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all at a glance—l felt I was in the true po
etic mood—l had ‘struck the right streak,’
and I was impatient to begin; my whole in
tellectual man was wide awake.
Well, sir, leaning my back against a tree,
with an old plank on my knee fora writing
desk—my head thrown back—one eye res
ting upon the ruins of the old house, the
other (for I squint a little-a very little, sir,)
cast upwards upon the expanded firmament
deeply blue—l essayed to begin.
A thought passed rapidly through my
mind, I dashed my pen at the inkstand with
desperate effort, but before l succeeded in
fishing up the ink, the thought had gone. I
‘tried every means, Mr. Editor, to coax it
hack l would try to think what it was, and
what it was about, but the harder I would
try the farther off it would seem to get —and
then I would scent to be careless about it,
to see ifit would not pop up again of its own
accord —and sure enough L could catch an
occasional glimpse of it, but as soon as 1
would try to gather the whole, all was gone
again.
It was certainly, Mr. Editor, the most
coy and coquetish idea, or thought, imagin
able. It was certainly very pretty —I was
very much reminded by it, (and laughed
heartily at the comparison) of what I have
often seen and been amused at while travel
ling. On approaching a house you will of
ten perceive a girl peeping n? yr>u through
the crr.cks, or just around the side of the
door, or the corner of the house, anil just as
soon as she perceives your eye upon her she
is off—and as long as you keep your eye on
the crack, ortho door, or corner, she is not
to be seen, hut only turn your head another
way, or make out that you are not noticing
her,and look again, aiuClo! she is there—but
gone again, as soon as she perceives she is
noticed. Well, it was just so with my
thought on that day, sitting on the rock, and
looking on the old house. It was so coy and
modest, that though its first appearance was
prepossessing, yet I could not succeed by
any sort of mental tnanoevre in bringing it
back again long enough to take in its whole
outline, and reduce it to paper, tio its gone,
and you and I none the wiser.
“There is a tide in the affairs of men which
taken at the flood, leads on to glory.” Now,
I believe the above quotation most heartily;
and I believe also its opposite, that though
in our lives the tide.may conic, yet if we do
not take it at the right time—at the flood—
no glory will he ours. I found it just so,
Mr. Editor, in my poetical effort. The tide
had set in—it had set in, too, most rapidly—
it was at the flood. But because I had
no ink in pen, the moment passed—tin
thought was gone, on which most assuredly
turned my whole future glory as a Poet.
And now, sir, lam just where I was b f ‘fore
and l fear I shall never have such another
chance. If I should, however, I will try to
be ready the next time, and if I do succeed
■after all, why you will hear from me again.
“BOOTS.”
. May 5, 1842.
Written for the “Southern Miscellany.”
THE LIVING AND THE DEAD!
u
And all the dead forgotten lie.”
oi.n HYMN.
I do not expect the power of this article,
(in writing which I have snatched a few mo
ments from the business of the day) will
sound as loud as Gabriel’s trumpet, which
it is said will arouse both “small and great.”
But if my feeble blast will only startle some
sleepy soul I shall be amply satisfied.
A great many people are now living, who
may rest assured they are now dead. 1
count all those dead whatsoever—who are
in health, and are doing nothing, but eating,
drinking and sleeping, support an imagin
ary existence which they call life; or in
dressing and adorning those shadows and
apparitions which are looked upon by
the vulgar as real men and women. In
short, whoever resides in this world without
any apparent .business in it; and pass away
an age without ever thinking on the errand
for which they were sent hither.
The living are only those who are lauda
bly employed in the improvement of their
own existence, and who act for tiie advan
tage of others.
Ait intelligent gentleman in Alabama be
lieved in this doctrine and on being asked
by a neighbor how old lie was—“about
twenty years” was the reply. “Twenty
years I” said his astonished friend, “why I
have knovvu you twenty years—and you
were upwards of twenty years old when
you came amongst us.” “True,” was his
answer—“l count the time I lived in North
Carolina nothing—so I am a little upwards
of twenty years old.” The frost of fifty
winters had bleached his head and furrowed
his cheeks, yet he felt that ho had not actu
ally lived as long as he had existed.
