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THE GEORGIA TELEGRAPH AND REPUBLIC.
OLIVER H. PRINCE
-PUBLISHED WEEKLY-**
Editor <fc P r o p r f e t o r.
JVEVV SERIES—VOL. II. NO. 8.
MACON. TUESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 18, 1845.
WHOLE NUMBER 997.
TELEGRAPH & republic.
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" the day of sale.
,|(l . I of NEGROES must be made at a public auction
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*? at the place or public sales in the county where the
! . ..oftenameniarv. of Administration nr Guardianship,
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published FORT\ d‘ > made to the Court of Or-
LAND, must be published for
^Vodce^for*te»v«M* tell NEGROES must he published
-FOUR MONTHS, before any order absolute shall be
“nUTWSs’foHetm^ o U f Adminis; ration, must be publish-
Aav*—for dism'-aion fco» administration.month.
*“ J* lantli—fur disss' -siOn from Guardiaaship, forty
^‘lfuLIS for the foreclosure of ilortgnpe rilusl be published
for four monlla—for establishiilglosi papers .for
7. fall apace of three montha—for compelling titles from
Fieeotors or Administrators, where h Hoad lias been givbn
bv^he deceased, the falt trace of three months
Fabliettions will always he continued according to these,
the legal requiremenU.nn' ess otherwise orderb'd.
'•IEMITTANCES PY MAIL.—‘A postm.-Ulermay en
due money in a letter to the publisher of tl Newspaper, to
subscription ofa third persrfn, and fr'dnk the letter if
written by himself.”—.-fme-. Kendall. F. M. O.
POETRY.
THE MAIDEN’S PRAYER.
BT JOII5 O. WIlITTIEFt.
She ro$e from her delicious sleep,
And put away her soft brown hair/
And in a tone as low and deep
As Iore # A first whisper, breathed a prayer,
Her snow white hands together pressed/
Her blue eyes sheltered in the lid,
The folded linen on her breast,
Jtfst swelling tt'ffh the charms it hid,
And from her long and flowing dress
Escaped a bare and snowy foot,
Whose step upon the earth did prresi
Like a enow flake, white and mute:
And then from slumbers soft and warm.
Like a young spirit fresh from heaven.
She bowed that slight and matchless form,
And humbly prayed to be forgiven.
O, Crod! if scifls tmsorled as there,
Need daily mettjf from thy throne;
If she upon her bended knees—
Our holiest and purest one;
She with a face so pare and br/giff.
We deem her some stray child of light;
If she with those soft ejes in tears.
Day after day. in her young years,
Must kneel and pray for grace from Thee,
What far, far greater need have we T
How hardly, if she win not heaven.
Will our wild errors be forgiven 7
mug3 ©ES3JW,
Fnaliionnblc Drew Making Eulnl»lli*fcnien*.
Malhtrry Street, orer John /.. Jones' Start.
Orde-s for DRESSES. RIDING HABITS. *. ic.exe.
rated in the latest and most fashionable style, and atti.e
shortest notice..
J. L. JONES & CO.
CLOTHING STORE.
lies/aide Mulberry Street, next doorielotc theBigllat
71 .ICON.
wi. BEARING & SON'S,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
CHARLESTON. S. C.
September 1,1845.
49 Cm
MEDICAL NOTICE;
T\U.T. A. PARSONS has returned to thfc city.ritid has
XI resumed the duties of his profession. Office at hi.
dwelling, brick bouse, two doors above the Meitiodis
Church Jan. SI. 1845.
REMOVAL.
O R, ItOI.T has removed to the residence recently
occupied by U. H. Moultrie, where he maybe
found at ni"ht: and in the day, at his office over Mess'*
W'insliip & Po pc’s store.
Macon, April iG. 33 tf
WINFREY L. SIIOCKLEV,
attorney at law,
Will practice in the following Counties :
UPSON, HOUSTON,
PIKE. BIBH.
MONROE, BALDWIN,
BUTTS. JONES.
CRAWFORD. TWIGGS,
All business entrusted to his rare will meet with prompt
intention. Office n Dr. Thomson's building,opposite Floyd
House, M.con, Georgia.
May 5,1843.
34 tf
FLOYD HOUSE.
MACON, GA.
THE Subscriber, in announcing to liis
friends and the public, by whom lie has been
so liberally pitronised, his continuance of the
above Establishment, begs leave to assure
them of his determination to sustain the well
LIFE’S SUNNY SPOTS.
ET THE L ATX IVILLIAM LEGGETT.
Though life’s a dark and thorny path,
Its goal the silent tomb.
