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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
AUtiI’STA.
FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 17.
In oar paper of Tuesday, we expressed the
opinion that the present distress among the peo
ple for money, was aggravated by the course pur
sued by our Banks. The circulation of these in
stitutions is now less than it has been for twenty
years, and of course the amount of money in the
hands of the people is less. Could the Banks,
by union among themselves and concert of action,
ameliorate the prevailing distress, without en
dangering the currency ! We ur hesitatingly
believe they could ; and do not scruple to express
the opinion that it is more from a want of will
than of ability that they do not do k. VV ith a
few exceptions, the Banks are now in a state of
suspension, and people do not expect of them to
redeem their issues in specie. That they are
deemed solvent, by the c< mmunity, is evidenced
by the fact that their bills circulate freely, and
are taken in payment for debts of every descrip
g lion. That they possess the power of adminis
tering relief, is evidenced by the feet that, while
they refuse to discount any description of mer
cantile paper, they will, at any time, discount
bills of exchange upon Charleston or Savannah,
whether the drawer has funds against which to
draw or not!! They will thus discount fictitious
bills, when they can wring out of applicants a
double profit from interest and exchange, while
they refuse to discount business paper at the
shortest time, or of the most approved character.
Here is the process of operation by which these
institutions reap a usurious interest by-“whip
ping the devil round the stump.”
A B,being desirous of raising money, goes to
a Bank, and says, “Will you discount u bill upon
• Charleston for SIOOO, for sixty days V*
“Yes.”
“Upon what terms?”
“Interest oil’.”
The bill is discounted and A B receives $987
50 as the nett proceeds of his bill. At the end
|of sixty days when life bill falls due in Charles
ton, he goe»to the Dank at which he obtained
# 4he discount to purchase a draft to meet the bLU f
and is compelled to pay four per cent, premium
on SIOOO, lor it. Here then he ha* paid $5“ 50
tor the useof $987 50 for sixty days besides post'
age, bein j over 5 per cent, lor that lime, and at
the rate of over 30 per cent per annum ! ! But
suppose he ships cotton to Charleston to meet
his bill, then the Bank will sell tiw exchange
created by his bill at four percent, premium, re
alizing $52 50, in sixty days in the shape of in
terest upon a loan of 1000 dollars tor that time !!
Why Shy lock himself could not beat this !!
We charge that our banks are in the habit of
doing this description of paper, thereby making
usurious profits, and do it too with a full knowl
edge that parly drawing the bill has no funds
3 in Charleston!! And yet they rigorously refuse
to dis. wunt any sort of mercantile paper which
° only yields an interest of 7»per ceiat. per annum.
Now it they have the ability to do this grinding
sort of business, they have an equal ability to do
an honest business for the accommodation and
benefit of the public. But by refusing to do a
regular business and compelling «iieir debtors to
pay up, they aggravate the pressure of the times
and thereby constrain a resort on the part of those
in distress, to system of drawing
fictitious bills. It is by such means as this that
while the are impoverished, the banks
grow fat ! ad of doing any thing for the
relief of the üblic; they are every day drawing
tha and tighter, until; finally the pa
tient will become strangled, and then the banks
will very magnanimously lay their hands upon
every thing he possesses. Things are approach
ing that crisis now—debtors hav» paid up until
they can no longer pay. not for the want of pro-
P® r, y* but for the inability to make property avail
able to raise money—By their former profuse
liberality thhev induced people to go in debt, and
they now seem determined to make use of their
power to produce indiscriminate ruin, by cutting
off the means of payment. We shall “continue
the horehound.”
It IS gratifying to witness the promptitude and
fidelity with which the agents of the Post Office
Department m general perform ;heir public du
ties.—ran Buren's Message.
Did Mr. Van Huron believe what he said, or
did he merely intend the above as a part of that
system ot bumbuggery of which his whole ca
reer has been composed. Since the 15th day of
November last, «r« do not believe that one half
ot the mails on the great Northern and Southern
route have beer, received at their proper lime
There are now three or four due. and it in alto
gether uncertain when we .hall e-er get another.
people ot this country ami generation
were born to lie humbugged, and the-; had as well
he* humbugged in the name of timocracy as
anj thing else; and perhaps an ; well by Van
Buren ns any other creeping creature. “Pune
tuilitv and fidelity” indeed ! In *€ purer days
of the Republic, a President woulc have blussi
to have tp*Je such a statement; but in tii «
corrupt Umes, the people will believe a h e s f j.
flatters their party prejudices, and Van Buren
has sense enough to profit by stupidity.
Si*
The Washington correspondent.of the Charles
ton Courier, under date of the iOth. states that
Hsnry D. Gilpin, Eaq., late Solictoi of the Treas
o ur T. the new Attorney General, vice Mr. Grun
The appointment was offered to
Mr. Dallas a ß d Mr. Buchanan, of Pennsylvania,
but both gemWme„ declined it; ihe latter « now
senator m Con greM , and ig occwjonally spoken
of for the next President- K . I
n n k . r Mr.
Dallas had for dechng the
k me office, in a suliect of
marvel, inasmuch as his fi nanwj . f
... .. anc ** said to be
in a ahatteml condition, and thk w ~ ,
characterized by Sam Weller. W Q .
he’d have nothing to do, and plenty lo “ * * ch
Uurcbell fill- the office of Solicitor, vacant u
o Mr. Gilpin.
