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Now, then, the villain slumbers for the last! Enter Coost Alvar from the palace, not seeing him Count Alvar ! in the presence of the Gods, I call upon thee to defend thy lite! Judgment hath come against thee in this world, And thou shall liquidate thy last account! The fierv fingers of the Fiends of Hell Can only grasp the pages of thy deeds! Think of the beat eons rose that thou hast plucked ! And though it seemed to wither at thy feet, Tlnit horn is here to stab thee to the heart! ’ * ~ COUNT ALVAR. [Drawing his sword. Alvino ! is it thru 7 ALVINO. [Rushing at him. Leon:!—Die! „ . [They fight. Look on tho vengeance of an injured girl ! This very night thou shall descend to Hell 3 'yr COUNT ALVAR. S AI vino! thou art mad! —beside thyself! Alvino. I have enough to make me mad !—to burn Up every atom of my raging blood 1 COUNT ALVAR. Alvino! mark the danger thou art iu ! ALVINO. Alvino ! my sword is thirsting for the blood, And it shall drink the river of thy life! COUNT ALVAR Alvino 1 speak 1 the cause ? ALVINO. [Rushing at him. Leoni!—Die 1— They fight again, when Alvino stabs him to the heart and he falls. COUNT ALVAR. l Alvino! may the revenge of the Gods Descend upon thee now ! My soul is gone! {Dies. Exit alvino. —Scene closes, SCENE IV. The same apartment in Don Carlos’ palace. — Enter Leoni. LEONI. I have been waiting, like the lonesome Dove, And still my comforter delays his time 1 tYhat if the villam has been rash indeed ? Enter Alvino. Alvino! thou hast saved my tears! Oh! lore! Did jou not hear some sweet dolorous sound ? It was my soul that -.vent out audibly In search of theo—but now returned w ith thiue. ALVINO. Oh ! how the Monster trembled at my sight! I culled upon him to defend his life, And three times offered him this pointed steel, Which lie, as many limes, refused with his ! I then stood o’er him, like the Cypress mourns, Preaching Uis funeral with exalted wrath — Till, like the willow twigsnupt from its stem, I cut the brittle thread of life in twain ; And left him weltering in his own heart’s blood! LEONI. Then he is dead iudee^> ALVINO. Yes, he is dead ! Gone down to Hell—where all seducers go ! LEONI. Plunged you the dagger in his perjured heart? ALVINO, I diti —but disinterred it o'er again— I would not let it rot in sueh a grave! LEONI. [Embracing him. Then I am thiae—-forever thine ! ALVINO. ’Tis sworn! [Exeunt. CURTAIN FALLS. End of Act Third. Political. From the Columbia Daily South Carolinian. The late Tonvention of Delegates—its Composition and its Action. Whatever was the original intention of those who were instrumental in invoking this body, the intention which it has manifested is too clear to be mistaken. — The address and resolutions were ably and adroitly drawn, and exhibit the evidence of skillful manage ment; and while both the resolutions and address an nul.! and conciliatory, yet it is apparent that the princi ple intended to be announced is the fact that the year 1852 will witness the secession of South Carolina from the Union. The world is advertised, as by the report of the Mercury that of four hundred and thirty dele gates representing the various Southern Rights Associations throughout the State, only five were found dissenting to the positions laid down. This is certainly remarkable unanimity, and is well calculated to give the assurance of the early and separate with drawal of South Carolina from the Confederacy. The Convention was not satisfied with this powerful demon stration, by gathering strength from its own momentum, it declared itself a permanent body, self-created am) self-existing. This to one disposed to look at matters calmly, is certainly most wonderful. We propose a brief analysis of this body, and the motives governing its action. The object in calling this Convention was understood to be for the purpose of effecting an in terchange of sentiment between the Southern Right.- Associations of this and other Slates; but as Charles ton was selected as the place of meeting, the secession ists per se, immediately took the alarm, and were de termined to come down, not only to carry out their own purposes, hut to overawe Charleston, and let the North ern merchants, and otlu-r gentlemen of like cloth known that Charleston was not the State, nor should she be permitted to throw cold water on the oountry flame. The first movo in the game t. at is to be played was to take Charleston by storm. It is well known that in every District in the State the Southern Rights Associations are merely composed of persons violent for immediate secession. Generally, three or four of the most violent eoutrol the Associations, and in making their appointment to this Convention, tin most ultra secessionists in nearly every District were sel-'t-ted. It is idle, it is absurd, it is without a shad ow of foundation to say that this Convention represent ed the sentiimnt of South Carolina. This is palpable on the slighest examination. For instance, the l)-strict of Abbeville decided in the election to the State Con vention by an overwhelming majority against separate Suite action; yet eighteen out of twenty delegates ap pointed to this Convention were for the most extrcim ineasures. Cl ester, in like manner is unanimous against separate State action. Greenville is a Union District, not for any kind of action, and yet a delegation of the •most extreme secessionists represented that District. Kershaw is nearly unanimous agiinst separate action, and Pendleton, Spartanburg, York, Lexington and Charleston, and yet tlv-re were only five negatives to address and resolutions. I believe there are twen ty-seven Districts in South Carolina, and I know tha: some of the Delegates to the State Convention in ev.-ry District but six, are opposed to separate State action, and that in Charleston, York, Abbeville, Chester, Lex ington, and Kershaw, the entire delegations (or nearly so.) are opposed ; and yet in the (Meetingof the South ern Rights Associations, composed of four h-.*.uied and thirty delegates, only fire voting against resolu tions looking to that end. This is really strange—very strange! Out of the Charleston Delegation alone t<> this Conven ion at least three-fourths were a.imcdh opposed to sepaiate action, and one of their number representing the majority demanded the yeas and nays, but at the earnest entreaty of those who wanted to make a one-sided affair of if, the motion was with drawn, and it is now published to the world t .at hero were but five opposed to separate State action. Ther may have been but five nays, but i* is known that pack ed as the body was, there were at least a dozen times that many ready to vote in the negative. It is beau, ful to sweep on in this wav, and by such exhibition of strategy carry the Suite headlong out of the Union , yet these very men who are trying to carry every thing by storm are constantly exclaiming to those who object to their policy, keep quiet, don't divide, there . *.ut a shade of difference btween u*. and if we divide, all our moral strength will be lost. This to one who will view tie matter properly is but a thin veil, for as soon as the secessionists per se, are satisfied of