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retard, by endeavoring to withdraw ourselves from His ordinances and accelerate His march. “Prov ’<lerre,” sny9 M. Guizot, “is not impatient to draw jcrth, to day, the consequence of principles intended to operate to morrow: but leaves them in the bosom • f ages till the Hour shall come: and, if we reasoned rnon this principle in human affairs, our logic would he no less true. Providence has His own Rests in Time, and His march in it, may he likened to that of Humor’s Deities, in Space. He makes a step, and Ages are traversed. —Edinburgh Re CirapikiuT. LETTER front AMRRIW9. Amu.riuus, May 7tb, 1851. Dear Doctor :—Permit us to say a word in reply to ‘•Muckei.kk” which for the information of your readers v.e would inform them is a creek ruuuing near our town on the West, so situated as to catch all the trash and filth washed by the rains from the ‘‘ Athens of South Western Georgia;'’ if therefore “Muckelee’’ would keep all rt collects to itself no ono would suffer P , |nng as he would remain clear of its dirty precincts. This small click of “Muckelee’* is endeavoring to imtate its forerunner Ham who with ‘'burning shame'’ laughed at his father's nakedness; yet Han l had this i \cuse that he made no false representation as to his father’s case. A man’s condition must be poor indeed u ho would of his own free will and accord wilfully cast ; u aspersion on the community by which he is sur rounded, his case indeed is as bad, as a bird \vit,h a dirty nest when it could by the exercise of a little care have a clean one. We suppose “ Muckej.ee” intended its remarks to be understood in the light of a Lawyer’s speech once made against the opposite party who soon culled on the man oflaw fur an explanation with a huge fi't extended in a hostile manner—when the man of law replied, why I thought you understood my speech, understood what says he, why said the alarmed advo cate, who had more ability for wit than war—my speech was intended to bo understood as a mere lie whereupon peace was restored between the parties. The truth is Doctor we have a pleasant and agreea ble village with the exception of “Muckelee.” Our merchants have fine assortments selling cheap and are very polite. Our Doctors are ready for a call and our Lawyers for a fee. Our Mechanics are industrious ai.u worthy. Our far mers residing here are urbane and liberal. Our Post master always ready at his office, anJ our worthy llo tc-1 keeper though possessing a large superfluity of mor tality is attentive and keeps a good house. We have no church factions, for iu the last meeting held here,Preachers (who are a fair specimen of Christian piety) of all three denominations of this place joined harmoniously in divine services. As to the members of (lie several Churches we think they would compare fa vorably with Churches in other places. Now as to tale-bearing we expect “Muckelee” may have aortic cause of complaint, wc presume it has never heard any thing during its natural or acquired life, that was ever said about it, but what was altogether unfavorable. As regards clicks there can be r.o clicks found in this town, except the click of Mcckei.ee. If there ever was a bone fide case of living in a glass house, Mucke lee is one; yet that click is the first to cast a stone. Now as to any aspiring office seekers we have made diligent inquiry but we can find none in the whole town we did not however inquire of the click for the reason *hat it now holds the office ofscavenger and appears de lighted with the occupation, we presume therefore that it did not desire further promotion. “ Sumter ” informs us that the click is greatly mistaken in bis having any further designs as he has retired from all political la bours and has thrown his “machine'’ down into Muck elee on account of its entire worthlessness. In relation to the Lawyer’s purchase of a horse in this p'nce there is nothing improper in that affair, lie is a vigilant and promising member of the legal profession. Now if this “Muckelee’’calling itself a “looker on in Venice ’’ under the false pretence of having read Shetke speare wouhl retain all it gathers and never unload un til it gets out of town the citizens generally would be greatly relieved. 1 ours most respectfully, ’ JUSTICE. LETTER FROM AMERIiTS. May Sth, lSdl. To the Editor of the Georgia Citizen: —Your last paper contaiued a piece signed Muckalcc, giving a description of the state of society in this place, casting reflections on the different churches, and also on indi viduals, particularly on a fire eating lawyer, that 1 think is entirely too severe. The gentleman Muekalee alludes to has a right to his political opinions, and We ought to have charity to suppose that he is as honest as the majority of us who are Union men. lie may have faults which human nature is heir to, yet he is an indus trious, honest, well meaning man, and is striving hard to make an honest living for a young and growing fam ily, and I think it was cruel in Muekalee to drag him before the public gaze for a horse trade with a negro, whose master,a horse dealer, had given liberty to trade and confirmed any trade he might make. As to our ohurehes, I do not belong to any of them. T think they are getting on quietly, and as far as I know, in harmony with each other. The members are order ly, and 1 have no doubt the great mass of them are try ing to lead a virtuous life. True, this village has had its little difficulties, but they had quieted down, and at the time of Meckalee’s communication, I knew of noth ing to disturb the good feeling of the community. At present we have two flourishing Schools of 45 or 50 scholars each, both conducted bv worthy and diligent men. There is not a soberer village in the State, and lias not had a gambler quartered on it fur many years. 1 do not think Muekalee has sufficient charity for the weakness or faults of others, when it is possible fur him to possess many himseif. I once road of a Uttlo girl, who, being asked why ev ry body loved hcT, replied that she did not know, unless she loved everybody. If Muekalcc would have a little more lore or philanthropy, he would not imag ine that our community possessed as many faults, nor -would he have quite as many himself, and might suc ceed in winning more of the affections of the communi ty in which he may reside. Respectfully, UNION. The H eather, &c. 1 host —There was a slight frost in this section of Jtlie country on Monday night last, but we understand has done no material damage to the crops. Athens ((la.) Banner, May 3. Great Frost.—On the night of May Ist the heav iest frost known, at this season, since 1831, oectired in Kentucky, and the Louisville Courier says the first i crop in that region is totally destroyed. Ice was form ed three-eigihths of an inch thick. .Frosts — Fruit. —The late frosts, it is said, have done extensive injury to fruit trees in Delaware. In Ohio ayd Kentucky the damage from the same cause has been .very great. In the region about Baltimore there is reason to apprehend that the fruit has expe rienced great injury.