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??5? > W'' ?} ' i ./ ' "Wilmington aud SZatU'hcstcr r,:*iSroatl. IIousc of J.'-j>; csvu lalkes, A wj: st. 1 s "> 2. Mr. Penn. ' am instructed l>v the Corniiii" e on the Post Ofiice and Post R ad.- to r, p.< rt hack, without amendment. atid with the recoumivinlation that it do pass, Senate bill No. -l-!7, entitled u An act for the relief ol'lhe Wilmington and Manchester Railroad Company.'' The hill simply gives to this company the indulgence to uitinid the T.n.-.vxint r.f ,tntv nnnn their imported iron, lor t ".""1 " " "I - - 1 _ lour years, (Von: ihe Government, for which lime j legal interest is to he paid. I move tiie previous j question on the passage ot the bill. Mr. McQuexn. I trust my friend will allow me ; to make a few remarks. Mr. Penn. As my friend comes from the dis-; trict through which the road is to pass, J withdraw the call for the previous question, on the j condition that he will renew it. Mr. McQueen. I promise the gentleman to ; renew it. Mr. Cobe. I would ask the consent of the I gentleman to allow me to submit an amend- j rnent to the biil. Consent was not given. Mr. McQueen. Mr. Speaker: I do not propose, at this late period of the sessi- n, to detain the House with a discussion at length upon (ho merits of this bill. I shall, however, as the great- j er portion of the road to which the bill applies | runs through my district, exp ain its object; and I proceed to do so with the confident belief that i when it shall be well understood, there will not be found ten members in this House in opposition to it. The indulgence asked is for a company uho are constructing a link of railroad as a continwa-1 tion of that which now extends as (ar as Wilmington in North Carolina, over which th'* great southern mail from the North to New Orleans is now carried, which link avoids one of iho most difficult and dangerous lines of navigation upon this continent. Two years ago, an act was passed by Congress, at the instignationof my friend from the Wilmington district of North Carolina, [Mr. j Ashe,] granting an indulgence similar to the one j proposed by this bill for the road extending as far as Wilmington. Between that hill and the present there is the distinguishing difference that that biil provided for the payment of 110 interest by the company, who were to give bonds for the . faithful oayment of the duty, whilst this one pro- ; vides for the payment ol every dollar of interest, to be, together with the duty upon the iron, secured by bonds, which are to bo approved by the judges of the district courts of North and South Carolina, and made satisfactory to the Secretary of the Treasury. There is also a condition in this act that the money arising from the carriage of the great mail from the toutli to the East over ; this road shall be retained in the Treasury, and as it accrues, be discounted with the I'ost Office Department tor the satisfaction of the bonds. This link runs through the level pine lorests in North and South Carolina, and is being constructed by the planters of that country, who have mainly 1 worked out their stock in the grading of the road, i Gentlemen ask why the company constructing this road come here and ask this small matter? Hv- ! ery one acquainted with the planting interests , knows very well the great importance of this in- j diligence in the payment 01 itic duty upon iron,1 so that planters who can realize upon their crops but once a year, can measure their payments to suit the season of the year at which they ran seil j and realize the proceeds of their crops. I assert, indeed, without fear of contradiction, that there is . no road in the United States of more importance to every portion of the Confederacy than this one. The mail is now carried with great facility from New Orleans to Maine upon steamboats and railroads, with the exception of this gap, and about thirty miles in the State of Georgia. The navi- I gation from Wilmington to Charleston is so riilfi- I cult that there is no part of the route from this to ! New Orleans where so many disappointments . unavoidably occur as on this particular portion. The company now get $"5,000 a unr for the transportation oft le mail from Weldon to i'harles-' ton. The act was passed lor the benefit of trie Wilmington road two years ago, made a similar provision to this in regard to discounting moneys , with the Department; audi have been author-' ized to say that every dollar which has been suspended for the benefit of the Wilmington road, has been paid by the transportation of the mail as it has fallen due When we look a lii'.ir into the history ot the law in regard to railroad iron. I Hat termyseit that gentlemen win not on utspos* .1 i.ere to oppose this bill ; because I assert the tact that there has never been the first dollar granted in the wa) of favors by ihe legi.