There may be very many well disposed
persons who live puaceably in their habita
tions who are not yet born; or who have
departed this life many years ago—and
whose ghosts are occasionally seen moving
about—it may happen that their feeble sight
may glimpse this article—if so, my design
is to encourage both to join themselves as
soon as possible to the living. It is true
these are hard times, and we also hear or
read of persons who were “born out of due
time;” there are also times—when people
are fickle minded—and suffer in feeling,
scarcely knowing what to do—like a neigh
bor of my old friend, Uncle Henry K
which the old gentleman relates with so
much vivacity, that it loses its beauty in be
,ing told second hand. Someone had ac
cused him of being fickle minded—humph!
said lie to Uncle Henry—l may well be
fiekled minded—l reckon they would he so
too, if thtjy were in my situation—“l am in
fickle minded circumstances /”
QUAH!
Mr. Editor : You will please let me say
to your readers that I have not forgotten my
promise to give them the second chapter of
the “ Politician in Petticoats,” in which I
promised to print the old lady’s Poetry.—
1 ho manuscript lias been mislaid : as soon
a* it is found, I will write out the balance of
“ur conversation, which, to me, was quite as
interesting as that already written.
• Yours truly,
JOSHUA SWIPES,
tamacraw, May 6, 1842.
MADISON, GEO :
Saturday, Itlay 7, IBIS.
Ci'r’ Our day of publication is changed
from Tuesday to Saturday. This is done
for greater convenience to ourselves, as well
as to issue our sheet on a day more agreea
ble to our readers. This arrangement is
permanent; and we shall endeavor to furnish
our subscribers in the county by twelve
o’clock on the day of issue.
05*“ Since the commencement of ourpa
pgr vve have been sending it to a number of
individuals who were not subscribers, with
a request that those who did not feel dispos
ed to take it would return tile first number.
Several have returned the paper as request
ed—and we have entered the names of those
who have kept them on our Mail Book, and
consider them subscribers. They will,
therefore, please comply with our terms, by
remittingihe “small amount” without delay.
ACCIDENT.
As the coach belonging to the Defiance
Line, was this morning coming from the
Depot, with a load of nine passengers, the
wheels came in contact with a piece of tim
ber, on the corner occupied by Mr. High,
the coach was thrown over and five of the
passengers injured. Mr. Glenn, of Mc-
Donough, Mr. King, of Alabama, and an
elderly gentleman from South Carolina, Kel
ly ; and two others slightly. Fortunately,
however, il is thought that all will soon re
cover. We understand that no blame can
attach to the driver or proprietors of the line
for want of proper precaution. The mis
fortune was the result of pure accident.
THE NEXT PRESIDENT.
Our readers need not be startled at our
caption,—we stick to our “olive branch,’
and we have no idea of running up any other
flag, or of taking up the cudgel for any man,
or party. We propose to treat our subject
rather as an “abstraction,” and intend to
make our remarks abstiact enough to pre
vent the least party suspicion. We know
that politicians’ corns are very tender, and
we shall take especial cate not to step on
them. We shall not assume the prophet,
and undertake to say, who is to be our next
president; for we consider it a question in
volving as much doubt as “whether at our
elections, the rotes of faction should he govern
ed by the bias of jurisprudence or internal
suggestions.”
We know of nothing unless it he making
money, which so much engages the mind of
the American people as President making.
Ever since we have known any thing of
politics—the great question which has kept
the people in an almost uninterrupted excite
meut, divided them into hostile and conten
tious parties, separated neighbor from neigh
bor, and friend from friend, and even kindred
from kindred—has been, “who shall be the
next President 1” Each party has contend
ed for its favorite, with as much venom and
violence, and implacable enmity, as if the
salvation of the country, beyond a doubt,
depended upon the election of their man.
The whole mass of popular mind has thus,
during every presidential canvass, been
lashed into alempest of party fire and fury.
