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BY JAMES GARDNER, JR-
OFFICE ON Me IN TOSH-STREET
THIBO DOOR FROM THR NORTH-WRST OOBXBB OF BROAD
BTRKKT.
(ale* of LAND bv Executors, Administrators or Guar
dians, arc required, br Uu. to be held on
Tuesday in the month, between the hour3 ,‘? f *.?" rt
the forenoon and three in the alternoon. at
House in which the property i« ‘' gIXT Y
these sales must be given in a public Ga
DAYS previous to the daj “t** l ?:. , uct i on , on the
Sales of NEGHOES must be atl “™ c * h us «l hour.
first Tuesday of the month, between tne ntT
of sale, at th* place of public «a e nitration,
where the Letter. Testamentary.rer
or Guardianship, may ha' e been S • ftl public
SIXTY DAY 3 notice thereof, in one o 4 ourt
G,relies of this State, and at the do
Houm where *ncl>, sale. *« pn , (r must be given.
Notice fur the previous to day of sale.
in like mann-r. I OUT t»• F Estate, must
NoSoe to the Debtor, ami Credit®" 11
he published for FOR be made to the Court of
N OnUnnrefor'lrare to .ell LAND, mult bo published
for TW O MON IHr WEGROKS. must bo published
VoS® order absolute can be
given by or ADVERTISING.
One square IS lines. IS cents the first insertion, and SO
cents adycb t l3 kM S XTS.
Sheriff- Levies. SO days. $2 SO per levy; 60 days. »5.
Executor's. Administrate, and Guardian a Sates. Real
Estate, (per square FlHnoaO ..... *4 <»
Do. do. Personal Estate 3 25
Citation for Letters of Administration ; io
p o do DUmUdon J 50
Notice to Debtors and Creditors
Two ' Months* Notices 4
Rules Nisi, (monthly) >1 P* r «ioare. each insertion
■ Ohitoary Notices over six lines, will be charged
at the same ratesas advertisement,.
LEGAL NOTICES.
Notice of the sale of Land and Negroes by Ad
ministrators, Executors or Guardians, must be publish
ed FORTY DAYS previous to the day of sale.
Notice tn Debtors and Creditors of an estate
must lie published FORTY DAYS.
•—E- Notice that application will be made to the
Court of Or liu.iry so-leave to sell Land er Negroes,
must be published TWO MONTHS, weekly.
■Nolic* of application for Letters of Administra
tion. nin-t be published THIRTY DAYS, and Let
ter. of Dismission of Executors or Administrators, SIX
MONTHS —Dismission of Guardians. FORTY DAYS.
_j- Sales of personal property of a perishable na
ture, Fv the Act of ISi-A, br Executors and Administra
tors’at i’-.* discretion of the Ordinary. open not less
,aaa 1"N DAY S notice Axle, by regular Administra
tor,. a« under the old law FORTY DAYS.
O" ALL REMIT 11 1 ~ _
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'SAtSrOA 7 MORNING - APRIL 2.
t=~- ' Southern Ladiea Book.
tasteful Magazine is well worthy ot i
. _ _r.ern patronage, both for its literary merits
S Tthe beautiful style of its execution.
In addition to its intrinsic claims, it appeals
on grounds well set forth in the following re
/ marks of the Home Gazette, to our sympathies
’ jvnd sense of justice, and to our gallantry in be- j
ha?’ 01 a talented Southern lady unfairly as- |
sailed f
On m.ire than one .occasion we have taken i
n!ea-..re in commending to on- leaders and to ’
the people of tne Sou* h, the “Southern Ladies'
Book,’’ pnb’ished in New Orleans, and edited ‘
by Mr». L. Virginia French, a rifted daughter of
the Sirutb.and one ot our most charming wri
ters Indeed, the press of the South generally
have borne repeated witness to the ability and j
taste with which it is conducted, and to the
value and attractive interest of its pages. These 1
tributes have been no less warm than well de
served- The “Ladies’ Book" has been hailed
everywhere in the South as a home production,
wcrthv of the most liberal encouragement: and
it is a source of pride and satisfaction to every
well-wis>er of Southern literary effort that its
prospecW are daily becoming brighter and more
Bntthe success which has so far attended this
Sontlern Magazine has aroused a feeling of sus
picvus jealousy, and even bitter animosity, in
themrinds of the proprietors of more than one
Virthern Monthly. They are beginning to
#pen their batteries against it: and not only so,
but are using the lowest and most despicable
means to destroy its rising popularity. A man
ly spirit would scorn to use such means to injure
* sister Magazine—a young Spring Violet in the
«a,-den of American literature—to say nothing
of siK'b efforts as used by men against a woman.
