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{For Georgia Citizen.] Leaves from a Portfolio. LEAK IX. ) \r>K-r.“v>ss, —The whole tram of errors to which huuvan- Ity is addicted, might be diligently sought from beginning to tnd, without finding ajo railed with deceit. It Ls an impossi biiity to derive oy pleasure wliatever, when unforeseen cir cuuHtaoem place us in a position that we are compelled to as sociate and converse with personage who are treacherous in th* jr acts and speech. It is n remarkable tic!, that no insidi ous m.'n, whatever his position in life may be,can ever attain unalloyed and lasting rt>pcet. The men who are most trea sord in society are those whose sentim- nts are earnestly spo ken, and acted up*<n when the requisite occasions fcr action are ushered before them. There is no sin’ mere glaring than deceit. The voices of just men arc against it, and God, in his revealed word, condemns it. This evil manifests itself in bvery race, from the sceptered king to the lowest peasant ard brief indeed is the distance we journey without finding an insidious man. Sometimes the noblest filing on earth, is .assumed by those between whose Keeell and 3C . tiong th , : . e is £ m "f “ tere exists between day and night.. . too often, WC see the sacred desk polluted by those whose acts are not in keeping with the honor of their calling. We must not judge rashly or harshly of those who are deceitful, but rather attribute it to the weakness of tlieir understanding. It seems that a majority of the persons who become habituated with deceit mistake their calling; and rather than the world should know their inadequateness for the honest performanceof their duties, they call in the aid of insidiousness to sustain their reputation. The hearts of men are only visible to the eye of God, and he alone can judge of their evils. Results, however, sometimes will show how sincere a man was when they were planned. Minute indeed is the scrupulousness of conscience a man must possess, if his ac tions are averse to the words and precepts that fall from his tongue. Sincerity, like the diamond, is often counterfeited, but in the end, the imitation will prove unavailable. SENECA. Leaf .a. Jocundity. —There is an avenue of moral duty, if pursu ed aright, whereby there is much to be gained, and nothing to hazard. It is simple; easily to be learned, and when judi ciously inculcated, it insures for the bearer a kind reception and appropriate appreciation wherever lie may go. It is agree ableness. Wherever it is practiced, and held as a natural ob ligation between parties, we can infer, forsooth, tliat there is rnueli happiness -, but wheresoever it does not exist, the clam or of discord is heard, and the inharmoniousness of action is visible. It is no wonder to us, whatever, why so many per sons have complained in cynical tones, of the formal manner in which they are received, when they are so blind as not to per ceive their own destitution of jocundity. We have often seen, in vast or minor assemblages, persons whose remarks and de portment were any thing but agreeable, and have wished them in some place where such frailties are reverenced. The wisest philosophers of every age, have generally observed the maxim “That it is better to speak and act agreeably, or not to speak or act at all.” In the observance of this rule, they have never been mistaken for disciples of Diogenes.— History informs us that Vntisthencs, the Athenian, was found er of the Cynici, whose appellation was derived from their canine propensities ; and we imagine the delight of Antisthe nes would be immeasurable, if he could arise from his grave and view bis numerous and successful proselytes. This is an evil unworthy of adoption, and its appearance should be dis countenanced, no matter what phase it wears. The Bible says, “a soft answer turncth away wrath,” and again it says “a word fitly spoke n is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.” Those no doubt, are applicable to our subject as any other, and so we apply them. There are perceptible marks of favor paid to pleasant men, and are such recommendations, that they never know the want of a friend. If these remarks be true, therefore, to be agreeable is to be wise. SENECA.. [For the Georgia Citizen.] Selections from my Scrap-book. ANECDOTES OF 17 91. A School exercise was lately given to one of the students at'Westminster school—the word was Saratoga: On which lie immediately wrote an epigrammatic couplet in Latin, of which the following is a translation : • Burgoyne, alas! unknowing future fates. Could cut his way through woods, but not through Gates. An old American savage, being at an Inn in New York, met with a gentleman who gave him some liquor, and being rath.< r lively, b >;u>ted he could read and write English. The gentleman, willing to indulge him in displaying his knowl edge, begged leave to propose a question, to which the old man consented, lie was then asked who was the first cir cumcised ? The Indian immediately answered, father Abra ham: and directly asked the gentleman, who was the first Quaker ? Ile said it was very uncertain, as people differed in their sentiments exceedingly. The Indian perceiving the gentleman unable to resolve the question, put his fingers in his mouth, to express liis surprise, and looking steadfastly, told him, that Mordccai was the first Quaker, for he would not pull offhis hat to Hainan A Bostonian lately meeting a British officer at a Coffee house, in London, the conversation turned on America.— The sou of the sword, said, “There was nothing in America, like St. James’ Turk.” “O, yes,” said the Yankee, “we have a fine common and as elegant a mall in Boston, as any you can boast of here, I’ll assure you.” “Well,” asked the other, “is the country thickly inhibited, and have you good roads &c. ? ” “Yes.” “Well, what road do youcall the best?” “Why,” returned the A r ankee, “we esteem the road leading from Saratoga the best in America.” Farther the enquirer did not ask, but vamosed shortly. llow much modern times are like days of yore! The Bible, sail the late King of Prussia, is a staff which God put into the hands of blind ruen to guide their steps. — But they, instead of applying it to that use, immediately began to wrangle and dispute about its length, breadth, and thick- ■ ness, and concluded by knocking each other over the pate with it. The above might have done well enough for a joke when j spoken, but there ** too much truth in it in our day to be very amusing: unless it be to some stoic Philosopher, who cum laugh at the ignorance, folly calamities and misery of the world, and say it’s well, they might have had more sense, and better luck. Fk.eenoi.ogy, or the Advantages of a Thick Cranium. —After Professor Person’s death, his head was.dissected, and to the confusion of all craniologists, but to the consolation ! of all blockheads, it was discovered that he had the thick<ust • skull of any Professor in Europe. Professor Gall, on being ■ called upon to explain this phenomenon, and to reconcile so ! tenacious a memory with so thick a receptacle for it, is said l to have replied, “How the ideas got into sueli a skull is their business, not mine. I have nothing to do with that; but let them once get in, that is all I want; once in, 1 will defy them ever to get out again.” A Broken Heart. —The female heart, as for as my expe rience goes, is just like a knew India Rubber shoe; you may pull and pull at it till it stretches out a yard long, and then let go, and it will fly right back to its old shape. 