The bad passions of men have been suffered
to rage without restraint, and the kindlier
feelings of the heart, have been, at least for
the time, stifled and blighted; Scurrility, in
vective, threats, maledictions and curses,
have been poured out by each party upon
the other, in indiscriminate wrath. The
purest and best, as well as the lowest and
vilest, have shared alike in this vengeful and
ruthless warfare. And scarcely is the suc
cessful candidate inducted into office, when
the campaign opens for his successor; the
defeated party “rallies” and “organizes,”
and “comes to the rescue,” to retrieve the
fallen fortunes of their leader; and the other
“rallies” and “organizes,” and “comestothe
rescue” to prevent it; and the country must
again he convulsed, and the same scenes of
vindictive and protracted strife he re-enact
ed. No act of a State legislature can he
passed, until the party in a majority have as
certained how it will effect the prospects of
their candidate for “the next President.”
The fitness of any man for an office, wheth
er high or low, depends upon his choice for
“the next President;” and we have known
many who judged of the integrity and vir
tue of a fellow citizen by bis adherence to
their favorite for “the next President.” This
is fact and within the experience of us all.
’Tis true, we have enjoyed comparative
peace for the last few months, but we fear it
is a delusive calm, and only a harbinger of
the approaching storm. Pat ties are alrea
dy sounding their watchwords, choosing
their leaders, and marshalling their legions;
and we may expect soon to see our beloved
country again arrayed against he’rself in a
conflict which will spread through every
portion of her fair territory, the roar and
clamor and commotion of party warfare, and
which will shake the Temple of Freedom,
perhaps to its fall. Who can contemplate
such a scene without ill-boding? Who that
has one lingering spart of patriotism, can
see his country distracted and alienated, and
a mighty people, like our;, making alle
giance to a party leader the only passport to
each other’s favor, without fear. No repub
lic can exist without harmony, forbearance,
and affection, and if our free government, j
the envy of tyrants and the boast of free- j
men, is to be overthrown, and furnish a last
and conclusive example of the incapacity
of man fin- self-government, party spirit
will be the demon of its destruction. We ,
do not object to a preference us one man to I
another for office, or to the existence of par- ,
ties in politics, or to a vigilant watch upon
our rulers, or to thorough information
among the people upon all matters of public
importance. This is to be commended and
encouraged. In truth, we deem it as indis
pensable to the safety and proper adminis
tration of a republican government, that
parties should exist. Where the people
govern, it is important that those who are
chosen to official trust should be under then
watchful supervision—that any assumption
of power or unjust legislation may meet its
proper reward. Man is proud, aspiring,
and fond of power; and rulers, in their am
bition for self-aggrandizement, will shape
their conduct for the promotion of their own
ends unless rebuked by the voice of the!
people. And it is natural that there should
be a difference in popular opinion upon the
conduct of rulers and questions of public
policy; and the effect of this diversity of
sentiment, so long as it is candid and honest
and temperate, is salutary upon the admin
istration of government. But what we
reprobate and condemn is, party spirit run
ning riot—making the “ next Presidency”
the great object of life—party of more con
sequence than the country —villifying and
denouncing another because his opinion up
on some public measure, or choice of men
for office, may differ from ours—taking the
opinions of our favorite leader as the rule of
our conduct, without examining their truth,
arid branding another as a fool or traitor, i
who thinks for himself—setting up the dem
agogue instead of the patriot, and treating
his loud and empty professions as the lan- 1
guage of honest conviction and patriotic
‘zeal—severing the ties of friendship—scat-1
tering the seeds of discord among families !
and neighborhoods—heaving the nation with j
its mighty throes of passion, and provoking ‘
the retribution of Heaven! It is this that
we fear, and against this that we raise our j
humble voice. Party spirit may be viewed j
as harmless—it may he argued that our es- ,
cape from its violence in past contests, in
sures our safety in future. We think not.
God grant that the error may never be dis
covered in our country’s irrecoverable ruin.
AGRICULTURE.
We refer our readers to an article under I
the head of “The Farmer,” from the
“GleaningsofHusbandry,” in which allusion
is made to a call upon the people of Geor
gia for an Agricultural Convention. We
hope the call will he responded to, and such
a convention will he held. We wish to see
the attention of our planters aroused to
their own interest and the interest of the
commonwealth. The low price of our sia- ‘
pie product, and the comparatively small
yield in many portions of the State, have
rendered the farmer disheartened and dis
contented. And many have broken up old
associations, left the home of their early
j days, and encountered the privations and
| disappointments of anew country, in order
to obtain better land. It need not he so.
