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About Daily chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1837-1876 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1847)
CHRONICLE & SENTINEL. BY J. W. & W. S. JONESk DAILY, tri weekly Al weekly. JAMES M. SMYTHE, Associate Editor OFFICE IN RAIL ROAD BANK BUILDING. TERMS —Daily Paper, per annum, in advance**slo Tri-Weekly Paper, “ “ “ “ ». 5 Weekly, (a mammoth sheet) “ e •• 2 GASH SYSTEM. —In no case will an order for the piper be attended to, unless accompanied with the money, and in every instancewhen the time for which any subscription may be paid, expires before the re ceipt of funds to renew the same, the paper will he discontinued. Depreciated funds received at value in this city. Fall of Meteoric Stones in lowa.—From the last number of Siliman’s Journal of Sci ence, we copy the following letter from Rev. Reuben Gaylor, of Hartford, Dcsmoiues coun ty, lowa, to Charles U. Shepard, Professor of Chemistry in the Medical College of South Carolina and in Amherst College, Mass. Hartford, lowa, July 27th. 1847. Prof. C. U. Shepard —l proceed now to give you the result of my investigation of the facts in relation to the meteor which fell in our State, in respect to which you wrote me some time since. Having learned particulars so far that I had full reason to credit the report in the case. I repaired to the spot last week and found the facts to be as follows. On the 251 h dav of February, 1837, at about ten minutes before, 3 o’clock in the afternoon, the attention of the people in that region was arrested by a rum bling noise as of distant thunder; then three reports were heard one after another in quick succession, like the blasting of rocks or the firing of a heavy cannon half a mile distant. These were succeeded by several reports, like firing of small arms in platoon. Then there was a whizzing sound heard in different direc tions, as of bullets passing through the air. Two men were standing together where they were at work; they followed with their eyes the direction of one of these sounds, and they saw about 70 rods from them the snow fly. They went to the spot. A stone had fallen upon the snow, had bounded twice, the first time as supposed about 8 feet, and the second time about 2 feet. The stone weighed 2 lbs. , and 10 ounces. The same persons heard another stone strike as it fell, supposed to be small, but they could not find it. Some time in the spring, another stone was found about one mile and a quarter west from the place where this fell. It was in two pieces lying to gether, weighing forty-six pounds. Another fragment, a portion of the same rock, was found about half a mile from the former, which from the description I had of it, I judged would weigh about fifty pounds. These were coated with a thin black covering. The prin cipal ingredient in their composition seemed to be sandstone. They are full of minute bril liant particles, and occasionally a small lump of most metal is to be found. Inclosed in the sheet I send you three or four small ones. Some were taken out as large nearly as a grain of corn. A man from whom I obtained a fragment in sisted that they were silver. He had ground up a considerable portion of the rock to ob tain this silver, and he thought he had saved enough to make fifty cents (half a dollar.) — The above stones are all that have been found, as far as I could learn. The atmosphere at the time of this phenomenon was mostly clear, somewhat hazy, so warm as to cause the snow on the ground to be somewhat soft. The noise was heard distinctly to a distance of fifteen or twenty miles in every direction. At a dis tance of ten miles in each direction the sound was like the rolling of a heavy wagon passing ■wiftly over frozen ground Smoke was seen in the direction from which the sound seemed J*o proceeu. The smoke appeared in two -—" places, apparently about six feet apart, above the elevation of light clouds, and having a cir cular motion. The motion of the meteoric body was supposed from the reports which were heard, to be towards the southeast, or rather the south of east. The Boston Times tells a good story about the Star-Spangled Banner” and Bochsa, the celebrated harpist, as follows : M. Bochsa, the Harpist, is a wag. At the Concert on Thursday night, at the Temple, Mons. B. appeared before the audience for the second time during the evening’s performance for the purpose of playing any airs the auditors might select, with impromptu embellishments and variations. M. Bochsa is master of his in strument, and the harp in his hands is suscep tible of almost anything in reason—but it might seem a question of taste, whether martial hymns are exactly the thing to display the beau ties of a harp. However, we are a “demo cratic” people, and Mons. 8., albeit he is a wag, understands the principle ! ” You will please send me ze tune vot I sal play”—proposed Monsieur to the audience, as he came upon the platform. . Half a dozen strips of paper immediately lound their way to the stand, and Mons. B. read them aloud : “ O Dolce Concento”—“ Yankee Doodil”—(I know him vera veil. I play him one, two, three—several times !) “ Groves O’Blarney” —“ Yankee Doo”—(I have two Yankee Doodils.”) “ Non pui mesta.”— Tres bien ! “ Star-bpangled Banner ?” shouted somebody in the crowd. J “ Vat you sai?” inquired Bochsa. “ Star-Spangled Banner.” Monsieur didn’t understand. He was a little hard of hearing. He stepped quietly down from the rostrum, and approached one of the aisles. Ze zhentilman vil plees step to ze-front”— but the stranger declined. Ifze zhentilman cannot come to me, I must come to him,” continued Monsieur. The au dience took * the cue’—and a roar of laughter followed this announcement, pending which the stranger made his appearance. A round of ap plause greeted him as he passed to the foot ° the passage way where stood Monsieur, in al titude most provokingly grave, waiting for fur ther explanation. “ Vat you sai, sair ?” “ The Star Spangled Banner, / want.” “ Scar-tangle bannair ?