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CHRONICLE & SENTINEL. “ & W. S. JONES. DA ILf, TRI WEEKLY A WEEKLY OFFICE IN RAIL ROAD BANK BUILDING. TERMS—DaiIy Paper, per&:anum,in advance--SlO Tri-Weekly Paper, “ “ “ " •• 5 Weekly, (a mammoth sheet) “ * •• 2 CASH SY STEM.—In no case will an order forthe paper 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 suds to renew the same, the paper will ne discontinued. Depreciated funds received at value in Prom the French of Lamartine . REMEMBRANCE. In vain—in rain, day follows day, They glide without a mark away But naught shall from my soul remove Thy memory, latest dream of love. I see my rapid years gone by Behind me heaped as mountains high— E’en as the Oak in Autumn time, Sees fall the foilage of his prime. The frost of age is on my brow. My chilly blood will scarcely flow— Like this dark wave o’er which has passed The cold breath of the wintry blast. But thy serene and youthful face, Which sorrow only comes to grace, Still lovely in my heart I hold, For, like the soul, it ne’er grows old. No—thou hast never left mine eye, My lonely path thou still art nigh — And when I ceased to see thee here, I saw thee in a brighter sphere. There I behold thee such attain As on that last dread day of pain, When to thy blest abode away Thou fleddest with the morning’s ray. Thy pure and touching loveliness In Heaven’s sweet air shines none the less, And eyes where life had ceased to be Are bright with immortality. It is thy hand which dries my tears, And calms my spirit’s anxious fears; Thy voice doth whisper in mine ear * “Pray thou in secret, God will hear.” And e’en in sleep thou dost attend, The guardian angel of thy friend ; For all my dreams are filled with thee, Pure as the thoughts of Seraphs be. North Carolina Declaration of Indepen dence* We published some days since a letter from Mr. Bancroft, our Minister to England, an nouncing that he had discovered among the archives of England, evidence that such a doc ument as the Mecklenburg Declaration did exist prior to jhe formal declaration of Inde pendence by the Congress of 1776. The bringing to light of the testimony in favor of the long disputed authenticity of the North Ca rolina Resolves, has attached a new interest to the document itself, the following copy of which has been furnished the Baltimore Ameri can by a friend : DECLARATION OP INDEPENDENCE B V THE CITIZENS OF MECKLENBURG COI'NTY, NORTH CARO LINA. MAY 20, 1775. In conformity to an order issued by the Colonel of Mecklenburg County, in North Carolina, a Conven tion, vested with unlimited powers, met at Charlotte, in said County, on the Nineteenth day of May, 1775, whan Abraham Alexander was chosen Chairman, and John McKnitt Alexander, Secretary. After a free and full discussion of the objects of the Convention, it was Unanimously Resolved. —l. That whosoever, directly or indirectly, abetted, or in any way,form or manner, countenanced the uncbartered and danger ous invasion of our rights, as claimed by Great Bri tain, is an enemy to this country, to America, and to the inherent and inalienable rights of man. 2. Resolved , That we, the citizens of Mecklen burg county, do hereby dissolve the political bands which have connected us to the mother country, and hereby absolve ourselves from all allegiance to the British Crown, and abjure all political connection, contract or association, with that nation, who have wantonly trampled on our rights and liberties and in humanly shed the innocent blood of American Pa triots at Lexington. 3. Resolved , That we do hereby declare ourselves a free and independent people, are, and of right ought to be, a sovereign and self-governing association, un der the control of no power other than that of our God and General Government of Congress ; to the maintainance of which Independence, we solemnly pledge to each other, our mutual co-operation, our lives, our fortunes, and our most sacred honor. ABRAHAM ALEXANDER, Chairman. J. M. Alexander, Secretary. Adam Alexander, Henry Downs, Hezekiah Alexander, John Plenniken, Ezra Alexander, John Ford, Chas. Alexander, Wm. Graham, Waitstill Avery, James Harris, Ephraim Brevard, Robert Irwin, Hezekian J. Balch, Wm. Kennon, Richard Barry, Matthew McClure, John Davidson, Neill Morrison, Wm. Davidson, Samuel Martin, Duncan Ocheltree, John Queary, John Phifer, David Reese, Thos. Polk, Zacheus Wilson, Sr,, Ezekiel Polk, Wm. Wilson. Benjamin Patton, Since writing the above, says the Baltimore American, we have received a letter from a gentleman in Virginia, who encloses to us a copy of the North Carolina proceedings, ex tracted from a work entitled “ Sketches of North Carolina, by Rev. Wm. Henry Foote.” Our correspondent, who seems to have enter tained no doubt of the existence of the Meck lenburg Declaration, remarks:—“After read ing the American, I thought Mr. Bancroft's letter more of a shadow than a substance, and that Governor Swain might easily have obtain ed information in relation to the Declaration, which he could have sent forth to the public, which would have informed many persons who never have heard of the North Carolina pro ceedings.” The copy of the Declaration furnished from Mr. Foote’s work, is the same as the document published above, except that it embraces two additional resolves. The omitted resolutions are as follows : 4. That, as we acknowledge the existence and control of no laws, nor legal officer, civil or milita ry, within this county, we hereby ordain and adopt, as a/rule of life, all, each and every of our former laws ; wherein nevertheless,, the crown of Great Britain never can be considered as holding rights, privileges, immunities, or authority therein. 