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VratpoeeaT Virginia Cottvenlleau TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 19, 1850. 8ATCRDAY UOBN1KO, FEU. 1, i860. t'or every public nice track, on every hundred dollars of the rjrolnble gross uoml iminw, as nearly aa can be aacenaieed, and the tale, five dollars but in no case for bs "than 95 00 For theatrei in cities, each 100 00 for theatre is a town, vlHajfrV or watering 415.

An act for the relief ol Joseph H. Walla, the county of Lawrence. 416. An act lor the relief of deaf, dumb and blind persons ia the Stale of Alabama. 417.

An act concerning forcible entries and detainera, 418. An act to authorise the orphans' court of Jefferson county to decree Ihe sala of certain lauds therein mentioned. 419. An act to alter and amend the several acts prescribing toe duties of the clerk of the Supreme court. 420.

An act in relation to dower. place, SO 00 Fur keeping a hotel, rarenti or hoise of enter tainment, for transient persona, at anv eity, town or villag, watering pbee, or within one mile of either of aaid places, on each hundred dollars of the valee ol ire annual rent, or in money, as nearly sa can be ascertained, and at that rate, two 'ollars but in no caso for Mr Forts of lb Unite oUUcs Bcm This distinguished Senator, of Mississippi, has hteralty fought himylf into the respect and regard his bitterest opponents The severity of his intellectual blows had told too powerfully upon the country them foolishly to attempt longer to disregard them. We take from the Washington Republic, the organ, par excellence, of Gen. Taylor his Cabinet, the following notice of this gentleman: We are quite certain that the whig press the country over, and its letter-writers from this city, undervalue the position of General Foote, and perhaps underrate his powers and capacity for the duties of that position. He is the ostensible and the real leader of the Opposition in the Senate.

This undeniable. And, tor all the purposes of our observations, it is immaterial whether that post of distinction has been conferred upon him by the unanimous voice of the party, or he has constituted himself the generali-wimo, prompted by consciousness Ins superior abilities for tlie station. The ready less thaa 6 00 For keeping a restaurs or eating house 20 00 For exhibiting; for profit, any museum, wax works, menageries, curiosities of any kind, (paTWinr; and statuary excepted) each IS 00 TV exhibition of dwarfs, or persona, or ani-' veals deformed in any part of the State 25 00 For the exhibition of a circus, feats of activity, slight of hand, (or each day or night 25 00 For hawking or peddling on each steamboat, flit-boat, or water era It, 100 00 For hawking or peddling, on each wagon, ineach county, 75 00 i Forhawkiiigorpeddling.on each horse, in each eourrfv. 40 00 For hawking or peddling, on foot, for each, in eaehc-iontv. 20 00 But nothinir shall be charged for red lling arti.

clea manufactured or made up in this State, (nor to societies or persons employed thereby, in the distribution of useful books for the diffusion ol literary or relijrious knowledge.) AH licenses, except otherwise expressed, are for one year, and confined to the county in which they are granted and in the case of retailing, or games, to one place, and to the name to which granted. A county tax, for county purposes, may be levied bv the proper court of each county, on, or in ad-i- dhion to, the SUte tax, on both the assessment and licenses, one or both, as tire commissioners' court may direct, and to be collected at the same time, and in the same way, not to exceed one hundred per cent, Sec 2. Beit further enacted, Thatthe follow in" nersons. nronertT and nrivileees are hereby declared exempt from taxation, to wit AH ex- clnsivelf eonnty or State property; an property of the United States: all lands sold by the Uni- i ted States previous to the 26th day of January, 1847, and which have not been sold thereky more than five years previous to the assessment lo be made; lands and other property of literary, scientific and benevolent institutions in the State, ecluaHv used the nuroose for which they were i created Prodded, any portion of their funds or property, vested in stocks or pursuits, other than their regular business, snail not oe exernpi. Houses of worship and appnrteiiaiices, places and monuments of tiie dead, and imple-.

wients of burial all fanning or borticutrural utensils the properly of revolutionary soldiers, Of to their widows, to the value of one thousand dollars; the amount of property of soldiers who served the count-v in the war of 1812 and 1814, which is exempt by taw from execution, Sec. 3. Be it further enacted. That all lax-, pavers, foo being notified, by advertisement set up by the assessing officer, at five or more con spicuous places, in tneir respective oearsj niieen Jays previously, slating the time and place in the beat, or by snch notice as may be prescribed by law, shall go forward and render, in such manner is, or may be, prescribed by law, to the assessing officer, a full and complete list and description of all and every kind of their property or subjects of taxation, on oath, (which the assessor may aduiiuitterj to the best of their knowledge and belief, and the assessor, as far as practicable, in a fair and correct assessment but if the own- -er or person having charge of the property subject, resides jt of the county, or is unable to attend, as account of any infirmity or disability, or is a fern ile, such person iy make out a list on oath, before any judge or" justice, which being being certified by him, may be received and treated, by the assessing officer, as if made before himself. Property shall be assessed in the county where it is at the time, or was, on the 1st day oi II arch preceding the assessment and in the case of land, where a tract lies partly in one coumy and partly in another, in which the greater pan ties; hat all property liable must be taxed in some county, and the assessor, as well as collector and oilier officers, shall take care to make dilligent inquiry, and embrace all property t'hich bas escaped taxation since the year 1843, as well aa all that liable at the time, so as to render the burthens equal and unilurm as possible on all tax-payers alike, and in ail cases, when the taxable property or business embraced tn this act.

is managed or conducted bv an agent, t'-e agent, We have receives Iron) G. T. Baibee, Esq a copy af a hill unreduced into tlie Virginia House Delegates, entitled a bill to take the sense of the people sponge call of a Con veal ion, and to provide fororganixing tlie The bill pro vides tut at the election for Delegates in April. the aense of the people shall be taken upon tha following question First, Shall a Convention held I Second, Shall the Convention be organized apoa the white population rxcluiieely, or upon white population and taxation combined 1 be bill p- ovidea further that, in the event the popular vote is for a Convention, the election Delegates shall take place on the fourth Monday in August, and tlie Convention shall assem ble on the second Monday In October. We are gratified to see that the bill provides against any person voting in more than one county.

