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Mlfteellnueous iM-lructs.
Lore at a Glimpse. —Sonic years ago, there
used to be pointed out upon tho streets of Glas
gow, a man whose intellect.’- had been unsettled
upon a very strange account. When a youth,
ho happened to pass a lady on a crowded
thorough!?.! e—a lady whoso extreme bernty,
though dimmed by tho intervention of a veil,
and seen but for u moment, made an indelible
impression upon his mind. Tins lovely vision
shot rapidly past him,and was in an instant
lost in the crowd through which it uiuv—
erh He was so confounded by the tumult ol
Ins feelings, that ho could not pursue, or even
attempt to see it again. Yet he never after
wards forgot it.
With a mind full of distracting thoughts, and
a heart tilled alternately with gushes of pleasure
and ol pain, thp man slowly b it the spot where
lie had remained far same minutes as it were
thunder-struck, lie soon after, without being
aware of what he wished, or what he w as doing,
found himself again at the place. He came to
the very spot where he had stood when the lady
mused for some time about it, went to a
iittle distance, and then carae up as he had come
when he met tho exquisite subject of his revery
—unconsciously deluding himself with the idea
that tiiis might recall her to the spot. She came
not ; he felt disappointed; ho tiied again ; still
she abstained from passing. He continued to
traverse the place till the evening, when the street
became deserted. By and by, he was left alto
together alone. lie then saw that all his fond
efforts were vain, and he left the silent, lonely
street at midnight, with a soul as desolate as
that gloomy terrace.
For weeks alinwards he was never off the
streets. He wandered mitner through
out the town, like a forlorn ghost. In particu
lar, he often visited the place whete he had first
seen the object of his abstracted thoughts, as if
lie considered that he had a belter chance o!
seeing her ihere than any where else. He fre
quented every place of public amusement to
which lie could purchase admission; and he
made the tour of all the churches in the town.
All was in vain. lie never again placed his
eyes upon that angelic countenance. She was
ever present to his mental optics—hut she nev
er appeared in a tangible form. Without her
essential presence, all the world beside was to
him as a blank—a wilderness.
Madness invariably takes possession of the
ntind whieh-broods over-much or over-long up
on some engrossing idea. So did it prove with
this singular lover. Ilegiew innocent as the
people of this country tenderly phrase it. His
insanity, however, was little more than mere ab
straction. The course of his mind was stopped
at a particular point. After this he made no
further progress in any intellectual attainment.
He acquired no new ideas. His whole soul
stood still. He was like a clock stopped at a
particular hour, with some things, too, about
him, which like the motionless indices of that
machine, pointed cut the date ofthi interruption.
As, for instance, he ever after wore a peculiarly
long-backed and high necked coat, as well as i
a neckcloth of a particular spot —being the
fashion of the year when he saw the lady, la
ri aed-he - > **s memorial of the dress,
gait, and manners offa former day. It was evi
dent that he clung with a degree of fondness to
every thing which bore relation to the great in
cident of his life. Nor could he endure any
thing that tended to cover up or screen from his
recollection that glorious yet melancholy cir
cumstance. He had the same fo u[ ’ ven ,,_
ration for that day—that circumstance—and for
himself, as he then existed—which caused the
chivalrous lover of former times to preserve up
on his lips, as long as he could, the imaginary
delight which they had drawn from tho touch of
liis mistress’s hand.
When this unfortunate person was last seen,
he was getting old, and seemed still more de
ranged than formerly. Every female whom he
met on the street,especially if at all good looking
he gazed at with an anxious enquiring expression;
and when she had p.,ssed he usually stood still
a few moments and mused, with his eyes cast
on the ground. It was remarkable, that he ga
zed most anxiously upon women whos” age and
lieu e most nearly resembled that ofhis unknown
mistress at the time he had seen h r, and that
he did. not appear to make allowance for the
years which had passed since lu3 eyes met that
vision. This was part ofhis madness. Strange
power of love! Incomprehensible mechanism
of the human heart!
