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(From the Albany ( Ga.) Patiiot,2oth ult.)
Mr- Hughes’ Card-
The Macon Telegraph of the 10th inst., con
m tains a long and c rcumstantial account of Mr.
Hughes trip to Boston in search of Ellen and
-William Craft. From this statement, it ap
pears that Mr. Hughes did all that any man
eould have done under the circumstances, for
the recovery of the Fugitive. Mr. Hughes
also gives certificates from many of the most
prominent citizens in Macon and in the State,
testifying to his firmness and good character.
Tie also gives the following certificates from
Robert Collins and Ira H. Taylor, the gentle
saen who owned the fugitives,and who employ
ed Mr. Hughes to go to Boston after them :
Macon, 7th Dec. 1855.
Mr. Willis H. Hughes —Sir: From all the in
formation which we have received, we have no
hesitation in saying that we are convinced
that you done all that could be done by any
person in your attempt to recapture the fu
give slaves in Boston; and we do not consider
in any manner biameable for the failure.
Very Respectfully V o ars,
ROBT. COLLINS,
IRA H. TAYLOR.
From all these facts, it will appear clear to
every candid mind, that the reason why the
negroes were not recovered, was not any fault
of Mr. Hughes; bu because the law was ef
.<-* factually nullified by the people of Boston.
This fact was fully proven by the statements
in the Boston Newspapers. But some of our
citizens were so very charitable to wards the
Abolitionists of Boston, that they would not
g believe the statements of the Boston papers,
" relative to their conduct; such men probably
will pretend not to believe the statement oi
Mr. Hughes.
But one thing is certain: the negroes were
to be fugitive slaves—they were de-
HsWmanded of the authorities of Boston, and they
■were npt given up according to the provisions
Constitution, and the fugitive slave law.
|P Mary who have professed to have great faith
P ia tie compromise as it is called, said that the
would compel the Bostonians to de
liver up the fugitives. This delusion was soon
dissipated by the Washington Republic, which
denied that the President had any intention
of sending troops to Boston to enforce the
Fugitive Slave law. As a last resort, it was
then declared that the President would pun
ish the Marshal of Boston for not doing his
duty. But they are again doomed to disap
pointment. The Attorney General, Mr. Crit
. enden, has decided that the Marshal shall re
w main in office. This officer, says he was led
to this decision, partly by Mr. Hughes’ own
statement. Mr. Hughes denies the statement
of the Attorney General, and calls upon him
to produce the evidence.— We will let Mr.
Hughes speak for himself *
“Mr. Crittenden says, I had no complaint
to make against them. I deny the assertion.
I made no such remark. I macie no such de
position, and I call upon Mr. Crittenden, in
defence of his own honor, to produce the de
position. I charged (in my deposition,) the
officers unhesitatingly, unreservedly and une
quivocally, with neglect and evasion of duty;
“In a Private conversation with the Marshal
who was remonstrating with me, I said, “I
am making no complaint against you— it is not
tne, I am only bearing testimony in the com
plaints brought by Mr. Fay, and it is for the
people to judge from the testimony whether
or not you are to blame, and have failed in your
duty.” This , I repeat, was in a private con
versation with the Marshal and sustaining my
deposition. I repeat again, Mr. Crittenden
produce such a deposition. If he can,
1 pronounce it, in the face of this Republic, to
be a forgery.”
After reading Mr. Hughes’ statement and
the i&te act of the Vermont Legislature, nul
lifying the Fugitive Slave law, will any man
be so credulous as to believe that a fugitive
slave can ever be recovered from Massachusetts
or Vermont. If they will also read the ac
count. of some that have attempted to bring
back runaway negroes from Pennsylvania and
Michigan, they will see that the chance for
the slave catcher is equally bad in those States.
It appears then that the fugitive save bill has
been set at naught and nullified by the people
at the North. Yet this was ail the South got
for all of California and a large slice of Texas.
Thb Lath Du. Wb»ster's Family.—A let
ter from a friend at Cmbridge, says—“l ob
served at church yesterday. Mrs. Webster
*aad daughters, all in deep moruning. The
millionare at Watertown, Mr. Cushing, and
Mr. Appleton of Boston, have recently made
a present to Mrs. Webster, of a handsome
bouse on Ash street, ot which she will take
immediate possession. One or more of her
daughters, who are accomplished, give pri
vate lessons in music at their house.” — Lov
ell Courier.
jjjp Indiana.—lndiana State, it is now said,
a population by the present census
one million two hundred and fifty
HKmsand (1,250,000.) This is immense for
, a State.
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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
Augusta, ®eorflta.
