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Cnrrwpilrarp. LETEERS PROS THE NORTH—NO. 16. New llaven, May 29. 1851. Dear Doctor : —I went, a few moments ago, into Mr. Finch’s Book Store, to buy a copy of a collection of old Travels in Palestine, lie bad a very beautiful copy of Bobu's edition; but l declined baying it, be cause. I perceived, on turning over the leaves, that the editor had m<derniz<*d the orthography. The folio edition of Sir John Mandevill's Travels in Palestine, etc., in four Volumes, cost the Library of Yale Col lege upwards of §l5O. There is more real civilization hero in New llaven than in the entire State of New York ; and, in fact, more useful learning. There are, alas, amid all this learning, the greatest number of loafers that I over saw any where. I have just found out the secret of their going to Church so often here. It is to coun teract the tendency of the people towards intid lity. It is morally impossible for any man to preach as often as they do here and preach an eloquent Sermon, for they have a meeting, in all the Churches, every night in the week, and three times every Sunday. This, i presume, they do in order to keep up that devotional excitement in the minds of such a lukewarm people, as there are, neqpssary to salvation—for it is my candid opinion that/were they to leave off for one week, the whole would be worse off than when they commenced The Preacners here are shrewd men—they know, ve ry well, that when Michael gets Satan on his back, the best way for him to conquer him. ist a keep him there. 1 spoke to you, in a former letter, about the disagree* bleni'ss of the continual ringing of the bells here ; and 1 willnow tako the liberty to mention, that this oily, in iiiv opinion, would be a perfect paradise, were it not for th's. The lightning in his ponderous chariot of thunder is now rolling down, on bickering adamantine fire wheels, the cloudy stairs of Heaven—the echoes of whose billowy rumbling are uow dying away in the far off fields of space. The lain is now pouring down in torrents, in emula tion of the deluge which overflowed the ancient earth i heNiobean Heavens, like the pathetic Rachel when she filled Bin nail with her lamentations for the loss of r beautiful children, seem pouring out of her break . art the entire fountain of her tears in sorrow for and generate children of the earth I Bend your di . :•* wings, oil! ye Dove-like mother of the universe, r the bowed head of this repentant world, and re re her with the new Baptism of your tears, into am*>cont calm. Bow down your head, oh !ye id Heavens! that the fountains of iiviug water may ■ h and green the desert world with anew >• . e nun-like trees droop, in their religious peni t . in ler the perpetual washing which is to intro* ■n into anew life of greenness in this beauti rsal Clmreh of God 1 They seem now weigli v.i In math tile joyful burden of the newly rea ■atiiudes. Clap your hands, oh !ye Stars of -.Vi :i and ring aloud, yc beautiful sons of God ! for ■ legroouiof the earth is now ready for his bride ! I am now standing at the corner of College and f age streets, near the spot where Eaton, Davenport ■ 1 h)pkins pitched their tent, on what the Indians o called Quininipiack, in 1638, under an oak true tile purpose of establishing themselves as citizens tli.s place. It was on this spot that they built log ‘uses, and, after purchasing land from tile Indians, .id out the town of New Haven. This city contains now about 20,000 inhabitants, and is rapidly increasing in population. The editor of the Journal and Courier , of this city, who is an able writer, in his icay. in speaking of the multitudes of the . dead who are now lying under the Centre Church in the Green,’ says that it would very much impress tlie members of this Church with the mutability of human nature, were the minister to mention this fact occasionally in his Sermons. From this we are, no -doubt, to in fop, that lie believes that all the persons whose bom-afire lying there,,are dead. But is this the truth? ’ Why if there is a particle of truth in the scriptures, they are, every one of them, living and far above mutability. What an idea this man must have of the sou's of the righteous. But what better can we expect from an individual of the Old Church skepti cisrn ? Suppose there are a million of bones under the Church, what have they to do with th ■ souls of the persons who have passed away from the earth ? Pre cisely just nothing at all; yet, if we were to press this subject upon him. he would end in proving himself a bone fide Egypt ian of the days of Cheops, This I infer, and this I have a right to infer, from his re marks in a late number of his paper. Will he pretend to ask me, why I say so? My answer is, that these bones were placed here under precisely the same cir cumstances that the Egyptians were placed in their spacious Catacombs after being embalmed. The very belief which actuated the one people, actuated the oth er—namely, the expectation of a a future tevivifi cation of the defunct bodies. Is not this so ? Cer tainly it is. Then what precedence has the modern over the ancient belief? None at all. As the ancient belief was built up out of an erroneous view of tin dignity of human nature; so is the modem—which will, eventually, go the way that the Egyptian doc trine did. / Man/fnank God ! happens to be a good deal more of an Angel in his piety, than most Theologians b>- lieve: and it is rather to vindicate the legitimacy of the glorious crown which God lias placed, with his own right hand, upon his head, that I now make these re marks, titan to write a homily upon the resurrection Therefore, I will permit this subject to rest where it is. for the present. I went last night, by the invitation of the Students of Yale College, to witness the ‘ Presentation of t!t° Wooden Spoon.’ ‘From the Enrignium on the first page of the Programme , I supposed that I was going to witness something truly excellent, hut I had not been there long before I found out that I was totally dis appointed. The truth is, the whole performance w.i as ridiculous, in its very nature, tut want or talent and had themes could possibly make it. But, at the same time, in justice to the young gentlemen connected with it, I must say that it was no less innocent. The salutatory, in Latin, by A. C. MeKissaek, o’ Tennessee, was really amusing, from the manner in which he introduced Euglish words, and the novel us< which he made of the Batin terminations. The Ora tion on the beauties of Cntsby's Greek Grammar , by C. M. Bliss, of Hartford, was as ridiculous as want of talent and the insipidity of the subject could possibly make it. / ‘ The l/ce of beauty and the beauty of love.’ by E. Sterling, of Bridgeport, although a beautiful sub jer.t, was handled precisely in the same manner. How any young men can, for the mere love of fun, so de i -e the nature which God has given them, in debas ing as sacred a theme as this, is 1> yond all comprehen