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AUGUSTA, G X .
MONDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 8.
Things in Milledgeville.
Correspondence of the Chronicle <j- Seidind.
Milledgeville, Dec. 1, 1845.
In Senate, this morning, Mr. Stell moved |.»
reconsider (he action of yesterday, in reference
to the extension of the Central Railroad, from
Macon to Columbus. After considerable de
bate, the motion was lost—nays 20, yeas 11.
Tjie Grand Jury ol Putnam county, (perhaps
incited by tire Democratic moneyed aristocracy
ot Eatonton, one of whom was recently in Mtl
ledgeville) through Mr. Hardeman, presented a
sort of memorial against the reduction of inter
est. i wonder if Shylock would not have done
the same?
Mr. Stell introduced a bill to appoint by the
Legislature a committee of three to examine
into the Treasury during those years when the
Legislature does not meet, and Jur other purpo
ses—in accordance with Executive recommenda
tion,
Mr. Bell, the better to provide tor ihe collec
tion ol militia fines.
Mr. Anderson, ol Wilkes, reported a bill for
the distribution of the Poor School Fund-ac
cording to plan indicated in Executive M essa^e.
Mr. Cone, from the Military Committee, ie
commended an appropriation of $1,500 to repair
the State Arsenal at Savannah.
Mr. Jackson from Committee on State <d the
Republic made the following report;
The Committee to whom was referred certain
Legislative resolves ol Massachusetts propo
sing an alteration in the Constitution of the
United Stales, so as to apportion Representatives
in Congress, and direct taxes among the several
States, in proportion to their respective numbers
of free white persons, exclusive ol Indians not
taxed beg leave to oiler the following report
VVhilsi your Committee dissent from the pro
position to alter the Federal Constitution as pro
posed by the Legislature of Massachusetts they
would express their regret that citizens of that
btate have ventured by legislative action to
adopt a series of resolutions so much at variance
with the compromises of the Constitution and
so materially destructive of the interests and
happiness of the Southern portion of our con
federacy : And such resolves are, in the opinion
0 the Legislature, but a sickly effusion' of a
blind fanaticism, produced in an ignorance of
the character of Southern institutions, and a to
tal disregard for the integrity of the Union
therefore,
resolved, tyr.., That the Constitution of
the United States is the foundation upon which
rests the Union ot these States; and the Federal
basis of representation secured in that instru
ment, was the result ol concession and compro
mise among the members ol the Convention that
trained it; and any attempt to alter the basis ol
representation as proposed in the Constitution
would be a gross violation of the faith which
was pledged upon its adoption ; ana be it farther
Resolved, That the Legislature of Massachu
setts, by the recent action had upon this subject,
lias, in an organised form, placed herself in the
opinion of this Legislature, in an altitude well
calculated to disturb the compromises of the
Constitution,and to encourage the fanatical cru
sade against the rights nftheirSouthern brethren,
and well adapted to create serious apprehension
as to the perpetuity of the Union; and be it fur
ther
Resolved, That His Excellency, the Governor,
be requested to transmit a copy ol the above pre
amble and resolutions to each of our Senators
and Representatives in Congress, to the Execu
tive of the United States, and to each of the
Governors of the several Slates.
By consent of Mr. Jackson, his resolutions on
national politics were postponed for the present.
The residue of the morning was occupied in
leading bills, and other uninteresting proceed
ings.
Georgia Redeemed!—The Const itutlon Re
spected 1
The bill for the establishment of a Supreme
Court for the correction of errors, passed ihc
House this evening about 5 o'clock, ns ii came
Rom the Senate, without amendment, and may
now be considered the law of the land. In 1835,
ihe amendment requiring the establishment of
this Court, became a pari of the Constitution,
but to the shame of the State, and to the injury
of the people, the prejudices— the ignorant pre
judices—of the people have been suffered to pre
vent legislators from faithfully discharging a
public duty, which was (o throw additional
guaranties and safeguards around the rights and
liberties of the people. But this Legislature
has wiped away the stain of its predecessors,
woven (or itself an unfading garland of honor,
and added new laurels to an already illustrious
Whig administration. The Judiciary of Geor
gia will no longer be a bye-word in South Caro
lina, or an object of ridicule and scorn among
her sister States, but in a few years our noble
Stale will rear her head as proudly as the tallest
in the confederacy. In a few years oven the
characiepof her legal men will be changed, and
legions of precocious young gentlemen will find
less encouragement to become live vers !<•> dav,
and loafers to-morrow.
The discussion ol the bill occupied the whole
day. A lew captious indivioicti.s in the minority
continued to throw every possible obstacle in
the way of its passage, by offering absurd and
sometimes ridiculous amendments. Ol tin's
minority. Mr. Jackson seemed to take tic: lead.
