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CHRONICLE IND SENTINEL
AU< TJSTA.
SATURDAY MOl NING, DECEMBER 12.
FOR uNGRESS,
HINES HOLT, Jr.
OF USCOGEE.
Election on Fir t Monday in January.
Lafay tte Course.
FOURTH DAT —FRIDAY.
Purse SBO9. Four Smile heats.
Col. Crowell’s g. Dmega 11
Col. W. HamptonPs th. h. Santa Anna... .3 2
Benton Martin’s g. 1 Chevalier Cervantes 2 3
Time- 7 56—7 45.
Betting 5 to 4 on tb ; grey mare against the field.
The first heat. as w n very easily. The Mexi
can theugb gave her i severe tug at the finish,
Omega onfy beating h n by about a length. Santa
Anna pulled up lame, yet we are happy to state
he is not seriously inj red.
Entries for to-day-; purse S3OO, mile heats, best
three in five.
Walton & Lamkin’s g ni. Alice Ann, by Director,
dam by Gallatin.
W. R. Johnson’s b. h Wonder, by Techicus, dam
by Rob Roy, 5 yeaff old.
Ch. Lewis’* ch. f. b)j Leviathan, dam by , 4
years old. |
Wm. Garrett’s ch. f. *,ady Augusta, by Bertrand,
Jr., dam by Orphan \>o y, 3 years old.
Correspondence of Me Chronicle and Sent'nel.
Dec. 9th, 1840.
In the House this nhoining Mr. Hardage moved
to reconsider the passage of the bill of yesterday,
limiting the time for faking out grants in certain
counties, Slc. The Hpu.ie refused to reconsider.
Mr. Chipley moved l|i reconsider the passage of
the bill altering the (|onstitution, so as to make
the sessions of the Legislature biennial instead of
annual. Messrs, Chi|ley, Flournoy, of Washing
ton, Crawford, of Riclirnond, and Stewart, of Mc-
Intosh, addressed the liouse in favor of the mo
tion, pointing out glaring defects in the bill. Mr.
Murphy, of DeKalb, ajjainst the motion, admitted
the defects in the bill *but argued that this amend
ment of the Constitutjjn might itself be amended
before 1843, when i| was to take effect. The
House agreed to reconsider —yeas 114, nays 61.
Upon a motion to reconsider so much of the jour
nal of yesterday as related to filling the blank in
that section of the Appropriation bill, which fixes
the per diem compensation of the President of the
Senate and Speaker of the House within $7. —
The House refused to reconsider.
Mr. Shropshire moved to reconsider so much of
the journal of yesterday as referred to fixing the
mileage of the President of the Senate and Speaker
of the House of Representatives at $5. This mo
tion was considered and discussed as a lest ques
tion upon the mileage and per diem pay of mem
bers. The House agreed to reconsider —yeas 94,
nays 84. Mr. Flournoy, of Washington,*then
moved to reconsider so much of the journal of
yesterday as fixed the mileage at $4. The House
agreed to reconsider—yeas 95, nays SI.
Mr. Crawforu, on leave, introduced a bill provid
ing for biennial sessions, which was read first time.
Mr. Morris, of Murray, introduced a hill to define
the duties of the Directors, and to increase the
Capital of the Central Bank, and Mr. Harrison, of
Randolph, introduced a bill of similar import in
its object aud general features. The bill reported
by the Select Committee on the Central Bank,
W’hich was made the special order for to-aay, was
postponed until Friday next. Nothing farther of
interest occurred in the House to-day.
In the Senate a resolution was passed authori
sing the receipt in payment at the Treasuiy and
Central Bank of all certificates heretofore issued
by the Commissioners of the Western and Atlantic
Railroad, except those payable in State Bonds. The
amendment ot the House to the bill of the senate,
to create the South \\ est Ciicuit, was concurred
in, and requires only the sanction of the Governor j
to become a law. The bill of the House to par
don Jackson Mahone (convicted in 1535, upon cir
cumstantial evidence, of the crime of mueder, and
sentenced lu imprisonment for life in the Peniten
liary,) was taken up and passed. Many members,
nu doubt, were induced.to vote for his pardon by
the importunities of his mother, who has been j
present in the lobby aud gallery all the time
lor many days. Her presence and conduct have
said to her son in the beautiful language of the
poet —
“ 1 know not, I ask not, if guilt's in that heart, j
1 but know that I love thee, whatever thou art.”
He was but 16 years old at the time of the of
fence, which was shooting a man by the name of
smith, who at the time was engaged in a
light with, and had the advantage ot Mahon’s
brother.
The Senate also.passed the bi;l introduced by
Mr. Miller, to provide lor taking the evidence
of parties to suits at law. if the House also pass
Ibis bill it will make a material aud beneficial
change, and entirely dispense with the practice el
filing bills in Equity for discovery. Several local
bills and unimportant resolutions were passed and
rejected.
i scud you the primed reports of the Treasurer
and Comptroller General. A peep into them may
furnish you with something or interest to >oui
readers. This is the first lime 1 have ever seen
these reports printed during the session of the
Legislature,—they have usually, if not always,
been printed with the acts or journal, and as i.
matter of course did not come before the members
•f the Legislature generally until after they re
turned home. 1 think lire plan adopted at this
session a good one, and trust it will be continued.
