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The following little tale is none the worse for
bi'intiold;
THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUM.
An old clock that hr.d stood for forty years in a
farmer's kitchen without giving its owner any
cause of complaint, early one. Summer’s morning,
before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped.
Upon this the dial plate—if we may credit the ta
ble— changed countenance with alarm ; the wheels
remained motionless with surprise ; the weights
hung speechless ; each member felt disposed to I
lay the blame on the others. At length the dial
instituted a formal inquiry as to the cause of the
stagnation, when hands, wheels and weights with
one voice protested their innocence.
But now a faint ties, was heard below from the
pendulum, who thus spake ; T confess myself to
be the sole cause of the present stopping, and I
am williug, for the general satisfaction, to assign
my reason. The truth is that lam tired of tick
ing* Upon hearing this, theold clock becanieso
enraged that it was on the very point of striking.
‘Las' wire!’ exclaimed the dial plate, holding
hip its hands. ‘Very good !* replied the pendu
lum. ‘lt is vastly easy for you, Mistress Dial,
who, as every body knows, always set yourself a
bove me—it is vastly easy for you, I say, to ac
cuse other people of laziness—you, who have
nothing to do all the days of your life but to stare
people in the face, and to amuse yourself with
watching|all that is going otrin the kitchen. Think
I beseech you ; how you would like to be shut up
for life in this dark closet, and wag backwards and
forwards year after year as 1 do.*
“As to tliat,* said the dial, ‘is there not a w in
dow in your house ou purpose for you to look
through ?’ ‘For all that,’ resumed the pendulum,
‘it is very dark here; and, although there is a win
dow, T dare not stop even for an instaet to look at
it. Besides, 1 atn really tired of my way of life,
an/1 if you wish I’ll tell you how I took this dis
gust at my employment. I happened this morn
ing to be calculating how many times l should
have to tick in the course of only tile next twenty
four hours. Perhaps some of you above there
can give me the exact stmt.’
The minute hand, being quick at figures, pre
sently replied. ‘Eighty-six thousand four-hun
dred times.’—‘Exactly so,” replied the pendulum.
‘Well, l appeal to you all if the very thought of
this was nst’enough to fatigue one. And, when
I began to multiply the strokes of one day by those
of mouths and years, really it is no wonder if I
felt discouraged at the prospect; so after a great
deal of reasoning and hesitation, thinks I to my
self I’ll stop.’
The dialfould scarcely keep its countenance
durir * this language, but resuming its gravity
thus replied; -Dear Mr. Pendulum, lam really
astonished that such a useful, industrious person
as yonrself should have been overcome by this
sudden action. It is true you have done a great
deal of work in your time—so have we all, or are
likely to do, which althouh it may fatigue us to
think of, tlve question is whether it will fatigue to.
—Would you now do me the favor to givs about
half a dozen strokes, to illustrate m v argument V
The pendulum complied, and ticked six times
in its usual pace. “Now,’ resumed the dial. ‘I
may be allowed to inquire if ihat exertion was at
all fatigu ; ng or disagreeable to you V —‘Nbfin the
least,’ replied the pendulum. ‘lt is not of six
strokes that I complain, not of sixty, out of mill
ions.—-Very good,’ replied the -dial; ‘but recol
lect that though yon may think of a million
strokes in an instant, you are required to execute
but ona, and tha’ h vvover often you may hereaf
ter have to swing, a moment will be given you to
-swing in.’ Thm consideration staggers me, 1 con
•fess,’said the pem’iihim. ‘Then 1 hope,’ resu
med the dial plate, ‘we shall all immediately re
turn to our duty, for the maids will lie in bed if we
stand uUiug'thus.’
Upon tins fhj weights, who had never been ac
cused flight conduct, used all their influence in
urging him to proceed, when as with one consent
the wheels began, to turn, the hands began to
more, the pendulum began to swing, and to its
credit ticked as loud as ever, while a red beam of
the rising sun that stream through a hole in the
kitchen Shining full upon the did plate, it bright
ened up as if nothing had heen the matter.
EXTRAORDINARY ANGLING ADVEN
TURE.
