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[JITTER FROM HON. M. J
Washington, F
Your printer! circular of th
iililre’ssed to me here, has !
It invites me to join you in
;,„i of the apprnachin
Wa
. WELLBORN,
eh. 21, 1851.
J7rh instant,
been received,
n "I he celebra-
anniversaty of
leiir-
(1
stand
■f the
to
iglon’s Birthday” at Macc
nia. or to aid therein hy tny “counsels,”
and, “above all,” to “unite with you in
pushing forward that great national or
ganization looked to (by you) under God’s
providence, as the best, if not the only, pro
tection of our cherished Union against the
dangctotis attacks of faction atni fanati
cism.” It > s ptesumahle that you hardly
expected me to he in person with you on
the occasion to which you refer; and as
circumstances have deprived me of the
(.ratification of forwarding to you, in time
be teail on the occasion of your celebra
tion, the solicited word of “counsel” in
manuscript, have the goodness to indulge
mein addressing you a brief reply through
fie columns of a newspaper—the Wash
ington Union*
It is “on the observance and abidance
nt those great peace measures which so
hippilv passed the last session et Con-
gie a s,” as you express it, that yoi
fir defence, in present circumstance
Union, and on which your desire
founded a national political party.
We are agreed in thinking that if the
• confederacy is to be ovetthrown hv a vio
lent majority of a single Slate, or ot a irac-
tional majority of the States of the Union,
in one or another of its sections, it would
he best to rest so grave an enterprise on
more serious causes of complaint than are
to he found in the late system ot measures
to which you refer. We are agreed, more
over, in thinking that these measutes con
stitute, as a whole, such a settlement of out-
late strifes as the country in all its parts
may well stand upon, and ought to enforce.
As such, it will afford me pleasure to unite
wi;h you in such action as may seem to
me necessary and suitable to secure that re
sult.
Your request respecting the founding
of “a great national organization” on the
basis of these measures recalls to my mind
that 1 was honored with an appointment
by a political meeting held in Miliedge-
ville, Georgia, dui itig the late State Con
vention, as a delegate to a convention pro
posed to be held in this city on the 22d in
stant, with a view to effect that object. In
dulge me to say that I have never at any
moment supposed that such a convention
would meet. We have seen, it -is true,
that late contests have modified, to some
extent, old patty distinctions in many of
tie States, both north and south; but
whether (lie masses of the two gieat par
tis which have so long pervaded the na-
rimi will remove from the grounds of sepa
ration to which they have beeh hither to
rooted, and form anew on the issue sugges
ted iii your circular, is not apparent.—
This is tii be tested, I take it, not so much
by resolutions of political assemblages as
by the sense tire friends of adherence to
the late legislation throughout the Union
mav entertain as to its importance. Should
adequate occasion be deemed to exist, or
arise, we may assume that the (lolls will
exhibit it. Without a demand for it, I am
free to say that no patriotic or disintetest-
ed man can desire it. We may, then, I
think, safely trust this in the hands of the
people themselves of the Union. In Geor
gia a formal movement of the kind seems
to have been made, and new combinations
formed on the merger of the late party di
visions and party names of whig and dem
ocratic. Indulge me, as a Georgian, in a
word of comment on the new appeal ance
of party relations among us. I lie •‘south
ern tights” partv, whose policy and ex-
ample have led to the new order of things
in Georgia, is the first strictly and rnere-
lyseogiaphical or sectional party (is it
not/) that has heretofore existed in the L-
ni.in. It was composed, prior to the late
Nate convention, of advocates of “seces
sion,” 1( f “resistance” to the government
' within the Union,” and of “acquiescence
to the jrast.” accompanied with vague de-
tnauds of new securities for the fuiute. I j
do not speak in any offensive or reproachful
I sav that, viewed philosu-
there can be little ,
doubt that the more active agent which
gave rise to this new organization tiie
Tie-blood of its circulation — was secession,
an everthrow of the government, or, at all ,
events, a “war upon it’ that logically look- -
ed to that result. The party embrace a
considerable minority of the citizens of the
Nete, of all the grades of opinion describ
ed, and actin'* avowedly with reference to
very different nay, in numerous instan- !
