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again recommended it, and rc-.ec mmendrd it,
and urged it upon Congress and the cople, till the
very agitation of the question, wit . the execu
tive crusade which has been earn i on, under
color of it, against the currency ol the country,
has deranged and broken down ar, I ruined the
business of the country from one extremity of
the Union to the other. Yes, sir, f vetimes, and
in five different shapes, I believe, I .s this meas
ure been rejected by Congress. V hat monarch
in Europe could stand up and re ist, or would
dare attempt to resist the representative voice so
often and so potently expressed? J>{at one. No,
sir. not one. Neither the Ministry fi F ranee nor
England ever went for a second neJilion, by the
representative branch of the Goveriijnent, of any
leading measure which they had bro’*ffit forward.
Its rejection is a signal for their ret jpment from
office, and a new ministry comes it} of opposite
sentiments. An attempt in the Commons of
Great Britain or in the French Chrlnber of De
puties to resist such an expression |f the repre
sentative voice, would lead to revolution, and
shake the very foundations of the K rone itself.
—But what do we see here, under j >ur boasted
freedom, and in the youth-time of ov : republican
institutions? The leading measure and I may
say, the only measure of the administration, is
rejected over and over again by th representa
tives of the people, and still the cablet not only
remains in office, but the executive | himself ur
ges it with renewed energy and unrjmitted per
severance; and seems determined Usdragoon the
people into submission to it. Such| an outrage
upon the rights of the people, ar*l upon the
very spirit of our free institutions, I have never
known in this or any other governjent having
the least pretension to a participatioi in the re
presentative principle.—And does colleague
suppose that I, a representative fromfci State con
taining some three millions of peopam to sit
quietly by, and not resist these usurpations of
their right? Doeshesupposc that lam to be
mealy mouthed in speaking of thef Executive,
who has thus attempted, in its pratjical opera
tion, to subvert the fundamental principles of the
Government? If he docs, he will find himself
most egregiously disappointed—and net me tell
1 im once for all, that as long as I ha>|; the honor
of a seat in this body, I will defend,lwith bold
ness, the rights of those who sent n* here, and
repel with energy, every effort to usii-p the pow
ers of the government, and every att 'inpt to un
dermine the foundation of our free ; nstitutions.
CHRONICLE AND SEN FIN EL.
AUGUSTA.
SATURDAY MORNING, MAR 'H 21.
The following letter signed by a la; ge portion
of the Southern members of Cong ess, which
we copy from the Charleston paper of yester
day, contains suggestions of consider ble impor
tance to the city of Augusta, as also - ill that por
tion of Georgia through which the pi >poscd mail
route will pass. That the route su gested will
eventually become the great thorofar* for trave
and transportation of Merchandise t| a portion
)f ‘
of Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi, no one
can doubt who has investigated the siiject. And
the sooner this direction is given tof the travel,
the better for all the interests that p y e notv, or
may be hereafter, connected with |. To the
city of Augusta and her commerci:ll interests,
we regard it of paramount importa|ce, as the
first step in the great work of her futifre commer'
cial importance, to which we alluded a few days
since, in connection with the Rail *Roads, <?:c.
We therefore, think they would be* consulting
their inteiests in no small degree, br acting at
once on this measure by a unanimdi petition
in favor of its adoption. i
To the towns in the interior of thcf.State that
will be benefited by increased ma£ facilities,
we would also suggest the propriety of uniting
in advancing this object, by petitioning the de
partment. !
We deem it wholly unnecessary ito emerge
upon a subject, the advantages of winch are so
prominent to every reflecting mind. l| the proper
exertions are used, there can be no dclbt that the
route will be established; and in pwportion as
the facilities of travelling are increased, in the
same ratio will the whole country beWcncfitied.
W ASHINOTf , 1840.
Sir—The undersigned respectful represent
that, by reason of the great amount <i Rail Road
and Steam Boat line now in use, hi ween this
point and Memphis, Tennessee, y way of
Charleston and Augusta, through the Tennessee
Valley, this route must shortly becc lie the one
principally used by the inhabitants ol- the South
ern portions of Tennessee and Northern portions
of Mississippi and Alabama, together with those
from a great part of Arkansas, in the transporta
tion of their mails and in travelling .•> and from
the Eastern Cities and the seat of l ie General
Government.
