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THE ARSU3
v compiled from the Savannah Mercury,
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Brvl art i c les of the Daily papers. Adver
ir,',r ’nVill be generally excluded, and the
filled with reading matter.
fi ‘ four Dollars per annum, or Three Dol
f;!.If paid in advance.
’ pi rer tiseinfvts icill be published in both pa
h cen ts per square of 14 lines for the first
,I'arul 371 cents for each continuation.
’ f-ll'pl Coimnuuieations respecting the business
fr c okce must be addressed to the Editor,post
of land and negroes by Administrators,
r oi’ Guardians, are required by law, to
*• : , j Grst Tuesday in the month, between
Wh often o’clock in the forenoon and three
r .j 1 j per noon at the Court-House of the Coun-
; n “ the property is situated. Notice of
j. |ies must be given in a public Gazette
“, j tv-7 previous to the day of sale.
: \ )t ; C e of the sale of personal property must be
; ‘ en in like manner, forty days previous to the
f ; 0 f sale.
v y 0 • to Gie debtors and creditors of an estate,
published (orforty days.
V.tiee that application will be made to the Court
(/Ordinary for leave to sell land, must be pub-
Jiahed four months.
gSa 14^1 f
Savannah, Friday, Sspt. 26, 1323.
British Dry Goods, 55 a G2i per cent, ado
baton, tVi a 7 cents per lb. dull
*< Hows, fO.
Exltir, 20 a 25 cts. per lb.
“ Sort hern, inferior quality —none.
fczfuig. Dundee Inverness, 21 a23 cts. dul|.
“ Toro, 19 a 2D.
frundi/, Cognac, (Jtard, Dupuy Co's. brand, $1
” a 1 50.
*• other brands, $1 a 120—dull.
Cklon, Uplands, inferior to prime lots, 8 a !0j
“ Sea Islands\ 23 a 30, and abort for Jine
marks.
fern, per bushel —retailing from stores at 43 a 45.
cargo, no suits,
Chttse, 8 a 0 cents per lb.
Cutler/). 30 a 35 per cent. adr.
if a, Havana Gran, prime , 15 a 15 $.
i( Qt!*.. qualities 13j a 14—plenty.
todies, XortherK Mould Tallow, 11 cts.
“ Georg'a. 18
Sperm, 23 a29
Lour, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond and
Alexandria, s6£.
din.HoVsnd, 1- 0 a lis
11 Horlhtrn, 30 a32
Ihy, prime Xor.hcrn., Ist quad. 62 12.
Byson Tea, *1 5 a 1 ]*:£ per lb.
Iren. Sired* s 105 a 10c per han.
lard, S 1-2 a i J —jales.
lumber, yellow pine Rangin g Timber, a 6
S'sttm wired [.umber, $lO a 18
liver Lumber, Boards, Flanks 4’ Scantling
sit*-)
1 *
Quartered 11 inch flooring Boards, sl4
h rtr P: ie Boards, clear, 17 a 18
Merchantable, $9 a 10
if 0. Hogsheads Starves, sls a 13
10 “ 4 10 a 12 *
dustiet. raft/d, 2 1-2
“ boated, 4< 3
lickcrc!, No. i. $> ;
2, $4 5-0
“ 3, $3 75
& asses, ft: Lidia, 33 a 55
u Nc w-Orleans— n ov.t.
kmhrghs, 9 a 10.
but prime, g ; 1 a 11 1-2 per barrel
.dess. 14 i-4 a 14^
Inter, s:]*
Jamaica, 100 a 112 j,
H'cst India —none.
5. Eng and, 32 a 33 cts.
rft yf ’uic, 5 a 6 cents per lb.
. Liverpool, 55
ilartra, white, 13 1-2 a 14 1-2— Brown,
9 1-2 a 10,
Muscovado, 0 1-2 a 10— St. Croix, 10 3 all
g etc-Orleans, —none.
- Loaf, 19 1-2 a 18 —Lump 15 a 15 1-2
Katinchy, Georgia , fc. 2 f a 4 cts.
