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lany,’ ” says the stay!—we begin to
have our doubts now about the editor. “The
smartest thing,” says the writer, “ is the an
nouncement of the opening of the Cdtton
market. 153 bales have already been re
ceived,” says he, “ and no doubt went to
Augusta the same day they reached the city
of Madison.” Here the cloVen foot of jeal
ousy begins to show itself. “ Salt i3 worth
$1 j Iron, 6to 61; Bagging, 18 to 24,” and
bo on, until he quotes our Prices Current
through. “ > 3 possible they iiave got
all these things in Madison, Salt and Sngar
too ? it’s a wonder they did not have Molas
ses.” When we got thus far with this pre
cious article in the “ Whig,” we were con
strained to pause, and exclaim, O, P-shaw!
We saw into the whole matter, and could
see where the shoe pinched as well as if it
had been on our own foot! There are two
or three merchants in Athens ; one of them
has, for a long time, carried on a kind of
mixed business —in groceries and newspa
pers —and, as he, no doubt, still exerts more
or less influence in the latter branch of the
concern, he is determined Madison shall be
no commercial “ city,” and that our mer
chants shall not purchase Cotton or sell gro
ceries, as will the more fully appear by the
following extract:
“ Reader, were you ever in Madison 7 If
vou were not, you must not believe it is a
city; they have got no Cotton market. The
Cotton goes there in wagons, and after lying
under a shelter for two or three days, they
put it in the rail-t oad cars and send it off to
Augusta; they don’t even charge storage,
which ydh know is one of the essentials of
a Cotton market. All this flourish in the
‘Southern Miscellany’ about business having
just commenced for the season means noth
ing more or less than the wagons are begin
ning to bring it in and the rail-road cars are
carrying it off.”
0, P-shaw ! an’tyou ashamed of yourself
to go away round about to pick a quarrel
with us, just because our merchants can buy
more Cotton and sell more goods than you
can 1 And then to underrate our town in
such a manner, when you know it is one of
the liveliest, handsomest, and most prosper
ous towns in the interior ofGeorgia. Have
you forgotten the arguments used in the
Rail-Road Convention at your village, some
two or three years ago, when you begged
so bard for a branch of the Road 1 Have
you forgotten the comparison that was then
made between Athens and Madison, by a
distinguished member of that Convention ?
Have you forgotten what was then said—and
what has since been verified—that the freight
on your branch would bear about the same
comparison to that of the Madison branch,
that a peck of potatoes did to a bale of Cot
ton ; that while the Company would receive
abundant freight from our rich Cotton-grow
ing district, they would have to be content
with the transportation of butter and eggs,
sweet potatoes, cliesnuts and chinkapins, on
your branch 7 O, P-shaw ! you cannot have
forgotten it; neither car. you deny the truth
of the declaration then made.
But the writer says we have no Colton
market; that we charge no storage, and that
Cotton arrives here, and after lying under
shelter a few days is sent to Augusta in the
cars. Not so, sir ; storage is charged in
Madison, in the same manner as in Augusta,
though at not quite so high rates. We will
admit that it is forwarded as speedily as pos
sible to its point of destination—as it is from
any other Southern market—but a large
portion of the Cotton arriving at our “ mar
ket”—it you please, Mr. “ Whig”—is pur
chased and paid for here, in good specie funds
and at as fair prices as in any other market
in the country; and not only does the plant
er find a ready and desirable market for his
Cotton in Madison, but also an abundant
supply of Groceries in our stores, which he
can purchase on as reasonable terms as they
can be sold elsewhere—not even excepting
Athens. In proof of this, we need only state
that of the 20,000 bales of Cotton received
here last year, upwards ot 8,000 were pur
chased in this market. The present year
promises a much heavier business. The
new crop has only been coming in for the
past two weeks, during which time upwards
of 1000 bales have arrived, the greatest por
tion of Which has been taken by our mer
chants. On Tuesday last, 120 bales were
leceived, nearly all of which was bought and
paid for on its arrival. We doubt whether*
so much Cotton has been seen in Athens
11 in a ’coons age.”
After disposing of all the smart things in
the “ Miscellany” which seemed so much
to annoy the writer, he endeavors to show
his own smartness in the way of prophesy
ing. We have just recorded our belief in
the fulfilment of one Athenian prophesy, but
We do most seriously hope the mantle has
not descended upon the writer’s shoulders.
