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GEORGIA COURIER. J. G. M’WHORTER AND HENRY M FARING, PUBLISHERS. Terms.—Thi* Paper is publisher! every Monday and Thursday afternoon, at $5 00 per annum, payable in^ ad vance, or $6 00 at the expiration of the year. TIP \dverti«iinriit« not exceeding a square, inserted the SrHttime or 02 1-2 cents, and 43 3-1 cent* for each eon- iiuifinc-a sure of which, all the influence alidall the expostulations of the intelligent part of her citizeus will not be able to repress the outbreakings of their exasperated’popu- lation 1 Far from it. On the contrary, i these consequences are kxiked to as justi- ! fiablc, and that on the several grounds that the tariff would be unconstitutional and unjust. Here is a political doctor, with a vengeance—one who would go to the root of the matter.” He is for none of your weak recipes of confections and pot herbs. “ O, true apothecary ! thy drugs are quick.” The bitter pill of disunion is the mildest prescription he deals in. I intended not here to enter into the FOR THE GEORGIA COURIER In the midst of the violent party excite- I merit which has shaken our country for i much disputed question of the tariff policy, the last three years, in the prosecution of | I am even willing, for my present purpose, an opposition,the most virulent and unre- i to admit the ridiculous and almost aban> Jeniing which it h; any administi alien fallen to the lot of 1 doned ground of its unconstitutionality.— of our government to encounter, it has been cheering to ob- >erve occasional evidences that at least As to its justice and expediency, I am even willing to suppose that there exist some inscrutable reasons not vet revealed one of the great cardinal principles of our j to the public, why the practical operation government, a sawed attachment to the j of the protection duties on woollens should union, has escaped the shock, and is still j n*>t be the same as it has been on cottons, regarded by the wise and the good of all i »hat is, to afford after a year or two a parties as one of those political doctrines, 1 better domestic article for half the price which, vindicated by the wisdom and \ formerly paid for the foreign. I yield consecrated by the sacrifices of the great men who have gone before us, has been, these points fur the sake of argument ; and then I ask the doctor, supposing the if I ntav use The expression,’ deposited j tariff I ill should pass, and its constitulion- withm the holy of holies in our political temple, and solemnly laid up as a thing sicred and inviolable. Such a demon- s'ration was recently afforded in the indig nant exoression of reprobation which burst simultaneously from every quarter of our confederacy, upon the head of a certain restless agitator, who had dared to invade this consecrated ground. I allude to the merited censures of the prc«s, upon certain sentiments inculcating disunion, uttered by Dr. Cooper, President of the South Carolina College, at the anti-tariff meetinp, liehl sonic time since in Colum bia. The following is the language held bv that genilemnn on the occasion alluded to:—“ We shall ere long he compelled tV> “ calculate the value of mir union, and to “ enquire, of what use is this most unequal “ alliance bv which the Smith has always “ been ttie loser, and the North the gain- “ er ? Is it worth our while to continue “this union of States, where the North “ demand to he our nns'ers, and we are “ required to be tlimr tributaries ? M T am aware of the doctor’s lettor to the editor of the United States Telegraph, (noscitur ex sQciis) r#pellin<? the construc tion which lias been placed by the public upon this language. But this letter, if it were not that every other sentiment which it is calculated to inspire were swallowed up bv one engrossing feeling of horror, would really provoke our laughter. TIip writer of it complains of misconstruction. “ Misconstruction,” indeed ! Now, I hold it one of those verv plain cases with which construction had nothing to do. The mind that could place but one “ construc tion” on such language, would befrav as ludicrous a propensity to doubt, as did a certain constructionist 1 have heard tell of, who, when called a liar bv another, asked what was meant to be insinuated. No— It does appear to me that this is one of those plain cases to which the very plebeian tiiaxMn may be applied, that “ what every body says, must be true.” Surely no min i bufthe Doctor’s own, and that under some fatally perverting influence, would be apt to discover but one meaning in such language as this ; nor can I liken his testy protest to any tiling more aptly than t<> the well known case of the maniac, who was charitably removed to forgive