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Joint Secretaries of the Bonn! or Trade. Ho
stated that tho ton leading itnidM, which produc
ed £20.502.000 revenue in 183®, wore—
«E & DAVIS,
Cil) nni County Prtolcn.
(ft RMBF.lt 10, 1840,
’*i er, 6t0 per Annum i for 6 montlM, 65
proper,5 porAnnum| forfl moii'lw, 63.
ll'AYAIIt.K IN AIIVANfK,)
Artf* and fiV» AdcertUtmmts, ajipearin imp, Ity*rs.
ICTOnicf at the ronwroWny nnd B nil-nnrets, over
Mr. J. U. Gaudrv'e Store.
Sugar uud MoIosiim
Ten
Spirit*
Wine
Tohoccn «
Coffee end Cocon
Fruits of nil hind*
Timber nnd Dypwoml*
£4,820,017
3,068.703
3,015,413
1.840,308
3.405,080
740,818
402,003
1,008.584
Corn, Grain, Meiil nud Rice 1,131,070
Total mmsoo
SAVANNAH.
_ u following article xvnn selected IVoui
in exchange paper, hut wo know not its origin.
Wo, hmvover, mcmmni’iid It to tliu.o to whom
It I* more purtictiliirly tulilrcMod, no wnll worthy
ii (writMl.—Em. Rtru».
A CHAPTl’.II FOR YOUNG HUSBANDS.
Wnlkingtho other tiny with e, nlitod friend who
lintl hoi'll ronllocil n worth or two by ,lckno,. to
his room, lie remarked that a husband might learn
a good lesanit hv being confined occasionally to
Ida house, by Imving in thin way an opportunity
iff witnessing the curoa nnd never-ending toil* ot
tho wife, whoso burden* nod duties end patient
endurance lie might never hnvo oUmrw.ao under
stood. There <» a great deal m tills thought, per-
hens enough for an “editorial." Men, caneetah
|y young moil, nrecniledby iheir business during
the dny mostly away from homo, returning only
at the hours for meals, and a* limy then sec nearly
.the same routine of duty, they begin to think that
Ms their own lotto perform all tho drudgery,
and to be. exorcised with nil the weight ol enre
aud responsibility. But such a man has got a
1 Be Jnsiend fenr not, let rU tlm ends thou aW.l, be
thy Country's, thy God's, and Truth'*."
THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 10,1640
FOR CONGRESS.
Col. HINES HOLT, or Muscogee.
EUclion or lint Monday in January.
very wrong view of the Case ; lie needs an ojijior-
(unity for more extended
(unity for more extended observation, nnd it i*
perhaps for this very icnsoii that n kind Irnvi-
dunce arrests him by sickness, that ho may loam
in tiuhi wlmt lie would fail to observe in health.
We have seen recently a good many things said
in tho pnpers to wives, especially to young wives,
exposing .their faults, perhaps mugmlymg them,
mid expounding to them, in none ol the kindest
terms, their duty nnd the offices pertaining to
4 'woman’s sphere.” Now, we believe that
wives, ns n whole, ore really better thu they nre
generally admitted to ho. Wo doubt ff there can
fie found n large number of wives. wisoarod.*-
agreeable aud negligent, without some palpable
coldness or ahort-emniug on the part orUieu hns-
bunds. So far ns wo have had an opportunity
for observation, they nro far more devoted ntiu
faithful than those who style theraielvea their
lords, and who, hv the custom* of society, have
other nnd generally more plensant and varied
duties to perform. We protest then against these
lectures so often nnd so obtrusively addressed to
the ladies, nnd insist nponitlhntthey must—most
of them—have been written by some lusty bache
lors who knew no better, or by some inconsider
ate husbands who deserve to huve been old bache
lors to the cods of their lives. But is there noth
ing to he said on tho other side? Are husbands
n. generally the perfect amiable, injured beings
they ore so often represented! Men sometimes
declare ihnulwir wives’ extravagances have pick
ed their pokets, dial their never-enuring tongues
have robbed them of their peace, nud their gener
al disagreealiieouss has driven them to the tavern
and gaming table; but this is generally the wick
ed excuse lor a most wieked life oil their own
part. The fact is, men often lose their interest
in their homes by their own neglect to make their
homes interesting and pleasant. It should never
be forgotten that the wile baa her rights—as sacred
after Tier marriage ns before—nnd n good hus
band's devotion to the wife after marriage will
concede to her quite ns much attentiou us his gal
lantry did while a lover. If it is otherwise, he
most generally is at fault.
Takenfew examples. Before marriagenyoung
mau would feel some delicacy about accepting
an invitation to spend an evening in company
where his “lady love” had not been invited. Af
ter marriage is lie always us particular! During
the days of courtship, his gallantry would demand
that he should make himself agreeable to her; af
ter marriage it often happens that he thinks more
of being agreeable to himself, llow often it hap
pens that married men, after having been away
from home tho livelong day, during which the
wife hns toiled at her duties, go ut evening again
to some place of amusement, and leave her to
toil on alone, nncheered and unhappy. How of
ten it happens that her kindest offices pass unob
served, nnd unrewarded even by a smile, nnd her
best efforts ure condemned by the fault-finding
husband. How often it happens, even when the
evening is spent a! !»*»•••«*, mat it is employed in
silent reading,wr some other way that'does not
recognise the wife’s right to share in the enjoy-
‘ incuts even of the firevide.
Look, yo husband, a moment, nud remember
wlmt your wife was when you took her, notfroui
compulsion,but from your own choice: based, pro-
luihly.oii what you tlienconsidered her superior
ity to all' others. She was young—perhaps the
idol of a happy home; she was gay and blithe as
the lark, and Uie brothers nnd sisters at her fath
er’s fireside cherished her ns an object of endear
ment. Yet she left all to join her destiny wi'h
yours; to make your home huppy, oud to do all
that woman’s love could prompt, and woman's
ingenuity devise, to meet your wishes aud to
lighten the burdens which might press upon you
iu your pilgrimage. She, of course, had her ex
pectations too. She could not entertain feelings
which promised so much, without forming some
idea of reciprocation on your part, and she did
expect you would after inarriuge perform those
kind offices of which you were so lavish iu tho
days of beirotlunent. She became your, wife!
left her own home for you; hurst asunder, ns it
were the hands of love which hud bound her to
her father's fireside, and .ought no other boon
limit your affections; left, it may be, the ease nnd
delicacy of a home of indulgence; end now, what
must baner feelings if she gradually awakes to
tho consciousness that you love her less titan be
fore; that your evenings are spent abroad; that
you only cuine home at all to satisfy the demands
of your hunger, nnd to find a resting place for
■yotir bend when weary, ora nurse for your sick
chamber when diseased!
