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1 TUESDAY MORNING JANUARY 21.
d We are again subjected to the oeiessit, "f
complaining of the mails. Three or fejur N«v/
York mail* are row behind- Such ia l»e punc
tualitv so much lauded by the President in his
message.
The Editor of the Southern Literary Messen
ger has forwarded us a sample sheet of that paper.
gs thl form in which it is in future to be printed.
We consider it a decided change for the better,
in the appearance of this useful and elegant pub
lication, which it so much behooves the South to
sustain.
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I The Abolitionists are troubling Congress again
with their petitions. It can hardly be possible
that these people get up a new batch of petitions
| ev£ry Perhaps these arc the eume old
petitions that have been presented year a ler year,
f.Jt the last four years. Old Johnny Q., it is
<std, h 4 * an enormous bundle of them ready
lor use.
We learn from Tallahassee, that the Repre
sentative branch of the Legislative Council, was
organfzed, by the election of Gen. Leigh Reed
speaker, by a vote of 17 to 3.
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A great fire occutred at Terre Haut, Indiana,
Dec. fad, destroying JO or 12 brick and wooden
the Court House, all of which were
reduced to ruins. Total loss SIOO,OO0 —pne-half
covered by insurance.
A locomotive engine built by Messrs.
& Harrison, of Philadelphia, recently propelled a
train of eighty six cars (weighing three nundred
and forty-seven tons, exclusive of engine and
tender) from Reading to Peters’ Island, in four
hours Snd forty minutes, exclusive of stoppages.
Anthracite coal was exclusively used.
Thef Philadelphia North American states that
Cio members of the family of Mr. Gigon, who
W'ere ppisoned with arsenic, have all recovered,
and an| considered by the physicians as out of
danger|from its effects. The virtues of the hy.
drate ffferoxide of iron as an antidote for arsenic
have been fully tested in this instance, as there is
no doubt the lives of these six persons have been
preserved by its timely use.
, From the Charleston Courier of yesterday.
Great Fire at Wilmington.
The subjoined extracts of letters received from
Wilmington give the particulars o r the conflagra
tion. *
WiPmiwotox, N. G. Jan. 17.—We have suf
fered a|great calamity ; about half past 2, A. M.,
a Fire Broke out in Dawson’s store, near the
f'ouet|iouse, which consumed the whole square,
except/me of Restor’s houses, the corner oppo
site the State Bank, the old Cathorda House.—
The fire extended to the lower square, and con
st* oed the whole to the river, except the Gape
Fear Bank, the Martin House, and :!d Mr.
James', and a building back of the Martin House
which Bad been used by R. B. Porter. The
Court Houscas also burnt; both Printing Offices,
5 Lawyer’s do. Sheriff's do, Clerk’s of t ie Court
do. Custom House, dec. The number of build
ings destroyed comprises about one third of the
town, and that in the very centre of business.
January 17, Morning.— At half past 2, A, M.
heard the alarm of fire, which proved co be at
Dawson’s store, corner of Court House, which
was in a blaze. The two entire squares, north
ot Market street, from the river to Second street,
ore entirely burnt, with the exception cf the
Bank of Cape Fear, and two houses immediately
n,,r th $f if* a, )d three houses on the opposite
square* Loss of property from 3 to $500,000.
It i©*u ■cud etroke to us, at the present jui-iclure.
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C a,holi sr a Plaster.—We have receiv
ed the first number of this new agricultural news
paper, published at Columbia, in this ;state, by
A. 8. Johnson, formerly editor of the Columbia
Telescope, and edited by R. W. Gihht.|, M. D.
This paper is oue of U»e fruits of tile Jjjfe Agri-
Convention. an 4 we trust th;'s it will
rpoet%iUi a wide circulation and liberal support
irt a community so peculiarly agricultural as ours,
in it is much needed and calculated to do
extensive good. The object of the ‘ Carolina
PlantA” is to inculcate practical knowledge in
agricultural and rural economy of our Southern
Planters and Farmers and thus to improve our
modes ftt culture, and develope and multiply the
productions of our soil. The number before us
is neatly printed on a double sheet, and a well
scored with interesting matter, original and se
lected^ 1 The editor makes his bow to tne public
ifi a Fry neat and sensible address; disclosing
the objects of the publicarion and the principles
oh which it will be conducted. We hid h*m
welconft into our fraternity, and tender him our
?fcst wishes for the success of his paper, and the
graaWind important interest to which uis to he
devoted. The subscription price is $2 50 per an
rfUm in advance—s 3it not paid in advance—in
terest he charged at the expiration of the year.
-*-Chdh-leston Courier.
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Texas.—Letters are frequently addritised tc
persons m Texes, inquiring what nursuds are
niost profitable here, and-what kind of emigrants
*! re rr &£' s * needed. We believe that, in general,
are the persons best rewarded fur their
labor, unless the raising of stock be regauied as a
distinct pursuit This last is. peihaps. as easy
and lucrative a business as ran be imagined—
neither cattle or horses requiring other food, at
Any season of the year, than that which the year
spontaneously provides them. Lawyers have
usually done well here, and there is still a pros
pect for some of them to do so; but it now? requires
men of sense and legal acquirements to iucceed ;
drid young men who fail at home had l etter not
come here, unless they are willing to dig potatoes
or turn soldiers. The number of physicians, we
ttiinkaquite equal to the demand, though there is
• room here, as there is every where else, fer a few
qf first rate abilities.
