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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA. |
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THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 27.
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No mail N rth of Richmond last night.
To Messrs. Dawson, Habersham, and Nesbit,
of ir delegation, we tender our thanks for their
courtesy in forwarding to us sundry documents.
Genl. Harrison.
Heretofore we have foreborn to say anything
pro or con. in relation to this distinguihsed individ
ual, who is the candidate of a very large portion
of the opposition party throughout the United
States, for the first office in tire Republic. And
wo should not now deviate from our former course,
but the pertinacity with which the Van Burcn
press in Georgia, persist in charging him with
Abolitionism ! imposes on us a duty no less due
to truth and candor, than to the General, to
place the matter right before the people, that their
minds may be disabused. And this we shall do
cheerfully, asan act of iibpaitial justice to
under whose standard we are not enlisted.
We shall therefore from time to time, lay before
our readers such extracts, from the speeches and
letters of the General as have special bearing up
on this subject. And we ..esitate not to assert,
that no impartial man will then charge him with
being more ol noxious upon this vital question,
than was the sage and Patriot Jifferson.
Professor Espy, is enlightening the good
citizens of Charleston on his theory of storms.
Expectation of '.mat News.—The Liv
erpool Packet ship New York, was reported below
at New York on last Thursdav, but a letter recei
ved in Charleston, kept open to the latest hi ur
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asserts that the announeement was incorrect.
Speech of Vr. Habersham of Georgia at
the U hlte Dinner.
A sentiment from General Thompson of South
Carolina, at the dinner given to Judgej White, at
Washington elicited the following rerjirks from
Mr. Habersham, of Georgia :
Mr. Prksi rent :—The honor whitfh has just
been conferred upon me. was sowliol v unexpec
ted, that 1 feel myself entirely unprepa red to make
a suitable acknowledgement— I feet | however,
that that compliment was rather extended for the
State which in part I represent. l!u,n for any
merit of my own. It is a fact which linay have
been forgotten by many pe-haps by ijmst of the
gentlemen at this table, that in the g.riai contest
for the Presidency some three or fourtyears ami
Georgia was almost the only State whi>: h cast her
vote in favor of the venerable and distinguished
man. whom we have met here to hoiitjir. Sir. I
took part in that contest in behalf of tljat venera
Neman and battled in the ranks of *jL friends-
Sir, as I have said. Georgia stood alole in her
vote for that individual —-ine stood so. In support
of that great principle which sire b : ,.| so often
carried out into practice.—ti e great pynciph of
NullJicatiun—\ mean Null!feat ion. m its only
true and legitimate meaning: the principle of
sustaining the ' 'onstitution and the laifs, passed
in purs ianc■ thereof. Yes, sir. sire st|.od in his
support to maintain that principle, as |ar as cir
cumstances would permit. ’ Pis true,} mat this
venerable guest had opposed that principle as act
ed out in South Carolina; but of the 4,ndida-es
then presented to our choice, he was iniouropin
lon lh « mtm likely to sien. the torrent of
corruption; to maintain the rights of tlfe South
and the integrity of our beloved Constitution—
lie had notpronnsid do follow in the footsteps.”
Sir. on this principle I and my fricnls had dar
ed also to stand forth in maintainance yf Caroli
na. in her great struggle fir Conmirutiohal rights
—m that struggle, we hud fallen into J n.iimriiv
nr our own 'I tie, and lire victory obtained in be
hul! ot Judge Wbi'e, was the first whi»h graced
our banner, after a long series of defeat.
In maiot finance ol that principle Mr. Presi
dcot, once so dear to your own beloved Slate of
South Carolina I was sent her —and turn fintain
H, i liaveuoine liere r i • ,
i i sir. 1 and mv'Ps)ilea2ut*s
have maintained it in m , • m ‘ i ‘
n ■ ... „ . , • 11 11 an assembly bore more
n °‘ > ,H>lS,eroU3 this cm,,postil of ih ■
representative's ot twenty-five States Lithe sixth
ot a State \\ e marntained New Jers, j hy our
vote, in her struggle for those Con JitJtion .1
riguis ot which site has been robbed. \|' e main- i
tain, d the principle in onr vote in belief G the
11 aMd the Uws passed in pursuance
I utile dreamed, Sir, whm I came hri**, of the
few scenesf cenes 1 WjS rt,>o,,, witness. 1„ the *ne Hall
1 saw as i 1 seems to me. a majority of this Repre
sentatives ol the people.-trampling und, . f i. ot th e
re ” compact of our Union—from tie ! Hall I
passed into the other, at the further e. d of the
Cup tol. and there again, I witnessed 'a scene ;
wm. h was enough to make the heart of any man
bleed vviio respected the sacred institutions of his
country. I know not that I have ever had my
feelings so deeply excited, as in witnessing the
le.ijvinent ot our venerable guest, from nis seat
!* thß nate ' w,h,ch he had so long hone red. Sir.
