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prompt and immediate action on the sub
ject of Annexation :—By adopting that
measure, tlie United estates will be in the
exercise of an undoubted right ;and if Mex
ico, not regarding that forbearance, shall
aggrevate the injustice of her conduct by
a declaration of war against them, upon
her head will rest all the responsibility.
JOHN TYLER.
Washington City, Dec. 1!), 1844.
“the republic
••Government derives its just powers, not from the au
thority of Kulerj, but from the consent of the Governed ”
MACON, JAM Ain 1, 1545.
THE BIRTH OF A NEW YEAR.
Like human life, the vacuum of the past
year is tilled up by the birth of the new.
The obituary of 1544, is written, and this
morning, in a bumping egg-nog we chris
tened 1545.
What joys or what woes 1845 lias in
store for us, this deponent saith not. But
verily so far the j'oung infant has not smi
led very heavenly upon us. Our friends,
our crediting friends , are as usual, kind,
considerate and attentive. Long bills,
tall bills, short bills, spoon bills, all sorts
<f bills! and, to be candid, every one of
them true bills pour in upon us like the
‘rush of’ a mill-tail! If it be easy to
empty the head of an editor, of ideas,
how much easier the task to empty his
pockets of funds. Pshaw! why dignify
small change with the name of funds? —
The term means capital, stock, money
lent to government, constituting a nation
al debt, &c. &e. Now by constant delv
iog into the lore of ancient and modern
writers, we some day or oilier expect to
ac«]uiie a capital stack of ideas, never do
we expect to accumulate a capital stock
of funds—([/“unless the patrons of the
‘Republic’ should ‘wax fat and kick.’
In that event we have no doubt they will
‘come up to the scratch’ and plank up
the * shiners,’ like Washington Irving’s old
English farmer Ileady-money Jack.
Appropos! Speaking of farmers
though we may boast of many enlighten
ed and liberal of that class resident in
(Jeorgin, vve have also lots that are ignor
ant, close-fisted, thrip-and-lia’penny cur
mudgeons, the unworthy recipients of
Done Nature’s prodigal gilts—upon whom
a kind Providence has lavished every
blessing, whose minds never lor one in
stant expanded beyond the cold and nar
row precinct of self —who would not in
vest the proceeds ol the sale of three bush
els of /teas lor the best periodical publish
ed in America who calculates the glo
rious results of intellectual culture by dol
lars ami cents.
The souls of such men are not as ca
pacious as a hickory nut hollowed out.
In such a tenement there would be abun
dant space to contain all they know or
teel, and then they might advertise ‘room
to let.’
Par example. During the last term ol
Houston court the agent of a paper pub
lished in Savannah, applied to one of these
old * twenty per cents’ to place his name
on his subscription list. He owned a fine
lurm and worked some ten or fifteen
hands. After humming and hawing some
tune over the subject, lie finally conclud
ed to take the paper, provided the agent
would let him have it at the rate of one
dollar per annum !
Genius of Scriblerus ! Spirit of one
spectacled Chapman what a Shyloek !
But the half is not told. 'i’huL ‘same old
coon,’ (reader, ’pou honor, he was a whig)
soon alter the above incident occurred,
waxed hungry. Well, it was perfectly
natural to become hungry, and equally
so to desire to appease it. So old twenty
per cent thought of the ‘ways and means’
of providing cheap fair. Instead of pa
tronising our kind host , who had bounti
fully supplied his tabic for court week at
considerable expense, he dodges into a
shop.
‘Mister,’ says lie, ‘what will you ax
me tor as many of them cheese and crack
ers as I can eat fin dinner?’
‘ Thirty-seven anil a half cents,’ repli
ed the clerk.
‘ Can’t afford it; cotton’s down—short
crop—l did’nl make but forty bales this
year, no how. l.’ll give you seveupence
tor what will do me.’
‘Good,’ said the clerk, ‘ help yourself.’
Up stepped the old'alligator ami cutting
off about two and a half pounds of Cowles’
best, filling both of' his huge coat pockets
with crackers, and taking as many as he
could conveniently hold in his hands, he
stepped into the hack room to get out ol
sight of his neighbors, anil went to work.
