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About Daily chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1837-1876 | View Entire Issue (April 14, 1849)
BY J. W . & W. S. JONES. Bering, &c. THE CHRONICLE & SENTINEL IS PUBLISHED DAILY, TRI-WKEKLY «fc WEEKLY. BY J. W. & W. S JONES. TERMS: DAILY PAPER. Ten Dollars per annum, paya ble in advance. TRI-W EEKLY PA PER. —Five Dollars per annum, in advance. WEEKLY PAPER.—(A mammoth sheet) Two Dollars per annum, in advance. TERMS OF ADVERTISING. IN DAILY PAPER, Fifty Cents per square, (twelve lines or less) for the first insertion: Thirty eight Cents for the next five; and Twenty-Jive Cents for each subsequent insertion ; WEEKLY, Seventy five Cents ; SEMI-MONTHLY or MONTHLY, (in either paper) One Dollar; and Rule and Figure Work, One Dollar, fjf If next to reading matter and leaded, charged as a new advertisement each insertion. Professional or Dus* ss Cards , not exceeding six lines, Ten Dollars pe. annum. If over six lines pro rata per line. :Qr Lommunicationa designed to promote private or individual interests, will be charged as advertise ments. gratuitous Advertising, under any circum etances, except Marriage and Obituary Notices; and hesj, when over six lines, will be charged as Adver tisements. STANDING ADVERTISEMENTS. 1 square, (12 lines,) 1 month, without alteration $6 “ 3 months, “ “ \2 1 “ “6 months, altered quarterly. 18 1 “ “ 12 months, “ “ 25 2 squares, one-half more than the above rates. 3 “ three-fourths more than the above rates. 4 “ double the above rates. HiT If next to reading matter and leaded, double uese rates. rLJ 3 Advertisements not marked the number of in sertions will be continued and charged by the inser tion. ith Druggists contracts will be made bv the year on reasonable terms, as heretofore. W hen the bill of any house or firm amounts within six months to SSO or upwards, for ether than perma nent advertisements, a discount of 25 per cent, will be made, if paid on presentation. • Bustucas tUtirDs. To Professional & Business Men. PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS CARDS, not exceeding six lines, will be inserted under this head at the rate of $lO per annum. Cards exceeding six lines, will be charged pro rata per line. 3Utorules anti Solicitors. N. G. & A. G. POSTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. HjT The undersigned are still engaged in the prac tice of Law. Office at Madison, Morgan County, Ga. All business entrusted to them, will meet with prompt and efficient attention. N. G. POSTER fe2B-tf A. G. POSTER. SEABORN JONES, ATTORNEY AT LAW, COUNCIL GROUND, Murray County Georgia* d2B-w3m caril JOHN P. WILDE, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, No. 11, Exchange Place, New Orleans. All collections entrusted to his care, will re ceive prompt attention. d27-ly FELIX C, MOORE, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW r Crawfordville- • • • Georgia* Will practice in all the counties of the North ern, and Greene county of the Ocmulgee, Circuit. Office in the Court-House. f24-ly WILLIAM BELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Crawford ville Geo* Will practice in the counties of Taliaferro, Warren, Hancock, Greene, Oglethorpe, and Wilkes. mhlO-w JASPER N. DORSEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Dahlon«ga, Georgia* fjf Will attend to all Professional business entrust ed to him in the Cherokee Circuit, and in Habersham county, of the Western Circuit. References —Messrs. Hays Bowdre, Dr. Wm H. Turpin, Augusta; Hon. C. Dougherty, Athens; James Law, Gainesville; Smith & Walker, and J. W. Grady, Dahlonega. fel4 WM. T. TRAMMELL, ATTORNEY AT LA W, ROME, Floyd County Georgia. Hjf Will also practice in the counties of Paulding, Cass, Cherokee, Gilmer, Murray, Walker, Dade and Chattooga. Refer to Hand, Williams <& Co., Thos. Barrett & Co., Adams, Hopkins & Co., Gould & Bulkley, Augusta, Ga. felO-wly BEEMAN & GORDON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Dalton Georgia. O’ Will attend promptly to all