Newspaper Page Text
2
Til E C O U R I E iC
_ By J. U, K • hor te r .
TERMS.
■hi# Paper ir pnbliyncd every MONDAY’, WEPNES
and FU.JDAY afternoon, ut ♦*> per annum, pa-able
dvatiee.
OUNTKY 7’APEK P drlished every FRIDXY afier
' ats3pt;i'unniun, in aihance, or $4 it tile expiration
i • Subscription.' rrveiwd for lers time than six months
■JKJ'iSE »lEX I’S, not o.wew'iuf a npinrt: will be
•d the firrt time nt cte.per sqttwe and 37’ tor
antii u.-iuce.
vertisemeuH of one square, published ‘.Seckt.j, a 75
; for every insertion.
rrsonsadvc thing by the year will 1 e elint perl 30<l«l
--includiug sub’cripiioa and will be entitled to one
•sin eunitpaper.
.ten persons iiav stan .inf nd/e.rtisementr of several
w,s[,cvinl contr.c--.swty I'. inn.le.
- deduction will he n»;ie inlYiturr from th< charges.
’ jvei thi uietit' tri-i have. ll>e nunib-•• oi ins i-i-ioii
'ad on tlio n; or.ero inc they will lie ■ii'-vi'iecl till for
tnc! charge i •ccordi’ gh ,
IKRIFFP, Ct.Ell’kS,'and other public officers, will
sj.’i per eeut deducted in tiieir favor.
ABULITK »N COMMITTEE.
The trnirnittee io whom was referred
mu-h ofthe Go eruui’s nie.-s ge as re
•’S to the fnovcimnls of the aboiitio; lists
he north, haveen leu vured lo hi in eto the
Dsideration oft'ie subject.tl.at d spussioi -
> deliberation its importance demands;
d beg leave io make the following lie
it:
They would remark that ‘he for nation
ur glorious Union, was ,t great exper
■nt made by patriotism in t ie Ciit.se
civil liberty. Thus jar successful, its
tits have been most beneficial spread
. with unexampled profusion over our
ensive country, blessings wh:chdi-tin
‘sh her above all oth rs. The oflspri g
>mmon suffering and common triun pbs
ng the Slab's, th * prest-rvali. n of inis
aion is d pendant up n a community of
•mpatliy, and good keling among their
spective people. Any attempt by a por
un of the people of one State, to inter*
ice even indirectly with the domestic in
itutions of another, has the inevitable
’ ndency to destroy that feeli g Such
'ttetnpt is an insult to the Slate ngrieve ,
'nd the motives which induced it, are nt
Dtire variance with the fraternal spirit
which constitutes the people - fthes.-state*
brethren ofone great family. But when
inch attempt involves the Sfifety ofthe peo
ple of a s'-it ,—the robbery of their proper
ty, —the desecration oftheir constitutional i
rights,— the violation of their domestic !
peace: Infatuation herself must admit I
that such attempt, persevered in will inev- |
itably convert pr -eUsttnt good feeling in
-17 deadly’ hostility, the certain consequen- I
ces of which,are a sundered union,and all '
the horrors of civil commotion. That such I
attempt is being at this time made by cer
tain fanatics, by the discributii n of pam
phlets, prirts, circulars, annu -.ls, alman
acs, and every species of publication, your
committee, with mingled feelings of re
gret and indignition, believe cannot ad- i
mit of doubt; yet it is a matter of heartfelt j
congratulation to the friends ofthe Union, I
that the general and spontaneous express- I
ion of feeling which lies burst from the j
patriotism and intelligence of the north, ‘
affords the chi eriag hope that the people
are prepared, to “frown indignantly upon
the first dawning ofevery iittem.pt to allie
nate any portion of cur country from the
rest; or to enfeeble the sacred ties which .
