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Mr. Howards Resolutions. Ho use of Representatives of the General Is semhlyof the State of Gem gin. Aor. 14, 1838. Whereas the question of dispensing with banks ns the agents of the Government in the collection and disbursement of the Public Reven ue, and the accompanying question ol the Cur rency most proper to be employed in the fiscal operations of the Government, are both of agi tating and exciting character, ns well as of great importance in their consequences, it becomes the right (and under the circumstances of excite ment) the duty of the General Assembly to ex press freely their opinions in relation to both branches of this important subject. The Inde pendent Treasury, or Sub-Treasury system, com monly so called, involves two questions, each of great importance, but wholly independent. '1 he second seeks to determine and establish the kind and character of the currency most safe and con venient for the Government and least oppressive to the people. In regard to the first, wo, the re presentatives of the people of Georgia, influenced by a sc'lled conviction of the unconslitulionalily of n United States Bank, and of its inexpediency also, should deem it extremely impolitic to enter tain any longer the idea of such an insitution ever becoming the fiscal agent of the Government. We are equally opposed to the introduction of the local Banks as agents or depositories of the pub lic funds, as well to avoid the influence of that ex traordinary patronage, resulting to the appointing power from such connection, whether that power be suffered to rest with the Executive or taken into the hands of Congress, as to prevent the unavoidable tendency of such u system from swelling the revenue to an unnecessary and dan gerous extent, producing fluctuations in trade and prices, not only by the increase of the reve nue, but from the changes frequently made of those corporations as depositories and agents of the public money. Properly rejecting both of these agents for various other good reasons not to be set forth, it necessarily results that the Gov ernment must conduct her fiscal transactions through the agency of her officers appointed for that especial purpose. In regard to the currency most proper to be employed ; while wc are fully sensible that gold and silver must forever remain the basis and regulator of the value of property, and that wc would not favor any system which would endanger the reasonable certainty that the paper based thereon, should not at all times be immediately convertablc, or in other words, re duced to gold and silver at the will of the hold er; yet do wc not see the necessity of conduct ing the operations of the Government exclusively in the precious metals; as it appears that the trouble of conveying the specie from Bank to Custom House and from the Custom House to to the Bank, would he productive of some incon venience, and if that inconvenience can he reme died hy devising a system of combining all the facilities which paper ail'ords as a medium, with all the certainty of value which the circulation of the precious metals secure, it would seem that wc would attain as near perfection in our circu lation as the nature of the thing is susceptible of. There arc but few systems which can lay claim to perfection, and as imperfect as the Sub-Trea sury system may be, yet under proper guards, with its details perfected, we believe it the best system which has yet been devised for the gene ral good. In devising and discussing the plans best calculated to secure safety to the revenue and convenience to the Government and its peo ple ; it should not he overlooked that in this widely extended confederacy a circulation is de manded and very much needed that w ill maintain equal value throughout the Union. The biils>of a Bunk of the United Stales would satisfy fully all expectations of convenience from such cur rency, but as it is the opinion id' this Legislature that even hud < Congress the power to charter such an institution, the (inexpediency of the measure should forbid its 'incorporation ; they propose a system which, while it lias none of the character tnUeu ot’ i» Jiurik. vvonM • ..« ••onvoniuit* u.«vd sale medium of remittance, without any violation of the powers of the government or rights of the peo ple. The government is compelled to raise sulli cicnl revenue to bear the current expenses of year, upon this fend ito'dhjeidJon ‘to thcTgov eminent s issuing Treasury notes limited bylaw to the amount in the Treasury, redeemable on demand, at as many points of redumption as the commerce of the country may require. The quantity payable or redeemable at each point to bo graduated by the amount of revenue received at those points. These Treasury notes issued upon kinds actually in the Treasury, would form a safe and wholesome medium of circulation and remittance, us the means of payment would at all times bo at hand. Therefore, 1. Resolved, That the revenue should be com mensurate with the wants only of the government. 2. Ruolved, That the establishment of a Na tional Bank in any form is unconstitutional. 