. Mauufuctuted do 8a 30
hiatf,9 a 10
ititiuy. 25 in bb'S., in hluls, 24, sales.
EXCHANGE.
‘- a 'l oad, 8 a 9 Darien Bank Notes, 1 a
ts-York, 9u d's 1| a X 1-2
./'/■ ~ A*. Carolina S.B. Notes,
p ,*t 30 d's 5-8 a | da 10
if* do f prem State Bank of Georgia,
f'fk’phia 44 payable at the Branch-
I f Ut ‘ e “ j es other than Augusta
ili 1 ! p.e.d! ; I4 a1 * per cent. dis.
j 1
l T , FREIGHTS.
hof C(,L ~~ a ° vesseld - j -Vcw- York—77y cts asl
do. { Piovidence —sl 50.
c REMARKS.
I //■ Owing to the lowness of the river,
*aat W ? rn P Cotton comes iii very slowly ;
a/j// ,? . cu received is held at from 10 to 10A;
l-v r ?o ‘^ r * Ct * sdes lave been made ; the quan-
I‘^e C | , | waggons, as yet, is very small.—
, ; 1 - o'id.-, there is nothin*? doiu g, and prices
f* nominal. 00
tt/..demand continues steudy, and the
te very scarce.
infLE, lTs The sales this week are very un
tice. 1 v,e have no alteration in p.rices to no-
Co- v fT-..
tv j./ , “ p CJ dy ea!e of any consequence that
v.^this week is 1.700 bushels tliat
Tujf f'i\ Cents — v, e f l u °t e 43 a45 co.’its.
4 r >U!(i ; t * ie ma *het is entirely bare *of frech
Baoo in . V refldil y command |6i.
k&js./- °. e demand for Eagginsr iA very
* ’ Re quote at 21 a 23.
A lc^-, r ; ..
, in v,?- “ e *'k a *edu Havre, written from St.
dated May 20, contains the fob
. Heq ov ,; ;
i’ iv.nr •.. ! ‘^ ent l * making preparations tobe
~it fotj- * sie (tos Maures trazas.) For
tjuV'v* V' Bt . We endured the cxtc
:!“v hav#? . ln ? s ’ ut audacity which
i, u * iln there tew days in con ing
1( * tU ir “ regresses belonging to the
s ' l °t *!.*’ f e, Ph , yed in was in • within cnn-
resolv* t “.*?> ‘ as CftU -°d the now Gover
havM *? ta • ven £ance for all the atr mi-
MONDAY MORNING, SEPT. 29,
Our friend oi the Augusta Chronicle was sur*
prised at our remark in regard to Mr. Wilde, i
W e intended sooner to have given the facts,
from a review of which, we had formed our opin- I
ion; but we have been prevented by indisposition
from attending to the subject. It is possible we
may have judged too harshly of the transaction.
But ot this, let the public judge. It is not our
intention to do any injustice to Mr. Wilde; for
we entertain no unfriendly feelinga towards him.
If his conduct can be justified, let it be so. If it
cannot, it ought, not to be overlooked because ho
stands high* in the community.
Mr. W r ildvi states in his memorial—
“ That a vessel called the Antelope, or General
Ramirez, together with a number of Africans on
board, were captured by a Revenue Officer of
the United State,*, and brought into the port of
Savannah for adj udication. The vessel and car
go being libelled, were claimed in behalf of Span
ish and Portuguese owners, by the Consuls of
their respective nations, and such proceedings
had, that a large number of Africans were ulti
mately adjudged to the United States to be dis
posed of according to law, as may be seen by the
record of the case in the Supreme Court remain
ing, and the report thereof, iu the 10th, 11th; and
12*h vols. of Wheaton’s Reports.
But it also appeal s thereby, that thirty-nine of
the Africans therein mentioned were finally de
creed to be slaves the property of the Spanish
claimants, piratically taken from them on the high
sons, by a pretended South American Privateer,
and as such ordered :to be restored to them, they
paying salvage to C;apt. Jackson, of fifty dollars
per head, the charges of the Marshal for the main
tenance, clothing, sale keeping &c. of the Africans
amounting to six thou sand three hundred and forty
seven dollars, the costa of Court and bills of Proc
tors m the cause amounting to —; and more
over giving bond with security, to export the
said negroes out of the United States.
