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About The Savannah museum. (Savannah, Ga.) 182?-1822 | View Entire Issue (June 5, 1822)
•v‘; WEDNESDAY MORJVWG, J vne S. The Mailt. —The roads and causeways in the low countries, have received much damage from the late heavy rains, and caused considerable ir regularity in the mails. The northern mail did ! arrive last evening. Cotton Crop). —We learn by gentlemen from the middle counties of this state, that the growth of cotton is very promising; and gives hopes of an abundant crop. The late rains have done some damage on the low grounds, but the high er plantations show extremely Well. OUR MARKET. It will be discovered by our Prices Current, that the state of our market has varied very little from our last advices. Cotton has gone off heavily this week : we have heard of but few sales as high as 15 cents during the week, although it is said strictly prime will command I 15. The most of the sales of this article eflected ; have gone off, at from 12 1-2 to 14 cents. Corn j has been in demand at the price quoted, and is | scarce. Flour has also been in demund, and is - scarce; a few weeks however, will remedy this! scarcity, as the wheat harvest is nigh at hand.— ! There have been many wagons in the city, laden ! •with Cotton for the past week, which have given i to our streets, the hum and bustle of much bu-1 siness; but we are inclined to think, that the dull-I ness of Cotton has lessened the contemplated purchases of the planter. —Augusta Examiner. From the N. Y. National Advocate. COMMERCIAL. Buenos Ayres, Feb. 25. Mr. Rf.lf—l had the pleasure of ad dressing you on the Uth lust, per bug Fan ny to Philadelphia,* inclosing a Puce Cur rent of our market, since when no material change has taken place. Nut one barrel of flour for sale. Intny last I advised you us the total failure of our crops, and i now beg leave to hand you inclosed a transla tion of a decreepublished m Chili, by which you will perceive the prohibition of flour and wheat from thence. lam therefore sa tisfied that both thesearticles will maintain fair prices all this year. The articles of Tar, Rice, Lumber, Chairs, and Furniture, seldom fail to pay a fair profit, aslaLo China and Bengal goods. * Not received. TRANSLATION. Santiago, Jan. 27. The crop of wheat of this year haring failed, without having a supply of that of the last, the scarcity of which is beginning to be felt in all parts of the state. Making use of tlia special powers vested in me of political economy by the government, l ab solutely prohibit the exportation of wheat, flour, or bread, from the territories of this republic during the present year. Take note of the same—have this decree printed and sent to the intendants and governors of the several sea ports for its exact observance with the additional provision that even if any vessels should be loading with those article'*, that they take in no more, although hey should exhibit a license of anterior date to this decree. (Signed) O’HIGGINS, RODRIGUEZ. Prices at ttuenos .?>jres, Feb. 25.—Ale, bottled, doz. 4 a44, dull; Bread, pilot, bbl. 8 a 9; Candles, sperm lb G$ a 7; chairs rush bottom, ricjt. 840; Callage, ql 12; Codfish 6; Flour, pr bl 820 a 22, on board. The crops of wheat have entirely failed. When the price exceeds §l2 per b!. the duty is 4, in exceeding 16, duty 5; in passing Utili ty 2; (more than 20, duty 1,) and passing 20, free of duty. Pitch Am. bl. 10, sules; Porter, bottled, doz. 4 a 4-4. Extract of a letter dated Jlnd'jver , May 18, 1822. Tiie College at Br unswick is rising from it* ashe3. The roof U completed, and it is expected that the rooms will soon be ready to be occupied by the students. I was told by Dr. Smith, that the Trustees would probably realize fr in the subscrip tions, the sum of 58,500, which besides re pairing the building will enable them to ob tain a good lire engine, and form two capa cious wells. They ore also proceeding to erect another college edifice, tor which they had made preparations before the !at? fire, Bowden College is rapidly advancing in the public estimation. Some of the gen heuv'n attached to it are of great distinc tion in the scientific world, and add lustre not only to that seminary, but to our couu trpt large.