3. Resolved, That had Congress the power to charter a Bank of the United States, the exercise of such power would be highly inexpedient, im politic and dangerous, ns its great capital and con sequent credit could not fail to give it a control ling influence over all other monied institutions, by which it w mid control the commerce us well as the politics of the country, thereby destroying both the freedom of trade and freedom of opinion, 4. Renal ed. That the lessons of experience has taught us the utter inexpediency of permitting the public funds to be controlled by the local institu tions ; that the system of depositing in them either upon gotV'ral or special deposite, is in ellbct the same, and contrary to sound policy, us well on account of the partiality and favonteism in grant ing the use of the government money to these corporations, as from the political influence which suchdepositos nccosmrily have over all connect!d with them, and to prevent a recurrence of these c fleets and other great evils it is indispens.blc that an cn re disconnection or load divorce of the Gove, inn nt from all Banks should be the estab lish si and permanent policy of the American people. 5. Resolved, That the principles of the inde pendent Treasury or Sub-Treasury system, is in strict conformity with the requisitions of the Con stitution and the practice of the government for many Vcars. li. R solved. That the government can collect, keep, and disburse its revenue in no way so per fectly free from partiality, fuvoritcisai. or oppres sion, as through the agency of its own officers ap pointed for the purpose. 7. R solvedfarther. For the convenience of the good people of the United States, that n is proper fertile government to issue treasury notes or clicks limited by law to the extent of the revenue on hand, redeemable on demand at all the conve nient points of the Union in proportion to the revenues received at such places. 8. Resolved Insth/, That n is the opinion of this Legislature that the bills of the specie paying Banks at par where the revenue is collected, should be receivable in the nuhlie treasury, the Banks issuing the same to be subject to such settlement as mix be ordered by the law that organizes the i ndependent Treasury system. 3Jr. Alexander’s Resolutions. hereas, the people of Georgia are deeply in terested in the subject of the monetary concerns ol the National Government, and more especially in the mode of collecting, keeping, and disbursing the public revenues of that government; it be comes the representatives of the people to gixe ■urban cxpreis.on of opinion on the subject, as may be best calculated to promote the interests of those whom they represent. And whereas, the government of the United States, is one of limited and enumerated powers, -. I,n ° tap P nv ' r t 0 incorporate a national bank, is not one of those which are enumerated in the constitution; and ai>art from the constitutional incompetently of Congress to charter such an in- p slitution, experience has demonstrated that it is not of paramount importance or necessity, m supplying the fiscal wants of the government, a and that in its tendencies and influence, it is c dangerous to the rights of the States and the lib- „ cities of the people. . And whpreas, the system of making the Slate, hanks depositories of the public revenue, Has sig- t unity failed, and in its failure has produced incal- j, culablc mischief, both to the government and the people, ami cannot be again resorted to, without disregarding the most impressive admonitions of experience, and placing in jeopardy the most im portant interests of the country. i. And whereas, the only constitutional and safe f| mode of conducting the fiscal operations of the government, is to dispense with the intermediate agencies of banks, and to diminish tbc control t which the executive head exercises over the pub- t lie treasury. t And whereas, the government does not possess the power of converting its exchequer into a " bank, or of exercising any of the junctions per- 1 taining alone to banking; < He il revolver! by I he. Senate anil House of Rep resenlcUives of the Stale of Georgia,in General Assembly met, and it Is hereby resulted by /he au thority nf Ike same, That a bank of the United ■States is unconstitutional, inexpedient, subversive of the rights of the States, and dangerous to the t interests of the South, and that our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives be requested to oppose, by all proper means, the 1 incorporation of such an institution. s JSe it further resolved by the authority afore- u sail, That the system of making the State banks general depositories of the public revenue,adopted 1 by the lust, and abandoned by the present admin- I islration of the general government, tends to in- ,| crease executive patronage, anil is calculated, by stimulating an injudicious expansion of bank is sues, and thereby filling the channels ol circula- 0 lion with an unsound currency, to bring hank- r rupley and commercial ruin upon the country. lie il farther resolved, That a plan of collect ing, keeping, and disbursing the public revenue, . which has for its object the gradual, but entire and ultimate disuse of Banks ns fiscal agents of l J the Government, is a measure calculated to diniin- \ ish the monied influence of the Federal Govern ment, and promote the commercial interest of fho South. He it further resolved. That the General Gov ernment has no constitutional power to create a J paper currency, based merely upon the credit ol I 1 the Government ; and that the policy adopted by a Congress, and sanctioned by the present udminiu (ration, of issuing Treasury notes, based on no actual deposites, losupply a deficit in the revenues, l u is unconstitutional, inexpedient, repugnant to the il spirit of our government, and dangerous to the | t liberties of the people. He iffart her resolved, That the executive pow ers of the Government should he so re-adjusted and portioned ns to separate the purse from the " sword, or the money from the military power ol the Government, by making the Secretary of the Treasury dependent for his appointment and re- j, tiiovul upon the Senate, instead of the President 1 of the United States. 