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WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 30.
emt’cralic F inaiieierlng—The Constitu
tionalist.
< Georgia Bonds. —A sale of State G per cent
ids was made yesterday in this city at 94, and
■sequentlv 95 was ottered without finding a
er? So much for a Wn ig administration ot
finances ot the State.”
'he above paragraph appeared in onr paper
re 16di Inst., which served fora text for our
•- hbor, upon which to base a long and labor
article, arraigning Whig Legislation in
rgia, in reference to the State’s finances, and
■Sontra defending Democratic financiering in
rd to the Central Bank. To this article,
h, for its bold and reckless assertion and er
of fact, astounded us, we promised a reply
dr earliest leisure, which has been delayed
iuntil now, with the hope that we should
be i fie to lay our hand on the Journal of the
se of Representatives ot 1828, in which we
i< ■ been disappointed.
te Democratic press seems sorely pressed
1 cause ot complaint against Gov. Craw-
His brilliant and successful administra
:» four State government, and especially his
bid rial policy, seem rather to annoy than to
st- jr them. “AU these things avail me
■•tig, so long as I see Mordecai, the Jew,sit
’ag (the King's gate,” say they. Mostofthem
• « ’ifieavoring to induce the people to believe,
■tat the government works well of itself with
in ~y, or at least much, aid from the Govcrn
■hers again, relying upon their past success
giving the people by bold statements, well
assert that the working ot measures
id tjielr party put in operation before they
i Aven from power, has produced these re-
Mfefs again, bornedown by the weight of
MTwhich they cannot escape, insist that I
• ‘ ■’ ftfey saving is but a ttSkfliMitW at
■ »t. ..py unworthy “a great, glorious and
' Whocracy. A late " Columbus lYwirs”
&»»•>! ins that his Excellency is a "mere dime
To this reproach, if reproach it be,
thef igrtor must plead guilty. He seems to
•ave pt a good watch on the "rftmej,” as well
1 tu- i ollars, and it is equally true that hecan
rt the charge upon his adversaries, for
■•■ n-s(e generally acted upon very different
~r •c : .- ts in the management of both the
’! and the dollars of the people. Our
■ ■“dji however, not professing so chival-
t -ohtempt for the dime fating propensi-
■ -s " is Excellency, still seems to consider it
-r vulgar merit, to manage money mat
reetly—well enough lor book keepers
luntants—but rather incompatible with
tity of the “Statesman and Philoso
o, in confirmation of this idea he ventures
ioH that “atleast halfa dozen (persons) ■
> elected from the hank parlours ol the
xrayds of directors in Augusta who are
nt to teach the Governof more financial
tnd exhibit to him mysteries ol State
■ '•p txts, currency, and exchange and vari-
>;■ j. ttions, which, until he was Governor i
u«n’ dreamed of.” It may be so, and it i
.» be true that the Democrats might have
t much better Governor out of those i
:e . tik parlors than their present nominee |
ike. We have some very sharp lei- ■
. noerats a- well as Whigs, in money ,
>■ ’to n Augusta; hence they never risk ;
ey in State securities when the Demo- ,
in power, without having a wide mar- ;
rrofits, to compensate for additional
ey arc keen enough to know that the (
' the times does not point to a great
'imesnvers” in that party when hand- '
Üblic money; and we dare say that (
a« noerats in the bank parlors, whom the I
■ ioltalist perhaps so justly compliments, 1
1 their money much safer in their own
. "an in State scrip, if the State govern-
ed, unfortunately for the country, fall i
*i inds of one who has uniformly, in his
•eer, displayed so supreme a contempt
mely virtue of economy, as Mathew
Allutsr!
—’
ell management ol our State finances
ate question io the canvass, yet it de- ,
columns to the defence of the finan-
-of the Democrats, and to the attack ,
.'I ■ . die Whlgo/Uyvottld he difficult to
*4-1 T same space a greater number of er
; je*'” and argument thanT?TNkuirticle re-
At the risk of being tedious, we will
■ point out and comment upon the ;
-...-a ■ tnberofthem. We must,therefore,
i't: t. dulgence of our readers in advance,
. . o article must necessarily glance at
uion of the State through several
ould be folly to expect us to present
>1;- . ’ i a short editorial.
th is, that the conduct of the Derno
- . y in the management of the State go
.. nas been so bad and so inconsistent
tv! ■ tl ■ professions, that ft is not defensible .
“ iound principle ; hence every attempt (
esses to defend them has proven a
failure ; and hence the deep anxiety
•■lt ■ • pressed by their party generally to
tissues; hence their State Conven
aaving nominated their candidate, in
line of State policy, but struck out
and repassed the Baltimore resolu-
J unmeaning generalities which they
rfore succeeded in putting oh the peo
■ lit ’gia as principles.
as stated by the Constitutionalist,
oup party were in power in 1828,
■ fentral Bank was chartered, but it is
it the Troup party are responsible
rage of the bill. It was not a parly
iprool of which we refer to the jour-
T’ Senate of that year, (our journal of
kb •.{' has been mislaid.) In that body Mr.
'ford, the father of the Governor, dis
himself by his bold opposition to the
ry stepof its progress— and he was
y the great mass of the Troup party,
10m were Absalom Janes, Henry
Dr. Harlow, and, indeed, every pro
■up man in the Senate, save one or
re final passage of the bill in the Se
as were 39, nays 32. Ot the 39 who
e bill, 24 were Clark men, and 15
t. Os the 32 who voted against lhe
•re Troup men. and 9 were Clark
tuch then for the assertion lhat it
• > ure ot lhe Troup party I
111 admit, for the sake of the argu
te Troup party are responsible for the
he bill. We might defend then? and
lhe then circumstances ot the State,
t and judicious measure. And theori
r wa> well and carefully guarded, and
id prejudicially lhe currency’ or the
I that charter was altered by the De
mocrats in 1839; nor was the Bank ever used as
* political engine until the Democrats obtained
control of it in 1836. The State at that lime had
in her treasury a large amountof cash, lor which
she had no use—(the “ dime savers ” had been
iin power five or six years.) Capital, especially
■in the middle and western parts of the State, was
scarce and interest high,* labor greatly needed
lhe aid of capital to enable it to develope the
abundant resources of the country, instead of
permitting this large amount of capital to lie
idle in the State Treasury, the Legislature de
termined to loan it out to the people at six per
cent, interest, until the State should consume it
in the legitimate expenses ot the Government.
It was a mere loan office.—lt used capital and
not credit.—ft worked well, aiding the people
and producing a revenue to the Stale, until the
democrats succeeded to power.—lt sustained it
self even under their miserable administration
of its affairs, as long as they adhered to the ori
ginal charter,—it rode triumphantly through the
financial tornado of 1837-8, and’9, and main
tained c«sh payments, until its charter was al
tered by the Democratic legislature of 1839,
when almost every other bank in the Union was
compelled either to suspend cash payments or
close business I But, the Constitutionalist com
plains lhat, after lhe bank was established, the
Troup party reduced the taxes. They did, and
their only error was in not totally abolishing
lhe taxes at that time; and one ot the few good
things which the democrats did when they suc
ceeded to power u as to follow up the same poli
cy. But, true to that perverse imbecility which
uniformly distinguished their public conduct,
they disgraced themselves and degraded the pu!>-
lic credit, bv continuing lhe policy after the mo-
"Dey was gone, and the reason which vindicated
it had ceased. The reduction ot taxes by lhe
Troup party, when th • stale had funds to carry
on the government without taxation, was not
only political wisdom but political justice.—
Governmentshave the right to tax the people
whenever it is necessary lor the public weal,
and to the extent of their legitimate wants, but
at no other time, mid to no greater extent. The
ideas of the Constitutionalist, that the people
should be taxed to keep them used to it, to pre
vent “a strong aversion to taxation,” that their
“sense ot obligation to pay taxes” may not be
weakened, and to prevent the demoralization ol
their feelings, are wholly fallacious, and totally’
inconsistent with the true principles ot taxation,
trof tree sovernment. Try these principles,
neighbor; and however beautiful it may look to
you in your closet, you will'soon find the
people crying out lor the "dime savers." No free
people would or ought to submit to taxa
tion for such reasons. Every patriot will sur
render his whole property, it need be, to the
legitimate wants of the government of his choice;
but he forfeits a freeman’s right if he surrenders
a single shilling for any iese reason. From
these views, it is clear lhat the policy of the
Troup party, as far as it went, is defensible
upon the soundest principles of good govern
ment. When the State has money to lend, she
has no right to levy any from the pockets of the
people. It was therefore just and proper to
use the capital of the Central Bank to pay lhe
whole expenses of government until that capital
was exhausted; and then, but not till then, it be
came the right and the duty of the Legislature
to resott to taxation.
The Constitutionalist charges that “another
practical result of Whig financiering, was the
dishonor of the State by the protest of the debt
of three hundred thousand dollars in New-York,
Gov.--etttmetV administration.” So,
grave a charge well deserved at least an attempt
at proof. It is true that the debt was protested
during the administration of Gov. Gilmer, but
it is not true that it was the result ot Whig finan
ciering. On thecontrary.the public records prove
it to be the act and deed of the democratic party,
which until now has never been denied by then*.
