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THE TIMES.
The union of the states anu the sovereignty of; lie states
COLUMBUS, SEPTEMBER 2, 1841
DLMOCIi AT I C lICK ET.
FOR GOVERNOR,
Charles j. McDonald.
For Senate,
Col A. MeDOUGALD,
Representatives,
Maj. JOHN If. HOWARD,
Hon. W. T. COLQUITT,
Hon. MARK A. COOPER,
Col. JOHN 11. WATSON.
The Banner Unfurled. —We present
this week the names of the individuals select
ed to represent the interests of the Demo
cratic party of Muscogee county in the next
Legislature of Georgia. It is a strong ticket
—3trong in talent—in influence—and in mor
al weight—and while it must command the
respect of our opponents, it cannot fail to se
cure the cordial support of every Democrat.
Elect this ticket, and Muscogee will have an
influence in the Legislature surpassed by that
of no county in the State.
Report of Deaths in the City of Colum
bus, for the week ending August 30:
I—Convulsions—male.
I—Fever—female.
I—Bowel affection—child,
WILLIAM S. CHIPLEY,
President of the Board of Health.
A New Post Office has been established at
Cotton Hill, Randolph county, Georgia, and
Dr. John G. Gilbert, appointed Post Master.
This office is situated 13 miles north west
of Fort Gaines, and 10 miles south west of
Cuthbert.
The New Tariff. —We recommend to the
attention of our readers the article in this pa
per taken from the Augusta Constitutionalist,
in reply to the letter of Mr. Meriwether, also
to be found in our columns. We do not see
how the statements and conclusions of the
Constitutionalist can well be avoided. They
certainly place the matter in a very strong and
convincing light, and we hope our readers
will not forego a perusal of the article.
HON. ALFRED CUTHBERT.
Many ot the Whig presses are copying with
commendation a remark of the Georgia Argus,
of this city, made two or three weeks since,
that Mr. Cuthbert ought not to have been ab
sent on the final vote on the Bank Bill—and
that this gentleman had been long enough in
the Senate.
The Argus in speaking of Mr. Cuthbert
ought to recollect that he has done his State
borne service—that, for a series of years, he
was an influential and prominent member of
the United States House of Representatives,
and mrmitained with dignity and firmness the
peculiar rights of Georgia and of the South.
If Mr. Cuthbert, in consequence of ill health
or other unavoidable cause, was absent at a
particular moment from his seat, when an im
portant vote was taken, the result of which
would have been in no-wise changed by his
presence, it surely savors of harshness to up
braid him for an unpremeditated absence.—
The Argus knows well that Mr. Cuthbert is
open and undisguised in his opposition to a
Bank, and to the measures generally of the
Whig party, and that, therefore, some cause
other than a disposition to avoid responsibility
induced his absence from the Senate on the
occasion in question.
Mr. Cuthbert’s character as a man, and his
zealous and uniform adherence to the doctrines
of the Republican party, entitle him to the
most respectful treatment both from political
friend anil foe.
HON. THOMAS F. FOSTER.
Mr. Calhoun, when the bill for the repeal
of die Sub-Treasury was before the Senate
stated that he thought it indelicate to send the
bin :o the President before he had acted on
thj .bank Bill then before him—that it had the
appearance of forcing the President to approve
the Bank Charter. Mr. Preston, in reply,
remarked that it did not become his colleague
nor the Democratic party to stand between the
President and the Whig party. Neither may
T jceome us to stand between the Honorable
Mr. Foster and his Whig friends, yet we can
not refrain from doing the Honorable Member
the jusiice to state, in reply to the comments
of the Macon Messenger for his vote on the
‘’'ll, which the whig print of this city has
cm::ted to correct, that throughout the canvass
preceding his election to Congress, he was
open and undisguised in opposition to the
r ver of Congress to charter a Bank, and
that no voter who supported him can have
been deceived as to his sentiments on this
subject, if he had ever been in his presence,
or had taken the slightest, trouble to inform
liiimvif o.s to the sentiments of the Honorable
Member on this subject. Certainly no one
in tiiis region who supported him can plead
ignorance touching this matter.
WHAT IS THE ISSUE ?
It is probably not unknown to our readers
that there have been points of difference be
tween the Enquirer and ourself as to the is
sue or issues involved in the last election-
Tnis being the case, there can be no impro
priety in asking in season what are to be the
issue or issues in the {tending contest ? And
more especially what are the question o r
questions upon which the State election turns?
Governor McDonald is in favor of the Cen
tral Bank, with suitable modifications to pre
serve its healthy action ; and desirous to afford
relief to the people in any constitutional and
practicable mode—ls not his opponent averse
to both of these measures ? What says *ne
Enquirer, and the gentlemen selected by its
party to represent Muscogee county in the
t “gislature !
.s the Delegation selected by the Whigs ol
10.l o . b tounty, tor Tyler or Clay, or a mixture of
_ jta ? h it t°r the \ eto or against it ? In
hrorof the ‘‘Fiscal Corporation of the United
. or opposed to it ? What does it
timik of U.c new Tai.ff bill—and of the Dis
tribution of the proceeds of th* PqbUc Lands 1
What is its opinion of the action of the last
Legislature respecting the taxes, and the pros
tration of the Central Bank ? Or is it uncom
mitted, and disposed to remain so, on all these
questions ? Let us have some issue in this
election. Give us 6ome points upon which
you are disposed to risk the contest —and not
take undue advantages by selecting of the
mongrel order —part Whigand part Democrat
—Democrat in principle — Whig in local poli
tics and party organization.
