Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser., July 31, 1841, Image 1

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By G. W. H. BUOWIV.
CARROLLTON, MISSISSIPPI, SATURDAY JULY 31, 1841.
VOL. k-NO. 3X
cast quarter secti6n 25, township twenty-four, range
two east, con
W-aLPUT4 J ?JlJtMmm" Printer fee 14d .
tv-eht towSp twenty-four, range two east, con-iy-eignt,
unv ehty-eiffht hundredth- acres; was
taimngr 79 and fo, & C. Dart, on 6th Dec.
SSmJ fee eight dolls.
Also; the west half of southeast quarter, and east
half south west quarter section twenty-eight, town.
24, range two east, containing 159 and 76 hundredths
acres was purchased by A. S. Campbell. $- C Dart,
on Dec 20, 1834. Pr. lee ten dollars.
Also; the north half and west half south east qr.
section 32, township twenty-four, range two east,
containing 477 and SO hundredths acres: was purcha
sed by WmM. Beal on 6th Dec 1834. Pr fee 15d
Also; Lot No: 16, section 6, township twenty-four,
rnnge one east, containing 82 snd 35hundredthsicres
was purchased by Wm H. Whitater on Dec 4 1834.
Printer fee eight dols
. Also; Lots No. 3-and 16, section eight, township
24, rano-e one east, containing 96 and 64 hundredths
acres, was purchased by Um. H. Whitaker, on 4th
December 134. nPrMiter fee eight dollars , -
Also; Lots No, 4 and 5, section eil.t, township 24
range one east, containing 16 and 50 hundredths acres
was purchased bv Wm 11. Whitaker on 4th Decem
ber 1834. Printer fee ei-ht dollars. .
Also; sLots eleven, twelve and thir ee i, section 8,
township twennty,-four, range one east, containing
117 and 98 hundredths acres; was purchased by Wm.
H. Whitaker on 4th Dec 1834. . Printer fee lOd.
Levied on the above described lands to sat
isfy.the State and County . Tax due thereon,
as above mentioned. This 16th dav of June,
1841.
Assessor A Collector
' Of Tallahatchie County.
In the presence of
A. B. BETTS, &
E. E. ARMSTRONG.
Charleston,: Miss. June 16th, 1341. 3m.
For Governor, .
DATIU . SIIATTUCK, of Carroll.
. Fo Congress, '
ADAM L. BlNGAM AN,of Adams,
WILLIAM R. H ARLEY, of Marshall.
For Secretary of State.
LEWIS G. GALLOVVAY, of Holmes.
For Auditor of Public Accounts,
JAMES J. ALLEN, of Hinds,
For State Treasurer,
W ILLIAM G. CRAWLEY, of Perry:
For Attorney General,
ROBERT HUGHES, of Hinds.
Prospectus ,
For publishing in the town of Carrollton, Car
roll county. Miss., a weekly paper to be enti
tied the
Southern M'ioncer ,
(by c. w. h. brows.)
TTNDERthe above title of the "Southern Pio
neek," we propose to publish in the town o
Carrollton, a new Weekly Paper, devoted to Politics
both btate and National, Agriculture, the current
news of the day, and the advancement of the great
cause oi tdncation. 1 his paper will be devoted to
what its coiiductor believes to be the best interests of
the State and county. It will advocate the great Whig
cause which you have recently seen so signally trhim-
Eeheving.'that the principle- puttortli by the
Republican Whig Ticket.
. 3-3
FROM THE NATCHEZ COURIER of July 8.
POSITION OF PARTIES.
As the contest is about commencing thro-
out the State, it may not be improper to glance
at the field of battle and ascertain the relative
positions of the various forces who are to en
gage in it. Bv so doing we shall be the bet
ter enabled to understand the different move
ments during the campaign, to guard against
the defection ot pretended allies, and to coun
teract the stratagems of our opponents. In
order to do this a slight retrospect is necessa
ry, " At the last session of the legislature res
olutions were passed through botli houses de
claring that the State was legally and morally
bound to pay the bonds issued in her name
for the benefit of the Planters and Union
Banks. These resolutions and the report ac
companying them, were introduced by a whig
committee and although the vote was not
strictly a party vote yet the mass of the whigs
in each house sustained them while the mass
of the locofocos opposed them, and the loco
foco Governor of the state, refused his sign a-
phant.
