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LONDON POLICE.
We were prevented yesterday, from giving
the promised abstract of the regulations by which
the London police is governed, as one Saturday
we promised todo; we now fulfil our undertaking.
It will he seen that our own account of the system
and its operation, published on Friday, was er
roneous in regard to the uniform of the police,
men. to their means of offence and defence, and
to the plan of concealing their official character.
Our mistake has arisen in this wise :—When the
change of police system was under consideration
in London, we took some pains to acquire full
information of the plan proposed, and it was de
scribed to us, minutely, by pers ms on whom we
relied, and whose account was correspmi lent
with that set forth in our article of Friday. Since
the complete organization ol the police on the
new system, its operation and efficacy have been
occasionally a subject of conversation between
ourselves and persons recently Irom England,
but it has so happene 1 that we have never thought
to ask concerning, it nor have any ot those with
whom we conversed on the subject, thought to
mention, the fact that a uniform is worn; and we
supposed, of course, that the organization was
upon the plan originally described to us. Either
that plan was changeJ, or we were misinformed
in the first place. We are free to confess, how
ever, that our strong impression is in favor of the
incognito system, and that we should anticipate
great advantages from its adoption.
Wo have received nearly a dozen communica
tions on the subject, most of them merely adver.
ting to and correcting our above-mentioned error.
They all agree in stating that the policemen
wear a suit of blue broad-cloth, with white metal
buttons and straight collar, on the corners ol I
which arc marked, in white, the letter of the di
vision an! the number of the individual police
man. Their weapon is a small club, about
eighteen inches in length. One of our informants
states that in some of the remote and dangerous
districts, at night, they are also armed with cut.
lasses.
Abstract of the new Police Instructions.
The object to be attained is the prevention of
crime.—The absence of crime will be considered
the best proof of the efficiency of the police. The
metropolitan police district is at present formed
into five divisions. The number of men in each
is the same ; but their distribution is guided by
local circumstances. Each division, marked by
a name and number, is divided into eight “sec
tions,” and each section into eight “beats.” Ihe
police force is divided into as many companies
as there are divisions, and each company consists
of one superinteodant, four inspectors, sixteen
sergeants, and one hundred and forty.four police
constables.* The company is divided into six
teen parties, each consisting of one sergeant and
nine men. Four sergeants’ parties form an in.
ppectot’s party, and the whole company is under
the command of the superintendanr.
Every man admitted in the police force is to
devote his whole lime to the service—to serve
and reside wherever he is appointed—to obey all
lawful orders, and conform to all regulations ;
not to take money from any person without ex
press consent of the commissioners—at all times
to appear in his complete police dross or uniform,
and to pay all debts contracted by him, as the
commissioners shall direct.
One-half of the entire force shall be on duty at
night, and these shall be relieved at convenient
intervals by the other half.
The men who are olVduty are to consider them
selves liable to be called, upon at all times. The
sergeants to call over and direct their respective
parties, and report to the inspector. One in
spector takes the general 'charge of the duty
throughout the division, visiting the men; the
other remains in the division “station house.”
The inspectors deliver a written report to the
Buperintendant, who reports to the office, and
sends all persons given in charge during the night
to the offices of the police magistrates.
The superintend . nt is responsible for the gene
ral performance of the duties of the police within
his division, lie is to observe the conduct of all
idle, disorderly, suspected persons within it, to
whom he is to make it evident that they arc
known and watched. Upon any alarm’ of fire,
he is to repair immediately to the spot, and take
the entire control of the police force —guarding
every avenueleading to the building on fire, and
admitting none within the cordon, but the firemen
with engines, &c. tovvhom lie will render every
assistance in working the engines, rescuing pro.
perty, and having it conveyed to the nearest
station-house, if desired. He is to procure
engines and preserve free scope for the firemen’s
exertions. lie is also to collect all the informa
tion he can, on the spot, a-= to the cause ol the
lire, and direct special attention to thieves.
The inspector is responsible for the conduct of
the sergeants, and thirty six men under him.
The inspector a’, the division “station” is to re.
ceive all charges, entering them in a book ac
cording to a printed form, lie is to enter all
property brought to him, and mark the articles
the instant they are received, locking them up in
a place kept for that purpose, lie will take cure
that all persons brought to him under charges are
securely confined. In case application is made
to him for assistance, he will, according to the
best of his judgment, render all in his power,
either from the reserve party, or by calling up
those off"duty; but this last is only to be done in
cases of necessity.
The serjeant is responsible for the conduct of
the nine men under him. He is constantly to
patrol his section to enforce the performance of
duty by his men. He always, at night, carries
a dark lantern. In case of any felony or distur
bance, lie will give all assistance in his power
to persons applying to him. In case ol fire, in
the absence of the superintendent and inspector,
lie will act according to the instructions given
for their guidance. He is to be civil and at.
lentivc to every body, and to render every infor
mation and assistance in his power when re
quired.
The police constable will be held responsi.
ble for the security of life and property within
his beat, and for the preservation of peace and
general good order during the time he is on du
ly. He should make himself perfectly ac.
quaiuted with all the parts ot his beat or section.
He will be expected to possess such a knowl
edge of the inhabitants of each home, as will
enable to recognize their persons, soastopre.
vent mistakes, and to enable him to render assis
tance to the inhabitants when called for. He
will be able to see every part of his heat, at
least, once in every ten or fifteen minutes ; and
this he will be expected to do ; so that any per.
son requiring assistance, by remaining in the
same spot for that length of time, may certainly
meet a constable. The regularity of moving
.through his beat shall not, however, prevent his
remaining at any particular place, if his pre
sence there be nccc sary to observe the conduct
of any suspected person, or for any other good
reason that shall be satisfactory to his serjeant.
All his duly will be carried on in silence. When
he takes any one into custody, he will immedi
ately repair to a spot in the section appointed for
the purpose, and remain there with the prison
er until some constable comes who can supply
his place.
lie shall not enter any house except in the
execution of IMI d tty. On no pretence shall
he enter any drinking house except in the
immediate dischirge of his duty. No liquor of
any sort shall be taken from a publican without
paying lor it at ihe time. If at any time he
requires immediate assistance, and cmnot in
any other way obtain it, he must “spring his
rattle,” but this is to be domras seldom as pos,
stble. He must be particularly cautious not to
interfere idly or unnecessarily ; when required
to act, he will do so with decision and boldness.
On all occasions he may expect to receive the
fullest support in the proper exercise of his au
thority, See. Ac.
* According to this statement, the whole number
of the police is but eight hundred and thirty five.
