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,; c ;tof the vour obedient servant.
‘jarar-'^c^ 11 S . D. INGHAM.
Secretary of the Treasury.
, p.rv_:-'yrov, Esq
r\o. 10.)
Savannah, 17th Sept. 1930.
- T n your letter to the Secretary of the
s 1 h.trd o3th of March last, under an
r fSou of public duty, you have indulged
Snal hostility to me and to place me
yo ' jrP re rem-detely in your power, you have
thCm °JtoTe the exclusive Representative
o of my residence,
Ti h vou P h.v„ sU colleagues
,Cb &fc..ioso n ool ll.e beet provisions
Sougiving me the slightest intimation
" intention", you have made miarepre
oyo iinns r nns to the Secretary of the Treasury,
sentations rpmovin „ inc , from the ap
for ~IC i u-hith I held under him.
F °‘?fl ve presumed my disqualification for
, SJof the duties assigned to me—
thc, i,.,vp assumed the qualihcations of a
f n j ! J. n ; n (-he Commissioners of Pilotage)
fSiuc 'to remove the obstructions m
' vhoiC "L'm-r a term of upwards of 40 years
ourn'W 11 _ n t i ol ,ble thc amount of funds
w ! ! ‘ 3 w me, for the execution of the same
St has long been a subject of notoriety
v 1 where von have always lived.
fVehn 7 deeply injured by your unprovo
ked and unfounded attacks upon me; I have
fask that you will appoint some early day,
•ora meeting without the limits of tins state,
S"Slnl g bnw 9 lcaudo
mand personal redress at your hands. My
S nd Dr. Hichardsone who delivers you this
will receive your answer to it.
i have the honor to t>e Mr,
Your very humble servant,
• W. C. DANIELL.
Thc Hon. J.3L Wayne, present.
(11)
Treasury Department.
2 Itli May, 1830.
<? in __Your favors of the 9th April and 17th
instant, are duly received, asking for copies
„f“the information laid before me in relation
jo the work on the Savannah River. A call
ruiviim been made by thc House of Repre
sentatives for copies of the whole coTcspon
dciv>e, &c. near the time vour’s of the Bth
April was received, 1 did not think it proper
to anticipate the answer to the House of Rep
r, sentatives, by furnishing the oopie* you de
sin.,!, as I suppose the whole will be printed,
in which form they will be equally satisfacto
ry to you. Your request for a statement of
such ora! communications as may have been
made to the Department on the subject, could
Jlo t be complied with because, Ist, no note is
made of such conversations, and I could not
i.eprnd on memory to retain w ith sufficient
accuracy any statement thus made ; and, 2d.
it is a rule of thc Department under the pres
<ct incumbent, not to do any act in conse
quence of parole statements. I would not be
understood to intimate that and thing has
been said by Mr. Wayne which he has not
jr.it c;i paper; on the contrary, so far as mc
r.orysem s, his letter addressed to me, con
tains substantially all that lie communicated
verbally.
I am, respectfully, &c-
S. i). INGIIAM.
Secretary of the Treasury.
To:. C. Damell, Esq. Savannah Ga.
(No- 12.)
The parties shall meet in South Carolina at
Theweejxins shall be broad swords of
equal length. The paitics shall fight until
either be so much injured as to prevent the
•combat from being continued with swords,
when immediate resort shall be had to Rifles
(with percussion or flint and stee l hocks at
the option of either part)’) which neither of
tne principals shall ever have seen until they
arc to Ik 1 used.
i'hc combat with Rifles shall be conducted
in away which shall not be communicated to
either hf the principals until it is about to be
begun.
in (lie event of either party being wounded
in the combats with swords or Rifles and there
f eiijg-a disagreement between the seconds as
to the propriety of its Continuance, the toss up
a dollar to determine it.
dune 25, 1331. 22
NOTICE.