their strength, every moderate man will go by the board. Let Un true resistance parly of the State but carryout their supineness a little longer, until the timid and doubting are swept in the rushing torrent, and they will awake from their lethargy and find the State ruined and them selves destroyed. Look at the manner in which .Judge Chevea’ letter was mated in the late convention hear the threats that were uttered against Built-r, and the still stronger denunciations that await any man who ventures to question the pd cyof this movement, and the indications are unmistakeable, and force the con clusion that the moderate ami prudent men who, we doubt not, compose a majority of the State, must show their strength and take their position while yet time is, or they will find wild councils ruling the hour, and themselves and the great Southern cause destroyed. It has been urged, we hear, from every quarter that Charleston will soon be for separate action. (I suppose to keep tlte State from offering far up as a sacrifice.) and the supposed or asserted charge in relation to Charles ton is being used in the country, while it is well known that seven-eighths if not eleven-twelfths of the people at e opposed to the action of the late congress of dele gates. Tho association having declared itself permanent, proci-eds to organize in every manner for immediate secession. The moderate, yet lirin resistance men, who are for doing something effectual when it can be done, and not by rashness to ruin every thing, are afraid to move, are afraid of bt-ing called submissionists, art afraid that the reaction will go too far towards ac quiescence in tho late measures of Congress; and •rom litis fear stand by and sec tlte State whirled off like a comet, and every thing they hold dear put in jeopardy by the rashness and indiscretion of those whose judgments have succumbed to their zeal. The proceedings of this convention will be ratified by each district association, and w ill go forth and come back in every newspaper in the country, and be re-echoed, that South Carolina is a unit for separate secession— "fvhen it is an ascertained fact that scarcely more than a majority of a dozen of her constitutional convention arc in favor of it; and it is believed that a majority of nearly every district arc opposed. To the reflecting, true, and wisely prudent men of the State we would say: ‘‘There is a tide in the affairs of men, &e.”— Will you ntako the application, or let posterity do it for you? A DISUNIONIST. From the Greenville (S. C ) Patriot. Who are (be Submhsioiiisis. “Oh, wad some power the gillie gic us To see ourselves as others see us.’’ Terms of- reproach and personal abuse arc, generally speaking, indicative of a bad heart, an empty head and a vulgar mind. On the other hand, kitidm-ss and cour tesy, and a proper respect for the feelings and opinions of those with whom we may differ politically, are un cring indications of a well bred gentleman and a man of sense. He ktiows full well that no two minds can think a like in all things and on ali questions. Men may differ widely in religion, and yet be equally pious. So they may in politic*,and be equally patriotic. It has not been our purjsise to call hard names in ex posing the arguments of our adversaries. This any one can do, and it ttquires no talent. On the contrary, it is more likely to be done where the argument is weak and worthless. The term “submissioiiisl” has been applied to all, in South Garolina, who arc not disposed to plunge their country into all th*- horrors and uncer tainties of a revolution. This epithet has, in ail proba bility, seared many a weak and wavering mind into submission, and made it adopt principles and express feelings which it inwardly abhorred. But who are the submissionists? Not the free negroes, abolitionists and fugitive slaves of the North. They are no submissionists to federal u-urpation and legisla tion. Not they. Their patriotism and spirit, and sense of wrong, and religious belief, teach them resis tance to the federal government, resistance to the knife and the hilt, ft h never the constitutional and estab lished law sos their country are to be enforced in Bos ton, N. \oi k or Philadelphia, thty feel it be their im perative and sacred duty to assemble in mobs, in the streets and court houses, to resist tlte enforcement of those laws ‘’with all the power which God and nature has placed at their command !’’ They are no submis sionists. Not-they. In their black hearts there is no room for submission to the laws of God or man. But who are the submissionists ofthe North? Why such men as Webster, Everett, Woodbury, Dickinson, Ingersoll, Buchanan, Dallas, Choate, Cass, Douglass, and all the wise and virtuous and patriotic <>f New Eng land, New York, Pennsylvania and the northwest, they are the submission men—nten who are disposed to enforce the laws of the federal government, and re peal them if they are unwise—men who feci no degra dation in submitting to the laws of their country, sattc Honed by a majority of the people of the United States, voted for by a majority of the States of the Republic, and approved by a Chief Magistrate representing both the people ofthe United States of the Union. Such men, however, as Seward, John Van Buren. Gitldings, Hale, and negro Fled, et id omne genus, have too much spirit in their hearts to submit to those laws of the federal government thus passed, which they think, or pretend to think, are unwise, unequal, unjust and unconstitutional. If laws are to be resisted by th jse who think them in conflict with ‘‘the higher law” of God, or the federal constitution, there would be an end of all law and government. The worst men in a community are of course the first, in many instances, to feel the law, and would be the first to shout the cry of resistance. George Washington was a submissinnist of the highest order, although ILde and Giddings are not. He said: ‘‘Respect for the authority of this govern ment, the offspring of your own choice, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoin ed by the fundamental maxims of true liberty. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government, presupposes the duty of every in dividual to obey the established government.” These are strong submission doctrines, and too much so for the patriotism and spirit of the abolitionists, free negroes and fugitive slaves of the North. Washington invokes his countrymen again to beware <>f changes in their government and the destruction of their Union He likewise predicted that men would rise up in the country, at various times, and endeavor\o persuade the American people that they were badly governed, and should revolutionize their government and destroy the republic. Who arc the submissionists, so termed by those who call names instead of using arguments, in South Caroli na? They are men who have had firmness to think for themselves, and candor enough to avow their opin ions. They are men who do not believe that it is right and proper to destroy a government every time it goes wrong. They believe that secession is no remedy for the evils of which wo complain. They are firmly per suaded that it would plunge their