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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. A U ii U 8 T A. JANUARY 27. To tke »f the Ckromicle and Sen tinel* Having disposed of my entire interest in e office of the Chronicle and Sentinel, to Messrs. Ja*m W. Jokes and Wilma* s - Jo!rE9 ’ 1 e former of whom will in future conduct the paper i£ its Editor, my connection with it crises. « contract by which this result was effected, took place on the first day of this year, and I have, since then, been acting »» the Editor of the paper on their account, and until their arrangement, for taking poaaeaaion eoeld be completed,- In taking my leave of a long list ot patrons and friends. I take great pleasure in saying that ' the political principles of the Chronicle and Sen* linel will in no wise be changed, and I doubt not, will be sustained with much greater ability than I have ever been able to bring to the task- In .eliciting in their behalf, the continued support ol the patrons of the paper, I do ao with the most perfect conviction from my knowledge of them, that they will never forfeit whatever of good opinion they may gain by this recommendation. Intimately acquainted with the politics ot the State, and bringing to their assistance very con siderable experience, and a high order of capa city, the most ample justice will be done to those who have claims upon them as patrons. By the subjoined notice, it will be seen that Messrs. J. W. & W. 8. Joses have also pur chased the interest of Mr. O. P. Shaw, and are therefore the sole proprietors of the entire estab lishment. With the: office they have also pur chased all the outstanding debts due it, and to them must payment of such, in future be made. All demands against the office will be settled by Messrs, J. W. & W. S. Jokes and myself. WILLIAM E. JONES. In connection with the above annunciation, it becomes also the duty of the subscriber to state, that his interest in the Chronicle and Sentinel, ceases from the present dale, though virtually dissolved as early as November last. This event, to himself as unexpected as it may others, might, after so recent a connection with : ts interests, seem to demand a passing ex planation—the reasons, however, which have in fluenced him being entirely of a private charac ter, thd necessity for such, or indeed any explana tion, ceases, I 'as the transfer cf that interest has been made to those, who will vindicate and sus tain the principles which the press and its sup porters have labored to advance. In closing this connection, and in again retire ing from a station too responsible to be envied— from a pursuit rich in promises, yet often beg garly in reward—from contests in which corrup tion may triumph, and integrity and principle be defeated, and from one too, which even the smile of public approbation cannot divest of the absorb ing interest and anxiety it awakens, he will not ■T withhold from that public the expression of what ever obligation may be due. To his successors he tenders in connection with his copartner, his sincere wishes for their success, and the hope that they may, in the prosecution of those labors, efarry with them, not the reflection only that they “write for glory,” but the reflection also that a generous public exempts them from the necessity of “.printing on trust.” ** 0. P. SHAW. To Our Patrons. Although the undersigned has been for some time past, interested in the Chronicle and Sentinel, he this day assumes a new relation to il, and to [ you, in the character of its future Editor. This, under all circumstances is a very responsible sta tion, and on this occasion is rendered peculiaily so, because of the ability with which the Chair has been filled. The press properly conducted, can and will accomplish every thing in Politics, Science and Munis, necessary to the attainment of individu al or national greatness ; —injudicously managed it may become the greatest curse which can be fal a people. To preserve, therefore, inviolate its dignity, will command as it will require our highest exertions. In a government like ours, based upon the af fections of the people, all admit the existence of parties to be necessary to the proper administra tion of affairs; and regard il the solemn duty of every patriot, to advocate zealously those princi ples which are deemed best calculated to attain t£e objects of all government. Our duty there fore. to our country, its cherished institutions, * *nd those on whose good opinions, we shall place * no small value, requires us to make the Chron icle and Sentinel the medium through which our opinions on all subjects connected with the pub lic seal, and our strictures upon men and meas ures, shall be communicated. This is a duty imposing peculiar and paramount responsibilities, and thouga we claim not for ourselt a greater share of moderation, than falls to the lot of most men, we shall upon all occasions, with a becom ing respect for the opinions of those who differ from ns, advocate dispassionately our own prin # ciples, and controvert calmly and fearlessly the principles and measures of those in the opposi tion. A word as to our position. We ace identified with the State* Right party of Georgia, shall sup port generally the principles of that party in local politics; while upon the subject of a National Bank, we shall hold