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CnnTopnimuT. L£TTER from €OL(JHBIS. Columbus, June 24, 1850. Dr. Andrews — Dear Sir : After a considerable lapse of time, I resume my pen to give you a short epistle, an account of matters and things in general, some of which may probably be of some interest to you. We have had nothing of a very exciting nature, to interest us, since the death and burial of the Nashville Convention, and the failure of the Cuban ex pedition. We have had a drouth of three weeks, and the prospect for rain at the time I write, is anything but promis ing. The hot weather, has been extremely oppressive, caus ing no little demand for ice creams, sodas, Juleps, Ac., of the former of which, our friends the Struppers, have on hand a full supply of the most delicious. The latter may be obtained to order, fixed up in the best style, at “ The Arbor.” So, if you should come over this way soon, and stand in need of any of the above-mentioned cooling delicacies, you will know where to find them. The earth seems parched up. The thermometer standing at noonday, 93 in the shade. The pros pects for crops in this vicinity, are anything but flattering. The corn, more particularly, has been much injured by the dry weather. A little boy 6 years of age, was drowned in the river, on Friday evening, just below the Variety Works. lie fell from a fish trap, and sunk before assistance could be rendered him. Ilis parents, named Ivey, work in one of the factories. This is another oad warning to the youths of our city, who fhx-k to the river to bathe during the summer months. Parents should use every exertion to prevent their children from visit ing these dangerous places, where so many lives have been lost. Our Superior Court is still in session, though it is hoped that it will be adjourned in a few days. It has been in pro gress several weeks, and still there has been but little done, considering the length of time they have been employed. I understand that the Grand Jury have taken into considera tion the fact, that our city is infested by a goodly number of idle vagabond loafers, and that measures will be taken to de vise some remedy for this growing evil. I think this is as it should be. It seems that the divines of a certain denomination, are de termined if they can, to remove from the face of the earth, all vestiges of Universalism. Os their success, I have my doubts. I listened to a discourse on yesterday, delivered by a Rev. gen tleman in this city, (Mr. K., of the Presbyterian church,) who is closely related to a gentleman who has received some notice from you in religious faith, lie said, the Universalists do not come out and show themselves in their true light, Monsters as they are, travelling through the world doing their mischief, garbed as wolves in sheep’s clothing. Universalists is but another name for Infidels, and how can they enter the king dom of Heaven, hand in hand with the followers of Christ, (meaning, I suppose, those of his particular name.) lam no Universalist, or advocate of that faith, but I do protest against the minister of any denomination, rising in a pulpit and de nouncing the professors of any faith, because they differ with him, as monsters, and other epithets, of unbrotherly love. If they cannot convince people that a certain doctrine or faith is not in accordance with the divine scriptures, at least let them have magnanimity enough about them, to refrain from slan dering their neighbors. (A certain Mr. D., remarked to me as I came out of church, that if Dr. A. had been there, we wuuld hear of that sermon in the next Citizen. Thinks Ito inyself, the Dr. is not so destitute of friends, but that lie will hear it.) Friend Peabody, the hot, dry weather, notwithstanding, is furnishing us with quantities of the finest strawberries, be sides melons, Ac. He sends to this place, tri-weekly, straw berries enough to supply the whole city. Success to this en terprising gentleman. Would that others might follow his example. The “ Fantastics” turn out in full force on Saturday next. The boys anticipate rare fun. You can judge of the compa ny when I tell you who is to command. Hariequintomelear tketrack, Capt.; Snifiledeehargenkill, O. S. Many of our citizens are leaving the heat and dust of the city, for the various watering places about here, principally though, for the warm springs, where, I should judge from what I have heard of Mr. Mustian, as host, and from the sup plies of good things lie has sent from this place, that he is pre pared to do the agreable to all who may favor him with a call. The Hon. Mr. Belser, of Ala., 1 understand, is to deliver an address to the Divisions of Temperance on the 4th of July, in the new Temperance Hall. A LOOKER ON. LETTER from 31 ARIETTA. Marietta, June 25, 1850. Friend Andrews: —lf the early influx of strangers is any indication of the number of visiters we are to have in Mari etta before the summer is over, there is prospect of scant lodging for hard sleepers, unless, indeed Mrs. Sprawls should be induced to give them a “shake-down.” It would do you good to witness the self-complacency of those who have ta ken their abode with us for the warm season. With an abun dance of the “creature comforts;” with cool water, pure air and good society, they look and act as if they were pre-deter mined to discard every thought that might vex the mind or impair indigestion ; in other words, they seem bent on “kick ing care” to that other place, where “pure air” and “good water” are said not to exist. The evening entertainments at the respective hotels, aresuch as would win an anchorite from his cell, or misanthrope from — himself. The merry laugh, sparkling eye and lively wit of Beauty, are plying their well-charged batteries full drive at the hearts of the Bachelor force, until the poor things (the hearts, I mean,) are set to fluttering in their prison houses, like an encaged bird striving to mate itself with its opposite neighbor. Every flash of the eye produces a corresponding “pit-a-pat” of the susceptible organ, and every dimple of the cheek is a lurking place, from which Cupid despatches his missiles. I should not be surprised if the purport of the next bulletin from the camp of the fair enemy were—“reni; vidi, vici And then, for the man who hath any “music in his soul” he who has not, had better stay away—there is an al lurement in the “concord of sweet sounds,” which supplies the intervals of conversation at these delightful evening parties. I know not what may be the effect on others, but with me it seems as if each particular note were vibratory of some espe cial cord leading from