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JD em w»tontr General £utHUQC«cr. From the Mobile Register. We are indebted to the agent of the Mar- shall of this district for the following letter of instructions from the Secretary of War, and the opinion of tho Attorney General of the United States, on tho questions growing out of the conduct of intruders upon the Creek Indian Lands in this State. We hasten to lay them before our readers. Department of War, Aug* 20, 1833. _ - Sir—=1 have received iroin Mr. Austill, reports of his proceedings in carrying into effect the instructions of this drpartment, for removing intruders from tho tract of country ceded to the United States by the Creek : In dians, March 24th 1832. I regret to per. coive the difficulties he has had to contend with, in the execution of his duty. It is sur prising that actual claims should be set up to take possession of the land, and that the induw gonce wjjrtch the Government has granted to the settlors, should be considered as confer ring upon them positive rights. That the Indians have been seriously in jured, there can be no doubt, and as little that it is the duty of the United States, faithfully to carry into eft'ect the treaty which has been formed. I cannot but hope that every citi zen of Alabama, will appreciate the obliga tions which have been. incurred, and will re frain from any act tending to violate the treaty. It is evident from the report of Mr. Aus tin, that the indulgence which has been gran ted to actual settlers, has been very injurious to the Indians. Individuals are fovoured by some of the Creeks, and are obnoxious to others, and it appears that the Chiefs have made great ob jections to any arrangement allowing settlers to remain upon the land. Under these cir cumstances, the President directs that so far as persons nowin the ceded Territory, have conducted in conformity with the views taken in my letter to Messrs. McCoy, Clay and Mardis, enclosed to you December 10th, 1832, and have been permitted by the Duputy Mar shall to remain until this time, that they are allowed to continue unmolested, still refrain ing from injuring the Indians, until their crops are gathered, and after that period, you will require them without delay to move beyond the ceded Territory. It is utterly inexpedi- ent with the experience which has been had on this subject, and the evils that are threa tened, longer to continue the indulgence here-, • tofore granted. All other white persons liv ing upon those lands and not coming Within the above description, will be removed with out distinction and without delay. In consequence of the suggestion of Mr. Austill, I have asked and obtained i:.c opin ion of the Attorney General on this subject generally, and I transmit a copy of it, that you may give it general publicity in order that all persons interested may see how un founded is any claim to hold possession of this land, or legally to resist the instructions of the Government for the removal of the in- truders. You arc authorized to pulish this opinion, together with such portion of your in structions as you may think necessary in such Newspapers in Alabama, as you may think best calculated to give general iul'or- matron. While the Government have a solemn duty to perform towards the Indians, which they cannot and will not neglect,'they are still anxious that it should be performed with as little injury to our citizens as possible. You will take care therefore that the subject is ful ly explained and understood and will use as much forbearance os is consistent with the execution of your duty before a resort is had to actual force, and when force is applied, it will be limited to the actual removal of intru ders from the ceded territory. You wiil transmit without delay to the Dis- trict Attorney of the Southern district of Ala. bama, the names of all persons who hereaf ter intrude upon, or who now live upon the ceded land, and refbso to remove agreeably to your requisition, together with the names of the witnesses who con prove the necessary facts, and the District Attorney has been in- slructed to commence an immediate prosecu- tion against all such persons. This meas- ure is considered so important to the accom plishment of the subject, that you will not neglect it under any circumstances or in any case. Mr. Austill has requested that instructions may be given to prevent the sale of Whiskey upon the Creek lands, stating that practice prevails to a great extent, to the utter ruin of the Indians. However useful such a mens- ure might be, it is not considered competent . for the executive to direct it. The only pow er vested in the President is to remove the intruders from the public lands. The State of Alabama has jurisdiction over that district •f country, and, her Legislature can only pro vide a remedy for this evil, and her codes of justice enforce it. I have transmitted to Mr. Austill a copy of this letter. • Instructions have been given to add anoth er Company to the force now employed in this duty. . Very respectfully, I am sir, * Your obedient servant, LEWIS