Cf ta, to precisely opposite objects; some
the overthrow, others the perpetuation of
die Union. Yet with ail this diversity,
they were found, on the assembling of the
when
V and narrowly,
tice and generosity unite, as it seems tot
me, to forbid, on the part of the majority,
the interposition of any obstacles to it,— j
The political inconsistency, personal injus- 1
tice, and spirit of proscription, which, in j
the violence of the times, have character- i
ized individuals embraced within the mi- !
nority party, on late issues, cannot legiti- •
malely guide the conduct of prevalent ma- ;
ioritie-. If it be true, however, as you I
suppose, that a separate body of voters, j
rising to tie footing of a patty among us, i
which is kept together by hostility to the [
Union on account of the passage of the j
late measures, or by the force of opposition ;
to those who (now that they are passed) i
are advocotes of their •‘observance,” the
case is, that—opinions remaining as they
now are—the separation of old associates I
and the for mation of new relatiens are de
manded by principle, and are things, in-
I deed, of simple necessity.
A word, gentlemen, in conclusion, as to
the now disputed value of the Union of
j these States. It has been denounced by
j individuals as a ‘failure.” Is this a fair
j and dispassionate version of its history?
Leaving out of view the perils of the fu-
} ture, and waiving the language of pres-
! ent passion, would it not be more true to
! say of it that it has—despite all the injus
tice and heartburning which has traospir-
j ed within—and much of both have so
transpired — up to the present moment at
; least, vastly transcended, in the growth,
! power, and prosperity of the people of it,
! the most sanugine anticipations of those in
i whose wisdom and forecast its foundations
I were laid; and confounded previous po-
| litical philosophy every win i e? Isitstates-
1 manlike to denominate it a ‘failure’ be-
! cause a difficulty exists, perhaps never
wholly superable, in recovering from the
j intrigues and lawlessness of pet sons in the
non-slaveholding States, fugitive slaves
I who have displayed the power and will to
escape from the vigilance of their masters
i in those that are slaveholding? Or is it
) true that Georgia is dishonored by a Bos-
| ton lint! Too much censure cannot he
well bestowed on the conduct of individu
als—sometimes on majorities of State leg-,
islatures, North — in this affair of slavery;
j but these do not prove the Union a ‘fail
ure,’ It may fail; that's a truism; it is
in more or less dangeY; that we unite in
deprecating. For the most fruitful source
of peril, slavery agitation, the ‘North,’ or j
1 ciflzens of the North, a r e responsible. Apart I
from slavery issues, there is a certain mix- j
ture of other motives, justifiable or unjusti- j
fiable, in the desire to get rid of it, in the j
responsibilities of which citizens of the j
South share.
Believing that if disunion shall come on
[occasion, it will be found to have come ear- j
lv enough—that, in such an event, it is our ij
privilege to hope that we may enter upon -j
it with the advantage of a stronger and j
more extensive consciousness of its neces- j
sity lb a 11 we now have—that we have not, 1
in line, performed the full measure of our [
! duty to institutions consecrated by so many j
past recollections, covering so much of]
present prosperity and happiness, and th© jj
hopes of which have no other assignable
limits than those to be set upon the eonfi- !
dence we are at liberty to indulge in the 1
intelligence at d virtue of the people—we j
owe, as it seems to me, the Union the com- i
plirnent of giving it the fruits of the late 1
legislation passed to preserve it.
Yours, See.,
M. J. WELLBORN. ]
To Messrs. A. H. Chappell, James A. j
Nesbit, and others, committee, Macon, Ga. I
Xrgro Banking.— Talking of banks, re- j
minds me of the negro bank l once heard j
of in Virginia. Cato, (an old negro who
was noted for his cunning,) had succeeded
in making his fellow-servants in the neigh-
boihood believe that hanking was a nety
\ profitable business. $0 they concluded
that they would throw all their change to-
\ nether and start a bank, old Cato taking
care to have himself constituted the hank,
to whom all the six-pencesof all the dark
ies in the neighborhood was duly paid ovei.
And now, said Cato, whenebah niggah bor
row six pence out <>b dis bank to buy
backah, he come back in free weeks and
pav in two sixpence, and in dis way you
see ebery sixpence bring nuddah sixpence,
till after a while all dese niggabs be as rich
as old massa G y. And upon this prin
ciple the bank went into operation, old
Cato always taking cate that every darkey
should fotk over according to bank rules.
But in the course of time, some of the
stock-holders thought they ‘smelt a rat’ and
called on Cato to withdraw their capital
from the bank, when the following conver
sation took place between Cato and
Jack:
.Tack—Well, Cato, we want to draw our
money from the bank, and quit dis bankin’
business.
Cato—Did you heah <1e news?
Jack — No, what dat, Cato?