5. That it is further decreed, that all, each and every military officer in this county is hereby retain ed in his former command and authority, he acting conformably to these regulations. And that every member present of this delegation shall henceforth be a civil officer, viz : A justice of the peace in the character of a committee man, to issue process here, and determine all matters of controversy according to said adopted laws; and to preserve peace union, and harmony in said county ; and to use every exer tion to spread the love of country and fire of freedom throughout America, until a general organized gov ernment be established in this province. Adopted May 20th, 1776. The following is a copy of the second Meck lenburg Declaration, as it is given in the work of Mr. Foote : “ Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, May 30th, 1775. This day the committee of the county met and pas sed the following Resolves: —Whereas, by an Ad dress presented to his Majesty by both houses of par liament in February last, the American Colonies are declared to be in a state of actual rebellion, we con a ire that ah laws an< * commissions confirmed by, or derived from the authority of the king or parlia - ment, are annulled and vacated, and the former civil constitution of these Colonies for the present wholly suspended. To provide, in some degree for the ex igences of this county, in the present alarming pe nod, we deem it necessary and proper to pass the following resolves, viz : Ist That all commissions, civil and military, here tofore granted by the crown, to be exercised in these Colonies, are null and void, and the constitution of each particular Colony wholly suspended. 2d. That the Provincial Congress of each pro vince, under the direction of the great Continental Congress, is invested with all legislative and ex ecutive powers, within their respective provinces,and that no other legislative power does, or can exist, at this time, in any of these Colonies. 3d. As all former laws are now suspended in this province, and the Congress have not provided others, we judge it necessary, for the better preservation of good order, to form certain rules and regulations tor the internal government of this country, until laws shall be provided for us by the Congress. 4th. That the inhabitants of this county do meet on a certain day appointed by this committee, and hav ing formed themselves into the nine companies, viz : eight in the county, and one in the town of Charlotte, do choose a Colonel and other military officers, whu shall hold and exercise their several powers by virtue of this choice, and independent of the crown of Great Britain, and the former constitution of this province. ( Then follow eleven articles for the ‘preservation of the peace , and the choice of officers to perfom the duties of a regular government.) 16th. That whatever person shall hereafter re ceive a commission from the crown, or attempt to ex ercise any such commission heretofore received, shall be deemed an enemy to his country ; and upon infor mation to the captain of the company in which he resides, the company shall cause him to be appre hended, and, upon proof of the fact, committed to safe custody, till the next sitting of the committee, who shall deal with him as prudence shall direct. The names of the persons composing the Convention ; ABRAHAM ALEXANDER, Chairman. John McKnktt Alexander, Sec’y. Ephraim Brevard, Sec’y. Rev. Hezechiah J. Balch, Charles Alexander, John Pfifer, Zacchary Wilson, Jr. James Harris, Waitstill Avery, William Kennon, Benjamin Patton, John Ford, Matthew NcClure. Richard Barry, Neill Morrison, Henry Downe, Robert Irwin, Ezra Alexander, John Plenniken, William Graham, David Reese, John Q,ueary, John Davidson, Hezechiah Alexander, Richard Harris, Jr., Adam Alexander, Thomas Polk. “ A committee consisting of Dr. Ephraim Brevardi Wm. Kennon, and Rev. W. Balch, were appointed to present resolutions suitable to the ocasion.” The subsequent history of these proceedings is thus given by the author: “ A copy of the acts and doings of this Convention was sent by express to the members of Congress from North Carolina, then in session in Philadelphia,— Capt. James Jack, of Charlotte, was chosen as the bearer, and set out immediately on his mission, and delivered the declarations to the delegates from North Carolina, then in Philadelphia—Messrs Caswell Hooper and Hewes. Approving of the spirit of their fellow-citizens, and the tone of their resolutions, yet these gentlemen thought them premature, as the Gen eral Assembly had not then abandoned all hopes of a reconciliation with the mother country, on honora ble terms, and did not present them to Congress.