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The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-04-08
The North and The SOu.h

The Southern SubmiSsionislS, when
speaking of the possibility of a sepa-
ration and contest between the North
and South. are certain TO say that the
South would get whipped and defeated.
The New York Journal of Commerce
in an article on this subject. uses the
following bold and sensible language.
We commend it to the attention oi
our readers:
Again. it is said by some that the
South with 100000 slaves, would be
incapable of fcontending with the North
or any foreign nation. So far from
this, it is our deliberate opibian that
the South would be more powerful as
an independent nation, with her slaves
than without them. In carrying on
war a multitude of men are required
as teamsters, and for other manual la
bor For many such purposes ne
groes would be more useful than white
men, in a Southern climate; and be-
ing necessarily scattered, and In the
presence of an armed force, they could
not make the slightest resistance, il
disposed. But it is probably great
many of them would side with their
masters from affection and choice.
The South has double the white popu>
lation which the whole country had
during the war Of independence then
she has also mighty army in her
sickIy climate (sickly to northern con
stitutions) and wide extent of territory.
The South could, if necessary raise "a
force of 100000 fighting men; sulii-
cient to resist any army that could be
sent against them from any quarter
In short, we do not believe that there
is nation on the earth that could con-
quer the South. The North could not,
Great Britain with all her power could
not. NeitheI do we believe that
war with the South would give frees
dom to many slaves. Those near the
frontiers. would of course be early
sent into the interior, beyond the reach
Of scouting parties and Aboitionists
The English, IN the war of 1sl2-l5,
in spite of all their efforts, captured or
decoyed only about 5000 slaves, for
which they afterwards indemniiied the
owners" -
The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-04-08

CURE FOR THE TooTHAeng.--The fol
lowing receipt for the cure of this in>
toIerable disease, we clip from an old
exchange paper We advise all per-
sons afflicted with the toothache to try
it before going to dentist to have it
pulled out. ...e g-r
Fasten strong piece Of twiue to
The tooth that is to be drawn Out,
aud attach the other end OF the twine
to a brick. Then if the tooth be in the
upper jaw, stand on fence and let
the brick drop suddenly down. If the
tooth be in The under jaw, stand be
hind the fence, and throw the brick
over. That'll fix 'um. ea
The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-04-08

CAROLINA PREPARiNG TO MANUFAcTURT
HER OWN ARMs.--The Columbia Telegraph
says:
The Board Of Ordnance have been in ses,
sion here in the last four days. and are de.
voting themselves with energy and spirit to
their important duties. Werepeat our gra-
tlication at the Judicious choice made by
Governor Means in constituting the Board,
and at the equally judicous selection by the
Board, of Col, James H. Trapier, to fiji the
newly established post of Ordnance officer.
The information before the Board as to the
feasibility and expediency of procuring mil.
itafy supplies at home has been of the most
encouraging character, and our entorprising
artisans in every department have shown
every disposition TO carry out the wishes of
the Board. Arrangements are now on foot
which will secure the establishment of
permanent mandatory Of small arms in CO.
Iumbia, by competent and responsible per-
sons.
The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-04-08

A Coon ANECDoTE. - The following is
said to have occurred at New Orleans, dur.
ing the invasion of that quarter by che
British: ........ ..i.. ..r....
After the battle of the 23d December,
1914, in which both armies received nearly
the same injury, a subaItcrn British officer
was sent to the American line with a flag
Of truce. Being detained a little, he began
to converse with a corporal in our service,
respecting the probable issue OF events sthere.
lie stated ait was folly for the Americans
to resist any longer, as they must eventually
be beaten-tlat the troops opposed to them
were the flower Of the British army, who
had repeatedly vanquished the best veterans
on the continent Of Europe, and were COM
manded by Lord Packenham, Lord Pic.
ton, Lord Cochran, Lord Kean, anl many
others Of the abIest generals in Europe -
TO this the corporal replied Indignantly ::
"On our side we have the Lord God Al
mighty, the Lord Jesus Christ, and the
Hero Andrew Jackson. and III be d----d
if we don't whip you"
The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-04-08
From the Richmond Eraminer.