State into a revolution, and bring with it all the consequences of a civil war. without the hope ofsocces or triumph in its principles. They do not feel dishonored when fourteen out offif teett of the slave holding States are with them, and are pursuing the same course in regard to the federal gov ernment. They are not without their apprehensions, on the subject of shivery, ami they h ive felt the indig nity which was attempted on tlte part of the Ron-slave holding States. They are, therefore, anxious to see a unanimity of feeling and eo operation between all the Southern States on the subject. Such concert of ac tion would, in their opinion, secure our rights as slave hi lders and preserve our rights as citizens of the Uni ted States. But who are these men who have thus been reviled as submissionists? J< K | R. Poinsett, whose life has been characterized by lirinuess and boldness, and devo tion to the principles of \\ ashiiigton, and whose courage in Mexico, in unfurling the flag of his country in the face of an infuriated mob, was in the true spirit of dar ing and romantic cltivairy. James Hamilton, Jr.,the embodiment of spirit and valor, the gallant leader of his State in the days of nullification. J. L. Petigru, Col. Grayson, Bishop Ca|ers. Dr. Thorn well. Dr. Henry, and many others, who are not surpassed in South Caro lina for their patriotism, talents, learning purity ofcliar aeter, firmness and courage. Meeting of Mechanics. —Tne Mechanics of Macon are requested to meet at 8 o’clock this evening, at the Council Chamber, to con sider the expediency of sending Delegates to the Atlanta Convention. A general Attendance is desired, THE GEORGIA CITIZEN. L. F. W. ANDREWS, EDITOR. MACON, GEO. MAY 31, 1851. International Magazine.— The June num ber of this \aluable Monthly has been laid on oar table by Messrs.'J. J. AS. P. Richards. No tice next week. / ■I I !■ I II ■■■ I I Alderman’s Election. —An election takes place to-day, to fill the vacancy in the Board of City Council occasioned by the resignation of Cant Z. T. Conner. C3?” We are requested to state that Mr. M. E. Rvlandf.r is not a candidate lbr Alderman at the Elec tion to day. Location of the Fair.— We understand that the Committee appointed to select a place for the Agricultural Fair have settled down up on the Parade Ground, on the Southeastern Reserve, as the most eligible and convenient spot for the exhibition. The ground is now in possession ofthe Military Companies, who will doubtless very cheerfully give leave for its occupancy for the purpose indicated. It is con venient to the Depot of the Southwestern Rail Road which will there be joined by the Macon and Western Road, and the Central Road, be fore the time appointed for the fair. It is also easy of access from tha city and w ell supplied, with water for stock. • Dedication. Oil to-morrow, the services of Dedication of the New Methodist church, in this city, will take place. Rev. IV. R. Branham will preach thu Dedication sermon and will be assisted by other clergymen of the Denomina tion. By reference to the card of Mr. Evans, Pastor in charge, in another column, it will be seen that the sum yet needed to finish the decorations of tlte ne.> temple of worship, ranges from SIOOO to SISOO, which it is desirable to raise to-morrow by a general collection. And we predict, from w hat we know of the persever ance and tact of the Pastor in similar exigencies, that. tli* whole sum will be probably raised by the congrega tion. Mr. E. is a faithful man in his high calling and his fervent appeals to the people to offer an unincum bered House to the service of Jehovah, will, we are sure, he responded to, in a liberal spirit. Hot only by his own people, hut also by the citizens at large, and member* of other churches who are interested in the general ad vanccmcnt of good morals in tlte community. The Fillibnstcrs. —The Convention of this par ty met at Milledge. ilie on Wednesday last to nominate a candidate for Governor. Convention organized by calling James M. Smyth, E*q., of Richmond, to tin- Chair, and appointing two Secretaries. Delegates from 54 counties ippearod and were enrolled. Col. II nry G. Lamar of Clark county, was unani mously elected President of the Convention. Ou motiou of Mr. Day of Jones, a Committee of three delegates from each Judical District was appoint ed to report matter for the action of the body. On Thursday morning the committee of 33 reported a se ries of Resolutions of the following purport. The pre amble charges that tlte country is passing through an alarming crisis —that the General Government lias undergone and is undergoing fundamental changes— that the Southern Suites have been plundered an i de graded by the Compromise measures of the last Con gress—and that the Government is also changed in other particulars, such as finance and revenue, and is altogether a very corrupt and corrupting Institution. Th- Resolutions declare that the salvation of the South depends on the maintenance of the Virginia and K ntueky doctrines of ‘9B-’l)9—that the States are separate and equal sovereignties—that the Union is one of consent and not force —that each State has.the right to secede and the General Government has no authority to restrain the act—that said Government should 4-cure to all an equality in territory acquit ed by all—that it lias no right to withhold its protection from .any species of property and that such is equivalent to legislative hostility —that these principles were violat ed by the compromise measures—that the obstruction by the people of the North to the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Bill is a defeat of the Constitutional rights of the South—that tho harmony and safety of the Union depend upon a strict construction of the Constitution—that they are for the Constitution as it is, and opposed to an United States Bank and a protec tive Tariff &o. That they yield to none in their at tachment to the Union and venerate the Union and Constitution established by their fathers, and their ob ject is to preserve such a Union if they can, but at all hazards to maintain the rights and liberties of the peo ple of Georgia. The hist resolution then nominated lion. J. C. McDonald as their candidate for Governor. We have no room for comment this week. Smart!—Some highly gifted and exquisitely re fined genius sent us. the other day, through the Post Office, the following important intelligence! “Dear Andrews: I see by your last paper that Hell's afloat and the river’s a rising ! Go it Boots ! A LIBERTY MAN.” The Ist item of this paragraph is “Monsieur Tanson’s News.” We have known, a good while, that “ hell was afloat” in these diggins* and is getting no better fast! Tlte 2d item is false, as the dry spell has been too long to allow of a rise in the river, until we have an other shower! ‘Guere.’ Would not a man who would swindle us out of 2 cents, play tlte *‘ Grab game” up on us, if opportunity offered, to a larger amount ? We only ask for information. Thomas Wilson Dorr,— The Rhode island ” Algerine ’’ Legislature have, at last, restored Governor Dorr to his rights as citizenship, in that Province. The ‘‘sober second thought” of the people demanded his re storation, and the act of justice to the patriot and honest man could n> longer be delayed. Dorr’s offence con sisted in being at the head of the popular suffrage move ment iu Rhode Island, in 1843. against the despotism of Magna Charta from King Charles, which prescribes a property qualification for voting and holding of fice. The Legislature, however, yielded so far as to permit the question to be tested by the popular vote, when it apppeared that the free suffrage men were near two to one in the State. Dorr was elected Governor by a handsome majority, hut those in power refused to give up the reins of government and called in the aid of the United States to put down the movement, which was accordingly done by force. Dorr having been tried for treason and disfranchised, lie is now restored by a vote of 14 majority on joint Ballot. The !V>gro Fhnrch.— The white citizens resident in the neighborhood of the African Methodist Church, in this city, who ha e long been annoyed with the distracting scenes habit ually enacted in that house, now mean, if possi ble, to rid themselves of what they consider a nuisance, by preventing the building of the contemplated new Church on the same site.— This will be done by legal injunction , if the Stewards persist in their refusal to compromise the difficulty, by a removal of the Church to a more retired situation. We hope that the reas onable request of property-holders in the vicin ity ofthe present place of meeting, will be heed ed, and that they will not he compelled to resort to law to protect themselves from the “ noise and confusion’’ usually incident to such congre gations of colored people. New Costume fur Ladies.— The Turkish Costume of short frocks and wide trousaloofis seems to take Well with the ladies of the North, and will probably become fashionable and gener al. In many respects the style of the new dress is more convenient and elegant than the com mon mode of long draggling skirtsand concomi tants. hor the gratification of our numerous la dy readers we shall shortly present them with an accurate engraving of a lady rigged out iti the new toggery, with some comments upon its claims to the notice of our fair country-women. American Colonization Society, On Monday evening, last, Rev. John Morris Pease, agent of this society, presented the claims of the Col onization scheme to a respectable audience at the Methodist Chur-h. Owing, however, to some religiou* excitement in the various churches iu the city, and some mistake on the part of Mr. P. as to the promise of the Elders and Pastor of one of the Societies, to forego ali other meetings on that evening, in order to co-operate widt ohr.stians generally, in furtherance of the work ol Benevolence uah which tlte agent is charged, there were not as many out to hear his Lecture as were ex pected. Nor did Mr. Pease succeed in his efforts to obtain contributions from the citizens at large, not so much, however, we think, from any objection to theob jects of the Colonization Society, as from a general de pression of business and the exhausted state of the Exchequer of our sovereign people. As we understand these objects it is for the removal of x\\o free colored people of this country to Liberia, which is now a flour ishing Republic in Africa, established under American auspices, where the free black titan can find that social and political equality which is denied him here. Anoth er object is to give those who desire to manumit their slaves, the opportunity of sending them out of the country. It is well known, that from no other quartet is greater danger to Southern Institutions to be appre hended, titan from the admixture in the community of free people of color and slaves. That danger the So ciety seeks to remove l.v transferring the former to Li beria. This is the political view of the matter, lit a religious view, however—the redemption of the two nr three hundred millions of Africans from Pagan dark ness and despotism, by the introduction into that coun try of civilization and Christianity is tho paramount fca ture of tho benevolent enterprize. and one to which every pious heart in the land should respond with a hearty “God speed.” ‘ v, Mr. Pease was eminently successful in his visit to Mississippi and Louisi&a the |fcst winter, having in the former State procure** subscriptions to the cause of about $75,001)! This is a noble example and worthy of all imitation. Alexander's Panorama —We invite atten tion to the Grand Panorama of the Creation, both befoie and after the flood, with scenes of the Lord's Supper, the Resurrection, Garden of Eden. &c. which will be unrolled fir exhibition at Concert Hall on Mon day evening next. It is said to he a fine painting of a moral aud religious tendency. See advertisement. An Independent Press. There is precious little real independence in the Journalism of this country, although much gas has been expended in boasting of it. The political party press seldom or never dares to gainsay the political voice of King Caucus or Emperor Regency, because the Editors’ br.-ad and butter is involved in the ques tion. Right or wrong, ‘nolus bolus,’ these Journals go into a scrimmage, reckless of all consequences and regardless of all results save the success of party nomi nees. So it is, also, with the Sectarian Press. It i* professedly, an exclusive system of Journalism, pledged io the single object of ecclesiastical predominance over all antagonisms of like nature, and of course, cannot be relied on to do full ju tice to opposite and conflicting views. And even the neutral press, avowedly m-itli er sectarian nor political, and boastfully independent in character, often displays as much servility and truck ling towards those engaged in public and private abus es as the meanest class of rabid, partisan Journals show towards the great ones of their party. The neutral press is also chargeable as much as any other, with the disgraceful system of black moil which is often levied on applicants for Editorial favors. Iti fact 6o common has this pi act iso become, that some of the political Journalists of Georgia have adopted the same and re duced the whole affair to a regular pro rata Tariff or ’slidingscale’ of charges, like any other ‘fair business transaction.