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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 12.
Important from Mexico !
By last night’s Express mail, we received New
Orleans slips, announcing the arrival of the Steam
Ship Meteor in 60 hours from Vera Cruz, bring
ing the intelligence that a French fleet of three
frigates and two bomb vessels had attacked and
battered down the castle of St. Juan de Llloa,
which commands the entrance to the port of Vera
Cruz. The attack lasted four hours, and the cas
tle was defended by 160 pieces of cannon. The
loss of the Mexicans was dreadful; one of their
Magazines was exploded by a bomb shell, produ
cing death and destruction, and hundreds were
killed by the fragments of the falling castle.
The port of Vera Cruz is now open to all na
tions.—We shall give the particulars to-morrow.
Another Ktcnm-bcat Explosion.
The, New Orleans Courier slip received last
night, brings intelligence of the blowing up of
the steamboat Augusta, between Natchez and
Vicksburg. The explosion was awful, killing
(yt wounding nearly every one on board, thirty' or
forty—in all.
Lafayette Knees.
The race yesterday, 2 mile heats, was won by'
Lowell & Hammond’s Polly Green, in two heats.
—Time 3m. 50s.—3m. 48s.
At a meeting of the members of the Lafayette
Jockey Club, held at the United States Hotel, on
Monday evening, the following gentlemen were
elected officers for the c.nsuing year:
Jo ax Pm viz v, President.
.1. G. McWhorter, Ist Vice President.
Alfred Cummino, 2d Vice President.
S. M. Thompson, Secretary & Treasurer.
John G. Wi NTER, V
1). L. HaI.LIDAT, {
H. H. Musa hove. i Q . ,
W. J. Eve, > Stewards.
W. G. Nim.mo, 1
James M. Dxe. J
Alabama Legislature.
This body assembled on the 4th inst. James
M. Calhoun, of Dallas, was elected President of
the Senate, and James W. McClung, of Madison,
Speaker of the House. The former is a State
Rights’ Sub-Treasury man, and the latter a
Special Dcpositc System man.
We were shown yesterday' at the office of the
Georgia Insurance & Trust Company, a pair of
most beautiful and splendid Silver Pitchers, in
tended as a present to Mr. Thomas D. Rice, of
Crawfordville Geo., as a token of the Company’s
regard for his manly and extraordinary exertions
at the fire in that village on the 9th of Sep 1 ember
last, whereby a building was saved from destruc
tion, upon which the Company had a heavy insu
rance. Each Pitcher bears the following inscrip
y° n—
-1 “ The Georgia Insurance V Trust Company,
To
THOMAS D. RICE,
„ Sept. Bth,
.1838.”
The company have also purchased a handsome
watch, to he presented to his son John H. Rice,
a lad of 13 or 14 years of age, who gallantly
mounted the roof of the House during the lire
and did much to save the building.
Pennsylvania.
The difficulties in this unhappy and distractej
State grow worse and worse, instead of better.
At the date of the last accounts from Harrisburg,
there had been no session of either branch of the
Legislature for two days, the mob having had un
disturbed control of the State House for that
time. It will be seen that a division of the militia
from the city of Philadelphia has been called out
by Gov. Ritncr.
A brief explanation of the causes which have
led to this unparalleled state of affairs may not
be unacceptable to our readers, many of whom
are not perhaps conversant with the circumstan
. cos. We shall endeavor to state them, so far as
we understand them, without partiality and with
I equal justice to both parties.
The County of Philadelphia is entitled, embra
cing a portion of the city, to two members of Con
gress and eight .representatives to the Legisla
ture. At the late election, Charles Naylor, a
Whig, was elected over C. J. Ingersoll, a Van
Huron man, for one District, and Lemuel Payn
i ter, aV. B. man, was elected in the other over J.
I B. Sutherland, Conservative. The two Districts
f voting together for County members elected the
", Van Buren Ticket. It is provided that one pre_
■ siding magistrates from each precinct shall meet
■ within three days after the election, to consolidate
B the different returns, declare the result of the
B election, and give certificates to those elected.
£ There were seventeen of these return judges, ten
| Van Buren men and seven Whigs. They met
on the third day after the election, being the last
$ allowed by law to make their returns. The Ic
* gality of the returns for a portion of the third Con
gressional District was contested by Mr. Ingersoll !
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the defeated candidate, who succeeded in indu
cing the ten V. B.return Judges to set aside the
whole vote of the Northern Liberties, contrary to
every thing like law or honesty, which leaving
him a majority of the votes in the balance of the
District, they gave him the certificate of election.
Itlieing late, the Judges then adjourned without
consolidating the returns for County members.
The Whig judges, however met again, and each
produced the return for his own precinct, by which
it appeared that the Whig candidates had a ma
jority, and they were accordingly declared duly
elected, the certificate given to them, and a re
turn made to the Sheriff, the proper ofliccr to re
ceive it, before the hour of twelve at night, of the
last day allowed by law to make the returns.