Credulity. —We had occasion tin other day
to animadvert upon Superstition, a .ailing near
ly allied to this, is credulity. T se errors are
very similar to each other, and at times hardly
to be distinguished, although th origin is dia
metrically opposite. The first ii the offspring
of an erroneous and vicious education, imbibed
from nursery tales of ghosts and visions, and al
so from false religious notions. Credulity pro
ceeds from ignorance, the absence of educa
tion, and want of a due knowledge of men and
things.
The credulous man is the victim of imposi
tion, an J though deceived a hundred times in a
day he will lend his ear to the that person he
meets and again bo deceived.
Our attention was called to the subject by
reading an account of the execution of a ielon
i:i England, when several females present as
cended the scaffold and watched the last gasp of
the expiring"culprit, tor the purpose of having
his hand passed over wens with which they
were ufllicted. In the Interior of our own
country, the virtues of the rope with which a
melefactor has been hung, are well established ;
and it never fails to afford a pretty perquisite to
.the hangman. It is usually sold iusmall poi lions
of an inch or two in length and t.e that gets a
piece carries it home in triumph, and with full faith
that lus family, his entile and property will he I
protected (rom many dire alllictions.
Paw-wowing isa regului and well established
h lsi ioss in the interior. Our readers are awui
th t this pow-w owing is what is designated in
J3 jghsh as charming, i'he process is rnakin
ntriain gestures, turning round, moving the
hand backwards and forwards, repealing etrlaiu
words, &c.
A short time since, a regularly educated and
ordained minister of the Gospel, published n
number of receipts of pow-wuwing for putting
out fire, curing burns, and scalds and many dis
eases ; the basis of all consisted ol performing
certain gestures, and repeating certain cabalis
tic words. One individual, honored with tho
title of Doctor, has practised the pow-wow for
many years ; made an ample fortune, and, pro
bably,’sent out into tho country as many stu
dents ns any physician in the state, he can as
suage the most violent pains, stop tho most dan
gerous hemorrhage, and stay the progress ol
deadly diseases a hundred miles off, by being
told the name, age and situation of the patient,
and there are thousands of persons at this mo
ment ready to testify in a court of justice to tho
verity of these powers. It is an every day prac
tice, in cases of disease or accident, to send for
persons to poiv-ieow over the patient,and strange
as it may appear, more faith is placed in this ce
remony than in a prescription of the most cele
brated physician.
The renowned Doctor Thompsan, “the steam
doctor,” is, or was lately, perigsinating through
the State of Ohio, and performing wonders.—
To pass the hand over the back of a horse and
pull his tail three times, is a cure for the botts,
and so on with hundreds of other miracles of the
kind. Thus we see that credulity and super
stition stalk abroad in the very lace of all our
boasted wisdom and philosophy. These it may
be said are vulgar errors ; they are vulgar
enough in 11 conscience, but let each one o_
mine himself and ““Nuance he will fin-] mat he
too has a bide leaning to someone or nioro of
the prejudices enumerated in this and a former
paper.
Infancy—.hi Extract. —YY hat is more beau
tiful than an infant ? Look at its spotless brow;
at it its soft and ruddy lips, which have never 1
utterred an unholy word—and at its blue laugh
ing eyes, as it lay on the breast of its mother.
Look, it has stretched out its white hand, and is
playfully twisting her hair around its tiny fin
gers. Aye, let me look at an infant! it is inno
cence endued with life: the very counterpart of
holiness. It requires nothing but the pleasant
look ofits mother, and her warm kiss upon its
lily cheek, to i .ake it happy. Yon may talk to
it of sorrow, of misery, of death, but y -or words
are unmeaning. It has never felt the chills of
disappointment; it has never writhed beneath
the pang of affliction and its guiltless heart knows
nothing of the emptiness, the hollow professions,
and cold heartness of the world ; anil would to
God, that the cup may be broken ere it be lifted
to its lips.
A cold-blooded systematic villian cannot ea
sily gaze upon an infant’s countenance; he
shrirks before its mild blue eye, like a criminal j
before a Judge’s.—But why does he start and |
turn away, as if he looked upon a dungeon’s I
visage ? Because it is the mirror ofinnocence;
because it is so free from pollution, so pure, so
p- rtect, that it mirrors the guilt and hideous
blackness of his soul, as clearly as the limpid
XI'P4-. I- o- 1 Al, tlfcw* A av V, v o ,
them.
