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GEORGIA - LEGISLATURE. IN SENATE. Monday, Nov. 2 After going through the election for of ficers, the Senate adjourned to 10 o’clock to-morrow morning. Tuesday, Nov. 3. Notices for committees to report bills. Mr. McAllister, to amend the 29th sec tion of an act, entitled an act, for ordering and governing slaves in this Province, and for establishing a jurisdiction for the trial ofofTences committed by such slaves and other persons therein mentioned, and to prevent the inveigling and carrying a way slaves from their masters, owners, or employers, passed 10th May, 17/0. Mr. Chastain: To reduce the fees on grants in the laud and gold lotteries. Mr. Steelman: To regulate Sheriff’s ■ales in this State. Mr. Gordon: 'l’o prevent the circula tion of Bank bills under the denomination of ten dollars. Mr Bivins: To authorise the recovery of all sums under fifty dollars in the justi ces courts of this State. Mr. Hardin: 'l’o sell all the Bank etock owned by the State. Wednesday, Nov. 4 The President announced the following Committe, viz: On Privileges and Elections. Messrs. Saffold, Reese, Gordon, Steelman, and Sta pleton On Petitions: Messrs. Swain, Newman, Leggett, Cowart and Obarr. On Enrollment: Messrs. Cone, Hemp hill, Kellum, Brown and Taylor. On Engrossed Journals: Messrs. La mar, Gibson, Floyd and Wood of Heard. Thvrsday, Nov. 5. Bills reported and read first time. Mr. McAllister: The bill passed at the last session fortheestablishment of a court of errors. Mr. Sellers. To add a part of Newton to Henry county. Mr. Little: To amend the Constitution in relation to the oath of the members of the Legislature. Friday, Nov. 6. Thi* day was occupied in elections, the result of which we have published. From th* Conmtutionalitt. Saturday, Nov. 7. The following standing committees wereannounced: On Finance . Messrs. Wood of Mcln tosh, Reese, Nesbit, Powell, King, of Glynn, Faris, Gordon, Patterson, Mitch ell, Harris, Dunagan, Blackmon and Al ford. On Printing: Messrs. Walker, Liddle, Rutherford, Baber. Gibson, Sellers, Pow ers, Sentell, Saffold, Holoway, Holmes, Hemmingway and Hines OntheCential Bank : Messrs Murray, Wood of Mclntosh, Dawson. Hepburn, Mosely, Hemphill, Gonder, Little, VVald hawer, Clayton, Wallhall, Crowell, and Floyd. On the Penitentiary: Messrs. Freeman, Baker, Avery, Smith, Echols of Coweta, McAfee, Nelms, Hutchings, King of Fayette, White, Cochran, McCall, and Surrency. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Monday, Nov. 2. This day was occupied in the election of officers. Tuesday, Nov. 3. Mr. Gorden of Chatham, introduced in- Btanter a bill to incorporate the Central Rail Road, and Banking Company ofj Georgia, which was read, and 200 copies ordered to be printed. Wednesday, Nov. 4. Mr. Shick gave notice for the appoint-] ment of a Committee to report a Bill to amend the Act to prevent the circulation! of Bills under the denomination of five] dollars. Mr. Flournoy: To abolish the punish-i ment of death in this State, for all crimes except Treason. Mr. Epsy: To grant all the lands in the late gold and land Lotteries. Mr. Holcombe: To reduce the number of the Inferior Court to one, instead of five. Mr Fleming: To alter and amend the Constitution, so as to reduce an 1 equalize the representation in the General Assem bly. Mr. Meriwether: For the encourage ment of Volunteer Companies. Mr. Chandler: For the call of a Con vention to reduce the representation. Mr. Kenan, reported instanter, a Bill to incorporate Oglethorpe University, at Midway, Baldwin county. Thursday, Nov. 5. Several Bills were read a second time ! and referred to a committee of the whole House. Bills reported and read first time. Mr. Kelly: To amend the Charier of! the Bank of Hawkinsville. Mr. Chandler: To provide for the call of a Convention, &c. Mr. Davis of Elbert, gave notice, for the appointment of a Committee to report i a bill, to compel each county to pay their Senators and Representatives. , Mr. Kenan: To incorporate the Bank Georgia, to be located at Milledgeville. Saturday, Nov 7. The following committees were an nounced. On the state of the Republic, Messrs. Bates, Floyd, Early, Clayton, Kennon, Rogers, Robinson of Jasper, Adair, Hub bard, Johnson, Drane, Bolton, and Hill of Jasper. On Finance, Messrs Bruney, Flour noy, Johnson, Stroud, Rambo, Bradford, Wrightof Columbia, Smith of Habersham, Pitman, Blackshear, Sanford, Loyal, and McDonald. On the Judiciary, Messrs. Meriwether, Gordon of Chatham, Hill of Jasper, Mil len, Harris of Putman, Kenan, Shaw, Clayton, Lewis of Jones, Chandler, Bai ley,Blake of Sc