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V Mi AUGUSTA.
FIUI JAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 22.
New-York.
The < ifficial returns for members of the Legis-
Imtnn ace all in ; the following is the final result:
Senate. House of Reps.
Whigs, -SO Whigs, 70
Van Buronites, 12 Van Burenites, 58
Whig majority in joint ballot, 30. Mr. Tal
madge will of course be re-elected to the United
States Senate, for six years from the 4th of March
hut.
la the third Senate District of the State, Genl.
Root, (Whig,) is elected by two votes, out of
near 50,000 polled.
A ii. . Massachusetts.
ft is not yet certain who is elected Governor I
'hi f the “ Bay State.” Returns from 298 towns i
4fl»e Everett, (Whig,) 49,486, Morton, (V. B.)
49,504. There are some half a dozen towns to I
heir from. The probability is, that neither is
elected, as it requires a majority of the whole,
and there are several hundred scattering votes for
Governor.
Michigan.
This State has gone tor the Whigs, by a large
jasjority. They have elected a Governor, aud a
JBtyonty of both branches of the Legislature.
Tho Member of Congress is not elected this
year, as ws stated the other day.
Health and Comfort.
We call the attention oi our city readers to the
•dveitisement of Messrs. Alexander ilc Speck in
our paper. The cleansing and purity ingot leath
orjbeds is important to health, especially at this
|Phe. We have witnessed the operation, and can
testify to its etiicacy. Feather beds are, at this
•time, peculiarly infested with a black worm,
larger and longer than the mothwoim, which are
killed and driven out in great numbers by the
process of steaming.
from our Correspondent,
Milledgeville, Nov. 19, 1839.
IN SENATE.
Reconsiderations, —On motion ol Mr. Knight
—ln relation to the action of the Senate on the
bill to extend the time for fortunate drawers to
take out grants in Appling, Gariy, Irwin, Ha.
bersham, Hall, Gwinnett, and Walton.
Bills introduced and read first time. —By
fir. Christian—To amend the 7th section of the
3d article of the Constitution of this State.
Mr. Friar—To keep open, &c. Lots Creek in
Bulloch county.
Bills passed —To amend the 18th section of
the act passed 16th December, 1799, entitled an
act to revise and amend the judiciary system of
this State.
To alter and amend the 3d, 7th and 12th sec
tions of the Ist and 2d articles of the Constitu
tion ot this State.
To change the name of George Washington
Terry to George Washington Graves, Ac.
Bills lost, —The bill to add a part of the coun
ty of Greene to the county of Morgan, was laid
on the table the balance of the session.
amend an act incorporating the Habersham
Iron Works and Manufacturing Company.
There was some debate in the Senate, in rela
tion to the bill for the pardon of Jas. Templeton
of Stewart county, but no final action of the
body. 1 was much gratified with the chaste yet
forcible and convincing expression of opinion
upon this subject, by the honorable Senator from
Merriwether, (Mr, Alexander.) He was opposed
to the passage of the bill, but discharged his un
enviable and ungracious duty with no little
credit.
IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
There were no bills introduced to-day in the
House, and the fact is a gratifying one; for we
perceive that already in Georgia there is abun
dantly too much legislation.
Bills passed. —To alter and define the line di
viding Walton and Clark counties.
To amend an act to compensate the superin
tendants of precinct elections in Troup county.
To add two additional trustees for the Birds
ville Academy in the county of Warren.
To repeal so much of an act as provides for
the compensation of jurors in Crawford county.
To authorise the Interior Court of Bibb coun
ty to appoint Thurston Rowland Bloom a notary
public.
To incorporate the town of Cross Plains, in
the county of Murray.
To incorporate the Athens Independent Fire
Company.
To amend an act to explain and amend an
act passed 28ih of December, 1838, entitled an
act to lay out and organise a new county from
the counties of Floyd and Walker,
Bills lost. —To bind the property of debtors
after mu ice of a writ from the Superior and In
ferior Courts, and of a summons from a Justice’s
Coart.
To compensate Barden Billings for the appre
hension of Charles Haynes.
For the relief, and to provide for the support of
certain invalid soldiers, rendered so in conse
quence of wounds received i,t the late Creek
war, and to provide for certoin widows, Ac.
To alter the county line between Walker and
Dado.
To appropriate a sum of money to construct
a road from Salem, in Dade county, across the
Look Out mountain, towards Lafayettce, in Wal
ker county.
To alter and amend the 48th section of tho
14th division of the penal code,
for the Chronicle and Sentinel.
One way of obtaining a stable Currency.
