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CHRONICLE & SENTINEL.
SY J. W. & W. S. JONES.
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Island of Java.
Dr. Selberg, a Dutch traveller, in his notes
of a visit to Japan, gives us some interesting in
formation respecting Batavia, a city which
once took the title of Pearl of the East, and
which is still an important commercial point,
and destined to become still more so, when Ja
va shall open her arms to the commerce of the
world. We copy from Blackwood's Maga
zine :
“ Built after the plan of Amsterdam, the close
streets, and the canals that intersect them, have
contributed no little to the insalubrity of Bata
via. Only in the day-time does the city show
signsoflife; towards evening, all Europeans
fly the poisonous atmosphere that has destroy
ed so many of their countrymen, and seek the
purer air of the suburbs and adjacent villages,
x here they have their dwelling-houses, and
pass the night. At nine in the morning, the
roads leading to Batavia are covered with car
riages—as necessary in Java as boots and shoes
are in Europe, walking being out of the ques
tion in that climate —and life returns to the
deserted city. Chinese, Arabs, and Armenians,
busy themselves in their shops, where the pro
ducts of three-quarters of the globe are display
ed ; the European merchant, clad in a loose
cotton dress, repairs to his counting-house, the
public offices are thrown open and the bazaar
is crowded with the numerous races of men
whom commerce has here assembled.
“ Including the neighboring villages and
country-houses properlp belonging to it, the
city of Batavia contains about 3000 Eurvipaan
inhabitants, exclusive of the garrison, 23,000
Javans and Malays, 14,700 Chinese, 600 Arabs,
and SOOO slaves. A grievous filling off from
the time when the population was 160,000
souls. The Arabs. Chinese,and Javans, have
each their allotted quarter, or camp, as it is term
ed. That of the Arabs is in the Rua Malacca
—a remnant of the old Portuguese nomencla
ture—and consists of a medley of low, Dutch
built houses, and of tigßt hamboo huts. The
Arabs are greatly looked up to by the ntmrt
gines, who attribute to them an especial holi
ness on account of their strict observance of the
Mahomeden law ; and to such an extent is this
reverence carried, that vessels known to belong
to them are respected by the pirates of the Ar
chipelago. Remarkable for their quiet, orderly
lives, crime is said to be unknown amongst
them. They are under the orders of a chief
upon whom the Dutch government confers the
title of Major and who is answerable for the
good behavior of his countrymen. Whilst tra
versing their quarter, Dr. Selberg observed,
ia front of many ofthe doors, triumphal arches
of green boughs, decorated with colored paper
—an 'ndication that the occupants of those
dwellings had recently returned from a pilgri
mage to Mecca, and thence had a peculiar claim
on the respect of all true believers.
The way to the Chinese district is through
a labyrinth of deserted streets and crumbling
houses, abandoned on account of their unheal
thiness. The contrast is striking on emerging
from this scene of solitude and desolation into
the bustling Chinese Kampong, where that ac
tive and ingenious people carry on their innu
merable trades and handicrafts. Here mechan
ics, with the simplest and seemingly most inade
quate tools, give a perfect finish to their man
ufactures ; here are shops fulll of toys, clothes,
food, of everything, in short, that can minister
to the wanfs and tastes of Chinese, Javans, or
Europeans. ‘On the roofs of several Chinese
houses 1 saw jars, some with the mouth, others
with the bottom turned towards the street. —
They are so placed in conformity with a sin
gular custom. The jar whose bottom is turn
ed to the street indicates that there is in the
house a daughter not yet grown up. When
the damsel becomes marriageable, the position
of the jar is reversed; and when she marries,
it is taken down altogether.’
“Both numerically and by reason of their
energy and industry, the Chinese form a very
important part of the population of Java, and
but for the precautions of the Dutch govern
ment, they would soon entirely overrun the
whole island. The number allowed to settle
there annually is limited by law, and, during
Dr. Selberg’s stay at Surubaya, he saw a large
juuk, containing four hundred of them, com
pelled to pul hack without landing a passen
ger. Thus their numbers are kept stationary,
or may even be said to decrease; for in 1817,
Raffles estimated the Chinese in Java at near
ly a hundred thousand, while Dr. Selberg,
twenty years later, calculates them at eighty
five thousand. Although in China emigration
is forbidden by law, from the over-populated
districts, and when the harvest fails, thousands
of Chinese make their escape, and repair to
various ofthe East India islands. The majori
ty of those iu Java have been born there of
Javan women married to Chinese men. who
compel their wives to adopt their national
K usages. The children of these unions are call
s e(i ptrnakans by the Dutch, and in their turn
are married to Chinese. New comers from
the mainland generally arrive with little besides
'.he clothes upon their backs, and obtain em
ployment and support from their more pros
perous countrymen, until they know the cus
toms and language sufficiently to make their
way unassisted, Proud and conceited as they
are in their own land, in Java they are humble
and submissive, and seek their ends by craft
and cunninjgr. ciorcr, i/iey
rruuia he of great benefit to their adopted coun
try, but for their greediness and want of prin
ciple. In that oppressive and relaxing cli
mate, the European workman has no chance
with them, and, moreover, they accomplish the
same results with half the number of tools. On
the other hand, they are sensual and debauch
ed, and desperate gamblers. Their favorite
game is Topho, a bastard Rogue et Noir, at
which they swindle »he simple Javans in the
most unscrupulous and barefaced manner.
