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signs already been formed to sever the L nion. Let it°iot be supposed that I impute to all those who have taken an active part in those unwise and un profitable discussions, a want of patriotism or public virtue. The honorable feeling of State pride and loeal attachments find a place in the bosoms of the most enlightened and pure. But whilst such men are conscious of their own integrity and honesty of purpose, they ought never, to forget that the citi zens of other States are their political brethren; ?md that iiowever they are mistaken in their views, the great body of them itre equally honest and up right with themselves. Mutual suspicion and re proaches may in time create mutual hostility, and artful and designing men will always be found, who are ready to foment those fatal divisions, and to in flame the national jealousies of different sections of the country. The history of the world is full of such examples, and especially the history of repub lics. “What have we to gain by divisions and dissen sion ? Delude not yourself with the belief that a breach once made may be afterwards repaired; If the Union is once severed the line of separation will grow wider and the controversies that are now debated and settled in the Halls of legislation, will then be tried on the field of battle and determined b} T the sword. Neither should you deceive your selves with the hope that the first line of separation would be the permanent one, and that nothing but harmony and concord would be found in the new associations formed upon the dissolution of the U nion. Local interests would still be found there, and unchastened ambition. And if the recollec tion of common dangers, in which the people of these United States stood side by side against the common foe ; the memory of victories won by their united valor ; the prosperity and happiness they have enjoyed under the present constitution ; the proud name they bear as citizens of this great re public ; if all these recollections and proofs of com mon interest are not strong enough to bind us to gether as one people, what tic will hold united the divisions of empire when these bonds have been broken and this Union dissevered ? The first line of separation would not last for a single generation; new fragments would be torn off; new lenders would spring up ; and the great republic would soon be broken up into a multitude of petty States, with out commerce —without credit—jealous of one an other—armed for mutual aggressions—loaded with taxes to pay armies and leaders —seeking aid against each other from foreign powers —insulted and trampled upon by the nations of Europe, until har rassed by conflicts, and humbled and debased in spir it, they would be ready to submit to the absolute dominion of any military adventurer, and surrender their liberty for the sake of repose. It is impossible to look on the consequences that would inevitably follow the destruction of this government, and not feel indignant when we hear cold calculations about the value of the Union, and have constantly be fore us a line of conduct so well calculated to weak en its ties. There is too much at stake to allow pride or passion to influence your decision.” From the Southern Christian Advocate. Bishop Andrews on Disunion. “You need not be alarmed, Mr. Editor: lam not going to preach treason or rebellion, or any thing of that sort; nor am I going to enlist under the Whig or Democratic banner. Nor indeed would that be an easy task, for it would be something puz zling in the present state of parties, to define with any very great precision the confession of faith which either -wonkl adopt. My creed is simple and short. Igo for my country, my whole country, as represented by the indissoluble Union of all the States of our great confederacy ; and I go for the maintenance of the rights and immunities of each separate State or territory. I repudiate war at any time if it can be avoided; and especially all civil war between brethren of the same political house-_ hold. It is an easy matter to talk of it, and “there may be no shuddering when we bear of it; but the realization will bring blood and ruin and heart breaking and agony, widowhood and orphanage, such as neither we nor our fathers have ever heard or dreamed of. Ruthless demagogues, either North or South, may talk of it in strains of flaming elo quence, because they hope by this means to mount into power or to maintain power already acquired ; but it becomes the substantial yeomanry of the country upon whom the burdens of such things must fall, the people from whose hearts and purses the blood and treasure must flow by which such a contest is to be sustained, it becomes them to pon der this matter seriously; to look well to the cost of such a struggle and to its issues and its gains. At any rate let us resolve as southern men, to pro ceed calmly, deliberately, justly, patiently, in our resistance to what we deem the unjust aggression of our Northern brethren. Let us exhaust every other argument and try every other means ot re dress before we indulge for a moment the idea of dissolving the Union of these States ; and when this catastrophe comes, if come it must, let it find us at the last ditch, having tried every peaceable rem edy, ready with arm and heart to defend ourselves. Well, here is my creed, and perhaps I owe to you and your readers an apology tor obtruding upon you or them any thing which might seem to savour of politics. Indeed, I have during a minis try of nearly forty years, carefully abstained from meddling with political strifes; but I am not sure but the present crisis in our national affairs demands that the ministers of God depart a little from their usual cautious policy; and while it is true that as messengers of peace they should avoid as far as pos sible rdl intermeddling with mere party strife, yet, in a momentous crisis like that which is now upon us, I know not why the ministers of God who have as deep an interest in the weal of the nation as any other class of citizens, should not be at liberty to give utterance fully and freely to their convictions and feelings. Edwin Forrest, the tragedian, was arrested by sheriff Carniy, at the Astor House yesterday mor ning on the complaint of Catherine Forrest, his wife, and held to bail in the sum of SIO,OOO, to keep the peace so far as Mrs. F.is concerned, she being fearful of an attack from him. An injunction has also been granted to restrain Mr. Forrest from convey ing away his property to the injury of the right which Mrs. F. has therein. Mrs. Forrest has also within a few days past commenced a suit in the courts of this State, for divorce against Mr. Forrest, on the charge of adultery committed with several persons. — N. Y. Tribune. Warning to Mailßorbkrs.