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all at a glance—l felt I was in the true po etic mood—l had ‘struck the right streak,’ and I was impatient to begin; my whole in tellectual man was wide awake. Well, sir, leaning my back against a tree, with an old plank on my knee fora writing desk—my head thrown back—one eye res ting upon the ruins of the old house, the other (for I squint a little-a very little, sir,) cast upwards upon the expanded firmament deeply blue—l essayed to begin. A thought passed rapidly through my mind, I dashed my pen at the inkstand with desperate effort, but before l succeeded in fishing up the ink, the thought had gone. I ‘tried every means, Mr. Editor, to coax it hack l would try to think what it was, and what it was about, but the harder I would try the farther off it would seem to get —and then I would scent to be careless about it, to see ifit would not pop up again of its own accord —and sure enough L could catch an occasional glimpse of it, but as soon as 1 would try to gather the whole, all was gone again. It was certainly, Mr. Editor, the most coy and coquetish idea, or thought, imagin able. It was certainly very pretty —I was very much reminded by it, (and laughed heartily at the comparison) of what I have often seen and been amused at while travel ling. On approaching a house you will of ten perceive a girl peeping n? yr>u through the crr.cks, or just around the side of the door, or the corner of the house, anil just as soon as she perceives your eye upon her she is off—and as long as you keep your eye on the crack, ortho door, or corner, she is not to be seen, hut only turn your head another way, or make out that you are not noticing her,and look again, aiuClo! she is there—but gone again, as soon as she perceives she is noticed. Well, it was just so with my thought on that day, sitting on the rock, and looking on the old house. It was so coy and modest, that though its first appearance was prepossessing, yet I could not succeed by any sort of mental tnanoevre in bringing it back again long enough to take in its whole outline, and reduce it to paper, tio its gone, and you and I none the wiser. “There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood, leads on to glory.” Now, I believe the above quotation most heartily; and I believe also its opposite, that though in our lives the tide.may conic, yet if we do not take it at the right time—at the flood— no glory will he ours. I found it just so, Mr. Editor, in my poetical effort. The tide had set in—it had set in, too, most rapidly— it was at the flood. But because I had no ink in pen, the moment passed—tin thought was gone, on which most assuredly turned my whole future glory as a Poet. And now, sir, lam just where I was b f ‘fore and l fear I shall never have such another chance. If I should, however, I will try to be ready the next time, and if I do succeed ■after all, why you will hear from me again. “BOOTS.” . May 5, 1842. Written for the “Southern Miscellany.” THE LIVING AND THE DEAD! u And all the dead forgotten lie.” oi.n HYMN. I do not expect the power of this article, (in writing which I have snatched a few mo ments from the business of the day) will sound as loud as Gabriel’s trumpet, which it is said will arouse both “small and great.” But if my feeble blast will only startle some sleepy soul I shall be amply satisfied. A great many people are now living, who may rest assured they are now dead. 1 count all those dead whatsoever—who are in health, and are doing nothing, but eating, drinking and sleeping, support an imagin ary existence which they call life; or in dressing and adorning those shadows and apparitions which are looked upon by the vulgar as real men and women. In short, whoever resides in this world without any apparent .business in it; and pass away an age without ever thinking on the errand for which they were sent hither. The living are only those who are lauda bly employed in the improvement of their own existence, and who act for tiie advan tage of others. Ait intelligent gentleman in Alabama be lieved in this doctrine and on being asked by a neighbor how old lie was—“about twenty years” was the reply. “Twenty years I” said his astonished friend, “why I have knovvu you twenty years—and you were upwards of twenty years old when you came amongst us.” “True,” was his answer—“l count the time I lived in North Carolina nothing—so I am a little upwards of twenty years old.” The frost of fifty winters had bleached his head and furrowed his cheeks, yet he felt that ho had not actu ally lived as long as he had existed. There may be very many well disposed persons who live puaceably in their habita tions who are not yet born; or who have departed this life many years ago—and whose ghosts are occasionally seen moving about—it may happen that their feeble sight may glimpse this article—if so, my design is to encourage