Funding for the digitization of this title was provided by R.J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation.
About Daily chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1837-1876 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 11, 1849)
CHRONICLE SENTINEL. BY WILIjIAM S- JONES. DUL t, A WEEKLY offick ruad bank building >rfiß9lS —Daily Paper, peran’m,in advance*Slo Tri-Weekly Paper, “ “ s “ •• 5 Weekly, (a mammoth sheet) S“ “ •• 2 CASH SYSTEM. —In nocase willanordcrforthe paper be attended to, unless ccompanied witij t e money, and in every instancewhen thetimeror w uc the subscription may be paid, expires be ore t e re ceipt of funds to renew the same, the paper w discontinued. Depreciated funds receive this city. MISCELLANY. 4> Extraordinary Match at Chess.—A match at chess, of a most extraordinary charac ter, was recently played in Glasgow, between Herr Harrwitz and four members of the Glas gow Chess Club. The conditions of the match were, that Mr. Harrwitz would play two games simultaneously, and without seeing either of the chess boards, against four members of the Glasgow Chess Club—two in consultation at each chess board. The player took his seat in a corner of the room, where he sat with his back to the company, and totally excluded from the sight of the chess boards. Mr. Harrwitz having to lead off in both games, called out the move he intended to be played for him on board No. 1, and immediately followed his move on board No. 2; the players at the first board made and communicated their move in answer, and the players at the other board did the same ; and thus the games proceeded, Mr. Harrwitz having his two moves simultaneously, and not moving again till he had received moves in reply from both boards. The games lasted from shortly after seven o’clock till half past eleven, and the result was that Mr. Harr witz won one game and lost the other. An English paper says: “ We can hardly attempt to convey to the minds of our readers the difficulties of such a marvellous performance on the part of Mr. Harrwitz. To play a single game well, with the board before you, is of itself a difficult task, and cannot be exaggerated. To play two games at a time over the boards must be more than proportionally difficult; but how much greater must the difficulty be to play two games simultaneously and without seeing either of the boards—when the mechanical objects of the chessmen and chessboards are abstracted, and no longer exist save in the powers of the mind ; when the windows of the brain are closed down, and the faculties of sight hermetically sealed ; when all that is left ot chessboard and men is in their vague and timid shadow, wan dering spectre-like across the mental chamber; and when memory and the preceptive faculties of the brain must be taxed unaided to name the position of every piece and pawn, and square of the chequer! The most wonderful part of this extraordinary effort of the mind is, that while the blindfold player’s whole thought and attention is required to consider the best mode of play to parry an attack of his adversaries at one board, he is of necessity obliged to banish from his mind the position of the game on the other board, and yet to have them so placed be fore his mind’s eye as to recall either of them at pleasure.” Life at the Spaas.— There is a fine op portunity to study character and ‘ poor human nature” at the fashionable watering places. Men and women in all places are there to be met, and somehow or other they will show their “ bringing up,”as they say in the country. To one everything is fair and beautiful, as it should be. What is set before him he eats or drinks, and there is an end. He likes the soup, the meats are cooked to a turn, the desert is all he desires,in quantity and quality, and the landlord and servants treat him like a gentleman. He went to the Springs to enjoy peace and con tent, and renovate his health, and he accom plishes it, fees the servant, pays his bill, and leaves a happy mortal. The personage at his elbow is another kind of being altogether. Nothing i- as it should be. He sees a thousand tilings that ought to be done so and so. The waiters are not attentive, and half his time is occupied in schooling them upon their du ties. The cooking is not to his liking ; this is overdone, that underdone, not fit for a can nibal. The soup is too thin, the potatoes are cold, and the chickens have their pin-feathers. His wine is not iced to his liking, and poor biddy, who always does her best, does not lay an egg to suit his palate. He has sucked better eggs at Constantinople, and seen better cook ing at Nootka Sound. This man is what the books call a Snob. He makes but one journey a year, and takes his dictionary with him ; is determined to make a spread and as much noise as possible in spending his borrowed mo ney ; he “cuts a figure,” and proves himself “a vulgar fraction,” as any one can see who notes his movements. He leaves without a fee to “the boots” or the chambermaid, and disputes his landlord’s bill, goes home dissatisfied and miserable. It takes all sorts of people to make a world and generally all sorts can be found at watering places.