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fl . , iU , > ,tj I-ri.j.ir Gen. Jack.*
v j j or.fi r to connect
ft 'fs'aSiv i' of the street and
■ V movem-T? over witness-;
ft ■ ' lrtu 11 ‘:v, When the ground was
’ft::itli- co:i ; ' V tint the Auniver
ric-' Independence, suould be
■ryot t |j,. !a .ui party, in a eel*,
■juini-'K'-'’/" ’ t [j o members ot the tree
Party v nmwt-j
■’r.ul-’ - ;1 ‘•, ~ i patriotic ioclinga of
ft 1“ !'’ IheutU™ revolted at a
ft 3 - 'I, which manifestly convoyed a
■ro:fiC Jin -' -it,.d imputation against
ft arfha ;'Se voacats, and winch no one
■hc.rpoo..- • '•* .Rubied to engender
VeVonsequaners .of which no
■nun.win; ll;l!au vcd. Though
■ trio!c .■t! s pr( :ding, the State
m< ‘ ! 7 .V • thirtv stifled as much
Session of their feeling?,
ft C:;-Vdi.V spirit Of peace to cole*
ft. ifr.lav by themselves, men ly proclaim-
with one voice taeir unaljcr
fcjt- their perfect fi
ft' ! .:.. : c. -.ml t-oir entire de
ft C ! 'l/tR' Union. They did hone that
B°.cheoiduct 'i their part and especially tins
KV' .’•’•’ration-of their tiue sentiments
ft a them from any further
ft V 0 'i'ncv had indeed been accus
to listen to the denunciations of
H?Mv.rt!-a''.iinst whose fatal policy their ef-
and so faithfully been .It
they ha 1 seen themselves do*
■ )l jiic'd m certain presses as “the Disunion
■V >• Conscious however of the integrity ■
BnftVir principles and the entire di.sinterest-
E,| mil patriotism of all their views, they
■Lvc tr such attacks with the scorn and
ftmtH-mr which they merited. ’J'hcy can*
Brat hut regard however the late invitation to
|; p r s j Cat, taken in connexion with his re-
Bn v (coming as the invitation does, from a
Bri'spocUhte’aiul responsible sou re; ) as enti-
B- Jo a (li’T rent treatment at our hands—
■&,. character of the proccedini. r, and the
Bshole tone and temper of the correspondence
Bmnifcstly imputes to the State Rights and
Bpreo Trad'' nirfv of Charleston, a settled has-
Bn7t7 to the Union, and a determined purpose
B f s briii? about, not a r-dr.'ss of our grievan-
B hat a dissolution of the confederacy, and
B ( eui'-al Jackson, as the executive magistrate
Bef the United States is given to understand
■ tint such arc our views, but tnat there is a
■ p ; tv r.r.r sas u-ho are real!y attached to the
■ f vitoti and determined to preserve it, and he
■is in effect invited to come and Unite with
I them iii putting us down. It’ this bo not the
IrriiC-imrrj'r t.'ifioii nf this [.recording, i‘ is
I f;>os! manifest that if is that which has been
I put upon it, by Gen. Jackson himself who, in
I allusion to the “civil ccr.vrlcienJ” with which
| c is told thiscoiomunity is threatened strong
-I,’ deprecates “a separation” of the States—
[and at the same time lie Ids out as “an ir.sur
-1 mountable barrier to any plan oidisorganiza-
I t'.oi i,” the r-xer'ioa of the. executive power of
the Union.
“We have looked in vain in the records of
party for a parallel to this extraordinary pro
ceeding. A midst the most violent political
struggles which have heretofore taken place
in Soufh-Carolina we believe no precedent is
to be found for an attempt on the part of ei-
Slitr of the-contending parties to hold up to
the worl 1 tk ir own brethren, <isdisorganizcrs
nd disunionists much less to invite the co
operation ni the national executive to put i
them down. But we trust that those who
ff ••, 11 tt the Suite Rights party are to be j
in smallest degree influenced in their ■
f •. ortltc State of South Carolina to uc ]
4 ‘ train file prosecution of what she
r 'i v vefohe In r constitutional rights |
£ - -nr those, have grossly mistaken j
r ?'■rolina spirit, which even when
1 -ft. c un ! r a sense of injury, may be
* by kindness and forcbearance,
: ‘- v r nedriven from its honest, pur
;: ‘ice or menace. We depre
d ig the more, because noth-
R'ly tend more directly to give
- iiiait to the supporters of the Amer
\;sta::, and to call into action those
■ -igs which may put an end to all hope of
'fora? ami make reconciliation impossible.