— By this perhaps prudent smothering of the expressions of sentiment by an intelligent people, the citizens of Mecklenburg were disappointed, hjitnot discouraged; they lost the foreground their patriotism merited, but lost not their spirit. They declared themselves inde pendent May, 1775, and have never ceased to be so. “ A copy of the proceedings of the convention was addressed to the Moderator of the first Provincial Congress of North Carolina, which met in Hillsbo rough August 20th, 1775, and was laid before the committee ofbusiness, but not particularly acted upon, as a majority of the body were still hoping for a rec onciliation on honorable terms.” From this it would seem, continues the American, that the Mecklenburg proceedings were suppressed, as going too far for the time. The idea of colonial independence had not yet possessed the minds of the people, and a manifestation that was calculated to exasperate the British Government, and to alarm its adhe rents here, was promptly checked by the friends of the American cause. It is easy to understand how such a policy might have kept the knowledge of the North Carolina declara tion from the people at large, but it is not so easy to account for the incredulity of Mr. Jef ferson and others,~who, it is to be presumed, were in the conlidence of the patriots of that day. Later from the Pacific. —The following letter which has reached us from a source wor thy of entire confidence, adds another marvel to the list of discoveries in California : “Mazatlan, Dec. 19, 1848. There is a late arrival from California, bring ing intelligence that a region of gold richer than any yet known has been discovered north of the former placer. The Lexington store-ship was to leave for the United States; when this vessel left, she had on board about $500,000 in gold dust for the United States. I have accidentally met here to-day, a young man very recently from San Francisco, where he is engaged in business, having been a year or two in California, and been over the Gold Re gion, though not as a laborer. He confirms even the most extravagant of the accounts we have recently had of the extraordinary rich ness of the placer, particularly as to the new Gold Region.— N. Y. Tribune. . d. North Carolina.—The “Old North State” has roused from her lethargy and buckled on her armor to embark in the great work of in ternal improvements. Though late, she enter upon the work with giant strides, betokening a zeal worthy of herself and the age. The Ra leigh Register of the 27th inst. announces the passage of the bill for the great Central road inthe following exultant strain : Glory Enough for one Day ! — The Great Cen tral Railroad bill passed ! ! —We have the glorious, heart-cheering news to communicate, to-day, that the Central Railroad Bill passed its third reading in the Senate, on Thursday evening, by the casting vote of the Speaker ! This is glory enough for one day. Every intelli gent North Carolinian will rejoice at this result.— The hope may now be indulged herthatthe State will be redeemed from the thraldom of sloth and poverty. If this beneficent measure had been defeated, North Carolina would have lost almost every claim to the respect of enlightened communities, and many of her intelligent and enterprising citizens would have a bandoned her in a body. Great credit is due to the Speaker for the noble part he has acted, and we are sure that his indepen dent and patriotic course will be appreciated by eve ry generous breast, without reference to political pre dilections. We were particularly struck with his dignity and firmness at the momenljof announcing the result of the vote, and of deciding the question in the affirmative. The moment was one of intense interest.—The au dience generally were ignorant of the views of the Speaker, and when he had announced that the Yeas Nays 22, the stillness was death-like, until the magical words, “the Chair decides in the affirmative,” relieved suspense. The applause which succeeded was deafening, and it was some minutes before order could be restored. The bill for the relief of the Wilmington and Ra leigh Rail Road, passed its third reading in the House of Commons, on Thursday night. Free Negroes in Delaware. —A bill has been introduced into the Delaware Legislature to prevent the return of free negroes into that State after they have been absent from it for 30 days. The law at present in force gives 6 months. Turpentine.