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CHROxMiLH AAD SEA TIA EL. i * — 5 Ail (JIiSTA. ( MONDAY* MORNING, DECEMBER 14, ? FOR CONGRESS, HINES HOLT, Jr. OF MUSCOGEE. Election on First Monday in January. Lafayette Course. FifTH DAY—SATURDAY. Purse $300.4-2 mile heats —best 3 in o. Col.. W. R. jLhmon’s b. h. Wonder, 3 1 11 Cbsis. Lewis.; ch. f. Emily Speed, 2 3 2 2 Lamkin & VJalton’sg. m. Alice Ann, IS 3 3 Wra. Garreti’s b. f. by Bertrand, jr. 4 cis. Time—l 56f-l 54—1 55—1 54. Alice Ann t<pk the lead and maintained ..t, win ling the heat |vith much apparent ease. Second heat, Wonder|won vary handily. The third and fourth heats, tie had it all his own way. Much . rain fell during the morning, but cleared up abeut 12 o’clock ; yet the day pioved but gloomy—the course rather heavy. At a meeting; of the Club, the following gentle men were elected officers for the ensuing year Dr. J. G. McWhorter, President; Thomas J. Smith, Esq. t-ad Gen. Jas. Thomas, Vice Ppesi denrs ; Sakue;. Thompson, Esq. Secretary. Corresponde \ce of the Chronicle and Sentinel. ♦ Milledgeville, December 10. Nothing of importance occurred in the Senate to day, except the passage of a bill t» require the ■ Clerk of the Court of Ordinary to be elected by the j people, the first election to take place on the first Monday in January next. Many local bills were passed. —When 1 wrote yesterday, 1 had forgotten that the Senat| had passed a bill to repeal the act passed at the last session, prohibiting banks in a state of suspension from charging more than two ' per cent premium on exchange. Saturday nel;t is appointed, by joint resolution, for the electioil of Judge and Solicitor General of the new circuit One thing is'the subject of remark with a por tion of our political friends here, namely, that the Southern Recorder has been entirely silent, (except in stating the lid,) in relation to the secession of the Harrison Senators. So far as I have heard or seen all the ot|er papers attached to the party ap proved of and Justify that step,and have endeav oured to place It before the country in its proper light. I Q* J lILLEDGEVILLE, Dec. I I til, I^4o. In the Sena* • the bill to repeal the act prohibit ing the issue o post notes by the bank? was taken up, and, after s >veral amendment? had been made, was re-, omnutl d and referred to a select commit tee, consisting of Messrs. Calhoun, Gort on, and Miller, who v ill probably leport to-morrow. I think a bill mo lifying the prov ision? of the act ol 1837, on this s ibject, will pass the Senate. The bill to repeal t e act prohibiting the issue andcir culatiou of hi s below the denomination of five dollars was tak *n up and rejected by a considera ble majority. The same fate was sdiared by the bill to exempt t ic students of the several semina ries of learning in this State Irom patrol duty. A bill was passed Authorizing the Justices of the In ferior Court of Richmond County to levy sn extra tax, not excee ing one hundred per cent, on the Slate tax. A umber of local bills were pissed or rejected. The Covnent on to nominate a Governor meet on the 17th in t. 1 have been expecting to hear of a meeting in Richmond to appoint delegates. I understand tha your members in the I.egi?lature will not go intc the Convention a? delegates unless instructed to do so. Q- j Mil edoeville, Ga. December ilth. Dear Sir—A cording to promise I send you a short sketch of -assing event? in this city. During tne session of the Legislature everything from Milledgeville, Whether of importance or not, is generally vecei ed with interest by the public abroad. No set mg is more extensive amoaig the people than a C sire to be informed of what their rulers are (loin —and none probably is s® seldom gratified upon t e reception of the information. The Senate } sterday was occupied during the greater portion f the morning with motions to re consider the vo ‘S of the previous day on the reso lutions abolishi g the office of S tate Geologist, and the report ofth* Committee of the House up on the claim of the hei! s of McCullough, which resulted in the reconside ation of the latter question, and a refusal to recon l der the former. On the day before the McCullough claim had been rejcced, and the office of State G ologist abolished. This vote, on the motion to r consider, therefore, becomes final and conclusive 1 pon the subject of the Geological survey —the ret dutiun had previously passed the House, and tha office no longer cxi?t?. In the lluu* the General Appropriation Bill came up in th( usual order, an 1 after consuming mest of the day n receiving it? various modifica tions, amendin' its, and “ additional sections ,” fi nally passed wi 1 very little change in it? princi ple features froi the similar bill of the last ses sion. The sala es of the various officer? and the per diem 01 the] members of tne Legislature re main a? they hfve stood for several year? past. This latter sect elicited more debate than any ether. But the motion to fill the blank with Jibe dollars” per da} prevailed by a large majority. It ma>', how jver, not be uuinteresting- 1.0 the taxpayers of tb land, to whom