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CHRONICLE & SENTINEL. BY J. W. & W. S. JONES. DAILY, TRI-WEEKLY & WEEKLY OFFICE IN RAIL ROAD BANK BUILDING. TRRMS—DaiIy Paper, perannum,in advance**slo Tri-Weekly Paper, “ “ “ ,f •• 5 Weekly, (a mammoth sheet) ** » •• 2 < ASH SYSTEM. —In nocase willanorder forthe paper be attended to, unless accompanied with the money, and in every inslancewhen the time for which the subscription may be paid, expires before the re ceipt of funds to renew the same, the paper will he discontinued. Depreciated fundsreceived atvaluem this city. A Sirocco on the Dead Sea. % VVe extract the following interesting sketch from Lieut. Lynch’s forthcoming “Narrative of the United States' Expedition to the Dead Sea and the River Jordan.” The work we learn will soon be ready for publication. The de lay of its appearance has been occasioned by the numerous illustrations with which it is to be embellished. At 2,35 P. Mclose in with the eastern shore, but unable to land from the soft bottom and shoalness of the water. At 2,50, a light breeze from W. N. W.; hauled to the north toward the base of the peninsula. A long, narrow, dry marsh, with a few scrubby bushes, separa ted the water from a range of stupendous Hills, 2000 feet high. The cliff of En Nuweireh (Lit tle Tiger,) lofty and grand, towered above us in horizontal strata of brown limestone, and beautiful rosecolored sandstone beneath.— Clouds in the east,(nimbus,) seemed to be threatening a gust. At 3,30, steered N. N E. along alow marshy flat, in shallow water. The light wind had subsided, and it was oppressive ly hot; air 97 deg.; water twelve inches below surface 90 deg. A thin purple haze over the mountains, increasing every moment, and pre senting a most singular and awfu 1 appearance; the haze so thin that it was transparent, and rather a bluish than a distinct color. I ap prehended a thunder gust or an earthquake, and took in the sail. At 3,50 a hot blistering hurricane struck us from the south-east, and for some moments we feared being driven out to tea. The thermometer rose immediately to 102 deg. The men, closing their eyes to shield them from the fiery blast, were obliged to pnll with all their might to stem the ri sing waves, and at 4,30, physically exhausted, but with greatfui hearts, we gained shore. My own eye lids were blistered by the hot wind, being unable to protect them, from the neces sity of steering the boat. We landed on the south side of the penin sula, near Wady Humeir, the most desolate spot upon which we have yet encamped. Some went up the ravine to escape from the stifling wind ; others, driven back by the glare, returned to the boats, and crouched under the awnings. One mounted spectacles to protect his eyes, but the metal became so heated that he was obliged to remove them. Our arms and the buttons on our coats became almost burn ing to the touch; and the inner folds of our garments were cooler than those exposed to the immediate contact of the wind. \Ve bivouac ed without tents, on a dry marsh, a few dead bushes around us, and some of the thorny nubk and a tree bearing a red berry a short distance inland, with low canes on the margin of the ■ea. At a short distance to the N. E. on the peninsula, we found fragments of an immense and very old mill stone. The mill had doubt less been turned by a canal from the ravine, down which the water must have flown copi ously in the rainy season. At 5, finding the heat intolerable, we walked up the dry torrent bed in search of water. Found two successive pools rather than a stream, with minnows in them ; the water, not yet stagnant, flowing from the upper to the lower pool. There were some succulent plants on their margins, and fern roots, and a few bushes around them. There were huge boulders of sandstone in the bed of the ravine a dead palm tree near the largest pool, a living one in a cleft of the rock at the bead of the gorge ;|and high up, to the summits of the beetling cliffs, the sandstone lay in horizontal strata, with perpendicular cleavage, and lime stone above, its light brown color richly con trasing with the deep red below. Tne sandstone below limestone here, and limestone without sandstone on the opposite shore, would seem to indicate a geological fault. Washed and bathed in one of the pools, but the releif was only momentary. In one in stant after leaving the water, moisture on the surface evaported, and left the skin dry, par ched, and stiff. Except the minnows in the pool, there was not a living thing stirring; but the hot windswept moaning through the branches of the withered palm-tree, and every bird and insect, if anv there were, had sought shelter under the rock. Coming out from the ravine, the sight was a singular one. The wind had increased to a tempest; the two extremities and the western shore of the sea were curtained by a mist, on this side of a purple hue, on the other a yellow tinge; and the red and rayless sun in the bron zed clouds, had the appearance it presents when looked upon through smoked glass. Thus may the heavens have appeared just before the Almighty in his wrath rained down fire upon the cities of the plain. Behind were the rug ged craigs ol the mountain of Moab, the land of incest, enveloped in a cloud of dust, swept by the simoon