—The Marietta Hel icon says : The U. S. District Court held its session here on Monday and Tuesday hist. The only crim inal case tried was that of Win. W. Stewart, for em bezzling from the Post Office at Conyers, Newton County, Georgia. Sentence, ten years imprisonment in the Penitentiary. W—i——Wi The Pay of Printers. —111 view of the fact, that Editors are often called on to do a great deal of gratuitous printing, the Providence Journal thus scores those of the craft who have ♦lie impudence to complain of being compelled to “work for nothing and find themselves.’ “We have noticed several atrocious Cases where editors have had the audacity to demand pay for cost of publishing matters of the highest public importance, such as resolutions of thanks to steamboat captains, puffs of new schools, ward meetings for charitable objects, political meetings, artd obitua ary notices es infant children. Something must be done to put a stop to this, or editors will soon began that they have the same rights as other people.” The Nashville Convention. —Judge Sharkey of Miss, Pres ident of the first Convention at Nashville, and to whom was committed to power to call that body together 6 weeks after Congress adjourned, has, we understand, declined to make the call being satisfied with the action of Congresson the sub ject. The Charleston Mercury is however, for the Conven tion meeting again, despste of judge Sharkey. PLEDGED TO DISUNION. Below will be found numerous extracts from leading Prints in Georgia, Ac., wherein the Fire-Eaters and D isorganizers have committed themselves to Secession or Disunion. We will keep this column standing until the day of election, to prevent the honest minded and patriotic people of the State from being imposed on by false issues and new-fangled doc trines, into the support of disuuionists for the approaching Convention ! Let all then, Look on this Picture. JEI Union Jack donn. Disunion.—’ We cannot credit the rumor, 5 says a corre spondent of the Baltimore Sun, “ that Mr. Calhoun, having recovered his health in a measure, lias expressed himself de cidedly and warmly in favor of a dissolution of the Union at every and all hazard. It is said that he regard the dissolu tion as inevitable, and consequently expedient and desirable.” If Mr. Calhoun did express himself thus, lie has said noth ing less than what an overwhelming majority of the people of his State anxiously desire.— Columbia <S\ C. Telegraph. H hat's the Remedy? It is a Southern Confederacy, with a capital at Ashville, or somewhere else on the moun tains, where the lilies of Georgia, South and North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia meet. What will the Southern Convention do? We hope to have no more barren addresses. If that is all the delegates intend, they had better stay at home. If they will Metho dize a PLAN to dissolve the Union, we will kail them .” Wilmington , N. C. Aurora. “ Wc perhaps go a little further than some of our friends as regards this Union. We are in favor of the dissolution of the Union, because we believe that the South would boben efitted by a dissolution, both pecuniarily, politically and mor ally. \\ hat, or who, shall deliver us from the contamina ting influences of the putrid, loathsome masses of the North?” — Fairfield , S. C. Herald. Indemnity for past grievances, entire exemption from all fa natical interference with our domestic institutions, and com plete security of the constitutional rights and equality of the South, for all time to come, are the objects to be attained by the delegates to this (Southern) convention; and they will most certainly accomplish these purposes, “ peaceably if they can, forcibly if they must.” They will attain these objects, even, if • „ should become necessary for the Southern States to dissolve the political relations which unite them to the North.— Newberry, S. C. Sentinel. We hold it to he the sacred duty of the South, enjoined by every sentiment of patriotism, honor and interest demand and enforce a dissolution of the Union. Iler constitutional and even her natural rights, have been too long violated. The wound already inflicted time cannot heal; northern van dalism exults and grows strong ou southern spoils. This is not the work of a few fanatics ; the leaven of hell pervades the whole mass. Then, if the north will abolish slavery, and form societies for that purpose, let us, with equal zeal and equal firmness, form our societies, and do everything neces sary to effect the abolition of the Union.— South Carolina. Spartan. There is a feeling in the South—and that feeling is every day increasing and strengthening, that the South would he the gainer by a dissolution of the Union—her political prosperity would increase, her wealth be multiplied, and that the north would be shorn of her strength and importance. Unless some compromise acceptable to the south [which we firmly believe and hope will be done] is adopted before the first of June, the Nashville Convention will then assemble, and the idea of AlareA shall Have'come, and the glorious fabric, ce mented by the prayers and blood of patriots, will crumble into anarchy, and will stand as a beacon to coming genera tions, of the recklessness of faction , and of the extravagance of a misdirected philanthropy. The feeling in favor of a withdrawal of the States from the great confederacy, however much it may be disregarded, is certainly not the oilspring of excitement or impulse, but a deep settled purpose, which she is determined to execute rather than submit to aggressions upon what she understands to be her constitutional privileges.