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D, Cirr and County Pm.vteh.
0, 1639.
, $8 |»fr Annum; for 6 month*, #5
•or, 5 per Annum: for 6 month*, #3,
(t'AYAOf.E in advance.)
' He** and Hew Advertisements, appear in kotk Papers.
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at the corner of Bay and Bull-*troot*,over
Mr. J. B. Qaudry'a Store.
From the AVir- York Erprtss.
JONATHAN SLICK IN NEW YORK.
To Mr. Zr riir.siAii Suck, Eaq., Justice of
the Peuce and Deacon of the Church, over in
Wearffiosfield. Connecticut.
Dear Par:—
Since I wrote my last letter there's been no
end to the things that I’ve bad to do. Arter think*
ing about it cenaiiiost two nights, I about made
up my miud to settle down here in York, and
•end you a grist of letters now and then, which
I mean to git printed in the New York Express,
the way 1 told you of. I'veheeu up to see the
editors, and they want me to stay properly, aud
I don’t think I shall ever git so good a chance to
take up this literary way of fitting a living, as
they call it, if I don't jist snap at this offer at once.
I thought at first that I'd try some other now•pa
per, nnd see if I could git a higher bid, but some
how I’d taken a shine to the Express, and thought
it wasn’t worth while. It warm because there
wasn't papers enough, for you cant step thrao
steps here in York, without stumbling over a lit
tle stuck up newspaper office. Besides there's
no end to the papers carried round in the streets.
You cant go any where but some little dirty shaver
or other, ubout knee high to a toad, will stick a
paper out under a fellers nose, aud ask him to
nay it as crank as can be. Somehow, it kinder
seemed to inn that the New York Express teak
the shine off the papers that I'd seen among ’em
all, though they was as thick as toads arter a rain
storm. X hod a notion to write for it from the
first, because, thinks, sez I, that prime fellow 31a-
Jor Jack Downing writes n good deal for it, aud
I rather think wo shall hitch tackle like any
thing.
Wol, jut os soon as I'd made up my mind about
it, I went right off, full chisel, up to the Express
Office. I'd boon up there once afore to put my
to’ther letter into the Post Office, and so the
rainut I come to a high peaked sort of a house,
and see New York Express Office writ on the end,
1 knew it was the office without asking. So I
crowed over, and kinder hung about a little, jut
to make my heart stop a beating so, fore I weut
in. I swanny if I ever felt so in my life! 1 was
so anxious about that long letter that! sent to them
to $et printed for you, that I was dreadful loth to
go m» and eenamost made up my mind to turn
about and make tracks for the sioop agin!
Wal, mz I to myself, it wont do any hurt jist to
take a look about the premises afore I go. A fel
ler con find out a good deal about a man’s natur,
by the looks of things about the place be lives in;
Ml jist drew up before n hoard, all stuck over
with picture, and pieces of old newspaper, hy the
eend of the office, and putting my hands in my
pockets I iiat stood still, and looked upwards to
eee what I could make out. Wal, now, sez I to
myself, I rather think a party smart wind, rich as
I’ve seen in old Connecticut when Squire Sikc’s
barn was tdmed bottom eend upwards, would jist
make this house shake a few, I shouldn't like to
be op in the top story in a heavy gale any how.
Now what op am, sez I, a looking down into a
little pen boarded off the oeud of the office, can
the editors want ter do with this eref
By the hokey, sez I, arter thinking a minut,
I’ve made it out. These Editor chaps have jist
cat their eye-teeth, and begin to find out the dif
ference between good, sobd broadside pork, fat
ted with genuine ingtui corn, and die lean,
peaked, slunk-up critters, that go about hero a
rooting among die dirt and a watering in the gut
ters till a feller dorsent put on a white pair of
trowses, for fear the dirty varmints will run agin
him.
Seslto myself, these Editors know what
they’re about, they mean to fat their own pork,
and then they'll know what it’s fed on. Some
how the right of the eraty pen put me in miud of
old times, and I begun to think about the cattle
and the spring shotestliat Judge White used to
take such care on till the tears eenamost into my
eyes, I was so hnmsick. Wal, I was standing
there on the stun walk, with both hands buried
considerable deep in my trowses pockets, lookin
up at the sign writ on the yaller eend of the office,
when a feller come up and begun to read the
pieces of paper stuck on the board jist oustide
the pig-pen. So 1 jist wiped the tarnal tears a-
way with the cuff of my coat, for it made me feel
kinder cheap to have any body see u feller of my
size boo-hooing in the York streets because he
he happened to think about hum and old times;
and I got up a little grit and went right straight
fonvard into the office. A chap that sot buck
of a sort of counter where there was a lot
of papers folded op,* jist lifted his head
once, and went to writing agin as if I warnt no
body.
“Do you print the Evening Express here?”
sez I, kinder low, I felt so dreadful am ous a*
boat the letter, that I was eenamost choked.
“Yes,” sez he, a gifting up; “do you want
one?”
“Wal, i dont care if I take one,” sez I, a fork-
ing out u fourpence-Ualfpemiy from my trowses
pocket.—'‘Anything particular—that is. purty
smart in it to-day.”
“Nothing very remarkable to-day,” sez lie, “but
ifyou’lcall to-morrow we uliall print a capital
letter from one Mr. Jonathau Slick of V/eathers-
field.”
