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Columbus, March 0.
COTTON. Bales.
Receipts for week ending March G, 1,955
Received previously - 29,882
Total receipts ... - 31,0:3/
Total shipments ... 23,593
Stock on hand * - 7,534
Rec’d same time last season - - 43,924
Deficiency this year ... 12,88/
Price 8 1 3 a 10 3-1 cents. Enquirer.
Cotton There has been but little come
jn during the last few days. Prices range
from 101-2 toll.—Argus.
The Tallahassee Correspondent of the Ap
alachicola (Fla.) Journal, states that Pierce
M. Butler, late Governor of South Carolina,
will succeed Robert Raymond Reid, as Terri
torial Governor of Florida.
The Mails— Owing to the failure of the
Mails from the North, for several days past,
we are without any late news of inteiest.
We had anticipated the pleasure of presen
ting to our readers, to-day, the Inaugural Ad
dress of General Harrison —but mismanage
ment or carelessness in the transportation of
the mail, somewhere on the route between this
and Washington City, will delay the appear
ance of it, until our next publication.
We notice that the Democratic Young Men
of several counties have held meetings, and
appointed Delegates to the Convention to be
held at Milledgeville in May. What are the
young Democrats of Muscogee doing ? Me
would suggest the propriety of their being e
qually active,
General McDuffie- and the State Agricultu
ral Society of South Carolina. —On our first
page, will be found an able and interesting
Address, delivered in thejlast Autumn before
this Society, by Gen. George McDuffie, for a
long period, formerly, a very distinguished
member of Congress, from South Carolina,
and well and extensively known as one ot the
most intellectual men of the age.
For severu’ ynars past. Gen. McDuffie has
devotod himself exclusively to Agriculture,
and has acquired a high reputation for judi
cious and successful planting. This Address
imbodies the results of his experience on this
important subject, and every planter will,
doubtless, find in it much useful information.
UNITED STATES AND Git EAT BRI TAIN-
Recent information from Washington au
thorizes the belief that our differences with
England, if not adjusted, are not likely to pro
duce an immediate rupture. The letter of
the Washington Correspondent of the Charles
ton Courier* in another part of this paper, fur
nishes some of the details of the information
Irom Washington. As it respects the North
Eastern Boundary, it appears from the state
ments of Mr. Buchanan, in the Senate, that a
Convention between the two Governments
had been arranged, for the amicable and sat
isfactory settlement of that long pending and
vexed question. All the details of the plan
were not yet, perhaps, definitely understood ;
yet Mr. Buchanan apprehended not the slight
est difficulty in arranging them agreeably to
the wishes of both parties—as the important
principles of the Convention had been express
ly stipulated and settled.
Although there arc’other points of difference
with Great Britain, which require to be trea
ted “fith both a .1 firmness, yet it
ought to be a source of gratification to the
whole country, that the Boundary Question,
the most important of them all, and which, it
was feared, might, from its very protracted
duration, and the irritating correspondence to
which it had, at different periods, given rise,
be difficult of adjustment, on terms consistent
with the honor of both nations, and favorable
to the continuance of lasting peace, is in the
course of amicable adjustment
We are not yet apprised that the terms of
the Convention are such as to preclude all
possibility of a disagreement, and to bring the
Boundary Dispute to a satisfactory issue, with
in a limited period; but there can be no doubt,
from the language of Air. Buchanan, that, in
stating the terms of the Convention, its impor
tant principles and its details, proper care has
been observed to exclude, as far as possible,
all such matters as contributed to prevent a
settlement of the question heretofore, and
might, perhaps, exert a similar influence now.
THE COLUMBUS BANKS.
On Monday morning last, the Banks of this
city suspended specie payments We have
transferred to our columns the remarks of the
Georgia Argus, and Columbus Enquirer, o*
yesterday, relative to the suspension in this
city. Our readers will find in them all the
information we have, relative to the subject to
which they relate.
With respect to the opinions expressed by
these Journals on the subject, we have no
comments to make, until we are placed in
possession of all the facts and circumstan
ces, which led to the suspension—and shall
ba better enabled, from an examination of
them, to judge what justification, if any, exist
ed to authorize the measure on the part of
the Banks.
There are various rumors in circulation re
specting the course pursued towards the Co
lumbus Banks—ot extraordinary demands be
ing made for specie, during the last week—
of individuals traversing the country, in every
direction, searching for Columbus notes, and
paying a high premium for them, in order to
draw specie; and of various other movements
to cripple and harrass the Banks of this city.
As they are merely rumors, and have assumed
no definite shape, we cannot vouch for their
accurac3 r .
This subject of finance and currency is,
we must confess, beyond our limited compre
hension; and we snail, therefore, wait the
dexclopement of abler minds.
W e have often been surprised to witness
the confidence and freedom with which it is
daily and hourly handled —confessedly one of
the most intricate and abstruse subjects in the
whole range of political economy—and are
frequently reminded of a passage in one of the
speeches of the celebrated John Randolph—
Mr. R. says:
“Butler, the Annotator, with Hargrave, on
Lord Coke, speaking with Fox as to political
economy—that most extraordinary man, ex -
celled by no man that ever lived, or probably
ever will live, as a public deba e. - , and of the.
deepest political erudition, fairly confessed
that he had never read Adam Smith. Butler
said to Mr. Fox “that he had never read Ad
am Smith’s work on the Wealth or Nations.”
“To tell you the truth,” replied Mr. Fox, “nor
I neither. There is something in all these
subjects that passes my comprehensio n—some
thing so wide that I could never embrace
them mrself, or find any one who did.” And
we see how we, with our little dividers, under’
take to lay off the scale, and with our pack
thread to take the soundings, and speak with
a confidence peculiar to quacks on this abstruse
and perplexing subject.”
