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For ike Oeorgia Citizen,
Mature and Art.
BT A YOUNG LADY OF HMCOH.
It was nature that set’ the example of Defloration,
and we have but followed her. Her costume was de
signed by the Great Arahiteot, on whose work no
improvement has yet been made. The world and all
its garniture were created by his Infinite band, and
the defects, if any, are disguised with so much beauty,
that they only add to the general loveliness. Nature
dressed the bowers of Eden with flowers of every
hue—the violet which droops its innocent head and
whose fragrance tells of ‘"modesty and Love”—the
Hyacinth whose unobtrusive loveliness demands other
incense than flattery —the Jonquil, with its radiant
face, asking a return of affection from the ingenuous,
sensitive, yet modest Rose, whose language speaks
well the sentiments of lovers.
Yes, it was Nature that dressed the Garden of
Eden with so much taste, and it is Milton who has
described it so beautifully. llow vividly he paints on
the canvass of the imagination, this beautiful pano
rama of life’. His descriptive powers are so great,
that when 1 peruse his writings, I feel that it is a re
ality. In a waking dream 1 have traversed the
shady walks of Paradise—-that heaven on earth. I
have gazed on the tree of life and watched the hand of
Eve,.as she, with a trembling heart, plucked the gold
en fruit, which she was tempted by the serpent to
eat. I have seen her proffer the delicious apple to
Adam, and tempt him to partake thereof, and who,
unabib, through love for her, to resist the temptation,
participated and brought woe upon them both. In
imagination I have seen their eyes opened to the dis
covery that they were destitute of clothing to eoneeal
their seuse of sin and shame. I3ut soon they arrayed
themselves in garments made of the fig-leaf, tho pro
duction of nature.
Nature was then in her prime, yet she has grown
not a day older since. For now she is on her exten
sive stage, dressed as infant spring, and crowned with
fresh buds of promise to us terrestrial creatures, who
by thousands gaze on the charming tableau, and with
rapturous applause greet her annual debut with unre
strained delight. And while our hearts aro cheered
and eyes delighted with the appearance of this beauti
ful scene, let no gloomy thoughts disturb the happy
feelings which are created, for soon another chrtain
will be raised and display a picture far more beautiful.
We will see Flora’s lovely babes, with their tiny heads
reared timidly above a rich emerald carpet, their
smiling faces beaming with blushes, as the wild zeph
yrs fan their glowing cheeks and chase away the soft
dew-drops from their sparkling eyes. And the grand
orchestra of nature will burst forth with such melody,
that every heart will vibrate with joy and harmonize
with the sweetest music from the throats of the little
birds, who, with their enlivening carolings, cease not
to contribute their aid to cheer the coming steps of
Virgin Spring. She comes dressed in green and dec
orated by the ingenious hand of Flora, with the most
beautiful, rare and fragrant flowers of her nursery.—
The charming little damsel will turn the tableau to
a pantominc, by playing the coquette with her thou
sands of admirers, until Madame Summer steps for
ward, laden with delicious fruit of every kind, and
spreads her charitable table for all mankind.
What then becomes of the little flirt Spring? She
is gone, gone, but not forgotten. She has made a
lasting impression upon the memory of the daughters
of creation. Her image is portrayed in the sweet
smiling girls, who, like butterflies, flit around the bow
ers of fashion, robed in their costly dresses, and bloom
ing with tho richest flowers of art, in memory of her
beauly. And when the mirror reflects their Juno or
sylph-like forms, as well displayed by the gossamer
dress, and they admiringly gaze on the rare flowers so
Ingeniously wrought in the rich fabric, their breasts
swell in thankfulness to the kind merchants to whose
taste and attention they are indebted for the beauteous
robes of adornment.
Women lore all things that are pretty, and we pre
sume that gentlemen have similar conceptions of the
beautiful. To the latter there is nothing more pleas
ing than the sight of a handsome female, prettily
dressed, though a favorite author says, that “beauty
unadorned is adorned the most.’’ But to give the
greatest pleasure, beauty well adorned, both mentally
and bodily, is perfect beauty. Still we desire not to
please the world at large, but to please those we love
and those that love us, for we were not made to live for
ourselves alone, but for others. And we all have
someone to please, either a Father, Brother, Husband
or Lover, and neither likes to see his idol excelled.
Perhaps there may be some who are unfortunate
enough to feel t
“I care not now to braid my hair,
Nor place the simple flower there,”
for who are there to interest themselves in my behalf?
What have Ito live for? Nothing. There is no one
to applaud, not even one to condemn.’’ But if such
will pick up a little pride, and lake after Fashion, I
think it will be stimulating enough to drive away all
such gloomy feelings. At least, the pursuit will oc
cupy the mind and dispel corroding thought.
Yes, my sex love to dress—to please others more
than ourselves, although it is a heap of trouble and
much expense, with little profit. Preparing a lady’s
toilet is a serious matter, let the lords of creation think
as lightly of it as they will. Still we like to appear to
the best advantage, so long as we live for others, and
we feel grateful to those who assist us to obtain those
beautiful adornments which are necessary to be had,
under the oircumstanccs.
I have heard it remarked, “You may as well be
out of the world as out of the fashion.’’ Not exactly
so, yet if you wish to pass your time pleasantly in life,
and mix with the world and hare it consider you one
of them, you must do as the world does, in matters of
dress, for if a female were to robe herself, as if for a
funeral service, to attend a festival where music and
dancing enliven the gaiety of the hour, how incongru
ous would her apparel be with the scene!
We are sometimes branded with extravagance, on
account of our personal appearance. But we care not
for so light a stigma, so long as the Merchants, Milli
ners and Mantua Makers have no light to complain,
and we keep within the bounds of those resources which
are innocently ours. We dress to please ourselves
and those we like, and to suit time and occasion, and
we intend to fulfill the destiny which Heaven has in
tended, as pleasantly as possible,
“For we want but little here below,
Nor want that little long,”
and that which contributes most to our happiness, we
like tho best. Therefore, those gentlemen, in the mer.
cantile business, to whom we are under many obliga
tions, not only for supplying our wants, but for the
gallantry and accommodation heretofore shown, have
our best wishes for their prosperity and welfare.
This season our market is well supplied with mag
nificent goods ealcul ited to suit the taste of the most
fastidious, and I must say, that those which 1 have ex
amined at Bbrtick & John’s, surely cannot be excelled
either in richness or beauty, and the taste displayed
in the selection is unparalleled by any that I have ever
witnessed. But when we want something more sub
stantial, and desire anew dress for the immortal mind,
then the well known names of Boardinan, Barnes and
Richards, are in our memory. These are the mer
chants who enable us to while away an idle hour, and
ehase away each gloomy feeling by placing within our
reach a most choice selection of Books and Music, pen,
ink and paper, which never fail to revive the drooping
spirits. These are the merchants to whom we offer
our two-fold thanks, for they enable us to decorate our
minds with the laurels of learning, which makes the
clay-built edifice—the body—worthy of the rieh dra
pery which, by nature, we love so well.
