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see I didn't love anybody but the doc tor, and I’ve never married. “ Sally died four years ago, and the Dr. courted me again last week, and we talked it all over. He didn’t live very happy with Sally ; she was powerful , high tempered, and didn't make him a very good companion. Do you think it would be silly for me to marry him nnwf And she lok**d ai;xi*u-ly in my tare, awaiting my reply. >• I- .t IK Snap y.Mi are -peaking of ?” said 1. rather taken by surprise to find this hii of romance in the sick room. u Yes, ’ replied she, blushing exten sively. “ Oh, marry him by all means ! Bet ter late than never, Miss Nancy. ’’ At whit h piece of advice she looked grati fied—it being exactly in accordance with j her own views and int-ntions. After the tale was concluded, and I j had made some comments upon it, I j found the time hanging rather heavily on my hands, I hunted up an old Black wood’s Magazine, read a tale in that, and wished it was day. At midnight Miss Nancy waked Rose, a negro girl, and told her to make some coffee and boil some eggs, for our bene fit. Our supper being ready, we seated ourselves at a small table to partake of it. Miss Nancy liked her eggs “hard done.” When she broke the shells, I hinted at indigestion; but she said she “didn’t believe in eating victuals half cooked,’’ and she devoured the blue looking eggs with much apparent gusto. The meal being over, Rose put away the things, swept the hearth, and, rolling her head and shoulders in her blanket, with her feet out —after the manner of her race —she laid down on the floor, and, with the usual facility of her kind, went to sleep in about a minute Miss Nancy gave the sick child a powder; rocked him, and nodded; I gszed in the fire, and thought of—no matter what. About one o’clock Miss Nancy be came restless. She moved uneasily in her chair, and grunted. “ What’s the matter, Miss Nancy 1 Are you sick ?” “ Yes, I’ve got the colic; wish I hadn’t eat them fetched eggs!” “Take something/’ I benevolently suggested. “Oh dear! what can I take ?” There was a bottle of rhubarb hitters on the mantel-piece. I recollected hear ing Mrs. Thompson say it was good for colic. I proposed a dose to the afflicted Miss Briggs, though I wouldn’t have taken a spoonful of the nauseous stuff for any ordinary consideration. “Oh dear!” she groaned ;“ I believe I will.” And suiting the action to the word, she took the bottle,- placed it to her mouth, and drank—made a very wry face, and expectorated freely, saying her mouth was as slimy as though she had been eating lizzards ! The dose did not have the desired effect. She groaned pitifully, and clenched her hands convul sively. “Take so.ne more,” said I. “I'm afraid it will make me drunk,” she leplied. “I'm not used to liquor; hut I’d rather be drunk than in so much pain—oh dear! oh Lordy!” and the second time she drank deeply. In a few minutes she seemed to feel better. She grew very lively indeed, and talked so fast I could hardly understand her. Af ter a while she rose from her seat, took the candle and held it to the fire. “You will burn your fingers, Miss Nancy,” said I, as she held her band in clone proximity to the blaze. “ 1 have burned my figgles—no, I don't mean figgles, but figgers,” she replied, talking as if she had something in her mouth. Poor Miss Nancy! she was past -aying fingers, and approaching that delectable state which “ fa-t” young men denominate as being “gloriously tight.” I laughed. “ W T hy, you laugh, Jennie,” she said. “Miss Nancy,” returned I, “you had better go to bed.” “ 1 b’i’eve 1 will go t’ bed for’m sick,” she replied, joining the words together without regard to punctuation ; and with uncertain steps she placed the candle ou the table, and retired to a bed in the corner of the room, and in a few minutes her—snoring, 1 was ab<: ut to say, but ladies never snore—so her breathing an nounced her oblivious alike to the disap pointments of the past and rosy hopes of the future. 1 sat by the child the remainder of the night, who, notwithstanding his “ coma tose state,” rested quite well, and who, contrary to Dr. Snap’s prediction, did have “vitality enough to resuscitate,” or, to use Miss Nancy’s plain vernaeu lor, “ it got well, and was as peart as a young toad.” At daylight the spinster arose, bright as a lark. She excused leaving me to take care of the child by myself—ac knowledged herself to have been “ gen teelly tight ” the night before, laughing heartily when I told her how she had talked and acted. The next month she was led by her quandam lover, Dr. Snap, to the lly me nial altar, where they were closely bound together by Cupid’s silken cords. “ Ob, wedded love, how beautiful!”—but 1 will not rhapsodize. Suffice it to say, she makes an excellent wife to the Dr., and a kind step-mother to the junior Snaps. She is still in great demand in sick ness, and never refu>e.j to do all she can for her neighbors, in sickness or health. She raises quantities of chickens and eggs—eating the latter rarely, and then rather soft. ‘i he Jat time 1 saw her, she declared to that nothing but a c-a-e of life and death would ev*r ind'ce her to swallow an i her dose of rhuba-b bitters. VSTords of sympathy muU love are like the manaa that descended from Heaven to fted tne Imui.-htd wanderers in the deserts. liupi ed by them, the leet are uuwearid by plot and g thr >i gh arid sand, the heart sinks not at and - inttiM-or, aud the arai isnurved lor a c nte t with a seifttd boat of t n .at its. lie who bos ne .- cr heard their soothing sounds or fe't their Lin 1- !y influence, may well be lea; to reason ind to inaaJy lWu*hi. A Southern tof6***book at it! As an independent journalist, devoted to the interests, rights and happiness of the South, we watch with a jealous eye, all steps made, either by Northern or Southern politicians, to reduce her to in feriority. In our earnestness in defend ing her honor, an unpleasant duty com pels us, sometimes, to sacrifice personal feelings to what we conceive to be the central good. W e are a Democrat —a Southern Democrat —-and we will not tie to party or to men, let them present whatever face they may, unless they em body the true democratic Southern prin ciples as enunciated by the Southern Rights party. Asa journalist, therefore, ignoring every thing that opposes this party, to be a trustworthy and faithful chronicler of men and measures, we will not spare the lash, though it lacerates party and friends. W e will not be awed to silence, or be bound down by party shackles, and quietly see wrongs and outrages inflicted, with fratricidal hands, npon the section we love. A short time since, the Diplomatic Bill, appropriating a large sum of