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two or three high schools there under different de nominations; Greenville and Anderson Districts have their advocates also for the College. I don’t know which of the places will be selected. I think it is to be determined bv a committee appointed for the purpose. We have also two very fine large cotton manufactories situated in the Southern part of the District. One belonging to Gen. Jas. Jones, three miles below. Upon the same stream is one built, rome two rears since, by a company of gentlemen that will compare favorably with Lowell in point of finish, being built of most superior blue granite ob tained upon the spot, and in point of dividend, far surpasses the most of Northern factories, if we take into consideration the very short time it has been in operation, and probably it is equal without any such consideration. The company has petitioned our Le gislature for a charter for another building of the same dimensions with the former, but did not succeed from some cause. Their capital is £300,000. The buildings are all neat and the boarding houses are pleasantly situated upon the Canal, and the houses for the operatives being regularly laid out on the back streets with a vegetable garden attached to each. The houses are built after the model of Swiss cottages. The Churches, of which there are two, are built after the Gothic style of Architecture. The inhabitants will compare in morals, comfort and in dustry, with the same number in any place or nation that is ofa laboring population. The sale of ardent spirits is strictly forbidden, and immoral conduct in any shape, is not tolerated, any one in the company’s employ guilty of anything of the sort being dismis sed from employment. Now, Mr. Editor, if our Nashville friends were en gaged in as laudable pursuit as the above, in building Manufactories, Hail Roads, and the like, they would not have to go to Nashville to settle our difficulties. On the contrary the north would be seen making ev ery concession in her power for the adjustment of the difficulties tnat exist. NINETY-SIX. LETTER From a Citizen of Macon, now travelling in France— dated, Niort, Departernent des deux Serreg, June 16,1850. l)x. Ij. F. W . Andrews — Dear Sir :—According to pro mise, I address you a few lines, concerning the state ot things h<*re, as far as I have been able to judge myself, and from men of judgment who can be relied on. 1 confess that 1 was entirely mistaken before I saw how thing* were going on. I thought the Republic was a good one and would be sustained, but unfortunately, France lias but the name and not the principle of of u Republic. It is but the shadow of it. T feel confident however, that a crowned head will never govern France any more, and she is to be soon a true Republic, founded on the same basis as ours. It is a fact, that two-thirds of the population are against the present President and Cabinet. 1 hear nothing but complaints and j dissatisfaction throughout the country. The mercantile part of the population are crying vengeance, and threatening aloud, and there is every reason to believe, that ere long will take | place one of the most, horrid revolutions. Paris will neither govern nor fight for France any longer. It will be general | all through the country—in every little village, the different j parties having created a hatred. Men who all their lives have i been the best of friends, are now the most bitter enemies. It is now pretty well ascertained that the party of the Bour- I bons anil that of Louis Philippe, are trying to conic in unity, | to overthrow the republic ; but be it so or not, a great change ! will certainly take place soon. Such feelings cannot exist long j without having vent. The crops of grain and wine, are more ! abundant than I have ever seen before. The wheat may be considered saved, and nnless some uncommon weather inter venes, the grapes will be in abundance. For the last four days the weather has bees very cool, a cloak not being at all uncomfortable. Nothing more at this time, hut should anything happen du ring my stay here, it will aft’ord me pleasure to let you know it correctly, by the first steamer. Hoping this letter will find yon and all friends at home as well as it leaves me, I remain Your obedient, J. 11. D. O & O Cl)t (Georgia Ciltefit. L. F. W. ANDREWS, Editor. MACON, GA., JULY 12, 1850. TO CORRESPONDENTS: Owing to the length of Mr. Chappell's letter we have again been obliged t* postpone several favors of otir Correspondents. Our apology must be found in the importance of such a document, at the present time, to calm the surges of political passion. We could not in conscience forego the immediate publi cation of so patriotic and an exposition of the cause of right, of honor and of duty. From our Extra, of Monday the B th. THE MEETING OF SATURDAY SIGHT. We beg leave to state that the call, although numerously signed, was only gotten up a short time before it went to prose. With more time and a little exertion the list of names could easily have been increased five fold or more. The num ber presovit at the meeting has been variously estimated at from three to five hundred, and never did we see a more atten tive or deeply interested audience. We hazard little in saying that though this may be regarded as a first expression of sound principles upon this subject, the ball, thus put in mo tion at the centre of the State, will roll to its remotest bounds, .acquiring velocity and magnitude as it proceeds. The senti ments of this meeting are the sentiments of a vast majority of the voters of Georgia. Never was there a more intelli gent, a more thoroughly devoted body of men to the rights, the honor and the dearest interests of the South and the in tegiityof the Union, assembled on any occasion. Mr. Poe’s speech was short, but to the point—chaste, beautiful, argu mentative—some parts of it, truly eloquent. While listening to it we could but think— “ Freedom’s battle once begun Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son, Though baffled ofl is ever won.’’ And what shall we say of the masterly vindication of the South and of the Union, by the respected President of the meeting. In a close connected, unanswerable argument, carrying conviction to every just and candid mind, he riveted the attention of his audience for more than an hour and a half, interrupted only by the frequent outbursts of applause which were given to assure him that he struck a responsive chord in the breasts of those who loved the South and revered the Union. Mr. Cbappoll exliausted his own strength long before the attention of his hearers flagged. He was not compelled, to resort to clap-trap, ribaldry, invective or gross and shame hss vulgarity, to secure the attention of his hearers. If such a oourse had not been alien to his very nature, he was at least thoroughly convinced that on so solemn an occasion the ribald jest, the coarse anecdote, the witty fling and the biting satire— accompanied with any amount of grimace and antic, were as sadly out of place as a jig would be at a funeral. In this respect, a comparison between the efforts of Messrs. Chappell and Poe and that of the disunion Speaker of the previous evening, at the same place, would be as unjust to the former as would be a comparison between the buffoonery of a Circus mountebank and the solemn eloquence of a Christian Pulpit. Fho one was the stump speech of a political demagogue in the most reckless, ad eaptandum vulgus style of oratory— the others were dignified and able expositions of the inomcn t*u* subjects of a nation’s political salvation and a people's hon *. Put we fbrbctr further remarks and hasten to commend the proceedings of the meeting of the 6th and the Resolu tions adopted, to the enlightened and calm consideration of every friend of peace, harmony and the Union. Grand Encampment, I. 0. 0. F. Tliis body held its Annual Session in this city on Wednes day last, the R. W. Grand Chief Patriarch Gatlin, presiding. Considerable business of interest to this branch of the Order was transacted, and much harmony and good feeling prevail ed. One item of business of especial moment to the fraternity here, w liich received the action of the Grand Encampment, was, the union of Ocmuigee Encampment, No. 2, and Frank lin Encampment, No. 3, into one Subordinate, under the name and style of Macon Union Encampment, No. 2. A Dispen sation was also granted for anew Encampment to be located at Talbottville. The following Officers were elected and duly installed into their respective offices, for the ensuing term : WALTON B. HARRIS, of No 4, M. W. G. P. RICHARD 11. HOWELL, of No. 1, M.E G II P BENJ. C. FKRRILL, of No. 7, R. W. G. S. W, ’ DANL. C. HODGKINS, of No. 2, R. W. G. J.’ W, WM. S. WILLIFORD, of No. 2, R. W. G. S, E. C. GRANNIS, of No. 2, R. W. G. TANARUS, E. S. KEMPTON, of No. 1, R. W. G. Rep. to R. W. G. L. (U. S). In the evening there was a meeting of Macon Encamp ment, No. 2, for the purpose of organization by election and in stallation of officers. The installation was conducted by the R. IV. Grand Chief Patriarch, Walton I>. Harris, and his officers. The following are the officers of Macon Union En campment, No 2. W. S. Williford, W. C. P.; Richard S. Wood, M. E. 11. P.; A. F. Sherwood, S. W.; W. B. Hall, ,J. W.; W. R. Fleming, Scribe; E. C. Grannis, Treasurer. ToMocnicni Division No. 1, S. of T.—The officers el ect for the present quarter of the above flourishing institu tion were installed on the evening of Ist inst., by D. G. W. P. Myers, assisted by D. G. C. Williford, as follows : Rev. S. Landrum, W. P ; Rev. P. A. Strobel, W. A ; J. T. Ellis, R. S ; C. W. Redding, A. R. S ; B. F. Griffin, F. S; A. F. Sherwood, T,W. C. Wilson, C;J. C. William son, A. C; George Graves, I. S; J. S. Gray bill, O. S.— Rev. W. R. Branham was appointed Chaplain. DEATH OF PRESIDENT TAYLOR. M e are pained to announce the sad intelligence of the DEATH of the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES, which took place on Tuesday night last, at 35 minutes past 10 o cloek ! The, telegraphic dispatch which brought this news on \\ ednesday, to this city, was so meagre and indefinite, owing to the excess of electricity in the atmosphere, that but little credit was given to the report. Later, however, in the day, numerous despatches passed through the office here, all i of which confirmed the truth of the intelligence, and leaves no hope whatever, of any mistake having been committed. It is i said that the Preside nt took sick on the 4th, with Cholera or Cholera Morbus, and lingered until the hour before mention tioned, liis last moments being calm and composed, he being fully conscious of his approaching dissolution, liis only re- I grets were that he was about to leave liis fumi[y and friends ! whom he loved so well. On the opening of the Superior Court yesterday inorn ■ ir.g, Gov. McDonald, in a brief address, announced the Pre j sident’s death, and moved the adjournment of Court until this morning, in token of respect to the deceased, which mo j tiwn his honor Judge Stark, promptly entertained, and order j ed accordingly. At 5 o'clock yesterday evening, there was a meeting of our i citizens, on a call from the Mayor, to give expression to their feelings in view of the great loss sustained by the nation, when resolutions of condolence were offered and a committee of 17 appointed to make suitable arrangements for an Eulogy on the life and character of the illustrious dead. A second dispatch announces the inauguration of Presi dent Fillmore, on Wednesday, and the electi 0 n of the Hon. Mr. King, of Ala., as President of the Senate. Os course, the ice President, Millard Fillmore, will now take the chair of the Chief Magistracy, an event which it is impossible for ns of the South to contemplate, without fear and trembling. We trust, devoutly trust, that President Fillmore will lie equal to the solemn emergency in which lie is placed, and that lie will be tile honored instrument in the hands of the All W ise dispenser of the destinies of men and nations, to eahn the agitated waters of the Republic, and entitle himself to the name and renown which is due to the Saviour of liis country. God grant that he may become the President of this whole people, and that all sectional feelings and objects may lie sacrificed on the altar of the public good and public concord, i Moreover, this afflictive Dispensation, at a time like this, should teach us all a lesson of forbearance towards each other |in matters political. Let crimination and re-crimination cease, ! and let the united voice of our whole people go up to the . Most High, in the solemn invocation—“ God save the Re ; public.” pIWHWIIB ■IIIIBII ■ Hllll IIIH I— Mill I “'ifll “■*TOJ Public Documents.