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ooinmarasj aroaairsa EDITED AND PI'BLISHED WEEKLY, BT Wlf . It . II A R R 1 SO \ . CITY P R I.YT ER . [for the southfun museum ] THE YOI'SG MISAKTHKOFE. Alas delusive hopes! whv stay ye here To tempt me with your glittering spell : Why do ye longer bear a spirit up, Which, trusting you, hath ever fell ? ' Away, ye phantoms! on the heartless wind Breathe forth your last adieu to tuc ! No more attempt to gild the time to cotnc— But leave the future dark and free ! The eighteenth summer sun hath closed its course Which marks the period of my life : And yet my soul is sickened with the world, Its disappointment and its strife ! Ambitious of the praise and love of all, My object or my action fails— Yet none there are to say I have done well, No one my wounded spirit wails ! Mv heart still flutters in its prison-house, And strives, and hopes, but all in vain, For disappointment whispers in my ear ; The end thou never can'st attain ! Thou wert not born an heir to honor's worth. Thou hast no right to fame’s estate ; Thy glory is on mimic paper scroll : Thus hath decreed thine augur—Fate ! Aye, it is true ! —friends, fortune, all have failed, And left me in the world alone ! Young—ardent—aided by no kindred hand— A reed swept by the rising Rhone ! I’ve trusted in the wavering, fickle mind, And leaned upon deception's breast: The last forsook me, and the other changed— Both are but enemies at best ’ Farewell ! ye truants! bo your moments sweet, Your hours of pleasure unalloyed ; May never o'er your earthly pathway dawn A thought of him you have destroyed ! The beauty of your fascinuting gaze Was soulless, yet it bore away My love, to meet—as doth the sandy shore— The lashing of contemptuous spray '• And you have done your work, false, flatt'ring Base sycophants at friendship's shrine,[friends, You hate esteemed me, and ’lis over now, The power to gitc no more is mine ! Fly front mo ! vain pand’rers, foes in disguise t I’ll trust no unit of the crew— Get hence ! let not your nauseous skeletons Intrude again upon my view ! Oh, whither shall I go? I would escape The notice of my fellow-man ; Would hide me in some distant, barren isle, To drown my woe, ifmem'ry can ! And there, a hermit, converse with the wind ; The stars, the moon, and mine own soul ! That would be happiness, a perfect bliss, The summit of my loftiest goal ! Oh, cruel Time ! why wilt thou thus drag on, As cureless as the autumn sky ? W hy wilt thou thus prolong my misery ? Oh ! haste the hour when I must die ! Come, gentle Death,thou art most welcome now, Thine omen brings me heartfelt joy : Come, take thy captive, I surrender all, Thou can'st no other hopes destroy ! W. P. 11. Macon, Oct., 1648. SCENES OF THE EAST WAR. Thcfollowiug account of Mrs. Madison’s flight from Washington, and of the saving of Stuart’s portrait of General Wasning ton, when the Capital was taken by the English during rite iaie war, is from Mr. C. J. Ingersoll’s forthcoming history : Part of Colonel Carberry’s regiment of regulars was quartered not far from the President’s Heuse, in the large ball of which were stored munitions of war.— Two cannon, served by four aitillerists, were planted before the frontdoor. Mrs. Madison gathered the most precious cabi net papers, some clothing, and other im portant articles, packed in a carriage, and made ready for what all anticipated— flight. Dr. Blake, the Mayor of Wash ington, twice called to warn her of tho pe ril of her situation, and urge her depar ture. The four artillerists fled, leaving her alone in the house, with no attendants but servants, the most intelligent and reli able of whom was one called French John, Mr. John Siousa, a native of Paris, who came to this country as a seaman on hoard the French frigate Didon, accompanied by the Cybele, another frigate, in 1801, commissioned to take hack Jemme Bona- parte, whose marriage with a beautiful American \v>fe gave umbrage to bis ambi tious and imperious, and soon to be impe rial, brother. Talleyraud addressed bis master, the Emperor, when crowned, de ploring the “terrible degradation of a whole family of American cousins and then Mr. Siousa, with several others of the French crews, deserted from an impe rial navy to establish himself in this coun try, and become the father of sixteen re publican children. Living first in the ser vice of Mr. Merry, when British Minister to the United States, and afterwards of Mr. Erskine, from his family Mr. Siousa went to that of Mr. Madison, as his por ter, and