—-a, ha ! iV’ com prende, Monsieur.” “Not Scar strangled, sir, Star-Spangled Banner.” “ Ze Bannaire, Oui, I un’erstan’—Z efiaa.' 1 es ’ y e . s —The Flag of the United Slates.” “ Yes, sair. I remember him ver’ mooch, j Zal is, Ido not recollec’ him zac’ly. Monsieur, you know him?” Why >es, to be sure—everybody knows the ‘ Star-Spangled Banner.’” “Tresbein, Monsieur! Every Yankee zhen tilman vissel. Yon sal vissel him in my ear. ,} Another shout went up from the audience, and the gentleman, nothing abashed, placed his mouth at the side of Bochsa’s head, and commenced whistling the “ Star Spangled Ban ner” most philosophically, amid the convul sions of the audience, who could not find this scene upon the bills of the evening ! “ Tres bien —Monsieur!” shouted Bochsa— “elegant—superb! Monsieur, you von ver fine muscian —l sal play ze Scar Stangled Ban nair, vis much plaisur!”—and mounting the platform, he commenced with a grand intro duction to the several themas proposed, which was followed by some highly finished and ex cellent! y performed variations upon the melo- I dies sent up, not forgetting his two “ Yankee | Doodils”—always so certain a favorite. On a sudden— a crash of harmony leaped \ from the harp strings, which took the audience ! by surprise ! An instant’s rest followed—when | our own beautiful National air, the “ Star j Spangled Banner” was produced, with a most brilliant accompaniment, which ‘ brought down ] the house.' 1 Bochsa was satisfied—his friend, was satis fied—the audience were satisfied—and the splendid Harpist left the stage, (w ith a quiet smirk at the corner of his mouth) amid a per fect storm of applause ! — Boston Times. Chronicle anti Sentinel. ALTGUSTaT gA: ~ TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 38, 1847. FOR GOVERNOR: GEN. DUNCAN L. CLINCH, Os Camden. FOR SENATOR FROM RICHMOND AND COLUMBIA Co’s.: ANDREW J. MILLER. FOR REPRESENTATIVES FROM RICHMOND COUNTY : CHARLES J. JENKINS. ALEXANDER C. WALKER. Whig Senatorial Nominations. Districts. Counties. Candidates. 2d Liberty and Bryan, Solomon Smith, 3d Mclntosh and Glynn, Chas. H. Hopkins. 1 6th Montgomery & Appling, John McArhthur, 7th Bulloch and Tattnall, G. W. Collins, i | Bth Scriven and Effingham, Martin Marsh. ' 9th Burke and Emanuel, Neill McLeod. 10th Laurens and Wilkinson, C. B. Guyton. 12th Decatur and Thomas, Dr. H. M. Martin. 14th Stewart and Randolph, W. Boynton. 15th Lee and Sumter, Wm, A. Maxwell. • ! 16th Muscogee and Harris, R. T. Marks. j 17th Houston and Macon, E. W. McGehee. 18th Talbot and Marion, Col. A. C. Scott. 21st Washingt’n&Jeffierson, George Stapleton. 22d Kichm’nd & Columbia, A. J. Miller. 23d Warren and Taliaferro, Abner Darden. 24th Hancock and Baldwin, Dr. Wm. Terrell. i 25th Putnam and Jones, S. A. Wales. | 26th Monroe and Pike, Capt. H. Sargeant. ! 27th Crawford and Upson, Edward Holloway. i 28th Coweta & Meiiwether,C. D. Parks. 29th Troup and Heard, B. D. Johnson. 31st Henry and Fayette, George Ware. 33d Newton and Walton, J. M. Williamson. 34th Morgan and Greene, Col. Aug. Reese. 35th Lincoln and Wilkes, Benning B. Moore. 37th Oglethorpe & Madison,Dr. W. Willingham. 38th Clark and Jackson, W. W . Clayton. 39th DeKalb and Gwinnett, J, M. Calhoun. 41st Cobb and Cherokee. Gen. D. H. Bird* 47th Floyd and Chattooga, M. Montgomery. I3PT he Cars had not arrived at Hamburg last night at eight o’clock, and we were conse quently without a mail from the North. Popularity of the War. j The war is vastly popular say our Demo l cratic writers and orators. Who is it popular i with? Not the people. If it is popular with I them, they have taken a curious way to show j it! We don’t think Mr. Polk likes to receive such loving evidences of it as they have shown at the ballot-box, in Tennessee, and almost every where else ! It is not popular with the army. Soldiers and officers say the contest is unequal. To whip the Mexicans confers but little honor, and to lose so many lives for nothing is a monstrous business. Who then is the war popular with? Mr. Towns and a few other “ glorifyers 1 ' who have mistaken the people, and will find it out af ter the revelations of another ballot box or two ! Sub-Treasury. We copy the following from the Baltimore Patriot. The Ten Thousand Dollars which “ Potomac” the correspondent, alludes to, is so much paid to the New York gentleman to all intents and purposes. It is as much so as if the Secretary had paid him that sum in cash, for the transmission of the two millions of dol lars of specie *o New Orleans. What miscra sh ifts and turns the Administration has to resort to in consequence of this impracticable hard money scheme. Washington, Sept. 14, 1847. “* * * Mr. Secretary Walker’s new method of getting specie transmitted from New York to New Orleans, receives, as it deserves, the severe anathe mas of the press. He goes to New York and con tracts with a gentleman there to do the business. He gives him $2,000,000 of gold in the New York Sub- Treasury, for which the gentleman in thirty-eight days places the same amount of specie at the disposal of the Government in the Sub-Treasury at New Or leans. Meantime, the use of the $2,000,000 is worth to the New York gentleman something like S 10,000! Were the old United States Bank in existence, and the agent of the Government as formerly, this trans action would have