J ,s ' H ‘b ,e most unfeigned regret that the
• i.v nights and Free Trade Party find in
n ‘ reply to the invitation of the
Unoti I arty, evidence of the partial success
efforts winch have been made to infuse
! D, ° 1 ’ la -nd distrust and suspicion as to our
*’UC motives, principles ami objects. We
1 lllo * nut regret that Gen. Jackson did not
’ acknowledged “private worth, and
,:rr. °j ur c ' (his own long tried,
’ r j votc d friends and supporters) con
' 7 e <n -donee that “the sentiments incon-
S-K, ■ aa attach,neiit Q the Union,”
p 1 informs usf'huve been ascribed to
.j m!J st have been falsely “ascribed
l ‘ n ‘ . Arid regret still mere that he
. o‘fen that credence to which it was
c c | entitled, the solemn and unanim*
ecclaration recently made at a public
n t jr 1I . 1 ” 01 ti*eState Rights Party in this city,
i 10 preserve, .inviolate the Union of the
to the principles, cf the
utm' u-° !1 ’ ' s ° ur !acrec l a od imperishable
„ r J"7 O s ‘ not stop to make further
T f OI } sof to the Union.
conV. b K n conclusiv ely shewn in our past
1.. 77’ a ‘ s , l ap hy that forbearance which
err !y S | >Utl| P l, . ro, i na * ( lc,losc P rinr! P lcs
tiswp-i, , ° r<:^;uri lor ten years from the
#„* , n '! °‘ * ,f ' r sovereign rights, in reference
w 'hic!rlu*r Legislature, sever
pj alnc e, solemnly denounced “as utter-'
grossly unequal and op
-1., p :-' ;p ‘ ar 1 1 ' 1 KUC h a n abuse of power as is
•ii;aiibio with the principles of a free
et • t' lo great ends of civil soci
, J 1,0 State Right.Tnnd Free Trade Par
ffo,*.. 0 a .’ 1 * o * ,s bow adequately to express their
om '' Sll, ‘ le,lt the course pursued by their
j; 1 ,,. J'',, U '? °" !,eci:lll y Vhen they call to mind
cii’iv'■' * j l ‘ ,r "rounds which wcnowoc
wi(h l*h f r '° n l ° 0111 controversy
l , , l , ’? ,,r,,l . Govorn ' non ti aro tlie ver x
taken i" , tKIV(! “ ocn over and over again
on p 1-V t,l! ’ ta,( '> u '*h tiie almost unanim
be,,t l ', i . rrencc °f all her citizens, (kin it
!,. 11 ■' * :, at o,vr opponents remember the
v 7 ’S" ’j 1 ( ’ lr Prate it adopted by both
,J, ' # ' ' n ” ? m 1823 f or the
AGRICULTURAL AND MERCANTILE INTELLIGENCER.
lit,solutions p t-ted in the same year by the
Senate by a vote of flti to 6? (Jr do they mean
to and. .mince as treasonable the recorded s°ii
ti,ne.ita of South Carolina ? Lost these tiling
in*}' ] ‘ avc been forgotten, wo will here quote
a portion of the proceedings referred to, and
leave it to the: world to decide who are most
unmindful of the obligations of patriotism,
those who ir.antained these sentiments in’
L IS-m, arid now denounce us for continuing to
sepport them, or those who ri-t'use to abandon
the big grounds so publicly and solemly as
sumed by (he State herself.' In the proceed
ings of the Legislature in December 1823
(in reference to the American system) we j
hate the following solemn declarations; “that!
this Legislature are only restrained from the'
assertion of the sovereign incurs op the I
state (which they declare to be purely a j
question of expediency, and not of allegiance,) !
“in the hope of the abandonment of a svs
tern, partial in its nature, unju.st in its opera- j
i ’ion. and not within the powers, delegated to !
i Congress.” And further, “that as' South
, Carolina from her climate, situation and pe
culiar institutions not only is, but must con
| tinue to be, wholly dependent upon agricul-j
tore and commerce, not only for the prosperi- '
ty, blither very existence, if l,y the loss of i
her foreign commerce her products should be i
confined to inadequate markets, the fate .of
this once fertile State would be poverty and
utter desolation .” And that, “Impressed
with these considerations, they feci it to be
their kounden duty to expose and resist all
encroachments on the true spirit of the Con
stitutioii.”