the proceedings by which he was restricted to the mail-house, by the reflection tliar “ they were all crazy.” But die subject is too pregnant with alarm to allow of any thing like levity. So far, therefore, from finding any thing like a palliation in the doctor’s exculpatory letter, I must con fess I can see in it only a deep aggrava tion of his offence; for, under the pre tence of explanation, its author has re asserted and enforced the same obnoxious sentiment, in terms oven more shocking and repulsive than those with which the good people of Columbia were edified. I can see in it onlv the sinner who, though *' often reproved,” but “ hardens bis neck”—the political incendiary, who, fearing lest the fire-brand which he had cast should not do its office, returns with an armful of combustibles, carefully hus bands the decaying embers, and deliber ately bln vs them to a blaze. It will scarcely be believed that it is such lan guage as that already quoted, of which this reckless partisan says, “ I beg per mission to disclaim them, (the excuses which certain editors had charitably sug gested for these sentiments, as the produc- ality should be seriously questioned, how long is if since the Supreme Court of the United States has been stripped of its power to decide on the constitutionality of a law of Congress? or how long since such tnen as Marshall and Story, and Washington have forfeited the well earn ed confidence of this country? and why forego this peaceful constitutional remedy ,o betake ourselves to the frightful one of disunion? and even admitting the injus tice of the law, can not the ingenuity and patriotism of this doctor devise something niilder”-some sweet oblivious antidote ?” Will none of his medicines reach the dis order but the dreadful drastic potion of disunion ? The doctor asks with an airof triumph, “ Is there any limit in this country to the discussion of any political question whate ver ?” Now, to this question I answer most emphatically, yes. To a great phi losopher, this I am aware may seem rather unphilosophical ; but I know I shall carry with me ninety-nine hundiedths of the re flecting citizens of this country, when I j assert that “ in this country” the union is j no onger debateable lground—that it lias j keen discussed enough—that if has been, as I observed before, laid up as a settled question never more to be touched or mooted. And, however much it may shock some of those views of “ infinite perfectibility” which the doctor may have imbibed in the halls, or rather gar rets, of the Jacobin clubs of Paris, I would beg leave to admonish him that there are “ in this country” several such questions— questions on which the people, poor be nighted souls, presume to think their pre sent views sufficiently perfect. Anv per son, for instance, “ in this country,” who would denounce the whole Christian reli gion, and deliberately throw h : s bible into the fire, I hesitate not to say, would be shunned as a monster, and so of our union. The popular and trite sentiment, “palsied be the tongue and withered the arm that would disturb our union,” is not a mere idle, frothv ebullition of over-heated na tionality, but the deliberate dictate of cool and dispassionate judgment—a sentiment which the natives of “ this country” have drawn in with the milk of their mothers, and piously caught from the dying lips of their fathers. Thank God if has rema : n- ed thus far unimpaired even amidst all the violence of these evil times; and the good and the wise, and the patriotic of all par ties stand ever ready to utter their deep and unanimous and atWul “ anathema maranalha !” against the sacrilegious hand that may be put forth against it. One more remark, and I close. I have not been able to perceive the peculiar pro- oriely of i lie President of a College, act ing the political agitator, at popular meet ings. I should certainly suppose such a functionary much more appropriately oc cupied in his literary duties. Moreover. I have lately read a treatise on Political Economy, by this same gentleman, pur port i no to be the substance of a course of lectures on that important science deliver- ee to the students of Columbia College. Now, although I am aware of the acknow ledged disiimion between political econo mv, properly so called, and the science of government, yet it is evident that they must be very closely connected : nor does tlie author seem very scrupulously to have observed the line of demarkation between ihein. I have a right to consider him, vioiis—they ara as cogent as they are ob vious ; and alone, would seem to be suffi cient to prevent the adoption of a measure so ruinous to a portion of the people of the State. But there are others still