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‘ f , ' lO mins rays creeling ’ ,:!t ' t ' , ' ss was received with all v worship from the Orientals. [a host of them]—A hiss is sn em ■WTion by which the bending of the heavens to MRrth is designed to be symbolised. Philosopher.— A kiss is that protruding the circle of the lips, whereby the quantitative difference 0 f the sine of one is placed in suob- relation to the quantitative difference of another, that thereby the identity of the subject-object with the ideal-real is proved. The Printer. —A kiss [kuss] is the gnsh [guss] of one to another. The pressure of the letnon into the insipid beverage of life. This pressure is the expres sion of the impression which impresses the heart. It is the only press with which no censorship can inter fere. Here we still have ‘freedom of the press.’ The Lawyer.— The kiss is a nullity in law, being neither a right in posse, nor a right in esse. Some, however, have considered it as a family right, and would treat it after the analogy of the dos. But ‘L. 74 D. de dote constitf does not treat of the kiss at any length. Still, in the married state, we may venture to consider a kiss in the light of a donatio intervivos. Mr. Webster and his Old School Master. We learn from the Gloucester News of the sth inst., that Col. Jas. Tappan, a venerable citizen of that town, now eighty-four yean of age, lias the honor of being one of Mr. Webster’s earliest teachers—it was more than sixty years ago. The old gentleman regards with an honest pride the fame of his illustrious pupil, end a few days since addressed to him a letter, recounting, to him some incidents of boyhood, and the leading events of his public life, with a brief sketch of his own ups and downs since he taught school at “New Salisbury.” The letter was promptly answered, and enclosed with a fifty dollar bank note. “We doubt,” says the Gloucester News, “If any letter that Mr. Webster has written to public bodies, er any of the thousand great and noble acts of his life, reflect more credit upon him than this kind letter and generous gift to his aged, and unfortunate old school master. It was only by suoh persuasion that we in duced the old gentleman to allow us to make public an act which was expressly intended to be private, and he only yielded because convinced that it did honor to the character and heart of his distinguished pupih” Washington, Feb. 26, 1851.—Master Tappan: I thank you for your letter, and am rejoioed to know that you are yet among the living. I remember you per fectly well as a teacher, in my infant years. I suppose my mother must have taught me to read very early, as I have never been able to recollect the time when I could not read the Bible. I think Master Chase was my earliest schoolmaster, probably when I was three or four years old. Then came Master Tappan. Most of those whom you know in “New Salisbury” have gone to their graves. Mr. John Sanborn, the son of Benjamin, is yet living, and is about your age. Mr. John Colby, who married my oldest sister, Susannah, is also living. On the “North Road’’ is Mr. Benja min Hunton, and on the “South Road” is Mr. Benja min Pettengall. I think of none else among the living, whom you would probably remember. You have indeed lived a chequered life. I hope you have been able to bear prosperity with meekness, and adversity with patience. These things are all ordered for us, far better than we could order them for our selves. We may pray for our daiiy bread; we may pray for the forgiveness of sins; we may pray to be kept from temptation, and that the kingdom of God may come, in us, and in all men, and his will every where be done. Beyond this, we hardly know for what good to supplicate the Divine Mercy. Our Heavenly Fath er knoweth what we have need of better than we know ourselves, and we are sure that his eye and his loving kindness are upon us, and around us every moment. I thank you again, my good old master, for your kind letter, which has awakened many sleeping recol lections; and w ith all good wishes, I remain your friend and pupil, DANIEL WEBSTER. Mr. James Tappan. SOlind DOCtrillC.—The Boston Daily Bee con cludes an-able vindication of Mr. Webster, and a se vere excoriation of the Boston Atlas and its clique, by quoting the following sound doctrine from the N. Y. Mirror, and adding “that the President may follow the advice it contains, is our siucerest orison in favor of the true Whigs of Massachusetts.” Says the Mirror: “The offices- of the Government must be filled by the friends of the Government. The laws of the country must be administered and executed by men who ac* knowledge the authority of the Laws, and yield allegi ance to the Laws. And the time has come for the winnowing of die wheat of patriotism from the chaff of fanaticism —for the separation of conservatives from dlsorgauizers—and, to use the current epithets of New York State, to draw the line distinctly between the ‘Sil ver Greys’ and the‘Woolley Heads.’ “The great, the only question of the campaign will be: Who is for the Union, the Constitution, and the Laws ? And this question will be pressed home to ev ery man’s reason and conscience, with as much ear nestness and severity as the cry that rung through Is rael of Old: ‘lf the Lord be God, serve him; but if Baal be God, serve Aim.” Advertise. —He is a shrewd man who adver tises. This is proverbial, the world over. It is simply putting your goods, wares, merits, plans, suggestions, bargains, &c., into the eyes of the universal public. Everybody reads the papers now-adays. A good ad vertisement is like taking every man and woman in society by the vest, button hole or arm, and privately whispering to them important matters. Who are they that succeed in business ? The one who stirs up the public, or those who make no more noise than a church mouse? Os course the former.— The man of enterprize and intelligence always puts him self and his merits straight before the public eye, and keeps them there. It is the only way to make money, get a reputation or be any body. Advertise, then. Do it generously. Spend five dollars and get twenty.. Do it judiciously, and you are sure to make money by it.— Boston Bee. TTiram Powers, the sculptor, writes to his brother in San Francisco, that he has in hand anew statue to represent California. lie describes it thus: An. Indian figure crowned with pearls and precious stones. A kirtlo surrounds her waist and falls with a feather fringe down to just above the knee. The kir tle is ornamented with Indian embroidery, with tracings of gold, and her sandals are tied with golden strings. At her side stands an inverted cornucopia, from which is issuing at her feet lumps and grains of native gold, to which, she points with her left hand, which holds the divining rod. With her right hand she eonceals behind her a cluster of thorns. She stands in an un decided posture —making it doubtful whether she in tends to advance or retire-—while her expression is mystical. The gold about the figure must be repre sented, of course, by color as well as form. She is to be the genius of California. Mean Things. —lt is a moan thing to borrow your neighbor's paper when you are too stingy to take one of your own. It is a mean thing to subscribe for a newspaper and never pay for it. It is a mean thing to steal the exchanges from an editor’s sanctum. It is a mean thing to look over an editor’s shoulder when be is writing, but meaner to wateh him when he is acissormng. - It is a mean thing to read what you may find written in a newspaper Senator Cass.