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Newspaper Page TextTO JAMES K HUi£Sf, ikki St*: li> Un Tvletcntpir'at tlie 18tli *M_, you lliuuglu prupr tv publish n "I’urd." • which not content with a wilful per*<-r<ioli • facts connected with uiy tnaiingcinenl ol the - fairs of the Macon Gxs Company, )uu alto t*ik occasion to make a scurrilous attack on Ktjr private character, and to that ‘'Card” I ■*»' pro[Hi*e to make a rejoinder- not because i am at all apprehensive that lit; reputation, whether as a business man or as a tueuiher of society, is likely to sorter detmneiA from any • harge you have invented or may hereafter in sent against it. but simply because 1 • Mtijot torago the satisfaction of refuting your misTep i eaantati >us, exposing your iuconsista tciwS and chiding your insufferable egotism, in thjs public way. This pleasing duty. J would lave i di«n it on myself to tterfomi at an oU.ierpio- • aent, but for a vaflrty ot other matters <le mamluig my Attention, the least ut which 1 < <>n.sidered of much more importaucj than al<y nccnsation eman««iag fsurn you. It is not my purpose to notice all four prop ositions in detail, for though you hstva proved that it is possible to compress a v ist numis r of wilful qgntatements \vithin a column of n newspaper. J aip well aware that I could not give them such answers as they dr x-rve in three times the spare—and therefore, for the sake >4 UrexUy, I shall content inytn If with expo sing uno or two <>t the more .luring of your ;<erver»iuns, and leave the e.otni anility to judge M to the amount of credit they should give the valance. I might, if 1 ch< I<. divide your “Card” into twenty paragrap u ,md prove ca< h to be without foundation, bir,Quill be satisfied to pursue the course indicat- <1 —proceeding on • maxim known to gentlem <i of your profes sion, that that which is fai e in one thing is talse in all. Take, tor m-tuiiee, you r allegation that 1 slept on my post when 1 v. t- paid by the liom pany to make a Contract : id proceed with the > hange in the works. 1! fra? you went into do tdls. and >ou 51i.,11 have the Leuelit of your own atutenient: Finally, however, nt the instance of Mr. Auams, the President was instructed by the Jioard of Director*, ju 27th April. 1857, to make a contract and proceed w ith the work. Xie had then ail the foinmer in which to make .he change and pr< p.uo tor the heavy Winter ooiwumption. But in-h ad of going at it with anergy, as he was [xiid to do, lie 1 izily slept on in listless apathy, until all the brick was engaged by others, and th • rains of Angtist caught him with his w ork sijnrig.dy started, ami one bungle succeeded another, until the consumers were without light 'j dt the time, and bad to pay for wiud and smoke mixed up with what they did get. The wr. k+'whieh ought to have been put ip in inid-s jmtif .r were not ready until Ist of February Jttst.'/ Xow redd tdic letter of Messrs, bpringer & -Driggers, thf contractors (which is appended hereto), and tell me in what position do you lind yonnajf! The brick was engaged and the contract made in less than a month after the authority wasgiven me! The excavations were coiupletzd and the brick delivered la-fore the middlu of .July! The works would have been cotnpletod by the Ist of September, but for the summer rains, and the failure of the eon tractors in Iron Works to forward the material aa agreed on—!x>tli causes obviously beyond iny control—and the brick work was ready to receive the iron immediately on its arrival' Do you expect to make the people believe that 1 am to be condemned because the Almighty sent heavy rains! Or that I am to be censured because your special friends, pi rdiearris A Hoy. failed to fulfill their contract < Yet such is your ea gerness to dopna'intc my humble services, that you have hazarded this misstatement; which has not even the |*>ur merit of ingenuity, since it is so easy of detection and exposure. You make a great ado. also, because in ad dition to my regular duties as President. Sec Tttary, and Treasurer, 1 refused tz licet the hills of the consumers at a salary of $750 per aiilinm. Yet you were well aware that by a rule, which h id been In operation ever since the formation ut the Company, th vt duty bad be longed to the Su|a>rintendent, and nre even constrained to admit that such has been tin en<tom. Upon what pretext, than, doyou seek to east odium on me ( And since you pronounce it ineauaoss in me to refuse the se-rvici at $750. where do you get the effrontery which enables yon to congratulate the public upon the fact that you and Boardman (‘Boardman and 1”) i have bueu so ‘‘lucky” as to get a man to whom you pay sl,l7s.oo—just *425 more—for pre cisely the same duties t If $750 be too small u compensation, why tax me with meanness in deeimiugi And if it be, ns you allege, ample, how is it that ‘ Boardman and 1” haveincrcas ed it to more than a thousand ( I fancy that the sagacious and far-seeing‘l” will find it, difficult to explain. Again. You say, in allusion to the Commit- | tae. u|H>n the part, of the Company, “the City Council Committee refused to meet that Com mittee because Johnston was on it.” This is I a abort sonltuicu, but short as it is you have con- | t rived to crowd two grpss misstatements into I it. The impresaimi evidently designed to be ! made was that the Council Committee never conferred with me. Hut you know that the reverse is the truth, becanse you were present at the interview. Neither is it true that they ever did “refuse u> meet" as stated. I have in my poasesoion notes from Messrs. Harrison. Anderson, Boifeuillet, and Grier—the gentle men representing the Council, br. Harrison nays that he did refuse to meet a second time. Mr. Anderson says that he thought anotner in terview would be fruitless, but nevertheless he never refused to meet. Mr. Grier says explic itly that he never refused. Mr. Boifeuillet says •mphatically that he never refused. And thus it will appear that out of the tour only •wie assumed the position which you have at tributed to all. You vent a good deal of foul wind on this other subject—that as President of the Gas Company, representing the stockholder*, I re fused to make what I considered a con tract with the City. Torture if, twist it as you phase—that is tlic whole of it and you know it. If it be ■ obstinate" to refuse a prop- 1 oaition which it seemed to mo involved a loss 1 to the Company, then I accept the epithet— . and if it bo "cluse" to guard the stockholders against such loss, then I accept that also. It ' iv a sjiecies of obstiuacy and-clo-cness, which 1 have no warrant in expecting from you, as 1 will show conclusively before I conclude. It. seems, however, according to your “Card" ev erything has been “pleasantly adjusted " by the new Board—how .' Why did you not have the manliness to state that it has been settled on the very basis which I originally proposed, and which i was all along willing to accept < When ; I proposed it, it was ivret<!j.4 “litgc'iog’ but when “Boardman and I" did the very same thing, it suddenly bcoasm: a “plwasaftt adjust ment!” Yus, sir, you know it you know that the “adjustuivut” k nothing more nor less than an acceptance of the very terms ivhicb I oiler-; *sl—and why could you not say it! by not ; .Injustice aven to an opimucDt .' 