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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'