from the great desert of Arabia. There was a smoke on the peninsula, a little to the north of us. We knew not whether those who made it might prove friends or foes; and therefore that little smoke was not to be disregarded. We had brought one of the Ta amirah with us, for the express purpose of communicating with the natives, but he was so fearful of their hostility that I could not pre vail on him to bear a message to them. With his back to the wind and his eves fixed on the streaming smoke, he had squatted him self down a short distance from us. He thought that we would be attacked in the night; I felt sure that we would not, if we were vigilant. These people never attack each other but at advantage, and fifteen well armed Franks can. in that region, bid defiance to anything but surprize. We have not seen an instance of deformity among the Arab tribes. The man was mag nificently formed, and when he walked it was with the port and presence of a king. It has been remarked that races with highly colored skins are rarely deformed : and the exemption is attributed,perhaps erroneously, not to a mode of life differing from that of a civilized one, but to hereditary organization. The sky grew more angry as the day de clined ; “The setting orb in crimson seems to mouru, Denouncing greater woes at his return, And adds new horrors to the present doom, By certain fears of evils yet to come.” T. he heat rather increased than lessened after the sun went down. At 8 F. M. the thermo meter was 106° five feet from the ground. At one foot from the latter it was not 104°. We threw ourselves upon the parched, cracked euih, aiiiotig dry stalks and canes which would before have seemed insupportable from the heat. Some endeavored to make a screen of one of the boat s awnings, but the fierce wind ■wept it over in an instant. It was more like the blast of a furnace than living air. At our feet was the sea, and on our right, through the thicket, we could distinguish the gleaming of the fires and hear the shouts from an Arah°en camp.nent. In the early part of the night, there was scarcely a moment that some one was not at the water-breakers; but the parching thirst could not be allayed, for, although there was no perceptible perspiration, the fluid was car ried oIT as fast as it was received into the sys tem. At 9, the breakers were exhausted, and our last waking thought was water. Incur disturbed and feverish slumbers, we fancied the cool beverage purling down our parched and burning throats. The musquitoes, as if their stings were envenomed by the heat, tor mented us almost to madness, and we spent a miserable night, throughout which we were compelled to lie encumbered with our arms, while, by turns, we kept vigilant watch. VVe had spent the day in the glare of a Sy rian sun, by the salt mountain of Usdum, in the hot blast of the sirocco, and were now bivou acked under the calcined cliffs of Moab. When the water was exhausted, all too weary to go for more, even if there were no danger of a sur prise, we threw ourselves upon the ground,— eyes smarting, skin burning, lips and tongue, and throat parched and dry ; and wrapped the first garment we could find around our heads to keep off'the stifling blast; and in our brief and broken slumbers, drank from ideal foun tains. Those who have never felt thirst, never suf fered in a simoon in the wilderness, or been far off at sea, with “ Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink, ” can form no idea of our sensations. They are best illustrated by the exclamation of the victim in Dante’s Inferno. “ The little rills which down the grassy side Os Casentino flows to Arno’s stream, Filling their banks with verdure as they glide, Are ever in our view ; —no idle dream — For more than vision parches, makes me weak, Than that disease whichwastes my pallid cheek.” Our thoughts could not revert to home save in connection with the precious element; and many were the imaginary speeches we made to visionary common councils against ideal water carts. which went about unsubstantial city streets, spouting the glorious liquid in the very wastefulness of abundance, every drop of which seemed priceless pearls, as we lay on the shore of the Dead Sea, in the feverish sleep of thirst. The poor, affrighted Arab slept not a wink; for, repeatedly, when I went out as was my custom, to see that all was quiet and the sen tries on the alert, he was ever in the same place looking in the same direction. At midnight the thermometer stood at 98° ; shortly after which the wind shifted and blew lightly from the north. At 4A. M. thermom eter, 82°; comparatively cool. Commerce of the United States. We find the following interesting summary of our foreign commerce in the N.O. Picayune: The lately published official returns of the commerce of the Republic, are, as a whole, of commanding interest to the merchant, the man ufacturer and the agriculturist, but there are some points which may be commented on with advantage to the general reader, thereby fur nishing him with instruction and amusement together. These returns, as is well known, are made annually, and embrace the period between the 30th of June in one year to the Ist of July in another. In those before us for 1847-8, it ap pears that there has been a great extension of our commerce in comparison with that of pre vious years. As for example, in the article which interests us to the highest degree—cot ton —the value of the exports is set down at $61,998,294; the year before it was but $53,- 000,000, and the year preceding, viz; 1845-46 only $42,000,000. The transit commerce of the United States has experienced all on a sudden a most re markable increase, which would seem to an nounce a new era in the traffic of the nation.