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StHDeehli) Chronicle & Sen tincl ■ | . - L I —— "KB. , 11 ' MB'. 1 L IJB lia. L ■ JJJ 1 I I , ' J \VI ..IAM E. JONES k Co. AUGUSTA, Ga. SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4, 1840. * V01.1V.-NoI §HE C HP >MCLE AND SKSTISBI. )H PUBLISHED p ,ILV, Till-WKEKLY, AND WEEKLY, At ,Vo. 209 Broad-street. terms: Lit / paper, Ten Dollars per annum, in advance. Weekly payer, at Six Dollars m advance or 1.-’ Siven at the end of the year. , P Weikly papsr,Three Dollars in advance, or hourat lIL the end of year. IcHROMOLK AND SKNTINKL. AIHiIiSTA. I ' pa id At" MORNING, JANUARY 3. I ~Wc conlimß to-day our publication of Hie acts |of our State Legislature. The whole number B passed is 218, of which a large majority are of M purely a local or private character. gj Extract from the correspondence of the Charleston Courier, dated Washington, Deeem -1 * ber 26. i “fn the House, the standing Committees were I ordered to be appointed, on motion of Mr- Wise, ’M who, at the same time, signified hisdesrcto e ji | excused from nerving on and standing W tec. 1 promise it is Mr. Wise’s intention to ofler W a resolution for a further investigation mto thi. M affairs of the departments, the Collector.-hip, St Land Offices, Ac., and that he will be chairman Wk of the Committee, to conduct tlic investigation. W We hope so; we sincerely hope that such a ra Committee will he appointed, of men of high for talents and integrity, and should he -*glad to see Mr. Wise its chairman. There has been an investigation into the affiirs ol the tEspartment, 1 by any Committee opposed to the Iministration since General Jackson came into ice. If the administration is as corrupt as its ponents alledge, it is high time that it should exposed, and if it is as pure us its friends pre ad, it will conic out brighter from a rigid and orough investigation. For the Chronicle $• Sentinel. In 1836, the following clause in an act, to uend several acts in relation to the city of An isia, passed the Legislature. “That from and after the passage of this act, iit shall not be lawful for the City Council to ap point, or elect any one of their body to any office within said city'' Now, Messrs. Editors, it is said, that some member or members, do hold appointments undci its present Council—and if such be the (acts, it is certainly contrary to the express law. M Correspondence of the Charleston Courier. Wash i sgton, December 25, 1839. T The House did not dispose of the question be- J fore it, yesterday, respecting the execution of the I printing of Congress. If they go into the elec f tion < Printer, the Globe will doubtless get it.— f Hut the motion to postpone the election till Feb. Ist with a view to ascertain, in the mean time, ft whether the Public Printing cannot be done bel- I ter and cheaper by contract, than in the present A mode, may possibly prevail. There is a rumor * that the Globe is to be transferred to the Edilor s*' ijhip of Mr. Croswoll, of Albany. In that case, Ojit will no doubt be a Benton Democratic paper. The sluggle between the Buchanan and the if Benton increases for the succession to Mr. Van 9 Huron, four or live years hence, has already ft commenced in earnest, and it may begin to have I some influence on the politics of the the present 1 day. Its influence was felt even in the Speak - I er’s election. The course of the Southern Stales, I and of Souh Carolina in particular, in this new 9 controversy, is a matter ot some speculation. I The west is coming so strong, under the next f census, that the old Atlantic Slates must he uni ted or they will be overshadowed and defeated. C They cannot keep the control of the Govern- A ment more than ten years longer at any rate, and ■ if they do not make the President who is to suc j sl, ceed Mr. Van Buren, they will never make one. * Jt is time for Pennsylvania to put in her claim, Gs she ever does. She has made 1 residents lor V T&ther Stales, and now it seems to be her intention %to make one for herself. She elected Jefferson, | Madison, Jackson, and Van Huron, and will now ) try to elect Buchanan. I lake it for granted, es- M pecially after the Harrisburg nomination, that J Mr. Van Buren will be re-elected. There will r; belittle effective opposition to him. Somesup £ pose that Mr. Clay would have been more avail fing, but that is doubtful. Gen. Scott says, as I i mi told, that the Convention made a great mis xakc in not taking him up, as be could, lie thinks have been elected with ease. He might have carried more votes ai the South, but not in Penn sylvania and the West. Wabuinoton, Dee. 26. So many of the members have left the city, that it is doubtful whether there will he a quo rum formed to-morrow or not. The session into he a stormy one, though not very basiness-like. The nearly equal division of parties in the House, and their peculiar relations to each oilier, must retard business, and provoke many angry con troversies. The abolition petitions and the ques- I tions arising thereform, will be again thrust upon the House, and will he made more of a political hobby