-lation of this (imvrniient to the planters of .South or North Carolina, unless it lie by the little indulgence given to the Wilmington Railroad Company two years ago. while the main arteries of northern coiiiniunica-1 tion were all constructed during the existence of j laws which entirely repealed duty upon railroad iron. In 1832, the duties upon railroad iron were 1 repealed. In 183G, the duties which had hi en paid by Kentucky and Ohio railroads were refunded to them, upon the ground that they were to be made equal with those having the Gem-Jits uJ the law passed in April, 1832. Air. Stevens, of Pennsylvania. Does not the j gentleman know that the railroad companies who made th' ir roads while that law was in existence, paid nearly doub'e the price which railroad iron j iiun Wi-?ir? . Mr. M(Queen. I am not able to answer t!ie | question as to the precise amount of the prices j of iron, but I tell tie* gentleman ibis, that although iron may have cost more than tow. it viii always diminish in price as a greater numlx r of men en- j gage in its manufacture; but that does not justify, I in my opinion, an act imposing a duty of thirty per cent, upon the cotton-planters ol tie* South, i for the benefit of the iron manufacturer:: of the ; North, when they have been obliged, often, to .?-> il their cotton for less titan half the | rice thev for- [ merly got for it. The duty was p lumb*'!, in 183S, j to the New Vork and Harlem Railroad Company :! actually paid out of tin; Treasury, by special act j of Congress. In the same year, the duty was j refunded to the Baltimore and Su.-ipjehanna Rai rond Company, and by the same act the duty on fastenings and spikes, evt u, was n pealed,and the duty on them formerly paid by tin (Jeorgia Railroad Company refunded. In 183b die duty was refunded to the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and | Baltimore Railroad Company. In lsu ai; jr0l, ; for railroads was allowed to h<* imported free olh duty, until March, 1843, ami tie n a duty impt>s< d J upon it, ami in this interval, al; the roads which i were built, as 1 maintain, (except one which was i built in South Carolina, for which the company : never asked a refunding ol the duty,) were allowed to have their iron Iri of duty. In 18.';*, i ..it.< ii-i, a c,. i.. ] <111 <11. I W tic U <IIIU1> IHij VV ?'?'? .w Milport steamships, even, free of duly. These are j facts, comprising the history of the legislation oi l the country upon railroad iron, as will appear upon the statute-books of Congress* \\Y do not ask, in this instance, one dollar out of the Treasury ; we do not propose here to .procure legislation by which we shall put one farthing in our | ode Is I presume not a man of the planters, v. ho are interested in this railroad, have had, directly or indirectly, a dollar out of the Treasury. I will go further, and express the opinion that "not a man in my Congressional district has ever had a dollar of money In his pocket out ot the Treasury, as a bonus. Wo know this Government for its taxes. We have not asked for its bounties, nor do I ask for it? money? or it? land?. I am asked, what i? | ti.o length of til; road ? It is one hundred and s:\ty tuihlong, and about sixty mile? of it arc already buiit and the cars running upon it, and it is raj idly progressing towards completion, at both, ends. 1 have been asked this summer, by gentlom n connected with the post (Jilice Department, how soon we will fill up the gap. so that they can put the gia at southern mail upon this route, in or. der to avoid tin* dangerous and uncertain sea navigation, by which it i> subject to constant failures 1 am toid by the honorable gentleman [Mr. Pt n:>] who reported this bill from the committee, that lor several years, while lie was connected ...III. f I. . n,.i,?