_ ■" great enterprise for a little money.
||OOK.Sof subscription, for the balance < fihe
. ca phal stock of the Bbonswicx Rail-Roao,
’..i'l be open for eesseral days, '.by adjournment,
bitiic M.msion House in Mason, where a model,
■<xhibiting the principle on which the Rond, cars,
’tvliarves, Ware-Houses, ifc. will be conntructed,
Jtiay be seen ; also, a splendid map of a late sur
v‘\v, exhibiting a correct view of the AUainahai
nver, and the country from Clark's blurt’ to the
Ocean,including the bar and harbour of Rrus*
Wii'K, ami the route of the Rail-Road; together
V; a a plan of the Town, as originally laid out by
t, Hglethorp. ‘
Tit' 'attention of the citizens are respectfully
invited ti' 1^1 examination of this important sub
iject toMMacon. n State,
v, R. I)AVIS,? n . .
2t |T ]j 'RT, 5 Commissioners.
lion j*
_ Macon, June 30. ~-~~ hvv !
to tht* Hiiitinia Springs*.
t|Mih Proprietor intends running a tour llorse !
~ tStage fn in this place by Forsyth, to the In* j
'•inn Springs, during the present summer season, j
i\\ltliT A \\KKh, commencing on VVedites-i
day the i!9th June. This is a part of the Mail
mac in ta this place to t ’olumbus. Passengers
taking this route to that place will be entitled to a
I'teleifiice of *eats. The Stage will leave here
'.very VV edneday and Friday mornings, and ar
r've at the Springs the same day; leave there on
• turaday’s and Saturday’s—Fare through, Four
lMtors. liIKJH KNOX.
-Mwon, June 30., ill
_ • NOTICE.
To the ithith dixtr'icl 1 iiioitoia Militia.
Tlltj Hompany will muster on their parade
ground on Saturday the 10th July next, and
not on the 4th as some have been noticed.
Hy order (’apt. (<EO. A. SMITH.
Wu.I.IAKRON (.IjbOVBII, O.
J ,r.-2S.
AND AGRICDLTITIAL AND MERCANTILE INTELLIGENCER.
HAPPINESS.
Spinola being told, that Sir Francis Verde
died of having nothing to do, said, “That was
enough to kill a general.” llow many arcs,
there to whom war itself is a pastime, who
choose the life of a soldier, exposed to dan
gers and continued fatigues ; of a mariner, in
conflict with every hardship and bereft of ev
cry convtniency ; of a politician, whose sport
is thc conduct of parties and factions; and
who, rather than be idle, will do thc business
of men and of nations for whom he has not
the smallest regard ? Such men do not choose
pain as preferable to pleasure, but they are
incited bv a restless disposition to make con
tinued exertions of capacity and resolution ;
they triumph in thc midst of their struggles;
they droop, and they languish, when the° oc
casion of their labor has ceased.
What was enjoyment, in the sense of that
youth, who, according to Tacitus, loved dan
ger itself, not the rewards of courage? What
is the jirospcct of pleasure, when thc sound of
the horn or the trumpet, thc cry of the dogs,
or thc shout of war, awaken the ardour of the
sportsman and the soldier? The most anima
ting occasions of human life, are calls to dan
ger an<l hardship, not invitations to safety
and ease: and man himself, in his ex
cellence, is not an animal of pleasure, ncr;
destined merely to enjoy what the'elements!
bring to his use: but like his associates the
dog and the horse, to follow the oxer uses of
his nature, in preference to what are called
its enjoyments; to pine in the lap of ease and
of affluence, and to exult in thc midst of a
larms that seem to threaten his being, in all
which, his disposition to action only keeps
pace with the variety of powers with which
he is furnished; and the most respectable at
tributes of his nature, magnanimity, fortitude
and wisdom, carry a manifest reference to the
difficulties with which he is destined to stum-1
gle.
If animal pleasure becomes insipid when!
thc spirit is roused by a different object, it is;
well known, likewise, that the sense ef paiiri
is prevented by any vehement affection of the
soul. Wounds received in a heat of passion,
in thc hurry, the ardour, or consternation of
battle, are never felt till the ferment of the !
mind subsides. Even torments, deli Karatel v
applied and industriously prolonged,arc borne
with firmness, and with an appearance of ease
when the mind is possessed with some vigorous
sentiment, whether of religion, enthusiasm,
or love to mankind. The continued mortifi
cations of superstitious devotees in several
ages of the Christian church; the wild penan
ces, still voluntarily borne, during many years
by the religionists of thc cast; the contempt
in which famine and torture are held by most
savage nations; the cheerful or obstinate pa
tience of the soldier in the field: the hardships
endured by the sportsman in his pastime,
show how much we may err in computing thc
miseries of men, from the measures of troub
le and of suffering they seern to incur. And
if there be a refinement in affirming that
their happiness is not to be measured by the
contrary enjoyments, it is a refinement w hich
was made by Reguius and Cincinnatus be
fore thc date of philosophy. Fabricus knew
it while he had heard arguments only on the
opposite side. It is a refinement, which cv
ry boy knows at his play, and every savage
confirms, when he looks from his forest on
the pacific city, and scorns the plantation,
whose master he cares not to imitate.
