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Volume 1.
CANTON, MISSISSIPPI. SATURDAY, JANUARY I 1349.
These holliday times have a suspend
ing effect on most of the priming profes
sion, we discover, and although we did
not intend it, the same efect has resulted
'to us, though from a different cause. We
a re com pel led this week to issue only a
Jhalfsheet, on account of the indisposition
of our type setting coadjutors, of which
we complained last week. This is a dif
ficulty, which it has been impossible to
avoid, as compositors are not at all times
available in this region.
As we are not attempting at present
to rival James Gordon Bennett, who
calls himself "the Napoleon of the press,"
and who says he is going to "revolution
ize the world,11 this seeming defection on
our part it not of great moment to Queen
Vintnrift'a snhipfta rr tl Kmno... f
lluiviiM " J v I v JL.JI 1 1 I UL KJl
China, but we regret to lose a moment
from scattering intelligence among the
people. A consolation afforded is that
we, like Mr. Tyler, have such "an abi
ding confidence in the intelligence and
virtue of the people," that we think they
will be able to "get along" without our
shedding another ray of intellectual light
upon them until next Saturday moruing,
when the Legislature and its doings will
revive attention.
HOXESTV.
The Republican a little brown paper
concern published in Lincolnton, N. C.
exults most joyously about a democratic
triumph lately obtained in this State;
quotes from the M ississi pfyan as a whig
paper, and asks with a show of seeming
ignorance, what the whigs will attribute
their defeat to. The editor of the Re
publican is such an overdone, red-hot lo
cofoco, and so entirely blinded by politi
cal prejudice, that if he had not got out of
the habit hecouWnt tell the truth. ny
man that will call the Missisippian a
whig paper, either knows he is wrong, or
has not sense enough to distinguish the
difference between whig and locofoco.
Any man that will ask what the late de
feat of the whigs in Mississippi is to be
attributed to, and at the same time quote
an article Mentioning bondism and anti
bondism,and proving that the whigs were
defeated only on account of their hones
ty, is either a
let his readers
We would direct attention to the Card
Miller, Marshal of the Southern Distr.ct
of the State. Hereafter, except by di
rection of plaintiffs, he will receive'no
thing but specie. He is right; for at this
particular juncture, no one can tell how
soon, or how much Bank paper may depreciate.
THE SEW YEAR.
The year 1841, with its sunshine, and
it gloom, its despondency, its pleasures,
sorrows and joys, and all its mutations
a
nas gone! gone, and never to return.
This reflection is creative with us of a
disposition to sermonize a little, but the
bright faces, the bright thoughts and
bright anticipations accompanying
the ndvsntol the new year supplant the
melancholy; and these assisted by a
fondness for the bright sideofthe picture,
stifle moody reflection upon the by-gone
time, ami
'Amy with fairest (lowers the future scene.',
And if we could", we would hope that no
clouds would darken the brows of any of
our readers, old or young, fair or hag
gardand that all, gay beaux, lovely
maidens, industrious husbands and staid
matrons, may thread their passage
through it in happiness. This is a
prayerof earnest heart," and its sinceri
ty must compensate for its brevity.
judge. Verily, you little blinded, incon
siderable back country partisan, the im
pudence evinced in your garbled, half
made up reprint of the Washington
Globe, proves that in your case, at least,
the man and his politics are of a sort.
Just as our paper is going to pi ess,
we 'learn with great pleasure that the
extremely friendly relations existing be
tween the junior editor of the Natchez
Free Trader, and the Highly Concentra
ted Dr. Truman Stillman, were till a few
minutes previous to the departure of the
mail, entirely uninterrupted, and it wus
not likely as was rumored .that the har
mony of these two illustrious men would
be marred.
SAME PE EXPEDITION.
The capture of this fine company of,
principally if not entirely, young Ameri
cans, near Sante Fe, will cause all, hav
ing any knowledge of the gallant spirits
themselves, or the object of their praise
worthy enterprise, to feel the deepest re
gret and mortification. Their capture
admits now, of no doubt; and what must
make it to them still more poignant, is
the fact that they were betrayed, and by
a member of their own corps who had
started with them, and in whom they had
confided their personal and general in
terests. Mr. G. W. Kendall of the New
Orleans Picayune waseither shot at San
ta Fe, remains there a prisoner, or is the
private secretary of the Governor at that
place. Either fate must cause the most
poignant regret to friends; but the doubt
of his death or contingent preservation
is really vexing. There were in this ex
pedition those who we are confident were
known to many persons in this State, and
the want of their names only prolongs
the sad, the mournful feeling which must
come, when all is known. Those, com
prising nearly the entire expedition who
have been taken to Mexico either have
been or will be shot, or thrown into the
gold mines of that barbarous region as
laborers. Theirs isa sad fate, but what
relief could less than an army otFer
when the foe is a blood-thirsty tyrant
knowing no mercy, and pleased with the
si "lit of human blood and rettery,
THE LEGISL ATI" RE-
On Monday nezt, this powerful eody,
not chock-full of intellect, not compos
ing, we modestly suppose, the enure
wsidom of the Slate, but with the mter-
WASHINGTON.
