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the conquest of Mexico, under the adventurer Cortez, the mind of the conqueror has stamped the impress of its supe riority upon every subject pertaining to government. These have always from that day to this, maintained themselves in circumstances of ease, affluence and luxury, while the nathe has dwarfed into the peone and submissively contributed t.n fruition of his toil and labor to the wealth and consequence o the former. Generally, they and their descendants, ,n ‘ xtl and otherwise, form the only educated classes. I family was of this stock, pure and unadulterated, and was one of its centres of the highest influence. Isabella and an older brother, now aid-de-camp to Santa Anna, received their education at schools in Mexico. The residence of the family was in the immediate neighbor hood of the celebrated square in Monterey, known tor the character of its owner and its magnificent structure. YY nh its massive columns and ornamental parapets, the famih man sion presented to the stranger a strikingly castle-like appear ance. The extensive and exquisitely cultivated grounds, with their majestic shade trees and flowering vines, the orangery and green groves of lemon, occasionally relieved b} the ba nana and plantain and other fragrant and delicious fruits of the tropics, heightened the manorial aspect of the scene.— The interior was even more in keeping with the idea of lordly self-indulgence than any perfection in the peculiar structure and architecture of the massive stone edifice indicat ed. The richest furniture and carpeting which in their tidy arrangements seemed to have blended the tints ot the luin bow, attested a knowledge of eastern magnificence, while in niches of the walls were numerous specimens of the statuary and paintings of the old masters of these arts. Rare volumes of Spanish historians and poets ornamented the tables. With these silent but eloquent transcripts of the deeds and thoughts of men of another country and age, our young friends enjoyed many a rational feast, for each had taste to .ap preciate all that Was preserved in the new world ot the trans mitted soul of the distinguished dead. It is not strange that forever respecting a spirit winch fully sympathised with her in the study of the chronicles of her own people and the thoughts of these old writers, Isabella should finally ac knowledge the growth of a deeper sentiment. Hitherto she had only found such a companion in her own family. Beverly understood his position and began to feel that these new influences were necessary to his happiness, llut with this conviction, his troubles commenced. 1I doubted if the sentiment acknowledged by Isabella could he permanent and deep-seated in the affections. As an enemy and in arms against the members of her own family, he could not reason ably hope to gain the favor of her parents. lie began to tremble under this aspect of the ease, tliat he found his affections so thoroughly enlisted. He felt that “They love their land because it is their own, And scorned to give aught other reason why.” And his good sense added to llalleck’s sentiment, that they must hate all those who mean to do it harm. He came not only as an enemy, but as one without rank or pretensions. lie offered an unknown name for one that awak ened and kept up a thousand proud and clustering associa tions. Could the proud Castilian make such a sacrifice ? Superadded to these difficulties, just at this juncture, a rival in the character of an officer of name and rank, contested the favorable consideration of Isabella. High in rank as was the new rival, he was no better man than Beverly, yet the latter, oppressed with apprehensions, made up his mind to abandon the unequal field. “YY hen this resolution was sus pected by Isabella, she, judging from the falling off of Bever ly’s visits, sought an occasion to reassure him, by stronger de clarations than had been previously made. Her manners soon left it palpable, both to I loverly and the officer, that the socie ty of the former was decidedly more grateful than the atten tion of hU superior. Isabella was a consummate actress, yet with the arts of a coquette, toward Beverly, was mingled much of real feeling. She brought Beverly again at her feet ; he was altogether devoted, and yet, judging from the respective declarations, lie was not more committed than Isabella. Even yet, although she felt attached to Beverly, she was playing a part, its object certainly concealed from his notice. He was too blind to have understood any* slight indication of the project. Ever and anon, in the fervent sentiment of affec tion, was mingled a regret that the usefulness ot Beverly was circumscribed in its operation by his position ‘ in the rank and file.” But these ingenious hints were gratefully received, as indications of Isabella's appreciation ot his real character and worth. They had the effect intended, and were essential to the perfection of the delicate meshes now being interwoven with the feelings of Beverly, by which she, the artful woman, hoped to bind him to her will. The plot was now maturing— the fair plotter gaining courage and multiplying the assurances of her love. He saw nothing concocted. YYitli him all was right—he was happy. LeaYCS from a Portfolio. LEAF VII. Gorgeousness. —What myriads of admirers have the flittering ornaments of earth ! Modest and un assuming worth is entirely neglected and discounte nanced when the gilded equipage of assumption is ushered before us] It is a painful truth, and we witness its fulfillment every day of our lives, that most persons have no appreciation t<tv things ot sim ple and true worth, equal to that they manifest tor the transient splendors of hollow display. This, therefore, opens a large sphere tor the philanthro pist, when actuated by the impulse of his generous heart. Does it not seem that all persons who are attracted by ornament, are indiserimiuating and in fatuated creatures ? It is related that I’hilopeinen, the greatest soldier of his age in Greece, was usual ly clad in a very plain dress, and olten went abroad without any servant or attendance : in this manner lie came alone to the house of a friend who had in vited him to dinner. The mistress of the family . mistook him for a servant and asked his assistance ! in the kitchen, which he gave without ceremony, ! and fell to cleaving wood. The owner of the home-! stead, coming in at the instant, and surprised at