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AUOITSTA :
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY C, 1836.
“ Be just, and fear not."
THE ELECTION FOR MAJOR,
On Monday last, terminated as follows:
For A. H. Pemberton, 200
“ Andrew G. Bcu, 71
Scattering, 8
GOV. McDUFFIE.
His Excellency, Guenon McDuffie, Gover
nor of South Carolina, arrived in this city on
Monday last, took lodgings at the Globe Hotel,
and departed yesterday.
RICHMOND SUPERIOR COURT.
The Superior Court of this county met on
Monday last, and at the request of tho liar and
Grand Jury, Judge Schley adjourned it to tho
3rd Monday of the present month.
SEXTON’S REPORT.
The City Sexton reports the interments of 17
persons in this city, during the month of Decem
ber 2 whites, and 15 blacks. He also reports
224 interments, in this city, during the year 1835
—lO4 whites, and 120 blacks.
BANKS.
Our respected and intelligent correspondent,
“Cosmopolite” is right welcome, and the more
so, because wo are conscious of his ardent gene
ral devotion to truth and right, his earnest and
laborious study of every subject in which he
takes an interest, and his long study and intimate
acquaintance with the important subject in ques
tion.
NEW POST OFFICES.
A New Post office has recently been establish
ed in the 6th district of Randolph county, 18 miles
from Lumpkin, and is called Pataula. Ransom
Godwin, Esq., is the Post Master.
A new Post office has also been established in
the 15th district of Sumter county, on the road
from Aracricus and Danville, to Pindcrtowu and
Starksvillc. It is called “ Goff’s Stoiif., and D.
Goff, Esq., is the Post Master.
CITY OFFICERS.
At a meeting of the City Council, on Satur
day last, tho following officers were elected, to
serve the ensuing year:
Edmund Martin, City Sheriff.
Mitchell Nelson, City Marshall.
G. F. Patush, City Surveyor.
Gadriel Clahke, Jailor.
James W. Mebeditb, Clerk Lower Market.
W. M. Small, Clerk Upper Market.
Wm. Moody, Tuomas Tant, John Timmer
man, Caraway Taylor, Edmund L. Cone,
and James C. Philpot, Constables.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
An Election was held on Monday last, for Coun
ty Officers, at the City Hall, and at the two pre
cincts ; and the following is the result.
Clerk Superior and Inferior Courts,
City, Tarver’s, Wiggins,Total
James McLaws,* 469 17 18 504
Sheriff,
R. F. Bush,* 547 3 4 0 58(
Jleceiver of Tax Returns.
Jacob C. Boog,* 412 3 20 43!
Aaron Rhodes, 107 1 24 13!
Wm. Skinner, Jr. 60 0 0 61
Same. Tarver, 46 13 .0 5!
D. G. Salisbury, 7 0 2 !
Tax Collector,
Wm. Kennedy,* 320 11 31 3Ci
Wm. O. Eve, 302 6 8 3b
Surveyor,
G. F. Parish,* 323 0 19 34
E. J. Tarver, 197 15 23 23
Coroner,
C. Prouty,* 280 0 0 28
Isaac Hendricks, 177 0 37 21
G. 8. Clarke, 112 17 0 12
* Elected,
FROM THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
Ihe Supreme Court. — The Legislature ad
journed on Tuesday last, after a session of 51
days. During this session the constitutional bill
for the organization of a Court for tire correction
of errors, was passed lire second time, and, conse
quently, became a part of the constitution. In
accordance then with the constitution, a bill was
introduced providing for tho organization of a
Supreme Court. This bill passed the Senate, and
was twice rejected by the House of Representa
tives; once by ordering it to lie on the table the
remainder of the session, and once by refusing to
reconsider the vote of the preceding day. The ques
tions then arise, which grow out of the proceedings
on that bill, why lias not the Court been organized,
and authorized to proceed to tho discharge of the
duties attached to it ! Why lias it been postponed
to nextyear! The members of the legislature could
easily answer these questions, if they would; but
! they will not reply to the interrogations put to
them by their constituents, in a satisfactory man
ner ; they may equivocate, because by stating the
true reasons of the defeat of the bill, they would
condemn themselves, and indirectly acknowledge
that they were not deserving the confidence of
their constituents. And why not deserving that
confidence 1 Because the defeat of the hill is en
tirely owing to personal considerations, and to the
hopes, entertained by some, that party ascendency
may next year change, and place in the majority
those now in the minority, which would enable
them to place on the bench of tho Supremo Court,
men of their own party. (1)
We shall, in future numbers of this paper, lay
before our readers ail what we know about the re
jection of the bill organizing a Supreme Court;
and we know sufficiently to warrant us in declar
ing, that this rejection of tho bill was caused by a
combination of circumstances not very creditable
to the legislature and to tho State, and, especially,
to those who arc more deeply involved in the
whole transaction of the matter. (2) The fact is
that tho constitutional bill passed both houses by
a majority of two thirds of the members present.
