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THE REPUBLIC.
thriven it* jn.it powers, not from the au
thority of Rulers, but from the consent of the Governed ’
MACON, DECEMBER 25, 1544.
THE STATE OF TIIE I'SIIO.t,
The present condition of affairs in this
country not only elicits the deepest atten
tion among the governments of Europe,
but excites the most absorbing and painful
suspense in every true patriot’s mind in
the Union. The potentates of the old
world see that the democratic elements ot
the new are turbid and lowering; and it
they manifest no other emotion, they, no
doubt, silently ejaculate a prayer that no
palinurus may appear to seize the helm
and guide the Ship ot State safely into
port. But our noble vessel has been fear
lessly launched by wise heads, strong
arms, and steady hands, upon the bosom
of the raging deep ; and however fearful
ly the breakers may roar about her—trie
rude blast whistle through her cordage,
and the foaming surge dash over her prow
—still we tread her deck with confidence,
‘unreef her sails and trustingly give her
to the God of Storms.’ The Machiavel
lian school of politicians in Europe were
surprised that our Republic stood the
shock of war in 1812. They believed
that the patience of onr people would
give way under the embargo and non-in
tercourse acts—grow tired of restraint,
impatient ol taxation and eventually be
come either a prey to anarchy or the wil
ling victims of some ambitious military
chieftain. But in despite of the Hartford
Convention —to the dismay of the Adams’,
the Berriens, and Websters of that peri
od, and the everlasting regret of every
crowned head of the old world, we weath
ered the storm and bounded on in our
republican course with the strength of the
lion, and the empyrean flight of the eagle.
Thirty years have since elapsed—and
in that time how great have been the
changes! how astonishing the develop
ments! how interesting the history of this
gigantic confederacy !
infancy—Youth—and Manhood!
We have passed through the weakness
of the first, lost the bloom and generous
enthusiasm of the second, and are fast
verging towards the selfishness, the guilt,
and the follies of the third. The seeds
of sectional dis> (intent have been sowed
broad cast, have taken deep root, and are
‘springing up like dragon’s teeth* upon
our republican soil. Does it result from
a prurient growth of popular liberty and
national wealth? Is it the baleful effects
of party spirit poisoning the pure fountains
ot political principle*? Have the people
become the unsafe depositaries of power?
Or is it an unholy narrow contracted jeal
ousy of one geographical division o* the
country over that of another ? Let the
continued and unmitigated attacks upon
the peculiar institutions of the South, and
the late vote for the reception and refer
ence of abolition petitions, sound the
alarming intelligence.
We sleep upon a crater! and where’s the
Cm tius w ho stands ready to Itike the fear
ful plunge, and (ill up the yawning chasm
by the .sacrifice of himself ? We fear that
few are prepared to appear at ttie drums
b at, and fewer who, like the young Ro
man w hen challenged by the sentinel, can
respond,
•‘l am the son of Marcus Cato, ho!
A fie tu tyrants, and my country’s friend.”
What course the Southern members will
take in regard to the reception of abolition
petitions, we are not able to sav. The
vote was taken without discussion; and
some lew southern members voted (bribe
reference to the Committee on the District
of Columbia.
Those who did thus vote, we presume
relied upon the fact that that committee
was composed of a majority of slave
holders, and that their report would give
a final ipiietus to the whole subject. Their
conduct in this affair was weak and short
sighted in the extreme, and unworthy their
high vocation. The action of a precedent
cannot bind that of a subsequent legislature;
and whatever the present Congress may
do, cannot affect the rights of the suc
ceeding Congress, or be in any way oblig
atory upon it. In this the whole danger
is compassed. A majority of the legisla
tive body of the Union have voted to re
ceive abolition petitions, and on motion
they have been referred to the Committee
on the District of Columbia.