Congressional news to the 14th ult. is
at hand, and the two Houses are getting
fairly under way. Mr. J. Q. Adams
had been made Chairman of the Commit
tee on Foreign Relations to supply the
Place of Mr. C. Cushing The old gen
tleman can now employ himself better
than in wrangling about the reception of
aoontion petitions, as it is now settledl
that the attention of Congress is not to
w occupied wholly or at all with that
nonsense. jt
Rv. Jno. Newiand Maffit was elected
Chaplain to the House for the Session.
Our Bob and our Jake are on the Land
Committees nf iu;, raan
The financial scheme of the President
uui -lake" very well. 1 he Select
..nice on u is composea or "nve
C Ainn I. - . J I n ; j .
v mji session on me miir question,
o of the opposition proper" says the
attonal Intelligencer, "also heretofore
il l hn o i . i . : i
lesiucm, on iuui quutmon, emu
0 Whigs."
Mr. Clay is on no standing. committee.
-'u uui nave oeen leu out, uuiess
hlS OWn I-Amiaat
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LOUISIANA.
' he Louislatu rp oft hie Sfnl KavA n33-
a new apportionment bill, making the
vm representatives tU, instead
Oas heretofore, and as at present.
8 Was not in accordance with theCon
'tution which inhibited allover 50, but
creation of three new parishes makes
necessary. A vhmmw in th Sairr.
'P f the Lower House, havincr oerair.
y the appointment of Gn. De Buvs
osq. i wmsr) was elected to the
We notice in the New Orleans Bulle
tin a communication signed "A Planter
of Carroll" in which the writer invokes
the planters to look to their own interest;
and attempts to prove that there is a
combination of almost every other class
against the planters. He deals some
strong blows at newspaper editors, mo
nopolies, crov. Roman s late message,
cVc. &c. The temper, tone and language
ol this article prove the writer a man of
talent, and that he was somewhat excited,
doubtless iustlv, when he wrote. He
says the cotton planters have been abu
sed, betrayed, by the newspaper press of
the United Siates,which have for threeor
fouryears have baei raisingand sus'ain
ing the impression that there would each
year be very heavy crops and consequent
ly causing low prices. This is certainly
true;and whether or not the writer is
correct in all of his positions a know
ledge of his views could not but be of
service. The communication is lengthy
but we may publish it next week.
than yon malty da
you realiy so
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THEATRES.
Natchez and Vicksburg are now en
joying the delightful benefits derivable
from the performances of two fine theatri
cal corps; at least they have it in their
power to do so, but it would setm that
proper encouragement is not given to the
enterprize. these are hard times, and
no mistake.
J. M- Hartford has abandoned the pro
ject of publishing "Harry of the West,"
on account, he says, of having no money
We are sorry for it. One capable of
wielding a pen with thesame force and
vigor, that he does, should not do
aught else
shout tW
Texas to taw l'etew S
vow it for. uft rv
estsof the State under its control, wiU j. apjear that vow m&m
convene, j ms is a very important event,
and we hope our fellow-citizens will not
forget it. The repudiating Legislature the T
of the great repudiating State of Missis-! thine?
sippi is to convene, and then is to be
ed the great, the new and
doctrine of repudiation. During the
sitting of this august body, a good
ny important evei.ts are to take place.
The present Governor is to wo mn
office, and without leaving the people
the State, as Gen. Jackson said he d.J
the people of the Union, "prosperous
and happy." We take part of that hack,
however; we are certainly more pros
perous than we have been for some tisae.
but gu.lty consciences produce an uu hap
piness, which can only he relieved by
the overthrow of a vile selfish and ras
cally few, who-ie hellish doctrines have
too much weight with ignorant and cred
ulous partisans.
In the Senate the members elected
under the apportionment Law mi the last
Session, will appear and contend fo
their scats, which wilt doubtless br
claimed by the old members. The. ad
justment of this matter will doubt Was
occupy som-' time aud delay a speccy et-
ganization. Gen. Jesse Speight will it i
is thought be elected President of ihatj10
branch, and old giany Robert.,ibe na J w
of Order; the man who knows more ;
Parliamentary rules than ett at taw I
present time, who has raised more ques
tions of order, and been the cause mt
more dw-order; and who has cost the
Slate more than any tweuty mea, who
have been of no more service than be
has, will likeiy be elected Speaker of the
lower House. The old fellow has been
striving for a long time to obtain tkat
post, and failure now would be discour
aging. But if defeated, be has. as above
intimated, a res urce; Order is his air r
native and often wilt he thro
upon this reserved right.
T ie re rr
this State, who are
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The following hit at his particular
friend of the Sentinel, the most amiable
man in the world, known positively so
to be, is really unkind. Mister Hartford,
you ought not tc do so.
Hagan talks about "imported blackguards':-1
he was probably smuggled in
to this country, to escape transportation
to Swan river, or Botany Biy,
"True patriot he, for be it understood,
He left his counjrv, for his country's good."