Heaven forefend that our good town should
ever realize the fate thus foretold by the sa
gacious seer of the “Southern Whig!”—
Heat him people of Madison, and quake in
ever y joint!
“ About this time next year the tune will
run somewhat in this strain—
“ Our market will, it seems, never open,
business is dull, the rail-road cars scarcely
“top to deposit the mail and the glory of
Madison like all other great cities has de
parted—Fuit Illium.”
f here we have it, with a latin climax to
Wsui 'c the charm. Oracles were formerly
delivered in Greek, Latin and Hebrew.—
Well, we shall see. Os one thing we are
certain : Madison was built before the Road,
and should it be extended so soon as the
prophet predicts, her resources are as great,
and she is as able to maintain her standing
among the inland towns of the State as any
of her neighbors, either on or off the route.
Entertaining none of that envious, dog-in
the-manger feeling towards our good neigh
bors of Athens, that the “ Whig” article in
dicates towards us, and being perfectly wil
ling to overlook the harmless little pop at
ourself—especially now that we understand
the influences that actuated the writer—we
are disposed to be neighborly, and to give
the “ Whig” man, and his grocery friend,
the advantage of our extensive and rapidly
increasing circulation, in disseminating his
“ Prices Current,” in return for his kindness
in publishing our own. If he will he kind
enough to furnish us with the corrections,
from time to time, in the following table, we
will most cheerfully give it an occasional
insertion. We shall confine ourself to the
staple articles, at wholesale prices, and would
be glad to be furnished with occasional hints
as to the supply and demand.
ATHENS WHOLESALE TRICES CURRENT.
Butter, per bucket, 00
Eggs, per dozen, 00
Chickens, grown, pet dozen, - - 00
“ half-grown, “ - - 00
Ducks, Muscovies, “ - - 00
“ common, “ - - 00
Squirrels, “ - - 00
Rabits, “ - - 00
Guinea hens, “ - - 00
Opossums, per pair, ----- 00
Racoons, “ 00
Collards, per dozen, - - - - 00
Turnips, per bushel, - - - - 00
Sweet potatoes, “ 00
Chestnuts, “ - - - - 00
Chinkapins, “ .... 00
Gouber peas, “ - - - - 00
CCf* John Kickei, late tax collecter of
Greene county, was sentenced, by Judge
Cone, at the late term of the Superior Court
in that county, to four years imprisonment
in the Penitentiary, for altering the figures
in the returns of the receiver, so as to in
crease the assessment, and for collecting and
appropriating the excess to his own uses.
We understand that s2l was altered to read
27, figure l’s to 4’s, and so on, until the
amount was greatly augmented. There is
degrees in crime as in every thing else, and
we think that the man wlio could thus swell
the burthen of the people’s taxes, in
times like these, is entitled to the highest
degree in the profession of rascality. He
should no longer be the Kicker, but the
kicked, from Maine to Florida. What, dare
to do summarily and directly, what the
Governor himself, and “the Senate and
House of Representatives of the State of
Georgia, in general assembly met,” dare
not do indirectly 7 Monstrous !
rnoFLiGAcy or the press.
There are at this time some five or six
professedly obscene sheets, issued weekly
in the city of New York, such as “ The
Whip,” “ The Rape,” “ The Flash,” “The
Rake,” “ The Libertine,” &c., besides
numerous others that make some preten
sions to decency, but whose vile contents are
not less pernicious in their influence upon
the public morals. The “Albany Micro
scope,” speaking of these polluted issues of
the New York press, says—“ That they are
sapping the foundations of morality and vir
tue in every grade of society, no observer
can fail of seeing. Thousands of them are
distributed through every city and village
through this and the adjacent States.” Is
not this truly a lamentable picture 7 Does it
not indicate an alarming degree of profliga
cy and licentiousness in the better ranks of
society in the Northern metropolis! If the
delegated guardians of the public weal were
of the right moral stamp, such infamous in
roads upon public decency, such foul as
saults upon public and private virtue, would
not be tolerated. There is no lack of legal
remedy against the perpetrators of these
outrages, and it would be but aslight achieve
ment for those who wield the arm of the
law, to put a stop to the open traffic of those
vile wretches, who for the love of gain, do
not hesitate to spread abroad in the land a
blighting pestilence, more terrible and with
ering in its consequences than the Asiatic
plage. Encouraged by the toleration and,
perhaps, patronage of the New York au
thorities,similar attempts have recently been
made in Boston, which, wo are happy to see,
have been promptly rebuked by the authori
ties of that city. A late Boston paper in
forms us that a large quantity of obscene
books and prints have lately been siezed on
the premises of two book-sellers, in Corn
hill, in that city, and the offenders held to
bail for trial in the sum of SIOOO each.—
These men were extensively engaged in the
manufacturing of obscene books, We hope
the villains are not so well fortified with the
proceeds of their foul traffic as was Madame
Restcll —without this species of legal persua
sion—which is the law term for money in
the Northern practice—:hey will be very
apt to receive their just deserts.
