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CHRCNICLE AND SF/ TINEL. AUGUSTA. TUESDAY MORNING MAP H 17. ' " ’ ~ gy No mail north of Richmond|ist night. Augusta—Trade—ProspJpts. It may be regarded by many as pr umption in us, ■who have so recently taken up < ir residence in the city, to be making suggestio sto our cit izens, who are generally very ente arising and awake to their interests nevertbel >s we think t here seems to be a careless indiffs, nee toward the progress of certain works of inter al improve ment, which are calculated when < mpleted to have a very important influence upSn the trade and commercial prospects of Augusta lind a want of confidence in the success of oilers, which when completed, in our opinion, rri y, without proper energy on thepartofour city, fiave a pre judicial influence upon our future tr; |e. We allude to the Rail Roads now n progress, the one from this city to the State Trunk, the other from Macon to the same termii is. There anpears to us a great supineness on be part of this city in relation to the Georgia Ro J; much too great, when its vast benefits to the city when completed are contemplated. It must necessarily become the great thoroughfare for the ransporta tion of the merchandise west, if it is completed prior to the Macon Road —but shou! that road be in operation first, it will divert a 1: ge portion of the trade and travel to Macon, w |ich "ould w ith proper exertion on the part of ugc be brought to her. Altho’ Augusta poss sses many advantages over her sister Macon, it b her inert ness she sleeps over her interests unt the Mon roe Rail Road be in operation, she wil have a la bour to perform in diverting the trad from that city, as Herculean as the building of t e Georgia Road from Madison to its terminus Let the citizens then be awake to their true im irests, and if our opinions are well founded, i ,behooves them to be aroused. Let the holders f real es tate and the merchants, who are alike nterested i n the prosperity of the city, make som decided m ove in this work. And if wisdom 1 id co.iert prevail in their councils, the future hop 5 of Au gusta will be fully realised. To show that our apprehensions of. e success of the Monroe Rail Road and its con iletion at an early day, are not idle and futile wcwill give a few facts which we have receiv don un questionable authority. The fact is t ascer tained that the whole route is now 1 ler con t ract,to be graded, and the work will bj|comple ted at as early a day as the very large inumber of laborers now engaged can t. Add to this another well ascertained fact, ihat the w hole country through which it passes 'om For ay the to the state road, as also the coi itry sur r oundir.g Macon, are sensibly alive to 1 ,e impor tance of completing the 'road before ny other r oad to that point is in operation, end e are as su red upon high authority that the M( sroe Rail R oad Company, can and will comn ;ind the whole surplus of the ensuing crop of otton of the adjacent counties to afford them tl means of procuring the Iron, Engines, &c. net ssary to place the road in operation. All Macc, too is aroused, and her citizens with a zeal \ orthy op the great work, are bringing to bear all reir en ergies in aid of the company and the rc J. During all this activity by the cit lens of Macon and the surrounding country,Rugusta seems inactive and heedless, —apparentliwaiting for dame Fortune, in one of her freaki to roll the whole trade of the Northwesternlpart of Georgia and Tennessee into her lap, vithout a struggle on her part to secure it, by tl'i means which are so perfectly at her command. SWe re peat, our people must arouse, and we |re con scious that to sustain the former star 3 of the city among the mans of the State, thecannot take the matter in hand at too early a The completion of lire Road is the first thing which should engage their attention, and to which they should direct al) their energies;—that d ne, our merchants are too sensible of their own i literests, to require to be told, that their stocks mst be increased to secure a trade, which will 0 lerwise pass through our city to a more exteni ive and better supplied market. 1 M e have hastily thrown together thij|e hints for the consideration of our citizens, wj hout a consultation with any, and if they shall Ip.ve the effect to excite a just sense of what wet'Pink the % true situation, our object will be accomplished, and the prosperity of the city be secureif beyond the reach of contingencies. f Theatre. 