His whole deportment during the proceedings
was the more remaikable, as he is a young man
01 talent, and a lawyer t f promise. Ila few
years do not teach him that he lias mistaken the
track to true distinction, then I have miscon
ceived those higher and loftier influences which
a man .should ever keep in view.
1 terrain from giving a history of the debate
on this bill, believing that your readers will be
satisfied with the result. I will onlv add lha
'he friends of the bill were compelled to wade
through up to the voes and ayes, until the previous
>1 nest ion, moved by Mr. Dixon, was brought to
their relief about d.ui. . The ayes were 64, noes
53 Os those, who voted in the affirmative, 48
V>c(c \\ tiigS, and 16 DCuiOClat*. I du Lot Stale
' this far' as strictly accurate, but as approaching}
accuracy.
i cannot close this letter without according to |
Mr. Ward, ol Savannah, the highest credit lor
iiis honorable bearing and earnest efforts in be
half of tin* hill.
Mm.lu.dgeville, Doc. s lb, 1645.
Senate.— Mr. Kenan’s bill to give the
election ot marshall and clerk of the city of
Milledgeville, being entirely local in its char
acter. has no 1 , been hitherto mentioned in my j
repods; nor should I notice it now but for the !
purpose of exposing a very unnsuai course of j
conduct in reference to petty local matter by
the Democratic party in the Senate. 1 will
only premise this remark, that in the police
regulations of any town or city it is important
to the public interest, that the disorderly and j
riotous portion ol the community should have I
no voice in the election ot those police officers
in whose especial charge ihe welfare of the
community is placed. Hence the choice of
tlio-c ofliceis ought to be made by the city coun
cil and la; subjen to its control. The truth of
these premises will forcibly strike the mind of
every man capable of thought, without further
elucidation from me.
Mr. Kenan’s bill passed yesterday by a vote
of 21 to I!). This was a very unusual vote on
such occasions, and the only excuse for it
must have grown out of the reading of a
petition, signed by about one third us the voters
ol the city, and presented by Mr. Murphy
against the change proposed in the bill. The
properly holders and friends of good order were
not in a ■m.njnrU.y on that petition, and Mr.
Kenan so informed the Senate. Air. K. stated
that he had been requested by the respectable
portion or both parlies in Milledgeville to ob
tain the pa-sage of the bill, and was very will
ing to lake the responsibility before his consti
tuents.
This morning Mr. Wofford moved a recon
sideration, which was sustained by Messrs.
Murphy, Jackson, Stell. and himself, by a few
remarks, in which they indicated the opinion
lha! they knew more about Mr. K’s constituents
than he did himself. As you may suppose, his
answer did not taste oti# milk and honey.” The
aye- and nays being called, every Democrat in
his place, (23) voted (or a reconsideration.—
Only voted in the negative, it being such a
plain rose, that several strolled out or did not
answer the cal). 1 leave the reading public to
draw their own conclusions and make their own
com me iv-a
Mr. Galhoun introduced a resolution request
ing the attention of the Post office department
to certain mail regulations in which Columbus
is interested.
Air. Miller, a resolution relating to the pub
lic printing in future, requesting the Governor
hereafter to have 200 copies of Comp. General’s
report and 200 of Treasurer’s report printed for
the use ni the Legislature on or before its meet
ing. and restricting the unnecessary printing ol
documents, &c.
Air. Oaclcett’s resolution censuring the
Chief Engineer of W.& A. Rail Road, under the
direction ol the Governor, was at length, with
probable reluctance, called up.
Mr, Kenan proposed to amend the resolution
a .- striking out. “ Chief Engineer,” and cause it
io bear directly on the Governor. Mr. Hackett
oppose,!, stating that he did not wish to throw
any censure on the Governor, but did think Mr.
Garnett had deceived His Excellency. Mr.
siell opposed amendment—Mr. Jackson ad
vocanal it. Air. Kenan moved that the report
0 Committee on Internal Improvement be read
Alt’. Hackett objected, because he thought his
resolution had been reported on without an
:horiiy, Mr. Murphy explained, that the sub
r'.ri to which his resolution relerred had been
reported. Air. Hackett mentioned with much
emphasis, that the Road ought to have been
tinishcd to Burroughs’ before it was carried be
yond—also, that the Road had stopped at a
point, lour miles short of Dublin, at the very
spa where the Ho,i. John P. King, president
• t the Georgia Rail Road, was erecting exten
sive merchant mills. Hedid not believe that
} Gov. C. had been actuated by improper mo
j lives in this, but could not tell bow Mr. Garnett
| had been operated upon. '
Mr. Alnrphy vindicated the management oi i
: the Road, and contended that the Governor hud
'■ given the proper construction to the Act of
1813.