I' The Virginia liuaac of Delegate# hava fixed
upon the 23d inst. as the day for electing a Sen
ator of the U. S.
The Tallahassee Star of the 9th says, that Col*
Fitzpatrick arrived on Tuesday, at St. Marks
from Cuba with thirty three blood hounds, and six
Spaniards, their trainers and keepers. If these
bounds are put into service, we have more confi
dence in the speedy close of the Seminole War
than ever before, W’e should like to see this
clique of dogs, lit must be a “ bully crowd.
To the Editors of the Federal Lnion :
Seeing my nane announced in your last paper
as one of the Directors of the Central Bank, I
hand you the following copy of a note to His
Excellency for publication.
A. H. KENAN.
Mu lkbokville. Jan. 7th, 1840.
To His Excellercy Charles J. McDusaui :
Sir—For reaions verbally give-n your Excel
lency yesterday, (and which you are at liberty to
use,) my declension of the preferred honor of a
Directorship in the Central Bank, with Tomlin
son Fort and William D. Jarratt. Esquires, can
not be unexpect?d to you. W'ith little or no ex
perience in banking, I should act unwisely to as
sume responsible duties in a direction with men
whose former inefficiency and errors in the man
agement of the Central Bank were censured,
unanimously, by the Legislature of 1837. In
addition, Sir, mj admiration for the mai-ly inde
pendence of Gen. Sanford in repelling Executive
dictation, by a refusal to vote for Dr. Fort for
| the Presidency of the Central Bank, (for which
I presume the Gen. was excluded the direction,)
forbids that I, entertaining the same views, should
occupy a less enviable position. Very respectful
ly, A. H. KENAN.
News from the Cherokees.
Lit»le Race, (Ark.) Dec. 18.
By Col. T. J. Pew, who arrived here late last
evening, four days from Fort Smith, we learn that
Jack Nicholson, one of the murderers of Major
Ridge, and an Indian named Terrell, and two oth
ers, charged with being concerned in disturban
ces in the Cherokee nation, have been arrested
by commands under Lieut. Porter, of the 4th in
fantry, and Northi up, of the Ist dragoons. The
prisoners are now on their way to this city, un
der the charge of the U. S. Marshal, Major E
Rector, and will be here in a day or two.
The Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Capt.
Wm. Armstrong, has received instructions to
withhold all annuities and payments to the Che
rokee:-. except mere suhsistance, until affairs in
that nation shall become in a more settled state.—
Gazette.
The Richmond Whig holds the following lan
guage in speaking of the refusal of the Governor
of New York lo deliver up a citizen charged with
stealing a slave from Virginia :
We are wronged in this. Our property has
been st- len by citizens of New York; the authori
ties of that State refuse, in violation of good faith
and of the Federal compact, to deliver up the
thieves to l»e punished by our laws. The alter
natives for us are plain and simple; either submit
to the wrong without a word of complaint, or take
steps to redrei-s it. without regard to consequen
ces.
Mn. Jacdox’s xrw Loan.—Letters from
London, by the last packet, speak of a new loan
in market on account of the U. S. Bank. The
project is something as follows :—Post Notes are
issued by the .Bank bearing interest at the rate of
6 per cent, payable one half in October 1841, and
the other half in October, 1842.
The Post Notes, or debentures as they are rail
ed in London are otfeied at 92, which makes the
actual rate of interest about 10 per cent. Roths
childs head the subscription, and there are depo
sited in their l and as security, State Stocks, some
what in conformity to the following list. The
loan is £900,000.
1.500.000 Pennsylvania, 5 per cent stock.
1.500.000 Michigan, 6 do do
1.500.000 Missis-ippi, 6 do do
250.000 Illinois, 6 do do
250.000 Arkansas, 6 do do
U. States axd Texax Boundary.— The
commissioners of the two countries, appointed to
run and mark the bounoary, were at the mouth
oi the Sabine at the last dates. The Mobile
Journal remarks that the boundary to be determi
ned is the sane that was established with Spain
by the treaty of 1819. which was a terwards re
established by treaty with Mexico in 1832, and to
the obligation; of which Texas succeeds. Con
vention after convention was agreed upon between
our government and that of Mexico, before the
separation of Texas, to have the line run and
marked; but in consequence of the political trou
bles in Mexico, it was never completed. The
line commences at the mouth of the river Sabine,
continuing along the Western bank of that river
till it reaches the point where the 32d degree of
North latitude strikes the Sabine—thence due
North till the line strikes the Red river ; thence
along the cou ise of the river to the 100th degree
of longitude West from London; thence North to
the Arkansas river, along that river to its source
in latitude 42 degrees, and along that paral el to
the Pacific. The determining of these parallels
of latitude is the object of the commissioners.
The officers are men of high reputation for sci
ence, and have with them very costly and deli
cate instruments.— Baltimore American.
