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TIIE TIMES. W% The union of the states anti the Ko7ereign<y oft he states COLUMBUS,-AUGUST I‘2, 1841. ’ FUR GOVERNOR, Charles j. McDonald. Report or Deaths in the City of Colum bus, for the week ending the 9th inst. One. Consumption—Woman. WILLIAM S. CHrPLEY, p r ,.sj lent of the Board of Health. We publish to-day, a? many persons have expressed an anxiety to see it in print, the suldress to the Voters of Muscogee, in Sep -tomber last, by the members elect to the last Legislature. It is taken from the Columbus Enquirer, of September 20, IS4O. Health of Columbus.— This City is in the enjoyment of uninterrupted health. The Reports of the President of the Board ol Health published weekly in the JourraJs of this City, show an exemption from disease h >•■<! y enjoyed by any other City of the same population in the whole country. Alabama Elections. —The returns are 60 imperfect as yet, that we cannot calculate the result in Alabama, so far as majorities are concerned, There is little, or no doubt, of the election of a Democratic Governor, and a majority in both Branches of the Legislature of the same political complexion. We will endeavor to give particulars in our next paper. Meriwether Warm Springs. —We learn by persons direct from the Springs, that the collection of visitors is very large, and daily in creasing. There are at this delightful spot, in addition to the families living separately, about 100 boarders at the public house. The Washington correspondent of the Charleston Courier, under date of August 5, says that the amendment to the Bank Bill, made by the Senate, which amendment has reference to the Branching power, is vigor ously opposed in the House by some of the most strenuous Bank men—Messrs. Marshall and Underwood, of Kentucky, Mr. Adams, Mr. Wise and others—as conceding too much to the States. Mr. Proflit, (a Whig) in the course of the debate, stated that it was idle to say that the last Presidential election turned upon the Bank question, or any other ques tion, save the single one to overthrow* a cor rupt administration; and that if the Executive chose to veto a Bank, he would compromise no principle of the Whig party, nor would such action on his part disturb the friendly relations of that party. The same writer also observes that the Madisonian, a whig press at Washington, has a studied editorial vindicating the perfect right of Mr. Tyler to veto the Bank bill, if, in his opinion, it conflicts with the Constitution.— This is rather ominous of the fate of the bill What will the Columbus Enquirer say to the declaration of Mr. Proffit, one of its polit ical friendsl Tiie Enquirer is going to inflict terrible vengeance upon us for the sins it alleges to have been perpetrated by the Editor of the Sentinel and Herald, during the last cam paign. It says we “ shall not be exempted from a due proportion of the things which are his” In what school did the Enquirer study Theology 1 Whence derive its code of hon or; its maxims of morality and justice ? The Enquirer ought to be cautious how it inter feres with the concerns of other men. A re currence to past scenes, to its indiscriminate condemnation of men and measures, should impose silence upon such subjects. Is it al together certain that, in its efforts to at tain consequence, and mount to dignity at the expense of others, the Enquirer may not encounter someone, who will be able to elevate its portrait by its side, however high its fan cied exaltation. Ought it not, therefore, to restrain the puerile ebullitions of its vanity, and rely on other considerations for public favor. While threatening to whip “hardy of fenders into the path of honor,” may it not tremble under the rod which it holds suspen ded over others* wr. were asked by a correspondent to pub lish the proceeding's of the Legislature res pecting the application to admit certain Indi ans to the rights of citizenship. We have done so in our paper of to-day. The Enquirer of yesterday says it was not a party measure, that a Van Buren member of the Legislature introduced the Bill. Admit it, and does it prove the measure to be correct! We are not so drilled i.i party tactics as to rul pt, by wholesale and without examination, whatever party proposes. tJAs the Enquirer read a communication published in the Southern Recorder of last week, inching the Western and Atlantic Rail Road, and by whom it was projected and has been earned on ? That communication properly rebukes the far-fetched attempts of he Me iher to fix upon Governor Lumpkin <•” J Governor McDonald the odium, (whatever ty be ) >ud the xpenseattending thecon ” her of that road. It shows pretty clearly and ’. ra of itsetvn party have had some tod; .a tho matter, and if the Enquirer Vui examine the Journals of the Legislature tor a few years pas-, it will, in all probability ueteot the linger of some of its own politica t'-ier. is most conspicuous in the matter. Look yeu leap. j he Washington News and Southern —There journals, in reply to some nuie-r.ts made by this paper recently, inre :• ice to public opinion in Georgia respeet !n o “ -Wuonal Bank, prior to the last October fret ion, correct the misapprehension into h we ,iad fallen as to their course on tliat - ■ ‘jdet during the last political campaign. a- we hau not their files before us, we spoke Hum recollection of the manner in which the mutest was conducted, and the leading argu ments employed to effect a change of adminis tration. Without questioning in the slightest degree tfeft correctness of the etatementj made by there papers—or attributing to them the fft. consistency of the Columbus Enquirer, which, without saying one word in favor of a Na tional Bank during the whole campaign, now endorses the statement embraced m the pre amble, introduced into the last Legislature, by the lion. Senator from Talbot, that the issue was Bank or no Bank—we would like to see the strongest editorial article published by either, or both of them, prior to the Octo ber election on the subject of a National Bank. We have a curiosity (idle though it mav be.) to see the peculiar phraseology em ployed in trpnfinga subject elsewhere, which* here, was handled with the