“The unhealthiness of Batavia, arising from
stagnant Canals, bad drinking-water, and adja
cent swamps, has often been erroneously con
sidered to extend to the entire island. The
whole has been condemned for the fault of a
fraction. Intermittent and remittent fevers,
and dysentery, are the diseases most common,
but they are generally confined to small dis
tricts. ‘Java,’ says Mr. Currie, surgeon of
the7Bth Regiment, which was quartered in
Batavia during the whole period of the British
occupation, from 1811 to 1815, ‘need no lon
ger be held up as the grave of Europeans, for,
except in the immediate neighborhood of salt
marshes and forests, as in the city of Batavia,
and two or three other places on the north
coa-*t, it may be safely affirmed that no tropical
climate is superior to it in salubrity.' The au
thor of a hastily written and desultory volume
of oriental travel," founded, however, on per
sonal experience, goes much further than this,
and maintains that * with common prudence,
eschewing in toto the vile habit of drinking gin
and water whenever one feels thirsty, living
generously but carefully, avoiding the sun’s
rays by always using a close or hooded carriage
and taking common precautions against wet
feet and damp clothing, a man may live, and
enjoy life too, in Batavia, as long as he would
in any other part of the world.’ Mr. Davidson
* Trade and Travel in the Par East. London: 1846.
here refers not to the city of Batavia —which
• he admits to be a fatal residence, especially in
Z the rainy season — but to the suburbs, where
he resided some years. These, however, only
come in the second class, as regards salubrity, '
• and are much too near the swamps, forests,
and slimy sea-shore, to be a desirable abode, ex*
cept for those whom business compels to live
? within a drive of the city.
“ With respect to the possible longevity of
Europeans in Java, Dr. Selberg’s account mate
. rially differs from Mr. Davidson’s estimate.—
; The Dutch employees have to serve sixteen
i years in the colony to be entitled to a furlough
and frpe passage home, and twenty years for
s a pension. Very few, according to the doc
-1 tor, live long enough to enjoy the one or the
other. And those who do, buy the privilege at
• a dear rate. Their emaciated bodies, enfee
bled minds, thin hair, and dim eyes, show them
to be blighted in their prime. True it is that,
with few exceptions, they utterly neglect the
primary conditions of health in a hot country.
They enervate themselves by sensual indul
gences, and consume spirits and spices by
wholesale. There is an absurd belief amongst
them, that drink keeps off disease and preserves
life, a case of aut libendum aut moriendum;
whereas the truth is precisely the contrary, for
in that climate spirits are poison. The fact,
probably, is, that they drink to dispel ennui,
and to banish, at least for a while, the regret
they feel at having exchanged Europe for Java.
Dr. Selberg states that every European he
spoke to in the colony longed to leave it. But
the voyage is costly, and so they linger on un
til death or their furlough relieves them.—
Some lucky ones succeed in making rapid for
tunes, but these are very few, whose ex
ample, however, suffices to seduce others of
their countrymen from their Dutch comforts,
to brave fevers, tigers, mosquitoes, and the
other great and little perils of Java, in pursuit
of wealth which they rarely acquire, and which,
when obtained, their impaired health renders it
difficult for them to enjoy.
Cljronicle and Sentinel.
AUGUSTA, G-A;
WEDNESDAY MORN’O, DEC. 22, 1847.
Our Mammoth Weekly,
Containing the current general and miscella
neous news of the week, Congressional and Le*
gislative proceedings, commercial intelligence,
miscellany, &c , &c., will be issued this morn
ing Single copies for sale at the office.
The communication of Reviewer has been
on hand for several weeks, but has been
crowded out the press of matter of more
general illlcrtjo’. • At auoU CL porioJ our ou 11 co
pondents must learn to exercise not a little of
that virtue, patience. We are disposed to ac
commodate all, but capacious as are the limits
of our weekly, it has been taxed to the utmost
of late.
General Ruitman,
Reached the city yesterday, and was during
the day the guest of the city. At noon, a pub
lic reception was given him at the City Hall,
when he was addressed in the presence of a
large audience of ladies and gentlemen, by
Col. Wm. T. Gould, in a very chaste and com
plimentary speech, to which he replied in very
appropriate terms.
In the evening he sat down to a dinner at
the Masonic Hall with about one hundred gen
tlemen, at which the Mayor, Dr. Ford, pre
sided, assisted by several Vive-Presidents.
Os this we may perhaps furnish a notice to
morrow.
i
Political Economy.
