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clothing’ and subsistence for himself and fam jly B ince he was apprized of hie insolvency ! How much d'd he expend in liquors, and what kind? how often was he incapacitated for business by intoxication, and how many had trades,or losses,took place by that means! 7. Finally, who are you! where did you come from ? what crimes against morals ortho laws of the country have you committed, if any, and who are witnesses to the same 1 What is your age and pursuit! how long have you b -en married, and what has been the additional expense of supporting a family! After your misfortunes came to your knowl edge, what was your style of living ? did you eat corn or wheat bread, ham or m.ddiing! Do you not firmly believe that if you had re stricted your habits and style of living to the actual wants and necessities oi life, yon could > made a larger dividend among your cred itore! . ... T.,e law authorises this inquisition, or any part of it, if the court shall deem it neces-arv to the purposes of justice; and if the debtor snail answer falsely in the least particular, he h at once subject to the penalties we have stated, in a case of perjury. We leave the subject with our readers to decide if the temp tation held out is not altogether on the side of truth and honesty, instead of fraud and cor ruption. Will the- Government make itself an gine of oppression! will it stand by and see thousands of its most useful citizens held in slavery the most abject and comple'e, with out an effort to relieve them! Whoever thinks that men, on account, of misfortune, should be crushed even lower than the brutes, may rail against this measure of deliverance and liberty; and look for approbafion where it can alone be found, among the callous hearted, the Shyloeks and demons of the human race. Abolition. —We copy the following from that spirited Democratic paper, the Cincinnati Enquirer. The Democrats throughout the free states, as a party, go against these fana- Fc-j, and all who read the papers of the pro ceedings of the Legislature know the fact. ime decided means must be adopted to retrieve our character, and to qifcll these dis turbers of society, or we shall incur the con temp*.and hostility oi all our southern neigh bors. These reckless creatures are still in terfering with the domestic peace and security of our adjoining state, and we inay soon ex pect to hear of some act of retaliation that will startle the most torpid among us. The recent attempt to s’eal away some ne groes from Boone county, Kentucky, is said to have been concerted by a certain Dr. S , agent for the abolition society of this city. Even a female member of it lately took up her abode in a family near Covington, for the purpose of enticing away their servants, and carried over incendiary tracts for their instruc tion. Slaves who are not disposed to leave their masters, are pursued in our streets. La dies from Kentucky cannot visit our city in a carriage without danger of losing their dri ver. They cannot bring a servant to carry home their purchases from our stores or mar kets, i ul they are assailed by a posse of buck negroe-, or persons of lighter skins—but darker principles. A young lady from New port brought a servant girl to carry her band box from the milliner’s—she was pursued to the ferry-boat by two black stags. A lady from Covington came to one of our stores with her child and nurse—a great fat wench follow ed her nurse into a store, and asked if she did not wish to be free. Where was the chivilry of the knights of the yard stick! The fann ers and drovers who supply our markets with the best of beef, can no longer bring- their negroes to assist in driving their cattle. The Kentucky trade must take another direction. Intercourse and good feeling will diminish, j until animosity and hostility will take their’ places. ; All these unpleasant consequences arise! from the interference of a few negroes and fanatics, mostly foreigners, who are employed here for purposes of mischief. A Simple Rule for Calculating Geor gia Interest. —The principal sum in dollars, is the interest in cents, for a month and a half or forty-five days. Thus, the interest ol $950, for a month and a half is $8 50. It will be immediately seen that this rule fur nishes an easy method of finding the interest of any sum for the small fractions of a year or month, by working entirely on the principal tuns : To get the interest for three months, double the principal. For one month, take two thirds of the prin cipal. For nine days, take a fifth of it. For five days, take a ninth of it. For fourteen days, take a ninth and a filth of it. For eighteen days, double the fifth of it, &c. The rule supposes the year to consist of 12 months of thirty days each, and so do Rowelett’s Tables, and so do most of our operations in practice. It is not therefore strictly correct; but its re sults are near enough the truth for ail prac tical purposes. The reason of the rule is obvious. If in stead of multiplying by eight, and taking half the product to get the interest for six months or half a year, we multiply by the half of eight or four, we get the same result at a sin gle opera'iou. So if we multiply by two, it will give tiie interest forjjihe hall of six or three months ; and if we multiply by one, it will give the interest for a month and a half or forty-five days. Practice in combining multipliers, will enable the operator to calcu late interest with astonishing despatch; thus to ge/the interest for eighteen months, eight and four and multiply by twelve. For nine months, combine four (for six) and two (for three) and multiply by six. For seven and a half months combine four and one, and mul tiply by five, &.c.—Augusta paper. “ A subscriber” wishes us to inform him 1 what constitutes the difference between Win- j ter and Summer Strained 0,1. The winter strained oil is thus made, as we have often seen in the Oil Factories at the North.— When the mercury is 12 or 15 degrees below the freezing point, the crude sperm oil is suf fi. iently hard to be transferred to sacks, where it undergoes pressing and about one third part is separated in a limpid state—this is \\ inter Oii. When the temperature is about 500 the oii is again submitted to the press, and anoth er run is made. After the summer oil is ex pressed, the residue is manufactured into can dles. Castor oil is pressed in the same man ner.