These are the facts as proven by the recorcs:
In the year 1837, during the administration of
Gov. Schley, his Central Bank Directors, as the
Whigs then charged, with the view of affecting
the pending election, in which Gov. Schley was
a candidate for re-election, loaned out the whole
of the available assets of the Bank, the whole of the
surplus revenue received, and anticipated the
fourth instalment of the surplus evenue, which,
Mr. Van Buren and the national Democrats
having a use for, never was received. The di
rectors of the Bank—Governor Schley’s demo
cratic Directors—therefore borrowed the nice
little sumofß3Bo,ooo at 8 per cent, to loan out
at 6 percent! And this too, be it remembered,
was to enable these democratic directors to loan
out to the people in the summer and autumn
9750,000. after having loaned out *600,000 in
the spring of lhesame year. This was charac
teristic democratic financiering I
But in proof of this position let ns introduce
a little democratic authority, which may per
haps have more effect with our neighbor, and
we therefore refer him to the file of his own pa
per of July 7th, 1842, for the following extract
from the communication of a distinguished de
mocrat, tinder the signature of “ Jefferson.”
Here it is:
“ There nust be some peculiar merit in this
class ol our fellow-citizens, however, for they
were not only permitted to borrow the public
treasure, when the Slate had it to lend, at 6 per
cent., when 8 might have beep as easily obtain
ed; but in 1837, when the Stale had. io borrow
©425,000 for other ’purposes, the Central Bank
borrowed 8380,000 at short time al 8 per cent., to
loan at 5 years al 6 per cent I This financial
feat was enough to ruin the credit bl any State,
and it led to lhe first shock which that of Geor
gia received. Eight hundred and five thou
sand dollars were borrowed during this year.
It was all paid but ©300,000, borrowed from
the Phoenix Bank. It tollowsthat il this®3Bo,-
000 had not been borrowed, all other demands
could have been met, and the State’s credit pre
fe'bn'.OT.* 0 " 1 '
These sentiments of "Jefferson" were endors
ed by the then editor of the Constitutionalist (no
very high authority, by the way, but it is never
theless democratic) thus:
“The communication of our correspondent
“Jefferson,” which we publish in this day’s
paper, has the stamp <4 ability, and, what is
slili better, of a practical knowledge of the sub
ject he dwells upon ; a knowledge acquired by
experience and investigation."
Gilmer was elected, the treasury was empty,
the Centra! Bang was not only without funds,
but largely Indebted for the monev which she
had borrowed to carry out the distribution of
loans among the people. The Legislature met,
both branches were largely anddecidedlydemo
eratic, there were no means in the treasury or
the Central Bank for carrying on tbe govern
ment or paying themselves; that democratic
legislature orderedthemoney borrowed, pocketed
their portion of it, and went home without enact
ing a tax la w or providingany other means of pay
ment. This was true democratic financiering I
When the Legislature of 1838 met, the debt was
under protest, with no means in the Banker
treasury to pa;’ it. Whose financiering, then,
caused the protest of that debt, and the dishonor
ot the State’s credit?
It is true, the Whigs had elected the Governor,
but he could h“t piake laws or oppose taxes—
lhe democracy had the power in the Legislature,
and they refused to pass any tax law to protect
lhe credit-and honor of the Slate! Who, then, is
responsible ?
The Legislature of 1838 passed no tax law,
made no other provision for the payment of the
debts, but used up the available means of the
Central Bank in paying themselves and the
other appropriations of that session. During
the whole of Gov. Gilmer’s administration lhe
Central Bank did not loan out a single dollar.
Its receipts were small, it being a time of great
pecuniary embarrassment among the people ;
scarcely any thing was paid but interest, and
much of that remained unpaid. What it did
collect was applied to the payment of the debts
due by it, and which were contracted by its de
mocratic guardians, and the payment ol the an
nual appropriation.
The Legislature of 1838 was not Whig. The
House bl Representatives was democratic by
two or three voles, and the Senate Whig by about
lhe same majority. The House, where alone
it could be done, originated no tax bill; none
was sent to the Senate. A Whig member of
the House of Representatives introduced a bill
to extend the charter of lhe Central Bank for
five years, for the sole purpose ot winding up
ils affairs. It passed the House, was crushed
in the Senate by the Democratic party, and a
few Whigs who clung to the Bank, and a sub
stitute extending the charier to 1850 was passed
in lieu thereof, and was sent to the House and
concurred in by the Democratic majority I It
was then a party question, the Whigs opposing
ai d the Democrats sustaining the Bank.
In 1839 the Democrats had the entire control
of the State government. The New York debt
was still unpaid when the Legislature met; they
made no provision for its payment. The Con
stitutionalist says that they added to the public
taxes for the purpose of redeeming the creditof
the Slate. T< at Legislature of 1839 purposing
to redeem the credit of the State!! The Con
stitutionalist surely has forgotten the disastrous
policy of that memorable assembly—we shall
see directly. The only addition which they
made to the taxes was an outrageous imposition
ot thirty-one and one-quarter cents on every
one hundred dollars of cash at interest or used in
discounting paper, and one-half ot that sum was
given to lhe counties, and we think, under the
construction which Governor McDonald gave
the law, not a single dollar under that tax act
ever found its way it to the State treasury.—
This was the famous body which amended the
charter of the Central Bank, repealed the salu
tary provision of lhe original charter, which
prevented it from issuing its bills for a greater
amount than it had specie and specie funds in
its vaults to redeem them, and authorized it to
issue its bills to twice the amount of its capital,
including Bank stuck, notes, judgments, ic.,
The day onwhichthat ”atal act became a law’,
the Central Bank stepped payments, (indeed,
lhe law itself author zed a suspension ol specie
payments,) and its circulation was deprecia
ted from that day until it was retrieved by Gov.
Crawford I W hen the Bank was without a dol
lar in its vaults—when it was unable to pay the
New York debt, and barely able to maintain its
then limited circulation, this Democratic Le
gislature of 1839, (doubtless for the honor and
credit ol the State,) orderedit to pay themselves,
to pay the appropriations of that year, and to
|oan out its bills to the people at the discretion
of the directors, and then dispersed to the gene
ral joy of the people.
Against this act ot consummate folly and
reckless demagogueism. George W, Crawford
and fifty three others, among whom were A. H.
Chappell., Irby Hudson, John Millen, Rich
ard D. Arnold, Robert Toombs, Charles J.
Jenkins and A. H. Stephens, entered their so
lemn protest upon the journal ot the House,
which is in the follow'ing words:
“ We the undersigned, being a portion of the
minority that oppos°d lhe passage of the bill to
extend the Charter ot the Central Bank, &<■
claim, in the exercise of our acknowledged
right, to protest against said bill, and hereby to
declare the grounds ot such protest.
“ We hold lhat the principle which assserts
that tne people should rely on lhe Government
for pecuniary relief, is radically wrong. It is an
inversion ol all proper government. Aboveall
others, a Republic creat d by the people, should
rest upon the people. As an obvious inference
from this proposition, we maintain that only the
necessary supplies for the Government <>ug 4 to
be derived from lhe governed. Applying these
admitted truths tothe recently adopted nuisance,
it is apparent they have been subverted and out
raged. Its practical operation, especially if car
ried to the extent avowed and desired by its ad
vocates, will, in a short period,-exhibit its un
veiled folly, and ruthless oppression. For it
starts with the outrageous proposition that pub
lic credit is to relieve popular wants, and will
end with the certain necessity of universal and
heavy taxation, in order to redeem that jniblic
credit.
“We further hold, that so long as wehavea
mixed currency, there must be some established
standard ol value Among all commercial and
civilized nations, this standard is regulated by
the precious metals. Without an adequatesup
plj’ of these, no sound currency can exist.—
Mere credit, whether public or private—of a
State or individual—cannot be regarded as a
permanent and substantial basisof a sound cur
rency, for the obvious reason—it would be want
ing in the first and indispensable test, that of
easy and immediate convertibility: in a word,
mere credit cannot supply capital. In opposi
tion to these plain truths, confirmed by all ex
perience, lhe bill just passed, assumes to make
the credit of the State, the capital ot the Central
Bank, and thus, under its authority, and in the
discretion ot the directors, credit may produce
and re-produce credit to such unlimited extent,
as must necessarily cause the bills of the bank
soon to circulate as depreciated monej’, and
eventually be used only in payment of public
dues. To this prominent peculiarity of the bill,
was added another still more hideous. It is
that which declares to be a part of the active
capital of the Central Bank, an amount nearly
of two hundred thousand dollars due the State
on ancient bonds and other evidences of debt,
that have been for many years suspended in thei.
collection, and from which, in all probability,
not one cent will ever be realized. The under
signed were desirous ot restraining the directors
of the bank from extending its issues on this
portion of lhe worthless credit of the State, but
were overruled by the general reply, that the
discretion of the directors would insure the cre
dit of the Bank, against abuse. We hold that
the direction and management of lhe fiscal af
fairs ot the State, should be plainly ascertai' ed,
and cautiously guarded. Power, of whatsoever
kind it may be, according to the theory and prac
tice of our government, should be restrained by
abundant and appropriate checks; and above
all, the power of u oney, which is usually sur
rounded by so many temptations, and often pros
tituted to mischievous and wicked purposes,
should be controlled by certain and positive law.
Discretion can never be safely substituted for
law, in a constitutional view; and in reference
to pecuniary matters, discretion is never allow
ed when the law can meet lhe exigency. When
therefore the house gave the directors of the
Central Bank discretionary power to make is
sues upon that declared to be capital, but which
in pan was so worthless as unworthy to be call
ed credits, it either surrendered its legitimate
and constitutional authority over the subject, or
tacitly acquiesced in the propriety ol the direct
ors, if they so willed, in banking emphatically
on nothing.
“As a Stale should be careful ot its credit,
and not by undue expansion, expose herself to
the hazard and reproach of suspension, we were
anxious to place such restrictions over the di
rectors of the Central Bank, by which a result
so disastrous and disgraceful, might be avoided.
