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•finiEtitutimmlist fc XUptiblir. JAMES GARDNER, JR.,) and / Editors. JAMES M. SMYTHE, ) | From the Baltimore Sun.] Intervention of Great Britain and France The correspondence on this subject, consists of a letter from Mr. Ciampton.of the British Lega tion at Washington, dated November 12th, JBSL referring to certain information be had previously communicated to the Secretary of State to the effecfjthat her Majesty’s ships of war on the West Indian station bad received orders to pre vent by force any adventnrcrsof any nat'Oii from landing with hostile intent upon the Island of Cuba. Mr. Crampton's letter incloses a copy of bis in structions from Lor 1 Palmerston. A communi cation similar in character had been made by M. lie Sartiges, of the French legation, to which Mr. Crittenden made the subjoined reply : dieting Serreta,;/ of State to M. dr Stirtigei. Department or State, ) Washington, 22d October, 1 Sol. ) The undersigned, acting Secretary of State of the United States, has the honor to remind M. de Sartiges. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the French Republic, that, in the interview which he had with him on the Bth J inst., he stated that he might have occasion to ! address him in writing upon the subject of the information which M. de Sartiges then com- ; niunicated, that the French Government had j issued orders to its ships of war in the West In- 1 dies to give assistance to Spain, and to prevent by \ force any adventurers of any nation from landing with hostile intent on the Island of Cuba. Having imparted that information to the Presi dent. the undersigned lias now the honor, by bis direction, to address M. de.Sartiges in regard to it. M. de Sartiges is apprized that a few days pri or tojtlie interview adverted to, the Charge d'Af fairs of her Britannic Majesty had given to this Department official notice that hit Government had issucil similar orders to its naval forces. The President had regarded this as a matter of grave importance, but tls gravity is greatly increased by the concurrence anil co-operation ol France in the same measure. It cannot be doubted that these orders have bc»n occasioned by tlie recent unlawful expedi tions of less than five hundred men, which, hav ing e.aded the vigilance of this Government and escaped front New Orleans, were landed by the steamer Pampi n> upon the Island of Cuba, and were soon raptured, and many of them ex ecuted. That such uu accident should have in cited the combined action of two great European Powers, for an object to which neither of them is a direct party, and in a manner that may serious ly uffect tire people of the U. States, cannot fail to awaken the earnest consideration of the Presi dent. He cannot perceive the necessity or propriety of such orders; while he entertains tho strongest apprehensions that their execution by French and British cruisers will be attended with in jurious and dangerous consequences to tire com merce and peace us the U. States. They cannot be carried into effect without a visitation, exami nation, and consequent detention of our vessels, on ottrowu shores, and irt great channels of our roasting trails; and this must invest British and French cruisers with the jurisdiction of deter mining, in the fust instance, at least, what are the expeditions denounced in their orders, and who are the guilty persons engaged in them. It is plain, uowever different may have been the intention of the respective governments, that the exercise ofstich a power and jurisdiction could hardly fail to lead to abuses and collisions perilous to the peace that now so happily pre vails. By such an interference, those Govern ments seem to assume an attitude unfriendly to the United States. Tire President will not, how ever,allow himself to believe that this interven tion bus lieeu intended as an admonition or re proach to this government. He has signally manifested Ins condemnation of all such lawless enterprises, ami has adopted active measures for their prevention and suppression. It must also be known to the governments of France and F.nglaml, in common with all the world, that this government, since it took its place amongst nations, has caretully preserved its good faith, and anxiously endeovoreil to lulfrl all its obliga tionll, conventional and national. And this it has done front motives far abore any apprhen sion of danger to itself. From its beginning, tinder the present constitution, it lias sedulously cultivated the |iolicy of peace, of not intermed dling in the allairs of others, and of preventing by highly penal enactments, any unlawful inter ference try its citizens to disturb tho tranquility of countries with which the United States were 1 in amity. Te this end, many such enactments have been made—the tirst as early as the year 17U4, and the last as late as 18118. The last having ex pired bv its own limitation, and all the preced ing legislation on the subject having been com prehended in the act of Congress of the 20th April, IS IS, it is unnecessary to do more than to refer M. de Sartiges to its provisions, as marking the signal anxiety and good laitb ol this Govern ment to restrain persons w ithin its jurisdiction from committing any acts inconsistent with the sights ol others, or its own obligations. These laws were intended to comprehend, and to pro tect from violation, all our relations with, and duties to. countries at peace with us, and to pun ish any violations of them by out citizens as re imes against the L'nited States. In this mani festation of its desire to preserve jn-t and peace ful relations with all nations, it