this subject will before long mal * its address, to be 'informed that notwithstanding a reduction so desirable as that in this particular ’ as net obtained, vet in many other items, such as Ivers, roads, and other extrava gances, which i swelled the appropriations of the few last years, he spirit of economy has shown itself in the as< ndant, and has done much in the work of reform tion and retrenchment. Mr. Chippcl, rom the joint standing committee on Finance, rep ted a tax bill for the next year, which proposes o revive the oid tax act of ISO 4, with some sligh alterations. This measure, coming 1 fiom so import ut a |coramittee, and having first received its ss -ction, rather augurs an intended : abandonment w the first proposed ad valorem system, which menated, I believe, from the same source. 1 Ihe reconsid red bill altering the constitution for biannual” essions of the Legislature is as vet undisposed of. This bill, it is known, passed both I branches of! tin General Assembly last year by constitutional ; ajoritie.?, and having taken the tame conrte'thi ugh tne'Senale thi? .rear came to the House, wue ? it also passed by a majority of two-thirde, and vould now be part of the consti tution but for tl * reconsideration which at present holds it in ausp nse. Should thi? amendment be : ; adopted it will ertainly be one of the mo?' ira-| 1 1 puriant changes which has ever been incorporated in the ednstitution since it? formation. But what ever may be the settled opinion of the House or country unon the propriety or expediency of :he change it is to be hoped that the present bill will never be used for that purpose. Its defects are too gross and palpable. Its .language is neither correct, grammatical, or intelligible, and the honor of the State suffers .enough by showing such a spe cimen of composition in the Statute book without rendering it more conspicuous by giving it a place in the constitution. Actuated by similar views, probably, Mr. Crawford, of Richmond, has intro duced a bill having the same object, but not liable to the same objections, which will most probabl}' pass the House. If this subject should take this direction of course the new bill can not lake effect until sanctioned by tiie next Legislature—nothing, however, will be lost in point of time, for by the bill, now so near its final issu n , the change contem plated is not to take effect the session of 1843, so i there is time enough, ami nothing can be lost even b>' the friends of the amendment by adopting this course, which certainly seem? most advisable under the circumstances. The people in the mean time will have another twelve months to weigh wol* the considerations for and against the measure. To-day the Central Bank question comes up by special order. This is one of the most interesting questions now before the House, and is expected to excite considerable interest. Yours, &c. H. Milledgeville, Frida}' evening, Dec. 11. ( With this I send you a copy of the report of the > Commissioner of the indigent deaf and dumb of this State, which was laid before the House this morning b} r Mr. Hardeman, the chairman ol the committee to whom the subject was referred. The facts exhibited may not be uninteresting to many of your readers. Mr. Shaw al?o made a report on 11 lie subject of the Lunatic Asylum, which was read and agreed to. The report shewed this work of the State’s munificence and philanthropy to be • in a considerable state of forwardness, and con cludes with a bill providing for the regulation and i government of the institution after it shali go into operation. It is thought, I believe, mat it will be read} for the reception of that unfortunate class of individuals, for whose benefit it was intended, some time during the ensuing year ; at least, for as many as the probable number of applicants—though the entire buildings will not be completed within that time, and, perhaps, never will be completed ac cording to the plan on which they have been com menced without additional appropriation. The in teresting topic in the House to-day, aa anticipated in my letter this morning, was the question of the Central Bank. This subject is oue of general im portance to the people of the State,and one of un usual interest in this place. It came up in the House, l»y special order, on the report of the com mittee, of which Mr. Toombs is chairman. That report, it will be recollected, recommends the re peal of the act of last session, which authorised the issue of bills to twice the amount of the capi tal stock of the Bank, irrespective of the amount of specie in its vaults, and provides for the raiding of a fund to redeem the bills issued under that act, or to sustain the present circulation of the Bank ; and such additional issues as may oc necessary to ; wee’’ the current expen?cs ol the Government for the next year, by the sale of the bonds of the State, ... no 1- exceeding in amount a million ot dollars, on five years’ time, running at 8 per cent, interest, payable semi-annually Tne discussion growing out of this measure has been the most exciting, ani mated and interesting that the House has heeu en gaged