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102 Forthr Chronicle and AHvcrtU«*r. « ftlE HU .HUNG IMHO-AND CONTENTMENT. A V ACRO' TIC. “ A Hull) k»f will site her a little bird.”— St. Pttrrt. A Humm.ng bird flutter'd from fliwrr to flower, Me er caring for augrlit but (fay freedom and sir) Mo thought of to-morrow—no fear ol the jliowrr— Fait twinkling each leaf to the listening ear. A lit'lp alone w.is iu Utile alcove , 1 Hear • sun-flower bright llml - prf.nl over its Lead, Now lowly close nectlod—now twittering alrove— Yellow «un-l**ra4then l»ur*iinf the 11, aminj’-Lird fled! Be it ever reniemberM, that this is a lot, A*g*l man with hit wisdom scarce ever attains, I Os content,and sweet freedom* tave In that low col p Who * walls vice ami (tower have left without stains. Now grant this the fate of— / mention no name. E TO MY DAUGHTER. With a Birth D .3/ p 'tent f Hluumfitld't Poems. * IMPROMPTU. J>ear flow* rtf, from thy father's hand, This gift of love re/eivr ; And ns ihv bade and leaves e*|nnd, * And flutter In life’s hreeie ; ( Oh ! may they (doom through perfum’d sense, ( Mild as the versa now given * j Then rich wilt i#e mv recompense, Aud bright thy flight to hrnvfrt 1 From the Char/rttnn Courier. ( (HIM la FHAB ( Account nf ex vim <1 from St Ntrholat lo Saute Claui | ’Twat the night before Christmas, when all thro’ the house | Not e creature was Stirring, nut even a mou*c I j the Slorklogs Were hung liy me ,U'»mr*rr nl|S >«rt, In hope (hat 8l Nicholas toon would l>e (h**re. Tbs children were nesle«l all snug in ibelr b< ds, While visions of sugar plumb* danced iu their heads, And In her kerchief, and I in my cap ,V s Had Just settled our brains for a long winter's nap— * When out nn the lawn there arose sur.'i a clatter, < 1 sprang from the bed to see what w.»s the matter; I Away to the window « flew like a flash, t Tore open (he shutters, and threw up (he sash. j The moon on (h* breast of the new fallen snow, i Clave the lustre of mid day to objects below; f When what to mv wondering eyes should appear, But a miniature sleigh and eight tlnv reindeer, With a little old driver so lively and quick, * 1 knew In a moment it must lie Hi. Nlrk. I More rapid than eagles, hlsmuisers they came, t And he whistled and shouted and called them by name; f “Now! Dasher, now! Dancer, now ! Prancer and Vixen “On ! Comet, on! Cupid, on! ©under nnd flUxeii i “ To the top of |!*n porch ! to the top of the wall! * * Now dash awnv ! dash awav ! dash a wav all !** t A* dry leaves b fore the wild hurricane fly, | When they meet with an obstacle, mount lo the sky; ( So up the house-top the coursers they flew, With the sleigh full of toys—andSl. Nichol.tf too. And then iu a twinkling, 1 heard on the roof The prnnrln; nml (wwing of em-li little hoof | I A, 1 ilri-w in mv heml, ami wn, lurnlnsr niounil, , Tfown the chimney 81 Nlelmla, came with n hound. He \va« ilremed nil In fur from hi, head to hi, fool, Ami hi, elolhei weir nil turoUheil with nsheauml soul; 1 A boodle of ifty, wa, flung on Id, bock, | Ami he looked like » pedlar Just o|« niiip hi, pack ; Hi, i .vc— how they twinkled, hi, dimple, how merry, HI, cheek, were like ro,c, hi, no,e like a cherry; 111, droll Mule mouili win drawn up like a bow, And the lieanl of hit ehln »n, a, while a, the mow The Mump of a pipe he held ii|(hl In hi, tcelh, Ami (he smoke If encircled hi, head like n wreath, Ho had a liulau face and a Hide round belly, That shook when li# laughed, liter n knwlfull afjelly. He wa, chubby and plump, a rigid Jolly old ell, And 1 laughed when I ,uw him In «piie of myself j 1 A wink of hi, eye nnd a twhl of hi, head I Boon save me to Know I hud nothin); lo dread! I Me spoke not a word, but went dialphf In hi, work, , Amt Jilltil all the .toiiinff. f then turned with a Jerk, And laying hi, doper aside of hi, nose, And t’lvlngr * nod, up the chimney he rose. He sprung 10 hi, -Irigh lo Id, team gave a whittle, 1 And away they all flew like the down of a thistle ! Bui I heard hint eaclabn, ere he drove out of sight, I ** VltMiy 4ttir > lstltt*'» ta nil a<ul t« *ll (I good FROM ENGLAND. ('harlkston, Dec. 22 ' Ry the British ship Mary Ca lierinc, c Cdpt. Hodgson, arrived yesterday, from 1 Liverpool, we have received our regular 1 files of London Papers nnd Shipping Lists f to the 3ih, and Liverpool dates to the 9di s ult. I After a momentary depression in the Brit- *' isli Chain markets, prices weie again on the I’ advance, nnd a general expectation was a entertained ilint the ports would be opened for the admission of foreign grain, at the 1 low duly of one shilling per quarter. 