“In the proceeding of the Senate to which
we have above referred, (and which passed
the House by a majority of six to one,) it is
among other things stated, that “to use and
exercise powers not delegated by the consti
tution, or tp extend the verbal meaning of
i the expressions of that instrument, so as to
include, by ingenious implication, powers not
meant to be conceded by the States, who
met in confederation, is on the part of the
general government usurpation ; to act upon
powers thus assumed, and to compel obedi
ence to them, is tyranny: to permit such usur
pations without remonstrance, and if need be,
resistance, is to betray the right of the peo
ple; to change a confederated into'a consoli
dated government; to sanction tyranny, bqth
in principle and in practice; and to deliver
our citizens and their property, bound hand
and foot, to a despotism whose existence and
character was never contemplated &c.
“ That , “the several .States, South Carolina
among the rest, have also their own distinct,
reserved , nndelegated rights, which it is eqal
ly their bounden duty to u-atch over and pro
tect from all encroachment; and this duty the
State (of South Carolina) will not neglect,
but, on ail occasions, if need be, will, faithful
ly to the utmost, and at all hazards, perform.'"
“That “the system, of years, intro
duced among us, termed the American Sys
tem, including the right of protecting Domes
tic Manufactures, bv taxes imposed upon the
consumer, (not for the public necessities, or
the public good, but to foster and protect one
f lvort and class of citizens at the expense of all
the rest) including the whole plan of internal
improvements, by means, of roads and canals,
by which certain States are benefitted at the
xpensc of the common Treasury is. a system,
not only partial, unjust and oppressive, but is
entirely os a whole, and in all its parts a
| gross and inexcusable usurpation on the part
iof the General Government. This American
j System has been gradually imposed upon the
' Union by means and measures unjust anu un
! authorized. It admits of no defence on eon
! stitutional principles. The powers claimed,
j and connected with it, are no where clearly
ito be found in that Constitution. It erects
the manufacturing States into a favored Aris
tocracy. It degrades and depresses the char
acter, the industry and the prosperity of eve
ry agricultural State. It imposes burthens,
for which the South receives no equivalent.
It renders us, in fact, tributaries and labor
ers for the benefit of the manufacturing States.
Against this state of things, South Carolina
has repeatedly remonstrated in vain. She has
been contemned in her sovereign capacity;
her rights have been trampled upon ; her re
monstrances lie neglected on the table -of
Congress; her oppressions have been almost
yearly increased; and no system of redress
has been held out to her hopes or her entrea
ties.’! And it was therefore Resolved t “That
the Acts of Congress for the protection of do
mestic manufactures, are unconstitutional, and
should be resisted; and the other States are
invited to co-operate with South Carolina in
the measure of resistance to the same.” &e.
“On these proceedings no further comment
is necessary than this, that the evils thuscom
plained of, still remain unredressed in every
particular, and yet to this day Soutli Carolina
lias done nothing to disturb the peace and
harmony of the Union. The State Rights
and Free Trade Party, have hitherto submit
ted with most exemplary patience and for
bearance to the grossest imputations upon
their patriotism, they have all along manifes-
ted a sincere desire to preserve the public
peace and to cultivate the most friendly re
lations, towards those who differ from tlisrp
in political opinion. They have not indulg
ed, and will not even now indulge any feel
ings of personal hostility towards their oppo
nents. They have not complained, and will
not complain of any fair and candid efforts to
point out what may be supposed to be their
errors of opinion, and if it can be shown that
their principles are false in themselves, or
calculated to produce the fatal consequences
attributed to them, they shall be ready and
willing to acknowledge their errors ; but they
are men, and claiming also to be patriots,
j will riot submit to be branded u s IJisunionists
j and Traitors.
Be it therefore Revolved, That the imputa
tion upon the. Plate Rights and Free Trade
I Party, of their entertaining any design against
the Union of these States, corne from what
quarter it may, is A RASE CALUJINi.
roanßfanMnnii
Plain Speaking. —ln an appeal case, a wit
ness was asked by Sir Edward Krtatchbull, to
relate what took place between him and his
master, which lie did as follows ; —“ l told
him ho was a liar.” Chairman—Very impro
per language. Witness—Can’t help that, I
come bore to speak the truth, and yon have
S- *‘n
VAttir.TY.