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fices North of Charleston.
What the Convention was afraid to do.
The developments of public opinion in
Georgia have induced the ultra Submiasion
ists to change their tone somewhat, and to
back out, if possible, from positions which
they now find rather awkward.
The following truthful remarks of the
Montgomery Advertiser have elicited a contra
diction from the Augusta Chronicle $ Sentinel:
“ There were three things that the Georgia
Convention were afraid of —all of which its
friends, before it assembled, said it would do :
It was afraid to condemn tha Legislature that
passed the act calling it: It was afraid to cen
sure Governor Towns for calling the Conven
tion under the act; and, finally, it was a f raid
to approve unconditionally the famous com
promise measures. All this, in our opinion,
goes to prove that while Toombs, Stephens,
and others of that ilk, would do almost ary
thing to keep up the old corrupt national par
ties, the people of Georgia are not yet so far
gone as to lick the rod that smote them.”—
Montgomery Advertiser , 23d ult.
In reply, the Chronicle recklessly asserts :
“ Where the Advertiser got the idea that
the Georgia Convention, or any of its mem
bers, had any wish to censure either the Le
gislature or the Governor of Georgia, we do
not know —but presume it was from some of
those disunion papers that circulated it so
freely during the canvass for delegates to the
Convention. Now, the truth of the whole
matter is, that so far as we are informed,
there was not a man among the Union party,
that ever said that it ought to be, or desired
it to be done. We recollect that such a charge
was made against Mr. Toombs during the late
canvass, but there was not one word of truth
in it. We should think that the proceedings
of the Convention, was rebuke enough to sat
isfy any reasonable man.” — Chronicle 4 Sen
tinel, 31 st ult.
It is notorious that Mr. Toombs early
launched forth his venom against the Legis
lature. Oblivious of his own fire-eating
speeches, he denounced the last Legislature,
in reference, of course, to its action on the
slavery question, as having disgraced itself.
His insolent letter to his Excellency Gov.
Towns, in reply to that functionary's letter
forwarding the resolutions of the Legislature,
is still fresh in tbe recollection of our readers.
That gymnastic gentleman had scarcely
landed in Georgia on his return from Con
gress, before he set to work evidently to pro
cure a censure upon the Governor and the
Legislature. Here is an extract from his ad
dress to his constituents, published a few
days after he reached Georgia. It is one of
the first paragraphs of the address :
“ In the present emergency, our true policy
is to select one of two courses; we must eith
er repudiate the action of the Legialatuie and
Governor Towns, or arm our people for Re
sistance to the Laws of the land and a Disso
lution of the Union. I am in favor of the
first, and against the last alternative.”
Here the issue is distinctly made. Who
can doubt that it would have been highly
Agreeable to him to have got a vote of censure
passed on both the Legislature and the Gov
ernor, and would have done so if the Conven
tion had been pliant to his will.
Again : Mr. Benning B. Moore, of Lincoln*
a Submission candidate, made the issue that
the Governor had no right to call the Conven
tion, and in doing so, was guilty of usurpa
tion of power. He directly declared this in a
string of resolutions approbatory of the Com
promise measures, offered at a Submission
meeting at Lincolnton, and adopted. The
proceedings, including the resolutions, were
published in the Chronicle $ Sentinel. Mr.
Mosre was elected and served in the Conven
tion, and was then, as he is on all occasions,
a right hand man of Mr. Toombs. He is a
gentleman very apt to sneeze when Mr.
Toombs takes snuff. But neither of these
delegates ventured on a proposition in the
Convention expressive of their views.
Again: The ground was unequivocally as
sumed, that the Legislature had committed a
great outrage in providing for the call of a
Convention, in the event of the admission of
California. This was the theme of bitterest
denunciation by the Submission press univer
sally, and the Submission orators generally.
The members who voted for the call were fu
riously denounced as demagogues and faction
ists. A vote of censure merely, one would
have supposed, was mildness and most Chris
tian forbearance, in comparison with what
these Submißsionists desired. Hanging and
quartering and sticking theii dissevered heads
on poles on the State House, and other con
spicuous places, would not have been out of
keeping with the maledictions poured forth
upon them.
We refer to the Chronicle § Sentinel for spe
cimens of this sort of malignity, pmssim,* du
ring the canvass. We could quote also from
other Submission papers, but it is wholly un
necessary, as every body remembers the spirit
in which they were conducted.