Thk President has taken great pains in his
Message, to persuade the country that the tariff 1
of 1846 is a decided improvement on that of i
1842. He introduces a vast amount of extra
neous matter to mystify the subject, that the
people shall not see the natural process by i
which very low duties encourage excessive im- 1
portations, cause the exportation of specie, the
rapid contraction of bank discounts and contri- .
bute to a fall in the price of cotton of four |
cents a pound. This decline in cotton is fully ]
equal to sl6 on a bag, making a nett loss of j
$32,000,000 on 2,000,000 bales.
This is the practical advantage which has ac
crued to the cotton planters and dealers, in
consequence of a change in the commercial pol- 1
icy of the country.
Notwithstanding the reduction in impost du- *
ties, the President anticipates the collection of 1
thirty-one millions of revenue from that source '
during the fiscal year now in progress.
If goods enough are imported to yield so '
large an income, it does not require the gift of
prophecy to foretell the immense indebtedness
of the United States, the continued drain of our 1
precious metals, the general stagnation of busi
ness, and the low price of our great agricultu
ral staples. So perfectly beside himself is Sec
retary Walker, that he talks of collecting at
no distant day “ ninety millions of dollars rev
enue, ”by an impost duty of only ten per cent. |
ad valorem ! On the subject of foreign trade,
the man is a confirmed monomaniac. He sees
visions, such as no other visionary ever dieatn
ed of.
The father, whose five sons
a piece one afternoon by swapping jackets 1
with one another, had less reason to be proud '
of his offspring than Mr. Polk, who is about to '
make us all rich by exchanging cotton for jack- 1
knives with the people of England. 1
Political quacks in England and the United
States are bringing their respective patients to
the verge of the grave. Nevertheless, neither 1
the quacks of Great Britain nor of this country !
have the manliness to acknowledge themselves
mistaken in their theory. That there is such a
thing as over-trading—swapping jackets too
often in the family of nations—these mistaken
economists will never admit. No, the President
seeks to push the importation of foreign goods
up to two hundred millions a year, that he may
boast in his next message how much money his
low tariff of 1646 brought into the Treasury, to
be squandered in Mexico. Taking his policy
altogether, can any one wonder why the elec
tors have cut down his majority of seventy to a
powerless minority in the present House, if not
in the Senate also ? Many people question the
soundness of the political economy which cre
ates a large national debt in the prosecution of
a distant aggressive war. The good economy
of the practice is not very apparent. Nor can
plain unsophisticated persons see how running
into debt to England for her manufactures, and
exporting specie to pay for the same, is likely to
help this country out of the difficulties into
which a bad Administration has plunged it. Yet,
this is the only remedy proposed, or at least
contemplated, to augment the revenue and fur
nish credit and money to prosecute, indefinite
ly, a most expensive war.
Death of the Hon. R. S. Gamble.
We have heard with profound regret of the
death of this estimable and worthy citizen. He
died on the 20th inst. at his residence in Jeffer
son county, of apoplexy. Reared in humble
circumstances, he had by his high integrity and
untiring industry and perseverance, attained a
commanding position in the State—having long
represented the county of Jefferson in the Le
gislature. He subsequently occupied for several
years a seat in Congress, and more recently on
the bench of the Superior Court, which latter
office he resigned in consequence of ill health.
Universally beloved and respected wherever
known, his death will be much regretted.
New Books.
Mr. Richards has laid on our table, from the
press of Harper & Brothers, Part 11. of “ A
Narrative of an Exploratory Visit to each of the
Consular cities of China and the Islands of Hong
Kong and Chusan,” with numerous engravings
by the Rev. George Smith. To those who
perused the first part of this very interesting
work, we need not commend the conclusion.
It abounds in highly entertaining narrative, and
affords much valuable information in regard to
the institutions and character of that remarka
ble people.
Ellen Herbert, or Family Changes, 1 ’ which
forms a Volume of 44 Harper’s Fireside Libra'
ry,"is an entertaining book for the young—as
also ‘* the Boy’s Winter Book," from the same
publishers, being descriptive of 11 season, scene
ry, rural life and country amusements," with il
lustrations.
“ Landreth’s Rural Register and Almanac for
1848," in addition to the usual Monthly Calen
dar, astronomical calculations &c., contains a
fund of valuable information for the house
wife, gardener and farmer.
“ Leonilla Lymore and Mr. and Mrs. Wood
bridge, or a Lesson for Youug Wives, by Mrs.
Leslie, is a very readable and entertaining Vol
ume, which may be read with profit by young
wives as well as by some of maturer age.
tl Harper’s Pictorial History of England, 11 No
-33, has also been lai«4 on our table by Mr.
Richards.
Georgia Marble •-
WEare indebted to Messrs. Atkinson, Tate
and Roberts, of Madison, (to whose advertise
ment in another column, the reader is refered,)
for three specimens of Georgia Marble, which
may be seen at our office. Although not very
fine, they are susceptible of a beautiful polish,
and are much superior to most of the Marble
used for Monumental purposes at the South.