business put into hands. lel2-w3m ROBERT E. WOODING, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Appling, Georgia. f2B-wly E. C. SHACKELFORD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, LEXINGTON, SA. Reference. —Hon. A.H.Stephens, Crawfordville, Ga. ap23 -wly. Linton Stephens, ) J. L. Bird. STEPHENS & lIRD, ATTORNIBS AT LAW, CRAWFORDVILLE, GA, o* Will practice in all the Counties of the North erncrcuu. [yl6-ly* W. MILO OLIN, ATTORNEY AT LAW AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, ’ O* Office one door above the Mechanics Bank. JOS. HENRY LUMPKIN, Jr., ATTORNEY AT LAW, LEXINGTON-.. GA. Refer to R. D. Robertson, Augusta, Ga. Hon. A. B. Lonostreet, Oxford, Ga. Hon. John H. Lumpkin, Rome, Ga, jal3 JOHN R. STANFORD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Clarkesville • • Ga. Will practice in the counties of Clarke, Frank lin, Habersham, Lumpkin, Forsyth, Gilmer, Union Murray and Gwinnett, and in the Federal Circui Court for Georgia. I7y I*. C. SIMPSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ATLANTA GEORGIA. IpT Will promptly attend jto a ll business entrusted tohis care. f2iMy Swmim Cljrcmiclc Sentinel. Business t&arDs. JOHN K. JACKSON, • ATTORNEY AT LAW Augusta, *. Georgia. . ic Will practice in Richmond, and the neighboring Counties of the Middle Circuit. Office next be low Messrs. A, J. &T. W. Miller’s—Up Stairs. References: Messrs, Mixer &, Pitman, Boston; Messrs. Hoisted & Brokaw, S. C. Dortic, Blake & • Brown, John K. Hora, C. O. Halsted, New York; Messrs. W. M. Martin, L. M. & B. W. Force & Co., I Charleston ; Messrs A. J. &T. W. Miller, Adams & Fargo, W. E. Jacksr n <fe Co., Augusta. 025-ly JOSEPH C. WILKINS, ATTORNEY AT LA W, Will practice in all the counties of the Eastern Circuit. > OFFICE IN RICEBORO, LIBERTY COUNTY, _ Georgia. sli-tf G. PUTNAM, | ATTORNEY AT LAW, Warrenton, Georgia. apl3-ly i JOHN LYON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, , (Os the late firm of Richard P. &J. Lyon, Albany,) will practice in the counties of Paulding, Cass, Chero i kee, Forsyth, Lumpkin, Union, Gilmer, Murray, Walker, Dade, Chattooga and Floyd, SPRING PLACE, Murray county, Georgia. 1 Refers to Gov, Chas. J. McDonald, Marietta; Col. R, K. Hines, of Macon; Hon. Lott Warren, Messrs. Hora & McGuire, Hunt & Pynchen, Albany, Ga. Messrs. A. J. &T. W. Miller' Augusta. 529-ts JONES «fc SHEWMAKE, | attornies at law WAYNESBORO, GA. JOSEPH B. JONES and JOHN T. SHEW MAKE, having associated themselves in the practice of Law, will promptly attend to any business entrust ed to them in the counties of Burke, Jefferson, Eman uel, Richmond, Scriven and Washington. jy9 EDWARD H. POTTLE, ATTORNEY AT LAW WARRENTON ... GEORGIA. References —Messrs. A. J. & T, W. Miller, Augusta Ga.; Hon. T. B. King, Glynn county, Ga. jal2-t Thos. M. Bkrrikn. | Jas. M. Pepper. BERRIEN «fc PEPPER ATTORNIBS AT LAW, ICT Will continue to practice in the Middle Circuit of Georgia. Their office is in WAYNESBORO, BURKE COUNTY, where one of them will at all times be found. my29-w LAW NOTICE. THE UNDERSIGNED having formed a co-partnership in the practice of law, offer their services to the public. All communications ad dressed to either of the firm will meet prompt atten tion. JAS. T. BOTHWELL, Augusta, Ga, ja!2-wly THOMAS P. WELLS, Louisville, Ga. LAW NOTICE. THE UNDERSIGNED having formed a partnership in the practice of the Law, under the style of G., J. & W. Schley, will attend all the Courts of the Middle Circuit. All business confided to us will be promptly attended to, GEORGE SCHLEY, JOHN SCHLEY, Dec. 13, 1848. 6m WILLIAM SCHLEY. Drugs, JHercljanMs*, stc. HAVILAND, 11ISLEY & CO., DEALERS IN CHOICE DRUGS MEDICINES, &C., &C. NEAR THE MANSION HOUSE, GLOBE AND U. S. HOTELS. AUGUSTA. royß-ly Iron Jbuuirrieo. NEESON & TILKEY, EAGLE IRON & BRASS FOUNDRY AUGUSTA, GA. Immediately above the lot of the old Planters’ Hotel. fjf* Gearing for Factories, Mills, Gins, &c.,and other castings, made to order. Also Patterns of every description. All work warranted. Orders from the country will receive prompt attention. ap22 Hotchkiss’ Water-wheels on hand and to order. Ularetyousr anD Commissicm. Chas. P. M’Calla. j Gustave Romain NcCALLA <fc ROMAIN. COMMISSION MERCHANTS n 6 APALACHICOLA FLORIDA. ly E. A. SOULLARD, COMMISSION MERCHANT, SAVANNAH, GEO. nB-ly. H. L. Jeffers. 