more cogent, connected with the question as it stands re lated to the general welfare, & growing out of the present condition and future prospects of the financial concerns of the State. The Comptroller General reports that the expenses of the government for the last year, have been $180,358. more than the receipts at the Treasury. And the Governor, in his message, at the com mencement of the present session of the Legislature, stated, that the average an nual expenditure of the government for the years 1824, 5 and 6, amounted to $108,000, and the average annual revenue It would seem to be almost useless to talk Presidential politics in South Caroli na : fot* talk or write as much as any poli- cian may, it availetb nought.’ The peo ple of this State, as well as of those South of a certain river, the name of which is so often quoted that we are determined not to name it this time, are as firmly fixed in their determination to vote for a particular candidate for the Presidency as it is pos* sible for human feeling to be fixed. The attempt to shake that determination, would be about as silly as the attempt to confirm it. To do either would be very ridicu lous, and hence it would seem almost a matter of supererogation for any of us who wear out goosequills in ma king up matter for a newspaper in the Southern States, to sav any AUGUSTA. MONDAY, NOV. 26, 1827. from taxation for the same years, to only | thing upou the subject, since whatever $70,000. The expenditures of the polij we may say, the result will be the same. ical year, just expired, have been unusual-1 Genl. Jackson^will receive all our voles as posing ' ” " l '~~“ iprob able tfiat-ihe receipts from grants will rid much more than reimburse the State. It will, from present appearances, be many years before the Cherokee lands come in to our possession; the prospect of rereip’s from this source is therefore distant. There are, it is true, near $640,000 in the Treas- ury. But of this, not more than $125,000, we believe, consists of current bills. And when the present Legislature adjourns, there will nor, probably, be more titan $60,000, or at most $70,000, of current money in the Treasury. These last state ments are made in round numbers, and on probability only, for we have not docu ments before us by which to fix the a- mounts pjecisely. With these resources, limited as they are, and decreasing every day, our literary institutions are to bw-fos- tered, our roads improved, and our rivers opened; all matters of vital importance, the last two particularly so, in the present con dition of the market for our staple article of agricultural production. Of how great consequence is it from those considerations that the funds of the State should be hus banded with the utmost care ; and how preposterous does thalt policy seem to be that would, these facts existing, incur the enormous expenditure of the public money, that must inevitably attend the abandon ment of the old buildings, and the erection of new; particularly when a very little ex pense, comparatively, would put the old in a condition to answer every useful purpose for many years to come. The Theatrical Corps destined for Au gusta, now playing in Norfolk, will leave the latter place on the 28th for Savannah. Our river has risen a little, and we have no doubt from the rain which fell on yes terday and the preceding night, and which must have been very general, that we shall have a good steamboat river this week. The clouds are vet heavy. Report speaks of disturbances on the Creek frontier. Although it is said seve- ly large, fi om the gi eat cost of disposing j surely as Mr. Adams will receive those of ra ] murders have been committed and of the land lately acquired. And it is prob- j N’ew England. \ et notwithstanding the | ban( j s in war ]ii se attire | iave been seen oi: absolute certainty of Jackson s support in , the Southern States, it is almost impossible j ,he Chatahoocl.ee, in Lee county, we lo keep an Editor’s pen out of the politi hope it is nothing serious, and has proba- cal inkstand, even after he is convinced ( bly its origin in the intemperance of some °t the utter uselessness of dipping it in straggling party. It cannot be supposed —for if he have any mind »f his owto, and „ , , .. ...... . ; • . ij any general hosti e movement is content bring its faculties into exercise he can hard- J „ . ly keep silent upon a subject which calls ! P‘ ate “ by the Creek Nation. “ it was received loo late /” But it uai r -> late to receive the trade, notwithstanrii n r. ,(% years had elapsed. A public Man was j" giving,—but a “private” one was I, when, *" reive. Your empty stores hare been filled T> ' Cotton—vour wharves have groaned und weight of Cotton—ships have left vour i? laden with CottonJ/—In short the State has* —Charleston has the Trade; but ichat h- #Wr The debts to pay ! ! ■ ■ — r ‘HI Caesar said, when he plunged into the P v f “ The die is cast!" blc ^‘ Proud Charleston !