Our blessings on infancy ? yes, we never gaze
upon its meekness and beauty, without having
disagreeable thoughts mingled with our pleasant
ones; * Days to come, press upon us, when its
puny limbs have put on the firmness of man
hood, and the simplicity of its countenance is
supplanted with soberness and tho’,;g| 1 ‘ 1 J' u J nPS g
it may be that ho will stand amid the carnage of
battle, where the ‘conflict’s smoke’ rises like a
pillar to the sky, and the valient are failing like
leaves before the winds of autumn; or it may
be that he will become linked with scenes of
revelry; visit the haunts of vice, ol sordidness
and prostitution, and at last go to an ignominious
grave.
Domestic Relations. —We make the follow
ing beautiful extract from Professor Porter’s
Lecture on the Domestic Relations.”
As yet I have said nothing on the conjugal re
lation—a connexion which surpasses all others
in tenderness and intimacy. If it be criminal
to ent-r into this without affection, it is
equally so to suffer affection to die away, and
t.iose kind attentions which afl'e- lion prompts to
be discontinued. Did not the world supply in
stances, we should thick it impossible fora man
to be so devoted, not only of the attachment
corresponding to the vows he had taken, but of
generosity and principle, as to be otherwise
kind and attentive in this connexion. To the
truly virtuous man, there is something sacred
in the very name of wife. The woman of feel
ing and refinement who takes it, does it with an
affectionate and confiding heart. She brings
her hope of earthly happiness to a point. She
adventures every thing in the traffic of the affec
tions. Disappointment here is final—remidiless
disappointment—and her portion ever after, is
that of a desolate heart. These are reflections
which will habitually occur to the man of feel
ing, and exert a most salutary influence when
in moments of care and vexation, and pains, he
is hardly sensible of the fondness that dwells in
the heart. No man can be what he should be
in this relation wi'hout adding to warmth of at
tachment, the stability of principle.
Not to enlarge upon the duties of the connex
ion in question, 1 think it proper ‘, O sa y that
few things are more important to the virtue and
happiness of our sex, than due respect for the
oilier. It is impossible one should have been at
all conversant with the refined and well educa
ted ot the sex, provided he possesses the
least character, and not feel for
them sentiments of the most unfeigned respect.
There are persons I am aware, who pride them
selv is upon bring high minded young men, who
are yet totally destitute of such sentiments.
They can even. for their own amusement and
that of others, retail stale . jests, applicable
enough to the worst portion of the sex, but ap
plied by them without reason to all. No one
tiling more than this, would lead me to decide
•'■nfidently on a man’s destitution of generous
•id refined sentiments, and his fitness lor every
thin” low’ and base.
Religion— Heligion has planted itself,in all the
purity of its image, and sufficiency of itsstength,
at the threshold of human misery: and is em
powered to recal the wonderers from their pil
grimage of wo, and direct them in the path to
Heaven. It had diffused a sacred joy in the
abode of poverty and wretchedness; it has ef
faced the wrinkles from the brow of care—shed
a beam of sacred and tranquil joy in the cham
ber of death, gl-ddened the countenance of the
dying with a triumphant enthusiasm; and dif
fused throughout the earth a faint foretaste ot
the blessings of futurity. It is benign as the
light of Heaven, and comprehensive as its span.
An Iris in the sky of the Christians, it quickens
perseverance with the promise of a reward; re
animates the drooping spirit; invigorates the
decrepitude ofage, and directs, with a prophe
tic ken, to the regions of eternal felicity. Like
the sun, it gilds every object with its rays,
without being diminished in its lustre or shorn of
its power.