CASS. Robert L. Crawford, Esq. - Marshal of the S. Dist. of Ala. Mobile. served to ninety of the principal chiefs and heads of families. The survey is mot yet completed, and. consequently nu selections have been made. The fifth article of that treaty provides « That all intruders upon the country thereby ceded shall be removed there from, in the same manner as intruders may be removed bj r law from other public lands, until tho country is'surveyed and the selec tions made.” no more than provide the means necessary to defend the possesion of the,public property and authorise the President Jo use'ihem— The fact that 1 these intruders are now on the lands and have been for some timo can not alter the question. The United States have never abandoned their possession—--and the intruders have never acquired a, lawful possession against them—they were mere tresspassers from the beginning and continue ihe white men who have entered upon I so to the present time, and have t»o better this land ere unquestionably intruders, withi.. I ir^lit now, than they had at the moment they the meaning of this law. The lands belong I first entered. The lawful possession is still to the United States, and the chiefs of the m the United States, and may in my qpinion Creek nation could not. give permission to be defended a*gainst such tresspassos accor. any white men to settle on them, without the dingto the directions of the act of1807 by the consent of the United Stales. But the chiefs, | removal of the intruders by military force. it appears, have given to them no such per mission, and desire their removal; and the only excuse allcdged for these instructions is 1 the license of individual Indians, in opposi tion to the wishes of the chiefs. It can scarcely be contended that a permission from such persons can give a color of justification. As the title now stands, any permission from the Indian Chiefs, or from individual Indians The papers are herewith returned— I am Fir, &c, (Signed) R. B. TANEY. To the Hon., the Secret try of War. We copy from tho Augusta Chronicle the follow ing extract of a letter addressed to the Editor of the Augusta Courier by “ Richmond." It completely demolishes the attempt of the Ratificrs to indentify to white men to settle on the land of the U.'l “i principle, Mr. Hull’s proposition with the wretch- Statcs, must he utterly nugatory and void.— I ed “abortion" ofthe majority, now before tho poople And the men who have eutcrcd and taken | for their adoption or rejection.—Ed, possession under pretence of such permis sions, are intruders on the lands ofthe Unites States. The question is, can the United States use the military force to remove them ? The language of tho act of march 3, 1807, is too plain to he mistaken. It gives the President, by express words, the power «to cmplo such military force as he may judge necessa ry and proper,” to remove persons who ,mw intrude upon “any lands ceded or secured to tho United States by any treaty made with a foreign nation, and by a cession from any state to the United States.” Tiie reason lor confining the act of Con gress to cessions of this description, is suffi ciently obvious. All of the large and unset tled tracts of country which belong to the U. States were acquired either by treaty with foreign nations; or by cession from one of the states. And it was only on lands of that “ Wherein consisted the duplicity of Rich mond? You say, in opposing the plan of re duction, when ho and his friends supported a worse one. “ Mr. Hulls substitute was h:ir [the minority’s] best plan;” and you id your correspondent, both treat this as the chosen plan of the ; minority. He expressly ..lls it so. Now, in the first place, Mr. Hull’s plan was better than the one now submitted to the peo ple, in several particulars. 1. It teas a much larger reduction. We had to choose between that, and the one finally adopted. If we were compelled to have inequality, for the sake of reduction, we went for reducing to some purpose. And you, who have declaimed all summer about the saving of expense, had better be cautious how you deny, the force of this argument. 2. It proposed to unite three counties, in each Senatorial District: which left some lit- were unquestionably of a superior order. His letters, his addresses to the American Con gress, and his farweil oration, when he quit- ted for the last time, the Presidency of the United Siates, are models of each species of compaction. His closing a well spent life, after a short illness, without having his strength or faculties impaired by any previ ous disorder or any uutoward circumstance having occurred, that .could materially affect his feelings, or could possibly tarnish his fame, is an uncommon instance of good for tune. Tho scene in which he acted also, and the object which he achieved, are the most remarkable which hisiory furnishes. For it was such a man, alone, who % by combining the force, commanding the confidence of thir teen separate States, could have dissolved those ties which subjected America to Europe; and to whom the ' political separation of the two worlds is