Present the matter in a fair—a tangible
shape. Choose your ground, and occupy it—
invading not our premises in search of politi
cal capital—give us the sentiments of your
candidates on subjects of absorbing interest.
On this matter we have no concealment.
We are opposed to a United States Bank in
any shape— to the Distribution of the Public
Lands—to the new revenue bill—and to the
measures generally of the Whig party. We
are for a thorough (not partial) reform in the
Banking system—for reasonable taxes—for
the continuance of the Central Bank with
such modifications as time and experience
have shown [to be necessary and proper—and
for such legislative action for the relief of the
people as is warranted by the nature and form
of our State Government, and can be carried
out with success, and without any violent con
vulsions. These, we believe, constitute the
prominent and essential points in the Demo
cratic creed of Georgia.
Will the Enquirer state the issues of the
Whig party 1
THE CENTRAL BANK AND TAXES.
On our first page will be found an article
taken from the Federal Union of last week—
respecting the indebtedness of the State—the
condition of the Central Bank—and the ne
cessity for the exorbitant taxes imposed by the
last Legislature. The facts and figures con
tained in this article are taken from the Re
cord ; and may, therefore, be relied on as en
tirely accurate. A few additional expositions
of the kind and description presented by the
Federal Union, will scatter to the winds the
statements made by the Whig presses, of the
public indebtedness of Georgia—its deplora
ble station in a pecuniary point of view—and
the salutary influence of Whig measures in
arresting its downward course to disgrace
and ruin. The article is in reply to some
random statements of the Columbus Enquirer,
made two or three weeks since, in reference
to the “State Debt” and “Taxes.” Will
the Enquirer reply in its usually polite strain
that it has been “barked ” at before ; or that
it cannot condescend to notice such “silly
blubbering ”; or that it does not discover
wherein its assertions have been rebutted 1
Our readers will derive information from the
perusal of the article. We must confess that
it presents a much more flattering view of the
finances of the State, and its general pecunia
ry condition, than we had supposed actually
to exist; and furnishes a complete refutation
of the numerous exaggerated representations
of the mismanagement of the Democrats in
their administration of the State Government.
In the first place, the Enquirer, on the 11th
of August, stated the indebtedness of the State
to be seven millions and upwards. The Fed
eral Union declares the aggregate indebted
ness of Georgia, independent of the circula
tion of the Central Bank, to be $900,000
or a fraction over it. It appears, therefore,
that the Enquirer, in enumerating the debts
of the State to this period, has only made the
slight error of six millions of dollars. Yet the
f Enquirer says—“ the weapon we fight with
is truth ” ! !
We are also informed that the Central
Bank, which is pronounced by the Enquirer
in its article of the 11th ult., lobe “perfectly
helpless,” and promising “ to become a bur
den upon the shoulders of the people more
onerous than it even now is,” was worth in
1840 $1,982,003,53 —“ that the present year
will shew a further 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.”
We are likewise told that, while the whole
debt of the Stale, at the present moment, is
less than one million of dollars, and cannot be
increased by existing laws to more than one
million and a half of dollars—the completion
of the road, which has been the occasion of
the debt even which has been
will not require beyond half a million more,
making the public indebtedness two millions
or thereabouts.
It is shown farther that the State debt due,
or which can, by possibility, become due, is
not to be paid until near the expiration of
thirty years—and that, therefore, the reason
given for the increase of taxation at this period
is unsubstantial, and has no foundation in fact.
With the capital of the bank, and its yearly
profits, it would really seem that no danger
of the dishonor of the State could reasonably
have been apprehended by a temporary post
ponement of the arrangement by which §>75,-
000 is to be paid yearly towards the extin
guishment of the public liabilities. At any
rate where was the necessity of increasing the
taxes at a period of such general, known and
admitted embarrassment and derangement in
the monetary affairs of the country, affecting
every rank and condition in life ! If the ne
cessity existed, it can be shown ; and individ
uals and presses will not assert such necessity
without furnishing evidence to disprove the
correctness of the figures and facts embodied
by the Federal Union, and transferred to this
paper. As they profess to be taken from the
record they must, we should suppose, stand
uncontroverted.
How then can the present exorbitant in
crease of taxation be justified ! Or rather,
if the money were absolutely required to save
the State from immediate dishonor why was
the bill rejected, in the first instance, by so
decisive a vote—and why was it deemed pro
per to avoid a call of the yeas and nays on its
final passage, and press its adoption on the
very day it was reconsidered I Admitting
that the Democrats were willing to leave the’
state debt to take care of itself, (which they
would no sooner do than the Whigs them
selves,) why did so many whigs vote against
the bill on its first trial—and why is it asserted
(as has been done by a whig in our presence)
that if the yeas and nays had been called in
the last instance, and each member placed on
his responsibility, the bill could not have pass
ec ? Does not this show that there was no
immediate and pressing emergency fur the
adoption of this law? Where is the fallacy
in thij reasoning? Where the grrorof etatq
meni or inference! It has been declared quite .
recently in a public speech that this cry of ex-1
orbitant taxation is a “humbug” adopted by
the Democrats to reinstate themselves in pow
er ; (by the way is it not a capital idea, in
view of the success of “humbugs” last year!)
and that it will be addressed to the prejudices
of those who have little or no tax to pay ; but
that th* men of substance and intelligence,
seeing the necessity of the law, will sustain
its framers I The author of the remark is, to
some extent, mistaken. Men of substance
and intelligence do complain, as subjecting
them to m ore than ordinary inconvenience at
the present moment—and they say, in addi
tion, that if the money to be raised were not
required to meet immediate and pressing de
mands upon the public Treasury, the passage
of the law was an act not only of injudicious
and indiscreet, but of highly culpable legisla
tion.
