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For So i’ is sent to one person tor two years.but not in any future instance to two subseti bers o-xe vear. Notes of solvent chartered banks only should b remitted and those which are nearest oar u New York. r t article mw in progress of publication in the New World will be continued into the fmrth Quarto Volume ; b i it will be commenced tutll en tirely fresh and original wo ks. Postmasters are legally authorised to remit money for subscriptions, under their franks. Anv individual procuring five new subscribers, and remitting §ls in New York or Eastern funds, free of nostave, shall reee ve a sixth copy _ratis one year J. WIN HEb TEK, Posher, 30 Ann street. New York. 36 • y SPERM CANDLES AND SOAP.—3O boxes first quality Sperm Gandies , 50 boxes No. 1 und g So ip, for sale by JOHN D. HOW KLL. Dee 9 44-.lt Below the Market IFLE GUNS.— An assoeied lotf.r-jite by JOHN D. HOWELL. Pee 2 ts Fctow the Market. THE COLUMBUS TIMES. VOLUME I.] POLITICAL. DEMOCRATIC a DDR ES S TO THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA. Sensible of the importance and correctness oi the political principles asserted and main tained by the Democratic Party, and anxious to spread them before the whole people oj Georgia, without concealment or disguise, the Democratic members of the I-iCgislature seize the occasion,at the close ol their official labots, to repeat and reassert those principles—to declare umjiminished confidence in their wis dom and efficiency for all tire purposes of aju dieious and useful administration nf cur public affairs ; and to express the hope, that in their representative character, they have neither proposed nor adopted measures repugnant to thedoctrines they profess, or inconsistent with ‘the essentia! and permanent iinerests'of the people ot Georgia. Il is cerainiy to be regretted that, in the conduct of our national affairs, and in the management of the less important, but not •'ess useful matters of state concern, more con cert ot action, and greater unanimity ot feel ing do not. prevail. With a people whose dts imjruu.J.ing euaracterisucs are the same— whose import tint interests are identical—and m a government founded by them, and intended :o recngn;.-e and protect their individual rights j it may well excite surprise, and create sohei aide, mat wholly different powers are claimed lor that government, and dtrecly opposite measuies suggested lor the preservation of ‘hose rights and interests. The history ol the vxortii iris shown, however, that this di versity oi opmioii has exsted, to a greater or less extent, m ail governments hearing the seindanc* ol freedom—and rhat, whether cai cma ed to answer sain ary purposes, or to m il ct senosis evils, any hope of exemption from under our uhcrai reputdirau institutions, ts contTadicied by the exper.euc .* ol the past, and cannot reasonably be entertained. Tins spirit ot party, when uncontrolled lor proper purpose.-, and unal.ended by a zeal for inquiry, .•lid a love oi investigation, degenerates into tyranny ; and i. is only when recognizing eer taiu lundamrntal principles lor its guide, and accompanied by a minute examination into the tendency and effect of those principles, that ils existence is rendered tolerable, or can be reconciled with tiie operations of the govern ment. Yielding, therefore, to the unavoida ble necessity ol ihe existence of political par lies ; solicitous to confine differenes of opinion to questions til principle; animated by patri otic views, and conceding to political oppo nents motives equally pure; the Democratic Party have embraced tu >te rules of construc tto*i m the administration of the constitution an i laws, an i ere reeking to establish and porpotuaie iliose limitations of power, which, they behove, were approved by the lathers oi the republic, and are in accordance with the mud and equitable spun upon which our civil ins;aufious were founded. I’iie political divisions winch have distin guished the h.story ot the country had their ongiu in the conveniion that framed the con stitution; and have been continued, under various modifications, to the present day. lax crois.ng, ;-.t times, a controlling influence, in the movements ol the government; and act ing, occasionally, w.th a violence that pros’ra ;ed every rule of right, and bid defiance to the opera;ions yl • reason niul reflect on; these excesses in Tire jxipuinr niinii ii ive found their apology invariably, in a claim to preserve in violate tiie charter of our liberties, thus ren dering homage to the importance and solctn- Uiiy oi ii*e instrument, and acknowledging that any departure trom. it was hazardous and aiarming lo tiie safety of the country. These agitations of the public mind, on subjects in volving the general welfare, however violent or modified in character, prove that, in theory, our government, was nvsi designed to recog mze the doctrines of construction and di i'LK’ATiux, and that, in practice, they must eventually destroy tiie peace of the Union, and the established system of our civil policy. Deeply impressed with the correctness and salutary tendency of these views, and claim ing to be governed by them in their political action, the Democratic Party avow “undiinin ished confidence in the confederated system which forms the government of the United Slates;” and that, “purely administered, it will protect the rights.and secure the inter ests and happiness of iho whole people of the United States.” Adopting those maxims of political conc3urt,& discarding all assumptions o! power, not plain