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whichfHch defaulting commissioner
nniy reside, shall
nevertheless bear and pay their pro
'portional share of the expense in
etn red on account of opening anil
laying off and kee|>ii)g open said
main channel as aforesaid.
Sec. 7. And be it farther enacted ,
That James G. Stallings, of the coun
ty of Columbia, JutnesJennings,Esq.
of the county of Lincoln, Powhatan
B. Tbunnan, Esq. of the county of
Wilkes, Allred Hammond, Esq. of
the county of Elbert, and Bebjamin
H. Warren, of the county of Rich
mond, he, and the same are hereby
appointed commissioners of the Sa
vannah liver, with full power and
authority to carry into’eilect the pro
visions ofthis act, any law to tbe_£ftc
trary notwithstanding. And should
it so happen tJjac either of the per
sons herein named as commisson
6rs should fail or refuse to serve, it
shall he the duty of the Inferior
cfkirt of the county, where such vu-j
cancy may happen, to appoint some
fit anil proper person to fill such va
cancy; and that all laws or parts of
laws militating against this act, be
and the same is hereby repealed.
WARREN joURDAN
Speaker of the Hotat? of Representative*.
THOMAS STOCKS,
I'resident of the Senate.
Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829.
GEORGE R GILVIKR Gov^o.or.
From the Neio Ytttk Courier Sf Enquirer.
, SUNDAY MAILS.
A plan is organized and matured for an unholy
Union ofChurch aqci State. The attempt to stop
the mails is merely the first breaking of ground
YowntJd* the accomplishment of n scheme, which
WoulU fill this happy country with discords am’ ri
valries, and virulence and strifes, that would end
fri disunion to the States, and destruction to the
Constitution. The Editor of the Daily Advertiser
effects to discredit the fact, that a “Christian par
ity in politics” is-fortiling, or even thought of.—
TVlieu the Jesuits commenced a career, that even
tually filled Christendom wtih feuds, blood and
civil wars, they were equally modest—equally ti
mid—equally cautious in their first movements.
We beg the editor of the Daily Advertiser to read
the following extracts from a sermon preached on
the 4th of July, 1827, in the Seventh Presbyte.
ftan Church in Philadelphia.
•‘1 propose, fellow citizens, anew sort of union,
nr, if you please, a Christian parly iu politics ,
which 1 am exceedingly desirous ail good men hi
Our country should join; not by subscribing a
Constitution and the formation of anew society,
but by adopting, avowing, and determining to act
Upon truly religious principles in all civil matters.
. f aua awartfthat the true Christians of our coun
* try are divided into many difierentdenominations;
it-ho have alus ! too many points of jealousy and
’ collision; still a union to a very great extent and
tbi the most valuable purposes is not impractica
ble.
‘‘The Presbyterians alone could bring half a
• i million of electors into the field, in opposition to a
, tky known advocate t>f DeUin 4 8oeiuiauism, or any
t species of avowed hostility to the truth of Chris*
.Sanity.,
* It will be objected that my plan of a truly
Christian party in politics will make hypocrites.
not answerable Air their hypocrisy if it
does. There is no natural tendency in the scheme
to make men deceivers.
“Let us elect men w ho dare to acknowledge the
Cord Jesus Christ for their Lord in their public
documents. Which of our Presidents has ever
done this? It would pick no infidel’s pocket, and
£reak. no Jew’s neck, if our President should be so
•* singular as to let it be known that lie is a Chris
tian by hi?* Message, and an advocate for the De
ity of Christ by his personal preference of a Chris
tian to a Socinian conventicle. It would be no
flotation of our national constitution, if our mem
bers of Congress should quit reading of newspa
pers and writing letters on the Lord’s day at
feast during public worship, in the Hall of Repre
sentatives.”
If it were necessary, we have abundant other
evidence, shewing the extent of the “scheme,”
the means relied upon for its accomplish
ment. That themovcm .Mit in relation to the Sun
day mails is a braiudt of the same plan, there is
every reason to believe. The same spit it from
w hich it originated can march onward without fal
tering to the ultimate goal, if no impediments are;
found in the way. But the free souls and honest
licat !s, of the great mass of the people are the
Iparricrs that no clerical ambition cud ever over-’
leap In mi age of darkness it might succeed—
tint in the present.