It is proper to inform our readers that no
confusion or alarm has been created by the
suspension in this city—that the Banks re
ceive, and pay out the notes of each other—
and that no doubt is entertained of the ability
of the Banks ultimately to redeem all their
liabilities, of every kind and description.
THE NEW ADMINISTRATION.
In this paper will be tound an account of
an animated debate in the Senate of the U-
States, in which Air. Cuthbort, of Georgia,
took a prominent part. Air. Cuthbert, it ap
pears, stated that Air. Webster, the new Sec
retary of State, had, at a public meeting in
Boston, many years since, advanced the doc
trine, or concurred in its correctness, that
Congress, under that clause of the Constitu
tion which authorises it to regulate commerce
■with Foreign Nations, and between the States,
possesses the power to interdict the transpor
tation of slaves from one State to another, as
articles of merchandize. Mr. Clay Os Ky.’
Mr. Rives and Mr. Preston defended Air.
Webster, and pronounced his views sound in
reference to all matters and things connected
with Slavery in the South. A perusal of the
debate, however, will show that the distinct
charge made by Mr. Cuthbert was not met,
to wit—Does Air. Webster believe or not that
Congress lias the power, under the clause of
the Constitution just stated, to prevent the
transfer of slaves from one State to another’
as articles of sale? The report adopted by
the Boston meeting, and which is published in
this paper, with the debate to which it gave
rise, maintains this doctrine—a doctrine which,
it is needless to say, will never be recognized
by tho South —ami Mr. Cuthbert charges that
Mr. Webster was one of the master-spirits of
that meeting—that lie then and there sanc
tioned this objectionable interpretation of the
Constitution—and asks emphatically has Air.
Webster, at any period since, explained or
disavowed the opinions expressed on this vital
subject, in the Boston Report! Here is an
explicit and plain interrogatory—and how is
it answered! By the general statement, that
Air. Webster is sound on all these matters-
It Mr. Webster be really orthodox on this
question, in all its bearings, why hesitate to
answer specifically—and especially when it
is clearly shown that, upon one branch of the
subject, he has not always been so very ortho
dox ! It looks very much like the case of Air-
Granger, in which it is impossible to bring hi s
recent defenders either to the statement or de
nial of specifications, with respect to the opin
ions of that gentleman on the subject of Abo
lition.
And this brings us again to the consi ’era
tionof the case of Mr. Granger. Our readers
will distinctly recollect that we asked last
week—“will the supporters of the new Ad
ministration deny that Air. Granger insists up
on the right and the duty of Congress to re
ceive Abolition petitions—upon the power of
Congress to discard slavery in the District of
Columbia—and upon the propriety and neces
sity of the exercise of that power, at some pe
riod!” We certainly expected the Columbus
Enquirer to say something on the subject, es
pecially as it had lauded Air. Granger in the
most unmeasured terms; and declared him to
j be free of “the least suspicion of even a lean
ing towards that abominable heresy.” * It
furnishes no evidence to sustain its statements
respecting Air. Granger —but it. has very pru
dently refrained from reiterating those state
ments. As the Enquirer may have overlook
ed the proofs heretofore, of Air. Granger’s
Abolitionism, and have been induced innocent
ly to acquit him of any fault in the matter—
it is proper, as well to correct the erroneous
; impressions of that paper, as to substantiate
[ what we said last week on the subject, to ad
duce the following very explicit proofs :
“ On the Bth February, 1836, Air. Pinckney,
of South Carolina, introduced, into the House
of Representatives, the following resolution:
“ Resolved, That all the memorials which
have been off:red, or may hereafter be pre
sented to this House, praying for the Aboli
tion of Slavery in the District of Columbia;
also, the resolution offered by the honorable
member from Maine, (Air. Jarvis,) with an
amendment thereto, proposed by an honorable
member from Virginia, (Mr. Wise); and (ve
ry other paper or proposition that may be sub
mitted, in relation to that subject, be referred
to a Select Committee, with instructions tore
port—“That Congress possesses no Constitu
tional authority to interfere in any way with
the institution of slavery in any of* the States
of this Confederacy; and that, in the opinion of
this House, Congress ought not to interfere,
in any way, with slavery in the District of Co
lumbia, because it would be a violation oi
public faith, unwise, impolitic and dangerous
to the Union; assigning such reasons lor these
conclusions, as, in the judgment of the com
mittee, may be best calculated to enlighten
the public mind, to repress agitation, alley
excitement, to sustain and preserve the just
rights of the slaveholding States, and of the
people of this District, and to establish harmo
ny and tranquillity among the various sections
of the Union.* 4
“A motion was made to take the vote upon
each separate proposition. The resolution to
refer to a Select Committee passed by a de
cisive vote.” The next vote was taken on the
proposition that Congress possesses no Con
stitutional power to interfere with slavery in
the Slates. Only seven voted against this
proposition; and because Mr. Granger voted
in the affirmative on this single branch, the
Richmond \Y big and other papers think to
clear his skirts of Abolitionism. Let us see,
however, what Mr. Granger did with the lasj
proposition contained in the Resolution—a
proposition evidently framed with great care,
and so expressed as to secure the consent of
those even, who entertained constitutional
scruples as to the power of Congress over the
subje; t, in the District of Columbia. That
proposition reads thus—“that, in the opinion
o; this House, Congress ought not to inter
lere in any way with Slavery in the DisUict
of (_ olumbia.” Here is a proposition, plain and
explicit, avoiding altogether the Constitutional
question, and commending itself to the ap
pro! al and support of every one who enter
tained noncraa.e feenng* an the subject, and
was not madly bent on the consummation of |<
tiie most mischievous designs. The request
oi this branch of the resolution was simply to
say that the agitation of the subject, as it re
spected the District of Columbia, was impro
per; and that Congress ought not to interfere
with it in that District. Could the matter
be presented in a more unexceptionable
form, or one less likely to incur the disappro
bation of those, who, whatever might be their
aversion to slavery in the abstract, however
high they might value the right of petition —
were yet sincerely opposed to any infringe”
ment of the constitution on this subject; and
honest in their declarations of attachment t°
the peace, security and happiness of every sec
tion of this Great Republic! Certainly Air.