As a spCcfflien of the weapons with which they
seek to st."'ke down the 1 adies' Book ot the
South, we qno.‘e th? following passage from a
letter published in the N»hville American and
which we understand written an Agent
of Harpers' Magazine. V. e quote as follows :
‘•The Southern Ladies’ B<?ok-o which she
(Mrs. L Virginia French) i.i editress- does
not come up to the expectation oi the public.
If the future numbers are not born oi .eg.tima.e ,
parents in prose and poetry, and at tne proper
period, it cannot be sustained. Who cares to
read such abortions in literature as the January
number, which is decidedly insipid, tasteless, ,
trashy, ‘flat, stale and unprofitable.’ The pas- |
- .totewpa-escfthis January jsspe are Jiot even :
•’ nanabie i>f exciting emo-ion in the tender bo
rom of a boarding school Miss. An antiqua ed
JaaiJen. dreaming of sheltering and rearing in
the prolific garden of matrimony, matrimonial
• plants, can find a half dozen sentences suitin„
“Merely because this Magazine is published
in t,?e South, is not a good reason why it should
mn sorted. Genius and talent sparkle *n its
napes—iu' leaves ought not to be ‘sear and yel
teThnt fres.'i a» the smiling verdure of spring.
Vo one ; ar with the merits of the “South
ornTadies Book«n read the extract above.
wPthout a feeing of -urn and indignatiom-
From cur soul we pity tws vena! hireling U the
Harpers, and detest his wean and contracted
•pirit It is not enough that the Magazine,
which h«s secured him as its scout«is its hun
dred thousand subscribers, and thousands ottnem
in the Southern States—it is noi enough tha. it
borrows its articles from English penou'cals, and
thus chills and destroys the spirit ot literary ef
fort in the United States. Oh, no! It must
frown spon the younger and weaker Magazine
ofthecountry—Magazines, too, which are com
posedentirely of original articles, in most cases
midfor. This is a specimen ot Northern Maga
•zire riit.-of'T' quite in keeping with the charac
terof the monthly whose agent has thus vented
hi spleen upon the only Magazine in the oouth
fr a lady. ~ ~
Woman s delicacy and woman s pride would
no doubt deter the editor of the “Ladies’ Book’
from taking any notice inch a dispicable at
tack in the columns ofher own Magazine. But
the press of the South owe it themwlves to re
f buke the foul slanders promulgated in the letter
referred to. We esteem it a privilege as well
as a duty" to vindicate the ‘ Ladies’ Book from
the aspersions of this hireling scribbler, and to
commend it to the patronage and the generous
support of the Southern people.
“Merely because this Magazine is published
in the South, is not a good reason why it should
be supported "—says this agent df the Harpers !
/ A \h I that is the key to all the snarling oi
j thia' drummer-up of Southern subscribers to
/ Northern periodicals. The “Ladies' Book,’’ we
f to know, is published in the South,
and*for tha ‘ very reason has a strong claim upon
' our encomsg/ng support. But it does not rest
1 ita claims upon .“>at alone. With a gifted mind
to superintend, ana ? corps talented contribu
tors to enrich its colum'”’- ft may safely base
its claims upon its literary iPenta. Success to it,
land may the efforts of its deti?ct° rs impede
y its progress, but add to the number and to
tfea zeal of its friends. “We hope to aae the day
when ths ‘Southern Ladies’ Book’ will have its
bandred thousand subscribers,” says the Alaba
ma Southerner; and in that wish we fully and
fervently join.