/.t-t,.n!il \"|.U- Dr!i ;li\s 1... ,rn!l nitii i.i | v ... ,JV. ...... ...... satisfied tliat nine fai.ures out ot ten, which occurred in the great southern mail, resulted on account of the uncertainty of the sea, to bo remedied by this road. There is no part of the Confederacy which I do not believe to be somewhat interested in this bill. It is the direct route for the southern people who go Mast and North in the summer. It is the direct route upon which the northern and southern mail wili he carried. It is a road as iudi-pensable for northern commercial interests as it is for southern?and it is a road which wili be as much used by the traveller from the North, as from the South. It is to supply a link in a chain of travel now so difficult and hazardous, that I have had more inquiries made of me by travellers as to the prospect of its completion, than of any other road within my knowledge. 1 can assert that the stock in this road has been largely taken by planters, who have worked out already the greater part of their subscriptions, and there is consequently no speculation in it; for every dollar of tin* stock is hona fiilc taken. So soon as the mail shall have been put upon it, the payment of the duty will commence by this act, and as the Wilmington Company now get ?7*I,U('0 a year lor its transportation in Charleston. 1 have no doubt myself, by the time the indulgence iias passed, every dollar of the duty will have been paid by mail services. I will say to my Democratic friends of Pennsylvania, that they need not vote against this bill on account of any injury their iron manufacturers will sustain from its passage, because after an effort to purchase the iron from them, it has been bought in IJelgium, and is now bonded at the ports of Wilmington and Charleston, and no deleterious effects can result to their constituents, The bill tins passed the Senate without opposition, and is reported with the unanimous approbation of the Committee on the I'ost Office and l'ost Roads; I have asked no other favor at the hands of this Congress. 1 ft el a propor interest in this bill for the planters whom 1 represent, and who, as I have said, have never had and never asked, a dollar from the Treasury; nor do they in this request, in view of former legislation of Congress, but a simple act of justice. I'can result in no detriment to the (Joveriimont, because, wo are told daily, there are fifteen or sixteen millions of dollars surplus in the Treasury. 1 am asked what will be the aggregate amount of the duty on this road. As nearly as I can inform the Hons", I presume it will not exceed ?100,000; had I been able to have gotten tliis bill before the House at the first of the session, it might have amounted to ?]o'l.000. From information derived from the president of the read, 1 believe, and he confidently hop??, the mail may he put on it during the ensuing winter, such is the rapidity with which it i- being built. Mr. More-head, i will ask my friend at what point the Wilmington and Manchester road will intersect the Columbia ami Charleston road ? Mr. McQueen. It wiil intersect at a point (Man_!... . _N . / J .. .1 ..t ...t l\ ? ciicsiury tu: II1U CJIIlseu mail, liuuni I >I .iniiin above liranchvilio, which is on t!n? Charleston and Hamburg railroad, and about liall* way botwegn the two latter places. .Mr. ??Ior< In-.Til. 'i'hen it will connect directly with Charleston. .Mr McQumii. Yes, sir; and without the difliculty encountered by those who navigate that coast at the mo th o!" Ca j e 1\ar, at which they often have to wait for tide water in order to pet over the bar; and it is believed will forward the preat southern mail son." seven hours earlier than it can he done by steamboat. Mr. .Mori head. 1 should like to ask my friend from the I'eter.-burg cii.-tiiet a tpn stion, Win re the South: ide road intersects the main southern line ? .Mr. Meade. Ii is a communication directly from Xorkfolk to \V"'.d in. !!;. thi-. comiiiuuicatiun, if 1 understand it, we! be directly from Weldon to t 'li'.rlestr-n. Mr. Mm.die;: I. If 1 und-r-tnn ! you correctly, there is a direct c mnn.uiciitiou by railroad from Norlblk, Virginia. to Weldon, in North Carolina When th" I < ute ] ropi sed by the g< nth-man from South Carolina. [Mr. .McQueen.] and unib r consideration, is coinp'eti d, that connection will continue? directly on to Charleston. Air. McQueen. T<> New Orleans: making an unbroken chain of railroad to .Montgomery, Alabama. e.