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NEWS JAZETTE.
WASHINGTON, GA.
THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1843.
FOR PRESIDENT,
L jDasrarar qw>^r
,Q£r More snow fell here on last Tuesday
lian has fallen since 1833. Its average
epth was about four inches. Ii is a visitor
s unusual as it is uncomfortable, the first
hat has fallen during this winter, and it is
obe hoped the last. Snow is by no means
welcome, when, as at present, many fruit
reos are in bloom, except to the lovers of
hat very damp amusement, snowballing.
We make some extracts on our
fourth page, from the Report of the Com
nissioner of Patents, forwarded to us by
Mr. Meriwether. The whole document is
rery interesting, especially to farmers, and
we shall continue our extracts for their
benefit.
00“ We have received from S.A.Holmes,
Agent, in Augusta, an Extra New World,
containing the second part of the new Nov
el by Dickens, &e. Those who wish to
procure the work, can conveniently do so
of Mr. Holmes.
Slate of Parlies.
Now that Congress has adjourned, and
the Convention season is coining round we
may expect some new movements among
the candidates for the Presidency. Among
the rival Democratic candidates; the fight is
already becoming interesting; and in it,
hi. Van Bucen seems to be rapidly gain
ing the advantage. The prospect that Mr.
Calhoun will get the nomination of the De
mocratic National Convention, grows daily
less, and in consequence his partizans dis
play even more bitterness towards the Van
Buren section of their party than towards
their common enemy the Whigs. To such
an extent does this feeling extend, that it is
hinted that if Mr. Calhoun fails in getting
the nomination (and he undoubtedly will
fail, being no match lor the little magician
in political manoeuvring,) he and his por
tion of the party will come over to the sup
port of Mr. Clay, a movement which can
hardly be hoped for, although if there is a
ny thing in the doctrine of affinities, they
are much more likely to amalgamate with
the Whigs than with the Northern Loco,
focos.
In the mean time, Mr. Tyler is actively
at work on his own account. He is buy
ing up such freemen as are for sale, whose
number in this county, unfortunately, is
not inconsiderable ; he is subsidizing press
es, almost every day we hear or read of
some papor having hoisted the Tyler flag,
and he is employing the whole of his Exec
utive power and patronage to secure a nom
ination. lie has hitherto worked rather in
the dark, but we may soon expect some de
velopment of his designs ; his hope is pro
bably that for the sake of compromise be
tween Calhoun and Van Buren, the Demo-
cratic party will nominate him. Me can
of course expect nothing from the Whigs
who m -thready determined and united up
on til*'. candidate. With the influence of
i° n * le l ,osscsses ant * l * le organized
a the- active army of office-holders under his
Command, the Captain is a candidate not to
be despised by the Democrats ; as for the
Whigs, they are accustomed to fight a
gainst official power and can do without
him.
Cass,'•Johnson, and the minor candidates
of our opponents, seem to be almost disre
garded in the very pretty fight which is go
ing on between the more important sections
of the Democratic army. Whether they
will ever rise to any importance in the con
test cannot now be foreseen.
The prospects of our success, under the
banner of HENRY CLAY, are brighten
ing daily. Every where unanimity and
enthusiasm pervade the Whig party, good
omens of a victory as great & more perfect
than that of 1840. Quiet and seeming in
activity now reigns among them, but the
Whigs are ready, and when the time comes
for action, will come to the contest with an
energy and in numbers which will over
whelm their adversaries.
The National Intelligencer of the
2nd inst. says “Mr. Forward is no longer
Secretary of the Treasury, his resignation
having taken effect yesterday”.
It is supposed that Mr. Forward was too
much of a Whig to suit the President, and
therefore he was compelled to obey the Cap
tain’s word of command, ‘Forward March /’
The Hon. Henry A. Wise has been nom
/ inated to the Senate by the President of the
United States, to be Minister Plenipotentia
ry pr)d Envoy Extraordinary to France.
(fCr Wo have before us a number of the
“ Augusta Chronicle and Gazette of the
State,” published in 1798. The politicians
of that day were not much behind those of
tile present in the science of political squib
ing, witness the following :
“ The people of New England, are so
strenuously desirous of putting the sedition
bill into operation, that an honest magis
trate in the vicinity of Quincy, has com
mitted a man to prison for saving that
“ John Adams was born without a shirt !”