SerrtTl; 'nno xttt. Slave Trade.—lt is said
Schenck, the U. States minister to Bra
zil, has recommended our Government to adopt
more stringent measures in order to prevent the
American flag being prostituted to subserve the
slave trade between Brazil and the African coast.
He proposes the prohibition by law of all direct
trade in vessels of the United States betw« en
Brazil and the African coast. If this be deemed
•too stringent, then he suggests that the expor
tation from Brazil, in American bottoms, of arti
cles suited only or principally for the slave trade,
be prohibited ; as also the granting of consular
sea letters to American vessels sold on the Coast
of Brazil or Africa for any purpose except mak
«s ing a direct voyage home. If none of these mea-
* aures be adopted, Mr. Schenck urges an imme
diate reorganization of our naval force, and makes
an eloquent appeal that our national honor be
vindicated, and our duty to God and humanity
Be no longer outraged.
The Skaboxs, &c.—The Columbus Enqui
rer of 29th says : Since our last there has been
but little change. A few fair days and some
pretty showers, with a white frost on yesterday
morning, leaves the earth about as cold and wet
as it was a week ago. We hardly remember so
backward a spring. The woods are as naked as
usual in February, and the farms still waiting for
the evaporation of the water and the genial
rays of the sun. As german to this subject, we
are glad to note the fact that the price of cotton
during this season has not caused our planters
to devote their efforts entirely to this staple.—
Experience has taught them an important les
son or two, and they intend to profit by it.—
Corn and peas, hogs and potatoes, are beginning
to be looked to as productions of some impor
tance.
The receipts of the American Tract Society,
for the la‘t month were $35,139, and for eleven
monts to March 1, 3316,294. Grants of publi-,
eatioos since April 1, have amounted to more
than forty-five millions pages. The indebted
ness of the society has been largely reduced since
[ he last meeting.
1 Appointment of Cadets.—The following
■’ j ppointments of Cadets to the Military Acade
. j my—to take effect on the first day of June next
t —have been made; Maryland—Richard H.Brew-
J : er, Ist district; William G. McGill, 2d ; Thomas
;D. Cockey, 3d; William J. Evans, Sth. Vir
ginia—Thomas G. Baylor, Ist district; Richard
’ I K. Meade, Jr.. 2d ; Ellison Cortin, 7th ; Richard
Murphy, 10th; William S. Parran, 11th; Wil
-1 • liam P. Smith, 12th. North Carolina—Solomon
’ j Williams, Sth district; John T. Winslow, 7th;
I LlonlyninP. Warren, 9th. Pennsylvania—Wil
! mer Bedford, 3d district; William H, Bell, 7th ;
i Charles B. Tyler, 12th: James Searight, 13th.
, 1 John F. Magruder, of Va., has been appointed a
i cadet at large.
I j An Office Declined . —The Boston Atlas is
informed that Judge Bishop declines the office
( i of Sub Treasurer for that port. The pay is toe
small for the heavy bonds required. The salaiy
i is 52,.'00 per annum—the bonds required,s2oo,-
1 000.
• j On the 7th inst. the first public message was
> sent thraugh by the ele trie telegraph from Paris
; to London withont stopping on the way to be
* i translated. The message lett Paris at 9 o’clock
l and arrived in London at two minutes before 9,
■ which is said to be the first instance of anihila
tion of time yet achieved in Europe-
Railway Iron.—The Chicago Daily Tribune
learns that the Illinois Central Railroad Compa
‘ ; ny, have contracted for the freighting of 47,000
tons of Railway Iron from New York to that
i city, during the ensuing summer. The amount
of railroad iron to be brought to that city during
this year, will about amount to 72,000 tons.
CrBAN Exports. — *"l’
niolarses.fiDias^DTF 1 ,'fijuSry and February last
-were fl. 1.4 J boxes of sugar from Havana, and
I 2.5.682 from Matanzas ; 6.710 hogsheads of mo
lasses from Havana, 19,755 from Matanzas, and
I 19,111 from Cardenas.
Os the sugar, 5.327 boxes were sent to Bos
ton, 19,319 to New York, Philadelphia and Bal
timore, 2.590 to other ports in the United States,
1.144 to Great Britain, 17,186 to Cowes and the
Baltic. 1,386 to Hamburg and Bremen, 4,157 to
Holland and Belgium, 14,952 to France, Italy
and other ports, and 1,644 to Mexico, Sisal and
, South America.