sion. Any persons who would do so, arc either total ly ignorant of the mission of mind, or wilfullv prodi gal of the gift yvhich God has bestow’ed upon them to do good’in doing that which can on'y make the An gel* in Heaven weep! Fun does not consist in making that which is truly in i'svery nature, divine, ridiculous; hut in giving a well known version of a well known thing. This is the province of satire. It is amusing to us to witness tlie exposition of the Cockney pmnonneiation of Loti d-Hi—not for the sake of a misapplication of the Eng !s i language, but because it is thus misapplied by those who ought to know better. Bill was this the object of the presentation of the Wooden Spoon ? Precisely the reverse. If they deny that their sole ob ject was to degrade that which is acknowledged, bv all the good, to be good, my reply is, that they did it, and can have no reprieve. But this is the. great fault with the world. People are not so often mistaken in the execution, as they are in the choice of, a theme. The truth is. it requires just as much genius to choose a theme as it does to execute it, after it is cjtosen. This was the mistake with those young men. I Then they may reply, why you are snore serious about the matter than the entire subject deserves. The reason of this is, because I was sent here in this world to be serious. The very coming, ns well as the sending of me here, is a serious matter —a very se rious thing indeed. Therefore, it is not the business of any man to make mirth at a funeral—nor is it his vocation, in the very least thing, to treat with levity anything appertaining to the dignity of mind, for it is in this respect that man is an image of God. It h s: man's business to laugh when he has any thing to laugh at —just as it is his business to weep when he has any thing to weep for. But what would be thought of that man who yvould laugh w hen he ought to weep, or even weep when it was not weeping time ? \\ by, every body, of any sense, would say that he was mak ing a so 1 of himself —that is all. The Vignette, as I have before asserted, on the title page, prophesied Letter things than came to pass in the performance. Over the top of the Ensignium, is an arm yvith a hand holding a Spoon in it. On the bor der of this design, is the following will known saying in French, Horn suit qui mat y pense. On a scroll, running diagonally through this, is the following sen tence, Super sinistram Lugemas , w ith a hand thus Git another scroll wreathing a pair of scales, is the following inscription taken from .Bclshazzer’s wall Mene, mcne, tekel upharsin. At the boj/om of it is another scroll moving geutly. in a serpentine coil, around a wooden Spoon, on which arc these words— In hoc signo rinces. Now all this i nothing more nor less than yvliat Shakspeare calls an ‘ infinite deal of nothing,’ en veloped in the smoke ol a greater amount of ‘sound and fury’signifying less. So much for the ‘presenta tion of the Wooden Spoon.’ Since the advent of Spring upon this oartli, this city has become as beautiful as the ITranotolis which the Angela built fir Adam in Paradise. It ought not to be called New Haven, but Sylvanopolis —the city of the W nods. The tr ••es are all in full leaf, and the flowers are blooming most beautifully. This city never appeared to me so beautiful as it does now. I w ent to see the College Library, and a most beau tiful building it is. It is built in the gothic style, and looks very much, on the outside, like a Church. No body would ever take it fora Library. It is most beau tifully finished on the inside—containing between tlie lofty pillars which support the building, many A! coves filled with the most valuable works upon almost all subjects. These Alcoves are square, but, in my opiitiou, would look better if they were oval. The backs of tilt books, with the titles on them, would then pre sent themselves more immediately to the eye,/’ Old Y'ale looks very ancient —pretty nrrfch like an old man, who has more soul in his body than that body will be able long to bear. The style of the architec ture is very simple, and a pretty good sample of the purinmistic times w hich gave it it ‘local habitation and a name.’ The intellectual Paetolus which has flowed down for a hundred and fitly years from its auriferous fountain-head in this city of Theseus, has watered, as a river of life, with tlie priceless baptism of knowledge, the four corners of the New Jerusalem of Liberty. This city is really tho Violet Queen —more so than Athens was in the palmiest days of the IVricleiaft age crif Grecian Glory. All the- difference between her and Atheus is, she has wooden in the place of marble palaces. There is also another difference—Greece was the birth place of Iter present Parthenon. How I long to behold the long-familiar hills of my own native land again ! The more I think of Georgia, the better I love Iter. Like the blue eyed, beautiful damsels of her own fruitful clime, site is a friend to Union. She is entirely too warm hearted, and too much of a ahil< 1 of the Suit, to desire separation from the beautiful Sisters of her heart—although, on many occasions, they may be petulant and cold. When I think of the congeniality ofiGter clime—the fruitfulness of her soil—the variegation of her geography—the vast variety of Iter internal resources—and the overflow ing bounty of her annual revenue—l thank God that 1 was born under her cerulean skies, and brought up to man's estate on her maternal bosom. U alike most sons towards their mothers, 1 have been more mindful of her welfare, among her sisters of the Union, than she has ever been of me. But theie is this thing that cheers me, even in this eold North where I now write, that no son was ever yet dutiful to his mother, that the kind ness was not returned sooner or later.* But never, while I live, repay me or not repay me, will I ever be false to Iter, or forget her. Land of the South ! the land of my own birth! Land of the sun ! the richest land on earth ! Land of the beauful, the brave, the free ! Bind of my Sires! my spirit turns to T. 11. C. LETTER FR'J'fl CiILOBES. Columbus, June 19, 1851. Dear Sir: —The boy .Tatar.i is to be publicly hanged until he is dead oil the 12th day of August next. — W in n sentence was about to be passed upon him, In kept his countenance, ami not a muscle relaxed until lie was admonished by his Honor, the Judge, to prepare for death, as there was no hope to preserve his life. The Superior Court is about to close for the present term, after six weeks mental and corporeal labor by the Bench and Bar, though without many great benefits to the litigants at Court. The Hank cases yet stand still. Tt is a pity that the vat bidden treasures of the Carpet Bag, the work of the modern Alchemysts, sin old be again locked up and permitted to wend its way to the land of “ Pigeon Boost,” there to remain for the next six months or more, a shapeless, worthless mass. It really looks. r rom its tension, that all the