We .deem it a matter ot great impo; lai ce to the
Citizens, along this very extensive lire of travel,
that a good and comfortable line of Pest Coaches
he established to run daily, connecting the Wes
tern end of the Georgia Kail Road wi ■ the Ten
nessee River at Gunter’s Landing, w 4 jre steam
boat travel commences, and that a like line of
daily coaches be established from i’uscumbia,
through the Northern Counties of A abaraa and
Mississippi to Memphis. '
This line could diverge at Salei , Miss, by
Hilly Springs and Hernande to Men phis, or go
directly to Memphis, conceding will: tne Lag
range and Memphis Road, or it could je made to
alternate running every other day ah ng each of
those routes from Salem, and thus ac ommodate
a larger community.
Tnis route, on account of the greal amount of
Rail Road improvements going on, ias al cady
become the one which gives most sp<* J to mails
and travellers, and in consequence is .coming ra
pidly into use. I
We therefore think it due to so| xtensive a
population as are directly interest'll, that it be
placed upon a respectable footing by‘living speed
to the mails and comfort to travel, should an
exact estimate of the profits arisingjto the mail
service, be made the basis in the estimate for de
termining upon the propriety of mailing the ex
tension here desired—but the present and future
conveniem e of the people growing ?uch valua
ble products, in obtaining the earli,|t informa
tion of prices, should, in our also enter
into the estimation. %
We have the honor to be, &c.ccc.
The attention of our readers is respectfully di
rected tD a sketch of a debate, which u ill be found
in this day’s paper, between Messrs, Tallmadge,
W right and Strange of the Senate. ’
Theatre.
The very attractive bill of fare which Mr.
Forbes presents to the admirers ofihe drama,
to-night, will certainly secure a full Lmse.
Sir Astley Cooper’s maxims for p. of
health were temperance, cleanliness,exercise and
early rising
. The New Jersey Question.
Yesterday we gave our readers the address of
the minority of the Committee of Elections, on
this agitating question, and to-day, to enaole them
to form a more correct idea of the course of pro
ceeding, which the House and the majority of
the Committee have pursued, we copy the follow
ing article from the National Intelligencer. We
candidly ednf.-ss that the who!c’proceedings,from
the beginning of the session to the last flagrant
outrage, by which the Va.. Burcn claimants were
permitted to take their seats in the hail, appear
to us the most high handed usurpation of the
rights of a sovereign State of the confederacy, of
which the history of this country furnishes a re
cord. And we have been, and are still, at a loss
to suggest any other motive on the part of the
majority, who committed this act, than a reckless
determination, regardless of all consequences to
the constitution and the laws, to secure to the
Administration a majority in the
We wish we could see in it, some more laudi
ble and honorable motive ; but when we reflect
that the house had before it, no evidence other
than that in its possession when the committee
was appointed—that the report was received and
adopted without being printed or investigated,
and that the report of the minority was refused
a reception, the ''onclusion is irresistib’e to our
mind, that they were determined to suppress all
testimony, in order to secure their base
If they desired to be correctly’informed, why
not have recommitted he report, with instructions
to the committee to report the whole matter to
the House, that they might be capable of doing
justice to the respective claimants? Wc will not
now say that justice was al! they feared, but cer
tainly no impartial, investigating mind can come
to any other conclusion from all the circumstan
ces which have been developed. Something,
however, may yet be disclosed, of which we know
not, that may justify the majority. We hope, for
the honor of Congress, and the character of our
country and its cherished institutions, that such
facts may be produced. For although we are
among those who believe, that there has been a
moral prostitution of the representative character
of this government, which has been manifestly
increasing, ever since the utterance of that de
testable sentiment, “1 take the responsibility,”
yet we arc unwilling to believe that the majority
of the House of Representatives of Congress,
men in many instances (and should be in all) se
lected for their intelligence and sterling integrity,
arc so heedless of their obligations to the coun
/ try, as to perpetrate such an outrage upon the
rights of the people.
We have received last evening the report of
the minority of the committee, which wc shall, if
our limits permit, give our readers on Monday.
The New Jersey Election.
To afford to the People a distinct view of the
tortuous course of the majority of the House of
Representaliv )s, and its Committee of Elections,
by which the purpose of unlawfully bringing per
sons in as members of the House has been accom
plished, we publish below as follows.
First —The resolution of the House of Febru
ary 28th, directing the committee to report on the
lawful votes.
Second. —The evidence of the rejection of a
resolution offered by Mr. Fillmore in committee
to take up the evidence then before the commit
tee for that purpose.
Third. —A resolution adopted by the commit
tee, directing, the chairman to take and consider
certain votes ‘•'as the lawful votes.”
Fourth. —The resolution adopted by the
House, reciting that the committee has reported
on the “ lawful votes.”