The vacillations of the currency, the increase
or contraction of paper money, from one day to
the next, affects the value of every kind of prop
erty, renders trade unsafe, and baffles every
speculation of merchants. No man engaged in
extensive business is safe in his credit, with our
present system of banking, capricious as it must
ever be, subject to sudden demands for specie.—
Much better for public accommodation, an irre
deemable circulation at once, if it was not open
ing the door to reckless enterprise on the part of
the Banks, and endangering public liberty and
independence in the most improvident manner,
America, Anglo Saxony, may now pursue a
course by which the immense benefit which
would be attended upon an irredeemable curren
cy, may be turned to the benefit of the general
government, by converting the State debts into a
national fund —creating treasury notes to such an
amount as would be necessary to purchase said
State debts. She would, by so doing, repurchase
the State guarantees, very improperly offered to
foreign countries, and secure to the general go
vernment an annual revenue of twelve millions
of dollars from the States, now mostly paid to
Europe, and be able to decrease to that amount
the indirect tax of the tariff, or appropriate this
surplus to works of public utility.
Said treasary notes would be the true federal
money, coined by decree of Congress according
to its high prerogative, bestowed by the constitu
tion of the U. S. It would facilitate the opera
tions of private individuals, as well as of the
government, without depriving the country of a
metalic currency; provided these treasury notes
were not rendered uncurrent by any interest ac
cruing to the amount, nor, all absorbing, by be
ing issued for sums under one hundred dollars.
The writer of the present would be happy to
challenge objections to this system of obtaining
at once a stable currency, based upon the best se
curities that can bo had, being desirous of testing
tho merits of the expedient, at a period which
must necessarily bring the banking question be
fore the supreme legislature of the country. X.
from the Macon Telegraph.
Macon Cotton .viarket—the Crop—Pros
pects, Ac.
Cotton continues flat, and the prospect of its
improvement very gloomy. At our last foreign
dates, there was a large stock of old cotton on
hand; a limited demand for yarns; and a severe
pressuic in the money market; added to which,
indications of a large crop had reached there, Ac.
all tending to keep down the price.
The cotton crop of this year has proved much
bigger than even the best judges thought possi
ble. It has been the dryest year eve? known;
still rain enough has fallen to make good crops.
The little rain we had, came just at the right
time. On the first of September, though cotton
had begun to open, so intense was the drought,
the squares and blossoms were fast shedding, and
it was thought very little could mature. Yet no
cotton grower wanted rain—a heavy rain every
body knew, by bringing on a new growth and
causing the rot, and the forms to fall, would be
more disastrous than the drought— yet every
body calculated upon rain—it was lime the rainy
season bar) set in. Heavy storms were also look
ed for to devastate the crops. The usual fevers
and agues of the country were also expected, by
which, on an average, during the cotton picking
season, every laborer lost one fifth of his lime.—
But none of these accidents happened. The
worms and catterpillars, which had begun to be
so bad about the last of August, all perished by
the heat and drought; the bolls that had shed so
alarmingly, left more sap for those that remained;
and the drought, by checking vegetation, caused
every remaining boll to mature. Moreover, not
a pound has been lost by storms; not an hour's
time has been lost by bad weather; scarce a day
has been lost by sickness. In addition, frost has
kept off five weeks later than usual, allowing a
season that much longer for cotton to grow in.
Even yet the weather is quite mild, vegetation in
many places being as green as ever.
Nothing is more exposed to accidents, nothing
is more uncertain, than the cotton crop. It is
' never out of danger until sately housed. And
the prognostication, six weeks ago, of a short
crop, was very reasonable, and quite sincere by
those who made it—every indication was in its
favor. It was considered next to impossible,
without a miracle, for the crop to escape all of
the many accident? to which it is e ery year lia
ble, any one of which might have affected the
aggregate 25 per cent; but still it has escaped.
The quantity already picked out, is greater at
this lime than the whole c:op of last year—and
there is one fourth yet to pick out. The crop of
this year will Ire over two million bales—perhaps
two millions and a hall and enough to supply
■ the world, without another seed being planted,
for two years.
The quantity coming in. is from five to six
hundred bags daily. Present price 7$ aßs cents
1 —and going down. Weshould not be surprised
if it did not get up to 10 cents again in a twelve
• month.