Another man was apprehended for call
ing the President’s dog a son of a b h ;
hut for want of sufficient proof was dis
charged !
The result of the municipal election in
New Orleans was in favor of the Whigs.—
W. Frnret was elected Mayor by a major
ity of 315 votes.
The Virginia House of Delegates have
carved anew county out of several of the
old ones, and called it “Ritchie” in honor
of the editor of the Richmond Enquirer.—
Mr. R. has sent an earnest letter of remon
strance to one of the members against hav
ing “ honor thrust upon him” in this way.
but we believe the House insisted upon it,
and of course Mr. Ritchie must consent.—
Indeed, we don't see how he is to help him
self.
• GENERAL CLINCH.
The following'compliment is well merit
ed by’ the General;
In the House, on Wednesday, Mr. Stoke
iey, from the Committee on Military Af
fairs, reported a joint resolution requesting
the President, to cause a Sword (to cost sl,-
000.) to be made, and presented to General
Clinch, for his services and good conduct at
the battle of VVitlilacoochic, in Florida ;
read twice and referred to the committee of
the Whole on the Slate of the Union.
Savannah Georgian.
The Washington correspondent of the U
Stales Gazette says :
“Mr. Nathan Dunn, of Philadelphia,
now, 1 believe, in London, is spoken of as
Minister to China. A more efficient or bet
ter qualified man probably could not be
found in this country. His long residence
at Canton, and thorough knowledge of the
character of the Chinese, as well as of their
trade, eminently fit him for the important
task of negotiating a commercial treaty be
tween the two nations.”
Important. —An eminent physician has
recently discovered that the night-mare in
nine cases out of ten, is produced from ow
ing the Printer. Think of that, delinquents,
and pay up 1
The Bill to lay off the State of Alabama
into Congressional Districts upon th e white
basis alone , has passed both Houses of the
Lagisiature of that State, and is now a law.
Thus, the principle laid down in the Con
stitution of the United States, guaranteeing
to three-fifths of the slave population full
political weight in the distribution of politi
cal power over the Union, is repudiated by
a “ democratic ” slave.holding Stale. It
will be remembered that a similar proposi
tion was made by a democratic Senator in
the Tennessee Legislature last fall, but
was promptly scouted down. Why may
not all the non-slave holding States of the
Union with as much propriety disclaim the
right of political power now enjoyed by the
South on account of its slave population, as
that the non slave holding counties in Ala
bama should withhold it from the slave
holding counties ’ Republican Banner.
The Latimer Petition, which has been
presented to the Legislature of Massachu
setts, consists of a roll of paper two feet
wide and half a mile long, equal to -if’.oo
superficial feet. It is headed by Latimer
the fugitive slave from Virginia, and 62,526
others, obtained in 205 towns in Massachu
setts, beside, id ‘owns out of the State. Its
gross weight ■ 150 ibs.
The Congressional petition, now in the
possession of John Quincy Adams for pres
entation, is of the same dimensions as the
above and headed by Latimer. On it arc
; the names of people from 174 towns in Mas
sachusetts, and 22 unknown, comprising
the names of 51,862 persons.
A Phenomenon.—The St. Louis Era of
the 13th ult. has the following paragraph:
Some of the papers in the upper part of
Missouri notice the fall of a dark substance
resembling steel.dust, immediately after
the heavy snow two weeks ago. The light
of the sun was obscured all day, on Tues
day, by dense clouds of this substance and it
is known to have extended to several coun
ties.
From the Peoria Register, February 10.
ECONOMY OF A SPECIE CURREN
CY.
The Receiver of the Dixon land office
passed through town on Saturday last on
his way to St. Louis, with $30,000 in spe
cie. To convey this sum it was necessary
to employ two wagons and three men, ma
king, with the receiver himself, two for
each wagon. They left Dixon on the Mon
day previous, and, in consequence of the
inclement weather and bad roads, did not
arrive here, though the distance is but nine
ty miles, till Friday night. Finding the
river closed, the party went on by land, and
will probably reach St. Louis in the course
of next week.
It is estimated that it will cost upwards
of S2OO to transport this money to St. Lou
is. We have been advised that it cost just
about S2OO to collect a draft last fall, sent
by the Treasury Department to the person
having charge of the work of improving the
navigation of the Mississippi just below St.