1 W. S. Cothran. JEFFERS & COTHRAN, FACTORS AND COMMISSION MER CHANTS. . AUGUSTA, Ga., and HAMBURG, So. Ca. Jy2B W. H. C. MILLS, FACTOR & COMMISSION MERCHANT, Continues business at his old stand, No. 176 Bay-street, Savannah, Georgia. references: Messrs. D' Anttgnac Evans , Augusta. “ Charles Day Co., Macon. “ E. Padleford tp Co., Savannah ol LAW NOTICE.— I Theoffice of the undersign ed is on Broad-street, third door below the Post Officecorner. He will be thankful for patronage. dl9-tf JOHN MILLEDGE. A CARD. TN Excellent Second-Hand PIANO FORTES of durable quality 7 3 If \J " and in perfect order, for sale cheap. R. S. JACKSON, First Room over Gustav. Volgkr’s Cigar Store, Broad-street. ja24-6m GEORGE KIINLOCH, OP CHARLESTON, S. CAROLINA, WOULD RESPECTFULLY offer hisaor vices to the citizens of Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee, to receive and sell ALL KINDS OP GRAIN AND OTHER PRODUCE, on Commis sion. Terms — Five per cent. No charge for Storage. REFERENCES; Charleston, S. C. Rome , Ga. Col, J. Gadsden, W. R. Smith, Esq. Hon. Ker Boyce, Miss Yarbrough & Lamkin, H W Conner, Esq. W. E. Alexander, Esq. John Fraser & Co. R. J. Johnson, Esq. C. Edmondston Esq. S. T. Coombs, Esq. Hyatt, M’Burney & I Capt. Lafferly, Steamboat Co. I Coosa. Augusta. Ga* HaTtibuvg , C • A. Sibley. I Sibley & Crapon. Charleston. Sept. 7- 1848. s!8 tw&w Essay on the union of church AND STATE; By Baptist Wriothesley Noel, M. A. First part of THE CAXTON’S; A Family Picture—By Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Author of “Ha rold, the last of the Saxon Kings,” “ Pelham,” ” Ri" enzi, ” “ Lucretia, ” “ The last of the Barons, ” etc. Fourth part of FRANKLIN ILLUSTRATED. Just received by mh!6 C. E. GRENVILLE. ITNDERSHIRTS AND DRAWERS I J Put them on if you value health! —Just re ceived, Merino UNDERSHIRTS and DRAWERS, Ipswich Wool do. do. Silk, Cotton, and all other kinds, at s2B WM. O. PRICE & GO’S. AUGUSTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING. APRIL 14, 1849. ittistdlcuuous. NEW BOOKS. MbYHM. RAPHAEL ; OR PAGES OF THE BOOK OP LIFE AT TWENTY— r By Alphonse De Lamabtink, Au . thor of the “ History of the Girondists; or Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution ” ! etc, ’ I OREGON AND CALIFORNIA IN 1848; . By J. Quinn Thornton, late Judge of the Su preme Court of Oregon, and corresponding member | of the American Institute. With an Appendix, in r eluding recent and authentic information on the sub ject of the Gold Mines of California, and other valua ble matter of interest to the emigrants, etc., with il lustrations and a Map. For sale bv , CHARLES E. GRENVILLE. ill if 6 ™? I 111 ■ HENRY PARSONS’S stock o FORTES and M usic, are re j 7^l f y U moved from C. A. Platt’s Furniture Store, to Charles Gatlin’s Jewelry Store, two doors below the United States Hotel, where a good variety ofPIANO FORTES, made by J. Chickering, Nunn’s & Clark, and A. H. Gale & Co., will always be kept for sale. The reputation of these Instruments is too well known in this market to require any com ment. ALSO, A good assortment of GUITARS, VIOLINS. FLUTES, CLARIONETS, ACCORDIONS and other Musical Instruments. New Music received every week by the Steamers from New York, Orders for PIANO FORTES, MUSIC, &c., will receive prompt and careful atten tion. Piano Fortes tuned and repaired. n!6 CHARLES GATLIN. NEW-YORK AND SAVANNAH LINE OP OCEAN STEAMERS, WEEKLY, SAILING EVERY WEDNESDAY. THE NEW AND superior Steamships TENNESSEE, Captain tenifii John Collins, and CHEROKEE, Captain Thomas Lyon, will, until further notice, leave Savannah and New York, every Wednesday, commencing with the 28th March. These swift Steamers are each of 1,250 tons bur then, built in the strongest and most