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SO ITTHJE R N TRI B UNE , rCBLIbIiKU WiiEKLV, BY wn. U. 11 Al*K 1S O . WM. B. HARRISON, 1 AND > EDITORS. WM. 8. LAWTON, > MB—Bwaww—■BWMW—a—ill! ■ i!■!■■■»■ 111 nrm PUBLIC MEETING, Os the Fiicnds of Southern Rights and Equality Tl»o Friends of the Union who favor the settlement of the Slavery question, upon the basis of the Missouri Compromise hire, in opposition to the so called Clay and Foote" Adjustment Bill," do hereunto sign their names for the call of a Public Meeting, at such time and place as may be designated by Hand-Bills. Leroy Napier, Win B. Harrison, N. C. Munroe, Geo. W. Price, Pulaski 5. Holt, T. T. Polhil!, "VVnv. B. Parker, Wm. Richardson, James Dean, W. S. Ballard, R.A. L. Atkinson, E. R. Haynes, Thomas King, Sr., \\ m. T. Smith, Samuel B. Hunter, Wm. G. Bomau, M. E. Kylander, J. P. Smith, Samuel Dinkins, H. Hightower, Peter Solomon, T. S. Green, Wm. A. Ross, G. W. Seymore, J. B. Ross, W. Fuller, B. F. Ross, G. Horn, B. H. Moultrie, .T. Russell, Benj. Ed. Stiles, G. Ehrlick, James M. Green, C. M. Lankota, Henry K. Gieen, T. Goodyear, L. Griffin, W. W. Russell, John J. Jones, A. Hammond, A. C. Morehouse, M. Cunnian, C. Mulholland, T. If. King, M. N. Burch, Wm. King, James A. Ralston, R. K. Evans, John Rutherford, J. D. Gray, Charles Campbell, T. A. Han is, R. McGoldrick, T.M. Eans, John W. Tucker, W. H. Turpin, H. P. Redding, R. F. Ousley, A. G. Butts, A. B. Adams, C. F. Smith, J. M. Field, J. H. Picket, R. Beasley, Sr., John P. Evans, A. T. Anderson, George Payne, L. M. Roberts, L. Flemister, G. R. Barker, Thomas L. Ross, 11. W. Tindall, W. W. Williamson, H. J. Cherry, Henry E. Moore, A. L. Audouin, A. R. Freeman, M. M. Mason, H. M. Lindsay, J. B. Rawls, H. J. Elder, W. S. Johnson, D. R. Rodgers, T. J. Townsend, T. N. Mason. A.J. Orr, E. L. Strohecker, J. Joseph Hodges, E. L. Williams, J. D.C ercopely, J. Hollingsworth, Sam’l J. Ray, C. C. Usher, J. W. Harris, F. K. Wright, David Flanders, Benj. Fort, A. Stotesbury, S. C. Atkinson, H.C. Lawshe, T. H. Plant, J. Wilder, Jos. N. Seymour, E. Price, E. A. Wilcor, Thos. Williams, Mark D. Ciarke, Thos. H. Flint, G. W. Hines, W. B. Hill, J. Burnett, A. Newsom, T. J. Redding, S. S. Johnson, W. A. Cherry, E. Calhoun, A. Chapman, It. Wilkinson, •j. r. vjriueu, J.o. Jones, A. F. Redding, L. Calhoun, James M. Jones, S. A. Johnson, Geo. W. Fish, J. M. D taper, A. G. Bostick, D. C. Culpepper, J. Holzendorf, Wm. Yorke, J. J. Kaigler, J. T. Smith, A. N. Ballard, Wm. B. Gamble, W. S. Williford, Burral Wise, Jas. B. Cooper, L. L. Snow, E.G. Jeffers, M. J. Woodard, ,B. D. Clarke, J. R. Johnson, H. W. Bronson. A. Burnett, T. W. Brantley, W. J. Johnson, Martin Hall, J. Brown, B. M. Brantley, T. C. Lancaster, G. W. Atkinson, W. H. Lancaster, Joseph Engel, P. M. McElmurray, H. W. Shaw, L. C. Lancaster, L. M. Demick, J. Willis, John G. Coleman, S. Sykes, Willis If. Hughes, "W. C. Carloss, Chas. Thompson, S. H.Evere t, E. S. Rogers, J. T. Perdue, T. J. Wool folk, W. Willoughby, John Eanes, R. Barefield, John Bailey, R. B. Barefield, C. B. Nottingham, Wm. Ryder, D. T. Driggars, C. B. Bond, J. S. Fish, E. W. Stubbs, J. 7’. Napier. W. R. A' ant, R. B. Clayton, T. B. Stubbs, Wm. S. Hill, G. C. Davis, W. C. Hill, E. Edwards. W. H. Hill, J. T. Barefield, F. A. Hill, T. T. Brooks, Asa E. Ernest. J. R. McElmurry, James Taylor, W. B. Bryan, B. Trapp, S. Woodard, Wm. Thompson, L. S. Avant, A. W. Spence, W. B. Halstead, J. McDonald, A. A. Danforth, J. Barnes, W. J. Hammond, J. L. Burge, J. 11. Cowart, Fred. R. Tarver, J. Dyer. A.H. Colquitt, R. R. Minchcw, Isaac Winship, W. A. Hartley, W. B. Ector, J. J. Sparrow. 1 heart and hand approve and unite, if it is proper for a nou-resident of the coun ty to do so. C. B. Strong. [Several gentlemen have lists of other frames that have not been brought into this office, which will be published in next week’s Telegraph ] In accordance with the foregoing call, several hundred citizens assembl ed at the Court House in this city, on Friday eve ning, sth inst.. when the follow ing gentle men were appointed officers of the meet, ing, viz : Col. Pulaski S. Hot.T, President. Charles Collins, ) ... „ Samuel Dinkins, }' ,ce f resu,ent9 ’ John Rutherford f .. n a r a > becretanes. n. A. L. Atkinson, \ The President having explained the ob ject of the meeting, the Hon. W alter T. Colquitt addressed the meeting in a forcible speech, in which he ably defended the t ights of the