That the said Africa! is having been in the
State of Georgia, under th ’ charge of the Mar
shal of that District; by order of the United States
Circuit Court, for more than eight years, have
formed connexions by marriage, and many of
them have children, from -whom, if sent out of the
country.they must be separated, as their wives
and children are property 0 f other persons than
the Spanish claimants. *
That, in November, 1827., an Agent from the
Spanish owners, ( uesta. Ma nzanal and Brother,
arrived in Savannah, bearing full powers to a res
pectable merchant of that city, to receive the said
slaves for the said owners, pursuant to the Decree,
paying the charges and giving the bonds aforesaid,
and immediately to transport them to the Island
of Cuba, the Agent being authorized to engage a
ves.-el for that purpose.
Your petitioner, tlieu in Savannah, being ap
prized of the repugnance of tb e people to depart
from a country, to the langu age and habits of
which they were accustomed where easy labor
v\as imposed and kind treatment received, and
struck with the cruelty of seoa rating them from
their wives and children, to sotul them into slave
ry in a Spanish Colony, rc solved, if possible
though with some risk and trouble to himself, to
afford thorn a chance of becoming free, or at least
of suffering servitude only iu t hat mitigated form
already familiar to them, in a state of society to
which they had become reconct’ed, and in the bo
som of their families.
For this purpose he became the purchaser of the
Spanish interest, satisfied the Ma rshal’s bill and
all other legal charges, as will appear by the prop
er vouchers, and entered into the necessary bonds,
to transport them out of the Unito 1 States within
the * irne limited.
lie has since, in order that they might be sent
as free men to Liberia, made ail offer of the said
Aincans, to the Colonization Soc iety, for the mo
ney actually paid to him by tho Spanish owners
and tho charges aforesaid, as tax* and by tho Circuit
Court, without interest of any addition whatever,
tor the troubie and expenses of ya ur petitioner in
their behalf.”
Mr. Wilde here holds out the idt a to Congress,
that his sole object in making the purchase, was
to prevent the Africans who had for med connec
tions in this country, from being separated from
their wives and children. The memo!rial was fa
vorably received, and the bond, which had been
given in conformity with the requisite ns of court,
was cancelled. Now will Mr. Wildo step for
ward, and tell candidly and frankly, wh at became
of these Africans, and where they now are? Are
they residing with their families as the memorial
intends to convey an idea that they should in case
the bond were cancelled? Or have not a part
been sold and a part been removed to
was not, indeed, Mr. Wilde in Florida, making
arrangements for the settlement of these Africans
there, at the very moment his memorial wan being
read in Congress? If so, what became a f those
tender ties, formed during a residence of eight
years in Georgia? where the wives and children?
do they not remain in Bryan county, and hav e not
the husbands, the fathers, been carried to Florida?
Among the tlfrty nine Africans awarded to the
Spanish claimants, there was but one fern ale
The balance were males; they had, according to
Mr. Wilda’s account, married and got children;
vet the wives and children remain with their for
mer owners.
There are other facts connected with the trans.
action, which we shall take another opportunity
of presenting to the public.
From the facts which we presented to the pub
lic in our last paper, we drew an inference unfa
vorable to Mr. Wilde. The negroes were sold b/
the Spanish claimants for a small consideration.
The bond requiring them to be conveyed beyond
the limits of the United States, rendered them
nearly valueless. Mr. Wilde became the purchas
er ; and then, taking advantage of his official sta
tion as a member of Congress, lie procured the
passage of a law cancelling that bond. This ap
peared to us to be a course to which a high-minded
man would not have stooped. It was prostituting
the dignity of public legislation, to the purposes
of private thrift. And further, in order to induce
Congress to cancel that bond, he pretended to
be actuated by feelings of humanity ; when, in
fict, his motives were altogether mercenary.