Our impression -is, that it is much greater. A wri
ter in the Times of this morning stales it at five thou
sand.
Tire 3io;i important feature in the new act
is the establishment of a police force, separate
from the control of the local magistrates, and
independent of the authorities to whom the ap
p liniment oi the nightly watch has been hi ber
to entrusted. Henceforward, the | r.ventien
and detection ot offences will chiefly devolve on
t le •* Commissioners of Pi,Her,' whose functors
are to be exclusively confined to the attainment
of these objects, w hile the examination of per
sons charged with offences will continue to be
exercised by the magisterial authorities as be.
fore.
f From the Globe.]
FEDERALISM IN MASQUERADE.
Ot all the devices ever attempted by tlie party
opposed to our republican institutions, that
through which they seek to steal into power, at
the appro idling Presidential election, shows the
in >st shameful destitution of principle. In the
■ era of the elder Adams, aristocracy boldly endea.
| vored to bear itself through, by openly arguing
i ihe necessi y of a strong governm. n , to keep
down the will.if the people who “ were their
own worst enemies" The precept was then fear
lessly followed up by example; and the alien
law, the sedition law, and one strong blow after
another, lefi the people no doubt, that they were
to become the subjects of the men ins ailed in
the power of the Government, or immediately
assert their rightful sovereignty over it. In the
n xt epoch, when federalism sought its restora
tiin, like the legitimates of France, it threw it.
sett upon ilie s'rcn2tb of British bayonets, and
it undisguisedly allied itsell with a foreign pow
er, in the eff'irt to enforce its lost influence and
authority Upon the American people. In the
third approach of federalism to power, Iraud and
corruption were substituted for force, and the
daring policy of the elder Adams. Bargain,
intrigue, and management in tlie House of Rep
resentatives had its day, .and the coalition of sor
did interests, bank monopoly, joint siock manu
facturing monopoly, the log-rolling internal irn.
provement system, succeeded. Hamilton’s idea
of engt afting the British money government upon
the young and flourishing stock of American de
mocracy. was fully embraced by Mr. Clay. The
tariff and the Bank of the United States were to
lurnisli the supplies. The active classes were
all to be wielded in phalanx. The bank bad the
| mercantile interest at its beck. The tarff gave
the administration the command of the manufac
turers, and of every section which could be
readied and influenced by a road or canal ; and
how it was contemplated to subsidize the press
and to pension the Congress, the glimpse which
we have had at the proceedings of Mr. Biddle’s
fair business transaction committee sufficiently
explains.
The striking characteristic of the attempt ol
the enemies ot republican government, at the
present moment, is the adoption of every species
of expedient to carry their point, without regard
to any general principle; or, if there is a gene
ral principle, it is that of using all means, no
matter how incongruous, to break down the pre
sent system of government, without any plan
with regard to building up another. The whole
doctrine is disguise of ultimate objects. In these,
none of the real leaders of the opposition would
concur. Neither Clay, Calhoun, or Webster,
would agree on any mode of administration, in
which each could not have his selfish ambition
gratified, A national patriotism has no place in
the bosoms of these political gamblers, mote
than private morality lias in the designs of ts e
managers of a public gaining table. Their sim
ple object is to have all that is dear and valua
ble to society, as settled by the just and equal in
stitutions under which we five, staked up and put
to a hazard—and they trust to their skill and
adroitness to appropriate the greatest share. In
the present settled order ot things, the schemes
of dishonest men are circumscribed by the regu.
lar operation ol the public mind, and the safe and
steady motion which it imparls to the Govern
ment. Nothing but some convulsion which shall
break up the ways, and arrest the natural pro
gressot public affairs, will enable the malcon
tents to give a new direction to them. They
agree, therefore, in every thing that tends to an.
archy.
In ibis view’, they have set up a Presidential
ticket w-ith as many heads as the hydra. In some
sections their electoral ticket is lor.Harrison,
Webster, and Granger, in others, it is for White,
Harrison, and Tyler, In Tennessee, it is for
White alone, without a Vice President. In Ken
tucky, it is for Harrison alone, with Granger for a
lieutenant. In Maryland, the beads of Harrison
and Tyler appear together. The whole of this
new device of using secondary men, is to blend
all the factions in one common purpose of sub
verting what is established. The leaders could
not come out themselves, because each of them
is identified with some obnoxious policy or prin
ciple, which would rally a majority in every sec
tion, north, south, and west, against them. By
taking an apostate republican for use in the south,
the odium of the former conspiracy of federal,
ism in the shape of nullification is avoided, and
geographical considerations are brought to bear
to enable the malcontents to rally a southern par
ty. In the north and west, abolition federalism
has laid bold on one, who, although identified
with a!! the principles of the administrations of
the elder and younger Adams by his adhesion to
both, is yet supposed, as a native of Virginia, to
be able to associate some king of Slate pride
with the White ticket in the Old Dominion; and
so while a geographical party is to be formed on
him and Granger in the non.slaveholding States,
on tite principle ol abolition, his mongrel connex
ion with White and Tyler in Maryland and Vtr
ginia is to bring black cockade federalism, as far
as it c.\:s s in those Slates, in arrav with nullifi
cation, in the effort to merge the democratic u»
nion party, in a sectional southern party.
The end to whicn this masquerade of federal
ism and its nursling factions, north and south, are
to conduct the approaching Presidential election,
is thus set forth in Tluirsd iy’s Telegraph. In
the north and west, Harrison, according to the
Telegraph, is to get one hundred electoral votes.
In the south, in virtue of the geographical divis.
ion, ninety three elector il votes are to be carried
in the name of White. In tiffs state ot the case,
the nullifying organ comes to the conclusion that
the election of the democratic candidate will be
defeated.
“There is, however, («nys the Telegraph,)
CUT LITTLE DOUBT THAT VIRGINIA, SOUTH CaroLl
na, Georgia, and Massachusetts, will event
UALLY CAST THEM VOTES Fir GENERAL Harbl
SON. WHEN IT IS FOUND THAT Ills ELECTION CAN BE
THUS SECURED IN THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE Bl!T
should they prefer voting for Judge White,
THE ELECTION WILL BE THROWN INTO THE HOUSE
of Representatives; and we do not think it
possibie for Mr Van Boren, with all his cun
ning and Intrigue, to secure ms election by
THAT BODY, AFTER THE PEOPLE HAVE PASSED SEN.
TENCH AGAINST HIM.”
