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mmam lllitltll. {flM«n «rw>UI UNIUOlt.) DEMOCRATIC FINANCIERING. Mum. Editors I—I hsv* noticed in the Geer- ' iim • very giaraing fraud which a writer under »h« eigneture of “Pinoy Wood*,*’ hat attempted upon the public in a eoniparieon of (lie expense* of Gov. McDonald's admlAislration in 1843 and Governor Crawford'* in 1844. Such barefaced attempt* ut deception betray* the weakness of hie cause, ana' nothing but aheer desperation would induce him. (hue shamelessly to pervert the truth. This expert financier thus “polls hit book*”: Expenditure* and appropriations of the Whig Legislature of 1843, $241,254 Of) Expenditures end appropriation* of the Democratic Legislature of 1842, 8175,847 07 tlie Penitentiary and the contingent fund, and 810 000 of interest, due which Guv. McDonald was un able to pay. They have, besides, paid 9100,000 In favor of the Democrats, 805.407 02 The particulars of the expenditures of the Whig administration arc thus specified ; From Ihe Public Lntos and Resolutions of 1813. To pay Civil Establishment, 835 525 t>0 “ Speaker <St President’s Warrants, 70.078 00 Contingent Fund, ‘20,000 00 Arrearages, 15.000 00 Military Fund, 0,000 00 Printing Fund, 18,000 00 Lunatic Asylum, 2,000 00 Henry Darnell, 125 00 Clerk of House Representatives, 500 00 Clerk of the Senate, 500.00 Inspec tor of the Penitentiary, 500 00 J. Gardner, 300 00 C. W. Howard, C. W. Rogers, 90 62 A. M. Horton, 8 10 N. Phillips, 15 70 John Gardner, 2 50 Executive mansion, to buy extra Furniture, 400 00 Wm. P. McConnell, 39 00 J. McAffee, 39 00 Thomas Hoxey, 432 00 William Morris, 27 00 N. McBuin, 75 00 J. Mitchell, 00 00 William Jones, 175 00 Hutchinson & Co. 120 00 j M. H. McAllister, StalPs Attorney, 300 00 ' A. Reese, 300 00 ; S. Riley, H. Starkes, and J. L. Baker, 10 00 i W. Wyatt, 2 50 \ Electors, O. H. Prince, 50 00 Beautifying the State House with Soot, Lime and Water, 7,000 00 A. J. Nichols; 49 19 F. Canup, 2S 75 Do. do. 19 50 M. Wright, 04 00 Charles Dodson, 5 00 N. Jester, 22 12 F. Smith, 95 00 A, B. Bosttvick, 2 50 Silas Bowen, 5 00 David Williams, 2 50 W. B. Williams, 2 50 Thomas Davis, 2 50 Samuel Back, 50 00 Charles McDowell, 19 00 Daniel Hullen, 15 80 Georgia Railroad Company, 7,500 75 Penitentiary, 41.000 00 Aayluin—$50 for each inmate, say fifty, 2,500 00 W. Derry, 250 00 J. D. Daniel, 1,060 00 N. S. Glover, 109 00 Richard liarlotv, 20 00 N. B. Wheeler, 10 73 C. Addison, 25 82 Wm. A. Hotchkiss, Securities of T. Porter, 3,213 00 8241,254 09 Now, Messrs. Editors, I will show that Mr. “Pi. ney Woods” has charged 888.870 54*100 that does not belong there, and a portion of which bo. longs to the Democratic expenditures of 1842 ; Arrearages of Contingent Fund, 15,000 00 Arrearages of Mil’ry Fu’d 3,000 00 Do. of Penitentiary, ,32,000 00 850,000 00 Amount of Contingent Fund unexpended, 10,820 00 Amount of Printing Fund unexpended, 8,743 54 Amount of Military Fund unexpended, 1,000 00 — 20,003 54 Expenses on Slnte House paid out of Contingent Fund, 7,000 00 Georgia Rail Road and Banking Co. appropria. led by Legislature, 7.500 00 Securities of T. Porter, 3,213 00 M. Hull McAllister, 300 00 A. Reese, 300 00 18,313 00 of the Stale debt, restored the State credit.paid the interest for 1844 and 1846, and. if' Piney Woods” don’t lie, actually (pent 9125 000 more than the Democratic administration of the previous year.— Any schoolboy can seetho fallacy of such u state ment. Guv. Crawford has introduced economy inlnev ery department of the Government. In 1842 the Stato was bankrupt and unable even to puy her in. tercst—yet the Legislature paid themselves the highest wages. The Whigs,on the contrary show, ed tiieir honesty of purpose by beginning with llioinselvcs uud culling down their own pay. The following statement is Irom lliu appropriation hills of 1842 and 1843, and shows the pay of some of the public officers itt each year ;— Governor, Whig—$3,000 per annum, Do. Demo cratic—$4000 per annum. President of Senate, Whig—80 per day, and $4 fur 20 miles travelled. Hu. Democratic—80 per day and $5 fur 20 miles travelled. Speaker of House, Whig—86 per day und 81 for 20 miles travelled. Do. Democratic—86 per day, and $5 for 20 miles travelled. Clerk nf Senate, Whig—8500 per annum. Du. Democratic—8600 per annum. Clerk of House, Whig—500 per nnnuin. Du. Democratic—600 per unnum. Members of Legislature, Whig—84 per day and 84 per 20 miles travelled. Du. Democratic — 84,50 per day and 85 tier 20 miles travelled. Two Judges, Whig—81.800 each per annum.— Do. Democratic—2,100 each per annum. The Whig Legislature had to legisluto for two years instead of one, yet according to 11 Piney Wood’s” own statement it cost the people less limit tlie Democratic Legislature of a single year. Expenses of Democratic L-gisluture, 893.347 97 la the character of mr overseer w ho bus act) td . jimuinid un the suhjoet n| slavery, Have pul hit feet treacherously to his employer, and given away, ««r t jp their horderi “with header til," Mr. McAu.iX- purloined hi* crop and eold it at half price to hu's v tie goes now under very'-differtnt colour* " und enemies. And now, they who Iihvc profited by tin j is it too much to suppose that, like Mr. Clay, he roguery, are saying that he is a very clover fellow, j " ’ “ although they despise him in their hearts at thw i Do. do,. Whig do. Saved by tlie Whigs, Democratic Contingent Fund, Whig do. do. Savod by tlio Whigs, Democratic Printing Fund, Whig do. do. 70.978 00 $46,369 97 25,900 00 © 00 I ® 1 