been faithfully accomplished in eight or ten days, and without the cost of a dime to Uncle Sam! How much wiser we are than we were but a few years since ! Mr. Robert J. Walker is a great financier —very great! The Sub-Treasury is a great measure—very great!” Mr. Polk tlie Nation’s President I This is what Mr. Polk said of himself on his northern tour. He has decapitated Whigs in office every where, and even some Demo crats, known to admire a truly great democrat ic chief (Mr. Calhoun). He has appointed some twelve or thirteen Generals to important commands in the army. Can any one point to a single Whig among them ! Mr. Polk goes the entire swine for his party and himself j He the President of the nation ! His glory as such, is held at an awful discount! As much so, as a weak partisan President can be below a strong President of the nation! The Truth will Out. “And what is the position which the Whig party > ' the Union occupies 7 They would likewise seem to ue united upon a common ground. What is that ground 7 The Northern Whigs voted to a man, for the Wilmot Proviso—and yet, even they are disposed to abandon it now, since it appears that no inroads can be made, by the use of it, in the phalanx ot Democracy. But is that abandonment one of principle 7 Do they abandon the Wilmot Proviso because they deem it unconstitu tional, unjust, oppressive 7 Par "from it! But because it endangers the strength of their party in the nation, and because the Wilmot Proviso sanctions conquest by arms.”— Savannah Georgian. j Even the Northern Whigs, then, are disposed to abandon the Wilmot Proviso ! This is some admission; but they are disposed to do it, not from principle but for party success. We are told that the Democrats are abandoning the Wilmot Proviso, but they are doing so not for party but for principle! Both Whigs and Democrats were for the Proviso a little while since. How shameful in the Whigs to aban don it for party, while the immaculate Demo crats have abandoned it upon principle ! This is too bad in the Whigs! What if south' ern Democratic editors and a few northern one’s have cried out that the Democratic wig wam will be darker than Egypt, and the party sent to la Diable , unless they give up the Pro viso ! What, we say, if this is so ! They can’t be in the political market for votes! Oh no! The Democratic wigwam is an impregnable fortress of parity and principles. It is the Whig I door, that Jigs '‘to let’ ’ written upon it! | Don’t be alarmed, Whigs, this is only the as i sertion o/ the enemy! IThe official list of Interments in the city of New Orleans from 9A. M., of Monday, the 20th September, to Tuesday, the 21st, at the same hour, shows 31 in all, of which 14 wera Yellow Fever. Health of Mobile. —The Advertiser of the 1 23rd inst. says:—We think we are warranted in | asserting that the epidemic is on the decrease. | We hear of but few, if any, new cases of yel low fever, and the weather during the week has been of the most favorable character. Yes- j terday was cloudy with copious showers of rain. While we are gratified at being enabled to make this statement we would repeat again to absentees, not to be too eager to return to the city. A sudden influx of those not habitua ted to our atmosphere, and a few hot and sul try days towards the close of the month, might make a most distressing and mournful change in our bill of mortality. While, therefore, we congratulate those who have spent the summer here, upon the encouraging change which has occurred in the health ot Mobile, we again warn those who are absent of the danger they will encounter by returning before a frost. From the Journal and Messenger. The Perpetual Dodger. We beg leave to call the serious attention of the voters of Georgia to the alleged oflicial ne gligence of Mr. Towns, while a member of Congress. It has been proved, Ist. That although he did not take his seat until two months alter the commencement of the first session, yetheabsenced himself during the remainder of that session from the calling of the yeas and nays two hundred and Sixty five times. 2d. That during the second or short session, comprising a period of only eighty-six days, he was absent during ihe call of the yeas and nays, “one hundred and twenty-four times.” When these charges were first presented by the editors of the Republican, the Democratic press treated the whole matter with exceeding levity. They attempted to persuade the peo ple that it was a small offence—a very peccadillo —for Col. Towns, under his solemn official obligations, and at the very respectable wages of eight dollars per day, to “play the agreea ble” about Washington to the utter neglect of the interests of his constituents. They even went so far as to pronounce the whole charge false, because the Republican had unfortunately made an error of two months, as to time, in Mr. Towns’ favor ! Finding, however, that the people of Geor gia are not thus easily to be gulled, several of the presses, evidently by preconcert and by au thority, have come out with another excuse! They would now have the voters of Georgia believe that the health of their Congressman was unfortunately bad—that he was almost a second Job in affliction! Unfortunately for them, the Journals fully establish another fact, viz: that JLjpMr. Towns’s most severe afflic tions always came upon him when some very important vole was about to be taken^JFJ. Thus w e find him on the 6th of August, 1846, absent from the call of the yeas and nays, when a very import vote was taken on a proposition to engraft the Wilmot Proviso upon the Oregon Territorial Bill; and immediately thereafter he was present, when a vole was taken giving away a piece