It yet some spots of sunshine bath,
That smile amid tliegloom;
The friend, who weal and wo partakes,
Unchanged what.’er his lot,
Who kindly soothes the heart that aches,
Is sure a sunny spot.'
The wife who halfour burden bears.
And utters not a moan;
Whose ready hand wipes off our tears,
Unheeded all her own ;
Who treasures every kindly word,
Each harsher one forgot,
And carols blithely as a bird—
She’s too. a sunny spot.
The child who lifts, at morn and eve.
In prayer its liny voice ;
Who grieves whene’er its parents grieve
And joys when they rejoice.
In whose bright eye young genius glows,
Whose heart without a blot,
I* frfcsh and pure as summer’s rise,
That child's a sunny spot.
There’s yet upon life’s weary road,
One spot of brighter glow,
Where sorrow half forgets its load
And tears no longer flow t
Friendship may wither, love decline,
Our child bis honor blot;
But still undimm’d that spot will shine—
Religion lights that spot.
tMblishrd reputation of his bouse. Instead of a falling ofl works of OUT day, it IS Said, ‘‘It is a fatal ffift :
there shall he n progressive improvement; and ll a liberal c , , . _ . ... ° ,
Milty,a well furnished table, with every delicacy ibis mid
other markets ran supply; clean beds, comfortable rooms,
Ittentive servants, and the will to please and accommodate
"hi merit patronage lie expects to obtain it
B. 8. NEWCOMB.
Oct. 7, 1843. 3—tf.
Federal Union please copy.
WASHlYCxTOY IIILL,
MACON, CA.
T HE undersigned have bought nut the in
terest of Mr. St. Lanier in this well
known eslabliahment, and design making it
worthy of the liberal patronage it has liereto-
i lore obtainrd from the public. Every exer
tion will be made to make the sojourn of either the perms-
•eat or transient boarder pleasant and agreeable. The
•leaping apartments are comfortable arid commodious, and
filed dp with neat and clean furniture. The tables will be
furnished with every luxury our own market, nrid those of
etr.iantb can supply; ami no efforts spared to make the
•aaie deserving u! public pa' ronrge.
MOTT Ac NEWCOMB.
.October 7.1813. S—tf
-Yen Fireproof Wave-Ho use.
MACON\ GEORGIA.
riHIE underlined Having fcrbctcri a
I Fire Proof W’aie House, situated at
the head of Cotton Avenue, tender* hi/i
services to his friends and the public gen-
^ - crally for the storage of COTTON and
MERCHANDISE, and the transaction of
Commission Riisincss
taal! its branches, pledging himself to use every exertion to
promote the UUeresis of, and reader satisfaction to, those
*ko may confide business to his charge.
■ The storage and sale of Cotton will be under the dircc-
and control of Mr. John Jones, who has long been
known io the Ware-House business, and will give nanicu-
Jtr attention to the sale of Cotton End the filling ot orders
wfoods. Liberal advances will be made on Cotton in
otpra or to be shipped.
RAGGING, ROPE, AND TWINE.
'tether with any other articles, wi'l be furnished custo
ktrs at the lowest mniket price.
N. B. Storage and Commissions at customary rates.
IS—33—If JERRY I’OWLK^
WILLIAM T. WILSON,
WARE-HOUSE .f COMMISSION MERCHANT
M\cox, Georgia.
THE aadmignej having rented the
Ware-House recently occupied by J. B.
II088,(nearly opposite Mr. J. M. Field's
Ware-House.) is prepared to receive Cot-
, 1 ton in Store. His personal attention will be
®*voted to the business. All orders promptly attended to.
^D^axces will be made on Cotton in store. /le solicits the
M^rcnsgcof his friemfs and the pubhe.
Very Uesipectfullv.
. W. T. WILSON.
^econ, October 14.18-15. 3 tf
SCOTT. CAUIIAUr At CO*
Merchants and factors,
CONTINUE to keep on hand their usu
al stock of Groceries, Ac., which they will
ell at the lowest market prices.
Advances mode on Cctton or Merchan*
-.^"^^■^^dise consigned to them.
jDntfo e first of October next, they will remove to the Fite
J. 00 * Brick Si'irr^. i,n Third Street, between Graves,
' & Co., and Ren «fc Cottons’.
-~j* r ° ii - August 13. i84.',. 47 3m
BENNETT BELL,
^REHOUSE and commission merchant,
EAST MACON,
•‘Podictlu! (’ruiriil Kail Konrf Drsot.
7“ Having leased the Store and Ware*
j House, formerly occupied by Henry K-
Carter, would respectfully tender his sec
vices to Planers and others and will
Mrr-i , promptly attend t<» the receiving of Cotton
.Cw i , ;r::\^ «h,* s r a «.
