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i A 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. — 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, 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 1 1 0 3 0. 3 .0 0 4 a o 3 0 I 3 1 1 0 0 I 3 0 0 3 1 3 1 0 0 0 3 3 0 3 3 1 i 3 3 0 1 0 ti 3 0 3 3 1 1 1 0 4 0 3 1 1 8 0 3 0 0 3 0 4 3 0 1 1 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 3 I 1 0 0 0 1 3 0 3 0 3 3 0 0 82 46 F'oin From rs»iwiii«i'clal Joi |r ‘ l “ 1 '. LATEST M™.,.. j, 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