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Puinfal Disaster.•‘—We regret to learn ■ that on the 14th ult. at two ip the morn ing, the steam-boat Teche, Capt. Campbell, . on her passage to New-Orleans, when about ten miles below Natchez her boiler burst, - three men were 1(111611, and several severe ly scalded. The boat was set on fiie, and - with her cargo, of about 500 bales of cotton, consumed, She had on board about 70 j passengers. The scene of confusion can onff be imagined. Most of them got a- A shore in the yawl in three trips, and some 11 floated from the burning wreck on bales of fi cotton and were saved. The calamity did s not end here—the steam-boat Washington a was soon after passing up, hove to, and a boat with from 12 to 18 of the survivors, n attempting to board her, upset, and were a drowned. | Mr. Miles of Kentucky, was among the t scalded, but had reached New-Orleans. Wylie’s Price Current, of the 16th, states, 0 that little business had been done in Cotton a owing to bad weather, and the presence of I Gen. Lafayette. Sales of Tobacco were ii made on the 15tli at full 1 cent per pound over last quotations. Letters per the William, from Mobile, v via New-Orleans, were yesterday received y in this city, dated only fifteen days back. Gen. Lafayette left New-Orleans on the i 15th ult. in the steam-boat Natches, for St. t Louis, accompanied by the Governor, &c. r as far as Natches. [lbid, , The steam-boat Albemarle, , lying at Arch- * Street wharf, caught fire, accidentally, it is 1 believed, at three o’clock yesterday morn- < ing, and all the exertions to save her proved I unavailing. She was towed over to the | Island, aiid there burnt to the water’s edge. , She was prepared with stores for a trip of ' pleasure down the river yesterday, and her 1 destruction was not only a loss to her owners, I but disappointed the party who intended to make an excursion in her. [Philadelphia Aurora, Is/, inst. SCIKNTIFIC NOTICES. Common Salt to correct the Fcelor of Can cerous Sores. —M. Liaubon relates the case of a female with a cancerous ulcer in the right breast, who suffered extremely from the • foetor of the discharge, wlpch was so intole rable, that the person who assisted in dress ing the wound could scarcely remain in the room. M. Liaubon ordered a lotion of salt, dissolved in water, to wash the parts : the disease was not arrested by these means, but the feetor was entirely destroyed. Utility of Fresh Vegetables in Fever, token placed near the Patient. —We have received a letter from Mr. S. Shatte, of Stokenham, Devon, the purport of which is *** notice a practice formerly re commended by some of the ancient writers on medicine, and which, he says, he has found ol grout bornco i)j fuvorb hoid k*nil. A short extract from our vene rable correspondent’s letter will explain his meaning sufficiently. “ In 1821, when typhus fever was very prevalent in this neighbourhood, I made several trials of this remedy. G. F, in the village o,f Chill.ington, was taken ill with that disease, having a wife and two chil dren, with only two small rooms up stairs; I immediately had the rooms and the bed covered with wet bushes or boughs of ash, hazle, willow, or any green shrubs that could be procured. The old ones were carried out. and fresh ones brought in every morning: and lam of opinion that, when .they are brought in with the dew upon them, they are more efficacious ; at all events, they must be made very wet with cold wa ter, and be in considerable quantities, so as to cover the whole room.” fn one case, our correspondent adds that they appeared to revive a patient almost at the point of death. Mr. S. adds several quotations from Fer- Nic, Pontano, &c. who advocate the same practice ; and finally he objects,! and we think with great reason, to the ab-i straction of large quantities of blood in pure! fever likely to assume a typhoid character. [Lond. Med. and Phys. Jour. The Canal Commissioners, accompanied by the largest.stackholder from New York, visited the line of the Canal last week from Farmington to Northampton. They return with the most pleating intelligence. Capital ists are well persuavled of the advantages of .tiiis Canal. Large meetings were held last week at Northampton and Westfield ; the whole of that section of country is awake to the subject, and the people uniformly declare tjfiat the New-York capitalists shall not have all the stock; t'-it they will build at least half of the Massachusetts section themselves. [New- Haven Register. It is singular, that the two most admira ble writers that modern Europe produced, Shakespeare and Cervantes, both died on the same day, in the game year, namely, April 23, Ibl6. Washington, April 50. By the advertisement from the Treasu ry Department, it will be seen that the Eleven Million Loan of 1812, is to be £41(1 oft' on tiie first day of October next lere is a vast amount more of capital to , be thrown into (he market. Now is the - •time for opening the subscription books to that magnificent project, (ho Chesapeake \ and Ohm Canal. CONSTITUTIONALIST. |> ■— -■ t AUGUSTA : < -- - ■■ ■ -1 FRIDAY, MAY 13. 