—-*V. Y. Com.Jidv. A of the common breed with a timall mixture of Merino blood, belonging to John Craig of Short Creek Township, yhio, produced a fleece last Spring weigh ,n S nine lbs. and another this, weighing eleven lbs. of good clear wool. Audacious Viliaini /. The house of Mr. Tate, Flour Merchant, No. 81, slip, was entered by a daring tallow, about 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon, through the front door, and upwards of ‘c>4oo in money stolen from a secretary standing in the front chamber. It seems fellow had to pass through the back ‘hambee, and a bed room, th get into the ‘font chamber, where the depredation was 1 Emitted; and on his way packed up, in Snug bundle, anew suit of cloths, be- /longing to Mr. Tate, and several p3tr of stockings; and in another, the pillows of the bed, with the counterpane around them, preparatory to carrying them off; but on ad vancing and finding better picking, and lighter carriage in the strong box, threw the bundles under the bed, and made off with the money only. He most have been an I expert chap to have done all he did in the j course of five minutes the time estimated, that he"was in the house; for besidesjmaking up his bandies as mentioned, he had to break the lock of the secretary, and then cut away the hinges of a small trunk, in side, in whioh the money was deposited.— As he was coming down stairs a little child belonging to a family that lived in the third story, saw him and halloed to its mother that there was somebody there. The vil lain’s self-possession was complete, and first bidding the child to hold its tongue, < 01 1 M M 4 _ I l * . * --- then gave it ( a sixpence, and secured its si lence. Mrs. Tate too, passed the chamber door on the outside, and shut it while he wa* within. One huudred dollars of the money was in silver change, crowns and dollars; the rest paper. Mrs. T. saw him go out, but supposed that he was some friend to the family above, and had no sus picion of him till she heard the money jin gle in his hands as he wak going down the steps. She immediately mentioned the circumstance to her husband in the store, and he started in pursuit; but the fellow, had got so much ahead as only to be seen turning round to the left into Cherry-street and somewhere near that spot must have darted into some alley or cellar, and been secreted, tor he was not in the street a mo ment after when Mr. Tate came up to the corner. A police marshall being near by, was directly employed in search of him, but was not found by him. We arc happy to state, however, that before 12 o’clock last night he was taken in a house of ill-fame at Coi la;r*’ llook, by Collins, one of the Po lice Marshalls. A considerable part of the money was also found, together with all the other articles stolen. The money found was the same as described by Mr. T. both specie and bill?. Phis detection also led to another im portant discovery. It seems that the vil lain was a wholesale robber ; for yester day morning between five and six o’clock, while the family was asleep, the house of Mr. Alexander Fraser, 4 7 Olivcr-st. was entered and robbed of a gold watch, seven teen dollars in money, a silver mounted snufl-box, and several other articles. The fellow had the ‘adroitness to enter the bed room of Mr. F. while he and his wife were asleep, and took the watch from the chim ney piece, and the money and other articles from the pocket* of Air. F’s clothes, and got off without disturbing them. And the watch, Mr. Fraser’s box, pocket handker chief, &c. were found upon the same “bold faced villain” who robbed Air. Tate.— JV. T. Cum. Adv. From the National Gazette. navigation of tiie Greeks. As vve hove heard much of late about the Grecian navy, and their battles, the following amusing account, by Chateau briand, of their ignorance of navigation, will lead us to wonder how they keep their ships at sea, and much more how they gain naval victories. “ It is really surprising to see how the Greeks navigate their ships. The pilot sits cross-legged, with his pipe in his mouth holding the tiller, which, to be on a level with the hand that guides it, must graze the deck. Before this pilot, whojis half reclined, and consequently can exert no force, stands a compass, which he kuows nothing about, and which he never looks at. On the least appearance of dan ger, French or Italian charts are spread out upon the deck; the whole crew, with the captain at their head, lie down upon their bellies; they examine the chart; they follow the lines delineated upon it, with their lingers; they endeavor to find out where they are ; each gives his opinion; they conclude at last that it is impossible to make head or tail cf these conjuring books of the Franks, fold op the map again, lower the sails, or bring the wind astern ; they then have recourse again to their pipes and their chaplets, recommend ing themselves to Providence, and wait the event.’