greatest tenderness. The Columbus Enquirer of yesterday omits ♦o make the “curious developements” in rela tion to the tax law, which, it said on the 28th of last month, “we intend to (not “might”') speak of hereafter.” It is waiting, it says yesterday, for our “do velopements*” Have vve not made them, at least until there is some show of reason for the imposition of a most exorbitant tax ] We said that a most oppressive tax was im posed by the majority in the last Legislature —that majority elected with professions of re trenchment and economy on their lips—and an especial desire to relieve the people from “burdensome taxation.” We showed also that this odious law was rejected at one time by a large majority, and that it was finally hurried through,on the same day it was recon sidered—and without the yeas and nays being recorded. What further developements does the Enquirer wish before it makes its “curious developements!” If we may be permitted to hazard a conjecture, may we not ask if it has not been found on reflection that the “cu rious developements” alluded toby the Enqui rer, have nothing to do with the question of the necessity of the passage of the tax law, and that, therefore, their publication will in no-wise exculpate the majority in the Legisla ture. THE REVENUE BILL. If this act is passed in its present shape, imposing a duty on coffee of 20 per cent., we make this prediction, that while that duty ex ists the average price of the article in this coun try will he no higher than it has been for the last ten years , when ii has been free. Our people have been accustomed to think the consumer pays all the duty, and that has made them too sensitive at the cry of “ TariJ .” We select Coffee as an article of common consumption, and upon which the facts can be more readily ascertained than most others, but are willing to take any other item. If our prediction proves true, we shall then have thrown down the greatest strong hold that theorists have, against “ protective duties.’ 4 The above extraordinary statement is taken from the Savannah Republican of the sth of August. We can imagine no other motive for an assertion so preposterous, than an ap prehension of increased hostility to the ma jority in Congress, who are about to fasten an improper and oppressive Revenue Bill on the country, and a desire to protract, for the pres ent, an expression of disapprobation which must inevitably attend the operation of this law. “Our people” will now be shown, says the Republican, that the consumer does not pay all the duty. It was but the other day that a member of Congress observed that it. was now universally conceded that the consumer did pay all the duty. But coflee will not rise in price, in conse quence of the imposition of 20 per cent, duty! Would it rise if 50 or 100 per cent, duty were levied 1 And if the imposition of so en ormous a tax would increase its value (as we presume the Republican will not den}*) why will not the exaction of a less duty raise the price proportionally 1 Or does the Republi can mean to say that you may impose to a cer tain amount, and no alteration in cost will oc cur ; but transcend this limit and the price increases 1 If so, what is. the maximum to which duties may go, and not affect the value of the article taxed f Or, is this the idea of the Republican, that the production will be so increased , or, from other causes, it will he sold so much lower in the Foreign market, that it can be re-sold here at its present price ? Ifthis be the supposition, why then, if it were duty free as it is at present, it would be affor ded at a lower rate than it is now comman ding, and of course the consumer would be correspond ingly benefi Re and. We ask the Republican if the duty laid on coifee is not somewhere or somehow incorpo rated into the price of the article, and who pays for it 1 TaL© the article of iron, the manufacture of which is regular, and not. controlled by climate or seasons, and which, besides, is of absolute, indispensable necessity, will the imposition of 20 per cent, duty affect no change in the price of that article 1 The Republican certainly cannot be seri ous in its assertion that the price of articles are not in the slightest affected by the imposi tion of duties upon them. ’ The Republican must have designed to quiet for the present public disapprobation, which is as sure to fol low the passage of this bill as that the sun shines. Besides, it appears that the articles hereto fore duty free, (and many of which are of es sential importance to the South) will, if the 1 importation be the same, raise under the new i law about three millions of revenue, the a ! mount yearly derived from the public lands. ! Now what does tho Republican think of the action of its party to give away a proper and legitimate income, if not in order to levy a ta riff; vvjiieh necessarily forces its imposition ? It does certainly to a plain, common sense man appear tq be most extraordinary legisla tion—unless the real object vv re to subject the country to a protective tariff. “THE SOBER SECOND THOUGHT. 1 ’ It seems that the Enquirer, on reflection, has declined to engage in the war of argu ment. For more than a year past, with a few exceptions, vve have observed that that print instead of arguing political questions, and gb ving manly and satisfactory reasons for the adoption or denunciation cf particular men and measures, has dealt in generalities —in mere vague assertions—and when questioned as to their correctness,has replied by some pert saying, cr some contemptible fling. Rarely have vve known it to meet an opponent on the independent ground of argument; or to view any interference with, or allusion to the opin ions it advances, or the censures it inflicts— in any other light than as a direct personal! attack on its most important self. Indulging in th? moqj TJftUgitod & jig qisfitjyaglpu ‘of men and roe-Murea, and loOhtg no opperrtu- . nity io speak contemptuously of political op ponents, it never fails to characterise the slightest reference to its opinions, or the man ner of their expression, as “billingsgate” arid “virulence,” and a most unwarrantable inva- j sion of professional courtesy. And vet with ! all this