1 heir hearts are made of stout leather, I tell you, there's a plaguy sight of wear in ’em. I never knowod but one case ofa broker; heart, and that was in tether sex—one W ashington Banks, lie was a sneezer, lie was tall euougli to spit down on the heads oi your Grenadiers, and near about high enough to wade across Charleston river, and as strong as a tow boat. I guess ho was somewhat less than a foot longer than the moral law and catechism too. lie was a perfect picture ofa man; folks used to run to the window when lie passed, and say, “There goes Washington Banks, beant he lovely ? ” Ido not believe there wasn’t a gal in the Lowell Factories that warn’t in love with him. Well, wlxn I last seed him, he was all skin and bone, like a horse turned out to die. lie was teetotally defleslied, a mere walking skeleton. “I am dreadfully sorry,” says I, “to see you, Banks, looking so peeked; why you are like a sick turkey-hen, all legs; wliat on airth ails you ? ’ ‘ I’m dying,’ says he of a broken heart ! ’ ‘What,’ says I, “have the gals beenjiltin you?’ ‘No, no!’ says he, ‘I beant such a fool as that neither.’ ‘Well,’ says I, ‘have you made a bad speculation?’ ‘No,’ says he, ‘shakin’ his head, ‘I hope I have too much clear grit in me to take on bad lor that.’ ‘Wliat under the sun, is it then?’ said I. ‘Why,’ says he ‘I made a bet the forepart of the summer with Lieu tenant Oby Knowles, tliat I could shoulder the best bower of the Constitution Frigate. I won my bet; but the anchor was ho eternal heavy it broke my heart.’ Sure enough ho did die that very full, and he was the only instance I ever heard tell of a broken heart. I Corresjuinknrp. BETTER from OKIFFO, Gn. Griffin, May 18, 1850. .M/x Editor - Y on. as one of the citizens of Georgia , mar possibly feel some interest iu knowing what happens in our midst. W I have no objection to your taking princi pal as well as interest. Now for the principal ;as I said once before, late break fast, better than n< >ne at all. We had a glorious exhibition of Temperance—the Daughters ot Tem perance making, or rather presenting a banner already made by them, to the I t*. vision of this place. On this migh ty occasion,aii th’j Divisions were out to sec the presentation. Ad nu-.t according to notice at the Baptist Church, where •Le flag was presented., and very well done. Whereupon Mr. Matther made e. few remarks or. behalf of laiwson Division. Then the Ladies sung a neve song, on Temperance, Where ! upon, on this occasion, the Rev. Mr, Hinton made his appear- I ance as orator of the day, Ac. To say all in a word, his exordi- I uin was rich, chaste, elegant and disinterested. But we i cannot say as much for all his positions, nor for all his speech ; 1 a portion of which we think bordered on the ludicrous, per i Imps not. This is only our opinion. But “here is a brief” : synopsis of his speech. Will the Methodists or Baptists ad | here to it ? The speaker referred to the cases of Noali and Lot as dis- J graceful, without mentioning what happened in their eases.— ! Next he said, “There are 500,000 drunkards in the United i States. Next, he defies any man to show that wine ought to jbe used in the sacrament. His next position was, that the life iof the drunkard was short. Next, he assumes that we ought to oppose drunkenness, because of the political and moral j evils resulting therefrom. Argued that the evils were not on ly temporal , but spiritual —even f.ter.nal. Says that the wine spoken of in the scripture as fa cor able, or rather to be used, would not intoxicate. That there are 0 different words in the Hebrew translated wine in English, when but one of these nine Hebrew words refers to the sort of wine tliat ought to be used ; while the other eight referred to, wines that ought not to be used, the latter possessing intoxicating quali ties. That no wine ought to be used which will produce drunkenness, &c. Tliat the wine spoken of as favorable for use would not produce intoxication. Says there is 195 differ ent kinds of wine ; and that only one kind was ever used by approbation of the M ord of God. Next, of the wine made by Christ; says that Christ did not make intoxicating wine, but that it was the other kind of wine, which had no intoxi cating qualities about It. That Paul did not mean intoxicat ing wine, when lie wrote to Timothy to take a little wine for his stomach s sake—that lie only wrote this because Timothy was a temperate man and not in the lmbit of using any sort of wine. So ended this matter concerning of which so much preparation had been made. Well, the next item of much moment, and one which we all have an interest in, is the removal of the Mercer Institute to this place. A subscription is out to raise money for that object. There are several thousand dollars subscribed in this place. I suppose that some 12 or 15 thousand dollars will be subscribed here. Someone has been careful to get an idea into circulation that there arc legal impediments in the way of the removal. These, it is hinted, are found in the will of Mr. Mercer. To this objection, it is sufficient to mention but two facts, viz: Ist. That Jesse Mercer was opposed to the loca tion of the Institution at that place. And 2dly, That his will had no witnesses, and was only established so far as personal property is concerned, and could not pass real estate. So much by way of answer to the legal impediments in the way. One word in relation to the removal: No place enjoys more advantages as to health and accessibility, than this, in Georgia. And if we understand the question right, there are no two things more needed in looking out a place whereon to locate an institution of that description. We have mentioned so much on the subject, that the friends of removal inay every where be prepared, not only as to the argument, but with their money also, to be paid by instalments, on condition that the