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SHOCKING NARRATIVE.
The Boston Post {fives the following narra-1
tive <>i tlie scene in ihe long boat ot the Wil
liam Brown, a vessel recently lost at sea. It
is from one of the survivors, arid may be reli
e I on as correct, startling to humanity as it is.
I will surprise our readers to learn toat the
murderers were examined and acquitted:
“ During the whole of the day the weather
was extremely cold, and the sea very rough.
We rigged a drag with our oars, in order to
keep the boat’s head to the sea and to break
the force of the waves. Towards nightiall,
the mate consulted, in a low voice, with sev
eral of the crew about lightening the h af -
I was aft at the time with my back against the
stern. At last he said to me and another man
who was near me, ‘ Wei!, I supp ose y ou “ ave
no objections to lending us a hand to lighten
the boat! I enquired how he intended to do
so, and while I was spacing, 1 heard a splash
alongside, and the ‘h ( >le boat was in an up
roar—-tho work >*f death had commenced.
The other and myself both remonstrated
against sm-h cold blooded proceedings, and
said: ‘li we are to die, * et us die fair—let
us cast lots.’ * Very well,’ said the mate,
‘rhev will throw you overboard.’ I then
drew my sheath knife, and swore that who-,
ever should iav a hand on me should share ,
my fate. The mate then called a tail negro,
one of the crew, aft, to to-s me overboard, but
when he saw my knife he went forward again
and lent the others a hand. My companion j
stuck close to me during the whole ot the 1
heartrending scene, determined to defend him- i
self to the last
“ One old man. a native of Ireland, when
about to he seized, fell upon his knees and en
treated them to spare his life, and lie would
give them all he had. He then drew from
his purse a number of sovereigns and offered
them to the crew, but they were thrown aside,
and himself passed overboard. A lad about
eighteen years of age requested time to say
his prayers, which was granted, ami when he
concluded he said, ‘I am now prepared—l do
not wish you throw me overboard—l will go
myself,’ and he stepped oti the gunwale of
the boat into the sea. Os all who were thrown
overboard, not one, to my knowledge, succeed
ed in getting on board again. There were no
hands cut off nor any blood spilt; neither did
any one, excepting the young man already
mentioned, jump overboard voluntarily.
“The unfortunate passengers offered no
resistance; prayers and entreaties were all
they used. *Ob, spare me! spare me!’ sev
eral of them cried, even while they were half
overboard. I will not attempt a description of
this awful scene—it would melt a heart of
stone. I believe there were sixteen thrown
overboard.
“ The boat was bailed out after she had
been lightened ; she then rode very well, and
made but little water. The following morn
ing I discovered a sail, and communicated the
fact to the mate, who said, *By G—, Jack,
you’re a lucky fellow; you have saved your
life.’ The ship that picked us up, as is alrea
dy known, was the Crescent. So strong was
mv indignation against the negro, that upon
reaching the Crescent’s deck, l seized a hea
ver and threw it at his head.
“ All of the crew in the boat, excepting the
mate and anoter man, were foreigners, or as
sailors say, Dutchmen, that is, men belonging
to the continent of Europe.
Up *n our arrival at Havre in the Villo de Ly
on, the American consul, when made acquaint
ed with the facts, advised me and my com
panion to remain and give our evidence
against the mate and crew, but we declined,
upon the ground that we conceived the testi
mony of the passengers sufficient. As he
was not very urgent, we were liberated after
an examination before the Board of Police.
“ After my health was somewhat recruited,
I shipped on board the Angelo, Capt. Jaques,
bound for Newburyport, where I arrived on
Wednesday last. 1 arrived in Bosh n on
Thursday, and have made this statement for
the information of the public.
JOHN MKSSEtt, Seaman ”
War — lTS KISERIES AND PROFITS. —The
following excellent extract from a speech of
Lord Krksine presents truths which should
never be lost sght of by rulers or the people :
“The ltte of the modern soldier is ill repre
sented by heroic fiction. War has means of
destruction more formidable than the cannon
and the sword. Os the thousands and tens
of thousands that perished in our late contest
with France and Spain, a very small part ever
felt the stroke cf an enemy; the rest lan
guished in tents and ships, amid damps and
putrefaction- pale, torpid, spiritless, anil help
less; gasping and groaning unpitied among
men, made obdurate by long continuance of
hopeless misery, and were at last whelmed
into pits or heavod into the ocean without no
tice, without remembrance.” * * * “But
at the conclusion of ten years war, how are
we recompensed for the death of multitudes,
and the expense of millions, but by contem
plating the sudden glories of paymasters and
agents, contractors and commissaries, whose
equipages shine Ike meteors, and whose pal
aces rise like exhalations ! These are the
men who, without virtue, labor, or hazard,
are growing rich as their country is impover
ished; they rejoice when obstinacy or ambi
tion adds another year to slaughter and de
vastation ; and laugh from their desks at bra
very and sciences, while they are adding fig
ure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for
anew contract from anew armament, and
computing the profits of a siege or a tempest.”
A per 4on who had drunk too much the night
before, was yesterday placed before recorder
Baldwin, of the second municipality.
“ You were drunk last night,” said the re
corder.
“ You’re right for once,” said the prisoner.
“ I shall send you for thirty days,” said the
recorder.
“ Oh, don’t,” said the prisoner.
“ I will,” said the recorder.
“I’m a printer,” said the prisoner.
“ Are you]” said ttie recorder.
“I am so,” said t ie prisoner—“we invited
you, you know, to our anniversary dinner.”
“ So you did,” said the recorder.
