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Citations upon apufication for dismission, by Fxeo utors. Administrators or Guardians, monthly for six months. Orders of Courts of Ordinary, (accompanied with a copy of the bond or agreement) to make titles to land, must be published three months. Notices by Kxecufors, Administrators dv Guardians, of application to the Court of Ordinal? for leave tb sell the land or negroes of an estate. (>ur months. Notices by Executors or Administrators, to the debtors and creditors of an estate, for six weeks. 18 HF. m efs’. Clerks of Court, £ic. will he allowed the usual deduction. O’ Letters on business, must be post paid, to entitle them to attention. From the Fede rai Union. DEMOCRATIC MEETING IN TALBOT. At a meeting of the Democratic citizens of Talbot county, held at the court house on the first Tuesday in August, 1841, David Sauls, Esq. xvas called to the chair arid Janies Y. Gardner and John VV. Turner were appointed Secretaries—Afier which Col. Alexander \V. Sneed laid before the meeting the following preamble and resolutions, which were adopt ed : In a country like ours where the govern ment. is exercised bv the strong bias of party, it should he the duty of the majority to settle and define the principles upon which the Leg islative & Executive powers are to be ..it. mis tered. Were it not so, the immediate and in evitable consequence would be to disfranchise the people of the dearest rights reserved to themselves—that of instructing their Repre sentatives through their expressed opinions, given both at the ballot Imix, and in primary meetings in reference to the laws .and meas urcs intended to be pass ><i for their good.— J fence it follows that the ballot box (even tho’ the term of duration of any one administration be brief ) should not be the only corrective for an unfaithful discharge ot the duties and ten ets confided to our Representatives. In dele gating the powers which belong to the mass of the people to their chosen Representatives, thev do not yield to those agerusa passive ao -41011 upon all subjects unfettered by their own views as to the wisdom or inqiolicy of an act which if passed, is to exercise a painful influ -ence over their future weal. The liberties of a people are too much jeopardised by’rusting n Representative to too great an extent. The Re | iresentative should not only act up to the strict letter of the professions upon which he was elected, but should at all times stand rea dy to regulate his conduct by the instructions of his constituents. He should advise them of all contemplated changes ot measures and of the reasons therefor, so that they may lie notified in time sufficient to allow of their ex pressing assent or disapprobation. \\ hen this is done we shall have a government of the people—a literal Democracy. And if this be the duty of the m ijority it is no less- the right, of a minority to define its principles and hold them up for the contemplation ol’ the peuple and the Government. But how stands tiie matter with us now ? a reflecting eye tracing the present dominant party to its origin, will readJv understand the matter, llow comes it into power? Was it upon the advocacy of any high political prin ciple or measure which was intended for the 1 common good, and which had been rejecte I by those in opposition! VY r as it upon the avowal of an intention to restore a violated Constitution, and that thev point out the par ticular infraction ? \Y sit upon the declare- j tion tea: tne g ve Ament was leccming imbr- : cite at fv'ino mul unable to receive proper re- ; sped for its flag abroad : and did t bey oner j evidence of tins ! Did they show that indus- ; try was stagnant —'hat. the people were borne ! down by taxes and that the government was j exercising itself in the infl.ction of acts of petty tyranny instead of confining itself to its ‘ legitimate sphere of action ! It so where j were their evidences. There was no high principle advocated ; no j salutary measure proposed ; no showing made j that the government was derelict to the Con- | stitution; no instance offered (hat as a gov-j eminent we were losing ihe high cas e given ! us by our ancestry. Our stars still shone in ■ one brilliant unbroken constellation, and our! liable waving aloit. stiii loused upwards tor nis i pride ot place. Who then ore these that hold the reins of j government, and in what manner did they possess themselves of them ? They are men emanating from that old school of politicians who first arrayed themselves against our pre sent Constitution, and when they failed to substitute in its place one partaking more the nature of a monarchy’ sought by 7 torturing the letter to entail upon us all the evils to which > their own abortion would have fallen heir.! The balance are men either of no political | principles or such who joined thecry of ‘change’; with no other view than to raise opposition ! against an administration which parti an zeal j had taught them to hate—deluded too by J promises which could not be redeemed. Ot j suc h material is the present administration j composed. Uniting with no common princi-j pie, they deluded the country by a species of, Jackadeism unfortunately too common among ] us. What has been the result since they came into power? The people are waking to rind they have been slumbering in utopia, and as their senses return they find the splen did promises made them are but the gav tis ions of a fruitful fancy unsubstantial and un usual. Asa party they cannot agree, and are totterin> r back soon to tall into their original elements. Os the manifold promises made the people, how many have been ledeemed . Where is the mightv change in the conditions of men that was to take place immediately up on the certitica ion of the fact that Gen. Harri son was elected ! Where is the reform and the retrenchment that was to supply the pro digilityot tlie late administration ? The cut timv were to cure has been made worse ; in stead of drawing a revenue to government from its legithia'o sources, we find them en deavoring to bestow the public lands in Con fess upon tee States- Our Treasury was abundant in means to defray tne annual ex penses of the (Jove rumen;'; but directly in th face of this fact we