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"t££ roads, necessity compels u» (o Lave* re SAVANNAH REPUBLICAN. course to Ami, and our brethren are pour a/ to see that FMBUHBIVK 8. FELL, ' 'r ' C1TT rKOmHU^^fc* j :V. ’**«** rw |Mn^cwmr,hi, reman. ■ (Qhau; «w» in' lmminnii »rus u : 1 - 'xxux’ui -.illBUTH.VOt.IXlJ JMBRISTER. . 1 * C6NTIXUKD. '! . . »• . 4 : "Xaitcf hdtantaOce." In Aogtisti Capp had a letter from gen " cral Gaines, in- suhstance A annexed . No, 1, and returned",the answer as b. No. 2. Nothing "foYther" was said on either * aide. ‘The end of October, a part, of • Americans,' from a fort on Flint river, »ur- ' rounded Fowl Town daring the night, ahd'began'bumiogit The Indians then 'in it fled to the swamps, and i<i their flight •• had" three persons killed by the fire from "the Americans: thejr rallied their .people, . *«ml forced the American!: to retire some ' distance, bat not before they had two more persons killed. The Americans 'built a block-house or fort, where they had fallen back to, and immediately sent to the T<irt op the country, for assistance, stating ' * the Indians ware the aggressors; and also Stilled Vith Irtheraocklu for the loss his ispriiple had suffered, at the same time 'beudinsgjS'talk to king Hatchy, by a head tjian (Aping) that he would put tilings in such a Strain as to prevent further en croachments, and get those Americans to leave" the fort But, no sooner was the .‘good talk given, and before the bearer of •it returned home, than hundreds of Ame- r ricans came pouring down on the Indians; roused them to a-sense of their own dan -ger: they flew to arms, and have been com 'pelloU’turstfpport them ever since. It is *mit alone horn the country, l>ut by vessels ■Entering Appalachirnla river in vessels, with troops, and settleis are pouring into r-mr^-a for the lands they inherit from their forefathers, for their families and friends. But what will our. nations-do without assistance? Our sinews of war >re almost spent; and harra*seil,*at we have been foryeart r we hare dotbeen able to lay by, tne means of our extraordinary wants; and to whom can we look up for pfbtectioo and support, but those friends —„ ,, who hare, at all former timer, held forth ean government against the poor Indians; their hands to uphold ns, and who have for, daring the timel_was in the nation, sworn, in their late treaty with the Ante- there.Was only one Ameriran killed, and ricans, to see our just rights , and privi- he, itith two others, were in the act of leges respected aod protected from insult driving offcattie belonging to Buiee, cmel and aggression? We now cpU on your of ^uqivany, whereas three men annm boy m ' were, killed.last June, l»y a party of American cattle stealers, w hile in their estod on titeir lands. . Tins agent loufd be authorised by his majesty’s go- tiJaeut, br he will nat be attended to the "Americans. In t the. gazettes of .iirgia, the Americans report the Setn- noly Indians are continually committing lurders on their borders, and making ncursions into the state. These are fa- irications tetijjing to irritate the Amen them “to live brothers, slid live I n tiairooqj and friend- excellency, as-the representative of our good father/king George, to send u* such aid, in ammunition, as we are absolutely in waot of; and, as our brother chief Hd- iisajor, was informed, when in England, that when ammunition was wanted, to en able us to protect our rights, your excel lency would supply us with wbat was ne- erssarv. We have applied to the Span ish officer at the fort of St. Marks, bat hi* small supply prevented his being able to assist os, and we have only on your excel lency to depend. We likewise pray yo excellency would be pleased to send J officer or person to lead us right, and to apportion the supplies yoo may be pleased to send us, agreeably to our proper wants. It,'praying your excellency will lend an ear to our demand, and dispatch it Without delay, we remain your excellen cy’s faithful anti most obedient friends and servants, ' Capfachimicco, Boleck, For ourselves and all the other shed's of die tow er Creek nation. Letter firm rf. Jrbulhnotto col. Edvard Xicboll. sassao, a. r. 26mWugZ i(U7. Lt. col. Edward Nicholl—Sir: Especially authorised by the chiefs of the lower Creek nation, whose names J affix to the present, l am