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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA.
FRIDAY MORNING, MAR' H 20.
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Pennsylvania Destructives.
The recent bill introduced into Pennsylva
nia Legislature, a sketch of which rill be found
in this day’s paper, strikes us as tbt most extra
ordinary measure we have eve * sc m submitted
to any deliberative assembly, by a n an who had
sufficient intelligence to draft a bill. Certainly
the anti-bank party are struggling to see how low
they can sink the institutions and credit of the
State, and if they succeed in carryii g this mea
sure, they wHI accomplish the d< struction of
both. By the bill the Banks th.' t accept the
terms,are required to loan to the Stat« $3,000,000,
and to pay the interest on the S ate debt of
$32,000,000, from now until 184 1, which a
mounta to two million dollars anr, aally. And
those Banks that reject the terms, a e compelled
to resume specie payments in thirl f days. To
what are we comingl When the L ’gislature of
one of the most powerful States ii the Union
says to her banks, you shall loan u* money and
pay our debts, or your charters shall forthwith be
forfeited! For it is, in effect, saying so by requi
ring them to resume specie paymei ts in thirty
days. As well might they go to a ' realthy citi
zen and command him to open his stre ng box, and
take therefrom the fruits of his laoor; and we
hesitate not to say, if such measures are counte
nanced, the day is not far distant w hen such a
right will be claimed for the Legisla ure, by the
destructives of that noble State. |
Theatre
Opens to-night—see advertisemei t.
The National Intelligencer of the 16th Inst,
says. An article appeared in the “ < Jrlobe,” two
or three days since, in relation to this contested
election in the Third Congressional!District of
Pennsylvania, in which it was stattil, in sub
stance, that Mr. Ingersoll had already I discovered
and proved that upwards of a thousand illegal
votes had been polled for his corapetitol, Mr. Nay
lor. This, we are authorized tc sayi is entirely
without foundation; and i* is not tru j that Mr.
Ingersoll, has produced a particle of «|vidence af
fecting the case, or can produce any.}—We are
further informed that the evidenc which ue has
procured is what a person, had been h »ard to say
and whom the witness who testified to his de
clarations stated to be unworthy of ci ;dit, even,
if upon oath. This is the four da ion of the
Globe’s charges, if they have a foe idation at
all.
Correspondence of the Philadelphia 1 iquirer.
Harrisburg, M irch 14.
Bill to authorise the issue c'' state : Lock bonds
to the contractors on the Gettysburg rail road
was considered, and the passage of th bill urged
with great ability by Mr. Snyder, but a ter amend
ments to take a loan from the U. < >. Bank in
specie were adopted, the bill was vi ted down.
Mr. Snyder imraedi«tely offered a jo; it resolu
tion providing for a Joan to pay the c .ntractors,
or if a loan cannot be had to issue si >ck bonds
to them.—Laid on the table.
Correspond nee of the Baltimore F triot.
Philadelphia, March 14, i a. m.
The excitement, that unfortunately prevailed
to such an extent on Thursday has ei Jrely sub
sided, brought about by the interfere ce of the
proper authorities to prevent the railn id compa
ny from proceeding with their work.
Business generally has been much more ani
mated than for the last two or three days. A
sale of 50 bags Rio coffee, slightly dat aged, was
made by auction yesterday at lOfc, 9( days; 70
hhds. Porto Rico molasses, a little tar 25, cash;
200 kegs Lexia raisins a $2,95 a 3; l|»0 drums
Turkey figs at 6 cents, and 150 sacks! Liverpool
fine saltat $1,60 per sack.
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Correspondence of the National Intell gencer.
New York, M; rch 14.
The rates of domestic exchange re a Utile
better than when I last gave a table, bu there are
many places on which bills cannot be legotiated
at any rate. Mississippi, as to com aerce and
trade, is out of the Lnion, and in son e respects
Alabama is not better off. The broken have the
control of the whole business, and mo lopolizeit
at will. We begin to think our South ;rn breth
ren are getting almost enough of it; f not, we
can stand it yet a great deal better nan they.
Exchange on Philadelp lia has slightly improved
from an impression that the New fork and
Eastern Banks would co-operate with he Phila
delphia banks to bring about a resumj tion.
The Great Western not sailing til the 19th,
but little is done in exchange on Lond m as yes
The rates may be quoted from 108 to 108 i»
which shows no tendency to the erp< rt of spa
cie. Stocks are slightly advanced to-da r.
Money continues plenty here, and at a low rate
of interest for New York; but few havt securities
of any kind now, and very few secur ;ies good
enough to get it.
There is great anxiety here respectin j the Gen
eral Bankrupt Law among men of ill parties.
