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•SAVANNAH JEffiElIBIlCAN. Frederick-s. vell, pert PuirtER. , nuiiun,^gtien^tocJTBTjta*, ram. . , . P4TASLX-t*-'*t>y*>tC*. «rT*ix nuts-on M« ’ ion mhm—no hwrif o*ui«, o»i£D GEORGIA. lEG^EJitURE. irnmi rA Tax munurf'ufctucix. MOOSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. ■'.Monday, December7. . - The" wlu4e of theday wasspefit in. dis cussing in the-liouse, the'provisions of the land bHI. . . . Tuesday, December. 8, - 'The hnule wefit into the discussion on 'fife land bill—pawed it with many•araeml- •wrtrht*, and .cut it to the senate for Con- 'Ctli'reoce. ,"' Mr Hudson, froln 'the:joint 'committee on the internal concerns of the penitentia ry, made a report, recommending the ap- < propria linn 6125,000 dollars for tlie com- 'pletiotr of-said edifice, and the wall en- ■closinB'the same. Mir T,<I. Moore reported a hill t» repeal the act passed on the j6tb of December, 18l! r ahij:the-afet-pnaaed oo the ltith of Denemher,' (816, on the subject of the pe- ‘jial-code id this state, and to amend the act passed the 20th of December, 1817, entitled “An act-to-amend tlie penal code i of -this Stale,"which was received and 'read trie iSrsftiine. ''thebill compensating the justices of 1 ifthe inferior court of tljis state was passed, llhe bill relative *> unchsrtered banks, •imposing-a heavy tax on them, thereby • 1 ’ 'suppressing the same, was negatived. Several other bills of minor importance 'were disposed ol. i ’tN SENATE. 'Saturday, November 23. ' >1 Thfc'hai1'to increase the salaries of pub ^lic officers passed 23 to 4. The bill to-regulate the admission of •evidence "in certaui cases .passed, the kfi 'DtliC. Mr Lockheart gave notice that he would 'tndvefora committee to report a bill, to re- .guMte’ttiiJ fees «n grantsdor lands in the territory'lately acquired from the Indians. Monday, November 30. •'Thiabilt to revise and consolidate the militia laws and repeal the cavalry laws now'iu forci 1 ; and also the bill to'lorm six -new judicial circuits, -{including those al •ready laid off) passed the senate. Tuesday, December 1. Tlfe bill to organize the county of Wat ■ton, Gwyunett, Hall and Habersham, and «dd a part of Jackson county to each of tpe two first, and a part of Franklin to each -of iiie last two, waarend the third time and / •masted. . The tenat* concurred in the resolution - * Wednesday, December 3. The bill for the better management of ' tif, the estates of ideots, lunatics and per- wont insane, was Teatl-the third, time and passed. Mt Thomas Mitchell, from the jirfnt com mittee appointed tb take into consider*; tiofi The propriety of catling a convention 'to revise and amend the-constitution, made the following-report: ••• The joint committee appointed to con sider the propriety of changing the fif teenth section of the fourth article ot the constitu'tiou'tffthe state, beg leave to ce- (Tongres? of the United States. IN SENATE. Tuesday, December I. Mr. Forsyth’ laid on tlie table the fallow ing resolution: « ■ Resolved, That the committee on. finance be instructed to enquire into the.expedi ency of prohibiting the exportation ol.tfy: gold amlsilier andcopper coinrSf the„U. ("States. <-■ The resolution offered yesterday by fir. Sanford, was’taken up and agreed to. The resolution for the admis«ion of the itafe of Illinois into the union, was read the third time, passed, and returned to the other house. * port, That the constitution of tins state has now existed -with few alterations far 20 years past. . That it was fol-med by a con- ventiohofcitizens, who had been selected for their wisdom and patriotism: And that the instrument produced by them,and pro mulgated as thfe supreme lawy er rule of government was (with very few excep tions) as perfect and complete as could have been expected, under the then exist- isting situation of our country* But your committee are conVihce'd that however unexceptionable the constitution might then have been viewed by an impar tial community ,<hey are decidedly of opin ion, that the changes of time and circum stance now make Tit necessary and proper that important alterations should be made. They therefore take this occasion to . ex-, press their conviction to their feliow-citi- Sens that it is necessary and proper to call • convention, to exaraiue and revise the constitution of the state. And Would re spectfully offer the following bill, viz:—A bill to be entitled an act to alter the t$th section of the 4th article of the constitution •of this states which said bill was read the Thursday, December 3. Mr Henly, from the committee to - whom was referred the report of the commit tee to examine the internal concerns of the -penitentiary, reported a bill to car/ into effect the pm*S code ot this state, which - was read the first time. .. The senate agreed to tothe* fihd disa greed to others, ot the amendments made bv the house of representative* to the bill to establish a bank at Darien. 