We could hear him masticating like a
cross-cut saw. Shades of Beckwith, De
ters, Thomson, anil Biamlrelh —what uu
appetite! A gentleman standing by, al
ter seeing about two pounds of cheese
and three dozen crackers disappear with
apparently no diminution ol appetite,
kindly suggested ‘ that it might give him
tlie belly-ached
‘Belly-ache!’ indignantly replied the
old cur, who was rather suspicious that
his neighbor’s mouth was watering for
some of it, and having a feeling recollec
tion that it cost him twelve and a half
cents, ‘l’ve eat a steamboat load of it in
toy time and never lelt the slightest symp
tom! Belly-ache or cholic, i’ll have the
worth of my money before I’in done,’
and without another word to grinding he
went until the whole concern disappear
cd into his capacious stomach.
Reader, do you think such bowels ever
had any compassion in them. Do you sup
pose he will ever become a subsetiber to
the New York Mirror ? Wouldn’t he dis
burse most poetically on the associations
connected with the burial of the past and
the advent of the present year!
Blessed is the man whose favor, or
wealth , or happiness, are not dependent
on such materials— who moves in an in
telligent and generous circle whose li
brary is stored with the hoarded treasures
of the past, and the gifted contributors to
science and literature of present times
who is not compelled to minister to de
praved tastes, to flatter ignorant minds,
or to solicit a reluctant patronage who
could exclaim with the indignant and in
dependent poet,
“ Oiii profanum vulgus et arceo.”
But human life is sadly chequered, and
every year renders more uncertain the
mystic luture. In its contemplation well
might its associations have suggested to
Wilde, those beautiful lines which we
here present to the reader for the thou
sandth and one time; and that, too, with
out an apology:
HUMAN life.
*' Mv life is like tlie summer rose
That opens to the morning sky,
Soon as the shades of evening cfose,
’Tis scatter'd on tlie ground to die.
But on that rose’s humble bed,
The softest deivs of night are shed,
As if she wept sucli waste to see,
Bui who shall weep a tear lor me.
“My life is like the autumn leaf
That tremhres in the moon’s pale ray;
Its hold is frail, its dale is brief,
Restless and soon to pass away.
But ere that leaf shall lull and lade,
The parent tree will mourn its shade ;
The winds bewail tlie leafless tree,
But who shall ere lament for me.
“Mv life is like prints, which feet
Have left oil Tampa’s desert strand,
Soon as the rising tide shall heat,
All trace will vanish from the sand,
But as if grieving to efface
All vestige of the human race,
On that lone shore loud moans the sea,
But none shall weep a tear for me.”
OURSELVES.
We trust that no one will do this Jour
nal the gross injustice to construe the cen
sure vve have taken the liberiy to express
of tlie course of Senator Benton and oth
er prominent members of the Democratic
party, on the great question of Annexation,
as the result of any unkind feelings per
sonally, towards any member of the great
Republican party of the country. W r e
have animadverted upon the course of
the Missouri Senator, and that portion of
tlie Democratic paity whose oracle lie is,
because we have regarded it as disorgan
ising in its tendency, destitute of patriot
ism, and iu.?r|y selfish in its aims. We
consider the implacable obstinacy of Col.
Benton and his followers, in still opposing
a measure contrary to the almost unani
mous sentiment of the Republican party
of the country, anil at the obvious risk of
breaking it up, as demagoguieal, unpatri
otic, and contemptible in the extreme.
We consider his course as anti demo
cratic, because he refuses by his opposi
tion to the annexation of Texas to spread
wider and w ider the circle of free insti
tutions, anil opposes the dawn of that
glorious day spring when liberal political
principles and regulated governmentsliall
dispense their blessings to every dweller
ou American soil.
We are opposed to the course of Col.
Benton because the people have decided
that Texas ought to be annexed note, im
mediately, without tlie assent of Mexico or
any other power but that of Texas her
; sell'.
We are opposed to the course of C.. 1.
Benton and his followers because it is in
violation of tlie pledges of our party, and
jut war with the views of Gov. Polk, ex
pressed clearly and fully in his Texas
letter, upon which the issue was made
beliire die country and decided upon by
the people.
