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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA.’
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WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 13.
The Northern mail due yesterday evening,
failed beyond Charleston, and as there were no
papers issued in that city, yesterday morning, on
account of Thanksgiving day, we have no news
from that direction.
The recent susponsion by most of the Banks
of this State, will be a fruitful theme of discus
sion in our Legislature. What will bo done, no
man can with any degree of probability, conjec
ture. What ought to be dono, is a question
which should be decided only upon the gravest
deliberation, influenced by a high regard for
the welfare of the country by ephe
meral party considerations. A false step on the
part of the Legislature may involve us in trou
bles and djfliculties of no ordinary magnitude or
duration. It is a delicate question—not delicate
on account of the Banks themselves, but because
the interests of the people are immediately and
deeply invoNod, and may be sacrificed. Wo
propose, in a few 4fys, to give our views of the
matter, not indeed with any hope or desue of in
fluencing the action of the Legislature, but for
the purpose of throwing before our readers those
opinions which they are entitled to see from us
upon all questions of such importance.
We are indebted to the Correspondence of the
Constitutionalist for the latest news from M.illedgc
villc. Nothing, however, of any importance has
yet been done. We give below the Inaugural of
Gov. McDonald, and the Standing Gcpmnhtees
of the House of Representatives.
The following is the address of Governor Mc-
Donald, previous to taking the oath of office :
Fellow Citizens—Regarding the office to
wjAiich I have been called by the people, as a trust
reposed in me for their benefit, I promise you
that it shall be discharged in such a manuer as
shall, in my judgment, best effectuate its object.
The present is, in many respects, an auspicious
time for calm and wise deliberation.
The measures adopted by you for the acquisi
tion of our territorial rights, carried out by the
energy ofyour own Executive, sustained by the
prompt and zealous co-operation of the federal
* authorities, have happily terminated a subject
which has long been one of angry and embar
rassing controversy with the General Govern
ment.
The abandonment of the objectionable policy
of a high, unnecessary, protective tariff; and of
the exercise of questionable and doubtful powers
by the National Government, has been followed
by a state of quiet and harmony in the Southern
section of the Union, which is without a prece
dent in the history of the Republic.
The spirit of fanaticism too, which, fora time,
wore an alarming aspect, and which seemed to
thieaten danger to the confederacy itself, has
been met and subdued by fho solemn reflections
of the people, clearly demonstrating how safely
“error of opinion may be tolerated, when reason
is left free to combat it.”
While this state of things augurs well for the
permanency of our political institutions, it ena
bles the State Governments to devote all their
faculties and energies to the improvement of the
moral and intellectual condition of the people,
and to such subjects as shall promote their pros
perity and happiness.
Whatever you undertake for the accomplish
ment of these cardinal objects, and which promi
ses to the people equivalent benefits for burdens
' endured, shall have my support.
The power vested in the Executive arm by
the Constitution, and statutes passed in pursu
ance of it for the enforcement of the laws, shall
Ijrfaithfully and impartially exerted for this pur
pose ; hut in the performance of this duty, I look
with confidence to the aid which your wisdom
and patriotism shall give me—to the support
which I shall have in the scrupulous observance
of the laws by all good citizens—and, to their ri
gid administration by ail public functionaries
Undue excitement is, at all times, inimical to
rational action. Let us then, while engaged in
the public service, forget all those unkind feel
ings and animosities which sometimes grow out
of an animated political contest; let a nobler ri
valry for the general good assume their place, and
with the blessing of Him, in whose hands aie
the destinies of nations, we may hope that our
labors will be signalized by “wisdom, moderation
and justice,” and result in the increased happiness
of an approving people.
MILLEItGEVILLE, Nov, 10, 1839.
The following are the committees on the part
of the House of Representatives, announced yes
terday by the Speaker:
Un the State of the Republic. — Messrs. Glas
cock, Stephens, Robinson of Jasper, Hubbard,
Holcomb, Livingston, Reynolds, Burks, Mea
dows, Blount, Toombs, Hamilton, Berrien of
Burke, Mays of DeKalb, Stroud of Clark, Greer,
Roberts, Croft, Collier of Pulaski, Turner, Ar
nold, Long, and Hancock.
On Bank*. —Messrs. Tarver, Whitfield of
Putnam, Glascock, Beecher, Stone, Lefils, Bar
clay. Campbell, Wingfield, Peeples, McDougald,
O Neal of Mclntosh, West, McGoldrick, Butts,
Neal of Franklin, Dinnard, Philipps, Harrisen
o.nd Calhoun.