It is but necessary, however, to read the ar
ticle from the Federal Union to settle the ;
question of the propriety or impropriety of the
tax law of the last Legislature. We again
recommend its attentive perusal.
The article in the Columbus Enquirer of
yesterday under the head of “Tax on Neces
saries” is one of the best arguments we have
seen against the propriety of the Tariff bill
which has just passed the House of Repre
sentatives—or, perhaps, we should say against
thg correctness or necessity of imposing du
ties on necessaries.
It appears that, in the early history of the
country ; when the population was thin and
scattered; and the J in consequence
comparatively trifling, it was found necessary
to tax tea and coffee to make up a sufficient
revenue to meet the wants of the Treasury.
The moment, however, the embarrassments
of the country were to some extent relieved
(to wit: in 1818—assuming the data of the
Enquirer to be correct) the duty on coffee was
reduced one half— and so continued until 1830
when the duty on the same article descended
to two cents—and in 1831 another reduction
of one cent took place—and the succeeding
year it was admitted duly free. Now was it
not the consideration that coffee had, from its
general and constant use, become a necessary
of life, and the additional consideration that the
wealth of the country had so much augment
ed as to cause a corresponding increase of the
importation of luxuries, which could be taxed
heavily without the infliction of positive inju
ry—that brought down the duty on coffee so
rapidly in the years of 1830—1831—and 1832 J
The taxation of this article up to 1818 so hea
vily, was produced by absolute necessity, as
a duty no matter how enormous on other im
portations would not have sufficed for the
wants of the Treasury. If then tea and cof
fee were in such general use as to render
them necessaries, and thereby cause their im
portation duty free—as under no other desig
nation of them would they have been so ad
mitted —ought not Congress to have abstained
from meddiilig with them under any circum
stances, except in the simple and single event
that the imposition of high—even extravagant
duties on all luxuries imported, would not
raise a sufficieut revenue J Can any other
showing in the case exonerate the supporters
of this bill from public censure, and an act of
culpable legislation ] And here again we arc
brought to the repetition of the remark that
if the Land Distribution had been let alone,
articles heretofore duty free might have so re
mained. We ask the Enquirer if it will, if it
can controvert this position 1 If not, how can
it sanction this revenue bill i The whole
matter is in a nut-shell. The proceeds of the
public lands brought into the Treasury three
millions annually—The duty imposed by the
new revenue bill on articles heretofore duty
free (many of them necessaries,) will raise
three millions. llow then can the Enquirer
sustain the whig party, so far as respects this
matter.
But it is all a mistake that so much money
was wanted—that the last administration left
a debt of such magnitude as is alleged by the
Enquirer. The Enquirer cannot show it. It
is not the fact. The speeches of Messrs.
Woodbury and Wright on this pubject, in the
Senate, are unansv. ered and unanswerable.
Wo hope the Enquirer will sum up the in
debtedness of the Government next week,
and let the public see its calculations. We
should liiie to have the opportunity of dissecting
them.
NO CONCEALMENT HERE !
The Savannah Republican of the 231 h ult.
holds the following language respecting “ the
tariff.” It is a Harrison print; and if we are
correct in our interpretation of its meaning,
it sees little or no objection to the imposition
of a tariff, even although it be protective. —
Tiiis is certainly startling doctrine, although
emanating from a print not disinclined to up
hold all the measures of Mr. Clay, as distin
guished from those of the Administration pro
per. Georgia will not object to a tariff!
“& is now an object of no te ror to the people
of this State!lll” And are these, in fact,
the sentiments of even a majority of the peo
ple of Georgia? Are they the sentiments of
that parly which has unanimously resolved
over and over again, in the Legislature of the
State, and in primary meetings, that ihe im
position of duties on imports lor any other
purpose than to supply the indispensable
wants of a simple and frugal government)
was a palpable violation of the Constitution
oi the U. States--an outrage upon the rights
and interests of the Southern States—and
that a determination to enforce such a scheme
can only end in the dissolution of the Union?
Is the party which participated in feeling, if
not in action, with South Carolina in the
days of Nullification, about to abandon prin
ciples to which it has uniformly adhered, and
ftiat have, after the most mature deliberation,
been deemed essential to the welfare of the
South? A leading print in its interest so in
timates.
The Tariff.— -We observe that our po
litical antagonists are endeavoring to make
capital out of itiis subject. They are wel
come to it, for it is now an object of no terror
to the people of this State.
We have heard frequently in our casual
intercourse with intelligent men for the last
few weeks, the expression, that “ Georgia
must eventually be a great manufacturing
State, and that, at a period not far distant.”
Her positiou as a centre for the supply of her
neighbors, and the wonderful concentration
in her borders of an immense waier power
ar.d raw material, warrant this belief, indepen
dent of other circumstances.
But we are more warranted in this as
sumption, when we look at the position of af-
fairs abroad, as detailed by the last advices.
An overwhelming 6tock of cotton and manu
factured good?, continued bankruptcy aid de
j pressed commerce, show Europe to be in a
i predicament which will preclude for some
itime to wmie, a large consumption of our
stftftle,. UoTTpy. At home, we have Ihe
Ipromtse*of another large crop, while of Corn
! and provisions there is at this moment a super
abundance. Bacon in New Orleans is 2 1-2
| to 3 cts. per lb., and no market to be had for
it at that price! What then, we again ask.
