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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
: jjf AtCt'ST A.
THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY S.
Theatre.
Mr. *nd Mr?. Barnes, and Miss Charlotte
BArnes commenced an engagement Tuesday
evening, and have been playing to good houses.
This evening “Old BarW’ appears in the char,
ecterof “Triptolemus Polyglot” in the new farce
of the “Scapegoat.” Now if this farce and their
character are anything like the things we expect
il will be worth a haystack of shinplasters to see
them.
An association has been formed in New York,
for the purpose of distributing letters and small
packages through the city, after the manner of
the penny post. Seventy-five places in the city
h i e been announced where letters, &c., may be
deposited. Each package is stamped with the
bourfand taxed three cents, payable on delivery.
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UrrxK Cakada. —The union resolutions have
been adopted in the Legislative Council; and the
union resolutions brought forward in the House
of Assembly have also l>cen agreed to. The ma
jority in the Council was B—in8 —in the House 13.
By these resolutions, the equal representation
in both provinces, permanent civil list, and the
Joint assumption of the public debt, arc all agreed
to. ®
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Drradfcl Explosion. —On the morning of
the 28th ull. about eleven miles below Lynch
burg, Virginia, two boats, having on board 75
kegs of powder, were blown up by the ignition of
the powder, together with Jive other boats, and
their entire loads, also killing four persons and
maiming one.
The Lynchburg* estimates the loss
by the explosion at between $2,000 and $3,000.
Illinois.— ln the message of Governor Car
lin to the Legislature of Illinois, at the commence
ment of its present session, the aggregate indebt
edness of Illinois is stated at $11,107,919 44.
Os this sum total, the state pays interest, at six
percent on $10,630,000 —making the annual
interest to be paid equal to 2,637,860. The
available resources of the state are put down at
$3,100,000, bank stoi k, yielding an annual in
terest of $248,000.
Mississippi.
The following extract from an Agricultural
Report recently published in Mississippi, is belie
ved to contain a true representation of the condi
tion of that great cotton-growing State :
The following calculations are made by a gen
tleman who seems to have devoted a good deal
of alteation to the subject, and whose statistics,
I have no doubt, will be found somewhat under
the mark, though sufficient for ail reasonable in
duction. The calculat.on is based on an average
of five years. The debt side stands thus :
1.800.000 yds. of bagging, for 300,000
bales (6 yards per bale) at 25 cents
per yard is $450,000
2.400.000 lbs. rope, at 12$ cents per lb.
(U ibs per bale) 300,000
30.000 lbs. twine fordo,, 1 lb. for every
10 bales, is 9,000
$759,000
There were, in 1836, 164,398 slaves in
8 this State; the expense of feeding and
clothing each, is estimated at S4O per
y ear . $6,575,920
There were in 1836, 1 048,530 acres
of land in cultivation in the State, —
cost of farming utensils of all kinds
$2 per acre is not looked upon as to
high an estimate, 2,097,060
Considered necessary expenses, $9,431,990
There were in 1836,41,239 while male
inhabitants in the Stale over 18
years of age—charge them with ex
pending 12$ cents per day in cigars ®
and liquor, dec. 1,881,484
The whole white population of the
State, male and female amounted
in 1836, to 144,351—charge them
to average, in excess of dress, and
other needless expanses $25 per
annum, 3,608,770
1 seless and unnecessary expenses, $5,490,254
Necessary expenses, 9,431,980
•r k u • $14,922,234
i o winch add interest, paid to com
mission merchants in New Orleans,
and the chartered bank account of
the Stale of 8 per cent per annum,
it would make about 3,200,000
rpi .. . , 0 , $18,122,231
Ihus making the indebtedness of the State
over I? millions of doHars. The credit side of
the balance sheet is made up of a single item -
300.000 bales of cotton, valued at SSO per bale]
amounts to fifteen millions of dollars, leaving the
balance against us of over two millions. Thus,
instead of making money, we have been going
in debt annually, at the rate of some two millions
of dollars. In the estimate of expenses, no ac
ivount is taken of the annual outlay for horses
mu.es, and also flour, which have been here
tofore considered necessary disbursements. Nor
h> 7 KIT Ult ° the account th * onerous per
“^ h,fh We fV fo [ evef y purchased, in
consequent of the depreciated state of our cur
rency. If the whole amount were brought into
opsn view, the sight would b-too appalling to
look upon with tranquility. The question arises
how is this very untoward state of things to be
remedied ! I answer emphatically, by retrench
ment in our expenditures, and by raising and
manufacturing those article* of prime necessity
at home, lor which we have been hitherto depen
dent on other countries—then, and not till then
with the exchange be turned in our favor.
It is rumored here, says the Knoxville
Ur that Col. Polk is to fill Judge White's pSce
“ L mted States Senator. We of course, give it
as a mere rumor, and cannot vouch for its cor
rectnesa. We should not be surprised, however,
il the Colonel a aspirations should tend that wav.
t is not lo be believed, that he sought the seat of
Governor for its own intrinsic honor, but that it
might serve as a stepping stone for his ambition ;
•id a. hu pro,pM. f or the vu* Prf ,,,| e „ cv
waning wondrous dim. he will be un „ iliin
to secure . snug berth in ihe United States -Sen
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No glasses effect the eye more unfavorably
than glasses of brandy. So the opticans saj .