now link together the various parts ” But I
notwithstanding the mariifest.-tion of this I
spirit, the movements of the domestic Inna- I
tic and foreign emissary, and the invidous I
means to which they resort, are fraught I
with so much pain to ourselves, our fam- ;
ilies, and our iii.d iub ed rights, that the
”ste r n necessity,’ m.f) a j ist r ‘card for
the peace and harm-nv of ourcountry.de
maud that tlie people of this state should,
in temperate, respectful, and determined
language, declare their unalterable deter
mination to protect their domestic institu
tions and constitutional rights, from all
interference direct or indirect, from any
and (Very quarter, Upon this point
there can be no discussion—no compro
mise—no doubt. They found their right
upon the guarantee afforded by the Con
stitution ofthe United Stales: and if the
j revisions of that character ar? to be sac
rificed to the spirit of fanatic ism or the
impulses ofu false philanthropy, calami
ty and ruin will soon o-era helm this now
happy confederacy’, fmpr -ssed with the
importance ofthe duty’ which devolves
upon them a’ the present crisis, your,com
mittee, in aedi’ion to the bill in amend
ment of the laws regulating slaves and
free pri sons of colour within this state,
would respectfully submit the following
resolutions with the single remark, that,
it a rigour, heretofore unknown to our do
mestic legislature, b found in the features
of the. bill th* y have introduced,it has be -n
froced upon them by’ the mo’ements of
men who, assuming to be the friends, are
indeed the most cruel enemies of those
whom they have taken under their espe
cial care.
Ist. Resolved, That in this country,
freedom of the press and freedom of speech
are sacred and invaluable rights—that in
proportion to their sacrednvss and value,
is the obligation to preserve them from
the abuse of thos** who would prostitute
them to the vile purpose of “enfeebling
the sacred ties uhich li,.k the various
parts” of this happy union.
2d. Resolved. That the people of Geo
gia stand prepared to protect the domestic
institutions of her sister states, from the
unauthorized int®tfenpnce of individtutls or
coiTibinWtio.,9. within her limits.
od. Resolved, That thft perpetuity’ of
this glorious union, uhich has shed such
blessings on us isti people, is only’ to be
insured by a strict adherence to the letter
of the constitution which has guaranteed
to us certain rights, with which we will
suffer no power on earth to interfere —
that it is deeply incumbent on th? people
ofthe north to crush the traitorioii* de
signs of the <holitionists —and that we
look with confidence to such movements
on their part, as will effectually put an
end to impertinent, fanatical, and disloyal
interference with matters settled by the
consitution.
Reeolvetk That wc hail the semi--
meats expressed Uyjhe resoluiicittfsofsomc
ofthe resent meetings al the north upon
the subject of abolition, as the evidence of
the existence of a right spirit among the
great mass of our northern brethren,and a
determination on their part to discharge
ti e duties imposed upon them by the con
i siitmion of their country, and the exigen
' ci sos the t’mes.
| sth Resolved, That the imperative do
ily devolves upon Congress, at their ei.su
i ing session,sb to modify the laws regula
i ting the Post Office Department, that an
I establishment created for the convenient e,
lof the people, shall not be converted into
I the means of servile war, and civil strife
; among the states of this confederacy.
6th. Resolved, That the District of ( 0-
lumbia, and the several Territories ofthe
United States are the picperty of the peo
ple of the States—that the right of exclu
sive l< gislation in the former, and the
power to make all useful rules and regu
lations for the government of the latter,
I which are vested in the Congress of the
I United States, are derived from the Con- '
stitution, which recognises and guaran- i
tics the rights resulting from domest c .
slivery—and th it any interference by;
that body with these rights, will be tinau- i
I :hoi ized by, and contrary to the spirit of ;
that s.icrid chatter of American liber j
ty. . :
7th ZZcsofrerZ, That copies of the fore-j
' going preamble and resolutions, be trans- ;
; mined f v his Excellency’ to the Presid nt '
j ofthe United States, the Governors ofthe I
j respective States, and the Senators and j
I Representatives of this State in Congress. I
Th .* provision ofthe bill alluded to in i
the above report are, in substance, as ft I- I
lows;
1. Clerks to register no person of co
four who shall net establish, by proof,
that he is bona fide a free persoruof colour
five years before the passing of this act.
The clerk violating this provision of the
act, to be guilty of a high misb-meanor,
laid on conviction to be fined B >OO, &c. I
2 No free person of colour, except sne h
as have been admitted to registry, accord
ing to this act, is to remain in this State
after next, to pay a fine of Sioo. and
in default, the Inferior Courtis authoriz
ed to bind him as a laborer, &.c,
3. No free person of colour, after leav
ing the State, is allowed to return to it, un
less leaving it and going to an adjoining
State; if he violates this provision of the
act, he loses the right of registry and is
subject to the punishment described in the
2d section of this act.
