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[Correspedence of the Herald.] Macon, Nov. 7, I$39. I last addressed you from Charleston. Since then, I have visited MiHedgeville, the metropolis of this state. The legislature commenced its session OR Monday. On Wednesday the Governor elect, Judge McDonald, was duly installed. You have, DO doubt, read the message of Governor Gilmer, in which he expressed himself decidedly against the banks. The legislature is decidedly locofoco, and harsh measures will be adopted against such as suspend. A.bill is already prepared to compel them to resume, under the penalty of not receiving interest from their debtors. or being allowing to sue themthus making bad worse. This will not pass, but shows somewhat the state of feeling which pervades nearly the whole legislature. All of the banks in the state are brought to a halt. They can col lect nothing. and they wont lend a dollar. The The Ocmulgee and Monroe railroad, of this place, spended a short time since, and commenced discounting and throwing out their paper trash. The planters and banks handled it so tenderly that they took the alarm and hauled in. Their notes are refused now in Savannah (where they were lately bankable) and I believe are now rejected by all the banks in the state, out of this place. There is an evident uneasiness among the banks in this place about these notes, and I look for them to be discre dited in every direction. I subjoin a list of all the suspended and broken banks in this state. I think the residue will continue to pay their debts, and some of those that have suspended, talk of resuming. Bank of Augusta, Insurance Bank of Augusta, Bank of Columbus. These are suspended, but speak of resuming immediately. Bank of Milledgeville, Georgia Railroad, at Athens; Oemulgee, Monioe Railroad, Planters' and Mechanic.' Bank of Columbus. These are suspended. Farmers' Bank at Chattahoochie, Bank of Darsen, Western Bank at Rome, Bank of Macon. These are broken, and the last one entirely worthles The scarcity of money in this country is beyond all precedent, but the merchants here dont do as the New Yorkers do. If they cant raise the wind without dividing the spoil with the brokers and shavers, they wait the issue of the law. A Georgian dont feel disposed to sacrifice his all at the shrine of punctuality. Property must change hands to an enormous extent, but the law has to be the arbiter in these cases. They are a law-abiding set. When nothing else can be done, its dictates are submitted to with as much resignation as can be expected from a hot-headed people. Yours, GALLATIN. Religion and Rum in Boston.-The Rev. John Pierpoint is again parson of the Hollis street church He was recently ejected for his ultra temperance doctrines. Amerigo Vespucci is sojourning at the Tremont House, Boston. The Third District.-Official returns have been received, and the three whig candidates are elected to the Senate. General Root by one vote! The words three dollars in the original bills are stricken out and the words twenty dollars substituted. Troops for Florida. - One hundred dragoons under the command of Lieutenant Darling, left this city on Wednesday, for Florida.