W ithout the assistance of books, wc would be look
ed upon, by the gentlemen, as artificial flowers beau
tiful in but wanting in fragrance, or like a
handsome painting, to command admiration for a
while, but soon they become accustomed to its beauty
—the charm of novelty is lost and nothing remains to
keep alive the admiration. Let us then have books.
LILY.
Soma more ‘things’ about the ‘little folks,’ which
we always hear and record with pleasure: A little
girl, by name Abby B—, went recently to pass the
night with Kate C. Now, Abby was taught what
Kate was not, namely, to say her prayers on going to
bed at night; 6o after they had retired, Abby repeated
Lord s prayer until she came to ‘Give us this day
M r daily bread,’ when Kate interrupted her with :
M, Abby, why don’t you ask for ‘toast.’ I like toast
a great deal the best!’
‘Go in, lemons, and get squeezed,’ is now rendered,
Enter, acidulous tropical fruit, and submit to a pow
erful pressure.’
Political Correspondence.
Extract from a Letter to the Editor of the Georgia
Citizen, dated,
Apiul £th, 1853.
‘I was exceedingly pleased, my dear Doctor, with
the remarks in your last paper, relative to the prepara
tions, &c., making for the next political campaign.—
There seems to be considerable tnaiioevering, but so
far it is all pretty much on one side, as you observe.
The Southern Rights Democrats,, seem to be so com
pletely taken up with their own importance, that they
overlook the views or feslings of others, if indeed they
consider that others huve any views or feelings, which
ought not to be appropriated to their own use. Tito
Editor of the Constitutionalist, as Grand High Priest,
appears determined to have things his own way, and
preaches such excellent discourses on the beauty of
peace-making, that one cannot help being amused, if
not converted. Some of his late holdings forth, re
sembio somewhat the Sermon oil the Mount, and
might, not inaptly, be rendered thus: ‘Blessed are
the peace-makers, for they shall be spoken of for
Governors. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they
shall go foot. Blessed are the meek, for they shall
obtain forgiveness,’ &c., &. However much this
doctrine may suit those who preach it, certes there are
some who do not admire the rewards, any more than
they do the difficulty of being pleased with their po
litical position. The electing of a Democratic Presi
dent is ascertained not to be so sovereign a remedy for
healing of Democratic wounds,‘as it has been cracked
up to be.’ The conversion to State Rights is of too
recent a date, for its novelty to be worn off, and while
these young disciples arc very anxious to cozen their
oid associates into their ranks, they pretty plainly give
them to understand that they are not expected to in
terfere with the peculiar views of the 35,000. The
latter are pretty clever fellows at political trickery and
humbugery, and may succeed to some considerable
extent.
But as to the whigs, poor honest block-heads, they
stand like sulky clowns, twilling their old hats in their
hands, looking for all the world, like they had been
made fools of by some laughter-loving scamps, for
their own benefit, the Webster portion of them, par
ticularly. They appear to be too confounded stub
born and stiff-necked, to do what they know they
ought to do, what duty to true principle, honor, and
policy demand. They have hearkened to the words
of men who have had only their own self-aggrandize
ment in view, and who having placed them hors du
duty, will force upon them the necessity of going fur
ther wrong, or coming back to their old ranks. The
Scott Whigs arc in the line of duty, and as one of
them, I am determined to maintain the integrity
of their position. I will not be led off to the sup
port of any man of any faction, for either Governor or
Congressman. The Don. Alexander 11. Stephens
has taught me a lesson, and given me an example on
that point, that I intend to follow.
The Whig party can be easily organized again, if
the YY ebster Wliigs would evidence the candor and
magnanimity, wfiieh belong to honorable minds. The
Scott men have done no wrong—and while they would
not press upon their old brethren, as a necessary step
to future unity of action, the humility of acknowledge
ment or apology, the latter may cheerfully make ail
amende, by selecting, for our next State standard
bearer, one from among such men as you, my dear
sir, have named. Such men as JudgeT. 11. Trippe,
Judge W in. Law, Hon. I. L. Harris, Judge L. War
ren, lion. A. G. Foster, Judge Judge Win. B. Flem
ing, and many others equally able and deserving, will
do honor to our State, in any position—are Whigs of
the true stamp, and worthy of all confidence. Our
W ebster brethren could select one of these gentlemen,
and support him with perfect consistency, and the
highest principles of honor ; while, if they will reflect
but a moment, they will see that the Scott men can
not support a YY ebster man. without violating faith to
the old and true-honored Whig principles, and giving
the lie to their present and late position, which all the
world knows was, and is, consistent and right. They
coulo not ask this of us as friends—if they were to,
it is more than we should grant them, if we are men.
They have the choice of doing this, and agaiu uniting
the Y\ hig party, or of nominating a candidate in con
junction with the Union
the Scott men are prepared, I hope, lo act promptly,
for their own safety and self respect —honorably, I
know they will.
With my best wishes for the success of your excel
lent Journal, and my intuition to endeavor to extend
its circulation in my immediate section, I am yours,
very truly, R.
Tom Corwin. —Perry, the well known edi
tor of the Greenville Patriot, South Carolina, in
one of his letters from Washington, thus de
scribes Secretary Corwin, who has the reputa
tion of being the “best slandered man in the
country”:
I have just returned from a most agreeable
and interesting dinner party at Mr. Secretary
Corwin's, and really, I have seldom, if ever, met
a more charming gentleman than Gov. Corwin.
llow little do we know of public men whom we
have never seen? How often, too, is our opin
ion of them founded in error and prejudice. —
This, lam free to confess, was my case in re
gard to Senator Corwin. In conversation he is
surpassed by no one, full of learning and infor
mation, wit and humor, and his manners are
warm, frank and cordial. He spoke in strong
terms of denunciation of the abolition feeling,
and the character of Northern abolitionists. —
He said they were a whining, canting, praying
set of fellows, who kept regular books of debt
and credit with the Almighty. They would
lie and cheat all the week, and pray off their
sins on Sunday. If they could steal a negro,
that made a very large entry to their credit,
and would cover a multitude of pecadillos and
bauds. This sort of entry they were always
glad to make, because it costs them nothing.
W hen they could not steal a negro, they gave
something in charity, and for the extension of
the Gospel, and then commenced a system of
fraud and cheating, till they thought that they
had balanced accounts with their God.