The report of the journal of its proceedings to
the House by iis Committee of Elections enables
us to obtain these facts, and lay, them before the
People; and they are a curiosity, as showing how
a plain resolution of the House was perverted,
and the fact then falsified in the recital of a reso
lution based upon that report— Nat. Int.
I. Resolution of the House, Feb. 28, 1840.
Resolved , That, the Committee of Elections be
authorised to report to this House such papers and
such of their proceedings as they may desire to
have printed by order of the House; and that they
be instructed also to report forthwith which five
of the ten individuals claiming scats from the
State ofNetv Jersey received the greatest num
ber of Lawful votes from the whole State for
Representatives in the Congress of the United
States at the election of 1838 in said State, with
all the evidence of that fact in their possession :
Provided , That nothing herein contained shall
be so construed as to prevent or delay the action
of said committee in taking testimony, and decid
ing the said case upon the merits of the election.
11. In the Committee , Feb. 29, 1840.
Mr. Fillmore moved to amend a resolution
then depending by striking out all after the word
“ Resolved and inserting the following:
“ That this committee, in obedience to the res
olution of the House adopted yesterday, will
forthwith proceed to take up the evidence now
before the committee to ascertain which five of
I the ten individuals claiming scats from the State
| of New Jersey received the greatest number of
■ lawful \otes from the whole State for Represen
j talives in the Congress of the United States at
I the election of 1838 in said State.”
Upon this resolution the votes were as fol
lows :
Ayes —Messrs. F illmore, Crabb, and Smith
—3
Noes —Messrs. Rives, Medill, Brows - , and
Fisher—4.
111. The original resolution was then adopt
ed under which the report was made as follows .-
Resolved, That the chairman prepare a report
in pursuance of the House resolution of yester•
j day, and that in doing so he take and consider the
I votes adjueged to have been given to the several
| claimants by the Governor and Privy Council ot
| New Jersey, together with those returned by the
; election officers of the townships of Millville, in
j Cumberland county, and South Amboy, in Mid
dlesex county, to ffie clerks of said counties, re
spectively, as having been polled in said town
ships ' ? the number of lawful votes given in
the said State.
On this resolution the vote was as follows;
Ayes —Messrs. Rives, Medill, Brown and Fish
er—4.
Noes —Messrs. Fillmore, Crabb and Smith—3.
The committee then, without adopting any
further resolutions, adjourned to enable the Chair
man (Mr. Campbell) to prepare his report in pur
suance of this resolution.
IV. Resolution of the House moved on the
coming in of the report, and adopted under the
previous question, March 10, 1840.
Whereas it appears by the report of the Com.
mittee of Elections that Philemon Dickerson
Peter D. Vroom, Daniel B. Ryall, William R*
Cooper, and Joseph Kille, received the greatest
number of lawful totes can in the State of
New Jersey, at the election holden in that State
for Representatives in the twenty-sixth Congress.
Resolved, That Philemon Dickerson, Peter D.
Vroom, Daniel B. Ryall, William R. Cooper,
and Joseph Kille, are entitled to take their seats
in the House of Representatives as members of
f the twent3 r -sixth Congress, aad that the Speaker
of the House on their presenting themselves,
qualify them as such : Provided, That nothing
1 herein contained shall prevent the investigation
into said election from being continued in the
r manner heretofore authorized by a majority of
the Committee-of-Eiections, on the application
of the five claimants for said seats.
Correspondence of the North American.
New York, March IG, 3 P M.
The cotton market remains precisely as it
closed last week. In flour there has been a move
ment in Genesee to-day, which has rarde a little
better feeling. Two or three thousand barrels have
been bought at 5,37 a 5,50. As the Erie canal
is to remain closed until the 20lh of April, in
order that the work of enlargement may go on,
we are to have but small receipts until that time,
nor is there much stock of flour on hand in the
interior. The millers have been idle mostly, as
the farmers have refused the offers they felt able
to make for wheat —a great favor to the millers
by the way, as it has turned out.
The Southern mail came through yesterday,
over the direct railroad from Baltimore to Phila
delphia.
The Directors of the Manhattan Bank have
been in very earnest deliberation over the report
made for them by the committee of investiga
tion. The report must very speedily be printed,
and in the meantime, the great question to be
determined is, whether Mr. White shall retain
his office of Cashier and Manager.
Bills on England
Domestic Exchanges—Philadelphia 6a6,J ;
Baltimore sjas£ ; Richmond 7 ; Charleston 34:
Savannah 6 ; Augusta 7£; Macon 8|; Mobile
6 ; New Orleans sas^.
