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< a 8. TW£ NT YTOU RTIF CONG R ESS? SECOND SESSION. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Mospat -lan. 9, 183 '. ABOLITION OF SLAVERY. The State, were called for Petition.,. Mr. ADAMS rosu and sail!.—have a peti-1 tioe front 150 women, the wives and dang It- I tors es my constituents, proving the abolition of ! slavery in the District of Columbia. Mr. Glascock.—l object to the reception of I tho petition. An inquiry was made of the Chair whether j the question was debateable. Tne Speaker decided that it was. Mr. ADAMS hoped, he said, that the I principle of non-receptiou, subversive as it | was of the constitutional rights of his con stituents, would not be countenanced by lhe House. The petition might be rejected, and the House, he believed, were but too ready and eager to reject the prayer of such petitions. He complained that the peti tions were not only rejected, but that the petitioners were treated with obloquy and contempt. The humanity and benevo lence of the motives which prompted this memorial ought alone to commend it to the respect and at.ention of the House. What had the House to fear from those females ? Blood, insurrection and murder ? No sir, there is nothing, said Mr. A. of an inllam-1 matory character in the paper. 1 hope the objection will he withdrawn. I appeal to { the gentleman, himself a son and a father, . to withdraw it, from consecrations of res pect for those mothers and daughters. The ; memorial is very brief, and 1 trust it will be j received and read. Mr. Glasgock said, in reply, that tho’| the petitioners were females, he found that they acted on this subject under a very im proper influence. No petition of the kind was sent here without an object. They were all got up and sent here in pursuance of a general system of agitation. No man had more consideration than he had for the motives which the gentleman supposed to actuate the memorialists; but were he a son 1 of any one of the petitioners he would im plore her at least to withhold the expres sion es a feeling and opinion, which, how ever sincere, he would assure her were fraught with mischief to the public welfare. Moreover, acting as the representative of Southern mothers, he objected to the recep tion of a memorial which, however intended, would have the effect to fill their minds w ith apprehension and alarm. He was aware that a majority of the Hou/e were opposed to this motion, and that it would not be sus tained ; but he should persist in it for the purpose of recording his own vote in its support. Mr. Parks said that no good could re sult from the discussion of this subject. He moved, therefore, to lay the question of re ception on the table. Mr. Reed called for the yeas and nays on the question, and they were order ed. The question being taken, it was decided in the affirmative, yeas 130, nays 69. The memorial therefore lies over till saext Monday. Mr. Adams again rose and presented the memorial of two hundred and twenty eight females, residents of South Weymouth, praying the abolition of slavery iu the Dis trict of Columbia. Mr. Adams proceeded to read the peti tion. Several members called Mr. Adams to order. Mr. Chambers of-Ky. made a point of order : was not the member under the 25th rule of the House, confined to “ a brief statement of the contents of a memorial.” The Chair decided Mr. Adams could not read the memorial, and must confine himself to “ a brief statement of its con tents.” Mr. Adams appealed from the decision of the Chair. He called upon the Speaker to say whether he decided that a member was not in order in reading any thing that he pleased, as apart of his speech. If it was intended to suppress the liberty of speech and the right of discussion in'this House, so, help him God, be would resistit in his own person. The Chair read from the Manual of Mr. Jefferson, and other authorities passages which stated that a member had no right to read any paper, printed or written, (not e ven his own written speech) without the con sent of the House. But, independently of that consideration, jthe gentleman’s ' at tempt to read the petition w as an evasion of the 45th rule, which confines a member to a brief statement of the contents “ of a pe tition,” when lie presents it. Some discussion took place on the ques tion ol order, in wbic'» the decision of the Chair was sustained bv Messrs. Patton Briggs and Chambers,' of Ky. and oJ posed by Messrs. Harper, of Pa. aud Ad am*,. Mr. Adams said he would compromise the matter. He would withdraw the appeal, if the Ho: se would suffer him to complete his “ brief statement” of the contents ol the memorial. There were but two more lines of it, and those he wished the House to hear. He proceeded to read the “two lines,” wherein the memorialists express their de termination to present the same memorial every year until its prayer shall becomplied Tremendous cries of “ order” accompa nied and followed .Mr. A’s remarks. The Speaker peremptorily ordered Mr. A. to take his seat. Mr. Adams, instead of complying, rais ed his voice, and continued his remarks, win. h were however entire y inaudible, in consequence of the loud cries of “ order,” “order,” from every part of the House. I he Speaker again directed the gentle man to sit down. Mr. Adams, having brought his “ brief statement” to a conclu sion, took his seat, at the same