1 Os the molasses, 6,941 hogsheads were sent
i to Boston, 11,295 to Portland. Me., 2,983 toother
; ports of New England, 9,123 to New York, .'
Philadelphia and Baltimore, 7.995 to the South- j
I era ports of the United States, 2,898 to the I
i British provinces, 4.331 to Great Britain, and i
I 10 to other points.
The exports of sugar for the two months !
were less than those for the same time iA 1852 j
by 14,710 boxes, than those of molasses by :
4.340 hogsheads.
A British Parliamentary paper just publish
ed, gives a most satisfactory statement relative
to the continued decrease of pauperism in the
United Kingdom. The number of adult able
bodied persons relieved, both in-door and out
door, has diminished during the year 1852 from
127,471 to 116,237, or about 81 per cent. The
reduction during the last four years has been
from 201,644 to 116.257, or 421 per cent.; a most
satisfactory result. And what has been the case
as respects Ireland ? In January, 1849, the
work houses in Ireland contained 185.184 pau
pers ; in January, 1853, they contained only
138,764. The out-door relief at the former period
was extended to 423,355 persons, at a weekly
expenditure of £11,170; at the latter, only 3,-
' 038 persons were so relieved, at a weekly cost
j of £9O. The total number of paupers, in and out
doors, receiving relief on Ist January, 1853, at
565 unions in England, the population of which
was 15,157,505, was 731,483, or Ito 21. The
total number in Ireland was 141,822, in a popu
lation of 6,615,794. or lin 46. Again a most
satisfactory result.
Telegraphic Pranks.—ln Boston they have
a fire-alarm telegraph, which, when connected,
sets all the fire-betis ringing at one time. A
day or two agio, the wires of trie Morse Tele- !
graph from New York got in contact with the
Fire Telegraph in Boston, and instantly King’s
Chapel bells began striking fire at a rapid rate,
and the fire apparatus of the district were all
drawn out before the cause was discovered.—
Ringing Boston bells in New York city is rather
a long bell rope to pull ; but is a very striking
illustration ot magnetism annihilating space.
Freshet in the Hudson River.—There is a
strong freshet in the Hudson river, at Albany
The water had risen some eight or ten inches
within a day or two, and the docks are partially
submerged. The warm sun, the few days past,
melting the ice in the streams, and turning the
snow into water, is to blame for it.
The Toll* on Freight and Passengers on the
Columbia (Pa.) Railroad, during the quarter
ending February, show an increase over the
same quarter of the previous year of nearly $53,-
000. Should this ratio hold good during the re
maining nine months, the increased revenue da
rived from the road, during the year 1853, will 1
be about $200,000.
On Saturday, Mr. Doran, the Counsel for the
convicted murderer Spring, made a motion in tho
Court of Oyer and Terxniner at Philadelphia, for
a new trial, on the ground that one of the jury
who tried him passed by the name of Bernard
Corr, when his real name was Bernard McQuil
lan. Corr had hired him as his substitute, and
he daily answered to that name. This is a nov
el question, but the case cannot be taken to the
Supreme Court, as the record ofthe Lower Court
is all correct. The evidence in the matter was
to have been heard last Monday.
The ScncßßS oi - Boston.—The Boston Tra
veller says that the number of persons living in
the suburban towns, but doing business in Bos
ton, is daily increasing. The 6 o’clock P. M.
special train for Newton on the Worcester rail
road. on Saturday last, took out 350 passengers,
chiefly inhabitants of Brighton and Newton.
A Disgraceful Riot occurred at Williamsburg
opposite New York city, on Tuesday evening.
A mob of white rowdies attacked a colored
church, smashed in the windows and doors, and
beat, most unmercifully, several police officers
who attempted to stop their lawless proceedings.
From several quarters the suggestion has been
made of a World's Temperance Convention to
be held during the great exhibition to como olf du
ring the summer in New-York. One proposition
is, that each State appoint tome man, to repre
sent her in making the arrangements; and that
this Committee have an early meeting in New
York to fix the time and issue the call.
