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CHRCNICLE AND SF/ TINEL.
AUGUSTA.
TUESDAY MORNING MAP H 17.
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gy No mail north of Richmond|ist night.
Augusta—Trade—ProspJpts.
It may be regarded by many as pr umption in
us, ■who have so recently taken up < ir residence
in the city, to be making suggestio sto our cit
izens, who are generally very ente arising and
awake to their interests nevertbel >s we think
t here seems to be a careless indiffs, nee toward
the progress of certain works of inter al improve
ment, which are calculated when < mpleted to
have a very important influence upSn the trade
and commercial prospects of Augusta lind a want
of confidence in the success of oilers, which
when completed, in our opinion, rri y, without
proper energy on thepartofour city, fiave a pre
judicial influence upon our future tr; |e.
We allude to the Rail Roads now n progress,
the one from this city to the State Trunk, the
other from Macon to the same termii is. There
anpears to us a great supineness on be part of
this city in relation to the Georgia Ro J; much too
great, when its vast benefits to the city when
completed are contemplated. It must necessarily
become the great thoroughfare for the ransporta
tion of the merchandise west, if it is completed
prior to the Macon Road —but shou! that road
be in operation first, it will divert a 1: ge portion
of the trade and travel to Macon, w |ich "ould
w ith proper exertion on the part of ugc be
brought to her. Altho’ Augusta poss sses many
advantages over her sister Macon, it b her inert
ness she sleeps over her interests unt the Mon
roe Rail Road be in operation, she wil have a la
bour to perform in diverting the trad from that
city, as Herculean as the building of t e Georgia
Road from Madison to its terminus Let the
citizens then be awake to their true im irests, and
if our opinions are well founded, i ,behooves
them to be aroused. Let the holders f real es
tate and the merchants, who are alike nterested
i n the prosperity of the city, make som decided
m ove in this work. And if wisdom 1 id co.iert
prevail in their councils, the future hop 5 of Au
gusta will be fully realised.
To show that our apprehensions of. e success
of the Monroe Rail Road and its con iletion at
an early day, are not idle and futile wcwill
give a few facts which we have receiv don un
questionable authority. The fact is t ascer
tained that the whole route is now 1 ler con
t ract,to be graded, and the work will bj|comple
ted at as early a day as the very large inumber
of laborers now engaged can t. Add
to this another well ascertained fact, ihat the
w hole country through which it passes 'om For
ay the to the state road, as also the coi itry sur
r oundir.g Macon, are sensibly alive to 1 ,e impor
tance of completing the 'road before ny other
r oad to that point is in operation, end e are as
su red upon high authority that the M( sroe Rail
R oad Company, can and will comn ;ind the
whole surplus of the ensuing crop of otton of
the adjacent counties to afford them tl means
of procuring the Iron, Engines, &c. net ssary to
place the road in operation. All Macc, too is
aroused, and her citizens with a zeal \ orthy op
the great work, are bringing to bear all reir en
ergies in aid of the company and the rc J.
During all this activity by the cit lens of
Macon and the surrounding country,Rugusta
seems inactive and heedless, —apparentliwaiting
for dame Fortune, in one of her freaki to roll
the whole trade of the Northwesternlpart of
Georgia and Tennessee into her lap, vithout a
struggle on her part to secure it, by tl'i means
which are so perfectly at her command. SWe re
peat, our people must arouse, and we |re con
scious that to sustain the former star 3 of the
city among the mans of the State, thecannot
take the matter in hand at too early a The
completion of lire Road is the first thing which
should engage their attention, and to which they
should direct al) their energies;—that d ne, our
merchants are too sensible of their own i literests,
to require to be told, that their stocks mst be
increased to secure a trade, which will 0 lerwise
pass through our city to a more exteni ive and
better supplied market. 1
M e have hastily thrown together thij|e hints
for the consideration of our citizens, wj hout a
consultation with any, and if they shall Ip.ve the
effect to excite a just sense of what wet'Pink the
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true situation, our object will be accomplished,
and the prosperity of the city be secureif beyond
the reach of contingencies. f
Theatre. 5
\ esterday we omitted to notice the advertise
ment of Mr. Forbks, wherein he annoifices his
contemplated return, with his corps, to us city,
in a few days. Ihe admirers of the Di ma will
no doubt be much pleased to learn the 'engage
ment by Mr. F. of the very popular actr ss, Mrs.
Fitz william, who will make her firs appear
ance before an Augusta audience in tv* > of her
favorite characters. [
lecture.
Mr. Richards gives his second Le pire to
night. Subject—“ The Chemical proj trties of
the Atmosphere, or Oxygen and Nitrogi [r. Gas,”
which will be illustrated by many interesting
experiments. I
Debates on the Federal Constir tiou.
