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iic-icio?r Aiyyaagaasßiib tin van, (ncurftin. mBQL WISUOM, (m& *•<> MOPCT YTOIX. TUKADVEIITISER<A INTELLIGENCER Is published on Wednesdays and Fridays at Five Dollars per annum, in advance. Advertisements inserted at the usual rates: those sent without a specified number of insertions, will be published until ordered out and char joed accordingly. r;j- Sales of Land, by Administrators, Exe cutors, or Guardians, are required, by law, to be hold on t* first Tuesday in the month, between the hours often in the forenoon and three in the -afternoon, at the couurt-liouse in the county in which the property is situate. Notice of these sales must be given in a public gazette sixty days previous to the day of sale. Sales of negroes must be at public auction, on he first. Tues Say of the month, between the usual hours of wile, at the place of public sales in the county where the letters Testamentary, of Admin istration or Guardianship, may have been granted, first giving sixty days notice thereof, in one ot the public gazettes of this r*t.ilt 1 , and at the door of the court-house, where such sales are tube he'd. Notice for the sale of Personal Property must he given in like manner. Forty days previous to the day of sale. Notice to the Debtors and Creditors of an Es tate must be published for forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary lor leave t o setL Land, must be published font months. Notice for leave to sell Negroes, must he pub lished for four months, before any order absolut shall be made thereon by the Court. JLICO. V PRICES CURVEA'T' a *.*TICLE3. | PBtCKfl 777771 .1 each f tas @a so Ale, bbl. 11 00 Bacon, 11. 10 © 12} Beeswax, sb. 20 Butter lb. j @ 20 Candles, Georgia. •.. lb. ‘IS ((0, 17 “ Sperm, lb. 35 @ 37 HASTINGS lb. (> GoFFEE lb. !•> @ HI Corn Mjuai bush 50 Cotton, lb. 7 © Cotton Bagging, Flax yard 15 © 18 •• “ Hemp yard 18 5/1 22 Domestics, Shirtings yard! 8 © 10 “Shirtings, bleach’d yard 0 @ 12 “Sheeting, i brown, yard 10 © 12* Fmii, Macltarol, Xo 1, bbl. 10 00 .. w 2, bbl. 000 u “ 3, bbl. 700 I'i.i‘l'r, Northern, bbl. 000 “ Domestic, bid. COO Fr.bit, Raisins,bunch, box 000 *. “ Muscatel box 3 50 “ Demons, hun. None “ ‘Prunes, lb. ffcaree. “ Alraemls, lb. 1G @ 18 “ pigs lb. None Fodder bun. 100 @1 25 Grain, Wheat..... •• bush 100 *4 Cow bush 371 @ 40 44 Oats bush 50 14 Bye, ~. busli Nominal. 44 peas, bush 75 1 OO Glass, Windows xlO 50 It 450 44 44 ioxl2 50 It 500 44 44 Gunpowder keg 750 a 8 Hides lb. None Iron, Swedes lb* G 14 Square lb. GJ • Sheet lb. 10 @ 12 44 Hoop lb* 10 a 12 Bead, Bar, lb. 8 Bard, lb* 9 @lO Jii me, Thomaston,. •.. cask None. “ Ilock, cask 100 “ Slack cjisk 250 J.umbfr, Plank V M 12 00 4 * Scantling.. <*M 12 00 44 Timbers... sq ft 3 44 Shingles... tl* M 200 Molasses, gal 38 @ 50 Oils, Linseed gal 125 @1 37} 44 Sperm gal 1 12* @1 25 •Osnaburgs, yard 10 Paints, Red Lead... lb 20 @ 25 “ White Lead . keg 3 ,50 @4 00 “ Olive lb 8 @ 15 44 Litharge.... lb 20 @ 25 *• Whiting, ... lb 0} @ 10 Pork, bbl None Plaister Paris, .... ton 12 00 Paper, Letter ream 350 ©, G 44 Foolscap .... ream 200 © 5 Rice hun. 450 u 500 S.u.t, Liverpool, .... bush 1 12 c 125 Salt Petre lb 15 @ 25 .Spanish Seoars, .... 4? M 15 00 20 00 44 American 3 l2 Shot, teg 200 a 225 Spirits, Cassia, lb 37 44 Ginger, .... lb 15 44 Pepper,.... lb 20 44 Pimento.... lb 30 Spirits, Brandy Cog. gal 175 ©2 25 44 44 Apple . ,gal Scarce 44 44 Peach, gal 75 ©1 00 44 Rum, St. Croix gal 125 @1 50 “ 44 Jamaica. gal j 1 75 44 44 N. E. .. -gal 55 44 Gin, Holland... gal 150 @1 75 44 44 Country,. gal GO 44 Whiskey gal 55 44 Cordials, hot 50 a 75 Steel, German,lb 18 44 American.... lb 12} Sugars, St. Croix,. . lb 10 @ H 44 New Orleans, .lb 8 @ 10 44 Loaf lb 18 a SO 44 Lump lb 15 18 Tai.low lb j 8 Trace Chains, ..... pair j 50 @ 125 Tobacco, lb 1 12} a 40 Tea lb. ! I 25 a 2 00 Wines, Madeira,.... gal i 3 00 @ 5 00 “ Tenerifle,... gal 175 a2 50 44 Malaga,.... gal 75 a 87} 44 Port gal 250 44 Georgia, .. . gal 250 Weeding H0e5,.... each I 37} a 50 We understand that Cole rain, a small place about forty miles above St. Mary’s on the riv et, has received a large accession of business w ithin a year past, in consequence of which several additional stores liavc been establish ed and a large quantity of goods sol?!. Its trade is derived from a part of Florida and the gosintieS of Irwiu, Lowndes, Ware, Appling V.t Wcyne. —tiirrvwtnh frt'or^fam aaOUNKLiI JF-iUKlii ; From the Journal. Dt'bnic >S9 Ihe ILtmti Ileli. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Friday, Die. 2. The House being in committee of the ; \\ itole on the I.and Rill. .Mr. Habersham offered tt substitute mak ing large reservations, to be subsequently,! sold to create a fund for the education of poor children, for interim! improvements and i other purpose* of general utility ; and for; extending the right of a draw to all the citi zensof the State, <Src. Mr. 11. said, in making the motion to re ceive t!ie substitute in lieu of the original \ bill, he understood that under the rules of. the House if the committee should agree to receive the substitute, such parts as were L- j jectionablc to a majority, might be then strick- j on out, and such parts of the original bill tis j might be deemed important to retain, could be added by way of amendment; whereas if the substitute was rejected, none of its pro visions could again be presented for the con sideration of the committee, but could only be brought up again by way of amendment, tff the original bill, after it had been reported j to the House. That if such is the practice, he would urge as a reason why this substitute j should be received, that it contained •matters! of great importance to the people of the j State, matters of great and lasting importance j for the consideration of the committee ; mat- j ters for the consideration of which, every op portunity should be afforded, in order to aj tight decision. That by the course he pro-' posed, those matters would be open for dis cussion both in the committee and in the House. In offering his substitute, Mr. 11. said, he had been actuated alone by a conviction—a deep conviction, of the great and lasting im portance to the people of Georgia, of a right decision of some of the questions which it presented. Sir, in deciding on these ques tions, we arc deciding on the interests, the prosperity, the importance and the standing in the Union, of our State, for years, nav, he would say, pet haps, for generations to come. We arc deciding whether Georgia shall take that rank among her sister States, in wealth, and importance, to which from her local and natural advantages, she is entitled and can command ; or whether she shall sink to a secondary grade in the ranks of the Union, without wealth, without commerce, and with out consideration. Sir, there is no State in this Union gifted with greater natural advan tages —her climate is most favorable to health her soil furnishes such means for the accu mulation of agricultural wealth, as arc not exceeded by any other State, her forests are unequalled in the quantity and quality of their timber ; Iter qpltivatible districts are not excelled in in the variety and value of their products; her mountain region abounds in mineral riches ; in gold, perhaps the least valuable of all ; in silver : iron in such abundance as to cumber the earth ; copper, lead, and no doubt coal and marble of the finest qualities; these arolicr mineral resourc es; nearly all of which are now of little val ue, because you are without the facilities of transporting them to a market. For want of such facilities most of tiiis mineral wealth must continue to be valuless. Without these, your forests, otherwise worth millions to your people, must continue to stand an incum brance on your land; and without these,! your cotton, now so much depreciated, and! daily depreciating in price, will soon become unable to bear the costs of transportation to a market. Such being the present condition of our State, is it not a duty which wc owe to ourselves, and to ottr posterity, to avail our selves of all our advantages, and of all our means to improve that condition ? And how is it to he done? Can it be done without funds? Have our people private capital to do it? No, sir, our people from the opera tion of the Tariff, and the depreciated value of our great staple, arc fast sinking into pov erty. They are now but ill able to pay the taxes already imposed upon them. How then will you be able to obtain the means to make the natural riches of our State available ?