4th. A person ol colour charged with
a violation ofthisact.and claimed asa slave
by any individual, this individual is to de
pose on oath, that such fellow of colour is
bis property’; in default of such oath, the
free person of colour is subject to the pun
ishment described in the 2d section.
, 5. No male slave is. allowed to come
or be brought to this State, who has been
in any non-slave holding slate, or Fore gn
countries; such male slave to be forfeited
and sold as a slave; and any person aiding
in introducing such slave, to be indicted,
&c.but this provision is not to be construct
ed as to prevent owners from reclaiming
fugitive slaves, &c.
6. The Inferior Courts to have jurisdic
tion ofthe offences mentioned in this act.
7. The provisions of this act not to ex
tend to any’ American Iridian, free Moor,
or Lascar, c,,
8. The Inferior Courts have power to
refuse the right of registry to any tree
person of colour, of bad character, &c.
A BOLIT ION DUESTION.
Extract from Gov. McDuffie’s Message.
Since your last adjournment, the public j
mind, throughout the slave holding states, •
has been intensely, indignantly and justly j
excited, by the wanton, officious and in- ;
cendiary proceedings of certain societies ;
and persons, in someoflhe non-slavehold- i
in ’ states who have been actively employ- '
ed in attempting to circulate, among us :
pamphlets, papersand pictorial represen
tations o! the most offensive and inflamma
tory character, and eminently* calculated
to seduce our slaves from their fidelity
and excite them to insurrection and mas
sacre. Those wicked monsters and delu
ded fanatics, overlooking the numerous
objects in their own vicinity who have a
moral, if not a legal claim upon their
charitable regard, run abroad, in the ex
pansion of their hypocritical benevolence,
muffled up in the saintly mantle of Chris
tian meekness, to fulfil the fumd-like er
rand of mingling the blood of the master
and the slave, to u hose fate they are equal
ly* indifferent, with the smouldering ruins
of our peaceful dwellings. No principle
of human action so utterly baffles all hu
man calculation, as that species of ftn?.ti
cal enthusiasm, which is made up of envy’
and ambition, assuming the disguise of
religious zeal, and acting upon the known
prejudices, religious or political, of an ig
noiant multitude. Under the influence of
this species of voluntary madness nothing
is sacred that stands in the way of its pur
poses. Like all other religious impos
tures, it has power to consecrate every act,
however atrocious, and < very peison,
however covered over with “multiplying
i villanies” that may’ promote its diabolical
! ends or worship at its infernal altars. By
iis unholy creed, murder itself becomes a
ff.bor of love and charity, and the felon
renegado who flies from the justice of his
country, finds not only a refuge, but be
comes a sainted minister, in the sanctuary’
of its temple. No error can be more mis
chievous than to underrate the danger of
such a principle, and no policy can be
more fatal than to neglect it, from a con
tempt for the supposed insignificanceofits
agents. The experience of both France
I and Great Britian, fearfully instruct us,
from what small and contemptible begin
nings, this nmi des noirs philanthropy
may rise to a gigantic power, too mighty
to be resisted by all the influence and en
i ergy of the government; in the one case,
a wealthy and flourishing 1s-
'and in the blood of its white inhabitants,
in the other, literally driving the minister,
by means of an instructed Parliament, to
perpetrate that act of suicidal legislation
and colonial oppression, the emancipation
of slaves in the British West Indies. It
may be net unaptly compared to the ele
ment of file, of which a neglected spark,
amongst combustible materials, which a
timely stampt ofthe foot might have extin
guished forever, speedily swells into a
i sweeping torrentoftiery desolation, which
Ino human power can arrest or controul
I In the opinion of intelligent West India
I planters, it is because the local authorities,
! from a sense of false security, neglectidto
hang up the first ofthese political mission
aries that made their appearance on the
British Islands, that they ;.re doomed to
barrenness and desertion, and to be the
wr< trhed abodes of indolent andjjrofligate
blacks, exhibiting in their squalid poverty,
gross immorality and slavish subjection to
an iron despotism of Briti.-h bayonets, the
fatal mockery of all the promised bles
sings of emancipation.