money', passed the House of Representatives, to support and educate the returned Afri cans of the slaver Echo. Look at it, Southerners, and say, was there ever a greater wrong added to insult offered your section? Your money stolen from you, to educate a set of savages in a dis tant, foreign laud ! Was it ever intend ed that the United States government should become a missionary society, to tax its citizens, and educate the negroes of Africa, who are elevated by white men higher than their race, and a little —a very little—lower than the angels ? This whole Echo affair, from beginning to end, has been an outrage upon the feelings of Southerners, and a blow at their slavery system. We find the Pres ident, with his Cabinet of Southern men, bargaining with an abolition society, euphoniously styled “ the African Colon ization Society,” to support them one year in Africa, and pledging the faith of the government in the sum of $30,000, for the philanthropic job! This, within itself, a monstrous outrage, was passed over with almost entire sileuce, by Southern statesmen (!) and the press ; and a few Southern demagogues, em boldened by this, who esteem self more than the honor of their section, are found bowing and fawning to the evil genius of northern fanaticism ; pandering un worthy sons of a generous mother —to the vile crew, whose hopes of etemal bliss are predicated upon the overthrow of Slavery! Our immediate represen tative in Congress voted for this bill, and we are rejoiced to say that he stands solitary and alone in his glory ! He was the only Democrat —the only member from the Empire State of the South, that dared outrage the feelings of his State. We detest and loathe the measure, and we are constrained to say that the honor interest and sentiment of the people of the fifth congressional district has been most wantonly and cruelly sacrificed. Nothing can palliate this vote of Judge Wright, and we trust that the people of this district will consign him to the po litical grave he has made with his own hands, so effectually and so deep that he may never have a resurrection. VS e had hoped better things of Judge Wright. Asa man, we respect him; but In the disguise of a demagogue and politician, he deserves the censure of every South erner. With his squatter sovereignty notions and this vote —“the unkindest cut of all”—he has forfeited all claims to our mercy. We have been told that he has avowed openly that slavery should never, by his consent, extend beyond its present limits; and this policy may have shaped his vote, which harmonizes so beautifully with the squatter sovereignty sentiments of his “liege lord,” Stephen Arnold Douglas. We do not now hesi tate to say, that we are prepared to hear, without a shadow of incredulity, that he has voted for almost any abolition meas ure introduced in the halls of Congress. Cartersville Express. Wee Hawk axd Wise.— -A correspondent of the New York Times, writing lately from Lyn> hburg, Ya., narrates the following poli tical anecdote, among others, that illustrates the humor of the great campaign in 1855, when Wise was a candidate for Governor. It is not really humorous, but it presents strongly a piiculiarity of that eccentric politi cian : Ou the occasion of his visit to the town of Liberty, thirty miles west of this during the celebrated campaign of 1855, to address the people, he was introduced to a Mr. Fogy, whose residence was at the foot of the Peaks of Otter. After the introduction, Mr. Fogy addressed Mr. Wise as follows: Mr. F —“l am glad to see you, Mr. Wise.’’ Mr. W. —“l am happy to see you, Mr. Fogy.” Mr. F. —“l am sorry I can’t vote for you, Mr. Wise.” Mr. IF—“I am sorry for that too; but this is a free country, and a man can vote as he pleases.” Mr. F. —‘ My employment in early life, and indeed unt 1 recently, was a thimble-rigger. I have always attended horse races with my thimbles and ball, crying out, *’tis here and ’tain’t there, and ’tain t here and ’tis there.’ For many years a celebrated little horse named Waxy was winner of the stakes on every course that I was accustomed to at tend. Bets were made ten to one, upon him against the whole track, and he never failed to win. While engaged one day at a race, in my usual occupation, I noticed the ugliest, raw-boniest, scrawniest, most ragged hipped looking Least you ever did see, led into the track.and his name was Wee Hawk. I was soon told that he was entered against Waxy and ten to one was readily offered against him. I looked at Wee Hawk. He seemed wretched, but he had fire in his eye. I then looked at my pile, and I said isl bet on Waxy and win, I won’t win much, but if I bet on Wee Hawk and win, I will increase my pi!e|ten foli. I looked again at Wee Hawk, and seeing the fire in his eye, I con cluded I’d bet I did so and won. I never did see, Mr. Wise, a man so like a horse as you are like Wee Hawk, and though 1 can t vete for you, I’ll bet my pile on you.” Mr. Wise laughed heartily, aud the re eult soon proved that the fire was there. — ♦- Poverty asd RiciieS.—lt is truly said that, no man can tell whether he is rich by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man neb. He is rich or poor, according to what he has. A man to-day, for insiance, may have but ten, five or two and a halt dollars in his pocket; but to-mor row he may have fifty thousand dollars, or its half or quarter. How is this great change to be wrought? the reader may ask. Under ordinary circumstances, we would answer by demanding with the question a fee; but we will answer it without price on this occasion, Send ten, five, or two and a half dollars to Woo©, Epdt & Cos., Wilming ton, Delaware, or Augusta, Qa., and insure your chances of drawing the great prige or Us proportion. You cannot, indeed, to-day, tell wha b** r you are rich or poor, by iurn ing to yo\u ledger, but by a fortunate turn in the wheel of fortune, under the manage ment of Wood, Eoy * Cos., you may turn up 10-mwow ft fifty thousand 4yJl*r prix*. Discovery of .Hysterious Subter ranean Vaults. The following letter, which has been for warded us, if reliable, presents some interest ingfacts thatare well worthy of investigation. The parties mentioned herein are said to be well known in Jackson County: Jackson, 0., Feb. 12, 1859. To the Editor of the Enquirer • —Our vil lage is full of wonder and excitement Mar tin Marker, J. W. Hughs and Washington Long, in digging a grave in the Cemetery near this village, about ten o’clock this morn, ing, came to a large Hat stone about four feet below the surface, which stopped their fur ther progress until they procured assistance, and removed the stone from its resting place of ages, when it was found to have closed the entrance to a