Entertaining however the utmost charity for
the editor of the Daily Advertiser, and feeiingex
fretnely desirable that he should oat dumber any ’
longer in ignorance, we ask trim knows
aßny ikingafthe Rev. M. Witner a
•and influential , if not discreet Presbyterian Cler
>yiaau of Ithaca in this state? afid whether he
lias ever heard that this gentleman in his capicitv i
m travelling agent of the General Sunday School
Society at a public meeting at Utica, did not
‘ftd vhat ir was time for the Church (meaning of
dourso his own) toussert her rights, to make her
toice heard at the polls —and that ‘ was the dntv
of Christians thus to advocate the rigUsi of the
Church e*ew unto blood/ A a account whs given
+f his speech in a pamphlet ascribed to a highly
jfeSpectahie Presbyterian gentleman at Utica—
ind very great excitement was the consequence
*jDf the sentiments avow ed by Mr. YVi*ner.
Further, we ask the Secretary whether he does
pot know that the measures relative to Sundav
mails, k.c. &,c. Irene patronized by if they did not
originate in Presbyterian synods, presbyteries &
Sessions? And then wc ask him whether if this is
■not* Christian party in politics, it is not something
Jike n Presbyterian ? We know however that ju
dicious Presbvteaiaos are as much opposed to
this policy as we are. Piety requires it not—mo
rality requires H not — religion re
quires it not, The free people of this country,
ItlAve too sidccre a regard for the purity and pri
fwey of religion ever to submit to the dictation of
tJjur new species of moderra Jesuists.
TO THE PUBLIC.
The Committee for protecting the
fights of conscience, and who pre
sented the address which was adop
ted by the general meeting of citi
zens at Tammany Hall on the 28th
of December last, have noticed in
the Journal of Commerce, dated the
Jl.th January, inst. a communica
tion signed by Richard Varick, Esq.
and others. This communication
•States that the address -represents,
that of the 6236 names attached to
the memorial to Congress from this
city, toprevent the transportation of
the Mail, Ac. only 3013 can be
found on the City Diiectory; &, that
these Gentlemen, acting us a Com
mittee, have caused an examination
to be made, the result of which is,
that “upwards of 1200 names on the
memorial have .been found in the
directory, in addition to those ad
mitted to he there in the address.”
In reply to this, the committee
have only to state, from any evidence
which has yet been produced, they
have no reason to doubt blit the state
ment in the address is substanejany
correct. For, in the Journal of Com
merce_pf ;4m 1 2iit instant, where an
account ofthis examination first ap
pears, it is stated, that the 1200
names were found, notin the Direc
tory for the year when the Memorial
was signed, but in the two Directo
ries, - one of which was published
nearly a year after, hvni
what these gentlemen state
correct, that 1200 more of these
names can be found in the Directory,
yet after all two thousand, or one third
of the petitioners, from the city of
New York, cannot be found in the
City Directory by their own public
acknowledgement. We would fur
ther add, in reply to these gentlemeu,
that the list of names is passing a re
examination, and ifany error has
occured in our stnteim nt, we shall
he able to detect it, and will embrace
the earliest opportunity to make
known the result, as we have no de
sire to adopt any measures in perse
cuting this good work; but such as
are honest, fair, and honorable.
The Committee have noticed the
.foilwing remarks madebv the editor
of the Journal of Commerce, in his
paper of the 1 lth inst.
“The allegation in respect to the
children of Sunday Schools is of the
same character with the other—only
wider from the truth. We venture
to say it is totally unfounded. If the
gentlemen have ascertained facts on
the subject, why not bring them for
ward ? Is it because they will not
bear the light ?”
In compliance with the wish ofthe
gentleman, we will at this time, give
him one “ascertained fact,” which
will show him and the public, whe
ther “the allegation in respect to
children of {Sunday Schools is un
founded,” or not. It is then an “as
eertained fact” that the Manorial
teas carried into the Sunday School at
the Rev. Mr. Mason's Church in Ce
dar street , and a number o/Cikuhikn
did actually sig,\ it.
. The committee would give the
name of the person who carried the
Memorial into the Sunday School on
Sunday, and also of several of the
Children who signed it, but we pre
fer not doing it, lest any of them
should be exposed to the same mud
ierant spirit, which has been mani
fested towards another individual
who refused to sign this Memoiiul,
& of which the subjoined certificate
exhibits a striking example:
COPY.
Ni.w York, Dec. IT, 1829.
