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PARODY
ON THB DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
The Salisbury (N’.C.) Watchman tells
a story of a tavern-keeper who having
grown rich grew very careless; nnd so
offended the lawyers by whom his house
had for years becu filled, that during one
crowded session of the court, they with
one accord forsook him, leaving behind
them tlie following parody on the declar
ation of Independence:
“ When, the course of human events,
it becomes necessary fora half-fed, impos
ed-on set of men, to dissolve the band of
landlord and boarder, a decent respect
lor the opinion of mankind requires that
they should declare the causes which have
impelled them to tho separation.
We hold these truths to he self-evident:
that all men are created with stomachs;
that tiiey are endowed by their Creator
with certain inalienable rights; among
which are, that no man should be com
pelled to starve, out of mere compliance
to a landlord, and that every man has a
right to fill his stomach and wet his whis
tle with die best dial’s going.
The history of the present landlord of
the White Lion is a history of repeated
insults, exactions and injuries, all having
in direct object the establishment of ab
solute tyranny over our stomachs and
throats.
so prove this, let facts be submitted to
a candid world.
He has refused to keep any thing to
drink but bald-faced whiskey.
He has refused to set upon his table for
dinner anything but turnip soup, with a
little tough beef and sour krmit, which
are not wholesome and necessary for the
public good.
He has refused to let his only servant,
blink-eyed Joe, put more than six grains
of coffee in one gallon of water.
He has turned loose a multitude ol
inusquitoes to assail us in the peaceful
hours of the night and eat our substance.
He has kept up in our beds and bed
steads standing armies of* merciless sava
ges whose rule of warfare is undistin
guished destruction.
He has excited domestic insurrection
among us by taking hitters before break
last, and making his wife and servants do
the same before dinner, whereby there is
often the deuce to pay.
He has waged cruel war against na
ture herself, by feeding our horses with
broom-straw, and carrying them off to
drink where swine refused to wallow.
He has protected one-eyed Joe in his
villany, in the robbery of our jugs, by
pretending to give him a mock trial, al'tei
sharing with him the spoil.
He has cut off our trade with foreign (
ports and brought in his own bald-face
whiskey, when we had sent him to buy
better liquor abroad ; and with a perfidy
scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous
ages, he has been known to drink our fo
reign spirits, and fill up our bottles with
his own dire potions.
He has imposed taxes upon us to an
enormous amount without our consent and
without any rule but his own arbitrary
will and pleasure.
A landlord whoso character is thus
marked by every act which may define a
tyrant, and a master, is unfit to keep a
boarding house for Cherokee Indians.
Nor have we been wanting in our at
tentions to Mrs. B. and Mrs. Sally. We
have appealed to their native justice and
magnanimity, but the}’ have been deaf to
the voice of justice; we are, therefore,
constrained to hold all three of the parties
alike inimical to our well being and re
gardless of our comfort.
We therefore make this solemn decla
ration of our final separation from our
landlord, and cast our defiance in his
teeth.”
A Factory Girl. —The Kennebec Jour
nal gives the following description of the
romantic adventures of a New England
Factory Girl:
“Miss Irene Nichols, daughter of Mr-
Nathaniel‘Nichols, of Monmouth, Kenne
bec county, while at work in a factory at
Dorchester, Mass., some four years since,
was offered very liberal wages to go to
Mexico and engage in a factory just es
tablished there. She with eight others,
accepted the offer. Whilst there, she be
came acquainted with Ferrera, the pre
sent revolting and successful General,
with whom she contracted marriage.—
She made a visit to her friends in Maine
last summer, during which site received
frequent letters from Ferreca. She left
here in July or August lust for Mexico, via
New York, where she obtained a license,
anti was united in marriage to General
Ferrera, by his reptesentative, the Gen
. cral not being able to leave Mexico—a
6tep rendered necessary, as the parties
were both Protestants, anti could not he
married in Mexico, a Catholic country.
Ferrera is now President of Mexico, hav
ing his head quarters at the National Pa
lace in the city, and this Keunebec Fac
tory girl now ‘revels in the halls of the (
Monlezumas.’ General Ferrera is of’Ger
man extraction, and we are given to un
derstand is an ardent admirer of the in
stitutions of this country, ttnd would not
he opposed to the union of Mexico with
the United States. A .society, exteusivel
in its ramifications, already exists in Mex
ico, with a view to the accomplishment
of such a project.”