1825. J Considerable alarm bavins for a few ° s Jays past existed in this City, in conse- 1 quence of repoits that the small pox had made its appearance amongst us, wc. are t fully authorised to state, that after the v strictest examination by two physicians, of - those who were supposed to be infected, nut the smallest grounds could be found tor a apprehension. We would however earnest- u ly recommend a general vaccination to all 1 those who have not yet availed themselves } •** » I of this certain preventive to the small pox, as the intercourse between this City and j Charleston, where the disease certainly ex- I ists, is so great that it may very probably be iippurted this spring.—ln any event the vaccinnatiou will be beneficial. f The different sections of our country are, j gradually, approximating each other, and ] the distances between them becoming al- I most nominal. The improvements in trav vlling, the multiplication of Steam Boats, and the construction of canals and roads, , are bringing into one the north and south, j and east and west. What was once u la- 1 burious journey, has now become a jaunt of pleasure ; and we have certainly not yet seen the full extent of what improvement can dp. The great National Road, from New-Orleans to the seat of Government, if constructed, will afford facilities of com munication hitherto unknown. We have only to hope that it will be found expedi ent to direct its course where we may have the benefit of it. If the rout, now survey ing by the board appointed for that purpose, be adopted ; the road will not only unite one extremity of the Union with the centre, but, by passing through the capitals of the Atlantic States, will bring them nearer to gether, and tend to promote good fellow ship, and further the interests of each. The citizens of Oglethorpe county have given Mr. Crawford, a public dinner, at Lexington, byway of welcome to his home. This is as it should be. The public are cautioned in the Charles ton papers, against receiving bills of the Union Bank of South-Carolina, of the de nomination of fifty dollars, the Bank never , having issued any bills of that denomination. At the request of citizens of Darien a : public meeting is called in the Darien Gaz ; ette for the 9th instant, to express their opinions in regard to another Land Lottery. A case has been decided, by the Court of last resor., in South Carolina, that an endor ser on a note may be a competent witness to invalidate a note ; that bis interest in the note does not vitiate his testimony ; and that the only exception which can be taken to it, is to his credibility as a witness. The law, says the New-York Evening Post, has been decided otherwise in this State. It has been settled long since on so lemn argument, and the point has not been disturbed by any subsequent adjudication, that no one, whose name is attached to any written instrument, can be a competent witness to invalidate or support such instru moot. Improvement in Rigging.-— The new ship ; Washington, of 750 tons, which sailed from New-York for Canton, on the 21st ult. has all her lower shrouds, all her topsail and top gallant lies, topsail and topgallant sheets, bobstays, cables, &c. of iron chains. QQ*? — The Grand juries in many and for aught we know in most of the counties in the State of Kentucky have presented the “ majority of their legislature” for disorganizing the old court of appeals and establishing the - new one. This is no doubt done under a belief that these" laws are unconstitutional and that the majority of the legislature have been guilty of usurpation. Knoxville Register. The Grand jury for the county ofFrank lin in the State ot Kentucky, have presented Benjamin Hickman and others, for breaking open and entering tbe hou>.e of A. Sneed clerk of the old court and taking out the pa peis deposited there by the former judges of the court of