broken Banks of tlie State had been emptied into this modern pocket, which stood ready for either word, wink or nod, to disgorge itself ot its pelt’ and peculation. We will let it rest until the pedestrian “ Strap ’’ raises his proboscis like a pig in a hailstorm, and takes up bis line of tramp to sustain his amiable reputation of walker. . It is a shame that individuals, of borrowed capital should he allowed to sptculate upon honest industry by issuing three dollars for one, and afterwards buying it up for ten or twenty-five cents in the dollar, though it may be all l ight if the people will submit to it, as they do here everyday, taking such rags for their labor. It is their fault and folly. The Supreme Court i3 entitled to thanks and im mortality on tlie earth for tlie judgment given by them, determining their “ unwavering confidence in the cor rectness of their decision in tho Dana cases then be fore th>m.” These are modern decisions, and such as no .Judge ever gave before. They are blazing the way for other Judges to walk up to the light that was hidden under the bushel, and which they have taken out arid placed on top. The evil will now be remedied They have found the way to bring these men of “ pe riodical madness ” to feel in their purses. But it is feared that they will plead the madness by way of de fence. They have laid down rules to govern the saga cious Yankee, the Southron, and the men of the far west. They have ascertained that broken Bank Bills are of more injury than spurious coin. But thas is not the case here, for neither will pass. They have come to tlie conclusion that banking holds out more tempting prospects to steal themselves rich than any other busi ness. This is the fact, for there are many- hire who revel in luxury on the proceeds,and feel so secure in its possession that they have the coolnessand impudence to sue others whom they have already plundered ! They have made the discovery, hut have not yet dis closed the means which are “ calculated to secure for paper currency a substantial basis to rest upon. ” This is valuable, if we can only avail ourselves of it against the agents and hills of foreign Banks. Banks are like all other bubbles, creating excitement, which gives im petus and energy to all great movements; but it is not the Batiks or their bills that build up “ our most mag nificent works of improvement, prosperity and glory.’* It is human’ labor that has done it. and will always do it—and it is that which suffers all the losses arising from failures. It is strange that so much glory should come out of so much evil. The prospects of litigation are on the increase. All the old broken Banks of the State are to be disinterred, and again brought before the public, hideous as they were. Ihe estates, of dead men are to be ransacked and robbed, and the widow and the orphan are to be turned into the sewers of society, naked, hungry and disgraced ; for here, it scents, there is no repose, bv custom or by “ statutes of repose or limitations.” let loose the blood-hounds, the time has cerne ! Take heed oh ! ye Banks of Darien. Pigeon Roost,. Western old M icon. Merchants’ and Planters’ of Augusta, alias the VY heeler Bank, which will also be wheeled into line the Hawkinsville Bank, and the old Ocmulgee, whose stockholders were of South Carolina. The old Colum bus B;mk Bills have already gone up in value from five eents in a dollar to five cents premium, giving one hun dred and five cents for one dollar. The bills of the nu merous broken Banks are now the most profitable stock jobbing business known, provided you could ar range it so that the stockholders or bill holders could be judges, jurors and witnesses to the eases against the broken Banks Be not astonished if the Executive, Judicial, Legis lative, ministerial and other citizens of Georgia, were all to be sued for the forty per cent depreciation of the Central Bank! Then stand from under every body, for tho “ purer eye of morality “ is making a tour in Georgia. But the question would be, who would then be judges, jurors and witnesses?—for it is somewhert said that “ no man can be a judge or witness in his own case. ” Iti all nefarious transactions, the innocent and weak suffer the most, as it is in tho Bank cases. Those who have mado the most ol them, and who are beet able to pay, are wot sued. So much for the truth of the saying, that money is power. Criminal Law —ll. Wilson was the fee simple owner and in possession of his land. Jordan was tear ing down his fence to go through his field. Wilson told him not to do trespass on his property in that way. W ilson at the time had picked up a piece of a rail.— Jordan took it from him, and broke Wilson’s skull.— Jordan was arrested, and upon examination, the physi cians who attended on Wilson said lie could not live.— Jordan was discharged u]vm a three thousand dollar bond to answer to the charge of assault with intent to murder. W ilaon died fourda>s afar,and Jordan was non est inventus, or “nulla bonaf’ The steam-car and steam-boat intend having a w histling rac**, as they practice all hours in the day.— One cannot now tell which w ay you arc to sail, by land or water. T lie storm and hail came along on Monday last, the hail breaking the glass in the windows, and the wind tearing off the roofs of the factories nnd houses, blow ing down trees, and carrying off shanties. The corn •s blown down, and it aud the cotton cut to pieces.— Strange to say, it did not blow away the Court, or Court-house rather, and all that was in it! Polities do not run high yet —but it is like Christ mas, a-coming, and will be here altogether. I lave the people of Georgia to bear in mind that at the next elections for members of the Legislature, they are to endorse on their tickets whether or not they are in favor of having the Judges of tlie Superior Courts elected by tlie people. That is to be the test sign manual whereby it is to be determined whether or not the people are as big fools as the man or men who in troduced and voted for such a law. Keep it before the people, that they are more compe tent, honest, capable and careful of their rights and du ties in the selection of all public servants, than any set of venal, corrupt political hucksters. It will cost no thing to elect them by the people, and it costs the people ten thousand dollars or more for the Legislature to elect them. It will prevent further infringement and usurpation of the rights of the people, an well, also, any further gross and palpable violation of the Consti tution of Georgia! Speak out to them that Cobb is the Simon Puri Union candidate, and that McDonald is the same mail who was President of the notorious Secession-Chivalry- Dissolution Nashville Convention ! CASSIO. For the Georgia Citizen * Heraldry. A Hand Book of Heraldry, by G. YV. Gevilt Ma plecon, Esq., has been recently published by the house of J. Wiley, New York. The professed object of tlie work is to throw light upon the subject of Heraldry