desired to address you, teat you may lay their complaints before his majesty's government. They desire it to be mad. the Intiian territory; and, if permitted to known, that thej have implicitly followed of yy>nr advice'; in living friendly with the -juiutinue, will-soon over-fan the whole , the Indian lands. From the talk sent ■king Hatchy,by governor Mitchell, I am -in hopes that thote aggressions of the Ame ricans on the Indian -territory are not ‘^countenanced by the American govern ment, but originate'With .men ‘devoid ol .principle, wlw>set laws anti instructions - at defiance, and aliik at no cruelty anti ^oppressions to obtain their ends. Against •sach oppressions the American govern ment must use not only all their influence, •but,'if necessary, force, or their natnes -will.be handed down to posterity as-a t na tion more cruel and savage to the unfor tunate aborigines of this country than 'ever were the Spaniards, in more dark -ages, to the hations of Soutk-America. The English government, as the spa *cial protectory of the Indian nations, and -on-whom alone they rely -for assistance. Mingltt'to Step "forward and save those un .♦fortunate people from rain; and as you "air, are appointed to watch Over their in terests, it is my duty, as an Englishman, your Information; and •I sincerely trust; sir, yoo will use the pow •era you are vested with, for the service •and.protection of those unfortunate peo- ’pie, who look up to you as their saviour. 3 have written genera! MitcheH, who, I •heard, is ah excellent man; ami, as be acts as Indian agent, I hope his influence •will stop the torrent of innovations, and •give peace and quietness to the Creek na- •two. I prayyour excellency Will pardon this ♦intrusion,-which nothing bUt the urgency ’of the case would have induced me to 'make. -I'have the honor to be, jrbur excelien- ’s most obedient servant, A. A. e. IFtost Cappicbinicco and Bentteck, to Governor ik-i * -Cameron. , To his excellency governor Cameron: Bit is with ;pain we are again obliged to ob- Hrude ourselves in your excellency’s no- •ticc, in consequence of the cruel War we -ey ffaairc bceb forced into^fy the irruptions af- the Americans into foe'heart of bar lands, at wifi be first:necesMky-t» state to your - excellency, that one head chief (•Kinnijati) received s letter from general Gaines, in August last, a copy of t*:ch is enciosed, ♦with the answer returned thereto. This ‘letter Oniy aprpears to have been -a pre clude . to plans determined on 'by the said . -general and general Jackson, to bring an troops and settlers 1q drive as from our 'land*, and take possession of them; far, in the end of October, a party of Americans worrounded Foal Town daring the night, and in the morning began setting fire to 'iff maktng-'theanfoi tunate inhabitants "fly to the swamp, and who, in their flight, <had three persons killed by the fire of the Americans- •'Oar Indians, rallying, drove -the Americans from the town,bat, in their •exertions, had 1 wo more of their people •killed. The AmericansTttired some dis- tance, and tori it a tort or tdock-faouse to protect themselves. Until the assistance they had sent for to the tort op the conn- ^Viai.1,1 4 mrmrn m » A lalAa. S*. II! S - try, should arrive. A letter tatting into •the hands of general Mitchell, the Indian agent, which states the Indians to have been the aggressors, he suspected its truth, <|nd, etMoqairy, faoud it was the reverse; J kcesistquence, he made satisfaction to nUemockto, the chief of Fowl Town, and it people, "tor the injuries they had sus- sain««4 at the same desired a talk to be aehtte oar head chief, stating his wish to see all the Indians friends, and that in twenty day* he would send ami get the Ameri cans to retire from the forts. Bat this bad ao effect on the . lawless invaders of war sods; forbeforu the bearer of our talks -vonld return home, he met hundreds .at ■ Americans descending on ns. They "have also settlers and troops, which com* from Mobile, and go np the Appalachicofa ri- »«■• Tim, seeing no end to those fa.* Americans,'who are their , "neighbors, -anti no wise attempt to molest' them, though they have seen the Americans encroach their territory, burning their towns, ami making, fields where their houses stood.