From this it would seem ibat the prnfii 2 ate po
litical bargaining which transferred the vote of
so many States in the House of Representatives
to Mr. Ada ns, agamst the will of the people of
these States, is to be renewed in the electoral
college, and Virginia, South Carrsin.v, and
Georgia, are to be transferred to a Bank. Tariff',
and Internal Improvement federalist, or else “the
election is to be thrown into the House of Rep
resentatives,” and the same scene renewed in
that body !
All this, however, is mere delusion. There is
no hope of immediate success indulged by those
who are laboring to build up geographical par
ties, upon the principle which showed itself with
such fearful potency in the Missouri question.
The false hopes held out of carrying the Presi
deucy for one or other of the sectional candidates
—palling at the opposite ends of the Union—is
but to animate their partisans, to urge the oppo.
sing principles and prejudices which are now
broached and looked to for future use, in the dif
ferent quarters, as the means of making that final
schism, which can alone be the object of the
southern agitators. To make the Presidency
subject to the disposal of a sectional party would
[ not suit Calhoun or ins associates. The North
, is the strongest section, and if disposed of on
that principle, the South would be the loser.
\ Fhe only purpose, therefore, which these men
i can have in broaching anew the principle which
produced the difficulty in the Missouri question,
, to make it pervade the Presidential contests, is
to bring about the result to which we referred
yesterday, and which was so-derply deplored bv
Mr. Jefferson in the letter to Mr. Short, from
r which we quoted Ot the same tenor is the fol.
lowing lettento John Holmes:
. Monticello, April 22, 1620.
I thank yon, dear sir, for the copy you have
been so kind as to scud me of the letter to your
constituents on the Missouri question. It is a
perfect justification to them. I had for a long
i time ceased to read newspapers, or pay any at
tention to public affairs, confident they were in
gooff hands, and content to be a passenger in our
i uark to the shore from which 1 am not distant,
i But this momentous question, like a fire bell in
3 the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I
t considered it at once as the knell of the Union.
It is hushed, indeed, lor the moment. But this
: is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geo
graphical line, coinciding with a marked pnnei.
pie, moral and political, once conceived and held
up to the angry passions of men, will never be
obliterated , and every new irritation will mark
it deeper and deeper.
' » » * » * »
1 I regret that 1 am now to die in tne belief, that
1 the useless sacrifice of themselves by the gene
: ration of 17 6, to acquire self government and
: happiness to their country, is to be thrown away
• by the unwise and unworthy passions of their
■ sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that
’ I live not to weep over it. Il they would but
dispassionately weigh the blessings they will
throw away, against an abstract principle more
1 likely to be effected by union than by scission,
r they would pause before they would perpetrate
■ this act of suicide on themselves, and ot treason
1 against the hopes ol the world. To yourself, as
t the faithful advocate of the Union, I tender the
J offering of my high esteem and respect.
TH. JEFFERSON.
1 I From the Columbus Enquirer.
MAJ. J. C. ALFORD.
1 The report ol this gallant and persevering offr
a cer, given below, will be read with interest by
] the whole country. It came upon us, we confes,
5 rather unexpectedly, having no knowledge of his
, movements, and supposing all the time that the
troops below were at their respective stations,
or, at most, looking about the swamps in Baker.
. Instead of this, as will be seen by the report,
A'ford and the soldiers with him have been in
i long and hot pursuit of the Indians, chnsing them
i through the hammocks, giving them battle wher
ever they could be overtaken, and following the
■ flying foe far beyond the Withlacoochee , to the
> very margin of the dismal Okefenokee. Sitting
> at borne, as most of our fellow.citizens at this
. time are, attending to thetr own business, and
. blessed with the enjoyment of domestic peace
and plenty, they can form no just idea of the
■ hardships and privations incident to such a cam.
[ paign. The volunteers who followed the savages
i in their flight to the south had not only to c mend
i with a burning sun. dark swamps and blood
i thirsty enemies, but they had also to war with
hunger, and frequently replenish empty stomachs
upon the unsubstantial food of the empty air.
But the report speaks (or itself, and to it vve in
vite the reader’s attention.
LUMPKIN, August 25, 1836.
Maj. Gen. J. W, A. Sa.nfjßd:
—After your departure from Baker county,
I continued to scour the swamp, and execute
the order left by you, for the removal of the
troops to the bead ofSpring creek. Cap;. Heinz,
in obedience to your orders charging him speci.
ally with the reduction of the Indians, who fought
by me on the filth ol this month, continued his
pursuit ol their trail to Flint river, where they
crossed near Newton. He sent me back an ex
press stating the fact. In the mean time, I had,
the samp day I received the express from
Hentz, before the express arrived, gone in com
pany with Mr. Tompkins and Howard of Baker
county, and a considerable number of my own
men, and pursued the trail of the Indians from
near my battle ground to where they crossed
Spring creek near where it runs into Chtckasa
hatchec; we found the trail so much larger than
we expected, that all expressed astonishment at
the fact that I should have believed I fought only
6 ) or 80 Indians as you recollect I verbally re
ported to you at the time. Who could have
induced you to think. General, that there were
only fifteen or twenty, I cannot imagine, nor is it
a matter of any moment. I only mention the
fact to correct it, believing as I do that you would
be gratified to know the truth. 1 requested
Messrs. Tompkins, Howard and Greer, with
others, to count the principal entering places of
the trail, as the Indians went into the creek
and there were twelve different trails of at least
an average of ten tracks to a trail, where they
crossed. Convinced of the fact that Hentz was
pursuing a body of Indians he could not conquer,
I at once determined to follow him and overtake
him if possible, though he had been gone several
days. On my return to camp, and whilst I was
stating the facts to my officers, his express ar
rived : it was near night. I issued my order for
Capts. Greer and Sledge to prepare to march
early next morning. They did so.
We set off on the lOtli of this month, went
thirty five miles that night to West’s, near vyhere
the Indians had robbed a house on the line of
Baker and Thomas counties; here we were
joined by Capt. Everitt and his comnany from
Decatur county. We could get no pilot. There
were but few people living in the settlement.
Mr. West was so much alarmed, he could not
tell us the way to his son in law’s house, two
miles off, the one tiiat was robbed. We started
on the 1 Itli, as early as we could see, and found
our way to the house. Here we took the trail of
a company of horsemen who had gone up North
to a staiion, instead of Hentz’s trail, and went 20
miles out of our way.—Finding we were wrong,
and iearing we should not he able to right our.
selves in time to overtake Hentz, I ordered Capt.
Sledge to return to Camp Alford.—With Capt’s.
