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f C o n g r e s s . HliN iTE, - . lVednesday, .Dec, 15.—On motion IVlr. Havne, Resolved, That so much of tlie President’s Message as relates to the provision for General L a F ayette ,* be r,e|tn red to-a select c o m m i t t e e five. — In making tliisxnotion, Mr. H. ofiserv- ed, fhat it was not his • object that' the Committee should act immediately upon it, becanse the subject was already in good hands in-the other House ; but the coniriiUtee here might, in the mean time, he obtainirig information for the use of the Senate, when the subject should come before it. A report was received from the Post master General, stating, “ the most prac ticable post route front New-Orleans to Washington city which was read and ordered to be printed. On Thursday, the Senate were prin cipally occupied in the consideration of executive business. A bill was intro duced to regulate the jurisdiction of the supreme court of the U. States. The Senate did not sit on Friday. Monday, Dec. 20.— Mr. Hayne, from the committee to whom was reierred the subject of making provision for Gen. L a E axette , repotted the following bill Be it*enacted, & C -'That the sum of , Ttsia Huiidred Thousand Dojh^s be, and the same is hereby, granted to Major General La Payette, In compensation for his important services and expenditures during the' American Revolution, and that, for this purpose, a stock to that a? mount be issued in his favor, dated the 4th July, 1824, bearing an annual inter est of six per cent, payable quarter year ly, and redeemable on the 3lst Dec. 1834. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That one complete^and entire Township o f Land he, and the same is hereby, grant ed to the said Major General L-a Fayette, and that the President of the United States be authorized, to cause the said Township to be located on any of the Public Lands which remain uniold*, and - that Patents be issued to General La Fay ette for the same. The bill was twice read, by igenei^l consent, and Mr. Hayne gave notice that he should move its third reading to-mor row. A resolution was proposed for an en quiry itito the expediency of limiting the ■number of cadets at the Military Acade- ■ ihy at West Point, to the number of Mbmbers in the House of Representa tives, and that the number to be admitted from each State and Territory, respec tively, shall be the same as that of the Representatives to which such State or Territory shall be entitled. Tuesday, Dec, 21.—‘The bill making an appropriation fpr General L a F ay ette , was read the third time, and -pas sed almost unanimously. It appeared by the statements exhibr. ifed, that in 1T77 the General bad'an an nual income of»bout ^29,000, which be had reduced h^fosses and sacrifices in the canse o f U beky; and, that from: 1777 to 1783, he expended in the American service, 128,000 doIHrs. In ’83 Con gress made a grant to the General of 11,620 acres of land, which he was au thorized to locate in any of the vacant lands in the territory of Orleans. In J 80S the. agent of the General did locate 1000 acres adjoining N. Orleatis City.— Jn 1807, Congress, wholly overlooking this circumstance, gra,nted to the City of New-Ojleans a space 600 yards around the fortificalions of the City, including a valuable po^rtlon of the land which had been entered by the General. He was infutmed o f this act, and ad vised that his title was good,, and that the property was worth \.^50^000. The General replied that .he would not consent even to in'qiiire into the validity of hisf title ; that he could not think of entering into a Ihi-gation with any public body in the U. States ; that the property- had been gra tuitously bestowed by the U. States, and it was with them to say what had been given.He therefore directed his agent to relinquish his entry,and make a location else--where. This had- been done, and the Gectificate from the Land Office, proves, that the land\ substituted for that which has been lost, is o f very inconsid erable value. General La Fayette, however did riot stop here—he had been' induced to dispose of a part of his inter est in this land, to an Irish bAronet, Sir Josiah - Coghill. His contract with this gentleman created, of course, much ein- barrasmeot to him i. but the general on ly considered that it might only embar rass the government ofjhe United States. He made an appeal to that gentleman, who with a liberality vverthy'of all praise, agreed to relinquish'' his claims to the land in question, and accepted a claim on other lands in. satLfaction for them. La Fayette .stopped not even here ; he was not satisfied while any'thing remained to. be done. I have myself, said Mr. Hayne seen and examined file in the Land-. Otfice, this deed of relinquishment, de posited there by General La Fayette himself, to secure the government froiq all future difficulty; It only remains for me, says Mr. H. to add, that, on a portion of land, thus generousiy relinquished, now .stands a .valuable part o f the city of New-Orlean.s, valued by gentlemen well acquainted with it, (according to esti- raatp.s now before him,) atfrom ybnr to five hundred thousand dollars. HOU3E OP REPBESEIVTATIVES. Wednesday, Dec. 15.