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Till; (’ (IN ST IT LIT 1 UNAIjI ST. JAMES GARDNER, JR t i; u .n s. Daily, per annum, (KI Tri- Weekly, per *’ " u If paid in advance, '* v) Weekly, per annum, ° ou If paid in advance, •• bU newsubacriptianamust l»e paid in advance. must i>e paid on all Lomniuflicaii' ns and Letters of business. [From the New Orleans Del'a.] The Twa Tojurpi. As I lounged lasi night On my balcony. In my old arm-chair reclining. The breeze from the North came cod! and free. And the sun’s last ray was shining; As I looked adown on the co*y street, Which a recent shower had flooded. From contra ways twa topers met. And the one to the other nodded — They sat them down on a broken dray, t And their words were deep and low. As at night may he heard the fur-ofFsea, With its murmuring ebb and flow. The one was a man whose wintry sconce And rubicund pbiz foretold That he had paid homage more than once To the wine-drinking God of old; The other, if one might venture a guess, Had sworn to tio watery vow, [dress d | ITnt look’d like a pilgrim, whose prayers were ad- To the shrine of Old Bacchus ere now. “In add lang syne,” the first began, “What a different sp here was ours; With a well-siock’d purse and a flowing can. Our paths were strewn with flowers, 31 y heart doth sicken, turd wy semi Doth sadden at the mournful thought. That Life’s dull tide must onward r<HL, Without one hope or solace fraught/’ With drooping head, and heaving sigh. The other, moefly, sat the w hile, * Till tears,regretful, dimmed hiseyea. And pall’d, for once, its Wonted smile. Not long the cloud had, lingering, hung, K’er happier thoughts their sunshine hue Os merriest light and radiance flung O’er the brow of that toper true. “Cheer up, old friend, regrets are vain A brighter dawn may yet arise; The sick man’s groan ne er stifled pain. Nor eased him of his miseries, I’ve still a mite in this old purse, W ill furnish us a mantling bowl; ’ I’is wiser far to drown than nurse The vampvre-cares which haunt the soul. ’ Jake spark electric seem’d ihe thought To penetrate the other’s brain; And was, with such a magic fraught, That smiles lit up his face again. ’Twas daw nos day—a plashing sound Scared Fancy from her dreamy flight; When, h»! I in the gutter found The twa boon friends of yester night. EPtl. Notim t. —15v Ann C. Lynch. The honey-bee that wanders all daylong The field, the woodland and the garden o’er, To gather in his fragrant w inter store, Humming in calm content his quiet song, Seeks not alone the rose’s glowing breast, The lily’s dainty cup, the violet’s lips. But from all rank and noisome weeds he sips The single drop of sweetness ever placed Within the poison-rhaiace. Thus if we Seek only to draw forth the hidden sweet In all the varied hidden flowers we meet In the w ide garden of humanity: And, like the bee, if borne the spoil we bear, Hived in our hearts, it turns to nectar there. [From the Savannah Georgian.] GEORGIA,(Chatham Co.) Dec. 31, ISlfl. lliberuniioii «f the Koclna UoMjpitl. W. H. Bulloch, Ksq. Dear !Sir—Having written to you many a letter during the course of the past year, 1 may as well conclude it by writing you another one, and wishing you a happy new year, and the fulfilment of your good wishes for youself and your numerious friends.— That is a selfish do.-ire, for there is certainly tme among them, as your obedient servant, Hie writer; but J am sure you w ill excuse ibis little iuterestedness, for you know per fectly well, that self-interest is the main spring of human activity, and contrivance is certainly not the least of the many frailties vs our race. But to my theme; The hibernation of the cotton moth is still a problem, the solution of which would be . licnificial to Southern agriculture. The cir- 1 enmstance that the cotton caterpillar appears only periodically, not in successive years, or : at least very seldom, made me believe that it 1 did not hibernate, and I was confirmed in j my opinion, when I saw late in the fall, how the insect disappear® d at once, after the third generation, and did only in a few'places go over into a fourth crop, (as, for instance, 1 on Sappclo Island.) 