—The Hon. I lowell Cobb will please accept our thanks, for various public Documents. Webster's Confession. —Prof. Webster of Boston has confessed to the murder of Dr. Pnrkman, by hitting him a ; blow with a stick in the heat of pasrion. The details of cut t ting up the dead body and attempting to conceal the crime are horrible beyond expression. A Busy Week .—•Macon has been crowded with strangers this week, all our Hotels having been over-run with company, some in attendance upon the Commencement Exercises of the Wesleyan Female College, which closed on Wednesday evening, and others upon the Honorable Inferior Court, and the meetings of the Grand Encampment and Horticultural Society, which have just transpired. We regret our inability to speak understandiiigly of the College Exercises, as we were prevented from attending the same owing to a press of other engagements. We understand, however, that 27 young ladies graduated on the occasion, in the previous examination and reading of ComjHwitions acquitted themselves with much credit. Rev. J. E. Evans delivered the Commencement Sermon on Sunday last to a crowded assembly. Ilis discourse was well-timed, instructive and appropriate. Godey’s Book for August A most exquisite number—with throe most spleneid plate's with numerous wood cut illustrations, music, &c., received several days since. Godey still leads in the Magazine Department of j*olite Liter ature. The People moving. —A grand Barbecue is to come off in Muscogee, ou the 18th inst, the call to which, headed by the Hon. R. B. Alexander, states the object to be to ‘deliberate on measures of resis tance to the mad schemes of the abolitionists of the South!’ That’s the talk ! The Columbus Enquirer also contains a call sign ed by 100 citizens of Russell C., Ala. for a union meeting to be held at Crawford Ala. on the 15th inst. What is the Missouri Line? There is need of some reference to the character of the Act of 1820, called the Missouri Compromise Act. By said act, slavery was simply prohibited North of that line and al lowed South of it, because it was already a slave-holding coun try, being originally a part of Louisiana. Congress never re cognized the institution anywhere. What then docs the South gain by adhering to that line now, when she has the power of going up to the 42d degree, provided she supports the Clay Compromise Bill, and secures its passage ? Literally nothing. In tact, for all practical purges, the present agi tation of the subject is needless. The peculiar institution oan never go where, by the laws of nature, it is not profitable. In this view of the case then, the South is in a situation very like to that of the dog in the fable which, in passing over a stream with a piece of meat in its mouth, in its eager haste to catch at the shadow lost the substance. As far as principle is concerned—that of non-intervention by Con gress, <fce.—the main prop of Southern Constitutional rights has been entirely abandoned by the Nashville Convention and its advocates. If, therefore, we now re ject the Clay Compromise, we lose everything valuable within our grasp, for the sake of an abstraction —a shadow, which will be of no use to us could we get it. sm iisiisa iiuisii, Fraud and Deception. \ ei\ many of our citizens have been deceived, we under rtand, bj the terms of the call to the meeting on Friday night last, and have since repudiated all sympathy with the objects thereof. The call invited “ the friends of the Union who favor the settlement of the slavery 7 question upon the basis of the Missouri Compromise Line, ‘ &c. Under this call, and bv a good deal of scraping and other unauthorised means, a large list of names was obtained, which could not possibly have been secured, had there been a little more candor and truthfulness in the wording of the invitation. For example——the call i s hould have read thus :—“ The friends of the Nashville Con- I vention and Lerolutions offering the ultimatum of the Mis souri Compromise Line, and demanding a recognition by Con gress ot the right of the South to take slaves into the territo ries South of 3b 30, and all those who are ready for civil tear and disunion , if all this is not granted, are requested to meet at such time and place as may be designated by Handbills.” M onder how 7 many could have been had to such a call, af ter a week s diligent canvass for signatures, under the firm belief that the signers would be called on, next month, to shoulder arms to carry out the purpose avowed 1 Will our Chery st. anil Bridge st. neighbors, please answer—how ma ny if the true issue of the Missouri Compromise Line or fight, ha l been clearly presented ? We pause for a reply and beg the people to weigh well the consequences of being caught in the deadly snare set by politicians, for their feet. Mr. Soule’s Amendment. The rejection of the amendment offered by Mr. Soule, to engraft the Missouri Compromise Line on the Adjustment Bill, before the Senate, by the decisive vote of 36 to 19, should open the blind eyes of our disorganizing and sine-qua non fellow citizens to the utter impracticability of carrying the Missouri Line, in Congress. The thing is a “ dead cock in the pit, and ought to be so, because it yields the non-inter vention principle, and establishes the Wilmot Proviso, South of 36 30, to the extent of 5 1 -2 degrees of territory. Gross Misrepresentation. An Alabama paper gives the following as the leading fea tures ot the Adjustment Bill of the Committee of the Senate of the U. S.: “ The exclusion of the South from the whole of the terri tory of California. “ Paying trom ten to twenty millions of dollars to purchase slave territory from the State of Texas, to make free States of. “Providing that a slave shall be free if his master