This return was forwarded by the Sheriff to the
scat of Government, and the Whigs were regis
tered in the office of the Secretary of State as the
members elect for Philadelphia County. The
Van Buren Judges met again the next day, and
comparing the returns of their several precincts
declared the candidates of their party to be elected
and made a return to the Sheriff, who declined to
receive it on the ground that the time limited by
law for him to make his return had expired and
he had no authority to accept it.
In this condition matters stood until the meet
ing of the Legislature, when each set of Repre
sentatives appeared and claimed their seats—the
Whigs having the legal right upon the face of
the returns made in pursuance of law, and the
Van Buren men the highest number of actua l
votes.
The whole controversy has had its origin in the
conduct of Ingersoll and the ten Van Buren
Judges in sotting aside the vote of the Northern
Jabcrtics. The mob which has assembled at Har
risburg, has for its object the prevention, by force
and violence, of the Whigs from taking their seats
under their certificates of election, and to compel
the Legislature to receive the Van Buren men.
The mob arc chiefly foreigners carried to Harris
burg by an officer of the General Government to
bully and brow-beat the Legislature at its very
bar. Such scenes have seldom been witnessed
i" America before, and have their parallels only,
in the history of the French Revolution.
Another Reported Defalcation.
WILLIAM M. PKICE, the United Slates Dis
trict Attorney for the Southern District of Now
York, has suddenly resigned Ids office and left for
Europe m the steamer Liverpool, unknown, until
afier his departure, to any person whatever. The
New York Journal of Commerce says—
“ Tbo posBQgR of Mr price was not engaged be
forehand, nor was Mr. Hoyt, the Collector, apprised
of Ini intention, until he learned alter tlie ship Imd
gone, that the District Atlorncy was also gone.
On the contrary, in a conversation between them
on the pievious evening, Mr. Price said lie should
start for Washington yesterday, and ho actually
sent one of his sons to wait for him at the Phila
delphia bool; and he was so waiting while Ins
father was embarking in the Liverpool. Immense
sums of money have been passing through the
hands of the District Attorney tor along lime.—
The extended bonds ho claimed the righTof retain
ing at his office for collection, ami they amounted
to millions.
„ He tins lost very heavily by bets on the recent
Slate election, and those bets he lias promptly paid.
We are told he left a letter behind him addressed
t.) the President of (lie United States, complaining
of the manner in which the Collector. Mr. Swart
wout, has been treated. All the members of Mr.
Price’s family appear to have been entirely igno
rant of his design. The regular emoluments of bis
office j,dtiring the last two years must have been
very great.
The circumstances have excited much surprise,
and apprehension that uncomfortable disclosures
are to follow.”
The letter alluded to is his resignation, alledging
that he is unwilling to be the instrument of prosecu
ting Mr. Swartwout and his securities in the man
ner determined upon by tb i Government, believ
ing it to be unconstitutional. He claims to have
enough due him by Government for fees and com
missions, to cover whatever amount of public funds
he may have in his bands. The Courier and En-
Uuirer speaking ol this subject, says ;
“Os his departure there can he no doubt; and
it, is equally evident from his letter to the Presi
dent of the United Stales, which we give below,
that he is a defaulter, but relics upon his fees of
office to cover the amount of his defalcation. In
this we have no confidence. Corruption has
been the order ol the day ; and we verily believe
that if the records at Washington are not destroy
ed before an investigation can be had by a Whig
Committee of Congress, it will appear that the
defalcations under the administrations of Andrew
Jackson and Martin Van Buren exceed twenty
millions of dollars."
Will not these matters—these repeated defalca
tions, which tread so closely upon the heels us
each oilier, awaken the people of riu United S tales
to the existence oflhatsyslematic corruption w hich
lias been carried on under the glorions adminis
tration of Jackson and Van Buren? Wo shall
see!
M e learn from the Nashville Banner that
Col. Samuel P. Carson, formerly a representative
in Congress from North Carolina, died at the
Hot Springs, in Arkansas, on the 2d ult.
Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.
Milleugeville, Dec. 7, 1838.