— Bather than make resistance, they have re tired lower in the Peninsula. The town Eachallaway, where Oiis Micco was chief, is one instance of the encroachments of the Americans. This town is situated uudef the guns oi fort Gaines, and Micco was de sired to submit to the Americans, or . bis town would be blown to atoms: rather than do so, he retired, and is now living in the lower nation, and his fields, and. even where the town stood, is ploughed up by the Aracricaos. They complain ot the English government neglecting them; after having drawn them into a war witii Amer ica; that you, sir, have not kept your pro mise; in sending people to reside among them; and that, if they have not some per son or persons resident rn the'nation, to watch over their interest, they will soon — » *»« •>■•• :<ii .;nqgHjr to watch over the interest of the Creek nation; but you hardly left,toe nation, when he turned trai tor, and was led by Forbes to lalte ihe par of the Americans. His letter to me, ol which I annex you a copy, will shew you what length he could go if he had the means It is Hanibly and Doyle who give the In dians al|,the troubles they experience.— They send their emissaries among the lowerCreeks, and make them believe- toe Cowetas,' aided by toe Americans, are coming to destroy them; thus both are pat in fear, and toeir fields are neglected, and hunting is not thonght of; I have endeavo red to do away this fear, by writing the chief of the Cnwhetta towns, that tocj aught to live in friendly terms with their brethren ol the lower nation, whose wishes were to be on good tenns with them, and not to listed to any bad talks, but to cnase ttiosa toot giye them from among them.— Mjr letter was answered from tnein rath er favorably; and 1 hope the talk that was sent to the. Big VVarrior last Jane, will heal the difference between them. Hiliisajo arrived in my schooner, Ock lockneeh, sound last June, aifthwarwell re ceived by all the . chiefs and others who came to welcome him home; in conse quence of bis arrival a talk Was held, toe substance of which was pat on paper for them, and itwassent, with a pipe of peace, to the other nations. Hiliisajo wished to return to Nassau with me, but I prevailed on him to stay in the nation, and to keep them at peace. I regrer, sir, to notice this poor man’s affaire, though bj bis des>re, it appeared, that he arrived at Nassau a short time after I had left it in January, and capt. W. being here, took charge of him, bis goods and muney,-prevailing on the governor to let him stay with him, un til he went down to the nation, which was his intention to do. Of toe money recei ved of governor Cameron, he bad only given him eighty dollars, by capt. W. a barrel of sugar, a bag of cuftee, and a small keg of rum, akd the interpreter Thugart informed me, that, when Hiliisajo asked for an account, capt.. W. tefnsed it, saying it wonld be useless to a man who could not read. He also misses two cases, one of which, he thinks, contains crockery. 1 have made erquiry of his majesty’s ord nance store keeper; and be informs me, toe whale weretielivercd to capt. W. Thev are therefore lost to Hilliaajo. lam desired to re tarn Hillismo’s war- mesl acknowledgments, for the very band- same manner yon treated him in England, and he begs his prayer may be laid at the toot at his royal highness die prince re- ffant- 1 left him and a|j his family well. •r.the 20th of Jana: t&T Cappacbimiwo desires to send his best respeTu, and re- queats, that you will aead oat some people to live among them, and all the land toe* took from Forbes shall be tbeire. AtaU events they mast fiave an agent among hunting camps. The bo* they scalped and one of Bowleg’s head men was killed in St. John’s river, in July. The back- wood Georgians^ and thus* resident on the borders-of the Indian nation, are con tinually entering ii, and driving off cattle. They have in some instances made set- tlemenn.;-ihd particdtarly ,n the Chocto- hachy river,'• wherfe arconsidei-able number hayedesceud.il. By the treaty wii'i.Gircat Britain, the Aiser.caus *-( r’ to give up to toe Indians ■II the lands that, may have been taken from to .