Mgn, it must he confessed, notwithstand
ing all this activity of his mind, is an animal
in the full extent of that designation. Vv lien
| the body sickens, the mind droops; and when
the blood ceases.to flow, the soul takes its
departure. Charged v. ith the care of his pre -
servation, admonished bya sense c-f pleas
ure or pain, and guarded by an instinctive
fear of death, nature has not instructed his
safety to the mere \ igiluucc of bis understand
ing, nor to the gov. rnment ofiiis uncertain
rt flections.
The distinction bet - ixt mind and body is
followed by constqm nc; sof the greatest iin
portarcebut the fa :*s to which we now re
fer, are not founded c.n any tenets whatever.
They are equally 'rue, whether we admit or
reject the distinction i:i e , tion, or whether
ive suppose, that ti. sh> n. agent is formed
of one, or is un assent’, lag-, o. teparate natures.
And the mate rial, f, U treating of man as of
•an engine, cannot v■ '■ • v cuange in the
state of his history. }■■■> is a bet who, by
a mutiplicity of visible organs, p< r* >rmsa va
riety of functions. II bt n ’ In.- totr.ts, con
tracts or relaxes his rr.u-1 sin oir sight.—
lie continues the beating of the heart in his
breast, and the flowing of the blood to every
part of his frame. lie performs other opera
tions which wc cannot refer ‘ r.y corporeal
organ. He perceives,he r•celLct:’ amlfore-!
casts ; he desires, he shuns; l.e ruin ir •s, and
contemns. lie enjoys his ph a , or he ,
endures bis pain. All these dill- r et fine
tions, in some measure, go whr togrth- -
er. When the motion of the bloo i b*; guid,
the muscles relax, the yndcrst&n ling is tardy, j
and the fancy is dull: when clisß-m;'-. r ssails
him, the physician must attend s:o - ss to
what he thinks, than to what he ca‘i, nndj
examine the rctnrns of his passion, tog -tlicr I
with the strokes of his pulse.
. With all his-sagacity, his precautions, and
his instincts, which arc given to preserve his
being, he partakes in the fate ot otlicr ani
mals''and seems to he formed only that he
mavdtf- M vriads perish before they reach
tire perfection of their kind: and the individ
ual, with an option to owe the prolongation of
his temporary course to resolution and con-
J-.ct, or to abject fear, frequently chooses the
htt, r, and; by a hah.t of timidity, embitters
the life he ia so intent lo rresen c.
, n however, at tm.es, exempted from
this mortifying lot, seems u
ru.r- ir d to the lemrth oi his pened. " hen he
,hV„ks intensely, or desire s with aitlour, picas
lirt., and pains from any quarter assail Jinu ui;
S Even in h.s dying hour, the muscles
! acquire a tone from his spirit, and the mJ
‘nits vigour, and i„ the midst of us niggle to
1 obtain the recent nim of Us toil. Mule) Mo
luck, borne on his litter, and spent with dis
ease still fought the battle, in the midst of
which he expired ; and tin? last ellort he made,
w th a finger on las lips, was a signal to con-
his death; tiro precaution, perhaps,
ofall which he had hith- rto taken, the most
necessary to prevent a defeat.
( an no reflections aid us in acquiring this
habit of the sou), so useful in carrying us
throug’-many of the ordinary scenes’of life?
If we say, that they cannot, thc reality of its
happiness is not the les3 evident. The.
Greeks and the Romans considered contempt
ot pleasure, endurance of pain, and neglect
of life, as eminent qualities of a man, and a
principal subject of discipline. They trus
ted, that the vigorous spirit would find worthy
object*, was to shake otl the meanness of a so*
licitousand timorous mind.