1 09 15,820 00 17,000 00 9,000 00 88,000 00 $88,870 54 The arrearages fortheContingenf, Military trad Penitentiary funds, are particularly specified In the Actof Appropriation ; they aro the amounts which were owing by McDunuld’.s mhuiuisirutiun to these accounts, consequently they belong to the expenses of the previous year. Tlie amount of appropriations unexpended at theeud of the year was 20,563 51, consequently that must be deducted. The 87,000 spent fur re pairing the State House was paid out ot tlie contin gent fund charged above—consequently “ Piney Woods” lias charged the sum twice. The amount of $7,500 paid Georgia Ruilroad Company tvus credited them by the Legislature in 1842, and wns for losses sustained in negotiations with Gov. Me. Donald, as tlie Act specifies, so that is not a charge on Crawford’s administration. Tito amount of 93,213 for Securities of T. Porter is no where to be found in the appropriation Bill, and of course is a false charge. The amount of $300 paid to M. 11. McAllister and A. Reese, were their fees in prosecuting the Securities of T. Haynes, Governor McDonald’s Treasurer, who was a defaulter. Surely that charge does not belong to Governor Crawford's administration. Now, Messrs. Editors,“Piney Woods” slaters tlie expenditure of the Democratic Administration at $175,847 '07 Add to this the amount which the last Legislature Imd to appro, ate to puy arrearages, tlmt is, the debts unpuid when Gov. Mc Donald left oflico. $50,000 00 Amount paid GeAgia Ruilroad Company, * 7,500 00 Amount paid Mr. jftcAlhster, 300 00 •> » A. Reese, 300 00 $233,947 07 Amount of expenditures of the Whig Adminis tration, $241,454 09 Subject to tlie doductions specified above, 88,876 54 152.577 55 Excesa of Democratic over Whig expenditure!, $81,369 52 Now, Messrs. Editors, there is no humbug about this. “ Piney Woods” has endeavored to show that Gov. Crawford’s administration has spent $125,000 more a year than Gov. McDonald. Let us look into ibis matter. The taxes aro the same now ns tlioywere in 1642, and Gov. McDonald received front the General Government and oilier sources 9128,000 more than was received by Gov. Crawford. Gov. McDon ald left the Government head over heels in debt; The Whigs had to pay 950,000 for the debts of tame time. And they only find fault with the fuith- ful overseer because be would nut steal the corn and potatoes for their benefit. But Mr. McDowell ia no such overioor. lie works faithfully und ii* ready to give an honest account at all times to tt. call from proper persons j but may feel under no- obligations to liston to the impertinent demands of. one whu lias no claims to dm confidence of oillter political party.—Macon Messenger. [from the savannah republican ] THE PILGRIM CANDIDATE. Those persons who have read the laughable de*. cripliun ol the “Stundurd Bearer.,’ ns lie euterec I the classic city of Athens, and who Imve contrast- - ed it with the gold-chain scene in New York, las' t year,will not he puzzled to understand the real oh . ject of Mr. Me A I. LIST!! it, in his present pilgriinugt i to tlie "Wheat-growing regions” He is, in plain English, I reversing the State in search ofvntos.— Now, the lime has been when such conduct ns tills on the part of a candidate for public offi-o, tvoubd nave called forth die Indignation of the tvhoflo “will display Id* tact and talent, in promisingoflicea to the men, talking flattery to the women, and kiss* teg children by the score.” Is it loo much to sup pose that he too, like Mr. Clay, will suffer ftom his former connection with John Quincy Adams’ administration and that even the "old clothes,’’ and “broketrlopped barouche," will not save him from popular condemnation. If to be an itinerating candidate in 1844, was sufficient 10 call form such denunciations ot Mr. Ci.av, us we have presented from the Democratic orgnn, wlint will be said in defence of their own candidate who bps placed himself substantially on the same predjeamput? “Alns I for the Republic, and, ulus! for the hon or of our Stale, if such u politician, by such menus cun secure tlie vote of Georgia.” Military Movements.—Yesterday morning five compunies of Col. Dukm’s now regiment of Volunteers for Texas, were reviewed in Lufayctte Square by Gen. Gaines, accompanied by his Stuff. Tito Lone Star Guard, which organized in the Third Municipality on Saturday evening, muster ;d at the same lime, together tvitli several compa ties of the Irish Br-gudc, under tlie command of Democratic press, and exposed tlie person guilty il Lieut. Cnrrigan. Alter the review, Gen. Gaines Saved by the Whigs, But the Penitentiary exhibits the mismanage- ment of the Democrats in the strongest light. In 1S42, they appropriated $9,500 lor the Pen itentiary, amt $10,000 more to puy off its debts.