Why did slm leave the bright health of her
youthful days! Why did you usk her to give op
the enjoyments of a happy home! Was it sim
ply to darn your stockings, mend your clothes,
lake cure ofyoor children, nnd watch over your
sick bed! Was it limply to conduce to yout own
comfort? Or was there some understanding that
she was to bo made happy iu her connexion with
the man ahe dared to love?
Nor is it a sufficient answer that you reply
that you give her a home; that you feed and clothe
her. You do this for your help; you would do it
for an indifferent housekeeper. But forget not
that a wife is more than a housekeeper. She is
your wife, nud unless you attend to her wants, and
in soiiih way answer the reasonable expectations
you raised by your attentions before marriage,
you need ri'-t wonder if she lw dmected, uml her
heart sink into insensibility; but ifthis be so,think
, well who is the cause ofit. We repent it, very
few women make indifferent wives, whose feel
ings have not met with some outward shock, by
the indifference or thoughtlessness of their bns-
.bunds. It is our candid opinion that in a large
' majority of the instances of domestic misery the
man is the aggressor.
THE MAILS I THE MAILS!
The Northern Mail failed ngnin yesterday, nnd
from tho letter of our attentive correspondent at
Charleston received by the steamer Southerner
yesterday, it willbearnn that our worthy Post
Master, Mr. 8ciii.ey, will probably bo compelled
again to-day to display that ominous white card
from his window—•' No Mail North of Charles
ton."
We can hardly get up nil interesting paper,
when the Mail only conies once in three or four
days. Any fulling off in the interest of our pa-
paper, therefore, should lie charged to the Post
Muster General. Poor Mr. Ntt.cs gets his share
ofcciisure. We shall take up his defence as
soon as ho retires from public life.
Whenever we nre fortunate enough to get an-
other Mail, we shull’probubly receive n bushel of
papers with “news from all quarters” and the
President's .Message to hoot. t
OT Any oue who can give information as to
tho identity of the negro woman who claimed and
carried off a Rose Tree from on board the South
erner, on her arrival yesterday, will confer a fa-
vour upon the real owner, by leaving such infor
mation at this office.
to 130,006 tout per otinnim Ofthh Georg !• pro-
bahly ronsumes some 5000 tons or 10,000.000
lbs. which costs tint less than front $6 to #700,000
per annum, while tho mum amount of the same
article supplied from the West would cost but
about #350 to #400,000.
It is probable that the roads now In proems of
construction in this Suite, have consumed urwill
consume before their completion, at least 95,000
inns ofimii,which will cost more titan $2,000,000,
This amount which goes into tho pockets offer*
eiguors might to expended at homo if our inter*
nal communications were open. At ti ftilnre time
we shall complete the list of articles which ere
now purchased abroad, hut which could be deri
ved with infinitely more advantage from our sister
Puts*. The subject is nn endless one, nnd for
the present we can only take e passing glance at
it. The foreign trado to which the contemplated
state ofthinga would lead,cannot be easily compu
ted. Suffice it to say thntthe West will receive iu
exchange for Ute articles she supplies, those nu
merous articles which are now regarded os indis-
pensible, vis t stignr, coffee, tens, spices, silks,
wiiiRS,nnd fish, the mnnuftictores ofthe North and
of Greet Britain, and a thousand other articles
which it would be too tedious to enumerate.
Wo return Ute greeting of our neighbour of
tho fieargian, and we are happy to occupy at
least so fur ns Internal improvements ore con
cerned, the same ground which thatpnp'er main
tains. Oil this groat subject, we can work to
gether, nnd think together, and we cannot but
remember that the Georgian has, without any
doubt, done more hitherto towards disseminating
information in reference to the advantages of the
Western & Atlantic Rail Road than any other
paper in this State. Every well wisher of Ilia
Slate should advocate the cause of Internal Im
provements—ten thousand interestsdepcod upon
its advancement. Wliererer a Rail Road track
is laid down, Religion, the laws, schools and
academics, and all the blessings of industry ac
company it.
KP We nre informed os we reported lately,
that contracts have been taken to complete the
unfinished portion of the Savannah and Macon
Rail Road. This is the finishing stroke, which
secures the immediate completion of this great
work. Fifty miles more of the road could have
been contracted feron the same terms as that let
out between the Oconee nuil Mncon. lit every
section but one, the proposals fell below the esti'
mates of the Engineer. Contractors take their
pay in bond* of the company bearing 8 per cent
interest, nud payable in five years. A high compli
ment to the credit of the Company.
Import Duties of Great Britain.—A late number
of the Iktndon Commercial List, contains a re
view of the “ Report of the Select Committee of
the House of Commons, upon Import Doties."
The Report, which, it appears, i* a volume of
over 300 pages strongly recommends a change in
Custom House legislation. It states that 1J50
-articles nre subject to import duty, besides articles
unciiomeruted. Tho total amount of revenue
from those 11501s £22.902,610, nnd ooteffthis
amount nine articles ulono produced in 1838,
£18,575,071 .add ten uiore produced £1,838,630;
thus 19 urticles out of the 1150 produced £10,-
413,701, leaving 1131 articles producing, for such
a great numherl the very insignificant contribu
tion to the revenue of only £2,548,909 f
- ^omuiittee express a conviction that pro-
uties ure totally unproductive to the re-
d operate ns a very heavy tax upon the
' 'urge. Protective duties they -also
_ Jf but liltlo service to the parties pro-
protected. They recommend that, as
hie. the whole system of differ*
f all.restrictions, should -he re-
*Vit n change therein he effect-
—'ant existing interests may
Ir _. ibie in the transition to a
iquitable state of tilings,
jt expressed that the difficulties
discriminating duties which fii-
luoiion of British Colonial articles,
ch abated iflhe colonies were
J the benefits ofthe free trade
jitnesaes exnmincd before tlw
John M'Giegor, Esq., one of tho
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS IN GEOR
GIA.
We are waiting anxiously to see what action
our Legislature will take iu order to secure the
speedy construction of the Suite Rond. All the
means applied to that object shonld be efficaci
ous, nnd capable of a speedy application. State
Bonds having 30 years to run, will be of no avail
in these times. The present and future Legis
latures have before them the tnsk of repairing the
faults of their predecessors; and disagreeable as
it is, they cannot shrink from it without incur
ring the popular displeasure. The mind of the
people of Georgia is made up on this point, and
at their next elections, they will assuredly ex
press their condemnation of half-way measures.
Under the present exigencies, the recommenda
tion of Gov. McDonald is a good one to lay a
single track—and we -would add that this track
shonld be laid in the middle ofthe road-way.
This plan is suggested by the fact that if it
be placed in tlie middle, tlie heavy expenses
of repairing embankments incident to ail roads
of recent construction, will be saved to the
Suite, while at the same time all the busi
ness which will offer itself for the next ten years,
can be transacted on one track. Indeed, there
is hardly an assignable limit to the busiuess
which a single track of Rail Road can perform
under proper management. It would be a
rious reproach for this Legislature to incur, if it
were to stop short in tlie career marked out by
their predecessors—if after about $2,000,000
huve been spent in this great object, it should
fail to appropriate tlie other million reqnisite to
its completion. The advantages of the Western
A Atlantic Road Road have been so fully ex
plained again and again; every inhabitant of this
State is so entirely persuaded of its vast impor
tance, that to recur to them again is nlmost su
pererogatory. But let ua ^glance at them a mo
ment.