“ How did you like that ham !” asked the
prisoner.
*■ It was excellent,” said the recorder.
“ And the wine I” asked the prisoner
“That was better yet,” said the recorder.
“ And the toast so complimentary to you ?”
asked the prisoner, with a smile.
* That was belter than all,” said the re
corder.
“I know who wrote that toast,” said the
prisoner.
“ You may go! ” said the recorder.
N. O. Sun.
The love ol nature ami ti e silent appro
hensiou ol tier beauty, is a treely bestowed
and far spreading gift. It 1 ves in I lie least
cultured heart--as trie beautiful wild t! nvei
in the unplougtied heath, ll lives often a
pleasant, 1 1 iougo unperceived iruest. It spreads
the charm ol ns influence when its possessor
lias not ev~n a name lor it ; —yet still it lives,
—and they who cannot talk of it. can yet fed H
in its sweetness and power.— 11. H nvitt.
The \ ankf.ks against the World.—
The S lUuiern Literary Messenger lor Octo
ber anMomicts iliat a ielter lias been received
io Verm nit, from Dr. Cnaries Mathews, who
leil the United Stales fnieen years ago, to
explore the interior ol Africa, stating iliat he
had traveled from Morocco, across lie great
desert, loTuubuct >D, thence to the cape, hack
jo Timbuctoo, tl nto Abyssinia, fr . m whence
J-e writes, mat he v.ill return m ’42 to publish
Ins travels.
It is said that from twelve o fifteen hun
dred journeyman pri i ers are in a veiv dis
tressed state, for want of employment, in
London,
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE,
SENATE.
Saturday, Nov. 13.
bills passed.
To require the Judges of the Superior-
Courts of the State to write out and place
upon the minutes of said Courts, their decis
ions in lull all .n cases ot motions for new trial,
whether tne same be granted or rejected, and
in all cases of judgment upon the writs of
certiorari, mandimus and haoeas corpus, and
upon ail motions in arrest of judgment, and
to provide the collation, publication and dis
tribution ot the same, whenever the same shall
be of general interest to the people
To alter and amend the claim laws of this
Sate.
FINANCE.
Resdced , That his Excellency the Governor
be requested to report to tins branch of the
General Assembly, t he amount of State bonds
that.have been issued and disposed of by the
President of .he Western and Atlantic Rail
Road, the terms on which they were sold,
when they are redeemable, and at what place,
what amount of State Scrip has been issued
t) coatraciors for work done on the Railroad,
and when payable—also, what amount of cash
script is unpaid.
The Senate took up the report of the com
mittee on the bill to require the different coun
ties in this State to pay (heir own represen
tation to the General Assembly of this State,
and to provide a fund for the payment of the
same, —when
On motion of Mr. Cone, the bill was laid on
the table until the 2d Monday in June next,
by yeas 54, nays IS.
■RILLS HEAD THE FIRST TIME.
Mr. Foster: To remove all disability what
ever from persons in this State from testifying
in any of the Courts thereof, or having their
oath touching any matter or thing, when an
oath or affidavit is necessary to secure any
right or interest, by reason of any religious
opinion they may entertain or express.
Mr. Jones : To cause a straight line be
tween the counties of Sumpter and Lee to be
run, and to provide for payment of the same.
Monday, Nov. 15.
BILL LOST.
To amend an act to protect religious socie
ties in the exercise of their duties, approved
Djc. 18, 1792, and an act to amend the lore
g ling act, approved Dec. 22, 1808.
To alter an! change the time for holding
the Inferior Courts in the counties of Carroll
and Decatur.
Tuesday, Nov. 16.
BILLS BEAD FIRST TIME.
Mr. Cone: To reduce and repeal in part
the tax act of 1840.
BILLS PASSED.
To extend the time for the completion of
the Central Rail Road and Banking Company
of Georgia.
To amend the first section of an act to ex
empt from sa e for debts contracted after a
given time, certain articles chiefly necessary
lor the subsistence of t lie debtor’s family.
Wednesday, Nov.*l7.
BILLS BEAD IIRST TIME.
Mr. Broddus : To prohibit from sale or gift
all printed or written books, papers, pamph
lets, writing paper, ink, and all other articles
of stationary whatsoever, to any slave or free
person of color in this State, and to punish
those who may violate the same.
Mr. Redding: lo authorise Win. T. Cow
art and his associates to construct a Turnpike
road across the Pine Mountain in Harris coun
ty, &c.
BILLS PASSED.
To extend the time to fortunate drawers in
the late Land and Gold Lottery, to take out
their grants
To extend the provisions of an act to facil
itate the recovery of money out of the hands
of Sheriffs, Coroners, Justices of the Peace,
Constables, Clerks of the Superior and Infe
rior Courts, and Attorniesat Law, &c.
To require Judges to grant rules absolute
against Sheriffs in certain cases.
tiiezevant’s claim.
Mr. Miller laid on the table the petition of
Peter Trczevant, citizen of South Carolina,
by his Attornics James Hamilton and James
L. Petigru, claiming of the State £5,000 ster
ling, with interest from the 9th Dec. 1794.
Referred to a select committee consisting of
Messrs. Miller, Bishop and Williamson.
BILL PASSED.
1 o authorise the constables to serve sum
mons nine days before the sitting of the Court
to which iffy, are made returnable.
r l hursday. Nov. 18.
The Sena'e was exclusively engaged to
day in taking up and reporting bills not finally
acied upon, and in the recepiion of bills and
resolutions from the House, until the hour ar
rived when in pursuance of a previous joint
resolution, they proceeded to the House of
Representatives for the purpose of electing
Suite House Officers and a State Printer.