Ballooxixg.—A Mr. Charles Green, through
the columns of the London Observer, proposes to
cross the Atlantic ocean from New York to Eng
land in a balloon. The Observer says :
Mr - Green has authorized the following state
ment of the grounds upon which he founds his
assertion ol the possibility ol making ajourney in
a balloon from New York, across the Atlantic to
Europe. He states that balloons inflated with
carburetted hydrogen, or common coal gas, will
retain this fluid unimpaired in its buoyancy, and
very slightly diminished in quantity, for a great
length of time; while on the contrary the pure hy
drogen is so subtle a gas, and capable of so great
a degree of tenuity, as to escape through the im
perceptible pores of the silk, whether prepared in
the ordinary manner or by means of dissolved In
dia rubber.
1. hese facts are the result of observations made
during 275 ascents; on many of these occasions,
a smaller balloon has been filled at a neighboring
gas works, aid has been brought a distance of
five or six miles to fill that in which he intended
to ascend, retaining, in many instances, its con
tents nearly the same in quantity and quality for
nearly a weeit. The teronaut has travelled 2,900
miles with the same supply of gas, and could
have continued its use for three months, if neces
sary. As to making the voyage from America
lo Eoropa, Mr. Grata dates its peeeihilit? from
the blowing facts :-On all occasions in which
tiie balloons in which he or other sronauts had
gained an altitude beyond the lower current of
a.r, or land-breezes, they fo u „d one uniform cur
rent of air coming from the Atlantic, and blowing
wet. northwest, or weal by north, while the un
der winds, from different causp. ki
Iron, point, -ompletely ,t variance with the Zv*
the ascent ol the machine into the K up „,. r cur ’
rent, •. perfectly easy, and the
i r i«dß 'll/"." 1 ' u r wi,h «!“•' f«r/.
In 1836, Mr. Green made aproposu 10 n at Pa
ns to cross ihe Atlantic in a balloon, when •
received a letter from Admiral Sir Sidney Smi^
[ confirming his observations as to the directions •
of the upper currents, and in which that gallant
officer states his conviction of the safety of the
proposed undertaking, and his readiness to ac
company the sronaut from New York to Europe
in his balloon. It must be kept in mind that a
j balloon is not borne along as is a ship, by the
force of the wind, having to overcome the imped
iment interposed by passing through a denser el
; ement like the water, but is a body lighter than
■ the air itself in which it fl iats, and is wafted at
■ the same speed as the air itself travels, as if it
were a part of the moving body. The wide ex
panse of sea offers no impediment to the under
taking, and a machine as large as the Nassau
ballon could easily be fitted up for the reception
of three persons, and victualled for three or tour
r months, if necessary.
[ The machine could be lowered to the earth and
; ascend as often as it pleased the voyagers, by the
adoption of the same plans as those used in the
voyage to Germany. Mr. Green, having estab
lished the facts of a current of air continually
passing round the eaith in the direction of west
north- west, the capability of his machine to re
tain the carburetted hydrogen gas for an unlimit
ed time, and of its power of sustaining itself in the
air for weeks—under these circumstances, and
trusting to the faith he has always endeavored to
keep with the public as a claim to their confi
dence on this occasion, offers to take upon him- ;
self to traverse the Atlantic from New \ ork to
England in a balloon to be constructed lor that
purpose, and that he will make the experiment
without any reward for his exertions.
New-York Legislature.— -The Legislature
of New-York, convened at Albany on Tuesday.
In the Senate, Lieut. Governor Bradish took the
chair as presiding officer, and on the roll being
called by the Clerk, 27 members answered to
their names.
The H-*use was organized by the election of
Geo. W. Patterson, as Speaker; Philander B.
Prindle. Clerk; MinusMagoun, Sergeant alarms;
Samuel Francis, Door-keeper; Abraham H. Grove
stein, Assistant Door-keeper. All Whigs. The
V. B. candidate for Speaker was Andrew G.
Chatfield, who received 56 votes—Patterson 68.
Patterson’s majority 12. Several members ab
sent.
On the same day Governor Seward delivered
his annual Message which is of immense length,
occupying 9$ closely printed columns in the Al- 1
bany Evening Journal.
It appears from this document, that the gross
income from the Canals during the last fiscal
year, was $1,657,102; being an increase of $165,-
202 over the previous year. Nett proceeds from ,
tolls, $1,057,803.
Present productive capital of the Common
School Fund, $1,978,069. Literature Fund,
$268,164. Bank Fund, $818,821.
Whole number of Convicts in Sing Sing State
Prison. 805. Received during the year, 209.
Convicts in Auburn Prison, 665. Received du
ring the year, 228. Earnings at Sing Sing du
ring the year, $73,202; expenditures, including
moneys paid foi the completion of the prison for
. female convicts, $73,450. Earnings at Auburn,
. $60,161; expenditures, $51,671.
t Whole number of militia of the State, 180,103,
> viz. 7,437 cavalry and horse artillery, 9,256 ar
. tillery, and 160,420 infantry.
t The present State indebtedness, after making
, allowance for funds on hand, is $9,020,899. The
. estimated cost of completing the Erie Canal en
largement, is $9,292,886 ; do. of completing the
Genesee Valley ( anal, $2,900,123; do. Black
( River Canal, $1,550,156. Total, for all these
| works, $23,743,165. The interest on this sum,
at 5 per cent, would be $1,187,158.
; With a view to avoid, as far as may be, the
burdens which those works would impose upon
I the Treasury, if prosecuted rapidly to completion,
Gov. Seward recommends that the plans of all
the unfinished works be referred to cooqietent
, engineers, for the purpose of ascertaining what
pans of the same may be delayed without detri
ment to the public interest, and what expense
may be saved by executing other portions in a
marine' equally effective and durable, but more
plain and economical than that hitherto pursued.