even passes through the District of Columbia with him. “ Imposing the expense of a law suit and trial by Jury up on a master before he can recov 7 er and hold his runaway I negro.” Now is it not passing strange that there is but one, the Ist j ol these four particulars, that has the semblance of truth, and j that only a semblance ? Mr. Clay’s Bill doe's not exclude the • South trom California, but that has been done by the people of California themselves. As to the other particulars, to speak the truth about them, they are brazen falsehoods coined in the maggoty and distempered brain of some foolish disun ionist, to prejudice the popular mind against any settlement of this vexed question, except it be on the principle of the oft repudiated IV ilmot Proviso of the Missouri Compromise Line. It remains to be seen, whether the people of the South are such unmitigated fools as to trot after these SOUTH ERN VV ILMOT I’RON ISOISTS, (for they are nothing shorter,) who will barter away our chance at 5 1-2 degrees of ! New Mexico, for the no chance at all of a worthless part of California, unless it be the chance of making another free state out of that same! A Fact < —Three gentlemen who took part in the pro- j ceedings of Saturday night’s meeting, are about the largest owners of slaves resident in Bibb county, the aggregate num ber owned by the three not being less perhaps, than 700 to j 800 ! Is it not then, shameful, that such men should be de ; uounced as Abolitionists and enemies to the South, by the j | fishy politicians of the hour, who perhaps are not owners of a j single negro! ’Tis strange, ’tis passing strange—’Tispitiful, ’tis wondrous pitiful! I rCaSOII Avowed.—Wo regret to notice that the revo lutionary sentiments of llhctt and other master spirits of the Nashville Convention, have already found an echo in our own State. At a late meeting in Upson county, after resolving to sustain the Address and Resolutions of that body, (of course with all its ultimatums ,) and that the time for slating griev ances, had passed, and denouncing the bill and reports of the | Committee of 13, as a total surrender of Southern rights and honor, they explicitly avow their determination never to be \ driven from the line of 36 30 except by force ! This is bold 1 and manly, and as such commends itself to our regard, but we ! doubt whether the people of that county are fully aware of the I treasonable purposes to which they stand committed, by the movers of the meeting aforesaid. \Ye hope they will yet j pause and consider whether it would not be better to have ; permission to take slaves 5 1-2 degrees further North than ! the Missouri Line, than to go into a fight for that which is so much less! If they think otherwise, they had as well pre pare at once their armor on the side of Revolution, as Mr. | Rhett allows that it is an utterly hopeless thing to expect Con- I gross will adopt that lino, and the late vote in the Senate on Soule's amendment confirms his notion of its utter hopeless ness. C hamclcon Changes.—Ex. Gov. Charles .J. McDon ald, of Ga. Vice President of the late Nashville Convention, made a report, about a year ago, says the ‘Helicon,’ in which the following passages occur: ‘How is the act commonly called the Missouri Comprom- j I isc to be regarded ? It lias not the authority of a compact or | engagement claimed to he valid under the Constitution to sus | tain it, nor can the action of Congress under such a compact i form a precedent for it.’ Again—he denied the right of Congress to enact a politi cal regulation with regard to slavery, because it ‘affects the rights of the people of the States’ and is a ‘power inherent in the people which they have never surrendered —its assump tion an usurpation, which cannot be made valid by any kind of necessity.’ * Again said the Ex Governor, ‘to enable the people inhab iting a territory to erect a government, requires no authority j from the Constitution. Such a right is inherent in the people ! every where.’ But all these sound doctrines of a year ago are now aban by his ex-excellency for the forlorn hope of the same Missouri Compromise which he himself then most righteously denoun ced as invalid —an assumption of the rights of the States and an usurpation ! Alas for political consistency, when such in telligent and honorable gentleman can be made, in one short twelve month, to eat their own words and accept a measure pronounced by themselves to be usurpation , as the p-anacea for all present and prospective political ailments ! Revolution the Rightful Remedy. The evidence is accumulating, mountain high, that the | origin and design of the Nashville Conventionists had their j pith, point, and aim in a disruption ol this Confederacy! This | was the goal of their ambition, and the star of their idolatry, ! It was boldly avowed by several presses before hand, and the | action of the Convention in giving up the principle of non interference, and requiring an impracticable sine qua non as their extreme concession, is evidence sufficient to show that the Convention proposed to do that by indirection which they were afraid to do openly. They were under the spell of South Carolina Nullifiers, who have since shown their hand, (vide Mr. Rhett’s revolutionary speech,) and openly proclaimed that tho Missouri Compromise was a hopeless thing. Os course, then, the next thing will be to attempt to wheedle the people into support of the revolutionary movement W c repeat then, that these agitators and disorganizes are only carrying out the original design cif their leaders —which was the dismemberment of the Confederacy ! They may deny it, as much as they please; they may call disunion meetings under the name of “friends of the Union.” But it is no use. The cloven foot of the father of lies, and author of all mischief stands revealed in their previous avowals and subsequent acts. In the language of holy writ we would say to the people—“ resist the Devil and he will flee from you.” No good can come from any movement which looks, even re motely, at disunion, on such a ground as that proposed by the Nashville Convention, which is the more preposterous and absurd, as it offers to the South infinitely less than Mr. Clay’s Bill would secure to us, and demands that the South shall fight for the less and refuse the greater, if offered to us! Oh! what a perverse and wicked generation are these dieunioq leaders! Pubiic Opinion. In Alabama, 14 Whig and 8 Democratic presses, are in favor of Clay’s Compromise. Nine Democratic in favor of the Missouri Line, and five whose position is not known. The N. O. Picayune, says that every paper in Louisiana, of all parties, is in favor of the Senate Compromise. In Dela ware, a great majority of the people are in favor of Clay’s Ad justment Bill, and have so intimated to their Senators and Representatives. In Georgia, the press is about equally divided, but there can can be question of a large majority of the people being in favor of the measures proposed by the Committee of 13. Execution.