—A lot ofsuperior turpentine from Mississippi, 56 barrels in all, was sold on Wednesday to Mr. Humphreyville, at $3.10 per barrel. This is a good sound price and should encourage others to enter into the busi ness,— Mobile Tribune 25th. Cfirgnicle and Sentinel. AUGUSTA, GA: w EDNKSDAT MORNING, JAN. 31, ’*9. To Warehousemen. Proprietors or Warehouses in this city and Hamburg, will much oblige us by counting their re spective stocks of cotton this afternoon, as we design making up our monthly cotton to-night. Later from Europe. Private despatches received by Telegraph last evening, announce \he arrival of the Steamer at Boston, with dates to the 13th of January inst., being two weeksNater news. — By these despatches we have no political intel ligence, and a very meagre report of the Cot ton market. We learn, however, that during the first week of the year, Cotton advanced £d. and receded during the week ending the 13th inst. id., with a dull market at the close of the week. Our Weekly. Among the contents of our. Weekly, to be issued this morning, will be found a short sketch of Prince Louis Napoleon, President of France, with a Portrait—No. 8, of our Picture Gallery ; together with a great variety of Mis cellany, Poetry, &c., in addition to the news of the week, Commercial and General Intelli gence, etc. Single copies for sale at the office. Terms —Two Dollars, per annum. Agricultural Education. Governor Fish of New York strongly re commends to the Legislature of that State, to found an Institution designed to leach both the arts and the sciences that appertain to Agricul ture. The State Agricultural Society, at its recent annual meeting at the capital for the election of officers, took up the subject and de bated it at length in common with delegates from county societies and members of the Le gislature ; and we are happy to see that the measure was approved by a unanimous vote. Regarding the scheme as substantially carried, it may not be amiss to notice the fact, that, it has taken more than a quarter of a century to overcome the popular objections in the minds of farmers against the study of Rural Econo my as a science, in that comparatively enlight ened State. Twenty-six years ago the distin guished Jesse Buel introduced a bill to estab lish a State Agricultural School, similar to the one now contemplated, and illustrated the im portance of combining scientific attainments with practical agriculture, in away so plain that all might see the immense utility of the ar rangement. But the mountain of prejudice against the idea of making scientific farmers presented obstacles that have only been over come after a continuous struggle from the year 1823, down to the present moment. A whole generation has passed off the stage, and a new one come on that has enjoyed the bene fit of 11,000 improved common schools, and of 160 excellent academies pretty equally dis tributed over the commonwealth. Without the intellectual development which these have effected, no professional education of farmers would now be deemed necessary, or tolerated. The products of rural industry in New York exceed one hundred and twenty millions of dollars per annum at this time; which is about twice the value of all the cotton grown in the United States. The number of persons actu ally employed to attain this result, is probably not much over one-half as large as the number engaged in cotton culture at the South. And yet we have good reason for saying that full one-fourth of the agricultural labor of New York is now thrown away, and utterly lost to the world. If a farmer give four day’s work for a quantity of grain, hay, or meat which he might produce with the labor of three days, it is plain that both he and the community lose the service of a day, be it worth little or much. No study is more interesting than that which carefully investigates the relative products of human skill and industry when applied to ru ral affurs. One man's wheat, corn and cotton will be found to cost him vastly more labor than another man gives, in cultivating land of equal facility. One farmer constantly in creases (reproductive ness of his plowed fields, and each year obtains one hundred bushels of grain at a little less cost jn labor than he gave the season previous. Another is constantly impairing the fertility of his cultivated lands, and ofcourse is compelled to give more labor for each succeeding crop, till he is forced at last to abandon the tillage of old fields which yield him not a comfortable subsistence, and to seek new ones elsewhere. As a general rule, it will be found that the most profita ble planting is that which adds most to the pro ductiveness of thb soil ; because one thereby diminishes the cost of all crops in all coming time. In the Providence, one gen eration soon succeeds another in every slate; but its farming lands, to feed and clothe the inhabitants that may reside therein, ever re main. If one generation greatly impoverishes these lands, wastes the rail timber, consumes the forest trees needed to construct buildings of all kinds, and for fuel, after generations will justly regard this Anglo-Saxon devastation, as worse than the Vandalism of Europe, worse than the Indian savageness of America. Can a Christian people show any moral right to ren der ten or twenty millions of acres in Georgia less productive than they found them ? If the present race of agriculturists may half exhaust the soil* of the State, the next will have an equal right to complete the work of desolation, and thus depopulate one of nature’s garden spots, located as it is in the finest climate on the Continent. Agricultural Education can alone introduce an improving system of planting husbandry, to be