\ 1 j't thirty miles in C ^rgia yet to be completed. I move ti.e previous?;i: --timi. ! Mr. Co! b. 1 ask th" p i th n an from South Carolina to ?vit'; haw the .! m tad I r the pp viotis j iju -ti i>, !>' ; l ie m t .-l; i ll: f II wing amendment. to come iii at the < nd of the bill. J'rm iJiil, /hr/.Vr, 'i iiat liie prmisiuns of this | bill be. and are hereby extended to the Memphis and Charleston, and ill" S? Inia and (itinl. r's banding Railroad companies, runu.np throuph the States of Alabama and Mississippi and Tuiiucs.-t e. Mr. McQueen. I cannot withdraw it. My objection to the amendment that if it is adopt* d the 1 ill will have t.? go back to the Senate, and may thus be defeated. Mr. Danit i. As I happened to he absent the other day when the action of the ll'Ui.-o was had upon tie" l'al> :gli ai d fJcsto'i Railroad bill, I ask nv friend from South Carolina to wi luiraw the demand lor liie previous ipustinn. that I may otter it as an amendment to ibis I.id. .Mr. McQueen. Jt is very unpleasant to me to have to refuse my friend from N nth Carolina, for Whom I Have IIIO llllimn l? |" 1 i, ion .r im- mwinim: hour lias nearly expired, I must decline to withdraw the d'-inaiid tor the previous question. .Mr. John \V. Howe moved that the hill bo laid upon the table. .Mr. M v.ois, of Pennsylvania. I call for tle> yeas ne?! n 1 vs. and i :'isk for tellers upon the yeas and iriv '. Mr. \h'H W ill ii Is-eonip'font for me,at this . "iii. m with. I raw the demand l<>r tin- pre. vioii.- . : ">! malm a motion to eommil tin* bill? The Speaker. Th" inntioii to lav tin nnou the table takes preced-oicr of such a motion. V'-Hers weie ordered mi the yeas and nays: and Me-srs. S;< ven , el I Vniisylvaiiia. and Mo(..: y were appninti d. Tlie I Ion.- e was then divided, and the tellers reported only :J5 in theaffirmative. So tin-yeas and nays were not ordered. The question was then put upon Mr. Ilowe's motion : and it was deciib d in the negative. The question recurring upon the demand for the pn vious ipe- 'ion. it w a< put, and flthc previ Otis question, reeeivd a hrood. The main question was ordered to bo put. The hill was (hen ordered to a third reading, and was subsequently read the third time. Mr. Mr-Queen demanded the previous question on the passage of the hill. The previous question was scrond'-d, and trie main question ordered. Mr. Venab'.e calh dfor the yeas and nays on the passage of the bill; and they were ordered. 'l he question was then taken upon the passage of the bill, and there were?yeas 102, nays 65. ( So the bill was passed. j>lr. McQueen moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed, and also moved to lay the motion to reconsider upon the table; which iciiuT inouon was agreed 10. -<> > Hon. A. IT. Stephens.?A statement lias been going t he rounds of she papers that this gentleman had recently declared in favor of General Seott, and had pledged his efforts to promote the election of the regular W hig nominee. We doubled the truth of the statement, and did not give it in the synopsis of the political news of the day. The following, from the Atlanta Intelligencer of Thursday, will inform our readers of the position at present occupied by Mr. Stephens. The Intelligencer says: lion. A. II. Stephens addressed a large concourse uf people at Parr's Hall, in this city on Tuesday night Ia>t on the .ptrslioiis of the day taking occasion to deline very explicitly his own position 011 the presidential issues. He declared his opinion, in strong terras, that Gen. Scott ought to be dcicnted Gen Pierce ought not to he elected?Daniel Webster ought to be elected. _ The strength of his speech was directed mainly against the Whig Democratic nominating conventions, and declared unceasing hostility to all i national conventions: 111 which Northern free j soilcrs are allowed to take part. He was in favor of i iitming an iiidepeiidint candidate and organizing an independent party from which tlie abolition and frccsoii element should he excluded. Against Gen. Franklin Pierce or i?i^ opinion lie .said he had nothing to object?lie had no objection to make against Mr. Pierce'* V"t<s in