— Transcript. WHAT CAN BE DONE ON ONE ACRE OF GROUND. —The editor of the Maine Cultivator published, afew years ago, his management of one acre of ground, from which we gather the following results : one third of an acre in corn usually produced thirty bushels of sound corn for grin ding, besides some refuse. This quantity was sufficient for family use, and for fattening one large or two small hogs. On the same ground he obtained two or three hundred pumpkins, and his family supply of dry beans. From a bed of six rods square he usually obtained six ty bushels of onions; these he sold at $1 per bushel, and the amount purchased his flour. Thus from one third of an acre and his onion bed he obtained his breadstufis. The rest of the ground was appropriated to all sorts of vegeta bles, for summer and winter use ; potatoes, beets parsnips, cabbages, green corn, peas, beans, cucumbers, melons, squashes, &c. with fifty or sixty bushels of beets aud carrots for the winter food of a cow. Then he had also a flower garden; raspberries, currants, and goose beiries in great variety, and a few choice apple, pear, plum, cherry, peach and quince trees. Some reader may call the above a “ Yankee trick;” so it is, and our object in publishing it is to have it repeated all over Yankee land, and everywhere else. If a family can be supported from one acre of ground in Maine, the same can be done in every State and County in the Union.— Ploughman. Centennial Celebration. —July 12, 1849, was the occasion of a delightful gathering at the residence of Deacon Daniel Rogers, of Norridgevvock, (Me.) His wife’s mother, Mrs. Martha Gilman, on that day, completed a full century of years. Invitations were extended to the relatives and friends and others, to as semble, and the house was filled with friends who came together to congratulate the old lady on her health and years. She received them with much satisfaction, and the meeting was very pleasant to all. Miss Martha Clough, a daughter of Elisha Clough, was born in Kingston, N. 11., July 12, 1749. She married Peter Gilman, and settled in Exeter, April 5, 1775. They soon removed to Pembroke, and then to Plymouth, N. H„ and shortly after to a town near Castine, Me., .-thelK Massachusetts. In 1792 they look up yf their abode in Norndgewock. Here, five years alter, Mrs. Gilman experienced religion p* under preaching of the Rev. Phineas Ran- Sail, who supplied the desk a few Sundays, in She soon after joined the church. ElTiijt waa luß k° rn years before the De va *claration of Independence; was married two V— years before the battle of Lexington; has lived ** While there were five Kings and one Q,ueen, on the British throne ; has survived the admin- istration of twelve Presidents, nine of whom are dead ; and has witnessed other changes wonderful indeed. . , . , , , In the year 1834, she buried her husband who carried the second mad ever transported through that region-Dr. Zebulou, his brother, having carried the first. Hungarian Women. —A late traveler says that the Hungarian women have no fading, moon light countenances, blenched by privation aud sorrow; no weary cheeks, lit with paroxysms of despair; no polished marble, with its cold repulsive indifference ; no figure of the draw ing-room, tortured into shape by some heathen milliner. There is a wild, daring, piercing beauty about these women sprung from the Caucasian mountains by the side of which your soft, blue-eyed, flax-haired, Saxon maid looks like a faint lithograph by the side of Cor regio’s incarnations. Cljrouulc uuD Sentinel. AUGUSTA, Si: THURSDAY MORNING, OCTJI, IBA9. On first page—Poetry: “I wouldn’t, would you.” Miscellany: “The Two Let ters.” The Steamer’s Mail of Saturday afternoon from New York, due here Tuesday afternoon, arrived yesterday evening. If it has connected at Charleston a single time in three months, we are not now aware of it, and we mention the fact for the information of the department at Washington, with the hope that ere long those having charge of the matter will direct their attention to it aud correct the present abuse. Railroads--Inland Towns. The generally received opinion at the South (which we are pleased to know is fast giving away) has been that the passage of Railroads by inland towns and cities destroys them, by diminishing their business and consequently reducing their population. The error of this opinion has been most triumphantly shown, by the effects upon some of the towns in Massa chusetts, where the system of railroads has been carried to greater perfection, than in any other State in the Union, and where the miles of road in proportion to her extent of territory is dou ble that of any other State. A writer in the Baltimore American, illustra ting the increased value of property from rail roads, presents the following statement of the augmentation of population in some of the towns of Massachusetts, since railroads were extended to them.—during the five years be tween 1839 and 1845 : Roxbury, 67 per cent. Lowell, 33 per cent. Brcjkline, 50 “ Worcester, 56 “ Cambridge, 22 “ Springfield, 33 “ Chelsea, 128 “ Fall River, 59 “ To account for this augmentation of popula tion in the towns mentioned, it is only necessa ry for the reader to recollect that they are ma nufacturing towns, and avail themselves of all the facilities afforded by the roads, for the trans portation of the products of their labor to mar ket. Their labor is wisely diversified, and the capitalists and artizans bring to their aid, all the advantages of steam, water power and machi nery in the prosecution of their industrial pur suits. At the South we are yet in our infancy in this great and growing enterprize, and con sequently are just beginning to learn some thing of the benefits resulting to a community by the employment of these agents, and the diversifying of our pursuits. Hence, we have not as yet felt and witnessed the revivifying influence of our roads upon our inland towns and villages, to the same extent it is felt at the North and East; but the spirit for improve ment is abroad in the land, and the day is not far distant when we shall witness a like aug mentation of