B<D HI in IE Hi St salt s<DIEIL &Ai
PRIZE FIGHTINO.
This brutal English custom —so perfectly
in keeping with the servile spirit of the low
er classes of monarchists, but so revolting
to every manly feeling and every Christian
sentiment—so repugnant to that true Ame
rican impulse which teaches the humblest
freeman to respect his own person equal to
that of the most exalted in the land—has
again been introduced into our country. —
Some weeks since we observed in the New
\ ork Spirit of the Times, a very long arti
cle on the subject, copied from some Eng
lish sporting paper, in which the writer
sought to remove the prejudices which have
of recent years been imbibed against the
debasing, vulgar exhihitihns of the Ring,
even in Eugland. We felt assured from
this that the practice of prize fighting was
about to be introduced—and our suspicions
have been verified. The lead of the great
sporting paper in New York has been fol
lowed, and its columns for the past two or
three weeks have contained the most revolt
ing details of the encounters of these man
beasts. In that paper, of the third instant,
a particular account is given of an affair
which came off’ on Hart’s Island, near New
York city, between two blackguards calling
themselves Sullivan and Bell, for a prize of
S3OO. One of the bullies got badly licked
for his share of the fun—the other got the
money; but we will not extent the fame of
the hero by indicating “which from t’other.”
A thing that calls itself Yankee George, and
another that disgraces the name of Mcln
tyre, recently tried their relative degrees of
brute power on Grand Island, in the same
State, and in the last “ Spirit of the Times,”
there is a full detail of one of the most re
volting exhibitions of human degradation
that ever disgraced the annals of this coun
try —such, we trust, as will never occur
again. Well may the editor “ desire to im
press upon his readers the great reluctance
with which he makes room for the details of
this bloody battle.” Well may he disclaim
all participation in the affair, and endeavor
to create the impression that he “ has ever
discountenanced The Ring, and its profes
sors, as such,” for if any American editor
can take shame to himself more than anoth
er for this brutal affair, it is that editor who
has lent his columns to the defence of the
practice, and by so doing given to it a de
gree of importance and credit which it
might have never otherwise attained in this
country. Because his is a sporting journal
is no excuse for the admission of such arti
cles; on the contrary it is a very strong
reason why he should have discountenanced
and condemned a practice so degrading and
brutal that it has almost grown into disre
pute in England. No press in the country
could have exerted such influence in the
matter as his. Hence the responsibility
resting upon him is greater, and his course
the more to be regretted. The affair to
which we have reference is thus announced
in the“Spirit”—“Fatal Prize Fight, be
tween Lilly and McCoy, for S2OO a side, at
Hasting’s, New York, on Tuesday Septem
ber 13th.” The fight took place in presence
of 1500 people. That our reader may have
some idea of the closing scene, we give the
last round and concluding paragraphs of the
reporter:
Round 120.—McCoy was lifted up heavi
ly from his second’s knee, and stood on his
feet for the last time, lie was led slowly
to the mark, and took his position—a dying
man—but as erect, as dignified, as game as
ever. Lilly was also much fatigued, and
enduring considerable suffering from the
heavy body blows he had received. They
both sparred cautiously ; McCoy leading off,
as ever, and making two or three good ef
forts to get in without success; Lilly then
rushed in, closed and threw him very hard,fell
with his whole weight upon him, and re
mained upon the dying man until lifted off.
On approaching him, (McCoy) he was found
to be perfectly inanimate, and sank lifeless
in his second’s arms. Time was called, but
not, alas! for him. Poor fellow! he was
doomed never to hear sound again, till the
challenge of the last trumpet shall pierce
the portals of his ears, and summon him,
with those who did foul murder on him, to a
mark from which there can be no dodging
—no escape.