Appeals, and also the pri vate papers of Mr. Sneed ; although it ap peered ip evidence that they acted in con formity with an order of the New Court of Appeals. Ibid. —«®e~- We understand that ill the Foreign Min- i isters and Charges d’ iff*ires of Foreign i Governments, near that of the United ; States have presented congratulations to the ( President on the occasion of his recent i election. On Tuesday last. Mr. Adding- a ton, Charge d’Affaires I ~,n Gn-at-B. itain, a at an interview requested by him for that v purpose, pi esented those of hi . ti werninent, t by its special direction. [lntelligencer. ' New British Minister, —Mi. diaries Robert Vaughan is appointed Envoy Ex- ( traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to I this country. It was lately mentioned in the ( Paris papers that Mr. Vaughan bad passed i through that*city on his return to England a from Switzerland, where he has been for the a last two or three years in the capacity of t Minister. —He is a young man, under forty r years of age, of distinguished talents, a fine i scholar, and of great moral worth. He went c to Spain in 1809, and soon alter published als very interesting account ot the siege of Sara- ‘ gossa. When Sir Henry W ellesley was ap c pointed Ambassador to the Constitutional c Government of Spain at Seville, Mr. Vaugb- n an was appointed bis Secretary, and he re- i mainedin that station until 1818, when Sir '■ Henry went for six or eight months to l£ng-|i land, during which time Mr. Vaughan acted t in the capacity of Minister. —He was after-!;: wards in 1820 appointed Secretary to their Embassy in France, and in 1322 or 1823 r Minister to Switzerland. [Host on Daily Mv. Mr. Stuart Wortley, and Mr. Denison, 1 members of the British Parliament, have ar- 1 rived in town ; and are about to embark for ; England. We understand that Mr. Stanley, I M- P. has preceded them a few weeks in their return to Europe. [iY. V. Eve. Post, -29 th ult. xSW**- Blackstone Camd. —The subscriptions for the capital stock of this Canal, were opened at Providence on Wednesday last, at 10 o’- clock and closed at 1 o’clock ; when it ap peared that more than eleven hundred thous and dollars had been subscribed. The capi tal is but 8500,000. [/fiid. A small black schooner iff 15 to 20 capsized yesterday afternoon on the flats be tween Bedlow’s Island and Bergen Point. After the squall, a boat passed and saw the schooner’s hull under water, no person on board or near, and it is feared that all oil board were drowned. [Jler.Adv. We learn from the Lancaster Journal that a sheet iron steam bout is building at York, for the navigation of the river Susquehanna. »■ Zerah Colburn, who has beea so celebra ted tor his wonderful mathematical powers, and who has travelled much in Europe, and over the U. States, is nowin Burlington, Vt. where he proposes to open a school for instruction in the French language. Extraordinary Speed, —'l he new steam boat Trenton, recently left Philadelphia and arrived at Burlington, twenty in one hour and twenty minutes. STATISTICS OF NEW-YORK. It appears by a statistical pamphlet, re cently published in New-York, that tbcic , mein that city 1 3T streets, lanes, &c. —97 churches and 130 clergymen. There ate 14 banks with a capital of 817,000,000 ; 10 Marine Insurance Companies, capital 1 84,650,000; —24 Fire Insurance Compa nies, capital 89,850,000. The population of the city, at an average, ■ since the first census, winch was taken in 1697, doubles in every 25 years, at that'pe riod the inhabitants amounted to 4302 ; in 1699, to 6000; in 1756, to 10,080 ; in 1771, to 21,865 ; and in 1786, to 23.619. And here it may be observed, that from the year 1771 to 7786, a period of 15 years, the in i crease in the number of its inhabitants, was only 1,744; during seven of these years, ; the growth of the city must have been great ly retarded by the revolutionary war. In 1790, when the first census was taken by the general government, the number was i 3p, 131 ; in the year 1800,60,489 ,in 1805, 7.i,770 ; in 1810, 96,373 ;in 1816, 100,619; in 1820 123,906; ..nil it is supposed now to be at least 15.0,000. —fjiO©— , DISTRESSING ACCIDENT. It is seldom we have to record a more instance of the incertitude of diurnaii life and enjoyment, than falls to our , lot in narrating toe circumstances of a re cent most afflicting dispensation of Provi dence, in Montgomery county, in North , Carolina. On the 2d inst. Dr, John A. Woolley and Mr. Angus M'Aulay, j . at tempted to cross Little