in during the present session. Upon a mo tion to strike out the first section of the bill, the ; collision commenced. This was directly testing i the sense of the House upon the main question, whether the course of the Bank in flooding the country with it? irredeemable paper, and which the Governor look such special pains to compliment in his message, was again to be pursued, and whether I the’principle of banking solely upon credit and is- j suing mere promises to pay, without the slightest hope or expectation of being able to redeem them, j was to be considered the future and settled policy of the State institution. The contest between the advocate* of the opposing view? was warm. But it will, no doubt, be gratifying to the friends of a sound currency to learn, that the motion to strike out was lost by a large majority, gntl that that mo?t unwise and reckless scheme, adapted by the last Legislature, has received a no less signa 1 than merited rebuke. The entire afternoon has been consumed in dis easing various other motions to amend, &c., and ■ the House adjourned beiore taking the final vole on the passage of the bill. From the sentiment, how ever, that seemi to prevail, I th;iilv J am justified in venturing the opinion that the main provision? of the bill will pass with very slight modifications. Thus, a* a consequence of this system of folly, will be presented the spectacle of the utmost en ergies of the State being called upon, and almost compelled to go to the rescue gs the Bank, or rather, its creditors, who are the unsuspecting, industrious enterprising citizens, in order to save them from the heavy losses which otherwise would necessar riiy he incurred by the depreciation of the Central Bank biiln, which are now in the community, and which must have been pu: in circulation with a full knowledge of the consequences. Nor can this aid be afforded on the part of the State but by in volving herself in a debt not short of a .mill<op of dollars; and not only so, but by being driven <o; the necessity of borrowing money at 8 per cent, in terest to take up the notes of the Bank, which arc yielding only six—besides tne costs and expenses of the transaction and the liability to losses on ac count of bad debt.?, &c. Upon the a-utUcrg of this policy be its responsibilities. Its consequences, sooner or later, can hut be disastrous; but not more so .than was confidently foretold before its ado pi on. In the Seratc, nothing of impouance was trans acted to-day. Tiie bill to repeal the act prohibit ing the specie paying Bank? of the State from is suing note? under five dollai? was lost, and the bill authorising or permitting the Banks to issue post I note? in certain cast?, was. ..ftcr some discussion. | on motion of Mr. referred to a select com mittee. To-morrow, at 11 o’clock-, A. the election takes place for a Judge and a Solicitor General for the now Judicial Circuit in I c south-we?t. Your?,&c. H. \ Ino ini a I . S. Skjtatob.— The resolution from the House ol Delegates to elect a U. 8. Sen ator on Monday next, was lost in the Senate, by a fie. the Senate being composed of an equal number of Harrisonites and Van Burenite.?.— There can be no doubt that the fie was caused by the negative rotes of those opposed to 7Vn nnd Ty. nrangnm l lll iimim mi jw \t ICTE 1 ! QPJD r j_lgl7l. r 'ir |T « r !Li r To the Honorbale the Senate and House cf Representatives. The Commissioner for the indigent deaf and dumb begs leave to make the following report: During this year one additional pupil .has been sent to the American Asylum, to wit, Miss Eliza beth Hawes, of Lincoln county. Tn the month of , October, nine of the State’s bencficiaties returned I to Georiga, having been at the Asylum their full time. Your Commissioner feels great pleasure in stat ing, that their attainments in the various branches of an English education were highly reputable ; indeed, the improvements of some of them may be regarded of the most flat ering character. Their fund of information, mid the readiness and preci sion with which they communicate, is matter of satisfaction and pleasure to all those who have been in their company since their return. All of them have learned trades, by which they will be able to support themselves, tn coming years, respectably, A prospect for usefulness and happiness has been opened to them through the liberality of the State, without which they would have been doomed to live in ignorance and to contend with innumerable ills. To the philanthropist tee reflection is cheer ing, that a portion of the most unfortunate of our fellow-citizens have been thus timely aided. The}' will live the monuments of State munificence, and to their latest existence they can but fee! that Geor gia has been to them a nursing mother. Those who yet remain in the Asylum are ad vancing in their education, and promise to do well. The most active efforts have been made to get the objects of charity that fall under the provisions of thc'Legislaturc, to accept the charity so kindly provided, and it is hoped that, during the next few months, some six or eight may be added to the number now at the Asylum. The American Asylum cannot be too highly esteemed. It is, emphatically, the school for the Deaf and Dumb, where, by skill, industry, and perseverance, the greatest natural impediments are overcome. The Tabic below gives the names, ages, and places of rcsiden e of all the State’s beneficiaries. Karnes. Ages. Residence. i Thos. H. Birdsong, 20 V pson county Ret’cd. Washington Beall, 19 Newton “ *• Penny Blizzard, IT Baldwin “ ‘ - Louisa Beall, 1> Vewion “ atAsy Halstead Blizzard, 16 Baldwin “ Sarah Blizzard, 12 “ “ Horsey D. Blizzard, 22 “ “ Ret’ed. Joseph B. Edwards, 19 Oglethorpe- “ Wm. H. J-mes, 19 Muscogee “ George R. Manor, 18 Striven “ “ Wm B. Neisier. 