A few summers ago 1 wa3 pursuing my favor
ite amusement, when I met with the following lu
dicrous incident, over the recital of which, I
have since had many a hearty laugh, in which, I
have no doubt,-my readers will join. The scene
■of my adventure was a small hike in Perthshire,
beautifully situated at the head of a richly wood
ed glen’ and the undulating hills, which slope
■down to the water’s edge, are clothed with the no
ble specimens of the Scotch fir; the reflection of
the lofty trees, the grey »ock, and the purple heath
er, upon the quiet deep water, gives the picture
the cast of the most intense solitude, and the spir
its gradually sink into a state ot melancholy pleas
ure. It is the recollection of wandeting amid
such scenes asthis which produces a sort of man
ia for fishing which we often see in some anglers,
and surely it is an e>disable one where the ima
gination can revel on the wonderful and stupen
dous works of our Creator. I was diligently
working the silvery trout, with which niy hodk
•was baited, when my reflections were disturbed bv
alow muttering from the woods behind me. 1
had not listened long, before a k»ud crashing n
mong the branches warned me that it was tim® to
cut; and, as a bull is an ugly customer at all times,
I seized my rod, and dashed for the nearest twee ;
but a pike at this moment, not aware of my alarm,
followed my example in dashing for my v a lt.
There was no time to spare, so letting the reel run,
with the aid of a little gymnastics, 1 established
myself firmly on the first stock ofa stout pine, and
viewed with great satisfaction, my savage blear-ey
ed foe just in time to he too late ; he seemed to be
determined, however, on a blockade, and kept tear
ing upthe-turf, and putting his broad forehead a
gainst my house of refuge, giving me a good sam
ple ofhis bloody intentions. My attention was
quickly recalled to my aquatic friend, who was
making most woeful depredations on mv line,
•which, fortunately, couM boast of nearly three
acore yards and ten; he had nearly run it out, and
it was with joy that I saw him his huge car
case a couple of feet out of water, with the view of
breaking lus bonds by the weight of Ids fall. I
■was prepared for this; and, after a few wild and
unruly runs, he became much more tractable. It
was out of my power to come to terms so long as
•old homey stood sentry below, so I sat verycom
fortably play fish ! A t this part of the lake
tho water covers a shallow bank to the dejrth ofa
few mch«M. It was here, after in vain seeking to
case himself of mv steel, he made his last and
giaua struggle for liberty. He took a furious
dash, sprung and rolled about, and, at length run
lumselfagtouud. pjeducmg an infernal commo
tion in the water, which he lashed into foam a
round him. It was not long before the bull’s fan
cv was tickled; and possibly reasoning from my
earnest attention to the pike, that there existed
some connexion between us, made furiously at
his new acquaintance. Here commenced one of
the rarest combats that was ever fonght, but the
knight of the water proved himself more than a
match for his more lordly antagonist. However
skilful I may be in playing my fish, I could not
pretend to have any power over the motion of t lie
assailants, but sat almost splitting with laughter,
whilst my line, which was immediately broken,
was twisted round the horns and legs of the bull,
who was going right and left into the stranded
fish, who was notwithstanding, scarcely hurt, as
nothing very effectual could be done against his
shiny sides* whilst every now and then he would
turn to pin his enemy. An opportunity was not
long in occurring, and his loug jaws and hooked
teeth w ere firmly fixed in the nether lip of the en
raged aud terrified animal, Who, bounded along
the shore, tossing his head, arid using every effort
to get rid ofhis tonnenter; but it was all in vain,
his rearing and his rage was equally useless.
I was quickly on terra firms, and leaving my
rod dashed on in pursuit; in which I was joined
by two herdsmen with their dogs who had come
upon hearing the noise. \V hat is coursing, is
fox-hunting, what is any chase that can be named
in comparison with the sport we were engaged in?
—These was the bull tearing on erect, and bellow
ing with pain, and three dogs keeping up with
him and every now ami hen venturing a spring
at his nostrils, or at the dead and torn fish which
still appended to him, his grasp in death as deadly
as in life. This however, could not last loug,
and the poor bull, completely exhausted, sank
down vanquished by "a dead fish. The dogs were
taken off' him, as likewise the remains of my pike,
which could not have been much short of twenty
pounds, and it was so torn as to be fit only for the
dog s, who did not, however, seem to relish it.
The herdsmen were much amused with the reci
tal of my adventure, and assured me the bull would
quickly recover from the efl'ccts ofhis spree r and
such another, 1 hardly think, he would wish to
be engaged in again.
OUR COUNTRY.
BV 'JUDO? STORY
tVhen we recollect what lias been, what is, how
is it possible not to feel a profound sense of the
responsibilities of this Republic to all future ages!
What vast motives press upon us for lofty effort!
