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elder daughters still spin and weave as before. It s admitted that he gives, for the same number of yards 25 per cent. more for do.nestic goods than he did for foreign; and we will even waive the advantage to be derived from the unquestionable superior strength and durability of our own fabrics. Instead of forty, he lays out fifty dollars. Thus prepared, we will state his annual account. He receives

For the produce of his farm,

For the wages of one of his smaller children, at 50 cents per week,

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He has then remaining a balance of $63
Should the policy of improving our own resources
prevail, money will be so plenty that the rate of
interest will not be higher than six per centum
per annum. With a clear annual income of 63
dollars, our farmer can command a loan of 1050
dollars. If he inves this sum in the purchase of
more land, or in any other way so that its profit
will pay its interest, he can extinguish the princi-
pal in 12 years. He may then borrow double the
sum, and, in the same manner, extinguish that in
12 years more; and so on, doubling every 12 years.

Then

We will admit the profit of the domestic merchant to be the same we have supposed that of the foreign merchant to be, about 15 per cent. the 50 dollars which the farmer lays out in domes. tic goods, are distributed thus

For the raw material, instead of four dollars as supposed in the foreign fabric, the goods being more substantial,

For manufacturing,

For merchants' profits,

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38.50

Surely, in a case so plain, all comment is superfluous. The interest of the farmer and manufac turert is a joint one. Theirs is a common cause; nor is the merchant excluded, except the exotic, whose views and feelings are altogether foreign from our country. Let us join, therefore, as a band of brothers, and petition congress--for this pur pose, among others, we are assembled. To the pa triotism and intelligence of congress, we may safe ly appeal. It will be sufficient if we bring the subject simply, clearly and closely into their view. Having petitioned that dignified body for relief, for adequate protection against a foreign interference and competition, which threaten, like a chilling frost, to wither our energies in the bud, let us do our own part.

Let us, emulating the noble example of our brethren of Berkshire, in Massachusetts, form society, on principles of union, for the promotion of American agriculture,, manufactures and com. merce. Let us resolve, under a penalty, to clothe ourselves from our own looms-to pay wages of labor where it may circulate in our own countryto give employment to the lame, poor and (other. wise) idle, and, by taking away from vice every plea of necessity, promote virtue.

Our readers will recollect that certain gentlemen,
Aid to the patriots.
late British officers, supposed to be proceeding
to join the patrio's on the Oronoco, were arrest.
ed at Philadelphia, and committed to prison for
an alleged violation of the laws of the United
States. The following petition, touching those
persons, was deposited at the coffee house and
other public places in that city for the signatures
of the citizens:

To the honorable RICHARD PETERS, ESQ. judge of the
district court of the United States.
SIR-The subsoribers respectfully request your
attention to the case of colonel John Needham,

6.50 more, a regular system of literary, moral, and religious instruction, with the happiest effects.the institution was eminently prosperous, even in $50.00 Under his superintendence, during several years, morality reigned, far superior to that exhibited by a pecuniary point of view: and a degree of sound the same individuals in any other situation., 1. B.

All which is paid in our country, and immediate ly circulates amongst us.

Let us compare the two statements as appplied

to the whole nation.

Manufactures abandoned. 760,000 farmers will raise and seli sur plus produce to the value of

Manufactures supported.

1760,000 farmers will
raise and sell sur-
plus produce to
dis. 76,000,000 the value of
They receive for wa
ges of small chil-
dren

It is sometimes urged, as an objection to relieving and supporting manufacturers, that when dls. 152,000,000 they had the business mostly in their own hands, they took high prices for their goods. This is one of those arguments, founded in prejudice, which, 19,760,000 by proving too much, proves nothing It applies, 171,760,000 with equal force to every business in human socie The pay and the whole amount and if it proves any thing, it proves that all traffic ty, where a person sells the productions of his labor, 76,000,000 is founded in extortion: For the principle is univer 3,800,000 sal, that, when the demand for any article of trade exceeds the supply, prices rise. The profits of the 6,080,000 business invite more and more capital into it, until For merchants' profits, 3,000,000 For merchants' profits, 4,940,000 the demand be fully supplied, and competition

They pay in our country.

