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•i counties as a poor school fund, is twenty-.
Olio thousand and eighty-nine dollars and sixty
four rents; an amount so inconsiderable,
regret to say, as to afford them but little means |
of defraying the expenses ottlie education of,
t hire ’lor whoin it was intended. But lor en- j
casements that may have been nude with j
teachers for the present year, dependent on the j
funds expected from the State, I would rec
ommend its being retained until another div-,
i.lend shall arise upon the stock applicable to,
this object, which will be in April next.
1 lay before you a statement of Executive
vv rrants drawn upon the treasury for the past
political year; and also a list of Executive
appointments made since the first of Novem
ber last. , , , ,
[ also submit copies of the reports of the
military storekeepers at Mill- dgevtlle and
Savannah, and of the report of the new com |
missioners ot the road leading irom Elijah to j
the feJeral road in Murray county, relating to j
their proceedings in regard to an attempted
.settlement with the former commissioners, j
Major General Harwell J. Wynn has re- j
signed his command of the second division of]
Georgia militia. !
John 11. Watson, Esq. has resigned h.s of- >
fice of Solicitor General of the Chattahoochee
circuit, and Alexander IL Cooper, Esq. has
been appointed to fill the vacancy occasioned
thereby. . j
William H. Stiles, Esq. has been appointed,
according to a resolution of the last General
Assembly? to examine into the application of
the funds appropriate I for the opening and m
proving the navigation of the Ogeechee river.
The operations of the “Penitentiary, under
its present able and energetic keeper, exhibit
a protit of nearly six thousand dollars since
ttie fourth day of January last; but the large
amount of manufactured articles on hand
shows the necessity of making some new reg
ulation for the sale of them. To prevent their
accumulation, and the injury they necessarily
sustain from time, I would recommend that
the inducement be held out to purchasers
that payment may be made through the Cen
tral Bank, in notes well secured, and that all
articles on hand be sold annually at auction,
on the same liberal terms.
The improvement made in the management
of the institution and the mode of keeping the
accounts, will, it is hoped, prevent the evils
complained of in the report of the principal
keeper, and effectually prevent the errors and
impositions there exposed. It will be seen,
from the report, that in former reports, art;- j
cles and expenditures have been placed
among the available means of the institution,
which ought to have been charged to its inci- j
dental expenses.
It is necessary to the profitable manage
ment of the institution that provision be made j
for the payment of its debts. If upon the con- j
sumption of its present stock of materials it is J
left without means, and destitute of credit, its
operations must cease. If the proposed change
be made in the mode of selling the manufac
tured articles, the State may expect to be re
imbursed in good notes, bearing interest, for
all sums advanced. For information in regard ;
to all other matters connected with the insti
tution; its present condition and future pros
pects, &.C., 1 refer you to the very full report of
the principal keeper, which will be communi
cated in a few days.
I lay before you the October report of the
Bank of Ruckersville. The reports of the
other banks are in the hands of the Stale
Printer, and will be ready for delivery in a
short time.
Several bills passed by the last General
Assembly, presented for my revision, and dis
sented to by me, are herewith transmitted,!
with my objections.
One of the buildings intended as a Lunatic j
Asylum will be completed before the close of!
your session. It will therefore be necessary j
to adopt for the reception and cus- j
tody of the unfortunate class of persons for
whose benefit it was constructed, and to pro
vide for them suitable medical and other at
tendance.
A balance is due to the Georgia Rail Road |
and Banking Company, lor advances made to
the Commissioners of the Western and At
lantic Rail Road, for which the tionds of the
State are hypothecated to a large amount. I
had the honor to call the attention of the Gen
eral Assembly to this subject at the last ses
sion. It is equally due to the State and the
company that this claim should be settled.
In the exercise of the discretion given to
you by the people, to make all laws and ordi
nances which you may deem necessary and
proper for the good of the State, not repug-:
nant. to the Constitution, you will doubtless
take into consideration other measures than
those herein recommended. We require i
nothing but wholesome laws, faithfully exe- j
cuted, to make us a happy and prosperous
people. A kind Providence has surrounded |
us with blessings, moral, religious and politi- j
cal, and has cast our lot in a bountiful land, j
Our prosperity and happiness then depend
upon ourselves. Invoking the aid and gui
dance of the Supreme Being, let us aim at
their attainment.
CHARLES J. McDONALD.
From Ihe Federal Union, Extra.
GOV. McDuNALD’S INAUGURAL.
The llilteringevidenee afforded me, fellow
citizens, of the continuation of the popular
confidence, in being called lor a second term
to the administration c.f ilie Slate Govern, j
ment. renews and strengthens my obligation
to the people to use the power they have
confided to me for their exclusive benefit. Toj
this, I now pledge myself. Bu:, I can accom
plish little without your co operation ; lor the j
the period at which I enter upon the discharge |
of this duty, is one of no ordinary difficulty, j
The State Treasury is exhausted ; the reve-’
nue now about to he received, not sufficient ;
to reimburse the expenditures of the political
year just ended, cannot be made available
lor future exigencies; the meat.s at the com
mand 1 1 the Legislature, for carrying on the ‘
operations o! the Government, are confined
to the Central Bank, already greatly Weak
ened by the heavy drafts heretofore made’
upon it and upon which new contributions!