Mankind in general, have courted occa
sions to display their courage, and frequently,
in search ot admiration, have presented a spec
tacle, which to those who have erased to re
gard fortitude on its own account, becomes a
subject of horror. Scevola held his arm in
thc fire, to shake the soul ofPorsenna. The
savage inures his body to the torture, thatin
the hour of trial he may exult over hisenemy.
Even the Mussulman tears his flesh to win
thc heart of his mistress, and comes in gaiety
streamiugwith blood, to shew that deserves
her esteem.
Some nations carry the practice of inflict
ing, or of sporting with pain, to a degree that
is either cruel or absurd; others regard eve
ry prospect of bodily suffering as the greatest
ol evils; and in the midst of their troubles,
< mb Uteri every real affliction, with thc terrors
of a feeble and fejeetvd imagination. We!
arc not bound to answer for tho follies of ei
ther, nor, in treating a question which relates 1
to thc nature of man, make an estimate of its’
strength or its weakness, from the habits or
apprehensions peculiar to any nation or age.
Arrived. —Helen Mar, P. If. Yonge & Son*-
with groceries anti dry goods to sundries.
Sophronia, Hi shop, with groceries.
Departed —The Telfair, with 100 bales cotton
for Darien.
I bit ter, 120 hales, Sophronia with cotton.
ITUVO elegant Mahogany SIDE BOARDS—
A this day received, and for sale by
July 1 ' 22 COOKE y COWLES.
i'ritlay, July l, IMItJ.
No paper will be issued from this Office on
Tuesday next. The Nation’ Sabbath is at hand,
and our printers must partake of the “Feast of
Reason and flow of Soul.” Ample remuneration
will he made out subscriber, for the borrow of
one of our days of publication.
In this paper we have to perform a half willing,
! and half reluctant duty, in the publication of the
lengthy reply of Dr. Danieix, to Judge Wayne.
Our readers must Lear with such things. Whilst
wc exclude from tljem a variety of matter, which
tho advertisement drives out of our columns, yet
the only atoning reflection, is, that whilst the par
ties seek a defence of themselves, we have re
ceived r a fat job, and shall he enabled to pocket
some of the rino.
MR. LUMPKIN.
Tite-case of Mr. Forsyth, who, when Governor
of Georgia, was elected to the Senate cf the U.
States, is quoted with an air of triumph, for the
purpose of notifying Mr. Lumpkin in withhold
ing his resignation as a member of the House of
[ Representatives in the same body. Rut thecases
' Ere by no means parallel. In the case of Mr.
rorsyth, there was no necessity to run the State
to a needless expense, or to create an unnecessa
' ry excitement, by a premature agitation of the
public mind. There was ample time-to elect ms
successor by the regular mode pointed out by the
Constitutior.; and if there had not been, the same
Instrument provides a remedy in the person of
the President of the Senate. So, in no event, it
will be perceived, could the State sustain an in
jury by transferring her Executive officer to the
Councils of the Nation.
But the same argument will not hold good in
the case of Mr. Lumpkin. He comes from Con
gress as a candidate for the Gubernatorial Chair,
and owing to the periodical arrangements of our
elections, it will become necessary in the event of
a successful canvass on his part, to proclaim, un
necessarily, an extraordinary election at an unu
sual and unconstitutional period. This would
occasion a wasteful gratuitous expense of many
thousand dollars to the State, and of as many
more to the independent voters of the State. Let
them think of this.
If Mr. Lumpkin is unambitious of office—ifhe
has the quiet and interest of the State and of the
people at heart—it appears to us, that he should,
under the circumstances as stated, have simulta
neously announced hi.i resignation of his seat as a
member of Congress, with the declaration of can
didacy for the office of Governor of the State of
Georgia. But he has failed to do so—and in
failing to do so, has subjected his conduct to con
st ructions by no means creditable to an honest
politician. Acting upon the trite and vulgar, yet
no less true axiom, when properly applied, that
“a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush,”
Mr. L. knows that he is safe in office, come what
will. — If, (he reasons,) I can't get elected Gover
nor, why, I have the consolation of knowing that
my seat in Congress remains unvacated, and I cun
go Lack and occupy it, and enjoy my per dam com
pensation 1 * —And is this not ambition? Does it
not evidence an inordinate, grasping, and monop
olising spirit, which cannot be satisfied unless
glutted w ith the “loaves and fishes ?” We pause
for a reply.