To laborers,

For state taxes, poor rates, &c.

For duties or taxes to the national govern

ment,

To foreign manufacturers and for char. ges of importation, all which goes out of the country. Balance remaining in the hands of our farmers,

circulates in our country.
38,000,000 To laborers,
For state taxes
7,600,000

5,320,000

54,720,000

21,280,000

00,000,000

76,000,000

For national taxes, in
lieu of duties,

To domestic manufac
turers,

Balance remaining in
the hands of our
farmers

33,060,000

brings down the price to its minimum. The proverbially low prices of goods imported since the late war, are an effect of the competition of foreign manufacturers with ours, feeble as they are. Suffer our establishments to fall, and prices will soon rise. Let our manufacturers be defended against foreign competition, and the competition among 47,880,000 themselves will reduce prices lower than they can 171,760,000 continue to be, in any other way. I. B.

captains Parkins and Ferriar, lieutenants Stacev,| Webster and Beisse, Dr. Fry, and sergeant-major Parks, now confined in the prison in this city, under an indictment for having violated a law of the Unit ed States, entitled "an act in addition to an act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States," passed Anno 1794.

If it should appear, on the final trial of their case by a traverse jury, that they are guilty of the crime laid to their charge, the subscribers believe that numerous considerations force themselves on the mind, to extenuate the offence.

They were entire strangers in this country and to its laws. Had they been acquainted with the law, for the infraction of which they stand in their present uncomfortable situation, they might, and it is fairly presumable they would, have avoided the violation of it, which they could easily have done without interfering with the ultimate object of their expedition.

The object they have in view must entitle them to the symphathy and the good wishes of every friend of liberty. That object is no less than the emancipation of a large and fair section of the globe and a respectable portion of mankind, from the most galling yoke, civil and religious, that ever pressed on the shoulders of a nation-a portion of the globe that may hereafter vie with ancient Greece and Rome for heroism and ardent love of liberty; and where indeed, virtues have been already displayed, that would bear comparison with some of the proudest traits in the history of those illustrious nations.

The subscribers have too much respect for the constituted authorities of their country, to arraign the motives or the object of the legislature of the United States, in enacting the law under which those respectable gentlemen appear as criminals; but they cannot refrain from the expression of the deepest regret and astonishment, that while powerful armaments are fitting out in the ports of monarchical Great Britain, in the most open and undisguised manner, to aid the South American patriots, a similar proceeding should bring down the vengeance of the law, in the form of heavy and ruinous fines, and tedious Imprisonment in republican America. In the eyes of the world at large this must appear a wonderful political phenomenon. We know the limited nature of your powers in the law. We wish them exerted on the side of a regard for the feelings and comforts of your fellow men. We merely request, that you will order these gentlemen a speedy trial, so that, if innocent, they may not continue to suffer a galling imprisonment, one of the worst consequences of heinous crime, and if unfortunately they prove guilty, that they may at once know their fate, and be relieved from a state of goading suspence. This simple request is made of you in the name of that holy cause for which "Hamden fought, Locke wrote-and Sydney bled"-that holy cause, which, in the fire of youth, you embraced with patriotic ardor-that holy cause whose support has given immortality to Washington, Warren, Green, Mercer, Wayne, Adams, Franklin, Ran dolph, Clinton, and that numerous host of warriors and sages, who shed a halo of glory round our com mon country-that holy and divine cause, in fine, which has raised the United States to the high and elevated rank they fill, so much to their own happiness and the approbations of an admiring world. Philadelphia, Nov. 12, 1817,

Banks of Rhode-Island. Abstract of the returns of the severa' Banke, made to the General Assembly,