Cato—Why de bank broke last night.
Jack—Who care what de batik do, I tell
you, 1 want my shah ob de money.
Cato—Well, but I teli you dat hank
broke.
Jack—I not talken bout dat. I say whar
de money?
Cato—Whv you cuss’d fool, don’t you
know dat when de bank break de money
all gone sartin.
Jack—Well, but whar de debbil de mo- [
nev gone to?
Cato—Dal's more an niggah know. All
he know bout it is, dat when white folks’ j
bank break.de money always lost,an niggah 1
bank no better den white folks.
Jack—Well, whenevah dis nigah gage j
in bankin’ agin, tie hope de debbil git him j
fuse. .
Cato—Bern/ sorry de bank bteak, Jack, j
berry sorry.
Here our informant left.
f 0. Statesman.
REPORT
TEE COMMITTEE ON' THE CONDITION OF THE TREASURY.
CENTRAL BANK, PENITENTIARY, AND LUNATIC
ASYLUM -MADE THE 22d OF FEB., 1851.
species of labor is much more remunerative than another. 1
It would seem to be the dictate of a wise economy to em
ploy the convicts almost entirely in those branches ascer
tained to be most profitable. The idea which many in
dulge that the convict should be taught a valuable Mechanic '
trade whilst performing his sentence, is we think a inista-
MlLLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, FeB. 22, 1 5-3 1.
To His Excellency,
GEORGE W. TOWNS.
Governor, fc.
The Committee appointed by your Excellency to exam- 1 . . , . , , - -
i neimo the Slue of'the Treasmv, Central Bank, Peniten- Y e . “<= h .» “"sequence t
„ .. N- .1 _ 11- ,1. 1 - avoided by Legislative prevention.
THE SMUGGLER,
OR HUMPHREY JACKMAN’S LAST TRIP.
By the Rrc. J. Abbott, author of "Philip
Musgra ve."
In the month of January, eighteen hun-
, ■ . <0 . j dred ami . (no matter about the ex-
ken one. There is no claim abstractedly on the part of the ; act year,) t,.wards the close of a splendid
convict to such an act of beneficence. To attempt to carry Osnadian winter’s day, two men, dressed
necessarily subjects the institution to an increasec
ti ary, and also into the state of the public debt, having
<1 ischarged the duties required of them, respectfully
REPORT.
'1 ’hat there was in the Treasury on the 20th
October, 1S49, - - - $354,697 52
"V /liich amount was increased by payments
during the fiscal year 1850, - - 355,226 98
jM aking together the sum of
F rout this amount, disbursements were made
during the same period of
L eaving a balance in the Treasury on the 20th
Oct., 1S50, of - -
F.rom this sum may be deducted as unavaila
ble for Executive warrants,
L1 laving a balance of -
.Si nee the close of the past Fiscal year, say
the 20th Oct-, 1850, up to the 17th Feb.,
there lias been paid into the Treasury,
$709,924 50
355,440 00
354,484 50
286,746 00
67,733 50
232,132 07
NI a king an aggregate of
T, ae disbursements during the
have amounted to
period
349,920 57
143,672 75
it out, necessarily subjects tne institution loan increased ex
pense—and if carried out successfully, can produce no
other result than that of filling the principal mechanic pur
suits with men who have been degraded by ignominious
hould be
lalive prevention
We feel constrained to suggest that your Excellency ifj
j you concur in our views, should invito the attention of the |
Legislature to the classification of olfonders, looking to the i
crimes which have placed them here for punishment, so fir !
as to require them to be distinguished by a difference of dress j
and the species ot employment to which they mav be put. j
As offences vary in moral turpitude and in public opinion,
so should the discipline and treatment in reference to the i
prisoners-
In the course of another year, we are led to believe that j
this Institution will exhibit sufficient evidence by which the j
Legislature can be safely guided in the determination of the i
question, whether it can sustain itself at Milledgeville by 1
its own labor and resources. We refer of course to the ex- !
pected completion of the Rail Road from Gordon to Mil- |
ledgeville. The Institution cannot but gain by that road in I
many respects. The markets for purchases and sales will |
be extended and enlarged—provisions and materials greatly j
cheapened. These are important results to be effected, j
We cannot but indulge the hope that when this road shall
have been completed and the junction of the rail roads at hg ure or bearing, save and except a pleas-
Macon been made, that the Western and Atlantic Rail Road ! 30,1 rathei b.terest ng expression in his
can be supplied at all times with all the cars and equipments | f^ t J JraS r ,ncrea9 ®‘ ’ 1 . , "’ t create > y <l
„ • , V - , , , c , - I shade of melancholy which seemed to have
essential to Us success from the work shops of the Pemten- j titled up,.,, them, the cause of which will
Harv, and that the i’emtentiary can then sustain itself with- ; be developed in the course of my tale,
out aid from the public treasury. j ‘80, Frank,’ said the elder of the two.
