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CHILDHOOD AND YOLTH,
Oli, Childhood! thou art more than fair—
Foretaste of Heavenly joy,
W hose pleasures pain doth never dull,
Nor grief, nor care alfoy !
Sweet Childhood would that I might sip
.-Vgßirr thy genial cup :
And all my sorrows, griefs, and tears
In thee he swallowed up '
But Youth ! thou art more seemly still—
Thy happiness secure,
W hen God o’errules thine every word,
And thought and act are pure.
Oh may this frame, when weak with age,
lie guided by thy truth :
And when the Reaper comes, retain
The heart, the soul of Youth !
W. P. H.
Commercial Importance of California.
The London Circular to Bankers, for
January the ISth. 1849, has an elaborate
article on the commercial importance of
California. The writers sets out by assu
ming to show that the circumstance of Sir
Francis Drake having taken possession of
the country in 184S, gave England a fair
title to it, and that it was the duty of the
British Government, either by force of
arms, purchase, treaty, or otherwise, to
have perfected that title, for not doing
which he soundly berates it. In fact he
is out of humor with his own government,
with Mexico, and with the “Yankees,”
on account of the advantageous operation
which the latter have effected by becom
ing the owners of Califoania. The follow
ing extract from the article will show the,
estimation which lie places on the com
mercial importance of California :
“California, with its deep, broad, peace
ful bay and port of San Francisco, is ex
actly that spot on earth most necessary
to secure the possessions and trade of Eng
land, India, China and Austialia, and ali
her possessions and trade in the Pacific
ocean. It is more necessary to protect
her vast and augmenting interest interest
in those quarters, than Malta is to protect
her trade in the Mediterranean, or than
tlie Cape and St. Helena ever were to her
intercourse with the South and East. It
is vastly more important than the over
land route to India and China, because it
would afford the means of obtaining stores
as well as correspondence, and communi
cation as near as the overland route, in
point of time with China, and much near
er, in point of time, with Australia. Eng
land ought to have done exactly what the
Government and people of the United
States have done—secured California, and
then run a highway, through the Isthmus,
from Cbagres to Panama with a perpetual
guarantee for its unmolested and compara
tively untaxed possessions at both extrem
ities. This provident duty became imper
ative, and to the British Government ought
to have been obvious, the instant the de-
signs of the Washington Cabinet upon
Mexico became manifest and unequivocal.
The possession of California by the Uni
ted States, puts a rein in the hands of that
country, and a curb in the mouth of the
British lion, by means of which, with time
the young giant will be able to check, con
trol, or thwart the interests of .England in
her Asiatic and Australian possessions.—
California is covered with the finest tim
ber in the world for ship building, consist
ing of every variety of the oak tree, grow
ing near the water’s edge, where ships
can be constructed and floated down to
the magnificent bay, there to rest in secu
rity till they are wanted. In the broad
valleys of California, all the elements of
human food can be produced with less ex
penditure-of-labor than any part of the
shores of the Mississippi.”
Manufactures in Georgia —That
Georgia is destined to take the lead in
the South, in the business of manufactu
ring, seems evident. She has obtained a
position in advance, which as regards this
branch of industry leads to progressive
improvement and certain success. In al
most every part of her territory an indus
trial movement in this direction is visible.
Columbus, Georgia, lias some twelve
manufacturing establishments, with a cap
ital of about $400,000, and a flour mill is
about going up with a capital of SIOO,OOO.
There are several cotton mills, an iron
foundry, a cotton gin, etc. — Clear. News.
The Mind. —While men are going off
to sgek for pleasure, or to get gain, in the
uncertain mines of California, how strange
is it that they will neglect the inexhausti
ble store of happiness and pleasure within
their own heads! The mind is more val
uable than all the gold and silver in the
world—and should not be the less prized
because the common gift of every man.
From the Journal and Messenger.
Proposed M*inil»(tiutiV Convention.
