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. Georgia legislature. ,
Corrcspvuicrcf »f the CeattilutionaUtt.
Mh-.ledokville, Dec. 22. i
The following; bills passed the House
'festerdii v;
To incorporate the Middle Branch
Railroad Company, from the Chattahoo
chee by Covington to Madison. The
bonking privileges were struck out.
To amend the charter of the Georgia
Railroad and Banking Company, so ns to
authorize the construction of a branch
from Washington, Wilkes County.
To increase the salaries of the officers
of the Central Bank.
The following bills wcro lost:
To loan $50,000 to the Female College
of Georgia.
To incorporate the Miners Bank at
Dahlolinega.
To incorporate the Citizens Bank at
Augusta, yeas 58, nays 97.
Tliis'morningthc bills of the senate, to
incorporate the Western Bank at Home,
and to extend the charter of the Planters
Bank of Savannah, were passed.
The House has refused to recede from
its amendments to the Supreme Court
bill, & the Senate adheres to the rejection
of (he amendment. This amendment of
the House give authority to the Court to
assess damages in cases ap
peals. The legislature wlih adjourn on
Saturday night; and both houses must
agree before that lime, for the bill to be
come a law; they in fact should agree
before that lime, becausu a resolution
must be adopted by both branches and
assented to by the Governor, for the elec
tion of the three judges and a reporter.
The opponents of the bill are in hopes
of defeating the bill by procrastinating a
final vote on the question of receding,
agreeing, or adhering. I believe yet that
the organization will be effected.
The re organization of the militia is
postponed to the next session of the legis
lature. In the mean time, the senate has
passed the bill ol the House, reorganizing
the office of Adjutant General, &c.
Milledoevili.e, Dec. 23.
The disagreement between the two
houses, respecting an amendment to the
Supreme Court Bill, cannot be reconciled
ami adjusted. No organization of the
court w ill bo made at (bis session.
This morning in the House, (be bill to
incorporate the Brunswick bank, which
hail already passed the Senate, was passed
yeas 103, nays 26.
Mii.i r.nuEvn.LE, Doc. 24.
The Senate passed this morning the
bill to increase the capital slock ol the
Mechanics Bank of Augusta, to SI,OOO,
000.
The House concurred in (he amend
ment ol the General Appropriation Bill,
appropriating SIO,OOO for the expenses
ol a geological survey.
Yesterday evening, the General As
sembly mado choice of Gen. Daniel
Newnan, as Adjutant General, and
William Beall, of Carroll, as Assistant
Adjutant General. I*. Ij. Robinson,
of this place, was elected Slate printer.
Both brunches of the Legislature are
determined to adjourn this evening.
—~»e •«>*—
From the Columbia Timet,
A SLANDER.
If any further proof were wanting of
the malevolent feelings entertained by the
people of the North against the people of
the South, the following paragraph from
u Northern paper would amply furnish it.
A more striking instance of a studied
nod malignant disposition to propagate
slanger against the South could hardly be
got up, and wbat exhibits the temper
and spirit in (be most llagrant colors, is
the downright lying character of the slan
der, as manifest upon the face of it.
The writer says, “ Miss G , of
South Carolina, being on a visit to an in
timate friend of the writer, certain la
dies who were present began to talk on
the neverfuiling topic of domestics.
“ You do not have the trouble of such
frequent changes,” said one of them to
Miss G ; “ but 1 should think you
would find it very disagreeable to be sur
rounded by so many staves.” " Not at
all disagreeable,” replied the lady from
South Carolina i “ I have always been
accustomed to blacks ; 1 was nursed by
one of them, of whom 1 was very fond.
As for good looks, 1 assure you some of
them are very handsome. I had a young
slave who was an extremely pretty crea
ture. A gentleman who visited at our
house, became very much in love with
her. One day she requested me to speak
to that gentleman, for sjic did not wish to
be his mistress, and he troubled her ex
ceedingly. 1 did speak to him, begging
him to change bis conduct, ns Ids atten
tions were very disagreeable to my slave.
Fin a few weeks he desisted : but at the
end of that time, he told me he must have
that girl at some rate or other. He of
fered me a very high price; I pitied the
poor fellow, and sold her to him.”
Miss G was an unmarried wo
man, with correct ideas of propriety con
cerning those of her own color; but
having been educated under a system that
taught her to regard a portion of the hu
man race ns mere animals, she made the
above remarks without the slightest con
sciousness that there was anything shame
ful in the transaction.”
We verily believe a more baseless lie i
was never fabricated than the contents
of this paragraph. Our intimate ac
quaintance with the society of South
Carolina, authorises us to assert, that
there is not a native lady, married or
single, who could ever have brought her
self to niter so indelicate a sentiment ns
the one here represented, and none but a
base, grovelling, and malevolent spirit
could have invented it. It is well known
that the indecency here spoken of is
looked upon with no common feeling of
abhorrence by the whole female society
of the South: and not only by the ladies, j
but the gentlemen also look upon it as
such a violation of die decencies of socie
ty, fraught with such pernicious conse-!
qucnces, indicative of so vicious and I
gross a taste, that wc have never known ,
an example of the kind where the perpe- i
f, trator of the outrage did not lose c as!.