cannot be levied to any considerable extent,’
without periling its indispensible responsibili
ties, and destroying its usefulnessto the peoplt;
a great public work, undertaken and carried
on half way to completion, and which is per
haps identified with the future prosperity of
the States, is to be sustained; the interests
of education, moral and intellectual, are to be
fostered; the public credit, upon which de-i
pend the pride and honor of the State, is to,
be supported; a question, difficult and embar
rassmg, is to be settled, by which the lives
and property of our citizens are to be pro
tected from the robbers and incendiaries of
such of the other SuUes, as by affording them
a sanctuary and justifying tbeii outrages con
stitute themselves accessaries to their crimes ;
the dreadful disordt rs of the currency are to
be healed or checked ; and, superadded to
these things, we have to struggle under the
pressure of the new policy of the National
Government; the gratuitous and unjustifia
ble distribution among the States ot millions
from the Treasury reduced by the public tie
cessities almost to bankruptcy; the enact
ment of a bankrupt law partial and unjust in
its operation, and corrupting and demorali
zing in its tendency, and a renewal of a sys
tem of duties and iriiports upon a principle
which but a few veers since jeoparded tin
integrity of the Union ; these considerations
comtitule this a time truly of difficulty and
embarrassment. But according to the emer
creitcy must be the firmness and resolution to
- meet it, and on vuur aid, gent emen, i confi
dently rely. -
Wuajever measures you may deem it ivp
x cessarv and proper to adopt for li e good of
the State, not repugnant to the Const it uirnn.-
and having a tendency to suppress evil and
rj mole the interest of the people have
r.y s3&c?:ou - I:J>
In the administration of the a flairs of the
Stan*, I shall as heretofore be regulated by a
conscientious regard for the public welfare:
and, in discharging the solemn obligation 1
am about to renew, “to cause justice to be
executed in mercy,” while ihe cireumstanees
of each ease presented for Executive action
will Ire allowed their due influence, the safe
ty of society shall be with me the paramount
consideration.
We, fellow-citizen::, are servants of the
p ople, and are not delegated to serve our
selves. Let us then dismiss every sentiment
of ambition, not identified 7. ith the public
good, bnrv the strifes of party, and earnestly
invoking the presence of HIM who can
snide us a right in all things, proceed to the
disci,arge of our respective obligations to our
country.
THE TIMES.
Tlie union of the states and the sovereignty of the states
COLUMBUS, NOVEMBER 11, 1841.
I HE INAUGURAL ADD rESS AND ANNU
AL MESSAGE of gov. McDonald.
We spread before our readers to-day these
two documents. The first is short and sen
sible—the latter able and well written. In
deed, as (arr as we have heard, the political
opponents of his Excellency speak in compli
mentary terms of the style and manner which
characterize the Executive communication.
We*do not see how any part of the mes
sage of Gov. McDonald can be condemned’
His remarks on the Banks, and the deranged
condition of the currency, are just and appro
priate—and the desire evinced by him that
the Legislature shall resuscitate the Ceniraj
Bank—afford to it such aid as'may be found
necessary to place it on a specie basis—and
enable it as soon as practicable to discharge
all the obligations to the State and to.lhe peo
ple,contemplated in its organization,will surely
nowhere meet with object.ons.
A difficult task for the present Legislature
is to he found in the arrangements proper for
the prosecution of the Rail Road in the Cher
okee section of the State—at the same time
that the other expenses of a public character
are promptly liquidated. We had hoped,
and so said, that some scheme might he de
vised to relieve the State to some extent of
the burdens accru rig from ihe farther prose
cution of the work, while at the same time
it might he permitted gradually to proceed.
It has beer, said that some of the incorporated
companies in Georgia, or out of it, would per
haps lend a helping hand, and give some
guarantee to the Slate of the ultimate accom
plishment of the work. The suggestions of
Gov. McDonald to proceed gradually with
the road in the proportion that the State could
provide the means, without jeoparding any of
its other interests, are in themselves judicious
and prudent—and such oniy as could prop
erly, under the circumstances, have emanated
from the Chief Magistrate of Georgia.
In reference to this message, we hear i l
said, it is true, that it is “outrageously long”’
contains “a good deal of humbug,” &c.—yet
we doubt extremely whether any of the Whig
journals of the State will take any ot the prin
cipal topics presented in the message', and
question, in the main, the correctness of the
views of his Excellency respecting them.
The Milledgeville correspondent of the
Enquirer says that the “State Rights doctrine
(of the message) will answer well enough.”
Toat the message is Republican, or if you
please Democratic, throughout, will,we think,
be generally admitted —and that its princi
ples are in accordance with those of the an
! oieni Republican school, all its members will
readily perceive. ‘I he State Rights doctrine,
alluded to by the above correspondent, may
not, perhaps, be so entirely apparent —
that is.ihe p ain meaning he intends to convey
by the words—for he says, in another place,
the State Rights Harrison party. Now what
is the meaning of this cognomen ? We have
understood tha t Gen. Harrison said, not many
years back, that c the Proclamation of General
Jackson contained the best exposition of the
principles of our Government, and entitled
him to a higher place in the affections of the
country than the victory achieved hv him at
New Orleans. Il we are not misinformed
on the subject, State Rights men—not of the
ultra sort—condemned the principles of the
Proclamation as a direct attack upon the
whole ground-work of State Rights—and
Gen. Jackson himself disavowed she interpre
tation put upon the paper, and that gave \t
such special favor in the eyes of Gen. Harri
son.
And we hear now, in Georgia, of a State
Rights Harrison party!! When will won
ders cease ?
A COURT OF ERRORS.
! W e are extremely happy to perceive that
the Governor, in his annual message, has not
omitted to bring prominently to the notice of
• the Legislature the necessity—the indispen
sable necessity—for the establishment of a
| tribunal for the correction of the errors of
j inferior judicatures. The reasoning of the
Governor cn this pond, although brief, seems
’ to us to be conclusive and irrefutable ; and
; we do hope that the Legislature will give to
| this portion of the executive communication
the consideration to which it is entitled by its
preeminent importance.