In order to comprehend fully the importance
of this subject, it is necessary to repeat the state
ment which bus often been made,that tlieproposed
communication opeustous a vn*t& fertilecoun
try, containing a population of 10.000,000 in hab
itant*. This simple statement alone would af
ford convincing proofthut tlie construction of our
Rail Road must be attended with prodigious re
sults—but Providence ha* «n ordered iu that the
interests of Georgia and those of tlie Western
States net interchangeably upon each other.
Tho leading articles of importation for interior
consumption are Bagging, R. Road &. oilier Iron,
Flour, Bacon, Ac.—odd these are the very arti
cles which are commanded by the Western & At.
lantic Rail Road. From tlie region lying adjacent
to East Tenuessec, we shall receive Iron nnd
Iron Castings, Flour, Bacon, Buckwheat, Ac.
Freni WesiTeunesseeand tlie country circumja
cent, we shall receive Bagging, Twine end Bale
Rope.
Nearly nil the bagging now used in this Sure
is imported from abroad. The ordinary crop of
cotton in Georgia may lie vniod ml 300,000 bog a,
in order to pack which 1,500,000 yards of bag
ging arc annually required at an expense of from
20 to 25 cents per yard. All this supply can be
furnished hy the West and of a superior quality,
the weight being half a pound more in the yard
than the imported bagging. It ia stated tliat in
Louisville, Ky., os many as 80,000 pieces of bag
ging have beeu received there in one year,and in •
single village in Kentucky, named Newport,
there have been manufactured in one year more
than 500,OOOjards.
It may be safely asserted that as soon as the
now lauds lying between the Flint and Chatta
hoochee, are brought under cultivation, tlie State
of Georgia will lie capable of producing an annu
al crop of400,000 bags of cotton, which will oc
casion a corresponding increased consumption of
tlie article of bagging.
The annual consumption of Hour in tlie State
of Georgia, is not less than 100,000 bbls. per an
num, which canuot cost less than $10 or $11 per
hbl. The annual expenditure under this head is
more than $1,000,000. We could supply our
from the West nt #5 or $6—which would
yield a saviug of half a million of dollars per an
num tolho Slate, end of course increase its actual
wealth by that amount.
Take (he article of Bacon. The annual con
sumption qfit is probably 10,000 lbs. which atpre-
sent prices does not cost less than $1,400,000.—-
When our lines of communication are opened it
could be procured at prices low enough to insure
•t suving of $400,000 nr $300,000 per annum
Iron. It is computed thut the consumption of
this article (both foreign and domestic) amount*
Mercedes of Castile.—A Romance oj the days of
Columbus, by the author of the Pathfinder.
We hnvc looked over the tiotices of this book
in the Northern papers, both Whig oud Tory,
with surprise and astonishment. Without an ex
ception, so far as we have seen, it has been toss
ed aside with expressions of contempt or deiisioit.
This proceeds, doubtless, from the long endur
ing hostility subsisting between the author nnd
the editors ofthose journals,ngninst some of whom
indeed, libel suits are still resting; but is this a
sufficient reason for condemning unheard or un
read a work professing to treat of a subject which
must interest every true hearted American, and
written by a man (whatever mny be his personal
faults) who was one of the first to add lustre aud
renown to the literature ofhis country.
We have more than once expressed oar dis
taste for Mr. Cooper’s political opinions, butonr
very difference on this subject, exncls a more ri
gid observance of the strictest rules of justice in
criticising a purely literary work—and even lean
ing to the side of clemency, if to either s hut there
is nn need of any such tenderness on our part,
for the work challenges the admiration of his
friends, and sets at defiance his bigotted enemies
The most respectable ofthe journals alluded to
(the Star and Times) says that Mr. Cooper has
clipped a few ynnng gentlemen nnd ladies from
pasteboard to stalk in stilts across the stage, Ac.
(We quote from memory.) Is this tlie way to
treat a book, tlie scenes and incidents of which
are drawn with almost historical accuracy, from
the grandest achievement ever accomplished on
this {earth, save only the crucification of Jesus
Christ. It is moreover eminently unjust Ne
ver was there a more distinct individuality given
to any characters than ia given in the principal
personages of this tale. Don Cliristoral Colon,
commonly called Columbus, is a creation of un
usual vividness and distinctness even in his per
sonal outlines. No one wills imagination enough
to embody the glowing conceptions of another
can fail to see iu his mind's eye, the stern and
ofty “ old admiral ofthe ocean,” who braved the
ridicule of the learned on shore, and subdued
single hauded tlie rebellious nnd almost vngabond
crews of his frail caravels amidst the storms and
tempest of unknown seas. The portrait of Isa
bella, it may he said, is borrowed from Prescot,
butthe difficulty which Air. Cooper had to con
tend with was just tlie reverse, viz. to draw a
true portrait nud yet avoid tlie beatcu track.—
This, we consider, he has done in many respects
and mainly in that, in which a novel admits of
such variation from historical outlines. She is
here drawu mostly in her domestic and homely
aud fire side associations, and most beautifully
do they cluster around tliat peerless brow.
Providence seems tn have selected the finest
models of onr race to whom was to be entrusted
the grand design of lifting the veil which land so
long shrouded one half the earth, and both the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Most gloriously
and (triumphantly docs our veteran novelist ex
pand upon this branch ofhis subject
The storm scene in the return voyage is mag
nificent, beyond description—the old veteran
rolls up the black clouds, and tosses the foam
and spray from beneath tlie prow of the frail ca
ravel after the manner ofhis proudest days—lie is
every inch a sailor.
lie is the real father of thip whole school of
novels, and Maryatt and Chnmier are mere co
pyists, and yet our own countrymen lend a hand
to rob him of these richly earned and hard bought
honors. Sh/lme, shame upon such degeneracy
of an iudependant press in a free country.
Again—the old tar, Sancho Mundo is) perhapi
the finest model of a genuine sailor modified to
suit the circumstances of the age,ou record. Long
Torn Coffin may bo a more attractive character
as he is a mtfte imaginative one, but we question
whether AI undo is not the truer sailor of the two.
The scenewbere he is introduced to Ferdinand A
Isabella,ns tlie bearer ofthe news ofthe triumphant
success of tho expedition, is worthy of the pen of
Cervantes. It is a perfect picture, and no real
painter could fail to group the various charac
ters of tliat scene with life like fidelity—Mundo
sitting upon his heels ofcourse in the foreground.
