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THE cor%’STITL T TIOj% T AEIST. B r tIVIBC Jf BVA'CE j7" TERMS —For the semi-weekly pcper, published every Tuesday and Friday naming, $5 per annum •nd for the weekly S 3, all payable in advance, tr ADVERTISEMENTS arc inserted weekly for 62 1-2 cents per sqr.arc ; semi-weekly 62 1-2 cents for ihe first, and 43 3-4 cents for each subsequent insertion, and monthly lor $ U 00 per square for each insertion. For yearly advertisements private Hrrangersonrs are j to bo made, A deduction is on the advertise ments of public officers. IT Postage must be paid on letter* of basinese. ' THE TARIFF. Two of our morning journals are anticipat- j ing the business of Congress and discussing the j expediency of a revision of the tariff. Une con tends that the question is settled : the other that it is not. We do not see how this question can be considered as settled until the revenue ■hah be so adjusted ns to approach the actual expenditures of the government. There seems •to be but one opinion, at least among the friends •of the present administration, as to the utter in expediency of providing an annual surplus of revenue to be scrambled fur by those who re present different sections of our country. That the tariff of the last sr-ssion did not contein plate a sufficient reduction, was admitted on ail hands. On this ground atone it cannot be con sidered a settled question. But there is ano. ther view to be taken of it. The exist.ng tariff, though voted for by half of the Representatives of the Southern and South-Western States, was | not accepted by them as a final compromise of the question. Had that been the c; s.‘ it would not have obtained a single vote Irom the Potom ac to Louisiana. To satisfy the nullifiers we know' is out of the question ; but to sustain the friends of the Union —the decided opponents of nullificatian —throughout tire whole feoulhern and South-Western region of our country, should be an object of deep solicitude with every friend of the present administration from Maine to Louisiana. Besides all this, the present tariff i« intrinsically had: the minimum system should be entirely abandoned —the duties on at least some raw materials ought to be reduced it not abolished, and all duties of a prohibitory char acter should he brought down to the revenue standard. Interest ought not to be charged on duties on merchandize in bond, and casli duties should not have anticipated the establishment of public warehouses. These are but a few of the many defects in tin; present tariff M hether it will be postponed to the next Congress is ano. ther question, but that it must undergo revision is manifest. — N. York Evening Post . Georgia Convention. ADDRESS Os a Committee of the Delegates who seceded from Ihe Convention recently assembled at Mil ledgevillc. t'ellow-citizens of Georgia .* Wo have been ap pointed to make an exposition of the motives and views of those Delegates, who separated them selves from the recent meeting at Millodgeville, styled a Convention. Circumstances prevent the complete performance* of that duty, at the present moment. But, for ihe purpose of conn teracting misrepresentations that already begin to pervade the community, it is deemed advisa ble .immediately to present a summary statement, which may hereafter, if necessary, be more fully developed. The general grounds on which we acted, have been concisely exhibited in our Pro test. The Convention invited by the Resolutions at Athens, was a Convention of Delegates of the people of Georgia. In sucli an assembly alone, we were authorised to act for our constituents. We most firmly believe, that all the Delegates to. gelher convened at Milledgeville, wore far from representing a majority of the People of Geor gia.* We demanded that the authority of those who presented themselves as Delegates, should be regularly scrutinized. Our wishes were re sisted, and we necessarily retired from a body which refused to investigate its title, to the char acter under which it was convoked. Any other course would have seemed to ns, an arrogant assumption of powers with which we were not entrusted. He who speaks in the name of the whole, or any part of the people, without proper authority, infringes their most sacred preroga tive —he counterfeits their sovereignty. These considerations alone are an ample vindication. But while simple ju lice itself commanded cur secession, there were attendant circumstances which rendered the obligation doubly impera tive. Twenty counties devoted to the cause of Union, had refused even to he represented in the Convention —and on the other hand, all those who were inclined to the unhappy doctrine of nullification, whether under its own or any other uame, had eagerly pressed to have Delegates in that body. The originators of the project, who were present as members of the Convention, ex ercised, as it appeared to us, a great, if not de eisive influence with the majority. Utterly dis approving their past movements in relation to the subject, and justly apprehensive of their pur poses for the future —under such* auspices and in a body so constituted, we should have held it both criminal and absurd, gratuitously to sanction by our co-operation, counsels which we could not but believe must prove pernicious in their ten dency. The result has not disappointed our ex pectation. The resolutions adopted by