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, iei | as a free territory, oc not at all.—
i, the former case, the liberated slaves
a naturally find their way southwardly,
" m l gradually become merged in the quad
roons. meztizzocs, and other hybrid races
t Louisiana, 1 exus, and Mexico.
1 Thus you will perceive, that the ques
•ion of slavery is the grand pivot upon
‘vhich every political event in the United
States, for years to come, is to turn. Col.
Benton has, beyond all question, taken his
•Hisition against slavery, and against Mr.
Calhoun, whose letters on the annexation
treaty, as well as whose whole public life,
| ace him as the peculiar champion ofthe
Institution of slavery, both practically and
n the abstract. He has voluntarily taken
this ground, and all the exhaustless pow
ers and energies ol his vast mind will be
Jevoted to deiending and enlarging it.—
While Mr. Benton, and the Northern po
liticians who take their cue from him,
then, are in favor of annexation, lor the
purpose of helping to destroy slavery, Mr.
Calhoun is still more ardently in favor of it,
aS being vitally necesssry to the perpetua
tion of that institution! And, in this cu
rious and unparalleled state of affairs, it
becomes a question ol' the intensest and
most absorbing interest, “which of these
two great pillars of democracy will Mr.
polk favor in his administration?” I think
1 can tell you this, too.”
CHAPTER ON WOMEN.
'i While Europe’s eye is fixed on mighty things,
The title of empires and the fall of kings ;
While quacks of state must each produce his plan,
And even children lisp the Rights of Man ;
Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention
The Rights of Woman merit some attention.”
‘ Wo-Man!’ said the old serpent to
Adam the moment he bit and
lienee the delicate .subject of this editorial
is called woman. So much for a name.— j
If it was to do over again and old Adam
should call upon our most sapient devil lor
advice, he would no doubt say ‘bite away
and be d—d.’
For most assuredly if Five did bring ’
‘tvoe into the world,’ she brought so ma-1
ny blessings with it, that the veriest pet
titogger would not iail to plead them as a j
set off; and no astute judge, the length ol I
whose ears is only equaled by the length 1
nf his decisions, would order the plea to '
he struck out lor the want either of matter,
iunn or applicability.
What on earth doth the crusty old
cynics of Macon mean by lampooning the
gentle sex in so irreverent a way? 11
the lines
“ O woman, woman, whether lean or fat,
In face an angel, but in soul a cat,”
hadn’t been written brlore King Solomon’s
time, we should stalk down to a certain :
brick corner not ten miles off, and charge j
the authorship ud p rsonem. But the idea
is decidedly too Hudibrastie for these parts
we fear.
Now we throw down the gauntlet to
these quondam knights and avow our
selves the champion of the sex—with one
proviso— the old maids may fight their own
battles; and we have no doubt they are
liir the most part old enough and tough
enough to take all the bullets that these
testy and doughty bachelors may in their
wrath bestow. For it is an incontrover
tible fact that the moment a young maid
kicks one of them, he immediately jumps
up n an old one; but we ate uninformed
il they ever made tiny thing out of them.
Our sympathies have been wrung to their
utmost tension} and in truth we should
have been often templed to offer our val
orous services, had we not known from
personal experience that they were so
well able to lake care of themselves.
Being a member of the ‘blissful state,’
regularly initiated into all the mysteries,
joys and sorrows of ‘ love in a cottage,’
we should by eoilitesy dedicate our first
essay to the ‘birds in the cage.’ But
each and all of these have their Mentor
and are no doubt surfeited with sage ad
vice. They have too, we presume, turn
til over many new leaves, und formed
many good resolutions for their future
guidance, especially in domestic economy.
Hereafter we may devote a chapter on
Brunswick stews, and should we happily
succeed in initiating them into the secret
of making this delightful dish in the old
Virginia style, we shall have added an
other link to the silken cord that gently
binds them to the object of their fond de
votion. For if we properly understand
the physiology of Love, the causes that
give rise to the wondrous passion, lie in
other parts of the human frame besides
the heart.