Hypochondria Cured. —Tho wife of a re
spectable farmer having suffered much from
this disease, fancied that she should d.e, and of
ten assembled her friends about her to witness
her closing scene. After repeated false alarms
they became convinced that she labored under
a disease of the mind, and advised her husband
to favor her belief about dying. Not long af
terwards she was attacked with her old disease,
and posted off a boy to the cornfield for her hus
band to come and see her die. The husband
hastened to her bedside, where he found her ap
parently in the last stajrc of life, b’he informed
him that in one hour her soul would w ing its
way to the mansions above, and before her
death she wished to know what he would do with
the children when her care ot them w-ould he at
an end. A thought struck him to try the pow
er of vexation; he told her his thoughts had
been very anxiously employed on the subject;
but at length he came to a resolution, for the
sake of the dear innocents, which he JrustC.*
would set her mind at rest on their account; in ■
short, he had resolved, ns soon after her death
as decency would permit, to marry Molly Brown
(an old maid to whom she had a peculiar dis
like.) This was too much—the good mother
instantly jumped up and declared Molly Brown
should never be a step-mother for her children.
A complete cure took place, and tho imago of
Molly Brown never fails to chock the least
symptoms of relapse.
IVooden Candles. —The Yankees may brag,
says the Liverpool (P. a.) Mercury, as tliey
please about their engenuity; their wooden nut
megs, Prussian pumpkin seeds, and machines
for making white ash rakes out ofchcsnut chips,
but they can’t begin with the Pennsylvanians.
They make no bones at all of palming bass
wood hams and flannel sausages. Y’ou seel
took it into my head to try to speculate a little
to make up the eighteen pence that 1 lost a bet
ting on the ’lection. At first I did’nt know ex
actly jvhat I’d better try, and was just talking
with my landlord, pretty clever fellow for a Duch
man, when some body come along, and asked if
any body wanted to buy any candies for four
pence ha’ penny n pound. “Hear's a chance
tor you, says the landlord, “any of the store keep
ers will give more than that for’em right off.”
i’ll be darned if I dont believe that the landlord
was in the scrape, for il he had’nt have been,
he’d have bought the candles himself. But you
sec I did not think of that, and so bought a whole
box of the candles. And how do you think I
got sucked in ! If you can guess in a week,
1,11 treat you to a glass of Duff Green’s julip.
But to save you all that trouble, I’ll just tell you
how it turned out. A piece of white oak-wood,
turned in tho shape ofa candle, with a snug little
wick in each end, cover’d with justabout tallow
enough to greas the bill of a Long Island mus
keto.
The German Population of Ohio, are a har
dy, frugal, and industrious people. They are
mostly farmers, and mind no body’s business
but their own. Look at their farms, their or
chards, their gardens, their cattle and horses,
and you will see what they are about. They
are among the best practical farmers in Ohio.
There is a neatness about there premises,
which proves them to have been well instructed
in the business of agriculture, and to understand
the most profitable mode of cultivating the soil.
Though generally well informed, they make no
parade of their knowledge. They are never
found intriguing for office. They meddle little
with politics, and yet no one set among us are
more firmly established in their opinions. If
error at any time creeps into the administration
of the governmment, they are not slow in find
ing it out. They seek for correct information.
Plain and republican in all their notions, they
despise extravagance in every thing. They de
light in tilling the soil and in using the best
means in bringing it to a high state of perfec
tion. Their barns are usually well filled, and
their houses abounding in plenty. They drive
fat horses, live honestly, and are finally an hon
or to any state or country they inhabit. We re
joice to learn that the German emigration to
this State is still increasing. There are, at
this time, probably thirty thousand voters in
Ohin t j, n( j a population, 0 i mure than 150,000 of
that industrjous people. —Ctlumbus Sentinel.