mawkish sensibility—all this protend- j ed reverence for exalted and manly conduct, rarely will you meet with an article in la ; columns, of a political e.V.ra-. in which •re I not most liberally eniplm ed the most di--par g- ’ ing epithets, and the most iiu'uituvr language. Look through.its two last numbers, see how conspicuously in every article, may he seen the words—“False”—“Low fessional”—“ Infamous Falsehood* - ‘iP-rk- ’ ing”—“Silly Blubbering” —and yet the En quirer is reading lec + ures on propriety —hon- [ orable bearing—and professional courtesy. It; exemplifies most viv Jiy the truth of our re mark, a week or two since, “the r ow luquy is the last and shameful refuge of de feated argument” If, however, the Columbus Enquirer thinks to prevent us from expressing our opinions in j our own way, or from at! ml ing to matter j which has appeared, or may appear in its col- : umns—by impotent threats—cr by unmanly : insinuations—why, all we have to say is that j the Enquirer is mistaken. We shall continue ! to deal with its facts and its arguments when- i ever, in our opinion, they are vulnerable, or touch upon what, we believe, to be correct principles of Government. And if, in so doing, the Enquirer chooses to degrade itself, and to acknowledge its inability to handle the weap ons of honorable warfare—by the manufac ture of articles of the kind and description dotted all over its number of yesterday—if, indeed, it prefer to direct public attention to the Times itself, rather than toassf.il the mat ter it contains —why be it so—we shall pro bably regret it as little as the Enquirer. If it wage a contest of that sort, it may possibly be reminded in the progress of it that “Pigmies are pigmies still, though perched on Alps. 1 If the Enquirer be not actuated by improper views, or influenced by motives hostile to the public good, why shrink from examination and argument 1 If it do not dread the justice and the scrutiny of the people; if, in no in stance, it has abandoned their true interests— nor seeks to arrest the expression of disap probation which will surely come, why at tempt to impugn the integrity of a Press which is disposed to hold it to a just and proper account I If it has not pursued a system of favoritism and persecution —if it be insensible of the dissensions and coniusion it has pro duced; if desirous to stand forth the open and manly advocate of tried principles, and to rely on the virtue of the people for support, why seek by unmeaning inuendoes, and snappish cuts, to misdirect public attention, and allay public inquiry ? These and other matters we propose to dis cuss with the Enquirer in future numbers of our paper; and we are constrained to believe that, under the powerful influence of the ‘sober second thought,” the Enquirer, in declining argument with us, is fully convinced of the truth and reasonableness of the saying that “discretion is th e better part of valor.” THE LAS'! LEGISLATURE. Indians admitted to tiie rights of citi zenship.—Agreeably to the request of our Stewart correspondent, we subjoin the pro ceedings of the last legislature respecting the admission of certain Cherokee Indians to all the rights of citizenship. On the 4th December, “the hon so took up, amen ded an.l a >reed to the Report on the Bill to grant the rights and privileges of citizenship to certain persons and their descendants, of the Cherokee tribe ol Indi ans, therein named, and-to remove all legal disabilities heretofore imposed on aaid tribe of Indians, so (ar as respects said persons. The bill was read the third time, and on the question, “shall this hi l now pass ?” it was determined in the affirmative. Whereupon the yeas and nays were required to bs recorded, and are Y eas 111. Nays 72. Those who voted in the affirmative, are Messrs, Alexasd*r, Anderson, of Chatham, Anderson, of Fraunlin, Ashley, Barclay, Beavers, Bell, Bethea, 13iham, Biack, Brown, of Layette, Biown, of Hous ton, Burt, Carlton, Cannon, Carroll, Carswell, Ca venah, Chapman, Chappell, ChjpliY,Collier ,Oo< Its, Craft, Crawford, of Richmond, Ciedillo, Outright, Davenport, Dawson, Delauney, Ellis, Erwin, Espy, Evans, Fasnai l, Flournoy, of Muscogee, Gathright, Green, of Forsyth, Hammond, Hardman, Hardy, Harrison, of Putnam, Hendry, Hitchcock, Hotchkiss, Howard, Hubbard, Hudgins, Hudson, Johnson, of Appling, Johnson, of Heard, Johnson,of Troup, Jones, of Columbia, Jones, of Franklin. Jor dan, Lawson, Lee, Letils, Liddle, Lynch, Martin, of Morgan, Martin, of Gwinnett, Maxwell, Mays, of Cobb, McCall, McComh, McCriinmon, McMillen, of Jackson, McMii.ian, of Thomas, Milien, Mitchell, Moore, Morris, of Cobb, Morris, of Murray, Moul trie, Mulkey, Murphey, of DeKalb, Nash, Osborne, Parks, Pitman, Fitts, Preston,Price, Read, Reynolds, Rhodes, Richardson, Robertson, cf Columbia, Robin s,,n. of Laurens, Rodgers, Sanders, Sermons, Shaw, Slici.i rid, Shropshire, Stuart, of Ware, Sliles, St.ofie, Taylor, Thomas, TtoSibs, Travler, Wales, JVaiker, Warren, Webb, VYlst, YVi.l'hcid, Wiiitworlh, Wil son. Those who voted in the nogStiye, are Messrs. Anderson, of Warren. Atkinson, Bends Boothei Boynton, Bryan, of Wayne, Chandler, (Jravvibid) of Oglethorpe, Crawford, of SumU r, Crutchfield. Daniel, ofGreene, Daniel, of Thomas, Darden, of Troup, Darden, of Warren, Dark, Davis, Dodson, Dr,four, Emanuel, Fiizpatrick, Flournoy, of Wash ington, Ford, oi Cherokee, Ford, of Lee, Franks, Green, of Pike, Hagerman, Hall, Hardage, Harde man, Harris, Hatcher, Hibbert, Hines,Hunter, Jones, of Harris, Keaton, Long, Lowe, Loyal!, Mann, oi Morgan, Mann, of Tattnall, May, of Warren, Mc- Duffie, McGah gan, Me. Math, Moon, Murphey, of Wilkinson, Palmer, Pktiee, Pryor, Rea, Reeves. Roberts, Robinson, of Jasper, Sanford, Sai’P. Smith, Stephens, Stewart, of Mclntosh, Stroud, of Clark, Stroud, of Walton, Sumner, Tanner, Tai ver, Thomp son, Towles, Waldhour. White, of Jasper, While, of Pike, Williams, of Harris, Williams, of Tal bot. Wingfield.” This Bill having passed the House, and been sent to the Senate, was taken up in that body on the I9th December, and on the ques tion, “shall the Bill pass? the yeas and nays ! were required to bo recorded, and are yeas 31, nays 36.” T:n o who voted in tho affirmative, are Messrs. Beall, Blackshear, Bryan, of Macon, Buttock. Camp, Damron, Carter, Cbaslmn.