The utility of this hook does not stop with its
mere success as a novel, Mr. Cooper has thrown
n romantic interest aronnd a subject, which has
been too much neglected by our countrymen
Prescott's and Irving's works will now be read,
and we venture to predict that tlie sale of them
will double in the next year what they have ever
amounted to before.
On tlie whole, we consider (his die most diffi
cult subject to manage which a novelist ever un
dertook—in so much os it is very hard to trans
fer the interest of the story to the ocean over tlie
long outward end homeward hound voyages,
without transferring also the female character
to whom usually the interest attaches. Tho au
thor perceived this difficulty and remedied it as
far us possible, by his masterly working up ofhis
oceau materials. No one in this country hut
James Fennimore Cooper, could have achieved
half so much. In proportion to the difficulty of
Uie undertaking, is the honor of success, and if
he has only partiully succeeded, his reward will
be sure, aud his fume lasting* in spite of tlie tem
porary forgetfulness of the public press in their
duty botli to the author and their country.
The book is for sale by Col. Williams.
THE LEGISLATURE. '
Tta Bill to compel the Bunks of this Stile to
resume specie payments oil the 1st of February,
hns become a law. It passed tho Sonata on Tues
day, we are informed by our correspondent, by
a vote of 75 yons, to 5 nays. The bill will ho
round holow. We hopo tho Legislature will
now pass a law authorizing the Bnuki to issue
hills under the denomination of five dollars. We
are happy to see that tho suggestions thrown out
by us a few days since on this subject, has mot
tho concurrence or the Millcdgovillo Rocnrdor.—
Such a law would not only ho a benefit to tho
Banks, but would be tlie means of putting out of
circulation the numerous Individual ahinpiaslers
with which tho State is now flooded.
Our correspondent has sent us "a Bill to re
peal nn act to establish n general system of Edu
cation hy common schools, assented to on the
26th iff December, 1837. Also nn act to amend
an uct, to establish a general system of education
by common schools—and also to change the com
mon school fund in the 8lalo of Georgia, to that
of tho poor school fund, nnd to provide for din-
tributing tho satuo.” The Dill passed tho Sou-
nte with only lire dissenting voices and is now an
act. Its length prevents its insertion at present.
The bill providing means for carrying on the
Western and Atlantic Rail Rond, was tost in tlie
House on Monday, by a largo majority. We
shall refer to this subject to-morrow.
In looking over the journals ofthe proceedings
in the Afillodgevillo papers, we notice that Air.
Gordon hns introduced a Dili to incorporate tho
First Presbyterian Church of Savannah—that n
Bill has beeu passed to prevnnt persons from ob
structing the free passage offish in the Altaniahu
river, by gill nets end seines over 60 feet inlengtli
—that Air. King of Glynn, has introduced a bil*
to amend tho net of 1839, for laying out a new
road through Cauiden county, Ac.; nnd for es
tablishing a ferry across tlie Great Satilla river;
aud to establish a new road district in said county
—Uinta Resolution has been offered by Mr. Do
Lnunny, requesting our Senntnis and Represen
Natives iu Congress, to urge the immediate inves
tigation ofthe claims ofthe citizens of Uiis State
on the General Government, for losses, Ac. by
the depredations of tho Creek Iudians, during Uie
late Creek Iudian war, Ac.—also, a resolution
by Air. Stiles, which has been agreed to, for fur
nishing the Suratinnh Volunteer Guards with 80
muskets, on certain conditions—and that a bill, in.
(reduced by Uie same gentleman, Iim been pass
ed, to ascertain the constitutional qualifications
of voters nlclecliuns in tho county of ChnUiam,
nud to provide for Uie dotection of frauds at said
elections.
The Committee on Finance have submitted a
Report on the Treasurer's nnd Comptroller
General's Reports, which wns accepted.
The receipts into the Treasury for Uie present
political year have been $599,512 65, and the ex
penditures $508,987 78, leaving n balance
hand of $90,527 08. '
The committee report favorably on the condi-
of these offices.
They recommend that the vendue taxes now
given to Uie several cities, shall hereafter be paid
to the State. The tax on said licences paid iuto
Uie Treasury thisyear, has not amounted to $400;
whereas in former years it has amounted to
$9000, and never was less than $2000.
zeal id tin party nnd will soon join us. 1 fool
confident that the peophf of Charleston nnd Sa
vannah will ora long he found hauling on the
sido of justice and the Constitution, and then
they will do justico to the tnnti whose skill, pru
dence and coal so richly merits it.
In haste, youra, H.
COL HINES HOLT.
Judge Colquitt having resigned his noat In
Congress, the frionds of Harrison nnd Reform as*
sembled together, In this plaoe, on tho evening of
Thursday last, nnd luimliuiTd the gentleman
whose name heads Uiis article, nt (hair candidate
to supply the vacancy. Th: i nomination, tve
have no doubt, will ha responded to in every Mo
tion ofnur State. Col. Hines Holt haa already
acquired for himselfn name that, in the western
part, particularly, ofour State, ranks him among
the first of ourciUzeas as a gentleman of talents;
aud, we are perfectly satisfied, that, If honored
wife a seat in Congres, his tnlents will be felt and
appreciated there, ns wallas at home.
His opponent is the veteran, in politics, Gen.
Glascock. We presumo that this genilemnn hns
been nominated by Ids party, because ofhis being
decidedly the strongest man before the people
that the Von Buren men have in their ranks.
We fear not, however, to let the people decide
who is tho more worthy of their suffrages. But
while we do so, we must beg loavo to caution our
friends against inactivity. Tho exertions ofour
opponents to succeed ill electing Gon. Glascock
over Col. Holt, will not he surpassed hy their ex
ertions in nny previous contest. There will be
no *upinencM,no inactivity,no wantofnttendance
at the polls, with them. They are determined to
make a desperate rush, nud their forces will be
rallied in every quarter. If the friends of of Har
rison and Reform, he backward, why, they will
meet, as they will merit, defeat. YVe tell them
new, that the gentleman selected to run as the can-
didate of the porty, Col. Holt, is every way wor
thy of their most enthusiastic support. Wo hope
thnt he will receive it, nnd that his majority over
his opponent will bo as far up in the thousands, as
was that of Harrison over Van Buren.—MiUtdgt-
aille Journal.
Boston and Gano.—The great match race, or
rather the great mutch which " tras jist no race at
all." between these two lions ofthe day, came off
yesterday, over Uie Lafayette Course, and result
ed in the defeat of Geuo, in a single heat.—
Time, 7 minutes, 57 seconds. After which he
was drawn, and Boston took the " ready."
Although few were disappointed in the suc
cess of Boston, yet all expected Gano to Imve
madou more interesting nnd animated contest. It
was evident, however, tliat liff was "off his foot,"
far Ilia first beat yesterday wns not in as good time
by several seconds, os he mnde a heat last Spring
over tho same course. Notwithstanding Boston
wns the victor, it wns a contest by which he will
not add anything to his already nigh reputation,
for it was clear that Gano was not nbleto make
him run over any part of the ground.
