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CHRONICLE AND siINTINEL.
AUGUSTA
MONDAY MORNING, A 'RIL 6.
Southern Ladies’ li iok.
The appearance of the seco: 1 or Febiuary
number of this new work on « ir table a lew
days since, at first filled us with i glow of plea
sure, for we feared it had ahead been consign
ed to the tomb. Other claims upo our lime have
afforded us but a glance at its pag j, and we con
fess it was not unmingled with egret. Os the
merits of the different articles, w! ich fill its pa
ges, we intend on tins occasion to say but a
word, —they are as a whole ch -mr. [Out our
immediate object is to notice the i ypography, and
general execution of the work. Really but for
the name, we should say it had h=s the appear
ance of a Ladies Book, than any i criodical which
we have seen issue from an Amei can press. The
“ tout ensemble” of the work in its typograpic ij
execution, is not above the ordin: ary newspapers
of the day,” and not equal to rany, very ma
ny weekly sheets. The paper - very ordinary,
the type, if new, arc badly*worked. the proof sheets
carelessly read, and as a whole it espeaks a great
er want of mechanical attention nd superiority ?
than any work of the kind vve e er saw.
We desire to be understood. x'X no one ima
gine from these remaiks, that we are enemies to
the work, far from it; and we as: .ire the Editors*
the success of no enterprise of he kind would
afford us more pleasure; and it L the interest we
feel in its success which prompt!* these renargs.
Let them not deceive themselves :>r be led astray
by those who arc ignorant of the public taste in
these matters. It were better that a number
should be Kept back three montl >, than to issue
such an edition as the one on ov r table. Much
depends upon the appearance of a periodical as
well as the contents, and unless i tore attention is
naid to this department of the L ulies’ Book, we
predict its speedy dissolution, w ich we should
• very much regret.
Theatre.
Mrs. Madison takes her benclit and leave of
our boards this evening, in th > characters of
“ Constance” in the “ Love Chase ” and “Blonde”
in “ Captain Stephens.” The I ill for the even
ing’s entertainment is attractive, and we hope
tliat the continued and indefatigable exertions of
Mr. and Mrs. Madison, to cater for the amuse
ment of the admirers of the drai ta will not go
unrewarded. !
Circus. |
We arc requested by the prepr etors to assure
the public that the seats, which broke down on
Saturday night, at the Circus, wil be refitted and
strengthened by this evening, so as to secure
visiters against a similar accident in future.
The President has recogni; ?d J. A. Van
Couth as Vice Consul of the Netherlands, fo r
the port of Charleston.
Agrarianism.
The following odious sentinie: t$ are from the
pen of Mr. Fisk, a prominent c litor and office
holder in the Van Buren party of Virginia. We
ask the attention of our readers to^them.
The oppositioa to the Administration have re
peatedly charged the Administration party with
endeavoring to inculcate these demoralising doc
trines, and it has been stoutly denied. Although
ws a>e fully aware, that a large [portion of the
party would scout them as unwprthp of a mo
ment’s consideration, it is not to be denied that
there are many among them, who are industri
ously and earnestly engaged in their dissemina
tion, and who would be pleased, iho doubt, to see
every member of society reduced to a common
levt 1. This demoralizing feature its openly urged
in the following remarks. It is nbt to be satisfac
torily controverted, that such is and has been the
tendency of all the efforts of these men to array
the poor against the rich. If, therefore, the more
intelligent and respectable portion of the party
desire to avoid such disastrous consequences to
the peace of society, it behooves them to discard
end openly denounce the instigators of such a
libel upon our institutions, else t;iey will subject
themselves to the charge of aiding and abetting
in this work of infamy and degradation.
“I hold it to be quite as impossible for a rich
man to enter the kingdom of Democracy, as it is
for him to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.”
“ -1 have sworn, upon the altar of God, eternal
hostility to every form’ of paper money; I could
wish that these nefarious corporations had but
one neck, that it might be chopped off at a sin
gle blow. I would strangle the whole brood of
poisonous vipers in their own folds—they should
perish by their own venom. In this “war upon
xhe currency,” I hav&.enlisted during life”
“A popular hurricane that would sweep our
array of Federal lawyers from the halls of legis
lation—a political earthquake that would engulf
our thieving manufactories of paper money in
one huge pandemonium—would be the rie .est
blessing which could be bestowed upon this her
wise, happy land.”
“Our banking corporations tire in the field,
waging an open war with the government of our
choice; and how stands the case at this tremen
dous crisis! Are you preparing to help onward
the wheels of this ponderous juggernaut,! which
is rolling over the people, covering them with its
pollution and crushing them to the earth.”
“Should we see one man owning an hundred
houses, and ninety-nine men without any houses
at all! To answer affirmatively, would be a
monstrous libel upon both the justice and bene
volence of the Almighty.”
“And yet these upstart scions of a contempti
ble aristocracy dare to turn up their delicate noses
at the sunburnt faces of those who produce the
very bread they eat; they have the unblushing
presumption to speak contemptuously, of nature's
noblemen, whose patent was derived from the
Deity himself.” !
“The only ‘useful knowledge’ tljat thefonprodna
tive classes, the drones and idlers, wish to see dis
seminated, is that which teaches working men
how to create wealth for the lazy men to enjoy.”