{shall we do? Reason and common sense
j point to us to become manufacturers, and di
vert a part of our labor to making Cotton
| goods, importing them, and thus diminish the
surplus product of provisions and Cotton, and
; the export of money from tue State.
Such will be the conclusion of every prac
tical reflecting man in Georgia, and therefore,
we repeat, our adversaries are weleome to
any good they may gain Irom the cry of
“the accursed Tariff.’ Furnaces for'the
smelting of Iron ore, are daily being erected
in our mountains, Cotton factories are being
built on our streams, and is being spun in
j our log cabins—and ere lony Georgia will
be not only independent of f<reign operatives
but afford a supply of’ manufactures to her
less enterprising, or more favored neighbors.
The following from the Naw York Times
and Evening Star is worthy of notice :
Minister to England. —The Commer
cial is under some apprehension that the
delay in acting upon the appointment of Mr.
Everett, as Minister to England, arises from
his being distrusted as an abolitionist. We
hope there is no truth in this. Much as we
have ever been opposed to these fanatics, we
should regret to see this objection made to
confirming the appointment of any citizen to
office. Ii b fraught with danger. England,
by its receit election, lias in a measure put
down these rude disturbers of the public
peace; with us they have no influence or
weight. Let us not give any consequence to
abolitionists, or add to their numbers, by ma
king abolition principles a ground of objection
to any citizen who may in other respects be
qualified for office.
This, it seems to us, is a strange doctrine—
and if the Star, as it professes, is “ opposed to
these fanatics,” it certainly takes a strange
view of the case. If Mr. Everett, as is posi
tively asserted, be an abolitionist, he is by no
means fit to be Foreign Minister. Is a man
holding sentiments adverse to the Union and
welfare of the States, and which, if carried
out, would end in their destruction, suitable
to be entrusted with high oflicial station ]—
Who will advocate sucli doctrine 1
From the Georgia Argus, of yesterday.
The Agency of the Western Bank of
Georgia, at Columbus, closed its doors on
Thursday last. Below is a statement handed
us by Mr. Greene, for publication. Our con
fidence in Mr. Greene’s integrity, satisfies us
that the assets of the Bank are abundantly
ample for the redemption of all its liabilities.
The Western Bank of Georgia.— Since
the refusal of the Bank of Columbus, to re
ceive the notes of this Bank, there has been
no opportunity of making a statement of its
condition in detail. The following statement
it is believed, will be more than justified by
the report soon to be made.
Circulation and time checks to be
provided for, and all other liabili
ties, $117,225
Assets, (excluding stock, notes,and
other notes not believed to be
good) $125,695
R. A. Greene, Brest.
From the National Intelligencer,
OFFICIAL.
APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT,
By and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Richard K. Call, Governor of the Territory
of Florida.
Wm. Prentiss, Marshal of the U. States
for the District of Illinois.
Zachariah Walker and Nicholas Callan,
Jr. Justices of the Peace for ihe county of
Washington, in the District of Columbia.
David Iloffman of Maryland, Commissioner
under the act of Congress to carry into effect
the Convention with the Mexican Republic
of the 11th of April, 1839.
Alexander K. McClung, Marshal of the
United States for the Northern District of
Mississippi.
CUSTOM-HOUSE OFFICERS.
COLLECTORS.
George W. Pearce, Gloucester, Mass.
James K. Livingston, Genessee, N. Y.
Judah T. Ainsworth, Cape Vincent, N. Y.
Clayton H. Page, Little Egg Harbor, N. J.
LAND OFFICER.
Mountford Stokes, Register, Fayetteville,
Arkansas.
Washington Barrow, of Mississippi, Charge
d’Affaires at the Court of Her Most Faithful
Majesty, the Queen of Portugal.
Ambrose Baber, of Georgia, Charge d’Af
faires near the Government of Sardinia.
John S. Pendleton, of Virginia, Charge
d’Affaires to the Republic of Chili.
James S. Calhoun, of Georgia, Consul for
the Port of Havana.
Etiquette. —The following paragraphs
are from Mrs. Sedgwick’s recent letters from
Europe. The last is worthy of especial con
sideration in this country, where noise lakes
the place of conversation, the staple ol
fashionable parlies is made up ol boys and
girls, whose proper place is the nursery: —
“ Without exaggerating, 1 believe that the
viands for a rich merchants’ dinner-party in
New York would suffice for any halt-dozen
tables 1 have seen here : and I am not sure
that, the supper table at S’s ball, just before
I left New York, would not have supplied the
evening parties of a London season. The
young men there diank more champagne
than 1 have seen in London. May we not
hope that in three or four seasons we may
adopt these refinements of civilization.”
“ 1 think one Sf our parties must strike an
Englishman like a nursery hali. Even in this
immense assembly at L. House I saw lew
young people, none extremely young, but 1
must confess the tout ensemble struck me as
very superior in physical condition and beauty
to a similar assembly with us. Our girl, wiih
her delicate features and nymph-like figure,
is far more lovely in her first freshness than
the English ; but the English woman, in her
ripeness and full developement, far surpasses
ours. She is superb from twenty to for ly
five.”
“Society here is quieter than ours certainly.
This is perhaps the result of the different
materials of which it is compounded. Our
New York evening parties, you know, are
made up of about seventy-five parts boys and
girls, the other being their papasand mamas,
and other ripe men and women. The spirits
of a mass of young people, even if they be
essentially well bred will explode in sound;
thence the genera! din of voices and shouts
of laughter at our parties.”