Let his wealth, his family rank, or his
■ intellectual endowment*, be ns high as
they may, he never fails to be looked up
on.as a degraded individual; and unless
he is surrounded with some adventi
tious circumstances to sustain ami keep
him from sinking, as office and official
influence, or some such thing,
fails to be excluded from all genteel so-j
ciety. We ourselves have witnessed'
many ibch instances of men of high re
spectability pitiably falling into tiie abyss
of neglect and degradation ; and we have
never known a single example who was
not the standing object of the implaca
ble scorn of the whole female commu
nity. Wc hold the northern writer there
fore to be a base and false fabricator of
slander.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The Legislature of this State adjourned
on Wednesday last. 'The Columbia Tele
scope of the 24th, speaking of the busi
ness transacted, says—“ A larger quan
tity of business than usual was transact
ed, some of which was of much impor
tance.
The Court of Appeals last established
consisting of all the Judges, is abolished,
and two Appeal Benches are now form
ed ; one consisting of the Chancellors,
(or Equity cases, and the other of the
circuit Judges, for cases of common
Law, The chief objection (that of a
conflict of Jurisdiction) which attended
this system on its trial some years ago,
is now removed, by (he Court ol Equity
being required, in all cases of disputed
power, to follow the decision of the Court
of law.
Banking Privileges have been granted
to the Louisville, Charleston, and Cin
cinnati Rail Rond Company, under
guarded restrictions. The Slate has
subscribed to the Stock one million of
dollars, out of the surplus revenue. The
accomplishment of (his great underta
king is now absolutely secure.
Sixty thousand dollars are appropria
ted to the College, for building another
tenement, n Library Hall, purchasing
books, &c. &c. $40,000 for extending
the Columbia Canal—§2o,ooo for re
pairing (he Slate road—s7ooo for im
proving the navigation of (he Watcrce,
—§3ooo for Lvncbe’s Creek, &c. &c.
In objects of public utility, as well as
in the settlement of many private cla'ins,
the Legislature has been very liberal.
A liberality, however, not more than is
accordant with the flourishing resources
of the Stale, ns well as the sentiments of
the people.
Aik Em, So. Ca. Dec. 20, 1830.
To the J'Jdilors of the Constitutionalist ;
1 have just returned from an Inquest I
held over the dead body of a negro man,
n runaway, that was shot near the South
Edisto, in this District (Barnwell) on
Saturday morning last. lie came to his
death by Jiis own recklessness. He
refused tube taken nlive—and said that
other attempts to take him hail been made,
and lie was determined that he would not
be taken. When taken he was nearly
naked, had a large dirk or knife and a
heavy club. lie was at first, (when those
who were in pursuit of him, found it ab
solutely necessary,) shot at with small
shot, with die intention of merely crippling
him. Ho was shot at several times, and at
last he was so disabled ns to be compelled
to surrender.—He kept in the run of a
crcek'in a very dense swamp all the time
that the neighbours were in pursuit ofliim.
As suon as the negro was taken, the best
medical aid was procured, but he died
on the same evening. One of the wit
nesses at the Inquisition, stated that the
negro body said that lie was from M issis
sippi, mid belonged to so many persons
he did not know who bis master was, but
again he said his master’s name was
Brimni. He said his own name was Sam,
amiwhen asked by another witness, “who
his master was,*' he muttered something
like Augusta or Augustine. The boy
was apparently above 35 or 40 years of
age—about six feet high; slightly yellow
in the face—very long beard or whiskers,
and very stout built, and a stern coun
tenance ; and appeared to have been run
away n long time.
WILLIAM IT. PRITCHARD.
Coroner, (Ex otlicio,) Barmvoll Uist. S. C.
A Eroomau'a Rebuke <o Slave*.
Mu. Lkkih.—The following letter of
B. W. Leigh, Esq. resigning his seat in
die Senate of the United States, was read
in the House of Representatives of Vir
ginia mi Tuesday, and, after debate, re
ferred to a special committee.
Richmond, Dec. 5.
Sir: In (ho letter I addressed to the
. Speakers of the two Houses of the Gen
eral Assembly, under date of the 2d
March last, I announced my purpose to
resign my office of Senator of the United
States at the commencement of the pre
sent session; and I now hereby resign
the office.
1 I should have confined this letter to
the single purpose of making (his resig
i nation, if the obligations of truth and can
dor, the care 1 owe to my own reputa
tion, and, in my sense of things, my duty
to my country and its institutions, did
not impose upon me the necessity of cor
recting some misapprehensions, which I
have discovered to exist, as to my mo
tives for resigning.
1 shall, therefore, avail myself of this
opportunity to declare in the most ex
plicit and solemn manner, what 1 thought
1 had intimated very distinctly in my
letter of the 2d March, above referred
to, that my sole reason and motive for
resigning mv seal in the Senate, consists
in the imperious necessity I am under of
giving my whole attention to my private
affairs, or rather in my sense ot (lie duty
which I owe to my family and to all mV
personal relations in society. I could
not retain my seat in the Senate if 1
would, and I must ask leave to say, fur
ther, that so far from being in the sMgh
: test degree influenced t* resign by the
1 instructions which the General Assem
| bly gave me at its last session, and the
resolutions it thought proper to adopt,
that I was bound to obey these instruc
. lions or resign—so far, too, from being
moved by any apprehension of the cen
j sure of the General Assembly, or even
lof any public odium I might incur by re-
J tabling my office—l place my whole nope
jof the lasting approbation of my country
| upon my resistance to the principles and
j doctrinesns novel, in my opinion, as they
•areerroneous and dangerous, tending to
an entire subversion of tlie'consiitiiuon
of the Senate, to nn alteration of the
whole frame of the Federal Government,
j and to the destruction of all the balan
ces wisely provided by the constitution,
as well in respect to the relations of the
j several departments of the Government
towards each other, as the relations of
i the whole towards the State Govern
j incuts.
