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UNCLE NAT. - \ Yankee’s a Yankee, find him where you will— Try him as you may. he’ll prove a Yankee still.” Not long since there lived somewhere in ; New-Engtand an old fellow whose fame was extended many miles from the little spot which he called home, known by the name of Uncle Nut; and lie belonged to that class ot men, who instead ofeating that they may live, rather live that they may eat. That he had been no pretender in this business, would clearly and un equivocally appear, by a simple glance at his latitudinal and longitudinal dimensions. He was a hero of a pot of beans, and place him in the region of estables, and no laiuiiudy would have occasion to complain ot incivility on his part, for on such occasions he never tail ed to pay her a highly flattering complim. nt—a compliment that coufd by no means be mistaken. Uncle Nat never was guilty of /coring one dish to tell the fate of the others; and those who came at the eleventh hour usually tound a strong argument for fasting. Now our hero from his youth up, indulged a propensity to see the est, but it was pot till grav hairs had made their appearance, that he resolved to make a tour of the Western and j Southern States, and he was urged to this con- j elusion, by the firm conviction that be could j not die in peace and quiet until his vision had : been blessed with an actual view of those j scenes, which he had so otten heard described. j Not many years ago, Uncle Nat, feeling that the time had note come, on a fine May morning placed his saddle bags upon an old nag, velep ted Hugs, then mounted himself and summon ing his only companion, a favorite dog, Squire House, by” a signal to the said Rouse well known, away he went, bidding an affectionate adieu to various old dames, whose skill in cook ing he had not unfrequently had occasion to commend, and doffiing his broad rimmed hat m civility to every old maid, with whom, in days of yore, he had enjoyed many an innocent frolic. After having pursued his journey for many days over hill and dale, he at length found Him self beyond the limits of New-tngland, in the famous state of Ncw-Vork. It was at the close of a beautiful day that he urged his old nag, by a few striking appeals from the whip, into the village of- .where to his great satisfaction, he saw a large collection of people —for Uncle Nat always sup; -.sed that there was spoit in progress, where he beheld a busy, moving crowd. As he approached, the char acters of the individuals who composed it, were to our hero well known, as the language ot jock ovs, its dialects and idioms, was perfectly fa miliar to his ear. Into this group, sans cer emonie, Uncle Nat entered, with an open hear ted “ How do ye do” to all, and a stranger would have supposed that he was one ot their own number, late in his arrival. It was a grand fair for running, trotting am! trading horses ! Here Uncle Nat felt himself at home, and was n stranger alike to embarrassment ami jock avS It bavin.” been whispered among the group, mat ne was a Yankee, ttieir cunning grimaces indicated that the tricks which his pre ecessors had practised were now, if possi ble, to be severely visited upon this inoffensive new comer. Uncle Nat appeared te be a good-natured. Credulous old fellow, easy to be imposed upon, ■which not a little sharpened the zeal and ear nestness of the Dutchmen, who now needed nothing, by way of stimulus, already rejoicing nt the anticipated dismay of the Yankee, when he should find himself duped. Squire Rouse in the mean time seemed to be in an element to which he had been accustomed, and to have for gotten that he had endured the fatigue of a long journey. “Is your horse a trotter?’’ asked one,— “ Why,” replied Nat, “ as for the matter of that, I guess the cruder will jog along some !” “Will you plank a ten dollar, and trot a mile?” continued the stranger— This was a hard question for Uncle Nat to -answer—he did not tear that Hugs would be distanced, but the journey which had been al ready long, was not half performed. After having carried the matter to the tribunal of his better judgment, he was about to refuse, when a second came up from the group, which had been holding a private consultation— “l say Jo,” said he, “you don’t want to trot your Ranger with that old shabby bundle of skin and bones—“ ’twould be an everlasting disgrace to him.” Jo hesitated a moment,’and’gave a kind of half suppressed mutter, w hen the other resum ed— “ Why I can run faster rnysclf than that old nag can trot”— “ I’ll plank a hundred on that”—interrupted Uncle Nat, whose ire had been somewhat kin dled at the outrageous abuse which had thus been heaped upon old Hugs. “ ’Tis done,” said the stranger, “ but pause. I’ll bet a hundred, that I can jump up behind your back three times , before you shall have gone twenty rods 1” Uncle Nat could stand'itno longer—the old purse was drawn out and the cash produced. Ho proposed to deposit the cash in the hands of a stranger, who at that moment arrived, after the conditions of the bet should be fairly stated and well understood, to which the other con sented. The stranger was requested, and af ter some urging, agreed to comply with their wishes. “ Now,” said Uncle Nat, “ be puts up one hundred, that he can jnmp up behind my back three times hefo’e I can trot my horse the dis tance of twenty rods—if he docs you are to de liver the two hundred to him ; il he does not then I am to have the same.” “Is this statement correct ? said the stran ger. Both said aije. The jockeys could hard ly refrain from laughing as they looked upon the old Yankee, who did not suspect any play upon words! “ Poor old soul,” said they, “he’ll be bled for a hundred”— “ Perhaps I may,” said Nat, happening to overhear, “ and perhaps I may not—various opinions n that point.” Old Hugs was now mou ed ‘id aroused from his stupidity, by the Application of IJncle Nat’s huge heels to his rib j risible sides. “ Now,” said he, “ I must get i Hugs warm, and will ride him up yondei guess”—so away went the trio, l nele Nat, Hugs and Squire Rouse, to the great merriment of the jockey club, who were now congratula ting themselves that Dutchmen were no more to be duped by Yankees; and it would have done one’s heart good, to have witnessed their joy, when uncle Nat returned with Squire Rouse nt his side. Up he came, and appeared a little dejeeted as he began; “ Any how, you, old Hugs is rather stiff, and I’m a/eard he won’t do as he has; hottsever, I’ll tty; but see here, Mr. Better, you must agree that you won’t hurt me.” “ O yes, I’ll not hurt you a hair;” “ that’s right,” interrupted Uncle Nat, “and you’ll agree not to jump ahead of my saddle.” “ Certainly, certainly,” replied the other, who imagined that Uncle Nat would like to retreat; “ if I jump or go further forward than the hind part of the sa idle, then it is no bet.” “ This is your agreement, is it ?” inquired the stake-holder; as before they answered aye. Whereupon Uncle Nat insisted that a fleet horse and an expert writer should accompany them, in order that no difficulty should arise on this j point; and to gratify his notion, as they call it, | this was agreed, to and while these were being | provided, Uncle Nat dismounted. The twenty I rods were now measured and the last scene of ; the drama was drawing to a close. “Wake up j —wake up,” shouted Uncle Nat, as he was ap plying his whip to Ilugs legs, “a hundred’s to be lost or won 1” Uncle Nat now mounted, to the surprise of all, and to the great dismay ot the Dutchman better, with his back towards Hugs’s head, and when the signal was given, away he went, yet slowly, exclaiming “ three timet—re member /” with Squire Reuse at his side.— Here was a sau change in the Dutchman’s pros pects —instead of jumping up three times, after the Yankee had started, as he expected, being all the while behind his back, he stood still, and was dejected with a grief, purchased at the ex pense of a hundred dollars ! After having trot ted his twenty rods, and having performed a, grand right-about, he returned at a rate which confounded the already astonished Dutchmen, and approaching the stranger —“ I’ll take that money now, I guess,” said he, and the money was delivered without a murmur on the part of the lately elated jockey. “ Come in my boys,” j said Uncle Nat, “come in, we’ll have some supper now—by golly, I’ll pay for’t—come a long, I say— My name’s old Uncle Nat, the! j Yankee !” ******* j In the history of our hero