*Can they be obtained from the Treasury ? Look at its condition, unless the ordinary expenses of your government are speedily reduced, in two years your Treasury will be exhausted. How then are you to accomplish these great, beneficial and indeed necessary purposes ? It lias been the misfortune of .Georgia never to have looked to the future. I mean never to have looked to the future, as she ought to have done. Tim time lias now come when it is necessary for her to look to that future, and to take into her serious consideration, how her wants are to lie supplied hereafter. When your Treasury is exhausted, which it soon will be, and the capital of tiic Central Bank is gone, where will he your means to meet your ordinary wants, unless you impose ad ditional taxes on the people? Besides, sir, will the people to wltotu the capital of the Central Bank has been loaned, bo able to pay it back, when vour necessities may call for it ? They were in want when they borrow ed, and you ask them to repay when they are still poorer. Sir. 11. said in order to determine what j ought to be done and to make that determi-! nation wisely, it becomes necessary to iook toj the past, the present and the future. What j then is the history of the past? In the year! 1800 our State owned all the country extend- j ingfrom this capital Westward to the Missis-! sippi river; a territory not indeed then in her! actual possession, but the fee simple of which vested in her. Nearly all the territory is gone from her forever, and there remains to us only that remnant of which we arc now about fi nally to dispose ; part of it, it is true, lias gone into the bands of our people, but far the greater part, has been sold. For two millions of dollars, Georgia gave a country which now forms two large States : and where now is the purchase im./icv ? 'Flic remainder of her lands, she distributed among her own citizens by lottery; perhaps that policy was good; i and she retained for liersi If only the fractions: but what has become of the money for which those fractions sold? Ail gone except the capital of the Central Bank. Save that, and this remnant of the Central Bank. Save i tfrtt. and ♦>>i<* r< rrmt!:i> tf five million* of acres now occupied by the Cherokeos, noth ing remains of our great domain. But as if a beneficent Providence not to punish us for our unthriftiness, had still reserved for us that which we should not and ought net to waste, wo suddenly ami unexpectedly find that tiiis little remnant of our territory is of more val ue, than all wc have wasted ; and contains within its bosom more riches than are suffici ent for all our wants. And what are we about to do with it ? Like the thoughtless spendthrift, who has wasted one fortune, and has unexpectedly come into tire possession of another, we are about to waste that too.— And when we shall have wasted all, we will stand before the world without means and w ithout credit; for who w ill trust the spend thrift w ithout a pledge ? Who will make .4pm is to us incur hour of need, without a pledge ?. And w hat pledge will remain to us to give ? The pledge of additional taxa tion, which our people cannot bear. Sir, we arc about to squander our wealth and to place ourselves in the situation of the spend thrift. If these lands were to be distributed among our own people, such distribution even of the whole, would be less objectionable, if they were to be given to those who hate grown up in the State and are linked to her for life; who were born on her soil, and ex pect to die on her bosom , and to those who coming from abroad have made her their home, who have stood by her in her trials, watched over her interests, fought her bat tles, and identified themselves and their fam ilies, with her fortunes, it would be less ob jectionable, nay it might he wise and just. But no—few of those are to have any share in the distribution. By the original bill pas sed at the last, session and by the bill now proposed, these valuable lands, mines, and all are to be given for the most part to those who have come among you within the last . four or five years. And this too when your own children are crying to you lor the means of knowledge. When their infant voices arc lifted from almost every cabin in your pine barren, begging for the bread of knowledge, which you cannot srive them. It has been well said, that the school mas ter is abroad, and that knowledge is power. Sir, we must give our people knowledge to give them power and consideration, in the Union. We must give them knowledge to sustain and preserve our republican institu tions. And where tire your means of doing this? Is your present school Line! sufficient ? it is scarcely adequate to build a log school in each school district? Will yon tax the people? They have doubtless patriotism to pay the tax, but have they the means 1 they arc already depressed by their poverty, their great staple has fallen from fit) to 8 cents per pound. Would you metvase Us value to the grower by affording