The Department of State has decided that the
United States Government cannot grant a pass
port, with the protection incident thereto, to a
foreigner desiring to go abroad, who has only de
clared his intention to become a citizen, or, as it
is commonly called, filled his first paper. The
final oath must be taken, and a certificate of ci
tizenship obtained,before a passport can be grant
ed. This is important to those of foreign birth
■&1O may wish to visit the old country before
the completion of their naturalization.
A bill compelling all the roads in the State to
carry way-passengers and freight at (he same
rates as charged for through-passengers and
freights, has been introduced into the New York
Assembly, and it is said will certainly pass the
House. The Albany and Susquehanna Railroad
enterprise, it is also said, is blocked for the pres
ent, if not permanently.
Ice at Providence.—At Providence, 11. 1.,
10,000 tons of ice have been secured, against 20,-
000 tons last year. The consumption of the
city last year was 10,000 tons.
A Dinner Bill.—lt appears fiom an official
report, that the directors of the East India Com
pany have spent £53,000 in house dinners du
ring the last eighteen years.
An Officeholder in Extremis.—The Bos
ton Mail is responsible for the following picture
of an office holder at bay :
“ Gen. Peaslee. the newly appointed Collector
of Boston, is in a 1 state of siege.’ No less than
fifteen hundred ravenous applicants for the two
hundred offices in his gift had, at last accounts,
driven him to the confines of a single bedded
room in the Tremont House, in the fourth story.
One of Hobbs’ patent locks was yesterday put
on the door.”
Grand Balloon Ascension. —Mons’r et
Mad’me De la Vellnpapier ! 1 A' V ccole Du Gas
Hippodrome. Paris. Mons De la Vellapapierhas
the honor to announce to the citizens of Augus
ta, Hamburg, and the surrounding country, that
i his first experiment south of Richmond, Va., and
his third in America, in .Erostatic Progression,
- in accordance with the Chart ot Lieut. Maury,
and by his diagrams, will take place Friday, at
I half-past 9 o’clock, A. M. at the Parade Ground
South Common, Augusta, M. De La Vellapa
, pier has selected this point in conformity to the
charges of the" Dcgres Solicitudes,” of Pliilatres
■ de Rosiere, being the nearest approximation to
■ 34 degrees of North latitude. He will be accom
panied in his ascension by Mad. De La Vella
papier. and will make use ofthe same Balloon
in which he has made one hundred and fifty
1 Aeroltic voyages. This stupendous piece of
mechanism is made of the heaviest and richest
Artiennes silk, consisting of at least 3000 Square
‘ Feet of fabric of gorgeous and magnificent col
‘ ours, with a diameter of -ixty feet, and possess-
■ ijg a sustaining pow.of 6950 pounds.
The inflation will commence at 9, A. M.,and
the rope will be severed at half-past nine, pre
cisely, at which time the ascending balloon will
be seen by the entire multitude. Madame Dela
i Velapapier, will be seated in the beautiful and
gorgeous Car of Flowers
The quantity of gas required for the inflation
of the balloon, 197.532 feet, exhaled from four
heco-litres of 53,000 frames ?
N. B. The first row reserved for the City
Council and Professors ofthe Medical College of
Georgia. Positions in rear of Gasoterites to be
occupied by the ladies.
Admittance Free.
On Monday, at 5 p. m., from the same place,
Monsieur De la Vellapapier will ascend on the
back of the celebrated Pony, Eros, who will be
attached at least 25 feet from the Car by ropes.
Madame De la Vellapapier will be seated
within the Car of Flowers, and if the wind
proves favorable, will descend iny^ew.oftb* ll " 1 11* 1
ions s'Witateffr , ‘*'b*i-'imUoii, one doi-
April Ist, 1853.
The above is a copy ofthe handbill alluded to
in our last, as having been posted at the different
corners of the streets of the city. Business, (as
we expected) prevented our visiting the Com
mons, but we learn that numbers who were fa
vored with more leisure, were seen wending
their way thither. Those who were in the se
cret, they say, enjoyed themselves to their hearts
content.