— S. C. Miscellany , (a religious paper.) Again : A correspondent of the Augusta Republic among other harsh things about the Union, says: It is time, sir, lhat we should all begin to familiarize our selves not only with the possibility, hut with the necessity of a dissolution. But why should not the people of Georgia and the South advocate disunion ? We have said a thousand times that we would dissolve the Union before we would submit to further aggression. The time has come when we must make good our threats or forever hold oar peace. What man is there who entertains any belief that the North would do us j ustice ? Who is there that believes that any compromise (as they call it) that can be made, will he any more than a yielding on our part, merely to encourage larger demands for the future ? Now is the time to settle the question—there are only two ways to doit; the one is to acknowledge ourselves the vassals of the north for all time to conic, the other is to dissolve the Union, and it is this time for the Soutli to choose between them. There is no mistaking this writer’s sentiments. He is for disunion as the only mode of settlement. Mr. R. B. Rhett, the distinguished author of the Nash ville Convention address, lately made a speech at Walterbo rough, in Soutli Carolina, and the Charleston Mercury re ports him as saying: “We must secede, South Carolina will lead off, Georgia will go with her, Alabama will soon follow, and Mississippi will not be long behind her, for “she is not all Foote, but lias some heart and soul,” and this will be hut the beginning; within eighteen months we shall have the whole South with us, and more than that; we will extend our borders, we will have New Mexico, Utah, and California.” In his Charles ton speech, reported by his own hand, Mr. Rhett used the following language: “ To give to our people that protection and peace which the Constitution and Union were established to secure, THE SOUTH MUST SEVER THE CONNECTION WITH THE NORTH.” “ To maintain the Union is to acquiesce in the destruction of the Constitution; and to maintain the Constitution, WE MUST DISSOLN E THE UNION to afford the only chance of its restoration.” Again he said, despairing of any reformation which will bring the government hack to the limitations of the Constitu tion which will give us new guarantees, I sec but one course left for the peace and salvation of the South—-a dissolution of the Union? Mr. Rhett also advocated disunion at the Macon Mass meeting, under the guise of “temporary secession.’’ The Columbus Sentinel talks thus :—“ We have all along contended that the admission of California would fill to over flowing the poisoned cup Os degradation which the North has been for years preparing for the South. We have declared our determination to hold to the Union so long as there was hope tliat we would ho safe in the Uuion. That hope has now been disappointed, and w’e abandon the Union as an en gine of infamous oppression. We are for secession, open, unqualified, naked secession. Henceforth, WE ARE FOR WAR UPON THE GOVERNMENT; it has existed hut for our ruin, and to the extent of our ability to DESTROY it, it shall exist no longer.” Once more, the Sentinel has the following on the subject of the approaching Convention. W e are not disposed to trammel the action of that Con tention. W e wish the men who will compose it, left free in determining what that redress shall be, and we shall acqui esce in its decision. We have our preferences, and they al ready been made known. We see no remedy for our griev ances short of secession. We have no hope that our rights can be secured in the Union, and we are ready to go out of it. Had we the power, therefore, to dictate the action of this *as ©m ©m© sji if i i-sa Convention, our first step would bo a Declaration of In dependence, and the n jxt, an invitation to our sister States of the South to unite With us in the formation of a Southern Ri public.” The Columbus Times avows disunion in the following plain terms: “ If the action of Congi’ess makes it imperative on the Governor under the instructions of the Legislature, to call the convention, our own first choice will he for secession, and our votes and efforts will be steadily given to effect that end.” And again : “ Wc then go for secession—quietly if let alone, forcibly if made necessary. We are for meeting the defiance of the North ou this issue, and are against all tem porally expedients, or new and postponed issues.” Again it says : “ The State of Georgia stands in an attitude of fearful peril, from which nothing can rescue her but the virtue aud valor of her sons. Pushed to the wall, bearded and defiled by ag gressive legislation to which she lias virtually and solemnly sworn she will not submit, betrayed and deserted by a ma jority, if not by every one of her representatives, in Con gress, she stands with the Scylla of dishonor and submission on the one hand, and the Charybdis of violated rights and swift-coming ruin on the other. She has to choose between the two, and the choice is to he made in a lew weeks. Sub mission and disgrace to he followed by fresh abolition as saults as the penalty of her imbecility and cowardice or a brave and manly strike for her honor, her rights and her in dependence.” The Montgomery Advertiser says of the Peace Measures in Congress : “ Such are the measures under which we are counseled to sit down quietly, he silent and cease agitation. It remains to he seen, whether Southern freemen will heed such pusillani mous—cowardly advice. The cause for “ agitation” has in reality just fairly begun, and we shall glory in the work <>[ urging it on by every means in our power, and shall only cease when wc shall he convinced that the sons of the South are too pusillanimous to preserve tlic inheritance of tlieir fathers.” The Augusta Republic says : “No cause for resistance to the injustice of the mother country was half as great ns that which would, in this case, DEMAND RESISTANCE OF THE SOUTH. We fear not the final result. The South can never sub mit to