Under these circumstances and in this
critical conjuncture of our affairs, thesol
umn and responsible duty’ devolves on the
legislature, i f “taking care that the re
public receive no detriment.”
The crime which these foreign incendi
aries have committed against the peace of
the state, is one of the very highest grade
known to human laws. It not only strikes
at the very existence of society, but seeks
to accomplish, the catastrophe by the most
horrible means, celebrating the obsequies
ofthe state in as-iturnial carnival of blood
and murder, and while brutally’ violating
all the chiriti -sos life and desecrating the
very altars of religion, impiously calling
upon Heaven to sanctify these abomina
tions.
It is my deliberate opiiii >n that the laws
of every community’ should punish this
species of interference by death without
benefit of clergy, regarding the authors
of it as enemies of the human race. Noth
ing could be more appropriate than for
South Carolina to set this example in the
present crisis, and I trust the Legislature
will notadjourn till it discharges this high
lutyof patriotism.
It cannot be disguised, however, that
any laws which may be enacted by the au
thority of this State, however, adequate
to punish and repress oflinces committed
within its limits, will be wholly insuffi
cient to meet the exigencies ofthe present
conjuncture. If we go no further than
this, we had as well do nothing.
'l’hese outrages against the peace and
safety of the State are perpetrated in other
communities, which hold and exercise
sovereign and exclusive jurisdiction over
all personsand things within their limits.
It is within these limits, protected from re
sponsibility’ to our laws by the sovereign
ty ofthe Slates in which they reside, that
the authors of all this mischief securely
concoct their schemes, plant their batteries
and hurl their fiery missiles among us,
aimed at that mighty magazine of com
bustible matter, the explosion of which
would lay’ the state in ruins.
It will, therefore, become our imperious
duty, recurring to those great principles
of international law which still exist in
all their primitive force amongst thesove
reign states of t his confederacy, to demand
of our sovereign associates the condign
punishment of those enemies of our peace,
who avail themselves of the sanctuaries
oftheir respective jurisdictions, to carry
on schemes of incendiary hostility against
t he institutions, the safety and the existence
of the State. In performing this high du
ty, to which we are constrained by the
great law of self preservation, let us ap
pronch our co-stat.es with all the fraternal
mildness which becomes us as members
of the same family of confederate repub
lics, and at the same time with that firm
nes and decision, which becomes a sove
reign State, while maintaining her dearest
interests and most sacred rights.
For :he institution of domestic slavery we
hold ourselves responsible only to God,
and it is utterly incompatible with the
dignity and the safety of the State to per
mit any foreign authority to quesfon our
right to maintain it. It may nevertheless
be appropriate, as a voluntary’ token of our
respect for the opinions of our confederate
brethren, to present some views to their
consideration on this subject, calculated
to disabuse their minds of false opinions
and pernicious prejudices.
No human institution, in my opinion,
is mere manifestly consistent with the
will of God, than domestic slavery, and no
one of his ordinanc s is written in more
legible characters than that which con-
I signs the African race to this condition,
■as more conductive to their own happi
' ness, than any other of which they are
susceptible. Whether we consult the sa
' cred Scriptures, or the lights of nature and
I reason, we shall find these truths as a
i bundantly apparent, as if written with a
' sunbeam in the heavens. Under both the
Jewish and Christian dispensations of our
religion, domestic slavery existed with the
unequivocal sanction of its prophets, its
apostles, and finally its great Author.
The patriarehsj themselves, those chosen
instruments of God, were slave holders.
In fact the divine sanction of this institu
tion is so plainly written that “he who
runs may* read” it, and those over right
eous pretenders and pharisees, who affect
to be scandalized by its existence among
1 us, would do well to inquire how* much
I more nearly they walk in the ways of
I Godliness, than did Abraham, Isaac and
! Jacob. That the African negro isdest n
; ed by Providence to occupy this condition
; of servile dependence, is not less manifest.
