Georgia courier. (Augusta, Ga.) 1826-1837, December 10, 1827, Image 2

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GEORGIA COURIER. / J. G. M’WHORTER AND HENRY MEALING, PUBLISHERS. Tt.rm*.—This Paper i» published every Monday and Hluraday Afternoon, at $5 00 per utinum. payable iu, ad vance, or f;t> 00 at the expiration of the year. 17 Advertuiemeots not exceeding a scpinre, insertej the Ifatrime or 62 1-2 coati, arul id d-l ceuts for each con* inutile* a The Tariff.—From ihe activity ami .talents enlisted on behalf of an augemen- tation of duties on sundry poods, we are inclined to the opinion that the point will be curried iu the Congress which has now assembled. Indeed, .iwne of the states, whose resistance of it heretofore has been ardent, we should infer from the measures adopting, that opposition was about to cease ; in Maryland and Virginia partic ularly, vigorous exertions arc making to establish manufactories in which slave la bour is to be employed ; and the most profitable results are relied on.-—In this dilemma those who feel that their interests Will be effected, may collect their best Course from the following incident:—A person in a northern city, whose employ ment lay at a distance from his dwelling, tutored a dog to bring him his dinner eve ry day in a basket. In the performance of this duty, the odour of the basket’s con tents frequently excited the appetite of other dogs whom he passed, but he faith fully defended it, and performed his er rand regulaily for sometime. At length A dog who had been frequently tempted by the smell of the other’s charge, and as often punifted for it,\t^e day assembled teveral of his companions, and when the object of jliieir designs appeared, they all assaulted tptM^once—resistance was vain, and the prorwrons were speedily scatter ed about; but the vanquished carrier, in stead ofstanding to bemoan or revile the Outrage, instantly joined in devouring their lW’i2e, and secured a considerable more than an equal share. We concieve n more prudent step could hardly have been devised ; and if the increase of du ties will be so very profitable to those who rr»av engage in producing the articles em braced, we have never yet heard of any one having the effrontery to propose, that those states that dread its effects, shall be excluded from participating in those prof its.— At/ien ian. We ate pleased to learn from several of out memben of the General Assembly that plans are forming in different sections of the State by our.intelligent farmers for considerably increasing their flocks of sheep and also for establishing cotton and Woollen manufactories,.as the most likely means of relieving themselves from the pressure which they have for some time experienced from the depressed prices of every agricultural pryduct. They are now convinced, that 1 * those of our sister itates whose citizens tye partly engaged in manufactures, as well as in agriculture aud commerce, succeed'much better in providing the necessaries and comforts of life for themselves and families than they are able to do from agriculture alone, and have therefore wisely come to thedeterini- nation of following their example, posses sing, as they do equal, if not superior ad vantages for raising sheep and carrying €n manufactures. The advantage which they have for raising sheep are, the cheap ness o f our lands and the shortness of our winters. In the northern Stales, lands suitable for the purpose of supporting these animals, cannot we presume, be pur chased for less lhan ten dollars an acre; here it cuu be.had for one dollar. In the New-England States farmers have to feed their sheep four or five months in the year; here not more than as many weaks, Our advantages for engaging in manufactories are equally great. We have water power to any extent which would be required, and the raw material at our doors. And we hear a gentleman state a few days ago tvlio had visited the northern manufactories with a view to obtain information on the subject, that iu working a cotton man ufactory of 1000 spindles, in this State, hv means of slave labor for u period of ten years there would bo a saving.of $16,000, in this article of labour alone, when com pared with the cost of working the same to the North. Besides saving about 2^ cents a lb, on ail the cotton used during that pe riod. The great dfficulty in raising sheep in this country heretofore, has been to pre serve them from being destroyed by dogs. But this danger will now be abolished, by keeping large flocks and employing shep herds to watch over them. IIow much preferable would a course of this kind be, to cultivating a jealous discontented spirit towards our more in dustrious and enterprising brethern of the Noith, and how much more honerable and useful to our State ! Raleigh Register. out, busied in doing something to a wagon, when suddenly, though it was raid day, an enormous lion appeared, came op, and laid himself quietly down in the shade, upon the very threshold of the door! My wife, either frozen with fear or aware of tke danger attending any attempt to fly, remained motionless in her place, while the children took refuge in her lap.