— Baltimore American. In travelling through a good portion of this and Brad ley counties,we find the crops of cereal grains and fruits | of all kinds, to be most abundant. Notwithstanding there has been one or two frosts, too late in t. e season to feel eotnforable, there is but very little damage done. We heard of no injury to Wheat r e*copt slightly in one or two locations. Now we hope all danger is past, and that Tennessee—“the granary of the world,’’ will be able to afford freight enough next season to keep the Road busy with, “down --Chattanooga Ga zette, May 9. lb rost. —A rather unwelcome and unseasonable vis i'or for May, made his appearance in this region this morning, in shape of a “Jack Frost.” At the early hour of going to press, the extent of the injury to vegetation cannot be ascertained. We learn, however, tro-n a gehtleinau who came in from a neighboring plantation this morning, that all the corn is cut down, and all the cotton which is up killed. Fruit is doubtless much injured, if not entirely destroyed.— Tuscumbia -\orth Alabamian , May 2 d. Bad Prospf.cts for Planters.—We have the am t hority of several of our oldest planters, for saying that ‘he cotton crop at this time, is quite as backward and > “"promising, as they have ever known it in this section, h tbe first of May , the year before last probable ex- F \. The entire month of April, the first three oi four days of this week excepted, was quite cool. Infaot we consider it decidedly the coldest April we have ever experienced in the State. Even yesterday, and the day before, fires were not only comfortable, but almost indispensable. Overcoats were also in requisition. It will be at least the middle of May, before the cot ton is fully up, as much of that planted before the heavy rain, has already been, or will have tube, replanted.— Alabama Beacon , 3d inst. * CITIZEN. L. F. W. ANDREWS, EDITOR. MA( ON, GEO. MAY 17, 1851. To Correspondents. ‘ Romeo,’ ‘Tale of a Cow,’ and ‘Long Tail Brown,’ received, and have been placed on file for examination. Ode to the ‘\ iolet,’ shall have place in our next. sd-£T Critique on ‘Eonchs of Ruby,’ received and will appear in due season. * M. A. G's.’ communication is of the right stamp, but its great length and lack of preparation for the com positor s hands, will necessarily preclude its insertion for the present. When we have a Httle more leisure we may cull out its more striking points of argument. LIT The ‘Dying Poet’ by T. 11. C.; also Letter No. 14 from the North, on our table, and will appear in our next. ’ Lieut. Ralph Ringgold or the Spirit Bride’ re ceived and will have examination. (kT 1 Muekalee ’ will perceive that his Communi cation lias called forth a double answer. If that, is not sufficient to propitiate the otfinec committed, lie lias our permission to reveal himself, personally, to the much abused citizens of Sumter. Tii auks.— Wc are indebted to the Clerk of the Steamer Florida for late New York papers and to the Conductor of. the Central Rail Road for their early de livery to us on Wednesday morning last. Mechanic's Society*— -a regular meeting of this association takes place at the Library Roooin, this evening at 8 o’clock. Some business of importance will come up for consideration. lalcr from Europe. New York, May 11.—The steamer Arctic, bring ing four days later news from Europe has arrived. Liverpool, April, 30. —Cotton. — The sales of the last three days are 10,000 baler, showing a futher de cline of 1-Sd after the arrival of the Baltic on the 26th. lie market closes dull. Fair Orleans 7 1-Sd; Mo bile 6 5-Sd ; Uplands 6 1 -2d. Prize Tale. Our offer of a premium for the best original tale for the “ Citizen,” we regret to say, has proved almost a failure, but two or three manuscripts having been pre sented. Under these circumstances wc have decided to return those received to the respective authors, unless thev will immediately signify their willingness to take what we may consider a reasonable compensation for each tale deemed worthy of insertion incur columns. We have not yet read either, in hand, but shall do so, at onee, and be ready in a few days, to close with or reject any proposition which tin* writers may see fit to make us on the subject of compensation. Let each send us an estimate of the value the writer places upon the contribution, and wc will respond with all needful promptitude. The Weather and the Crops. During the past week, the Editor took a trip into Sumpter County, passing through Houston, Macon and Dooly, to the line of Slewart, and from observation and information sought and obtained, lie is enabled to say, that the prospects for the planter in that section of Geor gia are not so flattering as usual, at this season of the year. The late warm weather lias, however, improved the appearance of things considerably. We saw sev eral fields of corn, (only a few,) in fine condition and waist high, but the principal part of this crop looks sick ly, ami unless the balance of the season is very favora ble, will not be sufficient to supply the home consump tion, inasmuch as the last crop is nearly exhausted and cannot be purchased in the country. Something is hoped for, from the Oats crop, but even that will not materially reduce the price of corn, which now readily brings $1 per bushel, at the crib, two or three days wagon trip distance from some of the village markets 1 In this state of things, it is surpassingly strange that planters will persist in increasing the culture of cotton and reducing that of bread-stuffs, especially when the prospect is fair, other things being equal, as to seasons &c., so r an additional crop of 200,000 bales of Cotton this st m over the last, and a corresponding deduction in ‘kl . owing to the immense addition to the field toree oi the planter. If not too late, where a good stand of cotton has not been obtained, would it not bo better to replant in corn, in order to meet the probable defi ciency in the latter crop ? Our advice several weeks since, was to plant corn, lstly, 2dly and 3dly, and we have more reason now’ than ever to believe that much suffering to man and beast would have been spared had that advice l>een heeded. Os course we do not desire to dictate to our planting friends what course they ought to pursue, for their own interests, but situa ted as we are, with all the me ans of information at our hands, from all points of the compass, we would be re creant to our duty as a public Journalist if we did not give our readers the benefit of such conclusions and deductions as force themselves upon our consideration and adoption, in the scale of possibilities aud probabili ties. llpn. Howell Cobb. —This distinguished gentle ma l addressed a large audience in Savannah, on Wednesday evening last, in vindication of the action of | the Georgia Convention and the organzation of the Union Party of Georgia. I Lis speech was received with great enthusiasm. Cubans A rrcsted C’apt. Kookogce of Colum bus, and Lieut. Ralston of Macon, have been arrested at Burnt Fort, Florida, and brought to Savannah for trial, on a charge of being engaged in an unlawful expe dition against Cuba. They gave hail for their appear ance. The expedition seems to have been an entire failure. Several of the adventurers have returned through this city to their homes. BoydclPs Illustrations.