the population and improvement of every village by which a railroad passes, if the community shall wisely improve the ad vantages which the road affords. We have therefore every incentive to press forward — to go on prospering and to prosper, and to con centrate our whole energies to elevate our State to the first rank among her sisters. Take a Newspaper. “No man should be without a well-conducted newspaper; he is far behind the spirit of the age; unless he reads one, is not upon an equal footing with his fellow-man who enjoys such advantage, and is disregardful of his duty to his family, in not affording them an opportunity of acquiring a knowledge of what is passing in the world, at the cheapest possible teaching. Show me a family without a newspaper, and I venture to say that there will be manifest in that family a want of amenity of manners and indi cations of ignorance, me -t strikingly in contrast with the neighbor who allows himself such a rational in dulgence. Young men especially should read news papers. If I were a boy, even of twelve years, I would read a newspaper weekly, though I had to work by torch-light to earn money enough to pay for it. The boy who reads well will learn to think and analyze, and if so, he will be almost sure to make a man of himself, hating vicious indulgence, which reading is calculated to beget a distaste for.” The above is the parting advice of Jo hn H. Prentice to his readers, on retiring finally from the editorial chair, which he had filled with distinguished ability for forty-two years. It is full of wisdom and replete with truth in every line and word, and coming from one wholly disinterested, cannot but impress itself upon the intelligent and reflecting. No man better understood the great value to a family of a well conducted newspaper, and we should rejoice if every man, or even a majority in this republic, estimated its worth so highly as did Mr. P. If they did it would be a glorious thing for a nation and people, and still more so for the newspaper press of the country, which would bring to its conduct a higher order and greater amount of talent than it is now able to connect with it, as a whole. The dignity and character of the profession would be elevated, and, while they would impress upon the masses, by the power and force of their intel > lect, the necessity for mental culture, would , a^so excite a taste for study and a thirst for , knowledge. These are some of the benefits that would accrue to the people and the press 1 by a general distribution of well conducted i newspapers in families, and the sooner they 1 sow the seed the earlier will the fruits mature. 9" ‘ 1 \ “, The Union has charged Mr. Ewing with cor ruptly getting up gold expeditions at the public ex ' pease ; it has accused him of making a fortune by 1 swindling the widows and orphans of revolutionary soldiers ; it has taxed him with corruptly voting as 1 United States Senator, to improve his private means • and on the sth instant, in an editorial of a column’s - length, it accused him of promisinar to give away an , office for a bribe of three hundred dollars in the j way of house-rent.” — Washington Republic. The Union, conscious of its own infirmity, - where the necessary appliances of pap are concerned, unfortunately imagines all the world equally corrupt. Mr. Randolph once said of its senior that he had seven principles —“five loaves and two fishes.” Few men were better versed in character than Mr. Randolph. and none probably understood Mr. Ritchie better. Democratic Malignity. The subjoined correspondence of the Balti more American discloses a system of attack upon the President and his family, as novel as it is base and degrading, to those engaged in it. We had supposed that the daily out-pourings of the wrath of the disappointed spoils-men through the columns of the Union, would have satiated their malignity ; but it seems we are mistaken. It is, we believe, the first instance in the history of our government, that so vile a system of attack has been adopted by any par ty, and we hope, for the honor of the nation, it may be the last. Such missiles, however, while they fall harmless, cannot fail to recoil upon their authors, and those with whom they are connected: - “Washington, Sept. 26, 1849. It was solemnly proclaimed .by the editors of the ,( Union,” at the outset of Gen. Taylor’s administra tion, that “no matter what face it might assume, they were determined to oppose it to the bitter end.” This unblushing announcement in advance was cha racteristic of the journal that professes to be the sole organ of the party. What care they if it be the studied and settled policy of the administration to foster the true interests of the American citizen at home, or to protect him in his rights as such citizen abroad7 If corrupt minions are being ejected from offices which they have long plundered, there must nevertheless be 11 opposition to the bitter end.” What if the President demand the immediate restoration of the persecuted foreigner to the asylum whence he had been unlawfully abducted by the agents of a petty tyrant or Captain General 7 His prompt action in defence of the violated law has no merit in their eyes, who have predetermined “to oppose him till the bit ter end.” What if, in order to preserve the faith and peace of the country, he refuse to suffer vessels of war to be built, armed and equipped in our ports to fight against nations with which we are on terms of amity and friendship? This does not restore the spoilsmen to office and patronage, and they still cry out —“ opposition to the bitter end.” Or, if seeing a brave people striving for liberty against the