In the Senate the vote was, yeas 59, nays 26 :
85 members present who voted, and with the
President, who did not vote, 86; 4 members only
absent. In tho House tho constitutional bill fi
nally passed by a vote of yeas 99, against nays
45, members absent, 33. The majority in the
Senate was 33, and in the House 54. The ma
jority in tho Senate for the hill organizing the
Court was 29, making a difference of only 4 votes
betu/ccn the vole on the constitutional bill, and
the vote on the bill for organizing the Court. But
how is it in regard to the House 1 Tho majority
for the constitutional bill was 54 ; and the majori
ty against the bill organizing tho Court, was 30 ! 1
By comparing the vote in favor of the constitu
tional bill, with the vote against the bill for or
ganizing the Court, we will find that 84 members
must have changed their minds respecting the
policy of establishing tile Court. (.3) The enquiry
then follows: what could have produced this
change, and in so short a time 1 This the people
of Georgia should investigate, and this tho repre
sentatives of tho people should explain. The
members of the minority should explain the mo
tives which led most of them to vote for tho con
stitutional bill, and then, whoa they ascertained
that they could, by arrangement and a compro
mise, place one of their parly on tho bench, vote,
with a very few exceptions, against (ho organiza
tion of tho Court! (4) Tho members of the minori
ty should explain also the causes why an arrange
ment and a compromise did not take place. (5)
The people have tho right to require an explana
tion of every circumstance which led to the de
feat of tho bill. For our own part, we believe
that no pledge was given to the members of tho
minority of a choice of a judge from their party.
(6) If a pledge was given, it was done without
the sanction of the Union party; and if the pledge
was afterwards withdrawn, the faith of tho Union
party cannot suffer, because the party was not
consulted before that pledge was given, if it was
ever given to the minority.
(I) This is a plain attack upon the members
of tho State Rights party; and it would scent,
from tho whole conduct of the Constitutionalist
in this matter, that it must have determined, from
the first, to make a party question of it, and per
vert the results, if possible, to parly purposes. It
will bo remembered that the senior editor, in his
letters from Milledgevillo, labored, previous to
the vote on the constitutional bill, to excite preju
dice against the State Rights members, by insinu
ating that they would vote against that bill, in
opposition to their known principles, because
’ they could not put their own party men upon the
1 Bench. Yet, how completely the result belied
the prediction; and certainly it ought at
least, in common justice, to have drawn from
1 him an apology for the unfounded and unjust
charge, and made him more cautious of similar
injustice in future. When the bill was read the
' second time, Mr. Burnes, one of the leaders of
tho Union party, moved to refer it to a committee
of tho whole on the first Monday in October next;
. which, if successful, would have been a complete
> rejection of it, On the third reading, 'all the
speakers against it (three) were Union men;
and of those who voted against it, 42 were Uni
on men, and 12 State Rights men. The follow
ing is a notice of the rejection of the bill which
accompanied our Legislative report:
“Os the fifty-four who voted against it, forty
two are Union men, and twelve only, State
Rights men, notwithstanding the, repeated charg
- os and insinuations of the Union prints, and
■ among them the Constitutionalist, against the
’ State Rights parly, that they would defeat the
.measure, because they could not put their own
men on the Bench. What say. those prints now!
On which party rests the responsibility of de
t- fcating this most important and desirable object,
». for the general good of tho State! ”
On the next morning the rejection was recon
sidered, without taking the yeas and nevs. Four
days afterward, tho bill was again taken up, and
14 passed; and of the 45 who then voted against
i it, more than three fourths (say 32 to 33) were
10 ! Union men ! Tho following is an extract from
1 the remarks on the passage of this bill, which
15 accompanied our Legislative report of it:
131 “The Union men in the minority arc greatly en
;01 raged at the unexpected passage of the bill, ami
, Q i some of them threaten strange and unusual
things. But . One of the most prominenl
9 of them told us that the State Rights party wouk
deeply rue thair support of the bill befort
-g the session is over—meaning ns to the manner ir
which the details will be carried out. We re
® plied, no, having acted on principle, alone, am
done their duly, they can never regret such i
12 course as that; and now it remains to lie seei
j- whether the Union men will do their duty; o
any rate, do what they may, they must necess!
rily bear the responsibilities of their conduct, an
80 take the consequences of it.—Tho State Right
13 men have acted nobly in this matter. The pn
29 jeet originated with them ; they have struggle
for it boldly and determinately for many year
against the deep prejudices, and persevering ho
tilities of their party opponents; and now, whe
success first came within their power, they did not i
selfishly cast it aside for tiro present, because those I
parly opponents must reap all the triumphs and
rewards of the victory. No—without knowings
single tittle of what their opponents may do in the
details, and disregarding all their taunts and in
sinuations, they have nobly clung to their princi
ples, and voted for the measutc to the last, which
must otherwise have been lost. Tltcir opponents
have sometimes talked of giving them one of the
Judges; but this has not influenced them in the
least. They have had no hopes of such a result,
and have not now. They knew well the object of
such intimations, & treated them as they deserved.