It now seems, that notwithstanding all that has
been said to the contrary, the lion. Hugh L.
White, of Tennessee has consented to accept the
War Department. The Warrenton (Va.) Ga
zette vouches for it. And the Globe, (Govern
ment official) announces, that Maj. Eaton has
ceased to act as Secretary of War, and that Dr.
Randolph, chief clerk in tho War Office, is now
discharging the duties of Secretary of that De
partment.
The Charleston Courier of tho 27th ult. says,
that the ship Robin Hood, arrived at that
pert on the 25th ult. with 9691 bars of lrou for
the Road Company, which now has under their
control a sufficient quantity to complete 100 miles
of the road between Charleston and Hamburg.
1 he approacliing anniversary of our National
Independence vn!l be celebrated on Monday
the 4th July. Arrangements have made by the
Committee, for a public Dinner to be furnished
by Messrs. Darragh & Townsend attiic Mansion
House, at which thc Hon. H. G. Lamar v. ill pre
side, assisted by N. C. Manroe, Esq, ue Vice
President.
The following m ill be the order of the Day.
1 he day will be announced by a Gun,
A federal salute as sunrise, at 10 o’clock the
( itizens and Military will assemble at the Man
sion house, and at 11 thc procession will be form
ed in the following order;
The Macon Volunteers.
The Reverend Clergy
Orator and Reader.
Judges, Superior and Inferior Courts.
The several Committees and Citizens,
And will then proceed to the Methodist
Church, where a petition will be offered by thc
Rev. Mr. llolt; the Declaration of Independence
read by Washington Poe, Esq. and an Oration
delivered by Mr. John Lamar. The soldiers of
the Revolution are cordially invited and the citi
zens of the County solicited to unite in the cele
bration. By order of the Committee.
O' Tickets for sale at the Mansion House and
at Levi Eckley’s Store,
T. P. BOND, Marshall.
The dismissal, removal, resignation, or other
wise, of Mr. Bew!ien, from the cfkoe of Attor
ney General, is established. The office, has, we
learn, been tendered to Mr. Dallas of Philadelphia;
and declining, the National Intelligencer, states,
that it has been offered to Mr. R. B, Tavey, of
Baltimore.
The last mail has brought us the Ist and 2d
Nrs. ot the Southern Chronicle, a neat weekly ;
sheet issued in Charleston, S. C. by James T. i
Blain & Henry Goldsmith ; it Carrie's a RGpub- 1
lican face, if we were to judge both from its mot
to—“Be love our people well—even those who arc
misled and from a remark in the editorial sa
lutatory, which says—“We go for the rights of
the South—for the maintenance of Jeffersonian
principles, and for the perpetuity of tire union,
while the constitution remains unprofaned, and
the rights of the people are held inviolate.”
INGHAM AND EATON.
The correspondence between thosa gentlemen
is of the most delicate nature, and should not have
found its way to the public eye. The conduct of
Mr. Ingham in the affair, we consider highly
censurable. He has unnecessarily outraged
the feelings of Gen. Eaton, and merits, what he
ought to receive, a signal punishment.
That arch hypocrite, the Editor of the tJ. S.
Telegraph, calls the stand which Gen. Eaton, has
occupied in defence of his insulted honors, “an at
tack upon thc liberty of the press.''" —What! is it an
attack npon the liberty cf thc Press, for a man to de
fend the reputation of his wife? If it is, woe, woe,
to the morals, the happiness, the security of socie
ty. We blush for the honor and dignity of the
American Press, that there can be found one
anjong us, one who would attempt to shield his
unmanly conduct by such a pitiful and disgusting
subterfuge. .
MR. EATON To MR. INGHAM.
I'll IDA y NIGHT, 17/A June, 1831.
Sm : I have studied to disregard the a
busive slanders which have arisen - throng!?
so debased a source as the columns of thc l. j
S. Tel. graph. 1 have been content to wait j
for thc full development of what lie had to 1
say, and until persons of responsible cliarac- ■
ter should oe brought forth to endorse bis
vile abuse of me and of my family. In that
paper of this evening is contained the follow- |
ing rdhark of my wife : * “It is proven that
the Secretaries of the Treasury, and of tho i
Navy, and of the Attorney General, refused j
to associate with her.”* Tnis publication
appears in a paper which professes to be j
friendly to you, and is brought forth under
your immediate eye. - I desire to know of
you, whether or not you sanction or will dis-!
avow it. Thc relation we have sustained to- i
wards each other authorizes me to demand an
immediate answer.