The wide field for improvement in the art.!
of tillage, and the almost incredible success !
which has attended the experiments of sev- 1
oral intelligent plantersof an adjoining State,
and upon a soil more sterile than our own,
proves that all Georgia needs to make her
soil as productive as when the forest was
first cleared from its surface, is, to lay hold
of tjio means of improvement. Let those i
who have examined the matter, and inform
ed themselves, and know what can be done
—let them get the people together, and tell
them where their interest lies, and convince
them, by facts, of the practicability of add
ing threefold to the productiveness of their
land. Let there be a State Society formed,
with an auxiliary in every county. Establish !
an Agricultural Newspaper, through which
•the results of experiment and experience ,
shall be made public—any information gain- ,
ed by one shall become the common stock
of all. Let there be sti*ted meetings and
addresses, and public sentiment enlightened,
and public feeling animated. Hardly any
subject that could be agitated is of more
importance to every class and every indi
vidual of society. Not a trade or profession
that does not rest upon Agriculture as its
basis. Scarcely a comfort or luxury of life
for which we are not dependent upon Agri
culture. And if there is an occupation
which affords a happier or more ennobling
exercise for the mind, or which is more safe
and independent and honorable in its char
acter than any other, it is that of Agricul
ture.
THE FLORIDA WAR.
The Savannah Republican thinks this war
is about coming to a close. Perhaps so;
and we hope so. But wo have been so often
and so long told of its speedy termination,
that our hope is exceedingly faint. For the
last four years, we have again and again re
ceived news from Florida that the Indians
were “coming in,” and that the war was
“ about closing/’ and ns often been disap
pointed. By recent intelligence it appears
that Col. Worth is conducting himself like
a brave and faithful officer, llalleck Tustc
nuggee has been defeated, his village de
stroyed, and his provisions taken. His war
riors have suffered extremely; and he has
had an interview with Col. W. and proposed
to surrender. Ilis people, amounting to
sixty or seventy, at the latest accounts were
within nine miies of our camp, and were in
a day or two expected within the lines.—
Tustegee and his nephew have also been
killed by a detachment under C'apt. Van
horn. But chiefs have been killed before,
and others have risen up to fill their places;
negotiations have been held before for
“coming in” and “surrendering,” and only
to gain time for restand to prepare for fur
ther operations. And should this intelli
gence prove to be equal to our hopes, and
the war for the twentieth time “close” —no
sooner will the inhabitants of the territory
begin to* feel secure, ami our troops abate
their vigilance, than Sam Jones, or some
other chief hitherto unknown, will emerge
from his haling place and commence again
the work of murder, and plunder, and de
struction. At least those are our fears; and
judging by the past, wo have reason for
them.
This war has so long been a subject of
animadversion, that our Government has
ceased to regard the complaints of the people.
The armed force which has been heretofore
sent into the territory has been unequal to
its wants. Men have been fighting and dy
ing, and mm ey has been lavished upon these
Florida campaigns; and all to tickle our
ears with the “oft told tale,” that the “In
dians are coming in.” In the name of Hea
ven! how many more of our gallant little
army are to find a grave in Florida? llow
many more millions of our treasure are to
be wasted upon this ignoble and disgraceful
contest!
DIS A PFOIN TME N T.
“ Disappointment sinks the heart of man,”
was one of our old'copy scrawls, and often
in our subsequent experience, have we been
reminded of its truth. How few of the
hopes which we cherish and the plans which
we form in this world, do we realize. \Ve
fix our eye upon an object, and set our heart
upon its attainment—it is the subject of our
care and solicitude—of our meditation by
day and our dreams by night—and although
our bitter experience may have taught us
that nothing in prospect is sure, hope cheers
us by the delusive brightness which she
throws upon the future, until disappoint
ment casts her cold shadow upon our path,
and dashes away the cup of pleasure of
which we have so long enjoyed the foretaste,
and sadness and despondency come over the
spirit, and make us sick of the world and
tired of life. In the pursuit of an avocation
on which we rely for subsistence for our
selves and those dependent on us, we form
some plan, which, in every view we take, is
practicable, inviting, and full of promise.