ourself always ready at a proper time, to advocate its charter, with proper restrictions, and offer our reasons for our convic tion of iu expediency, propriety and constitu tionality ; consequently we shall oppose the lead ing principles of the piesent administration, as **" lt “ •‘“"“'■•''••ion iurff. whenever thoee we pUeed m n on.in..ion, wilonl „ rj . nJer support. In relation Jo the commercial character of the Chronicle and Sentinel, duties in * 1 wtuch we 0 * nter novice, we can only ptad Qur earnest exertions to render it all its friends desire. # * \ i In short our zealous effort. .h.ll b. brought j into requisition, to render the R«P« beneSetsl to ( all classes of society, either in the city or conn ; try, with both of which it is so minutely and m-1 timately interested and connected Without ony feigned distrust of our sbthtos, , ws are eonneioua that we bring to the task rone less of capacity than zeal, we therelore, cor i V : invite the aid of our fiiends in every department j calculated to improve the paper or promote the , interests of the city or country. Before concluding, we beg leave to call y our j attention for a moment to the extensive liabilities | which we have incurred, in the purchase of the Press; and to assure you, that to meet eur own payments, we shall expect aid from those of you who are in arrears. This appeal we hope will not pass unheedel by you, when we assure you, that commensurate with your punctuality, shall the paper be enlarged and our exertions increased to render it worthy of increased patronage. J. W. JONES. Georgia Rail Road. It is gratifying to witness the success of this important work. The receipts of the Road con tinue to increase every month. We have been furnished by the Agent of Transportation, with the following statement. It will be seen that the receipts for the month ot December amounted to $32,100, being at the rate of $385,200 per an. num. The nett profits must be very large. Business done on the Georgia Rail Road during the month of December, 1839. Passengers and Mail $9,397 72 Fseight up, $5,551 04 13,048 bales cotton, 17,151 91 22,702 95 $32,100 67 Cotton received during the weekending 25th January, 1840, 4,081 bales. Henry W. Hilliard, Esq. has become joint Editor and Proprigior of the Montgomery Jour nal. Mr. H. is a very important accession to Whig editorial corps of Alabama. Virginia.—William M. McCarty is elected to Congress from the Louden district, over Mr. Powell, (Whig.) Michigan U. S. Senatbr. —The Whig members of the Legislature have in Caucus nom inated Augustus S. Porter, of Detroit, to the office ot the U. 8. Senator. Correspondence of the Baltimore American. j Washington, January 20, 1840. j HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Mr, Slade, of Vermont, after the reading of the journal in the House, resumed the discussion upon the resolution offered by Mr. Thompson, proposing the disposition of the Memorials pray ing for the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia. Mr. Slade went further into the argument in defence of the power of Congress to abolish Slave ry in this District. He denied the implied faith often spoken of in connection with the cession of the District by Virginia and Maryland. If Con gress was bound nat to abolish Slavery until Ma ryland and Virginia had done so, he contended that Congress wot Id then be bound to follow Maryland and Virginia in their Legislation upon the subject of Slavery. Mr. Slade is done speak ing, and Mr. Garlaad of Virginia has the floor. UNITE!) STATES SENATE. Petitions were first in order in the Senate. A large number were presented, but all of them were of a private character, save a memorial from New York, praying Congress to change the Cop per Coin of the country to German Silver. The Memorial was referred to the Committee of Fi nance. An adverse report in answer to a similar petition has already been presented in the Senate, and the present petition will be considered in the same light and negatively reported upon. ARMED OCCUPATION OF FLORIDA. This Bill, which has been before the Senate, came up on its final passage. Mr. Preston, of South Carolina, again made a brief speech in opposition to the measure, upon the ground that it was wholly ineffectual for the purposes designed. It would be found necessary, he thought, either to take the Indians or to kill them. They would hold, in spite of us, the same relative possession ta the whites in Florida, whe ther the Bill passet or not, that the Indians had held under other circumstances.—White settle ments had not exterminated the Savages, and would not. They went beyond a white settle ment from choice, as well as from necessity, but they wentjust so lar ahead as was required by the progressive settlements of the white settlers. Mr. Preston did not believe that the bill could become a law, He did not believe that it would pass the House, and not becoming a law he ho ped the proper department should resort to some measure in which the people could have confi dence—to some plan that would bring the Florida War to an end, and prove efficient. Any mea sure which would terminate (he War would meet with his hearty support. The vote was then taken by yeas and nays up on the final passage of the bill, and it was passed by a vote of 26 to 15. SUB-THEASURT BILL. , The Sub-Treasury Bill was called up