Very respectfully,
• J. 11. EATON.
S. D. Ixcham, Esq.
*Tiiis is not fairly quoted. We said :
“It is proved that the families of the See
retaryof the Treasury, and of the Navy, and
of the Attorney General, refused to associ
ate with her.”— E,l. Tel .
REPLY.
Washington, 1 June, 1831.
Sia: I have not been able to ascertain,
from your note of last evening, whether it is
the publication referred to by you, or the fact
stated in the Telegraph, which you desire to
know whether l have sanctioned or will disa
vow. If it be the first you demand, it. is too
absurd to merit an answer. If it be the last,
you may find authority for the same fact in
a Philadelphia paper, about the first of April
last, which is deemed to bo quite as friendly
to you as the Telegraph may bo to me.—
When you have settled such accounts with
you particular friends, it will be time enough
to make demands of others. In the mean
time, I take the occasion to say, that you must
be not a little deranged to imagine that any
blustering of yours could induce mo to disa
vow w hat all the inhabitants of this city know,
and perhaps half the people of the United
States believe to be true.
lain, sir, respectfully yours,&c.
S. 1). INGHAM.
John 11. Eaton*, Esq.
MR. EATON TO .MR. INGHAM.
18tA June, 1831.
Sin: I have received your letter of to-day,
and regret to find that to a frank and candid
inquiry brought before you, an answer impu
dent and insolent is returned. To injury un
provoked, you arc please to add insult.—
What is the remedy ? It is to indulge the
expectation that, though a inau may be mean
enough to slander, or base enough to encour
age it, he yet may have bravery sufficient to
repair the wrong. In that spirit I demand of
you satisfaction for thc wrong and injury
you done me. Your answer must determine
whether you are so far entitled to the name
and character of a gentleman as to be able to
act like one.
Very respectfully, ,
J. 11. EATON.
D. Ingham, Esq.
REPLY.
Washington, 2(pA June, 1931.
Sin : Your note of Saturday, purporting to
!'e a demand of satisfaction for injury done to
Vouwas received on that day; company pre
vented me from sending you an immediate
answer. Yesterday morning, your brother
in-law, Dr. Randolph, intruded himself into
my room, with a threat of personal violence.
I peifectly understand the part you are made
to play in the farce now acting before the A
merican people. I am not to be intimidated
by threats, or provoked by abuse, to any act
inconsistent with the pity and contempt which
your condition and conduct inspire.
Yours, sir, respectfully,
S. D. INGHAM.
John 11. Eaton, Esq.
MR- EATON TO .MR. INGHAM.
June, 1831.
Sir : 'i our note of this morning is received-
It proves to me that you are quite brave e
nough to do a mean action, but too gn at a
coward to repair it. Your contempt I heed
not; your pity i despise. It is such contempt
ible fellows as yourself that have set forth ru
mors of their own creation,and taken them as
a ground of imputation against me. If that
be good cause then should you have pity of
yourself, foryour wife has not escaped them,
and you must know it. But no more : here
our correspondence closes. Nothing more
will'be received short of an acceptance of my
demand of Saturday, and nothing more be said
by me until face to face we meet. It is not
my nature to brook jour insults, nor will they
be submitted to.
J. 11. EATON.
S. D. Ingham, Esq.
The very extraordinary correspondence be
tween the Ex-Secretaries of War and of the
Treasury, which will be found in another col
unin, appeals to have prodneed, as it was well
calculated to do, a singular state of things at
Washington.
Immediately after the threatened personal
attack upon Mr. lngham, by Major Eaton, the
former ceased to act as Secretary of the Treas
ury, and was to have left the city on the 22d
inst. tor his residence in Pennsylvania. The
Intelligencer of that date says:—“The city is
full of rumors of strange occurrences; but
they have not assumed a scope sufficiently
defined to authorize their introduction into
our columns.”