Our State Legislature will speak in a fi sv days on
the subject. If the politicians, for po tica» pur
poses, throw obstacles in the way to t ie general
relief of individuals, it will in the end be a dan
gerous vote for them, for the.e is no o ie matter
upon which so mauy persons now arc so keenly
sensitive.—
A sale of real estate was effected in I roadway
the other day so low as to alarm all the holders es
real estate in the city and its suburl i. There
has not been any thing like it hardly since the
embargo. John Jacob Astor is closin ( up many
of his mortgages, and when a rUo , f property
comes again his immense wealth will b amazing
|y added to. There never were such ti ies for the
rich, and there never were such times f. r the poor.
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The New-Yorker.
Those of our citizens who desire to subscribe
for this valuable paper, can do so by applying to
Mr. I. S. Beers, of this city, who is the Agent
Balloon Ascension—No go.
We omitted io publish yesterday morning,
the letter of Mr. Hobart, announcing his disap
pointment, in consequence of which he is com
pelled to defer his contemplated ascension.
New York, March 12th, 1840.
Messrs Editors. — l regret to have to inform
you that, having failed to procure an immediate
shipment, from this port, of the materials for my
contemplated “Balloon Ascension” of the 271 h,
the ascension is necessarily postponed to some fu
ture day, of which further and timely notice shall
be given.
I deem it proper to add, that when a day shall
be fixed on for the purpase, it will be done with a
more careful reference to the circumstances, that
that have caused the present delay, and may,
therefore, be depended on, and, also, to inform
you that, to prevent disappointment, I have has
tened to address a note to every Post-office to
which advertisements had been directed.
Respectfully yours,
Samuel Hobart.
The new act upon the subject requires the
Census of 1840 to be commenced on the Ist of
June next, and to be completed within five months
from that date. All the returns are to be made
to the Secretary of State before the Ist of Decem
ber.
From 44 Down East.”
The Bangor Courier says :
“ A letter from Fort Fairfield states that six
teen more horses, with their drivers, &c. were ta
ken on the Aristook on the 3d inst. The pro
perty belonged to trespassers on that territory.
The Democrat states that a mob armed with
axes attempted to recover the property, but were
compelled to beat a retreat.”
The following items from the New Bruns
wick papers, look a litte warlike:
Woodstock, Frebruary 22.—Captain Batersby
and Haw*kshaw, of the Engineer Department, ar
rived here on Thursday evening from head quar
ters, for the purpose of selecting sites for the erec
tion of barracks and all such other works as may
be deemed necessary for the protection of this
place. These works, we understand, will be on
an extensive scale, sufficient to accommodate a
large force. — Times.
More Trouble. —Col. Goldie has been or
dered to take command of the British troops now
within the disputed teiritory, and 250 additional
solders have been sent thither.— St. John's Cou
rier. «
Important from Peru.
We are indebted to the kindness of an absent
friend, for the following interesting letter. The
bearer of despatches alluded to. has arrived at
Washington, having proceeded at once from
Norfolk, where he landed, to that city. This is
the first intimation we have seen of the object of
his rapid movements.
Correspondence of the Philadelphia North* American.
Panama, January 7, 1840.
The Peruvian government has refused to re
ceive Mr. Pickett, our chpvge d’affaires, or to re
cognize the treaty formerly concluded, ratified
and exchanged with the former governnent (that
of General Santa t b uz) in consequence of which
the St. Louis has been sent down here with a
bearer of despatches for our government, who
crosses the Isthmus to day on his way to the U.
States.—This proceeding of the Peruvian gov
ernment, is so much the more insulting from
the that the British treaty, which was ne
gotiated under precisely similar circumstances
as ours, is, for the present allowed to remain
in force, and will continue to be observed until
altered, modified or annulled, through the negoti
ation of a Peruvian Minister, who has been ap
pointed to proceed to London for that purpose.—
Don Felipe Pardo is the person named to fulfil
this mission, and there can be no mistake as to
the object of it.
New Jersey Contested Election.
TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
We desire to call the attention of the whole
country to the statement herewith exhibited, as a
report prepared and presented to the House of
Representatives, by the minority of the Commit
tee on Elections, to which was referred the con
tested election from the State of New Jersey; and
we especially desire to call their attention to the
novel, extraordinary and appalling circumstances,
which have driven us to the necessity of thus
appealing to our fellow citizens, from one end of
the Union to the other; and we do it with the
confident assurance, that they will give to the sub
ject that careful and unprejudiced consideration
which its importance demands, and their own fu
ture safety and interests imperiously require; that
they will unite with us in the belief, which in the
honest sincerity of our hearts we entertam, that
the government under which we live, must soon
become worse than a Turkish despotism, unless
the people, in the majesty of their strength, shall
arise and rebuke the perpetrators of the outrage
which has been committed on the constitution of
the United States, the laws of one of the sove
reign States of this Union, and the rights of the
great body of the people themselves.