P ‘ ,fr iro.lu^ 1 '*' f* r * ona l attention to selling Cotton or
"fe£vS,^!o;N^'ytk" n,i 5, ' ip,,ine CoMon
Wl1 ?' ve aaiiafaction to all who
atlcon 1 1,h *heir business.
19tf
for when possessod in its highest quantity and
strength, what has it ever done for its votaries?
What were all those great poots of whom we
talk so much ? What were they in their life
time ? The most miserable of their species,
depressed, doubtful, obscure, or involved in
petty quarrels and persecutions; often unap-
predated, utterly uninfluenti&l, beggars, flatter
ers of men, unworthy of their recognition.—
What a train of disgustful incidents—what a
record of degrading circumstances, is the life
ofa great poet?” This is too true a picture;
still, what docs it prove but that this earth is no
home for the more spiritual part of our nature
—that those destined to awaken our highest as
pirations, anil our tenderest S3’mpatliies, are
victims rather than votaries of the divine light
within them? They gather from sorrow its
sweetest emotions; they repent of hope but its
noblest visions; they look on nature with an
earnest love, which wins the power of making
her hidden beauty visible, and they reduce the
passionate, the true, and the beautiful. Alas!
they themselves are not tvhat they paint; the
low want subdues the lofiy will; the small and
present vanity interferes with the far and slo-
rious aim, but still it is sometning to have look
ed beyond the common sphere where they were
faicd to struggle. They paid in themselves the
bitter penalty of not realizing their own ideal;
but mankind nave to be thankful for the gene
rous legacy of thought and harmony bequeath
ed by those who were among earth’s proscribed
and miserable beings. Fame is bought by
happinesst
BOTTOMLESS LAKES;
Near the summit of a mountain in Portugal,
in the province of Beirtt, is situated the lake
Esurn, the waters of which are ofa dark green
ish hue. Although no fishes have been seen
in this lake, yet, frequently, fragments of ships,
such as broken mast, spars, &c., have been
found floating on it, though inland as is its po
sition. This curcumstantte has very natural
ly led to the belief that it communicates
with the ocean by some subterraneous pas-
sage—a belief which has been still further
strengthened from the fact, that the face of the
lake becomes either rough or smooth as the
ocean is found to be agitated or calm; and, al
so, that during stormy weather it produces a
rumbling noise, which may be heard at a dis
tance of six or eight miles. It is a notorious
fact, that to the present day though frequently
tried by the curious, its bottum hes not been
discovered. At a short distance from Rosi-
nere, in Switzerland, a remaikable spring is
known to arise from the centre of a natural
basin of more than thirteen square feet in its
area. Of the power which operates on it, we
may form some conception when it is known to
force, with much violence, a column of water
of eighteen feet circular, far above its surface.
Although tried by the most ingenious and per
severing virtuosos in natural ph losophy, its
c/eptlr has not yet been ascertained ; thus leav
ing to conjecture the only plausible conclusion
that this spring is the outlet of some accumula
ting subterraneous Jake which has no other issue
for its wntepf,
A GEM.
Site died in beaut;!—like a rose
Blown from its parent stem J
Site died in beauty!—-like the pearl
Dropped from some diadem;
She died in beauty!—like a lay
Along a moonlit lake;
flhe died in beauty!—like the seng
Of birds amid the breke;
She died in beauty! — like the snow
On flowers di 4 lived away;
She died in beauty like a star
Lost rii the brow of day.
THE PRICE OF FAME.
In one of the most original and thoughtful
Frtim Bicknelta Reporter.
Olr Cowntrv and its Resources-*-C&Hort,
Hay, Corn, Rice, Aye.—A very useful little
volume might be prepared under this title.—
The progress of our country within the last
half century has been ntost extraordinary.—
Villages, towns and cities have sprung up as ir
by magic. The mighty work, too, is still on*
ward. We arc increasing in population and
resources at a more rapid pace than any of the
civilized nations of the earth. Our nation is
yet a new one, as compared with most of those
of the old world. We can date back but a few
years—but what has been accomplished in that
brief time? Our population now amounts to
something like 20,000,000, while our rank as a
nation is certainly enviable. Our resources
too, in coal, in cotton, in iron, in tobacco, in
grain, and the many other products that are
found in or extracted ftom Mother Earth, are
indeed most valuable.
Tlie Cotton Culture is of itself the great
modern agricultural wonder. Alluding to this
staple, an intelligent correspondent of the New
^ ork Gazette, states that the first cotton expor
ted from America, was in 1791, which consist
ed of 189,316 lbs. taken from Virginia to Eng
land. In 1792, the quantity was 138,328 lbs.