I swanny if my heart did’nt jump like a rabbit
at the sight of a piece of sweet apple in snow
time! “Yon dont nay no/' sez f, and I tried not
to look tickled all I could, but somehow my mouth
wouldn’t stay still; and I burnt the teu»t doubt but
that 1 kept grinning in the feller* face, jist like a
fool. It was as much as I could jo to keep from
jumping over the counter and hugging him, 1
was so all fired glad; but he didn’t seem to mind,
but sot down aud begun to vv rite again an if noth
ing was the matter, und so l took up •'the paper
atm went off; but, I ruther guess 1 stepped high,
for I kept thinking what you and marm and Judy
White would say when you saw yourselves all in
print as large as life. When I went out, there
stood the chap a reading the piece* of newspa
pers yit. I wanted to go up and shake hands with
him und toll him all about it, 1 was so full of what
the chap inside said ubout my letter, but I didu’t
though. I went down to the sloop, and 1 wanted
to tcM Captain Doolittle about it But, sez I to
myself, I’ll choke in toklay, but if ho dont stare
arter to-morrow I lose my guess.
I ruther think that I did’nt let the grass grow
under my feet, when Thursday come, but up I
,, went to the Express office, like a house a nro.
It raly seem’d my heart would burst, I was so
dreadful adxious to see the paper. I did’nt stop
to ketch breath but went right into the office, and
there sot u couple of fellers that looked as stiff
and knowing as could be, back of the counter.—
“Sez A to myself,” I guess I’ve fouud the editors
this time anyhow. “ I want to get five papers right
off,” sex I, (laying a quarter o’dollar on the coun
ter)—^with that one ot the editors got up, as mea
ly mouthed as could be, aud lip pnt the quarter
back in my hand,—sez he, “Mr. rilick, we shan't
take money from you; here are the papers—come
take a sent back of the counter here—we want to
have a little talk with you.”
Wal, I went back, and the tallest of the two
chaps got up and givo me his choir, aud, nez he,
“Mr. Slick we’ve printed your letter and should
, ; liko to have soine more on r chi,” ,
I hitched a little in my chair, and sez I, “wal if
we can agree about the price, I dont care if I send
you a few more now and then ”
“What subjects do you mean to take up Mr.
Slick,” sex the shortest, ono.
“Wal,” sex I, “I haint made up my mind yet,
but I reckon a most any tiling that turns up.’
“Supposing yon try politics, sex the talffeller.
“Major Jsck Downing has dons purty well on
thtt line. The ’lection conies nest week, and it’ll
be a good time for von to begin.”
“Wal ” sez I, “I’ll go about a little, aud see
how I liko it.”
“That’s settled then,” sex the tother. “Now Mr.
Slick, if wc nint making too bold, 1should liko
to know how long von have been in Netv-Yorkf”
I kinder larfed in my sleeve to bear the sly coot
trv to come round, mid find out who I was and
all shout me. Sex I to myself, I nint quite snrtin
about tlio tall chap there,’ but I’ll be blamed if
you’ve the least bit of Yankee in yon. Now a
fellor of real genuine grit would a come up to
tiie mark at once, mid would a jist asked a feller
right out who he was, and where he come fkotn,
& how much he was worth,& how much ho owed,
besides some sly questions about his wife and
children, if he'd warned to. Wal, thinks I, the
man haint been brought up to these things, and
he aim to be blamed tor not knowing bow. 8o 1
put one leg over tother, and sez I—
“Wal gentlemen, it nint of no use to go c ire tun-
v litin round the subject, os old deacon Miles
u «d .o in his exhortations, that hadn't neither ctm,
middle nor beginning. So I'U jist up and tell
right out who I am, and what I mean to do.”
I 'spose you've heard of Samuel Slick, the fel
ler that wrote that tarnal smart book about Cana
da, wooden clocks, and matters and things in
gineml I”
“Sam Slick, you mean.” sez the tall editor.
“No I don't,” sez I, setting an straight; “he
was baptized Samuel in the old Presbyterian
.Meeting Hou«c in Wcalhersfield, and nobody
but the newspaper chans ever thought of culling
him Sum. It’s ton bad this notion of cutting off
the softer end of a feller's name; its a whittling
t mg-* down a leetle too close, and it looks as if a
fa. er’s futher was so awful poor, that ho could'nt
afford to give a hull name to his posterity. Wa 1 ,
Samuel Slick, Esquire, is iuv own born brother—
I haint no idea of braggiug about tny relation, be-
c uue its my notion that in a free country every
feller ought to cut his own fodder, but when a
m in's relations is getting up iu the world, its of
no use to be nieely mouthed ubout owning 'em.”
“Yes,” sez the tall chap, “Alt. Samuel Slick is
a relation which any man might be proud to
own.”
I larfcJ a little. “Surtiuly,” sez I, “Samuel
has contrived tnrnme hi* •*«(! iw*t«W over you
newspaper chaps about the nicest. I’ve a notion
too that they'll find out that I aint much behind
hand with him ; but I mean to write something
about my life-in Weathers lie Id one of tlieso days
and send it to you to print.”