; Gqpd clergymen always find a welcome, but
$0 believe that their pecuniary rewards ;tre con
fined principally to marriage fees, which, by the
are usually quite liberal.
I Qoods usually bear good prices, and most of
6ur*Wrehanls nem to do well, but there are ma
ny good establishments now in the country, and
jiose who buy to brmg out must not go ifi much,
ha * been usual upon the ,dea that ‘nothing
w,lldo so, IW Good, bouglu m tfcr eastern
,h, Lotted S.««, ,„d |„ b ,
ifny where, at fair prices, commonly a v „ rv
good profit here. The mechanics nrnai needed
carpenters, masons, and plasterers,; but the
is greatest for the first, as the iuUdings
mostly of w.*od. There are not msfny cabt
tSf makers in th« eauntry, and tbaj cdr«ld only
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] do well at present in a tew of the chief towns,
; though the settlements are rapidly filling up,
! which will of course open many new places for
them. B'acksmit is, shoemakers, tinners, prin
ters. and almost every kind of mechanics and a
borers usually find ready employment and good
wages for Jieir labor. Boarding house keeping is
! a very common occupation, and from the prices
i frequently charged and th* fare furnished, travej
! lers infer that it is profitable. —Galveston Civil
j tan.
Dr. Webster's lectors ox the rolidt
-1 fication of car soxic acid gas. —Having at
tended a former lecture of Dr. Webster on this
recent discovery, with the highest interest, I can
not but call the attention of the public, particu
larly of young persons, lo that which he intends
to deliver this (Saturday) evening, as announced
in the newspapers. But, as I am apprehensive
that the extremely curious subject of it, as descri
bed in the u?-ual scientific language, is not tully
understood, I beg leave to state in a more popular
; though less exact form. It is, in plain language,
I converting one of the component ingredients of
the common air we breathe, into a solid body , so
that it can be seen and handled. And surely, if
; any experiment in the wonderful science ofchem
i istry. is calculated to excite our astonishment,
this is such a one
Common air, as chemists inform us. is not a
simple substance, hut a mixture ot several kinds
of airs . as they may be called, technically denom
inated gases; forming together a compound which
may be compared to a mixed liquid consisting ot
water and spirit, or other fluids. One of the gas
es contained in common air, is called carbonic
acid gas ; and the reducing of this gas to a solid
body is the subject of Dr. Webster’s singularly
curious and interesting experiment. When,
however, it is said to be rendered solid, it must
not lie supposed that it is made a hard body like
iron or stone, though solid, it is soft and yielding,
like wax, butler, &c. and in its general appear
ance, at a little distance from the spectators it
bore no inconsiderable resemblance to ice cream.
One of the remarkable properties of this new
body, as it may justly be termed, is its capacity
of producing the most intense degree of cold of
which we have hitherto formed any conception.
By mixing a portion of it with mercury is frozen
in a few seconds, into a solid mass, like lead;
and, when in that state, if brought into close con
tact with the hand, or other part of the flesh, will
almost instantaneously produce a blister. This
experiment of freezing mercury is exhibited in the
course of the lecture.
What the results of this extraordinary discov
ery may be, no man will venture to prophecy. —
But the simple experiment itself, as performed
by Dr. Webster, is certainly one of the most
wonderful and interesting in modern science.—
Boston Patriot.
The Bocxoart Question. — We perceive,
by a communication from Gov. Fairfield, that i
His Excellency is getting up some new thunder,
as the elections approach. He has discovered
that the British have violated the compromise, by
stationing regiments of troops in the disputed
territory. We apprehend that it is all a mistake;
that it is a mere company, or two or three com
panies, stationed on the lines during winter, and
inhabiting cabins, and faring poorly, so as to aid
the traveling between Canada and New Bruns
wick ; that they are not in the disputed territory
at all, nor on the St. John river, but only aline of
videttes to faciliate the intercourse between the
two provinces. Maine wants a little of Uncle
Sam’s money expended in that State as it is in
Florida.— Eve. Star.
The amount of appropriations made for the
public. expenditures at the first session of Con
gress under the Constitution was $059,000.
The appropriations made by the last Congress
amount to more than $36,000,000, being nearly
sixty times as great as the first appropriation.—
We commend these facts to the attention of th« se
unchanged democrats ” who are so loud in their
professions of. economy. The sums necessary
to provide for the monthly defalcations of our
modern Sub-Treasurers, would have paid the
whole expenses of Government fifty years ago.
Southerx Liter art Messexgf.r. —The
publication of the January number of this able
and popular periodical has been unavoidably de
layed by an accident to the press on which the
Messenger is struck )ff, and by the intended pub
lication of an important essay on the “Rights of
the slave holding States and the owners of slave
property under the constitution of the U. 5.,”
from the pen of Conway Robinson, Esq. The
January and February numbers will therefore,
be published together, and offer a double store of
entertainment and instruction to their readers.—
Charleston Courier.
The New Era talks about a “partnership be
tween the Whigs a.nd the negroes.” Have not
the negroes some few partners—“sleeping part
■ ners”—among the loco focos? What say you,
j Col. Johnson I —Louisville Journal.
From the Tallahassee Floridian of 11/i.
We noticed some weeks ago the result of the
fatal duel between Gen. Leigh Read and Col.