riven, Petit, McKinley, Lumpkin. Dougherty, Kelly of Houston and Floyd. On the Military, Messrs. Wood, Vin son, Robinson of Washington, Bivins, Howell, Hines, Ezzard, Van Landing ham, Bates, Mitchell, Murphy, Tarver, Wilder, Porter, Holcombe, Ash, Davis of Elbert, Kase, Coffee, Harris of Newton, Harrison, of Franklin, Henry, and Hil liard. On the Penitentiary, Messrs. Burns, Burton, King, Curry, Harkness, Stanley, Baker, Towns, Jeffries, Hall, Bird, Tur ner, Nightingale, Wilkinson, McCurry, McCoy, Diamond, Allen and Harris of Washington. On Public Education and Free Schools, Messrs. Hudson, Dobbs, Luckie, Ingram, Reynolds, Penticost, Gieen, Colbert, At taway, Clark of Camden, Phillips, Read, Peddy, and Cassells. On Internal Improvements, Messrs. Gordon of Chatham, James, Bonner, Moore of Clark, Lawshe. Welborn, Lew is of Troup, Espy, Stallings, Kelly of Ra bun, Dart, Flewellen, Harris of Warren, Camp of Randolph, Moore of Talliaferro, Smith, of Hancock, Maysand Hamilton, On Banks, Messrs Dunham, Calhoun, Tarver, Wright of Lincoln, Shick, Brown, Waldhauer, Rhodes, Hunter, Hudson, Bracewell, Newsom, Jordan, McAfee, and Schley. On Petitions, Messrs. Earley, Ward, McArthur,. Young, Carson, McCray, Hatton, Hays, Bryson, Drew, and Wil Hams. On Privileges and Elections, Messrs. Strickland, Flournoy. Burney, Craft, Lan drum, of Fayette, Rivers, Yopp, Rogers, Robson, Engram, Burke, and Burnett, On Printing, Messrs. Millen Gordon of Monroe, Strickland, Beck, Hatcher, Lock hart, Dennard, Sharp, Solomon, Bowen, Landrum of Oglethorpe, Camp of Henry, and Tarver. On Enrolement, Messrs. Brown, Black of Monroe, Candlert, Collier, Dismukes, Davis, of Union, Flemming, Whitefield, Mclntyre, Smith of Coweta, Gunby and White. To Examine Journals, Messrs. Gray, Barror, Massingale, Bryrant, Hill of Walton, Clark of Hall, Foard, Duncan, Martin, Harrison of Carroll, and Leon ard. In the House, to-day Mr. Schley, gave notice that he would move for the appoint ment of a committee to prepare and report a bill to increase the capital stock of the Bank of Augusta, and establish offices of discount and deposite of the same; also for the appointment of a committee to pre pare and report a bill to increase the cap ital stock of the M chanics Bank of Au gusta. Mr. Schley offered a petition of the Trustees of the Medical College of Geor gia. After explaining its contents he mo ved for its reference to a special commit tee, which motion was agreed to, and the speaker appointed Messrs. Schley,Rhodes, Gordon of Chatham, Gunby and Millen, the Committee. Mr. Schley also introduced a petition of the Trustees under the will of John Campbell, to vest certain property in John Campbell Alien, and William Campbell, who ares aliens. He moved the subject be referred to a special committee. The motion was agreed to, and Messrs. Schley, Stallings, and Harris of Washington, ap pointed the committee. From the Pittsburg Gazette. Difficulty with France —Some of the Eastern papers, most likely to be well informed on the subject, express an apprehension that we may yet be involv ed in hostilities with France. It would, indeed, be a singular spectacle to see two powerful nations wagering war (likely from its nature to be interminable) on a point of etiquette. At the present moment, it maybe a matter of cu rious historical re reminiscence, that this is not the first oc casion on which the French Government has fired at the language of a President’s Message, and demanded an explanation of what appeared offensive. All will remember that Charles Cotes-! worth Pinckney, John Marshall, and El-1 birdge Gerry, were appointed by the elder I Adams, Commissioners to seek redress for the spoliations on our commerce. In their despatch to the American Secretary of State, dated Paris, 2d March, 1798, (see Wait’s State Papers, vol, iv. page 84,) they speak of an interview with the; French Minister of Foreign Affairs, (Tai-1 leyrand.) in which the latter remarked, | “that the Directory bad been extremely : wounded by the last speech of General Washington made to Congress, and by the firstand last speech of Mr. Adams. That explanations of the speeches were ex pected and required of us.” In a formal communication addressed by the Commissioners to Talleyrand it is said, (p. 126,) “ You complain o p the speech of the President made to Congress in May last. It denounces, you say, the Executive Directory as seeking to propa gate anarchy and division in the United States.