‘■He who does not labor, either with the hand
or the head, is a pauper ora robber.”
“Why is it that the sons of industry toil on
on from year to year for a bare subsistance, and
the nabob, wdio never toiled an hour in his life, is
clothed in purple and fares sumptuously every
d ly! Why is it that those who provide the feast,
arc compelled to stand and look on while the
drones gorge themselves to bursting!”
“The Banks of the District of Columbia re
fusing to pay their honest debts, and no notice is
taken of the fact in (he House of Representatives,
although they have been in session more than
three months already. Either the banks of the
District are to be charged with roguery or
insolvency; they either can redeem their false
| promises, or they cannot; if they can, and do not,
j then their managers should share the criminal’s
doom.”
“In ease of an invasion or insurrection, the
large property holders are seldom returned among
the list of killed or wounded —they are more
generally among the missing, when the tug
of war comes on.”
The Albany Journal of the 31st ult. says:—
The bill to preserve the purity of Elections in the
City of New York, and to promote convenience
of legal voters, received the signature of the Gov
ernor and became a Law yesterday. Those pro
visions of the Law which sub-d.vide the City into
small Election Districts, are applicable to the ap
proaching Charier Election, and go into imme
diate effect.
We barn that there is too much reason (says
the New York Courier) to apprehend that the
pilot boat Sea Gull, attached to the Exploring
Expedition, as tender to the U. S. sloop ot war
Vincennes , has been lost, and that all on board
have perished. She has not been heard of since
the month of June last. Then she left Orange,
Terra del Fuego,—miles north of Cape Horn, in
company with the Flying Fish. A gale soon af
ter arose, and the latter succeded in beating off
the shore. This was the last seen of the Sea
Gull. Lieutenants Reed and Bacon, two prom
ising young officers, were on board. The Por
poise had been twice in search of her without
success.
The Lieut. Reed, alluded to in the goregoing
paragraph, is the son of Judge R. R. Reed, for
merly of this city, now Governor of Florida.—
Ed. Chronicle & Sentinel.
Treasury Notes.
Treasury Department,
April 1, 1840.
Amount of Treasury notes issued under the
provisions of the acts of Congress of the 12th.
October, 1837, 21st May, 1838, and 2d March,
1839. $19,567,086 22
Os this amount there has been
redeemed $18,144,530 58
Leaving the amount outstand
ing $1,422,555 64
LEVT WOODBURY,
Secretary of the Treasury.
Working Men, read and consider the facts set
forth in the following article. A distinguished
Administration Senator openly advocates the
odious Sub-Treasury scheme, because it will re
duce your wages for the labor of your hands !
Will you support an Administration, a part of
whose avowed policy it is, to reduce you to the
condition of those foreign laborers, enumerated
below. Are your wages too high, that you are
willing to assist the Administration in reducing
them ! Look to this matter attentively. This
measure so often repudiated by the people is about
to be forced upon them; and it aims a blow direct
ly at your interest, already suffering greatly by
the universal hardness of the times. Read anil
reflect upon the following facts :
POLTTrcS OF WORKING MEN.
A few days since we referred to Mr. Buchan
an’s argument, that the amount of money in the
country and the wages of labor must be reduced,
before we can enjoy permanent prosperity; and
that these blessings are to be brought about .by
the Sub-Treasury scheme.—We showed the fol
lowing to be the rates of wages in some of the
countries to which Mr. Buchanan referred as pat
terns for the working men of America, viz :
France. —Wages of common laborers, seven
and a half pence per day, and find their own hou
ses.
Sweden —Men on farms daily wages from four
to eight ponce per day, and board them-elves.
Bavaria. —Laborers paid 8 pence per day and
board themselves.
Belgium. —The best artizans and mechanics,
one shilling per day. Wages lower on the farms.
German}/. —Laborers from 2 to 7 pence per
day, without board.
Netherlands. —South Holland, laborers from
three to four pence per day without board.
Italy.— Trieste, laborers twelve pence with
| board. Tuscany, six pence per day without ei
-1 thcr board or lodgings
Saxony. —The wages for weavers and other
manufactures, about 10 cents per day.
Mr. Buchanan says that the sub-treasury
scheme will render money so scarce that the rates
of wages must foil, and therefore the manufactures
of the United States will be able to compete in
our markets with the manufactures of those coun
tries in which the laboring classes far as above sta
ted in the way of wages. We have entertained
the opinion that it would be better to pay a tariff
on the productions of foreigners sufficient to keep
them from our ports, than to reduce the wages of
the poor, who have difficulties enough to contend
with in the best times.
In order fully to show the working men into
whose hands this may fall, to what a miserable
condition the A an Buren administration wish to
bring them to, as well in regard to food as wages,
we have compiled the folloA'ing facts from au
thentic works upon the subject :
France. —ln some of the districts, the food of
the poor consists in rye bread, a kind of soup
made of millet, cakes of Indian corn now anil
then some salt provisions and vegetables, but
rarely, if ever, butcher’s moat. In other districts,
wheaten bread, soup made with vegetables and a
little grease or lard, twice a day, potatoes or oth
er vegetables, but seldom butcher’s meat.