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The JluGs.
The National Intelligencer of the 7th says ;—We
have had no mail from North of Baltimore since
our last, nor any mail since Saturday night even
from Baltimore, the Railroad being choked uo by
Ike fallen and drifted! snow. A number ot mem
ber* of Congress (among them Senator Clay, of
Kentucky,) are knov|n to have reached Baltimore
on their way to tuis Idace.
iO“ No mail from- South or North had arrived
when this paper wastput to prees.
Virginia Bexltouial Election.—-The
House of Delegate.*! 0,1 llle 7 th resolved to go
into me election oi l a U. B. Senator, to succeed
Mr. Kives, next MoiijJay. What will be the fate
ol the resolution in the Senate, where the parties
are tied, we cannot j-ay.
Expansions and! Contractions.— Mr. Ciay
staid in a speech delvered la.-i winter in Uie Se
nate, that **lfisre na| been no pernicious expan
mofi ui Uiw country iko that of Executive Power;
ana unlike the operations of Dunks, tins power
never has any periods at contraction.”
I
From the New Orleans Bee of the 3d.
Jamaica.
By an arrival we have received supplies of
Kingston and other papers to the 14th ult., inclu
sive. Thev contain little of interest, being prin
cipally filled witn local intelligence of no moment
to our readers.
Tne papers notice a new machine, constructed
hv a Mr, Livingston, for the purpose of excava
ting trenches, and preparing land for sugar cane,
worked by an engine of six horse power, and re
quiring but one individual. The apparatus is
ngt described.
Considerable excitement prevails in the Island,
on account of the abolition movements of the
Baptist Missionaries who seem to have taken the
matter under their special care.
Tne colonial legislature have passed an insol
vent debtors law.
Trinidad. — Sugar. —The falling off of the
sugar crop in this fertile colony has averaged up
wards of 1,500 hogsheads per annum the last 7
years. The amount exported in 1834 was 25,-
400 hogsheads, that of 1840 only 15,700: ihe
deficiency of the last year is upwards of 2,000.
St. Lucie. —This island, both physically and
and morally, seems to be in the most deplorable
state. In its crops it has fallen off enormously.
Estates which, even in 1838, shipped 130 hogs
head of sugar, hate only produced 40 this year
The English language has been substituted for
the French in the courts of law.
As an evidence of this immense diminution of
the sugar crop in Jamaica, we subjoin a statement
«f the number of hhds. of sugar and puncheons
of rum made in a single parish, (St. James,) in
the years 1838, 1839 and 1840
Years. flhhds. Sugai. Puncheons Rum.
1838 7.478 3,454
1839 5,269 2.268
1840 4.650 2,192
The colonial legislature was engaged in discus
sing an important bill, which it appears from the
public journals have been of great advantage in
raising a revenue. Under the present hill, the
duty on imports for the whole Island, for the year
ending on the 10th October, was £‘44.817 ster
ling. The sums collected on imposts through
out the Island for the same period, amount to
£22,224 sterling..
The Meeting of Congress.
This is day, (says the Rational Intelligencer
of Monday last,) established by the Constitution
for the commencement of the Second Session of
the Twenty-sixth Congress.
Although the ?»lembers of Congress had come
in but slowly, (in consequence, w r e suppose, of
the absence of any anticipated cause of excite
ment in either House at the opening of the Ses
sion.) we had entertained no doubt, until within
the last eight and forty hours, that a quorum (a
majority of the whole number) ot Members
wuuld be present to-day in both Houses. With
in that space of lime, however, has fallen a snow,
of unprecedented depth and compactness for so
early in the season, which has obstructed the tra
velling in all directions to so great an extent, that
we have ourselves no expectation that a quorum
will be formed in both Houses, if in either of
them.
We shall be happy to be disappointed in th : s
expectation, or rather in this absence x>f expecta
tion, on account of the Members themselves, to
whom it must be a source of great inconven
ience, and perhaps of pain and exposure to bo
thus detained on the road. But, at the time of
our writing this, we doubt whether there be mo e
than eighty Members of both Houses in the city.
Os the House one aundred and twenty.two mem
bers. and of the Benale twenty seven members,
are necessary to constitute a quorum for business.
New York Monet Market— The New York
Express of Thursday, P. M.Jsays:—There is a de
cided change in public sentiment within a day or
two, in relation to the resumption of the Philadel
phia Banks. The uoubts that may entertained
are removed and they have become satisfied that
they will resume. The improvement of the rate
of exchange half per cent, and the sac ts that large
Capitalists are investing in Philadelphia funds,
are strong symptoms in favor of resumptions.
Letters from Philadelphia indeed, speak positive
ly on this subject.
It will be recollected that some weeks ago we
expressed the opinion that the interest on the
Bonds issued by the Bank of Pensacola and
guaranteed by the Territorial Government, would
; not be paid—not by the Bank, for it no longer
paid specie, nut by the stockholders, for we md
not believe they cared much about the matter,
and not by the Territory, for the people would
never, in their present condition, consent to be
taxed for such a purpose.