What brilliant prospects invite our enthusiasm !
What solemn warnings at once demand our vigi
lance and moderate our confidence!
The old world had already revealed to us, in
its unsealed books, the beginning and end of all
its marvelous struggles in the cause of liberty.
Greece! lovely Greece ! the land of scholars and
the nurse of arms, where sister republics, in fair,
procession, chanted the praise of liberty and the
good—where is she ? Her arts are no more.
The last sad relics of her temples are but the bar
racks of a ruthless soldiery ; the fragments of her
columns and palaces-are in the dust, yet beautiful
in ruins ! She fell not when the mighty were
upon her. Her sons were united at Thermopylte
and Marethon, and the tide ofher triumph rolled
back upon the Hellespont. She fell not by the
hands of iter own people. The man of Mace
donia did not tho work of destruction. Tt was al
ready done by her own corruptions, banishments,
and dissensions.
Rome! republican Rome ! whose eagles glanc
ed in the rising sun—where and what is she?
The eternal city yet remains proud even in her des
olation, noble in decline, venerable in the majesty
of religion, and calm in the composure of death.
The malaria has but travelled in the parts won
by the destroyer. More than eighteen centuries
have mounted over the loss of the empire. A
moral disease was upon her before Caesar had pas
sed the Rubicon, and Brutus did not restore her
health by the deep probings of the Senate Cham
ber. The Goths, and Vandals, and Huns, the
swarms of the North, completed only what was be
gun at home. Romans betrayed Rome. The le
gions were bought and sold, but the people paid
the tribute-money.
•Amd where are the Republics of modern times,
which clustered afound immortal Italy? Venice
and Greece exist but in name. The Alps, indeed,
look down upon the bry.e and peaceful Swiss, in
their native fastness; but the guai anty of their free
dom is their weakness, and not their strength.
The mountains ure not easily retnined. When
the invader comes, he moves like an avalanche,
carrying destruction in his path. The peasantry
sink before him. The country, too. is too poor
for plunder, and too rough for valuable conquest.
Nature presents her eternal barrier on every side
to check the wantonness of ambition. And Swit
zerland remains, with her simple institutions, a
military road to climates scarcely worth a perma
nent possession, and protected by the jealousy of
her neighbors.
We stand the latest, and, ifwe fall, porbablv the
last example of self-government by the People,
We have begun it under circumstances of the
most auspicious nature. We are in the vigor of
youth. Our growth has never been checked by
the oppression of tyranny. Our constitutions have
never been enfeebled by the vices or luxuries of
the world.
Such as we are, wo have been from the begin
ing ; simple, hardy, intelligent, accustomed to self
government -and self-respect. The Atlantic roils
between us and a formidable foe. Within our
own territory, stretching through many degrees of
latitude, wc have the choice of many products,
and many means of independence. The govern
ment is mild—the press free. Religion is free.
Knowledge reaches, or may reach every home.
What fairer prospect of success, could be presen
ted ? What more is necessary than for the Peo
ple to .preserve what tliey themselves have crea
ted ?
Already has the age caught the spirit of our in
stitutions. It has ascended the Andes, and snuf
fed the breezes of, oceans. It lias infused itself in
the life-blood of Europe, and warmed the sunny
plains of France, and the low lands of Holland.
It has touched the philosophy of Germany and
the North, and moving onward to the South, has
opened to Greece the lesson of better days.
Can it be America, under such circumstances,
tan betray herself? That she is to be added to
the catalogue of republics, the inscription upon
whose ruin is, “they were, but they were hot ?”
Forbid it, my countrymen. Forbid it, Heaven.
1 call upon you Fathers, by the shades ofyonr
ancestors, by the dear ashes which repose in this
precious soil, by all you hope, to be, resist every
project of disunion ; resist every attempt to fetter
your conscience, or smother your public schools,
or extinguish your system of public instruction.
I call uponyou, Mothers, by that which never
fails in woman, the love of your offspring, to teach
TS2U GEORGIA MIRROR.
•them, as they climb your knees to lean on your
bosom, the blessing of liberty. Swear them at
the altar, as with their baptismal vows, to be true
to their country aud never forsake her.
I call upon you. young men, to remember
whose sons you are, whose blood flows in yoiw
veins. Life can never be too short which brings
nothing but disgrace and oppression. Death
never comes too soon, if necessary, in defence of
the liberties of our country.
From the Southern Rcorcder.