Granger who “has hurled hack with scorn”
Uie charge of abolitionism—who “would be
far from holding any place in the new Admin
istration” “if there had ever existed against
him the least suspicion of even a leaning
towards that abominable heresy”— certainly
this gentleman, entertaining the sentiments
and feelings, ascribed to him by the Colum
bus Enquirer— panted to record his vote in
iavor of this plain, simple, harmless and just
proposition. Let us refer to the record for
the facts. By an inspection of it, it ap
pears that Air. Granger, in company with 42
wiugs (will our neighbours of the Enquirer
mark it!) from the non-slaveholding States—
voted—not for—but against , the proposition—
voted that Congress ought to interfere with
slavery in the District of Columbia. And we
must here remark, in the language of the
Richmond Enquirer, “that emancipation in
the District is the very head and .front of
abolition offending. We expect to hear next
of Slade, as we have already heard of John
Q. Adams, (both of whom voted against the
first branch of the resolution,) that he is no
abolitionist.”
Other developements are forthcoming with
respect to the abolition notions of Air. Gran
ger. Other votes in Congress on the subject
—letters to his constituents at different times
—and his course in the New York Legisla
ture, will all, in due season, be spread before
the country. And this man is now Post
Master General of the United States.
For (he Times.
Ma. Editor, Permit me, through your co
lumns, to make some remarks in regard to
the final suspension of our Banks, lor it will
be years belbre they resume again. Alter
they have reaped another harvest, they mav
again attempt it.
What ate Banks chartered for? What
would our New York friends say, were the
mei chants of this city to assemble and resolve
to suspend payment of their notes to an in
definite period. Would that suffice them?
Again, vvhat course would the Banks here
pursue if we were to inform them that our
notes would not be paid at maturity, hut on
ly when we were ready—would they show
any mercy—it is not the character of (he
Banks now? lam not opposed to Banks, if
they would remain in their own shell; but I
have been an observer of their operations here
and elsewhere. No wonder we poor devils
nave to sutler. By the time we go to New
York and buy goods and pay all expenses,
and then pay 8 or ten per cent exchange,
where are our profits. It is really awful.
lew davs ago you could not buy exchange of
our Banks here with iheir own notes, because
they knew that they would suspend, and (lien
exchange could be put up to Sand 10 per
cent. It is very plain to me—l venture
to say that if they were then disposed, they
could have drawn on New York, fi>rdouble
the amount requisite to have supplied the
wants of exchange. But the difficulty was,
oniy two percent for exchange. I could say
something in regard to uncurrent funds—l
presume most ol our business men know this
tender cord, existing between banks &, bro
kers. It appears to me, that all banks ought
tube on a par, that do not pay specie. I have
heard it remarked that our Banks are better
off - than the other banks of the State, I can see
no just reason for the remark. How do they
manage in regard to country Banks, their
notes are bankable as long as they have funds
in their drawers, but they slip out twenty
when they take one, and when they pav it
all out, it is not bankable. We take it be
cause it is bankable at the time; the first
thing we know, is, we are shaved on it, that
is the deep game that has, and will be played
as long as the Banks are the government and
ruling power. I shall refrain for the present,
on th s point, on the whole we have been
trampled on enough.
SUSPENSION OF SPECIE PAYMENTS.
On Monday last, the Banks of this City a
gain shut down; and since that time have* re
deemed their bills only with other notes or ex
change, at current rates.
Tms measure, as we are informed, has been
rendered imperative, by the increasing demand
for specie from foreign sections—the wants
of Alabama, Tennessee and Florida, having
been principally supplied by our city
for a month past.
We seriously regret that any necessity
should have occurred to produce sacharesul.
-—and yet altera lull and general conversation
with gentlemen connected with the Banks,
we are entirely satisfied that a different course
on their part would have involved the country
m the most distressing embarrassments.
From all we can learn in these enquiries,
which we have instituted solely for the bene
fit of our readers—we are yet unshaken in
the opinion that the Banks of Columbus, are
in as healthy and sound a condition as any in
the country—and that the suspension at pre
sent, instead of diminishing, will materially
increase the strength of the Banks, as well as
accommodate the necessities of the people.
\\ e, perhaps, like others, have been too much
in the habit of considering these institutions
as maintaining a separate interest in the com
munity. Our recent enquuir-, however, have
dissipated the last vestige of such an opinion,
and established the conviction in our own
mn ds, that whatever others may do, the
Banks of Columbus must either suspend for
a while, or multitudes of our people (to an
extent much greater than we had before sup
posed,) will be sacrificed under the hammer
of the Sheriffi Under this view of the sub.
ject, we would still bespeak a kind and gen
erous indu ! gcnce o.i the part ol bill holders,
aiid re-affirm our opinion tiiat Columbus Bills
are as good as the nest in the country.
Columbas Enquirer
COLUMBUS BANKS.