The following message was received from
his Excellency the Governor, by Mr. Horne,
his Secretary :
Mr. President:—His Excellency the Gov
ernor has withheld his absent to the bill to
alter and fix the times of holding the Superior
Courts in the counties of Stewart. Marion and
Harris, in the Chattahoochee Circuit, and has
directed me to return the same to this branch
of the General Assembly, with his reasons
therefor.
Friday Nov. 19.
THE TREZEVANT CLAIM.
Mr. Miller, from the select committee to
whom was referred the petition of Peter Trez
ev mt, reported that, in consequence of the
vo uminous documents accompanying it, and
the advanced stage of the session, which will
scarcely allow time for printing ; 31)0 copies
of sa:d petition he printed for the use of the
next Legislature.
BANK STOCKS.
The Senate took up the unfinished business
of yesterday, being the bill to authorise the
sale of stocks in the Bank of the Stale of
Georgia, and in the Bink of Augusta, for the
biilsofthe Central Bank of Georgia, and to
require the officers of that Institution to take
charge of the assets belonging to the State in
the B ink of Da’ ien.
Mr. Siffoid renewed the motion made by
himself on yesterday to amend the report by
striking lroni the first section of the lull the
concluding clause, viz: “at a discount not
greater than ien per cent, below par,” and in
sert in hen thereof, the words “at par.”
The motion to strike out the concluding
clause of the Ist section of the bill was car
ried, and on motion of Mr. Safl'old the blank
was rilled, by inserting in its stead, the words
.‘at no less than par value.”
Mr. Dunagan proposed the following as an
additional section, which was agreed to, viz:
A id be it further enacted, That any moneys
which may tie reimbursed by the Government:
of the United States for expenditures in de
fraying the late War, under the several acts
for that purpose, shall be paid into the Cen
tral Bank of Georgia, subject to the redemp
tion of its bills and payment of the debts of
this State • and the officers of said Bank are
hereby authorised to receive and receipt for
the same.
Mr. Will iamson proposed the following as
a proviso, which was also agreed to, viz:
Provided, That nothing in this act.contained,
shall authorise the sale of any Bank stock ol
either of the Bulks herein mentioned, set
apart for the purposes of Education, by the
laws now ol force in this State.
On motion of Mr. Black, the report as amen
ded was recommitted to the committee of ihe
whole, and made the orJerof the day for to
morrow.
HOUSE OF REPBESF.NTASIVE3.
Satukdav, Nov. 13.
BILL FASSED.
To increase the jurist! c.tion of the Justices
of the Peace of the several distr.cls of th -
Stale of Georgia, See.
-The biil for the re. of of a’l persir swht
have been doubly taxed, was laid on the table
fortht balance of the session.
The bill to legalize and make valid certain
acts of the clerks of the Superior and Inferior
Courts ot the State of Georgia, was agreed
t<>, and reierred to the committee on the judi
ciary.
BILL LOST.
To amend an act to exemnt from sale for
debts contracted after a given time, certain ar
tides chiefly necessary for the subsistence of
the debtor’s family, &c.
The bill to repeal and amend the word “pe
tition” in the latter of the Ist section of
the 3d article of the Constitution was agreed
to, and referred to the committee on the Ju
diciary.
Monday. Nov 15.
Ihe House agreed to reconsider the bill to
amend an act to exempt from sale for debts
j contracted alter a given time, certain articles
chiefly necessary for the subsistence of the
debtor’s family.
ADJOURNMENT.
t The House concurred with the Senate in
the resolution relative to the adjournment ol
the Legislature, without a da} 7 , on Tuesday,
the BOtii day ol November instant, or earlier
if practicable.
RESOLUTIONS.
Mr. McYV horter : Resolved, That the com
mittee oil Banks he instructed to enquire and
ascertain which ot the Banks in this State are
now, or have been in a state of suspension of
specie payments, with authority to report a
bill in relation thereto.
UILI.S READ FIRST TIME.
Mr. Price : To extend the stay of judgments
in the Justices Courts of this State.
Mr. Clark, of Newton : To exempt Millers
from Road, Jury and Military duties.
Mr. Johnson, ot Troup: To exempt the
Jus ices of the Inferior Courts of tiiis State
from performing certain duties therein speci
fied.
Mr. Barclay : To repeal an act to compel
the several Banks of this State, to redeem their
liabilities in specie, and to provide for the for
feiture of the charter or charters of any such
as may reiuse, and to impose and a-s f, ss a tax
upon such Banks as refuse to redeem their
liabilities in specie, and to provide for the col
lection and appropriation thereof, to the use
of the Poor School System.
Mr. Reeves: To lay out and organise a
new county from the counties ot Coweta, Mer
riwe her, Pike and Fayette.
Mr. Armstrong: To authorise appeals frem
Justice’s to Superior Courts in this State in
certain cases, and to prescribe the manner in
which the same may be made.
Tuesday, Nov. 16.
BILLS PASSED.
To alter and amend the third, seventh, and
twelfth sections of the first article, and the 3d
section of the third article, and the fifteenth
sect ion of the fourth article ot ihe Constitution
of this Stale.
To regulate the mode and manner of taking
bail bonds in this State.
To authorise Win. Moore to erect a dam
across a part of the Chattahoochee river, on
his own land in Harris county.
To admit Charles H. Thomas, of the couniy
of Muscogee, to plead and practice law in the
several courts of law and equity in this State.
To repeal an act to regulate the intercourse
between the Banks of this State and other in
siitutionsand brokers.