- -See, on our first page, a triumphant vindication of this great work from the slanders of the London Art Journal and its English echo at Charleston S. C. A Good Suggestion.— lt has been proposed to remove the town Clock and alarm Bell from its pres ent unsteady and ricketty position in the Market House ster-ple to the tower of the new Episcopal Church, now in process of erection on Walnut st. At present, the ’ clock cannot be kept in good order nor the alarm bell i rung, and we and rstand that several liberal gentlemen are willing, with the consent of the Church officers, to contribute towards the expense of removal. The height of the Church tower and its solid structure, besides , giving a much more extended vision of the dial plate of the clock, would seem to indicate the change as a very desirable one, which the city authorities ought at once to carry out. If any thing is done, however, it should he dime immediately, as the builders of the church are nearly or quite ready to receive the clock, nnd it can be put into its place with less inconvenience now than hereafter. Sentenced. —The trial of the young man T. O. Brown who was charged with stealing money from the post office, Augusta, in which he was clerk, came on for trial before Judge Niehol of the IJ. 3. District Court,, at Savannah, on Tuesday last, and resulted in his con viction, on two indictments, and his sentence of twenty years’ imprisonment, (ten on each) at hard labor in the Penitentiary! The youth is only 17 years of age. lie plead guilty on both indictments. Such are the dread ful consequences of yielding to temptation. Young tnen, beware of the first step in crime. That once ta ken, there is no telling where you will terminate jour I csr.-er, on the ceaffoll or in the dungeon’s cell. Astounding Detelopemcnts. For ten days past, our community has been much ex cited, on account of the heavy failure of the House of Conner and Taylor, doing a ware house, Factorage and Commission Bus-ness'in this city, and the extraordinary developments that have since been made of a systemat ic series o f frauds which have been perpetrated on the planting and Commercial community, by the senior partner of the concern, Capt. Z. T. Conner. Up to this hour the amount of the defalcation is not definite ly ascertained, but sufficient is known to say that the sum total of Mr. Conner’s labilities, to the planters and citizens will not fall much short of SBO,OOO to SIOO,OOO ! Besides this, he is a defaulter to the government post ofilee, to the tune of five or six thousand Dollars, on his two bonds, one of which was given to the De partment, during Gen. Taylor’s administration, and the other when Mr. Fillmore came into office. The secu rities are amply able to meet this deficiency, but it is yet to be explained why Mr. Conner was allowed to retain the postoffice, when he was known to be a defaulter in a sum exceeding $3,000, when Mr. Ilall became P. M. General and it then became necessary for Mr. C. to execute anew bond and procure new bondsmen whom he also left in the lurch. It seems that Mr. Conner was the Financier of the House*, (Mr. Taylor, the junior partner, who has been connected with Mr. C. only about a year, being weigh-inaater or sealesman at the W are House,) and re sorted to the dangerous expedient of selling one planter's lot of cotton, often without orders, to raise proceeds to pay the demands of another planter, whose cotton he Inn! previously disposed of. In this manner he has managed to keep his head above water, until, finally, the aceummulation of indebtedness, suspicion of bankers, and want of confidence in many planters, brought on the denouement, in a general breaking up the concern and the precipitate flight (as reported) of Mr. Conner. From developemcnts since made it seems that very many planters have been diddled out of their whole crop of the past season. The poor man has lost his five Bags and the rich man his sixty. All were swallowed up, without even sparing his devoted personal friends and Bailsmen, in his cormorant necessities for money. A short time before the crash, Mr. C. succeeded in getting e-asli and endorsements of his friends, to a con siderable amount. One loses S4OO, another S9OO, and a third $llOO, say nothing of his private indebtedness, of tvhicli we understand there is a large amount. What has become of the money thus received has not yet transpired, or how it happened that lie has so success fully imposed on the community, notwithstanding the whispers in circulation among business men, as to bis honesty, is indeed a mystery. We are assured that the latter class of our citizens, who knew of the failure of Mr. Conner, and the circumstances attending it. some 16 years since, have never had any confidence in Mr. C. since that period. Although a pleasant man in his social relations, and much esteemed by his friends and respected by strangers, yet he was not deemed by those who knew him best as a reliable man iu his engagements or faithful to his promises where there was no compul sion threatening hitn or exposure anticipated. 11 is public spirit too, gave him a fictitious standing, which he could not otherwise have had. As Alderman, Cap tain of a Military Company, and last, though not least, as Postmaster, he obtained a position in this commu nity to which his own merits as an honest anil upright man, could not have elevated him, and he was thus able, the more successfully, to impose upon the commu nity around, and inflict a vital stab upon the reputation of the city, and every tnan in it. For, to what other conclusion could a planter dome than that lie whom the people so delighted to honor was entitled to his con fidence above all others? It is a legitimate inference and will be as injurious as it is legitimate, that if one of the dignitaries of the place, (whose Smuggled introduc tion into the Post Office, against th„e will or without the consent of the people, is a fact heretofore unknown to the public at Urge) has acted so badly, others of less note may do so also. Macon will thus suffer for years to come, in her trade and mercantile character, because of the turpitude of one tnan, without having the privilege given to the 99 honest tnen of the place to defend them selves from the foul imputation thus fastened upon them. And yet, we hear of no steps suggested as proper for the citizens to take in such an emergency. We hear of no movement to wipe out the stain thus affixed to our good name, except perhaps the vain idea given out, that parties, in distant cities, have gained the spoils while the defaulter himself has gained the dishonor!