-m da- u;g thi war,and place them onlheifoofitij- they were in 1811. It ap pears tli--‘V have mit done so, that Ft. Gaines, on the G'.iU Mi<‘«hj* and Camp Crawford on the i-Hut river,aie.both on Indiau ter ritory piat v/a» not possession of America in 481L I nvy are fearint that, before any aid is given by the English government, they wni uo longer he in possesion of any territory. I write last January to his excellency foe honorable Charles Bagot, respecting the encroachments of the Americans; as 1 was-informed by the .copy oi the tetter trum the right hdnorabie earl Bathurst, handed me by his excellency governor Cameron, that his^uiyeaty’s ambassador hud received ordersjo watch over the in- lerecf ol" the Indians. Since niy retun. here, I* have receiveu. of Mr. JVloodie, ol Charleston, an extract bl a letter Irani ti e honorable Charles-Bagot, tliat the expense of postage is so considerable, auy turthu; communications of the same nature must be sent bypuvatc hands. Now, sir, as no person goes from this direct to W ash mgton, how am 1 to be able to comply with MS desire? ’ Thus he will be kept ignor ant-of 1 the situation of the poor lnuians, and the cncroachiucnts daily made on the^ lands by American settlers, while he may be told by the Ainencau government that no encroachments have been made, ami that toe forts they still iioUl.are necessary to check the unruly Semiuoles.- lhu», the person appointed to watch over tiie in tei-est of the Indians, liavlii iio other means of inlbrma'ioa than, trum the parties interested in tluir destruction, and seeing from time' to tunc, in the Aiueiicau ga zette , accounts of cruei'munler»,^'c com- milted by the Indians on me Iroutier set tlements of the United States, he appre bends the Indians merit aiUbe -Americans do to totun. V. . # r pwwtsweflrtw- pond Wito'his majesty’s ambassanur al VVashiugton, aud .his eyes- will then be opened as to tlio- motives that influenced American individuals, as well as the go vernment, in vilifying the Indians. Tile power givvn ate, aud the instruc tions, were to memorialize tils majesty’s government, as vtrelt as the goveruui general of the Havana: bulif you will be pleased to lay thiiiener before Ins ma jesty’s secretary of state, it wili save the necyssitysof the first, antl Tfear tbata me morial to the governor general would be ot no use. , <" ‘i. Bet'erring yo,u to the answer, I am, most respectfully; yonr obedient servant-, A- Arbuthnot., :*n G. ' w % Frta .1. ArbuthnoVto ■ William Humbly. Ockloc&xu Socao, 3d Mat, 18ir. Sir—On my re turn home this day I re ceived a letter signed by you, and dated 23d March. As you therein take die li berty of advising me, As you say, by order of the chiefs of toe Creek nation, I am glad- of, and shall embrace this opening Ton gave me, and reply to yon at some length—and, sir, let mp promise, that when you lived at Prospect Bluff, a clerk to Messrs.- Forbes, ^ Co. you did not con sider Cappachimicco, M'Queen, or any other of the chiefs of the lower "Creek na- tion as uuUaws, nor have they" been con-, sidered as such by the English government, who are the,special protectors.; of the In dian natjptfj and ft ill becomes Mr. Ham- bly taeSl^appichimiocoaD outlaw, that ma«; wha-hak even been hit friend, and by his anthority baa prolonged his life. Ye*; sir, the young chiefs and warriors of the. Creak nation, considering yog as the chief cause of their.troubles, wifi have long ere this bad possession of you,and perhaps with your life, made you pay the forfeit for the injuries heaped on them, had not that man who has been your friend' from yonr early yonth, stepped in as your protector. Yes, to is is the man.fvjio Air. Hatnbly pre sumes to call an outlaw. : A pardoned vil- lian, when going on the gallaws, wonld bless the haniT that saved Mb life; but Mr. Hambly blasphemes his savionr.. As Mr. Hambly’s generous friend is the principal cause of my being in this coun try, as an honest man, I shall endeavor to fulfil my promise to him and the other chiefs. Tne guilty alone have tear—ag honest and upright man dreads do dangers, ■ears no evil, as he commits no ill; and Item "la reipect each' oilier as ship, cultivating , their .lands in summer, and taking their divertions of hunting in winter, respecting their neighbors, and niakingjyourselves respected by them. If thus,- sir,you would acf,' (and -fay♦your knowledge of their language, you 'have mhcliinore i.n your power than any other man) you wonld then be the tree friend ol the lnuians. Were 1 an instigator of theft and mn.