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SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER.
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liuht, sklf-stiled Democratic Republi
cans of the ptesent day. We ate “strict
constructionists’* of the Federal Compact,
,i ul shall, therefore, oppose all schemes ot
I iternal Improvement, except by the States
themselves, as a part of that “American
System" which has proved so ruinous to the
South, and which was attempted to be ias
lened upon us, under that most pliiisibi.l
and specious pretext, the “GENERAL
WELFARE.” Believing, as we do, that
it is me duty of every good citizen to cher
ish with jealous care 'the “Union of the
States, and the Sovereignty of the
States,” and as this cannot be done without
a strict adherence to the Constitution itself,
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of tho attempts which are and have been
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ministration, to control, not only the mon
ied facilities of the Government, but ot the
entire country. With regard to the ques
tion which is now agitating the country rela
tive to the Currency, we now, unhesitating
ly de;lare our hostility to the ihrice-rej
ed Sub-Treasury System, tending as it doe>*
in aur opinion, to an increase of Executive
power, which has already been claimed aid
exercised to an alarming extertt, in more i*
stances than one, if not by the present in
cumbent, bv his immediate predecessor, in
whose “footsteps” he is endeavoring to tread.
We expect to encounter many petals, ma
ny adverse winds; yet aided by the strong
breath of public favov and support, the trad;
winds of ourworld must waft us clear of onr
troubles—we dare raise our anchor, unfurl
our sheets, and venture boldly upon our new
snd iiittei• <| course. What shoals and quick
aatids, what rocks and hidden perils await ns
“alas, we know not!” L*t us but clear ttie
harbor and »et fairly “under way.” ilien we
will tear uot iing. Noe is thisthe vain boast
made when danger is ver in the distance.
It is our firm determination, made alter se
rious thought, and weighing well the diffi
culties we are to meet with.
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ber or early in January next. It will be
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ing twenty-four columns, with entire new
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any paper in the Southern country.
JACK HARDMAN.’
RICH 4RD RUE MOONEY.
TERMS.—Three Dollars per annum,
payable invariably in advance.
Irwintoa. Ala. Oct. 10, 1839.
IRWINTON MASONIC
Lottery ,
Authorised by an Act of the Leg
islature of the State ol Alabama.
To be drawn in the town of Irwinton.
Barbour county, Alabama, on the FIRST
WEDNESDAY in APRIL, 'B4O, or soon
er, il the tickets can be sold—for Ihe pur
pose of erecting a Masonic Hall *u the town
of Irwinton,
schhhk.
1 PRIZE of $5,000
1 „ „ 2,000
1 „ „ 1,000
4 „ „ 500
4 „ 250
20 „ 100
24 , „ 25
5000 „ „ 3
5055 Prizes. Not two blanks to a Prize.
All ttie prizes to bo put up in one wheel,
and the numbers in another and drawn out
Done publicly, under the superintendence
of five Commissioners.
Price of tickets THREE DOLLARS,
Half and quarter in propoition, which can
be had by application to eit her of Ihe man
agers, by letter, (or otherwise,) post paid, at
Irwinton, Ala.
Any person wishing to purchase a quanti
ty shall be allowed a liberal discount.
W. S. TAYLOR. )
A. P. CRAWFORD, } Mauagets.
JOHN CHAIN, S
October IS; 1839. 09 td
ST.JOSEPHAN3 lOLA RAILROAD.
U|3UE undersigned announces toAhe pub-
I- lie that the St. Joseph and lola Rail
Road is now completed and open for purpo
ses of transportation.
Cars, suitable for th- transportation of all
kinds of merchandize, budding materials
and liv - stock, are provided.
A wharf and ware house are erected at
the Chipola Depot, where goods and pro
duce to and from the interior, will lie receiv
ed or delivered.
The houses and cotton sheds atvhed to
the Rail Road at lola and St. Jos v, h. are
large md commodious, and cotton and other
merchandize, if so directed, will be placer
at either point, under cover.
The despatch, economy and safety with
which merchandize anil produce inay be
transported by the new route, through the
ritv of St Joseph, when practically tested,
will be fully appreciated by a discerning
public, and all th • undersigned now asks, is.
tint the Planters. Cotton buyers and Mer
chants ff the interior, will make the experi
ment, confident that it will result to their
profit aud satisfaction.
Rates of Charges established an
the St. Joseph i!y lola Railroad,
TRANSPORTATION.