Sweden. —The agriculturists in the Southern
provinces live on salt fish and potatoes; in the
northern, porridge and rye bread form their food.
Belgium. —The mechanics live exclusively on
rye bread, potatoes and milk.
The other hard money countries are similar to
these. The laboring and operative classes arc in
a miserable condition. While a laborer in the
United States can live on the fat of the land, and
indeed working side by side with his employer,
and eating at the same table, the laborer in those
countries of Europe which Mr. Buchanan thinks
are such excellent patterns, must subsist on but
one kind of diet and that of the coarsest kinds.
In every other respect the working men of those
countries are equally degraded, compared with the
working men of the United States.—With ns a
man may rise by talent, industry and prudence,
from the lowest to the highest station in society
or the government, but in the European deposi
tions. he who happens to be born a peasant will
always remain so. There is no chance for pro
motion there.
M e feel every confidence that the working men
of the country will resent, as it deserves, the
insulting proposition of Mr. Buchanan; and if
the sub-treasury bill be passed, its repeal will be
demanded and enforced by the people before a
year. In a day or two we will point out to our
readers one or two of its effects, and also some of
the reasons which may induce Mr. Buchanan to
support it strongly. — Harrisburg Telegraph.
A Charitable Man and a good Citizen
—lt is stated in the New York Courier that on
examination of the books of the late Samuel
Ward, it appears that his contributions for char
itable purposes, during the four last years of his
life, exceeded ten thousand dollars per annum.
From the Walerlcw.l Register.
A Leaf of History.
A BUB-TREASURT BEFORE THE REVOLUTION.
It is a fact not generally known that the suh-
Treasury was once in full operation in New
York, under the Governors sent over by the Sov
ereigns of England. From the “ History of
New York, from the first discovery to the year
1793, by Wm. Smith, A. M., with a continua
tion to the year 1840,” we make the following
extracts,| which go to prove that our democratic
President has not been searching among mon
archies for precedents without some success;
though he very wisely confined his investigations
to the eastern side of the Atlantic. Who will
sav that “revolutions never move backwards 1”
In the year 1691, under the administration of
Gov. Henry Slaughter, the General Assembly es
tablished a revenue, of which the history speaks
thus :
“Among the principal acts enacted at this ses
sion. we may mention that for the establishment
of a revenue, which was drawn into precedent.
The sums raised by it were made payable into
the hands of the Receiver General, and issued by
the Governor’s warrant. By this means the
Governor became, for a season, independent of
the People . and hence we find frequent instances
of the Assembly’s contending with him for the
payment of the debts to individuals, contracted
on the faith of the Government.” —Page 126.
Gov. Slaughter was succeeded by Colonel
Benjamin Fletcher, a man of strong passions,
very active, and equally avaricious. In Septcrn
, her, 1692, the revenue established for the year
preceding was continued for five years longer.—
Governor Fletcher proved to be a sub-Treasurcr
of the first water, according to the history :
“At that day the Assembly had no treasure ;
but the amount of taxes went of course into the
hands of the Receiver Genera*, who was ap
pointed by tie drown ! Out of this fund mo
neys were issuable only by the Governor’s war
rant, from Mr. Blaithwait, who drew annually
five per cent, out of the revenue as Auditor Ge
neral, down to the meanest servant of the Public,
became dependant solely on the Governor ; and
hence we find the House, at the close of every
session, humbly addressing his Excellency for
the trifling wages of their own clerk. —Page
142.
Gov. Fletcher was succeeded by Richard
Earl of Bellamont, who, in his opening speech,
gave the Assembly his word of honor that he
would not steal the public money I
“I shall take care that there be no misapplica
tion of the public money. I will pocket none of
it myself, nor shall there be any embezzlement
by others; but exact accounts shall be given you,
when, and as often as you shall require.”—Page
155.
Fortunately for the People, Lord Bellamont
was a man of his word; but his successor, Lord
Cornbury, was so prone to practical suh-treasury
ism, that the Assembly refused to raise money to
be put in his hands, and addressed the Queen of
England,
“Complaining of the ill state of the revenue,
through the frauds which had formerly been com
mitted, the better to facilitate the important de
sign of having a treasurer dependant on the As
sembly."—Page 177.
Lord Cornbury was removed, and in June,
1721, the Assembly, according to permission from
the Queen, elected a treasurer.
In 1741, Lieut. Gov. Clark, in his speech to
the Assembly, complained of the encroachment
of the Legislature upon his prerogatives. His
lamentation ran in this wise :
“Late Assemblies, having grown wanton by
prosperity, had abused the clemency of the
Crown, and had demanded the nomination of
their own treasurer „• this demand having been
granted, they had further insisted on the particu
lar appointment of the salaries of the officers of
Government, and absolutely refused to raise any
revenue unless this demand was likewise grant
ed.”—Page 444.
The Assembly, in their address, in reply to the
Governor, said :
i “That while the public moneys were at the dis
posal of the Governor and Council, they were
misapphed; and that the Assembly, to correct
the evil, directed such moneys as were raised for
the forces intended for the security of the colony
to pass through the hands of a person appointed
by the Legislature ,- that Queen Anne had sanc
tioned that nrocedure, and allowed the Legisla .
ture to appoint its own treasurer .”—Page 447.