* For example, tho following items arc selected to show the modus operandi of this new Fi nancial process. For a paragraph calling Attention ton busi ness a JiJbublo price.) . $2, Os) For a * \ 5, 00 For an extra Ufi 0 For a ‘first business house, S2O, 00 For wire-workßjKjPGtd into a good fat office worthfffouO —25 per cent, on tho amount of salary, 500, 00 For writing a Watering Place into notice, a season Ticket for self and family—say, 200, 00 For puffing a College or High School—one scholarship in the Institution or its equiv alent in money, about 100, 00 For a kind word to Prima Donnas ’ or oth er Concerts, Theatres, &c., all the Job printing and advertising of tlte show, with dead head tickets for all bauds and double charge for notices. For a favorable opinion expressed in behalf and for flic support of a candidate for Governor, 500, 00 “ “ for a member to Congress, 300, 00 “ “ fora “ to the Legislature, 100, UU and pari passu, down to the office of Constable. Now, according to this tariff it will be seen that the ad valorem principle is ndroUty woven in with the specific duty’ adjustment, s<> that every thing is made to tell handsomely to the Editor's purse, aud without any detriment to any save those ignorant readers who are green enough to imagine tint all the favorable no tices published in his paper are candid and disinterested expositions of men and things from the honest brain ol tho Editor. We need not add that in the profit and loss calculations of this scheme, no account is taken of the ‘wear and tear’ of an Editor's conscience or of the deprecititioti in value of his wares and merchandize, by reason of the fact leaking out. that every thing has been paid for. at ‘fancy-brand’ prices! But when public abuses or private injuries call for animadversion these very independent Editors have not a ‘soul above buttons,’ but wink and eonniveat eve ry thing which involves arty personal discomfort to themselves or special friends. Well, it does require some nerve to be an independent Editor —to speak freely no matter whose corns are trodden on, and to stand up squarely to the rights of all his constituency, tlvough good report and through evil. We may be in error but it appears to us that facing a Colt Revolver in the hands of a personal antagonist, jm a fair fi- id of honor, isn't a circumstance in comparison with the true moral courage which goes to make up a conscien tious and independent Journalist. Atlanta Republican.— Brother Rencau mis takes us, altogether, in the matter of the Agri cultural Fair of Atlanta. \Ye meant to giv*- no “sly tinder-handed thrusts” but a candid com pliment to the people of that place for th • course they had resolved to take. Neither ha* our “characteristic modesty’’ been at fault in giving the title of “State Fair” to that ot the Central Association, especially as Brother Ren eau admits that this is the name the Fair went by’ heretofore! But that is a small matter. \Ve shall have opportunity hereafter, we hope, to show that we are altogeth -r friendly to the movement at Atlanta, started under the name ofthe “ Georgia State Agricultural Mechanical and Manufactural Association,” in every thing save its mtine! Our “modesty” could not stand that, though it may be “characteristic” with us. We would prefer the name of the “Georgia Industrial Institute” which will comprehend every department of enterprize and labor, with out any act of “usurpation” of the titles claim ed by and conceded to others. Arrust.— Mr. Wm. C. Connely, a young man who lias recently been the clerk of Messrs. Conner & Taylor, of Macon, was arrested in this citv on Tuesday evening by J ■ A. Staley. City Sheriff, on the charge of removing the books and papers of that linn trorn their counting-room The authority for his arrest was communicated bv telegraph, and last eve ning an officer came down from Macon with full power to detain him. Mr. C. denies that any such charge can be maintained against him, and has sued for a Habeas Corpus, which will be returned before Judge Jackson this morning at 0 o’clock.— Sav. Rep. of Thursday State Agricultural Fair. The following Letter from Mr. Charles A. Peabody, one of the Executive Committee of the Central Agri cultural Association was written to us, in reply to one addressed by us, to him, in relation to the dissatis faction which we discovered to exist in this region with the Premium List recently published by said Committee, for the ensuing Fair in this city. We ■lo not know that this letter vas intended for publiea lion,as it is an answer merely to private inquiries on the ouoject, hut as the matter has got into the newspa pers and is likely to be discussed at length, we think it best to give in his own words the views of that member of the Committee, on whose shoulders the burden chiefly devolved, of preparing the Premium Table and adjusting its details. Columbus, May 23, 1851. Dear Doctor .-—Yours of the 21>t lets just come to hand; you advise me, that, there is some dissatisfaction with the Premium List, existing in Macon. That there should be some, in so large and varied a list, I am not at all surprised. The Committee had no lijfh t task in forming that list, and were guided solely by the amount they had to distribute, and the benefit they hoped to accrue to the South by its distribution. You speak of the insignificant wheat prize. It is the same as given by New York and Mary land. We did not suppose, that the only ob ject of the Farmer was the the reputation width his wheat gets. I saw the premium wheat at Atlanta last season sell readi ly at five dollars per bushel. I look upon a prac tical Essay upon the culture of wheat, in these States, as being worth more to the people, than the exhibition of one hundred bushels would be, and as to the Steam Engine, and Horticul tural Essay, I look upon a practical Essay for the culture of Fruits, Vegtables and Flowers adapted to our soil and climate, as of more real utility to our people than the exhibition of fifty Engines. The man that gets the premium for the Engine, gets a reputation for skill and workmanship which is more than equivalent for any discreuancy there tnay be in the amount of the premiums. There is now an Engine man ufacturing in Montgomery for the Fair, which the proprietors will think themselves well paid for, if they take the first premium. You speak of the omission of field crops for premiums. Were you aware that our Committee were not called together to make out the premium list, until after till field crops were planted ? We i-ould not have offered a premium on any field crop, and had the competition open to all. lam aware there may be some discrepancies in the list, but all these will be rectified by the discretionary Committee who will award premiums on all such articles of merit, as may have escaped the notice of the Executive Committee, as iongas funds hold out to do it with. Our list lias been published and sent abroad, and it is now too late to make any alterations, but should the funds of the society hold out, the Committee will certainly take great pleasure in giving every thing its due. — You will find on comparing the list with tin* Maryland State society that we have nothing to blush for. I trust the good sense of your citi zens will see the importance of being united, and that for the paltry dollar , no one will throw cold water on the efforts of the Commit tee. I am, Dear Sir, Very truly Yours, CHARLES A. PEABODY. With all due deference to the respected author of the foregoing Letter, and without a doubt of the puri ty of his motives in the adjustment of the premium list, we must he permitted still Jo think that the Cmn mittee have egregiously failed in making up the prize awards for the Fair. The great object of these Fairs undoubtedly is, to give impetus to the important inter ests of Agriculture and its collateral branches in the State of Georgia, by exciting individual emulation among our citizens to a more perfect system of culture &e. It is also the wish of all interested in this suhject to make the annual Fairs us the society as useful ami im posing as possible. Now. has this been done by