In happy anticipation of success, we enter
upon its execution, and some untoward and
unlookcd for event baffles our designs, and
blights our hopes. ‘ \Ve have, perhaps,
friends, whose professions we regard as sin
cere and true, and vve feel that in the hour
of need, their friendship will bear the test;
of misfortune and come to our aid; and
when our troubles are known, and the affec
tion they have professed is to touch their
reputation or their purse, tliey fly and leave
us to our fate. Such is the world and the
people who inhabit it. But we can summon
fortitude to meet the great misfortunes of
life—rt is the comparatively unimportant—
the petty, trivial disappointments and trou
bles that vex the spirit and corrode the heart
—little annoyances, known only to our
selves, and which make us think our situa
tion peculiar, and that vve of all others are
most liable to misfortune, such as, for exam
ple, the disappointment to ourself and our
subscribers, the last two weeks, in not re
ceiving the Vignette and new dress which
vve have purchased for our paper. It was
shipped, at New Yotk, on the 19th of last
month, but vve have been diappointed so
often, vve can only try to possess our soul in
patience tiii it arrives. We will have it, if
we are obliged to purchase again.
tt?” The following exquisite “gem” re
cently met our eye, and vve consider it too
rare a production to pass unnoticed. It ap
pears that some youth who had arrived at
the third of Shakespeare’s “seven ages,”
and was gifted with the genius poetic, had
found himself ensnared by the tender pas
sion. With a heart surcharged and suffer
ing for relief, he invokes his muse and in
dites this delectable effusion:
TO SALLY.
Solly Dumpkino ore the gal
What I do most odd mire
I kol her mi sweet chormin Sal
And imo hur Zephaniah
There! If any of our young readers aro
in a state of feeling which is “ werry pecoo
lier,” end wish a surfeit of sweet sensibility,
let them just read those four lines,
C/ 8 * Gur article on tho “Right of Search,”
will appear next week.
TROOPS FOR RHODE ISLAND.
The Baltimore American of tho 2d inst.,
says : “ The steam boat Georgia yesterday
brought up from Old Point Comfort two
companies of United States Artillery, num
bering about one hundred and fifty men.
They are Company Iv, Captain Nichols,
and Company 11, Captain Seddewick, the
whole under command of Colonel Fanning.
These troops have been ordered to Rhode
Island by the President of the United States,
and left this city in the mail cars for Philu
delphia, yesterday evening at 7 o’clock.”
CT? 0 The new 18 gnn brig “Bainbfklge”
is to bo launched at Boston immediately.
She is to he fitted out as speedily as possible
for the coast of Africa. 4
(U* A Castor Oil Factory is flourishing
at St. Louis, which employs 35 hands. It
has sold 800 hart els at an average of 850
per barrel, having consumed 15,500 bushels
of beaus, ut a cost of from 81 25 per bushel
for the last year.
HORRIBLE EVENT.
We are pained to learn that on Thursday
evening last, a most horrible transaction
took placo in this county, nme or ten miles
from this place, which resulted in the death
of David Jamegan, Esq., and the wounding
of several other persons. The circumstan
ces of ill? affair are not sufficiently known
to justify a detailed statement. The gene
ral facts wo will sfateas we have heard them.
It appears that a Mr. Morgan had arranged
a matrimonial elopement with a daughter of
the deceased, which, with the aid of friends,
■was accomplished on Thursday; the par
ties having repaired to a house in the neigh
borhood where the marriage ceremony was
legally performed. Upon learning the fact
of the elopment, Esq. Jarnegan became ve
ry indignant, and determined to go in pur
suit. Taking a few friends he soon reach
cd the house where the marriage party was
assembled. We learn that he forced the
door and enfered.when an attack commenced,
in which jhe deceased received sundry
w-mods, which produced his death early
yesterday morning. Some others were
wounded ; among them Mr. .1. F. .Simmons,
who we understand is seriously if not dan
gerously injured. We have not heard fur
ther from the matter. With the deceased
we were well acquainted. He was a weal
thy planter, and possessed many fine points
of character. His untimely end is much
regretted bv his numerous friends. The
affair will no doubt bo investigated, when
the whole of the facts may he given to the
public.— La Grange (Tenti.) Gatherer.