We are opposed to him because his
course on this as well as another absorb
ing national question, clearly proves that
his own advancement is a lar higher con
sideration with him than his country’s
honor. He has shown by his selfish course
on these great questions that Cataline like,
to accomplish ids own aggrandisement he
is ready to plot a diabolical conspiracy
against the institutions of Lis country,
and madly and impiously to plunge the
dagger into the heart of the Republic lor
whose interest and honor lie at one lime
gave evidence of the most shining devo
tion. It is for this that we have opposed
and will continue to oppose him or any one
else that will put his own personal views,
or those of a faction, in the scale against
the wishes of the people. For vve believe
that a large majority of the democratic
party’ value there principles far higher
| than they do the personal advancement
of Mr. Benton, or any one else. And
: however much political trimmers may be
disposed to gentle emollients
for the cure or removal of such sores from
the party, vve confess that vve incline en
tirely to the belief that the best remedy is
found in the instant application of the
knife.
Mlt. CALHOUN’S LETTER TO MR. KING.
We publish to-day the able letter of
Mr. Calhoun to Mr. King, our Minister at
the Fretich Court, on the subject of our
Foreign relations. It is like every thing
Mr. Calhoun has ever written—dignified,
able, and thoroughly American in its tone,
and should be read by every man, wo
man and child in the country, and handed
down for the study of their children and
their children’s children to the latest time.
Let it be read at least by every one in
whose veins courses the warm current of
the Soulhron’s blood! The profound
wisdom, enlightened patriotism, and vast
experience of Mr. Calhoun, are stamped
in colors of light qpoti every line in the
letter; and we. venture to say that if his
advice in every particular meets with the
response it deserves from his countrymen,
it will be felt and acknowledged with gra
titude long after we shall all have passed
from the earth.
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE MEXICO, Ac.
In our columns to-day will be found
President Tyler’s message transmitted lo
both Houses of Congress on the 20th ult.,
upon the subject of our present relations
with Mexico.
SOUTH CAROLINA. AFFAIRS.
‘‘The Legislature of South Carolina ad
journed at 12 o’clock at night on the ISth
instant. We are rather disappointed at
the tone of their proceedings. What they
have done is well done; but wc are rather
disappointed that they have not done
more. We had hoped that they would
have framed a powerful, argumentative
memorial to Congress, in opposition to
the present oppressive Tariff. Such a
measure was calculated to excite the at
tention of the whole country; setting forth
in hold relief the wrongs of South Caro
lina, the whole history of the Compromise
Act, the violation of its plighted provis
ions, and the insulting treachery which
had been perpetrated against her— the
appeal would have gone forth, trumpet
tongued, to the nation.
She has declined, or rather postponed,
such proceeding; and she is contented, in
a spirit of great moderation, and so far
of wisdom, upon the first resolutions of
Mr. Pickens, which were adopted by the
Senate. These were passed on the last
evening of the session, amid some confu
sion of parliamentary forms, and selected
out of a great multiplicity of projects which
had been accumulating upon the table of
the House of Representatives during the
session.
Bui let no man suspect the spirit of the
Democracy of South Carolina. They
have determined to await the action of
the Democratic party who are ‘just in
the ascendant,’ in the Federal Govern
ment. They have made no threats; they
have forborne most properly any recourse
to any measure about the ‘physical re
; sources’ of the State, as Gov. Hammond
proposed, and they are resolved to appeal
again to tlie justice of Congress. Virginia
joins South Carolina in this appeal, and
neither of them will rest satisfied with the
present unequal Tariff.”
We republish with great pleasure the
above remarks of the venerable Nestor of
the Republican party, the editor of the
Richmond Enquirer; and joinjiost hear
tily in the compliment which he so hand
somely pays to the noble Democracy of
South Carolina. The laurel will wear
well with them, for it has been justly and
nobly earned. At the same time we beg
to assure our democratic brethren of South
Carolina and Virginia, the twin ‘ custodi
ans of the republican faith,’ that Georgia
too, joins South Carolina and Virginia in
this appeal to Congress; and that she, too,
‘ will never rest satisfied with the present
unequal Tariff, for whatever interests
these chivalrous States, interests us ; nay,
it interests all the Southern States, Al
abama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas,
Tennessee, and North Carolina, as well
as Georgia vve all claim and are proud
to acknowledge a common property in
ihe fame of their orators, and the unrival
led and lofty patriotism of their states
man. Our warmest feelings, social as
well as political, are with the people of
these Slates; and the common interests
and prosperity of their citizens, as well as
the preservation of the bright good names
both have already acquired, are as dear
to us as they are to any of their own citi
zens; and whatever course it may be ne
cessary to adopt to fulfil the pledges made
bv us, of Georgia, in common with our
friends in Virginia and South Carolina,
during the late Presidential contest, Geor
gia will throw herself forward in defence
of her principles with a devotion and gal
lantry only equalled by the patriotic ardor
of the ‘Mother of States,’ and the ‘war
rior-virgin Goddess of Republicanism,’
South Carolina.