generally, and to awaken an interest in the public mind ah- ut a matter in which well informed gentlemen in other respects are lamentably deficient. The author exhibits the Coat of Arms of Washington, and his pedigree—from which it appears he th rived his descent from William de Hertburn, Lord Mayor of Washing ton, ii the English county of Durham, in the 13th century. The author proceeds to trace out the illus trious ancestry of the great American chief, and to de duce from it his right to assume the Coat of Arms which it isalleged was that of his family. A Book of Heraldry on the other side of the Atlan tic will answer very well. It chimes in handsomely with the notions of those “ who have been booted and spurred to ride upon the backs of the people. ” It will not do in this repnfoliean country. We do not legislate inen respectable whether they will or not, and make the ttiled of the greatest vagabond, because, for sooth, he was distantly connected with my Lord Spoo ney, who was a legitimate descendant of the great and illu-trious house of Crockery. The popular sentiment of this country was preferred by tlie founders of the Republic to the heraldrie blazonry of old aud deerepid Europe; and Washington, and Jefferson, and Hamil ton and Adams stood forth the champions of these re publican principles by appealing to the sword to sustain the dogma that all mankind were” free and equal. ” A Book of Heraldry in this country might, never theless, throw some light upon our cod-fish aristocracy, and awaken a spirit of emulation in the minds of the young. The claim of this aristocracy is not lost in the twilight of past ages. There are persons now living who catt attest the illustrious deeds by whicli the Aim r ieun Aristocracy loomed above the beads of their fel low citizens. In other words, a Book of Heraldn properly gotten up and introduced to the public, might dt-velope some pleasant truths to the young and aspi ring of the land. It could trace out how persons have risen in life by pursuing an honest, industrious, saving Course to the end. We have only to look around upon our own State, to be convinced that the wealthy, be they who they may. are descendants of those recently poor, and that their claim to the appellation of aristoc racy springs from the successful use of the hammer, the loom, the spindle and the plow, &c., at all ol which they now turn up their snub noses in lordly contempt. I will send you, ere long, if I can lay hands on it, Mr. Jefferson’s view of Heraldry, and o’ European I leraldry especially—good authority, say you. A JEFFERSONIAN. Atlanta, June 19, 1851. LETTER FRIER COLUMBUS. Columbus, Ga., June 24, 1851 Dear Citizen : —The duty of a faithful chronicler is, to give a fair and impartial description of persons and things ; to record and publ sh, all things that are prop er to be recorded and published, asking neither the fa vor or the affections of any. Such being my senti tnents, it becomes my duty to inform you, concerning the acts of persons, and the appearances of things in this great city. Just let me ask, what lias become of your Columbus Correspondents ? You will probably answer. They are whetting their ideas and preparing themselves for future usefulness. I see, daily, your ‘friend of many travels,’ and have of often wondered w hy, he does not give to the readers •he Georgia Citizen,’ an account of the ‘tnov'ng acci dents by flood and field,” and ‘the hair breadth scapes’ through which ‘green utis’ pass on their route to, and from California. I hope, your Correspondent ‘Roderi go,’ has not worn out his pen and used up all his paper, in exposing the huinbugery practiced by strolling Pro fessors, about whom we know nothing, and care less Come, come, Mr. Roderigo, yon must not give it up so. You wield a spirited pen; sehet your subject and— take a fresh start. Mr. ‘Oscar,’ had better keep away from ‘Battle Row.’ The old man at the corner is angry, ax helves are cheap, and D. has a number for sale. Word to the wise is sufficient. We have had many refreshing showers here lately, to the great benefit of the planter, and the no small gratification of the ladies, (God bless them) who have been confined to their homes, by the long, dry dusty, flea biting spell, but now promenade our streets like— or—like a—Angels! ns they are! The Superior Court, after a long tedious session, closed its labors last week ; a number of cases were dis |KJsod of, and some very important decisions made. The last case of importance was— Banks vs. Banks, or Bill Holders vs. Stock Holders. This case presented many knotty questions, and drew forth many able legal arguments on both sides, the Judge deciding sometime* in favor of one, and then the other, according to his views of the questions before him. It did not require an extraordinary power of vision, to enable a looker on to form a correct opinion, as to who the parties tnos interested were. An expression of countenance a sud den dropping of the under lip, a restlessness in sitting, which sometimes brought the party on their feet; a raising and lowering of a cane which sounded like‘spir itual knocking;’ now, an old lame man unable to walk without a crutch, again requiring two, and, at the close of tbe trial, feeling like a young colt in a clover patch. All these symptoms and many more unmistakable signs, in partes who thought themselves secure behind the curtaitiß were so plain to the eyes and understanding of your humble chronicler, that he has resolved, within hinuelf, to have as little to do, with those lame unspe cie paying Banks, as possible. The Jury found a verdict for the plantiff, but not for the full amount. My impressions are, that, if the parties, urging the Bank eases, succeed, they will have as large a field for ‘ope rations,’ as the defunct Banks ever had, in their palmi est days. This verdict however does not govern other Bunk eases, which will, in course of time, be brought up lor tuture jurors to decide upon. Mrs. Duraug, and Signor Novelli assisted by Mr. t’ease, have given two Concerts to the few lovers of vo cal music in this city ; the last, which, in all bumau probability we would not have heen favored with, had it not been for the warm, and pressing solicitation, ol your old friend ‘Soprano’ of the ‘Times,’ came off last evening before a slim audience. It is said l>y some, who profess to be goodjudges ol vocal and instrumental music, that Madame is a good songstress ; indeed, 1 think she sings very well— and that s not ail. She is a right pretty little woman. Signor Novelli, assisted by Mr. Pe ase, does very well, but lie has his faults. When on the stage alone, some thing transpiring in th dressing room attracts his at tention more than his notes and the audience. It may be a part of the music, which, to a novice like myself, would seem much better after a familiar acquaint ance. For the life of me, I cannot understand how it is, that we plain, simple Americans should differ so much in our social relations from the foreigners who travel through our country, and sometimes honor us with a faint exhibition of their musical skill! Indeed, 1 feci much like the landlord, who asked Monsieur *‘ Why he and Madam laid different names, w hen they sup ped and slept in the saHt- room?” But it may be a part of the music ! 