The Governor urges a distribution of the pro
ceeds of the public lands among the several
States. Also, that the State of New York upon
the “fulfilment of the pledge of the Federal Gov
ernment” in regard to the fourth instalment of
the surplus revenue. “The portion of that in
stalment due to this State,” he says, “is $1,338,-
173 57.”
In regard to the requisition made upon the Ex
ecutive of this State, by the Governor of Vir
ginia, fer the surrender of three persons as fugi
tives I'om jusiice, charged with having felonious
ly stolen a negro slave from that Stale, Governor
Seward says:
I confess my surprise that it should in any part
of the Union be regarded as a new and startling
doctrine that the constitutional power of the Ex
ecutive of any other State, to demand the surren
der of a citizen of this State to be carried to the
former and tried for an offence committed there,
is limited to cases in which the offence charged
is recognized as criminal by the statute laws of
this State, by the common law, or by the univer
sal law of mankind. Nor can I withhold the ex
pression of my sincere regret that a construction
of the constitution, manifestly necessary to main
tain the sovereignty of this State and the perso
nal rights of her citizens, should he regarded by
the Executive of Virginia as justifying in any
contingency a menace of secession from the
Union.
For the Chronicle ts Sentinel.
Messrs. Editors:— Having seen by the pa
pers that a meeting of the Augusta Benevolen t
i Society is to be held on Friday evening next,)[
hope sir, the public will feel an interest in thin
meeting. Especially as the Society has expend
i available funds , and is now penny less*
i A nd we know that a Benevolent Society, with
' out the means to alleviate the distresses of hu
[ man wretchedness, is like an engine at a fire
; without the means to extinguish the flame.—
■ Let us not suppose that because the epidemic
; does no longer rage in our city, that theiefore the
afflictions of the poor have ceased to exist. No
i sir, they do exist, and will exist so long as the
’ world shall have an existence. We have thi*
. declaration from him who spake as never man
, *P ake * He says “The poor ye have with you
: always”—and then he adds “And whensoever ye
j y« raa y Jo good,” Mark, xir. 7. So w« sec
, that it is established in the order of God’s provi
dence, that poverty shall always exist, and with
| it, all, all its concomitant evils. But it is said, to
. me* to you. to all, who have bread enough, and
i to spare, “ and tvhensoever ye will," <te Now
i sir, Ido net understand ky it that it i« optional
with me to do, or not to do good ; and I should
f presume that every individual who feels that he
or she, is an accountable creature, is sensibly
impressed with this truth, that it is an i mpeiious
duty enjoined upon us, to do good—to communi
cate to our fellow men, who are not placed in
such favorable circumstances as w« are of the
good things the Lord in his providence has given
to ue, having the eyes of our mind fixed upon the
last day of accounts, when all our accouts shall
he settled in righteousness with him
, made ug his stewards, and has said to as. Occu
py till I come. Believing that this enlightened
community views it in this light, I hope there
will be a large and liberal audience, fully prepar
ed to put something into the treasury of the
Lord. W *
Wednesday, January 15, 1840.
We publish the following lines in order to let
the writer see himself in print, and we are sure
that if he sees himself as others see him, he will
j never wish r to see himself there again. We
I should like to know him !
i
For the Chronicle tr Sentinel.
To the Merchant.
A word or two with you, my friend.
So listen, for before I end,
’Twill perhaps be good advice.
Free from any mean device.
The merchant, not unlike the rest
Os speculators, now at best.
Have their troubles in proportion
To the sum of their devotion.
At the great majestic shrine.
When ’tis required but to sign.
The awful state of thirty nine,
Will prove the assertion not to sign,
And tell you that the credit system,
Is not the dictates of true wisdom.
So if you’ve bought no goods this season.
You’ve acted right and with good reason;
But if you have, I must confess,
I It is too late for much redress.
The coming months are soon at hand,
And oh! then’ll be a great demand.
So now, in time, just state the case.
To the creditors, with good grace.
And ask the favor of extension,
For, ray friend, I cannot mention,
Any other mode or manner.
On which to plant your hopeful banner.
For if you wait for better times,
And keep up your spirit with designs,
The note comes on and is presented—
Oh, is it paid—no,’tis protested.
Three dollars thus is gone, my friend,
So choose my plan and three you’ll spend.
Juvekis.
i The United States and Texan Commissioners
and their assistants are at the mouth es the
Sabine, preparing for the establishment of the
boundary between the countries.
A young surveyor of the name of McUin
Barrow, assistant to Col. Conway, U. B. survey
or, was lately killed by the accidental discharge
of his own gun.
A young lady, at an examination in grammar,
■ was asked why the noun bachelor was singular.
She replied immediately and with much naive,
“because it is very singular they don’t get mar
ried ”
Now this is a good story, but not half so good
as the following. A young lady was once ask
ed, by her instructor in school, whether the noun
kiss was common or proper. She decided that
it was bath.—Aeto Bedford Mercuary.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Savannah, Jan 14.
Arrived —Br brig King Henry, Leach, Trinidad ; j
schr Gen. Warren, Baker, Boston ; steamboat John 1
Randolph, Lyon.
