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rO»- THE SAVANNAH REPUBLICAN.
Mr. Editor—The bpst and most lasting re
gard, v^ch a, patriot can receive in this repub-
ia «rwf miiaf hp H.A rnnfidcnrc and thanks the train. For the results the history of the country can
“5’. 1S ant * ’ . , be vouch'd, whether seen in the luminous ranges of the
-of his country. Money or pensions are unknown
tb us, for services rendered in the civil line:
public*bpinion alone must encourage the zeal of
those devoted to their country; they must ac
cept the benefit of public gratitude, as a ful!
tompensation, and rich or poor, the officer must
ctae day retire, as have done the illustrious
Washington, Adams and Jefferson, and as Mr
Madison will soon do; and posterity in reading
the history of the present times, will feel the in
iluenee of the virtue and disinterestedness of
the founders of the republic, and proudly praise
the constitution ot their native land, which re
strained the corruption, arising from pensions
1K»d sinecures. T*hese ideas have occurred to
A** on the perusal of a sketch of the conduct of
Mr. Dallas, whilst secretary of the treasury, a
performance wrote by a masterly pen, but its
principal beauty is, that truth alone guides the
f -enius of the writer, find. nought is said of Mr.
)allas, which he does not fully deserve. Those
who know him, will acknowledge that he is fit
'fp* any station in the union, or to represent us
abroad with dignity and effect. His mild and
gentlemanly deportment, combined with his for
titude, superior talents, industry and integrity,
him a public character worthy this repub
lic. This sketch. I will thank you to insert in
Jfrur paper, believing that its wide circulation
will be generally agreeable to your readers, and
ti*it it may add a mite of justice to the eminent
and distinguish'd services rendered by this
patriot. A SUBSCRIBER
From the Democratic Frees.
>IK. DALLAS,
It bciiW understood that Mr. Dallas is upon the eve
xj£ finally riliiKpii.V,ling the d .ties of the treasury depart-
•,as not already done so, it is a fit time to ad-
aj&t to the circumstances under which he assumed them,
wcU & the manner in which they have been fulfilled
•"Si his hands.
It was in the autumn of 1814 that he repaired to Wash
ington. Who does not remember that day? Consterna
tion had seized upon the stoniest hearts. The republic
shaking to its centre. A convention in the east gave
•signs of iut i-Hife explosion, at the same moment that the
bust of Britain was steering for our shores; a host fresh
from verge; nice over the mighty potentate, “whose peo
ple hi 1 be. u kings and whose outposts were nations.”
kVhui a Jay it was! how perilous, now awful. We shi
vered at the thought* of an empire rent in twain in the
•arkicioated fall of New-Orleans. Men looked at each
-Other for consolation, butlookedin vain It was one of
those portentous seasons when public agony was at its
bright, and who does not feel what heavier throes con
vulse the. bosom in such times'than the whole sum of in-
•divitfif:d calamity can wring from it. How the throng
fathered, how the contagion of despair ran through our
■streets as we stood listening to catch tins fate of* Balti
more. Fancy heightened the terror, saw the conflagra
tion, heard the shrieks! The tempest-beaten administra
tion, far from seeing support rally round it, beheld its
former friends preparing to fly off in all directions, as if
anxious to escape an approaching wreck. The treasury
and war departments seemed, in particular, to be shat
tered to pieces. The regular incumbents of both were
gone. A quick succession of incumbents had passed
away. It was during this autumn, and while he nation
lias under t)ie shock "of such distressful spasms, that a
distinguished gentleman of con rress, who too had once
himself been zealously of the war-party was heard to ex-
xlaim, that he who coiud consent to accept a seat at the
American cabinet mutt be mad.