I request you to communicate this let
ter to the General Assembly. | have the
honor to be, sir, with all respect, your
obedient servent,
B. W. LEIGH.
To the Hon. Wtnquah Hodertsojj,
Licultnantf Governor of Virginia.
CirretpondencP of the Sentinel.
THE TREASURY CIRCULAR-TUB TARIFF—
WISE’S RESOLUTION.
Washington, Dec. 20th ism
The Treasury Circular has become the sub
ject of animated and most interesting discus
sion in the Senate. Mr. Ewing of Ohio, as
you have learned from a previous letter, intro
duced a joint resolution for rescinding it; and
on Monday Mr. Benton delivered himself of the
threatened spccech, against the resolution and
in dofencu of the circular. Asia customary
with him, he poured out upon the Senate all the
atrocious expressions of abuse, which make up
the chief part of his vocabulary,—said the evils
attributed to the treasury order, ware
by the distribution act! —declared all the talk
about commercial pressure was more moonshine,
got up to create a panic—raved and roared a
bsut the United Stales Bank. Ho never can
make an argument on any subject without bring
ing in the Bank for a torrent of abuse, and
wound up.with a most ridiculous cx| ression
of his regret that the oppos.liun had not shown
n.ore ability and gonius in their assaults on
the circular! Besides these topics, there wen
one strain which prevailed throughout—“ Pu
nof tub President!” This is the
one unvarying song ot all the loaders and troops
of the party, whenever the spirit and end of
their miserable policy is exposed.
Mr. Crittenden replied to tho Missouri de
; claimcr yesterday. His speech maybe deserv
edly ranked with thoso noble displays of elo
quence which have shod such a lustre on tho
American Senate—a lustre which not all the
quackery and Charlatanism that have of late
dishonoured the body can entirely obscure. Mr.
i Crittenden docs not possess the powers of
mind, or tho high order of oratory, which dis
-1 tinguislicd some of his associates—but in the
faculty of popular reasoning,Jie has few equals,
and in keen and cutting sarcasm 1 question
whether ho does nok.surpuss any member of ci
ther House. He spoke with a cairn severity of
tin; abusive lone, adopted by Benton, and point
ed out the injustice of assailing the Senate for
tardiness or niggardliness in making appro
i prialions at last session, when it is notorious
i lint they appropriated upwards of 30,000,000,
i for the expenditures oft his retrenching Admin
; istraiion! Mr.Crittenden said ho wasgladto
’ lake his own share, and every other Senator’s
i share of whatever blame could ho justly attach
ed to them fur not voting away morn money.
Ho traced the history of the treasury circular;
and showed us why Bouton exhibited so much
sensitiveness tgp the subject. It was his own
darling project. At the last session ho intro
, duced a resolution providing that nothing but
t geld and silver should he received in payment
I for the public lands. That resolution was or
dered to lie on the table—where it was left to
sleep—and Ibis received the most unequivocal
condemnation of the Senate. But no sooner
diil Congress adjourn than this same despised
and rejected proposition was taken up, amfwith
additions and embellishments calculated to mis
lead tho ignorant, prejuced and unreflecting,
worked into a treasury circular! Mr. Critten
den denounced in just and severe terms this us
urpation by the executive of the legislative nu
thority, whereby a measure rejected by Con
gross hud been taken up and made a law. He
dwelt at groat length upon the illegality, and
injustice of the circular, and particularly the
disastrous consequences it had been brought
upon I lie West.
Mr. Webster is entitled to tin floorto-day,
and will make it is expected one of his most
powerful efforts.
On Monday Mr. Clay introduced Ids famous
Land Bill, witli some material modifications ren
dered necessary by the establishment of Arkan
sas ns n Stale, and the anticipated "admission
of Michigan into tho Union.
The Turifl came up in tho Mouse on Monday
as an incidental question. Soma petitions had I
been presented from Massachusetts by Messrs,
Lincoln and Adams, praying a repeal of the du
ties on foreign coal. Two motions were made
respecting them—one by Mr. Adams to refer
to tho Committee of Manufactures, of which he
is Chairman, and the other to refer to the Com
mittee of Ways ami Means. Those who are
opposed to touching tho tariff, were in favor ot
the motion of Mr, Adams. They contended
i that the question was one as to protection sim
ply because independent of the consideration of
' bow a reduction or repeal of the duty would af
fect the home producer, there could bo no ques.
tiou at all as to the propriety of taking oft' the
tax. It therefore belonged to that Committee
which was charged with protecting the inter
ests of tho various branches of domestic indus-!
try. On the other side it was held that the
question was one of finance merely, of which
of cause, the Committee of Ways and Means
had entire jurisdiction. Tho former view was
taken and sustained with arguments by Messrs.