to be attributed. But above all, what distinguished this celebrated warn or and statesman, is that to all those military and public talents, and to those literary en dowments which are too rarely united in the same person, he added the practice of every virtue that could adorn the private individual. It wold be in vain for me to attempt,adequately, to express the idea I entertain of a character, in every respect so peculiarly splendid. The pen of the immortal Shakspear is alone com petent to the task, and on the tombstone of Washing ton let it be engraved, • “ His tiro was gentle and the elements v So mix’d in him, that nature might stand up Aud say to all the world—this was a man, ——taka him for all in all We shall not look upon his like again.” poorer regulation of the Tuscaroras should protect them, if both were independent na tions. • We allude to this subject, to show how quietly this act of oppression on the part of New York is submitted to, by those who felt or pretended to feel such indignation towards the State of Georgia. And why this differ ence ? Plainly because the one affords no prospect of an excitement to favor the ad vancement of political speculatod.—Roches■ ter Republican. ' description, that any evil could arise from I tie chance of some little diminution of the intrusion and settlements, of sufficient impor- J monstrous inequality, in that bodv. tunce to thepublic to make it advisable to use the summary and forcible remedy authorized by the act of Congress. The lands on which these intrusions have been made, are certain, ly embraced both by the words and the spirit and the object of the law. For it was ceded to the United States by the State of Georgia, and is a portion ofthe unsettled county which the act of 1807 was designed to protect. The words .of the law being plain, and clearly embracing in its provisions the lands in question, what legdl objection can there be to iis prompt and faithful execution ? Had not Congress the power to pass such a law ? 3. It retained the federal basis, in the House of Representatives : the rejection of which, we insist, was a radical and fatal error. For the sake of retaining this basis, and of a further reduction, when we found toe could do no better, AND NOT BEFORE, was tried this plan. vVe, ‘Richmond, Baldwin, and others,” as your correspondent calls us, made this last cif >rt at conciliation and compromise. It was offered avowedly, only as a compromise. My old friend, « One of the People,” could in bear witness to this: for I called on him, my self, on the subject, aud he came into the ar rangement as a compromise. He used his (COPY.) Attorney General’s Office, Aug. 22. Sir—In answer to the enquiry contained in your letter of August 19,1 have the honor to flute, that in my opinion the President may lawfiilly direct the Marshal of the District, , and employ such military force asi he may judge necessary.and proper, to remove intru ders from the lands in Alabama, ceded by thd Creek Indians-to' the United States, by treaty of the 24th March, 1832. The treaty with the Creek Indians provides that a survey shall be made of tho land ce ded to the U- States, and after the survey is •..completed, certain rights of selection are re It is true that these lands lie ia the State efforts to bring over, from his own party, the of Alabama and thut State has extended its I small force necessary to turn the scale; but laws, and the jurisdiction of its tribunals over [finding them less liberal than himself he in the whole territory included by its limits.— I formed me of his bad success, and give it up. But that circumstance cannot render this act In the’next place, Mr. Hull’s plan was not of Congress unconstitutional and inoperative the best proposed by the minority. « A Tax in that State. . For Uie act of Congress pro- I payer” may think it so. 'Ihe minority did duces no contact of jurisdiction or of sover- IIO t, nor do you. Was the plan of reducing eignty witu the State ot Alabama. It propo- the house to about 130, and basing a Senate ses to defend the possession of the United of thirty six on federal numbers, worse ? States against wrong doers who without any This was the miuorily’s “ chosen plan, pretence of title, and in open violittion of the Was the plan of Mr. Bowen worse * Was rights of the United States, intrude upon the the plan, reported hv the Committee of the public property, and appropriate it to their whole, of basing both houses on free white own use. And it there is any conflict, it is I population alone, worse ? Recollect your only with persons of this description aud not I own opinions, often expressed, and if you with the State ot Alabama or the proper au-1 choose x answer ibis last question in the affir- thorny of that State. . . motive—and then, “ blush for your duplici ' The power of Congress to pass this law, ty;” if, after sueh an answer, you can blush has I believe, long been regarded as a settled for anv thing. point, and the government have acted upon it I Neither your correspondent, nor yourself, accordingly. - J has even the excuse df ignorance to plead, for I have