practiced by the masses in this, or any other State in the Union. To enrich large planta tions and realize ready money in the operation, some professional knowledge of the natural laws which govern the organization of the plants cultivated, is indispensable. Neither hard work nor uninsiructed intellect, can a chieve the ordinary results of science, in navi gation, in manufactures, or in agriculture. Will it take another quarter of a century for the planters of Georgia to find out the truth of this remark? We hope not. More new Cotton. —The Albany Patriot of the 27 th inst., says; Capt. U. M. Robert, this week presented us with a cotton boll just matured and opening. Gea. Jackson on Protection. Truth will-live forever; and although often repudiated by its authors, it* still returns to hon or their names when they are no more. In 1824 Gen. Jackson wrote his famous letter to Dr. CoLKMANof North Carolina, of which the following is the material passage; “Heaven smiled upon and gave us liberty and in dependence. That same Providence has blessed us with the means of national independence and nation al defence. * * * He has filled our mountains and our plains with minerals—with lead, iron, and copper; and given climate and soil for the growing of hemp and wool. These being the grand materials of our national defence, they ought to have extended to them adequate cud fair 'protection , that our own manafactories and laborers may be placed on a fair competition with those of Europe, and that we may have, within our own country, a supply of these leading and important articles, so essential in war. — Beyond this, I look at the tariff with an eye to the proper distribution of labor and of revenue, and with u view to discharge our national debt. * * * I will ask, what is the real situation of the Amer ican Agriculturist? Where has the American far mer a market for his surplus products ? Except for cotton, he has neither a foreign nor a home market. Does not this clearly prove that there is too much la bor employed-in agriculture7 and that the channels for labor should he multiplied? Common, sense points out, at once, the remedy. Draw from agri culture this superabundant labor; employ it in mechanism and manufactures, thereby creating a home maket for breadstuff's, aqd distributing labor • to the most profitable account; and benefits to the country will result. Take from agriculture, in the United States six hundred thousand men, women, and children, and you will at once give a home market , for more breadstuffs then all Europe nowfurnish es us. In short, sir, we have been too long subject to the policy of the British Merchants, It is time we should become a little more Americanized &c, &c. [Seethe full letter in Niles’s Register. June 12, 1824. It is wonderful how wedded to England, and to a most servile dependence on her Looms aed her Spindles, our Democratic politicians have been for the last thirty years. This colo nial vassalage had charms for the democracy, which has prevented the people of the South from attempting to follow the policy so clearly marked out by the Hero of New Orleans, dur ing the Administration of Mr. Monroe. Had the cotton growers then entered with spirit into the spinning and weaving of their great staple, South Carolina would to-day be worth twice as much as Massachusetts. The Whigs of the South. Among those who voted, in the Southern caucus, in favor of Mr.CALHOUN’s address, rath er than for the more moderate appeal of Mr. Berrien, there was but one Whig. This was Mr, Gayle of Alabama. The Whigs of the South, says the Baltimore American, true to the Union, true to theirprin ciples of conservatism, are now taking a stand similar to that which the Northern Whigs as sumed when the Free Soil question was start ed, and when the Buffalo Convention endeav ored to give form and position to a sectional party. Refusing utterly, save a few abolition ists among them, to desert their Southern brethren, or to give up their broad national ground, the ground of the Constitution, the Whigs of the North cast their overwhelming majorities for General Taylor—a Southern man with national principles. Mr. Calhoun, it would seem, is emulating at the South the course of Mr. Van Buren at the North—and as the result will show, we pre sume, with equal success. Some thirty-two Southern members of Congress are to sign his address —so it is said ; and they are all of the late Cass party, except the single Whig from Alabama. Thus will a faction be formed—but no party. The South as a body will join in no such movement. •• The Northern Whig members,” says the Washington correspondent of the Charleston Courier, “excepting the abolitionists, are de sirous, they say, of conciliating the South, in stead of committing aggressions upon them.