1794,1,601,760; 1795,5,27*6,300; 1837,444,-
211,537 lbs. In 1831, there were in 12 of the
United States, 795 mills in which were 1,246,-
503 spindles, and 33,506 looms. 77,517,316
lbs. cotton were consumed, and 67,862,652 lbs.
yarn produced. In these factories were em
ployed 18,539 males and 38,927 females, or
together 57,466. Their wages amounted to
SI0,294,444.
In 1834, the amount of cotton produced in
the world was in round numbers, 900,000,000
lbs., which quantity 460,000,000 lbs., or more
than half, were produced in the United States.
In the same year, the capital employed in con
nection with growing cotton in the United
Slates, amounted to 8800,000,000. The num
ber of persons employed was 1,000,000.
Notwithstanding all that lias been said of the
great value of our cotton crop, it is only about
half the value of the hay crop. The quantity
of cotton produced in the United States in 1840,
was 747,660,090 lbs., and the amount of hay
15,419,S07 tons.
Cotton was first manufactured in England,
in 1641; from 1700 to 1705, the average annu
al import of cotton into Great Britain, was 1,-
170,881 lbs. Tlie value of all tlie cotton man
ufactures in 1670, was about .£200,000.
The number of persons engaged in spinning
cotton in Great Britain in 1817, was 110,763
—steam engines were employed to the extent
of 20,768 horse power. The number of spin
dles in motion was 6,645,833, and the number
of hanks of yarn produced was 3,9S7,500,000.
Tho quantity of coal consumed in their produc
tion was 500,479 tons.
The value of the cotton manufactured in
Great Britain in 1836. was estimated at the
enormous sum of £34,000,000, of which amount
was paid tor tho raw material, a£7,000,000
Wages of workmen, &c. 23,000,000
t’rofits, 4,000,000
the United States and they wilt recognise them
selves as still belonging to the United Sidles.—-
Let this mail, moreover, be extended regularly
across tlie Pacific, and like the leading wing
among birds of passage, a countless flock will
surely follow. Soon will Columbia river have
her fleets and the swarthy skins of the east—
our new “far west,” become familiar in fhd
spreading streets of our Pacific emporium.-—-
Oregon is becoming populous, in three years its
trade will be an “object;” every facility extend
ed to the emigrant will be repaid a thousand fold,
and a monthly mail to the coast of Asia will
make the mouth of Columbia liver a centre,
to from which profitable consequences, commer
cial and political, will radiate most luminously
The route from this to Oregon, as is known,
may be travelled at all seasons of the year—-
the expense is nothing; a contract for steam con
veyance over the Pacific, may be effected at
mijst reasonable rate; China would soon be
within seventy-five dnys travel of New York
and the speed of Whitney be urged with re
doubled energy to make the time still less. It
is, perhaps, a too frequently used spur to exer
tion, but “if England wore in our place,” &c
—St. Louis Reveille.
An English publication gives the following
of the Lord Steward, or head cook, of Queen
Victoria's Royal household, for one year. It
is worth looking at
Bread,
Butter, Bacon, Cheese, and Eggs,
Milk and Cream,
Butcher's meat,
Poultry,
Fish,
Groceries,
Oil,
Fruit and Confectionary,
Vegetables,
Wine,
Liquors, &c.,
Ale and Beer,
Wax Candles,
Tallow Candles,
Lamps,
Fuel,
Stationary,
Turnery,
Braziery,
China, glass, «fcc.
Linen,
Washing table Linen,
Plate,
$10,000
25,000
7,000
47,000
18,000
10,000
22,000
8,650
8,350
2.400
24,000
9,000
14,050
9.400
3,300
23,350
34,100
4,100
1,700
4.400
6,550
4,450
15,500
1,750
£34,000,000
This immense business afforded subsistence
for 1,400,000 persons.
The same intelligent writer gives the follow
ing brief and comprehensive view of the com
parative value or the different crops in the Uni
ted States in IS40. as follows :
Indian corn, 8207,309,153; Hay, $138 778.-
263; Wheat. SS0,000.000; Cotton, $74,766,-
004; Oats, $30,482,492; Potatoes, 826,439,-
039; Sugar, 87.5S4.088; Rice, S2,996,374;
Burley, Sl.610,261; Rye. 817,563,062; Buck
wheat, say 84,000,000; Tobacco, 85,571,960;
and Flax, Hemp, Silk, and Wine, §1,000,000.
Curious Sub-Marine Substante.—John L.