Whether Messrs. Toombs and Stephens,
and other Washington City politicians, and
their coadjutors of the Georgia press, will be
more successful in their Presidential schemes
of tacking Georgia on to a National Union
Party, remains to be seen. We shall fight
against the corrupt, demoralizing scheme,
destined, if successful, to manacle the South
—-a scheme to tie her down by the strong
cords of party —to put her at the mercy of
the Northern majority, who will control the
new party, and to make her again the victim
of another one-sided compromise, by which
she will get the shell while the North will
secure the kernel. In that event, she will
again be told she has “ achieved a victory,” as
Messrs. Toombs and Stephens now assert—
an assertion, however, which the Georgia
CcnYHQtion would not indorse.
We confidently predict that this National
Union Party, which they are aiding to get up,
will prove a National anti-Southern, anti-
Slav er 5 President-making Party, which will
entangle them and ail Georgians who join it,
in positions which the people of Georgia will
not indorse.
* Passion, is a Latin word, meaning entry where
or throughout.
Library Association*
It will be perceived from the notice in to
day's paper, that the celebration of the Library
Association, will take place this evening at
the Masonic Hall. The Board will present
their report and an address on “MentaliDevel
opment” wilLbe delivered by Rev. W. T.
Brantly. With such a subject, handled as
it will be, our j community cannot fail to 4 be
entertained and instructed.
The Weather-
For the last five or six days we have had
very inclement weather. It rained all day
yesterday. In the morning we had a slight
fall of hail; last evening it sleeted—now while
we write it is snowing.
The Southern Press says: “The health of
the Hon. Wm. C. Preston has been so greatly
restored, that he has been persuaded to remain
at the head of the South Carolina College,
from which post he had previously determin
ed to withdraw.
A friend who was present at the recent
Commencement of that institution, informs
us that the address of the President to the
graduating class, was characterized by much
of that fervid and impassioned eloquence
which gained him so high an oratorical re
nown in the days of his (public service. He
impressed upon his young graduates the du
ties devolving upon them, and urged them
never to forget that their first allegiance was
due to their State, and that they should de
fend her against all assailants, as they would
the honor of their mothers.
His appeal was answered by the most en
thusiastic applause.
Naval Court Martial. —The Naval Court
Martial for the trial of one of the crew of the
Saranac for mutinous and seditious conduct
took up the case on Tuesday last at Norfolk.
It is composed of Capt. Aulick, President,
Commanders Armstrong, Kelly, and Cunning
ham and Lt’s. Davis and Poor, members. —
Capt. Forrest, the other member absent. Thos.
C. Tabb, Esq., Judge Advocate.
Nbw Hampshire—The Constitutional Con
vention has decided that the Superior Judges
and Attorney General of that State shall
henceforth be elected by the People: Yeas 139;
Nays 85. A State Superintendent of Common
Schools is to be chosen in like manner.
Daring Roxbbrt. —We learn frem the
Nashville Whig that a most daring robbery
was perpetrated in Jackson county, Tennes
see, on the 11th instant. Fire armed men
entered the house of an eld man named Den
ton, tied and guarded the family and a visitor
named Griffith, while they ransacked the
house taking away eighteen or nineteen hun
dred dollars. Griffith, getting one of his
hands loose, felled one of them to the floor
with a chair, hurting him severely; and was,
himself, in turn, struck down with a club.
Miss Denton making an effort to escape from
the kitcoen, where she was guarded, with her
mother, separated from the rest ol the family,
was struck by one of the ruffians, fracturing
her skull. They were strangers, and have
left no certain clue to their discovery.
Astounding Defalcation. —The Mobile
Register of Thursday morning says: “W e are
pained to learn that a warrant of arrest was is
sued yesterday morning against Mr. Rufus
Greene, late Secretary of the Fireman's In
surance Company of this city, as a defaulter*
to that Institution in a sum involving more
than half its capital. The warrant for his ap
prehension was issued by Judge Wiggins, at
the instance of the President of the Company,
and contains a charge of embeazzlement. —
The defendant was committed to jail, Where
we understand he will remain until he'shall
be ready for an investigation of the matter. —
The case will be examined by consent before
Judge McKinstry.
"For obvious reasons we abstain for the pre
sent from any remark upon this most extraor
dinary*and painful occurrence,
“The Company, we learn, are calling in its
policies, and returning the premiums."
Four Camanche Indians, accompanied by
a half-bred interpreter, passed through Pitts
burg a day or two since, on their way to Wash
ington, to have a great talk with their Great
Father^
The Steam Ship Ohio.