Convention shall decide that the Institution may, or shall be removed. Mr. Haley is going a head with the Plank Road from this place to West Point. Yours, &c., TROCHANTER. LETTER from COLLUDES. Columbus, May 19th, 1850. Dear Sir: —The Superior Court of this county commen ced on Monday last, the Hon. R. B. Alexander presiding. It will be a long session. As yet there have been but few civil cases tried. On Wednesday last, the trial of \Yin. B. Mar tin for the killing of Duffie commenced. The evidence clo sed on Friday evening, and on Saturday evening, after a vigi lant prosecution and able defence, the jury retired to tlieir room to make up their verdict. The chances are and ought to be on the side of the accused. You have, perhaps, ere this, seen the long letter in the “Times” of the lfith inst. also the notice and long list of names to get up a Southern meeting, so called. You will perceive from this Proclamation that the “High Priest” has assumed the Papal robes and upon the text, “upon this rock will I build my church (if I can,) and give to thee the keys of ; (our kingdom, if we can have one) and the Guns of “Old i Zack” shall not prevail against it.” Thus goes the figure,! and wliat a profound mistake! These Fire Eaters and dis- 1 unionists, no doubt, think it is and will boa “long time be-| tween drinks,” or, in the words of another, “these waiters on \ Providence, have lost all hopes of having their aspirations i satisfied, and have also lost their Independence.” The “Southern meeting” was held at Concert Ilall. The show opened about nine o’clock. It was well attended with spectators; sublimity farce disunionists, and open rebellion- ! ists—and it is well the more feminine sex were not present, lest they might have been carried away by the usual enthusi asm of a camp meeting, or be fainting and screaming “where is my baby,” &e. Not knowing that the proceed ings will be published, it is well not to lose it, and I will there fore hand it over to your devil for safe keeping. On motion, Dr. lloxey was tailed to the Chair and Col. Forsyth, in like manner, to act as Secretary. The object of the meeting was mentioned by Dr. 11. and Col. 11. L. Denning then moved that a committee of sixteen be appoint- 1 ed by the Chair to draft and report Resolutions for the action of the meeting. The question was put, and before the nays answered, Jas. Johnson, Esq. was on the carpet, and said there was no necessity for any such a committee, as there was, he apprehended, many persons present who had resolu tions already prepared to offer. Mr. J. was called to order by Col. .Tones, backed up by Capt. Seliley, (whose parliamenta ry knowledge was not to be confounded,) and said that Mr. J.’s proposition was a negative one. Capt. S. was also called to order by Col. Jones, on which loud applause ensued, and the floor was left vacant. Judge Iverson then arose, with his usual gravity, and proposed that no undue advantage be ta ken, and that Col. Benning again introduce his first proposi tion, so as to leave the question open for Mr. Johnson to meet it, which was done. The motion of Col. B. was ably opposed by as(>eeeh from Mr. Johnson, but talent here was : naught compared to numbers. The question was put by the ’ Chair and decided to be in favor of Col. B.’s motion. The ! committee was appointed; they retired, and amongt them : were seen G. Thomas, Esq. and the Senator of these parts. So much for consistency. They were absent but a few min utes, and returned, with the report and resolutions, which were read by the Secretary. They were as long as an Irish mile, as greasy as a cook's apron, well chopped, hashed and dried, and highly seasoned with humbuggery, dissolution and rebellion, with all the horrors of the reign of terror and the decrees of “La Force.” The chairman of the committee wished to premise, but he had his share of office, and they called him down as out of order. Poor old man, he was like many others, did not know wliat he had done. Col. Holt then moved, as a substitute, a set of resolutions, breathing forth union, harmony, and a full, fair and amicable | adjustment of our rights by Congress, without being in the. feast submissionists. But the last word was scarcely finished, ’ before a motion was made to lay them upon the table, without j note or comment. Hie motion was put to vote as quick as a j minute, and the C hair was about to determine it in favor of i the ay as, before Col. 11. could get himself seated and on the floor again the fire eaters thus showing their great anxiety either to demolish or conceal every tiling that would have the i least tendency to show the public that there was any opposi- 1 tion, or tliat any one was for peace and the Union. Col. 11. cquld scarcely get an opportunity to be heard upon hisreso- * lutions, they endeavoring to put him down as being out ofor- I ?is isiiiil ” 1 1 sil mH. ; dor when he was not. When the noise subsided, the call was j for Col. Holt, and his right to be heard before action on his resolutions. He obtained the floor ami explained clearly and ;ityy the object of liis resolutions, and the state of the country. IBs speech called forth much applause and mauy thanks.— The fire eaters seemed routed, the current was against them —a flourish of loud shouts brought forth the champion, to urge his cause, though bad. The High Priest, in imaginary robes, followed Col. 11. in a speech of two hours or more, lie i mostassuredly, in point of talents, is extraordinary; his meta ’ phorsand figures were of the boldest and most vaunting ehar i after. Call him gently, the “Mlrabcau” of Georgia, in talent, :in action, and in factious spirit. If there be a name less mild, 1 give it him, for it best becomes him, for so daring and so glaring were his intimations, that they would make men in • robes and mitres rebel and use all the deeds of civil war not only against the intrusive North, but also the sunny South ! who oppose his action, for he held forth, in bold relief, the | fact, “tliat there were men now iu Columbus who could, with | impunity, talk that, which if said, fifteen years ago, would bring them to the jibbet without Judge or Jury, or entitle them to a genteel coat of tar and feathers.” Is this to be the scene to be enacted on the stage ? or was it only for effect ? The w hole tenor of the first resolutions and the speech of this “Mirabeau” was such as to make one ask himself who are to be the Marats, the Dantons, the Robespieres, and where ’is safety to be found ? lie urged tliat the people who formed ! the Constitution and ask for admittance of California, as a ! State, were not citizens. Will he please tell what they are, 1 and who were or who are to be citizens of California? He further