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SATURDAY MORNING,SEPT 22, 1849.
Public Meeting. —The official pro
ceeding* of the meeting of the Citizens of
Macon held at the Council Chamber, on
Wednesday evening last, to consider the
propriety of authorizing the City to sub
scribe for stock in the Macon &: Madison
Railroad, are in type, but their publica
tion has been withheld, by request, until
the ac ion cf the City Council upon them,
which will take place this evening at half
past 7 o’clock. See the Council proceed
ings in another column.
Periodicals. —The Masonic Journal,
published at Marietta, Ga., by Dr. J. B.
Randall, the September No. of which is
before us, is devoted to the interests of
M asonry, and will be found a valuable
agent in dispelling the unreasonable pre
judices which many persons entertain
against this benevolent and time-honored
institution. Piicc SI 50 per annum, in
advance.
Godey’s Lady’s Book for October is re
ceived, and this number well sustains the
high character of its predecessors.
Wilder"B Dollar Magazine for Septem
ber gives evidence of increasing xaluo and
interest.
Sons of Temperance. —The Rev. Wm.
H. Ellison delivered an Address on the
subject of Temperance, on Monday eve
ning last, at Temperance Hall. It was a
thorough, practical speech —pi incipally
addressed to Temperance men who with
hold their countenance from the efforts of
those now engaged in an organized and
valid method of reform. The audience
was large and attentive, and well pleased
with the entertainment of the evening.—
The Kev. Walter It. Branham will de
liver the next address before the Sons of
Temperance on the evening of the Ist
proximo. We recommend to Toma
chichi Division the choice of a larger hall
for these public meetings, as there were
many who could not get seats on Monday
evening.
Casualty. —A difficulty occurred in
tUiociiy on af evnoon last, be
tween Samuel Payne and Perry Dil
lard, in which the latter struck the former
over the head with a hatchet, lacerating
it slightly, and causing Payne to fall. lie
sometime af erwards arose and went to a
pump to wash his face, and applied cold
water to the wound, which caused the
blood from a severed artery to clot on the
brain, producing instant death. An Inquest
was held over the body of the deceased yes.
terday, and a verdict rendered to tho ef
fect that said Payne came to his death ei
ther from the effects of the blow indicted
by Perry Dillard, or injury received in
the fall.
An investigation info tlie unfortunate
affair took place yesterday afternoon,
before a Court of Magistrates, which re
sulted in the commitment of said Dillard
to jail to await his trial before the Superior
Court of Bibb county, at its session in this
city in January next.
Mechanics’ Society. —We omitted to
mention in our last issue, the election of
the following officers, at a regular meeting
on the 6th inst. : •
Thomas Dougherty, President.
C. P. Levy, Ist Vice President.
John W. Babcock, 2d do.
A. F- Sherwood, Secretary.
Robert Findlay, Treasuter.
Simri Rose, Librarian.
We had the pleasure, on Saturday eve
ning last, of listening to a Lecture deliv.
eied before this Society, by Wm. 11. An
derson, Esq. The composition was ele
gant, combining theory and practice, and
though faulty in respect to the manner of
delivery—doubtless occasioned by the in
convenience ofa written address—the ef
fort was highly creditable to the ability of
the lecturer. We believe that the com
munity will soon become fully convinced
of the importance of such an organization,
conducted prudently, and upon the pro
per basis. A proposition has been public
ly made for a Convention of the Mechan
ics of Georgia, to beheld in this city at a
convenient time during the autumn, for
the purpose of forming a Mechanics’ In
stitute. Those who feel concerned in be
half of the interests at issue, will doubtless
determine the propriety of such action.
nr the citizens of Putnam, in the vi
cinity and in the town of Eatonton, have
subscribed $75,000 towards budding the
Macon & Madison Railroad, conditionally
The Cotton Crop.—There can be no
farther doubt that the produce of the pres
ent year will fall far below an average
crop. Notwithstanding, the crop in the
up-country, at least in a portion of it, will
be a very good one. Whilst travelling
through Jones, Putnam and Morgan re
cently, a friend informs us that he noticed
an innumerable quantity of caterpillars,
webbed up in the trees and bushes on the
roadside. Some doubt is expressed as to
whether these are identical with the cater
pillars that eat off the leaves of the cotton
plant. If they had made their appearance
sooner, and proved to he of the destruc
tive character supposed by many, the con
sequences might have been disastrous.—
As it is, unless they begin very shortly, it
is probable they will be harmless.
