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rCOSAM EMIR BARTLETT— EDJTOR.] rue SAVANNAH MERCURY lV ,jl be published every day in Savannah, Geo. 4 iiflg the business season, and three time* a 4 ‘ k during the wumaer months, at Eight Dollars ‘Tlnn'im. advax.ce. ; fill’ SAVANNAH MERCURY, . Oo* TMK COUSTRr,) X -‘ iv i] be published every Monday, Wodnesday, f Friday, at Six Dollars per annum. This sheet rw 5e , n ade np of the two inner forms es the lP or, containing all the new#, new’ adver &e. THE ARGUS, -. r v e compiled from tll<? Savannah Mercury, Contain a selection of the leading and most sting articles of the Daily papers. Adver ient9 will be generally excluded, and the * ,se , vl ]l be principally filled with reading matter. ft fr Dollars per annum, or Three Dol- in advance. jdvirtisfATunts will be published in hothpa . ■ “( 75 rents per square of 14 lines for the first * r ‘ion 37 A cents for each continuation. jU CjimMfini cat tons respecting the business / ‘4 <>s/•*, nusi be addressed, to the Editor,post C-ii t'&of land and negroes by Administrators *ecutornr Guardians, are required by law, to V urld on the first Tuesday in the nn>n! h, between me hours of ten o’clock in the forenoon and three -ii Lhe afternoon, at the Court-HorisS of IheCoun *y in widen the property is situated. of hose r >ri cs must be given in a public GaZrut© f pi,j (javs previous to the day of sale. Police of the sale of personal property must be given in like UJ&nner, forty days previous to the u S , ‘.‘ the debtors and creditors of an estate, ‘ o published for forty days. 31 Volice'tlint Miention will be made to the _ ofOrdinn'y for leave to . seil land, must be pub ished four month*. • ‘Thvrsdjy MOftyiyn, sept, n, tm. The Republican calls the Milledg&ville States man the month-piece of the Clark party Wa cm tee. no justice ia the appellation Because the Clark party, for the ia4 two or three years, has bee# so completely disjointed, that every member ha* been in the habit of following its own lead ihe Clark party no longer exists. There is ijo lon ger a head, a rallying point, and each individual tW lift to look out for himself. We were in hopes that the Friends of the Union throughout the State would have embrace t the present opportu nity of rallying in support of their opinions ; but it irons that iatrigno has prevailed over principle ; * compromise has been effected between Mr. Cl ti mer aud one or two individuals, formerly promi nent in the ranks of the Clark party, by which he hopes to be made Governor, and in consideration of which, they are to take a share in hi adminis tration We wash our hands of this transaction XT’ We are requested to announce that Levi 3. D'Lvon is a candidate to represent this county in the R preservative branch of the State Legis lature. COMMUKICATtO Mr I3.iHTLF.fT: You sre requested to announce George Hous ton, Esq a3 a candidate for the Representative branch of the Legislature of this State, at the en ding election. Mr. Hoc stow is a native Georgian, deeply in terested in the weUbce of our City and County ; and if elected will be governed by motives of public good, and not individual inter est: it private ambition. He has ever supported a character of unimpeachable honor, a liberal spi rit, and possesses promising talents The true friends of the prosperity of the County aw ear nestly called on to rail}’ in his support. [Published by request .] Mil. I’OWEL’S REMARKS. The bill, An act to incorporate the trus ts of the A nerican Suud.iv School Union, w asunder consideration,in committee of the *hulr, iVL. Herhort in the chair— [’dr D liiham having concluded his re- Harks in support of the bill—] Mr. Powell addressed the chair. Un happily | tim constrained (said Mr. P.) to contend not only against persons whose motives l cannot condemn but I am coer ced to oppose my personal fiionds, in a mis guided effort to promote the cause of reli giun, import unt alike to ail conditions of men It is not ng iinst Sabbath schools, for of Mom I honestly approve, nor is it against Me patriotic gentlemen whose names are .embodied in your hill, that f shall say “ught which even the cavils of fanaticism fnn condemn. It I in seek security for good inten -1 should find it in their high standing ns individuals, in iheir good works as mem u“rs of religious associations, wherein many °f them have been exalted hy their charity * ; *d Chiioliatt seal. I tiust, sir, T shaH he blended from all suspicion of hostility to “and iy school institutions, of dtsiie to cast. v * nsure upon tli** parties, who hy ; vo couuten i.Tce, and by heir iiidticnre m the rtli"‘'>U3 in 'Hr purse ff w d a.d, , , he „, -n- XiuctioQ of the