The House took up the unfinished business
of yesterday, which was the report, of the bill
“ I'o reduce the tax imposed by an act to im
pose a tax for the support of government for
the year 1841, and from thence afterwards;”
and the same being read, Mr Lee offered as a
suosti ute therefor, a bill, “To impose, levy
and collect a tax for the political year 1842,
and to inflict penalties upon any that may re
fuse or neglect to comply with the provisions
thereof, and to repeal an act to impose, levy
and collect a tax for the political year 1842,
and thence afterwards,” which was read, and
on motion of Mr. Colquitt, the original report
and substitute was laid on the table for the
present.
The report on the bill “To make State Scrip
issued by the Commissioners of tlie Western
and Atlantic Rail Road a lawful tender in
taxes due the State,” was amended, and on
motion was also laid on the table.
Mr. Barlow presented the memorial of a
number of Stockholders of the Darien Bank,
in relation to said institution, which was re
ferred to the committee on Banks.
BILL READ FIRST TIME.
Mr. Hull: To repeal an act to incorporate
the Bank of Darien, passed 15th December,
18IS, and also an act to extend the charter of
the Bank of Darien, and the acts now in force
amendatory thereto, passed 18.li December,
1834, and to provide for the settlement of the
affairs of said Bank.
Wedxe'dav.Nov. 17.
BILLS READ FIRST TIMF.
Mr. Lefils: To amend an act to change the
common school fund in the State of Georgia
to that of a poor school fund, and to provide tor
distributing the same, so far as relates to the
county of Mclntosh.
Mr. Chester: To alter and amend part of
the Till section of the Ist article of the Con
stitution of this State.
Mr. Hughes : To reduce the taxes of this
State 29 per centum, excepting on Bank
Stocks.
1 Mr. (leid, of Carroll: To compel Justices of
the Peace to give bond and security.
Mr. Rucker : To al er and amend the 4lh
and iOih sections of an act to authorise the bu
siness of Banking and to regulate the same.—
Also, a bill to exempt from levy and sale under
execution, certain property therein mentioned.
Mr. Roberts : To ex!end the time lor for
tunate drawers in all the Land Lotteries, and
in the Gold Lottery, to lake out their grants,
except counties thereinafter excepted.
Mr. Hughes : To require the Commission
ers of the Western and Atlantic Railroad to
cancel all the State bonds and scrip notvin
their hinds not disposed of.
Mr. Pitts: To repeal the Ist section of an
act to alter and amend an act to establish a
Bank at Milledgeville to be called and known
by the name and style of the Central Bank of
Georgia, &.c. passed on the 22d day ot Dec.
1839, and to provide for the protection of the
circulation of said Bank and other purp ises,
and to amend this act and all acts passed in
relation to said Bank, so as to enable the same
to redeem its liabilities in specie.
Mr. Guerv : To change the tune of holding
the Superior Court in the county of Sumpter.
Mr. Crane: To abolish imprisonment for
debt.
Mr. Hughes : To stop and prevent the pro
i iongation of the Western and Atlantic Rail
; road further than Cross Plains in this St;.t°,
■ in the direction of Ross’ Landing in the Stale
of Tennessee.
Mr. Hull: Concerning certain Banks which
have suspended specie payments.
BILLS FASSED.
To enable copartners who are plaintiffs in
law and equity in this Sta ! e, to maintain and
prosecute their suits in said couris in certain
cases, without being compelled to adduce
proof of their copartnership.
To regulate the sales of articles manufac
tured in the Penitentiary of this Slate, to point
out the mode of payment for the same, &c.
RESOLUTIONS.
Mr. Grieve: Resolaed, 1 hat the Senate be
reques ed to appoint a committee to join the
committee of the House having in charge, the
subject of the Lunatic Asylum of the State.l
Agreed to.
Mr. Lefils: Resolved, That the committee
on Banks be and they are hereby authorised 10
send for persons ant! papers on any subject
connected with the affairs of the Bank of Da-1
rien.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
Mr. Howard, from the j< int committee on the
sta:e of tl e republic, to u 1 om was referred the
various subjects connected With the relations,
of our State Government with the Federal,
Government, anu who have had under their
consideration the late action of the dominant
party now in power of the Federal Govern
ment, relative to the several acts of Congress
at the late extra session, as also the action of
one of the Senators and Representatives in
Congress of this State, in relation to the same,
reported a preamble and resolutions expres
sive of the sense entertained by the General
Assembly and by the people of Georgia, which
was read, and on motion of Mr. Barlow, 500
copies were ordered to be printed.
BILLS REJECTED.
To amend the several acts of force in this
State relative to priority of judgments, and the
trial of claims to property ievied upon.
To provide for tho compilation of the Militia
Laws of this State.
BILLS PASSED.
To repeal the 2.1 section of an act to compel
Steam and Thompsonian Doctors to pay the
annual tax of regular Med.cal Doctors and
Lawyers of this State.
To exempt all free male white persons of this
State, of s.xty years of age and upwards from
paying poll tax.
To consolidate the offices of Tax Receiver
and Tax Collector in Sumter county.
To authorise Justices of the Peace in the
several counties of this State to try suits in
damages in certain cases therein named.
To repeal the 2d and 3J sections ot an act
to repeal an act to alter and amend an act |
more effectually to secure the solvency of ail
the Banking Institutions of this State, passed
on the 24th of Dec., 1849, and to relieve per
sons who have been taxed under the said act,
and to declare the compensation ot Receivers
of tax returns in certain cases, and to repeal
conflicting laws.
CLAIM OF PETER TREZEVANT.