He stated in his memorial, that his soie object in
at iking the purchase, was, to prevent a separation
of .these Africans from their wives and children ,
who.' l he had, at the same moment, already sepa
parat >d them from their wives and children, and
re mo* sd thorn to Florida, Having imposed upon
THE ARCUS.
SAVANNAH , THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 2, 1823.
Congress with the sweet sounding terms ofijbene
volcnce, humanity, gen*os :
fftCTavvTthe bond given to remove
them out of the United States was cancelled j
some of the Africans were sold to pay expenses,
&c. and others were settled on the plantations of
a convenient friend in Florida
It was for the course Mr. Wilde chose to adopt
in this transaction that we cousidered him amena- !
ble to the censure of the press. We have the
facts from what we conceive to be good authority.
We have never heard them denied. Will Mr
Wilde’s friends undertake to justify them ?
FOR THE SAVANNAH MERCURY.
Mr. Bartlett:
The following Ticket for a Senator and Re
presentatives in the next Legislature of this state
is earnestly recommended to ti;e support of ©very
independent voter of this county. It combines
Law, Agriculture, and Commerce.
MANY.
Senator .
GEORGE W. OWENS.
Representatives.
MORDECAI MYERS,
TIMOTHY BARNARD,
MICHAEL BROWN.
The New-York City Inspector reports the
deaths of 127 persons, for the week ending the
13th of which 24 were of consumption.
Very little is known of the state of the Jews du
ring some centuries after the destruction of Jeru
salem.—The first body of them which drew any
attention, was that which settled in Spain, from
which all Jewish learning descends.
The celebration of the two hundredth Anniver
sary of the first settlement of Salem, Mass, took
place on the 18th inst. A procession was formed
headed by the Historical Society after which reli
{rious ceremonies were held, and a Discourse de
ivered by Judge Story.
Canal. —The Erie canal is navigable clear
through. On Saturday, there arrived at Albany
41 boats , and 30 cleared. The northern canal is
not yet repaired.
A wine merchant once left a suspected assistant
in his cellar,and said to him,“Now jest you should
drink the wine while I am away, I will chalk your
mouth, so that I may know it He then rubbed
his nails across the man’s lips, and pretended to
leave the mark of the chalk on them. The man
drank of the wine,and to be even with hi3 master
chalked his mouth and thus discovered himself.
A person who has been at the pains to ascertain
the fact, states, that of the persons who entered a
celebrated gin-shop in Westminister,within a giv
en time, the women were in proportion of 19 to 1.
Indigo. —lsaac Dunbar, a planter of Mississppi,
has succeeded in cultivating the indigo plant to
such an extent, that he has this year made 1000 of
1500 lbs. of Indigo equal to the Bengal.
Shocking Accident.—On Saturday evening,29th
ult. a man by tho name of David Hicks, aged a
bout 40. and addicted to intemperance, retired to
sleep on a haymow in the barn of Mr. Neri Rod
gers of Auburn. In the morning he was found
dead on the floor, having fallen from the mow and
dashed in his skull ! The coroner’s jury who in
vestigated the ease, returned a verdict of acciden
tal death.
The lion. War. C. Jarvis, late Speaker of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives, has
been appointed Inspector of the Customs for the
District of Boston and Charlestown, in the place
of Amasa Penniman, deceased.
The London Morning Chronicle concludes an
article on the subject of the peculations of a clerk
in one of the Magistrates offices in that city, who 1
was badly paid, with the following paragraph:
“The Americans pay their custom-house officers
and tide waiters well, knowing that it requires
very lit*] 3 casuisty to persuade a man who is not
paid fairly to pay himself unfairly. There is. in
this country but too strong a disposition to escape
from tha responsibility of what is positively wrong
by the subterfuge of personal ignorance ot it, tho’
such ignorance implies an opaqueness ct intellect
seldom found where men have not an interest in
shutting their eyes.”
A distemper has just broke among the horses
in Kings county, called the “blind staggers.” We
are told though, we can hardly credit the report,
that on Saturday no less than one hundred died in
two townships. The same disease is said to have
made its appearance cn Staten Island. If such a
distemper should once seize upon the horses in
this city, it would destroy a great amount of pro
perty, and distress many who depend upon ahorse
for their income. —Journal of Commerce.