We take great pleasure in noticing 11 Agent
in this city, at the Globe Hotel, receiv ;ig sub
scriptions to this valuable work, which * :as pub
lished under the sanction of Congress. In ad
dition to the Debates on the Constitutor it con
tains also a journal of the proceeding of the
Federal Convention of 1787-88, togetl ;r with
many other valuable tacts and argument calcu
lated to shed much light on the chara ;cr and
nature of our political institutions.
It has been compiled with great care \ John
athan Elliott, and should be : n the hands If every
man who desires to be informed on the powers
of the Federal Government. >
Medical College.
The Annual Commencement of the Medical
1 College of Georgia, was held on Saturday last
14th inst. when the Degree of Doctor of Medi
cine was conferred by the Vice President, Dr
Cunningham, on eighteen gentlemen, whose
names have been handed us for publication, by
the Secretary viz:
Jasper Gibbs, Edgefield, S. C.
.lames M. Schley, Richmond, Geo.
Roger K. E'ixon, Louisville.
Bartholomew Peterson, Irwinton, Alabama.
T. W. Duncan, Talbot Co., Ga.
Charles B. Dill, Augusta.
Thomas F. Keith, Columbia Co.
Win. S. Taylor, Anderson, S. C.
Willoughby Barton, Augusta, Geo.
Green B. Powell, Burke Co., Ga.
James M. Murph, Baldwin Co., Ga.
H. A. Ramsey, Elbert Co.,
A. S. Holland, Augusta,
H. R. Casey, Jefferson Co.
C. W. Sadler, Putnam Co.
H. B. Sparks, Randolph Co.
Boling A. White, Elbert Co.
James H: Murray, McDonough, Ga.
An address was delivered to the graudates by
Dr. Hook one of the Trustees.
This address was received by an overflowing
audience, with the highest degree of attention
and interest. It contained a striking exhibition
of the excellence and dignity of the Medical
Profession and bespoke its author a worthy mem
ber of this noble profession.
Dr. Joseph A. Eve having been previously
elected to the Professorship, of Obstetrics and
Diseases of Women and Infants. Dr. Ignatius
P. Garvin was proposed by the Faculty and
unanimously elected by the Board ot Trustees to
the Professorship of Therapeutics and Materia
Medica.
Dr, Alexander Cunningham was elected Vice
President, and Drs. Hook, Banks, Means and C
W. -West, the Rev. Bishop Andrew and Dr.
Church, and the Hon. Judge elected
members of the Board of I’ruslees.
We learn that the Faculty have solicited a
copy of the address of Dr. Hook for publication
to which he has assented —when received we
will either publish it entire or such extracts as
may be of interest to our readers.
Extract from the London Banker's Circular.
February 14, 1840.
We extract the following notice of the view
taken of a branch of the China trade carried on
by the American merchants which has fallen into
their hands in consequence of our rapture with
the Chinese authorities; the document from
which we extract proceeds from a committee to
whom was delegated the duty of communicating
with the foreign office on all matters relating to
the aforesaid dispute ; and is to be found at the
termination of their report of the proceedings de
livered to the associated body of merchants tra
ding to China and the East Indies, who appointed
them a special committee and deputation for this
purpose.
“ The committee cannot conclude this portion
of their report without adverting to a subject to
which attention has been called—namely, whether
an American vessel could legally carry tea or
other produce from China to Singapore, or any
British settlement within the limits of the East
India Company’s charter, the Cape of Good
Hope included; and they beg to apprise the
Association, that it appears from such informa
tion as they can obtain, the Navigation Laws,
the act for regulating the trade of vessels be
longing to countries in amity with Great Britain,
as well as the treaty with the United States of
America, most clearly forbid it.”
It is probable that the owners of American ves
sels now in the Chinese ports, and on their way
to them, know nothing of this t caty and the re
straining law's referred to, and they have sent
their supercargoes under a sanguine expectation
that great advantages were to be acquired by
driving a brisk trade with our colonial possess
ions while we were paralyzed with trouble. Will
the Americans submit quietly to be deprived of
these promised advantages 1 In short, there is so
much disturbance yet to settle down before con
fidence and activity can be fully restored, that
our astonishment, is, that trade should be so good
as it is.
Having alluded to the state of the American
Banks, we think it right to say that, as far as
we are advised, there is no sufficient reason for
apprehending ihat the charter of the United
States Bank will be wrested from her.
The Richmond Correspondent of the Lynch
burg Virginian —the Editor himself, a member
of the House of Delegates—says :
At a meeting of the friends of Gen. Harrison,
held in Baltimore, a few days ago, Gen Duff
Green openly announced his intention to support
him : he also declared his purpose to start a Har
rison paper in Baltimore, in the first number of
wdrich he designs publishing a correspondence
between himself and Mr. Calhoun, which he says,
will show' the latter to be the most treacherous
man living.