there are many rare specimens of a true Yankee—but he is now no : more ! We copy from a letter, which we have just teceived, our intelligence in regard to his ! unhappy fatc “No news for you—not a bit—save that they have just found old Uncle Nat, who disap peared some time last winter. lie was seen floating in pond, frozen up in a huge filrp of ice. as stiff as a Doker —some say with his whip in his hand.” Thus has ended the temporal history of the master of “ Squire Rouse.” — Lansingburg Gaz. I To the Editor of the JY. Y. Daily Advertier. Downingville, 29th June, 1833. Dear Sir —This is going to be rathora lengthy ! letter. We’ve had real times. I began to feel j pretty streaked for our folks when I see what was done on Boston Common, and over there in little Cambridge. I told you 1 was going on | here to get things to rights : and when I got here, [ found ti e -i in a terrible taken about that orow ner’s lie down in Yotk bay. There was nothing at all going on. I went full drive down to the meeting house and got hold of the rope, and pulled away like smoke, and made the old boll turn clean over. The folks come up thick enough then to see what was to pay. and fill’d the old Tabernacle chuck full, and there was more outside than vou could count. Now,” says I‘l spose you think there’s going to be preachin here to day, but that’s not the business.’ ‘The Gineral is corn in.’ That was enough—‘now’ says I ‘be spry. I tell’ed the Gineral last winter he’d see nothing till he got down here, and if we dont make him stare, there’s no snakes.’ Where’s Capt. Fin ; ny ?’ says, I, ‘here I bee’ says he, and there he | was sure enough, the critter had just come out of his bush-pastur, and had his brushhook with him. Says I ‘Capt. Finny, you are to be mar shal of the day., Upon that he jumps right on eend. ‘Now’ says I ‘where is Seth Sprague the schoolmaster ?’ ‘Here I bee,’ savs he ; and there he stood with his pitch pipe up in the gal lery just as if he was going to give out the salm for him—‘you just pocket your pitch pipe,’ says I ‘Seth, and brush up your larnin, foi we’ve : pitch’d on you to write the address— ’ ‘Why Ma jor,’ says Zekial Bigelow, ‘I thought I was to do that, and l,vc got one all ready. Rut says 1, you dont know nothing about Latin; the Gineral can’t stommak any thing now without its got Latin in it, ever since they made a Doctor on him down there to Cambridge tother day, but howsoever says 1, ‘Zekiel you shall give the ad dress afteiL all, only jest let Seth stick a little Hog latin into it here and there.’ ‘And now’ says 1 ‘ail of you be spry, and don’t stop stirrin till the pudden’s done. t hen they began to hunt for hats and down the gallery stairs they *went. And if there’d, been 40 tbanksgivins and independence days comm in a string, I don’t believe there could be more racket than there was in Downingville that aildrnoon and night. By lo o’clock next morning all was ready. 1 -'.ad them all stationed, and S went out and come back 3 or 4 times across the brook by the potash to try era. I got a white hat on, and a shag bark stick; put some flour on my head, and got on my sorrel horse, and looked just as much like the old gentleman as I could. Alter tryin them 2 or 3 times I got em all as limber as a with, and the last time I tried em, you’ve no idee it went off as slick as ile. ‘Now,’ says I “tenshon the hull 1” ‘Stand at ease till you see me again,’ and then I streaked it down to old Miss Grauc’s Tavern, about two miles off, and waited until the Gincrel conic along, and after I had mixed a 2d glass of switch ed up they came, and the Gineral looke’d as chink and lively as a skipper. •Now” savs I “General wo are going right into Downingville, and no man here is to give any orders but mvself,” and I saul this loud enough for Mr. Van Bih mi and Governor W ood bury and all on cm to hear me, and they was all as hush arter that, as cows in a clover lot. 1 hen we all mounted, and on we went—l and tne Gineral a leetle a .head on cm. And when we crossed the Brook, says I “dont be afraid ot the string pieces here Gineral —*c aint in York now.” “I’ll follow yon Majer,” says lie “thro thick and thin—l feel safe here.” Just as we got on the nole, tother side of the Brook, we came in sight of