A late Liveipool paper has a notice or a.* ““
portant invention” of a new steam en^ *•
gentleman of that city, which has .
the marvelous touch about it. It IS s a ...
“the power is created by air and steam,
consume only one-halt the quantity o. ue
old one: and the rapidity by which a veß ! el
be propelled by it, will enable it to per orm
passage to America in six days. Owing 0 8
particular way in which the power acts upon the
vessel, twenty miles the hour can be realized*!
the greatest possible ease. The weight o e
be only one-half of that required
by the old steam engine, and instead of straining
and weakening the ship, will brace and strengs
en it. By this method the steam power is more
than doubled.
On the subject of Bread-stuffs in France and
other parts of Europe, the Paris correspondent
of the New York Courier writes as follows, un
der date of3oth Nov.
The condition of France is not improving.
The corn markets are tailing, but the diminution
of price occurs not from the o. dinary and legiti
mate cause—plenty; but from the unusually
large quantity of inferior grain on hand, which
is necessarily the first thrown on the market.
Nothing has occurred to change the report I gave
you three months since of the harvest. It was
perhaps a sufficient ane, but no more —and you
are aware that before it was gathered our stocks
were exhausted.
F orn Spain we learn that, superb as was the
last harvest, prices maintain themselves, owing
to the large orders from abroad, principally for
seed. From French Africa little wheat has been
imported into Franee; but it is understood that
there is a good deal in warehouses at Algiers, and
elsewhere. From Egypt we should have had
some shipments, but for the dearth that prevails
in Constantinople, and most of the provinces of
the Turkish empire, which will be first served. —
From Italy (Trieste and Leghorn equally,) we
are informed that, although there was little de
mand for produce, the holders were holding it,
rather than lower the price. Thus you will see
that not only has the price of the good article not
come down, but that it is expected to become
exhausted.
This unfavorable prospect is further justified
by the loss of the seed already sown in very
many districts of France, as well as of England
and Ireland—the rain filtering through the new
ly harrowed earth, carrying with it the seed into
the drains.
Ixferital Machine. —The same writer thus
speaks of the machine which was recently ex
ploded in one of the streets of Paris with such
fearful effect:
I lately mentioned tojyou the seizure of hand
grenades or portable shells, at the houses of sev
eral persons suspected of being Republicans, and
I described their form and contents. On Thurs- (
day night last, at the early hour of 8 o’clock, an |
infernal machine of that precise pattern, was
affixed to a house in the Rue Montpensier, which
runs at the rear of the Palais Royal, and dis
charged. The effects were tremendous. Part
of the stone wall of the house was broken down,
and a volley of musket balls (50 or 60 of which
have been found) was discharged, some of which
crossed the street and embedded themselves in the
wood work of the opposite houses.
The machine was placed and fired by a person,
no doubt, who dreaded detection. He watched
to see the coast clear, and nobody in view.—
Hence the consolatory fact—which the newspa
, pers deem a marvellous interposition of Provi-
I dence—that no passenger was injured by the ex
plosion. None could be injured, for there were
none.—This does not, however, diminish the
guilt of the intention ; for accident might have
brought people within reach of the murderous
machine. The affair is likely to remain unex
plained The miscreant actor in it had, in all
probability, no confederate. It was, therefore, an
act of pure unadulterated wickedness, or an ex
periment on those death-dealing machines, which
the discontented propose using in the:r next in
surrection.
The following table exhibits the number of |
acres of Land in each County, and likewise the
number of acres contained in the State of Geor
gia, agreeably to the Maps and Records in the
office of the Surveyor General.