— The cry they uttered attracted my atten tion, and I hastened towards the door; but my astonishment may well be con ceived, when I fouud the entrance to it barred in such a way. Although the an« imal had not seen me, unarmed as I was, escape seemed impossible; yet I glided gently, scarcely knowing what I meant to do, to the side of the house, up to the win dow of my chamber where I knew my loaded gun was standing. By a most hap py chance, I had set it in the corner close by the window, so that I could reach it with my hand ; for, as you may perceive, the opening is too small to admit of my having got in ; and, still more fortunately, the door of tho room was open, so that I could see the whole danger of the scene. The lion was beginning to move, perhaps with the intention of making a spring.— There was no longer any time to think: I called sofily to the mother not to be alarmed, and, invoking the name of the Lord, fired my piece. The ball passed directly over the hair of my boy’s head, and lodged in the forehead of the lion im mediately above his eyes, which shot forth, as it were, sparks of fire, stretched him on the ground, so that he never stirred more. Lichtenstein's Travels in Smith Africa. A man’s owing a large form is no ex cuse for imperfect tillage. What he can not improve he need not undertake to cul tivate. A large farm without skill, capitol and industry, is a plague to its owner. It is like what somebody said, of self righte ousness—the more you have of it the worse you are off. Be not affraid of trying experiments; but let them bo on a small scale at first, and few at a time. Gen. Ashley has had a third return of fursftom the Rocky Mountains, more val uable than either that preceded it, proba bly wortli 60 or $70,000. The party which conducted it arrived on Sunday the 15th Oct. having safely escaped all the perils and casualties to which their exten sive operations were subject. The grea test cf these dangers arise from the Black Feet and other Indians who are instigated to rob and murder our people by the British traders who have almost exclusive possession of our territories at and" beyond the Rocky Mountains, who carry off an nually an iminense wealth. Gen. Ashley in his first expedition in the year 1825, fell in with one of these British parties, which had fur in its possession to the val ue of $200,000. The number of men em ployed by the Britihs on our territories is computed at about one thousand and their annual depredations upon us, perhaps a- bout a million of dollars in money, besides exoiting our own Indians against us. Missouri Observer. FltOM THE MISSOURI OBSERVER. Physic.-*-Doctor Wadd mentions a case of one Samuel Jessup, who died at tho age of65, in 1817. Thisman inthe course of 21 years, took 226,984 pills and 40,000 bottles of mixture f He must have taken his pills instead of peas, with his dinner, by the spoonful, and swallowed his mixture from Champaign glasses.-We never heard of so complete a walking a* pothecary’s shop as this Mr. Jessup. A’. Y. Morn. cour. Major Noah, in his paper of Saturday, says—-“ The barbers in New York, it is said, have rasolved to raise the price of shaving Adams men to twelve and a half cents, their faces having grown so much longer since tho election, that it requires double the time and labor to shave one of them, that it does to shave the compact phiz of a Jacksonian.” We can readily believe the Major, with reference to the difference in the aggregate price of shaving in New York, for the friends ot the Administration are men, while a portion of the Jackson voters in this city were boys—mere lack beards. 1. S. Gaz. A letter from London by the James Cropper, to a respectable house in this city, speaking of the return of Mr. Galla tin, says—‘‘I understand that the Com- meicial Treaty between Great Britain and the Uuited States has been renewed for an indefinite time-each party to give the other twelve months notice if they wish it modified or to cease. The West India question remains in datu quo, Great Britain refusing to concede what she of fered in the first instance. If the two Governments cannot agree respecting the Eastern Boundary, the matter is to be referred to the arbitration of some friend ly power.” A good shot.