?‘° Ulent obo - vm S ll) e i(update of
. - *” . Uri ‘ however 1 may differ with
htm on the right of a Legislature to* ins; met, I
could but eo nmend him f lir i,„ .’
csfly. an 1 c.rrving o
hunsell hid a! wavs muintainell S* i '"j * ' C
file opinion Inis doctrine of iustru-t’io'n Vrolv
los.stcu ..pun and practised, is destructive of that
pei-naneoce and rndepu lence which ih Consti
vUiion uicnJcJ to secure in the Senate; I niain-
f tain the right of the people to instruct—but it he
|*n", .oWy .o the people in .heir severe, S n caps
citv when met in Convention. ~ , .
fL Legislature is the mere agent provided by
the Cons-, tution to elect a Senator-he is elect
ed for six years —the Legislature or but one.—
He represents the sovereignty of the btate in me
Councils of the Union—they, the severe guty oi
the people; to make laws for the Stale; they are
both agents for the people ot the State—neith, r
the Constitution nor the people have gi'cn to the j
i Legislature the right to dictate to. or t » control |
the Senators. That right, the people have re j
served to themselves, to he exercised in Conven
tiou; and the attempt to instrm t a Senator is an ;
usurpation hy the Legislature ot the right reserv- |
ed to the people. The Senator is not the
of the Legislature. The Legislature is but ttsell .
an agent of th ■ people for certain purposes spec
ified in the constitution of the State. Ihe Sen- j
ator is the agent, and representative of the sover
eigniy of the State in the Senate of the Union,
and is only bound by instruction from thai sov
ereign body, the people of the State to whom
alone the right belongs, and by whom alone it
can he exercised.
But, Sir. that venerable man. that honest man.
toll himself bound to o’ ey the instructions, and
there—in that Senate Hall. I saw him standing
—his gray locks streaming over his shoubicis— a
tear, not of weakness, but of deop and manly
feeling, trembling in his eye—there he stood, j
while in tremulous tones of the deepest feeling. I
he took perhaps a last leave of the associates wirh
whom he had so long acted. It almost seemed ;
to me. as if that tea- was about t • fall upon the i
very ashes of the (’(institution. It seemed to i
me. as if the verv pillar of the constitution was |
about to crumble into dust—l almost imagined, j
that 1 saw the hand writing on the wad. '
! But God in his mercy has given us time for re- \
j pent rnce—he still spares us from the wrath ol
his mighty Indignation.
Thus at both ends of the Capital, in thai sell
same hour did I witness, what seemed to me, the
utter destruction of the great compact nl onr
Union. I have done—l did not expect to make
a speech at this board, and was wholly and utter
ly unprepared to do so, Ido trust that our hon
ored guest may live lung enough to allow his
Slate to do him justice h\ T send ng him back to
his old seat in the Senate.
Proceedings of Council.
< 'or nci Chamber,}
Monday Evening, Feh. 24. 1840. 5
Council met —Piesent, the Hon. A. Cum
j ming. Mayor;—Aldermen. Bishop, Crump, Har
i per. Hitt, Thomas, Dye, D’Anlignac, Dorlie,
Jackson and Parish.
The minutes of the last meeting were read and
confirmed.
The following reports were received from the
icspective committees.
The Committee on the Hospital, reported on
: the hills of T. C. Clausm, and ask furlher time
for consideration on the communications of Dr’s.
Robertson, and Johnson, whi h was g••anted.
The Committee on the purchase of the Water
Works, report the following resolution which
was agreed to.
Resolved, Thst a committee of four he appoin
ted hy his Honor tire Mayor, to complete the pur
chase of the Water Works, and issue scrip for
I the same, ir conformity to the resolution of the
City Council of the 20th day of April last, reser
ving SISOO for W. H. Turpin, Esq., and to hand
over the ballance of said scrip to said Samuel
Hale, on his making to die City Council of Au
gusta. good and sufficient title to said Water-
I works, and their appertenances, consisting of the
! land arround the spring necessary for supplying
I the city with water, being feet wide and ex-
I tending as high up the ravine as the sou ce «>t
I
the water and down to the fi;st road below the
: spring, also the reservoir la-low the spring, and
the right of way from the spring to the citv.
Signed Jons Harper,
G. T. Dortic,
M. M. Die.
Augusta, Feb. 22, 1840,
The Mayor then appointed the same commit
tee to carrj the above resol tion into effect, viz:
Messrs. H.nper, Dortic, Parish and Thomp
son.
The Committee on the River Bank and W T harf. |
to whom was referred the communication of Wal
ter Harris, Esq. on the subject of removing tire
sand bar shoals, &c. in the (Savannah Rivci, re
ported unfavorably.