is believed that the United States have gone before and further than any ot the older Governments of Europe. Without recapitulating all the provisions of those laws by which the United Slates have so care fully endeavored to prohibit every act that could be justly offensive to their neighbors, it is deemed enough for this occasion to say that they de nounce all such enterprises or expeditions as those against which the orders in question are directed. The undersigned thinks it is of importance enough to call the attention of M. de Sartiges more directly to this I iw. A literal copy of it is accordingly herewith communicated. Besides the ordinary legal process, it authorizes the President to employ the military and naval forces of the country for the purpose of prevent ing such expeditions, and arresting for puuish inent those concerned in them. In the spirit of this law the President condemns such ex[>edi tious against the Island of Cuba, as are denounced by the orders in question, and has omitted noth ing for their detention and prevention. To that end, he has given orders to civil, naval and nrili- ' tary officers, from New York to N’ew Orleans. 1 and has enjoined upon them the greatest vigi- 1 lance aud energy. His course on the subject has been in all things dear, and direct. It has been 1 no secret, ami the undersigned must presume that ! it has been fully understood and known to M. de Sartiges. An appeal might confidently be made c to the vigilant and enlightened minister of Spain t that his suggestions for the prevention of such i aggressions, or the prosecution of offenders en- t gaged in them, have been promptly considered, l and, if found reasonable, adopted by the Presi- t dent. His course, it is believed, has been above $ all question or just complaint. This government f is determined to execute its laws, and in the per- f lormauce u j this duty can neither ask nor re- li cmve foreign aid. if, notwithstanding all its p efforts, expeditions of small force hostile to Cuba d have, m a single vessel or steamer, excited by 1 Cubans themselves, escaped from our extensive t shores such an accident can furnish uo ground c ot imputation either upon the law or its admin istration. Every country furnishes instances “ enough of inlractions and evasions of its laws, t which no power or vigilance can effectually f guard against. ( It need not be feared that any expeditions of -j a lawless and hostile character can escape from S' the United States of sufficient force to create any l ! alarm lor the safety of Cuba, or against which , ' Spain might not defend it with the slightest ! exertion of her power. The President is persuaded ' that none can escape detection and prevention, 1 except by their minuteness and insignificance. ! None certainly can escajie which could require the combined aid of France and England to re - sist or suppress. Cuba will find a sure, if not its ' surest protection and defence in the justice and good faith of the United States. There is another point of view in which this intervention on the part of France and England ; cannot he viewed with indifference by the Pre , sident. The geographical position of the Island . j ol Cuba, in the Gulf of Mexico, lying at no great , distance from the mouth of the river Mississippi. . and, in the line of the greatest current of ! | the commerce ol the United States, would be s j come, in the hands of any powerful European nation, an object of just jealousy and apprehen , j sion to the people of this country. A due regard to their own safety and interest must therefore make it a matter of importance to them who shall possess and hold dominion over that island. The Government of France and those of other European nations were long since officially ap j prized by this Government that the United States could not see, without concern, that island ;• transferred by Spain to any other European j State. President Fillmore fully concurs in this . i sentiment, and is apprehensive that the sort of [ i protectorate introduced by the orders in question , i might in contingencies not difficult to be ini , ! agined, lead to results equally objectionable. If it should apjiear to M. de Sartiges that the President is too apprehensive on this subject, this j must be attributed to his great solicitude to guard i the friendly relations between the two countries j against all contingences and causes of distur , ! hance. The people ot the United States have ’ I long cheriscd towards France the most amica . > hie sentiments, and recent events, which made , her a republic, have opened new sources of fra , ternal sympathy. Harmony and confidence would seem to he the natural relations of the two great republics of theworld; relations de manded no less by their permanent interests ; than by circumstances and combinations in conti nental Eurojie which now seem to threaten so imminently the cause of free institutions. The United Stales have nothing to fear from those convulsions, nor are they propagandists, hut they have at heart the cause of freedom in all coun tries, and believe that the example of the two great republics of France and America, with their inoral and social influences co-operating harmoniously, would go far to promote and to t strengthen that cause. r It is with these views that the President so much desires the cultivation of friendly feelings . between the two countries, and regards with so . much concern any cause that may tend to pro ;l duce collision or alienation. He believes that s this Cuban intervention is such a cause. The system of government which prevails most generally in Europe is adverse to the pi in - ciples upon which this republic has been foun ded, anil the undersigned is well aware that the dili’erenee between them is calculated to produce distrust of, if not aversion to, the government of the United States. Sensible of this, the people of this country are naturally jealous of European interference in American affairs. And although they would not impute to France, now herself a republic, any participation in this distrustful and unfriendly feeling towards their government, yet the undersigned must repeat that her inter vention in this instance, if attempted to he ex ecuted ia the only practicable mode for its effec tual execution, could not fail to produce some irritation, if not worse consequences. The French cruisers, sailing up and down the shores of the United States, to perforin their needless task ol protecting Cuba, and their ungracious olliee of watching the |ieople of this country, as it they were fruitful of piracies, would be regard ed with some feelings of resentment, and the Hag which they bore—a Hag that should always be welcome to the sight of Americans—would he looked at as casting a shadow of unmerited and dishonoring suspicion upon them and their government. The undersigned will add, that all experience seems to prove that the rights, interests, and peace of the continents of Europe and America will be best preserved by the forbearance of each to interfere in the affairs of the other. The Gov ernment of the United States has constantly acted on that principle, and has never intermed dled in European questions. The President lias deemed it proper to the oc casion that his views should he thus fully and frankly presented for the friendly consideration of M. de Sartiges and his government, in order that all possible precaution may he used to avert any misunderstanding, and every cause or con- ' sequence that might disturb the peace, or alien ate in the least the sentiments of confidence and friendship which now hind together the republics of the United States and Francs. The undesigned avails hitnself of this occasion tooffertoM.de Sartiges the assurances of his very distinguished consideration. J. .1. Critten den. Mr. Sartiges rejoins, and endeavors to “estab lish, iu a distinct manner, the two following points: first, that the instructions issued by the Government of the Republic were spontaneous anil isolated; secondly, that those instructions were exclusive, for an exclusive case, and appli cable only to the class, and not to the nationali ty of any pirate or adventurer that should at tempt to land in arms on the shores of a friendly power, lie had added that the existing laws iu regard to the light of search—laws about which the susceptibilities of the French Government are as forcibly roused as those of the Government of the United States—were neither nor indirect ly affected by the order to repel violence by force; since the instructions which have been is sued to the commanding officer of the French station were only intended to apply to a ease of piiacy, the article of the maritime code in force concerning pirates. In again asserting these two points categorically, as he now does, the un dersigned thinks that lie lias removed all cause of prejudice on the part of the President, both as regards the importance of an act agreed upon in advance on the part of France and England, and the likelihood that the laws which govern the right of search will be in the least affected. He will add that the attitude assumed by President Fillmore and by his cabinet, under these lamen table circumstances, has been so upright, that the French Government, so far from intending to imply doubts, which did not exist, by the mea sures it spontaneously adopted, it had, on the contrary, reason to believe that it would find in those same latitudes the American squadron ac ting in tin same spirit and pursuing a similar object. This consideration must prevent any false construction tending to give to this act of the Republican Government the appearance of an admonition or of a reproach tacitly addressed to the Government of the United States, and nev er contemplated by the French Government.” M. de Sartiges. in the course of some further remarks, has the following rather significant paragraph: “His Government, which understands the complicated nature as well as the importance of the relations existing between the United States and Cuba, has seriously considered the declara tion formerly made by the Government of the United States, and which lias been renewed on this occasion, 'that the Government could not see with indifference the island of Cuba pass from the hands of Spain into those of another European State.’ The French Government is likewise of opinion that, iu case it should com port with the interests of Spain at some future j day to part with Cuba, the possession of that is land, or the protectorship of the same, ought not : t j fall upon any of the great niaratime Powers of the World.” 