11 The Cotton Markets, both at Liverpool 3 and Havre, were somewhat depressed at r our latest dates. e The subject of Catholic Emancipation P still engrosses much of the public attention, *■ both in England and Ireland. H Parliament was not expected lo be con " vened for the despatch if business until of ’ ter the Ilolydays—perhaps not until the e end of January, or beginning of February H It is stated as a remaknble circumstance, c that the Russian stocks fell in England, on the receipt of the news of the fall of a Varna. ' Unfavourable rumours of the state of His 11 Majesty’s health, continue to prevail from *' day to day, in London—hot the Editors ’» appear no willing to agitate the public mind 1 by repeating them. i Portugal continues in a disiurbed stale t London, Nov. 6. v All the French papers of Monday con- ' tain the despatch of Gen. Maiaon, detailing ' the sin render of ihe fortresses in the Mu- • rea. The J vurnal des Drlurts congrato- 1 laies the Fiefieh Government on the sue- 1 cess of its expedition to the Peloponnesus, ami praises Hie firm and wise policy of the 1 Minister who planned it. The conduct of I the Divan, likewise, in ordering no resist- * auce to be offered, and in abstaining front 1 acts which must have added E ance to the ! number of its enemies, is alluded to in ; terms of warm approbation. The jour- ! nalist pr.'ce. ds to infer, from the command- 1 iug position thus acquired by the French ' Government in the East, that after libera- ! ting Greece, the Councillors of his Most ' Christian Majesty cun and will interfere 1 effectually to restore the peace of Europe, ! nn 1 t > secure that equilibrium of power by ( which peace is best preserved I A corps of Grei k troops is being org m— 1 ized in the More#, to consist of several ' regiments of infantry, cavahy and artillery. 1 i —, The FaypftrrilU Obtrr rrr of the IRlh l inst says—“ We are prmified in learoinp, that <he P *si Master Geoer d hos directed ■ the Mail, Cool factors betwen »lds place cod Aoeosl", Geo to carry the Mail el *" that r-uite daily, in four horse stages. Ii- V stead of, as at present, six lintes a w p k. 1 HAi -ronleiv in two horse stages Ttv new r ‘clement to commence on the fist of t< next.” 1 A % / DOCUMENTS " Accompanying the President’* Message, li FROM THE W\R DEPARTMENT, t DtPARTMrar or War, ) f N,.v 24, 1828. J ( To lII ' President of the Pr.ted Slates. f [KXTSiCT ] ( The report of the officer who superin- i tends the Indian Bureau, marked K, shows i the manner in which the duties of this L)e- ( partment, growing out of our intercourse with the Indian tiibes, have been tiischar- l ged during the past year. ' The want of system and regal’.tion for I the administration of this branch of the pub lie service has long bien severely felt, and i has probably subjected the officers to whom it has been entrus'ed, to more animadver sion and censure, than has fallen to the lot of any othei public functionaries. Tire different views entertained, not only by dis ferent classes of our citizens, but even by the different officers acting under this De partment, in reg ird to the leading measures of policy which ought to govern our inter course with the Indians, have furnished Tubful sources of complaint against the Department, and often of collision between the officers themselves It IS Ovtifvull i11.,| U minute aod 'Veil di pested code of regulations, analogous to (hose which govern the other bureaus of the Department, and founded on the policy and views of the government, so far as they can be collected from existing laws and treaties with the Indians, would not only afford great facility in transacting this branch of business, but materially reduce iis expenses, and, at the same lime, belter fulfil the benevolent purposes of the Go vernment, in regard to these unfortunate people. Encouraged in this belief by tire knowledge that my predecessors had enter tained similar opinions, I some time since addressed letters, by your permission, to Governor Cass and General Clark, indivi duals alike distinguished for general intelli gence nod great experience in Indian as fairs, inviting their attendance at the Seal of Government, for the purpose of aiding lire Department in preparing the content plated system of regulations. They have both arrived, and are engaged on the work, which, it is confidently expected, will be completed in time to ba submitted to, and receive the deliberate consideration of Con gress, timing the commencing session. W ile on the subject of Indian affairs, I should feel that 3 did not dischaige my whole duly, were I to neglect to call the attention of the Government to me expedi ency, if not dm nbs lure necessity, of more clemly defining, by legislative enactments, the nature of tbe relations by which we are to stand 'illiei! to the Indian tiibes; and, especially, to prescribe what, as between them and ourselves, shall be the