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Married Lipf..— Deceive not one another
in mull tiling* nor in greut. One little single
lie has, before now, disturbed a whole married
life. A small enuse has ofieo great conse
quences. Fold not the arms together nnd sit
idle. “ Laziness is ihe devil’s cushion.” Do
«ot run much from home. One’s own health
li of more worth than gold.
Many a marriage, my friends, begins like
the rosy morning, and then fal s away like a
mow wreath. And why, my friends ? Be
cause the married pair neglect to be as well
pleasing to each other after marriage as before.-
Eodcavor always, my children, to please
one another; but at the same time keep God
in yo«r thoughts. Lavish not all your love on
to-day, for remember that marriage has its to
morrow likewise, and its day after to morrow
too. “ Spare, as one may say, fuel for winter.”
Consider, my daughters, what the word wife
expresses. The married woman is her hus
band's domestic faith; in her hands he must
be able to confide house nnd family ; be able to
entrust to her the key of his hcatt as well as
the key of his -eating room. His honor and bis
home are under her keeping—his well being is
in her hand. Think of this!
And you, sons, bo faithful husbands and
gooJ fathers of families. Act so that your
wives shall esteem and love you.—Fredrika
Ji renter.
New applciation of Ihe Magnetic Telegraph.
—Wo understand that the principal hotel kce-
pers in New York have come to the determi
nation to introduce the Magnetic Telegraphic
wires all through their respective establish
ments. Each of the waiters is to carry one end
of the wire attached to their left wrists, and
when the proprietor wants them, they will be
slightly shocked. Wires are to ramify frojn
the galvanic battery, which is to be situated in
the bar, to every room in tho house. Tltc
wires will be attached to each bedstead, and in
the morning for the boarders to arise and pre
pare for breakfast, a gentle shock will be ad
ministered to all simultaneously by the superin
tendent of the battery. This modeol awaken
ing sleepers, it is thought, will be far more pre
ferable to the horrid noise of the gong now
used. If a gentle admonition is not sufficient
to arouse a drowsy boarder, a more powerful
dose of electricity will be administered. The
battery is to be of sufficient strength to throw
b person weighing less than two hundred
pounds completely out of bed. Wires will be
to tho kitchen ranges, and attached to the
cooks, to expedite the cooking in the pots, ket
tles, and pans, nnd to stir up tho superintend
ents. Steam will be entirely dispensed with
in these establishments, with the exception of
tho bars.—Southern Patriot.
ScR.srs of Cwkiocs Information.—It is
said that tho most extraordinary instances of
corpulency occur in England. One of the
most remarkable instances was tliut of Mr.
Bright, a tallow chandler of Maiden, in Essex,
who died in the 29th year of his age, Nov. 12,
1750. Seven persons of tho common size were
easily enclosed in his waistcoat. A stocking
which was too small for him was large enough
to hold a child four years old. He was comely
in person and affable in manners; he weigh
ed 42 stone and 12 pounds. The celebrated
Daniel Lambert, who was much older, weigh
ed 10 stone moro than Mr. Bright, he died in
1S09.
Currants were first introduced into England
in England in 1533. They were brought from
Zante. The Barberry bush was brought to
this country for the purpose of making hedges.
Its tendency to spread into the fields soon
made it to be regarded oj a nuisance. We
believe it was first planted in Brookline, from
whence it has gradually advanced into the in
terior.
Forks wero in uso in Europo in the 13th
and 14th centuries, according to Voltaire.'
The fact is questioned by other writers. A
writer of travels in the reign of Queen Eliza
beth, says, “At Venice each person was served
(besides his knife and spoon) with a fork to
hold the meat while he cuts it; for there they
deem it ill manners that ono should touch it
with his hand.” Another writer, A. D. 1608,
after describing the manner of using forks in
Italy, adds, “I myself have thought it good to
mitatc the Italian fashion since 1 came home
ito England.”
Almonds are said to have come into Eng
land first from Barbary, about 154S; Apples
from Syria, about 1522 ; A'ricots irom Epi
rus, about 1540; Cherries from Pontus, as
early as A. D. 100 ; Gooseberries from Flan
ders, before 1510; Grapes from Portugal,
1528 ; Mulberries from Italy, 1520 ; Peaches
from Persia, 1562; Plumbs from Italy, 1522;
Quinces from Austria, 1573; Strawberries
from Flanders, 1530 ; Raspberries from Vir
ginia, before 1606.
The origin of Rice is traced to Ethiopia; that
of Buckwheat to Asia ; of Asparagus to Asia ;
of Horseradish to China ; of Potatoes to Bra
zil ; o'* Cabbage to Holland; of Parsley to
Egypt > Beans to Greece ; of Peas to Spain.
Historians relate that the Emperor Maxi
mus was 8 foot and 6 inches in height. In
the reign of Claudius, a man was brought out
of Aruhia, Oft. Oir.cbes toll. John Middleton,
born it Lancashire, England, was 9 ft. 3 inch
es high. Patrick Cotter, the celebrated Irish
Giant, born in 1761, was 8 ft. 7 incites in
height.