We are gratified to learn, however, and not
less gratified at the opportunity to do justice by
recording the fact, that the interest was duly paid
by Mr. Jaudon up to July Ist, 1840, before bis
departure from England, where, it seems these
bonds are held. —Pensacola Gazette.
The mines of ther Harlz mountains in Hanover
I produce annually from 9 to I 1 marcs (4 to 5
pounds English) of gold ; about 5.000 marcs (2.-
540 lbs.) of silver; upwards of 80,000 quintals
of iron about 3,000 quintals of copper; 50 quin
tals of tin ; 100,000 quintals oflead and litharge;
200,000 quintals of salt; 2,260,000 bailies of
coal; and 1,500 quintals of sulphur.
An Atrocious Villain. —On Wednesday
night last, the downward train on the Wilming
ton & Kuleigh Kail Koad, when within about
ten miles of town, and going at a rapid rale,
came in contact with a heavy piece of timber—
an old sill—placed by some desperate villain at a
direct angle across the traek. The engine and
. tender were thrown off to a distance of some
twenty lest, both being capsized. The engineer
and fireman, almost miraculously, escaped with
but slignt injury. The pissenger car was not
taken off.— Wilmington Chronicle , 9 th inst.
Errors of the Press.—lt is qnusing to a
man who has been the printer’s hack for years lu
witness the sensitiveness of young writers, and be
ginners, at errors of the Press. They attach to
them an importance which no man experienced
would think for a moment of giving to them. An
article tor a newspaper is generally forgotten on
the next day after reading; and if it is not so
lorgotten, and it the error is of consequence can be
readily corrected on the day following. But to
j write for immortality in a newspaper—or even to
expect remembrance for a fortnight from any
such memorial, is as John Negd has wittily obser
ved, to engrave your own name on a pumpkin,
An important recommendation in the late Mes
sage of Governor Gilmer to the Legislature of
Virginia is that of the abolishment of imprison
ment for debt altogether. “Imprisonment, as a
remedy, is not necessary to the creditor’s rights,”
says the Message, “and, as a punishment, it vis
its the misfortunes, bo l thfi crimes of us victims,”
The recommendation is thys concluded: -By
rendering final process on judgements to rpgch
lands anu chosen in action, justice may be done
without retaining ignominy as one of its attri
butes,”
hint!—Last night, between twelve and onfi
o’clock, a fire broke out in a block of buildings
in Circus, between Hevia and Girod streets, and
totally consumed seven or eigni trams dweilmg
houses. The fire originated in the second story
ot the boarding house of Mr. Closey, had owing
to the difficulty of obtaining water spread rapidly
to the adjoining houses.— New Orleans Pica
yune of the sth.
On Sunday evening last, three men, one nam
ed Bray, the Boatswain of the Navy Yard, one
named Shields a Slater by profession, and one
to Com. Dallas, started hence for the Yard in a
sail boat. On the next morning, the officers of
the French Corvet'e Sabine, descried the boat ou
the opposite of the bay and sent to her. Two
of the three who embarked in her were lost and
have not since been heard of. Shields was found
entangled in the rigging. The boat probably
capsized early in the night and drifted to the beach
on the other side.—There was a dog on board,
and he was also found dead. We learn that
they were all intoxicated before they set sail. —
Pensacola Gazette.
Sure Ashore. —The U. S. mail boat Caroline,
from Mobile. 3d inst. brings information that the
ship Princess Victoria, Irom Liverpool, went a
shore at Horn Island, on tne 3d, about ten o’clock
A. M. — Crescent City of the 4 fh.
The following table shows the increase of the
population of some of the principal cities of the
United States:
1840 1830 Increase.
New York, 312,234 202,589 109,645
Philadelphia 258,922 158,797 70,125
Baltimore 101,378 80,625 21,753
New Orleans 106,764 42,310 64,454
Boston . Pf 93.452 61,392 .33,060
Brooklyn ** 36,283 12,403 24,830
Cincinnati 46,382 24,831 21,551
St Louis 24,585 5,852 18,783
Pittsburgh 22,296 12,542 8,754
The Electoral Collegesof Pennsylvania, New-
York and New-Jersey, have cast the votes ot their
respective States for Harrison and Tyler.
From Blackwood's Magazine.
Balloon Adventure at Might.
Mr. Holland, a gentleman of scientific habits
projected the enterprise which has strikingly sig
nalized the aerostation of our day. On Monday,
Nov, 7, 1836, —at half past one in the afternoon
the balloon rose from Vauxhall Gardens [London]
with a moderate bieeze from the south-east, it
passed over Kent. The weather was singularly
fine. At five minutes past four they saw the
sea. After passing Canterbury, the course al
tered towards the north, which would have ear
ned them into the German ocean. The point
was now to change the course in the direction of
Paris. Ballast was now thrown out, the balloon
rose in an upper current, recovered her direction
to the south-east, and crossed the Straits of Do
ver in exactly an hour, about 3000 feet above the
level of the sea.
