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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA.
TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 1U
The Northern mail having failed last night, the
only intelligence we have from Congress is con
tained in the letter below from tlm Correspondent
of the Charleston Courier. Our last publication
left us at the period of the passage of Mr. Rhell’s
resolution, by which the House decided to call the
names of all the undisputed mcmlttrs, and then
prior to going of Speaker, to de
cide upon the contested seats from New Jersey.
On motion of Mr. Dromgoole, a committee of
nine was tfrdcred to be appointed to investigate
that election and report to the House. Mr. Pick
ens of 8. C. moved to amend the resolution of
Mr. Rhctt, by instructing the committee merely
to report upon the returns, and not upon the
merits of the election. Ihe object of this is to
invalidate without investigation, the commissions
given by tho Governor of New Jersey, and to
bring the Van Buren men into the House, as
members forthwith. We look upon this as the
greatest outrage yet offered to the institutions of
the country. Its object is to set aside, by the
mere power of party, members regularly commis
sioned by the State, according to her laws, and
put in others upon mere newspaper authority,
that they received the most votes. Os what use
in future, will it be for the States to give creden
tials to their members to Congrcts, il they can
thus be invalidated in this summary manner.—
Credentials from the State Governments are
mere mockeries, if they carry with them no au
thority to those holding them to lake their seats
and be qualified. If the State Governments are
thus to he disgraced, they had as well be abolish
ed at once, and let every thing be placed at the
mercy of whatever may be the dominant parly in
Congress.
Correspondence of the Charleston Courier.
WasiiiniiTon, December 12.
When 1 closed my loiter last evening, the pro
position pending was that of Mr. Camphcl, ol 8.
C., to reconsider Mr. Khell’s resolution, for the
purpose of offering a resolution.directing that the
Clerk call the members who present legal evi
dence of election —that the House then proceed
to its organization in the usual form—and that
as soon as the rights to the contested seals are de
termined, its first organization sh.ul be dissolved,
and a new election for otlicurs tie IkI.I forthwith.
Mr. Campbell, in some very judicious and well
tempered remarks, supported this proposition as
one that would render strict justice to the
parties concerned; recognize tho authority
of the Sta e executives; form u safe prece
dent for adjustment of similar difficulties
hereafter; and enable the House to pro
ceed, at once, to its legislate e duties. There
is much good sense in inis proposition, and it
ought to lie acceptable to all parties. No parly
advantage cun lie taken of this arrangement, un
less it he supposed that those who have attempted
to force filse returns upon the House, would de
lay an investigation purposely, in order to keep
their memliera in the seats to which they have no
title, either fiotn the people or the law, hut mere
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■••■■iliMtf the epurm proposed liy Mr. Hhutt. mrr
very great;—a de .ty of organization, and el le- ( I
’WrfrtAWt, bt'-tmrwusuiMKiulMlf j
jut tor the
the risk of disorder and confusion, of which we
begin to sec strong symptoms. Yesterday, in
the debate, I saw what 1 never before beheld, in
the House, except on two occasions, members
menacing each other with their lists. dealing out
to each other opprobrious epithets and passing
actual challenges to immediate conllict. A con
tinuance ol tins stale of things is to be avoided,
if possible.
1 lie House refused to reconsider the first part
ot Mr. Illicit s resolution ; and to-day, the ques
tion is to be taken on tlie recoil of the
second part. ’ Should it he reconsidered, tho
House will be at sea again. Half a dozen differ
ent propositions will be offered; and among !
them that ol Mr. Pickens, for correcting the re
turn, in the New Jersey ease, i\t> once, according
to the practice in the British Parliament. But to
/do that, the friends of the administration have not
sufficient strength ; and, moreover, some of them
L are pledged not to do il.
m J l, * f*- M.—Things have taken rather a
different course from what I expected. Mr.
Campbell withdrew his motion to reconsider tho
second branch ol Mr. Rhelt's resolution, for tho
reason that the House had determined to adhere
to the first branch. The roll was called accord
ingly. Mr. Randolph, ot N. J., promMitud a pro
.• test from the live excluded mtMiihera from N. J„
The House proceded to the execution of the sec
ond part of Mr. Uhett's resolution; and Mr.
Dromgoole moved that the testimony on the sub
ject be referred to a committee of nine to he chos
en by b illot, viva voce ,- who were to examine the
evidence and report to the House. This motion
was agreed to—Yeas I*JB Nays 84. Mr.
Thompson, of S. C., alter some strong remarks
on the irregularity and inefficiency of the pro
eeedings of the body on this subject, moved to
invest tilt committee with power to send for per
sons and papers, and to administer oaths to wit
nesses; and providing that they he sworn
themselves. Mr. Pickens then offered, as
an amendment to his colleague's motion, n
resolution that tho Committee, when rais
ed, confine themselves to the question which of
the two safe of members, from New Jersey, are
entitled to the ••Returns” of election. Mr. P.
made a forcible argument, affirming the expedi
ency and constitutionality of giving the return to
the members elected, and, in this proposition, lie
was zealously and ably supported by his colleague
Mr. Holmes.
From our Correspondent.
Ml tLEucxviiLS, Dec. 14, 1839.