—The Constitution imposes on the President the important duty that he shall, from time to tirne, give to the Congress information of the state of the Union, it having been deemed proper, tec.” The Commissioners then proceed to state to Talleyrand the circumstances which led to that Message. They refer to a very bitter and abusive speech, which had been utter ed by the President of the Directory, and thus proceed : “When this speech thus ad dressed directly to the Government and the people of the U. S. in the face of Europe, and of the world, came to be considered in connexion with other measures, &c., it could not fail to make on the Ame rican mind a deep and serious impress ion,’ &-c. After citing the obnoxious par agraph of the President’s Message, our Commissioners add: “It is hoped that this communication will be viewed in its true light, that it will no longer be consid ered as a denunciation of the Executive Directory, but as the statement of an all important fact by one Department of the American Government to another, the making of which was enjoined by duties of the highest obligation.” A correspondent of the London Morn ing Herald, under date of Paris, Sept. 8, says : “ I have long ceased to refer to the dispute between this Government and that of the United States of America, respec ting the indemnity of 25 millions. I now pledge myself, however, that it has anew become an object of solicitude, if not alarm, at the Tuilleries. Gen. Jackson will not, it seems, give anything which the most liberal interpretation could characterize as an explanation or apology.” From the New York Times. MICHIGAN. We call the attention of our readers to the following article on the subject of this new state, for such she claims to be. If our correspondent chits cor rectly the ordinance of ’B7, (and we have every confidence in his correct ness;) if seems to us that the right of Michigan to form a state government and to be admitted into the union is clear and indisputable. She will be admitted at all events; foreven if legislation on the part of Congress isnecessary, it certainly will be in favor ofadding a new and powerful state to the confederacy, a state the popu lation of which is not surpassed by that of any other state in the union,for virtue, in telligence, and rnturprize. The article is from the pen of a gentleman who has taken an active part in the preparatory steps for organizinga state constitution for Micigan, and it may be received as com ing from one intimately acquainted with the subject. Messrs. Editors. — During a brief so journ in your city, I have been frequent ly interrogated as to the course which the people of Michigan will pursue, in relation to the formation of a State Government, and also as to the policy and justness of themeasures already adopted.Findingthat little is known of our rights or our views, I have deemed it pertinent to explain both, and ask of your sense ofjustice, as well as personal frendship, a place in your col umns. If Ido not err, there has been no Slate admitted into the Union since Missouri claimed and received that proud privil lege. Consequently it is now more than ten years since the public-mind has been agitated,or since our politicians have giv en their attention, to the questions which will now arise. In fact, though new States have been frequently added to the assem bled sovereignties, still it is a matter in which precedents are little to be relied on. There are now three Territories rea dy and willingto become States, but with rights and privileges entirely dissimilar. Without discussing the situation of either Arkansas or Florida, I will make a few passing remarks in relation to Michigan. The people of the latter Territory, do not seek a boon or ask a privilege; they de mand a right, which has been solemly and duly guaranteed to them; the right, under centain contingencies, of becoming aState, and casting aside the trappings and appendages ofcolonial vassallage. Do not look upon the citizens of Michigan as pre sumptuous or grasping; they have, as I have said rights, tffld coming as they’ do from New York, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, they inherit a spirit which will induce them to seek those rights in no abject or wavering manner. In the ordinace of'B7,which is thexMag na Charta of Michigan, there is a clause which cedes to the Union certain territo ry, on stipulated conditions. Virginia made the cession, and the United States promised a compliance with the terms. Either in that ordinance, or one passed in relation thereto, at a subsequent period, it is written, that when the territory, lying between the lakes Michigan and Huron and bounded north and south, as io the present territory, shall contain 60,000 in habitants, the people thereof shall form a State Government and be