To get the subject fully and untrammel
led before Congress, was all that the Old
Magician desired, and more, much more
than he anticipated. This establishes a
fearful precedent. It gives him a wide
field for his machinations. And though
the South may triumph this session from
the mere tact that we have a majority up
on the committee, it gives us no assurance
f°r the future. The hell-hounds ol’ abo
lition are hot upon the trail, and wo be
tide the day when their fangs shall be
fastened in the sides of our bleeding coun
try! But we are not safe even for the
present session. The report of the com
mittee may not he adopted ; it may give
rise to debate and in what way that de
bate will he conducted or determined, no
one can foretell. The stormy passions of
man will he lashed into fury. The dark
brooding hatred engendered by fanati
cism, the cold jealousy of sectional inter
est, the fierce taunts and reckless bold
ness of the hot bloods of a southern clime,
all commingling in furious strife, may be
productive of the most ruinous contests.
What ought to be the precise line of
conduct upon the part of the southern
members of Congress, we do not under
take to define. But of one thing we are
convinced. The Union teas the i> great
measure 0 j- deliverance and liberty .” In the
adoption of the federal constitution which
organized t at union, t tie re were certain
rights reserved exclusively to the States.
E ich of the States entered into the con
federation or co-partnership, under the so
lemn pledge of all the parlies that these
rights should forever remain intact
Among these rights was that which ap
pertained to each citizen of the southern
States of holding slave property. Under
no clause of the Constitution, either ex
pressed or implied, could Congress exert
my control over this subject. They could
with as much propriety receive a petition
from the people of Boston praying the
abolishment ol the charter of the East In
dia Company conferred by the parliament
of Great Britain. The constitution pla
ces the whole subject of slavery above and
qeyond their reach. But the right to re
ceive implies the right to consider; and this
superinduces the right to act. Thus is the
link established. And now that they
have effected a breach into the hitherto
impregnable ramparts of the Constitution,
they will prepare to storm the fortress
itself.
Where were the sentinels of Southern
rights, that they suffered this bleach to he 1
made ? We fear that they have been;
lulled into a fatal security, or are ptepar- J
ed to suffer still greater outrages. The !
cowatdly and hypocritical cant of union, j
union, has been so constantly rung in their 1
ears, that they have actually grown afraid
to resent the most disgraceful insults and
aggressions upon our rights, in dread that
their constituents may suspect them of
disorganization.
Destroy the Constitution and will the
Union remain? The Constitution is the
Union! And the wretch that violates
that sacred charter of our liberties, at the
same time dissolves the bond that cements
the * married harmony of the States.’—
The path both of right and duty, it seems
to us, would he lor the Southern delegates
to assemble together in a separate body—
frame a protest setting forth the whole
question—the tight, the wrong, and the
redress. Present it in a body to the Spea
ker and demand its immediate recogni
tion. Containing nothing, averring noth
in;;, claiming nothing, but what is already
included in the Constitution. No patriot
member would hesitate one moment to
give it his sanction.
But should they unhappily he misled by
appeals, misdirected by ambition, or
bliiji e 1 by fanaticism, the responsibilities
of the occasion would fall upon them and
not upon us. In case that the jtrolest
should be disregarded, the Southern mem
bers should retire in a body from Con
gress and return hack to their separate
constituencies. The exigences of the oc
casion would suggest the proper course
lor subsequent action.
How long before we are driven to this
awful recourse, the Disposer ol events can
alone tell. But better, far better for the
Union, the South, and posterity, that the
question be finally disposed of in this day
and generation, than that it he deferred to
other times. Now it might lie properly
adjusted; but let the moral, social and po
litical elements already too fearfully dis
turbed, attain their utmost height, and who
shall say to the stormy winds and waves
“peace be still!”
THE N. V. NEWS AND TIIE REGENCY.