On Finance. —Messrs. Neal of Pike. McDow
. a], Wyatt, Dixon of Talbot, Hardage, King of
Greene, Dunn, Burt, Bailey, Warren, Ilarralsou,
Berrien of Jefferson, Shropshire, Ware, Stone
Bullock, Whitfield of Pulaski, Graham, Ghent
asid Knox.
On the Judiciary. —Miws. Crawford, Camp
bell, Toombs, Glascock, Chappell, Kenan, Ste
phens, Miller. Jenkins. Ward, Sewaifl, Hunter ot i
CrawforJ, McMatt, Frierson, McDougald, Flour- I
n«y, Watson, Guerry,Gender, Berry and Mur
phy.
v On Internal Improvements. —Messrs. Chap,
pfcl! Milieu, Rudd, Moore, Hunter cf Crawford
Newsom, Hand, Stroud of Wahon, Boyd, White’
O’Neal ol Monroe, Riley, Martin, Andersen’
Murphy, Pratt, Liddell, Bethea, Pittman, Law
rence, Robinson of Fayette, Dart, Carson, Stcll
of Stewart, and Bevill.
On. Public Education and Free Schools. —
Messrs. Jenkins, Harris, Erwin, Goode, oermans,
Wallace, Tanner, Carter, Chandler, Collier of
Baker, Palmer, Camp of Franklin, Hagerman,
Green of Macon, Weitman, Sandford, Ingram,
Carlton, CoWh of Carroll, Robinson of Laurens
and Lacy.
■On the Penitentiary. —Messrs. Bryant of Wal
ton, King of Wilkinson, Green of Forsyth, Wal
ker, McCloud, Evans, Espy, Winn, Mays of
Cobb, Mulkey, Sikes, Scott, Stathara, Smith of
Walker, Ashley, Baker, Planter of Cherokee,
Durden of Troup, Jones of Gilmer and McMullen.
On the Military. —Messrs. Kenan, Clark,
Cleveland, Dohiperriero, Darden of Butts, Cas
sels, Cone, Hilliard, Waters, Tarver, Wilson,
Jester, Malone, Dennett, Thomas, Willingham,
Loyal, McArthur, Chester, Welcher and Mc-
Duffie.
On Enrolr,lent. —Messrs. Gray, Prescott, Ar
nett, Whatley, Gnrtrcll, Smith of Randolh, Per
ry, Reese, Linder, Richardson, Ballard, Furnall,
Reeves and JohnOn of Heard.
On Privileges and Elections. —Messrs. Cleve
land, Glascock, Toombs, McDougald, Seward,
Cannon, Hall, Murphy and Robinson of Jasper.
On Printing. —Messrs. Gnerry, Wbigham,
Jones of Elbert, Mann, McKinnon, Ledbetter,
Ellis, Dixon of Walker, Mintcr, Collier of De-
Kalh, Cobb of Dooly, Camp of Campbell and
Graham.
To examine Journals. —Messrs. Darden of
Warren, Ford, Stell of Gwinnett, Parker, Hud
son, Coker and Woolsey,
On Petitions —Messrs. Cone, Chastain, Bry
an of Wayne, Rivers, Sumnci, Taylor, Lynch,
Denmaik, Hall, Hendon, Johnson of Appling,
Kilgore and Bryson.
In the House yasterday, a bill was introduced
to repeal the act to promote the culture of silk.
A bill was also introduced more effectually to
compel banks to redeem their paper in specie.
By this bill it is provided, that during the suspen
sion of specie payments by banks, those inst tu-*
tions will be debarred from commencing suits on
any notes, bonds, &c. due them. Where suits
have already commenced, they are to bo contin
ued to the next term of the court, <tc. During
the suspension, the banks prohibited from trans
ferring notes, bonds or drafts payable at and dis
counted by sucli banks.
In the Senate,bills have been introduced : one
to repeal the act authorising general banking ;
aaothcr to suspend the operations of the Wes
tern and Atlantic Kail Road, from
in Murray county, to Ross’s Landing, until fur
ther instruction by the legislature, and to-prohi
bit the Governor from subscribing for stock in
any of the branch rail roads, as authorized by ex
isting laws.
We understand that all the Banks of the city,
now open at 9 o’clock in the morning, and close
at 2 P. M. as formerly.
The Senior Editor of the Constitutionalist,
writing frosn Milledgcville, says;
“The message-of Governor Gilmer is a good
one; ho meets some of tho important questions
which will have to he taken into consideration by
the legislature, in an able, proper and indepen
dent manner. Ho recommends the prosecution
of the Slate Railroad. I hope every Georgian
will respond to this recommendation, and support
the legislature in the adoption of measures cal
culated to hasten the completion of that road.”
We are glad to see tho position here assumed,
and do hope that tlic State will not hesitate to
prosecute the completion of tho great Railroad
she has commenced. It would be a lasting dis
graceto her, after having spent a million and a
half of doWar,s, to abandon so important and use
ful a work.