Gov. Corwin said, on his return to Ohio, af
ter he had accepted a seat in President Fill
more’s Cabinet, lie was met by a long faced
Yankee preacher, who took him to task for
sanctioning and approving the compromise.—
The Governor inquired what objection he had
to the compromise; to which the preacher re
plied, “the fugitive slave bill.”
“Are you better,” said Mr. Ccrwin, “than
Paul?
“No,” said the preacher, ‘‘l do not suppose
I am.”
“Well,” said Mr. Corwin, “he advised a fu
gitive slave to return to his master; but you, a
and and hypocrite, would have assisted him in
making his escape to Canada.”
Gov. Corwin is a native of Kentucky, and in
tends going back to his native State, where
slavery exists, as soon as he quits Washington.
He said he came to that determination from a
circumstance which occurred during the last
Presidential election, when he returned home
to vote tor Gen. Scott. lie related the circum
stance, and in connection with it, his kicking a
fellow out of his house, who inquired why he
would not vote supplies for the American troops
in Mexico. Mr. Corwiu tells a story better than
any one I ever heard, because he acts the story.
I should like very much to hear him speak;
and he has the reputation here, of being the
most eloquent man now in Washington.
(grihe New York Herald says;—There is a ru
mor of a difficulty in the Cabinet. When the Cabinet
was announced, the people said it did not possess the
elements of harmony; but it was added that General
Pierce would keep it together by his own strength,
and that the ministers would be merely his clerks to
carry out his will about appointments and everything
else. It seems, however, that the Cabinet officers
want to be more than clerks, and to have a voieeand a
will of their own; hence each lias been the centre of |
attraction for the last few days. Certain it is the Cabi- j
net is not a unit. Secretary Marcy, it is reported, in
sists upon having his own appointments.
‘W inter is still lingering in the lap of Spring,’ and
to do her justice,. wo ntu*t say she makes a very ‘wet
nurse.’
There is not an old book-shop or book-stall in London,
says the Athenamm, where the Americans are not i
reported to be the best customers.
1 Who will eat Pork now?— Tho Water
j Cure Journal, in reply to a correspondent who
asks what particular harm there can be in eat
ing a slice of well-cured, well-flavorecJ and well
; cooked ham? Those who “go the whole hog”
will please read. In answer ta the enquiries
j the editor says:
“We can give a hundred particular reasons;
one of them is this: Ham is derived from one
j of the filthiest animals iu existence, whose flesh,
feet, viscera, and general carcass, has, as food,
j been the especial abhorrence of all pure-minded
I men and intelligent physiologists since the
j world began; and moreover, Moses, by the au-
I thorify of a “Thus saiih the Lord,” condemned
it as utterly unclean; and furthermore, the cx
| perience of all men who have hog-fed freely,
! shows it to be diseasing, corrupting, brutalizing
and ulcerous, particularly the pork-eaters of
Michigan and Illinois, who are often seen in the
Water Cures in New York city, full of clogged
up pores, swelled livers, enlarged glands, scro
fulous lumps, dumb-agues, erysipelatous erup
tions, hemorrhoidal tumors, ulcerative throats,
ifcc.; and still further, the. filthy flesh is rendered
still more inflammatory by remaining so long
I in brine that the salt actually combines with
| the animal fibres, (see Liebig, Perinra, and oth
er celebrated chemists,) forming a stringy, irri
■ tating compound, incapable of affording pure
: nutriment; and yet again, smoking renders the
meet more fever-producing and indigestible;
I and more yet, the process of fatening a hog is
; nothing more or less than a way of causing the
abominable beast to retain his superfluous ex
crement, so, that in very truth, a fatted hog is
a mass of disease and corruption; and hence
the inevitable inference as well as philosophic
i cal conclusion, that swine-eating makes swine
j eaters swinish. The other ninety-nine reasous,
which are equally potent we have no time just
now to write out.”
Gen. Jackson. — He was a man ! Well Jo I re
member the day I waited upon him. lie sat there
in his arm-chair—l can see the old warrior face, with
its snow-white hair, even now. We told him of the
public distress—the manufactures ruined, the eagles
shrouded in crape, which were worn at the head of
twenty thousand men into Independence Square. lie
j heard us all. We begged him to leave the deposites
where they were; to uphold the great Bank in Phila
delphia. Still he did not say a word. At last one
of our number, more fiery than the rest, intimated
that if the Bank was crushed a rebellion might follow.
Then the old man—l can see him yet. ‘Come,’ he
shouted in a voice of thunder, as his clenched right
hand was raised above his white hairs ; ‘Come with
bayonets iu your hands instead of petitions—surround
the White House with your legions—l am ready for
you alt! By the Eternal! with the people at my
back whom your gold can neither buy nor awe, I will
j swing you up, round the Capitol, each rebel of you,
| on a gibbet as high as Hainan's!’
j ‘When I think,’ says the author, of that one man
| standing there at Washington, battling with all the
j powers of Bank and Panic combined, betrayed by
those in whom lie had trusted, assailed by all that the
snake of malice could hiss; or the fiend of falsehood
howl—when I think that one man, placing his back
against the rock, and folding his arms for the blow,
while he uttered his awful vow—‘By the Eternal! I
will not swerve an inch from the course I have cho
sen !’ I must confess, that the records of Greece and
Rome—nay, the proudest days of Cromwell and Na
poleon—cannot furnish an instance of a will like that
of Andrew Jackson, when he placed life, soul and
fame, on a hazard of a die for the people’s welfare. —
Lippard.
Astounding Estimate. —Mr. C. Everitt sums up
the results of the liquor traffic thus: “In direct ex
pense,” he says, “it cost the country, during ten
years, $>600,000,000; judicial expense, $600,000,000
more; 300.000 lives lost; sent 100,000 children to
the Poor House; the cause of 1500 murders; made
1000 maniacs; sent 100,000 to jail; caused 2000
suicides; destroyed by fire, etc., etc., etc., to the
amount of 10,000,000; made 1,000,000 orphans and
10,000 widows.’’
A Western editor wished to induce a fnrmer to sub
scribe to his paper, but his objection was that it was
not an agricultural sheet. The editor declared that it
was, and in proof exhibited an article on ‘Wild Oats.’
THE GEORGIA g
L. F. W. ANDREWS, EDITOR.
mXcoSTgaTap^
Cotton MlarJAet.—Prices range from 7 to 9
! cents in this Market. There has been a decrease in
j Receipts to April Ist, compared with last year’s re
ceipts to same date, of 2554 Bales.
fity Post Ollll’O. We are requested to state
that the time of opening the P. O. hereafter, in the
evening, will be 8 o’clock.
—i
More Unpaid Letters.
jCs?”T!:ere is a Letter in the P. Office to our ad
dress, from Ceutreville, Fla., postage, unpaid, also
one from some village or P. O. iu Alabama. They
will shortly go to the General P. O. unless redeemed
; by the writers.
dose of Volume 3d.