There were, however, great spirits left of virtue to
reduction. Sedulously dedicating aVl hi* time to the
public, his nights as well as his days, and embarked in
investigations lifting up the mind to the largest contem
plations, and plunging it into wearisome detail, the
Whole of his energetic arid ripened faculties caine into
action—his promptitude leading, his patience closing
statesman; or in the incessant labors of the man of busi
ness. ' t
There has not beert full tSirfe to develops the charac
ter of all his measures, invariably carried forward with
an unwavering, manlv and consistent hand- The true
offspring undoubtedly they were of a mind fruitful, in
dependent and decisive, always unfolding its distinct anil
rapid convictions w’ith candor, and sustaining them with
force. But thus much may be said now. lie found the
treasury in a state of the most unexampled confusion.—
He has left it in perfect order. Nothing remains undone
which, through nis instrumentality could be accomplish
ed. This is exalted eulogy, and its truth rests upon
foundations not to be weakened. The productions, al
ways so ably-wrought* of his official pen, meet the eye
with a frequency drawing as much wonder as encom
ium when it is oonsidered, that two years have scarcely
elapsed since he assumed it. It will not be necessary to
speak of his great report made at the commencement of
the last session, a paper, which, in its historical and per
spicuous exposition of the finances, will serve as a vade
inecum to the American statesman, superceding, on this
branch of our aft’ irs, all others since the first days of
Hamilton. Nor to bring- into view the new tariff and ac
companying-commentary upon its provisions, framed
with so just a comprehension of the agricultural, com
mercial and manufacturing interests; nor other of his
performances of this distinguished prominence. It may
barelv be said, that the many reports, often so elaborate
which he made to congress in the progress of its miscella
neous business, some of which have been published but
many of which have never been, liiat these (and more es
pecially if coupled with the bills he is known to have
drawn) are in themselves monuments which attest the
constant fidelity of his service, and the resolute and vast
powers of his industry. A word more on this head.—-
It has been seen, that the temporary loans of the nation
have already been paid off; and that by the fir3t of Janu
ary die whole of the floating debt contracted since t8i2,
which includes alt the treasury notes, will have been ex
tinguished. By. tha* date also, there will not be an en
gagement of the government in any part of the union for
which, in the midst of the disorders of the medium, disor
ders which lie found without creating, provision will not
have been made in a currency at par. To extend the
triumphant recapitulation, it already appears probable,
that the period between the commencement and the
close of the present year will exhibit 9naggregate amount
of revenue unloading itself at the treasury, of more than
sixty Airlltovs of clol'iars. How imposing such facts!
what a consolitary, what an animating retrospect to the
— ~_T WAV MIDI
who came out to her from Aux Cayes, and racked Tif’
passengers-luggage, stripped them of their clothe, ,
every trifling appendage, condemned the vessel ,
then called the n .w General Arismendi, pretending 1 J
under the Venezuela flag and with her went u D0 „ ' „ ° be
FROM ST. DOMINGO. F nust -
Extract of a letter from St Domingo, dated Sth On i
“Privateers are fitting out in every port here v'rhu
nos, Margaretta, and Venezuelian commission, -I r
are in general superior vessels; well armed, and ar P
ned by British and Americans. ^ m *
“General Mina, nephew of^ the celebrated C
•r:.t T
brilliant subtleties the plainest questions,
will tnis “exposition” remain unsurpassed, in such com
parisons, unequalled. It put England completely in the
wrong. By the highest evidence ever adduced in any hu
man controversy, it shows her grievous provocations to
the wr.r, and her attrocious brutalities in its prosecution.
It exhibits her contradictions, her plunderings, her cruel
ties, her injustice, her insults towards this nation, for
twenty years unresisting, but in peaceful remonstrance,
under it all. It has passed through several editions in
London, and been translated into the languages of Eu
rope; yet, it is remarkable, that no attempt has been made
to answer it. Whence this, in a country abounding in
able pens, voluntary and venal? in a country that knows
not to keep down its hatred upon other occasions; in a
country so prompt to wipe out other stains; so eager to
portray; through her thousand presses, the consistency,
the humanity, the justice, the high-toned magnanimity,
always invoked as the illustrious concomitants of British
glory! whence but that it is impossible to answer it. It
falls with so irresistabie a power of truth upon the obdu
rate judgments and hearts of those who directed the
councils of England, that no refuge is left to them but
silence—the common shelter of convicted depravity. A
similar course has been pursued on this side ofj the Water,
were nothing that deserves the name of a reply to has
been ventured upon.