Philadelphia, April 8,
Atrocious Alurder. —Passengers from Bor—
dentown, N. J. in the Steamboat yesterday
morning, brought the thrilling intelligence that
a most singular, unlooked for, and inhuman
murder had been perpetrated in that place, by a
young man named Joel Clough, upon the per
son of Mrs. Mary Hamilton, an estimable
young widow lady consort of the late Dr. Ham
ilton. It appears that Clough had been for
some time a boarder in the house of Mahlon
Longstreth, Mrs. H.’s father, at Ihe corner of
the Main street and the road leading to Trenton
where Mrs. H. also resided, in the courso of
which time Clough had formed an ardent attach
ment to Mrs. 11., and had repeatedly offered to
wed her. She, in the mean time, however, had
favored a rival suitor, a highly respectable citi
zen of Bordentowr, and it became rumored that
ere lon< T they would be united. Hus wus too
much for the unfortunate Clough. And about
twelve days ago, he left Bordentown and went
to New Y ork; returned on Thursday and on
Saturdy feigning sick ess, retired to his room,
and thus prevailed upon the lady to enter his
apartment, under the expectation of administer
ing relief; when he suddenly sprang up, seized
her by the arm, drew a dagger and threatened
her with instant death if she refused to marry
him. She did refuse, and he instantly stabbed
her; and before her screams brought asssistance
he had inflicted eleven wounds upon her, each
one of which would have probably killed her !
A gentleman hearing her cries rushed up stairs
just as she had broke from the demon’s grasp,
and was descending them, the blood gushing
from her mouth and wounds! She fell into his
arms, and was thus carried into the parlor be
low. She lived about a minute, during which,
she told her mother who had wounded her, and
why it was done, and died.
On examination it was found that the weapon
had entered her heart three times; seven times
in her side, breaking a rib, and once in the left
atm, which was also broken !
THE WESTEKN HER ALD.
AURARIA, GEORGIA, MAY 7, 1533.
State Convention. —This body assembled yesterday, un
der the provisions of an act of the last Legislature. We
have made arrangements to publish a summary ol
their proceedings, and shall probably be enabled to
hear from our Correspondents in Milledgeville, in time
for the next. Wc anticipate a boisterous gale will arise,
in ;ts organization. It was surely intended for a conven
tion of the p-:nplej bat a seems that the Legislature has
usurped the power Oi throwing so many shackles around
the rights cf their constituents, in enacting a law upon
the subject, expressly declaring the manner of election for
the members, specifying the time and place of meeting;
defining their powers and duties, that wc scarcely know
whether the delegates arc to be considered as the repre
'scntativcs of the people, or the attornics in fact, of the
members of the last legislature. We would admit the
propriety of a great many of them appointing unrestrained
agents; but we doubt the policy of their granting limited
powers to ‘heir Attornics, particularly in this mattar, for
they are attempting to grant power, to do what they
themselves cannot do, unless it is in a particular way,
which is clearly pointed out in the Constitution, viz: to al
ter or amend the constitution by the Legislature. An act
mustpass by a majority of ttVP-t hirds of both branches of
the general Assembly, at two successive sessions. Now
if the legislature had been so extremely anxious for a re
duction of its body, as they would mi ke you n.Jkve. why
is it that they did not commence one year sooner in leak
ing this (n\ed!ey law) of enlarging and restraining privi
leges. The truth is, tho members of the legislature wants
no reduction mode,for they know not whose time it would
l*e to stay at home,and v. e believe they acted under no oth
er motives in the passage of this law, but to tlirow such
obstructions in the way of the convention, as to dissolve
the body, without effecting any plan of reduction, and we
much fear that the intrigue was so deeply laid, and the
time allowed before the election so short, that their object
will he effected; tor if the delegates in the convention, go
on to act under the power given them by the legislature,
their acts will certainly be unconstitutional, as we have
already suggested. If they attempt to act as the dele
gates of the people, it will be urged by those unfriendly
to reduction, that they were elected and met, &c. ice. un
der the law passed by the legislature, and must confine
their actions to the authority there given, in which event,
the right of secession will be enforced by some; a protest
will be got up and signed by a sufficient number of those
opposed to reduction, to destroy tin l power of the remain
ing members to do any tiling beneficial in the matter.
We see these difficulties may arise, though we hope to
be disiip]H)inted in our prediciions, as to the results, for we
do hope the state will never have another such curse up
on it, as we consider its legislatures has been for the las;
five or six years.
