CHRONICLE & SENTINEL.
BY J. W. & W. S. JONESk
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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
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