These, however, were rejected; and now the
State, at all hazards, is required to supply every
that the same measure of Justice which the
Slate has established between hercitizens, ought
in no wise to be modified between herself and
citizens. Indeed, exercising the attributes of
Sovereignty, and incapable of being drawn, ,
without herconsent, into any form, in which her
liability may be fixed and enforced, she ought 1
tube liberal and exemplary in her justice. Thus
impressed, we did urge, in behalf of the credi
tors of the State, lhat she should te just before
she was generous; but this maxim, universally
accepted and applied in her judicial tribunals,
to transactions between her citizens, was repu
diated in her L gislative Assembly.
“ The past policy of the State, in investing
her surplus funds in her local monied Institu
tions, although departed from since the incor
poration of the Central Bank, has never been so
far changed as to withdraw such investments,
so long as they were lucrative. The average
profits of the stock owned by the Stale in the
local banks, during the last ten years, have
been nearly eight per centum, per annum, and
those of the Central Bank for the same period,
have been less than five per centum, perannum.
With such a clear, arithmetical conclusion be
fore us,in which no other consideration wasin
volved than that of profit and loss, we were de
sirous of keeping the funds of the Slate where
experience has shown they had been most pro
fitably employed; whilst the majority, eager in
pursuit of the new scheme, required that they
should be removed where experience has shown
they have been least profitably employed.
“Forthese reasons, we enter onrsolemn pro
test against the bill in question.”
But here again we desire to introduce a
little more democratic authority, and refer our
neighbor to his own file of the 15th ot January,
1840, from which we make the following extract
from an editorial;
“ No measure was adopted by the Legislature
which exhibits in a more strong light the disre
gard of principle, a misconception of the true in
terest of the state, and worse than all, the in
fluence which ambitious individuals have the
power to exert over weak minds, than the act to
amend the charter of the Central Bank. The
power now possessed by the directors, if they
were to use it in accordance with the desires of
many of those who advocated, out doors, and
supported by their votes, in the legislature, the
policy and expediency of such an extension to
the operations of that bank, would, inevitably,
produce disasters which would require years to
repair, but fortunately for the state, there is suffi
ci-nt intelligence and good sense in Georgia,
to keep in check the directors of that institution,
by the exercise to their unlimited extent, who, we
trust, will not be so reckless as to endanger the
credit and future prosperity of lhe state, of the
powers which they have been clothed by the
legislature.
After alluding in the same article to the influ
ences which were brought to bear upon tbe Le
gislature to induce the passage of the law, and
stating the then capital ut the bank, including
notes, bonds, stocks, &c., to be ©1,311,817, upon
which tie says the Directors were authorized to
issue the bills of the bank to twice the amount,
he proceeds thus:
“As we have shown that lhe capital stock of
the bank upon which the directors are to base the
amount of notes to be issued, is any thing but
permanent, and that it has been, and will con
tinue to be, fluctuating, and indeed constantly
decreasing, we must now examine the basis of
thisc pitai stock. Can this capital, or any por
tion ofit, be mabe available, in order to meet the
redemption of tho notes issued? No. Hasan
adequate proportion of specie been provided for
by the legislature, to keep up the credit of the
notes and of the state ? No. Why then has
lite legislature shown so total a disregard of ail
principle of sound banking? The capital of the
bank consists of one million of stock of banks
which are in a state of suspension of specie pay
ments. Can this stock be converted into specie,
if tarown on the market ? Certainly not. If lhe
balance of the capital, amounting to a little above
8300,000, consisting of bonds, notes, &c. of indi
viduals, were offered for sale, could specie be ob
tained for them? Certainly not. Upon what
basis then are the directors of the bank authorised
to Issue two millions six hundred thousand dol
lars of notes? The boldness with which the
treasure was proposed to the legislature, and the
recklessness with which it was adapted, are be
yond example in the annals of legislation, espe
cially when it is considered that such a measure
was adopted by a legislature which was loud in
denunci lion against the banks that had suspend
ed specie payments; loud and vociferous against
the banks that had not specie enough to redeem
all their bills; and urgent in cancelling the
charters of all the banks that had suspended
specie payments. The very members who were
so zealous fora metalic currency, and so inimical
to an unredeemable paper-cuircncy, voted for
the issue of notes, which the holders of them will
not be able to convert into specie when they
please. Those members denounced the other
banks of the state under suspensions, as having
committed a fraud, and a penitentiary offence
bv the refusal to redeem their obligations in the
legal currency of the country, and yet they had
the hardihood to authorize the bank of the State
to issue an irredeemable paper currency, and to
sanction bylaw the commission of the fraud and
o ffencefor which they were willing to punish othe
banks. But to show more strongly the disregard o
all principle by the adoption of that section of th
amendatory bill in question, it is only necesaari
tn remind the reader of the fact thatin theorigina
charter it is declared that, “the di ecters shal
not at any time put in ci:culation th j bills there
of to a greater amount than the aggregate of
specie and bUia of the other shattered banks of
this state and lhe bills ot the U. 8., in its vaults.”
In defiance of this wise and wholesome provi
sion, the directors are authorized to issue notes
tor twice the amount of the cnpital stock. We
shall conclude our remarks upon that section of
the bill, by stating lhat the Central Bank, up
to the 13th of November of last year, kept the
circulation within the provision of the charter.—
On lhat day, the bank had in circulation 986,932,
and in its vaults, in specie and specie certificates,
846,497, and in notes and checks of other banks
858,618; making a total of 8105,115; besides in
notes of the Darien Bank, 8118,447 ; with all
which it could at any time redeem the amount
of its notes then in circulation.”
In 1840 the Whtgs carried both branches of
the Legislature. They found the treasury emp
ty, the Central Bank with a circulation increas
ed in one year under Democratic rule from
©86,932 to above one million and a half, with
nothing but promissory notes with which to
meet it—lhe New York debt unpaid—the State
in debt largely on cash scrip issued on account
of the Rail Road, and every department of the
government in disorder,discredit and confusion.
The fatal act of the Democratic Legislature of
1839, flooding the State with Central Bank notes,
had utterly prostrated the public credit,yet, even
under this state of facts, Governor McDonald,
by special message, recommended the Legisla
ture to borrow on the State credit millions ol
dollars for the purpose ot loaning to the people
through the Central Bank 1 The Democratic
party in the Legislature voted to sustain the
measure, and the Democratic parly of the State
in 1841 re-elected him Governor, chiefly, it is
believed,,on account of this recommendation,
and the cry which was raised against the tax
act. The Whig Legislature of 1840 doubled
the taxes, ordered the Central Bank to sell a
sufficiency of the Bank stocks owned by the
ing fffe Central Bank to loan its credit at the
discretion ot the directors, authorized the Bank
to redeem its circulation with bonds bearing 8
per cent interest, and provided generally for
winding up its affairs. They did throw the bur
then ot the appropriations for the support ot
government upon the Central Bank. The De
mocrats had left neither money nor credit
enough to borrow it upon reasonable terms,
hence the Whigs were bound, in honor andgood
faith, to use that form of public credit most de
sirable to the public creditor. The Central
Bank bills were preferred by the public credi
tors, and therefore they were paid in them;
and for the same reason, what the Constitution
alist calls the debts of the Western and Atlan
tic Rail Road were ordered to be paid by the
Bank. The State issued scrip payable in cash
for work done on the road—there was no money
in the treasury with which to pay it. The hold
ers asked to be paid in Central Bank bills—it
was done. The Legislature not having means to
pay the debts contracted by their predecessors,
and not being able to raise money by taxation
early enough for the wants of the public credi
tor, gave the public creditor that form of public
security which he preferred. Good faith re
quired that they should do so.
In 1841, the democrats, by raising a clamor
against the “odious Whig double tax,” and
promising to repeal it, and a general, indefinite
cry of“ Relief, relief!!" succeeded in electingtheir
Governor and carrying the Legislature. They
passed a bill reducing the taxes 20 per cent., to
save their credit with the people; which act
Gov. McDonald vetoed. They repealed so
much of the act ot 1840 as prevented the Cen
tral Bank from further loans, and ordered it
to relieve them as soon as it could; and to expe
dite that desirable event, they ordered the
Bank to set up in the shinplaster line, and to
give small bills for large ones. The Consti
tutionalist will scarcely deny that this distin
guished body of gentlemen would have been
greatly benefitted by the advice and assistance
ol some of those astute bank parlor democrats.
They did not pass the present amendment to
the constitution concerning biennial sessions,
and thereby saving 70,000 or 880,000 to lhe
State. 1 hat amendment was passed first by
the Legislature ol 1842, and again by the Whig
Legislator? ot 1843, and put in operation by
them. They did suspend the work on the
-nail’ KtOiramTOgerl. xhe Pemocrafic party
were in power when lhe road was projected, and
they stood by it as long as it was popular. In 1841
it had become odious to the country ; they in
stantly abandoned it to its fate and joined its
denunciators. “It is rather disgusting to see
a parly, like Saturn of old, devouring its own
offspring, and then claiming applause for the
feat.”
In 1842 the democrats were again in power,
& are therefore entitled to lhe cred it ot increasing
the taxes twenty-five per cent! Butthat credit
was purchased at a terrible cost to their good
name. They had declared the tax act of 1840
too much. They got into power in 1841 by pro
mising io reduce it; they passed an act for lha
purpose which was vetoed by their own Gov
ernor ; and then in 1842 they were compelled to
stand forth to the counry, and by their conduct
and ac's assent that the tax act of 1840 was
wise, just and necessary, and nnt enough, and
that their opposition to it in 1841, was factious,
selfish and unwarrantable. They came to this
point with extreme reluctance; the public ne
cessities were urgent; they tried various dis
creditable means to avoid going to the pockets
of the people—one of which was, upon the re
commendation of Gov. McDonald, to confis
cate two per cent, of the bank stock, held in the
State for public uses. Beingdefeated in that, they
were compelled to adopt the straight forward,
legitimate means of raising revenue by a gene
ral increase of the taxes. But they were una
ble to levy taxation by their own party. The
Whigs refused to vote for the tax law unless a
provision was inserted to prevent its proceeds
from goinz into the Central Bank, and securing
its application to the legitimate objects of reve
nue. Alter the ta x law had been two orthree times
defeated in the house, the democrats accepted
the terms of the Whigs, and thereby got the
support of a sufficient number ol them (among
whom was Governor Crawford) to carry the
bill.
