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State, and beneficial to their interests, harp
been signally defeated. Not withstand'!):,
all the pretences set up before the flection
of discaiding mere party purposes iu the
periorui.nice of ttie iui|>oriaiit duties de
volving on tins body—notwithstanding the
general desire of the people that such
should be the character of the Convention
as plainly indicated by the elections, yet
we regret to say that it was very soon obvi
ous in the most casual Otis'* ver, that the
majority no sooner realiz 'd tiiat they were
the majority, than they determined to make
it tell, in its effects on the political parties
and power in the State. Such was even,
in some instances, opeuiv avowed in the
Conveniio 5 And ni cotJfomr ty with such
res dill ions, ill: people iiave nuly to cast
their eyes over the arrangement of the Sen
atoiial districts proposed, tc feel assured
that these objeetj have been carried out in
all their enormity. By the best calculation
that c an now be arrived, at, the State [lights
party will be probably placed in the Sen
ate of from eight to ten, and in the House
in a certain minority—probably of 20—but
to what extent we cannot yet tell.
Naw, the people have only to reflect on
the fact, that by the elections of the two
last years, the Governor’s election and the
Congressional election, both by a general
vote of the people of the State; and the
last Senatorial elections, by a vote of the
in lividual counties, the Suite Mights party
is prove.l to be a majority es the people of the
S'dt.e, —a:i 1 then to reflect that by this par
ty arrangem mt, this m ijority of the pen
pic is thrown into almost hopeless minority
ii the Legislature—to feel that this Con
vention !tis struck ad • ally blow at the ve
rv first principleofll >. >idi • ii Govern.nent
—. ivert.ir i.ug the primary principle of our
institutions, by ordaining that to subserve
party purposes. Tin; miSoritv of the
ffopl:. SHALL oovkkn aSd coSthol the
>1 iJORU-y OF THE PEOPLE —THAT Til E FEW
shall GO.'EKifon the ham - . The very’dis
tiuguisliiug characteristic, and essence of
Ants tocrac v.
N r vas’ his minstrious outrage cotnmif
ted because the same reduction could not
be more equally effected. By way of ilius
tntion, let us t; ke an example : It will ne
seen that the majority have tied together
the counties of Troup and Harris as one
district, and Meriwe h'raud Talbot as an
other. Now it is only necessary to cast
our eyes on the map of the State to perceive
that the counties thus tied together, are
most inconveniently united. Mountains,
even,separate them, it w s proposed to
remedy the evil by making the more na
tural union of the Counties of Troup and
Meriwether, on the one hand and Harr s
and Talbot on the other, the intercourse be
tween which districts would have been ea
sy and uninterrupted. Yet notwithstan
ding tic overwhelming majority created
for the minority party til the people by the
general arrangement, as this proposal might
operate to give the State Rights party a
chance of carrying these districts in the
Senate, still leaving tiie iniuorty in the de
cided majority in that body, and iu the
Legislature, and notwithstanding the al
iito-H absolute necessity for such a change
iu order to suit the convenience of 'he peo
ple ol the districts created, yet the aristo
cratic principle was unavailing; party
strength wmi lbe slightly effected, and
the proposal was rejected. Thi s is the
actin.i of the People's Convention, to reduce
the Legist it tire upon far and impartial
principles! This istke jrs t ice of the minor -
tt/ party of the. Suite, who by the tiro easy
ci i li i y of the people, have been pemitled lo
Jorri the. i a ijardy in the recent Convention
It intis! not be understood that we include
iu our condemnation, those of the State
11 gilts party who finally voted in favor
ol this measure : it was not the child ot
t'l hr love ; be it understood, that they voted
tor it, not because it was what they would
h. wished, but because it ivas the b'st
t iev could obtain from the unyielding par
ty selfishness of our political opponents to
effect the great object desired by the peo
ple. For tliis attempt to subvert our gov
ernment in its lit udamcutal principle, that
of the m ijority governing—for this attempt
to fasten tiie very essence of Ari .tocrncy
upon the free people of Georgia, tlint the
lew shall rule the many—for all this, the
Union I) n ic’iiry of Georgia, have to ac
count to the free and enlightened people of
Georgia, and in their hands « e most cheer
fully leave them.
Although the Union Party has thus stri
ven to defeat the Reduction desired by the
people, by making the measure so unequal
i’id unjust in its operation on the polit
cttl parties of the State ; and notwithstan
ding the entire i, jualityof representation
i. vdt, as it is left bv this measure, it behooves
"in Inends to weigh tha matte* - «•;,!. ilelib
cration, before they decide upon th dr course
iu reference to it. A smaller Legislature
ii so essential, both on the score of econo
my and ol wholesome legislation, that much
will be boruc, both ofinjnstice and inconveni
ence rather than • hat these objects slum I dnot
be effected. t ftcr due deliber
ation, will no doubt do in the premises what
is right—and with them We cheerfully
leave the measure.