in the unpretending etloffe-du pays, were
returning homewards from their daily la-
labor. They had been cutting and hewing
timber for a dwelling-house, which was to
be erected in the following spring on an ex
tensive clearing that had recently been
«?a,le upon a new farm.
From the genera! appearance of the
Mime prominent figuie of these two men,
he might have seen some fifty years rpc
more. His stature, though somewhat les
sened by a slight stoop, was above the or
dinary scale. He stood, when-straightened
up, full six feet in his slocking-feet. His
broad shoulders—his long and brawny
aims—his muscular neck, revealed by the
loose collar of his red flannel shirt, gave
promise of more than common strength;—
while the bol 1 outline of Ins high and noble
forehead, and the decisive cast of his coun
tenance, together with a quick, unquailiug,
and penetrating eye, were unmistakeable to
kens of an active and powerful mind, well
suited for the all but Herculean frame un
der its influence and command.
The other, in whom might be traced
some slight resemblance to his companion,
was a young man of three or four and
twenty .years of age. with nothing, in his
AV liich being deducted, shows a balance of $204,247 S2
The assets and cash composing this bal
ance were counted and found correct,
Tl te public, or state debt, amounts to $1,S29,072 22
At id the bonds have from 18 to 23 years to run.
The whole amount, save two hundred and fifty-six thou-
.sa nd, one hundred dollars bents 6 per cent, interest, and it
it:. iy well be a matter of regret that they were not redeema-
I>1 e at the option of the State.
The Committee have read the correspondence between
yo nr Excellency and your foreign agents, on the subject of
pu rcliasing the residue of our sterling bonds sold by Reid,
Ip dng & Co., of London, amounting to seventy-two thous-
an d dollars, and fully concur with you in opinion that it
shi mild be done it it can be accomplished on fair terms. If
ho wever it cannot be dene without too great a sacrifice, the
sin ‘plus in the Treasury, should be applied to the redemp-
tio n of some of our home securities.
We have carefully counted the Coupons found in the Ex
cel itive and Treasury Departments, shewing the interest
pa d on the Public Debt, Foreign and Domestic, anticipa-
tingthe present semi-annual instalment, amounting to one
hu ad red and ninety-one thousand and twenty-six dollars,
six ty-four cents, all of which are cancelled, sealed up, and
pre iperly endorsed by the Committee. In closing this part ]
of' aur report, we take pleasure in stilting that the books,
vot tellers, &c., in the several departments arc kept with the j
mo st perfect neatness and accuracy.
- \Tter a laborious investigation into the affairs of the Cert- Toam’tpaid to officers and guar
^ our committee heg leave to present a condensed view in
the tables I and 2 of the financial condition of this Institu
tion from 6th Oct., 1849, to 1st. January, 1851. That it is ]
not brought down to the present time has arisen from the I
Legislature having dispensed with quarterly reports, and so j
various and conflicting have been the duties imposed by the j
act ot the last Legislature upon the Assistant Keeper that a |
connected view cannot be presented by him without such a '
delay of time necessary to its preparation as to preclude all j
effort on our part to obtain it. We beg leave through you to
invite the attention of the Legislature to the recommenda- j
tion ol the committee ofl34S as to the establishment of a j
Book Keeper having no duties to perform but such as ap- j
propriately belong to his department and the issuance of 1
materials to the various departments of labor.
No. 1.
Statement showing the actual operation of the Penitentiary for fiv e
quarters, commencing October 1th, 1319, and ending December
31 st, 1S50.
CREDIT.
Bv manufactured articles and Job work turned
'off' by the Convicts, .... $27,387 14
By amt. received for keeping U. S. Convicts, 482 73
S27.S69 83
DEBIT.
tra 1 1 Bank, the Committee regret that they are notable to 1
ma ke as satisfactory a statement of its real condition as |
the v could desire—they 'ind no difficulty in arriving at the j
ind ebtedness of the institution, nor are they at fault as to j
the amount of assets shown by the Cashier’s Books, hut
wh at is an enigma to them, and will doubtless so prove to |
all others, is to ascertain the true amount of the available |
res ources of the Bank.