Io ordinary elections, in Virginia, a citixen may vote in every county in wbieh lie is a free-. holder. Y. A Convention to amend the Constitution of Virginia has long been needed, and tbe people of that good old Commonwealth will r'oubiless look with favor npon this bill. That they will decide upon adopting the free or white basis, in preference to the mixed or property basis, we cannot lora moment doubt.

The present property qualification, which requires a man to be a freeholder, is odious in the eyes of all republican freemen and a qualification which would still make pro perty, instead of persons, tbe basis of suffrage, although it might be by indirection, cannot receive, as we believe, tlie sanction of the citizens of Virginia. Let tbe Convention abolish all property qualification, whether it be freehold or the mixed basis Let there be no other qualification than citizenship Let the power of the General Assembly to borrow money be restricted, to that every generation shall pay its own debts Let monopolies of all kinds be checked in a manner which will prevent them from usurping power which belongs to tlie people (it would be well il all special privileges were prohibited :) Let all tlie public officers of Ihe State be elective by the people and then the proud old mother of Slates and statesmen the home of Jefferson, Madison and Henry, will add a page to her illus trious history which the consuming hand of Time cannot obliterate. Consrress. But little is doing in either House. Tbe Senate have been engaged nearly the entire of two days, 10th and ltth, in discussing the reception of a peti tion, from a body of fanatics in Pennsylvania, praying a dissolution of the Union, on account of the sin of slavery.

A dozen or. more speeches were made thereon, but upon a final vote there were only three found voting for it, viz Chase, Hale and Sewasd. The latter, it will be remembered, was Gen. Taylor's right hand man in adjusting the sla very question, some twelve months ago. Jur.

Berrien has made a powerful speech, mainly in opposition to Mr. Clay's so-called compromise resolutions. His main attacks were directed against those resolutions denying the existence of slavery in the territories of California and New Mexico. He ia revising the speech before publication. Tlie House and Mr.

Meredith are still at logger heads about the expense of collecting the revenue. Up to tbe 12th, no final action had yet been had upon the subject. We have neglected to mention heretofore, that Mr. Inge has introduced resolutions into the House of Representatives denouncing tbe action of the President and Cabinet in the affair of California. The of the National IuteUigt-saeesv The great leading organ ol "all the decency" has recently come out in a long editorial of seven mortal columns against the Southern Convention movement.

It was evidently intended as the word ol command to the "old guard" to take ground against the Nashville Convention and the resistance agitation generally at the South. But, alas, the sceptre has departed, and tbe voice of the fugleman is longer heeded by tlie great mass of the whig party, who, we rejoice to say, are sound on this question. The Alabama Jour- nal, of this place, thus repudiates the authority if tbe Intelligencer and as we have seldom had occasion to commend the articles of our cotem- porarv upon this snbject, we lake pleasure in expressing our approbation of the sentiments con tained therein Dmiim to NAsnvrtLE. In another column will be found the riroceedings of the lesislative caucus in relation to the projected Southern Cooven- uini av flusuvaie. juu aeiegauon is a very able body of men, composed equally of both parties, and in whose honor, fidelity and patriotism, io case the necessity should arise, the interests of the State can be entrusted with an aliiduur confidence that they UWMMKU W1HI UlgllllV WIU JUSUCG, Alabama is tbe fifth State which has made envi sion for the Convention, and will soon, there is every hope, be followed by similar action by all others.

If they do this the Union will be preserved, and the rights of the South maintained. Without this tha Union ism danger. It oerfect union, firmness and dignity, which alone can avail to convince the North that the South is in earnest, and that these aggressions will no longer be tolerated. We observe, with regret, that the National Intelligencer denounces the projects of a Convention in strong terms, seeming to think that it is intended to dissolve me union. Tbe InteUieencer mistaken the obiect is not to dissolve, but to maintain the Union, and every ad-: vance of the South to promote union on this sub ject, is astep towards the preservation of the Union- oi ine states ana oi tne constitution.

The effect of this movement has been alreadv ben eficial throughout tbe country, by awaking the at-' tention of the patriotic every where to the etwrnnV ty and injustice of these outrages perpetrated on the South and to the immediate necessity of their abatement Address on the Havers tVaestlon. The Hoa R. V. Johnson, member of Congress from Arkansas, has written an able address to his constituents npon the aggression of the North on the nghte of the South. He portrays in true colors the designs of the North, and urges his people to a stern defence and resistance to their aggressions, let the cost be what it may is opposed to the ad-' million of California as at present orgsniied, and urges resistance thereto.

He goea into an able argument, with statistical facta to support showing that the8outh bears moat of the burthens 1 of the Union, and that its dissolution would aot be 5 S. Ike releas ed or atteeied thereby. Approved February 9th, 1850: -838. An act to provide for building a Stale House at the city of Montgomery. 339.

As act for the relief of the citizens of township 16, range 7, east, ia Beaton county. 340. An act fur the relief af Williajs. Porter of Benton county. 341.

An act for the relief of the heirs of F. R. H. Wiggins. 342.

Aa act to amend' the lawa relating to the Bant of Mobile. 243. Aa act for the relief of Daniel Hodges, lata tax collector for the eouotv of Butler and John Bluggard, late collector for the county of Lawrence. 344. An act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Memphis and Charleston Rail-road company, approved Feb.

1, 1850. 345. An act for the final aduistment of the accounts of the State of Alabama wilh the United States ar sing from her per eentage on public lands aald within her limits. 346. An act repealing in part an act to alter and amend the road laws reference to the county of Limestone.

347. An act to incorporate tha Southern Bank of Alabama. 348. An act to legalize and confirm the sale of tract of land therein named. 34.

An act further to amond tlie charter and aineudinents thereto of the City Insurance Company of Mobile. 350. An act to authorise F. S. I.yon, bank commissioner to settle a certain claim therein named.