They know, too, that if one was given to them,
he would bo such a one as they would not select
themselves ; for it is scarcely to be expected, that
their opponents would allow thorn to select one
who would overshadow their two; and they cer
tainly will not desire lo select such a one as would
he overshadowed by them, and render themselves
and thcii party reaponsible in part for the conduct
of the whole.—No—let them keep aloof from all
such responsibility, and, since the Judges must bo
selected with reference to party, not choose be
twccutbo candidates of their opponents, but put
up able and well qualified candidates of their own
—such as they can put up, and as would do hon
or to themselves, tho Court, and the State—and,
if they arc defeated by less capable and able men,
the fault will not be theirs.”
Does this look ns if the Stale Rights members
were influenced, at this time, by a hope of getting
one of the Judges—or as if it were likely that
they could, afterward, have desired the rejection
of the bill to organize the Court, from any defeat
of such a hope ! Let common sense and com
mon justice answer.
Wo now come to the bill for the organization
of tho Court, which was introduced into the
House, and road the first time, on the 9th Decem
ber, and came up for a third rending on tho 17th.
Will the Constitutionalist explain for its party,
(which, having a largo majority in both houses
controlled tho entire action on the question, while
Mr. McAllister in the Senate, and Mr. Gor
don in the House, undertook, and were entitled
to, tho general management of it,) why so much
delay occurred in the proceedings on this sub
ject!—eleven days from the amendment of the
Constitulion, before tho bill was introduced, and
eight, from its introduction till its third reading—
nineteen in all—thus furnishing the argument a
gainst it, which was much pressed in the end,
that being very defective in its details (which it
certainly was, as admitted ®n all hands,) there
was not sufficient time, at so late a period of
tho session, to properly consider and discuss the
. question, and correct its errors, without negloct
> ing almost every thing else. It was on this plea,
that the bill was finally laid on the table for tho
I remainder of the session; and we arc satisfied
• that no motion to that efiect could have prevailed,
■ had it been introduced and discussed at as early a
period as it might have boon.—lt was whispered
about, with what truth we cannot say, that some
one or two of the leading Union friends of the
measure, who would probably have been elected
to the bench had they been out of the Legisla
ture, and thereby eligible, were not unwilling
that the bill should be defeated ‘this session, so as
to give them a chance at tho next. Whether this
will account for the delay referred to, and the
, sudden and extraordinary lukewarmness matti
' fested at tlie close of the proceedings on it, we
cannot pretend to determine. Tito Constitu
’ tionalist, being more in their secrets and those of
tho majority, than wo, may be better able to do
so,
i
Tho sum fixed upon in the Senate, for the
salary of the Judges, was very objectionable to
t many of the leading friends of the bill, and we
( think justly so, as not capable of commanding
the services of such men as would bo desirable
for such a Court; and when the bill of the House
came up, and that of the Senate was received as
t 1
. a substitute, Mr. Gordon moved to strikeout
“$2,500,” for the purpose of inserting $3,500,
I and aldy advocated the motion. Mr. Lewis of
Jones, a leading Union man, and a frichd of the
j bill, earnestly and very significantly warned him
t not to press the motion, ns if it succeeded he was
r satisfied that the blank would bo filled with a still
smaller amount, and that, objectionable as the
j. bill then was, if not taken and passed as it came
from the Senate, it would assuredly he worsted
s
by any attempt to amend it, and probably killed
’ altogether. He of course could have spoken for
his own party friends only; and we know that
he did so, after carefully gathering their views on
the subject. . Mr. Gordon still persisted in his
motion, however, till just as it was about to be
put, when ho withdrew it, ami it was renewed by
some one else, we know not who, and finally re
jected. Mr. Gordon then moved to strike out
e the words which prevented a future increase of
- the salary ; which was r.jrctcd. Mr. Flournoy
' moved to strike out “Augusta” and “Savannah,"
e as the locations of the Court for the district,
i with the view of adopting a single and more cen
! tral point, in accordance with one of the constitu
tional requisitions, which says, “The said Court”
’ &c. “shall sit” &c. “in each of five judicial dis
!. tri’ets” &c. “at the most central point in each judi
cial district, or at such other point, in each dis
(l trict, as shall by tho General Assembly be ordain
-5t ed,” &e. —which motion, after considerable dis
■e cussion, was adopted. The bill was then laid
a, on the table for tho present. Next morning a
h was made, and rejected, to reconsider tho
adoption of Mr. Flournoy’s motion ; and on
the same day, the 18th, the bill was again taken
id up, and Mr. Kenan, a Union man, and one who
al vo ted for the amendment of the constitution,
moved to lay it on the table for the remainder of
re the session, because of the great defectiveness of
in its details, and the want of lime to properly con
sldcr and amend them; which was advocated
also by Mr. Lewis of Jones, a Union man, on
eit the same ground, and tho conviction, as he said,
at (after manifesting much solicitude in favor of the
3a ‘ bill, on the previous day,) that, with the differ
enccs of opinion which existed on the details,
w- there was no probability of passing it in anything
led |ijj 0 a proper shape at the present session, & that
irs ’ to continue the discussion of it would be a useless
° S * waste of valuable lime, which ought to be devo-
i ted to tho mass of other business before the House, I
I t i
j if determined, as he believed it was, to adjourn '
on Tuesday next. The motion lo lay tho bill
on the table for the remainder of tho session, was
adopted—yeas 84, nays 64.