Georgia is the only State in the twenty-six,
we believe, which has not an appellate court
i to review the proceedings of subordinate tri
; biinals, and to give both certainty and effi
ciency to the regular administration of the
j law. We are thoroughly persuaded that a
| calm and unbiased examination of all the
i reasons in favor of and against the establish
ment of a Supreme Court,would result in the
’ conviction that our judicial system can never
be made what it ought to be—and what it is
in other states—without th 6 organization of a
head. competent to determine, and vested
! with the power to settle, the conflicting prin
: c pies of law which arise in the Superior and
Inferior Courts of the state.
I--
Arrival of distinguished Visiters —Ex-
Governor Lumpkin and Ihe Hon. Mark A..
♦, Cog per reached ibis city last week ; and, we
learn that Ex-Gov. Gilmer and the Hon. Win. I
C DawS ‘u arrved on Sunday evening last. !
* t e-icui Ctuju of .sit ruesda.
r GEORGIA ELECTUN —TAXES—t HE 1
Cu.iRLES'iON CuUUfaK hND CURTIUS
The subjoined article is from the Charleston
j Courier (a-Whig pape- - ,) of the 25th of Octo
| her. The Courier oufht to have understood
the “key to the recent Democratic victory” in
! Georgia, as v ell Lefort, as since the “startling
truth” disclosed by tie Patriot and Certius.
jlt was, doubtless, in weekly receipt of most
•of the journals of Gergia, of both political
parties—and saw the iisues presented to the
people of the State, ant upon which the con
test w.as conducted and we question ex
ceedingly whether the Courier discovered in
any democratic print tie slightest intimation
j of a wish, much less and an intention, to violate
the plighted faith of tie State, or disown any
of its-legal responsiblities. The eyidences
of tiro points involvet in the struggle are, it
appears to us, as proptrlv drawn from the col
umns of the democratc papers, as from the
arbitrary statements ofa foreign journal, (the
Patriot,) or the foreigr correspondent of the
Courier.
We were among th number of these who
complained of the prtsent tax law, adopted
by the last Legislatuie, as an act of unwise
and unnecessary legislation ; and our opposi
j tion to it was grounded, not on any facts ap
pertaining to it within our personal knowl
edge, but on the representations of respecta
ble journals at the Capital of the State—and !
the statements of respectable individuals else- j
where, who had the means of acquiring, and j
who professed to have correct information!
respecting the indebtedness of the State, and ‘
its means of payment. So much confidence
had we in the truth of the facts derived from
these different sources, that we felt not the
slightest hesitation in arraigning the last Le
gislature for the adoption of an improper and
oppressive law ; and in asking for it the con
demnation of the people. Not a thoughtever
entered our mind—nor were we able to dis
cover one akin to it, in any democratic print,
during the whole canvass, that the present
tax law was demanded to maintain the public
creditof the State, or that its repeal will’jeop
ard, in the slightest degree, the stability of
that credit. It is not within our knowledge,
nor do we believe in that of any other indi
vidual in the State, that any design is enter
tained to repudiate any of the liabilities of
Georgia—or to neglect to make ample and
timely provision to cancel them as they be
come due.
Whence, however, has arisen this cry of
alarm about State credit, and its inevitable
prostration, if the Democracy succeed ? Are
the destruction of State credit, and a refusal
to cancel public liabilities, the questions upon
which the Democracy, in different parts of
the Union, have placed the contest; and to
: carry out which they are so anxious to tri
j umph 1 With the exception of the State of
Mississippi—where the Bond question has
! been brought into the controversy between
the two parties—and with the merits of which
in that State we are totally ignorant—where
else has a refusal or compliance to meet pub-
I lie engagements, been made the test, or formed
an essential ingredient in the conduct of the
political canvass 1 Cannot a question about
the details of a tax law, or the amount to be
raised under it—whether the former are cor
rect, and the latter is too great or too smaP,
| arise without the alarm being given that trea
| son is abroad—and the character of the Na
| tion or some particular State, for integrity and
| punctuality, is in jeopardy 1 Have not Penn
! syl vania and Alabama -large outstanding lia
; bilities—and although in the uncontrolled
charge of the Democracy for years, has either
of them intimated the remotest wish or design
to resist its creditors ? Whence, then, we
i say again, proceeds the cry, if the Democracy
succeed, away with state credit and stafe'lia
bilities ? Is it justified by facts ? Or is it set
in motion to prejudice the respecters of probity
and fair dealing—and thus, by unfair means,
to weaken, aird perhaps finally destroy the
Republican party J
As we have before remarked in regard to
the late political struggle in this State, the
discussions respecting the propriety or impro
priety of the adoption of the existing tax law,
had nothing to do with the public indebted
ness of the State—or rather were designed
in nowise to question that indebtedness;
or to interpose any obstacles in its prompt and
satisfactory liquidation agreeably to the terms
upou which it was contracted.
From the Charleston Courier, Oct. 25.
Georgia Election. —Our Correspondent
“Curtius,” furnishes below a key to the re
cent democratic victory in our sister State.—
The W bigs have been defeated because they
taxed the people to preserve the faitii and
credit of the State—the Democrats have been
victorious because they promise relief from
taxation, in disregard to the faith and credit
of the State. We fear wo.have indeed fallen
on evil times, and that democratic ascendancy
will be attended with faithless misrule, it is
remarkable, too, that it is the so styled hard
money party which has succeeded in Georgia;
and yet relief laws, state bonds, and the worst
of papier currency are likely to be thp fruits
of its victory.