W ith this number of the Citizen do we fill our en
gagements with our numerous subscribers who have
| been such lor a year past, and we hope with mutual
i satisfaction to both the high contracting parties. On
! our part, at least, we cheerfully acknowledge that we
j have had much reason to be thankful for the liberal
| support received, and trust that we have been able to
render such an equitable return, that ‘ value received’
1 will be the mental response which each will give us,
on review of our labors, for the time specified. Pro
! bably, there may be some exceptions to this. A few
of our subscribers seem to have forgotten their part
of the contract and yet withhold from us ou r just dues;
and it may be, because they set no high value upon
the weekly visits of the Citizen. With these few we
shall have reluctantly to part, unless they, in a short
time, signify a disposition to furnish us ample ‘indemni
ty for the past and security for the future.’ In other
words, we shall expect that those in arrears for a year
! or longer, do immediately settle up their subscription
accounts to the close of Vol. 3d—this 9th day of April,
and those who wish to continue with us for another
Volume will commence the same with a oash remit
tance of $2 each.
Next Saturday we wii! enter upon our Vol. 4th and
in a somewhat improved dress, and shall be most hap
py to have all our old friends and as many new ones
as possible, by that time, enrolled on our subscription
! book.
Don’t Delay. Avery large proportion of our
; subscribers will, on receipt of this number of the Citi
zen, have obtained all to which they are entitled. If
1 any, therefore, are determined to discontinue their
subscriptions it will be necessary for them to notify us
at once, postpaid. By delaying for two or three
weeks, to make known their wishes, they cause us to
suffer the loss of the papers sent in the interim. Wc
hope there are none who desire to discontinue, but if
there are such, they will please communicate the fact,
promptly.
Odoriferous !—We are indebted to Dr. Leon”
aid Little, far a package of Perfumery, etc. of a most
delightful aroma. On opening the parcel, we could
easily imagine that all “Araby the blessed” had been
blowing its sweetest incense through our Sanctum.
Fine Jewelry, —None of the ‘Peter Funk’-y
sort, but the genuine 20 carat fine article, with dia
mond and other sparkling settings to match, can be
had at Y irgins’ or at Moses Barnes’ establishments, for
Cash or good paper.
Wliat is it? —Some half dozen papers have been j
returned to this office from Centrevillo, Fla., with the
address of Tillman Smith thereon. Why so? Will
the Port Maste-: of that place attend to his duty and
Ist us know the reason, officially , and under the free
dom of bis ftaal? Mr. Smith owes us $1 25.
Book slid Job Work.
Having just received an additional assortment of
Printing Materials, of the latest styles and varieties,
we are better prepared than ever to execute every de
scription af Plain and Ornamental Job Work, such as
Pamphlets, Circulars, Bill-Heads, Placards, Handbills,
listers,. <fcc., and would be happy to receive the or
ders of our city and country friends, in this depart
ment of our business. All work executed with prompt
ness and fidelity.
Protracted Meeting. The Presbyterian
Church of this city has been holding religious services,
nightly, for a week past, with what result, we have
not been able to scam. Rev. Dr. Baker, of Texas,
and Rev. D*. Tsdlmadgc, of Milledge*ille,nnd perhaps
other clergy have been in attendance.
Dr. B. if we mistake not, is the same Reverend
gentleman who once essayed to convert a charming
lady of Montgomery, Ala. from the supposed error of
her ways, first by scripture argument, 2dly by reason,
and 3dly, (when the first two had failed,) by the flat
tering declaration, that she was boo pretty a woman
to go to hell.’ The inference was, that ugly women
might go to that awful place, without any extra expen
diture of sympathy in their behalf?
Tennessee Product. Mr. t. c. Dempsey
has sent us a sample of new Bacon Hams, which he
has received on consignment from Chattanooga. On
submitting this specimen to the only proper test—that
of four senses out of five—we pronounce it A No. 1,
and no mistake.
Who is He?— “Homespun,” in the last Tele
graph suggests the name of Dr. John W. Lewis, of
Cass, as a suitable candidate for Governor, of the
States Rights Democratic party.
Worthy Attention. The suggestions of our
political correspondent ‘R.’ in to-day’s paper, may be
worth the careful consideration of the leading politi
cians of the YVebstcr school, inasmuch as they convey
a hint how a re-union of the fragments o the late
Whig party may be effected and tike re-organization
cemented with a sufficient amount of Union Demo
cracy to make a permanent and invincible party.—
When the Olive Branch is tendered, let not (action
trample it into the dust.
Brunswick, La. its Port and City. We
acknowledge the receipt of a copy of a Pamphlet
‘Circular Letter addressed to the Commercial and
Badness men of the United States and Foreign Coun
tries by the Board of Directors of the City of Bruns
wick.’ This Pamphlet has been issued ‘to afford exact
and authentic information concerning the objects, plans
and purposes of the Company’ who are the proprie
tors of the City of Brunswick and the works connect
ed therewith. At an early day, we shall take occasion
to present the leading facts and statistics, thus fur
nished, to our readers. They will be found inter
esting.
Old English Novels, Mr. Thackary's Lec
tures on English Literature, in this country, have in
duced the re-publication, in cheap form, by Stringer
& Townsend, New York, of several of the old Eng
lish Novels, such as the ‘Adventures of Ferdinand
Count Fathom’ by Tobias Smollett, and the ‘Life of
Jonathan YY ild, the Great,’ by Henry Fielding. These
volumes can be had at Richards’ Book and Music
Store, Cotton Avenue.
Sale of a Factory. On Tuesday last, at
Columbus, Howard Cotton Factory, with all its apur
tenances, buildings, machinery and site, was knocked
off, at Sheriff’s sale, for 41,003 dollars, being three
dollars more than the sum total of sundry fi fas , cost
and expenses, which that official held against the Com
pany. The Stockholders had paid into the concern
about SBO,OOO, $47,000 of which was expended in
Machinery, alone, and they have now to raise means
to pay off other indebtedness, for which the company
is liable. From the circumstances of the case and the
standing and cha t-ter of the purchaser, who is no
less a personage than our quondam disunion letter
writer, the Reverend John E. Lawson, it is generally
believed, that there is ‘something rotten in Denmark’
which nothing short of clerical robes would servo to
oover up from tl** pub! The Stockholders hitve
therefore notified .e Sheri.f to make titles to the
property, while the parson ’ vids the same and ten
ders the funds ii. payment. e end of the matter
will probably be a law-sm parties to which will
be the respeetiv i •■es sos Manufacturing
Cottondom and political Divinity. Backed up as
the Parson is said to be by a Bank man and a lineal
descendant of the Protector of England, there can
scarcely be any doubt as to the result. Old Nick
himself would have to give it up, in a contest with such
a trio of formidable adversaries.