reciprocal rights, both of properly and government, over the vast tracts of country which they claim and inhabit. At the commencement of our present Government, these tribes, with few iucon siderablc exceptions, occupied a country in the interior, far beyond the. range of our population, and our relations with (hem were the simple ones which exist-between remote and independent nations, or they were rather the relations of war; and most of our intercourse with them was curried on through the officers of the Army, sta tioned along our frontier posts; and it was, probably, to the posture in which we then stood in regard to them, that the War De lian merit was Inst indebted fur the Super intendency of Indian Affairs. Since that period, om white population, in its rapid and irresistible progr ss to the West, has been sweeping past and around them ; un til now, u large proportion of these tribes are ac’unily embosomed within the organl led and settled parts of our Slates and Ter ritories. In the mean time, we have been entering into treaties with them, not of peace merely, but of property, of inter •ourse and trade ; and have actually con traded between them and ourselves most >f the complicated relations which apper tain to the municipal stale, without, how t-ver, having fixed the boundaries of the authority by which these relations shall be controlled. While some of our citizens, who are the advocates of primitive and imprescriptible lights in their broadest extent, contend that i these tribes die independent nations, and < (rave the sole and exclusive right to die i property and government of the territories i they occupy, others consider them as mere i tenants at w ill, subject, like the buffalo of i the prairies, to be hunted trout their country i whenever it may suit our interests or con venience to take possession of it. 'These wit ws of their rights and disabilities are < equally extravagant and unjust: but the misfortune is, that the intermediate line has never been drawn by the Government— i Nothing can be more deaf, to one who has 1 marked the progress of population and ini- i provement, and is convci sant with the prin I cipies of human action, than that these in- i (bans w ill nut be permitted to hold the re ; servations on which tiny live within the i Slates, by their present lenuie fur any con- i sideruble period, ff, indeed, they were i not disturbed in tlvir possessions Dy ns. it i would be impossible for th- m long to sub sist, as they haw- heretofore done, by the < chase, as their fame is already so much di- i minished, as u render it frequently neces- i sury to furnist them with provisions, in or t der to save stem from starvation. In their | present destitute and deplorable condition, t and wltic' is constantly growing more help t less, it would seem to be not only the right, t hut tk duty of the Government, to take t therounder its paternal care ; and to exer- t cise over their persons and property, the t sabtary rights and duties of guardianship. \ The mos> prominent feature in their pre- t ■ent policy of the Government, as connect cd with these people, is to be found in the r efforts that are making to remove them be d vond tbe limits of the States and organized s Territories. v A very extensive tract of country, lying to the West and North of the Arkansas p Territory, remarkable for salubtity of tli- Cf)toufclr anw mate, fertility of soil and profusion of game, 1 has lately been set apart for the coloniza \ tion of the Indians. Liberal pecuniary m-1 duceraents have been offered by Congress'i to emigrants, and many have already em braced the offer. Bui ihe ultimate success of this project has been greally endangered, and may y. t be defeated, by the operation of another prominent measure of Govern-1 1 ment, which, although suggested by the i most humane motives, comes in direct con flict with the plan of Colonization. The annual appropriation, of .$lO,OOO to the purposes of educating Indian chi 1 dren, and teaching them the mechanic arts, has had the effect to draw to almost every Indian reservation, in addition to the agents and interpreters, a considerable number of missionaries and teachers, v. ith their fatni lies; who, having acquired, principally by the aid of this fund, very comfortable estab iishinents, are unwilling to be deprived of them by the removal of the Indians; and thus, we have found that, while the agents specially employed by the Government for this purpose are engaged in persuading, by profuse distributions of money and presents, the Indians to emigrate, another set ofgov- Vrnment agents are operating, more secret ly to be sure, but not with less Zeal and effvet, to prevent such emigration. These rematks are not intended as a personal reflection on the