‘fit is much to be apprehended that we are
on the eve of beholding the wreck of State
credit. The test applied jn-tnany of the elec
tions now in progress, is whether the candi
didate for favor is or is not friendly to direct
taxation, to sustain the faith of the States.—
in .Maryland, in the recent canvass, the peo
ple have given their suffrages for none of the
candidates who were favorable to increa ed
taxation. We fear that such will be the case;
also in Pennsylvania. Now there is but oi e ]
escape from the disgrace of a deliberate in- i
fraction of State engagements, and that is the i
voluntary assumption of those burthens by !
the peoplp, that they seem willing to avoid j
I by a sacrifice of honor in all time to come for j
I present ease. Nothing else can restore con- J
j fide nee in State obligations—can give them |
any value in tiie eyes of foreign or domestic
i capitalists. But unfortunately the faith, as
well as the credit of several of the States,
| appears on the verge, of rum, from the preva
j lence of counsels liiat dread popular disfavor.
I and truckle to ultra democracy.”— Patriot ,
| 19/ h inst.
There is startling truth in this. Whether
j the direct issue has been any where made—
j whether the people have fairly understood
that the faith of their State was involved in
the question of increased taxation, we are not
prepared to srev. But this much we do know,
that in several-of the recent elections, when
ever the .democratic ticket has been signally
triumphant, all measures based upon an in
crease oi taxes as the only honest and effect
ual means ot liquidating the debts and sus
taining the credit and patriotism of all parties,
have been-prostituted-to. electioneeriiig pur
poses, and rendered odious to the people as
tyranny and misrule.
- This is especially applicable, to the recent
Gubernatorial contest in Georgia.’ The in
debtedness cf that State has grown out of a
fttien* of Ititerutti Improvement, originated
md prosecuted during the supremacy of what J
s now known as the Democratic party. The!
Legislature of IS4O, in which there was a de
eded whig majority, lest, the permanent stigma
jf a dishonored credit should attach to the
State, made provision for the extinguishment
of her obligations by direct taxation, as the
proper mode, and that to which she would
sooner or later be obliged to resort. This
honorable measure, the only earnest of good
faith, which the State could give to her cred
itors, and the burthen of which is so lightly
borne, that it would not have been sufficient
to have attracted public attention, but for the
clamor of designing politicians, Ims been
stamped as Whig, held up to the people as the
first fruits of Whig administration, and, with
all the eloquence of partizan malice, exhibi
ted as fastening upon the party and their can
didate a system of policy, grinding and crush
ing in its operation. That it was brought to
bear powerfully upon the popular mind during
the contest was evident to the most superfi
cial observer. If the honest payment of State
debts by direct taxation is a financial expedi
ent, peculiarly Whig, and repudiated as such
by the Democracy, let it be proclaimed far and
wide, if the party is to be overwhelmed under
the ruins of State credit, let it not be without
a desperate struggle to avert the evil destiny
which threat-ns the country. Cuetius.
THE SOUTHERN RECORDER—SUGAR
AND COFFEE.
Believing as we did, from our personal
knowledge of the Editors of tin Recorder,
that their aversion to humbugs was sincere,
and proceeded from a thorough conviction, not
merely of the impropriety, but absolute dan
ger to the rights of the people, of their em
ployment in a political contest* we could not
suppose, a case of any emergency in which
their use would be deemed, by the Recorder,
justifiable. Imagine, then, our surprise at
discovering in the Recorder of the 23th ult.
the following.as its leading editorial:
SUGAR AND COFFEE.
By the last prices current of the New York
market these articles have fallen. Ihe quo
tation in.regard to the first is, that “The mar
ket is very dull this week, and prices are a
little lower, 1-4 to 12 cent, for muscovados.”
In reference to the latter article, the quotation
is, “ The sales have been moderate, and at a
decline of 1 4 per cent.”
Now, is not this a very strange effect of the
wonderful tariff which was got up by our Van
Buren opponents, and which many of our good
citizens w r ere misguided enough to believe to
be actually the fact. And no wonder, for such
weie the asseverations of our opponents, so
absolute and unqualified their assertions on
this subject, that tlie people had either to dis
credit whofiy their testimony, or to believe
that the Wings had actually saddled an enor
mous tax on the necessaries used daily in their
families. And, indeed, to such an extent was
this absurdity promulgated and believed, that
we have been credibly informed since the
election, that even in adjoining counties, the
people were made actually to believe that
twenty cents was added to the price of every
pound of sugar, as a United States tax.
v Now we only ask of all such, is it not a
strange tax or ! a riff, that actually reduces the
prices of the articles taxed, rather than ad
ding to them ! Did you ever hear ol such a
filing before I and if this is the effect ot tax
es, will you not hereafter pray that they may
be laid on without limit ? You see from the
New York quotation's that sugar and coffee
have both fallen in price since this wonderful
Van Buren Tariff. If this is the effect of
tariffs, don’t you say ‘go ahead.”
We bring up these matters of fact and of
public record, not only to shame our opponents
tor their gross deceptions, but to impress by
the evidence of facts on the public mind, the
! necessity hereafter of being especially guard
ed in the reception or belief of any future
humbugs, to which our opponents may resort
for party purposes, and the free use of which
in the recent elections lias so widely affected
the public mind, and prostrated tor the
wholesome principles which, in the hands of
the Harrison party, had but just begun their
healing and restoring influence.
The present lesson is a striking one, and
comes so borne to the common sense ot all,
that we may hope future mischief from simi
lar causes will not be so easily accomplished.
Will the Recorder answer the following
queries ? They are put merely to show that
the above article of the Recorder is, perhaps
unintentionally, bordering on the humbug or
der :
Do not the laws of supply and demand prove
that, fluctuations in the prices of articles fre
quently occur, independently of any influence
exerted by duties, or exemption from them ?