— They will do nothing which their constituents may not require ; and their constituents, they say, will not hazard the Union by demanding any aggressive measures.” This assurance is so well sustained by the experience of the past, and is so entirely in consonance with the conservative character of the Whigs of the North, that it may be received with undoubting confidence. Gen. T aylor, elected to the Pres idency by the votes ofthe North and the South, will be regarded by the Whigs of both sections as the exponent of those great constitutional principles upon which they are all united ; and his administration, avoiding any inclination to ward sectionalism on either side, will be pre pared, we doubtnot, to maintain, with a steady hold, the integrity of the Union, and to pro mote with unswerving impartiality the pros perity of all parts alike. Farewell Concert. Mr. and Mad, Leati, give their farewell Concert to-night, when they present a most attractive bill. The very favorable impression made upon the lovers of song by them during their late visit to this city in connexion with Mr. Collins, will doubtless draw together a large number of their admirers to catch their parting notes. Library Association. We understand that the second lecture be fore the Young Men’s Library Association, will be delivered next Monday evening, by Dr. L. A. Dugas of this city. Gen. McDuffie, —The Charleston Mercury says; We are much gratified in being able to state, upon the authority of a letter from his physician, which we have ourselves seen, that the health of Gen. McDuffie is improving under the water cure treatment to which he is at present submitting. The Gen. is now at Milledgeville, Ga., and his friends entertain hopes of a permanent amelioration of his health. Health of Augusta. An examination of the Sexton’s report of interments for, several years, gratify ing evidence of the healthfulness of our city. We give the ratio of deaths to the population for the last three years, though the preceding years back to ’39 were even more healthy than these. We have excluded the still-born, and persons interred from the country. In 1846, the interments were 163 —our population in 1845 being 7,500. This gives a ratio of 1 in 46. In 1847, t;he deaths were 154—0 r 1 in 49.70. In 1843. with an increased population . amounting to over 8,000, the number of deaths were 203—0 r1 in 39.40 —of these there were but 13 deaths from Fever. During the present month from the Ist to the 30th inclusive, (ex cluding still-born and persons brought from the country for interment,) the interments have been 8 whites and 8 blacks. For the Chronicle 8? Sentinel. South. Carolina Banks. Messrs. Editors :—The South Carolina pa pers contain the reports of several or most of the banking institutions of that State, from which the following important facts are de duced : Circulation. Specie. Pro’nofcir. to Specie. B’k of the State,-..-$945,090 $110,757 $3.51 to $1 *S. W. R. R. Bank, 268,210 45,545 5.98 to I Stare Bank, 249.865 58,864 4.30 to 1 Pl’ers & Mechanics, 267,250 161,401 1.66 to I Union Bank, 117,175 70,785 1.67 to 1 B’k of So. Carolina, 111,322 61,498 1.85 to 1 $1 5 ,558,912 $508,850 This statement of the six Banks shows a cir culation of three dollars and eighty-nine cents to one dollar in specie. Their deposits as shown by the same report are $1,551,527, and their Exchange, which is their only immediate ly available assets besides their specie, amounts only to $1,202,415, some of which is proba bly what is denominated by commercial men “ Kites," and cannot be made available in an emergency. The condition of the three banks last named in the above list is doubtless very healthy and sound, and they would therefore experience little difficulty in redeeming any amount of their circulation that could be pre sented. As to the three first the public can judge of their capacity to meet their liabilities as well as the writer, and must be governed accordingly. Georgian, *This institution is connected with the So. Carolina Railroad Company which has inunda ted this and the adjoining States with their “ Shin-Plasters" receivable for all payments due the Railroad Company. To afford the reader the means ot estimating fully the char acter of these shin-plasters, a copy of one of them is subjoined, which it is believed few of those who circulate them ever read : Office of the South Carolina Rail Road ©MU S*? ( [Vignette.] 1 A rnmlVo I A female seated on , 412a8 v 5 :WwJ ’I a cotton bale, wheat! -a &SS& I sheaves on her left, B 4«K> go 5 ! Railroad cars and I *>. 2® ~ Charleston , S. C. (, factories in distance j Aug.l, 43. » Receivable as one EDollar n all pay = ments to the South Carolina Railroad Com- pany. ®M S James Gadsden , Prest. Thos. Waring, Auditor, one : one r one : one : one : one : one : one : one : one : one The word ONE, is also printed in large letters on the face of the bill, over the scrip, in red ink. They also issue them of the denomination of two and three dollars. Let Georgians, and every other man who is the friend of a sound currencv, read this miserable imitation of mo ney, and then determine whether they will lon ger continue to receive it as such. Plows and Plowing—The season for plow ing preparatory to planting, has fairly set in, judging from the number of choice plows which we notice farmers taking away from the Agri cultural Warehouse of the Messrs. Carmi chael of this city. One good plowing is bet ter than a half dozen times going over the ground with a poor