both to join themselves as soon as possible to the living. It is true these are hard times, and we also hear or read of persons who were “born out of due time;” there are also times—when people are fickle minded—and suffer in feeling, scarcely knowing what to do—like a neigh bor of my old friend, Uncle Henry K which the old gentleman relates with so much vivacity, that it loses its beauty in be ,ing told second hand. Someone had ac cused him of being fickle minded—humph! said lie to Uncle Henry—l may well be fiekled minded—l reckon they would he so too, if thtjy were in my situation—“l am in fickle minded circumstances /” QUAH! Mr. Editor : You will please let me say to your readers that I have not forgotten my promise to give them the second chapter of the “ Politician in Petticoats,” in which I promised to print the old lady’s Poetry.— 1 ho manuscript lias been mislaid : as soon a* it is found, I will write out the balance of “ur conversation, which, to me, was quite as interesting as that already written. • Yours truly, JOSHUA SWIPES, tamacraw, May 6, 1842. MADISON, GEO : Saturday, Itlay 7, IBIS. Ci'r’ Our day of publication is changed from Tuesday to Saturday. This is done for greater convenience to ourselves, as well as to issue our sheet on a day more agreea ble to our readers. This arrangement is permanent; and we shall endeavor to furnish our subscribers in the county by twelve o’clock on the day of issue. 05*“ Since the commencement of ourpa pgr vve have been sending it to a number of individuals who were not subscribers, with a request that those who did not feel dispos ed to take it would return tile first number. Several have returned the paper as request ed—and we have entered the names of those who have kept them on our Mail Book, and consider them subscribers. They will, therefore, please comply with our terms, by remittingihe “small amount” without delay. ACCIDENT. As the coach belonging to the Defiance Line, was this morning coming from the Depot, with a load of nine passengers, the wheels came in contact with a piece of tim ber, on the corner occupied by Mr. High, the coach was thrown over and five of the passengers injured. Mr. Glenn, of Mc- Donough, Mr. King, of Alabama, and an elderly gentleman from South Carolina, Kel ly ; and two others slightly. Fortunately, however, il is thought that all will soon re cover. We understand that no blame can attach to the driver or proprietors of the line for want of proper precaution. The mis fortune was the result of pure accident. THE NEXT PRESIDENT. Our readers need not be startled at our caption,—we stick to our “olive branch,’ and we have no idea of running up any other flag, or of taking up the cudgel for any man, or party. We propose to treat our subject rather as an “abstraction,” and intend to make our remarks abstiact enough to pre vent the least party suspicion. We know that politicians’ corns are very tender, and we shall take especial cate not to step on them. We shall not assume the prophet, and undertake to say, who is to be our next president; for we consider it a question in volving as much doubt as “whether at our elections, the rotes of faction should he govern ed by the bias of jurisprudence or internal suggestions.” We know of nothing unless it he making money, which so much engages the mind of the American people as President making. Ever since we have known any thing of politics—the great question which has kept the people in an almost uninterrupted excite meut, divided them into hostile and conten tious parties, separated neighbor from neigh bor, and friend from friend, and even kindred from kindred—has been, “who shall be the next President 1” Each party has contend ed for its favorite, with as much venom and violence, and implacable enmity, as if the salvation of the country, beyond a doubt, depended upon the election of their man. The whole mass of popular mind has thus, during every presidential canvass, been lashed into alempest of party fire and fury. The bad passions of men have been suffered to rage without restraint, and the kindlier feelings of the heart, have been, at least for the time, stifled and blighted; Scurrility, in vective, threats, maledictions and curses, have been poured out by each party upon the other, in indiscriminate wrath. The purest and best, as well as the lowest and vilest, have shared alike in this vengeful and ruthless warfare. And scarcely is the suc cessful candidate inducted into office, when the campaign opens for his successor; the defeated party “rallies” and “organizes,” and “comes to the rescue,” to retrieve the fallen fortunes of their leader; and the other “rallies” and “organizes,” and “comestothe rescue” to prevent it; and the country must again he convulsed, and the same scenes of vindictive and protracted strife he re-enact ed. No act of a State legislature can he passed, until the party in a majority have