urged tliat California was to be admitted as a State prohibiting slavery, by and through the agency of the present Administration. It certainly is not forgotten tliat neither the present Administration nor the present Senators from Or egon had aiij- aid or agency in sending Stephenson and his re giment of 1200 “frec-soilors” from New York to California, to take possession and colonize it—that the present Adminis tration did not conquer it and next purchase it. Who were then the Senators and Representatives in Congress from Georgia ? Who, then, not only lost but gave up the inter ests of the South ? And who permitted, peaceably, and qui etly, and calmly, yea, submissively, the Wilmot Proviso to be extended over Oregon ? Would a dissolution of the Union bring us California, Utah, Deseret or New Mexico? Would it bring us greater protection of our rights or property ? Would we be stronger and happier ? Would it make the North submit? Would it give us auv greater territory to make Slave States out of? What is to be made by dissolu tion or civil war ? Wliat is to be lost or won by it ? Mho are to be the losers and gainers? and who in the eye of the Law, is the guilty one, the offender ortho defender ? These are all grave questions for churchmen and statesmen. fo‘t them be answered honestly and without garble or false colors, and you will do much for a people who will not do wrong if | they know it. It is sufficient to stand upon our reserved and j constitutional rights when they are attacked. Again it would seem that there were no other rights and | property to be protected in the South but the rights to bold | slave property and carry it where the owner pleases. Bc ; ware of such fallacies, lest sooner or later, you will find a j cause and advocates to oppose such doctrines, fearlessly 1 and boldly ; for there are rights superior to the l ights of prop j ertv, and rights in property equal in magnitude. ‘“ War D the game of Kings,” and not of a Republic.— There is scarcely ever one who engages in internal broils that has got much to lose or much to leave, but all to gain, if gain they do. Look at the whole list of fire-eaters, hot-spurs and disunionists,see who they are, where they are, where did they come from and what they have to lose or gain, and see if many of them are not these self-same men, who in the days of Nunification and now, call the old and present lovers of the Union submissionists because they will not now, as then, cut the cord tliat binds tiicse States together and extinguish for ever the last hope of liberty. Again, see where fathers, broth i ers, unefts, nephews and cousins, even to the 81st degree rc j ceived the name and gain of the last desolating war. Look i for them and point them out, and see if war is not their ope ! rating capital ? Beware of them, and pause ! The whole af ! fair is to make perpetual places for thrown oft’ placemen, that j they may rule forever. Let us not be led astray, but reflect for , ourselves, and depend u[k>ii our honest, cool and deliberate I judgment, and tlie result will be that by disunion and a /civil i war all is to be lost, yea, the nearest, dearest of political rights i —that of being a Georgia Citizen and an American Freeman. I When all these are lost there is no oilier soil on earth where ! they can take root and generate. Col. Holt followed our ; “Mirabeau” in a speeceli of a half hour, and before the cluiir j man could take the ayes and nays upon Col. Holt’s resolutions, ; the Sabbath was in order. The two seta of Resolutions were | finally laid on the table and signed by those friendly thereto, I respectively, the disunionists having a majority of about j thirty. So concluded this great force. Nearly all were satis | fiedat its results, for peace was in their hearts, and “not all j the Howards of this land” can make the rampant lion roar, i Our Representative, the Hon. M. J. “Wellborn, left for Wash | ington, before the meeting. Ills voice was not therefore heard i in its councils. This morning, men asked if the Union was not dissolved last night, and the side way talk seemed to be where would the air-built Capital be located. Some seemed to say it would be here in this city, and urged it as a cause | for dissolution. Hoping then that this may be last of the mcet ; ing, as it is thought it will, there is yet no danger of having to proclaim aloud, “God bless Lord Barebones!” Yours, &e. AMICUS. LETTER from SAVANNAH. Savannah, May 22, ISSO. Dear Doctor :—Since my last some interesting little mat ters have transpired, but 1 have not been able to give you all the “dots” for want of leisure. Geo. J. Bulloch, former Cash ier of the Central 11. R. Bank, was brought back to this city in custody of a Basting Police officer, A. O. Butman. The’ particulars of his arrest are these : As soon as the news reach ed Boston, Butman proceeded in the first steamer to Liver pool, and soon after our worthy Sheriff', Pendergrast went al so, both hard after the SSOOO reward. Bulloch had left here on the schooner Abel, for an English port, at which port both officers had arrived (unknown to each other) before the vessel. Butman secured a Pilot boat and cruised in the har bour and arrested liis man, seven miles from land, while our worthy Sheriff’ was quietly awaiting the arrival of his distin guished friend Bulloch. The Sheriff stamped and swore (of course,) but the Yankee took it easy, and with liis hands in his pockets informed him that when they arrived in Chatham county, in the State of Georgia, on the other side of the At lantic, he should have the exclusive honor of taking charge of Mr. Bulloch, and not before, which was accordingly done, and Mr. Butman received the SSOOO (with due thanks and modesty no doubt) the reward, for his services, lie informed me that this city was one of the finest places he. had ever seen, and 1 expect whenever he looks at that SSOOO he will think so. Thus Bulloch was brought back and neither of | these men had the authority to arrest him. He lias appear ed for trial, and liis counsel have invented the novel plea, that because some of the Grand Jury were stockholders in the Bank and therefore interested parties, they did not have the right to indict him. But few think he will be punished, and ; thus it goes ; the man who steals thousands, goes unpunished, and the poor boy, who would steal a loaf of bread for a for | saken widowed mother, must be sent up to Blackwell’s Island ! for three months, all for the good of morality. The Theatrical season lias just closed here, after doing a j fair business since January last. The company was an excel- i lent one, and among other things, got up “Major Jones’ i Courtship,” a genuine Georgia piece, which, with little ex- j coption, was well done. But as the above Theatrical season j has closed, another in the shape of a revival lias opened.