lime savin". “ 1 withdraw the appeal.” Mr Glascock objected to the reception of the petition presented by the gentleman from Massachusetts, and proceeded to make some remarks, in the course of which he was interrupted by many calls to order. Mr. Dawsox, ol Ga, attempted to ad dress the House on this subject. His re marks appeared to be deprecatory of any excitement on the question ; but owing to I the increasing confusion he was not distinct- I ly heard. Mr. Manx ot N. 1. moved tin previous i question, which was ordered to be put. I The main question, “shall the petition be received ?” was put and decided in the nffir-; inative, yeas 137, nays 75. So the petition! was received. Mr. Haynes moved to lay the petition | on the table, which motion was agreed to, j yens 151, nays 50. Mr. ADAMS presented another similar petition, to the reception ol which Mr. Hal- SEY objected. At this point, (3 o’clock) this despatch was closed, Mr. UNDERWOOD speaking on the question of reception. Front Ike Charleston Courier. WRECK OF THE MEXICO. We have seen the British Consul, Mr. j Buchanan, who has just returned from Hempstead Beach, Having passed the night, and a considerable portion of yesterday, in the neighborhood of the wreck. The ac count he gives of the disaster, in all its sta ges, as described to him by those who as sembled on the beach, and saw, but could not help, is most heart rending. For eigh teen hours, the unhappy strangers were ex posed to the horrors of the wreck, enduring the pangs of cold, and hunger, and misery and hope deferred, beholding face to face as it were, the terrible death from v . niclr there was no means of escape; for e'. diteen hours, their piteous cries and shr’.eks were hCtiid upon the beach, gradually' decreasing in number and frequency, unt>', at last but a feeble wail was hear! at intervals, and finally all was still—when the scarcely less agonized listeners knew ‘.hat death had com ! pleted his work, and that the deck of the I Mexico now bore only the frozen and life less bodies ol the bate breathing and hoping passengers. 1 hirty-sev r .n of the bodies have come on shore—six trf them females, thirty men, and J one young lad. In two or three instances, I bodies Lave come on shore, with their arms ; locked in a close embrace, anti these are i sue posed to have been near relatives. Eve iVy arrangement lias been made by the I Consul, and the Sheriffand Coroner of the ■county, lor the decent interment of the un • happy sufferers, and we have a melancholy I pleasure in saying, that the ladies of the j vicinity have hastened to give assistance in ; paying the last offices to the bodies of the | females. The Consul Speaks most grate ' fully o 1 ’ the zeal and interest manifested by ! all the inhabitants living near the scene ol I the disaster. j P. S.— Mr. Sami. Thompson, tire con i signee of the Mexico, left at a late hour lasi I evening, and has favored us with the fol -1 lowing: List ot bodies found and recognized on Hempstead Beach, from the wreck of the barque Mexico, from Liverpool:— Mr. Evans, Mr. Murray, John Union, Mr. Metcalf’s eldest daughter, Mr. Devine. Samuel Blackham, Mrs. Higgins, Mrs. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Pepper, and one ol I their children, Mr. Murray, two of Hope’s ' children, one of Mrs. Evans’ daughters, and her eldest son, and 16 bodies not recog ; nixed. - The agent ot the Insurance Company, with the wreck-master, boarded the ship i yesterday, but found nothing on deck or in ; the cabin, which they made out to enter. Everything had been washed out—no bo- I dies were found in any part of the ship, i Some of the bodies which had drifted ashore, i iiad the appearance of having been lashed j to the vessel, as ropes were tied around their ! waisls, &.c. | The ship remains much in the same situ l ation as yesterday, and there is a prospect lof saving most of the cargo, when the i weather becomes more moderate. I The captain having been censured for I leaving the ship, we are requested to say ■ that he was urged to do so by the passen . gers, iu the hope that he would be able to j effect something for their rescue. I A report lias been circulated that the ship i was short ot water; this is incorrect, as she I had more than 1300 gallons on board at I the time of the wreck. , Twenty sovereigns were found on the I body of John Union. ; The body of a woman drifted ashore, J with A, L. marked on her linen, and ten ; dollars were found on her person. ! LOSS OF THE SHIP SUPERIOR. IVe mentioned on Wednesday the loss |of this ship, and expressed some fears for j the safety of the crew. It affords us pleas ure to announce their safe arrival at St. ! George’s, Bermuda. The following par ticulars we copy from the Courier of this She sailed from Marseilles on the 25th ol Sept, bound to this port, and had light and fair weather till the 10th of Novem ber, when she took a tremendous gale from the N. \V . which strained her to so' great a I degree that it was with difficulty she could Ibe kept free from water; and Captain Ty son, therefore, deemed it prudent to square away for Bermuda. A few days after this, the wind veered away to the eastward, blowing strong and steadily, and the pros fpett being a good one of carrying the | breeze all the way to New York, the Supe, rtornas once more headed toward the port I of her destination. On nearing our coast, the wind hauled I