A Frenchman wishing to take for
IJutlalo; was asked by the driver if he had
any extra baggage. “Extra baggage 1 ! what
< all you d'at. I have no baggage but rny tree
trunks, five dogs, and von black girl.” '
A £fon tlcni.in mistook ft lady’s arm for her
waist, and in dancing a waltz seized the for
mer instead of the latter. Cut he got well
punished for so gross a blunder, for the lady
lrotn that day forth, never forgave him for
supposing her waist could possibly be as
j thick as her arm.
rr..
Tne wife of a sexton belonging to one of
the churches at \\ liitehaven, was lately in
terrupted in the middle of a harangue upon the
hardness of the tinns, by a person who oflfer
ied to sell her a couple of duck?. “Ducks !”
' ext I aimed she, “ how can 1 buy ducks or any
tiling else, we have not buried a living soul
these six weeks.”
I'jVidcncc of the senses. — A rough bov stole
I the glasses from his grandfather’s spectacles,
and when the old gentleman put them on,
finding lie could not see,he exclaimed, “mar
ey me. I’ve lost my sight ?” but thinking the
impediment to vision might be the dirtiness
ol the glasses, took them off to wipe them ;
w lien on feeling them, he, still more frighten
ed, cned out, “V. iiy, what’s come now, why
I have lost my feeling to ? -
Whiskers. —The Indians of Brazil and
Guiana adorn their faces with a fine orange
coloured plumage of the toucan. They cut
the skin from the breast of the bird,’and
when dry, glue it to their checks. Perhaps
it would be well for those luckless wights,
who think there is an irresistable charm in full
grown mustachios, to adopt the same plan, it
would shorten their “tarry at Jericho,” and
save the infinite amount of labor and vexation
attendant on the cultivation of whiskers.
An Irishman's Ft ly —An Irish soldier
passing through a country village, a large
m&stifl ran at L:m, and lie stabbed the dog
with a spear he had in bis hand. The own-,
cr of the dog carried the soldier before a jus
tice of the peace, who asked him why he did
not rat in r strike the dog with the but-eiul of
his weapon ? “And so I should, an’ phase
your honor, had the baste ran ct me wuh his
tail."
smaaiy.
Tuesday, July 56, 1831.
(gj Thp apqual conference of the Methodist Prot
estant Church will be held at the old Camp
Crouud, near Marion, Twiggs County, commen
cing on Thursday next.
PROFOEfcID KAIL jftOAD SIEETTNG.
The certain practicability of rail-roses has been
sufficiently ascertained; and their immense im
portance in the transportation of produce is ack
nowledged. It appears that conceit and promptv
t ude of action now alone are wanting to insure the
accomplishment of the great object. The citi
zens of llibb and gentlemen from any other coun
ties that may he here, or may find it convenient to
attend, are invited to convene at the Court house
in this place at 10 o'clock in the torenoon of Sat
urday the 13th of next month to deliberate on the
subject. II G. LAMAR,
C. H. PRINCE,
C. B. STRONG,
c. j. McDonald.
Macon July, 22d, 1831.
(yj* “ Querist,” in the last Mcssangor, is re
spectfully informed that he shall receive due at
tention from us it he appears under his proper sig
nature. W e will not give any adversary ofour‘3,
the advantage of an ambuscade. If Querist was
as logical as he is financial, he would know that
it is not incumbent upon us to prove a negative. It
is his duty to disprove our assertions. Ilia false
and illiberal inuendoes are beneath our notice.
The editor of the Advertiser would have re
plied in to-day‘s paper to the article which ap
peared in the last Messenger, signed S. Rose, if
considerations had not been submitted to counter
act a reply. Mr. Rose being from town, we do
not wish to avail ourself of his absence, but shall
await his return, when we will make it ouj busi
ness to pay our respects to him.
tfj' We published in our last a part of the Re
monstrance of the Free Trade and State Rights
Party of Charleston S. C. against the charges
made upon it by the U nion Party, of the same city,
which was all of the Remonstrance received
at that time. As it is a subject ofstirring interest,
we have thought that our readers would like to
see it entire, and we have accordingly this evening
laid the whole of it before them.
RAIL ROAD CONVENTION'.