But the girls what shall we say to
them ? Ah! could our pen touch the
subject as lightly as the zephyr fans the
cheek of sleeping beauty, or the sprites
that walk fiorn flower to flower without
displacing the dew drops that twinkle in
peariy clusters upon their trembling pe
tals —we might venture a short homily
that would fall upon their hearts like the
heaven descended dew upon the lowly
lilly of the valley.
Didst thou ever read Robert Burns lines
to a mountain daisy, on turning one down
'villi the plough ?
There in scanty mantle clad,
Thy snowy bosom sunward spread,
Thou lifts thy unassuming head
In humble guise;
But now the share uptears thy bed
And low llmu lies!
Such is the fate of artless maid,
Sweet JUno'ret of the rural shade,
By love’s simplicity betray’d
And guileless trust;
Till she like thee, all soiled is laid
Low i’ the dust.
Is it not a metaphor of most touching
heauty. Turn to the poem, girls, and
re ad it. We address ourself to those who
have the sentiment to appreciate them.
We would not have our little mountain
daisy rough, handled by your own sex,
Witch less by one of ours.
But who with ‘stern ruin’s plough-share’
' v °uld crush the humble flower just lifting
ds head to Heaven, and to Hope ?
" ts 'here in human form that hears a heart,
A wretch ! a villain! lost to love and truth !
‘ hat can with studied, sly, ensnaring art,
Betray sweet Jenny’s unsuspecting youth ?
burse on his perjur’d aits! dissembling smooth !
Aie honor, conscience, aft exil’d r
Is there no pity, no relenting ruth,
! Pom's lo l he parent’s fondling o’er their child ?
then paints the ruin’d maid and their distrac
tion wild ?
i. E> u k we "’ill not quote further. Burns
is one of our favorite poets and we never
tail to run into the sentimental whenever
we take him in hand. Some folks think
that editors have no sentiment to spare—
be it so. The Mohammedans contend
that women have no souls. The one,
reader, ’pon honor, is just as true as the
other.
W e did not intend when we took up !
the pen, to write ten lines, but only to
present the following soliloquy, which we
clip from an exchange paper, for the
amusement of our female readers:
THE MAID’S SOLILOQUY.
.3 maiden stone—Milton in her hand. She opens
at the passrge , “Hail wedded love! mysterious
law.” She then soliloquizes.
It must be so! Milton, thou reasonest well;
Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,
This lungino after matrimony ?
Or whence this secret dread, this inward horror
Os dying unespoused ? Why shrinks the heart
Back on itself and 3tartles at celibacy?
’Tie reason, faithful reason, stirs within us;
’Tis natures self that points out an alliance,
And intimates a husband to the sex.
M arriage! thou pleasing, and yet anxious thought!
Through what new and various changes must we
pass!
The marriage state in prospect lies before me,
But shadows, clouds and darkness rest upon it.
Here will I hold. If nature prompts the wish—
And that she does is plain from all her works—
Our duty, interest, pleasure bid indulge it,
For the great end of nature’s law is bliss,
But yet —in wedlock—the woman must obey—
I’m weary of these doubts, the priest shall end 'em.
Nor rashly Jo I venture loss and gain,
Pleasure and bondage meet my thoughts at once.
I wed—my liberty is gone tbrever,
But happiness itself from this secured!
Love first shall recompense my loss,
And when my charms shall ali have faded,
Mine eyes grow dim, and stature bent with years,
Thou, virtuous friendship, shall succeed to love;
Thus pleased, I’ll scorn infirmity and death,
Renewed successively in another’s race.
COTTON CROP.
Estimated cotton crop for the present
year, 1845, 2,750,000
Demand, 2,450,000
Exccsss of supply, 300,000
Ofthe above amount only 370,000 bales
are retained in this country for home con
sumption. 'Thus we see a restrictive ta
riff laid upon the fabrics of European
manufacturers, who consume 2,080,000
hales of our cotton to protect the Northern
capitalists, who consume only 370,000!
Such a system is but a legalized robbery
of the South—and yet we must bow our
necks and lick the rod that strikes us. A
craven spirit prevails through the South
that betokens a servile submission not on
ly to unconstitutional tariffs, but to Con
gressional legislation on more important
subjects. Before God we believe that
were Congress to ordain the abolishment
ol slavery by stalute throughout the Uni
ted States, a majority ol the Southern peo
ple would submit rather than resist the de
cree.
