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From the Savannah Republican.
Mr. Edttok :—I send you for puhlica
tfoji,a late communication published in
jh#s?ow York Slat • oftbeSllh ult- (June.)
Tbo contents arc very interesting to the
(people of this section of the State, and in
deed to the whole State of Georgia, be
cause it is an enterprise well worthy of
(Kc. patronage of the National Ciovern
;|(ppi»l, who sent (Jen. Bernard, (’apt.
*i*oucsin r and other engineers, into Flori
da, sotnc few years ago, to examine the
/.-route for a great National Canal. I have
tiic route, and can safely say,
that a more level or beautiful tract for a
Rail Rond does not exist on the face ol
the earth, and the largo yellow pine grow
ing on the whole route, almost resembles
red cedar in its texture and fineness ol
grain, and which is belter than iron to con
struct the Kail Road with. I will here al
so state, that when this is completed il
will developc anothor’grcat i ntcrpri.se, viz;
the draining of the Great Okofanuque into
the Suwannee, and hy n short cut into the
St. Marys River, near Traders’-Hill. 1 i
(h.o preMfit'sitimtion, the Okofanuque is
<>f iiOyVaaie to the State of Georgia ; and it
is presumed, she would grant it to any or
ganized company, that would drain it,
withjipcrpicdual non-exemption from laxa
lidh. The Ol.ofauoqiic is very rich land
and is no doubt interspersed with large
tracts of high hammocks. I know myself
of n largo kridwl covered with reeds, mag
nolia, live oak, &c.
When drained, it would he more valua
ble than the great Dismal Swamp of Vir
ginia, which is owncil hy a company of
enterprising gentlemen, mid several shares
of which was owned hy the great mid good
WAbHiNoroN, in his life lime. 11.
Camden County, 22/ July, IB3G.
From the .V. }'. Star, June 2 \th.
GREAT NATIONAL ENTERI’RIZE.
A quick and safe communication, be
tween the cities on tho Gulf of Mexico,
ihcTudiiiig Now Orleans, and the cities of
the Southern,Middle and Northern Slates,
upon the Atlantic,
A company of gentlemen of Boston,
Portland and Georgia, have obtained n
liberal and perpetual charter from the Le
gislative Council of Florida and from (lie
Slate of Georgia, torn rail road hetwerp
St. Marks, up the Gulf of Mexico, across
the Isthmus of Florida, to come out upon
tho Atlantic at Brunswick in Georgia;
the distance 180 miles, byway of Cole
rain upon the St. Marys river ; and a tine
level roule for a rail road, abounding with
the beat materials for the construction;
mid, as there will he no serious obstacles
ofercavntioo and embankments to encoun
ter, nor inclined planes with stationary
power required, it may ho safely estima
ted that there is not another route ofiu
tcrpl improvement in the United States,
whore n double tract rail road ('llll be con-
Btructcd 180 miles, for so small proportion
able amount of money, and fraught with
perpetual consequences, so important and
beneficial to tho stockholders, and the
Union, and the general prosperity of the
Slates.
It will form a complete national sea
board roule, principally inland, from New
Orleans, via St Marks and Brunswick,
to tho Uity of Washington, Baltimore,
Philadelphia,New York, Boston aadl’ort
hmd, ns will be perceived by reference to
a large map of the U. Slates. —By this
route, with steamboats of speed for New
Orleans, through Lake I’ontcliarlrniii, viz
Mobile, Pensacola, St. Josephs and Apa
lachicola (nil upon (he route) to Bt. Murks,
and sloum-packets from Brunswick, (to
belong also to tho rail road company,)
passengers and the heavy mails may ho
transported with comfort and cheapness,
upon the most direct lino from Now Or
leans to Now York in six days ; and, at
tho same lime, have the national advanta
ges of the superior part of Brunswick, for
heavy shipping, in regard to tho agricul
tural and commercial facilities of tho rail
road to St. Marks, back and forth, with
tho western states concentrating their
commerce upon the waters of tho Gulf of
Mexico.
Ships of sovon hundred (o nine hundred
tons may conio in from sea, heavy laden,
and moor along side of wharves at Bruns
wick in 2hours,with any wind having cast
ing in it, and proceed to sea in (lie same
time (Id miles) with any wind having west
ing in it. The harbor is completely land
locked, in cases of storms or gales, and
tho situation of Brunswick is tho most beau
tiful and healthy of any portion in the
Southern States.
Including the short steamboat commu
nication from Pensacola to St. Marks, in
land, it will bo perceived that this route,
for a double track rail road, will form the
host possible national thoroughfare across
the isthmus of Florida, with a naval ren
dezvous at one end, (Pensacola) and what
will ere long have to bo made a naval ren
dezvous at the other end (Brunswick);
between which tho most important poinls,
as to naval and marine advantages, south
of tho capes of Virginia, tor the protection
and defence of the southern mid western
states, Troops ordinance, munitions ami
provisions, in lime of war, might bo trans
ferred, vice versa, ns exigencies migh re
quire, at a moment’s warning, to meet an
enemy upon either side of tho Isthmus,
for the defence of Florida and tho Western
.Slates, or Georgia and (he Carolines.
The Brunswick and St. Marks rail
roftd will, no doubt, meet the general ap
probation of Congress; and it is probable
an application will be made to her respect
ing it before it is completed.
It is proper that Congress should have
some ageuqy and co-oporaliou inn work
of such national importance, especially on
that part within the limits of Florida; and
should it bo required to complete the cn
terprizc, she will, no doubt, subscribe for
a reasonable portion of the stock, to be lo
cated and expended upon that end of tho
route between St. Marks and the Florida
line.