implement that never fairly breaks the turf. Cultivate only half as much land, and do that twice as well as usual, and more grain and cotton will be harvested by the change. The Hon. T. Butler King has our thanks for several public documents,among which are maps of the battles on Gen. Scolts’ line in MexiciT, drawn by the Topographical depart ment, which are particularly interesting. The “American Metropolitan” Is the title of a new and elegant Magazine, which has been issued from the press of Israel Post, New York, under the editorial charge of William Landon, the first’number of which reached us some days since. It is elegantly and beautifully illustrated with engravings on steel and wood in the best style of the art, with a select piece of music, and a variety of origi nal contributions from Miss Sedgwick, C. Ed wards Lester, Mrs. Child, Mrs. Bmbury, J. T. Headly, Mrs. Stevens, Mrs. Campbell, and oth er popular Magazine contributors. It is the purpose ofthe proprietors to have the contents entirely original , and as the list of contributors presents the names of some of the most distin guished literary Magazine writers of the age, we doubt not it will merit and receive a liberal support. Not the least attractive feature in the work will be several illustrations ofthe life of Wash ington. The pictures by T. H. Matteson ; the text, or life of Washington, by J. T. Headley, author of “ Napoleon and his Marshalls, ” “ Washington and his Generals, ” &c. Price $3, in advance. Kentucky.—The Maysville Eagle publishes the following project as that which meets the views of most of those in Kentucky who de sire the emancipation of their slaves : First. Let all slaves now in existence, or born in Kentucky, before the Ist of January, 1860, remain slaves for life. Second. Let all male slaves born after January, 1860, be free at twenty-five, and all females born af ter the same period be free at twenty-one—provided, that upon reaching that age, they shall be hired out, for two years, or longer if necessary, un..i a fund shall be accumulated sufficient to transport them to Liberia, and give them a start in that colony. Third. No slave thus emancipated shall remain in Kentucky as a freeman. —Louisville Journal. Railroad .Accident.—The Savannah Re piMican of Monday says : We learn that when the passenger train to Macon yesterday morn ing was passing a small bridge over a creek some six miles from town, the bridge gave way precipitating the locomotive and tender into the creek. We have not heard that any one was injured. The cars were got over and went for ward by another engine. Telegraph to Atlanta.—The Griffin IVhig says: “ The stock on the Telegraph line be tween Macon and Atlanta, has all been taken. Preparations are being made to put up the wire immediately. If nothing happens we shall soon be able to hold communication between this city and the great seaboard by lightning—that is, by the powerful influence ofthe magnet .— Who would have thought of such a thing twenty years ago ? The ingenuity of man is passingly strange, and almost incomprehensible. ” The Last of Braddock’s Men. —The Lan caster (Ohio) Gazette announces the death, at that place, on the 4th inst. of Samuel Jenkins, a colored man, aged one hundred and fifteen years '. He was the property of captain Broadwater, in Fairfax county, Va ., in 1734. and drove his master’s provision wagon over the Alleghany Mountains in the memorable campaign of Gen. Braddock. He retained his faculties to the last. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLI GENCE. Transmitted for the Chronicle & Sentinel* Charleston Market* "ZCotton . —The market continued quiet yesterday. Sales 1,000 bales at 5f a 7c. Prices without change. From the Charleston Courier.—By Telegraph. A dispatch from our Baltimore correspond ent, who wrote at nine o’clock last night, w h ose communication was received at the omce m this city at a quarter past ten o’clock, occupying but seventy-five minutes in trans mission, gives us the following intelligence: California News* The advices by the Crescent City, at New York, had somewhat dampened the ardor of the California fever. It is said that some dis ease, having the characteristics of cholera, had appeared among the passengers by the various vessels, who were crossing the Isthmus, and that four deaths had taken place. It is also stated that there had been much suffering among many of those who had taken that route. The intelligence was obtained from letters received by the Crescent City, and probably from those who were either disappointed in their expectations, or were unprepared to en counter the difficulties and .troubles that would naturally arise in a new and perhaps ill-diges ted enterprise. From Washington. In the Senate, yesterday, memorials were presented for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia and in favor of cheap postage. The select Committee on the Cali fornia State Bill, reported a bill admitting Cali fornia as a State at once, and providing for the . admission of New Mexico prospectively, when her population should warrant it. The bill to extend aid to the project for the construction of a Railroad to the Pacific was taken up, and an amendment offered. The subject was made the special order for Monday next. The Pan ama Railroad Bill was also brought forward. — Mr. Douglass offered a substitute, which was postponed until the following day. The In dian Appropriation Bill was discussed, a mo tion to postpone it to take up the Postage Bill having been lost. The Bill to establish a branch Mint at New York, was made the special order for ;he first Friday in February. The Military Academy appropriation bill was matured and passed. New York Market. —COTTON.