—where is your fane 7 Remember !—in the path of justice, thatl main. ’ ■ HENRY SHl'LT/ Hamburg, S. C. January 8th, 1827. aoaietir The address to Charleston was made since, as will appear by its date, and I have lately seen in the Charleston print, ■ sayings of Ciesar are true. “ The die is * they sav the trade is gone, and the City is f‘j, Jr In 1821,1 commenced building the Town r>>'H " burg, applied to the Legislature for the h**"- fifty thousand dollars, stated at the that I intended to carry much of the tr.uT f™ 0 ’ the Savannah rivet djrect to Charleston*^s° ni sured its success as well as the Town J forth the whole feeling of the country VV« cun say very truly that we have as little taste Yor politics, and the controver sies which grow out ot them, as any man who ever happened to prefer Jackson to John Q. Adams for the Presidency; but what of that—We have our preference,, and see that preference impugned in thirty or forty newspapers every tune we open them, and at the same time see all sorts of abuse heaped not only upon our favor ite candidate, but upon every body who happened to think well of him. If the advocates of Mr. Adams, would urge his claims to recollection above board, and oppose those of Jackson in an honorable way, we woald be the last to quarrel with their difference of opiuion ; but many of them do no such thing. They not only underrate the pretentions of Jackson, and and that too in the most exceptionable and ungeutlemanlv mode, but they speak of those who think differently, in the same style of scurrility. Cheraw Spectator. Instinctive Sagacity of the Bee.—This And it must be remembered, that the j hardily needs now an illustration: but, the lions of a momentary excitement,) and i therefore, as exerting more or less influ- dtliberately re-ndopt every syllable of it.” . eMCe ovor 'he political opinions of his pu- Now let ns, for a moment, examine tliis . P'k > ant ^ I should imagine that the vio- langtiage which the doctor has re-adopted j I 00 ' excitements of party, were not parti- with such imposing deliberation. It pie sents iiself with a two-fold aspect : first, as -conveying an assertion that the union has already become useless to the South— and secondly, it holds up the severance of thermion only as a future evil, the conse quence of further tariff encroachments.— Now, which meaning dyes (lie doctor pre fer, the more or the less obnoxious ? To deal with him in the utmost fairness, (un grateful a recipient of charity as he ap pears lo he,) I will in charily, impute to him the comparatively less revolting of these i wo views. We at e willing to sup pose he meant to inculcate the idea that the precise moment for disunion ntay not yet have arrived—dial the measure of wrath is not quite full, but awaits the piti ful addition of some few per cent, more to the import duties on woollens-that it : s an argument addressed lo the fears of a majority of the States. But then, in what . -ape does that argument present itself? Is the extension of * It** tariff deprecated on the eround that disunion would be the de plorable consequence, however unjustifa- lie such a step might be ? Are thd pro priety and expediency of such a catastro phe disclaimed at the same time that the event is predicted? Does he say—lav not ■an the South this burben, under the pres- cularlv friendly to that coolness and steadi ness ol mind with which it is desirable that the great outlines of political, science should be incnlcated. I should fear lest his graduate should come forth from his hands narrow and bigotted partisans, ra ther than with minds properlv imbued with those enlarged and liberal views of the theory of government, which, through a long line of her many illustrious sons, in by-gone times, have shed such a truly en viable lustre on the State of South Caro lina. Quete.—Does the doctor really incul cate such principles on the minds of the rising youth of that State ? If he carries his street politics into his professor’s chair, I would, with no unit iendly voice, sa v, woe to the State ! UNION. The question on the removal of the seat of government, is a very important one, and those whose province is to settle it have a heavy responsibility to encounter. We p iss over the obvious reasons against its removal growing out of the fact, that, when fixed at this place, it was intended to bo permanent; and the consequent injus tice to persons,who bought properly here, relying on the pledge to that effect that was tjien given., Thqse. reasons arc ob- loss is not confined merely to the building oalled the State House.