igtmrarit, fitting , dure the 9ad trials of litis world, { Suing them for the great objext of our be- r •Vkt'K-happStiets l>i that which is toronte When 1 arouse their agents of machina •<>n, ldo it fearlessly. lam prepared to establish that which 1 utter by their own inguagr, by tracing a systematic effort buhMy u assume the despotism es “ dic utoii t “ daringly avowing their object—ex clusion burn u tiu> political power of the -• iUit. v,’ all Mien whose consci have been warped, whose characters have t**-'t been formed, whose devotion has not at secured t>y their system of education, their rites of “ baptism,’* their modes of Worship, their notions ol the trinity and ol promulgated bycertiio ;il! zealots, who would make all men and um doctuues subservient, to an established *rtho*lox M creed. We have had an c! thorite and eloquent t'rpf'sitHMi of the wishes pf the Sunday J U ;;i* u s au ingenious attempt to cou THE ARGUS. * -f w • ■ . -■ r fu’e l,y anneipaiinr, „|| wliich i. i, S „ PP , S . “1 ‘lie opponents of the bill can adduce in support of which they hove ... sumed. With gr-o, deference for .he so gdC'iy, with the ut.iK.gt respect for the abil- L tV the accomplished advocate of the , un School Union, f venture to assert that he will not attempt the refutation of t ; iat which lam about to offer, that which they have written, that which they h ive published, that which they have put upon our desks to enable us io moaojre the ex * tent of their usefulness, to decide upon tire tendency of their effort#, the great object of their plans. He resolutely denies tlmt * s ntence can be shown, that a single fact can be brought in support of the posi ; tions which he low assailed. —[Here Mr. . Powell turned towards Mr. Duncan, saving] permit me, sir, to ask, will you deny that this substantial octavo, entitled the Sunday * School Union M igaiine,” is au'hentic ; that this collection of Sunday school documents of Sunday School Union reports, of s, unday school precepts, oi Sunday School Union poli'ical disquisitions and plans, is sanc , tioned by Lie managers whose names are parided at length in various parts of the * work ? Can my fr iend deny that it is wor thy l>' a h- f that it is a compilation of such fniscellanfo.’* 5 P^ i P er '‘* pathetic ad dresses, and o! documents as thoy con sider illustrative of intentions, or con ductive of theii * ikL ? 1 iVjd in this work, secoT 41 * report “oflho American Sunday S. liool l/.iion, 02b"' 93. May, 1826. ’— “ These insiitoiiftns termioaifi jn an organized system •'<{ .mutual between ministers and private tu so that every church shall be a discipline ! armv, whole every one knows his place, snd wh.ere every one has a piace and a duty in the grand onset against sin.’* “In ten years, <>r certainly io twenty, the politicul power of our country would be in the hands of m*-n whose characters have been formed under the ii Hirnce of Sunday schools. *— A"d in pt|#eFstb of the same work and the l.hc civ,l z >d world demonstrates *uat iij.t> r of the man is built upon the principles ’nStillcd into the mind es the child Yuur boTid have fedt desirous, tirerefore, not only of furnishing their own schools with suitable books, but of introdu ciog such books info the schools of (l differ ent description :, and of rendering (hem so abundant as to force out of circulation those wnich tend to mislead the mir.d. They have not been backward therefore to as some the high, responsibility of revising ano altering the books they have published, whet ever alterations, seem necessary. They, have chosen to do this, rather than tamely issue sentimeuts which, iu their conscien ces, they believato be,false or inconsistent with tiiq ptij ify of divine truth.” That this :s nql a v io. boast -they have proved bv their third report of 1827. On the ficsi, p igo I find [ tore Mr Powell read nnothn book which had been laid upon his desk] that “1,616,796 publications which ad ded to those issued by the society in the two proceeding years make a grand total id 3,741,341 °* Not satisfied, sir, with this vain glorious display in their regular re ports, re-published and circulated in their magazines, they have appended a catalogue to one of their works, whoreiu they have reiterated in stronger terms, if practicable, the great object of their association. [Here Mr. Powell again turning to Mr. Duncan, said] will the gentleman receive this as a fact ? Will he con-ider their own state ments as worthy of regard? Or will he Contend, that, in the assumption of the pow* or to alter books, to change the ideas of the author, they have contrived to make their advocate consider them possessed of author ity to alter the vocabulary