-Chnstian Cox ! Daw.-'n. Diamond. O'mar an. Fryer. Hammond liar-! ri of Tatiaterro, Heflin. JcniesJn, J<m. s , Kenx x ; Knight. Lovcb ss, Man h, McAfee, McConnell, Mil ler. M inter, Morris, Reeves. Bmeao, Strickland of Ware, Thomas, Warthen, Watters. These who voted in the nega'ive, are Messrs. j Beasley, Bishop, Bryan of Su wart, Calhoun. Cone, Creach, Floyd, Glover, Godard, Goode, Gor- I don, Graham, Griggs, Guess. Harris of Burhe, Har ris of Warren, Hoimes of Baker, Janes, Kimzcy, ! Mays, McDonald, Moore, Neal, Rainey. Reid. H ob- > ertsen, Smith of Twiggs, Spender. Stapleton, Strick- I land of I’atn’ll Tomlinson, Vincent, Williams, W'il-: liani-, Williamson, Young. Emory College.— The commencemenl i exercises of this instituton were held on the! 11 th inst. The graduating class were but three in number, viz: Adam C. Porter,, Newton Cos., Gpo., Hen-y A. Bass, Charles- : ton, S. C., and A. R. Holcombe, Newton C 0. ,: Geo.—Who, on receiving the degree of A. 8., i were thus approvingly addressed by the Pres- ! idem : “ You have passed through a protracted College term, without having ever prpoved j even a disapproving look from any of your! preceptors. And, when it is remembered that the duties of Emory College are ex tremely arduous, involving manuel as well as mental labour, a higher compliant could nt lie upop yoUs” i Loitkix, August ft, 1041. j At a nmmrous meeting of the citizens of Stewart equity, at the court house, Stephen ; Weston, Erq. was called to the Chair, and Junius Jordan appointed Secretary. Col. 11. W. Jern gaa being called on, arose i and explained in a happy style, the pur;? me c f the assembly, aver which the atteiff -n ol the audience uas iouuandedbv tkriling re marks from C 01... ues JNi M The LI. Col. J. -). IVts, J a iiq Du - ■, Ned Robinson. Esq. Mr. Basket, Mr. W. rail a-J Maj. Morgan motion, Tit- ■ hair then appointed the fob winggenUei;; .•, ■:,>: 11. W. Jet mg .n, J. U. : tt :, 1m 6. Dupree, N. Chiton, Junius .JoTctan. j. *7.\ 3V r \ rnoi* Pester .“Scott* M M - v Neil Robinson* L. G M-.rgaii Win, 11. Shining, a coin .uU.ec r j reso 1 itions fur the consideration* of far -gzet who, after retiring a short tin. *. •*!< and ’ the annexed, which were unfuimGuffy ad - ud. We the committee appointed to draft reso lutions relative to the deranged state oc the currency, the suffering condition of the couu- Tr;, and the late orders given the St wins’ ol tins county by “plaintiffs m execution,” to ; : ceive nothing but gold and silver, beg leave to report Ike following : 1. Resolved, That we approve the estab lishment of a sound paper currency, when re quired to he kept of specie value. 2. Resolved,” That we a nd; -approve the late demands made upon’ the Sheriffs to collect from defendants their liabilities in gold and silver. ft. Resolved. That this meeting give it as i their opinion that such instructions should be j disregarded, unless it was an express under- j standing when the transaction was made, in j which event we cannot interfere an expres- i sion of opinion. 4. Resolved, That we will not bid for any • citizens property when sold for gold or silver. j 5. Resolved further, That we will protect the Sheriits against any attachment issued for refusing to collect in gold and silver, pro vided he or they - ball make a tender of bills on solvent Banks, or such as are passing without discount. G. Resolved, That wo regret that execu tion and judicial action was so long delayed against the Banks for want of protest, and the debtor part of the community left unprotected, j and while vve thus resolve to protect the Sher- S ids for refusing to collect in gold cr silver, yet we hold it to be their duty to collect in the sound paper currency of the country, and a refusal of that duty will incur our disapproba tion. 7. Resolved, That these proceedings be signed by the Chairman and Secretary, and copies sent to the Columbus Times, Columbus Enquirer and Lumpkin Telegraph for publi cation. Sxefhen Weston, Chair. Junius Jordan, Sec’y. For the Times. Mr. Editor.—The people of Stewart county have heard that a Bill was offered to the Le gislature last fall, to make some Indians citi zens. It has been rumored in this county that some of our reform members voted for this law*. As we did not understand before the last election that this was one of the reforms promised, we desire to know all the facts.— Our knowledge of the Indian character is so good in this section, we have had so much to do with them, aud have always been the lo sers by the connection, that vve are anxious to know who was in favor of putting these follows on a level with us, after all the mischief they have done us. An Indian fighter. Stewart Cos. August 1, 1811. TO THE VOTERS OF MUSCOGEE. The names ol the undersigned have been presented, bv a convention of delegates from the friends ol Harrison and Tyler in the sev eral districts ot the county, for your suffrage at the approaching election, lor your Repre sentatives in the two branches of the next State Legislature. The nomination, it is fair to presume 1 was made with reference to the suitableness of the nominees in point ol’ politi cal sentiment, to represent that portion of the constituency of Muscogee, of winch that con vention was the organ; and its acceptance on our part, commits us in good faith to the support of thf-0 measures of “Reform” which the friends of constitutional liberty throughout the republic have united to a chieve, Any more explicit annunciation ot our opinions, therefore, upon questions grow ing out oi the policy of the present adminis tration ot the General Government, might nave been considered gratuitous, as it was certainly uncalled for by out own friends. — But, for avoiding all cavil or misapprehension by others, equally interested in the issue of ibis canvass; upon such topics as are connect ed with subjects of merely local and State policy, we submit the following summary cf our views:— We hold the election of Gen. William tl. Harrison to the Presidency, for one term, and of John Tyler to the Vice I’residency, essen tial to the [Reservation of our government in the form of republican simplicity