, Meeting at .Memphis, Tenn.
i Whereas, the citizens of Memphis and of the
f adjacent towns and counties of the Western Dis
trict of Tennessee have, at sundry t mes during
the last seven years, desired the attention andco
-3 operation of the citizens of Charleston, South
Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia, with those of
the intermediate States of Georgia. Alabama and
1 M sstssipp .in the location anil construction of a
railroad from Memphis to Chatleston, or Savan-
• nah, to be called the Mississippi and Atlantic
Railroad: And whereas, during that period of
. time the whole of the South Carolina section,
consisting of 135 miles—the Augusta and Athens
section, consisting of 114 miles, and tho Decatur
and Tuscumbia, Alabama, section of 46 miles,
have been completed, and arrangements have
been made for the location and completion of a
large portion of the Georgia section to the Ten
nessee river; whilst the La Grange and Memphis
section, Tennessee, consisting of 50 miles, is un
der contract, and being for the most part graded,
is expected to be completed in the ensuing year;
leaving but about one third of this magnificent
work of 640 miles, from the Mississippi to the
Atlantic, unfinished, or unprovided for; the com
pletion of which, with three principal branches,
will open to the great seaport towns of South
Carolina, Georgia, and East Florida, a railroad
communication of unsurpassed value, inasmuch
as it would at once unite the Southern Atlantic
States with East Florida to the centre of the val
ley of the Mississippi, at the point where the cot
ton region terminates, and where the subsistence
mnd mineral regions lie gin—bringing the incalcu
lable wealth , strength and resources — personal
and material —of this great valley, to within
three days’ run of all the most valuable of our
southeastern seaports; affording effective protec
tion to the whole of that important frontier du
ring a state of war, with a commerce of great
value in war and in peace; thereby relieving the
good people of the middle and northern sections
of this great valley, (amounting already to near
seven millions, and will in the next sixty years,
at the close of the present century, amount to
fifty-six millions of inhabitants,) from the capri
ces and oppressions of a single outlet to the sea:—
an outlet with markets often glutted by an over
flow of up country products—and as often oc
cluded by low water or by the visitation of yellow
fever: And whereas, the accomplishment of tho
proposed great railroad is u work completely
within the power of the people of this district,
could they at once convert their real estate at Us
value into money, or otherwise obtain banking
facilities to the amount necessary for defraying
the expense of the work. To effect this impor
tant object, they are constrained once more to
appeal to their neighbors and fellow-citizens of
the cast and south; and with this view they pro
pose the following resolution:
Resolved, That an executive committee be ap
pointed, to consist of five members, whose duty
it shall be to enter into a correspondence with
the Governors of the Eastern and Southern
States, and with the Presidents of Banks, and
other distinguished ci'izcns deemed likely to take
an interest in the proposed railroad—communi
cating to them the views and wishes of this meet
ing, and soliciting of them whatever aid or co
operation they may be disposed to contribute to
wards the accomplishment of the proposed Mis
sissippi and Atlantic Railroad, with directions to
report their proceedings to a monthly meeting, to
be held at this place, on the last Saturday in every
month, until otherwise directed.
On motion. Resolved, That Messrs. Anderson,
Williams, Shanks, Lucas, Trigg and Brown be a
committee to carry out the objects of the resolu
tions.
On motion it was further Resolved, That the
chairman of this committee be added as a mem
ber of the committee.
Resolved, That the editors of papers in this
place, in Charleston, 8. C., and Savannah,Ga.,
and the editors of the intermediate towns, from
Augusta and Athens to Tuscumbia and La
Grange, inclusively, he respectfully requested to
give publicity to the foicgoing preamble and reso
lutions.
EDMUND P. GAINES, Chairman.
J. T. Thezkvant, Secretary.
Report
Os the Commissioners appointed ly authority
of the Legislature, on the subject of the Stale
Finances.
To the Senate of the State of Georgia ;
The undersigned Commissioners,acting under
a joint resolution of the Senate and House of
Representatives of the State of Georgia, approved
Ly his Excellency the Governor, have been re
quired to report to your honorable body “at the
earliest possible day of the Legislative session, a
system of finance for the State.”
That the nature of the duties which have been
1 thus assigned to them, may be more distinctly
presented to the view of the Legislature, they
1 take leave to embody in this report, a copy of
■ the resolution, under which by the Executive
nomination, they have been called upon to act.
