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EDITED ISO PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BV wn . it. iv aitki so \ . CITY PR I.YTE R . [f'Oß THE SOUTH EBN MUSEUM.] 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,