is yet living, messenger of the Metropolis Bank of Washington. Not long after the Mayor’s second call on Mrs. Madison, pressing her departure, she still lingering for tidings of her husband, his faithful, btave young slave, returned with his master’s last note, in pencil, directing her to fly at once. The horses already harnessed to the carriages, were ordered to the door, and with her female servants in one, and only a little black girl in her own, Mrs. Madison drove off. Ihe afternoon before, Mr. Uonrge W. P. Custis, of Arlington, on the other side of the Potomac, opposite to Washington, grandson of Mrs. Custis, General Wash ington's wife, in whose family lie was brought up—a gentleman fond of painting and of all memorials of his grandmother’s husband, particularly every variety of por traits of Washington —called at the Presi dent’s to save a full length picture which has been among the few ornaments of the Presidential Mansion during is ten in cumbencies, from that of Adams, on the removal of the seat of government, in 1800, to the District of Columbia. The picture, in ISI4, hung on the west wall of the large dining-room, instead of the east wall of the small parlor, where it is now. The President ptomised Mr. Custis that it should be taken care of, and Mrs. Madi son deemed it her duty not to leave such a trophy for the captors. It is one of Wash ington’s likenesses, by Stuart, stamped with his superiority as a portrait-painter, the head and face strongly resembling the original. Negligent as Stuart was of all but the face of his pictures, the person of \\ ashington was left for another artist, W instauley, to whom President Adams' sou-in law, Wm. Smith, stood for the bo dy, limbs, posture, and manner of his parody ; so that Washington’s ta 1 gaunt ligure, his shape, air and attitude, are much better given by '1 riimbull’s repre sentation of him in the several historical pictures which fill panels in the rotunda at the Capitol. Mrs. Madison, with the carving knife in her hand, stood by while French John and others strove to detach the picture uninjured from its heavy ex ternal guilt frame, and preserve it whole on the inner wooden work, hy which it was kept distended and screwed to the wall. Charles Carroll, of Bellevue, a gentleman intimate in the President’s fam ily, entered from the affair of Bladons burg, while the French porter, Jilin .Siousa, and Irish gardener, 1 liomas Mc- Gaw, were labeling wi.li a hatchet to take down tlie picture, and remotis'rated against Mrs. Madison risking her capture for such an object, which, Mr. Carroll urged, ought not to delay her departure. Her letter to her sister, Mrs. W ashing ton, states that the picture was secured before she left the house. Mr. Siousa, wlio is highly worthy of credit, thinks she was gone before it was done, as her letter expresses the accomplishment. The 1i ish gardener, to whose aid, in the midst of the work, Mr. Jacob Barker came in, nc cording to tnousa’s recollection, while lie was gone to bring an axe, got the picture down from the wall, and placed it in the hands of Mr. Barker; with whom, ac cording to Siousa’s statement, there was no other person except a black man, whom .Siousa took for Mr. Barker’s servant. — Carried off, upheld whole in the inner wooden frame, beyond Georgetown, the picture was deposited hy Mr. Barker in a place of safety. The presidential house hold god, the imago of the Father of his Countiy—by whom its chief city was fix ed near his home, and by whose name it is called—was thus snatched from the clutch or torch of the barbarian captors. Such, as near as it can be ascertained, is the truth of its rescue, which has been em broiled in newspaper polemics by several claimants to part of the honor. Mrs. Madison, driving to Georgetown, went first to the residence of the Secreta ry ot the Navy, then to Bellevue, and, joined hy the families of Mr. Jones and Air. Carroll, returned to the town, insist ing that her terrified coachman should take her hack towards the President’s House, to look for him ; whom she unex pectedly found near the lower bridge, at tendee by Mr. A ion oe and Mr. Rush, who all reached the President’s House soon after she left arid stopped there a few minutes foi refreshments. Colonel Laval, with some of his dragoons, the regulars, and a company or two of volunteers, also stopped there, thirsting for drink, which was furnished in buckets of water and bot tles ol wiue, set befo e the door for a hur ried draught: during which short stay many things were taken out of the