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SAVANNAH,
Ttrcnsmr Monmjeo, Dec. 4.
COMMUNICATED.
At a time like the present when death and
tickness have stalked through our land, and are
traced by misery and poverty, it becomes the
imperious duty of those who have escaped their
ravages, to extend the hand of friendship and
charity, to raise the “ bowed down,” and sooth
the affliCted hearts. At every season which rolls
over our city, the misery is constantly increased,
and objects of charity constantly 7 multiplied.—lt
is useless to pay the compliments attendent on
charity to our citizens ; their open hands are too
well known, and thir liberality too well estab
lished, to need a newspaper puff: Rut the pre
sent year, more loudly than usual, calls on their
benevolence, and demands the exercise of their
humanity. If there is an object which can move
the soul to all the energy of active feelings,it is the
sight of a fellow-creature in distress; and if there
is an action that soothes the soul, and leaves the
warmth of an angel’s feeling in the heart, it is
the exercise qf charity to this object. He is cul
pable, by the words of our Saviour, who to the
calls of hunger closes his ears, and to the de
mands of penury opens not his hands“ Re ye
clothed,” defends not the shivering objects of
distress, from the piercing chilly winds—and
“be ye filled,” allays not the cravings of appe
tite, and awakes not the fire of gratitude & plea
*u r e in the hollow and dim eyes. Fortune has
smiled on your exertions to accumulate wealth,
and frowned on them, your situations may be
reversed—ls you wish the glow of self-approba
tion to dwell within your breasts, then admit
charity to a seat-in your bosoms; and pour a
part of your ivealth into the laps of the indigent,
and exclude poverty from among us. There
cannot be a want of object: the Female Asylum
and many otheT institutions in our city, would
,gladly receive the contributions of your good
ness Rut there is c • other call now made on
your charity.—The Missionaries now with us,
request assistance ; and though the object be
richly wonhv, yet it should not interfere with
our charity at home. Rut let us first attend to
{he interest of our own poor, before we extend
our exertions to strangers ; let the individuals of
our own community be enabled to hear our own
ministers, & be enabled to enter our own church
es, from which their poverty has in many instan
ces excluded them,*even within the sound of
our bells—let the helpless widow be first consol
led, whose miserable cliildren daily weep for
food, and who in tlie prospect before her has on
ly a dark and gloomy road, with no gleam of
comfort, and no light to dispel its darkness—
who knows not but the morrow may terminate
her existence, and leave her helpless children
to perish by famine, or left a prey to a merciful
world,—first pour comfort into her broken
heart, raise her from the bed of sickness, sup
port and defend her children, dispel the clouds
of despair from around her, and point her to
happiness here, and joy bereaffer.
Think not by this I would endeavor to cool
the feelings of humanity towards the savage of 1
the forest, or the wild Arab of the desart—by
Do means : it is an object on which angels smile
with rapture, and on which our Saviour looks
with approbation. Man applauds, angels sing j
with joy, and the Omnipotent blesses. With
one hand throw a part at least*of your ricl/es
into the hands of your wives and daughters, and
let woman, lovely woman, dispense comfort
•round, and thus fill the station appointed by
Providence—the soothers of misery and the
comforters of distress. With the other hand
♦xtend the mercy, the goodness, and the power
of your maker. Thus, giving with a cheerful
heart, you must he blessed; for him to whom
“you lend,” will surely repay. Your dying bed
will be a bed of down ; and as your sunken and
giftring eyes close on objects here, they shall
open bright and joyful in worlds above; as the
chill of death creeps on your stiffening limbs,
you shall arise in elasticity and an angel’s form,
in the heaven of glory. X.
Two men were apprehended on Friday
last on suspicion of havin'? been on hoard a
privateer, which robbed the French ship
Maly, when on her passage to Havana,
from whence she lately arrived here. One
of the men was committed for further exam
ination ; the other discharged.
Churlenton Tunes.
At'ourrx, *my. (J 9.