351. An act to incorporate the Chickasaw and Waterloo bridge company. 352. An act to amend the road laws of this State in the counties of Shelby, Marengo, Pike, Marion, Franklin, Macon, Pickens, Tails poosa, Lawrence, Coosa, Clarke, Talladega, Washington, Choctaw, Sumter, Tuscaloosa, Wilcox, Monroe, Jefferson, Bibb. Limestone.

Benton. Dallas, Covington, Chambers, Coffee, Henry, onecun, Morgan, Kusseu, Madison and Autauga. Ail act for the relief of Daniel M.Riggs. 354. An act to authorise tha Clerk and Sheriff of St.

Ciair county to receive State witness tickets in payment ot fines and forfeitures. 355. An act making appropriations for the years 1S50 and 1851. 356. An act to incorporate the Florence and Lawrenceburg turnpike or plank load eoio-panv.

357. An act to provide more accurate notice ot the commitment ot absconding slaves. das. an act to incorporate the (entreville pianK road company. 359.

An act for the relief of William E. Shaver, J. Tayior and Joseph Bartlett, paupers of Montgomery county. iou. An act more ettectually to provide tor the protection ofGrand Jurors and Petit Jurors ami witnesses.

361. An act to incorporate tlie Selma man- ulaetiiring cempany. 362. An act to simplify, arrange, consolidate and improve the laws authorising the evidence of witnesses to be taken by deposition. 363.

An act authorising the Quarter Master General to distribute cavalry arras on the terms ttierein named. 364. An act to repeal an act approved Jan uary 10, 1848. -365. An act to incorporate the Benton and oavneviiie pianK roaa company.

366. An act to change the name of Catharine L. Drew to that of Catharine L. Hollowav ooi. An act to amena we laws ui relation to dower.

368. An act to authorise James J. Lison and John C. Ligon, administrators of the estate of James Ligon, deceased, to settle and eompro mise the bad and doubtliil debts belonging to said estate. 369.

An act for the relief of Griffin L. Hogan. of Montgomery county. 370. An act the more effectually to suppress the evil practice ot trading with, slaves.

371. An act tc authorise and reguia'e the bu siness banking. 372. An act authorising ptaintifis to renew suits in certain cases. 373.

An act to abolish and establish certain elect ion precincts. 374- An act to refund certain taxes over charged. 37a. An act to pay a certain claim against the State. 376.

An act rraking appropriations to pay cer tain c'aims against the State. 377. An act making appropriations for the pavment ol certain claims against the fetate. 378. An act to incorporate the Tallapoosa and Coosa Railroad Compauy.

379. An act to amend the charter ot the town of Greensboro', in Greene county. 380. An act to incorporate the Limestone county Turnpike Company. 381.

An act tn incorporate the Haynevilleand Tallawassee Plank Road Company. 382. An act to incorporate the Maricn Guards. 383. An act tor the better protection cl cattle in Mobile conntv.

384. An act to form two new chancery dis trict. 385. An act to incorporate the Dale Diagoons and for other purposes. 386.

An act attach the conntv of Hancock to the fourth judicial circuit and for other pur poses. 387. An act in relation to the inception ol the lien in chancery attaenments. 383. An act to change the name-of the persons therein named.

3S9. An act divorcing certain persons therein named. 390. An act to incorporate the Opelika and Girard plank road company. 391.

An act to incorporate the Upehka and Dndleyville prank road company. 392. An act to amend the law regulating the State printing. 393. An act to extend the corporate limits of the city ot Montgomery.

394. An act to prevent injury to plank road; and covered roads. 395. An act to compensate the the owners nf bunding" used by the Ueneral Assembly and officers ol the State. 39G.

An act to incorporate the Conecuh navi gation company. 397, An act for the relief cf Jesse Home. 398. An act to provide for the registration and sate disposition ol the unsold state JJonds. 399.

An act to amend the penal code of thi sute. 400. An act to sutliorise the sale of the es tates of deceased persons. 401. An act to change the time of paying out tlie interest due or hereafter due the several townships in this Slate on the 16th section fund, 402.

An act lo amend an act to regulate permanently the 16th aectioa fund, approved March 8tb.l848. 403. An act to make appropriations to pay certain claims against tlie State 404. An act to snake aa appropriation lo pay certain claims against the State. i eua.

An act making appropriations to pay certain claims against the Slate. 406. An act to provide the Incorporation oi companies to construct, macadamise, grant, turnpike, wooden, rail nds or plank ruads. 4u7. An act to amend the law now in force in relation to the collection of judgments obtained against administrators and executors.

408 An act in relation to indictments against slaves for capital offences. 409. An act to amend an act entitled an act to reform the evils arising from local legislation. 410. An act for the relief ef Juiius A.

Marti- Here, 01 Homier county. 41 1. An act to incorporate the Wedowee and Armcoocira rail road company. 412. An act to incorporate the Mobile Musical Association.

411. An act further to provide for the final settlement of ihe affairs of the Planters and Me chanics' Sank of Mobile. 414. An act to reneal In Dart aa act enmnat. ling teachers of schools and students is Jefferson county to wont on public roads.

or enclosed under exisliug laws, of eroaiu of ISM BrilatM. It not a little amusing to witness tbe lamenta tions the whig press and speaker over the loss of a frwit project in which' they had fondly etMrished the expectation of "coming it over the dentteracpr The exposure and defeat of their late plan to secure two out of three of the codify era, haa set the pack full ery upon all those who ieiferea in this, their darling purpose. In their attacks, courtesy and delicacy are disregarded, and billingsgate and vituperation pressed into service. bespatter all who stood the way of their success. Of course those democrats who have been the greatest obstacles, come in for an extra share of their censure and denunciation, and in tha category stands cor friend Hall, one of tbe Representatives from Autauga, who has been roughly token to task by a scurrilous scribbler to the Huntsville Advocate, over tbe signature of Lamartiue," Mr.