— If this he so, it can be made to appear, but until then, the public are not so gullible as to swallow the bait thrown out, as is believed, to transfer the responsibility incident to the appointment of Mr. Conner as P. M. to .other shoulders than those entitled to the credit and hon or belonging to that transaction. Hus much we have been compelled, from a sense of duty, and in violence of our own feelings toward Mr. C. to say of this deplo rable affair, by way of exculpation of our city and its bu siness men from tba discredit which attaches to it, and by way of exonerating our people, generally, from all disposition to shield the delinquent from one iota of the just punishment that, in such eases, is provided by the penal statutes of the commonwealth. Capt. Conner, it is rumored, has gone to Virginia, via Eaton*,on, and the Piedmont line of travel, through upper Carolinns, though some doubt whether he may not yet be con cealed about his own premises, in this city. City Post Office. Now, that there is a vacancy in our city Post Office, we desire to speak a word in behalf of this community, in relation to the future management of so responsi ble and important a station. It will be conceded on all hands that the Post Office should bo made, as far as practicable, a public convenience. Phis was its origi nal design and purpose. It is then indispensably ne cessary that the incumbent, if lie calculates to give sat isfaction to the people, should be a man of indisputable integrity, good business and personal habits, and with- al courteous and polite to those having bus.ness at his office. He should also be a working man, of quick at) J active intelligence, and willing to devote his whole time to his duties. No lazy, dissipated, inefficient per son should get the appointment, even if such an one is an applicant for it of which we are not aware. IV e also think that the public voice of the citizens should be heard in this matter. Our Bankers, Merchants and business men are deeply interested in the appointment of a proper officer and should take measures to give the department a suitable expression of their wishes on the subject. If this had been done before, much loss to individuals and injury to the reputation of Macon might have been spared us at present. ‘I hen, the in fluence of one gentleman of this city, brought to bear upon President Taylor through the late Secretary of War and his confidential Clerk Mr. Anderson, effected the appointment of Mr. Conner, not only without any expression from the people in his favor, but absolutely in opposition to the convictions of many business men here, of his want of integrity ! We are assured that Mr. C. could not have obtained the signatures of such men to a petition asking for the appointment. We say then, let the public will be consulted in the selec tion of a successor to Mr. C. It is the right of the people and .should not be gainsnyed or over-ridden by the recommendations of any individual no matter what his standing or influence may be. In all other appoint ments the will of a caucus or the dictation of a ‘regen cy’ might bo tolerated, but in an office like this, never. One word more as to the accommodation needed. One reform which is absolutely necessary is the keep ing of the mails open as long as possible for the recep tion of letters and papers. In Savannah, the P. O. is not closed till C A. M. for the West, one hour before the mail leaves that city. So it ought to be here, instead of having the mails closed from 11 to 17 hours before their hour of departure. The Post Office building should also be better arranged and access had to Boxes at all reasonable hours. The lobby should be opened, like wise, so that visitors could have a shelter from foul weather when waiting for the delivery. We have thus frankly given our opinion of the matter, and will con clude by saying that nothing personal is attempted to be Insinuated in these suggestions concerning any gentle man who may be a candidate for the Office of Post master. We shall be satisfied if any one of proper qualifications is appointed and will peform his duty. But if it be otherwise, wo shall exercise the right we have, in common with others, of complaining loudly of any deficiency or mismanagement which may come to our notice. Connecticut, —Seymour, (Dem.) has been elec ted by the Legislature of Connecticut, Governor of that State. IV©t a Bad Idfa* —A paper has been recently started in New York entitled “ The white man's news paperAs its name indicates, itis “ devoted to the white men of the country, a pretty large class of people, who for some time past have been lost sight of, in a burning zeal for the black men of the country.” So says the (N. Y.) Express. The Savannah and IV. Y. Steamers.-Wc learn that reports are current in the up country that all the berths in the Steam Ships Florida and Alabama are engaged for several trips. This is not the ease. We are authorized to contradict said reports, and say there is, yet, much room for those who may desire to take passage by either of these Ships. “ Political Renegades.” This is the complimentary epithet which the ‘Feder al Ruin’ man applies to those Democrats whose love for the ‘Glorious Union’ is greater than party zeal when misdirected to purposes of foul disunion ! But a short time ago, the Editor of that mendacious and brazen print repudiated party and invoked the aid of Whigs and Democrats in behalf of the nefarious schemes of the Nashville Convcntionists and South Carolina Se cessionists. Now, there is no epithet too foul for him to use against such men as Cobb, Lumpkin, Andrews, Collins and Chappell, because they will not follow where his traitorous finger points the way 1 So much for the courtesy, fair-dealing and political honesty of Saint David, the Milledgeville ‘Organ Grinder, of liis Excellency Governor Towns! We are curious to learn w hether the same epithet of ‘ Political Rene gades’ will not apply to those Whigs and quondam Union Democrats who have lately come over to the ranks of disunion. The wliigs, especially, who now , belong to the Federal Ruin clique must certainly feel that they have gained a considerable loss, when they acquired such title in lieu of the time-honored appella tion of wliigs! They miust also feel exceedingly flat tered at the incessant rHlying, the disunion demo cratic prints, of the *sßaon Pure democracy of the State to tlie rescue of the ‘great democratic party’from annihilation, and may well exclaim, in indignant tones, ‘ls this tlie feast to which we have been invited V It was not so put down in the programme of the enter tainment.’ There are not a few of this sort in Macon, Columbus, and elsewhere, who by this time must be gin to find out that tlie game they have been playing has been an entirely one-sided affair, and will enure, only, to the leaders of the democratic pannel or wing of disunion! If they are satisfied, however, with their anomalous and equivocal ‘no-turkey-once’ position, we have nothing further to say on the subject. Disclaims the Regency - -Our neighbor of I the Journal and Messenger disclaims all knowledge df tlie ‘Regency’ charge and denounces the tiling as a wicked device of the enemy to sow tares among the genuine sons of Union, in this State. He says : “ Wo deny that there has been any attempt made in Macon to organize a Regency, or control public senti ment. \\ o say to the men who make such a charge that they make it Under a full knowledge that it is wilful ly, maliciously and basely false. The Union men of Bibb claim no credit, except for having fearlessly and faith fully done their duty. This city was the point of at tack. Here the disunion orators made their first and fiercest asault. Here the cry of disunion was first raised. Here tlie secession Convention was organized. Here mob law was first proclaimed. Here the friends of the Union were first proscribed—their door postmark ed and their names registered. Here they were first threatened with the ‘black-jack and grape vine.’ It would be strange if, under such circumstances, they did not give fierce and furious battle to their adversaries. It would be equally strange if they were not now* the ob jects of bitter hatred and vile calumny by those same adversaries. This whole cry about the ‘Macon Regency’ is but a cunning and insidious attempt to in jure tlie cause of the Union by bringing some of its ad vocates into disrepute. The Herald letici* was writ ten for that purpose, and it has been copied and com mented upon for that purpose.” We do not know what authority our neighbor has for denying tlie charge so flatly, for any body else but himself. Such denial, therefore is no priiof, as he may not be in thevsetveta it is to be vie wed ‘simPbAjjj^' l ion of liis itqfinion on tb* subject. 1 “t, but there are certainly cir cumstances show that a few men, who were and cravens , during the times of l moh law,’ in their hot haste to take the lead in prospective political matters, hum given color to the accusation and the semblance of truth to the charge. There is no denying this, rind the Union cause has thus suffered from the indiscreet zeal of its friends. Wo hope, however, that much good will grow out of the misconception, and that, henceforth the people will be saved from the imputation of submitting to the dictation of any set of men, orga nized as a Regency or unorganized as a self-elected clique. Attempt to Assassinate. — A woman, of the name of Jane Young from Tugu’o river S. C., walked into the office of the Athens Banner, a few* days since, asked for the Editor and not finding him in, drew a pistol and shot tlie publisher, Mr. Reynolds, inflicting a dangerous wound upon his person. The same wo man had previously called on the Editor of the Augus ta Republic and‘did almost every thing but shoot him!’ She is doubtless insane, and is not, as Col. Holsey sup poses, the sane instrument in the hands of the Fire waters, to destroy a Union Editor! That is an absurd idea, if the Republic's statement be a true one, of which we have no question. The woman has been arrested and commuted to jail to await investigation of the case before a judicial tribunal, the result of which we feel solicitous to learn so that we may make timely arrange ments, on her discharge, to introduce her to those of our cotemporaries who are au fait in tho burning of ‘villanous saltpetre,’ as pastime of their leisure hours. A Desirable Thin? —We have long needed in this city, a pleasant retreat, during warm weather, where ladies and gentlemen can congregate to sip iced Lemonade, Tee Cream, Strawberries and cream, and other delicacies of the season, without coming in con tact with fish barrels, butter firkins &e. That want is now supplied. The desideratum lias been accom plished. Messrs. Freeman & McCarty, have opened a neat Ice Cream Saloon, on Cotton avenue, where they are prepared to furnish visitors with many delectable refreshments on the congealed water principle. Crowds are flocking thither to sec, taste and enjoy. Our Book Tabic. # “Masonic Journal’’has reached us from Marietta. It is a well filled number, containing much useful matter to the craft. Ladies’ National IHa?azine. —Peterson has sent us June number of his beautiful $2 Magazine, which is a very close approximation to some others of greater pretensions and greater price, in embellishment and literary contents. Mrs. Ann S. Stephens and Charles J. Peterson are the Editors. To clubs, sixteen eopies of the Magazine arc furnished, one year, for $20,00 —Five copies for $7,50, besides a premium in Books or Engravings to the person getting up the club. (■railam for June.—There are three capital Engravings in this number, to wit: “ Christ disputing with the Doctors,” The “ daring leap” and ‘Buds and Blosoms,’ besides the usual quantity of letter press. But Graham promises that the July number, which will be the first of anew volume, will be still superior. Godev for June.—Two beautiful Mezzotints and 28 other Engravings embellish this number. The “ Morning Ride” is a gem in its way. After the Ist July, tlie postage on these Magazines will not exceed five cents a copy, for any distance under 1500 miles. To Messrs. Dewitt and Davenport, New York, we are indeb*ed for several interesting volumes, “Tom Kac quett,” “The sisters,” Tho “Heirs of Derwentwater’’ and others. Those fond of light reading, by sending 50 cents cun have a volume of 200 pages forwarded by mail, from the extensive establishment of Messrs. D. & D. Mr. Clay once refused at a dinner to take precedence of Governor Jones of Tennessee. “No,” said the great Kentuckian, “you are a greater man than J am,’ you beat James K Polk, and I could not,’’ Mean and Uncharitable-— Some of those gentry who drank the wine and feasted at the board of Capt. Conner, —who were his boon companions and special friends when he was flush in purse and palmy in his estate—are now the loudest in their denuncia tions of him, even at the corners of the streets ! Hav ing sucked the full orange they trample with contempt upon the worthless rind which remains! Some even go so far as to say that they knew three or more years Ago, that Conner was a scoundrel'. What a commen tary upon their own ineffable meanness and consummate hypocrisy! On the other hand, there are very many in this com munity who still believe that the delinquent is not, at heart, a dishonest man—but that, in his exigencies, he was fatally induced to take improper means to maintain his position, which however only resulted in new ex pedients and more tortuous efforts to recover from the precipice on which he stood. This, tve arc free to say, is our own construction of the motives of the man, which we are loth to change for one less charitable. MIISCOgCC Movinfif.—On the 12th inst. the Constitutional Union Party of Muscogee, met at the Court House in Columbus, for the purpose of appoint ing Delegates to the Gubernatorial Convention, shortly to assemble in Milledgeville, and also Delegates to at tend a Convention at Americus, to nominate a candi date for Congress in the 2d Congressional District— On motion of Col. A. McDougald, lion. Willis S. Holstcad was called to the Chair, and Michael X. Clarke and Adam G. Foster, Esq., were appointed Se cretaries. After a few pertinent remarks by the chairman, ex plaining the object of the meeting, Col. Alexander MoDotigaM offered tile following Resolutions : 1. Resolved , That we approve of, confide in, and will stand by the action of the Convention of Dele gates from the people of Georgia, in December last. 2. That we cannot unite with any party, State or National, that does not act upon the principles declared by that Convention, and in this view vre declare our selves free from all party associations as Whigs and Democrats. 3. That the Chairman appoint a Committee of five, to report to this meeting the names of four suitable per sons as Delegates to the Convention to nominate a can didate for Governor. 4. That the same Committee report the names of four suitable persons as Delegates to the Convention at Americus, in July next, to nominate a candidate for Congress for the second Congressional District. 