Louis; and we are also advised that it cost
about S4OO to collect a draft of about $30,-
000 sent to Prairie du Chien the present
winter. On the latter occasion one item
was for the payment of S7O for transporting
the specie in the stage from Dixon to Gale
na, whicli is about half way to the Prairie.
Who pays this enormous tax ? Does the
Government or.tlie draft-holder? In either
case it is certainly oppressive. Could we
get back to the good old system of a solid
National Bank, it would cost, to send uny
amount of Government money from Dixon
to St. Louis, just nothing at all, unless a
special messenger was employed for the
purpose, and then it would cost compara
tively nothing. llow beautifully the sys
tem works ?
Correspondence of the Albany Evening Jour.
WASHINGTON’S OLD SERVANT.
Washington, Feb. 5.
The spirit of patriotism within me has
been refreshed this morning by communion
with a mati whose existence constitutes a
link—probably the only link—which con
nects the present with the long, long past.
Having noticed that a hill passed the
House of Representatives granting a pen
sion to John Carey, who was the servant of
Col. Washington at Braddock’s defeat, and
who was also his army servant during a
part of the Revolutionary war, I inquired
him out, and to-day the Hon. Mr. Briggs of
Massachuse !s and the Hon. Mr. Morgan of
our own State, accompanied me to the old
veteran’s cabin, which is upon a branch of
the Potomac, about a mile from the Navy
yard. Wc found him in good health and
with a strong feelingof gratitude to God and
his country at the prospect of a pension.—
lie says that the people ofVirginia, thirty
year- ago, told him that if he came to
Washington, lie would be sure to get a pen
sion, and though lie has suffered many
years of disappointment, instead of com
plaining, tie has been thankful for the mer
cies ami blessings he has enjoyed.
When we commenced conversation with
him his voice was tremulous and his utter
ance difficult. But this, as his feelings rose,
was overcome, and he talked for an hour
and a half with much animation, evincing
remarkable intelligence, a strict regard for
truth, and a just sense of propriety. He
did not know how old lie was but from in
formation derived from persons who knew
him best, fixes his birth in 1729. He says
that he was several years older than the
“Colonel” at Biaddock’s defeat. Wash
ington took him as a servant when he en
tered the army in 1743, telling him he must
give away his fiddle, stop playing with
dice, and he would take care of him, and
that he found him a kind, good master. Ile
gave us a brief but intelligent account of
the disastrous battle in which the English
General fell. This living chronicle of a
battle which occurred almost one hundred
years ago, from the lips, of one of the ac
tors in the same, was deeply interesting.
Mr. Briggs showed the old negro a sword
belonging to General Washington, which
by many was supposed to be the one worn
at Braddock’s defeat. After examining it
tlie old man said that it was not so : that the
■ Colonel” had two swords with him in that
campaign, both of which he said he had the
care of, and which he described. Mr. B.
informed him that the sword came from
Washington’s grand nephew ; but lie per
sisted in saying that it was not used in that
campaign as is the fact, for upon the belt
buqkle“G. W. 1737” is engraven, show,
ing that it was made two years after that
battle.
He then gave some accounts of scenes on
the Brandywine, in the Revolutionary war,
and of t he surrender of Cornwallis when he
was again Washington’s servant, but with
less distinctness, showing that the earliest
scenes were best remembered. When he
heard of Washington’s illness, he came
from his residence to Mount Vernon, arri
ving the day after the General died. At
first no body there knew him, or who would
allow ibni to see the remains, but his impor
tunities finally brought some of the family
out by whom he was recognized.
\t'he close of the war General Wash*
itigfon gave him one of his military coats,
v. h hhe has carefully preserved, and val
es it is a relic above any price the world
can offer. This was shown to us. It is
blue, with yellow facings, and large metal
buttons, six of which have been feloniously
cut off by visitors. In looking at and talk
ing of this precious garment, the old man
brightened up and became enthusiastic.—
Mr. Briggs asked him what he would take
for the coat. He saw the question was not
in earnest, and barely replied, “Don’t ask
such a question, massa.” Mr. Morgan,
with apparent earnestness, repeated, “flow
much money shall I give you for it, John?”
At this he drew up and replied with spirit,
that if he had nothing but rags to wear, and
nothing to eat, all the money in the world
could not buy that coat. But he added, “you
may put it on as a heap ofladies and gen
tlemen have done before.”
Having been with him more than an
hour, I spoke of going but he urged us so
earnestly to stay that we remained much
longer, listening with constantly increasing
interest to one who has lived to more than
fivescore and ten years.