combined forces of Imperialism, he dispatch a friendly messen ger to cheer them in their high and holy enterprize, the motives of-generosity which prompted him thus to show our sympathy have no response in the bo soms of those who have in the beginning resolved to oppose him in all his acts “ till the bttter end.” The same selfish and corrupt spirit has marked every means used by the opposition against the ad ministration. Discarding every thing like principle, they have descended to the petty guerilla system of personable abuse. One falsehood has scarcely been nailed to the counter before another of the same spurious coin is uttered from this rich mint of menda city. No act of the President or of a member of his Cabinet, whether public or private, has any merit in their estimation. Eveu the former kindness of the Secretary of State to a worthy and talented editor — his old person3l friend—has been perverted by the Union and its allies into an act of grossest corruption. They stop at nofalseht id however mean—no calumny however malignant—no language however vile and vituperative. Contemptible scribblers, such as “He roic Age,” not content with abusing the President in the public prints, have even invaded the sanctuary of his family, and every day thrust upon him letters with fictitious signatures, filled with the most bil lingsgate compound of personal abuse and insult. Nor do they stop here : The ladies of the Presidential mansion have had addressed to them, almost daily, letters containing the most offensive and obscene lan guage which a fiend can indite, until they can scarce ly dare to open any letter unless from a well known and familiar hand. Such a mode of warfare may possibly seem justifiable to those whose moral sense is blunted by the determination to oppose the admin istration “till the bitter end;” but honest and well meaning men of all parties cannot but condemn a course so shocking to decency and morality. Hampden.” Men witK Tails. The extraordinary and generally supposed exploded theory of a Scotch Philosopher of the last century, that men originally had tails, and through successive ages of progress and civil ization, attained to their present advancement, has recently received considerable support from the researches of Colonel DuCouret, a French traveller in Africa, who having been sent out by his government, penetrated further into the interior than any civilized man who had preceded him, of whom we have any ac count. When about entering upon a second tour, he appeared before the French Academy of Sciences, on the 20th September, for the purpc&e of receiving instruction, to whom he read a report of his previous tour, from which the following highly interesting extract is made> by the Paris correspondent of the N. Y. Jour nal of Commerce: There exists a race of men who, according to the report of certain travellers, are originally of the king dom of Gondar, or of others, who says they inhabit Soudan in the south, whose zoological characteristics are remarkable. They have a tail-like appendage formed by the elongation of the vertebial column, and they are the last link in the human race. The slave merchants cannot dispose of them without great difficulty; so bad is their reputation. The traits which distinguish them are hideous ugliness of face and figure, ungovernable tempers, and stolid intellect. Some of this race are to be found, also, in the Phillip pine Islands, but they were, doubtless, carried thither by the slave merchants. However this may be, when a Levantine is looking out for slaves in the East, he is always warned not to purchase one who has a tail; he is told —“of all slaves, this is the least profitable.” This race of men is very far behind that of which Pourrier dreamed, and which was, some day, to be come the type of manly beauty, morally and physi cally. M. Du Couret, who was in Mecca in the year 1842, saw an individual of the species we have just men tioned, and belonging, he was told, to the breed of Ghilanes in the South. Though it be not the first time that we have heard the race of men spoken of, who are furnished with tails, nevertheless the fact is not sufficiently common to take away its interest. We will, therefore, enter somewhat in detail upon this strange organic manifestation. “I inhabited . Mecca in 1842,” says M. Du Couret, “and being often at the house of an Emir with whom I was inti mate, I spoke to him of the Ghilane race, and told him how much the Europeans doubted of the exis tence of men with tails, that is to say, the vertebral column elongated externally. In order to convince me of the reality of the species, the Emir ordered before me one of his slaves called Belial, who was about thirty years old, who had a tail, and who be longed to this tribe. On surveying this man I was thoroughly convinced. He spoke Arabic well, and appeared rather intelligent. He told me that in his country, far beyond the Sennar, which he had cros sed, they spoke a different language; this for want of practice, he had entirely forgotten ; that of his com patriots, whom he estimated at 30,000, some wor shipped the sun, the moon, or stars, others the serpent and the sources of an immense river, in which they immolated their victims —(probably the mouth of the Nile); that they ate with delight raw flesh, as bloody as possible, and that they loved human flesh above all things, that after their brttles with the neighboring i tribes, they slaughtered and devoured their prisoners i without distinction of sex ; but that the women and children were preferable, the flesh being more deli cate. This Ghilane had become a devout Mussulman, and had lived 15 years in the