missionaries and teachers, much less on the pious and res pectable patrons of these benevolent institu lions, who, no doubt, are disposed to lend a ready support to every humane measure which the Government may think proper to adopt in favor of these depressed people; but are rather intended to show the natural and unavoidable t -ndency of the system it self to counteract the leading policy of the Government. If the project of colonization be a wise one, and of this 1 believe no one entertains a doubt, why not shape all our laws and i treaties to the attainment of that object, and i ipnrl to them an ellkiency that will be sure to effect it ? Let such of the emigrating Indians as choose it continue, ns heretofore, to devote themselves to the chase, in a country where their toils will be amply rewarded. Let those who are willing to. cultivate the arts of civilization be formed into > colony, con sisting of distinct tribes nr communities, but placed contiguous to each other, anil con nected by general laws, which shall reach I lie whole. Let the lands be apportioned among families and individuals in severalty, to be held by the same tenures by which we hold outs, with perhaps some tempora ry ami wholesome restraints on the power of alienation. Assist them in forming and administering a code of laws adapted to a state of civilization. Let the $lO,OOO ap propriation he applied, within the new col ony exclusively, to the same objects for which his now expended; and add to it from lime to time, so much of our other an mini contributions as can he thus applied without a violation of public faith. In regard to Indians as shall still remain within the Slates, and refuse.to emigrate, let no nrrancument he made with the pro per authorities of the respective States in which they are situated, for partitioning out to them, in severally, as much of their respective reservations as shall be amply sufficient for agricultural purposes. Set apart a tract, proportioned in size to the number of Indians, to remain in common, as a refuge and provision for such as may by improvidence waste their private pro perty ; and subject them all to the munici pal laws of the Stale in which they reside Let the remainder of the reservation he paid for by those who hold the paramount right, at such prices as shall be deemed, in refer ence to the uses which Indians are accus tomed to make of lands, reasonable; and the proceeds to be applied for the bene til of those of th«> »ilbe who emigrate after their establishment in the colony, or to be , divided between those who emigrate and those who remain, as justice may require. It may, perhaps, be fairly doubted whe- i liter the $lO,OOO appropriation (indepen- I ilently ot its tendency to prevent emigru i tion) produces, under the circumstances in I which it is now expended, any useful re i suits. These schools, it is true, impart to i a certain number of Indian youths so much | information, and so far change their habits, i as to inspire them with till the passions and i desires, and particularly the passion for ac cumulating individual wealth, peculiar to i a state of civilization ; and then these half | educated men are turned loose among their i respective tribes, without any honorable I means of satisfying the desire and wants i which have been thus artificially created. The lands of the tribe being common and i unalienable, they have no motive to culti- | vale and improve them. There is no i floating wealth to attract their ambition, I and the only and usual means of gratifying I their cupidity fer money, is By employing the advantages acquired by their education < to appropriate to themselves more than I their just share of the large contributions t annually made by the Government; and t in this way they, with some few h mumble i exceptions, render not only themselves, but the very arts they have acquired, obnox ious to the nation at large. If, however, it should be deemed most ( expedient to continue to expend a portion ’ ol the $lO,OOO fund on the Indians remain- \ ing within the Stales, the missionaries and t teachers should be located on the tracts f proposed to be set apart for the common 1 use of each tribe; from whence the infor | mation they supply, and the arts they j teach, might he advantageously applied by t the adjoining Indians to the improvement I of the seperate properly; and where they ’ might also take charge of those Indians , who may, by improvidence, have expended c their private estates. ' It is, in my opinion, worse than useless * to impart education and the arts to the In | dians, without furnishing them, at the v same time, with appropriate subjects on n w hich to employ them. * I have the honor to be, with great res ’ peel; your obedient