— Goods offoreign production re-exported,which were reckoned two years previously but at $8,000,000, figure in the return of 1847-’4B at $21,132,315. This branch of our commerce is destined to a still greater expansion from the possession of California, which will become the great emporium for all the markets on the Pacific. England, of course, stands first in our list of customers, $76,000,000 being the arnonnt of her share in our exportations, and $61,000,000 in our importations. Her colonists also take $14,000,000 and give ns $8,000,000 ; the whole united, show that she embraces more than half of this great commercial movement. France comes next, giving us $£3,000,000 in value, and receiving $19,000,000. After her follow Spain and her dependencies, whose importa tions are between $16,000,000 and $17,000,- 000, and exportations about half that value. Here there is a curious circumstance to note: China, the most distant of all the nations with which we have commercial relations, follows the three European nations just mentioned,and stands fourth on the list of customers. We imported goods in 1847-’4B from the “central flowery land” for $8,083,476, increasing from $5,573,343 in one year; the exportations du ring that time increased from $1,298,773 to $2,190,013. Tliis is a remarkable rapidity in the growth of the China trade. In the carrying of this vast commerce our flag reckons more than fiAy per cent, of the whole number of vessels thus employed, and about seventy per cent ofthe tonnage. British ships come in for 13.774 with 2,300,000 tons, and the Hanse towns for 421, or 160,000 tons The remainder, less than a thousand sail, and about 300,000 tons are distributed among the rest of the commercial world, Spain being represented by 237 vessels, and 57,000 tons, and France by only 449, withsl,ooo tons. The commercial marine ofthe United States on the 30th of June last year, amounted to 3,154.041 tons, out of which 1,620,988 are confined to the coasting trade —the steamers in this latter cate gory figuring at 411,823 tons, being more than a quarter of the whole amount. In the course of the year ending the first of July, 1848. the following vessels were built at the several dock yards throughout the Union: 254 ships, 174 brigs, 701 schooners, 547 sloops or canal boats, and 175 steamers, being 1851 vessels, or 318,- 075 tons. The losses to the mercantile marine for the same time, resulting from sales to for eigners, wrecks, &c. are about 61,000 tons. The importations of the Republic, according to these returns which amount to a total of $154,998,928, are nearly all monopolized by six States, viz: New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Maryland, and South Carolina, of which, in round numbers, the first takes ninety-four and a half millions, the second twenty eight and a half, the third twelve, the fourth nine and a half, the fifth five and a half, and the sixth one and a half. This leaves but $3,469,115 to be distributed among all the other States of the Union In exportations, there are eleven States which figure in the re turn as the great agents therein ; New York sends off fifty-three and a half millions, Louisi iana forty-one, Massachusetts, thirteen and a half, Alabama twelve. South Carolina eight, Maryland seven, Pennsylvania six, Virginiaaud Georgia t l ree and a half each, Maine and Flor ida about two each. Only $2 106,531 remain to be divided among the States not mentioned. The transit commerce, or that of re-exporta tion is concentrated in three States, viz ; New York, Massachusetts, and Louisiana, of which the first ships fourteen and a half millions, the second four millions, and the third one million. On pursuing the inquiry from commerce to navigation,the well known fact becomes broadly apparent that the traffic which is thus absorbed by the above named States, has for its head quarters the great emporiums of New York, New Orleans, Boston. Philadelphia, Baltimore, Mobile and Charleston. This summary is well wound up in the fol lowing approximative relation which the prin cipal States bear to each other, in the distribu tion of our commerce ; New York 47 per ct., Louisiana, 16 per ct., Massachusetts 13£ per cU, Pennsylvania per ct., Maryland and Ala bama 4 per cent each, and South Carolina 3 per cent, leaving about per cent, to be divi ded among their other sisters of the Union. As for shipping, the following scale, as an approx imative one, has been adopted : New York 47 per cent,, Massachusetts 20£, Louisiana and Maine each 6j Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Michigan each 3 per cent. The rest of the States make up the remaining 12£ per cent. The contemplation of this vivid picture of national prosperity while it flatters our pride, should at the same time render us grateful to Providence for thus favoring us in the career