23 Clarke “ “ Win. Ross, 22 Jackson “ Elizabeth Haws. 19 Lincoln “ at \ss-. Jn conclusion your Commissioner would say, that no charity of the Legislature has ev ( er been more beneficial than that extend; d to the unfortunate deaf and dumb of Georgia. The benefit can, however, only be effected by patient labor, as the opposition of many of the parents of tnis to sending their children so great a dis tance front borne, is of the strongest kind. The following p ge represents the state of the Commissioner’s account, accompanied with vouch i ers. For full information as to the Commhsioner’s I former reports, lie refers you to the records deposit -1 ed in the Executive office, j Elijah Sinclair in account v'ith th r State of Georgia, 1840. DR. ! To balance appropriation on hand $2404 49 j Appropriation for 1840, 4500 00 $6,9' 4 49 Cii. No. 1 By J. B. Hosner, Treasurer, / certificate of deposit, 3 S2OOO 00 2 William N. James, 25 00 3 Wilie Holmes, 10 00 4 Washington Bell, 10 00 5 James H. Birdsong, 20 00 6 William Ross, 10 00 7 Thomas B. Stubbs, GO 00 S William C. Powel 1 00 9 R Blount, SOI 00 ( 10 N. J. Godwin, 53 25 Cash on deposit,. 3910 52 i $6,904 54 All of which is respectfully submitted. E. SINCLAIR, Commissioner. Milledgeville, Nov. 1, 1640. from the New Orleans Picayune ofthefith. Latest From Texas. Con fir mat ion of the news of the Escape of Col. Jordan and men. —The fa*t running steam packet Neptyne. Gapt. Rollins, arrived yesterday ! morning from Galveston, having made the run in 39 hours—mu h oj the time against p. heavy wind, sipoke steam packet Savannah, hence for Galveston, off Ship Island Shoals, at 1 o’clock on Friday morning. The X. brings Houston dates | to the 2nd io*t. ind Galveston to the 3d. The Austin City Gazette confirms the account given by Mr. Dwyer of the epespe ot i'ol. Jordan and his brave followers, and of ins return to L ore do. He succeeded iu penetrating full .300 miles into the interior of Mexico, and wotted doubtless have fully accomplished the end in view’, nod if. not been for the base treachery of Col. Lopez and a party of his pretended Mexican allies, who de serted them in the hour of danger, and endeavor ed so deliver him and Ins brave men into the hands of his enemies.—They toweyqr /ailed in their perfidy,and Cui. Jordan has madehi< way through the midst of his enemies and arrived ip sa.ety at Loredo, having lost only eight men in the whole expedition. . I According to the “Musquito” of the 2d Dec. the Houston market was well supplied with al most every thing;, and although the demand was good prices have fallen,. The ste imer Gen. Houston fctruqk a snag in Buffalo Bayou on the 30th November, and suifh to her cabin almost immediately. Strong hopes were entertained that she could hr raised. Sorpe Topkewa spies have recently discovered an Indian village'en the Brazos, about 100 or 150 miles above the settlements in that river; and a company of volunteers from Washington apd the adjoining counties are mustering to make an ex pedition against it. Major Howard has also re ceived orders to hulu his command in readiness to march in that direction. Tobacco, of a quality equal to the best Havana has been raised by a Mr. Ernst, of Industry. A letter had been received at Galveston from tins city, stating that the Anna Maria and cargo, recently captured by a Tcxian man-of-war. is the property of Mr. M cGregor, American Consul at • arnpoachy. in commenting the editor oi the Civilian says: *• Whether cr not this statement oe true, is a matier of indifference. The Anna Maria had Mexican papers, and Mr. M’Gregor is a Mexican citizen. ’ The v aiue of imports taken into the different ports oi Texas during the year 1839, was $1,652.- 845 ; exported during the same period $342,523. 