It is in the words following ;
House of Rkphesf-ntatives.
i The State of Georgia having heretofore relied
' chiefly, for the means of meeting the ordinary
[ expenses of the Government, ol Public Educa
tion, and of the public works undertaken by her,
s on the revenue drawn from her public lands, and
s her Bank Stuck, and one source of this revenue
l being now at an end in consequence of thedispu
j sition of the whole ofthe public domain ;and the
; State having, to promote the best interests ofpos
-1 terity, as well as of the present generation, un
t dertaken a large part of a great public work, viz.
s the connection of the waters of the Mississippi
r with the Atlantic Ocean, through her own terri-
B tory by Railroad, the completion of which con
t nection will raise her to her proper standing
. among the other slates, and be of immense utility
i for ali time to come to her own people; and as
the said work will require a heavy expenditure
} of money to complete it at an early day and in an
s efficient manner, and the funds to meet the said
1 expenditure having to he procured in part from
t abroad, and it being understood that the success
1 of all negociations for Capital with foreigners, de
s pends in a great degree, on the system of finance
adopted at home, to provide for the certain and
f punctual payment on the day appointed, of the
- interest engaged to be paid, as well as the ulti
e mate payment o) the principal, and the State of
Georgia being at present altogether without any
t such system :
il Beit Resolved : That his Excellency the Gov
'f ernor lie and he is hereby requested to appoint
s forthwith three Commissioners, whose duty it
f shall he to take the whole subject of Stale finance
I, in hand, arrange, digest and report at the earliest
possible day of the next session of the Legisla
t ture, asystem of finance for the Slate, which call
s ing into action all her resources, shall afford ara
i pie and efficient means to sustain, as in the pre
a sent age they should he sustained, the great in
terests of public Education and Internal improve
ment. r
This resolution recognizes three objects of
State expenditure.
e 1. The ordinary expense ofthe Government.
2. The expenses ol public education.
? 3. Those of public work.
It adverts to the fact that the revenues drawn
1 from the public lands, and from the Lank Stock
J owner] by the Slate, have I wen heretofore chiefly
relied upon to meet this expenditure.
* It recognizes the entire exhaustion ofthe first
’ j of these source* of revenue by the sale of the
wholes of the public domain. It recites that the
State, with a view to promote the best interest of
posterity, as well as of the present generation,
had undertaken a part of a great public work,
that of connecting the waters of the Mississippi
with the Atlantic, through her own Territory by
Railroad; and after speaking in terms of merited
eulotry of the beneficial consequences which will
in all time to come, result to us os a people, from
the early completion of thra undertaking, it pro
ceed a to stale,
That to finish this work at an early day, and in
an 'efficient manner, will require a henry expen
diture of money. That the funds to meet this
expenditure must be procured in' part from
abroad—
That in order to the procurement of Capital
from foreigners, it is necessary that the State
should have a system of finance at home, which
will insure the punctual payment of interest, and
the ultimate, but equally punctual discharge of
the principal.
That the .State of (Jeorgia is at present without
such a system.
And then makes it the duty of the Governor
to appoint Commissioners, who are required
To take tire whole system of State finance in
hand—
To arrange, digest, and report a system of fi
nance for the State ; such a system as will call
into action all her resources, and afford ample
efficient means to sustain, as in the present age
they should be sustained, the great interests of
public Education and Internal Improvement.
The resolution is thus presented to your Hon- '
orable body, as a whole, and in its separate and
distinct provisions, that the magnitude and im-
portancc of the object which it proposes to accom- 1
plish, may appear in the foreground of this re- 1
port. This consideration' has undoubtedly in- 1
creased the embarrassment which has been felt 1
by the undersigned, in the discharge of the duty *
which has been assigned to them ; but the hope, *
(may they not add ?) the confidence, that the 1
Legislature will be equally sensible of the awa* y
kening interest of the subject, and will bring to'il }
all the zeal and intelligence which belong to the '
Representatives of a free people, has cheered
them in the progress of their labor, and accom- I
panied them to its close. t
fl(lWho indeed, can be insensible of the magni- r
tude and importance of those objects, of which *
the Legislature of Georgia contemplated the ac- •
coniplishmcat in the adoption of this resolution 1 I
A State possessing an extent of territory which 1
stretches from the seaboard to the mountains, 1
wide spreading on every side; whose easy and
gentle ascent is free from those irregularities of *
surface which elsewhere obstructs the progress of '
interior communications; watered by noble rivers. *
which are never sealed by the frosts of winter; 1
and whose estuaries lb m safe and commodious 1
ha.hors; possessing, too a variety of soil and of 1
climate, which admirably fit it for the production f
of all that is useful to man. Such a state the •
cherished abode of a free, enlightened, and enter- 4
prising people, is called to the consideration of e
the high duties, which in the providence of God, c
are devolved upon her. t
She is called to this consideration, moreover at
an epoch in the world’s history, which has no
parallel in the annuls ut time; when science dircc- <
ting all its energies to purposes of practical utili- t
ty, has advanced with unexampled rapidity, in '
all those arts which minister to the substantial i
enjoyment ut man; when the other nations of the
world, and the other states of this confederacy.