to him a cheaper j transportation to a market ? \\ here arc your means to doit? The State must then bo left without the benefits of canals, rail roads and education, and for what? Because by distri buting those lands you make your people richer? No, you are giving them to those ! who came among you but yesterday, and ma ny of whom may leave you attain enriched by jour bounty. And let me a>k, said Mr. 11. if such liberality would be extended by otljer States to emigrants from this. Would North Carolina or Virginia give to them gold mines, because they had gone to settle on their soil ? Vet it is this we are about to do, to thecxclu sion of a great mass of our people. It was to avoid this that lie had offered the substi tute. It was to avoid all these evils that he had proposed a reservation as large as he had j done, but if the committee thought the res ervation too great, it might, and he-was w ill ing that it should be reduced. These, Mr. 11. said, were his views in re lation to reservations. In relation to the right of draw, he would state that these lands were to be given toonc-fifth of the people to j the utter exclusion of the rest; and he asked, ! when gentlemen go home and say to their constituents, that they, have voted against a proposition to allow them all to participate, will such constituents as are excluded, be gratified for such service ? Will they not rather say that such servants have been un faithful, and that although they had drawn a pine barren tract, not worth the fees of the grant, they ought not on that account, to be excluded from a share of the common pro perty ; and that although years ago, they had drawn such tracts, yet their children who had never had a chance, ought not on that account to be cut oil’ from a share in the bounty of the State. Such would probably be the reply, if not, such would surely he the feeling in most cases ; he is sure that there are many of his constituents who would not thank him for suclt kindness. There was another feature in the substitute which he wished to explain. Heretofore, to entitle a man to have his name put down for a draw, it was not only necessary for him to swear that he was entitled. This oatli was taken to be conclusive. Hence there had been many cases of perjury, ns was proved by the number of fraudulent draws returned. In Savannah, Mr. 11. said, he had understood sailors would go forward and take the oath, regarding it a custom house oath, sell their chances and on the next day sail for Europe jor the Northern State. Now, by the substi tute, persons were required to give in their ; names in the district in which they reside, | and by their neighbors they can easily prove, ; if it does not come within the knowledge of the officer taking down the names, whether j they are entitled or not. Hence tiic mode !by oath. Mr. 11. begged pardon, for having ! intruded so long on the patience and indul- J gence of the committee. Mr. Warner said, he would offer a few re marks in opposition to the motion of the gen tleman from Chatham. He objected to the substitutebecause 4 ilsoperation would lie tine qual. The motives of its author, lie admit ted, were laudable ; and lie would rejoice to go hand in hand with that gentleman in the education of the people, did ho believe the object could be now accomplished. But, sir, .all experience proves that to make public enactments effective public opinion must go with these enactments. Arc the people pre pared to go now with those tlittt are proposed? It they arc not, the proposition must be un available. The public lands have been distributed hnretoloro by lottcrw In r/fnr I to the ev. amaoAifttaaba pcdiency of that system, Mr. W. said, he would say nothing. It was sufficient to know that the larger portion of the public domain hud been so distributed. It was true, that under the system many citizens had been un fortunate, and it was also true that many more would be still unfortunate. But to sell this land and deprive those who had drawn nothingof all chance, would be very unfair and unequal. There was another objection that would be apparent to those who had no ticed the operation of the fraction sales at Millcdgevillc. Companies had been formed, who purchased the best of these lands, and held them up for speculation, or to descend to their children, while the laborious and in dustrious part of the community, held under them only as tenants. If these lands are sold and the money goes into the treasury, it will produce a state of things much to he deprecated. Sir, of