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A failure to notify a discontinuance of the paper will be conaidered aa a new en gagement. ADVERTISEMENTS Will bo chacjfcd at the rate of On lhil.l.t for everv ten linen or nniW. for I TUKRE ARC ONLY TWO SOtTS OF GOVERNMENT, ONK OF, AND TI1K OTlir.ft OVIR -K tKOtUlfWt IUVK SWAIN tO SUfrOUT TUB FOaMER ANO OrFOSK THE LATTER JOHN TOTHILL and WM. F. EISELY, Publishers. "I JOHN TOTIIILL, Emtor. NO. 74. LIBERT ML rtX 20, 1839. VOL. 2. NO. 22. TTD r a r . ... . r. . r i . w" 1 v . r- V VI . -77 .v l I - A 1.1 I 1 . 9 n 1 T- ....1 VA I ,.: ... ,- n. i -kI I . t 11 III ' miscellaneous. ' ' A, NAME. f . '. . . BY MRS. L. II. BlaOURMEY. ' Maketo thyself a name, " Not with tho breath of clay,' Which, like the broken hollow reud, . -. !. Doth hide itaelt away; ( Not with the fame that rauntt . The tyrant on hia throne, And hurls ita utima on tho soul That God vouchsafes to own. -; Make to thyself a name, Not such as wealth can weave, v Vliosc warp is but a thread of geld ' That dazzles to deceive; Not with the tints of love From out ita Inttnrfl fuir! , i That scroll within thy hand shall fade, Liko him that placed it there. Muke to thyself a name, , Not in the sculptured aisle; The marble oft betrays its trust, , t Like Egypt's lofty pile; But ask of him who quoll'd Of death the victor strife, To write it on tho blood-bought pago Of everlasting life. - From tho Vicksbur? Sentinel. TO BANK SWINDLERS. , MF.NE, TEKEL, ITIIAHSIn! ' V'&mpircs and pirates, hail! Ye fattcners on the spoils of honest men;' , , How long will ye prevail? How long ere fre ;men stand erect again? IWviMt r tl.n nni.ll. n... I. !..,. 1C f. Hewers of wood to traitors such as ye! ' ' Was it for this they bled? . I'"or this they taught the mockery of prayer. To ask for daily bread. That not our children, but bank-robbers share? For this they pledged their fortunes, that our ' ' own Might bo the prey of every swindling dioiie? , Ye painpered outlaws, wecpi ' Your days aro numbered Heaven defend the right! Not long shall vengeance sleep! Her rod right arm is baring for the fight; , Ye've had your day, ye bloodhounds; on your track " ' . Tlw hunted now turn hun tore hellhounds, back! ' ' . . From tho Southern Reporter. Oh! who could clasp the joys of earth And duem their sweets would last. When all we love most tenucriy Fades from oureyes so fast. Oh! who would woo the enchantress hope That never pours her light Into the bosom but to leave A darker deeper night. So the young heart is left, whoft lovo lias borne tho test of time, Like some too early opening Rawer, To winter in its prime; And thus the flowory path of lo"e That bloomed so bright and fair, Lead to a dark, drear wilderness Of anguish and despair. AMELIA. THESTOR V" OE AU'ANDER AND , TARRN FROM A JSYZ.VilTIN" " "..., zxbuctjrty iuti the Roman empire, still continued the scat ofloaming, politeness, and wis the Ostrogoth, re paired schools, which barbarity was suffering to fall into decay, and contin ued those pensions to men of learning, Iiicli avaricious governors had monop- ohzcu. . . ' In this city, and about this period. . Alcander and Scptimius were iellow ' students tojrether; the one, the most subtle rcasoncr of ail the Lyceum; the .. .1 L .l....ftniennalfiP lt tllO other, ine moss ciouuunt si.v acadefnir grove, fllutuai aamiriiuou soon begot, a friendship. Their lor ' tunes were nearly equal, aud they were mnatrelebrated cities t!WUTW' :in the world; for .Alcandcr was of Athens Scptimms came irom iwrniu. . fimn together, when AI- i randcr.aftci passing the first, part of Lis youth in tne inuoicucc ui ' bhy, thought at length of entering into Ui ' wnrlrl; and. as a step previ- ous to this, placed his affections on Hy- patia, alady oi exquisu.; day of their intended nuptials was nx A , tUr, nrcvious cerciKoaicd were per- y '.i. n, nothincr now rcmalnea, i but her being conducted m triumoh to the apartment ot tnc wusiiueu Vlcandcr'scxultationin hi. own hap niness, or being uiutblc to - enjoy .any Satisfaction without making lus friend aeptirmus a partner, prevailed upon him to introduce Ilypatia to his fellow- student; which he did with all the gai ctjrof a man who found himself equally happy in friendship : and love. fBut this was an interview fatal to the fu ture peace of both; for Septimius no sooner aw her, but he was smitten with an involuntary passion; and, though he used cery effort to suppress desires, at once so imprudent and unjust, the emo tions of his mind in a short time be came so strong, that they brought on a fever, which the physicians judged in curable. During this illness, Alcander watch ed, him with all the anxiety of fondness, and brought his mistress to join in those amiabblc offices of friendship. The sagacity of the. physicians, by