ly cran ed in the written constitution under which we live,.this parly disavow and repudi ate that system of measures, which were first ushered into being under the administration of the elder Adams; that are admitted to be unauthorised by the letterof the constitution ; and that we believe to be odious to ils spirit, an i dangerous to llie lteedom of tiie people. Th s government, owing its establishment to the popular will, and dependent for its preser vation on lhe public intelligence, can receive no twisert alive aid, by the exercise of v agrant powers derivable w holly from.implication, and that, in their gradual and unavoidable multi plication, must ultimately introduce inveterate evils into our political system, and obliterate tls fairest features. The only safeguard, therefore, against those insidious encroachments, is in an adoption 01, and a strict adherence io, the principles and policy of Thomas Jelierson; and in a disavow al of all those measures of the pro sew day, which find no warrant in the letter of the constitution, or in an absolu e necessity to perfect its granted powers. If experience j demonstrates the inefficiency of the iustru . tiiGitf under tins interpretation of its faculties, and its inability to accomplish the purposes of a wholesome government, the wisdom’ of its fiamers has provided a remedy, its defects can be constitutionally corrected by the voice of the sovereign people who brought it into being, and whose dearest interests are inter woven with the purity of its life. L’ntil these defects are indicated by the general condem nation of the country, and their injurious ten dency is practically exemplified, pa'riotisni demands ail our efforts’ to detect and resent every departure from its s cred provisions. Thus regarding the constitution of the Uni ted Slates, and the extent and character of its powers, the Democratic Party enter their solemn pretest against, and pledge unceasing opposition to ail the prominent measures ot the.r political opponents, as indicated by Lon* gress at the iaie extra session. 1 hayueciars fhe.r inability to reconcile those measures win the act.ve powers ot tiie constitution; or to discover wherein they are essential to advance the happiness, promote tiie interests, or secure lite honor and dignity ot the country. On the contrary, they think they see in them alarmi: g indications of a settled detemnna tion to exercise not only all the powers which the constitution fairly gives, but all that can be extracted from it oy construction. Among the ni si prominent of tins class of measures—although there are others ol kindred character, of les* importance, but of equally pernicious tendency-—are the bills to incorporate a Bank ot the United Siatcs; to distribute the proceeds of the puolic lands among the states ; and to raise additional rev enue f r the support of government the iast of which, when we consider the preceding measure abstracting a large fund from its ie gitfiM's purpose, war, if net unconU COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 30, 1841. in its details, an act of injudicious and extrava- 1 gant legislation. A inmute examination of the particular provisions of these different mea.-ures of the late extraordinary Congress, is riot demanded for the information of the pub'ic, and would extend this address to an ui reasonable limit. Their tendency and ef fect have been fully communicated to the peo ple of Georgia, through the- public journals, and by the speeches of distinguished gentle men in Congress—and tiie opinion entertain ed of them has been signally manifested by the recent extraordinary political revolution in this state —a revolution displaying an in flexible determination to discard ail.measures of doubtful constitutional propriety, and to cling to the ancient republican doctrines es tablished by thd political revolution of ISOO. In matters of state concern, we are I appy to inform you that promptness, decision and union have characterised the proceedings of the legislature. T!ie acts of a public nad general character sanctioned by it, \\ bile they are believed ;o be free from constitutional ob jections, will, we trust, receive the approba tion of the people, whose best and highest in terests they are designed to subserve and promote. The act to revive, and render offi ciant the Central Bank, and thus to enable-it *o discharge ils important, dunes to Die state and to i lie people—the act to diminish the burdens ot extraordinary taxation imp sed by the fast legislature—and the acts which, r - garding proper!v tiie extraordinary embarrass ’.nenis ui the times, have carried retrenchment and economy into every department of the state government —are measures of such deep and pervading importance—(affecling in a greater or less degree, the individual interests o, every citizen); as to merit special notice ami must el cil universal commendation. Oth er enactments, less general in their character, but of equally important bearing in tiie more curetifiiscribed spheres assigned for their oper ation, have rece.ved tne sanction of the iegis ia:ure thus testifying to its earnest desire to regard the wants an wishes of the people in every form in which they could be consti tutionally consulted. The promptness and zeal which have dis tinguished the action of the It'gi.