From the Baltimore American.
Accounts reach us from various quarters of the
country, of the extraordinary inteiest which has
been taken during the past winter in the subject
of religion. In Cincinnati, Maysville, Louisville,
and the West generally, in New York, Philadel
phia and in this city, this interest has been man
ifested by more frequent religious services, elo
quent preachings attended by numerous congre
gations, and by an increased anxiety on the part
of multitudes to make the concerns of futurity a
matter of serious moment amid the changing and
evanescent scenes of life. Nor has this solicitude
been confined to any particular denomination;
nearly all have participatd in it. The churches of
♦his city have received large additions to their
several communions, in some instances the num
ber of communicants has been nearly doubled.
The complection of the times, wearing during
the past season an aspect of gloom derived from
the depression of business and the prostration of
worldly hopes among so many, might well occa
sion in the minds of the community much serious
reflection.—lf the result shall be to call forth and
strengthen the religious sentiment, bringing the
conviction that upon no other basis can the su
perstructure of human happiness be safely found
ed, it will be but another exemplification of the
great truth that it; is often “good to be afflicted.”
“ That Prentice has a flattering wav with
him, when referring to the distinguished individ
uals of the \ an Buren party. following
complimentary notice of the miqkter to Texas
is in the last number of his journal:
“ George H. Flood, Loco-Foco of the Ohio
Legislature, has been appointed Charge de Af
faires to Texas There is some reason to believe
that, even without such an appointment, he would
soon have absconded to that country.
There were twenty-five fires in New York in
the month of February.
.Emory College.
t j LETTER OF BISHOP ANDREW.
Covington, Feb. 15, 1840.
Dear Brother Capers —As I have to wiite on
a little matter of business which I forgot in my
r * last, I first add two or three things in reference to
e our College. On Monday last, President Long
y street delivered his inaugural address in tne Cha
' pel at Oxford. It was listened to by a respecta
ble audience with a great deal of interest. As it
will be published shortly, I have only to say, now,
that it was a sensible and very appropriate per
formance, delivered in the author’s usual happy
and impressive style. We augur favorably for
the future interests of Emory College, from his
connexion with it. The literary and scientific
departments of the College are ably filled. The
young men are generally studious and moral, and
many of them decidedly pious. Our village is
rapidly improving. Its location is pleasant and
healthy; its population bids fair to be of the right
stamp, pious, industrious and intelligent. The
Georgia Railroad will pass within less than a mile
of the institution, so that the facilities of access
will be abundant. We have the beginning of a
library, and would respectfully incite the friends
of science to contribute to its enlargement by do
nations of valuable books. Such donations could
be made through the preachers, or boxed up and
sent by some convenient opportunity to the Rev.
G. W. Lane, the librarian. Our philosophical
and chemical apparatus, though not complete, is
sufficient for the more important illustrations of
r science, and will be constantly augmented as the
liberality of our friends shall furnish the means,
r We have a splendid collection of minerals, con
sisting of the very valuable collection made by
Dr. Cohen, of Baltimore, and a handsome list of
1 donations made to this department by a number
1 of liberal private friends; and from this latter
. source, our mineralogical cabinet is receiving
constant accessions. We are also indebted to
the kindness of some of our friends for several
’ articles intended to constitute the nucleus of a
I musuem. In reference to ail these matters, we
. invite our friends not to be weary in well doing.
We give below a list of the present faculty of the
institution.
’ Rev. Augustus B. Long street. President,
i Rev. A. H. Mitchell, Professor of Moral Sci
ence and English Literature.
Rev. George W. Lane, Professor Ancient Lan
guages.
Rev. Alexander Means, Professor Natural
Science.
Rev. Enw’n. H Myers, Tutor in Mathematics.
We have also at present the services of Mr.
Haderman, in the departments of Mechanical
Philosophy and the Modern Languages, so that
our means for affording instruction are as ample
as can be found in any institution in the State.
And above ail, we have a good deal of good
sound religion in the village and in the College,
and God has given us the seal of his approbation
by favoring us with a most gracious revival of
religion in the College duringthe last fall. Upon
the whole, we lack but one thing in order to com
plete success, and that is plenty of money.—
This, I know is a scarce article these hard times,
but we must have it; and I think we shall get
enough to carry us through the narrows, and
then the sailing will be better. May God give
his blessing to this and every institution design
ed to enlighten and bless the world.
Yours, in Christian love,
James O. Andrew.
The Turkish Question. —The London
Times of the 13th ult. contains the following:
It would appear that the Eastern question was
again assuming a threatening aspect. It was fear
ed in the best informed circles of Paris on Mon
day that the reply of the Russian cabinet to the
ultimatum of the British government, presented
to M. Brunow, and by him forwarded to St. Pe
tersburgh last week, would not admit of the
speedy adjustment of the quarrel between Mehe
met Ali and the Porte. A private letter from
Constantinople, dated the 27th ult., received in a
high quarter, calculates on the resumption of
hostilities by Ibrahim immediately on his learn
ing that an attempt would be made to coerce his
father.