1 Hr it further resolved •S l r., That a copy of the foregoing preamble and resolutions be forwarded by the Governor of ibis State to each of our Sena tors and Representatives in Congress. ‘ I CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. i A II G II S T A. ! TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 27. ‘ y ( We publish in to-day’s paper two sets of roso- i lotions introduced into the Legislature of Geor gia, one Ity Cut, John It. Howard, a represeutu- . tive from Muscogee countv, mid the other bv ~ . , . i „ . r - ...ci iwether Mr. Alexander, the Sep"' * .icue resolutions would have been 1 published earlier, hut for the absence of the Edito l ' j from the city during the past week, as it was | deemed probable that he would desire to accom- i pauy them with some remarks. Col. Howard, and Mr. Alexander, arc both prominent members ( of the Stale Rights party. I The resolutions of Col. Howard, maintain sub- ' stantially the following positions: Ist. That there ought to be a total disconnec. tion of Government from all banks. 2d. That a National Bank in every shape is ' unconstitutional, inexpedient and dangerous. Bd. That Treasury notes should be issued as ■ the permanent policy of the country, and for the purposeful' collecting and disbursing the public revenues, and to create a National currency. 4th. That the notes of specie paying banks ought to be received in payment for Government dues—thus eschewing the specie feature of the Sub-Treasury. , The resolutions of Mr. Alexander, maintain iu almost the same language, the two first positions ol'Col. Howard's. They say nothing in relation to the description of currency in which the revenues of the Government should be collected. They' condemn the issue of Treasury notes us ‘‘un constitutional, inexpedient mid repugnant to the spirit of our Government. They also recom mend that the power to appoint and remove the Secretary of the Treasury, should be taken from lie President and vested in the Senate. Having thus briefly stated the main positions cf tlic.e resolutions, we shall to-morrow, com ment upon them at length. V Mississippi 11. S. Senator. It appears from the Mississippi papers, that Thomas H. W illiams, has been appointed by 1 Governor McNut, Senator in Congress, to fill the 1 vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Jiimo&j' F. political principles of Mr. M il- | 1 Hams are not t iled, hut as the Governor is known ■ to he Loco Foeo, the probability is that the po- i ; lilies of the new Senator are of the : ame cast. j There are no tidings of the Liverpool steamer. ! The report we published yesterday appears he in correct. The steamer seen off Xu Bucket was the j Great Western. The number of deaths in New-Vork, during i the week ending on the 17th were 129, Os I the number there were 5G children under five years 1 of nge. It was rumored iu New-Vork on the 21st, that Mr. Henry Ogden, Cashier of the Custom House, had been, or was to be removed, in con- I sequence of hi* connexion with tiic affairs of the late collector, Mr. Swartwout. Mr. Ogden had i held the office of Cashier ever since Mr. Swart- i wont was appointed, and must have had a better j knowledge of the condition of the money mat- j ters than am oilier person. I ‘ 1 Com in the We«l. The Nashville Whig of the 14th hmt. states lliat the superabundance of the late Corn crop in Missouri and Illinois, has just been illustrated by a Government contractor who purchased in the counties of Saline, Lafayette, and Clay (Mo.) 30,000 bushels to be delivered on the bank of the Missouri at 15 cents per bushel. 1' urthcr down the river the same contractor was offered 7,000 bushels at cents. Squatters* The Cleveland Herald says that the squatters in Washington, go on the principle that might makes right. They arc combining their exertions to put down interlopers at the land sales where their claims will be offered, and the Milwaukie Sentinel recommends a general organization ol the settlers throughout the several counties. A general meeting of squatters was to have been held at Milwaukie on the 10th of November, for purpose of devising ways and means ol securing their rights at the sales this l ull. Army and Navy Intelligence. The Washington Globe of yesterday says:— A rumor is in circulation, and has been copied in many of tin; public papers, that Commodore Kidgciy is to have command of the Wcst India squadron, Commodore Chaunceyto take his place at the Navy Yard, Brooklyn, Commodore Bar ron to succeed him as Picsidcnt ol the Navy Board, Commodore Morris to retire, and Commo dore Elliott to occupy his scat at the board. We arc authorised to sta'c that this rumor is with out the least foundation, and that no such ar rangements are, or have been contemplated. Wc observe that Col. Conpcr, aid-de-camp to the Earl of Durham, and Captain Marryat, went passengers in the packet ship President from New York, for London. , Canada War. -U' the British version of the finale of the Prescott lt seems that the Patriots surrendered and were taken prisoners, md were not butchered as was supposed by those who witnessed the battle from the American side jf the river. jThe statement of Col. Dundnsthat the loyalists lost but one man, is hardly credita ble. Prescott, Nov, 10, 1838. Sir.