at two o clock, upon its final passage, and the twenty eight sections read lo the Senate by the Clerk | A discussion was ei:pected on the Bill, and from j eleven o’clock thegtdleries were filled with an au dience expecting a speech from Mr. Clay, who jit was rumored, would address the Senate. ’ The bill had just been read when Mr. Clay ; rose to address the Senate. His appearance up -1 on the floor excited the greatest interest in the j Senate. His speech was not commenced until half past two, and 1 have not time to give you more than a brief out ine of it. He commenced with speaking upon the merits of the bill and particularly in reference to the practical character ol the measure. He felt sure that prices would still go down unless the French in Africa would make a further demand upon the productions of the United States, and the com of Europe should prove bad. All the staples of the country, Mr. Clay contended, must still further decline. Every part of the country is diseased now, said Mr. Clay,—nay more, the country is bleeding. The physician of the White House is the only man who can help us, and the only man who looks around without sympathy and without feeling He who ought to be our common fath er, folds his arms, wraps himself in his India rub ber cloak and is indifferent to us. Mr. Clay then stated what he believed to be the causes of the present calamity. They were speculations and were the efl'ecta if l ° ins oroof.be ro.W miniMmiMJ £%?£££■ the rebel desired, ami would not for h ° taffonl that it appealed not to the interests and of the country, but to the relief of the money. It was an act which would tend to e * we a greater demand for specie, and to draw ape cie from ihe pockets of the people. lr ‘ atc * l he remedies we had homilies-homilies enormities of Banks, upon the beauUes of a bar edv which the Administration had proposed t redressing the grievances of the country. It wa the Sub-Treasury biU which was to be the balm of every wound. Such a scheme could afford no 1 ]*0l(0f Suppose, continued Mr. Clay, you could get a Haifa dozen States to say they would have no other currency than this you propose to estabhsn for the Government, what would be the ettect . I Plead and play where, when, and how you any, I you cannot destroy these corporations. 1 hey ! 'are fixed as immovably as the rocks. An A men can statesman should see this and see the govem i ment as it is. r , It was a reflection like this, that made me feci ; the value of a well conducted National Bank. I have said upon a former occasion that I meant not to propose a National Bank. I mean not to do so nov». All I wish to say is what I have be fore said, that forty years experience has proved the necessity of such a Bank. In time the peo : pie will see this, and have a Bank. —Till then it I is not best to press the scheme. But what does your Bill do ? continued Mr. Clay.—lt separates the Government from the people. It leaves them to take care of themselves while you, in selfish security, are taking care of yourselves. I have heard, continued Mr. Clay, some extra ordinary doctrines. A doctrine came years ago from the resident of the Hermitage similar to this. It was that the rich should be no richer, and the poor no poorer. But how has it been maintain ed 1 Here, upon the floor of the Senate the doc trine is advanced that a reduction of wages is de signed, and it is believed or professed to be belie ved, that a reduction of wages will restore the country to prosperity. It is not so, continued Mr. Clay. That is the most prosperous country where the poor are receiving the highest wages. This is the happiest country upon the earth, and one of its great causes of happiness is our vast national domain. Sir, I thank God that a day of reckoning is not very far off. It is at hand, and will come in March 1841, when the President of the United States and this Senate will have to be tried by the people, and the result of its mal-administra tion proved. Mr. Clay then examined the argument of the President of the wrong money power which had sprung up in London. And why 1 Did you hear any thing of this before the destruction of the Na- I tional Bank 1 No, sir, You ran down the Bank i —you are responsible. I say you—for the Stu arts are still upon the throne. Charles the Sec ond of Charles the first—Martin Van Buren of Andrew Jackson. Mr. Clay then commented upon the oppo dtion of the Administration to Banks and their friend ship to the State Banks. The example shewed I what all history proved—that a country should ! be aware of those who spoke of their apprehen i sion of the objects of an opponent. We were j now told to beware of the Bank of England. It I is true that this Bank exerts a power over us and 1 to an extent that every American should be asha i med of. But why was it ] Your fatal policy— | the policy which has led to the buying of too much from England, and the selling of too little to England. Mr. Clay is still speaking, and enlarging on this subject of dependence on the money power of England. His design is to show wherein the Administration is responsible for it Sub-Treasury Bill. We annex, from the National Intelligencer, a sketch of the proceedings in the U. 8. Senate on the 16th and 17th, which preceded the vote order ing this Bill to be engrossed for a third reading : Thursday, January 16. The