c“B” r *s forward to graap lUe brilliant
prize which is presented to their view; when amid
the universal and cheering cry of “Onwards, on
wards, amolig nations, urging on the career of
internal improvement, to the laggard in the race,
momentarily excited by the prospect, but too in- i
ert to engage in the struggle, is denied the full '
enjoyment, even of that which has hitherto suffi
ced to satisfy his dcsiies; thus illustrating the em
phatic denunciation of holy Writ, “From him
that hath not, even that he hath, shall be taken
away from him.”
And why should Georgia hesitate to nerve her
self for the struggle ? Why should she linger in
the race ? The voice which issued from the Le
gislative halls at the close of their late sittings
has been cheered by the responsive acclamation
of her people. Rising in the strength of their
intellect, and in the fervor of their patriotism, con
templating with greatful enthusiasm the multiplied
resources which the bounty of Pioviderye has be
stowed upon them; and animated by the still more
glowing prospect which a near futurity opens to
their view, they too have joined the universal ac
claim of the nations, and hid you “God speed” in
the discharge of your high duties.
Why, then, should Georgia hesitate to nerve
herself for the straggle ? Why should she Un
ger in the race 1 It is not because her chosen
Representatives arc careless of the high interests
which a free and confiding people have entrusted
to their patriotism, to their wisdom, to their cease
less vigilance. Is it because the prize is value
less 1 To sustain, as in the present age they
ought to be sustained, the great interests of Pub
lic Lducation and Internal improvement, is the
object of our labors.
Os Public Education ? The improvement of
the mind, the cultivation of science and the ai -;
the diffusion of knowledge, the universal instruc
tion of a w hole people.
Os Internal Improvement ! Improving our
navigable rivers; connecting them by canals; tra
versing the Sla'c by Railroads; uniting them to
the termini of similar communications in the ad
jacent States of Tennessee and Alabama; furnish
ing means for the cheap and rapid transportation
of our produce to market; carrying home to every
man’s door, the supplies of the great South West
and those of foreign nations from our Atlantic
border; bringing the mountains and the seaboard in
such close proximity, that the waves of the Ocean
may almost without a figure, be said to wash their
base; and finally scaling those mountain heights,
and along the line of similar improvements in
other states establishing our communications with
the great river of the west : thus making friends
of those who were strangers to each other, and
brethren of them who had looked upon each oth
er with distrust.
No ! with such objects in view, it cannot lie
that the prize is deemed valueless. It is indeed
of Inestimable value. Is it attainable? Does
(Jeorgia possess the means to accomplish so great
an enterprise? Are her resources adequate to
the expenditure which it will necessary involve?
This is in truth the only enquiry. The duty of
answering it, according to the best information
which they can command, has devolved upon the
undersigned. Fully sensible of the magnitude of
the subject, and of their inability to meet the ex
pectations of your honorable body, they, never
theless, invite your attention to their concurring
views in relation to this interesting enquiry.
(To be continued.)
The next news from Matamoras is looked for
with much interest, from the exudation that the
result of the expedition preparing against it by
the Mexican Federalists will then be ascertained. I
A large body of Texians had joined-thu attacking
T" T * ' ■' ~*'* r 1
party, and great hopes of success were founded
upon the strength that these powerful auxiliaries
would impart to the Federalist army. The Mex
icans have an exalted notion of the formidable
ness ol lex ian soldiers, and not without reason
—the conflicts of the Alamo. and on the field of
san Jacinto, having furnished ineonteslible proofs
of their superior prowess. But it may well be
questioned, whether they would be equally effect
ive. if co-operating with Mexicans, as when em
ployed against them. The Texian Government
has acted wisely in refusing to san. tion the inter
ference of her citizens with the domestic quarrels
ol Mexico. Nothing could he gained by a coali
tion with the Federalists; the two races cannot
amalgamate, and an attempt to do so would bo
sure to engender jealousies and contentions.
Besides, an open espousal of the cause of Fede
ralism might lead to another foreign intervention,
and more powerful, on the part of England or
t rance. In the meanwhile, the neutrality of (lie
Government will not prevent the citizens of
Texas from joining in the strife. Great numbers
have already crossed the boundary line to join the
standard of ibc Federalists; more will no doubt
follow, tempted by the glory of revolutionizing
Mexico; and in this way the Federalist army
will receive reinforcements, as numerous and effi
cient ns if the Government openly took part in
the war.— N. 0. Bulletin.
