Georgia Historic Newspapers

    emir Bartlett— editor.]
boarding on the salts.
-ifRS R COHEN has rented, for the season,
fl that airy a:<l commodious ho jse on the t-alts,
iloDiring to Mr. Latnpe, Mongomery, and has
®* v opened an extensive BOARD ‘NG HOUSE,
■ ’ the accommodation of Families, and such
iividnals as may choose to retire to a safe
*treat during the Summer monthp. Long expe
f r l je has proved that this .situation is entirely
r V iipt from the influence of those malignant fe-
Inch often scourge Savannah, and from its
I- ximity to town, offers superior advantages to
; upsouni’T or a northern residence. Terms
w jjl be moderate, ar.d such arrangements have
J efl made as will secure the best fare which this
action of the country can afford.
Mrs. C. will also take charge of a few children
tr. 4 PC r every attention te their health and com
<;t .which hor experience will e&ublc her to do.
_July 13- 1 __
SHOES, LEA THER , TRUNKS, See
By the ship Chancellor.
A. <& E. WOOD,
U AVE received
M Ladies bl k Buckskin shoes,
‘Gentlemen’s flue calf hig r. quartered shoes
Do. 2d quality do do do do
Do real bncloLin slippers,
Do morocco do
j)o fine do pumps with buckles,
Do do do do dancing,
]run trimmed leather trunks,
r ;athc*t top wood trimmed do.
And a handsome assortment of leather do
ALSO,
from their Factory, an additional supply of
MORS, which makes their assortment complete.
j*dy and
S T CR OIA S VGA n.
c\ “ HMDS, prime St. Croix Sugar landing
Jt) from ship Chancellor ,
And fer rale, by
HALL, SHATTER 4- TCP PER.
• f.ilv 3
r ,■■■.!
Rlvi AlL*l.\G i>iOLASSLS /vIND LLUjc,.
K| HHDS Prime Retailing Molasses,
/ pO Casks fcjtone Lime,
landiCg from Bng shibboleth, for sole by
TAFT & PADELFORD
i’%
NOTJCeT
A Li persons arc hereby warned not to pay any
)x sum duo mi*, except I personally deiiraud it.
JOHN B. GEORGE.
/ y 8
LEMONS. ~
21 l Boxes just rocei; ed and for sale by
_v . PALMES 4- LEE,
joae 2b Exchange Dock.
NOTICE
Ty RING the absence of the subsetiber Robert
kJ Habersham will act as hisagqiit.
C. W; ROGERS.
july 1 i*
N O TI CE.
THL undersigned have connected fcpeniselve3
m business, unde: the firm o f Roc 4- Merri-
CHARLES ROE,
CHS. P. MERRLMAN.
Wteif India Fruits and Sweet Meats. 4
| PINE APPLES,
yAnri an assortment of Marmclnde &
ed ia Syrup. I’or sale by *
CHARLES LESUEUR.
July 10—i
•AN TE D IM MEiJ]A TE LY.
ABOUT Thirty Prime Negro Fellow?, for
whom twelve dollars per month, will be giv
en Payments made punctually every nipnth.
‘ J. V. REDDEN.
■jto g and
Gentlemens Fine Calf Boots , lye
A. E. WOOD,
aave just received by; the Ship Helen M r
hum New York.
ONE Trnnk Gentlemens fine Calf Boots square
ioea. * ’ ‘ - •
ALSO
By the Schooner Excell,
wo trunks Lad*y.3 fine colored stuff slippers,
Hoas and Springs round and square toes.
Dly 13
COMMUNICATIONS.
Mu. Editor,
I 1
- “ 4 personage of that importance in this
C (j uui) unity, that n<> [ übhc business of any conse-
Uence whatever can go on successfully without
r •’ approbation, and oven people's private affairs
sccret d°ing9 are often laid before me for my
fn general I decide with a considerable
J&pute, but am very apt to be warped and de
-- w-hen I judge of the matters ofindividuals.
an * s one a buse that I have observed \vith dis
'^at ion, and I have often turned my attention
L rectifying of it—it is this—many things
palmed off in newspapers, as my opinions,
. truth I either knew nothing a.t all of the
■; tr ? (y* was directly opposed to it. The sub
shiytiing the shops on the Sabbath day, has
• sßv erai y<:ars been warmly contested in this ci
i a d the partisans on either side havo solicited
t V 1 a?l d*Concurrence For a while I gave in-
u views of the Sabbath traders, principally
• , Us ° xvas aa °W practice to sell on the Syb-
I have a reverence for every thing an
lc?in * partly because I had not fully examin
es 16 arguments ngainsi it, partly because I
f r ; rnil >* Ur g e d thereto by some very good
c^ n . us 01 on that side. I might have still
j ! “ uet * friendly to it perhaps, but when my call
c :j * ear the report of the committee of coun
'* as neglected, I began-to think there might
ec j 4 ‘ ne fr* in g wrong in the business, and continu
j ‘ v,Ner ing until the publication of the last re
jj n fr** B subject, in your paper, not long since.
