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Puinfal Disaster.•‘—We regret to learn ■
that on the 14th ult. at two ip the morn
ing, the steam-boat Teche, Capt. Campbell, .
on her passage to New-Orleans, when about
ten miles below Natchez her boiler burst, -
three men were 1(111611, and several severe
ly scalded. The boat was set on fiie, and -
with her cargo, of about 500 bales of cotton,
consumed, She had on board about 70 j
passengers. The scene of confusion can
onff be imagined. Most of them got a- A
shore in the yawl in three trips, and some 11
floated from the burning wreck on bales of fi
cotton and were saved. The calamity did s
not end here—the steam-boat Washington a
was soon after passing up, hove to, and a
boat with from 12 to 18 of the survivors, n
attempting to board her, upset, and were a
drowned. |
Mr. Miles of Kentucky, was among the t
scalded, but had reached New-Orleans.
Wylie’s Price Current, of the 16th, states, 0
that little business had been done in Cotton a
owing to bad weather, and the presence of I
Gen. Lafayette. Sales of Tobacco were ii
made on the 15tli at full 1 cent per pound
over last quotations.
Letters per the William, from Mobile, v
via New-Orleans, were yesterday received
y in this city, dated only fifteen days back.
Gen. Lafayette left New-Orleans on the i
15th ult. in the steam-boat Natches, for St. t
Louis, accompanied by the Governor, &c. r
as far as Natches. [lbid, ,
The steam-boat Albemarle, , lying at Arch- *
Street wharf, caught fire, accidentally, it is 1
believed, at three o’clock yesterday morn- <
ing, and all the exertions to save her proved I
unavailing. She was towed over to the |
Island, aiid there burnt to the water’s edge. ,
She was prepared with stores for a trip of '
pleasure down the river yesterday, and her 1
destruction was not only a loss to her owners,
I but disappointed the party who intended
to make an excursion in her.
[Philadelphia Aurora, Is/, inst.
SCIKNTIFIC NOTICES.
Common Salt to correct the Fcelor of Can
cerous Sores. —M. Liaubon relates the case
of a female with a cancerous ulcer in the
right breast, who suffered extremely from the
• foetor of the discharge, wlpch was so intole
rable, that the person who assisted in dress
ing the wound could scarcely remain in the
room. M. Liaubon ordered a lotion of salt,
dissolved in water, to wash the parts : the
disease was not arrested by these means,
but the feetor was entirely destroyed.
Utility of Fresh Vegetables in Fever,
token placed near the Patient. —We have
received a letter from Mr. S. Shatte, of
Stokenham, Devon, the purport of which is
*** notice a practice formerly re
commended by some of the ancient writers
on medicine, and which, he says, he has
found ol grout bornco i)j fuvorb
hoid k*nil. A short extract from our vene
rable correspondent’s letter will explain his
meaning sufficiently.
“ In 1821, when typhus fever was very
prevalent in this neighbourhood, I made
several trials of this remedy. G. F, in the
village o,f Chill.ington, was taken ill with
that disease, having a wife and two chil
dren, with only two small rooms up stairs;
I immediately had the rooms and the bed
covered with wet bushes or boughs of ash,
hazle, willow, or any green shrubs that
could be procured. The old ones were
carried out. and fresh ones brought in every
morning: and lam of opinion that, when
.they are brought in with the dew upon them,
they are more efficacious ; at all events,
they must be made very wet with cold wa
ter, and be in considerable quantities, so as
to cover the whole room.”
fn one case, our correspondent adds that
they appeared to revive a patient almost at
the point of death.
Mr. S. adds several quotations from Fer-
Nic, Pontano, &c. who advocate
the same practice ; and finally he objects,!
and we think with great reason, to the ab-i
straction of large quantities of blood in pure!
fever likely to assume a typhoid character.
[Lond. Med. and Phys. Jour.
The Canal Commissioners, accompanied
by the largest.stackholder from New York,
visited the line of the Canal last week from
Farmington to Northampton. They return
with the most pleating intelligence. Capital
ists are well persuavled of the advantages of
.tiiis Canal. Large meetings were held last
week at Northampton and Westfield ; the
whole of that section of country is awake to
the subject, and the people uniformly declare
tjfiat the New-York capitalists shall not have
all the stock; t'-it they will build at least
half of the Massachusetts section themselves.
[New- Haven Register.
It is singular, that the two most admira
ble writers that modern Europe produced,
Shakespeare and Cervantes, both died on
the same day, in the game year, namely,
April 23, Ibl6.
Washington, April 50.
