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i^n-ttieclilti^CliriDiiick&ScjitimeL ... U -■ —1 1~-l - •• -J—IIL . 1 'IB I _1 LJ^I WILLIAM E. JONES & Co. AUGUSTA, Ga. THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 14, ISB9. y OL IH._No. 110 -f -ITITW^MMM M I i|■ !■■ ■! |« ■! W ■TT¥I T Tar. CHHONICJLE AND SKNTIXEf. PUBLISHED, D ILY, TIU-WEEKLY, AND WEEKLY, At No. Broadsheet, terms: Bni lj paper, Ten Dollars per annum, in advance. Tri Weekly paper, at Six Dollars in advance or Saven at the end of the year. WeiklypapT, Three Dollars in advance,or Four at the end of year. CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. AUGUSTA.’ r 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.