5 \ esterday we omitted to notice the advertise ment of Mr. Forbks, wherein he annoifices his contemplated return, with his corps, to us city, in a few days. Ihe admirers of the Di ma will no doubt be much pleased to learn the 'engage ment by Mr. F. of the very popular actr ss, Mrs. Fitz william, who will make her firs appear ance before an Augusta audience in tv* > of her favorite characters. [ lecture. Mr. Richards gives his second Le pire to night. Subject—“ The Chemical proj trties of the Atmosphere, or Oxygen and Nitrogi [r. Gas,” which will be illustrated by many interesting experiments. I Debates on the Federal Constir tiou. We take great pleasure in noticing 11 Agent in this city, at the Globe Hotel, receiv ;ig sub scriptions to this valuable work, which * :as pub lished under the sanction of Congress. In ad dition to the Debates on the Constitutor it con tains also a journal of the proceeding of the Federal Convention of 1787-88, togetl ;r with many other valuable tacts and argument calcu lated to shed much light on the chara ;cr and nature of our political institutions. It has been compiled with great care \ John athan Elliott, and should be : n the hands If every man who desires to be informed on the powers of the Federal Government. > Medical College. The Annual Commencement of the Medical 1 College of Georgia, was held on Saturday last 14th inst. when the Degree of Doctor of Medi cine was conferred by the Vice President, Dr Cunningham, on eighteen gentlemen, whose names have been handed us for publication, by the Secretary viz: Jasper Gibbs, Edgefield, S. C. .lames M. Schley, Richmond, Geo. Roger K. E'ixon, Louisville. Bartholomew Peterson, Irwinton, Alabama. T. W. Duncan, Talbot Co., Ga. Charles B. Dill, Augusta. Thomas F. Keith, Columbia Co. Win. S. Taylor, Anderson, S. C. Willoughby Barton, Augusta, Geo. Green B. Powell, Burke Co., Ga. James M. Murph, Baldwin Co., Ga. H. A. Ramsey, Elbert Co., A. S. Holland, Augusta, H. R. Casey, Jefferson Co. C. W. Sadler, Putnam Co. H. B. Sparks, Randolph Co. Boling A. White, Elbert Co. James H: Murray, McDonough, Ga. An address was delivered to the graudates by Dr. Hook one of the Trustees. This address was received by an overflowing audience, with the highest degree of attention and interest. It contained a striking exhibition of the excellence and dignity of the Medical Profession and bespoke its author a worthy mem ber of this noble profession. Dr. Joseph A. Eve having been previously elected to the Professorship, of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Infants. Dr. Ignatius P. Garvin was proposed by the Faculty and unanimously elected by the Board ot Trustees to the Professorship of Therapeutics and Materia Medica. Dr, Alexander Cunningham was elected Vice President, and Drs. Hook, Banks, Means and C W. -West, the Rev. Bishop Andrew and Dr. Church, and the Hon. Judge elected members of the Board of I’ruslees. We learn that the Faculty have solicited a copy of the address of Dr. Hook for publication to which he has assented —when received we will either publish it entire or such extracts as may be of interest to our readers. Extract from the London Banker's Circular. February 14, 1840. We extract the following notice of the view taken of a branch of the China trade carried on by the American merchants which has fallen into their hands in consequence of our rapture with the Chinese authorities; the document from which we extract proceeds from a committee to whom was delegated the duty of communicating with the foreign office on all matters relating to the aforesaid dispute ; and is to be found at the termination of their report of the proceedings de livered to the associated body of merchants tra ding to China and the East Indies, who appointed them a special committee and deputation for this purpose. “ The committee cannot conclude this portion of their report without adverting to a subject to which attention has been called—namely, whether an American vessel could legally carry tea or other produce from China to Singapore, or any British settlement within the limits of the East India Company’s charter, the Cape of Good Hope included; and they beg to apprise the Association, that it appears from such informa tion as they can obtain, the Navigation Laws, the act for regulating the trade of vessels be longing to countries in amity with Great Britain, as well as the treaty with the United States of America, most clearly forbid it.” It is probable that the owners of American ves sels now in the Chinese ports, and on their way to them, know nothing of this t caty and the re straining law's referred to, and they have sent their supercargoes under a sanguine expectation that great advantages were to be acquired by driving a brisk trade with our colonial possess ions while we were paralyzed with trouble. Will the Americans submit quietly to be deprived of these promised advantages 1 In short, there is so much disturbance yet to settle down before con fidence and activity can be fully restored, that our astonishment, is, that trade should be so good as it is. Having alluded to the state of the American Banks, we think it right to say that, as far as we are advised, there is no sufficient reason for apprehending ihat the charter of the United States Bank will be wrested from her. The Richmond Correspondent of the Lynch burg Virginian —the Editor himself, a member of the House of Delegates—says : At a meeting of the friends of Gen. Harrison, held