Since the publication of the correspon
dence between Mr. Calhoun and Mr.Shan
non, our Minister at Mexico, in relation to
lhe annexation of Texas, the New York
Morning News and oilier kindred Demo
cratic prints in the State of New York,
have at lucked Mr. Calhoun and the Ad
ministration with a virulence and bitter
ness which we have seen nowhere equal
led I>v the most reckless and abandoned
press of the opposition. The Secretary
is denounced for his able and powerful
letter to Mi. King, as “lending the Gov
ernment to the purposes of slavery, and
for the first time calling in the aid of kings
to sustain tLis institution.” At the risk of
being again condemed by that portion ol
our friends who have so ardently and stea
dily admired the patriotism of the regency
school, we must be permitted to remark
that the opposition which has been and is
now so actively waged against a measure
which the people have so lately decided
upon, namely, the immediate annexation of
Texas, is fraught with so many ills that
we cannot comprehend the patriotism of
that man who can treat it with indiffer
ence. For if there was any one question
settled by the verdict ol the people at the
ballot box, at the late elections, that ques
tion was the immediate annexation of Tex
as ; and the Democrat who would now
hazard its success through mean subser
viency to partisan or sec tional prejudices,
is a traitor to his principles and a disgrace
to his part}’.
No true patriot—no honest and manlv
American, worthy of that name, will now
resist it, because the annexation of Texas
to the Union at this time, and in the man
ner proposed, might seem to place Ben
ton or VVright, or some other great patriot,
in the wrong. As for Mr. Calhoun per
sonally, the abuse of such Swiss as the
editor of the New York News and his
mercenary and fanatical gang, is his high
est praise. If lie were less honest than
he is—if power arid not the glory of his
country was his aim, and largess and
spoils the rewards held out to his admir
ers, the editor of the News, judging from
his past life, would be the loudest in his
praise.
it is unnecessary, however, to defend
Mr. Calhoun’s public or private history
from the attacks of any such men. The
whole course of his life defies alike the
malignancy of the Regency, whether drun
kened by fanaticism or quickened by in
terest and cupidity.
But if the selfish views of political as
pirants in any section of the Union, is to
outweigh the honest expression of the pub
lic will, and defeat the consummation of
the most vitally important national ques
tion that has engaged the attention of the 1
people of this or any other country for;
vears—in Heaven’s name, let the Demo-!
crane patty, as a party, drop all »uch lea
ders. Let them discard all such narrow
views. Let the glory of achieving fori
themselves and their posterity the settle-!
jmentof the greatest measure of the age,
unite and engage the most active efforts
of all; and let the unworthy aims of party
, factions give way for a short lime at least,
to the nobler impressions of honor, duty,
J and enlightened patriotism. Should we
Jbe disappointed in this reasonable wish,
jas we fear we shall from the opposition
| that is developing itself against annexa
tion in certain quarters, we have still some
jhope left us. There are, thank heaven,
,yet some bold and fearless spirits in the
j Democratic party, w ho are determined to
! battle against every odds, and to - assert
and defend the principles by which the
late victory was achieved, cost what it
! may.
j They will speak with a voice that the
j hellish shout of fanaticism cannot drown,
and maintain their principles with a firm
ness that opposition can neither shake nor
move ; and if at last forced to surrender,
j when every other hope has failed them, it
; will be their lives, not their principles,
! lhey will yield.
CONGRESS—TIIE BEGINNING OF TIIE
END.
Very little has occurred in Congress
worth recording, we believe, but the re
scinding of the 25th rule, (to exclude abo
lition petitions,) the reference of these pe
titions to the Committee on the District of"
I Columbia, and the introduction of two
[sets of resolutions for the annexation of
Texas, one by Mr. McDuffie, on the basis
of Mr. Tyler’s treaty, and the other by the
old Swiss, Benton, designed to suit the ab
olitionists, as well as the South. The apa
thy that seems to pervade the Southern
people in regard to the. recent abolition
triumphs in Congress, is most astonishing.
The reception and reference of these pe
titions amounts to neither more nor less
than a virtual assumption of legislative
power over the subject of slavery in the
District of Columbia; an assumption of
power that every southern man who looks
to the consequences must he prepared to
resist at any and every hazard.
CAUTION—N. V. NEWS—THE TRIBUNE.