5. That in case of failure of any of said Delegates to attend, the other delegates be authorized to fill any vacancy. G. That it be recommended that the Convention to nominate a candidate for Congress in this District be held at Americus on the Tuesday after the fourth Mon day in July next. Col. Hines Holt, James Johnson, Esq., Jasper Hickey and Amos Schumpert were appointed Dele gates to the Milledgeville Gubernatorial Con venti on, and Col. Wm. 11. Harper, Col. Thomas M. Hogan, T. F. Woolridge and Alexander C. Morton, Esqs. as Dele gates to a Congressional Convention to be held at Americus on the Tuesday after the 4th Monday in July. Letter to the Editor. Near Forsyth, May 7, ISSI. Dear Doctor : —As the Yankees are creating no lit tle excitement in the commercial, political and military world, perhaps the following definition of a real genu ine live male Yankee which I heard given not long since will be amusing to some of your readers. Areal genuine Yankee is full Os animation, checked by moderation, guided by determination, and support ed by education. lie has veneration corrected by tolera tion with a love of self-approbation and emulation, and when reduced to a state of aggravation can assume the most profound dissimulation, for the purpose of retalia tion, always combined, if possible, with speculation. A real live Yankee, just caught will be found not deficient in the following qualities. lie is self-denying, self-relying, always trying, and into everything prying, lie is a lover of piety, propriety, notoriety, and the temperance society’, lie is a dragging, gagging, brag ging, striving, thriving, swapping, jostling, bdstling, wrestling, musical, quizzical, astronomical, practical, philosophical, and comical sort of a character, whose! destiny in to spread civilization to the remotest owners of the earth with an eye always on the lookout for the main ellhr.ee. A droll definition i think. What think you? Rath er too much oats for a shilling ? Eh ! I think so too, yet, we must admit that the Yankees are a queer compound—great for geting up new ideas—have ap plied steam to almost everything—have come out with nearly all kinds of inventions for the purpose of facili tating human labor. The Yankees are a set of regular inventive geniuses, and have gained a world wide reputation as being such. But I think they have now found their match in a Pennsylvanian, by the name of Willowby, I believe, who has recently patented a machine for raising and conveying water from springs or wells to a house or any pkvee desired. You have seen it I presume? Not! Well you ought to sec it, for it is certainly ahead of anything that ever came out in ‘yankeedom,’ or any other ‘dom.’ By one of these machines a bucket that will con tain from three to six gallons, or more, if required, can be sent and returned full of water a distance of three hundred yards, in less time than would be re quired by a little negro to turn round and shake him self. This machine which is called the‘Telegraph Mater Carrier,’ is constructed by stretching a wire from the house to the spring or fountain, and supporting it by poles similar to the Telegraph. A small ear is then made to run on the wire by means of a cord and wheel. It is one of the most ingenious arrangements of ma chinery I ever witnessed, and withal of very simple construction, so much so, that a one eyed negro can build one, and keep it in repair. There have been some three or four, erected in the neighborhood of Dr. My riek, who has one, himself. I heard of it and called thereto witness its operation, and to gratify curiosity, and you may be assured, that I was well paid for my trouble. Seeing the Telegraph VYater Carrier is not all, for the Doctor and his lady were both at home, en tertaining several visitors that were therefor the pur pose of seeing water brought from the crystal fount by Telegraphic dispatch. Mrs. My rick is one of the best old ladies in the coun ty, always lively and cheerful, can entertain company as well as the next one. I also met with Dr. Burrows, and I’. S. Bower, who have the control and disposal of the rights of Georgia. Alabama, and Florida, all of which territory they offer for sale either by counties or in larger districts. I notice that the cold nights, and bad weather that we have had along back, has made some of the cotton look rather sickly, through this region of country, though corn seems to look quite promising. It has not been so much affected by being ‘out after night.’ Yours, BRIDGEWATER. UNION MEETING. Pursuant to previous notice, a respectable number of the Union Tarty of Talbot county assembled at the Court House on Tuesday the 6th day of May. The meeting was organized by the appointment of Mark A. George, Chairman,and Richard 11. Leonard Secretary. On motion, the Chairman appointed a committee of seven, to report the names of four suitable persons to represent the Union Party of Talbot in a Gubernatorial Convention, to beheld in Milledgeville in June next. Committee.—Thomas Greene, James Eaves, Til man Mahone, Augustus Richards, Alfred H. Brown, Tamlin King and Nathaniel Raines, who reported the names of Jas. 11. Dismukes, John H. Wallace, Kenan Couch and Alexander Iv. fteonard. The report was unanimously adopted. ! On motion, Resolved, That the proceedings of the meeting be published in the Columbus Enquirer, Journal & Mes senger, and Georgia Citizen. The meeting then adjourned. MARK A. GEORGE, Chairman. Richard Leonard, Sec'ry. WANTED, A GOOD younc Seamstress or Washer Woman. Apply at the Lanier House, [may 17 -it] South Carolina Convention. The following are the Resolutions adopted by the late Secession Convention at Charleston. An address was also put forth by that body, but as we find nothing in it of special interest, we cannot encumber our columns with it, even 3s a part of the foolish history of the times:— committee's RESOLUTIONS. Resolved , That in the opinion of this meeting, the State of South Carolina cannot submit to the wrongs and aggressions which have been perpetrated bv the Federal Government and the Northern States, without dishonor and ruin; and that it is necessary to relieve herself therefrom, whether with or without the co-operation of other Southern States. Resolved , That concert of action with one or more of our sister States of the South, whether through the proposed Southern Congress, or in any other manner, is an object worth many sacrifices, but not the sacri fice involved in submission. Resolved, That we hold the right of Secession to be essential to the sovereignty and freedom of the States of this Confederacy ; and that the denial of that right would furnish to an injured State the strongest addi tional cause for its exercise. Resolved, That this meeting looks with confidence and hope to the Convention of the People, to exert the sovereign power of the State in defence of its rights, at the earliest practicable period and in the most ef fectual manner; and to the Legislature, to adopt the most speedy and effectual measure towards the same end. ADDITIONAL resolutions. Resolved, That this meeting is not disposed to sep arate from those who express a