From t!.c S..va:.nah Republican.
M.trox, Ait.il 28.
Messrs. Editors: —l had the pleasure to
day of examining a specimen of Cotton
Bagging, mrinUfeetured f. a.a cotton, at the
Eatonton Cotton Facto.y. This is, I be
lieve, the first effort ever m ule i:i Georgia,
or the south, to supply the demand for cot
ton bagging from cotton m mufacture, and is
a desideratum in our deiretticcconemy. Its
texture and quality are superior. It is as
stout and heavy as any Inverness or Ken
tucky bagging made ; is twilled and made
of a sufficient width, and weighs from one
and a half to l.j pounds per yard. The
company are. 1 understand weaving about
one hundred yards per diem, for which they
find a ready sale at the factory at 25 cents
per yard. This is about three to five cents
less than Dundee or Inverness bagging has
been selling for, in this market the last sea
son.
To pack up a full crop of cotton in Georgia,
it will require about one and a half mil
lions of yards of bagging, which, at an
average cost of 25 cents per yard,
is 8375,000
To manufacture the same in Geor
gia of cotton, it would require
about 7 thousand bales worth
818 per bale, is 126,000
8249,000
W bich, deducted from the cost of impor
ted. bagging, leaves to the manufactures in
Georgia the immense sum of 8249,000 an
nually to pay their operatives and make their
dividends; thus furnishing the planters in
Georgia a better and cheaper article for
packing their cotton, at the same time ren
dering themselves independent and enrich
ing our State. I understand that the Com
pany will materially increase the manufac
ture of the article next season.
I learn also that the Athens Manufactur
ing Company have an eye to this hianch of
business, ami are making arrangem tits in
their machinery for this purpose. This is
as it should be, we have every facility for
carrying on our manufacturing interests to
any extent, and doubtless we can find a
ready market at home for all we make. We
have in Georgia now, about a dozen cotton
factories, which consume annually about
6,000 bales of Cotton, and I see no good
reason why we should not manufacture as
much as we raise of the raw material.
Our Cotton market is dull; stock on hand
light, probably not over 2,500 bales our re
ceipts are also light. Wc quote prices at
3i to 7 cents. Central funds.
Exchange on Savannah 14 per cent,
prem.; Charleston, 15; New York, 15 to 17,
ibr Central Bank funds.
Our river is low and will not be naviga
ble for steam boats, unless we have rain
sufficient to raise it, in a few days.
To-day there was brought to this markot,
nnd disposed of at 62J cents per gallon, a lot
of Turpentine and Rosin, of a superior
quality, manufactured in Pike county, Geor
gia. Yours very truly.
Temperance meeting.
tPHERE will bo n ntcetin” ot the Morgan County
Temperance Society held at the Court House, in
this place, on Monday night next, the 9th instant Mr.
Taylor will be present.
Also, a meeting on Wednesday, the 11th instant, at
the same place, he 1 o’clock, P. M. The citizens of tho
Town ana County are respectfully invited to attend.
AUGUSTUS ALDEN, President.
May 7 lw6
Colonel Johnson has accepted t
invitation of his ftiends for tho Presidency
in Pennsylvania to be present at the fctf Us*
bration of the battle of tbe Thames, in
Danville, Pa., on the sth of October next.
Death of Right Rev. Bishop Conic ell. —
This venerable prelate died In Philadelphia,
on the 22d ult. between 12 and 1 o’clock,
aged 91 years, having resided in that city
since IS2O, as Roman Catholic Bishop of tho
and ioccse.