We notice that both the abovemeniion
ed papers are making extraordinary ef
forts to increase their circulation, purlicu
alrly in the Southern States, and to ren
der themselves par excellence, the organs of
their respective parties. The News we
understand has three agents in the South
ern States soliciting subscriptions. We
I believe it to be our duty, to notify our fel
low-citizens of these insidious attempts to
| subvert Southern institutions. The Tri
bune \s, an avowed abolition organ, and re
cent indications have convinced us that
the edit >r of the News is rapidly tending
in the same direction, and is already moil;
than halfan abolitionist. We accordingly
feel it to beour solemn duty to remonstrate
with our friends and the Southern public
generally, against warming these vipers
into greater animation, and thus ena! le
them more successfully to diffuse their
(subtle and hellish venom into the very
1 fountains of our existence as a people.
The Chinese Treaty. —The following
i notification, which we copy from the New
York Commercial Advertiser, has been
issued by Mr. Cushing, our Commissioner
in China:
U. S. Legation, Macao, July 4.
The Minister of the United States has
the pleasure to announce that yesterday,
at Wanghia, he concluded and signed with
the Imperial Commissioner, Keying, a
treaty of peace, amity, and commerce,
between the United States and China.
The terms of the treaty, which will in
due time be made public by the proper au
thorities, are such, he is happy to say, as
he believes will confirm tlie good under
standing which already exists between
jibe two Governments, and if ratified,
prove beneficial to the commerce and in
terests of the citizens and subjects of both
countries.
The Minister of the United States con
gratulates his countrymen on this event,
and offers them, on this happy anniversary
of the independence of their country, his
hearty wishes for their health and pros
perity, and joins them in their aspirations
for the continued peace, welfare, and glo
ry of the United Slates.
To the Americans residing in China.
Pulpit Adveuisenwnt. —Every one has
heard the story of the orthodox deacon,
who said, at the close of a warm exortatiou
that he was as sure there was a God as In
was that there was flour in Alexandria ;
and he knew that for certain, because he
had just received a fresh lot, which he
would sell as cheap for cash as any other
store in that place! We always think of
the deacon whenever we hear, at the close
of a solemn discourse, some three or four
secular notices, designing to help Mr. or
Mrs. Somebody in their benevolent enter
prise of—making money. We have heard
advertised in this way a musical exhibi
tion, a sale of books, a scientific lecture,
and, worse than all, animal magnetism.
[The officers of every eburen should es
tablish a rule to exclude all notices but
those of a strictly religious nature.-JV. Y.
Observer.
Il is stated in the New York papers that
| Judge Kent has given notice of his inten
tion to resign his judgeship in February
| next. This will be a great loss to the
Bar as well as to the Bench of that Slate.
Indian Trick. —The Chippewa Indians,
it is stated, recently, in order to make their
families appear as numerous as possible,
and thereby obtain large annuities from
the United States government, being paid
per capita, borrowed children from each
other while the gov rnment officers were
registering their tribes. This trick equals
some which the pale faces have practised
against the red man. The latter is grow
ing sharper by his contact with civilized
whites.
PRESIDENT POLK AS HE IS.
At the late reception of the President i
elect at Nashville, we have the first in
timation from him, since his election, of
his views of the responsibilities arising
from his elevation to the first office in the
world.
From the Nashville Union of the 30th
uh., we copy at length the proceedings on
that interesting occasion. President Polk’s
rematks will he read with gratified pride
and pleasure by the Ameiicnn People.—
They are worthy of a Chief Magistrate of
our great Republic. His suggestion that
democrats should evince no gratuitous ex
ultation over their opponents, hut should
[only rejoice because “our principles and
policy are better calculated than theirs to
promote the true interests of the whole
country,” will renew in the popular mind
the confidence that President Polk intends
to administer the government for the wel
fare of the toiling millions. This is the
path of true democracy, which will give
him the moral power of speaking not
alone as President of the United States,
hut as the trusted Exponent of the Ameri
can people.
The whig party have been and are still in
the habit of traducing Piesident Polk as a
man of inferior mind, and as incapable of
meeting the vast responsibilities of his sta
tion. Yet does not every democrat revert'
with a just pride to President Polk’s course |
duringthe tryingordeal of the lute canvass.