willingness to abide the fate of the State; that we cordially accept their pledge to sustain the action of the Constitutional Con vention, and that, we have an abiding confidence that South Carolina will present an undivided front to her enemies. Resolved. That this meeting of Delegates from the District Association do now form itself info a Central Association of the State of South Carolina, preserving its organization under the same officers. Resolved, That the Central Southern Rights Asso ciation of the State of South Carolina, do consist here after of Delegates appointed by the several District As sociations, in the proportion of twice as many Dele gates as the number of Senators and Representatives to which each election district is entitled ; and that it meet semi-annually, at such place as may be designated by the presiding officer; the present delegates contin uing members until anew appointment by the several District Associations. Resolvtd, That a Central Committee for the South ern Rights Association of South Carolina be appointed by the President of this body, to consist of nine mem bers whose duty it shall be, by correspondence, by pub fishing and circulating sound documents, and by all proper means, to promote the common cause ; and that any member of any District Association in th# State shall be eligible as a member of the said Committee. Resolved, That the Central Committee be author ized to appoint a Secretary and a Treasurer, and to take all such measures as may be proper to provide for all necessary expeditures. “Caio” on the “Federal Union.*’ Cato, a correspondent of the Central Georgian, thus shows of the shuffling of the Editor of the Federal Union : “You edit what was onCe a democratic paper, and there may be some blind enough still to suppose your paper is democratic yet. To such I would recall the fact that yours was among the first and most urgent of those pa pers which attempted to form a party to be known as tbe “Southern Rights Party.” I think, though I rely upon memory as 1 kept no file of your paper, that yotl declared old party lines to be obliterated. This you did when you found you could not carry the old Union De mocratic party with you, and was angling for w higs. I think you laid it down as one of the cardinal principles of the party you were then trying to breathe the breath of life into, that it was to cut loose from all connection with the great National Democratic Party—it was to affiliate with no party north of Mason and Dix- on’s line; you had no confidence in any denio wdftiwin wf ti’iat irne. ‘ “ fc ’ Your efforts to secure disunion, under the garb of Southern Rights, was signally rebuked by the people of Georgia; and now yon pro pose to rally the democrats as democrats.— You are among the last men who should thrust yourself forward in this undertaking. You nev er at any time, to any considerable extent, pos sessed the confidence of the democratic party — what little you may have once possessed you have long since forfeited. Your paper has nev er been the organ—l mean of course since you edited it —of the party in this State. And the position of the party at present illustrates the importance of not having carried out a neces sity which impressed itself upon many of buy ing you out two or three years since. And nothing but a conviction of your imbecility and the want of influence of your paper prevented the effort from being made. I thought then, as now, that the reasoning was unsound, because while all admitted your inability to benefit or advance the cause of democracy, some did not fully estimate your means of injuring.” On Campbell's editorial course and personal qualifi cations, Cato thus speaks : “I shall not affect an ignorance of the causes which produced this want of confidence in your paper, w hich destroyed that influence it once possessed previous to your becoming the edi tor, and 1 hope to even enlighten you upon this point before I close. In the first place, your con duct in some instances, did not secure that re spect which it is important an editor should retain, if he ever had it, or acquire if possible. Upon this point I w ill be very explicit if neces sary; for the present I forbear. In the hext place, your manners are anything but demo cratic; your feelings and deportment are essen tially aristocratic, and if you knew what 1 thought of an aristocrat you would be at no loss to understand w hat I think of you. But above all, your paper, degenerated in your hands from being the organ of the democratic party into that of the mouth piece of a clique. This was the main rock upon which your bark went to pieces. It could not be otherwise, for you served selfish and hard task-masters; men who saw none above them that they did not desire to pull down, and none b°low them that they did not desire to sink still lower. Tbe most despicable of all characters is the man who looks upon praise bestowed upon another .as detract ing from himself, and the light from any other star as a shadow upou his own.” ******* You have no sympathetic emotions with the democratic party, you feel none of tbe throbs of its mighty heart; you are incapable of grasp ing the fulness of its purposes, as you are of un derstanding the true principles of its organiza tion. You move within the narrow limits pre scribed to you by those who control you, and you look upon it as an honor to be thus control led. With such grovelling sentiments your as pirations of influencing the democratic party sink too low for ridicule or contempt- To a man differently constituted to yourselt, this would have become apparent long ago, but to you it never can. rapped in a cloak ot egotism you cannot see yourselt in the light that others see you; in your estimation you are beyond the reach of advice or sarcasm. And, like Jove, enthroned upon Olympus, you smile upon the eftbrts of inferior beings, and to inter est yourself in their affairs, you esteem a great condescension, which should be gratefully ac knowledged. Happy man, blinded by your fol ly and protected by your self esteem. Known as you are to be a tool in the hands of others, you yet have the presumption to at tempt to rally the democratic party.” An educational establishment “ out West,’’ has dis played over its portals the following rather signifieant sign : Freeman and Huggs, School Teachers. Freeman teaches the Boys and Iluggs the Girls. A Serious Charge. The Savannah Republican of May lth headed “ more about the mails,’’ after speak; lesssness and mismanagement on th* i, ar i ‘r ployed in the Macon post office, goes t>n and insinuates that a purloining of letters * - money has taken place somewhere between s'''"™** and Southwestern Georgia. It says- nvan n*h “ M e understand that important letters f Poln and southwestern Georgia to gcniW-n i„ ,; <Wj have failed to come to hand in more than (IIIC . *** I he public will understand the magnitude of plaints when we state, upon the authority of terested, that the missing letters contained lai-tT ** of money. At w hat point this money was at** “” it is not for us to say, for we do not know K * there has been gross negligence in Macon, Wl . |, 01 ‘ sidered sufficiently evident to authorize u s Vj I*®°°’ the Department at Washington for an invest ’ *** the matter. This we have already done * our own account than that of the publie. ’ “*** 08 M T e understand that the Tost Master at M much other business to attend to besides office. It is said that he gives very little J" , ‘ L ‘ tention to it, but leaves it to his clerks, q-j, at ’ has been mismanagement in the office, under Til uu instances, is not surprising; but that it shouldT permitted to continue, notwithstanding the * of the public, would be cause for just dissatisfaction.” In justice to the clerks in our post office w e trim t permitted to say that the charges of * hinted at are uncalled for and gratuitous x acquainted with these young gentlemen will, fora ineut, believe such insinuations without the ; Z bitable proof. Besides, our respected e0u,,,!,’ ‘ “ should recollect that one of the Savannah P 0Y? was dismissed a few months ago on suspicion of!