The Prices Current. —The talc which is
told by the prices current in all parts of the coun
try, is having more effect upon the minds of
the people, than all the speeches which are
spoken and editorials which are written on the
misdeeds of the present Administration. Look
to what part of the country you please, and you
see nothing but depression in trade, and the utter
prostration of all the products of the soil. The
language of the prices current, is one momoton
ous sing-song of “this article is dull," “that arti
cle is falling,” and the other article is “hearing a
nominal price.” And will not intelligent far
mers who this year will find their incomes cut
short one half, ask what has caused this diminu
tion of their means of livelihood? Will they not, of
necessity, look into the cause which has thrown
the country from a height of prosperity which was
without a parallel in the history of the world, into
an abyss of depression and prostration which the
most desponding never dreamed of? Surely they
will, and the most superficial examination must
satisfy them that the mad experiments of the
Administration have brought these evil days upon
them.— Petersburg Intelligencer.
From the Philadelphia Rorth American.
Humbug. —This has been emphatically deno
minated the age of humbug, avid who knows not
how to avail himself of the advantages arising
from the use of it, will, we fear, fare badly in his
passage through life. In all professions, and in
all trades, does it abound, and each draws upon
his neighbor in proportion to the measure of his
ability. In nothing, however does it more pre
vail than in the mania for lecturing, which per
vades the community from Portland to New Or
leans. Every stalling lecturer that has impu
dence and effrontery sufficient to face an audi
ence, and retail to them the superficial informa
tion picked up in a few books, is at once a great
man, and the dignified title of Professor, which
once bore a significant meaning, is tacked to his
name. We have often wondered at the courage
which induces a crowded audience to endure the
hour’s infliction put upon them, to listen to that
which has been familiar to them for many years,
or should have been, and to lavish upon the au
thor of all verbiage, praises due only to the wise
and learned who, occas : onally, kindly bestow up
on the community a portion of that hoarded
knowledge which years of habitual study have
enabled them to acquire.
The love of admiration which pervades in a
greater or less degree the breast, of all, is one of
the causes which may operate to induce the man
of learning and of science thus to impart his in
formation, but how must an honest pride in his
own acquirements be based, when he hears the
encomiums justly his due, lavished upon every
ignorant pretender. He finds the community,
and the organs, of that community, unable to see'
or unwilling to acknowledge his superiority, and
resolves in future to draw himself from their gaze,
and confine himself to the seclusion of his own
study. The newspaper press of our country is
mainly answerable for the growth of the many
spurious representations we see flourishing around
us. The indiscriminate system of puffing,
which almost universally pervades it, has induced
much of the evil, and men who should never
have been known beyond the small circle of
their own firesides, are bubbled into existence,
and strut their little hours upon the stage in all
the vanity of literary coxcombs. Were the press
really and truly independant, and did its conduc
tors refuse to aid this vitiated taste, or rather in
flict the scourge where it was deserved, wc
should not see so many notices of peripatetic
“ professors” willing to enlighten their audiences
on any subject under the sum at from 25 cents to
one dollar a head per hour. There are many
other humbugs daily practised, hut we must for
bear any further enumeration of them.
Eloq.uf.nt remarks. —The Whig members
of the N. Y. Legislature held a meeting in the
Capitol on the 22nd ult. to celebrate the birth day
of Washington. The celebration was a noble
one. Many eloquent speeches were made. The
Hon. Gulian C. Verplanck offered a series of res
olutions, which he prefaced with a speech of sur
passing spirit and power. We regret that we
have room but for this brief and thrilling extract;
Mr. Speaker, I congratulate you and the repre
sentatives of the people here assembled on this
dav on this occasion. From my heart do I con
gratulate you—l congratulate you all, because
this day so rich, so hallowed in its associations
with the past, is also now the herald and the sure
pledge of a glorious future. On this very day in
every part of our wide republic, crowds of honest
men and lovers of their country, have met upon
the same great business that calls us together. In
every part of our rocky land, from the rocky hills
of New England to the rich, fertile plains of Mich
igan and Illinois, from the crowded commercial
cities of our coast to the log cabin hamlets of the
far w’est, arises one and the same loud, firm, uni
ted shout for Harrison and Reform. It is
the voice of the brave, the honest and the free. It
is a voire of a mighty multitude, as of the ocean
wave. It is a voice of power and of truth.
I congratulate you more especially, Mr, Presi
dent, and my brother representatives of the peo
ple, vhat amongst those this day assembled, wc
too, are met, to raise—not our own—but the rep
resentative voice of a majority of the electors of
New York. Here—in this hall of the people—do
we raise the voice of the Empire Stale, speaking
through those to whom she has confided her rights,
her interests and her sovereignty. It is a voice
rejecting the unworthy son of New York and
pledging her forty-two electoral votes to one whom
Virginia hails as her child, whom the West wel
comes as its hero and its benefactor, whom the
Union is proud to claim as the man of the na
tion.
The voice of New York has never been heard
in vain. It is
“ A voice oft heard
In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge
Os battle where it raged; to the whole land
It’s surest pledge of hope or safety.”
Yes, that old voice which was so often raised
during the war of the revolution—which was rai
sed during the worst extremes of the war of 1812
summoning all without distinction of party to the
common defence; that voice since heard in the
most perilous emergencies that have threatened
our Union—that voice never was, never will be,
never can he, raised in vain.