We will not enter into a minute detail of the
means by which five of the representatives of the
State of New Jersey, furnishing the highest evi
dence known to the laws of that State, that they
had been regularly and constitutionally elected,
v ere driven from their seats, previous to any in
vestigation whatever, and denied all right to par
ticipate in the organization and proceedings of
the House, and much less will we undertake
hereto pronounce upon the motives which led to
this unparalleled proceeding.
We wish to take up this subject at another
point, and let the country know what are the cir
cumstances undei which five other gentlemen
from the Slate of New Jersey have been voted
into seats in the House of Representatives, who
have presented no return, no credential, no com
mission—and this done when the members hold
ing the commissions of the Governor of that
State, under the Seal of that Commonwealth,
were at home by leave of the committee, taking
depositions to prove—what they had at all times
averred they could prove—that they had received
a majority of the lawful votes given at the polls.
The proceedings of the committee having
charge of this subject, will be seen by reference
to the report below, up to the time that the report
of the majority of the committee was presented,
and we now proceed to give a statement of what
has since transpired.
But it must be remarked in advance that the
committee, having determined that if an inveali
gation was to be prosecuted behind the commis
sions of the Governor, every principle of equity
and fairness required that there should be a thor
ough search into the legality of the votes given
for each patty,and finding that there was no suffi
cient testimony before theih by which it could be
ascertained for whom a majority of the qualified
vote 1 * of New Jersey had cast their votes, such
time was granted as the parties themselves deem
ed requisite to enable them to take such testimony
as they might think advisable to establish their
1 respective claims, and that accordingly the par
i ties severally left Washington for the State of
New Jersey, where they now are engaged in the
• prosecution of this work.
During their absence, and shortly after their
departure from the city, (no complaint and no
applicaiiort. coming from them to the House,)
the Chairman of the Committee submitted a pro
’ position to have the documents relating io the
• contested seats printed for the use of the Com
- mittee. This furnished a pretext for the introduc
tion of another proposition, that tho Committee
should be instructed to report forthwith which of
the parties had received d majority of all the votes
i given at the election. After long debate, this was
3 ! so modified as to require them to report upon
| the lawful votes, which expressly, as a matter
T ■ of course, excluded all unlawful voles.
» The subject went to the Committee with a pre
cipitation which we deem in a high degree ex
j ceptionable.—The majority of the committee
adopted a resolution directing all the votes given
to be reported as lawful, under a most extraordi
-1 nary mental delusion that the instructions re
i quired it, because the committee were required
t to report forthwith. All efforts to have the testi
mony then before them examined were success
» fully resisted—reasonable time to the minority to
i report these and other facts to tue House, denied,
, The report was prepared, presented and received,
without delay, the title to which is well adapted
• to create the impression that the votes reported
were all lawful votes, while the body of the re
port itself (which few comparatively of those who
see the title will read) labors to excuse the com
mittee for not ascertaining whether the votes
were lawful or unlawful —a member of the mi
-5 nority of the committee attempted to explain the
f facts to the House—the Speaker decided that he
j was entitled to the floor—the majority of the
House overruled the decision of the Chair, and
' refused him the privilege of speaking—the pre
• vious question demanded, all debate stifled—in
the mean time a counter-report is prepared and
offered to the House—they refused to receive it,
and proceeded at once, wholly ignorant of what
the testimony established with a madness and
blindness belonging to desperation only, to vote
■ by the entire strength of their party, that the non
■ commissioned members had received a majority
■ of lawful votes, and were, thereftre, duly elected,
■ and entitled to occupy their seats as the represen
tatives of the State of New Jersey; and while
! the public funds are to be freely used for the dis
tribution of the report of the five administration
members of the committee, private means are to
be resorted to, to distribute the report of the four
minority members.
It is a circumstance, not the least remarkable
in this extraordinary case, that the individual
members of the majority, refused to recognize, or
adopt the reasoning of the report, but were entire
ly satisfied with the conclusions drawn from it,
while the author of the report, was equally well
satisfied with his own reasoning, but could not
adopt the conclusions, as evinced by his refusal
to vote for the resolution based upon it, though
present at tho lime.
For every fact here stated, we pledge ourselves
to produce the proof whenever called on, either
before the House or the country, they being facts
on record, to be found on the journals of the com
mittee and of the House.
And now, we ask by whom these five gentle
men have been elected I By the peoj le of New
Jersey, or by the friends of the administration in
Congress 1 And have we said too much in char
, acterising this proceeding as novel,extraordinary,
and appalling 1 Have we done more or less, than
our duty as citizens of this republic, and as Rep
resentatives of the people, in thus calling your
attention, emphatically, to this subject; in warn
ing you of your danger, and in asserting the ne
cessity of an immediate interposition of tne ma
jesty of the people, at the ballot boxes, to correct
such monstrous abuses in future.