giv-, iug the preference to authors over Planters and Mh-J ehinists? Do the Committee think that tht* Essa\M on various subjects will have any more merit than hun£ ■ 1 Teds of such that are published monthly in the Agri cultural papers of the country ? Besides, the best practical essay on the culture of any crop will be the statement submitted by each one who brings specimens to the Fair, of the value and treatment of his soil and his mode of culture to produce a given result. This will b understood by even the most illiterate farmer, when told by his neighbor in plain ami untechnieal lan guage. But he will not be able to understand a Sci entific treatise of the same purport, if expressed in the refined scholastic language of the Agricultural Theo rist. As to the Wheat item. also, what was to hinder a premium for the best field crop? The fact that wheat was already planted is not a valid reason. So were Cotton, Corn. &c. In our judgment the planter who establishes the fact that good wheat can be profitably and successfully raised in Georgia, deserves more honor as a useful citizen than the authors of a hundred Essays ••n the subject, without the practical results to show the application of theory to practise. Again, what comparison in utility can there be be tween an Essay on Horticulture, Flowers &e., and the best bushel of Corn with a brief statement as to the mode of culture thereof? Yet for the first, a SSO silv er pitcher is to be awarded, while the - paltry ’ sum of $2 in cash only is offered for the latter ! The discrepan cy is glaring and preposterous. Once more—Premiums of from $2 to $5, arc offered for Cochin China. Malay and Shanghai Chickens. Bre men Geese and Muscovy Ducks, which are not to be found in the State, except a few lately imported from abroad, while to the poor Farmer who raises a fine crop of Potatoes, Peas, Oats Sre., the ‘paltry dollar’ is off-red as a magnificent recomp-nse for his skill and at tention ! Friend Peabody, we arc sure, did not mean to insin uate that those who are dissatisfied with the Premium List are influenced by this ‘paltry dollar’ to ‘throw cold water on the effort* of the Committee.’ It he did, he lias done many of the best friends of the cause great injustice, thereby. For we liapien to know that some of the most liberal contributors to the premium fund and Fair expenses, in Macon, are dissatisfied with the List, and b lieve, most religiously, that the action of the Committee will effectually ‘throw cold water’ upon the whole exhibition. To avoid this and make the next Fair the grandest and proudest exhibition ever witness ed in the South is the reason that actuates us in wishing the committee to revise and correct their Pre mium List. The people of Macon, particularly, feel a deeper interest in the matter than can be felt in other places. Their money has been freely tendered to bring the Fair to this Central and convenient place, and they desire, most of all, that there should not only be no failure but that every one who visits the exhibition shall b“ perfectly satisfied with its removal to and permanent establishment in this locality. But as matters now stand, man) have become lukewarm and others disgust ed tosuclt an extent that were the subscrip ion of $4,000“ now to be raised, not the fourth of it. we verily believe could be n alized. This, we are aware, is plain talk, but it is none the less worthy the consideration of those who have the power in their hands to remedy the evils complained of. if they are not too ‘wise in their own conceits’ to give heed to the reasonable suggestions of others as much devoted to the Agricultural interests of the commonwealth as they possibly can be. [cokmuntcated.] The New Methodist Church In this city, will be dedic ited on Sunday next—services to commence at lOj A. M. The Sermon on the occasion wil be preached by the Rev. \V. R. Branham, former Pastor of the Church in this pi ice. An amount necessary to pay for build ing has already been subscribed, but funds are needed to furnish the r 'hurch with Carpets. Cushion-, Stc.. Stc.jA < ollec'ion will be takenupatthe Dedication for that purpose. Some 81.000 or $1,500 will be needed. The community nre invited toattend. We are happy to be able in returning our acknowledgments to all who have aided us in this enterprise, to Inform them that the Church wII tie dedica'ed fret of debt. We have to re quest, also, that you come prepared to give it the finishing tourhinthe way of Furnitnre, as an offering at the Dedica tion. J. E. EVANPastor. Macon Cotton Market.— Two arrivals since our last, but no material change in prices, in conse- 1 quencc. From 5 to 8 cent# may he quoted as ex tremes Clerical Disqualifications. By the present Constitution of Virginia, Clergymen of all denominations are disqualified from holding seats in the Legislature,or indeed any civil office. In the Conven tion now in session we see that an abortive effort has been made to change all this. In giving the proceed ings of Tuesday last, the Richmond Examiner states that *• an effort ‘ vas made to remove the disqualifica tion which now keeps Ministers*of the Gospel from of fice in Virginia; but the Convention very properly, and by a large majority, determined to preserve the provis ions oi the Constitution upon that point. Mr. Francis Scott, though himself a clergyman, made a very hand some and a very able speech against its removal.” We find the above in the Savannah Georgian, and copy it as token that intolerance and proscription have not yet had their day in this boasted land ol liberty 1 To the disgrace of Virginia, be it said, that her rulers have not only proscribed an intelligent class of her cit izens— the clergy—but have actually placed them on the same platform with penitentiary convicts and felons of the worst degree 1 On what principle of justice is this vio lation of a preacher’s rights permitted ? The constitu tion of the United States does not tolerate any religious test for office and no State constitution should come in conflict with its fundamental principles. The fact is, if the convention of Virginia has a right to prohibit any class of men from holding office, they have the right also to prevent their voting for others. And wlun the principle is once admitted, the dominant ma jority of any period,can,with equal propriety, decree that none but those who believe a particular religious creed shall either vote or hold office, whether laymen or clergy men! Church and State will then become the order of the day and religious freedom be at an end ! Such prims as tho Richmond E xaininer and Savannah Georgian may deem all this “ very properly” done, and the “ very Reverend’’ Francis Scott may have made an able speed) against the removal of an odious disqualifi cation from his own class, but it all will not do to rnakc the thing right , or show that such birds as “defile their own nest,” have only a fabulous existence ! In our judgment, Mr. Scott has rendered himself infamous by his course on this question. Ilis ostensible object, we dare say, for that is the common cant of such disci ples, is to keep separate things sacred and profane— to prevent the commingling of law and gospel .but the