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Newport
Roger Williams

120,000

31,711

46,644 02

28,630 72

2,900 00

150,000

47,160

177,519 07

52.746 76

200,000

63,976

27,298 69

60,000

28,540 57

80,000

17,008 32

9,937 55
37,140 79
29,527 65

43,795 57
9,911 49
490 00

76.726 33

8,292 47

24.257

3,572 18

3261 77

50,000

11 381

2.745 75

4,136 62

2,571 50
3,974 15

60,338 72

50,000

35,059

14,342 65

8,511 41

3,000 00

5,611 63

35,798 00

149,480 55

100 000

30.624

18,750 16

15,252 13

500,000

54,587

60,322 86

25,613 32

8,700

1,414 83 12,000 00

870 17
66 99

150,000

33,133

5,513 43

12,807 69

4,500 00

25,487

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Price of Stocks, Bills, &c.

BOSTON, N&W YORK, PHILADELPHIA BALTIMORE, November 15. November 21:November 16. November 15.

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Legislature of Georgia.

COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE LATE GOVERNOR AND THE
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE TO THE LEGISLATURE.
Fellow citizens of the senate

The objects which claimed immediate executive attention after the adjournment of the last legislature, have been disposed of. They were such gene. rally as depended upon, or grew out of, some legislative act of that session, and need not now be particularly detailed.

I have great pleasure in assuring you that the state of our finances is prosperous and competent, of the government, but to effect many objects of not only to support the annual ordinary expenses public utility.

and of the house of representatives. Being appointed by the president of the United States agent for Indian affairs for the Creek nation, and having determined to accept the same, I have this day resigned the executive government of the state to the honorable William Rabun, president of the senate. In doing which, permit me to assure you, and through you my fellow citizens gebe invested in bank stock. The collection of the rePermit me to recommend, that an additional suma nerally, that in retiring from the service of the state, I shall carry with me a just sense of the ob-venue arising from funds of this description is both ligation which their long continued confidence has safe and easy, whilst that arising from taxation is laid me under, and that my gratitude will be as last-attended with considerabe expense and lossIn the various and complicated do not wish it to be understood as being of opinion By recommending the adoption of this measure, I ing as my life. duties, which in the course of my public life I have that the present taxes ought to be repealed; on the been called upon to perform, I cannot flatter my contrary, it is my decided opinion, that they ought self, that my conduct has been exempt from error; be continued, because the citizen is better able in but my conscience acquits me of any intentional time of profound peace, and particularly under the departure from duty. Devoted as I have been to present unparalleled prosperity of the country, to the service of the state, and still ardently desiring to see her prosperous and happy, it is a reflection Pay a tax, than in time of war; we have recent exwhich gives me much pleasure, that the duties of perience upon this subject, which I hope we shall profit by. It is the surplus of your annual revenue, the appointment I am about to enter upon, are so or sums which may be paid to the state by the Unitintimately connected with the interests of the state, that by a faithful discharge of the one, the other willed States, which I propose should be invested in bank stock. be promoted. And I embrace the present occasion as a fit one, to observe, that the policy of the go-in my life, permit me to assure you of my unalteraIn thus addressing you, probably for the last time vernment of the United States, with regard to the ble attachment to the state, in whose service I have various Indian tribes within their boundary, having for its primary object the humane and benevolent spent twenty five years of the prime of my life, and of my affectionate solicitude for the prosperity and purpose of meliorating their condition, and if possi happiness of her citizens. ble redeeming them from a savage to civilized life, much of the success which ought to be the result of this policy, will depend upon the zeal and ability with which it is executed. In contemplating the situation of the Creek Indians of the present day, resi ding within our limits, I think it will be generally admitted, that their attachment and adherence to the United States during the late war with Great Britain, which not only involved them in all the and of the house of representatives: horrors of civil war, but caused them the loss of The late governor Mitchell having accepted the nearly all their hunting grounds, entitle them to our appointment of agent to the Creek nation of Indians, protection and regard; and to a full share of the be- which had been conferred on him by the president nefits resulting from the benevolent policy of our of the United States during the last winter, did on government. From these considerations, and with the fourth day of March last, resign the office of this view of the subject, it will not be expected governor of this state into my hands as president, that the execution of the laws regulating the inter-of the senate. My proclamation, announcing the course with those Indians should be relaxed; so far event and assuming the duties, was issued on that at least as regards the agency to which I have been day. I was therefore unexpectedly, and after a appointed, it will be understood, that no intercourse short notice called from my domestic fireside to with them, which is forbidden by law, or which discharge the functions of this all important station. may have a tendency to defeat or retard their im-Had not the constitution imperiously enjoined the provement in the arts of civilized life, will be tole perilous task upon me alone, the good sense of the rated. At the same time, for every legal object and community would no doubt have justified the want honest pursuit, every facility in my power will be of experience and a more enlarged capacity, as a suffi afforded. Icient plea for me to have declined the arduous trust.