—It is now, said Von Wyk, more than two years since, in the very place where we stand, I ventured to take otic of the most daring sh*ts that ever was the house near the door, the children *ere playing about her, and I wja With- Mr. Okr: Permit me to correct an er ror in your editorial remarks of the 17th inst. noticing thik arrival of my mountain expedition at St. Louis. It appears from that statement that I met a party of Brit ish traders West of the Rocky Mountains, in the year 1825, who had with them two hundred thousand dollars worth of fur-. I saw some of the men who had been of the party alluded to, after they had detached themselves from if, but did not see Mr. Ogden, (the partizan) or any of the men who remainod with him. I was informed, bo wever, that they had ab’out six hundred pounds of beaver fur with them at that time, and that, in tke course of several hunts which they made upon our territory West of the R >cky Mountains, they had taken about eighty-five thousand beavers, say 150,000pounds: worth about six hun dred thousand dollars. Some of the American hunters who were then, and others who had been in my employ, went to the British camp, which consisted of about sixty men in the ser vice ot the Hudson Bay Company. The circumstance which produced this visit had nearly led to serious consequences. Mes srs. Jedediab S. Smith, William L. Sub lette, and several others of the American party, intelligent youug men, of strict ve racity, bad visited the British camp, and reported to their comrades that the British flag had been repeatedly hoisted during their stay there. The Americans, indig nant at such impertinence, and understan ding, too, that the British camp was with in eight miles of them, resolved to proceed to the place, and tear down the flag, even at the risk of their lives. Twenty-two of them, with the American flag hoisted, ad vanced to the spot, but no British flag was to be seen. Thev made known their business to Mr Ogden, and protested, in threatning language, against a recurrence of the same insult offered them ; they also required of Mr. Ogden to move his party from that vicinity without delay. Mr. O. fust hesitated, calling upon his men for protection, but ultimately finding there would probably be much danger in delay, he lost no time in getting under way, and has kept a respectful distance ever since. At the time of this occurrence I was de scending the Rio Colorado of the West, but shortly after turned and joined the party of American hunters, from whom I received the above account. Yours, &c. W. H. ASHLEY. agricultural axioms. Endeavor to raise good grain, for it will sell, even in years of plenty ; whereas, it is only in dear and scarce seasons that there is a demand for grain of an inferior quali- »y- Let your stuck of Cattle, Horses, &c. be of the best sort, and more remarkable for real utility, than for beauty or fash ion. • _ Be not above your profession, and al ways consider it the first that any man can follow. Admit no guest into your house who canDot live upon the productions of bis owiAountry. No farmer ought to undertake to cul tivate more land than he can stock and Col. M’Kenney, of tho Indian Office, returned from his North western and Southern lour among the ludians, the evening before last, having travelled, since May last, wo are informed, about seven thousand miles, and been successful in all the trusts reposed in him by the Govern ment, and among these, the important one ot setling the Creek controversy, with which duty he was specially charged, by obtaining a cession of all the lands owned or claimed by the Croeks, within the lim its of Georgia.—Nat. Jntcll. Nov. NORTH-EASTERN BOUNDARY. Extract of a letter to a gentleman in PortlandfiVJaincjdated Washington, Nov. 16, 1827. ' *‘I understand that a convention has been agreed to between our minister and the British government, embracing a statement of facts in regard to our north eastern boundary, but no umpire in the case has yet been def ignated, and it may well be feared whether any European sovereign will consent to act as such. Hence although the subject has not for a moment been npglected by our govern ment, wo have but little encouragement to expect an immediate termination of the difficulties growing out of it.” PROM THE GEORGIA JOURNAL. MilledgeviUe December 6. The Board of Physicians