A task for Philosopher t, Chemists, atul others—
a fact to be relied on. —On the laud of Mr. Joseph
Smith, in this county, there is a largp rock of
considerable ength and breadth, that extends
across the Spring branch, and had all the appear
ance of a solid rock. On the 20tli ult. about 1
o’clock, there was a noise heard resembling the
running of horses, aud in a short time a report was
heard, and afterwards two more reports, and on
examination, the rock was found to he bursted in
several directions to a considerable extent, and
even, where it went under the ground, the earth
i c/it . Several large pieces were thrown to a con
siderable distance. Many persons have been to
see it, auil every examination ha3 been made that
they could, to see if there could be any discovery
Os sulpher, and nothing of the kind can be detec
ted. A negro woman that was at file spring,
states that during the time of the explosion, there
was a kiud of mist or smoke above the rock in the
air. The reports were heard for some distance.
If any one doubts die truth of this, they will
please call and see. WM. MOSELEY,
Henry county, Sept. 6tli, 1836.
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT PROFIT.
On the 18th of August the State debt of Penn
sylvania, as officially ascertained, was $24,030,00
3. 32, very nearly the whole of which has been ex
pended by the State in the oonstructioii of works
of Internal Improvement—Turnpike Roads, Ca
nals and Rail Roads,—and when the works which
the State is now prosecuting are finished her debt
will rise to full $30,000,000. This at tire first
blush would appear to be an enormous burthen
for any State to sustain, and yet it is the result of
the voluntary action of the people, who by their
representatives in the Legislature have willed that
the debt should be contracted on their behalf.
The sound wisdom of tire policy which lias with
so liberal a hand expended million after million in
the es’ablishmenf. of artificial channels of trade
that penetrate every part of Pennsylvania as she
was before that policy was commenced, aud what
she has since become under its magic-working in
fluences. The increased value of property of ev
'cirv description lias already indirectly paid the
debt many times over. In fact, no true estimate
can be made of the amount of benefits which lias
resulted to the people of Pennsylvania from their
Internal Improvement system, and it will be rec
ollected, too, that each successive year increases
in a rapidly progressive ratio the vast aggregate of
prosperity flowing from this source. But it is not
only indirectly that the works of Pennsylvania are
productive. The direct revenue derived from
toils thus far in the fiscal year is nearly SBOO,OOO.
and by the period of its termination it will proba
bly reach $1,000,000. Had not the freshet taken
plnco which in Jltno lust doetrnyed thirty miles* <*f
the Canal on the Junistn, and has proved a seri
ous drawback to the business and revenues of the
Main Line, there is but little doubt that the toils
of the year would have reached 81,250,000* or
more—making a gross return of five per cent, on
the whole amount oftlie State’s debt. The prin
cipal portion of the revenue from tolls is derived
from that part of the puidic works known as the
Main I fine—extending from Philadelphia to Pitts
burg. The Canals above the .Tunisia, including
those on both Branches, costing about 85,000,-
000, have produced but little revenue to the State
for want of tin appropriate outlet from Columbia
directly down to the Chesapeake. That outlet is
now in the course of construction, and its comple
tion will at once bring such an amount of new
trade into action that the State’s revenue from
tolls in 1840 will be but little if any short of $2.
000,000 —Baltimore American .
THE MISSISSIPPI CROPS FAILING.
We copy the following gloomy intelligence
from the NatchczgCourier of tho 12th inst:
The statements we made in our paper of Mon
day, relative to the cotton crop, was predicated on
information received last week. We learn since
then, from good authority, that the prospect is
even worse than it was then anticipated. Notonlv
have all the forms fallen off, but a great many of
the young bolls, and very many half grown bolls
are forced open by the drought, which don’t yield
half the usual quautity of cotton. The northerly
i winds w hich have prevailed since the Ist inst. with
the unusually cold weather of the 2d and 3d have
had effects on the plant similar to those produced
by a frost. The leaves have all turned red, and
many of them have fallen off. Vegetation is en -
tirely checked, and nothing short of a week’s rain
can resuscitate the plant. It is doubtful whether
a rain now would benefit the crop; for it is too
late for the fruit of (he second growth, even shoul J
the fall be a late one. But at present there is
every indication jqf a long, protracted drought,
and our planters must be content with rery short
crops. It is the prevailing opinion at present that
they will be shorter (acre for acre) than in any
previous year, since the period of the rot.