Such is Mr. Dallas. Such have been his diversified, his
meritorious toils. In bis talents diere is an union of lus
tre and weight seldom found in the same individual. The Thursday Eveiim?;, November U lRl«
same epithets characterise his services. He leaves the 1'Jlt).
treasury because a stinted salary, if not inadequate to such
toils and such services, is at least so to his support. Of
strict integrity, and blending with his great qualities the
eminent blandishments of the gentleman, the virtues atid
decorations of private life, throw beautiful tints upon his
public fame. Few men have ever done so muchfor their
country in so short a time. None ever stepped forward
when the danger was more eminent. It was literally go
ing upon a forlorn hope, and exemplifies the true hero
ism of civil statesmanship. If ambition led him, it w«a of
a noble strain; a model for the young who would acquire,
for tnose of more years who would retain greatne^ Not
an ambition that, wrapped in malign reveries, warily
gropes its unhallowed and devious path, in the general
danger, that can move on or falter as the exigence gives
a beckon or a frown to its brooding*; but of a pure and
lofty stamp—like Monroe’s' ambition—that looked at
public honors through the vista of toilsome and hazard
ous service, seeking them among billows and plucking
them up from the duep.. Honors so acquired do not
soon fade. Mr. Dallas’s will not. When such a man re
tires, it is the nation’s loss.
There is the best reason for believing that the venera
ble chief magistrate regards it with unmingled regret,
•General, has come to Port-au-Prince from the t ’tf? *
He arrived in a beautiful ship, accompanied b, tv( '.
with 8000 stand of arms, ammunition, fi-M .A
&c. A number of French officers are embark' ^
America to join the Independents.” a 4,1 n ®’ ’
Savannah repubu(^^
will differently. Men resolute and undismayed. Men
identifying themselves wholly with their country: ardent
to promote her success yet magnanimously willing to
-share iier ruin. Those who from inducements merely
personal would have clung round the administration at a
moment so ominous, must indeed have been mad.—Their
•course was to shun communion with contaminating asso
ciates, not foolishly embark in the fellowship of lifisfor-
tupe. The elements of executive popularity seemed dis
solving; the downfal of the president, dictated by the
■enemy and echoed by an aspiring and fierce band at
.Jkoine, was by thousands looked for every instant, ami
to be as far as possible out of the way of such a catastro
phe was the rational decision of leaders wherever dispers
ed, whose politics hungupftn a computation of chances.
But, happily, those poor-minded calculations, these base,
ambitious, timidities, these heartless, guilty, pondering*
over seif, when the grave was yawning in which Ameri
can liberty might have been buried forever, were not
nmiversal. The banner of the republic was still up, the
cause still just, the people still firm. The honest, the
inflexible, Monroe—he too was left. Faithful to hit
country from youth; more exalted in his conceptions of
'duty with her dangers, and now, like another Regulus
or Epatninondas, feeling the “flame of sacred vehemence”
burn brighter at this hour of her greatest tribulation, he
was left, and stood ready to court, the risks of one of the
vacant posts. Be it recorded to the lasting honor of Mr.
Dallas, that his fearless patriotism stepped also into the
gulf of the other.
Mr. Dallas had never before had any connexion with
■ the cabinet in the sunshine of affairs. In rushing into
the fury of the storm, it is known, that he abdicated a
situation in this populous and wealthy city'in which pe
cuniary and domestic allurements joined their best aids
to surround him with the means and live objects of hap-
ninesa.
In what a plighthe found the treasury is as well known.
: Ir. Gallatin’s ilcreliction took place, when a course of
.unbounded fiscal prosperity and ease, became, for the
' "rat time, darkened; just a* the land-marks broke and
ie waters were all out. This, followed up by a total
interval, by Mr. Campbell’s short period of service, and
fcis ill health, may be-aaid to have placed all the business
for eighteen months in a predicament worse than at a
stand. Besides the appalling disorder of the finances,
the Voluminous routine of the office had almost stopped.