of tho State oi Georgia, commenced their annual ses sion, in this place on Monday last. At 12 o’clock the President, Dr. Milton Antony delivered the anniversary address in the Representative Hall. The officers of the last year have been re-elected, viz :— Dr. Milton Antony, President. Dr. Benj. A. I i 'kite Secretary. Dr. Alexander Jones, Dean. Dr. Richard Banks, of Elbert county has been appointed by the board, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Dr. William N. Richardson. Thirty four young gentleman have ap plied for licence. Of these twenty four have presentedjdiplomas, as evidence of their professional attainments. We subjoin the 17th article of the bye- laws of the Board. ; The Board will require of each candi date [for a licence] a competent know ledge of Chemistry, Materia Medica, An atomy, Physiology, Surgery, Midwifery, and the Theory and Practice.of Medicine; and will hot grant a licence any can didate, materially deficient in any of those branches.” hazzarded. My wife was sitting within manage to advantage. It is better to till twenty acres well, than one huodred is feoievealv manner. To tke Honorable the Legisldturt of South Carolina— THE MEMORIAL of the Citizens of the Parishes of St. Philip and St. Michael. Your Memorialists would respectfully shew, that iu the oginiou of your Memo rialists, the present depressed state of the Commerce of Charleston, may bp, in a ■gteat degree remedied, by improved facil ities of intercourse with the interior. From her situtation, Charleston is well calcula ted for the Commercial Emporium of the large and productive region to the South and West, as far as the mountains, and e- ven beyond them. As a sea port, her vi cinity to the ocean, the facility of getting to sea in a few hours and her salubrity, as compared with any port iu the same lat itude, point her out as the port to which the Commerce of this section of the Un ion , should centre. But without safe, cheap, and certain intercourse with the Interior, their rich staples cannot be re ceived, nor their supplies fui nished. The establishment of the town of Hamburgh, in this State was intended to divert to this City, the Commerce which was before ar rested by Savannah—-but experience has already furnished another lesson ; that the variety of seasons, and the vast expense of Steamboats render the intercourse with that point of the country' so precarious and expensive, that it must be abandoned, and all the money expended by South Carolina on the Savannah River, will re sult in benefits which can only be reaped, by the commercial Capital of Georgia.— But, if a ready communication between Charleston, and Hamburgh, and Augusta, we. e established—either by means of a navigable Canal, not liable to be effected- by droughts or freshes—or by a Rail Road, id is direct aceurse as the face, of the country wiil admit, your Memorialists feel assured that the commercial Capital of South-Catolioa, would speedily assume that station to which her peculiar location entitles her; and her prosperity would extend its benefits to every quarter of the State. Without dwelling upon its effect on the Bank of the State, and the increase of taxes, by the appreciation of property and increase of population, every states man must at once admit, that a prosperous commercial capital, is the very centre and heart from which wealth would circu late to every portion of the State. As the whole State is thus deeply interested in the success of this enterprize your Memo rialists beg leave to solicit, that the Legis lature would cause a full and accurate sur vey to be made of the country between Augusta and Charleston, and thereby as certain the practicability and expediency of opening a com muni cation by a Canal or Rail Road, for the transportation of Pro duce and Merchandize, and the probable expense of completing the same. Your memorialists feel satisfied, that if the State thus procure the necessary surveys, aud the result should be, that this object can be accomplished at any expense propor tioned to the advantages anticipated, funds can be at once furnished from individuals to execute the work, in this city alone ; and that our fellow citizens elsewhere would be eager to unite in the enterprize. They therefore respectfully solicit, that your Hon. Body would provide fora scientific survey by some competent person, to as certain the various routes, and indicate the one most expedient for a Canal or Rail Road from Charleston to Augusta, and i he probable, expense, and that you would appoint Commissioners fur this spe cial purpose, who