in Baltimore, a few days ago, Gen Duff Green openly announced his intention to support him : he also declared his purpose to start a Har rison paper in Baltimore, in the first number of wdrich he designs publishing a correspondence between himself and Mr. Calhoun, which he says, will show' the latter to be the most treacherous man living. From the Baltimore American. Accounts reach us from various quarters of the country, of the extraordinary inteiest which has been taken during the past winter in the subject of religion. In Cincinnati, Maysville, Louisville, and the West generally, in New York, Philadel phia and in this city, this interest has been man ifested by more frequent religious services, elo quent preachings attended by numerous congre gations, and by an increased anxiety on the part of multitudes to make the concerns of futurity a matter of serious moment amid the changing and evanescent scenes of life. Nor has this solicitude been confined to any particular denomination; nearly all have participatd in it. The churches of ♦his city have received large additions to their several communions, in some instances the num ber of communicants has been nearly doubled. The complection of the times, wearing during the past season an aspect of gloom derived from the depression of business and the prostration of worldly hopes among so many, might well occa sion in the minds of the community much serious reflection.—lf the result shall be to call forth and strengthen the religious sentiment, bringing the conviction that upon no other basis can the su perstructure of human happiness be safely found ed, it will be but another exemplification of the great truth that it; is often “good to be afflicted.” “ That Prentice has a flattering wav with him, when referring to the distinguished individ uals of the \ an Buren party. following complimentary notice of the miqkter to Texas is in the last number of his journal: “ George H. Flood, Loco-Foco of the Ohio Legislature, has been appointed Charge de Af faires to Texas There is some reason to believe that, even without such an appointment, he would soon have absconded to that country. There were twenty-five fires in New York in the month of February. .Emory College. t j LETTER OF BISHOP ANDREW. Covington, Feb. 15, 1840. Dear Brother Capers —As I have to wiite on a little matter of business which I forgot in my r * last, I first add two or three things in reference to e our College. On Monday last, President Long y street delivered his inaugural address in tne Cha ' pel at Oxford. It was listened to by a respecta ble audience with a great deal of interest. As it will be published shortly, I have only to say, now, that it was a sensible and very appropriate per formance, delivered in the author’s usual happy and impressive style. We augur favorably for the future interests of Emory College, from his connexion with it. The literary and scientific departments of the College are ably filled. The young men are generally studious and moral, and many of them decidedly pious. Our village is rapidly improving. Its location is pleasant and healthy; its population bids fair to be of the right stamp, pious, industrious and intelligent. The Georgia Railroad will pass within less than a mile of the institution, so that the facilities of access will be abundant. We have the beginning of a library, and would respectfully incite the friends of science to contribute to its enlargement by do nations of valuable books. Such donations could be made through the preachers, or boxed up and sent by some convenient opportunity to the Rev. G. W. Lane, the librarian. Our philosophical and chemical apparatus, though not complete, is sufficient for the more important illustrations of r science, and will be constantly augmented as the liberality of our friends shall furnish the means, r We have a splendid collection of minerals, con sisting of the very valuable collection made by Dr. Cohen, of Baltimore, and a handsome list of 1 donations made to this department by a number 1 of liberal private friends; and from this latter . source, our mineralogical cabinet is receiving constant accessions. We are also indebted to the kindness of some of our friends for several ’ articles intended to constitute the nucleus of a I musuem. In reference to ail these matters, we . invite our friends not to be weary in well doing. We give below a list of the present faculty of the institution. ’ Rev. Augustus B. Long street. President, i Rev. A. H. Mitchell, Professor of Moral Sci ence and English Literature. Rev. George W. Lane, Professor Ancient Lan guages. Rev. Alexander Means, Professor Natural Science. Rev. Enw’n. H Myers, Tutor in Mathematics. We have also at present the services of Mr. Haderman, in the departments of Mechanical Philosophy and the Modern Languages, so that our means for affording instruction are as ample as can be found in any institution in the State. And above ail, we have a good deal of good sound religion in the village and in the College, and God has given us the seal of his approbation by favoring us with a most gracious revival of religion in the College duringthe last fall. Upon the whole, we lack but one thing in order to com plete success, and that is plenty of money.