Holy City. The fond ness, the necessity even, for raw flesh (it really was u want for him) did not fail to return upon him ; and his master, therefore, by a precaution, never failed when this fit was on him, to provide him with an enormous piece of raw mutton, which he consumed ravenously before every body present. This eager ! desire for raw flesh showed itself periodically ; some times twice a week. Being asked why he did not . try to correct such a habit, he answered with great frankness: “ 1 have often tried to overcome this ap petite, which 1 received from my father and mother. In my country, great and small, young and old, live in this manner, besides eating fish, fruits and vegeta bles. If my master neglected to supply this require ment of my nature, I am sure I could not resist the desire which possesses me of devouring something, and I should cause great sorrow by falling on some person too weak to contend with me, an infant, for example.” Having asked him to allow me to see him naked (for I wished to sketch him) he resisted for a long time, bat finally yielded, on receiving the pro mise of an entire new dress, which I was to send him. He came privately to my house, where he took off the scanty shirt of coarse blue linen which he wore. I was thus enabled to contemplate him quite at my ease, and to paint his portrait without exposing him to the punishment which would have been inflicted on him, if he had been detected by his fanatical and superstitious master. The drawing, made under these circumstances has been placed un-* der the eyes of the Academy. Here are some extracts from the description given by M. Du Couret, of the Ghilanes; —“The "Ghi lanes are a peculiar race of negro, which have a strong resemblance to the monkey ; much smaller than the usual race —they are rarely more than five feet high. They are commonly ill made ; their bo dies are lean and seem weak ; their arms long and slim ; their hands and feet are longer and flatter than those of any other of the human species ; their cheeks project, and their fore forehead is low and receding ; their ears are long and deformed; their eyes are small, black, piercing, and twinkle constantly ; tbeir noses are large and flat; their mouth wide, and fur nished with teeth very sharp, strong and of dazzling whiteness; their lips are full and thick ; their hair curled, not very woolly, not thick, and remain short. But what particularly distinguishes them is the pro longation of the vertebral column. This gives to each individual, male or female, a tail of two or three inches long.” Finally, here is the portrait of Belial, the name of the personage the author encountered at Mecca: “He was thin and dry, but nervous and strong. His skin was black, bronzed, shining, soft to the touch like velvet. His feet were long and flat; his arms and legs appeared feeble, but well supplied with muscles. His ribs could, easily be counted. His face was repulsively ugly. His mouth was enormous, his lips thick, his teeth strong, sharp and very white ; his nose broad and flat; his ears long and deformed ; his forehead low and very receding ; his hair not very woolly, nor thick, but nevertheless curly. He had no beard, and his body was not very hairy. He was very active and handy. His height was about five feet. His tail was more than three inches long , and almost as flexible as that of a monkey. His dis position, setting aside the oddity of his tastes and ha bits, was good, and his fidelity was above praise. Our River. —The Georgia Steamboat Com pany’s tow-boats and lighters arrived at the wharf to-day with full loads of merchandize. The Land-Slide at Morganza. —We learn from the Pointe Coupee Echo of the 29th ult., that the bodies of Mr. Bisset and Mr. Boyd, the individuals who perished in the land-slide at Morganza, on the 27th ult., were recovered on the morning after. The bodies of the ne gro boy and girl, who fell at the same time, had not been found. The Echo further says : “We have been informed that the levee and road before the plantation of Madame Sarreau, in the island, caved in on Thursday evening last, and she was compelled to have a road opened through her cane field. The grand levee, opposite to the house of Mr. N. Carrnouche, is at present within ninety feet of the river in consequence of the caving of the banks ; the levee also at Mr. Charles Hogan’s has caved in up wards of a hundred feet, and at the plantation below twenty feet of the levee has disappeared. In our neighborhood the banks have been caving for some considerable time, and we know not at what time it will cease. The caving of the banks is attributed to the cut-off.” Large Pieces of Granite. —The workmen are proceeding rapidly with the basement of the new Customhouse, which, when finished, will be the largest and grandest Customhouse in the world, surpassing those of New York and Liverpool. Four large vessel loads of granite have already been landed on the levee. This granite is hewn in immense blocks, and is worked oft’ smooth in Massachusetts, where it is quarried. Some of these blocks weigh twenty-two tons. They are all of large size, and as laid on the foundation of the new struc ture, present an appearance of great solidity and strength. The readiness with which these immense blocks are moved from the levee to the site of the Customhouse, is astonishing.