-* Committee of New York, General Cass expressed b.m *elf in the following of Congress “The Comprom.se tow of the are now upon the statute • inv i o lable * theif e Tlf LetTthem be considered as the Constitution itself. Let tnem ns the great national arrangement of the vano jects vhieh they ii there be a cor ff aTiltaorted mar as the crow flies, it is that oi riage. . . Correspnnktre. LETTERS from MEW YORK. Mareh 9i, 1859. Number vii. Dear Doctor, —You spoke some time ago, in one of your papers of the New York Day Book , edited by Foster ; but from what I can learn, and more particu larly from an exposition recently made by the Eve ning Post , it is not more friendly in reality, to the South than that paper, which is a professed abolition meet—although it is forever speaking in our favor a gaiust the Abolitionists. In my opinion, it is not a whit better than the Sun, which is worse than the Tribune , inasmuch as its Editor is a Donkey, with not one lithe ot the taleut of Greely. It has nothing to re commend it but the length of its ears. It is the opinion of this pitiful anil narrow-souled sta tistician, that the prosperity of a states dependent upon the thickness of the population, and the consequent increase in the revenue from the accumulation of the production. It this be the case, then, England ought to be the happiest country under the canopy of heaven. A Ills he teaches in the columns of the Sun , when com paring the revenue of the Southern States with that of the North. \\ ho cares what the revenue of a coun try may be, if it in its bosom an equal amount of misery. This ia'just precisely the case with the North. It is not the amount of revenue in a State which causes its prosperity ; but the ability to enjoy it. The poor fellow had forgotten the old moral adage, ” Better is a dinner of herbs eaten with content, than a house full of victuals with strife.” Abolition logic is all false. They premise what is borrowed from Hell, and what follows must necessarily be hellish. — They have a false Theory of slavery, and concludes with as lying a reality. All this comes from a want some of thing good to do. The editor of the Day Book wants money, and he knows he can get it no where but in the Sokth. This is the reason why he pretends to be an enemy to the Abolitionists. We want no hypocrites —but friends who believe what they say. If they do not believe in a thing, we do not wish them to say it. We all pro fess to be, south of the Potomac, inatter-of fact people; persons who never meddle with other people’s business and will not permit other people to meddle with ours. You know what overtures the Devil made to Eve in order to tempt her to eat of the forbidden fruit ? Well, tins is j ust the kind of language which the Abo litionists use to seduce the “ Nigger ” from his fealty to his master. told Eve a lie—which, the Theologians tell us ruined the whole human family.— The Abolitionists repeat the same ruinous lie ; although in language which would shame the insidiousness of even the Devil himself. Did yon ever read W illis’ description of the stooping down of Signorina Parodi in the character of Romeo in the Opera of the Capulets and the Montagues ? — If you never did, you can never know what it is to de scend into the deepest deep of vulgarity—that is, a vulgarity which flaunts in all the superfluity of osten tatious millinery. He never touches anything that it does not immediately become the flying ensignium of the author—the Sardanapalus—the Sybarite. He makes the vulgar obnoxiously seductive, as the Devil did Hell by paving it with jewels. The case of Willis against Forrest, for assault and battery, will be tried before Judge Oakley, in the Supe rior Court, to be held on next Monday. Forrest ac cused Willis of intimacy with his wife, and whipped him in Washington Parade Ground. But, what any woman of Mrs. Forrest’s nature, could want with N. P. Willis, is beyond my comprehension—except for a mere plaything— -for lie is certainly not the ninth part of a man. The Mirror finds fault with him for publishing what he calls “ Returned Love Letters ” in the Home Jour nal; never dreaming, 1 suppose, that these same love letters are just no lpve letters at all, but Willia’ own unlovely cogitations^—for nobody but just such a man as he is, ever wrote any such letters. Love letters are natural — not artificial—as these are. They are all artificial , without possessing a particle of the Art of Love. He must be bad off for matter to publish such stuff as this, in the Home Journal. I went to David Boits’, 375 Broadway r the other day, to purchase a vest chain. He is pale-faced, dark whiskered young naan, of middle size, but huge pre sumptions. lie is what may be called a New York Yankee— full of impudence, and running over with ig norance. After running on one whole hour, at the rate of nine knots to the hour, about the beauty of his jewels and the honorableness of his dealings, he made a sudden pause and said, in a very distressful tone, that his time was precious, and he must come to a close. When I told him his cliains appeared to me to be alloyed with copper, he said “No, they may have a little silver in them.” After a little, in older to try him, I objected to another article, under the supposi tion that it was alloyed with silver . “No,’’ said he, “it may be a little alloyed with copper. ’’ 1 then bought one of the chains and left him. There are more lies told in this city in one day than will be told in the State of Georgia in the next three thousand years. There is a book binder in Fulton street, by the name of Johnson, who made three different prices for doing one/job for me—his only excuse for telling a lie three finnes being that he had make a mistake. I went into Polione’s store in Catharine street, the other day to look at some Crape Shawls, and a dark skinned fellow, whom the other merchants call Po lio ne's nigger told me ten thousand lies before I left the house, and sxWfor nothing-- for I did not boy a thing. I went into a Jeweller's store, not long ago, to buy a Cameo with the bead of llebe on it, one that 1 par ticularly admired. The jeweller asked me $7 for it, and swore he would not take less. Well, said I, if you will not take $5 for it, I must take the one offered to me just now in Fulton street for the same money.