CONGRESS.
Mr. Douglass, of Illinois, introduced in
the House of Representatives, on ihe 22d,
a joint resolution-for the Annexation of
Texas to the United States, in conformity
with tlie treaty of 1803, for the purchase
of Louisiana, which was read the first
and second times and referred to the
Committee of the Whole on the state of
the Union.
Mr. Weller, of Ohio, has also introdu
ced resolutions for the annexation of Texas
to the Union. We will publish the reso
lutions offered by these gentlemen in our
next.
Tlie proceedings o‘ Congress during
the past week are without much general
interest. We give the following corres
pondence from the Charleston Mercury,
as the best summary of the proceedings
of that hotly, since our last:
Washington, Dec. 22.
The passage, by the House of Repre
sentatives, of the bill, “ providing for the
collection, suit keeping, transfer and dis
bursement of tlie public money,” com
monly called the Independent Treasury,
may be considered, under all the circum
stances, as a great triumph, not only of
1 the democratic party, but of truth and
correct principles. It is, moreover, a tri
umph lor Mr. Calhoun—as great a tri
umph as any statesman ever obtained in
such a government as this.
Kightyeats ago, in a Democratic House
this measure was defeated and lost; now,
it passes by a vote of two to one. Eight
years ago, Mr. Calhoun, in advocating
this measure, declared that the banking
system bail failed to answer its purposes,
anil could never be employed again in pro
moting the objects of the government.—
The declaration was then treated as idle
or insane, but time has verified it.
It is not probable t hat the Whigs of the
Senate will concur in this measure ; but
it will command every Democratic vote
in that body. The Whigs offer no alter
; native to it, and would approve of it as a
’ measure of necessity, were it not for their
pride of consistency'.
Mr. Evans at the late Session, caused
to be introduced into the general appro
l piation act, a clause restricting the Secre
tary' of the Treasury from changing any
iof the depositories. The Secretary did
not change them, but increased their num-
Jber. It is not probable that any of the
public funds have been lost or corruptly
used by the Secretary, but he has had uu
liiniled power over them, and his enemies
have made abundance of charges against
him as to the manner in which he has ex
ercised this power.
At any rate it is gratifying to see a dis
position, on tiie part of Congress, to place
the public moneys under the control of late,
instead of leaving them to the unregulated
management of an individual.
It seems probable that the surplus rev
enue, for some time to come, wiH be large
enough to create a scramble—such as we
now see—for the advantages to result
from its safe-keeping. This is, therefore,
a proper time to re-establish the Sub-
Treasury. There are interests enough
now employed in the support of the Ta
riff of surp/usses, without adding to them
the powerful aid of the banks and brokers
who want to get posscssiou of those sur
passes.
Perhaps the most important issue that
was brought before the people, at the e
lection, was this Tariff' of protection and
surplus. The people condemned the
system ; at least, it was so understood un
till Congress met.
The moment that this subject was in
troduced to the notice of the House, a
number of democratic members, repre
senting powerful sections of the country,
hoisted the banner of ultra protection,
and declared a general warfare against
every interest that dared to oppose it.—
Never, during the whole history of this
matter, has the cause of protection been
so boldly espoused and zealously defend
ed as by this Democratic House ol' Rep
resentatives.
The guise in which the svstem is now
presented is that of “equal protection,”
to all interests—that is to say, we will
keep what we have got, to make it equal,
you may get what you can.
That, say the Pennsylvanians, was
what the Democracy of the Keystone
Stale fought for and won. The Indiana
Democrats say they are ready to compro
mise the matter, and their first provision
is that Pennsylvania shall be required to
yield nothing.