A message was received from the Execu
tive communicating the report of the cotntms
sionejs on the claim of Peter Trez want.
* hu usd ay, Nov. 18.
RESOLUTION CONCURRED IN.
To instruct our Senators and request our
Representatives in Congress to procure the
establishment of a mail route, ’o be carried in
four horse stage from the city of Macon, by tlie
way of Fort Valley, Lanier, Tazewell and
Lu npkin.
~ ELECTIONS.
In pursuance of a joint resolution, the Sen
ate attended in the House, when both branches
oi the General Assembly proceeded to the
election ot State House officers and State rin
tor. The ballotsbemg receive 1 and examined,
i; appeared that tie following gentlemen were
duly elected:
STATE HOUSE OFFICERS.
John W. A. San|ord,Esq. Secretary of State.
John G. Park, Esq, Comptroller General.
Thomas Ilaynefc, Esq , Treasurer.
Alfred M. Horton, Esq., Surveyor General
STATE PRINTER.
Wm. S. Roger. l , Esq, State Printer.
Friday. Nov. 19.
BILLS READ FIRST TIME.
Mr. Harris : To authorise a grant to issue
to Amos Tate fer a lot of land in originally
Lee, now Stewartcounty.
Mr. Robinson, of Fayette: To relieve the
pecuniary embamssments of the people of
this State.
BANKS.
On motion of Mr. Nolan, the following res
olution was agreed to:
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the State of Georgia , in Gene
ral Assembly met, 1 bat his Excellency the
Governor be requested to give to tins body all
the information at his command, relative to the
judicial proceedings that have bee n ordered
against ihe several Banks of this State under
the act of 1840, which have refused to take
up their liabilities in specie, how far the suits
have progressed, and if the law is defective,
and the views as contemplated cannot be car
ried out, to point out that defect.
The House took up the report on the bill to
repeal a part of an act tc amend an act to pre
vent the circulation of bank bills under the de
nomination of livo dollara within this Stale,
passed 24th December, 1832, and to prevent
the circulation of bank bills of any oilier de
nomination than fives, tens, twenties, ffft.es,
hundreds and thousands, and the substitute
therefor reported by the committee on Banks,
which was a bill “To authorise the chartered
Banks m this Slate to issue notes of the de
nomination of one and two dollars, and to pre
scribe the penalty for failing or refusing to
redeem such notes in specie on demand,” and
the same being read,
Mr. Howard offered as a substitute for the
original bill and substitute, a bill “To author
ise and require the directors of tiie Central
Bank to issue three hundred thousand dollars
of notes of the denomination of one and two
dollars for the redemption of the bills of that.
Bank already in circulation of a higher de
nomination.”
Mr. Preston moved to postpone the further
consideration of the sui stitute and original
bill for the present, which was lost.
Mr. Anthony moved to lay the substitutes,
offered for the original bill and substitute, on
the table, for the balance of the session—
whereupon,rhe yeas and nays being demanded,
were, yeas 63, nays 101. So the motion was
lost.
The substitute for the original and substi
tute was then received in lieu thereof, and the
same being taken up and considered, and the
following part of the first section being read,
to wit: “That the Directors of the Central
Bank are hereby authorised and required to
issue the sum of three hundred thousand dol
lars of notes of the denomination of one and
two dollars,”
Mr. Hall moved to amend the same hv ad
ding after the words “two dollars” the follow
ing, to wit: “ And the several chartered Bunks
of ihis Slate which redeem their notes in specie ,
each 3 per cent, on their capital paid in.”
The Speaker decided the amendment out
of order, the same being rejected by die House
as contained in the substitute for the original
bill.
The report was then read and agreed to.
The bill was read the third lime, and upon the
question, “Shall the bill now pass?” the yeas
and nays being required, were, yeas 90, nays
64. So the bill vv s passed under the title
tliereof.
The Veto Power. —Perhaps the discus
sion of no one question has prevailed more
extensively throughout the length and
breadth of the land for the last nine or ten
years, titan that of the Veto power The
whigs, ever since the first Veto of Gen. Jack
son, have l een united, earnest and boisterous
i in iheir denunciation of ihe exercise of tins
j power. The consideration of it entered
largely into the late Presidential canvass, and
although Mr. Van Buren, as President, never
vetoed a single bill, the federalists ins.sted
that lie must be displaced for fear he migiit.
Gen. Harrison, on his accession, occupied a
bout a third part of I.is classical and windy
Inaugural, with expositions of his plan re
striding the Executive in the exercise of the i
veto: and on the Providential elevation ol Mr.
Tvlur to the Presidency, the federalists took ;
(ire at ins twin Vetoes upon the Fiscal Cor- j
porosities : It was pronounced monstrous ■
that “the will of one man should stifle the j
voice of the whole people.” Th • Veto was I
declared to be “ Kingly,” “ Monarchical” and j
“Tribunitiai;” and Mr. Clay, the federal dicta- j
to-, announced the purpose of the party to be |
“ to pluck from the Constitution this last ves ■ j
tige of arbitrary power.” If, as appearances
seem to idicate, the democracy of New York
have carried both branches of llie legislature,
these reminiscences may be amusing, if not
serviceable.—Albany Argus.
Disastrous Storm. —The - oast of New i
England suffered areadful by the storm a few j
w tks since. The little villages which line j
the rock-ribbed shore near which the p.lgrims
first landed, are now sbrowded in the deepest j
mourning. In the town of Truro, with about
1800 inhabitants, forty three of her young
men found a watery grave, almost in sight of
their homes, leaving twenty widows and eigh
ty-three orphans, in that single town. Anoth
er of their vessels it is supposed is lost, which
will swell the number of the dead to nearly
sixty, and these the most active and enterpri
sing of their small population. Out of a pop
ulation of 31,000 in Barnstable county, there
were recently 900 widows, made such by lo
sing their husbands at sea.—Phil. N. Ameri
can.