of commercial greatness on which «ve have en tered, and which cannot fail to lead us to that supremacy in the traffic of the world, for which, by our local pesition, by our immense resources yet to be developed, and by our matchless in stitutions, we are plainly destined. Chronicle emit Sentinel. AUGDSTA, GA: WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAT 23, Gubernatorial Convention. As it seems to have been definitely settled among the Whigs generally that the Conven tion to nominate a Whig candidate for Govern or, should meet at Milledgeville on the fourth Monday in June next, it is quite important that the Whigs in the several counties proceed at the earliest practicable day to appoint dele gates to represent them in that Convention. — Every county should be represented—this is the more important, as the names of a number of prominent Whigs will be submitted by their respective friends to the consideration of the Convention for the nomination ; hence a full representation is especially desirable, to give force and effect to the nomination. We would therefore, respectfully suggest to the Whigs throughout the State, to meet on the first Tuesday (sale day) in June, and make their selections of delegates. We make this sug gestion, believing it will generally be morecon venient on that than any other day. Neglect of Education in Eglaud. We copy the following from the April num ber of the Westminster Review: The returns of the Register General inform ua that one-third of the male adult population, and one-half the female adult population, of England and Wales are unable, at this present moment, to sign their names to a marriage certificate ; and what has a Reform Cabinet done, or what is it now doing, to remedy the fearful state of brutalizing neglect which this single fact indicates? It seems incredible that the young men and women of the present day, who were unborn or but children in arms at the time of the Reform Bill, should have passed their whole lives without hearing of a single measure of popular education at all ap proaching in liberality to that of Lord Stanley, who, in 1831, as Secretary for Ireland, established ihe Na tional Board ot Dublin for the joint education of Cath olic and Protestant children. Every s'ep since taken by either a Grey, a Melbourne, or a Russell Cabinet, has been a retrograde direction. Instead of a resolute stand on the broad principle that national education should not be converted into a machinery for perpetu ating sectarian distinctions, they have voted no edu cational grant without so distributing it as to strength en such distinctions. They have quailed before the interested opposition which (they knew) was to have been expected, and which, in a manly spirit of con scious rectitude, ought to have been defied. They have starved the resources of the Irich Board info comparative inefficiency ; and, while in this country satisfying no parties with their share ofinfluence, have yielded more and more to the church, until the na tion, alarmed at the bondage preparing for it,has ceased to support, and has even begun to resist the very prin ciple of Stale interference for educational objects. The neglect of popular education in England is alike disgraceful to the Government and in jurious to the people. This indifference to the moral and intellectual improvement of the mass es of operatives tends to increase the number of paupers much faster than population increases. Universal education would save twice as much in poor rates by preventing pauperism, as U would cost. The Aristocracy pursue the most expensive system in reference to the poor in England, Wales and Ireland which it is possible to adopt, if they do anything whatever for their relief. A policy that multiplies the number of idle hands and unfed mouths at a rapid rate, will soon become unsupportable, if the most press ing necessities of our common nature are to be met by an ever-augmenting tax on the proper ty of the country. This already amounts to over thirty millions of dollars per annum ; and so in tense and general is the suffering in Ireland that a much larger sum must soon be drawn from some source to mitigate the horrors of famine and pestilence in the Green Isle. Remunera ting labor and education are the things which can alone check the fearful tide of destitution. Amusements. The Sable Melodists appear again this evening for the last time in this citv, with a change of programme. Among the novelties to-night will be the awarding of a Splendid Gold Bracelet to the author of the best co nundrum. This feature, with the ever pleas ing and unique character of their entertain ment, and their almost unbounded popularity, should secure an overflowing house. The Bedouin Arabs give their third exhi bition this evening. Guano. —Three vessels have arrived at Bal timore during the pas t week with full cargoes of this fertilizing substance. They bring an aggregate 0f2640 tons. Two ofthe vessels re ceived their cargoes on the coast of Patagonia, and the other at the Chincha Islands. Drowned. —We understand that there were four negroes drowned between Savannah and Cockspur on Friday afternoon, by the cap sizing of the boat which they were in. One of the bodies has been found. The Northern mail failed last night again from