—Southern Whig. Tjie Tariff Bill. —This bill of abomina tions ” hich passed the House, by the vote of Mr. Dawson, and seven of his colleagues, has be o’. aPerr ]in the Senate. The tax on* Coffee and Tea, has been struck out, by a vote of 39 to 10, Mr. Berrien of Georgia, vo s ing in favor of the tax. Western Bank of Georgia. —We find the following in Sylvester’s (N. V.) Reporter, of the Gih inst: We are in the receipt of a communication from the President of the Western Bank of Georgia, at Columbus, informing us that cer tificates of deposit on this Bank, having been disposed of in this city, he notifies innocent holders, that they are wholly illegitimate and fraudulent, that the Bank has issued none, nor will it pay those issued bv D. Gibson, they having been issued by him for the purpose of swindling.” Cooling- —Some firemen in New Orleans recently amused themselves by pumping wa ter upon the Mayor. Five of them were af terwards arrested, ami held to bail to the tune of $4,009 for the gross insult. THK TIMES. THe union of i Restates ana iht sovereignty of-he state COLU.MBITS, SEPTEMBER. 2 5,21341. DEM OCItA TI C lIC KE T FOR GOVERNOR, Charles j. McDonald. For Sena‘e, Col. A. Me DOUG A LD, Re p rest: n tat i ves, M.j. JOHN H. HOWARD, lion. VV. T. COLQUITT, Hon. MARK A. COOPER, Col. JOHN H. WATSON. Randolph County. Senate, Col. ALLEN MOVE. Representatives. Col. A. M. HUGHES, Col. S. A. SMITH. Stewart County. Senate, NEIL ROBINSON. Representatives. JOHN D. PITTS, I). G. ROGERS, JAMES M. MITCHELL. For Sheriff M. M. FLEMING. Report of Deaths in the City of Columbus, for the week ending September 20 : Dy sent ary—2 children. VV. S. CHIPLEY, President Board.of Health. Thf. Enquirer and Governor McDon ald. — The leading editorial in the Enquirer of yesterday, is devoted to an examination of the heresies, real and pretended, of Governor McDonald. It has mixed up just enough of fact, in the article in question, to add additional poignancy to the slanders which ensue. — With the constant and repeated professions of the Enquirer—which it seizes every opportu nity to communicate to the world—of its vast regard for truth—and its exalted appreciation of that virtue -on the very eve of an impor tant election, and before time is afforded for contradiction—it charges Governor McDonald with being a high tariff man—a Consolidation ist—as believing in the overruling power of the General Government in all cases ; with be ing an oj>en and consistent Federalist —as considering the Supreme Court of the United States the sujrreme arbiter in all criminal ca ses as desirous to annihilate State sovereign ty; as believing in the constitutional power of Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia; and as designing “to sport with the feelings of his constituents,” when be sugges ted to the Legislature some measure of re lief. The Enquirer has destroyed the effect and design of its own article, by its general, un discriminating charges against Governor Mc- Donald. The Enquirer, in this instance, has described too large a circle. No individual en tertaining the obnoxious sentiments here at tributed to Governor McDonald has been el evated to official station in Georgia, in modern times—much less to so exalted a position as that of Chief Executive Magistrate of the State. The thing is preposterous, and will be so pronounced by every intelligent man. We fear the Enquirer is, in this case, very much in the condition of the knave who affects accuracy and candor, for the purpose of move successfully imposing upon those he means to deceive. The distribution and pre-emption act. —The Enquirer of yesterday, in endeavoring to hunt up reasons to excuse one of the bad measures of its party, speaks of the amend ment of Mr. Berrien, as obviating some of the injurious effects of the Distribution Bill. This amendment provided that, when it became necessary for revenue to raise duties higher than 20 per cent ad valorem, the Distribution should cease. The Enquirer omitted—unintentionally doubtless !—to state that the amendment of Mr. Clay, varying somewhat in its terms from that of the former Senator, was finally adop ted. Will the Enquirer have the magnanimity to state next week that the amendment of Mr. Clay, (the one in force,) provides that the Distribution shall, in no event, cease until June 1842—-and that if it became necessary to raise duties higher for revenue than 20 per cent, the increased duties shall be put on such articles of fore'gn production, as compete with the home manufacture. Is this, or is it not the substance of the amendment of Mr. Clay 1— And does it not design a totally different ac tion from the amendment of Mr. Berrien* which the Enquirer has imposed on its readers j as the prevailing and existing amendment 1 The nomination of Mr. Everett as Minister to England was confirmed by a vote of 23 to i J 19. The injunction of secrecy has been re moved, and we shall soon know how Senators were ranged on this question. HON. JOHN FORSYTH. We have given up a large space in this day’s paper to a vindication of Mr. Forsyth from charges, at different times preferred, and quite recently repeated in a public press in this State, involving his character as a Public Officer, and his integrity as a man. These charges have reference to certain acts or re ported acts of Mr. Forsyth, connected with the purchase of Indian reservations in Alaba ma, under the Creek Treaty of 1832, and his individual interest in those purchases. The first public announcement of the ac cusations against Mr. Forsyth, in a circum stantial form, was made in the spring of 1840, by Duff Green, in a paper published by him at Baltimore, called the Pilot: and it is not improbablethatt.be Hon. John C. Clark, after the receipt of the very significant note of Mr. Forsyth, adopted that side-way mode to secure their introduction to the Public, rather than to assume the responsibility of ushering them forth over the sign manual of the Whig Exec utive Committee at Washington City, of which Mr. Clark was, if not the Chairman, certainly the most important member. Mr. Forsyth