The Fakir of Siva.
Injustice to the gentleman, who bears tins title,
we have to inform our readers, that one day this week,
he appeared, in propria persona, in oar sanctum, to an
swer to the various charges which had a few weeks
since, found publicity in our columns, nffeciing his
honesty as a man. and his character as a magician.
At his instance, therefore, we summoned all the par
ties, of whom we had been only the mouth-piece, to
be present at a special hour and hear the explanations
which Mr. Haskell, alias the “Fakir” had to give, in
reference to the several counts of the indictment laid
against him. Accordingly, there convened several
gentlemen and the investigation was entered upon, in
due form, and with the following results:
lo the charge of having bought suppers and left Ma
con without paying therefor, Mr. 11. declared and was
willing to make oath, that he never ordered the sup
pers— never ate the suppers, and never refused to
pay a bill for the suppers, because no such bill had
ever been presented to him, personally, but that he had
observed his Agent, Dr. Case and his woman, engaged
in discussing a feast at the time specified. As the pro
prietor of the Restaurat had no evidence in writing or
otherwise, to the contrary, the order for said suppers
having come through a servant at the Hotel, he had
nothing to rebut to this statement and the charge was
therefore dismissed, Mr. 11. voluntarily offering to pay
the bill, inasmuch as the debt was contracted by his
on his credit. This lie did pay in our presence.
To the charge of refusing to deliver the Canary
Bird to the person drawing the same, Mr. 11. averred
that he had not so refused, and demanded to be con
fronted with the witness. On this being done, it was
discovered that it was not Mr. 11. that refused to give
up tho bird, but an employee in his service. On Mr.
11. expressing regret at the occurrence, and offering to
pay for the bird or return the same within two weeks,
this cl large was also waived.
To the charge o( defrauding the Church out of the
proceeds of his last night’s performance, Mr. H. posi
tively averred that he received but $35 as tho pro
ceeds of the house, which was less than expenses.—
lie acknowledged, however, that there must have
been about 250 people in the Hall, but that his door
keepers alledgcd that most of them were admitted on
free tickets distributed by Professor Loomis, to his
friends. In the absence of Prof. L. and the door
keepers, we had no proof to the contrary, and thcre
foie we were compelled to dismiss this allegation, also,
as unproved.
Finally, to the charge of introducing a female of
doubtful virtue before the people of Macon, Mr. H.
plead ignorance of the fact as his excuse. The wo
man passed as the cousin of the agent whom lie had
employed only one week before his arrival in Macon,
and had been travelling through the State a short time
previously giving concerts. He knew nothing con
trary to her purity of character, until after his arrival
in Columbus, when letters from Augusta and else
where revealed the true state of affairs, and lie imme
diately dismissed the woman and her paramour.
In short, from all the circumstances of the case and
the evidence adduced, it was plain enough tliat we
were justified in making the publication wo did, in
January last. This was readily admitted by Mr. 11.
who confessed that the appearances were all against
him, but nevertheless, he was not guilty of intentional
wrong. He had been unfortunate in tho selection
of temporary agents, and had not only been made a
victim of their depredations, but had suffered loss of
character from his unfortunate connexion with such
persons.
The sum and substance of the whole matter is, that
the Fakir stands acquitted by his own averments and
by the absence of proof to the contrary, of all the va
rious allegations made against him, arising out of his
visit to this city in January last. “ Fiat justitia ruat
caelum.” “Let justice be done, though the heavens
fall.’*
I At the ?ery Gates. We are requested to
state that the Law Office of Messrs. Lamar & Lo
| chrane has been removed to the Court House, where
these gentlemen will always be on hand, in the very
portals of Law, to serve their friends and customers
who may either seek justice from others or a general
’ ‘jail delivery’ from justice, for themselves.
FiTe*
On Wednesday last, about 8 o’clock, a fire wasdis
! covered breaking forth from a stable on the rear part
of the State Bank premises, occupied by J. 11. R.
Washington, Esq. of this city, which, in a few min*
; utes, destroyed the stable and contents, and several
; other small buildings adjacent, including the kitchen
jof Mr. Washington. To the fact of the wind being
from the West, at the time, may we ascribe the safety
of the entire block on which th j Washington Ilall is
situated. And that portion of the square east of the
point where the fire commenced was saved by the in
tervention of two fire proof brick buildings, the State
Bank and Mr. Damour’s 2 story ice house. There
is no doubt that the fire was the work of a negro in
cendiary, as one of this class was seen running from
the Stable, at the moment the flames burst forth.
As the Alley between 2d and 3d streets on which
this fire took place is one of the greatest thorough-fares
in the city, would it not be an improvement if the
owners of property on each side would unite in inak
! ‘ n g a small street of it. An addition of 10 feet to its
present width would give room for a number of shops
for mechanical and other purposes, in a very central
locality,and on a street as wide as one half the streets
of New York city.
—
An Editor Rising.— b. C. Pressly, Esq.,
Editor and Proprietor of the Charleston Southern
Standard, has been nominated to the Senate as Sub-
Treasurer of the U. S. at Charleston.
Spiritual Rappings.
Our Cherry Street neighbor ought to feel betler
after its late morbid “manifestations” upon the sub
ject of Spiritual Rapping. Not only has it exercised
its legitimate function of denouncing what it consid
ers a humbug and imposture, but it has culled the
pages of Webster and other Lexicographers for suita
ble epithets to apply, indiscriminately y to ail those
who have felt any interest in the remarkable Phe
nomena which have occupied of late so much of pub
lic attention.
Now there is no justification for this indignant
and wholesale denunciation. It is possible that there
may be “more things in heaven and earth than are
dreamt of in our philosophy,” and it is therefore rath
er presumptuous for any one, especially a comparative
ly young man, to speak so confidently of matters, which
to say the least, he cannot fully understand or ex
plain.
We have, been led into these remarks, from the pe
rusal of a particularly vindictive article on this subject,
in the last Telegraph. After giving “particular Jesse”
to Widow Fish and her “two sallow offshoots’’ of
daughters—those “shrewd and scrawny Yankee wo
women” who originated the Lappings, the writer
brings home the denunciation to some of our own ci
tizens, who like geese, have opened their mouths to be
stuffed with the base impostures, in the following man
ner:—
‘•But there is another feature we desire to stamp
with reprobation. We mean the extreme heartlessness
which characterizes some of their proceedings. If peo
ple choose to be duped, they are as a general thing on
ly to be pitied, but there are certain indecencies which
not even credulity and folly can palliate. When these
deluded persons give their exhibitions, we regret to say
that they sometimes tread rudely upon fresh graves.