— | One of those four days meetings, which lusts about two or three weeks, has started and is now in full blast, yelling, sing- j ing and handling included. New Brick buildings have been started in the burnt district, j and when it is all built up will add much to the beauty of the city, as well as supply the increasing demand for substan tial stores in that part of the city, and particularly on Brough ton street. There are many buildings going up iu different parts ot the city, as well as dwellings on the commons, and gen erally the city presents as much improvement as could be wish ed for. Savannah upward and rising and will yet outstrip all envious opponents. But it is “Young Savannah” that IS doing it, not the plodding “old ’uns” of thirty years ago. It* is tlie young and entu prizing mechanic and merchant and others, tliat have supplanted the old stock of business men, and these are the men who destined to bring her to the ze nith of success and prosperity thereafter. That they can and will Jo it, I have no doubt. I will refer to this subject hereaf ter. Yours, truly SEABOARD, i T- S-—Mojor Jones says this is where the girls always put the best part of their letter—but I only wish to say that Col. Sos the Savannah press, supposes Dr. Andrews writes all his correspondents letters. Now this is to assure him tluit such is not the fact, that I am authorized to say that “Mr. Sea board writes Ins own letters ; the Col. knows bint very well, yet by another name •, but then “what's in a name,” Ac. — But really, Colonel, “don't go to talking that-a-iray” or you 11 1 He the Doctor. Come, Colonel, let us go down to Our llousk and take a “todd.” EETTER from AIIOUSTA. Augusta City, May 20, ISSO. Dear Doctor :—The week past has been one of consider able excitement in onr town. The Convention of the Geor gia Rail Road Stockholders took place last Tuesday and i \\ ednesday. Hie Company furnished an extra train of cars ! to convey such as resided along the line of road and were i share-holders, free of charge, and others at half the regular rates. ihc city was literally crowded with people for three or four days. Hie display of beauty among the fair sex was really creditable to that- portion of our State. The number of In dies was unusually large attending this Convention. As is customary, the young Gentlemen and citizens, generally, gave those from the country, that is, the Ladies particularly, a splendid Pie Nic, at the City Ilall Park, which came otT last Wedneday night. 1 lie whole city turned out en masse , those that belonged to the church as well as those that belonged no where. Leery body seemed desirous to see or participate in ! the amusements of the night. An excellent band of music was engaged and the dancing was kept up until after the short I hours had begun. Among the Ladies from the country i wlneli took part in the doings , wc noticed the young, beauti ful and accomplished Miss A and her sister from Wilkes : county, who drew around them quite a bevy of admirers.— | Misses M and II from Athens, created quite a sen ! sation among a certain number of Gentlemen. The Lely 1 present, perhaps possessing the greatest beauty, was the ac complished Miss M yof Augusta, who seemed to engage the attentions of a number of the upper ten. The whole affair was well conducted, and very agreeably to all concerned. The report of the Superintcndant of the Road, Mr. F. C. j Arms, was highly satisfactory, showing quite an increase in the receipts of tlie Road, both from freight and passengers, i The Road is in an excellent condition and laid with heavy iron I nearly or quite the whole extent. Besides, the debts and | bonds of the Company arc being paid oil’ as fast as possible, after which the whole income of the Road, after paying the expenses, will he applicable in the way of paying divivendsto the stockholders and improving or extending the Road. There was much harmony exhibited in the Convention. The Con ventionists left on Thursday morning for their respective homes, highly gratified with their visit. Some astounding disclosures have boon made, lately, in our midst. It is said that the Pastor of the Church has been acting rather Turkish l>/ for some time past, so much so, that suddenly his health became bad, and he left for the North to recruit, leaving a part of his family behind. It is deplor able, if true, to set himself up as an example to bis flock of sheep and then himself turn out to be a goat. The woman implicated was a member of his own church, which makes the case an aggravated one. How humiliating to the pride of the church must it be to have one, who was hut yesterday, i as it were, so eloquent in defence of all that was good and ex- I cellent in the Christian character, enjoying the confidence of his churcli and the community, casting all aside for the life of a common sinner. We hope the report may prove false, but we have much reason to fear that is too true ! Miss Frcdrica Bremer of Swedish notoriety, is on a visit to our city, and is having considerable attention paid licY by the Literati and elite. I hope she may make her visit to our State both pleasant and instructive. O: r manufacturing improvements are going forward with a rapidity really surprising to one unaccustomed to northern enterprize. Capital appears abundant for all and every entcr i prize which promises the creation of wealth and the building up of our city. , The remarks of the 1 lon. A. 11. Stc pliens, our Representa tive in Congress, the other day, are eminently true as respects the resources and greatness of the State. Wittfcoal beds and iron ore side by side, with a climate well adapted to the pro | duetion of cotton, wheat, and corn, and almost every tropical fruit, with endless water power to propel every kind of ma chinery, and mountains of gold for capital, who shall prescribe j her limits or her greatness ? Respectfully yours, RICHMOND. <II)C ('xcor.gifi Citizen. IL. F. W. ANDREWS, Editor. MACON, GA., MAY 24, 1850. To Subscribers in Columbus. The Editor expects to be ill Columbus on Monday next, i and will be happy to afford the opportunity to his numerous subscribers there, to settle their subscriptions and save fifty cents, each. New subscriptions also respectfully solicited. Persons indebted on old account, will likewise have the privi lege of lifting their “promises to pay” and receipted bills, so that tlie aftiiirsof the old concern may be finally adjusted. Commission Business. —Wo invite attention to the card of Messrs. Patten & Collins, offering their renewed scr -1.. , - | vices to the public in the Ware House and Commission