Messrs. Editors :—As you manifest a
deep interest in the manufacturing pros
perity of Georgia, I beg you to allow me
the use of your columns for the purpose
of making a few suggestions. We have
now forty Factories in Georgia, employ
ing not far from three and a half millions
of capital, and yet, there is no conceit of
actiou—no common bond of union. I beg
leave to suggest the propriety of a Manu
facturers’ Convention, for the purpose of
consulting and conferring together for the
general good. Such a meeting could not
fail to exercise a most beneficial influence
throughout the State. It would enable
us to collect and arrange the manufactu
ring statistics of Georgia in some tangible
and reliable form. It would lead to an
interchange of views and opinions, and to
the accumulation of an amount of practi
cal experience, which might be rendered
highly profitable to all concerned. There
ought to be ectablished, at some central
point in the State, a common Depot for
the reception and exhibition of the pro
ducts of the various milk; where the
goods would be classified, and samples
kept constantly on hand, for the conveni
ence of purchasers giving orders. This
could be done at a very inconsiderable
expense to each mill, and would result in
incalculable advantages. It would concen-
trate business at home, and prevent hun
dreds of merchants from going annually
to the North to purchase this class of
goods. Besides, it would foster competi
tion, and excite a spirit of rivalry, which
would greatly quicken the progress of
Manufacturing enterprise in the State. I
therefore propose that a Manufacturers’
Convention be held in Macon, some time
during the present summer, for the pur
pose of conference and deliberation, in
regard to the above and other matters of
deep interest to both the cotton growers
and cotton spinners of Georgia. I suggest
that each company he entitled to at least
two Delegates. What say you to the
proposition ? I hope, Messrs. Editors,
you will at least give it a place in your
columns, and ask the other Editors of the
State to copy it.
UFSON.
From .he Nashville Whig.
Death and Burial of Ex President
Polk.—James K. Polk, late President of
the United States, died in this city, as we
barely had time to announce in our last,
at about 5 o'clock on Friday evening lastj
the 15th instant, after linrrGrin" for°ahout
two weeks. His disease was of chronic
nature, having been troubled with it more
or less far the past 27 years ; probably ag
gravated by the cholera epidemic which
has been raging in this city for some time
past. He retained his conciousness, we
learn, up almost to the moment of dessolu
tion. We saw him at a period when his
physicians considered liis case very criti
cal. He happened to hear that we were
going to Columbia, where his good old
mother resides, and sent for us. Upon
entring the room, he asked us to take a
seat by his bed-side ; be than proceeded
in a very calm, deliberate manner to say
that the exhausted condition of his body
was not alarming to him—that lie felt sat
isfied that his earthly career was fast ap
proaching and end—that ho wished to
send some word to his beloved mother,
who was so unwell, as he understood, that
it was probable she might no he able to
conic to see him. He spoke of her and
other members of his family most affection
ately. Among other messages delivered
in the same calm, resigned tone, he reques
ted us to tell his mother that should they
not be permitted to meet on earth again
that he had an abiding hope that, through
divine mercy, they wouly meet hereafter.
Early in his sickness, we understand he
connected himself with the Methodist
Episcopal Church. A funeral sermon
was delivered by the Rev. J. B. McFerrin
of that church, and his remains followed
to their last resting place by a large con
course of citizens. He was interred with
Masonic cermonies, having been a mem
ber of that fraternity.
Beatiful Sentiment. — The late emi
nent Judge, Sir Allen Park, once said at
a public meeting in London t
“We live in the midst of blessings till
we are insensible of their greatness and of
the source from whence they flow.—We
speak of our civilization, our arts, our
freedom, our laws and forget entirely how
large a share is due to Christianity. Blot
Christianity out of man’s history, and what
would his laws have been, what his civili
zation ? Christianity is mixed up with
our very being and our very life ; there is
not a familiar object around us which does
not wear a different aspect because the
light of Christianity ; not a custom which
cannot be traced in all its holy and beauti
ful parts to the gospel.”