now before me two opinions given the insulting declaration that Mr. Hull’s plan in the year 1821 by one of my predecessors was the choice ofthe minority. The Journals in this office. One ofthe opinions being in prove that it was not; for they show several relation to the public lands in the State of 11- other plans, first offered and rejected. The linois, and the other in Mississippi, and in I files of your own paper prove it; "for you will both of these cases the right of the United I there sec the detail of proceedings in coin States to execute the law, is treated os un- mittee of die whole, wiiich are not on the doubted—and in this very case, the treaty journal, and which exhibit the views of the with the Creek Indians pledges the United minority. One of your last week’s papers States to act upon this, law in the removal of I proves it; for, the same story having been intruders, and the senate by ratifying the trea- told before* by the Federal Union and anoth- ty have shewn, that in the judgment of that er of your correspondents—whom, by the bye, body, there was no constitutional objection I here take occasion to thank for his courtesy to the exercise of the power. Indeed it can to me—I came out, then, and set them both hardly be supposed by any one, that the Uni- right. Now, with that number under your ted States have not the same right that an in-1 eye—with our own files to show its truth dividual possesses to defend their lawful pos- with the journals ofthe Convention to coa- scssion, by force, against a tresspasser.— I firm it—do you undertake to say, or even to Must they surrender up the public property insinuate, th.it in that number, I wrote whenever lawless violence attempts to seize falsehood? If you do not, your Inst article upon it ? Some of the Forts and Arsenals means nothing. If you do, the effrontery of and Light-houses, are I understand, upon I the assertion puts even its “ duplicity” and lands which have been purchased from indi- “ dishonesty” into the shade, viduals without any cession of jurisdiction RICHMOND, from the state in which they lie. It cannot be imagined that the United States ate. bound I Tax Payer* cannot even claim the glory of to stand idle and see their possessions wrested fir8t dwcovorei■ of'this “ mare’s nett." Ho from them—and then be pat to their action J -»<T M.«.t~l,<.. -tad, -that d.g, lud .pc*! ejectment to regain possession of their Forts, Washington.—At the conclusion of a work Arsenals and Light-houses, or bound to resort containing a fac simile of several letters from to a replevin to recover the pjiblic arms and Gen. Washington to sir Jno. Sinclair, Baro- accutrements, or an action of trover to obtain net, and published in London, soon after the compensation in damages for their loss—such decease of the General, the following tribute a proposition would strike every one as utter- is paid to his memory, ly untenable. Yet it would be quite as.un-1 “Isthere on the whole, any individual, ei reasonable to require them to suffer without! ther in ancient or modem history,who has proa- resistance, the most valuable bodies of vacant I der claims to distinction and pre-eminence land, which they hold in different states, to than the great character whose letter this vol he overrun and seized on by lawless intru- ume contains? His military talents were derS, and put tho United States to the neces- early celebrated, first in the service of Great sity of resortiig to'actions of ejectment or Britain, and afterwards in that of America other legal proceedings against each separ- tlis powers as a statesman, and as the fouu ate individual in order to regain the possess- der of a constitution, which promises to se- ion. The public domain would bo of no val- cure the happiness of ihe great nation if, was ue, or worse than of no value if such a doc- formed to govern, cannot possibly be qqes trine could be maintained—It is clear that a tioned. His public virtues, as the incorrupt ed private individual may defend'the possession magistrate -of a free people, who .reluctantly •of bis property against a wrongdoer who at- J received superior authdrity when it was judg- tempts to deprive him of it, and may lawfully! ed necessary for the public good for him to use any force necessary for that purpose. 1 assume it, 1 and who anxiously wished to re- There can be no reason why a government j sign it into their hands, when it could be holding property should be denied the same I done with public safety, can hardly be‘ equal right—And the act of March 3d 1807, does J ed in history, His literary endowments than any boat we ever saw on the Hudson. Thence to the grand cabin, or rather grand saloon, done off in the same manner, and from which you communicate with the deck, laboard or starboard, by winding st air cases— her heighth to the first deck being 10 feet, and from first to second the same. She has two low pressure horizontal en gines of 100 horse power each, built by War den and Benny, Pittsburg, and is ship rig ged, with tops' and standing top gallant yards. Furnished by Stuuts of this city, and fitted out by Murry & Co. Cost $75,000. In her steer age or forward cabin are 40 berths well fur nished, a bar, a steward and table, and three different prices of passage are named—cabin, steerage and deck. Whole number of berths 166—Journal. He who would have ventured to dream, twenty years ago, ffiat “ a floating palace like that described in the following paragraph would be exhibited at this day on the waters of Lake Erie, would have been set down as a crack-brained visionary. What our country is destined to become in the next twenty years, at the same rapid rate of improvement, it is not an easy matter to predict.