Mr. Kenan then offered a resolution, instruct
ing the Governor to appoint three fit and proper
persons lo investigate tho subject, and report a
plan of organization to the next Legislature; and
advocated it on the just ground, that it would
save much time and expense at the next session.
Mr. Carr, a Union man, moved to lay it on the
table for tho remainder of the session, but with
drew it by request, and to save time, by taking a
direct vote ; and the resolution was then rejected
—yeas 45, nays 105.
Next morning, Mr. Kenan moved to reconsid
er the adoption of his motion to lay tho bill on
the table for the remainder of tho session, on the
ground that his constituents disapproved of that
motion, and his parly, at a meeting last evening,
had resolved lo move a reconsideration, and
though he had not changed his own views on the
subject, bo felt constrained to make this motion
from respect to his constituents and his party.
Mr, Hudson, a State Rights man, alone advoca
ted the motion, and it was rejected —yeas GG,
nays 81,
We have not a list of tho yeas and nays on
these three last questions, but have not the least
doubt that the nays on the first and second, and
yeas on tho last, will be found, when exhibited,
to be composed mostly of Slate Rights men.
Many, however, and perhaps most, of those who
voted on tho opposite sides, of both parties, did
so, not because they were opposed to the bill, but
to the defecliveitess of its details, and believed
they could not bo properly amended at the pre
sent session, and that to continue the discussion,
would endanger other measures of their own, or
in which they fell interested. What were the
views of the gentleman who introduced the bill,
Mr. Gordon, wo know not, but were not a little
surprised to see him remain altogether silent on
each of the above three questions.
We heard it several times mentioned, in Mil
ledgovillo, as an undoubted fact, and have no
doubt of it ourselves, that at the Union party
meeting on the subject of the Supreme Court
bill, on the evening of tho 18th, Mr. C of the
Senate, told his party that they had better go for
the bill at once, and elect their candidates for
Judges while they could, for he believed the stale
of parlies was fast changing, and that it was
not unlikely that they would not have a majority
at the next session; or words to that effect.
It was said, too, that tho party was much
distracted and divided in its choice of candi
dates, and that a very large portion was in fa
vor of Judge W , as one, a White man,
while tho others preferred to defer tho elec
tion altogether, and defeat the bill, rather titan
allow him to bo elected. Anil, on telling an in
telligent Union member, after the defeat of tiro
bill, that wo were surprised that he and those of
his party who were in favor of the Court should
be willing to defer tho organization of it, and the
election of Judges, while they had the power to
elect, and might perhaps lose it hereafter, lie re
plied, that we would no! bo if we knew all, for
• there were matters and tilings connected with it
which we knew nothing about, and the very devil
and all behind the scenes—alluding, probably,
and as wo supposed, to the patty distraction and
division in iclation to a selection of Judges.
Whether the senior editor of the Constitution
alist left Milledgevillo before or after tho defeat of
the bill, we do qpt know ; hut if after, lie must
bo fully conscious of the correctness of tile above
statemcntsTand if before, may become so, on ma
king suitable enquiries.
(2) We believe so; but the question is, who
■ are accountable for that “ combininalion of cir
cumstances!” Wc are at no loss to determine this
for ourselves, mid believe the public will not be by
the time the discussion is closed. At any rate we
should be glad to hear from the editor “all that
he knows about the rejection of the bill.”
(3) No —it docs not follow that they have at
all “changed their minds respecting the policy
of establishing the Court,” but only that “ a com
. lunation of circumstances” has interfered to pre
vent the establishment of it at the present time;
and the question is who are accountable for that
| “combination”! Will the Constitutionalist sc
, riously pretend that the Union majority in the
House could not easily have passed the bill, if
they bad sincerely desired to do so! or that the
minority of any deliberative body can be made
r accountable for the acts of that body! Wc
should like lo hear its views on this subject. We
have chosen to go into an argument with it, in
its own way, because, if wc arc not greatly mista
ken,the strength of it will be found to he on our side.
But wc arc not unaware that it would have been
> a legitimate and sufficient reply, lo each and all of
. its allegations, carrying against them » complete
. refutation, lo say that the Union parly had the
. majority, a very large majority, and could easily
. have passed the bill, bad they chosen to do so.