Now, l tell yon what it is. I’ve a notion to hire
an office somewhere down iu Cherry-street and
if you’ll print my letters, why, 1 reckon I can moke
out to get alivng out of these Yorker*, by book
or by crook. I moan to do tliiugs above board
and in an independent way, iestto see how the
experiment ’ll work, but ii l Hud that won't do. I’U
take up Samuel's plan and go the soft sodder
principle; his mode 'll work tarnation well, und
if they dou't find Jonathau Slick your most obe-
dieut servant to command, a chip from the same
block, I loose my guess, thut’s all l”
When I’d said this I got tig und put on my hat,
and then i happened to Uuuk about the fourpence-
bupennv, and 1 turned to the chap that sot writing
and sex* I,—
•’Look a here! I believe I forgot to take change
for fourpence t'other day. I'll take that there
three cents now, if you've no objection.” The
lei?~r handed over the three coppers, and I jist
pocketed 'em as 1 went out a doors. “A penny
saved i* worth two anted,” sez 1 to myselt;
The very minut I got into the street, 1 could’nt
hold in any longer. So 1 jist stopped on the walk
by the Post-office aud opened one of the papefa
By the living hokey ! if the first thing 1 see was’nt
a pteter of my own -elf, *§ large as lilts aud twice
a* mitral, a standing up ou the top of the paper us
crank as could be. Tiiere was the Express office
and Uie pig-peu, and all jist as it was when I first
see it. l swan ! if 1 did’nt liaw-liaw right out
loud in the street! Down I went to Uie sloop
about Uie quickest, and I up nud told Cnptin Doo
little all about it. I thought the tarnal critter
would a gone off Uie handle, he larfed so when he
saw how nat’ral the picter looked; but he larfed
out of both side* of fils mouth. I reckon, when he
read what I’d said about him in ffie letter. He got
awful wrathy, but I only jist sot still and took it as
if nothing liad becu the matter.
-Looka here. Captain Doolittle,” sez I; “aint
Editors ani Lawyers aways abusing one another
in print/ Don’t Uiey call each outer all kinds o’
names, and then don’t they shake hands and
come riatnuel’ssoft soddorover each other when
they coine face to face? If you have the honor
of going about with a man that writes for newspa
pers, yod must be an etarual coot ifyou git mad
becauso he prints, that you love cider-brandy and
eat raw turnips. I can tell you what, you would'ut
find many newspaper chaps that’ll stick to Uie
truth as close as i did. 8o jist haul in your
horns and I’ll write a private letter to par, and
tall bun all I said about you was 'poetical licence,’
as Uie editors cull it when Uiey’ve told u whopper,
or a leeUe too much truth—for oue’s us bad as
t'other uow-a-day*.”
“Wal,” sez he, “ifyou’ll do that, I’ll make up:
but it's allfired hard. But 1 say, Jonathan, you’ll
stand treat, wont you/” I felt sorry for Uie critter,
and so I weut to a grocery with turn, and I guess
the Iona nines and the New England rum that
I called for sot all things to rights in less than no
time,
I’m awful Ured, or I’d go on and tell you all
that I saw about the 'lections. I went about every
where, uight and day, aud »ich carryings ou 1
never did see. I was up in one of ffio .Wards
one day, when they broughtalot of the town poor,
out of Uie big poor house un the river, to vote;
I never did see any Uiing like it in till may horn
days. It's an ullfircd shame, thought, to bring the
poor critters out and moke ’em vote jist us their
keener ted ’em to. It made my Yunkee blood
bile up to see them a streaming up to vote, when
they didn't know’more Uioii Uie dead what they
were voting for.
Some ou 'em come in on men’s shoulders, for
they couldn’t walk! that I see myself, or I never
would ti believed a word on it, it*I’d seen it in
ffie Newspapers, and some on ’em had been a
rotting in Uie Poor House all their born days, ex
cept while board ship, as they shipped from a
Poor House over sea to our Poor House here.
But never mind, Uiey’re all “American citizens,”
they had all been here long emtngh to he moralised,
as they call it, but I’ll be dnnted, if you could ever
civilise them to Uie ecud oftinie.
Wal the lust night I thought I’d go to Tamma
ny Hull and sec how they acted there. Bo 1, and
Captin Doolittle went early and crowded in till
we got up by one of Uie winders where we could
see purty much ull Uiut wns going on- I never in
all my born’days sow such a lot of horned cattle
together. Sonic ou ’em was barefooted and a
good many hadn’t more Uian a coat and a pair of
trowses among four or five on ’em. One feller
close by me had the rim of his hat ripped off
till it bung down on his shoulders: Uie top
was stove in, and he had a black eye, besides
anoUierUiat wouldn’t see straight. “Look a here,”
sez he to ine, “why doiityou shout when we do.’"
“ Because I aint a mind to,” *ez I, “how urn
you going to help youpelf, Mr. Hugo Paw/”
Jist Unit minit a man cum in with news from the
sixth ward,—
“Hurra for Uie butt-enders! hurra for the huge
paws and tumble-bugs!! hurra for liberty, and
dimocrocy!!! hurra for ffio sixth ward and Uie
DivillU*
I never heard anything like it, they yelled and
hollared enough to split the ruff oil the house.
The chunked feller, with hi* hut knocked into ffie
middle of next week, poked about with his elbows
till he got room to draw his fiddle bow across u
rickety fiddle, that hod two of Uie strings broke oft*
and was cracked from eend to eend. Squeak,
squeak, went the fiddle close to my ear, like a pig
when he’s being yoked. With that, a lot of fellers,
some wiUi their coat toils tore off, and some wiUi
fheir trowses held up with a piece of list instead
of galluses, and eveiy one on ’em os ragged os
yeur old colts, begun to dance up and down and
kick up Uieir heels iu ffie middle of ffie room, but
such double shuttles and pijin wings, was enough
to make a feller die a lartin. Our old white cow
used to. dunce twice ax'well when she got into one
of her tantrums.