Adams, Harper, Denny, Ingersoll, Uccd, and
the latter by Messrs. Cambrelong, Gideon Lee,
McKcon, Boon, and Hardin. The result Was
the reference qf the petitions to the Committee
. of Ways and Means. The same disposal has
been made ,of the subject of protection in the
Senate—-it has gone to tho Committee on Fi
nance which is, however, composed of men
who, represent almost all tlio'groat manufactur
ing interest.
I send you tho proceedings of the House on
yesterday, in another form. Mr. Wise's reso
lution will come up to-day along with Pearce’s
humbug substitute tor it. The debate will
probably continue for some time. Pickens of
South Carolina will speak—so will Graves, and
several other able men. The party cannot ap
ply their butcher knife, the previous question,
without cutting off Pearce’s amendment—end
so the discussion must go on as long as the op
position choose. jy.
i Savannah anil Charlatan Steam Packet
Company,—A meeting of the stockholders of this
, company wna held at the City Hotel on Saturday
Usl, and the company organized by tbc appoint
ment ot live Directors, viz:—Gen. James Hamil
ton of Charleston, George Hall. Geo. W. Ander
son, Win. Crabtree, jr. and G. U. Lamar, Esu’rs.
of this city,
The charter of incorporation of this company is
in the progress of passage in the Legislatures of
this State and South Carolina, and it is the in
tsmlon, we are happy to learn, of tho company,
to establish a line ofawift steam packets between
this port and Baltimore or Norfolk, touching at
Charleston. •
One boat is now under contract to bo upwards
of 200 feet long, 25 feet wide, and 14 feet hold,
wilh one of Wach man & Brail's beat low pro*- I
sure engines of 225 horro power, and copper
boilers, and to have accommodations for 200
passengers, and to be ready by the first of May
next. —Savannah Georgian.
. ‘ AUGUSTA:
NATI I1!)1V, I>Kfl-:.MHF.U :il, 1830.
“/’c Jmf, fil'd far vat."
I STATE MIGHTS CANDIDATE roll CONGRESS.
Col. Julius C. Alford,
OF TROUP,
j Election on the first .Monday in January next |
VIbEDICTOIIV’.
Having disposed of llio Acousta Chronicle
to Wm.E. Jonu, Eiq. editor of ;ho State Righto
Sentinel, onr connexion wilh it and its readers
doses wilh Ibe present Nq.; and we now appear
before them for the last lime, to bid them a respect
ful. a grateful, and an affectionate, nkttrm!
After near twelve years continual intercourse
with them, that words trikes strangely and harshly
on our feelings, and wo scarcely know how to
realize its certainly, however we may fed the full
effects of it. We hate professions, and would
fain express our feelings in acts not words. The
business was never our real choice, and we
have labored in it, with an anxious desire to make
amends by unwearied Industry, and devotion to
duty, for the absence of other requisites, till ili
hcalth, preying long upon our system, and tug
ging even at our very vitals, has brought us a
gain and again to the very brink of the gr3vc,
• and now almost to a premature old age. But,
even if the feelings which now rise upon this
separation, and which we dare not venture to ut
ter, did not exist, still, those from whom we part
cannot doubt, that oven long habits, and old as
sociations, alone, wore amply sufficient to it
anything but a pleasant one. We have again
and again, for years past, been at tho very point
of a similar one, and have as often shrunk from
it, almost at tho very moment of its consumma
tion; and now, when it is too late to retract, and we
are, as it were, “ once more upon tho waters,” wo
feel how diilicult it is to change old associations dc
old friends for new ones, as yet unknown, oven
unselected. Wo are the more reconciled to it,
however, by the conviction, that it is fully con
sistent wilh our own duty, and the interest of the
establishment, its subscribers, and the public, all
of whom, at least, will bo bonefitted by it, if wo
are not. A« a matter of pecuniary interest, it
never could have occurred ; for tho establishment
was never so prosperous and profitable, or pro
gressingly so; and it has now more than twice the
number of subscribers, that we received with it.
Pecuniary considerations, however, have never
had ranch weight with us; and the proposition
; of Mr. Jones camo combined wilh such judicious
and excellent projects for the increase of its use
fulness, in every respect, that, admonished by our
precarious health, and the possibility that it might
ere long compel us to a disposal of it, under cir
cumstances less favorable to that usefulness, we
could not feel ut liberty to decline it.
Mr. Jones designs, ns his Prospectus dcvelopcs,
to unite it with tho State Righto Sentinel, under
tho title of “ Auoustu Chronicle & State
Rights Sentinel, and issue a Daily, Semi-
Weekly, and Weekly paper. A bolter opportu
nity for such an enterprise perhaps never oflered
—subserving and promoting at once, his interests,
tiro interest of each establishment and its readers,
and the interests of this most prosperous and in
fluential city. Tho'suiiscription list of each pa
per is very largo, and united, the number of sub
scribers will amount to very near three thou
sand ! The advantages of such a circulation, to
advertisers, and to the city, it is surely unneces
sary to urge ; hut, divested as wo are now of any
pecuniary interest in the mailer, we trust that we
may speak plainly, and freely. The interest of
advertisers, is to extend their notices as generally
as possible, so that if any one paper can give them
the ordinaiy circulation of two, at least, its char
ges, tho’ nominally the same, arc virtually fifty
per cent, lower, to them. The interest oftho city
so immediately connected wilh its commerce, is of
course identified wilh IhosoengageJ in it; and tho
more extensively its capacity to meet and supply
the wants of the surrounding country are devel
oped, tho more, is tho mutual interest of both
understood, and cultivated, and promoted.