To such vile condition arc we brought
; by tlie subserviency ofpublic men, and the
spiritless tone of the Southern press.
CENTRAL RAIL HOAD AND BANKING
COMPANY.
The Georgian of yesterday, says, that
j at an election for directors of the Central
Rail Road and Banking Company, held
yesterday, the following gentlemen were
duly re-elected: Richard R.Cuyler, John
W. Anderson, Solomon Cohen, Henry
McAlpin, Andrew Low, Jr., Win. Crab
tree, M. Hopkins, Asa Holt, and William
Duncan.
MEXICO.
Santa Anna’s leg has ceased to rule in
Mexico. Having been once amputated, its
former owner is now likely to bn decapita
ted.
The Revolution begun by Gen. Pare
des, has extended over all Mexico—the
troops ofthe tyrant have been disbanded,
and rumor says that he has fled a wretch
ed fugitive to England. “Sic semper ty
rannis."
We publish in to-day’s paper, the reply
ofthe Hon. James K. Polk, to the Presi
dent of the Democratic Association of
Bibb county in which he declines the invi
tation extended to hitn of visiting us era
route to Washington City.
Columbia, Term., Dec. 20, 1844.
Dear Sir: —lam in receipt of your let
ter of the 22d ult., conveying to me “the
congratulations of the Democratic Associ
ation of Macon, Georgia, upon the result
ofthe recent political contest in the Union”
—anti also “inviting me to visit your city
on my way to the seat of Government.”
I need scarcely assure you that there is
no portion of the American people with
whom it would give more pleasure to ex
change personal salutations than my fel
low-citizens of your State.
A press of duties and engagements,
however, and a consequent necessity ol
reaching Washington, by the most direct
route occupying the shortest time, com
pel me, reluctantly to decline your invita
i tion.
Be pleased to assure the Democracy
whom you represent, of my grateful ac
knowledgements for their united congrat
ulations and invitation.
I thank you for the expression of regard
you are individually pleased to convey,
and am,
With great respect,
Your obedient servant,
JAMES K. POLK.
To D. C. Campbell, Esq., President of
the Democratic Association, Macon, Ga.
Whether saint or sinner, Christian or
hypocrite, learned or illiterate, read an
article in to-day’s paper on the “ Patriot
ism of Saint Paul,” the model man. It
will amply repay you for its perusal.
Johx Tyuer, Jr., is a candidate to re
present the first Congressional District in
Virginia, now represented by Archibald
Atkinson, Esq.
THE GREAT 4LESTION OF THE DAY.
Rumors aie current in Washington
, City, that (so far as depends on the United
States,) the consummation of this great
American measure will not be postponed
lot.ger than the Bth of January. Refer
ring to these rumors the Madisonian of
Thursday evening last, holds the follow
ing language:
“The better dav the better deed. —There is
a rumor in the political circles of this city, thal the
measure ol annexation will lie carried in one ofthe
Houses of Congress in a lew davs, and that it will
pass the other House on the Bth day of January.
Such a happy consummation is doubtless hoped lor
by the dauntless and untiring advocates of the
measure, both in and out of Congress—and surely
there could not be a more glorious occasion forsucii
an achievement, than the anniversary of the ever- j
memorahle battle of New Orleans. We have neither
Texas scrip, stock, nor treasury notes; and vet we
would most cheerfully join with our fellow-citizens
in celebrating the recovery of a vast domain, which
was ceded away by Mr. Adams, but which would
remain hereafter, as well as every other inch of the
territory of the United States, forever inalienable.
And there would be bonfires and rejoicings in Tex
as ! Yes! when it should tie announced through
out the length and breadth of that lair and fertile
land, that henceforth the bright stars and broad
stripes of their lather land are to wave over them
—and that the Congress of the United States have
thrown wide the door for their admission into the
great Union, which was originally cemented with
the blood of their patriot fathers—we are quite sure
that a thrill of exultation would be felt in every bo
som—that every eye would sparkle with a pure de
light, and that every tongue would utter a holy
vow to support our Constitution, and to defend the
only true Temple of Liberty ever erected on the
earth.