Sub-Treasury bill being again Under con sideration— Mr. Benton moved to strike out those parts of the bill which authorize the reception by Govern ment. as money, of such notes as would be allow ed by law to be received, and spoke at great length in favor of the amendment, and of an ex clusive metalic currency. Mr. Wright said he thought it his duty to no tice this motion to amend the bill, that the Senate might understand its effect. For himself, he did not consider it of the least possible importance to retain the words which were proposed to be stricken out. They were intended as a rule, re quiring the Treasury to receive such paper as was issued by and under the responsibility of this Government. The bill, as it was now, would come into operation on the first of July next; on the thirtieth of June next the last Treasury note, i issued on the authority ot Congress for the last 1 two sessions, would become redeemable, so that ! Mr. W. was not aware that, when the bill would ■ come into operation, one dollar of Government 1 paper would be afloat. Bnt, supposing Congress at any future time should pass laws making paper I receivable, it must be then receivable by such ■ laws, or thi i clause would not make it so. There ■ was no objection, therefore, to the striking out the words, and yet there could be no great prac ■ tical mischief in retaining them. It was of little 1 consequence either way. 1 Mr. Calhoun was understood to concur entire ly in the views of Mr. Wright. Mr. Clay, of Kentucky. I would ask the Senator from New York what is his understand ing of the operation of the bill in a case of this kind: The Secretary of the Treasury of the U. States issues a warrant in the course of his dis bursements on the receiver-general at New York, and the holder of the warrant is perhaps in Philadelphia, or Boston, or Chaileston, or New Orleans; would he not be authorized with this bill or warrant to make payment of his dues on importations at the custom-house where he hap pens to be, or must he go to New York to the receiver-general to dispose of his warrant ' ' M . r ‘ "£'*!*•;. 1 , not suppose Uie amend* ment or the bill, as it is now, would affect that ’ ™ att ® r at alh The J now take such warrants at Uiy ’ ? r m any P art of the country. »i ‘ r ' f , ay ‘. • I /? len , * understand the construc . rnlV! bC » r'l! b J the Chairman to be, that, the collector at Charleston, or elsewhere, to whom a warrant is tendered, drawn on New York while he is not compelled torKeive it, yet is pro hjbited from recemng it by this bill in either Mr. Wright. Precisely so. Mr. Benton. I believe I shall have a unani mous vote on the striking out, opposition and all • and that such an event may appear on the record.’ I call for the yeas and nays on the question; which were accordingly ordered. Mr.Norvell. In voting in favor of this motion I wish it to be understood that under no circum stances will I allow that this Government can issue Treasury notes or other paper money to meet any exigency whatever. ’ Mr. Calhoun. There ear. be no question on that point; I reasury papers, of some kind, will be sometimes indispensable. Mr. Walker. I vote for the motion not only with a view to consummate the divot ce of Gov ernment from the paper of the State, but from the whole paper system. At a late canvass in i ’ thlS Part ° f the biM now proposed - to be Slacken out was appealed to by the opposers ot the Independent Treasury bill, as containing the seeds of a Government bank; and it wa! alleged that these very lines, though they did not at once constitute a Government bank- were plsced there with . view to the establishment of such a system. S.r I wish the hill wholly cut off from any such ob,ect.on; and let it show tha z yrsisss, tsr ol ,he Mr. CUv. of Ky. I would my vote un the yeas and nays to accommodate almost any body. But if the object now is to prevent he issue of all paper by Federal authority, and the I establishment of a Government bank, tnere n>u be a great many more things .lone than this striking out; two things more, at least; that is, sundry other amendments must fce made, an bill must declare that no future Congress shall authorize the issue or the receipt of paper money in the country. If the object is as the Sen» tor last up has stated it, there should lie a prohibitory clause to that effect. But the case I will now put, is this: A man conies to Washington and gets a gfiOO Treasury wa. rant, which he wishes to transfer to A, >°* C, and he does so transfer it, say to the hands ot a merchant at Charleston. And there what is its value 1 It is there worth just as much more in specie as the difference in exchange; and if that is one per cent., the warrant is worth one per cent, more than the specie. Can there be a doubt that the collector would receive it ? Or, take the op posite side of the Union, and suppose a Treasury warrant drawn on New Y ork is transferred to Boston. There it is at par. At one place a Treasury warrant on New York commands a premium, at anotner it is at par, and it is no-wherc below par. Now, if you want to prevent the issue and use of such paper, you must, at least, do the two things which I have stated : first pro hibit such issue and use, and then you must in sert a clause declaring that no future Congress shall vary from the requisition of the bill in this respect. , Mr. Calhoun