; Augustus Alston, in which the latter was killed.
On Sunday evening last, Gen Read while at the
! City Hotel, and about to take bis place at the
supper table was assaulted by Willis Alston, the
brother of the deceased who arrived that evening
trom I exas, and shot through the body just
above the hips. Alston fired two pistols at Gen.
I Read, but the last missed. After receiving the
shot, Gen. Read, armed with his cane and a small
! pocket pistol, pursu'd his assailant to the front
i door of the Hotel, where he fired, and it is said
wounded Alston in the hand. As Gen. Read
1 was falling i i the arms of his friends, and stag
gering through the crowd, Alston returned and
stabbed him severely in the abdomen with a
i bowie knife, and again fl",d. Measures were ini
; mediately taken to effect his arrest but without
success. Although Gen. Read’s wounds are ex
i ceedingly severe and dangerous we are happy to
1 hear ot the probability of his recovery. Others
i have been accused of being implicated in ibis at
‘ tem °t at assassination, hut as the matter is to un
| dsrgo judicial investigation we forbear more par
ticular allusion to tie subject. From the univer
sal expression of indignation at the act, and the
active exertions of the citizens to effect the ap
! prehension of the perpetrator, we have confidence
i that reason has in some measure been restored to
the mass of the community. For the last few
months it would se?m as if the only law known
:in this city was force, and the only arbiter of
| right the pistol or bowie knife. Yes ! here in
the very heart of the Territory, in its metropolis,
the residence of the Executive, whose duty it is
; ,osee the laws faithfully executed, the peace and
j good ord « r of our town has been violated by hostile
and armed parties of cur citizens arrayed against
each other, and threatening blood shed and
murder. ] n vain, with a few others of the inferi
or raagist ates of the county, have our weak es
! ° rts D f* erted 10 repress and prevent these
outrages. ehave received little support from
some officers of the law, and in one instance could
not even procure th e service of a writ to appre
hend the violators of the peace. We have no
jail in which to cor fine criminals. When offen
ders are indicted, and, after the law's delay are
convicted, they cannot lie imprisoned. Although
I repeated atrocious murders have been com m „tl]
in this district sinc< 1835, no execution has been
; had for murder since that of Waters which took
; P ,iC « that year, the felons having in some mstan
cee broken jail, and generally eacnped by flignt
either before or after conviction. Resistance
from Als tan being apprehended by the officers to
whom the warrants for arrest were given. Gov.
Reid with great promptitude, ordered a military
force to their assistance.
We are pained to be obliged to record the facts
above detailed, but are compelled by our duty to
do so. The manifestation by the Legislature to
make amendments of a salutary character to our
criminal laws, and the expressed determination
of the Executive to have them rigidly enforced
so far as his power extends; if he is properly
supported by the community, will we trust and
hope save us from the performance of the like,
duty in future.
For the Chronicle and Sentinel .
Dear Juvenis, my simple friend,
I read your story to the end ;
And from the end, I backward went.
Striving to get at your intent.
Then dodg’d about, from left to right,
Seeking for wit, with all my might,
Then scann’d each line, with care intense.
Hoping it last, to find the sense;
Till wearied out, I cry’d, alas !
My friend has proved himself an —Ass.
Arsa.
Coin and Bullion.— Or. Lewis Feuchtwan
ger, Chemist, petitions Congress to substitute for
the copper currency of the Lnited States that of
the German silver, in its intrinsic value, and asks
for privileges on the following grounds:
1 Having first introduced and manufactured
the German silver in this country.
2 The German silver is now brought into very
extensive use, as much as silver, at one-sixteenth
the value of real silver.
3 German silver is far superior to copper, less
bulky, no smell, more portable &c.
4 The objection raised on a former occasion,
of being easily confounded with the silver cur
rency, (10 or 12 cent pieces,) is now removed by
being supplied with a hole in the middle, so that
no body can consider it more or less than one
cent.
5 He wishes the privilege of supplying the
U. S. Mint with the unstruck pieces for ten
years.
6 The officers of the U. S. Mint have repeat
edly expressed their approbation of the plan.
Dr. Feuchtwanger also petitions for the estab
lishment of a branch mint in the city of New
York, because —
1 The bullion comes direct from Valparaiso,
Lima, Carthagena, West Indies, and other ports
of Central America, is mostly to be reshipped to
England or France.
2 That bullion which comes here for the pay
ments of debts in this city, is generally sent to
Philadelphia; and, in justice to the merchants
of this city, ought to have it refined in this city.
3 The Platapina contains a great deal of gold,
which almost invariably is trans-shipped to
F ranee.
4 A great deal of Platapina comes likewise
here with orders to re-shipped to France, which
might be done here, as the article is now in con
siderable use.
These are important objects worthy the atten
tion of Congress.— N. Y. Express.
Galvanism. —The Lancaster Intelligencer, af
ter giving the particulars of the recent execution
of Kobler at the jail of that place, publishes some
details of the experiments which were afterwards
made on the body with the galvanic battery, elec
trical machine, &c. After artificial breathing
was established by means of a bellows, the gal
vanic battery was applied; upon this, Kobler
moved his arms and legs, his left hand was rais
ed from the box upon which he lay to his breast,
and his fingers were opened and shut, as if to
catch something, his features ex pressed every pas
sion. his eyes were opened and closed rapidly,
his jaws moved as if chewing, and he breathed
with sufficient power to blow out a candle five
times in succession.