“Surely, surely, such a consummation cannot be,
will not he, opposed by any of the faithful repre
sentatives ofthe People.”
John A. Stuart, Esq., long known as
the able and accomplished Editor ofthe
Charleston Mercury, has we regret to
learn from the last number of that paper,
retired from the editorial columns of that
journal. Mr. Stuart is among the very
first political writers connected with the
newspaper press in this country, and we
regret exceedingly the loss of his fearless
and powerful pen at this juncture of pub
lic affairs. Below we give his address to
the patrons of the Mercury,
Sundry good and sufficient reason moving me
thereto, 1 henceforth dissolve connection politically
and editorially with the Charleston Mercury and
the newspaper press.
As I leave the office admirably organized lor all
the purposes of business and of truth, 1 confidently
commend it to the continued patronage ofthe warm
friends and stern, who have stuck to it truly,
through chance and change and trials that might
well have estranged them; and as they stood by it
through good report and evil—let them uphold the
banner ol Carolina in the hands to which f now
entrust it. It will be gallantly borne —by men true
to the sentiment ofthe motto, under which the
Mercury lias always been published—and ought
ever to have been conducted.
• Vindice nullo
Sponte sun, sine lege, Fides Rectumque colentur.
It will never 1 trust be embarrassed by party
ties or pledges. To any set of men whom iL may
help to place in power, it will not feel under party
obligations tor the condescension of their accep
ting its support —and the kindness of consenting to
their own elevation, ft. will always I believe he
true to the kindred points of Carolina and of Re
publicanism: always revere genius in whatever garb
it comes; always despise charlatanry, social, Jater
arv or religious; always contend against the money
power, and the mean and sordid spirit of this age
of steam. If chivalry lie dead and open warfare
obsolete there are lights yet in Heaven, and in the
embracing air around us the soul of love and mu
sic hovers yet. May these Cadmus like, sow our
soil with serpent’s teeth—to spring up yet before
l die, God grant! armed men—armed to maintain
the rights ofthe sons, and defend the honor and a
venge the insulted graves of Marion, Moultrie,
Sumpter, Rutledge—men who know that freedom’s
heritage is ease and toil and a perpetual watch and
warclare —and that when the cmvard wanting ease
and the nabob, counting quiet, cry ‘Peace—Peace
there is no peace, but danger—and a lie. The
Mercury thank Heaven, in my hands has seldom
feigned a confidence I could not feel. It never
on lit to hold a timid silence because forsooth the
honest voice of truth might give a pretext to dis
trusted allies, to become open adversaries.
Mr. Clapp for long my efficient and true Junior
will be now the sole editor ofthe Mercury.
JOHN A. STUART.
ri: vaxexahoy of texas.
The re-annexation ofTexas is empha
tically the great question of the day every
where, in the Norlh and in the East, in
the West, as well as at the South. The j
Republican party e”ery where are step
ping forth to mingle in the generous and j
noble work of contributing to the natural
interests the natural glory, and natural re- j
nown, by giving an impulsion to this itn- ;
portant question and commanding their;
public senate not to delay longer the con- !
samation of this great measure. Resolu
tions have passed both branches of the !
Missouri Legislature instructing theirSen
atorsand requesting their Representatives
to vote for the resolutions now pending
in Congress for the annexation ofTex
as to the Union, now , immediately. What
will ‘old Bullion’ say to this, will he call
it a humbug or a base scheme of swind
lers and land speculators.
MR. PHILLIPS.
This justly celebrated vocalist is now
giving concerts in Savannah, and may,
we are glad to learn, be expected here
in the course of the present week.
Ship ahoy! avast there and haul up at
Smith & Rogers’ Confectionary Store !
Old Santa Claus paid them his accustom
ed Christmas visit, and with more than
his usual generosity, left with them from
his vast storehouse of luxuries, every
thing that tends to fascinate the eye or
please the palate.
Cakes of every kind, cordials of every
description, and fruits front the tropic to
the arctic—from the scarlet cranberry that
makes such killing sauce, to the luscious
pine apple from the dominions of Quasha
Poropo.