The Weekly Report of Interments in the
City and County of New York, from the 7th
day of March to the 14th day of March, 1840,
are—33 men, 36 women, and 33 girls—total
143.
The mills at Great Bend. Jefferson county, N.
Y. owned by Charles E. Clark, Mr. Potter, and
Mr. Carter, were destroyed by fire on the sth
inst. Loss about §30,000.
For the Chronicle Sentinel.
Mr. Editor:—l see by your paper, that our
present Mayor declines being again a candidate
for the office he holds, and I have seen it with re
gret and sorrow. Sir, we must not part with
him now. We owe him too much. We have
too much need of him. We have too much gra
titude for his past sendees. We shall have too
much need of his future services. We cannot ,
must not part with him now. I use strong terms,
because on this subject I feel strongly—because
strong and powerful motives dictate these terms,
and influence those feelings. The people of Au
gusta are criminally ungrateful, if they can for
get the services of Alfred Gumming, to our city
during the past summer, and if, for the sake of
what to the city is a paltry sum, a few hundred
dollars, they fail to reward those services in the
most effectual way, viz; by continuing him in
office. I have been informed that he has said he
cannot, in justice to himself, continue to dis
charge the duties of the office, as they should
be administered, (thus neglecting his private af
fairs to a great extent,) for the small salary
which is attached to the office. Let us increase
the salary to §2,500, or §3,000, if that can retain
his services. It will be to the city comparatively
but a small sum; and by his vigilance, his
watchfulness, his extraordinary and almost unex
ampled efforts last summer, when the town was
so nearly depopulated; he saved thousands and
thousands of the property of our citizens. Since
then, as every man acquainted with the facts,
must know, by his skill and industry, he has
saved much to the public purse of the city. Du.
ring his administration, the streets have been im
proved, and the police brought to a system which
has wrought a great and powerful change in the
order, quiet and welfare of Augusta. Will it be
replied, that others may he found with equal abil
ities, who will accept the office with its present
salary ? Suppose so; yet others cannot be found
who have done, what he has done for us. Others
cannot be found, who can so well carry out the
labours in which he has been employed. Grati
tude requires us to retain him, if we can, upon
reasonable terms—policy bids us not to part with
him now, if by a proper compensation for his
duties, we can still have his services. If by a gen
eral understanding, thar such compensation for
the labours of the office shall be appropriated, we
can keep his name before the people, as a candi
date for the office, I have no doubt the other can
didates will retire. Ifthey do not, there is too much
sense of justice among our citizens, for them to
fail in giving; him a majority of their suffrages;
let those oppose him who may. I hope these sug
gestions will be thought of, discussed by our cit
izens, and acted upon. We owe it to ourselves,
and to our characters, as men of hearts and
heads. For my part, I will gladly join with others
in calling a town meeting on the subject, or I
will unite with them in the determination to
nominate and support such a ticket in each of
the Wards, for Aldermen as will pledge them
selves to give an increase of salary to the May
oralty. A majority of such tickets, I do believe,
can be elected ; and, I have no doubt, if we wil*
organize such tickets, with a strong voice, Al
fred Gumming will be again a candidate, and
again—what his merits, and our gratitude de
mand for him —the Mayor of Augusta.
Recompense of Reward.
Dead Men’s Bones.— The Legislature of
Ohio having passed an act to prevent the digging
up of dead bodies for the purposes of dissection
—making it a fState prison offence, we believe
—thirty-two physicians of St. Glairsville and vi
cinity have published a « card,” to the public, in
which they state that they « believe it a duty they
owe to the public, and to the profession of which
they are members, to refuse medical attention,
if called on, to any one who shall vote for the
final passage of the bill, and to all members of
the present or succeeding Legislature, who shall
not, in future, if the bill pass into a law, use their
best endeavors to have it repealed.” —New Or
leans Sun.
1 Pennsylvania Bank Bill. —The Harris
burg Telegraph of Monday states that the com
mittee of conference, on the Bank Resumption
bill, have not yet, reported, and are not expected
to report immediately. No progress had been
made, as yet, by the committee, in coming to an
understanding ; and the Telegraph inclines to the
opinion that the majority (in the Legislature)
do not wish to act definitely on the Resumption
bill, until something has been done with the Im
provement bill.
The following outrageous proceeding is rela
ted in the Litile Rock Times of the 24th ult.