Dimmock, Esq., president of the Warren In
surance company, (Boston,) has at his office
a very curious specimen of the wonderful oper
ations of the sea upon substances deposited up
on its bottom. It is a concreted mass of sub
marine substances, such as various shells, &c.,
united with the solidity and weight of stone,
from which are protruded several silver Span
ish milled dollars. This is part of a large quan
tity which has been recently taken up from the
place whore the Spanish ship San Pedro was
blown up, February 11th, 1815. An enter
prising company fitted out the brig Frances
Amy, Capt. Binney, from Baltimore, for the
recovery cf the money known to have been on
board the Spanish ship at the time of her de-
struction. Wc are happy to hear that the at
tempt has so far proved successful, that they
have raised and brought home over $27,000—
nearly all of which was in tlie same state as the
specimen of which we have here spoken.—
Among other curious formations which were
raised in the course of the search, we learn that
a single cannon-ball was brought up with thirty
dollars firmly embedded in it. Some of the
solid masses of rock and shells, on being broken
open, were found to contain rows of dollars, as
if they bad remained there in the same order in
which they came from the boxes in which they
were originally packed. This property is now
brought into use again; dfter having lain thirty
years on the bottom of the ocean, subject to
all the wonderful changes incident to such a
situation.—Boston Atlas.
$316,500
Ncy's father, who loved him tenderly as the
son of his pride and the g'ory of his name, was
never told of his ignominious death. He was
at this time eighty-eight years of age, and lived
to be a hundred years old. He saw by the
mourning weeds on his family that some catas
trophe had happend, and his father’s heart told
him too well where the bolt had struck; but he
m->d« no inquiries, and, though lie lived twelve
years after, never mentioned his son’s name
and was never told of his fate.
“Talcc my Hat. u — An enthusiastic New
Yorker lately made a visit to the Lakes,and after
witnessing a storm on old O.itario found himself
safe and sound on the btink of the mighty cata
ract. What he did there is thus related by the
Rochester American:
“Outlie morning of our arrival, we proceeded
to the American fall, not a word was said by
our companion. We next went to the horse
shoe fall, and after gazing for some minutes up
on its untold sublimity, each seemed anxious to
hear an expression from our hero. He stood
like a statue, perfectly motionless. I saw the
blood rushing to bis head. His eyes and face
assumed a ntost fearful expression. I started
towards him—not a liltie alarmed, and was about
to take his arm, when he suddenly raised his
hand to bis head, violently throwing its cover
ing into tlie cataract, exclaiming ‘there—take
my hat."
Characteristic of tkt Alan.—We are in
formed by a gentleman, who wa3 an officer un
der General Jackson, during the attack on New
Orleans, and an eye witness, of the following:
‘•On the memorable 28th December, the Gener
al repaired to one of the forts, with an eye ex
pressing the great mind of the man, when he
coolly exclaimed, ‘My boys you see the enemy
is advancing on us in two solid columns, to the
right andj left; now recollect you are to bury
them in the ditch, or die yourselves.’ This
was immediately cheered and passed along the
whole line. The enemy lay dead in the ditch,
while the Americans had but few, if any, killed
and some three or four wounded.”—Baltimore
Republican.
THE TARIFF.
And able writer in tho Union, in a series of
essays, has shown the iniquitous operation of
the tariff* in all its bearing. His last commu
nication however is particularly forcible, and
contains facts which we have often dwelt upon,
bftt canrrot too frequently be laid before fhfe piny-
pie. These demorrstrate that the present tariff
discriminates in favor of the ntaYidfacturer
against the producer of the raw mateiial, and
also in favor of the rich against the middling
classes and poor—fhat it taxes labor and ex- j
exempts capital, and thus tends to build up an |
aristocracy founded upon money and chartered |
privileges. i
We shall condense into as brief a eompnss
as possible the array of cases by which these
positions nre sustained.
1. The present tariff discriminates itt favor
piiil a NTimorY of abolitionism.
We lintfe been favored wi:!; an extract from
a private letter written by Dr. R. T. Brown,
of Indiana, to his brother, the Hon. VViliittm
J. Brown, /n’-rnber of the last Congress. It
will soon be a serious question with the labors
mg classes of the Northern and Middle State*
to inquire into llie purpose and design of the
abolition faction, .and the result they have hr
view in the event of their success. Wheft it
will be shown that the success of abolitionism
Would Create inevitably a pinching competition
between black labor and white labor, and con
taminate tlie industrious and laboring classes of
the North by a revolting admixture of the black
element, those philanthropic politicians in this
State who opposed the annexation of Texas,
will he as ready to denonnee tlie abolition
movement, as they we're to Welcome the ' I me
star” afier exercising all their trickery to pre
vent its addition to our galaxy?
r You arc in <r fair way to have the Capitol
tlooded with abolition petitions, in one f <rm or
of the manufacturer, against the producer of j another, Well, I am opposed to slavery in
the raw material, who is the agriculturist. j principle and practice. But I am as much op-
In the first place, it admits, duty free, or with
very light duties, a large class of articles used
in manufactures, while it Imposes very heavy
duties on all articles consumed by the agricul
turist, which come in competition with the arti
cles produced by the manufacturer.