Our Legislature is yet excited on the subject 1
of Banks. Mr. Alexander his submitted to the
Senate a Preamble and Resolutions, authorizing
\tho Governor to issue his Proclamation to them
to resume, and if they should suspend after the
•Bth February next, or those continue in a state
s>f suspension which have already failed to meet
■their notes, after that lime, then they are to ho
harshly dealt with. He reciter in his preamble,
that there is no overruling cause rendering the
suspensions which have occurred excusable.
Upon this proposition there is much diversity of
opinion, many deeming those institutions fully
sustained in their curse by , he exigency of the
times, and others concurring with Mr. Alexander.
He i. a gentleman of ability and dUmands the
u' n ... resoe t here, hen e w ■ are authorized i„
* tm : something worthy a Senator of fj,.,,,.
gi&, when these Resolutions come up for discus
"Otw Pnvii'i uhvayi," (a. o«r 'Legislative
enactments read) that any thing new or interest
ing can now ho furnished the General Assembly
on this subject.
Mr. Lawson, Reported a Bill, for the belter
regulation of the intercourse of Georgians with
the Citizens of Maine and prescribing penalties
for a violation of the provisions of the Bill.
Mr. Williamson, from the Military Commit
tee —To authorize the Justices of the Inferior
Court in each County of tho State, to lay off
Militia Districts.
The Resolution introduced some days since in
Senate, instructing the Central Bank to sue the
Darien Bank, should it fail to settle its hills held
by the formeron or before the first of March, '4O
—was agreed to on yesterday.—lt must he con
fessed that it seems a little queer, for the Repre'
sentalives of the Btntc to order the institution of
a law suit against a Bank, seven-tenths ol whose
stock is owned by the "State, and for the ultimate
redemption of which the faith of the Stale is ir
revocably pledged.
They passed the Bill incorporating a Company
for the Manufacture of Iron, in Cass County,
where it is found in rich abundance.
The Bill for the amendment of the Centra]
Bunk Charter, which has been upon the carpet or
the Representative Chandler for several days past,
and which “kicked up such a dust” there, is yet
undisposed of, and recurs on Tuesday or Wednes
day next. Then “Greek meets Greek,” and we
may anticipate an animated and highly interest
ing contest.
The House have passed the Bill, to point out
the tribunal amt mode of trial, upon subjects of
Citizenship, and declaratory of what shall he re
ceived up legal evidence therein.
The Pickett and Pearce (contested election.)
investigation will be resumed on Monday—very
gross fraud is imputed to the friends of Mr.
Pearce in this matter, and if I arn not incorrectly
informed, these charges cun ho clearly substantia
ted, —but I doubt whether any thing will he ac
complished in this business during the session.
Thu Senate in the forenoon of to-day, pusstd
by a majority of five, the Bill abolishing tho
Branch Bank of the Stale of Georgia located in
this City. It has highly incensed the mercantile
community here, and from what i have been ena
bled to ascertain of the merits of the measure,
their complaints are just and well founded.
The House have adopted a proposition to-day,
for the forfeiture of the Charter of tho Trust and
Insurance Company at Columbus.
Both branches arc laboring assiduously and
will adjourn in a week.
Decision aoainht the Bank of Chilli
cotiik.—A correspondent of the Cincinnati Ga
zette at Columbus, Ohio, gives the following ac
count of the case of the Chillieothe Bank against
Paddleford and others, it will be interesting to
ou i readers.
The jury returned a verdict against the Chilli
cothe Bank, yesterday morning about 3 o'clock.
This case ha. attracted much attention here, on
account of the principles involved, and the ability
engaged in the investigation. The facts wert* -
Inu-Ay vVieM.; t’addfelord wrote the Cashier of tlie
/' / I.ink . nifuMig if th.’x •euuM .H-oount a note
flwilh Ills and other names nay able 1
'-#ie Bank was not discounting, hut his bill with
jpl lie names mentioned for 85000, at G months,
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more, would he purchased at their usual rates,
and the proceeds paid in their own hills, ifin
iwiided for circulation, or in n check oust at the
usual premium; and he endorsed a printed blank
form ol a lull, Pud lleford mid tho other person
signed the blank paper filled up only with the
sum, an.l he sent it to the Cashier in a letter, re
questing him to remit the proceeds to him in an
eastern chock, less the premium. 'The paper was
received at the Bank, and tilled up with the mime
of their own correspondent in New York, the
Cashier of a Bunn ns drawee, in their own favor.
The drawers never had funds in his hands. Dc
ducting the interest for G months and 4 days,
; and 1 per cent, they remitted him the net pro:
ceeds in a c heck on New York, less 1 J per com
; premium, and ordeted a notice of the drawee, I
and ot the time and place of payment, which
were duly received. The charter of the Bank
prohibits them from taking more than at tlie rate
of 6 percent per annum on their loam or din
counts.
The defendants, the securities, (Paddleford not
having been served with process,) set up as a de
lence, that this hill was discounted at a higher
rate than 6 per cent, per annum, and therefore
was against the c harter, unlawful unci void.
The Batik claimed that the hill was fairly pur
chased in the market, and that 1 per cent, was :
returned as exchange, 'The Court instructed the j
jury that the Bank could buy and sell exchange ;
at any fair rate agreed upon, without violating its i
charter; ami il the transaction before them was
a real purchase of a hill at I per cent, exchange
and interest oil, the Bank could recover; but if I
the intention was to get a greater compensation j
for tlie useot the money than at the rule of 6 tier '
cent, per annum, and the form of the hill was re
sorted to cover up that design, then the contrac t
was unlawful, and the defendants must have a
verdict; that the* jury should bo governed by the
real transaction, no matter what form it assum
ed.