head to heel, terminating in a twitching of the muscles of the leg, indicative of a flourish ala upid geon wing Independent of these social gatherings, we have an occa sional “party,” a “danee,” and lastly, within a few days past, we have attained to the dignity of a “ball'*—a real ball, at which your respectable townsman, Mr. John Butler, Esq ., presided as master of “cat-gut” and prompter of the “light fantastic toe.” This was an Anniversary Odd Fellows’ Ball, and was pre ceded, on the morning of the l'Jtli inst., by an oration from Rev. Mr. White, followed by a sumptuous dinner, prepared by the gentlemanly proprietor of the Howard House, Mr. Dix Fletcher. As I had the honor to participate, in the char acter of guest, at this dinner, I will give a brief sketch of it. There were two long tables spread with viands which, if par taking lees of the rare and costly luxuries of city importation, were certainly served up in the most approved style of artis tical skill—cooked to the very perfection of epicurean taste. Someone hundred, or probably more, ladies and gentlemen seated themselves at the festal board, and after an invocation of blessings upon the proceedings of the day, the devastation of good things commenced in earnest. lam a modest man. and care not to speak of my achievements upon that memora ble occasion, but if I did not take the “chicken fixens and flour doings” under my especial patronage, I at least imitated those who did. Unfortunately the luxury of eating eudureth not forever, and although each strived to emulate his neighbor in proving to mine host, by the amount consumed, the estima tion in which his cookery was held, yet the day was so warm, and the exertion so great, that by unanimous consent, cool drinks were substituted for hot meats and pastry. Toasts and lemonade were next in order, and notwithstanding the latter was very agreeable to the taste, so strong is the force ol habit, and so addicted your eorrespodent to colored glasses , that a slight tinge of red would have commended it to my eye. — Nevertheless, I endured the affliction admirably, consoling myself, meantime, with the reflection, that if the potation was weak, the motion was the same as if it had been strong er. Among the general hum of voices and calling of toasts, my attention was attracted to a party of “choice spirits” about the centre of one of the tables. They were rather more boisterous in their mirth than the simple imbibing of lemonade seemed to justify ; and I was startled from a pro found meditation upon the wonders of hydropathy by a sud den explosion, which might have been a pistol, but sounded to my practised car, very much like afu de foi from the champagne bottle. Ido not pretend to say that it tuna cham pagne, but am ready to aver that the effects were very similar to those I have seen produced by that article. When the party were not drinking to the toasts, (which they did not fail to do once at least to each,) they were hob-nobbing to each other, and invoking so many “healths,” that one would naturally have supposed the whoje company to be laboring in the last stages of a serious decline ; indeed, I afterwards heard of some of them being very “ poorly /” To-day we have a Masonic celebration. An address is to be delivered by Rev. Mr. Parks, and a dinner furnished by Messrs. Arnold A Oglesby, at the Marietta Hotel. At this entertainment, all spiritual imbibitions are especially inter dicted. There is to be a grand “Barbecue” on the fourth of July, to which “men, boys, women and children” are especially in vited, to hear flaming addresses, laudatory of the Southern Contention , and wide-mouthed denunciations of every one who docs not avow it to have been the most patriotic and ef fieiant body that over assembled any where (not excepting the Hartford Convention.) The people are to be gulled into the belief that the $30,000 of their money appropriated by the Legislature of Georgia to defraying the expenses of these men for “ inarching up the hill and down again ,” lias been applied to the achievement of some great good to the State. As I see no mention made of the Declaration of Indepen dence to be read on that occasion, and have heard that it was to be omitted, I can but look upon it as a scheme of politicians to alienate the people from their attachment to the Union— that demagogues may mount to power upon its ruins. If there is any such intention, I pray heaven to blast the purposes of every traitor. 1 know there are disunionists here, and I know they are ambitious; but it is the ambition of the arch traitor, who preferred ruling in Hell to serving in Heaven.— The time is not distant when honest men will have to come out from among these hypocrites, or be partakers of their infa my. The fourth of July is a national anniversary, and should not be perverted to the huckstering purposes of political trick sters. But I have been more lengthy than I intended, and must close by subscribing myself, Yours, Ac. KEN ESA W. LETTER from Ft. GAINES. Fort Gaines, June 22,1850. Dear Citizen : —At the Superior Court of Decatur county, which was in session on the first week of this month, there were some exciting times, connected with criminal ca ses, Ac. There was one murder case tried. It was tedious, and there was much feeling exhibited by the prosecutors as there seemed to be some family matters mixed up with it.— The Jury did not retire to make up a verdict until about mid n gbt of Saturday. It was vigorously and ably prosecuted by the State’s Attorney and others, and the defence was con ducted with the usual ability and ingenuity of Col. Me D. and Mr. R. S. whose side won, of course. It afforded me much pleasure to hear in this region of De catur the ‘ Georgia Citizen” spoken of as the “Prince or Journals.” Your various correspondents come in for their share of the praise, but the idea was at once suggested that some of them wished you and yours to “speak softly and gently” of them. Amongst your legal advocates was the gentleman of the bench and bar from Americus, otherwise called the “Athens” of the South West. lie seemed to fa vor your paper, thinking, perhaps, you would favor him in turn; he surely ir mistaken in the man, for if he read your paper he would see you are “Independent in all things—Neu tral in nothing,” and not apt to support third rate men for Congress or the bench. He said he is a patron of the “Citi zen.” This seemed strange, for I heard a brother citizen and chip of his say, there was not one taken in the place.