Needles were first manufactured in England
by a negro from Spain, during the reign of
Queen Mury, the bloody. At his death the
art was lost, and not recovered again till 1566,
in tho reign of Elizabeth, when Elias (Jrowse,
a German according to tho chronicler Stowe,
taught the art to the English.—IVorcesler
/Eg is.
The new Congress.—Tho United States Se
nate, as now constituted, (says the Journal of
Commerce,) comprises 24 whigs and 26 demo
crats. There ore /our vacancies, viz: one from
Virginia, one from Mississippi, both of which
are certain to be filled with democrats,) one
from Indiana and one from Tennessee; total 54,
which includes die two Irom Florida. Two
from Texas will doubtless be added early next
winter, which will increase the total to 56.
Iho House ot Representatives, as now con
stituted, on the 1st instant, comprised 58 whig?,
6 American republicans, and 99 democrats; to
tal 163. There remain to be heard from 61,
including the member from Florida: or 62, if
we include also, the member from Texas; total
224 without Texas; or 225 with Texas.
Of the members elected to the House, voted
in tho last Congress for (Jen. McKay’s bill redu-
tiog the luri/T, and 39 against it
Slavery in Mississippi.—By a provision in
the Constitution of Mississippi, the introduc
tion of slaves into the State is prohibited after
the presrnr year This prohibition extends
not only to the introduction of slaves as mer
chandise, but settlers within the State cannot
import them for their own use. This state of
things reduced the Legislature, at its lost ses
sion, to authorize the people to vote on a prop
osition to change this provision.
From the Constitutionalist.
BOOKS POSTED !—FINAL SETTLEMENT.
•'They carne like 5»rrificea in their trim.
And hot and bleeding do I offer them."
The fu I min at ions from the capital, upon my
humble contributions, come with unusual ma
lignity, through the columns of the Georgia
Journal, of Tuesday, August 12di and as ( pre
sume that those articles will be re-published in
several of the whig papers, I avail myself of
the earliest opportunity to examine the novel
positions assumed.
Tho present point of difference between us is
the relative expenditures oftlie democratic and
whig legislatures of 1842 and 1843.
Here is the statement of expenditures which
this whig editor says must bo charged against
the democratic legislature of 1842. I take it
as the whig report, and hope it will be receiv
ed as such.
Expenses and appropriations of the Legislature of 1842, st
they appenr from the Report of the Treasurer, and the
Public Acu of that year:
Legislative Expenses, $93,347 97
CivJ Establishment, 31,675 00
Topay .Secretary ol the Senate,
*' Cleric of the House,
" Inspector of the Penitentiary,
To pay Clerks employed by Secretary of State,
and Purveyor General, during the previous
summer, -
To pay W. J. C. Kennedy,
Contingent .Fund
Printing Fnnd
Military Fund.
To pay ins. Inf. Court Richmond county,
- II. A- SiiullarJ,
-* W. W. Stephens,
•* M. Wimberly,
•* Henry Sutjihin,
“ John D. Brown,
For Lunatic Asylum,
To pay Janies 1{. Moseley,
•• Hansel Dillard,
To pay extra Clerks employed by Secretary of
State, Treasurer, Coinpltoller, and Surveyor
General,
To pay extra Clerks for making IteporC from
Comptroller General's oflicc, of taxable prop
erty.
To Wm. Itemshart,
- Fred. Smith,
“ Charles Allen,
•• It. B. Smith,
" T. N. Tauten,
- T. H. Trippc,
" D. Creamei,
M Mrs. Amanda M. Taylor,
“ Joseph Crews,
6 Clerks allowed in State House offices,
•• James Kivltn,
“ Harol, Haser A. Co.
“ Wiley, Lane A Co.
" Penitentiary for purchase of iron,
“ Henry Uarnall,
" Wilson Lumpkin,
500 00
500 00
500 00
r -jo oo
3S0 00
10.000 90
j o.ooo oo
a,oou oo
529 8o
m oo
70 00
93 70
7« 81
G 25
2,000 00
14 00
150 00
1,785 00
680 00
46 67
102 50
80 00
300 09
125 00
35 00
1 2S 00
78 60
67 14
3,000 00
340 34
3,000 00
500 00
6,000 00
100 80
1,800 00
;n for destruction.
But it cmn-s to ansa that the
#175,647 07
I have omitted ihe two last items in the
Journal’s statement, and which were evidently
inserted last, in order to swell the amount of
expenditures of the democratic legislature of
1842. Why do I admit those ? Because
these items wero not properly expenditures
made by the legislature of 1842. -It was a
mere advance for the United Stales, to pay for
forage, &c. of troops, to protect the Southwes
tern frontier of our state, and which will, if not
already, be returned to the State’s Treasury.