1 To this letter Mr. Webster briefly replies | “that !he apprehensions of this Government and . the reasons therefor, in regard to the ordprs re ferred to, are considered to have been frankly and * fully stated iu the note of Mr. Crittenden of the 22d of October last. And, inasmuch as M. de Sartiges now avers that the French Government I had only in view the execution ot the provision I ■of maritime code against pirates, further Jis cussion of the subject would seem to be for the present unneceasary/ 7 And here the correspon , deuce closes. AUGUSTA; GA. FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 19. j | K7“ See first page of Daily paper. ! ’ “ ~ I The Mails, &c. The recent severe weather experienced has . | disarranged the mails. f j The Savannah papers failed to reach us yester day. The Western mail did not arrive until about I IP. M. The Northern mail failed from offices north of Charleston. The telegraph wires are down be ■ tween Columbia and Washington City. | Washington Correspondence of the Chronicle A | Sentinel, i i We find in the last weekly Chronirlc 4 Sen ‘ tinel , three letter!, under the signature of “ L.,” one dated Washington. Nov. 29th, and the two | others the 4th and the 10th inst. “ L.” says : “ Failing to make a satisfactory bargain with i | Gen. Cass and his friends in 1843, the anti i | slavery party, which had gained strength rapid | ly under the auspices of Mr. Polk's administra i ! tion, threw the whole weight of its iniluence in favor of the election of (fen. Taylor. This na . turally caused his administration to he more an ti-slavery in feeling and policy than that of Mr. . Polk." This writer, who is, doubtless, the same gen ' tleman who edited the Chronicle <$- Sentinel a year or two ago, it will he seen, admits that the , anti-slavery men could not make a satisfactory bargain with General Cass and his friend* in 1 ISIS. His friends were the Demonatt. This writer, who is a Northern man, had pretty j good opportunities of knowing public sentiment j in that section, and such is his candid admission. 1 j We wish to be charitable to “ L.,” but he in , | siuuates two facts in this paragraph which can i only he accounted for upon grounds of the grossest ignorance, or a deliberate intention to ! make a misrepresentation. He says the anti , slavery party gained strength rapidly under the • autpiret ol Mr. Polk's administration. Aus|iicra 1 is defined, “patronage,” “protection.” We s should like for “ L." to produce the proof, that . the anti-slavery party was taken under the patronage or protection of Mr. Polk’s adminis tration. If “ L's." statement were subjected to rigid criticism, he would fare badly, but we will let him pass with this simple exhibition of his fairness and claims to public confidence. “L.” says: “ This naturally caused his (Gen. i Taylor's) administration to be more anti-slavery | itt feeling and policy, than that of Mr. Polk. ! This is a frank admission. “ 1,." states the truth on this point. Mr. Fillmore Was elected Vice-President on the same ticket with General Taylor, and both were in the confidence of the Northern Whigs. We have never heard that there was any discord between Mr. Fillmore and General Taylor, on the slavery question. We think no one, North or South, would pretend to say that Mr. Fillmore's administration was less anti-slavery than Gen. Taylor’s. Mr. Fillmore's career in New York, for many years,showed that he was op|iosod to the institu tion of slavery, and we have never seen the statement contradicted that he oven furnished money to a fugitive slave to aid him to escape from his master. “ L.” says: “The anti-slavery prejudices and parties at the North are fostered by politicians who pro fess to be Union Democrats. This is done from I narrow mercenary motives.” This statement suggests a falsehood. The 1 writer would have it inferred, that the Whigs of j the North are sound iqioii the slavery question, I and that all the prejudices against our institution j there, arc created by Union Democrats. Who j does not know better than this ! Mr. Toombs I has denounced tire Northern Whigs as utterly j unsound and unworthy of confidence. “ L.” himself, has, in another part of his letter, stated that the “ free-soil Democrats,” and “ higher law Whigs, ought to he put down for the good of the country. And yet, he would create the impression by the above paragraph, that the Union Democrats at the North are doing all the j mischief. The inference he would have drawn is, that the higher-law Whigs are but few in \ j number, while the great mass of the Whigs are \ j conservative on the slavery question. Directly' * | the reverse, is the notorious truth. “ L.” urges a variety of considerations for ths j formation ol a National Union party. He says -. “ It is so clearly for the interest of the Sout’li and ol the whole country, that an open and ua - ceasing war be waged against all disunionis'.s and mere geographical antipathies, no nratu r where they are cherished, that I do not regard the formation ol a National Union party as imprac ticable at this time. The people of the slave holding States have only to say the word to com pel the lines to be distinctly drawn between their friends and enemies in the free States." Here is the old cry of disunionists against a large portion of our people. This plan of terming a National Union party is the most bald faced, contemptible, corrupt, i selfish and dangerous scheme of agitation ever attempted in this country. The whole object is ■ the aggrandizement of the few who have lost all memory of public virtue and the country's good, ill the whirlpool of their had passions, and ; prostituted ambition. The Democrats ot Georgia have proposed I union for the good of the South, and the whole j country, and how lias their proposition been met ? By a howl of the whole pack of hungry wolves who are scenting the public spoils. A National Union party, indeed! Why, the Union j party leaders, in Georgia, would reject the [ Southern Rights nren except upon their own j grounds, of cordial approval of the Compromise, j f they were under bonds to acquiesce in it. This National Union party has to say that the i Compromise is “ fair, liberal and just.” That j party has to glory over it, and thank God and man for it. That is the ground upon which 1 “ L.” wishes the South to