Yes, this is indeed a season of present gloom
and of fearful foreboding—darkness around and
“danger’s voice before.” But already, now at
this very hour, the darkness begins to breakaway
—the beams of light and truth already struggle
upwards through the gloom—the clouds redden
with the approaching dawn of truth and of power.
Already the foul things of darkness, the night
i birds of prey, are flitting hack towards their hi-
I ding places. Yet a little while—yet a little, and
tire whole firmament will glow with the ascending
| rays of the sun of Constitutional Freedom.
The History of Human Life.
»Y ROBFRT M. CHARLTON.
How truly does the journey of a single day>
its changes and its hours, exhibit the history of
human life! We rise up in the glorious fresh
j ness of a spring morning. The dews of night,
those sweet tears of nature, are hanging from
each hough and leaf, and reflecting the bright and
myriad, hues of the morning. Our hearts are
beating with hope, our frames buoyant with
health. We see no cloud, we hear no storm;
and with our chosen and beloved companions
clustering around us, we commence our journey.
Step by step, the scene becomes more lovely, hour
by hour our hopes become brighter. A few of
ourcompanions have dropped away, left—sudden
ly we have entered upon a new country. The
j dews of the morning are exhaled by the fervor
ot the noon day sun ; the friends that stand with
| us are disappearing. Some remain, but their
; looks are cold and estrayed ; others have become
weary, and have laid down to their rest; but new
] hopes beckon us on. The scene is glorious and
brilliant, hut the beauty and freshness of morning
have faded, and for ever. But still our steps fail
not, our spirits droop not. Onward and onward
we go : the horizon of happiness and fame re
cedes as we advance to it: the shadows begin to
lengthen, and the chilly airs ofeveningare usurp
ing the fervor of noon-day. Still we press on
ward ; the goal is not yet won, the haven not yet
reached.
The bright orb of hope that had cheered us on
is sinking in the West; our limbs begin to grow
faint, our hearts to grow sad ; we turn to gaze
upon toe scenes that vve passed but the shadows
of twilight have interposed their veil between us:
we look around for the old and familiar faces, the
companions ot our travel, but we gaze in vain to
find them: we have out-stripped them all, in our
race alter pleasure, and the phantom yet on- »
caught, in a sterile and hospitable country, the
night-time of death, and heavy laden, we lie
down to rest in the bed of the grave ! Happy,
thrice happy, is he, who hath laid up treasures
for himself for the distant and unknown to-mor
row.
“ Thoughts on Asses.”— ln the last num
ber ot Blackwood’s Magazine, is a clear bit of
gossip. We agree with the writer that donkeys
are a most unjustly calumniated class ‘of animals.
There are many interesting associations connec
ted with them, that should raise them in the es
timation of every humane and thinking person.
It was an Ass, that his timely praying, saved the
throne of Lakcn, King of Siam ; an Ass, accord
ding to the Koran; is to sound the trumpet of the
resurrection ; and it was on an Ass that the
Saviour rode into Jerusalem- Then think of
Sancho’s Dapple,” to say nothing of Sterne’s
“Dead Ass, and Peter Bell’s sagacious living
, on . e j c r h . at aulhor thus takes U P His cudgels on
behalf of the donkeys :
“ e should like to know by what right
-Lsop, and Gay, and all the fable mongers, from
Jotham upwards, have pitched upon one unhap
py |pimal, and made him a mock, and by a word,
a laughing stock for all succeeding generations j
to crack their ‘fool born jests’ upon. Now, in a |
goose, there really is something ridiculous; —his
very waddle is vain glorious ; he stretches out his
head, and elevates his antipodes with all the pride
ot a peacock ; his hiss is most superlatively self
complacent ami contemptuous.—it is eloquent of
irrepressible misanthropy ; a child can see through ;
h.s pretensions to dignity ; his folly breaks outln
the very means which he takes to hide it. But
an Ass ; pshaw ! there is no deceit about an Ass ;
he stands before us even as nature made him.
whT e h lV i 0n t dhoneSt: he P retcn * not to beauty
which he does not possess; he makes no oshm-
o o th S ro,‘ SP t y ° hi 3 SaEadty ; he « content to
slip through existence as peaceably and silemlv
as we Wl ||.let him; ho wants but liftleand he get's
e’ hno an ™,T T y le “ onS “ lhe nnt, and
he find., possibly, fewer disciples. Ves! the
world may sneers, it likes, l-„, Ass is „„
"° ’ we ral | le ' take him for a philosopher. How
many requisites for greatness does he not possess ?
, Urge him. scold him, beat him, kick him—the
1 Man of Uz himself was not mere enduring!
> He looks at you all the while, as much as to say,
■ I can’t help it, sd you must go as long as you
please, though ym must be aware that this sort
; of treatment isn’t by any means, gentleman like.’
; Dues he feel it repugnant to the dictates of his
s conscience to take some particular course 1 only
) observe his unswerving strength of purpose.”