— “ Well,” said he, “ if he can sell you his for $5, 1 can sell you mine for the same.” So he let me have it.— The design is the most beautiful I ever beheld. Signor Saulini, the first cameo cutter in Rome, lias engraved a beautiful head of J upiter, on an Oriental Onyx, three inches in length, for the World's Fair. It must be beautiful. I will describe it to you when I see it, which will be before long. The store of Messrs. Tiffany, Young & Cos. at the corner of Chambers street and Broadway, blazes with jewels of the purest water, They have some of the most beautiful diamonds ,in America. Some of their unset diamonds aro like liquid lumps of glory. They have, also, some necklaces of great value. I noticed in one of the windows the other day, a breastpin, representing a rattlesnake, the rattles of which were a cluster of perfect brilliants. A beauti ful diamond which sparkled like the evening star adorn ed his head. His eyes were Oriental rubies. They have restored the old Egyptian patterns for Charms. You may walk Broadway from morning until night, and you will not meet with a single English face.— The inhabitants of this city are more multifarious than any, perhaps, on the earth. lam now in a boarding house, where the English language is not spoken by a single individual---yet, they all believe they speak it perfectly. There are but few men of real talent in the city, and not one real genius. Duganne is, perhaps, thb best poetical critic here. lie is the author of anew work re cently published, entitled Parnassus in Pillory , about which I spoke in my last. It is well written, but the theme is a bad one, not at all suited for poetry. Byron wrote his English Bards and Scotch Reviewers in a fit of spleen; but Mr. Duganne, professes to have written this book in cold blood. There is some excuse in a legal point of view, for Byron having been so much mistaken in the legitimate offices of poetry • but none for Mr. Duganne. No man can make anything out of any such Thesis. He may express his indignation or disgust, for the presumptuous littleness of the rising hurdlings of the day, but this is not the subject for Po etry. Satire belongs to the province of prose—not to poetry. , I could quote some beautiful passages from the book, but none that belong to the sphere of the satirical.- No poem can be poetical , that is only satirical. Then, why attempt to write a critique on the poets of Amer ca in verse, when it can be better written in prose. Ihe Lite) at y World quotes a passage from it, as a specimen of its gentility, which is the very worst one in the book, merely I presume, to shew (what every body knew before) that the Editor knows nothing at all about poetry. He puts me iu mind of an old jaded mill-horse. His paper is a perfect platitude, and ever will be, until it changes hands—-which, for the good of fcdmmunity, it bught to soon. He recently purchased Holden's Magazine , and changed the name into The Dollar Magazine —no Very great improvement in the name; On looking over the April No. I find still less improvement in the mat ter. iti s Duykincke —or, kinked in the dye —warp and woof —and no baptism of spiritual fire can ever wash the dingy colors out. The criticisms which appear in the columns of the Literary World, from the pen of Taylor Lewis, arc th<yf>oorcst and most servile specimens of moral plati tude that ever appeared in any paper. He declines answering Prof. Bush’s Letters to u Trinitarian. — The task is too great for one of his calibre. Professor Bush, is a giant in intellect —he, a mere pigmy. In fact, I do not know of a single biblical scholar in A inerica, to be compared with him. I spoke to you in one of my letters, some time back, about, a certain Signor Giovani Francesca Secclii di Cassali di Yagabondi di Billy Goati. Well, he is still living, and edits the same little shinplaster, called L’ Eco d’ Italia ; but cannot write a line of English, and but very poor Italian. T. 11. C. LETTER froan AHEKICIS. Americus, March 25, 1851. Dear Doctor: —l send you the money for another year's subscription to your interesting and valuable paper. For indeed I hope it may go on prospering and to prosper. The Rail Road is (in prospect) extending its influence throughout the surrounding country.— Southwestern Georgia is advancing in wealth, num bers and intelligence equal to any part of the Empire of ihe South. Our Village is fast improving and our Inferior Court is now proposing to build a Court House, that will do honor to the flag county in the second Congressional District; which will be ever ready to do battle in the great cause of the Constitutional Union Party. Doctor—l discover the Fire-Eaters have quit eating fire apid brimstone , but are endeavoring to tat up the Hoi JJowell Cobb. Instead of being fire-ea ters, they are becoming Cobb-eaters. such efforts gre vain, for instead of eating him will only oat up themselves, lienee, fire-caungivn will be no more. In truth Mr. Cobb is a living monument of wisdom, virtue and patriotism ; and the good people know it. The Cobb-eaters might as well try to shoot down the Stone Mountain, and turn DeKalb against the Union, as to destroy the well earned popularity of that hon ored son of Georgia. The day of his reward is at hand if he will accept of it, for if is now ready for him. It appears by tiie late indications that the Southern Rights Party, who are now trying to deny that they have any party, arc not satisfied alone with the unjust at tack on Mr. Cobb, but they have in the progress of these affairs actually jumped the Elephant ; yes Sir, they have according to their presses ‘“the peoples ” candidate ’’ out for Governor. There have been sev eral such Elephants exhibited before. Should the lion. Hugh A. Ilarralson consent to be dealt with in the manner suggested, of course he would have to entertain opinions such as would meet the views of the whole people, lie would then take no side and act the part of “ Daddy's old brindle Cow'’ to be on both sides of the branch at the same time. Not only that, but he would have to prepare himself to an swer such as the following questions (as suggested) in a dignified manner, that is to say : Mr. Hugh A.