He bad fought for two hours and forty
three minutes, receiving eighty-one heavy
falls, with his antagonist on him, and bleed
ing, certainly for two and a half hours. He
fought with good heart, but not well; show
ing by his open motions every thing that he
was about to do, and fighting too much.—
He had also suffered, no doubt, from over
training, having previous to the match been
in very ill health.
As soon as he had been declared the vic
tor, Lilly jumped up, slapped his hands with
an exclamation of joy, and then amid the
cheers of his circle, sprang over the ropes
of the ring. He was but little marked and
not severely hurt. Poor McCoy on being
tided from the ground, sank as limp as a rag
in his second’s arms. A cry was made for
the Doctor, and a movement in the mass
was made to give him air. I forced my way
in the crowd and took a look at the dying
man. God grunt that I may neversee such
another sight! He lay upon his back, his
face and neck one bruised, unseemly, ‘bloat
ed mass of incipient corruption; gasping
for bieath, and sucking by the violence of
his respiration, his bloated lips far back in
his mouth. In the next moment he ceased
to breathe, and the word went in a hoarse
whisper round, that he teas dead ! Never
shall I forget the talismanic horror of that
expression. The cheeks of old and young,
the fledgling villain, and the ruflian steeped
in crime, all blanched to ashes, and exchang
ing a look of vague and undefined fear, se-
parated silently and sought their respective
boats. I saw but one man unmoved. He
knew, with the rest, that another fight had
been promised in the same ring, and unwil
ling to lose the sport, exclaimed as poor
McCoy was borne to the river side, “ Come,
carry off your dead, and produce your next
man 1” 1 should say that that ruffian is
doomed to arrive at great eminence in hell.
Not a loud sound or rough expression was
heard by the vast assemblage that collected
at the landing. Solemnly each man em
barked, and silently the vessels cast off and
bore away. I went in tig; dead man’s boat,
and sailed back with him, lying stark, cor
rupt and dead in the same cabin, where he
in the morning lay full of life, health, hope,
strength and manhood. The fight bears its
own comment. I leave the moral with the
reader.
Such a scene needs no comment. Let
no one rail against Southern customs after
this. Duels and mortal encounters in hot
blood, sink into insignificance when contrast
ed with such a brutal tragedy as this, which
would seem rather to belong to the age of
the heathen gladiators than to the present
day of enlightenment ar.d civilization, and
to any country but that inhabited by Chris
tian people.
THE ASHBURTON DINNER,
To use a very common expression is get
ting “ rowed up,” as it deserves to be. Ev
ery independent editor in the country is out
upon it, and they have had ail indignation
procession in New York, which is spoken
of as a splendid affair. It was composed of
The People, military, firemen, civil and be
nevolentsocielies.men, women and children.
“Twenty-six carriages,” says the Post,
“ represented the twenty-six States of the
Union, bearing banners inscribed with their
names, in the order of their admission into
the Union; each carriage containing four
ladies in white, with a boy bearing a white
banner inscribed with the rejeetted toa3t —
“The President of the United States,” and ac
companied by two gentlemen in white sashes
as an equestrian escort.” In the procession
there were four hundred banners, inscribed
—“ The insult to the President—an insult
to the nation !” “ The insult” will do—that
is. on the particular occasion, in the presence
of an English Lord, to contrast the Presi
dency of the United States with the Queen
dom nf England, as they did, was an insult
to the nation. But an insult to John Tyler,
under other circumstances would not touch
the national pride of all the nation. The reso
lutions passed on the occasion, rather smack
of Tvlerism—equally as much so as of patri
otism—however, we are glad they are, to
gether with a full description of the proces
sion, to be published in the “ London
Times,” and “ Paris Constitutionel.” We
do seriously hope this climax of national de
gradation may serve to awaken the republi
can spirit of our people throughout the land
—of all parties, sexes and conditions. More
patriotism and less politics would be a bless
ing to the country. We should like to see
a list of the names of those “ Merchant
Princas” of Gotham, who bowed so low,
who cringed so abjectly at the feet of granny
England’s doll-baby. They should be pub
lished for the benefit of posterity.
TRUE GREATNESS.