While his private character is of so up- 1
right a cast, as to be held up as an exam
ple to the nation, his communications to
j the public* are marked by that comprehen
sive statesmanship which shows that he
is eminently national in his policy, while
his temperate, judicious and dignified
views of the great measures which have
so intensely agitated the people, have giv
en the welcome assurance that his presi
dency will he not less honorable to himself
than fortunate to his country. — Alb Argus.
MEXICO AND THE U. STATES.
The New Yotk Herald of Saturday con
tains a copy, in full, of the official corres
pondence during the last summer ami
autumn between the Unite*.! Stales gov
ernment and those of Texas and Mexico,
relative to the question of annexation, —
alluded to in the President’s Message, and
communicated witli that document. It
embraces all the diplomatic corrcsjon
rletic e that has been received by our gov
ernment down to the opening of congress.
Among the documents, is an important
despatch frem Mr. Calhoun, Secretary of
State, to Mr. King, American Minister at
Paris, copies of which have been addres
sed to the American ministers at the oth
er European courts. In this letter, Mr.
Calhoun takes high and strong ground a
gainst the policy of Great Brilian in rela
u<m to Abolition and other questions.
One important fact disclosed is that
Fiance—as Mr. Calhoun construes the as
surance of the King of the French, and
of M. Guizot, that in ‘ no event would a
ny steps he taken by their government
iu the slightest degree hostile, or that
would gi\e the United States just cause
of complaint.’—will not interfere or pro
test against the annexation.
The latest despatch from Mr. Shannon j
( American Minister to Mexico,) is to Mr.
Calhoun,' of the 2Slh Oct., enclosing a,
letter from Mr. S. to Mr. Rt-jnn, of the j
I 14lh October, to which Mr. S. states no j
j reply had been received on the 2Sth, in (
consequence of the absence of Santa An- 1
Ina, atone of his country estates.
The letter of Mr. Shannon, agreeably to
instructions from the American Secretary
lof State, states many home truths, in
I language certainly very direct and not
free from offence; and we have since
learned, through New Orirans papers,
that the reply of M. Rejon, and all the
subsequent correspondence, were equally
tart and not less offensive on both sides.
We regret to see this question precipi
tated by a correspondence, not in good |
temper on either side. But we do not i
apprehend that more than angry talk w ill |
come out of it. We desire annexation ;,
but we desire it amicably, if possible,
and we would make sacrifices of feeling
to accomplish it upon just, liberal and a
micable terms. We hope yet to see the
question assume that shape : and we re
ly for such a re sult upon the characteris
tic good sense of our Minister to Texas
(Maj. Donalson) and upon good sense
| also at Washington. [Albany Argus.
Great Britain. —The united annual
incomes of the people of Great Britian
have lately been estimated at from £'29o
- to £1310,000,000, about two
years of which would pay off' the entire
national debt. In six years 1,700 miles
of railway lave been completed at a cost
of £'54,000,000. The length of the navi
gable canals in England exceeds 2,200
miles. The number of inhabitable houses
is 593,911 —nearly double the number of
1831.
■ ft.
'I he Sam Jonrs. —lt will be remember
ed that this well known and favorite craft
was sunk last winter a few miles below j
this city, by an accident which she met
with. Since then she was raised, and !
having been entirely repaired, left here on j
Saturday with a cargo of cotton. Much
credit is due to her owner, our indefatiga- j
ble and enterprising fellow-citizen, James j
It. Butts, Esq., and we hope that heavy j
freight bills and profitable returns may re- j
ward him for bis industry and energy.— i
Telegraph.
The President Elect, according to in- i
formation received by the Baltimore Re
publican, purposes leaving bis residence
in Tennessee, in time to reach Washington
about the middle of January next.
The Raleigh Register of 13th instant,
says; “We learn from authority on which
we place reliance, that the great Southern
Mail is to be transferied to our Rail Road
alter the first of January, and to be carry
hence South in four horse pos* ' *
FIRE.