suddenly right in her teeth, blowing almost 1 a hurricane. After battling the storm for i lour days, her course on the 25th was shift- Icd for Bermuda again. On the 29th, Capt, I Tyson judged himself to be 30 miles north I ol that island: bat this computation was n«- I cessarily very uncertain, not having ho, an observation lor two days. At one o’- clock on the 29th, the ship' was struck by a heavy squall from the northwest, which knocked her on her beam ends, but suc ceeded iu wearing round, and she righted. The pumps were at that lime chunked, ami the ship had six licet water in her hold. By dint of bailing, she was kepi free till H o >. clock, when the sea became smoother, and on taking a cast of the lead, but two fath oms of water were found. This w..s the first intimation of danger; and although every exertion was made to wear the ship round again, she struck the bottom ami knocked off her rudder. Being thus disa bled, ami the water making very fast in the hold, the starboard anchor was let go, to prevent her drifting. Till 8 o’clock next morning, she thumped tremendously; and there being no appearance of any assistance coming from the shore, the long boat win hoisted out, and tiie second mate ami se-jl ven men despatched to St. George’s, then i insight, distant 10 or 12 miles. i At half an hour afte the boat left, anotli- ■ er heavy squall struck the ship, and drove I her into deeper water, where she sunk, with j the water even with the top of her rails. — , ; Those left on board, immediately took to j the remaining boat, and all reached the shore I iu safety,. saving nothing bu' what they ', stood in, noteven the chronometer arid I ship’s papers. Capt. Tyson writes that j every assistance was rendered him by Mr. | Tucker, the American Consul, to secure as I much of the cargo as possible from the [ wreck, but he feared a great deal would be ! lost by its drifting to different parts of the 1 island, where the inhabitants took possess- I ion of it. The crew left Bermuda in the brig Calvin, of this port, bound to Wil mington, N. C. where they arrived i:.i safety on the 25th ult. Capt. Tyson remains at Bermuda to, attend to the interest of those concerned. The S >'.perior was a remarkably stout, Philadelphia built ship, owned by Capt. Wni . Tyson, of this city. His brother was m command of her. She was insured here for §14,000, but was estimated to be worth $20,000. Office of the Courier 8c Enquirer, ? NEW-YORK, Jan. 6,3 P. M. ) Another shipwreck.— We have again to record another unfortunate shipwreck on our coast. The Brittish ship Tamarac, Capt. Kane, left Liverpool on the 11th Nov. and offer a pleasant voyage across the Atlantic, made Sandy Hook on Saturday afternoon last between 4 and 5 o’clock. Here she laid off and on till 8 o’clock, making various signals for a pilot firing rockets, Sic. but in vain. The wind then chopped round to the north west, and the ship stood off. Between 12 and 1 o’clock the wind increased to a gale, and her can vass was therefore reduced to three double reefed topsails. Under this she lav off and on the laud, and kept the lead going until Weduesday. At 4 o’clock that morn ing her soundings showed 18 fathoms water. An hour after, a light was perceived through the drifting snow, and in a few minutes m >re, the ship struck the bottom, while under close reeled topsailj double reefed main and mizen topsail, and close reefed mainsail, about 3 miles cast, of Fire i Island light. She now made every sig- j nal of distress, by firing gnus, See. until j daylight, when she got out herboats, and sent one with a line ashore. This boat! swamped near the beach. The launch was ' next filled with passengers, who with the as-I sistance of the people on shore, succeeded i in getting safe to land. Till 5 o’block in the afternoon the time was passed in land ing the remaining passengers and crew, and we are happ\ to add, all got safe onshore except an infant who perished from expo sure to the cold. The sea was all the while making a complete breach over the vessel, and she when our informant left, was one complete body of ice, with two feet water in her above the lower deck. Her masts weue still standing but her rudder was unshipped, and several pieces of her bot tom came up alongside. The Tamarac was built in Quebec, was lour months old, and was owned bv Messrs. William Si Henry Sharpies of Liverpool, where she is insured. She had four cabin passengers, 113 steerage, and the crew con sisted ot 26 men. All have lost every thing except the clothes they had on. We are happy in being able to add that the inhabitants of the coast near where the Tamarac went ashore, exerted themselves to the utmost to rescue the people on board from il.eir unfortunate situation, and evin ced, besides a proper feeling of sympathy towards them in all other respects. The names of the cabin passengers are, Miss Marv Ann Hewson, of Dub in. Messrs. Thomas and Samuel Anslow of j Shropshire. | Mr. William Simms, of Scottland. It was currently reported yesterday that I there were two vessels on shore on Patch louge Bench, L. I. but we could not, with much exertion, trace the rumor to-any au thentic source. From the Courier and Enquirer, DREADFUL SHIPWRECK. It is with sorrow and shame we again takeup the pen to record the particulars of i the wreck of another vessel destined to this ! port, when almost in sight of it; sorrow, iat the immense