Mexico.—The Bark Ann Eliza, Capt. Biscoe,
arrived at this port yesterday from Vera Cruz,
whence she sailed Sept. 27.
Capt. Briscoe reports that the last instalment
payable tb the French, of the SOOO,OOO contaact
tMfor hy tho treaty, was put onboard the French
brig Naiade a short time before he sailed. The
conducts from the capital, bringing the money,
bod not arrived at the appointed day, hut the
commercial houses at Vera Cruz subscribed the
amount and advanced k to the commandant.
Them was no news from the capital except
that tranquility prevailed. The Federalists were
no more heard of, and the central government,
now firmly established, was urging on tho reform
of the constitution suggested by Banta Anna. —
N. Y. Com, Adv. 7th inst.
Boundary Difficulties.—By the lowa
and Missouri papers it appears there is some pros
pect of another battle of Waterloo. At a place
of that name the military of lowa have rendez
voused, for tho purpose of resisting the collection
of taxes by a Missouri sheriff, who, according to
Die lowa Gazette of the 19th ult., was hunting
up soldiers on his own side of the disputed terri
tory, to compel the collection. The lowa “settlers”
have held a meeting, and
“ Resolved., That the citizens of the townships
whoso lands are not to be sold at the next sale,
be invited to attend at the land sales which com
mence on Monday next, at Burlington.”
On the other hand, the Paris (Mo.) Sentinel
of the 10th ult. has the following to say on the
subject;—
“We had hoped for a peaceful and amicable
adjustment of this difficulty, but it now appears;
that the storm thickens and the elements are be
ginning to wear a more gloomy aspect. If the
worst is yet to come, we are prepared to say
that every Missourian will do his duty.
Waii! War!— Since writing the above, a
special messenger has passed through this place
bearing information to the Governor ofthisState,
that an armed force from lowa, had seized upon
and fordibly attempted to imprison the Sheriffof
Clark county, who was as usual engaged in the
legal discharge of his official duties.
The citizens of' Clark have called upon Gener
al Willock of the 14th Division Missouri Militia
for aid, and the despatch who passed through this
morning on his way to the capitol is direct from
Gen. Willock to the Governor for orders.
We are snrry that it has come to this, but Mis
souri will and must stand by her rights ”
Another Slave Question —We understand
that a black, one of the servants on board the
Great Western, originally shipped here, and then
discharged in England, and re-shipped there, has
been claimed as a fugitive slave. As Captain
Hosken shipped him in England, and is bound to
r/fßfn him there, he refuses to give him up, with
out official instructions from the British Consul.
There the matter now rests. The claim was first
made yesterday. —A. V. Dispatch.
From the New 1 or/,- Times.
The Spoils System.
We have been requested by many of our bre
thren ot the press in different quarters, as well
ns by personal friends, to give a full report of
tho nmstc ly speech oLJ|Tr. Legnro at the great
Conservative meeting"recently held at National
Hall. We hope to be able to gratify them in
ibis respect before long. In the mean time, we
present to them at length the memorable passage
in which the distinguished orator spoke of the
exocral Ic spoils system of the party in power.
Mr. Legare had said that the two great leading
expedients of the Administration to bolster up
its power were WAR AND SPOILS; usd, af
ter having dwelt upon the divisions attempted to
be created between the different classes of socie
ty, as falling under tho former head, he proceed
ed to speak of the effect of tho latter ns follows :
He said he would venture to make a bold as
sertion—ho would affirm that there was nowhere
to be found in the annals of political corruption
and downfall—not even in the Italy of the 15th
and 16th centuries, proverbially infamous for the
praises which a Machiavcl bestowed upon the
crimes a Borgia perpetrated—a sentence more re
plete with cold-blooded, remorseless, audacious
jacobinism—more steeped in cynical and shame
less profligacy—-more utterly inconsistent with
the dignity of Governments, and all the great
ends of civil society, than that which had been
ascribed to a gentleman who had once played a
conspicuous part in the politics of this State,
and would do so again unless the good cause
should triumph at the approaching election, and
that “in spitoofall lamentations here or else
where he meant the saying that the offices of
the country were spoils of victory —interpreted
as that saying had been by tho practice of the
Government.