* If this bes >, it is no longer entitled to the name of “Athens.” If this man sees this he will nearly snap himself in two, but to give his wrath time t$ cool, I would ask him to solve the problem. Please tell us, if yon can, why it takes nine tailors to make a man ? and when tliat's done, do, if you please, tell us what it will take to make one Taylor sneeze (not old Zack.) I learn from Cuthbert that since your humble correspond ent's last, that there have been more new and brilliant discove ries and achievements of the “grey goose quill.” A third number of the “Critic” has been issued. It is said to be bet ter in style and worse on men and manners than the former two. In it the editors, “ Watch A Tell,” bid their readers a last farewell. To this we say, it is not fair to leave your read ers in such despair. There have been written advertise ments stuck up about a “Snake Hotel,” about which, the contents not being known, no more can be said. The City of Cuthbert is a great place, every thing being A la mode. — Dancing, music, Ac. not to be beaten. I also learned that remorseless vengeance is wrapt up in cloth for your poor “\\ ire Grass,” but 1 would say to one and all, “the truth may be blamed but it never can be shamed;” strike not the inno cent, but when you get him, meet eye to eye, and then— “ Lay on And be he who first cries hold, enough.” But who so weak as to be offended. “What private griefs they have, alas, I know not, that mr.de them do it.” But as you know me all, a plain blunt man; —Fori have neither wit nor words—nor worth—action nor utterance, nor the power of speech to stir men’s blood.” “I only speak right on. I tell you tliat which yourselves do know,” but for explana tion’s sake and to make them comfortable, I would ask those who are ashy, and whose warlike blood runs lustly in their veins, was there any thing in “Wire Grass” that is false? It so, bring it before the Tribune of public opinion.— Did not the “Critic” issue ? Did not the stabbing take place, and with a Bowie Knife ? Let him who can deny it. “For Brutus is an honorable man. So are they all—all honorable men.” “This was the most unkindcst cut of all. For when Noble saw him stab, ingratitude more strong than traitor’s arms quite anguished him ? Why now become enra ged at bur places ? ‘ihe Gault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves that we are underlings.” The “Fire Eaters” of the Nashville Convention have found their horse “Disunion” not tractable or easy of management. He will not be rode by fair means or foul, and if they <lo not look like “Hungarian Exiles,” without a cause or coun try, they will when they get back. Many are there who would not have been there but for the love of notice. It will be quoted as an offset to the Hartford Convention, and like it, it was a foolish, feeble, futile effort to gull a people. Come— come, and tell them that “Othello’s reputatiorris gone.” We had, not long since, the “Bos fight of Early—a regu lar “battle royal” of Cow drivers, Ac. Two of the number lay on the ground so badly beaten and cut, that they were hauled off with the honors of war, in a horse cart, followed by the wounded, in file. )\ bat a gathering of black sheep there will be at the next Court, and the way they will be shorn will not be slow. The weather is very warm and dry. Thu Cotton and Corn will be short in quantity and long in price. The people down hero are for “Cuba” at all hazards. The blood of” that poor innocent boy, whose life they took and whose letter to his mother they destroyed, cries aloud for ven geance, and it is not unheard. Less than this incited a great er storm in Rome. The treaty cannot operate in this case.— The people of tins go and come when they please, and can claim its protection or not, according to circumstan ces. Such a course is not without precedents. The English Government aided Isabella, of Spain, and Don Pedro, of Por tugal; France this country; this country Texas; and why not “Cuba ?” Policy dictates the “Moro” must and shall be ours.” Our “Eutcrprizo” is doing well, and not long since one of its correspondents was out upon the Ordinary Clerk of this County. It is right he should advertise at home—but, says he, you are not equal to the Colonel of Columbus; to be no ticed and walked by his arm, is worth more than your press. ) on have seen the Prospectus of the paper at Abbeville, Ala. witb your motto for its guide. Hurrah for Independence. It is strange why the tri-wcekly line of stages running lio.n Lufala by Lumpkin and connecting with Wright’s line at Americus, and thence to Macon, did not come through this place by Cuthbert; by doing so it would have afforded greater advantages to mail and travel, as to expense and tune, which are so much desired. By this route one and a half days travel would connect this route with the tri-wcekly mail running on Pea river to Pensacola, thence to Mobile and to New Orleans. In going to New Orleans now, the same old route by Montgomery is the one used, where travel lers run the risk of getting a boat to Mobile. The advanta SHI IS9EI.iI eimiß. ges of the route by Cuthbert and this place is readily seen . It would be the great central thoroughfare of travel to the West because it is nearer, surer, and has the best of roads. The cost of carrying the mail would not be much, as the travel would sustain the line, connected as it is with the lino v!:. Americus to your city. The Rail-road from your place to Oglethorpe, when finished, will afford an additional advan tage. I must here close, as I must get my fixings ready to attend the Masonic Celebration and Ball, Ac. to be at Eufala on Monday next, from which place I will endeavor to give you some dots. Until then, farewell. Yours, faithfully, WIRE GRASS. *Xote— tVesendoveradozen papers to Americus. — Kit. Citizen. EETTER from UNION POINT, Ga. Union Point, June 20tli, 1840. L. F. W. Andrews : Dear Sir :—l demand of you the author of the article which appeared in your paper of the 31st of May over the signature of “Traveller with Trunks,” as I intend to treat him as he deserves, on sight. Your prompt attention to the above will much oblige me. Yours, with respect, E. LAMPKIN. Reply by the Editor.