— Mr, Wright, of Ohio, offered the'following resolution— = Resolved,- Tb-it the committee on- the judiciary be instructed to inquire into the. propriety .of providing by law,, that any - jutirclal or other civil officer of the ,gov- i ernment of the United States, who shall — hereafter engage in fighting a duel, or in 1, challenging, assisting, or encouraging any * other person to engage, shall forfeit the office by him ^ held, and be ever after wards rendered incapable of holding the like,'or other office under the govern ment.— A motion for consideration was made, when Mr. Poinsett moved tO lay the resolution on the table, whichwas neg atived, and the resolution was agreed to. \A resolution offered by Mr. Forsyth, calling for information relative to the Treaty of 1804 with the Cherokee In dians, the causes for the delay in its rati fication, &c. was taken up and agreed to.' The Speaker laid before the Llouse a communication from the Department of the Treasury, accompanied by a report from the First Comptroller of the Treas ury, with euclosures on the' subject of the collection of tonnage duties on Canal boats.. On motion of Mr. Storrs, these papers were referred tO' the Committee on Commerce with instructions to inquire into the expediency of SO amending the act of Congress regulating the commerce of the United States, and imposing duties on tonnage, that they shall not be con strued to extend to boats employed ex clusively in transportation on the interior, canals of the states.” ' On mo.tioli of BIr. Cambreleng the House went into committee o f the whole on the bill ‘noluithorize the Secretary lOf the.Ti-eaSury to adopta new hydrome ter, &c. Mr. C. explained to the com mittee the object o f the bill. . A.s early as 1791, the. government, had, by law, adopted Dycas’ Hydrometer for ascer taining the proof of spirits ; that, since then, the ingenuity of our own country men had furnished us with many hy drometers which had been found' more accurate, and. which were managed with more simple apparatus ; that the bill merely, proposed to leave at the discretion of the Treasury, with the sanction of the President, to adopt such hydrometer as might be' proved, by experiment and comparison, rnosf accurate, and best a- dopted to the purpose, &c. &c. The bill was then ordered for a third reading. . . *‘^TfivTsday, Dec. Ifi.—-A resolution of fered by Mr. Livingston, respecting, miy claimed stock of the U. States, and- that offered by Mr. Brent, calling for infor mation in relation to the survey of the. Western boundary o f the United Slates, were taken up and agreed to. The bill to authorize a new hydrome ter^ tvas read a.third time, passed, and senttothe Senate for concurrence. On motion of Mr- Cambreleng, Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to communi cate to Jhis House, if compatible with the public interest, the correspondence with the Spariish government relating to the piracies nf 'the island of Cuba. The House went into Committee on the bill authorizin.g.payment for property lost or destroyed by the enemy' during the<^te wa H After some debate the committee rose, and bad leave to sit a- gain ; and the papers, referred to whilst in'committee of the whole, were order ed to be printed. The House adjourned to Monday, Monday, Dec. 20.— T he resolution of fered by Mr. Cambreleng, calling fpr the corresponderice vvitb the Spanish govern ment relative to the piracies of the Isl- of Cuba^ was taken u^, amended so as to include the correspondence respecting piracies at the other Spanish Is(atid's, and adopted. ' The naval committee was instructed f o r e i g n : ] From the Nftv-York Eve?)ing dost. Dec. £0, The Packet'ship CfltfmMs;]Capt Allyn, arrived her« yesterday ttidrning in 40 days from Plavfe, bringing Paris papers to the 3d, and Havre to the 4th Novem ber, includiug Londori'^lates of the 30th October. Capt.'Allyqbr6.q|bt fetters to General La Fayette frqm bis' I'^mily at La Grange ; ^aTso a ppctrtpt of Tbo Geherai. by JM. Sheffer, the ‘painter at Paris, to be, presented to Congress. • G reece .