1 would have firmly ad- i he red to this opinion, for only in this way it is to explain why we do not see any traces of Ihe Noctna Gossypil early in the spring, why it does not devour cotton plants when young, and not make its appearance in our fields du ring those years, the state of the atmosphere and temperature of which, is incongenial to it, had 1 not found the following passage in Mr. W. C. Sea brook’s memoirs of the cotton plant; “That the cotton moth frequently survives that frosty season, is nearly cer tain. An examination of the neighboring woods, especially after a mid winter, has of ten been successfully made for that purpose. They were seen by the writer in May last, (1843.) at the edge of a strip of pines, within a few yards ot a cotton field. In the winter of 1825, Benjamin Reynolds, of St. John’s, Colleton, deceased, found them in the woods, principally on the ceder bush, encased alive in their cover, impervious to water, and se cured to a twig by a thread. 1 thought a hibernation of the insect might nevertheless be possible, and I concluded to examine the subject myself. 1 have spent about a fortnight in the country amidst ex tensive fields of Sea Island and Upland Cot-, ton, which have all been ravaged by the cot ton caterpillar, but the closest examination had no success whatever, although the sea son has been uncommonly mild. I found everywhere plenty of butterflies, especially of the Noctuo tribe, enjoying the mild weather, but not a single specimen of the Noctna Gos eypii. During my sojourn here in the coun try, the weather was extremely mild, and a few days and evenings were so warm and pleasant that if cocoons of the cotton cater pillar had been alive, I am sure they, or at least some of them, would have hatched or some of the moths, if they had been alive, would have left their hiding places. I am, therefore, convinced that Noctna Gossypii does not hibernate in our climate, espicially as my friend Mr. R. K* * *, from Liberty county, an experienced cotton planter, and an intelligent man, who had paid a great deal of attention to that noxious insect, wrote me at the same time: “Your letter, etc. reached me just as I was leaving this place for St. Simons’ Island, and as all the cotton plantations on that Island had been ravaged by the caterpillar, I con cluded to examine the fields and try if I could find the insect alive. The field was a good one for examination, but neither there or at this place have I been able to find cat erpillars in the cucoon or any other form,” lam very far from contradicting the intel hgent author of the “Memoir of the Cotton riant, but he himself does not pretend that these facts stated by him establish a rule; he only pretends that the cotton-moth frequently survives the frosty season—not always, and that seems in be beyond doubt; but those are only exception from the general rule. In those cases where the moth appeared during the winter, nr even in May, late caterpillars seem to have hidden themselves in a well protected place; the hatching ot the cocoons, which generally takes place in from six to ten days, must have been delayed by the cold weather, and the moth, which generally dies after the fifib or six day of his existence, may have been preserved longer by a slower pro cess of life in a co'der season. A great deal depends on the solution of the question of the hibernation of the cottun motii. It can lead to a certain way of des troying the insect, and protect the cotton fields; every planter should, therefore, pay at tention to it, especially as this winter is a very favorable one for making observations of that j kind. Vale, dear sir. Vuurs, most respectfully and devotedly, [From Niles’s Register of 1815.] Th® Fair Honoring ih® Brave. We have been politely favored with the ; following copy of a fetter from a lady at New j Orleans to a female friend, in which there j will be found a more particular description j than has yet been published of the ceremo nies which took place in honor of Gen. Jack- , son, after his gallant and successful defence ; of that place,— Trenton True American. New' Orleans, February 3, 1815. On the 24th, Gen. Jackson was compli- ; mented in a w ay that only Gen. Washington had before been honored in America —by a ; triumphal entry. I have been .waiting from day to day, in hopes that some regular ac count of the ceremony would be printed, of which I could avail myself to supply the de ficiencies of my style and observation, but in j vain—the invasion put a sudden stop to peri odical printing, and it has nut yet been re sumed. I The ceremony sprung from female grati ! (tide, and tv as arranged entirely by the ladies. , I Be it known, then, that in this grand empo- ; 1 riurh, there is one handsome square which ! fronts tire levee; on the opposite side there is a range of handsome buildings called the Principal-, the centre of vvliicti is a chapel.