As described to us, there could be seen about
the hour specified, several of our sedate citizens,
commons-bound, who thought they knew, but
Were not certain, that the to-be-ascension was all
a hoax. They could be seen, as though taking a
| morning’s airing, proceeding in the direction of
the parade ground ; but on gaining the corners of
the various streets from which a full view of the
common could be obtained, they invariably right
about-faced, with as grave a countenance as they
could put on. We were informed that some
three or four hundred forgot the day, and went to
sse the ascension! but on enquiry, we could not
find the first man who was not too smart to be
caught with such chaff. One of the knowing
ones, however, we understand, boldly walked
out, but when he found himself sold, he jumped
a fence close by, and availed himself of his po
sition to peer at others who were more exposed.
It is needless for us to say, that the ascension
was all a hoax, and that the hand-bill was well
played off, by some of our mischief-loving
young ones. We hope the worthy 7 proprietor
who reserved rooms for Mons, and Madame
Vallapapier, suffered no loss or inconvenience
by their non-appearance. April comes but j
once a year, and if we are forgetful, no one i
should be offended at being reminded of old
customs.
Sad Accident.
We learn that a Serious accident, attended
with loss of life, occurred at Social Circle on
Thursday. They were adding a second story
to the Dinner House, and had so far completed
it that half ot the roof was covered in. From
some unknown cause the whole fell in, burying
in its ruins, and instantly killing, Mr. William
Carter, one of the hands employed on the
building. Mr. Carter, we regret to learn,
leaves a wife and seven children, who were de
pendent on his exertions for support.
The Bank of East Tennessee.—The Chatta
nooga Advertiser says : There seems to be some
foundation for the rumor concerning the failure
ot this Bank, as will be seen by the following
from the Knoxville Register of the 25th inst.:
“ Thompson’s Bank Note Reporter (of New
York) of the 15th inst., announces the failure
of the two C mnecticut Banks, and also of the
Bank ot East Tennessee, and savs “the failure
of these banks may be dated on Friday, March
11, and their notes may be considered very near
worthless.”
A considerable sensation was excited here by
this intelligence, as it was generally understood
that Mr. Chittenden owned the greater portion
of the stock of the Bank of East Tennessee, and
on yesterday a run was made upon the Bank.
So far the Bank has redeemed her issues prompt
ly in gold and silver, but how long it will con
tinue to do so we are not able to say. The fail
ure of Mr. Chittenden leaves the bank in a very
precarious condition, and we cannot advise the
holders of its notes to retain them; they should
send them to the bank for redemption forthwith.
From our knowledge of the officers, we feel fully
authorized to say, that they will meet every dol
lar of its liabilities as they are presented, as long
as the bank has any means.
The propeller steamship South Carolina, is
lying near Corlears street, New York. She has
been altered for a voyage round Cape Horn.
Her propeller has been taken out, and with her
machinery on board, will sail under canvass for
California.
The Banks of Ohio have made up their re
turns to the auditor of the State to the first
Monday in February. There are now four
classes of banks in tW State, viz :—five of the '
old chartered banks, with a capital of $1,297,- ■
526; forty branches of the State bank, with an
aggregate capital of $4,146,675; eleven inde- i
pendent banks, capital $7*4,180; and thirteen I
free banks, organized under the free bank law
of 1851, with a capital of $575,970.
INDICTMENT FOR STEALING AN UMBRELLA
The long mooted question whether stealing an j
Umbrella is larceny, is about to be tested in the
Court of General Sessions, in New York, the
grand jury having found a bill of indictment
against Henry Bell, charging him with having
taken away, with felonious intent, a cotton Um
brella, valued at 87c., th- property of Wm. Wood,
against the “ peace and dignity” of the State of
New York. The final decision in this case will
no doubt be looked for with interest by every
owner of a “ cotton Umbrella.”
Wm. E. Burton, Esq., has published quite a
yevere article in the New York papers, in reply
to repeated attacks of tha Albion newspaper up
on the style of performances and the characte
of the audiences at his theatre.
The first Salmon of the season arrived in
Boston, from Penobscot, on Thursday. He
weighed twenty-one pounds, and was sold at
the rate of $2 per pound. Shad have “come”
also in Boston, and sold at $2 each.