beyond Baltimore. For the Chronicle Sf Sentinel. Messrs. Editors : An article was inserted in your paper ofthe sth, copied probably from some other paper, stating that Bishop Doane, of New Jersey, had failed for 250,000, which, without comment, must have a very erroneous impression on the public. It is true the Bishop has become embarrassed. Through his great energy and zeal, he has succeeded in establish ing Burlington College, now standing deserved ly among the very first Colleges in the land, and also, a very flourishing school for young ladies, called St. Mary’s Hall. In erecting the extensive and handsome buildings for these in" stitutions, with the scientific apparatus, library, &c., although a small part has been defrayed by Iriends, the great burden has fallen upon the Bishop. I understand, upon very good authority, that the income of these two estab lishments is SBO,OOO, and the expenses, for Professors, board, &c., $50,000, leaving, there fore, a net income of $30,000. Both establish ments have now been put in the hands of Trus tees who have the entire financial management, while the Bishop still remains President. He is thus relieved from ail pecuniary care, and can devote his entire attention to the interests of education. The number of Student* in the College is 127, and that of the School is very large, though 1 cannot state the number. The Constitutionality of the Ordinance of 1787. Thb Constitutionalist affects to regard it as important to the best interests of the South, that all take issue with President Polk, and nearly every preceding administration since the organization of the Government, in refer ence to the right of Congress to exclude Sla very from territories belonging to the United States. By the present agitation of this exci ting topic, that print appears to anticipate great party advantages —an anticipation, we are hap py to say, which is little likely to be realized. Our opinion is, that Mr. Polk ought to have vetoed the Wilmot Proviso in the Oregon bill; instead of “approving”and endorsing with his signature both the expediency and the constitu tionality of the same. Believing, as we are bound to presume he did. when he signed it, that the right to prohibit s avery in territories was strictly constitutional, he should have ve toed it on the ground taken by Mr. Vahßuren in regard to the inexpediency of abolishing Sla very in the District of Columbia. The Demo cracy ofthe South sustained Mr. Van Buren ; and we are sorry to add that even the Constitu tionalist endorsed in strong terms of commen dation, President Polk, after he had affixed his name officially to the Wilmot Proviso, as a con . stitutional and proper measure—as a Jit subject for Congress to legislate upon. It cannot be urged in extenuation of Mr. Polk’s approval of the right of Congress to legislate on the question of slavery in territo ries, that he felt extreme reluctance to use the veto power; for on all matters except that of slavery in territories, ho was remarkable for the free and doubtful exercise of his official ne gative on the acts of Congress. If Mr. Polk considered the Proviso unconstitutional, it was his sworn duty to withhold his approval, and send the bill back to the House in which it orig inated. But instead of this, he signed the bill and thereby conceded the whole constitution al question, which our neighbor seeks to re vive, after praising Mr. Polk’s administration as “ one of the best which the country has ever known,”—or in words to that effect. If this be not “artful dodging.” it is very short turning, even for a supporter of both the Alabama and Cass platforms. The Constitutionalist must be driven to the last extremity for political capital, when it can hope for no other benefit than what it can de rive from an ill-concealed attack on the late Democratic administration, in reference to the Slavery question. That administration not only endorsed the constitutionality of the Or dinance of 1787, but it annexed at an enor. moiis cost in blood and treasure, large Mexican provinces, in which it is said “Slavery was forbidden by law, and could never exist.” Unlike the Constitutionalist, we did not wait till the people had repudiated the party which brocught forth as its own legitimate children, the Wilmot Proviso and Free Soilism, before we condemned Mr. Polk’s unwise and most disor* ganizing policy. To what extent this bitter, but congenial work of disorganization is to be carried, observing, patriotic men are watching with much solicitude. Mr. Calhoun has set up anew the famous bed of Procrustes, by which the precise length of all Southern Dem ocrats is to be measured. After the task of stretching such as are too short, and of lopping off such as are too long, is completed, there will probably be about as much left of the party as there was of the Kilkenny cats. Whatever antagonism there may be between the North and the South, in regard to New Mexico and California, the late administration is answerable for the same. Southern Cultivator.—We have now re ceived four or five numbers of this much laud ed paper. We deferred noticing it until we could have a fair opportunity ofjudging wheth er or not it deserved the many high encomiums that have been lavished upon it; and after a thorough examination of several Nos. we are clearly of the opinion it is one of the most val uable publications that can be put into the hands of the Southern Farmers.