these means, soon discovered that the cause of their patient's discorder was love; and Alcander, being appraised of their discovery, at length extorted a confes sion from the reluctant dying lover. It would but delay the narrative to describe the conflict between" love and friendship in the breast of Alcander on this occasion; it is enough to iay, that the Athenians were nt that time arri ved at such refinement in morals, that every virtue was carried to excess. In short, forgetful of his own felicity, he gave up his intended bride, in all her charms, to the young Roman. They were married privately by his conni vance, and this unlooked-for change pf fortune wrought as unexpected a change in the constitution of the now happy Septimius. In a few days he was perfectly recovered, and set out with his fair partner for Rome. Here, by an exertion of those talents which he was so eminently possessed of, Sep- jbzh'est'Signitics oTthe statej' and was constituted the 'city-judge, or pnetor. In the mean time, Alcander not only felt the nain of being separated from his friend and his mistress, but a prose cution was also commenced against him, by the relations of Ilypatia, for .' ; ' i .. i,: having oaseiy given up uimv, ia was suggested, for money. His inno cence of the crime laid to hia charge, and even his eloquence in his own de fence, were not able to withstand the influence of a powerful party. He was cast, and condemned to pay an enormous fine. However, being una ble to raise so large a sum at the time appointed, his possessions were confis cated, he himself was stripped of the habit of freedom, exposed as a slave in the market-place, and sold to the high est bidder. - ' . A merchant of Thrace becoming his purchaser, Alcandcr, with some other companion? of distress, was carried in to that region of desolation and sterili ty. His stated employment w;ts to follow the herds of an imperious mas ter, and his success in hunting was all that was allowed him to supply his pre carious subsistence. . hvery morning him to a renewal of iamme or lltinvu r tnil. and cverv change of season served but to aggravate his unsheltered dis tress. After some years of bondage, however, an opportunity of escaping eflcred; he embraced it with ardour; so rhut. travelling by. night, ana lougin in caverns by day, to shorten a long storv.he at last arrived in Rome. 1 lie same day in which Alcandcr arrived, Scntimius sat administering justice in the forum, whither our wanderer came nxneetinff to be instantly known, and publicly acknowledged, by his former friend. Here he stood the whole day amongst the crowd, watching the eyes of the judge, and expecting to beta ken notice of; but he was so much al tered by a long succession of hardships, that he continued unnoticed among the rest: and. iii the eveninc, when he was rrnino- no to the prator, he was brutal- lv remised bv the attending lictors. The attention of the poor is generally driven 'rom one ungrateful object to another: for nicht coming on, he now found himself undcra necessity of seek ing a place to lie in, and yet knew not where to apply. All emaciated and in rags, as he was none of the citizens would harbour so much wretchednessj and sleeping' in 'the streets might be at tended with interruption, or danger: in nlmrL he was oblizcd to take up his lodgings in one of the tombs without thccity.lhc usual retreat of guilt, pov- rl v n n A ilesnnir- la this mansion ol horror, laying his head upon ah in ver - ted urn, he forgot his miseries for a while in sleep; and found, on his flinty couch, more ease than beds of down can upply to the guilty. As he continued here, about- mid? nicht. two robbers came to make thH their retreat; but happening to disa gree about the division of their plun dcr,one of them stabbed the other,-to the heart, and left him weltering in blood at the entrance. In these cir cumstances he was found next mom- inc dead, at the mouth of the vault. This naturallv inducincr a further en- quiry, an alarm was spread; the cave was, examined; and Alcandcr Deing found, was immediately annrehended. 