A fire broke out yesterday morning a-;
bout 3 o’clock, in the coach factory estab
lishment of Mr. A. Roulain, situate on
the west side of Meeting, a few doors a
j hove Society street. The flames which
j were first seen issued from the trimming
j tootn on the second floor, soon enveloped
| the entire building, and communicated to
the three story house adjoining to the south
! iu the occupation of the family of the late
Capt. John A. St. Amand, and also to
Mr. Roulain’s work shops, which have all
been burnt to the ground. The buildings
were of wood, and belonged to the family
of the late Capt. St. Amand, and w*e re
gret toad I, that there was no insurance
on them. Mr. Roulain had but recently
received a number of heavy and light ve
hicles, a large portion of which, together
with his tools have been destroyed. His
stock in trade was worth from 15 to 20,-
000 dollars, on w hich there were hut 7000
dollars insurance—4ooo in the Charleston
Insurance and Trust Company, end 3000
dollars in the Hartford Fire Company, u
gency in this city.
A two and a half story frame building
on the east side of Meeting-street, imme
diately opposite, belonging to the estate
of the late Dr. Akin, and insured in the
Hartford Fire Company lor 2000 dollars,
was very much injured.
A frame kitchen attached to the premi
ses running from Society-street, owned by
Mr. James Smith, and occupied by Mr.
C. Myers, and in the rear of Mr. Ilouland’s
black smith’s shop, was destroyed ; and
the w indow shutters and wood work of
the large brick building, occupied by W.
J. Grayson, Esq. Collector of the port, was
somewhat injured.— Chat lesion Courier.
A P'until't hilled by a Girl. —The La
Grange (Texas) paper, gives the follow
ing incident, w hich occurred near Doug
las, Nacogdoches county:
A panther came into a house in which
there was no person but a young lady and
her little brother. The young lady being
very busy attending to her little household
nil’iirs, did not see the panther until he
had got entirely into the house; hut so soon
as she discovered him she seized hold of
him and called to her little brother to bring
her the axe. After waiting some time for
this weapon, still holding on to the pan
ther, the young lady then told her brother
to bring her a smoothing iron, with w hich
she soon succeeded in putting the intru
der to death. The screams during the
encounter, of the heroine, were heard by
some of the neighbors, who went immedi
ately to learn the cause, but when they ar
rived, they found her the conqueror, and
v iewing with much composure the lifeless
body of her frightful intruder.
The pin machine at VVnterbury (Conn.)
turns out two barrels of pins per day, each
barrel containing 4,000,000 ol pins. The
machine is small, and a novel yet simple
construction. The wire is run into it from
a reel, rut a;.d made into a complete pin.
The pins fall into a hopper, and, ns they
pass out, they are arranged, stuck into pa
pers, and packed, all by the machinery.
This process is attended by one girl only,
who does the work of thirty by the old
process. The pin manufactory at Taun
ton (Mass.) we understand to be on an ex
tensive scale.
The tents for the Mexican arm}*, made
in Boston, were paid for by a draft on
Messrs. Baring, Brothers & Cos., of Lon
don. They were sent out of the country
on the manifest as one hundred bales of
manufactured sail cloth. What does this
mean ?
A G iJsviid. —ln Parish on Wednesday
week, a poor dealer in old furniture met
with one oft hose pieces of good fortune
which sometimes com? to the relief of the
miserable. In the old narrow street cal
led St. Eloi, famed in the annals of Paris
as that in which King Pepin resided, and
immediately opposite where his palace
stood, is rhe shop of a petty broker. A
im ngst his articles for sale was an old arm
chair, so worn with age that no one would
give him forty sous, all he asked for it.
Tired of seeing it so long a useless cum
brance, he resolved to break it up, and
convert the horse-hair to some more pro
fitable purpose, and burn the old frag
ments. On proceeding to this operation,
lie found concealed in the seat a roll of
paper, in which were wrapped notes of
the Bank of France to the amount of 11,-
, 500 francs, all of which were in the form
adopted when this establishment was first
founded.
