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CITY P RtJYTE R .
[for tiie southern museum.]
To AVillle Dckunorr.
'Tis a dark and dreary world, Willie,
Tins changing world of ours,
And pleasure's joined to sadness, Willie,
As-thorns grow with the flowers,
lor- if w« roum through nature’s field,
To uste the sweets the blossoms yield,
The buds that promise most delight
Are often filled with bitter blight.
But there's a flower, Willie,
That you and I may give :
The nectar’djnys of Friendship
Eternally shall live.
'Tis a cold and faithless world, Willie,
This selfish world of ours,
And fair professions curdle, Willie,
Like milk when acid sours.
For friends will bow and sweetly stnile,
So long as fortune marks our style ;
But if we lose our golden hoard
They pass us by without a word !
Yet there's a kindred feeling
In friends like you and I,
And with that ardent passion
Oh may we live and die !
’Tis a vain and worthless world, Willie,
This glittering world of ours,
For all its gems are baubles, Willie,
Like unaccomplished dowers.
For though its jewels sparkle fair,
And riches pleasure’s height appear :
Still' Imppiucss was never told,
Whilst counting o’er the heaps of gold !
Yet there's a lasting treasure
That you and I may have :
It is the hope of Heaven
From him who come to save !
’Tis a fafse and fading world, Willie,
This fleeting world of ours,
And we, like nature’s beauty, Willie,
Must dwindle with its powers.
For like the creatures of a clay,
Wc live and move, then pass away ;
And whilst we press our earthen bed,
Our flesh supports the myrtle’s head !
Yet there's a bright possession
Which time can never fade,
And we secure the title
When peace with Cod is made.
Trust not this heartless world, dear Willie,
This soul-less world of ours,
For you will find but sorrow, Willie,
In all its gilded bowers.
But let the blessed Lamp of Truth
Illumine all the path of yuuth :
Then, when your Christian race is run,
Life sets in splendor, like the sun !
Then in that glorious city,
Jerusalem, above,
May you and I, enraptured,
Drink everlasting love !
W. P. 11.
From the Charleston Evening Ncics.
Mr.Madison's View of (ho Ordinance of 1787.
It is well known that Mr. Madison in
re!ation to the ordinance of 1787, prohib
iting slavery in the North-western Terri
tories, thought Congress had undertaken
“to prescribe the conditions on which the
States formed out of that territory shall fTe
admitted into the confederacy without the
least color of constitutional authority.” A
letter addressed to President Monroe by
Mr. Madison, dated February 10, 1820,
has recently been appended to a speech of
Mr. Westcott’s, Senator from Florida,who
had access to Mr. Monroe’s private papers
which letter throws much light on that
celebrated Ordinance. The following is
an extract:
“ I have been truly astonished at some
of the doctrines and declarations to which
the Missouri question has led ; and parti
cularly so at the interpretation of the terms
“migrationor importation,” See. Judging
from my own impressions, I should deem
it impossible that the memory of any one
who was a member of the general conven
tion could favor an opinion that the terms
did not exclusively refer to migration and
importation into the United States. Had
they been understood in that body in the
sense now put on them, it is easy to con
ceive the alienation tney would have there
created in certain States; and no one can
decide better than yourself, the effect they
would have had on the State conventions,
if such a meaning had been avowed by the
advocates of the constitution. If a suspi
cion had existed of such a construction, it
would at least have a conspicuous figure
among the amendments proposed to the
instrument.
I have observed, as yet, in none of the
views taken by the Ordinance of 1787, in
terdicting slavery Northwest of the Ohio,
an allusion to the circumstance that when
it passed, that congress had no authority
lo prohibit the importation of slaves from
abroad; that all the States had, and some
were in the full exercise of, the right to
import them; and, consequently, that there
was no mode in which Congress could
check the evil, but the indirect one of nar
rowing the space open for the reception
of slaves.