1 j i , ' and accused of robbery and murder. The circumstances aeaist him were 0 strong, and the wretchedness of his ap pearance confirmed sagpicion Misfor tune and he were- now so long ac quainted, that he at last became re pardlcss of life. He detested a world where he had found only ingratitude, lalsehood, and cruelty; he was deter mined to make no defence and thus. lowering with resolution, he was drag ged bound with cord9, ueiore the trutu nal of Septimius. As the proofs were positive against him, and he offered nothing in his own vindication, the O judge was proceeding to doom him to the most cruel and lguomiruous death, when the attention ol the multitude The robber, who had been really guil- ii It i i . ty, was apprcnenueu scuing ins plun der, -and struck with a panic, had con- tesseu nis crime. lie was uroujrut bound to the some tribunal. and;cnuit- ted everv other ncrson of anv nartner- j - - g - j i ship in his guil; Alcander's innocence nM nfhis conduct remained a wonder to the surrounding multitude; but their astonishment was still further increa sed, when they saw theii judge start from his tribunal to embrace me sup- ioscd ciiminal, Septimius recollected U'.a friend and former benefactor, and hung upon his neck with tears of pity and of joy. Need the sequel be rela ted? Alcandcr was acquitted; shared the friendship and honours of the pnn- r-;n.il riliensof Rome: lived afterwards in happiness and case; and left it to be engraved on his tomn. i nac no cir cumstances are so desperate, which Providence may not relieve. 1 Mirrinrrr. Nature and nature's God smile upon the union that Is sweetened by love and sanctioned by law. The sphere of our affection is enlarged and our pleasures take a wider range. We become more important and res pected among men farid existence it self Is doubtly enjoined with this bur softer self. Misfortune loses half its anguish, beneath the soothing influen ces of her smiles, and the triumph ; be comes more triumphant when shared with her. Without her, what is man: A rnvino-and restless beine: driven at pleasure by romantic speculation, and cheated into misery by futile roes; the mad victim of passions, and the disap- pointed pursuer ol pleasure, umwuu her, he awakens to new life. He fol lows a nath. wider and nobler than the narrow road to self aggrandizement, hat U scattered with more fragrant (lowers, and illuminated by a clearci light. : , : : .' - Sam Suck's notion of m vniii vci: anu THE MAK1UAOE COVENANT. 1 VC OCCn afeercd to venture On matrimony my self, and I don't altogether think I'll spekilate in that line for one .while. It don't gist suit a roven man like me. It's a considerable of a tie, and then it ain't like a horse deal, where, if. you don't like the beast, you can put ii off in a ratlle, or a traded or swop, and suit yourself better; but you must maie mc best of a . bad bartrain. and put up with it. It ain't often you meet a critter of the right mettle: spirited, yet genue; casv on tne on, sure iooteu auu cuij f nn hitin or kinckin"'.or sulkin', or ra cin' off rcfusin' to go orrunnin'back; onA rlean limbed and ' ebod carria";. It's about the diflicultiest nccd of busi ness I know. . . , , ..: '. , - .-. Business Matter'. Call on a busi nessman, in business hours, only on bu sincsj, transact your business, and go jihoiit business, in order to civc him time to finish his business. f . ,i SIMPLE TRUTHS, In reviewing the present prosperous condition of our happy country, we are at a loss to understand, why it is the 'Federalists, continue their opposition to trie national Administration, it they be .asked, do you wish another mammoth Hank created? they answer no! Bo you desire, that the slaves of the south aiould be take ti from their right ful owners and placed in a position to massacm the whites? They reply, no! Is ityourwish, that our northern pos sessions, should be quietly yielded to British assumptio, and our people driv en from their homes? They quickly retort, we do not. Are you in favor of restricting our corrmcrcc, taxing agri culture or oppressing by any addition al burdens the laboi of the country? Oh! no is the response, these things are all well enough. Then pray, what do you want? Why, we want to turn out M it Van Bur&n, and make, Henry Clay, Wm. H. Harrison, Daniel Webster or General Scott, the Pres ident. But would you not by such a move, change the present policy of the Government? Not at all, say they, the government is administered tcry properly, we only want to have prop er rulers. , . j These wise men, never for a moment reflect upon their inconsistencies, nei ther do they believe, that the yeoman ry of the land, arc capable of seeing through the flimsy veil of their artifice. The Federalists of the United States have yet an important lesson fb learn, and that is this:- the poor American citizen, has as keen a relish for liberty, as perfect a knowledge of the means by which it is preserved, as quick and thorough a sense of its value and as master) as any ease-loving time serving sycophant in the land. The hardy sons of toil know lull well, mat tne great object of the opposition, is to make a splendid government, to create titles and distinctions, to crant exclu sive privileges to the wealthy, to build up powcrlul monopolies anumaKe -wie hewers of wood and drawcrsof water," the vassals and dependents of the priv ileged few. In other words, "to make the rirb. richer and the poor, poorer!" On this one object, is the eye of Fed- trahsm hxed; and to gain tnis