real motive is to throw an extra degree of sanctity about ‘lie ministerial office which will serve to elevate preach ers in the eyes of old women and timid maidvns.and in vest them with a fictitious halo of purity which belong to saints and angels and not to mor'als. Out we sav unon ail such “Mawworm” and ‘‘Cantwell” expe dients to manufacture a pious reputation. They are unworthy of meu of sense and should be frowned down by the people. For the Georgia Citizen. Agricultural Fair. “Farmer” in the last “Telegraph’’ in defending the contracted and illiberal policy ofthe Agricultutal Com mittee in the matter of premiums to be awarded at the next Fair of the Society, goes out of his way to insin uate that the Mechanics are the fault finders in the case because the premiums offered to them “ are too small when compared with those offered to Agriculture.” Now, I venture to say Mr. Editor, that no Mechanic lias complained of the premium list on this pitiful ground. The objection is against spending SSOO of ihe funds contributed, in part by the Mechanics, for Agricultural Songs mid Essays , which any young Law yer in the country, who has a thimble full of brains, can concoct at his leisure, from the writings of others, and strut forth in borrowed plumage on Fair Day, with a premium of SSO for his pains, when he may know literally nothing of the matter about which he writes, while, at the same time, the skillful mechanic who pro duces a machine worth thousands, or the planter who has spent years in learning how to produce a good crop of wheat and corn is encouraged by the very liberal award of from $1 to $2! This is an objection, more over. which will be fatal to the Fair itself, units* it is speedily altered and the distribution of prizes made more equitable. “Farmer” also unnecessarily disparages Mechanical pursuits as “assistant” and secondary to Agricultural. It may be true that agriculture is the Lading topic, but it is questionable whether it is so fur superior to iMeoffiffitsir. zn'* Fartner-’-smagines. _ What -wouf.l.-fi*r example, be the condition of the agricultural interest of Georgia, at this time, had it not been supported vigor ous! and efficiently bv its handmaid sister, Mechanism ? VV here would have been your plows, cultivators, cotton gins, cotton presses, fan mills, saw and grist mills, rice cleaners, sickles, threshers, straw cutters, Arc. And where would have been the ero|>s of the planter, but for the wagon and harness maker's skill, the skill of the ship and boat builder and the constructor of Railroads and tlie steam engine —that insignificant machine, (in “Farmer’s’’ eyes,) that is only worthy of a like premium with a “ Yankee Doodle’’song on the mode of curing chickens of the pip or the art of raising pumpkins and squashes ! Verily, the pronged-stick plough of the early ages must be a most precious implement in “Far mer's” hands, if he is sincere in his contemptuous re marks respecting the Mechanic Arts of this day and generation. SLEDGE HAMMER. Tnion Meeting in Sumter. Pursuant to a public notice, a large and respectable portion of the Constitutional Union Party of Sumter met this day at the court house. On motion, Hon. Angus M. D. King and Jas. Glass Esq., were selected as Chairmen of the meeting, and Henry K. MoCay as Secretary. Judge King then stated the object of the meeting—adding a fe-.v general remarks on the importance of the crisis at hand. Oil motion of E. R. rown. Esq., the Chair was di rected to appoint a committee to recommend suitable persons to represent the county in the Gubernatorial Convention of the Constitutional Union party, and also persons to represent us in the Congressional Conven tion of the 2nd District. The Chair appointed E. R. Brown. Chas. J. Ma lone, Dr. Jan-d Tomlinson, James W. Furlow, John Underwood and Andrew J. Williams, Esqs. Whereupon the Committee retired. During the absence of the Committee the r eeting was addressed by Willis A. Hawkins, Esq. of Starkvilfe, who briefly and forcibly referred to the great matters now before the people, and exhorted all to a firm performance of their duty at the present juncture. On motion it was Resolved. That th>- people of this county, members ofthe Constitutional Union Party.be requested to meet in their several districts, on court day, either in June or July, and select two delegates from each district, to • licet alike delegation frimi I looly e unty.nl Drayton, on the first Wednesday in August, to nominate a can didate for Senator of this Senatorial District, and also at the same time to appoint two delegates trntn each dis trict to meet in Americus. on the 2nd Monday in Au gust. to nominate a representative. The Committee then reported the following names. Dr. Jared Tomlinson and William N. Dupree, dele gates to the Gubernatorial Convention. Wm. Mims. Esq., and Col. Chas. J. Malone, delegates to the Con gressional Convention. On motion, the report of the Committee was agreed to, and the persons nominated were chosen as delegates, with power to fill vacancies. On motion of Wm. Mims, the proceedings of Un meeting were directed to be published in tlteCnlumhus Enquirer, South-West Georgian, Macon Journal and Messenger, and Georgia Citizen. The meeting then adjourned. ANGUS M. D. KING, ) Chairmen JAMES GLASS, j Henry K. McCav. Secretary. Hold Him! —The Editor of the “ Southern Dem ocrat’’ anew paper just started at Oglethorpe, must he setting fat like Jeshuran of old, as he has commence l kicking, powerfully, against all who come near to his fodder-rack. Fie is down upon us for speaking in com plimentary terms of Daniel Webster, in connexion with the next Presidency, and affects to consider the circum stance sufficient to throw him into such a fit of each innation as he never had before! Poor fellow ! Ilia risihles’’ will be the death of him, some day, if he is so easily tickled, unless his profound ignorance of the char acter and services of the greatest statesman of the coun try, in behalf of the Constitution and the Laws of the Union, should, some way, reduce the excitability of his facial muscles! We have, howevbr, no time to waste on the doubtful experiment of enlightening one whose chief ’ arjttmsntwm adhomirtem is a coarse 41 horse-laugh Tb* treat Methodist ( hnreh fase Theoawj -a.op.mal „„ Moah, in ‘ States District Court at New York,before j**. * , son and lietis. The Court room was crowded r several Methodist clergymen were present Th 7’ lowing is an accurate, though brief .tatement if it"’ case. lli * The Rev. Francis Harding, a slaveholder ofthe s, of Virginia, was suspended by the Baltimore ci n r enee, which was held about a year previ .us to t j,.. ( ! e-ral Conference of 1814, for his cunueciico with “ ry. ‘i he action of this body was afterwards eonti,- . by the General Conference, which also suspended Bih op Andrews from the performance of his official ’ • of his holding slaves whom he had obtained * sion of by marriage, aud of his refusal to” In consequence of the course taken by the G. Conference, the Southern delegate* declared continued agitation of this subject would * either to abaudou the slave States or separate fr o ’„ T North. 