of land to one Martha Gray ! So too in regard to innumerable other ques tions of importance—indeed, it almost seems to have been his invariable custom to absent himself whenever responsibility was to be incur red. In the face of these recorded facts, it will never do at this late day for his kind friends to raise the cry of persecution, and appeal to the sympathies of the voters. If Mr Towns’s health w as such that he could not serve his con stituents faithfully, why did he not follow' the example of Mr. Poe, and resign? Why did he allow them to remain unrepresented, while he regularly drew his eight dollars per day ? Why did he almost uniformly vote in favor of meet ing late an-, adjou rung early each day; while he as uniformly voted for extending the session, and against deducting eight dollars from the pay of members, for each inexcusable case of absenteeism ? Does this favor the presumption that Mr. Towns dodged the important ques tions mentioned, because either of personal ill ness or the illness of his family ? On the con trary does it not prove that he had no excuse and was resolved to get his pay at all hazards ? Now’, it Col. Towns could not. or would not attend to tue public business at Washington, will he be likely to do so in Milledgeville ? If he could not endure to remain in the Represen tative Hall to cast his vote, how do his friends suppose he will bear up under the arduous la bors—the absolute drudgery—ol the Executive office ? Will he be likely to do, as Governor Crawford has done, attend to all the details of public business and guard w’ell the leakages of the Treasury ? Is he a man who would be likely to watch carefully the interests of the people in the various departments? Would he supervise in person the management of the Penitentiary and State Road and pay off near a million of the public liabilities during his term of office? These things have been done by a Whig administration—they may possibly be done again, but not by any man who dodged the yeas and nays three hundred and eighty nine times during a single Congress; nor by one so closely allied to the old Democratic Central Bank regime, as has been Col. George Washington Bonaparte Towns. Prom the Albany Evening Journal. Canal Tolls. The amount received for toils on all the New York State canals during the second week in September, is $93,911 83 Same period in 1846 81,967 56 Increase $11,944 27 The aggregate amount received for tolls from the commencement of navigation to the 15th of Septem ber, inclusive, (137 days) is $2,414,513 73 During the same period in 1846, (152 days) 1,671,226 71 Increase The following table shows the amount received for tolls during the second week in September, from the years 1840 to 1847, inclusive; and also the aggregate amount received from the commencement of naviga tion to the 14th of September, inclusive, during the same years:— 2d week in Sept. Total to Sept. 14th. 1940 $59,571 36 $1,031,053 80 1941 66,048 86 1,363,510 02 1942 53,114 09 1,019,787 54 1943 66,109 76 1,262,381 81 1944 74,394 07 1,534,435 93 1945 80,661 73 1,534,476 66 1946 81,967 56 1,671,226 71 1947 93,911 83 2,414,513 73 The value of the merchandise exported from the port of Boston, to foreign ports, during the week ending Sept. 18, was as follows: — Domestic Products $278 545 93 Poieign Products 19 923 67 s P ecie I*3oo 00 Total $299,769 65 From the Journal Sf Messenger. Messrs, Editors : lam sorry to be compelled to accuse you, and the Whig Editors generally, of grossly and maliciously slandering my friend Col. Towns, by charging him with dodging.— Now though I admit the Colonel did sometimes “happen to be found among the pillars when insignificant national issues were at stake I tell you he stands strait up to the mark when ever any “ woman fixins” are to be deliberated upon. I will give you a noted instance from the record; On the 16th of August, 1846, the Oregon Bill being under discussion, and the vote taken on the following clause, to wit: that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in said territory,” Mr. Towns did not seem to think such small matters as the Wilmot proviso worthy ofhis attention, and did not vote. Im mediately after, however, the question was ta ken upon the important proposition to give away a piece of land to one Martha Gray, when with that “indomitable firmness,” which, as Santa Anna would say, “has always character* 1 ized Mr. Towns’ public-and official acts,” he I came right out from his hiding place and voted j —he did; and if you dispute it, I'll prove it from the Journal. An’Oman’s Man. | From the Journal Sf Messenger. j Messrs. Editors: —l see the Democracy are somewhat “ techy,” in regard to ray last com munication concerning Col. Towns’ financial operations. When I wrote the article, I re- . membered distinctly, that a prominent member ■ of the Legislature did, in 1838 or ’39, publicly, ( in his place, charge distinguished Democrats with using fictitious, or irresponsible names, • for the purpose of getting money out of the ; Central Bank, thereby evading the law, and when asked to name one, promptly gave the name of Mr. Towns. 