Congress on the slavery question. He believed him to lie eminently conservative on the South crn question, and said that he placed no confidence whatever in the abolition newspaper reports of Mr. Pierce's Xcw Boston Speech. He declared the Democratic nominee to be a strong friend of the Compromise measures. ''While I," i continued Mr. Stephens, ''was stumping the j State of Georgia, in 1850, in favor of the Union and Compromise, Mr. Pierce was stumping the State of Mew-Hampshire in favor of the same principles.?Sav. J\rcws. Later advices from Havana, published amongst our telegraphic intelligence this morning mention the suppression of the Revolutionary .Journal lately i^ued at Havana, .and the arrest of the publishers. We, however, have seen it stated that Don Jose Luna was the editor, and that he had his printing office in the rear of a small segnr store, within fifty yards of the palace of the Captain General. The brothers of Sr. Luna were, arrested for having munitions of war in their houses, when Don Jose thought that it was time for him to fly to the United States. Accordingly he took his small pivss to pi ces and packed it with his typo, and a portion of his edition already worked oil' iut<> a eoflin, which was buried in the cemetery outside the walls of the i cllv. 1IC Mil 11 toOK passage Ml liic uresccni wj tv, and arrived safely at New York. C "/< a i lcston Co u ricr. Mexico.?Latest advices" from Mexico repre! sent that Republic as b ing in the most depl.arable state, from the increase of the various factions by which she has recently been agitated and the hostile dispositions and act of the ludinns, who still continue their depredations with almost impunity in the neighborhood of Chihuahua and other districts. Kvery account from that quar 1 t< r is tilled with details of murders, the result of j these forays, or presents u> with the equally sad ! results of intestinal feuds and civil discord. Tin* insurrections were spreading to such an ; alarming extent, that it was anticipated an extra session of Congress would* be called to devise means for their suppression. The financial resources of the country are at present, however, so extremely limit, d as to leave little possibility ?>f her being enabled, by stu-li means, to act with | that energy which the suppression of these formidable troubles Will l'ei|ii!l'e. The conspirators or r. in Is have several times been in a condition to dictate almost their own t 1 t 1 1 1 J t'-rn.s :ilnl :ill!-" einooioeiieo, it is ii?? easy niai! t t t > jindii i i!i?- i'<mse<jiii'ix'i s of their c'lVontetv, or I lie result of these Commotions. k}"h!/i' i'u Standard. Hons.? Pfiox nud J'ronptrts.?The Cincinnati! I 'l it e Curr nt reports hogs in every region 1 of Kentucky and Indiana as largely increasing, in iiuiiiI><'!'s and of belter ?juality, and adds: We h<*ar but little from Illinois, and Iowuniul Missouri: but considering the scarcity of last season, rather than probable there will be an in| crease rather than a falling oil', as we seldom have two seasons of s. areity together. Throughout ' 'hi.? we learn that more young lioga are being fed than usual, and in many seci tiom an increase of one-tliird is anticipated.? . The high price of pork lias caused the farmers i throughout the we.-t to heMow as iniieh care and at'.eniioii ujion their pigs as Hiov do upon their .a.;! i.., .. Ti,i'..n.ri..,i.t 1....; r .!?> | I I! .< H ' 'i* iiu'-u^iiviifc i ii.ii i ? r*? v I l* rlx-~ ? ?i I uv j South ilio plant it* a ro making strong >! . i \ -rs I to 4'if|i?w tln'ir own meat.'1 We hoar of eon tract * by tin* ]>ar". f iio I futuri' delivery of some Jd.imio hoo-> ?( fat| toned in Indiana, at if and it 1-2 cents, ? ; Seieral thousand have heon engaged l>\ Madi-oti i packers, for the next season, at I and 1 I-'J cents, I net. We hear also < ! various contracts in Ken' tuekv, at " and it 1-2 cents, gross, to be deliveri . i ii.-re at 1 1-2 cents. One of our principle p--..vision dealers and packers sold 100 barrels oi in* <s p,?"J; on Monday, to bo made of the 1 ie \! crop, and to be deh\< nd ii. .Tune J8f)3,'at v I ,'i per barrel, whi -Ii *o per ban el less than the present prices. The above we be|jev< |u be a;: accurate and impartial statement ol the on ?. at ?