Since the adjournment of Congress. IN,
sectional question has merged into the con.
siderauon of South Cardinals movements
This State has made up her mind to secede
from the Union with all the proper forms.
That she has the same right 10 do it which
she had 10 come into the Union, is a propo-
sitlon which does not admit Of discussion.
The only Argument which the satellites Of
the administration can advance to the con.
trary, Is the threat Of brute force. This they
are urging with loud voices and many oaths
Mr. Daniel Webster, known through life rs
a most notorious potroon-thc same Web,
ster who was forced to write himself down
as liar and a coward by John Randolph of
Roanoke, and who has again and again ex-
hiblted in public that want of manlness
which has made his worst enemies hang
their heads. sets the keynote of the war
like talk in a letter to a Yankee " Union
meeting. All the spanies of the admins
traton are in full cry in consequence. "Se-
cession is war" if South Carolina at
tempts to exercise her indisputable right,
we will send United States troops there to
ravage her fields, burn her capitol, rape her
women and hang her men. Such is the
present discourse of the "brave" of Marsh.
field, the hero of the House, the pensioner
of Great Britain, and of his equally heroic
aunkeys in the Federal party.
Their distant truculence is matter of small
import to those who recoIlect the behavior
of this same party in every war we have ever
had with any people on the globe; who re-
member their petitions for peace; and who
have not forgotten the blue lights which
they kinded literally only on the shores of
Rhode Island and during our last war with
Britain: but which they burnt ia effect, on
every spot Of the land and in every contest
whether with England or Mexico,o or France.
But while they are nothing IN themselves,
they are deeply to be regretted by those
who desire the Unions perpetuity. Their
exasperating effect upon the justly angered
state cannot be calculated. If South Caro-
lima leaves the Union that depiorabe event
must be attributed to the bullying of the
even more than to the infa-
nous outrage on the South, known as the
"Iate happy adjustment of the slavery
disputes.
Should the day ever arrive in which the
federal government in the hands of fools,
tyrants and towards, attempts to coerce
sovereign State as it now threatens to do,
no doubt will remain whether the Union
onger exists, The day on which blood is
shed IN such quarrel will range every slave
holding State on the side of the oppressed,
their anda who i, ang but the too and
sycopAant OF daspotlc power
The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-04-08

SIR Robert PEEL,--In biography Of
this great statesman by the Dean OF York,
an account is given OF tic advocacy which
Peel gave to free trade, after having been
its strenuous opponent---the Dean remind
ded hun Of the loss OF friends by his change
Of position, to which Peel replied I" have
been long while in making up my mind
on this subject. ! long thought that free
trade was unwise and injudiclous, but, after
a serious and unprejudced investigation,
gathering information from many quarters;
incessiblc to any but minister ofthe crown,
am convinced that The happiness-pcr-
haps the existence of thousands and tens OF
thousands depends upon having free inter.
change of the necessaries of life. Can
allow any consideration Of consequences
which may, or may not happen to an indi.
viduaI, TO have the slightest weight in de-
termining a matter Of such universal inter
est. rh .#.r.e..l l. .f asa.lfE
The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-04-08