T H E T IMES.
I
j The union of ihe states amt the sovereignty of ihe states
I COLUMBUS, DECEMBER 2, 1841
FOR CONGRESS,
WALTER T. COLQUITT,
EDWARD J. BLACK,
MARK A. COOPER.
O’The officers of the Inferior Court of this
county have issued his requisition for an elec-;
tion for members of Congress, to supply the i
vacancies occasioned by the resignation of j
Messrs. Nes'tit, AHord, and Dawson, to take I
place on the first of January.
Resignation of the Hon. C. C. Clay.—
This distinguished Senator from Alabama
sent to the Legislature, on the 12. h ult., Ins i
let *er of resignation. He says, m comment
ing upon the present and future prospects op
the Democratic party, “The regret, which i
j would otherwise leel for the necessity which
! imposes on me the course I am about to pur
jsue, is much diminished by the consideration
j that t ie principles which it lias been my pride
and pleasure to sustain, are now in the ascen
dant. Indeed, were it otherwise, I know not
to what sacrifices of feeling, as well as of in
Merest, I would not submit sooner than with
draw from them my humble support. Although
not in power, the democratic party was never
stronger than at the present moment. Ihe
people have already detected, and passed sen
tence of condemnation on the frauds by which
tney were deceived and misled during ihe
late Presidential canvass.” In order “to se_
cure the permanent ascendancy of democratic
principles, it is only necessary fur the people
of this quarter of the Union to understand and
appreciate the prophetic truth of Mr. Jeffer
son’s declaration—that the democracy of the
North is the natural ally of the South. To do
this, let them review so much of the Execu
tive Journal of the late Extra Session as has
been perm.tted to see the light; and they will
find that the nominations of Abolitionists, of
the most obnoxious characters, were confirm
ed by the votes of Southern whig Senators,
when every Northern democrat, in his place,
voted against them.” From the develope
ments of the Extra Session, he concludes
the charge is conclusively established, that
“a coalition has been formed between the
i S lUthern whig leaders (nut the party gener
ally) and the abolitionists of the North. This
extraordinary alliance, suggested by the vilest
treachery, ahould be dissolved. It is no less
indispensatde to the prosperity of the Union
than it is to the safety of the South.”
Several distinguished men are spoken of as
being likely to succeed Gov. Clay in the Sen
ate. Among others, the names of Gov. Bagby
and Judge Goidtlnvaitc are mentioned. Os
the latter the Mobile Register says, “We
know no one who would add more dignity to
the office of Senator, or better sustain the rep
utation of the State ; but we should regret to
see him lost to the high judicial situation
which he now holds, and which he has Tilled
with so much ability and approbation.”
Levis, the great Philadelphia financier, is
still in Texas—he resides at the country res
idence of Mora Phillips, Esq., about five miles
fiom Galveston, which is now known by the
name of ‘ Levis’ Retreat.”
At the request of the President of the Uni
ted States, a Nolle Prosequi has been entered
by tiie Attorney of the United States in the
case of the prosecution against the individuals
indicted for a breach of the peace at or near
the President’s House, in the month of Au
gust last, (on the night following the first
Veto.)
The Sugar Crop. —The Donaldsonville
Advocate of the Pith says, in allusion to the
various publications on the subject—that “.he
cry of ‘short crops’ may do very well to make
up a newspaper paragraph, but we believe
that the crop of this year will equal, if not
exceed, that of the last.”
Pirate’s Treasure. —A fisherman named
Coanobo, says the N. O. Crescent City, who
resides near the old fort at Barataria Island,
some ten days ago come across a relic of the
days of “the Pirate of the Gulf.” Having
, occasion to use some rocks in building a fur
j nace to heat a pitch pot, lie set about removing
l one or two of the flag stones which form an
antique fire place in the interior of the block
house. A flag in the centre of the fire place,
bv its par. icular smoothness, attracted bis at
tention, and on taking it up he perceived a
small tin box, covered with rust. On opening
it he found thirty Spanish doubloons, a pair of
earrings of massive gold, set in polished cor
neiians, and a flat silver image of the Virgin
Mary, which was most probably used as the
loup for a cavalier's sombrero. This d.scov
erv caused no small sensa ion on the island^;
and set every body to digging for treasure ;
but nothing else has been found as yet.
j Mr. Clav- —“The rumor 01 the intended
resignation of this distinguished statesman,
says the Biltimore American, “is probably un
founded. We have seen a letter from Mr.
Clay to a gentleman of this city, of the date
of the 11th inst., in which no allusion is ma le
either to ihe writer’s ill health, or to any in
tended resignation of his seat in the U. biases
Senate. It is altogether likely that if any
such cause of retirement had existed, or any
such purpose been entertained, some refer
ence to both would have occurred in the letter.”
ET Rain have fell, and creeks is riz—say
the mails in these diggin’s.
MILLEDGEVILLE CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE COLUMBUS TIMES.
Milledgeville, Nov. 27ih, 1841.
A bill has passed the House of llepresenta
tatives reducing tlie taxes 20 per cent. There
were but twenty odd voles opposed to the
passage of the bill.. It is not yet taken up in
the Senate. Tiiere is some difference among
Senators, on the Democratic side, whether
the whole of the extra tax imposed bv the last
Legislature ought not to be taken off. This
would have been done by the House of Rep
resentatives, but for the great solicitude to
place the Central Bank, forthwith, in a specie
paying condition. I think on reflection and
consideration the Senate will agree to the
House bill subtracting 20 per cent—although
it is not absolutely certain that this will be the
case.