The last section of the act, appropriating 50,-
000 dollars, (or forage, dec. reads as follows :
•'Sec. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid. That all sums «f in«ney disbursed under ibis
acl be charged to account again»t the government of the
United •hales/*—Public Lairs of 181*-, page 22.
The appropriation of 200 dollars for D. J.
Miller, was likewise charged to the account
against the United States.
1 know that no intelligent and honorable whig
can find the slightest objection to the omission
of those two items. On the other hand, I be
lieve that they will thank me for thus present
ing a question in a manner that all magnani
mous persons must admit to bo correct. All
that they can desire is a fair expositioa, and 1
have made no other.
Now let us examine; in a like spirit, the ex
penditures of the whig legislature of 1843 :
From the Public Laws and Resolutions of
1843.
To pay Civil Estthlishment.
$35,525 CO
" Speaker and Preaiitem* Warrant*
Contingent Fund,
76.976 86
20,000 00
Arrearage*.
13,009 00
Military Fnnd,
6,000 00
Printing FunJ,
18,001) CO
Lunatic Asylum,
2,000 00
Henry D.irncll,
123 00
Clerk of House of Representative*,
500 00
C.'erk of the Senate.
300 00
Inspector of the Penitentiary,
300 00
J. Gardner,
C. W. Howard,
300 00
C. W. Rogers.
90 62
A. M. Horton;
8 19
X. Phillips.
13 70
John Guardner.
2 40
Executive Mansion, to boy extra Fnrniture
400 00
Win. P. McConnell,
39 00
J. McAffee,
39 00
Thomas lloxey,
William Morria,
432 00
27 00
N. McBaiu,
J. Mitchell,
75 00
60 00
William Jonc*,
173 00
Ilulehin-on A: Co.
120 00
M. H. McAllister, States' Attorney,
300 00
A. Reese,
300 00
S. lliley, II.Starke*, and J. L. Baker,
10 00
W. Wyatt,
Electors.
2 50
O. H. Prince,
50 00
Beaiitifyinglhc State House with i>oot. Lime
and Water
7,000 00
A. J. Nichols,
49 19
F. Canup,
28 75
Do. do.
J9 56
U. Wright.
64 00
Charleu Dodson,
5 00
N. Jester,
F. Smith,
22 12
95 00
A. B. Buatwick,
2 50
Silas Bowen,
5 00
David Williams.
2 30
W. B. Williams,
2 50
Thomas Davir,
2 50
Samuel Beck.
50 00
Charles McDowell,
19 80
Daniel Hollcn.
15 00
Georgia Rail Itoad Company.
PeniiWiary.
7.500 75
41,000 00
Asylum—(SO for each inmate, »av fifty.
k',500 00
W. Derrv,
250 00
J. L. Daniel,
1,660 00
N. S. Glover,
109 00
Richard Barlow,
20 OO
N. B. Wheeler,
16 73
C. Addison,
Wm. A. IIoicliVUs,
25 eu
Securities of T. Porter,
3,213 00
$211,254 00
ministration, will in a lew weeks put their seal
of disapprobation upon them, and hurl them to
that position which thousands of honest V. higs
deeply regret these Jiscalizers ever should
have been removed from PINEY WOODS.
From the Columbus 'rimes.
THE COLUMBUS ENQUIRER ON ANNEXA
TION,
The worhl has a right to presume that the Columbus
Enquirer, conducted ly a leading gentlemtn In the Whig
party, and the candidate put up to walk over the gerryman
dered Senatorial course of Harris and Muscogee, speaks
“by the card 1 " rite mice and sentiment of its party upon the
subject of annexation. Of the character of theae sentiments,
let ihe people of Georgia judge, by the following extract*
from ilie last Enquirer.
the annexation war.
"Th. consequences of the Annexation scheme, a* /ore-
told by the enlightened and patriotic of all parties, are now
inevitable and impending. War. with all ita incidental
horror* and evils, individual suffering, privation and death
—a national debt, high taxes, the interruption of commerce,
and last, though oot least, the corruption of the public mor
als, are the bitter fruits now commended to our lips.by_that
fatal measure.conceived in tin and brought forth in iniqui-
tv—the premature »nd -ndeeent annexation of Texas. If
they alone who sowed the ntorm, should reap the whirl-
wind, we had only to say,_
“Whom the Gods desi;
They first make ,nad”-
"thr I.ortVs trill be dour."
people, the people, are the victims of the selfish policy of
ambitious rulers; and widows and orphans, and tear* and
broken-hearts the trophies of their madness.
A war with Mexico, of seme aort. it is conceded, is inevi.
tabic - and now that annexation has been consummated,
and the purp <ae for which it was concocted been fulfilled,
in the triumph of Texas land-speculators nnd scrip-holders
over the friends of the national honor and of constitutional
liberty, let us reckon dispassiorately the cost to the people,
wlm are to fight the battles and bear the burdens of the war.