They wantonly, and needlessly, and cruelly assail
the dead, and it is possible that they lake advantage
of their pretended revelations to insult those whom
they did not love when living.
\\ e have been inexpressibly shocked to learn and
hear it publicly circulated, that at a late gathering of
this description the spirit of a man who three months
ago lived and moved among us, was pronounced to be
ill hell, beyond the hope of redemption. If persons
can be found willing to credit these impious impostures,
be it so. But at least let them postpone their mani-
I Testations, till the grass has had lime to grow upon the
graves of those, whose spirits they desire to pursue be
) oud the limits of this world. Such transactions are
heedless in women. In rnen they are simply base.
They are manifestations indeed—not manifestations
of heaven or hell, but manifestations of gross heartless
nees which no humane man can contemplate without
abhorrence.”
Now, we are authorized to sny, that there is not a
word of truth in the reference here made to tlie pro
ceedings of a social circle in this city. In that circle,
composed of the members of a half dozen respectable
and intelligent families, there are really no believer*
in the spiritual origin of the phenomena elicited at
their meetings, nor has the doom of any one been fix
ed or pronounced to be in hell. The name of ;he de
ceased individual was simply called by some friend
(and all present were friends) but there was no “gross
heartlessness’’ manifested, and no inhumanity exhibit
ed towards the “spirt of the man who three months
ago lived and moved amongst us.” A charge of
this character, paraded in a public print, was there
fore untrue, and being untrue, was an uncalled for and
heartless attack upon the feelings of the Ladies and
gentlemen of this city, who have, from motives of cu
riosity or pastime, been engaged in some investiga
tions of the phenomena in question. But as those who
have feltagrieved at the discourteous manner in which
their private socialities have been blazed abroad, are
fully competent to redress their own grievances, we
shall not pursue the subject.
Editorial Convention
We would be delighted to meet our brethren in Ma
con in May next, and cordially sanction and approve
of the call for a convention of Publishers nnd Editors.
We would, however, suggest the propriety of discus
sing before hand, the objects and purposes of the con
vention. What can the convention do to advance
the interests of the craft ?
This is an important question, and demands more
thought for its solution than we can give it just now.
We will suggest, however, one or two reflections which
may call forth the sentiments of better informed per- :
sons. The crying evil in our profession is the credit
system. This ought at once to be abandoned.
Another drawback is the character and habits of
Journeymen Printers. The sober and industrious ought
to be protected against the idle, vicious and roaming;
and we would suggest the propriety of employing no
Journeyman who cannot produce satisfactory evidence
of capacity and character.
There are many other subjects of interest which
concern us, but which are beyond the control, as we
conceive, of a convention.
Among these are the rates of advertising and sub
scription. Amount of circulation, size aud location,
must necessarily produce a difference in charges. Nor
do we think any good result can flow from rules of :
etiquette. If a man has not the sentiments, feelings
and culture of a gentleman, it is impossible to infos**
them into him by formal rules. All such matters must
be left to individuals to settle between themselves, in
the various modes recognized by society as legitimate.
—Columbus Times $• Sentinel.
If the two evils spoken of, in the forgoing para
graph, as worthy of consideration by an Editorial Con
vention, viz: the ‘credit system’and the ‘character
and habits of Journeymen Printers,’ wero the only
matters to be reformed, it were well to hold such con
vention, but it strikes us, that these are but a small
part of the important objects which eoulJ profitably
engage the attention of the Conductors of the Press.
In our opinion something can be done, by concert of i
action, to equalize the system of charges, for Job
Work, Advertising, &c. all over the State, in corres
pondence with a regular schedule of prices to bo paid to
Journeymen Printers. We see no reason, indeed, why
the country Press ought not to have as profitable prices
for their work, and pay as high wages to workmen, as
the city Press, in proportion to the service performed.
Os course on daily papers, where there is night work,
the wages are and should be higher, but in other re
spects, we do not understand why the ‘amount of cir
culation, size and location’ should produce a difference
in charges in different localities, unless it should be in
favor of the presses of little circulation and littlo busi
ness, which need a higher tariff to sustain them. This
is not the principle, we believe, on which the Medical
Fee Bill of the Medical Society is formed. It does not
give the city Practitioner any advantage over the vil
lage or county Physician, but places all the members
of the Profession on the same platform of equal rights
and privileges, leaving it to the publio to decide upon
qualifications and other particulars.
We think, then, that there should be a regular
Printer's Fee Bill established for the State, prescribing
the rates of charging for composition, press work, j
pamphlet work, Job work and advertising. This can
he done to an approximation of equality which would
tend to break up the undermining and underbidding
practise now so common with some Proprietors, and
prevent the necessity, on the part of customers, of
Jewing down prices below a healthy standard, or the
same necessity, on the part of Printers, after allowing
themselves to be Jewed to the lowest point, to cheat
the customer, by putting interior materials into the
work or performing some other sleight-of-hand expe
dient, oat of which to eke his profits 1
The subject of gratuitous printing is one also that
should engage the attention of the Tress. There
should be Borne regular rule of charges , for Marriage
! nnd Obituary Notices, Tributes of Respect, Proceed
ings of Meetings of a public character and Communi
cations of a character affecting private interests, an*]
not leave it to be inferred that the Publishers of News
papers arc under obligations to publish such things, as
heretofore, without remuneration. Nor, in the ex
treme case of public meetings called to consider the
public good, should the onus of giving publicity to
preeeedings devolve upon two or three citizens, when
that onus, if divided between, the whole, would prove
no burden, whatever.
The matter of Legal Advertising also, embracing
State, County, City and National Advertising, ought,
in our view, be considered and radically reformed.—
The press should unite in putting down the present
iniquitous system of Advertising matters for the au
thorities of government, at a less rate than is paid by
the private citizen. The Legislature has no right to
pass a law, prescribing what the printer’s fee shall be
for an Administrator’s Notice or Sheriff's Sale, no
more than they have a right to say what price a mer
chant shall put upon his calico or a mechanic upon the
product of his skill. And if they have the right,
they have no power to compel a printer to publish at
their rates, if the Press would unanimously refuse to
do the work.
In the matter of Ethics, it may be impracticable to
adopt a system that would be calculated to ‘infuse the
principles, sentiments and feelings of a gentleman’
into one not naturally possessing them. True, this
may be a difficult task—as difficult as to ‘make a silk
purse out of a sow’s ear,’ but nevertheless, we think
that something can be done by a Convention even in
this regard. If some Typographical organization like
that of Odd Fellowship could be effected, whereby
certain well-established rules of comity and fraternity
could be prescribed for the government of all, under
the sanctions of honor , and subject to the usual penal
ties for a wilful violation, many who now are not aware
of the social duties of the profession might be led to
pursue a different course from that heretofore pursued
and thus help to advance the best interests of the Pro
fession.