This decision seems to cut up by the roots, tho
business of discounting fictitious lulls of exchange
by Banks similarly restricted, merely for the por
poso ot exacting high interest under the name of
exchange.
“A Precedent” for Martin Van Buukn '
VVe find in the Philadelphia National Gazette
the subjoined historical passage. It is singularly
apropos to the subject now before the members i
of the House of Ropresentatic es. The friends of :
Mr. Van Buren, have brought forward several
“precedents" for the conduct of his partizans in
Vie House, relative to the New Jersey members; '
hut unfortunately, these “precedents” when ex
amined, have ail been found inapplicable to the
ease now pending. Here is one which tils to a
hair. Tho Globe should publish it. „V. Y,
Times.
“Oliver Cromwell, upon examining the inden
tures ot the Parliament of 1656, ascertained that
his adherents would not constitute a majority of (
those who were duly elected. The Lord Protec
tor and his Gounod, through the agency «f a par
tisan clerk, resorted to an expedient to remedy '
the evil; of the character and operation of which
we find the following narrative in an impartial i
hist .rical work r
“In a letter to the speaker from the members
who had been refused admittance at the door of
die lobby. Sept, 18, the house ordered the clerk of i
the commonwealth to attend next dtqr, with ill
he indentures. The deputy clerk came accord- i
ugly with an excuse for his principal, mid
fought the in ’entures; but on being asked who
na oes of eerlu n meo.be. .- tton relumed
' i .e bouse, answered that be bad u , Certificate
1 J approbation for them. The house „n tl is
I “ nl lo ‘"gbirc why these members had not bacn
approved. They returned for answer, that
whereas it is ordained by a clause in the instru
ment of government that the persons who shall
be elected to serve in Parliament, snail lie such,
and no other than such, as are persons of known
integrity. fearing (tod, and of good conversation :
that the Council, in pursuance of their duly, anil
according to the trust reposed in them, have ex
amined the said returns, and have not rtf used to
approve any who hove aee ea k ki> to tium to be
persons of integrity, fearing God, and of good
conversation ; and those who are not approved,
his Highness hath given order to some persons
to take care that they do not come into the
housr.'
“No commentary is required to illustrate the
applicability of this narrative to recent occurren
ces at Washington.”
“ When the Wicked ukah bulk the
People Mourn,” —If the truth of this were not
vouched by the highest authority known to men,
it would be fully demonstrated by the present
condition of the United States.
If we look to what we have been, and to what
we now urn, we find that within the lapse of a
few short years, we have been precipitated from
the highest slate of national and individual pros
perity, to one in all respects directly the reverse.
And this melancholy change in our condition
we have experienced without war, without fam
ine, fid without pestilence. The seasons have
been propitious to the husbandman —the people
have been industrious —but all to no avail. The
absence of positive curses, and the presence of
real blessings, are frustrated and neutralized by
the domination of corrupt men, and their baneful
and blighting interferences with the concerns of
the people. A believer in Holy Writcan scarce
ly contemplate our condition without the con
viction that siur sufferings arc visitations from on
high for professing to be a religious and moral
people, and yet tolerating rulers whose whole
jives are in ojieu contempt of the precepts of re
ligion, and in utter violation of the canons of mo-
r a 1 1 ty . —Rich 11 loud Whig.
St. Louis.— The liullctin of the 28th ult
states, that the hank excitement seems to have
died away in that city—the institution adheiing
to its own course of policy, and the merchants
to theirs.
Consul Tbist.—The Times of this morn
ing, gives an extract ofa letter dated Charleston,
Nov. 30, in which the writer, who lias recently
relumed from the West Indies, states that he had
seen the new Consul for Havana, Mr. Clapp,
and that Mr, C, bad sailed from Charleston for
Havana.
Wuerc. then, is Consul Trial? And where is
his club ! Why tarry the wheels of his chariot,
in which he is to ride roughshod over the necks
of all sinful editors who have dared to question
his imjieceability ? Can it he that he has
“sloped” off to Europe, as we have seen it hinted
that he would !— N, Y. Com. Adv.
The name of the Post Office at Pace’s Ferry,
Do Kalb county, has been changed 'to Cross
Kviads, and P. H. Rmdulapjiointed Post Master.
Proceed lugs of Council.
Council (Jhamiif,ii,>
Thursday Evening, Dec. 13, 183 d. 5
ADJUUIINKU MEET) Mi.
Present. —Aldermen Dye, Dortic, Parish,
Harper, D’Amignac. Hitt, Crump and Warren.
In the absence of the Mayor, Alderman Dye
was called to the Chair.
The Committee appointed by resolution of last
meeting, to enquire into the causes of the laic Ep
idemic in the city, make the following report.
The underMjfned Cmmuiltee, *****
quire into the causes of d sense .- n the C. ty oj
ffitm respectfully 1
REPORT.