I
j Jno same Committee to whom was referred
the Resolution of enquiring into the expedien
cy of increasing the rates of wharfage for the pur
pose of creating .. fund tor the improvement ol the
Savannah River, reported against that measure.
Ihe Repoit ot t«= o Special r ommiltee defining
the duties ot Contractors, was made the order of !
the day for the first Saturday in Man h.
I he Committee appointed to enquire into the !
expediency of assenting to an union of the ' on*
tral and Western Wharf Company with the
Union Wars Company and the receipts of all
the W harves, the latter Company being compos
ed of the City Council of Augusta, and the First
hart ( ornpany the Assignees of Henry Shultz,
Esq. respectfully
Report, I hat the first wharf in Augusta, which
was built about sixty lent front on ihe river, was
built in the year 1815, near the site on which the
upper wharf office has been since built, it was
too small to be profitable, its receipts being scarce
ly worth the trouble of collection. In the follow
ing year, Henry -Shultz. E-q leased from the Ci
ty Council ot Augusta, for the term of thirty !
j years ’ hu »dred (let on the river, and soon
j afteiwards three hundred feet more for the same
i term ot years, an winch he built in 18i6 and !
1817, at an expense oi c 6J,(J00, a wl.a.f six
hundred u-e long, which he so©., a er sold at
cost, to the F;r.-t W .arf Company, who still I
hold . t in the tor n of Capital Stock, divided into
j 600 shios ot S 1 00 each. In ihe years 18<3and
1 lß ' 4 - ,hc ri? y Council built by contract, for ■
545 000. and about $K)oO more fiir extra work,
the Wharf next above the lower Fridge, extend
ing along the river from Centre street to Wash- I
mgton street, being eight hundred feet in length
an I firmed a union in the year 1824, with = the
First Wharf Comp my, which still exists, and is
| h. its term to continue until the expiration of the
i lea e grante 1 o Mr. Shultz.
In the year 1834, E l»ar.l f. CampMl, E.q.
ha,l built hy contract, what is kn-mn a. CW
hull’s Wharf, which is 150 feet on tha river for I
$6 500, and about S7OO more for extra work
in the year 1831 lu fust potion of the We T
er.i Wharf was built. It couasts es tares sep a
rate wharves, all of which have a front of about |
250 feet and cost about $2,000. In the year 1835.
Edward F.Garapbell sold his Wharf and his un
improved river bank below, to the owners of the
Western Wharf, who afterwards in the same year,
ohta'ned a charter from the General Assembly of
Georgia, formed a company and hni't the Central
Wharf, which has a front on the river of about
630 feet, and with Campbell's and the W estern j
Wharf form in? a fronton the river of about 1030
feet, cost about >40.0(H).
The Central and Western wharves were buiC
chiefly by those, who transacted husinc s at such
a distance from the lower wharves, as to find it
“Xtremely inconvenient to have their goods land- |
ed at them, and their produce shipped from them,
and who looked rather to the convenience which
wharves more convenient to them would afford,
than to the profits of their hives’merit a lanre
portion of the cost, however, was defrayed by the
profits of the work wh le it was in progress.
The proposed union of the Central and M cst.
ern Wharf with the others, was first suggested
by the President of the first wharf Compa
ny, as a measure mutually advantageous to
the proprietors of all the wharves in Augusta, in
1 two respects: first in diminishing the eompara-
I live expense and increasing the facility <4 col
i lection: and secondly, in rendering it extremely
I difficult if not impossible for the owners of mer-
I chandizc or produce to avoid the payment of
I wharfage on any articlts landed or shipped.
But the pioposed union is recommended by
i another consideratson which will doubtless have
its due weight with the City Council, acting for
toe benefit of the whole City and desirous of af
fording every possible facility to its Commerce’
which is its sole support. It would save the
merchants the trouble of enquiring at what wharf
their merchandize was landed, or their produce
slopped; as the business is now conducted, mis
takes are constantly occurring in bills of Wharf
age; sometimes a bill is presented from both
wharves for the same articles, and sometimes oth
er articles are omitted at both. Experience hav
ing proved that when a boat s position is sudden
ly changed from one whart to another, as is fre
quently the case, it is extremely difficult for the
Whirl Clerk, in die hurry of business, to preserve
a correct record of the Wharf at which each arti
cle is landed or shipped.
The Central and Western Wharf Company
was incorporated, as already stated, in 1835 ; but
the Central Wharf was not finished until 1837,
though a part of it and Campbell’s Wharf were
in use previously. Since the period of its com
pletion up to December, 1839. the receipts at the
Central and Western Wharves though much
i diminished lay the frequent, and unusually long
prevalence of a low river during that period, have
been $8632 82; while during the same period,
the city’s proportion of the receipts from the
Union Wharf has been $9082 28. or $449 44
greater than the former ; thus proving that the
terms of the union, which have been proposed,
arc as nearly equal as can well he fixed on.