the remnant of the Convention —both of those which relate to their doctrines and their projects, re ceive our decided condemnation, 'i he constitu tional principles which they announce, are sta ted in a manner which however designed, is at least fitted to seduce the unwary into the doc trine of nullification. Whether this be not the fact, we shall for the present content ourselves j with submitting to the unsophisticated intclli- ■ ffencc of the public. The plan of a Southern I Convention, as exhibited in their Resolutions, ap pears to us, the very worst that could have been I passibly devised. There is no prevision that i any certain number of States shall concur before ; it is held. The election of Delegates for Geor- ! gia to take place on the 4th Monday in March next, without waiting for the assent of anv in vited State. The Delegates ofthc States which adopt this project, whether few or many, are to arrange among themselves the time and place of • W hen the Resolutions of the pretended Convention j ■ Wees adopted, only 37 counties were in any manner re- ! pttMMd in it: there being 43 counties entirely unrepre. i ' state i. Os these 37 counties, there were only 34. which i Cut' vole for the Resolutions; and five Delegates ! faarsf these 34 counties, were equally divided, tor > and against the Resolutions, thus balancing each other, featfasi admitting the elections and appointments ot Dele •.4P*p* t® have been tree from exception, (which is far from bang true.) snly 36 counties cut of SO in the state passed the Resolutions of that body. AfeU representation of the people of Georgia, taking tho House of Represeniat.vcs as the standard, would con tain l<B Delegates. At tko time of the passing of the Resolutions of the pretended Convention, there were only 70 persons in that assembly, claiming to be Delegates, including the presiding ofE.-er, r.nd of rip*.', ofilv grt fated fcr the E?tobt»ut. k meeting. From the adjournment of the Con volition to the Ist of July next, it seems to be con templated that the whole process will be com pleted by that thme, although every man of ob servation must be satisfied, that no sufficient num be rof Stales can be induced to act within so short a period. In such a scheme, we can per ceive only the convenient means of drawing Georgia into a league with the nullifiers of S. Carolina. It was understood that they would agree to unite with us in holding a Convention, ifit w ere called speedily. The mode in which a minority, consisting of sixty-four Delegates, pro poses to submit their acts for ratification to the ; whole people, seems to us the very quintessence iof usurpation. If they are to try so vital a ques i lion in their own form, by their own agents, and I * “ 1 i to be themselves the final judges of the decision, ! what is there which a minority may not assume? j The people must be wary of exercising their own sovereignty, if they can permit such an ap propriation ofit by individuals. The seceding Delegates express but one sen timent concerning the Tariff—that it is unwise, unjust, and micons’riutionnl. Several of them entertained the private opinion, that it was not advisable at this moment, to take any extraordi nary s‘eps in relation to llie subject; hut the whole -.ere disposed to lay fairly before the People, the project of a Southern Convention, embracing all or six of the Southern States which are opposed to the Tariff. In such an association, if duly sanctioned, we saw the best guarantee of salutary counsels, and of strength to render them respectable. The plan contained in the Resolutions submitted to the House of Re pros nta’ives on the 20th inst. issuhstantially that 1 which we would have recommended. From the disposition at present manifested by the members of the General Assembly, we trust that these Re solutions will be adopted, and that the people rallying around their “unquestionable rfpre sentatives,” will promptly and decidedly reject the scheme proposed by the remnant of the Con vention—a scheme which, if acted on, would in volvethe State in immediate discord, and expose it to ulterior <»vils of incalculable magnitude. WM. GUMMING, q T. HAYNES, J. P. KING, I). A. REESE, S' N. B. POWELL, I A. CUTHBERT, M. BROWN, GIBSON CLARK, THEOPHILUS J. HILL. J Milledgeville, Nov. 22, 1832. AWWSa'iU FRIDAY, XOVE.IIBFR 30, 1533. GEORGIA CONVENTION. The Columbia Times, ane of the organs of the nulli fication party in South-Carolina, speaks of the resolu tion* adopted by the Georgia Convention, in the follow, iug strain ; “ Nullification is not avowed by name in the report, hut it is therein resolved that in the last resort, the States, and not the General Government, have the right to judge of infractions of the Constitution, and to choose the mode of redress. This is the most important priu. ciplc of the Nullifiers of South-Carolins, and the one on which their whole plan of resistance is founded.’’ We, like the editors of that paper, consider the doc trine of nullification as firmly and unequivocally main tained, in the resolutions in question, as if it had been “ avowed by name." And yet, will the editois of the Times believe us, when we tell them, that the authors of the resolutions have declared that they were not nul lifiers? But so it is; and it appears that in South-Caro lina, where proof positive perhaps exists of the nullifica tion principles of those Georgia citizens, they understand better the policy which lead men to deny the name, but adopt the substance of nullification. A denial suits tho latitude of Georgia, while in South-Carolina, the citizens, less credulous than we are, or knowing better the men they have to deal with, are contented with the substance. The Charleston Mercury is not so explicit, though it states that the principles of the Georgia resolutions are genuine. This paper holds this language: “We pub lish to-dav the resolutions of the Georgia Convention. They set out well, with the enunciation of genuine prin ciples. but we could have wished tiiat they had conclu ded with resolutions less vague, as to the action neces sary to maintain those principles.” Will the editor of the Mercury inform us, whether promises were made, by certain members of the Georgia Convention, to use all their influence in order to have a manifesto adopted, similar to the one lately promulgated by the South. Carolina Convention ? FINANCES OF GEORGIA. Wc publish below the fiscal operations of the state, for the year ending October 31, 1832. It appears by this statement that there is a balance remaining in the trea sury of 15,896 21; but from this balance must be de ducted ,810,000 iu stock ot the Bank of the State of Geor gia, which were received from the commissioners of the Oconee River. Besides, wc must recollect, that in the statement of the Central Bank, which we published in our paperofthe 20>h instant, executive warrants, to the a mount of $32,880 20, were paid by that Bank, the trea sury of the state being empty. V\ hen there will be funds in the treasury to redeem this large sum advanced by the Central Bank, to pay the expenses of the legislature now in session, which will amount to nearly $70,000, to meet the appropriations which will be made by the present legislature, and all the current expenses of the state, it is hard to tell. We hope the legislature will take the subject into serious consideration, in order to relieve our fiscal concerns from tho embarrassments under which thev now labour. STATEMENT Os the receipts and payments at the Treason/, from 24M November, 1831, to 31si October, 1832, both days inclusive. DR. For amount received on the following accounts, viz : General tax of 1829, 725 72 1830, 40,924 66 1831, 650 00 State stock, 113,814 44 V’endue tax, ..... 2,852 15 1 Dividend on Bank stock. ... 69,850 00 I Fund for fees on grants for fractions, Ac. 821 75 I Do land drawn lor in 1820, ’2l, ’27 &.’32, 14,398 00 i Do. Lots fraudulently drawn, - . 104 03 Do. No. 10 and 100 12 00 Do. undrics, .... 5,674 504 i Tax on Pedlars, ..... 1,177 00 I Funds raised on Bank Stock. - - 5,862 66* $256,866 89 240,970 674 Balance, $15,806 214 CR. By amount of Governor’s and President’s and Speaker’s warrant, charged to the following accounts, viz: j Appropriation for county Academies 17,443 52 protection of gold mines, 7.547 65 legislature of 1831. 55,098 60 Penitentiary of 1832, 1'.,000 00 improvement of rail road creek, 9.970 00 j Poor school fund, .... J 9.147 35 Military fund of 1827, .... 2,474 97 Contingent fund, 1830, sl7 68 ; '3l, 903 IT; 1832, 7,486 99, g. 407 84 Printing fund. 1831, 9 4 99; ’32. 9.279 81. 9,374 80 Civil establishment, 1831, 1,162 50 ; 1832, 23,518 75, 24,681 25 Special appropriation of 1822, 500 ; 1828, 34 50 ; 1832, 17.477 86J 18,012 384 Roads and river fund, 1832 . . 19.633 95 Land fund - 43,178 36 *240.970 67 J THE GEORGIA COXVEMTIOX.-XO. I. To establish the correctness of our remarks upon the proceedings of the Georgia Convention, and to place the whole matter beyond the possibility of misconstrue* tion, it is necessary to revert to the circumstances which led to the meeting of such a body of men in Mil ledgeviile, and to the agency the people had in the se. lection of those individuals who represented themselves as their delegates. It is necessary, because if we can prove that a large majority of the people of Georgia were opposed to such a convention, as ill-timed and highlv dangerous to the peace and safety of the coun try, and as the principles, which it was understood were to direct its proceedings, could not faii to be productive of the most disastrous c • .'sequences to the union ot th tse confederated states, we wiii have accomplished one of the main objects we have in view, which is to show, that the members ot the Oonvention, even it the secession of fifty-three members had not taken place, could not be—were not considered by a majority of the citizens of Gecrfia, a? their agents, authorized to act in their names and for.themselves, as a sovereign and independ ent people. The meeting of this convention originated in Athens, where several individuals of the state, who were in that town to witness the examination 01 the students ot Franklin College, met; and in resolutions adopted by them, recommended to the citizens of the several coun ties of the state, to elect delegates to a convention which would assemble at Milledgevillc. This recoin rm ndation was communicated to the several counties of the state, and the people ot many counties thought pro per to take that recommendation into consideration. Meetings for that purpose were held in a number of counties, ar which the citizens of those counties gave a public expression of their sentiments in the torm ot re solutions. To ascertain, therefore, what those senti ments were, with regard to the proposed convention, and