Greer and Everitt, and their companies, we took
ihe general course of the Indians and fortunately
landed at night in half a mile of the right trail,
but unlortunately only ten miles from where we
started ; here we camped at a deep steep creek,
which I called camp Gteer, in honor of my officer
who had that day, when the hope of overtaking
the Indians was very faint, still resolved to fol
low me, if I continued to go ahead, Hentz was
a long ways ahead, but so soon as the sign was
right, vve pursued him with all possible speed.
On the 12th, we passed two of the Indian
camps, and several large creeks, the head wa
urs ot the O .kak ckney and the Okapilca, join
ed to day by Capt. Newman and his company
from Thomas. Force increasing, trail warm,
men ardent, all anxfous for battle. About 3 o’,
clock in the evening, we saw before us a house
with many people—all seemed to be greatly
cxciu-d at our approach; and when we were still
far off. I mentioned to our boys that from the
strange appearances of things all was not right;
we galloped up, and the firs' to salute us was
one ol lleii’z’s men. badly wounded. He infor
med us that at 11 o’clock that day, they had at.
lacked the enemy in a branch, and had been
compelled to retreat: the battle ground was four
miles off, and Capt. Lentz, after being reinfor
ced, bad gone back about two hours, To try it
again. Hentz’s defeat, with the sight of his
wounded men, created great sensation in our
r r; ‘iks. All the men and officers manifested
. the most ardent wish to retrieve the fortunes of
f the day, and punish the enemy; vve strained our
I horses to the battle ground; the Indians had gone
I and 11 entz alter them; we pursued them till night,
camped at Fulsora’s; heard of Hentz two miles
’ ahead; after vve camped, I procured a pilot and
. found his camp—his men manifested great joy
, at my arrival, and truly. General, if ever there
was any fight in me, 1 felt it then. The cow. >
, ards tlla t had refused to fight that day had all run
, honu, and here were a few brave fellows en
. camped near the enemy, mortified at defeat
, swearing they would whip the enemy or die in
. 'he attempt: the citizens who had joined them
. ni ihe day left them at night; it was now dark
? and getting late in the night. I ordered them
s t 0 remain in the morning until I came up, and
returned to my camp.
' The story of the fight is easily told. The
Indians seeing they would be overtaken by
I Captain Hen z, bad formed an extended line
; in a small branch swamp, where two branches
t ran together, making a narrow swamp of thick
1 bushes, nearly in the shape of a half circle, with
i an open pine woods to enter it. Their line, if
i straight, would (in the language of all that gave
. an opinion) have been at least five hundred yards
a long: of course, as is usual vvnh them, they were
1 in open order to extend their flanks. Their
, number of warriors must have been at least e gh.
5 ty strong, with the advantage of the covert of
j the branch swamp, their pick of the ground and
> superior numbers. That portion of Captain
1 Hentz s company that would fight, could not
maintain their ground. The brave Tinsley,
(our pilot in Chickasahatchec.) and those that
fought with him, were compelled to retreat, as
-2 ter having five men badly wounded. Their niim
r her was about thirty, as well as I could learn
and I would mention every name if I could do
so, wiibont leaving out any, but I do not know
them all, and therefore had better not undertake
it, lest some brave fellow might have his feel,
ings wounded by not being known. The bal
ance of the command ran and never came back.
At three o’clock on the 13th, I was on my horse,
with my command; we came up with Hcn’z’s
command before light, on the banks of the With
lacoochy proper, here called Little river, the
eastern branch beingcalled Withlacoochy, im.
properly, (see map Georgia ) I kept my com.
mand in the rear some distance, and as soon as
we could see the trail, sent flentz’s company in
pursuit, hoping the Indians would not recognize
them, and not seeing us, would fight again—we
followed near enough to be ready in that event
to help. The niglfc before the enemy had crossed
the river, killing two beeves, and re crossed and
camped on the sirfie side with Ifentz, in the
river swamp; we; of course lost much time in
trailing them, in their fox like chase.—About 10
o’clock, we received news of them going down
the river on the West side; we strained offafter
them, crossed at a bridge where they had just
passed. Several companies had now joined us,
(to wit,) Capt. Knight, Pike, Grantham, Bur
nett, and many citizens without officers. Tke
people of Lowndes and Thomas counties are a
gallant set of men, and acted most promptly in
deed, submitted themselves to my command
most cheerfully, and acted with us like good
citizens ought to do when their country i< inva
ded.—Maj. Hal! and Strickland, and Col. Blair
of Lowndes county, were in the field. The
pursuit was bold and impetuous. The Indians
entered the swamp about four miles below the
bridge, where it was wide and deep; not know,
ing our ground, we followed on horseback, on
the trail made by their horses, (they had stolen
three horses the night before the battle with
Hentz, and captured eight from this company in
the fight.) The Indians crossed the Withlacoo
chy, in the swamp, where there was no ford; so
did we.
They penetrated the very thickest parts of
the swamp, in hopes to hide; we followed them;
they crossed deep lagoons, which by the time we
came along, had no bottom : we floated our hors
ses over after them ; finally our advance announ
ced the fact that we had overtaken them. I
ordered the men to dismount and charge—when
wi came up, the Indians, had thrown away their
cloths and provisions and abandoned their
horses, and fled in every direction ; we retook
the horses taken from Capt. Hentz’s men, as
well as from the citizens, and returned them to
their owners. The soldiers did what they
pleased with the plunder. We could not pur
sue the enemy any further now ; they had scat
tered and run off in the swamp in every direc
tion ; we hunted for them in vain until night—
camped at Mr. Vtcker’s. The soldiers and citi
zens put up at houses nearest the swamp ; noth
ing to cat to.day for man or horse. To-day, the
14th, Captain Greer and his company rested. I
pressed a fresh horse, and with my friend
Graves who never tires, I went back tothe
swamp, and arranged the various companies
who haci repaired to scour the swamp. To-day,
Captain Newman’s company came upon the teaf;|
or flank guard of the Indians, and in sight ofjmttJ
of their warriors fired eight or ten
him as he run ; do not know whether he waslrft'
or not —could see no more of them to.day. 0o-
Cerinmed never to desist so long as there was
any hope. I issued my order for all to lie as
near the swamp as possible, for hunger forced
them to go somewhere to get something to
eat, and to be at the swamp by sun rise, and
all that were not there by one hour bv sun, not to
come at all—-the order was promptly obeyed,
and Captain Greer’s company and all the com
panies were at the appointed time ; we rushed
into the swamp, ami after plunging for an hour,
we heard guns fire at onr horses, we supposed
at once that the Indians had made an attack on
the guard left to take care of the horses : I or.
dered every man to rush to the spot, and on ar
riving, an express was the occasion of the firing,
with information that the Indians were seen that
morning four miles below, going towards grand
bay, on the eastern branch of WithlacoochyT We
pursued at the top speed of our horses—just be
fore we came to the place where they were seen,
there came upon us a heavy tuunder shower, and
we could not trail them well.