This information we obtain from some of our
most experienced planters in this neighborhood,
but would be glad to learn that it is applicable only
to this county. We fear, however, it is strictly
true, in relation to all the upland cotton in this
staMt. The earlier information is obtained on this
subject, the better for all concerned—holders of
stocks in Europe, as well as growers in America.
A continuance of the present drought, for a week
longer, would make the crops of this county the
shortest ever produced. Many of our planters
would.nou? lie willing to compound for one-third
less than they raised last year; and there is every
Veason at present to apprehend a continuance
of the drought for a fortnight or more.
Female. Heart. —The female heart may be com
pared to a garden, which, when cultivated, pre
sents a continued succession of fruits ami (lowers,
to regale the soul and delight the eye: but, when
neglected, producing a crop of the most noxious
weeds; large and nourishing, because their growth
is in proportion to the w armth and richness of the
soil from which they spring. Then let this ground
be faithfully cultivated *, let the mind of the young
and lovely female he stored with useful knowledge,
and the influence of woman, though undiminished
in pow»r, will h« Itke “the diamond of the desert,”
sparkling and pure, whether surrounded hy the
sands of desolation, forgotten and unknown, or
pouring its refresbihg streams through every ave
nue of the social and moral fabric.
From the So than Recorder.
The savannah Georgian has recen’ly exhibited
a more reckless course of defamation, in regard
to the Chief Magistrate of the State, than it lias
been our fortune to have witnessed in Georgia,
since tire commencement of our editoral career.
So regardless of the commonest rules of decorum
and of decency, has that priut been for the last
few months, that we had detei mined to allow it to
pass unoticed by us, (if sanctioned by the real
Editor,) to sink itself into that place iu the esti
mation of the people, which sucli a course sooner
or later inevitably prostrates the press that adopts
it. We did so, too, because we knew that the
prapei Editor of the Georgian was absent, and
that upon his return, we hoped (as we still do) he
would take the first opportunity to retrieve his
press from the position into which the vandalism
of his reckless substitute had brought it in his
absence. For proof of these statements it is
sufficient only to refer to the forged advertisement,
purporting to he from the Executive Department
of the State, aud which was so much ofa forgery
as to find its way, with notes of surprise, as to
what such a document meant, even into Niles’
Register, which professedly only embodies in its
columns official and public documents. A pro
duction of which we will only remark, if the wri
ter does uot blush upon its perusal, we are sorry
for him.
But we are overruled in our determination in
regard to tills matter, \>y the studied effort of the
Georgian to misrepresent the official conduct of
the Executive, in reference to a matter in which
our fellow-citizens in one portion of the State are
vitally concerned, and to whom, as they are within
the immediate influence of the Georgian, it is
due, that we should expose the utter imposition
which is attempted to be practised upon them by
it. We will take up the Georgian’s charges, iu
detail, and leave the reader, to judge of its veraci
ty by the specimen before them.
“it will be recollected (says the Georgian of the
13th that the murder in Ware happened about
the very time when his excellency ordered the
troops to be discharged, and before he could pos
sibly have been informed that Gen. Taylor was iu
position.”
To tile first branch of the sentence, we have to
say that no murders have been committed in Ware
since the discharge of the militi i. The murders
iu Ware were committed on the 22d July, at
which lime Col. Hillard of Ware, was in command
of five companies ; nor were the orders of the
Governor, for the discharge of his men, received
until the Gtli August.
Iu reply to the latter clause of the sentence,
which is, “that his Excellency, at the time of the
murders in Ware, which occurred on the 22d
July, could, not possibly have been informa 1 that
Gen. Taylor was in position,” we reply by the
following extract from an official letter of Gen.
Taylor to the Governor, superscribed Head-quar
ters, Army of the South, Camp Gilmer, near the
mouth of the Suwanouchee, 1 Fare count//, July
13 til, 1838. “I have the honor to inform yon
that I reached this place ou the 3th instant, and
am now here witli two companies of Infantry ami
one of Dragoons---the latter of which, with one
of the Infantry companies, will continue to occupy
this position. One company of Infantry will be
located at some suitable point inteimedh te be
tween tiiis and Traders’ Hiil on the St. Mary’s
river. A company of Dragoons is now on tho
march for the vicinity of Waresboro, where it will
take a position to protect that neighborhood A
company of militia is also employed to act as
guides and spies for the troops opperatiug in this
quarter.