Down with the Whigs:—
is.” yelled out a tall toiler
closo by the fiddler, with a month that twisted one
wsv and his nose curling off the tother side, as if
they hated each other like cats and don; and wf* L
that he took off his old straw hat and shied It < „
into ffie middlo of the dancers. It lodged on the \yj
top of a fellers head that was jist then trying to
cut a pijin wing over one of the benches.
JTo be concluded with Air. 81ick’a adventure’s
8ck!«ks in Tamxany Hall.
SAVANNAHi
SATURDAY EVENING, NOV. 16, 1839.
OLD SAVANNAH.
Wo do not know whethor it would not bo more
proper to say New Savannah 1 because nearly all
old things have passed away, and become new.—
The old Fort itself, with the aucient Magazine,
buried as it is in tHo very heart of the bluff, it
rapidly giving way before the spade and ffie mat
tock of modem improvement—and ere long, a
magnificent street will be graduated over the an
cient receptide of canuon balls aud bomb shells.—
Cotton Forts will henceforth do well enough for
Cotton CiUot.
This continuation of our Broadway, will add
nearly three quarters of a mile to die length of our
City; Uie whole of which is ftauked on one side
by new piers already completed, and on ffie other
by reclaimed lou, also far advanced to a state of
redemption.
Our Canal is rapidly undergoing enlargement
for ii ship channel up to ffie Kail Road Depot, and
private and public buildings are springing up
around us iu every direction. Among ffio former,
are some massive and princely establishments,and
among the latter, our Orphan Asylum rears its
modest, hut taitefttl and appropriate head. Long
may it stand a receptide for ffie most un fort-mate
of mankind and a monument to ffio enterprize of
our Ladies und ffie liberality of our Gentlemen.
Would it not be well for the Lady patronesses
to have the noble picture of Selina, Countess of
Huntington—now going rapidly to decay—re
paired aud hung up in the hall. We believe she
was the first patroness of ffie ancient Orphan
House established here by the celebrated Whit
field. It wouid not detract an iota from their
own proud claims to the gratitude of posterity—
thus to honor ffie memory of an earlier laborer in
ffio same field. We have read some of her let
ters to Whitfield on this subject, and’they are
filled with the geuuine spirit of beuevolence and
Christian charity. Honor, then, we sty to her
memory.
We have been surprised that the Afethodists of
this city have mode no effort to rescue from de
cay ffie precious and only memorial now in this
couiliry of one so devoted to ffie spread of ffie
then uew religion.
By ffie by, is it generally known to our citizens
of tlrnt denomination, that the house inhabted by
ffie eloquent Whitfield, yet stands in good pre
servation, just as he left it, with his unute in full
oil the knocker, perhaps placed ttiore by his own
hands. These ore venerable relics of ffie olden
time, which we hope will be preserved in these
days of change—improvement, and renovation.
oj The Georgian of Thursday, states that the
Hon. John Forsyth had arrived in Alilledgeville,
and an invitation tendered him of a Public Din
ner, which was decliued by the Honorable Sec
retary. The ex-Govemor wo* not so short-sight
ed as his Union Democratic friends thought him—
he reflected upon his A!e*sage in 1829, where lie
says—“ I congratulate you on the present condi
tion nnd future prosperity ofyonr State—Blew-
C'l with Peace, Health and Independence,—with
immense resources in possession, and greater in
expectancy. What is there we can rationally de
sire to effect, that we may not hope to accom
plish ?”
These are Mr. Forsyth’s expressions at that
time: on his visit to ffie Seat of Government of
the State now, ho find* himself no Prophet, and
wisely declines ffio honor of telling his friends so.
PLAIN TALK, ON A HARD SUBJECT.
Our old saw says that “ffie hair of a mad dog is
good for ffie bite”—and as a great many innocent
republican* have been bitten hy rabid politicians,
we ore for tearing off a little hair and applying it
to the wound: in other word*, we are for cram
ming hard money down the throuts of the, hurd
moneyed men. We have no idea that they shull
make our system ffie safety valve of their’*—that
they shall cry out against Bank* and yet use them
and their officers all ffie while.