Went to sea —Ship Lancashire, Alexander, Liv
erpool ; brigs Havre, Carpenter, Liverpool; Audu- i
bon. Hickling. Havana.
Departed —steamboat John Randolph, Lyon, Au
gusta.
Charleston, Jaa. 16.
Cleared —Ships Medora, Turner, Bordeaux; Eli
za Warwick, Davis, Liverpool; brig Aldrich, Ba
ker, Mobile.
Went to sea yesterday —Br ship Nimrod, Man
ning, Liverpool; ships Brooklyn, Richardson do.;
St. Lawrenre, Hunker, do ; barque Valhalla, Berry,
Antwerp ; Bremen barque Diamant, Ballaer, Bre
men ; Ban. brig Fortuna, Neilson, Copenhagen; Br
ketch Lottery, Spencer, West Indies.
THEATRE.
W. C. FORBES, Lessee.
L ast night of Mr. and Mrs. BARNES, &
Mls»S C. BARNES.
FRIDAY Evening , January 17, 1840,
Will be periormed the Comedy of the
HONEY MOON.
■ D uke Aranra, Mr. Forbes
Jacques, (the Mock Duke,) Barnes
Juliana, Miss C. Barnes
Volante, Mr. Barnes.
A Pas de Deux, by Mr. and Mrs. Codet.
To conclude with the
COMEDY OF ERRORS.
Dromio of Syracuse, Mr. Barnes
Dromio of Ephesus, Lansing
Doors open at 6 o’clock, and Performance to com
mence at precisely.
Boxes and Parquette one Dollar.
IVERSEN is now prepared to resume his
sional duties as a Teacher of Music. Or
ders leit at F. H. Plant’s book store, or at Mrs.
Campfield’s boarding house, will be promptly at
tended to. _____ nov26
CsJ PUBLIC NOTICE. —Dr. Munroe, Suwon
Dentist, has returned to Augusta. dec*9
03*70 THE LOVERS OF THE ARTS
The Paintings at Mr. Richards’Drawing Academy
( Masonic Hall,) will hereafter be opened to visi
tors, every Saturdiy afternoon and evening, from
2 ° c J° ck 9 °’ Cl ° c k p. m. At night the rooms
will be well lighted. dec 19
03 A CARD. Mr. RiCHAßDs,Teacherof Draw
ing and Painting, will resume his professional du
ties in Augusta at an early day. nov 7
03 NOTICE. The Rail Road Passenger Train
between Charleston and Hamburg, will leave as
UPWARD.
Not to leave Charleston before 7 00 . w
“ “ Summerville, “ - -s 30
;; ;; - 1000
Branchville, “ - 11 i>o
“ “ Midway, - « . „30 h
«« < Blackville, -« - 100
a • Al L ken ’ * - “ - 300
Arrive at Hamburg not before - 409
downward.
„* t 0 Hamburg before 6 00 a. h
Aiken, * “ - - 730
“ “ ® l “ kvi,,e * “ ' * 9 30
Midway, « . . 10 30
“ Branchvill “ . . 11 00
“ “ Georges’, «--12 00 M
* “ Summerville,“ - - 2 ooJ*' M
Arrive at Charleston not before 300
Distance—l 36 miles. Fare Through— slo 00
Speed not over 20 miles an hour. To remafe 00
minutes each, for breakfast and dinner 20
longer than 5 minutes for wo- ’ and watei 2? DOt
station. watei at an\
To stop for passengers, when a it* a
hoisted, at either of the above stations • and 15
Mneaths, Woodstock, luabinet’s 4t’ S? at
Rives'. Ilhams. WUleston. w ;, d t3j* T 0 '
and Marsh’s T. O. asoi > Johnsons,
Passengers uv will breakfast at
dine at Blackvnle; aown, will breatf°°^ Stock
•nddmeatSummerrib": U ° reaxla « « Aiken
may 31
£rW. o. nimmo, c cutral ('ommissUift j
chant, office on Mclntosh street, next door t°* ie
Constitutionalist. __ nov l_
~7~y Doctor J. J. WILSON offers his profes
sional services to the citizens of Augusta and its
vicinity. He will be found at his residence, the
first brick building above Gucdron’s stable on Ellis
street, recently occupied by John L. Adams.
aug 17 _
■yp Dr. W. FLINT offers his services to the ci
tizens of Augusta in the different branches of his
profession. He may oe round at all hours at the
iate residence of Mr. A. M. Egerton, second dooi
from the corner of Mclntosh and Reynold streets.
nc v 29 ly _
rye. M. CURTIS , House,Sign and Ornnmen
talPainter, 187 Broad street. —Sign and ornamen
tal work done at short notice. doc 5
gy EXCHANGE ON NEW YORK— At sight,
and at to tw ty days sight. For sale by
nov i GARDELLE & RUIN'D.
rryDr. B. HARRIS offers his services in the
practice of his profession to the citizens of Augus
ta and its vicinity. Messages will receive prompt
attention if left at his drug store in Broad street, or
at his residence in Ellis street, below W ashing
ton. nov 7
A REAL BLESSING TO MOTHERS.