the j of the sight exclaimed: “How now, Lord > Iffiiiopemen ? what is the meaning of this ?” “Oh 1” ! replied the other, “I am paying the interest of my ; bad looks.” This occurrence is stated as true, and from the customs of the present day, we can ad- j duce no reason for its denial. There is no doubt but there are persons who live in this age of en- ! lightenment, who believe a man must dress till the last penny is spent, if he would Ik* deemed a gen tleman. Augustus Ciesar wore nothing but what ■ was made in his family and used to say, “That rich and gay clothing was either the ensign of pride, or the nurse of luxury.” Burns truthfully says: — “The gaudy glare of vanity and art; The polished jewels bkzo May draw the waml'ring gaze, And courtly grandeur bright The fancy may delight, But never, never can conic near the heart.” SENECA. LEAF VIII. ITome. —There are ao memories so endearing to the heart as the recollections of home. W itherso ever we wander, the allurements jmd joys of home arc never forgotten. Boots have sung of Love and Fame, and Peace, and War ; but the influences of their strains depart from the mind, when the lyre breathes forth in melting melody, the memories of home. Home is the source w hence we have de rived those teachings that moulded our mundane and future destinies, llow* pleasant it is to east a retrospective thought on home! but oh! what a sad change there seems, when we place the past beside the present! We view and wish again those fond asssociations that once shed their mellifluent joys upon us; but our wishes are yet unrealized.— \Ve can remember the congenial smiles, and the precepts of those parents who now sleep beneath the soil. We can remember our unity in the hours of adversity; commingling of prayers at the family altar; and the blessings from above, we shared at home. But there the sun of earthly life cannot for ever shine; and we can remember when death began to desolate our home. A brother, or a sis ter, or a father, or mother was cut down by the scythe of death, as falls the straw before the blade of the mower. Grief was in our home, but we mourned together and found a balm for our w ounded hearts at the household altar; and equally shared the blessings of heaven. It is a trueism, that none can appreciate the blessings and unsullied joys of homo, until they are wanderers from its threshold. There is no happiness so enduring and no joys so bound less, as those w ithin the homestead. There is no spot in the fields of memory, more cherished than Home; because within its pale are those we cher ish even next to life itself. What education is there so eminent and useful as that derived from the lips of parents ? What hopes are so bright as those that seemed to have sprung spontaneously with our being? What sunlight seems so warm as that which shone upon our early home? Those teach ings were matchless; those hopes were the bright est, and the sunshine we greeted there, was the most geniaj. Home may not be inappropriately termed the paradise of earth. SENECA. For the Georgia Citizen. ART-CRITH'ISM. THE GREEK SLA VE. My dear Sir: —l have just received from George Virtue, of London, a magnificent Steel Engraving of the Greek Slave, by Hiram Powers, the great American Sculptor. It is executed in the highest style of the Art, and is, no doubt, a perfect Eidolon of the Original. To say that it is beautiful, is only echoing what lias been said by thousands and tens of thousands before. The idea of the work was no doubt suggested by the practice of exposing female slaves for sale in the Bazaars of Turkey. She is re presented standing erect, inclining rather to the right, with one hand resting upon the apex of the upright portion of the n-destal. A beautiful fring ed drapery, after the manner of tire modern Greek style, is twined gracefully around it, and falls down in rather a careless spread upon the Pedestal, upon which she stands. Her hands are chained, and her beautiful face is turned aside, as if to avoid the too burning gaze of those who had come to scrutinize, with libertine indifference, the sinful exposure of her heavenly perfections. Mr. Bowers, no doubt, had a two-fold object in \ iew in representing her chained. This he must have had, as the Turks do not chain their female cap tives. 1 his object was not only a judicious one, but it manifests, at the same time, his transcendent ge nius as an Artist. It was, as it were, to compel her to place her left hand over the Sanctuary of her di vine loveliness, (as the Vail protected the Holy of Holies in the Jewish Temple,) without, at the same time, betraying any disposition to wish to do so— which forever closes not only the door of the Tem ple of her Divinity, but just as completely shuts out ot the minds of her Auditors any libidinous desire. 1 his, I say, manifests a high conception of the Ar tist, inasmuch as it shows that he took a higher view—a loftier step, in the round of the Ladder of Perfection, than some ot the Greeks, who left many of their Statues in a state of complete nudity. It is nothing more than reasonable to suppose that any female in such a situation would almost in voluntarily lean against something for support — particularly when compelled to stand before the ar dent gaze ot a promiscuous crowd of men —and this very necessity causes her to bring her chained hands precisely in such a position, without seeming to do s o —as will forever hide from exposure her beautiful loveliness. Ibis he was obliged to do, not only to compromise his own conceptions of delicacy, but to express his respect for the delicacy of others. This, at once, unveils to us one of the objects of the chain, at the same time that it forever shuts the mouths of caviling would-be-Amateurs about the utility of it. There has been a good deal said, of late, about the sorrowful expression of her countenance, and her resemblance to the antique; but for the life of me, I cannot discern any such thing in her face—precise ly because there is no such thing as sorrow, in the common acceptation of the term, for her face is just such a one as was never capable of expressing such sorrow—for this very reason, tliat it is a purely in teHectual one, and images forth a soul whose crucifix ion of exposure is as far above the common Jxdraval of discontent,as Christ’s countenance, when lie cri ed out in the agony of his death, upon the Cross, to the very darkening of the Sun in Heaven, “It is Finished !” was more divine than the agony