Again : the entire patronage, interest, and pro
fits of both papers being united, under tho ex
pense of only due, in like proportion is their ca
pacity for improvement, and to meet all the no
ccssaiy expenses of it. Os all this, Mr. Jones is
well aware, and wilh Ids talents, enterprise, in
dustry, and perseverance, wo feel assured that
. nothing will bo wanting to make the establish
ment a material acquisition and benefit »to the
city. Wo would suggest, too, to those who so
liberally patronize Northern papers, to tho exclu
sion, in some degree, of Southern ones, that un
der the present arrangements of the. mail, the be
nefits they formerly derived from them are wholly
| done away. The main value and interest of
those papers consisted in their commercial news;
but now, as n! 1 this, and every thing else of news,
is torwarded in slips to the newspaper olliccs,
and them only, through the Express Mail, and
published several days before the regular arrival
of the papers themselves, Ilia chief value of those
papers is entirely lost, and the patronage of them
a dead and useless expense. Let us then patron
ize Southern papers, in preference. Our own in
terest, as well as that of our city and the South,
is alike to be benefitted by it. AVo say Ibis in no
spirit of sectional prejudice,but under that proper
sens* of what is due to ourselves, without preju
dice against others, which, more than ought else,
has made our Northern brethren themselves, a
great and powerful people, and for the want of
which, wc have been little else than their depen
dants and retainers. Whatever may have been our
excited differences wilh the former, in this city, it
was solely on account of principles and opinions,
not men. To us, u/l men are brethren, but par
ticularly those of our own country ; and however
wo may differ with them on conflicting views of
tho best means of attaining the some common end,
we have no enmity or prejudice against the men
! themselves : And we should bo lost, alike to
; pride of country or of caste, if vve could forget that
extraordinary energy, enterprise, perseverance,
and talent of one Northern brethren, which has
elevated them, in those respects, above all others;
or the wonderful patriotism and intrepidity with
■ which they encountered tyranny and oppression
l lor the rights and liberties of tho country, and
I ,lle matchless, glory, with which they won them.- 1
j n s*inat a most powerful and determined enemy. 1
We deeply regret that any prejudice, should ever i
exist, between those among us, and tho Souther- <
ners with whom they mingle, and can easily per- t
ceivc, that each may learn valuable lessons ofac- 1
tion and character from the other—the latter, par- j
licularly, from that superior enterprise, industry, j
perseverance, and commercial pride and talent, j
which so peculiarly characterises the former, and j
I forms always the greatest influence, strength, and
power, nation. . |
We cannot close this article without earnestly ;
j recommending the new editor and proprietor of
j the Chronicle, to its numerous friends and pa- '
Irons; and wc feel assurer), that with his striking ;
talents, industry, enterprize, and literary acquire-!
1 ments, together vvilli his sterling honesty, patriot- :
j ism, rectitude pf purpose, and devotion to princi
ple, they have only to give him u fair and impar
tial trial, to feel that they arc gainers, greatly, by
: (his change. While the genera! principles of the
paper w ill remain the there he any differ
ences on minor matters of policy and expediency,
they will doubtless be such as would induce a ma
jority of our readers to accord with him, rather than
with us; for wc arc not unconscious—and at the
same time not insensible of that deep and lasting
gratitude with which it ought to inspire us—that
wc owe tho largo and flattering patronage wo
have enjoyed, and which has been regularly
and rapidly increasing, for sometime past, more
to a kind and generous appreciation of our mo
tives, and the rectitude of our intentions, than to
an approval of those opinions, in which wc have
evidently differed from the majority of our politi
cal fiiends. Such is the end at which wc persc
vcitngly aimed, and to have attained it, is gratify
ing to us beyond all else. Conscious of the dis
advantages of a limited and defective education,
and that wo must hope for success, not JVom
talents, but that honest and consistent devotion
to principle and duty, regardless of consequences,
from which vve could alono hope for llio aid of
Him, in whom is all power—all hope of real ben
efit in success, or consolation and support in de
feat and adversity—wo have never ceased to bear
in mind, (he, at least, of us who has boon longest
before tho public,) that but a few years ago we
wore a poor humble butchor-hoy on crutches,in.the
Augusta Market, and have subsequently passed
thro’ numerous severe and painful trials, public
and private, in which He, alono, could have sus
tained us and preserved to us the support and
confidence of others. Associated as our whole
life is with this city, from early boyhood—all that
is entwined with our very consciousness of exis
tence, or that can humble human vanity and
pride to their proper standard, and teach us what
we are, and what alone wo ought to hope to be—
however painful may be our parting from this
paper, far more so would boa separation from it—
a separation, which, (however it bo not for ns to
determine and control tho future, or a single mo
ment of it,) vve trust may never entirely occur.