Some counterfeit half dollars are in cir
culation, dated 1838; lace of liberty well
done, reverse not so well. They are light
er in weight than the genuine coin.
Several-thousand barrels of Apples have
lieen shipped from the United States
for Liverpool and London. American
apples are esteemed a luxury in England.
r """ '
‘I would advise you to put vour head in
a dye tub; 'ijs rather red,’ said a joker to
a sandy haired girl. ‘ln return, sir, I
would advise you to put yours in an oven,
.or us rather soft,’ wait the ptptnpUfcplv.
POLITICAL. i
ATTACK ON MR. CALHOUN—THE
TEXAS QUESTION.
We regret to perceive what appears to
us simultaneous and preconcerted attacks
on Mr. Calhoun, in Democratic papers in
this city, and in Philadelphia, arising, we
apprehend, from an impression that he
possibly may have a direct or contingent
influence in the next administration, and
it is supposed that a concerted attack may
have the tendency to kill him offbefore the
new President takes his oath of office.—
The pretext is, his mismanagement of the
Texas affair; the blunders of Mr. Shannon
and the Secretary’s defence of slaver}-,
and the Democratic journals on these
points find themselves comfortably condi
tioned, vis a vis with the Whig press; com
pagnons (lu voyage, very agreeable while
the union exists, hut we apprehend very
difficult to shake off on arriving at the end
of the journey; particularly when the Dem
ocratic editors find themselves stopped at
the Democratic toll-gates—for nothing
more trite and true, “if you are compelled
to join political enemies to put down polit
ical friends, it is very difficult to shake off
the alliance;” nnd praises of strong Dem
ocratic journals from the Whig press, are
deemed suspicious compliments at best.
But we are yet to learn that Mr. Calhoun
has mismanaged the Texas business; and
we must bear in mind, that those who seek
to jiull him down are quasi Texas men;
they only went for Texas because the peo
ple who supported Polk were in favor of
annexation. Now the election is over,
they wish to cut loose from Texas, but at
the same time cut off those friends of the
new President who were honestly in fa
vor of bringing that republic into the
Union. In what has Mr. Calhoun failed
to sustain his high reputation? President
Tyler and Mr. Calhoun early perceived
that Great Britain had its eye fixed steadi
ly on Mexico, Texas, and Oregon, and
in connection with these important posses
sions, a canal at the Isthmus of Panama
to unite the Atlantic and Pacific—Oregon,
in order to monopolise the trade to China
and India, and Texas, as a commercial
depot to distribute her manufactures
through the Southern and Western States;
and a control over Mexico, in order to
close every market but the British one to
her. By means of this accumulated pow
er and impregnable position, Great Bri
tain controls the commerce of the Gulf of
Mexico down the Bay of Honduras and
Central America, and on the Pacific, the
great gate or outlet to that sea, together
with California, and thus commands, di
rects, controls, and monopolises the trade
to India, the Pacific, and the whole Gulf
of Mexico. The scheme was a grand one,
and easily accomplished. Mexico was in
her power. Her mines were pledged for
a debt of eighty millions—the only diffi
culty was to shut out the United States
from acquiring Texas, atid make a dash at
Oregon. Mexico having no claim on Tex
as, and without the power to reconquer
that teiritory, is urged by England to
move an army towards the frontiers, to
'threaten war with the United States if an
nexation is attempted. England does not
I stop here. France is invoked to join in
remonstrance against annexation under
the cloak of slavery, and Texas is tempt
ed by brilliant offers of a recognition of her
independence, offers of money, and acom
tuereial treaty, to refuse becoming an in
tegral part of the United States. All was
done in conformity to tlie usual commer
cial policy of England. What were we
to do? Sit down quietly and see our great,
hold, and commercial rival securing the
keys of the Atlantic, of tlie Pacific, and
tlie Indian oceans; forcing her manuCtc
j tures through the South and West, and
destroying our national industry at the
| North —clasping us around the waist so
| closely that we could not move—menu
Icing our slave States, trampling upon our
I manufactures, crippling our commerce,
! and shackling our resources? No, no.—
Mr. Calhoun, in an able letter to our Min
ister in France, unmasked the whole plot,
and showed up the naked deformity of the
slave movement. Texas said, “we are
still in favor of annexation,” and Mr.
Shannon is instititled to detail our views
and intentions to Mexico, and propose to
consummate the arrangements in a friend
ly spirit, and even to give Mexico an in
demnity where she has no claim to any.