So ihere is not the slightest prospect at
present, that the system of revenue com
plained of by the South will be modified
or improved.
In regard to the annexation of Texas,
most of the democrats appear to he iuilit
ferent to it. They certainly do not op
pose it; but Ido not see the evidences of
such a feeling as can lead, at this session,
to any definite action.
The subject will be brought up and dis
cussed in both Houses, and the friends of
the measure hope that a proper bill may
be brought forward, out of the several
projects presented, and passed. Mr.
McDuffie’s bill cannot pass the Senate;
and Mr. Benton’s would not be accepted
by Texas.
In short, nothing will be done on this
subject at this session.
Events may happen, must happen, in
the year following this session, that will
render Texas averse to annexation.
The prize will be lost, unless Mr.
Polk should prove to be so sincerely and
zealously an advocate of annexation as to
hazard an extra session lor it. I do no think
myself, there need be any great hazard
in it to him or to his party. By so prompt
and bold a movement lie would arouse
public attention to the subject, and will
have the chance which boldness ever has,
I of carrying public opinion along with him.
Will he risk it—that’s the question. It is
ihe only hope for the measure, and know
ing that lull well, its enemies will throw
all their weight against an Extra Session.
SUMMARY.
City os- St. Louis.—This great West
ern Market has a population of 84,140 in
habitants. The county has 47,668, ma
king a total population in city and coun
ty of 131,808, These figures are from
the census just taken in that State.
Official vote of Missouri. —The vote
of this Slate, as received at the Secre
tary’s office is, for James K. Polk, 25,-
596. Henry Clay, 19,874. Polk’s ma
jority, 6,022.
Allison has just brought out in Edin
burgh, his history of Europe. It is
in ten volumes. Price about $25.
Theophilus Fisk, bearer of Despatch
es from Prussia and Belgium, arrived at
Washington on Saturday, 14th inst.
Growth of Boston. —The number of
permits taken out for the erection of
buildings in Boston, from January to
December, was 1132; in East Boston
295- In South Boston 198. Total 1525.
John F. H. Claiborne, formerly a
distinguished member of Congress from
Mississippi, has become the Editor of
the New Orleans Jeffersonian.
The Chinese Treaty. —The Treaty re
cently negotiated by Mr. Cushing with
the Celestial Empire, was on Tuesday
submitted by the President of the Urn-
States to the senate f or Rg advice.—
Tlie Madisonian says: “the particular pro
visions of the Treaty, are of course,
unknown ; we understand generally, that
the}' are quite favorable to our commerce,
and promise adequate rewards lo our
manufacturing and marine entetprise.—
! A voluminous correspondence and a tab
ular statement of the tariff of duties, as
established by the treaty, were, as we
understand, communicated by the Pres
ident.
FOR THE REPUBLIC.
Mr. Strong: —Please publish the fol
lowing named gentlemen as suitable per
sons for Aldermen of the City the ensuing
year.
GEO. M. LOGAN,
H. G. ROSS,
SAM’L. J. RAY, •
MOR TON N. BURCH,
{ SAM’L. GOVE,
CHAS. COLLINS,
.JOHN P. EVANS,
ISAAC HOLMES-
Macon.
HIACOGCL DEMOCRAT.
The acquisition lo the editorial corps
ol this State of the able and fearless pen of
Dr. L. F. W Andrews, must at once give
the Journal with which he is connected a
high standing with the Democratic party
throughout the Slate. The clearness and
beauty of his language, as well as the
strength and vigor of his style., together
with his ardent and unflinching devotion
to the principles of the great democratic !
parly of the country, will make the “De
mocrat” an able and powerful auxiliary
[in the good cause of constitutional de-|
mocracy, and we extend to it a cordial!
and hearty welcome.
07* We are requested to say that Mark
D. Clark is not a candidate for Judge of
the Inferior C ourt at the ensuing election
Foe the Republic.
The W big presses are trying to make capital
mil of thelale vole oil Adams’s resolution 10 admit
abolition peiitions--charging that ihe Democratic
party are responsible Kir the passage of that reso
lution. This is most unfair, tor two reasons: firs),
because many of both parlies voted in the affirma
tive on that question, not because they had any
sympathy with the abolitionists, or Adams, (cor
dially hating Imlli) bul because some believed the
abstract rignt of petition was involved; and others
because they believed by maintaining the rule of
exclusion of such petitions they would give influ-,
ence and power to that wicked traitor Adams and
his coadjutors. Hence several southern members
voted with iiim in the affirmative.