Brantx Mayer, Esq., one of the pasa%nger«
in the Steam Ship Ohio, on her recent Toy
age fro n Panama to New York, furnishes the
Baltimore Sun with a full detail of the pas
sage from the time of leaving Havana. His
letter closes as follows :
No man could have behaved more gallantly
or direct more wisely than Schenck, but had
he undertaken his voyage in this vessel with
few passengers,she would now be lying found
ered at the bottom of the Atlantic. I was
curious to estimate the quantity of water we
discharged in one of our two hour watches,
and, according to my calculation, with a lib
eral deduction, I am convinced that, in the
period indicated, we freed the ship, with a
single bucket, of fully 2,500 gallons. During
the wh le period of our labors we discharged,
according to the opinion of one of the officers
water enough to have sunk her six times!
I shall close this rough and hasty narrative
with some reflections upon the manner in
which the lives of the officers, passengers and
erew have been trifled with, by sending so
large and badly provided a vessel upon the
coast of the United at the epoch of the winter
solstice.
Ist. We understand that the Ohio has
never been coppered, and has been constantly
worked for fifteen months without repose or
repairs.
2nd. She was despatched on this voyage,
carrying between three hundred and four
hundred souls with but tour boats, all of
which were not capable of bearing more than
seventy-five or one hundred individuals.
3d. Her pumps were altogether inefficient,
as they proved in the hour of need.
4th. Being a vessel of several thousand
tons burthen, she left Hevana witn but a tin
gU engins, whose capacity was evidently un-
equal to the propulsion and preservation of so
large a mass of metal and timber in stormy
weather.
Ith. She was inadequately supplied with
spars and canvas to ride out the gale when
steam failed, and she was, therefore, thrown
into the trough of the sea at the mercy of
the wave*,
6th: The leak and the water that proved
nearly fatal were not detected, we understood,
until the fires we-e almost extinguished by
the rising flood under the furnaces.
7th. A vessel like the Ohio was kept afloat
and brought into port, (after she had been so
strained as to break two or three of her “hog
braces,”) by the efficient use of four ashbuchets;
—or, in other words, was bailed out during
such a tempest as has rarely occurred on our
coast, by implements intended entirely for
another purpose.
Steam packets designed for the transporta
tion of passengers, treasure and government
mails, should be, at every moment, guarded at
all points from the ordinary and extraordinary
dangers of the sea; but this ship failed in every
particular—in sails, in steam, in pumps, in
borts. No possible risk that can be avoided
should be recklessly incurred. On Tuesday
morning her engineer declared that he would
not have given twenty-five cents for the chance
of her salvation. He watched the straining
of her massive machinery as she surged from
side to side, and every moment expected to
see it break and dash out the ribs and sides of
the ship; but her great original strength—ash
buckets—and the nerves and muscles of of
ficers, passengers and crew, alone saved her!
These are grave subjects for reflection. We
point them out in sorrow rather than in anger,
and trust that no greedy spirit of gain, haste
or economy will hereafter be allowed to tamper
with such a human freight as was nearly sub
merged during this week beneath the waves of
the Atlantic. As we steamed by the ship on
our way to Baltimore in the Georgia, nine
cheers burst from the emancipated passengers
for our gallant friend Schenck and his officers,
—but not a voice was raised to do homage to
the Ohio.
Important prom Central America. — Eng
lish Blockade of the Ports of San Salvador —
Threatened Blockade of Nicaragua! —The New
York Herald has private letters from Leon de
Nicargaua, of the date of November 18. The
English are blockading the ports of San Sal
vador, and are threatening those of Nicara
gua. The following passages are from the
letters of an American gentleman, now in
Leon:—
“We have been anxiously expecting the re
turn of Mr. Squier. The government is much
alarmed at his continued absence. The port
of La Union has been blockaded for some
time past, and we are threatened with one on
account of the Beschor business. * * *
There are about a thousand Americans here at
present, and ten or twelve vessels from the
northward (California) are expected here this
week; so we shall have busy times shortly,
j * * * Mr. Squier’s presencs here is very
necessary, to give a cheek to English inso
lence. It would have a very benefieial effect
at this time.”
The “Beschor business” here referred to,
is a claim made by the British Consul for da
mages alleged to have been done to the pro
perty of a man named Beschor, who is styled
by Mr. Chatfieid a “Mosquito subject;” but
who is, in fact, a renegade German Jew, who
absconded from New York some years ago
and went to San, Juan, where he for a while
affected to be an American citizen. He aiso
pretended to be an American commercial
agent, and had a seal surreptitiously engrav
ed, which was taken away from him by Mr.
Squier when he went through San Juan in
1849. He subsequently was appointed a
“magistrate” by the English Consul, and as
such ordered the wanton and cruel flogging
of a number of Nicaraguan boatmen, who
happened to be in the town on the occassion
of Mr. Chatfield’s arrival there in March last.