DR W. EVANS' CELEBRATED SOOTHING
SYRUP, for Children Cutting their Teeth.— This
infallible remedy has preserved hundreds of chil
dren, when thought past recovery, from convul
sions. As soon as the Syrup is rubbed on the
gums, the child will recover. The preparation is
so innocent, so efficacious and so pleasant, that no
child will refuse to let its gums be rubbed with it.
When infants are at the age of four months, though
there is no appearance of teeth, one bottle of the
Syrup should be used on the gums, to open the
pores. Parents should never be without the Syrup
in the nursery where there are young children ; for
if a child wakes in the night with pain in the gums,
the Syrup immediately gives ease, by opening the
pores end healing the gums; thereby preventing
convu,sions, fevers, &c. Sold only at Dr. Wm.
Evans' Medical Office, 100 Chatham street. New
York, where the Doctor may be consulted on all
diseases of children.
PROOF POSITIVE OF THE EFFICACY OF
Dr. EVANS' SOOTHING SYRUP.—To the Agent
of Dr. Evans' Soothing Syrup : Dear Sir —The
great benefit afforded to my suffering infant by
your Soothing Syrup, in a case of protracted and
painful dentition, must convince every feeling pa
tent how essential an early application of such an
invaluable medicine is to relieve infant misery and
torture. My infant, when teething, experienced
•uch acute sufferings, that it was attacked witq
convulsions, and my wife and family supposed that
death would soon release the babe from anguish,
till we procured a bottle of your Syrnp ; which as
soon as applied to the gums, a wonderful change
was produced, and after a few applications the
child displayed obvious relief, and by continuxug m
its use, I am glad to inform you the child has com
pletely recovered, and no recurrence of that awful
complaint has since occurred ; the teeth are ema
nating daily and the child enjoys perfect health.
I give you rny cheerful permission to make this
acknowledgment public, andwill gladly give any
information on this circumst: nee.
WM. JOHNSON.
TONIC PILLS. —The power of Evans' Camomile
Pills are such, that the palpitating heart, the trem
ulous hand, the dizzy eye, and the fluttering mind,
vanish before their effects like noxious vapors be
fore the benign influence of the morning sun. •
They have long been successfully used for the cme
of in tesmittents, together with fevers of the irregu
lar nervous kind, accompanied with visceral ob
structions.
This tonic medicine is for nervous complainls,
encral debility, indigestion and its consequences,
or want of appetite, distension of the stomach, arid
ity. unpleasant taste in the mouth, rumbling noise
in the bowels, nervous symptoms, languor, when
the mind becomes irritable,desponding, thought fit I.
melancholy, and dejected. Hypochondriucism, c.»u
--i sumption, dimness of sight, delirium, and all of hoi
; nervous affections, these pills will produce a safe
j and permanent cure.
Evans' Camomile Pills were first introduced it to
i America in 1835.
EVANS' FAMILY APERIENT PILLS air*
i purely vegetable, composed with the strictest pro
cision of science and of art; they never pro.lmc
nausea, and are warranted to cure the following
diseases which arise from impurities of the biro I.
viz:— Apoplexy, Bilious Affections, Coughs, Co.<h.
Ulcerated Sore Throats, Scarlet Fever, Asthma, ( *io
lera. Liver Complaints, Diseases of the Kidnirs and
Bladder , Affections peculiar to Females, and all
those diseases of wl atsoever kind to which him an
nature is subject, where the stomach is affected.
More conclusive proofs of the extraordinary vffi.
caey of Dr. Wm. Evans' celebrated Camomile ni l
Aperient Anti-Bihous Pills, in alleviating affU. Un
; mankind. —Mr. Robert Cameron, 101 Bowen.—
1 Disease—Chronic Dysentery, or Bloody Fluv-
Symptoms, unusual flatulency in the bowels.se
i vere griping,frequent inclination to go to stool, lit •
nusmus, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, tie
j quency of pulse, and a frequent discharge of a vo
| culiar foetid matter mixed with blood.great debi'itv .
I sense of burning heat, with an intolerable beaiing*
■ down of the parts. Mr. Cameron is enjoying jvi*
! ect health, and returns his sincere thanks lor Hit
■ extraordinary benefits he has received.
Sold by ANTONY & HAINES,
Sole agents in Augusta
J. M.& T. M. TURNER,Savannah
P. M. COHEN &. Co., Charleston,
SHARP & ELLS,Mi|ledgevil| c ,
C. A. ELLS, Macon,
a. w. Martin,Forsvth
Mm. £. WELL*, Druggist, Athens
MARK A. LANE. Washington.
jmy 28 i
Georgia Insurance & Trust Company, }
Augusta, January 6.1840. V
HOLDERS of new stock are required to make
their payments equal to sixty dollars i U i
share, on or before the 21st of February next, with
interest to that day, underpenalty of lorfeitino
J an ? td WM. T. GOULD. Se. y.
a of fresh English Garden Seed, just ret ch ed
and warranted genuine. Among which are scvcial
varieties of early Corn, Button and Top Onions
Bulbous Hoots, Dahlias, Flower Seeds, &c. j
Also, celebrated Rohan Potatoes, and Halim* I
spring Wheat, for sowing. For sale by
_j" n 8 GARVIN bL HAINES.
SALE—A first rate Family HORSE ami
. a second hand BUGGY and HARNESS.