—l have the honor to acquaint you, for the information of his Excellency the,Commander of the Forces, that I came down here yesterday from Kingston, with 4 companies of the 83d Regiment, two 18 pounders and a howitzer, and made up from the town to a position about 400 yards from the windmills, and adjoining houses occupied by the brigands. They did not move or roino out of the houses to oppose my advance. The ISjwunders opened with good effect upon the stone building near the mill. Cupt. Sundon with two gun boats, in which he carried two 18 pounders, took up a position below the windmill, which he commanded, but not with much effect. After cannonading these buildings for an hour or rather more, and observ ing the brigands to be quitting them and endeav oring to escape, I ordered the troops to advance; very little resistance was ollercd by the party oc cupying the windmill, but a small lire was opposed to us from the adjoiniim stone I mild bur- . It being dark l.cfor the troops got mound these liullillngs, amt Hie nriganils m ll “' W, »' J null hav ing displayed o tl>'7 were summoned . ,„..{-n>ier themselves unconditionally, which they did. Eighty six prisoners were immediate ly secured, and 10 others, who were wounded, were removed from the mill us soon as conven ience could he found —a large supply of arms, 20 kegs of powder and three pieces of ordnance fell into our hands. Some of the brigands effected their escape from the buildings when darkness came on, and hid themselves in the brush wood on the bank under the mill. I directed the militia to scout this hank, and several prisoners were secured, among others a Pole calling himself Gen. Van Sault, who, it is understood, was the principal leader. All buildings adjoining the mill we destroyed, but the latter 1 directed to be occupied by a company of Militia, and propose that it should continue to be so, or entirely demolished. I am happy to say the service was performed with the loss of one man only of the 83d Keg't. I have the honour to remain, sir, Y our most obedient servant, 11. UUNDAS, Lieut. Col. S3d Keg’t. Commandant. Capt. Goldie, A. D. C., Montreal. The Court Martial, for the purpose of trying the rebels and brigands, commence its sittings this day. It consists of seven field officers, and seven captains, all of the line, with Major General Cli thcrow us President. Captain Muller, of the Royal Regiment has been appointed Judge Advo cate, with Mr. Solicitor General Stuart as his legal adviser. It is not expected that any thing will be done to-day, except formally constituting the Court, but the real business will probably com mence to-morrow. One of the New York papers mentions that he British Consul has formally demanded of Mr. Hoyt, the collector, the dismissal from office of three or lour officers, who have been engaged in the lute Canada movements. The Star states tliauhe officers referred to have not been removed, but that the Collector has written a very proper letter to them indicating that such interference was incompatible with their public duties, and they must resign if they are determined to proceed in affording counte nance to the attacks on the British authorities of Canada.— Bull. Amer. Loss OF THE Stf.vviku CitiEtcoTHK. This* tjue boat struck a snag on the 12th instant, about miles above New Madrid,stove a hole in her bottom, ami was run on a sand bar, where she sunk in eight toot water. She was bound to this port, with a cargo offlour. bagging, bale rope. Ac. ; the principal part ofwiiich will be saved in a dam aged stale, together with her engine and furniture. —A. U. Bulletin. Lxctirn.uiixn.'— Phe steamer Richmond arri '*' •" ,lu ' Levee I ist evening, with a cargo offlour, direct from Cincinnati. She left Louisville on j l u'jji th hist, and reports a slight rise from the falls I to the mouth, “bringing out” two and a half feet | water.— lb. i oo coon to be lost. —During the choice of i representatives in Roxbury on Wednesday, the lamp-lighter ol the town was observed to be ac ■ lively engaged in aiding the election of A. H. Ev i crett. As he was known to be a staunch Whig, his proceedings occasioned no little sin prise.