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DAILY Cllliim I SEXTIXEL.
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Land UUlee Report.
The Report of the Commissioner of the General
Land Office to Hon. A. 11. 11. Stuart, Secretary of
the Interior, is a document of much interest. Wo
therefore iay before our readers the following pret
ty full exhibit of its contents. The commissioner
commences as follows:— Halt. Sun.
Genekal Land Office, )
November 29, 1852. )
Sir;—l have the honor to submit the following
report of the operations of this office during the
past year, with such suggestions as seem to be
proper for further carrying out the .system of dis
posing of the public domain.
Within that period, 9,522,953 acres were survey
ed, and 8,032,483 acres advertised for sale.
In the last fiscal year there were
gold 1,553,071 acres.
Located with Bounty Land War
rants 4 201,315 ;1
Located with oilier certificates.... 115,682 “
Making a total of 4,870,067 “
In addition, there were reported
under swamp land grunt 5,219,188 “
For internal improvements, rail
roads, &c 3,025,920 “
Making an aggregate of 12,115,175 “
Being an increase in the amount of lauds sold
located with land warrants over tne previous year,
569,220 acres.
The whole amount thus sold and located, report
ed under the swamp land grant, and selected for
internal improvements, railroads, &0., exceeds
that of last year by 3,342,372 acres; and the sales
would no doubt have been much heavier but for
the extensive reservations for railroads, in Missis
sippi, Alabama and Missouri,
for the quarter ending 30th Sep
tember, 1852, there were sold.. 243,255 acres.
Located with Bounty Land War
rants 1,337,116 “
Located with other certificates'... 15,649 “
Making a total of 1,646,020 “
There were reported under swamp
laud grant 2,435 233 “
Making agere. for the quar., of. 4,131,253 “
Daring the past year 25,000 letters were received
and answered; 1491 accounts were adjusted and re
ported to the comptroller; 21,502 certificates of
land sales, 29,226 bounty land warrant locations,
9,318 declaratory statements, 50,000 swamp land,
internal improvement and other selections were
posted ; about 70,000 cash bounty land and other
?atents were written, recorded and transmitted
,654,519 acres of swamp land and other selections
were certified to the States, and upwards of 20,C00
pages of letters and accounts were recorded.
Among the accounts adjusted as above mention
ed were those ot the land officers, under the act of
22d March, 1852, “To make land warrants assign
able, and for other purposes,” by which those offi
cera were entitled to the same per ventage for the
location of warrants since the 11th of Feb., 1847, as
for cash sales.
As the law provides that all such fees for loca
tions made prior to its passage should be paid out
of the Treasury, most of the accounts there tor were
made up at this office from the returns of the seve
ral officers and involved a great amount of c ireful
Igbor, and an entire revision of all the accounts
■' 'lptLrled since January 1, 1847.
The whole amount thus paid out of the Treasury
to 13ch November, 1852, was $110,816 91.
f This law, which wa- an act of simple justice to
' the district laud officer, and only a reasonable com
pensation for faithful services, limits the amount
of fees paid to each person from every source to
$2 ,500 per annum, aud requires that those for the
location of land warrants made after the p tssago of
that law should be paid by rhe persons who made
those locations. The consequence has been that
in several instances the aggregate of foes paid in
for military locations exceeded the maximum com
pensation of the land officers, and the excess has
gone into the pub ho treasury; and therefore the
government, to that extent, has been reimbursed
on account of the above mentioned expenditure in
the first in -lance.
The survey of the northern boundary of lowa
has been completed a" required by the act of 3 I
March, 1819, the monuments have all been erected
Afiod a full report of the whole work, with maps of
showing fie topography of the conn-
BHBKUI be specially co u tmealed at an early la\
session of Congress,
energy
hao been i-\
C .{■ it.
-
■k
wore long since exhausted, and will not admit of
his completing his report; and hence an. item is
runmitted for the purpose in the estimates of ap
propriations for the next fiscal year, and also to
cover the expense of a recon uoissuuoe of the “Mau
vai-es Torres,” in Nebraska.
The final report of Messrs. Foster & Whitney,
on the geology of the Luke Superior land district,
for the completion of which an appropriation was
made at the last session of Congress, will be com
municated in the course of the next session.