The Constitutionalist gives that Legislature
great credit for the law directing the Central
Bank bills to be burnt as fast as received. The
credit is justly due to the Whig Legislature of
1840, which passed the law authorizing the
holders to bond them, and thereby enabled the
Bank to get hold ot them to burn. The law re
quiring them to be burnt was doubtless a very
good one. It was a safeguard well worth se
curing, since lhe magnificent operations of pub
lic delaulters, (chiefly Democratic,) have given
us a national reputation. We can see no other
especial reason for commending the act con
signing these bills to the flames.
The policy ot forfeiting the ungranted Isnds
unless granted within a limited period, was
commenced by the Whigs in 1840, they having
passed an act for that purpose applicable to a
portion of our ungranted lands. Governor Mc-
Donald, in 1841, refused to execute that law.
In 1842 the Democrats adopted the same policy
as to all the residue of the ungranted lands.—
Governor McDonald, under some pretence of
the defectiveness of the act, also refused to carry
out that law, and the whole of the remaining
ungranted lands were finally disposed of by the
Whig Legislature of 1843. Therefore, the De
mocratic Legislature are not entitled io the
small allowance of credit awarded them by our
neighbor for that measure. No money was
brought into the treasury by it.
The remarks of the Constitutionalist upon
the Distribution bill, in connection with these
questions, are equally erroneous iu fart and de
fective in argument. The distribution act was
not a Whig measure, as alleged by that print
under any rules ot paternity acknowledged by
parties, that we are aware of. It was a very
good measure, and was generally supported by
the Whigs, perhaps universally so. We believe
it originated with the distinguished leader of
the Democracy of South Carolina ; it certainly
received his able and efficient support ; but it
was passed by the Jackson party, who had eve
ry department of the government, and received
'he signature and sanction of Gen. Jackson
himself. The Democratic party ot Georgia
very readily received and very quickly squan
dered the money. The Constitutionalist sup
'oses and argues lhat the distribution act pto
iuced a great expansion ot the currency; what
ever else it may have done, it could never have
tad lhat effect. That the accumulation of eur
ilus revenue in the deposite Banks un ’er Gen.
Jackson’s administration produced that result is
tolerably clear; but the distribution act, by with-
dtawing the funds from their depositories and
paying it over to lhe States, produced a pressure
upon them and an urgent necessity lor conduct
ing the currency. This was fully proven bj’
the fact that they were compelled to stop pay
ment belore they got through paying over the
surplus. Those bank parlor. Democrats will
tell the Constitutionalist that it is no time for
expanding the currency when heavy payments
are being made or anticipated by the Banks!
Gov. Crawford did not vote for Mr. King’s
internal improvement bill, but he voted against
it, as the journals ot 1837 will show; but Mr.
McAllister did support it, we believe, in alt ot
its stages in tbe Senate.
We have thus adverted to some of the lead
ing questions connected with the Centra;
Bank, and the connection of the two parties
with it at different periods ot our political
history for the last seventeen years. We have
seen that as long as the Whigs managed the bank,
it produced no evils either to the people or
the currency. It was not until it was re.
modeled by the currency-tinkers of 1839 that
it became a curse to the people and the curren
cy. These evils were clearly foreseen and
ably demonstrated by Gov. Crawford in his
protest against the act of 1839, amending the
cha ter ot the Central Bank. The democrats
denied his reasoning and his conclusions, and
took the Bauk under their especial patronage;
but as soon as it produced its legitimate and
predicted fruits of lossand dishonorU> the State,
the democrats, to escape public odium, de
nounced it as “apiece ot charlatanism from
beginning to end.” “ But it is rather disgusting
to see a party, like Saturn of old, devouring its
own offspring and for
the feat.” ‘
Correspondence of the .North American.
New York, July 25 P. M.
From the warm weather of last week, there
has been a change to cold weather, equally un
ple tsanl as the extreme heat. The mercury,
which at six was at 60, at noon was but 76, in
a fair exposure, and thick wollen clothes were
not at a 11 unseasonable.
Stocks remain dull as for a few days past.
State and city stocks are held with firmness at
an advance, caused by a proposition of an emi
nent capitalist to take one million of dollars of
this kind of security from the insurance com
panies who are obliged to realise. This show ot
confidence by Mr. Astor, who makes the offer,
has suddenlygtven other people a desire to hold
the precious stock, which in their eyes has in
creased value from his good opinion.
The steamer Unicorn, that has been the
cause of so much gossip and conjecture by the
knowing part ol the newspapers, was sold yes
terday afternoon lor 910,000 to run as a packet*
between New York and Havana. This was
made public yesterday afternoon after the close
of my letter.
The widow Higbie, who was accused of
selling her husband's head, has commenced
suits for damages against the utterers of the
sibel.
The Committee of Investigation.—The
N. Y. Tribune ot Saturday says:—This Com
mittee has been busily at work since its organi
zation, and has spared no pains in the faithful
and thorough discharge of its duties. We learn
from Justice Taylor and Aidermen Hart that
thus far not the slightest evidence has been
elicited going to show that there was Gunpow
der in the store of Crocker & Warren. About
forty witnesses have been examined and the
Committee has made itself perfectly acquainted
with the contents of each separate floor of
Croker & Warren’s building—and they assure
us they are fully satisfied that there was not <t
grain of Gunpowder in either.
The New York Herald of Saturday says—
Considerable excitement has been created in
Wall street by the refusal of several parlies to
pay their premium notes given the Mutual In
surance Companies of this city. The reasons
given lor not paying these notes, is that they are
not insured, and that the notes are not collecta
ble. If this position can be sustained, the pre
sent claims against these companies are not
worth a cent. About two millions of dollars
were insured by these companies in the burnt
district, and they depend upon collecting their
premium notes to pay their losses.
Mexican Oppression.—A correspondent of
the New
trau'unaer ffatemche 23d April, relates a case
of illegal extortion and Oppression exercised by
the authorities ot that port"K»wards the only A
merican houses in the place, Parrott & Co.,
and Mott, Talbot & Co.
According to the writer a forced embargo has
been laid on the property of Parrott & Co. which
amounts to 845,000, tor the purpose of satisfy
a demand for duties to the amount of ®4,000
caused by a law of the State ot Sinola, in 1834,
which law was annulled in 1837 by the Tariff
ot that year, and trom that time had never keen
enforced. The house of Molt, Talbot & Co.
was spared, through the interposition of the
commander of H. B. M. frigate Thalia; one ot
the partners of the house being a British subject.
Mr. Parrott, in the absence of any diplomat
ic agent of lhe U. S. called in the French Con
sul to witness the proceedings, and before that
ntnetionary drew up a protest, which will he
submitted to the U. S. Government. The Pre
fect of the Port add ressed a letter to lhe Governor
of the Slate,complaining of these violent and un
just proceedings which he imputes to the ca
price and tyranny ol the Collector. The em
bargo, however, has not been raised, and the
Consul (Mr Parrott) is determined to resist the
pavment ano suffer his property to be sold.
The writer in question explains the pretext
upon which this extortion has been attempted,
asfoPows. It isproperto remark that in the
year 1834, this Stale passed a law imposing a
duty on foreign goods imported, ol one-eighth
pan of the import duties, to defray the expenses
of the State. This duty was paid up to 1837,
when the tariff ol that year took effect, and the
Central System of Government was established,
the Stale Governments were abolished: lhe Ge
neral Governments abolished all the rights of
the States to make and enforce laws. It appears
that all the duties have long since been paid,
agreeable to the tariff of 1837, which was a ge
neral disposition of the Supreme Government.
If Mexico is to signalize her hostility to the
U. Slates by such unjustifiable acts of private
■oppression, she will speedily have cause to rue
her insolent and petty' tyranny.
Pa m the Charleston Cminrr of pesterdau.
The Schooner Erie.
We learn from Capt. Marshall, ot the steam
er C. Vanderbilt, arrived yesterday morning,
from Wilmington, that whilst at Smithville, he
was informed that Capt. Wilson, and part ot
the crew, with the passengers ot the schr. Ene,
previously reported as having come in contact
with the C. Vanderbilt, had abandoned their
vessel and landed in the schr’s boat, leaving on
board three of the crew. They represented the
vessel as being in a very leaky condition. Capt.
M. states that after the accident he remained by
the schr. for about an hour, and thinks it strange
they should not have made their situation known
and come on board the steamer before he left
them. He was informed that she made no wa
ter. Capt. M. then proceeded on hie
being satisfied they were in no danger.
Further from the Erie.— The schr. Surpass,
Capt. Pugh, from Middleton, N. C., arrived
here yesterday, having on board H. Fenton and
J Stow, passengers, and A. Watson, seaman,
being the three left on the wreck as report
ed above. The Enc came in contact with the
Vanderbilt at 12 A. M. on the 26th, and
Capt. Wilson with as many of the crew and
passengers as the boats could contain left the
schooner about 3A. M. on Saturday. There
being no room lor the persons above named,
they were compelled to remain on board.—
About 12 o’clock, M. same day H. Fenton left
the wreck on one of the hatches expecting to
reach the shore, and at 3 P. M. was fallen in
with by the Surpass, and taken on board, about
4 miles from the wreck. At 4P. M. 25 miles
N. E. of Georgetown, fell in with the wreckful
of water and capstzed, having only a small por
tion of one of her quarters and the mainma«t
head out of water. Watson and Stow were on
the mainmast head when fallen in with. The
Eric was from Mosquito Creek, (Fla.) bound
to Wilmington, (N. C.) in ballast. The crew
and passengers on board the Erie consisted of
16 persons.