-^—The intelligerice from Greece continues to be vdry cheering, A new naval victory, being he third, is stated to have been obtaiti|ed over the Turks, on the 25th September, between Patmos and Samos. The bttomans, af ter their defeat, fled to Mitylene with 35 vessels, pursued by 24 Gr^ek vessels. All the Mussulman transports, to the number o f 100, remained -4 Budrum, or fell into the hands of the (freeks. It is further stated that the son of the Pacha of Egypt, Ismael Gibraltar, commander'of the fleet of his father, and orjce aid de camp to Geri. Grouchy, and a newhew of the Dey of Tunis, has been taken, to gether with eight milHons of piastres, which they had carried to Napoli di Ro- mana. The viceroy of Egypt lost his Igist frigate,, which bore llib Admiral’s flag. It is admitted in the Augsburgh Gazette, that “ the cause of.Greece is se cure and it is said that a great power had declared in their favour. Impor tant events were expected to take place in the Spring. .) S pain .^—rFerdinand has issued another decree, in which he pronounces sentence of death on all persons, who, after the lg,t. Oct. 1823, shall have been proved to be enemies to the legitimate rights of the throne, or partizans o f the late con stitution, including all who shall publish pamphlets or journals of the same ten dency. Freemasons are also declared subject to .the same exterminating order, which had produced a powerful sensa tion at Madrid. A junto composed of ecclesiastics atid'Uvwyefs wa$ to ^ form ed for the purpose of pfe^^enttrig the pnapagatlon of liberal wi^S;,--Private letters speak of nothing, but^rrests, con demnations and executions^. Fifteen .su perior officers of the Constitutional army, who had capitulated, were i'a a chap el of Corunna, awaiting the’ hour of punishment. General Contreras, ex general GalUcia, who bad distinguished himself very much by his spirit Of mode- ration, had been anested. Nothing cer- , Cordova tarn was known as to the evaeimiOT of .r n 1 r _ ni ■ tffipd under From, the JV*. Y. Evening F’osl, Dec. 24. By (lie ship Bailie, Capt. Bunker, which sailed from Liverpoul onAhe 6(h November, we have received the Liverpool Saturday’s Advertiser of-that day, containing Ijondon dates to the4th nit, ' TheGr'etks are said to have been again triumphant. Dervish Pach.a, with 15,000 m e n , had* been repullied a t'T h e r in o p y la s , and forced to rerr'eat oti'La.rissa in confu sion, with tbe loss o f foni-leen stand o f co- Iq u r s ; Odysseus had defeated a party, of Turks, advanciri^ft-ohi Negropopt; and in W e s tern Greece,'Other Papha’s forces had been routed near A r.ta. , . Letters from tbp Ionian Islands of the 20th, 27th September, and of October, confirm the defeat of the united Egyptian and Turkish fleets. They state that ibeir loss was very great, and that they had fled in all directions. ^ Thus have the naval arma- rnems from Opristantinopie and-Egypt been eoiirely deprived of the power of doing mis chief to the Greeks.. SOUTH AMERICA. Buenos Ayres papers to the 6th of October, received at Baltimore, contain the particulars of events in Peru, of which we had before received but vague accounts. It appears that on the 9th of July, Admiral.G uise despa|i^d Capts. Rohertaon, and Fleiman, an^Lieut. Sul- niaps, with 125 men in 9 h^fs, into the hqrbor of Callao, wftere they tOOk qod.t destroyed the following vessels of the Spanish naval force :— President, 20 guns, burnt — Juanna Gordon, flag ship, taken— Perla, formerly of Chili, taken— a brigantine, name unknown, taken, and a large vessel burnt. Notwithstanding this small force was opposed by lOOO soldiers and marines in the vessels, and 1500 artillerists who manned the batteries, the patriots achiev ed this.yictory with the loss of only four men killed, and eleven wounded. Dur ing the attack, the Peruvian ships Pro tector, Congress and Macedonian, en deavoured in vain to divert the attention of the batteries, whose fire was directed against the small force which bad enter ed the harbor. Thos. Williams, a Lt. of Marines, and a clerk of the captain of the Congress, were mortally wounded. ■It is stated that previous to this affair, a brilliant eriierprize, .had been executed by a Capt. Addison, who with four boats and 50. volunteers,--burnt and sunk six vessels, ineluding the frigates Venganza and Santa Rosa, and drove 14 others un der the forts of Callao. All this was per formed wi thGut the loss of a man. “ The Liberator B olivar and all his army passed the Andes in three divisions on the twenty-fifth of June-^the first un- Cafa ii xtluci jr'-m a /(her from ( apt. Hfdtirer, t(di ZhtilcTstafesSift, oner Pi>ryoise, “.O ff H avana , N ov . 