Gold Hunting. —A letter from San
Francisco, published in the Now York
Courier, speaks of the labor ofgold digging
in the following manner t
“If any suppose that gold can he pro
cured without labor, and that of the sev
erest kind, they are, I assure you, very
much mistaken. Why, laying water or
gaspipes in the streets of New York is not
half as toilsome work. No man should
come to this country with the expectation
of making his fortune at the mines, by
getting out gold, but such a one as feels
fully able to dig about half a dozen graves
a day, taking a cold bath every fifteen or
twenty minutes during his work, and
whilst in a profuse perspiration, and that
without injury to the constitution. It
would not be a bad plan to practice this
for a month or two, on the banks of some
river, before leaving the United States.”
Advice to Young Ladies. —We make
the following extract from an article in the
May number of the Southern Literary
American :
Every affectation is a blemish. Patches
and paint recommen a face to no one,
whose taste is not sadly vitiated. A woman
may be handsom through all such disgui
ses : and she may be fascinating, in spite
of foibles and caprices. But they add
nothing to her merit, or her power to
please. They may be sometimes diver
ting, hut the laugh is too much at her ex
pense. if I had blit one word to say to
my fair readers, by way of nisxim, it should
he this :—“Be natural—he yourselves !
Correct your faults, if you can : hut at all
events, appear just what you are,and nev
er affect to be any body else.”
Few things are more important than a
modest dignity of deportment in public.
The exuberance of youthful spirits, and
the excitement of the hall, or the theatre,
too often betray the thoughtless into noisy
levity, which disturbs their neighbors and
provokes invidious remark. But this is
not the worst. Sometimes we see sup
eradded a bold spirit of conquetry, which
mistaking notoriety for admiration, sets at
naughtthe laws of decorum; sometimes
an arrogance, which seeks to display its
fancied superiority, by disregarding the
rules of common politeness. Ladies of
this turn of mind become restless and at
titudinize— talk and laugh loudly—make
a liberal use of lorgnettes —utter audible
criticisms on those whom they deem their
inferiors—transgress the regulations of the
place—and manifest, in every way, a con
tempt for the rights, the convenience, and
the feelings, of other people.
Such airs are conspicious among the
new fashionables; those, who have just
effected a lodgment on the outer edge of
“the upper crust,” and are striving to
work their way into more noticeable po
sitions. They may he observed, too not
unfrequently, in some of the provincial
gentry, who know little of the world, be
yond the contracted circle of their own lo
cal influence and reputation ; and who
presume on the faded lustre of aristocratic
names which hall the people around them
have long since forgotten. Thus do ex
tremes meet ; and the mushroom celeb
rities of to-day shoot up alongside of suck
ers from the decaying roots of the old fath
ers of the forest.
'I rue elegance ofmanner, no matter how
animated, is never boisterous. It does not
challenge the eye and ear of multitudes.
Its very essence is a quiet self-possession,
a graceful ease,joined to a considerate res
pect for others; which nothing would so
much disturb, as the consciousness of
having unduly attracted the public gaze.
The opposite feeling properly belongs to
the heroines of the stage : whose hard lot
obliges them to the public display of their
talents and charms, and compels them to
labor for the applause of the audience, to
whom they look for their daily bread.
Far from the daughters of Virginia be the
reproach, which the caustic pen of an
English satirist inflicted upon his country
women a hundred years since—
“Britannia’s daughters, much more fair than nice,
Too fond of admiration, lose their price :
Worn in the public eye, give cheap delight
To throngs, and tarnish to the sated sight.”
A wise admonition ! too little heard or
heeded either at that day, or in this. Yes !
the true sphere of woman is at home.
There her loveliness is pure, bright, and
unfading. There her presence fills the
dwelling, however humble, with light and
happiness, and the hearts of the dwellers
therein with joy, arid gratitude, and love.
There is she most highly honered and be
loved. There will she be sought and ad
mired, wooed snd won, t>y Sum who is
worthiest of her affection and her trust.