It admits all berries, nuts, and vegetables;
and, in dying, all dye-woods in the stick, bnril-
la, Brazil wood, kelp, lac dye, madder, madder
root, crude saltpetre, shellac, sumarc, tumpric, j
and numerous other articles entering into man-
ufac'ures, duty free. Indigo pays a specific ■
posed to the white slavery as it exists in the
N- rtiiern States, as I am to negio slavery in
tlie South. Is ibers not philanthropy enough
in tlie South to form a society for the abolition
of Northern slavery? The system of lured
labor as it exists in the Eastern and M i- die, and
even in some parts of the Western States, op
erates tu reduce those who are the subjects of
it ton con Jition which the slaves of tbe South
should not cnvy< Cfur abolition knights re
commend (lie system of ‘hired labor’ to thu
planters of the South, as a matter of economy,
duty of five cents per pound, which is equal to j avowing that it is cheaper than the labor of the
an ad valorem duty of six per cent. And | slave- Admit this,- and tbe conclusion follows
United Stales Overland Mail to China.—
We perceive by the eastern journals, that
Government has received proposals for a month
ly mail to Oregon, the cost of which is estima
ted at two hundred dollars per trip, to Oregon
city and back to St. Louis. These proposals
contain the germ of a great undertaking, no
less than that of an Overland Mail to China; for
should this monthly communication, with the
most remote of our territories, be authorised,
the Jiue of communication could at once, and
with comparatively little trouble and expense,
be ex'e ded to Asia. A few clipper built pro
pellers sent round to our Pacific coast, would
find active and profitable employment in the
trade between the Columbia, the Sandwich Isl
ands and China, which is annually increasing in
importance. By this means a communication
would be established between our country and
the Atlantic Continent, which would afford us
direct intelligence, more frequently and rapidly
that is now obtained through tho accustomed
channel.
We make tho suggestion with duo defer
ence, but, at present, it appears to us not only
feasible and desirable, but (as far as Oregon is
concerned) imperatively called for. Already
do the emigrants feel themselves as in a foreign
land. Already is a separate government talx-
fd of. Let them receive a monthly mail from
Evidences of Feeling.—Oh ! how I detest
your sentimental people, who pretend t.o be full
of feeling; who will cry over a worm, yet treat
real misfortune with neglect. There are your
fine ladies that I have seen in a dining room,
and when, by an accident a ear-wig has come
out of a peach, after having been half killed in
opening it, she would exclaim, “Oh, poor thing!
you have broken its back; do spare it; I can’t
bear to see even an insect suffer. Oh, there,
my lord, how you hurt it; stop, let me open the
window and put it out.” And then the husband
drawls out, “My wife is quite remarkable for
her sensibility; I married her purely for that.”
And the wife cries, “Oh, now, my lord, you are
too "ood to say that; if I had not had a grain
of feelin?» I should have learnt it from you.”—
And so they go on, praising each other; and,
perhaps, the next morning, when she is getting
into her carriage, a poor woman, with a child
at her breastj and so starved that she has not a
drop of milk, begs charity of her, and she draws
up the glass, and tells the footinan another time
not to iet those disgusting people stand at the
door.—Lady Ulster Stanhope’s Memoirs.
A Spider Catching Fish.—Tlie following
cui 'otis occurrence was witnessed by an artist,
a friend of ours, says the Fittsburg Chronicle*
while taking a sketch a few miles distant from
this city, last week. It strikes us a curious and
novel incident in the natural history of tlie spi
der. Our friend had seated himself beside a
char limpid pool, fed by a small stream, and
was carelessly casting small fragments of some
cake upon the water, which tho numerous fi>h
were jumping at with greedy voracity. All at
once he observed a large spider creeping down
ihe limb of a tree which extended into the wa
ter, as one of tho numerous fish came to the
top for a crumb of the cake, the spider seized
it with great dexterity and carried it safeiy to
the shore, notwithstanding the fish was at lenst
an inch and a half in length.— Charleston
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bleaching powder pays a duty of one cent per
pound.