Mr, Miller, in reply to the insinuation refer
, i ing to the Georgia Road, slated that the Com
j pany had never owned an interest in the point
j referred to by Air. Hackett, and ihat he
: informed Air. King had sold bis interest, &c.
The question was taken on agreeing to the
| if -olution of censure as amended by Mr. Ken
| an.
1 Nays. Allen, W. J. Anderson, Beall, Boyn
'(••n, Brown, Calhoun, Chastain, Colly, Cone,
Crawfonl, Gigniitiatt, Hardeman, Hill, Hines,
1 loldcrnr-vs, Jackson, Jones, Kenan, J. M.
King, VV. King, Lee, Lewis, Long, McGaha
gan, Aliller, Mitchell, Murphv, Nickelson,
Ridley, Snead, Smith, Stell—32.'
Yeas. —T. F. Anderson, Field, Hackett, Kel
■ ogg, Marlin, McGregor, Wilcox, Wofford—B.
Side and absent—6.
Mr. Brown’s bill to incorporate Flint River
Mannfar Hiring Company, came up on its third
reading. Mr. .Miller proposed tha.i the incor
poration of manufacturing companies be made
the special order of the day for Tu esdey next
Yeas 20—Nays 20—the President uoted in the
negative. Mr. Miller proposed an amendment
(to Mr. ' heirs standing amendment) that the
personal liabilities of each stockholder should
be in proportion to the amount ol his stock.
On the motion to Lake up the ame mlment, nays
19, yeas 20—the President voted in the nega
tive and made a lie. Let the tj’ue friends ol
Gtwfgii. mark well the votes ot ifluent w fledged
AUGUSTA, GA., TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 9, 1845.
democrat and enemy of that policy which is to )
procure the deliverance and establish the inde- '
pendence of the South.
In House, Air. Jackson moved to reconsider
the Court Bill, which was 10-l, veas 51, nays
67.
The bill appropriating money for the im
provement ot the navigation of the Ocrnulgee
and Altamaha rivers was indefinitely postponed,
yeas 68, nays 14.
The resolution relating to a daily mail be
tween Savannah and Charleston by steamboat,
was concurred in.
Mr. Lewis, a bill to make liable the securi
ties on public bonds and to authorize the princi
pals on such bonds to substitute other securities
on certain conditions when required to do so at
(lie discretion of the Governor.
Air, George offered a resolution authorizing
the completion of the Geological surveys of the
Stale.
Mr. Robinson, a resolution to authorize the
Governor to procure a competent artist to exe
cute a likeness of General Jackson lor the Re
presentative Chamber.
Mr. Ward, a bill to repeal Hie 6ih section of
the act 1794 in regard to the regulation of ven
dues, &c.
Air. Gauldcn, a bill lor the compensation of
certain persons (or defending the Southern fron
tier in 1841 and 1842.
Mr. Strong, a bill to change the name and
abolish the Banking privileges of the Alonroe
Railroad Company.
The House then took up the Trezevant claim,
the special order of the day, which was discuss
ed by Air. Sanford in opposition and Messrs.
Harris and Hull in advocacy:, until near 2
o’clock, when the House adjourned. At three
o’clock the House met. Some young gentle
men who wished to go to the “Ladies’ fair” (as
lkey avowed) this evening, moved an adjourn
ment, and called lor the yeas and nays. The
motion was lost—as they will be, if their con
stituents make proper inquiries. Legislative
duties are too grave to be trifled with, and tri
flers should never be selected for their perfor
mance.
The claims of Peter were again postponed,
(until Monday next) but the indefatigable per
severance of Mr, Peltigru has a better chance
to receive its reward than on any former occa
casion. a.
Virginia Senator.— Judge .T. S. Penny
backer, Dem., has been elected U. S. Senator,
to succeed Air. Rives.
The U. S. Agent to Mexico. —The Mobile
Herald and Tribune of Friday stales positively
that the gentleman who look passage on the St.
Mary’s for Vera Cruz, on the 20th inst. from
Pensacola, was the Hon. John Slidell of New
Orleans. The precise capacity in which he
went, whether as Minister, a diplomatic agent,
or bearer ol despatches, is not stated. The
Northern papers are talking about the appoint
ment of Air. Richard Rush as a (it Minister to
conduct our negotiations.
A Remarkable Psychological Phenome
non is brought to public notice this week by
an Ohio correspondent of the New York Ob
server, (a reputable clergyman,) in the case of
a lady of his congregation. His account is
subjoined:
Not very remote from Cadiz, Ohio, there
lives a Mrs. B , a member ot the Presby
terian Church in good standing. This lady
for years past has involuntarily and unconscious
ly delivered a religious discourse from one to
three hours induration regularly on every other
Sabbath at about t he usual hour of the morning
service.