— Arc you iu favor of the Nashville Convention? ( Ans.) yes; the Georgia Convention ? yes; the South Carolina Convention ? yes. Are you in favor of Uhelt’s grand drama of Disunion ? yes. Arc you tor preserving the great National Democratic party, by refusing to act with the Northern Democracy ? yes. Are you in favor of preserving the Democratic principles by acting with the Southern Rights Whigs 1 yes. Are you willing to show your devotion to Southern Rights, by treating the Southern Right’s Y\ liigs with contempt in trying to fall back on old party lines ? yes. Are you willing to act as above and eschewing all party, for the sake of the party ? yes. Jf the submission men desire you in a party, now being formed by your friends bearing the name of— “ Union Rights, Democratic Whig Slates Rigfits Disuniok Party. Will you join it ? Why yes. Now DoctoE such a candidate may do for some parts, but he will not do for Southwestern Georgia. Accordingly wo have instituted divers enquiries as to when and where the lion, member from the 4th could be found, but we have been driven in despair, to the perpetration of the follow’ng couplets. We have sought our Hugh to find, But ah! His path is kept so blind, In vain, we have tried to see, Which side the fence our Hugh might be. But enough of the Elephant. Let us turn our at tention to our own side of the question. We discover one or two of our Union friends in response to the celebration of Washington’s birth day, did not come up to the Rack, but failed in distinctly giving their adhe sion to the Constitutional Union Party, but there was evidently such a manifestation in belia sos the good cause, as will enable us to move forward, in the career of triumph. The Bible tells us that u he that is not for us is against us, ” at least if they continue to stand out. Should such be the case, they will not ex pect a nomination at our hands. For we will not run any Elephants on our side of the question. Our cause is too good for that. We would otherwise be un faithful to the patriotic cause which we have with our united hearts espoused. We will not extend our con fidence to those who will not extend their confidence to us. W e would in couplets, say: Those who will not act the part, To give this Union hand and heart, Nor faith to our platform give, And by its fate thus die or live, We will let them pass on by, But those devoted to the Union try, For the cause we'll join all hands, Caring not for boots or brogans. I am glad to see several counties are moving forward to appoint delegates to our next Gubernatorial Con vention. It has been suggested that Sumter will ap point her delegation during our Superior Court week, commencing third Monday in May next. The Union and the Constitution should be our motto. Organiza tion shou'd be our watch word. Every county should be represented in the Convention in order to give cour age, unity and power to the friends of the Union; every county should endeavor to stand to the majority given in ’SO. Sumter is burnishing her armor for from sto 700 majority. Every Congressional and Senatorial district should be preparing for their respective Con ventions. All party differences shou'd be “in the deep bosom of the ocean buried ßy so doing it should seem that we could look forward in confidence, that victory would perch upon the standard of the Con stitutional Union Party, so that millions yet unborn, may be able to eat the fruit thereof. Yours most Respectfully, SUMTER. The Horrid Affair at Pittsburg. —We published a statement, a few days since, of a mother, at Pittsburg, having received from her daughter a mortal blow with a poker. The facts are melancholy enough, but not quite so bad as that. The Pittsburg American says: Some of the children were quarreling in a room— the daughter was parting or reproving them, and had the poker in her hand when the mother came in, and, reprimanding the children, took the poker from the daughter, and turning round, and in something of a ruffled and excited state of mind, stumbled and fell, the poker entering her 6idc, penetrating between three and four inches. She died almost immediately. The unfortunate sufferer was Mrs. Riddle, the wife of Squire Riddle, of Robinson township—one among the most worthy and respectable families in the country. South Carolina and Secession.— The Richmond Enquirer looking forward to the possible not to say probable secession of South Carolina, remarks : “If the General Government shall show proper pru denee and wisdom, allow South Carolina to withdraw peaceably and to maintain her isolated position, the rest of the Confederacy may move on quietly, and all may yet bo well in the Union, partially mutilated though it be. Should force be resorted to foolishly, to subju gate the seceding State, the other Southern States may interpose in her defence, civil war and bloodshed ensue, and the Union be snapped into atoms.” For the Georgia Citizen. The place where I was Born. BY T. H; 7HIRERS, St. . You may talk of those green grassy Isles Which the Tritons have strewn with their Coral, Which the Day-God impregns with his smiles, And the seasons forever are floral; Os the vales of the rich Arcady, Where the Evening is just like the Morn ; But the prettiest place in the world for me, Is the place where I was born— Where my father's dear children were born— In the soft sunny South where my parents were boru. You may talk of the bright Cyclades Which Oasis the Deserts of Ocean — The three fairest nymphs that inhabit the seas Which the Moon keeps forever in motion; Os that Beautiful Land far beyond the sea, Where the Evening is just like the Morn; But the prettiest place in the world for me, Is the place where I was bom— Where my father's dear children were born— In the soft sunny South where my parents were born. You may talk of those Gardens of Gul Where the maidens make Cupid their treasure, Where the Zephyrs bear Venus at full Os the Moon to the Islands of pleasure; Os that Beautiful Land far beyond the sea, Where the Evening is just like the Morn ; But the prettiest place in the world for me, Is the place where I was born— Where my father’s dear children were born— In the soft sunny South where my parents were born. THE GEORGIA CITIZEN. L. F. W. ANDREWS, EDITOR. MACON, GA. 1851. To Correspondents.* . To T. 11. C.—-Package of Books found in Savan nah, where it had been stored for over three months ! At what price shall they lie sold. Another Letter from New York and a piece of poetry just received. We shall be compelled to de cline the latter and to omit some passages in the former. Reasons in a private letter. Glad to hear of the safe return from the land of Ophir, of an old friend D. J. B. Would like to get a series of Letters descriptive of the countries he lias seen and the incidents which lie has encountered, for the Georgia Citizen. Macon Cotton Market. —Prices range from 6 1-2 to 9 1-2 for extremes. It will take Ally fair to bring the latter price. I Later from Europe (by Telegraph.) The “Baltic” lias arrived at New York with Liver pool dates to 2Jd ult. She brings the unexpected in telligence of Bd. advance in the Liverpool Cotton mar ket, with sales for the week ending 21st, of 40,000 bales. Our New Volume. Encouraged by the flattering success which Ims at tended our labors thus far, in the conduct of this Jour nal, we this day, make our appearance in an enlarged form and a style somewhat improved, trusting that this increased effort on our part, to enhance the value and interest of our sheet, will be met with a corresponding approval on the part of the community. As yet, all our mechanical arrangements for the “Citizen ’’ are in complete, but, in a few days, shall have everything in good working order, and will