Upon (he above, thc Alexandria Gazette of
the 22d has thc following :
“ Wars and Rumours of Wars. —The Dis
trict is again full of “rumours of wars” be
tween the ex-members of the ex-Cabinet.—
Wc are acquainted with some o: the particu
lars, but choose to wait a while. Mr. Ea
ton is disposed to show fight—Mr. Ingham is
not belligerent. Perhaps Mr. Berrien’s met
; tie will be tried. Mr. Branch is toofar oIT,
or else he would be called uj>on to toe the
mark.
Comm unieat ions.
Rail Koart.
For the Macon Advertiser,
It has been objected againt the construe
j tion of rail-roads.in this State, that our staple
| artie'e, cotton, is so light that it will never
! afl'ord freight enough to pay a profit on rail
road stock. If this be so, I readily admit
1 that the question is at an end. For it would
j be folly in any people to construct a rail-road
if, when done, there should be nothing to be'
carried on it but articles, so light, that there
j weight should bear a very small proportion
,to their value. Nothing can be plainer than
| that no rail-ioad is wanting, or ever will be
1 wanting to convey out of the country, silk,
j spices, gold dust,nor any other article that can
j be 1 carried as well or nearly as well without
! it. It might be admitted that there is not now
i a sufficient weight of staple exported to justi
fy a rail road, and still an obvious answer
might he found to the objection in the well
known fact, that freight and travelling in
crease with the facilities of transportation*
The Runkcrhill Monument is to be built of
of granite brought from Quincy, 1 think from
12 to 20 mil< s distant, large edifices arc now
in progress in Troy, the Marble and granite
for which comes from 100 to 150 miles dis
tant up the Hudson and down the canal. Ten
years ago, probably not more than 200 persons
left New York daily tor Albany where it re
quired several days for the journey. Now,
the trip is preformed in 12 hours; and at least
2000 persons make it daily, and to take an in
stance on the spot; lam told that the present
daily stapes are as well or nearly as well fill
ed as the former tri-weekly stages were. ’File
trutlris, there is no department in the whold
frame of political or social economy in which
it is so difficult for the supply to transcend the
demand as in this. The supply of cheap,
safe and (xpeditious conveyance, ever has,
and ever will, create a demand for itself. Peo
ple will travel, who never before thought of
travelling; and they will transport articles
which they never before thought of transpor
ting if it can be done quickly, cheaply, and
I safely. My own opinion is that if a safe tran
sit hence to Savannah in twenty-four hours
I should be substituted for the present hazard
! ous one of 18 to 21 day’s, the freight and trav
elling would from that alone be doubled. I
would however on this subject; where so
much is at stake place no dependence or con
jecture, however probable, lest we might be
met by countervailing causes that we now
know nothing of. In order to be perfectly
safe, I-would bottom my cafculaffbns not on
any expected increase of custom; but on
that which already exists, in this we cannot
be deceive and. The true question then on this,
perhaps the only safe basis is, not what routes
in Georgia would probably after a time draw
to themselves such an amount of business as
would render them ultimately profitable ; but
what routes have now on them so much freight
as to be immediately so, there maybe several
such in Georgia, but that from Maoon to Sa
vannah is certainly of that discriptimi.
A rail road on that route, supposing it to
cost as much per mile a* that from Charleston
to Hamburg would amount to about 8900,00<f
or, to have the estimate surely large, enough,
let us say a million of dollars. The ship
ments of cottoq have been for several yeafs
gradually increasing in quantity; this amount
ed during the last season to something up.
wards of 60,000 bales, the freight ami insu
rance on which to Savannah tnav be averaged
at 81 75 per bale, suppose them to be carried
on thc rail road at 1,25 per bale, the down
freight is 875,000
The up freight of the salt, iron,
groceries and otherarticles brou’t
up, is doubtless much heavier
than the cotton carried down,but
put it down at thc same 875,000
8150,000
This, after allowing 850,000 for contingent
expenses affords an interest of ten per cent on
the investment supposing the roSd to go into
operation to-morrow. Without taking into
thc calculation or allowing any thing for that
self-creating power of improvements of this
nature, which every where else has been
found to be so great, or even for the natural
ly increasing growth of cotton in the new
country above us, which lias been lately, 8 or
10,000 bags per annum, and which must have
an outlet whether there is a rail road or not.
TRANSIT.