of the language ▼.bicb we use. If I were to cal! them dic tators, I should be accused of injustice, yet they say in their catalogue—“ While the committee feel the immense responsibility which they assume in becoming dictators to the consciences of thousands of immortal beings on the great and all important su6- jeet of the welfare of their souls y while they dread the consequences of uttering forge ries, or giving their sanction to the misre presentation of the glorious truths of the gospel, they are not backward to become the responsible arbiters iu these high points, rather than tamely issue which, in their consciences, they believe to be false or inconsistent with the purity of divine truth.” They continue in the same page Hiaasset, “Iu preparing works for the press the utmost liberty is used with regard to | whatever is re-published by them,** and in changing even the ideas.” They alter the arrangement, mutilate the work, and change the ideas, yet retain tbe name of the .0 ** or, thus making-established names and iojced constructions of received doctrines, -übsei vient 10 their dictatorial will. are told that the managers did not . the massage predicting that political “, Q ♦‘•n years is to assume all the ii tlueuce ,u * „ , . r . ‘luntfVi a °d n ten years is power 01 the tv Ul,l v l XMT J ~ w .u.n US alt cal c sea s ’ We ale i o,d , hst • was w.U.efl by a clergyman. Is,. 00 thin account of less foiof ? has ei * ureeJ tha< it was written by a Connecticut clergyman Tbe gentleman has r,;.rborne lo make comment on this point. He ex timdv exclaimed i-t was only the production of a Sunday school teacher. Would he have us infer that it should therefore be re jected as futile ar.d unworthy of belief ? No, sir, he will not venture to tell us tins. He has toid us much which I did not ex pect to hear. He has introduced au s!>*- copal bishop with some irrelevant aud harsh remarks, which I shall pass by as unworthy of 11 y regard. I urn concerned that my friend, in his happy vein o{ U ** placed Pr io a lndtcrons ?rght, or SAVANNAH, THURSDAY MORNINU , SEPTEMBER 17, 1829. Dr Ely,*’ a# he calls him : Heaven forbid tl/Ht 1 should dare call him poor, or to com pare him to “h scare crow,” or to “tbe ! pope.” He has coupled him with Cienefai Jackson, and attempted to excite the son feeling in tLis house. I legret that be , has doue so, although X well know his ap peal will avail nought. I have never seen, sir, any instance, in which that feeling ht 4 been excited on this floor, and I am well assured it never will be excited, except on fi’ occasions, if such can here arise in rela tion to the great contest for political sway i * Cjinnot perceive by what motive be could ( be impelled 10 iutroduce General Jackson’s i name, unless it be from the connection in his j own mind with (he views of the agents of the Sunday School Union, and their deter mination in “ ten or at most twenty * years j to establish ecclesiastical domination, and 1 *h e union of church and state. ere Mr. Powell read fr<m the 3J report of the Sun day School Union, May, 1827, page 17.] * he annual report of the board of mana# gers was then read by the Kev. Dr. Ely, of l ‘ st ‘ l^'f d Presbyterian church by whom it was wiiiten.*’ I will ask my colleague is not poor Mr. Ely, by this passage identified with the Sunday School Uuion as the ex pounder of then views, r,§ ihe writer of their report ? [Here Mr jpovvell read the fol low extracts from Dr. Ely s sermon 1— In other words our presidents, secre taries of the government, senatois and oth er representatives in Congress, governors of States, judges, state legislators, justices 01 J.be peace and city magistrates, are just as much as any other persous in the United States, UrliP orthodox, in their faith.* “ Cur nik-rs* !;k.e any Other members of tho commooity', who are,under Jiiw to God as ration*.! beings, and under law tu Christ since they have ill* bfebt of divine revelation uugi*t to search the scr>pJ u, ’ , * s * assent Vc truth, profess fuiih in Christ, bath holy to God, pray in pn/ate * a the domestic circle, attend on the public | ministry of tire word be baptised and cele brate the Lord's Supper ** The eleciuis i/t these five classes of true Christians unit ed in the sole requisition of apparent friend ship to Christianity in every candidate for office whom ihey will suport, could govern every public election in our country, with out 11111 mgTrig in the least upon the charter of our civil liberties. “ The Presbyterians alone could bring half a million of electors in the field.” “ I propose-, fellow-citizens a now sort of union, or if you please, a Christian party in politics, which X am exceedingly desirous ill good tpen in our country should join.