What followed? Tlie Mexican Secretary
of Stair, under tlie influence of the British
minister a£ (he city of Mexico, says, in ef
fect, to Mr. Shannon, “you are a set of.
rascals who long have meditated to rob us
—a nation of cheats, without honor or
good faith;” and the Congress of J/exico,
under tlie influence of the same British
minister, unauimously endorses the decla
rations aud opinions of their Secretary. —
The American minister, under these reite-,
rated insults, suspends his intercourse
with that Government. Now, had Mr.
Calhoun backed out from annexation, sub
mitted to the insults of Mexico, and allow-j
cd Greal Britain to triumph over u$ and j
consummated our political and commcr- j
cial downfall, the very editors who attempt
to proscribe him for having stood firm;
and done his duty as a true American, j
would have proclaimed him a coward and j
a traitor, who had abandoned the honor
and interests of bis country! But who in
our country opposes the annexation of
Texas with most violence? The men who j
opposed the late war with England. And
are they governed in this opposition by
a regard for the good faith wc owe to Mex
ico, and their horror at the extension of.
slavery? Not in the least. Their hostil
ity now, as it was in 1798, in 1812, in
1810, and at this day, is to prevent the
South being strengthened by any acces
sion of territory; they opposed the pur
chase ol Louisiana and Texas, and at a
later day opposed the transfer of Texas
tor Florida; and now, tor the same rea
sons, viz: hatred to the South, they op-
J*>se tiie re-anoexation of Texas, and be
come mere whipper«-in of England, and
to this they owe their own positive ulti
mate ruin; and this is the party, Messrs, j
Democratic Editors, in which you are
dove-tailed, for the sole object of breaking
down Mr. Calhoun. You would get up a
quarrel with the South, with Mr. Calhoun
and his friends, to embarrass your own
candidate, Col. Polk, whom you have as
sisted to elect, on the very threshhold of!
his new duties;you would, by an uncalled
for, preconcerted, and combined attack,
seek to break down a prominent friend of
Mr. Polk, and one who has done much to
| elect him. Suppose you succeed, are you
quite sure that any in your interest would
occupy the position of Mr. Calhoun? —
Suppose it should so have happened, that
Col. Polk is a firm friend of Mr. Calhoun,
i who advised him to accept from Presi
dent Tyler the post he occupies—who ap
proves of all he has done for annexation —
where are you then? When Gen. Jack
son came into power, the same intrigue
was got up against Calhoun; it succeeded
—hut laid train of terrible evils, national
and political, which at this day is still felt,
and it finally overthrew many who are
now thinking of getting up the same in
trigue against him under Col. Polk. We
hope that every leading and distinguished
Democrat will keep clear of the pit which
these worthy editors have dug for Mr.
Calhoun. England is not to succeed a
gaiust us—the jieople will prevent it; Tex
as and Oregon must he ours; beware,
therefore, of the pit; if you tumble into it
by accident, no one. will pity you; if you
walk into it by design, you will find at
the bottom the whole Whig party; you fall
into their arms, and never escape from
their affectionate embrace hereafter. Be
cautious.— Noah's Messenger.
COJUGK E SSIO A A 1. .
Congress. —The Washington Globe of
the 29th says :
In the Senate, to day. the joint resolu
tion which passed the House for annexing
Texas to the United States was read
twice, and referred to the Committee on
Foreign Relations, on the motion of Mr.
Archer. The Hon. John A. Dix, elected
by the legislature of New York to he a
senator from State to fill the vacancy oc
casioned by the resignation of the Hon.
Silas Wright, was qualified and took his
seat. Mr. Berrien reported from the Ju
diciary Committee a bill to amend the
naturalization law. The bill, we believe,
tloes not extend die probationary period
ol foreigners, but throw's many restric
tions around the system. The Senate,
after spending the most of the day in the
discussion of the bill reducing the rates
of postage, and correcting die abusr of
the franking . privilge, went into, the
consideration of executive business*, and
then adjourned.
The House, this morning, immediately
i after the reading of the journal, resolved
j itself into a committee of the Whole on
the state of the Union, and the pending
question being laid aside, took up the bill
from the Senate to purchase 1, 500 copies
iof Greenbow’s history of Oregon, which,
after a debate, was passed—yeas 10(1,
j nays 79. The Committee then took up
the bill for the occupation of the Oregon
| Territory, and after spending some time
jin debate thereon, the Committee rose
| and the House adjourned. Previous to
adjournment, Mr. McClernard, from the
j Committee on Public Lands, by general
consent, reported a bill for the sale of the
mineral lands in the State of Illinois, and
: the Territories of lowa and Wisconsin ;
! which was referred to the Committee of
the Whole on the stale of the Union.