How soon the doors of the tomb are to close
upon the last soldier ok the Revolution !
How soon is to fall the curtain of separation be
tween the generation of heroic spirits who achiev
ed our independence, and the generation to whom
is entrusted the high destiny of its preservation.
Almost every mail brings us accounts of the de
cease of revolutionary soldiers. A Pennsylvania
paper mentions the death of Capt. David David
son, in his 88th year, at Lost Creek Valley, Ju
niata county. He died on the night of the 25th
December. Sixty-three years ago, on the 25th
December, he crossed with his brethren in arms
the river Delaware, to aid, for the first time, to 1
fight the battle at Trenton. He was a soldier, in
the full sense ot the word, and was in v; nous
battles, such as Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine,
Stony Point, Germantown, Monmouth, Green
spring, and Yorktown; and it was not until the
conclusion of the war that he exchanged the
sword for the ploughshare, and the spear for the
pruning-hook, with an honorable wound, anil
without being contaminated with the vices sc<
contagious in camp.— N. Y. Whig.
An Upright Judge.
The following proceedings are reported in am
Illinois Criminal Court. The presiding judge
had been appointed to fill the vacancy occasione d.
by the resignation of Judge Lynch.
Court —“ Sam,” said the judge, “I suppose
you know the jury has brought you in guilty of
murder.”
Prisoner—" Yes, Judge, that are a fact, no
mistake!”
Court “Well, Sam, you will have to be
hanged, you know.”
Prisoner —“ Yes, I s’pose so.”
Court —“No help for it, I believe. Have you
any choice about the time, Sara 1”
Prisoner “No, I believe not; it don’t make
much difference, if I nave got to lie hanged, when
it is done. I have had a middlin’ hard time all
my life, any how. This is no great things of a
world. Judge, you know yourself.”
“Mr. Sheriff,” said the Judge, “will this day
four week? come on Sunday 1”
“No, sir,” said the Sheriff, “that can’t be pos
sible.”
“You had hotter look at the almanac,” said
the Judge, “I don’t wish to make any judicious
mistake.”
Having become satisfied that the hangimg dav
would come round at a proper period, if calcu
lated by weeks, he proceeded to inquire if that
day four weeks would suit “Sam” as well as any
other, to be hanged on. He was assured that
I an J da y except Friday, which was an unlucky
day, M ould be perfectly agreeable.
“Now, Sara,” said his honor,” “have you any
thing to say why sentence of death should not
be pronounced upon you !”
“Not much,” was the reply; “if I owe any
body, I forgive the debt; and if anybody owes
me any thing, they may pay it to my wife,”
“and may God have mercy on your soul,” said
the Judge, and he burst into a flood of tears.
“Sam” was subsequently hanged, according to
appointment.
The New Hampshire Sentinel contains the
following notice:
The Keene indow Glass Company arc now
manufacturing Chryslalized Quartz into glass ;
an entirely new material for window glass mak
ing, which renders it much stronger and clearer,
and give* it a peculiar and beautiful lustre * |
I
Lev*, Jealousy ayd Mceder.—the Bal
-1 timore Sun gives an account of a shocking mur
der committed at Georgetown Cross Roads, m
Marvland, on the 4th inst., under the united m
i flueiice of jealousy and intoxication. The mur-
I derer, a young man named Newnam, had con
ceived a strong affection for a young lady in the
I neighborhood, who discountenanced his passion,
f manifesting a preference tor a Mr. Wroth. Af
ter passing the evening in company with Mr.
Wroth and the young lady, Newnam went out,
fortified his bloody purpose with liquor, and then
oning to the window of the room in which he
had left his rival, shot him dead, in the presence
of the lady. She was sitting between the win
dow and the murdered man, but on a low seat »
iso that the ball passed over her head. It was
| supposed, therefore, that Newnam intended to
kill both. He was immediately arrested, ac
knowledged his crime, and conveyed to Ches;er
to'.vn jail.
Renew tour Insurance. —A policy on one
of the buildings partly burnt on Wednesday last,
expired at 12 o’clock M. the day previous; it was
renewed the same afternoon, and at 4 o’clock the
next morning the building was injured to the
amount of one thousand dollars by the late fire.
The owner had his loss entirely covered by not
neglecting to have his policy renewed on the day
on which it runout.— Prov Jour.
Major Noah tells a queer story of a fat mem
ber of Assembly from New York, who, in order
to get to Albany by the most direct route, went
to New Haven, and thus encountered the awful
snow storm. He overturned the stage between
New Haven and Litchfield on New \ ear’s day,
nearly rolling over and killing a fellow passenger,
and on the following Friday he overturned it
again between Litchfield and Hartford. During
the progress, owing to the enormous weight of
the general and the crust on the snow, the sleigh
coach only made two and a half miles in five
hours: but in spite of al! those hazards, and the
difficulty of squeezing in the stage doors, and the
time lost in the ingress and egress, he arrived in
good spirits at the seat of government, and found
the worthy Sergeant-at-Arms had prepared a
platform and a capacious chair for the general,
who weighs something more than 450 lbs.