c >;I1 S read the document with deep attention, I
*‘G at length to the conclusion that the shop3
si o’ D6 c on *h e Sabbath ; that negroes
j ri^ U f hawk about their wares on that day,
■> * . , t . lord's day should be observed in tins
& ands^ i£s r! T ,,rt is ccitainiy an able and argu
*‘ii u^ VeOUe *^ ere i® a candor in its reasoning
M approve, and I do firmly believe
bie - ‘ v ' Rstnir^c d and agreed to, by its respacta*
. ■ u.nors in p. spirit of liberality and good feel
pj a M ulll thorn the approbation ofeve-
Ciwieit Ido not like youi Cyrraspondea*
who signs himself 11 More *foion.” —l cannot think
w hat lie is at—perhaps he does not like to shut up
h:s shop, or it may be his negroes drive on a,good
trade. Sunday morning, and he shares the emolu
ments ; or may ba he is only trying his hand at a
paragraph, for the sake of sharpening his wits, and
has heard perhaps that the field for display is al
ways on the worst side of the question. He dis
covers more industry than originality, for he seems
very carefully to have trimmed up all the old
threadbare arguments on that side, that have bee
use since Oglethorpe’s or Mr. Gibbons’ time
He says that planters will not allow , or cannot al
low, thuir negroes to come into town any other
day than the Sabbath. Now that respectable and
worthy class of citizens have expressed themselves
a little differently on the subject ; and have sol
emnly pledged themselves ip their memorial to
council, that they will grant their negroes other
time: Your correspondent must either doub
their sincerity, know more of their business than
they kuow ihcmsolvoo, or not havo been awaro
that such a memorial or such a pledge exists. He
seems, however, to have been sensible of the
weakness of this position, for he attempts to fortify
it by one of great strength, as he supposes, name
ly : that if the neighboring negroes are net per.
mitted to come to town in the day time, they will
smuggle themselves in the night to the great dan
ger of the city, and disturbance of its peaceable
■inhabitants. I cannot admit this item in the spe
cification of dangers at all; What will our city
watch be doing in the mean time and if negroes
loiter about the outskiits of the city, the redress
is ready as goon as the evil becomes apparent.—l
have no idea of submitting to any evil, because
the alternative is the unlawful aggression of tho
negroes. If it be leally true that \vc are conte to
that pass, that an argument for not precluding
groes from corning to town on the Sabbath, shall
be tear of their nightly depredations at other peri
ods of the week, our police is in a wretched state,
a.id citizens should be forming themselves into as
sociations for the public safety. But I flatter
myself your correspondent has suffered hirrself to
be deluded by a chimera of his own raising ; or
perhaps his nervous excitability has obtained a
transient victory over Ipa reasoning powets, and
his distempered perception lias converted the slia’
dows of the waving pines, that stretch their long 1
arms around our city, into prowling negroes, big
\yith designs “ of murder, treason, stratagem and
spoiland turr.ed the playful fires of the glow
worm into “ fire-brands, arrows and death.” The
argument founded on compassion for the slave, :
and full of apprehension that his little comforts
may be wrested from him by this arbitrary decree,
is overturned at a blow, if the promise of tho j
planters is made with that sincerity and candor !
which such respectable names gives ns the assu- i
ranee of. One word reopecting the little cojti
forts of the nogrpes. Travelling oti one of the;
public roads a few weeks since—it was Saturday I
—I overtook many negroes on their way to town j
—1 conversed with several on the subject of their 1
business into town—some were communicative, j
and some were not—one however told me hones*’* I
ly, that, the avails of his squashes and eggs w’ould
be laid out in whiskey—and to justify himself ad- !