CT’The following is an analysis of tlie
vote in the House of Representatives, on
the joint resolution for the annexation of
'Texas to the Union. This analysis was
transmitted mush} a friend nowin Wash
ton City.— Constitutionalist.
Ayes Noes.
Dem. Whig. Dem. Whig.
Maine, 10 4 2
New Hampshire, 2 0 2 0
Vermont, 0 0 1 3
Massachusetts, 10 1 8
Rhode Island, 0 o o 2
Connecticut, 3 0 1 0
New York, 9 0 14 10
; New Jersey, 3 0 0 1
Pennsylvania, 10 0 0 13
Delaware, 0 0 0 1
i Maryland, 0 0 0 5
Virginia, 10 1 0 3
North Carolina, 5 0 0 4
South Carolina, 7 0 0 0
Georgia, G 2 0 “ 0
Alabama, G 1 0 0
Mississippi, 4 0 0 0
Louisiana, 4 0 0 o
Ohio, 9 0 2 , 10
Indiana, 8 0 0 2
Illinois, goo i
Kentucky, 5 0 0 5
Tennessee, 6 4 0 o
Missouri, 5 0 0 0
Michigan, 10 2 0
Arkansas, 10 0 o
112 8 S-’S 70
Milton Brown, on leave, introduced die following
; joint resolution :
Joint Resolution declaring the terms on which
I Congress will admit Texas into the Union as a
1 Stair.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representa
tives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That Congress doth content that the
territory properly included within, and rightfully
belonging to the’republic of Texas, may lie erect
ed into anew State, to l*e called the State of Tex- j
as, with a republican form of government, to he :
adopted by the people ol said republic, by deputies ,
in convention assembled, with the consent of I lie
existing government, in order that the same may
lie admitted as one of the States ofthis Union.
Sec. ‘2. And be it further resolved, That the fore
going consent ofCyngress is given upon the follow
ing conditions, and with the following guaranties,
to-wit:
First. Said State to be formed, subject to the
adjustment by this government of all questions of
boundary that may arise with other governments;
and the constitution thereof, with the proper evi
dence ol its adoption by the people of said repub
lic of Texas, shall be transmitted to the President
of the United States, to be laid before Congress for
its final action, on or before the first day of January,
one thousand eight hundred and forty-six.
Second. Said State, when admitted into the
fi ion, after ceding to the Luiied States all mines,
minerals, salt lakes and springs, and also all public
edifices, liirlificaiions, barracks, ports and harbors, i
navv and navy-vards, docks, magazines, arms, ar- I
maiiienis, and all other properly and means per- j
raining to the public delence belonging to said re- 1
public of Texas, shall retain all the public funds, j
debts, taxes, and dues of every kind which may be
long to, or be due and owing said republic; and shall j
also retain all the vacant and unappropriated lands !
Iving within its limits, to be applied to the payment j
of the debts nnd liabilities of said republic of Texas; !
and the residue of said lands, after discharging said
j debts and liabilities, to Ite disposed of as said Slate
1 mav direct; hut in no event are said debts and lia
bilities to ticcome a charge upon the government of
| the United States.
Third. NerV States, of convenient size, and hav
ing sufficient population, may hereafter, by the con
sent of said State, be formed out of the territory
thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under
the provisions of the federal constitution. And
such States as may be formed out of that portion of
said territory lying south of thirty-six degrees thir
ty minutes north laiimde. commonly known as the
Missouri compromise line, shall Ite admitted into
the Union, with or without slavery, as the people
of each State asking admission may desire.
A G RI C l LT 1 RAL.
Ta the Plnntri" nn<! Fnrnirrs of (jrorgin.
At a recent meeting in this city of a large
number of the Agriculturists of Bibb countv,
convened for the purpose of forming an Agri
cultural Society, the undersigned were up
pointed a Committee to address you with the
view of soliciting Vour co-operation in a unit
ed effort, to removb as fur as practicable, the
evils in which theihole planting interest is in
volved. A crisis las arrived when the grow
ers of the great staple of the South can no lon
ger remain inactiie—when they must cither
abandon in part its cultivation or be compelled
to submit to a veiy inadequate remuneration
fur their industry. You need not be told that
cotton cannot be g-own, wi'li any profit at tlie
prices which the crop of the past year has
commanded, and vhich must continue to pre
vail, so long as tha supply so largely exceeds
the demand. Cotton perhaps more than any
other crop exhausts the soil. By its culture
therefore, you suffer, not only in the inade
quate compensation for your labor, but in the
constantly diminishing value of the lands upon
wlfch it is grown.