Rumored Steamboat Disaster.—The Her
ald. published at Hickman, Ky., a short distance
below the mouth of the Ohio river, of the 17th
inst., says:—“ We learn that the steamer John
Auld blew up a short distance above the mouth
oflhe Ohio, a few days since, and killed every
soul on board, but a few. ” We see no other ac
count of the reported disaster in any of the pa
p.m.— Pic. 25/4 inst.
The Expedition to Texas.—The steam
ship Alabama sailed on Wednesday, 23d inst.
for the Bay ot Aransas, near Corpus Christi,
Texas, having on boardthe officers and men of
the 3d Regiment U. S. Infantry, numbering all
told, 567 strong.
The steamboat Undine, chartered to convey
stores, 6k., and to act as a lighter, has already
gone; and the steamboat Monmouth, which
has been purchased by the Government, will
leave to-day, with stores, camp equipage, &c.,
tor the same destination. We learn from the
Picayune, that the sloop of war St. Marys has
been'ordered and sailed for the Balize, to con
voy the Expedition.— N. O. Tropic, 25th inst.
Robbeut in Wall Street. —A package of
bank notes, checks, &c., amounting to between
87,000 and £B,ooo—only #2,000 available funds
—was stolen from the teller's desk at the Na
tional Bnnk, at New York, two or three days
1 ago.
Chronicle and Sentinel.
AUGTIS TA. GA.
THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 31.
for governor:
GEORGE W. CRAWFORD.
To Postmasters.
We desire to call your attention to the follow,
ing letter irorn the Department to the Post-mas
ter nt Milledgeville:
Post Office Defahtmbnt, >
July 23, 1845. )
■Sir.—Your letter of the 18th instant is re
ceived.
A letter notifying the publisher when a sub
scriber fails to take his paper or pamphlet from
the Post Office, cle«rly relates to the business of
the Office; the Postmaster being required by the
regulations, (chap. 40,) to give such notice—and
It should therefore be sent tree of postage, under
regulation 545. Very Respectfully, &c. &c.,
W MEDIL,L,2d Ass’t. P. M. Gen.
Ezra Daggett, Esq., P. M.,
Milledgeville, Georgia.
The bale of new Cotton, which we noticed
as having been received at Montgomery, Ala.,
reached Mobile on the 25th inst., one week ear
lier in the season than a bale had ever before
been received at that port. The Register of th:
26th says “ it was picked, ginned and packed on
the 221, hauled into Montgomery on the 23d,
sold at auction for 14c., and immediately shipped
forthis nort, where it arrived on 35th, and hav.
ing changed hands again at 1 4j, was shipped on
the Timole.m for New York. It will be on its
way to-day for the latter port, making but four
days since it stood in the field ol Mr. Lucas.”
Crops of Mississippi.—The Port Gibson
Herald ot the 17th inst. says:—“ We have, du.
ring the past leu days, visited several ot the
largest and most productive cotton erowing
counties of the State. With a few exceptions,
the fields look well, and promise a full crop, and
the prospect of an abundant com crop was never
more flattering. From what we have seen, we
are fully convinced that the present corn crop of
South Mississippi will far exceed that of any
previous year.”
Heat in New Orleans.—The Tropic of the
24th inst. says:—We heard of five or six deaths
yesterday caused by the extreme heat of the
weather and the imprudent use of ice water.
For several days the heat has been intense
ly great. The thermometer ranges daily from
95 to 100 in the shade at various hours.
Yet the city is as healthy as New York, Boston
or Baltimore, where the heat is equally great.
A healthier season thus far never was known.
So we are willing to swelter it out for a few
weeks.
5J- A fire broke out in Philadelphia on
Wednesday afternoon, in a large brick building
on Dock-street, occupied by a Mr. Jacobs as a
lucifer-match manufactory. It bid fair for a
time to cause the destruction of much property
in its vicinity, but the exertions ol the firemen
confined it to the building in which itoriginated-
M.
there
ly un-
Progress er the Magnetic Telegraph.—
Arrangements between New York and Phila
delphia are recorded in the New York Tribune.
It says the posts through the city are to be
twenty feet in height ; sixty miles of the wire
for this telegraph is already finished. The
Boston and New York line will probably be the
first completed, as Pomeroy has been liberally
seconded by Boston capitalists, and the work is
obe vigorously pushed. A meeting was held
in Utica yesterday for making final arrange
ments for extending the line to Buffalo—east ot
that, to Boston, things being already definitely
fixed. Southwardly there is no progress.—
The initial arrangements for prosecuting the
work north from New Orleans have fallen
through.
Texas, England, and France.—The Na
tional Intelligencer says: Mr. Ashbel Smith,
the Secretary of State of Texas, who recently
went on a special mission to the Courts of Great
Britain and France, returned to New York in
the steamship Great Western, and is expected
stwriTtr tsKffWs aepaflurelofTexas. - The last
Journal of Commerce has the subjoined re
marks on the subject of his mission:
“We learn that he has accomplished the ob
jects of his mission, which consisted neither in
obtaining a loan nor in selling his country to
the French, English, or Dutch, norin piocuring
its independence instead of annexation to the
United States. Texas has now no diplomatic
representative in Europe, except Mr. Danger
fi-Id, who we believe has some time since re
ceived an order of recall. A principal object
of Mr. Smith’s mission, as we understand it,
was to prepare the way lor closing the relations
of Texas with European Powers in a respect
ful and becoming manner. Those relations had
been of the most friendly character, and the
Government ol England and France especially
had manifested n cordial interest in the welfare
ol the young Republic. That they wished her
to remain independent rather than be annexed
to the United States, is beyond a doubt; but
this is to be said to their credit, that in any ne
gotiations they may have had with Texas tor
this object, they have never, either of them, pro
posed to reserve any peculiar advantages them
selves beyond what should be enjoyed by other
nations. 'Tni-further should be said to their
credit, that now, when they see that annexation
is the will of the Texan people, fairly expressed,
they abandon all further attempt at interference
And this, still further, maybe relied on, that
they have and will exert themselves to restrain
Mexico from the infatuation ot making war
upon the United States, which would only serve
to complicate affairs, without the possibility of
preventing annexation. Mr. Smith expresses
I is opinion decidedly that there will be no war,
not even with Mexico.”
The Charleston Courier of yesterday says:—
We understand that the Rev. Nathaniel Ma
con Crawford, of Washington, Ga., has accept
ed the unanimous invitation of the First Baptist
Church and Congregation of this city, to be
come their Pastor, and will enter upon his pas
toral duties the ensuing fall. Mr. C. is one of
the sons of the late Hon. William H. Craw
ford, and is said to bs a ripe scholar and an elo
quent divine.
O The Herald of the 19th inst. published
at Lafayette, Walker county, Geo., has the fol
lowing notice in reference to the prospects of
the crop in that region:
“While accounts reach us from every
quarter of the protracted drought, we are still
blessed with abundant showers, and crops of
corn look very promising. If the weather con
tinues seasonable, ours will indeed be the
Egypt of Georgia.”
ItSpThe N. O. Tropic of the 25th inst. says:—
Weheard yesterday, that during the day Coroner
Ramos had held eight or ten inquests on the
bodies of persons whose deaths were caused by
the extreme heat of the sun, and by the incau
tious use of cold water.
We clip the following items of news from the
Decatur Watchmau:
Rain.— The late rains have materially reviv
ed the crops in this county, and also the feelings
of the desponding farmers.
Marthasville. —The spirit of improvement is
alive in Marthasville. New buildings are con
tinually going up. The citizens expect con
siderablebusiness to be done there so soon as
the three Railroads are finished to that place.
We hope their anticipations may not be disap
pointed.
s(j- Operations will be commenced this week
on the depot, for this place, of the Georgia Rail
Road. Two new streets will be opened to it
from the southern part of the town.
An Experiment.— A portion of the cross ties
of the Georgia Rail Road, near the Rock Moun
tain, have been gotten of rock, and are now laid
down. Should this material answer, the Rock
Mountain will become a valuable property.
The American Antiquarian.—The New
York Tribune of Friday last, says: “ Robert E.
H. Levering, the ‘American Antiquarian, has
arrived in the packet ship Liverpool, from Eng
land, where he has been completing his work
called‘Antiquarian Analogies,’ exhibiting the
similarities he has discovered existing between
the antiquities of Americaand those of Europe,
particularly those of Great Britain, establishing
at the same time the unity ot the human race.
Furnished with letters of recommendation from
John Qnincy Adams, and other distinguished
individuals, he had unusual opportunities for
extending his antiquarian researches, which
wil' render his work interesting both in Europe
and this country, when published. ”
A Writing Telegraph.—A new system of
electrical telegraph, by which the despatch is
written with a pen by the mere action of the
fluid, has been tried at Brussels, in presence of
the minister of public works, and is stated to
have been entirely successful.
Public Works in Ohio.—The amount of
the stock owned by the State of Ohio in dlf-
Iferent railroad companies is ©499.733. The
amount invested in turnpike companies is ©2.-
469 558, and the cost of canals owned by the
Bt»te, ©16,3-20,898, making an aggregate of ©19,-
297,199, the interest of which will be ©1,173,-
831 per annum.
From the N. O. Pizayune, of the 24/4 inst.
Nine days Later from Mexico.