India Rubber. —This duiable and higly elastic
material is now employed to a considerable extent
in the sheathing of vessels. A thin lamina is stain
ed over the surface of the wood, and effectually
protects it from shell fish. The India rubber cot
ton cloth has long been celebrated as an imper
vious covering for roofs, awnings, and travelling
cloaks.
Sumac grows spontaneously in Virginia, and
has been treated as a weed, but this year it has
been collected by women and children, and sold for
’ use to dye “morocco leather.” The leaves sell
| for from $1 to 2 per cwt.—and the season forgath
• ering is long. Thousands of dollars have been
j paid the past summer for the article.
I John Highfield, aged 58, and William Highfield
aged 61, wore tried in England on the 29th July
last before Baron Vaught, for forging and counter
;feitin<r a deed, purporting to be a deed of gift from
J osepli Ward to John Highfield. They were found
; guilty by the jury, and both sentenced to death.
It is said, in some of the London papers, that the
! Momoirs of the life and Administration of the late
i Marquis of Londonderry, are nearly completed -
It. i not said whether this be the work announced,
so me time ago, and to consist in a great measure,
of the correspondence of that Statesman.
*The Boston Palladium s os the 12th inst. says :
Mr . Gallatin, one of the Commissioners of the
Eastern Boundary, is now in this city. Judge
Pmtbi.ls, our other Commissioner, it is probable,
will also visit this city, and it is possible, perhaos
that there may be a conference with the British
Coimmissioners at the place. It would he a happy
result if the affair could be settled without a voy
age to Europe, and the submission of the subject
to a sot eign umpire. If it takes the last course it
is not likely the Commissioners can embark till
the spring.
j Anti-Unionists are in politicks what Atheists
are in leligion-their object is destruction without
offering & substitute for what they destroy,
v [Mississippi Galaxy.
Fire. — On Sunday afternoon, about srix . clock,
a o broke out. in Phi),. J ei
street, below Green street, N. L. The carts, and
we believe the horses, were saved ; the stable and
the hay, and other provender, were deslroyed.-
The carpenter shop of Mr. Win. H Ellis took lire
and was much injured ; a part of the finishd work
was saved ; much lumber, it is stated was destroy
ed.
Several frame buildings on Fourth street were
greatly injured, and the rear of houses on Dilwin
suffered some.-!/. S. Gat.
We learn from the Boston Courier that a brig
was cleared there on Thursday for the North W 7 est
Coast, having on board six hundred and torty-six
bales of Domestic Cottons, valued at forty eight
thousand dollars. A ship also cleared for Valpa
raiso, with nearly five hundred bales of the same
commodity.
T 1 e Columbia State Gazette of the 20th inst
says : “ Cotton has come in rapidly during the pre
sent week and is now selling from 7 to 10 cents.”
There were 99 deaths in Philadelphia for the
week ending the 13th inst. of which 12 were of
bilious fever.
Richmond, September 13.
> Sale upon a Grand Scale —The Balti
more papers advertise for sale 48,000, acres
of Land, in the provinces of Cohephicle
and Texas, in the United States of Mexico.
This land is stated to have been granted by
the government of Mexico, to certain indi
viduals in the City of Mexico—upon con
dition that the proprietors do, within six
years fuom the month May, 1826, set
tle 200 families thereon, in conformity with
the General Colonization Laws of the Mex
ican Government. The proprietors have
have authorized Mr. Dennis A. Smith, of
Baltimore, to dispose of these lauds, with
the privileges, &,c. Mr. Smith proposes to
form a company to purchase these lands—
the consideration money for the whole
grant is $400,000; less than one cent per
acre. As soon as subscriptions to the a
mount of $200,000 are obtained, the stock
holders are to convene and appoint seven
trustees, to employ surveyors and make the
other necessary arrangements. No sub
scription less than $ 10, nor more than SIOO,
to be received, from any pearson—slo
will entitle the subsciber to a certificate of
SI,OOO acres—sloo to a section of 10,000
acres. The Mexican proprietors are enti
tled to he stockholders for 3200,000 of the
purchase money.— Compiler.