subterranean vault AH efforts thus far (three P. M.) to enter it with a light have proved unsuccessful on ac count of the foul air with which it is filled. By means of a rake* human bones of gigantic size have been raised, and a small chain of silver, with coins attached to each end. The coins, though much defaced by time, have the appearance of those in use among the Romans in their days of Cicero, Africanus, though there were evident traces of hiero glyphic devices that cannot be decyphered. The men at the cemetery have, by means of burning straw ; made light in the vault, and though none have the courage to ven ture further than the entrance, it has been dis covered that there is, immediately to the west of the opening, a chamber about ten feet square, with steps, quite dilapidated, down its eastern side. Three other cham bers branch out of ibis; one to the north, one to the west, and the others to the south. We are all curious, of course, to know when and by whom these vaults were made and filled. Rev. Mr. Hunter and Mr. Arm stfong and Dr. Knouff, have examined them as well tts they could wihtout goingdown in to them, also the bones raked out, and tl e chain and coins, and all give it as their opin ion that these vaults were made by the same people who built the mounds in the south eastern part of the State. The questions present themselves to eve ry one; Who made these vaults and filled them? Was our country once the home of giants? George Davenport. P. S.—Four and a half, P. M. W. Long, after the straw had burnt in the first vault for some time, ventured down to make an examination, but the atmosphere was so im pure that he could remain there but a few minutes, though long enough to discover that the walls of the vaults were substan tially built of smooth, well-shaped stones, and that there were large number of bones in them. Persons will arrive here from Sidney and Greenville to-morrow, and eve ry exertion will be made for a thorough ex amination of this “house of the dead” as soon as possible.— Cincinnati Enq.] G. D. From the Richmond Enquirer. The Power of Cotton. Cotton is an extraordinary product. It at present sustains American Commerce, Shipping and Trade, and regulates the ex changes. Estimating the last crop only at 2,500,000 bales, and its present average val ue of SSO per bale, gives a grand total in val ue of $ 175,000, ‘MX)! It is the cotton, tobacco, naval stores, <fcc., the products of the planting States at the South, which at present sustains the North ern cities of the Uniou. * The West has pret ty much run into bankruptcy, aud its trade in New York is almost nil. Our merchants,* iastead of receiving new trade from thence, cannot collect their past dues. The story is, that they have fto money, and no property that they can convert into cash, where no one has cash to purchase it The Wisconsin Legislature has been considering the propri - ety of adopting stop-laws. A good part of Illinois and lowa are no better off. Many of their railroad enterprise,? have proved ru inous failures. And many citizens of the North-West are seeking a milder climate, aud a more fruitful soil in Texas. New York, with all her advantages of position and wealth, would, without the South and Southern trade the present win ter, have been an utterly ruined and bank rupt city. The same might be said of Phil adelphia, Boston and other Northern towns. They have little or nothing of moment to ship that Europe wants. No Breadstuffs have been shipped to Great Britain for two months. Vessels herecan find little or noth ing to do. But the South has filled North ern ships with rich cargoes of cotton for Eu rope. On the 12th of February there were 146 ships and 45 barks loading at New Or leans, of whifch 91 were for Europe. The Ocean Monarch, cleared at that port on the 12th of February for Liverpool, with about 7,000 bales of Cotton, of the value of about $350,000. This large ship is owned in New York. Her freight on this immense cargo of cotton was at the rate of about £d. per lb., (about 1J cents;) which, on a bale of the average weight of 450 lbs., would amount to $5.62$ per bale This would give the total freight on the 7,000 bales of about $39,135 — to which may be added, as usual, 5 per cent primage. If we assume the present crop to reach 3,500,000 bales, which is the most general estimate, the freight received by Northern ship-owners on the whole will be as follows; On the eliipment of 750 003 bales coastwise, at an average of X cent *6 lb. or ♦*.'.♦ b *le, would pve ♦1,401,876 00 On tneshipment of 2 550.000 bale, to Europe, at S 62X V bale, would give the sum of ♦l#,o2>J,- 25 1 ; io which if we add 5 V cent, primage on this amount, it would give a total of. 16,120,400 00 Total cost of transportation of the crop of IS6B-’59, coastwise and foreign ♦18,221.776 00 When we consider that much of the cot ton shipped from Southern ports to Europe has been at Jd. to |d., instead of fd., and that the above sum has been paid for the transportation of cotton, exclusive of rice, tobacco and naval stores, some idea may be formed ot the immense support given to the shipping interest of the North by the plant ing States of the South. Besides this, after discharging in Liverpool, she will take dry goods and other merchandize, for which the cotton is made as a medium of exchange to pay for, and which are landed in New York for distribution to the Southern planters who grow the cotton. While the ship makes a return freight, the merchants who distribute the goods make heavy profits, and the fifty* four city banks, who loan them the money to pay the importers, make a profit. The transportation of goods to the South, also, Jives a profit to owners of coasting vessels, t is the cottoa and other products of the South which have peopled the fi-ee States of the North and West with the vast number of emigrants from Europe, and whose labor has so largely contributed to develope their resources. Thus cotton ships, after they ar rive in Liverpool, fill their holds with coal and salt, and the space between decks with dry goods, hardware and crockery, which, however, leaves them a great deal of space once occupied by cotton bales. This is fit ted up, temporarily for steerage passengers, whom they are able to take at very low rates, varying from twelve to fifteen and twenty dollars—they being required to do their own cooking. This low fare they are enabled to charge on account of having room to spare, after having discharged their cot ton bales, and which they could not, with out their employment in the cotton trade.