— Yet in Otto year, when the whig* look possession, they itad to appropriate $32,000 to pay its debts cguiit. The first quarter ol 1844, before the wltigs got control of it, it lost over 811,000, and the last three quarters it made $6,000. Gov. Crawford, with 89,000, rebuilt the Penitentiary, and worked off the Democratic debt of 11.000; and this year, it will, instead of running 832,000 in debt, pay tt handsome profit into tlie Treasury. Now, Messrs. Editors, it In because the people have elected such financiers as this ‘ Piney Woods,” that the whole of the surplus revenue over one million of dollars has been squandered, and a debt of $1,600 000 saddled on them. They are too intelligent tied too honest to desire the return of such a state of tilings. Gov. Crawford by his prudent and skilful man agement, 1ms saved the State thousand of dollars, lie has established Iter credit upon a firm basis trad rescued iter from tile shame and disgrace of repu diation. He lias paid for the debts of Gov. Mc Donald’s administration 875,000, ho lias reduced the State debt $100,000—and on die first of Jan uary hud $84,000 in the Treasury in specie funds. The people liavo suffered too severely from De mocratic management, to elect Gov. McDonald’s right Land matt, M. Hal! McAllister. CHATHAM. mr. McDowell and tITe"Jefferson- ian. We notice an article in the lust Jeffersonian, nt. tempting a severe comment on Mr. McDowell, the Whig candidate for Senator for Pike and Monroe counties, beenuse he pays no attention to a call made on him by the Rev. Thomas <^. Trice, to meet him, and discuss certain topies winch were before thu Legislature of 1843, of which both were mem bers. It will be recollected by most of our rend, ers, that Mr. McDowell und Mr. Trice were elected ns tvhigs, from Pike in that year. Mr. McDowell acted as be has always done ; I ke a consistent, up right roan—duing in tlie Legislature wlmt lie hud professed to the people he would do before bis elec tion. Mr. Trice pursued a different course. Whether he intended uittl premeditated to deceive those who voted, for him, or from other considera tions, adopted tlie course of a revered wolf, of an cient times, who wore sheep's clothing until he fin gered thirty pieces of silvor as his reword for his most accursed treachery—or whether ho offered his services as a legislator to represent a certain political party, professing known nnd defined prin ciples, without knowing his own mind, is tu us un known. If the latter is the case, he is entitled tu no moderate share of pity. If his defection to the principles of his friends is based on any of the ollier grounds, lie is unworthy of notice ; nnd be- yuud the pale of that common respect which is al ways due to honorable nnd consistent political op ponents. He stands before tlie public in tt most unenviable light—as a mero political mercenary, a betrayer and deceiver of his friends—or n man who would incur a solemn responsibility without knowing how ho would act. Whichever be bis character, it matters not. Ho lias ns little of the confidence or respect of those who are blustering in bis bchulf, as of those lie lias deceived und dis appointed. Both detest nnd despise him as they do nil others of this class of political weather.cocks. The parties benefited may mete out to them a re ward ; but while the hand may give, the heart re coils with loathing and disgust. To bolster up such a chuucter, sometimes the individual, us it appears in the present instance, as sumes a course of impertinent boldness, nnd seeks to make himself conspicuous fur that which should to every modest recreant, give only “slmnie nnd confusion of face.” There are two striking exam ples of this character on thu pages of holy writ, which should itnvu peculiar weight tvitli certain people who aspire to high or responsible stations One wnstlio counsellor against his royal muster, David ; who made himself conspicuous by a pub lie speech—the oilier, the man of tlie thirty pieces of silver—he made hut it very brief address but a most appropriate one for all such characters; nnd both applied a most appropriate antidote to disturb ed nnd guilty consciences. Mr. Trice is, no doubt, like nil political apostates, very willing to convince the public that bis treason was a meritorious act; uud perhaps has the as surance to believe that lie could convince the whole world of it, if lie could get the people to listen to him. This wns the case witii Bene dict Arnold. He published a justification of his acts, and no doubt would have made exculpatory speeches ull over the country but far the fear of hemp, which always haunted his imagination. Al though the challenge was given, Washington did not think it worth tlio lime and trouble to take any noticu of, or to ju%ify himself against the uttacks of such a contemptible miscreant. Tlio Jeffersonian would have Mr. McDowell nc count to certain pooploof Bike county for his nets in the last Legislature, who neither nided in send ing him to it, nor would again aid him in going there—and thinks lie should account lof/irmnsan overseer should to his employer. Mr. McDowell was never employed by llteso men, and he owes them no more obligation than a man does to those who have attempted, and are still attempting to drive hint from his premises. And in denouncing a faithful aervant, they aro sucking to foist into honorable notice, one who stands before the public of it, to be attacked by the whole force ol the Ed torial corps. Few, if any, of otir readers havi a forgotten the vigorous attacks which were made upon Mr. Clay no longer ago titan Inst yuar, ot i this very account. Even in this city, his transit was tlie basis of some most patriotic hursts from the Democratic press and its correspondents. W e will invert the order of things u little, and give tin t lust of these precious morsels first. To begin tliet t ( with Father Ritchie himsolf. Tlie following froir t j his then paper, the Richmond Enquirer, we find in , ’ Mr. McAllister’s orgun on thu 17th April, ”44 : j -‘Psha-v/ these shallow devices—and this pretence ? of Li it i e i ness, are unworthy of the genius of Henr- t Clay. Instead of advancing his pretentious, they onl y I show that he is unworthy ol the lofty station to wltic It j he aspires. He should have