— N. O. Delta. The Expedition to the Salt Lake —The National Intelligencer of the Bth inst. says: By letters very recently received we learn that the exploring party, under command of Capt. Stansbury, of the Topographical Engineers, now en route for the Great Salt Lake in Upper California, entered Fremont’s South Pass in the Rocky Mountains on the sth of August. The party were all in good health and fine spirits, having accomplished two-thirds of the journey toward their destined field of explora tion. They pursue the ordinary Oregon route as far as Fort Hall, where they leave it, and, turning short to the south, enter the valley of the Great Salt Lake and its tributaries. From Yucatan. —By the arrival here this morning of the bark Mary Parker, Capt. Auld, from Campeachy the 29th ult., we have re ceived numbers of El Fenix, of that port, to the 26th. There was nothing of importance stirring at Campeachy up to these dates. The news of dissensions having broken out among the Chiefs of the insurgent Indians at Tihosuco and other points, seems to be con , firmed, and the Yucatecoes are in expectation of being able to conclude the destructive war that has been so long waging between the two races by the quiet submission of the Indians. This, El Tranal says, will enable the Govern ment to get out of the snare into which it has been led by the proffer of English mediation, and which it accepted without duly consider ing the consequences. El Tranal denounces all connection with the British, who from their colony of Belize have been furnishing the Indians with arms and munitions from the commencement of the war. It states that the treaty with Spain in 1786, which still holds good with all the former Spanish colonies, has been flagrantly violated in this instance, and that Great Britain in her late answer to M. Lacunza's remonstrance against supplying the Indians with arms, shows conclusively, by asserting that her subjects sold them because they had a right to do so, that no good can he expected by Mexico or Yucatan, by the proposed mediation. In another part El Tranal complains of the little interest shown by Mexico in the wel fare of the peninsula, by withdrawing the $25,- 000 which the Congress at first proposed to appropriate monthly toward prosecuting the war against the Yucateco Indians, The nomi nation to offices in Yucatan by the General Go vernment, it also states evinces a most culpable system of favoritism. — Pic. oth inst. Death of Edgar A. Poe. —We regret to learn that Edgar A. Poe, Esq., the distinguish ed American poet, scholar and critic, died in this city yesterday morning, after an illness of four or five days. The announcement, com ing so sudden and unexpected, will cause poig nant regret among all who admire genius, and have sympathy for the frailties too often attend ing it. Air. Poe, we believe, was a native of this State, though reared by a foster-father at Richmond, Va., where he lately spent some time on a visit. He was in the 38th year of his age.— Balt. Sun Bth inst. Louisiana — lnterior. The Crops. —The Planter’s Banner of the 27th ult., says : “ It is now reduced to a certainty that our cane crop in most parts of the parish will be ‘ short and sweet.' On some plantations a portion of the crop is extremely good, while other portions are extremely bad. There are great extremes of good and bad cane, not only in different parts of plantations, but also in contiguous sec tions of the parish. It has rarely happened that there has been so little uniformity in the crops as appears to be the case this season.” The Pointe Coupee Tribune of the 29th ult., observes : “ The army worm still continues its ravages in this parish ; they are not quite as vo racious as in 1844, for they jump from field to field, without having done any material injury I to any. But, notwithstanding this, the cotton crop here will be quite short of that of last year, which, itself, was not very large. If the wea ther continues of the same kind for two weeks, it is the opinion of many planters that the cane will turn out fair enough.” The Monroe (Ouachita) Gazette of the 20th ult., remarks: “ The most alarming accounts as to the probable meagreness of the cotton crops, continue to reach us daily. Where the overflow and continued rains have not consum mated the work of destruction, the boll worm and caterpillar have made almost a clean sweep. Although the Red River country has suffered more severely than any other portion of the State, still, from present appearances, wedo not look for more than half a crop as the maximum in Louisiana.” Health of Charleston. —This morning we publish the official report of the Board of Health, which gives the information that there were eighteen deaths by Stranger’s Fever, dur ing the week ending on the 6th instant. Os these it will be seen that 8 were natives of Ire land, 4 of Germany, 4 of Scotland, and 2 of the United States. Eight of the eighteen died in the City Hospi tal, being a strong evidence that the disease prevails principally among those who are not careful in their habits, and do not seek medical attendance promptly. At the same time we state that at no former period, within our recollec tion, which extends over a period of near thir ty years, have the cases been of so mild a char acter, or so readily yielded to Medical treatment. We have, on several occasions, stated that we would unhesitatingly announce to our read ers the true state of the health of the city, when ever disease assailed us, and therefore, shall not refrain from giving onr opinion, that from all we can learn, the cases of Stranger’s Fever, have, within the last eight or ten days, been more prevalent than previously. Most of the subjects of the disease have been men of dissolute habits, or those who have wan tonly exposed themselves, and neglected to ob tain early medical advice. Very few instances of a fatal result can be adduced, where proper caution has been observed, and we feel war ranted in asserting