1 did then understand, that Mr. Towns, had got the use of the names of Stephen Potts and Gustus, or Gustavns Scott, of Taliaferro county, both perfectly ir responsible men. On reference to the books at the Bank, if I mistake not, for July 30th, j 1835, it will be found that a note was discount ed for one Gustavus Scott, upon which G. W. Towns and others, were endorsers. I pretend not to say who got the money, or whether it was actually used for speculative purposes, but I do notthink that Mr. Towns would be likely to become the first endorser for an irresponsi ble person living so far off as Taliaferro conn ty, without having a “finger in the pie.” The people can draw their own inferences. Chattahoochee. Commerce of Cincinnati. The Cincinnati papers of Thursday, contain a very valuable report of the Commerce of that city during the year ending on the 31st of Au gust last, in w’hich the receipts and exports are compiled from the daily records at the Mer chants’ Exchange, by A. Peabody, Esq , for the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce. We ex tract from the Report the following items : Baltimore American. Receipts at Cincinnati, during the year, by river, canalsand railroads:—Breadstulfs, valued at53,213,- 432, viz : 512,506 bbls. Flour, 56,775 bushels Corn Meal, 590,809 do. Wheat, 896,258 do. Corn, 372,027 do. Oats, 41,016 do. Rye, and 79,394 do. Burley. Provisions and Dairy Products, valued at $2,035,- 211. This aggregate value was composed in part of 5,476 hhds. of Pork and Bacon, 124 tierces do. 40,581 trbls. do. and 8,627,399 lbs. do. in bulk ; 21,991 bbls. Lard, 22,722 kegs do.; and 38,774 Hogs. Domestic and Foreign Fruits, valued, at $165,211. The quantity of apples (green) was 26,992 bbls.; of dried fruits 82,871 bushels. Naval Stores, valued at $19,137, viz : 1,100 bbls. Oakum, and 5,004 do. Rosin, Pitch. Tar, &c. Sundry Produce, valued at $287,227 ; Liquors, dis tilled and|fermented, $1,915,041; Hides and Leath er, $369,208; Metals $1,573,893; Sundries, $1,852,- 092. Groceries, valued at $2,934,300. This item includes 59, j 37 sacks of Coffee, 27,216 bbls. Molasses, and 16,669 hhds. Sugar, 7,196 bbls. do. and 5,177 boxes do. Merchandize, valued at $34,325,400. This item em braces all articles of Groceries, Dry Goods, &c., &c., not specifically mentioned uuder other heads. Other items, valued at $1,296,677. These items show the value of the receipts at Cin cinnati during the year, by river, canalsand railroads, to have been $-<9,991,833. If to this be added sl,- 096,000, the value 0f212,000 Hogs, which arrived bv land, and $232,500, the value 0f9,300 Beeves, which arrived by land, the aggregate value oftiie receipts at Cincinnati during the year is shown to have been $51,320,333. The Report appends to this part of the state ment —the table of receipts—the following re marks : This Exhibit, although embracing all the Receipts, for which correct data can be obtained, shows, of many articles, very far short of the actual amount brought to the city. Heavy teams are constantly arriving with Flour, Whiskey, (and in their season) Pork, Bacon and Lard, and the various agricultural products, be sides, perhaps on an average, four hundred farmer’s wagons, mostly' two horse, arriving daily, which, in addition to supplying the immediate wants of the city, furnish large quantities of Apples, Butter, Brooms, Corn, Eggs, Feathers, Dried Fruits, (Apples and Peaches,) Oats, Onions, Potatoes and other vegeta bles, Seeds, Wood, &c., which enter into the Exports. This with regard to some articles will be manifest on comparing the Import and Export tables, for instance, Butter, Eggs, Feathers, and Potatoes, the largest share of which thus arrive. Os Hay the receipts shown in the above table, con stitute quite an unimportant share of the consumption of the city, the principal supply being received by wagons. Exports from Cincinnati during the yearßread stuffs—sßl,92o bbls. Flour, 88,882 bbls. Corn Meal, 258,198 sacks Corn, and 140,067 do. Oats—valued at $3,268,086. Provisions —10,367 bbls. and 7,970 tierces Beef, 31,533 hhds. 7,894 tierces, 137,218 bbls. and 3,478,- 856 lbs. in bulk Pork and Bacon, 49,889 bbls. and 150,823 kegs Lard, bbls. Tallow—all valued at $4,632,033. I jive Stock— B72 Reeves, 2,026 horses and 726 sheep—valued at $175,202. Dairy Products, $434,102 ; Snndry Produce, $367,- 384, Liquors, $1,637,877; Metals,' $543,026; Sun dries, $14,035,897; Groceries, $686,919; Lumber, Coal and Coke, $79,926. Making the total value of exports $55,735,252. The Report remarks:— It would be a fruitless effort to attempt to estimate the trade of the city; carried on by land conveyance, but the fact that th re are turnpikes approaching from every direction, and centering in the city, is evidence of their necessity, and the large number of heavy teams and farmers’ wagons which are constantly- arri ving with Produce and departing with Merchandize, are proof of a vast trade being thus carried on. The disproportion manifest in the receipts and ship ments of leading articles of Groceries, after deducting the probable consumption of the city, also shows the necessity of this drain upon the stocks laid in. The amount and character ofthe Tonn )ge employed in the commerce of the city, will appear from the fol lowing : Number of Steamboats arrived in the last year, 3,729 Do of FI at boats do do do 3,330 The arrivals of steamboats during the last two years compare thus : 1845-6. 1846-7. 3,619 3,729 3,619 Increase in 1847, 110 The number of Flatboats which have departed from the city laden with Provisions and Produce, is about 700. ’ In comparing the number and tonnage of Steam boats built and registered here during the last two years, commencing Sept. Ist and ending August 31st, a decided increare is manifest. Number. Tonnaae. 