approved man ner, and are unequalled in all the needful qualities to give confidence as well as despatch to travellers. They have all the accommodations for passengers and freight requisite, to entitle them to public patronage. The Central Rail Road will despatch an extra train frera Macon Tuesday evening, to connect with these steamers on Wednesday, and from Savannah on their 1 arrival if needful. Passage, s2s payable in advance; for which, or Freight, apply to PADELFORD & PAY, Savannah, or SAM’L. L. MITCHELL, 194 Front-et., 06-ly New York. GEORGIA RAIL ROAD. ON and after Wednesday, the 3d inst the Pas senger Trains will leave Augusta at 9 o’clock, P. M. ap2 FOR AUGUSTA AND HAMBURG. Ef 5 * The steam-packet THOMAS S. MEXCALF Capt John Holmes, will leave for the above and intermediate places, Sa turday Evening, the 31st inst., at 5 o’clock, and will hereafter Savannah every SATURDAY at same hoir, and Augusta every WEDNESDAY morning. For freight or passage, apply to JAMES A. PAWNS, Savannah. JOHN B. GUIEU, Augusta. Agents of the Steam Boat Co. of Geo. ’gj?' No Way freight received after 4 o’clock on day of departure. ap2 TO THE TRAVELLING PUBLIC. New Packet Line to Savannah. *9gßß9ja A THE Light Draught Steamer IVANHQE, Capt. German, hav undergone thorough repairs and being fitted up expressly for passengers, has com* menced her trips between Augusta and Savannah, and will leave Augusta regularly on SATURDAYS, at 6 o’clock, A. M. For Freight or Passage apply to the Captain, on board, or to n!7 JEFFERS & COTHRAN. FOR SAVANNAH AND INTERME DIATE LANDINGS. ■MM. THE STEAM-PACKET L. COOK, Capt. Pkilpot, undergone a thorough re pair, and been fitted up for the comfortable accom modation of passengers, willreceive freighton TUES DAY, and leave Augusta every WEDNESDAY MORNING, at 6 o’clock. For Freight or Passage apply on board, or to JEFFERS & COTHRAN, Hamburg or Augusta. Way Freight must in all cases be paid for by the shipper. °24 PERIFOCAL SPECTACLES. jg”* fPn ALL who experience incon '3SSP' JL venience in the use of the com mon kind of glasses, and especially in night read ing, these spectacles will I,'e a most valnable substi tute ; in no case except where the optic nerve has been pronounced diseased, have they failed, when properly fitted, to givesatisfaction. No better proof oftheir superior merit can be given to ench individual who may need Glasses, than the satisfaction he will experience in the use of them. These Glasescan be obtained in this place only CLARKE, RACKETT & CO., Agents for the Manufacturers, who have now on hand a good supply in gold and sil ver frames. Perifocal Glasses fitted to any frame or any vision. Spectaclesin gold, silver and steel, forsale very low CLARK, RACKETT & CO., Dealers in Watches, Jewelry, Silver Ware &c, v" d&w Soots! Boots! and Shoes. tf d|nL. M. AND B. W. FORCE & CO.. tSI NO. 18 HAYNE-STREET, Charleston, I South Carolina, are adding to their stock, by ate arrivals, :sct from the Manufacturers, two thou sand cases of dOOTS and SHOES, consistingof— -20,000 pair Men’sthick black brogans, 15.000 do do do russet do 1,000 do do do dc do—extrasizes, 1,000 do do kid lined and bound do 1,500 do do calf pegged and sewed do 2,000 do do calf and kip pegged boots, 1,000 do do fine and sewed do 1,000 do do coarse mining do 2,500 do Boy’s coarse black and russet brogans, 2,500 do do kip lined and bound do 1,000 do Youth’s do do and do do 1,000 do Boy’s and Youth’s calf do 2,000 do Women’sleather pegged and sewedstrap shoes. 1,000 pair Women’s calf skin pegged and do do 2,500 do do seal md kip do and Brogans. 1,000 do do calfskin do and do do 1,500 do do morocco and kid walking shoes, 2,000 do do fine French morocco and kid slippers, 1,000 pair Mis es’kid andmoroccowalkingshoesa,D 1,500 do do leather walking shoes and brogs 2,000 do Childrens’ do and morocco boots, To all of which we invite the attention of merchants and dealers visiting Charleston, with the assurance hat their goods will be offered as low for cash or ap provedpapei isthey couldbe boughtin the Northern market. 