unite, and they will . never unite upon it. No, never! That would' place the South in the condition of a people plundered, insulted, and cheated—thanking our Maker, and some of our fellow men, North and ' South, for a result so richly glorious and mag nificent! We are willing to rejoice at some things, hut we cannot rejoice upon such unequal 1 terms. —— I-- in . j ( A letter from Havana to the New-Orleans j j Picayune, says that a young Frenchman who ( had a Government license to make, repair, and . < sell arms, was unfortunate enough to have soldi some carbines about the time of Lopez's inva sion. His practice was to buy them of the Cata lans, and retail them to his customers. He was denounced to the authorities, apprehended and thrown into prison, where,he has lain until; within a few days, when he was put at liberty I and allowed twenty days to settle his business, and leave the island. Virginia Elections. . It is gratifying to the friends of Democracy, in every section of the Union, to find the old Dominion so true to her long established princi ples. At the recent election, the vote was about . twice as large as usual, owing to the extension of suffrage by the new Constitution. De- mocracy has not suffered by this change. John son. the Democratic candidate, has doubtless beat Summers, the Whig candidate, by a large majority—after one of the most exciting can t vasses which has ever taken place in Virginia. The House will be democratic by a large ma jority, and the Senate will also be democratic. This augurs well for 1852. The Democrats 1 of Virginia are as firmly and inflexibly organ ised and true to their principles as they ever have been. The moral effect of their splendid triumph will do much to unite and arouse the Democrats in all sections of the country. We 1 hope, in a few days, to obtain the exact result of the vote. Comfortably atabled and bedded, animals re quire much less food than when shivering with cold. There is more profit from working cattle and milch cows, young stock grow faster, and there is a greater gain every way in the careful treatment of your animals.— X. E. Farmer. The extreme severity of the present spell of weather, suggests to us to invite the notice of our readers to the above iinportaat fact. When in terest and humanity combine to enforce kind treatment to the helpless brute creature which daily ministers to our comfort, the above fact is doubly worthy of attention. The Circus. , Messrs. Robertson & Eldred’s Circus Com pany made a fine display through our streets , yesterday afternoon. They perform again this , evening. Notwithstanding the cold weather , their canvass is crowded nightly. * The Boston Atlas states, in proof of the neces i sity of arc-organization of the Navy, that a Com ■ niander and First Lieutenant ordered to the U. ‘ S. Sloop Portsmouth, have tendered their resig -1 nations because they do not want to go to sc a ; > and that another Lieutenant, who has been for several years in receipt of full pay on shore duty j was also lately ordered to this beautiful craft, hut that she lias Leen condemned by survey, us unfit for sea duty. A statistical writer in the Boston Daily Ad vertiser shows, by an examination of the Har vard College catalogue for 200 years, that clergy men liavo u greater chance for long life than laymen. Our Tolographic Correspondent lias already an nounced that the Hon. John B. Thompson, whig h*u» boon elected to tlio United States Senate by tho Kentueky Legislature. We perceive that in tile lost session of Congress he represented the Fourth Congressional District of that State in tho House, and will take the place of Mr. Underwood, in the Senate, in 1851. They have a bar room in California one hun dred and fiity feet long, in which forty bar keep ers are employed, eighteen hours out of the twenty-four, in retailing liquors at twenty-five cents a glass. Messrs. Darnell & Co., of Groveport, OVioi produce dealers, have failed for 570,<)00. They will, it is said, pay about 10 or 00 cents on the dollar. It is (eared that several substantial far mers have lost their farms by this failure. An instalment of twenty per cent lias been called for from the stockholders of the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad, payable on the 11th of January next. An instalment of ten per cent I; has also been called for by the officers of the North-Carolina Railroad Company, payable on the Sth of next January. The following is Kossuth's reply to th* Bat tering and adulatory address delivered him by the colored population : Kossuth’s reply. Gentlemen: I have no intention to make a I speech, and l hope and believe you do not expect it from me. Last night I had the opportunity, I on an important occasion, to explain my humble ; wishes: and,’perhaps decisirely, as to the result of my coming to the United States. Now. L know the sympathy of the people of the United Sfhtr.s for the cause which 1 have the honor to represent, and 1 confidently hope that the people of the United States will be well aware of it, that after the statement I made last night, the time of ad dresses is past, and the time of action come ; and, therefore, I myself will take this very ground; and at every opportunity, when I have been given only partial testimony of the sympathy— ol the kind attention, aud of the friendly teeling for the cause which I have the honor"to repre ! sent, I have only to answer: “I thank you most cordially for it; and 1 hope that every man who expresses sympathy lor the cause which 1 have ! the honor to represent, will also feel inclined to ; do something for it.” We find in the columns of the New York Her ald also, the