- -Out of regard to the per sonal safety of Mr. L. we are disinclined to grant the rather peremptory demand which he has thus made upon us. It might moreover end in a breach of the peace or a homicide were we to give up the name of our ‘Traveller with Trunks.” He is “some,” himself in a “scrimmage” and would be willing to face the Boniface of Union Point “sup per-house” any where, though he vows he would not again willingly encounter bis venison ! By the way, Mr. Land lord, you are a public man. You set up a public bouse and cater for the public stomach. You have therefore, we think, no right to make a personal matter of any strictures which may be made upon your method of serving the public, any more than the politicians have a right to call in question the public criticism upon their political acts. We would, there fore, advise you to pocket the affront and say no more about it. If, however, you insist upon knowing who Mr. “Tra veller with Trunks” is, you shall be gratified. lie passed your house in company with Gov. Gale, of Alabama, Lt. Southall, of the army, and others, who are all ready to back the truth of his statements, by affidavit or otherwise, and lie has authorized us to throw upon him all the responsibility of the communication to which you take exception, by revealing to you his name and habitation. We trust, however, that you will think better of the matter and relinquish a demand which might prove troublesome rather than beneficial. O / O a* <£ *l\)t Georgia Cifiznt. E. F. W. ANDREWS, Editor. MACON, GA., JUNE 28, 1850. TO CORRESPONDENTS: *• Observer” on Education, on file for our next issue. t'-ST* The request of our Americus friend, for the manuscript of ‘Rob O’Sheeley,” cannot be complied with, as the same was not pre served. A letter from Judge Ernest, to the Rev. Thomas Whittemorc,nf Bos ton, on the slavery question, shall appear in our next. “Seaboard” received, but too lute for this week. Prof. Stuart's Pamphlet. —We give, to-day, an extract front the late pamphlet of Professor Stuart, of Ando ver (Mass.) Theological, Presbyterian Seminary, on the sub ject of Slavery, which we specially commend to the notice of the reader. It is cheering to find men of such enlarged and enlightened views as the venerable Professor, willing to brave public opinion in his own state, and speak out in be half of the South, against the vile fanatics of the North ! Don't Road it.- -The Specimen of Southern Elo quence, on our last page, should not be read by any of the Fire Eaters of the present times, as therein might be discover ed a personal reflection not very agreeable to over-weoning vanity. •* ‘ ‘ Company all the time • — I There is a beautiful moral in flic story on page Ist, which is worthy of the special notice of Fathers and Mothers. Commendable Liberality. A collection and subscription were taken up on Sunday last, at the Methodist Church in this City, in aid of (lie new Church in progress of erection for that denomination, and the handsome sum of $1,875, we understand, was pledged for the object. The sum total of $3,000, it was announced, was necessary to pay oft’all indebtedness and finish the new Temple. As an inducement to liberality, one of the Weslyan soothsayers declared that though rain was needed, he predict ed that there would not be any here, until the full amount of money required was raised ’. Taking for granted that the reverend Professor possesses the true spirit of divination, in connexion with the fact that we had a fine rain here on Tuesday night, two days after the prediction was uttered, the inference is irresistible that the balance of $1125 must have been gathered up in the interim! Such a uoble instance of liberality and sublime faith in proph ecy is seldom witnessed ! Don't you think so, reader ? Honor to Mr. Calhoun. —On the Ith proximo, the Rev. Dr. Ellison, will deliver an eulogy in this city, on the life and character of the illustrious deceased. See programme of the order of the day, in another column. We trust that the citi zens generally will unite in the procession, and pay all proper respect to the memory of the great and good Calhoun. We would, however, that the occasion be not desecrated, either to the purposes of political or sectarian expediency. Hence we arc compelled to question the propriety of the request of the Mayor, that the citizens should make a Sabbath of the day, by closing up their stores and places of business on the 4th. In our respect for the ehffactcr of the patriot and statesman, John C. Calhoun, we will yield to none; nevertheless, we see no reason why funeral ceremonies in his honor, should be made to assume the aspect of a Christian celebration. Health of the City. —There are various sources of pestilence in our midst, which demand the unwearied attention of the Board of Health, for their abatement. Complaints leach us daily, that the Board of the City Council, are doing nothing—literally nothing, to preserve the health of the city, and ward oft disease. It would seem that a fear of giving of iencc to individuals, operates with the authorities to prevent ueeided measures. In one extreme case of filthy accumula tion, the draymen retusc their service in the removal of the recking cess-pools of night-soil and other filth, and the con tractor of city carts refuses to act in the case, because the abominable nuisance is upon the premises of a citizen, and not in the public streets! This state of things calls loudly for i c/orm, and that too without delay. If the nuisance spoken o. cannot be removed as it is, let the neutralizing virtues of Chloride of Lime or other disinfecting agents bo freely applied and the mass converted into an inodorous manure heap, when its removal can be easily effected. Haste, or the plague will be upon us, in one or more of its multifarious and destructive formß! Congress.— Mr Clemen’s amendment to the Compro mise Bill—to designate the sum of one million of dollars as the sum to be paid to I exas for the surrender of her claim to the dispated Territory—was rejected ou the 14th inst, by a vote of nays 30, ayes 8. lVaslivillc Convention Address. Our readers must pardon us, for failing to publish the address of this Convention in our paper. We ful ly intended to do so, provided we found in it any thing new or interesting, and its great length was not an insuperable objection. The latter difficulty we could get over, but do not think inexpedient.