was understood to say that he was in favor of striking out, simply with a view to prevent the re-establishing of bank paper in our system. But as to an entire prohibition of Government credit, it would be sure to cause a return to the use of bank paper in our system ; and if any gentleman was in favor of such pro hibition, let him make a direct proposition to that effect, and Mr. C. would venture to say he would not get five votes in the Senate in its favor. Mr. Henderson said he should vote against striking out, and proceeded to assign his reasons, but was not distinctly heard by the reporter. Mr. Allen. This bill itself will be an act of Congress when it is signed, and no more; and it can, therefore, have no more force than any future act of Congress. I have, therefore, risen solely to say that this Congress has not the power of binding any future Congress whatever. Mr. Clay. The Senator from Ohio has not heretofore remarked me as saying that this Con gress has the power of binding a tutu re Congress. Sir, I believe there is a Government bank lurking in this bill. Gentlemen say no; we do not mean to have a Government bank ; we will have no thing but specie. So the Senator from Missouri moves to strike out a certain clause inserted by his friend from South Carolina, (Mr. Calhoun.) which admitted the receipt of paper of certain kinds. And I say, the gentlemen will not ac complish their purpose by this alone, if they would have nothing but specie. The paper will be out. Supposing payment is to he made for land ; is it yo ir purpose to prevent the drawing out of specie by means of Government paper 1 Sir, I stated an impossible case (binding a future Congress) to show that either that which is im possible must be done, or this may lead to a Gov ernment bank. Gentlemen may make their own bed as they please, but they will find thorns and thistles enough in it when they come to lie j down. I understand the Senator from South j Carolina, though he had yielded to the striking I out, now objects both to the striking out and to 1 the insertion of a clause prohibitory on any future J Congress. [So the Reporter understood Mr. | Calhoun, but heard him indistinctly.] Sir, if j this bill is simply a hard money bill, and there is j to be no Government bank—but [striking the bill with emphasis] there’s the bank ! Mr. Calhoun. I prefer to raise funds by Treas ury notes for the purpose of a loan ; and I shall hereafter be against any other kind of loan, be cause a loan in bank paper is among the greatest of frauds, and I shall ever oppose it. If we must use credit, let that credit be our own. But I hope that, by means of economy and reform, we shall have no more occasion even for Treasury notes. But what I wished to assert, and I now repeat it, is, that paper, for large transactions, has a superi ority over gold and silver, and the man who | would abolish the use of it would, in the most direct possible mode, bring us again to the use of j bank paper. Sir, extremes often meet, and they do here; and I, as an honest and sincere friend of the divorce, would not tie up this body against the use of Government credit. Sir, I have seen this Government borrow bank paper, and I have i then seen it dishonored by those very banks re fusing Government paper. I hope it will be now i understood why I vote for this striking out; and ■ if gentlemen mean that a deduction shall be ; drawn from such vote, that we are never to use J Government credit, I wish they would submit that j proposition in terms, and see what will come of it. i Mr. Walker. It might be dishonest on the I part of the Government, if they had Treasury notes out, and a small balance of them remain ing out, not to pay that balance in gold and silver. I am not willing, therefore, now to submit the proposition that we shall never use Government ! credit. But now, when we are out of debt, there can be no necessity for Government paper. Mr. W. here entered into a long and elaborate argument to show the great superiority of a specie over a paper currency, in the course of which he emphatically contrasted the commercial condition of Cuba, where labor and capital are so low, by means of an exclusive specie currency, that sugar can be produced, as he alleged, for one cent a pound. He contrasted this state of things with the commercial condition of this country, and es pecially of his own State, where labor and capital are so high, by means of a paper currency, that it requires some five or six times the amount, in comparison of Culm, to command the use of capital, and thus raise for the market our staple productions. Thus, though, labor and capital in this country are raised by paper to a very high value, our products come into the market disadvantage with those of Cuba, and our com merce is consequently embarrassed. Mr. W. expressed the ardent wish that we might attain the same happy condition of the I Island of Cuba, by means of' a purely metallic currency. His argument was listened to with much attention, and with strong and evident ap probation, by a considerable number of Senators Mr Clay of Ky. I will not embark on the subject of the tariff except so far as I must that I may not be misunderstood. But I would call the attention of the Senate to the different posi tions of the friends of the bill. Some of them are against all paper, they would