gross injustice. Her people, placing themselves upon the broad platform of the constitution—the bond of a just union—will protect their rights ami sustain their honor by all the means which the God of Nature has placed in their hands.” The Macon Telegraph lias the following : “ Judging from the late action of Congress, we can only look forward to resistance or to the abolition of slavery sooner or later, throughout the South. These are the alter natives between which the South must now choose. That choice is to be made in a few weeks, and the sun which goes down on the day, set apart for the election of delegates in Georgia, will have seen a mightier political question solved than ever before engaged her people. Whatever diversity of views may exist among the people with regard to the meas ures of redress, the Convention should adopt, we apprehend that there is hut little dissent among them, either with regard to the wrongs perpetrated, or the necessity for some resis tance, whatever it may he. What this resistance should he, as we have said before, the Legislature has wisely submitted to the people to determine. And if the State will not adopt the only remedy, we regard as adequate to reform the gov ernment, we will go for any thing that her sons in their sov ereign capacity, in Convention, may recommend, always ex cepting a tame and cowardly submission. For our own part we believe the issue is resistance of some sort, or abolition. Disguise it as we may, this solemn ques tion we cannot evade.” Again the Telegraph says: “For our own part, wc arc for secession, for resistance— open, unqualified resistance.” A correspondent of the Telegraph of the 17th instant, asks, Must the South submit ? Ought she to submit ? Can she submit without being branded w ith a dastardism, that would dishonor and defame the race she sprang from ? Every na tive son who loves her would exclaim “ May siie i-erisii sooner \ I The Savannah Georgian says: q “We gave our advice in regard to the acts of the Convon- ] tion, and wo new siand ready to support them; if they arc for secession wo arc with them. Wo shall stand by those principles we have already advanced, and hold ourselves in readiness to defend the rights of the South—not by yielding her territorial rights to the North, hut with that defence which every true Southerner should stand ready to wield against an intruder.” At the Kingston Mass Meeting Judge Colquitt, said : “ Secession was his remedy, hut that if he could not get that, he would go with Georgia in any manner of resistance she might adopt.’’ The Cassville Standard of the 20th ult., says : “ We have been informed tliat the lion. Walter T. Colquit addressed a portion of the citizens of Murray County last week, and declared openly tliat lie was for DISUNION. Since then wc learn tliat some of the citizens of Murray are following his footsteps, and say they are for disunion too.” The subjoined resolution, offered by Cnpt. A. Nelson, at a Public Meeting in this county, is an undisguised exposition of his disunion sentiments: “ Resolved , That the late acts of Congress in reference to the territories, viz. the admission of California, the dismem berment of Texas, and the passage by the United States Sen ate, of the hill for the abolition of the slave trade in the Dis trict of Columbia, are such gross violations of every principle of common justice, of the equality of the States of this con federacy and the spirit and letter of the Constitution, as to fully justify the people of the Southern States, in resistance at every hazard, and to the last extremity , EVEN TO A DISSOLUTION OF THE UNION, leaving the conse quences to those who have caused them.” The Rome Southerner says : “ The day of our humiliation or emancipation is at hand. If wc submit , we are the vilest of slaves, and the fit subjects of the most ruthless despotism. If we resist as men wor thy TO BE FREE SHOULD RESIST, OUR TRIUMPH IS AS CERTAIN AS IT WILL BE GLORIOUS. * * * * * * Where is the dastard, the traitor , who, under such circum stances, will dare he false to his native land ? Resistance now , stern, uncompromising resistance, or shameful submis sion and inevitable ruin, are the alternatives which an unjust government has set before us.” The Augusta Constitutionalist speaks after this fashion : “ Beware of the falsn cry of Union. It is the word of talis inanic charms that is relied on to prepare your free limbs for bondage. And whenever a union croaker sings this sickly sen timentality to you, thunder hack to him the issue, “ Disunion or Abolition In addition to this, the Mass Meeting which recently assem bled at Kingston, passed among others, the following resolu tions : Resolved, That the people of Georgia are, in the opinion of this meeting, pledged to some EFFECTIVE MODE of RESISTANCE to the encroachment of the North upon their just and constitutional rights. Resolved , That the true issue, to he determinated by the people in the election of delegates to the Convention is— un conditional submission , or some MANLY and EFFEC TIVE mode of RESISTANCE. - ..=3l CiuTfofotiiffniT. LETTER from CiKIEFIT, Ga. Griffin, Ga., Oeto., 8, 1830. Dcor Doctor :—Perhaps you may find room or disposition to publish a short letter from Griffin. If you do, all right; and if not, all right, for it costs me nothing to write only my time. There is nothing astir in our city or county at this time that could possibly entertain your numerous readers, save that of polities. And since the reception of the George Washington Totdn's Proclamation, they have, so for as the Secojsionists are coftperneJ, assumed quite anew phase. They go in How for u Mutc Candidates untrammelled in regard to tlieir course hi said Convention—to act and vote as their good judgements nay dictate. And, to commence the war at onee, wo find in tiie last Jeffersonian, tlieir organ, a communication over the jyeophant title of “Many Whigs and Democrats,” calling on llie free voters of Tike county to ex tend their suffrages to jour candidates that they named— two of each party. Npw I do not know the opinions of but two of these gentlemen, and. I here makefile broad assertion, that neither