It is believed that the capital sleek of
this national route, for a double track rail
load (commencing with a single tract,
which will facilitate the work of laving
down the other) will be liberally met hy
capitalists, merchants and men of enter
prize, in Boston, Portland, Providence,
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Mo
bile, New Orleans ; and (if required) hy
the general Government.
It will at. once bo seen, hy reference to
a map of the United Stales, that tho ex
tra sailing distance, from the latitude of
Brunswick, oMQOO miles to Now Orleans,
and the extra time, expense, and expo 1
sure, and shipwrecks, from the northern
ports, for the numerous coasting mid Fa-1
mau —aerwwrie v ■•rirtfl
ropean vessels, trading to and from the
Gulf of Mexico, byway of the Bahama
Islands and coast of Cuba. «ill he dis
pensed with, hy moans of the rail road
from Brunswick to St. Marks; thereby
cutting off the present long circuitous mid
dangerous route by sen, round the penin
sula of Florida, and preserve tho lives am:
property of thousands of our northern and
southern countrymen from * liipwreck, and
future piratical depredations along the
const of Cuba.
The annul losses now sustained hy the
Insurance Companies of (lie country, upon
the coast of Florida and the Bahama In
lands, js estimated above half a million of
dollars per annum; and, perhaps, an equal
amount lost hy individuals not insured,
exclusive of the loss of lives.
The above rail road will unite the com
mon interest and national defence of (he
Southern Atlantic and the Western Stales,
and Florida, in time of war, and at (he
same time affords an unrivalled and y r
pe.lunl secure channel for commerce, and
the quick transportation of pa : eng> rs and
tho mails between New York and the nor
thern cities and New Orleans, both intone
of war and pence.
Hence, besides (ho numerous impor
tant national advantage and facilities to
the Southern Atlantic Stales, and the
Southwestern division of the Union and
the Gulf of Mexico, in time of war and
peace, and to tho middle, northern, and
western Slates, also, in regard to agri
culture and commerce ; together whir the
protection and prosperity of the coa ting
and Furopenn trade, in the Gulf of Mexi
co and the Mississippi river; and the pre
servation of the lives and properly of nor
thern and southern merchants and mari
ners from shipwreck and exposure to pi
racy; and the superior comfort, despatch,
and cheapness of the transportation of pas
sengers, and the heavy mails between
New Orleans and New York, and other
northern cities, in preference to the pre
j. sent mode of delays and crammed stages
by day and/'// night, through (ho interior
1 of the country, over bad roads, bridges
and ferries.—We mean to say that, exclu
sive of all tho above public, national and
individual benefits, the toll, ornet income,
of (he contemplated rail road, from Ft.
Marks to Brunswick, in connection with
i (he lino of steam packets at each end, will
prove permanent and vastly lucrative to
stockholders, and can never he rivalled
by any counter project to effect the same
objects, which arc (secured hy the charter
to (lie company us exclusive and perpetual
rights and privileges. Books of subscrip
| tion for (lie capital stock, of two million--
of dollars, are about to ho opened, mid (lie
work of tho rail road may bo comm need
the ensuing lid) and winter, from Bruns
wick to the Georgia line, until the hand
ful of Indians are removed from Florida,
’ west of the Mississippi, and then proceed
with the residue of the work to St. .Marks.
BOSTON.
I*. S. Provision in made in an Act re
cently passed hy Congress, to have the
' bar and harbor of Brunswick thorough!}'
' surveyed for a Navy Yard. B.
—•*»*!
From the hint Fmancipntor.
“MU. PINCKNEY’S REPORT.
Mr. I’wickney’s repnrtadinit.s that Con
gress has the right to abolish slavery and
the slave trade in (lie District. This i
; all abolitionists want. As to the rest ol
the report it is a sort of old uaimuf
: whine about the inexpediency of ever
■ rising an acknowledged right, and the
, breach of “ public faith’’ involved in sc
1 doing. Ami all this may he very satis
-1 factory and conclusive with old women
s of both sexes, and with such as know tin
, law but expediency, and no “ public
. faith” but allegiance with tyrants and
: oppressors; but with men who have the
. courage to say their souls are their own.
• and to keep faith with the oppressed, and
. who have learned to act from higher 1110
I lives and 011 holier principles than those
1 of mere expediency, it will pass for what
■ it is worth. ’
f 'flic abolitionists will out live Mr.
Pinckney’s Report after all! We arc
! sorry for it,and we sympathise with Mr.
, Pinckney in his disappointment, I low
. astonished the “ pious” member from
. Charleston,as (heGlobe lovingly called
! him, must he to find that the demolished
■ arc still alive—can still battle—and.wlial
. Is more can laugh at him and his report.
1 “ That is all abolitionists want!” “Old
. woman’s whine!” Why, really, Mr.
) Pinckney, they treat you nuite cavalier
ly “Old woman’s whine!” And is il
thus they regard your thunder and light
ning? “Old woman’s whine!” The
thing is intolerable! Take your revenge
| on them, Mr. Pinckney, and never again
attempt to battle down religions fanati
cism with a paper report! That a milli
fier should ever have been blockhead e
nough to imagine such a thing is a dis
grace to the parly? Could he really have
thought the project feasible, and if he did
| not—what then ?— U. *S’. Telegraph.
From the If. -S’. Telegraph,
THE JACKSON ADMINISTRATION.
W hat alt the great measures of policy
pursued and adoption hy the Jackson
1 Administration? Great promises were
made of what was to be done. Great
1 boastings have been uttered of the great
things that have been done. But where
are they? We were (0 have reform.
Where is it? We were(ohaverelrcnrh
incut. \\ here is it ? Wo were to have
the expenditures of (lie Government re
,laced to the utmost limit of economy.
i W here is it ? Is it in (he expenditure in
; one year of forty-seven millions of dol
-1 lars, and complaints from the Adiiiinis-
I teat ion (hat there were. not. added twenty
- millions more?