In the House, yesterday afternoon, the debate
on the bill miscalled Free Banking by its friends,
was brought to a close. On the final passage of
the bill, the yeas were 84, and the nays 71, as fol
lows :
For the bill, Messrs. Arnet, Bacon, Ball, Ber
rien, Bowen, Brown, Burnett, Byars, Camp,
Cannon, Carr, Carroll, Chapman, Chatfield, Ches
ter, Clack, Cok r, Collier of Dekalb, Colley, Con
ner, Craw'ford of Harris, Daniel of Twiggs, Dar
den, Dart, Delaperriere, Evans of Muscogee,
Fletcher, Ford, Goodman, Green of Lee, Greer,
Hammond, Hancock Harper, Harris, Harrison,
Hines, Hudson, Hunt, Jones of Elbert, Kelly of
Houston, Kelly of Rabun, King, Laedler, Land
rum, Lcfils, Lockhart, Lowe, Martin, Maguire,
McArthur, McMillan, Meadows, Moseley, Neal
of Pike, Patterson, Phillips, Powell of Marion,
Powell of Monroe, Prescott, Pryor, Renfroe, Roy -
nolds, Richardson, Robinson, Rockwell, Sanford,
Scarlet, Shelton, Smead, Smith of Appling, Stal
| lings, Slatham, Stocks, Swift, Toombs, Tracy, |
Turner of Wilkes, Ward, Warthen, Webb, Well.
born; Whiting and Wyatt.
Against the bill, Messrs. Anderson, Ash. Aw*
try, Boyd, Bryant, Bulloch, Cain, Clark, Cobb,
( one, of Camden, Craw ford, of Columbia, Craw
ford of Richmond, Cross, Dobson, Drysdale, Dv*
er, Evans, ol Dekalb, Franks, Freeman, Frier,
Choir, Gaulden, Green of Forsyth, Gunby, Guy
ton, Hall, Hamilton, Hardage, Hilliard, Hollings
worth, Hopkins, Horton, Howard, Hubbard,
Hutchinson, Jenkins, Jones of Gilmer, Lamar, |
Lemon, Lessueur, Malone, McCleskcy, McDow
ell, Meriwether, Murphy, Neal of Franklin, Por
ter, Rabun, Raulcrson, Roberts, Rogers, Saussey,
Sassnott, Shaffer, Shaw, Smith ofTattnall, Sparks,
Stanley, Stapler, Stell, Stroud, of Clark, Stroud of
Walton, Sumner, Turner of Monroe, Watts,
White of Campbell, Whitfield, Wilkinson, Wil
lingham, Witt and Young.
Members absent 24.
Two of the representatives from Richmond de.
serve great credit, and the thanks of their consti
tuents, for the zeal they exhibited during the pro
ceedings of the House on this bill, and their unre
initted exertions so to modify and amend its pro
visions as to render it less objectionable and per
nicious in its operations. I was particularly well
pleased with the remarks of Mr. Jenkins, just be
fore the yeas and nays were taken. I was agree
ably disappointed to find that the majority was
not so large as I expected. The ordeal it has to
pass through, before this bill becomes a law, may
lead to its prostration : The Senate may prevent
this wild scheme from entailing everlasting injury
upon the state.
J his morning in the House, on a motion to re
consider the bill, the vote was yeas 05, nays 95.
Decembers.
Phe bill to charter the Waynesboro Railroad
and Banking Company, was taken up yesterday
in the House. Thu motion to strike out the
banking powers provided for in the bill to the
company, was carried by the decisive vote of 101
against 45. The bill passed the House this mor
ning, but in its present shape, the company has
no banking privileges. This vote decides the fate
of several other bills for the incorporation of rail
road companies with banking powers.
In the House this morning, the bills to pardon
Jarvis Brook, now in the W ilkcsCounty Jail,fur
murder, and William Porter, in the Pike County
Jail, also for murder, passed and were sent to the
other house.
The Central Railroad bill was taken up in the
Senate this morning, and made the order for Mon
day next.
CEXSCS OF 3838.
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111 fin l!