Secondly, It is unfair because no party ought to
he held responsible fur the acta of minorities.—
Now so far as the two parlieaare concerned touch
ing the vote in questioti, il there is any fault at
tached to either, it lies at the door of the Whigs;
lor of those piesent nearly three to one voted with
Adams, while a majority of the democrats voted
against the repeal of the rule. But as beliire re
marked, the vote upon that question is not a true
test of the sentiments of the members upon aboli
tion. To ascertain the state of the abolition ques
tion, the movements of the masses at the north
must be studied, and then it will he found not that
either party are untainted with that fatal heresy,
but that the Whigs are for more culpa hie than the
Democrats, hi what States have hostile acts to
ward the South heretofore manifested themselves
in the most signal manner? Every candid honest
man must answer, “Ihe Whig States.”
In the late election Massachusetts gave by lar
the largest vote Kir the wliigs of nnv stale in- the
Union; and there have been exhibited from time
to time tlie most outrageous wrongs toward slave
holders. It was reserved lor tlie slates of Massa
chusetts, Ohio, and Vermont, alone of all the states
to disgrace themselves by passing resolutions in
each of their Legislatures, that the annexation of
Texas to the confederacy would he a virtual disso
lution of the Union ; and that they would no lon
ger hold themselves hound by its obligations.
From where else but from whigistn could such
a ‘sinister plenipotentiary’ as Hoar—Massachu
setts’ representative of free negroes, ‘near the
court’ of South Carolina, have beeujfonked li,rr—
While this same Banner State was making whig
hearts rejoice throughout the Union at her fourteen
thousand majority lor Clay, her Legislature were
not only sending her accredited agents into the
south to say to our citizens, authoritatively, that
they must henceforth hold themselves no belter
than tree negroes! But at this very time of tri
umphant whig shouting, and while the mellow
tones of orator Berrien congratulating her on her
‘sound and safe principles’ iiad hardly ceased to
tcho along her vales, her highest court of judica
ture was perpetrating a greater outrage upon the
rights of Southern citizens—telling them, in fact,
, that not only free negroes, hut their oirn staves also,
are their equals!
It is well known that since the commencement
of the Government, a large number of our bravest
ami bi st naval officers have been Southerners, and
! have been permitted always by the Navv Depart
ment to take with them into the service their body
servants. The same practice has prevailed in the
army. It is known that a trusty slave accompan
ied General Washington through the whole Rev
olutionary war. The highest law officer of Mas
sachusetts has decided that this is all wrong.
When the Irigate Untied Stales sailed for the
Pacific, in 18-12, her purser Fitzgerald, obtained
leave of the Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Upshur,
to lake with him his servant hoy named Lucas.
After a cruise in Ihe Pacific slit* was ordered to
Boston, where she arrived in October last, and
shortly after a writ of habeas corpus was issued to
take the bov Lucas from on board the frigate and
bring him before Judge Shaw, Chief Justice of
Massachusetts, who after argument decided that
said boy, by coming within the waters of Massa
chusetts, was ipse facto, as free as bis master, and
might go where he pleased.
How long before we may look lor negro officers
in our navy and army commanding white men?
If this abominable Massachusetts’ whig doctrine
of their equality is to prevail, it cannot be long.—
A detailed account of the case of the above judi
cial robbery, is given in ihe Boston Law Reporter
for December.
But to recur to the reception of Abolition peii
tions. If the Whig press will lash all without dis
tinction who voted with Adams on that question,
and not so dishonestly lay the sin to the Democrats
alone, I for one will say, 1 Lay on Macduff,’ you
cannot hit amiss. This temporising policy—this
asking favor and mercy at the hand* of our ene
mies is death to the South. Nothing can save us
hut a hold defiance, inch by inch at the threshold.