That the resolution, under which they act,
ojiens to them a wide field of enquiry, a large por
tion of which it would he injudicious to attempt
at this time tooccujiy. They think that the ob
ject of their appointment will he sufficiently at
tin ml by their painting out on the present occa
sion whai they believed to bo the most obvious
causes ol disease, and ejach as are likelv to occu
py the attention of the City Council for some
time to come.
The discovery of the cause of the late epidem
ic and its effectual and speedy removal, if that re
moval he practicable, your committee have no
reason to doubt will be universally regarded as of
permanent importance.
When your Committee lake into view the gen
eral good health enjoyed by ihe City of Augusta,
I at all seasons of the year since 1817, with some
! partial exceptions in a portion of the City in the ’
! autumn of the year 1831, and that of 1831, they
are utterly at a loss to discover any adequate
cause lor the destructive fever lately prevalent
among us, except the pile of vegetable, animal and
other substances, which have accumulated nt the
scavenger's wharf, a little to the eastward of the
| North end of Elbert street, which is about 350
I yards below the Bridge.
j Ihe trash there dcjhisitcd was for several vesrs
! alter 183-1, where the scavengers’ wharf was
built, cunied off, as it was intended to be by die
| rapid cum nt of freshets in the river. At length
an old boat was observed to have lodged against
| the u|q.er side of that wharf, which settled in such
away as to form a considerable obstruction to the
; current, and a large eddy immediately below. In
- this eddy the trash accumulated, at first gradual
ly, but alter a sufficient foundation was formed,
the jtrocess of accumulation was more rajrid, ami
towards the end of the year 1838, a large portion
of the muss thus formed was observable above wil
ier iu the ordinary state of the river. In the
sjiring of this year it attracted the notice of all
passing that way, and excited the tears of many.
One of the first acts of the present Council m
April last was to order its removal, hut before ibis
order was executed the warm weather set in.
The fever soon after made its appearance, which
about the middle ol August last liecame epidemic.
Vour committee are aware, that it has been al
leged that the disease was caused by the low riv
er of last summer and fall, but this allegation is
disproved by the well known fact that Augusta
has bean generally healthy in times of low river,
as was observable particularly in 1818 and 1830,
ami the two most sickly years during the last
thirty were wet years, nnnely, 1817 and 1831,
In 1817 we had a good steamboat river all the
summer and fall, and 1831 there was a freshet in
the 'iver on the 26th of August, which rose about
33 feet above low watermark.
Some have expressed a belief that the epidemic
was introduced by the railroad from Charleston.
But when we reflect that the stranger’s fever, us
it is called, prevailed there to a very limited extent
last summer, iu comparison with the disease of
the summer of 1838, after the great lire of April
of that year, it is difficult to conceive how it could
happen, that Augusta should receive the disease
in 1830, when the fever in Charleston was mild,
and the intercourse between the two ckics limit
ed—and escape in 1838 when the same disease in
Charleston was much more general and malig
nant, and the intercourse by the railroad much
more extensive.
Your Committee will not now utteinjil to discuss
•he question, whether such a disease can lie intro
duced as an epidemic into Augusta, under any cir
i cumstanccs from abroad, bat ihey think they arc
j warranted in saying that nil experience proves
that no such disease can exist in Au vusta. except
I when i» is contracted elsrw.i. iu, u, when the a.
| of the City -s coiitaimuau-.l and ivodere,! lit for
i its recepti- a by such a col ec.ion of delete ions
I imbalances, as wc c contained in the pile a' the
scavengers’ wharf, in the beginning of the P re "
sent summer. The safest course, however, i s t°
regard the disease in what is believed to be its
true light, as one of domestic origin.
When it is taken into view, that Columbia,
Milledgevillc, Macon and Columbus, towns situ
ated near the falls of southern rivers, as Augusta
is near the falls of the Savannah river, were du
ring the whole course of the past summer and fall
unusually healthy, we cannot suppose for a mo
ment that the disease here had its origin in a dis
ordered state of the atmosphere generally. This
truth will still more conclusively appear when we
call to mind the well known fact that those resi
ding on swuinji [dantalions near Augusta, nr
those engaged in the navigation of the river, were
during her late afflictions Jinorc than unusually
healthy.
Your Committee are happy to find that the
views they entertain ot the cause of the late epi
demic, so far as the trash wharf is concerned, arc
precisely such as are taken by all the practising
physicians of this city, who have brought to the
investigation of the subject all the advantages af
forded hy medical science.
But while your Commitle have no doubt that
the removal of the trash at the scavengers’ wharf,
and the prevention of all such deleterious forma
tions in or near the city in future, will, forever ef
fectually guard against the recurrence of such an
epidemic as lately sfilleted us—they deem it their
duly to recommend f also, some other improve
ments, which will, if effected, make Augusta a
still more healthy and jdeasant place of residence
than it has heretofore been.
One of those improvements which they earnest
ly recommend is the lowering and draining olThe
streets and raising of the lost in those portions of
the city in which the latter are lower than Ihe
former; until water will flow freely from the lots
into the streets. They also recommend that all
boats not protected against the admission of wa
ter into their holds he placed above or below the
city from the Ist June to the Ist October, and
that all deposites of leaves and vegetable matter
left by the river after swells in the stream be stu
diously and promptly removed from the margin
of the river and under the wharves during the
same period. And in connection with this sub
ject, they also recommend that a channel be form
ed along the Georgia side of the river from Mar
bury and Mclntosh streets, at least one foot deep
er than low water mark, for the purpose of aid
ing in carrying oil'the impurities which the river
leaves in that vicinity after a rise, and to prevent
a formation of those stagnant ponls, which were
formed there during the low river in the falls ol
1818, 1830 and particularly in the fall of 1839,
when the Board of Health, had at much trouble,
and some expense, an imperfect channel made
within those limi.s for the purpose of aiding as
much us poss ble in preserving the public health.