. H k* O *r] *q *C o
Appling, 1877 1014 203 1/4 11
Baker, 2072 1(517 1055 cbu 11
Baldwin, 7036 2850 4179 6M3 2 2
Bibb, 91S1 5149 4032 K6B 3 2
Bryan, 3051 845 2200 21>8 1 I
Bulloch, 2620 1639 981 2MJ 11
Burke, 12520 4579 7950 9&ft 3 3
llutts, 5345 3422 1921 4574 2 2
Camden, 5770 t!O2 395* 41*6 2 2
Campbell, 4742 3925 817 4-fLS 2 2
Carroll, 3947 3608 339 *3821 2 2
Cass, 6760 5263 1497 GJ-Cl 2 1
Chatham, 20956 8428 12528 IWW4 4 3
Cherokee, 4324 3992 332 4480 2 I
Clark, 10539 5478 5061 fedt 3 3
Cobh, 5861 5285 576 50ib 2 1
Columbia, 11232 3812 7420 826» 3 3
Coweta, 9716 0933 2783 8645 3 2
Crawford, 7673 4734 2939 6305 2 2
Decatur, 4980 2874 2112 G4l 2 2
Dc Kalb, 10009 8720 1889 9S*§ 3 3
Dade, 854 582 50 /Cl 2 11
Dooly, 4133 3144 989 tf727 2 1
Early, 4395 2653 1742 3TOB 2 1
Effingham, 2650 1207 1443 2(470 11
Elbert, 11432 6143 5289 9S+B 3 3
Emanuel, 2920 2372 553 27/1 11
Fayette, 0080 4907 1173 5040 2 2
Floyd, 4801 3312 1489 4205 2 1
Forsyth, 4900 4128 532 4717 2 1
Franklin, 9525 7436 2089 8689 3 3
Gilmer, 1504 1460 44 1486 11
Glynn, 4402 675 3727 2911 1 2
Greene, 11160 4436 6730 8474 3 3
Gwinnett, 10844 8763 2081 10011 3 4
Habersham, 7791 6865 929 7422 3 3
Hall, 7783 6774 1009 7378 3 4
Hancock, 995.2 3926 6026 7541 3 3
Harris, 13557 7442 6115 11111 3 2
Heard, 4752 3331 1421 4183 2 1
Henry, 12261 9167 3094 11023 3 3
Houston, 11939 6725 5214 9853 3 3
Irwin, 1721 1493 228 1629 11
Jackson, 11877 8244 3633 10425 3 3
Jasper, 11388 639.3 5993 8990 3 3
Jefferson, 6125 2175 3950 4545 2 2
Jones, 11001 4350 5450 7820 3 3
Laurens, 5165 3070 2388 4506 2 2
Lee, 2653 1671 1579 2621 11
Liberty, 7426 1576 5850 5086 2 2
Lincoln, 5978 2.307 3411 4513 2 2
Lowndes, 4683 3895 788 4367 2 1
Lumpkin, 5856 .3389 467 .3669 2 1
Macon, 3610 2502 1209 3127 2 1
Madison, 4761 3334 1429 4191 2 2
Marion, 4006 3210 796 3687 2 1
Mclntosh, 5003 1077 3926 3433 2 2
Meriwether, 13928 9204 4724 12638 4 2
Monroe, 15596 7632 7931 12390 4 4
Montgomery, 1302 946 355 1157 11
Morgan, 9720 3820 ,3908 7364 3 3
Murray, 3134 2904 286 307.3 2 1
Muscogee, 1.3302 9978 .3324 13172 4 2
Newton, 8798 6228 2570 7770 3 3
Oglethorpe, 11397 4729 6668 8729 3 3
Paulding, 2387 1986 401 2226 11
Pike, 8598 6174 2388 7609 3 2
Pulaski, 4846 2815 2028 4031 2 2
Putnam, 10487 5760 4737 8592 3 3
Rabun, 1898 1808 91 1862 1 2
Randolph, 6119 4146 1973 .3329 2 1
Richmond, 12991 6416 6576 10360 3 3
Scriven, 44.38 2216 2212 3561 2 2
Stewart, 9957 6462 3495 8569 3 1
Sumter, 3715 2266 1149 3135 2 1
Talbot, 14152 8317 .380.3 11830 3 2
Ta'ifero, .0081 2224 2857 3738 2 2
Tatnall, 2410 1896 544 2202 11
Telfair, 2426 1937 689 2350 11
Thomas, .0900 3453 2447 4921 2 2
Troup, 16037 8477 7560 13013 4 2
Twiggs, 8215 4155 4060 6.391 2 2
Union, 2221 21.31 70 2193 11
Upson, 13408 7868 6.300 11168 3 2
Walker, .3833 4901 932 .3460 2 1 |
Walton, 10216 7048 3168 8948 3 3 “
Ware, 1978 1883 95 1940 11
Warren, 10170 .3541 4629 8318 3 3
Washington, 96.32 6695 39.37 8069 3 3
Wayne, 1455 944 .349 1273 1 I
Wilkes, 11333 4124 7109 8389 3 3
Wilkinson, 6102 4682 1720 .3714 2 2
662173 393190 265512 554588 207 18^,
Meiascholi Occl h hence. It is with pain
we lay before our readers an account of a fatal
affray, which took place m this city on Monday
last, between Mr. John A. Wylly and Dr. Tho.
j I*. Hazzard, both ol this county, which resulted
in the death ol the former. Most of our readers
in this section arc no doubt aware that a dispute |
has existed between these two gentlemen for some
| time past. It appears, however, that Dr. H. had
j recently addressed a letter to the mother of the
I deceased which was the immediate cause of the
t
attack. J hey met on the piazza of the Oglethorpe
House, mid after exchanging a lew words, Mr.
str «ck Hr. H. with a cane. Judge Henry
who was here holding a term of the Superior
Court, and Col. Dubignon happening to be pres
ent, immediately interfered and succeeded in sep
arating them. A short time after, Mr. Wylly
again met Dr. Hazzard in the entry of the house
and spit in his face, when the latter drew a pistol
and fired, the ball ot which passed directly through
I Mr. W s heart. He reeled a moment, at the
j same time striking at the Dr. with his cane, then
I fell and expired instantly. Mr. W. was a young
, man being in his 32d year, and has left an aged
I mother and numerous connexions to mourn his
sudden death.