To snti-fy tlie most incredulous that tlie real j
cause of low prices, is the cxc< ss of production, i
let us for a moment look at facts. Go to any i
part of the world where cotton is used at all,
and you will fin and a super abundant supply
Front tlie most careful and minute examina
tion, it is ascertained, that the stock nowin
Europe, at the rate of consumption of tlie past
year, is equal, at tlie lowest estimate, to the
wants of the trade for nine months. In addi
tion to this, the largest crop ever made is now j
going forward. This, if the consumption con-1
t nue the same, will he a sufficient supply for
eighteen months more, so that by the beginning i
ol January next, the stock wiil be equal to the j
consumption of a whole year. With these
Bets staring us in the face, what reason have
we to anticipate any materia] advance in jui
ces ? \\ hut is there in prospect that is not
dark and gloomy? If we go,on as we have
don", what have we to expect, but lower prices j
still—an accumulation of the evils which now
oppress us 1 It is true tlie present low prices j
may »nd probably will inctease consumption;
police too may load tlie British manufacturer, !
in ■ id r that lie may ent.ee us to continue the
culture, to grant us an additional pittance to
present quotations, but to neither of these soui
ces can we look with confidence, for any sub
stantial and permanent relief. If we are wil
ling to occupy the position, in which the sub
jects ot British India ure placed by the iron
rule of their nnstcis, to have meted to us just
that compensation for our labor which upon a
nice calculation, will enable us to subsist and
furnish for o' hers the materials for their pros
perity, we need only to pursue our present
course and that result will m< vitubly and speedi
ly be accomplished. Shall the people of the
South however, by their own sup neness, by
the absence of prudent forethought and ener
gy, suffer tlie i'selves to he overwhelmed by the
ruin which i< impending over them? Could
the growers of cotton be taught to regard their
true interests, to act in concert, as they I ave
the power in their own hands, they could fix
their own price upon the product of their labor,
and make their occupation one of the most pro
fi'able the world lias ever known. Thev are
their own worst enemies, the authors and tlie
solo authors of all their misfoitunes. We are
not of that class who expect to find a remedy
for tlie evils of which we complain, in resolu
tions of county meetings, in State Conventions,
or in the mutual pledges of our fellow-citizens.
These may coir ml the action of a portion of
tlie community, while others will be stimulated
by thisveiy movement to supply the deficien
cy thus created, that they may profit by the
sacrifices tlie more generous and patriotic
have made for the genera! g od. If relief be
found, other and more rational expedients
must be adopted. Men are controlled by in
terest. and through this medium they must be
appro idled. To divest them from their pre
sent seif-destroying policy, they must not only
be thoroughly convinced of the real cause of
their embarrassments and of the remedy, but
they must also have demonstrated to them, that
the e are other pursuits and occupations which
will yield to labor a profitable return. That
such can be found there can be no doubt.—
The lime was. when the cotton plant was un
known to us, and prosperity prevailed through
out our country. The Indigo which its intro
duction supplanted, lias as an article of trafic,
been entirely banished from amongst us. In
dia now entoys its monopoly, hut it is not cer
tain she could retain it, were wc, possessing as
we do superior intelligence and skill, to con
tend for it. Madder it is said, is peculiarly
adapted to our soil an ! climate, and well re
pays the labor bestowed upon its cultivation,
The Palma- Christi lor the manufacture of Cas
tor-oil, has its claims to consideration, and the
little attention which has been paid to tlie Mul
berry and Silk-worm, conclusively prove that
the making of silk is not a speculation of the
Morus MultiiauUs stamp. We here take
the liberty of stating‘hat one of the most intelli
gent and practical farmers of this county, who
for the last two years has had his cocoonery in
successful operation, and whom we have often
seen dressed (coat, pantaloons, vest, stockings, |
and gloves,) in silk of his own manufacture, |
has realized a return for his labor and invest-
ment, more than twice the amount upon the
same expenditure, of the most successful cot.
ton planter in the State. What lie bus done
others can accomplish.