* We leave the subject lor the present, but
shad continue its discussion iti subsequent
p ipers, fur there is puite a sufficiency remain
ing untold, both to interest and astonish
the reflecting.
The Directors of the Western Bark
of Georgia, met on Monday last, and be
fore t o’clock on Tuesday evening following,
had committed to tlie flames, upwarls of
two hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars
of their redeemed Bills. Forty thousand
dollars of their issues are still in circulation,
which they are determined to redeem as
soon as possible. The Bank, we are in
formed, by those who are most conversant
with its affairs, is a'together solvent; anti
will again resume bussiucss in some short
time. The Directors meet on the 1 Hth of
the ensuing month. lVestern Georgian.
There is a fanner Boston who keeps
one hundred and fifty hogs on the produce
of his farm, which contains six acres of
land, of which ho tills only about one
half. He does it by feeding them with
potatoes, mangel-witrtz'd. cabbages, yellow
turnips, apples, squashes, pumpkins, ail of
which are boiled in a big kettle set in an
arch, and a little corn and other tueal mixed
in the mess. His hog pens furnish abun
dant manure and keep his land v ry rich.
Every farmer in Maine ought to cultivate
an acre or more of rut.i baga for his sheep,
half aa acre of mangel-wurtzel for his
cows and as many potatoes as convenient.
It seems to be a prevailing opinion that
though cooked food i« far the best for liogs,
it is < i forslnep. Cows we, know prefer boiled
pata oes to raw ones, and they probably do
them the most good; besides a cow can no
more be cho.tkcd with a boiled potatoe, than
von can choak a dog with butter.—Kieti
tucky Journal.
Germvi Literature.—lt is calculated that
there are ten millions of volumes annually
printed in Germany—and there arc upwards
0f59,C0Q authors of one or more books.
THE MIRROR
Bg(P j, (BiW
June I, IHIil,
B'or Governor ,
C II AU LES DOUGH I : RTI .
The last number of the Columbus Sen
tinel and Herald contains a severe and very
unjust criticism upon the 'ecture of Maj. J.
S. Lewis, read before the Columbus Lyce
um, and published in pamphlet form in that
city. We are surprised at the manner in
which this production has been reviewed: a
tone of harshness and illiberal feeling per
vades every line of the reviewer's article,
and, without stopping to scan the merits of
the production, lie puts upon it the sweep
ing endorsement of puerility and bombast.
It is always easier to criticise the productions
of another’s mind, than it is to equal or ex
cel it in composition.
We have not seen the lecture of Maj.
Lewis, but we have long been acquainted
with his literary abilities, and have readwhh
delight many of the masterly and finished
creations of his mind ; we cannot, there
fore believe the opinion so unceremoniously
pronounced by the Sentinel, to be correct,
without stronger reasons than can be found
in the hasty, partial and unfair criticism, if
criticism it can be called, which the editoig
have been pleased to bestow upon Maj. Lew
is’ pamphlet.
Thurston the counterfeiter, who was sen
tenced to the Penitentiary for seven years,
at the last term of the Superior Court in
Muscogee Cos. has escaped from the guard
sent to conduct him to the place of punish
ment. It is not surprising that he should
have made his escape from the guard , as, we
learn it consisted of a solitary old man on
foot. A reward of two hundred dollars is
ofl’e red for the apprehension of the scoun
drel.
MURDER .'
We received a letter yesterday fnom a
friend in Lagrange Troup Cos. Ga. stating
that a murder had been committed near
Ferguson’s store in that County a few days
ago, by a man of the name of Gili'er, on
the body of another named Lindsey. Such
events, however, can hardly be considered
news in Troup County. The murderer has
escaped.
EUROPEAN NEWS.
The hostile relations which the several
European powers nave, for a long time past,
sustained towards each other, have been hap
pily changed into a more peaceable charac
ter, and our gloomy forebodings of the ap
proacliing horrors of a general war, and the
consequent breaking up of the fountains of
civil and religious order throughout the
world, have all been dispelled. The balance
of power has long been a source from which
was anxiously apprehended a terrible strug
gle between tlie kingdoms of Eastern and
Western Europe. Russia, with her sixty
in it 1 ions of Cossacks, has been gradually ad
ding territory after tertitory to her already
stupendous aulk, stretching the bounds of
her dominion in every direction, swallowing
up whole kingdoms in her devouring march,
and threatening ultimately to control thedes
titties of the Eastern hemisphere. Unfor
tunate Poland has long since fallen a victim
to her rapacity, an,) the lemportzlng policy .'