Well, our banks have suspended— except
the Phoenix Bank. In relation to this, we
have only to say, as we have said of other banks;
we 1 ope the Governor will have the i.erve to
execute the Jaw. Banks which cannot or will
not answer the purpose for which they were
es ablished, ought not to be a lowed the ex
traordinary privileges which have been gran
ted them. One thing, however, may be truly
said oHihe banks of this place; they have made
a fair bona fide effort to pay specie; as long
as they pretended to pay they paid to all who
demanded; this is no reason however why they
should be exempted from the operation of tho
iaw. That they are unable to redeem their
bjlls prove either that Banking is a business
which ought not in any'shape to be carried on,
or that these banks have been mismanaged:
They have been granted privileges which are
denied to the citizens, in return for which they
were to confer upon the country certain bene- j
tits; whether from want of ability or from want
f disposition is no matter; suffice it, that they ,
have tailed to do what they promised to do j
and the privilege ought no longer to be allow-
ed them.
We said privileges had been granted which
were denied to the citizens; and shame upon
them men be democrats; advo
cates of equal righ's and privileges, voted at
the last session of the Legislature of Georgia,
to continue these exclusive privileges. Had
theiavv passed to destroy this shameful restric
tion, there would not have been this day, three
suspended Banks in Georgia; until the res
triction is taken off, and banking left to regu
late itself, we shall never have a regular bank
ing business which shall be able to withstand
the shocks of the reverse of trade. The peo
ple have brought these evils upon themselves,
by their mean subserviency to the Banks, and
they must suffer the consequences. They
complain of the banks as they exist; yet they
reiuse to apply the only remedy which can re
move the evil.
The restrictive system never has worked
well in any thing: it never will; experience
lias proven that it works badiy In banking.
Let the legislature therefore destroy all hank
ing or have it free.— Argus.
From the Charleston Mereury. Match 3.
THE COTTON CROP.
We have watched the progress of the mar
ket and the arrival of the crop with no little
anxiety—from the apparently well-grounded
tear, not yet fully relieved, that the great in
flux of cotton during the early pan of the sea
son, would, when fully felt, in the European
market, create a rev ulsion in the price of our
staple. The danger of such an effect is not
in our opin on yet passed, and we regard the
present time as the most critical moment of
the season, to the speculators in cotton—but
that is their look out. We have endeavored
as iar as depended on the influence of one
journal, to ward off such revulsion by an ex
position of the true state of the crop and the
reasons peculiar to the year which had brought
so large a part of it prematurely to market.—
These reasons and the conclusion we drew
from them, stand now amply confirmed. On
the first of January last, we staked our credit
on the prophecy, that by the first of March,the
receipts of the present crop would have fallen
short of those of the same period last year,
200,000 bales. The following is a compara
tive statement of the receipts in all the South
ern ports to the latest dates:
1840—1. 1839-40.
New Orleans, Feb. 20, 475,692 534,877
Mobile, “ 24, 182,335 212,550
Florida, “•> 6, 35,838 33,324
Georgia, “ 25, 65,453 130,402
South Carolina, “ 26, 111,080 164,212
North Carolina, “ 6, 2,110 4,631
Virginia, “ -1, 4,655 6,009
Sea Island, 10,431 15,141
887,610 1,100,137
887,610
212,527
It appears then that the receipts of the pre
sent year so far, have fallen short of the same
dates last year by 212,527 bales. Let it be
remembered too, that for two months after the
commencement of the season, the receipts of
the present crop exceeded these of the last
year; that at the time we made the prophecy
now so completely fulfilled, the receipts had
not fallen short of the greatest crop yet pro
duced.
From the comparative statement given a
bove, we are also able to estimate, with some
certainty, the entire amount of the ciop. At
dates given above in 1840, more than one half
of the crop had come to market. If we allow
the same proportion of the present crop to have
come in, the entire amount of the cotton crop
will be about 1,080,(XX) bales. But the argu
ments we adduced on a former occasion to j
show that the present crop was much earlier I
gathered and much more rapidly thrown into 1
the market, induce us to make a still further
deduction from the present crop, which on the
best consideration we have been able to o-jve
the subject, we set down at not over 1,60!)J)00
bales. It is improbable that the crop will
much tall short ot that, and still more improb
able that it will much exceed it. With this
limit to production, no one will say that the
rise in price is extravagant, or that if it were
understood, there would be any danger of a
depression in our staple. The true danger is,
that our friends across the water wilfdraw
wrong conclusions from the great influx of the
crop in the first four months of the season.
The Tariff ’.—The following from the Ricl>
mond Whig of Alonday will commend itself
to perusal :
There has been great disappointment in
the effects of the reduction.of the Tariff. It
has led to vast importations; to an enormous
debt to Europe ; to a drain of bullion; and to
the exaggeration of the financial difficulties,
superinduced by the mad tampering and expe
rimenting of the Jackson era. Who can point
to the single advantage it has brought the coun
try, to counterbalance these injurious effects !
We have challenged and challenge again,
South Carolina to produce a single item.-
Has more of her cotton and rice b“en con
sumed, or at as good prices as belbre the re
duction took place f Does she purenase low
er than before, or as low ! Let us venture
upon a prophecy. If Great Britain consum
mates her known policy of growing Cotton in
her Asiatic Colonies, and South Caroli a is
excluded thereby from her markets, or under- i
sold, South Carolina will then knock £t the j
doors -of Congress, and ask for protection for
her cotton. She will seek to secure the
American market to (he American growth.