1 will tell you. byway of acknowledgement of your chart of my character. Y'ou are constitutionally deceit ( ful —and it was impossible for you to be can did, even in a mom. nt of irritation. Jdo not say tins byway of reproach, it is yonr na ture, and you could not be otherwise ij yqii tried' The truth is you w ere anxious to re move Mr. Adams and myself from the board, j and to secure that end, you were willing tv’, propitiate the City vote by making a contract, which must have lost the Comjiany s>,ooo. Bqt yoq failed to get the City Vote, mid the motive i)o letter existing, you have consented not to aaoriticx; thu Company. Immaculate man! To carry out your own purposes, yon liberally proposed to sacrifice the- btoekbold ere, and I venture to »ay that nips', pf vow boastod Tiburality" will bo found to'htvp been ' of the same patfaru. Bee, then, in whal a position you have ph ced yourself! You charged that I slept on till all the brick was engaged by others—and I have shewn that there net a word of truth in the stateiueut. You charged that it was my fsnlt that the works were ant Ooa’jdeted , by inid-summer —and I hsvo shewn that, leav- ■ |ng the rains out of the question, they could bv no possibility have been < jip.pk-ted till near mid winter, because your patrons, Ferds-.wiia i A Hoy failed to send tbr ir.m work’tor*aid till lit-oember. Y>u charged that the Ciuuptd 1 Committee refused to m-<-t lue and I ha.e - shewn that they 4ifi fnpvl ;ue. that sytne oi > them uict w.» twlyv, sod tbut three out of Ui« i four never did r.-iuse Jo iiHa-j me al all. You I charged that $750 »»< ample conipenwttion for performing the duties of President, Seete . , tarv. Ireasuryc, und Bill Collector besides- I : and 1 bayegltuwii that you me willing to [my another gvntlenum more thnu a thousand, and I call yourselt “lucky" in getting him at that fig j urv. Y'ou charged me h itb paltry “higgling" beeau*- I adhered to u certain proposition w hen treating with the Council—and I haw shown that yuur new Board, whereof you ar. laird paramount, lias carried through the sell . same proposition, which m» stirred your bile when coining from me. May I not say in your I own words—“ What temerity !” What iuc.m.'is cency ! What malice! As you say of the Gas. !so I may say of your Card. “Part, wind'” “Part, smoke!” "Frequent eclipse” nt the I truth, and ail eclipse generally covering the • i whole diac ! i ‘ You way that I mistook “ low cunning" fur “ good ninnngi-mvnt," and I now propose to : . i-how whatyournotioiisof “ good management” nre. When the works were first built, the Board instructed you. as President, to employ a cinnjietcnt Engineer to examine them, that ■ they might know whether to receive or reject I them. Y our patrons, Perdecvras A: Huy, were the builders and to secure tin- Com puny against i ioss. they had Iwen r.spiired to give security 1 for the fiilltiliment of their contract. You ue i corditigly sent for an Engineer, lie came and ■ i made n su|K-rti< ial examination of the works, even then pointing out several serious defects, particularly in the furnaces. But nt your »>- postponed his report till the arrival of Mr. Hoy. «uid went back to Sanvatiah on the express tmder-tmidiiig that you were to notify him of Hoy's arrival, w hen he was to return and make a thorough examiiration am! report. Mr. Hoy eiiine in a few days. But did you no tify the Engineer t Did ho return, examine, and report f No. But. in the alisence of two i ; of the Directors, you called a meeting of the Board, stated to those present that Mr. Brick, > the engineer, had reported the works entirely - satisfactory except the tank, and on your rep i resentation. the Board surrendered to I’eu i deccaras A- Hoy their securities and obligations, I ami issued to them scrip, tor 400 shares of i stock —when it was within your knowledge— for it was at your instance, that Mr. Brick had - d'ftrrcd the propowd examination, though lie had already prononneed the furnace detective. This pretty operation was no doubt, “ good management" in your opinion. And so it un- ! doubtedly was fui I’cidccctiras & Hoy—but not for the Company. One of the Board con tradicted your statement in a w ritten protest, I setting forth all these facts in full, am! that protest, together with the letters of the Engi- ■ neer, is now on tile in the oltiee of the Company! This may have been “good management’—or “low < mining"- or both. But w hatever it w :i», one thing is certain the result has been a loss to the Company of *NUOO in the single item of retorts! How do you e.X|duin this conduct t But I forget—you have said that I mitliing 1 can say shall cause yon to speak far I i thur on this subject. Be it so. If you are wil ; i ling to leave your reputation to the hazards of i conjerturr, 1 shall certainly not i-omphiin. I Another m-tunce of your “good management" j is that the stock depreciated in your hands just oi« half— mid of my "low cminiiig" that its value im-reased in my hands $20,000. Anoth er instance nt your “liberality" is your failure to close the valves, thereby losing the Compa ny at lea-t slsooin 18 months. In fact, I might show that you bungled ill everything. And how could it be otherwise < You knew noth ing alsnit the business and you know nothing now. The preposterous statement, absurd be cause impossible, that I have supplied Gas mix ed with trind and amolr, exhibits your “sa- ! gacity ' in an edifying light, but it was not needed to expose your ignorance. It is known to many, and to none belter than yourselt. that I you are utterly incomiK-tent to make the ordi nary calenhi’tous- connected with the ninnufuc I Jure of the article. Notwithstanding this, 1 j liave no doubt you w ill make a first class Di- < rector, in the opinion of I'erdeceuras <t Hoy. ' j The truth is that nothing 1 could have done . would have satixfied yon—mi amount of zeal j or forethought could have propitiated your j j support. In the first place Perdeccaras & Hoy, | for reasons known to themselves, wanted a more unrestrained control of the works, '.ban 1 | was likely to allow them -and your inborn ' reverence for men of wealth, coupled with n' lively sense of past favors and a still more live ly sense of favors to come, made you in no wise I | indisposed to oblige them. In the second place, I ! you found me, as you truly say, “obstinate and ; ' impracticable"—obstinate in the determination , ; that you should not be President in fact w bile ! I was so in name, and "impracticable” when 1 ever you attempted to lead me by tho nose.