In looking haek at the course of the
■ Administration, we can find but one great
measure of policy which they have pre
tended to pursue, and say they have at
tempted to carry into effect. The regu
lation of the currency, and the putting
down paper money and substituting spe
cie in its place. And how have they got
on with that ? They have put down the
paper system by doubling the number ol
hunks, and they have established a specie
currency by doubling the amount of hank
paper.
Have tho friends of the Administration
and the Administration itself, been sin
cere in their professions on this point I
We appeal to the authority of Mr. Ben
ton, which, although the very worst pos
sible authority against those opposed to
I him, is the best against Ids party upon
this particular subject, for he tool it in
1 hand us il' by common consent. There
31 were three several occasions when Mr.lv
11 Benton called upon Ihe party to support' r
. 1 him in what he chose to call the “ great a
11 measure” of Gen. Jackson’s Adminlstra- 1
? j tion, and they deserted him on all. There j
I! was the District hank hill. Here, said
-|he, is an opportunity that will he alfor- |
sided to the party ol doing something de-\
11 dstve in regard to die specie currency. |
11 They can, in their action on this bill, ,
; show the people that they are incorrect;!
and that (hey really.intend to establish 1 '
; j the constitutional currency. And what!
1 was the result? The party deserted him.
- ] To his shame and confusion he found i
f himself in a lean mi/iorily of his party. |
1 Then again, on Ids proposition to require
, specie paYments for the public lands,
they desert '.si him ; and on the deposite 1 ■
- hill, when he urged so strenously that the
e deposite hunks should be required to have I 1
1, a certain fixed proportion of specie, he :
a was again in a minority. What he thought j
•- about it may he gathered from his re- ■,
J i marks on it in the debate in the Semite, i
I; He says:
“ At the close of the last month, which ! '
e is (ho date of the latest returns of thei
deposite hunks, l!i ir immediate liabilities i
■- in the same items—public and private
0 deposites, and circulation—was 834,- j
c 401,830, and the gold and silver on hand j
1 was 810,202,245; being at (lie rule of
1 less than one to eight. This certain'}’
I is a progress in the wrong direction for
- ns, who have undertaken to strengthen
e the gold and silver foundation of the cur
t rency. It is (ravelling on the wrong cud
i- of the road, and that rather faster. The
- rejection from the bill of the clause which
• was intended to hold the deposite banks i
- up to the p r ,session of certain fixed pro-!
- portion ol specie, looks like an abandon -
i,! meat of our hard money professions, and \
i- j a relapsing tendency into the wide and (
n bottomless ocean of paper.—lt, is certain
r ly a great decline from the doctrines of
President Jackson’s message of Decem
,v her lasi—those doctrines which were
r then hailed with approbation hy an im
s mense majority of the American people,
- and received as landmarks in the whole
il democratic camp, and in which the I’re
i, wident expressly treated the regulation of
t. the deposites a 1 the regulation of the cur
li | rency, and looked to the increased circu-
II lation of gold am! silver, and the suppres
1, sion ot all bank notes under twenty dol
d lurs, as two of the great results which
e were to flow from the connection of the
r Federal Treasury with the local hanks,
d and the consequent influence of the Guv
-- eminent over the currency.”
9 “An abandonment of our hard money
e professions,” “a relapsing tendency into
il die wide and bottomless ocean of paper.”
;- Well might Mr. Benton say so, when he
I- saw the. whole party running mad after
1, more hanks. Again :
d ‘The rejection of the clause referred to,
I. continued Mr. B. has lost the advantages
so confidently looked to by the President
!■ in this wise and patriotic message, Notli
-0 ing isdonc in tins deposite hill to fulfill
y his enlightened and noble views; noth
in',;' to enlarge and extend the specie ha
sis : nothing the diffusion of
gold ; nothing to cllect the suppression
of notes under twenty dollars ; nothing
to check the paper system ; nothing to
'■ regulate (he currency ; on (he contrary,
1 we have a virtual abandonment of all
’ control over the moneyed system ; and a
1 virtual surrender of die constitutional
• power and duty of Congress over the cur
rency, to the discretion of the Secretary
I ol the Treasury, and the private and in
-0 (crested arrangements of the deposite
hanks.’
!1 It would seem, then, dial the I’resi-
II dent, Mr. Benton, and the democratic
' parly, all looked to the deposite hi 11 as
the great engine hy which the currency
e was to he "Regulated ,” and die specie
'j system substituted in place of the paper
11 system. We shall say nothing about the
'■ lolly of such expectations, but, to test the
*; sincerity of the party, look at what they
l{ did, and what (hey attempted todoin re
lation to it. What did they do ? Nothing 1
What did they try to do ? Nothing, ex-
I' eept these abortive attempts of Mr. Ben
'■ ton, for which lie mot ridicule and sar
' casm instead of support.
Thus we see there is no great measure
y «f policy undertaken hy the Admiuistra
tion or its friends; none to which Gen.
, Jackson or his friends will be able to look
a back with satisfaction and say, this pro
reeded from us.
The ultra federalists of die parly will,
il to bo sure, look hack with satisfaction to
t- the proclamation and the protest. These
ic they will say “ establish the federal con
■e s(ruction of the constitution, and gives us
11 a strong Government and a strong Kxe
cutive. These arc what we have so long
i- contended lor, and if we could not get it
>. engrafted in the constitution, wc have got
i- it by a Jackson construction. If our
e principles were put down by the civil re
(| volution of 1708, they have been re-es
tahlishcd bv the proclamation and pro
test.”
But if the Jackson administration be
not distinguished for any great measure of
civil policy (ending to the welfare of the
Y people, it will still never be forgotten.