I It is marked on the face, stamped on the
skin, and evinced by the intellectual infe
riority, and natural improvidence of his
■ race. They have all the qualities that fit
them for slaves, and not one of those that
, would fit them to be freemen. They are
utterly unqualified, not only’ for rational
I freedom, but for self government of any’
I kind. They are in ail respects, physical,
moral and political, inferior to millions of
the human race, who have tor consecutive
ages dragged out a wretched existence un
der a grinding political despotism, and
who are doomed to this hopeless condition
by the very qualities which unfit them for
a better. It is utter astonishing that any
enlightened American, after contempla
ting all the manifold forms in which even
the white race of mankind are doomed to
slavery and oppression, should suppose it
possible to reclaim the Africans from their
destiny. The capacity to enjoy freedom
is an attribute not tube communicated by
human power. It is an endowment of
God, and one of the rarest which it has
pleased his inscrutable wisdom to bestow
upon the nations of the earth. It is con
ferred as the reward of merit, and only up
on those who are qualified to enjoy it.
Until the “Ethiopian can change his skin,”
it wiil be vain to attempt, by’ any human
power, 'o make freemen of those whom
God has doomed to be slaves, by all their
atrifiutes.
Let not, therefore, the misguided and
designing intermeddlers who seek to de
stroy our peace, imagine that they are
serving the cause of God by practically ar
raigning the decree of his Providence. In
det d it would scarcely’ excite surprize, if
with the in.pious audacity of those who
projected the tower of Babel, they should
attempt to scale the battlements of Heaven,
and remonstrate with the God of wisdom
tor having put the mark of Cain and the
curse of Ham upon the African race in
stead ofthe European.
[Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.]
In conversing the other day with an
intelligent friend upon the next presiden
tial election, the claims of Mr. Van Buren
and Mr While were discussed and ex
amined. J observed to him that he had
been himself, until lately, the warm ad
mirer of Mr. Van Buren, and that I. was
surprised of the change that had taken
place in his opinion of that gentleman, be
cause nothirg had occurred in the politi
cal conduct of Mr. Van Buren, which
could have led to a different course. This
intelligent friend answered, that things
had been brought to light with which he
was not acquainted, and which he ac
knowledged, had happened before he had
changed his opinion. 1 could not help
replying, that he was not sincere in his
declaration, for the political life of Mr.
Van Buren had been most thoroughly
scrutinized when he was nominated by
the Baltimore Convention as a candidate
for the Vice Presidency. This nomina
tion received the sanction of himself and
of all those citizens of Georgia who are
now most violently’ opposed to his eleva
tion to the presidency. My friend could
not well reply to my observation; he there
fore ei;did by saying, that Mr. Van Bu
ren wtis supporter of the Proclamation
and of the “ Bloody Bill,” and a decided
opponent ofthe doctrines of Nullification
Thus speak almost all the enemies of the
Vice President. And what can this en
mity avail them in the next presidential
electit n? Nothing. Mr. Van Buren, if
elected, will follow the course pursued by
General Jackson; this is what th< people
of Georgia desire; and this is what will
induce them to give the vote of the State
in his favor. Mr. Van Buren has done
nothing since 1832, to forfeit his claims to
the presidency, but to have been, and to
be st.ll a firm and immovable friend of
the present federal administration. If by
this friendship to General Jackson and to
his administration, he has forfeited all
claims to tl e support of Georgia, then let
the Nullification party give the votes of
our State to a man who will pursue an op
posite course, and, by pursuing an oppo
site course, who wiil render the country
more prosperous than it is now. But
where is the man, that can perform such
wond rful things, to be found ? Will the
man chosen by the Nullification party be
able to perform those wonderful things?
Can the people of Georgia confide the fu
ture destinies of their country to the man
chosen by’ a party which brought that
country to the very brink of civil war?
No. A large majority ofthe people of
Georgia will confide in the man who will
strictly follow the policy of the present ad
ministration ; and as Mr. Van Buren will
follow the same policy, he will certainly
receive the votes of Georgia for the pres
'de.ncy, noiwitbstanding the opposition of
the Nullification party’.
NOTICJE,
TITHE Copartnership of MUSGROVE &
JI. BUSTIN, will be dissolved on the 30th
inst. EDWARD BUSTIN,
Surviving Partner of Musgrove and Bustin.
Augusta, Nov. 23, 1835.
The undersigned will continue the Ware
House and Commission Business on his own
account, at the old stand of Musgrove & Bustin,
from and after the first day of December next.