He did not mean, ho said, to impute to tho
author of that atrocious sentiment the moral de
pravity that would be implied in a perfect con
sciousness of the whole extent of its mischievous
ness. Ho. was willing to believe that he uttered
it with levity—a very criminal levity, however,
and sucli as does more to reconcile men’s minds
to great offences against morality and law, than
the greatest lessons of wickedness. He had no
thing to do with the individual; he spoke of the
words which were in every body’s mouth, and
which had become tho formula and the plea of
the most immoral and demoralizing practice that
had ever prevailed in any country pretending to
have the least respect for its institutions. And
ho repeated that in no collection of the maxims
of systematized libertinism, in no record of the
sayingsand doings of those hold, bad men, who
had, from the beginning of the world up to the
present moment, been allowed, in God’s inscruta
tablo providence, to mislead and sport with and
trample upon the human species as if they were
the predestined dupes and bond-slaves of usurpa
tion and imposture, was there to be met with a
sentence more perverse in principle, more profli
gate in character, more pernicious in tendency
more entirely at war with every notion of good
government, or any semblance of social order,
than that which treated the offices, the dignities,
the powers, the high and holy trusts of a great
nation as so much plunder to he fought for and
distributed in the strife of unprincipled factions,
like the booty of a camp of Tartars, or a prize
made by a gang of pirates. When Fouchc, (for,
said ho, it was Fouchc,and not Talleyrand—give
the devil his due !) in reply to some good, sim
ple. hearted man who hud spoken of the murder
of the Duked’Bnghien ns a crime, said, “it was
worse—it was a blunder,” Europe, corrupt and
profligate as we think it is, stood aghast, or affec
ted (and that was something) to stand aghast, at
the infernal wrong—tho diabolical sang-froid of
the phrase. And certainly he was not disposed
to say any thing to mitigate the horror it inspired.
He had no doubt that, if one were painting an
ideal of Muchianelism, it was just such a phrase
as would bo put into the mouth of the hero. But
looking at its tendency —trying it by the lest of
utility, in the long run it was innocence itself
compared with the maxim in question.
It was far more calculated to shock than to se
duce. Murder had no charms; there were ter
rors tiiat scared the boldest from doing it; there
were furies that agitated the most remorseless
that had done it. Above all, it was not apt, ex
cept in times of frenzy, to become epidemic and
popular. A nation of assassins had been reck
oned- among the curiosities of history, and no
body could have thought a recurrence of such a
thing possible, had it not been for what the French
convention had done. But the sentiment he re
ferred to had the signal demerit of being fatally
.practical. It addressed itself to all the ruling
passions of men; to our vices, to ambition, to
pride, to vanity, to that great master vice the
source of so many many others, mere indolence
and love of ease. It served naturally to rally a
party, or rather a faction, and throw the lend of
it into the tiands of the most unscrupulous and
reckless men. And, as if to leave no doubt of
the i/uo unimo of this abominable maxim, what
had they heard in the very hall of the Senate,
that most exalted and privileged body, composed
of but fifty-two men out of sixteen millions—
that more than Roman Sonata, in theory at least
it is—almost a Congress of Ambassadors, repre
senting the majority of sovereign States 1 There,
—even there, they had seen the doctrine pushed
to still more licentious consequences, and heard it
almost openly avowed that the men thus reward
ed with “tho spoils” for past services were ex
pectcd to retain them by future ones, in violating
the (iccdom of elections, and sedulously corrupt
ing the morality of our people!
Now, (said Mr. Legare,) what, in the name
of common sense, are you to expect from func
tionaries appointed on such principles and such,
conditions? What but the very things thatare<
every day becoming more and more disgracefully'-
familiar 1 Do you wonder that men chosen for
their appetite for plunder— as you yourselves call
it—and their skill in obtaining it, should exercise
their talents as plunderers at your expense, when
yon give them the means of doing so l Have
you any right to complain that when in office they
act up to the principles for which you reward
them with office? Accordingly the Administra
tion showed, hy the shape which they gave to
their favorite measure at the last session, that
they counted as little on the honesty of their
nominees as the Public have reason to do. By
one of those bold— not to say impudent—incon
sistencies of which, on all subjects, they are ha
bitually guilty, not only with impunity, but al
most without censure as without apology, in tiiat
very bill.* bottomed on the assumption that the
the public moneys.
public moneys would bo safer in tip; keeping of
the banks, and after a world of argument and
statistics to prove what the President in his Mes
sage called “severe and salutary” legislation,
just to remind those trust-worthy patriots of the
only security the Government has to depend on
in regard to them 1 To prove their entire confi
dence in the agents they recommend to our
choice, they enlarge the penal code ; and when
1 ‘See Mr. Wright’s bill for the better keeping ctf
they safe or a sub-treasury to keep their
nioneys, they erect by the side of it a penitentia
ry to keen the keepers!