16 CHOICE COUNTRY FLOUR. THE SUBSCRIBERS have made arrange ments fora constant supply of FLOUR, from the Etowah Mills in Georgia, and other choice Mills in South Carolina, and will receive it fresh from those Mills each week throughout the season. We have now in Store a lot of Superfine Brand, Etowah Mills. City dealers supplied at low rates. mh6 GRENVILLE & BATTEY. (tailoring i —■ ■ . —■. SPRING AND SUMMER FASHIONS, AND GOODS. JOHN BRIDGES, FASHIONABLE DRAPER AND TAILOR, Next Door below the United States Hotel, AUGUSTA. GEORGIA, HAS JUST RECEIVED a full assortment of CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, VESTINGS, DRILLS, DRAP.D’ETE, CASHMERETTS and FANCY ARTICLES, for Gentlemen’s Wear, comprising all that is latest in style. He will be pleased to Manufacture the above Goods in point of Trimmings and Fit, that shall not be surpassed in any Market. MILITARY UNIFORMS made, and Making and Trimming in the best manner. mb? IMPORTATIONS FOR SPRING USE. WM. O. PRICE, <*, CO., DRAPERS AND TAILORS, are receiving FINE SINGLE CASHMERE CLOTHS AND CASSIMERES, CASHMERETTS, DRAP D’ETES, FACOME DRILLS and new and splendid Summer VEST INGS, to sell by Patterns, or make to measure, in the most modern stylo, and best manner. CLOTHING, Os new and fashionable style, and well made up. HOSIERY. Shirts, Under Shirts, Drawers, Gloves, Suspenders, Cravats, Scarfs, and all the useful articles for tbe wardrobe. One of the firm being in New York, will make shipments weekly of the latest patterns of Goods. ap6 WM. O. PRICE & CO, 258 Broad st. G. W. SHACKELFORD, FASHIONABLE DRAPER AND \ TAILOR, Opposite the United States Hotel, AUGUSTA, GA., WOULD respectfully inform his friends and the public generally that he has removed to tbe store formerly occupied Mr. J. A. Van Winkle, where he is prepared to execute all orders entrusted to his care with punctuality and despatch, and in a workmanlike manner. Just received, a handsome assortment of CLOTHS, CASSIMERES and VESTINGS, which he will make to order, in a style not to be surpassed by any establishment. HiT A trial is requested to establish the fact. o 4 SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS. WE HAVE NOW commenced receiving, and will receive weekly from New York, per steamers, the best and MOST FASHIONABLE GOODS for our trade. WM. O. PRICE & CO., Drapers and Tailors. Augusta, 17th March, 1849. Fashionable Spring and Summer GOODS. IHAVE NOW ON hand a large and well se lected stock of CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, VEST INGS, LINENS and DRAP D’ETE, which are ol the best quality of Goods, and will be made to order, in a style unsurpassed by any Tailoring Establish ment. ALSO, FOR SALE, % A first rate assortment of Ready-made Garments which for cut ancl finish, cannot be surpassed. Al ways on hand, SMtts of all kinds, Cravats, Gloves, Suspenders, Stocks, Hosiery, &c. mh3l-d&w J. A. VAN WINKLE. FLOOR OILCLO TH S. ALBRO, HOYT & CO., 72 JOHN STREET, ARE NOW receiving into store from their Fac tories, at Elizabeth-Town, N. J., a variety of new and original patterns of HEAVY FLOOR. OIL CLOTHS, in widths of 18, 21 and 24 feet. They are also re ceiving from the Albany, Lansingburgh, and Utica Factories, in sheets of 18 feet in width, a large as sortment, embracing many new patterns of their MEDIUM FLOOR OIL CLOTHS. Also, from the Newburgh, Albany, Lansingburgh, Utica and Maine Factories, every variety of patterns manufacturing by them, of their 4-4th, 5-4th, 6-4th, 7-4th, 8-4th and 12 feet wide LIGHT FLOOR OIL CLOTHS. Also, Mahogany, Rosewood and figured 4-4, 5-4 and6-4th English, German and American TABLE OIL CLOTHS. Also, a great variety of new patterns of CARRIAGE OIL CLOTHS. All of which they offer to the trade on liberal terms. New York, Jan. 2, 1849. 