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EDITED ASD PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY
wn. « . IIAKKISOS.
CITY PRINTER.
[for the southern mus'ecm]
My Life l# like the Summer Skiti.
A PARODY.
My life is like the Summer skies,
‘ In clearest span and azure hue ,
But soon the dark'ning clouds arise,
And vivid lightnings each pursue
Yet forthe sweet and cooling rain,
The flowers look up and smile again :
Whilst I, o’erwhelmed with clouds of care,
Think not, again it will be fair.
My life is like the bubble foam
That floats with varied colors gay,
Which will at slightest touch become
But air again, and wat'ry spray.
Yet as it bursts the dimpled sea
Will rise and fall, as if in glee :
Whilst each dissolving pleasure I
Behold, nor think man, too, must die !
My life is like the autumn eve—
Ere yet the radiant sun hath set—
’Tis beauteous then, but night shall weave,
And shround all nature in her net.
But when the daylight’s moments close,
Man’s toils are lost i; sweet repose :
Whilst I to slumber yield my breath,
Nor think there is a Sleep of Death I
W. P. H.
From ihe Memphis (Term.) Eagle, June 5.
Letter from lion. John C. Calhoun on the
Memphis Convention.
Fokt Hill, May 26, 1849.
Gentlemen—l have received your invi
tation in behalf of the citizens of Memphis,
to be present at a meeting of ci izens from
every part of the country, to be held there
on the 4th of July next, for the purpose of
aiding, by expressing public opinion, the
project of constructing a Railroad from the
Valley of the Mississippi to the Pacific
ocean.
I would be happy to accept your invita
tion, and to bo present on the occasion,
but regret to state, that I have an engage
ment with which I cannot dispense, and
which will not permit me.
The object of your meeting T regard as
very important. Os all the projects of the
age, I consider it as the one of the greatest
magnitude, viewed either in its commer
cial or political aspect. It would do mot e
than any other to facilitate intercourse be
tween the two great oceans of the globe
the Atlantic and the Pacific—and thereby
unite commercially and politically, the
Western coast of this Continent and the
Eastern coast of the old, far more intimate
ly than they have ever heretofore been.
The Valley of the Mississippi would be
come the common centre of the intercou. se
between the two oceans and the extremes
of both continents, with all the great bene
fits it would confer.
Thus far, there can be no dsvision of
opinion ; but it remains to be determined
whether a Railroad is practicable; at what
point, if it is, should ii commence on the
Mississippi and terminate on the Pacific ?
and what intermediate tract should it take
between ? what will he its cost ? and what
plan should be adopted for its execution ?
All these questions should bo deliberately
and carefully settled before the work is
undertaken. Nothing ought to be hastily
or precipitaely done in a ca-e of such mag
nitude. A careful reconnoisance and an
actual survey, where necessary, ought to
be made by able and faithful engineers of
all the routes, preparatory to determining
ilic question of pract.caoility j and, if found
to be so, to determine what would be the
shortest, the most easily constructed, the
cheapest, and the most open and readily
passed over at all seasons, and what the i
actual cost of constructing each would be.
All this information would be necessary to
determine the point at which it should com
mence on the Mississippi and terminate
on the Pacific. But in determining on
these points, other considerations would
have to be taken into the estimate. In
determining the former, it will have to be
considered, first, what point on the River
will best suit its valley, and in the next,
what will best suit the rest of the Union,
all things considered ! —the former would
involve the question, what point will, at all
seasons, be m >st easily, cheaply and cer
tainly approached by its waters, including
its great tributaries'? And the latter, the
question,what point would, in like manner,
be approached by Railroad from other
portions of the Union ? These are ques
tions which will demand, at the proper
tine, grave and careful examination. The
selection should be made in reference to
the general good of the whole Union, and
not in leference to any particular portion.
The selection of the point of terminus
n the Pacific will he less complicated
The goodness of the port, its position in
reference to the general trade of that
ocean, and the facility of reaching it by a
railroad, should be consideied in determi
ning it.