The enterprising gentlemen to whom the “Cir
cular” of the Eatonton Committee was address
ed, have broken ground on this interesting sub
ject with a promptitude which does them much
credit. As we have not the least doubt that the
projected meeting of the 13th proximo, will de
cide upon the propriety and necessity of sending
delegates to the Convention, we beg leave to sub
mit toYmr fellow citizens the names of
OLIVER 11. PRINCE, Esq. and
The lion. 11. G. LAMAR,
as gentlemen eminently qualified to represent on
that important occasion, not only the interests of
Macon, but the general Interests' of tire State.—
Each of those gentleman, particularly the for
mer, have by a well matured study, njado them
selves intimately acquainted with the system of
Rail Roads, and will no doubt make dllcient aux
iliaries in bringing to a speedy • consummation
the contemplated enterprise.
TOWN AND COUNTRY.
It is now the season of the year when the rrlflx
| ing and fervent heat of Summer, ami the dull,
I smokev, streets of the Town, drives the
j fashionable lounger, the man of business, the lan
guishing invalid, and even the haggard debau
chee, worn down by midnight carousals, to woo
the sylvan retreats of the Country, aud enjoy its
balmy atmosphere, and its Calm and quiet pleas
ures. Even the Dandy, and Dandizctte, forget
for a while the meretricious ornaments cf the tci
lefie, and the vapkl and unmeaning coiiqxliments
of silly admirers, and sigh for that relaxation and
retirement w hich exhausted nature requires. The
blue Stocking too, is carried away in her rosy
dreams to Pierian Springs, Arcadian Groves, and
founts cd Amnjon. There, she hears the clear
whistle of the patridge, as he promenades his
fields of golden grain-w-there'she drinks in the
deep moaning of the turtle dove, as its plaintive
notes are heard through the piney forest— and
there, too, she listens with melancholy pleasure
to the vesper and matin hymns of the poor wailing
,\\ hi.p-poor-\V ill. Thus, led by fancy, pleasure,
or health, a gay, grave, and miscellaneous assem
blage are now rushing to the country —some to
watering places, and others to more secluded re
treats.
In her Mineral Springs, Nature has been pe
culiarly bountitul. to us. There are three within
a short distance of Mae-on, —the Indian, Springs
•10 miles—the Spring Hill Springs, 22 miles—and
the Montpelier Springs, 10 miles: the waters.cf
each have been analyzed, and are said by scien.-v
tific gentlemen to possess valuable medicinal
qualities. In addition to the Springs, there are
several private Retreats, still nearer Macon, where
pure water, wholesome food, and. a salubrious at,
mosphere, are ready to greet such as are fond of
less promiscuous and more retired situations.
We should like to see our Mineral Springs and
Country Retreats more patronised than they are.
For all the purposes of health and rational recre
ation, they are not to be tixeellcd even by those
splendid watering places, the Balston and Sarato
ga. These Springs, certainly present a more
brilliant, luxurious, and seductive appearance
than ours—and fashionable Folly with all her
winning blandishments, presiding over the scene,
waves a more magic and potent wand than is
flourished ateur comparatively rude, but yet beau
tiful and picturesque retreats, where the Hygeian
goddess sports free and unconfmcd as the pure and
buoyant atmosphere in which she breathes.—
There is also a social and patriotic incentive for
us to foster our ovvu establishments in preference
to others, particularly when we can derive the
saint benefit from them. It would concentrate
more closely the social relations of our State,
and by bringing our citizens in immediate con
tact, make them bettor acquainted with each oth
er, and form end strengthen attachments which
ccuhl not otherwise have existed. In addition
to this, the fund which we appropriate for
out Summer expenditure, whether in pursuit r f
ease or health, would remain among us, and add
to, instead cf subtracting from, the general
wealth of our community. We would thus, by a
proper attention fo our own institutions, not only
augment our pecuniary resources, but at the same
time improve and embellish all cur social virtues.
ANTI TARIFF CONVENTION.
Totlie disjointed exertions of the South and
West, and of such p< int3 c f the North and East,
as are opposed to the onerous and oppressive im
posi lions of the present 'i arilT, may be attributed
their failure in successfully combatting their
adversaries, and correcting the abuses of that
abominable policy. While we have been Littering
away our strength in detached affairs of uncon
nected out-posts, and discharging mere signal
rockets of alarm, the enemy have been bearing
clown upon us in solid columns, and by an ingeni
ous plan of concerted operations, have defeated
us in every field, and carried all triumphantly be-
fore them. Let us then concentrate our forces,
and meet thorn foot to foot, and face to face. And
we cannot more effectually do this, than by rally
ing around the Convention which is called to meet
in Philadelphia cn the 30th September next.