South, which was most enthusiastically received. After which a committee was appointed to draft Reso lutions for ilie adoption of the meeting, composed of the following gentlemen, viz: Sam’l J. Ray, C. B. Nottingham, Joseph Seymour, J. M. Green, R.A. L. Atkinson, J. J. Jones, James Dean, John Rutherford, Leroy Napier, Charles Collins, B. 11. Moultrie, E. L.Stohecker, Wm. B. Parker. Who retired and reported the following Resolutions, which wete unanimously adopted by the meeting, viz : 1. Resolved, That we heartily approve of the Address and Resolutions of the Nashville Convention, and with the whole South, will be ready to maintain them “at all hazards and to the last extremity.” 2. Resolved, That we heartily approve the course of the Delegates from this State to that Convention, and hereby fender our thanks for their attendance. 3. Resolved, That we see in the scheme of the Committee of Thirteen, commonly called “Clay’s Compromise,” so much to condemn, that wo consider it an insult to call such proposition an ofFer of compro mise. 4. Resolved, That the Missouri Line was adopted upon the solemnly pledged faith of the North, acquiesced in for thirty years, acknowledged and acted upon by the South in good faith on the admission of Texas, and the establishment of the Oregon Territories, and it is a gross breach of faith, and a violation of justice on the part of the North, to repudiate it now, and deprive the Southern people of its benefits in the first instance in which it could operate in their favor. 5. Resolved, That unless justice he done the South, our Senators and Representa tives will be justified in refusing to vote supplies to a Government which is no lon ger worthy of the confidence of the South ern people, because it has proved either incapable or unwilling to perform its obli gations equally to all the States, and every section of the Union. 6. Resolved, That until the slavery ques tion is settled, we repudiate all former po litical distinctions, and desire to meet all Southern men as bro hers on the Southern platform. 7. Resolved, That copies of these pro ceedings he furvvm ued to each of our Sen ators and Representatives in Congress. 8. Resolved. That the proceedings of this meeting be he signed by the Chair man and Secretaries, and copies of the same be banded to the Telegraph, Tri bune, and Journal of this city, with a re quest for publication. Tiiomaston, July 4, 1850. To the Editor of the Southern Tribune, Macon: You will very much oblige me by pub lishing in your paper, the following article and correspondence. Respectfully, O. C. GIBSON. From the Weekly Chronicle 4* Sentinel., June 17. Tlie Nashville Convention. As the full report of the proceedings of this body will doubtless be much more sat isfactory to many readers, than the incom plete sketches by Telegraph, we have concluded to give them a place in our columns, and therefore commence their publication this morning, which will be concluded as rapidly as our space will permit. In glancing over the delegation from Georgia, we felt some curiosity to see how many voters she represented, and there fore addressed ourself to the investigation, by which we ascertained the foilwing re sults: Messrs. McDonald and CoLuutrr, weto appointed by the Legislature, and may therefore, be regarded as respecting that body. Os the others in attendance, Mossrs. Banning Crawford, Gibson and Fouchk were elected by the people of their respective Congressional districts, and received in the aggregate 2,409 votes, wliome they may be considered as repre senting. The remaining four are appoin tees of Gov. Towns, and may be suppos ed to represent his Excellency. Georgia numbers probably one hun dred thousand voters, and yet these men who received t r6s than one fortieth part of them, assume to represent her in this as sembly. What a commentary upon our system of government, in which a majori ty assume the right to govern. Thojiaston, June 27, ISSO - the Editor of the Avgusta. Chronicle 4' Sentinel Dear Sir—Your Weekly of the 19th inst. is shewn me, in which you take oc casion to arraign me, as one capable of misreq/resenting the Nashville Convention. There has been no time in twenty years’ intercourse with the citizens of Georgia, when l have not decidedly advocated the right of the People to have such to repre sent them as would reflect their will. And this it occurs to me, entitles me to be heard by your readers, in reply to the imputa tion you