' The Bank has been in a state of liquidation for some ten
yea .rs, and yet the amount of Notes and Bills of exchange
discounted, reach the large sum of $370,833 32 at this
tiir e—the great length of time which has elapsed, since
this debt was created, in connexion with the vigilance of
the officers to secure it,would seem to indicate, that much
the largest portion of this asset will become a total loss.
' The Committee, however, propose to estimate, that die
sutrtof $123,612 77 being one third of the above amount
of 1 Kites and bills of exchange discounted, may be realized,
prel erring to make this liberal deduction for losses, rather
than induce the belief, that the final amount, which will
liavi» to be provided fir, by the State, will be less, than that
whi all will be really needed.
S ince the report of the Finance committee in December
184 3, all the S per cent bonds of the bank have been re-
deei ned by the issue of 7 per cent bonds in accordance
with: an act of the Legislature of 1847, and one hundred and
twen ty-fivc thousand dollars of 7 per cent bonds have been
redt emed. at the counter of the Bank with cash, which
bont Is and coupons thereto attached the committee have
canc elled, sealed up iif an envelope with their endorsement
and deposited in the Bank
contingent expenses
for subsistence,
“ raw materials,
$10,274 64
1,948 91
5,306 41
8,383 30—$25,9 L3 26
Showing the profits of 5 quarters to be
$1,956 61
No. 2.
Statement shewing the condition of the Penitentiary on the 1st of
January, 1851.
ASSETS.
Notes and accounts created prior to 1st Janu
ary, 1848, - - - - -
Notes and accounts created since 1st January,
1S4S, - - - -
Manufactured articles on hand,
Raw Materials on hand, 16th Dec. 1S50, as
per inventory of Penitentiary Committee,
S9.070 94
26,364 04
3,884 13
12,597 67
$51,916 78
LIABILITIES.
Ain’t due to individuals,
“ “ Officers of Penitentiary,
$3,321 23
$3,000 00—811,321 23
$40,595 55
W e now
cond ition o!
iroceed to give the following statement
the Institution.
LIABILITIES.
of the
Bom Is bearing 7 per cent interest
Due Planters Bank, Savannah
“ Individual Depositors -
Bills in circulation -
Total
RESOURCES.
Note 5 and Bills of e\change (esti-
m ated good) - - $123,612 77
Susp ense acc’t. (estimated good,) 2,616 17
Due by Bank of Augusta 14,759 3S
Alari ne Sc F. Insurance Bk.
Ag'encv, Macon, - - 173 S9
Real Estate, - - - 2,377 49
Cash on band
' Showing a surplus of
While the Committee feel bound to present the entire a-
mount of assets and liabilities as shown above, they feel it
their duty at the same time to say, from all the information
they can obtain, that the notes and accounts created prior to
the 1st of January, 184S, amounting to $9,070 94 are worth
less and might well be stricken from the list of assets—of
the notes and accounts made since the 1st January, 184S, if
j due vigilance is exercised, we are informed, that nearly all
$390 000 00 i c:in co j* ectef l-
4 446 03 Following the precedent set by other Committees, we have
1141° 37 ^ g‘ ven 10 tne reports of the Superintendent and Resident Phy-
13 289 50 I s ‘ c ‘ an » an d that of the Treasurer of the Board of Trustees
’ of the Lunatic Asylum, made to your Excellency, that ex
amination which our limited time would admit, and we will
not withhold an expression of the gratification afforded Ity
the evidence they present, of a careful, discreet, and wise ap
plication of the several appropriations made bv the last Leg- I numpnrey jj
islature—-as also the nlftasnre we have rieriverl from the verv ! . 1 . »
whom I shall cJI Humphrey Jackman;—
‘when this cage is made, (the new house,)
you’ll have some pretty bird ready to put
into it, 1 suppose, eh?’
‘O, yes!’ was the ready, but by rio means
unemhatrassed reply. ‘Little Nelly is to
keep house for me—it’s all settled.’ Lit
tle Nelly was his youngest and favorite sis
ter.
‘8iuff —nonsense!’ exclaimed his compan
ion. ‘What’s to become of Fanny Rey
nolds? You maybe thought that I didn’t
know all about it?’