great -Whiff party as the tenets of its political creed,
V. v1 .- r1inVt Vi flnTtovnmAnt -time
originally founded, and on which it should be admin- W re to them. During the session also, both
islered, this paper will lend to those principles, wnen-iparnes held conventions at the capitol, com-
vpr and wherever espoused. i oauium uui curujati i-' r i i ' c
ever nuu wucjciw tu I ro5Pfl ni dftlftrntps spnt Irom evprv nnrtinn of
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them from countenancing the disgraceful doc-!
trines avowed by their party. and though their
declarations may. be fain as we. could wish,
yet they will support the party ticket when it
becomes necessary to vote. The essence of
loco-focdism is the love of power. " Questions
of public policy are examined by them purely
with reference to their availability in a can
vass before the people and Yiot with a view to
their effect on the -present or future welfare of
the country. Thus, though at the first blush
they stood aloof from the little knot of anti
bonders in Jackson last winter, yet when they
saw there was a possibility of detaching a
small portion of the whigs by circulating the
absurd sophistries and vulgar appeals to the
passions, used bv that clique, they very readi
ly permitted them to put their own men for
ward as the candidates of the party. To
them it matters but little what the result of a
victory on such grounds might be to the state,
so they but get into power. Their only object
is personal aggrandizement and the means of
attaining this and the consequences to flow
from it are alike matters of indifference. The
signal defeat of their party in the Presidential
election forbids ihem to hope for a revolution
of public sentiment on questions of national
policy. They are therefore making a last des
perate resort to reinstate themselves by com
bining state and federal questions in such a
way as to obliterate the line of demarcation
between the two parties.
Such are evidently the intentions of the
leaders of the opposition in Mississippi. The
course of the whigs is plain and easy. They
have already assumed the lofty ground which
they have heretofore occupied on questions of
general interst. Let them maintain it with
the same union and firmness which gave them
so glorious a victory last year. Let them again
oppose the sword of justice and honesty to
the wiles and artifices of those who in their
mad lust for power, would brand our name
with lasting dishonor, and another victory not
less glorious will attend their efforts.
a moment on its waves and sink into darkness the extremes of the country, t tan was anti-
and nothingness. Else why is it that the high cipated or ever dreamed of, at the time of its
and glorious , aspirations, which leap like an- creation." Speech of John 0. Calhoun-1822
gels from the temple of our hearts, are forever A .rr Tn : , , . ,
A . . j .. c ,tn Anti-bondites, read the following and blush
wandering abroad unsatisfied? Why is it that r .... . . -n u i 3
A, . , j , . i -r for the condition the state will be placed in,
the rainbow and the cloud come over us with . . t i .
, . . 4. . . , , should your party succeed in the low, cunning,
a beautv that 13 not of the earth, and then pass , , j , fl . ., b
, , , . , . - . damnable and disgraceful principles espoused
on anu leave us 10 muse upon tneir laaea r . . A , - , r ,
i r i wru .u . .l . i . i of repudiating the outstanding bonds for which'
loveliness? Why is it that the stars which .. . . . . .'.-. .
w I I hA Inil h flirt w ffnA rvlAWfVArl I S M .4
luv tan.ii ui tug uiaic ia icuiica. ncau auu
"hold theii festivals around the midnight
throne," are set above the grasp ot our limit
ed faculties forever mocking us with their
unapproaching glory? And finally, why is it
that bright forms of human beauty are presen
ted to our view and then taken from us lea
ving the thousand streams of our affections to
flow back in an Alpine torrent upon our hearts
. . . J . . . debts due on the 1st mst.
earth, lhere is a realm, where the rainbow
never fades, where the stars will be spread out
before us like the islands that slumber on the
Ocean; and where the beautiful beings, which
:iere pass before us like visions, will stay in
our presence forever. Bright creature of my
dream in that realm I shall see the again.