-mliti??ti of | the forthcoming '"hog crop,'' and uv aw the I reader to draw bis own conclusions in tva "id to the prospect of the next season. + If vou waul to buy anything, If von want to soli anything, Ifyou want to hear anything, If you want to toll anything, If you want to do anything, If vou want anything done, ADVERTISE!!! THE SEMLWEEKLY JOUMAL" FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1832. THO. J. WARREN, Editor. Acknowledgments. ThcTton. Messrs. DeSaussure, Woodward, Wallace and McQueen, will accept our thanks for their attention in forwarding us Congressional documents. New Cutting Knives. Wo have seen .it the store of Mr. W. Anderson, the agent, a specimen of a new cutting knife, which in our judgement is very superior. Yellow Fever in Charleston. The Charleston papers of Monday published a return of the number of deaths in the city of Chaileston from the 23ih of August to the 4th of September (Sat urdav last) in which the whole number is set down at 32, which, says the Mercury, is about the average of the last six weeks. Out of this number 13 were of Yellow Fever. The papers of Wednesday publish the report of the City Register, in which he states, that " from Saturday night up to Tuesday evening last, there had been but three deaths, all of which cases were of several days standing." The report further says: " I may also state, that I havo made particular inquiries among our Physicians generally, as well as at the different Hospitals; and the result of my investigation satisfies me that the cases have diminished materially in numbers as well as violence. I have only heard of four or live new cases in the last two or three days, all of which arc mild. "At present there are twenty patients in the Roper Hospital, all of which, with the exception of one, are j considered in a fair way for recovery. In the Poor | Ilouso (here arc hut two cases, (neither dangerously ! sick at present,) ar.tl in the Marine Hospital, there is [ not, nor has been, a solitary case. "From these facts, I am led strongly to hope that the disease may soon be arrested if proper sanatory measures are adopted and strictly enforced.'' Our Railroad. We have been politely favored by Mr. Baxley, the agent, with the following note from Mr. Conner, President of the S. C. Railroad, dated Jun'ctio.v, Monday, Sept. G, 1852. Wc have brought the passengers over, but with much labor and difficulty. Wc have SO hands at work, and will repair damages as quick as possible. The merchants of Columbia propose to engage Ncuffer to take tiieir goods at the river, and re-deliver to us at Ciarkson's; and I am going up to assent to it. Any similar arrangements the Camden merchants desire that is in our power, we are ready to make, provided it is so understood. We liud'ti the Carolinian of Wednesday, the following report of the Committee of merchants of Columbia, appointed to coufor with Mr. Conner on the subject of forwarding freight: The committee who were instructed at a meeting of die merchants and citizens on Monday, to wait upon Mr. Conner, President of the South Carolina iiadrond, and arrange the most practicable plan for getting goods to Columbia beg leave to Koport: That your committee had an interview, with ' II I'* - -* - - i' II - I ... .! ... . 1 :i lull ul>cu?i'>ii ui ?iu u:.;l >>rii* miijjjvwu l>v cither party. Your couisuittoe asked of Mr. Conner that ho should d< liver nil the goods, at present on the road, at Columbia, he Mr. Coftuer, contracting with intermediate carriers for conveyance of freight across the river and assuming all risk. This Mr. Conner distinctly reI fused to do; stating, however, t hat lie was ready and anxious to dc anything other than asj sumo the responsibility of sending goods across the river. Your committee then inquired of Mr. Conner whether or not he would sen.1 an agent to the lliver Turn < )ut to deliver freight to any one employed by the merchants To this, Mr. Conner replied "he would." Your committee further j aske.l if temporary sheus would be erected by I the company for the protection of such goods.' ; Mr. Conner replied "that should be done." It ! was further asked if a receiving agent would bo I s. nt by the company to Clarksoti s Turn Out! I Mr. Conner replied "there v.ould be." Mr. C. I also stated that if the river route was adopted 1 bv the merchants, the use of care would be al! lowed for the safety of goods, to facilitate the interests of the merchants. It was sugge.