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SENATE
Thursday, Nov, 27.
[Proceeding* of this day, (bit were noticed odilornl.
ly on Friday, are omitted. |
BILLS INTRODUCED.
By Mr. Sinead : For tlto relief of C. K. Carter
of Talbot county.
Mr. Field : To nutliorizo the Inferior Court of
Lumpkin county to levy an extra tax for county
purpose*.
Mr. Jiio. M. King : To re-enact the 2d section
of nn act of 1639, on the subject of a new road
through a part of Cuimien county.
Mr. WilcoxI To uulhorizo the Inferior Courts
of Irwin und Telfair to examine anil puss upon the
Tnx Collectors insolvent list.
Mr. Brown : To incorporate the Flint River
Manufacturing Company in Upson county;
Mr. Boynton : For the payment of Joint B- Se
ville, of Randolph, and Samuel Adams of Stewart,
on nccounl of leuching poor children in said coun
ties.
BILLS PASSED.
To amend tlto act incorporating the Southern
Botanical Medicul College, and to authorize its re
moval to Macon.
To change the mode of compensating Jurors in
Jasper county.
To provide for the distribution of the estate of
D. My licit, an insane person, of Putnam county.
To chnnge the place of holding Justices Courts
in the 26th diet. G. M., Glynn county.
Fertile relief of Diana Hester’s estule.
To compel ail persons resident in tiio county of
Cumdeii, to pay lax in said county, on the taxable
property held by them therein.
To repeal all acts establishing a toll bridge over
Ebenczer Creek in Effingham county, and for oili
er purposes.
To repeal nil laws relative to tiie navigation and
froe passage of fish, of the Oconee river from
Milledgeville to Barnett’s shoals in Clarke county,
so far ns they may prohibit the erection of dams
for milling or Manufacturing purposes.
To incorporate the Ladies Education and Be-
novolent Society of the M. E. Church of the City
ol Columbus,'and to vest in them certain lots in said
city—amended by adding for incorporation "the
Augusta Benevolent Society.”
A bill relative to proceedings to recover dobls
not due.
BILLS LOST.
To amend the act of 1836, (known ns the freo
bunking law,) to authorise the business of Banking,
&c,—on the passage of the bill the yeas were ID
nays 25.
To reduce the rate of interest on money to 7 per
cent.—on the passago of the bill the yeas were 21,
nays 21—as follows ‘.
vNw,Ui
The President presented the memorial of I be
Trustees of Emory College, which we* referred to
tilt Committee on Education and Free Schools,
On motion of Mr. Lewis, it was,
Reiolvtd, That no appropriation of money shall
bo made for any account, claim or demand, unless
such account, cluim or demand, shall have beet
referred to the appropriate committee and by then
investigated and reported upon.
RILLS INTRODUCED.
By Mr. Miller: Touuihoiize the sale ofthe un
reverted lands in this State. [This bill provider
for the snle of all hinds that linve heretofore re
verted to the Suite and that still remain ui^rnnled
The sales to take place ut Milledgeville, and fm
cash, alter the lands have been advertised (by tin
Surveyor General, under the direction of the Go
vernor,) sixty days in the public gazelles of the
State. Tiie act further provides for the sale of nl-
town or city commons, in which tiie State is inter
ested, provided the corporate authorities notify tin
Governor that it mny he done without injury ti
said town or city—one half of tiie proceeds to b-
paid into the Treasury of the State, and tile olhei
half to belong to the town or city j the Governoi
to prescribe tile terms of such sales. The act U
tuke effect after the 25lh Dec., 1645.]
Mr. Broaddus : To authorize a grant for lot No
178. in the 13th district of Dooly county, to issui
to Elisha Smart,&c.
The bill to pardon Wm. Burton, of Greene coun
ty was passed—yeas 28, nays 13.
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Thursday. Nov 27..
[Proceedings of this day, noticed editorially ii
Friday’s paper, are omitted.]
The House reconsidered its rejection of the res
olulion appropriating money to (i. G. Cole.
Mr. Hull, from tiio committee on Finance modi
mi unfavoiable report upon tiie petition of Sura)
R. Jones mid others.
Tiio House look up tiio hill for tiie relief of Pe
ter Trezvanl, and made it tiie special order of tin
day for Tuesday next.
BILLS FA8SED.
To pardon Charles Jones of Lumpkin county.