admitted into the Union. A census was taken a year since and 87,000 was found to be the popu lation, now increased to fifteen hundred thousand. The Legislative Council passed a law districting the territory, and calling a State Convention. The Convention was duly held,a Constitution adopted, an ordi nance passed regulating the transmutation from a Territorial to a state Government, and providing for such other contingen cies as might occur. An election has bet n accordingly held, a Governor, Legis lature and Representation to Congressdu ly elected, and the Constitution ratified. On to first Monday of November next, the Legislature will meet; the Governor be inagurated, Senators to the United States Senate elected, and then an ad journment till the first Monday or Tues day in January. It is expected that the Secretary and acting Governor will go to Green Bay, the place at which the Terri torial Legislative Council, which has been elected only by those counties in the Territory lying west of Lake Michigan, are to convene They expect their Sena tors and Rtpres- ntutives to proceed to i claim their seats in be half of the St./.e of Michigin. I wish here to be clearly understood, Michigan claims to become a State, by a solemn compact long since entered into, the com pliance with the conditions on the part of Congress oftheUnited Statesis imperative and cannot be made a question either party or local disposition. She does not ask a law, for that already exists, and she will contend for the right of it, if after mature consideration she shall find herself oppos ed by Congress. If rejected, the Legis lature oftheState must call a new Conven tion,giving till a new expression and form of the fundamental law can be made, under the ordinance adopted with the Constitu tion. Thus, then, you will see the ground up on which Michigan now stands, and the course she will pursue, and by an exami nation of the case it will be found that she seeks noting but what is right, and which by the acts of the Congress of the Union, she is entitled, From the Richmond Enquirer. WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON. Dear Sir —ln compliance with your request, I cheerfully supply you with a conversation I once had with Mr. Jefferson, when he was Secretary of State to Presi dent Washington. On his return home from the seat of Government, immediate ly after the attempt of Genet to involve this country in the war with the French against Great Britian, I went to see him, being then on very neighborly, friendly, and intimate terms with him. My first and anxious enquiry was about the Ge* net nff ir. He informed me that he hoped and believed it was all settled and set right —“But for the wisdom and firmness of that great and good man at the head of our affairs,” he added, “it would have been far otherwise; a very serious affair to this country.” Having heard it suggested by the friends of Washington, that Mr. Jefferson had a very high opinion of his military, but not his political capacities, I immediately seized upon these expressionsjand do you, I eagerly asked, think my beloved Gener al a great statesman? He replied unhes itatingly and most emphatically, I do con sider him the greatest that ever lived. He has three traits that make him decidedly so. Ist; he is the most deliberately cautious ofallmenin making up an opinion,which those who dislike and do not know him, construe, very erroneously into dulness. Secondly; When he thus deliberately forms an opinion, it is the best that the nature of the case will admit of; and thirdly; He is the last man upon the earth to be tamper ed with and shaken from what he thinks right and his duty to adhere to and prose cute, by party intriguesand personal mo tives,” This was so just, so strong and so inimitable a picture of my beloved Chief, and that by one whom that Chief had sin gled out from the whole world (though then abroad) as his right hand aid in ad ministering the Government of his ditin guished choice, that 1 immediately stor ed it up in my memory, never to be forgot ten while I was this side of the grave. But the same distinguished eulogist has given us, in one of the volumes of his writings, a full length picture of the char acter oflhe great and good Washingtion, based upon the same just and solid pedes tals which will be an imperisiable honor to his own head and heart. Having once had the honor of being a part of that great commander’s military family, and enjoyed his friendship and confidential correspondence to the end of his life, I cannot but feel the truth of eve ry thing that can be said in his favor and that tends to keep his memory alive and before the world forever. Thus knowing and feeling I have no objection to your using this short and hasty communication in any way you may think it will be oflhe least service. Very respectfully, yours. JOHN NICHOLAS. A. Curiosity.