Apglmg, 680,426 Jones, 241,920
Baker, 899,297 Laurens, 450,560
Baldwin, 156,160 Lea, 340,203
Bibb, 152,563 liberty, 393,600
Bryan, 276,480 Lincoln, 126,720
Bulloch, 605,440 Lowndes, 1,238,203
Burke, 665,600 Lumpkin, 396,025
Butts, 113,030 Macon, 240,308
Camden, 720,000 Madison, 124,800
Campbell, 147,963 Marion, 950,562
Carroll, 482,180 Mclntosh, 422,200
Cass, 439,130 Meriwether, 335*885
Chatham, 268,800 Monroe, 302,623
Chattooga, 223,986 Montgomery, 407,680
Cherokee, 467,780 Morgan, 228 480
Clark, 179,200 Murray, 407,740 1
Cobb, 406,961 Muscogee, 291,903
Columbia, 320,000 .Newton, 256,299
Coweta, 282,881 Oglethorpe, 286,720
Crawford, 250,319 Paulding, 423,617
Decatur, 707,609 Pike. 266 962
DeKalb, 281,253 Pulaski, 515,355
Dade, 112,235 Putnam, 236,800
Dooly, 650,693 Rabun, 249,515
Early 602,549 Randolph, 519,968
Effingham, 310,400 Richmond, 201,600
Elbert, 327,680 Scriven, 345,600
Emanuel, 753,920 Stewart, 482,170
Fayette, 218,804 Sumter, 369,857
Floyd, 317,343 Talbot, 331,468
Forsyth, 183,516 Taliaferro, 86,400
Franklin, 499,200 Tattnall, 761,600
Gilmer, 530,572 Telfair, 264 960
Glynn, 253,440 Thomas, 900,720
Greene, 268,800 Troup, 280 100
Gwinnett, 347,083 Twiggs, 23C680
Habersham, 408,475 Union, 419 158
Hall, 258,277 Upson, 184’, 580
iiancock, 288,640 Walker, 399,663
1 Harris, 297,680 Waltonf 264,015
Heard, 165,763 | Ware, 879,360
Henry, 333,540 i Warren, 274,560
Houston, 392,884 I Washington, 416,720
Irvvui, 1,269,426 j Wayne, 380,160
Jackson, 337,926 I Wilkes, 323 840
Jasper, 245,760 | Wilkinson, 288,000
Jefferson, 376,320 I [
_____ 35,615,526
The New Y ork Times, commenting on the
President’s urgent appeal to Congiess to make
the use of the public money, by public officers,
felony, pertinently remarks
“ Anticipating, jve presume, that the future lee
treasurers will follow in the footsteps of their if
ustnous predecessors, he recommends, to quote
the language of Mr. Legare. that when a safe or
sub-treasury , s erected to keep the public moneys,
a penitentiary shall be erected by its side to keep
rhe relent does not seem, hor^
h ”,' k 'P> “efficiently in view that saee
maxtm of Mrs. Glass calch
Ac—Wouldnota ball and cIU, sufficiently
heavy to ptesent rapid locomotion, be decidedly
Aubxitre i.TSLLHjiacE —A Writer in Bos
ton computes that there are 30,(Joo persons in
the United States of the name of John Smith,
and proposes that Congress transport all but
5,000.
4 from th 4 Baltimore Sun.
Report ol the Secretary of the Navy.
From this document it appears that the duties
’ of the naval branch of the public service have
been assiduously atended to, and creditably per*
1 formed. Our commerce has been protected, and
the honor of our flag maintained at the various
stations in the East and West Indies, the Pacific,
the Mediterranean, the Gulf of Mexico, the
South American coast, and various other parts,
and in no instance has force been necessary to
this end, except at the Island of Sumatra, where
an act of piracy had been committed, and two
American citizens murdured by the natives, who
refusing the restoration of the plundered pr°P® rt y
and delivery of the murderers, received a lull
measure of deserved chastisement, at the hands
of Commodore Read. Commodore Hull in
the Mediterranean; Claxton. in the Pacific,
Nicolson, on the Brazilian Station, to be relieved
by Ridgely; Shubric. in the Gulf of Mexico and
the West Indies; and Read in the Indian and
Chinese seas. One vessel ha 1 , been sent, and
another is about to fellow to the coast ol Africa,
to prevent the abuse of our flag by foreigners en
gaged in the slave trade. The exploring expedi
tion under Lieutenant Wilkes, prosecuted it»
searches as far as the 70th degree of South lati
tude, where it narrowly escaped being frozen up.
It promises good results, and the Secretary states,
that if no new discoveries are made of unknown
lands or islands, it will be because that none exist
in that region of the globe. Various surveys or
dered, have either been completed, or are in pro
gress ; two steam frigates have been commenced,
one at New York, the other at Philadelphia, and
a third frigate ordered has not been commenced,
on account that it is contemplated to adopt a mo
del by a distinguished naval officer, to be propell
ed by a different description ol machinery from
the others, which are also different from each oth
er, for the purpose of testing their respective
merits.
The number of invalid pensioners is 456, and
the sum annually required to pay them is $38,-
844 74. The number of widow pensioners is
330, and the annual amount of their pensions is
$62,064. The number of minor children pen
sioners is 115, and the amount of their pensions
is $14,314; making an aggregate of 901 pen
sioners, and $110,122 74. The amount ol stocks
to the credit of the Navy pension fund, Ist of
October, 1838, was $309,832 25 ; on the Ist of
Oct. 1839, $251,139 00; difference 137,693 25;
which sum was applied to the payment of pen
sions granted by acts of Congress, and accounts
reported by the Fourth Auditor and Second
Comptroller. About $55,000 will be required to
pay pensions, which will become due the Ist of
January 1840, and to meet arrearages as they
may be reported ; which sum on account of the
depreciation of stocks, cannot be realized without
the sale of investments, to an amount not less
than $.80,000 or $90,000 ; for which reason it is
presented to the attention of Congress. The na
vy pension laws are considered to be so compli
cated, that it is hardly possible to administer them
fairly and equally, consistently with justice, and
their revision is recommended; and to one of
them, the act of 3d of March, 1837, is mainly
attributed the decrease of the navy pension fund,
which has sunk in little more than two years,
from $1,115,329 53, to $253,139; and, as I have
before stated, about $55,000 will be required to
meet demands, which will become due on the Ist
of January, 1840.