ded, tlfat it was all the romfort he had—by which j
I have been enabled pretty nearly to determine i
what is the meaning of that favorite phrase when
speaking of negr.oes—their little comforts : Ano
ther fellow carried a large basket on his head—
ooked very sulky—\ asked the cause.— Wfiy, eaid
he, master wo’nt let any of us go to town on Sun
day, nor any other time, but one at a time, and I
am obliged to be back to wight. How do you sell
your produce P Why, master has a kind of mar
ket every Saturday morning on the place, and
buys all we have. Does he give you the town
price? i believe he does. Wh&t becomes of the
money ? He gives it to us. How do you dis- j
pose of it ? He allows us to choose one from a- j
mong us, and sends him into town on Saturday, 5
charged with the purchase of whatever we want; j
and lam going on that errand now. Well, this *
is good—What makes you so dissatisfied ? Why, !
master wont allow us to bring in any whiskey at :
all, and so our little comforts are all stopped.—An
other illustration, thought I to myself, of the mea
ning of the word covifurt.
I hope I shall hear nothing more ifi favor of ne
groes visiting the city, on the Sabbath, at any rale
—and if I catch a dram-shop open on that day
they shall hear from me.
I commission you, Mr. Editor, to invite my
friend “ More Jjnon” t (fo r friend he will turn out
after s* ( l 1 am pursuadjd) to unite his voico to
that of VOJt FOPULI.
11 Ccelebs quid agem?”— Horace.
Ccclebsquid agem ?—why art thou alone ?
Loveless and joy less— comfort I have none-*
Bosom of pity—there is none for me—
Eye of affection, I shall never see.
Ccelebs quid agem ?—art thou growing old ?
Youth have 1 wasted, hoardinp up gold—
Sickly and sordid !— who will love me now,
With all t hese wrinkles on my faded brow ?
Calebs quid agem ?—will thy gold caress thee,
On its cold bosom will it fondly press thee ?
Moments of anguish-when they gather round thee
Idol of mammon ! —\vi.ll it heal or wound thee ?
Ccelebs (juid agem? what hast thou enjoyed ?
Sated with riches, and with lucre cloyed—
Bankrupt of coinfort—youth and health are fled
Unlov’d —unhonored, thou art worse than dead—
Ccelebs quid agem ?—see that lonely grave—
Nettle..- and brambles on its margin wave wave—
Tears of affection—there is none to 3hen—
Ccelebs ! unwedded —’tis thy nuptial bed.
[From the N. Y. Journal of Commerce, July 6 ]
LATEST FROM ENGLAND.
Our news boat has just come up with the
papers of the packet ship Corinthian, Cap
tain Chadwick, from London, bringing
dates of that capital to June Ist, inclusive.
We have only time to comipunicate the
following particulars.
From the Standard we learn that the
falling off in the Revenue continues to a
serious extent. The Excise from the sih
April to the 23d May is2so,ojQo/. less than
last year; Stamps 16,000/. and Assessed
Taxes 120,000/. leaving, after the deduct
tioa of a trifling increase of 4,000/. in ih
THE ARGUS.
*-- - • -
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY MORNING , JULY 23, 1829.
Customs, a decrease of no tess than 380,
000/’ . ’
Destruction of the Royal Bazaar, &c.—
On the 27th May, the British Diorama and.
the Royal Bazaar, in Oxford street, Lon-*
don, were reduced by fire to a heap of ru
ins.— This was a building of very great ex
tent, and cost 25,000/. An immense a
mount of furniture, goods, &c. was des
troyed.
\From the London Courier, May 30.]
i he French papers of Thursday contain
intelligence from Jassy to the 9th, and Con
stantinople to the 3d inst. which shows on
the one hand, that severe conflicts have ta
ken place on the banks of the Danube, in
which the Turks have fought with unparal
leled valor and enthusiasm, and it may fair
ly be inferred with unexpected success;
and on the other, that the efforts of the
Russians to blockade the Dardanelles strict
ly havo failed, and that a sufficient number
of vessels, of different nations, had arrived
to relieve felt fora short peri
od ia that capital. In. Bulgaria, however,
the want of co#n continued, but phiefly be
oause it had been collected for the use of
the army, whose subsistence was secured,
however tho inhabitants of the province
might suffer from the extremities of famine.
It was believed at Constantinople that the
Russians had experienced repeated defeats
in Asia, and that the whole fachalik had
been wrested from their halids. The re
port of separate negotiations between the
two belligerents is not even mentioned \Q
these advices. Sfftne of the fortified posts
occupied by the Russians hetween Varna
and the Danube, and securing their line of
communication, are stated to havo been
carried by t|ie Turks.