—We have received from a friend the petrified tooth of a shark, which was recently discovered by an ac cidental excavation of the bank of York River. The animal to which it belonged, judging from a comparison of the teeth of the largest sharks of the present day with the one before us, must have been thirty or forty feet in length, and otherwise large in proportion. The tooth is perfect; the edges are serrated, and its enamel is as brilliant and beautiful as if it had just been taken from its native head The root ofthe tooth is also entire. The length of the tooth from the root to the point is 6 inches, and the widest part 4 inches. The mass of the tooth resembles in weight and appearance so much iron. We find the i weight to be 12 1-2 ounces. We have conversed with several intel - : ligent sea captains, who have looked ma ny a fierce monster in the face, and are | well skilled in the wonders of the ocean, ! and learn from them that the tooth is as- j suredly’ that of a shark, and of a size ut terly unknown in modern times. The subject of this paragraph is, then, another proof, added to the ten thousand already existing, of the inferiority of the size of modern animals when compared with their antideluvian race, or, to speak more strictly, ofthe fact, that certain large ani mals that formerly existed are not to be found in modern times.— Norfolk Beacon. "The water that flows from a spring does not congeal in winter ; and those sen timents of friendship which flow from the heart, cannot be frozen by’ adversity.” Curious Punishnent.—lt is stated that a number of Mississippi Lynchera recently caught a fellow, named William Earl, and after striping him stark-naked and laying him upon the ground, took a large tom-cat by the tail and draged the animal to and fro upon his back, until it was so well scratched that he will hardly need to have it scratched again for a twelve-mouth. AUGUSTA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11. Georgia Legislature. — We have received no thing direct from Milledgeville since our last. In another column will be found so much of the proceedings as are of general interest, up to Saturday, the7ih inst. Nctc York Evangelist is the title of a paper received at this office by yesterday’s mail. It is published in the citv of New Yoik, by S. R" Benedict if- Co. and edited by the Rev. Joshua Leavitt. !• rom its title we supposed it a mes senger of peace and good will, and, as we laid it aside till “ a more convenient season,” we were not aware of its character till we saw’ a notice of the receipt of a number of the same in the Constitutionalist of this morning. It is indeed a wolf in sheep’s clothing— it has stolen the livery of the court of heaven to serve the I devil in—it comes to us in the name of peace while its contents are calculated to produce the greatest imaginable evil. It contains what is called the proceedings of the Utica Convention, which could scarcely be read in the time occu pied by the sitting of the convention, before the entrance of the committee of citizens, much less acted upon. In this account of the doings of the convention may be found the cause of this paper’s finding its way to the South. We would not be surprised to learn that it has been gener ally received by editors in the Southern cities. The account of the proceedings here published is doubtless intended to be caught up, and han dled, by the disaffected politicins oflhe South. We have seen numerous articles in the North ern papers alleging that despatches from the French government had been forwarded from New York to Washington City by express on the arrival, of the packet ship France. The Globe of the 4th inst. says, no despatches have been received at Washington by express, or otherwise. We learn from the Cassville Pioneer that the proposals made to the Cherokees by the United States Government have met with a final rejec tion. The two parlies met lately in council at Red Clay, agreeably to the proposal previously made by Ross, to confer on the possibility of so modifying the proposed treaty as to meet the conflicting views of the parties. Although the treaty and all its provisions was rejected, the parties have so far united as to appoint a dele gation, composed of Ross and Ridge men, to meet and confer with the U. S. Commissioners, at some place yet to be designated. The Pion eer adds. —“ We leave to