of England, and her once proud name,
scarcely finds a place upon the chart of na
tions. Hungary and Turkey have succes
sively trembled before the approaches of the
imperial army, and the Mediterranean, the
future key to the wealth and luxuries of the
East, like tlie Euxine and the Baltic, would
soon have been swept alone by Russian
fleets. During the enactment of these na
tional scenes Frarce and England, naturally
hostile towards each other, have suspended
their feelings of rivalry, and looked with anx
ious apprehension and jealousy upon the si
lent but continued encroaches of their pow
erful neighbor. One more step on the part
of Russia towards blocking up the trade of
the East, would have been the signal for a
universal struggle among the kingdoms of
Europe. Affairs have stood in this critical
position for several years, but we rejoice to
see, by late arrivals from that quarter, that
the cause of this unhappy condition of affairs
has been removed by courteous diplomacy,
and tlie clouds which have so long been ga
thering in portentous masses upon the po
litical horizon, have all been scattered to the
w inds of heaven. The prospect forja univer
sal peace is more cheering than it has been
for vears, and we hail it w'.th peculiar pleas
ure. Spain alone is still distracted by her
civil and bloody wars, and no hope of peace
or quiet cau ever be entertained, until one
or the other party is exterminated.
THE AGE OF CHIVALRY. •
The good old days of feats and tourna
ments, are about to dawn again in England, as
will be seen by the subjoined extract from
the Liverpool correspondence of the New
York Evening Star.
With the chivalric feats of former times,
we should be glad to w itness a return of that
high tone of honor and morality, that per.
vaded all classes, and characterized that age
of the world. It is true we do not care to
see the institution of Knighthood, and the
pomp and pageantry of Knightly feats re*
established, or the standard of military skill
tnd prowess erecte - * on the ruins of civil oi.
Jer, but it would, indeed, be a glorious con
summation, to oe enabled to hail, iu these
degenerate days, the revival of that high
souled geneiosity and legard for truth ami
justice which glowed in the bosoms of the
Knights and troubadours of the thirteenth
century. “The devotion of the patriot, the
ardor of the warrior, the warmth of the lov
er, the fidelity of the friend, the loyal’y and
truth of the man of honor” sleep not, it is
true, in the graves of Charlemagne and Bay
ard, but the spirit is wanting ; the motives
>f human action derive a tinge and coloring
Voin the universal selfishness of the times,
and men are no longer guided on to high
ind honorable deeds, and led to build up itn
>erishab!e monuments of fame, by an innate
ove of virtue, and regard for the eternal
principles of justice.
We are not among those who sigh over
the degeneracy ofthe times, and lament the
age in which we have fallen, but we do feel
that many of the ennobling traits of our an
cestors have been buried with them, and that
the frankness, honesty, and lovers truth for
truth's sake alone, that governed anil anima
ted them in their intercourse with one ano
ther, shine not so conspicuously among the
ruling principles of their posterity at the
present moment.
Asp I ended tournament will be held
in September, at Eglintonn Castle, in
Ayrshire, Scotland, by the young and gal
lant Archbald William Montgomerie, thir
teenth Earl of Elingtoun. This nobleman’
is not 27, and has a dozen estates with cas
tle on them. The idea, is to have a reg
ular tilt with real armor, after the inodes
of our ancestors. The courtly pageant
will be a splendid one. The Earl will
have as his guests hundreds of his friends,
including the gallantry aud beauty of
both sexes, and the highest ranks. r l here
will be a week’s‘passage of Anns.' Three
days will be devoted to tilting, or charging
wiih the long and cumbrous lance used
300 years ago. There will be 30 knights,
with their esquires (two to each,) and pages.
There will be hawking and hunting, feasting
and fan y balls—-all, iu fact that can receive
the “good old times!” The most beautiful
women of our aristocracy will be prescut
aud with
‘thsir eyes
Rain influence and adjudge the.*
The thirty knigltts are in training—for
the armor is uo trifle to those unaccus
tomed to its weight. ’ Those known to
have given a pledge to ‘hold the field
against all challengers,’ are the Duke i»l
Beaufort, (a married man. but none the
more knight for that,) the Marquis of
Waterford, Hhsboro', Lord forester Lord
Mfreri Paget, lion. Major Hinniker,
Hon. Captain Maynard, Hon. C* Forester,
Sir F. Johnstone. Captains Fiiirbe, La tube,
Houston, Ac. Several ‘Knights’ will appear
as strangers, ami (challenging the field or
particular opponents) will not be known
until the tilt is about commencing. As
this will be by for the most splendid shew
held in this country since the time of
Elizabeth, I shall take care and give yon
occasional information about it and a full
account when it conies off.