28, 1824. “ \v e are travelling the round-s ; giv ing convoy from Matanzas and Havana,-) Wednesday from Matanzas, Sunday from this place. , . ’ “ The pirate captured by this vessel 'had, you'may have heard, committed the most horrible barbarities. The surviv ing s'feam’an of the Laura Ann was ,bn board this vessel until 1 obtained for him a passage to Philadelphia. The poor fel low had suffered all that human nature could bear^hunger, thirst, and fatigue. Half roasted, he committed himself to the sea, arid reached the shore with difficul ty, being surrounded by sharks, attract ed by the jerked beef with which the vessel was loaded. These he found more harmless than bis own species, their hun ger being appeased, they offered him no molestation. The crew of this vessel immediately came forward and offered a sum of money for his relief. Their generosity was too great; I limited the sum. It amounted to forty-two dollars. Blany would have given one month’s pay had they been permitted to do itl” most respectable and nscTid class of citi zens, arid the iriprovements that have been made are valuable and permanent. Probably no village in the state at the present time is more flourishing than this. — Observer.' don MOTning Chronicle La Mar, by subieGt,. that it is supposed “ the Eng-i ^ /■ mv 1 c . l ’ ,, ® ! buayanco. “ 1 he vanguard ol the ene- hsh governnaeat m composed of3500 men in Acobamba, nations, wdlretimre ot the French Cabi- 1 m „„. 1 ^ = i with respect to Spam . s c e ^ t e/em y fell into our power, the num- ous and inexpUcribleiespe|taIl 3 ^as -she!^^^.^f^^^^^^^^ being very has not m*ade remonstrances to Ferdinand . infantry r , y >00 cavalry under the Spanish c h i f Pena, came over to us and fought val- liantly under the direction o f their com From the Athlional Journal o f Dec, 23, Tbiskday js the 4 lst Anniversary-of that on which Gen. W ashington closed his illustrious military career, by the no blest act o f his life— the resigriation of his military commission to the Congress — an act which, when contrasted with the-couduct of the Cwsars,the Cromwells, the Bonapartes of other times, fornis not only the noblest features of his life, but one o f the most memorable pages in the history of'this country. It will he remembered, that this.eyent forms the subject of one of the fouy Pain tings which Col. TrumhuU has been employed to execute, for the Capftol of the United States ; and we leanv with pleasure, that the work is finished, and will be opened this day to the inspection of the members of the government and the public, in the room formerly occupi ed by the Supreme Court in the Capitol. .Commodore C hauncey leaves the City this morning to take coinmand of the Navy Yard and station of New-York, having resigned his seat at the Navy Board. We understand that Com. B ain - BUrnoEr and Capt. J ones will take the places at the Navy Board vacated by Cotnmodoi'es R odgers and C hauncey . — lb. A Dreadful Situation. — Bluch sensi-i -bIHty is expres.sed as to the distressing-! and miserable -situation in which the Governor ofKentucky is placed the conduct ofhis son. He is committed to prison, and, under violent prEsninptions- accused ofMURDFR in the first degree.. On looking at the Constitution of. Ken* tucky, we find that the Governor o f that state is entrusted with the sole power “ to grant reprieves and pardons except iw cases of Impeachment.” How deplora- ble will be the situation o f the Father, if the Governor shall be called upon to j sign the death w^arrant ofliis son. AVith- ' out the public, powerful and pre.ssing > considerations which moved Brutus, Gov. I Desha is likely to be placed in nearly the same trying and heart-rending sitoation. He Cannot now resign, because to resigfi- would be to prejhdge his son’s guilt, by presuniirig his conviction, which is the only thing wdiich baft compel him to act upon the case. His situation is indeed heart-rending and most pitiable.—Demo- crafic'Press, r throusrh all the progress the cause of Freedom: abroad, and the X n e naval co n u im te» was- iuM .iut[eu j, . . , ___ ........ to inquire as to the expediency o f J J ing provision for building a steam vesS'el of war for the defence of Lake Champlain. •3^®The Committee on Commerce were instructed to inquire as to- the expedien cy of reducing the pay of the U'. S.