loss of life with which the event has been accompanied, and shame 1 that our port regulations are insufficient to guide the mariner to his haven, when he ! has reached our coast. The information we give below has been 1 derived by our reporter from the Captain !of the shipwrecked vessel, and from per- I sons on the spot where the ship came on shore. He reached the town from the scene of the d'» ister nt an early hour this mornin"; ■ having been despatched by us thither, as [ soon as the news of the horrid catastrophe i reached us. ! The Barque Mexico, Capt. Winslow, sailed from Liverpool on the 251 h October i last, having on board a crew consisting of ! twelve men and one hundred and four passengers, in all one hundred and sixteen souls. She made the Highland lights on Saturday night last at 11 o’clock and on Sunday morning was ofl’the bar, with thirty or more square rigged vessels, till having signals flying for pilots but not a pilot was there in sigiit. The Mexico continued standing off and on the Ho >k till midnight at dark she and the whole fleet ofships dis played lanterns from their yards ibr pilots. Still no pilot came. At midnight the wind increased to a violent gale from the north west, the Barque was no longer able to hold to windward and was blown off a distance of some 50 miles. At this time, six of the crew were badly frost-bitten and thecaptain mate, and two seamen were all that were left able to hand and reef the sails, Or Monday moring at 11 o’clock standing in shore they made the southern end of of the. woodlands, w hen she was wore round and beaded to the north under a close reefed main top-sail, reeled fore-sad, two reefed try-sail and fore-stay sail. At four o’clock the mate took a cast of the lead and re ported to Capt. Winslow that he had fif teen fathoms water. Supposing from the I -otindingsas laid down in the chart, that w ith this depth of water, he could still stand on 11 ; I. K NTANBAKD OF UNION. two hours longer w'itl, safety—the Captain gave orders to that cll'ect, and was, the more induced te do it, as the crew were in so disabled as tate and the weather so intens ly cold, thr.t it was impossible for any one to remai’.i on deck longer than half an hour atati'me. The event has shewn that the tnlormation given by the mate, as to the < epth o| water was inci rrect his error arose from the lead line being frozen still'tit the time it was cast. 1' ifteen minutes afterwards the ship struck tin-bottom, twenty-six miles east ofSandv Hook at Ilempsted bench, and not more than a cables length from the shore. The 1 scene that ensued on board, we leave to the reader’s imagination. For one hour and three quarters she continued thumping heavily wilbo't making any water, the however breaking continually over her.— Her rudder was now knocked off, and the Captain ordered the main-mast to be cut away. The boats were then cleared, the long boat hoisted out, and veered away tin ner her bows with a stout hawser, lor the purpose of filling with passentxers, letting it drilt within reach of the people who crow ded the beach, then hauling her back again and thus saving the unfortunate people on board, but this intention was frustrated bv the parting of the hawser, which snapped like a a thread as the boat was exposed to the heaving surf. The yawl was next got alongside, and stove to pieces almost instant ly. At 7 o’clock the same mornintr, the ship bilged and filled with water. Orders followed from the captain to cut away the foremast ; and that every soul on board should come on deck.—ln inexpressible agony they thus remain d until four o’clock in the afternoon, when a boat was launch ed from the beach, and succeeded in getting under the bowsprit of the wreck. This boat took off Capt. Winslow and 7 men, and succeeded in reaching the shore with them in safety. The attempt however was attended with such imminent danger that ! none could be induced to repeat-it. Alrea- ■ dy had the sufferings of the unhappy beings I been such as to surpass belief. From the ■ moment of disaster, they had hung round the Captain, covered with their blankets thick-set with Hee, imploring his assistance and asking if hope was still left to them. When they perceived that no further help came from the land, their piercin" shrieks j were distinctly heard at a considerable dis l lance, and continued through the night un til they one by one perished. The next ! morning the bodies of many of the unhap ' py creatures were seen lashed to different 1 parts ofthe wreck, embedded in ice. None, I it is believed, were drowned, but all frozen i to death. Os the one hundred and four passen gers, two thirds were women and children. It is but justice to the people on shore to say that every thing which human beings could accomplish to save the unfortunates was done that their means permitted. The only boat which boarded the vessel was hauled a distance of ten miles and was man ned by an old man and six others, four or j five of w bom were the old man’s sons and (grandsons. For thirty-five years has he ■ been living «ti the sea-shore, during which ,he has rendered assistance to numerous ( wrecks atrl never before, have he or his ' comrades shrunk from the surf; but in addi- tion to its violence on the present occasion, j such was the extreme cold, that a second ■ attempt to rescue was more than they ! dared venture ; it would have inevitably proved fatal to them. The following are the names ofthe per sons saved. Capt. Winslow. Wm. Broom, a lad, brother of the own er. Two seamen and the Cook. Richard Haynes, ) Thomas Mullohan, > Passengers. John Wood, ) The boat was put off from the vessel without Richard ilayne, but he sprang I from the bowsprit amt was drawn from the I sea by those in the boat. [From the St. Augustine Herald, Jan-. 