Tapers unexamined loaded its desks in accumulated
^eaos, while to all other sources of confusion, the loss
of the metallic medium atthe moment of his arrival, filled
up a prospect at the thick gloom of which an eye the
most piercing might have shrunk. The country since
the dreariest revolutionary day had not seen such an
epoch. In addition to Hie hideous masses of entangle,
•merit, and •tartling vacuity of tlie coffers, he had to face
an enraged and potent opposition; directing itself, it is
griit, against all the other operations of government, but
always reinforced with numbers while levelled at his.
When measures touch the pocket nobody slumbers—
New foes instinctively start up; the very lethargic get ex
cited, and political hostility, roused in all quarters, puts
every form of activity and exasperation. -While only
One man is forming plans, ten thousand are pouring their
venom upon them. The first secretary of the treasury
bad hi* path rn some degree smoothed by the support of
the etimmbrckl interest; but Mr.-Dallas had the weight
<of this formidable body too almost wholly against him.
When he reached Washington, he found it in ruins.—
Surely,' there could 1«ajc been no better prefiguration of
the desolate condition of the department lie was to
wield. But the devastation, melancholy and huge as it
was, instead of overwhelming, invigorated with new al-
ferity his detefmiautiona. Armed with a transcendant
genius, and a capacity for labor that is prodigious, he
was a match forth* frightful scene. He grappled, on
the onset, with itfcdaScfc- To reinstate instantly, or go
down in the vor*e* th«t had swallowed up or driven
sway other** were alternatives between which it ww
not left fiiphim to halt, if previous habits or studies ev.
er failed him’in airy pefftt. Intuition stepped in as the
W-*Hire* .alaray* .ftt&Haiy end efficient. The pressing
<b'dy business*# the office*he executed with ability and
diaysteh. It# arrears be put into a train oi;
join in tlie feeling 1 .
er
John DniKcssoj*.
retiring secret* ry; and if some of them have sprung from' :ind it would be strange if the country at Urge did not
the recovering energies of the nation, others are in a large ■' '' *-
degree also due to his superintending solicitude and wis
dom:
In a sketch even so limited, a moment’s attention must
stiil be given to the department of war. It makes too
fair an incident in Mr. Dallas’s fame to be pretermitted,
The veteran patriot Monroe had saved his country; that
country which, not more grateful than just, is soon to
reward hi in with its last proof of affection. He beheld
her majestically buoyant upon the bosom of victory and
glory; but, he had well nigh liimseif been the mar.yr.—
Nor is it any wonder. For months together he had
been directing, by day, the most momentuous opera
tions; stretching to the furthest extremities of the conti
nent his comprehensive and protecting eye; whilst often,
amid the damps of night, he was seen sharing the mere
offices of the common dragoon. Tin energies of a free
people roused, had turned back the flood of disaster ere
it had well roiled, producing a swift reflux which swept
the host a4 with an awful besom. It was fit then, when
the struggle was over and a magnificent destiny won to
the nation, won not by commissioners abroad, nor by
the forbearance of a beaten foe, but by the councils of
the government giving opportunity and scope to the val
or of our arms—it was ht, that this illustrious patriot
should be allowed some repose. Carrying with him the
loud plaudits of a country whose renown he had advanc
ed, hefejl back again into that post behind ttie shield of
which he had disdained to stay while the tempest was
raging. A chasm was once more opened in the war de
partment before the return of Mr. Crawford, and Mr.
Dallas was generously willing to fill it.*
He executed the delicate task of organizing the peace
establishment with his usual ability and diligence. He
effected the reduction of die army with as much good
judgment as ever governed the performance of a duty so
intrinsically embarrassing. Still continuing at the head
of the treasury, it was? subject of constant surprise how
he found time for employments so little connected and
arduous. His address to those troops who were to lav
down their arms hut not their laurels, will be admired in
future times for its chaste, valedictory, eloquence; and
the military posts and divisions still remain, it is believ
ed, as he then fixed them.