St. Charles Triumphant!! —The Pica*
yune of the 20th ult. says : Yesterday tho
Insurance Companies formally notified the
Gas Bank that they had finally concluded
to rebuild the St. Charles Theatre and Ar
cade buildings, as they stood previous to the
late conflagration. At a regular meeting of
the Board of Directors of the Gas Bank,
last evening, the propositiorrto rebuild was-
ArrtPTPP, We have never announced any
fact with more pride and gratification—wo
shall again have the Temple of the Drama,
in all its splendor and glory.
QOMMERGOM..
MADISON, May 7, 1842.
Cottox— Since our Inst repot t 658 bales have been
received and ynt forward by the Georgia Rail Road.
About 270 bales have been purchased nere, at prices
ranging from 3to 6 1-2 cents. Transactions for Col
ton in Central Bank money receiving an advance of
from 15to 18 percent.on tho above rates. The article
continues at fair prices, nnd is in demand notwithstand
ing die apathy, and decline, of holders in the foreign
market Onr buyers nnd merchants here are fully pre
pared to purchase with specie or Central Bank funds.
Bacon nnd Flour continues to arrive in sufficient
quantities to keep their value, at rates of 5 to 6 cents
per 11). for Bacon, nnd 6 to $7 per barrel for Flour—
bodi of which are delivered here in fine order.
Corn and Corn Meal is still in fair demand, and is
generally sold for cash,or battered for Groceries, at 45
to 50 cents per bushel.
VVe quote : Sugar, Musrnvcdo, 10 a 11—St. Croix,
f 11 1-2 a 12—Loaf, 20 a 22—Lump. 17 a 18; Coffee, Rio,
13 1-2 a 14—Cuba, 13 a 13 1-2-Java, IGa 17; Molas
se-, 37 a4O ; Salt, 75 aB7 ; Rice, 512 6; Nails, 8 a
8 1-2 ; Iron, S a G 1-2 ; Steel, Cast, 25—‘dieter, Amer
ican, 12 1-2 —English do. 17 a 18 1-2 ; Callings, 6 a 7
1-2; Pepper, Muck, 15 a IS 3-4 ; Spice ; 15 alB 3-4 ;
Ginger, 15 a 18 3-4.
AUGUSTA, May 4
Cotton.—ln our paper of Tuesday \e reported the
stock of Cotton on hand, and the receipts up to the Ist
of May; since then our receipts have been quite light,
and the business doing in the article has been to a lim
ited extent only, although prices have been.firm with a
tendency upwards, more particularly oh the better
qualities. We quote 4a 8 cents os extremes of the
market, whilst must crop lots are sold from >3-4a 6 1-2
cents—square bales itr all instances commanding from
1-4 u 1-2 cent over round.
MACON, May 3.
Our Cotton season may be considered as pretty
much over —but little is now coming in, and the de
mand small. The last Foreign news has had the ef
fect of depressing tbe market even lower than it was;
so that planters who ltaveheld back, receive little sa
tisfaction for having so done. It is to he hoped they
will hold hack no longer—there is hardly a possibility
•of prices being for a year or two at least, if ev
er ; nnd the money their cotton would bring, even at
its present low price, is much wanted in the country
at this time. We quote this morning, 4 to 7 extreme*
—principal sales 5a 61-2 cent.
SAVANNAH, April 30.
Cotton.—‘Arrived since the 21st ins'ant, 3472 bale*
Upland and 77 ba'es Sea Island, and cleared in the
Fame time 7719 hales Upland and 114 bales Sea Island;
nnd heaving on hand, inclusive of allon shipboard not
cleared on the 28th instant, a stock of 7497 bales Up
land and 1157 hales Sea Island.
The transactions in Cotton this week have again
been amah; mure limited indeed than any week's busi
ness since November. The stock on hand is unusual
ly light, nnd the market continues inactive, with a ten
dency to lower prices, in which the betterqnaliiies (un
less packed in square hales) partake. Yesterday there
was rather n more active demand than on some pre
vious days of the week, but the decline in qualities be
low fair may he quoted at 1-3 a 14 c , nnd even at
these concessions some buyers appear unwilling to ope
rate.
We are informed that Pea Islands have declined 1-2
to 1 c. [ter lb. from the prices paid last week, and the
sales show that there has been no inquiry for lliia sta
ple since our last review of the market.