The Steamer “GREAT WESTERN,”
it is said, went ahead in fine style at the
laie ConvttQUon, Having in ttyiv one (lUQdrtd
and eighty smaller craft, all heavily laden
with political chicanery and party prejudice.
The squadron was safely conducted into
port, on the I6tb hist. It is not stated, how.
ever, whether the catgo will be received, or
not, by the consignees, it having been as
certained'that the articles on board are spu
rious, and not such as the invoice and bills
of lading call for. After having practiced
such a cheat, it is not presumed that these
same vessels will ever again be employed in
tlie public service. The “Great Western,”
at least ought to be put in stocks, and the
rest laid up in ordinary.
That Buzzard, who has charge of the
Post Office in Lumpkin, says, “birds of a
feather will flock together.” We should
like to know the size of the flock with which
he associates.
THOMAS H. BENTON.
The following portrait ol the Missouri
Senator it from the Second number of the
National Magazine and Republican Review
published at Washington .City. While it
professes to oe only a “characteristic out
line’,’it is certainly as close and correct a
delinintioD of the character of this profound
demagogue as we have ever met with. Af
ter speaking of Mr. Clay and the noble and
commanding position which he occupies in
the Senateand before the eyes of the Amer
ican people, the author thus introduces the
amiable Senator from Missouri:
On the opposite side of the Senate, with
a quizzing glass, through whicn lie does
not look, and pamphlets and public doc
uments piled up around his desk, in all the
consequential array of type and ink doc
umentaiy erudition, our eye falls upon the
square formed figure of Thomas Hart Ben
ton, of Missouri. For years he lias sat ill
that same seat, a sort of fixture in tlie Sen
ate, that nothing can remove—an excres
cence upon its dignity, that fate itself, in a
freak, seems determined to uphold. Mr.
Benton is a singular character, and deserves
frem the attitude he holds to the destiny of
the country, a particular notice at our hands.
We approach tjie discussien with other
feelings than those of pleasure. It is not as
a party man that we shall undertake his
likeness. He is in the ferocious am
bition that stirs within him, any thing but a
special party man, iu the strict subservient
sense of that term. At limes he bows his
head meekly to the cunning influences of
party dictation ; but never for one moment
does the arrow-thought of his w islirs bend
to any other object than its original flight.
tJis ambition has developed itself more
within the last few years, and possibly it
never would have assumed a practical shape,
had it not been for events that we shall
hastily euumcrafe. He had originally
formed to himself the dream of the Pre
sidency, but it is impossible that he then
could have set his aim distinctly and unwa
veringly upon it. No Lucifer that ever fell
knows his own character better than this
gentleman., H e knew .his want of moral in
fluence, and he could not disguise from
others the features of his soul. To come
out openly from the madhouse of his de
sires, would have set the public vigilance
upon him. He would never have been sus
■cted ol virtue, but bunted as a maniac
usurper. But lie waited amid the large
herd of demogogues, contented with the
idea that iiis heart had been magnanimous
enough to aspire to a lofty place.
His industry, extraordinary and hercu
lean, came, unknown to him, to his aid.
Under its heavy bauuer lie walked the Con
gressional Library, and book after book was
devoured not lo benefit tbe broad bright insti
tutions of his country, but to minister to the
passions of ilie gloomy Senator. Loaded
with a massol contused knowledge, his mind
took possession of various departments,
and claimed dominion over the abstruse
stier ce of political economy. Nothing was
digested, nothing clear and wise, but like
the documents that surrounded, and still
surround, ins u’c.k, the folios of the duode
cimos, and the learning of the old records,
were mingled in confused and babel incon
sistency in his brant. Men wondered at the
stock ot bis knowledge, but none r ver could
feel warmed by the effulgence of Ills infor
mation. His reading. Ins deep and mighty
studies, were but the effects of a morbid ap
petite, unregulated by any definite good ob
ject.
While tints loaded with the weight of his
collections, staggering iike Silenus. under
the .vines of many vineyards, the election
"I General Jackson took place. Mr. Ben
lon was startled from the indefinite to the
definite.
A remarkable event had happened : a man
without his talents was master of the very
point w here lie had fixed his eye, and he at
once perceived that, as one Mahomet had
succeedeed, perhaps a Sebastian! Sevi might
accomplish the same glory. Then com
menced the hardening of every feeling;
then the iron grew more compact and solid
in his heart; then lie threw aside the Con
stitution—threw aside every bright star of
national interest ‘hat shamed him bv its
effulgence, aud he stopped into tbe arena,
armed in the mantle of an unsparing and
unflinching selfishness. He studied howto
impose himself, in the shape of a Colossus,
upon the people—he tried every scheme
of subserviency to the god whom they had
set up; he blackened the fair page of con
stitutional history ; he outraged the sanctity
of the national annals; and reckless in mis
chief, with a pertinacity that was worthy of
a holy cause, he endeavored to engraft a
pecuniary system upon the country, entirely
at variance with its interests. He made his
gold currency plan the firm first stepping
stoue to power.