1 here was a rumor at Galveston on the 2d inst that the steamer Vesta ban been sunk ’-0 miles below Liberty, while ascending thg Trinty with a full freight. The papers say but little in relation to 'he do ings of Congress. Correspondence of the Chronicle Sentinel. Washington, Dec. 6, IS4O. What weather! December has really opened upon us with a peculiarly severe wintriness. No vember gave us a mantle cf snow ; but that was rapidly snipped off, and we had for several days \ fine, genial, inspiring weather, which an Italian I might envy. But on Friday there was again a visitation of almost polar cold, in the shape of a storm of snow, which has continued without inter mission for forty-eight hours ; ard at the time I write, threatens to hold on. Happy may all the members of Congress,and the visitors to Washing ton consider themselves, who have reached the city and bestowed themselves in comfortable quar- ! ters, before the raging of the elements! There is 1 i some reason to doubt whether there will be a quorum of cither House to-morrow. Although the members of Congress have not : crowded so horridly to Washington as is usual at , the opening of a new Congress, yet at Gadsby’s I Brown’s, and Fuller’s, the tluee principal hotels, | are seen the old familiar faces, always here with the advent of Congress and never beheld during j the recess. f Mr. Van Btircn has received visits from many of his fellow-citizens within the last two days, of both political paith s. To those who know the man, it will not appear surprising, that his quiet and agreeable address and manners are preserved under his political misfortunes. But this is all on ; the surface. He cannot help feeling the blight of i the condemnation which lias been pronounced up- ; on him by a great people. We have no mails from any quarter. There is j no way of getting abroad to-night. Not a foot of ’ pathway is there in the most frequented thorough- j fare. Pennsylvania Avenue is an untrodden de- i sort. D. Washington, Dec. 7, 1840. This is the day appointed by the Constitution for | the meeting of Congress; but now there is scarce ly any pro-pect that a quorum of the members of either House will be present in the city at 12 o’- clock. The snow storm, which 1 mentioned in my tciter of yesterday, continued until lale last All die roads to the city were up to this morning quite impa-sabl“, and we have had consequently . no arrivals since Saturday night. There are not 1 more than eighty Senators and Representives al , together in Washington. An effort will be made j to despat h the sout.iern mail this morning, and I therefore send you this brief despatch Neither j 'he .Speaker of the House, nor the Vice President, j nor the President pro t.m. of the Senate has aniv- j ed. We hear of many members having reached I Phiadclphia and Baltimore. The Railroad cars to- I day will probably bring us enough to form a quo- j ! rum to-morrow. The Message will not be trans- 1 ! mitted until Wednesday, if the two Houses are not , I j organized for business to-day. The President elect will be in Washington in I 1 ® the course ol three or four weeks; but not to re main here long. He has many relatives in Vir ginia, and he proposes to visit them sometime in January. Business, as well as tiie pleasure of meeti ig old and dear friends, and near kinsfolk • prompt him to the journey ; and he will pass thro’ i this city on his way to the Old Dominion. A gentleman who saw General Hauison within the la>t tea days, assured me tiiat time has brought little change upon the iilustiious veteian, whom I had the pleasure of seeing frequently five years i ago. His head may show a few more white hairs —nis frame may be not quite so robust, but his : whole aj peatance still denotes the possession of j an uncommon vigor and si hit. ills full, keen j > I penetrating eye retains all the vigor of youth. His form continues erect —his tread as firm as ever, and show ing that in such weather as tills, with the snow’ a loot deep, he coula outwalk the ma jority of men twenty years youngfer, D, Washington, Dec. S, IS4O. Those who have wielded the rod of empire have 10-t their power, (as Byron sung years ago.) “ now and then by frost /” The provision of the Constitution for the meet ing cf Congress on the first Monday in December, ! was yesterday defeated by snow ! As I intimated to you would probably be the case, there arc not members enough at the Capitol to form a quorum j \ in either House. The Vice President and President pro tern, of the Senate both being absent, and omy j Sixteen Senators in the Chamber, tae Senators an- i nouuccd that Iheie was not a quorum, and it was | resolved to adjourn until to-day. The Speakers (Mr. Hunter,) took the Chair at 12 o’cleck, and the j Clerk pioceeded to call the roll, when there appear- i ed only one hundred and four members —not a j j quorum. A few minutes were then consumed iu | i administering the oaths to the new membeis, viz: I 1 J . i Mr. Winthrop, of Bosjcn ; Mr. Bo warm an of Con- j r.ecticut; Mr. Doe, of New York ; Mr. McClure j ,» | i of Pennsylvania; Mr. Thompson, cl Kentucky ; j ( Mr. Morrow, of Ohio ; Air. Moore, of Louisiana ; ( j Mr, l ane, of Indiana. The House then adjourned. « The Railroads between this city and New York have been completely blocked up by snow. Many I ® members were detained all night in the cars. | There is a sumcitnt climber to form a quorum of j the House to-day. but not so of the Ssna£e, as i ‘ both Houses must be organized before any business 1 ! can be done. The Message will not be transmitted j ( .qntii Wednesday. The of course, arc- all in confusion — three I are now due from every part of the compass. Mr j Niles can blame the weather in this case ; but I hope hereafter he will endeavor to insure their i regularity’. By the by, it is reported that Niles t speaks in very slighting