that, as far as we know, and we have taken some pains to ascertain facts, no danger need be apprehended by those who are prudent in not exposing themselves to the night air, and take medical advice on the first symptoms of the disease. VV e make these remarks as a matter of duty, and as before stated, in the fulfilment of oft repeated promises. That the disease will not be finally eradicated until after a frost, all ex perience teaches us, and until that period ar rives, it behooves all to he cautious not to expose themselves. We dislike concealment of danger, when it exists, and will not be par ticipants in any attempt to deceive. A very short time only will elapse before this, as yet but slightly dangerous disease will certainly leave us. We are well aware there has been much more alarm than the true state of affairs would warrant, from the exaggerated reports that have been promulgated throughout the country, in many instances, doubtless, from in terested motives. We take the occasion to correct an erro neous impression, which is generally entertain ed abroad in relation to the mode by which the City Register makes his report of the number of deaths that occur within the corporate limits of the city. The question is often asked whe ther the report includes those interred in the burial grounds on the Neck. The answer is at hand. All persons who die in the city and are buried on the Neck are included in the report of the City Register. Our readers may be assured, that hereafter, if on any occasion from this time until we shall have the gratification of announcing that no new cases of fever can occur, anything should transpire to require an especial notice, it will be promptly given; but that such will be the case we have not the most remote belief, as the season is now so far advanced that a short period only can intervene before it will finally disappear.— Char. Courier, 10 th inst. Charleston Bank Stock. —There have been some heavy operations in this Stock within a few days at advanced rates. About 300 shares of the old issue have brought prices ranging from 108 tollO; and upward of9oo Shares of the new at $54 and $55 per share— Ch.Courier. Special Notices. O’ Georgia II ail rod and Banking Co.— Augusta, October 11,1849. —DIVIDEND No. 17 — A Dividend of per cent, is declared from the pro fits of the last six months, payable on and after MONDAY, the 15th inst. 011-tw2w&w4 J. W. WILDE, Cashier. Augusta Manufacturing Company. Augusta, Ga., Oct 9,1849. —DIVIDEND No. 3 A Dividend of three per cent, on the Capital of this Company has been declared out of the profits of the past three months, payable on demand at the Office of the Company. By order of the Board of Directors. 010-3 JAMES HOPE, Agent. HIT Teaclier’s Convention.— An adjourned meeting of the Teachers of Richmond county will be held at the CITY HALL, Augusta, on SATUR DAY, 27th inst., at 11 o’clock, A. M., for the pur pose of organizing a Teachers’ Association. All Teachers convenient to the place of meeting who may be desirous of availing themselves of the experience of others, and who are willing to contri bute to the general fund of professional knowledge, from the results ol their practice, are invited to at tend. o 9 O’Dr, J. A. S. Milligan having returned to Augusta, will practice in the various branches of his profession. Messages left at his office in Jackson street, be tween Broad and Reynold streets, or at the residence of Dr. Joseph Milligan (over the Bank of Bruns wick,) will be promptly attended to. 09-3 mo ?| Bank of Brunswick, Augusta, Oct. 1, 1849. --Dividend No. 13.—The Board of Directors have declared .a Dividend of Five Dollars per Share, payable to the Stockholders on demand. 02-8 JNO. CRAIG, Cashier. 13 s Augusta and Waynesboro’ It. Road. —Notice is hereby given that books of subscription for the stock of the Augusta and Waypesboro’ Rail Road, will be opened at Savannah, Augusta and Waynesboro, on the Bth day of OCTOBER next, under the superintendence required by law, and con tinue open as the law directs. And whereas, subscriptions for the stock of said Company have already been made in advance for a sum exceeding the amount authorizing an organiza tion ; Notice is hereby further given, that the stockhold ers will meet at WAYNESBORO’, in the county of Burke, on Tuesday, the 13th day of November next, for the purpose of electing seven Directors to manage the affairs of the Company in conformity with the charter. CHARLES W. WEST, Chairman Board Commissioners. Thos. H. Blount, Secretary Board Comrais’ers. Waynesboro’, Sept. 4, 1849. s6-trwtNl3 A CARD. Miniature Painting and Da guerre oty ping. —EDW. S. DODGE, ARTIST, would inform the citizens of Augusta and vicinity, that he intends returning to his Rooms in Augusta, next door to the Post-Office, about the first of October. His Rooms will be enlarged and hand somely furnished, and he intends making his gallery the centre of attraction. His Painting Room will be designed more especial ly for the Ladies, consulting their convenience and pleasure. His Daguebreian Gallery will be much en- larged and improved. Hig stock of Materials will be such as always to be in readiness to furnish a most exquisite likeness , with the choice of a variety of new patterns of cases , such as have never been offer ed in Augusta before. And better still, his prices will again be reduced; so that the hundreds who were disappointed last winter, may now be accommodated. Due notice will be given of the opening of his Rooms. sls-twtf O 3 Portrait Painting. W. WILSON, Artist, has returned to Augusta, and will three or four weeks. His rooms are over the Railroad Bank , entrance from street. jy23-tf |j" We are authorized to announce L. T. SHOPPasa candidate for RECEIVER OP TAX RETURNS at the election in January next. sI2 fjTWe are authorized to announce ALEXANDER PHILIP as a candidate for re-elec tion to the office of Receiver of Tax Returns for Richmond county, at the election in January next. sß* Departure of the Atlantic Steamers. From Europe. New York. Boston. America Sept. 15 Oct. 10 Hibernia Sept, 22 Oct. 17 Canada Sept. 29 Oct. 24 Niagara Oct. 6 Oct. 31 Caledonia Oct. 13 Nov. 7 Europa Oct. 20 Nov. 14 Cambria Oct. 27 Nov. 21 New York and Bremen Monthly Line. —Leave New York on the 20th of each month, and Bremen on the 15th. DIED. In Columbia county, Ga., on the 6th inst., Mr. John Maddox, in the 78th year of his age. CONSIGNEES. PER GEO. ST’M B’T CO’S TOW BOATS No. 4 and 6, J, B. Guieu, Agent.