About this period of his life, Mr. Van
Boren become, by a combination of the
most wonderful circumstances, Chief Mag
istrate. Once more the spirit was aroused
iu Mr- Benton—lie again witnessed the sub
lime accident that had made General Jack
son President, and now, he fixes his pale
eye upon the lofty seal until the blood
rushes to his head, his body expands, his
eytgs reel, and wlr!> a hysterical shudder of J
the head, he poises himself iu h’S c?*air to |
stare the gorgeous heaven of iris hope that |
glitters before him. Reader, it is of that
high place that he is now thinking, as ho
sits, with his face flushed aud his eye thick,
before us at this moment.
He has just risen to address the Vice
President. He pulls the sides of his coat
down to his hips—-fixes his shirt-collar—
raises his quizzing glass, that little emblem
of his schemes, that are bordered and cir
cled by a golden vision, :nd with a voice
nasal and harsh, he calls upon the President
for his undivided attention. If there ever
was an unamiable gentleman in this world,
it is yonder Senator, who, with sullen and
monontoous tones, inveighs against the
trulls or ami »|iliiiieis tils oft-be
fore-splintered lance, againsi tlie dust cov
ered flock of sheep. He appeaas to be in a
violent rage. Who has provoked him l
who roused the slumbering agony of post
poned ambition ? who goaded the lion from
his tranquil rest ? No one! Scared by a
chimera, he has sprung upon the floor, and
is indulging j» invectives and declarations,
as bi'ter iiPtheir Source ?s they are harm
less in their effect.
We heart! Mr. Wise the other night, in
hi« analytic speech upon Stvartwout’s de
falcation, utter what we hone may be no
true prophecy, about Mr. Benton. He was
speaking, among other things, of tiie Sub-
Treasnry, aud of Mr. Button’s favorite
project, and to which he sealed, under his
own sign manual, his latest hope. “Sir,”
said Mr. Wise, “I understand that parties
are so organized in this house that you ex
pect to pass the Sub-Treasury. Let that
measure be forced ■through a jaded and
wearied Congress, and you sfcal at once and
forever the destiny of this country. Let
tb»> bill pass, and the result will bo tbo re
election of Mr. Van Buren, and then will
co.lie riie gloomiest day of all, that dreaded
event, pregnant with ruin and desolation,
the election of Thomas Hart Benton.
We responded in our heart, “Heaven
forbid !” and had the virtuous people of the
country heard that conditional prophecy ol
Mr. Wise, they would have joined us in
that response.
In person, Mr. Benton is about five feet
eleven inches—upwards of sixty years of
age , livid complexion when his face is i“
repose—long nose, the Lavatar organ of
despotism—-sharp-pointed chin-—light hair
—small grey eyes, full of disguise—-aud
body thick and powerfully made.
He is extremely awkward in his manner,
and in all liis gestures ; his voice is peculiar
ly unpleasannt.
Mr. Benton has a peculiar way of avoiding
the appearance of listening to the speeche>
of Mr. Clay. There is no man on earth
that he hates so intensely as Mr. Clay ; and
when that gentleman is on the floor, pour
ing out his sarcastic sentences, Mr. Benton
takes up a newspaper and pretends to read ;
a very shallow shaft, for we have watched
hint, and for an hour he has kept his eye on
.a single column. His ear was taking in
every word that fell from Mr. Clay, whom
he bad not the magnanimity to treat with
even parliamentary politeness ;*tha tcheapest
act Congrissional civility. As Mr. Clay
is the representative of the philosophical,
the spirited, honorable, the industry, and
bold independence of the West, so Mr.
Benton !is the representative of a peculiar
class of adventures who, aliens to this coun
try by birth, flock to the regions of the
West, and make, it. in too many cases, the
scene of their national broils aDd combats.
Further than this we will not run the odious
parallel.
Upon the would-be great man, Mr. Niles,
of Connecticut, the writer is still more se
vere. lie has dipped his pen in gall, and
writes with unsparing bitterness and sarcasm.
Tbe picture is wrought out in striking and
forcible colours, and possessed the merit of
being a perfect copy of the original. Tbe
“game” is thus introduced:
I almost fancy that 1 hear pins drop from
ladies bodices, as the Ajax of his party, san
dy-haired Niles of Connecticut, picker of
wafers, rises to wink at the Vice President.