Downingville—and says I there’s where I live, when I’m to hum, and the sight of our house makes me crawl all over, I’m sick ot Washington and if Down ingville folks only know’d half what I do about one feller you’ve brought along with you, they’d want to take him like a streaked snake by the tail; and snap his head oft Aint that a snug farm ?” Says I. The Gineral rizup in his stir rups, and says he “I’d go, east of sun rize any day, savs he, to see sich !a place.” I thought I should “go right through my shirt collar, for the Gineral was tickled to pieces. Nothing has held a candle to that he’s seen. Seth Sprague has put his children all on the school house—you could’nt see an atom of the roof—with green boughs, and singing a set of pieces he had made; and when I and the Gine ral passed by they made it all ring again I tell you; whether it was his facing the sun or what, buthe looked as if he was e’nyjista going to cry, (for he is amazin tender hearted enter.) Jist then Sargent Joel who had charge of the field piece in front of the meeting house, touch ed her off; anddidn’t she speak? This compos’d the Gineral in a minute —says he “Major I should’nt want nothing better than a dozen of them guns to change the boundry line along here jest to suit vou;” “but look Majur what on earth j has got into Mr. Van Buren’s horse?” sure j enouo-h Sargent Joel had put in a leetle too i much wadilin, it any thing, and Enoch Bissel, as sly as a weazel Clipped in a wad of grass, that hit Mr. Van’Buron’s horse and set him capering, till he kinder flung him. I was as wrathy as murder—says I “where is he l ” and I arter him full split—he was clippin it across the orchard, so that you might put an egg on his coat flap, 1 and it would’nt role oft, I streaked it round the corner of the stone fence to head him—but afore I got to him he had ketch’d the horse, and was clearing out of the County—and afore this he is slick enough in the Province. They tell different stories about it, but Dea can Willoby seen the hull on it: and he says Mr. Van Boren hung on like a lamper eel, till he kinder jerk’d up like a trounced toad, and he came down on the horse’s rump jist as he kick ed up behind, and that sent him clean over the fence into the Deacon’s potatoe jpatch. He turned over so fa-t in the air you could not tell one eend from the other; but his feet struck first, and he stood there, the Deacon says, and made as hansome a bow to the folks as if nothing on earth hau happened to him. The review of Capt. Finny’s company did take the shine off them are Boston and Salem sogers, I tell you; but they was all so keen arter the Gineral, that all I and Capt. Finny could do, we could’nt keep the line strait; and they all got into such a snarl that you might as well try to straiten a shceps’s wool. The bell was ringing all the while—two peo ple was up there with stone hammers poundin on uer, caz>- uncle Josh had gone and took the bell rope, and tied one een’d on’t to the steeple, and carried tother eend over to the Deacon’s dum bly more than 12 rods oft’; and every inch on’t was hung full of flags, and where there want no flags he had got all the cloth out of the fullin mill and the gals and Downingville boys had gin all theii handkerrhers and gowns and flannel shirts and it was so high up and the wind kinder struck em all together so you could’nt tell a < h eked shirt from an old Continental- The Gineral was tickled half to death : says he ‘Major that looks about right.’ ‘lt does so’says I,‘if that aint Union 1 dont know.’ He’s as keen as a briar to catch any thing cunnin; he dont care where he is: he snorts right out. As soon as we got down to the meetin house door. Zekial Bigelow gin him the address. It was stuck as full of Latin words here and there as burs in the wool of a stray sheep; ank Zekial, who knows ecnv most every thing, dont know Latin yet —he keeps the packing ya.d, and'salts down fish than any man in the 3 counties round; and it was real curis how he got along. He’d throw in the salt, and then the pickle and I the nitre, jest a leetle’t a time—and when he come to talk to the Gineral about preservin the i Union and the Constitution, it was jist the thing —and when he talk’d about tlv ni are Nulliflers • —he cut and shaved and