It was fi ty minutes past five, consequently the
balloon rapidly plunged into the night. The as
pect of the world beneath now became curious in
the extreme. The whole plane of the earth’s
surface for leagues round, as far and farther than
the eye could distinctly embrace, seemed abso
lutely teeming with the scattered fires of the
population, and exhibited a starry spectacle be
low, that almost rivalled the lustre ot the firma
ment above. Incessantly, during the early por
tion of the night, before the inhabitants had re
tired to rest, large sources of light, exhibiting the
presence of some more exclusive community,
would appear just looming above the horizon in
the direction in which they were advancing,
hearing at first no faint resemblance of some
vast conflagration. By degrees, as they grew
higher, this confused mass of illumination would
appear to increase in intensity, extending over a
large portion of the view, and assuming a moie
distinct appearance, until at length, as the bal
loon passed directly over the spot, it suddenly
resolved itself into streets and squares, exhibiting
the perfect model ot a town, hut diminished into
curious minuteness by the height from which it
was seen. In this manner the aeronauts rapidly
traversed a large space of the continent, em
; bracing a succession of towns and villages solely
distinguished by their nightly illumination. One
of these views singularly captivated their atten
tion. They approached a district which seemed
actually to blaze with innumerable fires, studding
the whole horizon. As they swept along, they
saw a central city in the midst ot this circle of
flame, with every line of its streets marked out
by its paitioular range of illumination. The
theatres and other public buildings, the squares,
and all the more prominent features ot the city,
were indicated bv the larger accumulations of
light. They could even hear the busy murmur
of the population—the whole forming an earthly
picture of the most striking contrast to the dark
j ness, the serenity, and the silence of the vast re
i gion above in which they were moving. This
! was ths city of Liege, whose surrounding iron
! foundries formed the horizon of flame! This
j was the last spectacle of the kind wnich met
j their eyes. Thenceforth it was all midnight;
j every sound was hushed, every light died, and
I all was solemn and awful obscurity. Withdrawn
i Torn the earth, which was buried in the pro
; soundest stillness, they looked to the heavens.—
j Tnere was no moon. The hue of the sky was
j intensely black, but the stars, redoubled in their
| lustre, shone like sparks of the whitest silver.—
Occasional flashes of lightning in the north.
In a situation; v/hicn it was never in the power
of man to describe before, the sketch of night
given by Mr. Mason, hag all the interest of a new
source of ideas. “Nothing,” eavs this clever
describer, ‘‘could exceed the density of night,
which prevailed during this part of the voyage.
Not a single lerrestial object could any where he
distinguished. An unfathomable abyss of datk
ness visible seemed to encompass us on every
side. And, as we looked forward into i‘.s black
obscurity in the direction in which we were pro
ceeding, we could scarcely resist the impression
that we were cleaving our way through an inter
minable mass ot black marble, irj which we were
mhedded, and which, solid a few inches before
us, seemed to soften as we approached, in order
to admit us further within the precincts of its
cold and dusky enclosure. Even the lights, which
at times were lowered from the car, instead of
dispelling, seemed only to augment the intensity
oi the surrounding darkness, and as they descend
ed deeper into its frozen bosom, absolutely to
melt their way downwards.” The cold was at
the point of congelation. The oil, the water,
an,d the coffee were completely frozen. Yet the
sutferings ot the aeronauts were not severe, in
consequence of their being entirely exernpt trom
the action of the wind.
While they were thus rushing on with almost
whirlwind rapidity through the ocean of dark
ness, yet almost unconscious of motion, an inci
dent occurred calculated to alarm them in an ex
traordinary degree. By the discharge of ballast
the balloon had suddenly risen to an elevation of
aho.ut 10,000 feet, (about two miles.) In a lew
moments after they heard a violent burst from
the top of the balloop. |b!!owcd by a loud rus
tling of the silk, and all the signs of its having
been torn suddenly open. Immediately the car
began to loss, as it severed from the ropes, and
appeared to be sinking to the earth. A second
and a third explosion followed rapidly, evidently
giving the voyagers the impression that they
. pyere upon the point of being dashed to pieces.
Bui php alarm was brief. The great machine
suddenly recovered its stillness, and all was calm
again, concussions were subsequently ac
counted Ur by the stretching of the network on
the epirface ot the balloon, which had become
frozen during the night. When the machine
suddenly shot up into the higher atmosphere, it
swelled, and it was the resistance of the frozen
network to this swelling, which produced the
successive explosion?. The sinking of the car
was an illusion, occasioned by the surprise and
. suddenness of the action. When the network
| bad been relieved, and the balloon was thus suf
sered to take its proper shape, ail was calm and
regular once more.
During the darkness they were sometimes per
plexed with sounds from either earth or air, so
strongly resembling the heaving of waters against
some vast tine of shore, that they were tempted
to think themselves speeding along the shores of
the German ocean, or hovering above the Baltic.