— hi the middle of the square, and facing the grand entrance into the chapel, an elegant arch was erected, around which was closely twined, (so as entirely to conceal the wood work,) wreathes of laurels, and festoons of the same kind of weatbs continued from each side of the arch to the entrance of the square. Eighteen pillars (nine on each side) sup ported the festoons and a medallion bearing the name of a Slate, surrounded by wreaths of various lines. The States were represent i cd by eighteen young ladies dressed in while j —laced veils on their heads tastefully con i fined by a white satin bandeau, finished on ; the left by a golden star—on their left arms : they carried white baskets with blue orna ments filled with artificial flowers. The four j States which have been conspicuous in the ! late contest, were distinguished by white silk * banners, supported on blue and white stalls and bearing appropriate mottos in large gold letters —Louisiana, glory and safety—Mis sissippi Territory, valor and generosity— Tennessee, Jackson and bis heroes—Ken tucky, bravery and patriotism—(these to the ; ! best of my recollection, were the mottos.) i —The’young ladies who represented the j i .States stood nearest the arch in front of the j pillars bearing the names of those States.— Beneath the arch on each side, pedestals were erected on which were placed little irirls, whose business it was to suspend wreaths of laurels over the general's head as be passed, which they performed to adm ra tion. Liberty and Justice were personified i by small girls—behind the Slates the matrons were arranged, (of course 1 was there,) and I a short distance back of us several very i handsome uniform companies were drawn , up to prevent the people from incommoding | ns. A full band of military music announced i the approach of the beloved general, followed ; by Ids staff officers —the little girls managed their wreaths to admiration—Louisiana step ped forward and presented an address hand somely ornamented, the composition of a lady of this city, which the general deposi : ted in bis bosom, and that is all that I can tell ' about it yet; passing down the line, he bowed i on each side; the Flowers were liberally distributed in bis path. As the Slates, who joined from opposite sides, followed by the matrons, and walked in procession after our hereto the entrance of the chapel, where he j was received by the priest, who gave him a I hough of (consecrated, I suppose) laurel.— |We then entered the chapel. Te deum i was sung, after which we had some music l composed fur the occasion, which was very fine, I dare say, if 1 could understood if; but I was seated in the very place I would have selected, if my choice had been offered me of all the seats in the chape!—one per son separated me from dear old general, who sat on a chair rather apart, and 1 bad a fine opportunity of contemplating bis profile. I did not give the general one flower, but I could have given him a good may tears. One of the ladies reproved me laughingly, for de frauding the general, whlist I stood unron- I scions grasping the flowers which had been given me to strew. - - A ICcrcipt for Elippinesia. It is simply when you rise in the morning to form the resolution to make the day a hap py one to a fellow creature. It is easily done | —a left-off garment totheman who needs it; a kind word to the sorrowful; an encourag ing expression to the striving—trifles in themselves as light as air—will do at least for the twenty-four hours, and if you are young,depend upon it, it will tell when you are old; and if yon are old, rest assured it will send you gently and happiily down the stream of human time to eternity. Look at the result: You send one person—only one —happily through the day; that is three hun dred and sixty-five in the course of the year —and supposing you live forty years only af ter you commence this course, you have made fourteen thousand six hundred human beings at all events happy for a time. Now, worthy reader, is not this simple? and is it not worthy accomplishing? We do not of ten indulge in a moral dose—but this is so small a pill, one that needs no red current jelly to disguise its flavor, and requires to be taken but once a day, that we feel warranted in prescribing it. It is most excellent for di gestion, and a producer of pleasant slumber. Death of a Man of 142 Years.