D. B. MITCHELL

State-house, 4th March, 1817.

GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
Executive department, Georgia,
Milledgeville, 3d November, 1817.

Fellow-citizens of the senate,

Under these circumstances, I commenced the du- last, a party made their appearance near Clark's ties of the office, relying on the liberality of my mills, on the St. Mary's, and wantonly murdered a fellow-citizens, for a generous allowance of any er-woman and her two children, set their dwelling rors I might commit in the discharge of my official house on fire and effected their escape with impunity. This distressing intelligence was immedi

duties.

On the twenty-fourth day of February last, the ately communicated to this department by majorlate governor having been notified by the commis- general Floyd, and several other gentlemen of that. sioners of the penitentiary, that the building was neighborhood. Without delay I transmitted an acin a state of readiness to receive convicts, issued count of the same to the war department, and his proclamation, announcing the same, and declar- earnestly pressed the necessity of an adequate ing the "act to reform the penal code of this state, force being placed on that exposed frontier by the and to adapt the same to the penitentiary system," general government, in order that protection might to be in force; immediately therefore, after I came be afforded to the defenceless inhabitants who into office, 1 summoned the board of inspectors, and were then flying from their homes. I also instructproceeded to make the necessary arrangements to ed major-general Floyd to order from his division carry the design of the legislature into operation, a sufficient force to repel those lawless intruders, by appointing the officers designated by law, and and to inflict suitable chastisement on them whendirected that a guard should be enlisted without ever they might be found on our borders, until the delay. In a short time after, the institution was pleasure of the general government should be completely organized. Convicts began, and have known. The acting secretary of war, in reply to continued to arrive from several of the counties, my letter, observed, that the subject was referred charged with various crimes, and sentenced by the to major general Jackson, and that the necessary courts to undergo different periods of confinement protection might be expected; but, unfortunately and labor. These have been employed by the for us, it has not been afforded. We have therefore keeper, under the direction of the board of inspec- been under the necessity of maintaining a detachtors, in various sorts of labor-such as were deemed ment of our militia, on the frontier of Camden most expedient under existing circumstances. The county, for several months past, under the direccompletion of the building, work shops, &c. not-tion of major Bailey of that county. Some time in withstanding the indefatigable exertions of the the month of May, while the major and his party. commissioners, has been greatly retarded by the was pursuing a large number of cattle, which had inclemency of the seasons, and has rendered it ve-been driven off, they fell in with two companies of ry inconveient, and frequently hazardous, to employ Indians, and attacked them with great bravery, them as advantageously as they might otherwise killed several, wounded others, put them to flight have been. and returned without sustaining any loss. Since that period, I have not received information of any damage done in that quarter by the Indians.