There are doubtless other improvements which
experience will suggest from time to time to the
constituted authorities of the city for removing
from it causes of disease and improving its great
natural advantages, hut your committee believe
that such improvements may be solely left to the
intelligence of those who may control the desti
nies of the city in future.
They have no doubt that if the City Council
will with promptitude and energy carry into ci
ted the measures they have recommended, Au
gusta will not only escape such deplorable visi
tations, as she has recently experienced, but will
sjieedily attain a sti I higher degree of celebrity,
as a healthy city than that which she has hereto
fore so deservedly enjoyed.
Your committee, therefore, respectfully and
earnestly recommend the adoption of the follow
ing resolutions, embracing the views they have
already expressed.
JAMES HARPER, Ch’n.
Mr. Warren then int oduced the following re
-tiuoi «•«. »c miojucu.
Resolved, .That the committee on River Bank
1 1}^r]K htt r f ' au lh°ri*ed lo h *vc removed, either
1 CUHltuv.% ~ li I
or other acctimubffiT' niauef, r^' xn *
Trash Wharf, below ihe old bridge. l!le
And be it further resolved, Fuat said commit
tee be authorized to cheek upon the Treasurer
for any funds which maybe necessary for the
completion of said work.
And he it farther resolved, That said commit
tee ho authorized to command the services of the
City Marshal or any of the City Constables, to
superintend said work.
At a subsequent meeting, Mr. Harper offered
the foil .wing resolutions, carrying out the inten
tion of the report; all of which were u treed to.
Restwled. That it shall be the duty of thecom
mitlee on the River Bank and Wharf, to exam
ine the river hank, within the corporate limits of
the city, and remove all the vegetable deposits,
left upon the margin of the stream, or under the
wharves, between the Ist of June and the Ist of
October of every year.
I.esolved, 1 bat it is expedient so to amend the
2d clause of the 44th section of the General Or
dinance, as to prohibit all boats, not protected
[ against the admission of rain or river water into
their holds, from remaining opposite the city,
during the months of June, July, August and
September.
Resolved, That the committee on streets be
authorized and requested to have all the lots in
lire city, now 100 low, so raised, at the expense '
of the owners, us that water will flow from them i
into the streets, and to lower, at the expense of'
j the city, such streets us are now too high, and -
i that said committee he requested to commence !
with Reynold street, between Washington and
Centre streets, and the lots adjoining.
Reso/v d, That the committee on the river
hank ami wharf, be requested, under the direction
ol a competent Engineer to have a channel form
ed along ihe Georgia side ot the Savannah river,
from Marbury street to Mclntosh street, at least
one foot deeper than low water mark, for the pur
j ose otcarryingoffthe impurities which the river
leaves in that vicinity, after a rise, and to prevent
the formation ol stagnant jionds in low river,
I’lte committee on Police, reported the follow- 1
ing scale ot salaries for the ensuing year.
Clerk of Council and Police, SBOO 1
Collector and Treasurer, 1 200'
City Marshal and Cajitain of Guard, 1,500
City Constables, each, 700
Jailor, goo
Clerk of Lower Market, 700
do Upper do 00
Kee) cr o! Magazine, 250
do City Clock, 100
do City Hall, 75 ]
Watchmen, each j.cr night, 1
On motion of Mr. Hitt, to amend the report of
the committee, so that the salaries he the same us
last year, the question was put and decided in
the affirmative.
Mi. Parish called for the yeas and nays which
were taken as follows: m
Ayes—Dortic, Crump, Warren, Hitt, D'Ai M
tignar, Harper, and Dye.
Nays—Parish. |H
So the amendment was carried.
Council then adjourned to Saturday
the 14lh insl., at half past 6 o'clock.
Adjourned Meeting of Couucil.^T
Saturday Evening, Dee- 14, 1 M,,
Present—it.e 11-,ix 11. II Dye, Mayor .
Vldcnncn Har.ie , Piri-di, U’Au igliae, wlot'
Doric, and 'I humps,.,..
1 tie in mutes oi the lasi meeting
eon(huied V ‘“><l
Pile m-iexed Reports were received I},! ,
Officers of Council, with the I'olloelnrs uuK'i ’ ’’
urer’» receipt for the am,m il ntta h P 11 ’
no tries. ' 1 ,elr
Cl- I, ..( I.m, r Mtf'iel, Fosnnd C o sM* n >■
ICe .1, fees
i y Mush dl. Ft • and oiianl-.r u v - V
Keepir of Magaz up, , f.
Jailor, *-J,70
The Report from the Hospital exliihjts but one
remaining in the Hospital since October, viz: lames
Dunn, a blind man.
The fillo wing Reports wore received from the
respective commi tecs.