— I You found that you could not establish a firm 1 of " I and Johnston," and, worse than all that ’ [ was by no means overwhelmed with a sense of your sagacity and genera! importance. From I the moment you made the discovery, your shal low egotism took the alarm, and you. no doubt, considered me n blasjihonierund an idiot. Ami I yet, Sir, strange as it may appear, this is a species <>t blasphemy much in vogue in these ; parts. Whatever you may think yourself, this I community ranks you neither with gods, nor I domigoils. And now, sir, I hope to convince even you 1 that even 1 ean sometimes exercise liberality. You have been kind enough to give a gratui i tom description of my private character, and it would be niggardly in the extreme, should I I refuse to do as much for you. If I resemble i the "moU," the public have not failed to dis cover in yon a similitude tv the reZ—if my brain i is considered the home of contracted notions, • yours is thought so be the nest in which little 1 plot' and intrigues are constantly batching, ' and all of them begotten by self—if I burrow, t you creep— if I am thought to br "close," "nar ! row,” “contracted,” you, sir, are considered I tortuout, tricky, and tlippcry. In one word, 1 [tolicy is known to be your religion, and self yourgial; and let me tell you, for you seem) > not to know it, that your affected frankness and j your wretched attempts at a blurt’ heartiness of manners deceive nobialy, ami are only regarded ‘ as a bad caricature on generous qualities. What J ymihave done to justify you iu assuming the ajf and tone of a public benefactor, I have dili gently enquired and failed to discover. I may say ot you us Junius has written of one of his victims, that if you have done good it baa been ( by atenlth, hut the rest hem record. Such, Sir, is your character. For much less : tlum this, Prof, Fowler would have charged you ten dollars. But I present it to yon as a free gift, and w ithout a hope of compensation. And yet you term mo “close!” Fie, Sir ! Do i you not see the injustice ot the accusation < Whether I am indeed what you bavu chosen to ' represent me, I shall not undertake to deter ! mine. lam pot covetous of public favor, and a consciousness that I have never failed in the ; [lertumiance of my duties to those who have airy claim upon me, makes inc rather inditfer ent to the opinions of most men, and altogeth er so to yours. But granting iqc to be as sor did as yon would have it siqipow-d, bniiibly as is my reputation, the world could not tempt . n>e to exchange it for that of Mr. Nisbet. tl. J. JOIINBTOX. , Mxcoy, May SO, ]»M. E. J. Jonssrox Esq. Dear Sir: — Yours of the J'Jth iq»t., copying an extract from a card published by J. A. Nis ' bet Esq., in the Georgia Telegraph of the ISth ' inst., and with a request that we furuish you | with the fai ts relative to said statement is at I hand and our reply is as follows : In May last, made with you as President of the Gas Company, a contract to/«rni»A nil the auiUritil required and do the brick work, ! for the enlargement xis the works then in pro gress, and Were to proceer l with it as soou as 1 the excavations necessary jo be made w ere i completed. IV< immediately purchased all the brick re quired and over two thirds of them were de I hverej st tin- works ly the niv'd'e of JuJv r.t which time the talk of the < xCa-stion was Jone uud we were ready tv proce<-d with our ™u trail but were unable Jo do sr* ip eotjsvquenee vs the heavy rain* that preypUt-J during the mouth of August, and tin* thlfittv to receive a part of Iron w ork required to bepkeuj before the brick wink could be commenced. This Iron work was not received till November or Diss-mla-r. when the work whs immediately commenced a*d c<ati,<tetcd within a montii 1 thrn-arti-r. We furtiier state that but fur the cansew above sfatol. the w««rk could and would have been , commenced tltv last of July, and been emiqile ted by nr snoa after tho Ist of September, und that no delay ill the Iron work was caused by tin- delays abo- e stated, a« the brick work was ready iu ample* time to receive it. We may add that we saw no want of atten tion, energy, or foresight on your part during i the progress of the work. JOHN bPKiNtIEI!, Os the firm of Driggers <v Springer. tO i i Qd’ k MACON, GA. Thursday, May 27,1858. We publish to-day a communication ou the Gas question from Mr. E. J. Joiixbtox, ad dressed to James A. Nisbet Esq. They are both gentlemen for whom we have substantial reasons for entertaining the kindest feelings. W e regret that there luis been cans* Jbr contro versy between them, and especially that this [>a|«*r should become the theatre tbr discussion. Our c—te ined friend ami townsman, Mr. CTmui.es t'oi.uxs, has placed us under obligations for n basket of fine Strawlierrics. I’hcir excellence bears full testimony to Mr. Collins' skill as a horticulturist. In tlie Superior Court on Monday, Jons M.vibbv, of this [dace, was tried for stubbing the notorious Professor DeGriith of rlie Sugar- I loaf hut, and was acquitted. The assault occur red when the Professor last honored our city w itb his presence. I.tist Friday, James Dougherty was put on trial for ths murder of Matilda Dougherty.