than ever. The Georgia and Maine ques tion will inevitably come before Congress, in some shape or other, and may produce some ex citement. These quarrels between the States may become very serious, and disastrous, especi ally where their territory is coterminous ; but Georgia is 100 far off from Maine, to allow of any * oorder warfare. The halls ol Congress must be Cthe battle-ground of the parties. It is difficult to tell what t 'ongressicau do on this subject,though , they have much to say in regard to it. With less personal popularity than any other I President, or candidate lor the Presidency, Mr. Van Huron's re-election is hardly considered as a matter of doubt. It appears that with the utmost economy, in the appropriations for the present year, we shall run ashore for money, unless the Bank ol the United Stales and the other indebted Banks should pay up. v» ashinotox, Dec. 27, 1839. Our Northern Mail still continues two days be ll bind band, and f "he (South and West, we are 3 'i'-- lar advices. It seems re p -• that these failures should .aj , when the carriage is al- ost altogell.ei . . u 1 Road and Steam boats, nd the rive jt yet frozen over, and al- Jough an exen - ght be made for one day’sde lav, by the heavy fall of snow we have experien ced, yet we think it the duly ol contiaetors to provide immediately for the proper transmission of the mail, instead of looking on listlessly as they have done here lately. The day the President s Message was delivered, there was no certain con veyance North or South, until a few gentlemen started a sleigh on their own hook, to carry some half dozen copies for the newspapeis in Balti more, as the Locomotive had halted after proceed ing about 15 miles, and some of the passengers returned to town. Mr. Van Ness, our Minister to Spain, arrived here to-day, with his Spanish bride; it is their in tention to spend a month in the amusements of the city. Mr. Webster will visit home before be takes his seat in the Senate, and we shall probably con tinue without a full organization ol that body lor sumo lime ; the Vice President lias not yet arri ved, and several Senators have paired oil to pass the holidays elsewhere. The members of the House have been engaged in a religious discussion all the morning, on the question ot rocoiisiiicnng a resolution to proceed in the election of a Chaplain, witli the Senate— Messrs. M. A. Coopei, of Ga., It. Garland, of La., andCrahb, of Ala., spoke at some length against the appointment of a salaried Minister, and Mr. G. stated that the present manner of en suring the election of that officer, was accomplish ed through petty electioneering, and other means wholly unbecoming a mock and lowly servant ol the Almighty. Messrs. Wise, Nesbitt, of Geo., and Slade, of Vt., entered into a beautiful homily on the Chris tian religion, and the remarks of Mr. N- were certainly the most eloquent I ever listened to. The motion to reconsider was negatived by a large majority. The resignation of Mr. C. F. Mercer, of \ ir ginia.asa member of the House, was read and laid on the table. Mr. M. left the city yesterday for Florida, where de enters upon his duties as Cashier of the Union Bank, on the Ist proximo. A message from the President was received through Major Van Buren, his Private Secreta ry, and laid on the Clerk’s table. I believe it only contains the documents accompanying the Annual Returns of the Secretaries. Mr. Dawson’s resolution lo postpone the elec tion of Printer, was modified so as to make the time the 10th of January, instead ol the Ist Feb ruary, and passed. In the meantime, the Clerk ia to superintend and give out the necessary print ing of the House. Mr. Briggs, of Mass, moved that when the House adjourn, it meet on Monday next —car- ried. The resolution of Mr. Pickens, for the appoint ment of the Standing Committees by the Chair, was then passed. Mr. Wise, of Va. requesting the House to excuse ins services on any of the Committees for personal reasons. Mr. Hoffman, of N. Y. from the Committee ou Rules, reported a resolution for the adoption of the rules of last session until the lOlliol Jan uary—carried. A communication from the Governor of lowa, concerning the difficulties between that Territory and the State bf Missouri, was laid on the table. Mr. Stanley, of N. C. moved the House now adjourn (2j P. M.) —negatived. The motion to print 20,000 copcis of the Message, was then ta ken up, and the ayes and noes called on the ques tion, “shall the main question be now put,” and decided in the affirmative. So the House has decided by a large majority, that 20,000 copies of the message, and 8000 of the accompanying doc uments should be printed. The whole number of members present is only about 140.