-laturc—the practical character of its measures, and the confidence we entertain in their beneficial ten deucy—authorize us to expect the special regard ol our immediate constituents, and the general approbation of the state. And iri ter minating our official labors—animated with ihe hope that our measures may accomplish all we expect —and witnessing the redemption ot tiie stale Irom the political control of these whose principles are, in our opinion, fraught with evils oi a serious and alarming character, we return to our constituents the trust repo sed m us, congratulating the people of Geor gia upon the bright prospects belore them— pointing with unerring certainty to the speedv prostration of the party: which now hold the reins of federal power, and the consequent exemption of the country from the aggravated evils ol a weak and unstable administration of • lie General Government. ROBERT JV! ECHOLS, THOMAS HAMU ‘I ON, UAItLES i.UllPliY, A. Mcl > ifJGALD, LEWIS S. HR OWN, I. H. SAFFOLD. K. A. BK-'iDDI’S, B. GRAVES, EDWARD J. BLACK, W. It. REYNOLDS, ‘u atom As Hilliard. From ihe Si and aril of Union, Dtc. 17. TO THE DEMOCRACY OF GEORGIA, j After a seven weeks absence from our edit orial duties, rendered indispensible by obliga tions to the public, we return once more to the field of political coolest, with our eyes right, and our blade bright. Cheered ana encouraged by the triumphs which have recently marked the progress of democracy, m every section of the Union, we come to the battle-field with fresh vigor, and renewed confidence in the cause of those great principles ‘which can alone secure the people of this vast republic in the enjoyment of that liberty which, was achieved by the blood and toil of their fathers. When we look back upon the scenes of 1840, and compare them.-with*the tremendous and glorious reaction of 1841. we leel strength ened and confirmed in the belief, that although the people may sometimes be led astray, they will not long remain in the wrong, upon ques tions involving their highest interest; and tliat they will make haste to correct their own errors, and to punish those who mislead | and betray them ; and such has bean the re-1 suit, iu nearly every Sta'e where elections I have taken place within the last four or five ! months. The late session of our own Legislature fur- j nisties abundant proof of the wisdom of the | people, in casiing off the Whig yoke, and re-j turning to the good old republican track. In \ eighteen hundred and forty, the idolaters of! cider barrels, coon skins and pepper pods,’ promised enough, if their pledges had been : realized, to have produced a- imlieniuiii. Ref ormation — Retrenchment --Relief—money in abundance—peace, plenty and happiness, throughout our borders. They gained tiie as cendency—came to Milledgevilln in a heavy j majority,and what did they do] Why,they: turned loose the brokers and shavers upon the Banks, ami in a snort time tl.e larger por turn of i heir specie was on its way to i he north, or to Europe—the currency worse deranged, and the people out of money. They shut up the Central Bank, and l >arred its doors against those to whom- it belonged’—-declared they ought not to relieve the people il they could ; doubled the taxes —increased the •expenses of government by appropriations —continued in session 52 days—voted liiemseiv.es §3 per day, making the aggregate expenses ol the session §102,783 50, adjourned and left their constituents to work out their own salvation, with fear and trem ding. 1 lie Democratic Legislature, irue to the interests of the peo ple., began the work of retrenchment i:i good earnest, by reducing their own pay to 04 per day, and by making a corresponding reduction in the salaries of public officers. They made as ort session, by working day and night, in the pubiic service of 39 days only, by which the expenses of the sess.on were brought down to 535.2513 00 ; which deducted from the Wing expenditure of 1-840, ot $102,783,- 50, leavmg a balance of $30,52? 50 in favor of ! the Democratic Legislature. Add to tins, tiie • reduction of salaries, which may be estimated a $9,000, and a red u I on n£the ‘ev.-. equir ! aiem to §50,000, and we present in tiae whole, ’ an item of sv...d retrenchment equal to §95,- 527 50. But th.s is not all. They have taken every s:e p in their power ‘o foster and strengthen the Central Bank, and make it efficient, in rendering sen ice to the people ; and -o lar as we are aide to |udge, the r acts will be very cenerally approbated by their Inflow citizens. Let the people look at these things. Let them compare the sessions of 1840 and lri4l. together, and they cannot fail to come up to the pods on the first Monday in January, to g.ve new strength to the Democratic party. Cocitk, Colquitt, and Black, true De mocrats —str.ct constructionists of the Cos: - stimtion —opposed to a United States Bank, as unconstitutional and impolitic—opposed to the distribution of die public land- —the tariff, ar.d all the Federal measures of the extra sea- “THE UNION OF THE STATES, AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATES.” sion, are now before the public as the Demo cratic candidates for Congress, on the first Monday in January. Men of acknowledged talents—distinguished fertile spirit and abil ity with which they have defended the rights and honor ofthe South, and particularly upon the abolition question, we invoke the active efforts of our friends,, to bear them through, wiib a triumphant major rr. From ihe M:icn. Ga. Telegraph. TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF CfKORGIA. In a few days you will have to attend at the polls, to select your county officers— i Sheriffs, Clerks, Coroners, Surveyors, Tax i Collectors, Receivers,&c.