His mental faculties are yet unimpaired.
His vision and speech are affected, but
hearing is good. His wife is more than
seventy years his junior, and his only com
panion and nurse. They live in a cabin
which he built before the late war.
The bill which has passed the House un
der the auspices of Col. Taliaferro and Mr.
Briggs, gives him a pension of SBO per an
num, commencing in 1842.
A Novel Steamboat. —The Baltimore
Clipper says:—“A steamboat is being built
at New Castle, Delaware by Captain Rob
inson, upon an entirely new plan. She is
constructed without frame or timbers, be
ing put together upon the principal of a
hogshead, with iron hoops. She is eighty
five feet long, has twelve feet beam, guards
included, twenty-one feet six inches hold,
and when ready, will not draw more than
two and a half feet water. The hooping
does away with caulking, and having no
frame gives her more room and less weight
as well as being a great saving of timber
and monev.
From the New York Express.
THE NAVAL COURT MARTIAL.—
THE SOMERS AFFAIR.
There is much more going on in this ci
ty pertaining to the Somers investigation,
than what appears in the Reports. We
have already noticed the mission to Massa
chusetts of the Custom House Officer, S. S.
Southworth, the correspondent of the Madi
sonian; and we now see that the indefatiga
ble Secretary at War, whose vigilance and
whose vengeance were never known to sleep
has dispatched here a prominent and close
ly confidential Clerk in the Department of
War on a mission somewhat similar to that
ofS. S. Southworth in Massachusetts.
It is certain that this Clerk, now in this
city, has sought access to the prisoners
brought home in the Somers for trial, under
a charge of mutiny ; and it is to his pre
sence we attributed the question of the
Judge Advocate with regard to the employ
ment ot the chief of the mutineers, in ma
king Southwesters to keep himself and the
other prisoners warm on the passage home;
and also, in all probability, directly or in
directly, the withdrawal of those prisoners
from the jurisdiction of the Navy, has been
brought about by his agency. To whatever
agency this movement has been owing, the
effect is most prejudicial to the attainment
of just ice. Some of the apprentices are be
lieved to be deeply guilt}’ ; others in a less
degree. By keeping them apart, the less
guilty might have been used not only to con
vict the others hut to show the whole plan
of the mutiny. But this would not have
suited the insidious enemies of the officers
of the Somers. In contempt and in subver
sion ofall military and naval authority,
these prisoners have been removed from
the custody of the naval officers. They
have been thrown together and furnished
with facilities to consult and combine.—
They have been emboldened in their hardi
hood by being produced in the courts, sur
rounded by sympathisers such as crime sel
dom fails to command among us, and con
verted into martrys, instead of being looked
upon as men who fully meditated to be
come the worst enemies of the human race.
We need not enlarge upon the impropri
ety of this extraordinary course of the Se
cretary of War. If the Secretary of the
Navy is the man we take him to be, he will
not long tolerate this interference with the
Navy ; and if the President be the man, he
has been, he will inquire why a New York
Custom House Officer was despatched to
Massachusetts from his post here to pro
cure testimony, but more particularly, why
a Cleric in the War Department is absent
from his post on so extraordioary a mis
sion.
Asa further specimen of what is going
on, we must call attention to a scene that
has been got up before the Recorder. Dan.
McKinley, one of the apprentices brought
before the Recorder on a Habeas Corpus,
testified that several of the prisoners (ap
prentices) who were confined by the Com
mander ofthe Somers for mutiny, were ac
tually sowed up in sacks, sometimes with
their hands out, and sometimes with the
sacks drawn over their head, on the passage
ofthe brig from St. Thomas to New York.
To make the most out of this, one ofthe ci
ty papers that lives upon exaggeration, and
libels, and then complains that it is so often
sued for them (not half as often as deserved)
announced, that “it appears in evidence,
that Commander McKenzie double-ironed
several naval apprentices, and had them
tied up, besides, in bags or sacks, as you
would shot grouse.” !!