‘No more you do, uncle,’ returned his
companion; and then went on to explain
how that the old man wouldn’t give ti is con
sent until he had got his house furnished,
and paid off the two instalments still due
upon his farm; ‘although Fanny thinks,’ he
added, ‘that her father would pay one of
them himself, if l would make out the oth
er, and she and her mother would manage
about the principal part of the furniture; in
deed she’s got bedding and table linen and
I don’t know what besides, of her own al
ready, enough to furnish two houses such as
we want.’
‘So then, Frank, this is the trouble that
has been making you look so down this
while back? I3ut why not tell me before,
eh, lad?’
•Well, uncle, they say old folks don’t feel
for us young yeople in a scrape ofthis kind,
and so we thought it best to keep it to our
selves, and to try and work it out in time.
It would take a couple of years, perhaps,
and Fanny has consented to wait; but the
old man wants her to wed that fellow, Ned
Warcap, and besides—in short, I do not
know what to do.’
‘O, vve’il manage it, never fear, boy. And
as you cannot get the'girl without the cash,
why 1 must just make one more trip, that’s
all, although I did think never to make B-
nother. Smuggling!’ the old man contin
ued, as if thinking aloud, “l don’t like it; :
— it’s riot right, and yet there’s no very
great harm in it, after all, and everybody
practices it when they have an opportunity;
so I’ll try it once more.’
‘Then let me go with you,’ said Frank,
eagerly, ‘and if you have luck, you’ll make
two people happy.’
‘Say three, boy. say three, and as it’s the i
last trip I’ll ever make, you shall go with
me; and with such ice as we now have,
there’s no time to be lost. So start for j
O tomorrow morning—hire a man to |
take you across; get your eye on a coupie of 1
teams, and wait at Hiram Browp’s till I
come over to you.’
With many expressions of the deepest
gratitude, Frank Harris pat ted from his un- [
ele that night; and the old man turned into
his warm bed muttering sundry ejaculations
anything but complimentary to those setting
$419,147 90
15,S45 72—$159,385 42 facts exhibited by them.
> mt v or
C'Uiventiou, to fall vastly shoit of a nia_
nty. Allow me to hete to propound an in- together but me.e vamty-a secret
q'liry. Has this party survived the action ting upon what they think their dig
the convention! Are notits purposes merit, and inward ^expectation of such an
sbandoned, and its uiemheis but seeking
overmeasure of deference ami regard an- j
swers to their own extravagant false scale, ’
and which nobody can pay, because none
but themselves can tell readily to what
pitch it amounts.” Thousands of houses-
would he happy to morrow if this passage
have really surrendered their late purpos- j were written in letters of gold
e %and are desirous to fall hack upon the j mantlepiece, and the offenders cou ^ ave
hansels of the late Georgia convention, 1 the courage to apply
have no hesitancy in saying that both jus- | Morning Chronicle.
Uieir way hack to the alliances to which
Gey were lately attached? Now, if it le
,r >te that, on a review of the grounds of
Controversy, or in deference to the general
s et’»e of the State to the contrary, they
The suggestion of your Excellency that we should as a
Showing a deficit of $259,762 48 ! Committee inspect the Western & Atlantic Rail Road, report [
From what has been stated, it must be apparent, that the I full y u P on its conditio . n ’ finances ’ &c '’ requiring more time
defic it mentioned is conjectural; and that it does not accord , ^ an wecan conveniently devote now to that service, we
with the estimates of previous committees, will be found i liave conferred together, and consented to comply with the
to ar ise from the exclusion by us, of Darien Bank notes I wlsl1 expressed by you, ffi by a postponement of such exam-
held by the Bank as available assets for the redemption of 'natron to the latter part of the Spnug orearlyintheSum-
Causcs of Conjugal Quarrel—For Pope’s j tJje utilities of the Central Bank, and from the further ! mer ’ we can subserve the great interests of Georgia in that
fact, that we have of the Notes and Bills of exchange be- ! important road. Should this arrangement be satisfactory, we
long ing to the Bank deemed a less amount to be good or j Wl11 repair to Atlanta at some day to bo agreed on, makethe
aval lable than former committees. It is due to the past • examination indicated, and prepare a report of such views
coni juct of the Bank to add, that had not the Legislature as die Pacts submitted or ascertained may authorize, in a
app roprialed g. very large part of the capital of the institu- j separate report, in time we hope, to be presented by you to
tion to oilier State purposes, the Bank would have been ; people of Georgia, before they shall have elected repre-
abu ndantly able to have met from its own means every lia- j sentatives, who may be called on to act in reference to mat-
bili ty, with a large surplus. | ters therein contained.