But candor compels me to 6tate, there
still remains another and greater question
for us of the South to determine before
we finally dcc.de what course we should
take iu reference to this great project,and
fiat is : what position are we to occupy
in reference to our territories on the Paci
fic, acquired from Mexico by ihe late trea
ty with her ? Are we to be excluded
from them ? Are vve, after having spent
so much of our blood and treasure for
their acquisition, to be deprived, contrary
to the provisions' of the Constitution, and
in violation of every principle of equity
and justice, of our equal right in them ?
Are they to be made the means of our hu
miliation and subjection to the rest of the
Union, instead of our prosperi y ? And,
if so, shall we still go on, and spend mill
ions on millions, in addition to what we
have already, in aggrandizing thereat of
the Union at our own expense and for our
subjection ? I trust not- I trust we shall
pause uuiil it is ascertained how we are
to stand, as to those territories and the
rest of the Union, before we decide final
ly on our course in reference to the sub
ject of the meeting. In the meantime
steps may be taken to obtain information
preparatory to decision ; but let us reserve
that until we can see ichat interest we are to
have in the work.
With great respect, I am. See.,
J. C. CALHOUN.
Messrs. Robinsimi Topp, M. B. Winches
ter, Jno. T. Trezevant, and others of
the Committee of Correspondence.
MACON, G A .
SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 16, 1849.
Concert. —lt will be seen by reference to the
advertisement in another column, that Mr. Herz
will give another of his admirable Concerts at the
City Hall this evening. The lovers of good
music sliould not fail to attend on the occasion,
as those who witnessed the performances last
evening were highly delighted with them.
Latest from Europe. —We received the
telegraphic accounts yesterday, per Cambria,from
Liverpool to the 2d inst. which report previous
rates, say 4Jd.for fair Upland cotton, with .large
sales.
Another M urder.— Wc learn that Mr. James
Moore had his throat cut in Houston county, on
Thursday last, by a negro man belonging to Mr.
Robert Freeman, by whom the deceased was
employed as an overseer. The negro made his
escape.
The Crops. —The weather for several weeks
past has been very favorable for the growing
crops, and the present appearance is favorable
for a good cotton crop in this section, tliero be
ing plenty of blooms in all the counties around
this. The corn also looks fine, and the wheat
has yielded much moae abundantly than was an
ticipated it would do a few months ago.
O'At a meeting in this city on Saturday last,
Messrs. W. B. Johnston, S. T. Chapman, S. R
Blake and Wm. D. Williams, were chosen
Delegates to represent the Whig party of Rilib
couniy in the Convention to assemble at Mil.
ledgeville on the 25th inst. in nominate a candi
date for Governor to bo supported by the Whig
parly ofGeorgia at the election in October next.
p* We have received the first number of the
“Atlanta Intelligencer," a neat weekly paper,
published by a company of gentlemen of Atlanta
and edited by Dr. J. S. Baker, who wields a
ready pen. May its success be commensurate
with its merit.
OjTW e learn from the Cherokee papers that
several portions of the Cherokee section of this
State have recently been visited by very severe
hail storms, which have done great damage to the
/arms, roads, &c.
ffj*A company of some fifty or sixty Bavarian
emigrants are about settling in the neighborhood
of Dalton. They are represented as highly res
pectable.
O’Wo learn from a telegraphic despatch in
I the Charleston Mercury, that the lion. James
K. Folk, at the last accounts, was dangerously
ill with cholera at Nashville.
Triumph ok American Industry. — The New
| York Dry Goods Reporter says . “ During the I
past week we have had our attention called to !
| another triumph of American manufactures,
that of producing Franch bareges. For the entire
season our auction rooms have been crowded
with these goods. The tissues of this material
are imported and printed hy the Yankees at a
profit in this country. A largo quantity ofcash
meregoods are now being prepared in this way
for the fall trade—almost enough, it is said, to
exclude the importation of the foreign articles.