She generally appears somewhat unwell and
oppressed on the morning preceding these ex
ercises ; near the time of commencing her dis
course she appears swooning away, Irom which
she appears to recover in some degree, still
frothing authe mouth, pale and deeply exci
ted; she reclines upon her conch, and regu
larly addresses an audience of from two to five
hundred persons. Alter she closes she appears
to faint away with exhaustion—but is scon res
tored to her ordinary health and spirits. Then
she is to'ally unconscious of what she has done
or said, and can only remember what occurred
up to the time that she seemed to pass under the
control ol this strange affection.
1 ler discourse is a pious, fervent strain of
exhortation, often methodical and varied, and
not remarkable for repetition. She is a decided
Calvinist and is sometimes severe in her ani
madversions upon the sins of the day.
Many people in the neighborhood think she
is inspired. Intelligent persons regard her af
fections as a very remarkable species of cata
lepsy. There are some things about it that are
very difficult to explain. In some respects the
case appeals analogous to that of the
servant girl, who under the delirium of a fever
repeated correctly pages ol Greekand Hebrew,
of which languages she was totally ignorant.
It may be that the religious reading of this lady
and her devout meditations, to which she is in
clined in her ordinary health, furnish her with
the materials lor her Sabbath discourses ; and
that these things are brought up while labouring
under her cataleptic affection on the same prin
ciple on which the Hebrew and Greek—« hich
the servant girl had heard read, came vividly to
mind and got utterance at her lips. But why
these affections wholly involuntary should be
on the Sabbath and not on a week day —why
they should be other Sabbath and not
every Sabbath or every third Sabbath—and
why they should be about eleven o’clock in the
morning and not at six or nine or some other
hour ol the twenty lour? I shall leave to your
wiser correspondents to answer.
A Runaway. —The Columbus Times of the
3rd inst. says:—The Macon Alail stage came
flying into town on Monday morning without
a driver. Strange to tell, the four passengers in
side, did not know Ihat they were being runa
way with, until the efforts of the people in the
streets apprized them of the disagreeable fact.
They had been travelling at that Gilpin rale for
several miles. The driver was thrown ofTaboul
3 miles from town, and the insides thought they
were only going a little faster to save the mail.
One ot the passengers (Mr. Guerry,) suffered
a sprained foot, in jumping from the stage
It is almost a miracle how they ever got over
the hills on their mule, without being dashed
over, it not dashed to pieces.
From the N. Y. Courier tj> Enquirer. -j
The Speakership.
As the House of Representatives at Wash
ington, will soon con ene, and the choice ol the
man who is to preside over its important de- j
liberations will so soon be made, it is a re vie v. '
ol some interest to glance over the list ot those I
who have filled, in other days, this import.! rj
office. It is not important because it happen '
to entitle its possessor to the comfortable sum
of sixteen dollars each day r that he presses the
cushions of that most magnificent chair, which
in ail its oriental magnificence of satin and gimp ,
and embroidery, came into being in the day c.
the Speakership of that exceedingly plain u j
publican, Mr. Polk, “of blessed memory,” a
they say on the other side of the water. Thi
amount ol money is a very pleasant per dim’;
allowance undoubtedly, especially as the Trea-,
sury is the paymaster; but the post has a dignity •
beyond pecuniary considerations. It carves i
out ths business of the nation in that import >
leaiurflxfrptiwer, the selection of committee: .*_>
power of which, I believe, the Speaker has j
never been divested, though the Vice-President
has, as Mr. Van Buren experienced. He can 1
select men whose deliberations and counsel will J
add to the happiness and prosperity of the peo- j
pie, or he can appoint to high and responsible I
stations those who will be designing or obedient,
instruments of wrong. He can allow the
House to be the scene of disgraceful confusion I
or can do much at least, to make it dignified ■
and cherished tribunal of law and older.* Un- ■
like Manners Sutton, and those who dee him I
have presided over the Commons ol England!
the mere embodiment of the conservation ol the
rules of parliamentary debate, he can enter and
sway the field of debate—his station insuring
lor him and influential place in the intellectual
combat. And yet, with all tins envie- pre-em
inence of position, the Speakership haa seldom
been the pathway to much higher honor—to the
highest honor never, but ir. Ihe instance of Mr.
Polk, that fortunate compromise oL intending
factions.