to the object for which it was to assemble, and whe ther a majority of the people coincided in the recoin mendatiou of the Athens meeting, we have only to ex amine the resolutions adopted by the counties in which meetings were held, and the complexion of those reso lutions, establish the representative population ot each county, and place under separate heads, those counties which expressed a disapprobation ot the principles which prompted the citizens who took the lead at the Athens meeting, to recommend a convention, together with those counties, which though opposed to the prin ciples in question, yet were willing to try tlic experi ment of a convention, in order to obtain relief lor the many grievances under which the Southern States now labour; and those counties which concurred with the Athens meeting, in the convocation of a convention, with unlimited powers, “ to maintain, preserve, and de fend, the rights and privileges of the tree citizens of this stats.” Fly making this simple and natural dis. tinctiou, v. c can ascertain whether there were a majori ty of the people in favour of a convention, with “ full power, ■’ according to the plan proposed by the Athens meeting, and of the principles which the leaders of that meeting had publicly manifested. It w.r can show that there were a majority at the people decidedly against such a convention, and such principles, it naturally fol lows, that the members of the convention, when as sembled, could not have been, as they were not, the au thorized agents of a majority of the people, delegated f.i the convention in conformity to the recommendation of the Athens meeting, and could not adapt, while act ing as a convention, resolutions which w jre at variance with the feelings and principles publicly expressed in county meetings by a majority of the people. Before proceeding further with our tas.k, we will ob serve, that, as our intention is to place before the people of Georgia, a correct statement of fact? ; and that as truth, independence and honesty of pul pose are to he our guide in the investigation of this question, we shall abstain from using a language which might offend with out carrying conviction to the mind, and front all rt flec tions and remarks which might be construed as having been dictated by prejudice, personal hostility, ora desire to mislead those who will take the trouble to read this review. W e can therefore assure our friends and oppo nents, that, with calm deliberation, we have undertaken to investigate the subject under consideration, .and that we shall not depart from that calmness and deliberation which should prevail in all attempts of this sort, in or dcr to create inthc mind, that conviction of ihe correct ness of the facts stated, which is so essentially necessa ry to produce the results desired. Meetings were held in the counties named below, and resolutions adopted, which, with a very few exceptions, have been published in this paper. ?deetings may and have been held in other counties, which were not pub lished in any of the papers of the state. But should this be the ease, it would not in ihe leas! change the re sult of our calculation, even if v. c were to add all those counties where meetings have not been held, or, if held, have not come to our knowledge, :a those counties which responded to the resolutions o; the Athens meeting. Counties which expressed a decided disapprobation of the Athens meeting, and of the principles which it man ifested, together with the counties where resolutions were adopted, in which opposition to the doctrine of nullification, or to the convocation of a convention with unlimitted powers was approved, should a majority of the people assent to the convocation of such a conven tion. Wo add the representative population of each county. Baldwin, 5,747 Jefferson, 5,723 Bulloch, 2,268 Jones, 10,319 Burke, P. 919 Liberty, 5,036 Camden, 3,299 Lincoln, 4,732 Chatham, 11,866 Mclntosh, 3,433 Crawford, 3,804 Madison, 4.355 DeKalb, 10,140 Meriwether, 4,647 Eirly, 1,8f27 Morgan, 9,002 Effingham, 2,448 Pulaski, 4,063 Franklin, 8,961 Putnam, 9,894 Glynn, 3,039 Rabun, 3,031 Greene, 9,224 Richmond, 9,289 Gwinnett, 12,144 Talbot, 5.448 Habersham, 10.974 Taliaferro, 4,702 Hall, 12.077 Twiggs, 6.860 Hancock, 9,478 Upson, 5,312 Harris, 6 018 Walton, 8,968 Houston, 7,058 M arren, 7,854 Henrv, 9.971 Washington, 8,165 Jackson, 8,507 Wilkes, 10.607 Jasper, 10,253 289,492 Counties in which resolutions were adopted respond* ing to the principles and feelings of the citizens with whom originated the Athens meeting, and approvingthe convocation of a convention with “ full power to main tain, preserve, and defend, the rights and privileges of the citizens ■•!' the state.” Bibb, 6.323 Muscogee, 4.282 Columbia, 8,900 Newton. 