True greatness is not always indicated by
great actions. Time and tide have made
great men, but whose greatness ebbed with
the current that exalted them. Men have
been placed in commanding positions by
foice of circumstances, who had not the
strength of character to sustain them in the
hour of temptation, and by a change of cir
cumstances they have fallen from their high
estate, to a lower degree than that from
which they sprang. True elevation of char
acter is indicated in every act of a truly
great man, and if we had no other evidence
of the almost godlike attributes of that man
who was in his day accounted, “ First in
war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of
his countrymen”—the simple remark made
by him, at the hour of his death, to his friend,
Mr. Lear, would convince us that he was
no ordinary man. Even in that trying hour,
when the awful certainty of his approaching
dissolution was resting upon hismind he was
too great to overlook the kindly sympathies
of his common species—too great to forget
that he was but man—and “ in kindness,
though with great suffering,” says the wri
ter, he remarked—“ I fear I give you great
trouble, sir—but, perhaps, it is a duty that
we all owe one to another. 1 trust that you
may receive the same attention when you
shall require it!” In this he spoke the im
pulse of a lofty soul. How unlike is such
a sentiment, at such a time, to the spirit
which too often characterises the would-be
great men of modern times—whose minds
are only capable of measuring their own
magnitude by the degree of homage and
servile flattery they are enabled to exact
from those around them. ’Tis the best evi
dence of a pigmy mind to see one who by
the aid of fortuitous circumstances has reach
ed a rank of elevation a little above his fel
lows, presuming upon that rank to exact at
tentions, homage, flattery and menial ser
vice, such as he would pot bestow in return.
The truly great scorn the servility of the
truckuleut, the flattefy of the sychophant,
and the homage of the weak,while they prize
in others the noble spirit, the benevolent
heart, the kindly virtues that inherit their
own breasts. Such a man was Washington.
When shall we look upou his like again |
THE “CHICORA.”
We have had it in our mind to give this
journal such a notice as it deserves for some
time past, but have had so many little mat
ters constantly intruding whenever we have
taken our pen in hand, to cultivate a more
intimate acquaintance with our interesting
Charleston neighbor, that we have deferred
it until “ this present writing;” besides, the
“ Chicora, or Messenger of the South,” has
been getting on so swimmingly—troubling
nobody and nobody troubling it—that we
have not felt that there was any imminent
necessity for our good offices. By the last
number, however, our fears have been great
ly excited. W e look for nothing less than a
declaration of war against it, and its place
of nativity, by the redoubtable editor of the
“ Southern Whig,” for its presumption in
daring to express an opinion in reference to
the late Congress. What short of the total
anihilation of the “Chicora,” its editors, and
the city of Charleston, will appease the
wrath of the editor of the “ Whig,” when
he reads the following paragraph, contained
in the last “ Chicora 7”
“ Look for a moment at our National Leg
islature. Is it not a perfect menagerie for
the display of the art, where our * most ap
proved good masters’ blow out their cheeks
like bassoon players, and utter great noises,
as if they were human trombones, for the
benefit of the nation 7 The long Congress
entertained no more notion of the propriety
of legislation in their heads, than did the
Rump Parliament. Beyond the fact that
they are entitled members of Congress, ex
officio, and that they xeceive eight dollars per
diem, while they ambulate Pennsylvania
Avenue, it would be a matter of impossibil
ity for two-thirds of that body to point out
the parts they ployed in the drama of riot
and misrule.”
Oh, gentlemen of the “ Chicora!” little
are you aware of the torrent of withering,
scathing, double-barrelled, cut-and-thrust in
dignation you will bring upon your devoted
heads, and upon your unfortunate city, should
this paragraph meet the eye of the editor of
the “ Whig.” In vain may you explain,
and apologize, or blame it upon your cor
respondent. You have had the audacity—
or your correspondent has, through your pa
per—to assail the august Congress of these
United States; and for this, you must feel
the wrath of its guardian and defender, the
editor of the “ Southern Whig.” Prepare
yourselves for the awful scourging that
awaits you. Our sympathies have been
aroused by your perilous situation, and “for
that we know” you will stand in need of all
the little “ helps” of which it may be pos
sible to avail yourselves, we take this occa
sion to record our testimony in favor of your
good character generally. We do not hesi
tate to say that the “ Chicora” is a merito
rious work—ably conducted, and well sus
tained by worthy contributors. We would
like it better, however, were the articles not
generally so long, so os to admit of greater
variety. The last number coutaius several
good tilings; among them, a well written
letter from Boston, in which the “ wise men
of the East”—Garrison, Comb, Dr. Alcott,
Joe Miller, and others—with a variety of
modern humbugs, are well set forth. Such
articles, interspersed with shorter ones, in
the various departments of polite literature,
would renderthe “Chicora” popularindeed,
if it is not already so where it is known.