remained in "tlio quiet re - j pose of Ashland”—and there, if lie were really worth y j of honor, the peoplo would have found him, like Cir,. cinnatus, at tlie plough, and thrown the Dictator's man . tie over h:s shoulders. But to seek il, as is now dom and lo cover his real object under the device of busiues: t, is unworthy of him, and unworthy of the office.” The next article in the reverse order of time., which strikes os as a little rich, is a communica tion in Mr. McAllister’s organ, April 3d, 1844 . VV'c confess it is not bud duclrine considering il s Democratic origin ; ‘•The charge lias been made, that Mr. Clay, a cand i- date fur the Presidency of the United Staten is travel I- ing on an electioneering tour: an attempt las bee n made lo refute that charge. The friends of Mr. Cla y, well knew that the freemen of this land, would v,s it with reprobation such a course. The people hat e been loo >ong accustomed lo regard the Chief Mugit t- tracy, as an office that should be ‘‘neither sought am r , , nor avoided.” They have been accustomed to content ,- *■ 11 plate the man who, Cincinnatus-like, would attend t o itis domestic nlfairs, until called from his privacy b y the acclaims of tlie peojile. as the man to whom the belli t of tlio ship of Slate should he confided, to relish tin j idea, that the itinerant politician should tie called to the first office in their gift. Benge, the strenuous el - : forts ol the Whigs to relievo Mr. Clay from lh« catcgi i- ry in which he is placed. After tvhat has transpire d within the last few days in this city, can that gentlt- man he relieved from tlie imputation of itinerating th e country, and making speeches, standing at tlie sain e time before Ihe people in the attitude of a candidati i for the Presidency!” Pursuing our way along the dusty files of the op- i gan, we fell rather liuit ot finding the following under date of’39ih March, copied in tt very rac*/ article from the Charleston Mercury. The editor I iriefly addressed tlie gnllnm fellows, anti compli neuleii them highly on their efficiency in their tew duties. Cnl.Dakin responded in n few words, titer which the whole body, comprising 257 nen, ull told, marched down St. Charles street to ’oydras, thence through to Camp, down to Canal, issuing down to St. Charles, and up again to La. ayeite Square, where the companies separated.— i Cite majority of the men, though unaided by the u ,utwurd display of military uniform, yet appeared i, .Hide of such "stud'" as will prove them to be no e asy foe to conquer. May they be victorious in e 11 their engagements.—Bee. Major Gen. Ga.nes—Our Relations with Mer it o,—It is understood here that (lie requisition re el tnlly niude upon the Executive of this Stale for tr oops tu reinforce Gen. Taylor, was made by tlie o/ tperienced and distinguished officer commanding tli e Western Military Division, upon his own res- po risibility, and tlio emergency of the occusion.— W e have, of course, no means of ascertaining pos. iti roly the nature of the intelligence which reach ed Gen. Gaines, but our advices from Texas are tilt tt on the 13th instant. Gen. Taylor was. by some m sans, advised of the Declaration ol War by Mex ic a against the United States, nnd that a large bo. dj • of well.appointed Mexican troops were advanc. in g in three divisions Inwards Texas, in addition ! to tlio command of Gett. Arista. At that date G en. Taylor Imd only ulmut 990 men fit for ser- vi ce, and was without artillery to defend himself if «' ,tacked. Tlie rest of tlie truops were ut St. Jo. ipli’alsland, but great exertions were making concentrate them with the main body at Corpus C hriV.i. Throe companies went forward on tlie h Ith inst., tlie remaining two companies were to to llow the next day, leaving only a small guard to pi otect the depots of provisions at St. Joseph and Sh iell Island This information may ho relied on as strictly eo rrect. We presume something of tlie same na- tui e must have reached Gen. Guines, upon the aogtli of which lie made Itis requisition.—Jef. P- From tiir Caw u» Good H«m—The Button Daily Advertiser lie* received Cape Tu***, pepers to June 21. The British ship uf-wsr Helena, of 10 guus, had arrived in 9i. Shnou’e Bey. having captured e dhow, off Cepe Deigdete, with 83 davos t Alsu, the Mutino, of 12 gurit, having on the 26th April captured the Brazilian barque Princeza, of 400 Ions, with slaves ; and on the 5th May an Aiab dhntv, with 221 alavea. The Governor, Sir Peregrine Maitland, had beon for sumo weeks absent Irom tlie capital, on an excursion to tlio frontier for tlie purpose of qui eting the disturbances ol tlie Boers. His presence Ituri produced lilt) most favorable results in quiet- jug tint disaffection among the emigrants, und there seemed lo be a prospect of a settlement of nil dif ficulties, and of preventing further disturbances, without bloodshed. A Sad Picture.