— Hence, the heaviest immigration is in the Spring ad Summer months, when the cot ton ships are returning to Northern ports. Thus, while the South, indirectly, sq large ly contributes to people the Nor Ip with Eu ropean emigrants, no sooner do they arrive here, than the minions and ministers of abo litionism and Black Republicanism set to work, by all sorts ol lies, to turn them against the South; hence we see the Germans, at several points in the West, have enabled B'ack Republicans to reach Congress, and goyern States, (like Wisconsin and lowa,) wpep £hey could not have done without the r aid. They also have assisted New England Ues -ndantg in the lpierior. to gov ern this Stat j with a rod of iron. Wher j do the ships chiefly belong which ftre thus stained by the rich carrying trade of the South ?We answer—to New Eng land, and especially to Massachusetts and Maine —who send few, if any, men to Con gress that are not Black Republicans, if not Abolitionists, as well as the rank political enemies to the South ; and who would if they could, cut off her rights under the Con stitution—and by divisions at the South they may ultimately succeed. Tlie Cause of Emigration. A correspondent of the Southern Cit'ten, writing from Charleston, over the signature of “Palmetto,” makes the following remarks in regard to the disposition of our people to emigrate, and the remedy to prevent the same. We commend them to the consider ation of the opponents ot the slave trade: [Marion, (& C.) Star. “ We keep duly informed as to the traits of the wild Africans lately imported per “ Wanderer.” The savages are represented to be extremely docile and industrious, per fectly delighted that they have been so for tunate as to be brought to this glorious coun try. No danger, so far, of the barbarians corrupting our $1,500 hands—the prospect being, indeed, on the contrary, good for their conversion to Christianity. Is it any wonder for our people, having to provide such expensive instruments of labor, should be compelled to emigrate to more productive regions ? Is it in view of such facts, marvellous that “ the subject of emigration, especially of late, v should, (as is as serted) “ much agitate the public mind of this State ?” Or can we justly be blamed in that “we are beginning to talk lightly and flippantly of moving.” It is a bad sign when emigration “much agitates the public mind” anywhere. The evil sign is, in general, (as it was in the pa triarchal emigrants) “ The land is not able to bear the people—not, indeed, it may be, be cause “ their substance is great"—the sub stance of the modern emigrant consisting in most cases solely of his bone and sinew. But why should not the land here in this State of South Carolina be “ able to bear” all of us? We have some twelve million acres of it unimproved, and labor is all these now unproductive lands need to make them bear abundantly. Ah! there’s the rub—la bor ! Why is it that South Carolina, like the Yankee States, Connecticut and Vermont, and only of these three States can it be said supplies to other States more than half as many of her sons as remain at home ? In 1850 the number of white and free per sons of color residing in this State, amounted to 292,160, while there were no less than 186,479 natives of the State residing out of it This was nine years ago; but the agita tion on the subject of emigration having much “increased of late”—it is not unrea sonable to assert that we are becoming still weaker from the depletion. Here now is the body politic diseased, and is there no balm in Gilead ? Oh, yes 1 as usual we have plenty of quacks ready to exercise their empiricism on dilapidated cor pus. The remedy, as usual with quacks, is a local application for a constitutional disease. One says, stop the depletion—that is, don’t emigrate; another crie3, buy no more ne groes, they are ruinously high, the expen ses eat up all the profit of their labor—and therefore there is no wisdom in investing money in their purchase. Now, pray Messrs. Quacks, what are we to do if we cannot purchase negroes ?—they are the instruments with which we work— as much as our plows—suppose we buy no more plows—how then ? Verily, the remedy is—and it is a reme dy secundem artum, a constitutional remedy more laborers, more negroes—not at $2,000 a head, but at the fair African price $125. Some few Beach Island monopolists have had the temerity to assemble and pass re solutions condemnatory of the slave trade.— Now, Messrs. Editors, these resolutions are utterly unworthy of any reliance as an ex pression of popular opinion, and I hazzard nothing at all in saying as I do, that the majority of the people of South Carolina are in favor of having more Africans. Let the question be put to the people, and we shall see if such is not the fact. What Spurgeon is doing to do. The “ Freeman,” a Baptist organ, publish ed in England, speaking of Rev. Mr. Spur geon’s contemplated visit to this country, gives us the following rather broad hint of what we may expect from that gentleman. The idea seems to be that he is to visit the United States as a kind of Missionary, not for the conversion of souls, but for the abo lition of slavery, and it is thought not im possible he “is destined to be the Knibb of America!” We cannot dispute the latter proposition, having in our ignorance, no idea who Knibb may be, or what he has done, but we are inclined to coincide with a Bos ton contemporary—the Courier—that both he and Mr. Spurgeon would soon find a good deal of the nonsense taken out of them, if they should undertake to interfere with af fairs in this country in such an offensive, un gentlemanly and unchristian manner, as the extract we make portends: “One of Mr. Spurgeon’s friends, who knows him best, remarked to us while speaking of his visit, * And wont he give it to them on their slavery ?’ At the time, our first feeling was, ‘ Dare he do it ?’ Se cond thoughts disposed us to think that he both dare and would—that he may be raised up for the work, and that the way is won dertully prepared for him.” Proceeding to discuss this point at some length, the writer waxes warm and ex claims : “ Who can tell but that Mr. Spurgeon is destined to be the Knibb of America? He possesses many of the moral and physical qualities of that noble man; those especially which were his chief weapons in his holy war against slavery—the courage to say straight out what he thinks— what the im pulse of the moment demand, and the elo quence to raise the enthusiasm of the ma ny, while the few, also, are compelled to feel its homely power—the power of truth. •When he arrives on the slave-darkened soil of New York (for a black man is property there as much as in New Orleans,) we can but believe, that, like Paul at Athens, and on Mars’ Hill, ‘ his spirit will be stirred within him.’ Many a gentle hint wilj our brother receive when he lands at New York. Should he remonstrate in private, all kinds of suggestions not to obstruct his usefulness bv adverting to the dangerous subject will be given; but we have little doubt that faith and prayer will have braced bis spirit for the solemn conflict,” The Ignoramus who thus talks about “ the slave-darkened soil of New York,” would do well to accompany Mr. Spurgeon to the United States. He may pick up an idea or two here that never entered his head before. One of thesp is tflat New York has ceased to bp a profitable field for Exeter H 1 4-bo* litionism—another is, that if it jj ouly 4bo-r Ijtionism Mr. Spurge m is going to favor us with, he had better stay at home; for we have far smarter abo'itiorists here of our own than he ever dare 1 to be. He ought not ‘o bring hi< egj.s to so unprofi abP a market. It wou’ n’t pay.—W. Y. Express. ery magnifies daugt jr, ac a fog the :Un. The Bind that warned lieiuoxar derived itt hori lying influence from it# wft&t of a body. GEORGIA CITIZEN, L. F. W. ANDREWS, Editor. MACON, MARCH 11,1859. Macon Cotton Market. We quote 9to 11J as extremes. The Ara bia’s accounts were received here yesterday, which have not changed the quotations. Sales of the week in Liverpool, 42,000 bales, opening with a decline of l-16th to l-Btli, but closed at Jd advance, owing to pacific assurances. Christian Spiritualist.— No 11 of this Bi-monthly, will be ready for delivery on to-morrow evening. City subscribers will please send to the Office for their copies. ggy- The Panorama ok the Bible will close in this city to-morrow, with an After noon and Evening Exhibition. l£*L>The Ravel Pantomimo and Ballet Troupe will commence in Macon Monday. Our Next Volume.— The Fifty Num bers which we promised to publish, to make up the 9tli volume of the Citizen, are com plete with the present No., but we have de termined to issue two more numbers, before we commence the 10th volume, on the Ist day of April. We thus give two weeks’ fur ther notice to all our subscribers, who desire to continue with us, that we intend to adopt the CASH system, and rigidly carry out the rule, in reference to all subscriptions at a distance from Macon. We shall, there fore, expect not only “ indemnity for the past but security for the future,” to enable us to effectually prosecute our labors, to our own satisfaction and the benefit of our pat rons. Remember that Two Dollars cash will pay for the next volume of the Citizen.— Those in arrears will please send in suffi cient to square up accounts, with two dol lars additional for the 10th volume. Let us start fair, friends, and we pledge ourselves to renewed efforts to make the paper a wel come visitor into every family into which it may enter. In addition to the Political and News de partments, we design to have a Literary and Agricultural Bureau, for the entertainment of such of our subscribers as may desire in formation, of a useful and improving char acter, on these subjects. In short, we mean, not to be laggard in the race of Journalism, but to keep pace with the foremost, in all thajt goes to make up a first class Family Newspaper. Visit to Atlanta, dec. The Editor paid a flying visit to Atlanta, Marietta, &c., this week, and noted some in cidents that we intended to use in the pre sent issue of our paper, but time and space fail us. While in Atlanta, we called on our friends of the “American” and “Intelli gencer,” and were happy in finding that peace again prevailed among the brother hood of the press, after the late belligerent manifestations. We expected to find the atmosphere very sulphureous in its odor and having a decided taste of “ villainous salt petre,” but all was as. calm as a May morn ing, with not a breath of angry wind to dis turb the serenity of the sccene! May this favorable condition of things be perpetual. At Griffin, we called on all our brethren of the press, but found none at home but Brother Burr, of the “ Independent South” and Bro. Buchanan, of the “ Empire State.” The former seems to be flourishing, as he deserves to be, for he is one of the most effi cient and able Editors in the State. In po litics, the “South” is a little ultra on some points, but it is as true as steel to the inter ests of the South, and may be relied on in any emergency which may happen. IScw Advertisements, Ac. HTMrs. Damour invites the Ladies to ex amine her rich stock of Millinery and Fan cy Goods. CSP” Bostick, Kein & Cos. offer a large lot of Floor-matting, of every variety of width. fgrStubbs & Hardy have opened a mart for the purchase and sale of Negroes, near the Passenger Depot. They are reliable men. K"Dr. Wm. F. Holt has returned to the City, and offers his professional services to the public. He is a worthy disciple of the school Allopathic. {fay* Prof. Comings, of the Reformed Med ical College, will devote himself to the practice of his profession. Office at the Medical College. jfag*Messrs. Prudden & Cos. call attention to their new stock of rich and elegant styles of Spring Dry Goods. j(fay* Waterman, (formerly Denman & Waterman,) is still catering to the taste of the ladies, in every description of “ fashion able, seasonable and desirable” Dry Goods, Embroideries, &c., &c. {fay*Messrs. Hardeman & Griffin give a hint to some of their dilatory customers, that had better be attended to in season, if tht y are wise. More Improvements. —Mr. James B. Ayres is preparing to erect two fine Store Houses on Mulberry Street on the vacant lot between Dr. Strohecker’s and John L. Jones’ Esq., which will close up the gap in that locality. j(fag*Mpssrfi. Schofield are now putting up a large brick building on 6th Street, ad jacent to the Passenger Depot, for their exten sive Brass and Iron Foundry business. faTMr. S. P. Dickinson is getting ready to build anew Brick Ware House and Stores to occupy the acre lot directly oppo site Hardeman and Sparks’ Ware House, on 3d street. On each corner of the third street front, ho will erect a large Store House for Grocery purposes. The lot on the rear and sides will be enclosed with a brick wall, after the usual plan, for the sto rage of Cotton. The Ware House, we learn, will be occupied by Messrs. Woolfolk & Coates, and one of the Grocery Houses, by Messrs. Fears, Swanson & Cos. JBgy*Mr. D. B. Woodruff has just erect tod a Blind and Window Sash Factory, on 2d Stroet, We hear, also, of other improvements in contemplation, which serve to show that Macon is still going ahead, and bids fair to be the chief city of the Empire State of the South. Public Expenditures. The Proclamation of the President of the ‘United States, sent to Congress on the 3d inst., gives a deplorable picture of the con dition of the United States Treasury. On the 30th of June near eighty millions of-dol lars of Treasury notes will have become due, without any means to meet them, the funds in hand or available not being more than sufficient to meet the ordinary expenses of government up to that period. Congress was therefore peremptorily called on to pro vide for the public exigency, before adjourn ing. They have done so, we believe, though we have not seen the details of the Bill.