As this is an entire new business in this State,
although the existence of large quantities have
long been known to exist in the Cherokee
county, the following extracts from the letter of
Messrs. A. T. and R., will prove interesting to
the reader :
“ The specimens of marble sent you are from the
quarries we have but recently opened, and we bud it
improves in quality very much as we get deeper into
i. We also have the fine variegated marble, suitable
for all kinds of furniture work, which is very hand
some, and finer than the Egyptian marble. We will,
in a few months send you specimens from these quar
ries, when we get them fairly opened. The great de
mand in our line of business is for the monumental
stone, which requires the white and clouded marble,
consequently, our attention is drawn more particularly
to that branch of our business, and the specimens sent
you are used for that kind of work. Our while mar
ble, we think, when fairly tested, will be nearly, if
not quite equal to Italian or statuary marble.
44 We have now in operation two mills, carrying
from forty to fifty saws, and turning out from 800 to
1000 feet of marble per week. We can, if the de
mand, would require it, double the amount we now
saw with a trifling additional expense. Wc have
thus far been liberally patronized, and our work and
marble has given general satisfaction."
The Pope nas requested that the sums sub
scribed for the erection of monuments to him
throughout his states shall be applied to the
more useful purpose of erecting an asylum for
aged persons at Rome.
It appears by a statement in the Detroit Free
Press that the Boston and Pittsburgh Compa
ny’s mine at Lake Superior has yielded, this
year, a revenue of $115,000. The expense
of working the mine was about $50,000, leav
ing $65,000 for the yearly dividend. The
mine produced 460 tons of native copper,
averaging eighty per cent, ol pure metal.—
Smelting companies at Boston and Pittsburg
purchase the ore and smelt it at their own ex
pense, paying the mining company at the rate
of 16£ cents, per lb. for the copper.
A Country toftght for. — Col. Doniphan,
while in New Orleans, says the Daily National,
remarked that he would not give a good Mis
souri farm for the whole of Chihuahua and
Santa Fe. It issaid that General Taylor while
here, gave it as his opinion that that part of
Mexico through which he had passed, was not
worth a good Louisiana sugar plantation.
The Sugar Crop. — The Franklin Planters’
RamiAr of tho = *• Ti»o crtocVo of
the late frost are now severely felt by most of
our planters, and will most undoubtedly cut the
crop short. The cane was completely killed,
and on many plantations badly frozen; but so
long as the weather remained cold it produced
well. Now, however, the weather has become
wet and warm, our planters are compelled to
top low, and it is greatly feared much cane will
be completely lost.”
Great Flood in Cincinnati. —We received
by Telgraph an account of a dreadful flood in
Cincinnati, which has done damage to an inr
mense amount, and has made five thousand
families houseless. Pearl and Broadway streets
are inundated, and business nearly suspended.
A public meeting has been called to advise
means to assist the distressed. — Balt. Amer.
Very True. — 44 Our countrymen," says the
Richmond Republican, has some right to boast,
though it would be in better taste, perhaps, if
we did not boast quite so much. True, we are
behind in many things—in authorship, encour
agement to the arts, &c.; but we have had to
grapple with the real, and the ideal will receive
attention when we are at leisure. We are be
hind, too, Heaven help us, in fashion, distinc
tions of society, &c.; but we are doing the best
we can, even in these accomplisnments, to
catch up with the rest of the world.
•‘We have something of an ‘upper ten
thousand’ in this country, as well as in Europe,
and though ours is rather new and hasn’t al o
gether the flavor of genuine old wine, yet it is
a pretty good imitation and will no doubt im
prove with age."
For the Chronicle and Sentinel.
Messrs. Editors: —Your 4 Weekly’ of the
3rd November, contains a communication from
the Household of Judge Lumpkin, denying an
insinuation said to be contained in my second
number, that he was the author of a low and
scurilous article signed 4 Farmer.’ I notice it
only because of the by-authority character of
the collateral. Like all other precious preten
ders, the writer has involved himself in the ri
diculous position of resisting what has never
been charged. My second number contains
no such insinuation. I did say, that the writer
spoke ex-cathedra ; and there was both meaning
and truth in the remark. If any one thought
that he was implicated in the authorship he ought to
have a full opportunity of denying any participation
in a production which had no prominent feature but
misrepresentation, and no object but detraction.
In the communication from the household it is said,
that neither Judge Lumpkin nor his immediate friends
at Athens, (mark the qualification) ‘‘had any agency,
either directly or indirectly, personally or through
others, in the writing, publication or republication of
‘ Farmer,’ " but he does not say that Judge Lump
kin’s friends, elsewhere than at Athens, did not thus
act; for he could not consistently with the truth.
Upon its publication there was an individual who
applied to different editors |to publish it, which was
declined, because of its low and grovelling tone; he
however, succeeded in getting one editor, the Federal
Union, to publish it. He then had it put in handbill
form, and continued to circulate it, until he found pub
lic indignation would tolerate such conduct no longer.
That man is the creature of Judge Lumpkin’s own
hand ! To show further that this man is the imme
diate friend of Judge Lumpkin, that he seeks and
desires to reflect, and promulgate his views and wish
es, he has written and contrived to have adopted pre
sentments by a Grand Jury, directly denouncing the
Circuit Judges as a class of officers, and eleva
ting directly the Supreme Judges as a class.—
And when the Jury, doubting if they had not gone
too far, refused to have such presentments published,
he copied them, and carried them to the press himself.