Had a federal authority then existed to
prohibit, directly and totally, the importa
tion from abroad, can it be doubted that it
would have been exerted, and that a regu
lation having merely the effect of pevent
jng the interior disposition of slaves actu
ally in the United States, and creating a
distinction among the States in the degrees
of their sovereignty, would not have been
adopted, or perhaps thought of 1”
In this we discover Mr. Madison’s opin
ion of the interpretation which those who
were the opponents in Congress to the ad
mission of Missouri, had placed on the
word “migration” in the constitution.—
W hat would Mr. Madison have thought,
it he had lived to our day, of the argument
that to regulate commerce between the
States conveyed the right to interdict the
slave trade between them. We believe
that no less authority than that of Mr. Dix,
the Senator from New York, may be cited
in favor of this exercise of power by Con
gress, under the right to regulate com
merce between the States. But when we
connect the opinion of Mr. Madison as to
the construction which he placed on this
word “migiation” with his explanation of
the policy of the Congress which passed
the ordinance of 1787, we perceive at
once the motive and the end of that policy.
The defect of power under the Articles of
Confederation to prohibit the foreign slave
trade, left no option but to do that by in
direction which that body could not do di
rectly. The Congress of 1787, then, in
the language of Mr. Madison, endeavored
“to narrow the space open for the iecep
tion of slaves.” It sought to limit the Fo
reign slave trade to such of the original
thirteen States as had a right to import
them under the Articles of Confederation.
According to this explanation if that Con
gress had been certain of the adoption of
the Constitution, the ordinance of 1787
would never have been passed. Indeed
Mr. Madison, in fact, says this in almost
express terms in the last paragraph quoted
above.
We say that this interpretation throws a
broad light over this portion of our legis
lative history. The prohibition of slavery
in the Northwestern Territory was not an
end, in itself, but a means of indirectly
restraining the foreign slave trade, while
Mr. Madison declares that even for this
exercise ot power by the Congress of that
day there was not “ the least color of con
stitutional authority.” . When, however,
this state of things'is drawn into analogy,
and made the precedent for legislative ac
tion in relation to new territories, it is for
tunate that we can turn lo authority like
that of Mr. Madison, which none can dis
pute.
Mr. Calhoun’s Personal Habits.—
We find in the N.York Herald,a long and
minute account of the visit of a traveler to
the residence of Mr. Calhoun. It contains
a Dumber of interesting facts concerning
the personal habits of the great statesman,
some of which will doubtless interest out
readers. His family consists of Mr. Cal
houn, and seven children. Ofthese, one
one son is a planter the next
a captain in the army at New Orleans—the
eldest daughter is in Europe, wife of our
charge at Belgium. Os the three sons at
home, one is a physician, the others are
young men of 20 and 17. Mr. Calhoun
has upon his table every kind of southern
production but is himself a sparo eater.
The view from his house commands dis
tant mountain ranges, 40 and GO miles
away. His study is 50 feet south of his
mansion, has but one room and one door.
His Library is not large, but choice, and
most of the books relate to the Union and
her interests. The key of this building he
keeps always under his immediate control
when at home. No one enters it but him
self, unless he is there. His house stands
on the Seneca liver, 1,000 feet above the
level of the sea, and 200 feet above the
river. There are perhaps 70 or 80 negroes
on and about the place. The largest part
of his negroes are in Alabama where lie
owns a large cotton plantation, under the
management of his eldest son. Mr. Cal
houn has a peculiar manner of ditching,
drainage, and planting, of such utility that
his neighbors regard his as a model farm.
11 is crops ate represented as far before
those of any other cultivator in that region
of country. His farm is known as Fort
Hill, from a fort which once stood there iti
the revolutionary war. Mr. Calhoun’s
habits are very regular. He rises at 4or
5 o’clock—exercises on horseback, or in
a walk over the farm for an hour; writes
until breakfast, is busy in his library until
lor 2. On Friday, which is mail day he
rides to the villiage. His newspapers, of
which large numbers are sent to him, are
spread in the hall for the use of his visi
ters. He is very hospitable, is a great
lion even in the very neighborhood of his
own house, and in all relations of private
life, is a most estimable, upright, and hon
orable man.