and repre sentative purity, in which our fathers framed and bequeathed it to their children. I hat “ bloodless revolution, lending to ihe concen tration of all power in the handsot One man,” of which the most sagacious of living states men long since announced the commence ment, vve are solemnly impressed, w:il be consummated by the re-eiection oi’ Marlin Van Buren. Claiming to be a component part of the national legislature—vindicating as a “ desired measure ” the late attempt upon the liberties of the people —the recommended plan liir the organization of a military lorce within, and irresponsible to the jurisdiction Ml'the Skates, and for subjecting to his com mand and disposal at ail times Standing Army of 2be,PdO men, Matt n van Loren only wants the sanciußt and coidiimotion ol his schemes and pretensions, which he may claim to have been given by the peuffc Ul his re-election to the Presidency—and then | he need not ask fur the purple —the People will feel his power in direct taxes, levied iti gold and silver, to support the royal luxury of the “White House,” a profligate and cor rupt Court, and the army of one hundred thousand office holders and dependants, at the rate of the daily expenditure ot more than SIOO,OOO. But vve are called upon by a more imme diate and palp bie danger, to resist tiie war which tiie present dynasty has waged with ruthless ami successful violence upon ihe credit and currency of the country. Vie have already Witnessed the disfranchisement j of one member of the confederacy by a ser- j v ie majority in Congress, to secure tiie pas- j sage ol tiie Sub-Treasury Bill, in defiance oi j die known and acknowledged will of the pen- j pie—a measure of revolution which legalizes j in tiie hands of the President, the possession ; of the public treasure, originally obtained by j usurpation and violence. He seeks now to complete his dominion over tiie whole cur rency of the States, by [he enactm<tt of a law of Bankruptcy for subjecting Stale cor porations to the power and iuquisilion ol fed- 1 eral officers—the creatures o this will. Ail the same time that vve would advocate and support such measures as may be deemed j most efficient to enloree the performance on i the part of the banking institutions ol'our own ! State of their obligations to the country, vve J would protest against an assumption of pow er by the geneiai government so arbitrary and tyrannical in its operation and design. V, e consider the credit and barking sys tems, with all their admitted liability to abuse, indispensable to the national prosperity and the advancement of every interest, except only that of the capitalist and money lender; and infinitely belter than the wild and im practicable project of a hard money currency, with which the party m power have so long! mocked and sought to delude the people—the! highest merit us which, iu ihe opinion of our ’ irulera* would be the reduction of v tbe wages ■of labor and prices oI properly to one third ; their ordinary and average rates. The war of the administration upon the credit system is the true war of the rich against the poor. , Cretl t is the capital of the virtuous poor : the i : i :■ no need of it, and are interested in * <is>!nv i ‘ , on. 1. is ihe part >t wisdom and if pa -; i.-ai to reform by a gentle hand the abuses incident to these, alike with ail the most \ai ib'e and perfecflCf luunan institu - : and to that end we would endeavor to p ace tire ceatioo ufßanks and their exist ence up in nine uniform and permanent ba s, win. an eye to advance and protect the ten ‘! ie whole j>eople o. Georgia, vviffi o;;i attempting iJe destruction of existing in siiiutinns, or the unnecessary establishment of o;la- s. We are in favor ol an immediate v tunpiion of specie payments by the Banks l ofGo . i . and if elected, will seek an early o: i y mto the true condition of the Central : Bunk, and will advocate such measures as may enai, c; ibis institution belonging to the ISoue, to vt an example which the Banka own-.d ■ individuals will be required to fid i io \V • We regard the Sub-Treasury as a Govern ment Bank, diddling in no respect from a National Bank, except as to the privilege and office of discounting the promissory notes of individuals for accommodation to the com mercial business of the country; but far more dangerous and objectionable, because, lor a directorship in one case responsible to the Leg'.- ative branch of tlie government, the President ol the United Slates is substituted in the other, and virtually invested with all the power of President, Director and Cash ier. While, therefore, the question is upon its choice between a National Bank, subject to the control of the Representatives ot the People in Congress, and the Sub-Treasury or Government Bank in the hands of the Presi dent, we do not hesitate to avow our prefer ence for the former, as the fiscal agent of the government. We are in favor of a more careful economy ol the financial resources and credit of our own Stale, to repair declining confidence at home and abroad, and to save her from die curse of public debt, and the people from burdensome taxation. Her own works of in ternal improvement should rattier be suspend ed for the present than urged h rvvai and at such a cost. We believe that much of the pecuniary embarrassment and distress of the country, is justly chargeable to the blind policy of those who have had the rule over us, and that much may be affected for its rel es by a course of salutary and provident legislation in the State, as well as general Government. If, in the limited sphere in which we may be called to act, aa your Representatives, should you consider us worthy of that honor, we can in any proper way stimulate and in crease the trade and commerce of the City, we will do so. It we can aid in giving profi table employment to labor, we will do so. It we can aid in affecting such a change as will justify the giving of contracts to mechanics, we will do so. In a word, if we can in any way assist in restoring the prosperity and happiness enjoyed bv the whole people of Georgia before Mr. Van Boren became the President of the United States, we pledge ourselves to the utmost exertions for that pur pose. We