It has been said, and was generally understood
that the party in power, had, in secret caucus, re
solved on the necessity of admitting the Admin
istration claimants, to carry through some of the
odious schemes of the present Administration ;
still we hoped that before they struck the final
blow, they might be induced to listen to reason
and to justice. We appealed, but we appealed in
vain—their resolution was as determined as it
was unjust; they voted, and succeeded, and that
by a boasted majority of thirty.
How was that majority obtained 1 Only, be
cause some of the members regarding the outrage
as highly gross and violent, refused to vote, or
contribute to the formation of a quorum, for the
adoption of a report and resolution not founded, ,
as we all conceive, on the testimony of the case,
and not warranted or justified by any considera
tion whatever.
A noble subject for boasting, truly. Let them
make the most of it. It is matter of pride to us,
• that we, at least, resisted it, and resisted to the
last.
We feel that we have discharged our duty ; if
I you are too indifferent to your own liberties, to
discharge yours ; be it so—the consequences must
fall partially on yourselves, but mainly on posteii
’ ty ; but as citizens of this Republic, we tell you we
are mournfully apprehensive for the future, and
that you may not think we arc too grave and too
solemn, on this vitally important question, we
beg leave respectfully to invite your attention to
1 proceedings in several of the State Legislatures,
particularly those of New Jersey, Massachusetts,
New York, and Virginia, and to the Special Mes
sage of the last mentioned Commonwealth, and
if all thisdoes not arouse you to the importance
| of this subject, all further effort on our part will
’ be vain.
But we will not permit ourselves to indulge in
P apprehensions—we are not yet old enough—we
have not yet come to that pass when those who
are clothed with power, for the protection of our
liberties,can be sustained in such an encroachment
on the rights of the people, either for the purpose
' of propitiating Executive favor on the one hand,
or of perpetuating political power on the other.
‘ We respectfully ask that our report, which
those who should have acted upon it, have re
’ fused to receive (the first instance of the kind as
we believe, that has occurred in the government,)
P may meet with that calm, temperate and unpre
judiced deliberation to which it is entitled from
the importance of the question involved.
Millard Fillmore,
Jno. M. Botts,
Geo. W. Crabb,
Trumin Smith.
J Washington, March 12, 1840.
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Fromthe Philadelphia Inquirer of the 14 th.
The New Bill,
f We yesterday gave a brief outline of the bill,
» to continue the improvements of the State, and
I to pay the interest of the public debt, as reported
s by Mr. Higgins. On looking over the bill, as
1 since received from Harrisburg, we find one or
• two matters not without interest. The pream
? ble sets out with stating that there exists an ur
-8 gent necessity to complete, with the least possible
1 delay, those important unfurnished lines of the
public improvements, in which a considerable
1 portion of the public debt is already invested.
This object, it is added, can only be obtained by
e resort to the oppressive remedy of taxation, or
• by such a judicious system of measures as will "
' release the people for embarrassments, and cor
-7 reel the disorders of the currency. It is then
- stated that this desirable consummation is ren
-1 dered practicable, “by compelling the banks of
this Commonwealth to loan the necessary amount
e of money to the Commonwealth, and to give ade-
I quate security for the faithful fulfilment of their
i contracts, and by adopting the salutary restric
tions recommended by the Governor in bis late
r message, depriving them of their power to do
r evil in future, and compelling them to resume
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the payment of gold or silver coin for their liabil
ities to the public, at the earliest day on which
such resumption can take place with a ration
al assurance of being permanent and useful.”
We next have the appropriations, and in the
second section, it is provided that the banks which
comply with the provisions of the act, shall be
required on the 10th of December 1840, to pay
all their liabilities on notes, bills, deposites or
otherwise, in gold or silver. Also, loan the Com
monwealth three millions, in a pro rata propor
tion to the capital stock of each, at an interest of
5 per cent. They shall also pay the interest on
the State debt, due in July 1840, and on all other
days between that time and July 1843, inclu
sive, in specie, within ten days notice, and in
equitable proportions.—They shall have twenty
days to decide whether they accept the terms or
not —and then they are to give security for the
compliance of their part of the contract. If they
fail to pay in any instance, writs of scire facias
are to ,be issued.
All the banks that do not accept the provis
ions, are required to resume in thirty day * after
the passage of the act, and on failure thereof, their
charters to be forfeited. The banks that accept,
are also to lose their charters, if they refuse to
pay specie thirty days after the 10th of Decem
ber, 1840. Section 8 abolishes the proxy sys
tem. Section 9 provides that no charter shall be
granted or extended for a longer time than twenty
years. The Legislature to have power to revoke
such charter, whenever, in their opinion, it shall
prove injurious to the Commonwealth. Section
10 prohibits banks paying out at their counters,
any but their own notes or specie, unless at the
option of the person making the demand. It al
so prohibits post notes, and the holding by a bank
of any stock, except its own, or the stock of
Pennsylvania or the United States, Section 11
prohibits dividends during suspension. The last
sec.ion is in the following words:
“That all laws and parts of laws, imposing
penalties or rates of interest exceeding six per
cent, per annum, upon said banks accepting the
provisions of this act, for non-payment of their
notes and liabilities, so far as respects the excess
above six per cent, per annum, and other laws
and parts of laws, hereby altered, supplied, or
made inconsistent with the provisions of this act,
be and the same are hereby repealed.”