having now retired from office, and these accusations having again been brought prominently before the Fubli?, hv one of the leading presses in the State of his resi lence, it has been deemed proper to commu ticate all the facts and circumstances which lave formed ‘he pretexts for reports and state nents, prejudicial to the integrity of one of t ie most eminent citizens of the country. The language of the vindication is strong nd pointed; and, in its references to the Geor gia Journal and its Washington ccrrespond !nt —is extremely harsh. The naturally ar ient temperament, and the political associa ions of the author of the letter in the Journal* vhile in Washington, associations disposed o encourage hostile feelings towards political pponents, may have led him to place an erro leous estimate upon the importance and per ineucyof the circumstances there detailed to am—subsequently embraced in his letter to he Georgia Journal -and now satisfactorily ‘xplained in the communication published to ay- TAXES. The Enquirer ofyesierday denies the cor edness of the Table of Taxes-fur 1840 and 1841, taken from the Federal pub .shed on the first page of this day’s paper.- I'he same paper of the 21st inst., received asl evening,’in republishing (he Table, makes me following remarks:— Taxes. —Since the following tab!.* ofTax js was published, doubts have been raised by ;ome as to its correctness. The books are m file in the Compt'oiler’s office, showing .vhat we state as to ihe taxes of every County m be true, wliich*every one may examine and compare for themselves —and when any dis pute may exist as to the tacts in reference to the tax in any county, by referring to the books in the Clerk’s office of the Inferior Court, or the one in the Collector’s possess ion, and comparing the amount with the -tatement made in this table, those disposed o deny its trutli will be satisfied of its cor rectness. Mr. Webster identifying himself with tiie Tyler party—be that party Fist Flesh — or Fowl. —Mr. Webster hr ad dressed a note to the National Intelligencer, in which lie gives the following as one of the reasons for remaining in his present position : “ First, because I have seen • > sufficient rea. ons for the dissolution of the late Cabinet, by ihe voluntary act of its own members.” Again he says—“ If I had seen reasons to resign my office, I should not have done so without giving the President reasonable notice and affording him time to select the hands to which he should confide the delicate and im portant affairs now pending in this Depart ment.” . Rather a significant indication of the opinion of Mr. Webster as to the course of his late colleagues. McLeod. —The Savannah Republican of the l 8 h September, contains the subjoined : “ Our affairs with Great Britain. — Nothing has yet transpired, says the Wash ington Correspondent of the Charleston Cour ier, under date of the 13lh inst. in regard to any change of the relations between this country and Great Britain. But some cir cumstances go to corroborate the statement of Sir John Harvey, that Mr. Fox was instruc ted to demand the release of Mc Leod or his passports. On Saturday, the President ex piessed the opinion to several gentlemen with whom he was conversing, that there was a probability of the occurrence of a war with Great Britain before the expiration of six months. “ In addition to this, one of Mr. Fox’s fam ily, it is rumored, has stated that he would re turn home in less than two months, unless the McLeod question was settled. But the per emptory demand which Mr. Fox may be in structed to make has not yet been made. He may have indicated the circumstances under which he is to present it.” LAY.; FROM WASHINGTON. We take the following letter from the Char leston Courier of the 17ih inst. Washington, Sepl. 14, 1841. The Senate adjourned at Imlfpasi 11, last night after confirming all the nominations, with the exception of those of Bela Badger ard Gov. Ritner, which were rejected. The nomination of Gov. Everett as min ister to England, was confirmed , after a warm opposition. Trie injunction of secresy was removed from the proceedings on the sub ject, and we shall soon have the debates and votes thereon. The Cabinet is now com plete, Mr. Charles A. Wickliffe having been appointed Post Master General, and Mr. Webster having determined in compliance with the wishes of the President and the ad vice of his private friends, to remain at the head of the State Department. The Whigs of the House and Senate held a caucus, yesterday morning, and adopted an address to the Whig party of the United States, which was reported by a Joint Committee appointed for the purpose. The address is from the pen of John P. Kennedy, member from Baltimore, and is said to be an able, dignified apd conciliatory document. I understand that some of the Whigs de nounced Mr. Webster, in caucus, for consen ting to remain in the Cabinet; but it is pre sumed that the great bodv of the part}’ will be gratified at the event, and particularly those who may feel desirous of a peaceful and favorable adjustment of the difficulties pend ing between us and Great Britain. The House had no quorum during the day, and only met to exchange the usual communications with the House and the Pre sident. Iteiri3 from the Charleston Courier of the 17th instant. Mr. Charles A. Wickliffe, the new Post Master General, was in Congress from Ken tuck}', from 1823 to 1833. Mr. J. N. Barker was nominated to the Senate, on the 13th inst. to fill the First Comptrollers!]ip, vacated by the promotion of Mr. Forward to the Treasury Department. Mr. Barker was Comptroller immediately pre ceding Mr. F. Me. Clay. —lt is said that Mr. C! cill retire from the Senate to give place in Mr. Crittenden. Whig Caucus.