The Southern people are accused of being rash
and hot tempered ; and yet nothing is farther from
the truth. The history of mankind gives no ac
count of a more meek and patriotic people. In
neighborhoods, if one neighbor were to conclude
that the good of his friend dwelling near him, as
well as his own duly required that he should in
terfere and regulate the domestic affairs of his
friend, and should according walk over and say to
him, ‘Friend, |s>or sinner that you are, let me ad
monish you that it is your duty to manage your
liimily differently; you whip your children too
much ; you clothe them too coarsely; you neglect
their moral instruction, and you work your horses
! too hard; vour servants should be permitted to
ratal the same table with your family, and take
their hr.lydays when they please; moreover I can
not consent that you should buy your domestic
clothing of foreigners; you must buy of me al
though you may have to pay a double price; good
neighborhood and friendship for me require this
sacrifice at your hands. l Ten to one he would be
ordered to leave the premises and mind his own
business. And it Christian forbearance should
consent to remonstrate against such egregious
wrong, and such remonstrance should he met with
vituperation and slander mi the part of the firmer,
| denouncing his obdurate friend as a thief, a rob
ber, a hypocrite, a man-stealer, a flesh-jobber, and
should proceed to steal away his children and ser
vants as from the hands of a pirate, it could hardly
he expected that flesh and blood would continue
| to supplicate forbearance and beg lor neighborly
kindness after such accumulated wrong. Vet all
this die South has borne and is beat is ir; and what
■is worse, if any of her sons threaten to resist such
outrages, or in the language of Langdon Cheves,
chance to ask, ‘ What is the Union worth lo the
South’?—they are denounced as traitors for no
other sin than that lliey love their country but too
: well. This is the work of party presses and office
I seekers who work Kir bread to deceive the people;
they never forget that ‘hv their craft we have our
wealth,’ and therefore they shout ‘for the space of
two hours—Great is Diana of the Ephesians!’—
Oh, for the good old days of Roman men !
MARIUS.
TIIE TEXASQI EtTlOir IN NORTH
CAROLINA.
Resolutions approving the immediate
annexation of Texas in the Union, have
been introduced in the House of Com
mons of North Carolina. They were re
jected of course, the whigs having a major
ity of 10 or 15 in that branch of the Legis
lature-
THEATRE.
it s*
HAS tiie tmnor ofannouncing to the Ladies and
Gentlemen of Macon and its vicinity, and the
patrons of the Drama generally thathe will open the
MACON THEATRE,
in a lew days, with a talented and respectable Com
pany. During the season all the novelty will lie
presented that can be procured. The interior «f
the Theatre will be fitted up in splendid style, and
such arrangements made as thelManager lrust.swifl
merit and receive a liberal share of patronage.
Macon, January Ist, 1845 1*
BROWN A Mil OL K Lit Y,
&& ila^sys
MACON, GA.
Jan 1, 1844. 12—ly
•firs, Husoii’s Hotels
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
MRS. 11l SON,
this method of informing her
friends and the public generally, that she will
still continue to keep a Hotel in this place, a few
doors below the Alonroe Hi I Road and Banking
House, jtisl across the street friftn where she for
merly kept. Her charges will correspond with the
hardness of the times. The house will be fitted
up in a superior style. She will take the house oa
the 20th day of December, when every thing will
be in complete order.
AMELIA HUSON.
Griffin, Dec. 9, 1814. 10 2m
Lloyd House •
l HE connexion subsisting between the
jJJiRJ undersigned heretofore, under the firm id’
B. 8. NEWCOMB &. CO., was dissolved
on the 15th inst. The debts previously contracted
by the concern will be pa id by B. S. Newcomb, and"
the sole proprietorship ol the Floyd House from
the dissolution above stated,is vested in B. 8. New
comb only. B. S. NEWCOMB,
WM. CRAFT,
~ C. C. USHER.
Macon Nov. 15, 1844.
N. C.—. Ur. Craft, I have the pleasure of saying
has consented to remain with me, and assist in the
management ol the House.
„ B. S. NEWCOMB.
Nov. 27. 3l 8
WANTED TO ~
A GEN FEEL Dwelling House in the city of
Macon. Enquire at this office.
January J, 1845.
MR*. F. SILDEK, Or PARIS,
MILLINER AND FASHIONABLE
Dress « Halter,
Store next door to Messrs. H alts &l Moulton's ,
Commerce Row.