Railroad in Italy.—One of the most stu
pendous works of modern times is a projected
rail-road from Venice to Milan, connecting the
seven richest and most populous cities of Italy
with each other : Venice, Padua, Vicenza, Man
tua, Brescia and Milan; the most gigantic por
tion will be the bridge over the Lagoons connect
ing Venice with the main land. The length of
the railroad will be 166 Italian (about the same
in English) miles, passing through a population
of 3,500,000, the seven cities having alone a
population of 500.000, viz, Venice, 120,000,
Padua 44,000, Vicenza, 50,000, Verona 46,000,
, Mantua 34,000, Brescia 42,000, and Milan 180-
! 000 inhabitants, to which may be added 20,000
I foreigners in Venice and Milan. It is calculated
the transport, when completed, will average I,*
800 persons, 1,500 tons of goods and 1,000 tons of
i coal daily.
From Vicksburg.—We have a glimpse of
■ | sunshine from Vicksburg. A letter from a re
i sponsible source, states that within a few days
I from the time of its date, the Rail Road Bank
; had secured more than §2,000.000 of the debts
-1 due to it, on real estate. Also, a debt of §9,150,
I which had been put down as ‘ bad.” Within
three days, §23,000 had been secured on real
;■ estate, in a similar manner to the large amount
above mentioned.— Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Love at the Masquerade.
The tale told by the “Courier des Etats Unis”
of the late ball bears some marks of Parisian pea
ny-a-lining, but we have a story, which, beingthe
narration of one of the parties in the case, can
’ not fail to be interesting, at the same time that it
" will be acknowledged a true one. For a long
’ time, a German gentleman, of the most respecta
ble character, has been paying his addresses to a
j beautiful young lady. Many a time and oft have
the fond pair been seen together in public, at the
’ theatre and the balls in this whirling metropolis.
' The last time, however, that their friends had the
1 pleasure of seeing them thus mated, was at the
famous masque rade at Madam B —t’s.
The gentleman had taken his fair inamorata to
that splendid scene of mirth, with the hope, that
1 very night, to settle all preliminaries to the wed
ded state. Lovmgiy did they keep each other
company during a great part of the evening, but
furtively during the whole time had the lady ex
changed glances with a chivalrous Southern gen
* tleman, whose demeanor spoke more than poetry
itself—whose appearance was sufficient to dim
the glory of Hyperion of old. Cupid shot his
’ shafts into the hearts of these eye-speaking stran
-5 gers, and made the Southron bo d to make ad
i vanoes. At the side of the German, whose taste
for the lady he could not but admire, while he re
gretted the exercise of it, he finally stood, and
\ though the lady stood there, also, love found most
potent soft whispers, and languidly the left hand
of our heroine fell from the arm of her German
1 adorer, while her right hand was as gracefully
- raised to the arm of the new comer. Like Lo
l renzo and Jessica, they were rapid in their flight;
s and when the German turned around to speak to
his lady-love, the lady-bird had flown. “Upon
J “the light fantastic toe,” he sought her here—he
- sought her there. Inquiries were made respect
' ing her every where, but even the domestics had
I not noticed her departure, splendidly attired as
she was.
No! She had not left even “a glass slipper” be
i hind her! Our German friend was amazed—ac
tually ball-struc/c. He hurried to her residence.
and there, with her friends, until morning, he
awaited her return. The morning brought no
lady, only a pretty note, written in delicate pen
manship, the purport of which was that Mr. and
Mrs. would be happy to see their friends at
the Astor House.
Thus did the gallant Southron take the field
like a second Lochinvar, and the German’s hopes
have ended in smoke. One of his friends telling
him yesterday that he should beware of a cough,
taken we suppose on the night of the ball, he
significantly replied, “I wdsh it would lead to my
grave; not that I care for her, but that my coun
try should be insulted!” Madame may an
ticipate a war with Germany for her instrumen
tality in this interesting business.— N. Y. Signal.