having occasioned loud applause
and laughter, Mr. Lkoaiik went on to say:]
But, gentlemen, to front a subject so serious in
n manner more suitable to its gravity and impor
tance: the idea of republican government in its
purity and perfection is, that it is the best possi
ble scheme of distributive justice, —that it is the
“equallest, the justest, and the noblest” of all
forms, because Vnnrit is sure of its reward under
it; because talents and integrity, and zeal for the
public service, however unaided bytpnlronago or
cabal, never fail to make their way to distinction,
and to impress upon the character of the whole
community the dignity and the elevation that
belong to them. But what is the practice of our
rulers, under the execrable system of which I am
speaking? Tp talk of merit, however extraordi
nary, is considered as mere raving—to recommend
a man to any branch of the public service only
on account of his pre-eminent fitness for it, is
to make your simplicity a subject of derision at
court. This is literally exact. The question is,
“what have you done to help the cause at an elec
tion ?” That is tho whole duty of u patriot.—
The language which t.ie candidate Irolds to him
who represents the majesty of the people, and is
clothed in the awful attribute of supreme power,
under the immense responsibility it imposes, is
something like this: “ I led ton men to the polls,
I must he a tido-winter,” says A. “ I fed up a
hundred,” says B. “I demand a high place in the
custom-house.” And I,” says C. “caused many
hundreds to perjure themselves—to stain their
souls with crime against God and man.” “Be
thou a justice!” cries the eager Executive—
“and go on in well-doing.
Mr. Lcgarc said he might push this subject a
good deal further, and show the moral havoc
which such a principle would necessarily work
in society, hut ho turned away with shame and
disgust from the revolting theme. But there was ,
one consequence of it too important to bo omit
ted. Hitherto he had spoken of the effects of '
the system on the.character of the nominee, and,
of course, of th£- department of public affairs' ,
Committed to his charge. There was another ,
aspect of the subject; he meant the effect of the .
same principle on the relation between the Exe- .
cutivo and its subordinates. That was just wiVffy,
arbitrary and corrupt power always sulfets fro.ni' (
its instruments. This never fails. It is tho ty- I
rant’s doom all the world round, that he is tho 1
slave of his janissaries. Docs any man doubt 1
this who has eyes to sec what has been passing 1
before them within the two last years? Did not 1
the dovelopements mpdo to the House during flic 1
last session, hasty and imperfect as the investign- 1
(ion necessarily was, show that fact beyond all
doubt? Had thewjjot read the most extraordina
ny correspondence that had ever boon printed bo- t
tween the head of the Treasury and some of his i
defaulters in office? “Will you ho so gqq<Lj« to t
resign?” says tho Secretary in his most motion- t
sive manner. “Faith, but I will not!” says the
sturdy demagogue. “Then give up the public f
money?” “I don’t do that either, and beware c
how you touch itae—we arc strong, and we can j
shake your udirfinistratjon about your cars.” |,
This had not boon confined tu obaflure persons r
and to distant places. In tho city of Washing- t
ton—in the face of the whole nation—a scene j
had occurred which had attracted little attention, (
because (he supposed) such thiugp arc becoming ,
mere matters of course. He meant what had ta- |
ken place on tho appointment of that very wor
thy gentleman, Mr. Muhlenberg, to the place
which he now holds of Minister at Vienna.—
Tho present collector of Philadelphia, Mr. Wolf,
was at that time filling the highly responsible and
respectable office of Complrolfer of the Treasury
at tho seat of government, ife had boon a rival
candidate with Mr. Muhlenberg for the place of
Governor of Pennsylvania. When, therefore, ,
the appointment of that gentleman to Austria ,
was announced, in the true spirit of a system ,
which teaches every popular leader of the day to
regard the country and its government as his ,
nfc/perly—as mere spoils—this gentleman is said ,
©have regarded the nomination of his late com
petitor to something higher than his own place |
as injustice to himself. He accordingly resented
it in the proper spirit. He threw up his com
mission of Comptroller in disgust, mid was rea
dy to retire to the bosom of that people who, be
seemed to think, would bn sure to make common
cause with him for such a personal wrong, al
though neither he nor they had any other fault to
find with the administration, being then, us they
bow are, its most devoted supporters. Well,
what was tho bourse of the Executive? Did he
say to the man whoseconduct was so flagrant an
offence to the dignity of the country—who had
dared, on a personal ground of that kinji, to in
fringe the liberty of the Executive itself in the
exercise of its most undoubted prerogative, for a
high national purpose—did the President tell
him, in that language of lofty and severe because
well-mcrited rebuke which such a preposterous
pretension on the part of any citizen of this coun
try ought to call down upon his head, “Go! be
gone! if there were no other reason (or dismiss
ing you, this is enough; go, and see whether the
people of Pennsylvania are ready to make your
imaginary private griefs a ground of public war.
I shall defend the honor of the government and
fulfil the duties of my station at every hazard.”