From this apprehension, however, they were re
lieved by their recollection that their course was
unchanged. At length they saw the day, but
saw it under the most novel and interesting cir
cumstances. About six o’clock, after ertssing
the Rhine, the balloon rose to a considerable ele
vation, and showed them a gladdening glimpse
of the sun. The view was now magnificent;
the balloon occupying the centre of a horizon of
three thousand miles in diameter, and compris
ing in a single vast view scarcely less than
eighty thousand square miles. The country that
spread below was a rich, undulating, oouudiess
landscape, with the Khine dividing it, and losing
itself among the vapors that still dung to the
hills, or covered the valleys. The ascents and
descents of the balloon still more varied the
prospect. A rapid descent first hid the sun from
their view, and they were wrapped in the night
which still shadowed the lower regions of the
air. Again they rose within sight of this splen
did display : again lost it. And it was not until
after they had made the sun rise three times, and
set twice, that they could regard daylight as com
plete on the mighty expanse below. They now
thought of making their final descent. But the
question arose—“where were they ?” They saw
below them ranges of forest, wide plains, and
large spaces covered with snow, giving the rather
startling impression that they had passed the
bounds of civilized Europe, and were hovering
over the deserts of Poland, or the Steppes ol
Russia. However, they now resolved upon de
scending ; and after two attempts, baffled by the
failure «t the wind, and the nature of the ground,
alighted in safety, at half past six in the morning,
in the Grand Duchy of Nassau, and about two
leagues from VV ellburg. ’The voyage occupied
about eighteen hours, and was in extent about
five hundred British miles.
“The child may forget its mother, and the mo
ther desert her child ; but never irom a woman’s
heart departs the memory of the first confession
oflove from him whom she first loves.”
From the New Orleans Picayune. ,
Making it ax Object.—Dan Marble tells a
good story of a Y ankee who recently paid ArKan
sas a flying visit. He went out there to “settle”
induced by the representations ot a man from the
Stale who was on a visit to Connecticut, avid
who told him he could “make a fortin” at once,
and that he would make it an object for him if he
would move to Arkansas immedi tely and with
him. Upon the strength of these assertions the
Y r ankee accompanied his Arkansas friend home,
had hardly been in the State half a day home, but
bad a regular rough and-lumble fight, in which
the “Down Easter” gut the worst of it. We
gives the Y'ankee’s description of the “skrimage”
in nearly his own words.
“You see 1 went way out among the darn’d
catamarans and bowy nivescos I was told I could
make my ctarml fortin ineenamost no time. The
fellei* that coaxevl me olf, tu, sed he’d make it an
object for me, and what’s more, sed he’d due the
tnmg that was right and make an object of me
among his friends and ’.quaintances—sed he’d get
me all their custom, tu.—Well, afore I’d been
among the plaguy heathen tu hours the chap that
got me oft' was mor’n half smashed on new corn
whiskey kicked up a row, and finally give me one
otThc almighties! iickin’s I ever got since I was
oorn upon airth. Why, the lickin Eph Petting
ill give rue behind the school house was new ci
der and pan cakes in comparison. But he made
his word good, for I was a Icelle grain the d-dest
looking object arter the light was over ! —'That
mummy I seen in the old Boston museum was a
perfect beauty to what I was. When I cum to
think over what he’d sed—how he’d make an ob
ject of me among his friends and get me ail their
custom, an so on, I thought the most prudent
thing I could du was jest tu pull up stakes and be
! off hum, and if ever you catch me out in Rackan
! saw agin yen may split me up into shingle stuff,
i I’m not so fond of bein made an object of and get
tin custom in that way .particularly when cus
tom of that kind is by no means scare."
COMMERCIAL.
Latest dates from Liverpool, November 6
Latest dates from Havre, November 4
AUGUSTA MARKET.
Friday Evening, December 11.
The sales of Cotton for the two past days are
nearly similar to those reported on the 9th inst.. !
we would remark however, that our market has
been rather unsettled, caused, as before observ
ed, from the expected resumption of specie pay
ments ; the chief sales still continue from wagons, I
at prices ranging from S| (d> and a few small I
lots 9jf, no Colton of choice quality to be procured
at prices even above our highest quotation.
Exchange —On New Y'ork. at sight, (d) 7 $>
cent for current funds; Charleston (a) 6
c{; Savannah l A (d> 2$ c ft Philadelphia 4(d 5 .p
--cent; Lexington. Ky. par (d 3 p cent; Richmond 4 (a)
5 {o cent; Specie commands (a) cent prem.
Bank Notes. — v
Savannah Banks, (d - ct. prem.
Columbus Insurance 8ank....3 (d - “ • “
Commercial Bank, Macon, 3 (d - “ “
Mechanics’, “ (Augusta,) s(d - “ “ j
Agency Brunswick, “ s(d - “ “ !
Planters’ and Mechanics’Bank,
C01umbu5,,...,,..,, 1 (d - “ disc’nt.
Central Bank,
Milledgeville Bank, 3(d - “ “
Ocmulgee Bank. 7 k (d - * “
Monroe Rail Road Bank, (d - “ «
Hawkinsvilie Bank, 7£ - “ “
Chattahoochie R. R.& B’k Co.. 1 (d - “ *•
Darien Bank, 20 25 “ “
Bank of Rome, (d “ “
Union Bank, 50 (d - “ “ \
Southern Trust Co. “ 30 id - “ «
All other Banks now doing business, at par.
Specie Paying Banks.- —Mechanics’ Bank. Insu- !
ranee Bank of Columbus, Commercial Bank of Ma !
con, ana Brunswick Agency in this city.
New-York, Thursday, Dec. 3.