That frontier! that frontier! How inaHy forts to guard
it! How many men to man them! A frontier infested by
the most numerous,the most warlike and ferocious of all the
Indian tribes—the Cumanchces. the Pawnees, the Sioux,
the Karonkawaya—those cannibal giants who literallv roast
and eat the victims of their warfare! If we might venture
an estimate, the Standing Armv of the Government must he
increased to 30.000 men. and the expenses of the War De
partment, even in lime of peace, to the enormous sum of 28
or $29,000,000. A sura more than is now requisite to de*
fray the ordinary expenses of the Government in all its De-
partinenti. Where is the money to be raised? and who is
to be profited by the expenditure?
God save us. is our sincere prayer.
Are these the sentiments of patriotism, worthy to be ut
tered. at a moment when war is "impending and inevita
ble!” Ia this a time for an American, aspiring to place in
the public councils of bU country.to be u'tering doleful jer
emiads over the "horrors, privations and sufferings” to
whicli the country is exposed ? If the danger is so immi
nent. is it a time to he frightening the women and children
into fits, with horrific and thrilling visions of the "Karonka-
way raunibnl GIANTS who literally roast and eat their vic
tim*!!’' Why what a raw head and bloody bones is this!
Whot* going to fight our battles and protect us all from be
ing rnastrrt and swallowed whole, if the gentleman who is
almost a Senator, scares the men, women and children with
such horrors a* these? We greatly fear the efTect in N.
Orleans:—lest thi* picture of Indian ferocity causes the
thousand gnilant Louisiana volunteers who have leaped to
arms at their Governor’s call, to throw them down, and fly
on the wings of panic from the voracious jaws and sharp
teeth of the Pawrees!
If the consequences are to he so direful, and if the Enqni
rer is so patriotic as to go "for the country right or wrong.’ 1
I as it p-ofeasra) why does it not arouse the spirit and rally
the courage of the nation, to meet those Medusa-headed
Pawnees and big-jawed Karonkawaya? But the worst of
it. says the Enquirer, is. that we nre all to be eaten up
without a blessing or salt, on account of-Vr measure, roneri-
red lit stn and brought forth in iniquity—Ihe premature
and indecent annexation of Texas." If it was only a
"just war”—if our national conscience were only easy on
the subject. «hv then the Editor could say his prayers,
compose himself decently, anrl like another Jonah, slip
down a Cumanchce’s throat, with a rahn resignation to an
inevitable destiny—but oh! thi*being chaired »nd sw*l!ow.
ed for nothing.it is too bad.
And can it be possible that the Enquirer believes at this
day. that Texas and the IT. Ftatrs had not a perfect right
to unite their destinies ? The mind that i* sincere it such
a conclusion, must be mailed in a triple mat of prejudice,
Deeply must those eyes have been steeped in the fallae'ous
a-guments and oblique views of /In/f-Texas. in the late Pres
demini campaign that cannot at this day. perceive the jus
lice and right and dignity of the American Government, ns
-learly as the noonday nun. in this whole annexation bust
ness. We will nnt condescend to argue in behalf of the in
tecrity of our country on thi* question. The people of the
United States from Maine to Louisiana, (abolitionists and a
few jaundice-eyed partizans excepted) are perfectly satis
fied upon this subject, and are ready with the instincts of true
patriotism to stand up to and to defend their country in the
position it has assumed. Aye more than tha*. if the timid
counsel* of the Enquirer could prevail upon American
Whig* tostand olf and let those who "anwed the storm reap
through the measure, in spite of Sioux appetites (“nr' V, mrnn
flesh, or Mexican chivalry. It will not be the first time the
Democrat* have fought the battles of the country. But the
Whig* a* a body do not share these senlimems of the En.
quirer. Those of the Booth think and feel very differently
upon this subject, and we can only aeeonnt for the Enqni
rer’s article, as an indication that in the Whig family split
which certain shadows foretell, the Frontier will take the
Berrien, Anti-Texes and high Tariff icing.
TELEGRAPH & REPUBLIC.
MALCOIW.
Tuesday, September 9, 1843.
The Richmond Enquirer says of the Ten
nessee election:
“It is a noble triumph, though North Caroli
na may well compete for the lauteK Too
mnch credit cannot bo given to Aaion V. Brown,
for the gallant manner in which lie met and
conqureil E. H. Foster, the most popular Whig
in Tennessee. TheNashville Union,too, should
receive a meed of praise from all true Demo
crats, for tho ability and firmness with which it
put down the humbugs and exploded the sophis
tries of its two Whig competitors, and rescued
the State from A thraldom, winch so little be
came the resting-place of Jackson. We wel
come her back to the Democratic ranks with
warm and cordial greetings. She has placed
herself once more upon her Jeffersonian princi
ples. She has done justice to the merits of her
adopted son, President Polk, and will give a
generous support to his Republican administra
tion. The Whigs cannot now sneer at the Pre
sident us wanting the confidence of his own
State. LasiNovember.ifjusticehad been done,
Tennessee would have cast her vote for Mr.