The articles above enumerated, and many
others, are admitted without any or with very
slight duties, in order to benefit or “protect”
the manufacturer. While tbe agriculturists,
and others who purchase them are taxed on all
articles of manufacture coming in competition
with domestic articles of the same kind, from
30 to 300 per cent.
To benefit tbe manufacturer, tbe low-pri
ced wool—the only wool which comes in com- j
petition with that raised by the American
woolgrowor—is admitted at five per cent ad-
valorem. While the farmer who raises wool,
has to pay for the cloth into which it is manu
factured, 40 per cent.
To benefit the manufacturer, flax is admit
ted at a specific duty of $20 per ton, which
is equal to 8 per cent, ad valorem ; which the
consumer is laxed 25 per cent, on all articles
into which it it is manufactured.
Raw hides, which Como in competition with
the farmer, are admitted at the trifling duty of
per cent ad valorem ; while the sole leath.
er, into which they are manufactured, pays a
specific duty of 6 cents per pound—equal to
an ad valorem duty, according to the Treasu
ry returns, of 53 per cent.
Linseed pays a duty of only 5 per cent.,
while linseed oil, into which it is manufactured,
pays 25 cents per gallon—equal to 43 per cent
ad valorem.
Rags pay a specific duty of 1-4 of a cent
per pound—equal to 6 per cent ad valorem :
while the paper into which they are manufac
tured pays from 3 cents to 17 cents specific—
equal to an ad valorem duty ranging from 16
to 97 per cent.
2. The present tariff discriminates in favor
of the rich consumer, against the poor consu
mer—in other words, it imposes the lightest
duty on the articles consumed by the rich, the
heaviest duty npon those consumed by the
poor; thus exempting capital, and taxing labor.
A few examples must suffice. It taxes the
rich man but 31 to 34 per cent, on his fine
Wilton carpet,-while it makes the man in mid
dle life pay from 46 to 99 per cent, on h<s com
mon ingrain carpet.
It taxes the rich woman but 30 per cent, on
her fine French muslin dress, while it taxes the
poor woman as high as 160 for her aheap cal
ico.
It taxe3 the rich man only 14 cents per yard,
on his fine flannel, which costs in E nglanti 31
cents, which is equal to a duty of 40 per cent,
ad valorem; while it taxes tlie poor man 14
cents per yard on his coarse flannel, which cost
in England only 14 cents, being equal to an
ad-valorem duty of 100 per cent.
It taxes the rich silk dress worn by the lady
of fashions but 22 per cent.; while it taxes the
poor woman for her silk dress, made of the
poorest and cheapest material, 42 per cent.
It taxes the sad-iron of the poo r washer-wo-
man from 80 to 150 per cent.; the hatter’s and
tailor’s irons from SO to 150 per cent.; and the
farmer, for his axes, hoes, shovels, spades and
chains, from 30 to 175 per cent.; while it taxes
irresistibly, that the hired laborer root ivrs less
compensation for a given amount of labor than
the slave, who gets his food,- clothing, and pro
tection. A late writer on political economy
has presented us with the cheering prospect of
speedily escaping the ‘curse of slavery’ by the
inevitable laws of population;’ demonstrating
that when the population of » country arrives
f t a certain density, slavery is bat.idled by the
free competition of 'hired Iubor.’ A common-
sense version of all this is, that no n an will
om a slave and become responsible for his
maintenance, because he can proci.fe the same
amount of labor done by hiring f.t a less ex
pense than the support of a slave! And just
i.i the proportion that free labor becomes cheap
er than slave-labor, in the same ratio is the
condition of the free man worse than that of
tlie slave. But it is urged that he is still a free
man, a citizen of the freest government Oti tlie
earth, and politically equal to the proudest cap
italist in the land. Well, that is a mengrfe lib
erty that cons'stsmerely in the privilege to vote.-
Tied down to the earih by toil—incessant, un
remitting toil—what opportunity lias he to ac
quaint himself with the great questions on
which be is calicd to exercise a freeman’s fran
chise? But lie may rise above this condition
of dependence. True end he may fall below
i'. He may be reduced to pauperism, and even
starvation. It is a grave question, whether
the alternate illusions of hope, and the dark
bodings of despair* minister much to incteasd
tho aggregate of human happiness.”