do our prettiest to make the Citizen the model Newspaper of the South, in every essential particular. To furnish the opportunity to many, who have hitherto been strangers to us, to judge for themselves of our claims upon their friendly consideration and support, we will send a copy of this and succeeding number to their address, with the hope that they will pfcnit us to continue our weekly visit, on terms and plen get and wc ehall Theatricals —Our play-going community has been vastly entertained for a month past, with the se ries of dramatic entertainments which have been given by Messrs. Jefferson & Cos., at Concert Hall. The Actors are respectable, gentlemanly men, and the Ac tresses are Ladies of talent and refinement. We have had Mr. Jefferson to do up the comicalities—Mr. Linden to do up the tragics, which he does in a capital manner; Mrs. Ellsler to do up any and every thing which she undertakes, in fine style, and Mr. J. W. Crocker to play well his part in any gentlemanly character. To night, the latter, assisted by the company and Mrs. Jef f< rson, will take his benefit. Mrs. J. through indispo sition, has not before appeared on the boards here, and will, doubtless, contribute not a little to give Mr. C. a bumper. Broke ! —One of our well-to-do financiers lately returned our slip of last week to us through the Post Office, with postage unpaid, thereby causing such a serious deficiency in our sub-treasury, that we contem plate taking the benefit, next week, if someone will not come to our rescue immediately. A New Head. —The Griffin American Union comes, this week, with anew home-made Frontispiece, and anew motto taken from the writings of St. Paul. The design of the head is patriotic enough, but the exe cution shows that the art of wood engraving in Pike, is yet in its infancy. However, “the world was not made in a day,” and this initiatory step in the arts, may be the harbinger of that “good time coming” of which we Southerners have sometimes dreamed of in our prospective philosophy of true Southern Independence. Be that as it may, the “American Union” is sound at heart and Union at the core, and we wish it every success. In the approaching Canvass, we are sure it will do good service in the cause and will be able, in truth, to say, “Now by St. Paul , the work goes bravely on!” Chesnilt Business!—The Atlanta Republican says that Chief Engineer Mitchell “keeps a negro con stantly on the cars, riding backwards and forwards on the State Road, selling chesnuts and apples, and the meanest kind of chesnuts at that.” Well what of it, Mr. Republican ? lie has been in the “small potato” line long enough to make any change in his speculations that will yield as good a profit. Virginia. —This gallant State sends sympathy and words of condolence to South Carolina, but repudiates the Southern Congress proposed by the latter, and affectionately appeals to her to “desist from any medi tated secession upon her part, which cannot but tend to the destruction of the Union, and the loss to all of the States of the benefits that spring from it.” Cold comfort that for the chivalry ! Bribery and Corruption. —Two or three of the “Higher Law” rascals of the New York Legisla ture, have lately been detected in extorting “black mail” from sundry individuals, in lieu of services to be rendered by these Legislators in their official capacity ! The tool employed in this dirty work was Geo. W. Bull, Sergeant at arms, of the Senate, a low black guard member of the loose dirt firm of “Seward, Weed, Greeley & Cos.” of (hat empire State 1 New Wail Route.— a petition is in circulation to have a semi-weekly mail direct from Macon to Ma rion, Jeffersonville, &c., instead of the present cross route from Gordon. We hope it may be allowed by the Department, and that it may be extended to Ilaw kinsville. Caught . —lloge, the thief, who personated anoth er at the Nashville Post Office, and who took out a let ter and drew SSOOO on a draft enclosed therein, has been caught and all the money recovered, Defining his Position.— our neighbor of the Journal and Messenger, in consequence of some badgering of the Fire-Eaters as to his papet being a “Fillmore Organ j” Ac. lias made a suitable reply in his last Week’s issue, and very clearly ‘defined his position’ on the question of the next Presidency. After paying a marked compliment to Mr. Fillmore, who, he under stands, will not, under any circumstances, be present ed for the succession, he avows a preference for the lion. James Buchanan of Pennsylvania for the Presidency, associated with Crittenden of Kentucky, Bates of Missouri, Jones of Tennessee, or some dis tinguished son of Georgia, for the Vice Presidency.— All lie asks is that “the nominee, whoever he may be, shall be a sound Constitutional Union man—free from ultraisms—in favor of the Compromise—pledged to a faithful execution of the law and to the equal rights of all sections. Such a man—and such only—be he Whig or Democrat, will receive the support of this Journal.” What will Mrs. Grundy, of the Albany Patriot, say, now ? Instead of the Messenger and Journal, by its blandishments, seducing Democrats from their former ranks into the ranks of the Whigs, here we have it that the Editor of that print is out in favor of a distinguished Democrat, for the Presidency 1 \\ ill not the Democracy of Georgia respond to such liberality, with a hearty plaudit ? We believe the rank and silo will do it. For such men as Buchanan, Cass, Dickinson nnd Dallas, they have a great respect, and should one of these distinguished men be selected as the Candidate of the Constiutional Union party of the country, will they repudiate the nomination because the \\ higs arc liberal enough to support it, despite of for mer prejudices of a party character? On the leaders we count nothing. For opposition’ sake they will probably oppose even Mr. Buchanan, if the Whigs support him. But all reasonable men of the old Demo cratic party can certainly see nothing in that event which will justify them in following so suicidal an ex ample. Where is it ? Wo have not seen the cheerful phiz of the Georgia Citizc n,for two weeks—and we really begin to feel some solicitude for its safety. Dear Doctor, what can ail ? Have’nt “pegged out” on Southern Literature, have you ? We had hoped that the pabulum on which you luxuriate was sufficiently nutritious to have pre vented such a fate. But if gone, requiescat in pace Madison Family Visiter. Our friend of the Visitor need not be uneasy. We are not so fool-hardy as to attempt to live like the Alli gator on light-wood knots. We have returned to “first principles--that is to the bacon and long collards of eve ry day life, leaving the whipped syllabub and blanc mange of literature to those of weak sensibilities and effeminate appetites. Hence the reason, why we hav’nt “pegged out,’’ but are still “in the land of the living and place of hope!” State Politics. The political waters of our good