not being diverted by any other, will he able to devote them selves more effectually to this interesting object. Your Memorialists rely on the liberal and enlighted character of the Le gislature, that they will nut onm any op portunity of stimulating the citizens ol this State, to keep pace with the rest of the Union in honorable enterprize ; and they trust that a more appropriate opportunity has seldom offered to your Honorable Bo dy. Resolved, That the Chairman of this Meeting forward the memorial of the Cit izens of the Parishes of St. Philip and St. Michael to the Legislature. The Meeting was then adjourned. JOHN GADSDEN, Chairman. Edwin P. Starr, Secretary. To the polite attention of Capt. Wes ton, of the brig Scion, from Hax ana, ar rived yesterday, we are indebted for a file of Havana papers to the 28th ult. Capt. W. informs us, it was reported there, that Com. Porter, with his squad ron, had arrived a' Vera Cruz. The Spanish frigate, which convoyed the ship having on board $ 1,000,000 for the King of Spain, had returned having parted company with her consont off St. Augustine.—Charleston Courier. The two imported Bulls, of the short horned Durham breed, were yeterday put up at auction, and knocked oft’at the fol lowing prices ’.-Burleigh, $400, and Ray mond, $315. We understand they will remain in this neighborhood for a few months.—ib. * log • earner, the morning star (hone full in his face. His feelings, be said, must be imagined, for they could not be described. Zions Herald. AVGUSTA. MONDAY, DEC. 10, 1827. The Legislature has done very little since our last. • The Bill to remove the Seat of Government has been rejected, 105 to 15 ; and the sum of $20,000 re solved to be added to the appropriation act, for the purpose of enlarging the pre sent State House, 92 to 22. The reports of the Civil Engineer are continued to No. 9, but they are too long and too full of dry details to be gen erally interesting. The Governor, who, as we stated in our last, had dissented from the resolution iu favor of the Darien Bank, assigns his reasons at large, and we aro sorry to say, his arguments against the probability of this Bank’s ever being able to redeem its bills, appear to be strong and even conclu sive. As the subject was an important one to the state, His Excellency assigns his reasons at such length as to preclude their publication. They are, shortly, that the “Bank does not merit indulgence further —that the indulgence already shewn has been injurious to the the public—that it cannot now be extended on the terms of fered without further injury—that it will not tend to secure the ultimate redemp tion if yhe bills of the Bank in the Trea sury—that it should not be granted with a view to the recommencement of the busi- iMssof the Bank—as this measure would be injurous to the State as a creditor, to the stockholders and to the people, it be ing obvious that the bills of the Bank, if thrown into circulation to any amount would not be sustained at par—and finally that no experiment should be permitted which will render more insecure the large amount now due to the Treasury by the nstitution.” A meeting was held in Charleston, on the 6th, for the purpose of petitioning the Legislature to cause a survey of the coun try between the Ashley and Savannah rivers, with a view to a Canal that will unite them, and a survey of the country between Charleston and Augusta, with a view to a Rail Road.., These iog conduct respecting rhe challenge. T| provocation, though lOgkt, was still a n 1 vocation, which I could not overlook p is out of the question for me to exnl * retract, or apologise. I will not hear'o-’ ab ject'a D( j > The following affecting account was re lated to me a few years since, while tra velling in the western country, of two men, who went into the celebrated Mam moth Cave, which is situated in Green county, Kentucky, and ie about 10 miles in length, with the intention of exploring it. These men, after having provided themseves with a lantern food and re freshments for ono or two days journey, entered the cave, and commenced their subterranean tour. As they walked on from one appartment to another, viewing, in astonishment, the wonders of this stu pendous cavern, they often came to large and almost fathomless pits, which they passed with much difficulty, by crawling on their hands and knees. They proceed ed in this way, walking and crawling for about a day, and, in the mean time, had passed a number of these pits. They had just passed one of them, when, by some fatal accident, their light was extinguish ed. One of them, in