The people of the South arc frequently ac
cused ot displaying too much rashness and sen-
sibility to the operations ar.;i proceedings of
abolitionists. Reverse the conoi ions and see
whether they are rightly judged. If the peo
ple of the South were to form societies, hire
travelling missionaries, purchase presses, make
large pecuniary contributions, and enter into
schemes to burn our cities, destroy our pro
ductive manufactories, and sink in the ocean
onr ships* such incendiary proceedings would
not be regarded by us as very neighborly or
fraternal. They would lead to retaliatory vio
lence. Yet tbe case supposed, falls far short of
that which norlhern fanaticism has attempted
in the South. It is not ihe mere destruction of
property demanded by abolition; but tlie maf-
sacre of men, women and children. Tho phi
lanthropy' of abolition consists in arraying tho
North against the South, in rcducingthe dignity
of white labor by a pinching competition with
black, and in contaminating our political, social
and physical systems, with a vile aomixture of
the black element. The barriers to its pro-;
gross are the great wot king interests of the
North—the Democracy.—N. Y. Globe;
the gold watch of tho dandy but 7J per cent.;
diamonds, gems and cameos, per cent.; and
jewelry, but 20 per cent.
On foolscap writing paper, used by all clas
ses of people, it imposes a duty equal to 97 per
cent.; but gilt paper pays oniy 25 per cent.,
billet doux paper 30 per cent.; and French en
velopes, “plain, ornamented and colored,” 30
per cent.
It compels the planter atul f .rmer to pajr frrim
30 to 150 per cent; on the iron implements
which they use; from 65 to 100 ppf cent, on 1
the sugar they consume; 35 to 170 on the mo- 11 -*
lasses, and 106 to 170 on the salt they have to
purchase.
But it is unnecessary tn multiply instahes of
this enormous extortion upon the producing and
consuming cla s -s, fot tlie benefit of tbe manu
facturers, through tlie instrumentality of the
present tariff And what is the effect of this in
famous system—Infamous; with its piratical de
vices of the minimum and specific duties? It
is to transfer money from the pockets of the
consuniidg classes to the pockets of the manu
facturers. Its tendency is to impoverish the
many, and to enrich the few. Its direct effect
is to create immense f rtuncs for the recipients
of its bounties; while it abstracts the substance
from, and degrades ihe masses of the people.—
It establishes an aristocracy of wealth. Money
brings with it political as well as moral power.
Money brings with it political as weil as moral
power. Tlie rich employers control their de
pendants; they dictate their votes at the ballot-
box; they control their bread, and thus coerce
their subserviance; they weave about them the
web *f inexorable necessity, which makes them
victims of a worse system of slavery than the in
herited servitude of the African.—N. K. Even
ing Post.
Coi-RT Scaxdall.—Wills intimates ih 6nb
ofhisletters that it is not improbable that the
author of “Mrs. Caudle’s Lectures” took hi»
idea from the Palace, and therefore this most
popular hit of literature of the time ’• a very
fair exponent of her Maj sty’s re gn. The
hereditary mndnet-s of the family makes it dan J
gerons to oppose her wishes, and a remons;
trance or objection is seldom vrh nred upon.—^
If Victoria escapes being called Qurcri Caudle
in history, it will be by Ihe alacrity with whifch
oblivion disposes of gossip—for there are a
thousand and one s cries afloat of her Majes
ty's “having her way,” to tlie great inconve-
niente of Prince Caudle^
Introduction of Indian Corn into Great
Britain.— From an article in the Now York
Courier and Enquirer, we perceive tfiat “ no;
lice has keen given of an intention; «t tho next
session of Parliament, to move for tlie admis;
sion of Indian Corn into Great Britain free of
Men will sometimes be driven to thd
performance bf an act of simple justice to
themselves and their fellow beings by nothing
less than absolute necessity. Such is the caso
in this instance, and nlihough the inttoductieh
of this valuable article of consumption intd
Great Britain will no doubt be attended with
difficulties on account of the remission bf
of the duty and the vulgar prejudices
against its use as an article of food for hu
man beings, the benefits to be derived from its
introduction must be of the highest and most
incalculable importance to the people bf that
country. The laboring population of England
not being able to eat wheateo bread on account
of its high price under the operation of the
Corn Laws, they are obliged to find substitutes
i n other articles far inferior but cheaper. The
introduction of Indian Corn would furnish them
an agreeable and substantial substitute which
after being habituated to it, they would prefer
to the wheat bread. In addition jo the advan
tages which E' gland worid derive fiom this
movement, it would be of very great impor-*
tancetothe U. ited States. Raising far more
of this staple than we can dispose of at home,
the opening ofa new markt t, such as England
would add much to ourwea'th, and thus, in the
language of the Courier and Enquirer, the in-
Rich—The property belong.ng to Harvard terest of both countries would be greatly prom-
University is s nd to worth $700,000; | ted by the step projxs.-d.’—Petcrslurg Rep.