This bill is certainly an extraordinary mea
sure. The terms dictated to the banks, strike us
as excedingly tyrannical. Those institutions have
been vilified, and nearly trampled to death ; and
now, they are commanded to “ loan” $3,000,000,
besides paying all the State interest between this
and 1843 ; or, on refusal, to have the last work
of the executidher consummated. Truly, the Le
gislature of Pennsylvania seems determined to
win an enviable reputation for extraordinary
proceedings. The banks are any thing but per
fect; but it should not be forgotten that millions
of property belonging to our best citizens, and of
all classes, are bound up with them—and the
rights and interests of this portion of the commu
nity should be protected.
From the New York Star.
British Possessions in India. —The ex
isting troubles with China may, or may not, lead
to a long and costly war; but it is certain that
Russia looks earnestly at every difficulty which
may break out in the East as opening a prospect
for undermining the British power in India. The
war now prosecuting against Circassia, and the
assemblage of a formidable Russian squadron in
the Black Sea, all tend to the furtherance of the
great object which Russia has so much at heart.
Indeed it may be said—and it is a singular fact—
that war only exists in the East, and great events
may grow out of the troubles in India, Egypt and
Turkey. The power of England in India is too
formidable to be easily endangered. It is a most
remarkable increase of power, influence, and terri
torial limits springing up, it may be said, from a
mere commercial company. We hear the glory
of England frequently spoken of, but the little
island is a very small portion of that glory—the
gigantic power is in India. The British Empire
in the East Indies now includes one hundred mil
lions of people, and extends over 1,250,000
square miles ot all climates, from the snows on
the mountains of the Gaut and Himmclays, to
the burning sands of Hindostan, and twelve hun
dred miles of the navigable rivers Indus, Junga,
Sutledge, Ganges and Bramaportia, with large
c'tics Calcutta, Delhi, Benares, Lucno, Poona,
Madras, and Bombay. They hold the Great
Mogul andall the reigning princes as their cap
tives, and can bring into the field an army full as
large as Russia. Europe cannot, by a combined
effort, dislodge England from her vast possessions
in the East Indies; and as to the Chinese war, it
is evident that if it is protracted, it will be merely
to sea fights with thejunks and coasters.
Singular Lawsuit. —An English paper says
that a curious lawsuit is now going on in Pesth
in Hungary, between a butcher and a cattle-deal
er. The butcher had lent 1,000 florins, to the
dealer, who sometime afterwards, called on him
as*he was at dinner, and laid down a note for
1,000 florins thanking him at the same time for
the loan. The window being open the note was
blown by a gust of wind into the soup tureen.
The butcher look it out and holding it by the
corner to allow the grease to drain off, it was
seized by his dog and swallowed. Perceiving
that he had dona wrong, the dog absented him
self, and did not return until the evening, when
he was killed and opened ; but the note was, of
course, by this time wholly digested. The butch
er has brought an action for the 1.000 florins,
which the dealer refused to pay twice over, con
sidering that, the note having gone into the
hands of the batcher, he alone ought to support
the loss.
Unclaimed Balances. —The New York
Express says: By a law ot the State, our Banks
are obliged to report all old balances in Bank of
over four years standing. On examining the
returns of the Manhattan Banks, we find there
are nearly two hundred individauls having bal
ances, there, amountiug to about eleven thousand
five hundred dollars, and among them are bal
ances of very anicient standing. Most of the
persons are broke, dead, or moved off. Among
those deceased is the celebrabled Thomas Paine.
This person died, as was believed in abject pov
erty, at the house of old Carver, and left $125 7
cts in the Manhattan Bank. This amount ought
to have gone to old Carver, who died a few days
since in the greatest distress. The amount of
unclaimed dividends is about four thousand dol
lars, some of which have laid nearly forty vears
uncalled for.” ”
London and Parisian Fashions for Feb
ruary.
The new cloaks which were described in our
last, continue to increase in favor, and will pro
bably remain in fashion until the month of April
or May. Some new pelerines have just been in
troduced, which are exceedingly pretty for the
theatres; they are composed of rose, blue, or
emerald green satin, wadded, lined with white
satin, and the lining being quilted in very pretty
pa'-terns; the exterior is covered with'antique
point lace. A row of narrow-lace to correspond
set on nearly plain, encircles the pelerine, which
is of moderate size, rounded behind, and termi
nating in front in long narrow ends ; it is closed
on the breast by small knots of ribbon.
