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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 * . *
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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
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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