O-WM. 11. ROBINSON, is a candidate for
| Constable ill the 564ih district, Georgia Militia.
Macon, Dec. 25, 1844. 2 II
.1 DUN If. BENNETT,
fS announced as a candidate lor Justice of t fie
Peace, for the 716i1i District, G. M., at the en
| suing election in January 1845.
December 4. 8 tde
KEADY MADE CLOTHING, just received
Afen’s, and boys’ clothing of every descrip
tion, which will be sold at greatly retlucrdnrires.
S. J. RAY & CO.
Nov. 8, 1844.
CITY ELECTION NOTICE.
City Council, Nov. 22, 1844.
RESOLVED, That at the approaching Elec
tion for AJavor and Aldermen, on the first
Saturday in January next, no person he allowed to
vote whose names is not on the Register Book of
ihe city.
Resolved , That at said Election no person shad
be allowed to vole who has not paid all arrearages
of Tax to the city.
Resolved. Thai the Treasurer publish the fore
going Resolutions in the public Gazettes of tin*
ritv, so that all persons mav have due notice theit
of.' A. R. FREEAfAN, Treas.
Nov. 27, 1841. 7 td
NOTICE.
rgMIE BOOK fir Registering names of Voters
for JV/ayor and Aldermen of the city of Jf* con
is kept at my office in the Afarket-Houae upstairs
and will be open from 9 to 12o’clock everyday,
(Sundays excepted,) until the day preceding the
Election, as required by the charter of the city.
Persons whose names are on the city Tax Book
of this year are not required to register.
•Hr*, Musou’s Hofei,
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA
.11RS. III!SON,
rpAKES this method of informing her
friends and tlie public generally, lliat she will
slill continue tu keep a Hotel in this place, a few
doora.below the Jtfnnroe Roil Road and Banking
House, just across the street from where site for
merly kept. Her charges will correspond with tlic
hardness of the times. The house will be fitted
up in a superior style. She will lake the house on
the 20th day of December, when every thing will
lie in complete order.
AMELIA HUSON.
Grifin, Dec.», 1844. 10 2m
Floyd House •
Mthe con lesion subsisting between the
undersigned heretofore, under the firm of
B. S. NEWCOMB 8c CO., was dissolved
on the 15th inst. The debts previously contracted
bv the concern will be pa id hv B. S. NtwcoMß, and
the sole proprietorship of the Fi.oyd House from
the dissolution above staled,is vested in B. S. New
comb only. b. S. NEWCOMB,
WM. CRAFT,
C. C. USHER.
Macon Nov. 15, 184-1.
I ' l '- B.— Mr. Craft, I have the pleasure of saying
has consented to remain with me, and assist in ih«
management ol the House.
B. S. NEWCOMB.
Nov. 27. 3t 8
TO THE PUBLIC.
8 V the course of two or three weeks, will be pub
_ fished and ready for delivery, a list of all the
* tig.,a uted Lauds of the Cherokee Purchase. This
is an important guide to those having lands, or
wishing to purchase them bv granting.—Terms
81 per copy, liberal deductions to those taking a
quantity.
Editors giving this two insertions and forward
ing a paper to the office of the Cherokee Advocate,
will have a copy sent litem.
Dec. 25 2 II ■
'llls r. siLbeil of par|«,
MILLINER AND FASHIONABLE
Dmx
Store next door to Messrs. I Calls St Moulton's,
Commerce Row.
Respectfully informs the Ladies o l
.Macon and vicinity, tfiat site has just arrived
from New Fork, with anew and well selected,
stock of new
SFABiZE OJT JB O^TMJOrSTf,
EEL VETS, SILK, ST IIA »F, & LEGHORNS,
which wifi be suit! very low. Old bonnets repair
i ed.al the shortest notice. A call is respectfully so
licited.
December 11,1844. 9 if
NULLING OFF AT COST FOB
t AMI.
UAVING a very lame Slock of Goods on hand,
ami being desirous of reducing it very low
by the spring, I am induced to offer uiv present
STOCK AT COST FOR CASH.