Men’s opinions have undergone in the South,
and are now undergoing, great changes in
respect to the Tariff They contrast the pre
sent with the past; and the comparison is in
favor of protecting our own manufactures.—
We believe we truly stated public opinion,
when we said that our objections to the tariff
were political, not economical; that the true ;
objections to i f , were first, the hostility of
sections to it, and second!}', its liability Repro
duce a redundant Treasury.
Our Navy. —The number of Post Captains
in the Navy is 55—the oldest in rank being
James Barron. The numbers of Masters
Commandant is also 55, —of lieutenants 290,
—of passed midshipmen 101, —of midshipmen
231, —of surgeons 01, —of passed assistant
s.irgeons 17, —of assistant surgeons 51,—pur
sers 51,—0f chaplains 10,—of sailing masters
29.
The pay of a senior captain on sea sen-ice,
is SL-500 per annum; of do. on eave $3,500;
captains of squadrons $1,000; do. on other du
ty $3,500 ; do. olfduty $2,500; Master Com
mandants in sea service $2,500; do. on leave
of at sence $1,800; Lieutenants commanding
$1,800; do. on other dutys 1,500; do. on
leave $1,200; surgeon from SI,OOO to $2,-
700, according'to their term of service; as
sistant surgeons, from $650 to $1,200 ; chap
lains at sea $1,200 ; do. on leave $800; pas
sed midshipmen at $750; do. waiting orders
$600; midshipmen at sea $400; oth
er duty $350; sailing master of a slrp of war
at sea $l,lOO : do. on other duty $1,000;
professor of mathematics $1,200; teachers of
naval sv.h-nce slßo.— Sac. Rep.
The first paper started in the United States
was the News Letter published in Boston in
1704, and continued 72 years. —Columbus
Enquirer.
The city of New York contains about 310,-
000 inhabitants, and is still rapidlv growing
in population and extent 850 new buildings
were erected there during the past year, beino
-176 more than were built in 1839. ib. °
__ POSTSCRIPT.
Thursday, March 11—10 o’clock, a. m.
In conseijuence of the heavy and continued
rains, we have been visited with a tremendous
freshet. The river has been, and is now,
rapidly rising. Our beautiful bridge, new and
perfectly sound, has been swept away by the
destructive waters. All the bridges in the
neighborhood have been carried off, and nothing
now remains hut one splendid mass off ruins.
It is supposed by some that Col. Jones’ mills
will be carried off, but we entertain our doubts.
Some fear that the water will rise over the
bluff, at the upper part of town—if so, no one
knows where the destruction will cease.
From the Wasliingion Correspondence of the Charles
ton Courier.
Washington, March 1.
Among the arrivals here, last night, were
Messrs. “Tippecanoe and Tyler too,” from
Richmond. The city is already thronged with
strangers from all quarters, and more are ex
pected. The office seekers have taken the
city by storm. They hunt in packs. Each
seeker brings with him half a dozen friends to
back his application.
The nomination of Peter V. Daniel, of Vir
ginia, as Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court, will not be acted upon, and no appoint
ment will be made from Virginia. The Sen
ate, by a vote of 134 to 13, agreed to add Vir
ginia and North Carolina to the Maryland cir
cuit, and to create n new circuit in the south
west. There will then be five Judges in the
old States and four in the new, which will be
a more equitable and convenient distribution
of the circuits. There is no doubt that the
House is disposed to concur in the measure,
and therefore the nomination will lie till the
fourth of March, when Gen. Harrison will
make a nomination from the southwest.
In the Senate, to day, Mr. Buchanan, from
the Committee on Foreign Affairs, made a
report (n the state of the negotiations with
the British Government. The report states
that the negotiation in regard to the bounda
ry question promises to terminate in a satisfac
tory adjustment of that matter, and that noth
ing new has occured in relation to the Caro*
line and McLeod affair.
Mr. Buchanan distinctly contradicted the
i eport that an angry correspondence had been
lately carried on between Mr. Fox and Mr.
Forsyth, in relation to the case of McLeod.
I here had been no new correspondence that
was worthy of publication.
Mr. Clay said that overy thing looked deci
dedly pacific, and he had never yet brought
his nund to the contemplation of war, as a
possible event. He stated that there was no
necessity whatever for a special mission to
England in relation to this matter, and he ho
ped there would be none, though it had been
suggested in the public prints. He thought
it high time, however, to proceed to the adop
tion of some plan of national defece.
Mr. Cuthbert took occasion to bring- forward,
in proof of assertions made by hitn, on a for
mer day, some resolutions adopted at a rriet
ting in Boston over which Mr. Webster pre
sided, declaring that Congress lias the consti
tutional power to prohibit the inler-State slave
trade. Let that be established, said Mr. C.,
and what remains to the South.
Mr. Preston, Mr. Clay and Mr. Rives read
passages from Mr. Webster’s speeches, &c.,
showing that he denied to Congress the pow
er to interfere, in any manner, with tl-e slave
institutions of the southern States.
Mr. Rives referred to Mr. Webster’s speech
in reply to Gen. Hayne—a production, he said,
unsurpassed by the orations of ancient or
modern times, and which, in his opinion, threw
them all into the shade—to prove that, in Mr.
Webster’s opinion, the power granted of “re
gulating commerce” did not imply a power
to prohibit commerce, but the power to pass
needful rules concerning the conduct of that
commerce.
Mr. Walker maintained tint, if the Supreme
Court of the Uni’ed States’ should decide, in
the Mississippi slave case, that the State laws
prodibiting the introduction of slaves as mer
chandize are repugnant lo the clause of the
constitution granting Congress the power to
“regulate commere,” then all would be con
ceded to the abolitionists that t hey desired;
and the Supreme Court had already decided,
in two cases, that the power to regulate com
merce was-a power to prohibit commerce.-
Mr. Clay expressed a different opinion, and
maintained that the argument which he and
his associate, Mr. Webster, urged in that
cause against the validity of the State laws,
went to fortify the-southern States against the
assaults of the abolitionists.