Rome, May 9-
Accounts from Corfu, of the 20th April
say, that letters from Egina announce that
the Russian squadron has received orders
to attempt the passage of the Dardanelles,
at a certain fixed time, and that this attempt
was to be combined with a movement of
the Russian fleet in the Black Sea, to at
tack Constantinople with a considerable
maritime force.
Diario dc Romana , May 9.
London , May 30.—Letters from Con
stantinople, of May 2, §ay it is firmlv be
lieved that the Prussians project a landing
on the Asiatic coast of the Black Sea, and
that the attack of Sizepoli was only contri
ved as a mask to this vast enterprise.
May 3 1.-7- Accounts from the seat of war
in the East mention the probability of u
desperate attempt being about to be made
by the Russians against the heart of the
Ottoman Empire. It is said that the Russ
siaq Generals are determined to transfer!
the seat of war to the very gate3 of Con
stantinople, by means of a descent in Na
tolia. It is added that the Porte was mak
ing thp greatest efforts to disconcert this
plan, and amongst tho rest, was straining
every nerve to equip a fleet capable of cop
ing with that of the enemy in the plack
Sea. VVe are likewise told that the Rus
sian fleet in the Archipelago is to co oppe
rate in the execution of this project, by niEt
king its way through the Dardanelles, as
well as thp Bosphorus, into the Euxine.
We have been favored by a commercial
friend will) the following extract of
dated.
Liverpool, May 28.
This week we have had a very lively de
mand for Cotton, the sales are large, and
we may now consider middling qualities
of American descriptions Jd. advanced
from the lowest, and low and- fine descrip
tions nearly as much so, but not so saleable
at the advance. Upon the whoje we are
in a healthy condition at present, and as
many of the importers will have now a fair
opportunity to realize at a little advance,
it is probable they will become less pressing
upon the ptiarket for the future. Nothing
otherwise new, except that Indian Corn,
free, is selling at 365. 6d. to 375. per 480
lbs. The week’s sale of Cotton will be at
least 17 to 18,0G0 bags, perhaps more,**
New York, July 7.
Destructive Fire.*-- Soon after 12 o’-
clock last night, the citizens we;e aroused
by the cry of fire, and the generul ringing
of the bells. It was soon ascertained that
the fire was in the upper part of the city,
and that it bore an alarming appearance.
It commenced in the rear of 241 Spring
street, and destroyed upwards of twenty
buildings on the block bounded east by Var
ic-street, west by Iludson-strect, north by
Vuudam-street and south by Spring-street.
Most of the building? ip the rear were frame
small, and occupied by numerous families,
whose names we find it very difficult tp ob
tain. On Spring-street, six good two-sto
ry-front buildings were destroyed : they
were occupied a? follows :-•*
No. 243, by Mr Inglis
No. 245, by Mr. Boyce, as a drugstore;
Mr. Marsh, teacher, aD s d Mr. Applegate,
printer.
No. 239, by Ebenczer lnglee, last ma
ker, and Parsons Inglee, cabinet maker.
No. 237, by Mr Deane.
No. 235. by Mr. Else!, and widow Cath
arine Price.
The firemen bad a severe duty, and sev
eral companies were still at work at 10 o’-
clock ibis morning, having been on duty
ten hours. A citizen was much bruised by
the falling of a wall. As to the origin of
the fire, we have not been able to ascertain
any thing satisfactorily. Some say the
building was set on fire by the falling of
small that crackers had been
thrown into a stable.
The loss of propel ,‘y is estimated at
from 25 to $30,000 dollars,about one fourth
of which was insured.
From the first number cf the Wheeling
Compiler, dated on the first lost, we copy
the following account of a* most disastrous
Steam Boat accident, which occured a
short distance belowjthat place. We fear
there has been unpardonable ‘mismanage
ment on the part of the officer or engineer.
Keeping up and not letting off the steam
while a boat is lying te, appears to be the
height of imprudence, and ought not to be
permitted.— Pittsburgh Gazette ,
DREADFUL STEAM BOAT DISASTER.
A citizen of this place who has just re
turned from Louisville gives us the follow
ing particulars of the explosion of a boiler
of the S. B Kenawha, and its consequen
ces, which took place on the 24th ult at
the mouth of Guyandotte, on board of
which he was a passenger at that time.
The Kenawha had stopped to discharge
and receive passengers. After the boat
was pushed off, the Engine was started t aqd
the pump put in motion to supply the boil
ers with water. The boilers being rather
lowr, and very hot at the time, and but lit
tle stoam having been let off during their
stay at the shore, the moment the cold wa
ter came in contract with the starboard
boiler, it burst; both ends blowing off, the
boiler itself breaking quite asunder; about
midway of its length, one half of which
Was ripped lentghwise & spread out in the
form of a piece of sheet iron; and the flue
collapsing was cast upop shore, a consider*
able distance by the violence of the explo*
sion.