(4) The few Slate Rights members who voted
1 against the hill, after voting for the amendment
, of the Constitution, did s>, as far as wc know, not
5 with these views, but such ns wo have heretofore
, shewn, and wc defy the Constitutionalist to pre
-1 sent the least evidence to the contrary.
a (5) They had no arrangement or compromise
, to make; very few of them, wc are satisfied, voted
f• against it; and we have no doubt that more than
f a majority of the entire body, who voted against
. it, were Union men. If it were not so, let it be
J shewn.
i (0) So do we. We never heard of any such
, pledge; and if some two or three Union men may
e ‘have suggested such a thing, either from a sense
-of justice or liberality, or a hope of inducing tho
i, State Rights fnombers lo vote for tho constitu
g lional bill, the latter certainly were not such ab-
It solute dolt* as to look upon it as the pledge of the
is party, or believe the Union party would elect one
I- of their candidates, when it had full power to
( elect one of its own. Docs the Constitutionalist
\ believe the Slate Rights members downwright
■ idiots! It says it believes no pledge was given
•to them; and yet pretends to believe, that, oven
without any such pledge, they had a hope that
the Union party would elect a State Rights matt,
and voted against tile hill because they were dis
appointed, though tho tune of election had not
arrived, and no change of circumstances could
have occurred to produce such disappointment!!!
Ths following is from the Constitutionalist of
yesterday, in reply to tho brief notice of litis sub
ject in our last s
“ If our rematks on the defeat of the bill for the
organization of a Supreme Court, arc erroneous,
and our strictures on the conduct of the State
Rights party, in relation to it, arc unjust, they
will no doubt be made so lo appear by the series
of unquestionable facts, promised by the editors
of the Chronicle. But will those editors be able
to produce those tmgueslionnble fuels ? It seems
that they shall find no difficulty in satisfying tho
reader of the error and injustice of our remarks.
Wo must wait patiently for those unquestiona
ble facts. In the meantime we can assure the
editors of the Chronicle that wo shall continue lo
pursue the even tenor of our ways, and that the
causes of tho defeat of tho Supreme Court hill
shall bo exposed.
We shall publish in our columns, whenever re
quested lo do so, any remarks or strictures made
in reply lo ours upon the subject in question,
whether they are sent to us in tho form of a com
munication, or whether they appear in the col
ums of the Chronicle, under the editorial head ;
provided they are written in surh languge as
will entitle them to appear in the columns of the
Constitutionalist. The editors of the Chronicle,
wc arc sure, will have no objection to this ar
rangement.
Our “facta” are mostly drawn, as the Consti
tutionalist will perceive, from the Legislative pro
ceedings on (he subject, and so far, at least, may
justly bo considered “unquestionable.” At any
rate, wc invito the Constitutionalist to question
them, and are much mistaken if it does not find
it much easier to sneer at them than refute them,
or any of them.
We, 100, must wait, ns patiently ns wo can, sot
the facts of the Constitutionalist; and are pre
pared to meet them. It again threatens, for the
third or fourth lime, “that the causes of tho de
feat of tho Supreme Court hill shall bo exposed.”
Why thus threaten 1 Why not act! and open
ly and baldly base its dark and oblique hints, sur
mises, and insinuations, on what it does shew,
and not what it again and again threatens to show!
Bo it remembered, that it has given no proof
as,yet, or pretence of proof, of the numerous dis
creditable insihuatidns it has made against the
Statq,Right» (tarty, and which it is bound in com
mon honesty, to prove or retract.
FOR THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE.
BANKS.
Read and Reflect.
.Messrs. Editors t —l have read with great
plea urc, your valuable remarks on the subject of
Banks. For the independent stand you have
taken against these anti-Repuhlican monopolies,
you arc justly entitled to the thanks of all the
well-wishers of this Republic. Go on, gentle
men, and make known to the great body politic,
the ruinous consequences they entail on them
selves, by legislating away their natural rights,
to those monied corporations.
It is rny design to furnish you, occasionally,
with extracts, showing the pernicious tendency
of Chartered Banking Companies; and for the
present, I submit the following:
“Os all aristocracies, none more completely en
slave a people than that of money; and ill the
opinion of your committee, no system was over
better devised so perfectly to enslave n communi
ty, as that of the present mode of conducting
Banking establishments. I.ikc the Syren of the
fable, they entice to destroy. They hold the
purse-strings of society ; and by monopolizing
the whole of the circulating medium of the
country, they form a precarious standard, by
which all property in tho country, houses, lands,
debts and credits, and personal and real estate of
all descriptions, are valued; thus rendering the
whole community dependent on them ; proscrib
ing every man who dares expose their unlawful
practices ; if he happens lo he out of their reach,-
so as to require no favors from them, his friends
arc made the victims. So no one dares complain.
“The committee, on taking a general view of
our State, and comparing those parts where Banks
have been for some time established, with those
that have had none, arc astonished at the alarm
ing disparity. They sec, in the one rase, the
desolations they have made in societies that were
before prosperous and happy ; tho ruin they have
brought on on immense number of tho most
wealthy farmers, and they and their families sud
denly hurled from wealth and independence, into
the abyss of ruin and despair.”
COSMOPOLITE.
MECHANIC’S BANK.
An up-countryman recently rode day and night
with his pocket full of this Bank’s bills, in order
to got something for thorn in the scramble which
he supposed must necessarily follow its reported
failure. As soon ns the Bank opened in the
mottling, in he popped and demanded silvet. So
the report goes. “Will not that do you as well!”
inquired the Toller, turning down a keg of gold,
out of which poured on the counter nearly a half
perk of Eagles. The countryman looked at tho
gold, and looked at the Teller. “If that’s the
way yon do business)” said the countryman, “I’m
satisfied;” and stuffed his btllsagain in Itis pocket,
and marching out of the door, went home with a
lighter heart, but slower fool.— Courier, ilh inst.