1 Friday, December 4. Mr Porter introduced a resolution au thorising (he governor to appoint two suit able persons to compile and digest into one Volume, yi the laws of a general nature, and the caption smly.of such private or lo cal laws as may now be • in force in this aute, ft,eluding the law* of the present session ol the legislator^. Saturday, December 5. The bill to alter tlie 15 th section of the 4th article of the constitution of this -state Was negatived. . Mr Wimberly introduced a resolution authorising the governor to tmploy, with an adequate salary, an able, Skilful, ex perienced civil engmf©er,to be known as the sopftrinteatfaK of public wqtfc» r ln Meorgia.. ~ v " HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES. Mr. Abbot, from Georgia, and Mr. Ms- ton from ilbode Island, attended yester day. ' The following gentlemen were announ ced to-day as the committee of enquiry int > the coinduct of thebank of the United States: Messrs. Spencer,Lowndes,M'Laoe Bryan and Tyler .. '. Mr. Poindexter, from the committee'on the public lands, reported a bill tp prohibit ‘the Choctaw tribe of Indians from settling or bunting ofi the lands of tlie- United States west of the Mississippi,' which, was twice read'and committed. ‘ 7 •. Mr. Linn, of New-Jersey, offered: the following resolution. • ■. "V “Unsolved, That the committee appoin ted on so much of the message of the presi dent of tlie.U. S.as relates tothe unlawful introduction of slaves into the U., States, lie- instructed to enquireTnto tlie expedien cy of passing a law prohibiting the migra tion or transportation of slaves or servant- of color from any ^tate to any other part of the United States, in cases where, by the laws of turh state such transportation is prohibited; and that theyhaye leave to report by bill or otherwise.’’ j Mr. Linn said', in introducing Ids reso lution, that it related to a subject of much interest in his part of the country, and, at, the resolution only proposed an enquiry ' iie hoped i! would not be objected tor . Mr. Poindexter, ofMississippi, objected to it. Aiiy man, he saidfhad a right to ro : move his property- from one state to anoth er, anil slaves as Well as any -other proper ty, if not prohibited from doing so by the state laws. With those laws, whatever they were, the U. States, he said, had right to interfere. The idea was a perfectly novel one, that ther^ shodld be a double set of penal statutes tin the same' subject, one set by tlie states and oue by the United States; and that the millitary force of the United States should be employed to car-: ry into effect the ptinal statute of any state. How were the United States ta interfere on this subject? . What judical tribunal would they resort to, to effect the'object contemplated? . Any penal statute they could pass on the subject,- Mr... P. said,' would be entirely nugatory, as it could nol be-carried itiitu effectj'aiid he was therefore Mr. Colston, of Viiginia, in addition t., what had fallen from Mr, Poindexter, in. opposition to the resolution, suggested that: it was perfectly within the power ’of the state sovereignties t.i execute any law they might enact oh thiasubject, more ef fectually than fbey could do by tlie aid of the authority of the U. States. The question on the passage of the re* solve was then taken, and decided in the negative—ayes 60—noes 63. ;' GENERAL STARK—res,ions. The bill for granting a pension of sixty dollars per month to major general John, Stark, was read a .third time.-,. The question on the passage of the bill was decided in the affirmative Without di vision; and it was sent to the senate for concurrence. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. . Sir. Smith, of Md. from the committee of ways and means, to whom Wxs-referred an'enquiry into the expediency of repeal ing tile duty on imported iaJVmde a re port adverse to the expediency of the abolitionof the duty, which wo committed to a committee of thiwhole. , , Mr. Johnson, of Ky^from the committee oq'miVitary affairs, reported.a bill author ising the cvtabrishmentjOfa national ar- ’ npry pn the western waters; which was wiceVead And committed. ■The ‘Speaker laid before the house communication from the secretary of the treasury, trao,mittiug an estimate of the appropriations proposed for the service of the year 1819; which was refered to the committee of ways and means. . Mr. Harrison, of Ohio, offered the fo! lowing resolution: . Resolved, That the committee on the .public lands be instructed to enquire into The expediency of continuing the act pas sed at the last sessio.n, entitled “an act to suspend for a limited time, the sale or forfeiture of land* lor failure in complet ing the payments thereon;” and also tc enquire what further relief it may be pro per to give to the persons who arti indebt ed to'tile United'Stales for the purchase of lauds.' V ' < In suppdrt of the enquiry, Mr. H. brief ly referred to the difficulty which at pre sent existed in Ohio, in making payments for lai.d in the kind of money required by the treasury department, which from the -uspension of specie payments by the banks of Ohio, was now very limited, the notes of all such banks being refu.-ed, and the consequent necessity of extending the indulgence mentioned in his resolution.— 'i'iie motion was agreed tb; Mr.-Bryan, of N. Carolina, asked and obtained permission of the house to be ex cosed from serving on tlie committee up pointed to enquire into the conduct of the oaufc of the United States. Mr.-B. stated that; in asking this indulgence, he was not actuated by a desire to shrink from the important duty assigned him, but that -he was a stockholder of the. institution and, »s(;such, conceived that delicacy lor bad hu- being one ot those appointed to make -the investigation ordered by thr oouse—an investigation, upon the result ol whiclr.tbe future character and prospects of the institution would mainly depend Un.motion of Mr. Tallmadge, it was Resolved, That the committee on naval affairs he directed to enquire into the ex pedieiicyof increasing the amount of tin security to hehereafter required from na- >y.agents, and also of requiring security ton greater amount from those now iu office: ' • On mtition of Mr. Simkins, it was ' Resolved, That the committee on post offices and- posts roads be instructed to in quire into the expediency of increasing the compensation of such post masters a* are on the main post route from Washing- tanstty sby Augusta, iu Georgia,or New- Orfeans, \vhr>-“ •*•—» whose ,compensatiuns do not exceed a cer tain sum- -' " , Mr. S. justified the proposed enquiry by -adverting-to the unremitting and on erous duties required-of certain postmas ters,'‘ on the main southern post route, anil the small and inadequate compensa tion At present afforded by their emolu ments. ... ’l^he house then again resolved itself in to A committee of the whole, Mr. Smith, of Md,*n-the chair, bn the bill for .the relief of fee heirs of Caron de Beaumarchais. Mr. Hopkinsoo occupied the floor u. _ speech, of about an Jiour< in opposition to the claim of the petitioners; and, Mr. Erviu, of South Carolina, followed IN SENATE. Wednesday, December 2. Mr. Goldsborough, from the select'com mittee to whom was referred the resolu tion for erecting a monument over the re mains of general Washington, reported a bill as a substitute for the resolution,'but containing precisely the same provisions. Mr. Sanford, from- the.committee on naval affairs, to whom was referred -the enquiry moved by Mr. Macon, on the 26th ult. reported a resolution directing a sur vey of certain poiuts on the coast of Nortli- Carolina," to ascertain the practicability of erecting light houses, beacons, or buoys thereon; wnich was passed to a' second reading. Mr. Ruggles laid op the table the fol lowing resolution; r; Resolved, That the committee on mili tary affairs be instructed tb enquire into', the expediency 6f making provision by law for clothing the army of the United States in domestic manufactures. . Mr. Dickerson, according to notice,-' having obtained leav.e, introduced » reso lution proposing to amend the constitution of the United States so far as to make the mode of electing electors of president and vice president of the United States, and of representatives to congress, uniform ^by distiictsj throughout the Union; which was read and passed to a second, read ing. Mr. Leake submitted* resolution di recting an enquiry into the expediency ot amending the land laws so as to divide the tractions into quarter sections, where practicable, and tv authorise the sale there of; ana also to direct the re-sale of lands which have reverted for non-payment, up-; -test-the tame shall hart been siild at- pri vate sale within six months after the in version, fora price not less than that first' given. i'.