others to say, whether this course of Ross is or is not finesse. But it us that he wishes to gain time, and therebj see, what regulations our present Leg islature will adopt tow'ard the lands now occu pied by the Cherokees, within the limits of this State. If the present Legislature should not provide for granting, indiscriminately, all the lands in the Cherokee country, it is more than probable that he will still continue to reject the most lib eral offers of the General Government. But if the States of Tennessee and Georgia will adopt proper measures, there can be no doubt, but that they will be forced to accept arrangements for their speedy removal west oflhe Mississippi river. Let Georgia grant all her lands, and Tennessee prevent their removal thither, and the result is obvious. South Carolina Rail Road. ---During the month of October, 3,012 Passengers were con veyed upon the Rail Road, and 6,847 bales of Cotton received in Charleston. The receipts of the Company for the same time amounted to $36,462 26, independent of the Mail.— Con. United Slates Bank.— The Philadelphia In quirer, says—“ We learn that the Bank of the United States has sold its banking establish ment in Cincinnati, and the whole of its branch in St. Louis, to the Commercial Bank of Cin cinnati. It has also sold the current debt due the Branch in Cincinnati, to the Lafayette Bank, and its suspended debt to the Cincinnati Trust Company.” Prisoners Escaped.— The Cassville (Ga.) Pioneer, says:—“All the prisoners confined in our Jail made their escape on Monday night last, with the exception of one, who was too se curely ironed to be released from his fetters, with all the assistance that could be given by his fellow prisoners. Three of the number were sentenced to the Penitentiary at our last Superior Court, for theft. It is much to be re gretted that the Keeper of the Penitentiary had not sent for them before they made their escape from prison.” Twenty-seven volunteers embarked from Mobile on the 2d inst. for Texas, under charge of Mr. Reid, to aid the colonists in their strug gle against Santa Anna. France and the United Stales. — The Alexan dria Gazette of Monday the 2d inst. says:—“lt is currently reported that the Secretary of the Navy, has within a few days, made no conceal ment of his opinion that the recent difficulties with France will eventuate in a serious collis ion between the United States and that coun try.” We understand, (says the Boston Statesman,) that W. Parker, Esq., has been appointed Chief Engineer of the East Florida Rail Road, and will proceed immediately with his assistants to examine and survey tin srveral routes. The President ofthe Company, S. S. Lewis, Esq. accompanied by several gentlemen of the direc tory will also visit the territory in a short time, and the work it is expected, will be in active progess in t,e course ofthe winter. When this line of inteicourse is completed, the time be tween New "iork and New Orleans will not ex ceed six and a halfdays. The Georgia Journal lias the following, ap , pended to the result of the Governor’s election in Pennsylvania: “We wonder if any of them (the Van Boren presses) recollect that New York’s favorite son, and their favorite candidate, Martin Nan Bu ren, was also a minority Governor ? Do they remember that he tell upwards of 3,000 votes short of having a majority in his own State ?” He who has forgotten this fact must have a bad memory indeed, or have eschewed all Whig journals of that day. Does the Journal remem ber what those with whom it is now in fellow ship said on the subject ? But it appears by Whig syferin that twelve thousand is a trifle, compared with three. The largest Pumpkin we have ever heard of, is now exhibiting in Philadelphia. It was rais ed in Bucks county, measures six feet ten in ches in circumference,and weighs one hundred’ and fifty-seven pounds! The Synod of the Presbyterian Church, which met at York, (Penn.) on the 4 28th ult. was composed of 132 Ministers and 113 Elders, to tal, 245. This is said to be the largest Synod ever convened in this country. The Cincinnati Whig, states that returns have been received from all the Senatorial dis-4 tricts in Ohio, by which it is ascertained there will be 19 Van Buren men and 17 Whigs in that body. There seems to be no end to schemes for the investment of Capital. There appears be one on a large scale on foot at present among the Northern cities —that of establishing a Commer- I cial city near the seat of government. The 'Globe contains the following: We understand that there is some scheme of establishing a commercial city on the shores of the Potomac, opposite