But when it is considered that the Central
Wharf is more convenient to a large number ot
the most extensive merchants of the city, than
any other; and that the business of it can he
easilv increased by concert on the part of those
whose interest it is to increase its income, the ad
vantage of the proposed union to the pecuniary
interest of the city cannot be doubtful.
The tendency of the proposed measure also to
promote harmony among our citizens, and sup
press sectional jealousy, from which the trade of
Augusta has suffered so severely, is one ot its
highest recommendations.
Your Committee, therefore, recommend the
adoption of the following resolution :
Resolved, That the assent of the City Counci'
of Augusta be, and the same is hereby given, to
the union of interest in the receipts ot the City
Wharves, the Wharf Company’s Wharves, and
i the Central and Western Wharf Company's
Wharves; each party receiving one-third ot the
| nett income, and keeping their own wliaif in
good order at their own expense; and each party
also appointing the same proportion of t e Direc
tors. who shall have the same power over the
I Wharves of the parties to the proposed contrai t,
and rates of wharfage as is possessed by the pre
sent Directors of tli •* Union Wharf Company
over the rates ot Wharfage and the Wharves,
under their control, and in other respects the te« ms
| of the contract to he the same as that between
| the First Wharf Conipm y and the City Coun
! cil. Said proposed union to commence on the
day cf and terminate on the
i day of in Hie year
Signed Jam i s Hakpkr,
G. T. Donne,
W. E. .I acksov,
| Augusta, Feb. 24,1840. Commi.tec-
On motion, the blanks were filled as follows:
| to read, on the Ist day ot Maich, 1840, and ter
| minate on the Ist day of March in the year
I 1841.
Mr. D'Antignac offered the following Resolu
} tion us a suh-titute for the above.
Resolved, i hat the proposed union of \\ barf
interest would most probably result in loss to the
, city, and that it there foie he n« t enteicd into.
The quest.on on the passage of the resolution
being put, it v:as lost; and yeas and nays being
called for on the pipage of the first resolution,
■ they wi re taken, and are as follows:
Via Crump, Harper, Hut, Thomas, Jack
son. Doriic, Bishop. Parish.
Nays —D’Antignac and Dye.
So the original Resolution was passed.
The undersigned Committee, to whom was re
ferred the application of the Sou.h Carolina Ca
nal and Rail Road « ornpaay, tor leave to estab
lish a Depository in Augusta, and soliciting oth
er privileges and immunities conne ted therewith
having taken the same into consideration,
pectfully submit the following
m pout.
j The communication under consideration was
I before the City ( oum.l in the month of
June last, hut was subs, queitly efcrre.l to lie
Citizens of Augusta, in town meeting assembled
who raised a Committee to enquire j, lio | ie px '
pediency of the purchase of t..e Bridges by the
City of Augus.a, and thougo that Commute
agreed to report aga.nst said purchase at the p,Le
) which was demanded, yet me purchase has since b
been completed, with ibe approbation of a large
; majority of the citizens inte ested. tl
The City Council having thus become tire p
owners of di<* Bridges opposite the city .and having °
paid a price for them, based upon the toll which ,
maybe legally demanded to. passing them, cannot, s
with the least propriety, consent to the building ol <-■
another B idge ; the effect of which must be u>
dimnrsh the lawful income of the p operty which (]
they have fairly purchased. Your Committee g
believe that as free an intercourse between this **
city a;id Charleston, as lire nature of things will .
j permit, is desirable for both cities, but if decs ri’rt d
foil iw from tills admission, that all chargei lor
the use of expensive improvements, is to 1 c re_
era riled as unreasonable or unjust- The payment 1
• " r
1 of toll for passing a bridge is no more to be re- (
! garded us an unreasonable impediment in the way v
i of trade, than is the charge for the transportation '
of persons or property on a Rail Road. *
! The imerest of trade aio sufficiently < onsulti d t
1 when such improvements art made, and ihe free i
use of them permitted to every applicant for a
I. . .
j lair equivalent. (
As to the Depository in the city your Commit-
| tee see no objection to it if properly located and t
■ ■ f
j under proper restrictions.
In conformity with tlie views wh.ch they ha*e
| taken of the subject referred to them, your com
mittee sub nit, for the approbation ot the City i
, Council, the fallowing resolutions:
Resolved. That the request of the So. ('a. Ca
i nil and Railroad Company, for leave to build a
Bridge across the Savannah river for the use of ,
said company and to carry their road info the j i
city of Au gusta, he not granted.
Resolv'd, That his II mor ffe Mayor he re.
quested to transmit •* copy oi this Report and
these Resolutions to the President of the South r
j Carolina Canal and Rad Road Company.
Signed—J oiks Hakpkii, "j
WM. VI. D' A STIfJXAC, [ r , .
ni >Comrmttee. t
S. VI. 1 nomesox, '
VV. E. Jackson’. J '
Augusta. February 24. 1840.