—Adjourned. The Senate was engaged this morning in re ceiving messages from the President, ami memo rials on a variety of subjects, of no interest to your readers, except a report from the Secretary of Stale, concerning the sixth census of the Uni ted States. •Dreadful Shipwreck ami Loss of Life. The Detroit Free Press of Ihe lOthinst. contains the particulars of the loss of the brig Neptune, John H. Sims, driven on shore at Little Point an Sable, on Lake Michigan, in the gale of the 25th ult. There was on board in all. nine of the crew and eleven passengers, all drowned and perished with the cold ex -opt Capt. finis, who, with two others, reached the shore. One the brother of the captain, and Webster, the mate, the two who ventured to leave the wreck with the captain, perished immediately on reaching the shore. The brig was full freighted from Bulliilo for Chicago, principally with mcrchan diz.e. Massachusetts Special Election.—A spe cial election took place on the 23d ult. in the Franklin Congressional district, for a member of # Congress to supply the vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr. Alvord. Osmyn Baker, of Am herst, is again the Whig candidate, and Rev. Ro dolphus Dickinson the Van Buicn candidate. Massachusetts Election. —The Boston Post of the 23d inst. publishes the returns of all the votes for Governor, and gives Morton a ma jority of 14. The Atlas of the 241 h, savs : The. Post states that there arc four scattering votes in Mansfield, but docs not count them. Why not 1 Counting these and allowing 9 scat tering in Rowley, which we nave reason to think tlie Post has omitted in its calculations, Morton would be elected by one vole ! Marcus Morion chosen Governor by one vote! .Should the offi cial returns show this to he the fact, we envy not the feelings of that man calling himself a Whig, who, oy his refusal to goto the polls, has sullied the fair fame of old Massachusetts by giving her a Locofoco Chief Magistrate. Shame upon such a reprobate 1 Shame! Shame! The Atlas adds : Scatterino Votes —The Post sometime ago declared that “the utmost industry of all par ties had been able to collect but 238* scattering votes.” Yesterday that paper admitted that 309 had been found, including Mansfield. Our table now shows 324, and if this be correct, Morton j« defeated by six votes. Will the Post publish the names of the towns in which the scattering votes it has collected, were, given 1 If it will do that, we will compare returns. That’s (air, what say you, Post boy. The A usual Tiieasukt Report. —The An nual report of the Secretary of the Treasury to Congress, is published in the last number of the Globe, filling eight columns, a space which we cannot at present spare for it. The most important points in this document are, of course, First, the state of the Treasury. On this head, the “ available balance of money in the Treasury on the 31st of December 1839,” is sla ted at 81,556,384. Secondly, the amount of moneys estimated to be ncce sary for the service of the next year. j These arc estimated to amount to “at least $31.- 132,106, of which it is computed that $20,000,- 000 will bo expended ivilhin that year for ordi nary purposes, or two millions and three-fourths more, including the redemption of Treasury Notes.” Thirdly , to meet this expenditure, the cus toms, land sales, and miscellaneous services are estimated to amount within the year to $18,000,- 000. and, with the balance estimated to be in the Treasury on the Ist January, 1840, to constitute the sum of $20,156,385, as “the efficient means" for 1840. Fourthly , the amount of imports and exports. The amount of Exports for the year ending Sep tember 30, 1831), is estimated to have been sllß.- 359,000, being an excess over those of 1838 of $9,873,388, Os the whole exports, only $17,- 408,000 were of foreign origin. The hnportx for the same peiiod arc estimated to have amount ed to about $157,700,000, being an excess to the large extent of $43,892,356 over those during the previous year.— National Intelligencer. We understand that there is a suit pending against Wsw. //. Kerr, lute postmaster in this oity, ax a defaulter to the government to n large amount. The ease came up incidentally, on Friday, when the papers were read in court.— The amount of the lute loco focn postmaster's defalcations appears from the papers and the ac count of the government on file, to he $69,000. It is well known that Mr. Dupuy, who was in office under Mr. Adams, and who paid up hix ac countx like an honest man, was turned out by Gen. Jackson, to make room for Capt. Kerr.— N. O. True American. The Houndary trouble between Missouri and lowa has taken a turn which removes all appre hensions of a collision between the citizens in and near the disputed territory. On the 13th instant the Court of Clark county, Missouri, in consideration of certain proceedings on the part of the Legislature of low a which were presented to its notice directed the Missouri mill ia which had been ordered out to he disbanded. The lowa Legislature proposes that nil hostile action r hall be suspended on the part of Missouri, and that the adjustment of the difficulties he made by Congress. —lialtivwae American. Acts of the Legislature. ( Continued.) 109 To amend the Patrol Laws of this State. 110 To incorporate the Fort Gaines Metho dist Episcopal Church in Early county. 111 To establish an Election precinct in the county of Baker, and two additional precincts in the county of Murray. 