ex pressed in the countenances of Mary and John; and just as his mortality, in that hour, wits merged into his Divinity, and elevated into the very bosom of the Godhead; so is all her agony of physical exposure swallowed up in the divine radiance of the serene contemplation of her sublime endurance. Her face is modeled somewhat after the Antique —more particularly her nose —but it was not the object of Powers to sublimate her into the Antique Conception, but to make her a perfect Model of a nat ural female, in the glory of her womanly perfections, unnaturally exposed. The first crucifixion was the crucifixion of the Son of Mary and of God; this is | the representation of the dying on the Cross of I more than savage brutality, the Heaven-revealing soul of the Virgin Innocence. The “Sun puts on sackcloth, and the Moon turns to blood” at the sight of such a desecration ! Just in proportion as Powers has represented her as a perfect Woman, just in that proportion j has he fallen short of the Antique Ideality; and this is my objection to the Statue —for, amid all hismi j uor objects, he must have had some Major one in view—namely, the creation of a Model of perfect ! and sinless Beauty. Because the Ultima Thule— -1 the To Kulon of the true Genius is the Creation of Beauty. By this Ido not mean that there is no ! such thing in Nature as our Ideal; but that he has I not represented it in this Statue. The representa j tion of the sinless Image of the Beautiful Body of | God exposed, as merchandise, in a Turkish Bazaar 1 for sale, is a lofty Theme* and worthy the admira tion of the Angels in Heaven. But is this Statue • such a thing ? t This is the question. From the beautiful body now before me, nailed upon the Cross of the ingratitude of human cupidity, I cannot sav that it is. In the first place she lias not the intel lect of the'Virgin Mary—which she ought to have t in order to represent a virgin daughter of the Moth er of God. She has not a beautiful ear. Her mouth, as I have before said, does not express sor row*, but lofty and serene contemplation, as it is too much like Apollo’s Bow to express any thing but archness. Her bust is not full enough for the height of her body. Her right shoulder should be more elevated, as it is impossible for her to lean with her right hand on the support, without elevating it. Thor o is too much rigidity in the abdominal mus cles, particularly those of the epigastric region, for ! a woman, as they are always, in females, enveloped in a beautiful covering of cellular substance. lie either made use of a faulty Model, or has abused his know ledge of Anatomy in the formation of the knee-joint—for a perfect Beauty is not bowlegged, as this Statue tends to he. But the greatest fault is in the feet. The tarsal and metatarsal bones are entirely too large for the size of the ancle—that is, to represent the beautiful. Powers might have consulted the Antique, or even Flaxmon’s Designs, to great advantage here. Her limbs, in many re spects, are tar from perfect, and infinitely inferior to a known living model. Her hands are beautiful. — I he muscles of her leg are inserted too high up in 1 the thigh-bone for Beauty. The oval contour of her thighs and arms is very beautiful. Taking the Statue in every respect, it is a beautiful creation, and worthy of the genius of Powers. But it, may be objected to this Criticism, that powers did not ish to make a Venus. Nobody ever wanted him to make a Venus—all we want’s this, something very far above what we ean see in every-day life—a perfect marriage of the Actual with the Ideal, or just nothing at all—a serene Apocalypse of the bright New Moon of the New Heavens and the New Earth. Any thing short of Sll ©I©E ©I M. © I SIS sf! o tills is labor thrown away —for there will come a Day when the souls of men will thirst after the en joyment of such a Vision of Liveliness as the parch ed Heart for the cooling water-brook. It cannot be said that the mere representation of a Slave for the Turkish Market could have been his sole object. This was only the under current of his Thesis of the Beautiful. The indignation excited in the mind by witnessing the crucifixion of Christ would be very far different from that of seeing an ordinary man hung. So, the indignation excited in a Christian Community by witnessing the beautiful Body of Heaven exposed in a Turkish Bazaar for sale, would be far different from seeing a Negro put upon the block. If this be the fact, then I hold that he should have Idealized the Human—merged the mortal into the Angel —just as Christ, at his glorification, put off his mother to put on God, and, by so doing, moved the Heavens and the earth. Yours, very truly, THUS. 11. CIIIYERS. From the Savannah Morning News. Report of the Compromise Committee. Admission of California—Fugitive Slaves—Abolition of the Slave Trade in the District of Columbia , ipc. Mr. Clay, chairman of the committee of thirteen, submit ted his report to the Senate on Wednesday. It is quite a lengthy document but the views and recommendations con tained in it, are embraced in the following recapitulation : 1. The admission of any new State or States formed out of Texas to be postponed until they shall hereafter present them selves to be received into the Union, when it will he the duty of Congress fairly and faithfully to execute the .compact with Texas by admitting such new State or States. 2. The admission forthwith of California into the Union with the boundaries which she has proposed. 3. The establishment of Territorial Governments without the YY’ilmot Proviso, for New Mexico and Utah, embracing all the territory recently acquired by the United States from Mexico not contained in the boundaries of California. 4. The combination of these two last-mentioned measures in the same bill. 5. The establishment of the western and northern bounda ry of Texas, and the exclusion from her jurisdiction of all New Mexico, with the grant to Texas of a pecuniary equivalent; and the section for that purpose to be incorporated in the bill admitting California and establishing Territorial Governments for Utah and New Mexico. 6. More effectual enactments of law to secure the prompt delivery of persons bound to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, who escape into another State. 