Two gentlemen called at my store
1 and requested that I would sign a pe
tition for the purpose of stopping the
Sunday Mails uud closing the Post
offices on that da v :—I told them I
was not assured of the propriety of
such a measure, and did not wih to
interfere in the question, but to leave
| it to those who were more competent
to judge of the matter. I was re
peatedly asked if I was a religious
man. After replying once, I tleclin
ed giving any further answer on that
subject, by saying such questions
were inquisitorial reminded me of
the Spanish Inquisition, I therefore
should not answer them. Upon in,
repeatedly asserting that 1 wished
to remain neuter upon the question,
I was answered—“ Those that are ,
not for us are against us, and if you
do not sign the petition I shall report
you to my brother* and his connec
tions, and you shall have no more of
our custom.” This they again re
peated, adding that from this circum
stance they could not conscientious
ly deal with me.
Thomas Holden, Merchant Tailor,
corner of Willian st. and Exchange
Place.
Witness William Mounts.
*N. B.—During the conversation
he said lie was the Brother of Mr.
Arthur Tappaij.
By order of the Committee,
Preserved Fish, Chairman.
Andrew Garr, Secretary.
N. B.—The publishers of news
papers throughout the United St aUs
are requested fa give the above an
insertion, particularly those who have
published the article from the Jour
nal of commerce of the 11th inst. and
th/Mdvertisemcnt of Richard Varick,
Esq. and others above lefered to.
iV. T. Courier & Enquirer.
From the (iturgia Journal.
You oftentimes ask, and it is as
frequently rpjiqated, what shall we
do to guard against the evils of hard
times? The Answer is a plain one,
and no loj s practical than plain:
keep a!f your surplus money within
the limits of your state, apply nonfei
to purposes, in the execution of
which the money will be forced to
leave the State, and never make a
contribution when you knots that the
object of that contribution, is to pro
mote an end in another State with
the money iiere collected. \ r ou, no
doubt, are ready to charge me with
hostility to all benevolent institutions,
and more particularly, to charge me
with unprincipled selfishness in not
sharing with, my neighbors, what
Providence has liberally bestowed
upon me. But, to such who would
thu9 charge me, I make but one re
ply; that “charity should always be
gin at home.’’ Now, who can both
act charitably, and preserve all our
surplus money in circulation in our
own State. It is (lie immense n
mount of money annually drained
from our State, and which never re
turns, that occasions the embarras
sing cry of hard times. Let me ask
every citizen of Georgia, what pro
portion oftin; number of his visitors,
do the agents of Bible, Tract, Mis
sionary, Literary, and many other
kinds of societies, constitute? Tra
vel where you may, andyou are sure
to find someone of these agents
stuck down in ‘ some village, draw
ing the money from its citizens, like
leeches sucking blood from the bo
,ly;,
‘l’lie amount drawn from each in
dividual, is in most cases inconside
rable; hut when placed in the g
---incite amounts to something con
siderable. If you are disposed to
net liberally, (and be who |K>ssesses
the menus and does not do so, should
he stript of what he has) when the
agent of any Northern manufactur-
ed society, applies again for a con
tribution to some of his works of be- *
nevolence, ‘consider what amount
you cay eoiaWnieiiily subscribe, fore
go the suiijPgralitication of having
your nniiieqjuhJished in the report of
the society, as a subscriber for so
much, decline subscribing, and lay
the money which you might have
spared this agent iu your pocket Iwok,
and then search out some object of
charity in your own neighhoi hood,
upon whom bestow your gift: You
then will have done a charitable act
j indeed. The object of your favours
will perhaps pass this very money to
some person in the some settlement
around youtor the necessaries of life,
and this pesran who receives it, may
lie your debtor ; sb that out of your
charity at first, you have been ena
bled to rilieyie an individual in part
■ from emfciiiisnient, and to possess
the same money, with which you first
parted. Had this been given to the
agent, you woo'd never have heat and of
the money again. If you can find
no individual objects of charity, give
the money to tour county Academy:—
these institutions are always sufii
cientily embarrassed to need every
dollar you can spare. My ad vice
then is, that yon educate your sons
at the University of your own State:
keep vour daughters at home, that
; they may not* be runaway with the
silly notions of Northern ladies ; do
not subsetibc to building, or endow-;
ingof any more colleges out of your
State, or to the erection of any more
churches, in wlueh you do not wor
ship yourself; subscribe to no more
Bible Societies, Tiact Missionary,
or Sunday school societies, give n
way not one cent which, is to go to
Northern institutions, be they what
they may: antj alove all, buy no
move Yaugce notions. On the oth
er hand, give what you can to the
support of'the poor in yourown State;
support your acadimies and college
liberality; provide means for the sup-
port of the diseased poor ; Establish
Bible, Tract, Missionary, and Sun
day School societies, in your own
State, and supply them from your
own presses. Pursue this course for
ten years to come, and Georgia will
he inferior to no State of the Union.