Dr. H. was arrested on the spot, and the ease
immediately laid before the Grand Jury, who, af
ter a patient investigation, returned a verdict of
'oluntary manslaughter. —Brunswick Advocate.
0 Knv West, Nov. 14.
hnicwnKeif.—'J’he Steamboat Wilmington, of
Wilmington, Delaware, Captain John Gallagher,
h orn I hJadelphia, and bound to Mobile, sprung a
leak on the morning of the 19th hist, about 60
miles north of Cape Florida, and for the safety of
those on board, it was deemed advisable to put
her ashore, where she sunk in two fathoms water.
I hey succeeded in saving themselves by means of
their boats, losing, in her, all that belonged to
them. J’hn next day the steamboat wont to pie
ces, when various things in her floated ashore :
they constructed a tent with the few pieces of
canvass that were picked up, and remained in this
situation with what they could pick up to sustain
nature, lor the space of eight days. On Sunday,
the 18th instant, they were takeii off the beach by
the 1,. IS. Sloop Panther, Lieutenant Shubrick,
commanding, and were treated in the kindest
I *' Hl , ln ‘ :r l, y °n board, and were put aboard the
Mail Boat, bound to Key West, which vessel ar
med at this place on Wednesday, the 21st inst.
(. apt. Gallagher purposes to embrace the first op
portunity that offers for Mobile, taking with him
lus crew. The steamboat, and two of her boats,
were sold on Friday for $370.
A direct trade between Texas and Europe has
commenced. A vessel laden with merchandize
is now on her way from England to Galveston,
where she will take a load of cotton for her return
voyage. An arrangement will also bo effected
by a house in Liverpool, for extensive purchases
ol cotton in Texas, with a view to direct shipment
to England — N. O. Bulletin.
From the Baltimore American, Dec. 8,
Latest from Harrisburg.
By last night’s Susquehanna Kail road Cars
we received the Harrisburg Telegraph, extra, is
sued on the evening of Thursday the fith hist.—
It contains an Address “to the people of the Com
monweal of Pennsylvania,” signed by Mr. Pen
rose, Speaker ol the Senate, and eighteen other
Senators. The length of the Address, and the
lateness of the hour at which it reached us, pre
vent its publication entire. Its opening paragraph
is as follows : *
“The undersigned, Senators of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania, duly elected, returned,
and qualified according to the Constitution and
Laws, and composing a majority of that body,
feel called upon, by the novel and dangerous cir
cumstances which have attended the meeting of
the Legislature, to lay before the people ot the
State a bricl account of the occurrences at the
Seat of Government, on the fourth day of Decem
ber, 1838, in order that they may (dearly under
stand the position in which their representatives
are now placed by an illegal arid insurrectionary
assemblage of persons at present in the borough
of Harrisburg.
[Here follows a minute narration of the facts
and proceedings connected with the opening of
the session and the organization of the Senate, in
cluding the election of Speaker, and the swearing
in of the newly elected Senators—the substance
ol which has heretofore been published. The
Address then proceeds as follows.]
On motion Messrs. Barclay and Pearson were
appointed a Committee to wait on the House of
Representatives, and announce that the Senate
was now organized, and ready to proceed with
business. Alibis time Mr. Brown, of the County
ot Philadelphia, not being a member of the Sen
ate, rose and attempted to address the Senate, and
mi being informed that he could not he permitted
to proceed, the mob in the galleries and lobbies
commenced making intimidating noises and
threats, crying out, Brown ! Brown! hear him!
hear him!—reconsider your resolution—we will
have our rights, &c. &c.
Amidst this tumult, Mr. Rogers,a Senator from
Bucks county, rose and moved that Mr. Brown
be permitted to address the Senate, which, being
seconded by Mr. Ewing, a Senator from Wash
ington county, who was prompted by a fear of
personal violence to the Speaker, and threats of
bloodshed from the mob then pressing within the
bar of the Senate, was agreed to. Mr. Brown
having pledged his honor to Messrs. Miller and
I raley, Senators from Philadelphia, not to use
any inflammatory remarks, made a speech which
he professed to be intended to subdue the excite
ment in the galleries and to induce the mob to
disperse; but the warmth of bis feelings carried
him into great impropriety both of speech and
manner, declaring that we were in the midst of a
Revolution, and that there was an end of constitu
tional government, occasionally addressing them
in a supplicating manner; invoking them to be
quiet, and asking whether they were prepared to
trample the Constitution and Laws under foot,
and shed the best blood of the Commonwealth to
attain their ends. To these questions, the mob
responded yes,yes, we will; and accompanied
their assent with horrible cries of give us blood if
we cannot have our rights.