And again, when a report w r as in circulation in re
ference to the Judges of the Supreme Bench of a
character calculated to excite their strongest hatred
towards its author, this man informed those gentlemen
that one of the Circuit Judges was that author; w r hen
upon investigation he was found to be the author him
self. And more recently a most insulting, defamato
ry, false and malignant attack was published in the
Columbus Enquirer upon the official conduct of Ex-
Judge Cone and Judge Meriwether, designed to de
grade them, and for the advancement of Judge Lump
kin and his associates, and well authenticated rumor
from Columbus, says its author is the Clerk of the
Judge’s Court. I mention these facts to show that
the article disclaimed, was republished at the instiga
tion of an immediate friend, elsewhere than at
Now who believes for a moment, that this officer
would have gone to the extent he has, in seeking to
bring a co-ordinate branch of the judiciary into disre
pute, and to cast odium upon the officers, if he did
not feel or know that in doing so, he would have the
countenance and well wishes of Judge Lumpkin;
and more especially when he was subject to removal
from office for such conduct, he would ask some secu
rity before he would act ?
It is a fact not to be disguised, that Judge Lumpkin
has used similar defamatory words towards Circuit
Judges which have been employed by the articles of
his apologist and Clerk. In the article imputed to his
Clerk, it is made a matter of boast, that Judge Meri
wether and his friends have been made to feel sore
under the severity of the lashing which Judge Lump
kin gave him.
New what a humibtating reflection must it be to
Judge Lumpkin to know that in his judicial opinions
he should use such language towards an officer, who
is presumed to be as honest as himself, and who ac s
under the sanction of the same high oath, that a row
dy sho ild seize upon it, as a source of gratification to
his lawless feelings! !!
I have made these remarks to let Judge Lumpkin
see that if my article had made any such insinuation
as he denies, that his position has been and still is such
as to justify it to the f ullest extent. And in that arti
cle signed ‘Farmer,’ there are sentences containing
word for word, the same language embodied in one of
his decisions, and which is offensive and insulting in
the extreme. -
It is further said by the household of Judge Lump
kin that 44 from the first attack upon the Court, Judge
Lumpkin determined to remain entirely passive, look
ing for its vindication to the judgment of the public
upon its proceedings." If Judge Lumpkin ever
formed such a determination, he has never carried it
out. The first article I ever saw in review of any
decision of the Court, appeared in the 44 Georgia
Journal ,” and was a review of the decision in Boon’s
case, which had been published in the Southern Re
corder, by the Clerk, to ease the troubled mind of
the Judge on account of the dissatisfaction of the bar
with it. At Macon, at the next Term of the Court,
in the case of Hudgins, Judge Lumpkin was con
strained, so strong were the authorities cited against
him, to reply to them and to seek to break the force of
them. And in the conclusions at which he then ar
rived, he so modified, altered and changed the princi
ples decided in Boon’s case, as to leave only their
shadow remaining. Then Judge Lumpkin had some
ground on which he might make a plausible show —
he was not then passive, but now, when he has nei
ther truth nor reason to sustain his new-fangled notions
about legal equality, he throws himself upon his dig
nified silence !
The fact, however, that he discloses his course,
shows plainly that he fears to abide his determination
—that he dreads to risk the intelligence of the coun
try, without first courting its favor by an expression of
his confidence in it. His restlessness betrays the
presence of deep apprehension. It is mortifying to
any friend of the Judiciary, that a Judge so high and
omnipotent should give loose sway to his feelings to
such an extent that his opinions would wear the as
pect of personal invectives. It is a mistake for Judge
Lumpkin, or any other Judge, to suppose that he can
insult feeling, and assail motives and conduct with
impunity. Man is not a worm to be crushed by the
foot of power, and whoever essays the task wiil find
himself mistaken in his might.
In reading the second volume of Kelly, I was grati
fied to find the decided improvement manifest in the
tone and language of Judge Lumpkin’s opinions. No
censure, no denunciation, no reflection upon motives
escapes his pen, but respectfully to all he considers all
questions. He may, in time, by pursuing this course,
atone for the insult he has offered the institutions of his
country by a different course.
Judge Nesbit seems to be the only one of the Court
•ngHgoj >»» the duty of scolding. He appears, in one
rase, to he remarkably caustic. He however shows
so much personal feeling in his course, that his temper
deserves more to be pitied for its infirmity than cen
sured for its aberration.
One word, before I close, to a writer in your paper
signed 41 Lex." He says that he was authorized to
say on behalf of the Augusta bar, that they do not ap
prove the views and feelings of 44 Reviewer.” Ido not
know who he may please to designate the “Augus
ta Bar” but I would say to him that some who live
in the city and appear as counsel in the Court-House,
have thrown more ridicule upon Judge Lumpkin’s
notions about the laurel-crowned fields of New-Or
leans, the battle heights of Saratoga, et cetera, than
any other gentlemen of the bar, Reviewer not except
ed. But he takes care while he condemns my views,
not to endorse the doctrines of Judge Lumpkin. Now
that was playing the lawyer fully.