— But on his friends enquiring the cause of this ex traordinary conduct, he explained it in a very sat isfactory manner. “Gentlemen,” said he, “I know what lam about. For this Everett is so anxious for an office, that nothing is too low for him, and if I don’t succeed in getting him in as ! representative, he will next be trying to get uiv office of town lump-lighter away from me ,■ and ! so 1 am helping him now all 1 can in self-defence.” —Boston Allas. Communicated. ' Certain visionary schemers are engaged in at tempting by alternate cringing and frowning to in. duccthc Banks of this city to lend their aid to the managers of the Geo K. R. and Banking Compa ny at Athens hy the purchase of a million ot dollars of their new stock. Is it possible that the Banks of this city will second their movements, or listen with patience to these quack logic venders they promise rich harvests in an increased prosperity to Augusta—are the holders of real estate in this city so intimately united in interest with the ov. n_ ers of Bank stuck ! It is in some sort true that the prosperity of the Banks is dependent upon that of our citizens —but certainly not exclusively to the holders of real estate, are the Banks indebt ed for their success. If the price of real estate is en hanced by extending the Rail Road still further in to the interior will it not be accompanied by an hr crease of Rents and taxes—not upon that class whose pecuniary condition as the monopolisers o' Real Estate exempts them from the toils of com merce, but upon the enterprising merchant whose interests arc not in the soil, but in the monied in stitutions of the State where he lias invested the well earned reward of his industry. Let me not be understood as refusing to give a helping hand to this laudable project, in which the whole country is so much interested, but let the reins which have been dropt by the palsied hand of age be intrusted to a younger and and abler one. Let the silver cup and rattle suf fice until another humbug can be “concocted.” My word upon it, when the Planters of the State of Georgia, in whom is vested, the wealth of the State arc well assured that the Rail Road project is no longer under the direction of grown -up children, but of men of capacity, the time will not be 1 mg dist mt when you will find this high-mind ed population pouring in their treasure and la bour to advance the object of a communi cation between the Ohio, and the Atlantic—they know well enough, that it is not the Merchant, but the Planter, who is benefited by an increase in the facilities of transportation, of the commo dities of trade. If the project is conducted with ability—if the bantling is not nursed to death by old women’ it must succeed, and the Georgia planter will have the satisfaction of beholding at his own door— the productions of Europe and the “far West,’’ then in Augusta will spring up great wholesale commercial establishments, at which the interior dealer can obtain the manufactures of Europe, and supply flic wants of the Planter. Then we shall require the use of all our bank capital and much more than is now established in Augusta, and when the business of the local merchant re quires money from the batiks, he will not be told that for the sake of “ patriotism ” wo have locked up all our funds in Rail Road Bank stork. GEORGIA. The Washington Globe of the 22J, contains the Proclamation from the President, which has been called forth by this recent renewal of hos tliiiwo -of Canada. Bij the President of the United Slates of America. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, there is too much reason to believe that citizens of the United States, in disregard of the solemn warning hereto lore given to them by the proclamations issued by the Executive of the General Government, and by some of the Govern ors of the States, have combined to disturb the peace of the dominions of a neighboring and friend ly nation: And whereas information has been given to me, derived from official and other sour ces, that ninny citizens in different parts of the United Stales arc associated, or associating, for the same purpose: And whereas, disturbances have actually broken out anew in different parts of the two Canadas: And whereas, a hostile in vasion has been made by citizens of the United Stales, in conjunction which Canadians and oth ers, who, after forcibly seizing upon the property of their peaceful neighbor for the purpose of effeet ingtlicir unlawful designs, arc now in arms against the authorities of Canada, in perfect disregard of their own obligations as American citizens, and of the obligations of the Government of their country to foreign nations: Now, therefore, I have thought it necessary and proper to issue this proclamation, calling up- I on every citizen of the United Stales neither to J give countenance nor encouragement of any kind j to those who have thus forfeited their claim to the ; protection of theft country; upon those rnisgui- ( ded or deluded persons who arc engaged in them to abandon projects dangerous to their own coun try, fatal to those whom they profess a desire to relieve, impracticable of execution without foreign aid, which they cannot rationally expect to ob tain. and giving rise to imputations (however unfounded) upon the honor and good faith of their own Government; upon every officer, civil and military, and upon every citizen— by the veneration’due by all freemen to the laws which they have assisted to enact for their own government—by his regard for the honor and reputation of his country —by his love of order and respect for that sacred code of laws by 1 which national intercourse is regulated—to use every effort in his power to arrest for’ trial and ; I punishment every offender against the laws pro- | vidingfor the performance of our obligations to the other powers of the world. And I hereby