house by individuals; most of them, probably, to be secured and restored, as some were, but not all ; for the Secretary of the Trea sury s fine duelling pistols, which the Pre- sident took from his holsters and laid on a table, were carried off, and never recov ered. As soon as the executive and mili tary fugitives disappeared, Siousa, solita ry and alone in the house, who had before secured the gold and silver mounted car bines and pistols <the Algerine minister, which are now in the Patent Office, car ried the parrot to Colonel Tayloe’s resi dence, and left it there, in charge of the french minister’s cook : and then, return ing, shut all the doors and windows ofthe President’s House, and, taking away the key with him, went, for security’, to the residence of Dasclikoff, the Russian min ister, then at Philadelphia. The Britisli brose open the house and burned it, as before stated, without discovering, as is believed, anything they deemed vvoithy of preserving. If they found a feast there, as one of them relates, like harpy’s food, it was consumed in the orgies of their fil thy debauch. \\ bile the ladies of Mr. Jones’ and Mr. Carroll s families lingered in Georgetown tor Mrs. Madison, she accompanied her husband to the bank of the Potomac, where one small boat was kept ready, of the many others all sunk or removed hut that one, to transport the President, Mr. Monroe, Mr. Rush, Mr. Mason, and Mr. Carroll to the Virginia shore. The boat was too small to carry all at once, so that several trips were necessary, as the shades of night set in upon them like departin'* spirits leaving the world behind, to beset“ lied over an inevitable tityx. President, secretary, at’omey, and commissary gen eral seemed condemned to an immortality ofat lea-'t contempt and malediction in the world. About that time, it must have been, if ever, (as Mrs. Madison is clear in her recollection was the case at some time,) that Cockburn’s proffer readied them of an escort for her to a place of safety ; for it was impossible till nightfall, till when he did not enter the city : imperfect rem embrance of which event may give color to Geueral Armstrong’s impression, deri ved from I)r. Thornton, that Ross and Cocburn tendered the President a propo sal fir a ransom of the pub'ic buildings ; two distinct proposals, if any such were made, of which the escort for her was de clined, and the ransom of the city repulsed with disdain. Mrs. Madison, after seeing her husband over the river, drove back, attended by John Graham and nine volunteers cavalry, to her female companions, the families of Mr. Jones and Mr. Carroll,in Georgetown. The President’s orders were to pass the night wherever she could find a conven ient, safe place in Virginia, and join him next day at a tavern sixteen miles from Georgetown, which was the appointed place of meeiing. Moving slowly onward the road encumbered with baggage wa gons and o'her hindrances, their progress was so tedious that the ladies sometimes left their carriages and walked, as the least irksom and dangerous mode of proceeding in the midst of tumult, till they reached after nightfall the residence of Mr. Love, two miles and a half beyond Georgetown, on the Virginia side of the Potomac, where they begged a night’s rest. Mr. Love, was abroad with the troops, but soon re turned. His lady, indisposed, made the best arrangements practicable for so large an irruption of unexpected inmates, for whom sofas and other substitutes for beds were arranged as well as could be ; and they passed a frightful, miserable night, all disconsolate, several in tears, Mrs. Madison sitting at an open window gazing on the lurid flames and listning the hoarse murmurs of the smou'de'ing city, while several hundred disorderly militia around the house aggravated the din and begrim ed the gloomy scene. Before daylight the next morning, the caravan of affrighted la dies, in sad procession, took their depar tire, under Mrs. Madison’s lead, for the rendezvous appointed with the Piesident. Consternation was at its uttermost ; the whole region filled with panic-struck peo ple, terrified scouts roaming about and spreading alarm that the enemy were com ing from Washington and Alexandria, and there was safety nowhere. Among the teirible rumors, one predominated that Cochrane’s proclamation was execu ted by Cockburtt, inducing the slaves to revolt, and that thousands of infuriated ne groes, di unk with liquor and mad with e mancipaiion, were committing excesses worse than those at Hampton the year be -1 re. subjecting