I am of opinion they had separated to meet
at Grand Bay, a most extensive and impenerra
b'e swamp in the direction of Oakafanokee
swamp. By the aid of several good trailers, we
pursued their sign with much difficulty tothe
river, and saw where a few of them had crossed,
but never could trail them any further that day.
All agreed that il they got to Grand Bay we could
not drive for them successfully, and the citizens
urged upon us to desist, and let them watch for
their inarch from the swamp and cut them off
between there and Oakafanokee, be that when
it might. I gave up the chase and returned to
Roundtree’s house, where I was kindly treated
in my most exhausted and debilitated condition.
My staff was with me- Capt. Greer was at
Hall’s, several miles on our return march. In
two nights and a whole day, I had one cup of
coffee only, my men were but little better off.
General, I did all, and suffered all that man can
do and suffer, to crush the cruel and the coward
ly savage, but I could not make them fight. I
left them on the further bank of the distant With,
lacoochy, bending their course towards the dis
mal Oakafanokee—where Capt. Knight, of
Lowndes county, informed me, he belie'ved all
(hat had succeeded in escaping had concentrat
ed, preparatory to their removal to Florida ; he
is a man of good sense and great energy', and I
rely much upon his opinion indeed. From all
that I can learn, I arn deliberately of opinion, that
not one Indian has gone to Florida, The squaws
I have with me, informed the people at Thotn
asville, that the Irtd ans would stop in Oakafan.
okee two moons, qrd then go to Florida in a
body ; and I learnejd in Lowndes, that the signs
around the swamp ate fresh and infallible.
In anticipation of your order, I brought the
Indians prisoners with me, on my return march,
and met your express at camp. There are thir
ty one women and children. Eighteen were
taken at the battle of Bushy creek, in Lowndes
county, where the men and officers who fought
them, disiingutshed themselves. These were
Beall’s Indians. This battle has been reported
in the newspapers, with the officers who com.
manded. Copt. Suelly, from Lowndes, with
sixteen men, captured on the Allapahaw, three
prisoners, and killef ten Indians. Capt. Brown
ing, of a station in ! the upper part ofThomas
county, captured ten women and children out of
the company of Indians pursued by Capt. Ken
drick. The warriors of this party we could hear
of, on our inarch to our left, pursuing the same
general course with all the other Indians I have
heard of. These together, compose the party
of prisoners in my possession, which will he sent
on towards Fort Mitchell this evening. On re
turning to my camp in Baker, I found that we
had left no Indians behind ns, and none have
come in during my absence. I herewith transmit
a certifiate ot the citizens of Baker county, that
the swamps are now more clear of Indians than
they have been for five years.
Under this state of affairs, I have left Camp
Alford and marched to Lumpkin, preparatory to
our being discharged. lam gratified. General,
that my Battallion fas effected, at the point of
the bayonet, what heretofore, no array of force
or parade of men could otherwise accomplish:
the total expulsion of the Indians from Chicka'
sahatchie swamp. Our time is nearly out :we
now beiiove we have no more work to do. The
opinion is now predicated upon good evidence,
and we hope you wifi order us up immediately
and discharge us.
We have to.day lo’buryone of the best citizens
of Troup county, who died of conjestive fever
yesterday, Mr. Brittain Evans, a man of great
merit at home as well as in camp. Before I
close this, my final report to you, permit me to
make one suggestion. The frontier of Georgia
will now be changed from Alabama to Florida.
The war in Florida litis winter will send the In.
dians back upon the people of Lowndes, Thom,
as, Irwin, and the other Southern counties. Our
State ought to prepdre for her defence in time,
and prevent a useless sacrifice of the lives and
property ofonr gallant brethren of that portion of
our Stale. I forgot to mention, that in driving
the swamp, we cut oIT an aged Indian warrior
from the body of his people, and in attempting
to get around us to join them, he passed a house
in the neighborhood, and was there shot and
killed by some boys, very much to the honor of
these little warriors. I herewith transmit Capt.
Kendrick’s report of his operations on the trail
you ordered him to pursue.
Inclosing this communication, General, you
will permit me to subscribe myself your friend
and obedient servant,
JULIUS C. ALFORD,
Maj. Com. 3 J Battallion mounted men.
[From the Macon Messenger.]
Whereas the delegates from the State of Geor
gia tothe Rail Road Convention held in Knox
ville,Tenn, on the 4th of July last, have recom
mended to the people ol Georgia, that they
should hold a Convention in Macon, on the first
Monday in November next, to take into consid
oration the subject of Rail Road improvements
in this State, the Board of Directors of the Mon
roe Rail Road Company do therefore
Resolved, That they fully accord with said
recommendation, and will use their influence to*
promote the objects contemplated thereby. f
Resolved, That the commercial and agricul
tural inte-ests of the people ol Georgia are of
such vita! import, in our opinion, as to require and
justify an interchange ot views and sentiments
on the all important subject ol Rail Road im
provemenr.
Resolved, That the Monroe Rail Road Com
pany believe their interests are of such impor
tance, as to justify the appointment of a delega.
tion to represent them in said convention.
Resolved, That Lewis L. Griffin, Absalom
11. Chappell, James A. Nesbit, Thaddeus G.
Holt, Henry G. Lamar, and Samuel T. Bailey
be. and they arc hereby appointed delegates
from the Monroe Rail Road Company to said
Convention-
Resolved, That we most earnestly invite
each county in the State, particularly those in
the Western and North Western part, to send a
delegation to the proposed convention, equal in
number to their delegation in the Legislature.
Resolved, That the Secretary do furnish each
of the aforesaid delegation with a copy of these
resolutions, and cause them to be published in
such of the public prints that may feel an inter
est therein.
Theab>ve preamble and resolutions are a
true extract from the minutes of the Board of
Directors of the Monroe Rail Road Company:
and in accordance with the last resolutions, I
most respectfully invite their publication in all
the newspapers in the State.
ALFRED BROOKS, Scc’y.
Sept. 7,183 G.
[From the Petersburg Constellation ]
The President and Gov. Burton. —A slander
has been freely circulated and commented on
by the whig papers lor a couple of mouths past,
respecting a promised appo’ntment by the Pre
sident of the late Gov. 11. G. Burton of N. C.