3m-jals PROTECTION INSURANCE COMP’Y OF NEW JERSEY. Capital •'••• $200,000* WM. THOMPSON,^President. J. V. Voobhees, Secretary. B. S. Whitney, Gen’l Agent, 69 Wall-st., N. Y. jPire and Marine Risks are taken in this Office on the most liberal termg, by JOHN HILL, Agent, s 2 ly Next door above the Mechanics’Banl . MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COM PANY OF NEW YORK. MORRIS ROBINSON, President Samuel Hannay, Secretary. Applications received by nl-6m GREENVILLE SIMMONS, Agent. FIRE - AND MARINE INSURANCE The protection insurance COMPANY, of Hartford, Connecticut, havo stablished an Agency in Augusta, and propose taking fire and river risks upon property of all descrip tions, on as reasonable terms as any other good office. Office at the store of Force, Brother's ts- Co. Insurance. THE SUBSCRIBER, Agent for the South ern Mutual Insurance Company, will take Marine and River Risks AT OLD RATES; also, Fire Risks on property, in Town and Country. From shippers with open policies for one year, 60 per cent will be required. On Fire Risks 20 to 90 oercent, according to time. The balance that may be due on Premium Notes, will never be called for, unless the Company meets witb unexpected losses, mh29-ly ' T. W. FLEMING, Agent. BBLS. HYDRAULIC CEMENT, or lUU sale by fes HAVILAND. RISLEY & CO. LARD IN BARRELS, a good article jus received by p 22 HAND, WILLIAMS & CO. DUPONT’S GUN, POWDER. mwE SUBSCRIBER Will continue the JL Agency for the sale of Dupont’s Gun Powder. He will sell it at reduced rates, and deliver it from tbe Magazine free of expense. A. GARDELLE. On hand, 300 Kegs, HP. 100 Kegs of BLAST ING POWDER. Also some qr. and half kegs, and Canisters. my 2 DBWBES’ CARMINIATIVE, or COLIC DROPS FOR INFANTS. This is A PERFECTLY safe and never failing remedy for that distressing Colic so common to infanta. It relieves flatulence and pain immediately, procures refreshing sleep, and acts gently on the bowels. Price 25 cents. Sold whole sale and retail by n 23 HAVILAND, RISLEY & CO. COTTON SEED, Warranted genui*ie, and direct from the Gulf Hills, in the State of Louisiana, 5 Bags PETIT GULP, of 5 Bushels each, 6 “ ALVARADO of 2 W “ which will be sold by the Bushel or Sack. mhl GRENVILLE & BATTEY. our picture (Saltern-—Na. la. o Embracing Portraits of Distinguished Authors, Statesmen, Gene rals, and others, with “Portraits of the People,” &c. from “ Stray Subjects Arrested and Byund Over'' THE FASTEST FUNERAL ON RECORD. “ Hurrah ! hurrah ! the dead ride fast— Dost fear to ride with me 7” — Burger's Leonora. ‘‘This fellow has no feeling—ofhis business.”— Hamlet. I had just crossed the long bridge leading from Boston to Cainbridgeport, and was plod ding ray dusty way on foot through that not very agreeable suburb on a sultry afternoon in July, with a very creditable thunder cloud corning up in my rear, when a stout elderly gentleman, with a mulberry face, a brown coat, and pepper and-salt smalls, reigned up his nag. and after learning that I was bound for Old Cambridge, politely invited me to take a seat beside him in the little sort of tax-cart he was driving. Nothing loth, 1 consented, and we were soon en route. The mare he drove was a very peculiar animal. She had few good points to the eye, being heavy-bodied, ham mer headed, thin in the shoulders, bald-faced, and rejoicing in a little stump of a tail which which was almost entirely innocent of hair. But there were “lots of muscle,” as Major Longbow says, in her hind quarters. “ She aint no Wenus, sir,” said my new ac quaintance, pointing with his whip to the ob ject of ray scrutiny—“ but handsome is as handsome does. Them’s my sentiments.— She’s a rum ’un to look at, but a good ’un to go/’ “ Indeed ?” " Yes, Sir ! That there mare, sir, has made good time—l may say, very good time before the hearse.” “ Before the hearse ?” “Before the hearse! S’pose you never heard of burying a man on time ! I’m a sexton, sir, and undertaker—Jack Crossbones, at your service— ‘ Daddy Crossbones’ they call me at Porter’s,” “Ah! I understand. Your mare ran away with the hearse.” “Ran away! A child could hold her. Oh! yes, of course she ran away,” added the old gentleman, looking full in my face with a very quizzical expression, and putting the fore lin ger of his right baud