Columbus and Mobile. —The Colum
bus Times of the 18th inst. says : “We
clip the following fiom tho New Orleans
Crescent. Nothing is left for Columbus
but to look for a direct communication
with the Gulf of Mexico by Railway.—
We might have been contented with the
connection by way of Montgomery. But
our neighbors have shut that communica
tion to us, in a fixed determination to give
us the go-by to West Point. Our Road
East, to connect with the Railways run
ning to the Atlantic, is in progress. It is
in hands whose enterprise insures itscom
pletion. Meantime our city is conscious
of the importance of the connection with
the Gulf, and before long we hope to see
tho Eastern Road in a condition to enable
us to break ground in tho direction of New
Orleans. Cut off from Montgomery, and
circumscribed by the Roads contemplated
above and below us, our manifest policy
is to take a bee line to the waters of Mo
bile Bay. The article of the Crescent en
courages the belief we have always enter
tained, that the interests of New Orleans
would prompt her to give ready and effi
cient aid to such an enterprise.
cui»n>biu unit Mobile Bay Railroad.
New Orleans, Aug. 29, 1549.
Eils. Crescent —Allow me to state thro’
your useful journal, for the information of
the people of Mobile, liiat tho citizens of
Columbus, Ga., are building a railroad to
connect their city with the Macon & Wes
ern Railroad at Barnesville, and so soon
as completed they intend continuing i
from their city to Mobile Bay—say to what
has been called Alabama City. A char
ter is already obtained,and when the books
are opened our own citizens will subscribe
liberally for the stock.
When this road is in operation a trip
can be made in four days to New York,
by Charleston or Savannah, and a mail
contiact can be obtained which will pay
three per cent on the outlay for building
the road. Those well acquainted with
such matters say that the passengers and
freight will pay from seven to nine per
cent, hence it will boa paying road,which
is a very important matter. There can
not be a doubt but the travel on said road
will be greater than on any road in the
South ; and the wants of the people of
both North and the South require Its com
pletion, and will have it, as every person
will admit who will take the trouble to
examine the matter. The Mobile Herald
must excuse us for trying to do all in our
power to benefit our own city, should we
be injuring their city a little thereby.—
They must bear in mind that their great
Railroad to the Ohio is designed to inter
fere with our prosperity not a little when
completed. At another time I may un
dertake to show the great importance of
tilts road to our city. I would now state
that the whole of the California travel will
be through this city, when the road in ques
tion is completed. This alone will prove
of vast benefit to us. A Subscriber.
Ulr’ The Atlanta Intelligencer says
there were six deaths in Charleston from
Yellow fever up to Sunday last—but few
new cases occurring.
* A Convention of the Odd Follows
met at Baltimore on Monday last.
|C7* Advices from Hayti are very con
tradictory. The latest represent that the
Republic lias been dissolved, and Soloque
proclaimed Emperor.
LjF 3 Dr. Houston, the former official
Reporter of the United States Senate, and
regarded as the greatest stenographer in
the Union, died a few days since in New
York.
ICY” Jhe Huntsville Advocate says:
“We notice that some of the merchants in
Middle Tennessee are receiving their fall
goods through this place. They are
brought on the railroad to Chattanooga,
down the river in boats, and are then
hauled. The power of railroads in chan
ging the course of trade is truly wonder
ful.”
Memphis Convention. —The commit
tee appointed to address thecifizens of the
Union, on the subject of the National Rail
Road Convention, to be held at Memphis
on the 23d day of October next, and to
make all other necessary publications,
have prepared the following card :
“ Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 1, 1549.