No, gentlemen, you know it was not so; you
have all heard that Mr. Wolfs demands were
treated as quite reasonable, and that he is now
the successor as collector of Philadelphia of his
own successor as Comptroller of the Treasury.—
If this is not history, let it be denied; if it is, what
will posterity say of it, and how can the people
of this country—how can row bear it.
John Paul Jones.—Wo present to our read-,
erg to-day two revolutionary documents, which
we are informed, have never been published.—
The first is a letter written hy Commodore Jones,
dated March 7th, 1777, immediately after the
malignant eu«y of his-foes in America had suc
soeded in procuring his recall from his Eastern
command. It will be found to breathe the spirit
of the tunes.— PliHu. Herald.
Philadelphia, March 7th, 1777.
Honored Sir:—As I was lately entrusted with
a very unexpected command of great importance,
which in the common course of things hath
drawn upon mo the envy of certain individuals—
being unconscious of any misconduct in tho line
of my duty, I have determined to bear no insinu- j
ationa that may reflect upon me as a gentleman
or an officer; therefore I earnestly desire an op
portunity of meeting tho 1/carer or bearers, author
or authors, of any aspersions from Commodore
Hopkins, face to face in your presence, or in the
presence of the Marine Board. t
1 mean to make no difficulty or demur about
my present appointment, hut will leave you to j
judge how much room those who lately envied (
me the command of a fleet will have to exult, |
when they see me return to the eastward to coin
mand a single sloop of war.
I have put the plan which I showed you on v
the regulations and equipment of the Navy, with
some small additions, into the hands of the Presi
dent, who says he will meet you at the Marine
Beard, sooner than usual, tins evening, in order to
hove some conversation on the subject. I am with
the most perfect esteem and greutful remembrance
of past favors.
Honored Sir,
Your truly obliged, very humble,
Most Obedient servant,
J. P. JONES.
flic next is a copy of tbe original letter of
credit nr commendation, brought by Count Pu
luaski from Rodrigues Hortalez & Co., of Paris,
dated May 3, 1777. Our readers will recollect,
that R. Hortalez & Co. was the house with whom
Dr. Franklin negotiated the first loan that the
United States procured from any foreign power.
1‘ ranco at that period, had all her sympathies en
listed in tho cause ol tho American arms, not
from any particular knowledge of the American
character, or from an abstract love of liberty, but
from a long cherished inveterate hatred of Eng
land. “To rob the British crown of its brightest
jewel,” she determined to extend to the Colonies
all the aid in her power.
i he hnanccs ol the French government wore
inadequate to tho supply of our wants. By the
exertions of Franklin and Deane, Hortalez & Co.
were induced to loan Louis the 16th, the then
reigning monarch of France, the sum of $3,000,-
000, for which the crown became* responsible.—
ihe king, on making the loan, appropriated
$2,(100,1100 to the use of the colonics, under the
orders of the Commissioners to that kingdom, and
reserved (he remaining one million to be disposed
ot at pleasure. To Beaumarchais was assigned the
duty ol disbursing this fund. The American
Commissioners drew for tho $2,000,000. The
balance they had no power to touch. On the
return of tho Commissioners from Franae, a ques
tion was raised as to the appropriation of the re
maining million, when the Commissioners refer
red the Commissioners of the Treasury of the U.
Slates to the French government. The subject
constituted a chief difficulty in tho relations of
this country and France, until the embassy of Mr.
Gallatin to Franco, after the close of the late war.
The topic then being broached, M. the Count do
Vcrgetines declared to Mr. Gallatin, that the sum
had been disbursed for tho use of the American
Government; and that tho vouchers wore un re
cord, hut gave no explanation of the mode of ap
propriation. It was supposed that it had been
employed as secret service money in England,
during the Revolutionary war, and the explana
tion was deemed sufficient. This firm it was
wlio gave to Count Pulaski the subjoined letter,
which will he read with interest, if only on ac
count of tho associations it awakens.
An exact Narrative of the Count Pulaski.
Tho Count Casimir Victor Pulaski, is one of
the Pohuiders who enjoyed tho most note in the
troubles of that Republic. Ho has sacrificed at
the shrine of liberty, an income of one hundred
thousand livres per annum.