The falsehood is at last emphatically nailed to
the counter, and the busy detainers ot the living
as well as the dead, are left at liberty to rest as
they can, on the bed of thorns which they have
so industriously spread for themselves. The
grid-iron, on which, in olden time, Montezuma
was broiled, was a happy destiny in comparison
to that which these modern whig worthies have
chalked out for themselves. May conviction
and exposure always attend on the footsteps of
.-<he slanderer.
, ‘ From the. Halifax, N. C., Advocate.
Halifax, August 27th, 1836.
Mr. Webb:—On my return Irom the South
'west a lew days since, my attention was called
to an extract from the Danville Reporter, stating
that General Jackson had addressed a letter to
my Father, the late 11. G. Burton, which letter
contained a promise, to appoint him Governor of
Texas. The letter it is said was found amongst
the papers of the deceased. This I pronounce
unequivocally to be false , no examination has
yet been made ol the papers and letters belong,
ing to Governor Burton, and had such a letter
been in existence it could not thus have come
to light. Indeed I look upon this statement,
which have been so early published and re.pub
lished by the editorial fraternity of the opposi
tion press, as a malignant attempt to tarnish the
fame of an illustrious individual. Like the Re.
porer I can exclaim, “what next,” “what a
state of things does it disclose,” when we behold
the press perverted, from a medium oftruth and
knowledge, to a vehicle of slander. The very
sanctuary of the grave is violated and the manes
of the dvad invoked, to appear upon the political
arena, a detraction from the fame of the living
I hope the Danville Reporter will give this an
insertion, as well as the other papers which
order have published the extract alluded to, in
that the misrepresentations may be corrected,
and the public mind not misled.
Fours truly,
R. A. BURTON, F. C.
NEW YORK, SEPT. 5.
LATE FRO.U EAGLAVD.
By the Josephine, and other vessels from
Liverpool, we have received a little later ad.
vices from England, to the 27th ult. not howev.
er of much consequence to the commercial, po
lilical, or fashionable world.
The Melbourne Cabinet is still in great diffi
culty. It is supposed that they must go out of
office soon and Peel go in,
A very serious division has taken place be
tween the radicals and O’Connell. He now sides
with the ministers, against the mouvemenl par
>y-
From France there is nothing new or interes
ting.
The cause of Queen Christiana in Spain ap
pears to fall into the “ sere and yellow leaf.”—
The English legion is about leaving Spain.
The Sultan has sent a force to Tripoli to re*
duce that dependency of the Forte,and collect the
old revenue.
Mrs. Norton has been received into the most
fashionable society of Paris, whither she went
to escape the frowns of her husband. Every
body in England believes her innocent.
The cotton market is as usual. It is feared
however, that the extensive cotton crops of India
and Egypt will affect the price of the American
staple injuriously.— Herald.
LATEST FROM EUROPE.
A vessel which arrived on Saturday, the ship
Montreal, from London, brought the London
Morning Herald of the 23d July, from which
we exti act the following items on the subject
of the civil war in Spain. We are apprehensive
that the horrors which were temporarily arres
ted by Lord Elliott’s convention will be revived,
and that the contest will again assume the char
acter of a war of extermination.
Letters are in town from Paris, stating that
twenty-four Portuguese officers who attempted
to pass through Galicia from Tras.os.Montes
for the purpose of joining the expedition of Go
mez, have been taken prisoners, and all shot by
the queen’s party. This news, though coming
from respectable authority, still merits such
confirmation as should induce us not to give it
implicit truth.
AM the accounts received in Madrid from
Valencia, Catalonia, and other quarters, were of
an alarming character for the queen’s govern,
ment. In short, never since the commence
ment of the civil war, had the cause of Don
Carlos borne so triumphant an aspect.
The Correspondent of the Journal du Havre
says,—lt is whispered that a vast conspiracy
has been discovered, that many hundred guilty
or suspected persons have been arrested, and
that lists ot names of a still greater number have
been seized, arms, it is said, have been found,
prisons have been opened at Doullens and other
places, that the military are deeply involved, and
that dark projects were on foot for the solemnity
of the 29th of July, which have been happily dis
covered. This much is certain, that the King,
M de Thiers and M de Talleyrand, have return,
ed to Paris ; that the review of the 29:h is coun
termanded, and that the alcove constructed
around the Triumphal arch have been removed.
Vague rumors arc in circulation ofa vast con-
the ramifications of which extend to Ly
ons, as well as to several regiments of the Line.
Nothing less is spoken of than a Society under
the title of Avengers Allibeaud.
“ The King who has always shown himself so
courageous and so politic, consented with diffi
culty to countermand the review of the 29ih It
required all the influence of M. de MontaUvet
his constant friend, to induce him to stop the
preparations for the fete and prejected review ”
The accounts from Spain continue more and
more unfavorable to the causes of the Queen.
QCP Bank Check Books.—
Just printed and for sate at this office, and at
the store of Mr. B. F. McDonald, Hamburg
Checks on the Bank of Hamburg. Also for
sale at this office,Checks on the Branch Bank of
Darien, and Georgia Rail R oa d aad Banking
Company. &
September §
AUGUSTA, GA.
Tuesday Alornl t iy, ißcp lember isTsStG.
f itizen is received, and would liave ap
peared, but for a prerequisite : the name of the au
thor.
e should like to have an interview with
“Many Voters,” on the ticket sent us.
Some additional remarks of our correspond
ent on the Railroad Communications of Augusta
with the interior, were too late for this day’s paper.
TluyKvill appear in our next. a
Abolitionists and tltc Xulllficrs. ,
It is to be lamented that party opposition, and the
inordinate ambition of the leaders, should have led
the nullifiers, in Congress and elsewhere, to adopt a
course which has encouraged the abolitionists in the
prosecution of their plans for the subversion of the
public institutions of the country. When the aboli
tionists perceived that the nullifiers of the South, out
of hatred to the present federal administration, were
willing to sacrifice the peace and safely of the country,
if they could at the same lime crush the dominant
pirty in the United States, they entertained the hope
that their cause was not lost, and that, with renewed
exertions, they would be able to put in execution all
their nefarious plans. The late decision of the Su
preme Court of Massachusetts, may be traced to the
opposition in Congress, by the abolitionists and nulli
fiers united, to the measures recommended by the
President, and which his friends were desirous to
adopt, in order to suppress oil attempts to disturb the
peace and safely of the Southern Slates. The oppo
sition of the nullifiers to those measures have embold
ened the abolitionists; they have begun again to in
undate the country with their incendiary publications,
and tncy will continue their machinations, until the
federal and state governments, by severe penalties,
arrest the dangerous dissemination of those wild and ,
inflammatory appeals to the passions ofa certain class*
of onr community.