made the scales fly, I tell you—every hair on the Gineral’s head stood strait on eend—and there stood that criteer Ze kial right afore him, talking like a book, and his head was as smooth, and and every hair slicked down with a dipped candle, and that are kew of his wo’d tell the lblks behind which way his eye turn’d jist as well as tho’ they was lookin strait in his face—caze it kinder lodg’d on his collar and every time he look’d up, it would’nt stand still a minute and point right strait up in the air. Then comes the Gineral’s turn—his heart was so full he cou’d but jist speak—and I was jist agoin to begin for him, when out he came. “My friends” says he, “tho’ I tell’d ’em down South, my father was an Irishman and my mo ther too, I am as clear a Yankee, (and he turn’d and looked round him, slop’d his hand on tny shoulder,) “as ihe Major himselt” savs he, “and he knows it.” “So ] do,” says I Gine-c), “I tell’d ’em all so often enough.” “I will presarve the Union, I’ll be hang’d and choak’d to death if I dont; and when 1 want pickle I know where to find it. lam glad to hear you say that salt petre once in awhile is good—l always thought so—and if the constitution spiles in my hands for the want ofit, I wont stand another election.” Here the Gineral was goiri to stop, hut says I in bis ear “you must give urn a little Latin, Doc tor.” Here he offhai again— i avs*bo, “my friends—sine qua-non.” “That j will do Gineral” says t; and then we turned^ and shook all the folks round 1,11 pork and then we made the baked beans and salt P * flv. and tho cider too, 1 tell you. ■ had’nt eat nothing since I got on the Arter dinner I tell’d the Gineral about that are blasted rascal Enoch Bissel, whotuckd m the grass waddin. “That’s the same /ellow says I, “ Major Berry turn’d out of the Post Oii.ce 1 knew he was a scamp, and if he was at the, ha is now”—“why Major” says the Gineral, | was jist so with that infernal rascal Rondoill—it he did’nt deserve what I gin lmn ujorc he attack ed me, he sartinly did afterwards; and where s the odds ?” “Plaguy little,” says I, “Gineral.” To night we’re goin to a quiltm at Uncle Josh’s. Miss Willoby the Deacon’s eldest da tcr is sprucin up for it—She is rather too old to be handsome, but she is a keen enter, and al ways has something to say. Ihe Gineral and Mr". Van Buren both talk about herconsiderable. If the Gineral dont keep a sharp 100 k out, Mr. Van Buren will go clean ahead on him on that tack—for he is the perlitest crctur amongst the women you ever see. The Gineral says hemust have some of our Yankee gals in the Cabinet next winter—and I kinder have a notion there will be some hichen teems doune here about j afore we quit. j We shall go strait from here to Sai-utoqua and ! wash inside and out there. I expect we shall all need washin afore we get there. This is the longest letter I ever writ in all my life, but I’m to hum now. It would cost you a good many of your odd nicepences I guess, to pay the postage, if it was’nt for the President — he franks all my tatters—and that ain’t what he does for most folks. I may tell you about the quiltin frolic, today in my next —but won’t promise, for I have jist as much as I can do here, to do all the chores for the Gineral—and write near, about fifty let ters a day for him. Yours to sarve, J. DOWNING, Major, Downingville Militia—2d Brigade. THE WESTERN HERALD. AURARIA, GEORGIA, JULY 30, 1833. •qs-Wc are authorized toanounce the name ofAlaj JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hancock county, for Governor at the ensuing Election. —: TUSSL We are very sorry, that circumstances beyond human controle, placed it out of our power to send out the Wes tern Herald, at the regular time for its publication. The apoligy ive have to offer, is that our principle workman, j and foreman in ihe office, was taken very sick on Sunday last, and has been so indisposed since, that our attention | to him has been of more importance perhaps, than it would have been to the office, he is now betier, and we hope we shall be able by changing the day of publication, .o Saturday, in place of Tuesday, as heretofore, to proceed regularly for tho future. New discoveries, several rich vein Mines lias been dis . covered lately in this vicinity,onLotNo. 