old Commonwealth are becoming considerably disturbed, in view of the im portant elections which are soon to take place within our limits. Never perhaps will there be greater occa sion for zeal and animation in a political campaign than in that approaching, in which a Governor, members of Congress and Legislature have to be chosen as our law makers and Rulers, for a season. The elements that will entur into the contest will give to it an absorbing interest. Ori the one hand, the factionists and the dis organizers of every phase and character will labor to maintain the power now in their hands, and make it contribute to the success of their treasonable schemes. On the other, the conservative portion of the people, the friends of law and order, and the lovers of the Union as it is are not unprepared for the occasion. They will not shrink from duty, in an emergency like the present, when there is so much need of all their noblest efforts in behalf of the Union and of the Suite. Apart too from notional politics, there are State matters which imperatively require renovation and reform. The Rail Road interest of Georgia is now in a dilapi dated condition, and will need a radical change in its adminstration, or an entire transfer of the*same to a private company. The latter we deem the wisest plan* as it will ever be made a party engine to place and eras long as it is in the hands of the State ment, elected on party principles. The- intcrovU of th® Mechanic® and working of the citizens will also engage public attention, with a view to legislative reform in several important particu lars as shadowed forth in an article on our last page, from the American Mechanic. The subject of Common Schools for the whole peo ple and the developcment of the Agricultural and Man ufacturing resources of the State should likewise form a leading feature in the discussions which will be elicited, during the summer. On all these topics we shall be found ready and willing to co-operate with those who go for a general cleansing of the Augean sUiblc and a general reformation of existing abuses, political, social, and moral. The Union Platform. The Messenger and Journal of the 2d inst. gives, as the concluding letter of a series which that print has been publishing for a several weeks past, an admira ble letter to the Union Committee of Macon, from our fellow citizen, Dr. Robert Collins, an extract from which we subjoin, with our hearty endorsement of the sentiments therein contained. The sterling democra cy of Dr. Collins will not be questioned and his high character will not be impugned. Sufficient is it to add that his name has been spoken of, favorably, in connexion with the nomination of the Union Party for Governor, and that, in our opinion, his claims to that station are not surpassed by those of any other individual. But to the extract. The Doctor says: “I was a Clark man of 1825—-a Union Jackson man of 1832—and a Union Democrat of 1850. From my earliest manhood 1 have given my vote on that, side of all great political questions of the day, and I have not changed my opinions or posi tion. I stand upon the same platiorm I did in 1832, and so do all the Union men of that day who are Union men now.” Further on, after describing the dangers of disun ion and its insufficiency to give peace and prosperity, he concludes with the following plain language: “Who are the prominent actors in this disunion movement? Look back to the records of 1832- ’33, and you will find their names arrayed against Andrew Jackson, and in favor ot South Carolina nulitication; and strange, and unaccountable as it may appear, there are many of the former Union men, now’ found follow ing them into the very doc trines, they once so much condemned. Why any former Union man has so completely changed his course and opinions, is hard to understand; but many have their object, and others are honestly de ceived. Fortunately, however, the Democrats as a party did not fall into that stupendous error; for a large portion of them yet stand firm on their old and lavorite platform, which has for its foundation and principles,— The rights of (he people —the execu tion of the laws—the Union of the IStates, and the Government as it is. And we ask all true Demo crats to rally with us upon these grounds, under the broad banner of the Union with its thirty-one stars, and help us <o elevate to the Presidency of this great Republic, that true and faithful Demo crat, James Buchanan, of Pennsylvania. I am in every sense a Southern man—all I pos sess is here—my greatest interest is in the protec tion of Southern property, and all my efforts shall be devoted to that end; and in my solemn judgment, the best way to do so, is to swear allegiance to the Constitution and the Union of the country. To sup port for office men whose fidelity to the Union is beyond suspicion. To give the right hand of fel lowship to all I meet on the platform of the Union party. And to object to no man on account of the section from which he comes, or the he bears, be it Democrat or Whig. And although 1 would not follow the example of the great Carthagenian General, by swearing my children to eternal war upon the opponents ot the Government, yet so important, and so sacred do I consider the cause of the Union, that should it ev er be my fortune to present a son at the altar of any Church for its Christian rites, l should desire the font to be filled with the mixed waters from the four quarters of the Republic, that ho might be bap tized truly, in the elements of the Union, sp that in all after life the association most deeply impreseo upon his mind, should be the Union of his country with the worship of his God. Very respectfully, Your most obedient servant, ROBERT COLLINS. Messrs. A. 11. Chaitell, and others, Coni’t. Trip to Sayanaah. Wo made flying trip to this ancient city of Ogle thorpe, a few days since, and found her arrayed in her beautiful spring livery of buds aud blossoms, and flour ishing in her lovely garniture of green. All nature seemed to be revelling in the perfumes of “ Araby the blest,” as we walked through her leafy squares and shaded streets, on an April day of smiles and tears or alternate sunshine and showers. Savannah has improved much within two or three years past, and we t; ust has thoroughly waked up to the importance of continued effort to keep pace with a proud rival city in the career of improvement. By means of her very superior Railroad, which is under the management of an en ightened Board of Directors, and an accomplished and energetic President, her facilities of trade with the interior have been vastly increased, though yet but in the infancy of its development. Al ready has Savannah expended near five millions of dol lars in Rail Road improvement, say nothing of her mag nificent line of steamers to New York, her shipping to Ibreign ports, her Gas Works, and Manufactures of Iron, Bur Mill Stone, Ac. Ac. And she is beginning to