The abolitionists now attack the President of the
United Stales, Mr. Van Buren, and Mr. Pinckney’s
Resolutions. They call upon them the vengeance of
Heaven and the hatred of the American people, for
their opposition to abolition and the plans of the abo
litionists. They abuse the friends of Mr. Van Buren
in the State of New York and elsewhere, no less than
they abuse the friends of the President and Mr. Van
Buren in the South. Can such abuse and mad ra
vings be responded to by the nullifiers? Can the
latter continue to encourage the abolitionists in their
diabolical attacks, by continuing to oppose the Presi
dent and Vice President, for the measures they re
commended in regard to the abolitionists? Will th»y
continue to condemn the resolutions of .Mr. Pinckney?
Webelievenot. The nullifiers should be,as union ram,
are, deeply interested in the peace and safely of the
slaveholding States; it is to be hoped, therefore, that
they will cease an opposition which may endanger their
constitutional rights, and the union of these Slates.
The first number ofa publication, with the title of
“The Anti Slavery Examiner,” was received a few
days ago in this city, by several persons- It is print
ed in New York, dated August, 1830, and “published
by the American Anti-Slavery Society.” This first
n umber contains an address to the People of the Uni
ted Stales, by the Executive Committee of the Socie
ty, and signed by Arthur Tappan, S. S. Jocelyn,
Lewis Tappan, and others. To show the feelings of
the abolitionists towards the President, Mr. Van Bu
ren, and Mr. Pinckney’s Reso'utions, we make the
following extracts. The address begins by assuming
the position that a compact has been entered ipto, “by
which the South engages on certain conditions, to
give its trade and votes to northern men.” The ad
dress then proceeds: “All rights not allowed by this
compact, we now hold by sufferance, and our Go
vernors and Legislatures show their readiness to de
prive us of them, wlienever in their opinion, legisla
tion on the subject shall be ‘necessary.’” This
alludes to the messages of the Governors of New
York end Connecticut, against the abolitionists, to the
resolutions of the New York legislature, and the bill
introduced into the legislature of Rhode Island. The
address proceeds : “Hundreds of free citizens, peace
ably assembled to express their sentiments, have,
because such an expression was forbidden by the
compact, been forcibly dispersed, and the chief actor
in this invasion on the freedom of speech, instead of
being punished for a breach of the peace, was re
warded for his fidelity to the compact with an office
of high trust and honor.” This refers to Mr. Samuel
Beardsley, a warm and intimate friend of Mr. Van
Buren, member of the last Congress, and lately ap
pointed Attorney General of the State of New York.
I he abolitionists accuse him of being the leader of
the Utica riot against them.
The address then goes on to speak thus of the Pre
sident and Mr. Van Buren, the northern candidate
for the Presidency.
“1 he Executive Magistrate of the American Union,
unmindful of his obligation to execute the laws for
the equal benefilof his fellow citizens, has sanctioned
a censorship of the press, by which papers incompa
tible with the compact, are excluded from the South
ern mails, and he has officially advised Congress to
do by law, although in violation of the Constitution,
what he had himself virtually done already in despite
of both. The invitation has indeed been rejected,
but by the Senate of the United States only, after a
portentous struggle; a struggle which distinctly ex
hibited the political condition of the compact, as well
as the fidelity with which those conditions are ohserv
edby a northern candidate for the Presidency.”
Now for the resolution of Mr. Pinckney. Upon this
subject the address proceeds thus : “While incom
pliance with those considerations, a powerful minor
ity in the Senate were forging fetters for the press,
the House of Representatives were employed in
breaking down the right of petition. On tlie 3Glh
of May last, the following resolution, reported by a
committee, was adopted by the House, viz:
“Resolved, that all petitions, memorials, resolu
tions, and propositions, relating in any way, or to any
extent whatever, to the subject of slavery, shall,
without being either printed or referred, be laid on
table, and that no further action whatever shall be
had thereon.”
Then the address lays much stress on the right of
petition being invaded by this resolution, which is
qualified as a ‘‘detestable resolution;” as “no less
barbarous than it is profligate and impudent;” and
“ns being most flagitious by the arbitrary means by
which its adoption was secured ” &c.
The address concludes by recommending the peo
ple to give their suffrages hereafter only to such men
as they have reason to believe, will not sacrifice
their rights and their own obligations, to “an iniqui
tous and mercenary compact.”
Have vve not every reason to support Mr. Van
Buren for the Presidency? Can vve, in the south,
vote for any other candidate, than the one who is de
nounced in such terms by the abolitionists ? In the
present crisis of our political affairs, and especially
in regard to the slavery question, every considera
tion should prompt us to assist in the election ofa
northern candidate, who is with us, heart and soul,
on that question, and who will exert all his talents
and all his influence, in maintaining in all their
purity the public institutions of the country. We
have need of such men to counteract the dangerous
machinations of the abolitionists, and the disastrous
effects which such a decision as that lately made in
Massachusetts, might produce. Martin Van Buren
should be the choice of the south.
Let us bear in mind that the whole force of the
abolitionists is now directed against Gen. Jackson
and Mr. Van Buren and their friends in she United
States. Let us bear in mind that the peace and
safety of the slaveholding stales, cannot be preserved
but by a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the
constitution which unites the states together, and the
election of officers to execute that constitution, and
the laws emanating from it, who are well known to
take that instrument as the guide of their official
conduct. We can have no better evidence that Mr.
Van Buren is with the south, in regard to abolition,
than the declaration of the abolitionists themselves,
that he is against them, and supports the constitu
tional rights of the slaveholding states. Why do
they not abuse in a similar manner, Mr, White, Get),
Harrison, or Mr. Webster? Why do they not
abuse the whigs and nullfiers, as they do the friends
of the administration ? The abolitionists know thnt
they have nothing to expect from Mr. Van Buren,
should he be elected President, but a faithful execu
tion of the law of the land, and the suppression of all
attempts to disturb the peace of the country, or to
invade the sacred rights of individuals. Do they ex
pect some concessions, should another citizen be
elected ? It would seem so. since Mr. Van Buren,
of all the candidates, is the object of their abuse anil
vituperations. Therefore, Mr. Van Buren shood bo
the candidate of the whole South:'-tie ought to rc-
ceivo tha unanimous support of tha slave holdingy
•, States. /
Presidential Election. /
TTlnsprediction will be completely verified* tliat
the opposition to the present administration would
take up an}*candidate for the Presidency, but Mr.