all things to be dread ed in a republican government, a full treasu ary and a poor people is the most so. The real wealth of any country is . the wealth of its citizens. It is not to lie estimated by the amount of monev in treasury. It must be apparent that by the sale of these lands, an opportunity will be afforded for the practice of much fraud on the com munity. There arc always speculators, and sharpers ready to filch from the honest their rights. If the substitute should be adopted it will afford an opportunity for monied capi talists, to amass wealth, but also to sharpers, who will flock around your capital to exercise their favorite practices. Mr. W. regretted that public opinion was not more decidedly in favor of the views of the gentleman from Chatham. But in the present state of things he was compelled to believe that his efforts in favor of education would lie abortive.— Look at the existing poor school system. In i's operation it is a curse to the country.— Those who devised it were pure and patriotic in their views. But the funds tiiev provided have been drawn from the treasury, expended, and their effects arc as yet unseen. In ma ny cases speculators had drawn them and ap propriated them to their own use. Why then pursue the subject now, when all our experi ence shows that the public mind is not pic pared for the subject, arid when we know that, to succeed in it, public opinion must go hand in hand witli us. He would rather dispose of these lands as heretofore. lie would pre fer, to it full treasury, that tiic members of the legislature should be compelled to take, tor their pay, a draft at 10 or an hundred days. Corruption will lie the consequence of a full treasury. Look at the rush that is made for office, and its emoluments, whenever there is a change in the administration. If,sir, these lands arc sold, the proceeds will be squait dcieil, as treasure has been squandered oil our rivers, without any good result. Let them oc distributed among our citizens. Let us cncreasc the number of our inhabitants, and when the public mind is prepared for the benevolent purposes which do so much honor to tire gt ntleman from Chatham, Iqt us attempt to accomplish them. But until then .Mr. W. hoped to sec no such bill pass. Mr. I’ktit made the following remarks : Mr. Chairman, in rising to submit the ob jections which 1 have to the substitute offer ed by the honorable gentleman from Chat ham, (Mr. Habersham,) I promise not to de tain the committee long. My objections to tiic adoption of that substitute arc two-fold ; first, tny individual opinions are opposed to ' the policy indicated by it; anel secondly, it ■ contains what I know to be disagreeable, and i particularly objectionable to the peoj le who ! sent me here. Having ascertained, sir, the j will of tny constituents upon the subject of] the Cherokee lands, I trust 1 may be al-; lowed to conform myscif to it in the present instance. I cannot consent to the extensive reservations of lands proposed by the substi tute upon your table, ior public purposes.— Yet I confess, if I could discern the vast ad vantages which the gentleman from Chatham, (Mr. Habersham) seems to anticipate would result from such reservations, l would cheer fully vote for the substitute offered by him. On the contrary, however, I rather apprehend danger from such a state of things. Mr. Chairman, I have always been accustomed to look w ith jealousy upon a rich treasury. Of all the curses with which republics have ever been afflicted, none have been more bitter titan those resulting from an overflowing treasury. But I beg the indulgence of the committee I while I take up the substitute by sections and point out my objections to each as they oc cyr. The first section then is exceptionable, because it describes the number of one hun dred and sixty acres, as fractionablc parts of surveys, whereas it is known that, bv the law of the last year, that Quantity is a prize lot. From the verbiage of this section, one would suppose that the gentleman in drafting it bad not remembered the provision of the last ses sion upon this point. The second section of tiie substitute is that, sir, about which l first spoke ; our exception to it is, that it proposes to make larger reset ves than I believe the pol icy of the State requires : the third section of this substitute is objectionable because of tiie ambiguity, the obscurity, of a certain part of it. After describing in the first part of the section, who shall be entitled to a draw in the lottery, there