And may not, therefore, the sugar market in
New York be duller one week than another,
and the price of the article lower one fourth,
or even one half a cent, and tins result be
.accounted for by the aforesaid laws of supply
and demand, -without the slightest possible
connection with import duties, or the absence
of them !
There is a daty on sugar—a high duty—
and which, the Recorder will admit, the last
Congress did not abolish. Now if this duty
did not exist, although sugar lowered in price
this week in New York, would not the price
of the article have been still farther reduced
to the extent of the rate of duty now imposed ?
And is not this the correct way to state the
case, to relieve it of any appearance ot hum
bug Y
Again, coffee also has tallen, and yet there
is not now, nor has there been for many years
any duty on this article. It is, therelore, per
fectly clear that the “Van Buren Tariff” hasj
had nothrngfio do with the rise or fall of coffee,!
and it follows as a matter of course that the i
reasoning (if the Recorder is fallacious, and j
that the prices of articles may- vary, uninflu-1
eticcd by a tariff—while, at the same time,
those prices may be still farther increased or!
diminished, precisely to the extent that duties
are levied ou, or taken from them. Certainly
the Recorder will not deny this.
! PENNSYLVANIA ELECTION—OFFICIAL,
j Purler’s (Dcmociat) majority, 1839, 7,746
| “ “ “ 1541, 23,003
New Jersey. —The Mobile Commercial
Register of Nov. 4tb, says—“ We have the
lull reiutns of the popular vote in New .Jer
sey, except in die counties where there was
no party contest. It stands thus:
1340. 1841.
Whig majori'y, 6,067 1,7 10,
showing a falling off cf 4,852 voles. There
are six counties in which there was no contest.
Allowing for these, the average falling ofF of
the whig vote, and the poll will show that
Harrison’s majoiity of 2,323 is more than dou
bly overcome.”
Ohio Election. —The State Election in
Ohio for members of the Legisla tire merely,
has resulted in a Democratic majority of two
in each Branch; making a majority of font
on joint ballot.
The Legislature eleced on Thursday last
Col. Samuel Robison, Map General 2nd Di
vision G. M.-—and Maj. Bedford H. Darden,!
Br.i-ad Get.etui !nh D:ViSuii C. M.
THE HON. JOHN FORSYTH. f
Our readers generally are apprised of the;
decease of the distinguished gentleman, whose!
name stands at the head of this article.
We publish to-day the proceedings of a
meeting, held in this city, on the receipt o(
‘the death of Mr. Forsyth. I’ was attended
without distinction of party —and all joined in
rendering honor to the memory of one who
had, through a long series of years, main- j
tair.ed with unrivalled Zealand ability the j
honor of Georgia.
Few men hive lived in our day who uni
ted, in a more remarkable degree, the ac
complishments both of mind and person.
For the last twenty-five years Mr. Forsyth
has bee t a distinguished man in the history
of his country, receiving the just trihute of
respect from every class of society, for Ins
extraordinary qualities as an orator and states
man, and his elegant deportment as a gentle
man.
Mr. Forsyth, since his entrance into public
life, has successively occupied stations calcu
lated to elicit his powers as an orator, a states
man—and a writer —and, in all of them, lie
exhibited a brilliancy—a readiness—and an
ability, which few may expect to equal—none
to rival.
. A brief period since, Mr. Forsyth exhibi
ted, in his person and his carriage, but slight
marks of declining years, and his friends and
political admirers anticipated for himvet highe r
honors and a more-extended field ol usd ill
ness.
Death, however, has blasted their hopes,
and hurried to a premature grave one of the
distinguished men of the age.
MR. WEBSTER.
We mentioned some weeks since—about
the period that it became apparent Mr. Web
ster preferred Mr. Tyler to Mr. Clay—that
if the Secretary of State had the presumption
to interfere with the political aspirations ol
the Kentucky statesman, his conduct during
the war would be brought in judgment
against him—and we took occasion to inti
mate that some journals in this neighborhood ,
il they would speak of Mr. Webster in less
general terms of eulogy, would find themselves
hereafter in a much less awkward predica
ment, when it became necessary to advance
the claims of Mr. Clay at the expense ot
those of Mr. Webster.
The New York Times and Evening Siar,
a Clay and Taiimadge print, has thus early
commenced the war, on the plan suggesttd
by us :
“Go ahead, as they say in the Wesl—make
up the issue between the merits of Henry
Ciay and Daniel Webster; it is precisely the
thing that every good Whig requires to place
these distinguished men belore the country as
they stood C *3"during the late War with
England. Siiould this pail ol history be neg
lected, we may find it necessary to fill up the
picture.”
PRICES CURRENT.
We have revised our table of prices this
week, and placed it in better form. It haS
been prepared by John D. Howell, Esq.,
who has politely ottered to coriect it weekly,
as well as to furnish 11s with regular informa
tion respecting the state of the cotton market
/ THE ALABAMA LEGISLATURE
Assembled at Tuscaloosa on the Ist day of
■ his month. The two Houses were organi
zed by the election of the following officers :
SENATE.
Maj. N. Terry, of Limestone, President.
Col. B. A. Philpot, of Morgan, Principal
Secrets rv.
Maj. (if. B. B. Clither.vl, of Greene, Assis’t.
C. C, Dutioho, of Tuscaloosa, Doorkeeper.
HOUSE.
Dr. D. Moore, of Madison, Speaker.
Col. T. B. Tunslall, ol Tuscaloosa, Principal
Clerk.
Algernon S. Cook, of Wetumpka, Engross
ing Clerk.
James H. Owen, of Tuscaloosa, Doorkeeper.