Fatal Affray. —A Rencontre took place
this morning on the steps of the custom house
between A. H.Gazzamand Col. J.H. Owen,
which resu.ted in the instantaneous death of
the latter fiom a stab in the pit ot the stom
ach.
A coroner’s inquest is now sitting upon the
case, and we forbear giving the particulars of
the sickening tragedy.
Since the above was put in type, we learn
that the inquest held by the Coroner, Thad
deus Seymour, Esq., has found a verdict ol
wilful and deliberate murder against A. 11.
Gaz*3in. —A late Mobile paper.
The Plot—unmasked!— Mr. Bott’s ‘ pri
vate letter” to the public “Coffee Room” is
one of the most curious and amusing revela
tions of these Whiggish limes. It will aiford
tun and jokes to ail the wags of the country,
as is now doing to the members of Congress.
We beg our readers to peruse it, cut it out of j
the paper, and keep it in their pocket books,!
“cut and dry,” for constant use. It is equal j
to the Dufl Green letter ol i,is former colleague j
iu the Y\ hig Executive Committee, the lam- \
ous Mitchell. Here is the letter —with ade- !
quale commentaries from the Madisonian j
upon th.s unique pi eduction, as well as upon i
the manner of concocting and forcing through
with the beat oi‘ the drum, the new Fiscal
Agencyßichmond Enquirer.
From the Madisonian.
“ The following extraordinary letter was
forwarded to us, late last evening, as having
been written by the author for the Coffee
House at Richmond, where such delectable
scraps of news are as public as at an Ex
ctiange of a commercial city. Under any
other circumstances we should not have felt
authorized to publish it. It will, no doubt,
strike every friend of the Administration with
equal astonishment and regret. Regret, not j
that the President should be treated with j
such indignity, but because he is thus abused ‘
hy one who ought to be his friend—one, wiio i
doubtless ought to feel some gratitude, at j
least for such influence as Mr Tyler coutrib- j
uted to give him the seat lie occupies. As- J
tonishmenf, that one who has worn the guise
of friendship, should disclose such a deep i
feeling of enmity and bitterness. Forewarned, j
Mr. Tyler wili be forearmed. We shall see j
whether Mr. Butts, and such as he, will sue- !
ceed in “heading ” him—whether they will j
perpetrate a legislative fraud, such as the ;
letter and; scribes, for the heartless purpose of j
“ fastening ” Mr. Tyler, and forcing iami into j
a measure which neither his conscience sanc
tions, nor his judgment approves. We have
not room for further comment at present:
“ August 10, 1841,
“ Dear Sir—The President has finally re
solved to veto the bank bill. It will be sent
in today at 12 o’clock. It is impossible to
tell precisely on what ground it will be placed,
lie lias turned and twisted and changed his
ground so often in his conversations, that it is
difficult to conjecture which of the absurdities
he will rest his veto upon.
“In the last conversation reported, he said ‘
his only objection was to that provision which
presumed the assent of the States, where no
opinion was expressed, and if that was struck
out he would sign the bill. He had no objec
tion to the lncation of branches by the Direc
tors, in the absence of dissent expressed, but
whenever it was expressed, the power to dis
count promissory notes must cease, although j
the agency might continue, for the purchase I
and sale of foreign exchange. However, you i
will see his Message.
“ Our Captain Tyler is making a desperate
efiort to set himself up with the Locofocos,
but he’ll be headed j et, and 1 regret to say, it
will end badly for him. He will be an object
of execration with both parties ; with one for
vetoing our bill, which was bad enough—with
the other for signing a worse one ; but he is
hardly entitled to sympathy. He has refused
to listen to the admonitions and entreaties of
his best friends, and looked only to the whis
perings of ambitious and designing mischief
makers that have collected around him,
“ The veto will be received without a word,
laid on the table, and ordered to be printed.
To-night we must and will settle matters, as
quietly as possible, but they must be settled.
Yours, &c.,
JOHN M. BOTTS.
“You’il get a Bank bill, I think, but one that
will serve only to fasten him, and to which
no stock will be subscribed ; and when lie
finds out that lie is not wiser in banking than
all the rest of the world, we may get a better.
The excitement here is tremendous, but it
will be smothered for the present.”
“The above letter is postmarked, ‘Wash
ington, 16th August, and addressed to ‘Coflee
House, Richmond.’
(Free,) Jno. M. Botts.’
0° Humor states that the author of the
.above lias addressed another “private letter ”
to the Coffee House —which is still more strin
gent in its remarks upon Copt. Tyler. It
was exhibited yesterday, and we presume was
elicited by the publication of the first. Won
der ! if any copy of it will “be surreptitiously
obtained ” —that is to say, obtained, like the
first, with the knowledge and consent of the
Keeper of the Coffee-Room.
From (he Standard of Union, Aug. 27.
Our neighbors of the Journal appear to be
somewhat bothered about the absence of Go
vernor McDonald, when, if they had taken
the trouble to enquire, they would have dis
covered that, lie was actually at home when
they reported him abroad, lie returned on
Sunday the 22d, and as far as we can ascer
tain, the public interest has suffered no de
triment.
Whether he has been electioneering or
not, we are unable to say, but this much we
will vouch for, that wherever he has been, his
conduct lias been such as to reflect honor upon
him as a gentleman, and as Chief Magistrate
of Georgia.