MACON, G A .
SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 30, 1849.
mpThe proceedings of the Public Meeting
held in this city on Thursday last, for the purpose
of adoptingarrangements to pay a suitable tribute
of respect to the memory of Ex-President James
K. Polk, will be found in another column.
[JjYVe learn from a Telegraphic despatch in
the Charleston Mercury, dated at New York on
the 27th inst., ats o’clock, P. M.,that the Cotton
market was firm and Fair Uplands were quoted
at 8i cents.
Gen. Scott is sick at West Point of chronic
diarrheea.
There were seventy-four new cases ofCholera
at New York, for twenty four hours ending the
27th inst. and thirty-eight deaths.
There were 285 deaths by Cholera in twenty
four hours ending on the 25th, at St. Louis.
The Cholera is also on tho increase in Cincin.
nati.
CpThe negro man charged with killing Mr.
Moore in Houston county, a few weeks ago
was arrested on Tuesday last, and is now con
fined in Jail at Perry, to await his trial.
ffj-J. M. Barrett, a supposed agent for some
Abolitionist Society, has been recently arrested
in Spartanburg, S. C., and committed to prison,
there to await bis trial at the next term of the
Court of Sessions and Common Pleas, of that
District. Letters of very suspicious contents
were found addressed to him from Cincinnati,
and other places at the North.
ffj"lt is said fTiat Cassius M. Clay was not kill
ed in the fight with Mr. Turner recently, and
will probably recover. The latter is dead.
ffj* In 1815, the price of a steamboat passage
between Cincinnati and New Orleans was $l3O
—now it is sls. Between the same place and
Pittsburg it was $30 —now it is $5. The time
to New Orleans was twenty eight running days
—now it is often-times less than six.
fUT Queen Victoria was thirty years of age oil
the 19th of May las!
Macon Manufacturing Company.
A meeting of the Stockholders took place in
this city on Wednesday last, for the purpose of
electing officers and organizing the Company,
the official account of the proceedings of which
will be found in another column. There were
six hundred and forty-six Shares represented at
the meeting. A report was submitted of the
examinations made on the Ocmulgee river, by
Mr. Holcombe, with a view to render the water
power of that stream available for manufacturing
purposes, from which the following information
was derived, viz : that by erecting a darn eight
feet high at Wimbush’s shoal, and conveying the
water thence in a race to this city, a distance of
about four miles, a fall of about twenty feet could
be obtained, at a cost of something over one hun
dred and thirty thousand dollars. This report
shewed the utter impracticability of the Compa
ny's attempting to use water power to propel the
machinery of their Factory. The Stockholders
will be required to pay 5 per cent, on each share
at the first instalment, and the balance to be call
ed for at the discretion of the Board of Directors.
The annual election for Officers will hereafter
take place on the second Monday in January.
The Agent and Secretary of the Company is the
only salaried officer, and the Board of Directors
will lose no time in entering upon their duties.
We wish them every desirable success in this
praiseworthy enterprise to promote the prosperi
ty of the community. From the known com
petency of the Board of Directors to manage the
affairs of the Company, and tlie fact that its trans
actions will be conducted on the cash principle,
we are inclined to believe that the success of the
concern is placed almost beyond ordinary con
tingencies. The location of the factory is left
to the Board, and has not yet been determined
upon—it will however be within the corporate
limits of the city or its immediate vicinity.
Gubernatorial Convention.
The Whig Convention assembled at Millcdge
ville on Monday last, for the purpose ofnomina
ting a candidate for Governor. There were 65
counties represented by 195 Delegates entitled to
cast 222 votes. Gen. J. N. Williamson, was
elected President and W. C. Powell and S. G.
Day, were appointed Secretaries.
Judge Edward Y. Hill was chosen the can
didate on the second ballot, having received 159
votes, and declared unanimously nominated.
The following Resolutions were unanimously
adopted, viz :
Resolved, That the President of the Conven
tion appoint a Committee of Five, to inform the
Hon. Edward Y. Hill of his nomination as the
candidate of the Whig Party for the office of
Governor, and request his acceptauce thereof.