Hall is a long way beyond the puny darts of this comempti ble penny-a-liner, and defence from, his assaults would give the writer more importance than he de serves, judging from this letter. The idea of Mr. Hall's attaching himself to Thany Pavis, as this correspondent calls him, will provoke a smile from all those who are acquainted with the two gentle men. We don't know that either of them hod more to do with the meeting of the party, so much com- plained of, than any other democrat of any promi-1 neoce, and if they had, they are so much the more commendable for it. While on this subject we will notice a letter, written by Mr.

Robert H. Smith of the House, to the Eutaw Democrat, in which we are accused of making1 a false insinuatioD," in an article we wrote headed "Retrospective Democracy His language is nsed in such a manner as to- leave the impression that we did so designedly. If such wsb the idea intended to be conveyed by Mr. Smith, he is a base and infamous libeller, and utte-ly unworthy of belief and until we are better informed as to his purpose in that particular, we shall not give him credit for what he states as facts. Now, as we said before, we do not blame this busy body, Mr.

Smith, who it seems had been running about and arranging whigs into the office, before it had been created, nor the whig party, for trying to monopolise a majority of the important offices in the State; but we blamed the democrats. We are at loss to account for his stupidity, in defending his party against that which could have been no error or crime if committed. Let us be clearly understood in this matter. We would not by any means make mere party a test in offices of this, or of any other kind, but where the donmient party have men of equal ability, we think tbem clearly entitled to a majority of the officers, judicial or otherwise. This is the principal acted upon by both parties throughout the United States we think it ajust and equitable one, and are will ing to be bound by it We are pretty Bure to have to yield to it when in the minority we should therefore insist on it while in the majority.

From California. We publish some extracts below from a cor respondent of the New Orleans True Delta, dated San Francisco, December 31, 1849. We doubt not this letter jjives a most failhfui account of the state of affiirs in thut country But few fortunes will ever be made there, per haps one out cf a thunsanJ, and the persous who make them will rarely know how to take care ot them. Money quickly made, is usually as quickly spent, from the fact that it is not properly ap preciated. Will the few who may be success ful compensate for the hundreds and that will become shipwrecked in hirtune, health and morals, to eiy nothing of those who nil! descend to an untimely grave 1 There are a lame number of our citizen here, some of whom are represented as being (millenaries, and some as oems awiuiiy poor.

Take the entire people now within the bounds ot this state, and I hazard nothing in asserting that there is more of misery, and less of corntort and contentment, than was ever before heard ol vei on will hear of those who have the means to take them back to the States, that liere is no ne cessity of any man being in' distress here. 1 tell ou, that 1 know ut hundreds, both here and Sacramento City, who liave not tl.e means ti purchase a miserable pair of blankets, which can be had io both places lorfive dollars, and who are unable to tret labor at any price. Many, vetv many, American born citizens there are, who, besides beins sick, are in destitute circumstances Never, till iat week, have I heard Americans so ldi in charity, and I blush at the thought that seme of tbe appeals were in vain. This a reality theaufU'rers little dreamt oi before they led their comfortable homes. Jf were asked uhal he chief product of this state was.

I shoulo answer profound selfishness It affects alike the rich (it there are any sucn; anu me pour. As though me Crimes ot taro, moute, roulette. rondo, dice, with the aid of rum and bauds of music, were not strong enongh attractions to entice the unwary into the iieila which abound here, the proprietors ol seme of them have recently introduced a new feature in the shape ot exican senoniaSy one or more ol whom are 1 be seen at every principal bouse; some dealing cardt others drawing in the hard-earned money of the deluded wretches. In one of the hells 1 have seen an Anglo-Saxon woman, but, thank God! only one. The streets here are hardly passable, either for man or beast.

I have seen team after team mtred in some of the greatest thoroughfares Foot passengers can manage, by hook and b) crook, to gel along by wading, ankle deep ai every in the most slippery mud yon ever ueard ot. Passengers who have come down within a few diva from Sacramento City, represent a gloomy slate of things there. The Slough is full and running over, and the river is near I over the bauks. If an inundation should take place there, no one can calculate the damage thai will or done. So great is tlie anxiety of the people to set back to the Stales, that torty tickets have been issued by this steamer to nersons without berths.

More than this steerage tickets have been in demrind for some days three hundred arid fijty dollars, an advance of only two hundred dollars This argues one ol two Uiuig that this El Uorafrty and people who are up to snuli get what they want, or that it is tiut, and thai Uiey are returning uiiguaeu. We take the following from the last number of; the Huntsville Democrat: Mr. P. Wood Allow tne to make known through the columns of your paper, that the cost of wansportation lor cotton from any point on the I en-nessee river above Decatur to Charleston. snm and all expanses toul, amtmnta to only fl.tO tn 1,2 cents per 100 lbs.

This 1 wiU guarantee wnera were is no insurance euecteo en tlie snip-ment, and tliia can be dune by tbe addiiional expense of three-eights of one per cent upon tbe value of tue shipment, vhich at the present price of cotton would only be about 20 to it rents per oaie oi sou ids. i iruai tins will aatialy all inquiry on tne suoject, ana si race any nmrrpreaeni lours, ttefpectlully. ROBKRT HANCOCK. Feb. 4, 1850.

Agent for John Fraser 4 Co. Flerlde ludl.MS. Tbe intelligence from Florida, relative to the In diana, is rather untttbfactory Bowlegs and ser ersl of his chiefs bars cnownted to emigrate with their families. Bam Jones did not come in. Some think there will be no more difficulty, and others arc of a contrary opinion.

Feikwr H.ikrw. Colombos papers announce the arrival of Father Mathew in Ilia' city, on the 12th Inst. Ha will ia all robabilily be ia (bit city io a law dare. of and is Sf his all a 9 The Pasoeawa or ths Miaaftetrpi ia still being exhibited to crowded bouses. It will be seen by the advertisement that it will enly be open for three more nighta.

i Sections Law. We publish to-day the act passed by the last Legislature relative to the substitution of lands for the valueless sixteenth sections. It will be found of general in teres t- Our weekly will contain the above law, with a caption of all the acts passed at the recent session of the Legislature, together with the revenue law at length all of which will be valuable for future reference. 1 Saddleht Wabbhousk, Mobile. The attention of persons in want of saddles, bridles, harness, trunks, is directed to the advertisement of V.

