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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. AUGUSTA. | * THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 27. (See first page daily paper. | Onr Reading Ifooiro Some weeks since we notified 0,1 » * *^ at w , „ w mnkmeflrranirem..** tldhaMnt hnniUfttnnlv fi'tptl "t> aml '- r ' P ' with Pm-- ttntj un,l< ’ r l ? h ' .ton i. w0,.i,. merited. In .hi-- bo««’- ” e "T di.appninted. M ,h-re eeerw .0 be Iple dwpo..- j ,i„„ to a,wtain an eatat.liahn.ent M the anrt in the citv. J The indifference, however, is prCjahly the re suit of an impression among man- who have heretofore been subscribers, that th« y arfl st ‘" wbieh is erroneous, unless their Suhpt ription be renewed. The ©bject of this notice therefore is to inform those who wish to become subscriber' to the Room, tl at our Book will be kept open and the Room lighted during the present week, at the ex piration of whu h, v e will determine whether it is prudent to incur greater expense, or discontinue it altogether. The price of subscription to each is Five Dol lars per annum, invariably in advance. For a Firm of two or more members Ten Dol lars. No mail N rth of Richmond last night. To Messrs. Dawson, Habersham, and Nesbit, of ir delegation, we tender our thanks for their courtesy in forwarding to us sundry documents. Genl. Harrison. Heretofore we have foreborn to say anything pro or con. in relation to this distinguihsed individ ual, who is the candidate of a very large portion of the opposition party throughout the United States, for the first office in tire Republic. And wo should not now deviate from our former course, but the pertinacity with which the Van Burcn press in Georgia, persist in charging him with Abolitionism ! imposes on us a duty no less due to truth and candor, than to the General, to place the matter right before the people, that their minds may be disabused. And this we shall do cheerfully, asan act of iibpaitial justice to under whose standard we are not enlisted. We shall therefore from time to time, lay before our readers such extracts, from the speeches and letters of the General as have special bearing up on this subject. And we ..esitate not to assert, that no impartial man will then charge him with being more ol noxious upon this vital question, than was the sage and Patriot Jifferson. Professor Espy, is enlightening the good citizens of Charleston on his theory of storms. Expectation of '.mat News.—The Liv erpool Packet ship New York, was reported below at New York on last Thursdav, but a letter recei ved in Charleston, kept open to the latest hi ur 9 asserts that the announeement was incorrect. Speech of Vr. Habersham of Georgia at the U hlte Dinner. A sentiment from General Thompson of South Carolina, at the dinner given to Judgej White, at Washington elicited the following rerjirks from Mr. Habersham, of Georgia : Mr. Prksi rent :—The honor whitfh has just been conferred upon me. was sowliol v unexpec ted, that 1 feel myself entirely unprepa red to make a suitable acknowledgement— I feet | however, that that compliment was rather extended for the State which in part I represent. l!u,n for any merit of my own. It is a fact which linay have been forgotten by many pe-haps by ijmst of the gentlemen at this table, that in the g.riai contest for the Presidency some three or fourtyears ami Georgia was almost the only State whi>: h cast her vote in favor of the venerable and distinguished man. whom we have met here to hoiitjir. Sir. I took part in that contest in behalf of tljat venera Neman and battled in the ranks of *jL friends- Sir, as I have said. Georgia stood alole in her vote for that individual —-ine stood so. In support of that great principle which sire b : ,.| so often carried out into practice.—ti e great pynciph of NullJicatiun—\ mean Null!feat ion. m its only true and legitimate meaning: the principle of sustaining the ' 'onstitution and the laifs, passed in purs ianc■ thereof. Yes, sir. sire st|.od in his support to maintain that principle, as |ar as cir cumstances would permit. ’ Pis true,} mat this venerable guest had opposed that principle as act ed out in South Carolina; but of the 4,ndida-es then presented to our choice, he was iniouropin lon lh « mtm likely to sien. the torrent of corruption; to maintain the rights of tlfe South and the integrity of our beloved Constitution— lie had notpronnsid do follow in the footsteps.” Sir. on this principle I and my fricnls had dar ed also to stand forth in maintainance yf Caroli na. in her great struggle fir Conmirutiohal rights —m that struggle, we hud fallen into J n.iimriiv