— Yesterday the market was firm and prices steady. Sales of 1,300 bales were mads, establishing the quotations at 7£ for fair Upland and 8 fer New Orleans. FLOUR.—Dealers in this article were at a stand, and but little doing. Both holders and purchasers were awaiting the advices of the expected steamers. Char. Cour. of yesterday , by Tel. The Revival. —The Albany (Ga.) Patriot of the 27th inst, says: Ever since our paper was published last week a series of meetings has been going on at the Baptist Church in this place. Several persons have already profess edconversion, and joined the Church, and from present indications we believe many others will shortly follow. Several preachers from the surrounding country have been present, but the principal speaker has been the Rev. Mr. Fisher, from Kentucky. This gentleman we understand has for many years been very successful as an Evangelist and revival preach er in several of the Southwestern States. He appears to be eminently qualified for such an office. To an agreeable person and melodious voice, he unites the most fervid eloquence and the most untiring zeal. When animated in pleading the cause of his Divine Master, his eloquence equals anything we have ever heard from the pulpit. We hope wherever he goes he will find warm hearts to welcome him, and will meet with much encouragement in the great work in which he is engaged. Hard times in Illinois. —The members of the Illinois Legislature are making greivous complaints about low wages, and the high prices they are obliged to pay for board. It is not at all improbable that unless the services of law makers there are better appreciated, there will be a Californian stampede before long. A Mr. Linder, one of the members of the House, a while ago, offered a resolution, providing for the removal of the Capitol away from Spring field. At the sessions heretofore held there, he said, it had been customary to get board, and good too, atsJ per week, and in some cases at $2,50; that the members were then receiving $4 per day, and had no good reason to com plain of exorbitant charges. In addition to good board, they had comfortable rooms, good fires and nice landladies, and active and expert chambermaids; and there was nothing wanting that would add to the comfort and gratification of the members. But now matters are sadly re versed. and they were put on half rations by the new Constitution. The resolution passed, of course. The members were too compassionate to vote against it. National Convention. —There is to be a National Convention held in Baltimore on Tuesday, the 6th of March, 1349—0 f capitalists, inventors, and amateurs of ingenuity and skill in the productive arts. The object of holding the Convention are— 1. To examine discoveries, new inventions, plans, and compositions of matter, &c. 2. To furnish true and original inventors, when required, with advice, the means ofans tennance, materials, &c. 3. To purchase a library for the use of ex aminers and inventors, &c. 4. To establish a room for the exhibition of models, plans, drawings, <&c. 5. To give counsel and advice (for a fee) to those who may desire information about ma chines, &.c. 6. The establishment of a warehouse of ma chines, implements, manufactures, &c. 7. The u.-Üblishraent of workshops for the instruction of apprentices, See. 8. The establishment of a school for the in struction of mechanics, scholars, &c. This brief summary will give an idea, though an imperfect one, of the object proposed to be accomplished by the Convention, which are all laudable, and will be attained, we hope. A Yankee California Speculation. The W has the following crumb ofcom fort to the gold diggers; “ A load of3oo stools, manufactured in Ster ling, in this county, passed through our streets last week, boxed up for California. They are designed for seats for diggers. They are worth here about 50 cents, but may be considered as good for $lO to $25 each in El Dorado.” Special Notices. D’The Georgia State Lottery, Class No. 9, for the benefit of the Augusta Independent Fire Company, draws This f Day, at A. Lapitte’s at 4 o’clock, P, M. precisely. ja3l HjTWe are authorized to announce Major WILLIAM TEASLY, of Elbert County, as a can didate for MAJOR GENERAL of the Fourth Divi sion, Georgia Militia, comprising the counties of El bert, Wilkes,' Linclon, Franklin, Madison and Jack.J| son, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Gen. E. W. Morris. Election to be held on the 26th of March next. Jan. 29 |3*The Athens Banner and Southern Whig will copy until day.