following circular, addressed by Kossuth to the people of the United States: New Yorr, Dec. 12,1851. —Having come to , the United States to avail myself, for the cause i of my country, of the sympathy which I had rea ; son to believe existed in the heart of the nation, 1 found it niy duty to declare, in tho first mo ments of my arrival, that it is my mission to plead the independence of Hungary aud the lib erty ofthe European continent, before the great republic of the United States. My principle in | this respect is, that every nation has tile sover i eign right to dispose of its own domestic affairs, | without any foreign interference; that. I, there- I fore, shall not meddle with any domestic con ! terns ofthe United States, and that I expect it ; from all the friends of my cause not to do any ! thing in respect to myself, that could throw dif ficulties in my way, and, while expressing sym pathy for the cause, would injure it. It is with regret that I must feel the necessity of again making that appeal to the public opin ion of this country, and particularly to those who profess themselves to be the friends of my cause, to give one proof ol their sympathy by avoiding every step which might entangle me into diffi eulties in respect to that rule which I have adop- 1 ted, and which I again declare to be my leading * principle, viz: not to mix, and not to be mixed up with whatever concern domestic or party ques- i *‘ ous - L. Kossuth. Snow Storm.— The people of the “Sunny ! South'are seldom favored with such a treat as 'l ** f n i°>" ed y es * e >day. Early in the morning, 1 the thermometer at the time indicating a degree « ol cold which has not been experienced, in this « latitude within the last fifteen years, the cloudy | 1 canopy of heaven commenced dispensing upon i us a tleecy shower ot snow, which continued throughout the day. and up to the period of our writing. Had the weather previously been such as to have frozen the earth, it would, beyond ; ; doubt, have retained a coating upon which sleighs j would have been enabled to have glided through j ! our streets with facility: and thus an opportunity • | would have been afforded to the losers of that ; sport to have experienced a treat seldom enjoyed iin this vicinity. As it was, however, some spir- ' ited individuals got up a spectacle, which resem- ' bled "sleighriding," and was creditable to their ( enterprize, and gave good evidence that if the ar- ! tide of snow were furnished insufficient quan tities, they were perfectly ready and willing to make it available for facilitating locomotion. Snow balling, likewise, —an amusement which, in our climate, is seldom enjoyed,—was prevalent ! throughout the day, and, in its exercise, many i ludicrous occurrences were witnessed which 1 called the risible faculties forcibly into operation. ' —Charleston Courier, 18 th inst. Legislative Proceedings. Milledgkville. Doc. 16,1851. It affords mo pleasure to inform yon that the House has reconsidered the motion, lost on yester day. to print Mr. Tift's bill, an abstract of which j you have. The bill to establish election precints at all the Magistrates Court grounds in this State, was amend ed, so as to apply to the counties of Cass, Clinch. Gordon, Pike, Spaulding and a few others, and passed by a vote of 69 to 33. On motion ofMr. Bartow, the House reconsider ed the bill lost on yesterday, releasing certain sure ties in Chattooga, from the payment of a forfeited bond. The first special order for the day—the Tax bill— was taken up and postponed to Friday next. The 2nd special order of the day—the bill giving the election of Judges of tho Superior Courts, to tho people, was taken up, and Mr. Seward offered as a substitute, the bill of the same import, introduced by Mr. Russell, on yesterday. The House was em ployed in amending the original and substitute, at the hour of adjournment. The bill amendatory of the constitution, so as to restore annual sessions of the Legislature, was re considered in the Senate, by the easting vote of the President. Yeas 19, nays 19. Mr. Simmons, from the Judiciary Committee, re ported a bill to add a clause to the 7th section, 7th article of the constitution, as a substitute for the bill to abolish capital punishment in certain cases. Also, a bill to incori>orute tho Lawrencovillo Rail road Company. Mr. Cone introduced a bill to alter tho 7th sec tion, Ist articlo of the constitution. If this bill passes, it will fix tho number of members in tho lower House, to a certain maximum. And, to maintain that number, somo county or counties now entitled to two membors by law, will lose one of its or their members, whenever any new Bounty or counties shall have been originated, in order to allow it or them a legal representation. Tho President of tho Senate presented the me morial of sundry citizens of Columbia county, pray ing a reduction of millers' toll, from J to 1-10. Mr. J. L. Bird introduced a bill to repeal the act of 1819, repealing all laws prohibiting the importa tion of slaves into this State. And Mr. Flournoy one to incorporate the “Manufac turer's Bunk of Columbus." Mr. Harman introduced a resolution, which was ■ amended and agreed to, that a select Committee of threo lie appointed, to inquire into tho expediency of removing the Penitentiary from the seat of Gov ernment. The Committco consists of Messrs. Har man, Calhoun and Tutnlin. Mr. Flournoy laid on the table a resolution that both branches of the Legislature will take a recess from the 23d inst., to the 2d Monday in January uext ; and that no new matter will bo admissablu after such recess. If the legislature is compelled to 1 take a recess, the