*der;,would I hold the language I have done to. the chiefs and ntfiels who have called on ne? Ask toe lientf'hant Com’g at Fort Gaines if my letter to him breathed the strains «fa murderer? Ask Opy Hatchy, or Dany his interpreter, if the recommendatory note I sent him by order of Apiny could be written by an in; stigator of murder? Ask Apiny himself my language to him was that of a murderei Ask Mappalitchy, a chief residing among the Americans on Oafcmulgee, it my Ian- guage and advice to him favor that of a mur derer? All those and every Indian who have heard my folks, will contradict your vile assertion*. But, Mappalitchy has given me a cine by which I ran unravel whence the aspersion comes. Not Irom Apiny, liatchy, or- any of the chiefs of the upper towns, but from he who endeavors to lead them' to mischief and quarrels with each other. Did not the chiefs hear my note read with respect* and perfectly according to my sentiments of! being 'all as brefoeren uniting with jouyarm of justice ought to be applied where fa would rightly Tall, on toeheadsof the really guilty. Tour mean and vile in sinuations, that has been toe cause of thefts and murders, comes ill from he who has beewthe cause of the murder of hun dreds. Through your usage wss made vil lainous at the- fort, yet your ferenge was £om««* Md sanguinary. |f yonr con duct, sir, to foe radians were guided _ port motives as mine, it tfbufd .endeavor bonds of friendship and love? Did not they agree to smoke toe pipe of peace with their brethren ' of the lower nation, and live in future as'brothers? What made some of tlieib alter, their minds afterwards? The interference'of a homaue man, who counsels them to write to me, demanding my removal from a board of outlaws, and which, letter is signed “IFiWiam Ham- big.” I shall only make one more observation, and that will shew from whence 1 came, aud whether I come ameugst the Indian;; as revenger, or as the friend of "peace and harmony, i, - In toe spring of 1816,. W. Hanibly sent governor Cameron a letter, containing talks of the chiefs of the Indian nations; they are forwarded to England, and his excellency handed me, on my leaving Pro vidence, an answer thereto from toe right lion. Earl Bathurst, one of his majesty’s chief secretaries of state, that i might make the same known to foe chiefs on my arrival in the nation. What will governor Cameron think of the man who, in 1816, could write against the encroachments of the Americans on the Indian nation, ami iu. the spring of 1817 call the chiefs of that nation, fur whom he more especially wrote outlaws? Mr. Hambly may sell his ser vices to America; but ho .man can expatri ate himself from that aliegience due to his native country; and a government may call on a friendly nation to give up a subject tliat has seriously wronged her. I recommend Mr. Hambly to ,be con tent with Doceur he may have received, and permit the unlettered Indian to live quietly and peaceably on his native land. I shall seud a co^y of this letter with 6)"Ufis nation, and’ shall, at the same time, take an opportunity of expressing myself more foil, than I did in the note sent by Apiny. Wishing yon a speedy recanta tion of your errors, and a.ieturn to your former way of thinking, 1 am your ub’dt. A. Arbutnot. H. Letter from J. Jlrbuthnot to the governor of Havana. To his excellency Don, governor general, &c. &c.: The chiefs of the Creek nation whose names are hereunto annexed, beg leave to approach your excellency and re present their complaints. Long imposed on by the persons keeping store in this country, in charging us exorbitant prices for their gJod*, while they only allow ns a very trifling one for our peltry, we have found it necessary to look out for a" person that will deal fairly with us, and we wish to establish a store for him on Appalache river; we have made application to the commander of St. Marks, and he refers us to your excellency. It is not alone the im positions that have been practised upon us, that has made us presume to addres to your excellency. We have complaints of a more serious nature against the persons employed by toe only bouse that has been established among us. In toe -first place, some years back, under false pretences, they attempted to rob os of a very large por tion of oar best lands, and we the more readily acceded to it from the faithful pro- mise