—You will hear nothing more then,
about hard times.—Thousand of poor
wandering people, without a home,
or a hougfe Li eb&Uqr tiic-tu bar? been i
supported at the North by tho uiouey
which has gone from our State.
Men have been made rich, as super
intendents oflnstitutionareared and
supported by Southern Capital, while
the |oor of our own country are turn
ed away empty from our doors:—they
endure a while upon a scanty sup
port and lie down iu death ignorant
of the first principles of learning, by
which they might examine the sound
truths of the Holy Bible. Our cha
rity, thus far has been more the
pride of the purse, than the generous
feelings of the heart. In return for
these acts of liberality towards the
North, what have we received? A
good deal of what we richly deserve
—abuse. Scarce have the tracts of
Bible, Tract, Missionary, and Sun
day School society agents from New
York been obliterated from our soils,
before wc were anathematized in
that same city as worse than savages
unprincipled und unchristiunizcd —
The monstrous excesses of an un
civilized Turk, and the cruel in
dulgences of their barbarous na
tions, are comparisons not too
good to insinuate between us and
them. Already have our Christian
brethern. grown so, no doubt, in part
by the money drawn from our State,
met and, in solemn meeting, declar
ed to petition Congress to arrest the
barbarous State of Georgia, from
extending their laws over the In
dians within her bounds, declaring
that the Greeks suffered nothing un
der the Turks, in comparison to the
Indians under us. Nodoubt the men
most active in getting up this meet
ing, have grown fat upon pap from
our Slate. Think fellow citizens
upon all this. A GEORGIAN.
ft?” Think also fellow-citizens
of the lute obnoxious pamphlet, sent
from Boston, and which lias been de
tected in Savannah, Richmond, &c.
exciting our black population to in
surrection, and exorting our colored
people to wash their hands in tire
blood >f the whites. Compare this
conduct with the late hypocritical
cunt about sympathy for Indians,!
und then say what portion of human
ity you believe their tender hearts
contain.- Editor News.
Water and Fire Proof Cement.
Messrs. Editors — i believe the!
following recipe from a water proof
cement may lie relied on. Indeed,
sifted ashes and tar therrtselves make
a hard, durable, incombustible cem
ent, that water will not penetrate.
It lias been used for floors ; putting a
coat on common brick floors; and
then when t lie tar and ashes are dry',;
painting the floor.
A northern paper contains the fol j
lowing recipe to defend the roof of a
house from the weather & from fire : j
Take one measure of fine sand
and two measuras of wood ashes well
sifted, three of slackened lime ground
up with oil; laid on with a painter’s!
brush, first coat thin, the 2nd thick.” i
I painted on a board with this j
mixture, and it adheres so strongly ;
to the board, that it resists the oper- j
ation of fire. 1 used only part of the |
mixture—what remains is in un iron
pot; water has laid on the mixture j
for some time without penetrating!
the substance, which is ns hard as a
atone.— Georgia Courier.
\ease of considerable cotnnier
ciulnmportanee was decided in Phil
adelphia, i flic Circuit Court of the I
United States, on Monday last, in
which Ogden, Ferguson, &,Co. were
plaintiffs, and Gillingham, Mitchel
&c.defendants. This wnsan action
upon an tillcdged acceptance, by the
defendants, of a bill of exchange,
drawn upon them, in favor of the
plaintiffs, by O. 1). Ward, as attor
ney for Thomas Newbould, who car
ried on busincs in the name of Tho
mas Newbould, &, Co..—On the trial
of this cause at the previous session
of the Circuit Court, tho jury found
a virdict for the plaintiffs, subject to
the opinion of the court on the valid
ity of the acceptiori aad on the au
thority of the attorney to draw the
bill under the circumstances in evi
dence.* From the state flight of tins
case it appears thut in July, 182§jr‘
Thomas Newbould, of rliis city, about
to depart for England, appointed O
liver D. Ward and G. IT. Newbould
jointly bis attornies, for him and in his
name, or in the name T. Newbould;
authorising them, or either oft hem,
among other things, to draw such hills
of exchange, cheeks notes, ami to ac
cept, endorse, &c., ns they should
consider necessary in the mnnage
i meat f kU k a'iuum. Iu JUqrcb,
1828, the'defendants, having previ
ously had trasnactions with O.