Important Decision.— The N. Orleans Bul
letin says : “in the United States Court in this
city, Judge McCalcb presiding, it has been deci
ded that money in bank deposited be an auction
eer, though in his private name, cannot bo at
tached for his own debts. The auctioneer being
a public officer, the money of his constituents
cannot be made liable for any of his private en
gagements, agreeably to articles 2582 and 2583
of tho Civil Code.
O’ Aliss Edgeworth, tho distinguished nov
elist, died on the2lst ult- after a few hours ill
ness, in the the 62d year of her age. Up to a
very recent period she had enjoyed uninterrup
ted health.
O'Cholera had very much abated in France.
Whole number of cases received at 17 of the
Paris hospitals to 15th ult. 3291, of which 1857
(more than half) terminated fatally.
U’Jenny Lind has left England unmarried ;
it is supposed to take counsel of her friends about
her contemplated change of condition.
The Loudon Sun gives a rumor to whicj,
it seems to attach little credit. It says :
“The projected marriage is broken off, on
the ground of settlement. A handsome annui
ty was to have been settled on him ; but it trans
pired that a still larger am aunt would have been
more convenient. This raised doubts—and
doubts are staggerers to begin with in such a
happy union ! The dear Jennev hurries to Pa
ris, and Mr. Harris tarries here. What next.”
uJ* Dr. John Webster, (Medical Times,) re
marks: “How frequent is lunacy in Paris. Du
ring the last revolvtion a great number lost their
reason; the bouleversement produced a lamenta
ble effect ; and the same thing happened in for
mer times. In Napoleon’s reign there were at
one time fifteen Louis eighteenths in the Bice
tre.”
(CP The beautiful portrait of the countess of
Blessington, hy Laurence, was sold at the Gore
House sale, to the Marquis of Herford, for 420
guineas Laurence received less than 100.
Homo Correspondence.
O’ Under this head we design giving our
readers several letters, as circumstances may
permit, from various original manuscripts, on
different interesting and amusing subjects. We
cordially invite any of our readers that feel so
disposed to add a few to the batch we now have
on hand, keeping in mind, that “brevity is the
soul of wit,'’ and that to have something to
write about, and then to write to the point, are
two material principles of good composition.—
The first one of these epistles which we shall
present, is a
Letter from an Old lilaid.
Mr. Editor — l will not address you with the
title of “Dear Sir,” for ever since I was a young
girl, I have had a dislike to the phrase, and I
dislike it more and more every day that I live
Itsounds too min h like praising the men to call
them “dear,” although, to tell the truth, they
have always been so dear that I could never buy
one. I don’t want you to conclude from that,
however, that I have never been a pretty wo
man, or that I have never had almost any quan
tity of beaux and suitors. No sir. When I was
about sixteen or seventeen—at.d that has not
been so very long ago—there was no body who
could say a word against Betsey B , un
less he got a black eye for it. 1 was called the
belle of the whole neighborhood, and I am sure
ifyou could have seen me then, you would have
said so too. It’s true my hair was nearer of a
sandy color than a black one—but you know
the poets always praise the “flaxen-headed girl,’
and besides, if I had a beau who admired dark
hair, why I had nothing to do but to give it a
good greasing with some lard, which I always
- kept in a phial in my room, and it would give
my head a beautitul slick gloss. My eyes were
the prettiest little grays in the world, and if they
did squint a little, nobody would ever know it,
especially when I was full of fun and frolic. If
my waist was a little larger than the ladies have
now-a-days, it was not the fashion then for
young girls to grow up in cotton-presses. To
be brief, sandy hair, gray eyes, a snub nose, a
pretty large font, brunette complexion, and an
ample proportion of body, presented so many at
tractions to the gentlemen of my acquaintance,
that I could have married any body. But, then
—what a fool! —I refused the very first proposal,
and—l’ve never hart one since !