1846-7 32 8,268 1845-6 25 5.657 Increase 7 2,611. The average cost per ton is about s7o—making the aggregate cost of the Boats built last year, $578,760. In reviewing the events ol the Commercial year just closed, it must be acknowledged to have been, in its general results one of unusual prosperity, as re gards not only the city of Cincinnati, but the entire country tributary to, and affected by its trade ; and, although the prices ofßrcadstuffs which had previous ly attained to rates unusually high, have since experi enced a rapid decline, seriously affecting the fortunes oflate holders, the past year has undoubtedly, in the aggregate, enriched the West more, and added toils real capital a larger amount than any which had pre ceded it. Flying Artillery. A late number of the Nashville Banner con tains the following communication upon the flying artillery, which interests us not so much by the light it throws upon this formidable wea pon of modern warfare as by the interesting historical reminiscences intermingled with it: * I In the Banner ofthe 27th, I notice an account I of the introduction of flying artillery, as an I arm in the military service of the United States. The statements there made are no doubt true ; but it is equally true that the late Gen. W. R. Davie, then of Halifax, N. C., called the atten tention of our Government to the subject ear ly in 1801, on his return from France, where he had been Minister. The residence of Gen. Davie, in Paris, was the Hotel des oiseuns—~ its front looking on the “ Champ dc Mars” —where the troops that fought the famous battle of Marengo were daily train ed (at least all the raw recruits, say 20,000) un der the direction of Napoleon and his favorite marshals, including Lannes, Duroc, &c. &c. The drills and reviews were in the immediate 1 vicinity, and in front of Gen. Davie’s hotel— I His taste led him to notice attentively the tac tics and training of the troops, and their splen did success induced him to place a high esti- i mate on the value of the French system of ar ! lillery. i Gen. Kosciusko in the war of our Revolu tion was an officer in Pulaski’s Legion, then forming a part of the army of Gen. Lincoln ; j ! Col. Davie was attached to the same com- j rnand. In 1800, Kosciusko was an exile, and i then resided in the vicinity of Paris, and on the j ; arrival of the general at the French capital call- ! j ed to see him —when old recollections renew- ! ed those feelings which the remembrance of j peril and suffering can alone produce. Gen. Davie expressing his admiration of the French aitillery, Kosciusko offered to draw up for him a treatise on flying artillery. This he i did; and when finished, sent it with a letter; that letter was among the papers of the general at his residence in Chester, 8. C., where he died | in 1820, and is probably in possession of his j son, F. VV. Davie, at this time. ■ Gen. Davie gave a copy of this treatise on artillery to the administration of Mr. Jefferson, and about the same time a copy to General, then Capt. Macomb, and at the time stationed at Rocky Mount, S. C. Flying Artillery was introduced into the j French service While Napoleon wasyetasub- ; altern; but on his attaining power lie justly es timated its value and greatly increased that arm of the service Some of your readers may not recollect that Puluski was a Polish nobleman, who, failing in a competition for the throne, became an exile, came to this country early in j the Revolution, obtained a commission from Congress and joined the Southern army. Two j I young Poles, both ofnoble birth, Zelinski and i Kosciuski followed his fortunes—Zelinski died ! ; in the hospital in Charleston, where Gen. Da- i vie was at the time confined from a wound re ceived at the battle of Stow, which afforded I him the melancholy satisfaction of sharing in the lastsad duties to one dear to him from his ' noble qualities and long suffering. Kosciusko ( returned to Poland, and became the general of ' his countryman in an unsuccessful attempt to throw off the yoke of Russia. He subsequently returned to France, andJong indulged the hope that Poland would be free by the aid of France, i In this he was disappointed, as he died not long | after the allies took Paris. Pulaski fell in a charge of his Legion at the ! siege of Savannah ; his thigh was shattered, if I remember aright, by a grape shot. He died a few days after. Excuse, sir, the garrulity of age, if you are wearied at the length of this article, or find dif ficulty ia reading my hieroglyphics. SAVILLE. Tiie precipitation of metals by Galvanism, or Electrotyping, was the subject for conversa tion at a late meeting of one of the Scientific ' Societies of New Jersey. The process, as de scribed in the Newark Advertiser, is as fol' lows: The original, and very simple method of es- ' feeling the precipitation is to have a vessel with two apartments, the division being made of a piece of leather, or any porous substance: in- j to one apartment pour a w eak ; ’ution of sul- , phuric acid and water, and into the other a satu rated solution of sulphate of copper (blue vilri- i oI.)| Then place zinc,fastened to apieceofcop- j per wire, into the acid, and upon the other end ofthe wire fasten a coin, orany article to be co pied or coated, and bend it over so as to rest | in the solution in the other apartment. The ! metal will gradually be precipitated upon the coin, and in a short time will form a thick cop- ; per scale having a perfect copy of the face of the coin. If any part of the coin is varnished or covered with wax, the metal will not touch that part. So accurate will be the copy that the most minute lines will appear —even the marks of one’s thumb—if left upon the coin— copies of the daguerreotype pictures, the lines of which are too fine to be felt, have also been taken. It has also been used to take copies of engraved plates, giving as perfect pictures as the original plate. The copper can also be pre cipitated upon paper in the same manner, if the paper be previously lightly coated with plumbago. Mr. Faraday, the English philosopher, made an improvement by which any metal