as certained how it will effect the prospects of their candidate for “the next President.” The fitness of any man for an office, wheth er high or low, depends upon his choice for “the next President;” and we have known many who judged of the integrity and vir tue of a fellow citizen by bis adherence to their favorite for “the next President.” This is fact and within the experience of us all. ’Tis true, we have enjoyed comparative peace for the last few months, but we fear it is a delusive calm, and only a harbinger of the approaching storm. Pat ties are alrea dy sounding their watchwords, choosing their leaders, and marshalling their legions; and we may expect soon to see our beloved country again arrayed against he’rself in a conflict which will spread through every portion of her fair territory, the roar and clamor and commotion of party warfare, and which will shake the Temple of Freedom, perhaps to its fall. Who can contemplate such a scene without ill-boding? Who that has one lingering spart of patriotism, can see his country distracted and alienated, and a mighty people, like our;, making alle giance to a party leader the only passport to each other’s favor, without fear. No repub lic can exist without harmony, forbearance, and affection, and if our free government, j the envy of tyrants and the boast of free- j men, is to be overthrown, and furnish a last and conclusive example of the incapacity of man fin- self-government, party spirit will be the demon of its destruction. We , do not object to a preference us one man to I another for office, or to the existence of par- , ties in politics, or to a vigilant watch upon our rulers, or to thorough information among the people upon all matters of public importance. This is to be commended and encouraged. In truth, we deem it as indis pensable to the safety and proper adminis tration of a republican government, that parties should exist. Where the people govern, it is important that those who are chosen to official trust should be under then watchful supervision—that any assumption of power or unjust legislation may meet its proper reward. Man is proud, aspiring, and fond of power; and rulers, in their am bition for self-aggrandizement, will shape their conduct for the promotion of their own ends unless rebuked by the voice of the! people. And it is natural that there should be a difference in popular opinion upon the conduct of rulers and questions of public policy; and the effect of this diversity of sentiment, so long as it is candid and honest and temperate, is salutary upon the admin istration of government. But what we reprobate and condemn is, party spirit run ning riot—making the “ next Presidency” the great object of life—party of more con sequence than the country —villifying and denouncing another because his opinion up on some public measure, or choice of men for office, may differ from ours—taking the opinions of our favorite leader as the rule of our conduct, without examining their truth, arid branding another as a fool or traitor, i who thinks for himself—setting up the dem agogue instead of the patriot, and treating his loud and empty professions as the lan- 1 guage of honest conviction and patriotic ‘zeal—severing the ties of friendship—scat-1 tering the seeds of discord among families ! and neighborhoods—heaving the nation with j its mighty throes of passion, and provoking ‘ the retribution of Heaven! It is this that we fear, and against this that we raise our j humble voice. Party spirit may be viewed j as harmless—it may he argued that our es- , cape from its violence in past contests, in sures our safety in future. We think not. God grant that the error may never be dis covered in our country’s irrecoverable ruin. AGRICULTURE. We refer our readers to an article under I the head of “The Farmer,” from the “GleaningsofHusbandry,” in which allusion is made to a call upon the people of Geor gia for an Agricultural Convention. We hope the call will he responded to, and such a convention will he held. We wish to see the attention of our planters aroused to their own interest and the interest of the commonwealth. The low price of our sia- ‘ pie product, and the comparatively small yield in many portions of the State, have rendered the farmer disheartened and dis contented. And many have broken up old associations, left the home of their early j days, and encountered the privations and | disappointments of anew country, in order to obtain better land. It need not he so. The wide field for improvement in the art.! of tillage, and the almost incredible success ! which has attended the experiments of sev- 1 oral intelligent plantersof an adjoining State, and upon a soil more sterile than our own, proves that all Georgia needs to make her soil as productive as when the forest was first cleared from its surface, is, to lay hold of tjio means of improvement. Let those i who