This report will embrace the most recent infor
mation -in relation to the copper and iron mines of
tha interesting region.
The whole of the mineral business connected
with the sales of the public lauds in Michigan,
; Wisconsin, Illinois, &c., has been brought so near
ly to a close tiiat there is no longer any necessity
j tor the employment of a mineral agent in those re
: gions, and 1 therefore recommend that the services
of the one now employed there bo discontinued.
The business connected with the bouhty land
divisions of this office has been pressed forward as
rapidly as possible. The following table exhibits
the number of warrants issued under the acts of
1847, 1850aud 1852; tiie number ot those warrants
I that have boon located and the number now out
standing, viz:
act of 1847.
I Grade of No. Acres cm- No Acres *m- No. Acres em-
Warrant, i-sued braced located, braced out- braced
the eby. thereby, st'd’g thereby.
160 acres-•■ 76.871 ia.599.540 69.415 11,111200 7.459 1,188640
■ 40 *• 6,264 250,500 5,075 203.000 1,189 47 560
Total, 83,138 12,550.400 74,320 11,314.200 8,618 1,236,200
ACT OF 1&50.
160 acres--.-20 8-6 3 341.760 8,832 1,413.120 12,054 1 928,640
SO “ 41232 3 510,160 14,194 1,133,520 30 058 2,404,640
40 -‘ 73 5-0 2 912 400 23,430 939,200 50,030 2,003,200
Talal, 133 698 9,824,320 46 506 3,437,840 92,192 6,336.480
ACT OF 1853.
i 160 acres •••.None
i so • 171 13.680 171 13.680
40 “ l,oor 40 000 No Rsturns. 1,0 0 40,000
Total, 1,171 53,6-0 1,171 63,680
SUMMARY.
Act of ’47 - 83.138 12 550 400 74.520 11,314,200 8,618 1,238.300
Act of ’50—133 691 9,821,320 46 506 • 3.487,810 92 192 6,366 4«0
•' •’52- 1,171 53680 1,171 53,680
223.007 22,128,400 121.026 14,802,040 101 981 7,626,360
Notwithstanding our stringent regulations re-
I spectmg the assignment of warrants, frauds are
! sometimes perpetrated, and patents issued on
j fraudulent ssiguments.
In such cases it has been held that this office can
affqrd no relief, and that the only redress for the
warrantees is through the proper judicial tnbu-
I nals in a suit for the title to the lands located with
their warrants. This is expensive, and may be un
certain where the holder of the patent title sells
to rq innocent purchaser, who has no knowledge
of the fraud. The examinations of the transfers,
moreover, materially retard the issuing of the pa
| tents, us nearly all of them are assigned, and with
the greate-t cure, frauds of the character above
mentioned cannot always be detected.
To avoid these evils, as far as practicable, I re
spectfully recommend that an act be passed by
Cmigre-- authorizing this office in all cases to is
sue the patents to the person who rendered the
i service for which the warrants were granted, with
the proviso that the title shall enure to the benefit
of the parties contemplated by the act of 1847 and
1850, tiieir heirs, assignees or devisees, as the case
may be. The United States would thus bo divest
ed of the fee in the lands, the rights of the soldiers
and t use holding under them would be secured, I
i as tii -ule of “ caveat omptor ” would apply in all i
j cases, and the questions connected with subse- ;
! quent transfers could be adjudicated by the courts.
I in this way the landed titles of the country would
be rendered secure and permanent, much vexa-
I tious litigation prevented, and the warrantees
; Qouli sell and assign as usual. In the present
' prosperous condition of the country, the extent of
I the sufferings and sacrifices endured in the service
I fur which these warrants were granted, and the
value of that service, are almost inappreciable.
Dur ng the war of 1312 with England, justly
styled tiie second struggle for independence, our
I patriotic cilizms, on land and water, were ever
j ready at a moment’s cull to strike for freedom and
shed tiieir best blood in defonee of their country.
Mayy of die sepatriots have passed away, leaving
their families in straitened circumstances, and oth
ers are struggling, in the autumn of life, under po
vert\ and sickness, to obtain a scanty subsistence.
