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. inerii for rain water is in the third story, filled by
pipes troni the eaves, and drawn oft’ by a fawcet in the
1 asement. The walls in the Parlors are white—much
t*o white to be pleasant to the eye. The various en
-ries are ornamented with flowered and bronzed paper.
ke it up one side, and down the other, and you can
ac nothing more nor less out of it than one of the
ders of the nineteenth century. A circular form
.11 have taken fewer bricks, and cost the owner less
honey.
Ur- ‘Veils, who, I am told, is from the South, has
a beautiful place a little distance beyond this, which I
k” better. I went into the Garden, saw the Gardener,
nd examined his mode of grafting Cherries and Pears.
He showed me a two years old bud-graft which was in
a \ery thriving condition. I examined the Strawberry
bee a, which were very beautiful—only they w’ere too
•mall. They were the Boston Fine, and the Honey
Seedling. II had hot-bed Lettuces as big as a rab
bits, and as white as a hound's tooth.
Mr. Norton’s house, immediately opposite Dr. Wells,
is the greatest curiosity in this city. It appears to me
to be half Pagoda, half Chinese, and half Tartar in its
composition. If there ever was any such thing in the
world as an order of Architecture composed of three
halves, Mr. Bristol’s house in Chapel street is a thou
rnd times more beautiful. Nearly all the houses in
this city are built of wood, and painted white, which
gives them a very gay appearance—making the place
look like the country in the city. The style is very
nest and simple Those in the vicinity of the New
Green are very beautiful
The Waiters of the Tontine are all Negroes. It is
like returning to the South again, to see Darkies wait
ing on the Table. These are all likely, fat fellows, worth
st least a thousand dollars a-pieeo—and very polite
withal.
I went into a Barber’s shop this morning to get
shaved, and during the operation the head barber, (un
doubtedly inspired by the anticipation of getting a six
pence,).descanted with inafl’uble delight upon the re
membrance of his ancient love for a certain Miss Lans
ing ; and the way he did revel in the thought of a
speedy reunion with her, is a sin to those v. lto never
loved.
They were both v ry bright Mulattoes, and talked
Yankee “likke a house afire.’ To hear a “Nigger’ talk
Yankee is truly a delight. It is truly astonishing how
they do love money.
But if you wish to hear the real yankee language
spoken to perfection, you must go and visit the ladies.
I was in the company of several last evening who spoke
it very fluently indeed. A beautiful blue-eyed girl
said to another, 4 Well, Fanny, I do believe from the
rattle of your tongue that the Old Buy is in youV
‘ Yes,’ said Fanny, “I feel a young Devil kicking in me
just about the size of a Woodchuck.’ 4 Why from
your last speech,’ said the other, ‘one would suppose
that you were getting smart,’ ‘yes,’ said Fanny; 4 1 am
getting as smart as a Steel-trap .’ ‘I swan, Fanny,’ said
the other “if you don’t stop spinning your long yarn 1
shall certainly die! 4 Well,’ replied Fanny,’ 1 shall
be happy to go to your funeral. The fact is, Suzy, 1
dreamt last night that you were as dead as mother
Dumpling's Ducks.’
Susan, in speaking of the sapheadedness of a certain
student of the College, said that she had more sense in
thj* nollow of her foot than he would ever have in his
head. Fanny, looking her full in the face, said, 4 Do
you carry coppers in your gaiters, Susy ?’
Susn. in order to beguile Fanny from cutting her so
de ply, said, 4 Come, Fanny, give us some of those
Conundrums you promised us last night.’ “ I never
promised you any Conundrums last night,''replied Fan
*T- 4 “ ell, wha'. did you promise us, then?’ asked Su
*n. 4 1 promised to give you a Columbus returned
Fanny. 4 Well, give it to us then,’ asked Susan. “Will,
you promise me not to be angry ?’ asked Fanny. Cer
tainly I will,’ replied Susan. 4 Well,’ continued Fan
ny * why is a lady who wears a bustle like the
foal of a Jeanette P Susan, at first, blushing, then
turning pale, said— 4 I give it up, I know nothing at
all about it — solve it yourself? Fanny then rose
from her chair, and whispering in the ear of Susan,
•aid, what will not be recorded here. Susan screamei
and left the room.
This Fanny beats the devil—yet, every body knows
that a finer being never lived. This is her way , and
you can no more change her than you can the spots on
a Leopard’s skin.
Somebody asked her the other evening what was the
oriAnal cause of her excessive eolloquialitv. ‘Well,
shy replied, ‘I will tell you. When I was a baby, I was
tdngue-tied. The Doctor cut the string loose, and
ever since I have had no way of holding my tongue.’
4 Oh! Fanny! Fanny!’ laughed somebody, ‘You
will certainly be the death of us.’ ‘Well,’ replied Fan
ny, ‘if it is God’s will that we shall all die, I hope he
will take care of us. For my part, I never intend to
die as long as I can live.’
I wrote you some time ago about the manner in
which the Tribune kept up the excitement about the
4 Rappings ’ in this part of the Union -for God forbid
that any such thing should ever happen at the South.
If it should, \V9 have a song there entitled 4 Stop Dat
Knocking which will completely put an end to any
such
The Tribune publishes a letter from a fellow in Otse
go who is the best sample of a rascal of any of the nu
merous scoundrels who have recently written upon that
entertaining topic called the l ßappings.’ I will not
quote the letter, but refer you to the Tribune of the
sth inst. Read it aud debate with yourself which is
the meaner, the letter, or HoraceGreely’s 4 Remarks’
upon it.
He republishes a letter, recently written by Cassius
M. Clay, in regard to the Fugitive Slave Law, where
in he attempts to prove that the passage of the law
was unconstitutional. He quotes some remarks made
by James Ma-disomand Roger Sherman to vindicate this
he. If Ckosiug'Yl. Clay, of Kentucky, should tell a
lie, and Horace Greely, of New York, should repub
lish it, he would endorse that lie. This is the sum
and substance of the whole matter. This he does eve
ry day of his life.
The Hillhouse mentioned in a former part of this
ivtter, is the auther of Percy's Mask, and other Dra
matic writings of very inconsiderable merit.
As I was going up the street this morning towards
hit house, I met a little boy of whom I enquired the
way. He pointed it out to me, stating that if he had
the time he would go on with me and show me the
place. I thanked him very kindly and passed on. Pre
sently the little fellow came running after me and
went on with me. As we were going along he said.