— Late papers from the Island of Jamaica announce the death, at Spanish-Town of a black man named John Crawford Ricketts, at the ex traordinary age of one hundred and forlytwo years; and, what may be considered as very unusual, he was in good health till within about two weeks of his death. iflarriage ia Swt tleu. Miss Bremer, ia one of her pleasant tales, states that it is customary in Sweden ’ when a couple have been married twenty- : five years to hold a festival in commem oration of what they style the silver mar- I riage , and when this period has been doubled to commemorate the half century of married life by a fete or what is called tb e golden marriage. These are pleasant j occurrences and customs; but if a writer ; from Stockholm, in the New York Adver- S tiser is reliable authoiily, it would appear { that litis nation has another nuptial custom which is far less agreeable. ‘No secret' says this correspondent, is made in Swe den of an engagement between a young couple, [in my opinien there ought never to bej but when the wedding day comes, the bride is subjected to a cruel ceremony. The marriage lakes place in the evening, and two hours previous to its consumma tion, the bride is placed in the centrcof the room in her wedding attire.—Candles are placed in a circle around her, the curtains j of the windows are raised, and every one, : friend or foe, acquaintance and stranger, j is permitted to enter the house, and gaze | upon the victim, and make any remaik | he choses to intlici upon her, concerning herself and intended husband. Men come i in undisguised, hut the- ladies with their natural refinement and a little sympathy, conceal their faces by dominoes. Against this custom some have waged an unequal ; warfare. —The despotism of the mob pre- ; vails over the good sense or modesty of the parties interested, and marriage is es- ! fueled through a sort of martyrdom. Strength *>fn sf;iti (Habit. ! The following horrible illustration of the force with which the habit of intem perance clings to its victims, was given j Ijy Mr. Gough at a late temperance meet- I : ing in New York, and vouched for by j Mr. G. as having come within his own j observation. A young man had broken I the heart of his wife by his intemperate ; habits, and she was lying on her bed of I death, lie was kneeling by her, watch ing the breath which was fast fleeting I away, as she besought him with impas sioned agony to indulge no longer in that intoxicating draught w hich had killed her j and was fast hurrying him to tfie drunk ard’s grave. 11 is heart was melted by her entreaties, and he promised that he would drink no more till ire received the cup from her hand. She died, but scarce ly bad the breath departed when the maddening desire for liquor returned.— lie poured out the draught, but the i thought of the oath so solemnly pledged flitted across his mind, and he desisted. l»ut the habit was 100 strong to he over come. He returned to the chamber of death, filled a cup with the liquid fire, I raised the inanimate arm of his wife, clasped her cold fingers around the cup and drained its contents to the very dreg-*. fITE-Tl!*, A Spooney who was looking vacantly over a newspaper, seeing “cotton gin” in capitals at the head of a paragraph, mutter- I ed to himself, “cotton powder and cotton „in, in t lit? name of wonder what wont they make out of cotton next?'* \Ve hko to see a young lady walk as though a Ilea was biting iicr on each hip— it is so facinaling: She is just the match lor a dandy who steps like an open-winged turkey travelling over a bed ot hot ashes. The Hog Crop of the United States, tliis year, is said to be worth three times the worth of the cotton crop. The “standing army” of swine consumes annually two hundred million bushels of corn. A gentleman jus* returned to this country i from a tour in Europe, was asked how he : liked the ruins of Pompeii ? “Not very well,” was the reply, “they are so much out of repair ?” Coleman, the dramatist, was asked if iie knew Theodore Hook? “Yes,’’ replied the wit, “ilouk and Eye are old associates.” Among the marriages out West, we per ceive one of a Mr. Schnicheukoofen to a lady by the name ot Schregengost. A western preacher, in his efforts to give j his hearers the most enchanting ideas of j heaven, held forth thus: ‘Be assured, breth- I ren, any description of it tails short of the | reality,as Little Mud Creek is transcended by 1 the Mississippi! Heaven is—Heaven; Heav en is—oh my dear hearers, it is a real Ken- ‘ lucky of a place?’ Richard M. Young (formerly a Senator of the United States) has been appointed by the President of the United States, with the ad vice and consent of the Senate, to be Com missioner of the Land Office, in place of Gen. Shields. A Miss Dernier, who has been dancing second to Madame Augusta, has found an uncle in Louisiana very rich, and at his special request she has left the turmoil of the j stage’for the ease and elegance of private life, in the house of iier wealthy relative^ In New York, in 1834, the Assessor’s I valuation of real estate was ,$123,249,280. | In 134(5 it was $283,480,934. Increase in j twelve years $160,231,654. in other words, the value of real estate in that city has a good deal more than doubled in tire lasi twelve years. The Anti-Renters in Columbia County, N. Y., are beginning to resume their lawless ; proceedings. The sheriff, while attempting to serve process, was resisted by a body of men, about seventy in number, driven back and compelled to abandon his purpose. The American Bible Society issued last month 43,401 copies of Bibles and Testa- j ments, making the issues for nine months 604,509. The receipts of the month were j $17,112 —making during the last nine months $139.217 -less than last year by about S6OOO. The New York Bible Society has employed the Rev. Calv in Walcott to visit every family in the city, and to supply those who are without the Bible with a copy, by either giv ing or selling it to them at cost.—A V. Post. The Biggest Steer Yet.— Daniel Wunder killed a steer lor new year’s, six years old, raised by Wm. Gill, near Circleville, Ohio, which weighed on foot, 3.660 lbs. The nett beef weighed 2,684 lbs., which is said by the Cincinnati Chronicle to be 296 lbs heavier than any other beef on record. He sent President Polk a fifty pound roast. Love Letters The Lowell Courier says the number of letters dropped into the Post 1 Utlice of that city, between Sunday night and | Monday morning averages, over tilleea han dred. i A son of Auly McCauley, Cashier of the Camden Bank, in Camden, N. J., fell from bas erected in his father’s yard for gymnastic ex ercises, dislocated his neck, and died in | stantly. j Fashions in New York. —The Tribune of ■ a late date, lias the following: White Thibet,trimmed with cygnet down, i (vulgarly called eider,) is to be the “irresisti i hie” lor opera cloaks this season. They are J i made short and crisp, and the rogueishesf, ; most mischievous looking articles (always excepting the enclosed) that we have seen this maay a bright evening. Two Lives in One.—A man by the name of Etienne Courcille, recently found guilty of murder in Louisiana, has been sentenced to the Penitentiary for ninety-nine years.— lie will have need of a “second birth.” AUGUSTA. GEO.. SATURDAY MORNING, JANI ARY 16, 1847. J Democratic uj»oii our State 1 Fiiiiinces. We do not think that the newspapers in Georgia at this lime can add to their attrac tiveness, by discussing the financiering in times past of the two political parties. We i have borne our part in such discussions, and ! when the time arrives for it, we will take our share again. But the Savannah Repub j lican does not seem willing to wait. It is ' so eager fur the contest that it has provoked j discussion, by arrogating to its own party j all the honor and credit of the present pros -1 porous state of (he finances. In denying the correctness of tliis assumption, we have j aroused the mettle of the Republican: and the Chronicle 100, is prompt to copy into its editorial columns, the editorial of the Repub lican calling upon us for proofs that ourpre i s*mt financial prosperity received (nun De mocratic legislation its onward impulse. We have a very accommodating disposition, when a.-ked to sustain any assertion we make by facts, and vve will therefore cite a few,for tiie double purpose of doing this, and of refreshing the memories of onr Whig cotemporaries. Wedo this the more cheerfully since shortness i of memory is a disease with which some of the Whig editors in Georgia are so sorely atllicted, as almost to inspire the belief that it is peculiarly incident to Georgia Vv higery j —or perhaps may be cultivated as a vir tue. A good memory must recall to them some mortifying inconsistencies and absur dities. We will now refer in a few words to the Democratic legislation jual preceding the ad vent of Governor Crawford to the Executive Chair. In 1841, the legislature was Democratic. That legislature adopted a rigid system of i retrenchment and economy. It reduced the pay of its members from what the Whig le gislature of 1840 enjoyed. It reduced the salaries of the various officers of the Slate, who were paid out ot the public Treasury, from that of the Gov ernor down. It suspended the work on the greatest j part of the .State Rail Road—it reduced I the number of Engineers, and abolished the Board of Commissioners—all salaried officers. It passed an act making the Sessions