Correspondence of the Columbus Enquirer,
Blakely, Early co. Dec. 80th, 1833.
Messrs Editors. —I write to inform you of ano
ther act, tho fruit of Granny Lumpkin’* Adminia
-1 tration a* Governor of Georgia. The Indians, on
• Wednesday last, the 16th inst. in Burke county,
. killed at least three white men. A party of seven
individuals su*(>ecling Indians lo tic in the ncigh
! borltood went in search ol them and fame upon a
* gang supposing to contain 40 or 50 Indians, who
. immediately fired on them, and before they could
make their escape, they killed three, to-wit:—
5 Green Tinsley, Wm. H. Fiirgcrson and Allen
> Perry. A Mr. Adams was missing at the lost ac
, count, suppererl to bo killed, and two of the o-
I liters were wounded, only one escaped unhurt.
; Such is the report brought up Wednesday night,
to a step son ot Mr. Perry, and the same has been
received at Buinbridgc, from a different source.—
4 hat there is three killed, there is no doubt, as
some of our country people have been down to
help bury them, when found. They found and
buried two.
I think Lumpkin would bear an indictment as
accessary before the fact for murder. Alas, poor
Georgia, lo what degree of abasement have you
fallen. _ _ , 3
Columbia Jockey Club Races. —4th day, best
3 m 5, mile heats,
Col. W. Hampton’s h. m. Fanny Rich
ards, by Maryland Eclipse, dam Betsy
Richards. 11l
Maj. EddinVgr. g. Black Hawk, 2. 2 3
D. P. Palmer’s ch. f. Sophia Stephens, 3 dr,
J. R. Spann’s ch. f. 4 3 2
Time.—l 53 ;156 ; 2 01.
Citizens Purse, $500—2 mile heats; was won
by Col. J. H. Hammond’s Cut Throat, beating
Rushlight, and two others, with ease.— Columbia
(S. C.J Bulletin.
Office of the A fee. Adv, £tf Advocate, J
New York, Doc. 27, 2P. M. 5
Letters from France, by tho Silvie do Grasse,
state that Mr. Barton had received his passports,
hut could not leave Franco till tho 10th, and
probably not till tho 26th November. These let
ters also state that the French Government had
ordered a statement to bo made out and furnished
to them of tho annua! amount of tho trade and
commerce between Franco and tho U. States.
.Mexico, —The packet Mexican, arrived yester
day, left Vera Ciuz on the 3d instant. The plnco
was tranquil although tho news of tho capture of
Tampico hail caused souio consternation. In
telligence of this event reached Vera Cruz by
way of the city of Mexico, and it was said tha
tho force of Mehiu amounted to 1300 men.
Nothing else was publicly known of the move
ments of St. Anna than that he was organizing
a considerable body of troops. Tho Mexican
has brought only about $50,000 specie.
Extract of a letter received in Savannah, dated,
Picolata, 30th ult.
Tho Indians arc scattered all over the country.
All tho principal houses and Sugar Mills at Mus
quito and Smyrna are burnt.—Anderson’s Dun
ham’s and Do Peislers. Part of De Peisler’s ne
groes have joined with them and they are burning
East, West, North and South.— Georgian.
Wasiiinoton, Dec. 30,
We leant that Rooer B. Taney, of Maryland,
was on Monday last nominated lo be Chief Jus
tice of the United States, and Philip P. Bah
noun, of Virginia, lo be an Asocialo Judge of the
Supreme Court,
Some days ago Powhatan Ellis, now Dis
trict Judge of the United Stales for the District
r of Mississippi, was nominated to bo Charge d’-
Affaires of the United States to Mexico.
Neither of these nominations has yet been act
ed upon.— . Vat. Intel.
Another War. —Wc have just learned by an
express from St. Marks, that one hundred and
three Irish labouiers, arrived at (hat place yester
day from the St. Joseph’s Railroad, and in the
evening commenced a riot, bidding defiance to the
civil authority. A severe contest ensued with tho
citizens, amounting to about forty man, which
terminated in the restoration of order. Fortunate
ly, the citizens made but little use of fire arms,
though many ol the rioters are severely- wounded.
Fifty of tltem are lodged in jail.— Floridian.
A Melancholy Occurrence took place in Craw
ford county, a few days ago. Mr. Thomas Slat
tcr, an old and respected citizen of that county, i..
a personal rencontre with his son in law (Mr.
Geo. R. Hunter, practising Attorney in Knoxville,
and a young man of fair promise,) received a
wound with a knife, which proved fatal in a very
few minutes ! — Macon Telegraph,
Wc had a narrow escape yesterday morning.