7. And abstaining from abolishing slavery ; but, under a heavy penalty, prohititing the slave trade in the District of Columbia. The report concludes with the following remarks : If such of these several measures as require legislation should be carried out by suitable acts of Congress, all con troversies to which our late territorial acquisitions have given rise, and all existing questions connected with the institu tion of slavery, whether resulting from those acquisitions or from its existence in the States and the District of Columbia, will he amicably settled and adjusted, hi a manner, it is con fidently believed, to give general satisfaction to an over whelming majority of the people of the United States. Con gress will have fulfilled its whole duty in regard to the vast country, which having been ceded by Mexico to the United States, has fallen under their dominion. It will have extend ed to it protection, provided for its several parts the inesti mable blessing of free and regular government adapted to their various wants, and placed the whole under the banner and tlag of the United States. Meeting courageously its clear and entire duty, Congress will escape the unmerited re proach of having, from considerations of doubtful policy, | abandoned to an undeserved fate territories of boundless ex- i tent, with a sparse, incongruous, and alien, if not unfriendly, I population, speaking different languages, and accustomed to different laws, whilst that population is making irresistible appeals to the new sovereignty to which they have been transferred for protection, for government, for law, and fir order. “The committee have endeavored to present to the Sen ate a comprehensive plan of adjustment, which, removing all causes of existing excitement and agitation, leaves none’ open to divide the country and disturb the general harmony. The nation lias been greatly convulsed, not by measures of general policy, but by questions of a sectional character, and, therefore, more dangerous and more to be deprecated. It wants repose, ft loves and cherishes the Union. And it is most cheering and gratifying to witness the outbursts of deep and abiding attachment to it which have been exhibited in all parts of it, amidst all the trials through which we have passed and arc passing. A people so patriotic as those of the United States will rejoice in an accommodation of all troubles and difficulties by which the safety of the Union might have been brought into the least danger. And, under the bles sings of that Providenco who, amid all vicissitudes, has never ceased to extend to them His protecting care, His smiles, and ilis blessings, they will continue to advance in population, power, and prosperity, and work out triunqEantly the glo rious problem of man's capacity for self government.” The committee reported the necessary bills to carry out their views. The first one is a bill to admit California as a State into the Union, to establish Territorial Governments for Utah and New Mexico, and making proposals to Texas for the establishment of her western and northern boundaries. This bill contains, in all, thirty-nine sections, many of them being devoted to defining the officers, Executive, Legislative, and Judicial, of the respective Territories, and describing their duties. The following is so much of this bill as pro vides for the admission of California: “YY hereas the people of California have presented a Con stitution ami asked admission into the Union, which Consti tution was submitted to Congress by the President of the United States, by message, dated February 13th, eighteen hundred and fifty, and which, on due examination, is found to be Republican in its form of government: Be it enacted <j c., That the State of California shall be one, and is hereby declared to he one of the United States of America, and ndmited into the Union on an equal footing with the original States in nil respects whatever. See. 2. And be it further enacted, That until the Repre sentatives in Congress shall be apportioned according to an actual enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, tlio State of California shall be entitled to two representatives in Congress. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted , That the said State of California is admitted into the Union upon the express condition that the people of said State, through their Legis lature or otherwise, shall never interfere with the primary disposal of public lands within its limits, and shall pass no law ami do no act whereby the title of the United States to, and right to dispose of the same shall be impaired or questioned; and that they shall never lay any tax or assessment of any description whatsoever upon the public domain of the United States; and in no ease shall nonresident proprietors, who are citizens of the l nited States, be taxed higher than residents; and that all the navigable waters within the said State, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabit ! ants of State as to the citizens of the United States, with out any tax, impost, or duty, therefor: Provided , That nothing herein contained shall be construed as recognizing or rejecting the propositions tendered by the people of Cali fornia as articles of compact in the ordinance adopted by the Convention which formed the constitution of that State. See. 4. Andbe.it further enacted , That all laws of the l nited States which are not locally inapplicable shall have the same force and effect within the said State of California as elsewhere in the United States.” The Committee report, as an additional section to the Cali fornia and Territorial bill, a provision determining the bounda ries of New Mexico and Texas as follows : “ The boundaries of Texas shall be the Rio Grande, up to a point 20 miles north of El Paso Del Norte— thence the line shall run due north along the one hundredth parallel of longitude till it strikes the Red River ; and this line of longi tude shall be the eastern boundary of New Mexico. This line includes within New Mexico, the town of Santa Fe and a large portion of the disputed territory, for which the bill pro poses to pay millions of dollars in stocks, at half yearly interest, the principal to be [slid at the end of fourteen years. It is supposed that the sum agreed upon will be from six to ten millions. “7Ae Territory of Utah is erected into a temporary gov ernment, with the following boundaries: bounded on the west by the State of California, on the north by the Territory of Oregon, and on the east and south hy the dividing ridge which separates the waters flowing into the great basin from those flowing into the Colorado river and the gulf of California. “Territoryof New Mexico. —All that portion of the ter-, ritory of the United States acquired from Mexico by the I treaty concluded February second, one thousand eight hun dred and forty-eight, and not included within the limits of the State of California, nor within the limits of the territory of Utah, is erected into a temporary government by the name of the Territory of New Mexico. “ All the laws of the United States, not inapplicable are to have effect in each of those territories, and they are to have the same rights and privileges as other territories of the Uni ted States. “Fugitive Slaves.