To udd Wm. Burney, and others of Glynn am
Appling, to Ware eountv.
To authorize thn Inferior Court of Appling
county, to allow Tux Collectors their insolvent lists
To authorize David Ross of Putnam county, ti
erect n mill dnm across the Oconeo river, ul oi
Lear Long’s Shoals,
To incorporate tiie Rabun Turnpike Company
&c.
To incorporate the Mechanics Benovolenl Soci
ety, of Savannah.
To compensato Grand and Petit Jurors in cur
tain counties named.
To relieves, W. Burney and A. Cochran frou
-ills of y (sturdy so relalst to the rejeetlo*' of the
bill ‘-to alter end amend the 7th section of the le 1
article of the Constitution of this State.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
By Mr. Hull, From the committee on Finance s
to levy and collect luxes I'nr the support of Gov
ernment, which we* read, and 150 copies ordered
to printed.
By Mr. Berry, from the committee on Agricul
ture and Ifitcrnul Improvement, to extend the
Western und Atlantic Railroad, and to provide
meant therefor.
Also—A bill to fix the salary of the Chief En
gineer of said Road—Salury 82400 per annum
BILLS PASSED.
For tiio relief of Asu H- Thompson. Adm’r. ot
Jamas Thompson, late of the county of Houston.
To repeal and consolidate tiie office of lax
Collector and Receiver, passed 1838, so far as re
lates to the county of Madison.
To altor and change tiio lime of holding tiio Su
perior and Inleriur Courts of Museogoo county.
To change the dividing lines between tile coun
ties of Monroe and Crawford, so as to include the
whole of Littlebury Lucas’ residence in tiie coun-
ly of Crawford.
To alter and amend an act to change the names
of certain persons therein named and to legitima
tize the same, and to constitute Martha Beauchamp
the legal heir and representative ol Isaiah PurKer
of DeKalb county, passed Dec. 1829.
BILLS LOST.
To repeal all laws prohibiting tiie free introduc
tion of slaves into Ibis Slate.
For tiie relief of securities and endorsers of
Bankrupts.
House then adjourned until Mouduy morning 9
o’clock.
C0TTON MAHBBM.
ifi
On tiie 2d inst., n message was sont to the Leg
islature by Governor Crawford, showing u state
ment of tlto number of Lunatics as returned by the
census takers for the year 1815, for tiie several
counties in this State. The total of which is
580.
Also, the report of tiie Trustees of tiie Lunatic
Asylum. That tliero were now in tiie Asylum 01
patients, 39 males and 31 females, and clussed thus
—51 paupers and 10 pay patients.
Lunatics, 48
Epileptics, 8
Idiots, 5
Tiie amount drawn from the Treasury for the
support of the Asylum during tiie trusteeship (of
the present Trustees) and up to this lime is
83 470 05
Amount received for pay patients, 850 21
REVIEW OF THE CHARLESTON MAR.
KET.
Since our last report ofthe transaction* In the
Colton market, there continued to b« a steady de
mand for Uplands, ul full prices, and in some pittan
ce* a further advance of 3—8c. per lb. wus obtain
ed. This steadiness and firmness contiuu-d from
the 10th inst., up to Saturday lust, when later ac
counts per Britaimiu were expected. On Monduy
tho sales were very light, buyers showing but little
disposition to enter the market, and holder* dispos
ed to await the steamer’s advices. These advi
ces arrived yosterday, and liie-tr character is still
very in,favorable to ttie Colton inarkot, i lie
latest circular Irom Liverpool represents that mar
ket ascliaractetized by “the greatest inactivity ut a
decline of 1-8. per lb.” We havo scarcely hud
suffi'-ienl time to note the effect produced upon our
market, as tiie operations yesterduy after tiie re-
eoipls of tiie foreign news, were extremely light.