Augusta ChronieU $ Sentinelfitkinst.
TV r.ll oft pin ml,hi liHVH hern hhhrJ. Until n
■lentil lih. .iliim'ii (K-rvntleri the IlMetiine i-reivil
liuriiislltn whnle nriil.nnlimitoilnnd.nilMrliii
■peech, wlilie leer, ran dmvnihoeheeh.nflhiiii..
end.. The maelln, ended, he wni conveyed lo
Id. eorrlMo end lehen heme, hut never eiein
upper!ml In public t hlldnethlhllawedaoiindir.
The enrpee we. emhowolled end kept tor Mil
dey.ln |lrt en WIJBffinfylo llieeineeii. from
Ute dUlenl perm ofilie glam lo render Ihe Inal
tribute of respect to his memory. They enmt hy
thousands and tens of thousands | the procession
wasnn hour and n hnlfln passing. The post of
honor among tlm military wns given to tho Con
cord Light Infantry, uuder Captain DnvMie
snnm who commandod them nn the ever momnr
able nineteenth if April 75. It wns the most so).
emtl and Intwatlntj'md Inenmpsralily life Iniinmf
Amaru procession I over ww. Samuel Adams,
who wns lieutenant governor, became governor
ox-officio hy the death of Haucoek, and followed
tho bier, (there were no hnarsus with nodding
plmnon in those days,) m chief mourner, but the
venerahlo patriot could not»eudure the fiitigite,
and wns cnmnollcd to retire A om tho procession.
Hancock, before tho Revolution, was a man of
vast fortune, and though he permitted it tn How
in the cause ofhis country, like water, he had still
enough loft to support a splendid establishment,
nnd lived and entertained like a prlnco. His gen
croslty wns unbounded. I well remember that
one evening in oach week during summer a full
hand of music, nt his own expense, attended in
front of his venerable atono mansion, to ontertain
the citizens who were promenading nn the mail.
Ho seldom left Boston tn visit at any distance, but
when ho did he wasescorlcdhy a volunteer troop
of cavalry, who hold themselves in readiness for
that purpose. He was very fend of a joke nnd
raparlce, so much so thata worthy citizen of Bos
ton, Nathaniel Balch, Eaq„ a hatter, who never
failed to appear among the invited guests nt his
hospitable hoard, obtained Ihe unenvied npnella
linn of ' the Governor's Jester.' The colelirated
Brissot, in his travels to the United States, speaks
ofhis meeting this gentleman at Hancock's table,
nud such was the mutual attachment between the
Governor and Air. Ilnlch, that iffllie former wns
ended awny, no matter what distance, Squire
Balch intended him like his shadow, which tho
following circumstance most hnppily illustrates t
Governor Hancock was called on a visit to tlie
then province of Afnino, on which occnsion he
travelled in state, nnd was attended by the linn.
Col. Orne, one of the Executive Council, and
Nathaniel Balch, Eoq. Theit nrrival nt Ports
mouth, New-Hatnpinire, wns thus humorously
announced; ' On Thursday last, arrived in this
town. Nathaniel Balch, Esq., accompanied by
His Excellency John Haucock, and tlie Hon. A-
zor Orne, Esq.
The events ofhy-gone days have been brought
to my recollection hy tho following short para
graph from the N. Y. Evening Star.
Valuable Belie.—We have had left ferns ntour
office for inspection, the original commission ap
pointing John Hancock first Alojor-Gnneral of
the Massachusetts Colony. It is dated May 30,
A BILL,
To be entitled an Act to compel the several
Bunks of this State to redeem their liabilities
iu specie, and to provido for the forfeiture of
the charter or charters of such as may refuse.
Section 1st. Be it enacted by Ihe Senate and the
House of Jleprcsentativcs of the State of Georgia, in
General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by
the authority of the same, Thnton tlie first day of
January, eighteen hundred and forty-one, llis
Excellency the Governor, shall issue his procla
mation, roqutring that tlie Mvfcral Banks of this
State, their branches or agencies, which have
heretofore failed to redeem their liabilities iu gold
and silver, and all other Batiks in this State,
shall, on or before the first day of February, eigh
teen hundred and forty-one, pay to any persons
(batiks or brokers exceptedliu specie, every hill,
note, draft, check, receipt, or money on depos-
ite, except -n cases where such ueposites are by
terms ofexistiug contracts, payable otherwise
than in specie, issued or received, or which
tnay hereafter be issued or received by them
respectively, upon demand or presentation;
and in case any of said Banks, their branch
es or agencies, shall, tbeii or hereafter, fail,
or refuse to comply with aud perform
tho requirement nloresaid promptly, then.
Hi* Excellency, tlie Governor, on due proof
thereof,is hereby authorized and required tn cause
judicial prnicedings to be instituted forthwith,
against such defaulting bank, in the Superior
Court ofthe connty, where tlie same is located,
to the end thnt the charter ofsucli Bank muy be
declared as forfeited aud annual, und the assets
ofthe same be immediately plnccd iuto the hands
of a Receiver, under adequate security, for tho
benefit ofthe creditors Uiereof: Provided, Tho
defaulting Bank shall not within five days nfter
such demand und refusal to redeem its bill or bills,
produce satisfactory evidence to His Excellency
the Governor, tliat there was an indebtedness
then due to said Bank by the person or persons
demanding specie,and equal to the uuiount then
demanded. - _
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid, That the Governor, iu his,discretion,
muy employ assistant counsel to aid the Attorney
or Solicitor-General in tlie successful prosecution
of such defaulting Bunk or Bunks, and compen-
sapj him or them out of nny monies in tlie Treas
ury, not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid, That the hills of such defaulting Bank
or Bauks, shall not be received in payment of
any public due or dues, into Uie Treasury of this
State or Central Bank, except those of the Cen
tral Bank of Georgia, which shall be receivable
only in payment of taxes and oUier dues payable
to the Stale or Central Bank.
[Correspondence of the Savannah Republican.]
CHARLESTON, Dec.8,1840.
Gentlemen,—
YVe have been compelled for tho last three
days to sing to the old tune of “ No mail North
of Weldon,'Consequently I havo no pnpers but
our own to forward you.
The YVhig dinner to Col. Preston on Thurs
day lust, was truly a grand affair, much surpass
ing my most sanguine anticipations. There
were over four hundred at Uie table, and many
were prevented from attending from various cau.
Preston delivered one of the best speeches I
have ever had Uie pleasure of listening to—it wns
a brilliant effort, and had his enemies been pres,
ent, he would have put them to shame! Hir en
chained Ihe altenUon of the audiouce for about
two hours, nnd we all regretted when he conclud
ed. One gentleman remarked Umt the Col. was
short, not having spoken more than thirty min
utes—lie was referred to his watch, and with tho
evidence before him, said Umt his watch had nev
er travelled so fast before. I hope that somo able
pen will endeuvor to give Uie public a sketch of
the proceeding* of the dny. Alcssrs. Pettigrue,
Legars and Dr. Robinson (of Augusta) also ad
dressed Uie meeting.