But to return to the point where we left off the
argumont yesterday. We averred ffie general
depreciation oflubor and property—this i* urgu-
ing all ffie while upon the ridiculous supposition
that there is specie enough in the country to carry
on it* business—then if labor and property of ev
ery species is to come down to a hard money val
uation, it will produce other concomitants. First,
it will stop emigration to ttio West and South, be
cause money will ho too scarce to collect it in
suinssufiicient to carry ahroud to purchase lands—
and because most of our buying uud selling, will
be conducted on tho barter system, as thus—A
planter comes to a shoe merchant and engages
his negro shoes to be paid in cotton at ffie end of
ffie year, and so on through all ffie branches of
trade. Conceive then ffie (difficulty of getting
silver and £old to purchase land*, when enough
of it cannot be had even to buy llie ordinary mar-
keUngofour cities. This state of filings existed
once before under the government of another
Dutchman, besides Air. AIartin Van Buri.n,
namely, Gkoroe Guelph, commonly called
George the 111. It will not only slop emigration,
but it will paralizc trade and every branch of’ui-
d istry. All those who trade upon borrowed cap
ital. will break then indeed. Our Rail Road*
will stop half finished—our Canals will be filled
with stagnant water.. Our Northern friends who
trade among us, (und they compose one half our
population) will then have to bundle up and trav
el toward-! file rising sun. Our planters will have
to curtail their crops ono half and send tho sur
plus half of their negroes to Texas. Our crops
will be curtailed one half, because our purchases
from Knglund will be curtailed one half, and tlioir
purchases of cotton from us, always hear some ra
tio to the amount of our purchases from them.—
That our purchases from them must diminish one
half, is almost self-evident. How are we to pur
chase from them to the amount even of one hun
dred millions a year? Where is the hard money
to come from? If the goods were even wanted,
there is not specie in the country to make our pur
chases. But fiio goods will not be wanted. Eve-
ry man will regulate his wardrobe, by the ging-
ling of the dust in hispocket, and of course greasy
e.bows, and polished pants, will be common—be
cause, each man’s share of the present specio in
the country, will be pbont two dollars, tuid fine
coats and fine
Uroeno, l)umi, BalUy, Warroh, Hi
(I'ciTon, Slirop.liiro, Wm
m»jr be well to
tho golden dojre indeed
by Mr. Van Bunts—when the fold end eilvcr
•bell runup the MbeMppl t Will the money be
moro mpmliiod through the community, ae tho
agrarian, prouiiiet Letu.uet Will the rich
nun miffcr by tho now .tete of thing. > Ho will
auflbrin eppoaranco, but not in reality—tempora
rily, but not permanently. A. lhu»—hi. bonk
■tofk end reel property will be depreciated in
nominal value, lint tiler eehort time ho will be
the gainer. Ho will receive hi. dividend i when
the banka are wound up,in .pecie, end that .pecie
will have .0 ri.cn in value,that it will nlmont make
up for hiilonnon tho .lock—whilo hi. real pro
perty, if not expoMd to rale,will be ju.t os valua
ble to him for it. annual yield, u when that yield
we. double the nominal value: because, ho will
•ell for hard money end be enabled to purchase
twice as much with it.
Then if ail men were rich tho hard money ay.-
torn would only be a temporary evil alter nil! Un-
dmbtedly! And all men ought to be willing to
anfferthi. temporary evil, to produce a future
good. Whom tlien will it injure moat? It will
injure those meat who era in debt—became their
debts were contracted under the old .y.tems if
they owed five bundreddollara, thattivc hundred
dollar, which they have now to pay in ailver and
gold, will have como to be worth e thousand of
the dollar, iu circulation when they ran in debt.
Neat, it will injure the mechanic and merchant,
who carriei on hi. baunera on credit, became the
Korcity of money will incraue die rate of inter-
eat. Indeed, when the circulating medium be
come. entirely inadequate to the wants of a com
munity, no rate of intereat will produce the article:
First—become no interest can produce that which
i> not: and secondly—became die security of
the debt i. weakened exaedy in proportion to the
n«urinu«ne«! of the interest
But the pool man will be injured above all by
the new state of things. It is true that his shilling
a day for labor will purchase a. much as a dollar
would under dio old syatetn. viz s whoii ull tilings
have settied down to tho specie level, but how
many yean will it take to revolutionize onr whole
commercial relatione—how many years will it be
before his hard-earned shilling will lie worth a
dollar? Ten years at die least! and during a
greater part of that time, he will have to pay pri
ces far articles of prime necessity, regulated in a
great measure hy the old standard. Custom alone
will keep these prices—man does not like to sell
all at once, for ono dollar what he has been in the
habit nfgettingtwofor: but there is more power
ful reasons dian custom. These - rticlcs. many
of them, ore furnished by countrios where the
hanl money standard does not and never can pre
vail, and ofcourse they will regulate the prices for
m in same measure.
Tlipn tho debtor—the trader—tho mechanic—
and the poor man will not come in for an equal
•hare of plunder, for the reasons above stated,and
because the rich will have more power to control
the«e things then, dura they have now. They fur
nish most of the articles of prime necessity to the
poor, and consequently dioy have a monopoly in
their hands. Besides these things—the necessi
ties ofthe poor become mare argent, and they ore
mere in the power ofthe rich, exaedy in propor
tion to the high value or scarcity of money. We
will hold a little plain talk with our neighbors a-
gain soon.
Irawford, Campbell,
vHappen, Ken 111, Stephens,
Miller, JeuidlH, Wirt. Seward, Hunter of Craw-
fore, Mealalt, 1 riersen, McDougald, Flournoy,
Watson, Guertv, Gonder, Berry and Murphy.
On IntrnuU ImproremcHl,.—Messrs. Chappell,
MlUon, Budd. Moore, lluntcrof Crawford. Now-
som. Hand, Stroud of Wulton, Boyd, Wl
O’Neal of Monroe. Riley, Martin. Anderson,.1
phy, Pratt, Liddell, Bethea, Pittman, laiwrei
Robinson of Fayotte, Dart,Carann,8lcll of Stow
art, and Bevill.
On PMie Edm*ti<m and Frre Scholl.—Messrs.