— Only think of it reader. The General Gov ernment is some eighty millions of dollar* worn tfuui iwtUitfg, under tfu* ewneatie*} Democratic Administration of Mister Jeans Buchanan! Truly, the people will inquire into these things and come to the rescue in 1860. Martin Van Buren’s administration in 1836, which so outraged the public sense for its corruption and extravagance, was a pure and economical government, compar ed to the present. Let the public plunder ers, therefore, take warning, their time is short. “ Get out of the way, the people’s rising.” Acknowledgment. —We are in debted to the Faculty of the Southern Bo tanico-Medical College of this city, for a package of rare and excelsior fluids, which they have been pleased to consign to our care, as samples, we presume, of the gener ous hygeine which is taught in the Institu tion. If these be the medicamentums which they prescribe for their patients, we should not be surprised to hear that they are doing a flourishing business in the way of pre scription. Surely, the dose administered to us was “ not bad to take”—and we revived considerably under its sanative and recu perative influence. Latest from Europe.— The Steam ship Jura that arrived at New York on the 6th, and the Europa that arrived on the 7th, bringing Liverpool dates to the 18th and 19th ult., report an advance of one-eighth penny on all grades of Cotton in that mar ket. Sales of the week, 88,400 bales, of which speculators took 15,000 and exporters 7,000. Quotations range from 6J to 7J. Napoleon’s intentions are represented as being certainly warlike. Academy for tlie Blind. —The new building which is now being covered in, makes a fine appearance from a point of observation on or near the line of Railroad passing through the city. When finished, it will be an ornament to the city and an honor to the State, whose institution it is. Star Crazing, &c.— The Telescope and Microscope man is now stationed at Boardman’s corner, offering, for a small fee, to bring the moon and stars right down to earth—also to magnify infinitesimal atoms of animal creation into monster mastodons and mammoth behemoths. Lecture on Mornionisw. We are requested to give notice that Miss Helen Dresser, formerly a resident of Salt Lake City, will deliver a lecture on Mormonism, at Ralston’s Hall, in this city, on to-morrow evening, (Saturday,) at 7} o’clock. The Mobile Mercury has the fol lowing notice of the objects of the lady in lecturing on such a subject, and of the lec ture itself: “ Miss Dresser’s parents, some years since, were inveigled from their homes to Salt Lake City, whence after long enduring the tyranny of Brigham Young’s government, they escaped at the” sacrifice of all their property. Since that time she has acquir ed an education, and is now engaged in laudable efforts for the purpose of recover ing for her parents the old homestead which, in an ill-starred hour, they were induced to abandon. Her lecture was delivered in a plain, unadorned style, which left no doubt upon the minds of the audience respecting its truthfulness. Upon the most prominent and most revolting features of Mormon life she touched lightly, and in a manner which did more credit to her than if she had gone into fuller details. The assembly testified their appreciation of, and sympathy for, the young lady, by a liberal contribution to wards the object she has in view.” A Fair Hit. —The Atlanta Intelligencer having suggested to Senator Iverson that he retire from the candidacy for re-election, after his present term expires, (to give place to Gov. Johnson,) on the ground that he was elected by a compromise arrangement, a writer in the Southern Confederacy very significantly enquires, what will become of Gov. Brown, on the same principle! The latter was about the fifth choice of the Con vention that nominated him, and hence ought to retire also, if the Intelligencer’s rule is allowed to work generally! With the correspondent of the Confederacy, we believe “ that it is not only the duty of the party to return J udge Iverson to the Sen ate, but justice to him as a patriot and states man as he is, justice to Georgia, and justice to the whole South demands it. He has tal ents of superior order, moral courage pos sessed by few others, and a devotion to the interest of the South, that should place his claims beyond cavil.” Favoritism on the State Road.— Mr. M. L. Roberts, a late conductor on the State Road, is out in the Confederacy against the authorities of the road, for dismissing him from service, without cause; and while he has his hand in, he proceeds to expose the favoritism practised in the payment of full wages to some employees who lost consider able time, while a deduction was made in tho wages of others, for the same cause, al though much extra service had been per formed, for w hich nothing was allowed. Mr. Roberts concludes as follows : “I have no doubt that I could receive good pay, and get a good office if I had relations or property to barter for it; but as my largest claims are in the oth Congres sional District, I cannot trade as Governor Brown—he having sold out that District to Judge Lumpkin for his influence in the Gubernatorial election. Lumpkin is to give his influence for Brown in the Gubernatorial election, for a aeat in Congress in the year 1860. Will the citizens of the sth suffer themselves bartered and sold, and only re ceive such small recompense for it. If it was necessary, I could mention all the bargains for the above sale, but I will give the contract and bargain of sale in my next communication.” All must take Position. —Under this cap tion, the Democratic Platform , published at Calhoun, Ga., writes a well tempered article, advocating a repeal of the laws against the foreign African slave trade —in which the editor says “ the issue must come,” and “ ad mits of no neutrality.” After stating that he is for free trade in this African fabric, the editor concludes thus: “ That we of the South need more slaves, needs no argument. And if it is right to purchase them in Richmond, it is right to purchase them in Africa. And that it is a move to benefit the poor, none but the hope lessly stupid, who have given the subject close, unbiased and unprejudiced considera tion, will doubt. Hence our position.” California Curiosity—Borax Lake. —The largest borax lake, nearly two miles in ex tent, is situated about half a mile north of the north shore of Clear Lake, and about five miles from its foot, in Congressional town ship, 18 north, and range 7, west of the Mount Diablo meridian, and north 18 degrees west, fifty-two miles distant from Napa City, California. The water in this lake is so strongly saturated or impregnated with bo rax, that it cannot be held in solution, and is, consequently, deposited in crystalized par ticles, from very small to half a pound in weight, in the mud below. From this lake, one and a quarter miles north, over a high ridge, is the noted snlphur bank, from twen ty to thirty acres in extent, and supposed to be thirty feet thick, sufficiently pure it is said for the use of the mint at San Francis co. The sulphur appears to be constantly rising over the surface. Eighty rods west from the sulphur, a hot spring arises in the edge of an arm of Clear Lake; this spring is strongly impregnated with boracic acid.