The Goods are new and bought in .Veto York
for Cash. The stick consists of
vmv q qoj>sr 9
READY MADE CLOTHING ,
H ITS, SIIOI.B AND ROOTS,
SADDLERV IIVUDU MIK. CROCKERY,
BOLTING CLOTHS, MILL SAWS,
PAINTS, OIL, W IN DOW GLASS,
PUTTY AC. AC.
embracing every article usually kept in this Mar
ket.
Country Merchants, Peddlers, and other persona
wishing to buy, would do well to look at nty Goods
bt'lbre Purchasing, as great bargains mav ire find.
WM. A. ROSS.
Macon, December 11,1844. 9-ts
NOTICE.
rjNHE CITIZENS ut'Bibbcounty, are requested
to meet at the Court house in Macon on the
first Tuesday in January next, at 11 o’clock, A. M.
for the purpose of forming an Agricultural Society.
As the object ol tins meeting is one that addresses
itself to the interest of every citizen, it is hoped
that a general attendance will be given.
December 25 8 11 FARMER.
IjIOUR MONTHS alter date application wiJ
• be made to the honorable the Inferior Court
[of Bibb county, when sitting for ordinary purpo
ses, lor leave to sell the entire estate real, and per
sonal, of Henry Flanders late of said county de
ceased.
DAVID Flanders, Adm’r.
December 18, 1844. 10
A NEW VOLUME.
tha: wnw niitKoit
OF LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS.
Edited by G. E. Morris and N. /'. (l illis.
Ilarh JYo. contains a beautiful steel Engraving.
Good as the Mirror lias hitherto been (good
enough to prosper) we have edited it as the Israel
iles built die walls of Jerusalem—with the best
hand otherwise employed. The beginnings of ail
enterprises are difficult—more especially beginnings
without capital—and the attention of one editor
has been occupied with the management of the
machinery now in regular operation, while the
other, nil the concern should he prosperous, was
compelled to labor diligently lor other publications.
One by one (to change the figure,) these hindering
barnacles have lieeu washed otf our keel by goii g
more rapidly ahead, and with the beginning of the
third volume, both editors will be entirely and ex
clusively devoted to the Mirror—equal to setting
studding sails alow and aloft wilh the wind dead
all, full and steady. Os couise she will now go
along ‘with a long hone in her mouth,’ as they sav
of a crali with the loam on her cutwater.
We live in the middle of this somewhat inhab
ited island of A/anhattan, and see most that is
worth seeing, and hear most that is worth hearing.
Alter the newspapers have had their pick of the
news, we have a luck of making a spicy hash of
the remainder, (gleaning many a choice bit, by the
way, which had been overlooked or slighted,) and
we undertake hereby, to keep the readers of the
•Mirror up to the limes. Every body reads news
papers and gets the outline of the world’s going
; round—but we shall do just what the oewsjtaper*
leave undone—fill up the outline—tell you ‘some
more,’ as the children say, put in the light* and
snadows of the picture done by newspapers in the
rough. Il is what « e have tried lo do in our ‘Let,
ters lo the National Intelligencer,’ and as i ur bro
ther editors seem to think we have succeeded, we
i will, (as we discontinue that correspondence in
April,) in rather a more dashing and lighter vein
resume these metropolitan sketchts in me .Mirror,
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trick heliire they couie alongside,) and we keep a
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of our imagination) Ibr any strange breezes of
novelty lor which it is possible to trim sail. And
—to show our hand a little—we have bagged, like
Eolus, a breeze or two which we shall reserve a while
) Ibr competition It nothing overhaul us, we shall
| try our s|»eed hv and by, with sky scrapers and all
—just to amuse the reader, and show our regard
lor his respectable sixpence.
Our- plates by the way, we undertake In sav,
shall l>e, from this date, of twice the excellence, at
h ast, of those heretofore given. Experience and
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siness than of most others.
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You dou’t need coaxing to help yourself to any
riling so cheap and heavenly. I'ake what has fal
len, anil be sure that more loaves, risp and satisfy
ing. are baked in the Clouds.
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