To the People of the Un ited States :
A direct Western outlet to India from
America and Europe, for more than three
centuries an object of great magnitude
with civilized nations, is now within our
means of accomplishment by constructing
a Central Railway from the Mississippi
river to the Pacific Ocean.
To aid the work, a Convention of the
People of the United States was called by
a sister State to meet in Memphis on the
4th of July last. The people of Memphis
hailed with delight this new enterprise, as
characteristic of the progressive spirit of
the age, and called for by high considera
tions of national import. In mass-meeting
they appointed the undersigned a commit
tee, charged with the duty of addressing
their fellow-citizens of the United States
upon this important question. In the dis
charge of the duty assigned us, v\e have
adverted in a previous address, to such
prominent advantages, Agricultural, Man
ufacturing, Maritime, Military, Commer
cial and National, as to us seemeu obvious
and the People of the whole count /•/, North,
South, East and West, were invited to
take the question under consideration, and
send forth their Delegates to meet us in
Council. The response to our solicitations,
coming up from the public press of the
country, from eminent statesmen, fremdis
tinguislied citizens of all parties, and from
every section of the Union, and above all
from the mass of the people in all the
States, was such as to justify the assump
tion that the work can, must and will be
done. The ravages of the cholera in the
South and West, in June last, compelled
the postponement of the Convention, from
the 4th of July to the 23d of October next.
We arc happy to say that tlid cholera has
now entirely disappeared from the South
and West, and the health of the country is
completely restored. We again invoke
the aid of our fellow citizens. We invite
every town, village and hamlet in the Uni
ted States, to send forth their delegates,
and in behalf of the citizens of Memphis,
we tender to all who may honor us with a
visit, a most cordial welcome.
H. G. SMITH,
LEWIS SHANKS,
LEVIN H. COE,
WM. T. BROWN,
F. T. STANTON,
S. WHEATLEY,
S. JARNAGIN,
ROBERTSON TOPP,
SAM’L BOND,
E. J. CARRELL,
LEROY POPE,
JAS. C. CROSS,
JAMES PENN,
J. F. FARRINGTON,
ul I)WIN YERGER,
MILES OWEN,
F. IT. COSSITT,
EDWIN HICKMAN,
DAVID PARK,
JAMES YOUNG,
T. S. AYRES.
GEO. W. SMITH.
|C7” The Augusta Republic of the 20th
inst. says : “We notice, by Telegraphic
reports from Washington, that some few
weeks past, the French Minister, at Wash
ington, sent an impertinent letter to Mr.
Clayton, Secretary of State. President
Taylor immediately demanded from the
French Government the recall of their
Minister. This demand not having been
complied with, the President has informed
M. Pouissin, the Minister, that his pass
port is ready for him,
"This matter, we further learn, has
caused a decline in Government Stocks,
in. New York ; and it is presumed that
France will sustain her Minister.
“Os the origin of this difficulty, or the
circumstances which prompted the imper
tinent note from the French Minister to
the Secretary of State, wo arc not inform
ed. Some speculation will doubtless con
nect the appointment of Mr. Rives, our
new Ambassador to France, with the
matter. We cannot impart any informa
tion on the subject.”
The population of Cincinnati ises
timated at one hundred and ten thousand,
about one half of whom are foreigners.
Five of the great capitals of Europe
are now under inilitaiy law, namely : Pa
ris, Vienna, Berlin, Rome and Naples.
(Kr Oscar, King of Sweden, has turned
teetotaller, and is sending teetotal mis
sionaries throughout his country to show
the blessings of temperance.