* The author then relates an extraordinary dispute which took place in his presence, between the pilot, the master and mariners, as to where the vessel was, whether with in or without the island of Cyprus, and how they should steer. To talk of faking a reckoning, or the latitude, would have been Hebrew to our sailors.” From the Orleans Gazette. A LELTEB FROM TALMA. Paris, llth Jan. 1822. Mr. John Davis, SIR—I would have answered, long since, your letter which Mr. (Jillet had the goodness to forward me, if continual stu dies and incessant foils had left me oven the possibility of doing so ; but the busi ness of the stage engages all my time, and hardly leaves me any t devote to private aF fairs : hence it is that I have little to do with real life, and the illustrious dead of the poetic world, with whom I associate exclusively, do not alloW me leisure to communicate with the living.—These, sir, are the causes which have so long retard ed tills answer. Your invitation to visit your country, is too flattering not to excite in tne the livli?3t gratitude ; and the roan- jner in which it is expressed-, must nefces- 1 sarily add to the regret I feel in not having it in my power to accept it. Unfortunate ly, I begin to feel the decline of years, and the children by whom I am surrounded are still at that period of life which claims all the cares of a father; this forbids me to expose my health to the fatigues of a long I navigation and to the influence of another climate. It was nor, I confess, without; grief, after having been long in auspence, that I resisted the desire I felt of under taking a voyage in which I saw. in addition to pecuniary advantages, the prospect of witnessing, at least in part, the wanders of the new world. My fancy smiled at the idea of reciting the verses of Corneille and Racine, on the banks of the noblest liver on earth. But, at the same time, it point ed out the ocean between me and my chil dren, and I could not resolve on that sepa ration. I pray you to accept, yourself, and to transmit to all those who have participated in your kind intentions relative to me, the lively expression of my gratitude, 1 had almost said, of the sorrow it gives me, not to accept of an invitation so honorable to me. talma. Another murder. A murder of the deepest die, was com mitted on Saturday th.<, 25th inst. in this County, by a man nai>°*d HailiJJ” Hay,on the body of an aged woman, named Pfiebe Thomaa. The circumstances which led to this fatal catastrophe as detailed to us, from unquestionable authority, are as fol lows • Hay had married the daughter of Phebe Thomas and a separation between Hay and his wife took place about four months ago—after the separation, Hay’s wife took refuge in the house of her mother Mrs. Thomas, where she resided at the time of the commission of this horrible act. The prisoner on the day of the mur der went to the houso of Mrs. Thomas ar med with his gun, and demanded an in terview with his wife, which was refused him, because of the fears of the persons present that he had gone there for the pur pose of exercising force towards her, or perhaps to take ner life. His conduct is repiesented as marked with mad revenge, and determined desperation—Airs. Thom as however went out of the house to en deavor to appease his anger, and while in the act of approaching him, he fired his gun and lodged a ball just under her right ear,'which passed through her neck, and she instantly expired. Ray was imme diately taken in custody, and brought to the jail in this city, where he will be tried sometime this week, as .the Superior Courtis now in Session. \V e cannot de sire to forestall public opinion, on a sub ject,where the life of a fellow crcatdte is at stake ; but if the facts are correctly stat ed, justice cries aloud for hia, condemna tion. We hope these statements will make no impressions on the public mind, which maybe derogatory to the administration of impartial justice. It is due to the unfor tunate prisoner to state that we arc inform ed that the plea of insanity will be relied on. Law intelligence. We noticed in our paper of Saturday, a case recently decided in New York, on the subject of a sale for cash, very inter esting to the mercantile community; and have been informed that one precisely sim ilar was tried before Chief Justice Parker, a few days since, at the sittings of the Supreme Judicial Court, after March term of the present year. It was an action of Isaac Clark, of this city, vs. Messrs. Van Norturi dj* Miller, Commission Merchants at New York. The Plantiff consigned a quantity of Oranges and Lemons to the defendants with directions to sell the same for cash and remit the proceeds in bills by Mail. The vessel containing the property arriv ed at New York on Monday afternoon, and the defendant sold the property im mediately to one Southwick a dealer in fruit, who it was in evidence was a man of fair character and good credit. South wick took possession of the fruit and re tailed about two thirds of it to other