— The Jury returned a verdict ot not Guilty. JrtY*'The City Council nt its last meeting pased a Tax Ordinance which we will publish next week for tlie benefit of onr readers in Macon. YVe have no room for it this week. There were various resolutions adopted, among which w.i» the following; I ktcKolred, 1 hat a Special cuinmittee of three be appointed by the Mayor, with full power to net, nil parties eoneuring, to confer witli Win. B. Johnson, C. A. Ells ami others, interested - in the matter of the lots lying between what 1 was formerly known us E. D. Tracy's pnqicity and the present residence ofE. A. Nisbet, with a view to an equitable and satisfactory adjust invnt of all matters connected therewith. J. 1.. JQNES, , J. Di.LOCHE. ■ Committee. A. li. FREEMAN. \ Hie Florida war has nt last ended.— Billy Bowlegs ami lt)s Indians, including wo men and children, have proceeded to their home in the West. It is said they till got on a “jolly drunk" in New Orleans, Sum Jone*—an old chief represented to be 110 years of ug» —refused to go, and retreated w ith about !>O warriors to the Everglades. 1860, As the question of the Presidency i< already la-ginning to be agitated in the newspapers, I would suggest as a truly Suit hern lii ket. Qt 11- m.vx, of Mississippi, for President,and Boxii.vxi. .of South Carolina, for Vice- President. Their fidelity to the South on the re- ent [■nssuge ot Conference Bill by Congress, makes them vvor j thy standard bearers of the Southern Rights , party. ITur Eatei:. SUICIDE OF W. H. HERBERT. W. 11. Herbert, well known under the u<»u dr plume of ‘'l'riu'.k Forrester,” mid the author ' of several excellent books, committed suicide in New York City on the morning of the 17th ■ inst. 1 DEATH OF GEN. SMITH Brigadier-General Peksifei: F. Smith died at Fort Leavenworth on Sunday, the Ifith inst. It is announced tlint Gen. Harney will sue , ceed in command. ’-i’” The Southern Enterprise says Mr. Jno. Hull, of Low ndes county, lately took from a . large cypress tree fourteen gallons of liquid honey and fourteen equare feet of scaled comb all in good condition. The Enterprise wants to know who can beat it. *-#“ We discover that we have been cheat ed lately into publishing several bogus marriage notices. No gentleman would be guilty of the contemptible trick of thus imposing iqion the . press. Such impositions are very silly, bnt it would be equally ttaliidi for us to make a fuss utter tlic deed Ims been done. I Special attvutiou is directed to the pre sentment* of the first jianncl of the Grand Ju ry of Bibb. They contain information of much j interest to the citizens of the county . The suggestion in regard to the *ftle of the Acade my property and the establishment of common schools particularly deserve consideration. Ji?" Mr. Lamar, Editor of the Savannah, Georgiau, w bo attended the late Southern Con , vention, prenounces bis visit to Montgomery in every respect deliglitfnl. Ho says: It is a small place handsomely ami compact ly built, and on every side may be'seen the evi dences of taste and refinement, energy and in telligence. Her men are generous, hrnvc and courteous, her women as accomplished sa beau tiful. and they both dispense with lavish bauds, hospitalities, which would do credit to much larger and older cities. KNOW NOTHING TICKET Some of the Southern Know Nothing prints have announced ns their tick for 1860, John J. Crittenden tor President, and Edward Everett tor V ice President. This is a ticket worthy of Black Republican support, Mr. Crittenden hav ing proved n traitor to the South, and Mr. Everett having alway * bovu a coqsiatent Alo liliouibt- But it iseqongli to aronae popular indignation when sneba ticket meets with the endorsement of Sontlmrn American prints.— 1 The Journal#, »w\ tliuGriffin Vnion, among others, publish it with approx ing com ments, withont directly committing themselves to it. Truly they are tqithful soqtincl. I W’bat can the Sonth expect when fier prpss would make her enemies her roasters < They might with jost as iquoli propriety support Greely for President and Winter Davis for Vieo President. Will the Journal if .Vseeengcr accept thu amend locnt i A paper w-hio'h"prrmnnnees the traitor ous Critemlen “a patriot state sman,” can hard ly object to an opcu foe, even though it should i be Horace Greely himself WTISH VTOUGES 'ill*- re|>eated outrages which have us ale been perjietrstod by British cruiser* <>n Ameri can vessels in the Gulf Watsfs, have creiitcd a general si-ntinu-nt of indignation tbriHighout th<- country. At les-d twenty vessels carrying our colors have either been overhauled or tired ii[.on w itldn the last mouth—the musters hav in>g been tbrcetl to lay to, to exhibit their pa |iers, and submit to search on the part of English officers. It is known that Gen Lass has inetrm-t --ed Mr. Dallas todu'iniuid rt‘om the British Minis try instant and full reparation and iqiology, ami that meanwhiluone or two ut'ottr war steamers have beeu orderml to th** Gulf. Thia force, • however, is utterly iniuleqnatc fi>r any other [Hirposi* than to Watch and report, and the [ires ent state of affairs should admonish Congress of the necessity of placing the Navy on a l'<>ot which w 111 cnnblt it to afford protection to our coasters It tu nothing else. This iusoleiict* of Hie part of Great Britain is intolerable to a free and high spirited peojileatid the sentiment of the country- would sustain the lulniinistra tion, should it proceed to the must, summary measures of retalition. The principle that the flag protects the ship and that no foreign pow er shall under any pretext whatever exercise 1 the right of visit and search on American ves sels. is one w hich the I'nitedStates have alrea dy asserted at the cost of one war and which they are [lerfectly ready to sustain at the cost of another. SPVBQEON." A negro preacher—known as the “Colored Spurgeon " lias, fur the last week, been bar aligning large crowds of his brethren and sis ters at the black folk-' Methodist Chun-h in this place. Many respectable white persons have also attended the ministrations of this new light and profess great admiration for him.