For our own part, we hope lie will take ano
ther tour through the country, that the peo
ple may see him, and know him, and learn
from him personally, his views and opinions
upon matters touching their interest. For
such a course, he has an illustrious example
in the pei.-cn of Gen. Harrison, who did not
think it unbecoming in a candidate for the
Presidency, to traverse the country, and even
to make speeches upon the subject oi his own
election.
We say go a-heatl Gov. McDonald.
The Journal says, “Dawson, poor fellow !
lias but a bad chance for it. He is at Wash
ington City, attending to the people’s busi
ness, while his opponent, with fatherly care,
is engaged in a personal inspection of the
people’s wants.”
Now, as to Mr. Dawson’s attention to the
people’s business, let us see. We should
like to know, when the vote was taken to give
Mrs. Harrison $25,000 for nothing, whose
business he was attending to ! and when the
unrighteous distribution bill passed, if be was
doing the people’s business out of doors? or
whether he was doing a good business for the
people, when lit vc\ed to tax their sugar,
coffee, tea, molasses, salt, and blankets ?
After ail, however,’ Mr. Dawson’s chance is ■
not so bad a one, lor while Gov. McDonald j
has to spend his money in travelling, Mr. D. j
is living like a fighting rooster, and Knocking;
out his eight dollars a day ; and after McDon-1
aid beats him, he will go on to the long JSes- j
sion, which commences in December, and
may last until J uiy, or August, and from 1
which lie can pocket two or tnree thousand |
more ; a pretty comfortable business any bow. I
The Journal concludes : “ 1 ou must come J
home Mr. Dawson, as soon as you can, and j
travel about a little bit too. There are just!
about forty thousand voters in Georgia, who j
will greet you with a hearty welcome."’
Mr. Dawson may come home and travel i
about as much as he pleases, but he will j
never find forty thousand voters in favor of a J
National Debt, a National Bank, and an one- i
rous Tariff
We clip the following from the Chronicle
and Sentinel, which came to hand, since the
above was written; and we may take leave
to ask, why Mr. Meriwether is not at \\ ash
ington, attending to’ ine people’s business ?
Are the politics of Putnam so out of sorts tha<
they require immediate attention ?
From the Mobile Commercial Register, Aug. 25.
Tennessee. —The Nasbvike Union brings
us the lull returns ol the lecent elections in
that State. ‘The majority lor Jones (the
whig candidate lor Governor) is 3,264. In the
fall election for President, Harrison’s majority
was 11,805 —showing a decrease in the whig
vote, within a few months, of 1,545 votes.
In the Senate the democrats have 13 mem
bers; the whigS 12. In the House the former
36, the latter 39 members. One of these
latter from Humphreys and Benton counties,
stood pledged, according to the Nashville
Union in favor of the democratic principles.
! The aggregate of votes given in is 10,129;
lin IS-10 it was 0.769.
Some of the Whig papers, to account (In
; their decreased vote state that the return*
(exhibit an aggregate of 39000 votes les.< than
lat the Presidential election. This is not true.
The vole is 6.562 less, ami is best accounted
for by the Union, which states tiiat tiie demo
crats had so iittle hope of success that thou
sands of them were not at the polls. If their
full vote had been polled, it is not at all im
probable that Folk would have been elected
Governor.
In Wisconsin, Gen. Dodge recently remo
ved from the office of Governor, has been
elected Delegate to Congress.
The Washington correspondent of the
Georgian, slates in one of his letters, that
I eleven unsuccessful attempts have been made
1 to confirm the appointment of the notorious
land corrupt Bela Badger, the prince of “pipe
| layers,” and “ yarn spinners.”
It is also stated (hat Everett’s nomination
| to the court of St. James had been presented
; but the wlii s on aocount of bis abolition no
j tions, are afraid to make the appointment.
A trial recently took place in the District
j Court of Massachusetts, in wliieh the post
-1 master at Lynn was charged with breaking
! open a letter dropped in at Lynn and directed
jto a person in tiiat town. It was argued in
: dele nee, that such letters did nut come within
| the Statute, the language being “ letters to he
conveyed by Post.” The Judge coincided
in this opinion, but remarked that the letter
tvas an anonymous one and of a disgraceful
and that the establishment of the Post Office
was not intended to provide the means lor
anonymous abuse and annoyance. No im
proper motive being attributed to the post
master, he was discharged.
From the Richmond Enquirer, Au". 26.
The UHt’AitDONABLE Six!—Mr. Tyler has
sinned beyond forgiveness. No concession
’ which he can now make to the Clay Clique
i will ever conciliate their affections or support.
Even before the Veto Message was delivered,
a letter was addressed to the Coli’ee House of
this City, by an ardent Whig in the House
of Representatives, speaking with bitter
taunts of his alledged vacillation and in com
petency. They never will forgive him. for
thwarting their magnificent scheme of a Na
i tional Bank, stretching, without the consent
j of the Slates, its Brin reus arms to every sec-
I lion of the Union. lld has proved himself
impracticable to the designs of their Dictator
and although they may keep down the lava
of the volcano for a moment, until they can
seduce or intimidate him into the adoption of
some Bank or other, vet it burns arid boils
within, and will in a few days overflow the
country. A correspondent of the highest
honor at Washington is aware of their feel
ings, and describes litem in one of the letters
we publish this morning. But the resent
ment of the Bank minions is not confuted
within the bounds of common decency. A
mob has visited the White House, and insult
ed the family of Mr. Tyler. One of our cor
respondents, whose letter we lay before our
readers, states the fact. Another writes on
Tuesday night, that “ the President and his
anrtily were grossly insulted last night bv a
mob, after 12 o’clock, supposed to exceed
two hundred. It is said, that it will be repeat
ed to-night.” The Postscript on Wednes
day morning says, “I do not learn tfeit the
mob visited the President last night, but they
infested the streets.”
