Star. — 1820-01-25 (London, England)

NEW YORK, DECEMBER 20.  In the House of Representatives, on thc.9th of December, 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, referred 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 opportunity to receive the Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the subject. What are the particular features of Mr. PINCKNEY'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 medium, 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 Legislature 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 severe 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 favourable 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 informed 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 unfavourable 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  I  and stores on board. The Columbus is to be commanded, on her first voyage, by Commodore Bainbridge, who has arrived at the seat of Government for the purpose of taking charge of her.