On the 8th of September, I received a communication from major-general Gaines, dated at fort Montgomery on the 20th July, calling for two bat-, talions of our militia, to be held in readiness, to assist him in reducing the Lower Creek or Seminole tribe to order. I immediately caused the requisi tion to be complied with, and the two battalions have been detailed and organized, and are now waiting further orders.

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The act of last session, entitled "an act to carry into effect the penal code of this state, and the penitentiary system founded thereon," has made it the duty of the governor to pay all the incidental expenses that might be necessarily incurred in carrying the system into complete operation, but no funds was set apart on which he was authorized to draw. The contingent fund being unable to sustain these and the usual demands that are made on it, I determined to issue my warrants on the treasury to meet these expenses, chargeable to the fund appropriated for the purpose of complet In the month of April last, I was notified by Mr. ing the building. Whether my conduct on that Crawford, the secretary of the treasury of the occasion was justifiable or not, your wisdom will United States, that he had issued a warrant on the determine. The progress of this infant establish treasurer, in favor of the governor of Georgia, for ment, has already excited considerable feeling the sum of three hundred and seventy-five thou throughout the state. Its numerous friends have sand dollars, in part payment of our western lands, hailed it as the harbinger of order and peace, and which had been ceded to the general government; as a place of deposite for the lawless and disobedi and about the same time the treasurer enclosed ent; while its enemies have viewed its approaches to me drafts on the Planters' bank of this state, with extreme regret: Many, it is understood, and the bank of New York, for that sum. have already removed without the limits of the I deposited in our state bank for collection, which state, and others have avowed their intention of enabled us to pay the amount of our subscription pursuing the same course for the purpose of ob then due to that bank, and left a considerable bataining a situation beyond the reach of its grasp.-lance which was entered to the credit of the state,, From the experiments already made, I am per- subject to future appropriation. I also received suaded that, though considerable expense has, and through Mr. Crawford, the award and decree of the will for some time, attend this institution, yet un-commissioners appointed by virtue of an act of. der proper management, and the experience, congress, for the indemnification of certain claimwhich time will naturally afford, it will ere long become a formidable engine, in the hands of a well regulated government, for the suppression of vice and the encouragement of virtue.

These

ants of public lands in the Mississippi territory, a transfer of the monies which remained in our treasury, commonly called the Yazoo deposite, amounting to one hundred and eighty-four thousand, five For a considerable time before and since I came hundred and fifteen dollars, ninety-four and a half` into office, the Indians bordering on our south-cents, in part payment of the one million two bunwestern frontiers have manifested a hostile dispo dred and fifty thousand dollars, stipulated to be sition, by embodying themselves, plundering from paid by the articles of agreement and cession bethe citizens of Camden county several hundred tween the United States and the state of Georgia. head of cattle, and on the 24th day of February In the decree of the commissioners before mention

ed the interest, if any, which may have accrued on the foregoing amount, is claimed in behalf of the United States. In a correspondence between the secretary of the treasury and myself, on the subject, I have denied that any interest has accrued to the United States.

Connecticut.

FROM THE COLUMBIAN (CONNECTICUT) REGISTER. Address of the republican members of assembly to

their constituents.

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To the friends of toleration and reform in Connecticut. In the act to appropriate monies for the political From those to whom you have entrusted the year eighteen hundred and seventeen, it will be recollected, that the sum of ten thousand dollars ing to the common welfare will be favorably receiv power of legislation, sentiments on subjects relat was set apart, under the direction of the governor, ed. We can hardly hope ever to congratulate you to be equally divided between all the widows and on an event more auspicious, or on one in which children, say children under fourteen years of age, that welfare is more concerned. You have taught of those citizens of the state who were killed or a lesson, for which posterity will bless you, that died in the service of this state, or the United the power and the will to reform mischiefs in men States, during the late war between the United or measures, dwells in the people of this republic, States and Great Britain and the Creek indians; and that no law of the commonwealth is equal to with a proviso, that no more than ten dollars their safety. should be given to any one individual. The time Long and arduous as has been the conflict, we limited by law for applications to be made, was on may now hail the hour when those principles or before the first day of May last, and for want of "which illustrious men" held sacred, and for the information of the existence of the fact, a large "security of which they devised a model," will be portion of that unfortunate class were deprived of again embodied in our government, and exemplifi the benefit intended by the legislature; I therefore ed in its administration. The wisdom and perse thought proper to extend the time, by an execu- verance which have acquired the victory, will not tive order, to the first of September; during which be tarnished by an abuse of its blessings. period, the most of those interested, have availed) themselves of the opportunity, and brought in their claims, which have been paid off, leaving a considerable balance subject to your direction.