•■I flatter myself that this force will be sufficient
for the defence of the region around the swamp,
by confining the Indians to it, or cutting them up,
should they attempt to leave it, as there will be
reconnnitering and scouting parties constantly in
motion ; but should it prove otherwise, Maj. Dear
born, who locates the company of Dragoons near
Waresboro’, is empowered to muster into the ser
vice, such an additional militia force, as may at
time be required.”
After some details in relation to the supplies,
Ac. of the troops Gen. Taylor continues:
“The disposition above having been completed.
I shall return through East Florida, to Tampa
Bay, where I shall be happy to receive any com
munications you may think proper to address to
me.”
Here we find, that not only was it possible for
the Governor to hear that Gen. Taylor was “in
position,” but ill addition to that fact, he actually
was informed ofhis depart uxe from the “position,”
having made every arrangement necessary for the
defence of the citizens from t} se Okefanokee In
dians.
But, says the Georgian, “his Excellency’s
knowledge (at tins period, the 22d July,) exten
ded to the fact that Gen. Taylor had been at Black
Creek and was moving in the direction of the
Okefanokee swamp.” Now where did the Geor
gian derive this fact of his from? He seems to
be accurately acquainted with the official intelli
gence of the Governor, even to the specifications
of places, elates and movements. But nnfortune
ately for the Georgian his whole account of facts,
Ac. are utterly untrue. Gen. Taylor never com
municated at all with the Governor from Black
Creek, nor uid his Excellency’s knowledge ex
tend to the “fear,” of his being there, nor that
“he was moving in the direction of the Okefano
kee.” (Ten. Taylor’s communication is dated
from Ware county, in Georgia, and at the time
the Georgian imagines Gen. Taylor was moving
from Black Creek towards the Okefanokee, lie
had established his posts in Ware county, com
municated his arrangements to the Governor, and
being satisfied that all that was necessary had
been accomplished, had actually returned to
his post in Florida. So much for the security of
the Georgian, on the Black Creek movements.
To put the matter beyond all cavil however, the
Governor of Georgia was officially informed by
the assistant Adjutant General of the Army of the
south, dated the 7th July, 1838, that Gen. Taylor
had previous to that date, sent troops and pro
visions for the defence of our citizens. What
will the Georgian say now, to the impossibility of
the Governor’s having a knowledge of Gen Tay
lor’s being in position ? But enough on this
point.
Again ; the Georgian says. “But why is the
letter ot General Taylor suppressed ? Why is it
n6t laid before ihe people as the means of affor
ding light npou tlris subject ?” To this we reply.
Gen. Taylor’s letter has not been suppressed, as
the Georgian politely expresses itself; but was
laid before the people in the public prints of Mil
ledgeville, shortly after it was received. So much
for the Georgian’s suppression.
Again says the Georgian, the organ at Milledge
ville, (if the Georgian alludes by this term to our
coteuiporary and frieud the Georgia Journal, or
to the Southern Recorder, we would say, \ e
claim only to be the organs of truth and j U3 _
tice,) was fully sensible that his Excellency had
committed -an error in discharging the troops as
precipitately.
Another error of the Georgians. We should
have said the Governor did commit a most egre
gious and shameful error if he had continued the
militia iu service, from their homes and occupa
tions, and at the expense of tlie State, when he
was assured bv the pioper officers of the United
States Government, appointed for the defence of
our border, that such service was wholy useless
such steps having been taken by them as to en
sure the defence of the citizens against the Ok«-
fanokee Indians, and the further assurance that
the militia should be mustered into the service
should their aid be required. This would have
been indeed an error, upon which the Georgian
might have built with some confidence, to injure
the character of the Chief Magistrate of the
State.
Again: “Many lives of our citizens may have
been saved, had his Excellency not have dischar
ged the troops at a time wheu lie was entirely j<r.