Secretion Extraordinary.—Wc are in
formed, on high medical authority, not in the
way of hoax, but in sober earnest, that there is an
individual (whose sex we purposely leave doubt
ful), in this city, whose eyes, for the last eight
weeks, have been secreting or hatching a gener
ation of spiders. We learn that one night, on a
visit to some dwelling in the country, which was
very much infested with spiders, something which
was taken or fancied, to be a spider, or a bug,
was felt to strike against one of the person’s
eyes, while lying in bed, and brushed off with the
hand. The next day or shortly after, a spider
leg, or perhaps several spider legs, were brushed
out of the eye, which the patient and the patient’s
friends, at first, tried to persuade themselves, were
only loose eye-lashes; but the matter was soon
settled, beyond controversy by the secretion or
extraction, of a whole spider from its parent orb
of liquid black, and the other orb soon followed
suit, and both have ever since continued to mul
tiply the insect brood, and furnish subjects for
the new science of our ocular entomology. We
learn that most of the spiders when extracted,
are very young, and so exceedingly delicate, that
the most tender manipulation, or handling, is re
quisite to prevent their being crushed—another
authority, however, states that many of these long
legged children of the eye, are not very tender in
fants at the time of their birth. It is also remark
able that they exhibit a very considerable variety
of species, not easily accounted for on the prin
ciple of a common parentage. The spiders when
extracted, are still born, and have considerable
mucus attached to them—and a medical gentle
man tells us that he himself took out several of
the spiders, in this stale, and on one occasion,
there was extracted, from such a depth in the
lower cavity of the eye, that it took a long time
lo find the object of search, a ball oferushed web,
resembling a cocoon, containing something like
a larva, but that he was not a sufficient entom
ologist to determine this last fact. The eyes of
the person before being handled, to disengage the
spiders from their ocular nidus or cradle, are
suffused with tears and exhibit much redness
inflammation, so much so as to render leaching
necessary, at times. The insects are found im
bedded under both the upper and lower lids, and
their presence in the former is indicated by a
pain in the forehead just over the eye, and in the
latter, by a pain in the cheek bone just under the
eye. We are possessed of no other facts in rela
tion to this extraordinary case; and however
nearly a spider may be allied to a bug. we assure
oar readers we are attempting no humbug. The
respectable physicians, who have witnessed this
phenomenon are completely posed—they suspect
but they cannot delect—and they are unable to
perceive in the case either the motive or the mode
of imposition.
We have heard one plausible theory in solu
lution of the mystery. It is attributed to hysteria
excessive nervous sensibility, brought into full
play, probably from the actual crushing of a spi
der in the eye, producing an anomalous s.ate of
the nervous system, which is very apt to create
oi engender such phenomena. The physical dif
ficulties. however, in the of this hypothesis, are
hard to surmount, as no one can seemingly place
these spiders in the eye, without mutilating or
crushing them, and in this case, they are extracted
entire.
P. S. Since writing the foregoing article, we
have had the ocular de nonstration—we have ac
tually seen two of the spiders carefully preserved i
in a phial by a medical gentleman; and we as- j
sure our readers that they are buna fide spiders— i
perfect and perfectly dead spiders.
N. B. We expect great popularity for the j
above article, and that it will go the rounds of
the newspaper, periodical and scientific press—
hut we protest in advance, against its being styled
the spider hoax. We have had, it is true, the !
moon hoax, and we now have the sub-treasury j
hoax—but by gemini (i. e. the two spiders we
saw), that is no hoax at all.
2d P. S.—We have seen two more of the spi- '
ders—one no Liliputian, and rendering faith as
difficult as the swallowing of a camel.- Charles
ton Courier.
Another Lucky Coburg.— The Paris cor
respondent of the New York Courier writes :
You will concur with all the world in exclaim
ing “what a lucky family are the Coburgs!” i
when you shall learn that a Coburg Pincess, a i
cousin of her Majesty the Queen of England and
of her consort Prince Albert, has been selected!
as a bride for the Due de Nemours, the second
son of his Majesty the King of the French.—On
communicating this matter to the Chambers the |
other day,the ministers applied for a sura of 500,
000 francs, (100,000) as an outfit for the prince,
and an annuity, (Donation) of the same amount,
as well as a jointure of 300,000 francs, (§60,000)
for the Duchess elect should she survive her hus
band.
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A Mother indeed. —The Muncy Telegraph
states that there is a lady in that county who has
presented her husband with thirteen children at
five births—twins twice, and “three times three”
—all of which we believe, except two, are living.
The last three were born a short time since,
and were doing well the last we heard of them.
If this can be beaten any where, then “Old
Lycoming” will have to stand back. Congress
should present each of the children with a quarter
section of land.
The Female Horse Thief.— Charlotte Wil
son’ the celebrated female horse thief, has recently
been practising her vocation in Kentucky. She
was run out of New York some time since. She
catches two years imprisonment in Kentucky for
catching a man’s horse without leave and riding
him off.
The New York Mirror is the oldest, and,
unquestionably, the cheapest periodical in Amer
ica. Every number contains a great variety of
useful, interesting and amusing matter, on every
subject connected with polite literature and the
fine arts; and they form, at the end of the year,
an immense volume of four hundred and six
teen inperialquarto pages with, vion ette title
page, table of contents , splendid engravings,
and fifty pieces of popular music , arranged for
the piano-foite, guitar, <fec.—a library in itself
and all this is afforded at a very trifling cost a year,
a sum almost inadequate for the extraordinary
equivalent rendered to subscribers.