as soon have the hydrophobia. Another (the Senator from South Carolina) would have paper’; hut then it must be his paper, that is, a Government paper. Still, he would use a certain measure of paper. That is the situation of the friends of this bill* and, sir, I will tell you what will come. Before’ the Congress terminates, these gentlemen will have the opportunity of showing their attach ment or their aversion to the Federal paper sVs tern; for I have no doubt that the Secretary of the Treasury, long before this session is over will have in a proposition for Treasury paper J He has already hinted it in a manner sufficiently intelligible, especially taking into view the man ner used in expressing himself, by the head of the 1 reasury whose perspicuity is known so Wel event where in the public and political world. \ es, before this session terminates in June or July, you will find the Secretary 0 f t £“ Treasury asking fur paper to meet the expenses of the Government. That will bring the mart as to what course these friends of sperie on the subject. And whsl courw wili’they take ■ when such a proposition eoraes lor i tfavury notes ! Mr. Calhoun. If we must use credit. I would infinitely rather use our own than that of Banks. But as to the currency, I concur in every word which has been spoken by the Senator from Mississippi, (Mr. Walker.) He could do no better than to contrast our own state with that of Cuba. Cuba is now in a flourishing condition, while the State of Mississippi is in a state of extreme distress. That Senator cannot push the specie currency further than I, if the country were out of debt. I wish simply, if there must be a temporary credit, that the Government should use its own credit. Mr. Clay. If the Senator from South Carolina is for using the credit of the Government and is opposed to notes and to Treasury notes, in what form would he use the credit of the government. This question caused a slight and rather gen eral movement of excitement or impatience, (the time being late,) and the question was now put on Mr. Benton’s motion to strike out the provis ion for receiving such notes as might be receiva ble by law; and it was carried in the affirmative by Yeas 33, nays 6. Mr. Walker, after renewing the expression of his wish that the divorce should be complete, moved to strike out that part of the bill which au thorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to contract for the use of the vaults of individuals and cor porations; and the motion was agreed to without a division. There was now, apparently, a general move ment to finish the bill; but Mr. Henderson ex pressing a desire to speak, the bill was passed over by consent, and the Senate proceeded to Ex ecutive business. Friday, January 17, 1840. The sub-Treasury bill was further amended, in the course of which, the debate took a strong and marked turn on the principles of currency and political economy. A motion by Mr. Davis to exclude in the bill a Government paper currency, was negatived by 15 to 27. A motion by Mr. Crittenden, direct ing the Secretary of the Treasury to guard, as far as he might, against such a currency, was agreed to. The bill was then ordered to oe en grossed by yeas and nays, as follows : Yeas.—Messrs. Allen, Benton, Brown, Bu chanau, Calhoun, Clay, of (Ala.) Cuthbert, Ful ton, Grundy, Hubbard, King, Linn, Lumpkin, Mouton, Norvell, Pierce, Roane, Sevier, Smith, of (Con.) Strange, Tappan, Walker, Williams, Wright—24. Nays—Messrs. Betts, Clay, of Ky., Clayton, Crittenden, Davis, Dixon, Henderson, Knight, Merrick, Nicholas, Phelps, Prentiss, Preston, Robinson. Ruggles, Smith, of Inch, White, Young—lß. The Senate then adjourned till Monday. The New York papers mention she death of Mr. Stephen Price, better known as the Manage,- of the Park Theatre, in that city, and brother of the Locofoco-leg-treasurer Price. The Armistad’s Slaves. —The trial of these individuals has terminated; and Judge Judson j has declared them to be free, and ordered their discharge, ordering also the President of the U. i S. to send them to Africa. j Fire. —About half past six o’clock last even ! ing the cry of fire was sounded. The alarm was caused by flames bursting from the roof of :of the large three story wooden dwelling, on Planters’ Bank Square, owned and occupied by Mrs. Thomas Bourke and family, and that of Capt, Bourke. The Hose and Engine Compa nies were soon at the scene, and with the manly exertions of the members, aided by many active citizens, fortunately succeded in arresting the con flagration, after the upper story with the entire roof, was consumed. The flames had burned through the ceiling, in part of the second story before they were extinguished. The sashes and fixtures of the house were generally torn off; those who did it, expecting the building to be consumed. The insurance on the building, we are happy to state, will cover the loss, but the furniture, which was not insured, was seriously j damaged by removal. —Savannah Georgian of Friday. i Mobile Money Market. — Tight! fearfully, insupportably tight!! When will the money ! embargo be raised? is a question often and feel i ingly asked, and echo answers when? The ex i clamation is heard from our business men. “Oh! j for the moving of the waters,” and still the “skies I refuse to weep,” and the rivers remain tranquil i and almost stagnant. A friend, distinguished for | his indomitable spirit, draws comfort from a re j port that there is enough wafer in the “cane brake” for the use of the stock, and from another report, that although the rivers are low, there is a small rise in some of the creeks! We must be of good cheer, things will brighten up ere long. —Mobile Advertiser of 2\st inst. Boundary Troubles again.