Mr. Brown at length concluded, and on motion
of Mr. Bell, of Chester, the Senate agreed to meet
daily at 10 o’clock in the morning, and then ad
journed, the mob rushing within the bar of the
Senate before the speaker had announced the de
cision. The Senate Chamber was then taken
. possession of by the mob, and most inflammatory
I 1 speeches addressed to them by several of their
loaders, and that hitherto sacred apartment has
subsequently, whenever the Senate attempted to
assemble, been filled with rioters, threatening vio-
Icnl.iutcrferencc with the business of the Senate
until their demands were acceded to. 'To such a
fearful height was the excitement carried, that the,
~ speaker of the Senate and several of the members
' were compelled, under threats of personal injury,
to escape by the windows of the Capitol.
'I he unlawful and riotous assemblages of the
misguided and dangerous men, have been con
tinued several limes, at the State Capitol and
Court House of the county of Dauphin, and the
Senate is now unable to proceed with their legiti
mate functions,and they accordingly announce ‘a
the people ol the State, that their representatives
cannot with safety attend the Halls of legislation,
until the insurrectionary and riotous assemblages,
by which they are now threatened witli violence, j
are quelled by the arm of the Constitutional power
ol the .State, or a return to reason and duty shall
induce them to disperse,
CHARLES I). PENROSE,
Speaker of the Senate.
And eighteen others.
We find also in the Extra the Proclamation
issued by Governor Ritner, a copy of which is
annexed;
PENNSYLVANIA, m:
JN the name and by the Authority
A SKAI f ofth»i Commonwealth of Pennsylva
) Cnia, by JOSEPH RITNER, Gov
ornor ot the said Commonwealth:
A Proclamation.
U hereas, a lawless, intonated, armed mob,
from the counties of Philadelphia, Lancaster, Ad
ams, and other places, have assembled at the seal
of Government, with the avowed object of distur
bing, interrupting and over-awing the legislature
ot this Commonwealth, and of preventing its
proper organization and the peaceable and free
discharge of its duties.
Ami Whereas, 'Hie said mob have already
on this day, entered the Senate Chamber, and
in nn outrageous and violent manner by cla
moring, shouting and threatening violence and
death to some of the members of that body, and
other fWlTcors of the Government; and finally by
rushing within the bar of the Senate Chamber, in
defiance of every effort to restrain them, compell
ed the Senate to suspend business.
And Whereas, They still remain here in force,
encouraged by a person who is nn officer of the
General Government, from Philadelphia, and are
setting (he law at open defiance, and rendering it
unsafe for the Legislative bodies to assemble in the
Capitol:
therefore, This is to call upon the civil au
thority to exert themselves to restore order to the
utmost of their power, and upon the military force
of the Commonwealth, to hold themselves in in
stant readiness to repair to the seat ofGovernment;
and njion all good citizens to aid in curbing this
law less mob, and in reinstating the supremacy of
the law.
Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the
Stale at Harrisburg, this fourth day of Decem
ber, in the year of our Lord, one thousand
eight hundred and thirty-eight, and of the Com
monwealth the sixty-third.
By the Governor.
THOS. H. BTJRROWEB.
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
The Telegraph says—“ There was no meeting
of either branch of the Legislature to-day. The
•nob held undisturbed control of the Capitol.”
STILL LATER.
Troops ordered from Philadelphia to
Harrisburg.
PIIILXIIRLPIITA, Doc. 7, 1838.
The Governor has issued his order to the Com
manding ofl’r’or here (Major Gen. Patterson) re
quiring the first division of the Pennsylvania Mil
itia to proceed to Harrisburg immediately, to pre
serve the peace of the Commonwealth. In obedi
ence to this order, Major General Patterson has
issued his order, requiring them to assemble in
Broad-street to-morrow morning fully equipped
to proceed to Harrisburg.”
“ in p.
RANK REPORTS.
State of tlic Augusta Insurance and Hanking Com
pany, October 1, 1»38.
To Capital Stock $500,000 00
Hills payable, 50.000 00
Deposits, -17,324 25
Dividends unpaid, 3,525 00
Surplus and gross profits, 45,673 OS
Amount due other banks, 105,937 52
Damaged goods, 1,243 36
Hills issued, 662,000 00
On band, 443,193 50
In circulation, 218,806 50
$972,50!) 71
By notes payable at Augusta $415,337 04
Bills and nntes lying over * 16,890 jj
Hills and notes in suit 13,610 27
Hills receivable 5’597 30
Hills of exchange on N. York,
I'hiladelpliia, Charleston,
and Savannah 130,714 35
Mechanics’Bank Stock 2,000 00
Insurance Bank Stock ,08 429 00
Amount due by other hanks 77,578 90
Amount due by Agents 16,766 89
Real estate in Augusta 15,149 22
Real estate in Mobile 30,595 93
Adventure to Liverpool 11,333 47
Suspended debt in Mobile 921 07
Protest account 71 op
Losses paid, incidental charges, &c. 8,952 71
Insurance dues 11,938 76
Bills of other banks, checks, &c. 38,521 60
Specie, Silver 56,665 28
Gold, 39,548 11
Native gold deposited at
the Mint 26,887 61 123,101 03
$972,509 71
General Statement Georgia Rail Road and Bank
ing Company, October 1, 1838.