1 don’t Rmderstand it! 1 he next peiNoiiHge,jP’ho cat boast of noble parent age, is the distinguished gentleman - ‘ Buniray. ” Poor ‘‘ Bummy ” has been in trouble. What a pity to ac cuse such a nice youth of the low, vulgar crime of uading with negroes! “ I would have you under stand, ” said Bummy—but not in hearing of a certain magistrate—“ that 1 don't live on ‘ Battle Row.’ ” Well, that fact was something in his favor. He was dismissed after p yiug costs. A man by the name of James Johnson was charged w ith forging the name of E. T. Taylor to an order on ” John Smith. ’’ lam in earnest! it was on our veri table Deacon John, for clothing. Ido not know what created suspicion ; may be the prices agreed upon.— However, he was arrested, and committed to await his trial next Court. A civil suit— the “ Devil vs. Biology, ” or Emmet vs. Hale, for debt—stirred up the ink and type of tho ‘“ Times ” Office. It appeared on trial, that Professor Hale had employed tlie “ l imes Devil ” to keep door, (quere? when the Devil keeps dour, what is doing in >ide?) stick up and circulate bills for twelve or fifteen nights’ performances, for which services tho Devil, aforesaid, claimed the sum of twenty dollars. The suit was decided in favor of Plaintiff, of course, in obedi ence to the old saw, “ the Devil should have his due. ” A distinguished “ Filibuster ’’ front South Carolina arrived here a few days ago, and put up at the Ogle thore Hotel, where he indulges in the pure Filibuster style in cursing every thing in the shape of a Union and law-abiding citizen. True to ilia instinct of his clan, he sees there is danger in the Falstaff kingdom, and is now looking for a suitable place, a short distance from Columbus, where he can rest secure from the attack of the overwhelming battalions that his fire eating imagination pom-trays advancing upon the land ol his birth. h e believe, if he is not too far gone in this malady, that by placing him under the care and instructions of a Georgia schoolmaster, he will, in the course of time, become a rational and a decent citi zen. u Union men here are much indebted (o the* Citizen ’ for informing us that the Hod. Howell Cobb is a candi date for Governor, and are pleased to see his name at the head of its columns. We are unable to say why tho * Enquirer ’ does not do likewise. YVe have the utmost confidence in its Editor, and believe that before long, he w 011 hi* armor, lead the Up ion host of 01.1 • the field, unt/irl to the breeze the ‘ stars and our glorious Union, and proclaim to the worl.l^^P’’- his mind and pen shall never know rest so loh'.CjJßp traitor s head can be seen through a knot hole. I must close, with the promise that if others will not write to you, I will. Y'ours, &c., TIMOTHY TITUS. Later from California. Another destructive Fire at San Francisco t>l5UO houses consumed ! (fee. The New Orleans papers received last night contain the particulars of the great fire which occurred in San Francisco on the 3d of May, the anniversary of the great tire last year.’ The news was brought in Mexican papers by the Alabama, from Vera Cruz. The tire, which broke out at 11 o’clock at night, and lasted for the space of ten hours, was the most destructive one ever known in this country, consuming nearly the entire business portion of the city. Never, says the Aha Cal ifornian, has such a terrible conflagration occur red since tlie burning of Moscow. Nineteen squares of houses were destroyed. It is not easy to estimate the number of houses consum ed, but it amounts to at least fifteen hundred. I he total loss is supposed to be between twelve and fifteen millions ; fifteen millions about a fair estimate. The spectacle during the fire was frightful. 1 housands ol nn*n, women and children, scarcely clad, and seemingly in a state of delirium, crowded the streets. The city was filled with people, wandering about without an asylum. The horror of the scene was increased bv the sight of the unfortunate persons who, from time to time, were compelled to rush from the midst of the flames, and precipitating themselves into the streets, were at last, after vain efforts to es cape, crushed by the falling buildings, in full view of bund reds of spectators, unable to render assistance. Fwo persons were in this manner burnt alive in the streets, and six others perish • and in the iron stores of Messrs. Taafl'e <fc Me- Cahill. I he number of persons known to have been killedas eight; twenty others were more or less severely wounded. After the fire two men were killed by the falling ruins. The Custom House, all the newspaper offices in San Francisco, with the exception of that of the Alta Californian, two theatres and all the principal hotels were consumed. The offices of the Steamship Com pany; and the ship Fantic and Gen. Harrison were also burned. Ihe list of sufferers hy the dreadful fire in San h rancisco fills six columns of the Alta Cali fornia, and even this is not complete. Very few business houses, either in San Francisco or Stockton, escaped destruction. I’rices of Merchandise, which were very low before the fire, suddenly were quintupled, and rents rose in the same proportion. The house of Burgovne tk Cos., after the fire, found $1 500,000 safe in their iron chest. The employees in the custom-house saved all the funds that it contained, a nounting to a million of dollars, by throwing them into a well. J A fire also occurred at Stockton, on the night of the sth of May, which consumed the business part of the city. This fire, taking the relative size of the place into consideration, was quite as disastrous as that of San Francisco. The loss is estimated at $1,200,000. Both these fires are supposed to be the work <>f incendiaries. Suspicion rests upon a num ber of Australian convicts who have infested the cities, as they are known to have matured a plan to burn and plunder San Francisco some two months ago. The New York Express—The entire rev enues for the fisral year, ending June 20, 1851, will exceed the estimates by five mil lions of dollars, and will reach (incuding. he receipts at California for a par]he pastt of and the whole of the present fiscal year) FIF TY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS! Os this sum two millions will he credited to Calitornia. and $48,000,000, at least, to the Atlantic ports; and of this $48,000,000, New York will have received an enormous amount, the revenue collected here for only nine months of the year being $ >4 375.012! THE GEORGIA CITIZEN. L. F. W. ANDREWS, EDITOR. MACON, GEO. JUNE 28, 1851. UNION NOMINATION, FOR GOVERNOR, IKW. HOWELL COBB, OF CLARKE. Mr. (obh*s Appointments. Mr. Cobb will address the people at llawkinsville, on Tuesday - - Ist July. Perry, on Thursday - - - - 3d “ Lanier, ou Saturday .... sth “ Buena Vista, on Monday - - 7th “ Columbus, on Wednesday - - 9th “ Lumpkin, on Friday - - - 11th “ Cuthbert, ou Saturday ... 