitation than this ciy.miry,
oae of whose consolations is Jcnerson’s maxim,
that government, at best, is but relative good,
and that, with all the faults of which it is accus-
deinocracy is at least a less injurious and
iBible, and less toilsome or irksome than pri
vate pursuits; and if Americau legislators: bad
more of such men. faithfully representing a sov
ereign people, public life would he reatonaldo
s:ip|Mrt, aud the most honorable oceupaiion.—
Forothte legislatures and Congress, inmost
instances, are th? mere chrysalis between worm
and butterfly, where insect 'members | crl.-dt af
ter a short liiglit. But such is not legitimate
rotation in office, nor the public service Macon
pc'iforikou. With him, a place in Congress was
the ultimate, not penultimate or intermediate
stage; tbe goal, not the stepping-stone to some
more pibfitablc place or Speculation, but that t-j
which Ire dedicated all the faculties of all his
life.” '
DECATUR.
The United Slates Nautical Magazine for
September, in reviewing a book caked “Battles
oftlie Biiti-di Navy,” by Joseph Allen, a task
which implies only pointing out the most glur-r
ing nii'S'ateniftits, tells an anecdote of the im
mortal Decatur, which, to us at least is new.—
li serins the Englishman, in tho plenitude of
liis assurance, intimates that Decatur was mis
taken in the identity of the Macedonian, and
that lie tried (o escape when he discovered the
command of Captain Carden. To show tho
absurdity of such a romance the Magazine tells
the following anecdote:
‘•Before tho war, Capt. Carden cud the Ma
cedonian were at Not folk; Decatur was there,
toe, and a warm intimacy soon joined ia fr eu ’-
sliip two kindred hearts. While discussing na
val aflaits one day, Gulden said, ‘Decatur,
your ships are good enough, and you aie a clev
er set of fellows ; but'what practice bate you
had in war? there's the rub. Oae of these
days we will probably have a ‘brush’ together,
and if I catch your ship at sea, I will knock
her into a cocked hat, Stephen.’ ’Will you,’
says Decatur; ‘I trill bet you a hat on it.'—
The Let was agreed on and the conversation
chiinztiT.
“But a few months elapsed ere tho war that
had been ihreutning commenced, and the two
Captains, by some aingt.l r oincid ncc met.—
Carden, on going on board of the United States,
was received by a lieutenant at the gangway, _
to whom he tendered his sword. ’Not to me
sir,’ said (lieofficer,‘but to the Cpptain.’ ‘And
where is the Captain ?’ said the embarrassed
Englishman, ‘He is standing aft there; that
is the gentleman, sir, in a tarpaulin hat and
round jacket.’
“Carden went aft, and his feelings on meet
ing, under such circumstances bis old' friend,
may be imagined. As he offered It s sword to
Decatur, that officer said, ‘No, Carden, I nev
er take the sword of a brave man ; you have
fought gallantly; ‘but’said lie, laying bis hand
on the other’s shoulder, ‘I will take that hat,
my dear fellow.’
“In transferring to the United States the suite
of Captain Cuidun, a fine band was included.
Iullic afternoon, when dinner was announced
in the cabin, Captain Carden said to Decatur,
‘ihose musicians are very skilful and I have al
ways had them on deck wh-le at rny dinner.’
‘Very well,’sai l Decqlur, ‘we will have them
up.* Tbe bqnd was ordered on deck to play,
and Com. Decatur was asked what air ho
wouli like to hear. ‘Let them play Briltnonia
rules the Waves,’ said he with a sly laugh.”
SCRAPS OF CURIOUS INFORMATION.
The number of'different Plants in the world
has been variouslv estimated ai from 30,000 to
100.000.'
The largest tree in the world is in Africa,
where several negro families resdo in the
trunk.
The largest flower in the world is 3 feet in
diameter.
Tbe oak will live GOO years.
The “Cow Tree," in So.uth America, produ
ces milk front which the people obtain regular
supplies.
Tbe Nepenthus of India, -furnishes water in
its leave*, which not only have pitchers but cov
ers to them. i- .
Tbe Pear leaf has. 24,000 pores It) the square
inch, on the under side. The Pink lias 39,500.
Some plan’s havens many as 160.000!
There are 140 different species ofoau iu tlie
world, 70 tif which arc fouud in America; had
30 in Europe.
Tiie largest oak in the world is one in Dor
setshire. England, which measures G3 feet in
circumference.
There are 40 different species of Pine—tho
White Pine grows to the height of ISO feet—
the Pinus Duglacius, on the Columbia river,
is tbe tallest tree in the world, as it grows to
tlie stupendous height of 23i feet. The great
est body of timber ever measured front one
tree was from tile Pinus Lambiatuis, on the
Missouri river.
Lillies are natives of North America, China,
Germany and Liberia.
A single Barley Corn in Paris produced 45
culms, containing ISO 000 corns of Bailey!
•• The celebrated botanist, Ray, conn:e<l 22,-
003 seeds in the head of u poppy.
There are 360,000 seeds iu the Capsule of a
Tobacco Plain.
It is supposed by many naturalists that the
Eim Tree produces 530,000 .-a eds per year.
Barley lias been'sawed will: success, J-iO
years alter it was produced. W heat may bo
kep^ with tho germinating principle forages.
Seeds of different grasses wiii vegetate after
having been buried in the earth a thousand
years.
The Canada Th's'h, llie enemy of all far
mers, is a native of Canada, but it lias crossed
tlie Atlantic, by n cans of icings with which its
seeds ore provided.
Tho Ewe tides of St
ed, . w
more durable state than loyalty, since one of
the unquestionable consequences,of the Ameri
can revolution is that revolutionary movements,
with equality and liberty, have begun through
out the Old World, die that as it may ns to
public bodies and national stability, Macon
found public life not more precarious ur unprof- J frosn oao tree.—L<»no-
England, stood in
the days of Julius Crcs ir. There is an opplo
tree in Hartford, Connecticut, 200 years old.
A fig tree in Palestine 7S0 years-old. A live
o ik in Louisiana 1000 years. A pine tree in
Asia Min >r l^OO years. A cedar on Mount
Leb nrvon 2120 old. A chcsnut on Mt.
Fan i, Sicily, 2G09 years old- A sycamore m
the Bosphorus 4000 years <■ 1 !.
There are no It ss than 9000 different species
j of rosand 50 of pinks.
Some person \vno ha I nothflfc? else to do has
ascertained that there are 5550,200 grants in a
bushel of wheat, 520,000 in barley, 1,260,000
iu oats, 37,000 in horse-beans.
Turpentine.—Tim V i.minglon (N. C.)
Chronicle says that (lie turpentine distilled in
11i,iI place Inst year is estimated at 200.000
bbb.,worth $400,000. The raw material side,
ped, 75,000 bbls., valued at 9163,000. Tin-
shipped, 30,000 bids., worth 15 000, Tv.tT,
5613,000. A tolerably respect.ibje
, _ ,..e ever-grec