giVen us, that they would get English people to settle and live among us; but far from doing this, Mr. Forbes attempted to sell it to the American go vernment, and *5*y e Americans: thus, finding our- •Sixes deceived.and imposed er, we' with- drew our grant about , three years . since, wbicb, from the stipulations contained therein not being faUfiPed on the part of Mr. Forbes, we conceived we had a right u d u. S ? cond, J r > Mr. Doyle and Mr. Hambly, the two persons left in the nation to carry on Mr. Forbes’ business, have for more than two years been endeavoring to influence ns to join the Americans, and finding that fiur means would not secure ns. Irom our attachment to our Ancient mends, the English* the/hare recently had recoaree to threats olbringing the Ameri cans down upon tu; and, that people only attack us, which thi said Doyle and Hambly attempt to give them, by spreading- false repirta of our murdering the Americans, stealing their cattle’ and preparing for war against them, while, in fact, -it is, the Americans who marder oar red brethren and stehl our “‘tie by hundreds «. time, and .re dal ly encroaching on O or lands, and maintain ing the settlers in theiriil be-gutten posses- sioqs, by. armed force. ™ Qn toe Chootawhatchy river, there are a large, body of Americans forming settle- meats, and more are daily joining them. Astbix tjveris far within that line marked' 1 pot by yonr excellency’s government and toe Americans some years since (though that linK’w&t unknown'll u* until, very i lately, and we never, gave'bur sanction,*! v sale of our lands] nor in fact, knew ol any ! made to the Americans) we trust your ex-! eelle'ncy will give order to- displace them fiom within the line,and tend them back ■ to their own country. Our delaying to at dress your excellency, to represent th. forenientioned grievances, has been owing to thesvant of-a person- fo attend to our| talks, and put themin writing for us. Th* commander of the fort of St. Marks liak | heard all qf our talks and complaints- He approves of what we hare done, and .what we are doing, and it is by bis recom mendation we have thus presumed to ad dress your excellency. , We have the honor to be, yonr excellent cy’s most obedient and very humble ser- A. Arbcthsot. vant, THE REPUBLICAN. T UESDAY EVENING, Dscritsis 15, 1818. GEOBGIA LEGISLATURE. Extract of* Utter from MilledgetUk. dated Di. ctmber 1U, 1818. “A motion Vu made yesterday in the bouse, te reconsider the journals so for *s relates to ihe rejection of the bill more effectually to prevent the evils of private banking, and to step the iat*> ing and circulation of Ihe bilja and noljR-of Ult* chartered, banks, and the bills and.noMtf common ly called "change bills;” and to compel the char tered banks of this state to pay speeje for their bil|s.--Tbe motion lor reconsideration was derid ed in the affirmative, yeas 48, nays 41. TWav. this biU wss taken up, and after goiog through it by sections, and the question being put bill paiT it wasordered to lie 'on 'tne ] to-morrow, when it will be finally acted upon. “The foUowii^ is the substance of a section in the bill, touching chartered banki:—That from and after the first-day of October next, if any in- rpoiated bank authorized by law to issue bills id notes, shall refuse or neglect to pay, on de* «nil, in gold or silver, any bill issued by such baink, and whidi is or are payabte*-'on demand, such bank aliall be liable to pay la the holder of auch bill after the rate of two and. half percent per month on the amount thereof from and after the time of such urghet, of refusalJ^Ae re covered as additional damages in any action brought against ihe said-bank, by the holder of the biU, tor the recovery of tbe.ume with damagea thereon. ■ t- • ■This bill has many atrong friendk, and may probably pass tlie lower, brauchl but the senate will not suffer it to go through in da present shape. It would .go down by a large vote,' provided the section ! have given above could be stricken out. An attempt will be made to-morrow to amend the bill so as to meet toe sanction of both.hooaes. “The governor has given lib assent to the reso lution relative to certain African negroes lately in troduced into this state, contrary to the law of the United States; and the resolution requiring his excellency to appoint a commissioner, or commis sioners, to join such as may be'appointed by the agent of Indian afiaira for the UrCek nation, to run the line according to the true intent andmran- ing of the treaty made with them. ’ “The house, this inorniog passed the bill to re peal that part of an act passed the S0dt Decem ber, 1817, relative to toe introduction of slaves: And have passed another bill on that subject, which allows slaves to be brought into tbu slat provided their owners pay txx dollars for each them.