—Gov. Boggs, of Missouri, has issued a proclamation, in which he dissents from the resolutions passed by the Legislature of lowa, and adopted by the County Court ot Clark Co., to suspend all hostilities until the U t day oi July next; he farther calls upon all the officers of the State, civil and mili tary, to exercise their respective duties to their full extent, in conformity with the laws of the State. W e shall now have “marching and counter-marching” of troops, and “rumors of war” in abundance from the disputed territory.- Philadelphia Gazette. J “Bucks,have at ye all Shahs. Messrs. Editors Some days ago I chanced to meet TJ® ° f “ Juven is” on your sheet. Attached to what was meant for rhyme But which had neither sense or time ’ I read it o’er, and once again, To find the meaning of his strain : Then gave it up and thought ’twas sad shat you should thus mislead the lad Thus early wean him from the nursery To write such stuff, and call it poesy. The child has strayed from home, no doubt D’ye think its mother knows its out ? ’ IV ext Anna came, the smirking lass And wrote the minstrel down “an ass •” And scourged the boy with such good will doubt he feels the smarting still Be careful, Anna, my little elf. Or you may feel the lash yourself. hold a pen, and know its use. Perchance they ’ll write you down a goose A third is added to the train, * e> Tripping ’neath the cloak of Jane \ou need not raise that hood to scan Her face to know she’s but a man Wlt 2 at flows from w °man’s^tongue Is never thus at random flun- - b Th* K U u and u ev ’ r >' laten < s park. The bolt will ever hit its mark • Her ev’ry shaft its own will deal T ™' a f‘ h ' li S h,nin Sto , hesteei: “ U r " u d, e ress >"?—I must plan Ha 22! £‘ S this "oman-man ■ He calls my sister Ann an ass, But n imports, PH j et that pass ; it will not her good nature vex. Besides, the name don’t suit the sex. And new, to make my duty plain, 1 11 give him back the name of Jane; He’s doubly welcome, now, the ninny Which leaves him not a Jack, but Jinny The next attempt at wit you show 3 Remember iEsop’s fable, Joe. ’ Kitty Note.—l have seen the rejected lines by « J ane and Eliza.” K. The navigation of our river above and 1 ‘ the city as far as we can see i: blocked viip and at present is permanent. The bout wi I! New York passengers had great ditfi c * |, crossing—at BA. M., they had succeded.—r! mometer at M. stood 7 degrees a , and at 12 o’clock, 18 degrees above zero * 7 t 0 ’ City Ice Boat has proceeded down to as- * the stale of the ice at the Horse Shoe.—piu 11 delph ; a Inquirer of 20th. i ‘ Q * The following is a capital hit. No p eon i more apt to find fait than those who havj^ right to complain. n ° Subscribers will confer a favor by not !enl their papers. Borrowers are always turnip, their noses at something it contains A7,,.; 1 port Herald. ir 'h TO THE PUB Lic7~ It becomes my duty, as I have been advised the absence of legal remedies—localise ati of my fellow-citizens in this public way, to e ® tl0!1 ter involving a difficulty in which Hiave^* 1 ' some time placed ; the mention of which is n ° ecn to me, but which is now necessary-, in 0 ° ain f>il justice may be done to myself by those • ,lat ed with the circumstances. lam induced . ,nt " pursue this course, in consideration of the fp S r l ° 0' my family, and that my friends may learn tP * truth oi this matter. lam influenced to male tr publication by no other motives than those to A -1 have alluded. Whlch j Some time in the year 1536,1 became acau 9 ;„. ' ed for the first time with Mrs. Eliza Michael ’ > the county of Richmond, the daughter of M rs t’°‘ \ Simons. I was but a boy at the time,but sevp teen years of age, of a wild, ardent and impulse S temperament and disposition; and of course posse? sed of a!l the inexperience and folly which naturai ly attach to a youth of such an age, and character My acquaintance with Mrs. .Michael, influent by her arts, and stimulated by my and inexperience, soon ripened into frequent a intimate intercourse. When I first became Z quainted with her, I supposed that she wasth* wife of one Wra. H. Michael, formerly a resided of this place, and that she had been deserted tv if,) husband. But it was not long before she and b*> mother both assured me, that her marriage win Michael, was not lawful, because Michael himself was a married man, and had a wife living at th i time that he contracted marriage with her* anH 1 was persuaded that this was the case. It was I then, that influenced by her wiies I unhappily- | greed to marry her, and accordingly at the solicit*! tion of her, and her mother, I went to Hamburg 1 South Carolina, and there the forms of matrimonia l alliance were solemnized between us. It wa! their proposition that we should go out of the State to be married ; but I was so young and incy. perienced that I did not then understand the me. five which dictated this proposal. I afterward! discoverd that she was the lawful wife