This was done in the presence of the latter
dignitray, who, himself, lent a hand to the
ceremony, inflicting blows upon the mana
cled prisoners. When the news of this outrags
reached the interior, it created the profound
est indignation,and it required the utmost ef
forts of the government and the American
Minister tb prevent the people from visiting
summary vengeance on the English residents.
They, however, committed no overt acts be
yond burning the boat of the fellow Beschor,
which happened at that time to be lying at
Granada.
Tub Nhw Yorx Fugitive Slavs Cash.
The case of Henry Long, fugitive slave from
Virginia, which has been before the New Yrok
courts for sevaral days, was not disposed of
on Saturday morning. The Mirror of Satur
day says:
As soon as Judge Edmonds took his seat
in the Supreme Court, special term, this af
ternoon, the U. S. Marshal appeared wiih
Henry Long, in obedience to a writ of habeas
corpus returnable before the general terra of
the Supreme Court. The writ being read, his
Honor said he would not act ra the matter
then, as the general term stands adjourned to
the first Monday in January.
Long's Counsel had no objection to the
writ being altered from the general to the
special term; but this could not be done to
suit all concerned,j and the Marshal left the
Court with the fugitive in cus ody, and pr o
ceeded to the U. S. Commissioner.
The prisoner „Long and counsel on both
sides appearing before Mr. Hall, Eliza Dick
inson, a colored woman, was sworn. The
substance of her testimony was that she
knew the prisoner Long in Nov. 1847, when
he lived with her, and since that period she
has known him to reside in this city. Mr. West
ern asked the Commissioner for a.subpmma for a
Mr. Barker, whomjhe said would testify to Long
being a slave in Virginia two years ago.—
When the reporter left the court the exami
nation was pending, and Eliza Dickinson still
on the stand.
The New York Commercial, of Saturday,
in reference to this case, says:—
Mr. Jay, for the prisoner, said that his ob
ject in the application to the supreme Court
of this State, in banco, for writ of habeas cor
pus, was to have the whole proceedings un
der the fugitive slave law reviewed, and the
constitutionality of the law itself tested by tak
ing the case directly before the Supreme Court
of the United States. This would be the best
course tor all parties, and is, in fact, the only
legitimate mode of settling the whole dispute
about the recent act of Congress. Lee it by
all means be carried to the judica
ture, which alone can decide authoritatively
upon its constitutionality.
Mr. Wes ern, counsel for claimant, also
made a proposition, which we think is stiil
better. He proposed that Mr. Jay, instead of
taking out hit habeas corpus to the Supreme
Court of the State, should take it direct to
the Supreme Court of the United States, by
which a long delay, and we apprehend much
expense, as well as provocation, would be
avoided.
Arrival of the Florida.—The noble steam
ship Florida, (Capt. Lyon,) in spite of storm
and temp* si, made her appearance in our har
bor at an early hour yesterday morning. She
steamed it in 66 hours from wharf to wharf.
On Saturday night last she encountered a
heavy gale from S. E. to S. W. of twelve
hours duration. Going to the North, she
was in the gale which handled the steamship
Ohio so roughly, but passed through it un
scathed. The Florida was at that time in the
same latitude as the Ohio, and yet she arrived
in New York only five hours behind her reg
ular time. Thus it is satisfactorily proved (if
such a trial were Wanting, ) that the Florida
is as able to encounter the rigorous weather
and the sweeping gales of winter as the
breezes of summer.
The Florida brought the large number (for
the season) of 90 cabin and 24 steerage pas
sengers. The consort of the Florida, the Al
abama, will leave New York on the 11th inst.
to make her first trip out. — Savannah Repub
lican, Ist inst.
( Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier.')
New Orleans, Dec. 31—7. P. M.
The Market.— The demand for Cotton was
inactive to-day, 500| bales only were sold, at
outside prices. Good Middling is quoted at
13£. Sugar has advanced an eighth, and 700
hhds. were of at 54 for fair quali
ty. Prune Molasses, 24 cts. Whisky* 2Si«
Hi All parties are awaiting the advices per
Baltic , now anxiously looked for, and deemed
to be of importance as far as the Cotton mar
ket is concerned.
Large and Valuable Cargo.— The ship
Chas. Croeker t Duncan, master, for Liverpool,
cleared yesterday by Messrs. Geo. A. Hopley
& JCo., with the following cargo; 223 bales
Sea Island and 4,131 do. Upland Cotton, f 1
bbls. Turpentine, and 125 bags Cotton Seed.