The Philadelphia Inquirer of Ist instant, says:
—“No change of the least importance in our
money market and Stock markets, altoough the
s feeling continues to improve under the favorable
t action of the Stats Senate. Deep regret is ex
-5 prersed at the failure of the Small Bill proposi
. lion, but our letters informs us that another effort
- will be made upon the subject, and with some
2 prospect of success.
1 _>
The Bill requiring the Banks of Pennsylvania
to resume specse payments on the loth day of
January, passed the Senate of that State by a
vote of 17 yeas to 14 nays.
B ~ ‘
1 bXTRAORIUS A.UT MoBEL OF MaX IX AxATO
t >it. —Dr. Bedford, of this city, has just received
j from Paris, one of the most extraordinary works,
( developeing tha anatomy and physiology of man—
and beautiful woman too —that ever has reached
this country 7 . It is called “2/ Anatomic Clasiique
I ,” and is prepared by Dr. Auzoux, of Paris.
3 This curious piece of mechanism is a full length
representation ofihe human form, with all the
. hones, sinews, nerves, ligaments, and every other
L 5 part and parcel” of the internal and external re
j gions of the human system,'colored and fashioned
exactly as they are in the living subject. Each
part can be taken apart —the whole frame, from
. i top to toe, can he dissected, without any of the
, horrors or disagreeable effluvia which accompany
. the real subjects. Yesterday we had an op
s portunity of seeing a great portion of this piece of
, mechanism taken apart, piece by piece, limb by
r limb, ligament by ligament, till we discovered the
whole internal arrangement of the human body,
. heart, lungs, &c., from the brain to the great toe.
I In halt an hour we acquired a more correct and
j comprehensive knowledge of the mysteries of
. anatomy than could otherwise be accomplished in
, years of study.
Altogether, this model presents one of the most
chaste, beautiful and classical modes of studying
1 anatomical science that has yet been discovered.—
The model was made in Pans for the Russian
government, hut Dr. Bedford has, at great expense,
procured it for his own use, and for the advan
cement of the science, in the study of which he
is an enthusiast. VA e trust that he will deliver a
I course of lectures on the subject. They will be
. invaluable. — N. Y. Morning Hera Id, 28th u It.
;
Year of the World.—The first day of the
year 1840 of Christian Era, was the 25th of the
' month Thebet, in the year of the world 5600,
» according to the Jewish account, the commence
ment of the year 7348, according to the Constan
tinopolitan account —and beginning of the year
I 7332, according to the Alexandrian account.
, A melancholy commentary upon the “experi
ments” and experimenters is furnished by a pa
per published at Raymond (Mississippi) of the
11th of March, now lying before us. Its whole
space ot four pages is filled and crammed with
advertisements oftiheriffs’ Sales, to the exclusion
ofevery thing else, except a few lines announcing
.two candidates for State offices.
A proposition for the establishment of a Uni
form System cf Bankruptcy was introduced in
to the Senate by Mr. Webster on the Ist inst. in
the form of a bill The subject of this bill being
of great imprtance and of general interest, we
shall take an early opportunity to publish the
bill at large for the information of our readers.—
National Intelligencer.
An act has just been established by the Le
; gislature of Louisiana for abolishing Imprison
| ment for Debt.
COMMERCIAL.
Latest dates from Liverpool, March 2
Latest dates from Havre Feb. 25
Savannah. April 3.
Cotton —Arrived since the 27th inst 10U62 bales
Upland and 202 bales S I Cotton,and cleared at the
same time 12993 bales Upland and 253 bales S I
Cotton ; leaving a stock on hand, inclusive of all
on shipboard not cleared on the 3d inst. of 61781
bales Upland and 2267 bales S I Cotton. For sever
al days after the publication of our last report the
demand for Upland was very languid and occasion
al sales made under our quotations, but during the
last three days the enquiry has been more general
and the market steadier, yet without any improve
ment in value. r J he sales are 5435 bales viz : 16
at 4|; 22 at 5; 32 at s£; 52 at 54; 95 at 6; 83 at
6g; 46 at 6d; 176 at 64; 2.8 at 6f; 10] at 6h 22 at
6 a; 102 at 7; 111 at 7£; 311 at 7£; 122 at 7g; 518
at 7 8 f ; 1521 at S; 421
at S 8; 312 at 81; 301 at 8g; 125 at 84; 62 at Sf—
Sea Island has been in good demand —(he transac
tions amount to 460 bags, viz: 10 a. i7 at
17; 33 at IS; 27 at 18J; 54 at 19; 26 at 20; 161 at
21; 132 at 22; and 133 Stained from 5 a 14
Receipts of Cotton at the following places since
October Ist. 1539 1838
Georgia, April 3, 197342 167793
i South Carolina, March 27, 208C94 150935
Mobile, March 21, 289200 217505
New Orleans, March 21, 669316 35G029
Florida, March 14, 67188 55525
North Carolina, March 7, 6061 7741
Virginia, February 10 11500 11500
1445701 997028
The following is a statement of the stock of cot
ton on hand at the respective places named.
Savannah, April 3, 5-RJ4S 26514
South Carolina, March 27, 42468 49516
Mobile, March 21, ]80773 68550
New Orleans, March 21 159219 136951
Virginia, February 10, 3100 3000
North Carolina, March 7, 3000 1500
Augusta & Hamburg, Alar. 1, 32561 25081
Macon, .March 1, 23823 10690
Florida, March 14, 27864 17500
Philadelphia, March 21, 1340 1129
New York, March 18, 27000 80000
555496 420431
STATEMENT OF COTTON.