make. When the use of my name was asked as a candidate to represent the District, I was of opinion the vote would he very small, because there had been no such agitation upon the subject of the Convention as usually attracts the attention of the masses, because the election was at a time when the farmers were busily engaged in plant ing, and because it was not likely the Con vention would have open and manly oppo sition : and on account of this belief, in accepting the nomination, I not only made known my sentiments to the District, but closed my communication with this para graph , “In the present condition of this movement it appears to me proper, in this way to present my opinions to the Dis trict ; for while it would be a bright page in my life to represent a constituency thinking with me on this great question, it would be a blot on my existence tc mis represent any set of men; and betweer. this and the first Monday in June, there is am ple lime for the people in the Distiict to adopt any proper measures to keep me, where both my inclinations and warns call me, at home'' I am not conversant with the result of the election in the different counties, but in this county (Upson,) the anti-slavery and submission parties succeeded in polling two votes against me, while the friends of the Convention voted 133 for me. Since the publication of my letter, (a boutthe last of March,) no anti-slavery or submission man has as yet been bold enough io ask the good people of my Dis trict, in any of the usual ways of express ing their sentiments, to denounce either the sentiments contained in my letter or the Nashville Convention. If a majority in this District he compos ed of men who believe slavery an evil and want to get clear of it, of politicians who have no knowledge of a patriotism lofty enough to overlook the interests of their party, and of individuals fu&tfriTsiceenough to have foul and violent hands laid on their pa ’pable rights, and then meekly say thanks that their oppressors were kind enough to let them retain what is left a little longer ; if such constitute the majority in this Dis trict, and you and your co-laborers will but muster them once, 1 assure you in me they have to do with a man, that would neither represent nor misrepresent them. Respectfully, O. C. GIBSON. P. S. Os course I do not expect this to have the place of an advertisement, but in asking you to publish it in sheer justice to what has ever been my position upon a principle and a question, tnat l regard vital to my country, it is perhaps proper that I say, you of course would fix the terms of its publication, atul it wtll be my pleasure to abide them. O. C. G. Chronicle & Sentinel Office, ) Augusta, July 1, 1850. f O. C. Gibson, Esq. Yours of the 27th ult. is at hand, which you ask “in sheer justice to your position” should be published, because you assumed that the Chronicle & Sentinel. (Weekly,) of the 19th ult. “arraigned you as one ca pable of misrepresenting the Third District in the Nashville Convention.” The article to which you refer, only stated a fact in reference to you. viz : that you and three others (named) represented 2049 voters, in the Convention. This fact neither controvert nor join issue upon. Hence your communication contains no thing pertinent, arid is therefore inadmissi ble, becaute you have failed to shew that any injustice has been done you, Respectfully, J. W. JONES, Editor Chronicle & Sentinel. Letter from Jn<lsjre Sharkey. Jackson, (Miss.) Jone 21, 1850. To the Editors of the Mistisiippi Southron: Dear Sir —An opinion expreesed by me in in a letter to the Hon H. S. Foote, approving the plan of compromise intro duced into the Senate by the committee of thirteen, is being used as evidence that the South would the content with the terms of the compromise. That opinion may receive an undue weight from the circumstance that I was chosen President of the Nashville Convention, and the in ference may be drawn that a majority of the Delegates concurred in approving the compromise. The reverse, however, is true: The Compromise had hut few friends in the Convention. And that no opinion of mine may he used to destroy, in any degree, the force of the Convention, a further explanation may be necessary. The lettter was wilten at a time when it was believed by me, as well as by others, not only here but elsewhere, that the Convention movement would result in a total failure. Some of the States had de clined to appoint Delegates ; it was believ ed the Delegates appointed by others would not attend, and every where great opposition was manifested towards the measure. It seemed impossible to rally | the South in vindication of her rights.