There were at that time, about 25 Cab*
in and 60 Deck passengers on board, the
former of whfcfc escaped uninjured. Os
the latter including hands, the following
is a list of the persons killed and injured
by the explosions.
Killed 4.—Abraham Barnes Fireman ;
Thomas Bryant, Passenger, James Sheriff,
do. a clpld of 3 years old; Hamilton, do. a
lad, sirname not known but whose father
resides near Sunfish Ohio.
Died of Scalds and wounds up t$ 7 o'*
clock. A. M. of June , 26, 4—C. Davis,
Colored Man, passenger.
Joel Sloop, J Engineers,
Thomas Philips, \
Lewis Handy, Deck hand.
Dangerously injured , 4—Captain Rodg
er?; 11. St Clare; John Bremwell, late of
Poplar Springs; A Williams, colored man,
cook.
Slightly injured , 11—Joseph Sheriff,
sadler, formerly of Pittsburgh, who served
his apprenticeship with Mr. Little. Mrs.
Sheriff, had her heel bone broken, and was
slightly scalded, as also 8 children of the
above scalded ; Ann Riggs. Mary Ann
Graham, Martha Woodruff and child. C.
Rust, 9nd Samuel Edgar—all deck passen
gers.
Captain Stevens, of the Washington Na
val Station, is to take command offhe sloop
of war Ontario, aboqt tp sail from N. York
for the Mediterranean.
The President of the United States anj
his family, accompanied by the Secretary
of War and several other public offers,
left this city in the afternoon of the Bth
ip the Steam Potomac for fortress*
Monroe, &c. and Norfolk, and will return
it is presumed, in lie same boat on Tues
day next.
York, (Pa.) July 7.
In the early part of last week, a large
balloon, formed pf paper, descended on a
farm near the Conewago, about ten miles
North of this place. It is not koown
where it came froiq. The countrymen
who saw it descend, and bad never seen
the |like before, were greatly astonished
and alarmed by its appearance.
United States Bank.—' This institution
has declared a dividend of three and a half
per cent on the capital stock for the last
six months.
The following i? an additional item of
discomfiture in the celebration at N. York.
We .copy it from the Commercial Advert
tiser:
A large flock of sheep y'bich had been
brought to town to celebrate independence,
headed by an old bell-weather were pro
ceeding up Broadway in a sheepish & cock
neyfied manner, when they became embar
rassed jameng.tbe multiplicity of people and
things, bayonets and bonpets, and gigot
sleeves of the colored ladies. Their lead
er, under these circumstances, made a des
perate bolt into Mr. Wilson’s hat store, and
his simple flock followed him, baaing and
bleating; to the no small discomfiture of the
worthy artizan, whose customers do not
wear wool hats, cr rambeaver as they are
called in the country. The bell-weathe
was probably aware of this fact when he
sought an asylum thertu”
A robbery to a very considerable amount
says the Baltimore Patriot, was committed
at Bushbill on the 4th inst. Two gold
watches, with suitable trinket and chains;
a one hundred dollar nqte of the U. States
Bank, seven five dollar notes, and other
articles of value, were stolen from the tav
ern house, for the recovery of which, a re
ward is offered by Mr. Sehalliall.
State of Trade in New*York. —The
following sentence, forming the corom eDce ~
ment of a series of editorial remarks ip the
New York American, furnishes ia a few
words a gloomy picture of the state of trade
:n that city :
‘The depression of manufacturing stocks
‘he depreciation in shipping, the silence of
>ur dock yards, and the general stagnation
of trade, aru striking and admitted fact?.’
Sad condition of the Army—* The fol
-1o w dig description of the depluiable condi
tion of that portion of our skeleton army
whick is stationed beyond the Mississippi,
appear in tha last Richmond Enquirer.
To t*e Editors cf the Richmond Eiiquirer.