Outbfipt."— We are informed by a gentle
loan from the up-country, that an • tof out
lawry luu been declared against 2 negroes
in Washington county, in consequent'* of
tome alarming murders ami faring depre
dation* which they had recently t om nutted.
COMMERCIAL.
Extract of a http? from a respectable mer
cantile house, dated London, Vet. 7. 1
•’ In hopes that it may prove acceptable,
I now beg to hand you annexed, the last
quotations from Hamburg, for American
produce; in the event of yourselves or
friends, finding inducement to tftake a trial
of that market.
The importations of Rice,have fallen far
short of what was expected, and you will
perceive that prices leave a handsome profit
even on the high cost of g 6 50 cts. Though
the supplies of cotton were more abundant,
a good deal has been taken out of the mar
ket, and our quotations are fully maintain
ed. Os sugar and coffee, ready and profit-’
able sales have been effected. In Tobacco,
much has not been done lately, though pri
ces are not lower.
*A good deal will depend on tfic pros
pects of this year’s cotton and rice crops.
PRICES CURRENT.
HAMBURG.!!, OCT. 3.
Maryland yellow, ctvt. 25 4 a §33
Do. coloured, do. 18 a 24
Do. brown, do. 12 a 164
Virginia, heavy, do. 164 a 221
Do. middling do. 134 a 164
Do. common, do. 104 a 12^
York River, do. 10 4 a 18
Carolina, 1
- Georgia, C do. 9 a 15
Kentucky, j
Cotton, Georgia and Louis, lb. 38 a42 cts.
liite, Carolina, 100 lbs. 9 a s9s
GRENADA, OCT. 11.
The governor has received the following
communication from his excellency S. F. P.
Robinson, pernor of Tobago, of an alter
ation that has taken place in the currency
of that island :
One penny weight of gold is now equal
to nine shillings—itwas formerly worth ton
shillings.
One grain is worth four pence half-penny.
A Spanish dollar, nine shillings, or twelve
bitts.
The cut dollar is now called p ten bitt
piece, and not a dollar.
The joe consists of eight twelve bitt dol
lars.
At present there is but one joe, and one
dollar—formerly there were four different
kinds of (lollars N viz—one of eleven, one of
twelve, one of thirteen and one of fourteen
bitts. —•—
x BRUSSELS, OCT. 2.
The labour of fortifying our strong places
on theufrontiers toward France proceeds
with extraordinary activity. The town of
Charleroi already presents the aspect of
a garrison of the first order, and will be
come a most important bulwark to the
Netherlands on the side of the Sambre. On
the other side, the line of the Meuse also
begins to assume a formidable appearance
from the fortifications at Namur and Liege.
LONDON, OCT. 9.
Jerome Bonaparte is said to have pur
chased the estate of Engersfeld, adjacant
to his estate of Schonen. Madame Murat,
it is said has purchased for 900,000 florins
the lordship of Ort, between Vienna and
Presburgh, belonging to the banker count
Fries. The count is reported to have con
cluded with Fouche in conjunction with
the banker of Prague, M. Von Lamel, the
sale of his estate near Paris.
BERLIN, SEPTEMBER 30.
Major gen. Count VonTuvl ambassador
from the emperor of Russia to the United
State of North America, has passed through
here on his way from St. Petersburg to
Philadelphia.
Trial for Highway Robbery. —ln the
course of the last week, Joseph Jackman
.was tried before the supreme court, at Sa
lem, Massachusetts; on a charge of aiding
in the robbery of major Goodrich. The
Salem Gazette states, that the jury, after
receiving the charge,retired on Friday mor
ning, anti continued together until the open
ing of tlie court on Saturday morning, when
they stated that they could not agree. The
prisoner, of course, was ordered for anew
trial at the next term.
The cause of the Jrws. —A letter receiv
ed in this town, from mrs. Hannah Moore,
the celebrated English authoress, dated
Sept. 3, states, that the “ Hebrew New-
Testamcnt is finished ; and so great is the
demand for it, that a second edition is print
ing.—-Mr. Way, a gentleman of immense
fortune and high character, who has devo
ted himself to the Jewish cause, is now
gone to Petersburg with two German Jews,
Ids own converts } one of whom waa ordain
ed pi iest the day before they came to take„
leave of us. The sultan of Tartary (o Chris
tian convert) is alsn one of the party. They
preach to the Jew* in the cities they pass
through.” Jhtton llte.