pnjeci they will nazard their own destruction nf.fl rW of the liberties of their coun try. Ball. Republican. CiiuRiKit tiie Uniov. The follow- ini nnrrr.inli has been nuoted from the unpublished papers of James Mad iarv. As the advice nearest the heart bin a sI.il'c. and so true a patriot, it is eminently worthy uic at tention of the American rcople: "Advice to my Country. As this ndvir.p. if ifpver sec Wsht. will not do it till I am no more, it m;ty be consid ered as issuing from the . tomb, where truth alone can bo expected, anu me h.mniness of man ftlonc cousulted. It will be entitled, therefore, to whatever weight can be derived irom good in tentions and from the experience of one who has served his country in va- m s V i. rious stations through a period 01 loriy years, who espoused in his youth, and adhered through lile, to mc causu u. its liberty, and who has borne a part in most of the great transactions which will constitute epochs of ita destiny. 'The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is, that the Union of the States be cherished and" perpetuated.' I;et the avowed enemy to it be regarded as Pandora with her box opened, and the disguised one as tlvc serpent creeping with its deadly wiles into paradise." . , ; .... .: The editor of the Louisville Journal has contrived to earn for himself a rep utation for a knack at repartee, by put ting thing3 into other people'? mouths, and appending thereto' some studied retort, which he might have waintcd in vain for a fair opportunity to let off. It is the old game of your deliberate punster, who dexterously gives such a turn to conversation as- will enable him to bring out with the highest effect, some neat-thing which he has, long kept in ambush for a surprise upon un wary listeners.' .The only difference is that the Louisvill man makes his com pany say precisely what he wants, and in precisely the form that will letin his joke, and off it oes with the ease and effect of an extempore ' hit, as "Prentice's laht." .'Of course, like all his tribe, the federal jester docs not al ways spare his own political friends. See the following from his testv coad jutor of the N. Y. Gazette: "Ve hope our mend ot the Louis ville Journal will not use items which never appeared in the ,Y. Gazette, in making up his ymart things. , lie had better use another foolish naDcr in this city which appears to be a great favor ite wiui mm. ji nc wants matenais for commentary upon stolidity, we ad vise him by all means to gather them in that held. We have within a lew months seen him making so nibs upon something purporting to be said by ourselves, which we never did and ne ver expect to say.' Albany Argus. Locorocos. . The whig papers in this country arc applying this term to the Chartists in Lnsrland, bv way of reproach. It is not strange that the would-be nobility of this country, should think and speak of tnem, as they do of the democracy neie. . . f Modern Whifferv is not satisfied .. -00--j - . -, - with its unceasing ellorts to put down republicanism in this country, but its zeal calls it to the aid oi tne iMisusn Monarchists. The jChaitists are the charnnionsof human rights in that coun try, the democracy here. The former strugling to gain the ascendency, the latter to maintain it anu oom anne tne subjects of whig abuse. Ste.ubenvillc Union. . , - . INCRKASK OF THH GROWTH OF COTTON. . .ml cjtyui iuu wlfiW'illL; lumcil ifutiCa was 188.31(7 lbs.": in 1798 it was not quite 1,000,000 lbs.; in 1802 it was 27,501,075 lbs.;in 1819 it was 87,097, 015 lbs.; in 1820 it was 127,800,152 lbs.: in 1830 it was 298,159,102 lbs. The amount exported in 1838 was up wards of (539,000,000 lbs.; leaving for home consumption 98,000,000 lbs.; the whole cron. in round numbers, being estimated at seven hundred and thirty .... - - ' t ';,.' I ' a seven millions ol pounds, wnicn, at fourteen rents ner rjoiind, would be worth more than one hundred millions of dollars. This is a greater amount than ever was produced from all the gold and silvci mines in the whole world in one year. Ijouitianian. Some of the whig presses arc .actual ly asserting that the whigs arc demo crats. "Is it there ye are?"' We thought the rogues would soon claim to be democrats. The whigs always like to be on the strong side. ' They arc beginning to soc that whiggery u'dVl Ho. It is fettinir odious. It is sinking down with the banks with which it has been so long and intimate ly identified. Ther will claim to be rra now in a'"' short time. They must have a new name. They who have said that democracy is; syn- ith rut-throat, arc about to mil themselves democrats. ' It amuses us to see the fluttering of the whig presses on the local bank ques tion. Not lonir since, they claimed to be the natrons, supporters, and defen ders of the bauks, and