— “ We learn,” says the Madisonian of the 15th inst., “that the Whigs of Congress, before t; a met in caucus and agreed upon the pu.dication of an address to their brethren of the United States. King Caucus is sometimes an intolerant tyrant, and it would not be surprising if some of his subjects rebelled.” Adjournment of Congress. Congress adjourned on Monday last, after a laborious i session of more than three months, having learned the gratitude of the American People’ by a series of important, wise and humane acts of legislation—being only prevented by ; Executive prohibition from rendering the po pular obligation yet greater, by the charter of. a National Bank, the restoration of a sound currency and well regulated exchanges, and j the consequent more complete renovation of j commercial, agricultural and manufacturing industry. The House adjourned at 7 P. M- The Senate continued in Executive Session until 11 F. M. and then adjourned. The Madisonian, the official organ, in speak- ‘ ing of the new cabine*, including Mr. C. A. Wickliffe, of Ky., the new Post Master Genera], says: “These are all able, learned, distinguished, and patriotic men of eminent purity and integ rity of character and sound principles. They all, we believe, without exception, (even Judge Upshur,the Virginia Nuliifier, included.) du ring the struggle of IS4O, favored the cause which resulted in the election of Harrison and Tyler. The country will see, in the selection of such men, the evidence of Mr. Tyler’s sa gacity and discrimination, and an earnest of his constancy to the principles and the cause by which he came into power. New Cotton. —About twenty bales of the S new crop have been received at the ware j houses in this city. The average price is | from (5 to 7 cents.—Enquirer ofyesierday. j The New Cabinet. —It is remarked that.! all the newly appointed were originally Jack j son men.—Savannah Georgian. Communicated. The Milledgeville Journal of tin- 27th July I contains an attack upon the Hon. John Forsyth, j in a letter from the junior editor written at Washington, and published’ by his senior as- j sociate, with hypocritical expressions of sur- j prise and regret, designed to give additional effect to calumnies as blundering as they are base. These persons can scarcely be so pre sumptuous as to imagine that the opinion of any honest man, in Georgia, or out of it, can be affected by their coarse and clumsy fabri cations ; or i) simple as to expect that flic distinguished object of their slanders would -'oop to defend his character from such mis siles, cast by such hands. Il thirty years of a life past in theeyeof the people, and much of it in conspicuous station, cannot shield a character tried and winnowed by fierce and frequ? nt political conflict, then are the good name and fame of a public mm at the mercy of every contemptible assailan*, or miserable libellist It inns’, in the first place, strike every one as prep sterous. that, if nothing could be made of these charges during the late angry and protracted canvass, when the Departments were full of spies eager to give information hostile to the Administration, they should suddenly assume a formidable shape when fashioned by the hands of the vagrant editor of a ribald newspaper, from shreds of gossip picked up in the kennels of Washing ton. These gentlemen must entertain no very small opinion of their prowess and im portance. Any notice of them and of their fabrications would ho entirely superfluous, did they not present a fitting occasion to expose the profligacy to which\he leading whig pa mper of the State is prostituted by political ani mosity and personal depravity. I’he following is the letter of the correspondent of the Jour nal, preceded by the candid and reluctan no tice of the senior editor. From the Georgia Journal. The Hon. John Forsyth.—Our Wash ington Correspondence of to-d iv, will lie found of an interesting character. Tne letter of onr Jcrmoß of ilie 16.1i, handles ihe Hun. John Forsyth, without gloves. Such ex- positions as are made in that letter, are far from affording us ihe slightest possible grati fication. True, Mr. Forsyth is our political (lie—one, whose blow, in past days, when lie d;d strike, scattered political destruction, al most in our ranks ; and even recently, in the Capitol of our Slate, did he make an effort to rally the young “Democracy ’ to the over throw of those whom we are proud to call our associates. But lor ali this, we cared not a straw. We knew that lie was laboring in a bad cause, and, despite his opposition, were we certain of victory. As . a politician, to foil h : m in his schemes —schemes that we con sider ruinous to the Republic—would, to us, ho a work of pleasure. In oilier respects, John Forsyth was to us, a Georgian —>>ne who had he'd high stations both in our State, and the Federal Government—one whose tal ents and eloquence we feit justly proud of; and although we could not possibly hope to ever view lum as a political friend, we vet never had any inclination to detract from his fame, or to view him in any other light than that of a high minded, honorable, but misia ken politician. It is, then, with regret that we read, the exposition which our Junior lias made in his leiter ol the 16'b, inst. That Mr. Forsyth mav be able to explain the whole matter to the perfect satisfaction of the citizens of Georgia—many ot v.horn in the Creek Country,’ had relatives and friends butchered up by the indians, who, but for the land speculators had never raised the tomahawk, or used the scalp knife —is our ar dent hope. We hear that gentleman no malice, but if the charges to which we allude, cannot he explained away to the satisfaction of the country, we,shall make bold to speak of him and them as the circumstances of the case will justly warrant us. Washington City, July 16.1541- The various Departments are busily en gaged in attending to the ordinary course ot holiness, and overhauling old accounts. It is said, that, in the course of examination many dark l inking transactions win h occurred du ring the last administration are coming to liiliit, connected with the specula!ons ol ihe oliicers of the Government, in lauds, &.c. &e. I he fact is, it would take ten years, and per haps longer, to ferret out arid expose ihe ras cality that was practfed and concealed (in falsifying the record*) by oliicers of llie Gov ernment. Many ot these concealments are so ingeniously done, that the probability is they never will be exposed. These concealments have been made in many instances, for the purpose of shielding from public condemna tion some of the most distinguished men of the Van Buren party, and ot those who have been most protected, a 1 from disputable conduct, is the Hon. John For-yth. You well