The appropriation made in 1835, for the con
struction of a dry dock at New York, with the
exception of a small amount for surveys, remains
unexpended, and has reverted to the Treasury.—
Its re-appropriation is recommended; and the
discovery of Gedney’s channel is urged with some
other reasons, in evidence of the fitness of New
\ ork as a location for such a dock.
The Secretary complains of fraud in the enlist
ment of minors, both as seamen and apprentices.
The former, having deceived the recruiting officer,
by taking a false oath, which is not made legal
perjury, releases himself when he sees fit, by a
habeas corpus , after receiving advance pay, and
perhaps becoming indebted to the purser, and a
fraud is committed, for which there is no remedy.
Apprentices are sometimes offered by persons
claiming to be parents or guardians, and after they
have been supported and educated at the public
expense, the real parent or guardian appears with
his habeas corpus , and perpetrates another legal
fraud on the country. The remedy proposed for
these abases is to make a false oath in stfch cases
penal, and punishable as perjury. The system of
naVal apprenticeship has exhibited the most en
couraging results, and the attention of parents,
guardians and magistrates, has been ca)led| to it
by the Secretary, not only account of the benefit
accruing from it to the navy, but to society at
large, in purging it of multitudes of idle and dis
orderly boys, growing up in its midst as a nui
sance, to the great injury of the community, and
the ruin of themselves. 0
The Board of Navy Commissioners are enga
ged in revising the old regulations, with a view
to their adaption to laws subsequently passed ;
and a revised system will shortly be laid before
Congress.
In presenting his estimates, the Secretary has
contemplated no diminution of the force in com
| mission, for the reason, that the only sure and es
! fectual means of maintaining the character and
discipline of the service, is to keep in commis
sion as many vessels, and employ as many offi
cers in active duties, as .is compatible with the
resources of the country. Not the number of
ships in ordinary or on the stocks, but experience,
discipline and habits of hardy endurance, consti
tute the only solid basis of a naval establishment.
The retrenchments, therefore, are to be looked
for in other branches of the expenditure; and
the estimates for 1840 are made with every regard
to economy compatible with the interests of the
country.
The passage is recommended, of a law for
bringing under one general head all special ’acts
for building or rebuilding particular vessels, and
for repairs, as giving the Department the more
ready disposal of all necessary materials, at the
precise time when they may be needed. It would
also simplify accounts, and produce other minor
advantages.
The Secretary thinks, that if the $340,000 ap
propriated lor the gradual improvement of the
navy, be transferred from that object to the com
£oo on i° f i h -* tw ° stearaers > remaining $4 10,-
000, which is to be available, in 1840, would not
be needed till 1841, provided the whole amount
of transfers is eventually returned.
The growth of the navy and the multiplication
of records render an additional number of clerks
necessary to the Board of Navy Commissioners
and apian of reorganization is prepared in which
such addition is included. The report concludes
with a recommendatiod of the creation of a high
er grade of rank, than is now recognized in the
Th* Body of a Husband Sold bt the
W inow.—The New York Era tells a queer sto
ry of a Mrs. V ondonderskirk, the once wife of a
sausage maker, residing on the Ninth Avenue
l eei \ f‘ h 39th streets, whose fonJS
husband died of the consumption, and she thin
king (as most economical wives always do} how
to turn things to the best account, thought she
m.gh make a speck on the carcase of her depart!
ed help-meet by selling him to the doctors which
she accord, nglyfdid, after shedding a few te’ars and
“About three weeks after this business transar
tion, she married Hans Vondonderskirk, who is
a very sickly looking personage, bul who take
good care to give he, a thumping every day over
tne head to lessen thatawlul bump as much as
possible, and to ensure hi. not being sold to lh^
1 doctors before he dies. Mrs. V. yesterday went
out declaring she’d lie revenged. Hans learning
the design of his wife, which was to complain of
him at the Police, sent a friend after her, who
whispered that selling a dead husband was a
“hanging matter,” and that her living one would
certainly expose her if she persisted in going be
fore the magistrate. This cooled the lady s
wrath, and s'ne reluctantly left the office withou
troubling justice with her compla nt.
Imports axd Exports of the State of
Georgia. —We are indebted to the last annual
report of the Secretary of the Treasury, says the
Standard of Union, for the following valuable
statistics. In the tables exhibiting the imports
and exports of the United States, from the Ist :ot
October, 1789, to the 30th of September, 1838,
we find the value of the imports and exports o
Georgia from 1821 t«» 1838.
y Years. Imports. Exports.
1821 $1,002,684
1022 989.591 5,484,870
2823 670,705 4,293,666
1824 551,888 4,623,982
825 343,356 4.222 833
826 . 330.993 4,368,504
1827 312,609 4,261,555
1828 * 308.669 3,104,425
1829 380,293 4,981,376
1830 282,346 5,336,626
1831 399,940 3,959,813
1832 253,417 5,515,883
1833 318,990 6,270,040
1834 546,802 7.567 327
1835 393,049 8,890,674
1836 573,222 10,722,200
1837 774,349 8,935,041
1838 776,068 8,803,839
Total, $9,208,971 $107,356,964
Lawyers is Texas. — A Texas paper in
speaking of those who visit that country in hopes
to better their fortunes, observes that “lawyers
have usaallv done well here, and there is still a
prospect for some of them to do so ; but it now
requires men of sense and legal acquirements to
succeed; and young men who fail at home had
better not come here, unless they are willing to
dig potatoes or turn soldiers.”