Iron in the Unitf.u States. —lt is esti
mated that the amount of iron manufactured
in the the United States is in value 23.265 -
000. Alon i'll) of this is probably the product
of Pennsylvania. About one third ot the
product of Pennsylvania is manufactured
within a circuit of fifty miles of the city ol
Lancaster.
Rapid increase or Animals. —Naturalists
who have spent much ol their lives in the
study of very small insects, and have used
the powerful telescopes, telate wonderful sto
ries of their rapid increase. A scorpion, they
say, wili produce 65 young at. a lime ; a com
mon fly will lay 144 eggs; a leech 150; a spi
der 170; a female moth 1100; a gall insect
5009. One naturalist found 12.000 in a loti
ster; 6000 in a shrimp. Another found
24,000 in a lobster. An insect like an ant has
produced 80.000 in a day. Lieuvveohueck
computes 4,000,000 in a crab.
A large bundle of some thousand Cham
pagne Wine labels, lately passed through the
Boston Custom House, and have gone to
New York. They were p inter! in England,
in colors, expressly for the American market.
Let champagne wine drinkers look out. —
Eastern paper.
• ! We moke the following extract from the
■ | Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel. It contains
1 i the first intimation we have received, ol ihe
: | removal of the assets of the bank to Giiaid ;
and we state that it has neither been done 01
? contemplated. We speak advisedly.—The
- Arg.<s of yesterday.
1 The Columbus Banks. —From <be Geor
-1 gia Argus of Wednesday last, the 25th inst.
1 we clip the following item ol intelligence in
relation to the proceedings under the resump
tion law against the two banks in Columbus.
We may tliereiore expect in a few days (as
Judge Welborn’s return is daily looked for)
to learn whether the acts of Judge King have
been sustained. It is proper to remark how
ever that neither of our exchange paper.-
froni Columbus, allude to the rumored remo
val of the assets of the bank if Columbu
across the Rivt r to Girard, Alabama, to pre
! vent the Receivers appointed by Judge King
! from taking possession of them we hope lor
! the credit of the institution and the honor ol
i those who manage it, no such thing was
•even contemplated, much less aecomp.ishcd
From the Columbus Enquirer of yesterday.
Wc notice that the editors of the Chronicle
j and Sentinel have given currency to a report,
I founded in ignorance or malice, “that the
j Bank of Columbus had removed its assets
i across the river to Girard, Alabama, to prevent
; the receivers appointed by Judge King from
i taking possession of them.” If the hope
• expressed by the editors that such a report
has no foundation in truth, be really enlor
j tamed, we can assure them that they are for
[once gratified. We repeat the assurance,
which might have been found in our paper of
last week, that the assets of the Bank of Co-i
lambus remain where its charter placed thorn, j
under the control of its able and responsible j
direction, who stand ready in good faith toj
discharge their obligations to the community ,
and to the stockholders.
j The report to which the editors allude, was
j esteemed so utterly destitute of truth, as to
j oe unworthy of contradiction.
! The Bank of Columbus, and the Planters’
| and Mechanics’ Bank, are both going on with
Uheir regular business as usual, redeeming
! their bills with other current bank notes.
Is it Tiiue?— A rumor and a band bill
have come over from New Orleans to the
effect that a gigantic system of swindling has
been practiced on the” Canal Bank of that
city.
Jl million and a half is the amount of plun
der—that is the vn ilit. The New Orleans
papers of yesterday say nothing upon the
subject.—Mobile Com. Keg. Aug. 25,
From the Globe.
Senate.—The debate on the Distribution
bill was resumed on the expiration of i 10
morning hour. - ,
Mr. Cuthbert opened the discussion, am
in a very successful argument, displayed the
temle'ncv of the new policy in regard to dis
tributing the public domain to efface the di
vision of power between the General and
State Governments. The idea, that the
habitual exercise of the taxing power by 0
General Government, for the purpose of ena
bling it to provide revenue for the states,
must necessarily, however gradually, end in
consolidation, was finely enforced by Air.
Cuthbert. , T ANARUS„.
Mr Me Roberts and Mr. Young of Illinois
particularly addressed themselves to exp ain
the effect of the bill on the new State*—
The former, with irresistible truth, por ray <
the inconsistency and unfairness vv tu i a
characterized the majority in relation to ament -
ments offered to the bill, and showed that the
chairman, who also comes from anew -ate,
had reversed his own course, and had sacri
ficed the rights and interests which lie should
have maintained, in the parly measure wine i
was committed to his charge.
Air. V oun<>’ took up in succession the fla
grant instances ot wrong to which the young
and growing West was subjected under the
operation of this bill, against the policy which
the Mother of these States, Virginia, had in
scribed in her compact of cession, and ail her
policy as a state.
Mr. Y. showed that settlement of the wild
lands, and the introduction of new members
into the confederacy , had been the \ irginia pol
icy from the beginning. The Scheme of re
pressing settlement and wringing money out
of the lands, instead of nurturing free men,
had never before received the sanction of the
statesmen of the Old Dominion.
Mr. Y. weighed each provision in the bill
touching the great interests of the rising
States, contrasting them with past legislation
—the most important of which had been com
prised in the rejected amendments.
Mr. Rives defended the new policy, which,
he insisted, was that of his State —which he
endeavored to make good hy reference to cer
tain resolutions, passed in one house of- the
State Legislature against graduation and : ces
sion.