— Miss. Moni tor. The Southern Cultivator.— We have received the numbers of this work for this year and are obliged to the publishers for the favor they have done us. The Southern Cultivator is a paper that ought to be in every planter’s possession. Devoted to agriculture in the South it employs itself in making suggestions, and illustrating principles with a special view to theTihprovement and prosperity of South ern interests. Important Discovery for Telegraph Lines. — Mr. L ewis Hubbell, of Bristol, Ct., has discov ered that the lightning from the clouds can be taken off from the wires, so that the telegraph lines can work during a thunder storm without any change in the adjustment as is usual. His plan, as proven by experiment, is to place a sharp pointed straight magnet, with the south pole pointing at the wire, and distant about the sixteenth of an inch from it—the other end to be fastened to the ground wire, and con nected with the ground at each point. The magnet will discharge the electricity of the clouds, but the galvanic current will flow on without interruption. In long lines that cross high promontories where the stations are at a great distance from each other, he suggests that on the top of the mountains there should be placed several magnets ; one on a post and a wire leading into the ground and down into permanent moisture; and as the wires become charged from the clouds along the line, the magnets will discharge them of their electri city. __ Receipts of Benevolent Societies.—The receipts of the various benevolent institutions whose anniversaries have just been celebrated, are shown by their annual reports to be as fol lows : Receipts. Expen. Am. Tract Society $25d,440 $258,483 Do. Bible do. 251,870 Do. and Foreign do. 39,840 39,321 Do. Home Mission 145,925 143 771 Do. Baptist do 29,105 20|ISO Pres. B. For. Missions 110,081 110,207 Meta. Epis. Mission. Soc. 84 045 102 940 Am. Seamen’s Friend Soc. 18.582 18^496 Do. Anti-Slavery Sec. 6,992 6 975 Do, and Foreign do. (not reported) Do. Colonization Society 36 000 37 000 N- Y - S f*le . do 12*358 12*358 Am. and Foreign Evang. Soc. -.. -24,298 24 484 Do. Protestant Society 18,411 18*212 Do, Temperance Union 1^350 Soc. for Ameliorating the condi tion of the Jews 3,221 3,203 $1,040,518 A sura considerably surpassing, we believe, the aggregate contributions to the same Socie ties in any previous year. The Hon. Daniel Duncan, of Ohio, died in Washington on Friday evening, at half past five o clock. He has been sick since the ad journment of the last Congress, of which he i was a member. Overflow of the Mississippi* The following extracts from the Picayune and Delta of Thursday morning the 17th inst., give all the additional intelligence we have of the innundation. > From the Picayune. The Crevasse. — The accounts received from the crevasse at Sauve’s yesterday after noon are of the most discouraging character, and leave no hope that the flow of water will be checked at present. By direction of the joint committee appointed by the First and Second Municipality Councils, his honor the Mayor sent a communication to Mr. Dunbar yesterday morning, requesting of him all the information regarding the crevasse, and his opinion as to the probability of stopping it by pursuing the present plan. Mr D. in his reply, dated at 2 o’clock P. M., states that he “has a hopeless task to perform,” having labored earnestly for a week without making any progress. He stated that initis first object, that of establishing a firm breakwater, he has as yet entirely failed, and that this must be accomplished before any thing can be done. Thus the matter stands at present, and as will be seen we are to hare the water flowing in upon us for a week or ten days to come at least. No means of preventing the further spread of the flood in the city should therefore be left untried. At the same time we do not think it possible to lower the present height of water to any considerable extent while the cre vasse continues open, and even were it done at this point, the relief would be but temporary. If the water in the swamp near the crevasse were to be lowered suddenly, the rush through the breach would be much more rapid and the volume would in a shojrt time become much deeper. About all that can be done at present is to prevent the water from rising in the city higher than it already is. Its present stage is, however, bad enough Hundreds of houses are surrounded by the flood, and around a large number of them the water is from three to four feet deep. Besides all the trouble and expense caused by the necessity of moving, the amount of damage to buildings and other property will be immense. The inhabitant of the First Municipality re siding below the Canal Carondeiet, and also of the Third Municipality, are actively engaged in raising and strengthening the lower levee of the canal, to prevent the flood from reaching them from that direction ; and a large portion of the residents above the canal entertain a very bit ter feeling towards the work, which they ima gine to be detrimental to them. In this we think they made the same mistake that the resi dents in the upper