By the advertisement from the Treasu
ry Department, it will be seen that the
Eleven Million Loan of 1812, is to be
£41(1 oft' on tiie first day of October next
lere is a vast amount more of capital to ,
be thrown into (he market. Now is the -
•time for opening the subscription books to
that magnificent project, (ho Chesapeake \
and Ohm Canal.
CONSTITUTIONALIST. |>
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AUGUSTA : <
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FRIDAY, MAY 13. 1825. J
Considerable alarm bavins for a few
° s
Jays past existed in this City, in conse- 1
quence of repoits that the small pox had
made its appearance amongst us, wc. are t
fully authorised to state, that after the v
strictest examination by two physicians, of
- those who were supposed to be infected,
nut the smallest grounds could be found tor a
apprehension. We would however earnest- u
ly recommend a general vaccination to all 1
those who have not yet availed themselves }
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of this certain preventive to the small pox,
as the intercourse between this City and j
Charleston, where the disease certainly ex- I
ists, is so great that it may very probably
be iippurted this spring.—ln any event the
vaccinnatiou will be beneficial. f
The different sections of our country are, j
gradually, approximating each other, and ]
the distances between them becoming al- I
most nominal. The improvements in trav
vlling, the multiplication of Steam Boats,
and the construction of canals and roads, ,
are bringing into one the north and south, j
and east and west. What was once u la- 1
burious journey, has now become a jaunt of
pleasure ; and we have certainly not yet
seen the full extent of what improvement
can dp. The great National Road, from
New-Orleans to the seat of Government, if
constructed, will afford facilities of com
munication hitherto unknown. We have
only to hope that it will be found expedi
ent to direct its course where we may have
the benefit of it. If the rout, now survey
ing by the board appointed for that purpose,
be adopted ; the road will not only unite
one extremity of the Union with the centre,
but, by passing through the capitals of the
Atlantic States, will bring them nearer to
gether, and tend to promote good fellow
ship, and further the interests of each.
The citizens of Oglethorpe county have
given Mr. Crawford, a public dinner, at
Lexington, byway of welcome to his home.
This is as it should be.
The public are cautioned in the Charles
ton papers, against receiving bills of the
Union Bank of South-Carolina, of the de
nomination of fifty dollars, the Bank never
, having issued any bills of that denomination.
At the request of citizens of Darien a
: public meeting is called in the Darien Gaz
; ette for the 9th instant, to express their
opinions in regard to another Land Lottery.
A case has been decided, by the Court of
last resor., in South Carolina, that an endor
ser on a note may be a competent witness to
invalidate a note ; that bis interest in the
note does not vitiate his testimony ; and
that the only exception which can be taken
to it, is to his credibility as a witness.
The law, says the New-York Evening
Post, has been decided otherwise in this
State. It has been settled long since on so
lemn argument, and the point has not been
disturbed by any subsequent adjudication,
that no one, whose name is attached to any
written instrument, can be a competent
witness to invalidate or support such instru
moot.
Improvement in Rigging.-— The new ship
; Washington, of 750 tons, which sailed from
New-York for Canton, on the 21st ult. has
all her lower shrouds, all her topsail and top
gallant lies, topsail and topgallant sheets,
bobstays, cables, &c. of iron chains.
QQ*? —
The Grand juries in many and for aught
we know in most of the counties in the State
of Kentucky have presented the “ majority
of their legislature” for disorganizing the
old court of appeals and establishing the
- new one. This is no doubt done under a
belief that these" laws are unconstitutional
and that the majority of the legislature have
been guilty of usurpation.
Knoxville Register.
The Grand jury for the county ofFrank
lin in the State ot Kentucky, have presented
Benjamin Hickman and others, for breaking
open and entering tbe hou>.e of A. Sneed
clerk of the old court and taking out the pa
peis deposited there by the former judges
of the court of Appeals, and also the pri
vate papers of Mr. Sneed ; although it ap
peered ip evidence that they acted in con
formity with an order of the New Court of
Appeals. Ibid.