Polk. Now, there is no doubt that she is,
heart and soul, devoted to the cause of Demo
cracy.
Oh, the “iniquity” of the bubble Annexation,
which, in the language of Mr. Clav, “had burst
and would hurt nobody but Mr. Van Burcn.”’ j
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FOR GOVERNOR,
211. HALL IflcAIiLtlSTER,
or Chatham.
For Senator of the 20th Distri't,
A. H. CHAPPELL,
Of Bibb.
. Ton REPRESENTATIVE*.
SAMVEL M. STRONG,
JAMKN W. ARMSTRONG.
Democratic Nominations for Menatoro.
1st Dial. Chatham county—Joseph W. Jackson.
Bryau and Liberty—Raymond Harris.
McIntosh and Glynn—Edward Delegal.
Wayne and Camden—J. J. Dufour.
' Ware and Lowndea—Willilm Jones.
Appling and Montgomery Conner.
Tatnall and Bulloch—Peter Cone.
Effingham and Scriven—Geo. W. Boston-
Burke and Emanuel—Geo. W. Clifton.
Laurens and Wilkinson—Geo. M. Troup, Jr.
Telfair and Irwin—Geo. Witcox.
Decatur and Thomas—William Williams.
Baker and Early—John CoUey.
Randolph and Stewart—Wm. A. Tennille.
Lee and Sumter—Williams Mima.
Muscogee and Harris—James Johnson.
Houston and Macon—Janies Holderness.
Talbot and Marion—Geo. W. B. Townes.
Pulaski and Dooly—Wm. S. Whitfield.
Bibb and Twiggs—A. H. Chappell.
Washington and Jefferson—1.1L Saflold.
Richmond and Columbia— —
Warren and Taliaferro.
Hancock and Bildwin— -- —
Putnam and Jones—William Turner.
Monroe and Pike—Jacab Martin.
Crawford and Upson
Meriwether and Coweta—S. Lee.
Troup and Heard— — - - ■ -
Carroll and Campbell—William Beall.
Fayette and Henry—John D. Stell.
Butts and Jasper—E. A. Broddus and J.Waiers.
llewton and Walton—Warren J. Hill.
Morgan and Greene
Wilkes and Lincoln—
Elbert and Franklin—Martin Dedwyler.
Oglethorpe and Madison
Clark and Jackson—Thomas F. Anderson.
Gwinnett and DeKalb—Charles Murphy.
Paulding and Cass—Kheese McGregor.
C. bb and Cherokee—John W. Lewis.
Forsyth and Hall—George Kellogg.
Habersham and Rabun—William B. Wofford.
Lumpkin and Union—John D. Field.
Giltnerancl Mutray—J.Bates be E.W.Chastain.
Walker and Dade—It. M. Aycock.
Floyd and Chattooga—Thomas C. Hackett.
Then; are some few indefinite appropriations,
which, in consequence of my distance from
Milledgcviile, I could not state, with accuracy,
the amounts appropriated. I have therefore
left them blank, although they would probably
reacli some thousand more.
And have I even omitted several mailers of
appropriation by flic whig legislature of 1843.
Now let uj post tho Books—and see, after
this fa<r understanding with all the parties, how
matters stand.
Expenditures .and appropriation!, of the whig
Iegi.lature of 1813, $241,354 00
Expend, urrs and appropriations of the demo
critic legislature of 1842. $175,847 07
In favor of the democrats, $65,407 02
Now wliot have the Whigs got to say ? If
If they are not satisfied, let them do the posting
themselves—!e! them put down as many Sun
dry Profits and Losses, as they please, but the
above statement after the most careful exami
nation, will stand unaltered as long as the pub
lic laws of Georgia remain in exisience.
I have now driven the supporters of Gov-
Crawford’s administration, from every ricketty
fiscal ambuscade that those personages have
entrenched ihomselveg behind. Where will
they go next 1 What new shifts will these
humbegers now avail themselves of 1 Verily,
their days are numbered—and they know it
the hand writing is plainly seen upon the wall—
and the people whose rights and feelings have
been outraged, by this bungling fiscal ad-
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
The Hon. Joseph R. Ingersoll, the distin
guished and faithful Representative of the city
of Philadelphia in the Congress of the United
States, delivered an address some years since
before one of the Literary Societies ofBowdoin
College, Maine. This address, which is re
plete with sound learning and practical wis
dom, contains a letter from that eloquent states
man and distinguished lawyer, the late Lord
Erskine. to General Washington. We
transcribe it with pleasure, in connexion with
Mr. Ingersoll’.s prefatory remarks:—Union.
“The late Lord Chancellor Ep.skine, when
in the enjoyment of a reputation more eleva
ted than rank and power could confer, the
fearless and successful advocate of the lilerty
and the constitution of England, addressed a
voluntary letter to General Washington, of
which a copy was found among the papers of
Lord Erskine, after Ids decease, as follows :
“London, March 15, 1795.
“I have taken the liberty to introduce your
august and immortal name in a short sentence,
which will be found in die fcsok I send to you.