John C. Calhoun. —This distinguished statesman, arri
ved in our Village on Wednesday last, directly from his
residence in South Carolina. He spent but a few hours
in town, and retired to his mines in the neighborhood,
where he intends remaining two or three weeks. And
though fatigued as he necessarily was, from a long nde
over the rough roads from Pendleton to Lumpkin comity,
hewasyct ableto sustain himself in his true character, for
engaging the attention, and assuring the respect of ull wc
believe, who had (with ourselves) the pleasure of spend
ing the few moments that he remained here, in hiscompa
ny. He is commanding in appearance, easy and grace
ful in manner, affable, and familiar in conversation; pos
sessing a pleasing countenance, deeply marked with all
theprominent features of greatness. And although •’
secret antipathy of somoof his competitors for o*T C e i W ve
been aroused to action, and carried into the -Jg ’ es of
the Cabinet, for proof of his dupliov i*• * •
* - . relation to ins con
duct, in accepting the Vice Prcs : ’ , , , .
■ , .. .... ... , -itency, under the admin
istration of the military clui r , ■ ,
- ... f -am. Wo believe that the
teeungs which caused , , ...
B . ‘he charge, and sought the proof,
were the legitir , R offsprings of a deluded head, and an
envious .scart. The bow w'as bent for a double purpose,
t!lc r - r row reached the object of its aim, and forced its way
by the aid of the powerful pressure of gun powder popu
larity, into the vitals of Mr. Calhoun, and he fell a victim
at the shrine of Southern and Western conspiracy. “But
did he fall to rise no more.” Freedom forbid it, and lioer
ty has reached her hand to his aid, and we now find him!
rising, not like the feeble infant when he first attempts to
walk, in dispite of natures rules, but like the once vigor
ous youth that is fast recovering from a momentary panic,
and his system only relaxed enough, to add digestion to
bis appetite, and strength to all his athletic pretensions.
Yes, Ins late speech in Congress against the protective
system, like the boisterous gales that sometimes bursts
upon the clouds that bear them, and dashes them into
fragments of vapor, which is soon absorbed in the efful
gent glitterings of the burning sun, has been the cause of
loosening the shackles that northern ingenuity had in
vented, and put so far into execution against tho southern
people, that the pressure was becoming so severe, that
even the iron banded (hold um together) doctrine of the !
celebrated Proclamation, could not have bound the states {
much longer to the L. moil. Air. C. is aumou man, uj.
though be has been robed of tho enchanting name, ami
dubbed w ith the horror striking name ofiiullificationpoml
why is he not called a union man, because he is opposed
to usurpations of power, upon the part of the general go
vemment, which are unjust in their nature, unconstitu
tional in their bearings, ami sorely oppressive in their opc.
i ations upon the southern people. It is because the bouy.
ant spirit of freedom,lias prompted him on iliis occasion to
assert the rights of the southern people, regardless of tho
frowns of federalism, or tuf, threats of tyrants.
—■ 3C2K :
The first of May has ushered in with its usual soul
cheering, and spirit enlivening graces. The lofty 0 al;
begins to spread his boughs, and east a delightful shade
upon the wary traveller, as he moves in solitary reflection
along the narrow trace, of the savage beaten way. Tho
wild minstrels of the forest, arc continually greeting ].j s
ear with their melodious sonnets; the very air that ho
breathes is filled with perfumery, more exquisite than tho
fragrance of Sharons rose, or the valley liily. It is de
lightful tocliinb the neighboring hill to the summit and
view the surrounding romance of nature’s scenery the
shelvingciiffsof adamantine hardness, hung in balances
by the hand of nature m such careless position that the
slightest touch would remove the pivot of confinement
and crush tho verdure of nature till it strikes the centre of
attraction in the valley beneath it; and the inspired vis.
ion stops not here, it turns upon the distant hills with
pleasing magnificence and views the lofty mountains do
coratcu with that smoke like appourance which is tho
true offspring of the sight reached object, as it falls from a
distance on the raptured eye.
Go to the brink of the precipice and view the winding
streams as they fall in boisterous splender over the crag
gy pavement; and see in nature’s prism the various tints
of the rain-bow’s beauty.
Visit the wig-wam hut of the native aboriginee; you
will find him moving in the pursuits of all tho comforts
flowing from the fount of domestic enterprise.