In most of the lower counties of the State,
there arc immense Pine barrens, yielding but
little if any income to their owners. Why
may not these a» well as other portions of the
country, become the pustules of large flocks of
sheep, and the trees he rendered productive by
the manufacture of Turpentine, Rosin, and
Tar? The truth is, we have heretofore found
the growing of cotton profitable, aud satisfied
with that, wc have made but little investigation
into the extent of the resources which a kind
Providence lias bestowed upon ns in rich abun
dance. With almost every variety of soil and
elimate, what is there that the real or irmgiin.
ry wants of our race can demand that we can
not supply ? In this wid*- range what is there
that to a greater or less extent, cannot be turn
ed to some profitable accounts. Admit howev
er, that none of these pursuits should be profita
ble, cr if you please, that lliey should be alto
gether unproductive, vet regarding it as un
deniably tine, that one hall the crops of cotton
now made will bring as much as the whole,
nothing would be lost. r I he labor thus divert
ed from the cctton-field would reduce the ex
tent of that crop, and in the ratio ot reduction
enhance the pi ice of that made.
In other States where our staple is grown,
the oppression which weighs so heavily upon
us, is also experienced. In some parts of
Louisiana, w here cottou has long been advan
tageously raised, it is to be supplanted by the
Sugar care. In Florida and some of the lower
counties of Alabama and this State, it will give
place to Tobacco. Throughout the whole cot
ton growing region, a spirit of inquiry has re
cently been excited, and is every day becom
ing more intense and extended. While there
fore we are striving to avert a common evil,
we may be stimulated in our ellbrts, by the
knowledge that others, who are suffering with
u*, are uniting their efforts with ours, for its re
! inoval.
In connection with this subject, there aie
other considerations to which we respectfully
invite voor attention. Why should a barrel
of flour ever be imported into this State ? We
have lands on which the finest wheat can he
grown, mills in which it cun he manufactured,
and water-power to propel as many more as
tho necessities of tlie country shall demand.—
Why should we annually send to the Western
S ales hundred of thousands of dollars b r Hor
ses, Mule*, and (logs, when we have around us
every facility for raising them ourselves ? The
following statement furnished by the Keeper of
the Toll-gate on the French Broad River in
North Carolina, will give some idea of the
amount of stock annually brought into South
Carolina and Georgia.
Horses *sc Mules. Hogs. Black Cattle Sheep.
In 1840 5181 * 5*2.255 32'3 3*45
“ 1841 5833 54,786 3048 2357
“ 1842 3840 62,649 3318 3192
•• 1843 4361 52,612 3333 3565
19,213 222,302 12,943 12,35#
“ 2H9IJ 4702 2656 2101
Sl.aoi 227,004 15,7)09 14,460
This it w.ll be remembered is the stock that
p .ssed the Cumber'and mountain at one only
of Us gaps, and by no means embraces all that
is annual y brought into tlie.-c two States.
A geu'lemau from Kentucky who for years
past has been largely engagi and in the stock trade
ill this State, and who possesses ample means
ot correct ndbrination, has kindly furnished us
with nil estimate of the amount and vnlu ■ of
stork brought into this Slate during the present
winter for our uwu use and consumption,
nous.
From Kentucy and Tennessee l«y James
town route, 23.000
From Kentucky l»y Cumhe*land Route,
76.000—for* Georgia, 10.000
From W est Teuue«see and N. Alabama, 10,000
In all 43.000 at $5 50 per head. 6192,500
Horses and Mt»i“si*y the same routes 8,000
ui 70 dollars per head. 560 000
Making tlie enormous sum of $752,000
witbuul any .dlnwu ice fur tlie E icon iir.-
purled from N. Orleans, or that brought to us
by wagons front Tennessee.
L uge as is this estimate,our Kentucky friend
assures us that tlie aulojnt of stock brought
this yi ar to Georgia is unprecedentedly small.
Can we prosperought we to prosper, when
with out cutlou a dreg in tha markets ot tlie
world, ou account of us superabundance, we
suffer from sheer oegligenoe, or careless mdit
ference, our wealth unis to be drained Iroin us
in a con-tunt and copious stream, and that, tors,
to a quarter whence all their exactin', s aic m
tlio precious metals, creating der iigemeu s in
our currency, and whence we gel no return,
except it be indirectly in the limited purchase
oI fabrics made of our cotiou ? It may bo said
we have no pastures in which to rai-e out
j slock; and that it requires too much corn and
small grain to sustain them. Apart of our
cotion fields should, as they can he*, converted
into pastures, and a portion of the labor bestow
ed upon them snouid be devoted to the giow
: ing of provisions. By this division of labor tlie
■ great desideratum will, at least, bo partially ob
tained ; the diminution of tlie amount of cotton,
I and the consequent enhancement of its value.