This horrible revelation seems so to have
alarmed the Recorder that he let McKen
ley loose, it may be to play the mutineer
again. The true facts of the case, howo
ver, have been brought out by Lieut. Gan
sevort in his examination. And so far from
these sacks having been used either for se
curity or for the punishment of the prison
ers, they were furnished to them from mo
tives of the highest humanity. They were
made expressly for their comfort and to
protect them against the chillness of the
night winds, and in consequence of com
plaints from some of them that they were
cold on deck. They were very large al
lowing the free use of the limbs, and never
drawn over the head at all, except at the
will of the wearer, and in order more effec
tually to protect them from *the weather,
the “boys” were fnrnished with head-co,v
erings called “south westers.” Every sol
dier ofthe French Army in the Russian
campaign, and every soldier in a winter
campaign now, is provided with precisely
such a protection, and such sacks are fur
nished to the soldiers as regularly as any
other part of bis field appointments.
Cold weather . —Friday before last was a
“cold Friday” at the North and East, to
say nothing of places nearer home. At Au
gusta, Me., the mercury fell to 17 below
zero, and in some positions, 22. At Troy,
N. Y., 24 below zero. At Norway, Maine,
to 31 below zero. But this is nothing to
what took place on the Housatonic Rail
Road where the boiler of the Locomotive
froze up, while under full head of steam !!
The particulars of the phenomenon are
thus stated in the Norwalk Gazette:
Extreme cold. — We understand that the
weather has been so intensely cold during
the past week, on the lino of the Housaton
ic Rail Road, that the water in the boiler of
the locomotive actually congealed while
the engine was in operation, and the train
was brought to a dead stand ! It is not of
ten that the weather is cold enough to pro
duce such effects.
LYNCHING IN MISSISSIPPI.
The Gallatin Signal of the 10th ultimo,
states that on Tuesday the 7th, two negro
men belonging to a Mr. Burnett, were for
cibly taken from the premises of that gen
tleman, about 7 miles South of that place,
and hanged, without the benefit of clergy,
judge or jury. This is a most disgraceful
affair, and the circumstances which led to
it, are briefly these : A few days previous
the negroes had went to the house of a Mr.
Noland, when that gentleman was not at
home, and after abusing his wife, rifled all
the trunks, drawers, &c., about the house,
and decamped. This outrage was i mine -
diutely made known to the proper authori
ties, who, neglecting to take the necessary
steps to have the negroes arrested forth
with, a number of Mr. Noland's friends as
sembled together, to the number of about
twenty, and went in a body to Mr. Bur
nett’s, and taking the negroes front his over,
seer, hanged them without ceremony, as
above stated. N. O. Tropic.
COUNTERFEIT DOLL A R.S.
Some of the counterfeit coin which lias
been introduced into the cities East of us,
has reached this place. The Baltimore
Clipper says:
We were yesterday shown a counterfeit
Mexican dollar, which was so admirably
executed as to be detected ouly by the clo
sest examination. There are two particu
lars in which the counterfeit differs from
the genuine dollar, viz.: the snake in the
eagle’s mouth in the counterfeit touches the
A in the word Republica, which is not the
case with the genuine, and the branch run
ning before that word is split at its termina
tion, so that a part of it goes under the R,
whereas in the genuine dollar it does not
reach the R. The spurious dollar is defi
cient in weight nearly a twelve and a half
cent piece. Tested by aquafortis it does
not immediately exhibit the copper, but af
ter a short time the verdigris is plainly vis
ible. Our citizens should keep a good look
out for these counterfeits, as it is probable
that many of them arc in circulation.
COUNTERFEITING ESTABLISH
MENT BROKEN UP.
The Cincinnati Message of the 9th inst.
gives the following account of the arrest of
a notorious counterfeiter, and the discovery
of his “mint:”
Avery important arrest was made last
Saturday evening by officers O’Neill, of
the sth, Ruffin, of the 2d, and Davidson, of
the 3d ward, under the following circum
stances :
Officer Quigg, of the New-York City Po
lice, arrived Imre on Friday evening, in
quest of Leonard Whitcomb, with a requi
sition from the Governor of New-York —
and not meeting with the prompt assistance
he expected on applying to the city mar
shall, he made application to Mr. Davidson,
who, with the co operation of Messrs. Ruf
fin and O’Neil, succeeded in making the
arrest, near the intersection of Sixth-street
with the Whitewater canal, Whitcomb be
ing then on his way into the city. On Sun
day, officers Ruffin and Davidson went o
ver to Covington, Ivy., and proceeded in
company with officer Quigg. to Whitcomb’s
residence, in the lower part of the city,
where, after diligent search, they discover
ed iiis whole coining apparatus, together
with the metal and dies for half dollars,
dimes, half dimes, six a fourth cent pieces,
all of which they brought over to the city.