I have done now, Messrs. Editors, with all further
collateral subjects, and shall shortly commence a re
view of the heinous doctrines of Judge Lumpkin, at
tempting to uproot the well-established principles of
our law that all men are equal in the court-house, and
to substitute in its stead the odious principles that na
man is the equal of an other, who, 44 from condition
and employment in life, does not think as bethinks
and feel as he feels. " REVIEWER. ’
Gen. Taylor Gone to Natchez. —On
Thursday last a highly respectable deputation
of gentlemen from Natchez waited upon Gen.
Taylor at Baton Rouge and invited him to visit
their city, which polite invitation the brave old
soldier promptly accepted. He left there on
the steamboat C. E. Watkins, on Friday, even
ing, for the City of the Bluffs, where ere this
he has been cordially welcomed.— Pic. !6tA
inst.
The River. —The Warrior, at this moment,
is within a few feet of the highest point reach
ed by it last spring, when it was far above its
ordinary swells. We hear that the unexpected
freshet has occasioned much injury and loss on
most of the river plantations.— Tuscaloosa
Monitor, inst. V
General Manufacturing Bill*
. The following is the bill for the encoarage
i ment of associations of capitalists for manufac
i taring purposes, which has just passed both
1 houses of the legislature.
| A BILL to be entitled An Act to au
thor ix» all the free white citizens of the
1 State of Georgia, and such others as
f they may associate with them, to prog
ecute the business of Manufacturing
with corporate powers and privileges.
Section Ist. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the State of Georgia,
j in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enac
ted by the authority of the same, That from and
after the passage of this act when any number
[ of persons shall associate themselves together
t for the purpose of manufacturing, they shall
, draw up a declaration specifying the objects of
their association and the particular branch or
1 branches of business they intend to carry on,
together with the name by which they will be
known as a corporation, and the amount of
capital to be employed by them ; which decla
, ration shall be first recorded in the Clerk’s of
fice of the Superior Court of the county where
such corporation is located in the following
form, viz:
Georgia, ) To all persons to whom these pre-
County , $ sents shall come Greeting.
i Know ye that we
have associated ourselves together as a body corpo
rate, for the purpose ot engaging in the business
1 of
and that we have adopted as our corpo
rate name, by which we will sue and be sued
and by which we will be known and designa
ted, that we have subscribed as our capital stock the
sum of
dollars, which will be employed in the business be
fore mentioned.
Signed in the presence of }
j. *
Stockholders.
Recorded this day cf 184
Clerk.
and shall be published once a week for two
months, in the two nearest Gazettes, which be
ing done, said association shall become a body
corporate and politic, and known as such with
out being especially pleaded in all the Courts
of Law and Equity in this State, to be govern
ed by the provisions and be subject to the lia
bilities hereinafter specified.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the au
thority aforesaid, That each and every body
corporate and politic created under the provi
sions of this act may sue and be sued in all the
Courts of Law and Equity in this State; may
have and use a common seal, make such by
laws and rules for their regulation and govern
ment as they may see proper, not inconsistent
w ith the laws of this State or of the United
States, or the constitution of either; and may
hold such real estate, water privileges and per
sonal property as may be necessary for the pur
poses of said incorporations, or such as they
may be obliged auu deem it for their interest to
take in the settlement of any debts due them.
and may dispose of the same and erect such
buildings, and make such improvements there
on as may be necessary for the purposes afore
said:— Provided, such buildings and improve
ments shall not obstruct the navigable rivers of
this State, or interfere with any rights or privi
leges of any citizen or citizens of the same.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the author
ity aforesaid, That before any corporation,
created under the provisions of this act shall go
into operation, an oath or affirmation shall be
made before a Judge of the Superior Court,
Justice of the Inferior Court, or Justice of the
Peace, by the President thereof, of the amount
of capital actually paid in and employed by said
corporation, which shall be published in the two
nearest Gazettes once a week for one month,
and be recorded in the Clerk’s office of the Su
perior Court of the county where said corpo
ration is located, and which shall be repeated
whenever there is an increase of capital stock
created, and the same actually paid in: Provi
ded, nothing shall be considered as capital paid
in but gold or silver or the notes of specie pay
ingbanks, or property at its sworn valuation.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted by the au
thority aforesaid. That the members of each
and every corporation created under this act
shall be liable, jointly and severally, for r’l
debts and contracts made by each and every
said incorporation, if at any time it should be
made to appear that the amount of capital sworn
to by its President as paid in and employed,
was not, bona fide, so paid in and employed.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted by the au
thority aforesaid. That the whole amount of
debts which any company organized under this
act, shall at any time owe, shall not exceed its
capital stock actually paid in, and in case of
any excess over said capital stock the officers
and agents by whom such excess shall be cre
ated, shall be jointly and severally liable to the
extent of such excess for all the debts of the
company then existing, and for all that shall be
contracted, so long as they shall respectively
enntinue in office, and until the debts shall be
reduced to the amount of the capital stock ac
tually paid in.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted by the author
ity aforesaid, That no corporation created un
der the provisions of this act shall continue a I
body corporate and politic longer than thirty I
years.