* Well, the first man who ever invented a Locomotive
must have had an awful wise head.’
If you wish to see real pleasure, let grown people
alone, and enjoy the society of little folks. I have long
since ceased to believe in any body but the unsnpliisti
sa.’ed young. There i9 no such thing as pure friend
ship in this world, but the friendship of a good woman
or a child. I have sought them so often that I can win
them to me in a moment. Give me the friendship of a
pure woman and that of a well educated child, and I
will ask for no richer a Heaven U|H>n /earth. I never
saw a good child yet whose could not win.
Whenever you lay your hand upon the head of a child
to bless it, you touch the garments of Christ, and feel
Lis spirit pass into yoa. T. 11. C.
LETTER FROII COLUMBUS.
Columbus, April 21, 1851.
Dear Doctor: —l received this morning, the
3d number ofVol. 2d, of your invaluable paper,
the “Georgia Citizen” very properly named. It
is, most assuredly, a neat, spicy, rich and inter
esting sheet; in fact the “Ne Plus Ultra ” of
a weekly journal, and consequently a welcome
family visitor.
Columbus is very dull, nothing of any con
sequence doing, and if it were not for the laugh,
now and then raised, at the expense of some
stray luckless wight, we would all die of the dis
ease so common among brother cotton buyers
and disappointed politicians, vulgarly called
Long—phiz—coh-je-hem-ma-ne.
Some four weeks ago, a gentleman arrived
here from New Orleans, a Professor of Electro-
Biology; his eloquent lectures, and successful
experiments, combined with a handsome person,
won for him the applause of all who heard and
aaw him, particularly the ladies, who, in “token
f their friendship and esteem,” loaded him
~ ith the choicest nosegays, culled by their
•wn feir rarer Angers, from the dominions of
lovely Flora. Such “tokens of esteem” for a
stranger, were well calculated to awaken in the
bosoms of our amiable young gentlemen a beau
quit electric feeling they could not well control.
They met! They determined, awful to relate;
from that moment up to the present hour, Tur
nips, Leeks, Shalotts, and Radishes have riz,
and the french gentleman smells awfully of
“ingens.”
Another gentleman from New Orleans, made
a bet of one hundred dollars, that his horse
could pace round our race track in two minutes,
fifty-five seconds, and by-bets amounting to be
tween two and three hundred dollars, making
all bets w ith the understanding that, he would
notify the parties twenty-four hours before his
horse would start. Money up, and all tilings
fixed but the horse, the gentleman, as aforesaid,
went to work a rubbing, scrubbing and training
his steed, and when his horse w as, as he thought,
jest about right, on Monday, informed the par
ties that he would win their bets next day at
four o’clock I’. M.
Now excitement began to rage, in the various
sporting circles, groups of men and boys could
be seen in all parts of the town, discussing the
merits of the numerous horses they had know n,
and the New Orleans horse in particular. Bet
ting ran high. Some five dollars; “hangers on”
about groceries, invariably betting gincock
tails, or cigars, whilst the most prudent went
no higher than “a bit’s worth of apples” or “a
pint ot goobers.” Thus tilings went on finely,
to the great amusement of two or three indi
viduals, who, a close observer might have dis
covered from the peculiar leer of the eye, to be
up to some deviltry. True enough next morn
ing about nine o’clock, here comes a long tall,
gaulky looking chap, on horse back, hunting
“the New Orleans man, what ow ned that thar
horse what was gwieu to run to-day.” The
gentleman made his appearance, and, to his ut
ter astonishment, was informed by his interest
ing looking messenger, that “ some darned cuss
ploughed up the track last night, so deep, that
he eould’nt walk his horse round it in a fort
night:’ This put an end to the race; the “New
Orleans man” is unwilling to make another—
perfectly satisfied to draw stakes, and escape
with his horse uninjured.
The supposed Cuba expedition created quite
an excitement among a certain class of our fel
low-citizens; a number started last week, and
are, by this time, on their rough and trackless
path to the impregnable Isle of the Gulf. It is
thought by some, in fact whispered in private
circles, —but of course no one will say, with any
degree of certainty, that the expedition is being
gotten up for the purpose of aiding South Car
olina in her anticipated revolt against the Uni
ted States of America. Now, there may be a
few, who believe these flying rumors, from the
strange way tl.at several of the recruits and the
supposed officers started; some went on horse
back, others in carriages, and telling the own
ers of the conveyances to call on “the Treasur
eracertain Military chieftain of Mexican war
notoriety, aud ex-official, for pay. This is cer
tainly a very progressive age, and we are a ve
ry progressive people.
We have had quite a freshet lately in these
parts, of which you have been duly notified
through the papers of this city. Little of any
thing is stirring in the political world; many ot
the legal gentry are absent, attending our courts,
setting wires and making arrangements for the
coming contest. Judging from the political
Barometers of this section of the State, we shall
have to meet our political enemies, in the fall,
on the same old battle ground. \\ ell, ice will
meet them, and we will defeat them. The “Union
ot the States,’’ “Peace and good will towards
men’’ will most assuredly triumph over ‘‘Disu
nion, bloodshed, anarchy and confiscation.
I will, whenever an opportunity offers, write
to you about matters and things, as I travel
along. Until then, I remain vours, <tc.
UNCLE TOBY.
LETTER FROM COLUMBUS.
Columbus, April 21, 1851.
Dear Citizen: —What in the world lias become of
Uncle Toby ? Heretofore he has been the “ eliiel arnang
us takiu’ notes ” for you “ to print ‘em ” and now at
this juncture when there are so many notes to take,
for him not to come forward is indeed surprising. We
in these capes have watched jour recent issues with
much anxietj’ in the vain hopes to see something from
his spirited pen. Since we last heard from him we
have had Circuses, Concerts—Halls—Fairs—Temper
ance Lectures, Nigger singing—Peliycology, Mesmer
ism and all ther otlie ‘ ologies ’ and ‘ isms ’of the day,
each in their turn in the full tide of experiment and all
more or less productive in their own way of something
which Uncle Toby could easily serve up and render
palatable to your numerous readers. Our town,
Mr. Editor, never had (as j-ou well know) any great
fondness for nigger singing, and as to Circuses, such
exhibitions are held by the good people here in unver
sal detestation; Circus proprietors invariably go around
Columbus when travelling through the country, they
receive no patronage and artistic talent is not appreciat
ed by our Citizens. Now and then a company of Sa
ble melodists call a temporary halt with us. but there is
rarely more than one entertainment given before our
refinement is shocked—our proverbial modesty put to
the blush—and demonstrations on the part of the peo
ple, every way unmistakeable, that we have no affinity
for exhibitions of such character. As au evidence of these
truths, the Circus managers rarely ever remain in our
town more than four times as long as in any other town
of twice its size—and the Niggers’ Concert rooms
rarely have more in them than could be comfortably
quartered in four times the space. Oil yes ! we have
a mortal detestation of such exhibitions.