nr our own 'I tie, and lire victory obtained in be hul! ot Judge Wbi'e, was the first whi»h graced our banner, after a long series of defeat. In maiot finance ol that principle Mr. Presi dcot, once so dear to your own beloved Slate of South Carolina I was sent her —and turn fintain H, i liaveuoine liere r i • , i i sir. 1 and mv'Ps)ilea2ut*s have maintained it in m , • m ‘ i ‘ n ■ ... „ . , • 11 11 an assembly bore more n °‘ > ,H>lS,eroU3 this cm,,postil of ih ■ representative's ot twenty-five States Lithe sixth ot a State \\ e marntained New Jers, j hy our vote, in her struggle for those Con JitJtion .1 riguis ot which site has been robbed. \|' e main- i tain, d the principle in onr vote in belief G the 11 aMd the Uws passed in pursuance I utile dreamed, Sir, whm I came hri**, of the few scenesf cenes 1 WjS rt,>o,,, witness. 1„ the *ne Hall 1 saw as i 1 seems to me. a majority of this Repre sentatives ol the people.-trampling und, . f i. ot th e re ” compact of our Union—from tie ! Hall I passed into the other, at the further e. d of the Cup tol. and there again, I witnessed 'a scene ; wm. h was enough to make the heart of any man bleed vviio respected the sacred institutions of his country. I know not that I have ever had my feelings so deeply excited, as in witnessing the le.ijvinent ot our venerable guest, from nis seat !* thß nate ' w,h,ch he had so long hone red. Sir. ?‘° Ulent obo - vm S ll) e i(update of . - *” . Uri ‘ however 1 may differ with htm on the right of a Legislature to* ins; met, I could but eo nmend him f lir i,„ .’ csfly. an 1 c.rrving o hunsell hid a! wavs muintainell S* i '"j * ' C file opinion Inis doctrine of iustru-t’io'n Vrolv los.stcu ..pun and practised, is destructive of that pei-naneoce and rndepu lence which ih Consti vUiion uicnJcJ to secure in the Senate; I niain- f tain the right of the people to instruct—but it he |*n", .oWy .o the people in .heir severe, S n caps citv when met in Convention. ~ , . fL Legislature is the mere agent provided by the Cons-, tution to elect a Senator-he is elect ed for six years —the Legislature or but one.— He represents the sovereignty of the btate in me Councils of the Union—they, the severe guty oi the people; to make laws for the Stale; they are both agents for the people ot the State—neith, r the Constitution nor the people have gi'cn to the j i Legislature the right to dictate to. or t » control | the Senators. That right, the people have re j served to themselves, to he exercised in Conven tiou; and the attempt to instrm t a Senator is an ; usurpation hy the Legislature ot the right reserv- | ed to the people. The Senator is not the of the Legislature. The Legislature is but ttsell . an agent of th ■ people for certain purposes spec ified in the constitution of the State. Ihe Sen- j ator is the agent, and representative of the sover eigniy of the State in the Senate of the Union, and is only bound by instruction from thai sov ereign body, the people of the State to whom alone the right belongs, and by whom alone it can he exercised. But, Sir. that venerable man. that honest man. toll himself bound to o’ ey the instructions, and there—in that Senate Hall. I saw him standing —his gray locks streaming over his shoubicis— a tear, not of weakness, but of deop and manly feeling, trembling in his eye—there he stood, j while in tremulous tones of the deepest feeling. I he took perhaps a last leave of the associates wirh whom he had so long acted. It almost seemed ; to me. as if that tea- was about t • fall upon the i very ashes of the (’(institution. It seemed to i me. as if the verv pillar of the constitution was | about to crumble into dust—l almost imagined, j that 1 saw the hand writing on the wad. ' ! But God in his mercy has given us time for re- \ j pent rnce—he still spares us from the wrath ol his mighty Indignation. Thus at both ends of the Capital, in thai sell same hour did I witness, what seemed to me, the utter destruction of the great compact nl onr Union. I have done—l did not expect to make a speech at this board, and was wholly and utter ly unprepared to do so, Ido trust that our hon ored guest may live lung enough to allow his Slate to do him justice h\ T send ng him back to his old seat in the Senate. Proceedings of Council. < 'or nci Chamber,} Monday Evening, Feh. 24. 1840. 5 Council met —Piesent, the Hon. A. Cum j ming. Mayor;—Aldermen. Bishop, Crump, Har i per. Hitt, Thomas, Dye, D’Anlignac, Dorlie, Jackson and Parish. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. The following reports were received from the icspective committees. The Committee on the Hospital, reported on : the hills of T. C. Clausm, and ask furlher time for consideration on the communications of Dr’s. Robertson, and Johnson, whi h was g••anted. The Committee on the purchase of the Water Works, report the following resolution which was agreed to. Resolved, Thst a committee of four he appoin ted hy his Honor tire Mayor, to complete the pur chase of the Water Works, and issue scrip for I the same, ir conformity to the resolution of the City Council of the 20th day of April last, reser ving SISOO for W. H. Turpin, Esq., and to hand over the ballance of said scrip to said Samuel Hale, on his making to die City Council of Au gusta. good and sufficient title to said Water- I works, and their appertenances, consisting of the ! land arround the spring necessary for supplying I the city with water, being feet wide and ex- I tending as high up the ravine as the sou ce «>t I the water and down to the fi;st road below the : spring, also the reservoir la-low the spring, and the right of way from the spring to the citv. Signed Jons Harper, G. T. Dortic, M. M. Die. Augusta, Feb. 22, 1840, The Mayor then appointed the same commit tee to carrj the above resol tion into effect, viz: Messrs. H.nper, Dortic, Parish and Thomp son. The Committee on the River Bank and W T harf. | to whom was referred the communication of Wal ter Harris, Esq. on the subject of removing tire sand bar shoals, &c. in the (Savannah Rivci, re ported unfavorably. I j Jno same Committee to whom was referred the Resolution of enquiring into the expedien cy of increasing the rates of wharfage for the pur pose of creating .. fund tor the improvement ol the Savannah River, reported against that measure. Ihe Repoit ot t«= o Special r ommiltee defining the duties ot Contractors, was made the order of ! the day for the first Saturday in Man h. I he Committee appointed to enquire into the ! expediency of assenting to an union of the ' on* tral and Western Wharf Company with the Union Wars Company and the receipts of all the W harves, the latter Company being compos ed of the City Council of Augusta, and the First hart ( ornpany the Assignees of Henry Shultz, Esq. respectfully Report, I hat the first wharf in Augusta, which was built about sixty lent front on ihe river, was built in the year 1815, near the site on which the upper wharf office has been since built, it was too small to be profitable, its receipts being scarce ly worth the trouble of collection. In the follow ing year, Henry -Shultz. E-q leased from the Ci ty Council ot Augusta, for the term of thirty ! j years ’ hu »dred (let on the river, and soon j afteiwards three hundred feet more for the same i term ot years, an winch he built in 18i6 and ! 1817, at an expense oi c 6J,(J00, a wl.a.f six hundred u-e long, which he so©., a er sold at cost, to the F;r.-t W .arf Company, who still I hold . t in the tor n of Capital Stock, divided into j 600 shios ot S 1 00 each. In ihe years 18<3and 1 lß ' 4 - ,hc ri? y Council built by contract, for ■ 545 000. and about $K)oO more fiir extra work, the Wharf next above the lower Fridge, extend ing along the river from Centre street to Wash- I mgton street, being eight hundred feet in length an I firmed a union in the year 1824, with = the First Wharf Comp my, which still exists, and is | h. its term to continue until the expiration of the i lea e grante 1 o Mr. Shultz. In the year 1834, E l»ar.l f. CampMl, E.q. ha,l built hy contract, what is kn-mn a. CW hull’s Wharf, which is 150 feet on tha river for I $6 500, and about S7OO more for extra work in the year 1831 lu fust potion of the We T er.i Wharf was built. It couasts es tares sep a rate wharves, all of which have a front of about | 250 feet and cost about $2,000. In the year 1835. Edward F.Garapbell sold his Wharf and his un improved river bank below, to the owners of the Western Wharf, who afterwards in the same year, ohta'ned a charter from the General Assembly of Georgia, formed a company and hni't the Central Wharf, which has a front on the river of about 630 feet, and with Campbell's and the W estern j Wharf form in? a fronton the river of about 1030 feet, cost about >40.0(H). The Central and Western wharves were buiC chiefly by those, who transacted husinc s at such a distance from the lower wharves, as to find it “Xtremely inconvenient to have their goods land- | ed at them, and their produce shipped from them, and who looked rather to the convenience which wharves more convenient to them would afford, than to the profits of their hives’merit a lanre portion of the cost, however, was defrayed by the profits of the work wh le it was in progress. The proposed union of the Central and M