Even now thy lost image is sometimes with
support. . , ,
No man or set of men, will be by us unscrupulously
sustained at the expense of principle, "Pkincifles
not men," is our motto by this rule shall we be gov
erned, and in subjecting all to this test, we shall as we
find them, judge with impartiality, admonish with
candor, and reprehend with justice. As humble Tio
neers in the great cause of political truth, we shall
ever point to the cardinal virtues of a representative
Government. Eut, the interests of our State, and
more particularly of our county, shall receive at our
hands a constant and an earnest advocacy. While
our sister counties have been the object of Legislative
action, and Executive patronage, the county of Carroll
has remained comparatively unknown and unappre
ciated. It shall therefore be our pride, as well as our
duty, to develope its vast resources and point out its
numerous advantages. The cause of education, the
cause of enlightened and progressive civilization, the
only true bulwark of a nation's freedom, shall receive
that attention its importance demands. In fine, as
humble Pioneers in the crreat crusade against igno
ranee and error, we shall shoulder our mattock and
shovel, and taking our place in xhe great march of
modern improvement, our course shall ever be as iviar
mion said to Stanly, Onward.''
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Saturday morning at riVE dollars in advance, or
six dollars at the expiration of six months, or six
dollars FiFTr at the end of the year.
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assortment ot new ana iasmonaoie r asct j. yfe,
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lie is prepared to. execute all work entrusted to his
eare, with neatness and despatch.
,r Tv JOHNSON.
Midd eton, April 17, 1841. 18-t0.
reflect, and we fear not the result of yourde-
cision. iniormation is all vou wish lor. when
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we can hail you as brethren of the same great
political party, with the scales of justice equal
ly balanced, ready and willing to Mo unto oth
ers as you would they should do unto you.
MISSISSIPPI and Indiana. These States
have both failed to pay the interest on ' their
The New York
American says: "There is this difference, how
ever, to be noted between them, that whereas
Mississippi has not even made an effort to pre
serve her faith and good name, Indiana has
only failed to do so through an unwise restric
tion imposed upon her fund commissioner, not
to hypothecate the stock. The limits at which
nlnnr trip stnr.lc ronld he sold rendered it un
me. in the mysterious silence ot midnicht, , .. j u u
saieaoie in uie mai hei, uuu, u ii uuuiu uui uo
when streams are glowing in the light of the ,ed . fof a temporary ,oarjf vhe money to
many stars, that image comes floating up in nnv . cnxM not be haJ.. But. we
the beam that lingers around my pillow, and r eat she has ed her regard lo good failh
stands before me in its pale dim loveliness, till . im.,osing laxesto meet the interest on her
i own 4uit;ispirii smiis use a spen irorn nea- . . , otherwise annronriatinir funds there-
ven upon my thoughts, and the grief of years
is turned to dreams of blessedness and peace.
Days and weeks passed on, and that sweet
girl gave me her confidence, and I became to
her as a brother. She was wasting away by
disease. The smile upon her lip was fainter.
the state and supposed to represent the opin
ions of the two parties in their various coun
ties fairly. The locofoco convention nomina
ted candinates of whom the most important
were favorable to the payment of the bonds
and the rest were opposed to it, and refused
to debate the question of payment or non
payment or to express any opinion on the sub
ject. A very inconsiderable portion of their
number subsequently held a meeting of their
own and recommended the formation of a
ticket opposed to the payment of the bonds.
These, however, did not amount to one-tenth
of the whole number of the delegates and
their proceedings were ridiculed and despised
by their own party no less than by the whigs.
The whigs subsequently met in convention
and unanimously declared themselves in fa
vor of upholding the honor and dignity of the
state by the payment of its just debts, and
nominated candidates for every office enter
taining similar sentiments.
Thus, then, it appears that at the close of
the session the whigs were as a body in favor
of the payment of the bonds while their op
ponents were divided on the subject, leaving
by this means the anti-bonders in a minority,
so inconsiderable as to render them apparent
ly harmless and placing the result of ihe con- low locks were beautiful and hung low upon
A Card
Attorneys at Law--carrollton, Miss.
tfjpTheir -Office is the same formerly occupi
ed by Marsh'fy Ayrcs.
January. 1, 1841 " 4r-tf.
THE BROKEN HEARTED.
v';..v''. BY.GEORGf P PRENTICE .