But we have extended our remarks to a greater
length than we intended, and will bring them to a
close, by the assurance to our brethren of the Craft,
that, personally, we do not care a copper whether the
proposed Convention is held or not, or if held, whe
ther its deliberations result in effect ing a Reform in ac
knowledged existing evils, or prove a failure. We
mean, that in our advocacy of the meeting of such a
Convention, we are influenced by no mere mercenary
motives, with a view to advance our own individual
interests. On the contrary, we feel that we are able
to sustain ourselves against whatever competition may
arise in our business, without any adventitious aid
which a Convention may throw around it. For the
general elevation of the Profession, however, and its
increased usefulness, we arc anxious that all may be
done, w hich is possible to he accomplished.
The Liceose Question.
It is amusing to witness the spasms of some of our
Georgia Editors, touching the question of Liquor Li
cense, and its influence upon the next State elections.
These gentlemen profess to be great friends of the
Temperance Reform, but agonizingly “deprecate any
movement w hich tends to bling it before the people as
a political issue, ’ and threaten to “set their faces
sternly against any candidate or party which shall at
tempt to lay it before the people.’’
In the name of common sense, what kind of a ques
tion is that of Liquor License but a political one?
What other question is the major to which this is the
minor or local?” There is no other political issue now
before the people of Georgia, of any moment. All
parties unite in approval of the Compromise measures
or acquiescence therein, and nearly all join in support
of the principles of President Pierce’s Inaugural.—
What better time then, than the present, to discuss
the important question which covers so large a surface
of interests, as that of the Liquor Traffic? The very
elements of political economy —the vitality of the
government —the welfare of the people—their free
dom from unnecessary taxation—the loss of property,
of health and life itself, are all involved in this question
and in the selection of suitable public servants to car
ry out the will of the people. Why then not make
the question an element in the approaching canvass?
by shall not the friends of the Temperance Reform
have the privilege of selecting the friends of the move
ment as Representatives and Executive officers instead
of it-* enemies?
The fact is, so far from it being the truth, that mo
tives of “personal aggrandizement’’rather than a re
gard for the public weal, actuate those who mean to
govern themselves in the coming elections, on the
principles of Temperance Reform, it is the very re
verse. A glance at the character of those men who
composed the late State Convention at Atlanta, will
be sufficient to controvert the slanderous allegation.—
For the most part, they were men who have nothing
to do with party politics, nnd would scoru the idea of
personal aggrandizement as a motive in the holy work.
Sava one of these Editors*—
“W e are the more solicitous oil this matter aB the
next election is one of the most important ever held in
Georgia. A Governor is to be elected--a U. States
Senator is to be eleoted—a Judge of the Superior
Court is to be elected—three of the most responsible
officers in the (iovernmeut. To the first, the honor of 1
our great State is committed, and many of her highest
interests. The second represents the sovereignty of
Georgia in the Senate of the United States, and the
critical condition of the couutry and of the South, de
mauds that he be a sound Republican and a true man.
To the third, are committed the lives, liberties aud pro
perty of Ihe people, and none but an able lawyer, and
an upright man,can worthily wear the pure ermine •
of justice. In such an election, acitiizcn ought to be
permitted to go to the polls and vote for the best men
and the soundest principles, untrammelcd and uncon
trolled by any minor or local question.”
“W e thank thee Jew, for that word.” This is ex
actly what the friends of Temperance Reform wish to
have the privilege of doing. In the election of men,
to whom “are committed the lives, liberties and pro
perty of the people,’’ they Lelive that “none but an up
right mail can worthily wear the pure ermine of jus
tice,” and therefore will exercise their right to reject
all such who are of a contrary pait. And if, in so do
ing, they consider it safest to vote for those who are
never found in a horrixontal position, Ironi the use of
anti-perpendicular influences, how are yon going to
help it? “Deprecate’’ the thing you may, but that is a
small matter, compared with the results to be accom
plished, and may be endured.
Again, the same Editor says:—
“If the liquor question is dragged into the canvass,
it will swallow up all other issues, and the black bottle
and the pint cup wit! decide, in all probability, who
shall be Governor, Senator, and Judge.”
Now, strange as it may appear, this is the very evil
which we wish to attolish. The “ black bottle and the
pint cup'’ have, for years, controlled the political des
tinies of the commonwealth. The) have often “decided
who shall be Governor, Senator aud Judge,” and will
often, again, unless the Liquor Traffic is broken up.——
And hence the opposition now being expressed to the
introduction of this issue into the coming oanvnss.—
” Hinc ilia lachrymal ” The politicians have had
sufficient experience in the “virtues” of the “black
bottle’’ and the “pint cup,’’ to be unwilling to give up
such powerful adjuvants in electioneering for place and
power, and no wonder they “deprecate” any move
ment which is calculated to wrest them from their
hands. Their “craft is in danger.” In the language
of a cotemporary, learned in Biblioal lore, there are
too many “Alexander Coppersmiths” whose business
it is to make silver shrines for the God Alcohol, for
such an issue to be sprung upon them without a mur
mur.
But it will not do, gentlemen. You will have to
meet the issue, sooner or later, and you might as well j
prepare for it at once. Your deprecations will not
defeat the movement or eleot those who oppose it.— j
And whether candidates are presented directly on this
issue or not, matters but little. This, we do not de
sire, but we have no manner of doubt, all other things
being equal , that those candidates for office, in the
coming campaign, who are favorable to the Tamper
anec Reform, will receive the support of Temperance
men, in preference to those who are intemperate,
themselves, or in favor of the grog-shop system, it
therefore behooves party men to see to it, in their uom- .
inations of candidates, that they select their best men,
and those who are not in favor of perpetuating the J
evils o! intemperance in or land.
| Explosion or the Steamer Farmr* „ t 1
The Picayune learns that the number of m .
the steamer Farmer, which recently WbuTlH
j era near Galveston, was thirty-four; th e
I persons connected with the boat, tweritv *1
sixty-one. ‘ *
Os the crew, there are known to be
of the passengers, there are killed and miJC ’
total, twenty-four.
Thirteen dead bodies have been taken f r
wreck. One body was found on Dollar Point 0 "*
of the wounded have died. There vet
bodies unfonud. °* airi
Mizzini, according to the late advie*.
Europe, was not to be found. It was
bad escaped in an English Frigate, T(, e
respondent of the New York Commercial
in a letter of the 15th instant, says ;
‘The most extraordinary efforts are bein'*
discover the retreat of Mazzini. Since the *
1 at Milan nothing has been known of his
j He is believed to have boldly ventured on %
: trian frontier, if not actually into Austria or L,
J d y, and the greatest anxiety is felt by W, ft ,
I his escape. It was reported that he had taken - |
|on board an English ship of war at Genoa but J
I seems to have been a mistake. A few d avß ’j
Austrians believed they had tracked him to X |
i in Bavaria; but although every engine u . |
to work to accomplish his seizure, they appear |
j far to have been foiled.’