— George W. E vans was executed at Columbus, on Friday last, for the crime of murder, lie is said to have been very penitent and resigned to bis awful fate. “ Our Sufferings IS Intolerable.” For a fortnight past, we have been groping in Egyptian darkness, on account of the withdrawal lrom us, of the gas light glimmerings of the tri-weekly Columbus Times, which heretofore illumed our Western Horizon ! That luminary has become obscured to our enraptured vision, and there are none to comfort us in our sad bereavement! And to add to the poignancy of our grief, our own humble “Citizen” lias been refused admittance within the Sanctum of our former neigh bor, and “ sent back,” officially, to the place whence it came! Oh Phoebus! what shall we do to mollify the wrath of Capt. M hiskerando, and induce him to let on liis gas again ! We fear our case is hopeless, and that the only consolation left us is to be found in the fact, that in losing the light we also lose the peculiar fetor which is an inseparable concomitant of all gas-manufacturing establishments! Got. Hammond’s Contempt for the People. This gentleman’s speech in the Nashville Convention, has been published in the papers, and therein we find a confirma tion of the report that he claimed for that body the character of leaders of the people. He said : “ A good deal has been said as to what they came here for. They were not here to trail in the rear of public senti ment, they were the leaders of the South—the appointed leaders—not to hunt up public opinion at the grog shops, courts, mills, &c., but to act, and act as leaders. They had been sent here with a generous confidence, and the high duty was devolved upon them to point the way—to lead the peo ple in the way to equality and independence.” Was ever such insolent pretension before avowed 1 Let the people mark and inwardly digest the sentiment that they are too ignorant to know “ the way to equality and independence,” and must needs have guides to lead them in the right path, through the nullification avenues of the kingdom of Palmet to, where a poor white man is prohibited by his poverty from a seat in the public councils. Freemen of Georgia! are you prop*t-eO to follow sucli a lead as this ? “We think we can answer for you—no! no ! no ! “ Birds of a Feather.” Have the people ever reflected on the signifieancy of the fact that Southern Ultraists now stand on the same platform, in opposition to Clay’s Compromise Bill, that Hale, Giddings, Tuck, Preston King, and other notorious Abolitionists occupy? We think it worthy of profound consideration by Southern men, whether they are not possibly in great error, when they find themselves, cheek by “jowl” with these sworn enemies of Southern Institutions, in opposition to the only feasible mode of adjustment now before Congress. There is another fact in this connexion worthy of note.— Is a cause advocated by such men as Clay, Cass, Webster, Foote, Dickinson, Dodge, Sturgeon, Mangum, and others of the greatest men of the nation to be denounced as treason to riie country, and the supporters of such a cause to be stigma tized as truitors ! Hopewell Presbytery and the Rev. E. P. Rogers. —ln consequence of some reports in circulation in Augusta, adverse to the character of the Rev. E. P. Rogers, Presbyterian Pastor of that city, a special meeting of the Hopewell Presbytery was convened there, at the request of Mr. Ri on the 2d inst., to investigate the matter. Where upon the Hon. Charlc6 J. Jenkins, who acted as a sort of mediator in the affair, presented a report, detailing some of the facts of the ease, omitting however a description of the “ incident,” on which the prejudicial rumors were based. We extract from Mr. Jenkins’ statement, tho gist of the whole matter, premising that Col. Win. Gumming, of Augus ta, was the individual who saw the “ incident” alluded to, and gave currency to the reports concerning Mr. Rogers. Says Mr. Jenkins: “ Having been furnished by Col. Wm. Cunnning, with a description of an incident which had induced frequent ex pressions of opinion by him, unfavorable to the character of Mr. Rogers, I submitted it for the consideration of the latter. Mr. Rogers promptly recognized the incident referred to, and authorized me to say, that upon a careful review of the particulars presented, he perceived, as he had not done before, and admitted, that appearances were such as, to the appre hension of Col. Camming, uninformed of other attending cir cumstances, might seem to warrant the suspicion of an im proper design on his part. At the same time he insisted that a thorough knowledge of the facts, would have vindica ted him, not only from the imputation of improper act or in tention, but even from that of imprudence. Col. Camming, after a candid consideration of additional facts brought to his knowledge, made to me the following statement: “ Gumming thinks that he was fully justified at the time, in regarding the uppeaffinces referred to, as furnish ing grounds for a most unfavorable opinion of Mr. Rogers. But justice now requires him to state, that he has recently obtained (not from that gentleman) an exposition of circum stances, which renders those appearances entirely compatible j with the innocence of Mr. Rogers. To make this known, j Win. Gumming considers not less due to his character, than to the other