Our fun lovers here had a rich treat not long ago in
the way of Dancing dee. An alarmingly large Bull was
got up in an alarming short space of time, and for tile
openly and publicly avowed purpose of alarming the
town. Just think, my dear Citizen, of a set of mis
chievous fellows with impudence enough to come out
in the face of open day and propose so alarming a plan.
Isnt it monstrous ? All the old maids and widows
were dreadfully frightened. Notwithstanding all this,
however, the project was consummated—it was carried
out to the letter. Such a Hall! you should have been
there by all means to see for yourself, and a descrip
tion in full from your graphic quill would have repaid
your readers for a few year’s subscription to your paper.
J ews, Gentiles—Dutch—lrish—German—ltalian
Bloods, half Bloods and Scrubs were all there, and
the mischief knows how many more and worse. The
dance was opened by our little friend with Mrs.
fora partner who is fair and forty, who though
she tripped along nimbly enough could not he said to
trip the light fantastic toe—for the reason—that the
body resting on that toe lacked I should guess at least
300 lbs, of being ‘as light as the down on a Linnet’s
wing.’ The diminutive dimensions of Mr. were
entirely hidden the lookers on bj’ the superior
bodily proportions of Mrs. as they whirled in
extaeiee along the mazes of the dance.
\\ agers were made between our two friends, Joe
and John, as to who should acquit himsef with the
most credit and come out best at the heel of the hunt,
Die lair and fat one aforesaid or a certain other of the
feminine gender from some where over the‘Atlantic’
who in the early stages of the llall gave evidence of
extra skill and ability.
* * * • * * *
This was the ridiculous part of the show—the re
mainder passed off in fine style. The above ar
rangement having of course been studiously concealed
from the recherche and over fastidious—and known
only to those present who relished such amusement.
Indeed I have not been informed that the ladies thom
■elves knew any thing of the betting—nor that they
were competing with each other for the victory. I said
the Ball was got up with a special view to alarm the
town. So it was Mr. Editor, the proceeds thereof have
ere this been sent, I presume, to the North, to pur
chase a Bell with which to alarm the town in eases of
fire. I was not present at the Ball but I heard from it
and that’s authority enough for this letter.
Biology or anew fashioned mode of mesmerizing
was the next excitement we had oh the rapis. Indeed
I bebevr the Pfefeetvr was himself a prominent char -
acter at the Ball, from wliat I have heard the Ball
would not have been a Ball without him. Be that as
it may his lectures and experiments have for a while
discomposed the apathy of our good folks and had us all
in a perfect whirl of excitement. Bis lectures were so
generally attended by the ladies that a certain Rev. gen
tleman who was called upon a few evenings ago to de
fiver a lecture on the subject of Temperance —flew off
at a tangent from his subject and assuming to himself
every authority and prerogative that vanity could sug
gest railed out against the dear creatures in a manner
at least unexpected aud undesired. The Rev. gentle
man has the right by prescription to come down like a
thousand of brick on his parishioners or others who go
to hear him preach, but for him by a special request, to
get up to deliver a temperance speech, and afterwards,
contrary to all expectation and to the desire of his hear
ers and of those who got him to speak, to leave his sub
ject, a subject selected for him, and launch out such
invectives as lie did against our wives and sweethearts
and all for nothing, was so unwarranted as to displease
every lady with whom I have conversed on the subject
since, and to engender reflections in the minds of men
who think on the subject not at all favorable to the
Rev. gentleman himself.
His stern admonitions to the ladies and his deter
mination that no praise should be awarded by his lips
as long as they countenanced humbuggery in the way
of visiting mesmerizing exhibitions had the effect to
mar the enjoyment of the ladies, as much as his stric
tures on the style of speaking adopted by our able lec
turer S. M. Hewlett conspired to produce dissatisfaction
and displeasure among the members of the order of S.
of T. The Rev. gentleman has a holy lioror of anec
dote on such occasions, and yet 1 nave heard him tell
of Mocassin whiskey and merchants backrooms on
similar occasions. The Rev. gentleman was accounted
good at anecdote in such cases till Hewlett came along
lie was then only second rate, and it suddenly became
necessary to discard that style of speaking. Does any
one remember the parson's anecdotes at the Hall last
4th July when Cos!. Reiser was here. Anecdote was
then the mode. Now Mr. Editor I regret I have said
a word on this subject, since it has led me too fur. I
only intended to fulfil my promise to some ladies, so
that the Rev. Mr. may know his lecture was produc
tive of no good, but on the contrary probably did some
harm. I shall say no more; I have grown censorious
when I intended to be good humored. The displeasure
I have thus unwillingly displayed proves I have still
more on hand. Having as I conceive good reason to
apprehend something of a more pungent character on
this san e subject front sources if not more sincere at
least more influential, lam Mr. Editor with every
apology for intruding, thus unbidden.
Thine externally and internally,
SCRIBBLER.
CIRCULAR.
MACON, Ga., April 21. 1851. ‘
Dear Sir :
During the sitting of the State Agricultural Fair at
Atlanta last August, the necessity of a system of Com
mon Schools in Georgia, was discussed by a number
of the friends of Education, there assembled. The
result of their deliberations was the appointment of
the undersigned Committee, instructed and clothed with
power to call a Convention, as the initiative step in
arousing the public mind, to a proper consideration of
the subject. In pursuance of that duty, we called a
Convention to be held last fall, but the pendency of an
exciting political canvass, subsequently suggested the
propriety of postponing its meeting. Deeming the
time propitious for th good work, we have renewed
the call for a Convention, to be held on the eighth day
of July next at Marietta.
And now Sir, permit us most respectfully to ask your
aid and co-operation in this noble movement. The
forthcoming Census will show that there are tens of
thousands of adults in Georgia, who catinot read or write.