NEW-OR LEANS, April 27.
Cm ton—Arrived since the 22J instant, of Louisi
ana nnd Mississippi 4,117, Arkansas 426; together 9.-
2'14 hales. Cleared in the same time for Liverpool 8,-
154 hales, Havre 4,009, Havana 289, New-York 220,
Norfolk 105; together 12,777 hales—making a reduc
tion in stock r.f 3,573 bales, and leaving on hand, in
clusive of all on ship-board not cleared on the 26th in*
stntit, a stock of 122,693 bales.
Cl nOfl CENTRAL BANK Money for sale bv
JOHN ROBSON & CO.
May 7 2w6
Morgan Sheriff’s Sales.
YUILL be sold on the first Tuesday in June next, be
lore the Court House door, in the Town of Madi
son, in said County, within the usual hours of sale.
Four Negroes, to wit: Peter, a man, 22 years of age,
Ephraim, a man, 23 years of age, Lucy, a girl, 21 years
of age, and Anderson, a bov. 7 years of age, all levied
on ns the property of John Magee, and pointed out by
said John Magee, to satisfy 39 li. fas. from a Justices’
Court of the 396 h Dist. G. M. of said County, in favor
of C R. Zachary, vs. John Magee and R. J. Butts.
Also, one Buggy, levied on to satisfy n fi. fa. in favor
of William Bacon & Cos vs. Jacob E. Roll and Sand
ford 11. Clark, and pointed out by Isham S. Fannin,
Plaintiff’s Attorney.
Also, one tract of Lam), containing two hundred a
cres, more or less, as the property of Samuel Stovall,
it being the place whereon the said Samuel now lives,
udjoiningthe lands of Alexander Awtry, DavidMcMa
h >n, Julius Skinner, nnd others, nnd pointed out by Mrs.
Stovall, to satisfy a (i. fa. from Morgan Superior Court,
September Term, 1839, in favor of the Justices of the
Inferior Court, by their Attorney, Wm. F. VanLand
inghatn. v. Edmund Duke, principal, Wilie A. B. Mo
horn und Samuel Stovall, securities.
Also, a Negro boy, by tbe name of Alfred, about 15
years of age, levied on as the property of John C. Rees,
to satisfy a fi. fa. in favor of John C. Moore, vs. Hugh
Woods, John Woods and William Woods — John C.
Rees, security. LEWIS GRAVES, Sheriff
May 7 6
SrpTSs** MORGAN SHERIFFS SALES will
jKr&fcJ hereafter he published in the “Southern
* ‘*22- Recor er,” Milledgeville, and the “South
ern Miscellany,” at Madison.
LEWIS GRAVES,Sheriff
May 7 6
Georgia—Jlorgan County:
WHEREAS, Wilson Watley, Jr., applies to me for
*’ Loiters of Administration on the estate ufOrnoa
Watley, deceased :
These are therefore to cite and admonish all and
singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to
be nnd appear et my pfftce within the time prescribed
by law, to show cause, if any they have, why said let
ters should not lie granted.
Given under iny hand, at office, in Madison.
JAMES C. TATE, Clerk C.O.
Mnv7 6
Masonic Notice.
rIE next regular Communication of Madison Lodos
will lie held on Friday Evening next, at 74 o’clock.
Brethren w ill please take due notice thereof.
By order of Worshipful Master.
C. F. HUFFMAN, Secretary.
May 7 lw6
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THE Anniversary of St.
„ 1 Ijr t?/s. njki V/ 4°h n the Baptist will be ceL
‘ l ’'-ac t-* e * >ra,e d on’ tne 24th of June
next, by the Madison Lows.
- reparations will be made
ililjMßggMWwFiiii'tiifetts f° r *l entertainment of our
SW/ “CjYjjiU Brethren from abroad, and
•* lev are cordially invited to
V i’ WjpJMkrvSfp join in tbe exercises on that
A. ALDEn!“ n
C. WHITING. ) Lommrttee
C. F. HOFFMAN, \
A. A OVERTON, 1 Arr>n *
April 26 e.0.w.tc.4