party.” From the foregoing, we perceive that, the whole affair was a mistake on the part of Col. Cunnning, a mistake, however, which Mr. Rogers admitted was founded on circumstances or appearances which might seem to warrant the suspicion of improper conduct on his part, without a thorough knowledge of all the facts of the case. Col. C. on being informed of these facts, admits that he was able to reconcile the “ appearance” of evil with the innocence of Mr. Rogers, though at the time, he felt fully justified in regarding the said appearance as fur nishing good ground for the unfavorable opinion he had cir culated of Mr. Rogers. The committee of Presbytery having taken the matter into consideration, reported for adoption the following resolution which was subsequently passed, unanimously : “ Resolved, That in the judgment of this Presbytery, there is no ground for any charge against the Rev. E. P. Rogers, and that there is nothing affecting his Christian character, or which is likely to impair his usefulness ; and that we fully and cordially exonerate him from all censure.” We give more space to this exposition of the affair than we otherwise cared to do, from the fact that our correspond ent “ Richmond,” took some notice, at the time, of the ru mors in circulation against one of the clergymen of Augusta, without however, mentioning his name or sect. This corres pondent immediately after, corrected his first statement, and we gave his amende honorable to our readers—thus doing all ip our power to exculpate Mr. Rogers from the imputa tions which were circulated in Augusta on the authority of Col. Camming, (a gentleman by the way, entitled to every confidence as a man of truth and honor,) and reported to us, as rumors, by our correspondent. Notwithstanding this was our position, wc have been very wantonly assailed by sonic of the friends of Mr. 11. in this city, and even threatened with a prosecution for libel, because we published “ Richmond's” allusion to the matter, without any comment of our own ! Why did not Mr. R.’s friends prose cute Col. Cunnning for libel if they felt themselves aggrieved by the report he placed in circulation. The only reason we can think of is, that Col. Cumming is a man not to be trilled with, and the accused and liis friends preferred to appease him by explanations and admissions, to provoking from him an exposure of the particulars which justified him iu enter taining an opinion prejudieal to the Jflaraetcr of the Reverend gentleman. The second thing Mr. R. and Jis friends should have done was to make a call upon us for the author of “ Richmond” and prosecute him for libel, if needs be. But no ! that would not suit the malice of certain pious gentry in this city, who have meditated on some plan to still the voice of this press and break down its Editor. For all such we have no other feeliDg than profound contempt, and onoe for all take the occasion to say, that while we ever stand ready promptly to correct any errors we may fall into, we shall not fail to denounce “ wickedness m high placeo” and in low, through fear of all the libels suits in creation. Are we un derstood ? PUBLIC MEETING, In compliance with a previous call, numerously signed, a large and enthusiastic number of the friends o{ the Senate's plan for the adjustment of the Slavery and Territorial ques tions, met at the Court House in this city on the 6th inst., when on motion of James A. Nesbit, Esq. the meeting was organised by appointing the Hon. A. H. Chappell, President, the lion. ‘Washington Poe, the Hon. C. B Cole, and Joseph Bond, Esq., Vice Presidents, and Thurston R. Bloom and Samuel Ilall, Secretaries. The meeting being thus orgunized and its object having been explained by the President, upon motion of Col. John B. Lamar, the following Committee of Twenty-three, was ap pointed by the President to prepare business for the action of the mocting, viz: John B. Lamar, S. T. Chapman, Thaddeus G. Holt, W. K. de Graffenreid, A. P. Powers, Robert Findlay, James Rea, J. W. Armstrong, C. A. Ells, James A. Nisbet, Isaac Scott. Albert Mix, John L. Jones, J. J. Gresham, J. 11. K. Wash ington, L. F. W. Andrews, James B. Ayres, O. G. Sparks, Robert Collins, Wm. B. Johnston, O. H. Prince, L. O. Reyn olds, Anderson Comer. The Committee having retired for a short time returned with the following— REPORT 8c RESOLUTIONS. Our coming together to night, has for its object, no political agitation. We are attracted here by considerations which rise above the ephemeral contests of party, and involve the Union of the States, the peace of the country, and the stability of Republican institutions. Believing the country to be in danger, we feel it our duty to speak out. We arc alarmed at the protracted struggle, daily becoming more complicated, in the Halls of Congress, on the Slavery question. It is a strnggle of opposing elements, racking and jarring the whole frame-work of our government, in such n way as to threaten its dissolution. During this long continued strife in Congress, our convic tions of right, and our sympathies, have been aud continue to be with the friends of Clay’s Compromise, which was report ed by a committee of the Senate, as a peace-offering laid on the altar of the Union. Resisted by fanatics, and pressed on every side by power, the friends of this Compromise are strug gling nobly, to save the Constitution and the Union. The benedictions of the people await them as peace makers, for so it is ordained by holy writ. If successful, they give anew lease of life to the republic. And if they fail, each one of them may exclaim like his great prototype of old “If Rome perishes, I am innocent*’ We regard this plan now under discussion in the Senate, as being better than any other, which there is the least pros pect of obtaining. Because it saves the honor of the South by repudiating the Wilmot Proviso. Because it will prevent the admission of New Mexico as a State, now nbout to present herself, with a constitution inhibiting slavery. Because it will prevent a bloody conflict between between Texas and New Mexico, to which the government, as well as other states of the Confederacy may become parties. And because we want peace to be restored to the public mind and the public coun cils. The Missouri Compromise,‘as a plan of settlement of the slavery issues, could it lx: adopted, would meet with our cordial acquiescence. But the decisive vote in the U. S. Senate, on Mr. Soule’s substitute, forbids all hope of the adoption of the Missouri Compromise line by Congress. We therefore are compelled to choose either the Clay Com promise, the Executive plan, or Anarchy and Revolution.