Sec. 7. And he it further enacted by the au
thority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws
militating against this act be, and the same arc
hereby repealed.
Destructive Tornado and Loss of Life.
—We have various accounts of a fearful torna
do that passed through a portion of the coun
ty of Perry, iu this State, on Friday evening
last. It commenced, as well as we can learn,
near Newbern, in Greene county, and pur
sued a northeasterly direction through the
county of Perry. Much damage was done in
Newbern, but the extent is not ascertained.
Pursuing its course from Newbern, the hur
ricane first encountered the premises of Mr.
John C. Driver, just over the line in Perry,
levelling to the ground every building on the ,
place, except the kitchen. Tile UvveWiug
honse of Mr. James Y. Wallace was next un
roofed. and all the outhouses except the kitchen
blown down. Mr. Wallace was injured,
though not dangerously, by the falling tim
bers. Next, pursuing its course, it came to the
splendid mansion of L. Q,. C. De Yampert,
Esq., which it unroofed, and every outhouse
on the place was demolished. We next hear
of it at Dr. Robert Foster's, whose dwelling
was unroofed and most of the outhouses were
blown down. Here, we are pained to learn
Mr. Elias Stokes, a young man of high respec
tability, and brother of the Sheriff of Perry,
was killed instantly by the falling of timbers.
Pursuing its destructive course, we next hear
of the hurricane at the residence of Mr. Charles
Cox, where it is said everything is demolished
—hardly a board left of all his buildings. This
is as far as we have heard. How long, or to
what extent its frightful course was continued, i
we are yet to learn. We hope, however its
fury was soon spent, and that we already know
the worst
Water passed through Leaden Pipes.—
The associate editor of the Christian Citizen, I
published in Worcester, Mass., in noticing his
recovery from a severe illness, says: “As it
may be a benefit to our readers, w.e take this
opportunity to state, that the sole cause of all
the illness we have suffered during the past
year, has been the use of water pumped from a
well through a lead pipe. With almost every
particle of food and drink we have taken into
our system for more than a year, we have
taken by this means, small particles of one of
the worst mineral poisons; and the result has '
been days and weeks of the most intense suffer
ing. In some constitutions this poison does not
act for a long time, and upon some no ill effects
are observable for years. Yet we think the
risk is 100 great to justify any one who has re
gard for his health or that of his family, to use wa
ter that has been in contact with lead. A friend
of ours has entirely lost the use of his bands
( rrom l * ie * ame c «"se, and been nnabloT^^
I a pen for more than five months; aldw* h ° d
i cite similar cases. We trust, howr P ?,K UId
i word to the wise will be sufficient.” ’ lhat a
The War.— Some of the leading e
i closed by the President’s Message and w" d ' S ’
! companying documents are thus briefl! BC ‘
1 forth in the New York Courier; •
The first of these facts is. that of Vcarp
early and satisfactory peace-no an
r h . e,d ol,t : That. most desirable conS* 13
tion—desirable on every ground of nar n>a '
economy, national morality and common °' ,ai
inamty-.s 38 d ' fi tant apparently as on the a
when the cannon of General Taylor
pointed from the left bank of the Rj 0 r a
upon the public square of Matamoros fa,,de
, The second U lhat other large demand, f or
soldiers are to be made upon our co. J
The War Department estimate, the defied
m the regular regiments now in the y
. 7,500 men, and that in the volunteer -n ]■>
total 20,000 men. Uo00 :
We first need, then. 20,000 men to fill UD , F
skeleton regiments now in the service—aid
addition, the Secretary asks for ten new reJ”
meats equal to 10,000 men, and for author.tv
to call out an additional volunteer force hr
20 000 men—thus making the aggregate to be
called for, 00.000 men. But we have now
1 r s °° n,en ~ makin § an aggregate of
OJ.oOO soldiers—without enumerating the tens
of thousands whom battles and worse* than bib
ties, climate and disease, have swept out of ex
istence.
The third is, that in addition to the fortu
seven millions of debt now existing, to the ex
penditure of the nine millions, in the Treasu
ry, when this administration came into power
and to the expenditure of the whole ordinary
revenue—new loans to the possible—and we
add more than probable, amount of thirty eiaht
millions—are asked for.
The fourth and last is, that the permanent
military occupation of Mexico seems more than
half resolved upon, by the Executive—and that
at any rate, he recommends the immediate or
ganization of Territorial Governments for
New Mexico and the Californias—ours only by
the sword—on the same footing as he recom
mends a territorial government for Oregon,
ours by undisputed right.
Embarkation of Missionaries for China.
—On Thursday of last weekdays the Philadel-*
phia Christian Observer, the Rev. C. C. Bald
win and wife, of Bloomfield, New Jersey,
the Rev. S. Cummings and wife, of New
Hampshire, the Rev. VVm. L. Richards, son of
Mr. Richards of the Sandwich Islands, and
M ss Prohlman, a sister of the Rev. Mr. Prohl
man of Amoy, missionaries of the A. JB. C.