Believjpg you a friend of the army, I
take the liberty of acquainting you with
some facts that have come under my notice
in an eight year’s acquaintance [with the
Western posts. I have found desertions
more frequent than even dqfing the war,
when the : pay was worse and the danger
greater. How to account for this has been
my study; and 1 have at last arrived at this
conclusion, that the violation by the offi
cer of the contract between the soldier and
the government has been nine times out of
ten, the cause of deserfion. For instance,
beating and punishing ‘ a,soldier for not
agreeing to work for the private benefit of
the officer, causes the soldier to be reck
less of his fate, and his only relief-ds deser
tion. The guard house of a single* regi
ment of infantry contains at this time not
less thkn fifty confined for desertion, al
though not more than two’ years ago a ge
neral delivery took place thrush a Court
Martial. *
In France, subalterns of'the army are
not allowed to marry unless by permission
from the king. In England, gentlemen of
the army are allowed to hire women as
laundresses, &c. In the United ‘States*
army,‘every brevet lieutenaut wili marry
as soon as ne finds that he can have front
ten to fifty men to wait on him ; to build
him to make him a garden ; and
in fine, to do all tha service that a party of
negroes could f’fendeiT The 7th regiment
affords a striking exemplification cf tfre dis
advantages the soldiers labor under ih or*
dbr to accommodate the married gentlemen
with spacious quarters, <3kc.’ A subaltern
is noi content with less than two rooms a
kitchen, i.moke house, privy, hen house,
pigeon house, and a neat little piazza be
fore the door and claims with pertinacity
those things,'simply because he is married-
Two or three Soldiers are kept making
shoes, clothes, See i for the family, lie side?
others employed painting, white wash
ing, shoeing horses running after the cows
and, if I am not mistaken egregiouslv,,*
Mr. O ■ en’s system is a perfect bagatelle,,
in comparison to the army association. ‘lt
is, gentlemen, V'toiHplete menagerie of
women, dogs, children, hogs, horsCS, cat
tle, pets, bears, Syc To prevent deser
tion, I see no remedy but to hire Or buy
negroes to supply the place of the soldiers,
there being no difference between tire two
cases at present,” but color~-and I can
safely aver, the law to the contrary not
withstanding, (hat no negro in Louisiana is
treated with more severiiy than a soldier.
I wish also, to call vour attention to the
forage of officers. It is gravely daunted by
gentlemen, that they have a right to draw
forage for horses drawing hacks in Wash
ington city, or employed on their planta
tion, claiming also Haifa dojen .looms, at
$ 15 pef month, never occup’ed unless re
ceipted for to some lather, mdt'her, or
some relation, at whose house the 6aid of
ficer locates'his family, The ’•fraim of
t\ r one officers furking aboqj in citizen’s
clothes at \Vashington City, I hope wit]
meet wjth your early attention.* Certain
gentlemen of the said b§Vy, have received
dearly $lO per day a* clerks Is it “riot so I
A SOLDITH Os THE LAJT jFAR.
Louisiana, June ‘3. ”
Thi Franklit ) It is well
known that pr, Franklin left by'w ill, a
fund of one thousand pounds \d each of the
cities of Philadelphia end Boston; to be
loaned out in small sum* at moderate inter•
et, to young, married, mechanic*', to enable
them to commence busiuess. A statement
of the present condition of thele funds fas
been lately published, by their respective
trustees, from which it appears that the
Boston fund is in a much more nenli hy
condition than that of Philadelphia The
nominal amount of,the Philadelphia Frank
lin Fund is now
tees state in their report, that a very large
portion of it is in hands, from which it can
never be reclaimed; and may therefore bo
deemed virtually Tost; and that on the
whole, the object of the benevolent donor
has been in a great measure defeated.
Boston Fund on the other hand is stated to
be in a prosperous condition. Its present
amount is $17,234 04.—and it is repre
sented to be nearly if not quite all in good
hands
The African System.-~The Pittsburg
Statesman mentions having seen a beauti*
ful specimen, in imitation 6f Brussels Car
pet, which was manufactured from rags at
Mr. Hpldship’s works in that city. It is
eutirely of paper; but so perfect is the imi
tation, that it is stated, the besfjudges
would be unable, at a little’ distance, to dis
tinguish it from Brussels. The Body is
first manufactured in the ordinary manner
of paper; and the colours, which are of
great variety and beauty, are then stamped
upon the paper, and the process of starting
and uniting it, is the same as that fp( mak
ing wall paper It is then so highly var
nished as to resist the effects of water, and
is thus rendered more beautiful and dura
ble, than the imported article.
Sand paper y of superior quality, is now
made on an extensive scale at Wheeling,
Va. Cabinet makers and others who requirti
it, pronounce it “the bcst they have ever
used.” !
The corner stone of anew state house
in Augusta, Maine, was laid on the 4th inst.
and an .address delivered on the occasion
by the Govenor of the State.
[No. IQ—Vo t . 11.