Upon another subject the growers of cotton
have evinced a fatuity not less reprehensible
and ruinous than upon that to which we have
just adverted. While, for years past, they have
been computing one* with another to make die
largest crop; 10 increase tne evils, they have
left to otheis who have no interest in the matter
to foster and extend the consumption. As we
have it in our power to diminish the on«', so al
so may we largely extend the other. Without
specifying other instances where we may give
a prelei'eiieu to fabrics made of our ou u staple,
why should we be tributary to Russia, Scotland,
India, or even our own Kentucky for our bug
ging and r-ipe, when in our own cotton, and that
too, of tlie must infi rior quality, for which, at
at best, we aie but illy paid, we have a suitable
substitute ? Is it objected that buyers prefer
cotton jiacked in bagging, and with rope made
of hemp or grass ? L> t liie piuctice be univer
sal, ami their objections will be removed. The
truth is, tlieie is no force in this objection, and
especially with regard to bagging. A heavy,
well manufactured article, experience has al
ready proven, is as readily accepted as that
made of any other material. Here it will at
once be perceived an immense amount can bo
consumed. By its consumption in this way
that amount is not only taken from the market,
hut the enormous sums now sent abroad for
these articles may be kept at home. The crop
of the last year is generally estimated at 2,500,-
000 bales. On *J;6 supposition th“'. halo
requires five yards ol bagging, which in being
manufactured will consume twelve pounds of
cotton, the bagging for the crop will consume
102,500 bales of 400 pounds. On the suppo
sition that the rope necessary for each bale is
lour pounds, consuming six pounds in the man
ufacture, the ropo for the crop will require 81,-
250 bales of 400 pounds. In these two items
then, with such a crop as the last year’s,
we may annually keep from the market 243,750
bales of cotton. Would not this be real and
substantial relief! If a year ago it had been
authentically announced at Manchester, or up
on change, at Liverpool or New York, that
200,000 hales of cotion had been suddenly de
stroyed, it would have been followed by an lo-
stantaneous advance. It it were even now an
nounced that that number of bales were abstrac
ted from the present stock, wc might confident
ly anticipate an advartco that would amply re
ward the labors of tlie past year, and give some
promise of remuneration for our next crop.
Another subject closely allied to that just no
ticed, we will litre briefly present to your con
sideration— the establishment amongst us of
manufactures. Here another aveaue is open
ed to our enterprise, and one which both imme
diately und indirectly can diminish the produc
tion of our staple. But beside this, other in
ducements are now held out, to tempt us to en
ter upon this new field of labor. We have the
wborn we can op vrehend no “ turn outs’' f
higher wages, a climate which does not demand
raw material at rmr otvn door—operative! f '
ihe intermission of labor during the incleme?!
eies of winter; We have a supply of Wat
power unsurpassed by that in any other part of
the world, and in the experiments already maffi.
an ample guaranty of success.
But without further comment upon these
various remedies, or notice of others that mini,,
he suggested, we come now to the important
inquiry, how can any of these be brought in.
to efficient action ; in what way can the 5 great
reform in our agricultural pursuits, which all
admit to be necessary, be accomplished ? If
every man is left to his own unaided effort*
nothing will be done. Time will indeed work
out the cure, not, however, until all 1 have suffer
ed, and thousands have i>een driven into irre
mediable poverty. An invading foe mav
march in triumph over the most pnpn] ou ' s
country, when each of its citizens meets him
singly ; but let all unite their energies and |fij
first onset is followed by bis overthrow. ]„
other States agricultural societies have been
formed, and have proved efficient agents in ad.
vaccing the cause to which they are devoted.
In these associations, the science, skill, discove
rt! sand improvements of one member become
the property of all. Here a spirit of emulation
may be excited, which will call into exercise
the noblest efforts for the general good. Here
more effectually than in any other wav, mav
be indelibly impressed upon tha minds of a il
the suicidal policy of the excessive production
of cotton ; and here, with the force of demon
stration, can lie pointed out those other pur
suits to which a portion of the labor of tlie coun
try can most successfully be diverted. If our
barren fields are ever to be resuscitated, and
those now productive are to be retained in Unit
condition; if our farms are to be our homes
and by our industry taste nnd improvement ren
dered our cherished homes while we live, and
the homes of our children when we are gone;
if that propensity for locomotion nnd emigra
tion which, in every view, is one of the direst
calamities that uffects our social relation*, is
ever to he banished from amongst us, what
agency better adopted to secure these r suits
can be devised than that now recommended.?