Ward as attorney for T. Newbould,
and knowing him to have authority
to opcathe letters and transact tho
business of the latter, addressed-a
letter to T. Newbould &. Cos. ack
nowledging the sale of a quantity of
tin, to the nett amount of 82509 72,
and giving authority to draw on them
for that sum. At the tibie Mi 5 .
Ward received this letter, T. New
bould was indebted to the
and continued to-be so after this suit
was brought. Mr. showed the*
letter to the plaintiffs, dflcriug togivp
them a draft on thtrfthe
agreed to
cash in part payment of
their claim, and the draft was ac
cordingly drawn on the socotid day
after the date of the defendants’ let
ter. At this time, as it afterwards
appeared, Thos. Newbould become a
bankrupt in England, and there
was a rumor to that effect before tho
draft was drawn, but Mr. Ward was
not officially informed of the fact
till two daws after. “When- the hill
wus presented to the
which was on the second day af(er it
was drawn, they replied tint it cfiuld
not be paid for the want of authority;
and it was protested. The points
reserved for the decision of the Court
were, Ist Whether there was an ac
ccptanee of the bill; and 2d. Whe
ther the bankruptcy of T. Newbould
took away the authority of his agent
to draw the bill.—On the first point,
the Court decided, in tlie language
ol the Supreme Court, in thecas*, of
Cooledgc vs. Payson, [2 Whev ron
—66] “that the letter within a tetr
sonabie time before or after the <u : |p
of a Bill of Exchange, describiog it
in terms not to be mistaken & preum
ising to accept it, is if to shew to rest
person who afterwards takes i ‘ .-‘p
on the credit of the letter, a virtuij’
acceptance binding the person who
makes the promise.” On the se
cond point it was decided that tii*
bankruptcy has no effect upon the
, acts of the agent, w hatever its gener*
|al o|fcration on the agency may be.
The fund in the hands of the defen
dants, to the amont of their accep
tance, was appropriated to the’ use
of the plaintiffs, and they are enriticdJ
to recover that amount in this ujM
Uion.”— E. Post.
Cotton Trade. —A \vriter
Liverpool Courier, mukestfl
lowing statement. _
“For several years p*r the cop
sumption, botli in and
on the Continent, has-been overta
king the supply, and,in consequent'©
i the general stock is considerably les*
j than it has been for a great length
of time, particularly of American
‘growth, on which the manufacturer
mainly depends. Three months a
go, the prices were depressedlu.lv
I ten per cent lower than they had ey
fcr been known; since then, there
| has been some improvement, but
they are still less than they weie at
; this time last year, whilst the con
; sumption ingoing forward on a iricisb
larger scale, the largest I beiievp
experienced, and that working on
j the reduced stocks, which
ut this moment, will be found both
here and on the Continent, not e.
qual to our four months’ supplyj
though usually at this seasou they
have been sufficient for six or more.
Tho season for commencing picking
in the United States, were fuiiy
three weeks later than usual; fortu
nately the weather proved favorable,
and it is understood a full average
crop has been gathered. Fortunate
ly for us it is go, depending, as ive
do, on that country for the supply of
a raw material which ‘employs the
great mass of a working population.
From the Brazils we are likely tq
have the usual supply, but “‘not s©
from India to Egypt; in the former,
•China ailords them a very superior
market, anil the crop in the latter is
understood to be greatly injured by
the unusually high overflowing of the
Nile. 1 bus, with an increasing con
sumption, (for cotton goods are eve
ry wherfc, by their extreme cheap
ness, daily more &, mote dieplacin*
•woollen and linen amongst all
lich and poor, here.and all over tha
world,) our stocks are likely to be
considerably further reduced beforij
another year passes away. The
1 1 enio low prices aflord no
mem for increased eultivatio'jß
where. Whatever
do, let tlie Government lotdfl
and earnestly at these lactujH
deavor to provide a renJjfl
tun, bdbro r. ro ioc