12th “ Fort Games, on Monday - - 14th “ Blakely, on Tuesday .... 15th “ Bain bridge, on Thursday - - 17th “ Thoinasville, on Saturday - - 19th “ Newton, on Monday ... 2let “ Albany, on Tuesday .... 22d “ Stark vi lie ,on W ednesday - - 23d ,l Amt-nous, on Thursday - - 24th “ Vienna, Dooly county, Saturday 26th “ Terms of tbe Citizen. Two Dollars and Fifty Cents per annum, payable within three months from the time of subscribing, or Two Dollars oash in hand, are the conditions of sub scription to this paper. Subscribers who have not yet paid for volume 2d. owe each $2 50, which they will please settle without delay. Thanks —We return our thanks to the of ficers of the Steamer Florida, and to the Con ductor- of the Central Railroad, for copious files of New York papers, brought by that steamer to Savannah, on Tuesday la-4. Delegates to the Convention.— would suggest to those Delegates to the Mechanics’ Convention who have occasion to pass through Macon, to arrange the time of arrival here so as to unite with the Macon Delegation in taking the cars to Atlanta which leave Thursday eve ning, July 3d, at 1-2 past 8 o’clock. Tty so doing, they will he entitled to participate in the pro posed reduction of fare from this city. To Mechanics I An adjourned meeting of all the Mechanics of Macon and vieinty is requested, this evening at the Council Chamber, at 8 o'clock, to provide lor filling up any vacancies which may occur in the delegation appointed to attend the Conven tion, at Atlanta, on the 4th July, as well as to consider the propriety of appointing an addi tional Delegate to represent each and every branch of Mechanic Arts and Manufactures of the city in that body. Per order of the Chair man. D. Tolcey, Secretary. TV ill Do It. —The Macon Mechanics’ So ciety, in obedience to the call made upon it have selected a Speaker to address the Atlantic Con vention, on the 4th proximo, who will endeavor to discharge said duty, in as full a manner as the very limited time allowed him for prepara tion will permit. The brotherhood of Atlanta will please make the necessary arrangements as to place and hour of the meeting of Conven tion, <fcc. Our Candidate for Congress.— Before the date of our next issue, the Congressional Con vention of the 3d District, will have met in this city and presented a candidate for Congress to the support of the friends of the Union. We humbly ask that all things may be done in har mony and for the good of the cause and nothing for men. Nominations.— Hon. Charles 11. Hopkins has Iwen nominated as the Union candidate for Congress in the Ist District of this State, and the Hon. Charles Murphy in the4tli. Both very g<>od nominations. Hon. R. Toombs has been nominated as the Con*- stitutional Union Candidate for Congress, from the Bth District. Trying to bum him out. —Three attempts within sixty days, have been made to set fire to the office of “ Ned Buntline’s Own,” in New York—the last on Monday night, the 9th inst. That is one way of puttingdownun independent Press which is “ more honored in the breach than in the observance. ” Ned. however, defies his enemies to do their worst, and tells them, in a manly way, to ‘‘come on,” for he is ready to meet all such *“ dastards, serpents and n urderers” as they deserve to be met! Offensive. —Certain young larks arc in the habit of smoking segars at the doors of the churches in this city, which, when the wind is favorable, is any thing but agreeable to the inside worshippers. The practice, as well as that of spitting tobacco in the pews and aisles, is most abominable. Some of the same kidney attend concerts, occasion ally, and other genteel exhibitions, where they can be recognized by a simultaneous and concerted movement to disturb tbe audience, by striking the floor with sticks, and otlu r annoying deviltry. We'll Daguer reotype some of these chaps ere long, so that their ugly physiognomies may be clearly delineated to an admiring public. Omission . —The name of James W. Green, was inadvertently omitted in our last, from tbe list of citi zens, living on the Houston Road, who were exhoner ated from all suspicion of being engaged in the drug ging and robbery transaction referred to, some time back, iu the Georgia Citizen. Slandering Mr. Jefferson —The “Fiiiibus ter” prints have been claiming Thomas Jefferson as a secessionist, but *‘ State Rights ” in the last Southern Recorder, thus puts an extinguisher upon the slander: “ Mr. Jefferson never supported any such doctrine. The whole republican party always opposed secession. They opposed it under Mr. Jefferson’s administration, and under that of Mr. Madison. At the time of Mr. Jefferson’s last election, on the day when the electors met at Richmond to cast the vote of the State of Vir ginia for him, a public dinner was given the electors. Judge Roane, the great friend of Mr. Jefferson, pre siding. The regular toasts were prepare! by his friends, and that his opinions and those of his friends might be distinctly known, the following regular toast was drunk with overwhelming applause: ‘Secession — It is Treason !’ ” The Federal Ruin ” man calls this ihe “ loose and disjointed views ” of Mr. Jefferson ! The Fugitive Law in Indiana.—The Hon. Mr. McGaughey, whom the whigs have put up for Congress, is the member who voted for the Fugitive Law. Hon. Mr. Taylor, of Ohio, the other whig in the north west who so voted, is re-elected. And if Hon. Mr. Elliot, of Boston, the third whig, had consented to run again, he would have been triumphantly elected Great Cry and little Wool.— For lack of argument some of the Filibusters are quoting the sen timents of the quondam whig journals r.ow supporting Mr. Cobb, as proof of their inconsistency in the matter. Well, what of it! Did not the Disunion whigs who now praise McDonald to the skies once abuse him with out stint as a rabid Locofoco ? For example, Smythe. of the Republic, was the temporary President of thr late nameless Convention of the Fire Eaters, at Mil ledgeville, and it has been his “ meat, drink, washing and lodging” ever since he assumed the Editorial tri pod, till very lately, to abuse every thing that savored of Democracy. On the other hand, such atra-bilious prints as the Federal Ruin, Georgia Telegraph, Constitutionalist, Columbus Tunes and Bav. Georgian, have been accus tomed, in days past, to praise Mr. Cobb as the Magnus Apollo of the great democratic party of Georgia, and second, in soundness, ability and honesty, to none, not even C. J. McDonald ! In the name of all consisten cy, why then cry “stop thief” when you are all in tin same category I It is acknowledged, on all hands, that old party lines have beeu obliterated—that former whigs and Democrats belong now, to bt th the Union and Disunion parties of the State. The use