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77 «- V 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. ’The English editors, particularly those in thi r est-Indies, are very Jiberal in attributing me people of AmericA everyyitrocious or P 1 . cal act which is completed by vessel* Si \ ’ under the Spanish American revolutionary _ ’ pad assign no other cause for their pronip ‘ in defamation, than that th* corsairs have , # buiit in dnrricnt b«t why <mr cR** 8 * 5 sl