Primrose 6 Son, in this paper. Eaaott CoaaxcTED. We erroneously stated, a day or two ago, that Mr. Cobb, the Speaker, had introduced a resolution into the House, proposing to refer the whole matter of dispute about slavery to a joirit committee of the two Houses. It was the Hon.

W. R. W. Cobb, tbe member from this State. Whig Kcoiiomv.

Great things were promised by the whigs before their advent to power, in the way of economy, re trenchment, reform, in the management of the affaire of the General Government; but how have all these fair promises been kept since their instal lation into omce I Why we find, that the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Meredith' has spent several hundred thousand dollars more in collecting the re venues during tlie first six months of whig rule, than haa ever before been expended for the same purpose, in a like period, since the foundation of the Government At tbe last session of Congress the amount fixed by law for collecting the revenues of the Government was $1,650,000, per annum; and lthough this law was passed at the recommenda tion of Mr. Secretary Walker, it will be remembered, that the House of Representatives was largely whig: and notwithstanding Mr. Meredith knew, that this amount was all he bad to depend upon, forde-fraying the expenses of collecting the revenues, yet we find that he had expended nearly every dollar of it, about 81,600,000, within the first six months and now asks Congress for an amount almost equal to that already squandered, for the expenses of col lecting for the remainder of the year. And bo- cause they will not at once accede to, and grant this exorbitant demand, he falls out with the Commit tee of Ways and Moans dismantles tbe vessels in the revenue service discharges hundreds of offi cers in the different Custom Houses refuses to pay those retainedkicks up a fuss generally in his branch of the public service causes great discontent throughout the country, and charges it all to the obstinacy of Congress, in not sanctioning bim in Ins already wasteful expenditures, and providing him means to continue on iu the 'same course.

Not only has this profligacy gone on in the Treasury de partment, but every bureau of the Government they have all sent in to the Committee of Ways and Means asking additional appropriations for insuffi ciences of continences. And the correspondent of the Baltimore Sun writes, that they were voted down in the committee by a vote of six to three, and that a whig member had made the motion Such is the practice of whiggery. In less than twelve months they have run finally aground, hav. ing squandered all their means, and now call uponJ uongress ror neip; ana even some ut their own party are so disgusted with their demands, they move to disallow them. Thb is goiug back to the davs of tlie early Presi.

dels with a vengeance, isn't it! Don't think Washington and Jefferson would recognise the Government under its present management. l'be Be. llu Hiaalon. The Journal notices the rumors circulated bv correspondents of tlie New York, Baltimore and Charleston papers, relative to the appointment of Mr. Milliard as Minister to Prussia, aud "doubts exceedingly if it has any foundation in fact, It has good reasons to believe that Mr.

H. is never made application for the mission, and ni'uiin it may nave been tendered to mm, we tinubt if he could be induced to accent it," "Tread softly "neighbor. Have yon forgotten yo made similar declarations about Jerry a iale leas than a year ago. when it subsequently mrned out in' the canvass that he had been ah citfice beggar, and falsified, by his own declara tions, what you had ventured to say about his nut ucivig sol The idea cf Jerry's refusing an office tendered to him'' ha ha Iia 1 Du you believe it yourself, Mr. Journal Mall Failures.

The New Orleans and Mobile papers publish a list of the failures of the mail between the for mer city and New York a route, perhaps, the most important in the Union, from which it appears thai from the 1st January to the 8tli Feb ruary, a ierirl of thirty-nine days, (here havi bee.i thirty failures of the newspaper mail, and twenty-two of the letter mjjl. As the Delta remarks, we all know that the Post Mas- terGeneral has power to assess heavy fines, and to annul cootracls, and having this authority and failing to enforce it, the blame must in great part" attach to him. The complaints are universal throughout the country even the whig press I ave beeo forced to cry out. Never, since the formation of the Government, lias the service been so inefficient in the Post Office Department, A remedy is loudly demanded upon all sides. Georgia Awake The Legislature ol Georgia have passed a se ries of well drawn an able resolutions npon tlie slavery question.

We need not say that they are of the "right stripe;" Uiey could not be otherwise coming from the land of We insert the eighth of Ihe series, which looks to fu ture action. It will be teen that she haa gone one step farther than any other Southern Stale providing for the call of a Convention in the event of tlie admission of California as a State, ia its present pretended A few tchiiit made an Ineffectual effbit Aral to out, and then amend this clause of the resolution but II was voted down by a large majority, and then the whole series passed with but one or two dissenting voices: i i 8ih, Resolved, That In the event of the pas-sase ol Ibe Wilmot pnrvwn by Congress, the abolition ul slavery in the District of Colombia the admission of California as a Slate, iu its present pretended organization, or Ihe continued re- lusal nt tlie nrwalaveholding Bute, to deliver op fugitive slaves, aa provided in the lonstitu- lion, il will become the immediate and imperative duty ol lis? people of Ibis ISiaie lo meet in Con vention loiaae ininoonaiaoraiion ine moue alio measures nt ledreas. Hasll.llleC.aT.Mll.il. The leittafrt of Georgia, by Joint vote, have elected the following gentlemen to represent the State at lares in the Natrhville Convention: Ex- Got. Charles i.

McDonald, of Cobb, Hoa. It McAllister, of Chatham, Hon, Wav Law, of Chat ham, Hon. Charles J. Dougherty, of Clarke. Tbe election of two delegates from each of the Congressional Districts, is to take place aa tha first Tuesday in April of be of 421: An act in relation to courta of probate and their jurisdiction.

