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KDITED ASU ru»I.i»IIKD WEKKI.V, BV W.K. B . II AKRISO w . CITY PRINTER. M A CON, G A 7 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.