part of the Second Munici pality did when they thought that breaches made in the lower bank of the New Canal would save them from inundation. The water in the different streets was about thesarne last night as when our evening edition went to press. In some places yesterday fore noon a visible fall took place, and raised a vain hope with many that dry limes w r ere coming But the fall was not in the water from the cre vasse. A sudden rise was occasioned by the heavy rain of the night previous, and as this water found its level back yesterday a propor tionate fail was observed. The Melarie Ridge is now being cut through in two or three places, and we trust that out lets enough may be formed to prevent the fur ther encroachment of the water in the city. The Crevasse at thcEnglish Turn. —We were informed last evening, and upon authority in which we have confidence, that the crevasse at the English Turn was closed yesterday morn ing. From the N. O. Delta 17 th inst. The Sauce Crevasse. — P. S. — Thursday, 2£ o'clock A. M. —Our express has just arrived from the Crevasse. A towboat from the city arrived at the crevasse at 9 o’clock, last night, with an old hull fdr the laborers to live in when off work. There had been little or no progress made up to twelve o'clock last night, towards stopping the breach. There are hut few la borers at work—all are leaving for the city. Mr. Langton was expected to die every mo ment, when our express left. Mr Dunbar was so exhausted, as to be incapable of any physical exertion. The attempt to stop the crevasse under the present arrangements, may now be considered as virtually abandoned. Emigration. —We are informed that letters have been received, by the steamer, from the agents of the North American Land Company, which say that a similar company has been es- : tablished in London and one in Genoa y. and ! that both associates will co operate w r.h '.he : company established in this city. Tiimi the a geut in Germany has already entered into con- j tracts to forward 10,000 emigrants during the present year, and that arrangements are also I on foot for another organization in Paris. Attempt to set Fire.— An attempt was I made on Sunday night last to fire the building occupied as a boarding house by Mrs. McMil lan, on the south side of Queen-st. in the rear of the Planters’ Hotel. Combustible material was placed in a recess in the kitchen and igni ted, the smoke from which, however, arrested the attention of some of the servants, when the fire was extinguished.— Ch. Courier. Special Notices. IjT The Whigs of Richmond County are requested to meet at the City Hall, in Augusta, on the FIRST TUESDAY in June next, at 3 o’clock P. M., for the purpose of appointing Delegates to the Convention at Milledgeville, to nominate a candidate for Governor. my 23 |s*We are authorized to announce WIL LIS HURST, a candidate to represent the people of Burke county in the next Legislature of Georgia. my23-tOI Adjourned Meeting. IjT Such persona as have subscribed, and oth ers who may feel interested in the formation of the Volunteer Corps now in progress, are requested to meet according to adjournment, on THURSDAY EVENING next, 24th inst., at 8 o’clock, at the Globe Hotel, to receive the report of the Committee, <fcc. my 23 MAIL ARRANGEMENT. POST-OFFICE, AUGUSTA! ) May 22. 1849. \ Daring the continuance of the present schedule, the Northern Mail will be open for delivery by 6 P. M. The Western Mail will close at 4P. M. Office close fer the night by 6J. ray 22-3 E. B. GLASCOCK, P. M. Augusta Manufacturing Comp’y. April 23d, 1849. O* An Instalment of 10 per cent* on the 25 per cent, increased Capital of this Company is required to be paid in on Thursday, the 24th May. ap23lawtM24 JAMES HOPE, Agent. TAX RECEIVER’S NOTICE. TfT I will attend at the following times and places: At the Scale House on Monday the 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th of May. At the Eagle & Phoenix Ho*el on Tuesday’s theStb, 15th, 22nd and 29th of May. At the United States Hotel on Wednesday’s the 9tb, 16th, 23d and 30th of May— and at the office of John C. careen, Esq. on Thursday’s the 10ih, 17tb, 24th and 31sl of May, between 9 o’clock, A. M. and 1 P. M., for the purpose of Receiving Tax Returns for the year 1849, of which all persons interested will take due notice. ALEX. PHILIP, n. t. a., a. c. n*y7-twtmy3l Bg itlagnetu * FOR THE CHRONICLE & SENTINEL. Charleston Market. Charleston, May 22, p. m. — Cotton —Sales to day 1400 bales at 6to Bc. Prices very full at the advance of yesterday. Savannah Market. Savannah, May 22, P. M.— Co«on.—Sales to-day 800 bales at 6to 7J. Sales of the week 3000 bales, —market firm ; fair 7|. Freights to New York 75 cents per bale. From the Charleston Mercury.