terms of the management ] of his predecessor, and particularly blames him for 1 Hit, financial troubles that embarrass the Depart : r'i, J ment. On the oilier Land. Kendal! throws the whole fault on his successor, who, he says, thought himself and was regarded by others, as fit te r any j thing till he was tried. Dignum imperare nisi imperasset !” ( Re would have been tuought worthy of a ruling j ■ sjtatipn, if hp had not been placed in ir. j ! Benton is here ; and it is paid, talks strongly ip | favor of running Mr. Van Burcn again. This js I insidious policy. I'p knows that Mr. Van Buren I j cannot be taken up again by’ any’ considerable per- 1 tion of the pe pie. But he hopes by keeping up 1 Van for a while, that he will be able 10 sink the 1 pre ensions of Col. Johnson, Mr. Buchanan, Mr ! Calhoun and others. The present condemned Die sident he would set up as locum tenems cf the can- ] didateship, whom at a convenient lime he could i thrust and put himself in the place. • Mr. Clay’ arrived yesterday. He i» in line health * and spirits. D. * Good.—A person said, in our hearing the oth er day, that editors for the most part, weie a thin pale laced set. A lad standing near, made this wit- d ly observation to his chum :—There, Hob. I told c you I had often read about the editorial corpses." I / Public Meeting. The friends of Harrison, Tyler and Reform, nre requested to meet THIS EVENING at the City at half past G o’clock. A general attendance is requested, as business of importance will be trans acted. Congress. The National Intoligencer of the 9th inst. says: —As we anticipated, the Senate yesterday still wanted several .Members of the number necessa ry to enable it to proceed to business. In conse quence of which, though a House of Repue skntatitks was formed, and a committee was appointed on its part to join a committee of the JSanate, and wa t upon the President, that duty could not be performed. It is possible, and even probable, that a quo rum of the Senate will be in attendance to day. In which case, no doubt, the President’s Mes sage will be communicated to-day to both Hou ses of Congress; and we shall have the pleasure of laying it before our readers to-moi row. The Philadelphia Inquirer says:—Wc leam that the Bank Committee returned from New | York yesterday, having left that city at five o'- | clock on Saturday afternoon. Their negotia- I lion was successful, and we may therefore re-af j firm cur belief that the long talked of resump j lion will take place on the 15th. The New 1 York Times says: “ Our banks have agreed to loan the Philadel | phia Banks one million of collars on nine and ; eighteen months. A comm ttee of three from i Philadelphia, in conjunction with a Boston com | rnittec have been heie for several days and yes* j tcrd.iy morning completed the arrangement for , the loan. The Boston Banks will increase the ; loan to three millions and a half, which it is as ' scried will be amply sufficient to enable the Penn j sylvania institutions to fulfil the resumption. The 1 loan is made on Post Notes bearing six per cent | interest. It amounts, in fret, merely to an ex tension of the debt due by the Philadelphia banks to ours and placing it on interest. We are glad the affair is at last concluded, and that another fair prospect exists, that before months all the sound banks throughout the Union, will pay specie, anti the unsound ones have been put into li ; quidation.” I to*,The New York Express of Monday, 2P. M. I says; The negotiation between the Philadelphia and the New York Banks for the loan of a million of \ dollars was concluded with he utmost prompt ness. The Banks were to furnish the amount j on the terms proposed, and without the slightest i hesitation. Indeed the amount divided up was very small, the Bank of Commerce took the lar- I gest portion, viz: one hundred and fifty thousand; | most of the others took fifty and a hundred thou -1 sand each—and had the application been fm i double the amount, the sum would have been i tak n. They all had and have targe balances in Phil adelphia, which have accumulated there in the j course of business; these funds have been pla ced there by the collection of merchants notes, on • which tne banks have made from 3 to 4 per cent. I Now, it the Bank?; resume, they will get these | balances and those in Baltimore and further •South, without any discount, and thereby se en re a large profit. TheN. Y. Courier of Monday says:— | M e had hoped that the conclusion of the ar rangement w Inch we announced on Saturday, ! would have enabled the banks of Pennsylvania : to resume specie payments, before the departure lof the Great Western, as ttie effect produced by ! this event in Europe, will probably be greater than it will be here, but we fear that the obstruc tions to the communication between the two ci tics caused by the heavy fall of snow, may pos sibly prevent this consummation. The New \ork Express of Tuesday P. M., says:—The loan require-.! by the Philadelphia Banks has all been made up and it is expected the Banks in that city will resume very speedily. So confidently is this believed that the rate, is on ly which is near par. The steamboats run to Rhinebec, about eigh teen miles above Poughkeepsie. 