The Cotton weighing 1,645,942 lbs., and the
whole cargo valued at $227,599, being the
largest cargo ever cleared from t this port. —
Char. , Courier.
A Yacht for the World’s Fair has been com
menced by Wm. H. Brown, of N. York,
which will have twomasts and au exquisite mo
ei. A gentleman of this city have contracted
to pay $30,000 if she is successful in the
Regatta.
(Eommmtai.
Mq Magnetic (Edegrapt).
Reported for the Constitutionalist.
Charleston, Jan. 2. F. M.
Cotton. —The market to-day has been
quiet, the high prices asked haying checked
operations. The sales reached only 300 bales.
For the week sum up 6500, at prices ranging
from 11& to 12| cents. The market closes at
I a 4 cent advance. Fair quoted at 13| ts
Receipts of the week 5600 bales.
Private despatches received to-day from
Charleston and Savannah, state that the wea
ther was very unfavorable to out door buai
simess—raining all day—and that but little
business was done in Cotton.
Augusta Market, January 2—P- M.
COTTON.—The weather to-day has been very
inclement, and but few transactions have taken
place in the Cotton market. We have ne change
to notice in prices.
SAVANNAH, Jan. I.— Cotton, —Arrived since
the 25:h ult., 7,090 bales Uplands, and 349 do.
ttea Islands—(s,i77 per Railroad, 1,680 trom Au
gusta, 217 via Darien, and 25 per wagons.) The
exports lor the same period have been 14,837 bales
Uplands, and 289 do. Sea Islands, viz : to Liver
pool, 10,546 bales Up:and and 286 do. Sea Island ;
to Boston 1,206 bales Upland; t.» New York 2,020
bales Upland; to Pniladeiphia 274 bales Uplands;
to Baltimore 285 bales Upland; and to Charleston
6 bales Uplands and 3 10. Sea Islands; leaving on
hand and on ship board not cleared a stock ol
46,079 bales Uplands and 1,692 do. Sea Islands,
against 46,221 bales Uplands, and 895 00. Sea Is
lands at same time last year.
Our last weekly report left the market firm.—
There was a fair enquiry Wednesday and 732
bales changed hands. On Thursda> the sales a
mouuted to 1,706 bales, the market closing firm
On Friday the sales were 460 bales; on Satur
day 761, and on Monday 891 —tne market remain
ing firm and s eady. Yesterday morning the ac
counts from Liverpool to the 14th December, by
American steamship Baltic at Now York were
received, cotton having advanced sto £d. Our
market opened with a lair enquiry at an advance
of about 4 cent, and during the day 758 bales
chang d hands. The prices pa d were irregular,
and there is so much difference of opinion bo
tween buyers and sellers, that we ate unable to
give i.ny quotations that woulu give a correct view
of prices.
The sa'esof the week amount to 4,576 bales, at
the following particulars: 21 at 114, 17 a 11 15 16,
80 at 12, 103 a 12}, 86 at i 2 3-16, £53 at 124,17
at 12 5-16, 448 at 12}. 673 at J2A. #53 at 12|, 62 at
12 11-16,864 at 12|,76at 12},999 at 13,74 at 13},
179 at 134, 110 at 13}, and 11 bales at 13| cents.
Rice. — Tne market has been dull throughout
the week, and closes with a feeling in favor of
buyers. The transactions amount to 597 tierces,
at the fallowing prices 20 at 2A Ji4 so at 2|, 300 at 2
1316,80 at 2}, 37 at 2 15-16, and 120 at $3 per
100 lbs. Exports this week, 1,537 tierces.
Rough Rice. —About 9,0C0 bushels changed
hauls this week at 73 a 75 cents.
Corn. —l,soo bushels sold from the whaifat7s
cents.
Flour. —The sales reported were 200 bbls Bal
ticrere at 5,56} a 6.00, and 50 Canal at #6,25.
Coffee.— From store, Rio is selling at 12 cts.
Molasses. —A cargo of Cub* sold at 23 cts., and
40 bbls. Florida at 32£ cts.
Domestic Liquors. —so bbls, New Orleans Whis
ky* was duposed of at 33 cts.
Bacon. —2s hhds. Sides brought cts.
Pork. —3o bbls. Mess sold at #l6 50.
Bale Rope. —lso coils changed hands during the
week at 7| cts.
Salt. —Two cargoes of Livorpool coarse, about
8,000 sacks, sold at 80 cts.
Lime. —l,ooo casks sold at#l.
Coal. —50 tons Liverpool sold at #B, and 200
tons Lackawana at #6,25 per ton.