METEOROLOGICAL TABLE
FROM THE TWENTY-SECOND TO THE TWENTY-EIGHTH OF SEPTEMBER, INCLUSIVE .
September. Morning. 2 c’clocit. Evening.
Ther. Wind. Weather. Ther. Wind. Weather. Ther. Wind. Weather.
22 72°, E. clear and calm— E. cloudy & calm— 76* S E. clear & breeze
-24 74 S. foggy & “ —BB “ “ & calm —79 S. E. cloudy & calm.
25 76 44 cloudy &. “ —7B N. E. cloudy &. rain* — 78 “ W. “ breeze.
26 74 N. E. clear & breeze — 84 S.E. clear & breeze — 73 S E. clear and calm.
27 68 N. E. “ & calm— 80 E. 44 & 44 —73 E. 44 * 4
28 72 il u calm — 80 N E. 44 & calm— 74 E cloudy & rain.
*2 o’clock P M Rain, 9-100.
COMMERCIAL.
Review of the New-York Market of Sept. 17.
Bread. —The price of Navy Bread is advanced
1-2 of a cent per lb.
Coal. —A cargo of 300 tons. Liverpool has been
disposed of, at sll per chaldron. Schuylkill is
retailing at $lO.
Coffee. —This article continues heavy.
Cotton. —The sales amount to about 1200 bales ;
consisting of 900 Uplands at 10 to 11 1-2, with a
few,of fine quality, at 12 cents; and 300 New-
Orleans at 10 1-2 a 12 1-2 cents.
Duck. —Small sales have been disposed of Rus
sia—Brusgin’s at sl9, and Chepotchkin’s at sl6
50 a sl6 75.
Flour and Meal. —Sales have been made of 4 a
500 bbls. Flour, Philadelphia at $9,25, cash ; of
New-York City at 6,25 ; Petersburgh at 6,25 ;
350 bbls. Troy at 6,37 1-2, and 100 at 6,50 cash ;
and about 500 bbls. Western Canal, yesterday, at
6,50 a 6,62 1-2. A sale of Georgetown, to arrive,
was made at G,12 1-2- Rye Flour is in good de
mand at our quotation. Export, from Ist to Uth
inst. Wheat Flour 23 12 bbls.
Grain. —A parcel of about 1000 bushels hand
some quality North Carolina Wheat was sold
yesterday, supposed at $i,25. Rye has advanced;
sales were made at 52 and 53 cents, and of North
ern Yellow Corn at 54 cents. Export, from Ist to
11 th inst. Corn 1190 bushels.
Molasses. —The demand continues fair, and the
transactions are a lot of about 139 hhds. good
Trinidad Cuba at 34 cents ; 30 hhds W. I. at 32£ ,
28 Martinique at 32, and a few hhds. New-Orleans;
a little inferior, at 34 1-2 cents.
Provisions. —The demand for Beef and Pork
has been more animated, and the sales extensive.
Prices are fully maintained.
Salt-—A sale of 2000 bushels Liverpool Ground
has been made at 45 cents.
Spirits. —-Sales of Jamaica Rum, to some ex
tent, on the wharf, took place yesterday, at 130
cents ; St. Croix at 95 cents. Sales of Whiskey
have been made at 24 cents.
Sugars. —Salesof about 100 boxes Brown Trini
dad Cuba at 10 1-4 a 10 3-8, and 80 hhds. Trinidad
have been made. A small sale of handsome New-
Orleans was made at 10 cents; a few hhds. prime
Porto Rico at 10 1-4, and White Brazil, in barrels,
at 11 I*2 a 11 3-4 cents.
Teas. —The cargo of the ship Ajax was offered
at auction yesterday, and 2133 packages sold—
consisting 0f899 of Young Hyson at 78 a 108 cts.;
175 Hyson, 97 a 111 cents ; 811 Hyson Skin, 56 a
80cents; 127 Gunpowder and Imperial, 119a
125 cents ; 101 Souchong, 46 1-2 a 97 1-2 ; 1
Tonkay, 70 cents, and 10 Bohea. at 27 cents, t
mos , quality fair to good.