I have a large acquaintance among the most
valuable and exalted classes of men, but you
are the only human being for whom I ever
felt an awful reverence. 1 sincerely pray God
to grant a long and serene evening to a life so
gloriously devoted to the universal happiness
of Ihe world.
*‘T. ERSKINE.”
Trade of Bostoa.—The revenue collected
at the port of Boston during the year ending
June 30ih, was $4,352,776, being $314,797
greater than during the twelve months next
proceeding. Tne revenue lor July this year
was $765,500, last year $712,000. Value of
imports during the quarter endsng June 30th,
$5,564,139. Exports, including foreign arti
cles, $2,112,592. Tonnage entered, 55,6431
American, and 35,880 foreign. 1
STATE GOVERNMENT.
We propose, now, to say a few words in ref
erence to Governor Crawford’s financiering in
regard to the Central Bat k. It may not be
improper, as preliminary to them, to show Irs
agency in prostrating the crcdivj; jo notes; in
whicli he has surely shown more eflicicncy than
any man in Georgia, and deserves, ns little,
the gratitude ot the people whoso suffrages he
seeks to kct p him in power.
It will he remembered that he was a member
of the celebrated select committee of the Legis
lature of 1842 ivhicli examined into the affairs
of ihe Central Bank. Not satisfied with the
fatal thrusts lumett.-u tj, ,i.~ ny rurjnn-t mt
this institution, in which he said he concurred,
he appended a suppl- mental report which, for
unfairness and injustice, cm challenge compar
ison with any Legislative document over pro
duced. It had the effect to weaken, nay, de
stroy public confidence in the notes of the
Bank, and to transfer to the pockets of Augus
ta brokers the losses of tho honest hi I holders
of the Bunk. Governor Crawford’s notorious
attachment to the interests of the other banks,
to the discredit of the interests of the State,
manifests itself in this report, in his sanction of
the principles that these Banks had the right to
go into the streets, shave up the notes of its
stockholders, and discharge their dividends by
such nefarious practices.
The injustice ofthc report to the bank and its
officers particularly, in his failure to bring be
fore the public the causes of its overwhelming
embarrassment is obvious. He says that the
bank had been “ hopelessly deprived of the
means by whicli its circulation can be sustain
ed,” and states not the manner in which it had
been so deprived. He withholds the fact made
known in Mr. Gray’s report, that it had been
hopelessly deprived of the means by whicli its
circulation could bo sustained,’’ by appropria
tions made for Rail Road nnd Government,
amounting to $2,397,*256 63. 'i bis was cer
tainly not consistent with the duty of a just
Representative. The people were entitled to
all the facts. They suffered from the panic
which his report produced; and the notes sunk
to 50 per ct. discount. In the last of Nov.
1842 they were at a discount of from 25 to 2S
per ct. On the 12th of January following,
they had fallen to 50!!! In the country, ma
ny persons, alarmed at the report, with the ap
prehension of n more serious loss, subm ttcd to
even greater sacrifices. This damning iniqui
ty was wrought by the hand which now holds
the Executive Power!
Well, now what credit is duo to him for the
appreciation of these notes 7 We shall see. Ii!
January 1813, as stated, they were at n dis
count of 50 per ct. In November, and before
Gov. McDonald’s administration closed, they
had gone up to 6 and 64 per ct. An avenge
appreciation of 4 4-10 cents per month. They
did not reach par value until the 9th of May
following, which was an appreciation of 1 cent
per month!! Now if there is any truth in
arithmetic, if Governor Crawford is entitled to
any credit at all for their appreciation, Gover
nor McDonald is entitled 4 4-10 times more
than his Excellency. But Gov. McDonald has
claimed no credit, nor have his friends for him,
for the execution of tho laws. One thing is
certain however; he has not to account for the
sin of having created a false panic in regard to
this money, by which thousands of his fellow-
citizens were injured and many of them driven
into bankruptcy. But by what magic did Go
vernor Crawford, after his accession to power,
bring about the very rapid appreciation of these
noles of one cent per month till they reached
par value 1 Did Ins simple recommendation to
’ssue certificates of deposite payable eighteen
months after date, bearing interest, accomplish
it? If not, no agency of his is seen in the mat
ter. Why did not his committee state the quo
modo ? They say the act of the Legislature
requiring specie payments from the Treasury
produced a most happy effect upon the finances
and credit of the State. How, gentlemen 7—
Why did you not tell us? You say it was not
necessary to borrow the money which the act
authorized. Then how was it done? Were
you talking to boobies, whom you thought you
could deceive by telling them that: by a base
authority to borrow money, the Treasury was
filled, and his excellency was enabled to pay
out what was not to bo found there i
Now, Mr. Meriwether, you are fond of figu
ring, figure for us a little. For the life of us
we. cannot cipher the thing up so as to under
stand it.