** “ I am free to avow that other things be ing equal, I would prefer for my chief ma gistrate, and |udge and ruler, a sound Pres byterian. # * It will be objected that my plan'of a truly Chiistian party in politics will make hypocrites. We at e not answer able for ttn ir hypocrisy if it does.” We h ive seen, continued Mr. Powell, that a reverend and erudite gentlemau, whose piety and good works might have ta- I keu as a guarantee against all danger of clerical violence or sectai ian proscription, has boldly exposed the system of tactics, and designated the modes o( attack in which evi*n lie, so highly revered, so implicitly obeyed, would employ the “ disciplined ar my where eveiy one has a place, where every one knows his place,” lo exclude from “ all tho political power of our country’’ all men whos# characters have not been form ed by Sunday schools. If this gentleman jus 'y elevated by talents, so highly embel- 1 Itshed by learning, and so much distinguish ed bj religious sway, be so zealous as to consider ecclesiastical domination the dear object of his career, what may we not sus pect, what ought wo not to expect Irom ig norant and bigoted satellites, radiating light and heat from a grand luminary, a “ retrospective thoologian,” a Machiuveiian politician, soaring in regions of visionary philosophy, calling on half a million of fol lowers, to rally for the exclusion of all men, ! who are not “ orthodox,” from the polls. This reverend and meek Christian, we have seen, is not merely the associate of the Sunday School Union—he is their organ— the person selected to compile their report —to read their report; and, I have their own authority, to write their report; thus made the guide of the vast machine, pre pared to “ force out of circulation” ail works which they do not approve—to force upon “ schools of a different description ,*’ books which they have mutilated, still sanctioned jby the authority of the original authors name, although perverted and adapted to the tastes of those who are to be trained as implicit believers in that which the Chris tian pastor happens to deem the orthordox faith. That the managers of the Sunday School Union are full well impressed with the dan ger of clerical interference, is sufficiently manifest from the clauses in their constitu tion, which admits but laymen us members of their board, and that they apprehend the force of the arguments which such interfe rence would iaevitably adduce in opposition to their prayer for a charter, is evident from the fact that they have told you, that all but laymen are excluded from their board., But it happens that notwithstanding the re solution they have evinced, the acumen they have displayed, the sagacity and de termination with, which all these movements 1 art . fi aught, they have been seduced from their purpose by that good feeimg—thai Christian acquiescence—-that high degree of truarility which religion imposes, and I which her pastors can adroitly turn to any cud which they deem good. They have assured us that all men and all children, of all deaomtnations are alike objects of tbeir lb a erieg cure, aai that uo religious creed—no sectarian feeling no j desire but that of dping good, cau operate ; upon their minds, X believe ifigm, they ate I incapable of falsehood, it is upt possible to make them designedly do wrong, X repeat if, if is not of them I fear, nor is it of men remarkable as the reverend pastor, that X have dread : for I am assured that he is stimulated by an honest desire to make all men Christinas after his own fashion to make them ali happy iu his own way to make them ail orthedoi in his faith—he has told us this, and he has toid us the truth. Nor have I objection to the denomination of Christians he would lead. Xam not one pi (hose who would denounce them as sec tarians—>who are disposed to deny to them the full measure of good intentions and good works, lam satisfied, sir, there are po Christians whose usefulness here, whose prospects of eternal bliss hereafter, are better established than those of tiiat por ion of the community distinguished by ,air name, t <ir be it frpip me to enter tain doubt, or tacitly to submit to iusioua lion which could C4st aspersion upon them. I have, sir, resisted upon this floor, what I conceived to be an attack upon the trustees and professors of a neighboring collegp. because accidental association, and the un alterable affinity of juxtaposition, had not tailed to operate upon the Presbyterians, as it must do, ever has doue, and always will do upon all men, whether high church men, Maiiomedans or Jews. it is tne casuistical workings of