the agony of des pair, appeared to lose his reason—became bewildered—whirled round, exclaiming, Lord have mercy on us, and fell; and in falling, plunged headlong into the pit they had just passed. His companros listened and heard him distinctly strike on the bot tom and groan. He called to him, but re ceived no answer—he called again^but all was silent as the tomb. I thought, said he, had I but fallen with him it must have been a happy circumstance, fer to attempt to find the mouth of the cave, and pass the many dangerous places they had met with in entering, must,he conceiv'd, be impossi ble. He thougut, of dying only by starving, lie concluded, however, to make an at tempt to get out; he could but die, he thought by sharing the fate of his com panion and this would sooner put an end to his suffering. He set out, crawling on his hands and kuees, and proceeded safely iu th is way about a day, when he again yielded to his feelings, and burst into tears. This alone Ue said relieved him of his ag ony. He set out.again, but without little hope of ever arriving at the mouth of the cave, and continued winding his way in midnight darkness about a day longer. As they entered the cave they observed that it branched off in various directions and he concluded that lie had tal$en a wrong one, and was a#far or farther from the en trance than when he set out. The pos sibility again occurred to him of finding the way out; and once more he summon ed his remaining strength, and commenced groping bis way through the dreary, cavern —and on the mortiihg'of 'the * third day, when nature was nearly exhausted, and all hope had fled, he thought he perceived the dawn of light ; and on suddenly turn* -g * ucac are impor tant movements to ds and particularly In Savannah. Hamburg has probably pas sed into the management of a wealthy Charleston Company, who will endeavor to restore to Charleston, the trade she formerly received from this quarter, and which now goes principally to Savannah. Hamburg is emphatically the child of Charleston, and she will no doubt in fu ture act the part of a kind mother. In Hamburg, the rich districts of South-Caro- lina, find the nearest place of deposit for their Cotton, and the easiest and cheap- eaaneans of conveyance to market. Who cWFdoubt the object of the simultaneous movements, the purchase of Hamburg bv a Charleston Company, and the com mencement of these projects for a Cana! and Rail Road. It will operate to our benefit, but it will ruin Savannah. Mr. Cruger the Engineer, employed to survey the route of the Canal from the O- geechee to the Alatamaha, has arrived at Savannah in the Emperor from N. York, and has probably by this time commenced the performance of his duties. Henry W. Conway, the delegate in Congress from the territory of Arkansas, has fallen in a duel with a gentleman of the same territory, the result of a quarrel concerning the recent election of delegate. Soon, our public men, after passing unhurt the slanders and defamation of their en emies, will by prescription have to fight their defeated competitors for office. It is now almost considered as much a matter of course as the succession of the Secre tary of state to the Presidential chair. We wish our friends of the Opposition would manifest as much zeal against the one cus tom as they do to arrest the other. We know half the effort would exterminate the absurd & unchristian practice of duelling. Why have we not an An-ti duelling Soci ety in this place ? Mr. Graham, the associate editor of the New-York Enquirer, was killed on the 28th ult. in a due), by a gentleman from Philadelphia, by the name of Barton.—A card table dispute. The following letter was written incon templation of the fata] rencounter: ll o’clock. Dear Sir: What may be the result of the unhappy rencontre which is to take place in the morning between Mr. Barton and myself, cannot of course, be predicted by me. In the supposition that it will be fatal I bid you farewell, in the only lan guage that is now left to me. I am per fectly indifferent as to myself, but I trust most earnestly that Mr. Barton (towards whom I have not the faintest enmity of any kind) may escape. I admit that 1 am in the wrong—that by giving him a blow, I have forced him into the condition of a challenger; and that by not doing what be has, he would have blasted his character as a gentleman, forever. In common justice, I am bound thus to ab solve him from all suspicion of ucbec#tn« message, any settlement short of some craven submission from him. Mr. Barton is a talking man, who c ,Li> very complacently