They are not excelled in their line of
business by any establishment of this or
any southern city. The taste and general
improvement recently evidenced in ‘get
ting up’ family confectionaries, eating
houses, family groceries, &c. See., show
that Macon is partaking more and more
the character and habits of a city, and
increasing daily in all the advantages that
appertain to a seaboard town.
FLORIDA TOBACCO.
The Tallahassee Sentinel, of the 2ith
inst. says: “Sales of some lots Gadsden
county Tobacco, have been made in New
York at 25, 37 J and 50, so we are told.
OPINIONS OF THE ENGLISH PRESS ON
THE LATE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
We publish in to-day’s paper, extracts
from several leading English journals on
the result of the late Presidential election
in this country, partly on account of their
curious interest, and partly to show the
1 great desire which the English Tory press
as well as the great body of English peo
ple cherished lor the election of Air. Clay,
and the consequent ascendancy of the
measures and principles which would
have been forced upon the country, had
the government fallen into the hands of
that party in this country, which is per
sonated by the London Times as the “aus
tere and dignified Republicanism of New
England” in contradisiinction to the Re
publicanism of the slave Slates and slave
breeders. For our own part we hope that
the result of all succeeding elections may
like ibis, disappoint the hopes of both En
glish tories and their counterpart in this
country, the austere and dignified Republi
canism of New England. The great bulk
of American people have never been able
to please either of these parties, and we
trust in God that the day will never come j
when they will be. Both of these parties !
were displeased with the success of Amer
ican measures and American arms during
the war of 1813 and ISl4—and we see
no good reason why they should not now
sympathise together in view of the recent
moral victory achieved by the hue election
for the greatest American question ofthej
age, the annexation of Texas, and the con- !
sequent check which the consummation
of this great measure would give to Brit
ish interests and British policy on the
American continent.
Lrom the London Times of Nov. 25.
This nomination of the presidential elec
tors has just been completed, and itap-;
pears to leave no doubt as to the triumph
of the democratic party, und of their can-,
didate, Mr. Polk. The surprise, and, we
must add, the apprehensions and regret, i
which this event will produce in Europe,
are increased by the fact that it is the
great states of New York, Pennsylvania
and Virginia, which have turned the scale.
Far from exercising that moderating pow
er, and, if we may speck of any thing in
America, that conservative influence
which might seem to belong to their posi
tion, their wealth, their mercantile inter
ests, and their exemption from slavery,
Pennsylvania has in this instance obeyed
the same influences which have already
connected her name with bankruptcy and
anarchy, and New York has followed her
example.
Os Mr. Polk vve know nothing, except
that he has achieved a triumph over the
most able and respected man in the Union
although he was scarcely more known in
that Union a few months ago, than he now j
is in Europe. With the single exception
ofthe tariffquestiou, on which he is pled
ged to a more liberal commercial policy
than his opponent, his election to this im
portant office is the triumph ofevery thing
that is worst over every thing that is best
in the United States of America. It is a
victor)' gained by the south over the north
—by the slave states over the free—by
the repudiating states over the honest ones
—by the partisans of the annexation of
Texas over its opponents-—by the adven
turous and unscrupulous democracy of
the new states, and the foreign population
in those states, over the more austere and
dignified republicanism of New England. |
The Whig party have been beaten,
when every thing depended on the possi- j
bility of restoring moderation and probity
to the government ofthe country by their
influence; and it is scarcely too much to 1
say that Texas has already given a Pre-:
sklent to the Union. If Mr. Polk adhere 1
to the pledges under which his electors
are likely to raise hie: to the chair, he is
pledged to a foreign war. The grounds
on which General Jackson and his friends
have given their support to Mr. Polk, are
before the world; and we have already
combated their arguments and their as
sumptions. They amount to the strong
est expressions of hostility against the sup
posed influence and designs of Great Bri
tain on the North American continent; and
either the means they have used to gain
! the popular suffrages are as insincere as
they are false, or they hold that the acqui
sion of Texas, by arm, if necessary, is the
| first duty of a President of the United
States. They can hardly escape from the
dilemma in which they stand between ex
cessive rashness and excessive deceit; but
we cannot expect that they will have the
| energy or the power, any more than Mr.
Tyler has had them, to resist or control
the popular excitement which has brought
them into office.