The Wheat Crop.—The Baltimore county
Whig says “ the young wheat does not seem, as
a general thing, very promising ; we shall make
to judge from appearances, scarcely an average
:.rop.”
The Memphis Eagle & Enquirer of the 19th
inst., contains the following proposition :
Messrs. Editors :— Through the medium of
your paper, I wish to make a proposition to the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad Company, or
to the Stateof Tennessee, to-wit: That if either
will secure to rne, in the Bank of Tennessee,
three hundred thousand dollars, I will give to
either a plan by which the mail can be sent with
safety from Memphis to Charleston in one hour
or thereabout, running time, exclusive of stop
pages at the various post offices. If the plan
fails to perform, I will not claim anything.
R. C. Land.
Virginia Cattle. —A drove of 83 cattle,
which are expected to average between 1,300
and 1,400 lbs. each, left Moorefield, Va., last
week, for the Baltimore market. Another
drove, of 100 head, left on Saturday for New
York.
Go it,California I—A somewhat new and
marvellous revelation is made by a Washington
correspondent of one of the New York papers :
It amounts to this, and if true, will be a new
move in the workings of manifest destiny. A
company of wealthy Californians have entered
into a negotiation for the purchase of the Sand
wich Islands, with a view of having them an
nexed to the United States, as a county of Cali
fornia. It is said that atone time the whole ar
rangment had been made, when the weak-min
ded Ring backed out.
A ...GUST GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MO3NING, APRIL 6, 1853.
Mr. Fili.work’s Visit io Srv.innml—The
following communication has been addressed to
Mayor Wayne, of this city, by the ex-President,
in reply to the welcoming resolutions ot our City
Council recently transmitted to him :
Washington, March 24,18.13.
Hon. R. Wayne, Mayor, <sr.,
Sir : Your letter of the 16th inst., enclosing a
copy of the Resolutions adopted by the Council
of the City of Savannah, on the 15th, inviting
me to visit your city on my journey South, and
kindly tendering its hospitalities, has just reach
ed me here, whee lam still detained by the se
vere indisposition of Mrs. Fillmore. She has
been slightly improving for two or three days,
and her physicians give me reason to hope that
she will recover, but I fear not in time to enable
me to go South this Spring. I have heard much
ofthe picturesque beauties of your city, and have
long had a great desire to visit it, and this desire
is greatly increased by the very kind and cordial
invitation with which your citizens have honor
ed me, and for which, whether I arn able to avail
myself of it or not, 1 beg leave to return my pro
found acknowledgments.
Should Mrs. Fillmore’s health enable me to
visit your place, I shall take p'easure in accept
ing your invitation, and will advise you ot the
fact in due time. I am yours, respectfully,
Millard Fillmoke.
* •-* [Savannah Republican, 31st ult.
We presume the death of Mrs. Fillmore has
put a stop to the Ex-President’s contemplated
visit South—at least for the present. At any
future time his Southern friends would, no
doubt, be pleased to extend to him a warm wel
come.
A Rag Mill out of Funds. —The
ton Republic states that a
Bank of
the notes of v. i.ich are*.
“ received by it qirjJjyposit at par and under,” on ‘
Monday refused to redltem two liundred one
dollar bills of its own issue, on the ground of
having “no funds.” The notes we dated,
1 Washington, November, 1852,” yet the gen
tleman was told that they are redeemable in
New York—in that very city from which they
were sent to an agent in Washington for collec
tion. There are two or three others of this sort
of paper in the District, some located in George
town.
The New Silver Coin.—The director of the
Philadelphia Mint has gone to Washington with
a view to procure directions from the Secretary
of the Treasury in relation to the new coinage
and other matters connected with the Mint.
The new silver coin, it is expected, will be is
sued by the Mint about the 15th of April. The
Mint has about half a million of dollars worth
of silver on band.
Important Surgical Operation.—On Tues
day, the Isth ult., (says the Abbeville Banner.)