norant of the position of Geu. Taylor.” To the
first clause of ibis precious sentence, we say, not
so, Mr. Georgian. No lives of our citizens
“could possibly” have been saved by retaining the
militia after the time they were discharged for
none of our citizens have lost their lives either in
Ware, or any where else, by the Indians, since
that discharge took place. The murders of our
citizens in Ware were committed on the 22d Jnlv •
none since—the discharge of the militia took
place on the 6th of August. Where does the
truth lie now, Mr. Georgian ? The truth of the
latter clause of the sentence, viz: the Governor's
discharge ofthe troops, as the Georgian says,
“at a time when he was entirely ignorant of the
position of Gen. Taylor” is fully answered by
the communication ot the Adjutant General of
the Army to Governor Ulmer, dated the 7th July,
and by Gen. Taylor’s letter to the Governor, of
the 13th of the same month, from Ware. How
can men be so reckless of their own consciences,
as to make such unqualified assertions, not oniy
without proof or information but absolutely in the
face of it—for if the Georgian lias not seen Gen
eral Taylor’s letter, it ought to have done so as
a public journalist. The Georgian concludes with
a flourish equal in veracity to all that has gone be
fore it, about “the lives of our citizens so unjust
ifiably abandoned to the blood thirsty savages,”
Ac. Ac.; all of which romance of the Georgian’s,
we have fully answered in what lias gone before.
We have thus exposed the issue of misrepre
sentation ot the Georgian, and we have now only
to ask of the citizens of that section of Georgia,
what faith or confidence can they hereafter place
in any statement from a source tiiat could be guil
ty of such an article as that to which we have re
plied—in which truth is utterly disregarded, and
justice and common faith put 10 scorn. We leave
them to pass the proper sentence on such con
duct; but will not close, without again referingto
the absence of the Editor, who, had he been pre
siding over his paper, we are wholly unprepared to
believe, would have suffere I such an article to
have appeared in his paper—or, at least, in the
editorial columns of it.
T/IE TRUE STATE OF THE CASE.
The Van Buren p ipers are crying aloud, be
cause Gov. Gilmer in his official capacity, addres
sed a letter to Horace Everett, the Abolitionist,
Chairman of the Committee on Indian affairs.—
Now for the true state of the case. Who ap
pointed Everett to preside over tint. Committee ?
A V.is RuiucS Bi*f.yker or the House or Rur
rkskStativks. Who submitted to his kind keep
ing the interests of Georgia ? The leaders of
tue \an Buren Party. With whom else, ou the
Indian Committee, could Gov. Gilmer confer?
With no one. The truth in, the Van Buren par
ty compelled him to communicate with Everett,
or desert the interest of the State. Either of
which was sufficient to enable Tommy llaynes,
and men of equally clastic consciences, to fabri
cate falsehoods by the score. The party laid a
trap torthe Governor, but to their chagrin lie
would not step into if. He perhaps may have
prefcired to write to Everett on the subject of our In
dian Relations, (for he addressed him on no other,)
rather than permit tlie rights of the citizens of
Georgia to be violated, and their purses plundered
by a corrupt administration. The blame, then,
of close conference with Everett, is to be laid upon
James K. Polk, and Martin Van Buren, and not
upon Governor Gilmer.— Columbus Enquirer,
The result of the election in Maine shows what
odds the people have to contend against when the
“Government” is in the field. The Whig vote is
nearly 6000 larger than last year, and yet the V.
B. vote is nearly 3000 more.* A thousand to 1800
office-holders were iu the field, actively engaged
in interfering with the election, and running in
foreign voters to overpower the resident voters.
In another respect, it exhibits the power of tho
“Government,” we use the word in the Jackson
sense. Eighteen months .ago, the divorce was
one of the most odious measures to the Y r an Bu
ren party ol Maine, that could be conceived 01.
It was recommended by the President, and it
forthwith- became the great Democratic ineasi re,
and all who would not support it were denounced
as Federalists. Does this wonderful revolution,
obviously effected by the Federal Executive, give
any countenance to the assertion of Mr. Calhoun,
that the power of the Executive is exhausted ?
On iho contrary, does it not show that Executive
patronage and influence are still as omnipotent as
ever for mischief?
A lady who has found the following remedy for
the prevention of bed bugs, w ishes to make it
public,—After cleansing tlie bedstead thorouh
iy, rub it over with hog’s lard. The lard should
be rubbed on with a woolen cloth. Bugs will not
infest such a bedstead for a whole season.
Tied Ants. —A small piece of camphor, laid in
any place infested hy these troublesome insects,
is said to cause them to make a precipitate re
treat.
A joke for the Ladies. —The editor of a paper
iu Providence lately informed his readers, that
the ladies always pull oil'the left stocking last-
This, as may be supposed, created some little stir
among his fair readers, and, while in positive terms,
they denied the sta ement, they declared that he
had no business to know it, even if such was the
fact, and pronounced him no gentleman. ll®
proves it, however, hy a short argument. “When
one stocking is pulled oil first, there is another
left on ; and pulling off this is taking the left stock
ing off last."