When the act of 1850 was passed, length of service
appeared the most Just, if not the only criterion
bv which the extent of the bounty should be mea
stirml. Experience, however, has since proven
that many ol those whose actual setvice in the
field was the briefest, endured the greatest hard
snips and rendered most valuable services to their
country. It would seem, then, to be just, that the
same liberal provision should bo made for them
as was extended to the soldiers of the regular
army, and that each should receive 1(50 acres,
whether his service was long or short, or had been
rendered on land or water.
In addition to those above mentioned, warrants
and scrip have been issued by the division having
cnarge of the Virginia military and bounty lands,
under the war of 1812, amounting to 27,766 acres.
That division has also been actively engaged in
indexing the old volumes and preparing new re
cords and abstract*!, &c., so as to be ready tor the
| is ue of scrip to the holders of Virginia military
warrants, authorised by the act of 31st August,
1852, as soon as the proviso to the 2d section of
that act shall have bean complied with by that
State.
Tiie execution of this law lias been devolved by
yo i upon t iie General L ind Office, and from the
exp rience alrea ty had, it is evident that the pro
viso in it, requiring you to be satisfied “ by a revi
j sion of the proofs, or by additional testimony that
any warrant * * surrendered (under the provi
! sion of that act) was fairly and justly issued in
pursuance of the laws of said commonwealth of
Virginia, for military services so rendered,” will
i be exceedingly onerous on this'ofL.o, and on the
| holders ot the warrants, and will materially retard
the completion <>t the business under it. 1 would,
therefore, respectfully recommend that the said
proviso be repealed, and the issuing of the war
rants treated as prima facia evidence that the ser
vice was rendered by the person in whose-'name it
> \\ a> gianted. It wnl then be difficult, in*all‘cases* I
' to a-cci ain satisfactorily who are the present pjgjß
as required by the act, that the scrip ifl|
11 e i’c 01K
the correction of errors in making entries of land,”
to all cases where the locations have been or may
be made with bounty land warrants or other scrip.
The revival and extension of these laws will af
ford relief to many meritorious cases where inno
cent persona have been led into error by circum
stances beyond their control, and will remove a
cause of much labor and correspondence to this of
fice by the final disposition of such cases. Every
principle of justice requires that the some facility
and indulgence shall be extended to those who lo
cale land with warrants or scrip as to those who
purchance for cash.
Cases of great hardships have arisen where bona
fide settlers have endeavored to secure their home
steads by warrants, and why, having been misled
in the description of the tract, have located their
warrants upon lands that were comparatively val
ueless to them, leaving their own improvements
subjects to sale or location for want of the means
of securing them.
By the treaty of 1832, the Chickasaw ceded to
the United States their lands in Mississippi and
Alabama, containing, according to actual survey,
6,718,586 27 100 acres, and pursuant to the treaties
of 1832 and 1634 with that tribe, there has been
disposed of, by granting individual Indian re
serves, and by public and private sale, the greater
portion of the whole cession, leaving in fact but a
little over 200,000 acres indisposed of. These un
sold lands under the graduation principle ift the
treaty of 1834, and now liable to sale at 12j£conts
an acre, except 640 acres known as the “Land
Office” section at Pontotoc, the sale of which is
specially provided for in the supplement to the
treaty of 1832.
By the 11th article of the treaty of 1834, it is
provided that should the expenses of ibese lands
“prove greater than the receipts,” the Chickasaws
may declare the residue of them abandoned to the
United States. This office, from time to time, has
reduced the expenses of the land system in the
cession by dispensing with the service of such offi
cers as had brought the branches of business en
trusted to them to a close. In order, however, to
conduct thcsalesiu the cession pursuant to treaty
stipulations, it has been necessary to continue the
Register and Receiver at a salary of SI2OO each as
authorized in the treaty. If no steps should be
taken at an early day in the way of finally treating
with the Indians respecting the residue of their
lands, I recommend the passage of a law authori
zing the Executive to attach these lauds to a con
tiguous district, and to sell them, free of expense,
to the Indiana. In this way they would be relieved
at once from the annual expenses now incident to
the employment of a Register and Receiver at the
salary specified in the treaty, and the “Land office
section’ could be sold to 'the best advantage—a
measure not only beneficial to the Indians, but
doubtless desirable to the town of Pontotoc, to
which it is adjacent.