Mistaken Policy. —The Laurensville
Heral of the 14th inst., contains the fol
lowing just and sensible remarks:
“Twelve hundred and seventy-seven
mules, as we learn from the Messenger,
passed through Ashville, N. C., last week
en route for this State. The fact of so
large a number of mules passing-through
one town in a single week for this mar
ket, is a sufficient indication of the extent
ofihe Stock Trade; and should induce
our planters to serious inquire into the ex
pediency ofencouraging a commerce that
is such a perfect drain upon the resources
of the State. Au interchange of commo
dities, between States or countries is gen
erally profitable to both—for instead of ei
ther being impoverished, the one gets rid
of a supei abundance that it cannot use,
and the other acquires something it can
not otherwise procure ; without either be
ing deprived of their productive capital.—
li we were unable to raise horses, and
mules, and bogs, then it would bo wise
for us to obtain them from Kentucky and
Tennessee, as they are near neighbors,
and stock we cannot dispense with. But
as we have the ability, if we only had the
inclination, to raise just as good stock of
all kinds in South Carolina, as can be
reared anywhere, and at as small an ex
pense, it does not, to say the least of it,
look politic, to be thus sending off'thous
ands upon thousands of dollars every year,
that never in any shape find their way
back again into the hands of our people.—
Land in Kentucky it now worih in many
parts one hundred dollars per acre, and is
yearly increasing in price —whilst land in
our own State would not average ten, and
is annually decreasing in value. This
difference, great as it seems, is easily to
be accounted for. To get money we are
obliged to raise cotton, upon which the
profit is small, and its culture as now car
ried on tends greatly to ihe exhaustion of
our soil. Raising stock is a profitable bus
iness, and enables the farmer to improve
the fertility of his land—so that the Ken
tuckians and Tennesseans by exchanging
their high priced cattle for our hard earned
dollars, are constantly increasing the val
uo of their acres, and the weight of their
purses at our expense. Is this wise on
our part? Would it not be much better
for every planter to raise his own horses
mules and hogs ? Would it not not be
more profitable and less troublesome than
to first make cotton, turn it into cash, and
give it to a drover to carry off? Grasses
of all kinds require but little care and at
tention to do well in any part of this coun
try. If their culture were introduced
hundreds of “old fields” now lying use
less, dead capital to their owners and eye
sores to travellers, could soon be render
ed profitable. Is not the subject one that
deserves the serious consideration of our
planters ]”
American and English Railroad
| Iron. —A Staffordshire Ironmaster, in a
j long communication to the London Mi
ning Journal brings to light the fact that
English iron rails, as at present manufac
tured, are of the very worst stuff. He
says the very worst iron that can bo made
or purchased is now used in the manufac
ture of railway bars. Hot-blast cinder
iron, made into white pigs, is now sought
after to be used for this purpose, and the
price of railway bars, instead of being ten
shillings or twenty shillings per ton more
than good best iron, is reduced to as low,
and in some instances lower, than the
most common bar iron that can be found,
either in Staffordshire or Wales—com
plete trash ; and yet some of the purcha
sers will have you believe they get the
best iron, while the fact is, rails cannot be
made of good best iron at less than from
two to three pounds per ton above what
they are now selling at. It reminds me
of orders being sent for gold watch seais,
tying the maker to about 9d. or Is. each
This is just now the case with rails ; and
the consequence is, they are no sooner
laid down than in a few weeks they begin
to laminate, split and crush, and arc ob
liged to be taken up and replaced as they
are found to give way ; and thus the rail
way is continually endangering the lives
of the passengers, besides being a serious
expense to the company. Many are now
putting on the round-topped rail, which
puts off the evil day a little ; but this des
troys the tires as fast again, and thus in
creases the loss.
New Staple. —Mr. Hector Giljam pro
poses to introduce the culture of madder
into the States of Virginia and North Car
olina, the maritime counties of which be
conceives to be admirably adapted for its
production. The root of the madderplant
as is well known, is extensively used as a
dye-stuff, and is an important article of
commerce, for which the United States are
entirely dependent on foreign countries.