have examined the matter, and inform ed themselves, and know what can be done —let them get the people together, and tell them where their interest lies, and convince them, by facts, of the practicability of add ing threefold to the productiveness of their land. Let there be a State Society formed, with an auxiliary in every county. Establish ! an Agricultural Newspaper, through which •the results of experiment and experience , shall be made public—any information gain- , ed by one shall become the common stock of all. Let there be sti*ted meetings and addresses, and public sentiment enlightened, and public feeling animated. Hardly any subject that could be agitated is of more importance to every class and every indi vidual of society. Not a trade or profession that does not rest upon Agriculture as its basis. Scarcely a comfort or luxury of life for which we are not dependent upon Agri culture. And if there is an occupation which affords a happier or more ennobling exercise for the mind, or which is more safe and independent and honorable in its char acter than any other, it is that of Agricul ture. THE FLORIDA WAR. The Savannah Republican thinks this war is about coming to a close. Perhaps so; and we hope so. But wo have been so often and so long told of its speedy termination, that our hope is exceedingly faint. For the last four years, we have again and again re ceived news from Florida that the Indians were “coming in,” and that the war was “ about closing/’ and ns often been disap pointed. By recent intelligence it appears that Col. Worth is conducting himself like a brave and faithful officer, llalleck Tustc nuggee has been defeated, his village de stroyed, and his provisions taken. His war riors have suffered extremely; and he has had an interview with Col. W. and proposed to surrender. Ilis people, amounting to sixty or seventy, at the latest accounts were within nine miies of our camp, and were in a day or two expected within the lines.— Tustegee and his nephew have also been killed by a detachment under C'apt. Van horn. But chiefs have been killed before, and others have risen up to fill their places; negotiations have been held before for “coming in” and “surrendering,” and only to gain time for restand to prepare for fur ther operations. And should this intelli gence prove to be equal to our hopes, and the war for the twentieth time “close” —no sooner will the inhabitants of the territory begin to* feel secure, ami our troops abate their vigilance, than Sam Jones, or some other chief hitherto unknown, will emerge from his haling place and commence again the work of murder, and plunder, and de struction. At least those are our fears; and judging by the past, wo have reason for them. This war has so long been a subject of animadversion, that our Government has ceased to regard the complaints of the people. The armed force which has been heretofore sent into the territory has been unequal to its wants. Men have been fighting and dy ing, and mm ey has been lavished upon these Florida campaigns; and all to tickle our ears with the “oft told tale,” that the “In dians are coming in.” In the name of Hea ven! how many more of our gallant little army are to find a grave in Florida? llow many more millions of our treasure are to be wasted upon this ignoble and disgraceful contest! DIS A PFOIN TME N T. “ Disappointment sinks the heart of man,” was one of our old'copy scrawls, and often in our subsequent experience, have we been reminded of its truth. How few of the hopes which we cherish and the plans which we form in this world, do we realize. \Ve fix our eye upon an object, and set our heart upon its attainment—it is the subject of our care and solicitude—of our meditation by day and our dreams by night—and although our bitter experience may have taught us that nothing in prospect is sure, hope cheers us by the delusive brightness which she throws upon the future, until disappoint ment casts her cold shadow upon our path, and dashes away the cup of pleasure of which we have so long enjoyed the foretaste, and sadness and despondency come over the spirit, and make us sick of the world and tired of life. In the pursuit of an avocation on which we rely for subsistence for our selves and those dependent on us, we form some plan, which, in every view we take, is practicable, inviting, and full of promise. In happy anticipation of success, we enter upon its execution, and some untoward and unlookcd for event baffles our designs, and blights our hopes. ‘ \Ve have, perhaps, friends, whose professions we regard as sin cere and true, and vve feel that in the hour of need, their friendship will bear the test; of misfortune and come to our aid; and when our troubles are known, and the affec tion they have professed is to touch their reputation or their purse, tliey fly and leave us to our fate. Such is the world and the people who inhabit it. But