We wouid however remark tiiat those sales were
at a decline ol 1—8o. per lb. from tlto prices offer
ed previous to tlto receipt of tho Britannia’s nc
counts. Tlto week’s sales are as follows viz: Wed
nesday 1384 bales, Thursday 1577, Friday 397,
Saturday 788, Monday 051, Tuesday 223 '1 bo
rcceidts continue very light for the seuson, amount
ing litis week to but 4965 bales Upland, and 111
balos Sea Island. The sides in the same lime urc
5027 bales, viz: 7 bales ut 5 3-4 9 u 0.14 a 6 1-8,
115 u 6 1-4, 128 u 6 3-8, 187 o 0 1-2, 174 n
0 5-8, 783 a 0 3-4, 347 a 0 7-8 697 a 7 1-8, 1094
a 7 1-4, 170 a 7 3-8, 303 u7 1-2,53 a 7 3-4, and
132 bales of choice crop lots a 8c. On shipboard
for foreign and coastwise ports 4965 bales Upland,
and 111 bales Sea Island—total 5076 bale*. Our
quotations to.day are, for Inferior 5 3-4 a 0, ordi
nary 6 a 6 6 1-4, middling 6 5-9 a 6 3-4, middling
fair 0 7-8 a 7, fair 7 1-2 a 7 1-4, good fair 7 1-2.
Cltas. Eve. News, 27/A inst.
MILLEDGEVILLE:
Tuestlny morning, December 9, 164.7.
WHIO CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS,
District No. 3,
DR. iUMlKOME: BABER,
OF BIRB COUNTY.
[correspondence or THE charleston evening news ]
[from our regular CORRESPONDENT.]
New York, Nov.22d, 1845.
There is very liltlo, if any thing, doing in Cot.
ton to day. The udvicus by die steamer are most
discouraging, und it is die opinion of those best
able to judge, that the market will givo way one i
of a cent at least. Tiie sales for the last three
days amount to thirty.one hundred bales—fur (lie
week, fifty-four hundred and filly hales—at prices
as annexed :—Inferior, 5 3-4; Ordinary, 0 1-9 a
6 1-4; Middling, 0 1-2; Middling Fair, 7 ; Fair,
7 3-8 ; Good Fair, 7 5 8; Fine, 8.
«l>e payment of a portion ofthe note held by lb.
IUok«tt,jHcksiin,Kenan,l.sp,Long,Martin,Millar,Murpbey, 1 Central Bank against them, and fur otherpurpos
mill, Siniiti, 8lelt, unit tVoflurd—21.
Nays—Wt-esrs. Uroatldus, Colley, Coup, Fisld, llnrileinnn, j
Harris, Hill, Hines, Hnlderneas, jours, Kellogg, John At.
King, Lewis. McUuliagnn, McGreggor, Miicheil, Moody,
Nickelson, Reynolds, Ridley, and Wilcox 21.
Tito President having voted against the bill it
wus lost.
Mr. Jackson presented memorials from tho
Bank of the State of Georgia, and tiie Planter’s
Bank, relative to debts due by tiie Bank of Darien
to said Bunks respectively—which were referred
to tiie committee on Finance.
A communication wus received from the Gov
ernor, transmitting a statement of tiie returns uf
poor children, by the several counties in 1845. It
uppears that only 58 counties have reported. In
these 58 counties the number of 16870 have been
returned, 35 counties have made no returns.
Friday, Nov. 29,1845.
Tiie Senate reconsidered so much of its Journol
of yesterduy, os relates to the rejection of tiie bill
to reduce the rate of interest in Ibis State to 7 per
cent. To reconsider, yeas 29 ; nays 16.
The Senate, also, reconsidered its rejection of
tiie bill to amend (lie act of 1839. authorizing the
business of Banking.
BILLS PASSED.
To extend the provisions of tiio act of 1843, giv
ing to the Courts jurisdiction in creating certain
incorporations, &c. &c.
To reduce the rate of interest on money, to 7
per cent. On the passage of tiie bill, the yeas were
24 ; nays 21, as follows :
Yeas—Messrs. Allen, Thou. F. Anderson. Wm. Q. An
derson, It 'till, Boynton, Brown,Calhoun,Cimslnin,Crawford,
Higniliiutl, liseUett, Hill, Jackson, Kenan. John At. King,
l.ec, Long, Marlin, Milter, Atniuliey, Snirnd, Smith, Stell and
WiilT.ird.-2l.
Nays— .Messrs. Broaddus, Colley, Cone, Field, Hardeman,
Harris, Hines, llolderneas, Jones, Kellogg, Wesley King,
Lewis, AlcUahagan, AlcCJrcggor, Mitchell, Aloody, Nit kelson,
Reynolds, Ridley, Whitfield and Wilcox—21.
To authorize the investment of certain trust
funds in State securities and a exernpiiiig tiie same
from taxation.