of Wm. H Michael, and that a gross, cruel, and criminal dt! ception had been practiced upon me. Immediate!? after I became satisfied, that Mrs. Eliza Michae' was the wife of Wm. H. Michael, I left her and have not seen her since. I have been informed, (and the certificates ap pended show the information to be correct) thy Mrs. Michael afterwards applied to the Superior I Court of Richmond county, tor a prosecutioD against Wm. H. Michael for Bigamy, influenced bj ! motives, which may be easily infered; and thy ! by a witness who was probably suborned, she I procured a true bill against him for that offence; I and that Michael came afterwards, demandeda ; trial, and the prosecutrix failing to appear, the bill j was dismissed by the Attorney General. I now submit this statement to the public, to gether with such evidence of the fact of her being the wife of Michael, (which though it might not t« sufficient in a court of justice to convict her of Bigamy,) will still be strong enough, I think, to satisfy every reader of this publication, that she was at the time I went through the forms of mat riage wit a her, the lawful wife of said Wm. E Michael. If I could have prosecuted her for Big amy in this State (which 1 could not do as we were married in South Carolina,) as the witnesses resid ed here who are cognizant of the facts to which! have refered, I should perhaps have contented ray self with that remedy for the wrong done to me, and have thus made manifest to the world my true situation in this matter; but as this could not!* done as already suggested, I have deemed it my duty to resort to the course I now pursue, fortk purpose of placing myself, and my conduct ini proper light before those who may be interested! understanding them. JOSEPH A. MAGRUDER. • Augusta, January 24th, IS4O. GEORGIA, } At the request of Mr. Jla- Richmond County. 3 gruder, I cheerfully certify te the following facts. At the January Term of the Superior Court, held in the county of Richmond, in the year 1837, Mrs. Eliza Michael, and her mother, Mrs. Simons, ap plied to me, and requested that as the prosecute officer for the State. I would make out and send to the Grand Jury, a bill of indictment against Wn. H. :Michael, for Bigamy. They charged him with having married Eliza Ochiltree, one of the persons applying to me, whilst he had a wife living, wilt whom he had before contracted marriage I asked for their evidence, and after a delay of some day* I think, a witness was procured to prove the forme marriage of Michael, with whose testimony I was not satisfied ; for she appeared to me to be a wo man of doubtful character, her statement I thought suspicious, and affording even if it were fullv cred- j ited, but slender evidence of the facts sought tote proved. I determined however, to send her to the Grand Jury, and let them hear her statement,me decide. A bill was accordingly prepared again*! Michael, charging him with the crime of Bigamy, in marrying Eliza Ochiltiee, and placed before the Grand Jury. That body returned it into courts true. Information was given to me, that Michfc was not in the State, and accordingly no steps were taken for his arrest. At the court after I think, Michael came with Mr. MeLaws, the Clerk of out Superior Court, to me, stated that he had come to meet the charge which had been made against bi® (I think he had come from Florida,) and was anx ious for a trial. I waited the appearance of the prosecutrix, and her witnesses. They did not j appear. And becoming satisfied from tills circuit-1 stance, taken with the probable character of the witness for the prosecution, and the manly ant proper conduct of Michael in the affair, that I could not convict, and ought not to convict him,! moved the court to enter a nolle prosequi, andthf case was dismissed. KBEN’U. STARNES, Attorney Gene. a!. GEORGIA, ✓ Ido hereby certify, that 2! , Richmond County. 3 the time stated, Mr. Um. H. . Michael, came to me, (and that he came from Fieri- 1 da)and with me went to the Attorney General,ami I in my presence stated to him that he was anxiou s for a trial of the prosecution against him for Big' 1 amy. JAMES MoLAWS, Clerk Superior Court, Richmond county, j Consignees per South Carolina Kail Road- Hamburg, January 25, 1840. , T C - S * Bre <J cn ’> G - B- Camplin; J. L. Fraser;Clark, I McTier & Co.; Marshall & Crim; Rathbone &B* j ker; J. Davidsen; E. T. Hall; J. M. Cooper £- Son; K. Allen; D’Antignac & Hill; E. D. Cooke; Sto* van. Simmons fit Co.; G. T, Dortic; A. I. Hunting* ; ton & Son; L. Hopkins; A. Picquet; I. S Beers x | Co ;W. E. Jackson; W. Hattier; R. Peteis, j®-i | Bolling &.H.; G Parrott; H W Sullivan; Jeffers S 1 J J* Beason. MARINE INTELLIGENCE. „ Savannah, January 23., Cleared Ship Howard, Mills, Liverpool; brl » L. Baldwin, Bassett, New York ; schr Gen. War ren, Baker, Havana. Arrived Brig Independence, Evans, Havana. Went to sea Brig L. Baldwin, Bassett, N l ol *' 2^* Cleared Ships Tacitus, Moore, Liverpool; OH* 1 * 10, Tucker, Havre. Arrived Steamboat Chatham, Wray, August* H ent to sea—Schr Gen. Warren, Baker, Hav^- . Charleston, Jan. 2o- Arj ived yesterday —Schr Ajax, Wheeler, St. J l ' go; Br schr Racer, Smith, Nassau,(N. P.) In the offing —Br ship Helena, Drenning, Li ver ” pool, At Quarantine-Ship Stephtn Phillips, Thom* 5 ' from Boston. f Cleared —Schr Elizabeth, Thain, W. Indie*.