— | The advices from Washington Cily seem ed to dispel any hope of a creditable Convention, and a failure could have no other effect titan to encourage the ag gressions on the South. It was also believed that the Compto mise was the best that could possibly be ob tained; so,indeed,l was distinctly informed. Under such circumstances I wrote the let ter referred to, in reply to one which con tainedbut a synopsis of the Compromise not having seen the measure. But, itt ex pressingtliat the South was entitled to no thing more. My opinions on the subject of the rights of the South, are too well known, I trust, to be the subject of doubf I had repeatedly declard that the South was entitled to an equal poition of the New Territories. Since thatlettcr was written, the Nash ville Convention has met. Its enemies have been disappointed, and the South is alive to her interests and her rights. The Convention was called for the purpose of enabling the Southern States to consult together, and to know each other’s sentiments. After full deliberation, the Convention, by undivided opinion, resolv ed to accept the Missouri Compromise Line extended through to the Pacific, which would give her a part of California. This plan received my cordial support. It was the one for which I had indcated a preference before I left for theCotivention. It recommends itself by its entire justice, in this the Souih is yielding more than ought to he demanded of her, hut for sake of harmony she may with propriety accede to it. I did not go into the Convention with any other motive than to preserve our rights by acting in concert with others, and was fully prepared to act in a spirit of compromise; and whatever opinions I any have entertained or expessed, I am now under obligations to carry out the views of the Convention. Every rnan who went into it was at least impliedly bound to abide by its action; and this obligation is the more cheerfully admitted by me, as all its measures seemed to have in view a due regard for the Union and the preserva tion of the Constitution. Audi trust the whole South will unite, in a spirit of firm determination to insist upon the line of compromise which we have recommended. This shall be my c utse, and 1 hope by pursuing it to accomplish the preservation of the Union unimpaired. Itisproaer to state that my opinions were freely com municated here as well as at Nashville, and I make this communication not to vindicate myself against the charge of inconsistency—l am wholly indifferent on that subject —but solely for the purpose of placing the action of the convention in its truelight. Your ob’t serv’t, \V. L. SHARKEY. Cotton. —The receipts up to the latest dates are within 30,427 bales of the lowest estimates lately formed for the season. Last year at this time the receipts were within about ninety-five thousand bales of the aggregate for the year ending Sept. Ist. It is possible that the aggregate this year will go over two millions of bales, but hardly probable. It is our impression now that it will not vary fifteen thousand bales either way, from that quantity.— Recent accounts from Liverpool relative to the cotton market, are of the most extraordinary character. The present deficiency in the supply of the raw materi al, might be a partial suspension in the manufacture of heavy goods to get along with; but in the face of the most unfavora ble season regarding the new crop,ever ex perienced, we see the manufacturers of England appaiently indifferent as to any further advance in prices, and working literally from hand to mouth. They evidently look for a break down among holdershere; for some unfavorable change in our money market, that will compel holders to disgorge and put their stock in the maiket. They appear to havo very little confidence in our ability to control ' enough of the crop to give us any control ! of prices, and undoubtedly expect to re tain that influence over the planting inte rest of the United States, which his here tofore been so profitable. The money power of Manchester and Liverpool is im mense; and such is the extent atul pet fee tion of the combination among the manu facturers and capitaliats of those cities, that almost anything they