recollect the immense difficulties the Government had with the Creek Indians, in Alabama, in reference to their Reserva tions. It was desirable to rem ve them by purchasing out tiieir c.aims, but .vnen this was attempted, a certain company formed at Co lumbus, contributed to defeat the views of Government altogether, and hv keeping the Indians in Alabama, one irritation added to another, produced the war of 1836, which lost the lives, and had come so nigh prostra ting the pecuniary fortunes of so many of our citizen Mr. Forsyth, while holding the re lation of Senator in Congress, and hriving ac cess the vto ail the secret movements of Government, became a member o* that com pany. Messrs. John Crowell, Enoch Par sons and 8. B. Parsons, were appointed com missioners to take the census and locate the reservations of the Indians, and in pursuance of their further appointment attempted to buy out from the Indians, their reservations; but such was the interference of this company and others, that the Commissioners were, in their report to Gen. Cass, induced tossy, “ no mans were left untried, either of artful insin- Uation or even of fraud and falsehood to ad ‘ vance tlieir own private views to the utter sac rifi.ee of that of the general good.” “ The Indians being rendered averse by the prejiuii ces and suspicions, which it is apart of their policy to inspire them with, from contracting with the Government.” Indeed, the Commissioners go on to state ! and directly charge, that certain individuals in andabout Columbus, were fully informed til | every step taken as soon it’ not sooner, than they were themselves—that by these means ( the individuals were enabled to thwart the views of the Government, and, after the j council broke lip, some of those individual* ! openly boasted that they had knowledge in advance, and knew a I about the course the ; Government had taken, (which enabled them to defeat the wishes of the Government) and that what was concealed from others, they had learned, through an honorable Senato from Georgia, alluding to .Mr. Forsyth.— These charges are made in the report of the ; Commissioners to the secretary of War, hot this officer, or Mr’ Elbert Herring, doubtless ; to shield Mr. Forsyth and his company from | public censure, wholly suppresed this part oi the report. It might be answered that Mr. (Forsyth was a member of no such company. ■ that there is no evidence of it, and that, to re j!y upon public report to accuse him would I be unjust. But this cannot be urged. Mr. j Forsyth admitted partic pation in the cnrripa-! , ny in a letter fried in the War Department, j | and that fact shows a combination between ! the officers of government, and the specula ! tors, fur the purpose of suppressing reports i made by other officers—in which political j friends were involved. The facts showing that Mr. Forsyth as Senator received official information as to the movements of the gov ernment, tiiat he communicated facts within his Knowledge as Senator to a company, of which he was a member, 1o enable that com pany to defeat jhe views of the Government, stamps a stigma upon his character, which nothing ran wipe out. But this is not ail. During the time the Government was engaged in trying to malm some arrangement for the speedy removal ol the Creeks, Mr'. Forsyth fearing that the Government would triumph, in despite of the action o'’ Ins fri rids—on the ! July, 153.3, addressed a letter to the War Department, in which lie contends that the Government has no right to make any such arrangement as was in contemplation. &e. &e. says “a com pany WAS F ‘RMEiI IN GEORGIA AND ALABAMA FOR THE PURCH SE OF RESERVATIONS. I BE ( CAME A MEMBER OF THE COMPANY,” &.C &C ----i stating that the company had purchased some I lan h. but proposing, if the Government suc ceeded, to relinquish his and the company’s claim, fora reasonable advance upon their ex penditures, &e. &,c. In 1937, however, a Mr Parker, near Wctumpka, _ having had a claim tosome land, which claim was approved, hut was’reversed by Mr. Whitcomb, who was subsequently appointed—supposing that Mr Forsyth was interested in the claim opposed to his. and that he was instrumental in having Mr. W. appointed, for the purpose of having his interests more ful'y protected—addressed a letter charging Mr. F. with speculating in lands, See., and die fact having been com municated to Mr. F. he immediately addressed a letter to a Mr. Woodbury, pronouncing the charges to hi “fa'se, and tl e ie ult of g eat | filly or gross misrepresentation.” Aid fur i ih'r, saying ‘ I mvr. not, and neve: had i ANY INTEREST ITT THF, QUESTION of float 3 , TOO j pre-emptions, or reserves ” —thereby g;v- I in-r a direct contradiction to his letter of Jo'v 1833, in which lie sa vs—“l became a mem ber of the company “ for the purchase of res ervations” Sf-x. I intended upon hearing of | this sffir, to forward copies of the papers j ahoveallud and to. Ibr publication, so that the j people could have all the facts b fire them. | hu* as if is against t! e rules of the several ! Departments, to give conies or extracts of j papers on file in their < ffic.es, except to per sons personally interested, or in compliance with a call from either house of Congress, I was not permitted to take copies or extracts, and wi!! nor sav that I <?ive the exact lan (riiacje of’ the papers—hut l have not given more titan they will warrant. I do hope Congress will appoint a commit tee io exam ine into tltese ll> : nio, and i>’ it will, ibe people will learn mtteh more than what I have giv en.” In this letter (the vulgarity of the .style is its slightest fault) it is charged or insinuated, first, that the co . pany of which Mr. Forsyth was a member, by thwarting the views oi the government, occasioned the Creek war and the consequent loss of life and property ; se cond, that Mr. Forsyth employed tiie influence of his senatorial and political position to ob tain information which liq communicated to enable the company to defeat the views ol t.ie government ;3d that the ad ministration conceal ed these facts in order to shield Mr. Forsyth ; fourth, that he stands convicted under his own hand, of a palpable contradiction. A lew re marks made only to expose and stigmatize e press which