Resolved, That tlie President of this Conven
tion appoint an Executive Committee of one from
each Judicial District, to act for the Party in any
emergency, and also a Committee of seven on
Organization.
Resolved, That this Convention, referring to
the action of preceding Conventions of the Whig
Party, and to the Resolutions of the last Senate
ofGeorgia, in relation to the Wilmot Proviso, as
expressing the opinion of the Whig Party, has
only to declare its determined opposition to that
measure, as violative of all the compromises of
the Constitution, and making an unjust discrim
ination against the people of the South.
Resolved, That the Whig Party of Georgia has
unabated confidence in the virtue and patriotism
of Zachary Taylor, President of the United States
and believes that his administration of the Gov
ernment will conduce to the prosperity and hon
or of our common country.
The President appointed ttie following com
mittees under the above resolutions :
Notification. —John Milledge, R. R. Cuyler,
Daniel McDougald, Robt. Mays, D. J. Gartrell,
Organization. —Jame A. Nisbct of Bibb, E. G.
Cabiniss, Eli Warren, David Irwin, 11. N. Mil
ler, S. T. Chapman, Jos. Bond.
Executive. —Miller Grieve, F. S. Bartow, C. J.
Jenkins, James Thomas, E. E. Crocker, Win.
Moseley, Robt. Dickson, Win. H. Crawford,
James M. Calhoun, Daniel H- Bird, Asbury Hull.
The Convention then adjourned.
Rail Way Jobbing in England—On the Ist
inst. Lord Brougham delivered in the House of
Peers a philippic against the Rail Way system,
the projectors, and all concerned. He denoun
ced the gambling mania which gave vast pow
ers to rail way companies to promote the interest
of a few, who did not care a straw if an inch of
rail road was never made, but whose object was
to make plans and attorneys’ bills, and tho class
of traffickers who erected princely fortunes on
the ruin of private persons. In one sessino 516
rail way bills were passed, and before five years
Britain had invested nearly $600,000,000 in rail
way stock, paid up, while another $742,000,000
remained due and payable. He instanced cases
of knavery, and also of false balances made to
deceive. Mr. Sanders, Secretary of the Great
Western Rail Way Cos. who had a salory ofs!4,-
850 a year, was in arrears for calls on his shares
SBO,OOO, while a poor widow was pounced
upon the moment her instalment was due. A
solicitor to the same company had also received
$900,000 tor land purchased by the company,
though he had not produced a single deed. lie
had not a cent, but had not been sued lest the
shares would come down! He named prefer
encejshares as another feature in the system of
fraud, and explained the mode of manufacturing
them. The Secretary and the Solicitor to whom
he had alluded held preference shares. So long
as they thought the shares good,and no calls were
made upon them, they never dreamed that there
was any thing illegal or fraudulent in them ;but
the moment a call was made, they repudiated
the shares. Ilis Lordship next charged Mem
bers of tho House of Commons with having
been bribed, either in mony or shares, to expe
dite the passing of rail way bills—stating that as
much a5£24,000 had been offered in one instance
—and that, by the judicious application of such
means, nothing was done but vote upon a ques
which they had never heard debated. Not long
since, the House of Commons had rejected a vety
stringent measure for the suppression of bribery.
The only effectual means to prevent fraud and
imposture, was to insist.on absolute, unqualified,
unsparing publicity to all rail way transactions.
(tr The coinage of the Gold Dollar thus far,
has reached to the number of $315,700.
The Holy Fire.
Mr.Curzon, in a work entitled “Visits to the
Monasteries of the Levant,” gives the following
description of a most curious festival, which he
witnessed in the spring 0f1834, during a visit of
Ibrahim Pasha to Jerusalem. Mr. 0., through
the politeness of the Pasha, obtained a seat in
the same gallery with his highness. There is
generally great disturbance, and often serious ac
cidents occur through the blind zeal of the pil
grims who flock to the Holy City, and who rush
pell-mell to light a lamp at the holy flame just
descended from heaven.