Sweet Potatoes. —A writer in the
last number of Skinner’s Agricultural
Journal, gives the following, as his method
of raising sweet potatoes from the seed,
and says, that after satisfactory practice,
he prefers it to any other. He has tried
tho experiment for three years, and the
potatoes have been much superior to those
raised in the usual way. He says : “The
yam potatoe vine blooms in August; in a
bout a month thereafter they form a pod ;
the seed are then formed of about the size
of sago seed, and of the same color. The
pod should be noticed and gathered when
ripe, or else they will soon drop. In the
spring, at the usual time of sowing seed,
I sow them in the same way I sow cab
bage seed. They will not come up quite
as soon, but will continue doingsotbrougli
the spring. The plant is small and deli
cate iu appearance, and should be drawn
in a wet season, with a little dirt attached
to it, and transplanted. The leaf and vine
have a different appearance from tho pota
to usually, and the potato will be found to
grow larger and smoother than usual.”
LiF* A friend writes to the Mountain
eer from Newberry, as follows, under
date of 10th instEtil :
“I am just from my plantation in New
berry district, and deeply regret to s'ate
that I never before saw mote sickness, or
knew of the health of the districts below
being worse. It is exceedingly dry in the
middle country, and I am thoroughly con
vinced that it is out of the question to ex
pect or think that more than half a Cotton
crop can by any means be made. The
Cot'.on has cast its blooms, shapes and
forms, and in some instances the bolls ;
and even those that are left and will open,
ate, for the most part, small and light.”
03” Christopher Hughes, formeily U.
S. Charge to Sweden, and subsequently
to Holland, died in Baltimore, on Tues
day last.
New Machine. —Ail ingenious ma
chine for making bricks and tiles has just
been exhibited. The apparatus consists
of an iron cylinder, which receives the
clay at the top, and passes it through a
number of knives attached to the centre
shaft, and which act as temperers of the
clay, and press it into a peculiarly shaped
screw. The latter in turn gives pressure
to a chain of moulds which pass up an in
clined plane, and delivers the finished
bricks in success on a table fit for the
bench. The whole motive power of the
machine is communicated by the upright
shaft in the cylinder. The machine is cal
culated to make twenty thousand bricks
in ten hours, by the application of an en
gine of three hoise power. One great ad
vantage, however, is that it is easily
moveable by any motive power ; and an
othei that it is easily moveable from place
to place. It is also capable of making
tiles, fire-bricks and patent fuel.
OP I he New Orleans Bee states that
two gentlemen of that city have invented
a machine for drying cotton, which bds
fair to improve the quality and inorease
the quantity of that staple. If this ma
chine shall fulfil the objects of the invent
ors, cotton may be dried at seasons when
rain precludes the possibility of employ
ing tho ordinary scaffold for that purpose
and even duiing heavy rains 250 pounds
may be dried in an hour. The expense
of the machine is said to be trifling. It
can be made to operate with a half horse
power ; and a simple leather band attach
ed to the mill, and regulated by one man,
will suffice to keep up its action.
OP The whiskey trade of Cincinnati is
enormous. During the commercial year
of ’47-8 there were 170,436 barrels of
whiskey imported into that city, and 165,-
419 barrels exported. Dm ing the year of
’4B-9 the imports were 186,509 —exports
136,931 barrels.
lET The New York Commercial of the
15th inst. says : “The demand for money
for business purposes is steadily increas
ing, but as yet it appears to be freely met
by banks and private capitalists, so that
the rate of interest has not essentially va
ried, and loans on demand or for fixed
times, can be negotiated upon terms near
ly or quite as favorable as at the beginning
of the month.”
IC7* The daughter of the Queen of
Sweden, who is about to marry Louis
Napoleon, has a dowry of ci'l,ooo,ooo
sterling.
ZW There remained in the bank vaults
at New York, on Wednesday, 12th inst.,
$8,000,000, and in the Sub-Treasury $3,-
600,000, making an unprecedented total
of $11,600,000 in specie.
Fast Running on the Central Road.