The Population of Cincinnati is estimated at
40,000, divided by national origin as follows —
American, 23,000; German, 7,000; English,
3,000; Irish, 3,000 ; Miscellaneous, 4,000.
The Ghost ix Spectacles. —l once saw
what nobody, except always the audience of that
particular night could have seen—the Ghost of
Hamlet’s father acted at Covent Garden Theatre
in spectacles. Armor, of course, was the cos
tume, and chalk the complexion ; the performer,
the late Mr. Chapman, who was remarkably
near-sighted. Having acted the Ghost so fre
quently as to have entirely forgotten the part,
(for who can expect people to remember things
forever 1) he had put on his spectacles on the
outside of the casque which covered his “ aun
ciente” head, and, being suddenly called to the
.stage, on he went—helmet, glasses, and all—
When once on, to remove the glasses would
have been impossible; a ghost without specula
tion in his eyes, taking off a pair of spectacles,
would have been fatal; and accordingly, the
ghost performed his duty, even to the time of
cock-crowing, framed and glazed as ghost was
never seen before. —New Monthly Magazine.
Hamburg, 27th Dec. 1839.
William Y. Hansell, Esu-
Sir—The failure of the Bridge Bank of Augusta*
on the 24th of May, 1819, of which John McKinne
and myself, and Barna McKinne in my stead, for a
time were proprietors. Although twenty years have
passed away, it was an event engraved too deep on
my mind, ever to be erased. It subjected -iue to a
twenty years unrelenting persecution to obtain
without price, the monuments which ray foresigh*
and perseverance have erected. I was cast from
dungeon to dungeon, from that to the present day,
and it not only stampt an odium, but acted oppres*
sive on ©very one connected with its affairs, of
which you yourself bore a large share. I braved rm
fate with nil the fortitude of which I could master
myself—with a constant prayer for health and life,
long enough to correct the error, if committed by
i myself, and to revenge the injury, if committed by
others. I thank Heaven for the grant of my pray
ers.
I felt the Institution was placed on such a basis,
that with ordinary prudence, and without occurren
ces of unforeseen evils, would be beyond the possi
bility of a failure. Yet it fell subject, to that misfor
tune. The ptoprietors were possessed of an unin_
cumbered estate to a large amount. The Bridge
was their property and part of their slock—its in
come alone paid all the expenses of the institution’
and their profit as Bankers, was a clear gam.
The position in which you were placed in the
Bank, enables you to form a more correct opinion
of the true cause of its failure, than even the propri
etors themselves. Will you therefore grant my re'
quest, and give me your unreserved opinion of the
circumstances producing that failure, even should
the censure fall upon myself?
In so doing, you will oblige your sincere friend,
HENRY SHULTZ.
Milledgeville, JBth Dec. 1839.
Mr. Henry Shultz, Hamburg, So. Ca.
Sir, —You request me in your letter of the 27th
inst., to give you ray unreserved opinion of the cir
cumstances which produced the failure of the
Bridge Bank on the]24th of May, 1819, of which
you, John McKinne, and Barna McKinne were pro
prietors.
In answering your request, I would observe, that
there were, in my opinion, several causes, or a com
bination of circumstances, which produced that
event.
Anterior to the time of the failure of the Bridge
Bank, ihore exited in the city of iNew York, an ex
tensive commercial firm, known as Pott & McKinne,
one in Charleston, South Carolina, known as Me-*
Kinne & Ludlow; in both of which Joseph P. Mc-
Kinne was a partner: one in Savannah, known as
Scarborough & McKinne,in which Barna McKimne
was a partner; and one in Augusta known as Mc-
Kinne & Co-, which was composed of Cole, John
ittcKmne, and James Lamkin. These four firms
were partly composed of three broihcrs, with the
natural impression that all three firms were connect
ed with the Bridge Bank, but such was not the fact
yet the failure of one would necessarily effect the’
creditor all Between these firms, there seemed
very property to exist a community of intimate
friendship, and a natural, if no other, feeling of in
terest s
In the memorable spring of 1819, the diaaaters of
whtch were deeply fell by the enure mercantile com
mnntty, and the heavy ahocka o. whteh were “h
atood by but few commetelal peraon. or aaaocia
iona, who were exlenaively engogeu in huainea
these house, faded. The g„t waa the hm... i
Pott & McKinne in N. York, and which had dravTn
for very large auma on the aouihern honae. «d
aho on Ban,a McKinne. individually, who than re
aided m Augusta. Many as theae drain, „ n lVr
Barna McKinne, and on McKinne &Co wen. ,
off by fund, drawn from tho Bridge Bart, and *
I j the extent of these amounts, which were cohsid-ta
I 1 ble, the immediate available means of ihe >an
f were diminished. The pressure on the Bunk was
5 daily increased after the failure of the house of I °tt
, & McKinne became public; a reaction took place
in the circulation of the bills of the Bridge Compa
g ny, antfljiey were hurried in from New York,
t Charleston, Savannah, and other places for redemp
tion. But there was another cause, the effect of
which was still more powerful, and in the absence
■ of which I can but believe that the Bridge Bank
1 would have withstood all other assaults, and triutn
' phantly si stained its credit ami standing. It was
the opposition and hostility of the chartered Banks,
f and more particularly the Bank of Augusta. This
institution had continued to collect and receive the
f bills of the Bridge Company, and piesent thuin m
sums of from ten to twenty thousand dollars at a
time, and receiving nothing but its ow n bills or
) specie in payment. This course was commenced
l by the Bank of Augusta, in the early part of the
1 year JBIB, and continued even on to the time the
Bridge Bank stopped payment, repeating its drafts
' sometimes weekly, sometimes tri-weekly, and for
several days before the Bridge Bank (ailed, those
I heavy drails were made daily—the panic which had
{ »aken place, affording to that institution greater fa
cilities than had before existed, of obtaining the
Bridge bills.