Jenkins, Harris, Erwin, Goode, Sormans. Wal.
lace, Tanner, Carter, Chandler, Collier of Baker,
Palmer, Camp of Franklin, Ilagenuan, Green of
Macon, Wellman, Sandford, Ingram, Carlton,
Cobb nf Carrol, Robinson of Laurens and Laey.
*,Oh the Penitrnlinry.—Messrs, Bnrnnt of Wal
ton, King of Wilkinson, Greon of Forsyth, Wal-
her. McCloud, Evens, Espy, Winn, Mnys of
Cobb, Mulkey. 8ikes, Scott, Btatham, Smith
of Walker, Ashley, Baker, Hunter of Cherokee,
Durden ofTroup, Jonos of Gilmer and McMul
ion.
Oh Ike Militant-—Messrs. Kenan, Clarke,
Cleveland, Delaperriore. Darden of BulK Cas-
sols, Cone, Hilliard, Waters, Turvir, Wi son,
Jester,.Malone, Bennett, Thomas, Willinghim.
Loyal, McArthur, Chester, Welcher anu Me,
DulBo.
On Enrolment.—Messrs. Gray. Prescott, Ar
il tt. Whatley, Gartroll, Smith of Randolh, Per-
rv. Reese. Linder, Richardson, Ballard, Faruall,
Reeves and Johnson of Heard.
Oh Privilege, and Elections.—Merrrs. Clove
land, Glascock, Toombs, McDongnld, Seward,
Cannon, Hall, Murphy and Robinson of Jas
per.
On Printing.—Maun. Guerry, Whigham,
Jones of Elbert, Mann, McKinnon, Ledhottur,
Ellis, Dlxun of Walker, Minter, Collier of De-
Kalb, Cobb ol Dooly, Cump of Campbell and
Graham.
7b Eramtnc Journals.—Mossrs. Darden of
Warren, Ford, Stcll of Gwinnett, Parker, Hud
•on. Coker nnd Weolsey.
On Petitions—Messrs. Cone. Chastain, Bryui
ofWiyne, Rivers, Sumner, Taylnr. Lyudi, D n
mark. Hull Pcnjon, Jounson of Appling, Kilgore
and Bryson.
RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENTS
Tlw Piiilfidelphia Herald St Sentinel ofthe 11th
inst. says.—"The U. 8. Bank post notes, mule
payable in this city, are now regularly redeemed
at maturity by the U. S. Bank in New York.”
The Cincinnati UazeUe,*tates that die Ohio Life
Insurance and Trust Company of di.it city tc
sumedspecie payments on the 6th instant Un
der the law of Ohio, if any bank suspends specie
payments more thanthirty days,ittcharterbecomos
forfeited.
The Ohio Slaletmaa thinks dint the Buka of
that State, which have stopped, will resume spec'i
payments, within the 30 days required hy din law
ratlierthan allow their eflairs to go into the hands
ofcominissioners.
For tht Uepubliean.
Me. Editur—We hid another Thanksgiving
Day on Thursday. I should like to know ifottr
Medical Gentlemen—the Druggists, Co.Rn-m 1-
kers, and die Grave Digger, have inode a public
display of their devotion at our Churches. I do
net know, having been at nono. aa I had a call to
my plantation, whore I had to visit a sick negro,
When on the way to and fro I heard such a fro:"
qnentcncking of guna, that I would have taken
it for a Christmas or New Year’s ere frolic, had
I not known better.
I do not perceive what good onr community de
rives from the keoping of this day. It cannot be
to havo more piety—we have enough of church
going here, and much more then the people on
the Continent of Europe, where, in two aermonn
on a Sunday, they receive moral lessons enough
to last diem for a whole week, and that they nre
not worse off for that may be proven i That in
dio whole of Prussia, not as many crimiuuL are
executed in a year, aa in London 011 a single Fri
day.
If it should be asked if diere be harm in keep-
ing this day, I say yea. It is an intorrnptiou in
our commercial transactions and in every branch
of civic indastiy. The merchant cannot ship hia
goods, the ship-master must pay the sailors for a
day where they do nut work hut drink—die dray
man’s horses pull not hut eat—every mechanic
has to maint .in Ilia joumoinen and boya, who pro.
duco no labor but go a gunning, and perliaps do
woise being induced by idleness.
Tho question with mo rests—have our Corpor
ation any right to interfere with Church allairs?
I diink not. Lot the appointing of feast and fust
days remain in die hands of Pastors or Churches
-it is Uieir fort. MARTIN LUTHER.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
The following nre the committees on tho part
of die IJouso of Representatives, announced on
die Uth inst. by die Speaker:
On the Hlate of the tleptMie.—Messrs. Glascock,
Stephens, Robinson of Juaper, Hubbard, Hot-
comb, Livingston, Reynolds, Burks, Meadows,
Uluuut, Toombs, Hamilton, Berrien of Burke,
Mays of DoKalh, Stroud of Clark, Greer, Roberts,
Crolt, Collier of Pulaaki, Turner, Arnold, Lone,
uud Hancock,
On Ranis.—Mesare. Tarver, Whitfield ofPut.
Cmmpmitiettee of the Augusta Constitutionalist
MILI.EDGEVILLE, Nov. 11,1839.
The following are the Committees of tho Son
ant;
On the Mate of the Republic.—Messrs. Henley,
Konnon, Bates, Brown of Camden, Chriatian,
Mayo, Lawson, Philips, Smith of Coweta, Wil
son, and Bivins.