- Jyv-i Hie resolution offered by Mr. Ticbenoi, on the SOth ult. respecting. the.re-org)uii- zatioo of the court* of the United "States, was, by permission, withdrawn. ^ ; The resolution offered yesterday br Sfr.- Forsytb, to enquire intQ .tfi? expedieocy ol prohibiting the exportation of.United States’ coins,, ws* taken up Mid-agttiDtii The aenste adjourned.;-'■ 1. _ at some le'qgth in. support ol' the claim; when:"" The committee rose, on the motion of Mr. Holmes, obtained leave to sit again: and,.« 3ji , CS The house adjourned. INSENATE. / . ■ Thursday, December S. The bill feom the bouse for granting a pension to major general Stark, was read, and passed to a second reading. . The president communicated a report of the secretary of the treasury, made in obedience .to a resolution of the senate of the 16th of April last, in relation-to the offices of the custom*, which it may be pro per to suppress. Mr. Noble submitted for consideration' tne following resolution: -I Resolved, That the committee on the pint offices and post roads be instructed to ehquire-into the expediency of establish ing ajiOBt route, frodi Jacksonborough, in the edtinty of Wayne, to the county seat for Randolph county, state of Indiana. The following message was received from the president of the United States, by Mr. J. J. Monroe bi« secretary: Tv the tenatc of tie United Stale*. I transmit to the senate copies of such of the documents referred to in the mes-, sagti of the 17th ultimo, as have been pre pared since thatperiod. They contain a copy of the reports of Mr. Rodney and Mr. Graham, two of the commissioners to Sooth America, who returned first from the mission, and of the papers connected with those reports. They also present a full view of tiie operations of our troops employed in the Seminole war in Florida. It would have been gratifying ta me to have communicated, with the message, .*11 the document* referred tom it,.but, as two of bur commissioners from South Ameri ca made their reports a few days, only be fore the meeting of congress, and the third on the day of its meeting, it was impossi ble to transmit, at that time, more than one copy ot the-two fcports first made. fhe residue of the--documents will be CMammiicafed, as soon as they are pre- parexl. ; James Moxroe. December 1818.' (TCM panels accompanying the message, so far as they relate to South America, are le which were previously laid before other house;'and so fey a* respects -the Seminole war, of letters betwjgehjihe mar department and geuer'al Gaines, and the war department and general Jackson, and of the proceedings of the court martial for the trial of Arbuthnbt ard Ambristie.] The message and documents were or dered to lie on tee table. The following message was also received from the president of the United States: TS tie senate ef the United States- In complianpe with a resolution of the senate, of the 25th of last month, request ing to bo furnished with such information as may be possessed by the executive, touchiug the execution of so much'of the first article of the late treaty of peace and amity between his Britannic majesty and the United States, as relates to tee restitution of slaves, and which has not heretofore been communited, I lat before the senate a report made by theaecretary of state, on the 1st inst. in relation to that subject. Janes Mokroe. December 3,1818. [ENCLOSED-'] Department of Slate, let December, 1818. The secretary of state, to whom has been referred tee. resolution of the senate, of the 25th ultimo, requesting in formation not heretofore communicated, relating tothe restitution of slaves, confor mably to tee first article of the late treity of peace of the United States and Great Britain, has the honor of reporting to the president of the. United States, that the difference of construction given by the two governments to that part of the first arti cle of the treaty, and the claim of the citi zens of the United States to indemnity for slaves carried away contrary to its stipu lations, form one of the subjects of nego- ciation now pending in England; which ne- gociation having commenced towards the close of the month of August, no report of its progress has yet been received- at this department, from the plenipotentiaries, to whom, on the part of the United States, it has been committed. John Quincy Adams 'IW message .and documents were read and ordered to lie on the table. The hjll “to provide