immediately follows this most singulai clause, “and all other persons entitled to ad ran- or draws under the act of which this is amendatory, shall be entitled to one draw in addition to the draw or draws which they arc allowed by this act, and no more, except jx r gons who were drafted to serve in the lute tears against the British or Indians, and tv ho fur nished a substitute, which persons shall not be entitled to any draw on that account Now, sir,l would thank any honorable gentleman for the true meaning of the sentence which I have just read. One construction of it is, that the bill proposes to give to all persons who were entitled to a draw under the law of the last year, one draw more than the bill it tsclf allows I —Another construction is, that i persons who furnished substitutes in the war j with Britain and the Indians shall have nond i ditiona! draw.—And yet another construction | is, that no person, except those who furnish ed substitutes, shall have more than one ad ditional draw, and not even they on that ac count. To me, sir, this clause of the bill is utterly unintelligible and I hope to be excu sed for riot voting for what I carmnt under- stand : stiff it may be my own fault and not ! that of the gentleman that prev< tits my under standing tiiis portion of his bill. It so 1 beg the pardon of the honorable gentleman, lor !tii : verbal criticism which 1 bestowed upon ! his bill; and of this committee for my unncccs i sary detention of it. ! But Mr. Chairman, I will oppose another point of this section: it is that which makes { a four, instead of a three years residence in Georgia n- ccssary to a draw. The gentleman , from Chatham has remarked that, the beneii leia! effect of this provision would be, to ex. elude itinerant, unloeatad northern men from possessing themselves of our resources, ami jthen going home to the north or elsewhere, ! never hat ing intended to remain in the State. : If excluding such men as these from a draw ! were the only effect to be produced by the ! bill, I would cheerfully support it: but, sir, ! it will also exclude thousands of South Caro -1 liniuns who have been encouraged to emi ! grate, and to settle among us by your past le jgislation and land laws. These South Caro linians who, when they settle among us, no j matter to which political party they attach j themselves, are sure to be found among the number of our most honest and most republican 'citizens; these, sir, 1 repeat will manv of them, be excluded from a draw by the adop tion of the substitute upon your table. Let us now Mr. Chairman, consider the fourth section of this bill or substitute: this fourth section provides that no person shall give in for a draw upon his own oath, but shall prove his right to it to the satisfaction of the receiver or taker. And if the receiver cannot be satisfied, then proof is to be made to a judge of the Inferior court, who, if lie , believes the application a legal one, is to or der the receiver to enter the applicants name upon his list. This, sir, is a very circuitous mode of proceeding and w ill not tend to dis-j courage perjury as the gentleman supposes.] If under the old law, men would swear to lies for themselves, 1 have no hesitation in believing that under the new one, they would swear fer each other. If you will swear for me, I will swear for you, would be the lan- j ! guage of such men. Passing on to the fifth and last section of this substitute, I protest most earnestly a gainst it? adoption. This fifth section pro vides that young persons who were not eigh teen years old at the last drawn lottery, shall not under certain circumstances ho entitled to an additional draw now : Mr. Chairman, I am at a loss to know why tin’s preference should be given to men who were, eighteen years old at the la-t lottery, over the young men who arc eighteen years old at the present time. Thousands of your young men who! were born in Georgia and who perhaps wore! never out of the State, have now arrived at the age of eighteen years since the last lottery. And why in the name of justice, should they not be entitled to all the advan tages which you allow to those who were eighteen years old at the last lottery. Sir, there is no reason or justice in it and 1 there fore solemnly protest against the adoption of any such measure. Mr. RYAN thought the direction given in Mrs. Glass’ cookery book would apply here —“first catch the fish”—So if we are to de termine to survey and occupy the country, let us so determine first, and then go into the consideration of the matters so ably discussed by the gentleman from Chatham- Otherwise it was useless legislation to go into details.