A Yhilst the committee are impressed with the idea that 1
the ir duty is limited by the law under which they have |
bee n appointed to an examination into the Financial condi- |
tiot r of the Penitentiary—they are at every step in such ex- j
am ination compelled to consider the profits of the various j
kin ds of labor pursued in that Institution. Relatively one
exquisite good sense take tbe following j
which is a masterpiece:—“Nothing hinders |
the ennstantagreement of people who live!
ir.sis- t
it to themselves.—
themselves against his nephew’s ‘iove
scrape,’ as he called it, intermingled with
an occasional groan at the lettgth of time it
took the ‘old woman’ to arrange her domes
tic affairs, prepaiatory to resigning herself
to the arms of Morpheus and the hardy old
smuggler, Humphrey Jackman.
While leaving the worthy couple to their
repose, we will take a passing glance at the
different localities, few though they be,
with which my tale is concerned. This is
the more necessary, as without some such
explanatory observations, the old smug- 1
gler’s movements could not well be under
stood.
Humphrey Jackman’s farm, or rather his
, i i - - , . -i nephew’s, which was close to ir, on which
as a so the pleasure we have derived from the very * . ,. , , , , .. ,
, . ... , . I, i i-. mi „ ,, J r \ they had been at work, as already stated,
business-like and lucid report by Dr. Thomas F. Green, of ■ vvas situale dc... the Canada side of the St. j
the entire condition of that noble State Charity under his [ Lawrence, some twenty miles away from
zealous and intelligent charge. As these reports will doubt- j it in the‘backwood.’ The road leading to
less be transmitted by you to the approaching Legislature! it, cranched off' at a tight angle from the
we forbear from any attempt at a condensation of the many j front or river road about six miles
above the then flourishing town of
P . This road, after running about
ten miles back, w.is crossed by another j
road, and a tavern had been set up there,
called the ‘Four Corners,’ a name which
was commonly abbreviated into the ‘Com
ers.*
Opposite the small town of P ;
on the Canada side, was the much larger
town of O , on the United States side. ;
The locale of my story being in that.sec-!
tion of the country where the great St.
Lawrence forms the line of separation j
between British and American governments
—a space, as the intelligent reader will be
aware, not much exceeding one hundred
miles in length.
Between these two towns—in conse
quence of the facilities of communication j
with each other, afforded in summer by the !
stillness of the water, and by the ice iu j
winter—a considerable contraband trade |
has always been and is still carried on with I
great fluctuations, certainly swing to the
We have the honor to be, very respectfully,
Your Excellency’s Ob’d’t serv’ts,
GEO. D. PHILLIPS.
L L. HARRIS.
WM. W. CLAYTON.
1 Sr ate?, was in con-equence the place to which
j Humphrey Jackman had determined^to
j make his last smuggling trip, and had ac-'
I cordingly directed his nephew to proceed
. thither, as lias been already stated iu order
s to aid him in bringing it to a successful'
issue. The result of his adventurous un-
; d'ertaking must be left for the sequel to de-i
I velop.
Two days after the conversation already;
i recorded between tbe uncle and the neph*
j ew, concerning the ‘love scrape’ of the lat
ter. tlie buily and stalwart smuggler, Hugi-
1 phrey Jackman, might have been seen at a
store in the town of O .busily enga-
; ged in carrying out bags, the contents or
I which would be easily guessed at by the in
itiated, but which every body else would"
j suppose to be filled with grain. His neph
ew Frank, as he called him, was there loo,
! aiding anil assisting in loading with these
hags, two double-sleighs at the door, to
each of which a ‘span’ of leggy horses were-
j harnessed.
A light load of ten hundred each—de
signedly light, for a span of horses, in case
they might have to run for it, was soon
completed; bonds or notes, with satisfacto-
ry endorsers, were signed, to secure the
payment for the same, and all was ready
for a start.
‘Now, Frank,’ said the old man, ‘take
yout teams to Hiram Brown’s shed, and
give them a good feed, and start oil exactly
two hours from this—now mind the time,’
he added, emphatically, ‘everything depends
on this. I have given the rascally officer
hint of what 1 am up to, and I theiefore ex
pect to have a tussle with him; but he
won’t trouble you; so good bye, and see to
your teams, and Fanny will be yours yet,
or my name is not Humphrey Jackman.’