the whole country to their horrid outrages. About noon the air was charged with the two-fold electricity of panic and < fa storm, as the ladies pursued their weary and disconsolate retreat. Gen- Young, commanding a brigade of Virginia militia, in bis official report to the inves tigating committee of the House of Rep resenta ives, says that they were delayed on their march to join General Winder, “by an alarm of a domestic nature, which he was so credulous as to believe, from the respectability of the country people who came to him for protection ; lie halted his brigade and sent out light troops and one troop of cavalry to ascertain the fact, which finally proved erroneous.” The terror of Cockburn’s formidable enormi ties was more conquering than arms. General Young next day actually stopped Mrs. Madison, insisting that she must not be suffered to go without an escort. Curran’s Ingenuity. — A farmer attending a fair with a hundred pounds in his pocket, took the precaution of depositing it in the hand ofthe landlord of the public house at which he stop ped Having occasion for it shortly afterwards, he resorted to mine host the bailment, but the landlord, too deep for the countryman, wonder ed what hundred was meant ; and was quite sure no such sum had ever been lodged in his hand by the astonished rustic. After ineffectual appeals to the recollection, and finally to the honor of Bordolph, the farmer applied to Curran for advice. ‘Have patience my friend,’ said the counsel, ‘speak to the landlord privately,and yourmoney with some other person. Take a friend with you, and lodge with him another hundred in the presence of your friend, and come to me.’ We must imagine and not commit to paper, the vociferations of the honest dupe, at such advice ; however, moved by the rhetoric or au thority of the worthy counsel, he followed i l and returned to his legal friend. ‘And now sir, I don’t see as 1 am to be any better for this, if 1 get my second hundred again. But how is that to be done ?’ ‘Go ask him for it when he is alone,’said Cur ran. ‘All, sir, but asking won t do, I’m afraid, with out my w itness at any rate,’ said the countryman. ‘Never mind, take my advice,’ said the coun sel ; ‘do as I bid you, and return to me.’ The farmer returned with his hundred glad at any rate, to find that safe again in his posses' sion. j ‘Now’, sir, 1 suppose I most he content—but I don't see as 1 am much better ofiV ‘Well, then, said the counsel, now take vour friend with you, and ask the landlord for" the hundred pounds your friend saw you leave with him.' We need not add that the wily landlord found he had been taken off his guard, while our hon est friend returned to thank his counsel,with both hnudreds in his pocket. A wag the other day aid to his friend—‘how many knaves do you suppose live in this street beside yourself?’ ‘Besides myself,” replied the other, in a heat ; “do you intend to insult me ?’’ “Well, then said the first, “how many inclu ding yourself?” COTTOSf STATISTICS. The London Economist publishes the following estimate of the supply and con sumption of Cotton for the year 1849 : Manchester, April 12, 1819. Sir :—As I have made free use of the cotton stat istics contained in your last num ber, I think it but civil to you to send you the result of the calculation. My enquiry has been to find how far we are likely to be overwhelmed with 2,600,- 000 bales from America, supposing all other countries to send us the same quan tity as last year. The Brazilian and other imports I have taken from Hollinshead, Tetley & Co.’s circular, dated December 29, 1848, and have added 30,000 bales to it for imports into London and Glasgow from those countries. The whole growth of American being taken, requires no ad dition. The summary of the whole is, that the whole growth of cotton at the present rate will go into consumption, and that the stock at the end of 1849 will be more like ly to be reduced than increased. According to the tables in the Econo mist of April 7, 1849, it appears that : 1848-49 1847-48 Bales. Bales. The number of bs. nf cotton taken consumption in the U. Estates of America, from Sept. 1, 1848, (date of the N. Y ork cott’n state ment,) to March 13, 1849, is 323,626 ag’st 269,595 America has there fore consumed 323,626 bales in 194 days. If 194 days, 323,626 bs; 7 days 11,677 bs. weekly. Exported from the United States of America to all other countries, omitting Great Britain, between Sept. I, 1848, and March 13, 1849—194 days, 307,757 ag’st 358,659 If 194 days, 307,- 757 