[concluded to-morrow.]
Cjjnmidc & Sentinel |
j AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. |
THURSDAY MORNING DEC’R 30, 1852.
CS*” See Fourth Page of Daily.
New Books.
Bianca. A Tale of Erin and Italy. By Edward Maturin, j
Esq., author of “ Montezuma,” “ Eva,” &c. New York : !
Harper & Brothers.
Erin and Italy ! those lands of poetry and wild
romantic interest, afford a fruitful theme for the
pen of the novelist; and Mr. Maturin has man
aged the tale .before us in his usual imaginative
and glowing style. It will be found highly inter
esting by all lovers of the dramatic and fervid style
of writing.
:
j My Like and Acts is Hungary in IS4B and 1849. By
Arthur Gorgei. New York ; Harper & Brothers.
Notwithstanding the speeches of Kossuth, and
the sketches of Hungarian history in the “iuter
j vention ” journals of the day, we opine that very
; little is yet known by the masses respecting the
“rights” or “wrongs ” of “poor Hungary.” The
present volume professes to boa veritable histr -y
of the stirring and troublous times of 1848 aod
1849, by one who deeply participated in those
movements, and as such is well worth reading,
even by those who kept themselves aloof from the
Kossuth ovation.
Mr Novel; or, Varieties of English Life. By Sir Edward
Litton Bclwbr.
This interesting work, which has been running
through a multitude of the back numbers of Har- I
per’s Monthly, is now issued as one of the “Select
Novels” by Harper & Brothers.
All the above may be found at the Bookstore of
Jos. A. Carrie & Co.
Firemen’s Benefit.
The Fakir of Siva gives an entertainment this
evening for the benefit of the Augusta Fire De
partment, on which occasion Miss Ella Bkcce has
kindly volunteered to sing a few of irer favorite
songs. We anticipate a crowdcdkhoML
The following correspondence
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The Cincinnati Fraud-
W e published a day or two since, a telegraphic j
dispatch announcing the development of a mou- !
strous fraud perpetrated in Cincinnati by certain
parties, some of whom were arrested, iu the In
surance Companies, in the insurance of freights !
on the steamer Martha Washington, and who
are charged with colluding with the officers to !
destroy the boat in January last. The Cincin
nati Gazette of the 22d inst. contains reports of
William Kissane, of the firm of Smith & Kis
sane, soap and candle factors, Lorenzo Chapin,
shoe dealer, and James W. Chandler, of Coving
ton, Ky., whose business is not mentioned. It
also gives the followingparticulars :
The developments of this strange affair show
that in December of last year, certain parlies
bought the steamer Martha Washington, of James
McGregor, of this city. J. N. Comings became
captain, J. G. Nicholson, clerk, and W. H. Hol
land, mate. The boat was loaded by different par
ties ofthis city, and left our wharf in January, and
on the 14th of that month, in the neighborhood of
Island No. 65, on the Mississippi river, the boat
was burned—boat and cargo a total loss.
The charge against the parties arrested is, that
they, by collusion with the officers of the boat, with
fraudulent bills of lading, and false oaths thereto,
obtained insurance in the following offices, when
iu reality there were few or no goods shipped.
James Chandler had secured SI9OO insurance on
pistols in the “National” of this city, when the
supposition is that none were shipped. The office
refused to pay—Chandler sued.
Capt. Cummings secured $4500 insurance on the
freight list of the boat in the Firemens’ & Mechan
ics’, of Madison. W. B. Casilly, Agent iu this city,
promptly paid it.
Lyman Cole secured SBOOO insurance in the
Firemens’ Insurance Company of this city, on
boots, shoes and Kossuth hats, said also to' have
been shipped. This sum was paid by Josiah Law
rence, Esq., before he died.
G. I*. Stevens insured $5,369 on an Invoice of
boots and shoes, bought by Lyman & Co., in the
Protection agency of this city. He also insured in
the ..Etna agency $4,874 on goods purported to
have been bought of John Edwards. Lyman Cole
insured $5500 on boots and shoes in the Cincinnati
agency of the Detaoit Insurance Company. Cole
sued the company, and this has had a long exam
ination in the Courts of Detroit.