It behoves us then to lie on the alert, and prompt
ly to enter into such arrangements, as will not
leave us unrepresented in a convention, where all
our talent and influence should be put in requisi
tion to redeem those privileges which a misguid
ed policy has wrested from us.
We therefore respectfully suggest that immedi
ate meetings he held in every county throughout
the State, for the purpose of nominating and elect
ing the same number of Delegates to the Conven
tion, as constitute our representation in Congress.
If any better suggestion can be made. We will
with pleasure yield to it. But, as the period
of the Convention is rapidly approaching, we
have no time to lose. Let then our leading men
immediately proceed to business—for useless de
lay and idle debate might withhold our influence
from the Convention, and thereby substract from
the efficiency ofits operations, by the loss of our
Representative aid.
FOREIGN.
An arrival at New York from Havre, brings ad
vices a little later than our former dates. The la
test is from Warsaw, May 16th, which informs
that an affair between the Poles and Russians, in
which Field Marshal Ricbitsch, was engaged,
had taken place cn the 13th, near Jendrzejow,
the official report of which had not arrived, and
notliingof its result then known. Sine* this en
gagement, the Warsaw Courier says, that the
movements of the two armies announced a gene
ral battle. We may therefore look for bloody
work, if the next arrival should briug us later
dates. Vive la Poland !
In addition to the above, the only article of in
terest is a circular from the National government
of Poland, which represents the Russians as hav
ing committed the most atrocious cruelties, in the
revolutionary provinces of Lithuania and Augus
towa. The Circular concludes by saying that sev
eral officers and citizens who had unfortunately
fallen into the hands of the Russians, Were shot
on the spot —and that a Major Schon, whose chi
valric conduct had decorated him with the Mili
tary Cross of Poland,and the Cross of the Legion
of Honor, was, after being severely wounded and
taken prisoner, loaded with chains, exposed to
public insult, and hanged immediately after
wards.
MASONRY,
The annexed article is extracted from the
Montpelier Vermont Watchman. Wu should
have noticed it before, and entered our protest a
gainst the base subserviency which it inculcates,
had it mot out eye at an earlier period.
At any crisis but more particularly the present,
v:e deeply regret that there could V- tutye i a fda-
| son, so Insensible to the principles of the Craft,
and to the honor of the “sinoturt fraternity,'’ as to
recommend its dissolution. We objeet to the
measure at the present time, because it would be
construed, by the persecuting Crusaders against
Masonry, into an indirect adinisssion of their slan
ders —and we would object to it at any time, be
cause we still look upon the institutiod as one
eminently calculated to do.ja great deal of good, &
that too without reference to either political or
ecclesiastical matters, which too frequently in
terrupt the prosperity, and disturb the harmony t of
society.
We view the whole affair of the meeting, how
ever, as another strategern of the Anti-Masons, to
weaken a cause which they have long attempted
in v<fitv to injure. But it can hvail them nothing.
Free. Masonary is based upon the “Rock of ages”
and will continue to flourish until time is no
more—and long after her most powerful opponents
have sunk into obscurity, the moral excellencies
of her institutions will be felt by thousands in the
enjoyment of her widely extended and munificent
benefactions.
From the. Montpelier 17. Watchman
AnoimoN of Masonry. —Oil Wednes
day evening last, an informal meeting of
members of the Masonic fraternity, from dis
tant parts of the state, was hidden in the vil
lage, to discuss the propriety and expediency
of recommending the surrendering the ma
sonic charters, and the entire giving up of
the institution in Vermont. The discussion
was free and general, and with open doors.—
A majority of masons present were decidedly
in favor of the measure, as a duty, which ns
men and as masons, they owed to their friends,
to the peace of society, and to the quiet of the
state—a sacrifice of private feeling on the
altar of public good. Such a course, we are
aware, will meet the deep displeasure of men
who love to ‘ride upon the whirlwind and di
rect the storin’—men whose only hopes of ri
sing to public notice, a no engrossing the hon
ors and emoluments of office, are based upon
excitement—but it will be cheered with the
hearty response of the great mass of the lion
ost and uneonscientious portion of the anti
masonic party, and by the great and good
men of all parties in the nation.