warn all those who have engaged in these crim inal enterprises, if persisted in. that, whatever may he the condition to which they may be rc i duecd, they must not expect the interference of this Government, in any form, on their behalf; : but will be left, reproached by every virtuous fcl j low-citizen, to be dealt with according to the policy and justice of that Government whose dominions they have, in defiance of the known wishes and i efforts of their own Government, and without the i shadow of justiliaation or excuse, nefariously in i vaded. i Given under my hand, at the city of Washington, the twenty-first day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and the sixty-third of the Inde pendence of the United States. M. VAN BUREN. j By the President: 1 John Fousvth, Secretary of State. : Immense .Meeting of the Citizens of New York in Fnvor'of Canadian Freedom. Agreeably to public notice, an immense meet ing was held on Wednesday evening last, at Vauxhall Garden ; the very spacious saloons, | long previous to the hour named, were found in ’ adequate to accommodate the vast assemblage. At 7 o’clock precisely the committee of ar | rangements ascended the stage prepared for that ! purpose when Colonel Ming called the meeting to order by proposing for President, Dr. William •lames Macne van. On the chairman assuming his scat, the whole | assembly immediately became uncovered—a mark of respect and order seldom paid or observed at i meetings in this country. The venerable President then nominated lire following gentlemen, as VICE PIIESIBEXTS. L. Bonncfoux, Alex. Ming, jr. Robert Townsend, Thomas Ewbank, Joseph Hopkins, Thomas O’Connor, Edmund J. Porter, William Denman, John Morrison, Daniel Gorham, James 1,. Stratton, John M’Keon, Robert Beatty, Henry Arcularius, jr. Thus. P. Walworth, Alexander G. Coxe, Michael Dougherty, John A. Morrill, Thomas 8. Brady. SECitKf AIUES. Rees U Jones, Richard French, JohnHecker. Henry E. Riell, Pascal B. Smith, Thomas Dyer. Col. Alexander Ming, jr., from a committee ap pmuted to draft suitable resolutions, then read in an impressive manner, interrupted only by the burst of approbatory applause, the following I’UEAJIBU! AND RESOLUTIONS. Whereas, lire Queen of Great Britain has, by the abolition of all representative government in the province of Lower Canada, and by the erec tion of a military despotism in its stead, and by other unconstitutional and unwarrantable aggres sions on popular rights, lost the affections and confidence of tire inhabitants of that country ; And whereas, the Canadian people, goaded by a sense of their unredressed wrongs, and by the hopelessness of all relief from their oppressois, appealed to the God of Battles for that justice hitherto denied them, and in support 01 the sincer ity of that appeal, have declared their country a Free and Sovereign Republic ; And whereas, in making that declaration they have promulgated principles and rights in harmo ny with those on which our own free government is based, and have pledged in support and defence of the same, their lives, their fortunes, and their sa cred honor— Be it therefore resolved, That freely acknowledging the inherent rights of all men to change the form of their political in stitutions according as their condition demands, and foreseeing with just anxiety that a people so dead to all principles of liberty as to submit to ha slaves, may be used as tools to impose slavery on others, this meeting deeply sympathises with the pooplc of Lower Canada in the resistance which they are forced to oppose to tyranny, and hails with pleasure the birth of another Free and Inde pendent Nation on this Continent, already honor ed and renowned as‘‘the Mother of Republics.” That whilst disclaiming all intention of inter fering with the domestic arrangements of other nations, or of infringing the laws passed by our government to preserve neutrality, we consider it our solemn duly as Americans to express our ab horrence of the sanguinary excesses committed by the British authorities in Canada on Messrs. Lount, Morrow and Matthews, and of the cruelties inflic ted on n large number of our countrymen who have been kept for months confined in dreary dun geons, or forced to abandon their families and properties, by the unrelenting persecutions of Bri tish officials, which excesses and persecutions we view as a stain on humanity inconsistent wiili the spirit of the age in which we live, and worthy of the reprobation of all good men. That willing to do nothing but what is right, we arc determined to submit to nothing that is wrong—and therefore tins meeting publicly pro tesls againsttlic atrociousand unparalleled aggres sion knowingly and authoritatively committed on American soil by the British government in the month of December last, past, at Schlosser, in this state, on which occasion our national flag was out rageously insulted—our territory unjustifiably in vaded—American property wantonly destroyed, and American citizens barbarously murdered in cold blood by British troops despatched for that purpose by the authorities in Canada; for which aggressions tills meeting hereby solemnly requires tlic general government of the United Slates to in sislon full and complete satisfaction, and the deiiv , cry of the* guilty tojus.'ico and punishment. [• That however anxious we