^ sea men when discharged in Foreign ports, from sale of vessels or other causes. A resolution w^as offered bj'Mr. Whip ple, of N. H. That the President o f the United States be requested to communi-. cate to this House any information which he may po.ssess and which in his opinion if may not be improper to make public, relative to the intentions of the allied powers’ of Europe to aid Spain in the snb- jugationand recovery of he# former Colo nies in America. Mr. Floyd, of Virginia, moved that the House go into committee o f the whole on the state o f the Union, with a v-ievv to takemp the bill “ for the occupation of the mouth o f the Columbia' (or Oregon) River which was agreed to, and the House went into committee accordingly, Mr. A. Stevenson in the chair. * The bill was read by sectkms, .and the several blanks were filled. Tuesday, Det. 2L — BIr. Randolph, from the Committee on the services and S’ricrifices of Gen. La Fayette, reported a bill “ concerning General La Fayette y” which was twice read and made the or der ofibe'day for to-day.. [R is a trans cription o f the Bill yesterday reported in the Senate, proposing to grant |200,0G0 in stock and one entire township ofland.] This bill was twice read, and laid on the table. The House was engaged most of the day in discussing the bill to provide for an establishment on the N. W. Coast. ^On the morning oftbe 6th inst. a most distressing accident happened at Unadrl- la, Otsego county. A man who had late ly removed with his family, to that town and whose name our informant did not learn, was cutting, a tree near his house, when-, at the moment the tree was falling,. he discovered bis wife .app.roachmg.— Be quickly warned her o f the danger she _was iri— but itvva's too late I The tree fell directly'upon her,.and killed her in stantly’..— Sr.oQ.me Republican, the subjects of that sovereign are at presentexposed by the-aets of a vindic tive and merciless faction. ALGiERS.~Since the British fleet left the harborof Algiers, the Dey seems to have become as insolent as ever. H e had prescribed such rigorous termsr to the Dutch', that they bad withdrawn their Ambassador j .and. great anxiety was felt at Cadiz on’riCcount of the sail ing o f an Algerine squadron \vith troops on board, supposed to be intended for a debarkation on the Spanish coast.— suspicion o f the want of good faith on the part of the Dey, as orders had been issu ed not to dismantle the bomb, vessels em ployed in the late expedition against .Al giers. ■ ' ' . ' ' GREAT-BRiTAiN.-^Coloncl Campbell had arrived in London with despatches from the British Minister in Colombia, which are stated to be highly favorable to that republic. The courier, however, says, that the recognition of the Indepen dence of Golomhk cannot take place un til the termination o flhe warin Peru. England and France are said to be on the best terms ; and Charles X. is stated to have requested the continuance of Sir Charles Stewart at Paiis, as Ambassador of George IV. , ,, BIr. Fauntlercry, the banker, who had been detecte-d in forging to h large amount, has been tried at the Old Bailej', and condemned to be,executed. BI exico .— It appears by papers and letters from Mexic.o, to the 24th ^It. that the expulsion of the Spaniards fjf;pm the pastle of Ulna, arid the fortifications of the coast were demanded oftbe Btfexicau Union, in a strong manifesto of thtr legis lature of the state of Vera Cruz.; and both were likely to be’ soon ’ attempted by the general government. On tbe 10th uit. the Mexican general Rincon, took possession of the island of $acrjfi- ctos, and erected.batteries, with yhe in tention of maintaining the post. The sovereign congress had authorized the President to receive'proposals'for-open ing a communication between the two oceans by the isthmus ofTebantepe|,and for rendering navigable certain rivers ip Mexico. Proposals to be submitted within 8 months from the fourth Novem ber. , • • . * ■* P eru .-—A confirmation has h e ^ . fe.#' ceived at Baltimore of the iote.lji^Yce that Gallao, as well as 'Lima; h^7heen. abandoned by.> the Spanish troops. * Th% General Iritendent'qf.t|ig isfhmt^Qf Pat, ' nama, had published afi address relati ve\ ; to\ the affairs o f Peru, in'which he sfiited that 300D men, without order or disci pline, scarcely remained of the brilliant army o f Canterac. ■ , . State Rights.— “VVe have noticed with regret tbe existence of difficulties be tween tbe General Government and some of the Southern States, arising from things over which the general govern ment claims control, and W'ith which the states referred to deny the general gov ernment tho constitutional right to inter fere,. or. wish it to interfere beyond its coostltufionai' limits. One- of these cases is that respecting th e . Cherokee Indians located in Georgia, and own ing the' land they occupy. Their right to the land has been guaranteed by the general government, and ac knowledged by Georgia, Yet Georgia wishes tbe genera! government to com pel these Indians to quit their lands and move out o f the state t True, Georgia is* witling to purchase, or wishes the gener al government to p'urchase, the-se lands ; but the Cherokees declare that they will not sell them. This affair has eficiteef considerable attention from the peculiar style of the correspodence with the'gen- The next case is or a rather more intn- mander. We have also taken four can non, the train, munitions, forage and ma ny muskets.’’’