The Bridge Bank, from its banking operations and
iheconlinued income from the profit of its capital,
had made money—the lolls of the Bridge were suffi
cient to cover all the expenses incident to its opera
tions, and its discount or interest account amount
ing to between thirty and forty thousand dollars
per annum, might be considered as profit, subject
only to the deduction of bad debts, which were in
considerable until after the failure of the Bank,, af
ter which the losses were great, for no one seemed
willing, in country or town, to pay a Bank that had
stopped payment itself.
I have thus, in'a concise manner, endeavored to
give you my view's of the two prominent causes
which produced the failure of the Bridge Bank, and
remark in conclusion, that from ray intimate knowl
edge of the resources, means, and liabilities of the
Bridge Bank at that time, that neither one of those
causes alone would have produced that result
The Bank was never engaged in arty speculations,
or commercial enterprize, or business of a Broker
by which its capital or its profile could be endan.
gered or impaired.
I am, very respectfully,
Your ob't. servant,
WILLIAM Y. HANSELL.
Consignees per Sooth Carolina Rail Road
Hamburg, January 9, 1840.
W. Hattier; A Frederick; A. Shear; D. H. Sif
cox; W. E. Jackson; W. E. Jones & Co; W. K.
Kitchen; E. T. Cook; D. Joseph; J. F* Benson;
Bolling, H. & G.; T. H. Howard.
AUGUSTA PRICES CURRENT.
Thursday, January 9, 1840.
BAGGING—Hemp, per yard 20 a 25
Tow, “ 14 a 20
BALE ROPE, per lb. 8 a 14
BACON—Hams, “ 15 a 17
Shoulders and Middling#, 10 a
BUTTER—Goshen, per lb. 28 a 35
Nort Carolina, “3 15 a 25
Country, “ 18 a 25
COFFEE —Green prime Cuba, “ 14 a 15
Ordinary to good, “ 11 a 14
St. Domingo, “ 10 a 14
Brazil, “ —a
Laguira, “ a 15
Porto Rico, “ 12| a 15
Java, “ 15 a 16
Mocha, “ 18 a 20
COTTON—Ordinary, “ 7$ a 7|
Fair , “ 8a
Good, “ 8£ a—
Prime, “ a—
CANDLES — Spermaceti, “ 48 a 50
Tallow, “ 20 a 22
CHEESE — American, “ 13£ a 14
English, “ 40 a 50
CIDER — Northern, per bbl. 900 a|o 00
In boxes, per doz. 350 a 450
ClGAßS — Spanish , M. 15 a2O
American, “ 5 al2
CORN — bushel 50 a 62^
FISH — Herrings, box 125 a 150
Mackerel No. 1 “ none
ii C€ “ <•
(( U 3 « R
FLOUR — Canal, bbl. 9 alO
Baltimore, “ 8 a 850
Western, none
Country, “ 650 a 750
GUNPOWDER— keg 6 a 7
Blasting, “ 4 a 450
GLASS —10 >i 12, box 350 a 425
8 >«; 10, “ 325 a 4
IRON — Russia, “ 6
Swedes, assorted, “ 6
Hoop, lb 9 a 10
Sheet, “ 8 a 10
Nail Rods, “ 7 a 8
LEAD — Bar, “ 9 a
LEATHER — SoIe, lb 28 a 30
Upper, side fcl 75 a 2
Calf Skins, doz 30 a36
LARp— lb a 15
MOLASSES — N. Orleans, gal 45 a 50
Havana, “ 43 a 45
English Island, “ —a
NAILS— ib a 9
OlLS — Lamp, gal 150 a 200
Linseed, “ 1 15 a 125
Tanners, “ 60
OATS — bush 50
PEAS— « .
PAINTS—Red Lead, lb 15
White Lead, keg 300a 350
Spanish Brown lb 4 a
Yellow Ochre , “ 3 „
PEPPER—BIack, « 9 “ 10 .
