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London, before several
of -her works had become classics.—Anna
'Maria, the Second siiter, commenced tier
admirable series of novels soon after the
first celebrity of Jane’s works, and they
wrote and passed the brightest years of
their life together in a cottage retreat.
The two sisters were singularly beautiful.
Sir Thos. Lawrence was Jan unsuccess
ful suitor to Anna Maria, and Jane, (said
by Sir Martin Shee to have been the
handsomest woman he ever saw,) was
engaged to a young soldier who was kill
ed in the Peninsula. She is a woman to
have but one love in a life time. Her be
trothed was killed when she was twenty
years of age, and she has ever since
worn mourning, and remained true to his
memory. Jane is now the only survivor
of herfamil}', her admirable mother and
her sister having died some twelve or
fourteen years since, and Sir Robert hav
ing died lately, while re-visiting England,
after many years’ diplomatic residence in
Venezuela.
Miss Porter is now near sixty. She
ha3 suffered within the last two or three
years from ill health, hut she is still erect,
graceful and majestic in person, and still
possessed of admirable beauty of counte
nance. Her large dark eyes have a strik
ing lambency of lustre, her smile inspires
love in all who see her, and her habit of
mind, up to the time we last saw her,
(three or four years ago,) was that of re
flecting the mode of others in conversa
tion, thinking never of herself, and en
deavoring only to make others shine, and !
alfthis with a tact, playfulness and sim
plicity, an occasional unconscious briliian- j
cy and penetration, which have made her,
up to sixty years of age, a most interest
ing, engaging, and lovely woman. A
writer in an English magazine says: ‘We J
had the good fortune .to pass several j
months, at different times, under different
hospitable roofs, with Jane Porter, and,
considering the extent of her eltnrtn over
old and young, titled and humble, mas
ters and servants, we sincerely think we
have never seen a woman so beloved and
so fascinating. She is the idol of many
different circles of very high rank, and
passes her time in yielding, month after
month, to pressing invitations from the
friends who love her. The Dowager
Queen Adelaide is one of her warmest
friends, the highest families of nobility
contend for her as a resident guest, dis
tinguished and noble foreigners pay court
to her invariably on arriving in England ;
she has been ennobled by a decree of the
King ot Prussia, and with all this weight
of honor on her head, you might pass
weeks with her, (ignorant of her history,)
without suspecting her to be more than
the loveliest of women past their prime,
and born but to grace a contented medio
crity of station.’
A Bold Depredator. —ln the year 1427,
Stamati, a native of Candia conceived
the bold idea of robbing the Cathedral of
St. Mary of some of its precious treasures.
Having succeeded in concealing himself
in the church until the doors were closed
at night, he contrived to enter the treasu
ry, and abstract by degrees, its valuable
contents, which he hid in a vault under
neath the steps of the cathedral. In the
morning he took advantage of the unlock
ing of the doors to escape unobserved,
amusing himself by wandering about the
pity during the day, and returning towards
evening, in lime to be locked in as before.
This continued six nights, when, having
added to his store of plunder the Doge’s
cap, valued at 200,000 crowns, he prepar
ed »o decamp with the boot}, but first,
l. ijckily for himself, resolved on confid
mc his secret to his friend Gerio, likewise ;
a C inadian by birth. Having brought
him privately into his apartment, whither
bf had by this time, transported the spoil, i
he proposed to share the whole with him.!
Gerio, feigned compliance, and advised a
speedy departure from Venice, and said
that he would arrange his own affairs as
quickly as possible, and rejoin him. In-i
of this, he went straight to the
n nff, either from fear of
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.need a man
engaged in securing
j/mcuis. Mr. Hull makes also, from sim
ilar materials, a wash for external walls,
See., which is impervious to water and
protection from fire, and for this alone he
was offered a very large sum. Thus is
the civilized world not only to be made
acquainted with a lost art, but is to be im
mensely benefitted by an invention of an
importance to society, of which we can
3’et form only a conjecture. Mr. Hull as
serts, that he can manufacture pillars and
columns of this material, of any reasona
ble dimensions. Galvanism is employed
in the process of manufacture.