of them will run on suiffi % “gotten up” ticket; for I believe they are Union men to ttie core, mid nothing but Union ! And besides, the people of the cohpty have the only right to say who shall be her representatives, and not “ Many Whigs and Democrats'’ written by one man, and seconded only by a few! The people of this county of this State, cannot be whipped into ranks in any such way ! The article referred to, says, the people should be united on this subject! Well, so say we ; but it should be to save the Union, and not to demolish it! It requires no unity of action to dissolve the Union ; and why this appeal to the people for unity of sentiment from those who would rend to atoms this glorious confederacy and dance and celebrate a Saturnalia over its ruins ! God deliver me from such unity ! The fact is, the disunionists seethe issue is union or disunion, and they have resorted to this as a last stratagem —a dying effort! Many, to my knowledge, have already sought refuge in the “Omnibus” again, torn and scattered as it lias been, rather than walk the line 36-30 from ocean to ocean, and meet the music face to face !! It is almost a waste of time to tell and tell again, the fatal and disastrous consequences of a dissolution. There can he but one ultimate to the whole affair, and ’tis this: That if dis solution is the result, soon civil war will ensue—then anar chy will follow—then, as a matter of course, education will he neglected, and we will have almost an illiterate nation. Our posterity will be brought up devoid of mental culture, and then wc have a people prepared to adorn with crowns and venerate Sultans, Potentates, Kings, Monarclis, as their choice. Such will be the inevitable fate of this course. Then, let the people be wide awake to this subject every where, and vote for no “ Mute sycophant'’ or “ Party dema gogue,'’ but let them sound, with a long and strong line, ev ery candidate before they cast their vote for him, else they risk tlieir all in the hands of a Judas. Let us then bury whig and democrat in the sea of oblivion, at least till this momen tous question is settled. Let every man know that he is vo ting Jor or against the happy continuance of this great Re public. Let him feel as though the influence of his vote would save the Union ; and that the issue is Union or Dis union, because California has been admitted as a State, by the American Congress ! ! A. A. B. For the Georgia Citizen. Northern-Bom Men and Mechanics. Dear Doctor: —The excitement and controversy, conse quent upon the agitating question, which have recently dis turbed the peace of the country, seems to have subjected the people of the South, favorable to the Union, and particularly all Northern-born men and the mechanics, to tlie severest reproach which could he heaped upon them by the most ex tended imagination, and searching after hard words, that the disunion orators and presses of the South could command. Now being a Southern-horn citizen, and having lived in Geor gia for twenty three years, curiosity led me to call up the histo ry of the past, and see if the result would be unfavorable to the reputation of being born North. It is true my observation and experience extends only to the limits of Bibb county; here the majority of my life lias been spent, here my education attained, and here the nearest and dearest ties that bind man to his country are all located, from the sacred and quiet repose of “Rose Hill” where the ashes of loved ones mingle with the dust, to the thoroughfares of trade, mechanism and the professional pursuits, I number my house-hold Gods, and the objects of my heart’s purest affection. And some too, both living and dead, are subject to the sweeping denunciation of being Northerners or Me chanics. As I said in the begining, curiosity led me to call up the history of the past, aud in doing so, 1 crave the pardon of those whose names I use, not to vituperate and abuse, hut to let the public know the good deeds which they have done, and the amount they have contributed to the prosperity and welfare of the country. If such men are to be condemned and de nounced who shall fill their places? The inspired book says “by their fruits shall ye know them.” Mho were the first set tlers upon the site of our beautiful city ? Among them we find Dhvid Flanders, Roger McCall, Elizor McCall, Joseph Wil lett, all Northern men and among tho pioneers that felled the freest, and laid the’foundation of our prosperous city. Who were among the first to develope the resources of this part of the country? -Joseph Willett, David Flanders and Roger McCall ? Three industrious, enterprising hard working men, who, with the axe and the hammer, constructed the first crafts that conveyed the produce of the country to the Seaboard, and returned with the necessaries and luxuries for the peo ple. Pardon me, Doctor, if I say 1 have a reverence for those men bordering on enthusiasm. Their exploits arc among my school-day memories, for when a little lad, I have mingled with the crowd that gathered to witness the launch of a boat, and have there seen them, in tlieir shirt sleeves, wielding the instruments of Architecture, with a strong arm and wil ling heart, and the pleasure I derived, as a hoy, from riding on one of tlieir craft into its native element, lias grown with my growth and strengthened with my strength, until mature age has ripened that feeling into reverence for their example. All attained to a conqieteney in this world’s goods, as a just reward for tlieir perseverance and industry. But a few days ago one of them, Joseph Willett, past from the scene of his labors to an eternal rest. Sudden and unexpected was the call ; hut his life lias been such that none can doubt an eternal rest awaited him. Our community mourns a citizen, valued and esteemed by all who knew him. lie was emphatically a specimen of the “noblest work of God,” having accumulated a fortune by his own industry, lie settled amid the surround ing scenes of his former work, though a Northern man, and filled the office of a good citizen, in such a manner, that liis life should he an example to the youth, and his memory cherished by all. The