—The Penitentia ry must be removed also; for it is impor tant that it should he immediately under the eye of the Legislature. The public Arsenal and Magazine must go too of course. Two of our Banks have pur chased property here, and the State is doeply interested in both of them. This property, we suppose, would be aban doned likewise. The State has lands around Milledgeville—These would be of very little value, wore the seat of gov ernment removed —Here, then, are other source* of loss, to a vast amount, which must be taken into the calculation. Can it be supposed for a moment that the in crease in the value of the public lands around the new site, wherever it may be selected—and this is the only source of reimbursement we have ever heard men tioned—would be any thipg like equal to these losses ? :? But, in addition to all this, there is another consideration ofgreat importance. The permanent location of the sent of government is a question in which all the counties which the State may ultimately contain, should have a voice. On this principle they should never have agreed to the removal from Louisville until all the territory of the State had been occupied. For it is certainly the province of an enlightened statesman at all times, not to act upon partial conceptions and tempora ry expedients, but to look into futurity as possible, and adapt his measures—not to local feelings and sectional prejudices, but to the general sentiment of the people— not solely to present times and occasions, but also to the probable condition and interest of ages to come. The Cherokee territory, will, some time or other, come into our possession. It comprises an ex tensive tract of country, and will sustain a very dense population, both from the salubrity of its climate and the richness of following which we copy from a recent work on the natural history of this indus trious insect, may interest some of our readers: “ A snail having crept into one of Mr. Reaumer’s hives early in the morning af ter crawling about for some time, adher ed, by means of its own slime to one of the glass panes, where, but for the bees, it would propably have remained till either a moist air or its own spume had loosened the adhesion. The bees having discover ed the snail, immediately surrounded it, and formed a bordet of propolis round the verge of its shell, which was at last so se curely fixed to the glass as to become im moveable, either from the moisture of the air from without, or by the snail’s secre tion from within. Moralidi has related a somewhat similar instance. A houseless snail or slug had entered one of his hives. The bees, as soon as they discovered it, pursued it with their stings till it- expired beneath their repeated strokes; after which, being unable to dislodge it, they covered it all over with propolis. In these two cases who can withhold his admiration of the ingenuity and judg ment of the bees ? In the first case a troublesome creature gained admission in to the hive, which from its unwieldiness, they could not remove, and which, from the impenetrability of its shell,they could not destroy. Here then, their only re source was to deprive it of locomotion, and to obviate purification, both which objects they accomplished most skillfully and securely, and, as is usual with these sagacious creatures, at the least possible expense of labour and materials. In the latter case,to obviate the evil ofputresence by the total exclusion af the air, they were obliged to be more lavish in the use of their embalming material, and to form with it so complete an incrustration or case over the slimegirt giant,” as to guard them from the consequences which the atmos- Our Legislature has done nothing new since our last, but have been workingon the materials already prepared. We extract from the Journal some intelligent observa tions on the removal of the State House We shall continue to keep progress with the proceedings of the Legislature, and give full details of all business of general interest. BANK REPORTS. Bavlr of Augusta, Oct. 13, 1827. To His Excellency, Georof M. Troup, Governor of Georgia. Sir—I have the honor of transmitting; herewith for the information of the Legislature the annu al exhibit of the state and condition of this Bank, as on the 1st of October. 