priest* crafi-r-tbe ceaseless efforts of misguided men, whose brains infl imed by any pas sion, would make them humble aod willing tools, prepared eitheir to act as decorated page/MS in the gr ind aripy, as it is called, in a crusade for political power, or to submit as ejaculating martyrs at the stake, to satisfy the vengeance of religious bigo try and mad zeal. This is strong language, but sir, have we not been told “all thjs po b*‘cal power in the country within ten or .twenty years shall be in the hands of perr sons v.'h° Sß character? haye been formed at Sunday Snjpols* under the dir rectiou of those wn’P ca out of circu lation that of which they .do 00! of those who boldly assert ti3* l^*e y j force into use that which they have *w* u Lla- | ted. and have adapted to their own ends—* of those who daringly declare that they are dictators to the consciences of thousands of immortal beings—of those whose organ utters anathemas from the house of God, 1 calling on hi* followers to form a Christian party in politics, to he supported by half a million of (oliowers —to establish ecciesias tial do mination—-the rites of baptism---the orthodox faith throughout the land. Such consequences are not to be appre hended within our day, but they are to ho apprehended, if we believe the predictions 1 of the pious gentlemen, and if we regard the prayer of the petitioners askiog a char ter, and the bill w'hich they have prepared for our file, authorizing them “for ever 1 hereafter to hold all and ail manoer of lands, tenements and heriditumeois**—without < imitation of lime or capital, but merely ac quiesce in the limitation of monied income, not to exceed ten thousand dollars per year. We are told that no sectenan feelings can operate in the board of managers; that all persons may become contributors; may >e made voters, and that no mao is disqua ified by his religious sentiments, from larticipating in tneir concerns. Let it be admitted that there is no test at this time in force. But has not their reporters, the accomplished and frank expounder of their views, the reverend gentleman told os, from the pulpit, in the house of God, that he would marshal his forces—that he would call on half a million of followers to pros cribe, exclude from the highest to the low est civil offices, those who had not been “baptized**—who are not orthodox io their raitli—“those who are not Presbyterians.** Can it be believed that this gentleman whose character stands so deservedly high for steadiness of purpose, would say that which he did not mean to to be seriously received, or (hat having said it, he would not act upon it, or that he acting upon it would disregard the means which we have been told would in 10 years give effect to the great end I Would he not in his pious en deavors to do that which he conscientiously thinks right, forbear to apply bis eloquence? Would he not marshal his forces to exclude from the list of agonts, if not from the board of managers, all those whose creeds, whose objects were not consistent with his own ? But, sir, how is the fact? A reverend gentleman has already been employed with a large salary “to take the field ;** a mis sionary fund has been established, collected from the auxiliary schools connected with the vast machine. A grand system of proselytism has beou formed—rules are given for the modes of attack upon the old and the young—“the hour of aifiictioo and the moments of des pair,'* are pointed out as fit occasions to grasp the victims of sectarian zeal. X must again absolve the gentlemen at the head of this instiluion ; and, sir, most emphatically do I except those whose names are embodied in your bill with their consent, and those whose names are so em bodied without their consent , and those who have contributed by their money and their countenance, to the objects of the I Sunday School Union, from all grounds of I accusation —from all suspicion of aught un just or unfair. I shall be forgiven, l trust, by them, if in obedience to my oath to defeud the con stitution, I eppose a deliberate plan to ex clude in ten or tweuty years, any set of men whether educated 91 uneducated, whether orthodox or heterodox, from the nol.ti tical power of the country ; a pUn avow edly to operate io destroying the freedom of the press ; in fact, to establish ecclesiaa tical domination throughout Hie land. Mr. Powell remarked that ho should no tice the effects of the bill, wiiea it uuder the second reading. New York, Sept. l. LrOm Jamaica.