resolution is pointed uud well timed. Several important bills were passed over for the 1 present, and others made the special order for future days, which will be reported at the proper i time Tiikke o'clock, P. M. The House resumed the unfinished business of tho forenoon. Mr. Hill proposed an amendment, whereby the Judges hereafter to be elected by the people, shall ■ alternate in tho several circuits. On this amend ment, au interesting debate arose, occupying the entire afternoon. It was supported by Messrs. Hill, Bartow, Stephens, and opposed by Messrs- Robinson of Macon, Tift, Seward, Wolford and Henry. The proposition was finally rejected by a vote of 30 to 82. The substitute mentioned above, having been received in lieu of the original, the bill was passed by yeas 101, nays 10. As this bill is a highly important one, 1 will endoavor to obtain an inspection into it to-morrow, in order to furnish you with a synopsis of it. Just here is a suitable place to remark, en pas sant, that we (I mean Editors' Representatives) are very much indebted to tho politeness and accommo dating spirit of the Clerk uud his assistants, lor the privilege we enjoy of examining important bills and other legislative documents, after the adjourn ment of the House, an hour when we are very much straitened for time to accomplish our whulo purpose- Heretofore, wo were supplied with desks near tho Clerk's table, wheuco we could, without interrup tion, obtain the use of a paper as soon us disposed of by the House. Nov, wo are assigned places in i remote parts of the Hall, whence it is difficult for us to hear what is read by the Clerk, and wo would be considered obtrusive were we to approach the Chair as often as our duties to your readers require. \ Should we bo charged with imperfections or omis sions in our reports, we shall file the above plea. Seven O'Clock, I’. M. ; Mr. Floyd called up a resolution, offered by him self some time since, requiring the Governor to cause to be distributed, with the laws and journals of the present session, a sufficient numbor of Cobb's new Digest of the Laws of Georgia, to supply every j Justice of the Inferior Court, Clerk of the Superior, ! Inferior and Ordinary Courts. Sheriff', Coroner and! Magistrate, in the State, with a copy. If the nnm- 1 her already subscribed for, be not sufficient, tho Governor is authorised to purchase additional co- \ pies, reserving 500 for future distribution. Messrs. Meriwether and Seward opposed (according to my impression) so much of the resolution as conteni- ' plates the purchase of additional copies of tho work Messrs. Floyd, Bartow, Harris, of Clarke, Thur mond, and Hill, advocated it la Us totality. It was agreed to in its original form. The bill to provide means to repair and equip the State Road, and discharge its existing liabilities, is tho special order for to-morrow. A resolution, requesting the Governor to pardon two females, (the redoubtable Jane Y oung, of Tu galo, and Manning) now in confinement in he Penitentiary, was taken up, and gave rise to an animated and protracted debate, the whole of which < was wholly unnecessary, not to say, an idlo waste of the time of the country, if the main body of our < Legislators had chosen to bo controlled by argu ment, or had even bestowed a moment s reflection ! . on the futility ot tho object sought to be accomplish- , ed It wsb, I humbly conceive, conclusively shown ; 1m I,arriS ' ° f Cll ‘ k ’ F ‘ u - vrl ' Clark, of Stewart, that the Legislature had no ri-h, to mstruct the Governor °f hia constitutional du ‘that tho Legislative was interfering with tin- Executive department es the Govcmment-that it would not be more improper for the Legislature t request the Judge of a Superior Court not to pr.,' nounce the sentence of the law upon a convict Ac Messrs. Seward and Harper were impelled mainly hy the exuberance of their sympathies for oppressed frail and unfortunate females, to favor the adoption o the resolution. Mr. Harper was so overpowed by h.s peculiar feelings, that he uttered one or two re marks, which I trust he has since recalled. During a portion of this debate. I was forcible reminded . f a certain worthy and gallant old Knight who led quite an eventful life in redressing the wrongs 0 f males. The resolution was lost, by Yeas 36, Nays 4:> [communicated.] Messrs. Editors. The press in America has been se long regarded as tho voice of the people that .s hardly surprising that foreigners, on visitingou shores, should be influenced by the prevailing oZ ion, and regard its fiat with fear. Tho people are supposed to await but the declj , ration of its opinion in order to yield a ready a j quiescence. That they influence number- we r | quire no bettor evidence than the present position ,t Congress towards the exiled Hungarian Chief wh , stands on our threshold awaiting the tardy wcicoir of the people's representatives; he who has viq u ' i our shores by express invitation, is met on hi-ani val with suspicion and distrust—a simple assertion by him of a fact (tho sovereignty of the per,,.], made the ground of gratuitous insult in our half- 0 f Congress: by one, too, who hails from the sunm South. Hi? sufferings, his causo forgotten, und.. the impotent threats of Austria: for to this cam,- she will no doubt flatter herself, is owing the hesita’ tion of Congress. How much the anticipation'll t * cordial greeting from the Court of Austria, t |,,«M they chance to make their appearance there ijfy - guise of Ministers) may influence those who are making thoraselves conspicuous in her Aim,, we will nut pretend to say. That her voice ba boon potent enough to charm the modest