Davis, ol Bibb, Messenger.
GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE.
The message of Gov. Bagby is a very long
paper, and is occupied mainly with the dis
cussion of two topics—the General Ticket
Law, and the Banking System of A'abama.
He slates the circulation of the Siarv Bank
and branches, to be about seven millions—
admits (hat they have been wretchedly man
aged, and that a thorough reorganization, on
wholly and fie re lit principles, can alone render
the syst'-m accep'able or safe. He recom
mends tie)t the Bank be immediately relieved
from the burden f supporting the State gov
ernment. and that direct taxation he resorted
I to lor this purpose—as also, that the law re-
Iquiring the Bank to pay.annually $200,000,
for school purposes, be repealed—and that its
business hereaiter be confined to collecting
and settling existing claims, and to discounts,
at short dates, and on actual shipments.
He argues long, and, we think, ably against
the repeal of the General Ticket Law, in ihe
election of Members of Congress, and in !iw
vor both of the constitutionality and justice
of that law.
He condemns in strong language the lead
ing acts of the late extra session of Congress.
This document is altogether too long for
insertion in our columns, although we shall
endeavor to extract, next week, tbe most im
portant parts. __
THE WESTERN BANK OF GEORGIA AND
ITS PRESIDENT, R. A. GREENE, Esq.
We copy what follows from the Georgia
Argus, of yesterday, as an act of justice to
the individual implicated:
“ During the present session of our Superi
or Court, the Grand Jury found a true bill
against lihodam A. Greene, President of the
Western Bank of Georgia, for a high misde
meanor. The charge is founded on the re
fusal of the Bank to pay specie. There is a
provision of the charter of that Bank, which
declares that the Bank shall not at anv time
refuse to pay specie, and that upon srh re
fusal, the charter shall be'lorfeited. There is
also, a section of the Penal Code, winch pro
vides, that if any hank officer shall violate any
provision of the charter, he shall be indicted j
i'or a high misdemeanor.
“ The Legislature certainly never contem
plated, that the mere act of failing to pay spe
cie unconnected with fraud, should be an in
dictable offence; if they did, then every offi
cer of every suspended Bank in the State, is
subject to indictment.”
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
Bv the recent loss, bv fire, of Jefferson Col- 1
lege in Mississippi, the archives of the Terri
tory of Mississippi (which had never been
removed to the seat ofX3overnmesi ) rere to
tally destroyed.
new York elections.
The mail of yesterday morning biir.gs
Cheering accounts from the Empire Slate.
The subjoined communication will show the
render that the Democracy |iave succeeded
beyoud their most sanguine ex pf Cations. As
far as beard from, tlie not saved
a man ; and even the counties 01 Albany and
Rensselaer —whig unin term iCTpyjTqr ihelast
five or eight years, anil rarely c< jcrl bv the
Democracy—have turned from theFYdols urt
i to the true and living faith. Wf-.-r :
The New York Herald says ihe D.i#iiW:its
have the Senate, and the Assembly by an
1 overwhelming majority.
[communicated.]
THE EMPIRE STATE REDEEMED.
AND DISENTHRALLED FROM UNDER THE YOKE
OF FEDEKALI-M AND THE PIPE LAYERS.
From the returns in this day, it would seem
that victory had once more crowned tbe es-
I f, M ts of the Democratic Party, in the Ntate
of New York, and that, too, in spite of the
attempts of Gov. Seward, Tiiurlow Weed,
and Bishop Hughes, to deceive the Demo
cratic party in the city of New York, upon
! the school* question. Much credit is due to
: the great body of adopted citizens, for their
j determination not to be led off from their
political faith upon a question of so little
importance as that, con-pared with a main
tenance of Democratic principles.
2'he Log Cabin. Hard Cj.der, Coon Skin,
\ Red Ptpper and Gourd Party are used up.
10,000 CIIF.ERS FOR THE EMPIRE STATE !
ID* Appended to the official returns of the
recent election in this State, published in the
Federal Union, we find the following
RECAPITULATION.
la 1833, Gov McDonald received 34 6>4 votes.
l * Judge Dougherty, 32.807
McDonald’s majority, 1,827
In 1840, Mr. Dawson, for Congress, received 39,019 ■
“ Judge Colquitt, “ 35,662
Dawson’s majority, 4,057
I In 1811, Gov. McDonald received 38,725 votes,
j *• Air. Dawson, 34 539 votes.
Gov. McDonald’s majority, 4,186
We take the following from the Natchez
(M iss.) Free Trader, of the 2Sih of October |
Mr. Richard Biddle, of Pittsburgh, (Penn.,)
an eminent lawyer, and recently a distinguish
ed member ol the United Slates House of
Representatives, lias expressed an opinion
similar to that of Mr. Binney .
“ Horace Binney, one of the great leaders
of the V\ big Patiy, and confessedly at ilit
head of the Philadelphia Bar, a lew weeks
since wrote a letter to a member of the Penn
sylvania delegation in Congress, declaring Mr.
Clay’s hank bill, wh ch President Tyler veto
ed, clearly unconstitutional. We have this
dhectfroui a gentleman who read the letter.”
The Fever in New Orleans has abated.
THE NEW SECRETARY OF WAR.
The ridiculous parade ot the New York
Courier and Enquirer, respecting the vast in
tellect, and the vast powers of application, of
Mr. John C. Spencer, is thus treated by a
Virginia paper:
From the Virginia Statesman.
A FORTY HORSE POWER SECRETARY,
ANOTHER STEAM ENGINE IN
BREECHES.
