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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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