Attache as well as the redoubtable Courier and Enquirer >, sufficiently evident to all. The people, liowevc. may lie supposed to have a voice in the matter, nu 1 while wo agree with the general voice in doprecs ting any measure which would change the well known policy of the Government, it should not pre vent our giving a warm welcome, not only in onr streets and houses, hut National Councils, to the noble Kossuth, tho better thereby to make our ah horrcnce of tyranny and our sympathy with its vie. tiius. We nro unworthy our brave sires who owe so much to a nation of Europe, if we allow cowa, | fears and suspiciuns to prevent our extending a bear tv greeting and warm sympathy to these exile While Congress is hesitating, through the uinchinn tionsof Austria, and the press waiting the erv ■: “ follow my leader,'’ let, at least, the voice of'the people he heard, and let it be, “Welcome, brave Chief! Woleomc to our shores. You are right in the supposition, that here, :,i least, tho people are sovereign. Let the govenmnmL dally and hesitate, the people long to clasp the hand of tho leader in those hard fought battles—those deadly struggles, wliero the blood of the patriot sol. dier and noble was poursri out like water. The,- long to assure you, that whcn|that day shall come, in which, band to hand and breast to breast, You will fight over again those battles for your country and for liberty, American hearts shall beat by your side. American gold shall smooth your path.’ We would think ourselves unworthy the heritage of our sires and the name of freemen, could we oi fer nnught savo a poor refuge on our shores to tho-o who have a country in chains. In your last strug gle, which has been rendered immortal by the blood of its martyrs, we deeply regret we could not haw been sufficiently near to prove to you that a col t approval is not all we fed lor the soldiers of libert, Nor can the fate of the Cuban Expedition lie cited against such an enterprise. Had but the Cubans rul ed a hand, or stretched out an arm, Cuba would, ’ to-day, have been free. The brave Hungarian has proved bis valor, linttlo field and scaffold have run red with his blood. We gave aid ami comfort to Greece and Ireland. Texas, in her contest, recoil ed also of us ; and bocauso Hungary is in llio harnt, I and bound up in tho heart of a more powerful do,' I potism, shall wo not feel for her sufferings, nor offet i so much as a welcome to her exiled sons ’ Austria has cause to congratulate herself on the j success of her diplomacy. Let us hope that her tn | umpli will rest there. Let not the scourger of w., 1 men and bloody butcher of men, find supporteu |in America. We owe a debt to Franco; shall w , I not pay it, and with interest, to Hungary ' 11al. Mid. (Telegraphed for the Charlrstim Courier.) | Baltimore, Dec. 15, 7.20 I’. Si. I The resolution respecting Kossuth passed the j U. S. House of Representatives almost unani ! motisly on Monday. In the Senate, during the debate on Mr. Foote's Compromise resolution-. : Mr. Butler defended the Southern opposition i Mr. Foote denounced as traitors and demagogues those who influenced the people of South Caro -1 lina. Mr. Rhett declared the people of South Carolina and himself to be Secessionists and Dis unionists, and gave the reasons why the Com promise measures were resisted. In the New York market, on Monday, Cothm was firm and unchanged. New-Orleans. Dec. 17, S.IS P. M j In this market to-day, Wednesday, seven thou sand bales of Cotton were disposed of at steady prices. The sales during the four days comprised thirty-one thousand bales. Bacon has advanced, and Sides ate worth 8 cents. Fifteen hundred bbls. Whisky changed hands at from 17 to 17) ! cents. Prime Molasses commanded 22 cents Eleven hundred bids, of Ohio Flour were dispov J of at 53.75. COLOGNE WATER —Koussell's, Hauel's, Fa riua s. \\ right's, Glenn's, Tessier's, and Pro vost's Cologne \\ ater, for sale by j doc 17 PHILIP A. MOISE, Druggist. THE Originti and Genuine Rowland's Mac-va - sar OIL, manufactured by A. Rowland A Sen, Hal ton Garden, London, and for sale in Augusta by | dot 17 PHILIP A. MOISE, Druggist. GOLD AND SILVER LEAF Bronzes, of all colors, Dutch Metal, Ac., for sale by dec l7 PHILIP A. MOISE, Druggist. ■/ CAPSI'LES, of Cod Liver Oil.—This is a plea sant way of taking Cod Liver Oil, as thero isno tasri- wliatoverjwhen administered in a Capsule. For sale by dec 17 PHILIP A. MOISE. Druggist. £) / Vs \l \ Llts. superior POT ASH, just landed and for sale bv dec 17 PHILIP A. MOISE, Druggist. Large Swedish leeches.—Just receiv ed, jier steamer from New Y ork, a supply of superior LEECHES. dec 17 PHILIP A. MOISB, Druggist. I) ICE, RICE. —20 tierces strictly prime RICE, L now landing and for sale bv doc 17 STURGES A CO. I A BBLS. N. 0. SY'RUP, now landing and foi sale by dec 17 STL'RGES A t' i!. A i \ HALi BBLS. Old Monongahcl* Vjfis KY‘, now landing and for sale by dec 17 STI'RGF.S A CO BUTTER AND CHEESE . JCST RECEIV ED -150 boxes CHEESE, 20 casks do. 20 kegs GOSHEN BUTTER, prime, nov 14 ts WILLIAMS A BROTHER. FIGS AND PRUNES^ WE HAVE just received two eases, 80 drums, fine, new crop, FTGS; also, one ease Prunes, in glass-top boxes, which we will sell at a great bargain, if applied for early. dec 12 GIP.ARDBY A PARKER. FOR SALE 1 p! A REAMS Printing Paper 22 by 32 and -l \J 28 bv 42. Enquire of dec 16 ' T. W. FLEMING. PXCKLED BEEF. Q/ \ TO FORTY Barrels Pickled Beof, of good OU quality, for salo bv dec 16 T. W. FLEMING. SPANISH FLOAT” IN DIG O. —A large supply in Store, and for sale by dee 16 W~M. H. TUTT, Druggist. WOMEN IN AMERICA — By Maria J. Jlcln toih. For sale by doe II TuOg RICHARDS A SON.