Extract of a letter from St. Louis Mo.
“ Every thing berets dull, miserable and gloomy
that is, I mean business and matters thereunto
belonging. The weather is fine, pleasant and
glorious; the sun is shining, ice is melting, birds
are singing, bees are humming, the mud is dry
ing, trees are budding, frogs are croaking, roses
b ooming, river rising, steamboats puffing, credi
ors dunning, and debtors running off to Texas.”
A letter from Bethel, Glynn Co, (Geo.,) states
that a fire occurred on the plantation of Mrs.Mc-
Nish, in that vicinity, which destroyed the Cot
ton Houses and 60 bales long Staple Cotton, be
tween two andthree hundred bushels Peas, and *
a large quantity of Fodder- The accident occur
red from the carelessness of a negro, who was
smoking a pipe in the packing house. — Charles
ton Courier.
A Sign.—lt is a remarkable fact, that fifteen
of the delegates from a single county , who at
tended the Columbus Ohio Convention, of 20,-
000, were leading members of the Van Buren
Convention that met at Columbus on the 8 (h
January last !! ! When before did the wheels
of Revolution roll with such an impetus I —New
York Times.
Ax Igxohamus.—A few days ago, as J
was trundling a wheelbarrow through one of our
streets, he was considerable annoyed by a sow
with her litter of juvenile porkers, who not hav
ing the fear of hog-reeves before their eyes, had
started on a public promenade. The wheelbar
row, as wheelbarrows are apt to do, kept up a
squeaking, in very good imitation of a grunter.
The aforesaid sow, thinking him of the wheel
barrow to be inflicting cruelty upon her offspring,
immediately seized him by the leg. J
turning round and cooly surveying the old sow,
addressed her in this wise, “you d d old fool,
don’t you know a w\\ce\-burrow from a pig ?”
Exports.—We understand that the packet
ship Patrick Henry, whidh sailed for Liverpool
yesterday, carried out a large quantity of teas. —
N. Y. Times, March 10.
It is said that the Bank Bill will pass the Vir
ginia Senate without material amendment. It
grants relief, but hokle the Institutions subject
to the Legislature at the next session.
MARRIED,
At Appling, on the evening of the 15th Inst., by
the Rev. Juriah Harris, Curtis H. Shockley, Esq.
to Mrs. Martha R. Hobby.
DIED,
In this city, of Scarlet Fever, on the 14th inst.,
after a short illness, John James, infant son of
Joshua 8. and Julia Walker.
“Suffer little children to come unto me, and for
bid them not, for of such is the Kingdom of Hea
ven ”
Consignees per South Carolina Rail Road.
Hamburg, March 17, 1840.
T Dawson; Stovall, Simmons & Co; W E Jack-
Son; P Flemming; Stovall & Hamlen; W Hattier;
J Peurefoy; Earle & Cook; J M & W Adams;
Baird & Rowland: J M Cooper & Son; C B Hitt &
Co; S Kneeland; Rankin, Boggs & Co; Gould &
Bulkley; F Lamback; A Frederick; J & 11 Hora.
H Burleigh; Russell &, Hutchinson; Force, Broth
ers & Co; M Frederick; G H Taylor; J Elliott;
Kerneghan k Wray; Jeffers & Boulware.
yf Consignees will attend without further no
tice.
COMMERCIAL.
Latest dales from Liverpool Feb. 20
Latest dates from Havre Feb■ 17
AUGUSTA MARKET.
Cotton. —Since our review of the market on
Saturday it has been very quiet and firm at our
then quotations. Iloldcis continued firm - through
the day' on Saturday and yesterday, and were in
some instances met by ouy'ers, though no very con
siderable quantity has changed hands, as many 1
buyers look for ward to a still further decline. The
continued rain almost through the entire day yes
terday, afforded but little opportunity for opera
tions, but the few sales we hear of fully sustained
our quotations of the market on Saturday', and we
continue them to-day Extremes oh to B£. Gen
eral sales to 8 cents.
Ordinary to middling, 6$ lo 7
Fair, 7fto 7^
Good Fair, 7| to 8
Prime and choice, to
Freights. —The heavy rains on Sunday and yes
terday, it is hoped, will have the effect to sustain
the navigable state of our river, which was getting
quite low, till late in the spring. Freights are
without change at 75 to 100 cts per bale to Savan
nah. To Charleston, by rail road, 40 cents per 100
lbs. for square, and 50 cents per 100 lbs. for round
bales.
Greceries. —The supply' is good —business very
limited—and sales are made at prices not varying
from our last quotations.