For tiie limitation of the proceedings in caveating
wills.
To amend tiie charter of the Cliattah oocltee and
Flint River Steamboat Company. t
Bill of House, for the relief of B. J. Wynn, of
Hancock county.
Bill of House, to reguiato tiio mode of taking
Sheriffs bonds of Union county.
Bill of House, to ttltor tho lime of holding the
Superior and Inferor Courts of Baldwin county.
Bill of House, to permit John R. Bowman to
plead and practice law—und amended by udding
George C. Smith of Elbert county.
Mr. Ridley moved to tuko up his resolution bring
ing on the election of a United States Senator in
Congress. On agreeing to tiie same, tiie yeas
were 21 ; nays 23. [A strict putty vote—the
Whigs^or, and the Democrats against, taking up anco of public duty
the resolution-] v- “‘ u
BILLS INTRODUCED.
By Mr. Boynton; To authorize the issuing of
Grant* to any ungranted lots in tiie land lotteries of
1821 and 1827 und the land and gold lottery of
1832, whore no provision has heretofore been made
for granting.
Mr. Sinead : To add lot No. 118, 11th District
of Murion, tlto residence of James Lnyfield, to
Tulbol county.
The following communication was received from
the Governor :
es therein mentioned.
Forthe relief of James D. Hanson, and to rn.-iki
valid a marriage witli himself and Murtlta A. E
Greene.
Mr. Anderson, from tho committee on Bank*
reported a resolution authorizing tiie Governor li
sell or have sold all die real estate owned by tin
Darien Bunk, and now in die custody of the Cen
tral Bank.
Also—a resolution relative to tiio disposidon ol
the bills of die Darien liunk, now in die Centra
Bank.
BILLS LOST.
For tiio relief of Samuel Jackson, tax collectoi
of Chnttoogu county. ,
To incorporate die Unite-! Hebrew Society of ill
city of Macon.
To autliorizo R. Clarke to receive toll for cross
ing Iris bridge on Spring Creek in Decutur comity
—and to allow Muses, Cline to establish a fern
across the same creek on bis own land.
Friday, Nov. 28.
The House reconsidered so much of its journal u
yesterday, as relates to tiio passage of die bill ti
relievo Justices of the Inferior Courts in this Stun
from roud and patrol duty.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
By Mr. Smith, of Oglethorpe: To authorize
Nathan Walton to build a mill darn across Broui
liver.
Mr. Jackson : To niter und amend tiie miiitiu
laws of tikis State—referred to die military com
mit'ee.
Mr. Ware, of Washington: To require tin
Judge of tiie Superior Court to draw a new panne
of Jurors for adjourned terms in tiio county o.
Washington.
Mr. Cooper, For tlto removal of tiie county site
of Scrivon county, to fix n new county site, to buib
a new Court House, &c.
Mr. Harris, of Baldwin . For the rolief of Join
Ruggles Colling, Military Stoi c Keeper at Miiledge
ville.
Mr. Armstrong, of Bibb ; To repeal so much o
an net as relate to Bibb county, to regulate the elec
tion and pay of county Treasurer, &c., assented !i
Dec. 9, 1643.
Mr. Field : To authorize the Inferior Court o-
Cherokee county to levy un extra tax for cerluii
purposes.
Mr. Yarborough : To add a lot of land nnd tin
residences ol certain persons, to tiie county o.
Floyd.
Mr. Anderson, nfChatham : To givo to motlier.-
certnin rights in relation to the guardianship and
custody of their minor children.
Mr. Wuro, of Washington : To exempt Jour
neymen Printers and apprentices from the perform
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, i
Milledgeville, Nov. 28th, 1845. \
In answer to a resolution requesting die Gover-
nor to transmit ns ouriy as practicable u copy of all
orders issued by him since die 22d December, 1843
directed to die Chief Engineer of die Western and
Atluntic Railroud,— I liuve the honor to slate, that
in accordance widi die general custom established
by my predecessor, I have given no Executive or.
tiers technically so speuking The views of the
Department have been communicated by letter or
oral instructions. Tlto letters ure numerous.
Their substance lias been restated or modified at
themuny interviews with the Chiof Engineer, not
only ut die scat of Government, but at different times
and at different points uf the Railroad. Tiie di
rections given on these occnsions havo been follow,
cd by die Chief Engineer, else he had boon no Ion.
gerin the service of the State.