of such a wea pon is therefore foolish. It is a two-edged instrument that will out both ways quite as keenly as one. The inconsistency then charged lies at the door of nearly every journal in the State, except the Union Demo crats, aud is therefore a contemptible, ‘‘small potato” warfare to engage in. A Daniel Come to Judgment! A writer over the classic signature of “ Auehum kee,” in the last “Federal Union” makes invidious com parisons between McDonald and Cobb, against the lat ter. Hesays: ‘‘The approaching gubernatorial canvass will present an anomaly in the history of party warfare iu this State. The opponent of Gov. McDonald is the lion. Howell Cobb, late Speaker of the House of Repreutatives, and who has ever professed, and still professes to be a dem ocrat. A democrat, and opposed to C. J. MoDonall ! “Y r es, it may be told in Gath, and published in the streets of Askelon, that Howell Cobb, a man whom the democrats have honored and distinguished, is now the opponent of the regular nominee of the democratic party for Governor, and the candidate of the whig sub mission party!!” In anwer to that, Gov. McDonald, says that the late nameless Convention was composed of both “ Whigs and Democrats!” Ilow then can Howell Cobb be the opponent of the ,l regular nominee of the Democratic party"? Again “ Auchamkee” says of Mr. Cobb : “And Howell Cobb is the candidate of these sympa thizers with the northern frecsoilers and abolitionists! Now. I ask you, who like myself, belong to the rank and file of the old fashioned, real Union party, can you sacrifice your State Rights principles as democrats, and your regard for the rights and interest of the South, to support this representative of the north for Governor ? Will you abandon that true republican and friend of the South, Chas. J. McDonald, to support a mail who has sold and betrayed his party and his section ? Can honest whigs reconcile it to themselves to vote for one for Governor who has just come among them and still boasts of his unchanged democracy?” Again, we ask, is McDonald, in deed and in truth. the Democratic candidate? What say the Athens Herald and Augusta Republic and the d'sunmn Whigs. of the rank and file, to that declaration ? Have they placed themselves in the position which this audaciou scribblcr has dared to place Mr. Cobb and the hundred of U nion Democrats in the Stale, as sellers and betray ers of their parly and the South ? Let them answer those questions if they can ! As to the comparative soundness of Messrs. McDon ald and Cobb, in devotion to the interests of the South and to Democracy, wc have but a work to respond. On thing is very certain —'lit. COBB NEVER HATCHED TREASON AGANST IIIS COUN TRY, NOR PRESIDED OVER A, SECOND OR THIRD EDITION of the “ Hartford Conven tion”! Mr. Cobb never alio wed the ‘stars & stripes’ waiving over his head to have theory of“DiSUNION’’ “DISUNION’’ spit upon its folds, in contempt and de rision 1 Mr. Cobb never sat in silence as Chairman, and allowed the gag to be placed on the mouth of an ex-rep resentative from Georgia, and an Ex-United State- Minister to a haughty European power—liimrelf an in vited guest---because the latter chose to speak in pr.iist ot that Flag, and its power to protect, mid tile diu ot battle, and roar of artillery, in a foreign land ! No ! no!! no!!! Whatever, of sins political, Mr. Cobb may have been guilty, his garments have never been stained, after that fevhion, and never will! Secession the Same as Disunion. That those who are clamoring for the right of seces sion are Disuniouists at heart, there is the most indu bitable testimony. A* V'oioe from Georgia, ’’ in the Charleston Mer cury thus speaks of some of the people of Georgia : “ Restrained by some of the motives mentione • above, they cannot yet be persuaded to become di un ionists; they are wavering, stung by a sense of wrong and injustice, yet held back by a vague fear of the tvit of disunion. All that is wanted to secure their aid is a practical and successful demonstration of secession.” • **** “ In conclusion, let me beseech you and your party not to flag in your exertions; let no stone remain un turned to forward the cause of immediate secession.— Tlie Southern Rights Party of the whole country ar looking anxiously with fear, with doubt, yet with hope, upon your gallant State. Our hands are tied by the will of the majority, but you are yet free. See to it that you remain so. South Carolina is now the only champion of Southern liberties, she will be the last; yours is the only battle-ground for Southern patriotism, and will be the last. ” Another, in the “ Telegraph ” of Columbia, S. C , writes as follows from Georgia : “ The secession of South Carolina. I honestly be lieve, is the last limp upon which the South can hang a hinge of hope; if she falters, all is lost. We look to you to stand tirm. If that monster of iniquity, the Federal Government, dares to attempt coercion, it will rally to your standard from the Southwest not less than fifty thousand as gallant spirits as ever picked a flint.— In such an event put us down certain, as claiming a place in the line. It steam will carry us so soon. I wili be with you before the reverberation of the first can non shall have died away in the distance. ******* ‘"lf your secession is painful, so soon as the first panic is over, you must begin to enter upon anew and untold state of prosperity. With your own raw material, to gether with that which must flow into your borders from this Slate, North Alabama and Tennessee, in spite of the restrictions and cordons of the Federal Go vernment, I cannot see what is to prevent your attain ing great wealth in short time. Holland, with not half the advantages of South Carolina, attained great commercial prosperity—was in fact, mistress of the seas at one time. With free trade or a moderate duty upon importations, nothing can check your march to great ness.,? Another writing to the “ Spartan, ’’ says: “ I have but one idea on the subject now agitating the country, and that is that South Carolina holds the destiny of the South and of slavery in her own hands. If she backs out, then is slavery doomed, and that at no distant day. But if she will secede from the Union, she can save the South and protect slavery.