Important from Washington.—Extractor
a letter from an officer of the Army to the editor
of the New York Courier and Enquirer:
“Wo are on the eve of another Indian war,
likely to prove more expensive, as well as de
structive to human life, than the mismanaged
and shamefully protracted war of Florida. You
are aware of the deadly feud that existed between
the Ross and Ridge parties of Indians, growing
out of the treaty made through the agency of one
Schermcrhorn with the Government. The infa
my of this treaty was pretty well exposed in Con
gress; since which the unkind feelings of these
parlies towards each other have been continually
increasing, until at last the death of Ridge was
the consequence. The Government made a de
mand for the surrender of the persons engaged in
this murder, which has created a very strong ex
citement in the minds of the Indians, and this
flame hna been fanned so industriously by some
of the Scminolcs sent from Florida, that the
greatest apprehensions are entertained lest hostili
ties should bo commenced and spread among the
surrounding trilies ere they could be clucked.
An express has been received hero from Fort
Gibson, setting forth the state of things, and the
exposed condition of the whiles to the numerous
tribes of Indians that the policy of this Govern
ment has concentrated in one spot. Very serious
apprehensions are entertained by the people, and
an express was despatched yesleulay to Port Gib
son, with orders to the commanding officer of
that post. Should all the trilies of Indians west
of the Mississippi unite against the whites, we
should then have an Indian war more fatal in its
consequences than any that has been waged for
the last half century,”
Cheat Pinson Shootiimo. —Mr. Henry Keats
of Little Rock, Arkansas, shot last week, at eigh
teen shots, seven hundred and eighty four pigeons.
This is the greatest shooting we ever heard of;
and we question whether it ever has been or can
be beaten. The place at which he shot them was
on a sand bar where they alighted for the purpose
of getting gravel ami water — Cincinnati Fust.
MAR R I E D,
In Charleston, on Wednesday evening, J3th in
stant, by the Jtev. Mr. Poznanski, Mr. John J.
Cohen, of Augusta, (la., to Miss Cornelia Anne
daughter of Pol M. Jacobs, of this city.
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COMMERCIAL.
Latest dates from Liverpool, Oct. 1i)
Latest dates from Havre Oct. 15
New York, Nov. 16.
Coffee. —We have no material variation to notice
in this article; there has been rather more demand
from the trade, as also for shipment. Sales have
oeen made of 700 bags Brazil at lu a 11 j cents;
1000 do for export, on terms not made public, in
addition to which, 1600 of the same have been ship
ped from first hands ; sales also of 11 a 400 bags of
Gaguayra at 11 f, 100 hags Sumatra, 10$; and 120
do Maiacaiho, 1 ,4 cents, all on the usual time.
Cotton. —The animation noticed m the early pe
riod oi the week has si ce materially lessened, the
transactions subsequently extending on'y to a little
upward of 1000 ha es; in other respects, the mar
ket. howe- er, has exhibited no variation; the sales
embrace 650 bales Upland at 94 a 11$; 150 do Mo
bile, 10 a 11; and 2flu do New Orleans, 10 a 12J
cents, forming a total for the week of fully 27(a)
hales.
Flour —There having continued an animated de
mand for Western since our last, we have to notice
within the same period a farther advance in price
for this description of fully 25 a 374 cents perbh;
the sales were chiefly, we understand, for the
eastern markets, though also to a considerable ex
tent forexportation;including good common brands
Canal at $0,31$ a $6,374, with occasionally per
haps a lot at $6,25; and Ohio via canal, at $6 a 6,25
for common to very choice brands: there is at pre
sent, we believe, no Tray remaining; and of the
other descriptions above named, the sales continue
to exceed the receipts at this market. Os .south
ern the stock, as also the receipts, continue unusu
ally trifling; sales of Georgetown to a small extent
were marie at $6,25 cash, at which price it is very
(inn, with rather a tendency to farther improve
ment.
Molasses —The market continues to present the
same appearance of excessive inactivity so long
picviously noticed, and holders are yet very anx
ious to effect sales j for some days past the receipts
from foreign ports have also been increasing. The
sales include about 200 hhds. Porto Rico, at 26 a
30, with a few do very prime at 31; 100 hhds Sweet
Cuba, 23 a 26, 4 mos.; and a cargo of 300 casks
fart Trinidad at 21, about 90 days’ credit. Hy
auction yesterday, 110 hhds Tart Havana, 19 al9 j;
and 30 tierces do 20cents per gallon, 4 mos.