Tobacco. —A public sale took place on the J 3th
of 22 hhds. Kentucky at 2 a 4 7-8 cents per lb., and
bhdjß. Segar Leaf at 3 a 5 7-8 cents, 3 moe.
LIVERPOOL MARKET - -Aug. Jah.
The trnißM'** doff® fn'Coiton la?.t wetk was etf
tensive, amounting to wtVs of winch 19,-
000 w*ere American cotton. The import 2i,U00,
of which 19,000 were from the United Slates.--
The demand however was lully met by tiie hol
ders, and the prices could scarcely be said to be
maintained. During the present week, the mar
ket has been heavy and inactive, and wo mutt
quote a decline of l-Bd, especially in the lower
qualities of American cottons. The total sales
are only 9780 bags, of which 9300 are American,
while the import has been 11300, of which 9800
are from the United States. The total supply of
American cotton into the kingdom, is now nearly
350,000 bags, and the deficiency as compared witr*
that of last pear, will no doubt increase as the sea
son proceeds, yet there has seemed latterly among
the holders, a more general disposition to sell, ana
this will perhaps continue to be the case, so long
as the accounts from your side about the growing
crop are so favourable.
Flour has met with a more extensive sale again
for export, chiefly to the West Indies, 25s has
been obtained for Philadelphia, and 245. 9d. for
New-York, and for the latter 3os. begins now ta
be demanded, and will probably be obtained, if but
little come in soon. Tho weather here ibr soma
days past has assumed a more settled appearance,
and at the present moment is very favourable for
our harvest, which is now proceedieg rapidly in
almost all parts of the country, but there is much
at risk yet, and until the whole is completed v. a
shall defer giving any decided opinion as to tho
probable produce of our crops. In the mean time
our Graiu markets have rather a tendency up
wards.
Havre , Aug. 14—COTTON—88 bales Geor
gia, 87 1-2 c ; 25 do. Lousiana, If. 3 1-2 c ; 69 do
Pernam, If. 5c ; 100 do. Tennessee, 81 c. Ooilee
—9 bags Hayti, 95 c ; 172 do Rio 49 1-2 c in en
trepot.
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.
Office of the Courier,
Charleston, Sept. 24—6 p. m
Extract of letters received in this city, dated
“ BALTIMORE, Sept Ij.
Flour —lt will be seen by reference to our com
mercial head that this article has advanced in N.
York and Baltimore, in conseqnence of tha re
ported failures of the wheat crop both in tins
country and in Europe. It has also risen in th o
marhet. Sales were made yesterday at $7 1-2 y
we are informed $8 is now asked for parcels m
first hands.
“ The advices from England received this mor
iug via New-York, mentions the weather still wet
in consequence of which Flour sold this morning
at $9 a 9 1-2, and $7 is now asked. Coro is 4o io
45 cts.”
“NEW YORK Sept. 17.—1 have merely tima
to annonnee the arrival of the John Jay, with ac
counts to the Bth Aug. The sales for the week
were 16,000 bags, and the imports 13,000. Ade.
cline had been submitted from about 1-Sd. in the
lower kinds of Uplands and Orleans ; but in tha
two last days the demands were more brisk and
markets steady. The quotations from tki. to 7 3-8
The Corn Market looking up. The weather had
done considerable damage to the corps on the con
tinent.”
“LIVERPOOL, Aug. 3.—We wrote you Ist
inst. per Caledonia, and have now to advise having
sold on your account 42 bales of the Cotton, re
ceived per Jubilee, viz :29 bales at 6 1-2, and 13
bales at 6 1-4, which we hope you will approve
The remaining 57 bales are worth 6d. they are a
very ordinary lot. We sold the above parcels on
9th inst. when there was rather more doing in the
market,and yesterday upwards of 5000 bales w r ere
computed as the day’s business, and wffiolly to con
suniers,nothing of any consequence being done on
speculation. In some instances prices a shade
higher were realised, but w r e cann t quote an ad
vance on the general market of l-Bd. per lb.