Outrageous. —We are informed by a gentle
man from Fort Towson, that two or three weeks
since, a citizen of the Ldited fetates, at the head
of eight or len men, had occasion to go into
Texas, for some purpose, where he came across a
party of Cherokee Indians on the borders of 1 ex
as, who kept in sight of him for two or three
days, without manifesting any hostility. One
night after the Cherokees had encamped, the
whites stole upon them and killed seven or eight
of their number, when the Indians returned the
fire, killing one or two of the whites, and then
fled. The cause assigned by the commander ot
the whites, for attacking the Indians, was that he
was afraid they intended to attack him, and
therefore took the start of them. If this is the
true state of the case, we think the U. States
should punish the aggressors, and prevent, sf pos
sible, any further outrages ot the kind. Our in
formant states that the officers and agents at I ort
Towsou consider it an outrageous and unprovok
ed murder. Will they not then have the matter
investigated, and justice rendered to the Indiansl
Resumption In Virginia. —We learn ver
bally from Richmond that the hill, passed by the
House of Delegates in January last, respecting
the suspension by the banks, had just been taken
up by the Senate, who added fifteen or twenty
amendments, to the original bill; most of them
were promptly rejected by the House. Upon its
return to the Senate, a disposition was manifes
ted to concur with the House, which induced
‘•Extraßilly Smith” and two other leading Loco
Focos to leave the Senate chamber in high dudg
eon with their brother Loco Locos. Their defec
tion, however, increased the probability that the
bill would pass the Senate in the form in which
it originally passed the House: providing that the
banks shall resume the payment of specie after
the end of next session of the Legislature, and
suspending, for the time, the penalties incurred
by suspension. —Baltimore Patriot 17 th inst.
Death of John Lowell, —The Hon. John
Lowell died of apoplexy, Friday morning, at his
residence in Roxbury, aged 70. Mr. Lowell has
occupied an exalted rank among the distinguish
ed men of Massachusetts. As a lawyer, a states
man, a politician, and a writer, he has had few
equals in this country. —Boston Com . Gaz.
A Shocking Tragedy. —A bloody Tragedy
recently occurred at Hopkinsville, (Ky.) in which
a mm by die name of Cuvillier,formerly connected
with the Orchestra of the Theatre in Nashville,
and the Vocalist, Barclay, an Englishman, were
the principals.
It appears that Cuvillier recently ran away
with and married Miss neach of Hopkinsville—
the same who figured in the Conceits of Nash
ville last winter—hut previous to accomplishing
this purpose had opened an illicit correspondence
with the wife of Barclay. On detecting some of
his letters in his wife’s possession, Barclay went to
Cuvillier, armed with pistols to demand the return
of Mrs. Barclay's answers. Cuvillier on this
demand, pulled one of the letters from his pocket
and destroyed it in his presence, when B. msantly
shot him through the body. Cuvillier expired in
a few minutes, and B. surrendered himself to the
civil authorities.
Robbery of thf. Western Mail. —lt ap
pears from the Columbus (Ohio) Journal, that
the robbery of the mail recently committed, near
Springfield, (Ohio) was perpetrated by persons
who deal only in New York funds. The Journal
says that the stolen mail bag has been found, and
it appears that the robber took nothing from it
but the lelter packages [directed to the city of
New V ork. Ihe packages of letters from Colum
bus, Wheeling, Baltimore, etc. were all left, and
have since been forwarded to their proper desti
nations.
> An Accomplished Family. —The Coburg, a
Belgian paper, makes the following observation
upon the accomplishments of the Princes of Co
burg in the Fine Arts: “The husband of the
Queen of Portugal is a skilful engraver—our
King a most capital violin-player—Prince Albert
a distinguished poet—and Prince Ernest sets his
brother’s poetry to music.”—All we can say is,
that they would form a tolerable company of
wandering minstrels.
A mandarin, who took much pride in appear
.ing with a number of jewels on every part of his
robe, vyas once accosted by an old sly bonze, who,
following him through several streets and bow
ing often to the ground, thanked him for his
jewels. “\V hat does the man mean 1” cried the
mandarin. “Friend, I never gave thee any of
my jewels. “No,” replied the other, “but you
have let me look at them, and that is all the use
you can make of them yourself; so there is no
difference between us, except that you have the
trouble of watching them, and that is an employ
ment I do not much desire.”
Industry of Eminent Men.— When we
read the lives of distinguished men in any depart
ment, we find them almost always celebrated for
the amount of labor they could perform. Demos
thenes, Julius Caesar, Henry the Fourth of
b ranee, Washington, Napoleon,—different as
they were hard-workers. We read how many
days they could support the fatigues of a march,
how early they rose, how late they watched, how
many hours they spent in the field, in the cabinet,
in the the court — how many secretaries they kept
employed—in short how hard they wokred.