11 It lias planted seeds that, if not soon up
<' rooted, will bring forth fruit unto death,
t It has laid the foundation of tho “ spoils
t party,” undermining all the great pritici
e t ples 011 which, alone, a republican gov
1. eminent can he kept long in existence,
• and milking the Gtivernnient a govern
e incut for plunder, instead of a govern
ment to promote the happiness of the
’. people.
11 We do beg our readers to look hack a
- few years, and see (he change produced
- in the political morals of the people. Does
v any one doubt the existenceof this change?
Cook around, and see the. dereliction of
e principle—yve say the total abandonment
t yd all principle, and an open avowal that
■ implicit obedience to the command of the
- duet, is the sole test of political honesty
- or patriotism ; the sole avenue to official
g station. This change necessarily trans
• (erred into (lie Executive hands the ap
u pointmentofliis successor, carrying along
e with it a double corruption, tiiat°at the
J head &at the source. To be successful,
c the very fountain of political power must
' he corrupted, and the people taught to
value a representative only according to
1 the spoils lie procures for them in the
- shape of national appropriations. The
adminstration of the government thus be
comes a system of national plunder, to
■ advance (lie personal interests of the prin
> cipal actors. Those are the sole glories
• "I the Jackson administration, his to
1 these that the future historian will direct
- h* s attention, and inculcate a lesson,
£. tj -i fA c?- p.
which, if nations could learn from axim- !
ricnce, may b« useful to others, lon-r after
all that viriuu»is gone that could make it:
useful to ourselves.
THE CREEK. WAU.
“ Columbus, July 25th, 1836.
“ .An express arrived this morning
from below, stating that 98 men under
the command of Capt. Calhoun, In.d an
engagement with about three hundred of
the enemy, ten miles from Roanoke on
the Lumpkin road, yesterday afternoon
—that sos our men were killed and I d
wounded—that our men had to retreat —
the Indians are making their way to Flo
rida. Gen. Sanford immediately order
ed all the disposable force here to march
in pursuit, consisting of Copt. Uelapa
inn ’s, Sledge’s, Rule’s and liostwiek’s
companies oi mounted men—and des
patched orders to Capt. Brewer’s moun
ted men twelve miles above, and to
Capt. Greer’s company at West Point to
follow. Maj. lloxie’s Battalion is order
ed to embark on board the steamboat
MetamOra, and proceed forthwith to the
nearest point to Chickasahatchie swamp,
in order to get in advance of the enemy
—Col. McGinty at Fort Gaines, is or
dered to take them in Hank, as also (he
force at Fort McCrary, consisting of a
parcel of Alford’s Battalion.
“This looks like recommencing (he
war in earnest. Gen, Sanford will com
mand this force in person.
Gen. Jessup has issued an order di
recting all the Indians to be at (he emi
grating camp, by (he Ist ot August—All
who are not there by that time, will be no
longer fed by the Hailed States, and will
be treated as hostile. This I view as an
importnat order, and will produce impor
tant results, cither terminating the war,
or producing a bloody one.
“ We shall leave here by day light,
and will ride night and day, until wc o
vortakc (he enemv. The savage should
be no longer permitted to polulc our soil
ith his foot.”
“ Lumpkin, Stewart co. July 2G, 1836.
“ We arrived here to-night, and shall
proceed on our course to Florida, if ne
cessary, in pursuit of the Indians. Capt.
.lernigan engaged them yesterday about
twenty miles below here, and killed sev
eral—He lost three men.
“ The Indians (the same body engaged
mi Sunday by Capt. Calhoun,) have
made but slow progress. We hope to
overtake them by the day after to-mor
row. Capt. J. is yet in pursuit. The
Sunday fight cost the enemy about 23 or
SO who were killed.”
In addition to (he above, the passen
gers which arrived here yesterday mor
ning in (lie stage from Columbus, stated
that information had been received of
Capt. Jernigam having had an engage
ment with the Indians on Wednesday the
27th. and again on Thursday the 38th.
The loss of the Indians was stated to
have been about 40 on Wednesday, and
some 1!) or 20 on Thursday. The loss
on the part of the whites not reported.
—•»v»0 © Pj
from the Columbus Herald, 2 tl inst.
CREEK WAR INCIDENTS.
AVe closed our last summary of items,
connected with the Indian War, by a
narration of the circumstances connected
with the fight at Quarles’s plantation,
which took place on Sunday, the 24th
ultimo. Our troops, from their great in
feriority in point of numbers, were, on
that occasion, compelled to retreat—the
Indians continued their course eastward ;
while passing Stewart county, and when
with a few miles of Lumpkin, they were
discovered by Captain Jernigan, who was
engaged in raising troops in that vicinity,
and had succeeded in enlisting about 80
men. This number, with Capt. Jernigan
at (heir head, fell in the rear of the ene
my, with the view, to trail them until
such time as they should be reinforced
by troops from Columbus. The advance
guard from Capt. Jernigan’s command,
acting without, or contrary to orders,
fired upon the Indians as soon as they
got within distance, when the Indians
immediately turned and made battle. A
sharp engagement took place, which lus
ted some 15 or 20 minutes, in which of
Whites there were 2 killed and 5 woun
ded—lndians, 7 killed, number wounded
unknown. The Indians numbered about
300, and fought well; the AVhites stood
as long as they could against such odds,
when (hey retreated. The Indians again
took up ihe line of march for Florida.
Jernigan’s little band of heroes still Col ■
lowing in their wake, determined to have
another tug at them. On Wednesday
both parties arrived at the south west end
of (he famous Chickasahatchee swamp.
The Indians had entered previous to the
arrival of the Whites. Some of Jerni
gan’s men on approaching the swamp dis
covered a few Indians and fired on them,
upon which the Indians immediately fled
and concealed themselves in the swamp:
after a short time employed by Jernigan
in so posting his men as to prevent the
escape of the enemy, a small party of sa
vages came out of the swamp, hallooed
to the White men and told them they
were ready for them, dared them into the
swamp, and promised them a severe Hog
ging if they would only come in. Capt.