bales; seveu days, 11,105 bs. weekly. Cotton exported from G. Britain toothercountries between Jan. 1, 1849, and March 31, 1849—90 days. 51,200 ag’st 19,500 If 90 days, 51,200 bales; 7 days, 3,- 982 bales weekly export. Consumption of Cot’on in Gr’t. Britain betw’n Jan. 1, 1849, and March 31, 1849—90 days, 411,814 ag’st 326,429 If 90 days, 411,814 bales; 7 days,32,- 030 hales weekly consumption. Bales. Weekly consumption of Cot ton in the United St3tes of America 11,677 Weekly exportsfrom America to other countries, omitting Great Britain 11,105 Weekly exports from Great Britain to other countties 3,982 Weekly consumption of Great Britain 32,030 Weekly total consumption 58,894 If 1 week, 55.794 bs; 52 weeks 3,057,288 Estimated growth of the Uni ted States of America, 2,600,000 Imported into Liverpool in 1848 of Brazilian Cotton 100,201 Peruvian 1,816 West India, Carthagena, &c. 4 161 Egyptian 27,820 East India 136,012 Import into London from oth er places, omitting the Uni ted States, suppose 30,080 Total supply of Cotton for ’49 2,900,090 On the supposition that the present rate of consumption should be maintained in England, America, and on the continent of Europe, for the remainder of the year 1849, the requirement would be 3,057,288 The estimated growth of cot ton available for the year 1649, is 2,900,000 Deficiency in hales 157,198 1 am, sir, yours, very respectfully, H. HEYCOCK. Mammoth Mules. —The Cincinnati papers speak of an exhibition there of two mules from Scott county, Kentucky, which are the largest ever seen in that city. One, a black mule, four years old, eighteen hands high ; the other, the same age, a brown female, also eighteen hands high. The two were put on the scales together ' and found to weigh 3,000 pounds. The price demanded for them is S2OO each. Both raised by J Mr. Thomas, in Scott county. O' The Gold Dollar, a beautiful coin, a trifle smaller than a five cent piece, was issued on the i Ist of Mav. MACON, G A . SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 2, 1649. The Revival. —This work is still in progress! and vve believe this is the fourth week of its continuati >n, with service morning and night. Seventy-five persons, up to the present time, have been taken on trial for the Methodist con nection. Delegates to the Memphis Convention. Governor Towns has appointed the fol lowing gentlemen to attend the Conven tion on the 4th of July next, to take into consideration the project of building the Pacific Railroad : John P. King, A. J. Miller, Chas. J. Jenkins, Wm. Schley, Wm. Cumming, James Gardner, Wm. M. Smythe, Wm. M. D’Antignac, Rob’t F. Poe, Thomas Berritt, Henry Cumming, W. T. Gould, Isaac Scott, L. O. Reynolds, Elam Alex ander, A. H Chappell, Washington Poe, Dr. Robt. Collins, Samuel J. Ray, S. T. Chapman, Chas. Day, Wm. B. Johnston, R. A L. Atkinson, A. P. Powers, Benj. T. Bethuue, H. V. Johnson, D. C. Camp bell, Wm. S. Rockwell, Miller Grieve, Iverson L. Harris, R. R. Cuyler, J. M. Berrien, Wm. Law, W. B. Bulloch, M. 11. McAllister, John W. Anderson, R. M. Charlton, Jos. W. Jackson, Francis S. Bartow, John E. Ward, E. Padelford, Andrew Low, Richard Wayne, John 11. Howard, Marshall Wellborn, Alfred Iver son, Seaborn Jones, Hines Holt, John G. Winter, A. H. Flewellen, John Banks, Wiley Williams, Walter 'l'. Colquitt, Da niel McDougald, Daniel Griffin, Howell Cobb, Wm. M. Morton, Asbury Hull, Henry G. Lamar, Wilson Lumpkin, Hop kins Holsey, E. L. Newton, Robt. V. Hardeman, A. F. Owen, 11. H. Tarver, Charles West, John West, J. W. Jones, Richard Peters, Jr., Win. L. Mitchell, Charles Murphy, Albert Wellborn, Joel Crawford, Wm. H. Crawford, W. H. Reynolds, Wm. Taylor, Nelson Tift, Rich ard 11. Clark, E. R. Brown, Wm. J. John son, Chas. J. McDonald, Thos. C. Hack ett, John L. Lumpkin, Turner H. Trippe, A. D. Shackleford, Wm. H. Underwood, Leander W. Crook, Wm. C. Dawson, A. H. Stephens, Robert Toombs, Hugh A. Haralson, Thomas B. King, Geo. Phil lips, Wm. B. Wofford, George R. Gilmer, Wm. McKinley, John W. Iturney, Wm. Terrell, Geo. R. Jesup, Augustus Reese, John B. Walker, Robert D. McMillan, Garnett Andrews, Simson Fouch, Seaton Grantland, Wm. B. W. Dent. U* W. 11. Bulloch, Esq., for many years Editor of the Savannah Georgian, has retired from that establishment, having disposed of his interest in the Georgian to Mr. S. S Siblev, late of the Tallahassee Floridian. The Cholera. —The New York Mirrorstates that this disease does actually exist in the heart of the city, and denounces those who endeavor to conceal the fact. The cholera is