Indeed the proportion of these, to the whole popula
tion is astounding, alarming, mortifying. And jet we
vaunt inucJh of our State, and justly too of her im
provements. But our glory and our shame are inti
mately associated. Along the iron pathway of our Rail
Roads, we encounter these unlettered citizens, and find
them in crowds, in our Factories and work shops.—
Thus through the pencils of light, radiating from our
-boosted Improvements, there is seen a dark back
ground, which must be covered with the resplendent
sheen of Education, before Georgia can display a full
orbed, luminous disc, in the galaxy of States.
And how long shall this state of tilings continue ?
How long will Georgia continue to impose the solemni
ties of Oaths, upon her poor, ignorant citizens, without
an effort to enlighten their understandings ana con
sciences ? I low long will she enthrone ignorance in
the Jury Box, and give forth its decrees through
the Ballot Box? How long shall each recurring Cen
sus publish to the world, that our old Commonwealth,
still lingers at an immeasurable distance, behind the
advancing civilization of the age? These are questions
worthy of the profound consideration of Statesmen,
Philanthropists, and Patriots. Compared with them,
the mere polemics of Party or Sect, are as worthless,
as the vague disquisitions of Socialists and Bosieru
cians.
It cannot liavc escaped j'ou, that eminent Statesmen
and Savans, from the Old World, visiting our countrj’,
with one accord, rank the States of the North as the
model States of the Confederacy, because there, Edu
cation is generally diffused. The Common School
System of those States, are the theme of their eloquent,
and never ending panegyric. Nor can it have escaped
you, that on this very account, just but humiliating
comparisons are constantly drawn between the North
and the South—comparisons which humble the other
wise proud crest of the South, the more because this
is the favoured section of the Union, upon which na
ture has lavished her munificent treasures of wealth
and fertile soil. Surely if Massachusetts and Connec
ticut have cast the light of Education, all over their
rocky, sterile hills ; Georgia should at once begin to
spread its beams athwart her fertile plains, in her beau
tiful valleys, and alone ‘the sides of her ore embedded
mountains. If 4 Knowledge is Power,’it is all powerful
and necessary to a people, who have amongst them a
race, that must be kept in subjection. Not to enlarge
on this hint, if you so hold, give to us your influence
and active co-operation, in the great object of arousing
ihe public mind to the importance of Common School
Education.
We delight in the boast that ours is a Republican
State, and consults “the greatest good, of the greatest
number.” And yet Sir, compare Georgia’s indiffer
ence on this subject, with the enlightened policy of
Prussia. Prussia, the defender of legitimacy, the
champion if you please of despotism, delights to make
the light of Education stream around the hearthstones
of her humblest, poorest citizens. Whilst Republican
Georgia, with all her love for the dear people, suffers
thousands of her citizens to live and die, ignorant of
the great truths of her Religion, aud without the first
just conception of her Daws and Instiutions. Shame
upon us ! Shame upon us! Let our orators cease
their laudations of Georgia, and loud diapasons of the
Press, in sounding her glory, be forever stilled, until as
a State she wakes up to the true majesty of her destiny.
And now Sir, we beg you do not discourage us, or
be discouraged yourself, because vast difficulties are in
the way of this vaster enterprise. All great enterpris
es have been urged on to a successful result, bj’ an in
domitable few', in the face of what seemed to be insup
erable obstacles. Luther and his small hand of co-la
borers, would never have rolled the effulgence of t>re
reformation, upon the moral darkness of the World,
if they had regarded difficulties. A few bold, gener
ous minds in the a good cause, ever must and will suc
ceed. We have ultimately to rely upon the Legisla
ture for the adoption and endowment of a system of
Common Schools, suitable to the condition of our peo
ple. To bring the Representatives up to so great a
wmrk, we must operate upon the Constituent body
We must agitate, agitate—and thus as in England, eve
ry great reform, and important measure of State poli
cy, of late years, lias been caused by agitation, so we
shall carry this crowning measure of Georgia’s glory,
if we begin with zeal and hold on with fidelity. Let
us meet then in Convention at Marietta, strong in
numbers it is to he hoped ; but few or many, still
strong in the dignity of our cause, and the certainty of
its eventual triumph.
In conclusion we appeal to you, by every considera
tion, that can inspire generous impulses,- to give us
your efficient assistance. • If you wish to bless the poor
and make them happy, push on this movement. If yon
wii'h * serve the rich, by ‘browing the best safeguard*
around property, push on this movement. It will make
the State powerful, and commanding. It will make
the Church prosperous, by blazing the way in the
wilderness for the triumphal progress of Christianity.
It will adorn society, by forcing up many splendid intel
lects from its lowest depths, to sport like Leviathans on
its surface. It will build up our high Schools and Col
leges, by putting our entire population, under contribu
tion for their support. It will quicken productive indus
try, and moke wealth start into life, from a thousand
newly impregnated energies, that otherwise would re
main dormant forever. It will make Georgia, what
Georgians will glory in her being, a Commonwealth of
educated freemen.
Yours Respectfully,
THOMAS F. SCOTT,
ALONZO CHURCH, |
JAMES A. NISBET, } Committee.
BENJAMIN F. SNIDER, |
SIMPSON FOUCIIE.
THE GEORGIA CITIZEN.
L. F. W. ANDREWS, EDITOR.
MACON, GA. APRIL 26, 1851.
To < orrespondents. —“ Muckalee’ from Sum
ter, too late for this week and a little too salty for next!
Shall thina of it.
gFF’ Subscribers who wish the direction of their
papers changed must notify us at their own expense,
especially if tliey have not paid their subscription.
£§1?” Numerous letters and favors on hand, which
must lay over. Hold up, good sirs, till we get through
with the budget oil our table.
One Week Laßr from Europe!
(By Toßgraplf.;
Baltimore, 23th April, 1831.
The Steamship “Asia” lias arrived at New-YorK,
with Liverpool dates to the 12ili inst.
Cotton had declined l-4d the week previous with
sales of 30,000 bales—Fair Orleans, 7 5-8; do Mo
bile 7 1-4, do Upland 7 1-8.
Steamer Alabama— Wo are indebted to
Messrs. Paddleford, Fay A Cos. for several copies
of New York papers of Saturday last, brought
to Savannah on Tuesday per Steamer Alabama.
She came out in usual time, with full freight and
passengers.