may be to preserve our neutral relations on the frontier, it must be ev ident to all that so long as a despotism continues in ourimmediatc neighborhood discontent will justly prevail, and attempts lie repeatedly made to put an end to such a state of things ; that the exist ence of such British despotism will necessitate the maintainancc by this Republic of a large standing army in time of profound peace, (a circumstance which has ever been regarded with alarm by the friends of human liberty,) and the enactment from , time to time of laws violating the most, important principles of American liberty—and that the enor mous expense caused hereby must be met by the increased taxation and burthens of the people of these States, not for the support of good govern ment within their own territories, nor for national defence, but tor the purpose of waging war against . liberty, and assisting Monarchy to crush Democra cy at our very doors. That this meeting publicly declares such em ployment of our national revenues and resources to be incompatible with the principles of our gov ernment, and highly derogatory to our characters as republicans, and therefore entertains a just hope that neither the general government, nonlic brave men composing the American army, nor any sec tion of the people of those States, will be found at this crisis aiding or abetting British despots in their war against liberty in Canada. That inasmuch as the barbarous mode of war fare already commenced by the British against the struggling patriots in Canada—the destruc tion of their property—the burning of their vil lages, and the driving of families abroad without shelter, at this pittiless season of the year, will cause an immense amount of human suffering, to diminish which is our duty as men and Chris tians, an Executive Committee be appointed to collect subscriptions and funds for the purchase of such necessaries as may mitigate the suffering of the republicans of Canada, during the ap proaching inclement winter. That in promoting the independence of the i Republic of Canada, we preserve, protect and de fend our own democratic principles; the inaliena ble right of every people to alter, or abolish their ! form of government. That any attempt to force upon any portion of ! the people of this hemisphere a system of colonial vassalage, ought to lie, and will be, considered by the people of the United Slates as a manifestation unfriendly to their own free and popular form of government. That a communication lie opened with the Re i formers of Great Britain and Ireland, requesting them to raise their voices and use all their inflm cnee to prevent Hie British Government from sending a hired soldiery to this continent, and also to require their Legislature to acknowledge the independence of their North American colonics, and so put an end to misrule and oppression among their fellow men. Cheers having been proposed and given for Messrs. 1 heller. Dodge, Nelson, Mackenzie, and Canadian Freedom, the meeting, on motion, in tlie best order adjourned. WM. JAS. M’NEVAN, President. I ice-Pres!dents, L. Bonncfoux, Robert Townsend, Joseph Hopkins, Edm. J. Porter, ■ John Morrison, James L. Stratton, Robert Beatty, Thos. P. Walworth, , Michael Dougherty, Thos. S. Brady, • Alex. Ming. Jun., Thomas Ewbank, Thomas O’Connor, William Denman, Daniel Gorham, John M’Keon, ; H. Arcularius, Jun., Alex. G. Coxe, Jons A. Mobuill. Secretaries. I Rees Rosser Jones, John Hecker, i Hascal B. Smith, Richard French, . i Henry E. Riell, Thomas Dyer. married, f On the evening 22d inst., by the Rev. Mr. Ford I Mr. John M. Dow, to Mr,. Marv McKeen. —WM —• ' -‘lrui, ||<W| Consignees i:er South Carolina Rail Road Hamuurg, November 26. T. Dawson, J. M. k W Adams, J. Purse, Cress k Turpin, Hand & Scranton, Clarke, Me Peir kCo K K Mustin, W. ClaggettJ. S. Hutchinson, W h’ Belcher, Gould & Bulk ley, E; B. Beall, A. Cum! I mm r, t tovall, Simmons it Co., K. D. Cooke, Kerrs 6c Hope, Stovall is. Hamlen, C. Batty, J, Coskeil I VV. E. & J. U. Jackson, C. A. Greiner, L. G. Sutton’ J. S. Katclitl'e, L. M. Chu.chill, A. B. Mallory'a! ■ Roocits, lia\Band, Jtisley k (.0., Mis. Thompson N. W. Clarke, Spears Sr, White, King & Hart, Al drich k Sh.ove, Davis, Grimes k Co., r>. Flemi’n" k Co., Kerrs k Hope, W. G. Driver, J. Smith k Co., J. C. Greene, A./. Banta, Baird k I Rowland, Anderson iV Adams, George Parrott, J. F. I Parrott, J. P. Benson, 11. L. Jelleis, J, (j. B. lord' M. H. Smith, J. N. Oliver. ’ COMMERCIAL. Cotton. —Arrive.l since the Ifiih inst 4730 bales ' I’lnnd and 16 halos S, I Colton, and cleared at toe same nine 1622 hales Upland Comm; leaving a stock on hand inclusive of all on shipboard not I Cleared on iho 2:>d inst. of 16660 bales Upland ami ■rl bal s Sea Island ’I he business dine lids wet kin Upland lias been I more extensive than last, the desire to sell hem" general and partially inducing the accepimice ol ra”. ■ nmr low rates. Y osierday, inter ilia receipt of the (.real H esic n accounts, .hienqniry mcreas d and sacs were made at lull prices pauicu'aily ~j ,/ e ■ Inglie ipia.ili s; tins morning the demand is v .rv 9 moderate—the ssles consist ol 4i98 bales at from IK .0 to IJJ eema. , , 15a?,tivohr, Nov 20. Flour, — flic market for Howard street floor re* mains inactive—an 1 uricos have, apparently, a ten- bB ■lency to decline. IVe hear this morn ng oi one or I two sah s from wagons at 87,.V), and a sale (Vain fl -tore of neon iderablo loi m 87/6—both a slight K on former rates. Ho quote from wag ins at ST/iO lo $7,621; and from siorca at 87,09 to 87211 I as the current riiim 10-dny. 1 Hales ul Ctiy Mills Flour have been ma le at 87,75 IjH S g , lno holder* refuse to sell at that price, and ask I Il'llilMlH.