—The following paragraph which wn copy frum tlio Ashville (N. C.) Messen ger , of 22J inst. curries with it, thoughts deep und lasting. Who could have believed a year ugo, that such us tiiu uimexed presents, would be enact, ed in this fertile Innd ! And yet it is so ! Many, very many of our citizuns uro compelled lo leave their homes—tlie resting place oflheir fathers, mid quit forever, perhaps, the sacred ground that hold the bones of fathers, brothers, sisters and kindred dear, trad seek u land wherein they can obtain bread for their furnishing children. Alas! and can it be thus I Drear and solemn must bo tlie hour when this happens! But we pass on and leave tlie scene with hopes of a belter future. An over-ruling Providence, knoweth best wlmt is for our good; and vve must submit lo the chastening us becomes dutiful children. This darkness will yet disuppoar, und our morning of happiness bo clear and enlivening. Numbers of wagons pass through litis place daily on their way from South Carolina to Ten. (lessee lo procure corn, as tlio crop of that article in u largo purlieu of South Carolina is entirely dcs. titulioti uf tlie people when it is known that these wagons are sent Irom a hundred nnd fifty to two hundred miles fur corn ! Greut numbers of poor people ure leaving tlie State mid going to Tennes see. A hundred nnd fifty persons, consisting eu, tirely nf pour families, passed through this place one day Inst week. Re “We felt sensibly the degradation to our Repaid! • can Institutions on Friday last, when wo saw a volet - an as Mr. Clay is, in the service of Ins country, hawk . ed about as some great beam of wonder, to catch a fuv .- votes for that station which should be the reward a lout i of the lofty Patriot nnd pure Statesman." In tlio organ of March 18th, wo again find st correspondent down upon “Harry of the Wem/" on this wise : When wo see a candidate (or one who only await s tlie formal call of Itis party to he one) for the Presiden • cy, itinerating the land oil the eve of the election, ac . cepting parly invitations, what is tlie necessary infer . once 1 Why, that he is electioneering. No man o f sense believes that Mr. Clay’s object is private. Ever y one knows his journey is connected with oilier views.— - Now, how stands the case ? Here is a candidate for at t exalted station which, in tlie language of the aged pat . r.on of the Hermitage, 'should he neither sought site r or avoided,’ becoming an itinerant politician, solicit inj j j by his presence the‘most sweet voice' of the people. | is such conduct to be tolerated? Is it dignified ? Is it \ sanctioned by precedent! Ought such a course to r( - | ceive the countenance of any Republican ? Ought ar .y i Democrat, by Itis presence, give a sanction losueli a 1 procedure? We have heard In times past, of ‘travel d- ing Presidents’ and ‘travelling Cabinets,’ and (althuuf rh ; the charges were then false.) the Federal press tvi is loud in its denunciations of them But things a c changed, and hosannas aro now shouted t:i thu mtt t who, with his eye on the first office in the Republic , proceeded by two travelling political hucsterers, |him • self comes to solicit and to conciliate! a people whor it he was ready to crush by detachments of the reguls r army of the Union, when those people were content I- ing for their territorial rights, guarantied tu them t y the solemnities of a treaty.” Now wo would like to know wlmt render cs u peruse this paragraph without having his though is directed instantly lo the Attorney Generalship of 1827—to that letter, which it seems was writli n but never sent, and to tlie wheat growing speech .nf 1834, and then buck again to the pilgrim candidal c nnd Itis broken topped Barouche ? ‘-Here is it can - didaie fur an exalted stuliun becoming an itinoran t politician,” soliciting by Itis presence tlio "mos t sweet voice of lito peoplo.” “Is suclt c,induct tt i he tolerated,” especially by gentlemen who con. demned it in Mr. Cla v ? "is it dignified?” "Is it sanctioned bv precedent?” We trust ull thost* who wish to understand tlie true Democratic doc trine on this point will revert tu the above para graph. Il will enlighten them especially as to the duly of voting for itinerating candidates. But wo may ho told that these are only extracts and communications, w hich do not reflect the true opinions of Mr. McAllister’s organ. Let us look . h littlo further into tlie mutter. In that paper of 23d Feb., 1844, under the Editorial lurad, w-<i read: Mr. Clay appears to be accepting invitatio ns Dorn every quarter of the country. There is scarcely a pciot witlnn the lim.ts of the Stale of Georgia, which he lias not already determined to visit. However grattifyiag this may be to Ihe Whig party which has based all «ts hopes of triumph, of power, of office, upon his el eotijn. it must certainly be a subject uf regret, of indigi lalitn, of disgust, to all intelligent and patriotic citiziuie of the Republic, that a prominent candidate for the TV-as- idcncy, ehoiiId travel through the country, spe Iking upon alt and every occasion, in every kind of place, and with no other possible object save his own eleva Lion. Wo do not know what Ins visit lo Georgia will efie ct. He has never cundesccnded to visit her before i iat wo aro aware of. At one particular period of bis history, tve doubt whether he could have put his f Kit into her borders with iicad erect. Ho comes now u n- dcr far different colors, it is true, and, no dotilbt, full ol professions ot attachment for our State, emtl admiration for] its citizens. We presume that lie will display his lact and Ills talent, in promising ofiicos to tlio men, talking flattery to the women, amd kissing children by the score. The Clay Clubs will run distracted, and office scekera will hang aroui-jd him like a pack uf hungry cormorants. Alas! for L ne Republic, and alas ! fur the honor of our Slate, if such a politician, by 6uch means, can secure tlio vasr.e of Georgia. Now this is what a plain countryman would cai II “clinching tlio nail." Wlmt u parallol may be drawn between tlio two men and their actions ?