— Redt. Fed. Gaz. From the Boston Fentinei. WAR IN PERU. On tbe above subject we have just re ceived the foIlowiDg^ commuDication from a correspondentiin South .America :— PAif^AirtA, 20th October,. J824. “ D ear Sr»—No doubt yoa have beard ere fougtit between the Spaniards and Colom bian army, near Truxilfo^ oh the 17ih of last month i but I am happy to inform yoii that the result has not been-near so disastrous, to the Colombians as has been at first repre sented.. The schooner Libertadora arrived yesterday from Guanchaco,. by which we have received a few further details. It ap pears that certainly the action was most satigainafy ; both Bolivar and Canterac commanded in person, and the Colombians no doubt would have gained the day, but for the treachery of one of their battallion.s, which in (he hottest of the line, shamefully passed over to the eoenvy. The space thus left open, was taken advantage of by the Spanish cavalry, who immediately charged, and made a dreadful havoc amongst tbe Co- lombians. But Bolivar in an instant rallied them and made good his retreat, keeping constantly the enemy in check. Never did the Liberator display more firmness and he roism, nor did he ever expose himself so much. He had three horses killed under him, and was wounded by two balls, without losing his sang froid. He had only with him 6000 men; and if the late reinforce ment had joined him in time, the victory would have been bis. The Spaniards had double the'force and superior cavalry.— They say Canterac is severely wounded r bis loss must bt^ve been tremendous, for Bolivar, had the command of Uie heights from whence he poured a destructive fire of artillery on the Spaniards as they advanced. Hy the last accounts Bpjivar had gone to Guayaquil to organize his reioforcementB; Canterac had entered Colombia, but his vic tory will be of little profit to him, as the Co lombians are every where in possession of the mountains. As soon as the troops late ly sent from here arrive, Bolivar will be a- ble to take the field again, and no doubt give a good account of the Spaniards. I’m griev ed to say both Generals Co-rdova and Mil-, ler are dead; they fell gloriously in the : cause of liberty. Here we entertain no ap prehensions. Yours, T. R.” It will be seen by the above, (bat Bolivar, had'retreated to Guayaquil, about 330miles N. qfTruxillo; and that fhe Spanish army opd entered Goloih-faia.'- I't appears extraor- ' dioaryf that Bolivar’s force in thf^ .battle shou;Id-BOt*bftve eXCefidedfitlClO; as all our forrper accounts estimated it at the lowest, at l2 OOO j and none made the Spanish ar my tnore than 8000 strong. The General Miller mentioned, is a very gallant Eng-lish ■ffi<-er, > wtiohad recently joined the Coloin- biaa armj. cate nature. Th'e Legislature of South- Car'olina’htKl spipe.fetv years ago, passed a law prohibiting the «ntry of coloured persons into the ports of South-Carolina, under the perialty o f irapriso.nment at the expense of tbe captain of the vessel in which they entered ; -and for a second CFffence, w.e believe they were subject to be enslaved. The law is in our opinion manifestly unconstitutioiwil.- First, be cause the constitution gives the General Government the exclusive control over the commerce of the country, the power ofmaking treaties, by which foreign com merce is Tabulated .and in fine, the exclu sive right to say who shall and who shall, not enter the territories thereof. Now the constitution has no where authorized any single state to designate the color of persons that might be .permitted to enter its ports. And as we have commercial treaties with England for instance, by which we chrry' pn' reciprqcal com merce, and as Erighmd eijiplriys a large number of. colored mariri'eYs, il' Sotuh- C3rolina be tillowed to enforce this law, the states have the power of re.gnlating commerce ; for although the General Government may make a treaty, tbe state oi'South-Carolioa may do it away by her interdictory laws, for she can as easily exclude an Indian as a negro, a Spaniard or Portuguese, as an Indian, an Englishman as either. It is said that the la w is necessary for self-preservatioiif this may be so;, and so it may be said, and with much truth too,, that a state must often, suffer partial evils for the gen eral good .-—Balihnore Patriot. Utica .