— Much of the Address is off the same web which has for years been manufactured by Southern Politicians for the use of their constituents. To the part setting forth the grievances of the South we have not a word of objection to offer. Nor do we object to the set tlement of the question on the line of the Missou ri Compromise, if the same can be done. But we do not see how it is possible, in the present position of the matter. In relation to the argument of the address against the Compromise Bill of Mr Clay, we can onlv sav, that it entirely fails to convince our judgment. Forrest and Willis. —Edwin Forrest, the Tragedi an, met N. P. M illis, the literary Coxcomb, in Washington Parade Ground, New York city, on the 17th inst. and gave him a sound drubbing with a gulta percha whip ! Cause— improper liberties taken by the said Willis with the wife of the Tragedian. Public opinion preponderates in favor of Forrest, and justifies the chastisement as lenient compared with the deserts of the victim. The Thrcs Plans of Adjustment. Os the three plans of adjusting the Slavery question be fore the present Congress, we said in our last, that wc gave our preference to the Compromise Bill of the Committee of 13. We will now proceed to state some of the reasons which have brought us to this conclusion, in comparing the same with the plan of the President and that more recently made a sine qua non by the Nashville Convention. Ist. The President’s plan is defective, in that it leaves the boundary between Texas and New Mexico unsettled, and sub ject to the horrors of a civil war, between the two. Already have hostilities commenced at Santa Fe on this account— Texas claiming to exercise Judicial powers in New Mexico, and the people of the latter resisting the pretension. The President’s plan also leaves the Territories without ter ritorial gox’ernment until they are strong enough to come into the Confederacy as States, as in the proposed case of Califor nia, without the necessary territorial probation. This looks like a wish to avoid all responsibility on the part of the Exec utive and leaves the irrating subject open for an indefinite pe riod. 2d. Hie Missouri Compromise Line, without any condition of recognition of slavery South of 3G 30—is liable to the fol lowing objections:— It yields the constitutional question as to the right of Coiflgress to legislate on the subject of slavery. For if Con gress can inhibit slavery North of any line and tolerate it South, it can introduce or abolish it wlicreever it possesses territorial jurisdiction. The South thus gives up its strong est position to the enemy. Besides, it is too late now to fall back upon that line. Cal ifornia has now become a State, de facto, save only in the forms of admission. She would never consent to a division of her territory, and if she would, the South has no guaran tee that the poople of South California would not, next year, knock lor admission as a State, with an anti-slavery constitu tion, and thus increase the northern preponderance in the Senate two fyld, over the admission of California as one State. Better admit her as she is, unless there is absolute certainty that South California would come in as a Slave State, which certainty cannot be attained. Again. The Missouri Compromise Line would effectually cut oti 5 1-2 degrees of the territory of New Mexico, and sur render the same to Free Soilism, inasmuch as this territory now extends to the 42d degree of N. Latitude. Os course all north ot 36.30 would be closed by said Compromise to the instution of slavery. Such is tlie scheme which the Nash ville Convention, in the plenitude of its wisdom, proposes, with a view to secure a contingency in South California, which will give the South a slim chance , hereafter, to the , barren wastes aud undesirable territory of that section* J hese are grave objections to the Missouri Compromise scheme, heretofore so often repudiated and disowned by the South, and only acquiesced in, for the sake of peace aud the stability ot the Union. But the matter becomes so much the worse when we consider the conditions which the Nashville Convention has annexed to this proposition. These condi tions are, that, “ Ij the NORTH offers the Missouri Com promise, to extend to the Pacific Ocean , the. SOUTH can not reject it , PROVIDED, a distinct recognition of our right to enter the territories South of 36 degrees 30 min utes, N. Latitude , is expressed in the Compromise.” This is the language of the Nashville Convention Address before us, and we hazard nothing in saying that the said Convention knew that neither of these conditions would ever he fulfill ed ! The North will never offer such terms, nor will she ev er accede*to the same, it offered and pressed by the South. We say the Convention must have known this, if they pos sessed even ordinary intelligence, and hence we come to the conclusion that it was purposely so devised that the other al ternative of “disruption” of the States of this Confederacy, might, the more readily, be brought about, in case the im practicable conditions were not fulfilled ; 3dly. The plan of the Committee of which Mr. Clay is the head, though liable to some objections which may yet be mo dified, recommends itself to the calm consideration and accep tance of the South, in every essential particular. Ist. It recognizes tlie fundamental constitutional right of the people of California, as she was in respect to boundaries when received from Mexico, to adopt such a constitution and gov ernment as they might please, (provided it was republican ,) and to be admitted as a State, on attaining the requisite pop ulation. This is the democratic doctrine, contended for, dur ing the last Presidential contest, and we cannot so stultify ourselves, now, as to deny to California tlie privileges which we then contended belonged to the people of arty territory of this government. 2d. Mr. Clay’s Bill leaves all the territory of New Mexico for 5 1-2 degrees north of the Missouri Compromise Line open to slavery, provided the people who settle there may so choose, in forming a State Constitution. 3d. It applies the non-intervention principle to New Mexi co, Utah and that part of Texas which the United States may buy of that State, and settles, forever, the question of boundary between Texas and New Mexico. 4th. It recognizes and enforces tlie Constitutional right of the South to recover Fugitive Slaves by some new provis ions for the better securing of the object. True, there is some ob jection to the proposition to give the fugitive the benefit ofajury trial for adjudication of his ejaim to freedom, on his return home, but this is now the law in perliaps every Southern State, in like oases, —any negro claiming to ho free, having the flegis of the law’s protection thrown around him so far as to give him the right to prove his freedom before a jury of white men. Wo therefore see no valid objection to this provision of the Bill. sth. This bill abolishes the Slave Trade in the District of Colnmbia, that is, the traffic of speculators who have hereto fore made it the central mart for their operations. It does not however propose to abolish slavery in the District. A simi lar law as that proposed has been in existence in Georgia— the same which was repealed by our last Legislature. When we remember, therefore, that Congress has legislative juris diction over the municipal affairs of the district, as the Legislature of Georgia has over its territory, wc do not find any great objection to the provision contem plated. Indeed, we think this a measure of policy which will allow of a difference of opiifcn concerning its expediency, without involving any sound principle of constitutional privi lege or vested right, either way. 6th. Mr. Clay’s Bill, is, in our judgment, the only practi cable and honorable adjustment of this vexed question.