The editors amuse themselves, in their
last, with scanning Cousin Betsey’s man’s
charges against us for hardware, cutlery,
household and kitchen furniture, wearing
apparel, &c. We can say to the editors, in
reference to said catalogue of charges made
and preferred against us, what the frogs are
iecorded to have said in the fable, “ though
fuu to you,” &c. You may laugh at our
calamities, brothers of the “ Chicora,” but
woe betide you, when the grey goose quill
of the “ Whig” is pointed for your destruc
tion ! Wo! wo ! wo !
FOURTEEN DAYS LATER FROM ENGLAND.
By the arrival of the Great Western, in
New York, from Liverpool, whence she
sailed on the 3d inst., we are in possession of
fourteen days’ later intelligence from Eng
land. The following items, which we ex
tract from the Herald, give the substance of*
the news:
No change in cotton. Prices advanced
one week, but fell back again.
The news from the Continent is of such a
character as to possess only local interest.
Our Minister, Edward Everett, had gone
to Paris.
There have l>een large frauds at t^A Lon
don Custom House.
There have been failures among the corn
factors. American and Canadian flour is
Gd lower. Grain is down.
The Regency question in Franee has been
decided.
Lord Ashburton wa9 expected in Eng
land on the ist of this month.
The insurrection in the manufacturing
and mining districts, having spent its vio
lence, was subsiding, and the restoration of
was becoming generul. At ma
nythe disturbers of the peace have
retlMred to work. By the thousands upon
thousands engaged in the insurrectionary
movement, no Are arms were used. In
Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, the women
were among the most active of the rioters,
as in the Reign of Terror in France. The
turn out in Scotland, regarded as the pro
ject for a general movement, has been a fai
lure.
It is doubtful whether u t egular steam
communication between Europe and Amer
ica, except by the Cuttard steamships, can
he sustained any longer. The proprietors
of the Great Western are so deeply em
barrased by the expense incurred in keep
ing her employed, that they cannot, in rea
son, hazard their funds any further in the
prosecution of such an unpromising specula
tion.
There appears to be little change in the
markets. The tendency of the corn market
was downward, which* is easily accounted
for by the abundant crops ; but business of
almost every kind was improving.
The KngHsh government bad experienc
ed, to the fullest extent, the efficiency of
railroads in conveying troops during the
late disturbances in the manufacturing dis
tricts.
Since the intrusion of Quested, measures
have l>eeri taken at Windsor Castle to pre
vent the ingress of strangers. The greatest
vigilence is ordered.
A shock of an earthquake had been felt
in Bangor, North Wales, on the 29th ult.
The Queen and Prince Albert had gotn*
to Scotland. Both were well; so were the
babies.
The lad Bean had been sentenced to
eighteen months imprisonment in Newgate,
for attempting to shoot the Queen with a
pipe stem.
It is said that the Emperor of China has
fled into Tartary. The English had slaugh
tered many more celestials.
Daniel O’Connell declines to be re-elect
ed Lord Mayor of Dublin.
The British have met with more reverses
in India, and with a disastrous defeat atjlhe
Cape of Good Hope.
The crops are abundant all ever the King
dom.
Santos Monteiros & Cos. had failed for
2,003,987 marks banco.
CCf* Hon. Jolin’C. Calhoun has been no
minated for the Presidency by the Demo
cracy of Mecklenburg County, N. C., sub
ject, however, to the will of a national Con
vention.
The nomination of Henry Clay, for
the Presidency, was unanimously adopted
by the New’-York Whig State Convention,
assembled at Syracuse, on the 14th instant.
Mr. Clay has also received the unanimous
nomination of the Whigs of New’ Jersey and
Massachusetts.
AlQ>V[i(^os!E[MEtf7§.
Goods at Cost!!!
TIIE subscribers would take this method of informing
-*• the public in General, and those who wish to buy
Cheap Goods in particular, that they are still selling on
their stock of Dry Goods at Cost, on a credit until the
first day of January next.
They have a great many very good and seasonable
Goods, and at prices (which will enable any person to
buy, and economise too) suited, as the phrase goes, to
the hardness of the limes.
They have some excellent Broadcloths, Cassimercs,
Calicoes, Muslins, Bobinets, Ribbons,
Hosiery, l.uces, Muslin Trimmings,
Bonnet Silke, Straw and Leghorn Bonnets,
AND, ALSO,
Fashionable Silk Bonnets, handsomely trimmed,
Hats, Shoes, Hardware, Crockery,
Paints, Medicines, et cetern.