If the election of a President irrevoca
bly decided the policy of the United States
! Government for the next four years, the
I country would be not only agitated but
convulsed by such a contest. But the
! strict limitations imposed by the constitu
tion on the power of the chief magistrate,
I and more especially the control exerci
sed by the Senate ofthe United States
| over his relations with foreign Powers, ren
der the triumph less signal and the dan
ger les3 imminent. Be the indiscretion of
a President what it may, he can scarcely
plunge the country into war or confusion
us long as the Senate remains faithful to
; its trust.
From the London Spectator.
Thete is nothing surprising in the result
ofthe Presidential election in the United
States. It is merely a repetition of what
has happened at every election since ISOO
The democratic mass has obtained anoth
er victory over the Doctrinaires of Ameri
ca. Since the recognition of American
j Independence in Great Britain, there has
j always been a Democratic party in the
j Union; it has been almost a hereditary par
ty. Hamilton was in a manner its foun
der; the two Adam’s have been its princi
pal ornaments. It has enrolled under its
banners a decided majority of the public
men ofthe union, who born to a competen
cy, have enjoyed a systematic education
and opportunities of cultivating refined
tastes. It has been an intelligent, and on
Ithe whole, an honorable party —rather
sceptical, the natural tendency of men of
the world, as to the perfectibility of man
or the wisdom and virtue of the masses —
! with a good deal of knowledge, a great
deal of fastidiousness, and a little pedantry
This party has from its character been j
more powerful in coteries than with the I
public. It has had too much faith in ab
stractions and precedents to know and con
trol actual circumstances; its little airs of
i superior refinement and learning have al
ienated and disgusted the great body of
electors. It has called itself federalist at
i one lime and whig at another; but it lias
still been the same unchanged and unchan
geable party, the counterpartof the Giron
de or the Doctrinaires of France —of the
“Liberal Whigs” or ‘the Educated Radi
cals” ofEngland.
Opposed to this party of men made by
schools and colleges, has always been the
great democratic mass, which feels rather
than thinks.—which needs men—leaders
as the exponents and visible symbols of
principles. When the Union has had a
statesman of commanding character, this
sentient body lias been guided by his will.
So was it in the times of Jefferson, of Ma
dison, of Monroe. When such a master
mind was not to be had, the democracy
has been split into sectarian worshippers
of a number of local leaders —provincial
great men. But even when the mass has
thus been taken at a disadvantage, the
Doctrinaires have rarely if ever been able
to make good useofit. Somehow or other
the bell weathers ofthe flock have agreed
to cede their claims in tavor of one of their
number; or their followers have been in
duced to desert them for a time in favor of
some man of straw, till that moment un
heard of. The democratic mass is the
field, which yields a harvest to experien
ced political traders —the Doctrinaires are
too sensible to be used by them, and too
supercilious to use them; and the political
tiaders, by appealing to the public senii
ment ofthe moment, carry the day. * *
From the Liverpool Mail, Nov. SO.
A citizen of the name of Polk —a man
unknown to fame—has been virtually e
leeled President of the United States of
America, thereby defeating»he pretensions
of Henry Clay. Mr. Polk, who stood on
the loco-foco or rabble interest, has declar
ed himself favorable to the annexation of
Texas to the Federal Union, to slavery,
and a modified tariff! Mr. Clay is what
the Americans call a ‘whig,’ an anti-slu
vite, a man of peace, favorable to a stiff
tariff! heavy customs, and unbounded pro
tection to American manufactures. How
he came to be beaten is rather curious.
The false, if not fraudulent, principle
upon which the American constitution is
founded, is year by year sinking the re
public in the mire. For instance, it is the
law there that every foreigner who comes
has it in his power, by means of a declar
ation, to become a free citizen, and vote
in the elections. The Americans thought
this wise policy at the commencement of
their independence , on the principle that
having stolen the property of their king,
they had an equal right to steal his or any
other king’s subjects. It is an adage that
stolen property never thrives—never, in
the end, benefits the thief; and the Amer
icans have at length discovered this to be
a fact. F’or many years tens ofthousands
of Irishmen, Germans, Poles, and other
foreigners, have landed on their shores, a
vast proportion of them in rags, hungry,
and homeless, ready, of course, to work,
beg, fight, or do any thing for a dish of po
tatoes, a slice of pumpkin pie, and a
draught of sour cider. These men have
become electors; and they are not only for
midable in point of numbers, but, what is
more to the purpose, every man’s vole is
worth from ten to fifteen votes in all the
I large towns. They consequently carry
all the elections, by force and fraud.