cst. ern Wharf with the others, was first suggested by the President of the first wharf Compa ny, as a measure mutually advantageous to the proprietors of all the wharves in Augusta, in 1 two respects: first in diminishing the eompara- I live expense and increasing the facility <4 col i lection: and secondly, in rendering it extremely I difficult if not impossible for the owners of mer- I chandizc or produce to avoid the payment of I wharfage on any articlts landed or shipped. But the pioposed union is recommended by i another consideratson which will doubtless have its due weight with the City Council, acting for toe benefit of the whole City and desirous of af fording every possible facility to its Commerce’ which is its sole support. It would save the merchants the trouble of enquiring at what wharf their merchandize was landed, or their produce slopped; as the business is now conducted, mis takes are constantly occurring in bills of Wharf age; sometimes a bill is presented from both wharves for the same articles, and sometimes oth er articles are omitted at both. Experience hav ing proved that when a boat s position is sudden ly changed from one whart to another, as is fre quently the case, it is extremely difficult for the Whirl Clerk, in die hurry of business, to preserve a correct record of the Wharf at which each arti cle is landed or shipped. The Central and Western Wharf Company was incorporated, as already stated, in 1835 ; but the Central Wharf was not finished until 1837, though a part of it and Campbell’s Wharf were in use previously. Since the period of its com pletion up to December, 1839. the receipts at the Central and Western Wharves though much i diminished lay the frequent, and unusually long prevalence of a low river during that period, have been $8632 82; while during the same period, the city’s proportion of the receipts from the Union Wharf has been $9082 28. or $449 44 greater than the former ; thus proving that the terms of the union, which have been proposed, arc as nearly equal as can well he fixed on. But when it is considered that the Central Wharf is more convenient to a large number ot the most extensive merchants of the city, than any other; and that the business of it can he easilv increased by concert on the part of those whose interest it is to increase its income, the ad vantage of the proposed union to the pecuniary interest of the city cannot be doubtful. The tendency of the proposed measure also to promote harmony among our citizens, and sup press sectional jealousy, from which the trade of Augusta has suffered so severely, is one ot its highest recommendations. Your Committee, therefore, recommend the adoption of the following resolution : Resolved, That the assent of the City Counci' of Augusta be, and the same is hereby given, to the union of interest in the receipts ot the City Wharves, the Wharf Company’s Wharves, and i the Central and Western Wharf Company's Wharves; each party receiving one-third ot the | nett income, and keeping their own wliaif in good order at their own expense; and each party also appointing the same proportion of t e Direc tors. who shall have the same power over the I Wharves of the parties to the proposed contrai t, and rates of wharfage as is possessed by the pre sent Directors of tli •* Union Wharf Company over the rates ot Wharfage and the Wharves, under their control, and in other respects the te« ms | of the contract to he the same as that between | the First Wharf Conipm y and the City Coun ! cil. Said proposed union to commence on the day cf and terminate on the i day of in Hie year Signed Jam i s Hakpkr, G. T. Donne, W. E. .I acksov, | Augusta, Feb. 24,1840. Commi.tec- On motion, the blanks were filled as follows: | to read, on the Ist day ot Maich, 1840, and ter | minate on the Ist day of March in the year I 1841. Mr. D'Antignac offered the following Resolu } tion us a suh-titute for the above. Resolved, i hat the proposed union of \\ barf interest would most probably result in loss to the , city, and that it there foie he n« t enteicd into. The quest.on on the passage of the resolution being put, it v:as lost; and yeas and nays being called for on the pipage of the first resolution, ■ they wi re taken, and are as follows: Via Crump, Harper, Hut, Thomas, Jack son. Doriic, Bishop. Parish. Nays —D’Antignac and Dye. So the original Resolution was passed. The undersigned Committee, to whom was re ferred the application of the Sou.h Carolina Ca nal and Rail Road « ornpaay, tor leave to estab lish a Depository in Augusta, and soliciting oth er privileges and immunities conne ted therewith having taken the