Passengers, 5 7 00 each,
Children, under 12 vears 50 „
MBRC’HANDIZE.
On each bale of Cotton 15cts pi bale
On Llltds, Barrels, half and
qr. Casks, Tierces, Boxes
Bales, or packages of Mer
chandize, at literate of. ...10 ~ bbl.
On each bag of Salt, Coftee,
Pepper At Pimento, Corn,
Oats or grain of any kind,
not measuring over 5 ft;... .10 ~ bag.
On all Iron castings, kegs of
shot, lead, or nails, grind
stones, mill stones, and alt
heavy articles, at the rate
of 5 „ 1001 b.
LUMBER, fcr.
Lumber, tec 2 50 pr 1000 ft.
Bricks, 3 00 ~ 1000
Shingles, put np in bundles, 50 „ „
„ in bulk, 1 00 ~ „
Staves, 2 00 „ ~
Ho p poles, 50 ~ „
Wood 2 00 „ cord.
Pine or oak log-, hewn or
rough 3 ~ cubit ft.
Cedar logs 14 . lenieW
Gigs and Carts, 1 00 each.
Four wheel Carriages. 200 „
LIVE STOCK-
Horses and Oxen, 3 00 per head.
Cows and Calvus 2 00 ~ ~
Sheep and Hogs 25 ~ <•
Poultry 1 00 „ huu’d
WHARFAGE.
On each bale of Cot on, 3 cts per hale.
On each bbl of Merchandize 3 ~ Ob 1 .
On all other heavy goods, 10 „ 1000
STORAGE.
Vie foUoicing rates will be charged for all
Goods, tyc. stored in the Company’s Ware-
Houses :
On each bale of cotton, not
exceeding 60 day 5...... 15 cts. pr balp.
On each barrel of Merchan
dize d0.......... «10 ,» bn’'
On all measurement Good ~ 2 ~ foot.
Iron castings aud all heavy
articles, 5 ~ 1001 b.
JOHN D. GR \Y. Agent.
St. Joseph, Oct. 28, 1833. 61
I¥KW CiftODS.
THE subs ibers have just received at
their stot'. next door to Mr. H. W.
Woodward, on Centre street, a large and
general assortment of
Staple and Fancy
39 3$ «■•© D©B»
Consisting ot
Cotton Bagging, Negro Cloth,
liinseys, Cotton Osnaburgs.
Readymade Clothing, Blankets,
Hais. Boots and Sho< s,
Together with all other kinds of Domes
tic Goods suitable to the season.
Their supoly of FANCY GOODS is
large and well assorted. They invite their
friends and the public generally, to call and
examine for themselv' s.
S. W. BENNETT Sc Cos.
Nov. 23 33
Copartnership.
THE undersigned have formed a Copart
nership for the transaction of business
tinder the name and style of
W FYI KF.Y Jk HORBH.
They have now on hand aud expect to
keep a well assorted stock of
DRY GOODS,
Crockert/, Hardware, Cutlery, Sy.
They intend to keep a well selected stock
of Ujods at Friendship, Snorter county.
A. B. C. WINFREY
J. B. MORGAN,
Florence, Nov. t3 IS
*J> 3) Ifi '3 & Iff 0
For the Mirror.
THE DYING INFANT.
The rising tear of sorrow st-unds
In that fond mother's eye.
As o'er tho couch she clasps her hands.
To see her infant die.
And as the tears of grief and wje,
Flow initialed with her prayers,
She feels, whai ail around must know,
Her babe is (Yee'd from cares.
P>ut, though convinced that it is free
From worldly cares and pain,
Yet still, she cannot bear to seo
That infant lifeless lam.
What tho’ some friend shwld kindly say,
“Your babe is gone to rest,”
Do those kind words one pain allay,
That beats within her breast 7
Ah, no! not every soothing word,
In holy writ contain’d,
Can now, one moment's ease afford
T* a mother’s heart thus pain’ll.
If then, that book, so full of love
Thus tails to give relief,
Let her, who sorrows as the dove,
Give vent to all her grief.
Weep then, fond mother, weep away,
That burden from your sou I,
Since nothing else can pain a!lay,
O, weep without control.
*■ W.
SlsSjf AiMl;0?/3o
From Be Soul,tern Literary Messenger.
THE BACHELOR BESET;
or’ the rival candidates.