—Charles ton Courier. Buffaloe Sep. 4—A floating palace came into our harbor yesterday, bearing the impo sing title of“ Geo. Washington,” built at Hu ron Ohio, under the direction of her com mander, Capt. A. Walker, and owned by the Huron steamboat Company. She is 186 feet iu length, with breadth of hull 30 feet, guards aot included-—hold 12 feet, and of 606 tonnage—decks flush, and the promen ade deck sple j dully arranged., Shelias on deck six state rooms of two and three births eacu, admirably arranged tor families, through the avenue to on elegantly construc ted staircase and descends to the ladies’ cab- composed of 23 berths, supporting the deck by finely turned columns, and furnished a style more rich aud with better taste Extraordinary Earthquake.—The Mon. treal Gazette of Saturday ..last, contains an ac count of un earthquake that recently happen- ed at St. Lco'n, in the District of Throe Ri vers, which if true, is one of the most remar kable on record. Its extent is said to have been limited to about 15 acres. * It is impossible, says the Minerva, in giving the details of the occurrence, to describe the desolation.which that spot now presents. All is overthrown and fallen to the banks ofthe river. The house qnd barn of Isaac Lesage have sunk iu, us also the house and barn of Augustine Ferron. Isaac Lesage is now dead, from having been crushed under the ruius ofhis house. His wife, who had gone out to miik< the cows, saw the house sinking in. An old man saved himself with several children, by getting out by the roof. The bo dy of Lesage has beeu found dreadfully man gled. The house has so sunk into the earth, that nothing but the head of the chimney is now visible. The barn has entirely disap peared. The family of Lesage, who have also lost all their provisions and most of their property, are in a great state of privatiou.— it is said that a large cross erected on the road side, as is customary through the devo tion of the inhabitants, was conveyed to a great distance, without falling, and is even more perpendicular than it was before. The whole of the accident occured within a shoit distance of the Church of St. Leon. From the Columbia Hive. The late Town Meetings and the Missionary.—We made allusion in the Hive preceding the last to a missionary sermon preached in this place and the consequeni excitement ; we neither heard the sermon nor attended the Town Meetings in pursuance thereof, and are, therefore, incompetent to do justice to either party by an Editorial com ment ; but os the affair has awakened a con siderable degree of public excitement and in - terest, it may not be unacceptable to our rea ders to receive a fuller account and in a more official shape. We therefore extract from the Augusta Constitutionalist the procedings published in the papers of this place^ commu nicated thereto by Mr. Pinney, vkith addition al remarks of his own ; as well as the re marks of other Journals ia relation to the same subject. So far iis the movers of these procedings were actuated by motives to preserve the peace, they were laudable and praisworthy; but there st ems from their very face to be an insidious blow aimed at the chris’ian re ligion—a blow too which is not wielded bv argument but force—take the first clauses of the following resolution : ■“ That if the negro is to receive the gifts that lift his condition towards freedom—the gifts of intelligence and even of piety—he must receive them in a manner computable with our safety and his own.” And in pursu- ancc of another resolution, it \Vou!d seem a school has been abolished, which was es pecially designed for the instruction of slaves in Biblical and pious knowledge exclusively, and that by lecture and not by instructing the pupil to read ! What meaning can such language and such proceedings have if they be not the manifest usurpation by a town meeting of the rights of the church-,—rights equally guaran tied by the Jaws and constitution of their country and the sill higher authority of the code of Heaven ? The command given by the divine Mas ter to the Christian missionary was— *» Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.” Mark 16. 15. And “ He that hath an ear to hear let him hear; Rev. 2. 7. “ And how shall he hear without a preacher” Rom. 10. 