Cfj* The Commissioners of Macon, having ve
ry liberally Lot upon the commons
for the purpose of Education, the citizens of this
place ure respectfully solicited to attend a meeting
at the Court House, on Saturday next at 1 o’clock,
I*. M. to make such preparatory arrangements for
the establishment of an Academy, as they may
deem prefer.
A Personal Insult.-— Self-will predominates
through every event of human life. At a row
which took place in a northern city some time
ago, while brick bats and clubs were Hying
about m every direction, and the doughty
combatants panting for glory, a negro was
laid level with the earth hy one of the mis
siles of the opposite party. Raising his voice
above the din of battle, he demanded a par
ley, at the same time saying—“ What gcrnplin
j trow dat last brick l Someone trow him
—end if he only say who he was, 1 won’t ex
pose him !”
CommunirafioiiH.
For the Advertiser
RAIL ROADS.
The benefits of rail roaa transportation are
so great and so numerous that their general
use at a future and not distant day is a moral
certainty. For when the interests of a whole
people point in one direction, and when that
interest is great and manifest, a correspond
ent movement must inevitably ensue. This
effect follows that cause as surely as the gen
eral use of the compass, of printing, and of
Steam, followed those noble discoveries.
We are on the r ve of a revolution or change
in tlife Comm re: J and Agricultural interests
and in the social economy of the country as
great as any, and much more sudden than any
which have preceded it. The agricultural
prosperity of any people in the present state
of the world, and in any state, depends main
ly on the exchangeable value of their products.
And this exchangeable value depends not
more on production than it does on transpor
tation. For that farmer is as well off* who
has nothing to sell, as he whose surplus pro
ducts must fot upon his hands. These prin
ciples are among the mere rudiments of polit
ical economy and arc self evidently true in
the abstract.
Now for the application.
A man owns land in Hall or Habefsham
which produces, or would produce Wheat,
Tobacco, Wine, Fruits, Cider, Beef, Pork,
I Lay, or some of these. Or he finds on his
land, Lead, Iron Ore, Marble, Ocre, Gyp
sum, Blue Limestone, or some other Mineral
pro ucts equally valuable ; but their weight
is such that it would costas much to get them l
to market as they would sell for if there. Oi
course he cannot think of furnishing ary of
these for market, and his land is not worth a.
dollar more to him for its capacity of yielding
them. These, and many other products
which could be grown or found iu that upper
region of our State arc in theii; nature very
valuable ; but as matters now stand, they
might as well, as to anv C to the owners, be
imbedded ten thousand feet deep i|i the cen
tre of a solid rock, But let us suppose that
some magician would agree to take up those
articles, fif.y or a hundred tons at a time,
whenever required and carry them safely
in two days to a shipping port, say to Savan
nah for a cent or half a cent a pound. Would
not this lie to every essential and substantial
purpose a creation of anew agricultural
country ? The truth is, it would be more to
the benefit of the owners of land in that quar
ter of the State, than if the whole of their
present soil was taken away, and replaced
with a layer ten inches and rep of mould from
the banks of the Nile, For what good would
thgir Egyptian soil do them, if they cquldiiot
get their prodets to market.
Thq importance; the resoufees and prospc
rity of the middle regions of the State, though
not utterly dependent on rail roads, like the
counties tar in inland ; must be benefitted by
them to og incalculable amount and p many
modes more than can now fie particularly spe
eified.Tuke the transportation of produce as an
instance.. A farmer, who is, now at the cost of
§l3O to get his cotton to market, could con
vey it there on a rail road for§3o. It is man
ifest that his crop will in that case yield him,
§IOO mqto than it now does—and it is equal
ly plain that his land would bring in the mar
ket if he wished to sell it, a propoitiouably
larger price. Let any planter living at two
hundred miles from Savannah ask himself
how much higher a price he would set on hi•;
land than he now does if it was removed jiiet
as it is, to within sixteen miles of that place.
TRANSIT.
For the Macon Advertiser,
Clinton, 24th July 1831.
Mr. Editor. —lt will be recollected that,
Congress passed an Act on the 3d March,
1826, appropriating'twenty thousand dollars,
and dire ted a survey of the Peninsula of Flo-,
rida, with a view of ascertaining the practica
bility of cutting a national canal across the
Isthmus, between the Gulf of Mexico and the
Atlantic.