we can summon fortitude to meet the great misfortunes of life—rt is the comparatively unimportant— the petty, trivial disappointments and trou bles that vex the spirit and corrode the heart —little annoyances, known only to our selves, and which make us think our situa tion peculiar, and that vve of all others are most liable to misfortune, such as, for exam ple, the disappointment to ourself and our subscribers, the last two weeks, in not re ceiving the Vignette and new dress which vve have purchased for our paper. It was shipped, at New Yotk, on the 19th of last month, but vve have been diappointed so often, vve can only try to possess our soul in patience tiii it arrives. We will have it, if we are obliged to purchase again. tt?” The following exquisite “gem” re cently met our eye, and vve consider it too rare a production to pass unnoticed. It ap pears that some youth who had arrived at the third of Shakespeare’s “seven ages,” and was gifted with the genius poetic, had found himself ensnared by the tender pas sion. With a heart surcharged and suffer ing for relief, he invokes his muse and in dites this delectable effusion: TO SALLY. Solly Dumpkino ore the gal What I do most odd mire I kol her mi sweet chormin Sal And imo hur Zephaniah There! If any of our young readers aro in a state of feeling which is “ werry pecoo lier,” end wish a surfeit of sweet sensibility, let them just read those four lines, C/ 8 * Gur article on tho “Right of Search,” will appear next week. TROOPS FOR RHODE ISLAND. The Baltimore American of tho 2d inst., says : “ The steam boat Georgia yesterday brought up from Old Point Comfort two companies of United States Artillery, num bering about one hundred and fifty men. They are Company Iv, Captain Nichols, and Company 11, Captain Seddewick, the whole under command of Colonel Fanning. These troops have been ordered to Rhode Island by the President of the United States, and left this city in the mail cars for Philu delphia, yesterday evening at 7 o’clock.” CT? 0 The new 18 gnn brig “Bainbfklge” is to bo launched at Boston immediately. She is to he fitted out as speedily as possible for the coast of Africa. 4 (U* A Castor Oil Factory is flourishing at St. Louis, which employs 35 hands. It has sold 800 hart els at an average of 850 per barrel, having consumed 15,500 bushels of beaus, ut a cost of from 81 25 per bushel for the last year. HORRIBLE EVENT. We are pained to learn that on Thursday evening last, a most horrible transaction took placo in this county, nme or ten miles from this place, which resulted in the death of David Jamegan, Esq., and the wounding of several other persons. The circumstan ces of ill? affair are not sufficiently known to justify a detailed statement. The gene ral facts wo will sfateas we have heard them. It appears that a Mr. Morgan had arranged a matrimonial elopement with a daughter of the deceased, which, with the aid of friends, ■was accomplished on Thursday; the par ties having repaired to a house in the neigh borhood where the marriage ceremony was legally performed. Upon learning the fact of the elopment, Esq. Jarnegan became ve ry indignant, and determined to go in pur suit. Taking a few friends he soon reach cd the house where the marriage party was assembled. We learn that he forced the door and enfered.when an attack commenced, in which jhe deceased received sundry w-mods, which produced his death early yesterday morning. Some others were wounded ; among them Mr. .1. F. .Simmons, who we understand is seriously if not dan gerously injured. We have not heard fur ther from the matter. With the deceased we were well acquainted. He was a weal thy planter, and possessed many fine points of character. His untimely end is much regretted bv his numerous friends. The affair will no doubt bo investigated, when the whole of the facts may he given to the public.— La Grange (Tenti.) Gatherer. From t!.c S..va:.nah Republican. M.trox, Ait.il 28. Messrs. Editors: —l had the pleasure to day of examining a specimen of Cotton Bagging, mrinUfeetured f. a.a cotton, at the Eatonton Cotton Facto.y. This is, I be lieve, the first effort ever m ule i:i Georgia, or the south, to supply the demand for cot ton bagging from cotton m mufacture, and is a desideratum in our deiretticcconemy. Its texture and quality are superior. It is as stout and heavy as any Inverness or Ken tucky bagging made ; is twilled and made of a sufficient width, and weighs from one and a half to l.j pounds per yard. The company are. 1 understand weaving about one hundred yards per diem, for which they find a ready sale at the factory at 25 cents per yard. This is about three to five cents less than Dundee or Inverness bagging has been selling for, in this market the last sea son. To pack up a full crop of cotton in Georgia, it will require about one and a half mil lions of yards of bagging, which, at an average cost of 25 cents