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, A. THE GEORGIA TELEGRAPH ?•»* A . ri* pjjVEll II. PRINCE —PUBLISHED WEEKLY— E cl i t o r & P vo i) r i e t o r ffEW SERIES—VOL. If. NO. I. MACON, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1845. WHOLE NUMBER 090. JEIIBORASH & REPUBLIC. is PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING BY O. H. PRINCE,. a t three dollars per annum. jjfVARIABL y IK AD VANCE ,jjVERTISEMENTS nre inserted ai SI OO per for ,l,e fi* 41 i'liertiun, ami SO cent, per square for »1“J : nl ertiuii thereafter. «*^ retionl ble deduction will be made to those who adver of LANDS, by Administrators. E.tceu- tjuintilTH. required by law, to be held on the ‘ TuesJsy in the month, between the hours of ten in the * ifit oon, anu three in the afternoon, at the Court-house, in ***..untv in which the land is situated. Notice of these l ^f be given in n public gazette SIXTY DAYS pre- '‘la.lo the day of sale. flalesof NEGROES must be made at a public auction ih« first Tuesday of the month, between the usual b jurs "r .!• at the place of public sales in the county where tho “ ta , ae ntary, of Administration or Guardianship, ,et, « have been granted, first giving SIXTY DAYS notice thereof,in one of the public gazettes of this State, and at the l«r of the Court-house, where such sales are to be held. Notice tor the sale cf Personal Property must be given in t-L* FORTY days previous to ibedoy of sale. ,k N.d«e to ihe Debtors and Creditor of an estate must be ^sTuice'tlrtt applicaiio’n will be made to the Court of Or- ,l£v7or lrara io >ell LAND, must be published for hisWD 0 * eI! NEGROES must be published FOUR MONTHS, before any order absolute shall be , tg.rean by the Court. r.riTioss for letter* of Administration, must be publish- j iU«t V days—for dismission from admtnistration.tuoiiM- rt »« iso*/it—fur dismission from Guardianship, forty licit, for ‘he foreclosure or Mortgage must be published -iittklv months—for eaublUliing lost papers./or JI! / Jipnte »f three months-he compelling titles fiora p.«ator» or Administrators, where a Bond has been given b» Jhe deceased, the full space of three montht. U Publications will alwaya be continued according to these, u n l requirements, unless otherwise ordered. REMITTANCES BY MAIL.— ‘A postmaster may en- -!ase money in a letter to the publisher of a newspaper, to _,v .be subscriotion ofa third person, and frank the letter if by himself.”—Amot Kendall. P. hi. G. POETRY. FLOYD HOIST,, b. s. nswcomb. M.»co», Georgia. Oct. 19,1844—31—tf ' samSn ©sssjm Fn.h.ounblc X>rc»* HlaMuff EsIablUhmcnt. Plumb Street, next to the Seminary. OolersW GUESSES. HIDING HABITS. *- Ac. etc 9 <-iiteJ iu the latest and most fashionable style, aod at ue •iinrtesc notico. TlSBET & WINGFIELD, A T TO II N E Y S AT L A W. Officeoa Mulberry Street, over Kimberly’s Hat Store 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. Wliitius & Mi*. iVIlOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN HOOTS AND SHOES Neal the Washington Hall Second Street. Jicon. Georgia, Oet. IP, 1844—31—tf J. L. JUNES & CO. 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, FACTOR, S3 Central M ini' f, 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 F ox < 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