— The question whether wc shall survey the country is one of minor importance compared with the great question whether we shall as sume the control of the wliqle country. The House has had now an intimation from the Governor of his views, it was for the House to act on them or not. Ilis (Mr. R’s.) senti ments on the tvhoie subject were well known. They were made known at the last session.— One branch of the proposed reservations, he believed woyld include 20 districts. On the Subject of reserves and the effects to flow from them, the arguments of the gentleman from Chatham were good in the abstract. As regarded internal improvement, Mr. 11. said, he was in favor of it. But he w ished that ! measure to he accomplished, not by reserving! this territory. He could not consent that so ! extensive and valuable a territory should be 1 throw n into market, so that monied capitalists ; might engross it, and hold it. For tiiis must ’ he the result according to the argument of j fhe gentleman from Chatham; —that argil ] incut being founded on the alleged poverty of, j the people. On the subject of a full treasury,' Mr. R. said the gentleman from Crawfcrd had expressed his ideas better than he could do it himself. He would let the money re ! main in the hands of the people; and when : the State wants it, let the people he culled on i h ,r it- He had confidence in the patriotism .ot the people. 1 hey would raise the sums i wanted w hen convinced that was necessary. ! Then appropriations would be made advisedly, j The people would enquire how the money went. But sell the land, and the [>eople, not having felt how tiic money was raised, would l not look very particularly alter its disbursc i uiciit. lie did not rise to make an argument Jon the subject; hut lie must remark that the j argument* of the gentleman from Chatham are not new. i hey have been used in this House frequently before to-day. With regard to the education or the poor, Mr. R. said he had great doubts ns to the policy of such a law. l[ e was disposed to believe that all such laws as arc intended to make provisions for paupers, had the effect to increase their number. But in this State, as the experiment had been commenced, hr would let it go on. Ills information on this subject, if was true, was slight. But he thought if the fund appropriated for that pur pose had been retained and suffered to accu mulate, it might now perhaps have been pro ductive of benefit. But another policy bad been puisued, and lhe fund had been fritter ed away so as to he productive of no good. lie believed the house was now ready for the question—-that it would prefer the original lull, take it up and let such amendments he offered to it as might make it meet the views of flic majority. Jf we say go on and dispose of the country, let us determine that point first, and then provide for the details of tin subject. Mr. H ABERSHAM replied at some length to the objections raised agtfinst his substitufe, j and explained 1 idly ui, ( j c ■ j ol ' 't which had appeared io‘‘u’-/'’"'" I 1 ambiguous or uniiitdn,>jMU * el "*■ | Mr. AFHLEY rentald’ tir .. f ; bail! been rec< iveded from the Go'*''*'l folding Ins views of the subject fi, | 1 committee would rise am. r , ..0n ... was necessary, he thought, that ! f U •< <j- '-4. i *1 considered together. u Mr. OLIVER thought the commit, B as well prepared to decide on th ( - ■ now as it ever would be. And b f ■ decision was made, he would tro„l? I committee with all w remark-., u , B on the substitute as cvincirnMlu r .“"B "lent " ,otivCß containing principal :to he deprecated. Sir, in this counirv B | the will of the people is known, i j s | of their lepresentalives to obey thatuinß . tins subject that will has been clear a iB ! pl'cit from the year I SOI down to il,„, I i t,a - v * Th °y settled down on tlJiB j system as the correct policy i„ rcgard ,'B i pubite lands. And that system must n Ji [ conformed to. He believed the 1 ! lru "> to be actuated by the bo* 1 tnes, and a pure devotion to the interest! the rising generation. But he believed ! it thecs lands were sold, it would cr t ß monopoly; or individuals would combJ get possession of them. Individuals can 1 age their ov. n affairs better than their runl me.it car. for them. Let this property I go into die hands of" individuals. If lt V served, you will sell the whole, and what! become oi the proceeds of the sale! f| will soon be scattered, and no goodie! result. \\ hat benefit has been produced! the last ten yents by your appropriate! free schools? Have they done the pooß the rich any good ? Has any man cducß by means of these funds risen to rininß in your State ?