These gentlemen deserve great credit for
their promptness and energy in arresting
this old and notorious ofi'ender.
Whitcomb has been engaged in “tink
ering with the currency” lor several years,
and lias generally escaped through the
meshes of the law. Amongst his papers
was found a list containing the names of a
desperate and organized gang, extending
through the whole country.
Apples of Sodom. —One of the first ob
jects which attracted our notice on arriving
at Ain Sidy, was a tree with singular fruit;
which without knowing at the moment
whether it had been observed by former
travellers or not, instantly suggested to our
mind the far-famed fruits
“Which grow
Near the bituminous lake where Sodom stood.”
This was the ’Oslier of the Arabs, the
Aselepias gigantea velprocera of botanists.
* * We saw here several trees of
the kind the trunks of which were six or
eight inches in diameter ; and tbs whole
height from ten to fifteen feet. It has a
greyish cork-like bark, with long oval
leaves, and in its general appearance and
character it might be taken for a gigantic
species ofthe milk weed, or silk weed found
in the Northern parts of the American
States. Its leaves and flowers are very
similar to those of the latter plant, and
when broken off, it in like manner dischar
ges copiously a milky fluid. The fruit
greatly resembles externally a large smooth
apple ororange, hanging in clusters of three
to four together ; and when ripe is ofa yel
low color. It was now fair and delicious
to the eye, and soft to the touch ; hut on be
ing pressed or struck, it explodes with a
puff, like a bladder or puff- ball, leaving the
liand only the shreds of ihe thin rind and
a few fibres.—lt is indeed filled chiefly with
air, like a bladder, which gives it the round
form, while in the centre a small slender
pod runs through it from the stem, and is
connected by thin filaments with the rind.
The pod contains a smali quantity of fine
silk with seeds, precisely like the pod ofthe
silk weed, though very much smaller—
being indeed scarcely the tenth part as
large. The Arabs collect the silk and
twist it into matches for tliir guns, prefer
ing it to the common match, because it re
quires no sulphur to render it combustible.
The most definite account we have of the
apples of Sodom, so called, is in Josephus ;
vho as a native of the country is better au
thority than Tacitus, or other foreign wri
ters. After speaking of the conflagration
of the plains, and the yet remaining tokens
ofthe divine fire, he remarks, that “there
are still to be seen ashes produced in the
fruits ; which indeed resemble edible fruits
in color, but on being plucked with the
hands, are dissolved into smoke and ashes.”
In this account, after due allowance for
the marvellous in all popular reports, 1 find
nothing which does not apply almost liter
ally to the fruit of the ’Osher as we saw it.
It must be plucked and handled with great
care in order to preserve it from bursting.
We attempted to carry some of the boughs
and fruit with us to Jerusalem, but without
success.— Robinson's Biblical Researches
in Palestine, &c.
SILK TO REPEL A BALL.
The efficacy of silk in repelling a mus
ket or pistol shot, L i freqtn utly been made
a subject of doubt und (il.-.et.-.sion. Wo
have lately met with what we conceive to
be a strong demonstration of \\> repelling
force, in a late publication by a m ib< til of
ficer of the army, (Dr. A. Neele.) which
derives additional interest from :i celeb
rity of the person principal}’ eo. ■tried.
” Avery promising young officer of engi
neer/. with whom I lived in habits of th
greatest intimacy and friendship, while etc
ployed in repairing the breaches ofCiudad
Rodrigo, consulted mo respecting an obsti
nate headache and giddiness, which 1 found
was principally occasioned by his wearing
a stiff leather stock. I earnestly recom
mended him to lay it aside, which lie tena
ciously declined ; when as . a further in
ducement, 1 told him that, in the event of
substituting a black silk handkerchief, it
might one day preserve his life, as silk
would certainly turn a hall which might
penetrate leather. At length he complied,
and, as I had predicted, his headache left
him. We soon after separated—he going
to the light division, and my station being
with Lord Hill. Thecampuign commen
ced, and in a few weeks 1 learned, with the
greatest grief, that my gallant friend Lad
fallen at the head of the first storming par
ty at St. Sebastian.