Flour. —The current rale for common brands
Canal remains at $4,87f, wiih a fair demand. Ihe
receipts for the season, via Canal, are now nearly
at an end. We understand that for a day or two
past none of any consequence were received at
Albany.
Cotton. —There is a fair demand this forenoon,
and the market remains very firm. The total
sales of yesterday amounted to 900 bales, about
one half of which were for shipment.
New Orleans,Decembers.
Cotton. —Arrived since the Ist instant of Lou
isiana and Mississippi 9052 bales Tennessee and
North Alabama 817, Arkansas 644, together 10513
bales. Cleared in the same time, lor Liverpool
16,543 bales, Glasgov 1,450, Havre 3,542, Havana
444, Pioston 2,210. Baltimore 27], together 24,460
bales —making* reduction in nock ot 13,947 bales
apd leaving on hand, inclusive of all on shipboard
not clearea on the 4ih instant, a stock of 97,490
bales.
The active character which the cotton market
exhibited at the time of closing our report of last
Wednesday morning, continued to be maintained
throughout that day, purchasers having taken about
5000 bales, for which they had to pay, in most in
tances rates an £ of a cent higher than were before
current, i n Thursday, we received advances
from Havre to .he 4th, and from Livepool to the
t>ih,November, per steamer Great Western at New
York. These accounts had the effect of checking
the activit}- which befuie prevailed in our market.
Buyers were not disposed to operate further at the
full prices previously cmrent, and as holders gen
erally, would not concede to any reduction, the
business of Thursday only amounted to 900 bales.
Y esterday there was a moderate inquiry, about
2,300 bales having changed hands, principally of
the better qualities, however, and for Northern ac
count, English buyers still seeming inclined to
keep out oi the market. The'lock on sale is mod
erate for the season,and the market, though ra
• ther dull, may be said to close tolerably him at
our former quotations. The sales during the week
amount to 16200 bales,' and for the three last days
to 8200.
LIVERPOOL CASSXFrCATION.
Louisiana and Mississippi —Ordinary 7£ (a
Middling, QBs ; Middling fair, 8| (d 9 ; Fair,
9i 0 9£; Good fair 10$ fa 104; Good and finCj j
(d —. Tennessee and North Al ibama —Ordinary,
d— ; Middling, —(d —; Fair. —® - ; Good
(d —fair, ; Good and fine, o—.0 —. Average lists
H 0 84.
STATEMENT of cotton.
1840. Oct. 1. stock on hand bales 27911
Receipts last three days 10513
“ previously IS • 173 191686
219597
Exports last three days 24460
‘* previously 97G47 122107
Stock on hand 97490
Sugar. Louisiana. —Since the large business
in the early part of the week, as noticed in our
last report, there have been but lew transactions
on the Levee, owing, principally, to the unfavora
ble state of the weather, though the market re
mains firm at the prices last quoted, which ate 5
(a bj cents for the general range, with occasional
c rnall sales of extra prime at a fraction above.
n °t advised of any sales on plantation.
Molasses. -Barrels in good shipping order still
< ommand 22 0 23 cents though some
sales, mordinary packages, have been made at a
liaction less. 1 here is a fair demand lor lots from
the Levee, but we have heard of no sales on plan
tation.
I
I MARINE INTELLIGENCE?"
Savannah, December 10. \
Arrived— schr Columbia, Baker, Boston ; steam- I
boat John Randolph, (Joker, Augusta.
Below brig New Hanover, Carty, from Phila
delphia; biig G. B. Lamar, Risley, from N. Y r ork.
Charleston, December I],
Arrived yesterday.— >hip Rowena, Reed, Fall
River; Br. barque Countess of Arran, Aiken, Don
negal; Brig Howell, Leslie, Matanzas ; Br. schr
Hamilton, Smith, Turks Island ; Schr. Baltimore
Rickman,Thomasto*, (Me.) ’
Cleared. Ship Covington, Hale, Liverpool; Brio-
T eoman, Goodin?, Bordeaux ; Br. brig Jaboz, Tu
-70, Br. West Indies ; Br brig Somerset. Williams,
Rr. \\ . Indies; L. L. brig Moon, Ogden, New i
York.
In the Offiing. —A biig.
IIA UK ISON NO 21 1\ A TIONS.
JUDGES OF THE INFERIOR COURT.
Judge R. 11. WARREN,
Judge VALENTINE WALKER,
ROBERT ALLEN, Esq.
JAMES HARPER, Esq.
WILLIAM P. BEALE.
TAX collector.
Rev. WM. KENNEDY.
TAX RECEIVER.
COSBY' DICKINSON.
CC/’The friends of Captain M. P. STOVALL will
support him for the office of Colonel of the 10th
Regiment, at the ensuing election. dec 12
iTr We are authorised to announce GEORGE
M. WALKER as a candidate for the office of Re
ceiver of Tax Returns. d ec 12
(£/’ e are requested to announce JOSEPH
BLRCU as a candidate lor the office ot Receiver
of Tax Returns. dec g_tf
dj* We are authorized to announce ANDREW
MACLEAN as a candidate for the office of Re
ceiver of Tax Returns dec 10 td
House Painting,
Paper Hanning.
ami Glazing.