&c. —most of them for two years. I'hese officers, though their salaries are not large, are extremely necessa ry in carrying out the laws of the State. It is equally important to have honest and faith ful and energetic county officers, as it is to have smart members of the Legislature ! No matter how smart the latter may’ lie, nor how good the laws may be which they enact, un less you have good and honest and efficient county officers, what will it avail ] It is not absolutely necessary that county officers should be party men: When men equally good can be found of your own side, you will of course vote for them —it is a duty j you owe to your party. Those who fight the I battles, are entitled to the profits as well as I the honors of the victory. Besides, if you ! bestow all the lucrative offices on your oppo j nents, what encouragement will there be for any to accept the more laborious ones, where no profit is attached ! Besides, though the candidate for office may be a very good man, and a very clever fellow, and an old neighbor, and a very particular friend, and all that—still you ought to provide against the official in fluence of ihe office, (which in some cases is prodigious,) being used aga.nst your party, and your party’s candidates. On the same day', you will be called upon ’<> vote for three candidates for seats in Con gress. The ticket, run by your party’ stands hi tlie head of this column. It was nomina ted by a full convention of tie Party assem bled in Milledgeville, with unprecedented unanimity—and as far as can be ascertained, will be supported with a like unanimity by the party. It is not necessary here to ro into an argu ment upon the obligation of every Democrat to support this ticket. Perhaps you have a particular dislike or a personal antipathy, or ! some political objection to one, or all of the ! candidates; What then? Will you stay away from the polls, on that account! Do you owe nothing to the CAUSE! If you believe it right—or whether you believe it altogether right or not—if you b-dieve Democ racy is preferable to Wlugism—that the par ty you belong to is aiming to advance the best i iterests of ilie country —you owe it to that party to make some sacrifice of feeling, of opinion, for the good of the party. Nor is it necessary to go into an argument r.t this time as to the merits of (he respective tickets that will be presented to you. It is enough for me to say, in this place, that one is the Whig ticket —that the candidates upon it are all 11 higs —that they are the advocates of Whig measures, and Whig doctrines. And that the olher is the Democratic Ticket—that the candidates are all Democrats—and that they support Democratic doctrines, Democrat ic measures and Democratic men Go to the polls. Let nothing deter you. Show to the world, that tiie gloiious victory you achieved in v etober is not the last you are to achieve—that as you conquered the enemy then, you will conquer them again— that as you triumphed tlien, you will triumph again. Go to the polls: and the God of Bat tles will be with vou. CRAWFORD. EXTRACT FROM A LETTER Os the hon. Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, Dated Nov. 5, 1841. But the “cor|oral’s guard, the friends par excellence of the President ” were upbraided foi not supporting any of the Whig measures of the Extra Session. What measures do they mean? The Abolition movement to keep liie House of Representatives disorgan ized until the 21 si rule was suspended or abolished? The organization of the House so as to throw one-third of (he heads ol com mittees to one seel ion of the country where only one-eighth belonged ? The consiimtion of committees so lliai if Ihe question of recog nition of the Black R -pub! c of Hayli was re ferred, it weni to a majority of non-slave holders? So that if tfie question of amend ing the lam-of the United Stales as to fugi tive slaves, to prevent anv more New York and Virginia or Maine and Georgia contro versies, was referred, il went to a maj irity of non-slaveholders? So that if the qoesiion as io compensation for a negro killed in the Florida war,for any other war, was referred, H went to Mr. Gid lings, of Ohio, and a ma jority of non-slaveholders? Do they mean the hue and cry to exaggerate the public debt in order to raise ti e tariff, and make an excuse for distributing the proceeds of the public lands? D tliev mean the distribution ot tho-e proceeds with one hand, while ve were borrowing money, in Ihe midst of Na tional Bankruptcy and distress, with the other. Tiie measure to give away I he pro ceeds of the sale ol ihe public property —or what is worse, the payment of State Debts with them—or the making of internal im provements, or the education of free negroes,, or what else ihe Slates please with them, win ii the Constitution points out specifically what shall he done with public money and for what alone it shall be raised? Do tliev mean (he violation of ihe compromise act bv rais ng many articles from nothing or a very low tax to 25 per cent ? Do they mean the aliempt io pave the way for a protective ta riff"? Do they.mean ihe extraordinary ap propriations from an empty and embarrassed treasury? Do they mean the Bankrupt Law, winch may draw country as well as town, farmer and mechanic as well as naer chani and trader into the Federal courts, far f om home, with double costs, fir (he recove ry of just debts which may m whole or in part be blotted.mU kr ever—at a time, too, when creditor , are anxiously but will ng'y waiting for better times to better fortunes, in order to get eventual payment from Debtor-? D> they mean thejirbitr.iry restrictions upon tiie freedom of donate and upon tiie free • nurse