find them asking for a ] mi to del “a v excuses of their own extrava gance in railing an extra - < non of Congress, Which the condition the country could not THE COLUMBUS TIMES. VOLUME I.] have demanded. \Y r e see them making ap propriations for the family of a deceased Pre sident who died in affluence. Contrast this with the fact of our Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, dying in poverty drained of their substance by long years of labor in the service of their country for vvhioh their families re ceived no extra compensation. Here let us pause, for the eyes of the peo ple aie vigilant and they are now’ intently scrutinising the conduct of their rulers ? and if the people have been deluded by aspirants to office in the Federal Government, equal is the complaint we the citizens of Georgia have !to make against our own domestic rulers, j Let us receive their acts of the past Legisla ture and compare 1 hem with their promises, and we shall rind that it was wisely remarked by a Roman Consul in an early period of that I celebrated Republic, that a most striking cori- J trast was observable in the conduct of candid i ates for office ot power and trust before and after obtaining them—they seldom carry out i m the latter case the pledges and promises made in the former. The world may have improved much in many respects, in lapse of two thousand years since the remark was made by tiie virtuous and indignant Roman— but a slight examination of the annals of our last legislature alone is sufficient to develope a similar instance of violated confidence.— They promised us a good and sound currency —we were left to the tender mercies ot Broken Banks and an unabated deluge ol shin plas ters. We expected them to put our State In stitution the Central Bank upon a solid foot ing—they left it to be cried down by bankrupt banks and merciless brokers with an open de claration that 1 lie Institution should wind up its concerns, thus intending to defraud the peo ple of the only bank which in the hour of need, had gallantly stepped forth in defiance ol threatened rum to yield a temporary relief to their sufferings. And to crown all, when our Governor, Charles J. McDonald witnessing the depressed condition of the country, asked the Legislature to borrow the small sum of two millions of dollars to be distributed tolbe people for their relief upon ample security, at j a time too when it should have been in the i plenitude of redeeming its promises, the .an swer given was “we would not borrow the money—we would not relieve the people if we could.” Freemen ! when you had been promised money to pay vour debts, did you expect when you asked for it. to be rejected by an answer like this at a time too when the Banks and speculators had ruined the country, and it had pleased the Almighty in the dispen sation of his providence to cut oft’ the cotton crop. jii the midst of all these disasters they bowed the people in humility to the earth by placing upon their necks a triple yoke of tax ation. Under the thrall of debt and burden some taxation, who can out-grow the paralysis which must seize upon their energies ? Where is the encouragement you would giye to industry when you have sunk it below ex ertion ? Who shall bid the victim “erect a temple to time the comforter” when his hands are lettered and he is chained to the stake. ’Twas thus we were promised, and thus we have been paid ; but we have an abiding con fidence that the cause of truth and of justice will r n prevail. Though tied and fettered and shorn like another Sampson, of our glory and strength, we are left still enough of it to put fortiiour hands to the piiiars of tiie strong ii.iii of this all-promising, no-paying party, and urdieave it from its foundation. Wniithis view let. us rally our united eiFons for the con test and we must prevail. Resolved, That the safety-of the South de pends upon a strict construction of the Con stitution and the prevalence of Elate Rights.„ doctrines. Resolved, That the leading measures of the present Congress to wit: a National Bank, the distribution of the public lands—the dis tribution of tiie revenue, and consequent in crease of the Tariff, as well as the high favor in which Abolitionists are held, justify our in dignant, reprehension of a government emi inently Federal and destructive, alike of our interests and principles. Resolved, That wrn do receive Charles J. McDonald as the regularly 7 nominated candid ate of our party 7 , and that we do yield him our support because we know his principles are of justice and right, and more especial ly because he has shown himself to be the people’s friend in recommending die Legisla ture to borrow two millions of dollars to be loaned to the people as a temporary relief to wards healing their embarrassments. We Ibeheve that that measure should have been . adopted as recommended. It was never in j tended to be made a permanent system or be j come a precedent on common occasions, hut j solely as a measure to relieve the people at j an exigency which may never again occur.! f Resolved, ‘i hat the Central Bank was es j tablished tor the benefit of the people, and j j that should we prevail in gaining the Legisla- j ture, we do require of our Representatives to \ ! have it established upon a firm and solid foot- 1 ing and its charter so remodeled and amended I as to increase its facilities for the accommoda- I tion of the people. Resolved, That as we have heretofore ex-j j pressed our disapprobation of the suspension! of specie payments by the Banks, we again! ! feel it incumbent upon us to give vent to our | J indignation for the course they have so ;ei-ti- j j naciously pursued. We believe no hank eu- ; 1 lit led to confidence which refuses to pay its ! ; bills in specie, promptly whenever it is de-j mantled. Resolved. That the Independent Treasury ; I was a constitutional method lor the safe-keep- J ling and disbursement of the revenue; and i that the plan of a fiscal bank before Congress ; j is unconstitutional and liable to ail the objec- j 1 tions of the old U. 8. Bank. The meeting then proceeded to the nomin ation of a Ticket tor the Legislature by ballot | —and Uiion corn.ring tiie votes, .las. T. Burks > received the unanimous vote of the meeting j for iSenator, Col. Joseph Riley, Win. Searcy j and Ezekiel B. Smith were selected as Rep- j resentatives. , On motion of Maj. John Smith, it was or- 1 ! dered that the resolutions and proceedings of | this meeting be published in the Federal Union j and Georgia Argus. | The meeting'then adjourned sine. die. DAY l) SAULS, Chairman. | J-‘MF.