Friends.— When we see leaves drop from
the trees in the beginning of autumn, just, such
think we, is the friendship of the world. While
the sap of maintainance lasts, our friends swarm
in abundance; but in the winter of need, they
leave us naked. He is happy that hath no need
of his friends.
Great Minds. —How many minds, almost all
the great ones, were formed in secrecy and soli
tude, without knowing whether they should ever
make a figure or not! All they knew was, that
they liked what they was about, and gave their
whole souls to it.
Constancy. —Suffer not your spirit to be sub
dued by misfortunes—but, on the contrary, steer
right onward, with a courage greater than’ your
fate seems to allow. It is by such efforts, that
you will in time overcome every obstacle and
enjoy at first the fruits of constancy and pei se
verance.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, of the 16th Inst
says: Nothing definite had transpired at Harris
burgh at the last dates, in relation to the decision
j of the Committee of Conference on the Bank
I Question.
It has bean a "standing theme of merriment
with the Loco-focos, that the parto opposed to
the men in power is multifarious in its names.
A great many poor jokes have been cracked on
the subject. Our party sometimes, say they, are
called Whig, sometimes Democratic Whig, and
sometimes something else. The Providence
Journal proposes even another. The Journal
: says that a project is maturing for giving the
Whig party a new name on the 4th March next.
It is Then to be called the Administration party.
—N. Y. Gazette.
Reading. —The good Fenelon said, “If the
riches of both Indies—if the crowns of all the
kingdoms of Europe, were laid at my feet, m
exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn
them all*—an hour spent in communion with
the wise and the good, is of more real value than
an age amongst the selfish and ignorant.
Happiness.—Fortune depends entirely on ex
ternal causes—hut happiness depends almost en
tirely on ourselves. Its principal ingredients are
a manly mind, an affectionate heart, and a tem
perance of imagination. The first has the pow
er of disarming affliction—the second of doub
ling every enjoyment—while the last guards us
• from wild wishes and inconsistent expectations.
An Arkansas paper tells a story of a young
man from the country, who, visiting Little Rock,
concluded he must go to the Theatre before leav
ing town. Having never been inside of such a
place he mistook the door entering that establish
ment and walked into a billiard room, some wag
receiving tne proffered ticket. Ihe best of the
joke is that he never discovered his mistake, but
sat until the house was closed, professing to be
highly delighted “to s-‘e a lot of fellows knock
ing about a parcel of little balls.”
A New Mode of Getting a Living. —
We yesterday saw one of the oddest tricks em
ployed to “raise the wind” that ever entered in a
mortal’s head. We were sauntering about the
Levee, in the vicinty of the lower market, when
our attention was attracted by a Dutch woman
who stood directly before a bag of coffee, with
her toes within six inches of it. What excited
our curiosity was, that she kept ever and anon
looking first over the river, then down at her feet
and then round about. Observing this, we ap
proached her as stealthily as we could, when we
saw, snugly concealed beneath her dress , a child
of some live or six years, with a casekifc in its
hand, boring into the coffee-bag, as industriously
as a bee, and pouring the avails of its predatory
occupation into a kind of receiver, prepared by
its mother for the purpose, in the front part of its
dress !— N. 0. Sun.
Sjiatip Work for the Lawiebs.—The re
nowned Peter the Great, being at Westminster.
Hall in term time, and seeing multitudes of people
swarming about the courts of law is reported to
have asked some about him, what all those busy
persons were about 1 and being answered, “thev
were lawyers.” “Lawyers!” returned he with
great vivacity, “why I have hut four inTtny king
dom, and I design to hang two of them as soon
as I get home.”
It is stated that 100,000 copies of the new
story by Boz, will be published in London. The
receipts, if they all sell, will amount to $6,000
per week, or $312,000 per annum.
A Valua bee Suiisci her.—“ I want to sub
scribe for your weekly paper.”
“ What name, sirl”
“O, just lend me a pen, I’ll write you the di
rection myself.”
Paper and pen was furnished, and this was
the direction handed to us.
“ Post Master at town, state,
When read, please forward to Hiram Jenkins,
with a request to send it over the creek to Uncle
Perkins, who will send it hack to the Post Office,
directed to lead Screwhard in the next State.”
A iew more such subscribers, and our fortune
will be made.— Picayune.