FROM OREGoN.~-The Oregon Spectator
says that mechanics labor of all kinds is
very high in Oregon, wages varying from
FIVE to twelve dollars a day. It records the
following incident, which shows that black.
smthng is about as profitable in Oregon,
as the most successful goId-dgging in Cali
iornia .....
Franklin Little, Of Washington, District
of Columbia, and Charles p Ludwig, OF st.
Joseph's county Michigan, have recently
left Oregon for the States with over $l2,-
900, made by fair hammcring, in a little
less than ten months They commenced
business together on the goth of February
last, with but little capital building their
shop, making their tools, except anvil and
wise, cutting wood, burning coal, and board.
ed aud lodged themselves. We are inform
ed by good authority that they made forty
two diamond poughs from the bar, laid
with steel, and finished complete in seven
days, in the latter part of November, com.
mencing at sunrise, and working 70 night
after nine O'Clock, the ptoughs averaging
thirty-fve pounds. This, at the customary
price, wouid be $l470. Deduot for cost OF
material S27O, leaving a nett profit OF $1,000
the largest amount Of money ever made
by two men, by fair mechanical labor in
the space Of time, in the Territory; and we
doubt very much if there is a parallel case
in any country. ta"
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TIE WoopvILLE REPUBLICAN is issued week
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or four dollars, if payment be delayed unit
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ADgERTisEHENTs inserted at 81 90 pei
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Where the number of insertions are not mark
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of the publisher, and charged accordingly
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The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-04-08

CusT OF DRUM EvST.ss AT n recent tenn
peronce meeting IN New York the Rev r.
S. Foster made an address, which we collect
some startling facts:
"Ile commenced by depicting, in elo-
qucnt language, the vices and misery pro-
duoed by intempcrance. il was lameala-
ble truth he said. that no less than two hun
dred aud CITY thousand duukafds were ans
nuallv mode in the United States by tine
liquor traffic; and during the year lSt9. in
the State of New York alone forty thou
sand persons were tried for offences COM
mitted while under the influences Of intox-
ica,ing liquor,
The expense Of these trials to the State
by estimating at about siO0 900, while the
taxation for the support OF pauperism caused
by intemperance, amounts 10 the annual sum
Of 500 900, independent Of SG00,0OO paid
yearly to the police force, two-thuds Of
" whom are employed for no other pnrposeF
than 10 arrest offenders who are made suSh
by the grog shops, of which there are ave
in this city. The speaker madea
calculation Of the money expended IN the
traffic of liquor IN the Uuited States, which
he said amounted 10 about Si6,00O,OUD
yearly. More was yearly spent for rum
than would build all the churches and school
houses, aud pay all ministers and teachers,
inthe United States"
The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-04-08

A MosT NATURAL REMARK.-An edi
tor at dinner table being asked if he
would take some pudding, replied, in a
fit of abstraction: Sowing to crowd
Of other matter, ! ain unable to find
room for it"
The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-04-08

BIG Gun - Joe Billings, romancing
Yankee, was Que evening seated in a bar
room of a country tavern in Canada, where
were assembled several old countrymeu dis
cussing various matters connected with the
'pomp and circumstances of war; ln the
course of his remarks, one OF them stated
that the British Government possessed the
, largest cannon in the world--and gave the
dimensions of one he had seen.
Joe's Yankee pride would not allow him
to let such an assertion pass uncontradcted.
"poh gen,lemeni' said he, 81 won't
deny that is fair sized cannon--but yort
are a kcetkc mistaken i'll supposing it to be
named the same minute with one Of our
Yankee guns which saw in Charestown
last year Jupiter! that 'cGS cannon
Why, sir, it was so Internally large, thar
the soldiers were obliged to employ a yoke
Of oxcn 10 dratc m tic 6atI'' .
"The deuce they were" exclaimed one
Of his hearers, with smile of triumph,
" pray can you tell me how they got the.
oxen out again y
Why, you foo" returned Joe, "thcy
Wiy0kca 'cm, dad ayore 'cw MroHgh ne
touch ho'c % #h.
The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-04-08
poRrRAIr OF Ma. CALHouN.-At meet