GEORGE W: CRAWFORIh
Making, $4,327 16
A small unexpended bnlnnce of thit amount,
soy',$l33 31, is nil hand, subject to tho daily wants
of the institution.
By an estimate required and furnished by die
officers of tiko Asylum, the average amount of sub.
sistcnce of each patient,including die steward, mat.
ron, and servants, is $31 10, and the average cost
of clothing, bedding, &c., of each patient, is $14
28, making forty.five dollars and thirty-eight cents
the aggregate cost of each.
[CORRESPONDENCE OP THE CHARLESTON MEBCUET.l
Washington City, Nov. 24. 1845.
I have beon informed from a source entitled to
credit, dial tlto President’s Message will contain a
recommendation to Congress to provide for the
purchase of tiie lands of Texas, so that they may
not come into competition with the lands of tiie
United States, while ut tiie same time, Texas would
thus be furnished with moans wherewith to pay
her debt. My informant may be misinformed, and
if lie be, we shall soon learn it, for the opening of
Congress is near ul band. If, however, it should
prove correci, it will lie tiie entering wedge by
moans of which die ultimate assumption of all tire
Slate debts by die General Government, may be
sought to be achieved. It will certainly be an ad
mission that the General Government bus a right
to bargain witli die individual States—and if tile
right bo admitted to exist, by bargaining with Tex
as in this matter, strenuous eifurls will bu made to
exercise tiie same right of bargain with die oilier
Stales for the assumption of their debts.
I-'kom Tampico.—The Mexican schooner Luna,
eight day* Irom Tampico, arrived at New Orleans
on tiie 20th inst. The Captain of die schooner
represents that every apprehension of a war with
tiie United Stales had vanished—that the presence
of our (loot on tiie Mexican coast hud done serious
detriment to the mercantile interest of that country,
ns shippers thither from tiie Nortli could not effect
i insurances—thul the merchants having laid these
facts before their government, and it huving,
through its Special Agent, Dan Luis de Argo, made
. representation of diem to ours nt Washington, led
i to die withdrawal of the fleet as a step preliminu.
j ry to tiie resumption of pacific negotiations.
i
Rail Road Improvements.—The Mncon Mes.
sengor, of Wednesday last, has tho following : —
i • We learn from nn authentic source, that die Bus-
! Ion and New York association of capitalists, who
j recently purchased the Monroe Roil Road, are de
termined not only to finish, nnd put ill complete
| repair their entire road to tlto State terminus, im-
I mediately ; but tlmt they are uiso determined to
j build the roud to Columbus with the least possible
delay.
• The contracts for furnishing timber for relay
ing the Monroe Rail Road, have all been taken.—
Tlto delivery of which is to commence by like 1st
of December, and to terminate on die 1st
March.
"Tiio rond to Culumbiis will be speedily com
menced, and prosecuted to completion with des
patch.”
Augusta Bridge Case.—We learn dial tikis cose
which came up before tlieU.S. Circuit Court at
Milledgeville, Geo., on die 7tli inst., lias boen post
poned by consent of parlies; and will bo argued
. at Savannah, in April next, before the Circuit and
Mr. Marlin, of Gwinnett: To pardon Matildu i District Court—mid bus been so entered on the mi-
Charleston Nov. 29.
The transactions since our last, are as follows, viz :
Saturday, 540 bales ; Monday, 739 ,- Tuesday, 315 ;
Wednesday, 1137; Thursday, 1700; and Friday 800
— making an aggregate of 5230 bales, against die re
ceipt of 5178 bales. Tiie actual sales comprise 33
bales at 6; 20 at 0J ; 50 at 6| ; 529 at 64 ; 509 at 6jf;
692 at 6jj; 471 at 0|; 844 at 7 ; 619 at 7$ ; ! 521 at
7 [ ; 51 at 7jj ; 167 at 7j ,- 56 at 7f ; 10 at 7J ; and
193 bales at 8c. We continue our quotations of tiie
previous week, as a fair criterion of die Upland market
at the close of business, with the remark, however,
dial there are those who contend that die lower classi
fications arc a shade too high.
Savannah, Nov., 28.