11. P. SPELMAX, Jr.
| Shop near the Upper Market, Broad-st., Augusta.
OC7’ ECONOMY, NEATNESS, AND DESPATCH.
dec 10 ts
W . (4 . N 12121 O .
COMMISSION MERCHANT.
I Office in the lower tenement Masonic Hall,
nov 9 ts
JOHN. J . BY 80,
NOTARY public,
W ill be thankful to his friends for any part of bu
siness in the above line, which will be attended to
witn rectrluue, <kc. oct 24
L. PENNEY,
MINI A T UR E PA INTER,
Masonic Hall.
Specimens may be seen at his room, or at the Book
Store of H. A. Richmond. nov IS-trwtf
ANDREW J • iI AX SELL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
nov 25-ts Dalohnega, Ga.
W. it. CUNNINGHAM, & Co.,
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
oct 31 Savannah, Ga. 2m
JOHN R. STANFORD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
jy 17] Clarkesville, Ga.
13. H. OVERBY,
A TT OR NE Y AT LAW,
feb 25 Jefferson, Jackson county, G
AUGUSTUS KEES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
septs-ly Madison Morgan county, Ga.
Cl j * Ei' • W. S. JONES tenders his professional
services to the citizens of Augusta and its vicinity
He may 1 e found at his residence on the Nortn
side of Green second tcor oelow Mclntosh street,
i or al the Chronicle and Sentinel office.
EXCHANGE OX NEC/ YORK- —At signt,
; a»u at one to twenty cays sight. For sale by
oct 2b GA RJiff LLE K RHINE.
THE HEADING ROOM
! Attached to this office is open to subscribers, and
i strangers introduced by them, every day and eve-
I niug evenings excepted) until 9 o’clock,
SuuscnpUon $o : lor a linn oi two or more •JIG
ON CONSIGNMENT —71 bags Rio and Cuba
COFFEE just landing from boat, and for sale
by (dec 9-dlUt HOPKINS fe STOVALL-
Y/R7 ATCHES. —Fine Gold and Silver Lever,
w w and Duplex. Watches, warranted to perfoim
well. Also, Independent Second Watches, for
timing horses. Fo, sale very low by
nov 3 CLARK, RACKETT & Co.
4 1 LACKER UAN I ED—T’o take charge of
D ie nghtsborough Academy, whose morals
are good, and competent to conduct an English and
Classic School. Apply to the Trustees. To insure
prompt attention, the letters should be post paid.
nov 21-ts EDWARD W. JONES, Trustee.
INRESH GARDEN SEED.—A large and ex
tensive assortment of fresh English Gar
den Sef.d always cu hand, and suited to the ap
proaching season, at w hoiesale or retail/ All or
ders from merchants, Planters, and others, execu
ted with neatness and despatch.
uov 30 w&trw GARVIN & HAINES.
Augusta. Apply at this i
\r°; > COTTON ■ isN ÜBURGsi \ ETr
sold low, ajjjjw
ti» d;.,4 “*s-£sj«s, c, . , s b s i * ■
& Hutchinson’s Store ’ ' er
i n g T Offic" larUnderliro '' n&McC *‘f«>- S Ptia,.'
e „rCrS.°'‘ Campbe "
The Dwelling on Campbell st., next ih« k
near Reynold street. 1 e ab °ve,
Rents* payable Ist April and Ist Octuh. ,
notes with approved endorsee, Tenant
lor the use of Hydrants, Apply at tho a to ,P a - v
Augusta, to CKOkIe .IThS 0 '
dec 12 1 HLV '.
* BW3w
EXECUTOR’S SALE.
ON the 29th December will be sold’ at the
tation of Euward Hatcher, deceased m m , Q *
county, all the perishable property
said deceased, consisting of Mules, two l
Oxen, Plantation Tools, Fattened Hog. °
The Plantation will be rented, and the
hired, at the same time. V?rces
dec 12-w3t A. J. LAWSON, K x :
A DM IN IST IE ATOII’S SALE
ON Monday, the 4th day of January'win K
sold at the Plantation of the late Moses Rotr
J, !V * ix ™ iles from Augusta, on the Savannah S'
all the Corn and fodder, about twenty-live hed
Cattle, four young and well broke Mules one w a !
and Mule Colt, two Farm Waggons, one Earoucbl
and Harness, one Buggy, and ail the Fannin.
Utensils. *“»
At the same time, the Plantation will he renua
for one year Horn the Dt of January.
A. SIBLEY, Aministrator
December 12,1840. J,
H A 3K PT ON COCKS E.
The Races over this Course will commence on
Tuesday next, the Colt Sweepstake for .Monday
having been declared oil'.
PURSES.
Tuesday—Two mile heats, .4,400
Wednesday—Three mile heats,. 500
Thursday—Four mile heats, S9O
Friday—Mile heats, best 3 in 5, 300
Great sport may be looked for over this lurf, a>
all the horses at present here will remain, and the
undersigned is authorised to stale, that on the four
mile day, the celebrated horse Boston, and
; Santa Anna or Fanny will come together. Tbs
will be the best field of horses that ever ran in thi,
! country. North or bouth.
dec 12 S. W. SHELTON. Proprietor.