' Mr. Niles has been suspected, (Mr. John
M. Niles, we slmulu hat** said,) oi being a
thorough going parly man. \v e must con
fess our UiaUihiy to deny this common be
lief, ne'er having w<messed anything like iu-
J dependence of parly in ibis i coo wind orator
ami statesman s uce his enhance uj uu tlie
patience of the American Senate. “Who
is that small man standing now before Mr.
Browu of North Carolina, and who Las just
arisen ?’* exclaimed so.ne one iu the gallery.
“Who! That little man with yelltw plush
hair, combed back like 'die hair of a medal
face, with doughy flesh that seems as if
kueeding had been a process of centuries
upon that Indian wrinkled, parchment coun
tenance, uot to leave out the eye. the curious,
t 1 e solemn, the oysterie, the plumb-colored
eye, that looks up from beneath fat wrinkles,
by anatomists called lids, and with neck
cloth as if an enraged cook had bound up
the august Senator in his clothes of office;
black roat, black vest and black ui.mention- I
ables; is that the individual you allude to I”
“Yes sir.” “Why then,” said we, gazing
upon the object of s« much rational, not na
tional curiosity, “that, yes, that individual
revels in the selfi-li luxuiy of being called
Air Ndes, Senator from Connecticut.”—
“Hid you ever bear Mr Niles speak ?” ask
ed we of our excited companion. “No, ne
ver, on my honor.” You amaze me, but
you have beard of his speaking ?’’ “Never,
I assure you, sir.” “You are quizzing me,
sir, you surely have heard of the great Mr.
Niles'speeches.” “Ah, yes, I do remember
that lately I was in a trunk factory ”
“Ah!” interrupted we, “enough—we un
derstand- they were packing up his speech
es to send to Europe—really capital, a most
famous way ol lauding Our public characters
in these trunk makers—they do, indeed, put
a lock and key on the thoughts of greatness,
preserving them for the silent cdntemplation
of over awed posterity and trunk-picks.”—
Our friend did not hear us, for he was listen
ing lo the very gentleman himself, the volu
ble Senator, tbe “vox et prteterin nihil.” It
seems that Mr. Clay had said something ra
ther severe, aud as Nr. Niles was leaning liis
classic head upon his classic hand, in all the
graeeofsentimental politico pecuuire contem
plation, the shall of his wit struck just between
tbe ribs of magnanimous old Connecticut.
With a bound and a spring, like a lion from
bis lair, turned the chivalroi s man, and pick
ed up from the box before him a pen: he
then looked knowingly at the Vice Presi
dent, as much as to say. “look to it bottle
holder;” and then, as he pulled his valuable
hody up by the flaps of his breeches pockets,
he popped out a sentence remarkable for
cogent simplicity and brief dignity: “Mr.
President! —Sir—Mr. President J"—pick
ing nna Wafer and looking it full in its red
face, ‘ Ivonwrnbie gentleman from Keri
tucky, Mr. President, has made an attack
upon the Administration, Mr. President,;
and 1 feel myself bound to reply,” ice. ice.
He may be bound to reply, but mercy take
the party that depend upon Mr. Niles for a
rescue.
In attitude <o the party to which he belongs,
yes, belongs is the word, lie is rather an im
portant character; he is willing to go and
fWtme. carry feteli, to Si’ owl vv^e, » neces
sary, and to do anything tliai .? necessary lor j
the good of a Jacobinical party.
We feel for Mr. Niles’ situation : there is
something melancholy—heart-rend in?—tear
producin'?, in the fact that he is the most
unhappy of human beings—the most per
fect martyr to the liberty of speech, that ev
er drew his breath between meat-cutting
teeth. Why is ouryellow lock’d friend me
lancholy ? Is it because he lias never been
nominated by a temperance meeting, or an
abolition society, or a .Sunday school class,
for the Presidency ?—or is it because the
Whig press make it a pninr to <itfnek Che
unarmed and helpless gentleman, whose par
liamentary hands are tied by parliamentary
rules? Is it because he sometimes finds
himself a little fatigued alter an argument
against Mr. Clay or the eloquent and admi
rable Preston ! is it because bis buckwheat
cakes were not as light as they are Down
Yeast?-- or is it because Mr. Niles has not
as yet shaken hands with “mine ancient
Pistol,” from the Sail licks (rather the Mor
ris licks) of AiissPitri ? No! none of these
evils weigh at this moment £6 heavily upon
the mind of our worthy friend. The/’? cf
lie cannot call the previous question! ‘There
is Cushman,’ communes our Niles, ‘he can
keep those infernal Whigs silent when lie
pleasei—glorious prerogative of bold, liber
al hearted Cushman, to pop his head up
like a gag machine, and in automatical voice,
to call for the “Previous Question.”