of legislation both in the House and in the Committee of the V\ hole on the S ate of the Union? Do ihey mean the haste and indi gestion wuii which measures were hurried through, without deliberation, and without debale? Do they mean everything, in a word*wluc they did, except what they did or the Navy? If these are (lie measures ; ihey mean. I deny that they were Whig measures—there was nothing Whig in or about them—they were what no freeman or | lover of liberty, or the constitution, or the : country, had a re .son to dream of or to ex i |>ect before ihe election —they were worse than Locofocoish—and they were the fruiis ! oft he Dictatorship, nor of a free and untram > naelled party of enlightened men, who claimed | to be equals, or thought as equals, or need i as equals, who uiel free and deliberated freely | m lull communion of council thpy were the j dictation of a few leaders to a shirked and j packed caucus, which obeyed instinctively, and blindly !14 a wed wherever they were led. Ifjjtrt oppose these and such as- Dtiest, sul jects me to the anathema of the feitiilul, lain ready and willing to be burned lor a heretic, and will gladly glory in the martyrdom! Il this is to be the contest and the struggle, I regard it as no holy war, and the spirit which in vokes its devastation as more horridly fiend ish than any Destrucliveism ever niYftoonced Ivy its authors themselves. But, I am confi dent its effects can be no other than their own political destruction; for there is public virtue enough among a free peopfi sot only to defend itself but to visit its enemies, the boldest arid ni ist powerful, the most daring and desperate, with condign retribution. The true sovereigns are true to themselves, and there is an overruling Providence, as in our fathers’ days, and there will he for ever, to protect the liberties and reanimate the hopes of the people in this God-favored iand. 1 give you, then my cordial congratulations, one afid all, and as a perpetual sentiment for al! “Constitutional Republicans,” I reverently propose to von— “ God and the People ! ” GEORGIA LEGISLATURE. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Wednesday, Dec. 8. Mr. Tankerslev presented the following, which was read, and orJe*ed tube entered on ihe journal, viz: The undersigned metnhersof the House wT Representatives take this method of express ing their opinions upon certain questions in volved in the action of the House yesterday on the report->f the Committee on the State of the Republic—premising that tliey fully concur in the report of the minority of said Committee; and that in relation to the mat ters contained in the report ofthe majority— First; We believe a National erly restricted, to be the best, most proper and ecenomical means that can be devised for the collection, safe-keeping, and disbursement of the public moneys ; that the expediency, pro-’ prieiv and necessity of such an institution is fullv admitted by a ma jority of the people oi this State ami of the United States; and if the constitutionality of such an institution were doubtful, we would yield our opinionsto that ot the Father o ! his Country, ofthe Su preme Judiciary of the United Slate,s, and of the majority of the Republican and Stale Rigliis party since the foundation of the Government. Second : We do not believe that there is any attempt now being made to abolish tfta* veto power ofthe President of the U. States; and we are imposed to its abolishment. Third; We do not believe that our Min ister to England is a practical Abolitionist; and wt* arc fortified, nay, confirmed in this belief, from tiie fact that our distinguished! Seuat >r in Congress, the Hon. John M. Ber rien, having better opportunities!)!'satisfying himself on this head than vve have, voted to confirm his nomination, which we believe he never would have done, had he entertained the slightest doubt of his soundness in regard to the peculiar institutions of the South. Wm. B.Tankerslev, Win. O. SaftMd, H. W. Winfrey, Reuben May, Aaron Hardv, Wi/ey Franks, Edwin F.Birdsong, Robert Robinson, Moody Burt, Wm. L. Baker, H. W. Hagerman, Wm. McGahagan, Seaborn Lawrence. C S. C rod ilie, H. H. Armstrong, Wm. Lumpkin, Charles J. Jenkins, John Wvnn, James Patterson, Thus. O. Carter, Kinclie i McKinney, Absalom Funderburk,. Elias Wilson, Wm. T. Burke, Jethro Darden,. W. Daniel,ofGreene, S. J. Whatley, J. H. McWhorter, Duke Williams, J 11. McCall, Wm. Stroud; James Moore, Archibald McMillan, Wm. Chester, Wm. D. Stone, T. G. Ford, D. N. Pittman, Win. Peahodv, Benj. Brewton, Moses Dan tell, Reuben Mann, John S’. Tboruas. Mr. Perry, a member of the House of Re presentatives of South Carolina, writes to the Greensville Mountaineer, from Columbia, as follows: “1 have just been informed, by very high authority, that Gen. Thompson’s appointment to Mexico has been made by the President. He was in favor of Poindexter, but found that his nomination would not be confirmed by the Senate, and> has given the mission to General Thompson. “ It has been rumored for several days past, that there is a probability of Col. Preston’s re signing h:s seat in Congress, if Tyler’s mes sage does not square with his notions. The election of h.s successor would produce con siderable emotion in the Legislature.—Rich mond Enq. Gorrespandence of ihe Cliadi-s'oniCourier. Washington, Dec. IS. In the Senate, to day, the committees were not announced. 