The House has rejected a bill, by a very
decisive vote, removing all restrictions against
private banking. Although the member from
Baker made an earnest and plausible argument
in favor of suffering all persons, who thought
proper, to bank. lam happy to sta’e that so
pernicious and untenable a theory found but
few suppor ers in the House of Representa
tives.
A bill introduced by Mr. Pitts, of Stewart,
designed to repeal the present, and revive the
old law against Usury, which forieited both
| principal and interest, has been rejected by
the House of Representatives. This rejec
j tion was not owing to any disposition to give
the slightest countenance to usury, or to re
cognise the modern doctrine, held in certain
quarters, that money is an article of trade—
i but it was argued that the present laws were
| amply sufficient to remedy the evils complain
ed of, and that further legislation was unne-
cessary.
Mr. Pitts, of Stewart, has a hill before the
House to repeal the act of the last session
which destroyed the Central Bank-—and to
place that institution on its original basis.
This bill is made the order of the day for
! Monday next, and will undoubtedly pass both
j branches.
A hill has beer/ introduced in the Sena'e by
Mr. Robinson, of Stewart, establishing elec
tion precincts at O’Quin’s and Phillips’ in
that county, has passed both bra dies.
A hill has also passed the House, and will
be adopted in ’he other, fixing the third Mon
days in January and July as the regular times
for holding the Superior Court in the county
of Stewart. A lull of a similar character
passed both Houses some days since—but
owing to some clerical error was returned by
the Hover nor.
The report and resolutions of Mr. Howard,
chairman cf the committee on the State of
the Republic, come up in the Senate this
evening, at seven o’clock. I presume the
Whigs will resist them, or at. least, a portion
of them. They are, however, framed in such
manner as to render resistance to the grea'er
part of them, by the Whigs, a matter of im
possibility, if tiie Whig portion of the Legis
la’ure are willing to appear publicly, what thy
profess privately. Their introduction has evi
dently rendered the whigs extremely nervous ,
and they speak of them as intended to foment
political squabbles in the Legislature—as
throwing a fire brand into the Legislature—
and as something novel and unusual m the
history of Georgia legislation-as if expres
sions of opinion on subjects of national interest
had not, almost ever / year, been invoked from
the representatives of Ihe people. The truth
is, as the Georgia Journal of last • i.esday re
marked in reference to tlie nomination of
Messrs. Gilmer, Dougherty and Wright, the
great anxiety and aim are to preserve the in
legri'y of the Harrison State Rights party ;
and it is therefore necessary, to secure this
object, to tolerate very great latitude oj op In
ion among the members of that parly. There
is also a desire to shield Mr. Berrien from the
effects of public opinion in Georgia in conse
quence ol his imprudent course respecting the
veto power, ami the appointment of Mr. Ev
eret’, the Abolitionist, as Minister to England
The adoption of the report and resolutions of
Mr. Howard will attract specially the atten
tion of the people of Georgia to the action ol
its Senator on these two matters —and his
most zealous friends know well that his course
will be almost universally condemned. An
attempt, too, has been made to avoid a vote on
these resolutions by indirect enquiries whether
a committee had a right to originate any new i
matter, or whether its action was not confined
to subjects specially referred to it. I sba!l )
however, be able to furnish you, before your
publication on Thursday next, with the action
of one branch on the report and resolutions,
and the course of the whig portion of the
Senate respecting them.
’ I regret to inform you that a bill providing
! for the establishment of a Court of Errors,
! has beer, passed over in the Senate by the
( casting vote of the President of that body.
’ The subject will not probably be called up
- again in either House.
A bill has passed the Senate (nine oniy vo
ting in ‘.he negative) making all persons, ir
| respective of their religious faith, competent
witnesses in our Courts. It will pass the
other branch, and become a law. The deci
, I sion of Judge Andrews m the Northern Cir
j cuit, excluding Un.versalists, gave rise to the
introduction of this bill.
A bill is also progressing, and will doubt
less become a law, designed to obviate the
effects of a decision recently made by Judge
W eilborn 01 the Chattahoochee Circuit—that
j individuals, composing a firm, suing as plnin
: tiffs by the name of ihe firm, must establish
; that they a e members of said firm, to entitle
1 them to maintain an action.
A bill has pass and both branches withdraw
ing from the Coliege at Alliens the annual
appropriation of $6,000, given by the State.
(Dejection was made to giving this sum first,
j because the S ate had not the money to
j spare —and—second, for the reason that it
| was agreed by the College a’ the time the
sum was appropriated, a certain number of
indigent young men should be educated free
of charge. At the succeeding session, ’he
College contrived to get that part of the bill
compelling it to educate gratuitously young
men, stricken out.
Milledocville, Nov. 28 h, 1341.
A bill introduced by Mr. McDougald, o’
Muscogee, has passed the Sena e, giving all
persons employed on Steamboats on ihe Chat
tahoochee river a lien on said boats for the
amount of their wages.