Horticultural Exhibition.— On yesterday,
there was quite a pretty little display of flowers, rare
plants, fruit Ac., at Oldershaw’s Rooms, Cotton Ave
nue. Also, at the same place, were exhibited some
eight varieties ofSpanish, Malay and China Fowls and
chickens from the premises of Charles Collins, Esq.
Quickest Passage yet.— The American
Mail Steamer Pacific arrived at New York, on
Saturday last, from Liverpool, making the run
from port to port, in nine days, 21 hours, and
30 minutes ! The following is the Commercial
news brought by this vessel, nothing important
in the political world. Cotton about the same,
as at last advices. Upland and Mobiles are
quoted at seven and three eighths ; Orleans sev
en and three-quarters. During the last three
days there were sold 11,000 bales.
110, for Cuba !—On Tuesday evening last a
company of two or three hundred from Chero
kee and other parts of the State, left this city,
by extra train,for the seabord, cn route to Cuba.
They were mostly men of desperate fortunes
who “leave their country for their country’s
good,” if not for their own. While here they
manifested such a belligerent spirit as to attract
the attention of our own efficient police. One
blow from the ten pin mace of a Deputy Mar
shal was, however, sufficient to make a crowd
of fifty take tojlfreir scrapers in.less than no
time,provingb'jjr’ l to powess at ffust one of the
saving .i guOC soldier—'that us supe
rior lcg-loct^^Bn. ( I hgy took “French Leave”
and “ in a way that would
have debghffa the Captain General of Cuba,
could he have witnessed the performance. In
the crowd, we observed a few of the better
class of Georgia’s sons, who, we fear, have boen
duped into a scheme of exceedingly doubtful
expediency and propriety, by certain men in
“high places.” It is indeed, no longer a ques
tion who are mixed up in this business.
The Treasurer of the concern in Columbus is
none other than John Forsyth, of the Columbus
“Times.” This is sufficient of itself to cast sus
picion upon the whole movement. It indicates,
pretty clearly, that the disunionists of the South
are bent on embroiling this Government in a
conflict with Spain and other allied powers of
Europe, and should caution the public against
their machinations. “ T e hope that the lYesi
dent will see to it that no invasion of Cuba,
from these States will be connived at or per
mitted. If desperate men resolve to become
pirates on the high seas and hucaneers at large,
let them take the chance of the garrotte or the
“hempen doom” which they deserve, but let
notour national Flag be desecrated by any such
atrocities. When the people of Cuba rise in
successful revolution and overthrow a tyranical
Government, it will befall time for us to extend
“aid and symphathy” to the liberators. But
until then, the expedition is dishonorable and
wicked, and should receive the condemnation
of everv friend of law and order and constitu
tional liberty, in the Union. We have no appre
hensions, however, that this 2d crusade against
Cuba,will be more successful than the first. Lo
pez had only 25 followers when he left the
Balize a few days since. There is a French and
English war steamer cruising in the West In
dies, also a Spanish steamer and an American
vessel of war or two. How then, can a hand
full of undisciplined men hope to reach the is
land, much less overthrow its Government, ev
en if they are permitted to leave our shores for
such a purpose. ‘Tis madness to think of it.
Wliat a W hopper !—The Federal Ruin man
says that the Fugitive case in Boston is “the
first that has been returned to labor and service
under the provisions of the late law.” Now,
if our memory does not deceive us, there have
been more tlmn half a dozen cases altogether of
this description, since the passage of the Fugi
tive Slave Law. In the name, then, of veracity,
why will Campbell thus hood-wink his readers ?
State Amis. —lt is said that loaded boxes
of arms from the State Arsenal lately passed
through this place, up the Macon & Western
Road, ostensibly for some new volunteer com
pany, hut which were brought down again
about the time of the arrival of the Cuban ad
venturers. Can any body tell “ what’s in the
wind ?”
Going otrilaif-cockcd. —Some of our co
temporaries seem disposed to crowd our friend
Gen. Cass off the course, to make way for Mr.
Buchanan, on the next Presidential race track,
and flatter themselves that the latter can receive
a large Southern support. It is an “error of the
moon ’to suppose any such thing. Cass can
get every electoral vote that Buchanan can, in
the South, and in the West and North-west he
can distance the Pennsylvanian, without a strug
gle. He is moreover as sound on the Slavery
question as any N< athern Statesman and quite
as deserving as the man who"once boasted that
if he “had a drop of democratic blood in his
veins, lie would let it out.” Perhaps this is the
secret which causes some of our politicians to
lean towards Buchanan like a sick cat to a hot
brick. We shall see what we shall see, but if there
is any foul riding, we are bound to tell of it,cer
tain. If the Union nomination is fairly made,
whether of Olay, Webster, Dickinson, Dallas,
Cass, Fillmore, or any other good man, we shall
be found in the front rank, battling in hissupport,
but otherwise, —otherwise it shall be.
Professor Spencer.
This far-famed and extraordinary personage,
it will be seen from the advertising column, is
about to revisit our city, and give a Lecture
and course of experiments on the science of
Mesmerism, Psychology and kindred subjects.
He is the same gentleman, who, a few years
ago, took Columbus, Macon and other places,
in Georgia, by storm, by his wonderful powers
over the will, understanding and corporeal func
tions of his subjects. He then established a
reputation as au accomplished professor of the
mysterious and magical art of Mesmerism, which
several years of experience since has enabled
him to maintain and extend. In the prosecu
tion of his enquiries into the arcana of man’s
metaphysical nature he has made new and yet
more wondrous discoveries, which he will dem
onstrate to his audiences, in such a way as to
blend amusement with instruction. We are
aware, that it is somewhat hazardous to an Ed
itor’s reputation for sagacity, in these days of
bold and reckless humbuggery, for him to com
mend a Biologist or Psychologist to public con
sideration. But from a personal acquaintance
with the superior ability of Mr. Spencer in this
line of experiment, we have no hesitation, what
ever, in saying, that he is “head and shoul
ders” above all that have appeared in these
parts, and eminently entitled as a gentleman,
to the favorable regard of the community. The
following extract from a late Charleston paper
will give our readers some idea of the nature of
the experiments performed by Mr. Spencer :
Mr. Spencer —Continues to attract and
surprise our citizens at Hibernian Hall, every
evening. His Lectures are full of interest, and
his experiments are perfectly astounding, lie
calls ten or fifteen to the stage, from his au
dience, and influences many of them to that de
gree, that they are subject to his will through
out the evening. Under this mysterious influ
ence, they eat raw potatoes and consider them
apples, pears, drc. They are made sick as he
talks to them of tobacco, smoking, &c.; and he
has already effected cures of a power to chew
or smoke, which he assures us are permanent.