— W hat propriety we would like to know is there in white people attending negro churches any w here ! Certainly there is no occasiun for it here where the bells pre ringing every day, al most continuously, from morning tonight, cal ling the people to the house of prayer, and I where on Sunday even the Theatre is thrown o|>en for divine w orsbin. This “Spurgeon ” may be all that liis triends claim fur him, but it , is hardly probable that be is as capable of in structing intelligent men and women as the pastors of the different whito churches in <>ur j eity. T hose w hites who have gone to heir > him. Lave done so from idle curiosity. “Spurgeon ” is said to be free, and is ma king the tour of the Southern States to collect money from the negroes in order to bny his wife, when, he says, he intends emigrating to ; Liberia. Is there not some impropriety in per mitting him to preach to our negroes and get money from them with this avowed object ? Southern masters cannot be too jealous in guarding their slaves from everything caleula -1 ted to make tlieni dissatisfied with their con . ditiou. (JI'ILP. GEORGIA AND SOUTH CAROLINA BANKS Tho Augusta Dlspatrh publishes a table showing tlie relative condition of the Batik* in this State and in South Carolina. It appears that the average ratio of circulation to s[>e<-io in the Smith Carolina Banks is right dollars to one, and in the Georgia Bunks it is something over three dollar* to one. the “ Hank State | of Giorgi;;” has m li eubitiiiii of $1.112.583, and sz‘.r2.:>'.m,2s in wjiei-ii-: whereas the “ Hauk State Smith Caroliim“ with ai-irrnlation of s>.. IBtl,tw> lias only s2'i. 170 iu -peefe—that i more than forty dollars in l in-ulalioli to one in specie. What a beautiful illustration of tile la-auties of banking! How emieliisively it shows the rottenness , f the whole system. LETTER FROM FORT VALLEY. A subscriber at Fort Valley "takes the litar ty" of "admunishiug" us (as he phrases it) .-ilaiut tlie conduct of our pa|aT. mid lu-cuses us ot laid taste for inserting a certain “cut" or engraving to which lie sees tit. to olpect. Our taste in this matter, however questionable it may ta, is not near so bad as that of giving advice without being asked for it; and besides, we have tlie merit (w hieh oi|r subscriber tan not claim) of attending to our own business and letting other people’s alone. This we say w ithont the least intention of offending our friend, tor we fully ap[>n-e:ate the interest which he seems to fed in our concerns. We promise him, moreover, tiiat if lie will pay us as tnueh for discontinuing the "picture” as we received for inserting it, it shall never appear ' in onr columns again. After favoring us with liis gratuitous advice, our correspondent proceeds to say : "I admire vhe principles which your paper advocates; they nre in my opinion truly Southern. I did not think that a person lai.sevl in tlie cold re gions of Vermont could have as much fire iu his blood as you appear to have. Some think that yon have merely assumed this Southern garb to swell your subscription list, but I am not so suspicious. I believe you advocate the priuciples you do because you are a genuine republican mid staunch friend to our Sunny ' South. I hope I will ever have reason to con tinue one of your subscribers." We hope so too, and we are greatly obliged for our subscriber’s good opinion. The re mark about our being raised "in the cold re gions of Vermont" is somewhat amusing in ' view of the fact that we were born and reared in this same town of Macon, and have never been North of Mascm and Dixon's line. We cannot, therefore, have anybnt honest motives in our advocacy of Southern principles. It is a mistake, however, to consider that none can be fhjihfnt to the South but those “to the man or born.” There are Northern nren among ns that are just ns reliable as Southerners ; und we have still left a few friends at thu North who are willing tn grant ns the full measure of our rights. Nothing is ninro narrow-minded than to object to a man on account of tlie accident of birth; he shoujd be judged by his words and actions alone. How foolish then is the Know Nothing policy which would proscribe those that happen to be born in a foreign Jaqd! In conoliisjon we would say to our subsc-i --bcr that we hope sometime soon to visit South- Western Georgia, and make the acquaintance of himself and as many others a* possible of ' our tiumeroiis subscribers in that part of the I State. They will find us not a bit of a Jan- Ztz w e use tlie term in no offensive sense. Death by Fike.—The Americua News of last Wednesday says ; Weare extremely pain- , ed to leant that Mrs. Juo. W. Dupree, of this •ounty wa* burned to death on Friday last.— Her di es* canght fire, and before any asaistaoce could lie rendered she was so severely burned i ! as t*> survive bqt twenty-four hours. i This is another instance of the fatal eppse queucesof wearing hoops. FOREIGN REVIEWS ii Tbe AprU aurobers of the Westmlalrter Re uud the L-iuduu Quarterly have been re I eeiyed at our Saijetviii. We have heretofore sjiokeu so favorably of these periudieals that it • is only necessary fur q* Jo say at present that I they are filled as usual with a variety of articles w hich cannot fail to prove highly interesting - and instructive to *ll who are able to appreci i ate the best style of current literature. An nexed we give the table of contents: -I Westminster : The Iti-ligion of Posit! viati): j I Recollections of Shelley and Byron ; (Jhil)g, i Past and Present; Party Government; The Baseotal Tracts; Our Relations to Uie ii'niice* ' r of India; Medical Reform; (Organization of' the War Department; ( otemporary 1 item • tun*. I.ondon Quarterly :— Early Life of Johnson ; ■ r Fictions ot Bohemia; Italian Tours and Tour f i.->U; The Progress of English Agriculture; i Michael Angelo; Public S|,enking; Siege of t Lucknow ; France and the Izite Ministry. These republications of Blackwood's Maga r i zine (monthly), and the London, Edinburgh, • North British, and Westminster quarterly Re views, can be obtained from L. Scott & Co.. ■ 79 Fulton Street, New York. Price >■>•* a year each; Blackwood and any one of the four Re- • views, $5; the four Reviews aud Blackwood, i $lO. THE NEXT LEGISLATURE. We learn that the Siqirenie Court, at its late • session in Milledgeville, settled the constitu I tional question as to the right of the present members of the Georgia legislature taking their - Seats as legal Senators and Representatives, hi • the ii|>pro>iching session to be held the present • year. It was decided that the old members ' would be entitled to their seats: and that no - election would be held for Senators and Rep ' resentatives, except in ruses where they had 1 been cut otf into new counties, made at tile . I last session. In all such instances, elections ! - must be held in both counties. In the old ■ county to supply Vucam ies thus created ; and I in the new one, for an entire new delegation.— ■ i Atlanta Intelligencer. DIRECT TRADE. 