PORTRAIT OF Mr. CALHoUN.-At meet.
ing Of the City Council of Charleston on the
18th, letter was read from Mr. Hea y, the
artist, dated Paris, February q, informing
the Mayor that he would send the portalt
OF the late Hon. John c. Calhoun by the
steamer Franklin, which was 10 eave Havre,
ON the 9TH of March. Mr.. Heaiy says that
he had finished the picture IN lime for the
exhibition in Paris aud that it had been con.
sidered one Of the best portraits for the Sa.
Lon: that he bad made Mr.. Calhoun look a
little younger, and in better health for the
last three OF four years Of his life, and that
the exact size is four feet eight and hal
inches, by seven feet ten and aquarter inches
One thousand dollars was the sum stipulated
| to be paid for the portrait.
The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-04-08

OF the Eoglish, he classes $4,000 "a oi
Latin, French and Italian origin, 1000 Ger.
man, aud 4006 old British Webster's Die.
tionary ccntaius nearly 50 900 words.
The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-04-08

SIrUATIoN or New MExIoo.-A gentle
man now in tins city has furnished US with
the substance of a letter recently received
from his correspondent III Santa Fe. 1t ex
hlbits anything but satisfactory state o.
affairs in that Territory. The Indians, it i.
said, are completely overrunning the coun.
try. Il cannot get the aggregate of all the
stock taken from the Territory since the
United States took possession, but | can
give you the amount from two counties,
BernaHlo and Santa Anna, viz: Sheep,
146,7l4; horses, 979; mules, 872; cattle,
1901. VaIuing the sheep at 81 25, the
horses at $50, mules at $40, and cattle at
SIS, per head the loss in these two coun-
ties amounts to $26l, ,I57 So Since the
above estimate was made, the Navajoes
have taken from DR.. Connolly $500
worth of sheep more. From the town OF
Corraes, the Indians about ten days since
took all the stockholm three to five hun.
dred head of horses, cattle and mules. DR..
Connolly has lost twenty-six thousand head
of sheep in all, and has but three thousand
left. Don Jose Cnavis has lost forty thou
sand in all, leaving about five thousand and
a good many others have lost from five to
fifteen thousand. | have a list of all the
sufferers, and the amount of animals lost in
that district. Fifty-two thousand have been
run off in the last year AT the time Of
Connelly's last loss, the paStore went to a
military post, and informed the commanding
officer of the facts. A small party, under
the command of a sergeant, was sent In
pursuit. The pastore went as guide, but it
having showed after the sheep were run off,
he was unable t. find the trail and the SER
geant gave him a severe whipping, sent him
off, and returned to his post" IL is added
that the people are afraid TO inform the Off
GERS of these depredations. This may be So
but we are inclined to doubt it. There is
nothing in the character Of an American Of
ficer to justify any such presumption. They
are generally as prompt to protect American
property and American citizens, as they
would be to revenge personal insult, and
we believe they have shown themselves to
be so on every occasion.--St. Louis Rep
The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-04-08

CHANCE OF AN AMERICAN PopE.-The n.
Y York Sun says
1t is proposed 10y the Pope of Rome, to
appoint three Cardinals for the u. States.
One of these will doubtless be Archbishop
Hughes, of this city, who is now in Rome,
The rise and progress Of John Hughes is
indeed singular. From being a poor cab
bagc grower at the age Of 81, he rapidly
rose until he was appointed Bishop of New
York, then Archbishop, and now, the next
news will doubtless be that Cardinal
Hughes has set out on his return TO his
home in New York It is but one step from
Cardlna to Pope, and it would not be the
strangcstthng in the world ifa New Yorker
shoad next occupy the Papal Chair John
would make the best Pope they have had
for two centuries. With his thorough go-
ahead, American spirit, he would put new
life where now is Icthargy, and create an
entirely new order of things ont of present
chaos.
The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-04-08