— We are willing to take the first. We feel no disposition to put uncharitable constructions on the motives of those, who so zealously oppose and denounce the Senate Compromise, and perseveringly adhere to the Mis souri Compromise, in full view of the impossibility of obtaining the latter, and of the tendency of their course to defeat the for mer, and all other modes of adjustment. But our apprehen sions are, that such a course tends only to a dissolution of the Union and civil war. And as citizens having our all at stake, we protest against our representatives in Congress pursuing it. It is our firm belief, that a very large majority of the people of Georgia, are for a peaceable settlement of this question, by means of the adoption of the Senate Compromise. We therefore, in the exercise of a right inestimable to free men, desire to send up our feeble voices, with that great vol ume of petition and expostulation, now going up from every part of this country to the American Congress. Our prayer is for peace—our wish is for repose—our remonstrance is a gainst needless agitation, and our hope is that the bills now before the United States Senate may soon become laws; espe cially the one for effecting an adjustment of the territorial ; controversy. To these ends, Resulted , That the measures reported to the Senate of the U. S., by the Committee of 13, approximate as near as can be hoped, a fair, honorable and satisfactory adjustment of all matters in dispute between the slave-holding and non-slave holding States of the confederacy. And that we commend them to the cordial support of the Georgia delegation in Con gress, believing as we do, that a large majority of the people of Georgia entertain views not dissimilar from those herein expressed. Resolved, That as American citizens, we are friendly to the continuance of the Union upon the basis of the Constitu tion. And as Southern men, we are most sensible, that vast and unthought of dangers and evils, will spring up from its dissolution. Dangers and evils only to be met by such fear ful alternatives when the people of the non-slave-liolding States, or a majority of them, willfully and deliberately make up their ipimls, to disregard the guaranties of the Constitu tion, and trample on the rights of this section of the Confed eracy. Resolved , That our thanks arc due to those men from the non-slave-holding States, who, rising above clamor, fanati cism and a vitiated public sentiment at home, liave sought to bring their constituents back to a sense of their duties, and the obligations of good neighborhood, imposed by the Consti tution. And more especially do we owe a debt of gratitude to Messrs. Dickinson, Cass, Clay, Webster, Bright, Sturgeon, Whitcomb, Dodge, of lowa and Jones, of the U. S. Senate, for that high-toned and liberal course toward the South, du ring the present session of Congress, which has “ grappled them to our hearts, with hooks of steel.” Resulted , That we respectfully suggest to all friends of the Union and those favorable to a peaceable and honorable settlement of the Slavery question, by means of the ndoption by Congress of the Compromise of the Senate Committee, to hold meetings in their respective counties and speak their sen timents. To remain silent at such a time as this, is dangerous and criminal. Resolved , That a copy of the foregoing Preamble and Resolutions, be forwarded by the Secretary, to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress. During the reading of the Report and Resolutions there were marked signs of approbation, which burst out into open and loud applause at the enunciation of the resolution tender ing the thanks of the meeting to Messrs. Dickinson, Clay, Cass, Webster, and others. Pending the Report and Resolu tions, the meeting was addressed by lion. Washington Poe and the Hon. A. H. Chappell. When on motion, tho Report and Resolutions were unanimously adopted. Upon motion, it was Resolved , That the proceedings of the meeting be pub lished. The mocting then adjourned. ABSALOM 11. CHAPPELL, Pres't. WASHINGTON POE, ) CARLETON B. COLE, [> V. Prest's. JOSEPH BOND. ) Thurston Bloom, ) „ . „ „ ’ > secretaries. isAMUEL Hall. J CARRIAGE FOR SALE. F3R SALE, a beautiful and stylish Rockaway, which has been in -use only one month, and will be sold a bargain. The same may be seen at Freeman & Robert’s Carriage Establishment. Macon, Juty 12, 1850. 3t* _ AUCTION. WILL BE BOLD, on the 27th of July next, at the Magazine, 2 kegs of Powder no owner being known. Sold *o pay 3 1-2 years storage. W. L. BABCOCK, K. M. Ml Macon, Jut)’ 12,1850. IL—3t ” aaaifai q&qgl TnE UNDERSIGNED would respectfully announce to their Pa’ trone, and the public generally, that their OPERATING BOOMS in this city, will be permanently open the entire Summer. We have prepared a DISINFECTING MOUTH WASH, which clensetfcc Teeth strcng*hcusthe Gum;, and ptuifias the breath. C. S. PUTNAM, July i2. HLKFI DORION. Public and Important Notice! I TO THE LADIES OF MACON AND THOSE VISITING THE SAME. JUST imported from the London and Pari, marketed splendid combination of the richest aud most elegant class of Goods those fashionable manufacturing cities cati produce, thereby affording an opportunity to the l,adiesof tbit city of purchasing Goods unexcelled in SPENDOR, and which uo other bouse iu the Southern States can produce, ‘AT HALF THEIR VALUE.’ The price of each article will not here be quoted—being un necessary. The Stock consists of— Glacia silks; Grenadine Shawls, at 02each; superb Musi iff I ambourd Robes; elegant Sash and Neck Ribbons, for the same; Lace Shawls; Lace Mantles; Lacc Jacquetts; Lace Capes; I .ace Collars; Embroidered Musliu dq. and Cuffs j Linen Cambric Ilkfs. 