—lt is proposed that when a slave es capes from labor in any State or Territory the owner, agent, &c., may apply to any court of record therein, which being furnished with the proof, and a general description of such absconding slave, shall cause a record to be made of the tacts ; which record properly authenticated, produced in any State or Territory where such slave shall be found, and exhibited to any Judge or other officer authorized to deliver up fugitive slaves, shall be sufficient evidence to cause said absconding slave to be delivered up, and any Judge, Ac., to which such record shall be exbibted shall grant the claimant a certitioate of his right to seize, arrest and transport such slave to the State or Territory from which he escaped. Should the slave, j however, allege he is free, the elaimaint Is to enter into a bond I of $ 1,000, to permit him to have a jury trial to determine his freedom, in the State from which he escaped, at the meet ing of the first competent tribunal thereafter.” Slave Trade in the District of Columbia.—-The follow ing sections of the bill relate to the slave trade in the District of Columbia: “Be it enacted, sc. } That from and after the ‘ day of next, it shall not be lawful to bi ing into the District of Columbia, any slave whatever for the purpose of being sold, or for the purpose of being placed in depot, to be subsequently transported to any other State or place. And if any slave shall be brought into said District by its owner, or by the authority or consent of its owner, contrary to the provisions of this act, such slave shall thereupon become liberated and free. Sec. 2. Aitd be it. farther enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for each of the Corporations of the cities of Wash ington and Georgetown, from time to time, and as often as may be necessary, to abate, break up, and abolish any depot or place of confinement of slaves brought into the said District as merchandise, contrary to the provisions of this act, by such appropriate means as may appear to either of the said Corporations, expedient and proper. And the some power is hereby vested in the County Court of Washington, if any attempt shall be made witliin its limits to establish a depot or place of confinement for slaves brought into the said District as merchandise, for sale, contrary to this act.” Corrwpiitim LLTITIt from COLIhUBIS. Columbus, May 11,1850. Dll. L. F. W. Andrews : Dear Doctor —To-day being un usually dull, l have concluded to devote a few leisure moments in giving you an account of passing events. Columbus presents, at this time, an unusually dull appearance, owing to the pres sure of business, with the Farmers, which prevents them from visiting our city and purchasing their spring supplies, j They complain a vast deal of the injury done them, hy the j late heavy rains, which I am glad to say have ceased, as now ! we have fine spring weather. j Your paper is as eagerly looked for here, no\V, as the Dem j oorat was formerly, and if there is as great a rush made in i your city, for the Citizen, on publication days, as used to be j for the Democrat, you certainly cannot have much trouble in distributing to your city subscribers. I regret to say that, we have many persons in tliis place, who continue to read your paper without paying for it. They make it their business as regularly as your paper comes, to walk into their neighbors’ j houses, who subscribe for it like honest men, and pilfer from 1 them what they pay for. And these are the very persons, who, while they read it, do not fail to abuse it. I should like to be even as fortunate as some of your subscribers, who, ‘‘Ar gus” says, get their papers back torn into shreds. We w ere a little surprised, some few days since, by the re turn of two of the California Boys. Their purpose is suppos ed to be, and in fact there is no doubt of it, that they will en gage in the Cuba expedition, which is the all-absorbing topic here at this time. I should judge, from the present state of affairs, that there is a probability of a considerable muss be ing kicked up before it is done with. Quite an amusing case was brought up before Justice Quinn a few days since. A certain Lady down town, of not a very enviable reputation for mnrulitySnd virtue, bad her Paramour arrested for passing upon her a Twenty wh’.eh was not ‘‘sound.” Ido not know what disposition his honor made ol the affair, though I suppose the matter was settled honorably for all parties concerned. I think a warning given them, will probably be of some ben efit to the young Burks , who are in the habit of attending dancing parties, which are frequently given in this place. I know of several who invariably go to these places as mellow with punches, as an old toper at forty, with their half pints aboard, and to finish off decently, come out the next morning boasting which was the tightest. I think it Mamas were aware of this indecent and ungentlemanly conduct on the part of their daughters’ beaux, tin y would be more particular with whom they suffered them to associate. I hope this will be a sufficient hint for the young gentlemen in future, to enter a Ball-room as gentlemen should, and not like a parcel of row dies at a com shucking. The Nashville Convention has died a natural death. Those whole-souled patriots who a few weeks since were wrought up to such a pitch of resentment to Northern aggression, and threatened to dissever the Union, whether or not, with the ex ception of a few, have become ns cool as cucumbers. The few remaining, I think will soon blow off’ the dogs—quit the chase, shout another humbug and follow it with about as much success. Yours, &c. A LOOKER ON. from GRIFFIN, Cia. Griffin, May 9th. 1850. Mu. Editor. —A little further dascription of our place.