1213 12th Ist and I Lot No. 19, 13th and Ist that is equeal if not superioi to | any we have ever seen, the first named lot belongs to Col. Johnson, &W. Ward of Macon, the owner of the other is unknown to us, the specimens were handed to us by t N. Nuckolls, Esq. Col. Caldwell, exhibited to our inspection a piece of I Gold, found by him, on the Lot at the Sixes owned by I Thomas G.Gorden ( which weighed 85 dwts. and 23 grs. -- Our friend of the Western Herald seems to th nk it somewhat strange that ire should he in the confidence of the “ Nulliflers of Georgia.” At the same time we disclaim any pretentions to the honor of their confidence, we cannot see I why we should be debarred from knowing that I which is a matter of common notoriety in this i place : viz. the determination of its leaders, to ! bring out a candidate in opposition to Maj. Crawford. Tor ffie fuither infoimation of our friend, who seems to be most wofully in the back ground of the confidence of his own party, we state that this determination has been open ly avowed by some of the leading members of that party in this place, and for the last ten days a matter of public exultation with a few of their followers. W r e hope, however, that better coun cils will prevail ; and that the Troup party will unite, at the present important crisis, and give to the regular nominated candidate, Mai. C. a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether. —Southern Banner. Our friends of the Southern Banner, are so very sensi. tjvc and fractious, since they have got in the minority, that it is almost dangerous for any one to speak of them. ] We have never witnessed more heal cminating from a northern climate, than has lately come from that paper. While we have deeply sympathised for our brother editors in the Slate, generally, when falling before the attacks of these sharp shooters, we hoped to schreene ourselv f:om the fatal consequences of coming in contact with them; but there is so much vindictive Yankee spleen, in the above notice, which they have taken of us, that we cannot help but feel our littleness whenever it may be our misfortune to come in contact with those who assume to themselves, the right of judging, and publishing our standing or our want of confidence with a party, who we arc proud to say, docs not admit the company of our assail ants in their councils; for tho want ofconfidence in their political integrity. And as to the long, the strong, and the pmcerful pull, they wish to make for Maj Crawford, wo shall pull the same way, though we wish to be excused from beinghar- Messed in the same fills with the wheel horses of the Ban- 1 tier, for fear they may hear something 6aid about nullifica tion, that will cause them to pull off before the Election. —• 3RJR : Our political opponents, have attempted to make new parties in Georgia, viz. while they dub us who go in for the rights ol the States, with the srear Croic name of JYitU | Hficqtion. they to themselves, the name of the “Democrat Republican I'nioit party,” If lo belong 1 former it is only necessary to support the sovcn-ignJE the states, and the right to resist unconstitutional ures, whenever they como in contact with the rtsenM rights of any state, in the Union, Jwc are upon the other hand, If to belong to the Democratic publican Union party, it is essential to support thaZE trines of the Proclamation, and the Bloody Dill, Wilson Lumpkin, for Governor, Indorse on at tho October election, Ratification, in Honor, ofthcltjM orables.Forsi/lA & Wayne. Jf’c have no ambition to the Proclamation, bloody Bill, Democratic P tpui!t ,fl Lumpkin, Forsyth, Wayne, Ratification, Union Pan,,, wo do not believe that there are many offlic old T;*E men in Georgia .that can stand all that’s required offiv-B to have the Ho. mr, of belonging to this newly lured, self made, a."