7’he Vice President stated that he would announce them tomorrow. The Senate choose Mr. Tuston of the Pres byterian Church for its Chaplain. Mr. Mingum gave notice that he would, at a proper time, introduce a resolution to lessen the expense of printing. The public printing was now a very heavy charge ou the Treasu ry, and much of it was entirely unnecessary. The Senate adjourned without doing any bu siness. In the House, the standing and select com mittees were announced. You will find them in the Intelligencer. As we supposed, the committee on the currency is so constituted as to be very favorable’ to the President’s views. Mr. Cushing,of M iss, is the Chair man ; Mr. Wise, Mr. Gilmer, Mr. Proffit, and Mr. \V. VV. Irwin, form a majority of the com mittee, and are well known as friendly to the Pres dent and his views. Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. McKay are locofoeos. ‘There a-e but two w.ljigs on the committee—Mr. J. P. Kennedy and Mr. Garrett Davis. We learn that th.s committee will report a bill founded on the President’s suggestions. There will be two parties opposed to the measure. The Benton party, and those of the whig party who still hold out for an old fashioned bank. It is thought possible that the scheme may pre \ai] fc should-the lccofo&o party be divided and broken up. But that party is not likely to play the game which has destroyed the whig pariv. VVe shall, however, soon see. You will see that the committee on ways and means is reorganized and made a thorough whig committee. Tiae foreign relations h-s Mr. Adams at its head, and Sir. Cushing, the ia.e C airman, second. The famous rnethodist preacher, Mr. John X. Mafia ,was elected Chaplain of tiie House, on the first ballot,, by a large majority. The death of Col. Hunter, iate assistant door keeper was announced, and the House passed a resolution paying his funeral expen ses, and abolished the office. Cui. Hunter was a soldier of the revolution, and fought unler G?n. Sum er in many engagements. There is some prospect that the iocofoco party will soon be as much divided and d.s .reeled as the whig party is. They may di vide on the tariff question; on the currency question : au-J on the next Presidential ques \ tiun. The inrrease of the population of Great Britain, fer the l.st ten ytfirs, is 2,*39?733. [NUMBER 47. Frain.the-Aujusla (Ga.) Coii'tiiutionalist. VIRGINIA AND NKW/.YOItK CONTRO VERSA'. The Columbia South Carolinian of last Thursday gives us the information, that a bill , to prevent the citizens of New York from carrying slaves, or porsons held to service, from South Carolina, and to prevent the es cape of persons chaiged with the commission of any crime, has passed both houses of the legislature : in the house by SO to 15 votes, and in the Senate by 31 to 3. This bill, it is believed, is precisely the same as the one of Virginia, and which is to go into operation in May next. The following resolutions have also passed both branches of the legislature, almost unanimously. 1. Resolved, That this Legislature view , with regret and abhorrence, the constructive j meaning of the constitutional provision re- j spec ting “ fugitives from justice,” and “fu-: gitives from service,” asserted by the Execu- 1 tive and Legislative authorities of New York, [ in tiie year 1840. 2. Resolved, That in the opinion of this : Legislature, the forced and dangerous con struction put upon tne 4th Article of the Constitution of the United States, and the arrogant pretensions to control its operation by the State of New York, as indicated by ! the positions of her Executive in the progress ! of the late controversy with Virginia, and the ! proceedings of her Legislature, pending the same, should be repudiated and discounte nanced by every State in the Union, as de structive of the faith pledged in tiie Confede ration,. and ultimately subversive of that State Sovereignty, upon which they profess to be founded. 3. Resolved, That the Governor be re quested to communicate to the authorities of Virginia, the high sense entertained by this Legislature, of their moderation and respect ful forbearance in conducting tiie recent un happy controversy with the State of New York—of the justness of the position assum ed by Virginia, on the assurance of the bear ty co-operation of South Carolina, in all pro per measures to vindicate her rights as a state, and to protect the property of her citizens. 4. Resolved, That copies of the Report and Resolutions adopted by this Legislature,’ together with a certiSed copy of the Bill, when passed* he furnished by this State, to the Governor of Virginia and the Governors of the several States in this Union, and to our Senators and Representatives in. Congress, to be laid before that body. The Philadelphia papers of the 15th instant contain the presentments of the Grand Jury, which were handed to the Court of General Sessions on the 10th read on the 14. h, and or dered to be filed. The following are extracts: A full and searching enquiry has been in stituted and the deliberate opinion of the Grand Jury is that certain officers connected with the United States Bank have been guilty of a gross violation of law, colluding together to defraud those stockholders who have trusted their ail to be preserved by them; and that there is good ground to w arrant a prosecution of all such persons for serious critliinal offen ces, which the Grand Jury do now present to the Court, and ask that the Attorney General be directed to send up for the action of Grand Jury bills of indictment against: First —Nicholas Biddle, Samuel Jaudon, John Andrews, (and others to jury unknown,) for entering into a conspiracy to defraud the stockholders of the U. S. Bank of the sum or sums of §400,000, in the year 