How cruel it is that folks should call middle
aged ladies, who haven’t thought fit to marry, old
maids! For myself, I had much rather be de
signated as an antiquated lady who never con
sidered it positively necessary to jeopardise her
future welfare bv forming a matrimonial alliance.
1 think it is a great deal more genteel, than the
barbarous epithet which people cast into their
teeth. 1 heard a gentleman say not long since,
that “old maids" were the most detestable rrea
j tures in the world—as contrary as the days were
long, constantly irritated, and forever quarrel
ling. While, on the other hand, the “old ba
chelors"—because he was one of’em—were the
most pleasant, agreeable men of his acquaint
ance. Now I don’t believe this. There’s old
Mr. Love-naught, a surly, crabbed old fellow,
that has any amount of ready-made frowns,
which he very generously detfls out to every wo
man that he meets. See him where you will,
and you see his large goggle eyes peeringout be
neath and above his spectacles, keeping a sharp
look-out for his mortal enemies—the women—
and his mouth and eye-brows always bargaining
for a scowl.
But I meant to ask you if there was nothing
which we unmarried ladies could do to make the
world believe us happy? We can’t say a word
about marriage, but what we are accused of en
vying the condition of wives. If we appear in
public the least respectably dressed, the folks
say we are “setting our caps” for some of the
men : and if we go carelessly attired, we are
“indolent, good-for-nothing old maids.” We
can’t say or do any thing that is right, and if a
word of advice comes from one of us, it is sure'
to be rejected. If a young lady lias an offer
which she don’t like, it’s ten to one that she
accepts h, for fear of becoming an old maid.
Now, sir, as I have made this letter so long,
I’ll make a proposition to the old maids who
may chance to read this letter. It has been re
commended to us, as a remedy for the above
mentioned and many other evils, to form a Soci
ety, to be called “The Single Elderly Ladies’
Mutual Protection Association.’’ All of those
interested will please call at my house on Thurs
day afternoon, at 3 o'clock, to organise our So
ciety. Respectfully,
BETSEY B.
Rf.v. Dabney P. Jones. —The Mountain
Eagle says: “We take the following extract
from a private letter to the editor, dated “Atlan
ta, Jvno 6th, 1849:”
“I am deeply grieved to learn of the Very
severe affliction of my excellent friend, Rev. D.
P. Jones. On Saturday last, his son Thornton,
a very promising young man, of about twenty
two years of age, died; on Tuesday, his widowed
daughter, Mrs. Johnson, died ; on Thursday
morning, another daughter, Mr;. McMichael,
died ;on Friday morning, a third danghter, Miss
Ann D. Jones, was interred ; and still another,
daughter, Miss Emily, was lying at the point of
death when I heard from them on Friday noon.
I never knew a more amiable family than “Un
cle Dabney's” in my life—and deeply and sin
cerely do I mourn the severe mandate that has
removed so many of them from amongst us at
one fell blow. I pray God to give the survivors
increased strength to bear up under their be
reave'! ent.
He has lost one or two negroes, besides. The
disease I understand, is a kind of Brain Fever.”
(Jj’Mr. Fox Maule is remarkable for his head
of hair. A witty correspondent, in describing it
says : imagine the backs of four niggers multi
plied by the backs of three merino rams, and
you will have a tolerable notion ofit.
O’The Ex-Emperor of Austria, it is said,
lias been taken prisoner by the Hungarians, who
require him to state the reasons for resigning the
Hungarian crown. They respect his person how
ever
Ingenious Letter.