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We understand that ill the Foreign Min- i
isters and Charges d’ iff*ires of Foreign i
Governments, near that of the United ;
States have presented congratulations to the (
President on the occasion of his recent i
election. On Tuesday last. Mr. Adding- a
ton, Charge d’Affaires I ~,n Gn-at-B. itain, a
at an interview requested by him for that v
purpose, pi esented those of hi . ti werninent, t
by its special direction. [lntelligencer. '
New British Minister, —Mi. diaries
Robert Vaughan is appointed Envoy Ex- (
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to I
this country. It was lately mentioned in the (
Paris papers that Mr. Vaughan bad passed i
through that*city on his return to England a
from Switzerland, where he has been for the a
last two or three years in the capacity of t
Minister. —He is a young man, under forty r
years of age, of distinguished talents, a fine i
scholar, and of great moral worth. He went c
to Spain in 1809, and soon alter published als
very interesting account ot the siege of Sara- ‘
gossa. When Sir Henry W ellesley was ap c
pointed Ambassador to the Constitutional c
Government of Spain at Seville, Mr. Vaugb- n
an was appointed bis Secretary, and he re- i
mainedin that station until 1818, when Sir '■
Henry went for six or eight months to l£ng-|i
land, during which time Mr. Vaughan acted t
in the capacity of Minister. —He was after-!;:
wards in 1820 appointed Secretary to their
Embassy in France, and in 1322 or 1823 r
Minister to Switzerland.
[Host on Daily Mv.
Mr. Stuart Wortley, and Mr. Denison, 1
members of the British Parliament, have ar- 1
rived in town ; and are about to embark for ;
England. We understand that Mr. Stanley, I
M- P. has preceded them a few weeks in
their return to Europe.
[iY. V. Eve. Post, -29 th ult.
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Blackstone Camd. —The subscriptions for
the capital stock of this Canal, were opened
at Providence on Wednesday last, at 10 o’-
clock and closed at 1 o’clock ; when it ap
peared that more than eleven hundred thous
and dollars had been subscribed. The capi
tal is but 8500,000. [/fiid.
A small black schooner iff 15 to 20
capsized yesterday afternoon on the flats be
tween Bedlow’s Island and Bergen Point.
After the squall, a boat passed and saw the
schooner’s hull under water, no person on
board or near, and it is feared that all oil
board were drowned. [Jler.Adv.
We learn from the Lancaster Journal that
a sheet iron steam bout is building at York,
for the navigation of the river Susquehanna.
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Zerah Colburn, who has beea so celebra
ted tor his wonderful mathematical powers,
and who has travelled much in Europe, and
over the U. States, is nowin Burlington,
Vt. where he proposes to open a school for
instruction in the French language.
Extraordinary Speed, —'l he new steam
boat Trenton, recently left Philadelphia and
arrived at Burlington, twenty in one
hour and twenty minutes.
STATISTICS OF NEW-YORK.
It appears by a statistical pamphlet, re
cently published in New-York, that tbcic
, mein that city 1 3T streets, lanes, &c. —97
churches and 130 clergymen. There ate
14 banks with a capital of 817,000,000 ;
10 Marine Insurance Companies, capital
1 84,650,000; —24 Fire Insurance Compa
nies, capital 89,850,000.
The population of the city, at an average,
■ since the first census, winch was taken in
1697, doubles in every 25 years, at that'pe
riod the inhabitants amounted to 4302 ; in
1699, to 6000; in 1756, to 10,080 ; in 1771,
to 21,865 ; and in 1786, to 23.619. And
here it may be observed, that from the year
1771 to 7786, a period of 15 years, the in
i crease in the number of its inhabitants, was
only 1,744; during seven of these years,
; the growth of the city must have been great
ly retarded by the revolutionary war. In
1790, when the first census was taken by
the general government, the number was
i 3p, 131 ; in the year 1800,60,489 ,in 1805,
7.i,770 ; in 1810, 96,373 ;in 1816, 100,619;
in 1820 123,906; ..nil it is supposed now to
be at least 15.0,000.
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, DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.
It is seldom we have to record a more
instance of the incertitude of
diurnaii life and enjoyment, than falls to our
, lot in narrating toe circumstances of a re
cent most afflicting dispensation of Provi
dence, in Montgomery county, in North
, Carolina. On the 2d inst. Dr, John A.
Woolley and Mr. Angus M'Aulay, j . at
tempted to cross Little river, a short distance
above Butler’s mill dam, in a ilat worked by
four men. The excessive rains of that and
the preceding days, had so swelled the ri
ver as to render their efforts to reach the
shore in the flat unavailing; and, as it ap
proached the dam, all hope of crossing being
extinct, the men who worked the flat
plunged into the river and swam to shore.
But the Doctor was lame, and incapa
ble of saving himself iu a similar manner.
He entreated Mr. M'Aulay not to desert
him, and they remained in die flat till it ar
rived near to the dam, when .VPAulay
sprang out with the hope of gaining the
shore. Vain hope ! The violence of the
current dashed him over the dam, and from i
the waters beneath his lifeless body was la- 1
ken on die fallowing morning. Dr. Wool
ley, in the ifo-.m imie, made a desperate at
tempt, after divesting himself of his clothes, |
to save himself by swimming; but his lame
ness rendering die attempt abortive, he re
gained the flat, fell upon his knees, and in
that attitude calmly and deliberately waited
impending and inevitable destruction. The
awful suspense was of short duration; but
a moment, ami the flat was precipitated o- 5
ver the dam, where the fate of this unlor
tunate gentleman was scaled forever.