On Finance.—Messrs. Beall, Gordon of Chat,
ham. Branham, Boslivick, Porter of Greene,
Camden, Vincent, Payne. Jenkins, Drana, John
son, and Robertson ol Columbia.
On the Jwlieia’tj.—Messrs. Kelly, Alexander,
Crane. Brown, of Hancock, Williamson, Tracy,
Harris of Warren, Stanford, Miller, Lewis, Pry
or, and Philips,
On Bank,.—Messrs. Jotirdan, Springer, Por
ter of Morgan, Smidi of Twiggs, Wnlthour, Wa
ters, Crane, Tracy, Bryant of Stewart, Baker,
and Scarlet.
On Internal Impoeemcnt.—Messrs. Gordon of
Chatham, Guess, Harris of Warren, Foster,
Porter of Morgan, Holmes, Miller, Baker, Hutf,
Mattox, Green, and Sniitii of JetTerson.
On the Penitentarn.—Messrs. Bates, Beck, Ca
meron, Polk, Smith ol'B.yun, Wil a 11s, Whitak
er, Bradford. Cuehrann, .Morgan, A right, Coop
er, and Harris of Tniilerro.
On Printing—Messrs. Lawson, Loveless,
Bryan of Morgan, Graham, Collins, Holloway,
Rawlinson, Scarborough, Morris, Neal, Knight,
Tatum, and M. Gar.
lbs Public Klin otion and Free Schoo'e—Messr ,
Billups, Gordon of Jones, Stanford, Robertson of
Appling, Camden, Sloanc, Jones, Kennon,
W aters, Porter of Green. Lewis, onu Frier.
On the Military.—Messrs. Williams, Cone
Scarlet, Rudierford, Mayes, McDaniel, Crcecu,
Gordon of Jouea, Wurthcn, Bryant, of Stewart,
and Hoatii.
A petition was presented this morning in the
Senate, praying die repeal of die licenco lew, dim.
The petition was read, and the Senate ordered it
to lie on dm table the remainder of II10 aesston.
This morning in the Senate,Mr. Lewis ol'Mus-
cogee, introduced a resolution, requiring Um Go
vernor to order scira liicius to he issued against
ull banka that have suspended specie payments,
or odierwisa have viol tod their cuartem. Une
hundred copies ofthe resolution were ordered io
be printed.
MiLi.E0aer11.LZ, Nov. 13,1839.
I send you for publication the report ofthe
Treasurer.
Tim report of Messrs. Berrien,Holt and Clup-
pell, on Um flnunces of dm stu e, is m Urn bunds
of dm printer! as soou ns primed, 1 shall send a
copy to you.
This morning otlO o’clock, in accordance with
a resolution adopted yesterduy, Um Geiiurui As-
aemby proceeded to the election of atale house
olficen. Before I had to close tow letter, die fol
lowing elections had taken place: dm choice ofa
Surveyor General was going an,
Col. W. T. i'enniUo, me present incumbent
was re-elected Secretary of Stale: TeiiniUe, 313
votes, Col W. W. Williamson, 08, W. U. Lii-
de, H, uud scattering 3.
Col. Tuoiiias Haynes, dio present incumbent,
was re-elected Treasurer—Haynes, lti-1 votes,
Major John R Anderson, 13, scattering 3.
Col. I G. Park, the presont incumbent, was
re-elected Comptroller General—Turk, 183, Mr.
Lewis of Hancock, 33, Mr. Mouuger, 69, and
blanks 5.
The following are dm preamlileunJ resolutions
introduced yesterday in Um Senate by Mr. Lewis
of Muscogeo:
Whereas, it is important dial dm legislature of
Ihis Sute should adopt some measures to protect
the interests of the people against Uie dangerous
and extraordinary powurs of Um hunks beralolbre
chartered hy dm legislature; and whereas many
ofthe banks of this State uuverecendy suspend
ed specie payments, in direct violation of ttm.r
emitters, which is cuiculuted in its consequences
tooet at defiance all legislative authority and legal
obligation--.; and whereas, such acta on the part of
dm banks euuble them to have and exercise u de
cided advantage over the people, and open wide
Uie door to fraud and speculation:
Bo it dierelore resoived,&c. That hie Excellen
cy t.iu.Governor be, and lie is hereby, authorised
uud required, to hnvo writs of Scire Facias issued
against every bank in the Siam of Uuorgia which
haavioluted its charter, either by suspension of
specio payment of any other acts thnreiu prohibit
ed by law, which may ho mode known to hia Ex
cellency.
Be it further resolved, That his Excellency ihe
Governor be, end he is hereby auUmrized aud to
qu.red, to employ council to be ussootated with
any of Um Solicitor Generals of tho Judical Cir
cuits of tho Suite in which any bank having vio
lated its chatter may be ioaaled, for tho purpose
of aiding sucli Solicitor General in tho'investiga
tion against such banks.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, )
Milliduevilh, Nov. Dili, tdJO. 5
To Ike Honorable House of Rijiresentatives of tht State
Of Georgia!
I have the hooor to transmit herewith a report of
too Receipts aud Expenditures of Ulis Department
for the political year, 18J9,
Very respectfully,
T. HAYNES, Treasurer.
Ajtattmcnt of Reeelgteand Pugneuttat the Treatur,of
Ike State of Georgia, from Ike fret dug of Novem
ber, 1838,totkeStetdog of October, im.bothdagt
inductor.