“Soon you saw the lights increasing in all di
rections, every one having lit his candle from the
holy flame ; the chapels, the galleries, and every
corner where a eandle could possibly be dis
played, immediately appeared to be in a blaze.
The people, in their frenzy, put the bunches of
lighted tapers to their faces, head and breasts, to
purify themselves from their sins. The patri
arch was carried out in triumph, on the shoul
ders of the people he had deceived, amid the
cries and exclamations of joy which resounded
from every nook of the immense pile of build
ings. As he appeared in a fainting state, I sup
posed he was ill ; but I found it was the uniform
custom on these occasions to feign insensibility,
that the pilgrims may imagine he is overcome
with the glory of the Almighty, from whose
immediate presence they believe him to have re-
turned. In a short time the smoke of the can
dles obscured everything in the place, and I
could see it rolling in great volumes out at the
aperture of the dome. The smell was tprrible ;
and three unhappy wretches, overcome by heat
and bad air, fell from the upper range of galle
ries, and were dashed to pieces oh the heads of
the people below. One poor Armenian lady
seventeen years of age, died where she sat, of
heat, thirst and fatigue. After a while, when
he had seen all that was to be seen, Ibrahim
Pasha got up and vveut away, his numerous at
tendants making a line for him by main force
through the dense mass of people which filled
of the church. As the crowd was so
immense, wo waited for a little while, and then
set out altogether to return to our convent. I
went first, and friends followed me, the sol
diers making way for us across the church. I
got as far as the place where the Virgin is said
to have stood during the crucifixion, when I saw
a number of people lying one on another all
about this part of the church, and far as I could
see towards the door. I made my way between
them as well as I could, tiil they were so thick
that there was actually a great heap of human
bodies on which 1 trod. It then suddenly struck
me they were all dead ! 1 had not perceived this
at first, for I thought they were only very much
fatigued with the ceremonies, and had lain down
to rest themselves there ; but when I came to so
great a heap of bodies, I looked down upon them,
and saw that sharp, hard appearance of the face
which is never to be mistaken. Many of them
were quite black with suffocation, and farther
on were others all bloody and covered with the
brains and entrails of those Who had been trod
den to pieces by the crowd.
“At this time there was no crowd in this part
of the church but a little farther on, round the
corner towards the great door, the people, who
were quite panic-struck, oonlinued to press for
ward, and every one was doing his best to es
cape. The guards outside, frightened at the
rush from within, thought that the Christians
wished to attack them, and the confusion soon
grew into a battle. The soldiers with their ba
yonets killed numbers of fainting wretches, and
the walls were spattered with blood and brains
of men, who had been felled, like oxen, vvitli
the butt-ends of the soldiers’ muskets. Every
one struggled to defend himself or to get away,
and all who fell were immediately trampled to
death by the rest. So desperate and savage did
tiie fight become, that even the panic-struck pil
grims appear at iast to have been more intent
upon the destruction of each other than desirous
to save themselves.