Two brigades of United States Engineers
were detailed the summer following, agreea
ble to directions from Brigadier Gen. Ber
nard, to reconnoitre and make preliminary
surveys,.for the purpose of ascertaining the
capability of the Isthmus for a canal, and oF
what size.
Such were the laborious duties and nation
al importance of the surveys, that the Board of
Internal Improvement at Washington, could
r.ot prepare themselves to make an official re
port upon the subject, until February 1820,
When they reported that they had found it
practicable to construct a Steam Boat CanaTl
from the Suwannee to the St John’s river, by
way of the Santa Fe and Black Creek—thq
distance foi excavation from 40 to 48 miles.
It was desirable on the part of Congress fi*
have had a Ship Canal, hut the Isthmus wan
found incapable, upon the summit level, of
furnishing a sufficient supply of water for a
canal of such large dimensions.
During the last session of Congress, anoth
er act was passed, appropriating 810,409,30,
lor the purpose of making the definite survey
and an estimate of. the cost of the work.
In pursuance of this last act, Engineers have
been detailed to locate the exact route of the
canal—to bore the earth and sink shafts upon
the summit level, and to make minute expe
ments of the extent of the practicability, and
report to the ensuing session of Congress,
the measurement and estimated cost of the
work to complete the said canal, to connect
the Steam Bpst waters of the Gulph of MexL
co and the Atlantic.
In the rounds of my present tour through tha.
Southern and Western parts of the State, I
met with the Honorable Joseph M. White, n
few day? ago, at Marion Twiggs county, di
rect from Florida :—He informed me that r
had been ascertained by the Engineers, wh
have, by this time, nearly completed their fi
nal survey, that they had found more water
to supply the canal, upon the summit level,
than was discovered on the former survey ;
and that-in sinking shafts they had met with
no subterancous passage; but found the ma.
t<*rials of which tlirj earth is composed beneath,
highly favourable for the excavatior being
clay and stratums of hard mixed cartn, inter
spersed with Quarries of lime stone rock,
which will easily yield to art and labour.
As this information is important to the
country; and was not communicated as a se
cret, 1 trust it will not be deemed improper
for me to notice it through the public Journals.
We may now expect that the subject will
be officially reported to Congress at the ensu
ing session, as preparatory to the passage of
an act appropriating the amount of money
which may be ■equired to carry this gn at
national work into complete and successful
operation, with as little delay as the nature
ofits importance will admit; which will pro
duce ftn era, of no less magnitude, to tho ng '
ricultural and commercial prosperity of the
Northern and Western States, as to the Mid
dle and Southern States upon the Atlantic :
A steam boat may then leave Pittsburg,Penn
sylvania, or the Mandan village?, in the ex
treme Northwestern Territory, with a ftj’i
cargo,and land tho same at Charleston, South
Caroline, or any of the intermediate ports, and
return to the place from whence she mar
start, laden with merchandize for the con
sumption of the vast interior of the United -
States and Territories : The Island of Cuba,
will no longer be considered a Key to tlx*
Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico,
W. B. DAVIS, i
-MA^RHUX
On Tuesday ever mg, l,y Rev. Mr. Pope, Dr,
M Burt/eH,editor of the Macon Telegraph, to MU*
lab it ha N. I{j' t’67/, 'laughter of tatac Harvey.
f £\* Hire •
\ N EGRO WOMAN, who is an excellent
-i a. hou:,e servant aßd seamstress.
RALSTON & JONES.
Ju.iy 2G, It—23
James a. blaxton & jeremiah smith,
Under the firm of
BLANTON & SMITH
Respectful!j tender to their friflds and the public,
their services in the
if House
AND
Commission Business.
J.V .IWVICO.V,
THEY have taken the large new Ware House
and Wharf, between grepnd and third streets,
both of which are constructed on the njost approv
ed plan and arc in fine condition. A convcniei!*
cltose store, for the of Merchandize will
be erected forthwith.
The proximity of the Ware House to the busi
ness part oftown, and at the same tiirfb its com
parative remoteness from other buildings, togeth
erwith the advantages of the excellent wharf at
tached to it, render it peculiarly convenient, as
well as, measurably exempt from danger by tire.
Liberal advances will be made on cotton iq
store, & shipped by them—and evprv other rea
sonable accommodation granted. The personal
attention of each Of the firm will be given to the
business, and their utmost exertions used to pro
mote the interests of their customers.
JulylS, I9?I, * • JU-lV