Observer
The Annapolis Republican says, that the
debate during the last session of the Legis
lature, on the bill for reducing the number
of justices of the peace in the several conn
lies in Maryland, occasioned the recital of
an anecdote (not in the House) of the ex
amination of a magistrate by a judge of court,
to whom one of his decisions had been car
ried up, upon appeal. The judge perceiv- _
ing, at a moment, a manifest error, was
curious to know what could have induced
such a decision. “ Mr. ,” said he,
“ will you be so obliging as to inform the
court upon what ground you decided the
case?” “Upon what ground ?” said the
magistrate: “ Why, upon my own ground i
•n town.” “ Aye,” said the judge,
*' but upon what principle, I mean, did you
decide in this way.” “ Why,” rejoined
the magistrate, “ for twenty-four dollars
principle, and fifty-eight cents cost.” “ Ve
ry well,” concluded the judge—“ Clerk,
reverse the judgment.”
COMMUNICATEp.
At the Annual Communication of the
Grand Royal Arch Chapter of the State of
Georgia, held at Louisville, the 2d of May,
5825, the following officers were elected
tor the ensuing year, viz
M. E. If'iliiam Schley, G, H, P‘
“ “ David Clarke, I). G. 11. P.
“ “ Allen B. Powell, G. K. <
“ “ Edwin E. Bis sell, G. S. {
“ “ B. D. Thompson, G. Tr.
“ “ Daniel Hook, G. Sec'ru.
“ “ Philip T. Schley, G. M. '
Cotnp’n —Caleb Cooksey, G, Tyler.
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I 4 Fayette Riflemen!
ATTEND a regular quarterly meeting of your
Corps, THIS EVENING at half past 7 o'.
aluok, P. M at the companies roont, City Hall,
the members are requested to come prepared
to settle their quarterly due*.
By order of Capt. Colowklt..
It. V. Bush, Sec.
May 13 It 92
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An Ordinance.
BOA I S of all kinds which shall contain any
damaged coni, putrid mailer or substance of
any kind, or which shall come from any place in
t-cted with malignant or contagious disease, shall
top cpi the Savannah fiver at such place as shall
he directed hy Counc I, and there repain until ex
amined hy such physician or physicians as Coun
cil may appoint for Ihat purpose; and until the
said physician or physicians shall issue Ins 1 r iheir
certificate, slating that such'boat or boa's may
come to the city of Augusta, without endangering
'he health of said City ; And any owner or mans
g. r of any boat, arriving within the limits of this
Ditv without first complying with the regulations
contained in this Ordinance, on conviction thereof,
shall forfeit a d pay a sum not exceeding five hun
dred dollars.
In conformity to the above Ordinance,
NOTICE is her-by given, that all Boats and
ving from Charleston, horn and after this day,
will be required to anchor in the center of the ri
ver, below the Bridge, and ilfr-re to remain (with
out anv intercourse wilh the City) until examined
by Doct. I honipson the physician appointed bv
the City Council and receiving his certificate ol
permission, and all officert ortne city are hereby
■nnnjn uuled to enforce the sbt ve notice and ordi
-anoe.
B. 11. Warren,
A. ; oore, > Committee.
J. Hollins head, - V
May 1,1 - 4t 92
(CP All Paper due at the Bank !
r Auocsta. on Saturdsy the 14ib inst. must he
oa-.l prior (hereto, ss the doors wi l ! then be clos- .
ed preparatory to the Semi-Annual Dividend of ,
the Monday following. ,
Augustus Moore, Cash’r.
May 13, 183.->. 92
£/* A Branch of the Classical ami
English Seminary of Augusta, will to
(lie Sand-hills, The school, under the direction
of the K«v. Mr. Sheehan, will open on Monday, (
May ifiih, 1825.
Edward Swiney, prefect.
May 13 ! 92
& Mr. Luther Gumming, will
act as my Attorney dm ing iny absence irow the
place,
J. M. Hand
May 13 If 92
& dames Harper and William
Rankin, or either of them an- fully authorised to |
act as my altornies, (luting my absence from this
oily.
Wrn. Henry Kgan.
Mav 10 3- ‘»1
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ttiviAfeud, 1. t
4 DIVIDEND ot Six Dollars per .liar'-, ha
'*> hi n tins day declar. d, on the pri fi• sos tin 1
Vc-am Boat Company, for the htsl four months. a
payable on the first .Monday in .tune m xt, to the- :
•'lock Holders, or their tuthonsed Agent?, at the "
Steam Bout office, Sav> cab. *-
Wra P. Hunter,
Treasurer S U. C.