— None other can be passed if that cannot, and the whole sub ject will, therefore, be left open for future, more embittered controversies, which will rend, ultimately, the best govern ment ou which the light of heaven has ever shone. For the sake of peace—for the sake of repose, which the country needs—we desire then, that this Compromise Bill be speedi ly passed. 7th. Unless it be, tlie South will have to take California as she is, separate rind distinct from all other measures, thus de feating all her wishes and calculations in that regard, besides subjecting herself to the spchdy admission of Utah and New Mexico as States, without a territorial probation ! The South has, therefore, much to gain and little to lose by accepting the Compromise Bill of Mr.Clay. That bill will leave the question of slavery in the Territories, as tlie Constitution left it—free to the admission of slavery until the people w ill otherwise enacl, when they are qualified for State Govern ment. Even the abolitionists concede this, when they clam or for the “Wilmot Proviso.” For did not the Constitution recognize the right of the South to hold slaves as property and carry it as property into the common territory of the States, wherein was the use or necessity for the ordinance of Si or subsequent Wilmot ? None whatever. This is the gain of the Compromise Bill, as 5 1 -2 degrees of territory north of the Missouri line is opened to slavery, for a season, and ultimately, if the South chooses to colonize that region and acquire such an ascendancy as will give her the control of the State Con stitution, at its formation. On the other hand, tlie South loses nothing by this bill, save the slim prospect of making South California a slave State, hereafter. But this, if certain of attainment, would not weigh a feather against the possibility of those heavier losses, which a continued strife on this subject will be sure to bring upon us as a people and a nation—losses which are incalculable in every particular which constitutes the glory, honor, aud pros perity of a civilized and enlightened government. Lot, then, fanatics and disunionists pause, ere they destroy the fair fa bric of our liberties, in one general and overwhelming ruin. ’Twill be but poor consolation to such to have the power of the ancient Philistine, if by the reckless exercise of this pow er, they pull down the pillars of our national edifice over their own heads as well as the heads of their enemies. None but madmen or fools would thus peril their own salvation in blind revenge for imaginary or real wrongs, without the shadow of hope to better their condition or relievo themselves from “one jot or tittle” of the political evils which they endure. But says the Fire Eater, what would you do, in case the North continues to make agressions upon the South’ Would you tamely submit to their exactions and intermedlings ? Would you lick the hand that smites you and basely cringe be- : neath tlie lasli of your political task-masters? No, verily, ‘ we would do none of these tilings, but we would declare our selves practically free from their commercial association and set up for ourselves in every matter of business. We would cease to pay tribute to the manufacturers, the merchants, the professional mcn,&c., of the North. We would make our own breadstuff's “from a to izzard”—manufacture our own clothing, educate our own children, travel to our own salubri ous mountains, and ship our own produce. In short, we would appeal to the pocket nerve whoso electric vibrations Thrill through a Yankee's eorporosity from centre to circum ference, with polar needle certainty, and bring them to our j feet to beg the boon of life which we have hitherto recklessly j squandered upon tlicir pampered and ungrateful natures. — In this way, a moral revolution can be sooner effected, on this subject, at the North, than in any other way. And we pledge ourselves to this method of redressing our wrongs, so soon as the people will determine on its feasibility or pronounce ou its expediency. That it can be done, read the picture drawn by a Northern Editor as to the effect of a failure of Congress to make the usual appropriations, which picture will be found, with comments, in another column. To our mind the plan spoken of is not only feasible but it is a peaceable plan—a constitutional plan, worthy of immediate trial. Let our Representatives in Congress take a vice-likc hold upon the purse strings of the Treasury, and not let a copper be voted to any purpose, until the North comes to her senses. In tlie mean time, let the people of the South stay at home, live at home and cneouarge home industry and produetion, exclusively, and as exclusively discourage every thing Northern, from a needle to an anchor, until our rights are re dressed by those who are now agressors upon the same. Do this, we say, instead of meeting in conventions and passing windy resolutions, which, though resolved, are never execut ed—cease sending to Broadway for our sash ions and to Bos ton for their “notions,” yea—quit talking without acting and the thing is done in a twelvemonth. We shall not only, there- : by, conquer a glorious peace, but we shall give our enemies j a lesson that will do them good and not evil all the days of their lives. So mote it be, amen. Tolerably Strong Language. — A western co- J temporary speaking of the Nashville Convention Resolutions j and Address, says—“ They lay down a platform on which no ! Southern man, “Whig or Democrat, patriot or porlizan, can, with any face, refuse to stand. It. is common and sacred i ground, where all but tories and traitors will feel proud to meet, in defence of constitutional rights and Southern equali ty.” “All but Tories and Traitors” eh! Weil if that isn't cool impudence, we have lost our guess! Perhaps not two thirds of the people have any idea of getting on the said platform, at all. They have no faith in it since it was declared unsound by the Georgia Legislature, last winter, and no repairs having been 1 made on it since, by the self-same Constitutional Tinkers who then pronounced against it, the “tories and traitors” may well be excused for their hesitation in trusting