servant. P. B. PORTER. t In ( he H of R. Doc. 15, 1328-Read, and ordered to be primed. REPORT From the Committee on Agriculture and Internal Improvement —By Mr, RO GERS, of Bibb. The Committee on Agriculture anu Intern.it Improvement, to whom was re feired a resolution of the House of Repre* sentatives, instructing them to “ inquire in to the expediency of not appropriating any more funds for the improvement of the navigation of livers, &c. in this State, un til some belter system of Internal Improve ment be adopted, and that said committee be instructed, if they should deem it expe dient, to propose such change in the pre sent system of Internal Improvement, as shall operate more efficiently, & with grea ter regard to economy and accountability, than the present one,” have had the same under consideration, and ask permission to report the result of their deliberations. The easy transportation of the gross products of a State, the pursuits of whose inhabitants are almost solely of an agricul tural nature, is one which next to agricul litre itself, demands attention. —The mag nitude of the subject, has with your Com mittee, preclude i any thing I kea partial in vestigation of it, and while it views a varijjp gated soil teeming with corresponding fruit*, and rivers in every section of the Slate (communicating with both the Atlantic Ocean and the Golf of Mexico,) whose channels are sufficiently deep if cleared of obstructions, which have accumulated with lime, for the navigation of boats of sufficient capacity to transport ail the surplus pio dnce of the Slate, to me most advantageous markets, it is nevertheless the duty of your Committee, to which it reluctantly yields, to advise an aboliti >n for the present, ol die office of Civil Engineer, and a cessa tion of operations by the State, so far ns relates to the improvement of its rivers, until some method shall be found which may promise a better piospect of success. Within the last thirteen years, the sum of $321,500 has been appropriated by the State for purposes of Internal Improve ment—Willi the exception of $5OOO con ditionally appropriated for Broad river which has never been drawn, $4036 4f cents returned to (he Treasury by the Sa vannah River Navigation Company, he tween Augusta and Petersburg, and s!23f returned by the Commissioners of Briar Creek in Scriven county, with about eighty negroes and some implements for labor, your committee is unable to account for the expenditure of the appropriations.— Those who have been appointed to direct the plan and course of operations, and su pervise every thing in connexion with them, have in many instances made no re port, while others have rendered very un satisfactory statements of the discharge oi their duties, all reports as well as the omis sion to make them go to shew, that the Commissioners and those entrusted with this business, have not manifested that fi delity, industry and skill, which the Slate had a right to expect they would do. It is true, dial the attention of the Slate has been hut recently awakened to the ol Internal Improvement, and success in that business must depend in a great measure, upon the experience of those who control it; and to this may be attributed in part, the little profit which the State has reaped, and after having expended so much of its treasure. Your Committee do not consi der that they have cause to censure tin Chief Civil Engineer for the manner ir which he lias discharged his duty. Hi: reputation in North Carolina as well as ir England as an Engineer, is doubtless just and his failure to succeed to Georgia, if in deed failure can be charged to him, is mot< attributable to the course the has been di reeled to take, than to any/want of skill ii the performance of his operations. Your committee consider, that th amount of money alreadf laid out on inter nal Improvements, if pr* iperly applied would have been abundant ly sufficient tc render navigable the first ( lass of rivers ii the State; but it lias been u dm Innately tin case, that whenever an ap ampliation ha been made, the amount h is been dividei into so many parts and ap Jlied to the ns of so many different pin les, unaided b; professional experience a'ld science, (ha there has no benefit accrue! to any sectioi of the State. I If the sum of $425,00* Jhad been appli ed to benefiting the conclijoii of roads, th. people of the State wou m doubtless hav realised a much greater Arrnfit than the; have from the improver ynt in the naviga lion of rivers. -il The high tuition wiit/V the State has a! ready paid for the exp'J'ience which sh possesses on this suhju m, together with th advanced period of thiSession ofthe legis lature, induces your ctfWimitiee respecttuilj to submit the following resolution : Resolved, That tiJj further' appropria •imis be made for imposes of Interna Improvement, until f 1 .lie better and mor efficient system silnil be matured am adopted, and that lit moffice of Civil Engi neer be abolished lo<|the present. ii* e « The proposition » b)w before the Legislator of this Slate, and h.