422. Aa act supplementary to an act estab- liahing courts of probate and for other purposes. presrui session oi me uenerai Assembly. 423. An act to alter and amend an act securing to married women their separate estaies and for oilier purposes, approved March 1st, 1848.

424. Anaotsupplementaltoanactmakingan wiupiwuuu to umia ine oiaie nouse at JUnut-gumery. 425. An act for the benefit of the estate of James V. Fasten, late of tlie countv ol Jackson.

420. An act establishing tlie Medical Association of the State of Alabama. 427. An act to incornnrate the Selma Fire Company No, 1, of the town of Selma. 428.

An act to provide tor the erection of i omu atones over the rsmams of deceased mem bers. 429. An act extending the iurisdiction of the Criminal Court of Mobile county and for other purposes tuerein named. 430. An act for Ihe relief of the heirs of Is ham Sheffield, deceased, of ilcox county.

431. An act to establish justices courts in the county of Marshall. 432. An act to locate lands for valueless six teenth Sections. 433.

An act. to apply the State tax nf Tusca loosa county to paying interest on the University runu. 434. An act to appropriate twenty thousand dollars tor the paymt nt ul the members and olh cers ol Ihe present beneral Assembly. 43a.

Au act in relation to saw mills tn Shelby county. 436. An act to incorporate the Auburn and I allapoosa ptank road company. 437. An act to amend the charter of the Girard and Mobile railroad.

438. An act to iiicorrxirate the Montgomery Mechanics' Manufacturing Company in the cily ot Montgomery. 439. An act to incorporate the Mobile and Spring Hill plank nr shell road company. 440.

An act to incorporate the Tuskegee plank road company. 441. An art to change the name or the Criminal Court of Mobile countv. 442. An act to change the time nf holding the Circuit Court in the counties of Shelby and St.

Clair. JOINT RESOLUTIONS AND MEMORI ALS. 1. Joint Resolutions to compensate Jefferson F. Jackson, the agent appointed to restate ard settle the claims ot this State against the Uuited States on account of the five per cent fund.

'I. A Joint Resolution in relation to ihe suit now pending between th State of Alabama and the Branch Bank at Huntsville. 3. Joint Resolutions for the printing and dis tribution of tlie report of the State Geologist. 4.

A- Joint Resolution for the benefit of the Central Institute. 5. Resolutions No. 1. proposing certain amendments to the constitiution of the State of Alabama.

6. joint Resolutions for the pavment nf the State Printers, 7. A Report and Joint Resolutions in relation to the deal of James K. Polk. 8.

A Joint Resolution in relation to the Washington Monument. 9. Joint Resolutions for the relief of Charles S. Lucas of Montgomery. 10.

Joint Resolutions instructing our Senators in 11. Joint KesoluUons ratifying the proposed amendments to the Constitution of the State ol Alabama. 13. Joint Resolutions in relation to the colors presented to the Alabama Battalion. 14.

Memorial to the Congress of the United States for 4he sale of the Cedar Reserve, in Clarke county. 14. A Joint Memorial of the the General As sembly of the State ot Alabama to the Congress of the United States. 1 5. Joint Resolutions for tlie relief ot Richard G.

Davis. 16. Joint Resolutions authorising D. Coggin to draw the pay due the Hon. Woodson N'orthcut, late a member of the House of llepresentative from Marion county.

17. Joint Resolutions for the relief of Richard Berhon of Pike county. 13. Joint Kesomtinn concerning thedeposite of public arms, and for other purposes. 19.

Joint Memorial to the Umgress of Ihe Uuited States praying for grants of land to aid in the ennstrnction of rail roads and plank roads. 20. Joint Resolutions to provide tor obtaining duplicates of books and public documents destroyed in the burning of the State Capitol. 31. Joint KesoluMons in relation to the safe keeping ot the furniture oi both Houses of Ihe beneral Assembly.

Oar Stale Officers. Alabama is certainly fortunate in the selection of her State officers. Col GarretMhe Secretary of State, is well known as a gentlemen of ability end strict integrity, and his obliging disposition and business habita have secured Ibe esteem and confidence of all who have ever had business tn transact with him. With Mr. Graham, the Stale 1 reaauier, we have no persona acqutnlance, but be nns the reputation ol being in every respect and excellent officer.

In the Tuscolonsa Monitor, of Wednesday last, we find the following remarks upon the re-election of Joel Riggs, as Comptroller, which we heartily indorse: The re-election ol this able and indefatigable omcer, by the almost unanimous vole ot the legis lature. lias given mucn granm anon 10 ins nume rous friends in this section of the State, of both political parties. We have known Mr. Ricirs long and intimately, we have witnessed daily, lor many years, his laborious devotion lo the interests of the State, and we believo that the Legislature never conferred a trust upon a more honorable man or a more faithlul public servant." Wen dMoamian. Literary Blunder.

When Godwin was employed in writing the life rf Chatham, he applied to many of his ac-quiintinre for editable anrrdutes and Mr. Fawreit supplied him with a a'riking passage from a speech which he had heard Chatham deliver, on general warrants': "Every man's honae b) ralfaj his eamle. Why Because it is surrounded by a moat, or defended bv a wall 7 No. It may be a atraw built hut the winds may whittle around il i the rain may ante: it bat the Kin; cannot." the point was plain enongh; but when be cante tu read the printed volnme. he found il thus arranged: "Every man's hoose is called his catile.

Why Be cause it turrnunded by a moat or defended bv a wall 1 No. It may be a straw built hat; tin? ram may enter it all tne winds of heaven may wniie ruunu uui mc jvuig Liusca OT Steamers. Three steamers are to be launched at New York this momine. from the ship yard of Mr. W.