From the Baltimore Chronicle , Sept. 19.
Flour —We learn, that, from the recent advices
abroad, say from the South American and West
India markets, the price of flour has advanced at
least fifty cents a barrel, within the Igst few days.
Howard street may now be quoted at $0 00 por
bbl.
Extract of a letter to a Commercial friend in this
city , dated “ St. Thomas, 2d Sept. 1828.
“ We have the pleasure to inform you that
Flour is very scarce—none in first hands, and
worth $8 ; at this rate a sale was yesterday made
of a small lot that arrived from Philadelphia
Prime Pork, Beef, Hams, Lard, Codfish, & Mack,
erel, are all of ready sale. Rice is scarce and
much wanted, and would command $4 3-4.
“ Referring to the enclosed price cm rent, we
are, &c.
“ Price current at St. Thomas , Sept. 2, d
pilot, bb/. 3. 75 ; do. navy, 2. 75 a3 ; Cra< s,
keg, 31 a 75 cts. according to size; Butter,
14 ; Beef, mess, bbl. $lO all. do. prime, e> ;
Beans, bag of two bushel, 2 ; Black-eyed Peas,
do. do. ; Corn, do. 1. 60 ; Corn Meal, bbl. 3 ; do.
punch. 16 ; Candles, mould, lb. 13 cts. ; do. sperm.
30 ; Chairs, Windsor, doz. sl2 a 15; Flour, s.
fine, bbl. 8, none here . do rye, 4 a 5 ; Fish, cod,
JOO lbs. 3. 50 a4 ; Mackerel, bbl. No. 3, 4. 50 ;
Herrings, do. 3. 50 ; Hog s Lard, lb. 12 ctnis ;
Hams, do. good ; Lumber and Naval Stores, no
sales ; Oil, Bordeaux, doz. $3. 50 ; Linerd. gi,
75 cts. ; Whale, 40 ; Pork mess, bbl. sl6 ; do.
prime, 14; Rice, 100 lbs. 4. 75 ; Soap, yellow. Ib.
8 cts. ; Tobacco, leaf, 4 1-2 a 5 ; do. manufact lr
ed, 7 1-2 a8 ; Wine, Claret/ casn sl2 als ;s,
Russia Sheetinks, piece, 8; do Duck, 12 a Id ;
Ravens do. 6 a 6. 50.— Exports. —Cocoa, Caracas,’
100 lbs. sl6; Coffee, St. Domingo, 6 a 7. 50 , do
Porto Rico, 6 a 8.50; Hides, lb. 10 al3 cents;
Molasses, cask inclu. gal. 18 ; Rum, 30 ; Sugar,
Muse. lb. 4a 4 1-2 ; Wood, fustic, ton, $lB
Exchange. — Bills on U. S. and Spanisn Dollars. 2
per ct. prem.”
CITY HOTEL.
THE CITY HOTEL having been thoroughly
repaired, the subscriber, Agent, respect Silly
informs hi3 friends and the public, that he will be
prepared to receive Boarders on sth October.—
He has made arrangements to accommodate gen
tlemen travelling with their families, and every
attention will be given, to insure the comfort of
those who may call. It is needless to sav the ad
vantages the establishment possesses in its locality
to business. There has been no expenses spared
in procuring the best Bedding, Servants, &c. &c.
The Bar will be furnished with the best Liquors
and Wines that can be procured, and there will be
attached to the establishment a Stable and Car
riage House, sufficiently large to accommodate
thirty Horses, and provided with careful Osilers
HENRY W. LUBBOCK, Agent.
Savannah , Sept. 19,1828. 51
KF The Constitutionalist, Augusta ; Journal,
Milledgeville ; Courier and Mercurv, Charleston,
and Morning Courier, New York, will insert the
above twice a week for tiiree weeks, and forward
their accouuts to the subscriber.
COFFEE.
f \ BAGS, qt a low price.
PALMES & LEE.
[No. 19. — Vol. I.