—Lcavo this property m| bands of the people, and they uill'cduß their own children. If the mines arc ri B ed, and not sold, (lie State must cider B them or rent them. Then peculation! commence, and frauds w ill he eomiintt<! Then will you open a wide field to fraud | corruption, such as has been opened in o! countries under likecircumstauces. LoB the effect of such a policy on South .\wn! and on Spain, once the most chivalrousuß on earth. In a short time you see tbcemifl rics of England taking her under tin irdiß and Napoleon passing the Alps for licrß cy. What is her situation now ? Sunk—! graded —a century behind her neighbors! improvement. Look at Germany— once! most powerful nation in Europe. Wiiatis B situation now ! Divided— scattered—let id flncncc destroyed, and her power broken! All because she had too much money. ! China, the mines were worked tor a while! But the Emperor, observing their effects! his people, finally shut them up. If trek! them in the possession of the State lien, ’I same effects must follow. But if tin yurt! t ided out among the people, then if iter a! worth working, they will be w rought,ami! cry dollar that their private owners get l - ! them will be applied to some useful puq! For these and many other reasons, lie lioil the question would be taken on receivings substitute, and that it would be rejected. 1 'idle remainder of this day’s proceed!'! lias been already published. ] UNITED STATES BANK. 1 We are indebted to a friend at Milledgcvil for the following REPORT Of the Commitle an Banks—On tkesuljciim rc-chartering the Bank of the United Mem The committee on Banks to whom was red the resolution directing than to inqm into the expediency of instructing theS '<>l tors and requesting the llepresenlati rff| Georgia in Congress, to oppose a return cf the charter of the Bank of the, l nil Btales, respectfully submit the follotri I report: Your committee will not at this time,® tempt an investigation of the conslimtw® power of ( ongress, to charter the Bunk ot I United State* : That question has been ■ ready raised, and elaborately discussed, 'fl flier admitting nor denying its constituti® ality, they propose to treat the question, tfl elusive!) as one of expediency, be lie vug tS to be the duty devolving on them by dwte™ lotion referred. That a monied instiwu® having extensive resources, numerous tie* dies and intimate connection with the bin® ral Government may, and does exerciseasß sible influence over the commercial anti j® liticnl relations of our confederacy, cannot® questioned—That it is dangerous to such® fluenco to a corporate body consisting wl few individuals; not belonging to any w® dmate branch of the Government, anil tin® fore irresponsible to the peopled the sty® states constituting the Union, is equally o "® Such an institution the Bank ol tlic Uu® States, is believed to be. No one "bo j® compared its capital stock with that off® Banks, will doubt that its resources are '® It is a fact of general notoriety, that its araß ches are now more numerous than the s , t | l of this confederacy, and may, and P r °' l ' I ‘j| will, yet be increased in number. lj ic tj tcrest w hich the General Government has I it as a stockholder, and the consequent l'® er of appointing a given number of elirce a| prove their intimate connection. It nia ) 1 be improper however, to advert especial.' I some of the improper; influeneies, that bo anticipated from- an indiscreet or eitf® exercise of powers residing in that institu ® Your committee are of opinion that tins ® limy at pleasure materially injure the c" l ® cy of the several states. Its director- ay® empowered by tiie charter to t.'M'j as many branches in any eif the states, ,1P J lie deemed expedient, with or witho* 1 * “■ consent, have availed themselves ol k ll • ■ vilege, by establishing offices of ciiscoutj 1 “■ deposit hi all the commercial cities ol 1 1 nion. Each office or branch, comes * ll ry decided advantage in immediate eon'i 1 tion with the state hanks by which it•' ,1 rounded. This advantage results eh" *■ , 1 three causes : Ist. Its capability olaforu l greater facilities for exchange: 2d. *|j' 1 extensive circulation of its My, " ' I agency in collecting the revenue et tn* 1 ■i'iil Govr-ntnent. First; Kit'd) bra" 1