themselves on board the rickety plank. For ourselves, vvc look upon the same as a (lendfall contraption to catch gudgeons and suck ers, and therefore warn all to beware how they are led into the snare set for them through fear of nicknames, which the leader of a venal press- gang may hurl against them ‘ Plank Roads. —The people of Macon and vicinity i should be up and doing to counteract the efforts now making in different quarters, to divert, from our city, the trade which rightfully belongs to us. We allude to the movements at Madison and Miiledgeville, to tap the rich counties of Put nam, Jasper and Jones by tic ans of a Plank road. The people of those counties are determined to have a Plank road to some jjoint on one of the Rail Roads, and have proposed to the citizens of Maeon to help them to come hither. The aid needed should be immediately tendered, in order to secure the advantages involved in the enterprise. In sueh a cause apathy is suicidal to our best interests. On the other hand, the people of Lee and Laker are mo ving in the work of constructing a plank road from Albany to Oglethorpe, and hold a meeting at the former place to-day, to consider the measure. They are willing to lay aside their projectof a plank road direct from Albany to Savannah or the Altamahnh, for the one proposed to Oglethorpe, provided the parties interested—the city ol’Savannah, the Central and S. Western Rail Roads and the citizens of Maeon and coun try adjacent to the route of road, will unite in the work and push it through with spirit. This is a reasonable request which should at once be granted, unless, what is preferable for the interests of Macon, a plank road can be built from this city, through Perry and Drayton, direct to Albany. But as. this is not, at present, practicable, we should not overlook the advantages of the trade with South Western Georgia, which by the contemplated road would be thrown in this direction. We should like, also, to see a movement for the construc tion of a Plank Road to some point on Flint River about the line botvtecn Crawford and Upson counties, through Hope well, Hickory Grove, Ilootensviile, See. which c-ould thence be extended to Talbotton, by the people of Talbot county. — These roads in operation and but little would remain to be desired by our citizens, in the way of facilities of a commercial character. But neglect the opportunities, and in a short time we shall be left to mourn over the loss of much of the trade which we now enjoy, and will find our city retrograding rather than advancing in that high way of prosperity to which her favorable position entitles her, and which she would be sure to attain, if a proper spirit of enterprise actuates our capitalists and business men. Abusive Epithets.— “Tories ’and “Traitors/’ “Cra ven submissionists,” “fool,” “knave,” &c. are the delectable epithets in common use, now, in the columns of a certain tri weekly sheet of western Georgia, against all those, Whig and Democrats, who do not adopt the Editor's views of the Nashville Convention and its recommendations ! This is one way to unite the South on this question which is worthy of the source whence this billingsgate springs ! The rampant gentleman who is so keen to “tight, bleed and die” in behalf of his country, should recollect that accidents sometimes hap pen to mar the most patriotic resolutions of the bravest men! For instance, just at the time when the enemy are seen hover ing near, and orders have been given to charge the “ehappar al” and give them “Jesse,” a sudden sickness at the heart paralyzes the muscular system, aud it is “no go” with the vic tim, unless in a different direction and homewards as fast as wind and steam can carry him ! Our observation has long ago convinced us that of all men living, the braggart who eternally boasts his own bravery and patriotism, is the least to be relied on, in the hour of real danger. Ten chances to one, when the “crisis” does come, our amateur Capt. Bobadil, will be found on the sick list, with the word belly-ache or po dagra opposite his name, on the hospital Books ! Onre a Captain always so.—That was a funny feature, in the doings of the Nashville Convention, which voted each ; member thereof (whether appointee of his Excellency or a regular Delegate,) a life member of that association ! They did not adjourn sine die, but only ‘called off,’ from labor to re freshment at the wifi and pleasure of themselves ! Wonder who pays expenses of the next meeting! The Legislature already has already appropriated $30,000 of the people’s mo ney to this foolish matter, and wc doubt very much if the peo ple care to be taxed any further to perpetuate a dozen men I in the facilities for doing mischief. Ten to one, if the sup j plies are stopped, the extra patriotism of some of the mem j b, ’ rs will ooze out ‘like Bob Acres,’ at the euds of their little i fingers. 1 heir great love for other peoples’ negroes will not, j we allow, be manifested at any great sacrifice of their own ; private pecunia. i Awful Calamity. About 250 persons perished in the burn ing of the Steamer Griffith, which took place, a few days ago on Lake Erie, near Cleveland O. 140 bodies, chiefly Gc?- an Emigrants, were recovered from the water and the wreck at the last advices. The scene is represented to have been one of the most appalling ever witnessed, not a life boat nor life preserver having been provided by the Boat, to meet any such contingency as fire! (ion. Twiggs • —This veteran soldier passed by Savan nah, last week, on his way from Florida to Washington City, Tlie Galpiiin Business.- -Recent developments go to show that the Galphln Claim has been thirteen years be fore the country, aud that tlie late Hon. J. Forsyth, was at one time an interested prosecutor of the claim, while he wm a member of the cabinet! The matter was all right then, but now, when Secretary Crawford lias taken hold of tlieafi'air and pushed it through, it is a dreadful piece of political and moral turpitude! “ Oh, consistency.” Two Distinguished Characters Dead.