11. Brown: the Arciie, 3,500 tons, for Collin's Ttcw York and Liverpool line the 650 tons, snd the Aew IVWi, 600 tons. The fast one (ihe Mirror says) is be launclied with her engines in comtilete work ing order, and the steam up," and proceed at once on her trial trip. This is a novel idea. and.

we most think, a highly dsnyrrous one. The mere act ot Munching a vesrel involves mam contingencies bat when the chance of an scci dent (rum the steam is added to the rest the dan eer hi tearfully increased, and Ihe rom-equaiices, if an accident should occur, are too frightful lo contemplate. A4i0Mi Inleihgcnccr, tcb. 1, to acquiescence of the majority in Ins leadership lur nituies conclusive evidence of their appreciation of skill, prudence and wisdom. He has superseded tlie experienced democratic statesmen in the Senate, and stands forth tbe great champion and captain of the democracy, acting on all occasions as though there had been devolved upon him the regu lation and control of the whole legislation of the body.

He is Eclipse, and the rest are nowhere. Tbe great lights that were wont to illumine that side of tlie chamber are paled before the refulgence of this new sun. Messrs. Calhoun. Benton, Cass, tiro, are secondary and really inconsiderable men in comparison with General Foote and, as for Dickinson, Douglas, Hunter, anil that class generally, why they are of no account the estimate.

In fighting the battle. General Foote disdains aid, and seeks no sympathy. He stands there, another Am- adis de Gaul, defying all enemies, relying on the mignt oi nis strong ngnt arm. a ever was there so vigilant a commander never a man so ready at every description of war, offensive and defensive. He wields his weapon with equal grace, facility, and effect.

Like the Irishman who went inlo a tight with the determination to bit every head ha saw ex posed. General Foote lays about him with so much vehemence, that his own troops sometimes feel the vigur oi urn oiuwb; uui uns is (juiie luteiy (lie ei- lect ot calculation, and intended to enforce more per- lect discipline uis own ranus. oeinir the position of General Foote. and such his relations to the majority of the Senate, it is neither wise nor mst to disparage his talents, or misrepresent his im portance in that body, lie application oi opprobrious epithets and terms of reproach generally to man holding this position in tlie Senate, is in bad tate, and the eltect is necessarily injurious to tbe whig cause. Rejection ok Webb.

The correspondent of the Charleston Courier, uuder date of the 12th inst snvs: The Senate, to-day, rejected the nomination of james watson weoo, as unurge at Vienna, by a vote of seven for it, and thirty-four against it. Among the negatives were Mr. Clay and ilr. Web ster. Muny rejoice at this vindication of the honor ot the country.

By Telegraph to the Charleston Mcnnry, ARRIVAL OF THE El'ROPA Baltimore. February 9. Tlie steamer Eurona arrived at Halifax on Fridav evening, and the news was received in this eity at o'clock this morning. The following is an abstract: Livkbpooi-Jan. 26.

Commercial affairs continue in a satisfactory condition, but the tone is less buov aut than that prevailing a week since. During the last fortnight the sales of Colonial produce have only been to moderate extent, but holders are nrm, and lull prices have been generally obtained. Liverpool Cotton Market. The Cotton mar ket opened on Friday the 1 8th, with a fair demand at the full rates of this day fortnight. On Tuesday morning tne attvices by the steamer ol (He 5th from Boston, were received, with information of the ad vance in prices in tbe United States, when the mar ket became very much excited, and prices advanced fully id, and in some instances the sales amounting to 30,000 bales.

Since Tuesday the demand has been less active, tlie sales amounting to but zu.uuu, ana prices nave declined -frd trotn the extreme prices current on Tuesday. The market closed ou the 25th at advance of a id upon the quotations of Friday last, and the sales to-dav (26th) amount to 7000 bales. The sales of the week ending yesterday (25th) reach 80,000 bales, of winch speculators took 28,000. he Committee official quotations are for Fair Fair Mobile. 7 Fair Orleans, 7.

The Corn market is languid, purchasers only ope rating to the extent of immediate wants. Best Western Canal Hour, Philadelphia find Baltimore, 25 a 25 6(1: Ohio, 24 a 25. litdam Corn 31 0 for bile, and 29 3 for Yellow Mixed, 29. Tobacco firm throughout the kingdom, at full prices. Provisions have advanced Is.

on the new qualities. New Mess Pork, 60 a 58s; good Shoulders, 19 6. Lard is very active, and is advancing; new is quoted at 35s. being the lowest figure. Coffee is in less demand, but holders generally are firm.

Sugar a less active. Money is abundant, but the market is more strin gent consols, i. Kussiftn Loan, 4 prem. The New York Packet ship Huttinirenr was wrecked near Halifax, aud the Captain uud 12 of ine crew were arowircd. The political news is unimportant Addlllonnl by the Enropai Baitimose.

Feb. i.tl P.M. IjOndon, Jan. 25. Money is unusually abundunt, hut it is supposed that it will become tighter in con sequence oi tne large specuiauonf in tbe nussian loan, which it is believed will cause a downward tendency for some time in Coffee and other produce.

Sales of Porto Rico Sugar, dutv paid, at 84a95. Tlie advices from Calcutta state that the markets sre the same as by the previous advices, but tbe im ports are limited. In trance tbe winter has been usuallv rurorous. The discussion of the Education bill had been at tended with great excitement the Chamber of deputies, and M. Lavoissier bad resigned.

The ship Guy Mannering had ten feet water in ner ola wnen she reached the Liverpool docks. Fnrffcer by the Europe. Baumoax. Feb. 10.

1 P. II, France has abandoned her intervention in the af fairs of Buenos Ayres. In Prussia a threatened dissolution of the Cabiuet has been compromised. we Austrian met nas tieen convoked. The liuno-ver Chamber of Deputies refuse to recognise the Central Commission of Austria and Prtutoa.

Tlie Sardinian Deputies have approved the treaty of jium-cp icuiuvub anu AliairiH. AI Berlin negotiations nave been renewed for Tjeace with Denmark. Russia bas resumed diplomatic intercourse with Austria. From England and Ireland there is nothing worthy of special notice. The steamer Ohio arrived at Hew York ester- Nsw Yom.

Feb. II. Cotton lias been dull, sales IUuO balm Middling Orleans ia Quoted at 121. beinoa de- rlineofj. Flour remains the same as befure the arrival of the sleamer.