Dreadful Calamitt. —We learn from the
Chambersburg Whig that on the 2d inst. the
dwelling and store-house of James Brewster, in
Shirleysburg, Huntingdon county, Pa., were des
troyed by fire, and Mrs. Margaret Btewstei (the
mother,) a young woman named Margaret Mitch
ell, and a boy (son of Henry Brewster,) perished
in the flames!
Russian Observatory. —The Russian Na
tional Observatory, which lias been five years
erecting, is at 4ength completed. It is in the
neighborhood of St. Petersburg, on the hill of
Pultowa, which is about 240 feet high, being the*
most elevated point of a chain of heights en
closing on the south the vast basin of the Neva.
The Observatory is about 220 feet long, is fur
nished with a superb collection of instruments,
and is to he devoted entirely to the advancement
of astronomy.
A Large Family —Mr. Thomas Nelson and
his worthy wife, of Lower Annamessee, Somer
set county, Maryland, are the living ancestors of
nearly, if not more than, one hundred industrious
and thriving descendants ; and, what is more
remarkable, the whole of this prosperous progeny
are happily settled within the sound of their sire’s
grandsire’s, or great grandsire’s voice. His voice,
however, is Stentorian, and he is yet vigorous and
active in mind and body and has some twenty or
more captains in his family.
| Deafness.—Every one has seen ‘Dummy
Allen,’ Forest’s right hand man. . The Cincin
nati News says the following conversation oc
curred in that city.
‘Mr. Allen, is it convenient to pay the ten
< dollars that you borrowed of me, some years
since.’
To which he replied, ‘Oh, yes ! the boy play •
«;d very well last night, considering he was so
j poorly supported.’
‘Mr. Allen, I arn not talking of the theatre, I
want the ten dollars you have owed me so
long.’
‘I think that he will perform much better to
morrow night—there is a better cast of the piece
that he appears in.’
‘Mr. Allen, will you take something to drink.’
‘Much obliged to you sir, I think I will, just
from rehearsal, and am quite thirsty.’
The present public debt of the city of Boston
is estimated at 1,600,000 dollars.
Consignees per South Carolina Rail Road.
Hamburg, January 20, 1840.
H. C. Bryson; T. Dawson; Rees & Beall, Russelb
Hutchinson Co.; Marshall & Crim; W. Haltier;
Hand <fe Scranton; J. K. a H. Hora; J. W. & T. S.
stoy; E. D. Cook; W. Mills; VV. & J. Nelson; G. T.
Dorlic; E. B. Glascock; W. E. Jackson; 1. S. Beeis
Co.; Moore <fe Davis; Gould & Bulkly; B. Harris;
A. Frederick; J. F. Benson; Sibley & CTapon; Jef
fers & Boulware; G. Parrott; M. Ho'lbrook; Sol.
Kneeland & Son; G. H. Noble; A. I. Huntington &
Son; J. G. Dunlap; Haviland, Risley & Co.; Thos.
Richards; W. K. Kitchen; I). Plunket; E. Boyce;
C. Churchill; J. O. B. Ford; Maher & Rooney; G. H.
I ay lor.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE
_ Savannah, January 18.
Cleared Ship St. Mark, Varuum, Liverpool ;
brigs *lary Barnard, Pitcher, New Orleans ; Mary
Ann, Curtis, Providence.
Below —Bark Turbo, from Boston.
Went to sea Ships John Gumming, Thayer,
Liverpool ; Vandalia, Soule, do.; brig VVra Taylor,
Hoey, New York.
Charleston, January 20.
~ Arnved on Saturday —Schrs Financier, Butler,
IVlatanzas; Eliza Williams, Bolles, New-London.
New-Vofk y es^er^a y u L brig Tybee, Herbetr,
• Espalata, Sproull, Dunkirk; Vir
ginia WUev, Jacksonville ; schr Nahant, Baker.
New-Orleans. ’ ’
Went to sea on Saturday-Bvi* Lancet, Kruse,
Havana; cchr Virginia Antoinette, Place, West In
dies. 7
%Went to sea yesterday—Ships James Perkins, Bis-
K VIC ’ ra ft° n > Sn[ uth, London; barque Dan
lel \\ ebster, Mansi n, North of Europe; brig Al-
Westlndies."’ Moblle sßr bri g Adrianna, Hunt,
chST!!ffi G ’ Gene ral <omraission Mer
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J. J. WILS ON otfersh is
sional services to the citizens of Augusta and its
vicinity He will be found at his residence the
first brick building above Guedron’s stable on E U
street, recently occupied by John L. Adams
qu gl7 ts
t - '^ r ' A ** r ‘ fl JNT offers his services to the ci
tizens of Augusta in the different branches of his
ESSt-rfE 'SSrpf
fro “v29 COmer af Mclntosh and Reynold streets” 1
tatPa C int£
1 , ,fO iy ' "food street.—s ign and ornamen
tal work done at short notice. die d
'■CJ*"4* IPERSEN is now prepared to rpsnm*.
professional duties as a Teacher of aMusic Or*
ders lelt at f. H. Plant’s book store or at
I «nK b ‘“‘ rd “ lS h °“ Se - wi “ be Promptly at
f nov 26
fcJrWe are authorized te announce Lt. Col.