1836, and es deavoring to conceal the same by a fraudulent and illegal entry in 1840. To sustain the above, endorse Austin Mont g anery, Capt. Henry Nal erv, Henry H n,as accusers Moses Kempton, Edward Col -s, Jas. S. Newbold, Joshua Lippincott, Jonathan. Pat tersnn, Thos. Taylor, and William Ijrayton* as witnesses. The Grand Jury on their solemn oaths and, affirmation, do further ask that a bill of indict ment be sent to them against, Second—Nicholas Biddle, Joseph Cow* perthwait, Thomas Dunlap (and others to ju ry unknown,) lor entering into a conspiracy to defraud &c., &c., the Stockholders of the United States Bank during the year 1*836, ’37, 38, ’39 and 1840, by which the Stockholders have been defrauded out of a sum or sums of money exceeding $300,0091 To sustain this bill, endorse the same accu sers as in the first case, and as witnesses Mo ses Kempton, Edward Coles, Jas. S. Newbold, Joshua Lippincott* Jonathan Patterson, Thom as Taylor, William Drayton, Joseph Cabot,. Rodney Fisher, Richard Price, arid George Handy. The Grand'Jury on their solemn oaths and affirmations do further ask for a bill of indict ment agamst Alexander Lardner,. Thomas Dunlap, Richard Price* Lawrence Lewis, Geo. Handy and others, (to the jury unknown,) for feloniously, &x. conspiring to cheat and de fraud the Stockholders of the United States Bank of Pennsylvania, of the sum or sums of about §130,000, in the year 1840. To sustain this charge, endorse the same accusers as on the others, and as witnesses, Moses Kempton, Edward Coles, James S. Newbold, Joshua Lippiricott, Jonathan Patter son and Thomas Taylor. THE.FORG-EkI,ES IN NEW YORK. The report of large forgeries having bien committed in New York is confirmed. Tfte amounts are, however, much larger than were first named. ‘The New York Express of Sat urday tells the story as follows : Large and Systematic Forgeries.—-Much to the astonishment of the gentleman whose respectable name has been used, as also of the officers of the bank, it was ascertained on Wednesday that numerous and extensive for geries had been committed on several of the banks of this city by persons who theretofore had borne an. unsullied reputation in the sem mercial world. It appeared that the endorse ruent on the notes of the amounts of S7OOO, of S3OOO, and of S2OOO, purporting to have been endor-ed by Mr. John Johnson, of the firm of Messrs. Boorman Johnson, and which had been discounted by tl.a Nation; 1 Bank of this city at different dates for Messrs. Kirk and Johnson—were forgeries. It appeared from the statements made, that Mr. Johnson had been in the habit of endor sing the notes of Messrs. Kir!; & Johnson, commission merchants of 137 Front street, a house in good repute, and the members of which were John G. K rk and George John son, Jr.—and that one or the other, or both, of the members of this last named firm, hid availed themselves of the facilities thus atiur ded them to forge and counterfeit the name of Mr. John Johnson, as endorsers to their notes, which, from the unexceptionable character of the paper, were discounted without difficulty. The forgeries, however, were doomed to see the light, for as some of the notes, thus pur porting to be endorsed, were not paid a ma turity, Mr. John Johnson became acquainted with the fact a* the National Bank, and the en dorsements of the three notes, amounting to slo,ooodeclared to be forgeries, as-also o h ers that have been paid. I.i consequence of this discovery, Mr. Johnston having made af fidavit of the forgery of his signature, r.nl Mr. Albert Gallatin, Pies dent of the National Bank, havi ig also made affilivit before Judge Noah or. Wed leeday evening, that mag.s rate ij ; u°d his \varr~n for the arrest of Mr. Ge\ Johnston, T r, of the firm of Kirk 5: JifcnEfon, of 43? Front street, and he aryested at * iate hour of that nighL M his house 11 Grain! street, by officers Bowyer and McGrath, and committed to prison }• r examination. M * Kirk could not be found by the officers up to a late hour on Thursday evening. It was also stated by one of the Judges, that other forgeries of the aatuc name, by the per son or persons above charged, have been dir covered to the amount of §IB,OOO on the Butchers’ and Drovers’ Bank ; for a consider able sum also in the Bank of America—besides in some other Banks—the whole amounting to •855,000. Both Mr. George Johnston, Jr, and his partner, Mr. Kirk, were held in high repute prior to the discovery of these transac t.ons, which, it is alFeged have been gtfing on for three years or more, by forging on one bank to make garment for another. Tiie J#urna! of Commerce gives the fol lowing M the amounts'of forged notes d;s— countg*Kit the Banks named : At ilie Bntrhers’ aid Drovers’ Bark £lB SCO Bank of New York, 7.00 ft Bank of the Slate, L0.30U National Bank, 10 000^ Bank of America*. 