Spirits —For Itrandy the demand still continues
limited, and we have heard of no sales. There ba
been an arrival since our last from Rochelle. O
Holland Gin we notice sales of 40 pipes, including
fair and common qualities of various brands, at 96 a
102 cents, on time. Domestic Wi iskey, in drudge
casks,remains steady at 30 cents,time arid interest;
bands also continue scarce, and to improve in
price, the closing sales being at 27 a 28 cent! cash.
Sugurs —The demand still continues very limited
foi Muscovadoes of common to middling descrip- ,
lions, which have farther receded in price $ of a
cent per lb ; the market is, however, nearly bare
of prime qualities, which are much sought after, j
Box Sugars, also, are in but limited request. The I
sales comprise about 250 hhds Porto Rico, at 5 j a
7/; K 0 do St. Croix, 8a94; 40 do Gaudafoupe,
$64 a 6J ; 200 bxs brown Havana, 7i a 84; and
about 100 do white, lOj a 11 cents, all on the usual
time.
Haitihore, Nov. 16.
llowardstreet Flour —The principal sales from
stores have been made throughout this week up to
yesterday afternoon at $6,124 a 6,185, although
several lots were sold, amounting in all to about
600 bids, at $6. Sales of about 400 bblshave been
made »ince at $6,25. The store price this morn
ing is rather unsettled, in consequence of the im-
provemcDt in the New York market, and most hold
er,S llo *[ ** k * n advance—some naming $6,374 and
others $6,50. The wagon and car price is uniform
at $6.
( ity Mills Flour —The demand is good, and sales
inXf ern madc throu t- ,)loljt the week, including
'Vk to h< furnished as soon as ground, at s§.
1 ncie is no stock, and the waters continue so low
that the miils can do only paitial work.
(’orn—Old white has been pretty steady through
out the week at 60c for good parcels, with an oc
casional sale at a cent over or under, according to
quality To-day the market for this description it
a little heavy and we quote it at 67 a 68 cents.—
We cjuote new white 10-day at 53 a 66c. Sales of
0 ( yellow at 70 rents, which w* quote to-day;
sales of new yellow at 66 a6O cents. Sales of old
V irginia to-day at 60 c.
Molasses.—At auction on Tuesday, 268 hhdi.
Matanzas, a little tart, were offered, and 126 hbd*.
sold at 26 a 26 cents. There were also sold at
auction during the week, 16 hhds, Porto Rico at 34
a36 cents; 26 hhds.do at 344; and 16 hhds. N. Or
leans at 32 a 324 cents.
Provisions. —Sales of Prime Western assoited
liacon continue to be made at 8 cents; do slams at
, *° * * cents; Middlings at Sto 84 cents and PhouU
dcrs at 7to 7i cents. We note a sale of 6000 lbs.
W estern Middlings ot extra quality at 9 cents.
Baltimore cured Hams are now selling at 124 cent*
which is a reduction of a cent per lb. on last quota
tions. Lard No. lis held at 114 cents.
1 Sugar.— At auction on Thursday, 135 hhds. New
Orleans, common quality, were sold at $6,26 a $6,-
66; 46 tierces clarilied ditto; at $9,20 a $9,30; and
23 hhds. Porto Rico at $7.10 a $8,40.
Whiskey —Prices have been 1 pretty steady
throughout the week, at 32 a 324 cents for hhds
and at 34 cents for bbls.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Savannah, November 19.
Cleared. —llrig St Simons, Packard, West Indies;
brig Einma,Feinald, Providence.
Went to sea. —Ship Monticello, Lawton, Havre;
hrigtj B l.amar, Risley, New fork; scb (.rand Is
land, Rivers, New York; schr Drusilla, Eldridge,
New York.
Charleston, Nov. 2!.
Arrived yesterday —Brig Delaware, Ross, St.
Thomas; brig Deborah, Handy, N fork; schr Julia
Ann, Anderson, Ellsworth, Me.; schr Post Boy,
Shepherd, lialtimorci «chr Climax, Budd, Cherry*
stone, Va.
Cleared —Brig Lancet, Kruse, Havana; ichrßoan
oke, Hoffman, Philadelphia.
In the i ffing —A ship.
LAND FOR SALK.
TIIK subscriber offers for sale his plantation ly
ing on Lichee creek, in Columbia county,
about six miles from Appling, containing four hun
dred acres, of which three hundred and fifty are
cleared, and ahaul fifty in the woods. It has a
comfortable two story dwelling house, good negro
houses, barn, &c., and excellent drinking water.—
It adjoins the lands of Clanton, Martin and /achry.