Ti e undersigned committee of Investigation in
relation to the Fire which occurred this morning,
on the lot belonging to the estate of K. Hoover, anil |
occupied bv John Marine, respectfully report, that
the result of their inquiries proves ihe aci, most un
questionably lo have he- n lire effecl of no idem
In order, however, lo pot the public on their
guard against the carelessness of children, too often
suffered to have nece-s lo unoccupied apartments ;
ihe committee hate thought proper lo stale the fads
as they occurred
A room partitioned off Ihe Kitchen which was
consumed, having I een left open, a negro girl ol
lender age, went into it with a lightwood lurch,
prior to going to maikel, and let some sparks fall
on some shucks lying on the floor, which was no
doubt iliw cause ol the fire. ,
O. T. Doh tic, T Committee
>l. M Dye, I of
C». F. Parish, ; Investigi-
James II ah per, J lion.
Augusta, Dec 14, 1839.
The committee on Engines, lo whom was reler
red .he communications lo Council, from Sections
Nos. l,and 3 beg leave ;o report,
That they have had the same under considera
tion, and alter an examination ol the Ordinances of t
the cty, they are ol opinion that ihe City Connell j
have no authority 10, nor have ever claimed a right ;
to m'crfere in the election of Captain of the Fire
Company; and as rege ds a t hies Engineer, there
is no such Officer under Council. The only offi ,
errs which your committee can discover under the ;
Ordinances of the city, are five Fire VVaidens, who ’
are annually appointed by Council, and have full j
command at fires, and a person whoso duty it is to ,
keep the Engines and Fire apparatus in good ord-,
or; it h the latter officer, and noi a chief Engineer,
whom it was the intention of Council, lo elect at
the meeting on the first Saturday in December.
All ol wnich is respctfully submitted. ,
S ;VI Thompson, i Committee
E. Thomas, [ on
James Harper, ) Engines. j
The following Resolutions were offered and pass-1
ed.
Resolved, That the Clerk of Council, issue exe
cutions on nil taxes due on the digest of the year I
1839.
Resolved, That the City Council remit lo Mi j
cheat Shrahnn. the amount ofsso due by said Shea- <
him lor Ins Reta.l License.
Resolved, That the committee on streets be in i
structed to have grad d (by contract) the side walks !
leading from Broad st lo the Railroad Depository
on Jackson si; to th different churches; lo the
Academy, and to the Medical College, and io pro
tect said side walks with a bind rig ol wood, and
c.ovcnhem with sand; and iu make all necessary
loot bridges and cio.-s ways.
Council adjourned to meet Tuesday evening, 17th
inst. at half past 7 o’clock
S 11. OLIVER, Clerk.
Messrs. Editors—My situation being such a {
present, that I feel it a duty I owe to my fellow
citizens, to withdraw my name as a candidate for
the office of Sheriff of Columbia county, as I am at
this time undetermined how long I shall remain in
the county, and in all probability but a very short
time. 1 therefore decline being a candidate.
Respectfully, W. L. BLI NT.
Consignees per South Carolina Kail Hoad..
Hamburg, December 16, 1539.
W. K. Kitchen; Rees & Beall; J. E. Thom
son; Havilanil, Rislcy & (Jo.; Russell, Hutchin
son & Co.; D. S. Boutct; Garvin & Haines; S.
Buford; W. E. Jackson; T. J. Parmelec; Al
drich & Shove; 1,. Dwelle; Hadly & Owens; G.
T. Dortic; B. W. Force & Co.; A. B. Malloty;
J. Coskery; Hand & Scranton; Stovall, Sim
mons & Co.; T, O. Hall; A. Frederick; J.
Schwerin; Z. Hendricks; Wright, Bull & Co.;
R inkin, Boggs & Co.; J. W. Wilde; J. G. Dun
lap; A. Gumming; T. Dawson; Treadway &
v ‘"ffrnn; J. W. Houghton; J. Wal.
. ft* ll ? T. Leak; J. Campfield; Ur. rra.i-,-, xv.
, ILitticr; P. Golly; L. Dwelle; Anderson &
| Young; H. W. Sullivan; I. Levy; Jeffers &
Boulwarc; G. Parrott; J. F. Benson.
MA KINE INTELLIGENCE”
! Savannah, Dec. I t.
| Cleared —Brig Pandora, Gardner, Boston,
i Arrived since our last —Biig Excel, Sherwood,
New York; schr Sophia. Jones, Baltimore,
( Below —Ship Othcl o, from Wiscasset.
Charleston, December 16.
! Arrived yesterday —Ship Jacob Perkins, Bisson,
. 1 Boston; Dan hug Fortuno, Neilson, do; schr Fi
j naneier, Butler, Havana; schr Glcanor, VVisson,
j Baltimore.
Cleared —Ships Nicholas Riddle, Iliern, Liver*
; (tool; Superior, Bailey, do; Mancy Nicholas, Glas
gow; John fadmus, Blanchard,/lavre; brig Hun*
i ter, Clark, West Indies; schr Cr#nelian,Myers, St.
Marks. t
CfTKMr. T. G. SALAD.W'I 1 will send his ad
; dress to this office, he wi m\ e informed of some
; facts which will be of grea'Mlvantagc to him.
J dec 14 m
93rW r e arc authorize M.o announce 111. O.