1 The Mobile Register, one of the leading pa- 1 pers of Alabama, expresses the follow ing view.* t ! ! on this subject : We are conviured Hint the opening of a direct trade between the South and foreign 1 1 countries, would ultimately a< comjtlish our emancipation entirely from commereiai depun -1 pendcnce upon Northern cities. Indeed, we see no reason why the South should not, by ’ the patriotic efforts of her citizens and the cul tivation of a wise political economy, attain to a complete independence of the North in alj her interests. And if this thraldom which 1 now depresses her, were once shaken off, and her commercial, agricultural and manufactur ing independence established, such a career of , nqiid development, prosperity and wealth, ns the South would realize, the world would not have witnessed siwe the days when Venice , sat enthroned on her hundred i«l<-s “ the ruler of the waters and thuir powers.” With a soil of unexampled productiveness, rivers of mur vehius number and m.iguitude. a genial and balmy climate, wondrous facilities for the coti ! struetion of railroads, so also for niainifai-tur- ■ ing pursuits, there is nothing wanting to , I achieve for us a liigliefdestiny than was voui-li- ' sated to any other ••uutl•y under the sun. ex cept commvri-ial imle[a-ibL-ti' <- and tree loin.” "THOMAS J*N3RC3M. AGAIN ” » I laler the above caption the Albany tlia.l I'atriot, of tlie 2i>rli iu*t., say*; x We learn that this moral monster is now. or was a few- day* since, in Isabella, Worth coun ty, about 17 miles ea-t of this place, and we the more readily give liim a.id the cominunity the benefit of the tallowing letter, written by a brother of the Editor of this paper, who for ) iiierlv resiiled here, mid who lia* been for *oine . years [Mist, a resident of Key West, Fla: Ki;v Wbst, May bill, 1858. ' I * * * lit a late issue of your pa- pcr, I observe a notice of a Mr. “1. J. Nor t com, copied from the Savannah Kep’ibliean , of the 14th April. I should have taken no notice of this individ ual. but from the fact, that he has endeavoix-d ■ to impose upon the Editor of tliu lle.publ.ican, • u long and very badly written letter, purport ing to have been written by me, and dropped . in the Savannah Post Ofliee, on my way to the North, where he kindly ie|>reseiits “1 will rc- 1 main tor some three months.” Out of the material composing this letter. , he, in the most flattering manner, asks the Ite . publiian man to make up a nice little card.— The idea being to put Noroom on the topmost round of tlie ladder of fraud. Now, will you do an act of simple justice to Noicotn— and a great kindness to me and our i . whole community, by republishing what you copied from tbe Savannah paper in your issue ’ of April 22d, and endorsing—in my name—if 1 you think best —what is there said. -1 He has been guilty of seduction—one of hi* j own scholars being the victim—Uirentened her . ! that he would poison her whole family in case of exposure, actually administered potions to 1 ! the girl herself, fur a liellish purpose—all this > | time dividing his leisure between keeping > seliool, enjoy ing a most improper intimacy , | with two oilier females, (both in res[X>etnble ! positions ftp to this period,) and an apparently devout attention to the duties ot a Christian, which, of course, lie professed to >»>. Do wai n your [>eoplo against him, and please 1 get your Georgia papers to show him up. He ' is educated ; prays like a saint, and is well cal culated to impose upon anv comnitmitv. CH ARLES TIFT. i THE BRUNSWICK NAVAL DEPOT Tlie Washington Union says of the commu nication of tlie Secretary of the Navy, in ref erence to tho establishment of a naval depot at i « ’ Brunswick, Ga., and which, as has been re- i , ported by telegraph, was laid before the Senate I on Friday last : 1 "The Secretary relates in detail the steps j which have been taken by the department in i relation to the matter, and says there is no I money in the treasury which can be applied to I that work without diverting it from other in- 1 dispensable objects; and that falling within that class of public works authorized by Con- ; gross which have not been commenced, it is not deemed ex|»edient or proper to commence ■ I it during the present condition of the Treas urv.” i-gT” Say twice, without mistake, "Peter Pi- i pcr's peacock picked a nook of pep|>er out of a puwtor plaster; if Peter Piper's peacock picked a peak of pepper ont of a pewter |>lat- 1 ter, where is the peck of pepper Peter Piper's j peacock picked out of a pewter platter ?” THEODOSIA BURR ALLSTON A correspondent of the Philadelphia Inqui rer, referring to the alleged confession of a dying sailor in Texas, in regard to the death of this lady rather gives color to the idea, in the following paragraph : On reading this account, I regarded it as g fiction; but on conversing to-day with an officer I of the uavy he assures me of if J probable fru’b, and states that on one of his passage* home some years ago his vessel brought two parties in irons, who were subsequently executed at Norfolk for recent offences, and who, before the execution confessed that they hail been rqcmbers of the same crew, and participated in ' the murder of Mrs. All'totl and her cotnpan ' ions. CLIPPINGS The National Democratic State Com- ' miUee of lijiuois isay.s an exchange,) hav* is sued an address to the people, in which they recommend the immediate healing up of the differences in the party, aud c*ll for a concert , of action. They say it is painful to announce I the fact, but it cannot be disguised, that fur- , ther feulty to Senator Douglas is treason to the ! Denjwrai-y. MbRORR Univxh-iiy.—Rev. Mr. Crawford, who was elected President of this University, | I in a letter to the Trustee* has accepted the Presidency and will enter upon liis duties after the commencement. The appointment we uu- I demand, meets with general favor from the | Baptist denomination.— Republican. Misuouee St i bhuiu Coi kt. —James Thotnp- j son and Michael lliuch were convicted of mur- 1 der aud sentenced, Saturday last, to bu liuugoii i the 2d July next. James Guilford ai|d a man named Holland were sent to the Penitentiary , thu former for three, mid the latter for four y ears.—/A. , < orrox. Ihe Albany Patriot say s : Wliile passing through the Eastern part of this conn- | ty mid the southern portion of Worth, we ■ learned from our [danting friend.