14. Suppose the' Columbia sanhedrim, assu- ming to judge of the propriety of pious as well as literary instruction, should arrive at the conclusiontthat it is impossible in any way to comihuuicate the « gifts” of “ piety,” &c. or even acknowledge, that a negro has a soul to save, without a dangerous approach to equality and “ freedom,” what is the minister of the cross to do in such a dilemma? Dis obey the high behest of Heaven or the para mount mandate of the Columbia meeting ? It may be regarded as among possible events that the meeting may come to the conclusion, that negroes have no souls, and, therefore, as preaching in any shape may do harm, but can do no good to a'soulless audience, they should he shut out from the pale of the church as well os the Sunday school 1 And why should not such a conclusion be drawn, since, if we are not egregiously mistaken, the Gamaliel ofthe reform party of South Carolina, has al ready written a book to prove their more gif ted masters have no souls ? '■ It was probably owing to a train of reason ing in this wav by the Jacobin clubs of France and authority derived from the same source that there closed, on servant and master, the doors of divine worship, which were render' ed doubly useless from the important discov ery that muu had neither a soul to save nor, a god to worship! At the last Court of Oyer and Terminer in Niagara County, a Tuscarora Indian was tried ipid convicted of larceny and commit ted within the territory reserved to that tribe. When the State of Georgia extended the jurisdiction of their laws to the Indians resi ding within its limits, there was a party which denounced the act as high-handed tyranny, as a breach of the public faith, aS a violation of international law, cl riming for the Chero- kees the right of an independent notion. In what do these cases differ? The U. S. have made the treaties with the one, so have they with thq other. The right of soil was guar anteed to the' one, so it was to the other The one bad an internal government of its own, so had the other. If these tribes consti tute independent nations, the imperfection of their laws is no reason for forcibly confer ring up an them the the blessings of our own, against their consent. wThe better govern ment of the Cherokees could not entitle them to ap exemption from the authority of the State in which they reside any more than the Major Crawford—From all quarters ofthe State we have received the most gratifying intelligence •vith regard to the result of tho approaching contest. Thousands of the honest citizens of Georgia, who havo heretofore conscientiously and zealously given their support to the leadeft of what teas tho Clark Party, having become disgusted with their attempts in tho late/Convention to bind them hand and foot, and to yield them aud their property up to tho ten. ier mercies of the minority—as well as disappointed with the work done, under tho “ superintendence” of the present overseer in their “ mighty work-shop" —will abandon both their recreant leaders and in. capable overseer, to their deserved fate. As those leaders loose all hope for the success of their Con. vention bantling, they hug, with a corresponding te. n-icity, to their bosoms, tho present “ Superintend, ant of the mighty work shop”—as they find their hold of the one growing weak, they hold on to the other with renewed energy. But it wont all do the PEOPLE have brought your deeds and the deeds of the Mighty “ Superintendent,’’ to light—the mystic, at veil which you have thrown around them, will no longer avail you—they are revealed to tho light of day!! and tho people will on Monday weak, con. vince you of the fact, by the potent and all-powerful influence of No Ratification and JOEL CRAWFORD • And & lesson will thereby be taught to all future demagogues, who would, from selfish motives, betny the rights of the people, and scrifice .the dignity and honor of tho State! The Election.—This important event which is to decide the fate of tho Constitution, and the lions: and dignity of t he State, is rapidly approaching.— Noxt Monday week tho people of Georgia will be called upon to say whether they are prepared to be. come SLAVES or determined to remain FREE. MEN ! Can they hesitate in a matter of such vial importance ? Is there a freeman who can pause for a moment when called upon to yield, or to protec: inviolate tho privileges he enjoys under our present Constitution, as a citizen of the State of Georgia ?— No! wc believe their are few indeed, so infatuated, so blinded by party influence as to hesitate for a mo. ment between the alternatives. We coll upon all then, as the friends of Constitutional rights—as the lovers of equal privileges and as the guardians of the honor and respectability of the State, to rally to tlw rescue, and save while it is in their power, these in. estimable blessings from impending ruin ! To the polls then, freemen of Georgia, and by en dorsing on your tickets, NO RATIFICATION, you will put to rest forever the machinations of a few aspiring demagogues who would indude you to sacri fice whole ages of uberty, that they may enjoy for a A* A_ Jl_ At.. Jt L A r -/• few poor years, uninterruptedly, the flesh pots of of fice,wad fatten on the loaves and fishes of emolument) wrung from you and your children at the sacrifice of every privilege dear to freemen ! From the Frankfort (Ky.) Commonwealth. An Extraordinary Natural Produc tion.