9,884 Elbert, 9.819 Oglethorpe, 9,834 Heard, 1,855 Scriven, 3,561 Laurens, 4,410 Thomas, 3,205 Monroe, 14,231 Troup, 6,786 j 83,095 It appears then that of 11 counties, with a represen tative population of 269.509, some of them expressed an opposition to the doctrine of nullification, an objec tion to a Convention, and a disapprobation of the principles which prevailed in the adoption of the reso lutions at the Athens meeting ; some others expressed an opposition to the doctrine of nullification, but express, ed no objection to a State Convention, with limited pow ers, whose acts would return to riie paople for ratifica tion or rejection ; and some others, without expressing any opinion respecting the doctrine of nullification, ob. jected to a convention with full powers, and recommend, ed a convention with limited powers. The representa tive population of the state, agreeably to th* census of 1831, is 444 000, consequently, a majority of the people of Georgia, by 67,500, did not sanction the circumstan ces which led to the meeting at Athens, and, therefore, ,to the call of a State Convention; for we must bear in mind, that with the Athens meeting originated the call of a State Convention, and from the proceedings of that meeting, flic people derived their information of the propriety «f aaaambiiug a convention, of the objects for which it was to be convoked, and of the feeling* and principles which were to form the ground-work of the proceedings of this convention. At all the meetings which have been held in the state, the recommendation in the Athens resolutions were considered as the main object for which the people had convened, and upon which they were to deliberate and decide. It follow*, of course, that when resolutions were adopted by the counties, which accorded neither in spirit nor in princi ple with the resolutions adopted in Athens, they must be taken as being opposed to the Athens resolutions and to the spirit which suggested them. It appears also that meetings in 12 counties only, with a rspresentative population of 83,095, approved the spirit and principles of the resolutions adopted at Athens. But if w# were to add to these 12 counties, those counties among the 41, which expressed no opin ion in regard to nullification, but which approved in a more positive manner the call of a convention with lim. iteci powers, still there would remain a majority of the people against the call ot a convention, in the spirit manifested in the Athens resolutions. If therefore we add to the representative population of the 12 counties, that of the counties of Greene, Jefferson and Taliafer ro, 19.6-19, it would increase these 12 counties to 15, and the representative population to 102,744 and lessen the 41 counties to 38, and the representative population to 269,848; but it would still leave a decided majority, on the side of the 88 counties, of the whole representa tive population of the state. It is clear also, that it we were to add to the representative population ol the 15 counties, that of all the other counties inthc state, which are not included in the above two statements, amount ing to 71,377, and admitting for the sake of illustration only, that their citizens coincide in feelings and princi ples with the citizens of the 15 counties, which wc Know not to be the fact in several of those counties, it would not materially change the majority ot the 38 counties, which possess a representative population ot 269,843, while the representative population of the 15 counties, amounting to 102,744, with that of the other 27 coun ties, amounting to 71,377, would be only 1(4.121, leav ing a majority in favour of the 38 counties of 95,722. Under the circumstances above stated, the Conven tion met in Milledgevillc, on the day designated by tnc Athens meeting. FIRE. In the city of Buffalo, State of New-Aork, more tnan 60 buildings, of all kinds, were destroyed by fire on Wednesday evening, 14th instant. The stores and dwelling houses destroyed amounted to about 44, a d the loss estimated at more than §290,000. The Buffalo Republican states, that, the fire was undoubtedly the work of an incendiary. GEN*. JACKSOX—SOUTH-CAROLINA. The following article is copied from the Charleston ! Courier of last Monday. “ The extraordinary language adopted by the advocates of Nullification towards the venerable Chief Magistrate of the Union, is worthy of be ing put on record, as one of the signs of these distempered times. The Mercury threatens him, on the event of any attempt on his part to coerce South-Carolina, with “ consequences persona / to himself, of which he little dreams.” Does the Mercury mean by this that the dagger of some Biiutus will soon reach the heart ot this modern C.ES.VR, “ and free the State from bondage?” Are we to understand it as a mere jocular ex pression ? Again, the Columbia correspondent of the Mercury speaks of the President as “ The mildest tempered man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat calls him “ a sanguinary detard,” and says that to vote for him would be “ to degrade the State.” Language thus threatening & abusive, is applied by Carolinians to a native son of Carolina, whom the American people have again called by an overwhelming majority, to the Presidency of this great Republic. We trust that Gen. Jackson will know how to appreciate the friendship that dictates such complimentary expressions.” SOUTH-CAROLINA. At a meeting of about one hundred of the citizens of Pickens District, on the 7th instant, the following pre amble and resolutions were unanimously adopted : Whereas, The Legislature of the State of South.Carolina have directed that a Convention be called, to nullify the Tariff' Laws of Con gress. And whereas we have been often called r? # ... upon to join in the measure which is proclaimed to be the only efficient, peaceable and cons'itu tional mode of redress, which at the same time will preserve the Union of the States and the liberty of the people. And whereas, we be lieve that liberty cannot long be