So saying, he walked off. and in another
hour was trotting quietly along the icy road
across the river, in the clear moonlight, his
sleigh apparently loaded heavily with bags,
was drawn by a span of powerful looking
grays, and he whistling unconsciously as he
jogged along, at the town of P , w here
Humphrey Jackman’s trip, and the object
of it had evidently got wind, and accord'
ingly preparatory had been made with the
utmost care and precaution, for the recep-j
J tion on his return of the greatest smuggler
the St. Lawrence had ever borne on its bo-
: sum.
Close up under the shade of the wharf, a
little higher up than where the road ciusa-
j ed the river, was a light ‘cutter’ with two
persons in it,—the excise officer himself
and a stui dy-looking Irishman of great mus
cular power, who had apparently been se
lected for his strength alone. The man
formed a striking contrast to .crafiy-
j looking little man beside hirrj. ;, But differ
ing as they did in those physical qualifica
tions essentially necessary in. such an
1 encounter as they anticipated, two more fit
and formidable antagonists for Uncle Hum
phrey, as the smuggler was familiarly des.>
iguate.d, could hardly have been found in
the whole of that neighborhood.
There was the head to (dan, and well in
structed it was in ail the trick and doubles
practised by the contraband traders, and
there was a hand and a powerful one it was,
to execute.
Two double sleighs were stationed, one
on the ice below the cross-road, and the
other on the shore, in the street lenJin^ «p
from the wharf into the town. Each sleigh
had in it two men and a diiver. The whole
party, wrapped in shawls and furs, still and
i silent as the grave, were patiently awaiting
the return of the stout and stalwart smu®'
j gler.
‘Hist! I hear him,’said the officer, ‘that
must be the creaking of his runners on the
| snow this cold night;’and after listening a
moment longer, to make certainly doubly
sure, he added, addressing his companion
more directly, ‘Now, Tim, mind and have
your hands about you.’
‘Divil a fear, your honor,’ was the curt
and ready reply; ‘his capers won’t be no
use to the villian, an Tim Machon once
gets a grip on him.’
There! sure enough, was the smuggler.
He was coming steadily along at a brisk
; trot, and had arrived within fifty yards of
the party, without apparently being aware
i of the danger he was rushing into.
I He reached the road branching off up
, the river, into which he half turned his hors
■ ses, and then suddenly pulled up, as if for
the purpose of reconnoiteiing, for he seem
ed earnostly to peer into the dark shadows
of the wharves and houses before him.
There was a deathlike pause, <Sf intense
interest, when the smuggler, as if the dark
outline of some indefinable object had
caught his eye and awakened his suspis
cions, moved on a few paces further up the
road, until he was nearly abreast of the
officer, when he again brought his team to
a sta id-still.
As he did so, the excise man, fearing his
prey, which he now considered within his
grasp, would get beyond his reach, daited
out of his hiding-place and made a dash at
him, shouting at the same time—
‘After him, my men! now’s your time,
and we have him.’
‘More easily said than done,’ coolly re-
torted the smuggler, as he triumphantly j
cracked his whip over his gallant grays, a3 -
if in defiance of the threatened danger,
when they started off up the river at a pace,
which, for some time at least kept his pur- j
suers at a respectful distance.
On they went, the law breaker and the
law defenders, and a goodly race it was j
and for a goodly stake too. Uncle Hum
phrey’s team was famed throughout all i
that country side for speed and bottom, ;
and the exciseman had taken pains to se
cure for that express occasion the swiftest j
horses he could obtain in all P .
On they went at a fiery gallop. The 1
smuggler and the cutter having distanced,
the other sleighs had the race all to them- I
selves: but after a mile or s >, the weight of
the smuggler’s load, or the superior bottom
of the exciseman’s horse began to tell, for
distance between them was rapidly decrea- j
sitig, and anon the cutter got close up to 1
the sleigh, when tbe officer called upon I
Humphrey to stop; but he only answered
by apjdying the whip to his horaes ond giv- j
ing them an exclamation of encourage
ment.
Perceiving that it was the smuggler’s
determination to persist to the last, the offi
cer urged his horse to his utmost speed and
succeeded in getting abreast of the old
man, but the latter even then, when his ad
versary was at his side, did not seem to
take the slightest notice of him, but pusbn
ed off without once looking round him.
‘Now, Tim!’ whispered the ufficer to his
companion: ‘now’s your time!’ and the man
changes in the tariffof duties established by ; making a spring out of the cutter, threw
the respective governments, and the smug-( himself on the loaded sleigh behind the