‘l self named, Democratic, Ue p „bl itJ ,E Union, party. In New York on ti’.'e Bth inst. the Thermo, eter stood at 92 degrees, in the shade. Mr. White, member of Congress, leccojß injured by the explosion of the steamboat [B oness, is not, as was sometime since state* dead but is recovering from the effects of ti* accident. The Abbeville Whig of the 11th inst. savE “Dooly, the supposed muiderer ot Patton, hE been apprehended. He had in bis possessiijß when taken, Patton’s horse and watch and a-E bout $29 says that he had traded with Mr.P.E and separated from him about one mile the fatal spot where the murder was commit-E ted. The Legislature of Rhode Island has otdet-B ed the several Masonic Lodges in that StatE to show cause, at its next session, why thciE charters should not be taken from them. i Mr. Davis of Massachusetts, is spoken, among other candidates, as speaker of tkl next House of Representatives at IVashinj-H ton. The New York city inspector reports lit death of 111 persons for the week ending tl* 6th inst : of which number 24 died of consump. tion. A letter from Brigadier General Atkinson to the Commander-in-Chief, published in the Globe, states that the Winnebago Indians are removeing peaceably from the ceded lands. The Potowatomies intended also to sell out and remove beyond the Mississippi, after raising their present crop. OFFICIAL. Department of Slate. —The following Bill, communicated to this Government by tit Charge d’Affairs of the United Slates in Greit Britain, received the Royal assent on the II May last, and has accordinly become a law of the realm : A Bill to reduce the duly payable on Cclh Wool imported into the United Kingdom. Whereas an act was passed in the first arid second year of the reign of His present Ma jesty, entitled “An act to discontinue or alter the duties of customs upon coals, slates, cotton wool barilla and wax.” And whereas it is ex pedient to reduce tho duty on cotton wool the reby imposed : Be it therefore enacted, by Ik Kinng’s most Excellent Majesty, by and will the advice and consent of the Lords Spirilntl and Temporal, and Commons, in this Parlia ment assembled, and by the authority of tin j same, that from and after the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty three, there shall be raiaed, levied, collected and pail, for and upon every hundred weight of cotton wool or waste of cotton wool, the produce oi any foreign country, a duty of two shillings ant eleven pence, in lieu of the duty of five shillings and ten pence imposed by said act. And be it further enacted, That the said duty shall be raised, levied, collected, paid, and ap propriated, in like manner as if the same had been imposed by an act passed in the Cth yea: of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, entitled “ An act for granting du ties of Customs.” And be it further enacted, That this act may be amended, altered or repealed by any actio be passed in this present session of Parlia ment. Athens and Augusta llail Road. —The citi zens or Athens have had a meeting on the sub ject of construsting a rail-road from Augusta to Athens. Tee meeting was respectable, and from the incipient proceedings, wc anticipate a vigorous exertion, on the pnrt of that enlighten ed and enterprising People, to carry into opera tion scheme in contemplation. A committee consisting of Judge Clayton, -James Gama!:- Wm. Hearing, Stevens Thomas, John Nesbit, Wm. Williams, Jacob Phinizy and Asbury Hull, were appointed, to prepare a report on the j subject. We look forward to the proceeding of this meeting, with considerable solicitude, and anticipate on the part of our citizens a wil ling and efficient co-operation in this underta king. It is time wc should do soir.ething and we are persuaded, if our People can be sat isfied of the practicability and advantages of this project, that they will unite with one voice, in requesting of the Legislature an act ol k 1 coiporation, and in contributing to its success ful completion— Wash. JYews. We have been permitted to peruse a letter, giving the following detail ot an affray, between Ridge’s and Ross’s friends at the Head of Coo sa. Under other circumstances, we should per mit this to pass off, as we do many other af frays of the like kind, but when it is considered , that Ridge is at the head of the Treaty party, , and Ross at the head of the opposition, we m>)’ i reasonebly, infei that there exists much hos tile feeling between those two parties, upoa that subject, and that they are disposed to man ifest it, towards each other, upon every occa sion, Rumor says that the anti-treaty-party aro nut eh displeased with Ross, accusing Uin*