The Ilong Kong Register contains an
extended notice of Shang-hai, one of the
newly opened ports of China. It is situa
ted about fourteen miles from the sea, and
on the right bank of the Shang-hai river,
which empties in the Yangtszekeang.—
Ships of the largest size can ascend the
river and anchor in front of the city,
though a pilot is indispensable. The city
has a wall five or six miles in circuit. It
has five entrances, each with two gates. —
The streets are narrow and exceedingly
filthy. The city contains about 300,000
inhabitants. It is the port of the city of
Suchau, which is about one hundred and
fifty miles distant, and is considered as the
“paradise of their country.” The Regis
ter says:
“Those who have succeeded to an in
‘heritance, those who have obtained sud
‘den riches, in a word, those who wish to
‘spend some thousand dollars merrily, be
‘lake themselves to the Suchau. Here
‘are found the best hotels, the pleasure
‘boats are the most sumptuous, the most
‘pleasant gardens, the fairest ladies. The
‘fashions for the dresses and coiffure of the
‘fair sex change in China every three years,
‘and these fashions proceed from Suchau
‘and give law* even to the* ladies of the
‘court.”
The river Yangtszekeang washes the
shores of Nankin and several other provin
cial capitals, and an immense number of
inferior cities. Its navigation is very
great. About I,GOO vessels come annual
ly from the outer sea to Shang-hai, and
the importation amounts to 300,0U0 tons.
SYDNEY SMITH.
i The death of this distinguished Writer
and wit has taken away another of the
connecting links between this age and
the past. The school of philosophy and
taste ol which the Edinburgh Review at
its first establishment was the organ, and
of which Sidney Smith was u disciple,
still has its representatives and adherents;
but the day of its supremacy has passed;
it is becoming transfused more and more
into all the "forms of literary develope
ment. The poetry of Wordsworth, which
was once the standing theme of ridicule
for the wits ol the Edinburg, is now eu
logised in that journal, and the name of
the poet never mentioned but with respect
and reverence.
In the now deep and profound range
of thought into which the human mind
Tseems to be entering, as the epoch now
opening upon the world goes on to unfold
itself, a man like Sydney Smith would
find himselfremoved from familiar ground.
He was endowed with the exterior facul
ties of intellect and fancy. His wit lay
at his tongue’s end ; his power as a wri
ter was in the tips of his fingers. The
current events of the day were everything
to him ; and upon them he could descant
with a quick eye for abuses, a keen sense
of the ludicrous, and a strong common
sense which gave remarkable lbrce to his
words, and which never deserted him.
The ‘ London Spectator’ thus speaks
of him :—Baltimore American.
“ Much of the charm of Sydney Smith’s
writings lay in the manner; but the mat
ter was still more valuable. His views,
it not strictly original, were in his day
uncommon ; ami lie had made them his
own. He did not merely repeat what dis
coverers told him, he saw himself what
they pointed out, and in his own way. He
wrote only about what he thoroughly
understood ; he was master of his sub
ject, not mastered by it. He was thus
enabled to play with bis theme—to insin
uate truths playfully, from the severe
enunciation ot which the public mind
would have shrunk. A suggestive fancy,
and rare patience of elaboration came to
this self-possessed disposition. But his
talents were always regulated by good
sense, and kept in subordination by ear
nestness of purpose. Even in bis wildest
license of burlesque he never transgress
ed the limits of good taste ; and there was
always meaning and a useful aim in his
jokes. Few have pioneered so effectual
ly the cause of reform in education, the
law, and our political institutions ; and of
all the leaders of Liberal opinion, he a
lone perhaps never stooped to conquer or
compromise with the vulgai and mawkish
cant of Exeter Hall.”
A Pig Boy. —They have a boy, sixteen
years old, at the American Museum in
New York, who is over 7 feci three incit
es.