About 7 o’clock, the cry of lire was given, and tho
work shop of Messrs. B»con & Joiner was dis
covered to bo in flames. The fire originated, as
wc learn, by one of the workmen dropping a coni
among a quantity of moss, while kindling tho
morning fires. By the active exertions of some
of our citizens, the fire was suppressed, with only
a partial injury to tho roof of the house.— Macon
Messenger,
Continued Indian depredations. —Wo are
frequently asked by tho citizens of Stewart and
other counties, below this, why the Governor of
Georgia docs not pursue such a course as will
protect her citizens from the almost daily depre
dation* that are committed upon their persona and
properly by these lawless ami unfortunate race of
beings. We have so far been compelled lo plead
ignorance, and must now confess that tho proper
authorities have been certainly negligent; at least
there is a want of necessary attention to tho rights
of our citizens somewhere, for it certainly cannot
be true that the situation of our fellow-citizens on
the frontier below this, is known to tho Governor.
There is no doubt that their situation requires
prompt and urgent relief; and we hope that such
relief will forthwith be granted.— Columbus Sen
tinel, lat inst.
■am— wwEEwr.*’«rtF"nrimiwuiimi ■— . M
LATEST DATE FROM LIVERPOOL, KOV. 7.
LATEST DATE FROM HAVRE, NOT. 9.
AUGUSTA IWAUKET
COTTON.—This article continues to improve
in price. Tho quantity now coming in Is very
light, and meets with ready sale, at 12 a 14 J cts.
per Hi., a fancy article would bring more.
FREIGHTS.—To Savannah, for Cotton, 75
cents per hale—to Charleston, sl.
From the Constitutionalist, of yesterday.
Slock ol Colton
Remaining in Augusta and Hamburg on the Ist
instant.
THIS YEAR. LAST tEABi
In Augusta, 15,434 27,019
In Hamburg, 3,276 3,946
On wharf and boats, 245 831
Total *tock, 18,935 32,396
Sliipineilla of Cotton
From Augusta and Hamburg to Charleston and
Savannah, from Ist Oct. to Ist Jan. 1836.
' From Ist to 31st Dec. this tear, last year.
’ Savannah, by boats, 16,852 12,307
1 Charleston, “ “ 1,595 1,615
Do. by Rail Road, 3,050 1,242
21,407 15,104
Ship Mfr. Oct. 1 to Dec. I 49,107 50,462
Total shipments, 70,604 65,626
i lU-celpt ot Cotton
, At Augusta and Hamburg, from Ist Oct, 1833;
- to Ist Jan. 1836.
Tins YEAR. LAST YEAR.
Stork on haWrUt inst. 18,955 32,396
• Ship’d fr. Oct. 1 to Jan. 1 70,004 65,626
89,559 98,022
t De’ctsl'konhandOct, 1 3,493 5,728
-a—
Total Receipts, 88,056 95,294
•AV
• CIIAItIESTOX MaBRST, Jail. t.
■ Colton . —Arrived sine# our last to yesterday
i morning inclusive, 8222 bain Upland; claarcd in
- the same time, 6457 bales; on shipboard not
1 cleared, 5281 bales. Th* sales have barm 3633
i bales of Uplands, as follows: 318, 15; 681,
I 14}! 120, 14} ; 617, 14} : 305, 14f ; 655, 144;
136, 14} ; 538, 14; 54, 13}; 94, 13}; 64, 12};
s 30, 12} ; and 23, 12. Tbs market had given
r way from our last weekly report until Tuesday
1 evening, from }to } cent ou the middling quail*
.lies of Uplands. On yesterday wo received ad
, VICCS from Liverpool to the 7th,and Havre to the
9th November, advising a bettor fooling in the
former market, with a small advance. Our mar
ket immediately opened with a fair and im
[ proving demand, and about 1660 bales of Up
lands were sold at our last weeks rates. Wo
quote Uplands 12} a 13} ; fair 13} a 14 ; good
, a 14} ; prime and choice 14} a 16 cents.—
• •Mercury.
I Moans Mabkkt, Doc. 26.
J Cotton, —For ten days past, our rivers have
been unusually low, and consequently the course
of business has been much impeded. To this
cause, may in some measure, bo attributed the
lightness of receipts of produce. Uut without
this the evident unwillingness of planters to ac
’ cept of current rales, which, although measurably
’ higher here than in any other market, are much
below their expectations at the beginning of tho
t season, will probably oblige us to continue to rc
. port reduced weekly receipts in comparison with
those of last season.—Our maiket during tho
1 week, has been rather an unsotllcd state, occa
sionally a brisk demand would spring up, and bo
' succeeded almost immediately by an entire sus
j, pension. Altogether tho business dono has been
limited, not exceeding three thousand bates at tho
' general quotations of last week. In some in
stances, owing to the still continued sesruity of
H ood fair to lino cottons, }c advance has boon paid,
while mixed lots being much more abundant and
less wanted have, on the other hand, been more
easily obtained. In the present fluctuating state
of tho article, wo make no other change in our
quotations of last week, than that of adding infe
rior grades, in which there has boon some sales,—
’ Arrived this week, 7049 bales—cleared 3040,
which leaves the slock on hand, ell included, 89,.
■ 872 bales. —Mobile Snipping anil Com. List.