1 12 To empower the representatives and heirs of McLin Lundy to establish a ferry over the Sa vannah Kiver, as Hudson’s Landing. 113 To authorize Linscy 11. Smith to build a mill-dam across Broad Kiver, with certain re strictions. 114 To authorize the Justices of the Inferior Court of Paulding county, to refund the excess of lax which was collected from them in 1839. 115 To reduce the Sherilf bonds of this State, so far as relates to the county of Dade. 116 To incorporate certain Academies therein named, appoint Trustees for the same, and confer on said Trustees certain powers and privileges, and appoint additional Trustees for Williams’ Academy. 117 To amend and explain (he second section of an act passed on the 22d Dec. 1828, entitled an act for the protection of orphans. 118 To incorporate the First Unversalist Church in the county of Macon, called hy the name of the Mount Zion Chapel. 119 To extend the operation of the act passed the I 6lh Dec. 1794, entitled an act for pointing out the method of compelling persons residing in this State, to give evidence in causes pending in another 119 To alter and fix the time of holding the Inferior and Superior Courts in the county of Twiggs. 121 To authorize and empower the Justices of the Inferior Court of Bulloch county to levy and collect a tax to pay the Jurors of said county. 122 To alter and amend an act entitled an act to appoint additional commissioners on the Ohoo py and Canoochce rivers ofTatnall counly pass ed 27th December, 1838, so far as relates to the commissioners of the Ohoopy river, and for oth er purposes. 123 To change the line between the counties of Washington and for ohtcr pur poses therein named. 121 To provide a remedy for indorsers against all prior endorsers and makers of promissory notes, and other contracts in certain cases therein mentioned. 125 1 o authorise the Justices of the Inferior Court of the county of Houston, to levy an ex tra tax for county purposes, on certain conditions. 126 To change the time of holding the Infe rior Courts, so far as respects the county of Troup, the Superior and Inferior Courts of the c« unty of Bibb, and the Superior Courts of the county of Thomas. 127 To incorporate the Georgia Iron Manu facturing Company. 128 To impose, levy and collect a tax for the political year 1840, on property, Doth real and personal, and to inflict penalties for refusing or neglecting to comply with the provisions thereof. 129 To keep open, prevent and remove ob structions from Lott’s Creek, in the counly of Bulloch. 130 To incorporate the Volunteer Light Blues, in the county of Upson. 131 To prevent persons from obstructing the free passage of fish up the Altamah river, by the use of gill-nets, seines over fifty feet in length. 132 To consolidate the offices of Receiver of Tax Returns ami Tax Collect irs of this State, so far as respects the counties of Dude and Dooly. 133 To alter and fix the times of holding the Inferior Courts in the county of Muscogee. 134 To amend an act to compensate the su perintendents of precinct elections in the coun ties of Troup, Harris and Richmond ; and to change the places of holding precinct elections west of the Chattahoochee from Joss’ store to the west bank of the Chattahoochee river, to the town of Vernon in said county. 135 To authorise His Excellency the Gover nor, to furnish the corps of Republican Blues, at Savannah, with fifty stand of arms. 13(f To repeal an act entitled an act to com pensate Petit Jurors in the county of Lumpkin assented to 24th Dec. 1823, also to repeal the sixth section of an act entitled an act to compen sate the grand and petit jurors of the Superior and Inferior Courts of the several counties there in named, and to provide for the payment of the same, assented to 23d Dec. 1837. 137 To amend an act, passed the 10th Dec. 1803, and to make a uniform standard of weights and measures in this State. 138 To compensate the Justices of the Infe rior Court of the county of Appling. 139 To authorise the Justices of the Inferior j Courts of the several counties in this Stale to 0 create and lay oil'any now District, or to change and alter the lines of those already laid out. 140 To authorise the Sheriff of Washington county, to advertise all sales hy him, to be made in the Southern Advocate. 141 To he entitled an act to alter and fix the times of holding the Superior, and Inferior courts in the counties of Pulaski and Richmond, and the Superior courts of Montgomery, Tattnall, ami Emanuel counties. 142 To continue in force the act passed on the 7th Dec. 1812, entitled an act to amend and explain the 29th section of the Judiciary Law Os this Stale, mid to require non-resident attorneys to pay cost in certain esses. 143 To amend an act to grant to Thomas Spalding ami his associates, the right of construc ting a Railroad of wood, or digging a canal from the Ocmulgeo to the Flint river with certain pri vileges, approved Dec. 23d, 1827, and an act supplementary thereof, approved December 22d, 1834. 144 More effectually to prescribe the methods of keeping and auditing the annual account cur rent in the Executive, Comptroller, and Treasu rer's office, and for other purposes. 