Also, a quantity of Corn and Fodder will be dis
posed ot with the above, ii desired. Ennui ,e at
th,s olfice ! ts nov -2n
F° R Ji!:r E -“ A “ kel y n *gro Woman, about 26
years of age, a first rate washer, iruner, seam-
h ° USe SerVant * at this office.
r^rustees Columbia county Academy
X have again engaged the services of Mr. Lewis
Potter, a graduate ot Dartmouth Col ece as Rector
of the Institution, for the ensui
Academy was opened for the reception of students
on the Ist inst. Board can be had in the vicinity
on reasonable terms.
jan 7 ts T ’ ILLIAMS > Sec’y-
Geo. R. Road dr Hanking Co. >
D Branch at Augusta t
EPOSITES ittsum, of f lve hfnd'ed dolL
and upwards, bearing an interest of
cent, per annum will he rlceiveS aT tl.il o« P "
for periods not less than ninety davs Lk . .
order of the depositors on receiving tl ? 60 t 0 the
of theiriniention to withdraw g ** n ° t,Ce
n ° V2 ° Wtf W. WILDE Cashier.
T„„ dissolution! ““
n 9Tis | hip heretof °re existing between
Heath & Quigley, is this day dissolved by mu
iu*i consent. All persons having demands against
the firm, are requested to hand them in. g
r, U. S. HEATH
December 31,1840. WM. A. QUIGLEY
WM. A. QUIGLEY will continue to nra,*'
Law in the Northern Circuit. His office hfw
mgton.Wi.ltes county. Ga„ „„ e
ticfLawm^t^NorthcmCrrcuit 10
town of Washington, Wilke* county •
HI Shan* stock of th* K
the State of Georgia. Apply to ' J ‘ i
j ;ln 17 J._T. GR Ay
fpHE ONLY FRESH OYSTERS in town *
§_ received This morning, by the fast • a
steam ship Cherokee, in a short passage f 1 . (1 !' Ui| , n ? «
vannah, at the CORNUCOPIA, opposite tiJ
Office. e Po <t
Families supplied by the measure,
jan 17 MICHAEL SHEAR \\
NOTICE. —Will beso'd at Auction,otT\T^l
day, the 27th inst.. at the Store lately "q! o** 0 ** |
pied by Robert Baiber, deceased, by order from°u' I
Superior Court, a part of said Stock, consisting 1
Liquors, Salt, Lime, Molasses, Sugar, Bacon, pf 0 I
Honey, &c. Also, one pair carriage horses. Ut ’ i
jan 17 C. J. COOK, Adm’r.
OKRA, OR TWIN COTTON SEtD*
AFEW Bushels for sale, warranted genu
direct from Alabama, where first discove L
and the following Certificates will show the
cess with which it has been grown. Apply t SUc ’
JAMES L. COL £ via v
B. H. WARREN." ’
Montgomery, Ala., November 23, 1339
This may certify, that I have this year p i an L.
the “Okra or Twin cotton,” and seen it j
in various other places. From the observation!;
others, as well as my own, 1 have 110 hesitancy ‘
recommending it as th« most productive Cotton
have ever seen on thin land, —its yield fioni J
Gin head, and the quality of its very f a *
excells the Petit Gulf or Mexican
planted in three feet rows, I believe it tapa!]*!
producing SOOOlbs. per acie. J. H. Taylor.
This will certify, that I planted a small quantit
of the Okra or Twin Lotion, and believe it capab*
of producing, if properly planted, 3000 to 350Uibi
pei acre. 1 made tne following experiment asij
its yield from the Gin head: 4zs;bs. Okra Cottot
produced 1561b5. lint,—42slbs. Petit Gulf Cotta
produced 1241b5, lint, making 321bs. lint from thj
quantity in favor of the L)kra Cotton. /j 0 n
believe this cotton vastly Superior in product
the Petit Gulf, but much so in the quality of i*
staple ; it also matures much earlier.
November 23, 1839. Jesse P. Taylor
This may certify, that 1 planted |ths of a n a c - t
in the “Okra or Twin Cotton,” from which 1 hj
picked lOOOlbs. of cotton, of a very superior qua iu
and which land 1 do not believe capab e of J
ducing over 300 to 6001bs per acre of the iL,
Gulf or Mexican Cotton, owing to its thirst- c
ture. The great advantage of toe Gkra «r Tw'
Cotton upon §dch land is its long tap root, whir*
is from two Jo three times the length of the o.c
nary r otton. * J. W. T, Reid, Bhff M r "
November 27, 1839.
Montgomery, November 23, 183 S
This will certify,—l have seen the “Multi-bolU
Twin, Okra, or Bluster Cotton” growing j u
vicinity, and believe it not only superior in produr
but in staple, to any other cotton I have ever see
except the Sea Island, or Black Seed. f
F. M. Gilmer, J r .
Montgomery, November 26, 1539,
Having been called upon to certify
to the character and standing of the gentlerne:
whose names are to the above certificates rclativi
to the Okra or Twin Cotton, itadbids me’pleasiit
to certify that they are gentlemen of respectabiiiti *
and high standing ii society, and most of tfo)
practical planters, and in whose opinions U w
the Okra or Twin Cotton I fully concur, havia;
made a small experiment with it. which has fuh
satisfied me of the great advantages it possess
over the Mexican or Petit Gulf Cotton.
r . _ B. S. Bibb,
Judge County C, urt, Montgomery County
jan 17—4 t ’
PROSPECTUS
For publishing by subtc'iption, in Augusta, Ga,C
Agricultural paper , to be styled
GLEANINGS OF HUSBANDRY.