From the United States’ Gazette.
I)r. WATERHOUSE'S
‘Lecture on the pernicious effects of smoking Cigars.
The professor of the theory and practice
of physic finished his discourse by a public
lecture in the chapel of Cambrige, which
ha 9 justly excited no small attention with
out, as well as within the walls of the col
lege.
We shall not attempt an ahalysis of it,
but simply mention some of its most stri
king features. The subject is indeed inter
esting to the community, being a compara
tive view of the health of the scholars at
present, and in years past. It was clearly
proved, that instances of depraved health
had increased, and were increasing ; and
that there were more hectical and consump
tive complaints within three or four years
past, than for upwards of twenty years pre
vious, during which the professor made his
observations. He adduced this strikingfact,
that the table-set for the freshmen in the
h.fil, was generally cleared of its contents;
while those students three or four years in
advande, left nearly half that was set before
them. If a keen appetite be a criterion ol
health, there was something of late years in
a college life, which depraves the appetite,
inasmuch as those who come in ruddy,hale,
and hungry, go out pale, languid, smoke
dried and dispeptick. The cause of this
declining health was sought for, when it
was found to originate principally from an
indolent or sedentary habit of life, brought
on and continued by the very prevalent and
nearly universal custom of smoking cigars.
Itr-was-rendered evident, that these two
causes co-operated and aggravated each
other; that the relaxing habit of smoking,
disinclined them from exercising in the
open air, as was the custom, before the filthy
fashion of smoking became so inordinate
and so general.* The professor then des
canted on the narcotick effects of tobacco,
which lie said, like rum or brandy, first
stimulated and then stupified ; that when
chewed it was a consolidated or dry dram.
He then explained the importance of the
saliva to digestion, and showed how the
function was injured; especially in young
persons who had not obtained their full
growth, by ejecting it. It was said that in
ordinate smokers were in danger of be
’ coming tiplers, from the unnatural thirst,
created by the process of hot fumigation ;
and that to remove the fainting and sinking
of the stomach, incident to young smokers,
too many had recourse tostimulatingdrinks.
The professor held up to view the picture
of intemperance, and contrasted it w : th the
picture of juvenile health and Vigour ; he
entreated the young gentlemen in an affec
tionate manner to guard against, and resist
the first inroads upon their youthful consti
tutions, and pointed out, in a forcible, but
delicate manner, the effects of that folly,
“which most easily besets them.”
The doctor allowed that smoking was
cordial and comforting to elderly people,
in certain situations, and under certain cir
cumstances. He said he should be unwil
ling to deprive the laboring man of the so
poriferous regale, after a hard day’s work ;
or the grief-worn weary negro, after he has
finished Ins hard task on die plantation, and
whose wretched condition excites a wish
“tosteep his senses in forgetfulness.” Nay,
said he, I would light the pipe myself, for
this dark son of affliction, if its fumes would
induce him for a moment to forget his
■wretchedness. But for a young person, a
young gentleman, not yet arrived at the
perfection of his growth, and faculties, and
who is, or ought to be, all life, activity,
alertness and neatness; for him to wish “to
steep his senses into forgetfulness,” is,if not
a vice, a shameful depravity; absolutely
unworthy the blooming energies of youth.
Tho professor likewise remarked, that
it was allowed by all, that since the foun
dation of the college, the custom of smoking
was never so general as of late years ; and
that it was conceded by all, that individuals
never carried the practice to such excess
before ; and that it was confessed by all,
that the sons of Harvard never appeared
so languid and unhealthy, and that he could
say, as a physician, that during the three
and twenty years he had been a professor
in the college, he had never seen so many
marks of declining health, nor ever knew
so many hectical habits and consumptive
affections, as of late years; and that he
could trace this alarming inroad on their
tender constitutions, to the pernicious cus
tom of SMOKING CIGARS, and its equal
ly pernicious concomitants .