Toe following Resolutions were offered and
passed ! By Mr. Harper : (
Resolved , That the city council will on c- i
ceiving unconditional and satisfactory title to the
New Bridge over Savannah Rr er, respecting |
the right of Joseph K. Kilbu n, James Harper, ;
Jonathan Meigs, and William Harper, to pas° ‘
I and repass the same, also their families, their scr j
I vants and desendents, whose names may he han" ,
I *
ded to the Keeper without payment ot toll, ox- I
cept with vehicle engaged in landing brick, which 1
right was s cured to the n by an agreement made i \
on the 2d Navemher 1837. in consideration o! i
their giving up land for the New road in Edge- *
tVUI Dist. S. C. leading from the Camphelltown *
road to tiie said new bridge, which said right,
shall not in any case he transferable, and to cease
as to each of the above named persons, who shall i
Cviase to have any interest in the tract of land 1
aforesaid through, which sail! new road passes* 1
By Mr. Dantignac! ,
\
I Resolv'd, That the Mayor he. and he is hereby 1
authorized to. substitute $4 (TO City 8, rip for
1 $4,600 of the City Bonds authmised to be paid
for the remaining half of the upper Bridge.
| By Mr. Hitt : \
Resolved. That so much of the contract with I
J. H. Spencer, for giaveling the side walks of {
1 Jacks »n street, be recimled (with bis consen 'J 1
I
and that the Committee h authorised to receive t
proposals to pave with Brick the side walks of I
J ickson street, from the Rail Road depository, to 1
Broad street, as wide as the i ‘ommiltce may think
necessity, (the owners of the property j>. yitig tor *
the same) and report the same at the mx: mett. I
i||rr of Council.
■. 1 t
On motion of Mr. Harper, it was
i (solved, i’lial the Street Committee advertise
for and receive proposals for materials for pacing i
such center drains and streets as may he deemed *
n 'cessary, and report at the next meeting of Conn- :
cil.
i
Council adjourned. »
S. H. OLIVER, Clerk. 1 <
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S:xr,cuu Giucc.mstancb.—Miss Lucy Hir- t
ringtoii. formerly a resident in Ameshijrv, and t
daugliter ot Mr. Hat niigloii. died lecentlv in i
('ornisli. N. H. under the following distressing j
circumstances. She was sick thr e year- surd js;
a half, and confimcl to her bed two years and the •
mouths. Several months prex ious to h r death,
her right hip was dislocated by a contraction of I
toe mu cl s, while slit* was sleeping quietly in
bed. Immediately after this event, her hones ho- I
gan to break; and before her death th y had ! S
broken nineteen times or more, in different ports)
of her body. \ '
At fii st lict tilts broke, tben lier collar bones, ;
(ben her lower limbs, her under j iw. and the
b nes of her hands and fee’. Their I real ing 1
was sometimes attended with a noise, and at oth- i c
or not ; and was always preceded ami followed j n
by the most acute pain. The ends of the hro
ken hones would some imes for a dav or two, '
grate together on being moved. Upon a post j
mortem examination, not a sound bone was | ‘
t >und. Ad were so softened as to he easily cut i
wnh a 1-nilc. When her hones began to break |
the muscles of her Inver limbs so contracted that '
they lav directly across her stomach and bowels. *
In this position sin* remained until her death, j 2
Her!) .dy was so contrcted that at one time she 1
measmeJ as she lay in her bed only two feet and *
four inches. She gradually lost all strength in I
her limbs, until sue coaid only rn we slightly the I
ends of her lingers. She was 43 years of am*. ! "
Amesbury Irons.
| I his was an extremely aggravated case of very 1
I malady, denominated by physicians j
, ic ° ss ' um , Anghce. softening of the I
| ’ ' nPS * * iu * bones ot the body are composed of f
two parts, the earthly, and the gelatinous. In 1
1 thf * disease above described the gelatine was taken ,
! *’>’ ,lle action oi tiie ahsorlient vessels, and the
earthly part, being consequently left without sup
port became triable, and could not resist the con- 1
i trading power of the muscles. 1
V\ e have sometimes seen in anatomical cal.i- \
nets specimens of hones where tiie earthly part
Ita- been removed by the application of an acid
Here the bone was extremly flexible ; in fa, 1 (
we nave seen a man’s thigh hone tied in a how 1
knot without breaking It is proper to remark
that exh mstion or absorption of the eartlm
pin of Honrs never lakes j lace in a living s,,h. s
je» t.--A. Y. Despatch. °
r]
Tt- Dtry:xiin. R Inive to llm r . v
'ery of a subterranean prison in ; \ rw JL ‘ 1 !ip '*
die Bulletin of th it city siys- »• f t • r P ' Uls
ccruined that ibe ,ulie. rapean .p^'Vwai
built for a dungeon. Ps structure ana extent |
<hows that it could never have been built for the
purposes intimated by an evening paper. M e
nisi that our j;ublic authorities will have the
passage fully explored. As a matter ot curi
jsity and antiquarian research, it is well wortu
the expen>e and trouble. The most propable ,
conjecture we have heard, is that the p.ison, now
so deep under ground, was, when (i st construct
ed, on the s rface, which seventy years ago, was
much lower than it is now. Since that the ground
has been gradually raised, by a process now going
on in different parts of the city, until the dun
geon is buried many feet below the level ol the
street. Whether there be any truth in this sur
mise, it is difficult to say. This much, however,
is quite certain, that it is, altogether, a mysleticus
affair.”