7.] MORE INDIAN DEPREDATIONS. An express from Black Creek arrived last night in this city, by which we learn, that on the 4th inst. a party of Indians, near the Santa Fe Bridge, cutoff and took prisoners eleven negroes belonging to Mr. Bennet M- Dell, of Newnansville, These negroes, started in company with a bag gage train from Garey’s Ferry to the lat j ter place, with an ox team—and were about I a mile in th“ rear of the main body when taken. One of the negroes made bis es cape from them, and returned to Garey’s Ferry; he slates the number of Indians to be about 20. Upon the receipt of this in formation, Lieut. Col. Crane, witli commen dable promptness, has ordered Capt. Prey mouth’s company of mounted Volunteers to proceed im ediately to Garev’s Fern, and await further orders from Col. Warren. Capt. Curry’s company will join Col. W. at Jacksonville, and proceed from thence to that post. There are but few troops at Garey’s Ferry. We learn from Newnansville that there are parties of the Indians lurking in that neighborhood. About three weeks since, a party ol three, came to the plantation of Mr. Parish, and killed a Mr. Ostein, his son-in-law. Mr. Parish, saw them commit the fatal act, while standing in his door ; called to them and dared them to come nearer to the house, and he would make sure of one »*;’ them, when they made off. Mr. Parish had abandoned his place on the breaking out of hostilities, and had recent ly returned to his home. About the same time, a small scouting party went to the plantation of .Mr. Haig, about ten miles from Newnansville, at night and discovered an Indian ata small fire iu the field. A Mr. Youngblood, who wasol the party, crept up, and shot and scalpel, him ; they suppose that there w ere two oth er Indians in company with the one killed, as they found three packs and three rifles. Il is reported at Newnansville, that a friendly Creek had been taken by the Sem inoles and carried to an Island in the Or ange lake, from whence he made his escape, and that he states that there are about 30 families on the Island ; that they have a bundance of cattle and hogs ; that they have no ammunition. It is also reported there, that a party of) men from Fort Deane, went down to Col. Mclntosh’s plantation, about five miles dis- i taut, and while there a party of Seminoles, j disguised as Creeks, came upon and killed j one of them. Col. Sanchez, w ith his command, return ed to tow non Thursday last from the South. ’ lie proceeds as far south as Mcßae’s plan- i tatioii, on the Tomoka River. The conn- , ■ry was scoured in every direction, without ‘ discovering any Indians. A single track ' was seen near Dailey’s, which appeared to be about a day old. Tiie cane on the plan tations had grown up, and pumpkins in a butidanee, and which had no appearance of having been disturbed. But few cattle were found. Funeral of the late Col. Brooks.—The body ol the late lamented Lt. Colonel was found upon the Beach, about 30 miles from this city, and brought in for interment on Ihursday last. On Friday, the last sad tribute was paid to his remains, and he was interred wit h the honors of war. The body was escorted to the grave by the company ol St. Augustine veterans, and'Lt. North throp s company ol volunteers, under com mand ol Adjutant Phillips, and followed bv the U. S. Officers at this post, as principal mourners, the Volunteer officers in the ser vice of the U. States, the U. S. Troops, the Judge and Offici rs of the Superior Court, the Mayor and Aidermen, and a large concourse of citizens. The burial x’rvice was read at the grave by the Rev. David Brown, ot the Episcopal Church. INDIAN HOSTILITIES. The Columbus Herald, of Jan. 3, contains the following information : “ Again the hostile Creeks have broke loose ! and committed depredations and murders. 1 he plantation ol Dr. Battle on Cowega creek was beseiged by a party of Indians five or more in number, who filed upon and killed one white man and two negro men, at the same time burn ing the dwelling and outhouses on the premises of Dr. B. But five Indians were seen oh the occasion, but there was reason to believe that a much greater number were concealed in the swamp. It is not known whether these ludi ans were those who still remained in Alabama waiting to be emigrated, or whether they were ! stragglers returning from Florida. The'ques tion presents itself, why are these Indians per mitted to remain in the nation I Government has undertaken to remove them, and why are they still here I Are there not funds to pay the expense of emtgration ? Fifty millions in' the treasury, and yet about four thousand Indians remaining in Alabama ! Amongst them from 5 to 600 warriors.