Anti-Tobacco.—A law has been recently pro
mulgated in the Swiss canton of the Valais, pro
hibiting all persons under 25 years of age from
smoking, under a penalty of fine and imprison
ment.
COMMERCIAL.
Latest dates from Liverpool, Feb. 20
Latest dates from Havre Feb. 17
AUGUSTA MARKET.
Cotton. —For the last two days our market has
been very inactive, and since our report on Thurs
day but little has changed hands. Holders arc
still very firm and unyielding, while buyers ap
pear coy and unwilling to make investments at
the prices demanded. Yesterday the market was
said to be “ very flat,” and very few sales were
made at any price. Buyers seem unwilling to take
hold freely, in consequence of the high price of
freights to Liverpool, and when they are da ly ex
pecting later accounts, which some fear will be
unfavorable. We feel justified, however, in con
tinuing our last quotations.
Ordinary to middling, fo 7
Fair, 71 to 7}
Good Fair, 7£ to 8
Prime and choice, gs to
Freights— To Savannah, 75 to 100 cts. per bale ;
to Charleston, by rail road, 35c per 100 lbs. fo r
square, and 45c per 100 lbs. for round bales.
Groceries. —We have no change to note in this
branch of the trade; the supply is equal to the
demand, and the assortment varied and complete
with all descriptions, at former 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 perct; Philadelphia2a 3 per
ct.; Lexington, Ky. per ct.; Richmond 34 per
cent; specie commands G per cent, premium.
Bank Notes. —
Savannah Banks, 1 als percent, prem.
Columbus Insurance B’k 2 “ “ **
Commercial Bank, A’aeon, 2 “ ** «
Mechanics’, “ (Augusta,) 6 “ “ «
Agency Brunswick, “ 6 « « «
Planters’ and Mechanics’
Bank, Columbus, 2 “ « (ji s
Milledgeville Bank, 2£ a 3 “ « *1
Ocmulgee Bank, 3 •* u
Monroe Rail Road Bank, 4 « «
Hawkinsville Bank, 3 « «
Chattahoochie R. R. dt B’k
Company, 10 « « **,
Darien Bank, 15 « « «
Bank of R,ome, 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.
Macon, March 17.
Cotton —Since our last quotations an advance of
i took place, but the market came down to former
rates, say a7£ after the reception of ihe late
unfavorable advices by the Great Western
Our river is again up, and navigable for steam
boats. Freight to Savannah, in boats, $2 50—in
boxes, $2 25. To Darien, 50 cents less.
Col. James Gadsuen was, on Wedn
unanimously elected President of th„ I • .- v »
Cincinnati and'Charleston Rail f ( oUlsv *He,
Company.
OBIT llAßYr^^^
Departed this life on the 10th instant it
line Bkodnax, wife of Wm. E. Brodnax f Ada ’
years a worthy member of the Presbyterian , man 7
in this city. She has left a lame circle f 5 ] urc h
to mourn her sudden exit Modest an I ° tldends
in her manners, kind and affectionate
with a heart alive to all the best feeli™! nd / hi P*
nature, she won the love and esteei f° f OUr
acquaintance. Among her numerous r- ot , 3,1 er
was a tender and kind nuise in hours r lei ? ds ’she
and was ever ready to sympathise w ° > sicknes s,
sorrow and bereavement. T 0 her fa •, tflein in
is irreparable, fulfilling all the duties of v® loss
and mother with truth and fidelity c Wlte and
prime of life, and the season ofusefulr Ht t,le
not but mourn the loss of a friend W®can
around us an atmosphere of pum v .„ ft .°, b,e athed
“Adalinc, thou wast mild and If ,
Gentle as the summer bree ‘ . Iy ’
Pleasant as the air of evening ’
When it floats among the
Peaceful be thy silent slumber
Peaceful in thy grave so low’
Thou no more wilt join our number
MARINE INTELLIGENCE^'
Cleared —Brig Savannah, Shatter v\
sebr Index, Chase, Providence ’ ° rk s
Lett" briS Ma ‘ Sarct ° f «*#.
Went to sea —Ship Hamilton, Killam I ,
Br ship Ben Nevis, Burns, do; schr Index, cSe
Providence. ’ liase j
. , Charleston, March 2fl
Arrived yesterday— Schr Francis Canady Smith
Port Royal, Mart; schr Ceylon, Merrill kfchmnn!’