His father was the first author of the confed
eracy of Bar; he took up arms for the same
cause that now actuates tho Americans, and fell
in its defence. Francois Pulaski, the elder, was
killed in battle; the younger was made prisoner,
and this one lookup arms when nineteen years
old, and has borne them with success and glory
from the first day of the confederation until the
three neighboring Powers, uniting with a body of
six hundred thousand men, encircled all the
frontiers. Casimir Pulaski defended several forts,
has given many battles,sand surprised the fortress
of Gzenstokar, sustained thirty-two sieges against
the flower of the Russian army and a corps of ar
tillery, furnished hy the King of Prussia —he
' found himself included in the affair of suprising
and carrying off the King. The only part he
hud in this affair was the drawing out of Vasso
rie all the republican troops and giving them bat
tle at ten leagues distance from that capitol, while
this operation was carrying inti- execution. But
all his family were become very odious to the
Russians, and they let fall on him in particular
all the severe punishment inflicted in consequence
of this affair. When therefore, the confederates
were constrained to lay down their arms hy this
line funned hy tins three Powers, Count Pulaski
left his in the fortress of Czonstorkara saying to
his men they might make what accommodation
they pleased ; and he, though he had in his pos
session the whole treasury atnnsscd hy tliat.au
cient monastery, left Poland with only 100 du
cats, and hy the assistance ofhis friends, went over
into Turkey, there to continue to wage war
against the oppressors of his country. Peace
was declared a few days after his arrival there
and this day he might return to Poland if he
would disavow in writing, all the proceedings of
the confederacy of Bar ,- but us that would he
disavowing the work of his family and all the en
terprises undertaken to redeem his country from
slavery, he prefers remaining an exile, and only
aspires to make America his new country.
This narrative is contained in Messrs. Frank
lin and Deane’s fetters to General Washington,
Mr, Hancock, &c.; and is hut a short and con
cise relation of the manly and vigorous conduct
of M. tho Count do Pulaski in Poland, so well
known and established in all Europe. And this
we certify at Paris.
(Signed,)
RODE RIG UEB HORTALEZ & Co.
May 30th, 1777.
Credit.—No country in the world furnishes
such triumphant proof of the beneficial effects of
credit as our own. It was settled upon credit; it
fought the war of Independence upon credit; it
lias converted forests into gardens on credit; its
sails have whitened every ocean on the glolie on
credit; it has dHven most of the manufactures of
England from our borders by credit; by credit it
lives and moves, and without it there would bo
neither national independence nor individual en
terprise. We therefore, utterly deny the princi
ple assumed, in hostility to credit, and maintain
that it is as fidse in theory as it is anti-republican
and destructive in practice. We maintain that
every poor man who desires an adequate reward,
for his labor, is interested, in maintaining n cred
it system which will furnish that, and in denoun
cing any and every measure that is calculated to
enhance the value of coin, and thus diminish the
number of his employers; that every young
man whose fortune is yet to be made hy his in
dustry can have no hope of success through any
other moans limn the credit which his character
may enable him to obtain, and that to close upon
him the avenues which have conducted so many
to prosperity would f»e ns disastrous to the com
munity as it would bo unjust to the individual.—
Salem Oazellc,
Instructions.—The Nashville Banner stales
tlmt "resolutions instructing our .Senators and
requesting our Representatives in Congress logo,
in substance, for Power and Prerogative, or in
other words, as his Federal Majesty, Martin Van
Huron, may desire, were introduced into the Sen
ate on Friday hy Mr. Coe of Fayette. Wo un
derstand they are of the true lick-spittle order,
without possessing the ability ordinarily display
ed in such documents.
1 iPTJtKX Gallon I* a \v. —ln the liquor holmes
in JJnston a room is sot apart furnished with
brandy, gin, &o. and on a table a basket. When
people are dry they go into this room, help them
selves, drink what they please, drop a sixpence
in the basket and walk out. At night the land
lord goes and gets his donations.
Handsome Conduct.—The officers of the
Ist U. S. Artillery at Plattsburg, have hud repair
ed the dilapidated monument erected to Commo
dore Downic, who fell in the action with Macdo
nough. The monument was erected by the sis
ter-in-law of Commodore Downie, in Scotland.
N. Y. Star.
PIIKTTY Goon, WIIKTHEU TRUK OH SOT.
The following is vouched for by the Baltimore
Clipper:
A Dutchman from the west went to pay his
Excellency the President of the United States,
a visit. He happened to cull just as the Presi
dent and four others were silling down to uiuc.
1 bo President asked him to lie seated, at the samo
time inquiring it there was any thing now or
strange in his county.
“No, I links not, except dat one of my cows
hash five calves.”
“Ah! indeed—and do they nil ruck atone
timel”
“No, sar,” replied the Dutchman, “four of ’em
slicks while do (udder looksh on, shush as 1
dush.”
The hint was so significant that a clean plate
was immediately ordered, and the Dutchman sea
ted at the table where he partook of a comforts
, ble dinner with his excellency the President.