Pierce’s Appointments.— The d^J
papers are exulting over the appointment of Jobutl
Campbell, of Mobile, to be Judge of the S QI 1
Court of the Unit’ and Slates, as something
king a fuss about. The secret is, that Campy 1
rank Disunionist. Hence the great cry a y I
pre-eminent abilities, &e. All moonshine! )p I
is a respectable Lawyer, but nothing more.
It is said that Hawthorn, the writer of the ij’
Pierce, has been appointed Consul to Liverpool, y .
saluting adulation has thus had its reward.
body tell ns who will be the next President? n
wish to hunt up the Documents for a history
life and times of the distinguished tna, before t
one else takes the field!
m ■
Who can beat (bis?
Onr worthy Foreman, Mr. Samuel B. Harrell, ■
Wednesday last, set up sixteen thousand etn*, mV
hours, in minion and brevier type — twelve thou*.,
solid and four thousand leaded. We think that adat,
work to be proud of, and defy any Printer in GV
to beat it. This, however, is Bain’s ‘fitst
no one need enter the lists of competitors, unlea,
desires to be beateu, whoconnot go 2000 better. Du<
all speak at once. —Columbus Times and Sent.
That was a considerable day’s work, for Samv
and if the proof was not one of the ‘blacksmith’ *
spotted , —is worthy of honorable mention, I,
never knew it beaten, except by one man of the bi*
of Garland, who was in our employment, two
ago. He could put up 16,000 erns, per day, of
matter, for days in succession, and show a good
at that! 110 was, however, a ‘ruro oris in U r*i
We have had others who could each put up
16000 ems, per week, and take $lO for the sen#
without thinking they had got half enough at fa
Such is the diff renec between those who pretend)
be Journeymen Printers!
By the w av, we have on the stocks, nn article k|
headed a ‘Model Jour Printer,’ which we shall y.
I duee, one of these days, to show that ‘some tS 3j
can be done as well as others.’ W. shall wait, u
I ever, for the threatened answer to our article f ■
week on the ‘Printers’ Strike,’ before we give the is
| ishing touch to lite subject.
In A Passion. —Some writer in the Alia
Banner is hostile, because the proceedings of an At
! Supreme Court meeting of Jackson Cos., G., hart
been published, in exlenso, in all the papen ofi
Slate. He says those proceedings were not no
by any but the Athens Journals. This is not so. Tit
“Corner Stone’’ published and endorse and them, uca
Citizen and others noticed them. We would liket
know, however, what right the people of Jades
have to a gratuity of $5 or $lO worth of printing fnt
each Journal of the State! If they wish their n
doings circulated, let them pay for it.
[communicated]
A Suggestion to Council.
In the midst of Railroad cares that scent to ye
pltx you, just open your eyes a little and look arm
i you, and consider some of the interests of the t-ityaJ
its citizens. Your predecessors gave the South W*
| ern Railroad Company leave to ruu their tracks aw
i Oglethorpe street, “provided they kept it frttfm
| obstructum.’’ 1 They have taken the same pa
with Oak street, so far as the tracks are ocuctiyi
and, in addition, have closed it up entirely, *M
leave, as the record will show. Well, that a
company have the power to open two streets thrhC
the twu acre lots in continuation of sth and 6th sw*
that if made, would be of much advantage in &*>*■’
ing and improving that part of the city. No*
good turn deserves another, would it be mmas***
\ to demand that for the privileges above stated, *■*
streets should be opem d?
A course like this, with oare to grant norms’
closing Oglethorpe street, would indicate that rail**
interests are not your only care, and would beln.-
appreeiated by MANY CITIZE&
New York aud Alacan Councils
Mr. Editor:- —We have heard a great deal re®* 8 ’
ly about the corruption of the New York City F*-’
ers, aud seen statements, showing that certain p
ties, for special considerations , have voted prim-'’
and immunities, rights of way, Ac., to rail ro*l t*a
panics in despite of all remonstrance ou the par- ’
i those interested to the contrary, even defying tte*
thorny of the Courts and the laws of the oountr ►
recklessly pander mg if not to their own inJivi4 ul ‘ *|
1 (crests, in the shape of bribes, at least to the wabe-j
powerful corporators who have interests toadvanet?!
j their subserviency.
In some respects, I aprehend the functional** j
our little town have some idea of following the
pie, so auspiciously set them by their coutenip***” I
of that great city, for it mutt be evident to all
notice the movements of our Council that inter**!
other than the city’s hud a voice at the Board.
I will not say that rail road interests ing**‘l
overshadow the fain*, appreciation of city obiur***|
or individual rights in the minds of some of them J*|
I do hold that there is a very suspicious squintmf •
that direction, so much so, that our rail road
niea can get all they want without the troubled
asking for it; it is not known indeed, whether *
even privately intimate their wishes, though that® 8 ’
is suspected, but if they do, it is all that seems
sary, for forthwith it is thrust upon them, the prof*
tioq never comes from them, but always from then*
oil. Do they \vi>h to change the location of t* ,e
senger Depot? The Oouncjl it ready to beg ti ? ”
do i% and though twotlhjrds of the voters rem'’®*-'”
and protest agaiust it, yet uothieg but a vote of
20 to 1 will convince them.
Do the Companies wish to close up a public ’ ,f
aud common thoroughfare? The council, inst *
preceeding in the usual way, endeavor to
their wishes, by almost begging them to do it, > * ’
too in the face of direct protestation to the eos#*’
But iu some respects they seem careful of ap|H >ar, *j;
for in begging them to close the street they r*r |
’.hem to comply with the simple proviso of getti*?
constnt of the contiguous property holders, k® o** 0 **
at the same time that they already own it. Sw
the farce and such is the doctrine in refereß*’
closing the streets, endorsed by the Fathers !
last meeting. Verily the time may come wk t ’ s
construction of street law may take vp h?
street in passing from the Floyd House to
ton llall.
But there is a limit even to the authority 1
Alderman, and if they decide in Macon to follow
footsteps of their notorious predecessors of Ne**
and peraevere in their rail road legislation at
council board, in the face of all law and tbe ‘***
strances of their constituents, they may make °P
minds to a similar fate, for in Georgia as well
York, a bill of injunction will stop them d DeC \ f
I have tbe authority of more than one for w) lC
\\ bo has the appointment of the next i *
ENQUIRE
fra
Order yoar affairs so as not to pass lor
man,