undertake is usually accomplished. We cannot cope with that power at present. We cannot get up such combi nations, and are sadly deficient in capital; but the time is not far distant, and is rapid ly approaching, when wo shall not only establish prices for cotton, but shall have comparatively little to spare, after supply ing our own manufacturers, for those of Great Britain,at any price. If the Govern ment of England can, by any manage ment, promote or extend the cultivation of cotton in the East Indies, it had better set about it at once. There is r.ot a mo ment to be lost, as the commercial exis tence of Great Britain depends upon a sufficient supply of raw material from some other source than the United States. W e look with perfect indifference upon any effort made in England to obtain a supply of cotton from any other part of the world but the United States; and whatever may be the result of any effort made, it cannot effect us matmially. It is, however, probable that any fallling off itt Gieat Britain, for our cotton, caused bv receipts from other parts of the world, w. uld give a greater impetus to the con sumption of this article within our limits, and rather hasten than retard the downfall of the supremacy in manufacturing which that country lias so long enjoyed.— jYcw York Herald. Poitlmmoua Sketches of Philosophy. BY SYDNEY SMITH. The force of Ilabit—Hobbes and his Pipe. — He smoked; how did he begin? It might have begun any haw. He was staying, perhaps, at some house where smoking was is fashion, and began to smoke in compliance with the humor of other persons. At first, he thought it unpleas ant; and as all the expirations and in. spirations were new and difficult, it re quired considerable attention ; and at the close of the evening he could have distinc tly recollected, if he had tried to do, t hat his mind had been employed in thinking how ho was to manage and munoeure the pipe. The practice goes on ; the disgust vanishes; much less attention is necessary to smoke well ; in a few days the associ ation is formed ; the cloth is taken away after supper, of smoking occurs ; if any ac cident happen to prevent it, a slight pain is felt in consequence ; it seems as if things did not go on in their regular track, and same confusion had crept into the ar rangements of the evening. As the as sociation goes on, it gathers strength from the mirth and conversation with which it is jouieu; at iasi, after a lapse of years,vve see the philosopher of Malmesbury ad vanced from one to one dozen of pipes ; so perfect in all the tactics of a smoker, so dexterous in all the manual of Lis dirty recreation, that be would fill, light, and out his pipe, without the slightest remem brance of what he bad been doing, or the most minute inuterruption to any immoral train of thought, in which he happened to be engaged ; but we must not forget, that though his amusment occupied himsolitde and was passed over with such a small share of his attention, the want of it would have occupied him so much, that he could have done nothing without it; all his spec ulations would have ocupied himso much, that he could have done nothing without it: all his speculations would have been a* an end ; and without his twelve pip s lie might have been a friend to devotion, to freedom, or any thing else which, in the customary tenor of his thoughts, he cer tainv was not. Books and Conversation. —A book lias no eyes, and feelings ; tho best are every now and then too become a little languid ; whereas a living book walks about, and varies his conversation and manner, and prevents you from going to sleep. There is cerianly a great evil in this, as well as a good; for the interest between man and his living folio becomes sometimes a little too keen, and in the competition for victory they become a little too animated towards, and sometimes exasperated against, each other; whereas a man and his book gener ally keep the peace with tolerable success; and if they disagree, the man, shuts his book, and tosses it into a corner of the room, which it might not be quite so safe or easy to do with a living folio. It is an inconvenience in a cook, that you cannot ask quesiions; there is no explanation; and a man is less guarded in cunveisation than in a book, and tells you with more honesty the little niceties and exceptions of "his opinions; whereas, in a book, as his opinions are canvassed where they cannot be explained and defended, be often over states a point for fear of being misunder stood; but then, on the contrary, almost every man talks a great deal better in his books, with more sense, more information and more reflection, than he can possibly do in his conversation, because he has more time. Advice to youthful poets.