busi- : ness. Confining themselves exclusively to the interests of con signees, and being obliging and faithful men, Messrs. P. & j C. will be almost sure to give entire satisfaction to their cus- 1 tomers. Our planting friends will find it to their advantage \ \ to give them a call. Macon Hotels On next Monday week, Mr. Lanier thinks he will be able | to open his well appointed and splendidly furnished New Hotel to the public. “We looked through the house, a day or two since, and were delighted with the exceeding neatness and comfort manifested in all the arrangements of the estab lishment. It is indeed a perfect Bijou of a public House, not is large as some, but sufficiently so, with the other fine Ho tels of Macon, to accommodate the travelling public who may pass this way. The “Washington Ilall” and “Floyd House” Proprietors are determined, however, not to be behind Mr. Lanier in rea sonable endeavors to retain a shaft of public patronage. — Both these old and well established houses have recently un dergone an thorough repair and renovation, and will doubt less be able to cope successfully with the new Hotel. In i truth, there is no town in the South, of the size of Macon, j which can boast of better Hotels or more accomplished land ; lords. They all deserve, and we hope will receive sub i stantial encouragement. The Collation , —On Tuesday evening, tlie public spirited proprietor of the Floyd House gave a handsome col lation to the volunteer military, who bad been out out on pa ; rade during the forepart of the night. We were present, by invitation, at the festive board, and are able to certify that I the entertainment provided was highly creditable to the im promptu skill of Mr. Buford, as a caterer for a refined public appetite. After we retired, as wo understand, Mr. B. re sponded in handsome style to a compliment tendered the “Host of the Floyd House”—thus proving that he is at home in every department of his establishment, and not less capable of administering to the intellectual pleasures of his guests —the “feast of reason and the flow of soul"—than lie is to their epigastric sensibilities. Strawberries ami Cream. —Friend Peabody, the j prince of Southern 1 loi tieulturists, is already supplying the Co lumbus Market with bis fine 1 lovey Seedling Strawberry, at tlie rates of 200 quarts per day. 1 say, Charley, can't you send us a few, preserved with lumps of frozen water? 1 Sword Presentation. —The sword which the Leg- j islature of Georgia instructed the Governor to have prepared and presented to Brev. Lt. Col. W. 11. T. Walker, was ready for presentation, yesterday, to the gallant Colonel, at Augusta. This sword was voted as a tribute to the gallantry of Col. M alker, in the military service of the country, in Florida and Mexico. The duty of presentation was delegates! by his Lxccllency, to James Gardner, Jr. Esq. and was to have been done in public, with suitable ceremonies. Mr. Clay’s Compromise. M e gave, in our last, a tolerably full synopsis of the Bill proposed by the Committee of 13 through Mr. Clay, their Chairman. Since then, we have carefully examined the provisions of the proposed “compromise” and must confess that we are somewhat disappointed at the result of the com mittee's deliberations and conclusions on this vital question. M e had hoped that the new State- of California would be shorn ot its large limits and confined to the Missouri com promise lino of 36 30 as its southern boundary. Also, that the question of slavery in the District of Columbia would be j left undisturbed. Nevertheless, we are not sure but that i the Bill is as unexceptionable as eould have been expeeted. I j It certainly might be a great deal worse and as it Is, the ; strange fact has already developed itself, that it is equally ! obnoxious to the two extremes of party on this question.— j Ihe “free soilers” of the North and ultras of the South are i a hhe opposed to the settlement of the question, on the basis | | proposed ! \\ hat then is to be done ? Will Southern men j persist in pushing matters to an extremity ? Will they unite, j with the abolitionists in an attempt to dissolve this glorious . confederacy? We trust not. We hope that the moderate men of all parties and sections will have power to check t rashness on the one hand and fanaticism on tlie other. But we ! will not dwell uj>oii the unpleasant topic, preferring to give j the following calm view of the question, from that leading • Democratic Journal, the Augusta Constitutionalist, of the j 13th instant, accompanying it with our endorsement, in nearly every particular. Let the people—the sober, conser vative people of Georgia read, ponder and prepare them selves to answer the question which heads the article ‘"The Compromise—What will the South gmx by orrosiNG it ?— Before Southern men decide to reject the I Compromise, unjust as it is to the South, it may be well to : contemplate calmly the consequences of its defeat. We pro- , ; pose to utter a few plain thoughts on this subject, and to ask j a few plain questions. Let us not too hastily condemn the i I course of those Southern members of Congress who feel on | strained to give, reluctantly, to this compromise, so called, | their acquiescence. “it is not in itself a desirable adjustment for the South. It i has very objectionable features, and to tlie eye of a Southern man few, if any, that are comely. But it is the best the ! South can get, and it will be by a close vote that she gets it, j |it at all; for however little we at the South may consider it i concedes to us, there is a large majority in Congress from tlie free States who consider that it concedes too much.— W e do not propose to discuss now what terms the South ought to have, and what she has a right in equity and good faitli to expect. W e view the subject in its practical bearings. We form our opinions upon the facts as tlu-y stand, and their results apparent to the most common-place sagacity. Mem bers ot Congress should not aim to defeat a measure without a practical object in view. They should not vote against it simply because it is unpalatable—because it does not ac complish all they want. They should have a definite pur pose for their votes. The purpose which Northern liieni hers of Congress have in desiring to defeat the compromise is known. m It is avowed and declared. That purpose is, in order to bring (Jnlifornia in by itself, and then stop for the present. Next, in the fullness of time, to bring in New Mex ico, and next 1 tali, as free States, as they successively ap ply for admission. “ This will surely be the result of the defeat of ihc Com promise. “ V\ hat do Southern men propose, and expect to gain sot i the South by the defeat of the compromise ? That is tlie | practical question. What can they gain? Better terms ? ; W e have not heard or seen any better terms named as in j the least probable. “ 1 lie admission of California with lier present organization and boundaries has been, and is greatly obnoxious to the ; South. To a large party among us it is tlie most offensive of i all the ingredients of the compromise. But it is to be borne j in mind, that on this question vve are divided among ourselves. But defeat the compromise, ami they must swallow this bitter | ingredient unadulterated, and by itself. There is no doubt ion this point. The members from the North are unanimous in favor of the admission of California. Many Whigs from the South and some Democrats are also in favor of rt. It will command a decided majority in the Senate. It vvii! command a majority of at least sixty votes in the House.