To our political friends, who have so liberally
sustained us, and magnanimously borne with our
frequent •differences of opinion, wo tender our
most grateful thanks, while our earnest hope still
is, for them and the country, that they will con
tend, ever, not merely for success, hut for that
which ought to succeed.—To those kind and
generous old Clark friends who have adhered to
us throughout, amid all party changes and excite
ments, from tho beginning unto tho end, in des
pite of our severe conflicts with their opinions,
wo cannot express how deeply we led their liber
ality and forbearance—or how flatteringly, their
considerate and generous appreciation of our
motives.—And to our Carolina friends, to whom
wo are so greatly indebted—who were at one
time, most truly, “friends in need,”—and who
have been most justly described as “ tho first and
foremost rnco of all the earth,” all we crji say, is,
in the fulness of gratitude to them, not only as
editors, but as citizens and freemen, if wo could
bo ought dec than a Georgian, wo would be a
Carolinian, in residence, at least.
It is a source of no little gratification, to fool,
and state, that with our brethren of tho Press, of
all parties, wo part with tho most friendly and
respectful feelings, cordially and sincerely wish*
ing them, one and all, the utmost success and
happiness through life.
TO DEBTORS Ac CREDITORS.
As it is of the utmost importance to us to dose
ottr present business as early as practicable, wc
earnestly intreat all indebted to tho Augusta
Chronicle, to this date, to hand in, or remit to us
by mail, at the first opportunity, their respective
dues —in the latter case, directed to A. H. dc W.
F. Pemberton. And those to whom vve are
indebted, will please present us their accounts at
our present office, (hereafter the office of the
Chronicle & Sentinel,) where vve shall retain our
books and papers, till further notice. *
THE SOUTHERN' REVIEW.
Wo have hardy time to call tho attention of
our readers to the Prospectus of the Southern
Review, in our advertising columns. Wc hope
the people of the South will como forward, and
extend towards this work, that patronage, which
will ensure its success. Tho object of its pub
lishcr will bo to defend their character, institu
tions, rights, and property ; and surely, engaged
as he will be in so sacred a cause, he will receive
that encouragement, of which his groat enterprise
ami ardent patriotism are so highly deserving.
THE DATE MAJOR N. BADEN.
A writer in tho National Intelligencer pays
tho following merited tribute to tho memory of the
lamented Major Baden:
“ The memory of this lamented officer deserves
something more than the passing notice of his
death which appeared in the public prints a few
days ago. Tho writer of this knew him long and
intimately, and a nobler spirit than his never
dwell in man. In all his relations of life, he
was conspicuous for qualities that best adorn the
human character. He i entered tho Army, in
ISl3,as a First Lieutenant ofOrdnanec. To that
btanch of the military service he was, from his
talents, peculiarly fitted, and became so valua
blean auxiliary, that when, in 182-i, ho was
promoted to a Captaincy in the second regiment
of artillery, the discriminating officer at the head
of the Ordnance Department sought and obtain
ed a continuation of his services therein, until
the termination’of his life on the 30th November
last, atthc United Slates Arsenal, near Augusta,
in the State of Georgia. In 1831, for long and
faithful service, he received the brevet rank of
Major.
Major Baden was a native of Maryland, but
when appointed, in 1813, a citizen of Alexan
dria, in this District, where many dear and vul u .
aide relatives resided, all of whom, or nearly all,
I believe, preceded him to the cold and silent
grave. Ho has left behind him, however, to
mourn their afflictive bereavement, an amiable
and beloved wife and three children; (three oth
ers ol his children fell victims, a year or two
ago, to that pestilential climate in the far South
which has at length brought him to a premature 1
grave,) far away from home and from kindred,
\
] and fiom that sympathy in their affliction which
. near and dear friends alone are capable of fecl
| Ing, of that consolation which such alone are
capable of imputing. Ills death is a loss to his
■ country, which may lie supplied: but what is to
■ fill the painful vacuum which the withdrawal of
his loved presence has created in the hearts of
,his interesting family and weeping friends 1
Time may, and no doubt will, lessen the poig
! nancy of their grief, but it never can ctase his
memory from their minds.”
ELECTION.
An election will be held at the City Hall, on
Monday next, for five Junices of the Inferior
Court, a Receiver of Tax Returns, a Tax Col
lector, and a Colonel of the 10th Reeiment, G,
M.—Separate boxes will be prepared, of course,
and possibly separate polls opened, for County
Officers and Colonel, as persons not being always
qualified to vote fur both, saparatc tickets must
consequently bj given in.
ADJUTANT GENERAL.
While it is deeply In bo regretted, that the gen
eral scramble for monopolies and Banking privi
leges has again excluded more important matters
from the consideralionjand adoption of the Le
gislature—and among them, a general revision,
amendment and consolidation of the militia
laws—it is a source of gratification that one
measure, has been adopted, and an important
one, toward the improvement of the militia—the
1 election of an Adju’ant end Assistant Adjutant
1 General, and prescription of their duties. And
1 it is yet still more a matter of gratification, that
1 so excellent a selection has been made for the
1 former—(the gentleman selected for the latter,
wo ar« not acquainted with*) —one so honorable,
alike the individual himself, and those who vo
ted for him. Os the well-known eminent quaii
t ficationa of Gen. Ntwxix, his military zeal and
5 experience, devoted, single-hearted patriotism,
: and great military services and sufferings, it is
1 unnecessary to speak—suffice it, that a truer and
: braver patriot-heart never throbbed—and die un
- solicited election of such a man, after the late ex
citements of parly had driven him into retirement;
i by bis political opponents 100 (for ofcourue he
t could not have been elected without their aid,) <Si
- in opposition to one of their own must populaf
1 men, is a tribute worthy of such a man—worthy of
I old Romo, in her high and palmy state—while the
- feelings of those Union men who voted for him,
’ must have been as pure and elevated, ns disintorest
• cd and patriotic, as those of the noblest Romans.