F M., and the Rev. Mr. James, M. IX and
wife, and another young brother of the Am.
Baptist Board, embarked inthe ship|Valparaiso,
Captain Lockwood, from Philadelphia' for Can
ton.
Destructive Storm.— The storm ofThurs- *
day night last, was much more serious than we
had supposed, and was attended with great in
jury to the country south of Tuscaloosa. On
the plantation in Marengo, belonging to Mr.
Vaughan of this-place, great danage was done.
All the cabins, the gin house, and the cotton
press ou the plantation were destroyed, with
fifteen or twenty bales of cotton. We learn
lhat a lady in Marengo lost her life, but in whaj
manner, we are not particularly informed.
The village of Newbern, Greene county,
was much injured; and report says that three
or four persons were there killed.
The fine residence of Mr. De Yampert, in
Perry Co. suffered much damage.
The gin-honse of Mr. Charles Bealle, in this
county, was destroyed, and fifteen bales of gin
ned cotton were scattered to the winds
The dwelling of Mr. J. L. G. Aikin was
somewhat injured, and that of Mr. Turner
Hamner was unroofed, beside suffering other
damage. We have no full account of the de
struction ; but we give the foregoing reports
as they have reached us.— Tuscalaosa Monitor
Gen. Taylor.— An incident in his Progress
up the River. —As a specimen of the enthusiasm
with whi-ih Gen. Taylor was hailed along the
river, on his return home on the steamboat
Missouri, we notice the following: Some dis
tance below Donaldsonville the Missouri touch
ed to land a passenger ; as she neared the shore
a young French gentleman, who stood, with
his wife and little son (a mere child) on the
levee, hailed and desired to see Gen. T. On
the appearance of the veteran on the guard of
the boat, the young gentleman exclaimed—
“ Pardon me, General, but 1 was anxious to see
your face, to know you, to let you hear my
voice among others cheering you on your re
turn from the scene of your glories-” At the
same time giving his hat a swing that sent it fly
ing through the air. and catching up his little
boy in his right arm—the boy at the instant
taking off his hat and swinging it lustily while
his voice was raised in a shrill acclaim —the fa
ther then stretching out his left hand to the
lady’s shoulder, the whole presented a tableau
vivant really impressive. The brave old man,
with head unbared and cap in hand, could but
bow his thanks, while a tear stole down his fur
rowed cheeks, and an almost inaudible “ thank
you. thank you,” issued from his lips. The
gratification of all who witnessed it was ex
treme, and a round of exhilerating huzzas at
tested it. After the cheers had a little subsided,
and as the boat was moving off, the gentleman
on the shore was heard to exclaim—“ Ah. Ge
neral, if you could but come and eat some su
gar with me !” This was uttered with so hear
ty a good will of respectful and anxious kind
ness lhat it was also greeted with another burst
of applause ; and as long as the group remain
ed in sight the gentleman was seen bowing and
waving his hand.— N. O. Delta.
Special Notices.
Xlne Mew England Society will hold
their Annual Meeting at the GLOBE HOTEL on
Wednesday Evening Next, 22d inst., at seven
o’clock.
Members will please be prepared to pay their dues.
The Anniversary Dinner will be on the table at 8
o’clock. l»y order of the President.
d2l-2 M. WILKINSON, Sec’y.
An Election will take place at the several
places for holding Elections in the county of Rich
mond, on the first Monday in January, for a COUNTY
SURVEYOR.
JESSE KENT, j. i. c. r. c.
VALENTINE WALKER, j. i. c. r. c.
JAMES HARPER, j. i. c. R. c.
IGNATIUS P. GARVIN, j. i. c. h. c.
n 25 WM. P. BEALLE, j. i. c. r. c.
Medical Card.--Doctor MEALS tenders
his professional services, in the various branches of
medicine, to the citizens of Augusta and vicinity.
He may be found either at the office formerly occu
pied by Thos. and J. J. R. Flournoy, Esqs., on
Mclntosh-street, or at the residence of Mrs. Water
man, on Broad-street. dl-6m*
g~^p > Sands’ Sarsaparilla.--Exhausted by th«
heats of summer, the vital functions at this season of
the year are seldom performed with the vigor and
regularity necessary to perfect health. The secretive
organs but lazily fulfil their duty ; the digestive pow
ers become relaxed ; while the surface of the body but
imperfectly exhales the waste water which should
pass off through the pores, and the excretory organs
do not act with their accustomed vigor. The conse
quences are cutaneous eruptions, running-sores,
glandular swellings, a morbid condition of the liver,
dyspepsia, &c. In some cases one ot these results,
in others all of them ensue. To effect a cure it is ne
cessary that the stomach be invigorated, the fluids
purified, the circulation regulated, the absorbents
stimulated to a healthy action, and the pores opened.
The tonic, antiseptic, and slightly aperient properties
of this preparation, render it peculiarly adapted to
these purposes. By its renovating influence a new