The New York Courier and Enquirer,
speaking of Mr. Spencer, the new Stcreiary
ol War, uses the following unique expres
sions :
I “ VVe believe him to be quite as honest as
J any other politician in the counti v, and we
may almost say we know him to he the most
laborious and indefatigable business man in
the Union—aye in the Union. With power
.of mind fully qualifying him for any position
lie possesses ability to labor for toe mere love
of labor, such as has rarely, if ever, been
witnessed. Wheiherat Albany or Washing,
ton, fie will not only discharge promptly all
the duties of his office and t e duties of most
of the cleiks under him, but fie will insist
that tbe duties of all the other Departments
be discharged vvitfi equal promptness, or en
ter upon their discharge himself. He is no
respecter of persons; and the President and
Daniel Webster will find the finger of John
C. Spencer in their Departments as well as
his own, if they do not all, and a little more
than ever Executive, or Secietary of Suite
ever did before.”
“ We know him to be the most laborious
aid indefatigable business man in the Union
—ave in ttie Union.” Then Colonel Webb
knows ihe laboring calibre of every man in
the Union. Tbe colonel must be a man of
rather extensive personal acquaintance —a
man prodigiously versed in t tie “ strength and
stress” of intellectual timber. .Mr. Spencer,
i the new Secretary of War, “ possesses ability j
to labor lor tl.e mere lore pi labor,” &.c.—
Aye, hut does he possess the inclination “ to
labor for the mere love of labor?"’ “there’s
the rub.” * Mr. Spencer will not only dis
charge promptly all the duties of ins office
and the duties of most of the clerks under
him, but he will insist that the dunes ol all
the other Departments be discharged will)
equal promptness, or enter upon their dis
charge himself.” Well, if Mr. Spencer is to
discharge (he “ duties of most of liis clerks
| it is evident that the offices of the said cleiks
will become sinecures, and in that case they
ought to lie discharged. For when the.gov
ernment is borrowing so much money to
keep Ihe wheels of the great machine in mo
tion, it would he strange for a Refoi m Ad
ministration to employ clerks to do nothing.
But besides performing Us own duties, which
is as much as the officers are commonly
expected to do, and those of most of bio clerks,
which is more tt an the best officers vveie ev
er before expected to do, it seems, by way of
filling up the interstices.of his time, this giant j
Secretary is to keep an eye of supervision
over Messrs. Webster, Forward, Upshur and
Wicklitle, and keep a finger in their pies as
well as their own ; and if they do not dis
charge their duties with equal promptness
.(which from the Courier and Enquirer’s ac
count is plainly impossible) why Mr. Spencer.
good man, will feel it incumbent on him to
“enter upon their discharge himself.” Now
should this case actual y occur, and Mr. Spen
cer he found performing, besides his own du
ties and those of'most of his clerks, also those
of the several departments, it is submitted
whether it would not be as well to send ihe
other heads of departments home to reflect
upon the comprehensive powers of the < real
New York Labor-saving Machine, in the
shape of the Hon. John C. Spencer. But
the acme of the climax has not yet been
reached. “He (Spencer) is no respecter o!
persons, and the President and Daniel Web
ster will find the finger of John C. Spencer
in their departments as well as his own, if they
do not do all, and a little more than anv Ex
ecutive or Secretary of State ever did before.”
! It is quite evident ti at Mr. Spencer is to clear
the hoard, and make a clean sweep of the
whole divan at Washington. If the Courier
and Enquirer he rioht. Mr. Tyler has caught
a perfect Tartar, who, like the rod of Moses,
is to swallow op ail other rods. According to
Col. Webb’s description, Mr. Spencer is a
mental giant, with the hundred eyes of Argus
| and 1 fie hundred arms o’ Brareus. The at
i tention of the Swallow Barn Cnunisses must
lie diverted now from the vetoes of Mr. Tv
ler to the portentous character of this neie
one man poterr, in the bodily shape of the
new‘head*of‘he War Department—the man
mountain. 1
[official.]
GOVERNOR’S ELECTION.
Visit. 1829.
* S3 J 55 1. s3 a
7 ‘7. M<Vii ? *V
4 2I©a I a cs
counties, i Si? JI3II .a 5
* N j ! ? 1 ? 1 ? $
Appling, ‘t 205 85 jj 46
Baker, a 313 176 137’ 142
Baldwin-. 350 333 17 52
Biob, ‘ * 750 581 169.___ 210
Bryan, 72; 83| 11 92
Bulloch, 338, 4 334 ‘| 305
Burke, 305 406 1011 4C9
Butts, 396 207 IS9 j 213;
| Catuden, 231 99 132 SO 1
Campbell, 532 157 375 315
Carroll, 562; 300; 262 326’
i Cass, 793 418; 375 224’
j Chatham, 567 608 41 30
j Chattooga, 263 126 137 60
I Cherokee, 598 394 204 54 1
Clark, 373 590 : 1271 221
Cobb, 753 436 317 312
Columbia, 118 323 205 122
Coweta, 710 661 5Sj \ IS2
j Crawford, 483 364 1191 224
‘Dade, 181 24; 160 115
Decatur, 253 3SB 135 30
DeKalb, 775 568; 207 j 200
Dooly, 406 178 228 165
Early, 328 194 134 195',
Effingham, 51 139 8S’ \ T 1
Elbert, ; 242 547 605 I 826
Emanuel, 1 216 109 107 3s
Fayette, 620 279 341 200 v
Floyd, 401 241; 163 fj 14 1
Forsyth, 561 313 248 !’ 119 .