PORTER—London, doz 4 a4 50
© and Ale, American, bbl 3 a 3 sft
RAISINS — MaIaga, bor % “ |'-5
Muscatel, «; i 50 „ 9
RTCV “ nol ie
RlCE—Prime, 100 lb 5 a 6
Inferior to good, “ 4 a 5
SVGAR-New Orleans, «, 7 “ ln
Havana, white, “ 13 a 15
“ brown, « 8 a 9
Muscovado, « c n
»■?">£. - 10 a 2 °.
Porto Rico, « 8 a ,1*
flT’ “ 14 16
n * “ 15 a 20
Double refined, « 2ft n on
SOAP — American, No. 1, o 2^,
‘SAIT T “ , No -*’ 6 a I 4
SALT-Lwerpool ground, bush 65 a 75
l urk's Island, “ n(yno 0 n
EL fiz:z: i? « * I® |
SHOT-All sizes, t „ .}M\
SPlßlTS—Cognac,m prf. g 2
Apple, “ 1 a- a 1 0
Gin, Holland, “ 120a 1 S
American, « 5* „ Ti
Rum, Jamaica. « 125„ 1Z
“ New England, « fg “ 1
Whiskey, Northern, “ 40 _ 9®
“ Western , « 59 “ ™
:: s° nffa -:: 3* l
TO BA CCO—N. Caroline, lb 8 a 3 °lf>
TWINE— Smia * “ 15 a 40
“ 30 a 37*
TEA-Bohea „ 50 a
Souchong, « 50 a 75
Hyson, « 15 a I 25
urrivp “ 1 al 25
— Madeira, gal 250 a 3 sft
Sicily Madeira, •* 125a 175
SWry “ 2 n 350
Tenenffe, “ 75 a 125
Sweet Malaga, « 40 a 6Q
Porte, « 75 a 3
Claret, « nou«
“ in bottles, doz 3 a 6
Champaigne, « 5 a
MAHI.NE INTELLIGkx^
Charleston i '
Arrived yesterday— Sthr Virginia HoV
lins, Plymouth, (N. C.) d S es , i cL
Cleared —Ships Thos P Cope, Mierckr
pool; Leland, Kendrick, Boston ; brig j
Staples, Havana ; U L brig Moses, Lovela
York; brig Gen. I'-inckney, Ford, New
schrs Tangent, Whitten, do ; Susan, ij a .
tanzas.
Went to se t yesterday —Ships Catharir
London; Oceanus, Bourne, Havre; Sha*.’’ orr )
for a Southern port; barque Elizabeth, S*’
erpool. • ’ lr 1 liy.
In the offing —Line ship Congaree, Doanp
Boston ; the brig Pandora, from the X
vannah, was snoken off the bar 6th insCm* 1
pilot boat Caroline. 1
(fTMILL POND OYSTERS
at the Cornucopia this afternoon.
9 It MICHAEL BHP:a.H.\\-
Kr Dr. F. M. ROBERTSON
Office to No. 302, on the south side of Bro'r
immediately opposite the Auction store of v "
Russell, Hutchinson & Co. ts a*
decj
(ffC. M. CURTIS, House, Sign and Orni,.
tal Painter, 187 Broad street. —s> n andnm '
tal work done at short notice. ° fa*
(D* CLINCH RIFLEMEN,
Appear on jour parade ground, on Saturdav
11th of January, at 9-1 o’clocir, a. m., armed’-'
equipped for regimental review and inspector 4
By order of the Captain.
J an 8 DWELLE, A. ft. s
C a C ARD —Mt. RtCHAHDS.TeacherofDr,
ng and Painting, will resume his profession t
ties in Augusta at an early day, ' nn ‘: :
i p' TO THE LO VERS ~o7THE f^
1 7Jr ie Pa - int at Mr. Richards’ Drawing Acadi
(Masonic Hall.) will hereafter be opened fn R
tors, every Saturday afternoon and etenirl f
2 o’clock until 9 o’clock p. m. At
will be well lighted. n Whe TW)I
CCj'Dr. B. HARRIS offers his se-vice,
practice of his profession to the citizens of v
ta and its vicinity. Messages will receive w
attention if left at his drug store in Broad street
aUus residence in Ellis street, below Wash*
n°v:
Up*- A .- IVER SEN is now prepared to
professional duties as a Teacher of Music f
ders left at f. H Plant’s book store, or at M r i
tendedt, s boardin S house, will be promptly, 1
:—- g nov 26 i
PUBLIC NOTICE. —Dr. Munroe,
Dentist, has relumed to Augusta. ■
(p- EXCHANGE ON NEW YORK— 1
and at one to tw uty days sight. For salebv '
- nov23 GARDELLE & RHINB. 1
(jy S. M. SHAVER, ARTISTMTopeZT
Rooms at the Masonic Hall. 2d story, where he V 1
be happy to receive orders for Miniatures.— Cor* )
likenesses will be warranted.