Washington, where the’ deep water is said to render it accessible for large vessels. We have heard it said thatNeW York capital would be invested in this underta king andthatii is designed to meet the trade of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal at this point and carry it out by tow boats, employed regular ; ly in taking vessels to sea in place of pilot i boats.” United States Bank —Since the late election in Pennsylvania, the stock of the United States Bank has risen two or three per cent., probably under and im pression that the mother bank will be re chartered by the Legislature of that State, with authority to establish branches in such other States as may give consent, through their respective Legislatures. Precisely what is the chance of such a recharter, we do not pretend to know. If, however, it is effected, it must be done in part by Van Buren votes, for although in the lower House there is a Whig majority of 44, yet in the Senate there is a Van Bu ren majority ofs. We have no doubt but an attempt will be made to secure a re charter from the State Legislature at its approaching session; and should the bank: offer a liberal bonus, as it doubtless will, and can well afford to, we should not be surprised if the application should be suc cessful. Pennsylvania wants money to carry on and complete her magnificient system of internal improvements, and her legislators will probably think this an ea sy mode of obtaining it.—A’. K Journal of Commerce. Garrison s “Liberator” made its ap i pearance as usual, but nobody seems to known where Garrison is himself. One Burleigh it seems acts as locum lenens to that wretch during his heglra. This Bur leigffi, we take to be the genius who mar ried Prudence Crandall, the young lady whose black and white propensities were legislated out of Connecticut a year or two since. He has commenced hisedito rial career quite characteristically; hav -1 ing, as we learn from the Boston Trans • cript, uttered two falsehoods—known to be such; in the first paragraph of his sheet.’ It is very lamentable that our soil should. ,be polluted by these miserables and our communities be torn to pieces and victimis* ied by their rnad impudence. And the ve ry moment too, that they drive a peacea ble people from their forbearance—when they provoke society into violence— I moment do we hear the hue and cry of’ I "persecution” raised in their favor! We have no patience with the maudlin sensi bility exercised towards them. They drive' ] our communities into improprieties by i their own unendurable impudence, and then call for commisseration from the ve ry people whose peace and quieness theyi Lave disturbed. ’I hey set towns and vil lages in an uproar and expect the ;.n s to pity the prime movers, when the popular exasperation drives thetu into their skulking places. But such is hu-’ man nature and always will be we sup- pose. The villian who expirates a mur der upon the gallows, always becomes a saint about the time he is hanged.— N. Y. Cour, and Enq. A Good Joke—A correspondent at Charlestown informs us that an amusing occurrence took place in that twon on Sat urday. A mechanic had been employed by a sportsman to make him some decoy ducks] which, when finished, were placed on the top of a three story building in the rear of Main street, for the purpose of dry ing the paint. Very early in the morning a citizen discovered them through the fog, and supposing them to be genuine, resolv ed to have some of them for his dinner.— He accordingly borrowed a gun, which he loaded very heavily, and having station a friend near by, on the ground, with a musket ready cocked to bring down such as escaped on the wing, he went up thro* the scuttle of an adjoining house and fired in the midst of them. —He was thunder struck to find noneofthem moved.and had about made up his mind that he had killed them all so dead that they could not even flap their wings, when a loud and hearty leugh burst from the bystanders, wffio had collected to witness and enjoy the joke informed him he had made a'slight mis take.—Boston Post. A y oung girl at Cincinnati, recently stabbed a negro fellow to the heart, who attempted to take liberties with her per son - z- T h ?. S is no countr y for Desdamonas and Othellos. A schoolmaster in the state of Ohio has recently been indicted for bigaway. hav ing, it is said, twelve wives living. We agree perfectly with a morning paper, that there is no doubt the schoolmaster has been abroad. r I 1I L F vTP KE . N AND ATLANTIC SOUV IR, a Christmas and New Years Pres ent, for 1836. Just received and for sale bv Oct T ' H ' PL A N .t-