The following article has been in print
very often, and some of our readers may have
seen it before, but it is good enough to read the
second time. It is said to have been written hy
a newly-married lady, to her friend and confi
dant. Her husband was a jealous old curmud
geon, and insisted upon her showing him every
letter 9he wrote. Os course he saw nothing but
honey in the whole thing—he couldn't taste a bit
of gall in it. Although deception is always
wrong, yet we cannot have the heart to blame
the poor thing much ; for, as far as our observa
tion goes, wives are generally “more sinned
against, than sinning.” To find out the point
of the letter, read every other line, commen
cing with the first :
“I cannot be satisfied, my dearest friend,
blessed as I am in the matrimonial state,
unless I pour into your friendly bosom,
which has ever been in unison with mine,
the various sensations which swell,
with the liveliest emotions of pleasure,
my almost bursting heart. I tell you my dear
husband is the most amiable of men.
I have now been married seven weeks, and
have never found the least reason to
repent the day that joined us. My husband is
both in person and manners far from resembling
ugly, cross, old, disagreeable, and jealous
monsters, who think by confining, to secure
a wife, it is his maxim to treat as a
bosom friend and confidant, and not as a
plaything or menial slave, the woman
chosen to be his companion. Neitiier party,
he says, should always obey implicitly,
but each yield to the other by turns
An ancient maiden aunt, near seventy,
a cheerful venerable, and pleasant old lady,
lives in the house with us. She is the de
light of both young and old ; she is ci
vil to all the neighborhood round—
generous and charitable to the poor.
I am convinced my husband loves nothing more
than he does me ; he flatters me more
than a glass, and his intoxication
(for so I must call the excess of his love,)
often makes me blush for the unworthiness
of its object, and wish I could he more dererving
of the man whose name I bear. To
say all in one word, my dear, and to
crown the whole, my former gallant lover
is now my indulgent husband ; my fondness
is returned, and I might have had
a prince, without the felicity I find in
him. Adieu ! may you be as blessed as I am un
doubtedly possessing all that can make one
happy !”
The Army. —The death of Gen. Gainf.s,
(which took place at New Orleans on the 6th
inst. He died of cholera, and was buried at
Mobile, with military honors,) says the New Or
leans Crescent, does not create any vacancy in
the Army to be filled by a promotion. His rank
in line was that of Brigadier General. The
number of Brigadiers was at tho termination of
the war, four, in the following order : Gaines,
Wool, Twiggs, Kearney. The original num
ber before the war, was iwo. It was not reduced
but provision was made that no vacancies, caus
ed either hy death or resignation, should be
filled until the number had been reduced to two
The death of Kearney, and now of Gaines, ful
fils this condition. No appointments can be
made to fill their places. The Brigadiers of the
line are now—Gen. John E. Wool, whose com
mission dates June 25, 1841, and Gen David E.
Twiggs June 30, 1846 .
The command of the 2 divisions of the Army
was assigned, by the late General Orders, to the
senior Brigadiers—the selection between them
to be made by the elder. At the time of issuing
the orders, the two seniors were Gaines and
Wool, and the r-election had been made by Gen.
Gaines of the Eastern Division, headquarters at
Baltimore. Tiiis Division had therefore fallen
ti Gen. Wool, alshough he had not yet taken
command. Since the death of Gen. Gaines, the
Divisions will be commanded by Gens. Wool
aid Tw iggs, and the choice of the two w ill be.
long to Gen. Wool.
Cuba. —The Charleston Murcurysnys: “The
slave trade is again active in Cuba, several thou
sand having been landed within the last two
months, and other thousands being shortly ex
pected. The Captain General's fee is generally
urderstood to be three doubloons a bead, or fifty
ore dollars. This cause, and the general arbi
trary conduct and character of the present Cap
tain General, Roncali, have increased the dis
position of the Cubans to get rid of their Span
ish masters, and to come into the American U
nion ; and if that measure could be amicably ef
fected between the Governments of the two
countries, there are few of the Creoles, or na
tive Cubans, who would not hail it with joy.