Upl’ds. S. I.
Stock on hand, Ist Oct., 1523 ] ]%;
Received this week, 10062 20 : *
do previously, 177220 6864
i- , , ... , 18S805 7184
Exported Hus week, 12993 253
$ do previously, 124031 4664 137,024 4917
| Stock on hand, including all on ship
, Bboard not cleared on the 3rd inst- 51781 2267
Rice. The market for this article has under
gone no change since our last. The sales of the
week amount to 500 casks, at from $2 56 a 2 To'
and a few casks at retail s2§. ~ *
I c Continues dull, and in limited demand.
Sa ‘® s ° f 200 bWs Howard-street at $6 a
kl plj.
Corn.—Sales of 1,500 bushels on ship-board at
62i cents. 2,000 bushels Oats at 33 ctsi
Groceries —ln Coffee, Sugar and Alolasses, there
is a fair retail demand. Sales of N. O. Suo-ar at
$5 a Havana Coffee at 11 a a 114 cts-N. 0
Molasses at 28cts; Havana do 22 a 24 cts. *
Bacon. —Sales of 350 Baltimore Hams at I*> ct
-100 kegs and 20 bbls Lard at 10 all cts. ~ 3
Salt. —Sales of 20,000 bushels Liverpool at 20 a
22; 500 sacks at sl. P UJa
Exchange— On England, 10 al] per ct Drpm .
drafts on New York, at sight, 6 per cent prem ‘ 5
days sight, 5£ a 5| per cent prem. F
Freights— To Liverpoa l , £ a Id; New York V
to Boston, j,c.
Macon, Ap u ■>
Cotton.— The receipts of Cotton in this cit v "a
ring the present season, up to this time are greats'
than any former year—and no doubt would h
been considerably larger but for the low f
the river in the early part of the season, wf-iri
caused considerable to be sent to Savannah h
wagons.
Receipts to Ist April 1840 100.807 Sto-k in -n
“ “ 1839 62,215 « g??
“ “ 1838 92,896 «
Sales are from 4 to 7 cents extremes— ■
sales from 7to 7. * ,c, P al
Charleston, April 4
Cotton. —There hasbeen rather a belter bufin
doing in Upland the past than the previous
Paces have been somewhat fluctuating— but u
general features of our maikct have undemoac
change since our last of the 28th ultimo a "°
sa’es ore 6287 bags at the following prices " 11
5; 102 at oh 165 at 54; 277 at o f 2SO at 6- 5s ?!
64; 121 a‘ 6j; 102 at 64,; 111 at 6|; 41 at 6>’. a-I
at 7; 70 at 7£; 95 at 7s; 2.57 at 7J; 76 at If’
at 7i; 47 at 74; 1597 at 8; 401 at B*s 676 at 81
SlOutSi; «at 8fc445«9i 134.1(4, , nd ‘
al fancy lots at 94 cents per lb. Dealers h r
Cotton have taken about 381 bags Sea , n "
f o! , o ws 28 at 21; 25 at 23; 37 at 26 \
and 264 at 25 upwards; and 52 bags Baiitee a! id
and 21 cents per lb. ’ a * U
Rice. —We have no change to notice m
cle. The sales have been to a fair ext ZT"
tlie rates of last week. About 2053 tip,™ i at
changed hands, at the followingW™. . N S * ia c ' a e
73 at 2 7-16; 702 at 24; 313 at 2 9-16- ml, X :
326 at 2 11-16; 574 at «4.t* 13-16.’
parcel wont I command $3 per 100.
Rough Rice. About 3,000 bushels Rou-h Pi
have been sold at 72 cents per bushel. °
Grain. The receipts of Corn since our last ha P
been about 7700 bushels from Virginia and Nor
Carolina. We quote 53 aSB cents per bushel a « I
fair criterion of the market. Several parcels rs
Hay have been taken within the range of ourra J
—viz : 6)a 70 cents per 100 lbs accoidin »to qua l '
ity. No arrivals of Peas or Oats during ;h e week
Flour. Ihe demand continues confined to citv
Bakers, who buy but for immediate use. We quote
superfine Virginia about 7; North Carolina, com
rnon, hue and superfine 5 a of Howard street 54 a
8; and Richmond country 64 per bbl. 1
Bacon. —We have dropt our quotations for old
as there is comparatively none in market. New is
held at about the following quotations—Hams 12 a
14; Shoulders 8 a 8|; and Sides 84 a 10 cts per lb
Lard. —Baltimore new has been selling in small
lots during the week at 10 cents p?r lb.
Salt. —About 7556 sacks Liverpool have been rc
ceived dor ng the week —a part of which has
changed hands at 125, 130 and 135. We ontiaue
to quote 1124 a 125 per sack.
Groceries. —There has been comparative’* noth
ingdoing in the leading articles in the grocery line.
The only transaction within our knowledge, is the
sale ol about 90 boxes brown Sugar for a Northern
market, at prices ranking from 6 to 6J pci lb.
The receipts of the weeks are 367 bbls. Molasses
from New Orleans, and 42 hhds and 52 bbls Coffee
from St. Jago.