Dec. 28 —The Colton Market. —A lot of 1,-
• 500 bags was sold ou Saturday, at from 13 to 15
■ cents—averaging 13 to 15 cents per lb.— Mom.
> Chronicle. ——
New-Oiileans \l*iis st, Dec. 26.
Colton. —Arrived since the 18th instant 16,394
bales. Cleared in (he same time, 7300 bales;
' making an addition to stork of 9094 bales, and
leaving on hand, inclusive of all on ship-board,
not cleared on the 24th irri tant, a stock of 60,742
0 hales.—After a lapse of mote than two weeks, du
ring which, and particularly the latter part of
' that time, the Oottoa market has remained in a
, most deplorably dull condition; operations on
Wednesday last, were at length resumed, sine#
when, a heavy business has been going forward,
but at a reduction of from 1} to 2 cents on tho
prices given ton or twelve Jays back, fully the
n last figure, on all qualities below good fair, whilo
( j tke fine cottons, on account of llteir great scarci
.. ty have not fallen near so much. The chief cause
c of Ibis excessive dullness and that led to the pre
e sent decline, is tiie very discouraging advice* wo
continue to receive from the Liverpool market,
ij which has appeared to bo growing daily worso
_ and worse, not holding out the smallest oncou
, ragemont for buyers to pay lire prices heretofore
demanded. Under such circumstances, and in
the total absence of purchasers, it would have been
vain any longer to have persisted in trying to
stem tho downward current, particularly when a
heavy Stock would soon, hod they held out longer,
1 accumulated on their hands; consequently they
• gave way, and the result is the sales wo sefl Sri
-1 nexed, amounting to upwards of 17,000 bales,
1 and they woro principally as follow, vii: 3100 at
14 cents; 2260, at 13}; 1425, at 13}; 160, at
14? ; 350, at 15} ; 342, at 14 ; 411, at 14; 1600,
. at 14; 149, at 13} ; 2000, at 13}; 562, at 15} ;
> 269, at 15} a 16 ; 1800, at 11} ; 1100, at 14} ;
• 1400, at 16}; 295, at IS}, of Louisiana and Mis
i sissippi; and 180 Texas, at 14 cents per lb.—
I Levy’s Price Current,
Lennon Mahket, Not. 10.
Colton. —The accounts from Liverpool of largo
i sales there have improved tho market here. Tho
purchasers are increasing; Murats at 6d to 7},
> Madras at 5} to 7}d, and Bowcda at B}d per lb,
( Herns Mae set, Nor. 7.
1 Cotton. —The market has been in a drooping
. state throughout the last eight days, and the rates
| at which the sales hare been generally c dec led, es-
C lahlish a decline of 2 s 3centimes in our rates for
I all sorts of Collnn, principally in those of the low-*
r cr qualities of United Slates short staple.
, The transactions from the 30th October to tho
, Bth inst. inclusive, embrace 3161, b., Louisiana at
[ f. 110 to f. 175; 1965 h. Upland, Mobile, Ala
, bnma and Tennessee, at f. 107 20 to f. 145, St c.
Ac.; all these prices duly paid. We have no ar
j rivals lo report against these sales.
] Stock 30lh Oct. 1835. 31139 b. of which 26449
U. States.
No Arr. since then. ,
31139 20449
Sales up to oth Nor. 3451 2991
: Stock Cth Nov. 27678 23449 "
• Nov, 9.—We have only time this morning to
• advise you that our Cotton market continues to
decline, with a reappearance of going considerably
■ lower, especially for Iho ordinary and low quali
» ties.
y ■- 1 1-i-Jj: ta'l 1 !-!!'- ■ ■■BBHBfct
MARRIED,
In the Baptist Church, on Sunday Isst,by the
Rev. Wm. J. Hard, tho Rev. Jontv Kr.ttn,
3 Richmond, Vs. to Mrs. Soehia E.G«AitA*,ofthi»
city.
At the Mercer Institute, Greene eohnty, Geo.
~rt the 30lh December, by the Her. John Hillyer,
Mr. Astint;w Jacksoh Gatnti, es Lauretta
I District, 8. C. to Miss Coaxain Austins,
daughter of the Kev, B. M. Blunder* of lire for
i titer place.
In I’ttlnam County, on the 23d inst., Mr. Jourf
W. ILsnns, to Miss Mabt A.vx Litres.
PETIT (til'LPll
i COTTON SBRD<
BUSHELS daily
" Steamer AngustSsJaii^iarlso*
ton, for sale, on consignment, by '
A. CUMMIN® * f
Jan. 6 4t *8
Georgia, Jclffcrson Count;:
WHEREAS, Thomas Warden appUbs lo
mo for Letter* of Administration on tho
Estate and effects of Bias Lyons, deceased,
q These are, therefore, to eite and admonish all
and singular, the kindred and creditors of said
~ deceased, to be and appear at my office, within
the time prcscribcdby law, to file their objections,
if any they have, to shew cause why said Letters
should not be granted. ....
Given under my band, at office, in Loutsvillei
this 31st December, 1835.
EBEN. BOXHWfiLL» O*J. Ol’k. »
J».4 £