By the arrival ol the brig Delfina, Captain
Poual, from Vera Cruz, whence she sailed on
the 3d inst., we have lull files of papers from the
capital to the 28th ol June- nine days laterlhan
were received by the Creole. Although they
contain no event of a commanding interest, yet
the details of Mexican affairs are not without
importance to those who concern themselves
with the progress of affairs in that country at
this crisis of her history.
Verbally we learn that the Mexican Govern
ment was to send 20,000 men immediately to
the frontier ot Texas. Where these men were
to be raised Is a poser of itself, but where the
means to procure money enough even to start
them on such a fool’s errand is even a greater
mystery, unless British gold is at the bottom.
We give this rumor as we received it, and in
the meantime proceed to such matters as we
find in our files.
Not a word is said in the papers of the capi
tal about a war with the United States. Some
of the secret sessions of the Senate may have
been occupied with the subject, but nothing is
divulged.
On the 20th ol June a decree ol Gen. Herrera
was promulgated, but dated the 16th, in which
he lormally calls an extra session ot Congress,
to convene on the 4ih insL, tor the purpose of
taking into consideration—lst, Constitutional
Reforms; 2d, a revision of the acts ol the Pro
visional Government; and, 3d, subjects now
pending the action ol the Chambers, especially
those of the United States and Texas.
This indicates clearly enough that Mexico
has not yet determined what line of policy to pur
sue towards us. The country is so distracted by
divisions amongst its leading politicians and
military men, that the Government is unable to
concentrate public opinion upon any fixed plan
of operations. The people clamor lor war and
the integrity of the soil of the republic; whilst
the leaders, or most of them, are looking after
their personal aggrandizement.
We alluded in a former number to certain
rumors about raising additional troops. This
project has now assumed a distinc torn). It is
proposed to enlist a large number of recruits,
under the name of 1 ' Volunteer Defenders of the
Laws, ” to be distinct from the regular army,
although organized on the same footing as to
discipline, &c. This force is to be subject ex
clusively to the local civil authorities, each
volunteer having the privilege to serve in the
infantry or cavalry. As Congress has not yet
passed this project into a law, we do not think
it necessary to occupy ourselves with its details.
The Committee on Military Affairs in the
House have also reported a plan lor the com
plete re-organization ot the regular army ; but
this, too, has not yet received the sanction of
Congress. It is apparent, nevertheless, that the
eyes of Mexicans are open to the necessity of
providing further securities for domestic tran
quility, and for giving more compactness and
foree to the national troops.
The news of the revolution ofTobasco was
announced in the city of Mexico on the 28th
ult. The Siglo Diezy Nueve, itself the elo
quent advocate of Federation, pronounces the
affair the most absurd of all military outbreaks,
and adds that the unanimous indignation of the
Republic is the only feeling it will excite. “We,”
say the editors, “ have always been the advo
cates of the principles of the Constitution of
1824, and never shall cease to contend for them,
because under this form alone can Mexico, be
constituted as it becomes her; yet we would be
the first to declare that all true Federalists see
with shame and indignation these infamous
military insurrections by which miserable aspi
rants would sacrifice to their own personal in
terests and odious love ol power, the respecta
bility and the principles of a cause which they
would in vain seek to discredit. The cause
will triumph, but these nefarious men will not
thereby secure the ends they aim at in commit
ting so great an error —so great a crime. ”
The papers contain full details of the plan of
this revolution, but we have given them all sub
stantially before, It appears that a good num
ber of military officers and public officials could
not be seduced into the scheme, and some of the
former made their escape from Tobasco by sea,
carrying with them a considerable part cl the
armament ot the garrison. It is too soon to
know what measures the Government will pro
pose in the premises.
There is a most voluminous correspondence
in the Siglo between the French and English
commanders on the Mazatlan station, the re
spective Consuls ol the two nations, and the
authorities of Mazatlan, in relation to certain
claims of indemnity made by French citizens
upon the city. The French do not appear to
have taken much by their motion. We have
no room for the correspondence.
Gen. Rangel has been sentenced by a court
martial—lor his late revolutionary attempt in
the city of Mexico, in which he treated the
President and his cabinet with such indignity
—to ten years’ imprisonment, without the loss of
Ins rank—a truly Mexican punishment tortrea
son. Another .Authority, but usually not eo
'wellmtormed, says he is stripped of rank and
all employment and banished tor ten years.
The ire ot the Mexicans was a good deal
aroused, apparently, at seeing him get off so
easily.
We have before announced that Senor Go
mes Farias had oeen elected to the Senate of
Mexico. According to the Siglo, Senor Farias
was in some way implicated in the attempt
made by Rangel on the 7th of June, and had
secreted himself. From his concealment he ad
dressed a co t munication to the Executive, sta
ting his readiness to enter upon his duties as
Senator, and desiring that a day might be ap
pointed for him to take the necessary oaths.
The appropriate Minister transmitted this to
the Senate, informing them that the Executive
Government had issued orders for the arrest of
Senor Farias, having reason to believe him
comprised in the atiempt of the 7th, and that
so soon as it should succeed in securing him,
he would be placed at the disposition of the
Grand Jury, taking caie that he should be
guarded with all due consideration.
All the papers were sent to the Grand Jury,
and finally the Senate proceeded to supply the
place ol Senor Farias, and the election, made
by lot, resulted in favor of Senor Gluintana Roo.
The Siglo of tlie 27th says that Senor Farias
still remained in his concealment.
him get off so
On the 26th the Senate proceeded to count the
votes of the Departmental Assemblies, to fill
the vacancy tn their body occasioned by the de
cease ot Senor Chico Sein. Senor Farias had
the highest number of votes, but was declared
ineligible, as he had already been elected and
declared Senator in place of Senor Camacho.—
The two next highest candidates, having re
ceived two votes each, were pronounced desti
tute of the constitutional requisites, and then the
Senate proceeded to draw from the candidates
having received but one vote each. The lot
fell upon Senor D. Pedro Tames, a former
Governor ot Jalisco, represented as a man of
great ability and distinguished learning, and a
trtend ol the present Government.
Thus has Senor Farias lost a seat in the Se
nate by the very dexterous management of his
enemies. The reader will bear in mind that
the Siglo is violently opposed to Senor Farias
in politics, and its representations should there
fore be taken with some grains ol allowance.
The Observador Zoeatanooi the 19th ol June
announces that Gen. Paredes, commanding the
Third Division of the Army, would transfer
his head-quarters from Lagos to the capital of
th> Department of San Luis Potosi, and he was
to move that or the following day.
Both houses of Congress have been engaged
in the consideration of a reform of the existing
tariff, as suggested by the Executive. They
have not yet been able to act harmoniously in
ihe matter. The Senate was occupied with
this subject exclusively on the 14th and 16th
ult.
The Presidential canvass continues to occu
py most of the attention ot the different jour
nals, but it is carried on with much moderation
on paper. The Reform of the Organic Bases
also calls out a great deal of discussion. The
giglo, which is strongly in favor of reform, de
votes a long leader, powerlnlly written, almost
daily to the subject.
The publication ol the Monitor Constitutional
Independents, in the city ot Mexico, has been
suspended, but the editors announce that they
have associated themselves with the conductors
of another journal, and that a new paper will be
issued by them under the title of El Amigo del
Pueblo.
Senor Don Manuel Barandez has presemed
himself tor trial, refusing to avail himself ot the
act of amnesty. He asks, however, that he
should be allowed to go at large and not com
mitted to prison during the time previous to his
trial, he undertaking to give the amplest securi
ty to appear and answer his accusers.
Senores Zenea, Santibannez, Jitnenes and
Jeuregui have been set at liberty.
Gen. Bustamente reached the capital on the
Slst ult. He immediately offered his services
to the Government to maintain the national
claim upon Texas. It was thought these ser
vices would be accepted.
The contractors announce that the line of
stages to be put on between Queretaro and San
Luis Potosi by the Ist inst., as was promised,
will not, in consequence of the difficulty ot find
ing coaches, commence running till the first of
September.
In the latest Courrier Franeais we have seen,
there is not a word ot local interest. It is occu
pied with foreign news, and a scientific discus
sion, in which it is contending at great length
with a writer in one of the Mexican journals.
The Prudencta ol Guanajuato ot the 18th an
nounces that in the school of the children ol
San Miguel de Allende, in a recent storm, the
lightning struck the house, and killed instantly
the instructor, Senor Ignacio Luna and one
child, and wounded another, which died the fol
lowing day.
The Sigi" congratulates the citizens of New
Leon upon the promptitude with which justice
is executed in that province. A wretch named
Castaneda made dishonorable proposals to the
wile ot his friend, Senor Vargas. She resisted
them, whereupon the brute look her life and
that of a son and brother of his friend. He then
stole a horse and some other effects, and fled.
This happened on the 9th of April last. He was
pursued, taken, tried nd found guilty, and on
the 21st ot the same month was ssntenced to
death. He had two subsequent he wrings before
the court, but the judges decided that there was
no good cause for delay, and he was executed
on the 12th of Mav, just thirty-three days after
the perpetration of his atrocities. Preltv well,
thl«, for a Mexican conrt.
From the N. Y. Spirit of the Times.
The South v». The North.
A’udher Race for the Championship oj the TsUrf!
Challenge to Fashion, The Colonel, and Stan
ley Eclipse.
"Again the tocsin sounds!” Fashion and
Peyiona are to meet once moretoseitletheques
tlon ol the Championship of'the Turf. It will
be seen by the annexed letters from Mr. Kirkman
that the friends of Fashion have only to “make
play” to ensure a race, should her owner again
consent to place her services a' their disposal.
The inatchesoffered to The Coloneland Stanley
Eclipse, will, if accepted, be regarded with no
ordinary interest. Possibly, the owners of some
of Ihe horses “ to the North,” who are not men
tioned by Mr. K. may like to give “a turn” to
Jeannetteau or Liatunah. We shall see. Three
ot the prominent Northern horses—The Colonel,
Dunvegan, ar.d Maria Peyton—have been sold
to Canada since the races here last spring, but
there are “ plenty more where they came from.”