1 1 Destructive Fire. 1 f’nKDF.HicicsBURG, Dec. 5, It is with great regret we announce the destruc tion by fire, on Saturday morning last, of the * greater part of the buildings of the -Fredericks- | burg Union Manufacturing Company,’ situated opposite to the Kail Road Depot. The buildings [ occupied 3 sides or a square. The western range, m in which was the Foundry, and thefro«t build- 1 ing. used as a Finishing shop, entirely destroyed. The eastern range, in which were the Blacksmith shop—the ware room and office is uninjureo. There was insurance upon the nuildings, in the f M. A Society, to the amount offffiGOO, ne tt and upon the machinery and patterns, in the .Etna oli’ice ,ol Hartford, Connecticut, to the sum of ' $lO 000, The loss of the company, however, a will be very heavy notwithstanding. l> 1 here was in the finishing shop, nearly readv w for delivery, car wheels and other work "for Rail Roads, to the amount of SS.CMO. A Loco'mo- ° tive Engine, of excellent workmanship, and a & new high pressute Steam Engine, were also in the building. It is hoped the injury which thev P have sustained will not prove very great. ine lo~s is $ serioys png to our community., 11 and will be severely felt by numbers who are 1 thus thrown out ol employment at this inclc- v ment season. The fire occurred in the midst * of a storm of sleet, to which circumstance pro- J bab!y the safely of the Depot buildings and a j 3 large amount of property raav be ascribed, it ' ' r; The House of Representatives of New Hamp shire on the second instant, elected the lion. I ~ Tovi M oodhury, the present Secretary of the ; Treasury, as a Senator of the U. States, to sue- i . ceed Mr. Hubbard, whose time will expire March 1 V 1, 1841. j Steam Boat Explosion. r V/c learn from a passenger, that the Steam Boat FatricJc Henry, on her way from Norfolk to Richmond on Tuesday, and while taking in pas- c sengers at Jamestown, burst her cylinder pipe, c> Fortunately no injury was done to any one on ' board. Y The Patrick Henry had been racing with the p Steamer Balioon, an opposition bout, which has a recently been put on the river. —Petersburg In- h telligencer. n O T 11 Sailing o? the Great Western. —The p Great Western sails to-day at I o’clock precisely d —her letter hags at Gilpin’s and the agent’s. This is her last voyage this year. On her arrival at tl Brislrd she will go into dock, overhaul, and return v in March. She carries out sixty passengers, i; principally British officers and civilians from * Canada. Mr. Hoi ford, of die eminent banking f, house ol Hoi ford dc Co. London, also returns in ;i her to England. Already about $60,G00 in specie p is on the manifest, but it is expected that S2OO,- a 000 will go in ail. She is lull of freight. This t( is the last steamer from this port in 1840—and a , generally considered the most successful. Capt. Sl Hoskin enjoys a high reputations as a nautical man and a gentleman. * , p Ihe Acadia is now on her way from Liverpool si to Boston. She sailed on the 4th inst. and will F be in Boston on the 17th or 18th inst. witn fresli nows.—-V. Y. Herald of the Bth. fr • in - f c One of the Cotton Factories belonging :o Mr. _ James E. Marshall, in North Adams, Mass., was destroyed by fire on the morning of the 24tb ult. Loss estimated at $20,000, and no insurance. C< John M. Nile, hal , li k >«l th, t , H ford if Uen . H! I ilemial chair, he will co ' I i-ht.t a calamity toth fc nation M lli *l S The Benefit of Advehti.six g 4 lately put an advertisement i u ' -Boy Wanted." Next mor„M I box on h s doorstep with this mscr hT 3 I w.l! this one answer!” On openi >“ V I nice fat, chuhby-looking spccunen ol < Hi he ivanfea warmly done up i n fl anre , tr!e aniefc H We published a paragraph from . I line JSews, some time since sluing w r had been stricken with parntvsi'- m • At- I eral has addressed a loiter to the V Globe, under date of Jefferson Hn,‘ a , Sh %l 21st, in which he says that he lias n,“ Cks ’ -V I flicted with paralysis, hut on the r * i condition for taking the field and t duties appertaining to his rank. * rm ‘ n 3tl* Deaf and Dumb Prixteiis a count is given, from Tubingen,in \v Uno, H of a new printing establishment, laid, M. Theodore Helgerad. All the cnim, 0^ U pressmen, one hundred and ninetv-siv eleven of (lie former being dumb; ami have been educated at the employment in which they are new 7* l : J The king has conferred on Ml Hejn-pr Vu B*9* 8 * 9 * U-J gold medal, of the order of civil p. J. S | great reclamation from the <v,l , 4 I waste. ' Ma ™ ba| I Mr. Burden of the Troy Iron Work? h,. „ I the patent-right of a piece of machinery f * I pressing and giving form lo the hall i ro ' I comes glowing from the furnace for St-nib. 11 I for $25,000. (0l,ai «laloc t | Mark task Brokers.—ln Genoa then, marriage orokers, who have pocket book.fi,u" I Wllh ' be na " les of marriageable g i,|, ofl "f 1 ■ rent classes, with notes of their firr Urps % I attractions, fortunes, &c. These broker’ a I endeavoring to arrange connection?