—The troops have all been removed, but one little company left at Fort j Mitchell, a force entirely inadequate to the dc | fence of the country ! This subject should be lookedjinto, and these wanderers emigrated with all possible despatch. of j "The friends nf the Union are our friends,and its enemies, our enemies." THURSDAY UOKNING, Jan. St). i “ A Farmer” shall appear in our next. TO OIJR PATRONS. The last number closed the ihird volume ofthe I S'i ANDARD OF UNION, since it made itshum kle entrance into Milledgeville, in January 1834. i In reviewing the events of a few years past, our hearts are filled with gratitude for the success of those great principles, in the support of which, the STANDARD has been a zealous, but feeble in strument, and for the very flattering estimate which our fellow citizens have placed upon our efforts to maintain the doctrines of LIBERTY and UNION. In January, 1833, we raised the STANDARD OF UNION in a neighboring village, and encoun tered the fury of Nullification, w hen it was sweep ing over the land, “in tempest and fire.” The value of the Union had been calculated, and pro nounced unworthy of preservation.—We met the issue, and from that hour to the present, wo have labored to preserve it with all our energies. Plant ! ing ourselves upon the precepts of the "FATHER OF IIIS COUNTRY,” we have maintained | "the Union of all the States," as the only effectual ! ineansof securing "the sovereignty and independence of each;” and the part which we have acted in this ( contest, and the exertions we have made to save our country from a great and impending calamity, will be to us. a source of pride and satisfaction through life, and ofthe most unalloyed consolation, when we come down to the pillow of death. In commencing, with this number, another year of our labors, we feel a renewed impulse to dou ble our exertions. When we limk back to the struggles which are passed-—to the dangers which have threatened our glorious institutions—and the triumph of those great principles which lie at the foundation of our Government: when we behold the rising grandeur ofthe Republic-—the liberty, prosperity and hap piness which pervade every quarter of her wide spread dominions, we may well exclaim “Columbia ! Columbia! toglory arise, The Queen ofthe woild.and the child of the skies.” Who that is content with all the blessings which freedom can bestow—with a government which is only felt in the protection which it affords, can con template, without emotions of horror and dismay, every attempt to impair its strength and integiity, or to change the principles upon which it rests? It was good enough for Washington, it was good enough for Jefferson, and Madison, and Franklin, and all those gallant spirits who stood side by side, “in the day and hour of danger.” To those who have so liberally patronised our pa per, we owe a debt of gratitude which can only bo repaid by a redoubled application to our duties as public journalists, and a still more animated devo tion to the best interests of our common country. TO AD V ERTibERS - AB ROAD. Persons, at a distance, who are desirous f giving their advertisements an extensive circulation, are respectfully informed that THE STANDARD OF UNION presents the means of spreading them before a larger number of readers than any paper in Geor gia, or perhaps in the Southern country, with but a single excention. There is not a State or Territory in the Union, t<> which it has not found its way ", and scarcely a Post Office in this State where it is not ta ken. We have added to our list thirty-six si fa scribers, from the first of the new year up to the present time. This is beginning the year well, and evidences that our labors are considered worthy of reward. Francis V. Delaunay, Miller Grieve, Thomas Haynes, Nathan M’Gehce, Horace R. Ward and Iverson L. Harris Esqs. were elected Aidermen, on the 13lh inst. for the city of Milledgeville, and on the eve ning of the same day, the Aldermen met and elected F. F. Delaunay, Mayor. ANOTHER SPECK OF WAR. In consequence of the recent depreda tions committed by the Creek Indians in Alabama, a requisition has been made up on Georgia, for a force to march immedi ately to Fort Mitche’l. A Fine troop of Volunteer Cavalry from Franklin County, arrived here on Monday afternoon, under the command of Captain James Morris— First Lieutenant William Ash— and second Lieutenant Harris Toney. They partook of a treat in the afternoon, furnished by the citizens, at which several patriotic toasts were drank, and much good feeling prevailed. Their gentlemanly deportment, while in this place, reflects the highest credit upon them, and have won, for them, the friend ship and esteem of this community. They took up the line of march on Tues day evening, and carry with them our prayers for their success. THE SURPLUS REVENUE. Wc received a few days since from our atten tive Representative in Congress, the Hon. Jesse F. Cleveland, the following letter in relation to ' the Surplus Revenue ; from which it will be seen, that the portion to be deposited with this State,du ring the present year, amounts to $1,401,890 12. Bythesaine mail, the first instalment of this fund, was received by his Excellency the Gover nor amounting to $350,474 03, and by him depos ited in the Treasury in terms of the act of Con jgress; and by the Treasurer, immediately trans- I ferred to the Central Bank, in pursuance of an act of the last Legislature: Washington City, January 4th, 1837. “ Tie Treasurer of the United States, yesterday, communicated to this House, the amount of moneys in the Treasury, sub ject to be apportioned amontr ths several States, in compliance'with a law of the last Session of Congress, regttlatimr the depos ites of the public moneys.