In the first fifty years since Cong.v ha* bop”
established, this position has been ■: m i,,y
Representative from New York th;m vm m,
Irom Pennsylvania lour years, New Jci sey tour'
Connecticut two, North Carolina six,* South
Carolina one year (Langdon Cheves having
succeeded Air. Clay in the last session of ihe
Thirteenth Congress,) Virginia nine years,
Tennessee five, and Kentucky ten years,—the
latter State owing its “lion’s share” of this honor
to ihe unequalled talents, as a piesiding officer,
of Henry Clay. New York, with all its great
ness and power, has had but a three years lease,
the last halt of the Sixteenth Congress and the
Nineteenth—John W. Taylor, of the Saratoga
District, being her Representative.
The State ot Connecticut would not have pro
perly fulfilled her destiny of giving an energetic
population to all the departments of lite, at
home or abroad, il she had not also placed one
of her sons in the speaker’s Chair, Jonathan
Trumbull, whose name has an unmistakeable
identity with Connecticut, was the presiding
officer m the 2i Congress. The name still re
mains, and there are associations about it, iden
tified with the history of the patriotism and the
intelligence of the State that is projd to class
those who, as Statesman and Scholar and Artist
and Soldier, have borne it, among her list of
worthies,
Frederick A. Muhlenburgh of Pennsylvania,
is first on the list, and presided over the first
Congress which met in 1789, as he also did over
the 3d. In his day, an influential man, taking
an active part in the really great questions of
that day of stirring events and powerful men, he
has passed away Irom the memories of the
present busy generation, although the name is
familiar to all ol us from its association with
Henry A, Muhlenburgh, so long prominent in
the local politics of Pcnnsvlvania as associated
with that of Governors Wolf and Rilner. Death
has removed all but the latter.
There is another name, even at this hour
familiar to us, by its present association with
our Public Councils, and which has interwoven
itself most honorably with the history of a mall
but valiant State. In New Jersey the name
of Dayton has been always cherished. Both
over the 4th and the sth Congresses, Jonathan
Dayton presided; and it was honorable to this
lesser Commonwealth that, before those ol’much
greater numerical power in the Confederacy
had lurnished this officer to the House of R» pre
sentatives, one of her own sons had. on two.- uc
cessiveoccasions, been thus distinguished.
Alassachusetts, which has always been ab’ 1 --’
to furnish men competent to fill any office—any
station-discharge any duly, and do it all well
and ably, brought to that station, Theodore
Sedgwick and Joseph B. Varnum : the first over
the Gth and the latter over the lOtfi ant! iPh
Congresses. Air. Sedgwick was a man oi quick
and brilliant intellect, a student of books and r.
close .observer of men-prompt to think, tc
speak and to act, and worthy of the fame >i
Alassachusetts, as she was worthy of him. vj .
Varnum was chosen in 1807, and received m -
honor ofbeiiig again appointed in 1§99,
South Carolina never “charged with h.
chivalry” on this high office but once, and
as before staled, in 1814, when Mr. Clay w
to Ghent as one ot the Commissioners
which time Mr.C. resigned and Langdon Che ■
was chosen in his stead. Air. Cheves L >,r
known by his Presidency of the Ban), of t.
United Stales. He was over the House ol
presentatives at a stormy time, when the b.
ot war was agitating all the debates oi
arena, and when no fancied but real danger
were to be met aod conquered.
“Old Nat Macon,” as John Randolph was
wont to designate him, has been the only Sneak
er from North Carolina. Mr. Randolph m ne
of his wills, speaks ol this statesman as 'he
most honest man whom lie ever knew and it is
high praise that such a plaudit should
even it but partially deserved, and J know of no
record that detracts from his fame. Alt. .Macon
once said that he did not so well like a seat in
the Senate as in the popular branch. The term
ol the former wastoo long without a recurrence
to the judgment ol the people—that it he bad
any pride in his public career, it was that the
people of his district never troubled him by
speaking to him about being a candidate, but
were in the habit of saying when they can. up
to the polls—“ Is this the year that vve are to
vote for Mr. Macon?”—so interwoven was his
name with their wishes. He was over the 7th,
Bih and 9th Congresses, and so late as 1836 was
a Presidential Elector in his own Slate.
Virginia—“the Ancient Dominion”—by some
strange mistake or want of discernment on the
part ol the body politic compelled to “bide her
time” in the way of a Speakership till 1821,
when Phillip P. Barbour was called to preside
over the 17th Congress. What could possibly
have kept the Mother of Slates in the back
ground thus long can scarcely be imagined, un
less indeed, it was that about those days she
wa# enjoying a monopoly of the Presidents and
“ modesty is a quality that highly adorns” Old
Virginy. Mr. Barbour ran a long career of
public station, and closed it in that noblest of all
dignities a seat on the Bench of the Su
preme Court of the United States. Andrew
Stevenson did his best to redeem the cha
racter ot his State from the charge of not
having held all offices from the Presiden
cy to that of Clerkship for which the “ young
j Virginian, ardent as a Southern sun could make I
i im” has made so classical—Mr. S. held the
| Speaker’s chair during the 20th, 21st, 22d, and
tiiy first session ol the 23d Congress. Mr.