— This, I know is a scarce article these hard times, but we must have it; and I think we shall get enough to carry us through the narrows, and then the sailing will be better. May God give his blessing to this and every institution design ed to enlighten and bless the world. Yours, in Christian love, James O. Andrew. The Turkish Question. —The London Times of the 13th ult. contains the following: It would appear that the Eastern question was again assuming a threatening aspect. It was fear ed in the best informed circles of Paris on Mon day that the reply of the Russian cabinet to the ultimatum of the British government, presented to M. Brunow, and by him forwarded to St. Pe tersburgh last week, would not admit of the speedy adjustment of the quarrel between Mehe met Ali and the Porte. A private letter from Constantinople, dated the 27th ult., received in a high quarter, calculates on the resumption of hostilities by Ibrahim immediately on his learn ing that an attempt would be made to coerce his father. Railroad in Italy.—One of the most stu pendous works of modern times is a projected rail-road from Venice to Milan, connecting the seven richest and most populous cities of Italy with each other : Venice, Padua, Vicenza, Man tua, Brescia and Milan; the most gigantic por tion will be the bridge over the Lagoons connect ing Venice with the main land. The length of the railroad will be 166 Italian (about the same in English) miles, passing through a population of 3,500,000, the seven cities having alone a population of 500.000, viz, Venice, 120,000, Padua 44,000, Vicenza, 50,000, Verona 46,000, , Mantua 34,000, Brescia 42,000, and Milan 180- ! 000 inhabitants, to which may be added 20,000 I foreigners in Venice and Milan. It is calculated the transport, when completed, will average I,* 800 persons, 1,500 tons of goods and 1,000 tons of i coal daily. From Vicksburg.—We have a glimpse of ■ | sunshine from Vicksburg. A letter from a re i sponsible source, states that within a few days I from the time of its date, the Rail Road Bank ; had secured more than §2,000.000 of the debts -1 due to it, on real estate. Also, a debt of §9,150, I which had been put down as ‘ bad.” Within three days, §23,000 had been secured on real ;■ estate, in a similar manner to the large amount above mentioned.— Philadelphia Inquirer. I Love at the Masquerade. The tale told by the “Courier des Etats Unis” of the late ball bears some marks of Parisian pea ny-a-lining, but we have a story, which, beingthe narration of one of the parties in the case, can ’ not fail to be interesting, at the same time that it " will be acknowledged a true one. For a long ’ time, a German gentleman, of the most respecta ble character, has been paying his addresses to a j beautiful young lady. Many a time and oft have the fond pair been seen together in public, at the ’ theatre and the balls in this whirling metropolis. ' The last time, however, that their friends had the 1 pleasure of seeing them thus mated, was at the famous masque rade at Madam B —t’s. The gentleman had taken his fair inamorata to that splendid scene of mirth, with the hope, that 1 very night, to settle all preliminaries to the wed ded state. Lovmgiy did they keep each other company during a great part of the evening, but furtively during the whole time had the lady ex changed glances with a chivalrous Southern gen * tleman, whose demeanor spoke more than poetry itself—whose appearance was sufficient to dim the glory of Hyperion of old. Cupid shot his ’ shafts into the hearts of these eye-speaking stran -5 gers, and made the Southron bo d to make ad i vanoes. At the side of the German, whose taste for the lady he could not but admire, while he re gretted the exercise of it, he finally stood, and \ though the lady stood there, also, love found most potent soft whispers, and languidly the left hand of our heroine fell from the arm of her German 1 adorer, while her right hand was as gracefully - raised to the arm of the new comer. Like Lo l renzo and Jessica, they were rapid in their flight; s and when the German turned around to speak to his lady-love, the lady-bird had flown. “Upon J “the light fantastic toe,” he sought her here—he - sought her there. Inquiries were made respect ' ing her every where, but even the domestics had I not noticed her departure, splendidly attired as she was. No! She had not left even “a glass slipper” be i hind her! Our German friend was amazed—ac tually ball-struc/c. He hurried to her residence. and there, with her friends, until morning, he awaited her return. The morning brought no lady, only a pretty note, written in delicate pen manship, the purport of which was that Mr. and Mrs. would be happy to see their friends at the Astor House. Thus did the gallant Southron take the field like a second Lochinvar, and the German’s hopes have ended in smoke. One of his friends telling him yesterday that he should beware of a cough, taken we suppose on the night of the ball, he significantly replied, “I wdsh it would lead to my grave; not that I care for her, but that my coun try should be insulted!” Madame may an ticipate a war with Germany for her instrumen tality in this interesting business.