may be precipitated, and Mr. Cornelius, of Philadel- i I phia, a lamp maker, has also made some im provements by which he gilds and silvers his ! articles in such a manner that they can be bur- ' nished. A button-maker in New York is also making whrt he calls treble gill buttons ; in this way. and they are considered us durable as if gilded iu the old way. But in these cases a | galvanic battery is used, and by this it is estima ted that a sixpenny piece can be made to coat a piece covering an arce. Piatina has also been precipitated, and those wishing metal not vulnerable to acids, can, by coating it with piatina, prevent it from being acted upon, even by concentrate nitric acid. Delirium Tremens Treated by Inhalation of Ether. William Perry, an Irishman, 48 years of age, is of sanguine temperament, strong and robust frame, and has generally enjoyed firm health. He is a hostler by occupation, and has been a man of intemperate habits for many years.— On Monday. July 12th. was committed to House of Correction, having for several days previously been drinking very freely, accord ing to his own statement- On the same day he presented himself to the hospital as an out patient for chronic ulcer on the leg. At that time he showed no indications of delirium tre mens, with the exception of slight tremors manifested particularly about the bands. To wards evening grew wild and uneasy, tremors increased and became general. Slept but little during the night, and was found next morning in a state of high excitement, with tongue thick ly coated, pupils dilated, lips tremulous, mus cles universally agitated. pacing’hisjcell, talking incessantly, and raving incoherently. During the following twenty-four hours the patient showed all the usual symptoms of deli rium tremens in a marked degree. He slept none, but walked the floor without sion, talked disconnectedly, and, as is usual in like cases, busied himself in the performance of imaginary tasks. He was constantly pressing against the walls of his cell, or endeavoring with the fancied assistance of horses to remove the iron door. Meanwhile, if questioned, he would answer to the best of his ability, and obey directions with alacrity for the moment, but immediately relapsed into Jus previous state of delirium. This, at times, assumed a violent form, so that it was deemed necessary to take away his bed and all other moveable ar- i tides within his reach, and keep attendants by i him day and night to protect him from injury. Forthe succeeding forty-eight hours this state of things continued with but little variation, all the grave symptoms increasing in severity. The usual treatment having failed, and large and repeated doses of morphine pro ving utter ly powerless to produce sleep, the patient was found on Friday morning still in a state of wakefulness and high delirium, but so much ■ exhausted as to make it a matter of the highest | moment to induce sleep immediately. In this ■ condition it was thought expedient, as a last re ! sort, to make trial of etherial inhalation —and : the ether was accordingly administered by the sponge. The patient was very refractory, and requir ed to be held by assistants, in the meanwhile straggling and cursing. After inhaling the vapor for the space of tea or twelve minutes, he appeared quiet, and was thought to be fully under the ethereal influence ; but upon the leinoval of the sponge he sprang up and com menced raving anew. The process was re peated, and continued for ten minutes more, at the end of which time the patient was brought fairly under the desired influence, and fell a sleep. From this state of artificial sleep he paus ed, without waking, into quiet, deep and un troubled slumber which continued, without in termission, for four and a hdf hours. He was seen several limes during the contin nance of this sleep, and within a fe w minutes after he awoke. He then appeared perfectly rational, called for cold water, and asked to have his leg dressed (he had bruised it badly during the delirium.) In the course ofhalfan hour he fell again (as was anticipated) into a quiet sleep, which continued, with few i nter missions, during the afternoon and night. This morning (Saturday) he appears perfect ly rational and well, though weak. He ha« no recollection of any thing that has happened from nightfall on Monday to the time first waking on the Friday afternoon. Query. —VV ouldthe ether have brought about the same resit’’ in an earlier stage ofthe disease before exhaustion supervened? If not, would a repetition of the same have been more ef fectual?— Boston Medical and Surgical Jam. Crops in Eastern Texas.—A letter Irom Rusk county, Texas, to the editor ofthe Fort Smith Herald, says: “The crops in this part of Texas are said to be the best ever seen in the country, and as to the cotton crop it looks very well. Corn, I expect, will be worth about twenty-five cents per bushel, this fall, in this neighborhood. Now is the time for emigrants to come to this country while produce is plenty and cheap.” Settlers Wanted.— The State ofArkansas invites emigrants to come and take lauds which have been forfeited for taxes, and no payment will be required for them. The Little Rock Banner, says the auditor, upon proof of settle ! inent. will make a deed, which deed the Su preme Court of the State has decided will be valid. The forfeited tracts comprise some of the finest lands in the State, and now is the chance for a cheap home, or a speculation. Special Notices. I. O. O. P. Miller Lodge, No. 10.