* that crop* of every kind me promising— with the exception ot w heat, whieli i* injured c-ousidurably in some , , localities l>y the ti-0.-t. An abundant vield, i particularly of corn and cotton, may Uiex’pect ed, if the spring and summer are *ea*vimble. | ihe Central Georgian of Sparta sues: Ihe rust has made its appearance in tlie wheat . in some localities favorable to its ioeiitiun, A j gentleman ot this comity say s he has ii tielil | trom which he anticipated a tine crop, entirely ruined by it. J-i/" I he Central Georgian of tho l.ith bus a cotton stalk, grown ou the plantation of Mr, E. D. Jordan of that county, upon which thereare several forms, the stalk measuring between ten ■ and eleven Indies. SorTHEits Bank.—The Bainbridge Georgian , ot the 14th instant says : We are authorized to say that the Southern Bank ol Georgia, located at tliis place, will resume specie p.eguunt in a few days, on it.* bills without regard to the recent decision of the Superior Court." CASE OF CONSCIENCE. “Friend Broadbrim" said Zepluuiin Straight lace to liis master, a rich Quaker of tlie eity ot Brotherly Love, "thou eatist eat of muttoil at the noontide meal to-day.” “ Wherefore not?” sa'id the good Quaker. “ Because the dog that appertainetb to that son of Belial, whom the world calletli lawyer • Foxeraft, hath come ito my pantry and stolen it, yea., oaten it up.” “ Beware ! friend Zephaniah, of bearing . false witness against tl.y neighbor. Art thou sure it was friend Foxcraft's domestic mil- . mill ?” * “ Yea, verily, I s.-i-.v it. with my own eyes, and it was lawyer I'oxcraft’s large dog, even Pini’li’ein." " Upon what evil times we have fallen." sigh ed the harmless Quaker, as he wended his » uy to the ofliee of his neighbor. " Friend Gripu*,” .-aid he, “I want to usk L 1 thy opinion.’' ' " I a:n all attention," said the scribe laying ■ down liis peii. “Suppose, friend Foxeraft, that my dog had | 'gone into my neighbor's pantry, mid stolen therefrom a leg ol mutton, and 1 saw him. and I could call Luu bv name, what ought I to ’do?” “ Pay for the mutton : nothing could lie more clear." “ Know then, friend Foxcraft, thy dog. whom even tbe bc*tof men denominate Piiu-li 'vm. hath stolen from my pantry u le/ •>! mut ton, of tin- just value of four mid whieli I [•aid fol- ilia the market till* Hioru ing." “< >. well, then it i* my opinion I must pav ' for it. "mi l having receive-1 the minima, tin worthy friend turned lodepart. larry a little, friend Bro.-i Ibriin." slid the lawyer. “Os verity. 1 hive yet further to say unto thee. lliouowe*t me nine 'lulling* —for adv ice." llieii verily I mu*l pay tliee, and it is my Opinion that I have touched iuti-1 Mid been de filed." YGE IND DEBILITY . As old age comes, crefp'mg on, it tiring* wi;k ii lomiy atlend.uit intii milies. L'o-s of appetite uud weakness ini[>iiii- ihe heaUh. ami want of aet tilt in- kes the mind <liseont>-ntt*l and uuhiqipv. In case* ; where old age adds it* intluenee. it is almost unjios*-i ble Io add vigor and henlth, and altlmugli mam rem edies lime been tried, all have Giled, unlit Brta.-u.*vr.’s ' IloLLxxu Birrrjt* were known and useil. In every ' ease where they have been employed, they have in , variably given strength iu*t restored the appetite.— They have become a great agent lot- this alone, mid are lists! bv mam people vv-fio are snft'ering from loss of appetite and general debility In cases of long standing eiironie diseases, they Bet a* a charm, inv-gi orating Hie system, thus giving nature another op- ' portmiiiy to repair phy sicnl injuries See advertise- ' inent in another column. T3IESID, On We<iiieitd»v the 19lh ra»t., at Hickory (irovc. • • Crawford county, CuakusW. Mosman, after a pain ful illncAM of right day*. He leaves a widowed moth er and many friends to mourn his loss. JWABRIBB. Iht Wednesday ovenin" the I'.'th inst.. by the Rev 1 0. L. Smith, Rohkkt .1. KEvmxo, Esq., of Pond town, to Miss M \ry E. BiviNff, of Americus, Ga. In Hamilton. (Georgia, nn thp 20th instant, at the residencejof Co!. !>. P. Hill, bv Rev. William I>. At- ' kin.son, William H. Fyrlev. Esq., and Miss Martha Corinne, daughter us tlw* late Major Osborne Crook. COMMERCIAL. COTTON MARKET Macon, May 27th. There is a moderate demand for cotton. We quote the extremes of the market at 9to 1! 1-2 ; cents. MACON* MARKET BACON.—IIog Round cts.—Sidas U allX —Hams 105 V —Shoulders alO cU. BUTTER—Good Country la a 25 cts.—Cotton ' Seed 15 cts—Northern :;o a 35 cts. ( BAGGING.—Gunny cents. COFFEE—Rio 1 I*2cents per pound. I.a- > I gnira 15@H cents. Java 20(g,22 cents. ' CORN—7O cts. per bushel, sacked. FODDER.—Very little coming in, and demand | good at f per hundred. FLOUR—There is a good supply in the market— Superfine s2.so<<%s3.oo—Extra Family f3.00(j£3.50. FEATHERS— cents per pound. HIDES—Dry Flint cents per pound. Deer- , skins 12@13 cents. Demand good at these prices. LARD is scarce ; a good article is worth llal2c. t LIME—?2JK)@|2.‘26 cents per barrel. MOLASSES—Cuba 32(tj37X cents per gallon. New Orleans 45qJ50 cents. MEAL—Scarce at 70@75 cents per bushel. NAILS— cents per pound. OATS—SO cents |>er bushel. OlLS—Linseed 05 (<i ILOO per gallon. Best ' Sperm Bleaehed Winter Whale $1.15(g51.25 cents. Train - I ner’s- per barrel 11 H - POTATOES—Irish RICE —s(<e*; cents per pound. HOPE- -Kentacky cents per pound North ern XRIO cents. SUGAR—Clarified cents. <’rushed, and ; : pjfwderrd SALT—tf.25 per sack. f ALLOW —cents per pound. WHITE IN (HL—Pure JO^rlO’J cents per pound. Extra cents. WHISKEY - Common -jh a 30 cts. per gal. by the | barrel ZINC !•'. 'J, 61 * cents per pound. NPECIAL AOTICES. If lot K HAll: IS JI IKSH, Use Prof. Wood’s Uair Restorativ. If your Hair is Gray, Use Pruf. Wood’s Hair Restorative If your Hair is Thin, Use Prof. Wood’s Hair Restorative I If you are Baid, Use Prof. Wood’s Hair RestoratH e. 1 I you have Nervous Headache, Use Prut. Wood’s Hair Restorative. If you have Dandrufl, L’sc Prof. Wood’s Hair Restorative I If you have Eruptions, Uae Prof. Wood’s Hair Restortitnp. , if you desire Glossy Hair, ll*e Prof. Wood’s Hair Restorative If you desire to preserve tie color. Use Prof. Wood’s Hair Restorative. 1 If you desire not to lose tbe color, Use Prof. Wood’s liaii Restorative If you want a f’hmp Article, L’se Proi. Wood’s Hair Restorative. If von admire the Beautiful Lock, L’se Prof. Wood’s Hair Restorative. If you admire the Beautiful Ringlets, Use Prof. Wood’s Hair Restorative. , If you wish a Beautiful Complexion. Use Prof. Wood¥ Hair Restorative. If you wish a Face free from Pimples, Use Prof. Wood’s Hair Restorative. If you wish to appear Young, Use Prof. Wood’s Hair Ifatotative. 