-te.l by Mr. Conner that a temporary cr.?--i::i might bo thrown over the river, but for the liability the company would incur in I the event <'t steamboats coining tip the river.? ' It iini being likely that any steamboat would attempt to eotne up the river, this plan was pressed upon Mr. Conner by a portion of the committee. Mr. Conner replied that he would in* 1 form himself of its practical ?ilty, and write your i commit tee on the subject. In view of the importance of getting up freight as early as possible, your committee have agreed to adopt the river route at once, and. therefore, suggest and j recommend to the merchants that tiny, in eoncert, arrange villi a contractor for the convoying of goods across tin* riwr, and that Mr. Conner be informed accordingly. IV it. therefore, lirsolrnl. That the party proposing to contract tor muveveneo <>t goods across the river be informed that the merchants are ready to eontract for the work proposed. \\ . IMM.UXOER, Chairman of Committee. The Greenville Railroad. , We foul tin* following generous proposition from ColFen ley, for re-building tlio portions of tliis road destroyed by the freshet, in the Winnsboro' Register: Gentlemen: 1 propose to every planter from Columbia to Alston JJoputthe following propositioii: 'l'o those through whose lands the track passos, to build or rejtair the road immediately, ' and wait for the money?say live years. A committee to appraise tho work, and the Company to pay interest. Messrs. Henry T. Foako, superintendent, and Z. Butj ler. who have walked over the road, estimate tho cost of repair from Columbia to Alston at $17,700. Francis Lance, Esq., of Charleston, has boon appointed bv the President, to bo Consul at Florence in 1'?- V tin." Kingdom of Tuscauv, vice Edward Ganiago rosigncV; and Mn.u:ii Giukve, Esq., one of the editors the hUUedgevillo (Goo.) Recorder, to bo Charge d'Affairos at) Copenhagen, in the Kingdom of Demark.? Both apjPoiqtmonta have been coufirmcd bv the Senate \ 1 ? ip V ' The Savannah Courier, Ts the name of an excellent paper recently e3tab- }. lislied in the city of Savannah by S. T. Chapman, Esq. which is published Daily, Tri-Weekly and "Weekly. Will the proprietor please send us the Daily ? -'*?* North-Carolina.?Gov. Reid has issued his procla* mation convening the Legislature on Monday the 4th of October next. The object of the called session is to re-district the State under the new census, for the f . -a next Congressional election. For the Camden Journal. V? Mr. Editor?On my return home, after an ab- ^ sence of five weeks from ihe State, I find some interrogatories propounded through your Journal, J] in the name of "Many Voters," to the candidates : J for the Legislature front our District. The other candidates have replied and I has- . X ten to do likewise. In offering to serve my fellow citizens as their } Representative, it is only as one of the plainest and most unpretending among them, that I wish ^ to be considered. I have no aspirations to lead or to dictate?the height of my ambition is to I\ be useful in any and every way I can, to act well - j my part, in my day and generation. I should look upon myself as unworthy of public confidence, if I entertained any political ^ sentiment or opinion, popular or unpopular, that -I? 1 was afraid or ashamed to declare without hesi- 41 tation. ?? nn/1 nor*Arw orrroof trirftlaa -?8 JL I II 111, HWIHJCLV, <IUU UlV> ^IUIV .? and I sincerely desire to cherish and practice " ^ them, as duties of man to his fellow man, and I 0 believe they should influence every man, public and private, in all the walks of life. Therefore ^Jj I cheerfully answer these questions, and am equal ly willing to answer any others whenever called l upon. J To the first, " Are you in favor of the Bank of -'-vy the State ?" I answer, yes,?and always have been since? -|S the question of its re-charter has been agitated. -ypj This Bank is a common property, it belongs tov^sS " we, the people," it is the only Bank in the State in which we are all stockholders. Its interests are our interests. If it is well managed and profitable, we receive the benefit. If the reverse, > fy of course, like stockholders in any other concern, ' ta we are the losers. It has done