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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