A bill has also passed the Senate abolishirg
the board of commissioners of the Western
and Atlantic Railroad j dispensing with the
services of the engineer corps at present em
ployed on that road ; and authorising the Go
vernor to appoint a superintendant, who shall
have power to engage an engineer or engi”
neers to complete the fifty twfr miles of the
road, now under contract. To defray the cost
of this fifty two miles, authority is given by
this act to use the scrip and bonds, already
issued and not sold, in any manner that may
be necessary to raise a sufficient amount’ for
the purpose. The vote on the passage of this
bill in the Senate was a close one. Its fate ini
the House is uncertain —although the impres
sion is general, I believe, that the State is
unable to furnish means to prosecute the roaib
to completion, or, indeed, an amount Sufficient
to finish the fifty two miles under contract,
unless it can be raised from the scrip and
bonds already issued.
A bill has likewise passed the Senate, and
will receive the sanction of the House, estab
lishing election precincts at Halloca and
Glenn’s in Muscogee county, and abolishing
the precinct at Bail Hill in the same county.
I omitted to mention in a former letter when
speaking of the tax bill which pastffd the
House, deducting 20 per cent—that the bif*
was introduced by Mr. Hughes, of Randolph,
and that it contemplates no reduction of taxes
on bank stock, or money employed in loans.
Mr. Hughes is also the framer of the bill
progressing in the House to prevent the pro
longation of the Western and Atlantic Rail
road further than Cross Plains in this State—
in the direction of Ross’ Landing in Tennes
see—and to require the commissioners of said
road to cancel all the Slate bonds and scrip
now in their hands undisposed of.
The Legislature is progressing in the busi
ness before it with great rapidity, and will, ill
all probability, adjourn on Saturday.
Mii.ledgevili e, Nov. 29ih, 1841.
No definite action has been had in either
House to day. In the Senate, the report and
resolut ions ol Mr. Howard, touching questions
of general politics, have been the order of the
day. Mr. Miller, of Richmond, opened the
debate in opposiiion both to the report and res
olutions, and although I am not disposed to’
deny this gentleman the possession of fair
talents, Ido not think, in this debate, he met
any of the questions submitted hi a statesman
like maimer, with the exception of the one de
nying the constitutional power of Congress to
charter a National Bank. All the other ques
tions involved were met by attempts to show
the incot sistency of the Deimcratic party, in
tunes past, on many of the same points, and
by occasional efforts togive to them a plausi
ble coloring. The debate was continued by
Mr. Echols, of Walton, Mr. Dunegan, of Hal!;
Mr. Spalding, of Mclntosh, and Mr. McDou
ga!d, of Muscogee, in support of the report
and resolutions, and by Mr. Jones, of Lee, in
Opposition to them. The Senate adjourned
without concluding the discussion.
In the House, the day has been taken up
with a discussion of the bili of Mr. Howard,
of Muscogee, providing a summary remedy
against Banks which do not redeem their notes
in specie. Mr. Jenkins, of Richomond, pr >-
posed a substitute which relaxed materially
the provisions of Mr. Howard’s bill ‘The sun
stitute of Mr. Jenkins was rejected by a ma
jority of ten votes. Although the House ad
journed without coming to a final vote on the
subject, the impression, this evening, is that
the bill of Mr. Howard will pass.
The House to day passed a resolution re
scinding a former resolution to adjourn on the
30th inst., to morrow. The business is in
such a state of forwardness, however, that the
Legislature will, without doubt, adjourn on
Saturday next.
Resolutions have passed the House, and
been sen 1 to the Senate, speaking in proper
terms of the public services of Mr. Forsyth
and regretting his ’css.
I ought to mention that additional resolu
tions have been introduced by the Senators
from Muscogee and Scriven, censuring in di
rect terms Mr. Berrien for his course respect
ing the veto power, and his approval of the
nomination of Mr. Everett to be minister to
England, and also for the appropriation of
twenty five thousand dollars to the widow of
Gen. Harrison.
The debate in the Senate to day has been
animated, and, at. times, highly exciting. Mr.
Kenan, of Baldwin, and Mr. Black, of Scriven,
are yet to speak, and perhaps others. I have
but little doubt that the Senator from Scriven
will make one of his best efforts. He feels
keenly the persecution which lias been waged
against himself, and Messrs. Colquitt and
Cooper—and the course of debate, to-day, on
the part of the Senator from Richmond, at
tempting to render irreconcilable the past
opinions of the Senator from Scriven with those
now entertained by him, will tend to keep
a'ive the keenness of those feelings. It is
reasonable to suppose that most, if not all of
the Whig Senators will oppose the report and
resolutions throughout—yet there are reports
that several of the Whig Senators have ex.
pressed their concurrence generally in the
sentiments of the report and resolutions. I
think, however, that the course which the de
bate has taken, and its highly exciting charac
ter, will lead the W hig Senators to vote in
opposition to the whole subject matter.
Millecgfville, Nov. COth, 1841.
A meeting of the Democratic members of
the Legislature was held last evening, agrees,
b y to adjournment, to select a C ngressional
Ticket to be supported by the Democratic
pary, in October next.
On motion, Irby Hudson, Esq. of the county
of Putnam, was called to the Chair, and Jo
seph Sturgis and F. 11. Sanford, Esqs. appoin
ted Secretaries.
After a brief discussion it was determined
with great unanimity to postpone any nomi
nation of Congressional Candidates during the
present session of the Legislature ot Georgia,
and to request the Democratic party in the
several count es of this State to send dele
•rates equal to the number of members in both
branches of the Legislature elected by the
counties respectively, ro a Convention to be
field in Miliedgevil e, on the third Monday in
June next, to select nine individuals *o bo
supported for Congress in October next.
The meeting then adjourned.
[CrThe Times will be sent for one year so
the person who will furnish the best New
Year’s Address for onr carrier. They must
|,e sent before Christmas.
[CrThe Merchants of Savannah have fQrme4
a Chamber of Commerce.