Mr. Niles is thoroughly and despotieally
a partisan ; he glories in the privilege of po
litical Stubbornness ; he models himself af
ter the animal of Balam, even when he
.-poiiks j he is, in good truth, a very curious,
piqstcftl still itiss'ni—ntbripatinn; anom
aly ; a positive affirmation of what he is in
fact, and a direct negative of what he would
appear to be.
Mr. Niles has added another lam'd to his
already heavy chaplet. He has, in a spirit
peculiar to the present self-styled democra
cy, made an attack upon the press. He has
declared himself its antagonist, and though
we liave made this attack the subject of a
particular paper, ‘the Senate and the Press,’
we cannot but cuter here the protest of a
press against the sublime denunciations of
this accidental great man. Have we, in this
country come to the crisis, when the press
shall be denounced by such men as Mr.
Niles? are they to be allowed to trample
upon its lightning, and to clash their trem
bling aud withered arms around the neck of
ts eagle ? Will tlie philosophic spirit of
Republicanism stand coldly by and witness
he aspersions of worthless men, cast so un
sparingly upon its chiefest agent ? In times
to come, if these attacks are permitted, the
liberty of the press will be subjected to law
framed bv men who fear its chastening arm
and not by those who reverence its protect
ing attributes. The contemptible habit, so
rife among our Congressional debaters, of
abusing the American press, should be met
at once aud stopped upon the threshold.
We, of the press, who have in one way or
other contributed to their fame, without
whom they might speak forever, but never
afterwards hone to win the memory of other
times, or the admiration of other nations,
are strong enough to strangle the serpent.
Let such men as this Mr. Niles be subjected
to tbe strictest scrutiny ; let all his public
acts be watched ; and let ali his moral de
linquencies be lashed, until in the dust and
ashes of our vengeance, he shall admit that
the free press of a free people, is not to be
abused by such as he.
Yankee. Shoes.-— The way they shovel
shoes together iu Lynn and some other
places, down east,’ >s any thing but the
tight way. The Boston Transcript tells
the story of a negro somewhere at the
South, who had sported a pair of of Yankee
made brogans. ‘Whar dese shoes cum
from Mass.a?’said Coffee. ‘They grow on
trees down east,’ replied the inassa, ‘Well,’
said Cuff, ‘I guess dey pick ‘era fore tun
ripe.’
i j The corporation o< Little Falls, on the
f a | pi.cation ol tlie (be | riocipal «iiiz*o« el
botb political part.es have it»oi«eo eniLtr
I to luciut i oi pLiu.ua siLgle gieceiy suL.a
■ then limits. _ _
“U 'JIVT.
This is a return Irequeutly made ; in tho
Southern and boulbsesleiu Stales, on tbo
wiiu in the i.ahds ot the ShciiU auti is an
abbreviation tor ••Gone to 'liras.”
i'ourtli of J uly.
The citizens of Florence and vicin
ity, are requested to meet at the iudepen
dent Church, on Monday next, at 5 o’clock
P. M. for the purpose of uiakiug arrange
ments for celebrating the approaching Au
nivt rsary of American ludej endence.
MANY CITIZENS.
June 1,1839.
(£/“ Tbe Rev. Mr. Tally will deliver a
Temperance Seimoo, in this place, tomor
row morning it 11 o’clock, 'llie Irieudsof
Temperance and others are respect!uily so
licited to attend.
_June J, 1839.-
licitnions A'otice.
The Rev. 1 . Fowler, of the Methodist
Protestant denomination, will preach in this
place on Friday, 7th June uext, at caudle
lig t i.i the Ind-pendent Church.
Sfi tt ari Sheriff' sales.
IHL be . old belore tbe Court House
v ? door in the town ol Lumpkin, St, w
art county, on the first Tuesday in JULY
next, Between the usual hours of sale, the
following property, lo wit:
Lot of Land, No 21)7, in the 19th district
“f Shevvait county, taken as the piopeity of
Fain, to s.uLfy a Fi Fa issued our of
a justices court of Uaber-ham county, in fa
vor ot Charles J. Thompson and others.
Also, No. 72, in the 3rd district of Stew
art county, taken as the property of Lawson
Bowers, to satis'y a Fi Fa issued out of a
justice's court of Habersham county, in fa
vor of Charles J. Thompson and others.
Also, the west half of No. 199, iu the 33d
district ol Stewart county, taken as the pro
perty of Simeon Massy, to satisfy sundry "
Fi Fas issued out of a justice s court, of said
county, iu favor of James McGuire aud
others.