Georgia, Columbia county:
Y/57 H EREAB, Archei A vary applies for letters
yH of administration on the estate of Micah
Evans alias Micah Quash, (a free woman of colon
| deceased.
These are therefore to cite and admonish a)! ami
i singular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased,
i to be and appear at my office, within the ti».e pre
| scribed by law, to shew cause, if any they have,
! why said letter- should not be granted.
Given under my hand, at office, this 12th day of
j December, 1840. GABRIEL JONES, Clerk.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD!
I FINAL EN, be tween the 2d and 4th days of Xo-
JL veraber last, by mistake or otherwise, from
the Bar of Mr. John Coleman , Hotel-keeper. Green
sboro, Ga., in whose care it was left, a two-fool,
b ack leather, iron frame tiavelling TRU.Mv,
nearly new, with no name ; had a brass band our
each end, and studded with brass knobs, opening
in the middle, with two pair of straps, one pair
I attached to the Trunk, the other pair long, and
served to attach it to a carriage, one of which had
been spliced near where it ha a usually been buck
led ; there were two slats or latns under the bot
tom, the back one of which had been whittled at
one one end, making it narrower; the key-hole
nairow, the lower part of which is straight, the
upper part next the barrel a curve, concave to the
left ; there was an India-rubber cloth cover folder!
and strapped on the top; the lock cover was held
i down by a strap passing through a thimble, and
then buckled.
Besides wearing apparel, there were in the
Trunk notes and accounts, and articles of consider
able value, which can be useful only to the
scriber, who was informed by Mr. A. R. Bexley,
bar-keeper in Mr. Coleman's Hotel, that the Trunk
was sent off in the Alligator Line of Stkges to
wards Florida. Diligent search and inquiry have
been made without success. The above reward is ,
offered for the delivery of the Trunk and contents
to the above Mr. John Coleman, or to George M.
Thew, Esq., Augusta. E. OSBORN. •
dec 12 * It
Cl ACTION.—I do hereby forbid any person and
) all manner of persons whatsoever, from buy
ing the lands whereon Samuel G. Brown now lives,
in Burke county, it being in two tracts or parcels
of land apart, lying in Burke and. Jefferson coun
ties, both sides of Briar Creek, .as 1 bought said
lands es said Brown, on the 29th day of March,
1839, received his receipt for £3M), and* have made
him three other payments; and said Barauel G.
Brown now refuses to deliver said lands. Said
Brown on the onset, practised fraud upon
false statements, as respects the two tracts slid a
land warrant, as said Samuel G. Brown bad De
tained from a land couit and located on said lards
of his and others, m iking out he was entitled to a
large quantity of vacant lands adjoining-, That
would have added trebble to the value of said lands,
giving the purchaser at least three first rate Mill
seats with abundance of water, and offered a lamp
ing sale. 1 made the purchase, and paid nearly ail
the first payments, when to my great astonishment,
found he was claiming a part of Mr. Wm. Bryant *
land as vacant, a part of Mr. Bradshaw’s, all of
Mr. Holley’s land. I do not believe there is one
square inch of land vacant. I forewarn allperson?
from buying said lands, or trusting him on acount
of having said lands in possession, as 1 shall claim
said lands from the 2Sth day of March, 1539. 1
shall file my bill in Equity, for the Court to make
me titles, und also sue him for damages I have
sustained. He has told many persons that I should
not have the land, that he would ‘give me m)’
money up. If any persons trust him, they muA
look for other resources, not my lands.
Given under my hand, this 9th December, 1 *4O.
dec !2-w3t LEWIS BYNE*
LOST,
ON Tuesday evening, the Bth inst., a Caliskin
Pocket Book, about half worn, containing
one hundred and thirty or thirty-five dollars-^ 1
one hundred dollar bill on the Georgia Raili®* 1 *
Bank, a twenty dollar bill on the Meichants’ arF
Pianteis’ Bank, Columbus, the others not recollect'
ed. It also contained two notes on iiowel Har
grove, amounts nor date not recollected,- —-al 80 4
bill of groceries, bought of C. B. Hitt Co., and l
Tavern oil!. 1 suppose 1 lost it at the ticket otnee
oi the Georgia Railroad, as that was the last place
at which 1 recollect of having it out. A liberal sp
ward will be gh eu to the finder by leaving it wm l
C. B. Hitt & Co. DAVID HOLLER AN
»ip r 10 dfii v
SPLENBIB CARPETS.
ONOWDEN & SHEAR have received from
York a large supply of supeiior Ingrain,.Th» f
Ply, Brussels, and striped Ventiian CAKPKTB
- and splendid patterns, with Rugs to mak ;'
Also, superior White Welsh ana Gauze Flann® >
and a great variety of other articles suitable for
present season, to which they respectfully
the attention of the public. 001 *'
NEW FALL GOODS.
OE. is J. C. CaKMIChaIL have .’ uSt r ,
• evived in ad lition to their Fall Btoc
handsome and complete assortment of Staple
Fancy DRV GOODS, which will be offered «
prices, at either wholesale 01 retail.
dec 5 u