Capt. Curniugs effected an insurance, through
an innocent person, of $4,500, in A. S. Chew’s
agency of the Phoenix, of iSt. Louis. Also, a large
amount in the Charleston company, which is in
suit.
The Union Mutual, of New York, had SIO,OOO
i —54,600 on 1,600 doz. sheepskins, and 6,200 on
j 26,000 white sole leather, said to have been shipped,
i Chas. Lane & Co., of Boston innocent parties,
advanced Kissane $4,800 on the 9th of January,
' on a policy in the Equitable Insurance Company,
; of Boston, of $5,934, on 300 packages said to have
j been shipped on the Martha Washington,
j James Leo, of Boston, innocent party, is insured
1 to protect drafts, for $5,900, on 167 bbls. of pork,
; said to bo shipped by Cole, and S 3 bbls. of pork
' and 100 tierces of lard, by Kissane.
i Adam Chapin effected, as the boat passed Louis
' ville, insurance with the Louisville agency of the
Madison Insurance Company, for $4,200 on 200
j cases of boots and shoes, said to have been chipped
j by said Chapin, iu Cincinnati. This claim was
! sued by Kissane.
Mr. Filler, partner of the Chapins, is reported
to havi been opposed to the scheme, and to avoid
the threats of parties, to leave the city, to have
secreted himself in Illinois, to escape violence, that
on his dying bed, on the 24th of last October, he
charged these parties with this conspiracy.
There were other insurances besides those
j noted, swelling the pretended amount of shipment
I to an nggregrte beyond the reasonableness of or
| dinary shipments.
Capt. Cumings and Holland the mate are at
i present up Red River.
i Mr. Lyman Cole, brother of Horace Cole, and
formerly merchant on Pearl-street, was no doubt
arrested at Oxford, yesterday on his way to Co
lumbus.
The Attorney General. —The Washington cor
respondent of the New York Courier and Enqui
rer says :—“There seems to be a general under
standing in political circles here, that Senator
Butler of South Carolina, will be invited by Gen
eral Pierce to accept the Attorney General
ship in the new Cabinet. Yet there is no war
rant for saying that any direct overture has yet
been made or is positively contemplated. Intima
tions have been thrown out, which are regarded as
I significant by those who profess to be well advised.
Mr. Butler is now at the head of the Judicary Com
mit Lee in the Senate, and before his election to
the chamber, was long a distinguished Judge in the
Supreme Court in his native State. Few men in
public life enjoy more personal popularity, or art
less free from the political prejudices which are so j
apt to warp the judgment and to pre vert the high
purpose of opponents.”
North-CarohCsa Railroads.-— The Raleigh and
Gaston Road o7;A Load
220 mi e on \, Sleigh .‘.f 160
MgBHBW—i ; —BB—Eg—BaMMMmiUJkjMWIkHWUEiMS
For the Chronicle <£ Sentinel.
j Mb. Editor:— There must be a considerable re
, duction in the annual income of the City from
j bridge tolls, and from the loss of interest on some
two hundred shares of Georgia Railroad stock,
which Couucil has given for the establishment of
! an Orphan Asylum, whilst the expenditures will
be materially increased by a largo annual interest
upon the bonds recently issued for repairs upon
the Canal. The deficit thus created can only be
met by a retrenchment of the expenditures, or by
a resort to additional taxation. This last mode we
presume will have but few advocates either in or
out ofCoi ncil, as we are now taxed to a most bur
densome extent. It is, therefore, only by a rigid
economy that our credit can be sustained. Among
the expenses which might properly be curtailed,
are seven.! of the salaries of certain officers. We
now pay annually over twenty thousand dollars
IN SALARIES TO THE OFFICERS OF THE CITY. Some of
these are higher than are paid for similar services
in other cities having a larger population, and
where living is equally, if not more expensive.
Contrast the salaries paid in Savannah with those
paid in Augusta for the same kind of service-,
SAVANNAH. AUGUSTA.
City Treasurer, S6OO & fees. CityTreas’r, SI2OO, no f?es.
Clerk of Council, 400 & fees. Clerk of C uncil, $Sv) 4 fees.