-iIIJUWWimL CUSH UlfLWr.-rjmput-, MARINE INTELLIGENCE. 9 Savannah, November 21 CVc.amf—Ship Milledgevillc, Porter, New York. ■ hng Sea Island, Hobart, Boston. ’ KB Arrived Bark Turbo, Beauchamp, Boston j bri» e.r -V . nt ’ Thomaston, Me.; steambat Hamburg V\ ood, Augusta. bl Departed— SCrahoat Oglethorpe, Dillon, Augusta, 1 Charleston, November 2o* I Arrived on Saturday—Sckr. Fruitful Vine. Nve New Bedford ; steam packet North Carolina Davis' Wilmington. ’ Arrived yesterday —Line brig Angola. Tufts Boston ; Line brig Gen. Marion, Delano, Baltimore’ 1 1 the effing —C L brig Ashley, Pike, from New York, and schr United Matsf.om Geo.ge "' own Cleared —Line barque King Philip, Humphrey I’oston ; C L Inig Pimon, Sherwood, New 10 k’ schr Alexander. Lind, Tampa Bay. ‘ ’ Went to sea Saturday —Line brig Almena ro mp New Orleans; brig Lion, Gilpatrick, Wilmington’ Went to sea yesterday—Be ship Alexander Ton On Le Jtomniois, Havre ; steam packets Geo gia Rol lins, Baltimore ; Noith Carolina, Davis, Wilming- Augusta Benevolent Society! ~ are m,nitteeSfor the Division No. I.—Mr. James Godbehere John Knight, Mrs. 0. Smith, Mrs. Waterman’ 1 c “'» ni)v 20 STUHGES, Sec’y. 1 RiCHMOND ACADEMY. —The Hus institution will, on the loth day of De cember next, proceed to the election of a Kertor and first and second English Teacher ; also, for a leacher lor the Branch at Summerville. Appli cants for either of these situafons will please ad dress the President of tho Board of Trustees alex. cunningham' v2O tJ President. fl Jt Al* 1t,11.—2D reams fine Medium (Tinting Pa a- per lor sale. 011 consignmenl.ai Taoioi’s prices Apply nf this office Imm i;t ■\T EW BACON, HAMS AND MIDLINGS. new Bacon Hams, 110 new Dacon MU dungs, just received from Baltimore, and for sale by ~ ISAAC MCISE, nov 17 311 Broad street. JloitlC MOW GOODS. ' B B. KIR BLAND, kCo ..Merchant Tailors, . have received a complete assortment of (~/UDS in their line; Cassimeres in great variety superior Satin Vestings, &c. &c. b Fancy Goods.-ol) dozen best Hoskin (black and colored) Gloves; Buckskin and Beaver do; superior •u°u a^ d .Y lUte !?llk L ’ o; BerUn do; white and bl’k siUHalt Hose; cotton do; superior Merino Vests / and.! ants; Suspenders, of the best quality; Linen, Cambric and Silk twilled pocket Hdkfs. Stocks. Opera tie Satin Stocks; plain do; bowed and plain Bombazine do. oOdozesi round and square end Collars, kc. kc. oet 13 cha ;; U s to “ 111 snmiice A Trust CompanTy Capital One Million D, liars—all paid in, AGENCY, AUGUSTA. 'HIE subscriber is prepared to take Fire and Ma ll- nno risks at the current rates of premium * Robert McDonald, Oft uO 3in Agent C. I. &T. Co. [ sTioii.;i, inns fob INVENTION.— The subscriber has just IN received a supply of the PATENT RIBS for Cotton Gins, which have been spoken so highly of wherever they have been tried throughout the Cot ton Growing States. These Ribs are so constructed ™iw, Se - Wlil last twcnt T years or more, and Le Steeff tyll ‘^f’^ y havingan Pxtra set of Cast of the u eS ' i 1 e lace ‘l are made to lit on the front H e Rios where the Saws pass through, and in so ■ r t , c a manner that any person can put them on. The subscriber will always keep a supply of Gins on band ol the above description. WILLIAM JONES, A few doors above the Upper Market July 13 \ OTJCE.—The undersigned have this day asso- mated themselves for the transaction of the wholesale and retail Grocery business, under the firm of I. S. BEERS k Co. Having purchased the interest of N. Smitli & Co., they will continue the business at their old stand, and hope by choice se- •- lections and reasonable prices, to merit the patronage -• ok of Hie public. I. S. BEERS, UATHBONE & BAKER. nov ? lmd3mw CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, & c . rg'UIE subscribers liavc just received a large B assortment ofsuperfme and middling qualities CLOTHS and CASSIMERES, viz. blue, black and I fancy colored cloths, beaver cloths, of extra body, j suitable for Overcoats, kc. Ribbed, plain and fancy striped Cassimeres, in j groat variety. 200 pieces Satinets, some of which are of superior quality, and composing a great variety of colors, \ fancy stripes and mixtures. Silk and other quality Vestings, Buffalo Cloths I which they offer at very low prices, i oct 3 EDGAR k CARMICHAEL. j In accordance with the ostensible views ol the Southern Convention. DIB HC T 1 31 FOR TA T lON. i mHOMAS I. WRAY & SON havejuat received | by the Governor Troup, and are now opening, ia large assortment of CHEMICALS and other DRUGS, from the Laboratory of M.inder, Weaver .$• | Co. (one of tho first houses in England,) which will | be sold in a state of the utmost purity. These with their former supply on hand constituies a large and very complete assortment, consisting of almost every article in the Drug line usually kept in this market, (Kj'Crders will be thankfully received and attend ed to with despatch, on tiic most accommodating ! terms. ts , oct 17