1 If you want testimony oyerwhelming, Rend the Circular of Prof. Wood's Hnir Restorative. 1 If you want to find it, • 1 he depot is at ]l4 Market sh’oet, Jvt. t.ouis, Missouri. ' It is also sold by wen popular Druggist in city and country. ,cb H-on? y A SPRING MEDICINE. The ay .stem people med regulating aud Cleansing as the dvljilitiitmg weather of this season approaches, causing lassitude, languor, loss of appe tite, headache, aud general debility. A Liver hiiq. arafur is needed to renew the energies of the svstetn. and prepare it for change as the season advances. Such a medicine is Dr. San ford’s Liver Invhiora tor. It gives quick and sure relief to all troubled with biiliousness, weakness and depression us spirits, and many other ills that many persons, particular! v ladics, ace subject to. The iitti and life-giving power of this medicine is almu»t astonishing to all who use it, und none but apeak in the highest praise of its merits, until it has gained a reputation second to none ns a Livfr Tnvioorator. Families us children should not be without it, as it is very efficacious in curing attacks of worms, cholic, stomach and bowel derangement, while it is perfect ly harmless for the snudlest infants to take. Try it, is our advice to all. Courier.. For sale by ZEH.IN, HUNT A CO., Macon, Ga. ' apr US-im MENU AN Ml ’STANG LINIMENT. Its wonderful eflects and con.sei|uent popularity— perhaps no article in the history of the Materia Med it a, ever acquired the same patronage, was subject to the same number ol severe and diil'erent tests, ami met with so few failure the Mustang Liniment. It , has justly been styled a Paneceu for all external W ounds. Cuts. Swellings, Sprains, Bruises or Erup i lions on Man or Beast. It is so far a medicine of sui - I pricing viitue, that Physicians nre com pel les I to pie -ri ibe it ; and lemarknble cares of Chron ic and Distorted Rbvuiaatie cases it ba> naturally at tiacted much attention fn»m the first scientific minds “I the age. No family ran aft ord to be MHhout a bottle of the Mustang Liniment in the house. Jte i ware of imitations. The genuine B «ohl by all reaptotable dealers throughout the world. BARNES A PARK, Proprietors, may x:x ini New York. Bl RNETT-H PREPAR ITIONN, * oruaihe. u compound<>f(’orttu N us Oil for promoting the gTuWth atol pi cket % ing the Beauty ufthc hair. Flitrinicl. a new and delightful Perfume lt>r tbe hwn*i kerchief. K dlKton, a (Wmvtir fi»r removing freckles, taa, mu burn, redoes?* ami nmgkurss us tbe skin. Ac. The attention of tkc luulies is rrsptctfnUy invited «•> this vdvgaikt avtidv fm flu- toilet. Oriental Tooth Wash, fur the preservation urn! G-nuty of tlie Tet‘fh and Gums. Jonas Whitcomb’s Remedy fbr the Asthma. Superior Ex tracts of Lixiibn, Orange, Vanilla, Alimutd. R*e-r. Av , fur flavoring Custards, Pies, Khm Mange, Iwf’reams. Jellies, Sauces, Ac. The superiority »*f the above iiimihl Extractscon si*ts in their perfect purity ami great strength. Manufactured by Juseph Burnett, A Co., Boston. F<»r sale by E. L. Struhecker, A Co., am! Druggists generally. Macon, Ga., Jan. j], ].s5S--ly WM. R. FREEMAN, PORTRAIT PAINTER Studio in Pugh's Photograph Gallery. Office hours, from 10 o’clock A.M., to P. M. I and from 1’ ' to 1 P. M. feb 25 ts NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. For Sala < PLANTATD>N and tract of lat nd m Glyna eounly, wataiaiug alwnit 4,MM) acres, situated nt the head us Turtle* River wbiebts uavigabl* to this point for veasels of IvO tons. The Plantation is well i settled and consists of about 500 acres of cleared Itatn -1 mock, und us much mor* uwideared. The remainder is Pine Land valuable for timber und wood, convenient to the river, and not more than 16 miles from Bruns wick. The tract is capable of being advantageously . divided into two or even three parts, und ia intersect cd by the Brunswick A Fhu ida Rail Road. This land may be bought at $3 p«# acre. Applv to may - A. M.SPhXR. MACON 1 Lol H MILLS. | JUST RECEIVED, I A CHOICE LOT OF WHEAT, IT'ROM which we are able tn fumrih detklers and families, Fresh Ground, the best of FLOUR, MEAL AND GRITS. Our present stock of Flour cannot be excelled in this or any other market, for it is from tbe best of Wheat. Every housekeeper knows how much aweeter and more wbulea«mie bread, fresh ground Flour and Meal l makes, than that which has been ground and kept ou hand for weeks and perhaps months. j We have again rtshicetl our prices, in proportion ' as we buy Wheat lower. Ail of our stock being fresh and new, dealers 1 be sure of getting that which will please their cus i turners. Onr present prices wil! compare with those of any other good mill. Brun aud Shorts mixed, excelh-nt cow feed, 6'*. per hundred pounds. Bran alone s*»c. per hundred pounds. We can fill orders from dealers at a distance promptly JAS A. KNIGHT, may 27-ts Agent ADM INIRTR ATOK<SAMf? BY virtue of an order of the Gonrt of Ordinary, of Twiggs county will be sold before tbe Court House door in IlomcMville, Appling county, on the ' first Tuesday in July next between the legal hours of , sale the following lota of land, viz: Lot No. five hundred and six, and five hundred and , fifty-one, (50K and 551) in the 2d district of Appling 1 county, containing 4&0 acres each, more or less. The above laud sold for the bonefit of the heirs aud credi- I tors of the estate of Benjamin B. Smith, late of Twiggs i county decased ROBERT K. PARKER, May 27th, 1858. Administrator. 8188 SHERIFF SALE. yATH.L be sold before the Court House door in the v ▼ citr of Macu>, Bibo county, on tbe first Tues ! dav in Jufy next, between the usual hours of sale the following property to-wit: One House and Lot in the city of Macon fronting on fifth or Bridge Street adjoining the lots of Jos.Kennelly on one side, and James oa the other, contain ;mg alwiut of an acre, more or leas Levied on as the property of Dominick Garatightv, to satisfy two 1 li Can from Bibb Superior Court in favor of John W. Babcock vs. Dominick Gmraughty principal, and Peter ■ Croghan endorser. Also< the same property ***** • on by virt »e of a ti fa from the Justice Court of 716th I Dist. G. M. in iavor of Thomas McKlNgott, v». said Dominick Garaughty. Levy made and returned to rue bv Pat Crown, Constable. ED. G JEFFERS, Dep. Shenfl » May 27tb, 1858.