The Locos begin to tremble—Uioy are endeav
oring to rally their party, as the cry has gone
forth Uutt efforts are making to build up a whig
party here. In every part ofthe State the locos
are called on to aid in resisting the disorguniiers,
os Uiey are pleased to term us—hut it wont do—
"turn ubout is fair play,” and if wo are only true
to oursalves and adopt Henry Clay's sentiment,
“Union for Uie sake of tho Union," two years
lienee will find our beloved Carolina redeemed
and discnUirallod. Circumstances encourage us
—a good many locos have already abated in their
NORFOLK, Nov. 2.
Jms of ship Northampton, of and from Boston,
and sehr. Coreon,from New York.—The schooner
Richmond, Copt. Benjamin, arrived nt this port
yesterday from Nassau, (N. P.) In her came
passengers, Capt. Afnnn nud Mr. Jones,male,late
iff ship Northampton; from tho former wo learn
that he sailed from Boston on the 24th of Octo
ber last, with a cargo ice hound to New Orleans,
and wont ashore on Ginger Bread Ground on the
9Ui of November following; vessel and cargo lost;
passengers and crew saved. The passengers
sailed on Uie same day with the Richmond in the
brig Deborah, for New Orleans.
Mr. Leonard Carson one of the passengers,and
pnrt of tlie crew of schr. Corcou, also rame pas
sengers in the Richmond; from them we learn
Uiat the Corenn, with nn assorted cargo and 24
passengers, sailed from New York for Galves
ton anu was wrecked on Elulhera about Uie 1st
Nov. vessel lost, part of the cargo much dama
ged, nnd crew saved. The jwsseiigers willed on
the same day for Galveston, in the schr Helen, “
Bigby.
A Factory Burnt—The mill of Sylvnmis Hol
brook, Esn., of Northbridge, Alass., which wns
burnt on the evening of Friday, November 13Ui,
used for the manufacture of cotton and wool, was
formerly Uie property ofthe Northbridge Alann-
focturiiig Company. The maiu building was of
wood, and 160 feet iu length; an addition of60
feet long had been nude within a few years, aud
the whole was in good repair.
The fire broke out about seven o'clock in tho
evening, while Uie machinery was in operation
and Uie hands nt their work. It originated in the
upper story, where there were about 1400 potiuds
ofdry cotton.—One of the hatuls employed a-
pened Uio door of the Btove, in which coal was
used, for the nurposo of replenishing or regulat
ing Uiefire. A slight explosion of Uie coal took
place, a spark wns thrown out,'; the tlame kind
ling among Uio cotton, flashed along wiUi such
rapidity us to preclude all hope that it could be
extinguished. Within hnlf an hour Uie wlioh
building was on Are from foundation to roof, and,
from tho combusUble materials of the structure
nnd those within the apartments, sent up n lofty
sheet offlaine, which was seen from a great dis
tance.
There were 640 cotton spindles and 32 looms,
with all the usual apparatus A machinery,some of
which was nearly new, and all iu good condition,
nnd alarge quantity of cotton, wool, dyes, and
other materials. The stock of goods was saved.
The loss experienced by Air. Holbrook, who
is well known ns one ofthe most enternrisinj
and energetic of our manufacturers, is eslimatei
to bo about $20,000.
Common Carriers.—The liabilities of steam
boats ns common curriers, are thus Iniddown by
Judge Wore, of the Alaine District Court, in the
ense of Beuney vs. the steambont Huntress:
The owners of a Steamboat employed in corry-
ing passengers [nnd merchandize between pr ‘
and port, are responsible to shippers of goods
common carriers.
Common carriers must nt their peril deliver
goods which they carry, to the right persons, and
if they make a wrong delivery they will be res
ponsible for any loss which may be thereby occa
sioned.
It is the duty of the owners of goods to hnvi
them properly marked, and to present them tc
the carrier or hi* servants to hove them entered
in their books; nnd if he neglects to do itand there
i* a misdelivery and loss in conscqueuce, with
out nny fault of the carrier, he must bear ‘
loss.
But the carrier is not discharged from all res
ponsibility ns to the delivery hy such neglect, but
if there is a wrong delivery ora loss through any
want of reasonable caution on tho pnrt of tlie car
rier or his servants, he will be responsible.
JOHN HANCOCK—bv E.S. Thomas.
Hie memory of this great patriot, statesman,
nnd omtQr, has been most grossly neglected,
while hundreds, whose services in the enuse ol
Independence were not a tytlie ofhis, liavo been
.eulogized to tlio skies, nnd live on canvass and
in marble, this great patriot’s name hut seldom
find* a place, even when celebrating that free
dom he wus among the very first, if not the first,
to risk his life in obtaining. I have for years no
ticed this neglect with feelings of unfeigned re
gret. Never wns a matt more boloveff by nny
people than Hancock washy the people of Mas
sachusetts. With the exception of a single year,
when Uowdoiii was pul in, he was, for sixteen
successive yenrs elected their governor, and clos
ed his patriotic mid illustrimislife iu that high sta
tion, Hundreds of times have I seen him, when
so worn out and crippled by disease that ho could
not stand, taken from hiscarriago into Uie arms
of two faiUiful servants, (who regularly attended
for the purpose,) nnd carried up to the council
chamber, a distance of nearly fifty yards from Uie
street. The last time ho addressed his fellow-
citizens, was Uio most impressive scene I ever
witnessed. A town meeting wns called upon
question of great excitement. Old Fnneull Ha.,
could not contain tho poonln, nnd an adjournment
took place to tho Old SouUi Meeting House
Hancock wo* brought in nnd carried up into tho
front gallery, where Uie Hon. Benjamin Austin
supported him on the right, and Uio celebrated
Dr. Charles Jarvis upon Uie loft, when ho ad
dressed the multitude. Tho Governor commen
ced by stating to his fellow-citizens that ‘hefell'
it was the la*t time he should address them,—
tjot;the teals of mortality were growing fast within
utof uu
Y »u
larleston, at —
| percent! lMfilsdslp
. j. par ail per cent j
Specie PointiinmU A percent
MACON, DEG, 8.—Cotton, 8 a 0J
itUmii * '
from ilia 1st to the &th Inst, inclusive,
TALLAHASSEE, DBG. b.-Cotton Market. A,.
Ooiioii eouiiiiui-i to come In slowlyt there was not oils
hair as much boon brought in, as there was Uiis tl,„-
jtaggjMuillllui. K.iIimi,H|iecla
* APALACHICOLA, DUO, B....SI,icr our Itlt ti«
orrlr.l. or rollon Imvr born vory llmllrd, owlnfij
tho Mill nnort Won... nfiho rl.rr. Wo non on!
riporl Jll: bole, by Uio Ao|tulo, 176 by iho Tolloh,;.