This led to some severe animadversion on
the part of Mr. Benton in the opening of this
speech,—which speech was understood to
be the conclusion ox the discussion.
Mr Benton took up the bill before the Sen
ate, and examined it as a part of the Federal
system of measures, and showed its bearing
on all the rest. We will not do him the in
justice of attempting an analysis of this mas--
terly summing up speech.
At the conclusion ot his remarks, he moved
to recommit the bill with instructions to strike;
out that part of it relating to graduation and*
pre-emption, and insert liie bill on these sub
jects proposed by Mr. Clay of Kentucky two
years since. This motion was rejected-—ayeer
22, noyes 29. The question was then taken
on;the passage ol the bill, and it was carried
in the affirmative—ayes 28, nues 20, as fol
lows:
YEAS—Messrs. Archer, Barrow, Bates,-
Bayard, Berrien, Choate, Clay, of Kentucky,-
Clayton, Dixon, Evans, Graham, Henderson,
Huntington, Ker, Mangum, Merrick, Miller,*
Morehead, Phelps, Porter, Prentiss, Rives,
Simmons, Smith of Indiana, Southard, Tall
madge, White, ami Wood bridge—2B.
NAYS—Messrs. Allen, Benton, Buchanan,
Calhoun, Clay of Alabama, Cuthbert, Fulton,
King, Lian, Mcßoberts, Mouton, Nicholson,
Pierce, Preston, Sevier, Sintih of Connecti
cut, Surgeon, Tappan, Walker, Williams,
Woodbury, Wright, and Young—2o.
The Senate then adjourned
Romantic Incident.—A recent visitor in’
Paris describes the monument of a lady, iu
the cemetery of Pere la Chaise, concerning
which there is quite a romantic legend. Her
husband had a pillar erected above her re
mains, that he might see it from his chamber
window ; tree grew round about and obstruc
ted bis view , he then raised it considerably,
that no object might intervene between the
guiding star of his desolation and his untiring
gaze. Finally his sight became dimmed by
age, and the monument of his early love
(which was dearer to him than “any heart of
living mould”) faded from him as a vision,
lie tlieii surmounted it with a gold cross that
glittered in the sunbeam, and the dying gaze
of tho old man rested upon the beacon light,
a id his last sigh was wa ted by the brea’ii of
zephyrs as a rich incense to the shrine of his
devotions.
“ Rumor ” (Mr. Clay.)—lt is said that the
Cabinet will receive the next veto of Mr. Ty
ler with resignation. II he docs not sign,
they will resign. “ And what a fall will that
be, my countrymen!!!” Then Webster,
and Gianger, and the Federalists and Aboli
tionists, wili all fall together! The nation
will go into a oeiieral mourning, and the Hea
vens will be hung with black. This melan
choly dispensation may be expected lo lake
place iu the course ot the present or following
week—so sailh Mr. Clay’s Humor !
Mr. Bolt’s letter, in to-night’s Globe, will
sufficiently explain the course now held by
Mr. Clay’s friends towards the President,
. Mr. Clay’s speech in the Senate was made to
disgrace Mr. Tyler. The course of legisla
tion in the House is intended, according to
Air. Botts, to “head” the President. It is, in
fact, lo behead him.—Globe, of Saturday.
Pardon and Liberation of White. —ll.
IL While, who was sentenced to the Peniten
tiary of ihe District ot Columbia for ten yeare,
in January, 1807, on the charge of being an
accessory (his brother was charged
principal, and acquitted) in burning the Trea
sury building on the Ist day of April 1832,
lias been libera*ed by the President of the U
ni'ed States on the ground of his supposed
innocence, after four and a half years confine
ment.
Information for tiir Fishes.—Three
thousand fish were taken on board the Supe
: riqr during hor last to the Banks. We beg
to slate for the benefit of the survivors tha„
the same boat will go to the same spot next
Tuesday. Every fish of the three thousand
was caught ouls.de the hook. Funny, was n’t
it?
McLeod. —Judge Cowan’s opinion is re*
ccived with calmness in England, although the
do not understand his international law.—
McLeod will be tried in October, ; and we
have ne apprehensions of the result.
WINDOW BLIND AND SASH FAC
TORY
And House and Sign Painting,
V J? iHE undersigned lias taken a shop on Randolph
at street, betxven the Post L fficfc ant! Davies’ cor
ner, where he intends keeping constantly on hand
auyquanuty of window sash and hiindt of ail deserij*
tions and of superior workmanship, made under his
own direction. He is a'so prepared to make to order at
short notice any size sor quality of ihese articles, which:
may n ;t be ou hand.
House, Sign and Fancy Painting, attended to as
usual.
The public are respectfully invited to give me a cal
when any work in rny line is needed, and I will try
to please them in quality and prices.
I will sell Sash at the following prices:
Sash 12 by 14—primed aud glazed, 40 cts. per light,
do 10 by 12 do do 30 do do
do 8 by lo do do 20 do do
do 7 by 9 do do 15 do do
MOSES GARRETT.
February 23 3 ,f
BROUGHT TO JAIH “
A NEGRO man who calls himself Henry Jack
son. and says he is free ; came here with John
Benton, troTi Quincy, Florida, and says that his moth
er in Ciiarieaton. He is small,’ weighing about
lOu pounds, and about 20 yea-s old ; dark complected.
I he owner 11 any, is desired to come forward, prove
property, pay expenses and take him away. He save
Jonn Bemon has his free papers, ‘ J ;
WILLIAM BROWN Jailor.
Max 20 15 y