Stock Bank 1,(MX),000
do. Road 1,001,890 2,001,895 00
I’rolil and loss, disc’t Int.
prem. and income from
road 90,777 61
Dividends Nos. I, 2,3,
and 4, unpaid 3,834 86
Deposites, 162,151 32
Bills payable on time 52,150 00
Due to other banks, 93,614 68
Branch at Augusta, ac’t.
current 71,340 73
Notes issued, 1,903,500
On hand 1,290,575
Leaving in circulation 612,925 00
Rail Road receipts 38,919 90
$3,127,609 10
The Road 1,321,607 55
Agents for the road 23,915 57
Salaries 7,933 28
Contingencies 2,221 04 10,154 32
Trans pollution 11,084 29
Repairs 11,298 10
Exchange 4,088 10
Profit account 71 25
Due by agents for the bank 71,895 77
Due by other banks 13,937 49
Stocks in other institutions 17,690 00
Banking house and lot Augusta 29,152 27
Bank furniture do. 6,000 00
Personal effects taken for debts 1,265 67
Negroes owned by the company 38,875 00
Branch at Augusta, ac’t. current 78,494 95
Bills receivable, good 72,146 02
do. doubtful 40 00
Notes discounted, good 847,600 88
do. under protest, good 29,332 11
do. do. doubtful 4,341 30
do. in suit, bad 2,750 00
Bil’s of exchange, good, 51,253 84
fcdo. under pro. in suit
and doubtful 5,657 52—1,013,121 C7
Go'd and Silver coin and
bullion 308,703 64
T. S. Trea. Notes, p. O.
Checks, and Mint
Certificates 121,025 78
Notes of other banks 50,637 68 480,367 10
$3,127,609 10
XT'" lf l - —.TninoK T. Bothwell, Attorney at
il Louisville, Geo., will attend to all
Icnal business intrusted to him in the Counties of
llmke, .lellerson, Washington, Emanuel, Tatnal,
Montgomery, ami Liuirencs, and he flatters himself
bis diligence ami attention to business, to share
a part ol public patronage. All communications di
icclcd as above will meet with immediate atten
tlnn - w 3'n dec 12
I A W NOTICE. —WINBORN J. LA W'FoR
A having located himself at Jacksonboro, Scriven
county, w ill taithfully attend to alt business en
trusted to him. _ _ w3m dee 12
FAH m. ER’S ACADEMY.
11IIE exercises of this institution will be resum
ed on the first Monday in January, under the
direction of Mr. Jesse C. Paulett, Principal, whose
character and abilities, as an instructor, are so well
known, that wo deem it unnecessary to say r any
tiling of them byway of recommendation.
The female department will he underthe care of
Miss Mary McClcsky, who has taught a female
school in Athens the present year, with general
satisfaction to her patrons, and who is recommend
ed in very high terms by Rev. N. Hoyt, and other
gentlemen in Athens, of highest respectability.—
We, therefore, feel assured that we hazard nothing
in saying that Miss McClcsky will prove an able
and faithful instructress, as well as a trustworthy
guardian of the morals and general deportment of
the young ladies who may be placed under her
charge.
In the department of music, tho services of Mr.
I’. (i. Gottenberger have been engaged. Os Mr, (1.
we will say to those who wish their sons and
daughters to learn music, that he is a native of Ger
many. a country celebrated for the industry and
skill of its citizens in the sciences generally, and
particularly in the science of music. In addition to.
thi«, Mr. (i. has many testimonials of the most am
ple character, together with the experience of seve
ral years of very successful teaching. That lie is
amongst tho best music teachers, in point of skill,
and superior to most teachers, in point of industry,
his testimonials, and the experience of those who
have taken lessons under him fully prove. Mr. (J.
is prepared to give lessons on the Guitar, Flute’,
Violin, and several other instruments, as well as on
the Piano.
Wo deem if proper to state that the male and fe
male departments will he kept in separate houses,
situated at a short distance from each other. Doth
schools arc placed under the supervision of the Prin
cipal, and the young ladies who may be engaged in
those studies, in which the apparatus is used, and
in the languages, will recite to him. By this ar
rangement, the I rustees believe they have secured
the advantages, without the disadvantages, of a
mixed school. The school is furnished with an ex
tensive apparatus. The location is exceedingly
healthy. 'Die morals of pupils are well guarded j
(every species of vice, arising from drinking or re
tailing spirits, being effectually and permanently
excluded from the village and its vicinitv,) and the
teachers employed have ability and faithfulness.—-
We, therefore, recommend the institution to the
public with the utmost confidence.