> \. Gaednek, ( Secretaries. John \\ . i ukner. y From the Augusta (Ga.) Constitutionalist, Aug. 26. THE NEW TARIFF. It is now very apparent that the new tariff! passed by the House of Representatives with | southern whig cotes, and now before the Sen-! ate, is an entering wedge to high protective ! duties, which will be attempted to be laid at the next regular session ot Congress. But to what pro’ext will the whigs resort for an increase of duties * The pretext they allege at this extra session is, that more revenue is necessary to meet the public expenditures. How comes it that more revenue is and will be necessary, to meet the public expenditures i Because the whigs have laid aside and thrown to the winds, the pledge they had given to ac quire power, that they would follow the prin ciple of an economical administration of the irovernment. The extravagant and enormous appropriations proposed by them at this extra session, and in some instances carried intoet lect, must convince the people of the United COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1841. 1 States, that all the schemes of the whigs will be accomplished at the regular session of Gongre? 3 , tor a splendid government; for a high, prohibitive, and countervailing tariff; for an immense national debt, which is to grow from the seed sown at this extra session ; for the assumption of state debts, amounting to more than two hundred millions ot dollars ; and for a system of internal improvements on a large scale, under the control and expense of the general government Can the people of tiie United States be deceived as to these gigantic schemes of the whigs ? Can the people of the South tamely submit to the at tempts already made, and will be made, to paralyze their industry, to lessen the value ol the products of their soil, to ruin them by ex orbitant taxes in the shape of duties on imports, and to render them tributaries to the opulent manufacturers of the north? Canjthe southern merchants tamely submit tube the mere agents of the commercial monopolists of the north ? Lettlitj schemes of the whigs be carried into operation without successful resistance and their fatal results will he felt throughout the southern states. Can we be mistaken in our forebodings ? Why were the proceeds of the sales of the public lands relinquished by the general government ? Why was a national debt created for twelve millions of dollars ? And why was anew tariff adopted, w hich is to produce an increase of revenue of more than ten millions of dollars? Can the whigs so deceive us ae to make us believe that all these measures were necessary for an econo mical administration of the government! It is admitted by some whigs that the new’ tariff’ is partially protective. Indeed ? If it is protective, even partially so, why did south ern whig members vote for it? In voting for the bill, did they consult the interest and the feeling of their constituents? If in the bill there was but one article protected, thev should have voted against the whole scheme. But as a defence for the votes given by those southern whig members, they say that Mr. Woodbury, the Secretary of the Treasury, under Mr Van Buren, recommended a duty on tea and coffee. Mr. Woodbury made a re port to the Senate on the 18th of January, 1841, in accordance with a resolution of that body, directing him to communicate to the Senate the plan of a permanent change in the tariff! &.e. In his report lie submits several modes of increasing tiie revenue by duties on imports. By one mode he states that lor raising the rev enue, duties might be laid on articles then im ported free, and he names coffee, tea, and silks, because such articles arc imported in larger quantities. Mr. Woodbury merely laid be fore the Senate the various modes by which the revenue might be raised ; but he seems to he of the opinion that the best mode would be to tax articles of luxury ts the extent of 20 per cent and to leave free the necessaries of life. Can the southern whig members be de fended by this report of Mr. Woodbury ? We appeal to the candour of our readers to de termine the question. But admitting that Mr. Woodbury did recommend most absolutely a tax on tea and coffee: how long since I;as that gentleman become the oracle of southern j whigs ? Every thing done by the late admin istration, and especially by Mr. Woodbury, was wrong, deficient in wisdom, and highly impolitic. And now, the southern whigs say, we have voted for a tax on tea and coffee because Mr. Woodbury iias recommended it in his re port of the 18;h of January, 1841! We would have believed, for the very reason that Mr. Woodbury recommended a tax on tea and cof fee, that the southern whigs would have voted against it. As much has been, is* and will be said a bout the Compromise act of 1833, we have ■thought that our readeis would like to have it again placed before them. It is as follows: AN ACT to modify the act of the fourteenth July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, and all other acts imposing duties on imports. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the U. States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the 31st day of December, one thou sand eight hundred and thirty-three, in all cases where duties are imposed on imports by the act of the 14th day of July, one thousand eiglit hundred and thirty-two, entitled “An act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on irnpor s,” or any other act, shall ex ceed twenty per centum on the value thereof, one tenth part of such excess shall be deduct ed ; from and after the 31st day of Decem ber, one thousand eight hundred and thirty five, another tenth part thereof shall be de ducted ; from and alter the olst day of De cember, one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven, another tenth part thereof shall be de ducted ; from and after the 31st day of De cember, o .e thousand eight hundred and thir ty-nine, another tenth part thereof shall be de ducted; ana from and after tbe 31st day of December, one thousand eight, hundred and forty-one, one half of the residue of such ex cess shall be deducted; and from and after the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eiglit hundred and forty-two, the other half thereof shall be deducted. tier. 2. And be it further enacted, That so much of the second section of the act of the fourteenth of Juiy aforesaid, as fixes the rate of duty on all milled and fulled cloth, known by the name of plains, kerseys, or keiulal cot tons, of which wool is the only material, the value whereof does not exceed thirty-five cts, a square yard, at five per centum ad valorem, siiail be and the same is hereby repealed. And the said articles shall be subject to the same duty of fifty per centum, as is provided by the said Second section lor other manufactures of wool; which duty shall be liable to the same deductions as arc prescribed by the first sec tion of this act. Bee. 3. And be it further enacted, That, until the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, the duties im posed dv existing laws, as modified by this act, shail remain and continue to be collected.— And from and after the day last aforesaid ; all duties cn imports shall be collected in ready money ; and all credits now allowed by law, in the payment of duties shall be and hereby are abolished, and such duties shall be laid for the purpose of raising such revenue as may be necessary to an economical administration of the government; and from and alter the day last aforesaid, the duties required to be paid by law, on goods, wares, merchandise, shall i e assessed upon the value thereof at the port where the same shali be entered, un der such regulations as may be prescribed by law. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That in addition to the articles now exempted by the act of the fourteenth July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and the existing laws, from the payment of duties, the following ar ticles imported from and afier the 31st day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, and until the thirtieth day June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, shall also be admitted to entry, free from duty, to wit: bleached and unbleached linens, table linen, linen napkins, and linen cambrics, and worsted stuff’ goods, shawls and other manu factures of silk and worsted, manulactures of siik, or of which silk shall be the component material of chief value, coming from this side the Cape of Good Hope,except sewing siik. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the said thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty.two; “THE UNION OF THE STATES, AND THE SOVEREjpfri’Y OF THE STATES. ’ the following articles shall be admitted to en try free from duty, to wit: indigo, quicksilver, sulphur, crude, saltpetre, grindstones, refined borax, emery, ooium, tin in plate and sheets ; gum Arabic, gum senega], lac dye, madder, madder root, nuts and berries used in dying, saffron, tumeric, woad or pastel, aloes, amber griss, Burgundy pitch, cochineal, chamomile flowers, coriander seed, catsup, chalk, coculus, horn plates for lanterns, ox horns, other horns and tips, India rubber, manufactured ivory, juniper berries, musk, nuts of all kinds, oil of juniper, unnia tufactured rattans and reeds, tortoise shell, tin foil, shellac, vegetables used principally in dying and composing dyes, weld, and all articles employed chiefly lor dying, except aliura, coperas, bichromate of potash, prussiate of potash, chromate of potash, and nitrate of lead, aqua fortis and tartaric acids. And all imposts on which the first section of this act may operate, and all articles now ad mitted to entry free from duty, or paving less rate of duty titan twenty per centum ad valo rem, before the said thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, from and after that dav may be admitted to entry subject to such duty not exceeding twenty per centum, ad valorem, as shall be provided for by law. Sec. f>. And be it further enacted, That so much of the act of the fourteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and .hirly two, or! of any other act as is inconsistent with this act, shall be and tbe same is hereby repealed: Provided , That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent the passage pri or or subsequent to the said 30th day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, of any act or acts, front time to time, that may be necessary to detect, prevent, or punish eva sions of the duties on imposts imposed by law, nor to prevent the passage of any act, prior to the 30th day of June, one thousand eight hun dred and forty-two, in the contingency either of excess or deficiency of revenue, altering the rales of duties on articles which, by the aforesaid act of fourteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, are subject to a iess rate of duty than twenty per centum ad valorem, in such manner as not to exceed that rate, and so as to adjust the reve nue to either of the said contingencies. Approved, March 2, 1833. From the Federal Union. WORSE AND WORSE. We drop the Recorder to take up the Co lumbus Enquirer. The campaign of last year seems to have unhinged tbe morals ot the great mass of the Harrison presses. The success which followed the shouts and huz zas of multitudes, and the impunity which attended tbeir thousands of misstatements, have so bewildered them that they no longer think the truth ol* their statements a matier of any consequence. We shall teach them that there is some value in truth. The people who gave credit to the Harri son party when they promised relief and reform, have been astonisned to see that party forget every one of their promises the moment they were clothed with power. Instead of reform they find only a struggle for office, and in place of relief they find their taxation in creased to an alarming degree. The En quirer, with the spirit with which prince Feter demonstrated that a loaf of bread was a shoulder of mutton, demands of the people to jutily the increase of taxes. To do ibis he seems determined to swear trutti (tut of the country. His statements