SAMUEL C . WILSON, as a candidate for COL
ONEL or the 10th Regiment Georgia Militia.
jen 21 td - -
EXCHANGE ON NEW YORK— At sight,
andat one to tw ty days sight. For saleby
nov 23 GARDELLE & RHIND.
cry Dr. B. HARRIS offers his services in the
practice of his profession to the citizens of Augus
ta and its vicinity. Messages will receive prompt
attention if left at his drug store in Broad street, or
at his residence in Ellis street, below Washing
ton nov 7
ry PUBLIC NOTICE—Dn. Munroe, Surgeon
Dentist, has returned to Augusta. dec 9
~ry ro the lovers of the arts
The Paintings' at Mr. Richards’Drawing Academy,
(Masonic Hall,) will hereafter be opened to visi
tors, every Saturday afternoon and evening, from
2 o’clock until 9 o’clock p. m. At night the rooms
will be well lighted. dec 19
<ryA CARD. —Mr. Richards,Teacherof Draw
ing and Painting, will resume his professional du
ties in Augusta at an early day. nov 7
(fy NOTICE. —The Rail Road Passenger Train
between Charleston and Hamburg, will leave aa
follows; —
upward.
Not to leave Charleston before 7 00 a m.
“ “ Summerville, “ - -8 30
“ “ Georges’ - “ - 10 00
“ “ Branchville, “ - 11 00
“ “ Midway, - “ - 11 30 M
* “ Blackville, - K - 100 .m.
“ “ Aiken, - - “ - 300
Arrive at Hamburg not before - 400
DOWNWARD.
Not to leave Hamburg before 6 00 a. m.
“ “ Aiken, - “ - - 730
“ “ Blackville, “ - • 930
“ “ Midway, “ - - 10 30
** “ Branchvill “ - - 11 00
“ “ Georges’, “ - - 12 00 m.
* “ Summerville,“ - - 2 00p. m.
Arrive at Charleston not before 300
Distance —136 miles. Fare Through —$10 00.
Speed not over 20 miles an hour. To remain 20
minutes each, for breakfast and dinner, and not
longer than 5 minutes for wo' 1 and water at any
station.
To stop for passengers, when a white flag is
hoisted, at either of the above stations; and also at
Sineaths, Woodstock, Inabinet’s, 41 mile T. ().,
Rives’, Grahams, Willeston, Windsor, Johnsons,
and Marsh’s T. O.
Passengers uo will breakfast at Woodstock and
dine at Blackville; aown, will orcaiuast at Aiken
and dine at Summerville. maj 21
A REAiTbLESSING TO MOTHERS.
DR. W. EVANS' CELEBRATED SOOTHING
SYRUP, for Children Cutting their Teeth. —This
infallible remedy preserved hundreds of chil
dren, when thought past recovery, from convul
sions. <As soon as the Syrup is rubbed on the
gums, the child will recover. The preparation is
so innocent, so efficacious and so pleasant, that no
child will refuse to let its gums be rubbed with it.
When infants are at the age of four months, though
there is no appearance of teeth, one bottle of the
Syrup should be used on the gums, to open the
pores. Parents should never be without the Syrup
in the nursery where there are young children ; for
if a child wakes in the night with pain in the gums,
the Syrup immediately gives ease, by opening the
pores and healing the gums; thereby preventing
convulsions, fevers, &c. Sold only at Dr. Wm.
Evans ’ Medical Office, 100 Chatham street. New
York, where the Doctor may be consulted on all
diseases of children.
PROOF POSITIVE OF THE EFFICACY OF
Dr. EVANS' SOOTHING SYRUP.—To the Agent
of Dr. Evans' Soothing Syrup: Dear Sir—The
great benefit afforded to my suffering infant by
your Soothing Syrup, in a case of protracted and
painful dentition, must convince every feeling pa
rent how essential an early application of such an
invaluable medicine is to relieve infant misery and
torture. My infant, when teething, experienced
such acute sufferings, that it was attacked witq
convulsions, and my wife and family supposed tlr.it
death would soon release the babe from anguish,
till we procured a bottle of your Syrnp ; which as
soon as applied to the gums, a wonderful change
was produced, and after a few applications the
child displayed obvious relief, and by continuing in
its use, I am glad to inform you the child has com
pletely recovered, and no recurrence of that awful
complaint has since occurred; the teeth are ema
nating daily and the child enjoys perfect health.
I give you my cheerful permission to make this
acknowledgment public, andwill gladly give any
information on this circumst: nee.
WM. JOHNSON.
TONIC PILLS. —The power of Evans' Camomile
Pills are such, that the palpitating heart, the trem
ulous hand, the dizzy eye, and the fluttering mind,
vanish before their effects like noxious vapors be
fore the benign influence of the morning sun, •
They have long been successfully used for the cuu;
of intesmittents, together with fevers of the irregu
lar nervous kind, accompanied with visceral ob
structions.
This tonic medicine is for nervous complainis,
encral debility, indigestion and its cortsequenrrs,
or want of appetite, distension of the stomach, acid
ity, unpleasant taste in the mouth, rumbling noiso
in the bowels, nervous symptoms, languor, when
the mind becomes irritable, desponding, thought I ul.
melancholy, and dejected. Hypochondiiacism, con
sumption, dimness of sight, delirium, and all olhei
nervous affections, these pills will produce a safe
and permanent cure,
Evans' Camomile Pills were first introduced i do
America in 1835.