deal ers aDd carried the rest to his store. In the morning of the next day the defend ants went with their bill for the money, hut they fouad Southwick was sick and had gone home. It was proved that he became delerious, was never again capa ble of doing business and that he soon after died insolvent. About two hundred dollars, part of the proceeds were col lected of the other persons to whom he had sold the fruit, ar.d paid by tVie defend ants to Plantin'. The defendants insisted that this was a cash sale, according to the course ol business in the city of New York, and read the depositions cf several of the most respectable merchants of that city, who leslatied that it was the almost in variable custom in selling for cash, to deliver the goods and call for the money in one, two or three days, and that the only objection was when the purchaser was considered of doubtful credit or dishonest character. The plaintiff contended that the cash oughtto have been received when the goods were delivered, and that the (Commission Merchant who was ordered to sell for cash, was the insurer of the money, and bound to pay it to his employer at all events. He also produced a letter written at the time of the sale by the defendants to plaTrtifl', in which thev triform him they had sold the property at the prices named, payable this week, which the plantiff contended was a sale on credit and not for cash. It was answered that the deposition of the defend ant’s Clerk, and all the evidence in the case, proved a positive sale fur cash—that the delivery before the actual payment was according to the usage of trade; and th ? the letter did not imply that the money would not be payable tiil the end of toe week, but referred to (lie know n course of business, by which on a sale for ca>h the money was payable with all convenient speed, and would be received in the course of a tew days, or certainly within a week. The chief Justice charged the Jury that if the defendants sold on a credit of a week they were answerable, but if tho sold for cash and the usage of trade oi, such sales was to deliver the g<mds and within a day nr two make out the bill and demand the motley, the defendants could not be liable although some accident or misfortune like that proved in the present case prevented them from collecting the money from the purchaser, provided die purchaser was at the time a man of respon sibility and fair chaiacter. The jury found a verdict for the defend ant! hut a case is reserved for the opinion of the whole Court on the question of Law. Bos, Gaz. Paris Post Office.. — ft appears uy r, speech of Al. (lirardin, in the Chamber ol! Deputies on the I2t!i inst. that the private I correspondence of the pub'ic i regularly violated in the French Dost Office. The system was abolished at the Revolution, revived by Buonaparte, and is still carried on to the disgrace of Louis XVIII and his Miuislurs in the departments es well as in Paris. “The secret bureau, (said Air. Giranlin) is supported at a great expellee. At least thirty clerks are employed in it. I can tell you who pays them the money they receive. I can also tell you that a pas sage from the cabinet of the Director of the Post leads into the secret office. The entrance of it is shut by a concealed door. As soon a* this is opened, we find ourselves in the offices of persons charged to discover the keys to the different cy phers employed in the correspondence, in in the work-shop of engravers occupied or taking impressions on plates of lead of the impressions of tho arms and Reals which are employed to secure letters. These letters are finally carried to a kind of la boratoy, where there are instruments cf a very peculiar construction—close fire to melt the wax and cauldrons of boil ing water to loosen wafers In abort all is mystery in this subterraneous as ylum, and the men employed to dis cover the secrets of every body, are themselves a secret to all the world.” Af ter some further observations, he observed, that if this office was not given up, he would take another opportunity to state things w hich prudence at present induced him to withhold. Miligan and Welchman, who were coh victcd some time since of robbing the Phoe nix Bank of New-York, and whose sen tence had been deferred for the purpose of deciding a point of law relative to their case, were brought to the bar on Saturday the 18th, atiu both sentenced to the state prison for 9 years, at hard labor. Jlrithomcter.— A French artist, Mr. Thomas, of Colmar, honorary director of the Phcenix Company, has obtained a bre vet of invention (patent) for a machine of calculation, to bo called the Arithomcter. It has been presented to the Society for the encouragement of national industry, and by it a person unacquainted with figures may be made to perform; with wonderful promptitude, all the rules of arithmetic.