river, a short distance above Butler’s mill dam, in a ilat worked by four men. The excessive rains of that and the preceding days, had so swelled the ri ver as to render their efforts to reach the shore in the flat unavailing; and, as it ap proached the dam, all hope of crossing being extinct, the men who worked the flat plunged into the river and swam to shore. But the Doctor was lame, and incapa ble of saving himself iu a similar manner. He entreated Mr. M'Aulay not to desert him, and they remained in die flat till it ar rived near to the dam, when .VPAulay sprang out with the hope of gaining the shore. Vain hope ! The violence of the current dashed him over the dam, and from i the waters beneath his lifeless body was la- 1 ken on die fallowing morning. Dr. Wool ley, in the ifo-.m imie, made a desperate at tempt, after divesting himself of his clothes, | to save himself by swimming; but his lame ness rendering die attempt abortive, he re gained the flat, fell upon his knees, and in that attitude calmly and deliberately waited impending and inevitable destruction. The awful suspense was of short duration; but a moment, ami the flat was precipitated o- 5 ver the dam, where the fate of this unlor tunate gentleman was scaled forever. Observer The Annapolis Republican says, that the debate during the last session of the Legis lature, on the bill for reducing the number of justices of the peace in the several conn lies in Maryland, occasioned the recital of an anecdote (not in the House) of the ex amination of a magistrate by a judge of court, to whom one of his decisions had been car ried up, upon appeal. The judge perceiv- _ ing, at a moment, a manifest error, was curious to know what could have induced such a decision. “ Mr. ,” said he, “ will you be so obliging as to inform the court upon what ground you decided the case?” “Upon what ground ?” said the magistrate: “ Why, upon my own ground i •n town.” “ Aye,” said the judge, *' but upon what principle, I mean, did you decide in this way.” “ Why,” rejoined the magistrate, “ for twenty-four dollars principle, and fifty-eight cents cost.” “ Ve ry well,” concluded the judge—“ Clerk, reverse the judgment.” COMMUNICATEp. At the Annual Communication of the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of the State of Georgia, held at Louisville, the 2d of May, 5825, the following officers were elected tor the ensuing year, viz M. E. If'iliiam Schley, G, H, P‘ “ “ David Clarke, I). G. 11. P. “ “ Allen B. Powell, G. K. < “ “ Edwin E. Bis sell, G. S. { “ “ B. D. Thompson, G. Tr. “ “ Daniel Hook, G. Sec'ru. “ “ Philip T. Schley, G. M. ' Cotnp’n —Caleb Cooksey, G, Tyler. I ~ •WlvuViou \ \ Y ft I fi'Tj ■pip i ' |§' lil. I | F.rc3 x, * * I 4 Fayette Riflemen! ATTEND a regular quarterly meeting of your Corps, THIS EVENING at half past 7 o'. aluok, P. M at the companies roont, City Hall, the members are requested to come prepared to settle their quarterly due*. By order of Capt. Colowklt.. It. V. Bush, Sec. May 13 It 92 1 —] — .. An Ordinance. BOA I S of all kinds which shall contain any damaged coni, putrid mailer or substance of any kind, or which shall come from any place in t-cted with malignant or contagious disease, shall top cpi the Savannah fiver at such place as shall he directed hy Counc I, and there repain until ex amined hy such physician or physicians as Coun cil may appoint for Ihat purpose; and until the said physician or physicians shall issue Ins 1 r iheir certificate, slating that such'boat or boa's may come to the city of Augusta, without endangering 'he health of said City ; And any owner or mans g. r of any boat, arriving within the limits of this Ditv without first complying with the regulations contained in this Ordinance, on conviction thereof, shall forfeit a d pay a sum not exceeding five hun dred dollars. In conformity to the above Ordinance, NOTICE is her-by given, that all Boats and ving from Charleston, horn and after this day, will be required to anchor in the center of the ri ver, below the Bridge, and ilfr-re to remain (with out anv intercourse wilh the City) until examined by Doct. I honipson the physician appointed bv the City Council and receiving his certificate ol permission, and all officert ortne city are hereby ■nnnjn uuled to enforce the sbt ve notice and ordi -anoe. B. 11. Warren, A. ; oore, > Committee. J. Hollins head, - V May 1,1 - 4t 92 (CP All Paper due at the Bank ! r Auocsta. on Saturdsy the 14ib inst. must he oa-.l prior (hereto, ss the doors wi l ! then be clos- . ed preparatory to the Semi-Annual Dividend of , the Monday following. , Augustus Moore, Cash’r. May 13, 183.