Van Buren. No matter what are his politics, ha is
to bo preferred to the “Magician.” It is of no con
sequence to the nullifiers, whether he is an aboli
tionist, a tariff man, or a bank man : Any body but
Van Buren. A writer in the Savannah Republican
ofilh instant, calls on the Nullification party of
Georgia to lake up Harrison, and to abandon White,
the first being the stronger with the whigs. What
does this writer say and recommend? That the
stale tights electors should be instructed “to vote
against Van Buren and for Ids strongest opponent,
be he W hite or Harrison.” “Let us hoist the Har
rison banner high in Georgia, and proclaim to the
whigs of the North and the South, the East and the
West, that there is a point around which they may
rally and unite their strength.” This is very explicit
—the writer recommends Lite choice of Harrison by
Georgia, a well known tariff and bank man, and an
advocate of the abolition question. Why did not this
writer recommend at once Arthur Tappan to the.
. consideration of Georgia for the Presidency? X "V
i ft 'fi'
I / * Cholera in Charleston.
We are happy to see that by the following re
ports of the Board of Health, that this dreadful
disease appears on the wane in Charleston.
OFFICE BOARD OF HEALTH. 1
Sept. 8,1 o’clock, P. M. \
The Special Committee of the Board have to
report for the last twenty-four hours, twenty-two
cases of Cholera—five whites, seventeen blacks
—three dead—the others under treatment. Os
the cases reported yesterday, three more ftavo
died. By order.
THOS. Y. SIMONS, M. D.
Chairman Special Committee.
September 9,1 o’clock, P. M.
The Special Committee of the Board have to
report for the last twenty.four hours, ten cases
of Cholera ; 3 whites and 7 blacks, 2 dead. Os
the cases reported yesterday three more havo
died. By order.
Extract of a letter received in Charleston, dated,
“STATESBURG, Sept. 4.
“We flatter ourselves on making a very sating
crop, notwithstanding the very unfavorable spring
and season for crops, but 1 am now afraid we shall
fail, notwithstanding osr late flattering prospects. —
The Cotton is now attacked with a bug, that is ma
king great ravages with the small bolls and blossoms.
Some speak of their being very destructive in their
crops. They are similar to the work which was so
destructive in Alabama ten years ago. 1 have soffecv
ed little or none as yet,”
COM ME ltd A L.
From the information recently received, it would
seem that the deficiency of the wheal crops in tlio
United States, will produce a corresponding advance'
in the price of Flour. The Philadelphia Commercial
List, of Sept. 3, states, that *‘il is now well ascertain
ed that the wheal crops throughout the union will bo
short from one-fourth to three-eighths of on average
crop. To make up fur this defici mey recourse must
be had to foreign importations. The corn crops ge
nerally promise Well.” In Philadelphia the best
quality Flour bad advanced to §9,30. In Baltimore,
Sept. 3, it was at §lO, while in Alexandria it was
only 58,121. In New York ©8,50 to $9. In Boston,
August 31, $8,75 to $9. In New Orleans, S- pt. 3,
S 3 to 8,50.
At New York and Philadelphia, business in Do
mestic Goods, continued good, and the stocks were
diminishing.
Exchanges at New York were, 71 per cent on Eng
land, and f 5,271 on France; at Philade’phia, 71 to 7t
per cent on England, and f. 5,30 and 5,271 Fonronce.
O’ From the Boston Allas of August 31,
we copy the following article, as well as the
advertisement appended to it. We are well
pleased with the prospect of a speedy comple
tion of the great work contemplated; but wc
would have been still more pleased, i&the work
could have been undertaken and complete with
our own means. It must be mortifying t® the
pride of Georgia, that a state of such vast re
sources should be compelled to apply to her
sister states for assistance in works of internal
improvement.
INTERNAL IM PROVEM EN f.
If this is not the ‘‘age of Wonders “it is aS
least the era of enterprise and improve mem.
The New York Canal, connecting the Hwisow
with the great western Lakes, has only been com
pleted ten years or a little more, when the groV'
ing resources of that productive region render*
necessary as enlargement of tho water commu
nication sufficient for Steamboats, and Railroads
are already being executed along the greater part
of the line. That work which was considered
extravagant and visionary when projected by
Clinton, is found insufficient lor the country, be.
fore its gratitude has erected to his memory a
suitable monument, as a memorial of his genius
public services.
We see now an Ohio Canal, from that noble
river to Lake Erie, and communications propo
sed from Lake Michigan to the majestic Missis,
sippi. We have now before us repotts of con
ventions of States fora Railroad from tho Ohio
to the Atlantic, commencing at Cincinnati, and
ending at Charleston. Surveys are being made
of a Railroad from Nashville to New Orleans.
There seems to be no project too stupendous in
its character, or magnificent in extent, for tho
genius, resources and enterprise of the countrj’.
The history of no country in the world will fur.
nish such an example of improvement and pros
perity.
We have recently been made acquainted with
a work, for which without noise, puffing, or
flourish of Irumphets, the capital has been sub.
scribed in Boston, and which will assuredly and
certainly be executed, that for magnitude of ob
ject and public utility, is not surpassed, perhaps
not equalled, by any one of the great improve
ments before mentioned. The work to which
we allude, is the construction of a Railroad from
Brunswick harbor, on the coast of Georgia, to
the Apalachicola River or Bay, in Florida.—
Brunswick is ascertained by a recent survey of
Col. Baldwin, (who is admitted to be one of tho
first Engineers in the United States) to be tho
best harbor on our Southern Atlantic sea coast,
and is perhaps the healthiest place in the South
ern States. This important bay and harbor has
been neglected heretofore, but having fallen into
better hands, has been found to justify tho Re
port of the British Colonial Government sixty
years ago, recommending it as a Dock Yard and
Naval Depot for the South Atlantic Colonies.— t
A Canal is to be constructed to divert the trade
of the Altamaha into this harbor, which opens
into a large inland sound, navigable for Steam
boats to Charleston and Savannah on the north
and to St. Johns in Florida, on the south. A Na
val Commission is now on its way, under the au
thority of Congress, to determine upon a site for
a South Atlantic Navy Yard, which, looking to
the facts disclosed m Col. Baldwin’s Report, must
be at Brunswick. The object of this company,
composed of our most respectable and responsi
ble capitalists, is to open this canal, and make a
Railroad to the Apalachicola river in Florida,
about 200 miles. This Railroad must take near.'
ly the whole travel from the Northern and Eas
tern States, as well as of the South Atlantic, to
New Orleans. It will produce a revolution in
the trade and intercommunication of our country
—will bring opposite extremes together, aad it*.