next step in tho history of the naviga tion of the Ocrnulgee River was from a polo boat to a Steam Boat, and who was the first pioneer in this new enterprise? One of those reviled “ yankecs” and our present Surveyor General of the State, James R. Butts, a man full of energy and enterprise. ’Who are some of our oldest Merchants ? Charles Patton, Elijah Bond, Charles Campbell, the Car harts, -T. M. Kibbc, S. F. Dickenson, J. L. .Tones, Albert Mix, Isaac Winship, and a host of others that could be enu merated, who have contributed, by tlfeir skill and industry, to build up the city and develope the resources of the country. Look over our city and see the splendid specimens of Archi tecture that meets the eye? llasany “ yankee” handstriek cn a blow there ? Oh, yes, James B. Ayres has had his trowel at work, and from the mother earth has reared many a fine building. While Levy and Robert Findlay are daily constructing Engines, which are destined to still further make old Georgia’s name resound throughout the country. And last though not least, A. 11. Freeman, who if rumor is true served in the last War with Great Britain, and fought under Gen. Harrison at the Battle of the Thames, has lived in Macon over twenty years a quiet unobtrusive citizen ; but yet subject to the charge of being Northern horn. Sutli, Doc tor, is a brief sketch of some of our Northern Citizens, some of whom are Fite-Entcrs ; but nevertheless good men! In this short detail, understand me, I do not mean to detract from the well earned reputation of our Southern-born citi zens; but allow me to say that I can find no j nst cause to con demn a man for the place of his nativity ; but rather prefer to judge all men by their works. Yours, CANDOR. Letter from Albany. ALBANY, Oct. 0, 1830. Dr. Andrews :—Dear Sir, As tiierc is a considerable ex citement in this place, at this time, upon the great questions that are convulsing the land; which is the result mostly of the entire failure of one side, the Disunionists, alias “ those opposed to the admission of California by Congress” as being a means to dissolve the Union, and the complete victory of the friends of the Union and of Southern rights, in appointing the time and place to nominate their disunion candidates to the proposed convention. Having just closed the meeting, it being night and the mail being made up, I have no time to write much, but I will give you a few hints and you may do as you please with them. It being understood that “ tho friends of Southern rights” as they are wont to to call themselves, “ would meet to-day for the purpose of making preliminary arrangements to nominate their candidates,” the friends of Union and peace assembled also to see the result of the meeting. The meeting having been called to order, a fire-eating chairman was chosen and a Union man as Secretary ; a committee was sent out to draft resolu tions for the meeting, and “ as good lack would have it,” there were two or three strong Union men upon it. After some time, another committee having been sent after the first one, they made a report that they not agree, the disunion part of the committee offering a set of disunion reso lutions, and the Union set of Union resolutions, wffirft carried by a a long and pro- in General F. L. and R. F. C., with leading men ofthc Disy* nion party, delivered then iflk coppery inflammatory speech es, which will cause them to be reculfected whenever there shall be some important office to fill. The that adopted were advocated by D. A. V. and I’. 3. S. Esqrs. ja a. very powerful and able manner, and also by other frien JiKiMfie’ Union; after which a fire-eater, Esqr. R. F. L., offered as a substitute to the report of the committee which he drafted for the eommitteo, a few resolutions to the effect, that all those opposed to the aggressions of the North that have been or that may be committed against the South, and in favor of a Dissolution of the Union, meet at Newton on the day of next, to nominate candidates, Ac. Ac., which, to his ut ter astonishment and great mortification, “ was nailed to the table the first lick.” Citizens of Baker, how much longer will it be that political aspirants will seek to “ gull the people” and keep “ them grouping in the dark,” when questions of so much importance arc to be acted upon. Y ours with respect, A FRIEND TO THE UNION. [Communicated.] Varmount State. To my well beloved neffu Samuel Titus of Macon Georgy. —Deer Sammy I now take up my pen to rite you a few lines to make up that quarcl what we had in 1814 about that tarual ole black ’oman of yourn what the abolition mob tuck from you and what I hoped ’em to keep. This much I will say that 1 allers knowed that I acted a very sorry part by you seeing you was my own Sister’s son but you knew the Titus family allers like to be on what they kinder guess will be the strong side (but they gits pesky fooled some times) and have allers found that a majority agin ’em hurts wus than an angry con science and as you was all for niggur helps to your hum be cause evey body in them parts is for niggur helps 1 was all agin em to my hum because every body here is agin cm. But ’spose we forgit all this and let by ones bee by goncs we are relatuns Sainy and ortcr be frends and what is now in the way ? We looks different ways but we are wurkingasg<*od rclashuns ortor work fur the same thing and it is “ a luveli sight to* see us dwelling now in harinany” as the hittie h>ik sais and you a pullin at the South and 1 puffin at the north for all the wurld like two fellers a strcechin of a rope to git this horrid Union in tu—when its splits what a time wee Ti tuses will tavo? When that day eums tilings is oblidged to bust up and if wc don’t git our pile of fragmints it will bee because the rale ole blood of the Titus stock is clean run out —we allers could git our share of what was gwine as sartain as long tailed horse kin git his share of liuckil burrs in a paster wliur they is plenty. Your ledurs the “fire-eaters” and my leaders the abolishunists busted up the omnibus and let us plcge our lifes our sacred honors (honers and profits was allers held sacred in the Titus family) and our fortunes to bust up the constitution and smash the Union afore wee quit. It will be the makin of us both—wliat a time I’ll have of it when the war begins libburutin niggers and if y< u wili say nuthin more about libburatin ole Dinah I'll try and put a better in her place when the good time does cum—your aunt Kesiah when she liurd what hard things you was a say in abut us to burn away down South thur was all fird mad and said you ought to rekollek that it was a foul burd that would de file its own nest as the ole savin sais but I put all strate. 