* bezzlement. The sum of S2OO, sent from this city a Z arrived and the P. O. agent had reason to think Z a dashing youth employed in that P. O. spent too™'7 money, for one on a small salary. Hence hi. distnjJ The editor of the Republican should therefore first clean at his own door,before he undertakes to f agtpr J Macon more depravity than belongs to her C, t knows we have sins enough to answer for,withou- W imputed to us the transgressions of others. Too Good to be Lost Avery clever friend and two-feid Brother of our? who emigrated to Georgia several years ,i D< * fro* I’almettodom, and who possesses all the political prt judices of the Bluffton School of that chivalrous State which he carries out and illustrates in his daily walk i life, even to his constant table dish of Carolina R served up in South Carolina fashion (which by tbe w a) is very good) told us recently an anecdote of himself, which we take the liberty of giving to show the fetor with which the Ladies, generally, regard the Georg* Citizen. This friend had for many years been a sub scriber to the papers published by us, and has occasion ally hinted to us, that during the past year we haw trodden rather severely upon kb political com. Wdi: things went on so till a few weeks ago, when he came to the conclusion that he would quit us in disgust, and accordingly, he got a neighbor to take the piper sent to his address, and no more Georgia Citizens were sent to his residence. Mail day came and wife and daugh ter were much disappointed in not receiving the paper, he having kept the arrangement secret from his house- hold. Another mail day came and passed, and Hill another, and no “Citizen”! M’hat could the matter bel says Madame, while Miss Mary grieved over the lost of her usual nice reading, with which she had become much interested. Our friend saw plainly enough that a “crisis” had arrived, and an explanation was neerm ry\ He gave the latter to avert the dangers of the for mer, but he could not make his peace, until he had promised to renew his subscription immediately! This he has faithfully done, and instead of losing one sub scriber wc have gained one, and all because of the Citi zen being too much a favorite with the ladies, for them to forego its weekly visitations! M’e have therefore, concluded that when a subscriber again stops his paper to send it to his wife or sweetheart, to see whether her wishes have not been disregarded in sttch discontinu ance. God bless the women ! They know better than their liege Lords what constitutes the interest and val- ue of a newspaper, as we hare had numerous and rerj demonstrations, from time to time, within oar own experience, and for all which we, as in duty bound, are duly grjtefffl. As like as two Peas —The abolition Con vention sat at Syracuse, New Yotk, the same week that the secessionists of South Carolina held their con clave in Charleston. The Resolutions of the latter will be seen in another place. Tho subjoined extracts from the speeches of'he Syracuse abolitionists will show that the same object is sought to be obtained by both these extreme factious, to wit : the dissolution of tbe Union ; “ Quincy rebuked “ the insolence, inpudence, audacity and inconsistency ofthe American na tion.” Garrison asserted that there was no Union, and never had been any—and that who ever says there has ever been a Union be tween these States of this Union, lies ! He had no hope that the Fugitive Slave Law would ever be repealed, consequently the only alternative lor the abolitionists was a secession from the confederacy.” Pillsbttry said : “ The Society must take a higher stand than it has heretofore occupied. Its war was not only against slavery, but against the United States. The United States must he dashed in pieces. We arc in the midst of a revolution, a revolution transcending the American revolu tion as much as the events of eternity transcend the events of time. The present revolution w of more consequence than the revolution of our fathers. Their revolution failed ; and our work must be well done, or ours will also fail. Mere it not for Bunker Hill Monument, and a few o'her similar things, we should forget that there had been a revolution. There had once been in Massachusetts, in which he lived. But when Sims was given up, there ceased to he a Massachusetts. He had advised the people to send the Legislature with spades to bury tL and to put Bunker Hill Monument and I’j mouth Rock as the head and foot stones of its grave, and to allow the surges of the Atlantic to sing its requiem from now through eternity- He thought it tho duty of abolitionists to dash the government of this country to pieces, for h is not fit to occupy the lowest place in Frccdom has fled from it, and we must sci throw it before we shall be free.” Location cf Hi* Fair. Mr. Editor: —A correspondent in the last T graph in mentioning the various places that have been spoken of for the Fair ground seems to have overlook ed w hat some persons suppose the moat eligible of any. I mean that beantiful level beyond Berry Rogers’ branch, to the left of the Houston road and flanked on either side by the South M estern and Macon and M es ter n Rail Roads. It is about as near the Floyd house as the North West common and is reached over a much levt !!cr road, and though the beauty of the surrounding buiM ings and scenery may be properly conceded to the lat ter, yet the former will ere long be the centre of M* eon's industrial wealth and population the growing sh fices for whose accommodation together with the ma chinery will form no mean feature in the attractions the Fair. The proximity to the rail roads would greatly tatethe delivery of heavy goods, livestock &c., ar|,: 1,1 branch which might lie included together with would afford an abundant supply of fine water on t removal of the Butcher pen to a more agreeable tanee. Os the comparative merits of the other place? tinned, I deem it unnecessary to speak, the l ” ment being beyond the corporate limits will not ot c be built on by the city. Tha others no doubt carefully examined before the selection is tn I trust the choice will be satisfactory to every Cllil The President.-Mr. Fillmore and Cato** the last advices, had gone to New York to formal opening of the New York and Frie -which was to have taken place on the 1 tb m*l