[Correspondence of the Southern Patriot.]
In the course of the morning, a rumor was
set afloat that a very angry correspondence
had j rust taken place between Messrs. Fox
and Forsyth on the case of McLeod, and wh ch
it was said foreboded immediate hostilities be
tween us and England. Mr. Pickens des ?
patched a message to the State department
to learn the facts. After the message had
returned Mr. Pickens stated to the House that
there was not the slightest foundation for such
a rumor, and that no correspondence had ta
ken place thet could alter the position of the
parties at the time the last correspondence was
forwarded to the House.
In the Senate, owing to the above rumor,
Mr. Buchanan, the chairman of the committee,
declared most explicitly that no such corres
pondence as was rumored had taken place, and
that nothing had occurred to change at all
the nature ol the case as it stood a fortnight
ago.
There are some, however, who believe that
the course of Messrs. Pickens and Buchanan
is adopted only as a matter of policy, and that
an angry correspondence has taken’place. It
cannot be supposed for a moment, however,
that the country would thus designedly be
kept in ignorance of such important move
ments.
From the Wellington (Ga.) News, Feb. 12.
THE GEORGIA RAIL ROAD BANK.
This institution has again suspended Specie
payments. The bills are still received and
paid out by the Banks in Augusta, and the
Branch at that place continues to pay Specie.
This suspension, we understand, has been
caused not by any want of confidence in the
solvency of the Bank in this part of the State
to which it has supplied the chief circulation;
but by runs made upon it by brokers and per
sons from other States. The institution has
paid out since the first of February, no less
than $184,000 in specie and its equivalent,
as we are told on the authority of its Presi
dent.
Girard College. —This marble palace now
in the progress of construction, for the educa
tion of poor orphans, according to the will of
the late Stephen Girard, affords of the most
astonishing instances of squandering an estate
on record. According to the Philadelphia
Ledger, seventeen thousand dollars axe now an
nually expended in salaries to officers and ar
tisans connected with the institution. A. D.
Bache, the President, has a salary of four thou
sand dollars per annum, from the time of his
appointment in July, IBH3-
The cost of thirty four splendid and needless
colums, amounts to the enormous sum of
-$448,800, or $13,000 each. The corner stone
was laid on the 4th of July, 1833 ; the ar
chitect was appointed the 23d of March 1833 ;
the clerk of the trustees was appointed in
March, 1833, and the President was appoin
ted in July, 1836.
The estimated cost of the College, was
$700,000 and of the out buildings, $200,000,
making a total of $900,000. It is a well as
certained fact that the expenses up to Janua
ry last, on the College, amount to the colos
sal sum of $1,372,712,45, and the College is
reported by the architect, to be about two thirds
completed.— TTs 'tchlmeer.
Fiorn the Georgia Jeffersonian, March C.
YOUNG MEN’S CONVENTION.
We desire to call the attention of the Dem
ocratic Young Men of Georgia to the consid- |
eration of their coining Convention, and to put ]
them in remembrance that it is time they
were making some preparatory arrangements. \
The meeting is appointed to be held in Mill
edgeville, on the first Monday in May next,
and we should like to see our young friends
up and doing while there is yet plenty of time.
There is nothing like “taking time by the fore
lock” in the various engagements of life, to
execute their designs effectively; and surely
there can be none of more importance, or
which should engage a more prompt and
hearty attention from Southern patriotism at
the present time, than our political duties.—
When black cockade federalism and bigotted
abolitionism are walking forth arm and arm in
the broad glare of sunlight, there is no time
to dally; when the one is eleva‘ed to the high
est dignity in the Government, and the other
is “setting up his marks of progress” in the
same direction, there is no room for doubt—
Who can be so dead to his country’s best in
terest as to remain listless and caroless when
they so loudly call him to action?
It is not our design, at least not now, to ad
vance any arguments in favor of the propriety
of this Convention. We presume our humble
efforts m that way will not be necessary. All
must be aware of the efficiency of delibera
tion, concert and harmony, and none will deem
the object so unimportant as to be willing to
treat it lightly.
We trust then, that the Democratic Young
Men of the State will, without longer delay,
proceed to ‘hold county meetings, organize
themselves into societies, elect officers, and
make such other arrangements and appoint
ments as shall he deemed of service to the
good cause.
\ oung men ! you are called to do a great
work. The enemy is abroad, flushed with
victory and rejoicing in his strength. Will
your proud spirits quail before him, or will you
arm and meet him? Shall he he permitted to
sweep the land, or will you rebuke him, and
teach him, that federal and aristocratic prin
ciples, though they may be successful for a
while, can have no abiding place on the soil of
freedom? Forward then to the rescue ! and
remember, tiiat if your efforts cannot always
command success, they may always deserve
it.
From the Richmond Enquirer, t eb.27.
CONTkOVER Y WITH NEW YORK.
We lay before our readers a letter from a
distinguished gentleman of Albany, and the
proceedings of the Legislature of New York,
as they appear in the Albany Argus. The
whole movement shows the anxiety of the
Democrats to do us justice. The Whigs
there are against us, but we hope better
things from the Whigs of the Legislature of
Virginia. We know that several of them are
determined to march on, to stand shoulder by
shoulder, without regard to party ; and may
we not hope, that Virginia will present an un
divided front on this occasion ;
“Albany, Feb. 19, 1841.