4 000 N* Button Bank. 50 ‘0 * ‘The New York American explains the covery of tiie forgery in this wise. M-r. Kirk, of the commercial house of KirkS & Johnston, 127 Front street, offeied to aa broker a note of his firm for §SOOO, purporting* to be endorsed by John Johnston, of tli*Jirui™ of Boorman & Johnston—this was deqgmdjf but with, an intimation that a note for a smlLer amount, endorsed by the house instea of shn of its partners, would be bought. ly Mr. Kirk soon returned with a notemr three thousand dollars , endorsed by Boorman,. Johnston & Cos., which lie was told to leave and call for the money in an hour. Mean— wh lie* the note was sent to Boorman &. Jolhi ston, who pronounced it a forgery. Mr. K. did not return ; and upon further investigation it was ascer ained that on notes in different Banks, the National Bank of America, and the Bank of New York,, the name of John John ston had been forged to the amount of fifty six thousand dollars. Duel. —The morning papers report that a duel was fought at Hoboken on Saturday, be tween Mr. Peter Schennerhorn and Mr. Al exander Fleming,, both of this city—the latter being severely wounded at the first fire. The quarrel grew out of an offence occurring at, a party one evening last week, at which Mr. John Schermerhorn, the brother of Peter, as is alleged, was insulted by Fleming. A corres pondence ensued. John Schermerhorn invi ted Fleming to a meeting, which invitation was declined, and an additional insult heaped’ upon the original affront. The police being a I vised of tiie belligerent altitude of ilie par ties* interposed, and Mr. John Schermerhorn was subjected to bonds to keep the peace.— In this state of the case,.Peter Schermerhorn espoused the cause of hia brother—a meeting was had—and the original aggressor can give but a Flemish account of the campaign. It is deeply to be regretted that this barbarous cus tom is reviving amongst us. Fourteen years ago that sad though brilliant fellow. Graham, was killed at Hoboken, and until tire present affair* we believe* there lias since been no blood letting there : and we were imping that he murderous propensity of duelling was abating. The present case, however, added to that in which Beaumont was winged a few months since, for speaking too freely of a mar ried lady in respect of whom he was boasting of his gallantries, induces us to fear that the. march of civilization is backward.— N. York Cour. & Enq. Montgomery County Cikcuit Court- — The Circuit Court now in session in this city, finished last week the Criminel Docket, after having been engaged on it about three weeks. Phis when we consider that the Criminal Docket contained 170 cases, may be consid ered quick work. About forty of these cases were dismissed or continued, the remainder 130 were disposed of by trial, 58 of which re sulted in conviction. There were nine ar raignments for capital offences, which were disposed of as follows. Mailer convicted of Murder—Chessly of murder—Harkins of murder—Schuesseler and Hobbie of man slaughter—Hammock and NYhitemore arraigned for murder, trials con tinued till next March—Wheeler and Paw ley indicted for negro stealing, continued till next term. The other cases were mostly indictments for affrays, assaults and battery. I his long list may not argue well for the reputation of our community as a peaceable one, the tho rough manner however in which the Juries did their work at. the present term, will do much towards the prevention of these offen ces in future. Marler after having been convicted on two trials of the murder of his brother, has, we learn, been pardoned by Gov. Bagby. Chessly has been sentenced for execution on tiie Ist of February. Harkins the assassin of Bbugley, was sen tenced on Monday last by Judge Martin, to be executed on the 3d of January. lie has, most of the time since his arrest, exhibited the recklessness of tiie hardened ruffian, during however the affecting and impressive sen tence by the Judge, he manifested some emo tion.—Montgomery Journal. Prospective Baronetcy for O’Connem.. —We take the following from the Dublin Register: We have seen a letter from I,on don, which states that the greatest anxiety prevails among the friends of the outgoing Lord Mayor (Alderman Johnston) and the- Lord Mayor elect (Alderman Pirie,) as to the royal accouchement —for, in the event of the Queen blessing the nation with a Prince be fore l he 9th of Nov., the present Lord Mayor would be entitled to the Baronetcy ; but should this auspicious event take place subsequent to the 9:h of November, Alderman Pirie, as the Lord Mayor of London, would obtain the ele j vaticn. ‘The writer in conclusion, observes, ! that Mr. O’Connell, as Lord Mayor of Dub | !m, and the first Catholic one for ages, would, | in spite of the enemy, be entitled to receive a : similar honor.—Dumfries Courier, Bth Nov- From die Tuscaloosa (Ala.) Monitor, Dee. IC, The board of Trustees of ihe University of Alabama, on Tuesday last, elected Rev. Mr. Sirnmes. (late Professor iri Randolph Macon College) Professor of English Literature, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the. death of die ate Rev. Prof. Pratt. ILs Excellency Gov. Fitzpatrick, has ap p ‘imed Clement C. Clay, j . of the county of Madison; John Gill Sfiq.ter,of the comity of Barbour; Lorenz.) James, of the county of Clarke; and Percy Walker, of the county of M dme, Aius de-camp, with the rank of LLut. Colonel. The who’s number of vessels built in the U. S.ates during the year lb 10, wa -671, the ag gregate tonnage of which was 118309 10.— The total tonnage of the United fckates, in 1840, was 2,180,764.13. I’beto‘a! value of imports into.all the ports of tiie United States, from-the Ist of October, 1839, to the 30th of September, 1810, was $ 107,140509. and the total value >f exports, during tiie same period, was $132,085946; the iauer sum being made up of $113,895 638 in domestic produce, and Gi9,i4o 312 ;n ser e £ produce.—Phil. U. 8. Gazette. Repeat Association. —The Pnilndrlplua ChroiiiCe says, B>hoj> England delivered an address on fi e Rep*a! of the Union, nefoie the Repeal Assoc ation on Saturday, in the Y-ronddv Uu.fdinge, corner of Tcirh ad | Chestnut streets. The room ivas r'oivdii! to I excess and the b’sliop, during his speech tv**s I greeted vvifiilouJ end canlinucJ bursts ufap pYuse.—lL\