• — When did Mr. MoAllister before condescend ,to spend his summer in the up-coumry of Georgia ? If health wns his object, why did be not go la Neiv York, or Federal Massachusetts, as has been libs custom? Could lie, in 1834, after accusing the people oflhe "wheat growing regions," with bein.g UNITED STATES NAVY. ' A’u find in the N. \\ Journal of Commerce the full, swing statement shewing the present position of our naval force : U. S. Squadron in Gulf of Mexico. 1... Frigate Potomac, Corn. Conner’s Flag Ship. 2 . Steamer Mississippi. 3 i. do Princeton. 4 ;. Sloop-of-war Saratoga. E i, do Falmouth. f I. do Jolin Adams. " 1. do St. Marys. I B. Brig Somers; 9. do Lawrence, 1 0. do Porpoise; 1 1. Schooner On kn-liy e, mail boat. U. S. Squadron in Pacific Ocean. 1. Frigate Savannah, Com. Sloul’s Flag Sitip. 2. Sloop.of-tvnr Warren. 3. do Portsmouth. 4- do Levant. 5. do Cayene. C. Schooner Shark. U niteil. Slates East India Squadron, about being relieved, and intended, as is supposed, to render vous in the Pacific. J. Frigate Brandy wine,Com. Parker’s Flag Ship. 2. Sloop of tvar St. Louis 3. Brig Perry. 4. Frigate Constitution, Capl. Percival, on her return frum an independent cruise. Tlio last tour named ships may he considered, in ;ase of emergency, us a part of tlie Pucific Squad ■on. U. S. Squadron in Mediterranean. 1. Frigate Cumberland, Curn’re Smiths flag sitip 2. Sloop of war Plymouth. U. S. Squadron, Brazil Station. 1. Frignte Raritan, Com’re Turner’s flag ship 2. Sloop of tvar Boston. 3. Brig Buinbridge. East India Squadron, on its way out. 1. Columbus, 74, Com’re Biddle’s flag ship. 2. Sloop of war Vincennes. U .S. Squadron on coast Africa. 1. Sloop of tvur Jamestown, Com’re. Skinner’s [ling sitip. 2. do Yorktown. 3. do Preble. 4. Brig Truxlon. Fitting out, (precise destination unknown.) Norfolk 1. Frigate Congres, Cupt. Stockton. 2. •• Columbia. 3. Brig Dolphin. 4. Frigate United Stales. 5. Sloop of w ar Marion. 0. Brig Boxer. N. York 7. Sloop of war Dale. Tlie following ships, in port, require repairs, nnd Imve been examined with that view, preparato ry lo being fitted for servico, in case of enter- ney :— 1. Frigate Constellation 2. Sloop of War Viuidalin. 3. do Fairfield. 4. Razee Independence. 5. Frigate Macedonian. Total number of vessels in a condition for ef- ant service at short notice : Gulf of Mexico 11 Pacific Ccean 10 Brazil 3 Const of Africa 4 East Indies 2 Mediterancnn a Fitting for sea 7 Under cxnmiuation 5 Boston. Norfolk. Bosion, N. York, -^JrrT-TT-jt 44 California.— Tito Louisville Journal notices (tlio proposition of some of tlie demuralic journal* ^to annex California, and adds ; "Wo seo no necessity uf acting in a contempti. - hie, narrow, picayonhli way in this greut business of annexation. Wo are utterly opposed to tlie United Stules tuking any more of thu Mexican pus. '.■(sessions in a stylo corresponding to the gran deur of our territorial notions. Let us boh the whole of the Alexican Empire at u swallow just os » boa constrictor bolts a hulf.grotvn sheep.” The total amount of comugu at the U. S. Mint and its branches during (lie month of July tvus $469,981 17. Of this 9101,737 60 were tn gold ; J264,090 in silver, nnd $3,343 67 in copper.— T'.to total number of pieces coined was 2,840,382. The Oregon Question— 1 The London Econo, mist, speaking of tlio uppointiner.t of the Hon. Louis AIcLune as Minister io Londott,iii place of Mr. Everett, sav.“il w ill lie found, when tlie facts are clearly staled, that the discussion of this affiiir ttt Washington has readied a point which renders it desirable to 1 uve n particular proposition nub. milled to British Government, and Mr. M'Lane takes the mission on lids ground.” We understand that Air. AI’Lane, tlie new A- merican Minister lo the euurt of St. James, who arrived in the Acadia, entertains a confident hope of hrivging all tlie questions at issue between Greut Britain and Ainoricu loan amicable and satisfac- lory termination. Hu spake very cheerfully on he subject to one of our first merchants, shortly after Inn urrival. For the sake of humanity, and tor tlie best interests of two countries united by so many ties ofblood, language, religion, und institu. tions, tve hope 1 lint Air. Al’Lano may he rigiil ; but wo huvo our fear*. One tiling, however, is certain and that is, that our self-styled ''best prac tical statesmen” Imve, by their bungling and in capacity, imperiled till the best interests oflhe im. lion nnd gone fur to render Greut Britain the inughing stock of tlio world—Liverpool Mercu ry, bth, August. The New Orleans Courier of the 16th instant says—Texus, on n sudden emergency, could raise *. least five thousand troops, brave, hardy, excel lent riflemen, und all better adapted than any oil). er» in Ihe world for operations against a Alexican urmy. All (Iv y want is ammunition and provis ions—arms they tiave in abundance and of good quality—pay they want not, and would cheerfully fight without it, as they have been accustomed fo do—although, we doubt not.it would be acceptable if offered. MILLEDtJEVlLLE; TwwtMlay MtMTt.li.September 9, „ n ME taorta's CAMDtUAlE TOR an V M^~ GEORGE W. CRAWFORft. TO* sknator, Atiuirraus II. KEiux. ron rbsefpentative, ITEHWOW 1^ IIARBIW. LAND REVERSION, AND TEACHER^ POOR CHILDREN. ° r Corn Fro tects.