Jernigan, we are informed, said to his
men “ the odds are fearfully against us
’tis true, almost four to one, but this brag
ging and bullying from a set of savage
murderers is too much to stand, let us go
in and give them a fight,” not a dissent
ing voice was heard in his ranks, and in
(hey went, amidst water, bushes, mUd
and Alligators; here the strife commen
ced, and here the battle waxed hot for
more than an hour, when the pepper com
ing so hot from the -unflinching Stewart
boys, the Indians although in the swamp,
their own favorite place, for meeting an
enemy, had to give way, commenced
dropping back and hiding themselves in
impenetrable thickets, until no trace of
them could be seen —lB we learn, were
actually killed in the engagement, their
dead bodies having been afterwards found;
the precise number of killed and woun
ded, from the Stewart troops, we have
been unable to ascertain. This is the way
to light Indians; follow them to their se
cure retreats, hunt them as you would
the deer seeking his covert, give them
battle on their own ground, meet them in
their own way, and it always will result
as in this case, 80 White men will whip
300 Indians. Capt. Jernigan merits, and
will receive (he grateful acknowledg
ments of his country.
From the first moment of hostilities lie
has been up and doing, not content with
(being posted at some particular spot as a
sentinel, lie has gone in search of the loe,
I and wherever he has met him, he has in-
I traduced himself with spirit and valor
I The Uchecs, and Hite Italics will “never
I forget J Esisio.vjc.”
At the time of the fight, of which wc
have been speaking, Gen‘l sau fore
;| with his command had not-arrived, bu'
(ere this has overtaken and joined Jcrni
■ jgan : he has under his command 500 men
land if ever they can succeed in getting
the Indians out of the swamp they will
sweep them away “ as with the besom ol
I destruction.”
from the JVe~.v Orleans Ttutlctin.
j A letter from a highly respcctablt
| source, dated at Matnmoras the 29th ult.
’ Isays, “ It is an undoubted fact that thh
' j Government (the Mexican) have made
lor arc making a treaty to engage eighi
'{thousand Indians to join them. 'l'/n
’ \ 4 C'herokecs are already cngttge'l. There
' I.ire fourteen or fifteen Chiefs of diil'ercm
Uribes within a few miles of here, whe
' i have daily communications with the oili
’ jeers. The commissioners were this morn
iing turned in the common prison with cri
I initials. It is not improbable we shall be
•' (invited to-take French leave of this coun
'• I try soon.”
Extract of another letter dated
Mata.mohas, July 1,183 G.
Dear Sir.—Through (he medium o
your paper 1 think it highly nccessun
that the Government of the United States
' (as well as Hie Texians, should be inform
( ed of what prcsenis itself, so odious it
! my opinion, in the character of Gen. Ur
tea, the Mexican Cmninander-in-Chief
1 too unpardonable to be overlooked, am
" j should be immediately attended toby tin
’ 1 United Slales.
We h ave at this moment here six o
1 j seven Indian Chiefs, Cherokees and otliei
j (tribes, with their interpreter, from Tex
as. These Indians are on a mission (i
the General, and have had several privati
meetings with him. There exists in
■ doubt ol the business they have come, on
and have made propositions to the Gen
oral to join the Mexicans against tin
■ I’cxians, which appears now to be con
1 eluded.—As Colonel Waterchea is to h.
dispatched to-morrow to their camp, soni
. j distance up the river, where they hav
(30 to 40 in number, to bo used as spie
jor runners. I had occasion to call oi
-General Urrea at his quarters on busi
' j ness, when 1 met (here three of the In
- ilians, with their interpreter, making en
1 j quiries of the strength of their tribe, th
General being anxious to ascertain wha
‘ j force (hey could muster with the othe
. i tribes.
. ' The Commissary of this place has ni
ders, to purchase 800 or 1000 horses so
the cavalry, which heis now doing. Ever
c movement appears to confirm (he belie
■ that the negotiation is concluded, with
:) promise to the Indians of land and cattle
should they assist and succeed in extei
s initiating the population of Texas.
GENERALS SCOTT AND JESUP.
Correspondence of the Charleston Courier.
“ Washixotox, .Inly 3G.
Since the adjournment of Congress there ho
J occurred no circumstance, which, among tho-
I who arc cognizant, of what passes under the roo:
, ol the Executive Department, has caused moi
li conversation than llio arrival and departure <
. Cen. Scott, with the events which took place Ju
P log his brief presence amongst ns. The mo
current version of llio matter is this : Gen. Sco
arrived in the cars from liattlinoic, and aimo
j immediately went to the War Office, where 1
!1 demanded who represented the Secretary of Wa
C it being known that the Secretary himself had 1c
s the city for a trip to the North. The question (
tien. Scott was answered (>y Mr. Harris, who wa
’ recently appointed Chief of the Indian Unreal
and who is at present Acting Secretary of Wa
1 Gen. Seott then referred to a letter of dun. Jcsiq
- which constituted the ground of his (Gen. Scott's
I rccal, and demanded its production from the file
j ol the Department. The files wore according!