—The amount to be distributed i5'§37,468,859 97, which is equal to 8127,445 10, to each electoral vote. Georgia having eleven votes,'will conseqnen.ly be entitled to §1,401,896 12.” U. S. BANK~ We publish below, the remarks of thp GEORGIA CONSTITUTIONALIST ' and SOUTHERN BANNER, upon the . late movement of theU. S. Bank, and re commend them to the consideration of all our readers. They are so full of good sense and sound logic, and speak so distinctly, the pure doc trine of State Rights, that we feel assured they will receive from the great body of our fellow-citizens, a hearty response. Will the sovereign people, of the sove reign State of Georgia, tolerate such an fl pen invasion of their rights ? No, and the better the matter is understood, and the more it is discussed, the deeper and more uncompromising will be the public indigna tion. The act itself is a perversion of the char ter of the Insurance Bank, on the part of the United Stales Bank. It is an attempt to exercise powers within the State ofGeor gia, which would never have been granted by the Legislature, or countenanced by the people. Had Mr. Biddle and his associates made known to the last Legislature that they had purchased the charter of the Insurance Bank, and petitioned for the privilege of exercising under it, all the immunities en joyed by the original stockholders, thev would have be'n indignantly spurned and rejected.—We have much more to say upon his subject. From the Augusta Constitutionalist. have laid aside for the present some editorial matter prepared for this day’s |pa]'er, to publish what follows taken from the Colum bus Herald of last Tuesday. And we do so with the view of calling the attention of the people of Georgia to the subject, that, if they think it of sufficient importance, they may take it under immediate and serious consideration, and then adopt the most energetic mecs ires, in order to prevent or neutralize the fatal conse quences which inevitably will be produced by the uncontrolled influence the United States Bank will exercise in Georgia, through a local institution, the capital of which is owned by it. With the principal Bank at Columbus, and bran ches at Savannah, Macon and Augusta, the free and independent State of Georgia, will be made to bend to the power of the United States Bank. The people will become the mere a gents of the directors of that institution, and ail our local banks will be compelled to follow the dictates of, and the regulations prescribed to them by individuals who entertain feelings, and will have interests diamctically opposite to the feelings and interests of our own citizens. The capital es the Insurance Bank may ho only §600,000 ; but the whole capital ofthe United States Bank will be employed to support tho op erations of that local institution. Will our lo cal banks be able to contend against an institu tion supported by a capital of $35,000,010, with an unlimited credit in every important city ot the Union ? Will the banks of Augusta bo ti lde to contend against such an influence ? Will the people of Georgia be able to resist the influ ence that will inevitably be exercised over our financial and even political transactions ? We eaniesdy recommend immediate action on the part of the people ; meetings should bo held in every county of the State condemning the esta blishment in Georgia of the power of the Uni- Hod States Bank through the means of a local institution, and recommending the call of an ex tra session ot the legislature, tor the purpose of adopting such constitutional and legal means, as may prohibit at once and hereafter the intro duction in the heart of Georgia, of a power which must prove so destructive to our public .institutions, and to the liberties wc now enjoy : a power more to be dreaded, because it will be suppoited by thirty five millions dollars. A branch of tiie insurance Bank is to be establish ed in Augusta. Shall we tamely submit to such an arbitrary measure? Without consulting the citizens of Augusta ; without asking them whether they are or not desirous of the location of a branch among them, tire United States Bank determine on establishing a controlling in stitution in our city ! And all this without first ascertaining whether they would be able to find among our patriotic citizens, men to serve as directors, and assist as such in placing the State of Georgia at the feet ot a moneyed aristocracy, more to be dreaded than the sword and despo tism of a military dictator. Wc are mortified that Mr Biddle and his as sociates in Georgia, should have believed that they could act in the manner they have so far done, with impunity. But we rely on-the patri otism and energy ofourciiizens, to show to those United Slates bank men, that lhe rights and in dependence of our State are not to be made a subject of bargain and sale. With regard to the approbatory notice of the Columbus Her ald, we hope and believe that no othec paper in the State wilt imitate the course that print in tends to pursue respecting the establishment of the power of the United States Bank in Georgia. From the Southern Banner. MORE NICK BIDDLEISM. Our late Columbus.papers give information that the United States Bank lias purchased the stock and become the manager of the Insu lance Bank ot Columbus ! A charter, granted by tne Legislature of Georgia for the con venience and benefit of the citizens of this Slate, has been transferred to a local institu tution of a distant state, a great portion of whose stockholders aie subjects of the anti-re pub’ican governments of England and Franco. The consideration money for this transfer, over and above the par value of the stock, we under stand to be one hundrd thousand dollars. Branches have already been ordered to be es tablished a Savannah, Macon and Augu.