I Ritchie wants to make him Secretary ot State
j now, so soon as Air. Buchanan can be got out
I ■'* the way. We will reserve his biography till
i 1 ‘ an d Father Ritchie, two suns in one heinis
isre, manage that Union, whose value (to Mr.
;J olk) calculated,
f ur own New-York is indebted to Air. Tay-
Tfor having rescued ustrom being a vacancy
■ the parliamentary dignity ol the confederacy,
iis long experience (miraculous in a New-
Yorker) in the House of Representatives, he
aving served in that body for nearly twenty
oars, gave to his discharge of the duties
I -he office of Speaker, a gravity and dignity,
vhich will always be remembered by those who
|N ited Washington at that period. Hefinished
. h public life by serving tor one year in our
I S ate Senate. He presided in the Harrison
State Convention in 1836, and with acknow
: led- r ed ability. He is now a residentof the city
1 of Cleveland, Ohio.
i John Bell and James K. Polk are the Repre-
I L-ntatives ol Tennessee. The former is en
j deared to the Whig party by a devoted and
j faithful zeal in their cause. He was among
those who were most useful in defeating the re
j eleciion of Air. Van Buren. Tennessee has
j repeatedly evidenced her approval of his
I course, and General Jackson’s threats or entreat
| ies were alike impotent in producing a contrary
i result. To Air. Polk, the Speaker’s Chair
paved the way to a greater elevation. He
was thrown prominently before the nation in
that capacity, and the quarrels and troubles ol
much greater men, enabled him to improve the
advantage. At home he was repeatedly beaten,
but the enchantment that distance lends, made
ihst man victorious abroad who, in his own
Tennessee, had been successively conquered by
a young competitor. The proverb of some na
tion has declared that it is better to be fortunate
than to be wise,—and whether worthy or un
worthy, Air. Polk is President. I suspect, he
uld never have been so it he had not been
sleeker of the 24th and 25th Congreses.
Henry Clay, the very first hour that he trod
the hall of the House of Representatives, was
chosen its Speaker. Intellect and eloquence,
such as he possessed, overleaped the bounds
over which ordinary men must come, and in
1811 when the times were crowded with events
of perilous interest, and a good pilot was need
ed at the helm, when too, the halls ot Congress
were thronged with men of mind, and might,
who would not lightly be put aside for any com
petitor, Air. Clay appeared among the West
ern members, and was immediately appointed
to preside. This was the 12th Congress. The
13th summoned him promptly to the same posi
tion, but then, as now, he was the Great
Pacificator, and the duties of the Commission
at Ghent look him abroad in the last session of
this Congress. When he returned in 1815, the
14th Congress again received him as its Speak
er, and so did the 15th and the 16th, in the latter
session of which he resigned: but in 1823 he
w’as chosen over the 18th, when he left the
House ol Representative.
How courteously and kindly,—how skilfully
—with what unvarying dignity and unwave
- ring tact, he discharged the arduous duties
which aggregate in the office ot Speaker, is
already a matter of history. Even his enemies
bear strong tribute to his unequalled talents in
this station. They who served with him cher
, ish it as among the most delightful of their re
- collections and reminiscences of his course, are
among their most pleasant memories. I would
gladly, if your limits allowed, extend that
sketch, but I have seen enough of Mr. Colton’s
book, as evidenced in the extracts which the
Courier has lurnished, to know that we will
soon have a complete history ol all Mr. Clay’s
invaluable public services.
The administrations of Mr. Hunter, Air.
, White and Mr. Jones, belong to the second pe
riod of fifty years, and are fresh in our memo
ries. Sentinel.
Steamboat Sunk. —Steamer Arkansas No.
5, Capt. Penny wit, from Louisville for this
port, was run into by steamer Champion, bound
to Cincinnati, whilst coming out from the land
i ing at Natchez, at about 5 o’clock, A. M., on
i the 28th ult., nea>- two hundred yards from the
■ wharf, and sank the former in ten feet water.
Part of her deck load will be saved in a dam
aged state. The boat and baladce of cargo are
a total loss. We learn that the boat was partly
Insured. No lives lost
CO M II BRCI I L.