P examined, and a letter was produced, addresse
by Gen. Jesup to Mr. F. T. Blair of the Globe,-i
’ which the General comments, with some sarcasu
’ on Gen. Scott’s mode of conducting the war t
- gainst the Seminoles in Florida, accuses hint <
S attempting to play the same game in the wa
( against the Crocks, and avows that he (Gen. Jo;
. sup) finds his own efficiency much impaired 1)
|' die restraints under which he is necessarily aci
ing, in consequence of the orders of Gen. Scot
On this letter, which appears to have been show
to Gen. Jack ion. by Mr. Blair, is an endorsemen
I of the President, directing that Gen. Scott bo forll
1 with recalled to answer for the inefficient mannt
i, in which ho carried on the wars against the It
j dians. Ot this letter and its endorsement, Get
Scott obtained a copy, and immediately aflerwart
" left tile Department, and returned to Balt'unoi
the same evening. Rumor, always busy on thes
G occasions, states that lie has gone in pursuit i
V the Secretary of War, that ho is very much ii
j censed against Gen. Jesup, and that he will in
, mediately require that a Court of Inquiry he cor
’ venod so examine and report upon the causr
which have prevented the Indian campaigns froi
being brought to a more rapid and successful le
- initiation. There is no doubt that a Court of Ii
, quiry will bo convened, and it would seem to 1
| the true interest of Gen. Scott himself that
. should bo so, and that there should ho an carl
j and full investigation of the subject, (or it canm
he concealed that there is a strong prejudice in th
L ‘ public mind against him, gotten up, it may hi
-by some of those who are inimicnly, to him pe
1 sonnlly or professionally, and rooting itself an
f spreading for want of an accurate understandin
. of all the circumstances connected with the can
paigns.
’ The Secretary of the Treasury lias issued it
5 structions to the receivers of lire public money
- 111 H lO Band Offices that nothing hut gold or si
I ver shall be received in payment for lands. Thi
t is a most ruinous policy and will inevitably thro l
us hack into the same whirlpool of embarrassmer
from which the country lias just partially issuer
[ If the banks of the South and West are to li
I drained ol their specie by land speculators, wh
_ are driven to the measure try tiro orders of the gc
r yornment, how is it possible that they can do
. hlrernl business in their discount. Iftho bankst
. | 'l>»* pi tv arc called upon for a million of dollars r
specie, they must curtail their business at lea;
• ( three millions of dollars, if not five. Why ar
l | ail these measures so suddenly adopted to ingulp
| i the South in distress and ruin I Do tiro North
i I ern States feel its influence ? No. And why
f Because all the purchasers of the public lands ar
, - found in the South and West. What then i
tiro consequence I Our commerce must bo crip
, plod or the public lands remain unsold or be sa
; | crificcd at tiro minimum value. This is part c
- | the,Van Bursa System of politics. Will th
. people support a man who is tire advocate am
. supporter of such measures 1 Will the people o
. ' A'shama give such a party a stick with which ti
, break their own heads ? They can not, they nil
not, — .Mobile Chronicle, 27th inst,
I !
I “*«<#*•—
t| Storm In Glynn.—X correspondent in Glvm
, county writes us that “ a severe hail storm passe,
j over our county on I 1 riday last, destroying even
thing in its course. I have heard ofone or twj
; plantation*, that have lost their crops completely
i At Mr. S. King’s plantation, the hail was as iargi
i a Iren s egg.. AH ol our crops arc more of (os
i 1 injured from wind, hail, and mn."~Tclegraph
lUOUSTA.:
. H DAY, AUGUST 0, I«3C.
| “/>’£ just, and fear not."
COXGRESSION A L TICK KT.
j JULIUS C. ALFORD, of Troup.
,1 i EDWARD J. ULACK, of Scriven.
it \V. T. COLQUITT, of Muscogee.
- ; WILLIAM V. DAWSON, of Greonc.
l,| R. W, HABERSHAM, of Habersham,
g! JOHN H. HOWARD, of Baldwin.
I JOSEPH W. JACKSON, of Chatham.
'l' THOMAS BUTLER KING, of Glynn.
EUGENICS A. NESBIT, of Morgan.
IIEACTH OF AUGUSTA.
The Sexton reports the liftccn per
i sous in this city, during the month of July—(i
| s ; whites, and 9 blacks.
[J NEW POST OFFICE.
,g ' A Post Ollico has been recently ostahlished at
■ c Walker Court House, Georgia, and Mr. K. M_
it AteoCK appointed Postmaster.
" j
!- | FROM THE NORTH,
i- The Steam Packet I Car. Gibbons, Capt. Spin*
*■ ncy, arrived at Charleston on Wednesday morn
lf> ing last, from New York, bringing papers of that
l ily to Saturday last, On which day she sailed,
j The papers contain no later foreign intelligence,
| and no domestic news ofintcrest.
: TUB CHEROKEES.
' j The Columbus Herald ofthe'Snd inst., says;
' ’ | “We learn that the Marines in our neighborhood
i will take up the line of march forthwith for the
, i Cherokee country. An express arrived in town
J- j yesterday, bringing' intelligence that the Ross
i] | party had risen in their wrath, and were dcstroy
lL. i ing all before them: and bringing an order from
| the Secretary of War, for all the Marines at Foil
ir | Mitchell, and in that vicinity, to hasten to this
t | new scene of savage depredation.”
.. i
to THE CROPS.
(c i A letter from an Alabama planter, dated Green*
io ! ville, (S. C.) July 24, says: “ The crop of Cot-
L I ton in Alabama will be very short. There is al
*' j most a total loss in the upper Mississippi.”
Another letter from Montgomery, ('Ala.') dated
l - • v 1
"Ist, says: “ I regret to state to you that our crops
le arc in a bad way. I know of no plantation from
,- t . which more than a half crop can be expected.”