Some white peluche bonnets of exceedingly
small dimensions have just appeared in carriage
dress; the brims are quite round ; the interior is
dacorated with small Easter dasies ; a while sat
in ribbon encircles the bottom of the crown and
crossing in front, descends at the sides, forming
brides. A bouquet of white curled ostrich fealb
/
ers, placed rather high in the ribbon at one side,
droops over the brim. Velvet, velours ep'ngle,
and satin are all adopted, but velvet preserves its
ascendancy. Colored velvet Limmings are still
the most in vogue for velvet bonnets. Violet,
purple and deep blue, are colors much in request
for velvet bonnets.
Cashmere peignoirs, of large patterns, are
much worn for morning dress. They are lined
with light colored satin, and bordered by a rou
lean of the lining. A cordeliere of a large size
for the waist, and smaller ones for the sleeves, are
usually worn with them.
Pelisse robes continue in fashion for half-dresss
They are either trimmed with sable, fancy silk
trimmings or black lace.
Turbans are much used for full dress ; they
are now worn short at the ears. Tonquets also
are very much worn. The most fashionable are
of ponceau velvet, the front composed of a scarf
of thread lace, the pattern wrought in gold ; they
arc disposed in the turban style, and descend in
long fringed ends on one side. Coiffures, of ei
ther gold or silver net, decorated with small
sprigs of velvet flowers drooping low on each
side, are also fashionable.
Coral ornaments are about to be revived.
The most fashionable colors for evening dress
es are ruby, violet ponceau deep blue grosei/le
and various shades of green and grey. Corsa
ges, in evening dress, are always pointed ; and
rich cords and tassels supply the place of cein
tures. The corsage is always cut low at top.—
A new style of drapery has recently been intro
duced ; instead of the material being laid in folds,
it is full, and placed rather low ; the fulness being
confined in the centre of the bottom by a loop,
which varies according to*ftie style of the dress ;
for ball, or full dress, it should be gold cord, flow
ers or diamonds, for simple evening dress, a rib
bon or a satin loop is generally employed.—
Sleeves are always short in lull dress, but they
have increased in length ; the majority are of the
double bullion kind terminated either by man
chettes or pogdas. Flounces that have the pat
tern wrought in gold are frequently headed by
twisted rouleaus of gold filagree, and the mate
rial of the dress. Where the dress is of a less
splendid dcsciiption, black and white lace floun
ces are generally worn.
Ex-Governor Wolfe died suddenly this mor
ning. Mr. Wolfe was collector of this port, and
had gone to the Custom House, about nine o’-
clock, where, as we learn, he was seized with
spasms, which, in a few minutes, terminated fa
tally. The affection was of the heart or lungs,
with which our informant states the deceased had
suffered for several years.— Phil. Nat. Gaz. 11 th
MARRIED,
In Columbia county, on the 17th instant, by the
Rev. Mr. Stokes, Dr. L. A. Dugas to Miss Louisa
• Virginia, daughter of the Rev, Juriah Harriss.
OBITUARY.
Departed this life on the 13th instant, after a
short illness, Mrs. Peace Butt, consort of Jere
miah Butt, Lsq., of Warren ton, Ga.,
She has been an accepted member of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church for the last fifteen } r ears.—
In death she exhibited to her numerous friends and
relatives, bright evidences of a glorious immor
tality.
Consignees per South Carolina Rail Road.
Hamburg, March 20, 1840.
S Knceland; T Richards; P P Carlos; Wright,
Bull & Co; L Dwelle & Co; Baird & Rowland; T
Dawson; B W Force; J Norton; Aldrich & Shove;
. Hand & Scranton; P Flemming; J W Houghton; W
[ E Jackson; C F Newton; Earl & Co; Gould &
> Bulkley; Stovall, Simmons & Co.; W Woodbury;
Reese & Beall; J F Benson; W H Sullivan; G Par
rott, Bolling & Howard; J H Clayton.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
I Savannah, March 17.
Cleared —Br ship Superb, Hamilton, Liverpool;
I bark La Grange, Doane, Mobile.
Arrived —Brigs Kentucky, Hatch, Baltimore; In
-1 dependence, Evans, Havana; steamer Lamar, Cres
• well, Augusta;steamboat David VV St Sohn, Pundt,
• do.
, Sailed— Bark La Grange, Doane, Mobile.
« Went to sea —Br ship Emerald, Ellis, Liverpool.
Charleston, March 19.
Cleared —U L brig George, Hull, New York; schr
” Reaper, Baker, do.
’ Went to sen yesterday —Brigs Tybee, Herbost,
I Havre; Yeoman, Gooding. Hamburg.
5 At Quarantine —Barque Potomac Gorham, Bos
t ton.