-* n i 7 :|.oy succeed , !lPy gel a com„,i Hio ’ three per cent, upon the portton. Marri'a, 0 ' Genoa is quite a matter of calculation. <r en !7 settled by the parents o, relations, who of’,2 up (lie contract before the parties have <*<>r another; and it is only when every thine IT arranged, and a few days previouJ to the JJ’ age ceremony, that the future husband cal -.oiua intended jrartucr for I,ft, ShoulJi, ' find fault with aer manners or appearance k , may hreaii otf the match, on condition of his7 trying the brokerage, and other expenses,,^. The Charlottesville (Va.) Jeffersonian,« « nouncing the poslponeme it of the trialofSeamiM charged with the murder ts Professor Dmu* Messrs. Leigh and Lyons, of R;cii«ond.S Messrs, iuve ? apd Gume„ of Charloltesvilk. art employed as his counsel. V. \V. Southall, Era is the prosecuting attorney. ’ - —— Kixg of Prussia again.—A friend translates the following item from a foreign Journal fur ns j —“At the coronation of the Km? ol p tUis4 | which took {dace in September, at’Konigslmrg, I four of the city authorities were excluded from S participating in the festival, because they were I Jews, who could not take the customary oalhre- I quired on such occasions. This circumstancebe- | came known to the K;ii£, who inimedialelv lift i citicd tnat they could take the ogllj, gccwdrigla I i hejr ow n i up, before tne Mieister yl ihe Interior; and thus have the privilege of participating intbe [ celebration, f his act does honor to the King, because it shows him to lie on enlightened mon arch, favorable to religious toleration.” Rhubarb ink.—A beautiful and sparkling 1 wine resembling champaigne, it is said, can he 1 pocured from the stalk of the rhubarb phni, .i j foreign paper states that a patent has been gran ted in England to the discoverers of thispro ami the quantity that can be obtained Item the plant is immense—an acre of f u und being n pa-no of yieid,ng. annually, one hundrel ami fif ty hogsheads. It this he true, tee piodaction of J rhubarb wine might be made, in this county.i very profitable and important branch of industry | i he plant is well known here,—A. Y. SuvKSati Curious Bible.—Them is at preseat into posession of a Mrs. Paikes, of Gulden -quit, London, a copy or Macklm’s Bible, in 45 bid olio volumes, nearly 7000 enp ■ ings, from the age of Michael Angelo to that ol Reynolds and West. The work also contains ibout 200 original drawings or vignettes by Loulb ■rbourg. The prints and etchings include ike A-orksoi Raffaelle, Marc Antonio, Albert Oatlof, Rembiant, miu oiuer masters, consistiߧ at representations of nearly every fact, circum stance, and object mentioned in the holy Scrip ures. There are moreover, designs of trees, plants, floweis, quadrupeds, birds', fishes, and in sects, such, Besides fossils, as have bee i adduced n proof ol an universal deluge. The aa then tic scripture atlasses are bound up infi thf volumes. This Bible was tne properly of the late Mr. Boyer, the publisher, who collected and arranged the engravings, etchings, and drawings, it greai, exq ense and labor; and he is said to jeon engaged upwards of 30 years in rendering it perfect. It was insured ia the Albion Insu rance Office for £3OOO. M A R R I E D, In Elbert county, on Tuesday evening,lb?W y| inst., by the Rev. Wesley F. Arnold, Mr. Robe*! L. Harris, of Clarke county, to Mis. Eua«£ TE 11. I, pshaw, oi the former place. OBITUARY. Bird, at nedlovd, near Augusta, on WpdacCsj evening the 9th inst,Mrs. Elizabeth W. TwicF •onsorl of Col, Twiggs, U. S. Army, i ' the 3b' » rear of her age. Her disease was Consumption, f Mrs. ’U. was a daughter of Col. Hunter, nowci ashington city, and formerly resided ii> b l *' slace, where she became endeared to many ffid acquaintances by her amiable disposition J“- icr excellent virtues*. It was here, too, net her compaiuion for life, and after sojoiirni l '-- in several States of our wide spread country, *“■ passing through many and varied scenes during past eleven years,it was iiere that a kind ience directed her steps to end her days. It is not our purpose to sneak of the departed-- (he character of wife, mother and rnistres worth is recorded in hearts that will long cheih licr memory. But we may tell of her dying I’M; Mrs. Twiggs was not permitted to make a pujj ll! | arofession of religion, but her friends kno'V - well, her last day? were her best days. They :he blessed consolation to believe she made M jcucc with God, and d:ed in the full icceptance through the meiits of the Saviour ;ook counsel with the minister of Jesu* Cht 15 ' ind as the Bible had been her daily study lor v taf j ihe readily admitted its sacied truths, and oy in believing ti;em. Heath had no terror* ‘ ler. She gave her dying blessing to her two ant daughters, with a part it g farewell to h^ l ent husband, commending them to her Heave® 1 , -'ather, and sunk peacefully' to her eternal resl j “ Blessed are the dead which die in h ie _ ‘ y rom henceforth: yea, saith the Spirit, that J nay- rest fiom their labors; and their work? ollow them.” We are authorised to announce JIObEB | VATKINS as a candidate for the office oi ‘ 'ollector of Rlcbmo»d county. ‘