EVANS' FAMILY APERIENT PILLS au*
purely vegetable, composed with the strictest pre
cision of science and of art; they never produce
nausea, and arc warranted to cure the following
diseases which arise from impurities of the bleoT,
viz:— Apoplexy, Bilious Affections, Coughs, Colds',
Ulcerated Sore Throats, Scarlet Fever, Asthma, ('m
lera, Liver Complaints, Diseases of the Kidnils and
Bladder, Affections peculiar to Females, and all
those diseases of whatsoever kind to which lum an
nature is subject, where the stomach is affected.
Moi e conclusive proofs of the extraordinary effi
caey of Dr. Wm. Evans' celebrated Camomile and
Aperient Anti-Bihous Pills,in alleviating affli. ttd
mankind. —Mr. Robert Cameron, 101 Bowen.—
Disease—Chronic Dysentery, or Bloody Fhiv-
Symptoms, unusual flatulency in the bowels, se
vere griping,frequent inclination to go to stool, tu
nusmus, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, lic
quency of pulse, and a frequent discharge of a in?-
cuhar foetid matter mixed with blood .great debt li t \
sense of burning heat, with an intolerable be.nwJ
down ot the parts. Mr. Cameron is enjoying ivi
ect health, and returns his sincere thanks for th<
extraordinary benefits he has received
Sold by ANTONY & HAINES,
T _ _ „ , s , ole agents in Augusta
J. M. & T. M. TURNER,Savannah
P. M. COHEN & Co., Charleston,
SHARP & ELLS, Milledgevillo.
C. A. ELLS, Macon,
A. W.MARTIN, Forsvth
’A M. £. A ELL», Druggist, Athens
MARK A. LANE. Washington.
juiy 23 ‘ ®
Georgia Insurance & Trust Company j ~
Hninroc Au g ust a. ; January 6.1840. \
OLDERS of new stock are required to make
their payments equal to sixty dollars irei
snare, on or before the 21st of February next will
interest to that day, under penalty of forfeiture
, Jan7 td WM. T. GOULD. Sec’y.
MUSIC TUITION.
OTTO HERRMANN, Professor of Music hav
mg concluded to reside in Augusta, offers his
services as Teacher on the Piano Forte
Mr WiMe ’ Mr - i y-
NOTTCEi— Wil! be sold at Auction, on Mon-
h Dj n Y, K th< l lnst-: at the St ol6 lately occu
y obert Baiber, deceased, by order from the
j .P® n or Court, a part of said Stock, consisting of
iquors, Salt Lime, Molasses, Sugar, Bacon, Flour
Honey, &c. Also, one pair carriage horses ’
_J an 17 C. J. COOK, Adm’r.
6 >n SHAUKS AUGUSTA
BANKING CO. STOCK FOR SALE /be
longing to a gentleman about leaving the st itVv_
Terms 90 days approved endorsed notes StJte -'~
RUSSELL, HUTCHINSuN & Co.
d * c 30 Auctioneers.
Notes of the planters* and v*
CHANICS’ BANK OF
be at a reduced discount, this dav*' 11
to-morrow, by VINCENT & OGIER
jan 21 3t Exchange Office,
10th Regiment Georgia Militia T
Augusta, 20th, Jan. 1840 ’<
AN Election will be holden at the City Hall ■
Augusta, on Saturdey, the fifteenth of pL?
ruary next, for a COLONEL, to command the
giment, vice CoJ. St. John, deceased. '
WM. T. GOULD
Captain Augusta Artillery Guard
EBENEZER STARNES
Captain Clinch Riflernen
jan 21 swtd
SABBATH SCHOOL BOOKS.—A
•Biblical Antiquities, compiled fcr the use •
Sunday School Teachers, and for the benefit of
families, by John W. Nevin.
The Sabbath School Class Book, comprising Co
pious exercises on the Sacred Scriptures, bv r"
Lincoln.
Malcolm’s Bible Dictionary. For sale by
jan 21 J. W. & T. S. STOY
T^TOTICE. —All persons indebted to the estate
J3I °f John Sandiford, deceased, will com* f or ,
ward and make payment without delay ; and all
those having claims will present then, duly alter
ed, within the time prescribed by law,
ANDREW MACLEAN, Admr.
January 21, 1840 yv6t
NOTICE. —All persons having claims against
William Thompson, deceased, will present
them duly attested, within the time prescribed by
law ; and all those indebted, will be good enough
to make immediate payment to
ANDREW MACLEAN, Adm*,'
January 21, IS4O av6t
NOTICE. —All persons indebted to the'estate
of Edmund Martin, deceased, are requested *
to make speedy payments, and those persons hav.
ing claims, will present them duly authenticated
within the time prescribed by law.
C. B. MARTIN, Admr.
January 21, 1840 w6t
DR. JAYNE’S
OLEAGINOUS HAIR TONIC.
From Mr. Graham Editor of the Philadelphia Sat.
urday Evening Post.
HAIR TONIC.—We call the attention of those
afflicted with premature baldness, to the
excellent “Hair Tonic” prepared by Dr. Jayne of
this city'. Having used it ourselves, we can speak
of its virtues by experience, and we unhesitating
ly pronounce it an invaluable remedy to prevent
the falling off of the hair, and to restore it from a
dead, to a fine, healthy appearance. We can also
speak from personal knowledge of the cases of two |
or three friends who were predisposed to baldness,
who by the use of Jayne’s Hair Tonic, have no*
luxuriant hair. We have no disposition to puff,
indiscriminately, all kinds of remedies, for all dis
eases which flesh is heir to, but when we have
tested the virtue of an article, we are free to ssv
it is good. —Saturday Evening Post of Seotmbir
Ith, 1839. .