same into consideration, pectfully submit the following m pout. j The communication under consideration was I before the City ( oum.l in the month of June last, hut was subs, queitly efcrre.l to lie Citizens of Augusta, in town meeting assembled who raised a Committee to enquire j, lio | ie px ' pediency of the purchase of t..e Bridges by the City of Augus.a, and thougo that Commute agreed to report aga.nst said purchase at the p,Le ) which was demanded, yet me purchase has since b been completed, with ibe approbation of a large ; majority of the citizens inte ested. tl The City Council having thus become tire p owners of di<* Bridges opposite the city .and having ° paid a price for them, based upon the toll which , maybe legally demanded to. passing them, cannot, s with the least propriety, consent to the building ol <-■ another B idge ; the effect of which must be u> dimnrsh the lawful income of the p operty which (] they have fairly purchased. Your Committee g believe that as free an intercourse between this ** city a;id Charleston, as lire nature of things will . j permit, is desirable for both cities, but if decs ri’rt d foil iw from tills admission, that all chargei lor the use of expensive improvements, is to 1 c re_ era riled as unreasonable or unjust- The payment 1 • " r 1 of toll for passing a bridge is no more to be re- ( ! garded us an unreasonable impediment in the way v i of trade, than is the charge for the transportation ' of persons or property on a Rail Road. * ! The imerest of trade aio sufficiently < onsulti d t 1 when such improvements art made, and ihe free i use of them permitted to every applicant for a I. . . j lair equivalent. ( As to the Depository in the city your Commit- | tee see no objection to it if properly located and t ■ ■ f j under proper restrictions. In conformity with tlie views wh.ch they ha*e | taken of the subject referred to them, your com mittee sub nit, for the approbation ot the City i , Council, the fallowing resolutions: Resolved. That the request of the So. ('a. Ca i nil and Railroad Company, for leave to build a Bridge across the Savannah river for the use of , said company and to carry their road info the j i city of Au gusta, he not granted. Resolv'd, That his II mor ffe Mayor he re. quested to transmit •* copy oi this Report and these Resolutions to the President of the South r j Carolina Canal and Rad Road Company. Signed—J oiks Hakpkii, "j WM. VI. D' A STIfJXAC, [ r , . ni >Comrmttee. t S. VI. 1 nomesox, ' VV. E. Jackson’. J ' Augusta. February 24. 1840. Toe following Resolutions were offered and passed ! By Mr. Harper : ( Resolved , That the city council will on c- i ceiving unconditional and satisfactory title to the New Bridge over Savannah Rr er, respecting | the right of Joseph K. Kilbu n, James Harper, ; Jonathan Meigs, and William Harper, to pas° ‘ I and repass the same, also their families, their scr j I vants and desendents, whose names may he han" , I * ded to the Keeper without payment ot toll, ox- I cept with vehicle engaged in landing brick, which 1 right was s cured to the n by an agreement made i \ on the 2d Navemher 1837. in consideration o! i their giving up land for the New road in Edge- * tVUI Dist. S. C. leading from the Camphelltown * road to tiie said new bridge, which said right, shall not in any case he transferable, and to cease as to each of the above named persons, who shall i Cviase to have any interest in the tract of land 1 aforesaid through, which sail! new road passes* 1 By Mr. Dantignac! , \ I Resolv'd, That the Mayor he. and he is hereby 1 authorized to. substitute $4 (TO City 8, rip for 1 $4,600 of the City Bonds authmised to be paid for the remaining half of the upper Bridge. | By Mr. Hitt : \ Resolved. That so much of the contract with I J. H. Spencer, for giaveling the side walks of { 1 Jacks »n street, be recimled (with bis consen 'J 1 I and that the Committee h authorised to receive t proposals to pave with Brick the side walks of I J ickson street, from the Rail Road depository, to 1 Broad street, as wide as the i ‘ommiltce may think necessity, (the owners of the property j>. yitig tor * the same) and report the same at the mx: mett. I i||rr of Council. ■. 1 t On motion of Mr. Harper, it was i (solved, i’lial the Street Committee advertise for and receive proposals for materials for pacing i such center drains and streets as may he deemed * n 'cessary, and report at the next meeting of Conn- : cil. i Council adjourned. » S. H. OLIVER, Clerk. 1 < | C S:xr,cuu Giucc.mstancb.