dec 2S trwlm*
JFrU .G. NIMMO, General Commission *
chant, office on Mclntosh street, next door to
Constitutionalist. o nov -‘ <
Uff Doctor J. J . WILSON
sional services to the citizens of Augusta and r
vicinity. He will be found at his residence <
, lust brick building above Guedron’s stable on £ £
street, recently occupied by John L. Adams
Jf_ s
Cy Hr. W. FLINT offers his services to the c
tizens of Augusta in the different branches of *"
profession. He may be found at all hours at r
late residence of Mr. A. M. Kgerton, second
from the corner of Mclntosh and Reynold strec °i
nc v 29 " , •*
A REAL BLESSING TfJMOTHm '
DR. W. EVANS' CELEBRATED SOOTHE F
SYRUP, for Children Cutting their Teetti.-l
infallible remedy has preserved hundreds of ch A
dren, when thought past recovery, from cotv 1
sions. As soon as the .Syrup is'rubbed on f
gums, the child will recover. The preparation -
so innocent, so efficacious and so pleasant,that:
child will refuse to let its gums be rubbed wife 1
When infants are at the age of four months,the:, J
them is no appearance of teeth, one bottle of:
Syrup should be used on the gums, to open tt
pores. Parents should never be without toe irrc
in the nursery where there are young children;! o
if a child £vakes in the night with pain inthegu: g
the Syrup rmmediat<4y gives ease, by opening, b
pores and healing the gums; thereby prevent
convulsions, fevers, &c. Sold only at Dr. B
Evans' Medical Office, 100 Chatham street, X C(
\ ork, where the Doctor maybe consultedon u
diseases of children. s j
PROOF POSITIVE OF THE EFFICAiU Z
Dr. EVANS' SOOTHING SYRUP— To the it
of Dr. Evans' Soothing Syrup: Dear Sir —i F
great benefit afforded to my suffering infac
1 your Soothing Syrup, in a case of protracted
paintu! dentition, must convince every feeing
lent how essential an early application of sues ai
invaluable medicine is to relieve infant miser -
torture. My infant, when teething, experie;
such acute sufferings, that it was attacked' *
convulsions, and my wife and family supposed, ~
death would soon release the babe from anj- lc
till we procured a bottle of your Syrnp; whit:
soon as applied to the gums, a wonderfulcl»
was produced, and after a few r applications a
child displayed obvious relief, and by continui:
its use, 1 am glad to inform ycu the child has; t|
pletely recovered, and no recurrence of that s’ . r
complaint has since occurred ; the teeth ares .r
nating daily and the child enjoys perfect he .
I give you my cheerful permission to make
acknowledgment public, andwill gladly give
information on this circumsti nee.
WM. JOHNS©
TONIC PILLS. —The power of Evans' Cow
Pills are such, that the palpitating heart,the u
ulous hand, the dizzy eye, and the fluttering a
vanish before their effects like noxious vapor: _
fore the benign influence of the morning sm
They have long been successfully used for the: j
of intesmittents, together with fevers of theirre f
lar nervous kind, accompanied with viscem «d
struc'ions. he
This tonic medicine is for nervous complsi- in
entral debility, indigestion and its consequtf mi
or want of appetite,distension of thestomach.n
ity, unpleasant taste in the mouth, rumblings •
in the bowels, nervous symptoms, languor,
the mind becomes irritable, desponding,though: J
melancholy, and dejected. Hypochondii;ci?rn i
sumption, dimness of sight, delirium, and .
nervous affections, these pills will produce*-
and permanent cure. , SCI
Evans' Camomile Pills were first
America in 1535.
EVANS' FAMILY APERIEST P^ S : I
purely vegetable, composed with the stricter ,
cision of science and of art; tliey never r
nausea, and arc warranted to cure the to t Ma
diseases which arise from impurities of the ‘ of
viz:— Apoplexy, Bilious Affections, Coughs, lot
Ulcerated Sore Throats, Scarlet Fever, A 'thin pre
lera. Liver Complaints, Diseases of the Kidnu ;■ taxi
Bladder, Affections peculiar to Females, at rui
those diseases of whatsoever nind to which n- lon
nature is subject, where the stomach isallet
More conclusive proofs of the extraordW Mi
caey of Dr. Win. Evans'celebrated tumorm pie
Aperient Anti-Bilious Pills, in alleviating * >
mankind. —Mr. Robert Cameron, 101 b°
Disease—Chronic Dysentery, or Blood;
Symptoms, unusual flatulency in the h’ ,
vere griping, frequent inclination to go to '-
nusmus, loss of appetite, nausea, vomit®!’ j
quency of pulse, and a frequent discharge 0
culiar ftEtid matter mixed with blood .great > TT
sense of burning heat, with an intolerable -a
down of the parts. Mr. Cameron is enjo} Bui
ect health, and returns his sincere thank* 1 for
extraordinary benefits he has received. dec
Sold by ANTONY & HAINES, J
Sole agents in Aug’
J. M. &T.M. TV UNER,_
P. M. COHEN & Co., Charle*J (V
SHARP & ELLS,
C. A. ELLS, Macon,
A, W. MARTIN, Forsvtb
Wji. E. WELLS, Druggist, A lDr ran
MARK A. C LANE, i
juiy 23 *’ Ife