010 The Southern delegates afterwards agreed opo n *• . is called a plan of separation, and a Southern Con-.i ‘ ti.rn. held on their return home, resolved to cstabfelT separate organization ; but the Northern Confirm? * which had possession of the funds, refused to gj ve share of them to that division of the church. *l*°! now become known as the South Methodist Chw- T * After this refusal, Southern commissioners wen- - pointed to the General Conference (South) to imm T this suit for the recovery of their proportion of betw, * seven and eight hundred thousand dollars, claimed b” them as part owners of the general fund previous , separation, and which is at present invested in th* Methodist book establishment of Ohio, New YuiV the charitable fund of Philadelphia. The counsel employed on the part of the plaintiff, are Mr. D. Lord and Rcverdy John**), an d for t fo defendants Messrs. George Wood and Rufus Ch.ru, Mr. Thomas Ewing has also been retained as counsel for the defendants in a similar suit against the brand, Mellio list Book Concern of Cincinnati. The Hut, I >aniul Webster is engaged for the plauitffs. but vr M Uot preseut. Mr. Lord opened he case, recapitulating all the tacts bearing on the state of the case, and, in referej ,_•, O the slaves owned by Reverend Mr. Harding and Bull op Andrews, remarked tliat they could not by the law* of Maryland and Georgia, in which they respectively lived, manumit them. The Express says: One of them held by Bishop Andrews had been devised with directions that she should be sent to Libe ria, but she would not go, and the bishop, alihou * nominally her owner, exercised no act* of ownership over hor, and she went w here she pleased. Mr. L. made remarks in relati >n the facts. Mr. Johnson, a (n sou of the lion. Revcrdv Jolia son. we believe.) read a portion of the answer, aud Mr E. L. Fauelier, concluded the reading of the sane The reading of the application was dispensed with. Mr. Lord here stated that Bishop Base un Iwviiw d:ed since the bringing of the suit, be had obtained* consent from the defendants to substitute the name us the Rev. Wm. A. Smith as one of (be plaintiff*. aa d un order of the Court making such substitution ws* accordingly made. Mr. Lord commenced his argument, and had tut finished rea ling the authorities upon which his argu ment is to be founded, when we left. The New York Express says of the complaint and answer in this ease above referred to: The complaint states that the church is a voluntary institution and unincorporated. It consists of 7 bob ops, 4,828 preachers—and in bishops, minister* and members, under the organiztion in the United State* 1,190,960. Os these 639,000 belong to the North aad 465,UU0 to the Church South. Tile answer denies that there was aiy necessity for n division in 1834, and that said separation was uuen stitutional and void, agreeably to the paramount rules of the church, and made without authority of the Genit al Conference in 1841. The New York Express, of Wednesday says: All day yesterday was taken up chiefly by the read ing of documentary evidence (for the plaintiffs) by Mr. Lord, and the reading of the protests of the minority of the General Conference against the action of tM majority in the ease of Bishop Andrews. ’ lion. Mr. Ewing is in attendance at Court on behalf of the defence, but decs not take much part iu ike proceedings. Mr. Webster is also en aired, but i* bet present. Mr. Johnson, jr.. is acting on behalf of tha plan tiffs. There will probably be but little teitiuKißi’ offered. Argument ito be presented by Messrs. Lord and R< verdy Johnson, it is said, for the South, and Mes>rs. Choate & Wood for the North. The ease.it i understood, will go up on appeal whichever way it may bed. eided. Though the proceedings thus far have embraced but elaborate documentary details, of special interest only to those who are immediately involved, the interest the public Take in it does not seem to abate :n the lea=t.— The Court room was crowded with spectator* all day yesterday. Toioo Meeting in Pulaski. According to a previous notice given, a highly re spectable portion of the ‘Constitutional Union Party’ of the county of Pulaski convened at the Court lIoUM in liawkmsville on the 24th inst. On motion James W. Lathrop was unanimously call ed to the chair, and F. I. B. Browne requested to act as Secretary. Col. Thos. B. Donnelly then being called upon,arcs* and explained tile object of the meeting in a style and manner well suited to the occasion—and submitted th* following resolutions to the voice of the assembly h’ 0 tlv-y -esponded unanimously. Resolved, That the ‘Constitutional Union Party'of Pulaski county, adopt and ratify the platform laid down in the resolutions of the late Georgia Convention, and exult in the proud and distinguished position wf-irb Georgia occupies in the premises—thus preferine * new claim to the title of “ The Empire State of 6* South.” Resolved, That wc most heartily approve of the or ganization of the Constitutional Union Party, and hereby pledge ourselves to lend to the nominees of ’ and party for the various offices within the gift of the peo ple, our most active and cordial support. Resolved That while our enemies are on the*i ‘ r ‘ and seeking to decoy the unsuspecting and the unwary by the magic influence of old party names and as-'*c lions, we will be “up and doing.’ and that we will kr * no party ties or obligations——and that we will supper* no candidate for office who is not for the Const*-•>“** as it is. the Union as it is, and the country —the wbol* country. Resolved. That a committee of five be the Chair to select suitable persons to represent th* county of Pulaski a* delegates in the Convention <* the Union party of Georgia, for the purpose of nomi nating a candidate for Governor; to be held on ‘he first Monday in -Tune next. And also to select <’.** oates to represent the county of Pulaski in the On greaaional Convention of sail party, to he held in Amer ious to nominate a candidate for Congress fr< m this, the 2d Congressional District of Georgia. Resolved, That in the opinion of this meet n;. Ficon Lawson, Esqr , of Houston county, is the ni<* suitable man to be run bv the Constitutional I Party of the Senatorial District composed of and Pulaski counties, as the candidate fur the Legi-lature, as Senator. Whereupon the foregoing resolutions having hi - adopted, the Chair proceeded to appoint a comm taf of five, consisting of Col. Donnelly, and Messrs M"* ning, De Lamar, Cowen and Hamilton, fowled sU delegates to attend the Gubernatorial Conven >n Milledgevile. And also to select delegates to at the Congressional Convention, to be held at AneJ _ They retired and soon reported the Thos. B. Donnelly and P. F. D. Scarborough, a’’ gates, and S. M. Manning and F. J. B Browne * females, io attend the Gubernatorial \nd the names of Chas. T. Lathmp. J"hn J “ son, James A, Lampkin, Rnd R. F. De L -1 ’ tend the Congressional Convention to be held at icus - c ,pF• P This proceeding having been confirmes, • Scarborough, arose in bis place and iatr 1 following resolution. w fli Resolved, That this meeting reeotnn.em Constitutional Union Party of Pulaski j*h a meeting at Hawkinsviileon the first M wfe p next, for the purpose of nominate? 3