triennial—thus making a saving to the State, for each session dispensed with, of about eighty thousand dollars. In 1842, the legislature, being again De mocrat ic, added 25 per cent to the State taxes in order to furnish additional means to meet the public liabilities. It was Democratic le gislation too that year which diminished the j number of Central Bank Directors to one— that prohibited the further issue of Central Bank notes and ordered them to be burned as thev were paid in to the Treasury. ' It passed an act requiring the drawers 1 of land, within a prescribed lime to take oul their grants. If not done, the lots reverted to : the State. These various measures resuscitated the credit of the State. Central Bank money rose nearly to par, before LI over nor Cranford icent into office, and before the Whig legislature of 1843 convened. Slate Bonds had also pari passu appreciated. This was “ the elastic rebound” which “neither a Whig Governor nor any other sort of a Governor” could have prevented. We might say much more on this subject. ; We might go back to the incipiency of the Central Bank, a Whig bantling, the source | of so much disaster to State credit. We j might show that it was in the power of the Whigs to have shortened its career, but in 1838, they extended its charter to 1850. We might show that it was the Whigs who first , & I created a distaste to taxation in Georgia by i j holding out the idea that by Banking on the j money in the Treasury by means of the ; Central Bank, the State affairs could be car ried on with the profits alone, and have “something over” for various schemes. We could show how it was Whig legislation in 1840, which imposed enormous burthens on ; the Central Bank by its appropriation acts which depreciated its bills, added to which was the ceaseless hostility of the Whigs to this institution, after it could no longer be a party ' tool in their hands. But we have contented ourself with pointing out some Democratic le gislation, which did give the first recupera tive impulse to the finances of the State. The whole State is now enjoying the benefit and the gratification, but the Whigs are dis posed to appropriate to themselves all the credit. This we are resolved they shall not do, and shall on all proper occasions point out by argument and facts, to whom the honor is due for that “ elastic rebound ” given to the financial credit of the State. O'We acknowledge the receipt of public Documents on several recent occasions, from # Messrs. Toombs, Cobb and Lumpkin. ICosigitittioii of At the opening of the Court yesterday morning Judjje Cainble notified the bar,in the course of a few valedictory remarks express ed with much feeling, that he had concluded to forward his resignation to the Governor. The infirm stale of bis health was assigned as the reason. General Flournoy, in behalf of the Bar, tendered to the Judge the kind and respect ful sympathies of his brother Attorneys, and i their regrets at parting with a .1 edge to whom they were sincerely attached,and with whom their professional intercourse had been of the most agreeable and harmonious character. In the afternoon, after the Grand Jury had made their presentments, the Court was ad journed to the first Monday in February next. By that time it is presumed the vacancy will be filled by appointment of the Governor. l.ieutenaiit (Jeueial. Tl.is question, it seems, is not yet set at rest, i Though the proposition for the appointment of sueh an officer was voted down by a majority of thirty 1 in the House.it was introduced into tlie Senate by 31 r. Dix.of the Committee on 3lilitary Affairs, on the llthinst. Some, of the Washington letter wri ters give it as their opinion that it will yet become | a htw —that it will pass the Senate, and that the House will finally be. dragooned into acquiescence. ' We do not believe tbe 120 members voting against, | will prove of such pliable stuff. We have seen no sufficient reason assigned for : the creation of such an office at this juncture, and in the absence of the most cogent reasons in favor i of it. hope the measure will stay defeated. The Baltimore Patriot aptly quotes the lines, “The times have been That when the brains were out, the man would die, j And then an end.” But it seems that this measure, after being twice killed in the House, is to have another chance for its life in the Senate. TluMatiiuieU* Leginla'urc. In the House,on Friday, Bth mat., Messrs, j Cushing, of Newburyport, (Lies, of Boston, ■ Boswell, of Groton, Stevens, of Andover, and Bulloch, of Worcester, were appointed a special committee