THE READING ROOM
Attached to this office is open to subscribers, and
strangers introduced by them, every day and eve
{ ning (Sunday evenings excepted) until 9 o’clock.
Subscription $5 ; for a firm of two or more $lO.
5 CCj* Dr. J. H. MURRAY offers his professional
1 services to the citizens of Hamburg and the viein
r ity. Office at H. R. Cooke’s Drug Store.
mar 17 1m
• fffpPUBLIC NOTICE. —Dr. Munroe, Surgecc
• Dentist, has relumed to Augusta, and has removed
! his operating rooms to one door below Martin Fred
-3 crick’s Confectionary, and opposite the Br dge
f Bank Building. feb 10
DO f~W. G. NIMMO, General Commission Mer
-1 chant, office on Mclntosh street, next door to the
f Constitutionalist. , nov 7
(ry EXCHANGE ON NEW YORK— At sight,
’ and at one to tw ty days sight. For sale by
nov 23 GARDELLE & RHIND-
I cpRAIL ROAD FREIGHT REDUCED— All
articles usually carried by weight to Hamburg, will
be charged at 40 cents per 100 ponnds (instead of
50 cents, as customary,) till further notice.
mar 2 JOHN KING, Jr., Agent.
' 'rr THE FARMERS’ REGISTER, a monthly
publication, devoted to the improvement of the
• practice, and support of the interest, of Agricul
s ture; published at Richmond, Ya , at $5 per year.
Edmund Ruffin, editor and proprietor. m 6
1 (ffj'TO THE LOVERS OF THE ARTS.—
" The Paintings at Mr. Richards’ Drawing Academy,
! (Masonic Hail,) will hereafter be opened to visi a
r , tors, every Saturday afternoon and evening, from
. 2 o’clock until 9 o’clock p. m. At night the rooms
will b? well lighted. d ec jq
(Hz' Dr. W. FLINT offers his servic es to the ci-
L tizens of Augusta in the different branches of his
i profession. He may be found at all hours at the
f late residence of Mr. A. M. Egerton, second dooi
. from the comer of Mclntosh and Reynold streets.
, nev 29 l y ‘
$y 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. v '
A B. STURGES, Agent.
r Hamburg, March 4,1840,
I B. H. OVERBY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW ,
5 fck 25 Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga.
, . CC/ 5 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
s first brick building above Guedron’s stable on Ellis
, street, recently occupied by John L. Adams,
i au g 17 ts
{Cr BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.—For the benc
l fit of the sick poor of Augusta and its vicinity.
The visiting committees for the ensuing month
- are as follows :
, Division No. 1. —James Godby, J. W, Meredith
' Mrs. Crump, Mrs N. Jones.
Division No. 2. —VV. H. Crane, W. F. Pember
’ ton, Mrs. Talliafarro, Mrs. M. A. Holt.
> • Division No. 3.—C. E. Latimer, James Panton
1 Mrs. B. McKinnie, Mr*. Julia Snead. ’
J» W. WIGHTMAN, Secretary.
THEATRE. 1
W. C. FORBES, Lessee.
Mr. Forbes respectfully announces to the ladle*
and genfemen of Augusta, that he will open the
Theatre, for a short season,on Friday evening 20t l i
March. He takes great pleasure in announcm-r th ‘
engagement of Mrs. Frrzwilliam, the celebrated
and popular Comic Actress, from the Drury ] a ‘
and Covent Garden Theatres, London, who is en
gaged for three nights only, and will make her first
appearance on this evening, as Peggy i n the Conn
try Girl, and as the Widow Wiggins, i n th'
dramatic entertainment of that name, written ex'
pressly for her, in which she will sustain six differ'
ent characters.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed the admired Comedy of th
COUNTRY GIRL. °
Moody, ;q r j
Miss Peggy, Mrs. Fitzwiil lam^ ne »
In which she will introduce the Ballad “Pi/n
Pit Pat Goes my heart.” ’ at >
To be followed by the Dramatic
one act, called the lnmen t.m
WIDOW WIGGINS,
Or Music Mad.
Written expressly for Mrs. Fitzwilli am and .
in London and New York with great success.
To conclude w ith the Faree of
LOVERS’ QUARRELS.
CCT Tickets sl. Doors open at half past 6 anrt
performance to commence at 7 o’clock precisely
Messers. Editors —EDWAßD THOMAS ]T
is recommended as a suitable person for Mavor
the next year, and the following named gentleme°n
as members of Council, for the Upper Ward
JAMES HARPER, JOHN NELSON, C. B. HITT
They will be supported by
mar 20 MANY VOTERS.
Messrs. Editors— The following gentlem nwiil
be supported for members of Council, in W ar d v 0
2, at the approaching election: B. II WARRfx
JOHN G. DUNLAP, GEORGE M. NEWTO V
mar 20
Mr. Editor, please announce the following
named gentlemen as candidates for election as
members of the city council fro n ward no 1 at the
approrching election in April next.