True Issue. H.
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But it is a
locofoco Legislature
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MANAGEMENT.
How strikinglyisthe superiority of tho
locofoco party in management, manifest,
ed in the apportionment Law passed last
winter. Two large whig counties thrown
, s-
into one as in the case of this county
and Yazoo, with only one Senator, and
various other counties without half the
products, or population, of different poli
tics, are fully represented. The illegal
ity of this enactment are of course mani
fest; but it is repealed, are the old
Senators entitled to their seats without a
new election? If not, there will be one
third of the State unrepresented in the
Senate the present term. So we go; and
how this matter is to be adjusted without
detriment to the interest of the people,
we cannot imagine.
Some persons think, that to abolish
the Legislature for the next five years,
would be a beneficial measure. Of the
propriety of such a step, of course none
can tell, but it is certain that if there
had been no legislature- for the last
ten years, the condition of the State
and the people would he much better.
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wu. r.s..i u-c wC a.u.u-., lMU taw? ami the pew
usmemners. force tee ttal ,
The Canton Creole prates of "eaador I TW nma te
and honesty." We would as soon think : aas a rigtt to uM ma me
of looking in a dung-hill for pearls and CueraatemJ m asm he the
c c
rubies, as to expect en
of these kind to be fou
of ihe Canton paper. By the wav the
fellow has changed hi- hemd again! Ber
ing qua.iuea
n the editor
ma
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haps it is like the njnarch's, "lies verv sot his r
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sulei
The Editor of the Southron says the
Creola is a great paper, and that he
"must get acquainted with the Editor one
of these days."
Shall be glad to see you at
anytime, Mr. Johnston, W-hat'll you
take?
We see in the last Mississippi an a
communication addressed to the editors
of the Globe, by "a Mississippi Anti-bond
paver11 of Madison county. This cor
respondent hammers away at a killing
rate to prove by the old arguments made
a thousand times already, to prove that
it would bo mighty rascally to pay the
bonds. He makes an admission which
the anti-bonders have not as yet made,
viz: that Mississppi could pay the bonds
if she chose to. The ideas contained in
the two following paragraphs that the
whigs are are all rascally parasites, and
the editors of the Giobe, honest and in
dependent, is very ludicrous very.
Those who wield the thyrsus of whig
sentiment in the north, arc too besotted
by ill gotten gains -are too wedded to
the fewwho live on the labor of the
many, (such as political gamblers, Bank
thieves and nabob manufacturers.) to do
justice to any set of men, who avow doc
trines antagonisttcal to the interests ot
their masters.
You, gentlemen, have shown a differ
ent spirit, (because you are an indepen
dent press,) you have de mured to their
pleas you nave called tor an inspection
of the record. I will submit it to you,
and ask judgment not only of you, hut of
the candid world, in favor of the "Ann
Bonders" of Mississippi.
uneasy." in the wonfs of the tmmorta?
Bui Shakespeare. Grand Gu t Adter
tiser. "For qualities of these kind' you have
no doubt always been "looking in dung
hills,11 which accouots for your not pos
sessing them at present. Our head seem
to hurt you very much. We might
"change1' it forty times, an J it would
ucver lie so easy as yours does.
FIRE.
There was a fire at Baton Rouge, La.
on the 23d ult. which destroyed 35 build
ings, involving a loss of seventy or
eighty thousand dollars in amount.
At the last dates the "highly concen
trated11 Doctor Truman Stillman, was in
Natchez "with a large lot" says the ju
nior "of his invaluable medicine."
The doctor and the junior in the way of j
bumbuggery, are much alike the '-high-ly
concentrated" medicine of the first,
and the expansive "trip through the pi
ney woods" of the other, are about on
par.- 4
TheGrandGulf Advertiser exults h?
ults because the New Orleans Bulletin
and Crescent City, expressed different
opinions of Governor Roman's Mes
sage. You leather-head, you, don't know
that Whig editors are unliko their loco
foco adversaries are incapable of being
dictated to.
SOUTHERN QUARTERLY REVIEW.
The following from the N O. Picav
une will inform the reader of the pro
gress this long looked for periodical is
making towards an appearance, ll wdl
doubtless be a very vafuable pubJientioe,
and one which is much needed, and which
may be worth the price of subscription
really, but $10 is too much to insure a
general circulation.
"It gives us great pleasure to state
that the first number of this publication
will soon make its appearance. The
mechanical portion is in rapid progress
towards completion. We saw the proof
sheets of the first few pages yesterday,
andean safely assure the friends of the
work and who that is friendly toexrh
em literature is not its friend t -that its
typographical execution wilt be ioferior
to that of no magazine in the country.
Of its literary merit the public will
shortly be enabled to judge. We feet.
perhaps, an unnecessary degree oi prme
in the success of Mr. Wbi taker's under
taking; but we cannot kelp regarding the
period of the rorarneac ment of this jour
nal as a most important era in the litera
ry historv of the south and of the coun-try."
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