per yard, is 8375,000 To manufacture the same in Geor gia of cotton, it would require about 7 thousand bales worth 818 per bale, is 126,000 8249,000 W bich, deducted from the cost of impor ted. bagging, leaves to the manufactures in Georgia the immense sum of 8249,000 an nually to pay their operatives and make their dividends; thus furnishing the planters in Georgia a better and cheaper article for packing their cotton, at the same time ren dering themselves independent and enrich ing our State. I understand that the Com pany will materially increase the manufac ture of the article next season. I learn also that the Athens Manufactur ing Company have an eye to this hianch of business, ami are making arrangem tits in their machinery for this purpose. This is as it should be, we have every facility for carrying on our manufacturing interests to any extent, and doubtless we can find a ready market at home for all we make. We have in Georgia now, about a dozen cotton factories, which consume annually about 6,000 bales of Cotton, and I see no good reason why we should not manufacture as much as we raise of the raw material. Our Cotton market is dull; stock on hand light, probably not over 2,500 bales our re ceipts are also light. Wc quote prices at 3i to 7 cents. Central funds. Exchange on Savannah 14 per cent, prem.; Charleston, 15; New York, 15 to 17, ibr Central Bank funds. Our river is low and will not be naviga ble for steam boats, unless we have rain sufficient to raise it, in a few days. To-day there was brought to this markot, nnd disposed of at 62J cents per gallon, a lot of Turpentine and Rosin, of a superior quality, manufactured in Pike county, Geor gia. Yours very truly. Temperance meeting. tPHERE will bo n ntcetin” ot the Morgan County Temperance Society held at the Court House, in this place, on Monday night next, the 9th instant Mr. Taylor will be present. Also, a meeting on Wednesday, the 11th instant, at the same place, he 1 o’clock, P. M. The citizens of tho Town ana County are respectfully invited to attend. AUGUSTUS ALDEN, President. May 7 lw6 Colonel Johnson has accepted t invitation of his ftiends for tho Presidency in Pennsylvania to be present at the fctf Us* bration of the battle of tbe Thames, in Danville, Pa., on the sth of October next. Death of Right Rev. Bishop Conic ell. — This venerable prelate died In Philadelphia, on the 22d ult. between 12 and 1 o’clock, aged 91 years, having resided in that city since IS2O, as Roman Catholic Bishop of tho and ioccse. St. Charles Triumphant!! —The Pica* yune of the 20th ult. says : Yesterday tho Insurance Companies formally notified the Gas Bank that they had finally concluded to rebuild the St. Charles Theatre and Ar cade buildings, as they stood previous to the late conflagration. At a regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the Gas Bank, last evening, the propositiorrto rebuild was- ArrtPTPP, We have never announced any fact with more pride and gratification—wo shall again have the Temple of the Drama, in all its splendor and glory. QOMMERGOM.. MADISON, May 7, 1842. Cottox— Since our Inst repot t 658 bales have been received and ynt forward by the Georgia Rail Road. About 270 bales have been purchased nere, at prices ranging from 3to 6 1-2 cents. Transactions for Col ton in Central Bank money receiving an advance of from 15to 18 percent.on tho above rates. The article continues at fair prices, nnd is in demand notwithstand ing die apathy, and decline, of holders in the foreign market Onr buyers nnd merchants here are fully pre pared to purchase with specie or Central Bank funds. Bacon nnd Flour continues to arrive in sufficient quantities to keep their value, at rates of 5 to 6 cents per 11). for Bacon, nnd 6 to $7 per barrel for Flour— bodi of which are delivered here in fine order. Corn and Corn Meal is still in fair demand, and is generally sold for cash,or battered for Groceries, at 45 to 50 cents per bushel. VVe quote : Sugar, Musrnvcdo, 10 a 11—St. Croix, f 11 1-2 a 12—Loaf, 20 a 22—Lump. 17 a 18; Coffee, Rio, 13 1-2 a 14—Cuba, 13 a 13 1-2-Java, IGa 17; Molas se-, 37 a4O ; Salt, 75 aB7 ; Rice, 512 6; Nails, 8 a 8 1-2 ; Iron, S a G 1-2 ; Steel, Cast, 25—‘dieter, Amer ican, 12 1-2 —English do. 17 a 18 1-2 ; Callings, 6 a 7 1-2; Pepper, Muck, 15 a IS 3-4 ; Spice ; 15 alB 3-4 ; Ginger, 15 a 18 3-4. AUGUSTA, May 4 Cotton.