degrades its party by the employ ment of such base instruments lor such pro fligate purposes, will lay 7 hare to every eye the absurdity of these libels. The company which was formed shortly af ter the first treaty for the removal of the Creeks from Alabama, lor the purchase oi their reservations, and ol which Mr. Forsyth was for a short time a member, embraced some of the most respectable men in Georgia, among whom were some conspicuous adherents of the whig party. These gentlemen will not be a little surprised to learn that its object was to defoat the views of Iho government, and that its efforts occasioned the Creek war with all its attendant horrors. To attempt to refute so | reposterous a charge would be to insult the intelligence of the people ol Geor gia. Its discovery was reserved for the sa gacity 7 of this roving editor, in whose candid mind, his honest instigators found a congenial receptacle in which to deposite the egregious offspring of malice begotten upon stupidity. The character of this company, its object and its relations with the government, are truly and clearly explained in a letter ol Mr. i'orsyth addressed to the War Department, the 22nd July, 1833. (See appendix No. 1) The last paragraph especially, of this letter will chow whether it was the design of the company to thwart or defeat the views of the government. To his associates, Mr. Forsyth gave such in formation as it was proper to communicate,! and which w as accessible to any citizen vvliOj might take the trouble to seek it. ‘1 h s was his duty, and to perform it he had no occasion to avail himself of liis senatorial station or political influence. The accusation that he did so is an impudent and gratuitous ialse | hood. The thi*" 1 charge in this flimsy tissue of mendacit founded upon the omission oi a passage m a report, transmitted to the Senate, by the Secretary of War. The full corres pondence (See append.x Nos. 2,3, 4, 5,0, /, and 8,) which embraces the report with the omitted passage printed in italics, will explain why it was oimtted, and show that so far troru improper concealment being practised, atten tion was specially invited to the omissions, with the assurance that “they shall be supplied; if the Seriate deem it proper.” Common sense as well as decency 7 inculcates the pro- , priety of omitting in published reports, unless’ when specially required, charges and insinua-; tions against respectable men, vague, preuia : ire, or unsustained. In the present case, the j uj, ,e boastings of persons who are not even! named are stated as ascribing to a Senator; h ghly improper conduct or intentions. Be this as it may, the suppression was made by the War Department. The public will see that the reasons given for it were just and proper. The following etter shows, not only with what readiness, but contemptuous indif ference, all the papers heretofore alluded to, including an ‘ entire copy of the report, were communicated by Mr. Forsyth. To Joseph Bryan and Thomas J. Abbott. Although 1 take them to be not at ali scru minus, to prevent misconception, 1 g ve ex press permission to Joseph Bryan and J homes I. Abbott, of Alabama, to make such use of he papers herewith transmitted, as may be nost agreeable to themselves. J. FORSYTH. Washington, April 20, 1839. It is here seen that a complete copy of this report and correspondence has been in private md inimical hands ever since April, 1834, and hat it was communicated by Mr. Forsyth him self in a manner calculated to invite or rather stimulate its hostile use, if practicable. Can any thing then he more flagitious than the as sertion ot this mendacious scribbler, that both as it regards the omission of the obnoxious passage it the report by the Secretary ol War or Mr. Herring, and the actual conceal ment of charges “to shield Mr. Forsyth and his company from public censure”? He talks of concealment, when he must have seen a perfect copy ot the report, &c. in private and probably inimical hands, and when he has copied portions of the very passage in that report, the suppression of which is the pretext of his slanders ! But more of this hereafter. This fugitive editor has gone even farther. Because Ins mind, obtuse by nature, and tho’ sharpened by malice, is not able to distinguish the purport of language, he does not hasitate to accuse a gentleman of the highest charac ter, personal and political- of palpable se 1- I contradiction 1 His own dull malignity is made a foundation for the foulest imputations, as if men of integrity held their reputation by the tenure oi his grovelling comprehension. A Mr. Parker, of Wetumpka, Ala , in a letter addressed to the Secretary of the Treasury (see Append x No. IX,) charged Mr. Forsyth with being “opposed to the success of pre emptions and floats upon certain abandoned reserves,” and of having “procured the ap pointment of Mr. Whitcomb on account of his known opposition to the adverse claimants under pre-emptions and floats.” To the charges in this letter Mr. Forsyth replied very briefly and pointedly, as follows : Washington, May 23d, 1837. Dear Sir—ln the leiter of A. Parker of the 9th May, dated at Wetumpka, Ala., th u three allusions to me by name, all of which are false, and the result of great ,oily or gross misrepresenlat ion. 1 have not, and never had. any interest in the question of floats and pre-emptions or | reserves. 1 was perfectly ignorant ot Mr. j V\ hitcomb and of ins intended appointment i uniii aiter it was made. Ido not remember to have even heard his name mentioned. Al though as Secretary of State, 1 have as much right to speculate in iand- as Mr. Parker or Mr. Any-body-eise, l have no interest by pur chase or any other way in any land out ol Georgia. J. FURSi ill. Mr. Woodbury. The reader will remark in the letter to Mr. Parker th s passage : “1 have n<t and never had any in erest in the question of floats and pro- * options or reserves.” In Ins letter to the War Department ot July 22d, 1833, Mr. | Forsyth stale.- aiat “ a company was formed j i in Georgia and Aiabauia for th* purchase oi | reservations. 