— Five or miles west of this, on tbe south es Clew Mietta ben* Ufa, Georgia News Items. J&a?* Joseph W. Thomas, Esq., of Beal wood, near Columbus, Ga., and formerly Editor of the Columbus Inquirer, departed this life on the 6th inst., after a lingering illness of the Stomach Rnd lutestines. lie was a gentleman of noble nature and gener ous impulses. The Rome Courier thus brings to gether the present and the past, and not without a point: “The Allatoona Culvert fell down not long ago, and now that the Pettit’s Creek Bridge lias ‘caved,’ wo presume the public will be willing to pardon us for those Know frothing, lies’ we published in regard to these very things, and various other leakages, on the State Road, two years since.” No less than nine Democratic Colo nels have been named by their friends, as aspirants for the honor of representing the 3d District of Georgia, in the next Congress; to wit:—Cols. Lochrane, Bass, Speer, De Graffenried and Whittle, of Bibb; Cols. Mobley and King, of Harris; Col. Smith, of Talbot, and Col. Smith, of Upson! Well, this would make an interesting scrub race, but there is one little difficulty in the way, there is no vacancy in the District! At least, we have not heard that our gallant and able Representative, Col. R. P. Trippe, has signified his intention to vacate! BST Rev. Thomas Colbert, of “Wakulla, Fla., formerly of Coweta Cos., Ga., was found on the 28th ult., near the Albany Road, a few miles north of Bainbridge, in a state of insensibility. ’He had been throw from his ,ju ggv upon a pile of logs, fracturing his left arm, and otherwise bruising him badly, and it was leared, fatally, as he remained unconscious till noon of the next dav. The proprietor of the Augusta Con stitutionalist proposes to publish anew Lit erary and Agricultural Journal, to be called the “Southern Field and Fireside”—W. W. Mann, Esq., to be the Literary Editor, and Dr. D. Lee the Agricultural Editor. Price $2 per annum. This will undoubted ly be a well conducted sheet, and worthy of public patronage. she Hon. Wm. H. Crawford has re moved from Georgia to Arkansas. He is one of the most brilliant men of the age, but happening to be on the unpopular side of politics, in his District, (the 2d,) he has not been called to take part in the national councils, to which he is so eminently fitted by education and ability. The lot of 436 negroes sold near Sa vannah, last week, brought the round sum of $300,205, being an average of $716 a head”, one third cash and the balance in two years, with interest. JB£g““ The February No. of the “Fly Leaf,” that gem of a lady’s paper from Col lege Temple, Newnan, Ga., has just been received, at this office. It is rumored that Col. Charles H. Hopkins, of Darien, will likely be the Amer ican candidate for Congress in the Ist Dis trict of Georgia, at the ensuing election in October. W e know of no gentleman in that district more worthy of the honor. Interesting front Washington, Washington, March 4.—Senate—Came tod s resolution asking for a committee of investigation as to malfeasance in contract for printing Post-office blanks in the Rice case, was adopted. An extraordinary Executive session of the Senate of the 36th Congress convened.— Doolittle offered a resolution that the Presi dent open negotiations with Central and South America relative to free persons of color. The President did not sign the St. Clair flats bill The President says, if, after consulting the Postmaster General, who is now ill, he finds the Post-office Department entirely crippled by the loss of appropriations, he will convene Congress probably in June. The Treasury Department has given or ders to cut down all expenditures to the lowest notch. The President vetoed the resolution to deepen the bar at the mouth of the Mississippi, but will probably direct the Secretary to apply unexpended funds to that purpose. Robert S. Ould has been confirmed U. S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, vice Key. Owing to certain points of punctilio hav ing risen between the House and Senate, regarding the raising of revenue and the in crease of postage, all bills appropriating mo ney for the land and ocean mail service the coming year were lost Every other appro priation bill was passed. The bill authorizing the re-issuing of trea sury notes was passed. The bill to increase the rates of postage and to abolish the franking privilege, was finally lo:jt Congress adjourned sine die at noon to day. There is no probability of an extra session. A large number of the Republican mem bers did not vote on the resolution of thanks to the Speaker, on the ground that he did not vote on a similar resolution for Speaker Banks two years ago. John Marron, Esq., Third Assistant Post master General, died suddenly, in this city, this morning. Washington, March s. — There is now no doubt that there will be a session of Con gress called by the President, earlier than the first Monday in December next; but whether in advance of or directly after the autumn elections for Representatives is” not yet determined. Not only the Post-office Department, but other branches of the pub lic service absolutely require legislation be fore the usual time of the meeting of Con gress. Until the thirty-sixth Congress passes the Post-office appropriation bill, contractors, route agents, eta, must wait for their pay. No new routes can be formed, nor expiring contracts over existing routes be renewed. The Department is making every effort to overcome the embarassment A Cabinet council is called on the subject Senate —When the door of the Executive session was opened, Seward submitted a resolution, asking the Secretary of War for copies of all contracts for removing obstruc tions at the mouth of the Mississippi river, and the amounts expended, and to whom. Laid over. A. N. Tevely was confirmed 3d Assistant Postmaster GeneraL The Interior Department has certified to lowa 223,000 acres of Land under the Con gressional grant for Railroads. Washington, March 7.