are without a par allel in this day of infamy and shame. To justiiy tbe taxation of which the people complain, they manufacture State debts to an amount perfectly frightful, and but that it is before us, we could not have believed it pos sible that any man who could rise on two legs would have ventured on sucb statements. — Their random assertions cannot be reduced to order. But they too find the Stale “bead and ears” in debt. They sav the bonds sold in 1838 amount to $1,500,000 —tbe protested debt is $300,000. Central Bank bills 1.000.U0U —expense on Western and Atlantic Hail Road prior to July Ist, 1840, $3,206,788 — amount since spent on said road $1,000,000 — the work not half finished and that which is done to do over. Tbe end and consequence of all ibis they do not sum up, but if true as stated, the Slate cannot get off with a debt ol less than $10,000,000, and the people must therefore be taxed, by Harrison men because these enormous debts were created by the “ Locofocos.” The author of these state ments will not repeat them, he will shrink be fore tbe truths winch we will offer. Tbe Western and Atlantic Rail Road was undertaken in 1836 during the administration of Gov. Schley. Two appropriations were passed for it, one for $60,000, and another for $200,000. The State bad the money and paid these appropriations. The section of this law which authorized the issue of sl,- 500,000 of Slate bonds proved defective and not a single bond was issued under it. The act under which these bonds were issued was assented to by Governor Gilmer, 20th Dec. 1838. This is the whole amount of Slate debt which is authorized on account ol the roa4 and these bonds are not all sold, the commissioners still having in (heir possession about $600,000 of them. Ihe whole amount of the State’s debt on account ot’ the road cannot therefore exceed $900,000. There is but one other State debt authorized by the laws of Georgia, and that is founded on the circulation of the Central Bank. To take up the bills of this institution, bonds bearing 8 per cent, interest, are authorized to he issued; only a small sum, less than $50,000 we think have been issued. Thus the whole indebted ness of the State up to this day is less than one million of dollars and the interest on it not ntoie than half the ordinary profits of the Central Bank. To finish the road may re quire at most, a million more, and thus ends the big bug bear introduced to frighten the people into a love ot taxation. But the Enquirer seems not to desire to know that the State, has other resources be sides taxation. We will tell them that she has the Central Bank, which they pronounce entirely helples, threatening to become a greater burthen to the people. No institution has ever been so slandered, misrepresented and abused as this. We have examined its reports for some years past and know its valuable contributions to the Treasury, We state then on the incontrovertible authority of the records which cannot be falsified and which will not pass away. We challenge and defv contradiction. The profits of the Central Bank according to its reports are us follows: In 1835 $62,059 90 1836 67.459 26 1837 149 079 93 1838 109 621 17 1839 84.680 72 1840 128,008 25 $600,909 28 Thus it has brought into the Treasury an average of more lhan SIOO,OOO each year for the last six years. The profits of its bank stock which has averaged about sixty thou sand dollars during the same years will in crease the gross amount of its contributions to one million of dollars in the above time. This large sum could not arise from a heg garlv institution. The funds of the Ceutral 1 Bank which had arisen lrom the saving off the Stale lor many years, were in the year 1833 increased by the addition of the surplus revenue, to the large sum off $3,174, 196 13. But its enemies with a settled determination to destroy it and a few of its friends seeming to think no burthen too heavy lor it to bear, have taken lrom it by appropriations, not its profits only, but a large proportion off its cap ital. Whatever appropriations they could get through the Legislature, and they were wasteful and extravagant in the extreme, were ordered to be paid by the Centra! Bank. But it is curious enough to observe the cer tainty with which the votes offevery conspic uous enemy off the bank were cast in favor off every appropriation. The exceptions are “lew and far between.” The sums thus taken lrom the bank were In 1835 . S7OO 28 1836 138.621 1837 396,059 33 1838 491,003 1839 512,542 44 1340 400,757 60 $1,943,679 60 Thus the resources of the bank which, in 1837, are reported at $3,174,196 13 were in 1840 reduced to $1,982 003 53. The pre sent year will shew a iurther reduction of about half a million of dollars, leaving the bank worth about one million and a half after paying all its liabilities, and remember this includes its circulation. The enemies of the Central Bank perceiv ing that it is not destroyed by the heavy exactions made on it, and determined to have excuse for their favorite mode of relieving the people by taxation, have ordered that it shall pay $75,000 every year towards taking up j the State stocks which may not fall due for near thirty vears. (See laws of 1840, page 150.) Our notice or the scandalous production of the Enquirer is already too long. But the facts slated by us are unquestionable, and the reader can now judge for himself whether the promises of the Harrison party have been made good and whether their excuses for the enormous increase of taxation are sufficient. We have shown that the whole debt of the State on thirty year bonds is not more than ONE MILLION of dollars $1,000,000 That it cannot under present laws be increased more than 500,000 Making in all $1,500,000 To finish the road and put it in operation may require 500,000 Creating a public debt of $2,000,000 To pay this debt which will not tail due before 1868, the Harrison Legislature of 1840, when the people are more embarrassed than they have been in our times, require the Cemral Bank to pay 7 on the principal of that defct $75,000 per annum and order the people to he doubly taxed. Such proceedings can not be vamped up by the fabrications of a degraded press. The people will bring them to their account quickly. From (he Federal Union. THE SOUTHERN RECORDER. The Recorder of the seventeenth mat. has distanced lire lubrications of the Tippecanoe Ciubs off the last year. The reckless random statements it makes are of themselves so gross and palpable as to deserve not the slightest notice and would be treated with the silent contempt they merit, but that we find lrom experience that such statements left un comradicted, work their way into the public confidence, and in the minds ot many sup plant the truth. The Recorder begins by charging iiii with attempting to saddle the dishonored debt of Geo gia on Governor Gilmer.” We at tempted no such thing: we stated that tiie act authorizing the loan was sanctioned by Governor Gilmer, 25th Dec, 1837 —the loan obtained by directors of his appointment, and disnonored during his administration. This statement of fao-ts not controverted, we made because Governor Schley and Dr. Fort had been charged with these very acts and the charge garnished with the assertion that they were done “ without authority.” Thousands ol Georgians had read these charges gross and ffa'se as they are, and not a word to en lighten the public mind had appeared in any paper giving them currency. Gov. Gilmer was nut censured by him now either lor that act, or tar more fatal project of building our rail road through the mountains where the heavy expense off its construction would render a renumeraiing profit, almost impossible; and turning over to private monopolists, at! that part off the line to tiie Atlantic which would from its easy construction yield saving profit to the whole undertaking. This was the fatal mistake of the day, publicly opposed by us at the lime, but which captivated the minds off many abler men than Gov. Gilmer. But the Recorder says: “ The first thing on taking possession off the cuair, that met the view off the new Governor Gilmer—was a State head and years in debt.” “Our op ponents had not only exhausted the Treasury and the Central Bank in their projects, hut had likewise spent every cent off the surplus revenue which Georgia received from the United States Treasury.” “ A State head anil ears in debt.” To whom and for what was the Slate indebted? We deny the statement, and cha'ienge the production off the evidence. On toe first off November 1837, when Governor Gilmer en tered on the duties of his office, the State had an ample I'reasury and was out oj debt. We deny that the Democratic party ever became remarkable for the lavish expenditure of public money ; and if the expenses of this State for the year 1835 have rapidly in creased, the modern Whigs in the Legisla ture will not deny a full share of the respon sibility. The great source of expense, the Western and Atlantic Rail Road was deter mined on by an act dated 21st Deft. 1836, and voted for by ail parties, For this great un dertaking the sum of $290,000 set a part and appropriated for 1837, besides six ty thousanus doliars for their Engineer de partment. These appropriations when con sidered in relation to their object, were mod erate- Much heavier sums were demanded for other appropriations especially for the “ payment off Volunteers ’ which has absorbed neariy S4OO 000—and will not even by the Recorder be charged to the account of Gov. Schley or his party. But these sums lavish as thev were, did not encumber the Slate with debt. The Central Bank was ordered to make her payments and did so as is shewn inj her report off 6th of November, 1837, to the amount off $396,055 38. This all fihe demands of the government to that date and Gov. Gilmer went into office finding the State not a dollar in d ebt\ ! Thus one charge is nailed to the counter; but the Recorder is not done. Il goe3 on to sav that Gov. Gilraei’s opponents had “ ex : hausted the Central Bank.” This is, if pos sible, a more flagitious statement than that we have disposed of. The lowest sum to which the capital stock of the bank had been reduced was $-2,123,774 04, but bv the addi tion of the surplus revenue in 1837, Gov. Gil mer found it increased to $3,174 196 18.— These facts are from the record and detv [NUMBER 30. | contradiction. Hut this published stttem*** t is nothing in the nay of the Recorder. That print declared that every dollar ol this money nad been spent by the Vaußureu party. So lar is tins from being true that not a cent ol this money was spent, but the whole in con formity with a special act, loaned to the peo ple on interest; and more than sixty thousand dollars protit from the operation turned over to the State. Such were the ample stoies of the Treasury when Gov. Gilmer Went into office, but we shall not quit the subject with out shewing how rapidly it disappeared tin der his rule. The Central Eank had no circulation be yond its means of paving on demand. Ji paid specie till about the clos-e of Gov. Gil mer’s administration, it paid silt its debts to oilier banks, and theiefore dates all its embar rassments since ilie report of 1837. The failure of the United States, to pay the fourth instalment cl the surplus revenue, required the temporary use of money to carry out the distribution which had been advertised by the direction of the bank. Tins sum under a law or resolution of the Legislature was borrowed from several of the chartered banks of this Stale. These loans were all punctu ally paid. They never became a subj oi of public clamor, and have nothing to do with the famous or infamous $300,000 debt. We have not said whether the obtainment of this money was blameable or praisewor thy ; but such as it is, Gov. Gilmer’s admin istration shall not escape the responsibility of the loan and the protest. The qioney was borrowed by him for the uses oi’ his own ad ministration and nothing else. It was ob tained to meet the lavish expenditures of his two years which not only took every cent which came in the Treasury, but consumed more than one third part of the capital of the Central Bank. This we shall demonstrate though contrary to our custom of consider ing Gov. Gilmer’s a dead administration, since the people decided against it by electing Gov. McDonald. The law under winch the debt to the Plienix Bank was contracted, was signed by Gov. Gilmer on the 25th Dec. 1337. The reason for the measure as stated in the