He solicits the patronage of the customers of
the old firm, and the public generally.
All business confided to his charge, willmeet
with prompt attention.
EDWARD BUSTIN.
Nov’ 25 Btw 140
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD
"g" OST, on Sunday last, between Warren-
and Augusta, a small Wallet, contain
ing between 6 and 700 dollars, in Bank Notes,
principally of the Darien Bank, and sundry* pa
pers. The Wallet has the owner’s name mark
ed on it in four places. The above reward
will be given to any person who shall return it
to the Augusta Courier Office, or at Mr. Har
ris’s Hotel in Warrenton,|<»rj at the Circus in
Augusta. J. W. BANCKER.
Nov. 25 . ts 140
DRY GOODS—-NEYV-YORK.
THE SUBSCRIBERS have entered into
Partnership for the transaction of the
WItOLSALE DRY 7 GOODS BUSINESS,
under the firm of SEAMAN, LEE & WARD.
(JOHN B. SEAMAN,
J GEORGE W. LEE,
WARD.
New York, January Ist, 1835.
SEAMAN, LEE & WARD, have opened in
the New Store,No.l2o Pearl-street,an extensive
assortment of English,French,German&Domes
tic DRY GOODS, expressly suited to Southern
and IVestern, Sales, which they are prepared t o
offer to their friends and the public, on the most
liberal terms-
Feb 23 ts
AUGUSTA,
N t >i_A Y , NQV K3l BILK 30 .
RICHMUND ACADEMY.
Governor M’Dufiie thus speaks of one of the
means of rescusitating the South Carolina Col
lege: “ Our experience, however, but too con
clusively proves that a munificent endowment
by the Legislature, and a faithful performance
oftheir respective trusts, by the trustees and
faculty, are not of themselves sufficient to in
sure the success of the institution. The com
munity at large must give it their countenance,
and support, and in some sort, their superin
tendence. Fiom all parts of the State, there
should be a general attendance of our promi
nent and educated citizens at the annual com
mencements, who, with all the public function
aries shock! be present to witness the perform
ances of the youthful competitors for literary
fame. Nothing could have a more salutary in
fluence, in stimulating the exertions of the
young men during the whole course of their
College studies, than the prospect of this annu
al contest for distinction, before the assembled
intelligence of the State.”
Is not the immense concourse of citizens end
strangers that assemble annually at our com
mencements, at Athens, the great cause of the
nourishing conditi >n of otir University! It is
immaterial what is the cause, which calls them
together. A great number of the most respect
able, intelligent, and influential assemble there,
from causes connected with the interests of that
Seminaiy. The Governor and so large a body’
of trustees as attend regularly, give a powerful
impulse to literary* competition. Its influence
reaches both the student and teacher. With
out such an interest manifested by the public
in the prosperity of any of our schools, they’
must languish and die. That this apathy is
one cause of the state of the Richmond Acade
my. whose drooping fortunes we noticed in our
last, is unquestionable. The Trustees can do
but little, without the cheering aid and counte
nance of parents and guardians, and an intelli
gent public to encourage the teachers, animate
the pupils, and give eclat to all the public exhi
bitions. But what have those exhibitions mani
fested! Generally a beggarly account of emp
ty* seats. At the public examinations, two
or three individuals, and they trustees, have
formed the applauding audience, that was
to hasten the young devotee of science on
his literary journey—animate his daily* studies
and sustain him in his midnight vigils. What
undertaking could flourish under such dis
heartening neglect from those, whose interest it
is to cherish iis prosperity and insure its in
creasing usefulness! We apparently let fall
some censure on the Board of Trustees, not so
much because we Knew they had been remiss—
but because we were determined, this matter
should undergo some degree of excitement —in
hopes that every body, who might be to blame,
would be roused to a degree of zeal in this mat
ter, proportioned to their interest in the institu
tion, and its usefulness to the public in general.
Censure can scarcely fall amiss, where ail are
to blame. We feel our portion of it, as much
as any one, for whenever vve have attended the
examinations at all, we have on no occasion
found more than three individuals present, dis
connected with the academi at duties. We
learn, that th- Trustees have succeeded in se
cui iiig the services of those, whom they have
every reason to believe are experienced and
shccessful teachers, and, if they have the char
acteristic zeal of their profession, and are pro
perly* seconded by* the public, Richmond Acade
my will lift its drooping head, and then again
will cheerful smiles lead its inmates up the hill
of science.