“V\ ho make* two bind- s cf grass grow where r*
grew before, does more for ins country, thai;
Alexander or a Bonaparte. ”
AT the solicitation of many friends, the subgr
ber has consente<f t< 1 become the e«fii o r ar
put lislier of a periodical exclusively devoted to A,
nctiiiure, Gardening, and the other branches
Husb mdry in general. Itsobj.-c: will be, m
style, to communicate ueiut 111 for in alien 10 the ci
tivalor, whether of vine or Hie fl ,wer, ofvee
tabus or plants, of I-uita, gravies or trees
mulberry and all kinds of orchard tre s , wt hu,
best maimer of planting them ; luinii,|,ing suitafe,
hints for the improvement of he various
breeds of Cittle, and other slock, with the irealme:
of the diseases to which they are I.ab.e, and 4
management of fiees and sill; worms
Ihe ed tor will endeavor to illustrate the imp
tant pniK-ipios upon which the art and scien e
agriculture 1. iouridwi, and toimrodu.-eaa eositw
cal system of trie labors. ,he gaolet. or vm v*
in the held, meadow or cocoonery, that muy m m
adapted to ilh seasons, climate and latitudes I
which we re s i Je, an , which min >..t respects,dift
lrU,n I,IG JM,dd,e * Aortiiern and Easter.
Os more than one million of Planters and Hf 1
ticuiiunata m the «outnern btates, st-aroeiv U
, ou of a thousand have an opportunity of cunsu
! agricultural w.*rks, and are wholly suwi
•*y casual observe ions uoun the ways ot tie
neighbors and ancestors; for they posses* nu 1111,
of learning the almost daily improvements tint
making in their own particular branch ol cuius
neither can they become acquaimed with the is
eram'an Rfleiies in trees, truns, vir es. fLvu-
S * pic U, which are continually introdu::
to our notice from every jo.iion of the
globe, nor wuh the va-ious uh rovements and *
inventions mme implenu nu ot tillage. Hie is.
, iicattun shall contain a iu.l account ot ail ihe.-ei»
are Jikety to benefit our part of ihe country, t
ertose inteltisrence, virtue, happiness and pmspe
1,1 l, ’ e eouiliirn Stales
wlw t ! a L lri fc . lr ‘ Jtn ali *«-• ar-an or p di.tcal view
who fy governed by Southern feelings and pn»
Iv!.? 1 ?! W,U be to ,e,, ficr it servL
. ul?' aUd ,he a S ed -‘« “ Heaven’s las. k
gut to man, even in her teens and to ;he suit
Farmer—by tulorming them of the proper sea,
wlucn Irom experience in our section of me lw
may have found most cong *iiml to .oral
j their seeds 10 the .oil— lo prune their vines a
j lree! >— lo transplant their tendei shoots and flue
! —to engraft, mocuiate or bud ih.-irs irubs and 11*
) and tu . , “ * he “maid it’s blush” into the charm
" ,null V‘ Jy r °“ e ’ ’ wi,h * he ! » es ‘ mam
Slice U,g Uml pre “ ervm * llleir t- tops and f
V\e shall by no means overlook the great Sc*
ern staples. Coltu .l and Rice, lor upon ifiese, I
information can be obtained irom Northern n*
canons
Fruw the kind promises, tendered by friend
the undertaking, va.ue.ble original coiitnb.ji'
may be anticipated ; and other correst
respectfully solicited to communicate any inwn:
tion that may be iMtoresling or beneficial
relating to their mode of culture ; a, factslik
from Die fillers ot our own soil, o uh their obw
nous and remit, ks wul be highly appreem ed fu
ennor; and since the happiness and c«m urt
country mainly depend upon its ture m
lushing useful information to the r ; o., piumr m
t£xs!*i
(«a.,.e size as the “Albany Cultivaior * u! jft
moderate price of One Do lor, payable m a .l
in advance the price being so small n*nun
her will be sent to any person on clSdit lt»b
£SSlfa n i^h f,aper ’ ai,4i wu, ‘ " ew
will aowar in VfaiS PUfp ° S f- 4 ' ho nm>
will appear in March next, if possible.
As by the rules ot fhev.eneral Posi O/fire
masters are allowed 10 frank and forward the aU
subscribed to anv new*n n 1 ,
desired!.orwardto^*
,hc, “ Wl bankab ‘e money,“aaea*-
ihismoT^n 8 &re f eß P ect ‘ ul iy reauested to jm*.
xuz SI 2 byß ndi, ‘g pope:
mg 11, shall fvceive ours in return
ed^;rr^ ,ld tduofß of are kiodlf*
couv nt th °p r B^el,ls should th-y not rec«‘ (!
one frnrr g r ° s P they are requested t« 1
nnh/ ? * C wll “ d * may en ng 6
‘. l \ and ue ’ vvi ‘ h invite all c
friends of the objects we have m view, to
assist 111 procuring subscribers to the ‘•Gleatunp
j Husbandry.”
1 MOSES HOLBROOK, A. M MT
jan 17 t