New Orleans—Excited Market.—The severe cold
I weather of the Ist inst , produced a very sudden and
very great excitement in the New Orleans provision
■ market, in consequence of the impression that the nnvi
! gation of the Ohio river had certainly closed. A pri
| vate letter of the Ist inst. says—“ Rectified Whiskey
j has run up to 32 |® 35 cents; Flour 7£ to 8 dollars ; Coin
72 fa) 75 cents ; Sugai has advanced an | (a) 1 cent; and
Pork, Bacon, <fec., I cannot quote, there is so much
excitement.”
New York Dec. 3.
Cotton—On Tuesday Cotton was firm and but little
doing. Flour was unsettled, receipts large. Sales at
$6.75 (a) $6.87 for Genesee.
Mobile December, 3.
Cotton —The sales yesterday estima'ed at 500 (a) 600
bales, prices rather stiffer than on Monday. The mart,
ket remains unsettled, and most holders are still taking
nearly old prices. Sales of last three days 1200 bales.
Receipts 3.080.
Exchanges without alteration.
Freights —A .Liverpool freight was yesterday reported
i as closed, at 19-32 d.
MARINE BIST.
Savannah, Dec. 5.
’ Cleared —TJarques Carlos, Mauran, Boston; barque
Peter Dernill, Lewis,N York ; brig S'ayannah, Hawley,
I NYork; schr Henry Paine, Boston; schr Henrietta,
I Hughes, Baltimore.
Charleston, Dec. 0.
I Arrived —U L. brig George, Yates, New \ r ork; schr
l Zephyr, Wood, Havana.
—w——ceußusa
ADMINISTRATORS’ Sale.—Win
be sold, on the first Tussday in March
’ next, before the court house door in Louisville,
• Jefferson county, between the usual hours of sale,
> 200 acres of land, ad joining lands of J. W. Allen,
i Jacob Goodwin, S. G. Gordon, and others; be
, lenging to the estate of Aquilla Matthews, late of
said countv, deceased.
I THOMAS MATTHEWS, * .. .
JAMES MATTHEWS. J Adm rs ’
, December 8. 1845.
LOST — On Saturday, Ist instant, a
silk Purse, containing two ten dollar bills
, on the Bank of Augusta, and some other bills
1 not recollected, and a small sum of silver in
change. Lost somewhere about the Bazaar
Stables. The finder will be liberally paid if made
known to the subscriber.
. u 3 1. A. HIBLER.
CANAL FLOUR, superfine and ex
tra brands, in whole and half barrels, bv
| d 2 HAND & WILLIAMS.
Hull & son’s candles, m
whole and half boxes, a fine article.
d 2 HAND & WILLIAMS.
RICE! RICE!! —ls casks prime
Rice landing this day. For sale by
d 2 GARDELLE & RHIND.
VOL. IX—NO. 147.
SHAVING Cream, Shaving Soaps,
and Shaving Cases —The very finest arti
cles in this line extant, for sale by
031 HAVILAND. RISLEY & CO.
FRESH RAISINS, m whole, half
and quarter boxes —received this day by
d 2 HAND & WILLIAMS.
N~ EW BOOKS! NEW BOOKS!,!
—A choice selection of juvenile and other
useful books, for Christinas and New Year’s
presents: The World in a Pocket Book; The
World Before You ; the Life and Perambulations
of a Mouse; Little Lessons for Little Learners;
Mary Wilson ; The Lost Child ; The Leonard
Family; Eliza Carter; Think, Act, Pray; Keep
ing House and House Keeping; Kind Words for
the Kitchen ; Married and Single, by T. S. Ar
thur ; Hand Book of Learning; Language of
Love; The Youth’s Keepsake; The Life of Gen.
Jackson, (sheep); The Smuggler’s Son, and
other Tales and Sketches, by A. W. M., (the best
of novels); The Evergreen ; The Church in the
Wilderness; The Young Pilgrims; The Young
Cadet; Think Before You Act; Jack, the Sailor
Boy; Swiss Family Robinson; Jane Taylor’s
Original Poems ; The Devil upon Two Sticks ;
The Child’s Own Story Book; The Drowning
Boy; Human Life ; Questions on the Morning
and Evening Services of the Church, and a va
riety of other pretty and highly inteiesting little
books for little children.
Also the American Almanac for 1846. Receiv
ed by d‘2 DUNHAM & BLEAKLEY.
PARTY DRESSES.—Just received
by WM. H. CRANE, satin and colored
striped bareges for evening dresses, to which he
would invite the attention of the ladies. 020
FRESH FALL DRY GOODS.
THE subscribers have now received
a large and choice assortment of new and
BEAUTIFUL GOODS,
suitable for the fall trade, to which they respect
fully invite the attention of those in the city and
from the country, who have dry goods tobuy, as
we are determined to offer them at low prices for
cash, at store No. 248 Broad-street, first dry ,
goods store below the United States Hotel.