1 told her that you had to say them kinder things to bee popular wher you was (the Titus family would alters say any thing to bee populur) but that you was in your hart as much of a yan kee as you ever was. Go ahead—you is on the rite trail fuller the blazes ycr fortun is made ami a big fbrtun too not sich a wun (and some folks guessed if you had got it it war only a barly patch and four goats) as you went to hunt in furrin parts and which want thur when you arriv—l allers know’d you'd make a great man from the time you show’d the rale grit of the Tituses by squat tin nee-need over the sugar trots and gitten us tite as a tic afore you’d let the lectio boy have a single swaller of maplejuee—Du tell how the good cause gits on and if tliur is many down South thur superstitious about Washington who is only a dead man, the constitution which is only priiitin paper and the stars and stripes which is only a nasty rag not evil worth as much as your ole J )inah wee Titu ses is too cute to have sich stiff feclins. Bile ahead and lets have a smashin of things is wliat I sais— nothin more at present but remains your luvin Uncle ’twill detli TITUS HUTCHINSON, J. P. •a : js/. or f 63L..A C||~~i :$ (Tl)c €?forgia Citbar. * 1.. F. W. AN DKIIWS, Efiilur. MACON, G A., OCT. 11, 1850. TO CORRESPONDENTS: “ Civis” will have a showing in our next. “ Candor” will phase favor us with a personal interview and as many more favors of the same sort, as he pleases. We are sorry to disoblige, but the u silver pointed broken arrow” is not exactly in order for publication. Besides, we fear there is a “ lurking devil” of burlesque in it, that might be offensive to ears polite. Change of Publication Day. For the greater convenience of the bulk of our subscribers as well as to enable us to give the latest intelligence of each week, we have concluded to change our day of Publication from Friday to Satur day. Our next issue will therefore boon the 19th. Advertising favors must be handed in, Friday nior- Political Handbills—Special Notice. We have an order for several hundred copies of the Letters of Judges Warner and Andrews and oth er able Documents on the Union side of politics, for distribution in handbill form, and while the forms are in typo, would be glad to increase the number of Copies to bo printed from hundreds to thousands. Friends of the cause, in Bibb and adjacent counties can be supplied at a low rate, if immediate applica tion is made, by letter or otherwise, at this office. Macon Cotton .Market. The news by the Cambria of a half penny advance, and the 4 days later Telegraphic intelligence of an eighth ad vance, by the Atlantic has made our Cotton Market lively. Prices range from 12 to I3J. Political. —Our political department, this week, is well worthy of the careful consideration of every reader. The con clusion of Judge Andrew's letter,— a voice from the tombs of the immortal Washington and Jackson, and the living tes timony of Bishop Andrew, one of the lights of the Southern Methodist Church, should be enough to quell the spirit of dis union, forever. Graham’s Magazine. This “American Monthly” for November is before us, and is, as usual, rich in embellish ment and excellence of matter. Grand Lodge of Georgia. The annual communi cation of the Grand Lodge of A. Y. M. will take place in this city, cn the 29th inst., by which time the new and splen did Lodge room will be finished and ready for the reception of the Representatives. Awful Calamity. About 2 o'clock on Friday mom ing last, off Cape May, the barque Isaac Mead, aN. \ .Savannah Packet, on her way out. was run into by •}, Steamer Southerner from Charleston to N. Y., and *\ink’ Jive minutes > byyvlijeh sad accident 24 out of 26 pas*., gers and several of the ory l#t their lives. Os those ] IU . were several from this city, viz; Mrs* Lyman Barr,, and Mrs. and two young persons Mr. an<l'Aj; H from Corriflfcicip MBr ( >thcr and sister of our dfl fellow-townsman E. C. nrdffrt* Esq.) who were on tfe > way this city—the brother to settle in ter'on for the, win \*mr fn addition to theses?vrrrj citizens of &ivagifah were left —to wit, Dr. M'Giniw, U,] T * and child, Mrs Barnard, of-Wilmington Island ; M'u* (; Barnard and Mastsr J. -tfarnord jtMtv, and eight of the crew ! The most profound sympathy bv this commu nity in behalf of those families wholiayp been'made t* exjif ricneethis afflictive dispensation an (irreparable loss. Another Manufacturing Establishment. We are gratified in being able to announce that a eomjiany of gentlemen, consisting of Willis Hughes, John Kniglu and Geo. 44 . Smith, are about commencing a Variety Manu facturing establishment in this city, for the manufacture Wooden Hollow ware, sasli, waggon spokes and hubs, be steads, and every other description of wooden ware, which is usually turned out at such 44'orks. The company h, Tt) taken the steam mill lately occupied by Mr. Levy, Senr. t r this office, where there is an engine already put up, and will add thereto the necessary machinery for the various purpo ses in view, as soon as it can be procured from the North which will be probably in the course gf a month or six weeks from the present time. 4Ve need not say we wish abun dant success to every enterprise of this sort, for it is to such that we of the South are to look, for the chief sources of oir independence and prosperity. 