Exchange. —On New-York at sight, 7a 8 per
cent, for current funds-, Charleston at 4 a 5 per
cent; Savannah 1 a 2 per ct.; Philadclphia2 a 3 per
ct.; Lexington, Ky. I 3 per ct.; Richmond per
cent; specie commands 6 per cent, premium..
Bank Notes. —
Savannah Banks, 1 a percent, prem.
Columbus Insurance B’k 2 “ “ «*
Commercial Bank, Macon, 2 “ “ «
Mechanics’, “ (Augusta,) 6 “ “ «
Agency Brunswick,“ 6 “ « «
Planters’ and Mechanics’
Bank, Columbus, 2 *« « dis.
Milledgeville Bank, a 3 « “ “
Ocmulgee Bank, 3 “ «
Monroe R.ail Road Bank, 4 « «
Hawkinsvilie Bank, 3 “ “
Chattahoochie R. R. & B’k
Company, 10 “ “ “
Darien Bank, 15 “ “ “
Bank of Rome, 25 “ “ “
All other Banks now doing business, at par.
Specie Paying Banks. —Mechanics’ Bank, Bank
of St. Mary’s, Insurance Bank of Columbus, Com
mercial Bank of Macon, and Brunswick Agency in
this city.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Savannah, Alarch 14.
Cleared —British ship Emerald, Ellis, Liverpool
ship Argo, Harley, Liverpool; ship Leonidas, Gar
diner, Liverpool.
Arrived Biig Clinton, Lyon, New York; bri<*
Wilson Fuller, Thatcher, New York; steamboat
Hamburg, Wood, Augusta.
Charleston, March 16.
Arrived on Saturday— -Line ship Congaree
Doane, Boston; brig Sea, Alien, Thomaston, (Me j
brig Howell, Leslie, Matanzas; schr Florida, Burd
gess, Plymouth, (Mass.) schr Elizabeth, Bell, New
Crleans; schr Susan, Hardy, Matanzas.
Arrived yesterday —Bhip Sarah Sheafe, Gray,
New York; brig John C Calhoun, Builen, Havana
schr Candid, Wilkens, Baltimore.
fVeni to sea on Saturday —Ship Victoria Len
nox, Liverpool; Br barque Mary Muir, Payne, Liv
erpool; schr Only Daughter, Knowles, Boston.
Went to sea yesterday— Ships Charleston, Win
sor, Havre; Swanson, Heath, for a Southern port-
Emblem, Talbot, do; Adrian; Davis, do; brig Com
maquid. Sears, Amsterdam; schr Delight, Thrane
New Orleans. ’ *
At Quarantine— Ship Adrian; and barque Poto
mac, Gorham, from Boston; and schr Emma from
Philadelphia. *
THE HEADING ROOM
Attached to this office is open to subscribers zn
strangers introduced by them, every day and eve
ning (Sunday evenings excepted) until 9 o’clock*'
Subscription $0 ; for a firm of two or more $ lO
B. 11. OVERBY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
feb 25 Jefferson, Jackson county, c a
Mr. Editor ; —Sir, I see a notice in your Dan ?
of the 12th instant, stating that our worthy May
declines being a candidate for re-election to the>>7
fice he has so worthily filled, and as it is time t|
citizens should fix on a suitable person, to len .
sent them as Mayor for the next year, Alloa- *
to recommend the name of MARTIN M. DYE me
a suitable person, and who will serve if elected 18
Many Votehs.
03*Messrs. Editors—Seeing ‘
of yesterday, that the Hon. A. Cumming d - r
arc- electian for Mayor of the city, at the a . ~,cs
iug election, we. therefore, take the liberti- £
gesting the name of JOHN PHINIZY E 0t su o~
person well calculated to fill the office an 1 k ’ as . a
be supported by (mar 13) Many Votlm* 11
ZyTO THE LOVERS OF THE ARTs ~
The Paintings at Air. Richards’ Drawing Ac-iie ~T
(Masonic Hall,) will hereafter be opened to
tors, every Saturday afternoon and evening f* Sl “
2 o’clock until 9 o’clock p. m. At ni du ti,s’ lom
will be well lighted. &
FT W. G. NIMMO, General Uominission
chant, office on Mclntosh street, next door toti
Constitutionalist. nn , , e
■ nov i
(Ts EXCHANGE ON NEW
and at one to tw ty days sight. For sale by ’
nov 23 GARDKLLE & JUllyp.
o y RAIL ROAD FREIGHT
articles usually carried by weight to Hamburg w ;i.
be charged at 40 cents per 100 pounds (instead of
50 cents, as customary,) till further notice
mar 2 JOHN KING, J r ., Agent.
FT THE FARMERS’ REGlSTEß^ menhir
publication, devoted to the improvement of the
practice, and support of the interest, of A°ricul
ture; published at Richmond, Va , at $5 per year"
Edmund Ruffin, editor and proprietor. m g
J. TV. JONES, is my authorised Agent for the
adjustment of my unfinished business,
mar 3 WILLIAM E. JONES.
ay NOTICE. —From this date freight on Cotton
per S. C. C. & Rail Road Co. is reduced to forty (40'
cents per hundred for square bales, and fifty (50)
cents per hundred pounds for round.
