Star.
London, England, 1820-01-25 00:00:00

NEW YORK, DECEMBER 20.

In the House of Representatives, on thc.9th of De-
cember, Mr. PINCKNEY, of South Carolina, gave
notice, that he should ask leave to introduce a Bill,
to be entitled, 46 An Act to establish a Circulating
Medium for the United £ta:es, and to sustain thicre-

dit and utility thereof." He had understood, he said,
that, on the last day of the last Session of Congress, a
Resolution had passed which had, in some degree, re-
ferred this subject to the Secretary of the Treasury.
He had, therefo-re, determined to postpone, for a
week, this motion, to give to the House an opportu-
nity to receive the Report of the Secretary of the
Treasury on the subject.
What are the particular features of Mr. PINCK-
NEY'S plan we are nut apprized ; but we understand,
generally, that it embraces an issue of Government
paper, transferable by delivery, and calculated to
come in aid of specie, and of paper equivalent to
specie, to increase the quantity of circulating me-
dium, supposed now to lie less than is necessary for
the purposes of trade and internal intercourse.

A Bill to prevent persons from teaching Slaves to
read and write has been unanimously rejected by the
Legislature of North Carolina. '
The Lower House of the South Carolina Legisla-
ture has decided, 93 to 23, that it is inexpedient to
introduce free persons of colour into that State. The
Judiciary Committee also recommends a more se-
vere punishment for murdering a Negro—that is,
twelve months' imprisonment, a fine of one thousand
dollars, and the person so convicted to be depraved
of holding any office of profit or trust in the State, &c.
Business of every kind is very dull, and no sales o
manufactured goods can be made to advantage.
The sacrifices have been awful. Of linen, we have
a full supply for Spring. The crop of cotton is more
than last year, and prices are on the decline, and
will be lower: our last Liverpool accuunts are fa-
vourable to a reduction. Flax-seed will amount to
24,000 tierces, but prices are kept up by speculation.
Ashes, 455. to 465.

The crew of an English schooner belonging to
Berbice, in the West Indies, Captain WILLIAMSON)
from Martinico, bound to Demerara, mutinied, and
murdered the Captain, Mate, and one passenger.—
They took the vessel- into Parrie, and there threw
overboard the Captain's servant, who swam to the
I shore, a distance' of from 12 to 15 miles, and in-
formed the Commandant of Guaria of the whole
affair. The Commandant immediately dispatched
a vessel to Trinidad with the news. His Majesty's
brig FLY was sent in pursuit of the schooner, came
np with ber, took the mutineers prisoners, manned
the schooner, and sailed in company with her fir;

Barbadoes. The schooner teas obliged, however,, to
put into Curacoa in distress.
The United States' ship Columbus, the ship of the
line built at Washington, dropt down from the Navy
Yard a few days ago; and, notwithstanding the time
was, from the lowness of the tides, unusual,ly unfa-
vourable far the attempt, she passed the Bar at the
mouth of the eastern branch with very little difficulty.
She is to be towed by the Steam-boat down tu.St.
Mary's River, where her equipment for sea will be
completed. Had not the fear of detention by the ice
prevented, it is believed sbe would have passed over
the Bar, and down the River, with all her .0 mameat

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and stores on board. The Columbus is to be com-
manded, on her first voyage, by Commodore Bain-
bridge, who has arrived at the seat of Government
for the purpose of taking charge of her.