City Marshal, 600 & fees. City Marshal, SIOOO 4 fees.
Deputy Marshal, Deputy Marshal, 800 & fees.
5 City Constables, 800 & fees. 8 City Constables, 750 & fees.
A comparison with the salaries paid in other
cities would doubtless exhibit a similar dispro
portion.
We have not specified these officers as those
only whose salaries should be reduced. There are
others which call equally for reduction. Wo hope
that Council will not be deterred by a fear of losing
the present incumbents. We venture to as.-ert
that they would all be candidates for re-election,
even should their salaries be reduced. But should
we be mistaken in this matter, we have no hesita
tion in saying that our city has many citizens
equally capable and honest, who would gladly ac
cept the offices at salaries materially reduced below
the present rates. Tax Paye:..
An Estaordinaby Lock. —The editor of ■he
American Artizan was recently shown a piece of
mechanism called Yale’s magic lock, which is abso
lutely nnpickable as the kernel of the walnut
would be without damaging the shell. The c ily
opening is a circular orifice, half an inch diame es,
for admitting the key, and through which ther- is
no possible access to the tumblers by any inst u
inent whatever —not even by the key itself, strai ge
as it may seem. By a singular contrivance, a y >r
tion of the key is detached after insertion, id
sent to a distant part of the lock, where it moves
the tumblers, ana where the tools of the bur*, ar
could neverarrive except by first buttering the 1- _‘k
to pieces. The key-hole resembles the interior of
a small pistol barrel, and liavirg no opening iu
the interior basin of the lock would not rcct.ve
powder enough to blow it open. The lock is the e
fore absolutely gunpowder proof. Among ot. er
peculiarities, the key is susceptible to from so :y
thousand to one million of changes. A changt of
the key changes the lock also in the act ot lock! g,
so that one may have a new lock every day ft a
hundred years! By a change of the key a er
locking, it is rendered impossible to unlock, oven
with the same key, until altered again. One n iy
thus lose the key,*or have it stolen, and still enter
tain no fears of the locks being opened with it.
The proprietors offer a reward of five bundled
dollars to any one who will pick it through the
key-hole, using whatever instruments he plea u - s,
anil taking any length of time that he may desirr.
Good Price for a Shad. —A shad caught in * he
Ogechee River by Patrick Cody, and which weigh
ed 4 lbs., was sold in our market yesterday mr n
iugto the proprietor of a hotel in Columbia, S. •'.,
for thirty six dollars !
We understand that the purchaser was in ‘ ic
market before it was fairly light, and spving he
shad, asked Mr. Cody the price of it. Being i
formed that it was valued at S4U, he closed at once
at that price. In making the change it was inc a •
venient at that hour to get at the precise sum, a id
the owner of the shad, in a spirit of liberality ac
cepted $36. He sold the balance of his shad at
one dollar a piece. It is an old saying that “ he
eaily bird gets the worm.” In this case, we thh <,
he got the bug, that is to say, the bug was put n
him in the fish transaction. —Savannah Xeus.
The new steamer Carolina, Capt. Coxetter. In
tended to run between this port and Jacksonville,
&c., in conjunction with the steamer Florida, C ot.
Willey, arrived at her wharf in this city yester a>
evening about six o’clock from New York, wh oh
port she left on Saturday last. We have not as et
seen her, but understand that she is in every re
| sped a fine boat, and does infinite credit to ihe
! judgment and skill of her worthy command- r,
under whose superintendence she was construe xl
—indeed the very fact that Capt. Coxetter super
vised the building of the Florida is a sufficient
guaranty that the Carolina will be fully equal to :he
most sanguine anticipations of her enterprise' ig
owners. — Char. Char. v
The Brig ''Pedraza.— Wo learn that the • ai
-1 graut.passengers that arrived in this vessel, from
to be landed atat the Lazaretto, e id
has beenor will be libelled by ie
Government, for a breach of ft;e
yws, in bringing iulojlicUftr
P -yd
p 9 JBapttif CfUgrapl).
Charleston Market.
Wednesday, Dec. 29.—Sales of 2200 bales at 7>f
to 9% cents. Prices aie fall, the market haviug
recovered the decline. Middling Fair i» scarce at
9 cents.