upon the petition asking j the Legislature to make an appropriation in i aid of the regiment of Volunteers raised in i Massachusetts fur the Mexican war. A res- I elution appropriating $20,000 for the purpose* | j offered by Mr. Cushing on the previous day, i was referred to the same committee. j Peiinnylrania lirginlatiii'?. j Resolutions of thanks to Gen. Taylor, i and the officers and men in the U. X. army in Mexico, volunteers as well as regulars, were adopted in the House,on Friday week, by a vole of 96 to 0. Dentil <>f .Viialor £/*«'si ny barker. By reference to Congressional proceedings it will be seen that the Hon. J. S. Pennyback er, United States Senator from V irginia died, at Washington on the 12th inst. Thus, in j the course of a few weeks, two members of the Senate have been called to their last ac count— both in the vigor and prime of life.— j Judeo Fenny hacker has been confined to his room for a month past, and notwithstanding I all the best medical skill was in requisition, it proved of no avail. Vermont. Mr. 1 jucius B. Feck (Dem.) has been elected to Congress in the 4th district in j Vermont, on the third trial. His plurality over the Whig candidate is about 500. The Abolition candidate received about 1300 votes; but as a plurality elects on the third trial these votes were thrown away. The j district is represented in the present Con gress by Paul Dillingham, Jr., (Dorn ) l iiiaai rs of iVew Vos U. —Oovrraur's 31es na^e. The Message of the Governor of New York is brief, and to the point. He sums up the statistics of the Slate as follows : The entire debt of the State, both direct and contingent, from information derived from the books of the Comptroller, amounted at the close of the last fiscal year, to $24,- 734,089 95. Deducting contingent liabili ties, it will be found to be $23,021,080 85. The aggregate of the debts contracted, on account of all the canals, from information derived from the same source, amounted, at the same tune, to $10,028,250 17. The whole amount received from all the ■ canals for the year ending 29th September last, was $2,842,214 83, and is made up as j follows: Amount received from tolls, $2,- 788,134 76; rents of surplus water, $10,715; interest oh cash canal revenues,s 13,364 37, making $2,842,214 13. The sum above mentioned, as received from toll, embraces railroad toll amounting to $23,201 89; out of the moneys arising from the canals, there j have been paid during the last fiscal year for interest upon the Slate debt, $576,552 58; out of the general fund $400,000, making $136,552 58 fur collection, repairs and su perintendents, and fur all other purposes con nected with canals, including the sum of sl,- 104 47; for toll refunded, $229,353 01, ma king the aggregate $2,015,904 49, and leav ing a balance of the moneys arising from the canals, of $826,308 64. The capital of the common school fund is $2,133,843 01; the United States deposit fund $4,014,520 71; the literature fund $285,- 196 51; whole amount $6,613,660 23. The annual revenue from the common school fund is $117,180 68; from the United Slates de posit fund is $276,667 71; literature fund $17,363 93; whole revenue $411,202 14. During the year ending on the first of July, 1846, 740,723 children have been taught in our common schools. 'Litis number exceeds, by 40,243, the whole number of children in the State between the ages of 4 and 16 years inclusive. (CTAt an election for Tax Collector of ! Charleston District, held on 14th inst., 2194 \ votes were polled. j I mporlmit. Undorthis head,the Savannah Republican of the 14th inst., says—“We yesterday ceived from a friend, who resides at Macon, now in New \ ork, a letter stating that the Stockholders of the Macon & estern Road have determined, in conjunction with the people of Columbus, to construct the Rail Road to Columbus forthwith. It is to be built for cash, and to be completed by the Ist Jan. 1848, if possible. Our informant says there is mistake," 1 and authorizes us to announce the fact. Three or four directors were to leave New York immediately, to meet the Columbus Stockholders on the Flint River. The point of departure from the Macon & W estern Road, is not indicated.