on the right side of his party-coloured proboscis. “My dear sir,” said I, “you have excited my curiosity amazingly, and 1 should esteem it a particular favour if you would be a little less oracular and a little more explicit.” “ I don’t know as I’d ought to tell you,” said my new acquaintance, very slowly and tanta lizlngly. “If you was one of wri ting chaps, you might poke it in the * Spirit of the Times,’ and then it wonld be all day with me. But I don’t care if I do make a clean breast of it. Honour bright, you know !” “ Os course.” “Well, then, I live a piece up beyond Old Cambridge—you can see our steeple off on a hill to the right, when we get a little further. Well, one day, I had a customer—he was car ried off by the typhus —which had to be toted into town —cause why? he had a vault there. So I rubbed down the old mare and put her in the fills. Ah! Sir! that critter knows as much as a Injun, and more than a Nigger. She’s as sober ‘ as be d —d’ when she gets the shop—that’s what I call the hearse—behind her. You would not think she was a three minute nag, to look at her. Well, sir, as luck would have it, by a sort of providential inspi ration, the day before, I’d took off the old wooden springs and set the body on elliptics. For I thought it a hard case that a gentleman who’d been riding easy all his life, should go to his grave on wooden springs. Ah ! I deal well by my customers. I thought of patent boxes to the wheels, but I couldn’t afford it, and the parish are so mighty stingy. “ Well, I got him in, and led off the string— fourteen hacks, and a dearborn wagon at the tail of the funeral. We made a fine show. As luck would have it, just as we came abreast of Porter’s, out slides that eternal torment. Bill Sikes, in his new trotting sulky, with the brown horse that he bought for a fast crab, and is mighty good for a rush, but hain’t got nigh so much bottom as the mare. Bill’s light weight and his sulky’s a mere feather. Well, sir. Bill came up alongside, and walked his horse a bit. He looked at the mare and then at me, and then he winked. Then he looked at his nag and put his tongue in his cheek, and winked. 1 looked straight ahead, and only said to myself, ‘Cuss you, Bill Sikes.’ By and by, he let his horse slide. He travelled about a hundred yards, and then held up till I came abreast, and then he winked and bantered me again. It was d—d aggravatin’. Says I to myself, says 1— ‘ that’s twice you’ve done it, ray buzzum friend and sweet-scented shrub — but you doesn’t do that ’ere again.’ The third time he bantered me, I let him have it. It was only saying ‘Scat, you brute!’ and she was off—that mare. He had all the odds, you know, for I was toting a two hundred pouu er, and he ought to have beat me like sticks, now hadn’t he 7 Ho had me at the first brush, for I told you the brown horse was a mighty fast one for a little ways. But soon I lapped him. I bad no whip, and he could use his string-hut he had hts hands full. Side by eide, awly we went. Rattle-te-bang 1 crack ! buz » thump! And I afraid of losing my cus turner on the road. But I was more afraid of losing the race. The reputation of the old mare was at stake, and 1 swore she should VOL xm. -NO. 90 have a fair chance. Wo went so fast that the posts and rails by the road side looked like a log fence. The old church and the new one, and the colleges, spun past like merry Andrews. The hackmen did not know what the was to pay, and, afraid of not being in at the death, they put the string into their teams, and came clattering on behind as if Satan had kicked ’em on eend. Some of the mourners was sporting characters, and they craned out of the carriage windows and waved their handkerchiefs. The President of Harvard College himself, inspired by the scene, took off his square tile as I passed the house, and waving it three times round his head, cried, ‘Go it, Boots !’ It is a fact. And I beat him, sir ! I beat him, in three miles, a hundred rods. He gin it up, sir, in despair. “ His horse was off his feed for a week, and when he took to corn again he wasn’t worth a straw. It was acknowledged on all hands to bejhe fastest funeral on record, though I say it as shouldn’t. I’m an undertaker, sir, and I never yet was overtaken.” On subsequent inquiry at Porter’s, where the sporting sexton left me, I found that his story was strictly true in all the main particulars. A terrible rumpus was kicked up about the race, but Crossbones swore lustily that the mare had run away—that he had sawed away two inches of her lip in trying to hold her up, and that he could not have done otherwise, unless he had run her into a fence and spilled his * customer' into the ditch. If any one expects to die any where near the sexton’s diggings, I can assure him that the jolly old boy is still alive and kick ing, the very ‘ Ace of Hearts’ and ‘ Jack of Spades, and that now both patent boxes and elliptic springs render his professional convey ance the easiest running thing on the road. SOUTHERN MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY. f£jT At a Meeting of the Southern Mutual Insurance Company, held in Griffin on the 7th inst,, the following members were elected the Board of Di rectors for the year 1849 : DIRECTORS —Hon. Asbury Hull, Athens, Pres ident and Treasurer; J. G. Hill, Esq., Griffin, Vice President; Rev. 0. U. Parson, Griffin, Secretary; Prof. C. F. McKay, Athens, Actuary ; H. J. Sargent, Esq., Griffin; Wm. W. Chapman, Griffin; Hon. Lot Weaver, Albany; Hon. William W. Clayton 1 ' Athens; E. L. Newton, Esq., Athens; J. H. New ton, Athens; A. Chase, Athens; J, J. Huggins, Athens; Fielding Bradford, Athens; W. Letcher Mitchel, Athens; Dr. 11. Hull, Athens; Wm. M. Morton, Athens; Dr. E. V. Ware, Athens j Taomas Cunningham, Greensboro; John Robson, Esq., Mad son ; B. King, Esq., Roswell; Miller Grieve, Mill edgeville ; Isaac Winship, Macon ; N. C. Munroe, Esq., Macon; John L. Jones, Esq., Macon; V. R. Tommy, Columbus; J. J. Ridgeway Columbus; Henry Hall, Columbus; D, P. W f ilcox, Columbus. This Company commenced business on the sth of February, 1848. The report submitted to the meet ing shows the following gratifying result for the first ten months, ending the sth inst.: Fire Risks 460 Marine. 265 Inland .258 Servants 83 1,066 Risks. Premiums $55,628 43 Paid Losses $1663,07 Incidental. 728,25 Salaries 1820.00 Returned on risks terminated-• 504,00 4715 32 150,913 I Risks terminated $69,425. On all expired policies one half the premiums has been saved to the insured, equivalent to a dividend of 50 per cent of their pre miums. Communications addressed to the Secretary a Griffin, will receive prompt attention. J. U. PARSONS. Sec. S. M. Ins. Co. This Company will insure Houses, Stocks of Goods, Cotton in Store, or on shipboard, and Negroes and will take all kinds of Fire and Marine Risks not ex ceeding SIO,OOO, on any one risk, on as reasona ble terms as any-office in this city. Thosewho insure property for five years pa y only one-fifth in cash, and will probably never be called on for an assessment the remaining four years, ad at *he of five years be entitled to their share of accumulated profits then on hand. Open policies, for shipping merchants, for Marine and Inland Risks. CHARLES HALL, Agent, d2O Sou. Mu. Ins. Company. 242 Broad-»t. Fine Watches Clocks, Jewelry and silver goods. -p THOMAS W. FREEMAN, at his old stand, nearly opposite the Bruns *£Li&wic k Bank, respectfully informs his mg-g£t>aa. tumors and the public that he bason hand a fine as sortment of GOLD and SILVER WATCH ESj of the most approved makers, with a choice and fashionable STOCK OP JEWELRY, allof which be will sell at very low prices for cash. T. W. F, solicitsa comparison by purchasers of the quality and prices of his Goods, with any other house either here or elsewhere. WATCHES and CLOCKScarefully repaired, and warranted. Mr. Wm. G. Woodstock continues to give his utmost attention to this part ofthe business, N. B.—New Goods received weekly. o!4 ddfcw 1 flO DRY <*°Or»S BOXES, for sale JL v-v Vfcheap by sT , WM, O. PRICE & CO.