for the more con venient organization of .tlie courts ot the United States, and the appointment ot circuit judges,” was read a second time; and ^ The senate adjourned. house op representatives. Mr. Burwell was announced as haying been appointed on the committee-of inves tigation respecting the back of the United States, vice Mr. Bryan, excused On motion of Mr. Trimble, the commit tee on public lands were instructed to en quire whether any, and, if any, what pro . vision ought to be made by law to author ise the emanation of patents to soldiers on furlough at the close of the war, and t< whom discharges were not issued, in con sequence of'heir out being ordered to join their respect-re regiments. On motion of Mr. Poindexter, the secre tary of the treasuary was directed to lay beluro the house of representatives a state ment of the sales of public lands, in the Alabama territory at public and private sale, specifying the date of such sales, and the period at which the last payment will become due, and, also, the aggregate amount of money paid to the receiver of public monies at Huntsville in said territo ry, and the description of hank paper, if aby, which is receivable there, in payment for the public lands. The house then again, at an early hour, resolved itself into a committee of the whole on- the repoit of the select commit tee favorable to the claim of the heirs of Caron de Beaumarchais. Mr. Spencer spoke at large in support of the report of the committee. Mr. Stores followed, on the opposite side of the question. Mr. Baldwin again addressed the com mittee in support of the claim; And Mr. Pitkin in opposition to it. When the committee rose, reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again ‘ will very xtieh.be cultivated in cotton, and that the product will average liltfe short of a bale per acre, and produce one-fourth a* much as tlie total amount of the annual export of that article from, the United States.—ib. „ •■«•••' PATRIOTSxs. OLD SPAIN- >Ve understand, ta4 Buenos Ayrean privateer.copstitution, arrived below, from off Cadiz* has brought in 8390,000 in spe cie. : - v . , The validity of the commission of com modore Taylor is now Ihe subject' of dis cussion belore the district' court-—Balt. Pat. Std inst. fata Foreign Intelligence. Frem tie Mket-Yerk Gazette, 3d inst. By tlie arrival of the Euphrates, we have our files complete—-from London to the 23d, and'from Ja wpo®I to the 25th 0 f October. American stocks «t Liverpool, Qct 24. Three per cents. 67 to 671; new 6 P*r cents. 101 to 102; bank shares, 28 to 291.} dollars, 5s4Jd. Thu Whitehall Evening Post, ot the 22d of October, states, that transports with the first division of the army-baggage, ar rived the preceding day-tat Dover. On the 20th, 18,000 troops were to embarkjftpa- lais, afid.it was supposed they were Jlmued at Kent on the 22d. The intended reduction of the army, it is stated will be 31,000 men. The Journal de Maine et Loire, speak* ing uf the vintage in that quarter, saya, -C “there has nut been so fine a one for 30 years.” Lord Bllenborough is in a delicate atate of Health. i The documents respecting the Seminole war have been laid before congress by the president, including the proceedings of the court oi martial for the trial of Arbulhnot and Ambristie' They are of considerable length, but of no less interest; and shall find an early place in the columns of the National Intelligencer.— Nat. Intel. 4th inst. ' The bill, now before the senate, for the more convenient organization of the courts of the U. States, provides that, from and after a certain day the cheif justice and as sociate judges of the supreme court of the United States shall cease to be judges in the circuit courts of the United States, and shall be'discharged from the performance of any duties therein; that the supreme court shall thereafter hold its sessions'at the seat of government twice a year, to commence on the first Monday of May and December; that the supreme court shall consist, after the next vacancy, of six jus tices, one cheif and five associate, and after the occurrence of another vacancy, shall consist of five justices, the cheif justice and four others, any three of whom shall' form a quorum to do business. The bill further provides for, dividing the United States into eight circuits, and for the ap pointment of a circuit judge to each., There is some probability that this bill will pass into a law. 'Hie sabject is on£ of much interest, and the proposed modifi- cation nf our judical system has many re commendations.