Go then to the Golden Region; but a few years since
only seen by the Indian sportsman, and thare view tile
busy crowd as they mmgle in strife for wealth with as
much regularity, at the gold gathering rocker as the pop
pels move in the Industrious temple. It is here we find
the attractive medal. It is here we find the wandering frag
ments of scattered enterprise from the different nations.
It is here we find all ages, sexes and conditions of the hu
man family engaged in tho same pursilit. And it is here
the Dandy and ttie sloven will greet each other, with oil
the friendly feelings that the heart is heir to. It is here that
the kindred social feeiin “exists in its full extent, connect
ing the people in friendly ties to the bond of union, which
is calculated to inspire harmonious action, against the
petty feuds that so often fester, and distract the countn.
JCT’THE Sheriff Sales ofChcrokce County, will here
after be published in this paper.
JOHN r. BROOKS, Sh’ffi
JOHN W. LEONARD D. Sh’ffi
§c“p>paulding Sheriff Sales, will be published in this
paper. WILLIAM HOGUE, Sh’fil
?Cr’C;i: nor ShcriffSalcs, will be published in this pa
per. LEVI W. HUFFSTUTLER, Sh’/i:
-■■■zaz.-
Governor Troup.
Judging from Ihe many indications we have
seel', we think it certain, if Gov. Troup will
consent that llu will be run by his party, for the
office of Governor of the State. The people
can never forget iJie distinguished services he
rendered the State, when her rights were en
dangered—her liberties threatened—her territo
rial jurisdiction denied, And her sovereignty ridi
culed. The strong arm of federal power was
extended over her, and disregarding alike the
justice ofher cause, and the importance of the
principles involved in the controversy, its po
tency, by executive direction was to be the ar
biter of right and the decider of the contest.
The impotency of executive threats, was defied,
and the State, poised on her sovereignty, was
prepared to resist unto death, governmental op
pression and federal usurpation. At that time,
Georgia was distracted by party-excitement,
and rent asssundcr by internal divisions. Her sis
ter states manifested no interest in her cause no
feeling for her situation. Through their Legisla
tures, they treated her with the severity of cold
neglect, and her cause with the cruelty of hitter
opposition. The Press—the palladium of our
liberties—levelled the thunder of its artillery
against her course—and public opinion, with its
mighty weight, prepared to grind to powder, the
champion cl her rights In that day of fearful
responsibility, Troup was superior to the dan
gers by which he was surrounded—and by firm
ness of purpose, energy cf action, perseverance
of conduct, and wisdom of counsel, he achiev
ed a victory that has done more for State-rights
and Southern-interests, than any one, since the
memorable revolution of 1801. \Ve have .’ j
cause to apprehend tl- 1 tye diff.cuitics in ‘ r dL
tion to o'” newly acquired Territory, are, not all
surmounted—ar.d wc know, from tearful signs,
that the rights of the States, and the interests of
the f.outh, stand on precarious footing, and arc
‘neld by an insecure tenture. If it should be
come necessary to vindicate the rights of the
former, or protect the interests of the latter, it
will be important to have in the Executive chair,
a man, characterized by great decision of char
acter, strength and independence of mind—
soundness of political principles—and sterling
integrity of heart. The crisis demands suclr
qualifications for Governor in every fc!taie--and
Georgia, from the part she is destined to act,
in the great contest, that is now waging for
power will require at her helm the soundes
head she has, the firmest heart she claims. On
whom then can she call, with more certiainty
than the Son of her choice, the Champion of
her rights? This question should be settled —
and the sooner, the better.— Washington News.
Bank of Darian. —We arc assured by the of
ficers and directors of the Branch at this place
and are requested to state, that the reports in
circulation, calculated to effect the credit of the
Bills of the Bank of Darien, arc without founda
tion.— F. Union.
The drawing of the Gold Lottery, which lias
enlivened the attention, and boen dispensing its
ravors among all classes of our fellow citizens
,or the last six months, was, as expected, brought
to a close yesterday, The most valuable lots,
or those that ’a cre most generally the topic of