But the endowments of this accomplished statesman are
as splendid as they are universal. A mind so richly fur
nished and a heart so fervid, could not be content with trea
sury labors atone. They were, indeed, complicate and I ler-
culean; but, in the estimate of his versatile and capacious
abilities, they were not enough. No! at the moment of their
heaviest pressure, in the distracting winter of i8'4, when
new tax-bills, new bank-bilis, and endless communica
tions about the ways and means, were laying their requi
sitions upon liis lime, this most indefatigable public ser
vant seenied to mount up, with more elasticity, under the
incumbent weight. It w as at this season, that roused by
tlie magnitude of the ob ject in the contemplation of u pro
longed contest^he drew up, as an appeal to other na
tions on the righteousness of our straggle, the “exposi
tion of the caust#and character of the war.” Tims, and
at such a moment, did his untired pen strike out into this
wide path; thus did it take up our public affairs upon
this grand scale, not in the lig'ht of a burden of office he
was bound to bear, but, how strange soever it may-seem,
as a pastime which his patriotic devotion sought out.
This masterly vindication, taken as a single perform
ance, ranks, perhaps, as his proudest trophy. Consider
ing its length; the severe accuracy of its matter; how
large a portion it condenses of our public history into
one lucid view; the documents that must have been scru
tinized in. preparing it; the impartial unity of its plan; its
admirable arrangement, and disciplined periods—it might
well be boasted of had it been the exclusive work ot
happy leisure, instead of being accelerated into perfec
tion amidst the remnant and broken hours of a life so
filled up. A state paper of such compass, so dignified, so
powerful, and so convincing, has rarefy been issued by
*When will this matter of who is to bear off the merit
of success, be understood by all? Every defeat was put
upon the shoulders of the administration, and every vic
tory given exclusively to the army or navy. A good rule
should work both ways. What (iiot to take other instan
ces) produced the victories on Eric and Champlain: What
but tlie incomparal * outfits opening the way for Perry
and M‘Donough: outfits got up under the orders of the
president and his executive officers at Washington, by
which two such fine squadrons were transferred as by art-
magic from the forest to the lakes, and Britain fairly out
done. What laid the train for tlie great overthrow at
New Orleans? Hear general Jackson. “In the late con
flict difficult duties were assigned me. To the faithful
performance of them my best exertions were directed;
but for die happy results l owe every thing to the wisthm
of the councils under width I acted, and the good conduct
of those who acted with me.” See his answer to the ad
dress of the corporation of Georgetown (n. c.) Novem
ber 25,1815. It is well known that Mr. Monroe is die
theme of this hero’s enlightened eulogy. As die cabinet
at Washington must be stripped of all merit, to deck no
matter whose brows, even the peace itself lias been ascrib.
ed wholly to the talents at Ghent!! Alas, those gentlemen
did their duty; but they fell upon delicious times in mak
ing the tour and gazing at the pageants of Europe, in the
midst ofthe dignities and the fascinations of diplomatic
privilege? compared with the rough tugstlut all hands
were going through in tlie state vessel! laboring among
rocks as she was at home. This nation i is too proud to
hear that it owes the peace to what was written at Ghent.
It owes it, under God, to the matchless firmness of presi
dent Madison and his ministers, ever to be viewed tn in
separable connexion with the effect and splendor of its
arms. Wbo gave the commissioner* at Ghent the rule of
thou 1 conduct? What pen but Hums Motlrbe’s,
Translated for the New-York Evening Post, from the
Buenos Ayres official gazette of tlie 17th August last.
r Vhe Declaration of Independence of the Uiuted Provinces
of Rio de la Plata.
The representatives of the United Provinces of Rio de
la Plata, in congress assembled, at the city of TucumaSi,
on the ninth day of July, in the year one thousand eight
hundred and sixteen; the dispatch of the usual and ordi
nary business being over, they took again into considera
tion tlie motions and speeches made in the nreceding
days, upon the great aficl important subject ot die inde
pendence of the people represented by the same con
gress, and who most earnestly, decidedly and universally
wish and claim a solemn act of their emancipation and
freedom from the despotic power ofthe kins of Spain.