1827. It is with plea nre the Directors are enabled to renew the assurance communicated a year ago, (and previously) that the Bank continues sound, and its credit unimpaired. It is profable, that of the debts denominated ‘bad’ in the report, a part wit! be recovered, and it is equallv probable, that the list of such as are catted doubtful may be increased. Some loss, though not much, mav be sustained on the item of 'Real Estates,’ but. upon the whole and notwithstanding the mercantile misfortunes of the year 1825, together with the subsequent depi-essiop in the value of our principal article of produce the Bank has continued to do a safe burfness, and to ke- p up its dividend to eight per. cent, from its actual profits The stock is worth ten per cent premium, an.d has not been lower (though occasionally higher) foi maty vears. In ihe exercise of a discretion .confided to the Directors by the l,egi*!ature. in relation to an in crease of capital, it has not yet been considered advisable to recommend it to the stockholders: inasmuch as it requires care and circumspection to find safe employment for theexisting capital, and to sustain the established ci edit offhe institu tion. The Directors, however, consider it a duty to recommend an increase the moment it shall appear to be advantageous to the stockholders, and called for by the public convenience. The direct interest held by the State in the Rank—the prompt and liberal act of the Legisla ture. granting in answer to the memorial of the Directors, an extension of the charter with permissiun to increase the capital, rend.er it more incumbent on the board to give this concise ex position of the reasons which have influenced it in abstaining from a recommendation to the stockholders to increase the capital for the pre sent. I have the honor to be. very respectfully, Sir your obedient serv’t. (Signed) THOMAS CUMMfNG, Pres t Bank of Augusta. A general Statement and Exhibit of the A ffairs of the Bank of Augusta, on the 1st day of October, 1827. DR To Capital Stock, 600,000 Bank notes &. change bills in circu lation 413,961 31 Amount of Deposits by Individuals 189.660 63 Amount at the credit of the U States 27.866 82 Of former dividends there remains, 10.762 Reserved Fund. 85,829 14 Of which there will be applied to payment of dividend to be made next month, 24,000 And unpaid expenses to that time, about 3,000 The balance so far as it may be necessary, held to cover bad debts, and any loss that may ac crue unreal property, 58,829 14 $•85,829 14 its soil. The people wlio will reside in ph ere invariably produces upon all ani it, will have a right to have their interest and convenience consulted in the settle ment of this question. If, therefore, tha seat of government be removed at all, ought it to be attempted until that territo ry is peopled and represented ? If it be note removed, when that part of the State shall come to be, represented, a removal may be again agitated, and may be car ried in the affnmativp. Here will be an other abandonment of expensive buildings and another immense expenditure of the public treasure in the erection of others. It seems to us that sound policy, fiscal economy, a regard for the best interest of the people generally—indeed every thing, proclaims the impropriety of the measure, at any time, but particularly at this. Georgia Journal. Magnetism.—An Italian chemist has discovered that the green colour coutains the principal magnet, and that this colour suffices to render a steel needle magnet ic. H# decomposes a ray of light bv means of a prism; and by exposing a steel needle to the action of the green ray, it soon becomes magnetic. Bed for the Sick.—Mr. Jones ofprovi dence has invented a bed, on a simple and cheap plan, which obviates most of the difficulties he has found in lifting persons, changing tbeir beds, and placing them in almost any desirable position, with ease and safety. The bed can be made to answer the purpose of a chair or couch at pleasure, so that the patient can be made to sit up, extend his feet for bathing, &.c. and occupy most of the positions oecessa- ry in sickness, without being touched by bands. ntal substances that are exposed to its action after life has become extinct. May it not be asked, what means more effectu al could human wisdom have devised, un der similar circumstances ? 1,327,979 90 Animal Gratitude.—On Friday after noon, a boy of 14 years of age,while herd ing cattle on the farm of Reideley’s, was attacked by a bull without the least pro vocation. He was repeatedly knocked down and trampled upon for a length of time so as to be very severely bruised in all parts of the body. No body being near, his cries were not heard ; and fatal consequences would very soom have en sued, had he not been released in a most singular manner. While the furious ani mal was getting more enraged, lie was at tacked by the rest of the cattle (oxen) in so determined a manner that in order to defend themselves that in order to defend himself, he left the boy, who was fortunat- ly still able to remove, and who was thus enabled to escape. Such an example of the exertion of a degree of intellect in cattle,led to an enquiry of the boy regard ing the circumstances of the case.