reap the reward of her enterprise and public spirit, in a rapid increase of her population, business and re sources. We had not time to visit all the places of interest in the city, as our stay was brief, aud a portion of the time devoted to a renewal of “auld lang svne” friendships with a few of the congenial spirits of the olden time. With a couple of these, “ Jimmy O'Soolivan ” and Charley O'Hallery, we cruised all along shore and looked into several places of note in our seaboard city. The B’hoys seemed resolved to put us through with all the honors, and the “ Editor on a bust” seemed to be the title of a Drama, which they in vain tried to bring to a successful denouement. Though Strouse's ‘smiles’ were inviting, and Luce’s juleps and fine arts were fas cinating to look upon, yet they could’nt quite bring the Doctor to a state of such reckless imbibition as not to know a “ lemonade ” from a “ brandy-smasher ” ora glass of ale from one of-whiskey punch. Their ex per periment was therefore a failure, which they might have known before they commenced the conspiracy against our sobriety ! \V e, however, owe them no grudge, for their kind attentions aud honied endearments. Un the contrary, we have been placed thereby, under such an overwhelming avalanche of gratitude, that we shall not rest easy, till we return the compliment intended for us, with interest Our cotemporaries of the Press, in Savannah, seem to be alive to the glorious destiny in reserve for their city. With Mr. Alexander, the talented junior of the Republican, we had a few moments of pleasant inter course. He battles manfully, with his senior, Mr. Locke, in the cause of sound principles aud conserva tive measures, for the State and the South, and for the Lnion, against disorganizes and disunionists of the 1 uncAinello stamp, et id omne genus. Asa commer cial paper, too, the Republican is in the front rank and is well supported. The Morning News is a very suc cessful example of what enterprize and tact will accom plish in the matter of journalism. In its brief existence of a year or two, it has become a formidable competi tor with the oldest papers in the city and shows on its face, decided marks ofvjgor and prosperity. Mr. John M. Cooper is the Proprietor, and Wm. T. Thompson, Esq. alias “ Major Jones” the Editor, and in all save its politics, which are on the dubious order, the “News” is a first rate paper. T\ ith both these personages we formed a slight acquaintance, and found them cour teous and pleasant gentlemen, though one was just out from a spell of sickness and the other was laboring un der a physical disease akin to a moral malady which sometimes afflicts the profession--that of a stiff” neck. If the latter wrote his editorials in that vein, we sus pect the Morning News of the next day was somewhat bilioiig in its diagnosis. Ambng the business men of Savannah, we were pleased to find a friend from Columbus, Wm. P. Yonge, Esq. who is so well known to our western and south western readers, as a merchant of integrity and capa bilities. A reference to our advertising columns, will reveal the nature of his avocation, and we lake pleas ure in commending him to planters and others, who have consignments to make to that city. They will find Mr. Yonge prompt, faithful and sagacious. subject of increased Hotel accommodation in is commanding much attention. Next fall, HMwiil be two larga Hotels opened for the aeeom of -Wm One, *lf\|a ~*- u •• 1 j already under way. Besides third cent design and proportion is in contemplation by stock subscription. All these are absolutely necessary to meet the growing wants of the travelling community. At present, there are but two Hotels of any note in the place—the Pulaski House and the City Hotel, both f which are constantly crowded as well as the many private boarding houses. But neither of these houses are up with the times. The Pulaski is the resort of the aristocracy, while the City Hotel caters more for the business man and plebian. The one furnishes Champaigne in coolers at private rooms—the other mix es “sugar that is sweet ’’ at the bar. If this feature could be dispensed with, the worthy Proprietor would find his account in it. At least, it would bejnore jdcas ant to such men as myself, if the liquid"administrations’ could be removed to a rear apartment, a little more out of public view. In passing through town, we unexpectedly came up on a nondescript character of the genus homo, whom we had long ago consigned in imagination to the “tomb of the Capulets.” It was no other than our quondam acquaintance, the immortal Peter Laurens, the artist, the man of infinite jest—the impersonation of all that is jocose; and the “jewel of a lad” with the ladies. — We intended to have a long chit-chat wih Peter, about his “ hair breadth ’scapes ” and perils by laud and la goon, at Appalachy and other localities, but time and opportunity postponed the repast to a more convenient season. The Gas W orks in Savannah are now in the full tide of successful experiment, and doubtless will be as profitable an investment to the company, as they are already an indispensable comfort to those needing much light on any given subject, especially printers. The Company uses chiefly the bituminous coal of Liverpool and Virginia. The Custom House is a splendid specimen of archi tecture and will soon be ready for occupancy, when, we understand the Post Office will be removed thither, as well as the city offices. There is much dissatisfaction, however, among the mechanics of Savannah, as to the course pursued in building this edifice. These mechan ics had no share in the work. It is also said, that £ wealthy capitalist of that city, who builds many fin< houses, employs invariably workmen from the North even to putting up a tin gutter to the eaves of his build ings ! Such a policy is unjust and Deeds reform. Mr. Cuyler, President of the Central Rail Road \va3 absent at Washington, eudeavoring to get the great Southern Mail changed to this route, and we are pleas ed to learn, with some hope of success. By means ot anew line of steamers between Savannah and Charles ton, and a change of schedule on the Central Road, this mail can be expedited from 12 to 20 hours in its trans it from Charleston to Mobile. Mr. Cuyler will make a liberal offer to the Department, as to transportation of the mail, and if successful, the enterprizo will be of essential importance to Savanuah as well as Macon and other places on the route. On our return hero, we had an eye to the manage ment of the Rail Road, its accommodations and capa bilities, and will now make some annotations on the subject. The Superintendent, Conductors, and A gouts are all of the first class, and the equipment of tin. road of the best. Every thing is in apple-pie oi er ; no clashing of locomotives; no jawing and confusion, but all moving on systematically and harmonic us y , t e freight trains taking two days for each tiip an aung