I was then stationed at Ileynoze, many
leagues distant. As I believed him dead,
my surprise and joy were great on recei
ving a letter from him some weeks after
wards, acquainting me that, when on the
very glacis, he had been wounded with a
musket-ball, by a man on the wails. He
immediately fell, covered with blood, which
streamed in profusion from his mouth and
nostrils. One of his own corps dragged
him immediately into the trench. lie was
carried to his quarters and the wound, on
examination, was pronounced mortal ; the
hall not being found, was supposed to have
lodged in the vertebrae of the neck. He
lived, however, for three days, and no bad
symptoms coming on, the surgeons began
to doubt the accuracy of their opinions
The sapper who saw him fall was examin
ed, to ascertain whether he had seen the
bullet, which was instantly produced from
his waistcoat pocket, saving that, on unty
ing Mr. Reid’s silk handkerchief, he found
part of it carried into the wound, and using
a little force in withdrawing it, the ball
came out with it not a single thread of the
silk handkerchief having given away, as
appeared on examination. Mr. Ileid re
covered, and is now a lieutenant-colonel in
the army, and Governor ot the Bermudas.
CCOi 5i CK Cl A I
From the Chronicle and Sentinel, March 2.
AUGUSTA EXCHANGE TABLE.
STECIE BASIS.
Augusta Notes.
Mechanics’ Bank, par.
Agency Brunswick Bank, . , . . “
Bank of Augusta, “
Augusta la.. Banking Company, . “
Branch Georgia Railroad, .... “
Branch State of Georgia, .... “
Savannah Notes.
Slate Bank, par.
Marine <)■ Fire Insurance Bank, “
Planters’ Bank, “
Central Rail road’Bank, . . 5 a 8 dis’nt.
Country Notes.
State Bant, Branch Macon, . . par.
Other Brunches State Bank, . . “
Commercial Bank, Macon, . . “
Bruns unck Bank, **.
Milkdgeiilie Bank,
Georgia Railroad Bank, Athens, “
City Council of Augusta, ... “
Ruckerstille Bank, “
Branch Murine <(• Fire Ins. Bank.
St. Mary's Bank, “
Branch Centralli.lt.Bank,Macon, 5 a S dis’t.
Central Bank, 25 a 30 “
Exchange Bank of Brunswick, no sale.
Insur. Bank of Columbus, Macon, no sale.
Phoenix Bank, Columbus, . . no sale.
Bank of Hau'kinsville, ... “
City Council of Columbus, Macon
and Milledgeville, . . . uncertain.
Monroe Railroad Bank, broke.
Bonk of Darien and Branches, “
Chattahoochee R. R. f B'king Cos. “
H i stern Bank of Georgia, “
Bank of Columbus, .... “
Planters’ <|- Alec’s. B'k. Columbus, **
Bank of Octnulgee, “
Geo. 6 per ct. Bonds for Specie, a 50 per dol.
Gco.ti “ “ “ none in market.
South Carolina Notes.
Charleston Banks, ...... par.
Bank of Hamburg, ..... “
Country Banks, ....... “
Alabama Notes, ... 30 a dis’nt.
Checks.
On New- York, sight, . . . par.
Philadelphia, “
Baltimore, “
Lexington, par a ’ “
On Richmond, Va. ... J a “
On Savannah, .... par a j dis’nt.
On Charleston, .... par a-j “
months after date application will be
■*- made to the Honorable Interior Court of
Wilkes county, while sitting as a Court of Ordi
nary, for leave to sell the Real Estate of John
W. Sherrer, deceased.
WILLIAM SIIERRER, Adm’r.
March 9, 1843. m4m 28
GEORGIA : ) Whereas, John L. Wynn
Wilkes County. ( applies to me lor Letters ot
Administration on the Rea! Estate of Argyle
Norman, deceased.
This is, therefore, to cite, summon, and
admonish, all and singular, the kindred and
creditors of said deceased, to he and appearat my
office within the time prescribed by law, to show
cause, (if any they have,) why said letters should
not be granted.
Given under my hand at office, this 6th of
March, 1843.
JOHN 11. DYSON, C. C. O.
Marcli 9. It ‘-8
HOTIGH.
PERSONS indebted to us for last years Ac
count? are requested to cad and pay them.
d s we onened no account but with die expecta
.ou of its being punctually paid.
WILLIS & HESTER.
O* Persons indebted to me individually aie
request'd to call and pay their Notes or ;'c
counis. FRANCIS T. WILLIS
February 23, 1843. T *26