They drink water, think it wine, or brandy, and
become merry, then intoxicated. They will
sing, aud with their left arm for a fiddle—a
cane for the bow, they play any tune. But what
is most astounding, is the time he holds til's
influence. On Thursday night, he caused a
young gentleman from the up-country, to dig
and till his pockets with gold in California, and
under the impression of his enormous wealth,
he strutted about like a lord. Mr. 8. caused
him to change it for pieces of newspaper—
which he received as drafts and bills to the
amount of a hundred thousand dollars, plank
ing his gold dust. Mr. S., directed him to call
at the South Carolina Bank the next morning
at 9 o’clock, and change his drafts and notes for
specie. The young man left the Hall with all
the conscious pride of wealth, told his friends
he had been to California, and returned with a
hundred thousand, in dust, for which he had
drafts and bills in his pocket. Yesterday morn
ing some hundreds had collected in the vicini
ty of the Bank, to see the denouement. The
young gentleman came a few moments pre
vious to 9, and on being congratulated on his
wealth, said he had some, but dug for it in Cal
ifornia. Soon after nine, he walked into the
bank, and proposed the exchange, counted out
his draft, told the different banks the bills were
on, dtc. On being told it was a large amount,
he said he worked hard for it. But tire teller
informed him that his money was not good ; or,
in other words, it was counterfeit. He appear
ed loth to believe it so,but finally took it to go to
the Broker, who, he said, should make it good.
On meeting Mr. Spencer, he demanded the
amount of SIOO,OOO, saying “ I gave yon that
in pure California gold, and you gave me coun
terfeit money !” u They sav it is so at the
bank,” He even threatened with earnestness,
to put him in prison, if he did not pay it. Mr.
S., said he would dispel the illusion, and the
subject would have no remembrance of it. lie
did so, and to many who inquired, the young
man answered, that he had not been to Cali
fornia, nor had he any money—neither had he
been to the bank at all.
When the illusion was on, he appeared very
positive about his money, but the recollection
of it passed when his supposed possession van
ished. This was a most surprising experiment,
—one which we never saw equalled. Mr. S.
is master of the subject, if we can call a man
master of the philosophy of mind.
Another Sneer at Mechanics !
The Columbus “Sentinel” of last week, joins
in the “ hue and cry” of the Albany Patriot,
against the proposed Meeting of the mechanics,
in council at Atlanta, on the 4th of July, and
denounces the scheme as involving, “in his opin
ion, the germ of abolition in our midst,” Ac.—
This is just what might be expected from one,
who, like the youthful editor of that print, has
been raised in the lap ot luxury and ease, and
who knows nothingof the toil and self-denying
labors of the hardy sons of industrial pursuits,
and who, of course, is therefore entirely unable
to appreciate the motives of the mechanics in
the contemplated movement. His overflowing
coffers are not the fruits of personal enterprize
and personal drudgery, but the bloated inheri
tance of broken-bank speculation which, in days
gone by, enriched the few, and beggared the
many. For such a youth to prate about his
love for a class, that in his soul he despises, is
supremely ridiculous. But when he goes fur
ther, and charges, that the mechanics are aboli
tionists in disguise, it is high time that the slan
derer should be rebuked, and his true character
and position made manifest to those whom he
has so wantonly traduced. And to this work
we pledge ourselves, if we see any more of such
unwarrantable intermeddling with matters that
do not concern him.
One word, here, as to the proposed Conven
tion of Mechanics. In our opinion, it is un
wise to call a mass meeting of mechanics in this
State. No such meeting can be gotten up at
this time. The mechanics can have a primary
meeting —to take council together as to their
best interests, and their elevation as a class, so
cially, morally and intellectually. They have
the right, also, to consider and endeavor to re
dress in a peaceful and constitutional way, any
political evils or grievances under which they
know and feel themselves to labor. But itis
yet too early, to form anything like a party or
ganization, to eft'eet the changes desired. The
public mind must first be enlightened on the
subject. The mechanics themselves must first
unite in some general plan, and ayree upon the
necessary measures which they deem needful
for the amelioration of their condition. They
must first be roused to a manly sense of the de
grading position they occupy, before the time
arrives for action at the ballot box, or otherwise.
Asa preparatory step to these results, we are in
favor of the proposed meeting at Atlanta —as a
mere advisory meeting of the brotherhood of
artizans and craftsmen, to consider matters of
general interest to themselves. We would not,
however, interfere with any political questions
of the day, nor establish any platform, ol a par
ty character. Such is not, we are sure, the in
tention of the “ Macon Mechanic’s Society.” If
it sends delegates to Atlanta, they will be in
structed to confine their deliberations to the le
gitimate topics above suggested. This we re
mark here, to silence all cavilling which may
be raised about the purposes of this association,
and to allay unjust prejudice against its mem
bers.
Nevertheless, it ought to be distinctly un
derstood, that the mechanics of the State, gen
erally, are not the class of men to be intimida
ted frorn seeking redress from real or supposed
grievances, in any way which may seem agreea
ble to themselves, by the jibes, taunts and cal
umnies of their opponents, especially from
those who have been holding political Conven
tions, for a year past, to plot treason against the
General Government. Several of such gath
erings have been held, recently,and it is all right,
according to the “ Sentinel” and other incen
diary prints, but when the mechanics propose
to hold a council for a perfectly lawful and
praisworthy object, those editorial harpies
pounce down upon them with the malice of de
mons! Goto, ye hypocrites! You might as
well denounce the proposed Convention of the
friends of “Common School Education,’’ at Ma
rietta, on the Bth of July, as that of the Mechan
ics. The object of both are identical, in most
respects, for none are more interested in common
schools than those, who are compelled by a
competition with servile labor, to work at such
reduced wages that will not permit them to
educate their children as freemen should do !
And the sequel will prove this, unless we have
lost our judgment of passing events.
Montpelier Institute. —This Institution com
mences its 21st Term, on the sth of June next, under
the continued care of that worthy and distinguished
EKdate, Bishop Elliott, and his excellent Assistant, the
Rev. S. G. Bragg. The retired situation and salu
brity of Montpelier and the enlightened management
of the Seminary present rare inducements to parents
to place their daughters under the Bishop’s guidance
and instruction.