1 became a member of the | company,” &c. These are the passages whit h | it is said give each other a direct contradiction, j What crazy malignity I Mr. Forsyth does not j assert that he has not and never had any in terest in reservations, but in-the question of I floats and pre-emptions or reserves. Tne charge was tbit from interested motives he | was opposed to the adverse claims of pre-emp tions and floats. Has reply is, that he had not, and never had. any interest in the quesiim of pre-emptions and floats, or reserves. i o c ontrovert this assertion it must first, l a shown that such a question or conflict as that spoken | of in Air. Parker’s letter, had ever arisen iie- J ‘ween the company to which Mr. 4orsyth I belonged, and the claimants under pre-emp ! i ions or finals : and secondly, ” hat such ques ! lion or conflict arose vvhde he was a uiem.ier of that company. How gross ihe attempt, then, to torture his declaration into a denial of the .act, known to hundreds, tiiat lie had ever had an interest in reservations. But it would be worse than superfluous to take any farther notice of this malignant lar rago of ili-digested crudities, widen are too duil to stimulate even the prurient appetite for slander. Even for such vile uses, less blundering workmen must be employed.— Meanness and malice will not suffice without a certain degree of ingenuity. There is, however, some It e skili maiFs'e! in the attempt at the close of this biundaring epistle, to make truth itseit the minister of falsehood, but that is a skill which unscrupulous profli gacy never fails to supply 7. “ 1 intended, upon | hearing ol this affair,” observes this candid | gentleman, “ to forward copies of Ihe papers above alluded to, for publication, so that the people could have all the facts before them, j but as it is against the rules of the several , Departments to give copies or extracts oi pa-; tiers on file in their offices, except to persons j wrsomuy interested, or in compliance with a | call from either house of Congress, 1 was not permitted to take copies or extracts, and \\;iil not say that i gi\e the exact language of j the paper:—but 1 have not given more than j they will warrant.” It is true that such a rule as is here stated exists, and a very proper one I it is. But the impression sought to be created is tharit has operated as a barrier to the in- j formation sought for in tins case. Where, ! then, did the gentleman get Ins extraclslj The Departments would certainly not be so ! profl gate as to deny the papers to an imper- i tinent curiosity, and yet permit every uriprin- ! cipled vagabond that chose, to extract from j them or io mutilate and garble them at pleas- j ure. So far, however, from this rule of the Departments having prevented an unreserved publicity m this case, as insidiously and false ly intimated, it has been shown that a copy of Mr. Forsyth’s letter to the War Department, and of the entire report vvi’h accompanying correspondence, had been furnished by him self to Bryan and Abbott, the latter of whom had been Clerk to the Commissioners, and therefore, must have known the contents oi ; the report as well as those wiio drew it up j Ii is from this quarter, d.recfly or indirectly, that the information must have been furnished which has been so basely perverted. Yet this bungling calumniator complains of the impropriety o! procuring papers from the De partment to which it is next to certain that he did not apply for them ; to which, indeed, be had no occasion to apply, since, as is obvious, be had been permitted to see these papers in private and hostile.hands, and even to make extracts irom them ! The hypocrisy ol this pre eace is only matched by its stupidity. That he did not apply for the correspondence of Mr. Barker is evident from the letter of the ch;el Clerk of the Treasury Department, Mr j McClintock Young. (See Appendix No. X.) ; But here the plea of impossibility to see the papers is equally false and flagitious, for a copy had been furnished by Mr. Forsyth to the notorious John C. Clark nearly a vear ago, at the very height of the Presidential contest, when every hole atid corner was ran sacked by an unprincipled opposition hich j tnat person was perhaps the most ui^_ J lous instrument, forjfi th, with which 1o black ;en the Administration. The le’ter of Mr. j Forsyth to Clark is here given to show tha! | he provoked the use of the correspondence I communicated by the same contemptuous in | difference which he displayed to Bryan am i Abbott. Washingtox, Sept. 2-1, 1810. lion. J. C. Clark, —Sir: Having learned in an accidental conversation with Mr. \Y oodbu ry yesterday, that you had applied to him foi a copy of a “letter from me, dated 27tii May,. 1837, I have taken the trouble to procure n and now send it to you lor your special You will find also a copy of tfio fetter which gave occasion to it. Now, sir, having thus ministered to your laudable curiosity, 1 cannot suppose you will lecliwe to make a suitable return by informing ne w hat business you have with this corres pondence. I am, sir, Your ob’t serv’t, JOHN FORSYTH, To this letter Mr. Clark made no reply. The writer of the Journal has evidently seen the correspondence thus communicated, sot he has made extracts from it, and yet he a/Fects to deprecate the concealment enforced by the Departments, of papers which have been long since communicated entire to hostile and un scrupulous parties, not only without reserve, out with intentionally insulting notes ! Is any hing more wanting to convict this mendacious scribbler of the grossest hypocrisy, malevo lence and stupidity. Docs lie think that his impotent malice can turn to account slander ous imputations, which even the practiced profligacy of an old partizan hack whetted by die acrimony of a fierce political conflict, and provoked by the most taunting defiance, shrunk from in despair? )et such are tlio means and instruments employed by the lead ing Whig press in tins State to accomplish its political ends. Can they be characteristic of he party of which tins viie and vulgar print is the principal organ ! If so, then has Georgia indeed fallen from her high estate : then have the sentiments, the morals and the manners if her public men been sadly vitiated by the conflict through which they have lately passed. There was a time, and that not distant, when in the midst of the most ardent political con tentions. some degree of decency, if not delica cy, was preserved ; some respect for private reputation, if not for public eminence, was entertained; when ti e least scrupulous of her sons would have shrunk instinctively Irom such prostitution. Columbus, Svpt. 8. 