Exchange. —Our quotations of last week are
still the x’ates for Sterling Exchange, viz : 9-| a
per cent prem. On France, 515a0f 20 per dollar.
Sight checks on New York 3 per cent prem ; bills
having 30 and 60 days to run have been sold at ij J
a 2; and 1 a lx percent prem.
Freights. —Our rates to Europe have declined, j
To Liverpool, we quote § a Id for Cotton, and to
Havre 11 per lb for cotton in squares bags. To
New York our rates of last week nave been ob- j
tained. To Boston we quote -J alc per lb for cot
ton and sl2 per tierce for Rice.
STATEMENT OF COTTON.
S. I. Upl’ds. ]
Stock on hand Ist Oct. 1973 2733
Received this week, 349 BS.'3
do. previously, 12196 201617
14518 213173
Exported this week, 553 7759
previously, 7755 166015
On ship board, 1102 1000
9110 174774 I
Stock on hand 5108 35399 I
MARINE INTEELIOENCE.
Savannah, April 2,
Cleared. —Brig Pandora, Sheppard, Baltimore.
Arrived. —Br ship Mozambique, Stephens, Liv
erpool; Br bark Asia, Hannah, Liverpool; Br bark I
Thistle, Hamilton, Liverpool
I Vent to sea. —Brbark Sarah, Kenney, Liverpool, *.
brig New Hanover, Carty, Mobile; schr Goodin- f
tent, Fiench, Philadelphia.
Aprils.
Cleared. —Ship Morea, Wheedon, Liverpool.
Arrived. —Ship Trenton, Bennet, Boston.
Below. —-Br ship Charles, Humberston, from
Liverpool.
Charleston, April 4.
Cleared• —Schr? Anner Patton, Thompson, New
\ork; B ! ack Hawk, Cutts, Portsmouth, (N. H.)
Arrived yesterday. —Line ship Calhoun, O’Neill, |
New-York; ship Congaree, Doane, Liverpool; brig |
Sullivan, Brown, do.
Went to sea yesterday. —Ship Cabot, Stunner,
Mobile; schrs Sohn Al yne, Hawes, Matanzas Ala
ry, Griffith, do.
From this port. —C L brig Emily, Sbeiwool, N. f
Y.; schrs Harriet, Kendrick, New-York; Reaper,
Baker, do.; Vatch v-erlm, Heath, do.
In the offing. —Ship Marathon,Brown, fm Havre.
rrTHE FARMERS’ REGISTER, a monthly
publication, devoted to the improvement of the
practice, and support of tiie interest, of AgricuJ- I
urc; published at Richmond, Va ,at pei year.
Edmund Ruffin, editor and proprietor. in 6 J
ifcT'lF. G. NIMMO, General i ommission Mer- il
chant, office on Alclntosh street, next door to the I
Constitutionalist. nov 7 ll
CjT Dr. IV. FLIN T ossers his services to the ci- ' a
tizens of Augusta in the different branches of his
profession. He may be found at all hours at the
late residence of Air. A. M. Egertou, second dooi
from the corner of Mclntosh and Reynold streets. I
nc v 29 ly
J. W. JONES, is my authorised Agent for the |
adjustment of my unfinished business.
. >nar 3 WILLIAM E. JONES.
WILLIAM u, McLAWS,
ATTORNEY AT LAIV,
dec 18 No. 4 Constitutionalist Range.
B. H. OVJBUBV,
A TTORNE Y A T LA IV,
feb2s JotFerson, Jackson county,
Doctor J. J. WILSON offers his proses- ij
sional services to the citizens of Augusta and its i
vicinity. He will be found at bis residence, the M
first brick building above Guedron’s stable on Kills
street,recently occupied by John L. Adams.
aug!7 ts
CJFUBLIC NOTICE.—Or. Munroe, Surgecn I
Dentist, has returned to Augusta, and has removed I
his operating rooms to one door belo v Martin Fred- |
click’s Confectionary, and opposite the BrtL' e |
Bank Building. feb |
THE READING ROOM
Attached to this office is open to subscribers, ar -
strangers introduced by them, every day and eve- j
ning (Sunday evenings excepted) until 9 o’clock.
Subscription $5 ; for a firm of two or more
(rf* EXCHANGE ON NEW YORK —A t sight jM
and at one to tw ty days sight. For sale by
nov 23 GARDELLE k B
Qfp Dr. J. H. MURRAY offers his professional I
services to the citizens of Hamburg and the visin' ■
ity. Office at H R. Cooke’s Drugstore,
mar 17 g
CTj*Lr. GARDNER, formerly resident surgeon I
of the New A r ork Hospital, and physician at >c *
ue Hospital, New York, tenders to the pu -
professional services. Broad and j
Office in Washington street, I* fcg liote i.
Ellis streets. Residence, I
7K~7nrFBS~OF~THE ARTS.— S
(fT TO . TliL t JI Drawing Academy,
The Paintings ■ hereafter be opened to vim, i '
. (Masonic afternoon and evening, from I
1 tors > evtr y QnVock p m. At night the rooms f
2 o’clock until 9 o c.ock r. n. ac 6 l 9
• wi.l be well lighted.