—A Regular Meet ing of this Lodge will be held This (Tuesday) Eve ning, at 7 o’clock. A punctual attendance is re quested on business of importance. By order of the N. G. | s2B J. E. MARSHALL, Secretary. Female Institute. --Rev, Mr. HARD de signs to resume his duties on the FIRST MONDAY IN OCTOBER. The course of studies will be as liberal in this as in any similar institution in the country. There will be assiduous efforts to secure the improvement of his pupils by thorough instruction, by the use of the best text Books, and by a faithful exaction of perfect re citations. BOARDING. —A few young ladies can receive | Board in his Family. Terms may be known on application at bis resi i dence, Broad-street, METCALF’S RANGE. 527 fj* Augusta Female Academy.--That large, commodious and retired building at the corner of Green and Jackson-slreets. nearly opposite tbe Methodist Church, having been refitted and supplied j with appropriate furniture, will henceforth be used for ' the exercises of the above Institution. We have Maps, Globes, Scientific Apparatus, an ex i cellent Library, &c., and are thus enabled to offer fa , cilities to Pupils and inducements to Parents inferior ; to no other School in this State. Details are given in a pamphlet, which will be sent I to ail making application for it. j We will resume our labors on the FIRST MON ! DAY in October next. s2J-lawd&w4 L. LaTASTE, Principal. s£jT E veiling Scliool.--At the request of sev eral friends, I will open an EVENING SCHOOL on the FIRST MONDAY IN OCTOBER NEXT, at which especial pains will be taken to instruct young gentlemen in such branches of education as wilt lend to make them active and useful business men. Those desirous of a handsome Penmanship, may, by proper application, attain the object of their wishes in one quarter. The members of this Class will have free admission to a Course of Scientific Lectures to be commenced on the 2d Saturday in October next. For farther particulars, apply at my residence. 523-lawd<fcw4 L. LaTASTE. fpj* A Card —School.—Mrs. McCORD would respectfully inform her friends and the public that her SCHOOL will commence the Jirst Monday in Oc tober ■, at her residence just ive the old Planters’ Hotel lot. She is prepared to teach a/I of the Eng lish branches, together with Music, Drawing, Paint j ing, and all manner of -ancy work, which will be I taught on the most reasonable terms, and solicits a i share of patronage. 527-d&wtf |~3=» Scrofula. --Other diseases fc have slain tbeir thousands, but scrofula has slain its tens of thousands This very alarming affection appears under a variety of forms: from the slightest deviation from health to the most fatal of local and general disease. One ol most common forms is tubercular Phthisis Pulmonalis or consumption of the lungs; diseases of the hip and knee joint and white swelling—also the glands ofthe j neck and other parts of the body. Experience has shown that Sands’ Sarsaparilla is a cure for this most j inveterate compiaiut, and in numerous instances it has brought returning health and life where the vital spark had almost fled. From its preparation and pe* culiar combination with other vegetable substances, it operates by remo ig unhealthy action from the dis ; eased organs, substituting healthy action in its place, and giving tone to the general energies of the system. There is no single disease of scrofulous nature, or arising in any way from an unhealthy state of the fluids and surface of the body, which it will not tho roughly extirpate. Prepared and sold, wholesale and retail by A. B. &D. Sands, Druggists, iOO Fulton-street, New- York. Sold also by Haviland, Risley Ac Co., and by Druggists generally throughout the United States. Price $). per bottle. Six bottles for five dollars. 525-d&w From the Boston Mercantile Journal , Jan. 1845. Jj’Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry*-* There are so many “ certain cures” for coughs, colds and even consumptions, that we are sometimes di?* \ posed to question the efficacy of any of them. Mr.?. W. Fowle. a Druggist of the highest reputation at 13? Washington-'‘reef, hastheagency of an article called I Balsam of Wild Cherry, which seems to have won lor itself a good reputation wherever it has been intro duced. We have seen letters from various parts of New England, from persons of the highest standing in the places where they reside, bearing testimony to the benefit themselves or friends had received from a trial of its properties. Extract from a letter dated Peterboro' , K-, Jan. 15, 1845. —A gentleman of unquestionable ve racity informs us that his brother had been conhnei o his bed for weeks with some species of cough tna baffled the skill of several eminent physicians, and -. I the use of two bottles of Wistar’s Balsam of 1 I Cherry, he has been restored to perfect health. he is now “ a fat and hearty man.” Yours, respec fully, Rosser & Anderson, Druggists. None genuine unless signed I. Butts, on the per. For sale, wholesale and retail, by Havila>m Risley &Co., Thos. Barrett & Co., an^ lrU = gists generally in Georgia. 525-tw<*' v JOB PRINTING ESTABLISHME^ 1 Railroad Bank Building, Broad-at. JOB PRINTING. OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, AND IN THE BEST OF THE ART, PLAIN OR FANCY, , Neat'y Executed at this Office, embracing sue* ‘ J Busire .* Cards, Hand Bills, any f Circulars, Posters Warehouse Reclpts, Show Bills & Bill Heads, C aecks, Pamphlets, . s , Drafts, Bonds, Blanks of all Notes of Hand, Certificates, I** - &c. &c. &c. - SEVr i* The Proprietors of the Chronicle . \jj c nel respectfully inform their patrons an that they are prepa-.ed to execute their ore e ie) j thing in the Job Printing line, al * d J as they flatter themselves, not surpassed mic* ern Slates. All orders executed with U 2Swi«l»in« nl at prices as reasonable as at soy other