—The Hon. Robert L. McLean, of Maryland, has been confirm ed by the Senate as Minister to Mexico, and starts for Yera Cruz on Wednesday. He is authorized to recognize the Juarez Govern ment, if that government is able to sustain itself against the Church party. Death of Postmaster General. ( Washington, March B.—The Hon. Aaron . Y. Brown, Postmaster General of the Unit- j ed States, died to-day, of pneumonia. , The Senate to-day ratified the Casa-Herraa j treaty, with M amendment lb*t 1h0.9 have not yet presented their claims New Granada, may do so before Gr aDad shall act finally on the subject. Washington, March 9-The Senate now m extra session, will adjourn to-nio’rr ‘ Joseph Holt, the present Commissioner I atents, has been confirmed as p<w m General, vice A. V, Brown dec’d. * Hon. A. H. Stephens. The frational Intelligencer , alluding t ot l tender of a complimentary dinner to G gia’s distinguished Representative in a*” gress, Hoc. A. H. Stephens, says: “The compliment which it is thu 3pro edto pay to this eminent civilian, hasT the manner in which it is conferred, the® it of doing honor as well to those whom it proceeds as to him who is worthy objectof a demonstration whirt, are confident, is as sincere as it is flatteria, Mr. Stephens, no less by his habitual dis nity and courtesy, than by his signal ability and legislative experience, has conciliated! a singular degree the confidence and re v : of all with whom he has been called to ! sociate in the discharge of his public duti! daring the long period of his service in the National Legislature, and we are sure % we do but echo the common sentiment of his country, when we say that his W j t drawal from public life, in what seems - ‘ mid career of his usefulness, will be U ni sally considered a loss that cannot be easii repaired.” Latest News Items. The Wanderer.— This famous craft, that has excited so much noise in the world a-, ring the last few months, has been condemn ed as a slaver, and is advertised by theU S Marshal to be sold at public outcry, in city, on Saturday, the 12th inst Fast trav ellers would do well to attend the sale. Savannah Republican, Virginia Politics.— Mr. Letcher, the dem ocratic nominee for Governor, opens the canvass at Woodstock on Monday next and has invited Mr. Goggin, the opposition can didate, to meet him in discussion. Mr. G has already taken the stump. Hon. T. B. King has returned to Bruns wick, Georgia, and is now addressing public audiences in that vicinity on the advantages to be derived from a Southern Pacific M road. W. H. Fry, one of the New York Trib une men, has been attempting to lecture on “Music,” but his production—which it loti him two hour3 and a quarter to deliver— was an olla podrida of pedantry, critidsn:, philosophy, anecdote, transcendentalism, pol itics, paradox, humor, rhetorical, sopbomo ric declamation, and much more besides. The New Orleans Crescent of the 24th February, says that there are eighty-fire thousand bales of cotton in vessels that are stuck in the mud or delayed in sailing by the obstructions at the mouth of the river below New Orleans. The British Navy.—The London Tima gives the following statement of the steam navy of Great Britain: Line-of-battle ship), 51; blockships, 9; frigates, 28; corvettes, 13; smaller corvettes 8, mortar frigates 4; floating batteries, 8; sloops, 27; gunvessels, 26; gunboats 163; total, 337. A rolling mill is about to be established in Elyton, Shelby county, Alabama, which will furnish iron for the Northeast and South west railroad. In ancient days the receipt wa3: “Know thyself.” In modern times it has been sup planted by the far more fashionable maxim. “Know thy neighbor and every thing about • him.” A census of Texas, just taken, show! a population of 458,620. against 212,492 is the year 1850. The Methodist Church in Georgia.— The Minutes o’s the Georgia Conference of tk Methodist Church give the following state ment of tie progress of the church: “Thu net .increase in church members reported, four thousand five hundred whites and two thousand blacks ; total six thousand fin hundred. There was raised for Sunday schooi about three thousand dollars, for the Tract Society about three thousand five hundre: dollars, and for the Missionary Society, it eluding the anniversary collection, aboct twenty-three thousand dollars.” Robert “Walsh, formerly Consul at Paw I and for many years connected with the pres I of this country as editor or correspondent I died at Paris on the 7th of February, in the I seventy-sixth year of his age. Senator Seward it is said, had invited • I large number of Republicans to dine wit I him in Baltimore-immediately after the ad-1 journment of Congress, and it is understooJ I to be a Presidential movement. Tha last mail form Santa Fe, brings aw- I py of stringent laws, passed by the Legsl*-1 ture of New Mexico, to protect proper"? I in slaves, and totally prohibiting emanc!?* I tion in that territory. A destructive fire occured in Memphu- ■ Tenn., on the first inst, destroying I half the square on Main Street and seven -1 the printing offices. Loss estimated ats- j I 000. The Princess, one of the finest steamed -- the Missisippi river, exploded her boi* 1 few days since near Baton Rouge, t J burned—4oo passengers on board anc - 1 half of them were drowned or missiDg were mostly residents of Louisian* sissippi. Died suddenly on Thursday, March ‘ Newark, New Jersey, at the his son-in-law, Wm. K. McDonald Rev. James Carnahan, D.D., for many L* the honored President of the College -■ Jersey, leaving but two children, McDonald, of Newark, and Mrs. of New York, the wife of Rev. ■ Doun, the Pastor of Spring Street Ca~ - that city. Death of an Old e have to ansounce the death of Mr. h S. Bulloch, an old and respected died yesterday morning at an ad van I Mr. B. was at one time Collector of I of Savannah, but for a number o* I has lived in retirement—Snw 1 0th. J3F* One of the last acts ofCon I to vote to Mr. Chapman, the p,;. I contestant for the seat in the Hoo# I egate from Nebraska, the sum o - I sand dollars os mileage. Who coU gjpl ford to contest the seat of a Deleg*!* j resentative to Congress, at r ® t^ an | is this “retrenchment”? Mr. Chap Democrat I J3F* It is a significant fact that I ors of the leading Agricultural jS ,. I the south—Dr. B. N. Cloud ° f , e gofidl gomery Cotton Planter and Soi o I and Dr. Daniel Lee, of the Sout (eJ of H tor are both open and earnest 8 I the re-opeaing of the jfrf* I