— Our population I should think will numbsr 3,000, including : all sorts and sizes. We have 7 Medical Doctors in our place; 2 Steam or Thompsonians; 1 Root or German Doctor. W e have 6 practicing Lawyers and the Judge of the Flint Circuit. 7 Warehouses; fi retail Liquor shops, one of which also sells hy the wholesale; Mr. Fierce, on N. O. street. PREACHERS : 3 Missionary Baptists, and 2 Primitive; 2 Methodist Epis copal; 2 Presbyterian. churches: 1 Methodist Episcopal; 1 Missionary Baptist; 1 Presbyte rian; and 1 Christian Church.. —Summary 4. schools: Morrow, Female, SO students; Hilsman & Williams, 90, Male students; Miss Clisby, Female, 30 students; Matthcr, Male, 30 students; Miss Goodrich, 33 students, (mixed.)— Summary, 265 students. SUNDAY SCHOOLS: 1 Methodist Episcopal, 120 scholars; 1 Missionary Baptist, 125 scholars; 1 Presbyterian, 80.—Summary, 325. 1 Masonic Hall; 2 Divisions Sons of Temperance; 1 Divis ion Daughters of Temperance; 1 Division Rising Sons of Temperance; 1 Odd Fellows Lodge; 2 Billiard Rooms; 2 Mil liner Shops; 2 Carriage making Shops; 1 Blacksmith’s Shops; 1 Gunsmith’s Shop; 2 Tan Yards; 1 Iron Foundry; 3 Ta verns, and some Private Boarding Houses: 3 Livery Stables; 2 Cabinet Workshops; 1 Wool Carding Factory; 2 Printing Offices; 3 Shoe Shops; 4 Tailors’ Shops; 1 regular Book- Store; 1 Auction Room, regular by City J-aws; 1 very fine Market House; 3 Bank Agencies, and 2 Agencies of Insu rance, both Mutual, one on Life only, the other on Life and Property; 2 Jewelry Shops; 1 Tin Shop; 1 Hatters Shop; 2 Candy Making Establishments; 2 Merchant Taylors; 1 Wholesale Grocery; 34 or 35 regular Cotton Buyers; 1 Fur niture Store; 2 Carriage Repositories; 1 Drug Store; 1 Cabi net Maker's Shop; 1 Barber's Shop; 1 Telgraph Office, line from Macon to Atlanta; 1 Daguerreotype office; 2 Saddlery Shops and Harness Makers; and 10 Dry Goods Stores; divi ded as follows:—13 on New Orleans street, all but one of these keep mixed stock:-, i. e. Groceries, Crockery, Hard- ware and Dry Goods; one keeps all Dry Goods—ll on Broadway; 10 on Hill street; and 1 on Solomon street. So much is a short history of Griffin, which I obtain by . passing along. Will you give it a place in the Georgia Citi zen, and thereby oblige one of vour friends. P. B. C. Griffin, May 12th, ISSO. Dear Doctor : —I am in duty bound to mention to you 0 rare case of excitement in our midst. A man by the name of Whitehead, who, by the way, had once on a time been a widower, and changed his position by marrying his former wife’s sister, who also, by the way, was a widow; Whitehead and (the widow,) his present wife, both had been so fortunate in life as to be sole parents of several children. Now, they become all one family, and it might have been supposed that perfect harmony would have prevailed, not only as between husband and wife, but between the children (cousins) and un cle and aunt. But however well founded our calculations may at first sight seem to be, yet our fondest hopes and most san guine expectations are liable suddenly to be thwarted. So in this case, if sueli hopes bad been entertained. But to come more closely to the point : Whitehead had let his eldest son go as sort of apprentice to a saddler and harness maker, in this place; the boy was about 12 or 14 years of age, and pro gressing well: but a difficulty between himself and oldest cousin, or son of bis new mother, (formerly .■nmt,) happened to break out, when the latter made an appeal to his mother that his cousin ought to be whipped; whereupon, (the tale is) the mother complained toiler husband, who to accommodate his wife, come about a mile to town and invited his son out with him, and having gone so far as to be out of the immedi ate neighborhood of any houses on the road, he chastised his son with some severity. This happened a week ago hist Fri day; the son was taken sick one or two days after, and con tinued rather lingering; sometimes up and sometimes not, un til he was fatally attacked. lie died op last Saturday night. To-day, rumor had it, that the son had died of the whipping received from the father; whereupon the Coroner called twelve men, good and true, with physicians, who this day made a regular examination, and upon all the evidence, af ter dissection of the head and entrails, by the Physicians, Ac. Ac. it was decided by the Jury that the child died of worms ; it being found that this animal was quite numerous and well grown in the body, although many bruises remained from the whipping received eight days before the poor boy’s death, yet these were not deemed, in the presence of such a multitude of worms, sufficient to have caused his death. I cannot say but the verdict would have been otherwise had the worms been less numerous. Iu this ease, 1 tell you the excitement was considerable—alltlie city appeared to feci an interest; but since the verdict quiet has been restored and all appear to be statisfied. So much for the benefit, beauty, and advantage of speedy examinations in such cases. I have but little doubt but aside from this examination, the evidence would have been amply sufficient to have obtained a true bill of indictment against Whitehead; but as it stands now, all is peace. Your friend, TROCHANTER. LETTER from FAYETTITILLE, Ga. Fayetteville, G a., May Sth, 1850. Mr. Editor:—As I have heretofore been negligent about the interest of the Georgia Citizen, you will not, I hope, dis courage me at this stage of the proceeding, because I am wil ling now to help a little, that is, contribute a mite. Well here goes: So in the course of human events, when it becomes necessary for a free people to travel to see the country, or to protect their own rights, or to send delegates to the famous contemplated Nashville Convention to dissolve the Union peaceably, and before the abolitionists have time to think, be apart. I say, whenever it is necessary to travel for either of these objects, or any other, the weary traveller may want to find someplace where he can lay himself down to rest, and where lie can obtain something to satisfy the cravings of a hungry stomach, Ac. Ac. Now, Sir, the object of this line is to inform tile Georgia Citizen, whenever lie may desire com fort and rest, to call at the Tavern now occupied by Mr. Al mond Stratton, of the above place, and ho will find himself j along with his friends and well treated. Every tiling to eat I or drink that the country affords, (i mean the vicinity,) well served up in Georgia style. And, let me add, that should a