They, therefore, weighed this momentous matter, with
the utmost attention and care, devoting to its resolution
all their talents, with that purity of intention requisite in
sanctioning their own fate, that of the people they re
present, and their posterity. On the question being put
whether it was their wish that these united provinces
should be free and independant from the king's of Spain,
and its metropolis, it was voted in tlie affirmative by an
unanimous acclamation of all tlie said representatives;
who likewise, each of them individually, ratified and con
firmed their respective, spontaneous, unanimous and de
cided vote for the independence of tbe country. In con
sequence whereof, the following resolution was deter
mined on, to wit:
We, the people of the United Provinces of South Ame
rica, in a general congress assembled, invoking the Al
mighty, who presides over the universe, and in the name,
nd by virtue of the authority of the people we repre
sent, protesting before heaven, and the nations, and men
all over tlie world, the jusdee that guides our mtentious,
do solkmsly vkclaUk, in the face of tlie universe, that it
is die indubitable and unanimous will of these provinces
to break oft’ the violent ties that united them to tlie kings
of Spain; to reinstate themselves in the rights of winch
they have been dispossessed, and to assume the rank and
character of a nation free and independent from king-
Ferdinand VH. his successors and metropolis. These
same provinces, there lore, being henceforth invested by
act, and right, with full and absolute power to devise
for themselves such forms of government, as justice and
the state of the present circumstances may require.
Each and every of the said provinces thus publish, de
clare and ratify the same, binding each one to the other,
through us, to die fulfilment and support of this their will,
under the pledge, and warrantabditv of their own lives,
fortunes and fame. Let this resolution be communicated
to the department it doth belong to make the same pub
lic; and out of the respect due to other nations, let a
manifest be issued, detailing the great and weighty rea
sons, that have moved and constrained us to make this
solemn declaration.
Done in theliali of sessions, signed by our Ipmds, sealed
with the seal of tlie congress, and countersigned by the
representatives acting secretaries.
F ham cisco Mi hivo de Lvphido, president.
(Here follow the signatures of twenty seven representa
tives.)
Jose MaiUano Sktira so, secVy.
Joan Joss Passo, sec'r*.
.1 form of the oath to be administered to all the inhabitants
of the united provinces of South.America.
Do you swear by our Lord God, anil the sign of the
cross, to promote and defend the liberty of the united
provinces of .South America, and its independence, from
tlie kings of Spain, Ferdinand YH. their successors and
metropolis, as well as from the dominion of any other
power? Do you swear to our Lord God, and promise to
our country, to uphold these rights ev.n to die loss of
your life, fortune and fame? Ye9,1 do—so help you God,
and keep you steadfast, but should you fail in your duty
may he, and our country, claim it from you.
Da. Sehkavo, sec'ry.
In the «ession of tlie 20th of June, it was enacted that
the sky blue and white flag heretofore used, be henceforth
considered as the national flag.
Nassau, October 26.
The following is an extract' of a letter from Havana, daft
ed 2d October.
‘The minds of my good countrymen, like my own, are
daily becoming more disgusted with tlie present oppres
sive state of things, and unless some change for the better
t'lkes place, I must abandon my friends, while tlie liberty
of breathing is yet left to me. The insurgents announce
their intention of landing on this island, and placing us
ilia state of independence like themselves; the report is
much circulated in this city, and affords u* some consola
tion under our afflictions.”
November 2.
The Jamaica Gazette contains several instances of pi
racy on British vessels, by Carthagenian cruisers, or
others under the insurgent flag. We observe thecapture
of one by H,. M. frigate Lai Pique, and that she had
arrived at Port Royal. 'Che notice inserted respecting
tlie capture ofthe British schooner Perthshire, serves to
shew the use that adventurers from the United States
make of a flag that has been unaccountably sufferad so
long to protect and encourage a system of robbery.
[The following’ is an extract from the advertisement
above alluded to,and is signed by Hector Mitchell. Tbe
Hunter formerly traded Between this port and Savan
nah.]
KrxMTox, (Jam.) October IT.
FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS' BEWAftD.
Whereas, the British icbooAef Perthshire, tftfo* p
with- a cargo of S&QQ#/. #n vaJufr was dapt#*# on
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
11"present alive Chamber,
jlilledgeville, «,Vop. Q, ]gig.
TO THE EDITOR.
Since niv last- nothin" of importance has * a .
ken piace in either branch oi ti.e Le nsl.t-. r ."