In the Offing Ship Commando, PierceflTve ’
pool. * * er *
At Quarantine —Barque Potomac. Gorham Bo<
ton. ’
Cleared Brigs Catharine, Rose, Havana- V 5
cambia, Durham, New York. ’ Ls '
W * nt to sea yesterday— Schr Reaper, Barker, N
THE READINGIt()OM ~~
Attached to this office is open to subscribers, and
strangers introduced by them, every day and eve
ning (Sunday evenings excepted) until 9 o’clock.
Subscription ! j>s ; for a firm of two or more $lO
Cj* D r - W' FLINT offers his services to the ci
tizens of Augusta in the different branches of Ins
profession. He may be found at all hours at the
late residence of Mr. A. M. Eger ton, second door
from the corner of Mclntosh and Reynold streets,
nc v 29 jy ’
B. 11. UVERRV^
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
fob 2.5 Jefferson, Jackson covntr, Ga.
Cf Doctor J. J. WILSON offers iris profes
sional services to the citizens of Augusta and its
vicinity. He will be found at his residence, the
first brick building above Guedrou’s stable on Ellis
street, recently occupied by John L. Adams.
aug 17 ‘ ts
BE.\ E VOL ENT SOCIETY. —For the bene
fit of the sick poor of Augusta and its vicinity.
The visiting committees for the ensuing month,
are as follows;
Division No. 1. —James Godby, J. W. Meredith,
Mrs. Crump, Mrs N. Jones.
Division No. 2. —W. H. Crane, W. F. Pember
ton, Mrs. Jalliafarro, Mrs. M. A. Holt.
Division No. 3. —C. E. Latimer, James Panton,
Mrs. B. McKinnie, Mrs. Julia Snead.
J. W. WIGHTMA N, Secretary.
A REAL BLESSING TO MOTHERS.
DR W. EVANS’ CELEBRATED SOOTHING
SYRUP, for Children Cutting their Teeth. —This
infallible remedy' has preserved hundreds of chil
dren, when thought past recovery, from convul
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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 maybe consulted on all
diseases of children.
PROOF POSITIVE OF THE EFFICACY OF
Dr. EVANS' SOOTHING SYRUP—To the Agent
of Dr. Evans' Soothing Syrup: Pear Sir —The
great benefit afforded to my suffering infant by
'■our Soothing Syrup, in a case of protracted and
>ainful dentition, must convince every feeling pa
ent how essential an early' application of such an
Ivaluable medicine is to relieve infant misery and
orture. My infant, when teething, experienced
mch acute sufferings, that it was attacked with
convulsions, and my wife and family supposed that
death would soon release the babe from anguish,
till we procured a bottle of your Syrup; 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 continuiug in
its use, I am glad to inform you the child has com
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complaint has since occurred ; the teeth are ema
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I give you my cheerful permission to make this
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information on this circumst; nee.
WM. JOHNSON.
EVANS' FAMILY APERIENT PILLS aio
purely vegetable, composed with the strictest in
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nausea, and arc warranted to cure the following
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Ulcerated Sore Throats , Scarlet Fever, Asthma, i ho
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Bladder, Affections peculiar to Females, and all
those diseases of wl atsoever kind to which hun an
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vanish before their effects like noxious vapors be
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of intesmittents, together with fevers of the irregu
lar nervous kind, accompanied with visceral oi
structions.
This tonic medicine is for nervous complain!.-',
eneral debility, indigestion and its consequents,
or want of appetite, distension of the stomach, acid
ity, unpleasant taste in the mouth, rumbling n.'i-o
in the bowels, nervous symptoms, languor, when
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and permanent cure.
Evans' Camomile Pills were first introduced iuw
America in 1835.
More conclusive proofs of the extraordinary of'*
caey of Dr. Wm. Evans' celebrated Camomile f
Aperient Anti-Bilwus Pills,in alleviating affliAA
mankind. —Mr. Robert Cameron, 101 Bowery. -
Disease —Chronic Dysentery, or Bloody .Flux-
Symptoms, unusual flatulency in the bowels,
vere griping, frequent inclination to go to stool. I ll '
nusmus, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, I"-]*
quency of pulse, and a frequent discharge of a I’ c *
culiar foetid matter mixed with blood .great debi Iff' 1
sense of burning heat, with an intolerable heatm*
down of the parts. Mr. Cameron is enjoying I' 1 *
ect health, and returns his sincere thanks foi
extraordinary benefits he has received.
Sold by ANTONY
J. M.& T. M.
P.M. COHEN & Co., ChailestO ’
SHARP & ELLS,M llled S evllU '’
C. A. ELLS, Macon,
A. W. MARTIN, Forsyth
Wu. B. WELL&, Druggist, Athens
MARK A. LANE, Washington.
july 23