I have seen the infant sinking down, like a
stricken flower, to the grave the strong man
fiercely breathing out his soul upon the field of
battle the miserable convict standing upon
the scaffold with a curse quivering on his lips
I have viewed death in all its forms of dark
ness and vengeance with a tearless eye, but
I could not look on woman fading away from
the earth in beautiful and uncomplaining mel
ancholy, without feeling the very fountains of
life turned to tears and dust. Death is always
terrible but when a form of angel beauty is
passing off to the silent land of the sleeping
the heart feels that something lovely in the
universe is ceasing from existence, and broods,
with a sense of utter desolation, over the lone
iy thoughts, that come up like spectres from
the grave to haunt our midnight musings.
Two years ago I took up my residence for
a few weeks in a-country village in the eas
tern part of New England. Soon after my
arrival I became acquainted with a lovely girl,
apparently about seventeen years of age.
She had lost the idol of her pure heart's purest
love, and the shadows of deep and holy mem
ories were resting like the wing of death on
her brow. I first met her in the presence of
the mirthful. She was indeed a creature to
be worshipped her brow was garlanded with
the vounc year's sweetest flowers her yel-
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Interesting Correspondence The follow
ing letters do honor to the feelings which dic
tated them. Thev are both very happy in
their style and the sentiments which they ex-
the purple veins upon, her cheek grew visible, press, mey wm rum .u
nr,A tl,Q r r; u a-a i true umericau ni-ai i. ,
more weak and tremulous. On a quiet eve- from the national intelligencer. i
ningin the depth of June, I wandered out vv asiiincton, juiy i, ioi.
with her a little distance in the open air. It tie ouse oj liepreseniaitves oj ine v. o. j
was then she first told me the tale of her pas- 1 have the honor herewith to submit to the.
sion, and of the blight that had come down House ot Keprcsentatives me copy oi a leuer
like mildew upon her life. Love had been a addressed by myselt to iurs. Harrison, in com-
portion of her -existence. Its tendrils had Pance with me resolutions oi congress, ana
been twined around her heart in its earliest "errePv tnercto
JOHN TYLER.
test, then about to ensue, on the old ground of
national politics. Since that time, however,
a great change has taken place in the situation
of affairs. Col. Thomas H. Williamsihe nom
inee tor Governor and Gen. A.- G. Brown one
of the nominees for Congress, decidedly the
most talented men on their ticket ancj both op
posed. to repudiating; the plighted faith of the
state have declined running and their places
have' been filled by non-bond-paytrs. The
whole locofoco press with one exception has
avowed similar sentiments. Col. Wood ward,
the nominee of the - Joco-foco coniention for
Secretary of State has been thruir aside on
account of his manly expression f opinion,
and the ticket is now composed efjusively of
anti-bondmen with but one ,excej,tion. We
allude to Col. Saunders who hai po opinion
and does not pretend to have )ny. They
have retained him because they w$re afraid to
run any one against him. v v ; "
- The silent acquiescence of those of the lo
cofoco 'party who have agreed with us on the
bond question, in this arrangement, is an evi
dence of the course they will , pursue ?in the
next election, i Though ; shame may j prevent
her bosom and she moved through the crowd
with such a floating and unearthly grace, that
the bewildered gazer almost looked to see her
fade into the air, like the creation of some
pleasant dream. She smiled, but there was
something in her smile which told that its
mournful beauty was but the bright reflection
of a tear and her eye-lid at times, closed hea
vily down, as if struggling to repress the tide
of agony that was bursting up from her heart's
secret urn. . She looked as if she could have
left the scene of festivity, and gone out be
neath the quiet stars, and laid her head down
upon the fresh green earth, and poured out
her stricken soul, gush after gush, till it min
gled with the eternal fountain of life and pu-
1 have lately heard, that the beautiful girl
of whom I have spoken is dead. The close
of her life was calm as the falling of a quiet
stream gentle as the sinking breeze, that lin
gers for a time, around a bed of roses, and
then dies "as 'twere from very sweetness."