This day the election for four Judges, three i-i
licitors General and one Attornev-Gene-a! for
the Superior Courts came on—The follow™
are elected: B
J. M. Berrien, Judge. Eastern District;
Robert il. Reid, Judge JUddie Did net-
J. M. Dooley, Judge Western District;’
Colonel Strong, Judge Oakniulgee District-
Edward F. Tattnall, Solicitor East, ilk *
i Roger Gamble, Attorney-General;
Duncan Campbell, Solicitor Western Bis.
Bedne Franklin, Solicitor Oaknud^ee Ills.
'After the elections were over, the following
letter, from William W. Bihb, esq. to the
Governor of this state, was read to both breaches
of the General Assembly:
“ -Milledger-lie, November 9, 1816.
“Srn—The Senate of die United States will probably
“be convened on the fourth of March next, and niv trim
“of service will expire on the preceding day. It is high-
“iy important that tile State should be fully represented
“during tile culled session; and by retir.ng at the present
“nuunent from the station with which I have been hon- 1
“oreci, the legislature will be enabled to proviue for I
“that object.
“Consulting therefore those interests, to the advance-
“ment of which, my zealous exertions guided bv mv best
“judgment have been uniformly devoted, I resign n:y
“seat in the Senate of the United States. I have the hon
or to be, See. William \V. Biss.
“ His excellency D. B. Mitchell, Governor of G.-oreia.''
I wrote to you yesterday, that Col. George
-vf. Troup, was elected a Senator froai this
state in the Congress of the United States, from
the 4th of March next. Dr. Bihb has. in conse
quence resigned his seat in the Senate. The
Legislature will, therefore, have to appoiut a
person to till tiie vacancy. Col. Troup will,
no doubt, be elected—A better patriot, amors
honest and correct man, could not have been
selected by the people than col. T. A resolu
tion passed this uay, that, on Tuesday next, the
Legislature will, by joint ballot, elect eight dec- j£
tors of President and Vice-President ofthe Uni
ted States. Our ujj country brethren seem dis
posed to give us two electors from the Eastern
District—General John M‘Intosh and Charles
Harris, rsq. are named.
A Bill to lay trie State off in CongressiorT
districts has been introduced in the House:and.
from all I can learn, will* go dow n; 1 have as
yet heard no opposition to tlie Bill.
\ ou see that all the old Judges are turned out,
with tlie exception of Mr. Berrien; and, if there
had been any opponent to him, he would haw
lost his election—As it was, he gained it onlv
by suv votes. Fifty three votes were thrown
away on the occasion—The result was mortify
ing indeed: But he is elected, and I am satis
fied.
Colonel Jett Thomas has been appointed, bj
the Legislature, Major-General ofthe third Divi
sion; and Brigadier-General U\ atker has been
promoted to tiie rank of Major-General <*f ** je
second Division, Georgia Militia.
Yesterday, I visited tlie Penitentiary. It i* 1
spacious, superb edifice, and is built, and ivetter
finished, than any Penitentiary in the United
States. It will be ready to reeeive criminals
in the course of the next year. Much goad, 1
have no doubt, will result from the Pcaitentiatv
system.
VILLANY IN COTTON PACKER*
We are again under tlie painful necessity i
noticing the villanous conduct of some debused
individuals, in this, or the sister, state,who?i»
packing their cotton, filled tlie centre of the
bales with cotton-seed, old iron, stones, » c '
it is the interest ofthe community, at large, tw
no measure should be left untried for detectwj
the fraud and bringing tlie guilty to justice-*
that a final preventative may be applied to the d* I
ception. We, however, suspect that our la w *>
as they now stand, are too mild fbr the suppftf'
sion of a crime that holds out such a lucrah^
prospect to tiie depraved and dishonest—
ing short of capital punishment is calculated
eradicate it. Forgery on chartered bank* J'
made felony by law; and surely a crime, teflu
ing to destroy our cotton trade and bring 1111
merited obloquy on our merchants, is of i' w *.
importance to our citizens in general than, 4
as much entitled to legislative protection as- an -
corporate body in the state. However, we to*
that the general assembly will speedily g' vc 1
subject that consideration which its importan
demands.
ENGLISH SLANDER AND P2RFIBV.
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under the Spanish American revolutionary _ ’
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