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Srt~ufeelil|! Clironkk & Sentinel WILLIAM E. JONES & Co. AUGUSTA, Ga. SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 23, IS3 9. Vol 111 —Nolls THK CHROM*'I.K{ANI) skstwkl PUBLISHED, MULY, TRI-WEEKLY, AND WEEKLY, At No. Broad-street. terms; Dotty pape r. Ten Dollars per annum, in advance. TriW'pthl y paper, at Six Dollars in advance or R'sven a t the end of the year. Weekly pa p r. Three Dollarsin advance,or Four at the end of year. CHRO MCLE AND SENTINEL. ■ m <r- - —— 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. |M|| t 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