GAREY PARISH. WM. E. JACKSON
mar 18 PHILIP CRUMP.
Messrs. Editors .- —The following gentlemen
will be supported for Members of Council in Ward
No. 1, at the approaching election:
G. F. PARISH, W. E. JACKSON,
m IS Dr. W. E. JuIINSTON.
ffy Messrs. Editors —Seeing from your paper
of yesterday, that the Hon. A. Cummino declines
a re-electian for Mayor of the city, at the approach
ing election, we. therefore, take the liberty of su»-
gesting the name of JOHN PHINIZY, Esq., as\
person well calculated to fill the office,and he will
be supported by (mar 13) Many Voters.
Messrs. Editors :—Observing in your paper trie
names of several gentlemen suggested as cauci
dates for Mayor at the approaching election, v/e
take the liberty of proposing the name of Dr.
DANIEL HOOK, as one well qualified to fill that
office and who will be supported by
March 18 ts Many Voters.
Mr. Editor :—Sir, I see a notice in your paper
of the 12th instant, stating that our worthy Mayor
declines being a candidate for re-election to the of
fice he has so worthily filled, and as it is time the
citizens should fix on a suitable person, to repre
sent them as Mayor for the next year. Allow me
to recommend the name of MARTIN M. DYE, as
a suitable person, and who will serve if elected.
Many Voxers.
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’and healing the gums; thereby preventing,
convulsions, fevers, &c. Sold only at Dr. IVm.
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’ SOOTIUNG SYRUP.—To the Agent
of Dr. Evans ’ Soothing Syrup: Dear Sir—The
rreat benefit afforded to my suffering infant by
rour Soothing Syrup, in a case of protracted and
>ainful dentition, must convince every feeling pa
ent how essential an early application of such an
ivaluable medicine is to relieve infant misery and
orture. My infant, when teething, experienced
mch acute sufferings, that it was attacked with
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 continuing 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 ’my cheerful permission to make this
acknowledgment public, andwill gladly give any
information on this ciicurasti nee.
WM. JOHNSON.
EVANS’ FAMILY APERIENT PILLS ate
purely vegetable, composed with the strictest pre
cision of science and of art; they never pro.lm«
nausea, and arc warranted to cure the following
diseases which arise from impurities of the blowi,
viz:— Apoplexy, Bilious Affections, Coughs, rc.'K
Ulcerated Sore Throats , Scarlet Fever, Asthma, ( h>
lera. Liver Complaints, Diseases of the Kidnks ami
Bladder, Affections peculiar to Females, and all
those diseases of whatsoever kind to which hunau
nature is subject, where the stomach is affected.
TONIC PILLS. —The power of Evans’ Comomih
Pills are such, that the palpitating heart,the trem
ulous hand, the dizzy eye, and the fluttering miml.
vanish before their effects like noxious vapors he- '
fore the benign influence of the morning sun.- |
They have long been successfully used for the cult I
of intesmittents, together with fevers of the irregu- I
lar nervous kind, accompanied with visceral ol>- I
structions. I
This tonic medicine is for nervous
eneral debility, indigestion and its consequences,
or want of appetite, distension of the stomach, acid
ity, unpleasant taste in the mouth, rumbling noise
in the bowels, nervous symptoms, languo’ , wk’ii j
the mind becomes iiiitabie,d'esponding,tlioughttnl) I
melancholy, and dejected. Hypochondriacism, com
sumption, dimness of sight, delirium, and all oil" 1
nervous affections, tShese pills will produce a sa!»
and permanent cure.
Evans’ Camomile Pills were first introduced ml
America in 1835.
More conclusive proof s of the extraordinary efr
caey of Dr. Wm. Evans ’ celebrated Camomile
Aperient Anti-Bilious Pills,in alleviating
mankind. —Mr. Robert Cameron, 101
Disease —Chronic Dysentery, or Bloody
Symptoms, unusual flatulency in the bowels- *
vere griping, frequent inclination to go to stool- b
nusmus, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, ' ,t >
quency of pulse, and a frequent discharge of •> ! c
culiar foetid matter mixed with blood .great deb) 11 . 1 ;
sense of burning heat, with an intolerable bei'H's |
down of the parts. Mr. Cameron is enjoying D ' I
ect health, and returns his sincere thanks lor I
extraordinary benefits he has received. I
Sold by ANTONY & HAINES, |
Sole agents in AuQ, 1
J. M. & T. M. TURNER, ****** I
P. M. COHEN & Co., Chidejl? •
SHARP & ELLS, Mil led S eV ’
C. A. ELLS, Macon,
A. W. MARTIN, Forsvth
War. E. WELL*, Druggist, A then.,
MARK A. LANE, Washing! oll •
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