—The hoy informed the writer of this article, that only one of the cattle came first to his res cue and attacked the buil, and in a little time the others came, as if to the assis tance of the first. This grateful and gen erous aDimal had been, during last winter in rather a sickly condition, during which time the boy had paid it considerable at tention, giving it handfnlls of corn and otherwise administering to its comforts, which attention it has so nobly repaid, by rescuing its benefactor from a riolenj and 1 shocking death.—Fife Herald CR. By amount discounts due the Bank and running to maturity, $910,427 70 Of which there may be es timated as doubtful, $3,365 And had, 11,341 $14,706 Amount due by other banks on open accounts current, Real estate as heretofore described, 53,121 25 Do. in the city of Augusta and its vicinity, subse. quentlj acquired 9,550 65 Banking house as beretofoie described, Bills of other chartered banks of Georgia, 82,800 Bills of Foreign Banks 14,485 Amount of species belong ing to the Batik in its vault, 228,632 52 14,963 60 14,000 326,917 52 $1,327,979 90 Taken from the books of the Bank of Augusta, and certified by John G. Cowling, Book-Keeper. TO CHARLESTON, S. C. Read the Memorial—Read the Resolutions— Look at the Commerce and reflect. To order a prosecution, before a crime, is con demning a man before a trial. Solomon says, “ There was a city., and few . these great obstacles between the Sara nah Bat granted for the aid of these two great u nder ^ ings. I was then called h • manufacturer of possessed of uncommon genius aud abilitie ’ language was well understood. When I an r last year to the Legislator to know wheE had complied with my contract, and to h w hether I had earned any thing for myself T five years 1 had wrought for them mv ..‘"i- tion was entirely too late, my language'could?, be understood. “ I was an impudent fcllou In 1822, I presented a memorial to the Ci7 Council of Charleston, in which I gave mv view respecting the commerce and the benefits lb,! might result to the City ; the Committee annoim ed by the City Couneil to act on mv memorial* reported on the 10th of April igo.i a . which reads as follows; •• The Committee r ! Council to whom was teserred the Memorial ' Henry Shultz, beg leave to report, that they haJ taken the interesting document- submitted hy y r Shultz into consideration and take occasion - observe, that we concur fuliy in opinion with that enterprising individual in the vast advanta?- which would accrue to the State, hut more pan; cularly to the City of Charleston, in having an n . sy Steam Boat communication between Hainbin - a **d it-’ There are five or six more resolves^ resolutions in which they concurred with ,hai fn - ferprsing individual; but after they tho’t they had secured the trade, they could uot'agree’witihih,. Dutchman on any one point; he was then a mad man. I have been in that House in Columbia, builj for such people, an elegant house it is, and a great many fine departments are in the same: but found it nnoccupied except bv the keeper, and was think ing it was like the Indian’s gun, ‘it costs more than it comes to.’ Look at the Columbia Canah the State appropriated one million of dollars — They spent it. It was said, “It will take two or three hundred thousand more to accomplish it which we must give, otherwise all wo have snout will be lost’’! When that was spent it was the same doctrine over again ; it was said. “ Unles w<' finish it all that has been spent will he lost." I cannot see when this great work will be finished and how it will answer the contemplated ohiect - for there are rnnnv vacancies which must and no doubt will be filled up by the art of glib tongue ora ready pen, but I myself doubt whether over in reality ; sometimes the river is too high, other times too low, sometimes it rains too much , tlier times too little ; w henever the power of man can control these tilings it may be accomplished. Tho’Imay have gone too far, these are all the works ofwise men. and I would not have the pre sumption to know the motms by which they weri’ actuated, or to see further in futurity, than ther. When I talked about building the Bridge across the Savannah River, it was laughed at,'and said* “ General Hampton attempted it twice, and did not succeed, and now this Dutchman talks abour building one : the fellow is crazv ! But i- hedid it. would only stand until the first fresh.’’ When I talked about bulling the wherf. it was said, “ Build a wharf indeed ! They build wharfs in Sea-ports where the tide raises five or six feel, but to build a wharf in an upper country on a riv er that rises tsve- ty feet at a time, the fellow iy crazy, such things never have been knowu.” When I talked about building Hamburg, it was said.” Build a town in a swamp, right in the face of a wealthy City ! The fellow is insane” ' When I talked about diverting the trade from one state to another, th s was conclusive : and I deserved to be put in a straight jacket; notwilh- standiug whi h. all there my undertakings, one and all, not only in part, but in full, are crowned with succes- I In fine Charleston got the Com merce. I made no rivers, I dug no canals, 1 used nature and applied steaui, it could not have been done otherwise. I was aware that there was seasons when Steam Boats could not be applied in fnll; and at those seasons more suitable boats for the river, would be compelled to assist them in a particular mode, and boating in those seasons, is combined with a grpat deal of labor and hazzard of loss Ini good river, I may say a simpleton mav boat; but at these seasons it requires a boatman not merely by name, but bv experience and abilities ; and I am also aware that individuals are not willing to incur these difficulties and losses ; but the State ought; for it is the State that receivSTflirbenefit: for these reasons and for these purposes, I asked for the sixty five thousand dollars: and so san guine did I feel in the Legislature seeing this, ve ry, very great benefit to the state bv securing the trade at these seasons, as well as in good sea sons that I commenced building boats for that very purpose, and to mv great astonishment they did not see it nor would they believe (though I told t ern) and gave them all my reasons, they rejected the application and had it taken five times the amount, it would have bean money bet ter appropriated for the benefit of this State thaij any that has been for years past; for in gooa Steam-boat river, this State and Charleston bad the trade, and it was a time for the decisive blow I might almost say, that the destruction either of SavaRtiah or Charleston, depended on it ; for Charleston had the trade in good river, and had she also retained it these seasons, it would have been permanent; without, it cbuld not. What are the facts ? As soon as I commenced building these boats, a number of persons immediately thereafter, commenced building boats for low river also; the State rejected my application, the Steam-boats were compelled to stop. Did tba* stop the Commerce ! No ! All these boats, at once, tell in the trade, and where did they go ? tn Savannah of course ; for to Charleston they could not go, and thereby these very m ans I had cal culated f >r the benefit of this State, turned out to be beneficial to Georgia ; this State had the tradf once, they may net get it a second time and if the trade from Hamburg go to Savannah, Ham burg is an iujurv instead afa benefit to the Sti.jt for it will draw ttade from this State v. hicn gusta never could; and were this State to spend millions and millions on canals and roads from Columbia to Charleston, they could never suc ceed in drawing the trade, for nature is stronger than the art of man ; It is the noble Stream of the Savannah that draws it, and which the power ol man cannot repel, aud will Charleston say thai she willdraw the trade from Savannah by Canals ^ they may as well talk about digging canals the Moon as to talk about digging canals between Savannah and Charleston, for I think it is asun- likeiy for them to draw the trade from Savanna.■ by canah, as it is for them to cause the Savanna River to run from the sea to the mountains, for n men within it; and there came a great Kiuga- gainst it, and besieged it, and built bulwarks against it. Wow there was found in it a poor Wise man, and he by his Wisdom delivered the city ; yet, no man remembered that same poor man. Then said L, Wisdom is better than strength ; nevertheless, the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words axe not heard." No tidings yet of two promised Steam Boats.— The promises 1 received ; but where are jthe two forty thousand dollar Steam Boats ? The Legis lature could net receive my Memorial,-, bccausg and the Citv were removed, would not Savanna.. be one ofthe first sea-ports in the Southern ptate* And this can be done, for 1 can doit myself. ,J ‘ one hundred thousand dollars. la;d out acC01 ding tomv directions, would effect it: anJ w.r they to give me fifty thousand dollars for my^ bilities and labor, 1 would prove the tact. money as fast as I can lay it out for thatP°* f ' theresball be do ifs or andsaboutit, and as tot r - fifty thousand dollar foyroys'*!/ I tvifl not a.: 4-