law itself was ‘'for the purpose of meeting the expenditures of the government for the political year 1838.” The money obtained under this law was paid to the wasteful ap propriations of that year and taken from (lie capital of the Central Bank. Governor Gil mer’s hostility to that institution is well known. It is less known that his two years took from ii one third of its resources: one more period of two years so bent on its destruction, will give it the finishing stroke. We believe that the hope of destroying the Central Bank ren dered every appropriation welcome to Gov. Gilmer. In 1838 he took from it $491,003 — in 188ij $512,542 44, more than a million of dollars in two years. Here is the great cause of the embarrassments of the Central Bank —the sole reason of its inability to pay the $300,000 debt at an earlier day. IVe have done with the Recorder. Prom the Buffalo Comfnercial Advertiser. FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE UES TRUOTION OF THE STEAMBOAT ERIE. Little did we think yesterday in penning a brief paragraph in commendation of the Erie, that to-day we should be called upon to record the destruction of that boat, together with a loss of life unequalled bn our own or almost any other waters. The Erie left the dock at 10 minutes past 4 p. m. loaded with merchan dize destined to Chicago* and as nearly as now can be ascertained, about two hundred persons, including passengers and crew on board. The boat had been thoroughly overhauled, and although the wind was blowing iresh, every thing promised a pleasant and prosper ous voyage. Nothing occurred to mar this prospect till about 8 o’clock, when the boat was off Silver Creek, abont eight milks from shore, and thirty-three miles from the city, when a slight explosion was heard, and im mediately, almost instantaneously, the whole vessel was enveloped in flames. Capt Titus, who was on the upper deck at the time, rushed to the ladies cabin to obtain the life preserv ers. of which there was from 90 to 100 on hoard, but so rapid had been the progress of the flames; he found it impossible to enter the cabin. He returned to the tipper deck, on his Way giving orders to the engineer to stop the en gine, the vidnd and the headway of the boat increasing the fierceness of the flames and driving them aft. The engineer replied that in consequence of the flames he could not reach the engine. The steersman was in stantly directed to put the helm hard a star hoard. She swung slowly round, heading to the sh r re, and the boats, there were three on board, were then ordered to be lowered. Two of the boats were lowered, but in consequence of the heavy sea on, and the headway of the vessel, they both swamped as soon as they I touched the water. We will not attetrpt to describe the awful j and appalihg condition of the passengers.— Some were frantic with fear and horror, others plunged headlong madly into the water, oth ers again seized upon any thing buoyant upon which they could lay hands. The small boat forward had been lowered. It was alongside the wheel, with three or four persons in it when the captain jumped in, and the boat immediately dropped astern filled with water. A lady floated by with a life preserver on.— She cried for help. There was no safety in the boat. The captain threw her the only oar in the boat. She caught ihe oar and was saved. It was Mrs. Lynde of Milvvaukie, and she was the only lady saved. In this condition, the boat, a mass of fierce fire, and the passengers and crew endeavor ing to save themselves by swimming or sup porting themselves by whatever they could reach—they were found by the Chnton at about 10 P. M. The Clinton left here in the morning, but in consequence of the wind, had put into Dunkirk. She laid there till nearly sun.-:et —at which time she ran out, and had proceeded as far as Barcelona, when just at twilight, the fire of the Erie was discovered some"2o miles astern. The Clinton immedi ately put about and reached the burning wreck about 10. It was a fearful sight. All the tipper works of the Erie had been burned away. The en gine was standing, but the hull was a mass of dull, red flamer The passengers and crew J were floating around, screaming in their ago- j ny, and shrieking for help. The boats of the ! Clinton were instantly lowered and manned, j and every person that could be seen or heard, was picked up, and every possible relief afford ed. The Lady, a little steamboat lying at Dunkirk, went out of that harbor as soon as possible, after the discovery of the fire, and arrived soon after the Clinton. It was not thought by the survivors that she saved any. By 1 a. m. all was still except the dead crackling of the fire. Not a solitary individ nal could be seen or heard on the wild waste of waters. A line was then made fast to the remains of the Erie’s rudder, and an effort made to tow the hapless huik ashore. About this time the Chautauque came up and lent her assistance. The hull of the Erie was towed within about four miles of shore, when it sunk in eleven fathoms water- By this time it was daylight. The lines were castolf The Clinton headed for this port, which she reached about G o’cl’k. Os those who are saved, several are badly burned, but none dangerously injured so lar as we have heard. Origin of the Fire. —Among the passen gers on board were six painters in the employ of Mr. W. G. Miller of this city, who were going to Erie to paint the steamboat Madison. They had with them demijohns filled with spirits of turpentine and varnish, which, un known to Capt Titus, were placed on tho boiler deck directly over the boilers. One of the firemen, who was saved, says he had oc casion logo on the boilerdeck, and seeing the demijohns removed them. They were re placed, hy whom is not known. Immediately previous to the bursting forth of the flames, as several on board has assured us, a slight ex plosion was heard. The demijohns had prob ably burst with the heat, and their inflammable contents, taking fire instantly communicated to every part of the boat, which had been freshly varnished and caught as if it had been gunpowder. Not a paper nor an article of any kind was saved. Os course it is Impossible so give a complete list of those on board. Ol cabin passengers Capt. Tilus thinks there were between *3O and 40 of whom 10 or P-2 were ladies. In the steerage there were about 140 passengers, nearly all of whom were Swiss and German immigrants. They were mostly in families with the usual proportion of men, women and children. The heart bleeds at the thought It is a singular coincidence that the Erie was burned at almost identically the same spot where tlie Washington was burned in June, 1888. Capt. Brown, who commanded the Washington at that time, happened to be on board the Clinton, and was very active in saving the survivors of the Erie. Still further particulars of the re cent terrible calamity on Lake Erie.