— The most complicated calculations are done as readily and exactly as the most simple; sums in multiplication and division, of se ven or eight figures, require no more time than those of two or three.— Charleston Courier. Port of Savannah. ARRIVED. Brig Eliza, Morrison, Shannon, Port-au-Prince, 9 days, with coffee to W. P. Bowert. Marine § Fire Insurance o(Jicc. Hf’FiHE Marine and Fire Insurance Company li of the City of Savannah, have declared a dividend of two per cent, ‘which will be paid on the 18th inst. R. WAYNE, Scc’ry. /line 5 33 Savannah Marine Fire In surance Company. meeting of the Stockholders of this co tt/jk is called on business of particular im pot tance to them ; and a punctual attendance is desired, at the office of the Company on WEDNESDAY 12th inst. at 12 o’clock pre cisely. By order of the Board of Directors. R. WA\NE, Soc’ry. june 5 Shad. 45 barrels Shad. Far sale by HALL 4 HOYT. june 5 33 COHN. 3000 bushels Virginia Com—For sale by JOHNSTON 8t HILLS. Alßo hhds. prims retailing New-Orleans SU GAR may 11-.—o _ AUCTIONS __ Hy EaJcer ft Minton OnThuiai!y fctli in*, m front of uici: Ar c-. •Oil Store an assurtivc* 1 1 f GROCE HIES. And at 1J rVl.ick in More, a ivge assoino. n Ery Goods. ••iip 4 • Ity J. />. fterbevi & Cc. llllS DAY, at ll o’clock “rill he sold before our Auction Store 59 bb's No. 1. Herrings 15 boxes Codfish I do/ wire Sives, for rice •i ,llle 5 53 Terms Cash. I) Herbert ft ‘Crt. , J 1, !? at 11 o’clock, ” ill be sold before our S ore, a general assortment of Git OC ERIE s. ALSO boxes Candles 20 do Claret 10 hlids Jamaica Rum &c. Also without reserve 10 casks Hut tons Ale 2 hlids Molasses 3 bbls sweet Wine 3 doz Fancy Chairs Terms Cash A. private sale, received per Corsair and Man-. 131 boxes Troy Candles 79 casks H. H. L. Porter 20 hhds Jama ca Rum 20 do 4th pf N O do 24 hhds Muscovado Sugar 50 bids Newark Cider 5 pipes cognac Brandy 5 bales Oznaburg; s june 4 S3 Summer Clot fling Hats &c fpiiK subscriber has just received by the la- JL test arrivals from New-York and Charles, ton, the roost fashionable Hats and Clothing, which will be sold at cost and charges. Conse quently great bargain* may be had four debts east ol the City Hotel. 11 ATS. 30 dozen men and lx j-’s Straw Huts 4 cases fine ilrab broad brim Hats 7 do do narrow aixl do And a great quantity of fashionable summer garments Consiatng GnndaitJ, Conganc, Florentine with satlin, blue do. Searsuclters, Vhrie *rd color’d Janes, some extra sizer, white Sat tin, real do. coloured CJtTHTS. Black, blue, green, brown Filoque boniba zelbs, ISombazccue, and Searsucker VEST S. English Florentine, fashionable Stripe. Val encia Toilenett, black, blue and buff Catsi mere Vtsts Exlra West oj’ England. Blue and black, <! res, Coats. SHI UTS. 15 trunks fine and extra fine plain Linen ‘Shuts. Ntgrtfes Summer Cion thing, Also—a great quantity of Ladies’ and Gen tlemens’ Silk and Cotton Hozierv Four pair fine Gentlemens’ Socks can be Lad For one dollar. Oznaburgs. The very Best quality can be had at the most: reduced price* 13 cents. S Ik Umbrellas. A great qum tity blue and green at two dol lars and fifty cents ravillion Gauze. llhiu, wnite and green at two dollars. A few boxes Gauze; at three dollars and fif ty cent* PETER DRi GE. June 5 33 ■ - - - ■—■■ ■■■ , ■ . ------- Poston Glass. JUST received per ship Mount Vernon, an invoice of GLASS WARE and WINDOW GLASS, consisting of Quart and pint mol’d Decanters do do do Ditchers Pint and J pint do Tumblers do \do ship do do do ldo flint do Flasks Imp. welted Table Wines, fluted do Castfoot do do fringed Tumbler Bowl do do do do do Welledfoot do do Glostnr Itowl Table do fluted 32 boxes cf 8 by 10 Chelmsford Glass 8 do 12 by 14 do do u do 11 by 15 do do 12 do 12 by 16 do do For sale bv MITCIIiLL BARTLETT, may 15 1 , M Private Sale , TWO prime Negro Fellows, one a first-rate Carpenter, about 25 years old—sold for r.yr fault. The other a flrst-rate Sail Maker, 22 ys. she above negroes will be sold low if early ap plication is made to april 24 J.B. HERBERT V CO. Happiness, TALE for the grave and the gay. by the author of “ No Fiction,” 2 vols. Just received, for sale bv ‘TIIOS. LONGWORTH, Johnson’s Squar-v mnv 13 13 Mackerel. J.amling anil fnr tale , SO bbls No. I Mackerel 2d do No- 2 do MITCHELL lit BARTLETT, rasy 39 27 c Stone Ware, Cider , 2sc. ff)Y the brig Native and sloop Oliver Wolcof, uJ we have received and for sale : 180 boxes of superior Cider 1600 gallons of Jugs and Jars Jiml at imial on hand ■■ A general assortment of UROCERIES, Which will be sold low. CLAGHORN & BASSETT, No. 23, Bolton’s Range, may 13—Iw