— We prefer to take the draft, if we must take it, sweetened by oilier ingredients of the compromise, though there is pre cious little of the sweet, and a good deal of the bitter in all. “By the compromise we get territorial governments an 1 non intervention on the slavery question for the territories. That is something. Democrats—supporters of Gen. Cass, should not complain of that. But we will forbear urging at this time considerations why Democrats should not desire in the face of the certain consequences, tlie defeat of this compromise.— We prefer to speak of it as a question interesting to the South, and the whole South. “There is no sufficient potency in Southern votes in Con- ; gross to get a better compromise. There is m > sufficient mor al force in the Southern Convention movement to extort a better compromise. There *is no feasible mode that we see i i to prevent measures still more weakening to Southern in fluences in the confederacy, and destructive of Southern rights ! if this compromise is defeated. There is a mode, but the | South cannot be united upon it. That mode is a union of all parties—a Southern Convention, sustained by the voice of the Southern people, with authority to say to the North, ‘The South demands justice, or independence —chose ye. Give j the South equal rights in the Union or she will take care of ; herself, out ok the i nion.’ The South could not be rallied : to this point, and cannot be now, and the North s.esit. If the former therefore rejects the compromise, she must expect to put up with terms which are still more palpably a mockery of her rights.” New Taper at Washington.—Anew paper is to lie commenced, shortly, at Washington, to be the “exponent of Southern principles” and advocate of Southern rights. About one half of the Southern members of Congress have given the plan their cordial co-operation, and have promised to give it their substantial support. Already $40,000 have been subscribed towards the establishment of the press, and Ehvood Fisher is spoken of as its conductor. The following extract from the address of the Committee, Messrs. Butler, Morton, Tombs, and Thompson, appointed on the subject, will explain the object of this movement. “ There is no paper at tlie scat of Government through which we can speak or be heard fairly and truly by the coun try. , There is a paper here which makes the abolition of sla very its main and paramount end. There are other papers here which make the maintenance of political parties their supreme and controlling object, but none which consider the preservation of sixteen hundred millions of property, the equality, and liberty of fourteen or fifteen States, the protec tion of the white man against African equality, as paramount over or even equal to the maintenance of some political organi zation which is to secure a President; and who is au object of interest , not because he will certainly rule, or perhaps ruin the South, but chiefly for the reason that he will possess and bestow office and spoils. * * * * * * “It rests with ourselves to alter this state of thing’s, so (ar as the South is concerned. Wc have vast interests which we are bouud by many considerations to defend with all the mor al and political means in our {tower. One of the first steps to this great end, is to establish a Southern organ here, a paper through which we may commune with one another, and the world at large. We do not propose to meddle with political parties as they now exist; we wish to enlist every Southern man in a Southern cause, and in defence of Southern rights, be he Whig or be he Democrat. Wc do not propose to dis turb them, or to shake him in his party relations. All that we ask is, that he shall consider the constitutional rights of the South, which are involved in the great abolition move ment, as paramount to all party and all other political con- i sid(.rations. And surely the time luts come when all South- i ern men should unite for purposes of self-defence. Our rela tive power in the legislature of the Union is diminishing with every census, the dangers which menace us are daily becoming greater, and the chief instrument in the assaults upon us is the public press, over w hich on ing to our su pineness, the North exercises a controlling influence. So > far as the South is concerned, we can change and reverse this Ktale of things. It is not to be borne that public seuUincnt at the South should be stifled or controlled by the party press. “Let us haven press of our own, as the North has, both here and at home—a press which shall be devoted to Southern | rights, and animated by Southern feelings; which shall look i not to the North, but the South, for the tone which is to p, r . I vadeif. Claiming oar share of power in Federal legislation j let ns also claim our share of influence in the press of the coun - j try. Let us organize in every Southern town and county, so as to send this paper into every house in the land. Let ns take, too, all the means necessary to maintain the paper by subscription, so as to increase its circulation, and promote tfio spread of knowledge and truth. Let every portion of the South furnish its fall quota of talent and money to sustains paper which ought to be supported by all, because it w iIH be devoted to the interest of every Southern man.” The Compromise—a Test vote. i On the 15th, the Senate took up M r . Clay’s bill, and Mr, Douglass moved to lay it on the table as a test question. The question being taken, it resulted ns followed : V eas—Messrs. Baldwin. Benton, Bradbury,Chase, Cooper, Corwin, Davis, of Mass., Dayton, Dodge. ofWis. | Douglass, Feleh, Green, Ilale, Miller, Norris, ‘ Seward,’ j Shields, Smith, Spruauoe, Wales, Walker, Webster, Yu -1 lee—24. Nays—Messrs. Atchison, Bell, Berrien, Borland, Bright,, j Cass, Clay, Clemens, Davis, of Miss., Djwson, Dickinson, i Dodge, of lowa. Elmore, Downs, Foote, Houston, Hunter, Jones, King. Mangum, Morton, Pratt. Rusk, Soule, Sturgeon, j Turney, Un ierwood, Whitcomb—2B. i And the bill was not laid on the table. Every Southern Senator, except 1 ulee , voted against, laving , the Bill on the table. Butler was not present, or at hast did not vote. Ah \\v>free-soil Senators voted in the affirmative, and among them Senator Webster. So'it stems that the ul tras of the South and the ultras of the North now stand on the same platform. Case of Balloth.