Although this lecture was replete with
solemn advice, and was in some passage* a
strong invective against a darling fashion;
yet the students immediately requested a j
copy tor the press, which, we hope, will be 1
1 lie means of checking a very serious evil.
* cIfFAfC liav6 b*tn Im
ri*iiig ftini going to ly po'Wg vl
17 or 1# yearn of s£<>!
By Last Nights Mail.
From our correspondents.
Office of the N. T. Daily, Advertiser, Nov. 23.
Insurrection at Saporonase—A Calcutta
paper, brought by the ship Trident, capt.
Rae, arrived at this port on Saturday even,
ing, contains intelligence under the head of
Madrass, July 19, of a very serious insur
rection having broke out on the i9th May
last at Saporonas.one of the principal res
idencies attached to Amboyna, in which
the resident and his family had fallen vic
tims to the treachery of the natives. A
force df 200 men had been sent by the
dutch authorities the day after the insur
rection, to quell the disturbance, but the
whole party had been destroyed immedi
ately on thei: landing.
A letter from Saporonas dated tha 17th
june, gives the whole particulars relating
to the above affair. It was received by
the commissioners of his majesty the king
of the Netherlands at Amboyna, from
mrs. Vandenburg, the wife of the resident.
She states that her husband had been seiz
ed at the Negree of Hasia, or Porto, by the
natives, and that in consequence, she had
taken refuge in the fort. The party who
were sent to, quell the insurgents, consist
ed of 150 european sailors and soldiers,
with about 50 natives. The attack was
made in boats. The eiu-opeans were over
powered, and nearly all destroyed ; among
them several officers.
We learn from capt. Rae, that the gov
ernor of Calcutta had set out for the
western provinces, for the purpose, as was
reported, to put an end to some premedita
ted insurrection.
DlED —at Darien, on the 19th ult. after a
short illness, capt. H. Donor., of New-York, a
native of Salem, Massachusetts.
A sorrowing - and bereaved family are left to
mourn the untimely death of a husband and fa
ther, distinguished through various vicissitude*
of life, by those virtues of the heart which con
stitute the estimable man.
To the refinement and manners of a gentle
man, he added, a character of unimpeachable in
tegrity ; and the many amiable qualities which
distinguished him in every situation, will long be
impressed upon the minds, and entitle his memo
ry to the esteem, of the many friends he had
acquired.
Pert hf tf>ab3*uM r i.
ARRIVED,
Ship Armata, I.eeds, Baltimore, (noticed in
our last) 8 days, in ballast, to Campbell & Gum
ming. Passengers, mr. and mrs. Hall, mrs. Cal
houn and family, misses Cattell, Pressman, Jack
son, and servant.
Sloop I.eander, Robbins, Middletown, Conn,
potatoes, onions, apples and candles, to W. Rob
bins and Sylvester Adams.
CLEARED,
Ship Ariosto, Barry, Havre— TVin. Gaston.
Ship Ceres, Mix, West-Indies — Minis & Henry.
Schr. Marcellos, Duckendorff, W. Indies— master
Sloop P.liza, Webb, Darien— Master.
Sloop Hermit, Bashlott, Charleston — Master.’
Arrivals from this port.
brig Levant, Wood, at New-York, 9 days.
sloop General Washington, Campbell, and
schr. Harvest, Lanneau, at Charleston, 1 day.
Vessels up for this port.
At Nevv-York, Nov. 24. ship Mary-Augusta,
Porter, was to sail ofl the 26th ult.; ship Adonis,
Champlin, on the 27th ; brig Wm. Henry, West,
on the 30th ; brig Eliza, Thayer, in the course
of a week ; brig Roderick, Harding, positively
on the 27th ; and schr. Ariadne, I’endjfton, on
the 27th.
Charleston, I)ce. 2.