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I OUTRAGES,
the papers that Sena
siana, in passing from
had a slave decoyed
nnati. The slave, af
back to Mr. Johnson,
, on arriving at Cincin
*d he was a freeman
Jhio, and he could not
* to enjoy his rights of
»ted Mr. Johnson most
. begged him to bear his
•owledgements also to Mrs.
,r their former kindness to him.
„ent decision of the Supreme Court
s(uo pronounces that a slave volunta
ry brought by his master in Ohio, is, un
der the laws of Ohio, free ; and there is
no power under the laws of that State to
compel him to servitude, if he claims his
rights of freedom. The Constitution of
the United States and the law of Congress
on the subject, refer only to fugilivis, es
caped from service where bound to ser
vice ; the decision of the Ohio Court de
nies that slaves voluntarily brought by
their masters into Ohio, and escaping af
ter being thus brought, arc such fugitives.
There may be some plausible appear
ance of soundness in this opinion ; but to
ourtnind it is mere abstraction and techni
cality, disregarding the obvious spirit and
interpretation of the Constitution and
laws. A master has an undoubted right,
under the constitution and laws, to take
a slave with him, in passing through the
the Union; and the escape of a slave from
his master while thus passing from point
to point, through a free State, is, and
ought to be construed to be, an escape
from the lawful custody of his master and
ought to be deemed a fugitive in the mean
ing of the constitution and law, and, by
consequence, should be delivered up by
the civil authorities wherever found.—
This is the obvious, common sense con
struction, conforming to the spirit of the
law and to the principles of comity and
justice.
No one can doubt that Abolitionists of
Cincinnati pursuaded Mr. Johnson’s slave i
toffee from his master. Possibly some;
of those fanatics may have conscientious-j
ly thought the}' were doing right, under
the decision of the Court of Ohio ; but
we cannot, under such a plea, excuse
men of intelligence there who understand
the constitution and laws. We deem
those of Cincinnati and elsewhere, who
thus decoy or pursuade“slaves to escape
their masters, passing transiently through
free States, little better in point ol morals
and loyalty to the government, and cer
tainly less bold and daring, than those
who come into Kentucky and steal away
slaves ; and these latter areas much worse
than horse thieves than slaves are more
valuable property than horses and as the
peace of community is worth more than
property.
The Shell Explosion. —A correspondent
of the Albany Evening Journal after vis
iting the scene of Monday’s terrible disas
ter, gives some particulars which have
not appeared in any of the city journals.
We therefore copy part of his letter.—
iV. Y. Courier.
Mr. Basterman, keeper of the light
house at Sandy Hook, has been in the
habit for some time past of raking the bay
thereabout for old iron and bomb shells,
which he has sold to Mr. Duvall, at S 1 a
piece, to whom they were worth more
than this as old iron to melt. On Satur
day last Mr. B. brought a quantity of these
bombs, among which was one, oblong in
shape, IS inches by 10, called a square
bomb, which contained in its centre a
large quantity of percussion powder, and
consequently unlike the common bombs,
it would ignite by merecontacl or friction,
while they require the application of fire.
Yesterday afternoon Mr. Duvall was a
bout weighing this petard, when he discov
ered that it contained a quantity of pow
der, and taking it out upon the sidewalk,
he unscrewed the faucet, and commenced
picking it with a pair of tongs, when a
bout a pint of powder fell from it. At
this instant Mr. Price rode up. Getting
out of the vehicle, and leaving the horse
by the walk, he approached Mr. D. say
ing, “ You had better be careful of that
powder—the boys will get it and do mis
chief with it.” Duvall replied that the
powder was too damp to be used, and
and bail lost its strength, whereupon Mr.
Hammond, one of the workmen, said he
would try some of it, and taking up a
handful, went into the shop and threw it
upon a piece of hot iron upon an anvil.
It instantly flashed, and Hammond
came out saying that it was as strong as
ever. D. added, “ Well, 1 should not have
thought it, after it has been under water
so long. Why, Basterman, told me he
thought it was one of the Princeton’s ex
periments ; however, I’ll empty the pow-
dcr into the gutter, where the boys can’t
gel it,” and suiting his action to his word,
he stepped forward a few feet, ann then
turning to Hammond, asked him ro get
him a stick. Hammond accordingly
went up to the alley near the shop and
was returning with the stick, when Du
vall, laying the tongs carefully on the
walk, dropped the bomb i upon the curb
stone, which exploded, killing Duvall,
Price and Broderick instantly, and so se
verely injuring Bennett, that he died be
tween 3 and 4 o’clock this morning.