— W r e assume, however, for obvious reasons, that it will be Bartlesville. “It will now belong to the citizens of Savannah, and the Central Rail-Road, to build two thorough sea-going steamers, to run hence to New-York, of which it is proba ble much of the Stock would he taken in the latter place. The Road to Waynesborougli is now sure to be built beyond a peradveu ture, and its extension to Augusta may be re garded as certain. So shall public and pri vate interests in Georgia fie subserved.” Finances of S*e»i«» ybanin (SoTcrnor’i Jtvn.iii;**. The Pennsylvania Inquirer gives the fol lowing summary of the statistical portions of Governor Shunk’s Message ; The State debt out fie Ist of December was as follows. Total funded debt $38,858,970 52 Relief noles in circulation 1,684,664 00 Interest certificates outstanding.. 703,810 69 Interest certificates, unclaimed... 4,433 II 1 Interest on certificates, to August j Ist, 1815, when funded 41,423 21 i Domestic creditors, 96,275 47 Total public debt, on tbe Ist De cember, 181fi $40,789,577 00 Being $196,816 22 less than it was on the Ist of i December, 1313. The balance in the Treasury, on the Ist | inst., was only $438,986 68. It is, therefore, altogether probable, that it may become ne cessary to make some arrangements to an ticipate a small portion of the revenue of the ! year to meet the interest which will fall due i on the Ist of February next. He recom mends some legal provision for the purpose, j From the canal commissioner’s report it appears, that the receipts from canal and rail j road toils, and charges fur motive power, j were: For the year 18-13, $1,017,811 12 i “ “ 1844, 1.167,603 42 “ “ 1845, 1,196.979 43 “ “ 1846, 1,295,494 76 Showing a gradual and steady increase du ring the above period. Even last year, not | withstanding llte delay in opening naviga ! lion, they exceeded those of JBl5, by the sum of $98,515 33. 'Lite Governor expresses an opinion that the taxes assessed under existing laws, on real and personal property, with the ordina ry revenues, and an amount from the public improvements, equal to that received during i the past year, will prove sufficient to pay the interest on the public debt, and other de i mauds npon the Treasury; the annual in crease of tolls upon the public works, may be added to llte present sinking fund of two hundred thousand dollars a year. A Eiml to S*u*t mauler*. | A Post-Master in the interior of' Pennsyl vania recently had judgment given against him for the price of a subscription of several years to a distant newspaper, on the plea : that he had not given sujjicienl legal notice id the publisher to stop it, and had continued to i receive the number for several years, and sell ! them for the postage 1 The magistrate de cided that merely returning a copy of “John Smith’s” paper, with ‘‘slop/his'’ written on it, without post mark, or other indication of locality, was not sufficient or legal notice, but a written notice , with name, place, date , and reason , must be sent to the publisher and “franked,” that it may be taken out by him. 'Lite Cassville Pioneer says—“ Rail Roads are going ahead in Cherokee, and no mis take. The Memphis Branch Road is now under contract, and the contractors are busi ly engaged in grading the same. But what is more surprising, Messrs. Wyiy, Cooper &, Stroup, are about commencing the construc tion of a Road from their works on Stamp Creek, to Cartersville, a distance of about five miles. In a few years the Iron Works will be a Lowell, —so much for the enterpris ing citizens of Cass.” The Richmond Enquirer, of Tuesday last says: —“The Northern cars were ve»terday detained three hours by the snow on the track. At.Fredericksburg it was nine inches, and at Washington twelve incites deep. Yesterday morning our streets were covered with snow —but most of it disappeared before the even ing, Last night was clear and cold.” A Washington letter in the Boston Atlas says : A reciprocity Treaty with Hanover, which has been some time before the Senate, was ratified to-day by a very close vote. It was opposed principally on a clause leaving its advantages open to the adoption of the Ger man Stales. It is about time we had got rid of these reciprocities, which are altogeth er one-sided in their operation. A large portion ofour carrying trade is now done in foreign bottoms, under Treaties based upon the principle of the most “favored nations.” 'Lite New York Herald has the following paragraph on the subject : Commercial Treaties—Ratification of the Zoll Verein Treaty.—We learn from 'Washington, that the Senate have final ly ratified the commercial treaty made with the Zoll Verein by our late minister, Mr. Wheaton, at the Court of Austria. This treaty was rejected by our government when it was first presented,and has since lain dor mant. We do not know how the obstruc tions to its passage through the Senate have been removed, or what changes have been been made ensuring its ratification, as the