It cannot be , that earth is man's only abi
ding place. It cannot be, that our life is a bub
ble cast up by the Ocean of Eternity,jto float
years; and when they were rent away, they
left a wound which flowed till all the springs
of her soul were blood. "I am passing away,"
said she, "and it should be so. The winds
have gone over my life, and the bright buds
of hope and the sweet blossoms of passion are
scattered down, and lie withering in the dust,
or rotting away upon the chill waters of mem
ory. And yet I cannot go tlown among the
tombs without a tear. It is hard to take leave
of the friends who love me it is very hard to
bid farewell to these scenes with which I have
held communion from childhood, and which,
from day to day, have caught the colour of my
life and sympathised with its joys and sorrows.
The little grove where I have so often strayed
with my buried Love, and where, at times
even now, the sweet tones of his voice seem
to come stealing around me till the whole air
becomes one intense and mournful melody
that pensive star, which we used to watch in
its rising, and on which ray fancy can still
picture hi form looking down upon me and
beckoning me to his own bright home every
flower, and tree, and rivulet, on which the
memory of early love has set its undying seal,
have become dear tome, and I cannot without
a sigh, close my eyes on them forever."
The following short paragraph we extract
from the New Orleans Bulletin
VA large and fashionable party of Jadies and
gentlemen left the city on Saturday evening
last, via the Ponchartrain Rail Road, on a
pleasure trip to Pass Christian and the various
watering places on the shores of the Lakes.
Among them was that talented and whole-
souled Mississippian, Sargent S. Prentiss.
We wish them cool breezes, good appetites
and few musquitoes."
Calhoun on a National Bank. "I might
say. with truth that the Bank owes as much
to me as any other individual in the country;
and I might even add, that had it not been for
mv efforts, it would not have been chartered.
"I must content myself with saying, that
having been on the political stage without in
terruption, from that day to this having been
an attentive observer of the question of the
currency throughout the whole period that
the Bank ha3 been an indispensable agent in
the restoration of specie payments that with
out it, the restoration could not have been ef
fected, short of the utter prostration of all
the monied institutions of the country, and an
entire depreciation of bank paper; and that it
has not only restored specie payments, but has
given a currency Tar more uniform, between
Washington Citt, June 13, 1841,
My DrarMad am: The accomparTying res
olutions, adopted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States, will conr
vey to you an expression of the deep sympa-
thy felt by the Representatives of the States,
and of the people, in the sad bereavment
which yourself and the country has sustained
in the death of your illustrious husband. It
may now bo justly considered that the public
archives constitute his enduring monument,
on which are inscribed, in characters not to be
effaced, the proudest "evidences of public grat
itude for seivices rendered; and of sorrow for
his death. A great and united people shed
their tears over the bier of a devoted patriot
and distinguished benefactor. .
In conveying to you, my dear madam, the-
proposed respect of the two houses of Con
gress for your person and character, and their
condolence on the late afflicting dispensation,
of Providence, permit me to mingle my feel
ings with theirs, and to tender you my fervent
wishes for your health, happiness and long life.
JOHN TYLER.
Mrs. Anna Harrison.
North Bend, June 24, 1841.
Dear sir: I have received with sentiments
of deep emotion the resolutions of the Senate
and House ot Kepresentatives, which you j
have done me the honor of forwarding, rela-;
tive to the decease of my lamented husband, j
I cannot sufficiently express the thanks I;
owe to the nation and its assembled represen-J
tatives, for their condolence so feelingly ex-
pressed, of my individual calamity, and the
national bereaVment; but, mingling my tears
with the sighs of the many patriots of the
land, pray to heaven for the enduring happii
ness and prosperity of our beloved countryj
. ANNA HARRISON.
John Tyler, President of the U. States. '
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Crickyl what a sample of the great un ; j
washed jvas up before Recorder Baldwin " ye
terdayl " Twelve he-males and two she-maler '
and all looking as ragged and as clirty as i !
they had sworn eternal hostility to clean linei '
indsoap and water. One fello'w look like af i
animated lump of anthracite coal; another lik; .
a gnarled Mississppi sawyer, over whom tb ;
muddy current bad flowed for several ceq .-j i
turies; a third looked like a man on whom!
lobelia doctor had been experimentalizing, an,! , !
whom, mistaking him for tanzy, he had pa.
tiallv pounded in his mortar; a fourth lock:
as if he had been veneered over with a so!;
tion composed of the scum of a stagnant p:
and pulverized charcoal. O! but they were t ,'
hard looking lot of cases.-
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