145 To amend the several Road Laws of this Stale so far as respects the county of Chatham. 146 To secure to owners of fisheries on the Savannah river, their rights to the same, and to admit the free passage of fish up said river. 147 To authorise the Justices of the Inferior court of tile county of Muscogee, to lay oil’ a lot on the East Commons of the city of Columbus, for the purpose of erecting thereon a jail for said county, and for other purposes. 148 To authorise all free white citizens of this State, of our year's residence or longer, to peddle, and us itenerant traders to vend goods, wares and merchandize in this Stale, on payment of SSO to the State for a license, and to repeal the parts of the Law heretofore passed regulating the tax imposed on Fedlars and itenerant traders, 149 To incorporate the Neligh manufacturing Company in the county of i )ass, and for other purposes therein named. 160 To regulate proceedings in eq tity. 151 To compensate Grand and Petit Jurors of the county of Tattnall, and to authorise .ho Inferior court of said county to levy an extra tax for that purpose. 152 To incorporate the town of Oxford, in the county ofNcwton, and to appoint commissioners for the said town, and to define their powers, and also to designate the corporate limits of said town. 153 To alter the 3d and 12th section of the Ist article and the Ist, 2d and 3d sections of the 3d article, an the 15th section of the 4th article of the Constitution of this Slate. 154 To explain and amend an act passed Dec. 28lh, 1838, entitled an act "to lay out and organ ize a new county from the counties of Floyd and Walker. 155 To amend an act entitled an act appoint commissioners for the better regulation ami gov ernment of the village of Ruekcrsville, in the county of Elbert. 156 To legitimatize and change the name of Lewis D. Hall, to that Ks Lewis D. Ynncy. 157 To amend an act, passed 14lh Dec. 1837, to incorporate the town of Troupville in Lowndes county. 158 To authorise the commissioners of the town of Springfield, in the county of Effingham, to sell the vacant lota in the town of Springfield, and to make valid their title i, 159 To authorise Richard Morriss to build a mill dam across the Coosawattee river on his own land. 160 To change the place of holding elections from the house of Jeremiah Cox to the house of James H. Roberts. 161. I’o furnish the Wayne County Guards with arms. 162 To authorize the Justices of the Inferior Court of the counly of Heard to form new Milf tia Districts in said county, and torcgftlate those already laid out. 163 To establish and admit certain instru ments which were destroyed with the county re cords of the counly of Heard hy (ire, and to make valid the same. 464 To alter the place or places of holding Precinct Elections in the county of Telfair. 165 To alter and change the time of holding the Superior Courts in the counties of Floyd and Paulding. 166 To compel all persons who have built, or may hereafter build any dam or dams across the Etowah river, to build a sufficient slope for the free passage of fish in the county of Cuss. 167 To amend an act entitled an act to estab lish a tribunal for the trial of slaves within this Slate, passed 16th Dec. 1811, so far as relates to the County of Bryan. 168 To incorporate the town of Cross Plains, in the Counly of Murray. 169 To explain and amend the Judiciary act p of 1799, so far as concerns the granting of Ap peals in certain cases. 170 To amend the charter of the Monroe Rail Road and Banking Company. 171. To incorporate a volunteer mounted companyln the County of Bulloch, and to au , thorizc the Governor to furnish them with a stand of arms. 172 To compensate Grand and Petit Jurors of the counties of'Carroll, Paulding and Dooly, and Petit Jurors in the counties of Jackson and Wur p ren, and for other purposes therein mentioned. 173 To authorize free persons of color to hold real estate in the city of Darien. 174 To change the times of holding the Info i rior Courts of Lowndes county. < 176 Further to amend the militia laws of the State of Georgia, in relation to the first regiment, - and to grant exemptions to certain officers and non-commissioned officers of said regiment. 176 To alter and fix the time of holding the ’ Superior Courts for the county of Muscogee, and to legalize the adjournment of Houston Superior | Court. 177 To declare the remedy of a freeholder through whose land any of the several chartered rail roads shall pass. 178 To authorize Henry Dillon to erect or build a circular rail way on the Indian Spring re serve in the county of Butts. 179 To incorporate the Macon Iron Steam Boat Company. 180 To authorize Henry Lizon, to establish a Ferry across the Etowah river, on his own land, in the county of Floyd, and to define the rights and liabilities of the owner thereof. » 181 To authorize William Briscoe to CTTablish a Ferry or bridge across the Chattahoochee river, on his own land, one mile below West Point Bridge, in the county of Harris. 