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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. __ Q- 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