The Fall Meeting on the Union Course is like
ly to exceed in interest any of its predecessors
of late vears. It will be held at the usual date,
and the purses (which will be duly advertised)
will be commensurate to the occasion.
We submit to the Sporting World the follow
ing characteristic letters:
CHALLENGE FROM THE SOUTH TO THE NORTH.
To the Friends of Fashion :
Believing that Peyiona is a better race horse
than Fashion, and that her defeat at Camden
was in consequence ol being amiss, I propose a
deciding contest for the Championship of the.
American Turf, an" will run a Match for TEN
THOUSAND DOLLARS a side, half torlei ,
over the Union Course, Long Island, on the
first Monday in October next, subject to be
postponed by the Judges on account of the wea
ther and track,) as 1 desire a perfect trial of the
abilities ot'he horses.) The slake to be made
good by 12 o’clock on the Monday preceding
the race, and the Judges to be appointed al tfie
same time, alter which the Match shall be play
or pay.
The Match lobe closed by the day ,
and the forfeit to be secured to the satisfaction
ot the New-York Jockey Club.
If desirable, the Match can be made for a
larger sum, but I only bet my own money.
T. Kirkham.
Florence, Ala., July 11,1845. , . •
Florence, July 11, 1845.
To the Editor of the " Spirit of the Times
In the event of my engaging my mare Peyto
na at the fall meeting, on Long Island, I pro
pose to Match Jeanneueau against The Colonel,
three mile heals, for FIVE THOUSAND
DOLLARS, half forfeit. And to match Lia
tunah against Stanley Eclipse, two Mile heats,
for TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS, half
forfeit, to come off over the same course, at
some convenient day, either before or after, as
may beagreedon.
I will match against any thing to the North,
and have merely designated those two horses in
consequence of their high reputaiion.
T. Kirkham.
Conviction and Sentence of Green.—
Henry G. Green, who has been on trial at Troy,
New York, a fortnight past, for the murder of
his wife, was on Saturday afternoon, the 19th
inst., found guilty by the jury, and sentenced by
the Court to be hanged on Wednesday, the 10th
ot September.
The crime proved upon the prisoner was one
of the most atrocious ever recorded. He had
been married but four days when he began to
give arsenic to his wile. She sickened, medical
aid was called, and medicine prescribed. The
devil of a husband then repeated the doses ot
arsenic, and gave the poison in the confiding
woman’s drink, witnessed her agonies, and still
proceeded in the scheme of murder. In her last
moments she appealed to him if she bad ever
wronged him—showing that she then knew the
cause of her death. He answered negatively
to her question. She expired a wee’k after mar
riage. The crime was fully proved. If ever
hanging was deserved, it must be in this in
stance. The barbarity of the act is unparal
leled in this country.—iV. American.
An Irish Row.—lt seems from the London
Times of the 4th inst., that at the annual Fair
held in the village of Ballinghassing, on the 30
of June, a small bodyof armed policemen, were
present as usual, to preserve order. A t the close
of the Fair a quarrel began between two individ
uals, in which others soon engaged. The Po
lice interfered and arrested one of the ring,
leaders. As they were leading him away, they
perceived symptoms among the crowd of an in
tention to rescue the prisoner, and heard the cry
in Irish—“ Don’t let him with them! ” They,
therefore, retired to a low, slated house which
was near by. The mob immediately followed,
and began to throw stones. The Police then
fired on their assailants. This exasperated
them the more; and they began to break in the
roof. This produced a fresh volley from the
Police, and with deadly aim. After firing on
the mob several ttaie- and with fatal effect the
people fled, and the Police retired to their bar
racks.
The result ot all this was, that stz persons
were killed and twenty five wounded—some it is
feared mortally; the country around was in a
high state of excitement, and a considerable
body of the Police were under arms to preserve
the peace.
The Providence Journal represents the
growth of that city to be quite beyond any cal
culations of the citizens on that subject, and the
increase such as will surprise those who have
made the largest estimate. A census under the
direction ol the city authorities is now in pro
gress, and the result, says the Journal, will pro
bably show a population of more than 30,000,
being an increase of about 7,000, or 30 percent,
since the census of 1840. The increase of
buildings has been great in proportion.
A Useful Hint.—We learn from an Eng
lish paper that an efficient method has been
suggested of purifying wells, &c., from foul air.
The plan is simply to throw into the well a
quantity ot unslaked lime, which, as it comes
iu contact with the water, throws up a column of
vapor, driving before itall the deleterious gases.
A Monster!—“ Waks Snakes!”— The Oua
chita Courier says:—“ A gentleman from Ar
kansas, who came down on the Belle on her
last trip, exhibited the rattles ot a rattle snake,
which must have been at least forty years of
age. It had 39 rattles and a button, and was
killed in Ouachita county, a few miles from
Camden. This is the ol lest snak'- of that spe
cies of which we have ever hea'd ” Ouachita
can “take the socks” for big snakes, sure.
A Royal Compliment.—When Mr. Haek
ett, the distinguished American artiste, appear
ed recently at the Haymarket, by the express
desire ol her Majesty, and performed with such
royal and popular approbation Bonaparte’s ex
iled general, Mons. Mallett, a cross of a cheva
lier of the Legion of Honor, worn by Mr. H. be
ing pressed cordially by his hand, became dis
engaged from its fastening upon his left breast,
and bounded over towards the royal box at his
right hand, an 1 fell upon its face. His Royal
Highness Prince Albert noticed this singular
accident, and graciously sent to Mr. Hackett,
through his private secretary, an elegant breast
pin, worn at the time in his own royal bosom—
London Obserosr
DIED
“ Insatiate archer ' could not one suffice 1”
At Appling, on the 20th inst., Carolina, and
on the 24th, Thomas M., the only remaining
children, (Curtis H. having died on the 17th
inst.,) of A. H. and Martha R. Shockley. Thus
has death deprived these fond parents of all their
children in one week. “ The Lord gave and the
Lord ta' eth awav—blessed be His holv name.’
FANCY BALL |AT ATHENS.
SCt- JOHN F. GOUEKE will give
a FANCY BALL at the Town Hall in Athens,
on THURSDAY EVENING, the 7th of August
next, under the management of the following
gentlemen:
Gen Edwarb Harden,
Hon. Howell Cobb,
Wm. W. Clayton,
Stephens Thomas,
Gen. J. D. Frierson,
Col. Wm. E. Dearing,
John J. Huggins,
S. J. Mays.
Tickets to be had at the Central Hotel.
Athens, July 18, 1845.jy21-lawtd
HOTCHKISS’ VERTICAL PREMIUM
WATERWHEEL.
£tt*THE subscriber would announce
to all persons interested in the improvement and
erection of mills, that he has sold his entire inte
rest in the above Patent Water Wheels, in the
State of Georgia, to Thomas Hopkins and Ly
man S. Catlin, of Augusta, and Collins Potter,
Mill Wright, and he confidently recommends
them as fully competent to apply the improve
ment to all kinds of water power.
GIDEON HOTCHKISS.
Augusta, Ga., May 1, 1845.
The undersigned having purchased the Patent
of tile above celebrated wheels for the State of
Georgia, are prepaied to receive proposals for
the sale of rights for counties or for single rights.
They arc also prepared to supply all orders
for wheels at short notice, and to furnish compe
tent workmen to put them in successful operation
in any part of the State. The Wheels being of
cast Iron, will last an age. They constitute the
requisite Fly or Balance Wheel, securing a uni
form motion in all parts of each revolution.
They can be placed on the shaft of a common
Flutter Wheel Mill, if in good order, and hung
upon the same bearings, if sufficiently strong to
sustain the power of the Wheels. When used
for Saw Mills they require no gearing to produce
r rom 175 to 300 strokes par minute. Backwater
s no Impediment when there Is a head above.
All communications upon tlie subject address
ed to Charles Catlin, Augusta, Ga., will receive
prompt attention.
1 H THOMAS HOPKINS,
LYMAN S. CATLIN,
COLLINS POTTER.
Augusta, June 4, 1845. ddcwtf
GEORGIA KAIL KOAD.
£3- PERSONS going to the COM
MENCEMENT at ATHENS, can procure
tickets for the trip for $6, o leave Augusta
on FRIDAY, SUNDAY, and MONDAY
EVENINGS next—with the privilege of re
turning at any time previous to the 15th of
August.
Transp. Office Ga. R. R. A B. Co. >
Augusta, July, 28, 1845 J
COMKERCI4L
AUGUSTA MA RKET.
Wbdmbbdat, P. M.
Callon— The quantity on >xl. ia eery limited, sad
theta ia but little doing. The market haa, however,
advanced jc tine. our last report, and we now quota
extreme. 6J (S 7Je, principal aalea 6f 0 7jc, with a trm
market.
Theeelee of Cotton yeaterday amo'uuted'o abonUMO
bales. There te nothing in regard to the iranautiona
requiring remark, lor it would be only a reoaut'on ol
wiiat haa been said before. ’ "P*" l **" O1
There has been a moderate botlneaa doine in Reear
and price, have rather an upward tendency, but there
ia not sufficient change to authorise any alterations in
our quotations, which are sto tyc M* 1K Th« . il uo
inferior on the market.
There is but little inquiry for Exchange-rates are
the tame «a laat quoted. Jfterhng 9j’to 10 cent
premium; Franca 5C274 to 6f 30; 60 day Bills Tn the
North par to |s* cent discount; Checks 4to 1 cent
premium.
Freight* are doll at former rates—to Liverpool Id •to
Havre f cents ’ ’
rw ns -• u- s Moat Ll. Joly 26.