182 To amend the road laws of this State, so far as to compel a portion of the hands liable to perform road duty at any time when required to do so by the overseer of the road. 18.1 To pardon Philip Johnson of the County of Hall. 3 184 To increase the fees of witnesses in the Superior and Inferior Courts, so far as relates to the county of Muscogee, in all civil cases. 185 To add two additional trustees for the Blrdvillc Academy in the eounly of Warren. 186 To incorporate the Chcslatcc Manufactu ring Company, (To be Continued.) Thk Position or Nkw Jersey. —The N. \ ork American recommends the New Jersey Legislature to recall her Senators from Congress; anil to sugguest to Mr. Kanpolph to withdraw from his seat in the House of .Kepronarnlatives. ( •‘Virtually excluded,” remarks that paper, “as hy rt lawless proceeding she is, from representation in the popular branch, it may well beseem a proud Slate—one, too, that Iras such reasons for , just pride—to consider whether it comports with j her dignity, to appear at all among her equals, unless tire appear with all her rights, immuni ties, and franchises. Nor is it New Jersey alone ; that s concerned to resist this great wrung; for what is her fate to day, may, by force of prcced- J ent, if once established, he the fate of every other ! State which it may suit the policy and party of the hour to divest of its rightful power. It is a common cause, ns such, should enlist the sym pathies and common efforts of all friends of State rights, of the laws, and Constitution, ami of their sacred and invaluable forms.” Mf.mento ok a Disahtkh.—The Atlantic In surance Company in this city have received a letter from the Custom House, Great Egg Har bor, New Jersey, of which we subjoin a copy.— The melancholy fate of the Pulaski, nearly two years ago, is of course remembered: On the sth hist, a bottle was found on Ahso com beach, having just come ashore in the laic N.E. storm, containing a paper of which the fol lowing is a literal ropy : “June B.—Thrown overboard from steam pack et Pulaski, 30 miles south of Cape Fear. She has gone to pieces. There arc now or. ‘.he pro menade dec!; 14 passengers. She is now in throe pieces. Many have been drowned hy the explo sion of the boilers. We were within half a mile of the shore, when the wind suddenly swept us along the coast, and wc are now two miles from the shore. If any person should pick this up, do send vo.scls to look lor the unfortunate sufferers. I am now so weak that I,cun baldly write." “Juno, 1838. The above is in a good mercantile hand, hut owards the close of it, the weakness of the un happy writer is very apparent. The vessel, of course, was the Pulaski. — N. V. Dispatch. A Chinese Witness. —At a trial which look place on Friday last in the New fork Marine Court, a Chinese was called us a witness, hut ob ject! d to, on account of his not believing in a God. He was questioned on that point, and an swered that he believed in many gods, and that the temples in his country were full of them. The statutes requiring that every witness shall he sworn according to the peculiar ceremonies of his reli gion, the Court inquired of him what was the formula of an oath in China. He said that he went into the temple before the gods, and read certain passages from a Chinese Bible, then took a vessel of salt and sprinkled on the ground, af ter which ceremony, ho went before the manda rin and gave his testimony. New York being un provided with Chinese temples and idols: it was of course found impossible to swear the witness according to law, and the party was obliged to lose the benefit of his testimony, until the Court considered the matter further.— Philadelphia Ledger. Boeculation.—A young man in an adjoining town was mightily smitten with the beauty of a lady whose father had a suit at law which must forever make or break him, and “popped tile question.” She was expressing a desire fur im mndia'e marriage, when he thus interrupted her, “I can have the refusal of you for six months can’t I 1” From the London Timer, Nov. 21. London, Oct. 12, IS3B. Sir—Some public prints in ibis country having , questioned the constitutional rig it of the individu al Slates of which the North American Union is composed to contract loans, t\e are happy m be able lo avail our.elves of yonr visit to this country to refer the point ion which wo never entertained a doubt) or you,and to ask your bgal opinion on the subject—an opinion which, we need hardly odd, will be conclusive wiih ourselves,and most impor tant lor all who are interested in State securities. Wc beg, therefore, that yon will favor ns with your written answer, at ysnr cad lest convenience, to Iho following inquiry ; “Has the Legislature of one of the American States legal and constitutional power to contract loans at home and abroad ?” Wc have the honor lo ho, with great respect, dir, your obedient servants, Barinu, Brothers it Go. Tbs Hon. Daniel Welister, &c London, Oct. 10 Messrs Boring, Br jlhejs A Co. Gentlemen— l have received your Utter, and lose no lime in giving yon rny opinion on the question which you have submitted for rny consideration The assertions and suggestions to winch