„ DR. CASH,
ror amount received from tho 1st day of November,
183d, to the 31st day of October, 1839, both days
inclusive, aud placed la Uio credit of the following
accounts t
State Stock,
On Finance.—Mesns. Neal orPike, McDoivul,
Wyatt, Dixon of Talbot, Hardago, King of
Dividend on Bank Stock,
Tax on Bank Stock,
Vendue Tax,
lalo of fruudulont lots,
/und*, raised by grant feus, on
• cold lot|,
Cherokee land lots,
Lottery of 1827,
JjOttery of 1821,
Lottery of 1820,
•Ml, 050
39,380
12,533 11
513 83
307 87
0,210
6,043
9,605
700 90
9,535
fSSss.
Sri?
Fraudulent
°WOrStJ
: 1
Balance or cadi remaining]
nSS 0cwbcr ' 1M8 .
1*iiuer Mcdii
I’aper Medium,
Macon Bank BUI*,
Counterfeit Money*
»
By amonutof Govornor’i'\V.,.
slats of XT_ Speaker's Wan^.,W ti
d.y or
Civil Establishment of !5S
special Appropriafiou of
gSBiSsi-S oi
Corn!
of
of
of
of
of
of
of
of
§
81
1839
1«R
1839,
1831
ont ngent fund
Contingent Fund
Contingent Fund
Printing Fond
Piinung Fund
Military Fund
Military Fund
Fund*' the Redemption ef
President end Speaker'. Warm,, r
the expenses of the wJkSS*
ffie teuton of 1838, **
Respectfully submitted, bv 1
-f - HAYfan,,
new-yoric Election]
Of file results Of the recent -l.'
-.tcmved. ( here^tonoT„;,bL»
i-
ary und saus culotie schema of U |'
ami give birth or permanence ml hn, ‘
o.ll Forth, enliven, and”not'rri'cnu' Ti ’ ?
rosoareea ofthe Empire Stsm&'-N
quirer lltA inst. “"m*
From Ihe Albany Dtil,
THIRD SENATE DISTjUC?
The following are the majorities in Hi's
asneoriyu theyttobi
Mr. Humphrey generallyruns the WA?
ticket, end Uie mammies are calrul.wc
coTic'ket PttnKl Mllh U “ hi * ,les ' tf
Albany
Ronssalner
Schenectady
Columbia,
Whii
his.
684 Delaware
015 Greene
8? Scboouie
80 .
1386,'
1303
Whig mai. 84
Mr Sandford runs bntveiy few vtn„
Mr. M mplirey.aiidwo thinkwo caae,
sav that both them gentlemen are c’eei
nre sorry not to announce theelcclionafc
Root also. We fear he ie dell-tied. II
Imliind'Mr. Humphrey in lliit county,,
•■■nil in Um city of Trey. U'o olio it
runs 50 behind in 8cheharie.
MEMBERS OF ASSEMBLY. I
1838. I®,
Cowtfcs. Whigs. L. Foot, WS. Lij
Albany,
Allegany,
Broome,
Cordsnd,
Culutnbia,
Chenango,
Clinton,
Cayuga
Chemung,
Cattoraugns,
Chatauque,
Delaware,
Dutchess,
Erie,
Essex,
FultOn,
Franklin,
Greene,
Ueueosee,
Herkimer,
Jelferson,
Kings,
Lewis,
Livingston,
Madison,
Monroe,
Montgomery,
New York,
Niagara,
Oneida,
Onondaga,
Ontario,
Orange,
Orleans,
Oswego,
Otsego,
Putnam,
Queens,
II tiuaelaor,
Richmond,
Kocklund,
St. Lawrence,
Saratoga,
Schenectady,
Schoharie,
Soneaa,
Steuben,
Snlfoik,
Sullivan,
Tompkins,
Tioga,
Ulster,
Warron,
Washington,
Wayne,
Westchester,
Yates,
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Liverpool, Ocl 181
HavrcZ.. OCL15 | PrutoN-Ora
SAVANNAH
Per ship Mouticello, lor H-w J
laud and S3 bales Sea Island ™f Vort JttO
Poe sclir. Grand Island, for «-* ,
“‘pc'r schr. Druscilla, far
Rice.
AUGUSTA, NOV.
to wear a lively aspect ui imr e jMS
liko hcrscif oaco more, ommu ^,901
during tho week, bul the
rope per Groat Western, endthe"^ ntt/dj
dumper on our market, and » ” , cent<■“*]
clino since our last ™ffi£j£d!
Tho transactions have been II a‘~ ptxt.%
ns there is vory #tUMBJJ*SJof
merchants, owing to the low »“‘J ic | s cankfi
renders it uncertain “J placed
ns very little itopeiidenco i* 1 ” ™ thatrW
ltoud to Charleston, i„g.«d*
tS£SSS&£is2s&
reach about 000 bales, at P n , i h was l»*5
IcSfepg
. to j cent less, t >V 0 ’l uot
old 7 a 9, dull. . i al t no
Exchange— Remains s» .
bank., WO believe, ““.KikIls
10 per rittt on ““TYLer*
8 por cent, for J “ cmolgce "” d jKvi
prom.', Savannah 1. r K nt. “ ' a
Road bills era sailing*'^^..nie a»
uneurrrat monoy of this