The latter dislike the trade which yearly in
creases the number of barbarian Africans in the
Island, usually imported from warlike tribes.—
The Spanish police, on the other hand, favors
the introduction of this class, for the very rea
son of its tendency to keep down any disposition
on the port of the Cubans to rise for their own
independence But for this cause Cuba would
doubdess have been independent long ago. It
is only a few weeks since the Spanish paper at
New-York, La Cronica, recently established
there as an advocate and organ of the Spanish
interest in Cuba, openly avowed that Spain
would lay the Island in ashes and blood, by arm
ing the slaves, sooner than permit the overthrow
of its dominion there.
Considerable excitement has been caused
among the foreigners resident in Cuba, by a re
cent regulation of the Captain General, to the
effect that afier a residence of five years, all for
eigners must either quit the Island, or else for
swear allegiance to their own country and be
come naturalised Spanish subjects. We have
probably several thousand American citizens
scattered throughout Cuba, and intelligent au
thorities estimate as high as forty millions of dol
lars the amount of American capital invested
there. It remains to he seen what course our
Government will pursue, if so high handed and
arbitrary a measure is actually attempted to be
carried into effect. The first application of it
has been in the case of a Frenchman. Some an
gry correspondence has passed between the
French Consulate at Havana, mid the Captain
General, and the Consul has gone home to lay
the subject before his government
From the Muscogee Democrat.
Manufacturing in Columbus and Vicinity.
“ Get thy spindle and distaff ready and God
will send fl ix.”
Agreeably to promise,in our let, we subjoin a
general statement of the present condition and
immediate prospect ofthe Manufacturing opera
tions of this city and vicinity :
1. Columbus Manufacturing Company. — Estab.
lishment three miles above the city. Commen
ced in 1839 ; the pioneer in the cause. Amount
of capital $35,000; working 2000 spindles. 200
of which are for wool. Two tvool Cards, —cot-
ton do., and 26 looms ; manufacture 300,000 lbs
of Cotton, 30,000 lbs. Wool, perannutn. Give
employment to 80 or 90 hands. Nankeens, stri
ped goods, Osnaburges, Yarns, Linsey Woolsey
and Jeans arS the description of goods made.
Use a common Breast wheel ; have 50 feet fall,
only 8 of which are used ; sold privilege to the
Rock Island Factory Cos. on opposite side.
In connec ion with this establishment, there
js a Saw Mill, a Grist mill, running 4 pair of
stone (2 for corn and 2 for wheat,) with eleva
tors, smut mill, &c.—employing 6 to b bauds.
A Iso, a Tannery ohd Shoe Manufactory, in the
former of which 2000 hides of .enther are made
iuto sole, upper, and harness leather, most of
which is made up into shoes at the latter. The
office oftliis company is at John Fontaine's, in
the rear of Hill, Dawson & Co.’s store.
2. Coweta Falls Manufacturing Company. —
Building 75 by 48 feet, sstories. Capital inves
ted, $80,000.-2500 spindles, 24 cotton cards, 3
wool do., 45 looms—employing 75 hands, 15 or
2.) of whom are engaged in the Machine Shop,
where all kinds of Wool and cotton Machinery
can be made and put up at less cost than the
same can be laid down here from the North, all
expenses included. This establishment manu
factures 2000 yards Osnaburgs No. 5 to No. 12
Yarn, per day, working up 1800 pounds raw
material. One of Rich’s patent centre-vent
double Wheels, 5 feet diamater, 16 inch bucket
has lately been introduced and works well.
3. Col. F. Carter's Building , now ready.—lt
is 120 by 48 feet in dimension, 6 stories high,
and cost $10,0l)0or SII,OOO Incapacity issuffi
cient for 9000 spindles, and will be devoted, we
understand, to spinning exclusively. Patrick
Adams, builder.
4 Howard Manufacturing Co'y —Capital,
$85,000. Building 120 by 18, 6 stories ; use
Turbine’s outer discharge Wheel. There are
now 1500 spindles in operation of the 5000 in
tended—l 2 cards of the 48 to be erected, and 36
looms of the 150 on hand and ready to be put up-
About 70 hands employed ; product of 24 looms
on 4-1 sheeting average 800 yards per day, of 12
looms on | Osburgß 400 yds. per day ; 700 lbs
raw material used now, daily, to 2000, with pro
portioal ainountofyarnr
5. Variety Works.— Wooden building, 80 feet
by GO, 3 stories high. J. G. Winter & Win.