20 cents each, elegant do. in b*xe of half dozen in each box; “REAL IIONITON” and “OLD POINT” Lace Collars. “REAL BRUSSELLS” do. aud Capes; “REAL \ ALENCIENES’’ do. prettily trimmed; “REAL PILLOW LACE” do.; Worked Chem cztls; \ alencienes do. and an endless variety of the rarest specimeusof Fine Lace Works, hitherto, never introduced iff this city. The whole will be cleared at once, and marked Such prices as will ensure a rapid Sale; Therefore Ladies are prrticularly solicited to call and inspooi the same. 11l addition to the foreign Lacc department, WILL BE —SOLD, ALSO— -2,000 PRINTED MU DRESSES; formerly 28 cents per yard, note all at 121-2 Cents, orOne Dollar the Dress —warranted fast colors. 500 do. ENBROIDERED AND PRINTED, Sold at 37 1-2 and 50 Cents per yard, now all one price, 15 Cents; “ Elegaut, rich Goods.” 100 BLACK PARASOLS, (Slightly damaged on their passage,) rich, Changeable Silks, and, Embroidered and Brocaded do. all will be cleared at Fifty Cents and One Dollar each. BAREGE SHAWLS 9-4 SQUARE—§I each. FINE 6-4 CHECK MUSLINS, [white] FOR DRESS’S, All at Eighteen and three-fourth Cents per yard. 2,000 YARDS 4-4 BOBINETT—I2 1-2 Cents pr. yard. 17,000 YARDS REEL THREAD EDGINGS, From Twenty-five Cents per dozen yards, up to three inches wide, at Twelve aud a half Cents per yard. 4,000 MUSLIN EDGINGS, From 12 1-2 Cent, pr doz.yds. To parties buying wholesale or keeping stores, this is an opportunity of buying Buch useful Goods cheaper than from New York Importers, therefore all buyers iu the trade are re quested to look through these Goods. “CLEARING 01T THE BONNETS,” On this occasion will be offered for sale all the STRAW STOCK at three prices, as follows: No. 1.—4U0 Straw Bonnets, 25 Cents, each—sold at 75 Cents in the Spring. No 2.—500 do. do. improved plaits and pearl Straw, all at Half Dollar, each—worth 01 1-2. Splendid Chips and Satin Straws, at 01 1-4 each, worth 05 And to conclude, the Goods are now all open and ready for sale; the valuable stock of which which will be found at the LONDON HOUSE STORE, under the Floyo House Ho tel, next door to the Ladies’ Entrance, MACON, GA. W. KING, Proprietor. July 12, 1850. 16—ts ~ JOHN M. MILLEN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. June 28th, 1650. 14 ly PRINTS AND GINGHAMS. “I /A CASES Prints, assorted qualities; x\_/ 5 do. Ginghams, do. do. 2 do. Lawns, do. do. 10 Cases Bleached Goods; 50 Bales Brown Domestics; Caps, Ky. Jeans, Flannels, Ac.—for sale by case or piece, very cheap at KIBBEE A DICKINSON’S. July 3d, 1850. 14—ts 10 BAGS PEPPER; I 10 BAGS SPICE; 5 do. Ginger; j 30 Porto Rico Coffee; 40 Bbls. St Croix Sugar; | 40 Bbls. Clarifi’d Sugar; Nutmegs, Cream Tart. Cloves, Cassia, Camphor, Mace, Magnesia, Carb. Soda, Sal Soda, Blue Stone, Alum, Ac. Just received and for sale by KHSBEE & DICKINSON. Macon, July 3d, 1850. 14—ts Notice. VLL persons are hereby warned against trading for one note • hand given by the undersigned ou the Ist day of January last to Kli Jenkins,, tor the sum of S2OO. payable Ist January next. The consideration fur which (lie said note was given having failed, fan determined not to pay the same unless compelled by law. THOMAS URINCEFIELD, June 28tb, 1850. 14 & SATIS IBIS, *„ r, ‘ AND NOTARY PUBLIC,—MACON, GEO. C COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS, Ac., for the States of J Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, South Caroliua, Flori da, Missouri, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Penu sylvsnia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Arkansas, Ac. Depositions taken, Accounts probated, Deeds and Mort gages drawn, and all documents and instruments of writing prepared and authenticated for use and record, in any of tho above States. Residence on Walnut street, near the African church. OCT Public OeriCE adjoining Dr. M. S. Thomson’s Botan ic Store—opposite Floyd I Louse. Macon, June 28, 1850. 14 j v ICE CREAM SALOON, Cotton Avenue, next door below Ross & Cos. /"APEX from 10 A. M. to 10 P. M. daily. Sundavsexcepted u THE LADLES’ SAfcOGS detached aud fitted up for their comfort in a neat and plea “ntßty,e - H. C. FREEMAN. June 21st, 1850. 13 44 CRACKERS, —Soda, Butter, Pic-Nic and Lemon, fresh- For sale, second door below Lanier House, by June 12, lsso. 13—ts M. L GRAY BILL FI LTOX MARKET BEEF.—A superior article, for sale, second door below House, by June 21, 1850. 13—ts M. L GRAY BILL r I"V >BACCO.—“Harry of the West,” “Boston” and “Four A Aces,” John Anderson A Co.’s fine cut, and K. G. Goodwin A Brothers smoking. C igars, a fine article—for sale, second door below Lanier House, by M. L GRAY BILL June 21,1850. 13—ts SODA WATIRr BY PAYNE* NISBET,. a Druggists and ijMtiecarus. THIS sparkling and grateful bereraga can now be had, fresh from the Foun tain, in all its purity and as cold as ice can make it. It is good in allaying fo verand thirst, and it is considered the height of gentility to drink it from the June 14, 1850. 12—2 m State Licensed Druggists. /> THE undersigned calls public attention to the above tiSsßEmEb notice,and would say that they are prepared to fill or <ler” for any quantity of bruits, Chemicals, Surgeon’* jjRsM Instruments. Medicine. Chests, Perfumery, Soaps, Gar den * a eLs, Lemon Sugar, Vermin Poison, and every thing else tliat should be found in a regular Drug Store. PAYNE hi NISBET. June 14, 1850. 12—ts NAILS, IRON, STEEL AND HOLLOW-WARE. rt/W k KWiH Nails, assorted; 50 “ Brads, do. 20 “fine 3d nails; 1000 pounds Wrought Nails; 1000 do. Horse Shoe Nails; 15,000 do. assorted Baltimore Hollow Ware; Swedes Iron, assorted; Band, Hoop and Round Iron; Nailßodsv Cast and German Steel; English and American Blister Steel; In Store, and for sale by BRAY, CARHART k. CO. May 14,1650. 12—ts Valuable City Lots rpHE following valuable City Lots are offered on reaaona- X ble terms- Lot No, Square 87, (improved) adjoining E J. Johnston and Ayres. No. 7, Square 82, adjoining Mrs. F- Sims. Nos. 1 and 2, block 5 (acre lots) on-College street. Fractional lot No. 2, block 8,3 and 4, block 10 (aers ots) in the rear of L. Cowles. DAVID REID, Agent. June 21,1840. 13—ts 200 Hhds. CUBA MO^LSSES, In store, aid for sale by SCOTT, CARHART fe CO April 18,1850. 4—i;