denounced the r;ifs as agrarians, because the Litter onnoscd the conduct of the banks Now they put in a sort of half defence of banks. They say the banks arc rWer in the maine. but have some how behaved a little naughty lately; they have kinder, surler done wrong, and nnfrht to atone for it. bv once'in a great while paying a dollar or two in specie, byway of pacifying .the people. At all events, the whigs say the kinks ought to redeem all their notes under n dollar, for the purpose of change. What a glorious reformation these whigs would have. ' ' - The whig editors in this Slate are quarreling among them?elves whether the whigs do go for a national bank or not: at the same time they are abusing Gen. Brow n for opposing and agitating what they -call a dead . question al though most of, their leading presses daily sing the hosannahs of the bank. The truth is the whig, parly . is knit "hand and glove with the shinplastcr banks, and struggle, as they will, they must both go down together. Missis-sippjatt. m Extract of a letter to the Editor, dated . Stan AHnwviLLE, Va., May 30th 1839. 'A word or two in relation to our patriotic Governor,, A. G. .McNutt, who has won for himself, by his decided Ktnrwl nrrainat the issuin? of fOSt notes. an enviable reputation which will live r iL. .11 f f. , f r, c.rn ires'ii in ine reeoiieciiun uiiumn- &-' erations. when his opponents and tra ducers shall have been forgotton and appear as things that have not been.' To be shaved in Louisville upon -Missis sippi Union Bank ; notes, payable the hrstol August next, twelve per cciu., and to be asked twentv-five per cent. upon those redeemable twelve months hence, is certainly ruinous to mc purse and must be mortifyineto the pride of every Mississippian who is compelled to submit to this most painiui opera tion. The writer asked why they sha ved so deeply, adding that money could . not be worth so large an mieresi. The reply was, that no confidence could exist in the continued ability of banks to meet their liabilities prompt ly, which stepped so fao out of the le gitimate and ordinary course of bank ing as those of Mississippi had done in dealing in cotton and issuing posmuiea so freely and frequently. ' . ' Yours. &c. . TUCK AHO." ib. The fellow who is left in charge of the Vicksburg Whig says, that he has discovered that a communication sign ed 'Democrat,"' addressed to the. Free Trader, laudatory of Gen. Brown, was written by the licnerai inmseu. a ry it again Mr. striker, that won't do it only makes people laugh. You must invent something better than that if vou wi?h to show yourself a8mart Extract of a letter dated, Natchitoches,' July 5, 1839. The land sales are over, aud the large number of persons assembled here to attend them, have principally left. . A considerable amount of land was sold at prices ranging from 1 z.) In C I 75 ner acre. For some time boats of the largerclass could not make the city, and business was very uuu; but the river is .now rising rapidly. The Raft above has again formed for some three hundred yards. - ... - 1 1 , i i J. W. Moore, editor oi tne iwu River Whig, was shot opposite Alex andria on the 2d inst., by a Mr. Hols tein. Rfr. H. with two friends, await ed the aproach of Mr. M. at the ferry house, and when he came up told him he must recant what had, ucen earn relative to difficulties that had transpi red : which being refused, Holstein shot him and afterwards lied. ircc i ru der. , . ; Hon."' Mr.' "'Walker's , LirrTEit Friendly sh;c;estion. The. Natchez Daily Courier of yesterday says of the lion. Senator Walker's letter: "We wish he would publish six more just such, and put a copy of each into the hand of every man in thc.State.' In a friendly manner we would suggest to the Courier the publication of that let ter through its columns, as it will do so much "to arouse the whigs;" and lest our sincerity should be doubted we will suggest further that the friends of the principles contained in that letter, as-they arc strong advocates of the la borer's not being robbed of his wages either by banks or by uiigretcful poli ticians, would be willing to spay the Courier a fair compensation for tho tvne-settin and the space the letter may occupy in that paper. Ib." Mr. Mackenzie, the Rochester Dem ocrat savs. was sentenced to the prison in that city at his own request. The Terre Haqtc- Courier saysy line of packet boats now runs regular ly on the Wabash and Erie Canal," be tween Logansport and Fort Wayne, four times a week. ; " (KrThe new Court of Criminal Ses sions, at Philadclahia, passed 298 sen tences during the year ending May I, 1839. ' ' ."I don't know where that boy got his temper, he did not take it from me," "Why, no, my dear, I don't perceive that you have lost -any !'' was. the af fei tiohat reply of the spow. ,