EVE as a candidate for W\ Collector, at the ap
proaching election. W dec 7
! (IjJOSfIL'A S. W/mK£Il again announces to
his fellow citizens of /Bhrnond county, that he is
I a candidate for the Coroner, at the elc (urn
in January next. M - ' d cc 10
r Cj‘ We are to announce IS AA C
HENDRICKS, uJH candidate for the office of
Coroner at theapßsaching election in January.
dj 3 lo announce JERRY
ii-latc for Coroner of Richmond
' county, election in January,
dec 7 fMM td
1 TO THE op RICHMOND COUNTY
Fellow (^^R ens .— j offer myself as a candi
‘ date for 0 f sheriff* of Richmond county.
| at the enelection, and respectfully solicit
j yoursupjr^V
I aug BENJ. BRANTLY.
T authorized to announce Cul. VlL
ti >t as a candidalo for Receiver of Tax
Richmond county. dec 4
C SV-M C arc au ft |onsC( l tu ennonnee Mr. JOHN
the a w > as a candidate for the offices of Clerk ot
j ou ■reiior and Inferior Courts of Richmond
. M. at the election to he held on the first Mon
.?• U January next. aug 19
X We are authorised to announce COSBY
as a candidate for the office of Re-
of l ax Returns, for Richmond county.
.^^Hov
arc authorized to announce I KM. K.
■f A’fi/G as a candidate lor the office of Sheriff of
county, at the approaching election
net 31 td
W ujf'We are authorized to announce JAMES
f Me LA IV S, Esq as a candidate lor the offices of
( leik ol the Superior and Inferior Courts cf Rich
mond county, at the approaching election, oct 31
IT We are authorized to announce IVM. U.
i MAIIARRY, as a candidate for Sheriff of Rich*
. i moml county, at the approaching election.
t I nov 7
■ cfjfPUBUC NOTICE. —Dr. Munroe, Surgeon
Dentist, has returned to Augusta. dcc~9
M. CURfls, Htuse,Sign and Ornamen
• tal Painter, 187 B road street. —Sign and omamen
r tal work done at shoit notice. dec 5
’ 'CT-T IVERSEN U now prepared to resume his
nrolessional bitics c- a 'etcher of Music, t r
le.s leti ..t T. . Plant's hook store, or at Mrs.
' Campaeld’s boarding house, xvill be promptly at*
' tended to nov 26
fl[j’ Gentlemen feeling desirous of pat; onizing Mr.
Smith’s Assembly Balls, are requested to meet on
Wednesday evening, ISth inst.,at 7 o’clock, for the
purpose of selecting Managers for the season,
dec 17 2t
yy CLINCH RIFLEMEN, ATTENTION!—
Appear on your parade ground, this livening, at
half past 7 o’clock, in citizen’s dress, armed for
drill. By order of the Captain.
dec 17 It PORTER, n. S.
rr MR. J. C. SMITH’S DANCING ACADE
MY is now open at the Masonic llill, for the re
ception of pupils. Days of Tuition —Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays, from 3 for young La
dies, and from 7 o’clock for Gentlemen,
dec 11 trw3t
Cry We are authorised to announce WILLIAM
KENNEDY, as a candidate for re election to the
office of Tax Collector for Richmond county, at
the election on the first Monday in January next.
1 dec (5 swtd
id r W. G. NIMMO, General Commission Mer
chant, office on Mclntosh street, next door to the
Constitutionalist. nov 7
(yy Doctor J. J. IVILSON oilers his pro.er- %
sional services to the citizens of Augusta and its
vicinity. He will be found at his residence, the
( first brick building above Guedron’s stable on Ellis
street, recently occupied by John L. Adams.
' ai| g 17 ts
dj C*''- R. HARRIS oilers his services in the
practice of his profession to the citizens of Augus
ta and it-vicinity. Mes-ages will receive prompt
. attention if left at his drug store in Broad street, or
at his residence in Ellis street, below Washin»-
j ton. nov 7^
Mr. RICHARDS’ PAINTING ROOMS As
many were unable to visit the exhibition of Paint
ings at Mr. Richards’ Drawing Academy, during
the season, in which the Rooms were open to visi
tors, Mr. R. has made arrangements, by which his
Gallery will be speu This Day, until 10 o’clock P.
M.,for the reception of such as may favor him
J with a visit. dec 14
Cj" Dr. W. FLINT offers his services to the ci
tizens of Augusta in the different branches of his
j profession. He may be found at all hours at the
! late residence of Mr. A. M. Egcrton, second door
j from the corner of Mclntosh and Reynold streets,
j ntv 29 ly
yy NOTICE. —The Rail Road Passenger Train
between Charleston and Hamburg, wifi leave as
i follows:
UPWARD.
Not to leave Charleston before 7 00 a m.
“ “ Summerville, “ - -S 30
“ “ Georges’, - “ - 10 00
“ “ Branchviile, “ - 11 00
“ “ Midway, - “ - 11 30 m
‘ “ Blackville, - “ - 100 ,»i,
“ “ Aiken, - - “ - 300
Arrive at Hamburg not before - 400
DOWNWARD.
Not to leave Hamburg before 6 00 a.m.
“ “ Aiken, - “ . . 730
“ “ Blackville, “ - . 930
“ “ Midway, “ - - 10 30
“ “ Branchviile “ - - 11 00
“ “ Georges’, “ - - 10 00 m.
‘ “ Summerville,“ - - 2 OOp. m.