* pa-sed ihe rep sen’adv b an h by-P I rge majority, o with d aw II he money:?, com the Treasury of th Slate depo he it it |&. Bank for tlie purp se being oaoed out ojjh peop e and “distribute as equal y s pra t J able, among the ci .Zens ci the S'aic h ving r to the population c the differen c -untiiis one ■ alcnlated to ar rest die alt-nlion I every in ividual interests, in (He we fa eof J.i- country If the plan i cam J. it wii nut f • final stop to every kind o public imp oveme»‘.l: or fn ds Ibus sc mere will never he gnljfi red up. Our schools an. coheres will langfu sh f r want of support; n the plans for I J improvement of our wale cuurs s, roads ! Mic will he a€f ated. We d. vet ope that th I pru;l-*nc» f the Se-uto or th Execii ve will Jirrest his measure Allhouel it j mac' t be* feired Ih I an nnre sonabl love ol popalar.jft . » wish to propitial the goo. nil! of ih perqf e, wi I ndnee ma yto conn's nance • hi- -ch wilhoul ealeu a i gibe evil 10. - ic’ it ‘.ilw .live rise. It originates in di • me f eiin. af/.d the «■". polio «h h tins dis sip md Ihe rlj n-ive onnin of die Sta « ii oil ri s, aodlWi is much ob- f ared U at it wil prevai. —Smfimnah Mercury, Dec. 19. i • in ilie H. of K. Dec. IS, 1328-Read, and ordered to be primed. Washington, Dec. 18. In tlie Senate, yesterday, Mr. Eaton’s joint resolution to change the mode of elect s lag the printer of the Senate, so as to make • a majority of all the votes given necessary to a choice, was adopted. f I The House took up the bill relative to t . the additional drawback on Sugar refined . in the United Slates. Some opposition be • jing made to the passage of the bill, a dis l cession took place, which lasted about an 1 ; hour, when the question was taken, and the s • bill was passed by a large majority. December 19. » In the Senate, yesterday, the Joint Reso- < - lotion altering the mode of electing printers i • to Congress, was passed. s In the House of Representatives, yester - flay, the resolution offered by Mr. Ver . planck, on the preceding day, asking of the e president information on the subject of the i attempted frauds on the revenue, which have called for the military movements to s wards the Niagara frontier, was taken up | e and agreed to. The House, in committee of the whole 1 ! on the state of the Union, look up the gen 1 ; eral appropriation bill for the first quarter of the year 1.829, anti filled the blanks; at irlter which, the bill was reported and order to be engrossed and read a third lime , to-day. In committee, the House then i ft took up Mr. Smyth’s resolution on the sub c ject of an amendment of the Constitution, e on which Mr. Smyth spoke at some length ; , I after which, the Committee rose, and the i it House then adjourned, t December 20. i- The Senate did not sit yesterday, s Nothing of public interest was transacted r in the House of Representatives yesterday, i, The general appropriation bill, for the sup d port of Government for the first quarter of i- the year 1329, was read a third lime and s passed. i, h The act of the General Assembly estab lishing at this place a great State Bank, the n properly of the State and based on its funds, e is a measure about which there is no little difference of opinion. While some antici t r»ale from its operations great public bene r, fit, others believe it fraught with evil, and f> likely to do infinite mischief. Its friends i- probably expect from it 100 much, and its ■ opponents are certainly extravagant in snp f> posing that nearly all the money it may r loan out will be lost to the State. It is not y however easy to conceive how that provi sion of the act which requires accommoda r lion loans to be distributed as equally as - possible, among the citizens of the Slate , haring regard to the population of the different counties, can be carried into ef h feci, in the spirit intended by the Legisla - tore, without hazarding serious loss, or pro- 1 1 duciug a great deal of dissatisfaction. It I is no easy matter to judge correctly of the i solvency of men within our immediate vi p cinity—and how much more so will it be It to know any thing certain of their capacity i to pay what they may wish to borrow. p when living in one of the most distant conn s lies, perhaps two hundred miles off? —Mil n ledgcville Recorder, Dec. 27. Georgia legislature. .1 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, i’ "A S 3 . Eodat, Dec. 10. ’ BANKS. ; s The Committee on Bauks