)t! SOUTHERN MTEIIAIIV MESSENGER.
i- The July number of this Magazine (says the
9* New York Courier and Enquirer) is full, varied,
and able, as usual. In one respect tho Mossen-
ger is superior to any monthly publication in the
country —possibly with one exception—wo mean
in the high and manly tone of its criticism. Nani
|.. by pamhyism may wince under it—poor book-ma
of kcr sfrothify as much malignity as they please
ry but the literary criticisms of this work, arc of high
el order. The reviewer brings to them all the high
it cr qualifications for Ids task. It is true that we
have sometimes dissented from some of the sever
:i ” cr ministrations of his pen critical, in individua
eases; but the general spirit and tenor is right
Such criticism is needed, and it will do good, even
to some of the unlucky recipients themselves, am
certainly to the “current literature,” of our suf
sering country, as the three hundred ass power o
ms book-making, is sofacitioasly denominated. Tin
Messenger is a sterling publication, and we hope
, rc and believe it will succeed as it deserves to do.
jr " I!EC,Vi.I. OF GEN. SCOTT.
The following is the letter of Gsn. Jksit tc
JS I Ihe editor of the Washington Globe, published in
ho that paper of the 28th ultimo, which is said tc
ar, have occasioned the recall of Gen. Scott from the
command of the Army which has been called to
•a3 gother for the defence of our frontier ; and also
in, a copy ol President Jackson’s endorsement upon
ar. said letter:
'j I,' 1 ,' Four Mitpiiei, Alabama, 7
June 20, 1836. 5
, v Dear Sir :Wo have the Florida scenes e
cd nacled over again. This war ought to have boon
j ended a week ago. I commenced operations on
m the Alabama side, and have succeeded in Iran
’ quilizing the whole ftontier. Our principal hos
-oj. tile chief Erica Mico, came in with many of his
people to a camp which I had formed for the
purpose of feeding the starving Indians, prepara
. ’ tory to their removal. Another, Enea Malhla, is
a prisoner in my camp, and I was in full march
” t with a force sufficient to have terminated the war
vr j in five days, when my progress was arrested by
I an order from Gen. Scott: he has censured me in
the most unmeasured and unwarrantable manner
and I shall ho compelled to have the whole sub
• ject of this campaign investigated.
>n There was a force sufficient at Tuskegec, Co
lumbua, or this place, one week after our arrival,
no lave P 11 *- an end to this war, if it had been
, properly used ; but it was thought proper to a
s dopt a splendid plan of campaign upon paper,
in . and make every thing bond to it. To have wait
m_ °d the dovelopcments of that plan, would have lefl
in- n() fbing to defend ; bloodshed and conflagration
:cs have pervaded entire counties of Alabama,
mi not arrested by General Scott, I shall apply to
(>l ,_ ho relieved, for I disapprove entirely the course
r n . be lias thought |)ioper to pursue, and believe that
I his delay has been destructive of the best inter
, osls of the country.
q Let the President see this letter; he, lam
10 t sure, will approve the promptness with which 1
1 10 have, acted, when he shall be sensible that I have,
)Ci by the movement I have made, tranquilized the
Gr j whole Alabama frontier.
m l \ ours, most truly,
„„ THOMAS S. JESUP.
m " Fuascis P. Br.ua, Esq,,
Washington City.
Endorsement on the bach of Ihe letter.
Referred to the Secretary of War, that he forth
in- with order Gen. Scott to this place, in order that
ys an inquiry he had into the unaccountable delay
id- in prosecuting the Creek War, and tire failure ol
ns tlie campaign in Florida. Let Gen. Jcsup as
nv sumo the command. A. J.
n t
id*
[ )c mo the AuorsTA chronicle.
] la u Nihil ctl sand turn ahjue sinccrum in civitutr. — cir."
;o- Messns Ebitobs ;—I confess myself in the
a rear of the intelligence of the times. Here, in
of vcr y lcal 4 of the excitement, as I have been,
ist VT *^ l exception of a few days, during the In
ire 'ban hostilities, and mingling too, occasionally,
ph with tiio people, how I have been ignorant ol
. , what has been going on with the citizens of East
re orn Alabama, and of tire western frontier ol
is Georgia, I know not; for I have the honor some-
I’" times of being consulted on matters touching my
0 p neighborhood. But, in this instance, the first in
he teiligenco I have of a memorial to Congress, on
an important subject, comes to me through the
t medium of tho Washington papers, and the
pi manner in which the undertaking has J>ccn con
ducted, certainly reflects great ciedit on its pro
jectors.
The public voice lias for the last few montlus
,j j gone forth unmeasured, and unqualified, through
[y out the land. Circumstances have transpired,
■° and (nets have been made known, in docnmenla
fg 1-y evidence, which make it the imperative duty of
s« Government to look into tho causes of the laic
h. melancholy Indian hostilities, sifting the war to
its very origin—and as many highly honorable
and meritorious citizens of both States have been
viliy calumniated, the investigation prayed for
by the people, will, I doubt not, eventuate in their
exonration—separating, as it must, the honest
from tire dishonest.
I hold it a common privilege, an indisputable
right, to invest my capital in whatever 1 may be
lieve to be”the most advantageous and safe for
honorable gain. Some pile up their shelves with
the merchandize of all countries, and vend them
out again at a per centum of their own valuation.
Others enter into a more safe hut less common
traffic, tho purchase of Lands. And must the
speculators of the soil, who honorably and fairly
negotiate for their possessions, ho viiiified and
censured for acquiring wealth in (iris manner t
’ We know that suddenly acquired property, or
rapid accumulations, excite the envy, and too of
ten the malignance of tire world.
I Yet wc rejoice to see, even at this late hour,
Hint there is sonic moral honesty lingering among
us—wo rejoice that the honest, honorable land
dealer is no longer to be classed and condemned
with the wretch who robs and swindles the In
- dian, and wallows in his ill-gollcn gain; defying
- law, justice, anil public opinion.