1 lIC -\ominaiiOnS. —The committee appointd by th* late Union meeting in this city to nominate candidates for sin Convention, (J. A. Nisbet, E“q.. in the chair) have agreed upon the following ticket, subject to the ratification of. tk Union Party, at a called meeting ; Dr. Robert Collins, Washington Poe, Esq. Col. A. P. Powers, Win. Scott. This ticket is a strong one. The gentlemen composing it are so well known to the voters of Bibb as to ensure thr u the united support of the Union men, and the law and order men of the county. Personally, they are deserving of sack honor, but above all, for the sake of the cause of which they are the chosen representatives, they are pre-eminently eu tided to the confidence and heart}’ suffrage of every right-thinking man, whose heart is iutlie right place and not surcharge! with treason to the government. The Disun oit*sts on Saturday last nominated the follow ing candidates: Leroy Napier, Charles Collins, Robert A. Smith, Thomas A. Brown. Os the material of this nomination, we shall have occasion to speak more particularly hereafter. Its head, Mr. Napier, was one of the supporters of mob-law in this city, on the23d of August, as an u accessory after the fact'’ So was Mr. C. Collins, who is well known as a hitter uneomproinisibg fire eater and disunionist, per se. Mr. Napier is also a wealthr gentleman, who patronizes a Yankee College (Yale) in pre ference to a Southern Institution. Mr. R. A. Smith is a young lawyer, of unexceptionable character ami respeetablu ability, who enters political life under circumstances which give great grief to his true friends. Mr. Brown is well known as the former keeper of several Hotels in this city, hut as he is now reported sick, and it is believed, will decline the nom ination, we have nothing further to say of his fitness for iho station to which he is nominated, save that lie will go to the Convention fully prepared, in spirit, to split the Union into fragments, aud lie will “doit up brown ” too, if lie has the chance. Liberal,—A subscriber who lately went to Illinois on visit, from Georgia, writes us .-.s follows; “ I must say, Doctor, that I disagree with you in politirei affairs, but I say, you are right to continue your paper. Every one has a right to express their opinir*3bunt 1 oiv, Mick to vour paper. Issue them iu spite of the whole State. Tiffs is the lanJ of the free.” A'ours, Ac. C. 11. L. C. 11. L. is informed that we are unab’c to send him the “ extra.” \\'hat docs it mean I—The Rome “Eagle Bulletin” says at the late Mass meeting at Kingston, someone carried a banner, having painted on one side of it a great Burk n* gro, with the words FREEDOM and K()l’AI-ITY, and on the reverse a COFFIN with TWO CROSS SWORDS'” If that was not an abolition banner, it resembled it a.* much as any tiling we coaid think of, in a coon's age. Wonder bow the negroes who saw such a picture would interpn t the sym bol and its motto! Let those that wish, Secede.— 4Ve would place no obstacle, whatever, in the way of those who desire to se cede from the protection of the American Union. Let all dissatisfied persons pack up their traps and more off as soon a* they choose, and whenever they plea e. The country would bo well rid of :!e troublesome set. .. ho know not how to bo thankful for the greatest blessings which Providence ever showered upon a people. But we protest against being com pelled to keep company with ;.ifr such ingrates, nor can we be driven from the possession of the rich inheritance of our Fathers, because of the noise made by faciioiiists and grum blers. Northern Abolitionists and Southern 1 liras. Tlie “resistants” of tbe South to the late measures of Con gress, the fugitive bill included, have found a hearty co-ope ration from the Northern almlitionists in the matter of re sistance to the laws and constituted authorities of the nation. Everywhere, at the South, these indignation meetings have been held, and the government denounced in the most treas onable manner. So it is now. among the negroes and abo litionists of the North. In proof, look at the proceedings of the “colored population” of New York on the Ist instant, which was attended by many white abolitionists, as given in the N. 4'. Herald of the 2nd. Nearly all the speakers ad vised a bloody resistance to the fugitive slave bill and wero furious in their abuse of the government and slave-holders. \\'e cannot copy these denunciations nor give currency, in this community, to such incendiary language as w as used by the speakers, but those who desire can see the rej>ort which tlieN. Y. Herald gives of the proceedings. They are suffi ciently abominable for the columns of the Columbus Tinu and Southern Press, but altogether unsuited to the “Georgia Citizen.” But the funniest thing is yet to be told. The Georgia Telegraph objects to the fugitive slave bill, because so many of these fugitives are now leaving the Northern eitrs for Canada, to get rid of its op. ration, openly and in day light, and the people there will not prevent their departure I A if, without any claim on the part of the owners of th‘-e slaves, it eonld be exjiected that the people of Pittsburgh and other places would interfere to arrest the fugitives! 4. k *t upon such deception and mystification ! The truth is, rite law is a go<xl one for the South, and so long as it is a law t will bo enforced by the authorities of the north, at even-haz ard. The fugitive slaves know th's and the Abolition ists know it, else they would not make the fuss about it, that they are doing. In one thing, however, thev agree with the Telegraph and other of tlieir Southern brother resist ants, that the fugitive Slave law is a very odious thing, and must, with the other measures of the compromise series, be resisted to the death ‘. Comment is needless. Newspaper change. —4lr. Russel Renean has sold out his interest in the Rome (Ga.) “Eagle A Bulletin” to Mr. A. M. Eddleman, not long since one of the employees in this office. Mr. E. is a good practical printer, and we trust will succeed in his responsible enterprise. The new paper will be called the Rome Courier and will go for the “Union.” A New Steamer. The Steamer Florida arrived Savannah Oct. Bth., about noon, in 64 hours from N l ' ,v York. She is intended, we believe, lor a regular Packet be* tween those cities. DiSUniOll. —See the column or more of proof, in tb* 3 paper, for the disunion purposes of the Fire-eaters.