—Wo liavo conversed with several gentlemen from (lie upper districts uf this Stale, sittcu we issued our lust paper, and tve are rejoiced to hear, that tlio ‘‘corn prospect” is not quite so gloomy as il lias been represented. There will beu scarcity among many of tlie planters in the districts where tlie drought has been most se vere ; but taking every tiling into consideration, there will no one perish who endeavors to raise supplies for tlie ensuing—economy und strict fru gality must ho practised. The poor class will be the greater sufferers ; but it must be tlie incumb ent duty of the mure wealthy to give relief. Tlie rich are abler lo buy provision enough for them selves, nnd those of their few indigent neighbors. The banks ought to come forward and offer facili ties to those who will buy and distribute tlio ne cessaries. Each party can be made secure in the outlays that may he required for provisions; and thus a mutual benefit will be effected, which can bo repaid with the net year’s crop. From Hamburg, Columbia, Cheltew, Camden, <fcc., tbuse person* who will have to purchase, will obtain an abun. dant'o ol'corn, Itay, oats, <Szc., at fair prices. Tlie transportation will bo light—the pluniers will have to send down their cottun ; and then they can take up corn. Then cheer up Carolinians ! Stay upon your be- loved soil ; hope for belter times, drivo melnncho- ly away ; and turn about to re.instate those dreary looking fields, and learn wisdom from the past. Madison, (Oa.) Adg. 22.— The Cotton Crop.— Wo have conversed during the present week, with planters from various portions of our own county, and feel warranted in saying that the Cotton crap has been cutoff at least two-ihirds by tlio drought. Uulers our people cun realize something like the value of the nrticio this full, tve fear many of our friends will find it a difficult matter lo keep them, selves, and hands, in bread, until they can make another crop.—Miscellany. Montgomery, (Ala.) Aug. 29.—The Cotton Crop.—From tlie best information that tve can gather, tlie incoming crop of this pail of this Slate, and indeed of the Stato nt large, must be a very short one. The frosts in the Spring, the “lice” n little later, nnd the lack of anything like a season since March or April, together with the appearance of the plantations, so far as they have fallen under our observation, convince us that the present crop will fall far below any preceding one for tlie last five or even ten year*. Marion, (Ala.) Aug. 29.— The Cotton Crop.— From the best information we can obtain, tve are convinced that Ihe Cotton crop will be a short one. We Imve conversed with many of our leading Planters in the course of the past two tveoks, and find them nearly unanimous in tile opinion that they will not make over half a crop, u good many say not more tlmn one-third. Cotton is opening rapid ly,on most plantations. The weed is smaller Ilian we ever satv it in this State, not being more than two nnd throe feet high, where wo have seen it six and upwards. Above this we are told there are fields where the weed is not over 18 incites high on an average. More Volunteers.—We understand, savs the New Orleans Bee, that Capt. H. S. Harpex. Gain, ville, Miss,, will arrive in this city by tlio steamer J. Dupre, on to-morrow, witii a company of 156 volunteers, destined for the Mexican frontier.— They style themselves tlio .Mississippi Riflemen. They are well furnished with ull the necessary up pointmeiits for the campaign, and will hold them- solves in readiness to be mustered into the service of the United States nt a moment’s warning. It is their intention, we understand, to join lire Regi ment of Louisiana Volunteers under tlie command os Col. Dakin. To-day, the grant fees art reduced to t* tm ,, dollars per. lot, and it is believed that I.S, will bs immediately applied- for, and taken *** very largo number of persons aro prosont, and-it**’ * sonable to anticipate that there will be r’eteivc-H' L. Treasurer, with what is already on hand, moiaffT enough to pay the Teaohtrs of Poor children services in 1842, and 1843. This useful clan of zone, it affords us pleasure tn Bay, are indebted, Whig Legislature, of 1843 and to a Whig J tive, (Governor Crawford) for a polity,.which ^ fics their claims agaiust the State! Neglected, lo""' tlie least of it, by the previous Democratic towr***!! Democratic Legislature, they will notv reap ward. How much more honorablo and wise' is t* provision for the payment of Teachers of Pwr Chi dren, than for the name amount to bs placed, in t| Central Bank, lo be loaned-out to parly, favorite, ' be otherwise unprofilably disposed of!' While' 0 ' 1 * this subject, we will a'so take occasion to remaVST the Governor will and does see the law executed i„ lation to the reverted lands. An anonymous writer"* the Caesville Pioneer, whom we have been reque ted by a friend to notice, arraigns his Excellency for manner in which he executes the law. Whai**-. ■ is that this writer is not Governor himselft R 0 " unexceptionable would be his course! llow carcfu | * he be, not to violate his sworn duty ! Hmv much competent to understand the law and to provide kTii! execution, than Governor Crawford ! Lei him but write ever his own signature, and possibly hi, executive abilities, appreciated so highly by himself, may entitle him to a nomination for the office of Governor, n,m day or other! But to bo serious, which we really find it hard to b, with the article from the Pioneer’before us, we will merely state that the rules adopted for receiving »pp|j. cations on Ihe first day of nr reduction in prices, are ab. solutely requisite in executing the law To.day, for instance, there will be at the door of the Trenury.a least three hundred persons, Rotnc thirty or foray of whom are applying for tire same lot. Suppose