A Steam Idol. —ln the “History of
Wonderful Inventions,” recently publish
ed, we find the following curious account
of au ancient idol,which, acted upon by the
agency of steam, deceived and astonished
its credulous votaries. This is one of the
earliest instancies on record in which the
expansive properties of steam were ap
plied to any purpose :
“It is also recorded that upon the banks
of the Weser, the ancient Teutonic gods
sometimes marked their displeasure by a
sort of thunder-bolt, which was immediate
ly succeeded by a cloud that filled the
temple. An image of the god Busterick,
which was found in some excavations,
clearly explains the manner in which this
prodigy was accomplished by the priests.
The head of the metal god was hollow,
and contained within it a pot of water ;
the mouth, and another hole, above the
forehead, were stopped by wooden plugs;
a small stove, adroitly placed in a cavity
of the head under the pot, contained char
coal, which, being lighted, gradually heat
ed the liquor contained in the head. The
vapor produced from the water having ac
quired sufficient pressure, forced out the
wooden plugs with a loud report, and they
were immediately followed by two jets of
steam, which formed a dense cloud round
the god, and concealed him from his aston
ished worshipers.”
The Musquito Kingdom. —We have
before informed our readers of the steps
taken by the British Consul at New York,
to frustrate the proposed project of making
a ship canal by way of Lake Nicaragua
to the Pacific Ocean. The Providence
Journal gives the following history of the
English connection with this Kingdom :
England and the Musquito Kingdom.
There appears to be troublo brewing in a
quarter where few have dreamed there
would ever be a point of contention be
tween England and the United States.
Allusions to the subject have appeared in
two or three instonces in the public prints
during the last year, but os our l eaders
may not be farmiliar with the case, we
lay it before them.
A few years since, a British mercantile
house at Jamaica, doing business with the
Indians on that part of the coast of Gua
temala most contiguous to that island, con
trived to get some of the chiefs deeply in
their debt, whether justly or not doe3 not
appear,and to extort from tbema morlo-age
on a considerable portion of the territory
occupied by them. What the nature of
the deed or mortgage was, which these
traders had obtained, is not known to us
but it seems that the British government
thought it a favorable opportunity to step
in, acknowledge the claim, as well as the
security held by the traders, and seize on
the territory so mortgaged. A man of war
suddenly appeared off the town of San
Juan, sent its armed boats on shore and
forcibly took possession. To strengthen
their claim, a consul was sent to the coun
try by the British government who endea
vored to get an acknowledgement from
the adjoining States of costa Rica Nicara
gua, ol the territory seized upon them from
tho so called Mosquito cheif, with the
promise of some commercial advantage at
the port of San Juan. Costa Rica joins
New Grenada near the isthmusof Panama,
and stretches toward Nicaragua lake, with
a long line of the Pacific coast.
To obtain advantages or a port of entry
on the opposite coast was a most desirable
object, in whatever way they might be ob
tained. And, if England under the plea
of supporting the sovereignty of a petty
Indian chief, called the “Mr squito King,”
would grant these advantages simply by
receiving from Costa Rica an acknowledge
ment of her claims to a portion of the ter
ritory belonging to the state of Nicaragua,
she would do so. But to the peopble of
Nicaragua the “Mosquito K tig” was a
new personage, and bore the sime relation.
to them as the Indian cheifs Black Hawk,’
Occola ane Red Jacket, did in their days
to the United States. To acknowledge,
therefore, the transfer of a large tract’of
country, the navigatton of tbcit principal
river, and their only seaport an! harbor,
to the British government, by one of their
Indian chiefs, was too ridiculous to tie con
sidered. The consul or delegate to his
“Mosquito Majesty” was not acknowl
edged by the authorities of Nicaragua nor
any claims whichbemadeto tbeirterritory.
The country claimed by the British,
over which they pretend to exercise juris
diction in behalf of this Indian cheif, ex
tends from the mouth of the river San Juan
to the Machuca falls, about sixty miles up
that stream towards lake Nicaragua : ami
along the coast between three and four
hundred miles northward. As to the ex
tent inland, it is probably as far as Guatema
la wili permit them lo go, or rather we
mightsay, as far as they chose to go, fur what
can this feeble republic do against England?