rapidly increasing in the West, extending as far as California. We see the Authorities in Charleston are urging the citizens to use all precautionary measures to prevent the appearance of this fear ful disease amongst them—and vve think the citizens of Macon would.do well to follow their example, ere it be too late. Let lime be freely used about their premises. (PJ* Gen. Twiggs arrived in Augusta a few days since, in very good health. He is on a short visit to his family. The Public Meeting on Saturday Last. We published in our last only the Resolutions which were passed at the meeting ofthe Citizens on that day, and now insert the official proceed ings, together with the protest of the minority. The question at issue admits of an honest differ ence of opinion we think, and regret that it has not been generally viewed in that light. We have heard unkind remarks made against those who are in favor of the connection of the Rail Roads at this city, as being influenced by sinister motives—which we believe to be unjust to those gentlemen, many of whom have been identified with the trade of this city for fifteen or twenty years past. Our purpose in noticing these un’ generous inuendoes, is to awaken inquiry into this subject—to repel the unjust charges so far as we are concerned, and not to defend those gentlemen with whom we coincide—they are competent to the task when necessary to do so. We shall give only a few ofthe reasons which influenced our judgment on that occasion—lst After having carefully read the charter of the South Western Railroad Company, we were not satisfied hut that it conferred upon them the right to commence the Road at East as well as West Macon ; and ifso, there was not much doubt in our mind, but that they could cross the Ocmttl gee river below the Bridge, only subjecting the Company to such damages as might be assessed by a competent jury, for the injury done the city by depreciating the revenue from the Bridge, &.c --—There being but two barriers in the way, the one above stated and the other, the procuring of the right of way for the Road through the Reserve owned by the State, broadside up to the city,and within about two or three hundred yards of the Bridge; the latter objection being merely nominal as vve have no doubt the next Legislature will readily grant not only the right of way through said Reserve, but authorize a junction of the Roads passing around the City, upon such terms us the Companies may agree upon, regardless of the wishes of the citizens of Macon. As the Central Railroad Company were known to he favorable to the connection, and owning a Depot in East Macon, what but the question of dam ages could prevent a junction there ? Read the following in the charter of the South Western Railroad Company, and see if it could notbeua. derstood to bear the construction we have put upon it: “Sec. 19. Be it farther enacted , That the said Company shall have full power and authority t 0 carry such Railroad over all and any Rivers creeks or water courses that may be in the route thereof, or of either Branch Railroad, by suit*, ble Bridges or other means. Provided, That when such Railway shall cross any navigable watercourse, that the same shall not he so con structed as to impede, or in any way obstruct the navigation thereof.” But admitting that they have not the right to cross at the point named above, can they not commence at or near the Central Railroad Depot in East Macon and cross above the city for lest than many are disposed to demand for the right to connect the Roads in the city, which has been variously estimated at from $50,000 to $500,000, besides pro rata rates, &c. Now we honestly believe these exactions will never be submitted to by these Companies—consequently they will in all probability go round the city. We would direct the attention of the reader to the follow, ing remarks of the Editor of the Marietta Advo cate, (who was the Senator from that District in the last Legislature,) in relation to the proceed ings in this city on Saturday last. He says, among other things, “ the fact is, that the people of Cherokee Georgia must have a continuous Railroad route to the seaboard. If they cannot get it by one line, they will by another. They will obtain it ultimately. We are confident they will obtain it, without wronging the interests of any class or place or section. We are not now going to argue te question of right for, or against l he junction at Macon. If this cannot be seen, red without injustice, it behooves this section of the