preserved should a separation of these states take place, and that these states will, if ever disunited, speedily go the way that all Republics have gone. It is therefore Resolved, That we will not oppose, nor in any way in our power resist the Convention nor the Legislature, but will yield obedience and give our cordial support to all means which may be adopted, so long as they correspond with the principles expressed, as being peaceable and constitutional. But should the Convention or the Legislature, attempt to Dissolve the Union of the States or enact Laws inflicting Pains and Penalties or confiscation of estates , we will resist the same by all legal and constitutional means in our power. Resolved , That we do verily believe that we do owe allegiance of the most sacred character directly to the United States, and that we feel bound to discharge our obligations as citizens of the same, at every and all hazard. Elijah Alexander jun. then submitted the fol lowing resolution which was read and adopted by a large majority of the meeting. Resolved, That Col. Joseph Grisham, Col. Jeptha Norton, John Setfon and Joseph G. Evatts be appointed delegates to represent Pick ens District in any meeting of the Union Party of the State, and we recommend that Capt. Sam uel A. Maverick, Edwin Reese, Doct. William Anderson and Henry Cobb, Esq. be appointed delgates for Anderson District in like manner, the whole representing the Union Party, in Pendleton District, for one year. And at another meeting in the same district, on the the 13th instant, the following preamble and resolutions were also unanimously adopted:— Whereas, \\ T c are rapidly approaching a crisis, in our political affairs, and it is a duty we owe to ourselves, to the Union Party, and to our country, to state explicitly & candidly, our opin ions as members of the American Republic. W c most solemnly protest against the doctrine of nullification by a State. We now declare our decided opinion that the convention, as called, in our state for that purpose, docs not represent its sovereignly. That if it was constitutionally or ganized, still it cannot constitutionally nullify an act of Congress. Nullification cannot be con stitutional, or it would be found in that instru ment. It cannot be one of the reserved rights ; the states never having such right until the ad option of the Constitution. It cannot be peace able, otherwise it will be inefficient. W e view it as a dangerous heresy, ingenious ly imposed on a credulous and confiding people. But should our anticipations he found erroneous, we shall be gaatified to find the dangers we ap prehend averted from our once happy, but now distracted country. W e have no: voted for the members of the Legislature who have ordered the Convention, nor have we voted for the members of the Conven tion : but we are willing to let the party proceed with their measures ; so long as they shall be peaceable and respect the Liberties, and proper ty of the citizens, we shall respect our rulers and obey their laws. It is therefore Resolved, as the deliberate sense of the meeting: Ist. That the Constitution of the United States is the only guarantee we have for civil Liberty. It was formed by the people o. the biases, loi the government of all the people, and ot all toe States. . . 2d. That we owe allegiance to the Lnitcd States, which is sacredly binding on ail the cit izens. 3d. That wc will resist all unconstitutional acts of the Convention, or the Legislature, should such be passed, oppressive on the people, and an attempt be made to enforce them. 4th. That we will not submit to Disunion nor to any act of our Legislature, which may be pass ed inflicting pains and penalties, or confiscation of estates to enforce nullification; and should such laws be passed, we pledge ourselves to join in, and support any means of resistance recoin mended or adopted by the Union Party in oui State, for the protection of the Cons itution, and the Liberty and property of the people. sth. That we recommend that the following persons be appointed delegates to represent Pen dleton DisTict, in any meeting of the Union Par ty of our State, for one year, viz : Joseph Grish am, Col. Jeptha Norton, John Setton, Samuel A. Maverick, Joseph G. Evatts, Edwin Reese, Doct. William Anderson, and Henry Cobb, Esq. A LAB VM A. The Legislature, in accordance with the proclamation of the Governor, met at Tuscaloosa, on the sth instant, »nd both houses proceeded to their organization. Levin Powell was elected President of the Senate, and 'amuel W. Oliver Speaker of the House ofßeprescntatives. The next day Gov. Gayle transmitted his message to both houses. ’»Ve have room only for a few extracts from this able state paper. As regards the Creek Indians, he says:— “The act of the last session, extending our laws over the Indians has, in conformity with its di rections, been distributed among such portions of the several tribes as reside within the limits ofthe State. Prudent and discreet agents were selected to execute this trust, who were special, ly instructed to observe in their intercourse with these people, a conciliatory course of conduct, and to do nothing which might tend to produce irritation, or to increase the discontent which v.as known already to exist. They met witu no opposition, but were generally received with kindness and entertained with hospitality.” “ On the 22d of March of