— Either the Government will let her go out peaceably and quietly, or will endeavor to force her into subjec tion. If the Administration permit her to goon with out interruption, then three-fourths of the cotton States will follow suit in less than two years; for they are only restrained now through fears of an intermina ble civil war. “ The people of Georgia do not love the Union, as a sentiment * * * * I tell you the Southern Rights Party (I don't mean the State,) would back you with life and fortune, from the Savannah t<> the Mississippi river. If we had a bare majority in Georgia, we would have seceded ; and as you have a large majority in South Carolina, why do you hesitatt ? Delays are dangerous—hesitation is ruin. ” The Alabama confederates of the Georgia Fire Eat ers are equally decided on the subject. The “ Atlas and Secession Banner, ” a paper prn'ed at Montgom ery, hs for its motto— “ the *** 10. That the question of the secession of \i. u from this Government, is reduced to th . , ma only. ” ,at of hm, Again : Col. Cochran, Disunion candidate N, r gress in the 2nd District of Alabama, tb Us 1, °°’ Father Ritchie: to “ the action of the Government at Wj • in passing tiro bill to admit California, an d “ ni?ton sures which seem to have added so much to - nK ’ a * piness, leaves U3 without hopt they perfect U danon of the South in the Union, and nt ! ‘ redeem her but Secession .” ‘ CBa *****•♦. “ I do not think the Union will be delved atcly; but 1 believe, and rejoice in the this moment there is amongst us here a leav.n J** * union, which by a more or less rapid, but tain process, will leaven the . hole lump. J ® l ' r ‘ “ \\ e led that in the confederacy we are dem*,’ • and have no remedy but secession.” * The Convention at Montgomery, Ala on inst., reported through tlicit Chairman, l’lun \y 104 \ ancey, the following Preamble aud Resolu v', ° Whereas, in the opinion of this Convene, of recent occurrence indicate ll.at one of il‘. ’ UCW ’ States of this Union is placing herself in a • secede, aud will secede from the Union “And whereas, in the opinion of this State Las the right to secede, and Irotn the Vw . of the case, is-the only judge of the pricty of such an act. * ‘ u **'” “ And whereas, it is not improbable tlat tie n • of such right by the seceding State will l* with arms, by the General Government be it ‘ “ Resolved, That if in the event of an s mj, State, in the exercise of ito own proper, for causes which now exist, to sect de f rol , |T Union, in the opiniou of this Convention, ft J. wane the duty of this State, as of all lhe uth- r h .’ to oppose with force any attempt upon the pirt General Governii cut to coerce such seedici; State >. And still further: “At a meeting of the people of Scriv* Dtv Georgia, held at Station No. 6 Central Rail R :l j J ’ the fourth Monday of May, after sleeting ■or tlie State Legislature, the following rtvilation offered by S. B. Ilayne, was unanimously adopted- ‘ “ Resoled, That iit the event South Carolina Re cedes from the Union of the North, and that thi-Gur eminent of the majority should try to iaii.i,t TVr ftoin her j ust right to do so, we the mem ben cump* ing this meeting, do pledge ourselves in the tice of k world to support her cause, if necessary, with ournfe to the death. ” Gov. McDonald expresses himself thus: “ The right of a Stale, in virtue of its indewnd -nc and sovereignty, to secede from the Union, v. the people thereof, in their sovereign capacity. determine such a step to be necessary to effect their safety and happiness, flows necessarily from the- nttur ot our govern mental organization. ” The Columbus Sentinel says: “ We have no patience with men who believe th-: tbe Constitution lias beeu violated—that Georgia nda graced—ami yet say, 4 we submit—we are vtilh. gti get upon the Georgia platform. ’ Such subauaKo would do discredit to a slave. ” The Federal Uuion repudiates both Jefferson at; Gen. Jackson on the subjeet of secession! The Edit t speaks as follows of a communication suiting forth Jef ferson's opinion against secession: “ Our space is too precious to be occupied, at such a period as Ibis, by such protracted disquisitions --j wj • übject, and least of all, by a repetition of the Ims and disjointed views of Mr. Jefferson on the right*’ secession !*’ J udging from these and other demonstrations, tb* can be no doubt that the McDonald “ FiliibusUn’ mean to split the Union, if they can ! Interesting to the Ladies The A ppalaehicola Advertiser a.'ii-mccs that th Ladies of that place “ have made arrangements fori course of Lectures on subjects in which they are nnrt particularly interested. They propose giving two la tures each week. The following list embraces a pur lion of the subjects, which will be brought before tb public daring the course : Husbands, —their uses and duties. Servants, as confidential spies and reporters. Beaux— the use of—liovv taught. Curtain L- dun s—necessity of, when tobeused. Tears—their advantages—best mode of applying. \lu>D—bow muchi- u c s-ary toe.tich a flat. I Vt tin sms—their beauty and comfort. Bachelors—their whims—best bait for, Ac. t’romenudiug and Poetry. | Scolding—tbe science of, nse, Arc. Proper mode of ascertaining who calls on tbt-y<®s lady over the way. Calls—personal and pasteboard—how to bt- retarrt-r Pin money——quantity of, —how to be used. Cotton—as a component <>f the female form. Serenades—ihe pl< asures of. Babies — their beauty—spoons as a machine forf-cLt Tickets for the whole course, (admitting a bJj *** her beau ) $lO ; for a single lecture 25 cents. Strong Language.—The n r the following language as having been used at the Fa ioul supper at Chelsea last week : “‘lf a slave hunter came to my house I *" u ‘ 1 him. taKe the Constitution for his sheet. *| burv him in In II !*’ The fellow would do better to bury him r j home; he might become a stink to the land. — Neica. THE NEW COSTUME The editor of the Louisville Jotirna’ i' l i ply to the question whether he is f ,,r ! \ gainst the short dresses for tli* Indies. “■ ‘Oh. we are and cidedly a short dre-- ■ •ml in our power to puss much time i |!l . ladies, and vve wish, during our Uriel “PP J uity, to see as mueh of them as we csHi | propriety.’’ Washington Uonaiy. The Mechanics of Washington county I meeting in Sandersville on Saturday appointed John Pate, Oliver P- 1 ,r35! ' n yj 11. 11. Davis, R. Mayo and H- C. LaC gates to the Atlanta Convention. The Resolutions were unanimously adopted” Resolved, That we heartily anand prove of the call for a Mass meeting and “'‘'l j ics at Atlanta on the 4th of July. .1 Resolved, That an organized State • ic’s Institute, with subordinate ‘fl each county so far as practicable, pose of disseminating useful inform set ting and maintaining equality iu I' - - H and for our general improvement * n edge, would meet with our united a c “ approbation. -t-andM Resolved, That we contemplate with r?- ■ mortification, the system of our State prison, by instructing them ’ of Mechanism ; thus placing a men in competition with the honest •rent artizans of the State. An earnestly recommend that the j: D should be so regulated as to tion with capital, which can a rtil . itself, instead of mechanical skill Resolved, That the Mechanics loyal to the institutions of the SuUt ‘'iJ.tf J er ready to defend them when utmost of their ability and at al while they are thus ready t0 ! 111 tain our peculiar institution, they to disapprove of the discriniinub structing slaves and tree ‘‘f”. 1 " 1 * w ’ M mechanical arts, and sulieniy about without the protection <* e'd S Mechanic, because it is pro . ofl Df r ’ M only evil, to the slaves and m ■ has a tendency to degrade tS which they are instructed