Exchange.—W e quote sterling at 9} per ct.
prem.; Domest e Exchange—Tne 4 banks 1 re sell
ing sight checks on all Northern cities at par., and
are purchasing sight to 5 day bills at A dis., 30 days,
} dis.; 60 days, 1£ a 1|; 96 deys,2£ dis.
Freights. —There has been no change in the
rates for foreign ports this week; but, owing to
the scarcity ot vessels, ireights have slightly ad
vanced to Boston for Cotton. To Liverpool §d.
so square bales, and£d. for round; to Glasgow fd.
(or square bales Cotton; to Havre 13-16 cent, for
square bales. Coastwise—To Boston 7-16 c. for
square and A forrouuu Cotton and per tierce
for Rice; to New York gc. for square and 7-16 c.
for round bales Cotton and #1,12} per cask tor
Rice; to Philadelphia fc. for square and 7-16 c. for
round bales Cotton and 1,25 for Rice; to Baltimore
fc. for Cotton and #1 per cask tor Rice,
SAVANNAH IMPORIS—DEC, 31.
Perßr. ship Jones, from Liverpool—22'Oven
Cove S 3 16 bags Nails, and 3 casks Hardware, to
N.B. <fc H. Weed, i case Stationery, to J. Grsenj
1 casks Hardware, to MeCleskey & Norton; s, tOO
sacks Salt. 30 tons Orrel and 30 tons Cannei Coal,
to ft A Lewiss 3 casks Anvils, to S. M. pond.
SAVANNAH^EXPORTS—DEC. 31.
Per schr. Louisine, lor New York —494 bales
Cottouj 120 tierces Rice, and 15 boxes Tobacco.
Sapping intelligence.
ARRIVALS FROM CHARLSSTOH.
Ship Cbace, White, New York.
Barque Avola, Kendrick, Boston.
Barque Jasper, Hasty, New York.
Barque Mary Parker, Auld, New York.
Brig L. Baldwin, Shear, New York.
Brig Orion, Wass, Wilmington, N. C.
Schr. Geo. Harriss, Somers, Wilmington, N. C.
Sahr. Jonas Smith, Nichols, New York.
Schr. Col. Satterly, Davis, New York.
UP- FOP. CHARLESTON.
Ship E. Bulkley, Brown, at New York.
Brig Delaware, Harding, at Philadelphia.
Schr. Ontario, Johnson, at Philadelphia.
Schr. B. E. Sharp, Sharp, at Philadelphia.
cleared for charleston.
Ship Marchioness of Clydesdale, Fergneson,
New York.
Ship Martha J. Ward, Trott, at New York.
Brig P.Patterson, Drinkwater, at Boston.
Schr. Louisa Gray, Sharp, at Philadelphia.
Schr. H. F. Baker, M’Laughlin, at Philadelphia
CHARLESTON, January I.—Arrived, ship
Samoset, Tucker, Liverpool} schrs. J. M. Taylor,
Taylor, New York} Mediator. Mellaril, Ba tiiuon,
Cleared,steam ship Isabel, Rollins, riavauavii
Key West} ship Chas. Crooker, Duncan, Liver
pool} brig John A. Lancaster, Moo.e, Baltimore.
SAVANNAH, Jan, I.—Arrived, steamship Fl>-
rida, Lyon New York} schr. G. J. Jones, Look, D.
York; steamer John Randolph, Philpot. Angusti,
Cleared, schr. Louisine, Smith. New York.
FUNFRAL INVITATION.
ID*Tke Friends and Acquaintance if
Mrs. Charles Wheeler and of Mrs. Leavia
Adams, are invited to attend the Funeral of h«r
daughter, from the residence of Mis. Alexandtr
Mackinze, This Morning, at 10 o’clock. jan 1
SPECIAL NOTICI& 8
O’ lAR* E. C. SOFGE. —Having met wih
such liberal encouragement, takes pleasure in n
forming his friends and the public that he has per
manently located himself in Augnsta as Professir
of the Piano Forte, and Organ. Communication
left at
Oates Sc Co. will be punctually attended to.
jan 3 |
ITT The Annual Meeting of the Augusta QUOIT
CLUB, will be held at their rooms on Saturdav
afternoon, 4th instant, at 4 o’clock. Punctual
tendance is requested.
By order of the President.
PUBLIC EVENING.
ffT Mr. Demerest has tho pleasure of an
nouncing his 4th PUBLIC EVENING, at Masonic
Hall, on This (Friday,) Evening.
Mr. Demerest would take this opportunity te
extend a general invitation to the Ladies of Au
gusta and its vicinity.