Yankee have occasion to sell or repair a clock in tluit vicinity, lie can find out, by calling, tluit bis host is not altogether ig norant oftheyankee style of serving things up; and let him come from what country or land he may, if he conducts hit 11- si If with propriety, he will find the land-lady agreeable, atten tive to her business, and kind to the distressed. So much for a Tavern in Fayetteville, Ga. As I am informed this has not always been the case in the aforesaid village of Fayette county. It is proper that the Tavern keepers of this place should show a good example: because the county and town were both named iu honor of a good man—a man that did much service for the friends of liberty, and for the cause of freedom. Aye, much of his time, talent, strength and money, were spent in behalf of the distressed, and those in actual need. Will it offend the Georgia Citizen for me to write his name ? Offend it may! those who seek to tear down the present bul wark of freedom which he helped to cst iblish, by stealth, by the power of conventions, who have no polar star to guide them, in their deliberations on the subject of a Southern Confedera cy and peaceable secession of the Southern States from the Northern. Well then, let it offend all such, if it must. Bat here I will write his name, leaving off my own and putting his in the place : GILBERT MOTIER LAFAYETTE. And here’s a motto to him written in 1776: “W E LCOME LA FA YF.TTE.” ‘“The fathers in glory shall sleep, Who gathered with thee to the fight; But the sons will eternally keep The tablet of gratitude bright. We bow not the neck, And wc bend not the knee, But our hearts Lafayette, We surrender to thee.” Note.— When I have occasion to travel in that direction again, I shall call at Almond Stratton’s. TRAVELLER. LETTER from AUGUSTA. Augusta City, May 11, 1850. Dear Doctor :—During tbo past week our city has been exceedingly quiet. Nothing has transpired to mar the peace ami good order of our society. There has been quite an ac tive business done among our merchants. All along our wharves is to bo heard the busy hum of human industry, our many Steam Boats discharging merchandise and in their turn receiving the great staple of the South, lor transportation to Savannah, thence to all the markets of the known and civili zed world. Many of our citizens are preparing to move out to the ad jacent Sand Hills and take up their summer residences, while others are leaving for the up country, to spend the warm months a\ the various watering places, which are to be found in that region of country. Another class, principally mer chants and men of business, are on their way to the more northern Suites of the Union and to Europe, on business and in search of pleasure. The Dog war of 1850 has commenced in earnest in our city. The dog killers are carrying terror and dismay to the heart of many an old eur. The city Marshal's first assistant has been appointed Dog Kilicr General to his majesty, and there are troublesome times among the barking tribe. Our city authorities are making considerable improvements in and around our city, in the way of opening new streets and j improving those already opened. The building of bridges ; and opening of drains, are receiving that attention which is due them. Our water works are being enlarged to supply the increased demand from our increasing community, lhe water, you are aware, is brought from the sand hills, a distance of three miles from the city, in logs laid some 2 1-2 teet b. - low the surface of the earth, and is supplied by a copious spring, called Turk:nett spring, at the foot ol the sand hills. The Baptist society is getting up quite an excitement at their church. The Rev. Mr. Kendrick, from Charleston, has been holding forth the last week, and lias made quite a stir : among sinners as well as saints. I sincerely wish lie may succeed in hi* undertaking. 1 should suppose it would take about twenty such revivals to prevent the great cock fight, which is to come off next week on our race course. Eaeli party in the contest is to show twenty-one cocks, which is considerably more than can be shown in the shape of preach ers. The people are in force at the church listening to the great truths of Revelation; so on the other hand, they will be ready to stake their funds upon the result of a chicken picking. The subject of Plank Roads is now exciting our people oon* | siderably. The Geo. Rail Road have agreed to aid and assist in building a Plank Road from some point on their road to Washington, Wilke* county. A company in Carolina pro p<se building a Plank road from the Savannah river up through Abbeville District, and connect with Augusta by • bridge. Mr. Conner, President of the South Carolina Rail Road Cos. is in town, endeavoring to make arrangements to J cross the river with their roads and depots. We shall resist such a move believing it to be injurious to the interest of the city as well as the State. Respectfully, yours, RICHMOND. LETTER from COLIHBIB. Columbus. May 11, 1850. My Dear “ Citizen ” —A temporary absence west of the Chattahoochee, has caused a link or two in the cliain of my correspondence with your Journal to be severed, but! appre hend without much loss to your readers, as my place, I ob serve, has been well supplied by “ Argus” and other sharp eyed scribes from this comer of tho “vineyard” as the spirit ual teachers of other days, when they were wont, ofteuer tliaii now,to “look upon the wine when it is red” would call it. I ha\ 0 therefore but little to do, at present, but to keep you posted as to passing events, those which are already matters of histo ry, having been duly recorded, read and inwardly digested, I hope, to the satisfaction of all concerned. You were doubtless surprised on hearing of the new start which your old ootemporary, the “ Columbus Time*” recent ly took in the way of newspaper publication. How the expe riment of tri-weekly will succeed in this city is yet a problem Q- k- D. as the logicians say. The season is the dullest of the year, and business men care but little about advertising without corresponding advantage. This of itself make* the enterpi i/e a hazardous one, and when we further consider tluit the weekly blanket sheet was political more than com mercial, and rather leaden in its editorial department, w© call hardly anticipate that a tri-weekly, in the same bands, w ill bo much ot a speculation to th cdozen owne rs interested in the concern. However, the