Suvninah, March 2, 1825 90
T\\ia Morning, at 10 o’clock,.
Hy II PIcqUKT,
Will he anld without reserve : —
Ujas DARRELS Whiskey,
25 Pieces Hemp Cotton Batrcrinpr,
20 do Tow Rugging,
12 Elegant Mahogany Chairs,
1 Pitct Steam Ki'clien, complete,
2 Trunks second'hand Clothing,
12 Pieces Oznaborgs,
4 Cuds,
3 Bedsteads,
i 12 Darrels Cider,
3 Kegs Tobacco,
129 Cross (lorn Moulds,
An Iron Chest,
20 Boxes Soap,
1 Box Cotton Cards,
2 Darrels Smoaked Beet,
12 Boxes Sugar Plumbs,
2 Trunks Shoes,
3 Casks Nnil-',
And immediately after the sale, about 12 o'-
clock, at the place known ns the Littleman’i
Garden, the articles advertised below,
VVi ms at snle.
I I H/’ BOOK SALK to-night at half past seven
o’clock, for which see Catalogue of the day.
May 13 It 92
POSITIVE SALE.
THIS MORNING, (Friday,) at
12 o’clock,
WILL HE HOLD AT
VENDUE,
Bj B. PICQ.CET,
IlHp, House, Shade, Ice-lleuse and other ma
terials, as they stand on the Lot known for
merly as the LilUemanfs Garden, Corner of El
lis and Centre,-streets.
Mav 13 It 92
~~ FOll SALE,
©©a©®© Lbs. rue ON
CONSISTING OF—
HAMS.
MIDDLINGS and
Shoulders,
IV. Mackie.
M«y 6 3( 90
HDD BARRELS Mackerel,
No. 3, of a superior quality
for tale, to be delivered at the
Wnart, on the arrival of the Steam Boat South-
Carolina.
P- Picquet.
May 10 y t
TcETreMT
No. 288, liroad-Street.
npHK Ladies and Gent] men of Augusta are
1. informed that the subscribers have on hand
every Evening, from 4 to 8 o’cl >ck, P. M. a sup.
ply ol ICES C REAMS, of various kinds. •
Families can be supplied by sending anv time
within the abo-j,‘mentioned hours.
Daniel Dill, & Co.
May 6 90
JM otice.
4 BANK HILL has been found by a servant
**■ o( the subscriber, which the owner can have
by giving a satisfactory description of the same,
paying for this advertisement and a small reward
to the iinder.
Patrick H. Cams.
Mav 10 1825 91
.N oticc.
ALL persons are cautioned against trading for
, a cenain note ot band, given by the subscri
ber to Robert Lunday and Robert Uevili of Scri
pt' County, m Hus Stale, for three hundred and
fifty dollars, dated on the Dili day of January,
1825, and due the Li day of January next, as I
am determined not to pay the said note unless
compelled hy law, as the same w«s obtained tor
unsound properly, a-.d also for property to which
ihe said Lnudy and Bevill had, as 1 have good rea
sons to believe, no just right or title, so that no
| consideration (or the said note has ever been
given.
Christopher Snell.
Emanuel County, April 13. Irt2s, 6i* 91
KhTR.W,
GEORGIA, Sctiven County.
JOHN RAWLS of Capt. James P. Poythress’
District, lolis before me a sorrel Filly, three
yean old, no brand or mark perceivable, apprais
al hy " dham Gross and M dh» Tavlor, at fifteen
dollars, tins 23:1 April, KJ2S.
R. 1). M'KINNEY, j. p.
Extract from the Estray Jiuuk this 7th May 1825
beahom b'oodall, Vl’k.
i\ otice.
4 LL those indebted to the Estate of William
i*. Mosely, late of Co’;imbiu County, deceased,
are c. lied on to make payment, ami those having
uetnanefs are requested to bring them in regular
ly '-ttested acc rdiug to l«w.
Thomas Howdrc, adm’r.
Mav 25 14t 78
JSTolice.
>¥|HE subscribers have connected themselves
<UI in the practice of the LAW—they will uni
turody attend ah ire counties of the Northern
• in nit, and the county of Franklin, of the Wes
tern Circuit, one of them will he generally found
at'heir office in Elbei ton, where they will taka
jlea nre in transact: tg the business ot those who
rinv he iinfortunule enough to be involved in the
Law,
John A, Heard,
Thomas J, Heard,
January 1, 1825 jy