Cotton—Si neo this day week we have rocrivad bp
boat* wagon* and 239 bales, and expoi ted none—leaving
a stock in port last evening ol 692 bales— against 3U95
same time leal year.
The transactions in this market for ssveral weeks
past have been on an small a scale, owing io the 'riding
f-uppiy, that but little comment is called for in our
weekly report,. Since Mr last the aalea will amount
to about an bales, holders realisms very fall prices,
say from to 7c as in quality-good middling, rating
a CJc and ordinary 6JO Me for a small 10l of wagon
notion, classing fully middling lnrr,7c was paid. Bey.
ers have been compelled in otdei to fill freightengago
menu, to pay the asking rates of holders. The slock
remaining unsold at the close of the week.fincluding
143 bales received yesterday) not esceeding 360 balsa,
of which a portion is limited above the market.
The intelligence from the country does not material
ly differ from previous accounts, except that more
rain has fallen, but u yet, no complaints are made of
an excesa.
Total Receipts at all the ports in the country, to Uteet
d ***J>.• ....... bales 2,393,413
Receipts same time 1844.....2,002,568
Receipts same lime 1843.,»
Receipts same time 1842......1.657301
Receipts same time 1841......1,619,289
Receipts same time 1840.2396348
Total Foreign Export* to date 52,045,375
Exported to dates 18441,662,122
Exported to dates 1843..1,973,003
Exported io dates 18421,427,862
Exported to dates 1841...1,268,874
Exported to dates 1840.1,731,238
Total Receipt* al this port to dates 617,672
Receipts to date 1844 466,194
Receipts to data 1843 480,363
Receipts to date 1842 318*315
Receipts to date 1841 316,044
Receipts to date 1840 441,649
Stock of Cotton at all the ports at dates... 99,084
Stock at dates 1844 195,544
Stock at dates 1843 109,047
Stock at dates 1842 6&330
Stock at dates 1841 119,828
Stock at dates 1840 163,997
_ Chabubton, July 96.
Cotton.— There was some little inquiry for Upland
Cotton at the close of the last and on the first day of
the present week ; and during the two days, between 8
and 900 bales were sold, at the quotations given in our
report of the 19th inst. On Tuesday however, later,
and favorable advices reached us from the other side,
per the Britannia, at Boston, which have been confirm*
ed by the more recent accounts of the Great Western, at
New York. Owing to the limited supply on sale here,
which is centered in a few hands, end the light receipts,
the market was just in that state to be easily effected
by favorable advices from abroad, and prices immedi
ately advanced a full |c lb, and some 2400 bales have
changed hands at this advance. The purchases have
been solely for the North, and for paicels to be held
over fer the present. The receipts of the week reach
2735 bales, and the sales, in the same time, 3231 bales,
as follows: 23at 6, 21 at 106 at 64. 141 at 64, 164 at
6ft, 268 at 64. 25 at 6j, 430 at 7, 69 al 7|. 627 at 71, 330 at
7|, 311 at 7ft. 24 at 7f, 349 at 7|, and 378 bales at 8c <tf* lb -
Rico— The Rice market has been very quiet through
out the week just closed, the transactions having reach
ed but about 240 tierces for coastwise shipment. The
receipts since our last reach 779 tierces, end the sales
in the same time are as follows 13 at 33-16, 60 at 34,
50 at 34, and 120 tierces at fi3 7 16th 100
Exchange— Bills on England, 10 ty cent pm ; Franco
5.30; Checks on New York, Philadelphia and Boston,
i IP cent prem. The Notes of the Augusta and Avan*
nuh Banks received on deposit by the Bank of Charles
ton.
Freight*— There is no vessel loading tor any foreign
port. We quote to Boston, Cotton, 15 (9 20c $p 100 lbs
and very little offering The New York rate for square
and round bagsis 15(9 20c 4P 100 lbs.
Niw York, July 25, p. m.
The sales at the Board of Brokers this morning wore
to about the usual extent, without any material altera
tion from yesterday's rates The market was firm,
the purchasers being willing to take sellers* option.
The demand for Foreign Exchange is moderate. Se
veral of the Au them Banks have accumulated funds
in London, and arenow prepared to draw for them:
among which are the Merchants* Bank of Mobile,
(through their agent here, J. J. Palmer, Esq.) the
Charleston Banks, also the Virginia and Louisiana
Banks. Money was easy in the street to-day, few of the
large houses being willing to borrow at over 5f per cent
per ai.aum.
Cotton — Thore has been a good inquiry to-day, and
considering thr email stock est sale the transactions
have been large. About 1800 bales hart changed hands
at steady prices, mostly for shipment to France and to
spinners. On speculation we heat of but little done to
day. We quote
trptand 4- Florida, Mobile f New Orlean*.
Inferiornominal. nominal.
Ordinary6| (9 6| (9 7
Middling7 (9 7j 74 (9 74
Middling fair74 (9 8 8 (9 8f
Good fair (9 8} 8| (9 9
Fine nominal. nominal.
Flour— There has been a fair inguiry to-day for Flour,
but prices are still heavy and tend downward. Out of
store Genesee sold at 64 25, but fresh brands afloat
bring 4 31|. Ohio and Michigan range from 94 12j (9
DtLOok at thi».<i
Alarge STOCK OF BOOTS &
SHOES, SELLING OFF AT COST.
The Subscribers having determined io remove
their Business from the City thia coming Fall
will dispose of iheir large ana well assorted stock
of BOOTS and SHOES
AT COST FOR CASH.
Country Merchants, Pantere and others who
wish to purchase at gr»at Bargains either whole
sale or retail, are invited to calland examine their
assortment before purchasing.
NOBLE A CO
jy3l-lmd&w 3 doors below the U S Hotel.
sale.—wiu
be sold, tn Waynesboro, on the firet Tues
day in October next, agreeable to an order of the
honorable inferior court of Burke county, sitting
as a court of ordinary, the land and one negro
woman belonging to the estate of William Rob
erts, deceased. Sold tor the benefit of the heirs
and creditors of said estate. Terms on the day.
July 31, 1845. JOHNA. ROSIER, Adm’r.
J” EFFERSON Sheriff Sales.—Will
be sold, at the market house, in the town of
Louisville, on the first Tuesday in September
next, between flte usual hours of sale, the fol
lowing property, to wit: one negro girl by the
name of Lucy, or Sukey, about 16 vearsold, le
vied upon as the property of Sherwood Allen, to
satisfy sundry fi. fas. issued from Warren supe
rior court, in favor of Wiley Carter and others,
vs. Sherwood Allen. Property pointed out by
the defendant.
Also, one negro woman by the name of Katy,
about 35 or 40 years us age; levied upon as the
property of James M. Smith, to satisfy one fl. fa.
issued from a justice's court, in favor ofHenry P.
Turner, and transferred to James Bothwell. Pro
perty pointed out by James Bothwell. Levy
made and returned by a constable.
WM. S. ALEXANDER, Sheriff.
July 30, 1845.
FOUR Months after date, application
will be made to the honorable the inferior
court of Taliaferro county, when sitting as a
court of ordinary, for leave to sell a part of the
real estate of John T. Daniel, late of said county,
deceased. JOHN B. LEONARD. Ex’r.
July 29, 1845.
persons indebted to
the estate of John T. Daniel, late of Talia
ferro county, deceased, are requested to come
forward and make payment; and all persons hav
ing demands against said deceased are requested
to render them in, in terms of the law.
July 29, 1845 JOHN B. LEONARD, Ex’r.
FOUR Months after date, application
will be made to the honorable the Inferior
court of Jefferson county, when sitting for oidi
nary purposes, for leave to sell a negro man slave
named Abram, belonging to the estate of La
ney Spann, late of said county, deceased.
July 26, 1845. W. A. JENKINS, Adm’r.
FOUR Months after date, application
will be made to the honorable the inferior
court of Taliaferro county, when sitting for ordi
nary purposes, for leave to soil the negroes be
longing to the estate of Bernard Murray, late of
said cottntv, deceased.
MURTHA GRIFFIN, Adm’r.
July 28, 1845.
JEFFERSON County, Georgia.— fa
the SUPERIOR COURT—May Term, 1845
—His Honor Judge John Shly, Presiding.
BILL FOR DISCOVERY, RELIEF, &c.—
Little B. Bostick vs. Henry B. Todd ana wife,
and others.
It apoearing to the court that Nathaniel Boa
tick, one of the defendants, resides in the coun’y
ot Wilkinson, in thie state, and that Thomas
Flournoy, Robert Flournoy and Mary Ann
Flournoy, three of the defendants, reside in
Chambers county, in the sta» of Alabama t It
is ordered, that service of the said bill be perfect
ed on said defendant by publishing this notice in
one of the public gazettes of this state, onco a
month for four months previous to tho next term
oi this court.
[ A true extract from the minutes es said court,
for May term, 1845, this 30th day of May, 1845. |
EBENEZER BOTHWELL, Clerk.
jel2larn4ni
HAVILAND, KEEBE A CO.,
80 Maiden Lane, New York,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS,
OILS, GLASS, DYE STUFFS, dtc., dbo., are
prepared to execute orders on the mast favorable
terms.jylßd&wltn
Thermometers— For sale by
jy24_J. E MARSHALL.
Received this’day—
-25 bbls fresh ground extra fine Cana! flour,
10 qr. casks white wine vinegar,
20 do. double clarified do.
10 baskets fresh olive oil,
10 ooxes soda crackers,
25 do. solar sperm candies,
5 tierces fresh beat Carolina Hoe,
25 bags lava coffee,
5 bags pepper,
2 half chests extra Hyson tae-
For sale by [jy3l-3lj G. T. DORTIC.
3