you tofer, as having appeared in some of the public prints, bad not escaped my notice. Your first inquiry is, “whether the Legislature of one of the States has legal and constitutional pow er to contract loans m homo and nl road ?” To this I answer, that the Legislature of n Slate lias such power; and how any doubt eonld bare arisen on ibis point, it is difficult for me to con ceive Every Stole is an independent, sovereign, political community, except in so furus certain pow ers, w hich it might otherwise have exercised, have been conferred on a general government, establish ed under a written constitution, and exerting its au thority over the people of the Stales. This goner- i nl government is a limited government Its pmv- I ers ate specific and enumerated. All powers not I conferred upon it still remain with the Stales and j with the people The Stale Legislatures, on the ! other hand, p issess all usual and ordinary powers , of government, subject to any limitations which j, may be imposed by their own constitutions, and, I with the exceptions, as I have said, of the operation, ' on those powers, of the constitution of the United Slates. The powers conferred on the general gov ernment cannot of course he exercised hy any indi vidual State ; nor can any Slate puss any law which i prohibited hy the constitution of the United St ’les. Tims no Slate can hy itself make war, in conclude peace, nor enter into alliances or treaties with foreign nations. In those,and in other impor tant particulars, the powers which would have otic t erwise belonged to the Stale, can now be exorcised only by the general government, or government ol the United States. Nor can a State pass a law which is prohibited by its own constitution. But there is no provision in the constitution of the Uni ted Stales, nor, so fur ns 1 know or bale undorslm d, in any Stale constitution, prohibiting the Legisla ture of a Slate from contracting debts, or making loans, either at home or abroad. Every Slate has the power of levying and collecting taxes, direct and indirect, of oil kinds, except that no Slate can impose duties on gooda and merchandize mi ported, that power belonging exclusively to Congress by llie constitution The power of taxation is exer cised hy every Stale, habitually and constantly, ac cording to its own direretion, and the exigencies of its government. This is the general theory of that mixed system of government which prevails in America. And as the constitution of the United Stales contains no prohibition or restraints on Steto Legislature* Ip p. J • • so fa r aaTmiwn " n< * ** "" SmU ‘ <- «n«Ofution, linn ii w „ to ri,e ’ any (inch pfohihn I r. r ’ re "P* < ’ 1 ' '*»« 1 Agisla «n onlintir v M I*" 1 e ** ,o, i of tins power, m I c, 8,1,1 " ,Hul » ,,,w,,r of ’ he re™ I.T " ,l,g S M ! lon ’ l,mt St tie lean, mart mud?« ft "noourtilutionnl and illegal, ln ™ min h ns the ( onaluutmn of ihe United *mie* ba. •IfWnrci .hat no S,ale shall emit biMs «. i ™ >rln " , - m, | li* t-oiistitinion of the U. Stale* a bdioir;;,; ";rl" ,ary pr,,hib l i,i °" ■ *■« wh« t .. n bond ,7,1, L r f* n,n blance whatever to f b,, rr„ w ' tbe'term , ‘‘*Hid^oM>?diV' < ie ' li'T m <» ,r political history, nnd its rncanina lory bm e hv Bl rii* n | ,fe ' tle<1 ’ ll " t " ,lly by llial his* from h.i c ? interpretations and derisions iron! 111, honest source, for the purpose of this ■hoL'n'irr '7,|" N "V. ‘hat bills of ere fll.ell to T V! |,roh,h ""‘" 1,1 the Constitution Tl . v ! werc "'“""■“••y paper money. nrdh~ ,IR| “ r ,sßUr r’ l ; , ' en,l « J 'or circulation, nrd (or receipt into the Treasury ns c ish nnd were sometimes m.do a lender in payment of 1 )l« I»» put an ml a oncP'iiiid forovcr.ro evil* of this sort, and to d uniters from this source, the Con- Suu,“T M t '° , rl ;:- (l hn " declared ihtt •• no hto'o’i'r ?'•, ”" " f efo* l ". nor make anything gold and silver n tender in payment of debt*, nor pass any law wlnch shall impair ttie obligation ol commi ts.” All this, however, proves, rmMhat Hates cannot contract debts, but Hint when con tracted, I hey mnsl pay them in coin, aecoiding to Ibnr stipulation Ihe several Stales m.sZs tho power to borrow in bol.alfof the United Slates, (or Hu purpose of rnising armies, equipping navies, or mav’he'nf | B l y ? ,he l. of 118 ‘onslituiionnl dirties. It nay be added, that ( ongress itself fully recognises l his power in the Stales, as it Pas authorized the in vcn.nieiit id largo funds which it held in trnsi |i,r slocks'" 11 "’" 11 " 1 pUrpoße * certificates of State of’JimSnueY '" r S !""