State to look for another route, and to make it to the interest of other parties to aid in secu- ring it. From Warrenton to Davisboro’ is little over thirty miles, from Forsyth to Milledgeville only fifty; from Madison to Milledgeville but forty-four. A connecting road on any of these routes would suit the interests of Cherokee Georgia, because it would secure an uninterrup ted communication by railroad with our sea port. It is true that a road may not be built on any of these routes for years to come. It is equally true, that if built on any of them, the stock, with the existing break at Macon, would be as good as any in the State, if not better.” But again, we have no faith in the proposed Railroad from this city to the Georgia Railroad, because no capitalist in the country will invest his funds in the Stock of that Road with the fear ful odds against it in favor of Savannah, of some eighty miles, which will enable the latter to compete successfully with the Road at any rate of transportation—particularly w hen the Savan nah market is always better to the shipper from this point, than the Charleston market, even when cotton is worth a quarter of a cent per lb. more in the latter than the former city. Thii information we have from one of the most ex tensive merchants in this city, whom vve know to be incapable of misrepresentation. This Rail Road Company has been chartered eighteen months, and we heard more about it last Satur day than at anytime previous, and its friends had belter get subscriptions pretty soon, as if we mis take not, ifit is not commenced previous to the the next fall, the charter will be forfeited.— We know this road would benefit Macon, ifonce completed, but as we have no beliefin the patriot ism of trade, therefore doubt that this project will ever be entertained by any one to a sufficient extent to induce him to in vest his money in the enterprise. Who will subscribe for the stock in this Railroad in Bibb county. Now suppose vve are correct in our views, what becomes of the city of Macon when thrown in opposition to her rivals on all sides ? Had she not better endea vor to enter into “concession and compromise’ before the prejudices of the Railroad influence as well as of the people shall become excited a gainst her? Wc think so decidedly, and hope the considerate portion of our fellow citizens 1 will give this subject the serious consideration which its importance demands. It has been asserted that in theeventofaeon nection of the Roads in thiscity, rea! estate would | immediately go down twenty five per cent. list this been the effect on property at Griffin and ; Atlanta—or in the twenty towns on the railroad linos from Albany to Buffalo, New York, (in an agricultural country, where there are six rail road companies, within the distance of three hun dred and fifty miles ?) But what will be the condition of Macon if these Roads run round her, with the prejudices which will obtain a mong the country people against her? Can an; one tell ? What would have been her trade thit season, without the Central Railroad ?—refer to the cotton statement in another column and cal culate the freights at $2 per hundred pounds in stead of 45 cents, and say if you can that railroads are of no benefit to the community. We have given a few of tho reasons which have influenced us to decide in favor of the junc tion ofthe Railroads in our city—the question of connection in the abstract, vve do not consider an open one at all—and if it were, the citizens of Macon would have no authority to act in tit® premises beyond the corporate limits ofthe city The Central Railroad and South Western Kail road Companies have already agreed upon 1 connection of their Roads, and a valuable con sideration paid therefor by the former, ifvve mi*’ take not—ifso, we have no doubt that thisjucc-1 tion will take place in some wav or other,wheth er the citizens of Macon desire it or not—el 1 " | that too in less than two years from this day- We have noticed this affair not for the purpo*' of adding to the angry passions which have > i ready been unfortunately aroused in this com® 11 nity, but simply to state some of the reasons. ** before stated, which influenced our judgment 19 the matter —and subsequent events have strength . ened those convictions. We shall not howe vcr ' I shrink from a discussion of this or any othef - 1111 ject connected with the public good, should ” deem it necessary to do so, regardless alik 6 • tile sneers or threats of those who disagree w us in opinion on this subject.