on his own skill marksman; on his experience as a d | 3 list, and on his accuracy as a person " ton. I pretend to none of these and tb fore must oppose the most inflexible f T stinacy. After he is perfectly satisfied i may, perhaps apologise—that is, j n ’ * I am fatally wounded. It is needless V me to say, I heartily detest and desuiv- this absurd mode of settling disputes a- ' salving the wounds of honor. But* v h" can a poor devil do except bow to the ^ premacy of custom. ***••*#, God bless you, W. G. GRAHAM His associate, the Editor of the N v Enquirer, thus speaks of his talents and character: “ Mr. Graham, for neariy t Wo y has aided us in our Editorial labours -1‘ Whatever occasional differences he ni have had with his associates, he veveHh Jd any with us: he was one of the first youne men of the age, in point of educatiorr, ee ° neral information, wit, taleDt, great and varied ; be had high chivalrous notions 0 f honor, and has thrown away his life, a vic tim to a custom which he himself despised and satirised even within a few days. We shall take further notice of the melancho ly event.” The Legislature of Alabama cmnroenc. ed its session on the 19th ult. Jf r Nicholas Davis, of Limestone, was elect ed President of the Senate, unanimously and Francis S. Lyon, Clerk. Mr. Samu el W. Oliver was elected Speaker of the House of Representative?, and Thomas B. Tunstall, Clerk. The Legislature of Viiginia met on the 3d. Mr. Linn Banks was elected Speak er of the House of Delegates, and Georgs Wythe Munford, Clerk. In the Senate, Mr. Holt was re-elected Speaker, and Mr. Hansford, CIsrk. The House of Delegates was unusually full, 192 mem bers having taken the oaths before the organization of tho House. We have not had time to read Gov. Giles’ which is long as usual. That must be either a very hot or a ve- ry filthy newspaper, which must be o- pened by the tongs, and its contents pointed out by the poker. The writers in some of the papers ought to get in a certain way both shovel tongs and poker. It is thought that the convention which is to meet in Virginia on the 8th January, will nominate Mr. Clinton for the Presi dency. Mr. Johnson who will be an in fluential member of that body is in favor of the New-Vork statesman. Whpn lie was appointed a member of that conven tion he publicly declared that” his prefei. ence of Mr. Adatns was not founded «a an opinion of the fitness of Mr. Adams or on his confidence in his cabinet ; but onn solemn conviction that- Gen. Jackson is altogether unfit And. eminently dangerous.” Mr. Hamblin is engaged six nights Charleston prior to his visit to Augusta. Mr. Gallatin and family are on their way to the United States. Our minister has not succeeded in his negociation with Great Britain, the principal object of which was the commercial intercourse be» tween the United States and the British W. Indies. The Empress of Russia has given birth to a Prince, who has received the nam’e of Constantine. According to the late Census jhere are more than 30,000 alien inhabitants in the city of N. York. During the third quar ter of this year ending 30th Sept. 7560 passengers arrived from foreign ports.— Great vigilance must be necessary to main tain the purity of elections in such a city. The daily arrivals of members of Con gress at the Seat of Government have been constantly announced by the Wash- ingtonpapers. There will be a full House the first day. All this punctuality is bot tomed on the election cf Speaker. It seems to be a matter of mure consequence than the good of the country, to deter mine whether the Speaker shall be an Adams or a Jackson man. But for this mighty matter, the laggard members would have been poking along, and would scascely have arrived at the scene of the:: duties three weeks after the commence ment of the Session. We bare received the following letter from t3s Postmaster-General, relative to the use of Bose) in the Post Office. It speaks for itself. Gen’l Post Office Department, \ | ^TH NOV. 1827. I Editors of the Georgia Courier, Sirs—In a late number of your paper I observe a communication signed "A Merchant,” relative to the use of boxes in the post office, and intimating an im- prepriety in the aonual charge for theif use. The Department never provides boxes in a post office for the use of individuals. The arrangement is betwixt the post master and the persons to whose use they are appropriated. The practice is com mon in all our large trading towns. No obligation exists on the part of a post mas ter to provide them, nor on the part of an individual to take them. The use K