—Miss Lucy Hir- t ringtoii. formerly a resident in Ameshijrv, and t daugliter ot Mr. Hat niigloii. died lecentlv in i ('ornisli. N. H. under the following distressing j circumstances. She was sick thr e year- surd js; a half, and confimcl to her bed two years and the • mouths. Several months prex ious to h r death, her right hip was dislocated by a contraction of I toe mu cl s, while slit* was sleeping quietly in bed. Immediately after this event, her hones ho- I gan to break; and before her death th y had ! S broken nineteen times or more, in different ports) of her body. \ ' At fii st lict tilts broke, tben lier collar bones, ; (ben her lower limbs, her under j iw. and the b nes of her hands and fee’. Their I real ing 1 was sometimes attended with a noise, and at oth- i c or not ; and was always preceded ami followed j n by the most acute pain. The ends of the hro ken hones would some imes for a dav or two, ' grate together on being moved. Upon a post j mortem examination, not a sound bone was | ‘ t >und. Ad were so softened as to he easily cut i wnh a 1-nilc. When her hones began to break | the muscles of her Inver limbs so contracted that ' they lav directly across her stomach and bowels. * In this position sin* remained until her death, j 2 Her!) .dy was so contrcted that at one time she 1 measmeJ as she lay in her bed only two feet and * four inches. She gradually lost all strength in I her limbs, until sue coaid only rn we slightly the I ends of her lingers. She was 43 years of am*. ! " Amesbury Irons. | I his was an extremely aggravated case of very 1 I malady, denominated by physicians j , ic ° ss ' um , Anghce. softening of the I | ’ ' nPS * * iu * bones ot the body are composed of f two parts, the earthly, and the gelatinous. In 1 1 thf * disease above described the gelatine was taken , ! *’>’ ,lle action oi tiie ahsorlient vessels, and the earthly part, being consequently left without sup port became triable, and could not resist the con- 1 i trading power of the muscles. 1 V\ e have sometimes seen in anatomical cal.i- \ nets specimens of hones where tiie earthly part Ita- been removed by the application of an acid Here the bone was extremly flexible ; in fa, 1 ( we nave seen a man’s thigh hone tied in a how 1 knot without breaking It is proper to remark that exh mstion or absorption of the eartlm pin of Honrs never lakes j lace in a living s,,h. s je» t.--A. Y. Despatch. ° r] Tt- Dtry:xiin. R Inive to llm r . v 'ery of a subterranean prison in ; \ rw JL ‘ 1 !ip '* die Bulletin of th it city siys- »• f t • r P ' Uls ccruined that ibe ,ulie. rapean .p^'Vwai built for a dungeon. Ps structure ana extent | <hows that it could never have been built for the purposes intimated by an evening paper. M e nisi that our j;ublic authorities will have the passage fully explored. As a matter ot curi jsity and antiquarian research, it is well wortu the expen>e and trouble. The most propable , conjecture we have heard, is that the p.ison, now so deep under ground, was, when (i st construct ed, on the s rface, which seventy years ago, was much lower than it is now. Since that the ground has been gradually raised, by a process now going on in different parts of the city, until the dun geon is buried many feet below the level ol the street. Whether there be any truth in this sur mise, it is difficult to say. This much, however, is quite certain, that it is, altogether, a mysleticus affair.” The number of births in Philadelphia dm ng the past year was 7202, of whom 3769 were males, and 3493 females. Thenumbe of deaths during lire same period wassll3, ot whom 2/11 were males, and 2432 females. Excess ot butus over deaths 2143. The greatest number of deaths in any one week was from the 13>h to the 20dr of July, when they amounted to 1-53; the sm illest number, from tlie 16th to the 23d or November, 64. A charge has been freqnenily made, and as fre quently denied that Mr. Secretary VV oodbnry en couraged the extension of bank credits, by urging the deposit' 1 bant sto loan freely. The following, from the report of directors of the Manhattan Bank, sno Id, we think, settle the mailer. Spea king of certain loans, they say: ‘•They were mostly made at a time when the institution had ao large an amount of public mo ney, and when th y were urged by the Secretary „f the Treasury w hum out that money .” Equivocation is a mean expedient to avoid too decl nation of the truth, without verbally telling i lie. We had rather a man would tell a good plump lie right out. titan undertake to whip the devil round the stump of equivocation. Valuable Cow.—A cow in Smithiield yield ed during tae last yea r , sufficient milk to make 220 i-2 Ihs Butter, besides 470 quarts sold, and what was necessary for the use of the family. Al lowing the butter to he worth 20cts per lb. and lire imlk Sets per quart, tae income from the cow would be >67 60 Bristol (it. I.) Phoenix. Bunn.vs rox.