Arrived, French ship La Villa de Rouen, Lc
Pont, Havre de Grace, 50 days, plaster of paris,
merchandize Stc.; ships Pennsylvati. * Robinson,
Philadelphia, 8 days ; Ceres; Webber, Boston, 8
days; Radius, Delano, New - York, 8 days ; Dutch
barque Five Brothers,Williams, Ostend, 52 days,
bricks and tiles ; Venezuelan government brig
Arismendi, captain Beluche, of 6 guns and 95
men—she is 30 days from New Orleans, and was
bound to Margarita; but having carried away
her rudder 3 days after sailing, has put into this
port to refit—has made no prizes since she left
New Orleans.
Brig Comet, Bond, Boston, 11 dais.
Went to sea vesterdav, Mexican prjvateer
schr. Commodore Champlin, Stiles, on a cruise.
Baltimore, Nor. 24.
Ar. brig Good Tntent, Dew, Havana, via Nor
folk, sugar, coffee and fruit; schr. Harriet,
Crowell, Boston, 10 days.
Cleared—sloop Lady Washington, Gillet, N.
York : brig Brazillian, Baker, Leghorn and In
dia ; Brothers, Leddell, Kingston, ,lam. ; ship
William Henry, Blackwell, Charleston.
New- York, Nw. 24.
Ar. brig Janus, Brown, Rotterdam, 47 day*,
dry goods, butter and cheese ; sehr’s Pennsylva
nia, Green, New-Orleans, 24 days, cotton tobac
co, &c. The U. S. brig Boxer, wrecked oii south
Pass—specie, armament and crew saved ; Gen.
Jackson, Howland, Aux Cayes, 35. days, sugar,
coffee and logwood ; Eagle, Russell, Washing
ton, v. c. 16 days; ship Trident, Rea, Calcutta,
102 days, cotton, sugar, coffee, and a fine living
elephant; ship Francis, Boyqr, Turks Island, 16
days, salt. On the 26th Oct. the price of salt at
T. Island was 15 cents a bushel, cash, and 20 for
good bills. kinds of provisions very cheap.
Boston, JVfor, 22.
Ar. brigs New-Packct, Luce, Richmond, 16
days; Janus Monroe, Sswver, Baltimore, 9;
sr.hr’s Packet, Foster, Phifadelpqis, 18; Gen.
Lincoln, Whiton, do. 9; ship Oscar, Hart, Cal
cutta, 127 days, piece goods, sugar, ginger. &c.
New-London, Nov. IH.
Ar brig Adels, Kirtland, I’orio-Hello, 44 days
| .at 344, b'tt- 76. spoke sell Decatur, Andrews,
JU da* * from Vew Orleans for Gibraltar. Five
nu n died on the pa on Ihibm! the Adels, I
and when she -orbed there rem itted only two.
Itiyti and • Ii").
NOTICE.—The ship itOMER
ciipt. Bell, for Greenock , only wants about 200
bales cotton to fill up , freight of this quanutv
will be taken, if early application be made to
John spearman- a co.
dec 4 83 Fraser’s wharf
For St. Mary’s,
The stanch sloop Alexander Cltm, Chs.
-EesafcClun, master, will sail with all despatch”
For freight or passage apply to the master on
board, at Howard’s wharf, or to P
dec 3 82 ISAAC COURSE & SOX.
For Darien and St. Mary's
The sloop HARRIOT, Tardy, master,
will sail in all this week. For freight
or passage apply on board, or to
G. F. df Oliver Palmes.
dec 2 i 81
For Alexandria Washington,
The schooner Freemason, John Lyn.
JfijgCfcburi), master, burthen 96 tons, sails well,
and m good order. For terms apply to F. h
Welmax, or to Ghee’ f & Liwtt. dec 2
For Baltimore,
The fast-sailing sloop Experiment,
Bradley, master, will, sail on Sunday
next. For freight or passage apply to the mas
ter on board, at Bolton’s wharf or to
dec 2 81 ISAAC COHEN.
’ . For Liverpool,
The fast sailing copper
ed ship MARGARET,
captain M'Lellan, nov
/Vmk loading, and intended to
be reajy for sea in 12
days, having 3-fourths of
her cargo ready’. Ear
freight or passage, apply
on board, or to
STURGES & BURROUGHS,
no. 3, Commerce Rov.