Lard imnroves. Su. 1 oar arm Alumssfs quiet. uKiiig utuiar ijiiuics new American LAM! at per cent. prcm.

The brig IU inesots, for New York, went ashore1 off Fire Island, and was tmslly wrecked. Four lives were lost by ihe accident. The slramshin Ti rmm V. v.l bound tn California, arrived at Rio on tlie 31st uecemoer isai. BaLTIHoaa.

tVh II ISM The Gampa arrived at New Vorl .1 clock today The latent Livpruail d.i. I. i the 26t July. The sales of the day were six iran-a; maraei Twelve thou sand pounds wre siibacnbed in liinit.m tM ti, nmpiised World'a Exhibition nf sia and Torkey are thoroughly reronriled Tnr- si-y cnnseniing mal ine I'oliah aultjeclsof Kusais iiall be obligi In leave Ihe Turkish dominion. Si-nilsr ar an emenis are progressing beiwe.it Anuria ami Turkey.

Among tlie prtwcritied refugee, are Bern nd Krwaoih. New York cmton held higher. Prosper M. Wetraore 'refunded ninety thousand dollars. Jiweph Hilcki.ey, ol notion, oi riie nrm oi nrown, uawrence and hticknej, committed suicide by drowning.

By Talagmpa to lbs Kavaaann OcoralHS. New YoRi.r'eb. 12. Cotton has in our market to-dae Males 2.600 mna'lr lor France. Middling Urleaus a) nowoooted at 12..

Tlie rteamer Rhode If la nit. bound tn California, is reported lost, 12 of her passengeri have seen saves ana tv atow oca. as weil as the principal, shall be held liable untii the proper amount is paid, Sec. 4- Be it farther enacted. That whenever the assessment is made on any property, it shall create and continue as a lien on the same until the tax shall be paid, and said tax must, in ail cases, be paid belore the 1st day iu November in overy year.

taxes maybe paid in gold or silver, warrants of the Slate Treasury, bills or notes ol any specie paying banks in this Slate, or of the Slate bank and branches, or treasuay notes of the Uuited States And the assessor having, as far aa practicable, ascertained and faithfully assessed all properly and subjects equally, according to value, and specifically, as Herein stated, and returned his lists, full power is hereby given to tlie tax-collector, (after lie shall have given fifteen davs previous notice, ot the t.me and place at which he will receive taxes, by advertisement in live or more public places in each beat, or anch other notke as is or may be required by law, tu distrain and sell property sufficient to pay any taxes due and unpaid, alter the notice, as required in the case ol sheriff's or constable's sales, oi tetake Such other steps as are, or may be requir ed by law. But both the assessor and collector shall ench, alter they respectively have given the notice of their attendance, as is, or may be, re quired by law, visit the premises or residences oi the tax-payers who may fail and refuse, without just cause, to attend and give in anu sitan eacn be entitled to receive therefor the sum of twenty cents, in each instance, which not being paid, may be recovered before any justice of the peace ol the eo. 8. Be it further evmlcd, That If any person fail to procure license, and engage in the Business pmniu eo wittiont siicii license, sucu person may be, by warrant, arrested and brocghl before a justice of the pesce, or oilier proper of ficer, and bound over regularly, to the circuit or criminal court to answer; and on indictment, being footd gtiiliy, shall be fined IB any sum tlie jury may assess. And If any person liable to pay taxes, shall wilfully and knowingly withhold, remove or conceal any property or ertecta.

assessed or liable to he as- sved, or do any other act to evade tlie honest payment ol taxes, lie shall be deemed guilty at a misdemeanor and on trial and conviction, be bueiL id any aura tlie jury try- iug tlie ofleuce may assess, not less than tea nor more loan one tnousana Suiiars. -fixe. 9. Bek further enacted. That it shall be the duty of the clerk of the county eoart and all other officers who mav collect or be charged with the collection of the revenue under this act, But only faithfully to are that taxes sre assesses and paid, and licenses obtained according to law, but keep accurate accounts of the money they receive or (list cornea inlo their hands, and (a lib- fully to pay the same over to tlie State or eouoty treasury respectively, as tiary are, or may be.

reouired by law awl If any assessor or enllec- tovciork or oilier officer, concerned in the as sessment or collect ice ol the revenue, or any part thereof, shall knowingly convert any portion therof tu his owe or any other rmprof-er use, or be sjuiiiy of any other Iraudulent or Itul viola tiuaj ol bis dunes, (besides the liability on his bond,) be shsil be denned gmily ol a tetany, and on indictment and conviction, be fined in any uia tlie jury trying Hie offence may assess sod be sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary foe a neriod not leas than two and not exceeding tea years, one or both, at the discretion of the jury trying the offence. Use. 1. A nd be it further enacted, Thai all laws, and parts of the provisions ol Ihujucl.be, and tlie same are hereby repealed frwded. So obligations to pay, assess or collect lues, 1 claim, suit or pjosrcalkm, orioating as injurious to ns, by far, as to our Northern ran.

And although we should prefer remaining ia the Uniuo, if we can enjoy our rights guaranteed i by the Constitution, be advisee his constituents to be ready to resist the aggrosaioas of the North at i every haxard. The New Prlesna papers are discussing the pre-t, priety of consolidating their eity government, In. 18 New Orleans was divided into three maoicl- palities; each of which have bad, since than, a die- tinct organisation. It is now proposed to repeal that law, and abullth these separate departmeoUj and upon this question there is now going ou a pa- per war of considerable spirit, but of no particular interest to outsiders, f-i Aa Krror CorrnlMI. fr We see It erronenualy stated in several of oar exchange that Mr.

Jackson, who haa beea pro. bably elected to Congress in Ihe Savannah Pis. tricl, wat Hit Colonel of the Georgia Regiment. ia Ihe late war with Mexico. Such ia not tha fad.

That gentleman is now one of the Circuit Judgea on the Bosch. i 15 return.