_ An instance of extraordinary speed on the
Great Western railway is recorded. The story
goes that one of the drivers anxious to put to the
test certain statements on the subject of atmos
pheric resistance, obtained permission of the engi
neer in chief to run an engine and tender at the
highest possible speed through the whole
length of the lino, an engagement being entered
into, that in the event of disastrous consequences,
ensuing to the adventurer, provision should be
made for his widow and children, and that a
tune being chosen, when the lino was quite clear
from all traffic, i.‘ • “stance of twenty-eight miles
was gone over, at the rule <\f more than one hun
dred miles an hour Ball. Pat.
1 he worst hills that we hoar of are those of the
Maumee (Ohio,) Insurance Company, which
arc so had that an individncl at Cleveland propo
ses that if the physicians at Maumee will receive
them for curing the fever and ague, he will make
a trip up that way, and take a few shakes, in or
der to get rid of the notes.
Printing ii v tiis yard.—Wo received a roll
of printed paper seventy feet in length, from the
printing and drying machine of Mr. Thomas
French, now in operation at Hanover, N, J.—
This enormous sheet contains eight hooks of one
hundred and sixty pages each. The register is
good and the impression clear. We learn that at
the above mentioned establishment the rags are ta
ken in at one door and stitched books delivered at
another, at the rale of some thousands of volumes
per day. The sheet received, is printed on both
sides, with the Spelling Book. What promise
for the rising generation. — Philud. North Amer.
It is stated in the Peoria Register that 200
Russian families, flying from religious persecu
tion at homo, arc about settling in the territory of
Wisconsin.
Ton Sally.
BY ZEPIIANIAII STARI.INO.
Sally Bumpkins arc the gal,
Wat I doo most add mire
I kol bur mi swctc cliarmin Sal,
And ime bur /cpbaniah.
Sally’s cheeks air like tho rose,
Hur lips are like tho cherry;
Hur ise air laffin stars of lite,
Hur hart is alters merry.
Hur voyce is like a anjel’snote,
Upon tho breezes bloom
Hnrstcp is like a farres—Hie,
Hur grayces air hur own.
By golly, tho’ she is a gal
Wat’s got my hart kumplctely,
And when I hug hur tu my hrest,
Hur kisses air so swetely.
Consignees per South Carolina Rail Road.
IlAMnuna, November 12, 1839.
Stovall, Simmons <fc Co.; Bees & Beall, R. In
graham; J. M. & W. Adams; W. Hattier; E. & J.
Snyder; II W; Gould &. Bulkley; Clarke, McTeirSt
Co,; A. Frederick; T. Dawson; I. S. Beers & Jo.,
S. Hale; T. H. Wyatt; F. Lamback; Rathhone &
Baker; G. A. Simmons; B. F. Kendrick; W. Si J.
Nelson; Scranton & Smith; I. Moise; J. Purse; J. K.
& II.flora; F. H. Cook; H. C. Bryson & Co.; T. Rich
ards; J. W. Houghton; R. C. Baldwin Si Co.; D.; J.
Hubbard; E. Adams; G. Parrott; J. Levy; W. W.
Gray; Jeffers St Boulwarc; J. F. Benson,
SWEET ORANGES.—Just received, fourdoors
hejow the Eagle and Phoenix Hotel, 7 bbls
ol very line Oranges, which will be sold at the low
price of $2 50 per hundred—smaller quantities in
proportion. VVM. H. HATTIER.
p °vl3 trwSt
I J'AKEN from a negro, a sorrel roan Mare, hind
■ feet white nearly up to the hocks, a white
streak on the nose, and a white star on the fore
head, supposed to bo five or six years old next
spring. The said mare was taken by me from a
runaway negro, now in the jail of Richmond coun
ty, and was stolen from Talbutton. Theowneris
requested to call on the subscriber, pay expenses
and take her away. SILAS JOHNSON,
Watkinsvillc, at the foot of the Sand Hills,
_ nny (3 w2w near Augusta.
II KM OVAL.
CONFECTIONARY ESTABLISHMENT.
II L. NEI 111 returns his thanks for former
|f a patronage, and would inform his friends
and the public, that he has removed his Confection
ary from under the United States Hotel to the New
Store in Broad street, recently occupied by H- C.
Bryson & Co, and nearly opposite the store of
George 11. Jessup.
lie has now on hand, and will constantly keep a
good assortment of Candies, Cordials, Wines, &c.
which he will dispose of on moderate terms. *
nov 11 trw!6
SUPPER HOUSE ON THE GEORGIA
RAH.-ROAD FOR SALE.
The undersigned having remsved from
fel i h i s ‘." te w . m * pll large Hotel in Craw
situated at the Georgia Kail-
Koad Depot, on accommodating terms. After No
yember next, this will be the Supper House for the
descending daily train, and will be continued per
manently as such. For further particulars apply
to J. F. on the spot.
23trw 2wr H. J*. THOMPSON.