—ib. From Huntsville, in the Alabama terri tory, we learn that the- sales of Lands in the northern part-of that territory, closed on the 14tb ultimo. Within the last year, there have been five laud sales at thst place; at which about 2,200,000 acres of land were offered, whereof it is supposed that much more than one-half has been sold, or afterwards entered at two dollars per acre. It is calculated that, of the quantity sold, one-tenth, or lOO^DOO acres, Prices at Liverpool,, October 2 ilk, from EwarUt Mgers & Co.’* Circular. Rice,Carolina, 50 to 51, no enquiry. The reduction in the prices i of cotton, seems to have attracted the attention of the trade, and 'curisiderable business; iu consequence been done; the total kales of the week amounting to , a^out. 11,800 bags, viz. 450 sea-islafids, from 3 to: Ss. 5U; N. Orleans, 18 to Sid. j; Boweifs, 18d; very inferior up to 18 to 21 d; Surats, 11J to Hand 15; Bengal 81 to i2d; ashes, New-Yurk pots 50; peauts 57; .turpentine 14s 9>l. to 16s; tar 15.to 15s. 6d; tobacco Virginia Irom 61 to 12d; stemmed 101 to 13d; flaxseed, 70. By the Helen, the editors of the N. Y. Gazette, have received a Gibraltar price current of the 14th of October, which quotes Philadelphia flour at 15, Baltimore at 14, New-Orleans at 12, and New-York at 14 dollars. > A letter from Gibraltar of the 17th of October, mentions trie arrival there on the 14th and 15th,-of brig Hope, Lawrence, from Malaga, lor-New-Orleans; South Ca rolina, from N, Orleans for Marseilles^ aiiip general Jackson, Taylor, of Bristol, for Havana; schr. Mafy & -Elizabeth, for Alexandria; and schr. Alexander, nf Phy- mouth, from Trieste for Rio Janeiro. The ship of war Franklin was at Syra cuse. The frigate Guerriere, was daily expected from the north, of Europe. From the New- To rk Everting Pott, 3d inst Latest from. Europe.—By the arrival of the fast sailing ship Euphrates, De Cost, we have received London and Liverpool papers to the 24th of October, and ship ping lists to the 20th of the same month. Extracts follow. LondoncamMarket, Oct. 19.—-Tlie first quality of wheat went off heavy, at a de cline of 2s from last Monday’s prices. Averages uf wheat, October IS, 82s 2d. Liverpool corn market, Oct. 20.—Good wheat in request, without alteration in prices. American flour per bbl. 43 to 47s; sour 37 to S9s. 41;: - ' British stocks, Oct. 22—3 per cent con sols 77 } toi; do for acct. 77 5-8. ' Treaty for the evacuation of France• - The sovereigns assembled at the congress at Aix-la-Chapelle, have entered into a convention that the allied troops shall be ] withdrawr from France oo the SOth Nov, ultimo. The following arc the articles: Art. 1. The troops composing the ar my of occupation shall be withdrawn from the French territory by the 30th of Novem ber next, or sooner if possible. Art. 2. The strong places and fortres* ses which the said troops now occupy, shall he surrendered to commissioners named tor that purpose by bis most Chris tian majesty, in the state in which they were at the time of the occupation, con formably to the ninth article of the coo- '- vention concluded in gxecution of. the : fifth article-of the treaty of November 20, >, 1815. * Art, 3. The sum destined to provide for - the pay, the equipment, and the eloathing of the troops of the'army of occupation, shall be paid, innll canses, till the 30th of November next, on the same footing on which it lias existed since the 1st Decern- - •- her, 1817. * Art. 4. All the pecuniary arrangements between France and the allied powers Kav- ,' ing been regulated and settled, the sum - remaining to be paid by France, to com- ‘ .pfete the exeention of the 4th article of - the treaty of November, .1815, is definite- * iy fixed at 265 millions offeancs. Art.5. Of this sum, the am o«nt of 100 mil-- - lions of effective value shall be paid by an . . Inscription of rentes on the gfeat book of the publiedebtin France, bearing interest r from the 22d of September, 1818. The said inscriptions shall be received at the ^ rate of the foods on the 5 th of October 1818. > Art 6. The remaining 165 millions shall - be paid by nine monthly instalments, com- _ mencing with the 6th of January next [Note—I formerly, by mistake, named the 26th of December, of the present year,] by • draughts on the booses of Hope Co. ana Baring, Brother* & Co. In the same man ner the inscriptions of the rentes, mention ed in the above'article, shallbe delivered to commissioners of the courts of Austria,- Great Britain, Prashia and Russia, by the royal treasury of France/at the epoch of.