It is not the seizure of this territory un
der the miserable pretence of sustaining
the soveraignty of the so called “Mosquito
King’ that gives alarm, but it is the forci
ble possession of the only port and river
through which a ship canal can be con
structed bv the way of Lake Nicaragua to
the Pacific. And what makes the case parti
cularly annoying at this time is, that the
State of Nicaraguahas just granted toan A
mryican company the privilege of construc
ting a ship canal from this port to Sait Juan.
Memphis Convention. —The proposed
convention at Memphis attracts unusual
attention throughout the Southern ami
Western States. It will doubtless be the
largest assemblage that has ever convened
for similar purposes—hence, we are pleas
ed to find that owing to the prevalence of
the cholera, a postponement ofits meeting
to tho 16th of October, has very properly
been fixed upon.
Even here, in North Alabama, where
public enterprise has remained compara
tively dormant, our citizens are aroused,
and seem determined to go to work in
earnest. We hear of many gentlemen of
large capital, who are disposed to invest in
the connecting link from Decatur via
Huntsville, to the Tennessee and Chatta
nooga road, at Winchester, Tenn. The
people of Mississippi and the Western
District, are already at work to connect
with the Memphis and Alabama line ; then
but a short distance to Tuscumbia, will
give a continuous line of Railroad from
Memphis to Charleston, S. C., and also to
Richmond, direct, when the great enter
prise, now on foot in Virginia, shall be ex
tended from Lyn Jiburg to the head waters
of the Tennessee river.
The profits arising from investments in
Railroads throughout the whole Union,
are perhaps greater than that derived from
stocks of any other description. Money
ed capitalists are in daily competition in
the public markets ; and now, when our
great Southern staple is depressed, we
find planters no longer in search of more
lands and negroes, but desirous of turning
their capital to other and more profitable
investments. When our next Legislature
shall have guarantied a liberal charter,
we believe the whole stock in Alabama
will be at once taken, when books are
opened. Such at least, appears to be
the general impression.— Huntsville Derr.
War Department, I
Washington, August 7, 1849. )
Sir:—Your letter of the 2Gth ult. ad
dressed to the President has been refered
to this Department for reply, and I ac
cordingly have the honor to say, that assu
ming your estimate of the Indians on the
soil of Florida, dining the past year to be
correct, and which is greater than that re
ported by Capt. Sprague, who lately had
the superintendency of this tribe, 1 think
that the force which is in process of being
placed on ihe southern settlements of the
Peninsula will be adequate to their full
defence. That force when assembled,
will, in numerical strength, be quadruple
that of the Indians. You propose to raise
a force, which would be greater than the
entire force of the Indians. I confess that
I do not see the propriety or necessity of
employing the volunteers of Florida, and
without which, I could not advise the
President to muster them into the set vice
of the United States. In addition to
which, our latest dispatches from Florida,
on either side of the Peninsula, and dated
within the 28th and 30th ult., both inclu
sive indicate that the violence and outrage
exhibited in the vicinity of Fort Pearce
and at the trading house on Pease’s Creek
were done by the same parly of Indians,
which did not exeed five. If right in this
conjecture, founded on all the concurrent
proof which have reached the Department,
I think it will be a subject of regret, at a
period when the United States were about
to attempt the peaceable removal of the
Indians from Florida, with the hope and
probability of success, that the authorities
of that State would seek to substitute an
other element and place at hazard that
which appears to be the object of deep
concern to Florida and also a duty of the
United States, the removal of the Indians
from the soil of the former.
1 have the honor to be,
Very respectfully,
Your obt. servant,
GEO. W. CRAWFORD,
Secret art/ of War.
His Excellency William D. Moseley,
Governor of Florida.
Use of Breakfast to the Billious.—
A certain amount of billious congestion
seems to be natural in the morning. That
the bile is periodical stored up, might be
inferred from the anatomical structure of
the liver, which has not only its system of
ducts, hut also a gall-bladder to hold that
fluid until it is wanted ; experimental re
search moreover has shown that little bile
escapes into the duodenum except during
digestion. For four or five hours there
fore tifter eating, the liver is slowly drain
ed ofits bile ; hut when digestion is finish
ed, the flow stops, and the liver gathers up
a supply against the next repast. Hence
it is after fasting that the liver is most fully
charged with bile ; and as the period of
longest abstinence is between the evening
meal and breakfast it follows that there
will always be towards morning a natural
accumulation of bile, which any of the
causes already mentioned many convert
into engorgement. * * Hence many
who are billious in the morning feel them
selves relieved after breakfast; in other
words after some bile has been drained
fromthe congested liver. Acting on this,
we have often recommended a light sup
per to prevent morning biliousness, and
sometimes with success. It keeps the
bile flowing during a part at least of the
night, and thus shortens the period of ac
cumulation.— Scientific American.