—This bill, 1 am pretty confident, will not receive the assent ot senate. ct, lot "The bill that originaltd in senate, to regulate, the appointment of vendue-masters in the cities of Savannah and Augusta, stil lies on toe tablq and will not be called up during this session. '■ ■•The Darieo bank bill b suit on thd tapis. '— pb. -Com- J mitteis of conferrence have been appointed Stees^^W just toe d sagreement between toe two E* • *“-o»y ay me committees: commending to toe senate to agree to <te second amendment made by toe house. Tt lathis— “The right of the state of abolishing at pleasure, the act of incorporation.” This toe senate have res ponded to: But Ihe house have not recoded from toeir first amendment, which the committee have recommended them not to do. That is "the charter b forfeited by refuting to loan money on county indorsements^ qr a depoaile of proton and alto, for an access of issues—as an additional punishment for toe latter ofttoce, toe directors are made individually liable.” This report ties on the table, and what disposition will -be made of it I ■annot aay. “The land lottery bill has not yet passed—Ihe senate and the house not being able to agree as to the size of the fractions to be reserved. No Isse than four different committees of conference have been appointed to Reconcile the difference-hut *8 ba*e foiled. ■ The house insists' on 150 acres, and toe senate on 200. I wish toe bill was P®*?* 1 , °6 fewdb like a mill-stone about our necks. . ,, . I " t believe the poor poor house and hos pitable in Savannah, will receive any aid from'the «£t«i Ur Yh l !» E!^wa Th “..“ ’ nucb *° •* **• gretted. I had hoped, that a humane body, with an overflowing treasury, would bedesirous to pit. vide in part tor the maintenance of toeir own poor. Benevolence b the noblest trait of the bu- man breast; and it was to be expected ■ while en- gaged in tne employment ot furplus fund* r tbe le- guiaturc would not be unmindinlofiminsthutloii which menu their attention and assistance” jTOI THS lATOXil BSftJIUClV. To write upon a subject'ao perfectly plain,, one which is lit,on a level with ■ * ievel with every capacity of mind uforqMri h.M-ia.i, , ^ ■“bjrct which is (or ought toe alphabet to every bank direct? and frfr, every statesman who b called to legislate for a great nation, b, (o me a difficulty. ““ «esst possible, lest my remsrks should b* tiresome. But when I sees great nation about to be plunged into all toe du 1 amities of a general bankruptcy, witooiit serio- injr to know the source of, or remedy for itsntis- fortune,- when the chief magistrate oftob nati.-o, in his annual message to the national tnridatnrc! merely confirms the eristence of tbecabmitv ujtbout poiniingcut a remedy; when the exbtance of this> misfortune is tbe common theme ofidlcon- 1 which, I trust Will do no harm, if no from them; and which may elicit as will be prod active of fostiog bt To this discitsrion we are iftrited bys luminous, well-wntten aid comprehensive essay over toe aigniture of “^fcrtarvr,” in the Republican of the 6to instant,-—Tbe.mewa of torn wnter aie in tbe msm, correct; hot I differ from hiin m one or two particulars, not essential, but which had better. n the onset, be explained. ^ tf! understand -Mercator. 0 he attributes cur embarrassments to the demand for specie; wanted for the Butelndia trade. It is not strictly speik- Our tmbsrreamenu arise from the^ST oat bahnee of our trade with all toeworUL be- rr.g against us. If oor trade with London and Amsterdam, left as much due us from those as^would pay our purchases in Cslcutts. Bengal and Canny, we should hear of liottS ordinary demand for specie. At any metre SSjiriSeS'SS fr ™-=«*** -Sm-dl"?, - ““ttotor appears also to beCeve that if that industrious population «fao art for ‘ - -— *»ie<—Not sm unless we sffordS^ur Commc, SjffiWSW. A