Mr. Hammond, who was coming out
of the alley at the moment of the explo
sion, was thrown senseless upon the
ground, probably by the force of the shock
alone, as no bruises are apparent upon
his body, though his right leg is as* black
as a negro’s skin from the knee to the
thigh, lie is unable to leave his bed to
day, but the physician entertains no fears
1 of his situation.
Luke Torboss, Jr., another workman,
was standing within a tew feet of Mr. D.
and was prostrated by the shock, hut he
is quite recovered this morning, and to
him 1 am indebted for these details.
FARMER’S CONVENTION.
Milledgeville, March 31, 1845.
The Agricultural Convention of the
State of Georgia assembled this day at
112 o’clock, M. at the Court house in this
! city. Delegates from the counties of
Morgan, Cobb, Paulding, Putnam and
Baldwin, appeared and took their seats;
when, for the purpose of organization,
on motion of Maj. Wtn. Y. Hansell, a
delegate from the county of Cobb, Col.
1 Herschel Y r . Johnson, of Baldwin, was
I called to the Chair.
The Chairman having announced that
he was prepared to receive any proposi
tion which the Convention had to make,
Mr. Turner, from the county of Putnam,
offered the following resolution :
Resolved, That His Excellency, the
Governor of the State of Georgia for the
time being, be chosen President of “the
Agricultural Association of the State of
Georgia,”—which was adopted.
It was resolved, on motion of Mr. Grant
land, from Baldwin, that the Chair ap
point a Committee to wait upon His Ex
cellency, Gov. Crawford, and inform him
ofhis appointment.
Whereupon the Chairappninted Messrs.
Gruntlarid, Turner and Harris that Com
mittee.
The Committee having informed Gov
ernor Crawford of his appointment, and
conducted him to the Chair, after a few
remarks relative to the object of the Con
vention, he announced the body ready to
proceed to business.
On motion of Mr. Harris, it was
Resolved, That Dr. John R. Colling,
be appointed Corresponding Secretary,
and Benjamin T. Bethune, Esq., Record
ing Secretary of the Agricultural Asso
ciation of the State of Georgia.
On motion of Mr. Jones, of Paulding, it
was
Resolved, That the President appoint a
Committee of five, whose duly it shall be
to draft a Constitution for the Association,
and to recommend to the Convention the
various subjects which shall be appro
priate for its consideration. The Com
mittee named by the Chair, were Messrs.
Jones, Turner, Johnson, Hansell, and
Spear.
The Convention then adjourned tijlfour
o’clock, P. M.
4 o’clock, I\ M.
Convention met pursuant to adjourn
ment.
Judge Jones, Chairman of the Com
mittee to draft Constitution, &c., reported
the following
CONSTITUTION.
Article I.—This Society shall be
known by the name of the “ Agricultural
Association of Gccggia,” and shall be com
posed of the members of all Agricultural
Societies or Associations, which are or
shall be hereafter formed in this State; and
its annual meetings, which shall be held
on the second Mopdav of November of
each year, in the city of Milledgeville,
shall consist of a Convention of such dele
gates as each of said societies shall send.
Art. If.—lts officers shall consist of a
President, who shall he the Governor of
the State for the time being, and as many
Vice Presidents as there shall be Agricul
tural Societies or Associations in the
State, the several Presidents of which
shall be ex-officio Vice Presidents of this
Association—recording and correspond
ing Secretaries, the recording Secretary
acting ex-officio as Treasurer.
Art. lll.—The object of this Associa
tion shall be, to promote, by all proper
means, the advancement of the Agricul
tural and domestic economy of the State
in all the various departments.