— N. Y. Signal. Secretion Extraordinary.—Wc are in formed, on high medical authority, not in the way of hoax, but in sober earnest, that there is an individual (whose sex we purposely leave doubt ful), in this city, whose eyes, for the last eight weeks, have been secreting or hatching a gener ation of spiders. We learn that one night, on a visit to some dwelling in the country, which was very much infested with spiders, something which was taken or fancied, to be a spider, or a bug, was felt to strike against one of the person’s eyes, while lying in bed, and brushed off with the hand. The next day or shortly after, a spider leg, or perhaps several spider legs, were brushed out of the eye, which the patient and the patient’s friends, at first, tried to persuade themselves, were only loose eye-lashes; but the matter was soon settled, beyond controversy by the secretion or extraction, of a whole spider from its parent orb of liquid black, and the other orb soon followed suit, and both have ever since continued to mul tiply the insect brood, and furnish subjects for the new science of our ocular entomology. We learn that most of the spiders when extracted, are very young, and so exceedingly delicate, that the most tender manipulation, or handling, is re quisite to prevent their being crushed—another authority, however, states that many of these long legged children of the eye, are not very tender in fants at the time of their birth. It is also remark able that they exhibit a very considerable variety of species, not easily accounted for on the prin ciple of a common parentage. The spiders when extracted, are still born, and have considerable mucus attached to them—and a medical gentle man tells us that he himself took out several of the spiders, in this stale, and on one occasion, there was extracted, from such a depth in the lower cavity of the eye, that it took a long time lo find the object of search, a ball oferushed web, resembling a cocoon, containing something like a larva, but that he was not a sufficient entom ologist to determine this last fact. The eyes of the person before being handled, to disengage the spiders from their ocular nidus or cradle, are suffused with tears and exhibit much redness inflammation, so much so as to render leaching necessary, at times. The insects are found im bedded under both the upper and lower lids, and their presence in the former is indicated by a pain in the forehead just over the eye, and in the latter, by a pain in the cheek bone just under the eye. We are possessed of no other facts in rela tion to this extraordinary case; and however nearly a spider may be allied to a bug. we assure oar readers we are attempting no humbug. The respectable physicians, who have witnessed this phenomenon are completely posed—they suspect but they cannot delect—and they are unable to perceive in the case either the motive or the mode of imposition. We have heard one plausible theory in solu lution of the mystery. It is attributed to hysteria excessive nervous sensibility, brought into full play, probably from the actual crushing of a spi der in the eye, producing an anomalous s.ate of the nervous system, which is very apt to create oi engender such phenomena. The physical dif ficulties. however, in the of this hypothesis, are hard to surmount, as no one can seemingly place these spiders in the eye, without mutilating or crushing them, and in this case, they are extracted entire. P. S. Since writing the foregoing article, we have had the ocular de nonstration—we have ac tually seen two of the spiders carefully preserved i in a phial by a medical gentleman; and we as- j sure our readers that they are buna fide spiders— i perfect and perfectly dead spiders. N. B. We expect great popularity for the j above article, and that it will go the rounds of the newspaper, periodical and scientific press— hut we protest in advance, against its being styled the spider hoax. We have had, it is true, the ! moon hoax, and we now have the sub-treasury j hoax—but by gemini (i. e. the two spiders we saw), that is no hoax at all. 2d P. S.—We have seen two more of the spi- ' ders—one no Liliputian, and rendering faith as difficult as the swallowing of a camel.- Charles ton Courier. Another Lucky Coburg.— The Paris cor respondent of the New York Courier writes : You will concur with all the world in exclaim ing “what a lucky family are the Coburgs!” i when you shall learn that a Coburg Pincess, a i cousin of her Majesty the Queen of England and of her consort Prince Albert, has been selected! as a bride for the Due de Nemours, the second son of his Majesty the King of the French.