Brooks, proprietors ; departments rented to com
petent mechanics. The following manufactu
res are carried on :—Sawmill and planing ma
chines ; Bobbin business, Tub and Bucket fac
tory, Sash and Blind do., Bedstead do., Latino
cutting and turning, and Finishing Iron Work.
All the Machinery, except the upright saws,
driven hy one of Rich’s centrevent water Wheels
anew and valuable patent, which promises to
supercede all other wheels now in use. Capital
employed, about $30,000; No. of hands from 40
to 60.
6. Winter's Merchant. Mill.—Now in process
of erection, 8 stories high. The first story is
builtof granite on granite rock ; the other seven
stories of brick, each story 10 to 11 feet high—
tho whole taking about one million of brick—
dimensions 50 feet wide by 110 long, and with
the machinery to be put in it, costing $30,000.
A partition wall is run up in the centre, from
foundation to turret, making two buildings in one,
the west half of which will be used as the Flour
and Corn Mill. All the machinery is on the
the ground, and the Mills will be in operation
in July, when, with 4 run of stone not less than
100 bushels of grain can be ground, per day.
For this and tho Factory in the east part of the
building, three of Rich’s water Wheels, 3.J ft.
each in diameter, with 13 feet head of water
and 45 horse power to each wheel, will be used
Builders, Patrick Adams and Joseph L. Morton.
7. The Factory Department of this Establish,
ment lias been leased by Jonathan Bridges, and
is calculated for 3,000 spindles, and to employ
75 hands to manufacture yarn, exclusively.
Capital estimated at $30,000, when spindles are
all (ip and in operation! on the Ist September
next.
8. Rock Island Paper Manufactory. —This
establishment is situated on the Chattahoochee,
3i miles above the city, now in process of erec
tion. A wooden building 160 feet long with
rock basement, part one story and part two
stories high to contain 4 engines, 1 Foudenirnnd
1 cylinder machine, and capable of working up
a ton of material per day. Will manufacture
printing, willing and wrapping poper. Machi
nery driven by two of Rich’s centrevent Wheels,
30 horse power. Owned by a joint stock com
pany, of which J. G. Winter is President and
David Adams Secretary and Treasurer. Capi
tal $30,000.
9. Cotton Gin Manufactory —E. T. Taylor
&Cos —Steam power ; capital $40,000. Brick
building, 44 by 96 feci, 3 stories high ; employ
40 hands in the various departments. Use an
engine of 12 hojse power ; shafting, pulleys,
drums, &c. are made of wrought and cast iron,
polished and finished in a superior manner,
Manufacture about 18 Gins per week, and are
prepared to manufacture 50 per week. A spa
cious boarding house, offices, ware-room,&c. at
tached to the establishment. Isreal F. Brown
the manager and machinist partner of the con
cern.
10. Columbus Iron Foundry —Wm. R. Brown
& Cc. proprietors ; Capital SSOOO : amount of
work turned out, anually,Bto SIO,OOO. Em
ploys 4 moulders and 2 negroes; manufactures
Steamboat work, mill gearing water wheels,
gin gear and gudgeous, cast iron railing for grave
yards, fencing, machinery for factories,&c.
11. In connection with the above, is Cary
Sanford's Finishing Shop.— Capital $3,000;
] amount of work turned out anually, 5 to S6OOO.
Employs 6 hands. Steamboat repairing, mill
irons, iron doors, wrought iron railing, &c. and
all kindsoffiriishing manufactured.