Well; now for more financiering. It seems
that the Treasury was in so aound condition
that the Governor suggested to the committee,
for the purpose of eliciting their recommenda
tion, that the interest on the bonds might be
paid ono year in advance. They concurred J !
The interest at 6 per ct. on $1,650,000 in bonds
is $99,000. Now a private “Financier’* ow
ing a large debt would bo quite satisfied that he
could sustain his credit by paying the interest of
his debt punctually and if he had a surplus lie
would deem it good economy to apply that io
the reduction of the principal. It would seem
to us, though not so fur-sighted as Governor
Crawford in financiering, that this would be
excellent policy in regard to lltc people’s debt.
It strikes us that by paying the $99,000,
Jie principal then would have been, at lcast«
the interest on that sum, saved to the people,
which would have been an annual saving to
the people up to the lime of the final payment
of the public debt of $5,940! ! Supposing the
debt to be redeemable in twenty-five years, the
loss to the people of Georgia by this single op-
eiathn will be $148,500!!! To make this
plain we will illustrate it in this way: Suppose
the public debt to amount to $1,650,000 having
sixteen years and eight months to run, (tho pe
riod at whicli a debt will double itself at 6 per
centum ini.) Suppose bis Excellency bud mo
ney enougli in hand to pay the interest for the
whole time, and instead of redeeming the debt
at once, be were to choose, for the purpose ,jf
elevating the character and credit of the State,
topay the interest in advance, leaving the prin
cipal to he paid at the end of the time!!!—
Would not ibis be a masterly operation ? It
is extraordinary that tho strong conception did
not Hinder Ids Excellency’s financial brain into
ten thousand atoms. We rather opine if it hud
been his private matter the bold and original
thought would not have been conceived, and
that he would have paid the principal first.—
The reasons for this operation. What were
they? for they were plural.
•* Tho Troaoupy lino tI»o monov, Ito oir-
dilution would help.the country.” “Help the
country”!! The payment of iao-r.-st lo It- id,
Irvin & Co. in England would help the country
by its circulation! The payment to New
York, Maryland and South Carolina bond hol
ders would help Georgia hy its circulation!—
The payment to the Augusta banks would help
the country much try its circulation !
These hoi lets, with the exception of Reid,
Irvin & C<». it will be remembereJ, are the
shaven of the people. They bought up the
bonds from the laborers at from 40 to 60 per
ct. discount, all the time decrying the credit of
Georgia securities, and that at n time the State
had not been in arrears a single moment for
her interest.
Reason second. “ It would show to the
world what every Georgian feels, that the State
is able to pay her debts and is willing a/ul rea
dy.” What n gasconade! Would not this
appear by tho punctual payment of what was
due ? Had not -Governor McDonald already
proven this to the world by wiping from Geor
gia’s escutcheon tho blot put there by the pro
test of $300,000 due the Phoenix bank? Had
he not, during his whole administration, paid
or offered to pay every dollar of interest as it
became due on her bonds; and if any of the
in Augusta and Savannah for by the itstemest
which accompanies the report ef the committee
it will be seen that the sum of $9,870 was su ^
ficient for that purpose j
Int. payable in Augusta, $9,195
do. do. Savannah,
$9,870
See statement of committee accompanying tl, e ; r
report.
The constitution declares that “ no money
shall be drawn out of the Treasury or from the
public funds of this State except by apprrprjj,
tion made by law.” 24ih sec., 1st article. I t
contempt of this constitutional provision has hi*
Excellency assumed the right to draw money
from the Treasury and deposite it in the bank
of Augusta, a bank so hardly pressed by it s ng .
oessities that the committee say it has submilled
to a shave of $15,000 in exchanging its sterling
for domestic bonds*
We will publish in our next the proceeding
of the meeting of the people of Lexington and
county of Fayette, in relation to the press of
Cassius M. Clay; and the address and resolu-
lions which wero presented by Thomas
Marshall, esq., and unanimously adopted by
the meeting. The address is written with
great force and beauty, calm, temperate and
dignified. It cannot fail to be appreciated by
Ins fellow-citizens of the South as well as by the
liberal in every State in the Union.
.Letters of .Harque and Reprisal,
We heard it stated on Saturday last, (savj
the Philadelphia Ledger,) by an intelligent of
ficer of the United States Government, tl >at
Mr. Polk was determined, in case of war with
Mexico, to make a terrible example of anvfor.
eigners not belonging to Mexico, or parlies
to the war, who may attempt aggressions upon
American commerce under color of letters of
marque from the Mexican Government, Re
will give orders to the Nuval commanded to
treat all such adventurers as pirates, as io reality
they will be. It will be easy to distinguish
them by language, and a few examples itb
thought will be sufficient to put a stop to their
cowardly’, dishonest and murderous operations.
The Mexicans have but a very limited marine,
and have scarcely energy or enterprise sufficient,
to put ten privateers afloa’; but a war will afford
a pretext to adventurers of other nations to
commence a system of robbery under letters of
marque, and the best means we can adopt to
defend ourselves against them, will be to pursue
the course which it is said the President linsu].
ready marked out, and punish them as pirates.