° '* lhe Plighted fan), ol Stale, as ii political community. It rests on ihe same basis as other eonlraels with established ri n,e hnHi8 ’ (or example, as loans 1 • ho, Ui.iied Stales under the authority of t ongress, .mu wto say, the good faith of the go Vernment making ihe loan, and its ability ( 0 (n/fi| Us engagements. These State loans, it is known, have neon contracted principally for the purpose of uiimkmg railroads and canals ; and in some case*, ii Ii In nigh 1 knmv net bow generally, the income or revenue expected to be derived from these works is diree y and specifically pledged for the payme. the interest nndllie redemption of Ihe deist, in addi tion to the obligation of public faith In several Slates oile r brunches of revenue have heen specifi eally pledged, and in others very valuable tracts of land. It cannot be doubled i bat the general result ol IbONe worka of internal improvement him been, nm* W! J be, lo enhance Iho wealth m ] abiJilv of 1110 oluto. It has been said, that the States cannot he sin d on those bonds. But neither could the United S. he seed, nor, us I suppose, ihe Crown of England, I"", N,,r . w,,ul ‘* tbe power ol suing, pro! security 1 ' 'I IT T "" r ,T y ' mb ’" l ‘" tinl H.l.luioi.r.l security. Iho solemn obligation of a government bo'otfhanced Tv" n an !‘ n '.’ vvlo ‘ l ß c ' l hc.nd, would not nd It 7 Jtttjgrocnt rendered on sneli 1,011 . If it either could not, or would not mass- Ihat Ucon 7 '' ,,yi "K '»•« h«nd. it is not hr’obnhh,- ing the judgment '' prov "" on fur •‘“'•Or* ft hgal ions of I heir "own'7on"ra( "T-Ih^ ™te“ Z er ,‘" ''-■h'-ge of sue' LZL Z, nrovh nu for it " ey p,,f ‘“ <>KH n " " Equate p ,wer o> ofreve 1 18 <ase « i)V ">«'* end internal mean* v l :. hey cannot get round their duly, tier evade its force. Any failure to fulfil its nndertak- IZ' l 7 ,,,p, ' r l violation Os public fail |„ to ho a n imlfv i, , 'T l,y of ,liß ' ,on " r ‘h-grttce- n y - l,#pr “' ,n, ‘ 11 w hich no State of the American Union won'd he likely in incur. m- r.l"* 1 ! 0 i b ". J ,,Bl, ficd by existing circuit;- sta res to close Hus loiter with llic expression of an I’evelh 1 -i"" 1 ’' r< ’ K ;T" 1 ""' l,ro ' 1‘ i". tbat 1 be s( m 7, ,ho l ' ni,tMl Stales, like all ho n.sl men regard debls. wl.e.hei public or private, •, n,l( wlicibiT eiiaiing nr Imme or abroad, to bo ul' . moral an well a* lepnl obligation; oml I truxi I imiy appeal to their history, from the moment when I hose >taies took iheir rank among the nation, of earth lo the present lime, for proof I hut ibis belief is well founded ; and d it were poamhle that any of the -Slates should many imioso entirely lose her self respect, and forget her duly as to violate (he an solemnly pledged for her pecuniary engage ments,! believe thee is no coumry upon earth—not oven that of the minted creditor—in which such a proceeding would meet with less countenance ur indulgence than it would receive Irum ihe great mass of Ihe American people. 1 Imyo the honor to b-, gendemen, your obedient oi rV'iliif DANIEL WEBSTER. OBITUA R Y . ~ Departed this life, on ih«Bßth Dec. in Edgefield District, S <; Mrs. Elizabeth Ware, in iheSlst year ol her age. In recording ihe death of this ex rmplury wornao, we cannot refrain from the ex press on of our ndmirntion, Ibr her many virtues Wliu-h adorned her earthly career, nnd endeared her to all who find an opportunity ol ecommg ac quainted with her character. In early life, she em braced the religion ol I’hrist, and forrnany years was a zealous member of the Baptist Church, liv ing ns she died, in the practice of that strict piety and Christian reliance upon her (Jod, which ana •!? ! ,c T !° nr loriimde and resignation the ills ol ibis itib, and to look forward wilfi on eye of fanb to life eternnl Sbo was an nfteetionate mo iber, u kind mistress nnd a warm friend. She has left u son and two daughters, bf sides a large circle of friends and acquaintances, to lament her loss— who, though the parting hero bos ad, have atun •lant reason to njoiee that she tins gone to that world of eternal bli s, where earthly sorrows and disappointments can never come. COMMERCIAL. Latent dates from Liverpool, Nov, 10 Latest dates from Havre Nov, 13 Savanwaji, December 27, Colton —Arived since the 20th inst. 4142 bales Upland and 247 bales S I cotton, and cleared at the same lime 4285 Upland and 1! bales SI cottonj leaving a stock on hand,inclusive of ail on shipboard' not cleared on the 27th inst ,f o 14129 ba es Up land and 43H bales S 1 cotton. The rivers continu ing low the receipts of cotton for this period of the season, are very light. The demand for Uplands ; during the week lias been moderate,and prices have further receded 1 a g in the middle and lower qual ities, and iai in the higher. The sahs arc 3022 bales, viz.; 28 at 7; 12 at 12 at 8}; 197 at 421 at 9d; 272 at ‘Jg; 85 at 9 7-lfi; 491 at 94- 9» at 9}i 321 at Os, 15 at 9J S 212 at 10; 121 at lOL The sales of S Island amount to 95 bales, viz : S at 22; 14 at 23; 5 at 24; 3 at24i; 35 at 25; 25 at 30; 5 at 33. Hice —The demand since our last has been un usually limited, the sales amounting to about 300 casks at a $3 principally at the latter price. Corn —ls retailing from store at 70 a 80 cents according to quantity. flour —Continues dull. Sales of Howard st at $7 a 7i; Canalsß a Bj. Spirits. —ln domestic liquors, sales of N E Rum at -11 a 42; (Jin 45 a t>o; Whiskey, 38 a 40. STATEMENT OF COTTON, Dpi’da. S. I. Stock on hand, Ist Oct. 1523 I|B Received this week, 4142 247 do. previously 38471 436 44136 801 Exported this week, 4285 11 Do. previously, 25722 352 30007 363 Stock on hand, including all on ship brarl D"t cleg.-rd cm 27tb l>e«. 14129 431