“For my part, as soon as I perceived the dan
ger, I had cried out to my companions to turn
back, which they had done ; but I myself was
carried on by the press, till I came near the door
where ail were fighting for their lives. Here,
seetng certain destruction before roc, I made ev
ery endeavor to get back. ,An officer of the Pa
sha, who by hisstar was a colonel or bin basli
ee, equally alarmed with myself, was also try
ing to return: he caught hold of my cloak, or
bournouse, and puiicu me down on the body of
an old man, who was breathing out his last sigh-
As the officer was pressing me to the ground,
we wrestled together among the dying and the
dead with the energy of despair. 1 struggled
with this man till 1 pulled him down, and hap
pily got upon my legs—(l afterwards found that
he itever rose again)—and scramblingover a pile
of corpses, I made my way back into the body
of the church, where I found my friends, and we
succeeded in reaching the sacristy of the Catho
lics, and thence the room that had been assigned
to us by the monks. The dead were lying in
heaps, even upon the stone of unction; and 1
saw full four hundred wretched people, dead
and living, heaped promiscously one upon ano
ther, in some places five feet high. Ibrahim
Pasha had left the church only a few minutes
before me, and very narrowly escaped with his
life ; he was so pressed upon all sides by the
crowd, and it was said attacked by them, that
it was only by the greatest exertions of his suite,
several of whom were killed, that he gained the
outer court. He fainted more than once in tho
struggle, and I was told that some of his attend
ants at last had to cut a way for him at last with
their swords through the dense ranks of the fran
tic pilgrims. He remained outside, giving or
ders for the removal of the corpses, and making
his men drag out the bodies of those who appear
ed to bo still alive, from the heaps of the dead.
He sent word to us to remain in the convent till
all the bodies hciu been removed, and that when
we could come out in safety lie would again
send to us.
“We stayed in our room two hours before we
ventured to make another attempt to escape from,
this scene of horror ; and then walkingclose to
gether, with all our servants round us, we made
a bold push and got out of the door of the church.
By this time, most of the bodies were removed ;
but twenty or thirty were still lying in distorted
attitudes at the foot of Mount Calvary ; and frag
ments of clothes, turbans, shoes and handker
chiefs, clotted with blood and dirt, were strew
ed all over the pavement.
“In the court in the front of the church the
sight was truly pitiable : mothers weeping over
their children—the sons bending over the dead
bodies of their fathers—and one poor woman
was clinging to the hand of her husband, whoso
body was fearfully mangled. Most of the suf
ferers were pilgrims and strangers. The Pasha
was greatly moved by this scene of woe : and
he again and again commanded his officers to
give the poor people every assistance in their
power, and very many by his humane efforts
were rescued from death.
“1 was much struck with the sight of two old
men with white beards, who had been seeking
for each other among the dead : they met as 1
was passing by, and it was affecting to see them
kiss and shake hands, and congratulate each
other on having escaped from death.
“When the bodies were removed, many were
discovered standing upright, quite dead ; and
near the church door one of the soldiers was
found thus standing, with his musket shoulder
ed, among the bodies, which reached nearly as
high as his head ; this was in a corner near the
great door on the right side as you come in. It
seems that this door had been shut, so that ma
ny who stood near it were suffocated in the
crowd ; and when it was opened the rush was
so great that numbers were thrown down and
never rose again, being trampled to death by
the press behind them. The whole court, before
tho entrance of the church, was covered with
bodies laid in rows, by the Pasha’s orders so
that their friends might find them and carry them
away. As we walked home, we saw numbers
of the people carried out, some horribly wound*
ed and in a dying state, for they had fought with
their heavy silver inkstands and daggers.”
Meeting of tlie Citizens of Macon, on the
Death of Gx>President POLK.
The Citizens met at the City Council Chamber
on the 28th of June, 1849, in a large assembly,
in pursuance of a Proclamation from the Mayor,
to render appropriate testimonials of respect to
the late Ex-Tresident Polk. His Honor, the
Mayor, was called to the Chair, and R. A. Smith
and S. T. Chapman requested to act as Secreta
ries.
On motion of Gen. Armstrong, it was
Resolved, That the Chairman appoint a Com
mittee to draft Resolutions expressive of the
sense of the Citizens, on the occasion of the death
of our late Chief Magistrate.
VVlierenpon the Chair appointed Gen. Arm
strong, Hon. E. A. Nisbet, Hon. A. H. Chappell,
Hon. J B. Lamar, Capt. 2. T. Conner, R. K.
Hines, Esq. and Pulaski Holt, Esq.
The Committee, after retiring, reported as fol
lows :
“But a short timo since Ex-President Polk
was greeted by the citizens of Macon, with a
generous hospitality that knew no difference of
opinion. The recollection of him is yet as vivid,
in the memories of each of us, as the occurrences
of yesterday. llovv painful then, to be called to
gether so soon, to pay the last tribute to his
memory.