reported as fol I- lows: ie Mneon Bank —lt appears that the affairs of n the B ulk h .vc been managed with great pro j item e, and that the exhibit shows that institu tion to he in a condition entirely solvent. n Darien Bank —lt appears from the report of the President of said Bank, and the accompa j- eying statement of the Cashier thereof, that 1 e hey hare complied with the lesolulion of the j_ last Legislature of this Slate, and have with drawn from circulation, in addition then to the ln sum of $60,000, and redeemed to the amoun of J 51.220 —of its stock that there is a surplus 1 le to th< credit of tho Bank. The exhibition of the institution is truly gratifying as it is nc only evincive of the ability of the Bank tocom ‘t uly with her engagements with the State, but o justifies the belief that she may with proprie in ty resume operations, by which the stock will , e become productive to its owners. With the i ontinued exertions and abilities of the officers of said institution in the prudent management !t * f its concerns, we may expect a speedy ro se demptioc of its credit, and a renewal of tho.e iy advantages to the community which they oner at derived from its liberality jiugutta Bank —The committee find it ju diciously managed, and that it has sustained i's credit in such a manner as to receive the li- highest approbation of the community. >e Mr Powell cf Mclntosh, from the j lint com mittee on Banks, to whom was referred the statements made by the Bank of the Slate o - Georgia, reported, that said statement warrants u the committee in the de. l.iralion that the con dition of the said Bank is sound, and that its as il- fair? hive been managed with prudence—which Je was read and agree 1 to—also, That they have had the statement of the ,p Planters’ Bank, under con adoration, and that s ‘ it induces a belief in the committee, that tip y ■oiidilion of the s'?id Bank is sound, aad lha' Its affairs have bee» conducted with discretion a _ —which wa, read and agreed to. Thprsdat, D.-c. It, Mr. Powell from the j nnt committee pn rP Banks, made the following repor The Bank til vmmitUe to whom w s referred the exhibit . f j. 'he Marine and Fire Insurance Hank, report, that tltis institution is in a very sound condition Their issues vi'bin prudent limits, and their means more th in ample for the redemption ol heir bills in circulation —which being read, re was agreed to. Penitentiary. —Governor Forsyth has ( appointed Mr. Anderson Abercrombie of ?d Hancock county, Principal Keeper of this of institution—-Dr. Samuel Boykin, Mr. Jas. Camak, and Mr. James S Calhoun of Mil •d * e dgeville, Inspectors—Mr. R. 11. L. Bu is chanan, Clerk—and Mr. Lucius Q C. La os mar, Attorney. —Statesman and Patriot, B <J Dec. 27. id _ Hr It is pretty generally known that our pre- Jo sent Governor at the session of the Legis -16 lature in 1327, placed his veto upon an , unusual number of Bills, to the great dis >d P ara g ment, as it was deemed, of some of P his friends. The present Legislature, it IK seems, have not been less at fault. Those Bills which have not received the Execo live assent, and the reasons fur his with in , holding it, shall be laid before our readers. I - ibid. % J TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 182 IL M O' We avail ourselves of the present oppor, I lunily, to tender (lie compliments of the season I to our friends and readers generally! fc. O' To enable us to remove our office befoi 3 I the Ist of January, we have published our pre- R sent No. one day earlier than usual. I The South Carolina Legislature has appoint* R cd William Harper, Esq. Chancellor, in tba ■ place of Judge fhomp’on, resigned, and G t, I J. B O’Neal Judg*, in the pl-ire of Judge Jame<, I FOR THE CHROiriCLE A ISO ADVERTISER. R THE TARIFF, I ( Concluded from our last) I Having attempted to givt the resuit of taj I reflection upon (he nature and effect the I , T"-i(f—at least so f>r as relates to its ow? Mm and some of the principles which govern it— I and the extent of the subject will n t permit I me to comrlete the picture bv entering more I minutely into p »ni< ulars—l will now make a I few remarks, as briefly as possible, upon what R appears to roe to be the most efficient means of I counieiacting effects, oud pioducing its ic- I i «al ' I have rlrra.ly hinted that we should give our adversities Be opportunity to re i TIN their sUp- ‘.'airly and honorah y sewer i coed to harsher measures—and thi- will' ,ai H give those who have been deluded into 'heir R interests, an opp rtuni y to retire creditably It from a cause, with which ’hey have no teal II sympathy -and many ot them will And, as era I little time, that (heir inlores's and their sympa- I (hies are more naturally connected with us and I \ ours. The latter po ti n ■•Hu ed to, are he I people of Kentucky, whose very elisten e, as it R were, with regard lo a market, depends upon I us—and if weorly pec is' in refusing to pur- R chase their horses, hogs, Btc. for the present, R they will, as m nv of them do already curse R the Tariff most b. Icrly, and we shall prob ly R find Ihcir Ri presmtMives ere long array* d on B the side of ours, and uniting with them in an H ea.nesi demand for ih repeal Such, too, will I i i all probability be the case with many other R Tariff St drs, which wil be nearly as much as- fc fecled by our homespun policy; and wi'b all H these, and the who'e commercial in'erest on our side, a repeal is in the highest degree pro bable. H Oce of the means which have been proposed for redress, and which >f adopted most be ex- SI ceedingly dangerous lo lb saieiy and existence Rt of the Union is the interference of the State e* gislatures, in the way of lay ng enormous duties! K on the products of the Tariff -States, lo effect tp R. proh bilion of them " Thi l is matter of dree* R iml official r»taliition w’ ich must nece.ra ily , R bring the General and Stae Gnvernm-ils into \H hos'ile contact with eac;i o'her; and it is wor- ■ thy of con (deration, whether such extremities I shou'd be adop ed til 1 , vva have tried milder, H and wh t are, in my opimou, even more effi- I c tnl mn. s The oonslitutio ality of his mode I of redress, has foi sme time past he n a sub- I ject of die o-sioij ;an I wliile many able wri trs I and di-tinguish-d per one h. ve declared it un- H consliiitional, several of our most eminent aw I ye>s and poiilioiatrs h<ve, on the contrary —as I shewn in the Preamble and Resolution- adopt- I ed at A'liens—declared it to be ron-titu'ional, f and.recommended the adop ion of it by our Le- ! gislatuie. B dore entering into an argument j upon the con'ti'utionality of an excire law, it f ; will be well (o consider the still more impor tant question of whether or not it be txpedtmt, an 1 best < alculated lo effec the object wc have iu view. Wha* is it in itself— another Tar Jf'. and one which, however it may operate against our opponents, will also be severely fab by our- r s Ives; an I like the Nali nnl T riff ader ma- ' terially injuring i's advocates, may ten-' to de feat the very object it is intended o effect R What are its means ? Non consumption of the I articles of the Ta-iff S'.ites. And may not these _ means be exercised, ns far as they are prac ica- ■ ble. equeily as well without it? and if we at- HS ‘empt to force them further than they are pracd Jr. ' ticable, will it not be equally or more oppr* •jtmWt sive and obnoxious than the Na'iooal T? That one entourages monopolies, and bmefils* I the rich at the expense of the poor. So will ||l Ibis. Many of the people of the South are more or bss unprepared wi'h horses, hogs be. -M for the coming season, and wili be obliged in spite of themselves, to buy Suppose this Sate JR Tariff established, and that we arc prohibit from purchasing from the Kentuck an?, fr whom are we forced to purchase? From U rich planters of our own Stale, who will haß* every oppnr'unhy to tron'po'iza the articles, ! and make ns pay whatever prices 'hey plesse to put upon them ido not say that they w u;d •’’us lake idvantnge of the necessities of the poor—l only sa that they wuld have the pnictr lo do so. If we believe lhai they wu'd not, and have every confidence in their liberal!- ly, &lc, whv we shall have no objections to it n these grounds—but if we think they miehl avail ihemse'ves of it to our injury, we must '(link it unsafe to give them the means of doing so, and shall consequently be opposed to bis Stale Tariff—And it r-hould not be forgotten, that if there be any horses and hogs lo dis pose of. they will be in the hands of the rich, and that the rich will have the greatest faei I ties to raise 'hem in quantities, and also to buy them up bifore this T riff is enacted, for the purpose of selling them afterwords at their own . prices. Again—'h National Tariff will be de rated in a great measure, hy (be extenure fa- I cilities for smuggling, which exi«t on the* am*da frontier and it is worthy of observation, that 1 the British manufacturers have for some time I past been shipping immense quan‘i(i r s of goods I to Canada, under the convict! n, that the reve nue and manufactures of (bis coun'ry may bo defeated in this way —And do not the bounda ries of Ibis State offer every oppo< luni'y that can be wished for smtug'ing hordes a. d hogs ? ( * hes- rem rks were written several months past, when he enactment of a Stale lar ff was first reemmendvd at various meetings in 'bo Stae, and when it was expected that the Le* gtslature would adopt (he measure. ' J •VB aTf 3 <i‘A 5