->. 92 £/* A Branch of the Classical ami English Seminary of Augusta, will to (lie Sand-hills, The school, under the direction of the K«v. Mr. Sheehan, will open on Monday, ( May ifiih, 1825. Edward Swiney, prefect. May 13 ! 92 & Mr. Luther Gumming, will act as my Attorney dm ing iny absence irow the place, J. M. Hand May 13 If 92 & dames Harper and William Rankin, or either of them an- fully authorised to | act as my altornies, (luting my absence from this oily. Wrn. Henry Kgan. Mav 10 3- ‘»1 iS oiice. J ttiviAfeud, 1. t 4 DIVIDEND ot Six Dollars per .liar'-, ha '*> hi n tins day declar. d, on the pri fi• sos tin 1 Vc-am Boat Company, for the htsl four months. a payable on the first .Monday in .tune m xt, to the- : •'lock Holders, or their tuthonsed Agent?, at the " Steam Bout office, Sav> cab. *- Wra P. Hunter, Treasurer S U. C. Suvninah, March 2, 1825 90 T\\ia Morning, at 10 o’clock,. Hy II PIcqUKT, Will he anld without reserve : — Ujas DARRELS Whiskey, 25 Pieces Hemp Cotton Batrcrinpr, 20 do Tow Rugging, 12 Elegant Mahogany Chairs, 1 Pitct Steam Ki'clien, complete, 2 Trunks second'hand Clothing, 12 Pieces Oznaborgs, 4 Cuds, 3 Bedsteads, i 12 Darrels Cider, 3 Kegs Tobacco, 129 Cross (lorn Moulds, An Iron Chest, 20 Boxes Soap, 1 Box Cotton Cards, 2 Darrels Smoaked Beet, 12 Boxes Sugar Plumbs, 2 Trunks Shoes, 3 Casks Nnil-', And immediately after the sale, about 12 o'- clock, at the place known ns the Littleman’i Garden, the articles advertised below, VVi ms at snle. I I H/’ BOOK SALK to-night at half past seven o’clock, for which see Catalogue of the day. May 13 It 92 POSITIVE SALE. THIS MORNING, (Friday,) at 12 o’clock, WILL HE HOLD AT VENDUE, Bj B. PICQ.CET, IlHp, House, Shade, Ice-lleuse and other ma terials, as they stand on the Lot known for merly as the LilUemanfs Garden, Corner of El lis and Centre,-streets. Mav 13 It 92 ~~ FOll SALE, ©©a©®© Lbs. rue ON CONSISTING OF— HAMS. MIDDLINGS and Shoulders, IV. Mackie. M«y 6 3( 90 HDD BARRELS Mackerel, No. 3, of a superior quality for tale, to be delivered at the Wnart, on the arrival of the Steam Boat South- Carolina. P- Picquet. May 10 y t TcETreMT No. 288, liroad-Street. npHK Ladies and Gent] men of Augusta are 1. informed that the subscribers have on hand every Evening, from 4 to 8 o’cl >ck, P. M. a sup. ply ol ICES C REAMS, of various kinds. • Families can be supplied by sending anv time within the abo-j,‘mentioned hours. Daniel Dill, & Co. May 6 90 JM otice. 4 BANK HILL has been found by a servant **■ o( the subscriber, which the owner can have by giving a satisfactory description of the same, paying for this advertisement and a small reward to the iinder. Patrick H. Cams. Mav 10 1825 91 .N oticc. ALL persons are cautioned against trading for , a cenain note ot band, given by the subscri ber to Robert Lunday and Robert Uevili of Scri pt' County, m Hus Stale, for three hundred and fifty dollars, dated on the Dili day of January, 1825, and due the Li day of January next, as I am determined not to pay the said note unless compelled hy law, as the same w«s obtained tor unsound properly, a-.d also for property to which ihe said Lnudy and Bevill had, as 1 have good rea sons to believe, no just right or title, so that no | consideration (or the said note has ever been given. Christopher Snell. Emanuel County, April 13. Irt2s, 6i* 91 KhTR.W, GEORGIA, Sctiven County. JOHN RAWLS of Capt. James P. Poythress’ District, lolis before me a sorrel Filly, three yean old, no brand or mark perceivable, apprais al hy " dham Gross and M dh» Tavlor, at fifteen dollars, tins 23:1 April, KJ2S. R. 1). M'KINNEY, j. p. Extract from the Estray Jiuuk this 7th May 1825 beahom b'oodall, Vl’k. i\ otice. 4 LL those indebted to the Estate of William i*. Mosely, late of Co’;imbiu County, deceased, are c. lied on to make payment, ami those having uetnanefs are requested to bring them in regular ly '-ttested acc rdiug to l«w. Thomas Howdrc, adm’r. Mav 25 14t 78 JSTolice. >¥|HE subscribers have connected themselves <UI in the practice of the LAW—they will uni turody attend ah ire counties of the Northern • in nit, and the county of Franklin, of the Wes tern Circuit, one of them will he generally found at'heir office in Elbei ton, where they will taka jlea nre in transact: tg the business ot those who rinv he iinfortunule enough to be involved in the Law, John A, Heard, Thomas J, Heard, January 1, 1825 jy