The accounts received by the Uriltania immediately
checked operations, and as buyers and sellers cannot
agree upon what tiie decline ought to bo, the sales of
the last two days have been only about 300 bales, from
jc. lo Jc. per lb. lower. The market closes in such an
unsettled state, and the transactions since the accounts
were received, so limited that it is impossible to give
accurate quotations.
Tiie sales of die week amount to only 1,590 bales Up
land as follows : 5 at 6j ; 2 at 5j(; 2 at 6; 20 at 6£ ;
16 at6[ ; 9 at (ij ; 140 at 6] ; 43 at 6 916; 71 al6|,
105 at 6 11-16; 445 atOjj; 60 at 0 13-16; 1386 at 0£ ;
414 at 7; 19 at 7J ; 87 at 7Jc. per lb. The demand
for Sea Island still continues active, without change ill
price. Tiie sales of tiie week amount to 120 hales
white: 7 at 20 ; 51 at 21 ; 10 at 21 j ; 6 at 22 ; 26 at
23 ; 3 at 23J ; and 17 bales at 24Jc. per lb., with one
bale stained at 11c. per lb.
Savannah Republican
Macon, Nov. 24.
We have no new feature to notice in the transactions
in our market since our last report. The receipts have
been small, and consequently the transactions quite
limited. A very lino article in square bales would
bring from 6|to 6j cts. at which some sales have been
i f ccted. We quote 5 a 6[ cts.
Columbus, Nov. 26.
There is nothing doing in our cotton market, as
there is literally nothing coming in, and operatois are
al! awaitingjlhe expected accounts by the Steamers
now daily expected. To add to this dull state uf
tilings, our navigation continu- s closed by tiie low stage
of the rivers. We quote 5j a 01 nominal.
Augusta Nov 20.
The market to-day, in consequence of die late for.
oign accounts per Britannia, lias submitted to a tardier
decline of j[ to 4 cent on die prices current previous to
tiie receipt of the news, at which rates there was a fair
demand. It is, however, proper to remark tliat.tlie mar
ket is not well settled and prices are rather irregular —
wo quote extreme 5 lo 7 cents—principal sales 6 lo Og
cents.
Mr. Yarborough: To amend tiie several act*
in relation to interest of money, su far us relates ti
usurious contracts.
Mr. Donniny : To authorize the Governor to
furnish Irwin county five copies each, oi Prince’s
Digest, und of the Georgia Justice.
Mr. Goodman : To change the line between the
counties of Brvan and Bulloch. ,
61
New Orleans, Nov. 22,
Liverpool Classification.
Inferior -
Ordinary 6;
Middling (J
Good Middling 7 a 7f
Middling fair 7] n 7i
Fair. 7J a 71
Good lair 8j a ti j
Good and Fine !) a dt
Cogswell.
Mr. Bull laid on llic table a resolution providing
“dint no new matter shall be received in tho Housr
from nnd after die 6th December.”
Mr. McMullen presented die military accounts
of certain citizens of Lowndes, which was referred
to a select comniitteo consisting of Messrs. Mc
Mullen, Hilliard, Villulongn, Ivey anil Gauldcn oi
Stewart, w ithout being rend.
BILLS PASSED.
To compensate persons who have rendered ser
vices in taking tho census during the year 1845.
To confer die rights of citizenship in Liberty
county, upon curtain residents of McIntosh county.
BILL LOST.
The bill of last session to alter and umend the
7lli section of tlto 1st article of the Constitution ol
this State. On tiio passage of the bill, the yeas
were 61, nays 40—there not being two.thirds in fa*
vor of die bill, it was lost. [This bill is to allow any
new county created a representative in tlie'Ilonseoi
Representatives of die Legislature.]
Saturday, Nov. 29.
The House reconsidered so much of 'lie Jour*
mites of tiie Court.
Tiio Counsel employed are, for complainants,
Hon. Jno. McPherson Berrien, Wm. & Win. F.
Law. Win. Y. Hansel!. for defendants, Me Allis-
ter & Cohen, Seaborn Jones, and Andrew J. Mill
er, Esqrs.