The Papal Authority Proclaimed.
—On the 16th of July last, Rome was a
gain brought under tlie Papal sway. '1 be
yellow and white banner, emblazoned
with the keys of St. Peter, was on the
loth hoisted before the Castle of St. An
gelo, and saluted by 100 guns, while the
respect of the people was imperiously en
forced by the ostentatious display of the
whole French garrison. The notifications
of the ceremony were characteristic of the
sources from which they came. That of
Gen. Oudinot announced that a “solemn
Te Deum will be celebrated at St. Peter’s
on Sunday, on the 15th of July, to return
thanks for the success of the French arms
in Italy, and for the re-establishment of
the Pontifical authority.” Rather strange
to invite the conquered party to return
thanks for the success of the victors. The
great piazza of St. Peter’s was filled with
troops, and the church itself could not
have had less than 5 or 6,000 soldiers in
its ample nave and aisles. Oudinot with
a numerous and brilliant staff, arrived a
bout 5 o’clock, and was received on the
church steps by a complimentary deputa
tion of ecclesiastical dignitaries, who con
ducted him up to the high altar, and in
stalled him in an eminent position, pre
vious to the commencement of the Te
Deum.
The fluty notes of the Papal chair, al
ternated with the clangor of the martial
bands, in wafting praises to Heaven for
the enviable restoration of priestly domin
ion, and the French troops went through
the manoeuvre of kneeling to receive the
benediction, as skilfully as if they had
been born Romans. A Cardinal, either
Tosti or Castracane, read an address, to
which the latter replied in tones of high
commendation toward his own troops,
and concluded by crying, “Viva I’ltalia !
Viva la religione ! Viva la Francia!”
Shouts of applause followed this interlo
cution. Political speeches, however, ap
pear singularly out of place in St. Peter’s,
and are, as such, deprecated by the priests
themselves.
While these rejoicings were going on,
j under the auspices of the French Gene-
I ruts and Cardinals, u numerous band of
young Romans repaired to the gate of San
Pancrazio, and visited the fatal scene of
so many murderous engagements, the
graves of so many of their friends and
companions in arms. They visited the
principal repositories of the dead, as well
as the church of St. Pancrazio, where
they chanted a miserere in honor of the de
parted. Many other persons, averse to
the re-established order of things, left
Rome for the day, and two hundred car
riages full went to Frascati alone.
Georgia Burr Mill Stones. —The
stone most commonly used for grinding
wheat, is known by the name of “French
Burr,” because they are imported from
that country. This species of stone, is a
porous silicious mineral, so very hard, that
a pair of millstones will last quite a num
ber of years at full work, without being
worn out. The French burr stones, ow
ing to their great price, has from time to
time stimulated both the Americans and
the english, to many efforts to supersede
them. During the last war between
France and England, when it was impossi
ble to get burr stones ; the London Socie
ty of Arts offered a piemiutn of a gold me
dal, or one hundred pounds for discovery
of a quarry producing stones equal to the
French burrs.—A quarry was discovered
in Wales with stone similar to the French,
and answered tolerably, but they were not
equal to the French. A number of mass
es of rock were also discovered at Stirling,
Scotland, and made into stones, some of
which indeed gave better satisfaction than
the French burr, as they were of a more
even texiure, but the French stone still
carried the bell. In our country a substi
tute for it, has long been a desideratum.
