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EDITED AND PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY w .11 . B . Iff A It R 1 s O X . 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.