—ln the morning mail there is a correspondence, descriptive of a phy. iCu.Uy preco cious child, named Hiram Barb r, born in Ritch mond, Chittenden County, Vl; 3 years old last May, 4 feet 1 inch high, weighing 90 pounus and every way perfect in form. His voice is gruif, body large and full, and <is limbs of the size of an ordinary man. (the legs bowing out by reason of the great weight of his body. His head is that of an adults and thickly covered with light brown hair and a splendid pair of whisker* J with little or no mustache. He i not exhibitedfor money, though all who sec him givr something, and he is exceedingly delighted with specie currency—a proof, say we, of his good sense ! He eats like a soldier on fieh. duty. He tal cs indistinctly, and is rather idiotic. He weighed 9 pounds at his birth, and did not differ from an ordinary infant till he was fifteen months old! His whiskers sprouted at two years old. What a beauty ! Monument to the late Mr. Cillet-—The following paragraph is from the I'homaston (Me.) Recorder * “The main corner stone, intended for the monument of the lamented Cilley. passed our office on Monday evening, drawn by 14 yoke of oxen. It is a granite block, nine feet long and five feel square.” C .eiucal Bov Mot. —A Kc'GM nd Doctor was lately travelling from London to in the. mail coach ; it so felt out that he and a lady were the only persons occuping the interior of the ve in le. He. therefore, essayed to daw the lady out in tl e way of conversation but to no efleet; so he lesigned himself to l ie embraces of Mor pheus, winch example the lady shortly thereafter followed Subsequently the mail eoach Halted at the lady's residence; boatmen were in attendance to hand her ladyship from tr.e carriage, which attendance the ludy was in the act of receiving, when the Reverend Doctor facetiously remarked. “Why Mad am. we must not part without slinking hands, as ti-i probably the last time we may shv-p together;” which the lady, highly amused,assen ted to by a cordial pressure of t n hand. Have you got enough of it? — V genii man who has been travelling, for some months past, in the West, and who, by the way, is something of a wag, says that <mt in that country, when \«»u meet a Jackson-Van-Buren man, tl i salutation is not. “I hope you are quite well, to-day.” or “How a e you 10-d.iy ?” but it is, “Have you got enough of it ?” Toe question is pertinent and significant, and conics home to all who are suffering in *• mind, hiidy an I csta «■ :rom the folly and ignorance of thoM l who ha\e mismanaged the affairs of this go vernment for ten years past. From the height of prospe .ty vve a e reduced to misery and want, ami all because they had not the wisdom to let '•well enough” alone.— Ere. Star. DIED. At Lagrange, Troup county, Mrs. Colquitt, con sort of the Hen. VV a ter f. Colquitt. C onsignees per Soulh Carolina Kail itoai!, Hamburg, February 27, 1840. C< I Cortic; I S Beers &Co; J Biidges; H C Biyson & Co; Nelson Carter; M Frazer; Stovall, Simmons ft Co; T J Panne ce; M B Breedlove. Turpin &. D’Antignac; Rees * Beall; McGthee & VV ; J 1 Benson; Jeffers & 800 ware; G Parrott; Sin ley Sc Crapon; Anderson & Young. MARINE INTELLIGENCE. Charleston, February 2G Arrived yesterday— Brig Daniel Webster Ad ams • atanzas. At Quarantine— Line ship Leland, V iller Bos ton; Brig Commaquid, from Boston. Below —Two schooners Cleared C L brig Dimon. .Matthews,New York. iwi imai uu amug.Aipjiri. R. 11. OVi;K55v7 A TTORNEY AT LAW. _ tc ‘ J ~~ } Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga. Cj*Tr. C. IV. WEST oiCers his professional ,e, v, « S to the citizens of An-usta and its viciniJv lit, office l* in Mclntosh- street, opposite the office °£££hS r oa,l,t: rcsiden “ f «;v - feb 13—trvvlm NOTICED. Munrof s„r-ec7 Dentist, has returned to Augusta, and has’removed he] °' v Ma,tin K,( ‘ d - Bank Building Cnai} ’ an J °PP osi,e t; ie Br dge ttLAW NOTICE. —The undersigned nracG ton Strivpn U P eri(>r (omts of Columbia, VVashin?- ton. sc i ven, Burke, and Jefferson conn ies. leb Iff 2w CHARLES J. JENKINS. O’ Doctor J. J. WILSON offers his profes -lonat servi es to the citizens of Augusta and its vicinity. He wip lie found at bis residence the Tst brick building above (ineffron’s stable on VllU street, recently occupied by John L. Ad mis "* S q ’ gl7 ____ ts ir? IV. G NIMMO, General \t .7 hnnt office on Mclntosh street, next door to t I onstUuUonalxst. g ,e nov 7 ! A?j GUST A PRICES CURRENT. Thursday, February 27, 1840, X SAGGING— Hemp, per yard 20 a 2 6 I Tow, “ 14 a 2d I BALE ROPE, per lb. 8 a n I BACON —lies round, “ 9 a jj I liatn*, “ —a jo I Shoulders, “ —a u I Side*, “ —a 11 I BUTTER—Or en, per lb. 28 a w I Nort Carolina, “ 15 a o-, Country, 13 a 26 COFFEE —Green prime Cuba, “ 14 a p, Ordinary to good, ” 11 a St. Domingo, “ 1 a \ A Brazil, ‘‘ a—. Laguira, “ a 15 Porto Rico, ‘‘ a l.j Java, !