Let every county in the State have its Agri
cultural Society, with is fr qnent meeting*
fiif the discussion of topics corr ected with its
interests—let these meet annually by represen
tation in a State Convent ion—lot other cotton
growing States imitate .the example, and if dm
spirit which animates the whole is worthy tl •
object in view, tlie day will not lie distant when
the South may be redeemed reg< nr ruled, nnd
di-enthrallcd. We repeat, that in the resolu
tions and mutual pledges of ottr fellow-citizens
with reference to tlie extent of their cotton
crops, we place no reliance, hut m the agency
of well directed Agricultural Societies, enlight
ening the great missol the people with re
gard to the cause of their difficul ies, pointing
out to then# tlie most successful modes for i's
removal, and presenting to tliem inducements
for the r adoption and practical application,
wo do beli ve that much may he nccoinp'lghed.
If this instnini' utali'y cannot succeed mine
other will. If this fail, we are without hope
and “ heweis of wood and drawers of water”
as wc now are to the princely monnthrtiirers,
we shall soon find ou selves too poor and ton
weak to render even that service, and when
it shall lie too In’c, have forced upon us the hu
miliating truth that we have li en our own de
stroyers. Confiding then as we do in the effi
ciency of tins agency if properly conducted,
ami regarding the present ns a period which
calls loud y upon every plunder nnd f..rmer,
and especially upon every grower of cotton to
protect his interest, wo respecifidly recom
mend to )on the formal ion of Association* in
your respective counties to net in concert whit
tlie Society which we represent. Let its make
the effort. If we net systematically, wisely,
zealously, we shall not be alone. Oar iate
res's, tlie in'erests of posteri'y, the interests of
our country demand the effort. If we accom
plish any tli'ug the icwa and is our own. If we
fail, bavin.' faithfully discharged otir duty, ami
the ruin now impending over us cannot lie
averted, we shall at least have the cnu.*ol»'ion
of knowing that none can say nfus, “ ye did it.”
With great respect, vourob’t serv’ts..
i>. C. CAMRBELL.
E. A. N l-S BET,
T. G. HOLT,
JAMES SMITH.
. JOHN l>. WINN-
Macon, Jan. 28, 1845.
llecorcnj of Properly. —The following
circumstance: is as true ns it is singular.
A few years ago two gentlemen, who had
been left executors to the will ot a friend,
on examining the property, Ib.mcl a scrap
of paper on which was written, “Seven
Hundred Pounds in Till.” This they
took in the literal sense, and examined till
his apartments carefully, hut in vain.—
They sold his collection ot Iwioks to a lx»ok
seller, an.d paid the legacies in propnitioii.
The singularity of the circumstance occa
sioned them frequently to converse about
it, and they recollected among the books
sold (which bad taken place upwards of
seven weeks before,) there was a folio ed
ition of Tillotson’s Sermons. The pro
bability ofthis being what was alluded to
by the word “Till” on the piece ot paper,
made one of them immediately wait upon
the bookseller who had purchased the
books, anti ask him il he had the edition
of Tillotson, which had been among t>e
books sold to him; on his replying in tk
aflirmative, and the volumes being bant
cd down, the gentleman immediately pur
chased them, s>nd on carefully examining
the leaves, louuJ bank notes, »m c )
persetl in various places of the vbd ll S J
the amount of seven hundred pounds.
But what is jierhaps no less remarks
that the preceding, the bookseller
ed hi in that a gentleman at CambnUge*
reading in his catalogue of this edition
he sold, had written to him, and >
might he sent to Cambridge, wti |C 1
accordingly done; but the books
swering the gentleman’s espeotattPH* -
had been in the shop m
period of this very singular djscovc >•
Odd Fellow.
Santa Anna routed ! I ] IC
frotn Mexico bring intelligences
perate battle having bcenloug .
plains of Appan, between p a _
the one side, and Bravo and e P, : n
redes on the other, which re sU taken
total rout ol the former wbP ''
captive—-500 men reported to ** vc
killed. Bravo was ou his rr J‘ , . rc '■ ncr ,
capital with Santa Anna as »fl P roU(e j
Paredes was in pursuit V'
troops.