—T lie Savannah News of the 201 l states that Judge Jackson lias over-ruled the motion for challenge of J nrors on the part of Bulloch's counsel, as tiny late. “ 1 here was no prect dent lor challenging a juror prop-- ter affectum, or for any other cause, after he had been sworn and empannelled.’ ihe grounds of the challenge again** the petrlt jury were these : Ist. llicy were directors of the Bank whose- funds ri'i- pris oner was charged with embezzling. 2d. That they were stockholders of the Bank. Bulloch's counsel also chalk’aged the army of the Grand Jury, because they were all citizens of Savannah, wliioli city ; owned worth of Stock in the Bank. The Grainl Jury, says the News, “have returned six frwo . Bills against the prisoner,’ ’* tor embezzlement and larceny— the offences charged. Agnniiiurp.l Society*—On Saturday Last an Agri cultural Association was organized at Columbus, for the coun ties of “Muscogee, ( *a. and La.- .Ala. by the ck-etiou of the following officers: — JAS. M. CH AMBERS, Ih sid. it. J. R. JONES-, Ist. V. President. AUG.-HOWARD, 2d Y. Pr silent. B. A. SORSE l ,3d \ . President. Dll. R. W, CARNES, 4tli Y. President. N. NUCIIOLB, r>th Y. President. W. 11. CHAMBERS, lice. Secretary. C. A. PEABODY, Cor.Secretary. JOS. W. WOOLFOLK, Treasurer. Duel in .\ew Orloa IIS* —Dr Kennedy, a contribu tor to of the “True I )elta,”and Judge Walker of the “Delta.” j fought a duel near New Orleans, on the 13;h inst. Tlie woi j pons were pistols and the distance 12 paces. After the first I fire, neither party being hit, the friends of Judge W alker ex ! pressing themselves satisfied, the parties left the ground. A j second duil is on the tapis from the same cause of difficulty —a newspaper article 1 How ridiculous for Editors to quar rel except with their appropriate instrument—tin? pen ! We j consider the pistol inode of settling disputes a moit abomina ble and barbarous one—a custom “more honored in the breach . than in the observance.” Washington Republic— Msm kuil a Fargeaut, j late Editors of the “Ripubfio ’ at M asliingtoii Citv. have re tired from the concern, on account of aqu irrcl with the Cab mi u.id In?. e been sueoccdc*i by Allen A. Hall, Esq. former ly of tin- “‘Banner,” Nashville.‘There is trouble in the “wig wam of the Mctropo.is and considerable excitement among t.ie policians, tlie end whereof is not yet. Let alll good m< n ami patriots pray for the preservation of the country from the evils ot anarchy and civil commotion ! • A comprehendvc Call. At nrsf we wondered, some, at die great array of names appended to the cad for the Lite meeting in Columbus, but on examination of tlie names an! terms of tlie call, our surprise vanished. Among tlie signers to the same, amid a large number < i tlie m. \>t respectable citizens, we notice the names of some that ;;re minors and absquatulating apprentices. One of these heads thecal! as printed in the Times 1 The invita tion, too, was to a < in favor of Southern S< nutors in oppnsi j tion to the compromise report—to all in favor of a fair divis ion of tii public land between the North and South, Ac. and to all others who feel an interest in the great question in volved. Tokrably comprehensive tiap Unit! all were fish that were caught in the net ? not a solitary eel in the whole batch! The Gaiphin Claim - -The Committee on this claim reported on the 17th inst. There were two reports besides separate statements from different members of the Committee. The majority report condemns both prlne'pal and interest. Tlie minority report, that of Burt's, the inti rest alone. Burt’s report concluded with the following Resolutions : “First, That the claim of the representatives of George Calnliin was not a just demand against the United States. Concurred in by Messrs. Burt, Disney. Keathi rstone, Jack son, and Mann. Non-eoneuned in by Messrs. Conrad, Breek, Grinnell, and King. “Second, That the act of Congress made it the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the principal of said claim, and it was, therefore paid, in conformity with law and precedent The full committee concurred in this. “Third, That the act aforesaid did not authorize the Sec retary of the Treasury to pay the interest en said claim, and its payment was not in conformity with law anil precedent.— Concurred in by Messrs. Burt, Disney, Featherstone, Jack son, and Mann. Non-eoacurrcd in by Messrs. Breek, Con rad, and King.’’ out BOOK TABLE. Graham’s Magazine.—We hare received the Juno No. of this old established and popular Monthly, again under the charge of George R. Graham, Esq. accompanied with a “proof impression” of the portrait of Jenny Lind , intended for the July No. of Graham. If this picture of Jenny is a correct one, and we presume there is no doubt of the fact, ihen indeed is she as beautiful in person as site is everywhere rep resented to be amiable in character and gifted in song. She is pictured as she appear* “in la somncmbula ,” and ihe en graving, by a London Artist, is one of the most exquisitely wrought specimens of art, we have ever seen. It is indeed “a diamond worth more than a thousand pebbles.” Graham paid 100 guineas in London fertile engraving alone. The Literary contents of “Graham” are of superior order, and the Letter-press execution, all tint the most fastidious taste can desire. Price, $3 for a single copy, per annum, $5 for two copies. To a club of ten persons, ten copies of tho Magazine will be sent for six months, commencing with the July No. for ten dollars. We shall be pleased to to aid iri the formation of such a club, in this city, and will take charge of the transmission of subscriptions to the Editor. Persons de sirous of seeing the portrait of Jenny Lind can be gratified, by calling at this office. Introduction lo (he Water (ure —A pamphlet of 46 pages, of this title, from the ]K?n of Thomas L. Nich ols, M. D., lias reached as, from the press of Messrs. Fowlers & Wells, N. V’. We have not had time read contents, but cursorily, though sufficient to lead us to bdives that the pam phlet contains much valuable information concerning the “principles, practice, adaptations and results of hydrojmtky * in the cure of disease..