—Mdze. to Thayer & Butt; Owen & Robinson; T. S. Metcalf; H. D. Newkirk; R. Allen; W. K. Kitchen; J. Si I cox ; Haviland, Risley & Co.; J. & S. Bones & Co.; Daw son & Crocker ; P. Lamback; J. B. Guieu, Agent; W. S. & T. H. Roberts; Dunham & Bleakly; Force, Brothers & Co.; Barrett, Carter & Co.; I. N. Poullain & Son; H. Moore; Biker & Hart; John Bones; C. A. Platt; Gould, Bulkley & Co.; T. Brennan & Co.; W. Housley, jr.; Heard & Da vison; E. Mustin ; J. J. Clayton; Doughty & Beall; L. Hopkins; Buslin & Walker; W, H. Crane; Adams, Hopkins & Co.; Wright, Nichols & Co.; L. Roll; W. O. Price & Co.; T. J. Cosgrove & Co.; J. M. Newby & Co.; Kerrs <fc Hope; J. E. McDon ald; D. B. Plumb & Co.; A. Gardelle; Scranton, Stark & Davis; Cress & Hickman; W. W. Hooker; and T, Richards & Son. EXPORTS. SAVANNAH, Oct. 8. —For Boston, bark Zeno bia—4Bß bales Cotton, and 137 sacks Flour. CHARLESTON, Oct. 9.—For New York, C L brig Emily —370 bales Upland Cotton. For Baltimore, Brig Chief—los bales Up, Cotton, Commercial. NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 4, P. M.— Cotton.— Stock on hand on the Ist Sept., 1849 12,154 Arrived since to date* • ••••32,027 Arrived to-day 2,424 46,605 Exported to date 10,523 Exported to-day • 498 Stock on hand and on shipboard not cleared.. 35,584 Sugar. —Some 60 hhds. were sold. Prices easier. Fair 5f a s|c. Molasses. —Little doing, and Prime Reboiled scarce. Flour. —Market heavy. Sales 130 bbls. Extra Illinois at $5.35; 150 St. Louis at §5; 100 at 5.10 and 100 Extra St. Louis at —. Corn. —Market bare of stock, and not a sale has transpired. Bacon —45 tierces plain Hams were sold at 7c, Lard.— lsoo kegs were sold, but the price was kept secret at the request of the seller. J’reights. —Nothing doing. Exchange. —Transactions limited. London 9a 10 pret. prem.; Paris, 5f.27£a5f35; N. York, 60 days, i a £ per cent, discount.; New York sight, | a 1 per cent. prem. Shipping intelligence. SAVANNAH, Oct. 9. —Arrived, Bark Vernon, Faye, New York; bark Isaac Mead, Brown, New York; brig Consuelo, Frothingham, Boston; schr J. Leaning, Townsend, Philadelphia. Cleared, bark Zenobia, Knowlton, Boston. CHARLESTON, Oct. 10.—Arrived, Ship Jas. N. Cooper, Flitner, Liverpool ; ship John Ravenel, Wambersie, Liverpool; Line ship H, Allen, Mc- Munn, N. York; ship Harriet & Augusta, Robinson, N. York; OL brig Souther, Mayo, Boston, brig Buena Vista, Ireland, N. Orleans; brip Meridian, Lee, Baltimore; schr Algyona, Whitaker, Philadel phia ; schr Adeline, & Rosina, Ames, Philadelphia. Cleared, C L brig Emily, Nichols, N. York; brig Chief, Thompson, Baltimore. MEDICAL CARD. Burke county.—Dr. Carlisle ter ry would respectfully announce to the citizens of Burke, that he has permanently settled in Waynes boro, and offers his services in the practice of Medi cine and Surgery. 011-w3m* Paper hanging and bordering, a large assortment, all new patterns. Just re ceived by oil THOMAS RICHARDS & SON. WANTED, TWO GOOD VEST MAKERS. oil WM. O PRICE & CO. FOR SALE. THE UNDERSIGNED having deter- Jfiili mined to remove West, offers her HOUSE and iiOT at Monroe, with about 100 acres of LAND attached, for sale. Terms accommodating. The lot is well improved, having a large two story building thereon in gc >d repair, and necessary out houses. It is unnecessary to say anything in regard to the health of this section of country, as it is known to be as healthy as any section in Middle Georgia ; good schools in Monroe, both male and female. 011-wlrn MARIA WALKER, Executrix. BULWER’S LAST NOVEL, part 2d; The Caxio >s, price 18| cents. Also, vol. 7 Chal mer’s Worts, being vol. Ist of “ Institutes of The ology. ” No. 3, History of Pendennis, price 25 cents; “The Little Savage by Capt. Marryat, both in cheap and other form of binding; and a number of other new works of real value, both in pamphlet and bound. Just received by oil THOS. RICHARDS & SON. GEORGIA STATE LOTTERIES. For the Benefit of the Augusta Independent Fire Company. D. PAINE <fc CO., MANAGERS. Georgia State Lottery, Regular class 21, for 1849, to be drawn in Savannah on FRIDAY, October 12. Sales close THIS DAY at 7 P. M., and drawing due To-Morrow. Capital Prize 2,600 DOLLARS ! 6of SI,000; 1 of 548; 278 ol S2O. Tickets il ; Shares in proportion. Extra Class 45, by Grand Consolidated Lottery 45 at Baltimore, Oct. 13th, 1849. Sales close SAT URDAY, at'3 P. M. 78 Numbers; 16 Ballots. Capital Prize 35,000 DOLLARS. 815,000; 87,500; 83,603; 20 of 81,000; 20 of 8500; 20 of 250 ; 20 of 8150, and 476 of 8100.— Tickets 810; Shares in proportion. Apply in time, to A. LAPITTE, Agent, Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. Orders from the country respectfully solicited and promptly attended to. Tickets always on hand n large and small Lotteries. oil ALCINED PIASTER~OF PARIS.—SO bbls. on hand, and for sale by slO PHILIP A. MOISB, Druggist.