BOWD RE & CLAGETT.
Augusta, October 22d. 1845. 023
LAMP OlL. — The subscriber have
just received a fresh supply of pure winter •
strained bleached Sperm Oil, warranted not to
encrust lamps or clog spindles. Also a good se
cond quality article at $1 per gallon.
D’ANTIGNAC & BARRY,
d 2 Druggists, sign of the golden mortar.
WAREHOUSE AND COMMISSION BU
SINESS.
With Insurance against Fire.
THE undersigned have taken the wel
known Warehouse on the east side of
Jackson-«treet,nearthe river, formerly occupied
by Messrs. Clarke, McTier & Co., opposite
Clarke & Roberts, where they propose carrying
on the above business.
From their experience in cotton transactions
andfaciliiies for the promotion of the interest ot
their customers, they hope to receive a share o/
patronage.
Their charges will conform to those already
established; andliberal advances will be made,
when required, on produce in store.
Full Insurance effected against fire, without
charge to owners,
jy 19-ts ISAAC T. HEARD & CO.
I Ar| BBLS. POTATOES, just re
ceivedinfine order.
d 4 HAND & WILLIAMS.
STEEL PENS.—Gillott’s and other
makers, on cards and in boxes, a large and
complete assortment;
Steel Pen holders, plain and fancy; diamond
pointed pens, porcelain slates;
Dominoes, 14, 16, 18 and 20 line, of various
qualities; superior prepared writing parchment;
ladies’ companions, or portable work cases, com
pletely fitted;
Ivory Tablets, with the days of the week;
Scotch Pen-knife Hones, in paper and wood
cases;
Plain enamelled burnished Cards; ivory sur
faced cards;
Superior Drawing Pencils, manufactured from
the fine Cumberland Lead, of the following de
grees of hardness: H, HH, HHH, HB,B, 88,
and F;
Office writing penpils, red chalk pencils;
Patent improved everpoint leads, for pencil
cases of all sizes, &c. For sale by
d 6 T. RICHARDS.
ANEW supply of Tanner’s Pock
et Maps of South Carolina, Georgia, Ala
bama, Illinois, Indiana, Florida, Michigan and
the other States, ine'uding Maps of Texas and
Mexico, put up in a neat form for the pocket,
Recived by
d 6 DUNHAM & BLEAKLEY.
RUSH’S REMEDY FOR EXTER
NAL PILLS.—This preparation will be
found to be the most efficacious remedy ever
offered to the public for the cure of this painful
and obstinate disease. In the many cases in
which it has been tried, no instance of failure has
been heard of. A supply just received and for
sale by (07-ts) WM. HAINES
COTTAGE RESIDENCES, or a
series of designs for rural cottages and
Cottage Villas, and the Gardens and Grounds
adapted to North America, by A. J. Downing,
with engravings, and A Treatise on the Theory
and Practice of Landscape Gardening, adapted
to North America, with a view to the improve
ment of country residences, comprising histori
cal notices and general principles of the art, di
rections for laying out ground, and arranging
plantations, the description and cultivation of
hardy trees, decorative accompaniments to the
house and grounds, the formation of pieces of ar
tificial water, Flower Gardens, etc., with remarks
on rural architecture, second edition, revised and
newly illustrated, by the author of Cottage Resi
dences. Just received bv
d 3 THOMAS RICHARDS.
Buckwheat flour, a supe
riot article —just received by
d 2 HAND & WILLIAMS.
NEW RICH CASHMERES.—Re
ceived this day a fresh supply of new ric
cashmeres. For sale by
n 4 WM. H. CRANE.
BALLY Pocket REMEMBRAN
CER, for 1846, for the use of private
families, and business men generally—contain
ing an Almanac, Banking table, counting-house
Almanac, and a blank space for every day in the
year. Received by
d 3 DUNHAM & BLEAKLEY.
Married and single, or
Marriage and Celibacy Contrasted, in a
series of domestic Pictures; Lovers and Hus
bands, a Story of Married Life; and Sweethearts
and Wives, or before and after Marriage, by 1. S.
Arthur. A further simply received by
d 3 THOMAS RICHARDS.
HE AMERICAN
and repository of useful knowledge, for
the year 1846. Received by
d 3 DUNHAM & BLEAKLEY.
ANNUALS for 1846—Suitable lor
Christmas, New Year and Birth Day pre
sents, bsanti?ully bound and illustrated, with
highly finished steel engravings. _
The May Flower, the Hyacinth, the Rose of
Sharon, the Diadem and the Christian "Annual,
for 1846. Received by
i d 3 DUNHAM & BLEAKLtY.