The authorities of the province of Yucatan,
in Mexico, have refused to join the Mexican gov*
eminent in a war against the United States.—
This important fact shows that the clamorous
hostile feeling against this country, so strongly
manifested at the cnphol, docs not extend to all
the Department; and wo should not be sur
prised to s< e generally, among the more ei-
lightened classes, strong repugnance to a «ttr
with the United Slates.
currency in which the payment was made, or
proposed to be made, was at a discount, lho
cause was to be found in Governor Crawford’s
supplemental report on the Central Bank,
Another piece of his Excellency’s financier
ing, wholly unauthorized by law as we believe,
is his transfer from the Treasury to the Banks,
money raised from the people by taxation.
On the 14th Dec. last there was on deposite
in the bank of the Stale of Georgia in Savan
nah the sutn of SIO.SGO 31
On deposit in the bank of Augusta,
the sum of 71,854 00
Marine & Fire Insurance Bank, Sa
vannah, ' 2,500 00
Making an aggregate of $85,214 32
See page 5 of Meriwether, Kenan, and
Phillips’ report.
The enormous sutn of $71,854 01 of the
people’s money, taken from the people’s pock
et, has been transferred from the Treasury of
the Stale and placed on deposite in the bank of
Augusta, with the usual authority to discount
thereon, and the people are exposed to the peril
of the failure of the bank or its debtors to whom
the money may be loaned. This is a usurpa
tion of power in placing in banks irresponsible
to the Government and whose officers are bound
by no security to the State, the treasure of the
State, which demands the attention of tho peo
ple and theirunqualified condemnation. Those
who wish to pay taxes for the support of banks,
may sustain the financier; those who disap
prove it had as well turn their faces in another
direction.
(t cannot be said that the Governor placed
this sum in the banks to pay that portion of the
interest on tho public debt which was payable
TIse Debt of Texas.
To console those who apprehend tliat the
United Sta’es will be involved in Ihe [utfant
oftlie debt of Texas, ard receive nothing in re
turn but her public lands, a writer in the N. Y.
Journal of Commerce a fiords the following con.
cilintory information:—
“The entire debt of Texas is between ten and
thirteen millions of dollars. Its public domain
comprises 13G,000,000 acres, 85,000,000 of
which are as fine lands as ever drank in rain
and sunshine. These lands are embarrasicd
by only two small grants—one to Mr. Fisher,
fur the Germanic Association, and the other
called the “Castro” (or French) grant. The
conditions of the only grant hy tho Texas Gov
ernment, to a Mr. Mercer, have not been com
plied with, and his title is ronscquantly void, as
is also the case with all the Mexican Enipressa-
rio grants, except that to Austin. The Texans
are now selling their lands at $2 an acre, paya
ble in the debt, and they will no more give us
theirlands uponthe condition of our payingtheir
debt than they will exchange any thing else with
us—giving much and taking Jictle. The time
was. perhaps, when the Uni’ed States might
have obtained the public domain of Texas upon
condition of paying the debt. The time was,
too, when Texas would have agreed to the ex
clusion of slavery from one half her whole ter
ritory; but the furious outcry against an event
which every wise man saw from tho begiunnj
to be inevitable, lias lost us all the advantages
whicli might have been secured in the moiled
Texan annexation.
The Indian title to Texas lands is of little or
no importance. Tncie are no Indians, in fact,
located upon them. The Camanches room
about from place to place, like the wanderm?
Arab tribes, claiming every tiling upon wbiw
they can lay their hands, and nothing else.—
Wo exclude the debt and lands from the con
tract ourselves; and the good nten who have
been so long and earnestly contending agatusl
annexation may take comfort that all their fore
bodings of evil have already come to nothm?
except the war with Mexico, which is sl! ;
among the dubious realities of the future an
that the teal evils of annexation are of their ow s
procuring.
Complimentary.
Wilmer, in his ‘’European Times,” (fjb (r
pool, 5ih inst.) pays a very flattering comp' 1
tnent to site Washington Union, and goes on 10
say that,—-“Long before we were in the h a ^ il
of vending a newspaper of our own in ^
American market, our profession as caterers
for the literati of the United States brougt 1111 *
iu habitual communication, personally and 01 ^.
erwise, with the finest spirits of that land
marvellous progression; and if we ever eD,cr
t lined a prejudice on the abstract merits cf r '
publicanism—of which, by the way, weCul1 ^
accuse ourselves—the sterling ore of* whiob ^
found its citizens composed, as men ofthc
and as gentlemen, must have insens.bl} ' rtr
aicav. But a visit lo the Untied States
i nspection with our own eyes of society l ^ iete T]
convinced us that the country which ran
Y Washington amongst its patriots,
amongst
P’roi’-kli' 1
its philosophers, Jackson among sl
soldiers; whicli has ‘gone ahead,’ with a
rapid' 1 /