12. Janneys Iron Foundry Machine Shop
Manufactures same as Nos. 10 and 11. Has an
engine oflO'horse power ; employs 6 hands, and
turns out 6to S7OOO worth of work ; about that
amount ofcapital invested. Manufactures steam
engines complete except the boilers
In addition to these establishments, there i«
the old City Mill, with we believe 4 runofstone
for the manufacture of Meal and Flour, situated
above the Coweta Falls factory. We hear also
of a company forming with a capital of SIOO,OOO
—nearly all made up—to build a Cotton Factory
to occupy three lots between the Howard Cos. lot
and Mr. Winter’s. Several of our citizens are also
preparing for the erection of Flouring Mills in
the vicinity ; one on the Mulberj, in Harris, and
another about 12 miles below the city. We
have likewise two Carriage establishments in
the city that do a prosperous business, with from
10 to 12 handsemployed in each. Also, several
steam Saw Mills in the immediate vicinity, on
boih sides of the river, that find a market for
lumber in this place. With all these advantages,
and a Railroad to the Atlantic, what a brilliant
destiny awaits our city, if we are wise enough
to improve the privileges bestowt and upon us !
Cotton Factories —The Milledgeville Re
corder of the I2th inst. says : “We publish with
great pleasure the accounts of public meetings
lor manufacturing purposes, which our readers
will find in another part of our paper. Gwin
nett, and Morgan, it will be seen, are falling in
to line with those counties determined to pro
mote the.r own best interests, not only in the
profitable investment of their surplus capital,
butin increasing their population and rendering
it permanent and prosperous. How long will
it he before every county in Georgia will have its
own manufactures in which to expend their sur
plus capital ? Georgia has even now about fifty
cc tton factories, but so far they are confined to
the limits of some twelve counties. How long,
wc repeat, before every county lias its factory
or factories in our State? One factory—with a
capital of sloo,ooo—will use some 120 bales of
cotton. One such factory for each county would
thus furnish the best market for one-third of our
cotton crop, and would increase the, value of
that third four fold, adding thus annually to the
material wealth of the State, besides giving both
to capital and labor another most profitable re
source. This, of consequence, would induce
improvement in everything connected with life
and its enjoyment.
“Georgia is a great State ; but she has a grea t
work to do. It is because of her greatness that
she has this work to do. Who cau cast his eyes
over our State, and reflect on what she Is caps,
ble of being—of what she is destined to become
—and not feel that a great work has to be done?
One sixth of our State (the pine lands) now un
productive, is the best wool growing country in
the Union, and must pecume one of Georgia’s
best sources of wealth in connection with this
essential want of the country. Cherokee is not
the country for cotton, hut what can it now do
with its overflowing corn and grain crops and its
luxuriant pastures > Much, perhaps, but by no
means all that it can do lor its own benefit and
the benefit of the State. Among other thingsi
with )*ucli abundant means jo effect it, why does
she not prevent the drain of the three millions
of dollars fur leather in its various uses? She
has pasturage sufficient to raise the cattle, she
has at herown door lime and ba k, why notsup
ply Georgia with this essential want, that now
annually drains the State of her capital ? How
long before Georgia will begin to talk of her
iron interest—her wool interest—in short, her
general interest of supply for the foreign and do
mestic market ? Nut a great while, we trust ;
but still we think lie must be but a superficial
observer who does not fee! with that era this
great end is achieved, a great work has to be
done; and we are happy to see such daily evi
dences that Georgia has iu earnest begun the
great work.’’
The Difference. — A gentleman from Boston
chanced to find himself among a little partv of
young ladies away Down East, last summer, and
and while in the enjoyment of some innocent
social play, he carelessly placed his arm about
the slender waist of as pretty a damsel as Maine
can boast of, when she started and exclaimed, —
“Be done, sir ! Don't insult me !” The gen
tleman instantly apologized for the seeming
rudeness, and assured the half offended fair one
that he did not intend to insult her.
“No?” she replied, archly. “Well, if you
didn’t— you may do so aga n,” she added, to the
no small amusement of the company !
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