—By Telegraph. Baltimore, May 21, 5i p. m. The markets in New York and Philadelphia to-day manifest no change from Saturday. Cotton is buoyant, while there is considerable languor in transactions in other articles. The schooner Williams has arrived at New York from St. Domingo, with dates to the Ist inst. There bad been three desperate battles fought between the Haytiens and Dominicans, in all of which the latter were victorious. A very sanguinary battle had taken place about thirty miles from the city of St. Domingo, in which a great many were killed and wounded. No quarter was given to prisoners, who were indiscriminately slaughtered on either side. The Haytiens had sacked and burned the town of Agua. Capt. Warren, of the British ship Waconia, had generously offered every assis tance to American residents in the protection of their persons and property. Sit is supposed the Haytiens had made their last effort. BANK OF AUGUSTA, > 21st May, 1849. $ The Board, of Directors of this Bank have declared a Semi-Annual Dividend of Pour Dol lars per Share, which will be paid on demand. my 22-3 Baptist Convention at Charles- TON ON 23d MAY, 1849. gTj* Delegates to the above Convention and their ■ families, will be passed up and down the South Caro lina Rail Road for one fare. ray!2 GEO. S. HACKER, Agent Tran«. DENTISTRY. US’Dr. T. J. Jones, a graduate of Baltimore College, of Dental Sur- Tt7 gery, having located permanently, re spectfully offers his Professional « rvices to die citi zens of Augusta and vicinity. Office over Dr. W|. H. Turpin’s Drug Store. fe7-ly ART UNION ENGRAVING AND DARLT’S ILLUSTRATIONS OP “RIP VAN WINKLE,” Given to tl»o subscribers for 1848, to be delivered in May. A specimen ofeach just re ceived, and can be seen at Chas. Gatlin’s Jewel ry and Music Store, a few doors below the United States Hotel Subscriptions received by the undersigned for 1849 $5 per annum. Those subscribing early in the year will get their Engravings sooner, and it is very de sirable, that the Institution collect their funds at an early day. The Engraving for 1349, will be the plate o l( YOUTH,” being the second Picture of Cole’s cel ebrated series of the “Voyage of Life,” an etching of which can also be seen as above. As an extra in ducement to early subscription, every member is en titled to receive gratuitously, copies of the Bulletin, which are issued after the payment of his dues, pro vided he signifies his wishes to that effect to the offi cer who takes his name. H. W. FARGO, my4-lra Hon. Sec’y. E. O. Collins would -ly in vite the attention of the Ladies' so k*»-r llUHftd-saate and fashionable assortment of BO \V j* TB, . C. 4 PS FLOWERS. RIBBONS. Huai Stag***. GLOVES, Lac# CAPKS, 4:. Ogcww .# V >. Whtosk xui irst &tue ihe Attgvsta B»a!L _ ?ay 15 I3r Prow Ik# Ch«*k M Coeua t*y .-~Geor ***, Fees, 11, i Optea;.* «c Dr. J. SL on tW aawrrt of Wof \V jfej Owsnry : We ittioeesd, :a coweqeecaee ui-t re eoirosl firoea this asedkiae. to add oar tesrasoajr in fa voc of its extra ordinary hea..ag properties. W« take great pleasure instating, that we have frequent!y used it ourseliaud administered it U .tiers a, ring the pist year, to cases of obstinate coughs, colds, soreness of the chest, Ac.. and always with the most happy re sult. We therefore cheerfully recommend to all af flicted with the above diseases, to try the Balaam of Wild Cherry.— Marietta Helicon , None genuine unless signed I. BUTTS on the wrapper. For sale in Augusta, by Haviland, Ris lby & Co., T. Barrett & Co., and D. B. Plcmb & Co. In Madison, by W», Hasses. mvlSt IMP ORTSL CHARLESTON, May 21.—Prom Belfast via. N. York, Ship Araminta—27so sacks Salt. Ship Eliza beth—39oo sacks Salt. Bark Gertrude—23oo sacks Sait. Prom Sagua la Grande, schr Abby Morton—llo hhds. and 10 tcs. Molasses. SAVANNAH, May 20, —From Liverpool, per Br, ship Yeoman—lß7 tons Salt. J EXPORTS. CHARLESTON, May 21. —For St. Petersburg, Rus., bark Neptune-611 bales Up. Cotton. For New York, U. L. ship Southport—622 bales Up. Cotton. SAVANNAH. May 20,—For Liverpool, per Br. bark St. George, 1,998 bales Upland Cotton. For Boston, bark J. H, Millay, 559 bales Upland Cotton. For New York, schr. G. J. Jones, 309 bales Cot ion. (Sotnmmial. AVGUSTA MARKET. Weekly Ueport -Tuesday, P. M. COTTON. —The past week has been quite an ac tive one in the Colton market for the small stock of fering for sale. The receipts are light and from all we can learn nearly at e close. The demand was good up to Thursday evening at gradually improving prices without any advance that could be quoted. But the telegraphic accounts received on Thursday evening caused our holders to advance their rates and sales to some extent were made at full |c. on the bet ter qualities and fc. on the lower qualities. The sales of the week reach 2,369 bales at the following rates : 20 at 61 ; 56 at 6$ ; 15 at 6 5-16; 18 at 6| ; 117 at t’J ; 7 at 69-16; 83 at 6|; 77 at 611-16; 343 at 6|; 127 at 6 13-16; 259 at 6|; 23 at 6 15-16; 558 at 7 ; 332 at 7£ ; 153 at 7 3-16; 99 at 7} ; and 82 bales at 7jc. We quote: Inferior to ordinary 5J a 61 Good ordinary to middling 6| a 6f Good middling 7 a 7$ Middling fair 71 a— Pair to fully fair 7| a— Good fair and choice —a Our tables show that the receipts of Cotton now amount to 2,525,846 bales, against 2,068,869 bales at same time last year, an excess of receipts of 456,977 bales. The deficiency in New Orleans now amounts to 50,270 bales, and it is generally calculated will be about 100,000 by the Ist of September; tbe receipts at Mobile are now very light, and it is probable will not be much over 500,000 bales for the entire season. The stocks at Columbus and the tributaries to Apala chicola are said to be very moderate, and the total re ceipts of Florida will not vary much from 200,000 bales. The Atlantic ports show a very heavy in i’* * ’ VJJT . *