The ways of Providence are indeed inscruta
ble, and as we mournfully hope and believe, all
wise and all-merciful. James K. Polk was not
called away until he had successfully run a full
and great career. Ilc was permitted to reach
the pinnacle of human distinction and grandeur,
to fill during the full term ajlotted to an Ameri
can Chief Magistrate—the highest—the most
glorious—the most difficult of all earthly spheres
ofaction ; and when his vvork was done — when
Itis mission, in that vast and elevated orbit of du
ty, was at an end, it was graciously permitted to
him, by the Being who holds the threads of des
tiny in his hands, to descend with serenity, with
dignity, and a calm conscientious sense of well
fulfilled obligations, to the shades of an honora
ble repose from his arduous, fortunate and patriot
ic toils. But it was decreed that death, which
had spared him when in that height of power,
should soon overtake and strike him down in
those beloved and long-desired shades. A Na
tion has been bereaved by the blow— and it be
hooves a people on whom Heaven has permitted
such a blow to full, whilst they bow in humble
sorrow and resignation beneath the stroke, to
express the sentiments of grief and affliction, by
which they are overwhelmed under its wcight_
Resolved Therefore, That we deeply mourn
the death of J amks K. Polk, Ex-President of
the United States, and that we will unite, in pay
ing all due and appropriate testimonials of res
pect for his memory, and sorrow for his too early
decline into the grave.
Resolved, That we will wear the usual badge
of mourning on the left arm for the space of thirty
days.
Resolved, That it is right and proper that an
Eulogy should be pronounced before ourcommn
nity on the illustrious deceased, and that a Com
mittee of Thirteen bo appointed, to select an
Orator, and fix the day and make arrangements
for that purpose.
Resolved. That we deeply condole with the
bereaved Widow of the illustrious deceased, and
desire that a copy of these proceedings be trans
mitted to ber.”
The Report was adopted, and in pursuance of
the third Resolution, the following Committee of
Arrangements was appointed, viz : Hon. J. B.
Lamar, lion. C. B. Cole, Dr. James M. Green,
Capt. Z. T. Conner, Capt. B. F. Ross, Samuel J.
Ray, Simri Roso, James A. Nisbet, A. H. Col
quitt, R A. Smith, Jno. Rutherford, E. E. Brown,
and O. G. Sparks, Esqs.
On motion, it was
Resolved, That the proceedings of the meeting
be published in the City Papers.
The meeting then adjourned.
GEO. M. LOGAN, Chairman.
R A. SMt™, ) Secretaries.
S. T. Chapman, )
Organization of the “Mncon Manufacturing
Company.”
At a meeting of the Stockholders of the “Ma
con Manufacturing Company” held in the city of
Macon on the 27th June, 1847, Judge T. G.
Holt was called to the Chair, and R. A. Smith
requested to act as Secretary.
The object of the meeting being stated, on
motion, the following Resolutions were offered
and adopted.
Resolved, That the contemplated Factory in
or near Macon, be propelled by steam power.
Resolved, That the said Factory shall com
mence weaving cloth within one year after tho
commencement of its spinning.
Bye-Laws and Rules for the regulation and
government of the Factory were then proposed
and enacted ; whereby the capital stock of tho
Company is to be one hundred thousand dollars,
in one thousand Shares of one hundred dollars
each. The Officers of the Company to consist
of a President and Four Directors, with a Secre
tary and Treasurer.
After the adoption of the Bye-Laws, &c., the
Company proceeded to tho election of Officers,
when the following gentlemen were duly elected:
President — John J. Gresham.
Directors — William B. Johnston, Nathan
C. Munroe, Thaddeus G. Holt, Hiram B-
Troutman.
The election of Secretary and Treasurer was
postponed.
The meeting then adjourned.
T. G. HOLT, Chairman.
R A. Smith, Sec’ry,