We understand, the reduction of the tu
ition, on the .basis we suggested, will form a
subject of consideration for the Board of Trus
tees.
CIRCUS.
The Circus has been opened during the last
week, though we suppose all our readers know
it, that are within attending distance. It would
seem every body has been tlrnre, and therefore
every body knows how well it has been fitted
up. When we say open., we beg leave to be un
derstood. We mean the doors— the inside has
been shut up by people. On Friday and Satur
day nights, squeezing was the order ofthe even
ing. None of your double entendres novi*, Mr.
Wiseacre —your imagination is always run
nine riot. YVe are plain folks and talk plain
—and intend to be understood as we say. YVe
mean nothing more nor less than to say, that
there was a multitude of people to partake of
Mr. Bancker's entertainment. A contempora
ry will allow us to ad apt his description of a
similar crowding to the one, of which we are
speaking. Our Circus is stuffed nearly as bad.
It is “crowded nightly like three in a bed. Peo
ple cram in so full that they* are obliged to
I stand spoon fashion; and a fat nfan who went
j in there early the other night to secure a seat,
■ came out at the conclusion ofthe performances
as thin asa case knife. Poor fellow! they
| squeezed him so in the crowd, that his eyes
j fairly obtruded from his head; you might have
hung your hat on one and your surtout on the
other, as you would on two pegs in a post. Why,
I you could’nt get a man out from the centre with
; a patent Y’ankee stump-puller, was he as lean
j as Calvin Edson.”
Take care of spontaneous combustion to
night.
Our brother, ofthe Sentinel says, he receives
but eight papers north of the Potomac, and
seems to think that the majority* of the papers
in this state, are in the same predicament, and
infers that from that southern papers rare,
ly read at the north. For our part, all we
have to complain of is, that we deceive too many
—and we very seldom opi'. j Oiie without seeing
an extract from some southern paper. We get
from New York 14; Philadelphia 8; Boston 4;
Baltimore 3; besides one from almost every lit
tle town in the northern states. Should our
brother ofthe Sentinel, be in want of northern
papers, he can be supplied on application at
this office.— Constitutionalist of Saturday.
The above is true of the Courier and we ma ke
the same tender to the Sentinel. Its Editor took
a list of the papers in our Reading Room fur the
purpose of forming his Exchange, he must re
member the proportion of Northern papers it
contains. Our desk groans under them. We
have three times as many as we ought to take,
the circumstances of the times make us bear it.
The Macon Volunteers for Texas passed
through Columbus on the 22d, under command
of Col. YVm. YVard.
Some of our cotemporaries (yes, they live in
the same age with us) have been making
lations as to the relative numbers in the two
parties, who not long since rejected the bill for
the lormatiori of a Court of Errors. Will these
calculators, in fuftire; please to remember that
in all the errors ofthe Legislature, we are enti
tled tothe majority, both by thfiir opinion of our
merits dnd by the possession of superior lum
bers 1 We hake nedrly donble the right to go
wrong that they have. But what will they say
to the news of to-day !
RtcHAnD Dobbs Spmght has been chosen
Governor of North Carolina for the ensuing
year. Under the amended Constitution, which
has been adopted, an dl&ction ftyr Governor
will take place in Augupt next;
For Spaight, 103
Meares, 80
Scattering, 5 ~
Nathan A. Stedman was elected Comptrol-
ler.
A Si'jn.— Mr. M’Clvng, the Speaker of the
Home of Representatives of Alabama, is a ne--
phew of Judge White.
We are disposed to believe, with the Editor of
the Montgomery Journal, that the Texas folks’
are fighting more for land than liberty. But as"
it is revolution, he says, he wishes them sucees’
tor all revolutionists are apt to be right. Whaf
did he intend to admit by this reasoning 1 How
much ot it was intended to include the party, to
which he belongs! That party has always
hetetofore denied revolutionary views.