I0«, oud 84 by Uio Louloo, ihe mill boot uTUilo morn-
bi|. nioklui fn thr ng|rr,„to 818 boln arrived ill™.
■MS- Vri*W«»r;neoiIntto inc.nlbnob.rebnrn
i'i , T J le -lo-tjk on bond on Unturdoy wai 1008
bales, which leaves 800 bales not cleared.
During the three last days there have been more
** j° r lo ‘! lllBn •* * n J purled since the season
commenced, and w« do not think we exaggerate.
H^ a .9V a IS ^V tock ! n th ® m,rkM « bales,
iliiir. in" 1 Ho,lt,ei Jiy® thus far. bean the largest
°n Monday this house soldlOO
5S A i 9 * < * nu 'P eor gh- Which Is the best price for
the season. Lockhart and Young sold a lot of 18 bales.
Inferior at 8| cents, which see ail the sales we cant
report, and which tend to create the impression ths
It/TESSRS. RDITORd—I noticed in yourpe.
"S' P« r ofMtinday, under Uie Baltimore head
ofthe 2d December, the report ofthe baraim
Alary, Captain Myrick, aud presumed by the re«
port Uiat it was the same vessel that I came In
nnnliol ur ill. 6k. ...... I J ..An .. »•
contact with to the northward
in lut.j3610, long. 75, on Uie evening of the 9
ult. Iu reading Capt. Myrick’. report, I noticed
thut some part of it was not correct, which cnlls
my attention to another more minute nnd partic
ular report, stating facta aa they occurred, as I
wish on my part for the truth and nothing but the
truth to come before the public. On Uie nicht
above mentioned it was my watch on deck from
8 to 12? I was steering 8. 8. YV. with a strong
breeze from YV. N. YV. to strike soundings of the
land in 36—at 10 P. M. sounded, rnn 18 fatboina
line and no bottom at that depth—at 10 minutes
past 101 left the quarterdeck and went forward
on the main deck nenr the mainmast, there I met
one ofthe watch on the look-out, near him was
A Punster in Fredericksburg.—A short time
since the Arena gave as “B.'s last” that Air.
Van Buren wns only certain of one State—the
future state. The same paper of Friday gives
another "Inst" pun from “11." “At a meeting
of t he Old Dominion Tippecanoe Club, a call
wns made for a contribution of twenty-five cents
frQm each member, to liquidate arrearages. Our
friend B. said it was the first time he ever heard
of a victorious party culling for quarters."
SAVANNAH CITY BANKS.
Planters' Bank State of Georgia.
Capital paid in 9533,400.
G. YV. Anderson, Pres’t. J. Marshall, Cashier.
N. W. J. Bullocii, Teller,
Directort.
fR. Scott,
J G. Anderson,
1 W. H.Cuyler.
G. YV. Anderson.
J. C. Nicoll,
F. Sorrel,
YV. P. Hunter,
Offering Day :
Tuesday. ,
Marine and Fire Insurance Bank.
Capital 6400,000.
E. Padelford, President. James 8mith, Cashier.
G. YV. Hunter, Teller.
Diteount Day .-
YVednesday.
E. Padelford,
E. Reed,
G. Hall.
J. Lewis.
Directors.
Directors meet daily.
( J. YVi
J A. Cl
a,
YVashburn.
Champion,
Kollock.
Central Bail Boad and Banking Company.
Capital 63.000.000—paid in 62,015,865.
YV. YV. Gordon, President. R. R. Cutler, Cashier.
J. Olmstead, Teller.
YV. YV. Gordon,
J. P. Henry,
K. Habersham,
L. Baldwin,
I. Cohen,
Offering Days !•
Monday and
Thursday.
fH McAlpio,
‘ B. Snyder,
F. A. T upper.
J. YV. Anderson.
discount Days .-
Tuesday and
Friday.
Bank State of Georgia.
Capital 61,500,000—appropriated to Savannah
6450,000.
YV. B. Bulloch, President A. Porter, Cashier.
I. K. Tefft, Teller.
YV.B. Bulloch.
M.H. McAllister,
J. Millen,
G. Schley,
H. Roser,
Offering Dayt
Thursday.
t J.YV. Jackson,
P. Densler,
J. B. Gaudry,
H. Smith, .
J. Balfour.
Hscount Day:
j Friday.
INSURANCE OFFICES.
Savannah Insurance and Trust Company.
Capital 6500,000—with the privilege of extending it
to 61,000,000.
J. P. Hrnrt, President. 8. C. House, Secretary.
J. P. Henry,
G. B. Camming,
YV. T. Williams,
G. B. Lamar,
E. Padelford,
F. Sorrel,
J. H. Burroughs,
H. Harper,
A. Porter,
R. R. Cuyler,
R. A. Lewis,
L. Baldwin,
(one vacancy.)
Georgia Insurance aud Trust Co., <f Augusta.
Capital 61,000,000.
Padelford, Fat k Co., Agents.
JEtna lusurance Company, Hartford,
Capital 61,000,000.
Cohen, Miller k Co., Agents.
Augusta Insurance and Banking Company.
Capital 6500,000.
YV. Duncan, Agent
: Company,.
Capital 6300,000.
S. C. Dunnino, Agent.
Hartford Insurance Company.
Capital 6200,000.
YV. Wooddridoe, Agent
Phasnix Office, London.
R. IIar. iisiiam. Agent.
CUSTOM HOUSE.
A. B. Fannin, Collector.
R. Mackey, Naval Officer.
T. 8. YVayne, Surveyor.
0 V 's“\m., j ApprnUer,
J. George,
W. Star,
J. B. Davies,
W. YV. Wash,
I. D’Lyon,
M.H.
fW.J. Moore,
! A.C. Davenport,
J. Chadbuurn,
H. Knapp.
J. A.Tnomaa.
McLeod, Htore-keeper.
R. G. Wallace, YVelgher aud Guogor.
T.C. Rudolph, Commander Cutter Crawford.
YV. T. Baker, Keeper Tybee Light Houaes,
-■■ * ~ ' Lf *
William Craig, Coin'r. Floating Light.
Dr. It. D. Arnold, Inspector Marine Hospital.
SAYANNAH POST OFFICE.
G. Schley, Post Master.
W.G. Latimer, Assistant Post Master.
Northern Mail.
Due 0, A. M.dally. Closes 18,M. dally.
Augusta Mail.
Due dally, at 4P. M. Closes daily, at 7 F. M,
for Augusta and Hamburg, S. C. For all
- other offices on the route at 0, P. M.
IVestem Mail, via MilledgeviUe. Macon, oud Co•
lumhus, to New-Or leans.
Due daily, at 4, P. M. Closes dally for the above
offices at 7, P. M. Por all other offices nn the
routo at 0, P. M.
Southern Mail.
Due on Monday .Wednesday and Friday atll P.M.