-ti, and it is probable if the scheme works well, that they will be extended to every point where any bank now e .ists in Georgia. Here will be a glorious monopoly. The enormous capital of the U. I? Bank, its extensive connections throughout the Union, aud its high credit, will give it advantages with which tho other institu tions of the sta-e cannot svcccssfuily compete ; and we may soon expect to see this mammoth monopoly either crushing the smaller opera tions, or make them subservient to its views. In every point of view, we look upon this transaction as an outrage upon the people of the sate, to which they cannot, in justice to themselves, to their independent character or pecuniary interests, quietly submit. If noth ing worse, it is establishing a precedent, which may hereafter be acted upon to work the de struction of our republican government. We all know that w< a'dt is power. Now let ns suppose that lhe government of England or France, or of any other foreign country, wish to acquire an influence in the United States, to enable it to propagate any of its principles—all it need do, is to send an agent here with mon ey to buy up our bank charters, and the whole | tremendous influence of these corporations can 1 be concentrated and brought to bear upon the desired object.—Who does not see that almost any purpose might be accomplished in this way? But if existing bank charters could not easily be obtained, bribes to individuals might 1 be given, who would apply to our Legislatures , and probably receive new charters, not for their own use but for the use of their employ ers who would be behind the curtain; and thus the same desire be gratified. But have any of our citizens a right, after obtainng a bank charter, upon the usual repre sentations of the necessity which exists for it in the community where they live, and to ena ble them to invest their money in away to ben efit themselves and their fellow citizens, then to abandon, the object ibr which they sought it, and betray the confidence of lhe Legislature by selling its benefits to a set of men whose inter ests and feelings are difterent from our own. This at least is a question that should be care fully examined. If such a right does exist, it would he well for future Legislatures to learn wisdom from experience ; and abolish it here after in all acts of incorporation. Ihe Bank ol the United states was an in stitution so generally regarded as dangerous to the liberties of the people, that the overwhelm ing voice of public opinion was raised against it, and in its national capacity it was put down. But the offered hot u of four mill <ns of dollars to the state of Pennsylvania, was too tempt ing a bait not to be nibbled at by her Legisla te e. The contest between money and republic canism was scon terminated. All powerful MONEY gained the victory—and Pennsylva nia perpetuated the power of the.corrupting monster, as far as her legislation could extend. The Bank s now workingits way. into other states where if unchecked, its influence will be even greater and its effects more baleful,-than they were under its former charter. Wncnev er it suits her policy, she will be able to destroy commercial cmfidcnce and credit from one end ol the Union to the other—she can greatly en large the circulation of the paper currency, produce over-tra.ding in every department of business, and then contract her discounts, and speculate upon the distresses and pecuniary sacrifices she has occasioned. The scenes of panic and individual bahkruptcy which it ere ated, when seeking to extort a re-charter from Congress, will be long remembered, and should be held as a good reason for resistii g the fearful strides towards increased power which it is uow making. COMMUNICATED. The march and patriotic r< eeption of the FRANKLIN VOLUNTEERS. Tl.ey took up their line of march, from Carnesville, for Florida, the ICth January 1837, under two feelings directly in oppo sition in the hu tian breast—the one, entrea ting by all the endearing ties offriends and relatives to remain at home, in the bosom of comfort and happiness—the ether, im pelling by every emotion of patriotism, to burst asunder those ineffable felicities, to lake the tented field, and endure the hard ships and privations of the soldiers’ fate. On the 11th they reached Danielsville, in which little patriotic village they were re ceived by a handsome salute ot musketry, and iurnished with a genteel treat, on thoir horses, by A. C'rawfort' and others. After which, taking up the line of march, on the 12th, entered the Seat olT.itcrature, in pas sing through which, nothing occurred of note. On the 13th we approached the beautiful, and no less chivalrous county site ol Morgan. Notwithstanding our un expected arrival, we were readily recogniz ed as soldiers; and after enquiring from w hence we were, and where bound, Mr. Kindrick requested us to hall and revive our spirits by a treat. We iHtbrmed him of