well, has made Jg money, is doing well, as far as we know, and can continue to make money, and thereby keep " ^ down annual taxation, which is already heavy enough. From a connexion as Director in the Branch | of this Bank at Camden for more than nine years, it may be supposed that I have an intimate knowledge of the manner in which it is con- y ducted, and I can safely say, that if the constant ' observance of that important principle among men, " the greatest good to the greatest num bcr and justice to all" is such a merit as I esteem it. then this institution is entitled to the good &Sj will of every good citizen. it was tnen, as i oeueve n is sun, uie rt?un, for help to the needy of all classes. The rich -.v and the poor man, the farmer, the merchant, .^ and the mechanic, all canto there with thoir cases, almost without hope of relief and whenever the applicant was found worthy, aud the final payment, as was always required, made sure, they seldom failed of accommodation. I remember many instances of small farmers, but good citizens, who were kept on their farms ' where they still are, who, but for the benevolence of this Branch Bank would have been sold out, broken up, and forced, with their wives and little ones, to leave the State in search of shelter and homes in the far west or wherever else they could find them. Aud I cannot call to my mind a single debt that was lost, nor do I remember to . have ever heard ati individval say the Bank had ; beeu unkind or injurious, or even ungenerous to liiin. And here I venture the assertion, that > . there are more names of men in moderate circumstances on its note list, I mean the Bauk and ; two Branches, than on any other, if not all the \ : other Banks in the Stateof South Carolina. Lest it might be suspected that motives of interest as one of its debtors, prompted me now to declare myselt in its favor, lam proud and happy to say that 1 have uot owed it a dollar for the last several years. Though 1 should not be willing to relax any 4" guard on its safety and faithfulness, more than * on any other public trust, but would throw more ? guards around it, if more were necessary, I ?feel every disposition in favor of its present and long continued future existence. to the second: " Are you iu favor of giving the vote for Presidential Electors directly to the f-i people." '? .1 1 answer yes,? and for various reasons; one or two only of which I will give. Thirty States of - yM < .v. ? ! TT_: tlie tmny-one now iu me American uuiuu, pui- sue that plan. It is more in the spirit of republieanism to'give each voter an equal weight in *.* ? the election. And what can be done as well directly is better than if done indirectly. That ] the principal is above the agent, and that there \ ' is no use i'or an agent to perform an act that it ,< i< as easy as not for the principal to perform. More than either of these as a reason for us, however, is, that since the election for electors must ,1 bo held throughout the Union on the same day, and that a day when for our State to vote at all, ~ , an extra session of the Legislature must convene, at much inconvenience to the members and ex- ' pon.-e to the tax-payers; the change should be - ! i .a i made. Wo should assume it as our ngnuui privilege, and vote as the people of tho other Si ates ?vot e, free of expense, and with a knowledge ' of who we were voting for, and what principles wo were sustaining. To the third question: " Are yon in favor of improving the system of free schools." 1 have the same answer to make,?yes, most assuredly. In my opinion too much money, if judiciously applied, cannot be spent in the cdu- . J cation of the rising generation. It strikes me to be as much the duty of the State to see that the 1 young are educated, as it is to pass laws for pre- \ serving the peace, for keeping good order, for ' J personal protection, for enforcing contracts, keep- I ing up pub'ic highways, Ac., or any other of the i many subjects for which we have so many laws ' and so much annual legislation. And I hope to jgjf j see the day when every free white person in the ? 1 State of South Carolina can read, write and ci- ~~ j plicr. These arc some of my views, not only as a candidate for your suffrage, but as a tax-payer, and as your friend and fellow citizen. JOHN ROSSER. Ha