shall not, however, assume the d.ctatorial bearing of saying that this measure shall be adopted, or that rejected. It will be our purpose to discuss the various questions that may come before us with those wiio may he associated in the legislature of the State, and if we fail to demonstrate that our projects are the very.best, we will unite with others in securing the passage ot such laws as we trust will effectually protect and preserve the honor and promote the happiness and inter ests of the good people of Georgia. In conclusion, fellow-citizens, we may be permitted, to deprecate the unworthy means to which some of our opponents resort to prejudice your minds against the supporters of Gen. Harrison. Upon his good name and a life of long and laborious public service, calumny and misrepresentation have done the r worst. But by the lights of that history of which his own Corn s one of the brightest pages, the country will judge him; and his i: binds in confidence await a triumphant issue. J;i vindication of the patriotism of thousands of your fellow-citizens, we ask your reproba tion of the charge upon the late Harrison Convention at Macon, of “ the unholy and treasonable act of burying the Constitution!” I’he sense of justice and magnanimity of those who persist in the propagation of the foul and shameless libel, has been addressed in vain. Holding fast the doctrine that “conoption wins not more than honesty,” and relying upon their intelligence and love of truth, we submit our cause to the Voters of Muscogee. James S. Calhoun, Samuel YV. Flournoy, William S. Chtplev, E >Br,RT B. Alexander, Henry Council Sait. September 16, 1810. r i HE COMPROMISE. What the Boston Courier, Air. Webster’s organ, and “ by authority.” official for Mas sachii.v Its, thinks of Ihe compromise tendered by Mr. Clay to the Piesident in the Bank bill, will lie - ea in the following article, his from the last received Courier: Axe vriKs Compromise.—lt will be seen by the ieiler ol our Washington correspondent, that the Bank bill lias passed the Senate by a majority ol ONE! and that tins immense ma jority was obtained by an amendment, which Mr. Clay and our correspondent caiis a “com promise.” With the amendment itself, nor with the bill establishing a National Bank, is it our purpose now to find limit. But to call that a “compromise ” which provides lor an arbitrary euercise of power by Cangres in opposition to the will of the people ot a State, and authorizes ihe establishing ol a branch ol the bank in any Stale, although the Legisla ture thereof may expressly prohibit it,seems to us One of those philological absurdities, for which the present age is likely lo secure lor it self a crown of immortality, ‘ihe following is the exact lenguage of the clause in the bill of which our correspondent has given an abstract: | And the said directors may also establish {oneor more competent officesol discount and ‘deposit es in any territory or disirict of tlie United States, “and in any Slate, with the assent of such Slate; and when eatable ii -1 the said offices s. nil not be removed or wiiiniraivu by thesa:d directors priar to the expiration ol I the charter, vvitSicaL the previous a sent ol j Congress; Provided, in respect to any S'ate j which shell not, at tire first session ol the Le gislature thereof held after the passage ol tins j act, by resolution or other u*ual leg-slative proceeding, unconditionally as- ent or dr.-sent to the establish meat of such office or offices | within it, the assent ol the sain btate shall : thereafter be presumed ; and provided, never theless, that when it shall become necessary ami proper for. c irrving into execution any of the powers granted in the Constitution, to establish an office or offices in any ot the States whatever, &. the establishment whereof shall be directed by law, it shall be the duly of the said directors to establish such office or offices accordingly.” If there be any thing in this, partaking of the nature of a compromise, in the common acceptation oi the term, vve hope our Wash ington correspondent will point it out to us; for we cannot discover it. We cannot per ceive in what way it can reconcile the objec tions which some honestly entertaiu 10 the establishing of branches in the several States, without the consent of tire State Legislatures. We presume that no one, not as wise as Mr. Simmons of Rhode Island, as conscientious §3 JTestoij ofSoulb Carolina, end as in dependent as Messrs* Bates and Choate ol Massachusetts, is able to make the discovery. It seems to our poor apprehension that it would have been quite as honest, and equally complimentary to the intellect ol those who doubted the constitutionality of the lira aching power, to let the bid pass as originally re ported. From the Globe, August o. IT IE HOUSE. Mr. Sergeant of Pennsylvania moved to go into Committee of the Y\ hole. Mr. Adams of Massachusetts rose to a pri vileged question, He said in the message ol the 7*resident read yesterday, a letter Iron) the Secretary ol the Treasury was enclosed, forwarding a remonstrance from the Minister j of Fi ance against the passage ol a bill to re gulate the tariff now pending in Congress.— Mr. Adams pointed out the great impropriety of such a proceeding, and offered a resolution inquiring of the President by what authority this communication was made by die French Minister. Mr. Ingersoll appealed to the venerable gentleman from Massachusetts, Mr. Adams, as but very little time is left lor the Bank bill, I to be taken out of committee to-morrow at I noon, whether he should not defer his resoiu | tion till at least the day after. Mr. I. reluet j anlly and respectfully interrupted that honor iable gentleman, but'at least till they got the j iacts w and papers his motion must he prema ture. Mr. Turney objected to the resolution as not a privileged question. The Chair overruled the objection. Mr. Turney appealed front the decision. Mr. Arnold of Tennessee demanded the yeas and nays. Mr. Uuderw ood agreed with Mr. Turney that it was no privileged question. He asked bow the President could tell by what authori ty the French Minister wrote a letter to the Secretary o| the Treasury. Mr. Fillmore said the letter was