now arrangement may be a “God send ’ to this community, as the former mammoth supply of political flummery will be divided into tri-weekly parts and eftii therefore betaken without so much danger of an intellectual dyspepsia! \ our successor too, is taking huge strides in the same race of improvement. Jle intends to issue a daily .Sentinel, if he can get sufficient subscribers to the project. This he may do, as no has ample means at his control and has gone into tho business more as a stepping stone to public notoriety and fame tli.m for the profit ot tlie thing. And for one, I must say that lie docs well in his new calling considering his experience and youthful character. Nothing yet lias been heard from the prisoners, Phelan and Brown and J. 11. Tolar, who broke jail recently. Some have wondered tb.it “Beau Martin” and Evans did not “cut and run ’ at the same time, being confined, as they both are, oil a charge of murder. The fret ,as I learn, are those: Ev ans was confined in another room from that tlirougli w hich or from which the prison, re camped, ami Martin’s cor porosity was to * great to admit of his creeping out at the same aper ture. I don t know that he tried, but shouldn't wonder if ho did, and that he will rue the day that bedid not protit bv the occasion afforded liirn ot giving “leg bad.’’ Go w Inn* lio will, however, he ennnot escape from the ghostly apparition of po- r Duffie, that is, on the supposition that the latter came to Ins death by Martin's hands. 1 would not prejudge his ease, however, being pcfectly willing luit he s! a 1 hate tLe benefit of that legal supposition which “presumes a man to be innocent uutd proven to be guilty - ’of cruiu . 1 lie Superior court of Muscogee will commence its ses sion, on Monday next, with an unusually heavy criminal and civil calender, notwith-tnndiug the escape of the three pris oners before mentioned. There are 110 less than three ease# of killing, one of them, as charged, by a mere lad of fifWen or sixteen years of ago, at a Christmas eve froiiek. Much sympathy is tell lor Mr. Bentley, the worthy father of the youth, ou whom this great affliction has fallen with such stunning effect. May the dreadful example not be lost ujx>u heads of families who permit their sons to mingle up in the seenesof bacclmuahan fe*th itie*, no matter where the place or what the occasion. The fellow •‘Smith” whom your correspondent “Argtus” noticed as having vamosed from Girard, lam Informed, once lived in your city, and has a wife now living there. She is probably well rid of the scamp. Our community has jnst been called to mourn the lose of another of its Pastors, in the demise of the I’ev. Dr. Cairns, Rector of Trinity (Episcopal) church of this city for about 15 years past. His health has been gradually failing for some months, until Wednesday evening last, when bis spirit de parted. The usual testimonials ofresqieet will doubtless be paid to his memory. Dr. C. was a gentleman of fine talent* aid great decision of character. II is energy ha* been “well exemplified in the upbuilding of a respectable society in (Jo in, nous from literally nothing, not a single male* communicant 1 laving been enrolled in the church book when he took charge of it. The masonic fraternity have, also, bv hs dee. a-<, kst a worthy member of the “mystic tie,” who, like the lamented Hr. Gould ing, was not ashamed of bis connection with the honorable fraternity. Truly yours, CATO. Female Editors. “There are six new? papers in the United State* edited by ladies, viz: Pittsburg \ isitor, Mrs. Swishclin. Windham county Democrat, (Vt.) Mrs. C. J. U. Nichols. Tlie Lancaster Gazette, (l’a.) Mrs. Pierson. The 3 azoo Whig, Mrs. Horn. The Mountain Bough, Mrs. Prcwett. All the above papers are edited with ability and in a man ner that reflects honor upon the female sex.”— Pctfingill's Reporter. Well, tluit is what might be considered giving the cold shoulder to more than one of the papers which are- “edited with ability” by ladi s. We have waited a week or two hoping tluit the Editress of the Visitor would take the Re porter man to task, but since she is not inclined to “ blow her own trumpet,” we have resolved to give the recreant brother a blast or tw< . Just as if Mrs. Nichols, with her abolition scandal and aspirations for aeee-ss to the Ixillot box—or Mrs. Swishelin, ; with her tigerocious independence, and bold struggling for newspaper fame—or the less ostentations conductors of the other four journals, were tlie only female editors in America worth mentioning. Why man, you will have a dozen whom you have omitted, after you with as many broomsticks, if you jdo not make the amende. There Ls Miss Chappe 11, of the Mountain Bugle, Nebraska, who, when she sees with what cold contempt you view her enterprising literary spirit, will play a tune, the echoes of which, as they reverberate down through the glaciers and mountain passes of that polar re gion, will give you an ague fit. The Editress of the Family j •Journal, too, will be Riley about it, and Mrs. Howe, of tho Pine Knot, doubtless thinks yon ought not to treat her so. Our Editress considers it decidedly a Barber- ous neglect on your part.— Madison Family I isitor. From California: By the arrival at New’ York of the steamers Empire City, ; Georgia, and Cherokee, San Francisco dates to tlie Ist of j April have been received. The Georgia brings 1-16 passingers. and $871,T00 in gold.. ! Tlie Empire City, ou iier passage from Chagrcs, met with an accident, by which she was deprived of the use of one of her paddle-wheels, and by which her arrival was considerably de layed. The Cherokee brought 1,681,580 in gold dust. An Act to incur;* irate the city of Ban Francisco has pas sed the Senate. Niue district Judges had been elected, and their Salaries fixed at $7,5 X) .per annum. Business of every description has been very dull this month. The long looked for crisis seems to have arrived.— Merchandise of every kind is unsaleable- at anything like iair rates. At auction, enormous sacrifices have been made.— Lumber, which three months ago brought S3OO to 350 easily, has been sold ashore at $-10 per M. Rents also continued to be very high, $1 per month per square foot of floor, being about one price, or .S2OO per month fer a room 10 ft. by 20. The appearance of San Francisco, is constantly changing. New buildings are springing up in every direction, many par ties taking advantage of the low price of lumber and building materials.