For the Macon Advertiser*
On the late desolating Fire at Fayetteville, N. C.
The air was redolent with balm,
And earth enjoyed a hoi}' calm,
The signet of the great I AM
Has marked tho day for piety.
It was the day of peaceful rest,
And man from terrene toll released,
Had laid the secrets of his breast;
That morn before his Diely.
Thc sun o'er freedom's fair domain,
Had reached his alt, meridian,
And shed upon his votive train,
llis effulgence joyously.
But other light than his, was socu v
To lend its lustre to that .noon ;
And flash correscant, round the boon
Of Freedom, most inscrutably.
Tints, he who guides the rolling year
Whose will directs each lucid sphere,
Doth in his own wise way prepare,
Our spirits for Eternity.
V '• * * • 9
That shout! his Father, it comes nigher!
Bounds from his seat., the aged sire—
iS peed ye my sons—that Towns on fire
Away—’tis gaining fearfully.
ITurrah—they spring with arrowy speed,
“The word hath scarce outstripp’d the deed;”'
Eaeli generous stranger cheers his steed,
To mitigate thy destiny.
Then might you see the patriot dame.
And beauteous maiden, mid the stream,
And fearless man, wield axe and beam,
With Herculean energy.
In vain, ye noble hearts—in vain
Ye burst the har, and wrench the chain
Yon.torrid flood that swells amain,
Mocks your bold philanthropy.
That massive barrier,.rent in haste,
And yell-like demons of the waste .
Or Vampyres o’er his charnell’d feast,
Proclaimt and your ruthless enemy.
Ri-ligiotip’s shrine, and “home so sweet,”
Judicial llall —fatigue’s retreat;
Marts, chattels, wealth, and learning’s seat.
Are 'merg’d in sad catastrophe.
Thou who didst wear the honored name
Of him, the laured’d son of fame,
Sure the volcanic power of flame
Hath inar’d thy features terribly.
Yet, “fear not, doubt not” Fayetteville,
Thy God who aulstened thee, can still
Thy prystine comforts ; at his will,
Restore; through human agency.
Yes, thou wilt find thro’ freedom’s land
Thc feling heart , and friendly hand,
Earth, holds not such another band,
For deeds of Christianity. R.
For the Ax'ncon Advertiser.
I knew a lovely girl— it least I thought—
(An and now it seems to me that I am sinning
If I go any farther, and I ought,
After a blunder at the first beginning,
I’o rnaks what I have written go for nought,
And so begin, again ; —but here I’m spinning
A long yarn, as the sailors sfy, for what
Some may think needs exc(ise,-ond others not A
At least I thouht she was lovely when
I first became acquainted w ith her, and
In aftery ears, when I had mixed w ith men
And women, and was made to understand
The trick and knavery of this world, why then
That girl could still at any time command
From me that adulation which wms given,
To one I called a visitor from Heaven.
I’ve often wandered w ith her where the Graces
As well as muses might have liflld convention!;.
The hills, the valleys, and “all sorts’’ of places.
Which means more places titan the writer-men
tions— _
Because if in relating one prefaces
To a great length—tho’ with the best intentions,
Ilis readers grow fatiguod and not a particle
They’ll read—after the preface— of his article.
And I have talked of love and every matter —
Which one might think would furnish food for
talking,
And I would tell her, (and it was) that her
Step was the Antelopes, and walking
She did display a form that (“not to flatter”)
Praxitiles might unship—that the mocking
Bird’s her voice was like—in short she was
divine
Almost, and so of course I wished that sho was
mine.
The spell at last was broken, and I found
My lady-love was not what site had bcofl
“ Crack’d up to be,” (those words. FkuoW dent
sound }
Quite urbane, but whereono is “taken in”
As I was, 1 dqnt think itw ill tedifnnd
To one’s discredit much or be a Sin
Gf magnitude for one to say just what he pleases,
And here this prolix way to toll my story cease?.’
I do not now remember the occasion
For memory will not dwell upon the theme,
But 1 had drank lief health in a libution,
And “ hoped in me it would not rudeiy seem
To ask one in return’s—by my persuasion
She gave consent “but first” says she “ 1 deem
It prudent here to say that if’tis handy
I would prefer to w ine, a glass of Brandy
LOTHARIO,