The house of Mr. Stnglcsides was situ
ated in one of the pleaxautest parts of the
city ; it was a snug, commodious building,
painted white, with a pretty var indaii. green
Venetian blinds, and modestly overtopped by
a slate-colored roof. Beiore the door was
a prim looking row of trees, trimmed into
proportions - swclly corresponding with one
auotlier, aud r te whole fenced in by a white
paling, along the lop of which rau a cornice,
garnished with a formidable array ol sharp
nui 8 or spikes, whicu presented a military
air of defiance. Besides these defensive ap
pliances, the dwelling was guarded on the
sides and iu the rear, by a high brick wall,
which showed a no less hostile aspect, be
ing surmounted by Iragmeuts ot bottles
that threatened laceration to all wiioshould
attempt to reach its height. From me neat
ness and order of all around, one might rea
dily conjecture this to be lite abode of “sin
gle" bles-edness;” and so it was—for Zncha
rialt Sitigleside was fast hastening towards
his araud climacteric, and from ins first ver
ging'to manhood up to the preseut time,
love had never sweetened or embittered lus
draught of life; and it wasasource ot much
self gratulation. that amid the vicissitudes
of our ever whirling sphere, womau had not
influenced his destiny. A bacitelor, with
avowed principles ol abhorrence to the mat
rimonial contract, which principles have
be'-n vigorously aud consistently sustained
through a long series of years, ts not often
liable to becore air object of speculation to
the lair sex. In the instance of Mr. Mn
glesi ies, his pertinacious resistance on first
coiniiH-ncm, life, to the advances ot the la
dies, had established a conviction that noth
ing short of a miracle couid uproot feelings
and prejudices, confirmed and strengthened
by time- and, that the thawing of a glacier
or an iceberg would be quite as feasible an
undertaking as that of attempting to melt
tire frozen ramparts around hi heart.
If in lus youth an 1 manhood, therefore,
he had beeu irr.tatcd b> tlte arts ol the de
sigmng, they had long since ceased to ruffle
his serenity, lie revelled adltbitum, in the
“funny and free revelries ot a bachelor, and
if the din of connubial devilries smote up.rn
ins pars in she qumt of his orderly domicil,
he would and vontly h!css his stars that hr
was exempt from the evils which distracted
his neighbors ana acquaintance.
Amon-»ther blessings enjoyed by Mr.
Singlesides, was that of having his lionso
I hold conducted in the quietest and most
methodical manner possible. His domestic
1 arrangements moved ouwaidwitbtbamoi.se
less precision, so desirable, yet tare. IL
servants perform- and their severa 7 ollVces like
the invisible wheels and springs of a tune
piece, the results of which appear to the eye
without cuty outtertal wtemiprtaodh tpe oth-
£T<&
er senses. His garden was laid out with
mathematical skill, aud iu happy accordance
with his conceived opinions ot taste. E«ch
walk aud bed had its boundary of stiff box
wood—snd bachelor's hat, with southern*
wood or old man, were conspicuous etn*
bellishrn-nls to almost every parterre. la
proof, however, that Mr. Singleside was no*
so illiberal as to allow his antipathy to the
ladies to militate against his professed ad
miration for plants and flowers, a particu
lar spot in his garden was appropriated to
the culture of old maids, whose still' stems
and dusky red petals occupied a small space
ofeaitli ; anti lady slippers, maiden’s blush,
heart's ease, and even love io a puff, were
likewise permitted a place. It must be con
fessed, however, that he appeared tacitly to
consider this portion of his garden as an ic
fected district, for he had caused an inter,
veiling row of tall shrubs to be plantptl, su
as to intercept it as much as possible from
observation, and when disposed to take a
turn in his garden, always carefully avoided
:hat particular spot.
Returning home, sometimes worn and
harrassed by every day cares and profession,
i! labors, he never fell the want of those
pleasing sympathies of conjugal affection,
which numbers have so feelingly depicted.
hen he closed his door upon the world,
it was with very opposite emotions—-he had
wiihin him t sweet consciousness of quiet
-nd security, untniu&led with fearful antici
pations of sour looks aud squalling notes
from wife aud children.
On tl o opposite side of the street, directly
facing the house in which Mr. Sitigleside*
lived, stood tii# mansion of Miss Betsy Bud,
an elderly gentlewoman, who had survived
the expectation, at least, if not the hope, of
matrimony. When the reminiscences of
past days were sometimes made the tea- able
chat of a group of respectable matrons,
whose youth l'ad been contemporary with
that of Miss Bud, many a racy joke relative
to her love adventures was recollected and
laughed over. But age seemed to hnv®
dried up every avenue to tie tender passion
in the heart of Miss Betsy; it was believed
that the fireofher juvenile days had burnt
out, aud though its violnce had been ex
treme, all now regarded her as an extinct
volcano.