This has now been obtained. In Burke
County, in the State of Georgia, a large
quarry embracing an area of 17,000 acres
has been discovered ; and a Company call
ed the La Fayette Burr Mill Stone Cos.,
has been formed to work it and furnish
American Mill Stones equal to the French
Burr. The principal office of this Com
pany is in Savannah. About 1,000 sets
of stones have already been put up, and
are now in operation, and some of them
along side of the French, where in every
instance they have equalled—and a little
more, the very best French Burrs Sam
ples of this stone have been in our office
for some time. We have contrasted them
in every way with French burrs, from
which without knowing that the one came
from France and the other from Georgia,
no person could point out a difference.
Those who have used the Georgia stone,
prefer it for a more enduring fine sharp
ness, and in that case, it is more economi
cal to use. From what we have seen of
the Georgia stone, and heard about it from
the most respectable sources, respecting
its practical results, we are confident that
the quarry must be of immense value.—
Scientific American.
Extraordinary Accident with the
Nassau Balloon. —On Wednesday even
ing Mr. Green made an ascent in the Nas
sau Balloon from Vauxhall Gardens, which
was nearly attended with loss of human
life.
The monster balloon having been fully
inflated, Mr. Green and a party of ladies
and gentlemen took their seats, seven per
sons in the car and four on the hoop, which
is seven feet above the car; and the ma
chine having been released, it rose majes
tically. Upon gaining a certain altitude,
it took a south-easterly direction ; when
suddenly, as it was passing over the West
minster road, it was observed to rock to
and fro, and a large quantity of ballast was
thiown out. The balloon, however, kept
falling until within a few feet of the house
tops in the Waterloo road. It cleared
that thoroughfare, and came reeling down
Gaywoodstreet, barely escaping the chim
neys of the houses ; when on reaching the
London road, it heaved first on one side,
then on the other ; and finally, the hoop
struck the parapet of the house No. 94,
tore down the brickwork and a portion of
a stack of chimneys. The concussion
was so great that it threw three of the gen
tlemen, who were seated on the hoop,
upon the house-top ; but no one in the car
sustained the slightest injury. The bal
loon was with some difficulty extricated,
and, as it ascended, one of tho gentlemen
managed to climb up the rope —a work of
no small difficulty—and having entered
the car again, the balloon ascended, and,
taking a direction towards Bromley, in
Kent, it was quickly out of sight; and the
gentlemen on the house-top desended,
without having sustained any injury. The
balloon ultimately descended in a field
near Erith Church, none of the affrighed
travellers having suffered beyond the shock
which an occurrence of such a dangerous
character must necessarily have occasion
ed.
The cause of the accident, as explained
to us by Mr. Green, is somewhat curious.
A balloon, when inflated and whilst on the
ground, has the shape of an apple ; when
it has ascended to a certain height, it as
sumes the form of a pear: this arises from
the expansion of the gas increasing the
balloon longitudinally. The cord attach
ed to the valve on the top of the bailoon
passes through the centre. It appears that
Mr. Green’s nephew had the care of this
cord, and did not allow it to escape through
his hand with the longitudinal expansion of
the balloon : the consequence of which
was opening of the valve, and the sudden
escape of at least 14,000 feet of gas; of 17,-
000 feet.— London paper. .
GP A man that always keeps his fin
gers in his mouth, will never have any
thing else to eat.
CO” Tv by are a parcel of idle children
like wafers ? Because you have to lick
'em to make them stick to their letters.
From the Journal Messenger.
Manufacturers’ Convention.
The Manufacturers’ Convention assem
bled at the Stone Mountain on the 17th
inst., and organised by calling Dr. C. Ro
gers of Upson, to the Chair, and appoint
ing John S. Linton, of Athens, Secretary.
The following Manufacturing Compa
nies were found to be represented, viz :
Factories. Represented by Capital.
Newton, John Webb, $30,000
Thoinaston, Dr. C. Rogers, 32,000
Roswell, G. 11. Camp, N. A. Pratt,loo,COO
Troup, Thomas Leslie, 40,000
Augusta, W\ M. D’Antignac, 200,000
Curt wright, J. Cun ningham,G. Moore, 100,000
Bowensville, John Bowen, 30 000
Planter’s, ll.P.Kirkpatrick, J.Hill, 50,000
Flint River, George Moore, 50,000
Howard, 11. Hall, E. T. Taylor, 100,000
Houston, D. W. Parr, 22,000
Eatonton, A. D. Gatewood, 75,000
High Shoals, Isaac Powell, 44 000
Athens, John S. Linton, 92,000
Alcovey, Hugh White, 14,000
Milledgeville, R. G. Nickols, 90,000
Lawrenceville, J. M. Gordon, 41,000
Macon, R. Collins, J. A. Nisbet
and S. T. Chapman, 100,000
Savannah Sash, Charles Van Horn, 10,000
Total capital, $1,220,000
Total Companies, 19—Delegates, 25.