as soon as the door is opened, one calls out that he applies fur a certain lot, what is to prevent fifty of them from calling out for the same number T And, as soon as the door opens, how are the weak lo protect themselves front lhe strong, when allure rushing to get in at the door! Why! without some system, some rule, oa sach occasions the State House would be a perfect Babel, and 1 would handle eaoh other like bears. Complaints, then like the one we are noticing, are idle, and are ignorantly made, or the writer of them thinks, that he is rendering his party some service. In either case, he may aa we" be content lo 1st the subject upon which he touchee.dr a natural death. He nr»y rest assured that CoTEnnoa Crawford will execute the lavras he finds it apon the Statute book; and, in seeing it executed, that he t protect all the interests involved. Rich and poor will have even handed justice meted onl to thorn—then will have protection from the assaults oflhe strong-soi L in carrying out the intentions of the Legislature, few speculators have not quite so good a chanco to nisi motley out of their poor neighbors as they would t to hnve, they may rest assured that no alteration can' made for their special benefit. The Governor will on- cute the law, faithfully and honestly—and what is more the people have confidence that he will do sir—'■thehi de clap trap” of tlie Pioneer’s correspondent to the con trary notwithstanding. Before wc close, we will also state, that Ihe ruin now governing the Department in the Stale House, in identical with those established by Guvernor McDon ald at the reversion in 1842. Here then are Its against one—two Governors of Georgia, acting under all the responsibilities of the chief office of the Govern ment, against tm anonymous writer in the CassvillePio neer! “ALL CHEROKEE” we are certain, will ex claim with us—“cease viper, you bile atafile.” THE AUGUSTA CONSTITUTIONALIST. The distribution of the fund lo pay tlie Teachers of Poor Children in 1842, and 1843, by Govetaur Craw ford, appears to be a sore subject with the CoMlilu- tionalist. The Editor says it looks like eleclmttrine, —asks“u% has this money been laid bad !''—.million comments as follows: “Why lias iliis mousy been held burl ’ Will il be inert ed Mint there is none oh hand from this lui.,4 providediu 1st", nnd will not be eurlier then I lie I/O Mi Sepli-inliernexlt Bui ndlnitting (or argument soke Mint it nuiy lie mi-asural.ly nw, thin no very large stmt bad until this j-e»r been realise,! Iruui Ibis fluid. By the third eeclion of lire act of 1843 attuded lo, a fund ia appropriated ns a permanent education fund, lo be distributed among the several comities. Out uf this .accord ing to tlio provisions of ilm Sth Beet ion, these meritimui cieditorsmiglitlinvebecn paid, biiiI the amoiinte so puid.iu anticipation of the funds to bo received from sateaot refut ed iunds,replaced. But no: hodihi.-i been done in 1843, or at any period much earlier tlmn the 20th September nsit.it might not have come so imnit diulely in point nf time, under tlie class of -subjects connected witii lino Gubernatorial riel- lion.' " In reply to the above, wo tsko -I o l-berty of saying that tho money has not been held back at all! The fund to pay Teachers, has been accumulating since about the 1st of Alay last; by far tho largest p»rl no* in the Treasury, wns received since the first of July last; and, on to-day, as the grant fet-s aro reduced to $25, there will he received enough to satisfy thess claims. With a knowledge of Itis resources, Governor Crawford, some months ago, called upon the Justice* of the Inferior Courts, to present the accouotaof th* Teachers, as lie intended to pay them by the 20lhof September. If this be electioneering, it is electioneering under the law—in our opinion, a kind of clectiMteerioy that the people will highly commend. Tho Constitutionalist is again at fault, if it *upfO*e* that ihe “permanent Education fund” has not been dii- triluMed by Governor Crawford. Tins vv,u done the first year of his administration, and paid over t» the Justices of the Inferior Courts of the several counlie*. as they applied for it. Il was done too, in strict scad' ance with law—bnt if the Governor's enemies cboo** to set it down to electioneering, all that wc can »»J *'" not prevent it. But we have a right lo assert that both these acts—tho payment of ihe Teachers, and the tin- iribution already made—are the fruits ol a Wlug*^ ministration of Ihe Government, as wo are su*taio*<J in doing so by tho record and by facts. THE CANVASS FOR GOVERNOR. A fetv months ago, our opponent* of the pre**i ** well as opponents elsewhere, in many instance*, bo' ( testimony to the gm-d conduct of the preeent Execu tive. His vigilance and ability—bis economy and t*- tluslry—his devotion lo the people’s interests, and k* correction of previous abuses, all spoke so loudly f* liisadministralion, that willing testimony wa* ofitf. BO ed in support of it even by the Democratic pres*, within a few weeks, a mighty change has taken pkc*- Contrary to the w i-hes uf the people, ihe leaders of 6* Democratic Party determined upon opposing him, • soon they managed to have in thu field H»th** Hull McAllister. A party rally was then aM*s>P , "j and il was first uiged upon the rank and file, tbataltko ••Governor Crawford had made a good Governor,” y* 1 was right lo stand up lo their owu party, under Uf J* every circumstance. This logic wa* not so well stood by the people. They murmured loudly •* ** INDISTINCT PRINT