“I send the Argus of this morning, by which
you will see that the friends of Gov. Seward
have given the question between Virginia and
New York the go-by. The vote lor post
ponement was a strict party vote, with the
exception of Mr. Wier of N, Y-, who voted
for the postponment, so as to move a recon
sideration. The true vote therefore should
be, in favor of postponement, 49 Whigs—
against it, 40 Democrats. The House was a
thin one, and the Wh gs had probably deter
mined on their course in caucus.”
[The motion to reconsider has boon cut off’
by the rules, it is therefore abandoned.[
From the Alba y Argus.
“Mr. Strong called for the consideration of
the Virginia resolutions, the question being
on Mr. L. Hubbell’s amendments to Mr. Loo
mis’s substitute for the original resolution—
the latter proposing a reference of the mat
ter in controversy to a select joint commit- j
tee.
The House* agreed to consider them—ayes
74, noes 22.
Messrs. Duor (Whig) and S. C. Hawley,
(Whig) addressed the House at some length
in favor of Mr. llubbell’s proposition—that
no action was called for or expedient on ibe
part of the legislature of New York.
Mr. L. S. Chatfield, (Hern.) in an able and
conclusive exposition of the constitutional
question, repudiated the positions taken by the
Governor thioughout the controversy.
Mr. Beckwith (Conservative) followed at
length, on the other side ; when
Mr. Wheaton (Whig) moved the indefinite
postponement of the whole subject.
Mr. Skillman moved a call of the House, it
being half past two, and many members absent
—but it was denied.
Mr. Me Murray (Democrat) moved an ad
journment. Host..
Mr. L. Hubbell (Conservative) demanded
ti e previous (question—on the motion to post
pone.
The call was seconded, and the main ques
tion ordered to be put, and it was carried by
a party vote—except that Mr. Weir voted m
the affirmative.
Mr. Weir rose immediately to move a re
consideration, but Mr. Duer moved an ad
journment, and the Chair put the question,
and the House adjourned to 10 o,clocn to-mor
row morning.”
EF In a late number of the Richmond En
quirer, we found the following opinion of
Chancellor Ken*, of the controversy between
Virginia and New York:
Chancellor Kent's Opinion of the controversy
between New York and Virginia.
“The Constitution of the United States has
provided for the surrender of fugitives from
justice, between the several States, in cases of
“treason, felony, and other crime,” but it has
not designated the specific crimes for which a
surrender has been made, and this has led to
difficulties, as between the States. Thus, for
instance, in 1839 the Governor of Virginia
made application to the Governor of New
York, for the surrender of three men, char
ged by affidavit as being fugitives from justice,
in feloniously stealing and taking away from
one Colley , in Virginia, a negro slave Isaac, the
property of Colley. The application was made
under the act of Congress of Feb. 12, 1793,
chapter 7, sec I, founded on the Constitution
ol the U. Stales, Art 4, sec. 2, as being a case
of treason, felony, or other crimes , within the
j Constitution and the Law, and certified as the
j statute directed. The Governor of New York
refused to surrender the supposed fugitives,:
on the ground that slavery, and property in
slaves did not exist in Nevv York and that the
offence was not a crime known to the Laws
ot New York, and consequently not a crime
within the meaning of the Constitution and \
statute of the U. S. The Executive and Le-1
gislative authorities of Virginia, on the other!
hand, considered the case to be within the
provision of the Constitution and the law, and i
that the refusal was b denial of righo.
It was contended that the Constitution of
the United States recognizes the lawful ex
istence of slaves as property, for it apportions
the representatives among the States on the
basis 0 the distinct.on between free persons
and other persons, and it provides in Art. 4,
sec. 2, lor the;r surrender when escaping from
one State to another:—that slaves were re
garded as property, in nearly all the States
and protected as such, and particularly in N.
York, when the Constitution was made ; and
that the repeal of those laws and renunciation
of that species of property, in one State, does .
not affect the validity of the laws and of that
species of property in another State ;—and
that the refusal to surrender felons, who steal j
that property in Virginia, and flee with it, or
without it, to New Y'ork, on the ground that
blacks are no longer .regarded as propertv in
New York, ie a violation of the Federal com-
pact, and of the act of Congress thereon
This case involves very gra\e considerations.
I have read and considered every authority,
document, and argument on the subject, that
were within my command, and in my humble
view of the question, I cannot but be of the
opiuion that tiib claim of the Governor of
Virginia was well founded, and entitled to be
recognized and enforced.
(Commentaries on American lair, by Chan,
cellar Kent, voL 1, 4//t Edition, note to p. 37.
From Florida —By a passenger in the stea
mer Gen. Clinch, Capt. Brooks, arrived yes
terday from Florida, we learn that not long
since two Seminole Indians favorable to emi
gration, came across a party of fifty warriors
of the Creek tribe. They invited the Semi
noles to camp with them that night, when the
subject of emigration was freely talked over,
the Creeks trying to persuade the Semino'es
not to give up. Next morning finding they
u\ Hid uot yield to their persuasions, the two
Semmoles were attacked and one of them
killed. The other, badly wounded, made his
escape and came into Fort King and delivered
humeL up to Col. Riley, to whom ho gave
the particulars above stated.— Savannah “lien.
March 5.
The Navy. —lt is stated that we have at
the various Navy \ ards throughout the coun
try, materials for building 20 sail of the line,
19 trigates, and a number of steamers.
The Richmond Whig of Thursday savs :
A rumor is afloat, and we devoutly hope it
may prove true, that Mr. Clay will be des
patched forthwith to London on a special mis
sion to open negotiations tor the final adjust
ment of difficulties. The occurrences at l/ock
port seem to require immediate action to avert
.so direful a calamity as war.