—On communicating this matter to the Chambers the | other day,the ministers applied for a sura of 500, 000 francs, (100,000) as an outfit for the prince, and an annuity, (Donation) of the same amount, as well as a jointure of 300,000 francs, (§60,000) for the Duchess elect should she survive her hus band. I • _ A Mother indeed. —The Muncy Telegraph states that there is a lady in that county who has presented her husband with thirteen children at five births—twins twice, and “three times three” —all of which we believe, except two, are living. The last three were born a short time since, and were doing well the last we heard of them. If this can be beaten any where, then “Old Lycoming” will have to stand back. Congress should present each of the children with a quarter section of land. The Female Horse Thief.— Charlotte Wil son’ the celebrated female horse thief, has recently been practising her vocation in Kentucky. She was run out of New York some time since. She catches two years imprisonment in Kentucky for catching a man’s horse without leave and riding him off. The New York Mirror is the oldest, and, unquestionably, the cheapest periodical in Amer ica. Every number contains a great variety of useful, interesting and amusing matter, on every subject connected with polite literature and the fine arts; and they form, at the end of the year, an immense volume of four hundred and six teen inperialquarto pages with, vion ette title page, table of contents , splendid engravings, and fifty pieces of popular music , arranged for the piano-foite, guitar, <fec.—a library in itself and all this is afforded at a very trifling cost a year, a sum almost inadequate for the extraordinary equivalent rendered to subscribers. Extract of a letter from St. Louis Mo. “ Every thing berets dull, miserable and gloomy that is, I mean business and matters thereunto belonging. The weather is fine, pleasant and glorious; the sun is shining, ice is melting, birds are singing, bees are humming, the mud is dry ing, trees are budding, frogs are croaking, roses b ooming, river rising, steamboats puffing, credi ors dunning, and debtors running off to Texas.” A letter from Bethel, Glynn Co, (Geo.,) states that a fire occurred on the plantation of Mrs.Mc- Nish, in that vicinity, which destroyed the Cot ton Houses and 60 bales long Staple Cotton, be tween two andthree hundred bushels Peas, and * a large quantity of Fodder- The accident occur red from the carelessness of a negro, who was smoking a pipe in the packing house. — Charles ton Courier. A Sign.—lt is a remarkable fact, that fifteen of the delegates from a single county , who at tended the Columbus Ohio Convention, of 20,- 000, were leading members of the Van Buren Convention that met at Columbus on the 8 (h January last !! ! When before did the wheels of Revolution roll with such an impetus I —New York Times. Ax Igxohamus.—A few days ago, as J was trundling a wheelbarrow through one of our streets, he was considerable annoyed by a sow with her litter of juvenile porkers, who not hav ing the fear of hog-reeves before their eyes, had started on a public promenade. The wheelbar row, as wheelbarrows are apt to do, kept up a squeaking, in very good imitation of a grunter. The aforesaid sow, thinking him of the wheel barrow to be inflicting cruelty upon her offspring, immediately seized him by the leg. J turning round and cooly surveying the old sow, addressed her in this wise, “you d d old fool, don’t you know a w\\ce\-burrow from a pig ?” Exports.—We understand that the packet ship Patrick Henry, whidh sailed for Liverpool yesterday, carried out a large quantity of teas. — N. Y. Times, March 10. It is said that the Bank Bill will pass the Vir ginia Senate without material amendment. It grants relief, but hokle the Institutions subject to the Legislature at the next session. MARRIED, At Appling, on the evening of the 15th Inst., by the Rev. Juriah Harris, Curtis H. Shockley, Esq. to Mrs. Martha R. Hobby. DIED, In this city, of Scarlet Fever, on the 14th inst., after a short illness, John James, infant son of Joshua 8. and Julia Walker. “Suffer little children to come unto me, and for bid them not, for of such is the Kingdom of Hea ven ” Consignees per South Carolina Rail Road. Hamburg, March 17, 1840. T Dawson; Stovall, Simmons & Co; W E Jack- Son; P Flemming; Stovall & Hamlen; W Hattier; J Peurefoy; Earle & Cook; J M & W Adams; Baird & Rowland: J M Cooper & Son; C B Hitt & Co; S Kneeland; Rankin, Boggs & Co; Gould & Bulkley; F Lamback; A Frederick; J & 11 Hora. H Burleigh; Russell &, Hutchinson; Force, Broth ers & Co; M Frederick; G H Taylor; J Elliott; Kerneghan k Wray; Jeffers & Boulware. yf Consignees will attend without further no tice. COMMERCIAL. Latest dales from Liverpool Feb. 20 Latest dates from Havre Feb■ 17 AUGUSTA MARKET. Cotton. —Since our review of the