Also, No. 128, in the 22d, district of said
county, taken the property of Lewis Russ
to satisfy sundry Ft Fas issued out of a jus
tice’s court of Stewart county, in favor of
Dempsey Hall and others.
Also, No. 118, in the 22d district of said
county, taken as the property of Lemon r>
Morgan, to fu r as issued out of
Sumter superior court, in favor of Rol.hin*
& Conner and others.
Also. No. 48, in the 22d district of Stew
art, tvken as the property of Wayne W.
Kilands, to satisfy a Fi Fa. issued out of
Stewart superior court in favor of W. Sc H.
Boynton vs said Eilands.
Also, No. 185, in the 18th district, taken
as the pro| city of L. W. Hill, to satisfv sun
dry Fi Fas issued out of a justice’s court of
Stewart county, in favor of William Taylor
and others.
Also, a negro man by the name of Bird,
aken as the property of William Pall, to
ali Fa issued out of the superior
court of Twiggs county, iu favor of Joseph
King.
Also, the lot of Land where John L. Wil
son now lives. No. not recodectcd ; also, his
interest in No, 214, in the 23d district of
Stewart county, both taken as the property
of John L Wilson, to satisfy a Fi Fa issu
ed outol the superior court of Stewart coun
ty in favor of Stewart Sc Fontaine vs said
Wilson.
Also, Nos 43, 55 and 73, all in the 18tli
district of Stewart county, taken as the pro
perty ol Robert Hatcher to satisfy several
Fi Fas issued out of Stewart superior court,
in favor ol W illittni E. Collier and others.
Also, two hundred dollars in small notes
signed by 11. M. Haws, and endorsed by Tai
mau C. Pickett, taken as the property; ’of
Tsiiman C. Pickett, to satisfy two Fi Ft-s.
one issned from the inferior and the other
from the superior court of Sumter countv,
inlavor of William E. Collier and Hartwell
H. Sims. The above it; mod notes ate clue
the 25thof December next.
Lot ol Land, No. 53, in the 18th district
of Stew at f county, levied on as thp propeity
of Jai.’.cs S. Lunsford, to satisfy a Fi, Fa.
issued froni a justice's court of Stewart
county in I'avOr 61 £• E. Crocker and others,
One mare 7 years old. and two cows and
calves, levied on as the property of John
Lantern, to satisfy a Fi Fa issued from Stew
art superiot court in favor of Sampson B.
Strickland vs said Lantern.
Lot No. 183. in flic 23d district of Stew
art county, also, No. 144, in the 19th distriet,
both taken as the property nf Wiley S.
Whitehead, to satisfy sundry Fi Fas issued
out ui-cj....:-. -<>f Stewart county, in
lavorof George T. Marshall and others.
Also, the south half of lot No. 2, in square
letter A. lying between the store house of
Cain and Wrightaud the Lumpkin Hotel,
taken as the property of William Shields to
satisfy a Fi Fa issued out of the inferior
court of Stewart county, in f-vor of Miller,
Ripley Sc Cos.
M. M- FLEMING, Sheriff.
May 21, 1839. 7
~MARSHAL’S SALE.*
WILL be sold, on Saturday the 15th
inst. in the town of Florence, one
Grey Mule, about four years old, owner not
known, taken up while running at large in
the streets of Florence, and sold to defray
the expenses of keeping and impounding.—
Terms, cash.
JOHN P. HARVEY, Marshal
June 1,1839.
ililiiiiiiifdrnfor’s Sale.
WILL be sold agreeably to an Older of
the Inferior Court of Sumter county,
when sitting for ordinary purposes on the
first Tuesday in August next, between the
usual hours of sale before rhe Court House
itoor of siad county.
One acre of Land in tlie North East cor
ner of lot of Land 175 iu the 27th district of
originally Lee now Sumter county, whereon
William 11. Pegg uow lives. Also a lot in
the Town of Danville, in Sumter county
No. not recollected. Terms made Isnow n
on the day of sale. Sold for the benefit of
the heirs and creditors of S. M. Pcgg, de
ceased.
WILLIAM PF.GO, )
SAMUEL G. PEGG, \ Ad "
May 20 1833 7 " ' '
WILL be sold, on the first Tuesday »n
JULY next, at the court house door
in town of Americus, under an order of the
Honorable the Inferior court of the county
of Sumter, while sitting for ordinary purpos
er, lot of land No. 357, in the 28th district,
of formerly Lee, now Sumter county—sold
as the property of John B. Cannon, deceas
ed for the benefit of the heirs and creditors,
of said deceased.
HENRY DYKES, Adm’r.
April 4th 1839,
~ Blank Died*, ,
FOR SALE AT THIS OFfIOS.
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