—ln our paper of Tuesday \e reported the stock of Cotton on hand, and the receipts up to the Ist of May; since then our receipts have been quite light, and the business doing in the article has been to a lim ited extent only, although prices have been.firm with a tendency upwards, more particularly oh the better qualities. We quote 4a 8 cents os extremes of the market, whilst must crop lots are sold from >3-4a 6 1-2 cents—square bales itr all instances commanding from 1-4 u 1-2 cent over round. MACON, May 3. Our Cotton season may be considered as pretty much over —but little is now coming in, and the de mand small. The last Foreign news has had the ef fect of depressing tbe market even lower than it was; so that planters who ltaveheld back, receive little sa tisfaction for having so done. It is to he hoped they will hold hack no longer—there is hardly a possibility •of prices being for a year or two at least, if ev er ; nnd the money their cotton would bring, even at its present low price, is much wanted in the country at this time. We quote this morning, 4 to 7 extreme* —principal sales 5a 61-2 cent. SAVANNAH, April 30. Cotton.—‘Arrived since the 21st ins'ant, 3472 bale* Upland and 77 ba'es Sea Island, and cleared in the Fame time 7719 hales Upland and 114 bales Sea Island; nnd heaving on hand, inclusive of allon shipboard not cleared on the 28th instant, a stock of 7497 bales Up land and 1157 hales Sea Island. The transactions in Cotton this week have again been amah; mure limited indeed than any week's busi ness since November. The stock on hand is unusual ly light, nnd the market continues inactive, with a ten dency to lower prices, in which the betterqnaliiies (un less packed in square hales) partake. Yesterday there was rather n more active demand than on some pre vious days of the week, but the decline in qualities be low fair may he quoted at 1-3 a 14 c , nnd even at these concessions some buyers appear unwilling to ope rate. We are informed that Pea Islands have declined 1-2 to 1 c. [ter lb. from the prices paid last week, and the sales show that there has been no inquiry for lliia sta ple since our last review of the market. NEW-OR LEANS, April 27. Cm ton—Arrived since the 22J instant, of Louisi ana nnd Mississippi 4,117, Arkansas 426; together 9.- 2'14 hales. Cleared in the same time for Liverpool 8,- 154 hales, Havre 4,009, Havana 289, New-York 220, Norfolk 105; together 12,777 hales—making a reduc tion in stock r.f 3,573 bales, and leaving on hand, in clusive of all on ship-board not cleared on the 26th in* stntit, a stock of 122,693 bales. Cl nOfl CENTRAL BANK Money for sale bv JOHN ROBSON & CO. May 7 2w6 Morgan Sheriff’s Sales. YUILL be sold on the first Tuesday in June next, be lore the Court House door, in the Town of Madi son, in said County, within the usual hours of sale. Four Negroes, to wit: Peter, a man, 22 years of age, Ephraim, a man, 23 years of age, Lucy, a girl, 21 years of age, and Anderson, a bov. 7 years of age, all levied on ns the property of John Magee, and pointed out by said John Magee, to satisfy 39 li. fas. from a Justices’ Court of the 396 h Dist. G. M. of said County, in favor of C R. Zachary, vs. John Magee and R. J. Butts. Also, one Buggy, levied on to satisfy n fi. fa. in favor of William Bacon & Cos vs. Jacob E. Roll and Sand ford 11. Clark, and pointed out by Isham S. Fannin, Plaintiff’s Attorney. Also, one tract of Lam), containing two hundred a cres, more or less, as the property of Samuel Stovall, it being the place whereon the said Samuel now lives, udjoiningthe lands of Alexander Awtry, DavidMcMa h >n, Julius Skinner, nnd others, nnd pointed out by Mrs. Stovall, to satisfy a (i. fa. from Morgan Superior Court, September Term, 1839, in favor of the Justices of the Inferior Court, by their Attorney, Wm. F. VanLand inghatn. v. Edmund Duke, principal, Wilie A. B. Mo horn und Samuel Stovall, securities. Also, a Negro boy, by tbe name of Alfred, about 15 years of age, levied on as the property of John C. Rees, to satisfy a fi. fa. in favor of John C. Moore, vs. Hugh Woods, John Woods and William Woods — John C. Rees, security. LEWIS GRAVES, Sheriff May 7 6 SrpTSs** MORGAN SHERIFFS SALES will jKr&fcJ hereafter he published in the “Southern * ‘*22- Recor er,” Milledgeville, and the “South ern Miscellany,” at Madison. LEWIS GRAVES,Sheriff May 7 6 Georgia—Jlorgan County: WHEREAS, Wilson Watley, Jr., applies to me for *’ Loiters of Administration on the estate ufOrnoa Watley, deceased : These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be nnd appear et my pfftce within the time prescribed by law, to show cause, if any they have, why said let ters should not lie granted. Given under iny hand, at office, in Madison. JAMES C. TATE, Clerk C.O. Mnv7 6 Masonic Notice. rIE next regular Communication of Madison Lodos will lie held on Friday Evening next, at 74 o’clock. Brethren w ill please take due notice thereof. By order of Worshipful Master. C. F. HUFFMAN, Secretary. May 7 lw6 -- ■ THE Anniversary of St. „ 1 Ijr t?/s. njki V/ 4°h n the Baptist will be ceL ‘ l ’'-ac t-* e * >ra,e d on’ tne 24th of June next, by the Madison Lows. - reparations will be made ililjMßggMWwFiiii'tiifetts f° r *l entertainment of our SW/ “CjYjjiU Brethren from abroad, and •* lev are cordially invited to V i’ WjpJMkrvSfp join in tbe exercises on that A. ALDEn!“ n C. WHITING. ) Lommrttee C. F. HOFFMAN, \ A. A OVERTON, 1 Arr>n * April 26 e.0.w.tc.4