From the London Spectator , of Nov. 80.
It is curious how little effect this deter
mination ofthe Million not to bo ruled by
the mere men of training and education
has had upon the march ofpublic affairs
j in the U. Slates. The principles which
1 have been adopted by the Doctrinaires
have had an influence over the people and
their chosen rulers which themselves have
been unable to attain. While the Doctri
naires have continued unaltered under
their shifting names of Federalists, Whigs
&c. the Million have repeatedly changed
their principles, though clinging to their
! original designation of Democrats. They
1 have been resolute in having their own
will, but that will has been most mutable
The leaders of the Million—the celebri
ties and the traders in politics—speak the
commentary sentiments of the Million at
Selections, but they adopt the principles of
the Doctrinaires in the Cabinet. They
1 rely on the changeable moods of their sup
! porters —upon the thousand conflicting in
terests and prejudices which divide them
for averting the punishment of inconsis
tency when the elections come round a
!gain. They address the passions ofthe
multitude by their speeches, its judge
ment by their acts.
The wilfulness of the mass of the Amer
ican people guides it in the choice of its
rulers; but an undercurrent of good sense
and right feeling compels those leaders to
keep on the whole within certain bounds
of sound policy.
Though the party ofthe Canadian sym
pathizers, of the advocates of Texian an
nexation, and the forcible occupation of
Oregon, have triumphed there is no more
fear of their crotchets being carried into
effect under Polk than under Clay. And
though the tariff'was the cheval de batail
le, ofthe Whigs, free trade principles are
as far from being really in the ascendant
in Congress as they would have been had
the Whigs triumphed. The average in
telligence and morals of the American
people give law to the Government what
ever be the personality of the governers.
The most important change likely to be
wrought in the U. States by the election
of Polk is the adoption of anew name by
the Doctrinaires; the Whigs are writing
themselves down “Native Republicans”
as fast as they can.
A member of Congress writing to bis
friend in this place, say3 that ‘Mr. Polk
keeps his own counsel about the future
Cabinet, at least one must think so from
ibe silence and ignorance that prevails
here in regard to its composition.’
Mr. Polk, President elect, will be at
Washington on the 20th of F'ebruary, and
has quarters prepared for him at Brown’s.
Dreadful Steamboat accident —31
lives lost. On Saturday, Dec. 14th, the
Belle of Clarksville came in collision with
the Louisiana, the former bound from New
Orleans to Nashville, the latter from Mem
phis for New Orleans, heavily laden with
cotton by which accident the Belle of
Clarkesville was entirely demolished.
Her hull parted from her cabin and sank
instantly, the cabin floated off with the
persons saved.
Names of the passengers lost, nearly all
of whom were residents of West Tennes
see.
Win. Tabb, P. Linn, W. Linn, J. Ry
an, R. Malisle, N. Sills, Win. Jones, T.
Whittey, N. T. Allen, A. Kirkland, G.
Flyer, son of J. W. Hull, J. Peay, John J*
Peav, 12 negro hands belonging to boat
31- *
The survivors lost all their baggage-
There were six valuable race-horses on
board; all of which were lost, among them
the celebrated mare Ann Haynes. The
iron closet , containing $12,000, was sa
ved. The cargo of the Belle lost, was in
sured for $23,000 and the boat for SBOOO.
HARRIER.
In Apalachicola, Fa. on the sth tilt, by the Rev,
James Milieu, Mr. N. C. Joses (Printer,) former
ly of Alliens, Ga.to Miss Octavia, only daughter
of J. Matheny, Esq.
In Griffin, Ga. on the 28J ult. bv the Rev. J. W.
Williamson, Mr. Robert W. Bullard, to Miss
Mart Dulin, all of Griffin.
In Jones county, on the 2Gth ult. by Judge Pitts
Col. Manuel Pitts, to Miss Caroline, daughter
ol Janies E. Roberts, Esq. all of the same county.