The Jackson Banner, says that Judge Lynch
the opposition candidate, is elected Governor of
Mississippi, over Gov. Runnels, the Van Buren
candidate. Ihe majority’ is slated at about one
!thousand.
Gov. Gayle, of Alabama, says in his Mes
sage, that he has made a formal demand on the
Governor of New York for the delivery of
W^illiams, (Editor of the Emancipator,) to the
authorities of Alabama.
[editorial correspondence.]
MILLEDGEVILLE, NOV. 28.
We are just getting under way with business
and each day* developes some new scheme with
fare combinations, showing much sectional
feeling as weh as determined opposition ofi the
part of those who fail to get their project ad
vanced by a refusal to combine with tl era.—
Banks and Rail Roads are all the go, and I
tremble for the success of any project in favor
ot the Georgia Rail Road which depends upon
the munificence or liberalty ofthe Legislature.
There is an effort to compromise with the friends
ot the Central Rail Road and endeavor to re
concile what has heretofore seemed a conflict
ing interest, that instead of viewing each other
as antagonists they are and should be identified!
in interest, as the interest of Augusta will be
that of Savannah with resp;ct to the effects of
the Road. I think the matter will if prudently
managed be reconciled and the Central Rail
Road bill pass the Senate as it did the Homie,
and the credit ofthe state be pledged toa certain
amount for the Georgia Rail Road paper, the
pledge of the stock as a security to the State, at
a deduction of 25 per cent from the amount in
vested.
I Yesterday the expediency of chartering new
Banks, was tested in the House, by the fate of
the bill to charter the Georgia Bank, which was
to ba located at Milledgeville, and which was
rejected by a large majority. I think from the
disposition manifested towards that bill that all
new charters will share a similar fate, and I
fear there will be as little prospect for the pass
age ofthe New Bank in the upper part of your
city, as well as the extension of the stock ofthe
Bank of Augusta and Mechanics Bank, and I
think the friends of the several measures had
belter withdraw their applications for the pre
sent, and present them at different periods, at
some future Legislature, when the signs may
be more auspicious than at present; for coming
events, with respect to them, have already cast
a shadow before them.
We are counting noses every day*, with the
hope that we can pass a bill for the Court for
Correction of Errors. To-day we want but two;
some friends as well as enemies are absent, and
we are ready upon the first hint of an applica
tion, to grant leave of absence to the latter, but,
tike a bad penny, they will remain with us.
I think fortune will yet turn the scale in favor
of the bill.
Day before yesterday the bill which provided
for the call of a Convention introduced bv Mr7
Chandler was, after a little discussion, laid on
the table for the remainder of the session, and
in the mean time those who voted for .Vo Rati
fication, can suggest some equitable plan, w*hich
will accord with the interest and prosperity of
the whole State, and when they shall do so and
the Legislature is convinced of it, they will no
doubt pass an act for the call of another Con
i vention.
The Steam Doctors received to day in the
Senate some indication of a quietus. It arose
upon the application of a Mr. Thomas of Ogle
thorpe (I thinkj who wished to be permitted to
practice without a diploma or licence from the
Medical Board, which was refused by a consid
erable majority. In the House likewise, I think
they will meet with as little, indulgence judg
ingfrom something of atest yesterday, when
the bill was called up to permitth em to es
tablish a Botanical Board for the purpose
• 1 granting licences to practice according
to their system—the author of the bill mov
ed to have it engrossed and there was a counter
move to have it committed, which the House
sustained. So I think it will be rejected in tola
or clogged with amendments so that it will d&
them no good unless they shall graduate in
some regular Medical College.
Since writing the above,we called up the Su
preme Court bills,which passed, Yeas99— Nays
44, which caused many smiling countenances
as well as signs of‘great approbation in the
Lobby and Gallery. As a native Georgian I
feel proud in knowing that our judicial charac
ter will now takeastand with our sister states.
Mr. Bates’bill for Biennial Sessions was ta
ken up to-day* and lost, and I hope the people
will suggest somei?equitable plan of Reduction,
as I think the situation of our State with regard
to our Indian relations will make it necessary
for annual sessions to continue a while longer.
Yet so anxious was I for Reduction that I was
in favor of the bill, believing if it passed, the
people would by the next session decide whether
they* would have a Reduction or Biennial ses
sions and so instract their members.