The Charleston Mercury in remarking upon the
Into foreign news says :—
Tiie foreign news is in some 'particulars, very
interesting, but wo must be cnieful not to overosti
mate to such a degree ns to suppose wo are threat
ened with n violent revulsion. Tiie reaction in
tiie railroad speculations, will doubtless cause die
ruin of many—but most of tlieso enterprises nre
founded on good prospects. Nor is the fuilure of
tiie provision crop so extensive ns many accounts
represent it. Cotton is likely to he only tempora
rily depressed,—for all tiie reliublo accounts we
li.-ive, hold out a prospect of a much smaller crop
limn is anticipated in Europe. Tiie picking is now
nearly done, even in Mississippi,—nn unusual
event. It is best, therefore, to tuko tilings coolly
and to resist every tiling like panic.
Movemebts of Mr. Calhoun.—Tiio New Or.
!eans|Pi'cayime of the 21st inst soys :—"The steam.
boat Mariu left Memphis early on Sunday morn
ing last, with tho Hon. John C. Calhoun and some
one hundred and thirty cabin passengers. On ar
riving at Vicksburg, on Tuesday evening, Mr. C.
proceeded lo tiie l’rcnliss House, where lie was
welcon e 1 to die city by Jeff. Davis, E*q- The
honorable guest, after making a short response, was
introducer! to.many ofthe inhabitants, and soon af
ter returned to tiie bunt. About 10 o’clock, on Wed.
nesday morning, tho Muria reuclied Notches.—
Here die boat remained some two hours, during
which time Mr. C.< was conducted to the City Ho
tel and received tiio calls ofthe inhabitants. Yes
terday morning, about 11 o’clock, tiie Marin stopp
ed nt tire fine plantation of die Messrs. La
Branchc’ some twenty five miles above this city
Capt. Dunnica politely waiting lung enough tu allow
Mr. Calhoun nn nppporltinily of witnessing the
process of sugnr making und tiie gentlemanly own
ers of die plaiitudon affording him every liiuilliiy
to gratify his curiosity in relation lo tills branch of
our Stale’s agriculture.
During die trip to und from Memphis die ut
most respect and cordiality were every where ex
tended to ihe great Southerner, and lie lias express
ed himself highly delighted with the beautiful scen
ery und vast productiveness oftlio valley of die Mis
sissippi. To day wo learn that lie leitves for South
Carolina, and in good health.'’
Late Huvanim papers mention tiie dealli of Mr.
Alfred Kruger, a native of (lie United States, »lm
has lived for many years in the Island of Culm, ami
us engineer, bad the direction of die first railroad
in llavanu. afterwards that of tiie Sobnnillu ; und
recently lie superintended the one to Colisco.
LADIES’ FAIR.
The Ladies of the Episcopal Church will have their
Fair, at the Masonic llall, un Thursday evening next.
We hope to see llioir rooms crowded. Engaged in llm
holiest duties, that of bestowing charity, we trust diem
are few who will not go and patronize them in tiicir
good work.
MR. CALHOUN AGAIn1jT¥. SENATOR.
The Charleston Courier, of tiie 29di ulr., says : "It
will be seen, in reference to the letter of our Culuin.
Ilia correspondent, that die Hon. JOHN C, CAf,
IlOUN lias been elected Senator to Congress from thj s
State, in place of tiio Hon. I). E. iluoF.n, resigned.—
That this consummation so "devoutly wished” by die
citizens of South Carolina, without distinction of parly,
lias taken place, will be matter of great gratuladon
throughout our whole country. Again will the 1UU,
of the American Senate resound to the tones of Ins no.
hie nnd patriotic voice, ever raised in tiie cause of free
dom and tiie sustainment of die just rights of our coin-
moil country. Holding ourselves ever free to suppor t
or oppose the measures tiiat Mr, Calhoun may advocate,
we Ireely and readily join in the general expression of
gratification dial his gigantic and statesman-like mind
is again to be called into requisition in our National
Councils.”
Mr. Calhoun receivoJ 133 out of 139 votes given.
LEGISLA i 1VE PROCEEDINGS.—Yesterday.
The Senate,yesterday passed Mr. Miller’s bill amend,
mg (he lOlli section of tiio act of 1792; providing tiiat
in the payment of the debts of any deceased person,
no debt secured by mortgage shall be entitled to any
priority over any oilier debt of equal degree, except so
far as relates to tiie property mortgaged.
Mr. Ridley introduced a bill to punish persons (by
fine or imprisonment in tiie county Jail) for permitting
their negroes to biro their own time, or pennittirg
them to transact business oilier than on dio premises
of the owner.