the present year, a treaty was concluded by the Secretary of W nr, with the Creek Indians, by which they ceded to the United States all their lands east ofthe .Mis- j sissippi river. The territory acquired by this ; treaty lies within the limits of Alabama, and her ; right of jurisdiction over the inhabitants will • henceforth be relieved of nil doubt or embar- I rassment which was supposed to grow out ofthe j relations between the general government and | the Indian tribes. The duty will devolve on you | • # m ” at the present session, to lay it oft into suitable and convenient counties, and to establish a sys tem of county organization, so that the protec. tion, as well as the wholesome restraints of our law's may be speedily introduced.” Respecting the boundary line between Georgia end Alabama, be informs the legislature, that “ The line which separates this State from Georgia has not as yet been established. The at tempt heretofore made to effect this desirable object, was unsuccessful, and the views of the parties are so materially variant that it is pre sumed any similar effort would he equally una vailing. A considerable portion of the lands, involved in this controversy, arc valuable ; but this consideration is of little consequence when compared with those which should form the prin . cipal inducement to its speedy and amicable ad justment. The whole of the Indian title being extinguished, perplexing and embarrassing ques tions of jurisdiction may be expected to arise, which would tend to hinder the administration of justice, bring the citizens of each State into frequent and unpleasant collisions, and possibly interrupt the harmony and good understanding which it is the desire as well as the interest of both to cherish and cultivate. The whole dif ficulty arises from the doubtful constructV>n of the articles of agreement and cession entered into between the United States and the S ate of Georgia in April, 1802 • leaving it uncertain from what point on the Chatahoochee river the line should be run to Nickvjack, on ; be Ten nessee river. A personal examination ofthe country is not necessary to a solution of this question, and 1 respectfully suggest whether it would not be advisable to submit a proposition to Georgia to refer it to the umpirage of distin guished individuals not citizens of either State.” As relates to the Protective Policy and the Doctrine of Nullification, he is very explicit. We shall, in our next, give his views upon the subject. FOKEIGN INTELLIGENCE. Late arrivals in New-York bring Liverpool and Lon don dates to the 15th of October. The tollowing is a brief summary made from the New-York Courier and Enquirer : “ It is admitted on all hands by the London newspapers, that an English and French fleet are about to proceed to the Dutch (.'oast, for the purpose of compelling the King of Holland to accede to the terms of separation between his kingdom and Belgium, laid down by the Lon don Conference. It does not appear distinctly what is to be the nature of the operations of the combined fleets; probably, however, a block ade of all the Dutch ports is intended. This plan has the advantage over an advance of the French army into Belgium, in as much as it will not so directly justify a military movement on the part of Prussia, or other allies of Holland.” “ Ireland continues in the same distracted state. Another sacrifice of human life has been made at Carrigeen in the county of Kilkenny. The extortion of tithes was again the cause. An officer while posting lithe notices was as saulted by an immense collection of people ; he directed his men to fire on them, by which 12 were killed and 20 wounded.” “ The formation of a new French Cabinet is at last officially announced. Its composition stands thus : Marshal Soult—President of the Council, and Minister of War. Duke de Broglie—Foreign Affairs (in the place of Sebastiani.) M. Thiers—Minister of the Interior (in the place of M. Montali vet.) M. Humann—Finance (in the place of Baron Louis.) M. Guizot—Public Instruction (in the place of Girod de I’Ain.) Admiral de Rigny—Marine (remain as be fore.) M. Barthe— Seal * and Justice (remain as be fore.) Countd’Argout—Commerce and Public Works (remainas before.) Os these, M. Humann, M. Thiers, M. Guizot, and M. Barthe are Members of the CharaUr Deputies. Messrs. Louis and Girod de I’Ain are Peers of Franee. M. Montalivet, late Minister of the Interior assumes the intendency ofthe Civil List. The last Turkey mail brings intelligence ih a( the army of the Pacha of Egypt was within t few days’ march of the Turkish capital, and m troops to opjHise their victorious career. \ | et ter from Smyrna, dated September 5, s'atesthat they daily expected to learn ol important event* having occurred at Constantinople, toward* which city tlie Egyptians were rapidly advanc. ing, and must then have been within a few dav*’ march as they passed Koukia twenty days be. fore, and hail been joined by the people e » frT where in their progress. The Government a( Constantinople was in a most critical state.