Closes on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 10,
Commercial Journal.
standing 4 passengers, tlie other men belonging
ill was forward near the long boat; I
to the tvateh was Torward near the long
stopped some 3 or 4 minutes, talking with those
passengers, during this time there was no sail die-
covered; I then went into the cabin, 1 observed
to the watch before I went, tn keep a good look
out, I was in the cabin not lo exceed 5 minutes,
and was about to return on deck when the watch
to the leeward cried nut, n sail close aboard on
jhe lee bow, hard dowu tho wheel, the holm was
imm.-dintely put down, by this time I got on
deck and as fur forward aa the fere rigging, at this
moment the two vessels was nearly in contact,
the LaGrange's top sails took aback and stopped
her head wav, so much that the LaGrange did
not hit the Mary but once, and tliat was on the
starboard bow head or near the foremast, which
carried away the L's jib boom, fore top most in
the cheuvehole. bob stay heads, head rails, cut
water, starboard cat head and sprung her bow-
sprit; at this moment Capt. M. asked me to stay
by him, hut not till morning os he reported, my
impression was at tho moment that the two ves
sels would stay and sink together—but fortunate
ly both vesseis made a stern board and cleared
each other.
YVhen I was a sufficient distanco off to clear
theM. I wore round on the starhonrd tack and
trimmed my ship tn the wind as well aa I could,
in the state she was in. In wearing ship I found
thnt I could not work my head yards, say fora
and feretopsoil yards, ns the feretopgallant
mast, feretopgallant yard, rails, rigging nnd cross-
trees hung upon the foretopmiiryard in such a
mass that I could not work them, iny jibboom,
jib and foretopmast staysail all hnnging at the
same time under Ihe bow. At this time I was
passing under tlie stern of the M„ within hailing
distance, at this moment Capt. M. hailed and
asked me where I was from and where bound.
I told him I was from New-York nnd hound to
Savannah, hut he did not nsk the nume of my
■hip; that I refused to tell him, as he states in
his report ? it is not correct. After he had ask
ed me where I wns honnd, I asked him if his
■hip iaaked, and he replied a little; hy this time
we were out of hailing distance, my ship in such
a confused state, 1 did hot deem it pruSutovrllw
tempt to put my ship on the Inrboanl tuck for the
n ose of Ijing by ; therefore 1 hauled io for
md to got under the lee in shoal water, for
fear mv ship should prove to lonk badly, hut for-
lunutely she remained tight. If Capt. M.hod
asked me to stay hy him when he asked where I
wns bound, and that his ship was in a dangerous •
situation and leaked badly, I would have stayed
by him ^is well os I could nt all hazards. But hi*
only reply to me, wps timthisship leaked a little;
I tank it lor granted thut his ship was out of
danger, and I stood in for the land on the wind
as near as I could trim my head yards. I did not
put my holm up nnd keep on my course as be
fore without paying nny attention to him, as he
reported; it is not correct. I repent that I con
sidered his vessel out ol danger, or in other
words, as safe as I was, so far as life was con
cerned. Capt. M. reports thut I wns running
free before the wind. I nm not nware what
Capt. M. means by this renmrk; but I presume
lie means to convey tlie idea that I wns before the
wind, but he is mistaken; I wns not. 1 was
running SSYV, tho wind wns tVNYV, nndmy
yards nearly braced up. Strange ns it may ap
pear, but so it was, that we did not on our part
discover his vessel in time to avoid him. Whst
ho saw of us before coming in contact I know
not. I am unable to say who isto blame In this
case, for it is one of those kind of accidents ofthe
moment thnt there was no time for reflection to
take die most prudent precaution; but it would
beinhumnno and unreasonable to suppose for a
moment that, any vessel would run into another
in a gale of wind at sea, or at any oilier time, if
it could he avoided.
Savannah, Dec. 10. J D. L. PORTER.
PASSENGERS
Per steam packet Southerner, from Charles
ton—Mrs Clark, Madame Pnyott nnd servant,
Messrs Barker, Smith, Collect,Barton,J RJohn
son, YVood, Frazier, Forrance,E Johnson, Hough
ton, Babcock, Cheves.
. Per steamboat Florida, from Black Creek—
Mrs Cooper, Col Hopkins, Messrs R King, 8 A
Honker, E Clark, J Chapman, Myers.
Shipping Intelligence.
PORT OF SAVANNAH.....DEC. 10.1840.
ARRIVED.
Schr Columbia, Baker, Boston, 9 days; to
YVhite & Bartels. Mdzo to YV & J YV jtemi-
hart, A YVood & Co, L Baldwin & Co, Geo B
Cummins, YV H Smith, L YV Bates, Lewis A
Wilder, J B Gaudry & Sons, S D Corbitt, S
Philbrir.k & Co, W Hole, E Bliss & Co, R M
Goodwin, R jinborshum & Son, T Purse, O
Johnson & Co.
Sloop Levant, Raphael, Ogcecheo. 3400 bush
els Rough Rice to K Habersham & Son.
Sloop Visitor, Eaton, Ogeechee. 2400 bom*
els Rough Rico to YV Patterson & Co.
Steam packot Southerner,YVan1llersiB.Chane»•
ton. Specie and Mdzo to M M Clark, N A Hsr-
dee, Duncan&Kain, FA Hamilton. .
Steamboat Florida, Nock, Black Creek- 11
bales Cottou to R & W King, U W Anderson &
Brother.
Steambodt Johu Randolph, Crokar, Anguf*/
with boats 1 & 4 to C F Mills. 048 bales Col
ton to Lewis & YVildor, Crawford & Gunby, 1»
Harper, C C Gardner, and to order. ..
U 8 steampr Beaulort, Hunter, Pilatka, to v
S Qr Master.
AT FIVE FATHOM, . , , ...
Brigs Now Hanover, Curly, ftn PhlUdolphWi
and G B Lamar, Risley, fm Now York.
DEPARTED.
Steam packet Southerner, Wambersie, Chari® 1 *
ton. . .
Stoainboat Cincinnati, Smith* Pilatka.
LATX8T DATES.
From Liverpool, Nov. fl.—From Havre, Nov. 3.
Saturday and to-day has not been so [animated as at
oor lost rcporte-The queotliy arriving is very small
MOBJLF, Dm. 4.-Ar .hip. Hnrri-l Bock
wall, Uitjdon, N Yorki Plymouth, Fuller, B*
loin BiiwiiimCiiirmiiiijii, Suitor, PorUoiM" 1 '
brig Snrmiiia, Bodoll, N York. .. .
NEVV-OHLEANS. Doc. 3,-Ar .hlpi M -ir
.ippl, Hillard, N Yorki lti.lto, Adam., BwOT;
I.aao Nowton, Spaulding, Ll»orpool|Mo»acliu<-
oils, Wilson, Boatoo; burque Noble, Brown»
AUGUSTA. DEO. 7^C.«.,-Tk. „,.,k« on
Havre,