The number of births in Philadelphia dm ng
the past year was 7202, of whom 3769 were
males, and 3493 females. Thenumbe of deaths
during lire same period wassll3, ot whom 2/11
were males, and 2432 females. Excess ot butus
over deaths 2143. The greatest number of
deaths in any one week was from the 13>h to
the 20dr of July, when they amounted to 1-53;
the sm illest number, from tlie 16th to the 23d or
November, 64.
A charge has been freqnenily made, and as fre
quently denied that Mr. Secretary VV oodbnry en
couraged the extension of bank credits, by urging
the deposit' 1 bant sto loan freely. The following,
from the report of directors of the Manhattan
Bank, sno Id, we think, settle the mailer. Spea
king of certain loans, they say:
‘•They were mostly made at a time when the
institution had ao large an amount of public mo
ney, and when th y were urged by the Secretary
„f the Treasury w hum out that money .”
Equivocation is a mean expedient to avoid too
decl nation of the truth, without verbally telling
i lie. We had rather a man would tell a good
plump lie right out. titan undertake to whip the
devil round the stump of equivocation.
Valuable Cow.—A cow in Smithiield yield
ed during tae last yea r , sufficient milk to make
220 i-2 Ihs Butter, besides 470 quarts sold, and
what was necessary for the use of the family. Al
lowing the butter to he worth 20cts per lb. and
lire imlk Sets per quart, tae income from the cow
would be >67 60 Bristol (it. I.) Phoenix.
Bunn.vs rox.—ln the morning mail there is a
correspondence, descriptive of a phy. iCu.Uy preco
cious child, named Hiram Barb r, born in Ritch
mond, Chittenden County, Vl; 3 years old last
May, 4 feet 1 inch high, weighing 90 pounus and
every way perfect in form. His voice is gruif,
body large and full, and <is limbs of the size of
an ordinary man. (the legs bowing out by reason
of the great weight of his body. His head is that
of an adults and thickly covered with light brown
hair and a splendid pair of whisker* J with little
or no mustache. He i not exhibitedfor money,
though all who sec him givr something, and he
is exceedingly delighted with specie currency—a
proof, say we, of his good sense ! He eats like a
soldier on fieh. duty. He tal cs indistinctly, and
is rather idiotic. He weighed 9 pounds at his
birth, and did not differ from an ordinary infant
till he was fifteen months old! His whiskers
sprouted at two years old. What a beauty !
Monument to the late Mr. Cillet-—The
following paragraph is from the I'homaston (Me.)
Recorder * “The main corner stone, intended for
the monument of the lamented Cilley. passed our
office on Monday evening, drawn by 14 yoke of
oxen. It is a granite block, nine feet long and
five feel square.”
C .eiucal Bov Mot. —A Kc'GM nd Doctor was
lately travelling from London to in the.
mail coach ; it so felt out that he and a lady were
the only persons occuping the interior of the ve
in le. He. therefore, essayed to daw the lady
out in tl e way of conversation but to no efleet;
so he lesigned himself to l ie embraces of Mor
pheus, winch example the lady shortly thereafter
followed Subsequently the mail eoach Halted at
the lady's residence; boatmen were in attendance
to hand her ladyship from tr.e carriage, which
attendance the ludy was in the act of receiving,
when the Reverend Doctor facetiously remarked.
“Why Mad am. we must not part without slinking
hands, as ti-i probably the last time we may shv-p
together;” which the lady, highly amused,assen
ted to by a cordial pressure of t n hand.
Have you got enough of it? — V genii man
who has been travelling, for some months past, in
the West, and who, by the way, is something of
a wag, says that <mt in that country, when \«»u
meet a Jackson-Van-Buren man, tl i salutation is
not. “I hope you are quite well, to-day.” or
“How a e you 10-d.iy ?” but it is, “Have you got
enough of it ?”
Toe question is pertinent and significant, and
conics home to all who are suffering in *• mind,
hiidy an I csta «■ :rom the folly and ignorance of
thoM l who ha\e mismanaged the affairs of this go
vernment for ten years past. From the height of
prospe .ty vve a e reduced to misery and want,
ami all because they had not the wisdom to let
'•well enough” alone.— Ere. Star.