market on Saturday it has been very quiet and firm at our then quotations. Iloldcis continued firm - through the day' on Saturday and yesterday, and were in some instances met by ouy'ers, though no very con siderable quantity has changed hands, as many 1 buyers look for ward to a still further decline. The continued rain almost through the entire day yes terday, afforded but little opportunity for opera tions, but the few sales we hear of fully sustained our quotations of the market on Saturday', and we continue them to-day Extremes oh to B£. Gen eral sales to 8 cents. Ordinary to middling, 6$ lo 7 Fair, 7fto 7^ Good Fair, 7| to 8 Prime and choice, to Freights. —The heavy rains on Sunday and yes terday, it is hoped, will have the effect to sustain the navigable state of our river, which was getting quite low, till late in the spring. Freights are without change at 75 to 100 cts per bale to Savan nah. To Charleston, by rail road, 40 cents per 100 lbs. for square, and 50 cents per 100 lbs. for round bales. Greceries. —The supply' is good —business very limited—and sales are made at prices not varying from our last quotations. Exchange. —On New-York at sight, 7a 8 per cent, for current funds-, Charleston at 4 a 5 per cent; Savannah 1 a 2 per ct.; Philadclphia2 a 3 per ct.; Lexington, Ky. I 3 per ct.; Richmond per cent; specie commands 6 per cent, premium.. Bank Notes. — Savannah Banks, 1 a percent, prem. Columbus Insurance B’k 2 “ “ «* Commercial Bank, Macon, 2 “ “ « Mechanics’, “ (Augusta,) 6 “ “ « Agency Brunswick,“ 6 “ « « Planters’ and Mechanics’ Bank, Columbus, 2 *« « dis. Milledgeville Bank, a 3 « “ “ Ocmulgee Bank, 3 “ « Monroe R.ail Road Bank, 4 « « Hawkinsvilie Bank, 3 “ “ Chattahoochie R. R. & B’k Company, 10 “ “ “ Darien Bank, 15 “ “ “ Bank of Rome, 25 “ “ “ All other Banks now doing business, at par. Specie Paying Banks. —Mechanics’ Bank, Bank of St. Mary’s, Insurance Bank of Columbus, Com mercial Bank of Macon, and Brunswick Agency in this city. MARINE INTELLIGENCE. Savannah, Alarch 14. Cleared —British ship Emerald, Ellis, Liverpool ship Argo, Harley, Liverpool; ship Leonidas, Gar diner, Liverpool. Arrived Biig Clinton, Lyon, New York; bri<* Wilson Fuller, Thatcher, New York; steamboat Hamburg, Wood, Augusta. Charleston, March 16. Arrived on Saturday— -Line ship Congaree Doane, Boston; brig Sea, Alien, Thomaston, (Me j brig Howell, Leslie, Matanzas; schr Florida, Burd gess, Plymouth, (Mass.) schr Elizabeth, Bell, New Crleans; schr Susan, Hardy, Matanzas. Arrived yesterday —Bhip Sarah Sheafe, Gray, New York; brig John C Calhoun, Builen, Havana schr Candid, Wilkens, Baltimore. fVeni to sea on Saturday —Ship Victoria Len nox, Liverpool; Br barque Mary Muir, Payne, Liv erpool; schr Only Daughter, Knowles, Boston. Went to sea yesterday— Ships Charleston, Win sor, Havre; Swanson, Heath, for a Southern port- Emblem, Talbot, do; Adrian; Davis, do; brig Com maquid. Sears, Amsterdam; schr Delight, Thrane New Orleans. ’ * At Quarantine— Ship Adrian; and barque Poto mac, Gorham, from Boston; and schr Emma from Philadelphia. * THE HEADING ROOM Attached to this office is open to subscribers zn strangers introduced by them, every day and eve ning (Sunday evenings excepted) until 9 o’clock*' Subscription $0 ; for a firm of two or more $ lO B. 11. OVERBY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, feb 25 Jefferson, Jackson county, c a Mr. Editor ; —Sir, I see a notice in your Dan ? of the 12th instant, stating that our worthy May declines being a candidate for re-election to the>>7 fice he has so worthily filled, and as it is time t| citizens should fix on a suitable person, to len . sent them as Mayor for the next year, Alloa- * to recommend the name of MARTIN M. DYE me a suitable person, and who will serve if elected 18 Many Votehs. 03*Messrs. Editors—Seeing ‘ of yesterday, that the Hon. A. Cumming d - r arc- electian for Mayor of the city, at the a . ~,cs iug election, we. therefore, take the liberti- £ gesting the name of JOHN PHINIZY E 0t su o~ person well calculated to fill the office an 1 k ’ as . a be supported by (mar 13) Many Votlm* 11 ZyTO THE LOVERS OF THE ARTs ~ The Paintings at Air. Richards’ Drawing Ac-iie ~T (Masonic Hall,) will hereafter be opened to tors, every Saturday afternoon and evening f* Sl “ 2 o’clock until 9 o’clock p. m. At ni du ti,s’ lom will be well lighted. & FT W. G. NIMMO, General Uominission chant, office on Mclntosh street, next door toti Constitutionalist. nn , , e ■ nov i (Ts EXCHANGE ON NEW and at one to tw ty days sight. For sale by ’ nov 23 GARDKLLE & JUllyp. o y RAIL ROAD FREIGHT articles usually carried by weight to Hamburg w ;i. be charged at 40 cents per 100 pounds (instead of 50 cents, as customary,) till further notice mar 2 JOHN KING, J r ., Agent. FT THE FARMERS’ REGlSTEß^ menhir publication, devoted to the improvement of the practice, and support of the interest, of A°ricul ture; published at Richmond, Va , at $5 per year" Edmund Ruffin, editor and proprietor. m g