Arrive at Charleston not before 300
Distance—l3b miles. Fare Through—slo 00.
Speed not over 20 miles an hour. To remain 20
minutes each, for breakfast and dinner, and not
longer than 5 minutes for wood and water at any
station.
'To stop for passengers, when a white sing is
hoisted, at cither of the above stations; and also M
Sinoatlis, Woodstock, Inabinet’s, 41 mile T. 0?j
Rives’, Grahams, Willeston, Windsor, Johmons,
and Marsh’s T. O.
Passengers up will breakfast at Woodstock and
dine at Blackville; down, will breakfast at Aiken
and dine at Summerville. may 21
A REAL BLESSING TO MOTHERS.
DR W. EVANS’ CELEBRA TED SOOTHING
SYRUP, for Children Cutting their Teeth. Tin
infallible remedy has preserved hundreds of chi -
dren, when thought past rear •
sions. as soon as the js rubbed on the
gums, the child wili.reetfver. The preparation is
so innocent, so efficacious and so pleasant, that no
child wi.l refuse to let its gums he rubbed with it.
U hen infants are at the age of four months, though
there is no appearance ol teeth, one bott e ol lHe
Syrup should be used on the gums, to opeii the
putt.-. Parents should never be without the Syrup
in the nursery where there are young children ; for
if a child wakes in the night with pain in t.icgurns,
the Syrup immediately gives ease, by opening the
pores and healing the gums; thereby preventing
convulsions, fevers, &c. Sold only at Dr. Win.
Evans' Medical Office, 100 Chatham street. New
York, where the Doctor may be consulted on all
diseases of children.
PROOF POSITIVE OF THE EFFICACY OF
Dr. EVANS’ SOOTHING SYRUP.—To the Agent
of Dr. Evans’ Soothing Syrup: Dear Sir—The
great benefit afforded to my sulTering infant by
your Soothing Syrup, in a case of protracted and
painfu. dentition, must convince every feeling pa
tent how essential an early application of such an
invaluable medicine is to relieve infant misery and
torture. My infant, when teething, experienced
such acute sullerings, that it was attacked witq
convulsions, and my wife and family supposed that
death would soon release the babe from anguish,
till we procured a bottle of your Syrnp; which as
soon as applied to the gums, a wonderful change
was produced, and after a few applications the
child displayed obvious relief, and by continuiug in
its use, 1 am glad to inform you the child has com
pletely recovered, and no recurrence of that awful
complaint has since occurred; the teeth are Ema
nating daily and the child enjoys perfect health.
1 give you my cheerful permission to make this
acknowledgment public, and.vill gladly give any
information on this circumsti nee.
WM. JOHNSON.
TONIC PILLS. —The power of Evans ’ Camomile
Pills are such, that the palpitating heart, the trem
ulous hand, the dizzy eye, and the Buttering mind,
vanish befoie their effects like noxious vapors be
fore the benign influence of the morning sum—
They have long been successfully used for the cure
of intesmittents, together with fevers of the irregu
lar nervous kind, accompanied with visceral ob
structions.
This tonic medicine is for nervous complaints,
eueral debility, indigestion and its consequences,
or want of appetite, distension of the stomach, acid
ity, unpleasant taste in the mouth, rumbling noise
in the bowels, nervous symptoms, languor, when
the mind becomes irritable,desponding, tbougiitlul,
melancholy, and dejected. Hypochondiiacism, con
sumption, dimness of sight, delirium, and all other
nervous alfections, these pills will produce a sale
and permanent cure.
Evans’ Camomile Pills were first introduced into
Atactica in 133 d.
EVANS’ FAMILY APERIENT FILLS are
purely vegetable, composed with the strictest pre
cision of science and of art; they never produce
nausea, and are warranted to cure the following
diseases which arise from impurities of the blood,
viz:— Apophxy, Bilious Affections, Coughs, Colds,
Ulcerated Sore Throats, Scarlet Fever, .Utkin i, Cho
lera, Liver Complaints, Diseases of the Kt dales and
Bladder, Affections peculiar to Females, a d all
those diseases of wi atsuever kind to which human
nature is subject, where the stomach is alfectcd.
More conclusive proofs of the extraordinary rffi-jt
caey of Dr. Win. Evans’ celebrated Camomile and
Aperient Anli-Bihous Pills, in alleviating afflicted
mankind. —Mr. Robert Cameron, 10! Bowery.—
Disease—Chronic Dysentery, or Bloody Flux-
Symptoms, unusual flatulency in the bowels, se
vere griping, frequent inclination to go to stool, tu
nusinus, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, fre
quency of pulse, and a frequent discharge ol a pe
culiar foetid matter mixed with bloo 1 .great debility«
sense of burning heat, with an inloleiable bearing
down of the parts. Mr. Cameron is enjoying per
cct health,and returns his sincere thanks for iht
extraordinary beneMs he has received.
.Sold by ANTONY & HAINES,
Sole agents in Augusta
J. M.& T. M. TURNER,Savannah
P. M. COHEN & Co., Charleston
SHARP a- ELLS, Millcdgevillc,
C. A. I LLS. Macon,
A. W. MAR TIN. Forsyth
Wm. B. V\ ELLS, Druggist, Athens.
MARK A. LAN E. Washinglon.
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