—On the 21st inst., I in New* York, old Jacob Hays , High Constable of that city I departed this life in the. 72d year of his age. On the same day also died, Mathew L. Dari*, Esq., known as the “Spy in Washington” in many respects a re markable man. He was the Father of Capt. John E Da vis of Columbus, who behaved so handsomely at the Vera Cmz Bombardment, during the late Mexican war. Keep it before the People, That the Nashville Conventionists have agreed to relinquish unconditionally five and a half degrees of the territory of New Mexico to the Free Soil interests of the North, which by Clay's compromise Bill, would be left open to Slavery if | the people so desire. And, KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOFLE that the advo : cates of this uncalled for and degrading Concession call them ! selves patriots and friends of the South, par excellence, whilo j they designate ail others as “Traitors and Tories” because they do not see things as they do ! The Remedy in our own Hands, The Southern members of Congress have it in their power in a constitutional way, and without any of the useless ma chinery of conventions, to bring the north to a just sense of her duty and interest in relation to the slavery question. Vast numbers of the people there are dependent for tlicir living up on tlie annual appropriations of Congress, and will raise such a clamor at home, on the failure of these, as will drive all the abolitionists in the land to their dens and eaves, to avoid tho indignation of the troops of mercenary hangers-on at the pub lic crib, among themselves. -V New York paper says: “If Congress do not vote the appropriations before they adjourn, it will break two-thirds of tlie banks and capitalist in Wall street, from Trinity Church to Water street, on both sides ol the way. It will make bankrupts of every leading merchant in South street, from the Battery to the Catharine street Ferry. Every American slock would go down ten, twenty, thirty, or fi;ty cents the dollar. Railroad stocks could not be given away, livery citizen whose bread and butter is divided from the interests of such investments, j would be rained and destitute. Real estate would fall at j once. The erection of buildings, the building of ships, tbo manufacturing of goods would be all suspended, end nearly all the laborers in this city would be idle and out of employ. Gaunt ruin and haggard misery, drrssed in Beck's best silk* and sat’ns, would walk aliout our streets, from the Battery to Union Place. There would be no private carriages, no ope ras, no game dinners, no omnibussi s, no hacks, no cubs, no carts, or anything of tho kind, running over Broadway and disturbing the pavers and people. Let the basis of all iner <Vutde operations—the specie—bo locked up in the cnslom i house, and the thing is done. In a word, su<h a scene of ruin and distress as would be brought upon the Northern .States by the simple refusal of the minority in Congress to vote the appropriations, is beyond the power of any ordinary broker or blockhead to imagine, or any poet or pen to por tray. ihe Northern States are in a fairway to bring about this crisis, by meddling with Southern institutions.” And, in addition, if the Southern people will onlv stop trade and commerce with the North, for six months to come—quit | travelling in that direction, and cease, otherwise, furnishing them with the sinews of war—there can be no difficulty in bringing Northern people to the conclusion that it is best for them at once and forever, to cease all interference with the institutions of the South. At all events, these peaceable remedies are worth Irving, before any rush meaaures are adopted, tending to open rup ture and disunii>n. Certain are wo, that if the Southern mem bers of Congress and the Southern people, will only yse the power they possess, in the way indicated, there will be no need of Nashville Conventions, composed of young and ar dent politicians and broken down partizans, to assemble, os tensibly for the public good, but in reality for tluir own ag grandizement. An Criminal Idea. —A Missionary Baptist, not more than q dozen miles from this city, preached last Sunday from the text: “ IJ the liord be God serve him’ but if Baal, then serve him." —l Kings, xviji : 21. In winding up his discourse, lie declared that those who be lieved and practised Baptism by immersion . were the servants of the Lord, while those who sprinkled or poured water in that ordinance, were Baal worshippers! What will our Paalobaptist brethren say to this heathenizing of themselves by one who ranks high as a spiritual teacher of “ Our Holy Religion?” Be it remembered that the Phoenicians and Ca naanitee of old, worshipped the Sun under that appellation, and were therefore given to idolatry ! Georgia Members of Congress. We sec by a late speech of Col. J. W. Jackson, of the first Congressional District, that he seems to have* correct notion as to the opinion of his constituents in respect to the Compro mise Bill of Mr. Clay. We have no doubt that a large ma jority of them are in favor of the settlement of the question on the principle of that compromise. They will, however, bo content with the Missouri Compromise Line, if it can be had. If, however, that cannot be carried, we warn our members of Congress from the Ist, 2d and 3d Districts, especially, to be ware how they prevent a settlement of the question by oppo sition to the adjustment of the Committee of 13. As our neighbor of the Telegraph says, “ they v. U cover thcmselvefl with an immortality of infamy ,” if, by any factious move ment of tlieir’s, they leave this gangrenous ulcer on the body politic unannealed and in its present festering condition! In such a ease, they must expect, (one and .ill.) to meet a storm of public indignation, which will overwhelm them in utter ruin ! Os this, there can be no earthly doubt. Back Again —Judge Sharkey, whose letter to Senator Foote in favor of the Compromise of Mr. Clay, has lately been given to the public, lias tacked about, and now goes for the Missouri compromise. The opinions of a man of such weather-vane versatility of intellect, are of precious little con sequence to any body. “ Great men arc not always wise,” saith the scriptures. IV9 Doubt. —The Savannah Georgian in speaking of the performances of Madame Bishop and Monsieur Boehsa, in that city, has the following ominous paragraph : “ We have a list of anecdotes connected with Madame Bish op and Mr. Boclisa's tour through Mexico, sufficient to make an interesting story, which we sliall publish hereafter.” Perhaps it would be well to add to the collection, various anecdotes connected with the twain , (though not of one flesh, as they ought to be,) during their return from Mexico, and travel through this country ! The various hotel keepers on the route whom they honored with a sojourn, we doubt not, can materially increase the catalogue of funny events in their history, by way of illustration of the beauties of the Fourier or Social Philosophy, as exemplified in the life of Dr. Lardurt and Mrs. Heavyside, with this difference, only, that the heary sided-ncss of this affair has changed sexes in a physical if n°* moral aspect of the question!