written on the 10th of June, 1841, and sent by the Se cretary of the Treasury to the Committee ot Ways and Means, and by them returned with a resolution calling for it in the usual way. He asked if a compliance with a re quest of the House was a bieach of privilege. Mr. Bolts s iid this was a tempest in a tea pot, or some thing of the kind, and moved 10 lay the*resolution and appeal upon the table together. Mr. Adams demanded the yeas and nays, and they were ordered, and were yeas 00, nays 79. [ he House then, on motion of Mr. Ser geant, resolved ilselt into Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, Mr. Pope of Kentucky having the floor. Mr. Pope went at length in favor ol the bill. Mr. Bidlack followed against the bill, and showed that Pennsylvania never sanctioned a National Bank, and therefore the Senators and Democratic Representatives were not to be charged with inconsisiency or a neglect of the wishes of the people clearly expressed at the ballot box. He charged the whigs, however, with having gone against all their principles and made issues here which they dared not make before the people. Mr. Marshall of’Kentucyobtained the floor and sent to the Chair an amendment to be read, which he intended to offer at the j>rop er time, which strikes out Mr. Clay’s compro mise amendment. Mr. Marshall went at length into the constitutional question, and showed that the Bank, as amended by the compromise amendment would bring the U nited States Government, and the State Gov ernments into direct collision. Pie denied that the United Slates Government could repeal a State law, and put a branch ol the Bank in a State that by statute had refused under the boinpromise section of the bill. He was clear and convincing in bis remarks against the compromise amendment, and said that no Bank could be established but a con stitutional one, and that, in his opinion, was an old fashioned Bank ol the United Slates. Mr. Wise of Virginia endorsed every argu ment of Mr. Mai shall. He never doubled the power of Congress to establish a full-blood ed United Slates Bank; but lie would vote against this bill, as limited by the compromise amendment ol trie Senate. Mr. YVise said if this bill passed this body, it would be a minority bill, for the 16th section was amended in the Senate by 25 vena and 24 nays, He said the bill was not snatched from‘the majority; yet it was carried by dodging the question : two Senators having willingly absented themselves from the Hall at the tune of voting. He pointed the administration members to the Supreme Court ol the i nited Slates, and asked them if they saw no lion in their path Here? He asked who would take stock in case this minority Bank was passed as recom mended by an article i:i the official organ in this city, the doctrine of which lie repudia ted? He admitted that the Whigs came into power upon the ground of change only. Mr. Wise then, in continuation, defended Mr. Jefferson from the charge of having changed his mind when he approved the hi!! to prevent counterfeiting ami the esfablish- I ,sinned of a branch of the Bank of the Uni ted States at New Orleans. He only ap proved of acts to carry cut existing laws. Mr. YVise gave wav to Air. McClellan of New York, to withdraw his motion to strike out the enacting clause. Mr. Wise then renewed the motion, and: ! claimed the floor, but the Chair c.ordd see no j more hut a gentleman cn the ob.tr side ol j j the House. | Mr. Dean of Ohio now obtained the floor j and went at length into a condemnation ol ; the gag-law, and thin opp” sand the Bank in ! all its forms. Mr. Dean read from the de-j bates in the Convention, &c. quoted Mr. Jes- j eison; and showed that a Bank would lead f.o briberv arid corruption. Air. Th ompson of Indiana followed Mr. Dean and went in favor of the bill at length | and claimed that in Indiana at the last elec- j tion, the all pervading question was a Bank or Sub Treasury, and asserted tuat a Bam* triumphed. Mr. Adams of Massachusetts rose, no! to \ debate the question of sinking out the enact ing clause; buthe had a few amendments 1 ! which he wished to offer, and give his views j I upon. j The Chair said Mr. Adam’s amendments could be suggested. j Mr. Adams proposed first to strike out the words States, so that States coufl nut sub ! scribe for stock in the Bank. In the sth section lie moved to insert the w’urHo u mt undtrpar ,” so as to limit the sale of Treasury notes to their par value. In the limit of directors he moved to strike out the words “members of State Legisla tures;” thus giving them potver to be direc tors. Mr. Adams moved io make the President’s term to five years, and limit him to a single term. He was afraid the want o! this pro vision was one of the causes that destroyed the Bank of the United States. He consid ered this a great evil in most of the banks of this country. He proposed to strike out the clause to pay die directors of the mother Bank salaries lor their services. lie moved to allow the Bank to make loans on pledges of public stock, which the bill pro hibits. He proposed to strike out die provision declaring that no foreigner should receive a transferor stock. He said a clause in the bill already prohibited foreigners from voting and lie though that sufficient. He proposed to strike out the provision which authorized the Treasurer of die Uni ted States to pay from the Treasury the de ficiency of dividend, Ha proposed lo strike out Mr. Ctay’s com promise amendment,so as to leave the clause as the Senate committee reported it. He did this because he thought Congress had, from the people, full power over the subject* anti could not transfer it to the States, with out usurpation of power. He said this amendment would revolutionize the princi ples of the Government. He said General Washington had Mr. Jefferson’s opinion be fore hitnat the time of the first Bank; and he, afier deliberating night ard day signed the bill. Mr. Adams was still speaking at 6 p. m. wheu we left the Capitol. Off. City. —During the month past, our city has been quite sickly, and the ordinary billions fever of the country, in some cases of an extremely malignant character, has swept off a number of our citizens ; some of them occupying a deserved high place in public es timation. We subjoin an accurate list of all the deaths which have taken place since the ti lth of June. June 21. Alexander Crook, Billions fever. 