—From a census taken a few days since of this village it appears that it has a population of 4582 tnbabilanls— of which 2361 are males, and 220.1 females. In 1823 there were only -3861 inhabit ants, making ;ui increase in One 3'ear of Eighty nine new suwes arid tUvel: ling Louses have been erected during, the same period of tiine--iie?ide a Fur nace, Pottery, and .an .extensive slniigh- tering establishment, togethe.” with nu merous out ho.nse.s, &c. &c. The acces sion of inhabitants has been of the FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 31 ^ THE N e w YE.^R. We should accuse ourselves of iogratitudfe were we to pass a season, so faJJ of joyous feeling, without asking our patrons to ac- . cept of our mosl^r.atefnl acknowledg-ments for their past favours, and of our sincere wishes for their continued health and .pros perity. Custom may expect of .us, at the same / time, a review of the more prpmi&erit trans-^..', actions of tbe past year; 305(^1^11,811 ejC~ position of the views which will goverufis for the year to come. .Of the first, obr r e a ^ efs require not to be remindfid. They are well remembered of conlioUed assurances of its eslablishmeut at home. Notwithstanding our contentions on an important local question, one which has afi’ected all parts of our country, and no part of it more than our own Bfate *, yet so far from being a divided and distracted penpU, there is not on (he e a r t h a nation m o re f r e e , prosperous and united., On that question,, w e have seldom obtruded ou r o-wn opin'rons; choosing rather, in the free use of o«r col- Dinns to the friends Of all the candidates, to give an equal expression of the public opiri. ion. VVe c.hoscto do tliis, becau.se it was n matter iu which all were interested, but io which all could not entertain sirailar. ppiu- ions. If we expressed our preferejjne for Mr. A b a it was dune with moderation,, and Without any intention to detract from tbe merits of Gen .J ackson or Mr. C ba W- PORD, o rto itripugn the motives of the friends of those gentlemen. We believed, and that was the foundation of onr preference, (hnt Mr. A. under (tie circumstances, was the- best qualified for -the ’ station to which bis friends sought, andstifi seek, to elevate him. Whatever may have been onr opinion, how ever, we have not indnlged in illiberal aUo» sions to those of others; bul hpve given them to our readers freely as we received them, Norhavewebeen less open in the pnblicetioni of articles oa the subject of our slate politics^ during the late excited electloBs. Al leas^ we have i ntended xmt to ,be st). AYe wer« decidedly in favour of gitfiog-tbe«!w>jee?iof preBideotial electors to the people, not frotn a show of temporary zeal for them, ndr for the promotion of political objects ; but frot};^ a desire .to comply with the expressed writh es o f a great majority of lire People and-to adranee their true interests. Jt was also be-? cau.se we doubted not that the success of the republican party depended upon the adop tion of a njeasure entirely consonant wjtb the republican features of our constitution,., While we regret that socR a measure Avas. not adopted, we are gratified with the final strbmissioD of tl>e choice o f a mode, to a com munity, in whose inlelligenee and patriotism we have the surest guarantee of the selec tion of tbe most proper one. In oar support of the republican candidatPs, we have not denied (he privilege of being beard to those who opposed them ; nor, in ivhat tve con ceived a reasonable opposition to Mr. Giin- ton, have we assailed him whVj bitterness, or withheld from him the praise of talenl and capacity. So. much for the Past. R is only necessary to say, for the Future, we shall not, under any circumstances, depai i from ihe course which we have laid down for- ourselves, namely, affording lo gentlemen c f all parties the privilege of expressing Iheir- opinions.fi eelij, but temperately, through Ih^ columns c f the Recorder. To aid us in this, we ask the assistanpe of correspondents and ,lhe indulgence of friends; and we solicit a conlkmance oilf those subscriptions and advertising favors which have enabled ns to proceed hitherto with a reasonable hope of obtaining a repu table livelihood. / Witb these views, we commence the year. We shall not attempt to .look into the good or ill fortune which it may’ bring with it. Iv. is sufficient for us to know that-we hope for all as large, a possession of the bounties at Providence as they can ask for Or desire* and that -‘^.Through every age, ■' Through every moment op the tract oftitats H is parenl-l.'anil w ith ev e r nev?'i-ncreas-s “ o r happiness and viriijn,” may a tem Thiiir being, \ ■ f