The Fugitive. —Sims, the fugitive slave, has been
brought back safely to Savannah, and locked up. His
owner will not sell him, to go back to Boston, for any
price. lie is, however, a dangerous character among
his class, and should be placed beyond the power to do
mischief.
Common School Convention. —The reader
will recollect that a meeting will be held, at 11 o’clock
to-day, at the Council Chamber, to elect Delegates to
the Common School Convention proposed to be held at
Marietta on the Bth day of July next. The importance
of the subject should call out a full attendance of the
citizens. A shrewd Vermont Yankee once said to
a stranger who asked “what can you raise in this sterile
region ?”—“Our land is rough and poor; we can raise
but little produce, and so we build school houses and
churches, and raise men.”
. his is exactly the spirit of common schools. It is
to raise men, where dwarfs are now produced.
State Fair.—Weare exceedingly gratified at the
success of his honor the Mayor’s negotiation with, the
Committee of the State Agricultural Society, in. relation
to the locality and time of the next Annual Fair of the
Association. We are to have it in Macon, as will be
seen by a correspondence on the subject, in another col
umn. It remains for our citizens to do justice to the
judgment of the Committee, and make such arrange
ments as will satisfy the most fastidious that we are the
people , and this is the place for doing t*p things, in a
manner worthy of the State and the ocoasiou.
Tit for Tat. —The Athens Banner, in speak
ing of the nomination by the Columbus Times,
of Wilson Lumpkin, for Governor, and the ed
itor’s remark that L. was a “ Roman,' * thus
replied.
“ Put up your “ Roman,” we will beat him
with an American
To this the Times retorts thus, in the lan
guage of billingsgate:
1 .**. An American Cobb witjft Yankee
a democrat turned Federalist—a states-right
man denying the right of secession, and advis
ing force to put down a sovereign State stand
ing on her reserved rights.
“ I’d rather be a dog, and bay the moon
Than such” an “ American.”
This is complimentary, very, to such men as
Chappell, Lamar, Collins, Warner, Andrews,
and other Union Democrats of high standing,
but the bitterness and falsity of the thing de
stroys its sting and renders it harmless. Were
a rejoinder befitting,the Banner might well say,
’ l‘d rather be a toad ,
And live upon the vapors of a dungeon’’
than a native Georgian of honorable descent
with traitors allied,—a union man turned nulli
fies —an aristocrat with professions of democra
cy on his lips, or a Judas carrying the bag
wherein is gold wherewith to lure the unwary
into destruction under pretence of patriotism
and devotion to “Southern rights.’’
A Hostile Rowdy. —One of the B’hoys, who
glories in the cognomen of rowdy , was about
pitching into a friend of ours, a few evening?
since, under the delusion that he was the verit
able Editor of the Georgia Citizen. He swore
that we had “come down upon the rowdies of
w hich he was one, and that he meant to come
down upon us,” by way of retaliation ! Come
on, old fellow ! our blunderbuss is always ready
to pay proper respect to vagabonds of every
hue.
Agitation. —The Atlas states that at an anti-fu
gitive slave law meeting held at Chelsea, Mass., on Fas-
Day evening, the following resolution was passed, in
reference to the Fugitive Slave Law :
Resolved, That we pledge ourselves individually
and collectively to pray it down, talk it down, to act it
down, to live it down, to vote it down !
The praying part of the pledge might as well be dis
pensed with, for such prayers will not be answered
Cause why ? The “prayers of the wicked are an abom
ination in the sight of God.”
Fancuil Hall and Daniel Webster.— Tim
‘ ‘cradle of liberty” has been closed by authority of Ree
Mayor and Board of Aldermen of Boston, against Dan
iel Webs tor! 130 of the most respectable citizens of
that city petitioned for the use of the Ball for Mr. Web
jter to speak in, but the request was peremptorily re
fused. This was the act of our upper aldermauic board
of the corporation, the common council with a large
majority of the people being very indignant at the shab
by treatment of the Honorable Secretary. So high
handed an act is certainly unparalleled in the history of
the country !
The fate of Genius!—Those Biutiion boy*
have no taste for any thing but gunpowder, and not
even that unless it is made at the manufactory ot Klu tt
& Cos., in Charleston. Some weeks ago, the celebra
ted “Diorama of ihe Revolution ” which was exhibi
ted in this city by an English gentleman who purchased
the same of that Laughing-gas Philosopher, Dr. Starr,
was cut to pieces at Edgefield C. H. and the exhibitors
chased off with bowie knives. There was. probably, too
much of the old revolutionary spirit in the painting to
suit these modern disunionists. W ell, the next we hear
of the Professor, Dr. Starr aforesaid, is his being taken
up at Columbia S. C. for vagrancy or some trifling mis
demeaner. Next conies a most unmerciful castigation
from the Charleston Courier, which is taken up and ad
ded to by the Savannah “Republican’’: This is too bail
positively! The Professor shall have a word in his
defence. He is an honorable man in his dealings with
JPrinters. At least he paid all bills contracted with us,
like a man, which is what could not be said of others
of much greater pretensions.
NOTICE.
MR JAMES A. RALSTON, is no longer my Ag'ntto
„„„’■^r“*rßSs?oN“ , ‘
April 1. 4t
taught at Last
The “Southern Rights” men of Hi
ty, Mississippi,have been detected in C°Us
tbr, receiving and circulating aboidi,
pers in that State! The Hmds Cosu lltv
of the 3d inst., makes the following ‘ ,aZett
ment
“On the 27th ult., the first lot oft] •
diary and seditious documents order 7 l ,n ° e ®-
“Southern Rights Association of Hind ’ •
reached the Post Cffice in this city T
of seven copies of the Boston 1 •’fe
Commonwealth, all of the same
ber and date, showing that the Ass
subscribed for seven copies, eqnal • at!o, ‘
during the year. The bundle r a?* J®***
one of the Secretaries of the Ask
L>„th is the Natchez Courier'win!'”
donation, exclaims: “Is no t tliu 1 ! JUStln ’
spectacle, and will it not open tilt b ‘' HUtlful
‘'TT/T* goo<l me ” -•
aclar of that revolutionary
vvhAaW.Uonism
abolitionism strives, which now sl
character in circulating abolition (W„,
Is not this an outrageous piece of In • ‘
“Southern rights” men’bol.Jly
vile incendiary papers as Garrison’s
jiator ’ and WrighVJ *Coifi„.on,^
Southeru community! And jet ,| iese * *
pinks ot chivalry who get up mobs a-aiw ;
nocent personsand denounce theirndkbt®’
abolitionists in disguise, because IbeS
belong to the working classes and desire a ™
vention to consider their interests’ <J
thing be more contemptibly mean and lilbJ
ous I ltan *
State Fair.
n . . , Q - Macon > April 21,1851.