1841. The undersigned having seen the attack made upon the Hon. John Forsyth by the ju nior editor of Ihc Georgia Journal, in relation o the transactions of vvliat was called the Co lumbus Land Company, of which we were members, feel it our duty in justice to Mr. Forsyth, a* 5 well as ourselves, to make the foi :owing statement: The Columbus Land Com ,'Riiy was formed by articles of agreement, in I vhejjsiHiimer of 1832, and was originally com posed < following persons, viz: Seaborn Jones, i. . Shorter? James S. Calhoun, Par ish Carler, Seaton Grant Hand, Anhui B. Davis, Alfred Iverson, Stewart & Fontaine, Hampton S. Smith, Stephen M. Ingersoll, Henry Bran ham. Joel Branham, Edward Cary, M. V/. Perry, George W. Dillingham, John G. Wor sham, J. VV. Freeman, J. R. K- T. Walton, James Wadsworth, Anderson Abercrombie, and Jonathan A. Hudson,, each having one sli ire, • xcept the last named gentle nan, who only had a half share—considerable sums of money were called in and pa.d upon the shares, from time to time amounting in the aggrega o to the sum of § 113,500 —agents were appoint ed to make contracts with the indivic'u 4 i Creeks, for tlieir Reservations, and a number o < ontracts were rn; and —Mr. Forsy h became jin eris'ed in l lie company by taking one L- If ,ol Mr. Iverson’s share, some time m the f 11 of 1832. At the time an eflbrt wrs made by he Got eminent, to buy out the individual reservations eii masse, by a subsequent treaty at E- r j flit he 1 TheJEoiLimbus Land Coirpa i ny b id ma-.ie a large number of contracts wuh tue Indians, and had advanced to each or.e ! some money, making in the aggregate a con j siilerable sum. It having been generally un i derstooil throughout ‘he country that the Go vernment were about to make such a treaty ■ 1 as a hove alluded to,-* he Columbus Land Com pany requested Mr. Forsyth, then at W ash j mgion city, and &• member of the Senate, tre • file a protest in their behalf,, before the Secre j tary of War, agalu.-t the right and justice of the proposed arrangement,.unless ihe Govern j meut would guarau'ee the restitution of the ! sums paid out by the company upon their < on— tracts, with a reasonable advance thereon. ‘Fins protest it. was understood at the time, was I hied by Mr. Forsy tn, and was. in accordance j with tiie wishes and instructions of the com jpany. The proposed arrangement by the Government lade i, and the company proceed ,ed in their operations. It is due, however, to** , the company, to say that no improper eflbrts were used by them to defeat the views- or plans ol the Government; on ihe contrary, they were favorable to the success of the proposed mea sure, if the rights of the company were pro tected. We turther state that neither at tins i or any other time, did the company receive any ; inhumation iropi Mr. Forsyth, in relation to the views or movements of ihe Government, i which was not open to all and in fact of gen ! oral notoriety. The company carried on its operations in pun basing reservations, until Die ! l itter part oi the summer of 1834. In Dec, of that year the company ceased their opera tions, sold a part, and d.vided the residue of their lands, and dissolved the copartnership, j The contracts made by ihe company have not ! been impeached tor fraud, and have been ap ; proved. Indeed the concern was dissolved belore those frauds were commenced, which, lit has been alleged gave rise,, amongst other j causes, to the Creek War of 1333, I he in i'erest which Mr. Forsyih held in saidcompa •, was transferred by him to his son John 1 1* orsyth, jr. upon his appointment as Secretary of Siaie by Gen. Jackson, since which time,, he has not within our knowledge been inter ested either directly or indirectly in the pur-, chase of Indian lands, or any portion of the public domain. We would further state that no contract or purchase made by the Colum bus Land Company, ever came in contact with-, any right of pre-emption or float. The transac tions oi the company were exclusively con fined to Creel: Indian Reservations, and no, question between them and pre-emptions or Float s evf*r arose, so far as we are informed or believe. AT,FRED TVERSIN, SEA BOHN JONES, A VHE HU ROM HI E, CHARLES D. STEWART. APPENDIX NUMBER I. Shortly aiter tiie last treaty was made with the Creek Indians for their removal from the | lauds occupied by them in Alabama, a com pany was formed in Georgia and Alabama, for i lie purchase of reservations. I became a member of the Company, and in their behalf sought information at the War Department o! tiie iuten ions of the Administration and of he construction put on different clauses of .hat instrument. I gave to the Company all lie information obtained, and under the belief hat their project would not be in opposition to the designs of the Executive, but rather promotive of the great object of speedily re moving the Creeks to the West, they pro ceeded to make contracts, and have paid, be -ides the expenses of agents, &e. earnest money to tiie amount of •8>27,000, contracts on the condition of being submitted to tiie Bresi lent for his approbation. Hid the Company loubted, which they never did, that they were operating in accordance with the wishes of the Executive, all doubts would have been removed by a letter written a few months since ot the Secretary of War to Col. John Milton of Columbus, in which he intimates that the Government had no desire to pur chase the Indian lands, that there was no in- Juce.’i i do so, for that private purchaa ieis v coming forward with sufri dent -pirit to insure the Indians fair prices. I li ter these circumstances the person?? ii.o ret led ,ere greatly surprised at the late • ■ tha Government to treat with the 1 whins tor all ue Keservations, disregard, rig the c tracts nade by individuals with the i aiians for ‘ii p :r separate property. As it is unde. s'o m ihat he design of making a geuer-n uuang*;..amt or all tiie reservations with ;bu r; ■ • or m : lividual Indian is not give i *;., ti) grounds upon which it is believed, nosu b irrmce nedf