Franklin, S79’ 302; 577 1 i 386
Gilmer, 381 110, 271; l Itnf
Glynn, 28; 117 89 j
Greene, 92 649] i 557 745
Gwinnett, i 709 675 34; i 11
Habersham, 740 29b 444 ; 214 j
Hall, ; 570 362 208 I 41
Hancock, j 320 400 80 ; 75
Hairis, 465 790 325 ‘ 314
Heard, 413 290 123 j 123’
Henry, 906 831 72 216;
Houston, 705 599 106 I 25f1l
Irwin, 309; 330 G 1 243
Jackson, 631 497 137 8
Jasper, 504 474 30 67
Jefferson, 120 428’ j 308 348
Jones. 493 435 5S 56
Laurens, 21 4951 471 385
Lee, 190! 270 81 18
Liberty, j 128; 132; 4 52
Lincoln, 159 t 240 81 49
Lowndes, 355! 319 36 125
Lumpkin. 78 lj 321 461 ‘! 402;
Macon, ‘ 333; 348; 15; j 25
Madison, 368: 306’ 62 39;
Marion, 299; 375 76 i j 108
Mclntosh, 131 102; 29 ! 9!
Meriwether. 825; 727 98 j 95
Monroe, 770 742; 28 j 132
Montgomery, 27 201 174 232
Morgan, 320| 425 105 j 138
Murray, 456 138; 318 j 455
Muscogee, 878 836 42 ; 1!
Newton, 497 793; • 291 j 383?
Oglethorpe, j 150 584’ 4341 j 372
Paulding, | 292i 222 70 151
Pike, | 774’ 588 186 147
Pulaski, ; 317 123; 224; 151
Putnam, j 330 420 96 276’
Rabun, j 321 j 8 3131 283!
Randolph, i 549] 396 153! >i IS;
Richmond, 372| 7261 ! 351 77’
Scrivtn, j 222; 187 35] 77
Stewart, 811: 732 79 ! 42
Sumter, 1 337; 396 i 60 12
Talbot, ; 816; 828’ ] 12 G 9!
Tatiaffero, 7i 4 10’ 330 j 3-4
Tattnall, 81 238 ; 157 208
Telfair, 177 20) 21. •
‘Thomas, • 175; 346 17! , ?09
Troup, j 426] SOS’ 472; 1 297
Twiggs, ] 444 39(>i 144 123;
Union, ] 5411 73! 466, 430’
Upson, 327’ 536 ! 209, 151
Walker, ! 568 325 213; j 234 j
Walton, ; 745] 412] 303] 181!
Ware, j 242; 75 167 181
Warren, j 359 473; 121 112’
Washington, 54! 543; 2 j 69
Wayne, 110 58; 51 83
Wilkes, 404 405! 1 J 36
Wilkinson, | 535 3491 IS6 91)
McDonald’s vote, 38,725 ; Dawson’s vote, 34,539.
McDonald’s umjoiily, 4,1t6.
PUBLIC MEETING.
The melancholy intelligence of the death of
the lion. JOHN FORSYTH, late Secretary
of State of tbe United States, having reached
tins city) a public meeting was forthwith called,
when, on motion of tbe Hon. Thomas F. Fos
ter, Gen. James C. Watson was called to the
Chair, and Dr. William S.Chipley requested ta
act ao Secretary.
On motion of Col. Foster, a committee of
seven was appointed to report suitable resolu
tions oil tile sad occasion which convened tho
meeting.
The Committee appointed were the
Hon. Thomas F. Foster,
Dr. Thomas Hoxey,
Hon. Mansfield Torrance,
Hon. Grig>by E. Thomas,
Dr. John J. Boswell,
Kennith McKenzie, Esq.
Philip T. Schley, Esq.
The committee retired, and after a short ab
sence returned, and rt ported the following
preamble and resolution, which, after a most elo
quent eulogium on the deceased by the Hon. T.
F. Foster, and som exceedingly interesting re
marks by the lion. G. E. Thomas, were unani
mously adapted.
The occasion which convenes us is one of sad
and solemn interest, and of deepest affliction to”
the people of Georgia. The knell of death is
again sounded in our ears. Our State has lost
of its brightest ornaments —one ol its favorite
and tno t distinguished sons —JOHN I OR-
I SY'TH—the public servant of thirty y< ars—the
j gifted and accomplished orator —the statesman
[of liberal and elevated views—of high intellec
tual endowments—is no longer among the liv
ing. He died on Friday, the 22d of October, in
the city Washington —and in contemplating
this melancholy dispensation of Divine Provi
dence, there is a mournful consolation in the re
flection that lie breathed his last on the theatre
of his most useful labors, and of his greatest
intellectual acheiveinehts. He fell, it may be
said, on the field of his fame. The halls and
domes of the Capitoi still reverberate with the
thrilling tones of his attractive and masterly elo
quence. The Files of the State Department
abound with enduring monuments ol his suc
cessful diplomacy. In his hands the interests
ofhis country were never sacrificed—its dignity
never compromitted—its honor never betrayed.
He was the sentinel that never slept—the
champion that never cowered or quailed.
But it is not our purpose to speak his eulogy.—
”We come to bury, not to praise him.” We
come to mingle our griefs and sympathies with
a bereaved and afflicted family, who have been
overwhelmed by this awlul dispensation ot an
a!!-\vise and overruling Providence. We come
to condole with our fellow countrymen on the
great public loss which we have sustained, and
to gather with them around the tomb, and render
the last sad tribute of respect to the deceased
patriot.
I'lien fbre Resolved, That we have received
with deepest emotion the melancholy intelli
gence of the death ot our distinguished fellow
citizen, JOHN FORSYTH, and that while
we how with humble submission to this afflict
ing dispensation, we will cherish his fame, and
honor his memory.
Resolved, That in testimony of our respect
for the memory ol the deceased, we will wear
Ejc-usu.it badge at mourning for thirty days.