Doctor Andrews .-Supposing Mat „ m . 7
nected with the holding of the next Fair of th /J
Agricultural Society at Macon, will be inv-’ s *‘
your readers, I beg leave to submit for on
through your paper, my correspondence with the r x
ecative Committee, and their Resolution in nply
which though auite long, I trust you will find room fj
insert. Very Respectfully, *
J. 11. R. WASHINGTON.
Atlanta, April 10th, 1851.
Gentlemen—The undersigned Mayor of the C ity ‘ o f
Macon, and representative of the Couucil and c.-nzen,
thereof, duly appointed and authorised, is in Atlanta
for the purpose of offering inducements to the Eteeu
tive Committee of the Slate Agricultural Society
hold its next annual Fair at Macon.
We therefore, for the purpose aforesaid, propose to
guaranty to your society, the sum of four thousand
dollars in cash , to be applied to the cuustr notion rs
buildings and lots for the Exhibition, and the district,
tion of premiums. The buildings and enclosure to be
laid out and constructed by the city authorities of J|-
aton, according to such plans and s|teckk-ati<i>i* u m
be furnished by the Society, aud to be subject to in
use for all the legitimate purposes connected with iti
public Exhibitions, and the safe keeping of anicta.
brought to the Fair, so long as it shall continue to hold
’ its Fairs aunually at Macon; but, to revert uncouth
, tiouaily L> the city, whenever these Fairs shall bed's
continued or removed to another place. The city au
thoritics reserving the privilege of designating tb
grounds to be occupied by the Fair, and the suptrvb.
ion and control of all the buildings and enclosures to be
constructed for its use. The residue of the money
guarantied by the proposition, after defraying all tin
expenses of buildings and fixtures and preparing the
grounds, to be applied to the award-of premiums. Or,
the sum of $2,1*00, to be applied to premiums; and no:
exceeding $2,000 to the preparation of buildings, ea
closures, &o.
We also propose, that the time of holding the Fairs
be changed from the month of August, to the last week
in October. This, however, is not insis'ed on as an
indispensable condition, but it is believed that such an
arrangement would serve materially to advance the
aims of the Society, by greatly increasing the* number
of articles exhibited at the Fair; in as much as it would
enable planters to present samples of lire current year's
“products, instead of falling back on the imperfect spe
cimens of the previous year. It is also believed, that the
colder weather in October, is much more favorable to
the driving of fat cattle, and other stock, than the ex
treme hot weather of August, which deters many of
our best stock raisers from competing for the premi
ums.
In presenting our proposition, we consider it unnec
essary to recapitulate ail the advantages which would
attend the holding of the Fair at Macon. It will, we
suppose, be amply sufficient to refer to a few of iha
more prominent.
We hold that the prime objects of the Society art,
to awaken a proper interest, and encourage a laudable
spirit of rivalry, in Agriculture, and other industrial
pursu ts within the State of Georgia. The anmal
meetings of the Society have been held for five year,
successively, in the same neighborhood. Its benefit*
have therefore been liberally bestowed on the people of
that section, and no doubt, to the satisfaction of all rea*-
onable men, who have been the recipients thereof—
That its influence would be greatly extended among oor
people, by a removal to some more central place, w in
disputable. Many Planters and Mechanics in the we*!*
thy counties of central and lower Georgia, who have
both the means and taste to get up a spirited and in
teresting competition for the premiums, have been
heretofore excluded, by reason of the remoteness of tlw
Exhibition, and the difficulty of getting their stock and
other specimens to the Fair. Many of those who would
attend the Fair at Macon, are believed to be able to pre
sent finer collections of animals on # their own farm*,
than have been exhibited altogether at any of the pre
ceding meetings of the Society.
In addition to these advantages, Maeon nnquestion
ably has the advantage of position — being the most el
igible on account of its centrality , and the easy accts*
of the people to it, by Rail Roads and otherwise.
We have besides, Hotel and Boarding House ac
commodations equal to any in the South, and shoo
visitors fail to find accommodations in these, our eitaeo*
will cht-erfully open their private residences for the
com modation of families and others. _
Another strong argument in favor ot Maeon, is
fact, that we at all times present a good market for <
the products of the country. So that many w ho, ua
existing ci: cumstanees decline the triiuoie and *'! ***
of getting their specimens to the h air, on tlw ion
prospect of securing a small premium. woul< n
inducements in the fine market we for
thing they may choose to bring to the hair. ‘® ***_
sideration of itself, will no doubt greatly increase t
riety and interest of the Fair. ..
If it should be determined to accept this propositw .
and locate the next Fair at Maeon, and m
should consider it impracticable, or inexpedient to
it in October, we respectfully suggest that it m>
fixed as late in the season as may be deemed most prop
er under all the circumstances. And I shall feel inUC
delighted if the committee will communicate to
their acceptance in such manner, as will authorize
ir.y return home, the institution of measures** once,
carry out in good faith the terms of the agree men,.
I have the honor to be
Gentlemen, Your Ob’t Scrv’t.
J, 11. R. WASHINGTON
Messrs. M. A. Cooper, R. Y. Harris, Wn.s. K uherf< ’
Jr., Richard Peters. C, A. Peabody, B nj F-
P. M. Nightingale, Jno. Cunningham, J-> *
liamson, J. A. Whitesides, and D. W. Lewis,
mittee, &c.
Atlanta, April 19th, 1801 .
Resolved, That the Executive Committee
Southern Central Agricultural Association rs
proposition of Mr. Washington Mayor of the
Macon. to pay two thousand dollars for the
of premiums, and two thousand dollars for the .
of buildings and fixtures upon the grounds ofh
ety, to be prepared as directed by the txecun
mittee, by the loth of October next; a™! that,
sideration thereof, the next Fair of said So***, Ac f
be held at Macon, commencing on MondayAflc
October nest, and opening to the public on
Thursday and Friday sTn j*.
Chairman Ex. Com. S. C- A
J. V. Jos*S, See’y. Ex. Officio, S. C. A. S.