From the Charleston Courier —By Telegraph,
Baltimore, Dec. 28. —The U. S. Mail steamship
Uncle Sam has arrived at New York, bringing
half a million in gold, and advices from San Fran
cisco to the Ist inst.
The steamship Panama left San Francisco on the
Ist of December, with £2,700,000 in gold, for San
Juan.
General Pierce’s majority in California is about
seven thousand.
The intelligence of Mr. Webster’s death was re
ceived at San Francisco on the 20th of November,
and minute guns were fired, and every mark of re
spect shown to his memory.
A great earthquake occurred at Acapulco on the
evening of the 4th inst., destroying the largest
buildings, causing considerable damage to proper
ty. Fortunately, however, no lives were lost.
Baltimoke, Dec. 28.—The health of the Hon. W.
K. Kind is much improved. Both Houses of Con
gre-s adjourned early on Tuesday, having transact
ed little business of interest.
In the Senate a resolution of the lion. Lewi*
Cass of Michigan, calling for information relative
to the establishment of British Colonies in Central
America was adopted.
Baltimore, Dec. 28.—Advices from Norfolk,
' a. state that the British steamer Mountaineer,
from Liverpool for New York, was totally lost on
Christmas day, near Curratuck Inlet. The crew,
however, were saved.
[We mentioned, it will be recollected, in the
Courier of Thursday last, that “the British steam
er Mountaineer from Liverpool, bound to St.
John’s, New Brunswick, in ballast, put into Nas
sau on the sth inst., in distress, having been out
seventy days in consequence of her machinery
having become order.
W e presume, however, that she could not obtain
the necessary facilities for having her machinery
repaired at Nassau, and therefore proceeded to
ew York, which port it was fated, it seems, that
she-sliould not reach.] — Eds. Courier.
New Orleans, Dec. 25.—Saturday being Christ
mas day, business was suspended. The Canada’s
advices were more unfavorable to Cotton than
had been anticipated. Their effect, however, will
not be developed until Monday.
The U. S. mail ship Empire City. Capt. Win die,
is to leave New Orleans for New York via Havana
at eight o’clock on Tuesday morning.
MARRIED.
On the 18th inst., by the Rev. Dr. Edwd. W. Jones, Mr.
JOHN R- SMITH, of Columbia, and Mias VIRGINIA J. f.
MORRIS, cf Warren county.
Oh the evening of the 23d inst., by the Rev. Mr. James
M. S til well, Mr. JAMES J. MONTGOMERY, of Jasper
county, Ga., and Miss ELIZABETH JANE, daughter of
Mrs. Margaret S. Welborn, of Morgan county, Ga.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
EAR DISEASEB
Deafness Radically Ccred !—Dr. LE BRDNN
offers to those suffering from Dea r ness, Aural Remedies,
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the ear is perfect in its formation. He has eighteen cer
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enable! to learn the language. Over twenty seven hun
dred certificates of cures may be seen on application. r«-
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remedies sent to any part.
Terms:—Five Dollars Consultation Fee. Ten Dollars
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Addre»s Drs. LE BRLNN Si DUFTON, Union Place, Mew
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N. B.—A Treatise on the Nature and Treatment of Dea*
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THE GREAT EUROPEAN MAGICIAN,
Will appear a% CONCERT HALL, on SATURDAY EVE
NING, January Ist, ISSB. dSO
PELOTS COMMERCIAL SCHOOL,
Masonic Halt—A Second Class in the BOOK
KEEPING department will be formed on TUESDAY night,
4th January, at 7 o’clock. Gentlemen wishing to unit#
themselves to this Class, are requested to leave their names
with Messrs. Giraruy A Parker, Augusta, or T. StpriMfS
Heriot, Esq., Hamburg; or apply at the Hall. Terms for
the Course sls. Gentlemen composing the Commercial
Debating Class, are requested to meet at 8 o’clock, as
above. d29tw4 WILLIAM M. PELOT.
We are authorized to announce the names of
<B. H. WARREN, G. F. PARISH, J. B. BISHOP, and
THOMAS SKINNER, and MARTIN McNAIR, as candl
vdates for Judges of the Inferior Court at the ensuing elee
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