N. B.—Mr. D. has engaged a BAND 0F MU
SIC for the occasion.
(OT TiCKES ONE DOLLAR,to be had at the
door. jan 5.
LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.
Ifr* The Third Anniversary of the Young Men’s
Library Association, will be celebrated this xvr
bing at the Masonic Hall. Exercises to begin at
7 o'clock.
The Annual Report will be read, and the Ad
dress will be delivered bv Rev. W. T. Brantly,
and at the close of the Exercises the election 01
Officers will take place.
The public generally and the members parties
larly, are invited to be present.
A Band of Music will be in attendance,
jan 3
AUG USTAJANU AR YTST,IBSr ~
D. R. PLUMB 4k CO. have just opened
their Stock for the present season of Warranted
FRESH GARDEN SEEDS,
Dealers supplied on reasonable terms,
jan 3
(CT-Mercantile School. —C. SYMMESwiI
open a Night Sch.ol, at his School Room on
Ellis street, below the market, on Mokdat, 6ttx
mst., 7 o'clock, p. m.
Book-keeping, S? c. thoroughly taught.
Reler to L. LaTaste, J. A. Carrie & Co.
dec3l j. 3
O* City Taxes.—The Clerk of Council wll
attend at his office every day, (Sundays except
ed,) from 2 to 5, p. m., from the Ist until the 31st
of January next, for the purpose of lece vingthe
returns of such persons as may be liable to City
TAX. L.L. ANTONY, Clerk Council,
dec 29 dtjlO
MFCHANIC'S BANK, ;
Augusta, Dec. 21, 18£(>. 5
QJf* An election will be held at the Banking
(louse on Monday, 6th prox , between the hour 9
of 10 o'clock a. m., and 2p. in., for nine Directors
to manage the affairs ot this Institute n for the
ensuing year. M. HATCH, Cashier,
dec 22 td
PREMIUM DAGUERREOTYPES.
5T MESSRS. LEIGH 4k TUCKER,
grateful for patronage received the past season,
beg leave to inform the La lies and Gentlemen of
Augusta and vicinity, that as soon as their new
Daguerreotype rooms can be completed in the new
building now being erected by Mr. Metcalf, oppo
site the Masonic . all, they will be prepared (as
sisted by one ol the first artists of New York) to
wait upon all who may wish one of their premium
Sky Light Daguerreotypes. Their rooms are be
ing arranged expressly for their business, and wilj
afford superior facilities, and they flatter them
selves that all will be pleased with the style, beau
ty and finish of their pictures. dec 21
A CARD.
(O* DR. EUW. LIKARDEY tenders his
Professional Services to the citizens of Augusta,
and its vicinity. O' Office one door above Mar"
in Frederick's. ly oct 30
O’THE FRENCH L ANGU AGE tJiight
Dramatically by Mrs. SABAL, opposite the U.
States Hotel. Mrs. Sabal will take charge of a
Class in any of the Seminaries or private families
of Augusta. 6mos oct 8
JUSTRE CEIVLD,
O* A fresh supply of J. DURAND & CO.'S
celebrated FRENCH BITTERS, for Debility,
Weakness of the Stomach, want of Appetite, Dys
pepsia, Fever and Ague, or any other complain
caused by a derangement of the system. It is su
perior to any other article in use; it may also be
used in Wine or Spirits without, in any way, im
pairing its medical qualities.
To be had by the dozen, or bottle, of the Agents
for Augusta. LAMBACK & COOPER.
«pt 18 6mos
WM. HUNTER,
Factor, Commission and Forwarding
Merchant*
no. 94, bay stAket,
oct 8 Sri. VANN All, GA.
REMEMBER
OWhen in your extremity, that Dr.
M. S. THOMSON is still in Macon, Geo., and
when written to, sends Medicines by mail to any
part of the country. Don't give up nil hope with
consulting him. s*m
c O-P ARTNERSHIP NOTICE7
ICTTHE UNDERSIGNED would inform
the citizens of Augusta, aud public generally, that
they have formed a Copartnership for the prac
tice of DENTAL SURGERY, m all its branches,
uader the firm of SPEAR & LOMBARD. Their
office will be opened on or about the Ist Nov.
JNO. W. SPEAR,
C. B. LOMBARD-
Dr. C. B. L. has the liberty of referring to tne
following named gentlemen : -
Hoa. Howell Cobb, Prof.. Church, D. D., Pf®* l
Brantly, Athens, Ga.: Dr. W. E. Dealing, W- h.
Kitchen, Geo. W, Ferry, Augusta, Ga
oct 23