— There is one circumstance I would preach up, morn, ing, noon, and night to young persons for the management of their understanding. W hatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. If Providence only intended you to write po. sies for rings, or mottoesfot twelfth-cakes, keep to posies and mottoes; a good mot toe for a twelfth-cake is more respectable lhan a villainous epic poem in twelvebooks. Be what nature inteded you far, and you will succeed, be any thing elso, and you will he ten thousand times worse than no thing. Mathematics of Bees. —The warmest admirers of honey, and the greatest friends to bees, will never, I presume, contend that, the young swarm, who begin making honey three or four months after they are born, and immediately construct the ma thematical cells, should have gained their mathematical knowledge as vve gain ours and in three months’ time outstrip Mr. Maclaurin in mathemetics as much as they did in making honey. It would take a senior wrangle at Cambridge ten bouts a day, for three years together, to know enough mathematics for the calculation of these problems, with which not only every queen bee, but every undergraduate grub, is acquainted the moment it is born. The Importance of the Beautiful. —What are half the crimes in the world commit ted for? What brings into action the best virtues I The desire of possessing. Os possessing what ? Not more money but every species of the beautiful which money can purchase. A man lies hid in a little, ditty, smoky room for twenty years of his life, and sums up as many columns of figures as would reach round half the earth, if they were laid at length; he gets rich ; what does he do with his riches ? lie buys a very large well-proportioned house; in the arrangement of his furni ture he gratifies himself with alii the beauty which splendid colors, regular fi. gurus, and smooth surfaces can convey; he has the beauties of variety and asso ciation in his grounds; the cup out of which he drinks his tea is adorned with beautiful figures; the chair in which he sits is covered with smooth shining leath er; his table cloth is of the most beautiful damask; mirrors reflect the lights from every quarter of the room; pictures of the best masters feed his eye with all the beauties of imitation. A million of hu- man creatures ate employed in this coun try in ministering to this feeling of the beautiful. It is only barbarous, ignorant people that can ever he occupied by the necessaries of lif alone. If to eat, and to drink, and to be warm, were the only passions of our minds, vve should all be what the lowest of ns are at this day.— The love of the beautiful calls man to fresh excriious, awakens him to a more noble life; and the glo r y of it is, that as painters imitate, the poets sing, and statu ses carve, and architects rear up the gor geous trophies of their skill:—and as eve ry thing becomes beautiful, and orderly, magnificent,—the activity of the mind ris es to still greater and belter objects. The principles of justice are sought out; the powers of the ruler and the rights of the subject are fixed ; man advances to the enjoyment of rational liberty, and the es tablishment of those great mural la»'g vvhic God has written in our hearts, to re gulate the destiny of the world. * r Aurungzebe. —Every one possessed or power is an object either of awe or su blimity, from a justice of the peace to tho Emperor Aurungzebe—an object quite as stupendous as the Alps. He had thirty five millions of revenue, in a country where the products of the earth are at least six times as cheap as in England his empire extended twenty-five degree 5 of latitude, and as many of longitude: ho had put to death about twenty milli° ns 0 people. I should like to know the n l3ll who could have looked at Aurung 2 ® 0 without feeliug him to the ends of his li m s ’ and every hair on his head! Such rors ere mure sublime than cataracts, think any man would have shivered at the sight of Aurungzebe than at the of the two rivers which meet at the 1 Mountains in Ame ties,and bursting *b r ° u the whole breadtli of tho rocks, toll t victorious and united waters t 1) the ern Sea.