—Wq have received a file of the Kiugt°o, (|*qi.) Chronicle to the 25th July ioclusiye. The papers are mostly filled with extracts from Eoglish Journals, aod contain little or nothing of local interest. The House of Assembly is to meet on the Ist of September. The Chronicle of the 25th cautions peo ple who are io the habit of sendimj bills of exchange to the United States to be cauti ous and avoid crcuitous routes. In Janua ry last a letter containing a bill for nearly three thousand dollars wa6 sept to N. Y >tk via St. Thomas, which was opened previ ous to i( rcoopiion acid lit* bill porloincd By the following extract, it appears ti t apprehensions existed of much distress i* consequence of the scarcity and high prico of provisions, and the general stagnation of business in that once flourishing Colony. Kingstqp, J4*. Yuly 25.* A few iiarreD of flour have been sold 00 the wharf a* £0 7 6 per barrel. Xn tho market, on Monday, the prices of mutton, pork, fish, 4pc. was raised in a proportion ate rat a ip that of beef, which has been raised from 1?J (to 15 d per pound. Thus ‘ from dullness of business in general, the great difficulty of mechanics obtaining em ployment, and the high price of the abso lute necessaries of life, very great distress will prevail even among the middling clas ses of this community, and ibp lower orders in ,the towns will be nearly reduced Io star vation, without some relief is speedily af forded. Baltimore, Sept. 2: Prom Porto Cabello —The schr. ga gle, Cooper, arrived at this port yesterday, from Porio Cabello, which she left 00 (he 15th August, reports thaj a late order Jiafl been received from Begot#, prohibiting fo reign vessels from taking in p#rf of # ,csrc iu OuQ port of the Republic and proceeding to another to fill up. Prices at Porto Ca & - bello for /lour, provisions d&e. were no minal, as an augmentation of duties #ras soon to take place. There was no produce to be obtained A Colombian ship of y&r of sixty-four guns was soon to be despatched for Spain, on some mission of the govern ment. She was to sail iu 10 or J. 5 t}#y * after tbe Eagle. Death by Lightning.— During a thunder storm on tbe 30th July last, a young woman by the name of Mary Clay too, was unfor tunately struck with lightning aod killed, at the house of Mr. John Hay, on the bank of the Delaware, near Ramsayburg, in thu county of Warren. N. J. Sb* was engag ed at the time spilling wool io au upper room, and had just turned from fixing the window sash in its place, wheu she receiv* ed the stroke that laid her a corpse. Her body was blistered 00 her right side from head to foot, her hair was mueh sieged and her clothes torn to stripes where the fluiefi passed down her body. A child standing near her was uninjured. From the garret the lightning descended by a~etairease and doorpost to the cellar, stunning two women in its way, but doing no injury to two chil dren who stood by then Trenton Gat. The “Great West.*'— ln the neighbor hood of Galeoa,(Upper Mississippi,) are found extensive quarries of Soap Stone, which is thought will be of great service io the construction of ash furnaces, or any other requiring a considerable degree of heat. Beautiful white Clay is also found ia large veins, which is sought after by tbe Indians, to use as paint, for the decoration of their persons, and which it is supposed will prove valuable hereafter in the manu facture of porcelain. Copper in its pure state has also been dug from one of the mines of that county. Large bodies of that valuable ore are supposed to exist tfiore j and it is thought that when the manufacture of copper shall be properly commenced and prosecuted, it may become # valuable article for exportation. Truly the great west appears to be tho land of promise. Remarkable Presence of Mind- —Not long since the daughter o( Mr. Farquhar son, Baokeud, Sterlingshire, Geo. was standing near a bee bive. The hive deoly threw off a swarm, which alighted oq the young woman's head. It completely covered her hair, face, breast, and ffioul dors, so that she could neither see nor speak* In this situation she remained without mov ing until her father brought a hive, and the bees entered ir, without her receiving a single stiug. A late St. Sohns, (N. B.) paper says “General Gaines, Major Townsend, and Lieutenant Butler, of *the United States army, on their way to Houlton, 00 a tour of inspection, arrived a few days ago iu the steamboat from Castport. The Rover of Cuba l—lt is understood 1 that a woik purporting lo be the personal narrative of one of the desperadoes wh o have distinguished themselves by acts of the most atrocious cruelty, io recent piracies on the coast of Cuba, wiH shortly be pub lished by Richardson & Lord, Qoston. A friend who read the work in manuscript, a short time since, in Havana, speaks oX tt as one of most thrilliog interest; [No. 18 —Yol. If.