Extra Studies, —Music, Drawing, Painting, and
French.
Expenses in this Institution, for the year now
closing, including board, lights, fires, beds, washing
ami tuition, (extra studies excepted) have been, in
primary class of studies, $96
The same in 2d class, $lO4
“ “ highest class, $ll2
On the above rates, it will probably be necessary,
in consequence of the high price of provisions, to
make some slight advance in the price of hoarding.
Hoarding houses, of the highest respectability, are
prepared to afford comfortable accommodation for
any number of hoarders. THE TRUSTEES.
Farmington,Clark co., Dec 12. w2t
AT OIK. K.—WiII he sold on the first Monday in
11 January next, at Hamburg, three Negroes,
viz; Torn, Emma, and Harriet, being a part of the
undivided estate of Mrs. Helen Lamkin, deceased,
by order of a decree of the Court of Equity.
Terms made known at the sale.
ABNER WHATLEY, Ex’r.
December 12,1535. td
POSTUONKD NAI.E.
be sold, on the first Tuesday In January
tt next, at the Court House door, iff the town
of Wayncsborough, beiween the usual hours of
sale, the following property, Iviz: 481 acres of land,
more or less, lying on Jobler, adjoining lands of
Henry and Jordan Heath, and Telfair, levied on as
flic property of W. C. Bates, to satisfy three fi. fas.
issued from a Justices Court, in favor of James P.
Allen, and others, vs. said W. C Bates, levied on
ami returned to me by a constable.
Also, seventy acres of land, more or less, lying
on Jobler, adjoining lands of Sarah Guest, and
I bomus J. Dixon, levied on as the property of
Moses Griffin, to satisfy two fi. fas. issued from a
Justices Court in favor of Samuel Jf. Buxton, viz.
Setli Royal and Moses Griffin, levied on and
returned to me by a constable.
dec 10, IH3S td W, B. DOUGLASS, Sheriff.
AGREEABLE to an Order of the Honorable
Inferior Court of|Jefferson,eounty, when sit
ting for ordinary purposes, will be sold, on the
first Tuesday in March next, at the Court House
door in the town of Waynesboro’ between the
usual hours of sale, one Tract of Land in the county
of Burke, on the waters of David’s Branch, adjoining
lauds of John Lodge, John McGruder, and T. J.
Mordoch,containing 695 acres, more or less; sold
for the benefit of the Heirs of Benjamin Brown,
dec’d, minors. Terms cash,
dec 10 JAMES CROSS, Guard’n.
Georgia, Columbia county:
WHEREAS William Cliett applies for letters
of administration on the estate of Jonathan
Cliett, deceased:
These arc therefore to cite and admonish all and
singular, the kindred and creditors of the said deceas
ed, to file their objections, (if any they have) at my
office, according to law.
Given under my hand at office, tills sth day of
December, 1838.
dec 10 GABRIEL JONES, Clerk.
lAW NOTICE. —The co-partnership heretofore
J existing between the undersigned, at Monti
ccllo and Eatonton, underthe firm of E. Y. J.
HILL was dissolved on the 1 Oth inst., by the elec
tion of the former as Judge of the Ocmulgec Circuit.
The latter will attend to the unfinished business of
the late firm, as well as to any new business en
trusted to him. Office at Monticello, Geo.
EDWARD Y. HILL,
dec 1 wfit JOSHUA HILL.
I AW NOTICE.—J. J. R. FLOURNOY has
i opened a Law Office in Waynesboro, Burke
county. He will attend to any business intrusted
to his care with promptness and despatch,
nov 10 wlm
NOTICE. —The business hitherto conducted
under the firm of Starr, Simmons If Dailey,
is this day dissolved, and in future will be conduct
ed under the firm of Starr, Son 4- Simmons.
BENJAMIN STARR,
CALEB SIMMONS**- -
DAVID DAILEY.
Fayetteville,Geo. Nov. 19,1838. w3t* nov 29'
raising: sil-k 1
milE subscriber lias about One Hundred Thou
-1 sand Moms Mnlticaulis, or Chinese Mulberry
'frees, and will sell all or any of them at a price
that will give good room for profit. Apply at the
office of the Columbus Enquirer for particulars, or
write, post paid, to Hamilton, Harris county, near
which place the trees are j or come with cash and
carts, and get supplied,
nov 29 w3t YOUNG PATTERSON .
Twenty Dollars Reward.
Runaway from the subscriber, about a
month since, a negro girl by the name
Aphousine, likely, and about six
•'iSSVl tern years ot age. The above reward
will be paid lor her apprehension and
delivery 10 J. P. BKTZE.
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