—We have now,-in 6ur office, (where our citizens and farmers are requested to call and see it,) a most singular species of corn. The history of this rare freak of nature is sub stantially as follows. About three years ago, a Mr. Carrico, living in Gallatin county, Ken tucky, planted some of the common Indian Com in the neighborhood of a swampy piece of laud which was grown over with 4 * a thick strong grass resembling sedge grass. In the fall of the year when he was gathering his corn, he was surprised that ears of com were growing and ripening, upon the . grass, and that on the blades of the grasR seperate grains were growing. Struck bv the singularity of the circumstance, he carefully preserved the grains and planted them in the next spring. The result was extraordinary, producing a growth partaking of the qualities both of the grass and the com, and superior to both as forming a third article very advantageous to stock farmers. The stalks in our office pre sent most remarkable appearances. The tassel docs not bear any resemblance to the com tassel, but is more like the heads of coarse gross—the blades are long •and very slender,^ resembling more the blades of oats than oi com. Upon the extremities of.these blades seperate grains of com enclosed in a husk ■ presenting the appearance of hazle nut burs, are found, and to the bodies of the stalks more perfect ears of corn are attached., The stalks themselves are long and slender and not un- like the wild rye of the country, only strong, er and more substantial. We believe that this grain is at least one thing new under the sun, and unlike most novelties, it promises to be Useful. Governor Palmer, the Anti-Masonic can didate, is rc-electcd in Vermont, The Savannah Georgian—We are by no means disposed to get into a controversy with the Editors of this paper on the subject of internal improvement, or indeed upon any other subject; yet our duty to ourselves as well as to our patrons, requires that wo should notice an article in their paper of the. 14th inst. In that article the Editors accuse us of bring ing forward the sentiments of one of their correspond ents to prove that they are opposed to our internal improvement projects. Now it will be recollected that we m&de a charge ofthe same character not long since, against one of our contemporaries, which charge was met, and the “ amende honorable” duly made. And for us to have made ourselves thus obnoxious to.»like charge —to have been guilty of an editorial subterfuge, which wo had so lately and so strongly denounced, would to say the least of it, havo argued but little indeed, for our own comistenby, or for the reputation of the craft to which wo have the honor to belong. In making this charge against us, the Georgian says, we are guilty of disiugenuousness by “allud ing to a communication in the Georgian, as if it verc EditorialNow, we might accuse the Editors of that paper of something stronger than disingenuous- ness, in making ouch a charge, viz : of actual mis representation, which the facts would warrant us in doing; but hoping better things of the a«o Editor* of a paper which we havo been in tho habit of re specting and admiring in days gone by, we can but attribute the charge to misapprehension or inadvert ency. We did not even allude to tho quotation as editor ial. Tho Georgian' will find by again referring to our article, that we simply brought it forward to most its denial, that the people of Savannah had ev. er evinced any disposition “ to stay tho career ol rail roads up the country.” The Editors called for the proof that any such a feeling had been felt or expres sed, and wo referred them to their own columns, and by particularizing the date of the paper and even the article wherein such proof could l» adduced, we cer tainly manifested no disposition to fix the charge up on the Editors, but simply to sustain our original po sition, that a spirit hostile to our internal improve ment project did exist in Savannah. The conclusions of the Georgian drawn from the following portion of the article which seems to have touched them so deeply, are entirely gratuitous.—, “ Must they (the people of the up country) continue' to pay millions annually of their hard, earnings, not for the benefit of Savannah but to indulge her citi zens in their apathy and inactivity V’ . The only le gitimate inference to be drawn from this queiry, w hen taken in connexion with the wholo article, is simply this. The people ofthe, up country are now paying millions annually for the transportation of their pro duce, &c. which might be saved by rail road convoy ances, and must they continue to pay so much ot their hard earnings, because the people of Savannah are not prepared to secure to themsetqes a portion of the trade f-hich they do not receive, but which they might get by throwing off their leathergy and inac tivity? Or in Otbor words, must tho people of the up country continue to pay one dollar a hundred for the transportation of their produce and merchandize