On this spot should we pause and review the state of public opinion. Correct and enlightened on the great concerns of the community, it only needs to be crowned by a "spirit of conciliation and good. will towards each other, and all the people of the state."

We invite you to a task easy to men of correct and independent minds. It will prove the source of the reform to be pure, and its ends benevolent; and that while you have borne wrongs with compostire, you can look down on the vanquished, without reproach. ing him in his fall.

The attention of the legislature having been so frequently called to the subject of improvement in our navigable water courses, our public highways, and affording assistance to our infant seminaries of learning, by my predecessors in office, I should deem it unnecessary to say any thing at this time, were I not fully persuaded, that all the means which may be requisite to the accomplishment of objects so much to be desired, are now completely True to the tolerant spirit, which breathes within your power. Our funds are ample and abun-through all the elementary institutions of our nation dant. Many of our sister states are vieing with and state, and which now ratifies our peace and each other in improvments of this description, and tranquility; we should beware of imposing on are now sharing the happy results of their enter- others a measure, against which we have successprizing spirit. And shall we so far forget our own interest as to neglect these laudable pursuits, while we enjoy a state of peace and unparalleled prosperity? I hope not. Indeed I am fully persuaded that a more favorable opportunity to commence internal in what manner the blessings of good, govern. improvments upon an extensive scale, can hardly be expected. Their importance in a free country, must be evident to every thinking person in the community, and will unquestionably command the early and prompt attention of an enlightened and patriotic legislature.

fully contended. To fortify the title, and enjoy the fruits of an inheritance, once more recovered without convulsion, should now be the study of the people of this state. It is for you to enquire

ment and wholesome laws can best be secured and perpetuated. High advantages are possessed by you for devising the means of their security. The theories, and the practical evils incident to many institutions are before you for the guide of your enquiries. The merits of many forms, adapted The accompanying documents, relative to the some to a larger, and others to a less extensive subjects metioned in this communication, together population, and diverse conditions of society, ten with a statement of warrants drawn on the trea-der to you great facilities, in case you take up the surer during the political year now past, and a list of executive appointinents, made in obedience to the ninth section of the second article of the constitution of this state, are herewith submitted for your consideration.

subject. To frame a constitution, is a matter of immense weight. Its considerations should be ma ture and dispassionate. You are the origin and foun tain of power. The time and manner in which it shall be brought into action, are yours also. If in These are the most important subjects which adjusting" the important rights and duties of the have been acted on during the year past; there are state, "by the aid of mutual consultations and sundry others of less importance which will re-friendly advice, you adapt the changes you make quire your attention during the session.

In the conclusion of this address, permit me to assure you, that I feel gratified in believing, that whatever may promote the honor and interest of our beloved country, will command your serious and constant attention; and that union and harmony may prevail in your councils, is the prayer of your devoted fellow-citizen,

WILLIAM RABUN,

vantage of the republic will be promoted, and the to the age in which you live," the honor and adveneration of posterity insured.

A constitution grounded on the best principles, will be the result of your best efforts.

Little could it be reasonably expected, that the reform so nobly effected at the last election, could have done more than it has done. Its progress, to be sure and stedfast, must be gradual. Its roots, like those of the oak, will then strike deep, bind

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