DIED.
At Lagrange, Troup county, Mrs. Colquitt, con
sort of the Hen. VV a ter f. Colquitt.
C onsignees per Soulh Carolina Kail itoai!,
Hamburg, February 27, 1840.
C< I Cortic; I S Beers &Co; J Biidges; H C
Biyson & Co; Nelson Carter; M Frazer; Stovall,
Simmons ft Co; T J Panne ce; M B Breedlove.
Turpin &. D’Antignac; Rees * Beall; McGthee &
VV ; J 1 Benson; Jeffers & 800 ware; G Parrott;
Sin ley Sc Crapon; Anderson & Young.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Charleston, February 2G
Arrived yesterday— Brig Daniel Webster Ad
ams • atanzas.
At Quarantine— Line ship Leland, V iller Bos
ton; Brig Commaquid, from Boston.
Below —Two schooners
Cleared C L brig Dimon. .Matthews,New York.
iwi imai uu amug.Aipjiri.
R. 11. OVi;K55v7
A TTORNEY AT LAW.
_ tc ‘ J ~~ } Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga.
Cj*Tr. C. IV. WEST oiCers his professional
,e, v, « S to the citizens of An-usta and its viciniJv
lit, office l* in Mclntosh- street, opposite the office
°£££hS r oa,l,t: rcsiden “ f «;v
- feb 13—trvvlm
NOTICED. Munrof s„r-ec7
Dentist, has returned to Augusta, and has’removed
he] °' v Ma,tin K,( ‘ d -
Bank Building Cnai} ’ an J °PP osi,e t; ie Br dge
ttLAW NOTICE. —The undersigned nracG
ton Strivpn U P eri(>r (omts of Columbia, VVashin?-
ton. sc i ven, Burke, and Jefferson conn ies.
leb Iff 2w CHARLES J. JENKINS.
O’ Doctor J. J. WILSON offers his profes
-lonat servi es to the citizens of Augusta and its
vicinity. He wip lie found at bis residence the
Tst brick building above (ineffron’s stable on VllU
street, recently occupied by John L. Ad mis "* S
q ’ gl7 ____ ts
ir? IV. G NIMMO, General \t .7
hnnt office on Mclntosh street, next door to t I
onstUuUonalxst. g ,e
nov 7
! A?j GUST A PRICES CURRENT.
Thursday, February 27, 1840, X
SAGGING— Hemp, per yard 20 a 2 6 I
Tow, “ 14 a 2d I
BALE ROPE, per lb. 8 a n I
BACON —lies round, “ 9 a jj I
liatn*, “ —a jo I
Shoulders, “ —a u I
Side*, “ —a 11 I
BUTTER—Or en, per lb. 28 a w I
Nort Carolina, “ 15 a o-,
Country, 13 a 26
COFFEE —Green prime Cuba, “ 14 a p,
Ordinary to good, ” 11 a
St. Domingo, “ 1 a \ A
Brazil, ‘‘ a—.
Laguira, “ a 15
Porto Rico, ‘‘ a l.j
Java, !■» a i 0 ‘
Mocha, “ 13 a 20
COTTON— Ordinaryto mid'g , “ 6 a 71
Fair, “ (} a
Ci odfier, “ 8 a j:
Prime, “ S{> a J
1 CANDLES — Spermaceti, “ 4b a 50
Tallow, t; 20 a 22
I CHEESE — American, “ 1 or, a jj
English, “ do a 50
j ClDEß—Northern, per hbl. 9ou a Dot)
Inboxes, per doz. 350 a 453 I
j ClGAßS—Spanish, M. 15 a2O
American, " 5 n jy
! CORN — bushel 50 u fra I
I FISH — Herrings, __ I -5 a 1
Mackerel No. 1 " iwue
ti 2 “
t; 44 3 “ 44
FLOUR — Canal, bbl. 9 all
Baltimore, “8 a bSO
Western, “ none
Country, “ Gsoa 750 I
GUNPOWDER— keg G a 7
Blasting, “4 a 4 5.)