Mr. Cailiouo introduced a bill to amend the act of
1842, relative to the plea of usury, so as to enable par
ties making the plea of usury more effectually to sus
tain, by proof, such plea.
The Senate passed the l-ill of the House aulimriz.
ing tiie Uovernor lo furnish all Volunteer Companies
that have not been heretofore furnished, with aims &c.
In the House, yesterday, die following, among other
bills, were introduced.
By Mr. Black : To punish persons who unlawfully
obstruct tlin Western and Al ’antic Railroad.
Mr, Oglesby : To restrict tiie amount of tax fees re
ceived by Attorneys at law in certain cases.
Mr. Burry, from die committee on Agriculture and
Internal Improvement, reported tiie following resolu
tion:
Resolved, That tiie sum of $15,000 be appropriated
for the payment of existing contracts against the Wes.
tern and Atlantic Railroad, and for excess of scrip is
sued and bonds destroyed winch have been charged to
previous appropriations for said road, and lor completing
said road to Oostenauly, and that the same be inserted
in the appiopriation bill of this session.
The House passed die bill to alter the Constituum,
so as to strike out the property qualification of the Gov
ernor—yeas 73, nays 29.
MANUFACTURING AND OTHER INCORPOR.
ATIONS.
Before the Legislature tliero are many applications
fortliu incorporation of Manufacturing, and oilier Com
panies. No bank mania, as in days past, appears to be
attendant upon these applications. We are glad of this,
for experience lias taught legislators, not only in Geor-
gia, but in every State of die Union, that “banking priv
ileges,’’ prodigally granted, hive resulted in loss to the
many, and in absolute rum to a respectable minority of
die people. The present then is a d.ffcrcnl, but a no
less important era. Incorporations are applied for Irom
almost every section of the State, nnd unlike those of
1835,'6 and’7, there is great need for them. Every
energy of the great mass of our people lias been di
rected too long lo tiie culture ofcot'.on. This great sti>.
pie, tiio growing of which lias added so much lo the
general wealth, has at last reached even beyond, if not
die wants of die people, beyond that of tiie realization
of riasnnable profit. The capital nccuimtlated in years
gone by, if used fo increase die grow tli of cotton, would
lessen still further die profit of tho culture, and it would
be rare indeed, to find the planter who, after all his hard
toil, could calculate upon 4 percent, per alumni upon
his investment. Slowly, but surely, have these truths
been impressing themselves upon our people. Gradu.
ally have they come to the conclusion, tiiat capital must
find, nut only employment, hut profitable employment,
and that in diverting some of it from agricultural to
manufacturing pursuits, it will continue to increase,
instead of remaining stationary, or lessening from year
to year. In addition to all this, the political economist
for Georgia, sees great benefit to bo derived from capi
tal finding now sources of investment. There is scarce,
ly a county in our State, particularly in the cotton nnd
Wheat growing regions, that does not afford water pow
er sufficient to propel mills of any size; and there ar u
many points al which tow ns and even cities would
spring up, if, at them, capital were employed in maun,
factoring. But when we, in addition to all this, take a
glance at our mountain country—at the iron, tho copper,
the gold, tiie marble, and at the magnificent water pew.
er almost overy where displayed—it is indeed bard to
answer why it is that our enterprising citizens and cap
italists have so long delayed embarking in tiiat, which,
if properly managed, yields so certain and so large a
per coinage. All that 'vc can say is, tiiat cotton and
negroes have hitherto sw allow ed up every tiling.
At Columbus, manufactures arc on (lie advance, ami
nt Augusta they will goon be in active operation.—
From the Cherokee country, we shall soon find the
Stale supplied with her own iron, and ere long, marble
monuments, and marble ornaments, will not be shipped
to us from tiie North or Europe. Middle Georgia, too,
will aid to furnish the Slate witli domestic cotton fabrics
of all kinds, and wo will not hesitate to say, that ere
long, she will furnish other Slates with them also.—
Tin- tendency of tiie times is to all this, and nought can
stop it but improper legislation.
There are two kinds of legislation which we con
ceive to be prejudicial to the public interests, as well
as prejudicial to private individuals or companies. One
is tiiat kind of legislation which prodigally grants eve
ry tiling that is asked for—and tiie oilier is tiiat kind
which so tesliiats, that it grams nothing. The former
giver too loose a roiu; the latter holds too tight a one. In
cither case, tire public sad those more dirett'y in-