In Columbus, «<i: the 19th ult. by the Rev. Dr.
Pierce, Mr. Josiah .Morris, to Miss Sarah Eli
zaeetii Harvey, all of Columbus.
DIED.
In Athens, Ga. on the ltilh ult. Sarah Ann. in
fant daughter of Wm. P. and Elisalieih A. Tal
mudge; aged 6 months, and one day.
EAST NOTICE.
A LI- persons who have given their notes lor thy
-u*- hire of Negroes belonging to the estate ot
Luke J. Morgan deceased, for the year 1844, will
take notice, that they have been placed in the
hands of Poe & Nisbet, and if not paid by the Blh
of February next, thev will be sued.
LEWIS S. BROWN, Adm’or.
January 8, 1845. 134 t
BASGAII8! BARGAINS!
OR only a few weeks lunger, you will find the
*- cheapest Goods in Macon bv calling at
H. BERHEIMER & BROTHERS,
at Ray &. McNeil's old stand.
January 8, 1845. is (f
EXTENSIVE FACTORY PRIVI
LEGE.
1 ENTERPRISING Capitalists desirous of mak
-3 ing investments in the establishment of Fac
tories at the South can now do so upon the most
favorable terms. My Mills nre situated thirteen
miles north-west of Macon, upon the Tobesofkv
Creek, which through summer and winter affords
the most abundant water. In addition on the
banks of the stream there is located an extensive
and inexhaustible granite quarry, from which mv
Mills have been erected, that will be an additional
privilege and inducement to huilders.
Gentlemen or chartered companies desirous of
engaging in the business will have a first rate op
portunity of purchasing the privilege for a term of
veats by applying to the •uibscriber at his residence
ten miles above Macon on the Forsvth road.
NEEDHAM MIMS.
January 8, 1845. J3 6t
STATE OF GEORGIA :
A PUOCLAJIATION.
By George W. Crawford, Governor of
said State.
TIIATIONS and Stales, like man, are subject to
An the vicissitudes of joy and grief. The afflic
tions that humble, are always sad—the blessings
that enliven, often neglected monitors. As pa
tience and humility must wait on the one, so
should gratitude attend the other. Happy is that
land whose people can so apply the “ uses ol ad
versity” and prosperity, as to be ever mindful of
the just relation between the Creative and created
power, and steadily imitate, by their actions, that
standard of morality whose authority and hope is
Heaven. In accordance with these views and an
approved custom, I, Georoe Walker Crawford,
Governor ofthe State ol Georgia, have deemed it
proper to issue this, my Proclamation, and appoint
Thursday, the 13th day of F'ebruary next, as a
day of Thanksgiving and Prayer, and request
that all religious denominations in the Stale, will,
on that day, meet at iheir usual places of worship,
and supplicate the Great Ruler of the Universe that
His blessings may be continued upon our beloved
land.
Given under my hand and the seal of the Execu
tive Department, at the Capitol in Milledge
ville, this first of January, 1845.
GEORGE W. CRAWFORD,
By' the Governor:
S. J. Anderson, S. F.. D.
January 7, 1845. 13 It
.XIRS. F. SILBEK, OF PARIS,
MILLINER AND FASHIONABLE
lit ’css
Store next door to .Messrs. Watts Sc Moulton's,
Commerce Row.
Respectfully informs the Ladies of
JVfacon and vicinity, that she has just’arriveit
from New Fork, with anew and well seleeted
ctr»Flf of npiv
VEL VE TS, SILK, STRAIV, & LEGHORNS
which wili be sold very low. Old bonnets repair'
edat the shortest notice. A call is respectfully so
licited.
December It, 18-14. 9 ts
THE.! TJRE» ~
#o&jr s.
HAS the honor of announcing to the Ladies and
Gentlemen of Macon and its vicinity, and the
patrons of the Drama tpinerally thathe will open the
IBACOSf THEATRE,
in a few days, with a talented and respectable Com
pamj. During the season all the novelty will be
presented that can be procured. The interior of
the Theatre will be fitted up in splendid style, and
such arrangements made as the Manager trust swill
merit and receive a liberal share of patronage.
Macon, January Ist, 1845 12