This valuable remedy for the growth, presetja.
tion, and restoration of the Hair, can be obtained
wholesale and retail,'from
WILLIAM K. KITCHEN,
jan 21 It Sole Agent for Augusta.
ON CONSIGNMENT,
rr | BBLS. NEWARK CIDER, for sale low by
PU STOVALL & 11 AM LEX.
jan 13 trw3w
ji ..jL TO RENT, from the Ist Oct. next,a
STORE, No. 246 south-side Broad-street.,
occupied by the late D. W. St.
John. Apply to JAMES GARDNER, Jr.
aug 1G trw ts
Notice. —city tax returns.—ih t
Clerk of Council will attend it his office, City
Hall, every day', from 12 to 2 o’clock, all this
month, to receive returns of Taxes for the present \
year. s S. H. OLIVER,
jan 18 trw4t Clerk of Council.
NOTICE. —All persons indebted to the Estate
of James Leverich, late of Richmond coun
ty, deceased, are requested to make immediate pay
ment to the undersigned; and those having de
mands against the same, will present them duly '
attested, within the time prescribed bv Jaw.
JOHN A. CAMERON,} ,
PHILIP H. MANTZ, 3 r -
January, 18, 1840 w6t
BOOK STORE.
THE subscribers return their thanks to their
friends and the public generally for the libe
ral patronage bestowed upon them the last year,
and would inform them that they are now opening
anew stock ot Books,Stationary and Fancy Goods,
which with their former stock, w ill maketheir as
sortment complete, and will be sold wholesale and
retail, on the best possible terms.
1 heir stock of Binder’s materials are ol the fin’. *
quality, and they' are now prepared to manufac
ture Blank Books of every description, ruled to
any patern, having procured a Ruling machine nci
to be surpassed by any in the United States. 1
continuance of the favors heretofore bestowed i;
solicited,and they assure their customers that satis
faction will be given in every respect.
< ountry merchants are invited to call and exami
ne before they buy' elsewhere.
J. W. & T. S. STOY,
nov i 1 No. 247 north side Broad-st.
NEW GOODS. ~
SNOW DEN <fe SHEAR aro happy to annouac
to their friends in the city' and country', tha:
they are now opening a very large and splendid
assortment of staple and fancy DRY GUODi
suitable for the Pall and W inter season, compiis®
a great variety of new and fashionable article;,
which they have selected with great care .from the
most, lecent importations. We would respectfully
solicit our friends and tne public to call and exait
ine the assortment for themselves; and we would
especially invite the attention of Planners to our
unusually large stock of BLANKETS, WELCH
PLAINS, NEGRO KERSEYS and LL\S£TS,
a,l d low pi iced t LANNELS for servants, nov 12
RANAWAY,
the subscriber on the night of the Ist
instant, a negro man named Dick, formerly
owned by George Patten of this county. Dick is
a very light mulatto, about 25 years old. is well
dressed, has a good deal of assurance, and maypos
silDly attempt to pass for a white man, or may have
spurious papers. He took with him his wife, a»
n*gro woman belonging to Mr. Darling Johnson of
this county, about 19 years old—she is blact
Dick was raised in the neighborhood of C^trle 5 -
ton, S. C.. by Mr. Brad we 11. His mother was re
centiy owned by a Mrs. Jones of Columbus, Gs
and now lives in Mobile, Ala. Mie is also a mu
latto, by the name of Juliet. Dick has formerly,
,been a boat hand, and very' likely may offer biff'
self as a hand on either the Savannah, Ocmulgeeoi
Chattahoochee rivers, and endeavor to get his wist
m as a cook, or may be about Columbus, or with
hi« mother in Mobile.
Any information respecting them, directed to tin
subscriber at Busby vide, Houston county, or »
George Patten, at Perry, will be thankfully re
ceived and suitably rewarded.
jan 14 wlm HEZ. THOMSON^
notice.
fIiHE undersigned having associated themself
JL together in the practice of the law, undf r^f
firm of Dudley & Craw’ford, will attend promptly
to ail business confided to their care, and wUI re
gularly' attend the Superior Courts of Steward 1
Randolph, Baker, Lee, Sumter and Marion countie'
of the Chattahoochee circuit, Macon of thflrfW
circuit, and Dooly of the Southern circuit. 'I he**
i office is in Americus, Sumter countv, Ga, where ,
| one or both of them may be found, when not
i on bu smess. GEO. M. DUDLEY, ||
xr « ru c - WM - H - CR iWFORD-.
„ T W * r h e unfinished business of the firm c
yarre n &; Crawford will be attended to by W ls
11. Crawford, aided by Geo. M. Dudley
dec 23 • r ‘ w)B i
M FOR RENT.—The property l
dersigned, on Broad, Campbell andjjf L
.tre Streets, on Mclntosh Street, neaff
rresoyrerun Church, at present occupied
Stockton. Apply to
T . _ McKenzie & bennocH-
July 2 wt r
N. B. The occupants of the property fi>* !5t
1 year enduing Ist < ictouer next, will give notes p*)'
; able quarterly, and pay for the use of the #. v '
; drant water.