On motion of M. D’Antignac, Mr. S. T.
Chapman was requested to state the ob
jects of the meeting and the circumstan
ces which led to its call. Mr. C. stated
that the original suggestion touching the
movement had been made by Mr. Allen
McWalker of Upson county, since de
ceased, that Mr. McW. had called the
attention of Manufacturers to the import
ance of some greater concerc of action,
and also to the necessity of establishing
some common depot for the exhibition
and sale of their goods. These views had
been so fully expressed by Mr. McWalk
er in an article which had appeared in the
columns of the Journal & Messenger of
Macon, that it was deemed unnecessary
to do more than refer to them.
After some further conference, on mo
tion of the Rev. N. A. Pratt, it was
Resolved, That a Committee of Five
he appointed to report some general place
for afuture organization of the Convention.
The Committee appointed were Messrs.
N. A. Pratt of Roswell, Win. D’Antig
nac, Augusta, 11. J. Nickols, Milledge
ville, S. T. Chapman of Macon, and John
Cunningham of Curtwright, who were in
structed to report to an adjourned meet
ing at 4, P. M., this day.
August. 17th, 4 P. M.
The Convention met persuant to ad
journment. The Committee of five,
through Mr. Chapman, submitted the fol
lowing report, which was unanimously
adopted :
The Committee to whom was refered
the consideration of the propriety of organ
izing a Manufaciurers’ Association for
the Slate ofGeorgia, having given tnc sub
ject the reflection which their limited time
would admit, beg leave to report, that by
association and interchange of views and
opinions, much good would result to this
great and growing interest which now
employs nearly three millions of capital,
and which is rapidly developing the indus
try and enterprise of the State. They
present to the Convention, the following
recommendations:
1. That an Association be immediately
formed, to be styled the Manufacturing
Association of Georgia.
2. That any company or individual en
gaged in manufacturing pursuits of any
kind whatsoover, and paying the sum of
fivedollars per annum, shall be entitled to
all the privileges and immunities of tlio
Association.
4. That a committee of three be appoin
ted ro report a more perfect plan of organ
ization, to an adjourned meeting, lo be
held at Augusta, on the second Wednesday
of October next; and that said Committee
be requested to open a correspondence
with every Manufacturing Company in
the State, urging the importance of being
represented in said adjourned Convention.
4. That the said delegates be respect
fully requested to present to said adjourn
ed Convention a complete history of their
respective establishments, embracing all
particulars which may properly be laid
before the public.
5. That the delegates from the Cotton
and Woolen Manufactories, be particular
ly requested to furnish not only the gen
eral history of their respective establish
ments, but also
The time when they commenced oper
ations ;
The quanlity of raw material annually
consumed ;*
The number of spindles and looms em
ployed ;
The style and quantity of fabrics pro
duced ;
The number, sex, color and mental and
moral condition of the operatives ;
And all other statistical information, the
publication of which would not be incon
sistent with their respective interests.
That the Convention proceed at once
to the election of a President, and Secre|
tary and Treasurer, to serve for the term
of one year, or until their successors be
chosen under the more perfect orgamz®'
tion contemplated.
Under the third recommendation of fh c
Committee, the following gentlemen were
chosen as the Committee of organization
and correspondence, viz : AV. M. D’Anti
gnac, H. W. Merrill, and Dr. C. Rogers.
Barrington King, Esq., of Roswem
was unanimously chosen President, 3,1
James Hoff, of Augusta, Secretary 3111
Treasurer of the Association.
The Convention adjourned.
CURRAN ROGERS, Pres't.
John S. Linton, Sec’ry.