They have, likewise, some Botanical Medicines.
They cotmnue to sell YARNS at Factory prices, for
Cash. I hey have also on hand a good lot at Necao
BLANKETS, which they offer nt Now-York cost, ad?
ding on 10 per cent for freight, Ac. Also, some good
Sattinets Flannels, Caseinieres, Kentucky Jeans, and
Winter Vestings, on the some terms. Persons wishing
to purchase such articles would do well to call. Wo
will sell them bargains.
t „ L. L. WITTICII <fe CO.
September 24 2(1
Ware-House
And Commission Business,
Augusta, Georgia.
WE have this day (September 20, 1842.) entered into
” co-partnership under the firm of Clarke & Rob
erts, for the purpose of transacting, in the city of Au
gns'a, a Ware House and Commission Business. Our
Ware-House is situated in a central part of the city, is
of Crick and Fire-Proof; it is the one formerly occu
pied by Messrs. Simms, Williams & Woolscy, and lat
lerly by Messrs. S. Kneeland &, Son,on Jackson street,
leading directly from the Rail Road Depot past die
Globe Hotel.
We have determined not to purchase Cotton on our
own account, ami every change or improvement iri our
market will be taken advantage of for the interest of
our friends. The senior partner having been tor the
past twenty-five years engaged in business in this city,
and the Isrgest portion of his time devoted to the Cot
ion Trade m particular, we feel justified in saying that
any business that we may be favored w ith, shall he as
well attended to as by uny other |iersons. Wc aro
prepured to make cash advances at all times on Colton
in Store.
For the convenience of customers who forward Cot
ton per Rail Road, from Madison, the end ot the Geor
gia Rail Road, consigned to us, we have appointed Mr.
TjiumasG. Thomason our agent at that place. He will
give despatch to any business intended fur us, and
funds will be placed in hie hands for the purpose of ma
king advances (in specie funds) on any Cotton consign
ed ro_ us. When sales are made, the money will be
Said in Athens, Greensboro’, Covington, Eatonton or
ladison, to our cust- mere, by our agents, if desired
The agents of the Rail Road will always inform our
customers who our agents arc at each place above
mentioned.
All Cotton ordered sold off wagons will be attended
to free from the chnrge of storage.
Ortlers from our customers for Cotton Bagging and
Bale Rope, will t.e promptly attended to.
o „ , CLARKE & ROBERTS.
Samuel Clarke, of Augusta.
Joseph M. Roberts, of Greene County.
September 24 2ni26
Inferior Court of Morgan County, sitting as
a Court of Ordinary—September udjuu ru
ed Term, 1842.
|T appearing to the Court that John Radford,
A said county.deceased, did, while in life, execute and
deliver to Harvey Treadwell and William Allen his
written obligation, commonly called a bond for titles,
whereby heoound himself, his heirs and assigns, in die
sum of four thousand dollars, conditional to be void, on
his making to the eaid Treadwell and Allen good and
lawful titles to a certain tract or parcel of land, in said
bond described ; and it further appearing to the Court
that said Radford has departed this life without making
titles to said land, and it appearing also that the con
sideration has been paid, ,
It is Ordered by the Court, that Robert A. Pryor and
1 Radford, Executors of John Radford, deceased,
do shew cause within the time prescribed by law, if
any they have, why Rule absolute requiring them, as
Executors as aforesaid, to make tides to said Land in
compliance with the provisions of said bond; and it is
further Ordered by the Court, thut this Rule be publish
ed in one of the public gazettes of this Slate, in coufor
inity to the statute in such cases made and provided.
A true extract from the minutes of the Court, this
20:It September, 1842.
JAMES C. TATE, C.C.O.
September 24 6m26
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Administrator’s Sale.
AG REE ABLY to sn order of the inferior Court of
JL Morgan County, when sitting for Ordiuary purpos
es, will be sold to the highest bidder, before the Court
House in the town of Madison, ou the first Tuesday in
February next, two Negroes belonging to the estate of
Martin B. Turman, late of said County, deceased, in
order to make a distribution, so far as Sanford Parish it
concerned. JOHN U. MARTIN, Adm’r.
September 21 g m 26
017* Election Tickets, for cither Political
Party, printed at this office.