J God bless them!—wo say it from the very bottom
-of our hearts—for their generous remembrance of
the old veteran and patriot in his obscure retiro
' ment. Their recall will find him, like Cinciima
ins, at the plough, and perhaps between its very
r handles, with a patriotism as pure, an ambition
I as modest and gentle, and a heart and hand as
- ready for the service qf his country. There has
been no act of party violence, in the late deeply
1 excited political strugles, that we have more sin
> ceroiy regretted, than the ostracism of a man
whose whole life lias been so peculiarly marked
• by valuable services and noble sacrifices, both
, civil and military—afid there can scarcely beany,
■ amid the return to milder and calmer judgment &
' reflection, more grateful lo oitr feelings, and chcer
■ ing lo our hopes, (for the State, apart from par
ly,) than this noble and generous evidence of a
disposition to make amends for the cruel injus
■ lice that has been done to him. They must have
I good hearts, and upright intentions, that could
, thus recognize the virtues and services of a po
: litical opponent; and we trust that we and oth-
I era shall always properly remember it, when we
i combat their conflicting principles and opinions.
• Since writing this, wo learn that he is cmi
, nontly qualified, in every respect, and that his
f election, also, is consequently an excellent and
1 highly creditable one.
1 VIRGINIA ON ABOLITION.
The Lieutenant Governor (acting Governor) of
\ irginia, concludes the topic of Abolition with
the following recommendations: v
1 “ Believing as I do, that this question, more
. than any that ever has come, or ever can come be
, for® ‘he American people, is fraught with the
direst calamities lo the country—indeed, that on
’ its wise and just determination hangs our destiny
! us a free, happy and united, or a distracted and
, harrassed people, I respectfully submit to your
, consideration, the expediency of addressing, with
out delay, to the Non-Slave-holding States, a sdi
-1 cam memorial and remonstrance, exhibiting the
. high and inviolable character of the rights which
. are invaded—the evil cflcet of intermeddling with
them, both on the master and the slave the
peril into which it brings the Union— the neces
sity that exists for the adoption by them of the
measures requested to be taken—their intrinsic
f propriety, and especially disabusing the public
1 mind of the fatal error, that power is wauling in
any government to punish injuries inflicted” by
: its citizens on those of another—and appealing
1 to them in the name of justice, humanity, free”
, fo>m, peace and an imperilled Union, to afford a
protection indispensable to the South, and which
it is their imperative duty to grant. When this
■ shall have been done, we shall stand acquitted
| before the world, of the high responsibility we
, are untier, todo ail in our power to arrc.st, if pos
, siblc, the career of a Fanaticism whose march is
over violated faith—the disregarded rights -of the
South—the wreck of the Union—and the pros
trate cause of liberty itself.”
From the Constitutionalist.
Messrs. Eiiitors: —lt is with regret, and at the
same lime a pleasure, that I should again appear
in your columns upon the subject which has been
a matter at issue between Major A. 11. Pemberton
and myscll. It is with regret, because the relations
which have for a long time been of the most friend
ly character should have been disturbed— and, as
those relations have been disturbed by a mutual
misunderstanding, I am now happy in being cna
i b!ed to sla te, to my fiiends, and those of Major
Pemberton, that after reciprocal explanation*
through our mutual fiiends, and the “Extra's"
issued at the instance of the Major, in which ho
disclaims all personalities whatever, in his firs 1
reply to “ Bummer,” it is but just to myself, as
well as to Major Pemberton to state, that had I
been writing under such conviction, and less ex
cited feelings, the strong language, embodied in
that article, would have been expressed in terms
to which Major Pemberton could have taken no
exception.
WM. G. NIMMO. ,
Aughsla, December 27th, 1836.
FOR THE AUGUSTA CIinoNICLE.
TEMPERANCE MEETING.
A meeting of individuals favorable to the a
doption of a pledge, excluding intoxicating li
quors as a beverngo, was held at the Presbyteri
an Lecture room, on the 13th Dec. Dr. M. An
tost was called to the Chair, and Rev. Mr.
Hamd was requested to act as Secretary. An
invitation to those favorable to the meeting was
now given for their signatures, when nearly fifty
names were handed in. Several articles wei
adopted, when their consideration as a whole was
deferred to the 20lh inst. Messrs. J onNMV
Ha an, and Campbell were appointed to pre .'
pare an address to our fellow citizens explanatb'-
r - v of motives and views. Adjourned. ,
-Oth Dec.—The Society met according to ad,
jourumcnt The Constitution was adopted as a
whole, iho Society then elected their officers—
Mr. H abb, Item the Committee, presented a brief
address, winch was received, and upon motion
ordered to he printed. with thc Plcilge „
the list of officers, in the pip< . rs of our dty
Milton Antont, M. D. President.
Rev. Wm. J. Hahii, Vice President!
J. G. Dunlap, Secretary.
Rev. S. S. Davib,'|
P. Flemming,
W, SiiKin, \Board of Manager#
L. CoLLIEII,
H. V. Johnson, J
“THE PLEDGE.”
Blh Article. —“ The members of this Bocicly
pledge themselves to abstain from the use of ail
intoxicating liquors, as a beverage, and to endea
vor by. all proper and discreet measures to dis:
courage their use by others.”