Art. IV. —At each annual meeting
there shall be an Executive Committee
of five, appointed to receive the reports of
such committees as this Association may
appoint, and such other matter as be re
ferred to them through the Corresponding
I Secretary, and to perform such duties as
may be required of them, or as may pro
i perly fall within their province.
Art. V. —The funds of this Associa
tion shall be composed of such monies as
may be raised by voluntary contribution.
Art. Vl. — This Constitution may be
altered or amended by a vote of a majori
ty of the members present at any annual
meeting.
Which report was received and adopt
ed.
The Committee further recommended
the appointment of the following Com
mittees :
Ist. A Committee of to report to
the next annual meeting on the subject of,
the Agriculture of Georgia.
2d. A Committee of to report on
Grains.
3J. A Committee of to report on
Stock.
4th. ACommitteeof toreporton
such plants as may be profitably introdu
ced and which are not now cultivated.
sth. A Committee of to report on
Manures.
The Convention approved of the re
commendation of the Committee, and, on
motion, it was rcsolccd, that the various
blanks be filled by the Chair with the
number of three.
The President then stated, that as it
was necessary that he should know the
names of gentlemen composing the differ
ent Agricultural Societies in the State, to
enable him to make judicious appoint
ments, the committees would not be ap
pointed until the vrious societies had been
heard from.
Mr. Johnson offered the following re
solution :
llesolccd, That the Corresponding Se
cretary write to the respective Agricul
tural Societies of this State, informing
them that their members are constituted
members of this Association, and that
their respective Presidents are ex-officio
Vice Presidents of the same; and that
he request the said societies to furnish him
with a full catalogue of their members,
to the end that (hey may be entered on
the records of this Association, in the
event of their being willing to become
members thereof—which was adopted.
The ‘ollowing resolution was also adopt
ed :
Resolved, That we recommend to the
several societies of this State, to take into
consideration the propriety of recommend
ing to the next legislature an appropria
tion for the purpose of procuring seed and
grains of various kinds from different
countries, for distribution among the va
rious Agricultural Societies, and to report
the result of such deliberation to the next
annual meeting of this Association.
The Association then adjourned sine die.
GEO. W. CRAWFORD, Piesd’t.
Benj. T. Bethune, Record. Sec.
\\ ED\ ESI) AV, Al’ltllj to, 1845.
COTTON MARKET.
Our market for the week past has been
quite active and continues so. Sales are
readily effected at our quotations. Ex
tremes a Principal sales sc.
TO TIIE PATRONS OP TIIE REPUBLIC.
My connexion with the Republic after
the issue of the present number will cease.
To those friends who have kindly aided
me in the establishment of anew Demo
cratic paper, I take this occasion to ten
der to them my grateful recollections.—
My private interest, and the desire to en
gage in pursuits more congenial to my
tastes, habits, and feelings, induce this
course. Some gentleman, I hope, better
fitted to the task than myself, will soon be
engaged in the conduct o/" the “Republic.”
To him and to its present active and inde
fatigable proprietor, Mr. H. C. Crosby,
the public will hereafter, I trust extend
the same patronage that it so kindly be
stowed upon it when under my editorial
charge. S. M. STRONG.
Macon, April lGtli, 1545.
Until other arrangements arc effected
this paper will be under the editorial con
trol of the undersigned, and will be issued
regularly as usual every Wednesday
morning. 11. C. CROSBY.
O'?” The Democratic Parly of Bibb
County are requested to assemble at the
Court House, on Saturday, 19th inst., at
11 o’clock, A. M., for the purpose of ap
pointing delegates to the Gubernatorial
Convention to be held in Milledgeville,
and for the transaction of other business.
DELEGATES TO THE CONVENTION.
We have but one word to say to our
friends before the meeting of Saturday.