The terms will he made accommodating to the
purchaser. WILLIAM P. BEALL.
nov 22 wtjan
STRAYED OR STOLEN,
ABOUT the I6th instant, from the subscriber’s
plantation on Butler’s Creek, 9 miles above
Augusta, a Black Horse Mule, 3 years old, about
16 hands high, had a rope on his neck.no marks
recollected. A suitable reward will be given for
the Mule, and any information thankfully received.
nov 22 3tw JAS. T. BARTON.
NIIiUiIILRVILLK ACADEMY.
riNHK Board of Truslecs of the Academy of
I Richmond county will proceed, on Saturday,
the 14lh of December next, to elect a Teacher for
the Branch at Summerville; previous to which
time applicants for the appointment will please
send in their names, together with their recom
mendations, to the undersigned.
The village of Summerville is situated upon the
Sand Hills, three miles fiom Augusta, and is un
surpassed for health by any other locality in the
country. There are upon the premises attached
to the Academy a comfortable dwelling, sufficient
for the accommodation of the Teacher and a few
boarders, a never failing well of pure water, and
all necessary outbuildings.
The compensation of the Teacher will be the
whole of the tuition money; the rate of which per
quarter lie will be at liberty to fix, and the use
of the Academy, dwelling and other buildings.
The object of the Trustees is to make the school
a permanent one; and considering the many advan
tages of the situation, they feel every confidence
that it may be made profitable under the manage
ment of a well qualified instructor.
A. CUNNINGHAM, President,
nov 22 swtd
MJ RIVEN SHERIFF’S SALE.
WILL bo sold on tho first Tuesday in January
next, between the usual hours of sale, be
fore the court bouse door in .lacksunboro, two tract*
of land, containing one hundred and three acres,
adjoining lands of W Starks and P. L. Wade.—
Levied on as the property ol Jacob Oliver, deceas
ed, to satisfy sundry li fas in favor of Henry tt.
Roberts. Levy made and returned by a constable.
JACOB BRYAN, Sheriff.
November 19, 1839. nov 23
TWENTY FI VIC DOLLARS REWARD.
RANAWAY from the subscriber, in Monroe
co inty,Georgia, on ihe 27th day of October
last, a Negro Man by the name of Joe, about 25
years of age,6feet6 orß inches high,yellow com
plexion, has a mole on the right side of his face,
cheek bones hi r h, rather thin jawed, pleasant
countenance, quick spoken. When he left he wore
oil'a wide brimmed white hat, a steel-mixed round
about. He carried off a set of carpenter’s bench
planes, saw and hammer, a joint rule, and box
square. It is my opinion that he will attempt to
pass himself off as a free man, and that he wills top
in some large place or city, where he can hire him
self to work at the carpenter’s trade. I will give
the above reward for the delivery of said negro to
me, or to the keeper of some jail, and to be placed
therein, and information given to the subscriber,
living in Fort Valley, Houston county, Ga.
WILLIAMSON M. BRASWELL,
nov 22 wtf
STRAYED OR STOLEN, from
the residence of the subscriber, near
ift Augusta, on the night of the Kith
inst. two Horses, one a brown sorrel
%J£flwith a boh tail, about seven oa eight
years old, no particular marks recol
lected. The other a dark hay, with switch tail,
no maiks recollected. A suitable reward will be
paid for either, or both of them, or notice of their
apprehension being given to me.
nov 22 3tw JAS. Met A WS.
(.eorKi'fi Richmond comity :
ARTHUR SMITH, of the 119th district in said
county, tolls before me a Black Horse, about
twelve years old, fourteen and a half hands high or
thereabouts, with saddle spots near his withers,
and a wen on the inside of his left fore leg near
the shoulder, supposed to be caused from lying on
a plank floor. The above nurse came to the plan
tation of the said Arthur Smith, on the 2d October
inst. Appraised by Charles T. Beall and R. V.
Goitcbiiis.at forty five dollars.
i Ct. 14, 1839. WILLIAM DOYLE, J. P.
A true extract from the cstray book.
nov22_ J. McLAWS, Clerk.
FARMERS’HOTEL.
fssiiK The sub,mber having opened a house
IBspaiß 0 f entertainment in the village of Ruck
ersville, and from long experience in public life
and studious app Ration to business, hopes to share
liberally of public patronage. His table will be
furnished with the best the country affords, and bis
stables with the best of provender and an attentive
ostler. D, B. RAMSY.
, Ruckersville, September 26. ts