■» a i 0 ‘ Mocha, “ 13 a 20 COTTON— Ordinaryto mid'g , “ 6 a 71 Fair, “ (} a Ci odfier, “ 8 a j: Prime, “ S{> a J 1 CANDLES — Spermaceti, “ 4b a 50 Tallow, t; 20 a 22 I CHEESE — American, “ 1 or, a jj English, “ do a 50 j ClDEß—Northern, per hbl. 9ou a Dot) Inboxes, per doz. 350 a 453 I j ClGAßS—Spanish, M. 15 a2O American, " 5 n jy ! CORN — bushel 50 u fra I I FISH — Herrings, __ I -5 a 1 Mackerel No. 1 " iwue ti 2 “ t; 44 3 “ 44 FLOUR — Canal, bbl. 9 all Baltimore, “8 a bSO Western, “ none Country, “ Gsoa 750 I GUNPOWDER— keg G a 7 Blasting, “4 a 4 5.) GLASS— IO W, 12, box 350 a 4 8 10, “ 325 a 4 IRON—Russia, “ G Suedes, assorted, “ G Jl<,op, lb 9 % 10 Sheet, “ 8 a 10 Nail Rods, i: 7 a 8 LEAD—Bar, “ 9 a LEATHER—SoIe, lb 28 a 30 Upper, side 175 a 2 Calf Skins, doz 30 a36 * LARD— ‘ lb a 15 MOLASSES — N. Orleans, gal 40 a 60 Havana, “ 35 a 45 English Island, “ c MAILS — lb 8 a 9 OlLS—Lamp, gal 150a 2(0 Linseed, “ 1 15 a 125 Tanners, “ 60 Oi TS — bush 50 PEAS — “ 1 PAINTS —Red Lead, lb 15 Whit* Lead , keg 3 00 a 350 Spanish Brown ib 4 a Yellow Ochre, “ 3 a PEPPER—BIack, 9 a 12} POUTER — London, doz 4 a 45U and Ale. American , hbl 3 a 360 RAISINS — Malaga, box 2 c 260 Muscatel, 1 50 a 2 Bloom, “ none RICE — Prime, 1(0/5 4 a 5 Inferior to good, “ 350 a4 50 SUGAR —New Oilcans, lb 7 a 10 Havana, white, “ 13 a 15 “ brown, “ 8 a 9 Muscovado, “ 8 a 10 St Croix, “ 10 a 12} I Porto Rico, “ 8 a 11 Lump, “ 14 a 16 Loaf, “ 15 a x(j Double refined, “ 20 a 22 SOAP — American, No. 1, 8 a 8} “ No. 2, 5 a 8* SALT —Liverpool ground, bush 50 a 62} Turk’s Bland, “ none STEEL — Gernwn, lb 15 a 16 Blstered, “ 8 a 12} j SHOT —All sizes, hag 212 j a 2 37} i SPIRITS — Cognac, 4th prf. gal 150 a 250 Peach, “ 1 a 1 -0 Apple, “ 45 a 61 Gin, ITlland, “ 1 20 a 165 “ American, “ 68 a 68 Rum,Jamc.ica. “ 1 25 a 1 75 “ Rew England, “ 48 a 66 Whiskey, Northern, “ 48 a 56 *• Western, “ 60 a 75 “ Muncnga. “ 75 a 1 “ Irish, « 2 a 3 ; TOBACCO — N. arolina, lb 8 a 15 Virginia, “ 15 a 40 ! TWINE— « 30 a 37} j TEA — Bohca, “ 50 a 75 Souchortg, “ 60 a 75 Hyson, “ 75 a 125 | Gunpowder, “ 1 a 125 I WINE — Madeira, go I 260 a 350 Sicily Madeira, •* 1 25 a 175 Sherry, « 2 n 3 50 I Tenerife. “ 75 a 125 Sweet Malaga, t; 40 a 60 Porte. « 75 a 3 Claret, “ none “ in bottles, doz 3 a 6 Champaigne, “ 5 a 12 RE VI ARKS. Lotion —C ur market was qrite excited yester day, and a large quantity changed hands, at an a - upon t e lower nnd medium quaitiesofai to } cent upon our ast quutvtious, while for* prime article tlie price was stationary. To ders general y seemc 1 di~po?;e«l to realise and | they were ireeiy met by buyers. The quantity ; coming in is imited. VV e now quote G ( o 8} cents as the extreme'of I the mar.\et, and the latter is paid freely fora choke | lot. Ordinary to middling, 6 o 7} Fair, 7 h to 8 Good Fair, 8b) Prime and choice, 8} Freights —To Savannah SI,OO per bale. Groceries —The supply owing to the limited de- | maud upon the market, is generally very good, j and cash commands them at low prices. Sugar— Ihe market continues to be well sup- j plied with every variety. Col ee —Heavy arrivals recently, have placed the J trade in a full stock, and prices range from 11 to 1 13 cents to arge dea'ers. Salt —The stock continues to improve, and sales are m ule from the Wharf at 40 cents, retail price 6 2} ct'. Bao.n —The market is almost daily replenished by arrivals from the country, which is so d from wagons at 7± cts. | Elo .I . Country. —Stock limited, and sells tea ! dily from wagons at 0} tc $7 her bbl. Molasses. —Stock large. We note sa cs from the wharf at 34 cents. Irish Potatoes- —Supply very limited, and com mands $4 per hbl. Exchange. —On New-York at sight, 7 a 7} r e ” cent, for current funds; Charleston at 4 a 5 per cent, Savannah 1 a T} per ct.; a 3p- M.; Lexington, Ky. ] per ct.; specie commands 6 per cent, premium. Bank Notes. — Savannah Banks, 1 per cent, prelo - olumbus Insurance B ? k 1 “ “ 1 Commercial Bank, l ’acon, I “ “ 8 Mechanics’, « (Augusta,) 6 “ “ “ Agency Brunswick, “ 6 “ “ Planters’ and Mechanics’ Bank, Co umbus, 2} “ t- d,S- Milledgev ile Hank, 2} “ “ ” Ccmulgee Bank, 4 - “ ‘ - Monroe Rail Road Bank, 5 « “ ‘ - Hawkins vile Bank, 5 “ ‘ Chattahoochie R. R. A L’k Company, 10 “ “ “ Darien t a ,k, IS « “ “ Bank of Rome, 25 “ “ “