— By Pomeroy’s Express last evening, we re ceived Buffalo papers of Wednesday, in ad vance of the mail. They contain further particulars of the awful affair On Lake Erie. —N. Y. Herald. We hoped thdt we should learn something today to releivo the details published yester day, but every thing we hear serves to deepen the horror. All that the imagination can con-” ceive of the terrible and heart rending was realized in the awful destruction of the Erie. Scores sank despairingly beneath the wild waters, but there is reason to fear that many, very many, strong men, helpless women and tender children perished in the flames “Alexander Lamberton, musician, front Erie, and Frederick Pannalee, barkeeper, were picked up by a small boat after the Clin ton had left. Parmalee was on the water seven hours, aud showed great presence of mind in exerting himself to save Mr. Gelston, the brother-in-law of Colonel Reed. He gave Mr. Gelston a plank, which he had ae cured for his own preservation—and when the boat had ceased to move, after waiting td find someone else to whom lie could render assistance, he took one of the fenders of the boat, and by managing to keep upon it, he succeeded in preserving his own life. Small pieces of charred wood aud portions of the boat were found floating, as well as part of the goods that remained without being entire ly consumed. The boat alstr picked up the wheat measure; which was the means of saving Mr. Williams. This is about all that has not already come to our knowledge.” Notwithstanding the heroic and self-sacrifi cing act of Parmalee, we fear there is no rea son to hope that Gelston was saved. Jri addition to what is stated respecting Parma lee’s gallant conduct, we learn from the Republican of this morning that Mr. Edgar Clemens, too, the engineer, abandoned a plank on which lie was floating to three children, and after some searcli found a box or bale, which he also resigned to an old man, aud alter being some time in the water, at length reached the boat to which Capt. Titus was clinging. W e leafn that Mrs. Lynde, too, the only lady saved, evinced as much coolness and intrepidity as any one on board. Iler pres ence of mind never forsook her lor a moment; VVe give below a correct list of the lost and saved. It is far from being perfect—the full extent of the calamity will probably never bo known—but after diligent investigation if is as full as we could make it. John C. Poole, who is lost, formerly a clerk in Atwill’s Music Saloon in Broadway. We have also gathered the following facts and additional names from Parsons & Cos, On examination of the eighty-seven names of Swiss emigrants given yesterday, th&v actu ally count one hundred and eight persons, to which must be added some ten or twelve in fants, not before enumerated, of whom no charge was made. To this list must also be appended the following from the same house, omitted yesterday. The loss of property by t,lie Erie was heavy. She had on board the first large invoice of merchandise shipped for the tipper lakes this season. Some 130 tons, worth at least $20,- 000. The emigrants had alo a large amount of specie, not far from SIBO,OOO, and the boat herself must have cost all ol $75,000, making in all a little short of $200,000 loss. DESTRUCTION OF THE StEAMBTAT ER*.J BY FIRE AND LOSS OF NEARLY TWO HUNDRED lives. —The steamer E le left BuflLlo on Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock for Chicago Ihe precise number on board of her not known, but it is estimated by the captain, from a glance at the register before leaving the harbor, to have exceeded two hundred souls. Amongst the number, were several painters, who, with their materials, were on iheir way to, some port up the lake for the purpose of painting a boat lying there. A strong wind and rough sea prevailing at the lime, Captain Titus Hesitated for some time to put out, but the De Witt Clinton having left about three hours previous, he was finally induced to start on the fatal voyage. At about 8 o’clock the vessel was suddenly wrapped in flames from the bursting of at carbuov of varnish on the boiler deck, whilst so sudden was the combustion that the pas sengers were at once forced overboad. in mu ny instances, without the slightest article to sustain them. Fortunately, ihe De Witt Clinton had put into Dunkirk, and, discovering the Erie in flames, hastened to her relief. She picked up twenty-seven only of she whole number on board, whilst about two hundred tell victims to ihe devouring element. Only one female was saved, as also were the captain and one of the crew. The Erie, in addition to a full complement of had on board a larsre quauiity of merchandise for Chicago and intermediate places. For the above particulars we are indebted to a friend who came down in the boat this morning; and they may be relied upon as correct in all leading features attending this most melancholy occurrence.—N. Y. Her ald. Wetmderstand,sayß the Macon Telegraph that Gov. McDonald lias appointed receiv ers for ihe Bank of Columbus and the Plan ters &. Mechanics Bank, to take charge oh their asset--, which render the redemption of their notes very uncertain, and we „re una ble to give a proper quotation this week. Il Gov. McDonald has made an appoint ment it is new to us.—Edrs. Fed. Union. Is it True:—A rytnor and a handbill have come over Irojo N'ew Orleans to the effect that a gigantic system of swindling been practiced on the Canal Bank of that city. A million and a half is the amount, of plun der—that is the on dit. The New Orleans papers of yesterday sav nothing upon the subject.—Mobile Cum. Keg. Aug. 20,