■3 ESPECTFULLY informs the Ladies of
. .Macon and vicinity, that she has just arrived
frum New Fork, with anew and well selected
stock ol’new
TELNETS, SILK, ST HA IV, & LEGHORNS*
which will be sold very low. Old bonnets repair
ed at the shortest notice. A call is respectfully so
licited. ..' '
December 11, 1844. 9 if
SELLING OFF AT FONT FOR
C ASH.
MAYING a very large Block of Goods on hand,
and living desirous of reducing it very low
by Ihe spring, 1 am induced lo oiler my present
STOCK AT COST FOU CASH.
The Goods are new and bought in JYetc York
for Cask. The stock consists ol'
READY MADE CLOTHING ,
HATS, SHOES AND BOOTS,
SADDLERY HARDWARE, CROCKERY,
BOLTING CLOTHS, MILL SHIN,
FAINTS, OIL, WINDOW GLASS,
PETTY AC. AC.
embracing every article usually kept ill this Mar
ket.
Country Merchants, Peddlers, and other persons
wishing to buy, would do well to look at ray Goods
before .Purchasing, as great bargains may he had.
WM. A. ROSS.
Macon, December 11, 1844. 9—ts
MRS. liIAVEDL
jjJTAS just returned Horn Charleston, with a
-“-A choice assortment of articles of
She has removed to the next door from the Com
mercial Bank, and opposite Wrigley &. Heart's
Carriage Ware-House, where she will lie happy to
receive calls from her old friends and the public
generally. t
She has carefully selected a choice assortment o-
Feathers, Parisian Floxeers, Ribbons, Lace,
Limps, (doves, Ike.
Also, Bonnet materials, which will be sold as
cheap as can he had in this market.
BONNETS, TABBS and CAPS maJeto or
der.
Also, all kind of Embroidery, Masonic and Odd
Fellows' Apront.
Straws bleached and altered to the most fash
ionable shapes.
Oct. 25 2-ts
tO'H'M. 11. RORINNON, is a candidate for
Constable in the 564th district, Georgia Militia.
Macon, Dec. 25, 1844. 2 11
'JAMES K. BENNETT, *
ES announced as a candidate lor Justice of the
Peace, for the 716t1i District, G. M., at the en
suing election in January 1845.
December 4. ' g tde
IIRADY MADE CLOTHING, just received
-"-•'.Hen’s, and boys’ clothing of every descrip
tion, which will be sold at greatly reduced prices.
S. J.' RAY & CO.
Nov. 8, 1841.
CITY ELECTION NOTICE.
City Council, Nov. 22, 1844.
¥J ESOIA ED, That at the approaching Elec
-S.S' tion for JV/ayor and Aldermen, on the first
Saturday in January next, no person be allowed to
vote whose names is not on the Register Book ol
the city.
Resolved , That at said Election no person shall
be allowed to vote who has not paid all arrearages
ofTax to the city.
Resolved, That the Treasurer publish the fore
going Resolutions in the public Gazettes of ihe
city, so that all persons may have due notice theie
of. A. R. FREE. VAN, Treat,
Nov. 27,1844. 7 td
NOTICE.
ripilE BOOK Kir Registering names of Voters
lor .Mayor a ml Aldermen ol'llie city of .Vaeon
is kept at my office in the.Varkel-Houae upstairs
and will be open from 9to 12o’clock everyday,
(Sundays excepted.) until the day preceding the
Election, as required by the charter of the eitv.
Persons whose names are on the city Tax Book
of this year are not required to register.
December 119 A. H. FREE.VAN, Treas.
FOUR MONIHS after date application will
he made to the honorable the Inferior Court
of Bibb county, when sitting for ordinary purpo
ses, for leave to sell the entire estate real, and per--
sons I, of Henijj) Flanders late of said county de
ceased.
DAVID FLANDERS, Adm’r.
December 18, 1844. 10
To T»E FI BLIC. ‘ r
|N l lie course of two or three weeks, will be pub
fished and ready for delivery, a list of all tbs
Ungranted Lands df the Cherokee Purchase. This
is an important guide to those having lands, or
wishing to purchase them by granting.—Terms
$1 per copy, liberal deductions to those takings
quantity.
Editors giving this two insertions and forward
ing a paper to the office of the Cherokee Advocate,
wi“ have a copy seat them.
Dec. 25 3 fj