WoEDs IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGEs.---Dr
Cochi, an Italian writer, contemporary Of
Pope, gives tins enumeration; ..-...
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KEEp HIN DowN,--Ay keep him down.
what business has poor man TO rise, with
out a uamc--without fricnls--without hon
orabe blood in his veins? We have Known
him ever since he was boy--wc knew his
father before him, and he was but a mechnn.
c--and what merit can the1e be in the
young stripping? Such is the cry of the
world when man Of sterling character
attempts to break away from the cords Of
poverty and ignorance and rise at position
of truth and horr The multitude are ex-
cited by envy--they cannot endure to be
surpassed by those who grew up with them
or their children side by side, and hence the
opposition a mau encounters in his native
place. Despite Of this feeling many noble
minds have risen from obscurlty and lived
down their opponents; but Others have
yielded to dscouragement--Ived in obscur-
ity, and "dled and made no sign" Let it
not be TINS with you, young man, Perse-
yero--mouht up and starilc the world. ..
The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-04-08

kErLy tn An lNTtnEi.--An American
traveller, being unexpectedly detainet
at the mole or quarantine OF Odessa
was very civily offered "a half of hi,
appointments and sofa TO lie on" by
a young Englishman, who acted a,
Translator 10 the mole. After they had
performed an intimate acquaintance
and one evening had retired to rest,
the traveller asked his friend how he
could endure the blasphemy which
was so constantly heard there. The
young Englishman replied, thar, las a
gentleman, these things were disagree.
able to him but rs TO their being in
trinsically wrong, it was no matter of
concern to him as he denied the truth
of all revelation"
The traveller without suppoSing the
remark would be needed, except by
courtesy, replied: "eilher Christ was
an impostor, or he was not. 1t he was
an impoStOr. we have the inconceiva>
Bile phenomenon of "A base man prac-
tisng virtue, seltdenial, charity, for
givenesS of injuries, through his whole
life, in spite of scourging contumcly
an even cruciHxion. Is it philosophi>
cal to suppose that bad man would
take so much pains TO make men good :
But if he was moi an imposter then he
has told the truth and we must believe
him y
as it possible that have never
seen that before Z" was the only reply
of the young Englishman; but the ar
gumenls sunk deep in his heart, and
when the traveller had arrived at AL.
exandria he rec csived "a letter from the
former skeptic, acknowledging hi,l
" as the best friend he ever had" en-.
couraging him to be equally faithful
to others; and praying him not TO lor~
get his Odessa convert" ua .a..a
American Messenger.
The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-04-08

HANS IS SUMNER TO preserve hams
during the summer, writer in the
,Genesee Farmer says:
Make number Of common cotton
bags, a little larger than your hams
after the hams are smoked, place them
in the bags then get the vcIy best
kind Of sweet, web made hay, cut
with "A cutting box or knife, and with
your hands press it well around the
hams in the bags; tie your bags with
good strings, put on card the year, to
show their age, and hang them up in
your garret or some dry place; and
my word for it, il You let them hang
for five years, they will he better for
boiling than on the day you put them
up. have kept them seven years..
and have some now that are four years,
old. This method costs but little. as
the bag lasts for years. The only loss
is the hay, and that the cattle will eat
if given to them in the winter. No
flies or bugs will trouble the hams if
the hay is well pressed around them,
the sweating of the hams will be taken
up by the hay, and the hay will impart
Il fine flavor 70 the hams.
The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-04-08

GooD.--We found the following
verse going the rounds in n party Of
ladies aud gentlemen a few evenings
since, and think it too good to be lost.
There is more truth than poetry in il.
/ Men brandy drink, and never think Go 5i
That girls at all can tell IL; sr4,etf ...r
They don't suppose womans nose
Was ever made to smell il. '''.
The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-04-08

0J7 An exchange paper says the
girls in some parts of Pennsylvania
are so hard up for husbands, that they
sometimes take up with printers and
lawyers. ,.,...
PRoGsEss IN EGYrr,-The Vieeroy in
Egypt has established schools at Char
toum in Nubia, l6 deg. north latitude
and has also appropriated S3750O0 10
improve the navigation OF the Nile.
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