Fellow Citizens :—Apology for thc course
we have pursued, in forming ourselves into a
Temporancc Society, upon the principle of total
abstinence, is uncalled for. We disclaim any in
tention to censure those who have honest
differences with us in relation to the means to
bo adopted, to advance the cause of Temperance.
M e disclaim the thought of elevating a higher
standard of morality than that of the sacred
Book, or any desire lo lessen social enjoyment,
or to impose grievous and austere restrictions on
any. Thus much would answer for ourselves,
as an association of individuals ; but the course
that we have espoused, lenders it proper that wo
offer some reasons for the measures we have a
dopied to promote its interests.
The Temperance reformation, until the last
i uvo years, exceeded our expectations, and advan
ced against the opposition of reputable persons,
and that of the thoughtless, But now it is hin
. dcred, and those blighting ills which wo had cn
; deavored to arrest, arc returning with fearful rc
! soils. The hindrance is known to he the impro
per use of intoxicating liquors riot included in
thc primary pledge/ Here then wo should pause
f and seriously consider what is to be done. Tlio
present pledge of Temperance Societies will cf
i feet nothing in favor of temperance, as long ns
. any intoxicating liquors are improperly used—
There are but two courses before us ; either a
bandon Temperance Societies, as impolitic, of
1 place them upon the broader basis of total alisli
■ nence from that which will intoxicate.
Men of intelligence, with others, have thought
the tu st course most judicious. They contend that
the I emperance reformation has effected nothing
having only varied the causes of intemperance;
i and that the excessive use of wines, &c. is to ho
attributed lo the proscripliin of ardent spirits
They farther contend that thc last course nil!
bring temperance into disrepute, because it tends
to austerity of life, to which men will hot sub
mit. I hey say that tiio public odium connected
with drunkenness is the best corrective of this
vice. We reply to these remarks, made wo be
lieve in good conscience, that the ills complained
ol are not attributable to temperance societies ;
their charts wore directed against existing cau
ses ; that they lacked foresight we admit. Tem
perance will never be brought into contempt as
long as health and happiness follow in its train.
The remedy prescribed is inefficient: if public
opinion had operated successfully against intern-'
peranco, why were temperance men driven to
systematic effort to prevent it I It never caW (*>
successful as long as it is i„ f aV pur of habitual
i me drinking; it is this that leads gradual
ly and imperceptibly to drunkenness. The facts
that our Stale governments consent to receive'
revenue from drinking establishments, that the'
number of these houses is increasing ami has in
creased, that bar rooms are considered necessary
appendages to taverns, that almost every country
store is a tippling shop, prove that public opinion
is at fault, and needs correction. With these
facts before us, we cannot consent to retrace our
steps. We cannot agree to undo wjiat has been
done. We look bade upon the time when temper
ance societies were unknown, with horror, and are
resolved,calmly, temperately,firmly, logo onward
m our work of mercy, anJ to strike at every bitter
root of intoxication.
Our object,your dispassionate judgements must
approve ; wo trust they will approve our reasons
also. File past hath taught us one lessen, whose
truth is unquestionable, i. e. thc Ijibit of drink
ing is so common that any intoxicating drinks
are dangerous. The board of common hospitali
ty, as well ns the festive board, must needs he
supplied with them. Upon which side shall our
voices lie given I Does not consistency require
the extension of the abstinence pledge I Yes, and
every high and iioble feeling) if patriotism, morali
ty, and humanity, stimulates us in our course.
1 ulal abstinence is the only safe ground, the only
expedient. Can its efficacy be questioned, if adopt
ed I We have read of a society based on this prin
ciple. operating successfully for three hundred
years. Has it not thou been fairly and fully testedl
To those who may raise scriptural objections a
gaiust our course, we, reply, we find no law only
against excess. But is it not morally right to
abstain from things lawful, hut whose use, from
existing circumstances, end in thc wretchedness
and ruin of our fellows I To this, an affirms
live reply must he given, for we have an inspired
precedent containing the very principle, and
here have we left this point. We are warned by
the present, and the past, by our own history,
and that of nations, by the voice of wretched
ness and sorrow, by the drunkard’s crimes, and
by his dishonored grave. We have thought and
sorrowed—wo have pursued the only alternative {
wo have raised the spotless banner of total absti
nence, and under it wo wish to live and laboL
MILTON ANTONY, Chairman.
Wm. J. limn, Secretary.
The Temperance Bhnncr, and other papers
friendly lo Temperance, are requested lo publish
these proceedings.
/ SUPERIOR COURTS. \
The following changes were made in the term«\
of the Superior Courts of several of the counties ''
m tins Stale, during the session of thc Legisla
ture :
Baldwin Ist Monday in May and November.
Paulding Wednesday hefofo the 2d Monday
m I ebruary and August.
Cats 3d Monday in February and August,
Cherokee 3d Monday in February and Aug.*
Forsyth —4th Monday in February and Aug.
Pumpkin —lst Monday in March and Sept.
Union —2d Monday in Ma?ch and Sept.
Gilmer —Thursday thereafter.
Murray —3d Monday in March and Sept.
Walker —4th Monday in March and Sept.
Floyd— Ist Monday in April and Tuesday af.> "
(E r the Ist Monday in October. J'