A B. STURGES, Agent.
Hamburg, March 4,1540.
Cy NOTICE. —The Rail Road Passenger Train
between Charleston and Hamburg, will leave as
follows:
UPWARD.
Not to leave Charleston before 7 00 a m.
“ “ Summerville, “ - -8 30
“ “ Georges’, - “ - 10 00
“ “ Branchville, “ - 11 00
“ “ Midway, - “ - II 30 m
* “ Blackville, - “ - 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. U.
Passengers uo will breakfast at Woodstock and
dine at Blackville; aown, will breauiast at Aiken
and dine at Summervihe. may 21
Odoriferous compound—For laying in
drawers, among linens, laces, furs, cloths,
&c., imparting to them a pleasant perfume, and pre
venting the ravages of the moth For sale by
mar 13 GARVIN & HAINES.
CREAM OF SOAP, FOR SHAVING.—The
Cream of Soap is a peculiar compound, con
taining a very small proportion of alkali, produces
rich and durable lather with either warm or cold
water, renders the process of shaving easy and
j pleasant, and is particularly recommended to gen
tlemen who may have strong, heavy beards, or ten
der faces. For sale by
mar 13 GARVIN k HAINES.
I AW.—The undersigned practices in the Supe
j rior Courts of Columbia, Washington, Scri
ven, Burke and Jefferson counties.
Columbia sits on the 2d Monday in March and Sept.
Washington “ 4th “ “ “ “ “
Scriven “ “ “ “ April and Oct.
Burke “ Ist “ “ May &3d Nov.
Jefferson “ 3d “ “ “ 2d “
feb 22 trwl2t GEORGE SCHLEY.
A-r— A TO RENT, from the Ist (!ct. next, a
[F.. ffl STORE, No. 246 south-side Broad-street,
I*'"” "" recently occupied by the late I) W. St.
John. Apply to JAMES GARDNER, Jr.
trwtf
SITUATION WANTED.—A young man who
can give the most unquestionable references,
is desirous of obtaining permanent or tempoiMT
employment in a counting house, book store or law
office, in this city. Salary is less an object with
him than occupation. A line andressed to “W.”
box No. 115, Post Office, stating real name, busi
ness and requisitions, will receive immediate at
tention mar 5 trw2w*__
NOTICE. —The City Taxes for the present
year aie now due, and the undersigned will
call on the citizens for the purpose of collecting
them, and persons failing to make payment will be
returned to the City Council as defaulters, and pro
ceeded against as the Ordinance directs.
JOHN H. MANN, Col. & Tr. C. A.
feb 20 trw2m
ADVANCES ON COTTON.—Advances will be
made by us, on COTTONS consigned to our
friends in Liverpool, Havre and Charleston—in
bills on New York at 20 to 30 days sight, on con
signment to Europe, and 1 to 5 days sight, on con
signment to the latter place. The shippers, in all
cases, will have the benefit of the Exchanges,
dec 25 ts GARDELLE k RHIND.
CL RLING FLUID, &c.—Blending with a grate
ful and refreshing perfume, the desirable
quality of strengthening and promoting the growth
ol the Haii, without giving to it ihe greasy' hue of
Pomatum, or the volatile moisture of the Oils. Its
utility' is confirmed by the most extensive con
sumption.
Also, the Genuine Maccassar Oil, and Ward’s
Celebrated Hair Oil. For sale by
mar 13 GARVIN & HAINES.
LECTURES ON CHEMISTRY.
DR, DAVIS will deliver a course of Lectures
on Chemistry, adapted to a popular class, in
the Medical College. The course will embrace the
subjects of Chemical Affinity, Heat,.the Chemical
and Mechanical Properties of Atmospheric Air,
Steam and the most Important Gases, Alcohol)
Ether, Potash, Nitre, and the Fulminating Com
pounds.
The first Lecture will be given on Monday eve
ning, March 16th, at 8 o’clock, and to be continued
on the evenings of Monday, Wednesday and Fri
day, until the course of twelve Lectures is com
pleted.
1 ickets, at $6 each, may be obtained at the drog
store of Garvin & Haines. mar 6 trwflt
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
THE Letting proposed to take place on the Kb
proximo, of the Grading of the Georgia Kan
road above Madison, is postponed until the
October next Proposals for grading a few of the
heavy sections crossing the a valley of the Alco')
river, will befreceived at this Office at any tloie
after the 10th proximo.
J- EDGAR THOMPSON, C. E.
Engineer’s Office, Greensboro, >
Feb. 22, 1840. 5