Let our delegation be an able one. Let
it be worthy ot the unconquered and un
conquerable Democracy of Bibb. Let
them go, unpledged to any man, free to
exercise their own opinions, and at the
same time willing to yield all personal
predilections for trie general harmony anil
success of the party. So far as we are
individually concerned, and we believe
that in this we coincide in opinion with
a large majority of our party throughout
the Slate, we care not upon whom the
nomination for Governor be cast, provided
he is a mat*of high talents, eloquence
and tried derq§cralic principles ; one that
has stood with us through good as well as
evil report, and bided the fortunes of de
feat as well as of triumph. A man of
enlarged and statesmanlike views, who is
in opinion, in habit and associations, a
gentleman, and who might be considered
as a fit impersonation of the great party
he is to lead. If the convention will pro
perly consult the interests of the party
anil the dignity and fame of the Slate, as
well as her influence and usefulness as a
member of the confederacy, they will
give the nomination to no other. Such
a nomination will at once command the
confidence of the people, and be hailed
with enthusiasm by our party throughout
the Stale. This is a time when we want
no laggard politician. Give us a bold,
frank and able leader, and we will in
crease our November majority 2,000. —
The ocean tide of Texas and the Tariff
will sweep every thing before it if the
standard is placed in proper hands.
THE GLOBE AND TEXAS QUESTION.
“ Out, damned spot.”— Macbeth.
Since the passage of the joint resolu
tions by the two Houses of Congress, for
the annexation of Texas, that paper with
the double purpose of covering its own
past treachery to the Republican party,
as well as palliating that of its friends, has
been giving in a series of articles what it
pretends to consider a true history of the
Texas question! It assumes in these arti
cles that great injustice has been done to
several prominent men in the Democratic
party, particularly Colonel Benton, Gov
ernor Wright, and Senators Bagby and
Allen.
Nowit has never been, nor will it be
our design to create the slightest breach
in the Democratic party; for we deprecate
as much as any one divisions in our own
ranks, and abhor above all things, house
hold quarrels, whether distracting the har
mony of a great political parly, or cursing
with their bitter waters the social and
private relations of life. We would pre
fer infinitely to heal, to assuage, and ex
tinguish, rather than widen any such dif
ferences; and we will never denounce
any Republican, from the humblest to the
highest in the land, unless we conceive
that our principles as well as the imper
ative injunctions of public duty, demand
it at our hands.
The course of the Globe, as well as
Colonel Benton and others, on the Texas
question during its jHogress through the
two Houses of Congress, was well calcu
lated to estrange and alienate forever
from them the ieclings of every true Ro
publican in the land. But as they hare
since discovered some indications ot
returning sense on this question, we would
willingly ourselves let ‘by-gones be by
gones,’ and welcome them back to tiie
Republican ranks with as much cordiality
as any one, if they would come impelled
by the same motives which influences the
minds of every honest Republican in die
Union, viz. the duty of seiving their coun
try at such an important crisis. But these
men are not even willing to discharge a sim
ple duty which every Republican feels he
owes to his country, unless they can see
in it some advantage to them
selves personally. But what‘out-Herods
Ilcrod’ himself in all this, is the fact that
they after having thrown every pos
sible obstacle in the way of annexa
tion, and embarrassed the question to an
extent that cannot now be easily estimat
ed, but which may finally defeat it, should
now claim for themselves at this stage ol
the measure the credit of being the most
efficient agents in securing the passage
ot the annexation resolutions and harmo
nizing the party, is indeed strange; and if
any tiling could add to the contempt in
which the great bulk of the Democratic
party already holds them, this piece
of audacity would certainly do it.
The Globe does not stop here, however.
It charges Mr. Tyler’s administration with
attempting to subserve the institutions of
slavery by the [imposed treaty of annex
ation ; and justifies its own, and the op
position of Colonel Benton to it, upon that
ground, while we are perfectly willin'*
that they should remain there. If they
chose to do so, and doubt not that it would
he more congenial to their views, we con
tend that so far us the facts in the case
go, they are not nor cannot justify
themselves in their opposition by any
such plea, because the treaty of Mr. Ty
ler contained nothing on the subject ot
slavery at all, but left it an open question
entirely. And if the Globe and Colonel
Benton bail no other reasons for opposing
it, or cannot justify their opposition on
other grounds, they will not succeed either
in convincing the people of their present
sincerity, or rescuing themselves from
the pit and grave of infamy and insignifi
cance into which they have fallen by their
past treachery on the Texas question. Nei
ther can they withall their dastardly envy,
rob the real friends of Texas of the well
earned fame that will always attend the
patriotic efforts put forth in behalf of the
country and Texas. The people will
take care of that; and the Globe may
go on till doomsday, to justify the
treachery of his master, and cry, ‘out
damned spot,’ but it will be of little ser
vice either to himself or his patron the
;odium cannot be washed from the public
mind; and the people will still regard
Col. Benton decked though he be in the
patriotic colors of the Globe, like the tin
! selled actor that struts and frets ujmn the
; boards —the counterfeit of the Brutus his
co slume would bespeSS nim.
