Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1837-11-11
THE EVENTUAL ISSUE.

siou VI thS Odilh anu SNtIutitiH duSsuShs tu0
must strike the people of the Southern State
with much force. We alude TO the strong dis
position manifested at the North, to connect Ih
question Of Bank, or no Bank!" with "th
annexation of Texas TO the American Union,
and the ultimate abolition of slavery"
We have recently conyersed with a gentlema.
of intelligence, who, during the past summer, ha
travelled extensively through the New-Engant
States, and he assures US that such feeling i
becoming prevalent at the North, and that in tht
next Presidential election, all the influence of lht
three questions will be brought into requisition
and welded together, in favor of the Wing candt
date, be him whom he may.
The present, with Southern men, is an impor.
tant crisis. Perhaps 1t is the period when they
ought TO select, as to the party they shall hereai:
ter act with, and endeavor 10 array phalanx cal
cuated to withstand the Entertainments of theiI
quondam brethren upon Southern Institutions.
We are Eo alarmlsts. We never meet dan.
gers on the halfway ground. We may be de-
ceved as TO the "signs Of the times" but unless
we be, and that greatly too, many who have here
tofore so utterly denounced Mr.. Van Buren,, will
yet have TO yield him their support
Thus far, the administration of Mr. Van Blu
rem has been in favor of the wishes of the South,
In his inaugural address, he distinctly dsclaimed
any affinity OF feeling, or any indemnity of interests
with those fanatics, whose great object seems to
be the destruction Of that principle of compro-
mise and concessions" on which the Union is
founded.
MIR. Van Buren,, by his open and independent
course, has merited the appreciation of Southern
men, and should receive encouragement at their
hands, We call on them to lay aside their -tinl-
ca preludlces, and honceforth to rally with his
long-trled friends in defence of the principles of
the constitution, and for the perpetuity Of the
Unlon.--.MOntgomery .adrei User.
The fountain head.-The grand jury at Pater.
son, N. ~ indicted forty persons for selling
liquors, and then presented the court itself, as a
nuisance for having licensed as many grocers as
it had dom. The court refused to receive the
communication from the jury, and discharged that
body forthwith.
The Gulph piraies.-Look out for them!
The brig Margaret clipped it from New York to
this city in II days, having been chased off the
island of Cuba by topsah schooner containing
10 or 80 men--supposed to be Spaniards and
pirates. twould be well for the fleet Of Uncle
Sam now fitting cut to give these plunderers and
murderers hot pursuit and gentle capture.
Picdyune.
CONVENTION OF GERMAN CITizENs.-A
general convention of Germans in the United
States was held at Pittsburg, on the 18th inst
for the purpose of celebrating ON matters con-
nected with general literature, public education,
and the welfare of Germans in the United States.
A Nottingham (Eng.) paper gives a melan-
choly instance Of death by tight Iacing. A fine
young woman Of that place, died suddenly, after
long walk. The next day post morem exam
nation ofihe body took place, when il was found
that she had caused a pressure on the lungs and
viscera, from lacng her stays tightly to procure
TIM waist, which circumstance had caused pre-
disposition to acute inflammation.
A Loud Cal.-The Detroit Free Press
states as runner, that ladies' who 90 west. rre-
quently receive offers ofmarriage from speakiuo
humpets, before they reach the wharyes.
Practical Pun.--On a sun-dal, in VILLAGE
IN Kent, England, is the following inscription.
GIVE sHALLW which expressed no meaning 10
the observer, till a rustic explained the enigma
by small addition which made It read-@We
shall di-diF'
"Where is the hoe said southernor 10 ono
of his slaves. avid Ge barrow. Where Is
the bauowl" avid de hoe" sand where orc
they bothl "Why both together; de debil, mas !
sa-you want to pick fuss wild poor niger dis
Macbath was murderer, not because the |
witches predicted, but because the prediction |
aroused the thought Beware then of signs and
Po,cer Of Imagination. celebrated Dr..
Cullen, OF Edinburgh, had lin some of his lee
ures) stated that imagination was sometimes the
,ause OF disease. A few Of the students. heinz
leslrous TO bring the remarks of their learned nre.
eptor TO tho test of experience, left the CITY one
morning, expecting to fall in with simple wapo.
er, who they knew would come to Edinburoh
hat day. They arranged themselves so as to he
the distance OF about quarter of a mile from
ach other. The first on meeting the man. ac- |
osted him thus: "Jock, what is the matter with s
on! You seem very unwel." "Unwollw said
e; "dell ha is the matter with me. only wish ..
was in Edinburgh "--In few minutes he wns
et by second one, who with very serions +
ountenance said, "Dear me. Jock, what makes )
'u go abroad in such situationl You look a. S
lie as DEATH" II feel an unca' pain in INV e
'ad," said Jock; "and begin to be aufn' fired 9
am ganging along the road." lie was asked v
similar question by third. The poor fellow .
w began to believe he was really indisposed !; i
e felt sick at the stomach; and, 10 use Of h;s
IN words, "lIka bane in his body was 80 m
II, that he could scarcely gang any further. n Y
th, he dldna ken how TO baud up his head y b,