4 rom Ihe Georgia Aigus if yestfrdoy.
DAGUERREOTYPE.
Our fellow-citizens, Messrs. Fogle & Ech
ols, have put into operation in this city, one of
these—things—we do not know what else to
call i! ; by which a correct miniature likeness
is taken in a few minutes. This operation is
one of the most wonderful of the effects of
the scientific discoveries of the age. Those
who desire to perpetuate the existing appear
ance ot their laces, have now an opportunity
of doing so, by calling at Mr. Fogle’s Jewel
lets shop, on Broad street. We have seen
specimens of miniatures tales there ; which
are very striking in their resemblance to the
original.
Steamboats. —There were 131 steamboats
built tn 1837, throughout the Union. New
\ ork possesses the greatest number of steam
boats. Li December, 1838, she had 140, with
a tonnage of 13,243. Massachusetts had but
12, with a tonnage oi 1,443. Savannah Rep.
Mortgage of Jernrsalun.— h is now au
thenticated, that ttie Rolh.-childs hold a mort
gage ol the Holy City, a circumstance that
gi'Ts extraordinary interest to the move
ment ol the Jews, and the signs of the times
. Craolcs in stoves and stove pipes, are rcad
'ly closed by a paste made of ashes and salt,
j vvitii water. Iron filings, sal amnion re, and
water, make a hard and more durable ce
ment.
A patent has recently been taken out for a
machine which is to supersede the hitherto
known methods ot raising water. It is termed
Hall’s Patent Hydranl.c Belt, and is already
in operation in many par's of the country for
the purpose ol draining gland. The contri
vance is 1 1 io most simple, being merelv com
posed of a whooilen belt which is made to
revolve rounnd two ro'lers one keeping the
bell beneath the wafer, and the oilier fixed at
any required attitude. The adhesion of tho
water to the woollen hell overcomes the gra
vity of that ©lenient, when a velocity of 1000
leet per minute is acquired, a continot;a
stream is Lrdhght up and poured in the recei
ving pipes.— John Bull.
ILj Iho receipts of Cotton at Augusta anti
Hamburg this season up to the Ist insf., are
73,515 bales. At the same time last season
there were received 142,690. Difference 63,,
085 bales—JAM.
Hard Times.*™ Nine demijohns of old Ma,
deira wine were sold the other day, at twenty
dollars a gallon, or one hundred dollars a dent,
ijohn, ; nd ten more, not so old, at ten dollars
a gallon. The nine were taken by one indi,
vidual lor family use.— ,Y- Y. Jour. Com.
t A Philanthropist, by way of illustrating tjie
horrors of solitary confinement, stated that out
of one hundred persons sentenced to endure
imprisonment for life in an American j rison,
only fifteen survived it,
It is stated that the loss on tea in London,
on the arrival of the late news from China, a,
mounted to upwards of $6,000,000.
The Natchitoches Herald, of the 30:h Jan
says:
The commissioners of the United States
and the Republic of Texas, appointed to com*
jdete l uniting the boundary line, passed up
the river this morning in the steamer Ca.fdo,
mr Winfieid’s carpet factory, at Pough=
keepsie, New i ork, lias 65 operatives, and
turns out 100,000 yards of carpeting and. a
million yards ol binding, annually.— Savan ,
mih Rep,
A Heavy Revenue.-™ Cuba, with a popula.
tion ot less than a million and a half, pays to
the mother country the enormous revenue of
! $12,000,000.
| O’ Two Hundred Millions of leeches, it is
estimated, are annually exported into Eng,
land! Costing two millions dollars. They
j are principally imported from Hamburg. The)
Dutch no dcubt, find Johny Bull a good sub,
ject to draw upon.
j O’ Out of 1300 “Whig,’’ voters, in the
10 h ward of the city of New York, there are
i said 10 be 923 applicants lor situations irj the
j Custom House,
Interesting lo Blacksm blacksmith
of Milan lias discovered that, by suspending
a length of chain to one of the corners of the
i anvil by means of a ring, the noise of the
hammer may be almost entirely deadened.
O* The new Hotel at Charleston was sold
the other day for $84,622, cash. It was pur
chased by the City Council— Savannah Rep.
It is perhaps not generally known, that for
a small commission the post offices in Eng
land will check upon each other, thereby in
suring the safe transmission of money from
one part of the kingdom to another.* By a
recent order of the postmaster general the
commission is reduced, on sums not exceed
ing £2, -from sixpence to three pence, and on.
sums exceeding £2 , and not jt!s from Is. sd.
to9d.
THE CELEBRATED HORSE
ROBIN HOOD
WILL stand the ensuing season, one ha’f of his.
time at my stable, nineteen miles ab-.ve Coium,
bus, in Russell county, A.a., and the other part of his
time at Lafayette, Chambers county. Ala., and will be
:et to mares at the. reduced |>r ; ce of Fifty Dollars, duo
-s'h of December next. Mares sent over thirty
miles will be fed t.vo months gratis. Persons failing
to get a colt in the Spring, will be allowed the Fall
season gratis, if the mares are sent to ipy stable. All
care will be taken to prevent escapes
but no liabilities for either. *
A- to Robin’s performances pn the turf, a rest rerep
to the Stud Book or the Spirit of the Times, \> i l ] .j Vt v
entire satisfaction. It is also due him to say tl ai his
colts, so far as trials have been made, have be. i, - „v.
passed by none in the United States.
The season wll commence the first o” M a y|, -.nJ
end the first of July. Z. WHITE 7
JNO. CROVt LLL.
Jan. 27, 1841. 43 ts >..