25. John Gillespie, do. 27. John Locke, do. 28. William Smedley, do. July 4. Airs. McKenny, Drowned. 5. Daniel Sullivan, Billions fever. 0. Airs. E. C. Hawkins, l’uerpurei fe ver. 7. Murpha Alaliany, (18ms. old) Dys entarv. 7. James Davis, Billious fever. 8. David Leslie, Remittant fever. 12. Richard B. Bull, Paralysis. K3. Harry White, Billious fever. 17. \v illiam J. Lake, Sun struck. IS. Horace Moore, Billious fever. 20. Mrs. Munnolland, do. 24. T. Murray, do. 28. Oliver B. Dowd, do. Recently have we been blessed with fre quent and copious showers, to the evident irn provement of the health of the place; and in truth we hear of no adjacent portion of the Territory, at present, in the enjoyment of as great, a degree of health as ApalachacoJa. The weather thus far has been pleasant, and the Thermometer lias not overgone 87 degrees, as an average.—Florida Journal. “If you want timber to last, it should be cut after the leaves begin to fall, say in Oct. or November.” So says Mr. Abel*Peck, of Benton, N. Y. How* stands thS West?— The Ohio States man, in some remarks upon the establishment of a National Bank, says : “The YY'est, saving and excepting Mr. Clay’s State, are strongly ojiposed to a Bank of the United States on’ constitutional grounds.” The Draught.-—'The Croi>s. —lt is with melancholy feelingp, that we announce to our and stant friends, that the crops of both com and cotton in this county will fall far short of an ordinary yield, this season, owing to tho disastrous drought now prevailing in this vi cinity, T he prospect of the farmer was bright and cheering, up to the 20th of Alay last, when the drought set in; since which time we have had some of the Warmest weather ever known by the oldest inhabitants. For two or three days past, the thermometer in the shade stood at from 94 to 90, and on last Tuesday as high as 98.—Sandersville Tel: scope 10th’ lust, A glorious Trio cf Veteran Demo crats —There are living in Dutchess coun ty, and within a few miles of each others three ol the relicitsof the revolutionary times whose united ages are about 260 years.— Governor Morgan Lewis, no less disfinguish ed by his civil acquirements than by h:s ser vices during our two wars, 87 years of age General John Armstrong, the celebrated au thor of tlie Newburgh Letters,” and the his torian of the war ol 1812, nearly of the same” age; and John R. Livingstou, only one or two’ years younger. It is singular that the two’ first both married sisters of the last. These’ venerable patrirts are ail Democrats. (Reported for the Boston Courier 1 SLPKEME JUDICIAL COURT. Saturday, Jui> 24. llebeas Corpus Gase. Slavery I’re ferred. —A colored girl, named Rose, was today brought before Chief Justice Shaw and Judge YY iide, on a writ or hebeus corpus sued out m her behalf by these vigilant enemies o slavery,the ab< lit ones. Li as G:ay, Lo ring and S. E. Sewall, Esquires, represented to the Court that Rose came on from Mobile as the hired servant ol Airs. Eliza Ticknor —< that at Alobile she was a slave—that being under 14, she was not adequate to make her election between slavery and freedom—arid that therefore the Court ought not to regard any choice she might make, but let her free willy vi'ly, on the ground that one who pre ferred slavery must be incompetent to settle the question for herself. The Judges, however, thought fit to exam ine the girl as to tire inclination of her mind, and she stated it to be her desire to remain with Mrs. Ticknor and return to Mobile where she could see her brothers and sisters,. Judge YVjhie. expressing the opinion of the court, said, that the girl having made her elec tion, the only question was, whether she was competnnt lo do so. It did not sf-em clear that she was under fourteen. Her appear ance indicated that she must be fifteen or six teen—and her answers during the examina tion showed her to be sufficiently infelJi<>ent to know what she preferred. But even it she were under fourteen, there was no analogy between the age fixed by law as that at which a minor can choose a guardian for himself and ‘he age at which sufficient intelligence may be exercised upon the point now at issve. It was not a question of time so much as of ca pacity. And the girl appearing capable of a. sound choice, and having exercised it, tho court saw no reason lor interfering with her decision. She was thereupon ordered to bo discharged, and went her ways with Mrs. Ticknor, much to the disappointment of those who thought themselves better triends to her ’ than she was to herself, and presenting a spec tacle of the inurrijih of natural affection over the deep, instinctive impulses to freedom. Our Health—-Most of the slight attacks of genteel fever and ague vouchsafed to our denizens, have assumed convalescence.— Several walking chiids have been seen taking “ iight toddies” without ice, and disease seems to have said without actually saying it, we vve can’t wait for frost—we are o l- h. —Port Gaines, ldtli inst. I) I PwL C T I M PORT AT IONS. Cotton Bagging. ffrjSl Y the Sh'jis Ghieora and Lotus, the subscribers are in daily expectation of receiving from Liv erpool, largo* adJiuons to their stock of Cotton Bag-- g; n g, viz : Russian Hemp 43 inches, weighing 1 j lbs. per yard, • “ 44 “ “ )j “ 44 a “ 1 1 “ “ 44 •* • “ ]| “ 11 E.lndiaGunny 44 “ “ If “ “ 45 u a 2 Tow 40 “ “ 1 j “ “ Also Scorch Sewing Twine and Bale Rope, Alt of which will be offered to purchasers at prices;, warranted xs low as those current in New York, fovr similar vpialities. ANDREIV LOW & Cos. Savannah, July 29 [C. Day, Macon.] 25 5t BROUGHT TO JAIL, A NEGRO r to calls himself Henry Jack-,, son, and sa s free ; came herewith John Benton, front Quincy, Florida, and says that his moth er lives in Charleston, He is small, weighing about 100 pounds, and about 20 years old : dark complected. ‘4 he owner, il any, is desired to come forward, prove property, pay expenses and take him away. He says John Benton ha3 his free papers. . WILLIAM BROWN Jailor. 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