APPEAL TO VIRGINIA.
| We take tlie following able appeal ter
the Republican l’arty of Virginia, from
that staunch anil capital Democratic pa
per the Boston Morning Post. It may be
addressed with equal applicability to the
public spirit anil principles of Georgians
as well as Virginians, for Georgia like
\ irginia has a deep stake in her approach
ing elections. She too has to elect a United
Slates Senator at the uexA session of the
Legislature. Her principles, the spirit of
her people, and the common glory of the
State, all, all demand that she should
consign Hon. J. M. Berrien, to that re
tirement which his recusancy to her in
terests so tichly merits. The great cause
of Texas and the Tariff are still open
questions before the people of the country,
and are of themselves weighty and im
portant enough to inspire every republi
can voter in Georgia, with the noblest an
imation in the contest which is approach
ing. Let our friends organise, in every
county in the State. Let the Democratic
press urge it upon them, and let no local
or secondary questions interfere with th®
general issues. Let us be united and go
into the contest with a determination that
the Republican flag shall still wave in
triumph from the Georgia citadel.
From the Boston Post, 3d inst.
THE OLD DOMINION: WHAT WIIL
SHE DO?
The result of the approaching election—lll*
state officers and members of Congress—will lie
looked for with great interest. New Hampshire
has just recorded tier vote for the new democratic
administration. There was in this election too
much apathy on the part of the democracy; and
local issues were suffered to draw off a portion of
the democratic vote. This result has allowed the
whigs to utter exulting language. We cannot be
lieve that such will be the case in Virginia. The
press seems alive with the note of preparation.
Let the people patriotically respond to its faithful
appeals, and we have no fears of the result.
Virginia never had greater questions before ber
than in the present campaign. Take the one that
now stands most prominent before the country,
the Texas issue, which is simply this. Congress
have prevailed for the admission of as rich a terri
tory to the Union as the sun ever shone upon.
Though it will add security to the south, pour mil
lions into the lap of the free industry ol the north,
and benefit all parts of the nation, yet it threatens
the federalists with a long ostracism from the hon
ors and emoluments of office. Forty years ago,
John Q.. Adams, from infinite knowledge of their
leaders, described their policy Hi be either to rule
or to run, and the experience of forty years hast lo *
changed their nature. Like the Bourbons they
learn nothing, they forget nothing. Their leaoe
are as ready for ruin now as their political la- !tI
were when Jefferson purchased Louisiana. **en
their meeting in convention at Faneuif'Hall
the identical individuals who delight ,0^| SCri u enoe
federalconstitutionasacovenanl witbhetl. **
their violent resolves, in the .Massachusetts Le_-
la lure, that this act of admission has nf> . n
force whatever on the people. Hence their g»
ering, in a patty convention, to indorse two 1
mous resolve. Hence the revolutionary * an f? .
of their presses, calculated to drive the peopt*
the verge or civil war.
Now the question fhr Virginians ta art y*
selves is, are we prepared to join with »}***
whig and abolition leaders, and kindle the fl * n .
disunion, because the State «• Texas is opm-nP
into the Union ? Again : British agent!WJ «" h
and violent northern politicians arc wor _
det|-era. eene. gym the hope si.II »o <'clea t a°n«‘ y
alion ; and ptHwldy, hv treaty, the one stales
depend upon a single vote in the United