GLASS— IO W, 12, box 350 a 4
8 10, “ 325 a 4
IRON—Russia, “ G
Suedes, assorted, “ G
Jl<,op, lb 9 % 10
Sheet, “ 8 a 10
Nail Rods, i: 7 a 8
LEAD—Bar, “ 9 a
LEATHER—SoIe, lb 28 a 30
Upper, side 175 a 2
Calf Skins, doz 30 a36 *
LARD— ‘ lb a 15
MOLASSES — N. Orleans, gal 40 a 60
Havana, “ 35 a 45
English Island, “ c
MAILS — lb 8 a 9
OlLS—Lamp, gal 150a 2(0
Linseed, “ 1 15 a 125
Tanners, “ 60
Oi TS — bush 50
PEAS — “ 1
PAINTS —Red Lead, lb 15
Whit* Lead , keg 3 00 a 350
Spanish Brown ib 4 a
Yellow Ochre, “ 3 a
PEPPER—BIack, 9 a 12}
POUTER — London, doz 4 a 45U
and Ale. American , hbl 3 a 360
RAISINS — Malaga, box 2 c 260
Muscatel, 1 50 a 2
Bloom, “ none
RICE — Prime, 1(0/5 4 a 5
Inferior to good, “ 350 a4 50
SUGAR —New Oilcans, lb 7 a 10
Havana, white, “ 13 a 15
“ brown, “ 8 a 9
Muscovado, “ 8 a 10
St Croix, “ 10 a 12} I
Porto Rico, “ 8 a 11
Lump, “ 14 a 16
Loaf, “ 15 a x(j
Double refined, “ 20 a 22
SOAP — American, No. 1, 8 a 8}
“ No. 2, 5 a 8*
SALT —Liverpool ground, bush 50 a 62}
Turk’s Bland, “ none
STEEL — Gernwn, lb 15 a 16
Blstered, “ 8 a 12}
j SHOT —All sizes, hag 212 j a 2 37}
i SPIRITS — Cognac, 4th prf. gal 150 a 250
Peach, “ 1 a 1 -0
Apple, “ 45 a 61
Gin, ITlland, “ 1 20 a 165
“ American, “ 68 a 68
Rum,Jamc.ica. “ 1 25 a 1 75
“ Rew England, “ 48 a 66
Whiskey, Northern, “ 48 a 56
*• Western, “ 60 a 75
“ Muncnga. “ 75 a 1
“ Irish, « 2 a 3
; TOBACCO — N. arolina, lb 8 a 15
Virginia, “ 15 a 40
! TWINE— « 30 a 37}
j TEA — Bohca, “ 50 a 75
Souchortg, “ 60 a 75
Hyson, “ 75 a 125 |
Gunpowder, “ 1 a 125
I WINE — Madeira, go I 260 a 350
Sicily Madeira, •* 1 25 a 175
Sherry, « 2 n 3 50 I
Tenerife. “ 75 a 125
Sweet Malaga, t; 40 a 60
Porte. « 75 a 3
Claret, “ none
“ in bottles, doz 3 a 6
Champaigne, “ 5 a 12
RE VI ARKS.
Lotion —C ur market was qrite excited yester
day, and a large quantity changed hands, at an a
- upon t e lower nnd medium quaitiesofai
to } cent upon our ast quutvtious, while for*
prime article tlie price was stationary.
To ders general y seemc 1 di~po?;e«l to realise and
| they were ireeiy met by buyers. The quantity
; coming in is imited.
VV e now quote G ( o 8} cents as the extreme'of I
the mar.\et, and the latter is paid freely fora choke |
lot.
Ordinary to middling, 6 o 7}
Fair, 7 h to 8
Good Fair, 8b)
Prime and choice, 8}
Freights —To Savannah SI,OO per bale.
Groceries —The supply owing to the limited de- |
maud upon the market, is generally very good, j
and cash commands them at low prices.
Sugar— Ihe market continues to be well sup- j
plied with every variety.
Col ee —Heavy arrivals recently, have placed the J
trade in a full stock, and prices range from 11 to 1
13 cents to arge dea'ers.
Salt —The stock continues to improve, and sales
are m ule from the Wharf at 40 cents, retail price
6 2} ct'.
Bao.n —The market is almost daily replenished
by arrivals from the country, which is so d from
wagons at 7± cts.
| Elo .I . Country. —Stock limited, and sells tea
! dily from wagons at 0} tc $7 her bbl.
Molasses. —Stock large. We note sa cs from the
wharf at 34 cents.
Irish Potatoes- —Supply very limited, and com
mands $4 per hbl.
Exchange. —On New-York at sight, 7 a 7} r e ”
cent, for current funds; Charleston at 4 a 5 per
cent, Savannah 1 a T} per ct.; a 3p-
M.; Lexington, Ky. ] per ct.; specie commands 6
per cent, premium.
Bank Notes. —
Savannah Banks, 1 per cent, prelo
- olumbus Insurance B ? k 1 “ “ 1
Commercial Bank, l ’acon, I “ “ 8
Mechanics’, « (Augusta,) 6 “ “ “
Agency Brunswick, “ 6 “ “
Planters’ and Mechanics’
Bank, Co umbus, 2} “ t- d,S-
Milledgev ile Hank, 2} “ “ ”
Ccmulgee Bank, 4 - “ ‘ -
Monroe Rail Road Bank, 5 « “ ‘ -
Hawkins vile Bank, 5 “ ‘
Chattahoochie R. R. A L’k
Company, 10 “ “ “
Darien t a ,k, IS « “ “
Bank of Rome, 25 “ “ “