their appointed stations at certain hours, so as not to interfere with the passenger trains in their semi-daily transits. The eating department at the breakfasting house is only in tolerable order. A large quantity of victuals was placed upon the table, enough for 50 about one tenth of that number partook. Although 20 miles from Savannah and in the midst of an extensive range, the Landlord did not think It worth while to furnish his customers with milk to their coffee. True, its weakness would not bear much dilution of that kind, nevertheless, for appearance’ sake, be should have had some ooloring fluid for the coffee, even at the ex pense of a pound of Chalk. We understand that he avers that the Rail Road oars have killed oft*all his fine stock of Burhams , and that he cannot afford to buy any more, It is a great pity, indeed, that such a fine “f, 15 ”' 11 ”™ -l™ ing roamed , h . *. ~ ‘ range, should be thus exterminated And the pity as the celebrated Wilkinson “ I} rrk ! . m °* * was (he martyr pioneer, under the ernshh, *” R n “ , however, wi th „„, ha ,™ 8 * he,, the same kmd of stock which was sub*®,?,, , *° rne ° f ferred to Jchiconnee, near that S*"* Western Rail Road, designated as >he “V [Note. “ Hereby did hang a tail * or be unfolded or rather uncurled hereafter T* landlord aforesaid, some travelling wags l.T'j’ funny trick. One of the victims nJ *1 straCted two biscuits and they held a council * ‘ at the dinner house, when it was resolved to the World’s Fair and the other back b*'*-!** whence it came, accompanied by a ‘as is biscuit” from Griffins table! I t w ’ “ ISCQIt i accordingly, much to the chagrin of prJ'jj and( ‘ De r prides himself upon knowing how to do all a- ’ * ho to editing a daily newspayer ! Yes s ," ng *’ e,,e n veritable newspaper, emitted the ‘EffingW a of the 20th nit. and edited by ‘‘thete an Ter >’ shown to ns by a passenger, who chanced ***’ copy at the Hotel. We noted a few of so PK * Dp a the benefit of our readers and here they ing Trips,” 2d “Wood, meals and water ” in favor of a strike among the Light-wood Dealers. 3d. “Killing Stock” or breaking **? backs as easy as ajug of whiskey. 4th. ‘Hi<df —a contagious disease which the Editor never w- culated for, having taken it the natural wav “catching shad,” a descriptive account of an Sir heller” and other amusements of those diggi ns respectfully solicit an exchange with this spri u h,l v 6 temporary, if we are not presumptuous in the of a daily for our weekly. 1 ** But, however, matters may be cooked at the H> mile House, we found that there was a balm f,, r j peeticstomachs at the 90. Here that prince of < !. an j* Landlords, Mr. James Griffin, is “mine host” an/r'.Z well does he, aided by Madame Griffin, prepare- tfle conaiments, and in such variety as to please the „ fastidious. Not only the substantantials of li| f . as Bacon, Turkey, Pig, Roast, Flesh and Fowl, but a]! the delicacies of the season, are served up in a genv j style. “May his shadow never be less,” nor hia {„ tunes less sure! But u tempo, fugxt.” So mueb far our trip to tide water. Its remembrance will be peas ant to us until we have a chance to repeat the reality ! A \eat Room, “A neat, clean, airy apartment, with a vine growing around the bright window, and a flower-pot upon tW easement, with a green vigorous plant in it, lifting it* broad leaves to the sunshine ! What better Parade need man covet? But in that room, let there be good books, and now and then let it echo with the laughter of childhood and the cheerful conversation of a friend In winter let the hearth glow with a cheerful flame.— And who is there in this wide country, who might not with proper care and exertion be made the happy pos sessor of such a room ? This is a labor paying world. True, sometimes a great deni of labor is demanded far a little pay. but a little pay buys many sources erf en joyment, and even of luxury. And then the free air and the sunshine—the flowers and the birds—the bright rain drops and the gentle breeze—the gar winged insects with their music, and the glorious sun shine and sunset ? Are not these free for all to enjor, without money and without price ?’’ We are indebted for the above to the Lady Editor of the Madison (Ga.,) Family Visiter, MissC. W. Bar ber, so well aud favorably known as a successful con tributor to the standard Magazines of the day. Every one will see that she has a just appreciation of the beau ties of domestic life, yet strange to say, her precept doc* not accord with her practise, on this very subject. She doubtless is the “happy possessor” of the “neat room.” embellished, as in her picture, with its flower pot and plant, its good books, etcetera, but there is one thing lacking to the completeness of the * ‘paradise.” Par don us for the hint that “now and then echo” is not heard to resound w ithin the fairy castle of domes tic felicity which she has reared, unless it is a borrotetd echo! Cadets of Temperance. On Thursday evening last, the Installation of ther Officers elect, of the Section of Cadets, S. of T.,eame at the division Room, before a respectable assem blage of citizens. Avery appropriate and highly instructive address was delivered by Rev. J)r. Capers to the young pi oneers in the Temperance cause, after whieh the mony of installation was duly performed. The follow ing are the names of the Officers, for the present term: Dr. 3. W. Benson, Worthy Patron. Master W. B. Cotton, Archon. “ B. 11. Wriolkt, Vice Archon. “ T.G. Holt, Secretary. “ C. Anderson, Assistant Secretary. “ Loval Cowles, Treasurer. “ Henry Flint, Guide. g W. H. Ross, Usher. G. C. Freeman, Watchman. Old Sumter Bristling.— A warm Union writes us from Sumter county, as follows : “Old Sumter is always ready and especially for the : coming contest for Governor. Let the Convention pot up a man that is sound on the subject of the l nion, and who has been so from the beginning, and we go in for him, the whole hog, the tail, and the LrifiUc* Eonch’s of Kilby. —We have received a supply of this unique and brilliant Book of Poetry, from th* pen of Dr. Thomas 11. Chivers, of this State, now m New York, which we cannot too highly recommend to. the notiee of the literary public. There is an orignah ty, fervor aud profundity in thewritings of Dr C. show him to be a man of rare genius and fine erudition. Gems of the purest water sparkle all throng the little volume before us, “ “ Like orient pearls at random strung, hut it takes the eye ui a menu y ui.pidarj their intrinsic valqe and justly appreciate them- L • the Dramas of Shaksßeare, tho “Roach* Ru * will develope ne w beauties at every reading, ong _ * a passing glance, it might be voted dull and uniate*'**” ing by the mass of readers. For sale at tbs Boo*. and at this Office. Asa specimen of the author we would refer to a Poem, in to-day'6 paper, “The place where I was Born.” If Is, we * tiful production. II ‘ | 1 it ft i ;; I -* r H . i \ II . ■■ fr f . . ;H H: II I A