1 The memorial to Congress, to which I have ai
• luded, is (he first one of its character that had
’ ever emanated from the people. It lias had its
rise from worthy farmers, whoso fields have heed
trampled by tho savage, foe, and whose posses
sions arc levelled with the earth on which they
I stood—from the yeomanry of tho country, who'
c were content with honest agriculture—the “sweat
n of whose brows” gave them their late waving tl
:s «os
.. The instrument itself succinctly sets forth their
n sufferings and their wrongs, and ouglrt to ho
I printed in letters of gold, for our children to
;3 read, when wo are no more, as an imperishable
monument of its author. Its cause is the cause'
of suffering humanity. Its end, to bring to pun
ishment and example those whose uncurbed ava
'■ rice Ims crimsoned the earth with the blood of in
i' nocenco, and changed the humble homes of plcii
-- ty and content, into tho smileless abodes of pover
ty and want.
The reception of the memorial, by Congress,
18 docs honor to tho country; and tho names of
n Dixon- H. Lewis and Hexiiv A. Wise will bd
garnered up in the hearts of tho people, vvitii re
verence and gratitude, for their endeavors to
• maintain, by an independent and fearless course,
c the imperishable language of Cicero, at the head
I, of our chapter.—Long may they live to adorn
i- the National Legislature with their patriotic elu
ic quenre, while age and youth will perpetuate their
n memories, as tho Ihe protectors of the poor, and
i- ■ the friends of tho unfortunate. AANONS;
a- . .
°’ ATTEMPT TO ROB THE MAIL.
Wo leant from the Newark Daily Advertiser
i- that on Tuesday morning, July 2Glh, about two
■e hours before daylight, an attempt was made to
slop tire U. States mail, on the Rail Road, about
four miles this side of East Brunswick. Three
:l ' ruffians suddenly sprung from lire woods, and
J. command-d the driver (for (lie mail car in the
night rs drawn by horses) to “stop the mail.”
|( l The driver called to tho guard in tho car and put
| whip to Ids horses. The guard promptly fired
k j at tho ruffians, upon which they disappeared as
of suddenly as they came, and no trace of them lias
1B been discovered since.
Several obstructions had been placed on the
10 track in differcntjplaccs. A largo stone was swept
off by tlie broom in front of one of tho fore wheels,
near where the attack was made.
Some distance farther on, n plank was seen hv
0 tlie light of the lamps, across tho whole rail way,
and, at dilleront distances beyond, two others,
II making altogether four obstructions, which might
lo have produced serious and fatal consequences if
io tho train had been under steam power, hut fur tiro
lamps.
Tho rail road company have offered a liberal
10 reward of 5500 for (lie perpetators of this shamc
n loss and unpardonable offence.—.Y, T. Com,,'hlv,
Important. —Wc have received information
that a force loan of two millions had been de
• dared in the city of Mexico, that tlie English and
11 French Ministers entered their protest, calling
11 upon foreigners not to contribute towards the a
’■ mount. Santa Antra’s party whs considered lo
j" he out of pthver,—and that Ihe Federal party was
ls succeeding in every direction, state after state was
10 revolutionizing, and that too, with little bloodshed;
}' die priests were little cared for, —the treasury
18 was completely exhausted. It was said that did
h new party would not on any account prosccutS
,r tiro war in Texas. —AVw Orleans liee.
•v
n
r, Texas. —No further change has taken place
r- in tiro relative situations of cither tho Mexican or
Tcxian army ; and no movement of imporlahcC
j- may be expected till towards the close of Sep
1, tember. Both armies arc awaiting reinforcements.-
n General Houston has not yet joined tire Texian
t- army, and wo have been informed ho will not;
r, We understand that he is at ids residence near
t- Nacogdoches, whiclt lie reached a short time
ft since. General Lamar, who superceded him in
n the command, lias tho entire confidence of both
a. the army and cabinet.— Ibid.
.0
ic ~
it Steam Packets to England.
r- The following extract is from the letter of a
very wealthy house in Bristol, England, to their
n correspondents in New York. The letter was
1 received by tho ship Bristol, arrived some days
a, ago:
,e Bhtstot,, May 26.—Our senior partner is chair
man of a joint stock company for the purpose of
building largo steam packets, and tho first object
is New Y'ork. All our arrangements arc now
made, and wo shall commence building in a few
weeks. Wc are thinking that if a company were
established in our city, one or two packets to be
x . owned by each company, and tlie companies to
lt correspond for their mutual benefit, such a plan
y and understanding would be teasiblc, and no
jp doubt prove mutually beneficial. Please take'
3 . this suggestion into your consideration, and favor
us with your sentiments thereon as a guide in
our proceedings.
Massacre. —A correspondent of a St. Louis
ie P a P cr gives the horrible details of a massacre a
tnong sonic halt breed Indiana near Fort Union,
11 at tlie mouth of the Yellow Slono river in June)
1, A half breed family, named Duchamp,had murdcr
i- cd another halt breed Jack Ram, for which the
tho half breeds of tlie neighborhood and some
' French voyagers determined to exterminate them,
5 for which purpose they attacked a block house in
t- which the Duchamps were. The Duchamps un
-5f derstanding that no quarter would be given them,
became desperate and reckless of consequences,
and defended themselves to tho last with determi
y nation. A Frenchman contrived to set fire to the
i- Hock house, and tho wind being high, the flames
tl spread witlr great rapidity. The yells of defiance
ot the iinmates could lie heard amidst tho crack
e ling of the flames, and they could ho seen calmly
c and deliberately watching an opportunity through
. the smoke and flames, to bring down their oppo
nents with their rifles, ol whom they killed eight
and wounded several. The Duchamps, with the
exception of a few small childicn were complete
-3 ly exterminated.
i-
’ Health o f Darien. —The general health of this
i- place never was known to be belter at this period
,f of the year, than it is at pioscnt. The weather
is unusually fine ; a good breeze during the day
1 serves lo dissipate the scorching rays of a July
1 sun — Telegraph.