-. The cholera had made its appearance at Con. stantinople ; the plague was on the decline. GOLD AND LAND LOTTERIES. Drawings of the 24/A and 26 th of November, Gold Lottery. BURKE. Fortunate Drawers. Capts. Dist. No. Dt. See Henry Smith, Bushes 210 ] j Jno. A. Dunham, C9t!i 620 21 2 Jeremiah Janran, 74th 1024 2 3 Henry Chance, Petersons ”843 Christian Shults, 75th 516 3 j Andrew L. Paul, 73d 269 21 3 Wm. H. L. Musgrave, Petersons 980 5 1 James Liptrot, 74th 883 19 3 COLUMBIA. David Fudge, Adams 258 19 3 Win. Bouroum, Murpheys 113 17 3 David Holliman, Harriss Jesse W. Morriss. Bells Martha Marsha!!. Grubbs Nancy H. Furdiiio, wid. (do.) James S. Roberts, Cliett, Jesse Roberts, Huchinsons OH 21 3 Bash lord Robbins, Adams 1227 18 3 JEFFERSON. Joseph Gardner, Woods 900 2 4 Hannah Pate, wid. C.irnswells 333 3 3 James Stuart, sen. Youngs 589 12 1 RICHMOND. Daniel Bioxon, 119'h 301 11 Henry H. Cook, 120th 357 1 3 Patrick 11. Smead, 398th 71 17 3 Henry H. Cook, 120 h 782 15 2 Wm. Harper, 600th 1017 18 3 Elmer Delby, 39Sth 72 IT 4 Theodore Brown, 122 th 649 18 2 James Willingham, 398ih 924 17 2 David Vincent, sen. 119th 136 15 J M alvina A. S. Waugauf, orph. 600th 305 15 1 Mary Wingate, wid. 600th 742 18 3 Virginia P. Renderson, orph. 120th 1290 18 3 Patrick C. Rain, orph. 398th 196 4 3 WARREN. Walker Reynolds, Parhams 547 10 2 Pearson B. Monk. Perrymans 1189 4 3 James Hall, Camps 598 19 3 James Welch, Perrymans 348 15 1 Geo. W. Thomas, Stewarts 470 3 4 Hannah Perry, wid. Newsoms 91 3 1 Hardey Harris, Symms 1187 19 3 Reese Camp, Johnsons 077 21 2 Joseph Williams, Newson* 354 13 1 Charles Shinley, Camps 1110 12 1 Aaron Jackson, Griers 659 19 3 Vincent, Davis, Downs 785 19 3 Drawings of the 22.7 and 23d of November. Luted Lottery. BURKE. Charles Melton, Bryants 45 6 3 ; David L. Broxton, Griffins 203 28 3 Dempsy Murray, Paris 108 18 1 Hugh Vallotten, sol. Polhills 35 11 4 Sarah Dubose, wid. 69th 60 23 2 Thomas Francis, Griffins 119 5 3 John Oats, 72d 212 7 3 Edward Kidd, 69th 206 4 4 Gibson West, Bells 239 5 3 Moses Royal, Griffins 142 20 2 Mary H. Neyland, wid. Roes 74 JI 4 COLUMBIA. John Tillman, Clictts 50 14 3 Madison Avery, Peeks 123 17 1 David Welsh, Adams 269 11 2 Jesse Watson, do. 122 6 2 Jesse W. Morriss, Bells 277 12 3 JEFFERSON. Isaac Morrison, Alexander 60 16 1 Wilson Watkins, Christies 304 8 5 John Campbell. Carswells 64 11 7 Wm. Man,son, Flemings 170 8 V RICHMOND. John Lamkin, 119th 46 11 3 Abraham Green, 123 d 310 13 4 Maria L. Peter J. &. Geo. M. \V. ) 0 ,_ . Shannon, orphs. 119: h (j “ 4 WARREN. James Carter, sen’r sol. Perrymans 309 26 3 Lucy Windham, w. r. s. Downs 263 6 1 Lewi# Griffins orphs. do. 262 6 4 George G. Smith, Newsoms 202 4 4 Jacob W. Miller, Perrymans 322 4 4 Frances ynne, wid. Johnsons 163 6 fi Parh nn S. HiVtiis orphs. Parham 242 26 2 Solomon Newsom, sr. Newsoms 296 4 2 From official documents presented to the House of Commons, it appears that the slave population of the British West Indies is every year diminishing.—The slave trade ceased, so far .as regarded these islands, in the year 1808; the number of slaves was Ten about eight Iron dred thousand. In 1830, the number was about six hundred and ninety-five thousand, showing a decrease of one hundred and five thousand in tvventv-two years. Those who advocate 'he emancipation of the colonial slaves, contend that the British W( st India slavery is remarkably destructive of human life ; they contrast it with the increase of the slaves in the United Stales, during the same term of twenty-two years,from one million one hundred and thirty thousand, to two million ten thousand four hundred andthir tv-six : and, deducting the peculiar destructive ness of the British system, they demand that the p irliament shall speedily abolish it. \Ve know what the British West Indian re plies to all this. He asserts his right to the pro* perty in slaves, and demands that the market price shall be paid him by those who reqmro their freedom, or the parliament which shah decree it. But Great Britain is weighed down with a burthensome debt, and the present minist ry will scarcely venture to increase it by an ex penditure like this. Already they discover ilia the revenue has fallen short, and that the un certain condition of European affairs has chew ed the enterprize of the capitalists, and pre ,ent * ed those liberal individual expenditures, tf oro which so much of the national income is derive - —The West Indians, therefore, will scarce) receive a remuneratory appropriation at present. —and Lord Grey will never consent to ruin an _ exasperate the planters by a forcible depriva 0 their slaves. The matter will probably be o* k in suspense for an indefinite term : in the men" time the slaves will be anunally diminishing 50 that iu the end, perhaps the pbilanthopist n l3 ' cease his exertions on account of the extinct 11 ® of the race in whose behalf he has been contcn ing. —English paper. ___ - FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER OF NOVEMBER* A joint committee was appointed by the •'* Houses of Congress at the last session to re'* j the laws in force within the District ofColurr 1 ! and report to Congress a digested Code. DU members composing the joint committee, •" * Tyler, of the Senate, and Messrs. DdDDBi DG A; Wilde,of the House ofßeprescntatives, ha' been in the city for several days engaged in * u mitting such portions ofthe work as were con> mitted to the respective members, and matun and arranging these into the general rep o ’ The other members of the committee are 031 . expected. Mr. Thomas was present a fe"' ■>g°. hnt is now absent. 1 258 19 113 17 611 21 1227 18 45 6 203 28 108 18 35 11 60 23 119 5 212 7 206 4 239 5 142 20 74 II 50 14 123 17 269 11 122 6 277 12 60 16 304 8 64 11 170 8