—The Central Georgian says : “The Ex
press Train on the Central Road, which
left Savannah at eight o’clock on Saturday
night, with the passengers who came out
on the Tennessee, arrived at Tennille at
two o’clock, making tho distance 135
miles in six hours. This is hard to beat
for night running ; and in one of those
new passenger cars on that Road, the
traveller is relieved of much of the vveari
ness incident to night travelling. They
are decidedly the easiest and most delight
ful riding cars that there is in the State."
Improvements in Mobile. —The Mo
bile Tribune says : “At no period since
the revulsion in 1837 has Mobile exhibit
ed so many signs of permanent improve
ment and prosperity as at present. Build
ings are going up in all directions, and we
do not remember a lime within the last
dozen years when so much repairing, re
fitting, &c , were in progress.”
ICY” Mr. Andrew Low, for a long time
the senior partner of the only British Im
porting concern iu Georgia, died at Liv
erpool on the 31st ul imo, in the 73d year
of his age.
JO” A correspondent of the Savannah
Republican, under date of Jacksonville,
Sept. IS, says : “By a letter from a St.
Augustine correspondent, we learn that
an express arrived from Tampa, bringing
intelligence that Capt. Casey lias succeed
ed in obtaining an interview with some of
the Indians, and that this day was appoint
ed by ‘Billy Bowlegs’ to have a talk with
Gen. Twiggs. ‘Bowlegs,’ it is said, is
willing to deliver up to Gen. Twiggs trie
Indians who were concerned in the late
outrages.”
Tin: Weather. —The Ch. Courier of
the 20th inst. says : For a number of days
past we have had an easterly wind prevail
ing, and an equinoctial storm looked for.
During Tuesday night the wind increased,
blowing from the North East, and yester
day forenoon it blew heavily from that
quarter, causing considerable commotion
in the waters of our harbor. Throughout
the day, strong puffs of wind came up,
and the weather bore a threatening ap
pearance. At the time vve write, howev
er, (10 o’clock P. M.,) when a gale was
expected, if experienced at all, there is no
evidence that it will increase, and we trust
that we may escape without injury. The
shipping at the wharves are all well secu
red and prepared for any emergency.
The Wilmington Boat, with the mail,
proverbial for their punctuality, and de
termination to accomplish their trips in
almost, all kinds of weather, unexpectedly
made her appearance about 4 o’ciock, P.
M., but brought no mail from beyond Wil
mington.
The Vanderbilt was detained at Wil
mington until about 5, P. M. on Tuesday,
and crossed Cape Fear Bar about 8, P. M.,
with the wind blowing only a moderate
breeze from the North East. At midnight
the sea began to roll heavily, and at 2, A.
M. the wind commenced blowing a gale
from North East, which continued up to
the time of crossing this Bar, compelling
the boat to lay to and doing some slight
injury to the upper works. The sea
much of the time was a complete sheet of
foam, and came in from South East as
well as North East.
|Cr* A decision of interest to Manufac
turers and Merchants has recently been
given in the Superior Court, New York,
by Judge Duer, upon a motion to vacate
or modify an injunction which had been
granted to the Amoskeag Manufacturing
Company, forbidding certain parties to
use a mark to which that company claim
ed exclusive right. Judge Duer held
that every Manufacturer and every Mer
chant foi whom goods are manufactured,
lias an unquestionable right to distinguish
the goods that ho makes or sells by a pecu
liar mark known in market as lus, and that
lie may derive from their sale the profit
which their superior repute may command.
Crops. —The accounts from the interi
or of Alabama continue unfavorable to the
growing crop, say advices from Mobile.
The bolls are falling from the stalk in the
first growth, and the army and boll worms
are making their appearance in many
quarters. West of us the reports are that
these worms aro making great ravages,
and holding their way eastward.
Death hv the Bite of a Rat.— A
young man named Philip Petona, died at
Wheeling a few days since from the bite
of a rat on bis lip, while asleep. Two
children of Mr. Henry Cotts, in another
part of the city, were also bit on the lip ß
by rats—one died and the other has re
covered.