J. TV. JONES, is my authorised Agent for the adjustment of my unfinished business, mar 3 WILLIAM E. JONES. ay NOTICE. —From this date freight on Cotton per S. C. C. & Rail Road Co. is reduced to forty (40' cents per hundred for square bales, and fifty (50) cents per hundred pounds for round. A B. STURGES, Agent. Hamburg, March 4,1540. Cy NOTICE. —The Rail Road Passenger Train between Charleston and Hamburg, will leave as follows: UPWARD. Not to leave Charleston before 7 00 a m. “ “ Summerville, “ - -8 30 “ “ Georges’, - “ - 10 00 “ “ Branchville, “ - 11 00 “ “ Midway, - “ - II 30 m * “ Blackville, - “ - 100 ,m, “ “ Aiken, - - “ - 300 Arrive at Hamburg not before - 400 DOWNWARD. Not to leave Hamburg before 6 00 a. m. “ “ Aiken, - “ - 730 “ “ Blackville, “ - - 930 “ “ Midway, “ - - 10 30 “ “ Branchvill “ - - 11 00 “ “ Georges’, “ - - 12 00 m. * “ Summerville,“ - - 2 00p. m. Arrive at Charleston not before 300 Distance —136 miles. Fare Through —$10 00, Speed not over 20 miles an hour. To remain 20 minutes each, for breakfast and dinner, and not longer than 5 minutes for wo~ 1 and water at any station. To stop for passengers, when a white flag is hoisted, at either of the above stations; and also at Sineaths, Woodstock, Inabinet’s, 41 mile T. ()., Rives’, Grahams, Willeston, Windsor, Johnsons, and Marsh’s T. U. Passengers uo will breakfast at Woodstock and dine at Blackville; aown, will breauiast at Aiken and dine at Summervihe. may 21 Odoriferous compound—For laying in drawers, among linens, laces, furs, cloths, &c., imparting to them a pleasant perfume, and pre venting the ravages of the moth For sale by mar 13 GARVIN & HAINES. CREAM OF SOAP, FOR SHAVING.—The Cream of Soap is a peculiar compound, con taining a very small proportion of alkali, produces rich and durable lather with either warm or cold water, renders the process of shaving easy and j pleasant, and is particularly recommended to gen tlemen who may have strong, heavy beards, or ten der faces. For sale by mar 13 GARVIN k HAINES. I AW.—The undersigned practices in the Supe j rior Courts of Columbia, Washington, Scri ven, Burke and Jefferson counties. Columbia sits on the 2d Monday in March and Sept. Washington “ 4th “ “ “ “ “ Scriven “ “ “ “ April and Oct. Burke “ Ist “ “ May &3d Nov. Jefferson “ 3d “ “ “ 2d “ feb 22 trwl2t GEORGE SCHLEY. A-r— A TO RENT, from the Ist (!ct. next, a [F.. ffl STORE, No. 246 south-side Broad-street, I*'"” "" recently occupied by the late I) W. St. John. Apply to JAMES GARDNER, Jr. trwtf SITUATION WANTED.—A young man who can give the most unquestionable references, is desirous of obtaining permanent or tempoiMT employment in a counting house, book store or law office, in this city. Salary is less an object with him than occupation. A line andressed to “W.” box No. 115, Post Office, stating real name, busi ness and requisitions, will receive immediate at tention mar 5 trw2w*__ NOTICE. —The City Taxes for the present year aie now due, and the undersigned will call on the citizens for the purpose of collecting them, and persons failing to make payment will be returned to the City Council as defaulters, and pro ceeded against as the Ordinance directs. JOHN H. MANN, Col. & Tr. C. A. feb 20 trw2m ADVANCES ON COTTON.—Advances will be made by us, on COTTONS consigned to our friends in Liverpool, Havre and Charleston—in bills on New York at 20 to 30 days sight, on con signment to Europe, and 1 to 5 days sight, on con signment to the latter place. The shippers, in all cases, will have the benefit of the Exchanges, dec 25 ts GARDELLE k RHIND. CL RLING FLUID, &c.—Blending with a grate ful and refreshing perfume, the desirable quality of strengthening and promoting the growth ol the Haii, without giving to it ihe greasy' hue of Pomatum, or the volatile moisture of the Oils. Its utility' is confirmed by the most extensive con sumption. Also, the Genuine Maccassar Oil, and Ward’s Celebrated Hair Oil. For sale by mar 13 GARVIN & HAINES. LECTURES ON CHEMISTRY. DR, DAVIS will deliver a course of Lectures on Chemistry, adapted to a popular class, in the Medical College. The course will embrace the subjects of Chemical Affinity, Heat,.the Chemical and Mechanical Properties of Atmospheric Air, Steam and the most Important Gases, Alcohol) Ether, Potash, Nitre, and the Fulminating Com pounds. The first Lecture will be given on Monday eve ning, March 16th, at 8 o’clock, and to be continued on the evenings of Monday, Wednesday and Fri day, until the course of twelve Lectures is com pleted. 1 ickets, at $6 each, may be obtained at the drog store of Garvin & Haines. mar 6 trwflt GEORGIA RAILROAD. THE Letting proposed to take place on the Kb proximo, of the Grading of the Georgia Kan road above Madison, is postponed until the October next Proposals for grading a few of the heavy sections crossing the a valley of the Alco') river, will befreceived at this Office at any tloie after the 10th proximo. J- EDGAR THOMPSON, C. E. Engineer’s Office, Greensboro, > Feb. 22, 1840. 5