Altin>;igli within a convenient distance
for watching the movements of the bachelor,
she was never detected in the unbecoming
act. Her eyes, those “outlets of the soul,”
were discreetly confined to her own house
hold, and if Mr. Singlesides proved his
liberality by Suffering lady slippers and old
maids to occupy n corner of his garden. Mis*
Bud with true feminine pride, had render
ed bacitelor hats and bachelor buttons con
tnband plants in her well organized flower
kuots. This prudent line of conduct suffi
ciently demonstrated that she not oDiy ab
stained from evil, but even from its appear
ance ; for though it may be heroic to face
and overcome temptation, atilt that prudeuca
is commendable which guards against ob
jects calculated to awaken desires known
from past experience to be fruitful of dis
content and disappointment. Whatever,
theretbiei had been Miss Betsy’s juvenile
follies, tlie tongue of malevolence could not
now find a single fragment of indiscretion
on which to base a tale prejudicial to her
cliaractei. It is true, she was sometimes
peevish and ill-natured ; but who, that ha*
tlte control of several unruly maid ser
vants, would not be the same ? And then
the equanimity of her temper was frequent
ly interrupted by the midnight revelries of
neighboring cats, who, entering her premi
ses, would scearch and scrumple over her
favorite beds of violets aud camomile, roo*
up her catnip with unsparing effruntery;
and scare her slumbers with terrific seren
ades.
The respective positions which Mr.
Singlesides and Miss Bud maintained in
society, were not only similar as bachelor
and maid, but they were, moreover, l oth
governed by the wive principle of discharg
ing dilligently their own concerns, without
breaking in upon the rights of others. Their
views, however, were not extended to the
promotion of universal good ; lor having
long lived isolated from all domestic aud so
cial ties, they c::red little how the machine
ofeivil life worked, provided it did not in*
terfere with themselves. Unfortunately
though, for tlte peace of these two indiv tdu
als, there occurred an unusual nunibet of
marriages. Many elderly yvuna la-lies, a
bout to hang their harps upon the willow,
unexpectedly found themselves convertcii
into brides. Indeed, one wedding succeeded
to another with such startling rapidity, that
alt trembled lest tl eir turn should come next.
In the midst of this revival, one who hid
been an intimate of Miss Bud, but who lik*
herself had remained single, moved off tb»
stocks. On learning this news, her ancieu*
associate reddened, and unhesitatingly pro
nounced her a “fool;” but notwithstanding
this harsh and hasty censure, there was soon
a visible change in the manners and itVpor*--
ment of Miss Bud. The very next ’
succeeding the event, she was seen at
decked out in a style of un-.sual juvenili'y,
an 1 Iter usual sanctimonious air changed
lor one of unbecoming levity. In ones*
notoriously circumspect, tlie gaiety of her
attire and obvious inattention to the cere
monies ol thp day attracted the notice of all
uid it was decided without a dissenting
voice, that the wonderful metamorphosis of
M iss Bud could only proceed front the b isk
way in which the matrimonial market was
looking np. l'he favorite meal of Mr.
''inglesides was breakfast. It was a *en»st
he loVed to linger over, though his table
waS crowned with the simplest tare---tor ho
was as abstentious as a camel—but with <t
newsp per, his 6iippers siip shod, and
leiadrely nibbling a crust ol dty toast, oc--
casiotiallv softened by ati appeal to his cup
of coffee, his moments ffew by on augelro
wings. To h ive interrupted him at eueh
moments, would ti ve occasioned serioite
annoyance; therefore, iiis well deseipUr.eA
attendant, -fter quietly placing ids meal be
fore him, w ouit- instantly wjtlinra'- . iw&ving
him to tlie luxury of feeling “nvvet less a
loue, than when alone.”
Now, t happened, while Mr.
was enjoying fits solitary repast, the day af
ter Miss Bud’s profanation of bet vtoerahlc,
person by youthful gewgaws, and of thv
Sabbath by indecorous demeanor, that trie
[ floor at the bachelor’* ball was acsaulted by
a repetition us raps, which quicken*-* tfc*
etep -Of Mr. eeM* *«*** tMWf-