Deceived per said ship, and for sale low,
Clear and merchantable white pine Lumber,
of first quality and seasoned. dec 4 83
jfX-T For Liverpool,
ie PATENT,
LHggjgjßgo captain Barugh, carry ing 500 bah,
SBrnmUiisS. only ; has 300 engaged, and will be
iminouia eiy despatched. For freight of the re
mainder, apply 7 to li. RICHARDSON & Cs.
dec 4 83
For Liverpool,
.JrC’l'y The stanch, fast sailing ship Scsis,
.lenaM Winslow, master, will have immediate
despatch, having 500 bales ready to go on board.
For freight of 350 bales, apply to
JOHNSTON U HILLS.
WHO HAVE FOR SALE,
250 barrels pilot Bread
25 do no 1 Fqrk
50 kegs Richmond man. Tobacco, Bs.
10 hhds. N. E. Rum.
dec. 3 82 Johnston's upper wharf.
T FOR LIVERPOOL,
Jja|\ The fast sailing ship Halcyon, J. 8.
.Sgiffy, Wooster, master, will be despatched in
ten days, weather permitting, having ToO~bslei
ready to go onboard; for freight of 200 bales,
apply to JOHNSTON & HI LI A
dec 3 82
For Liverpool,
The good substantial ship JUSTIN A,
Andrew Tombs, commander* having
half of her cargo ready to go on board, and wil
soon be despatched ; for freight or passage, ap
ply on board, or to Wm. TAYLOR,
dec 2 81
For Liverpool,
The ship Liverpool Trader , captain
iSSrSe Fenno, wants freight 0f250 to 300 bales
cotton.
The ship Edwin Bolton, capt. Cardner, wants
only 300 bales.
The British brig Scipio, capt. Madders, wants
half her cargo, or about 250 bales.
Also, the ship Belfast, capt. Bunker, for Havre,
has all but 300 bales of her cargo ready. Tb<
whole will be immediatelv dispatched,
dec 2 81 R. RICHARDSON & co.
For any port in Europe,
The very superior fast-sailing ship
Niagara, Lambert, master, stands A 1,
is nearly new, having made only two voyages,
and carries 1000 bales cotton. Apply to the
captain on board, at Rice’s wharf, or to
JOHN THOMAS, Rice’s wharf
Who has fur sale, on (ward said ship ,
150 hhds. liverpool coarse Salt
4sooo superior quality Bricks
82 bundles Hay
•45 boxes Herring
40 firkins But ( ter
5 barrels Apples
I2 do Cider
160 bushels Potatoes 81 dec *
Fop Liverpool, I
The ship REMITTANCE, Coffin- I
master, is now in readiness to receive* ■
cargo. For freight or passage apply on hoard. fl
M’Kinne’s wharf, or to REA & BUTLER- ■
Who have for sale, on boat'd of said ship, fl
38 chaldron best Liverpool CO AL, which ft
be sold low, if immediate application is made. E
IX STOKE, B
40 boxes Raisins |
8 bids prime Pork 1
20 firkins Goshen Butter, first quality 1:
130 half boxes,Soap 1
20 cases Claret §
20 qr. casks L. and T. Wine
6 do. & ? S j ci , y Maf i. Wine I
7 pipes 5 1
1 bale English sewing 1 wine J
2 chests imperial Tea |
4 boxes tea sett* China 1
10 bid* Brooklyn Gin |
1 mahogany c’ounting ltouse Desk |
300 pieces cotton Bagging |
1 fine toned Pianna Forte, and
A general assortment of Windsor and Un. ■
Chairs. nov 28 >i. f
Lm. J
a letter addressed to the rev. Micl*el
/V •* Augustine, Florida, containing *
certificates ol U ttlatea* *i* f.er egnt *to* - I
suitable reward Will be u*d to the fin li ’ ‘
quirvd CIAUDKY * IH
dec 4 f