Dr. Dearing, of Augusta, Ga., extracted from
the bladder of the son of Capt. E". Barmore, of
Mount Hill, Abbeville District, a stone ofthe
Mulberry variety, measuring J inch in length
by f in width, and weighing-six grains. The age
of the child, (six years) taken into consideration,
this is quite a large stone. The little fellow is
doing well, and bids fair to recover rapidly.
This is the second child of the same age Dr.
Dearing has operated on within a month.
The Small Pox.—We are glad to state (says
the Atlanta Intelligencer,) that there is no long
er any probability of the spread of this loath
some disease in our midst. The single case of
varioloid, reported by us last week, is the only
case that has appeared in the city, and the indi
vidual has already entirely recovered. Our
friends through the country need have no fur
ther fears on the subject.
Eatonton Railroad Finished.—On Monday
of last week, (says the Federal Union.) the iron
horse went through from Milledgeville to Ea
tonton. We believe the passenger carsnow run
regularly from Gordon to Eatonton, through
Milledgeville. We congratulate the stockhol
ders on the successful termination of their la
bors. •
A three mile race took place at Mobile on
Saturday, between Charmer and Wade Hampton
over the Bascombe Course. Wade led for two
miles. At the beginning of the third mile, he
shied at e gate. Charmer pressed him. Wade
caught and passed her, then stopped dead and
was distanced. Thousands of dollars were lost
on the result.
Western Cotton.—A correspondent of the
N. O. Delta, writing from Logtown, Ouachita,
(La.,) requests the editor to state that the plant
ers on the river are in want of more steamboats
to carry their crops to market. The correspon
dent states that the crops in that section are
overwhelming, and there are but four small
boats to take them out of the river; and, unless
they get more boats in the trade, they will not
be able to send a great portion of their cotton to
New Orleans. He also says that the boats now
employed are only taking cotton from those
points where they can get passengers and orders
for return freights.
Cotton from Jamaica.—The N. O. Pica
yune of the 24th inst. says: The brig Wm.
Clark, Capt. Daley, which arrived here yester
day from Kingston, Ja., had among her cargo
twelve bales of cotton, grown in the Island of
Jamaica. The seeds were not cleared out; why,
we know not, unless it be that no cotton gins
are to be found on the Island. Many attempts
have recently been made to raise cotton in Ja
maica, and with success, but on no extended
plan.
The Tipperary, Ireland, Free Press, a temper
ately conducted Catholic Journal, say's that a
project is in contemplation, having for its object
the voluntary relinquishment of the Maynooth
grant, and the release of the Irish priesthood
from all pecuniary obligations to the British
Government. It is proposed that 1000 gentle
men should come forward and subscribe each
£IOO towards founding an Irish college in Paris
for the education of clergymen, or towards en
dowing, for a like purpose, by the application of
such sum, the Irish college already established
in the French capital. Thus, a fund of £IOO,OOO
would be created, and the Free Press thinks
there is every reason to suppose that such facili
ties would be afforded by the French Govern
ment as would render this amount quite ade
quate to carry the scheme into practical opera
tion.
Mr. Seth Paine, the “Christian Banker,”
the Chicago Democrat of the 17th informs us,
commenced on the 16th redeeming the bills of
the Bank of Chicago, when presented In sums
less than five dollars. Each party that present
ed a bill was questioned whether he had taken it
for its fact or bought it ~t a discount—Mr.
Paine’s intention being onTy’to pa y what parties
gave. After redeeming £BOO of two hundred
persons, Mr. Paine’s pile of current bills was
exhausted, and he announced the fact, at the
same time expressing the hope that he would be
able, in a few days, to redeem every outstanding
dollar of the Bank of Chicago.
Proposed Line of Boats from Brunswick
to Macon.—The Macon Telegraph is pleased to
learn that the capitalists and business men of
Macon are discussing the project of establishing
a line of Boats, to ply between that city and the
port of Brunswick. The enterprise is pro
nounced feasible by those most experienced in
similar undertakings, and it is said that fast
boats, with a capacity to carry seven hundred
bales of cotton,can be constructed to run from
Brunswick up to the Macon wharves for nine
months in the year.
We learn (says the Charleston Courier) from
a correspondent that Chesterfield Jail, with 8
persons confined therein, was consumed by fire
at three o’clock on Tuesday morning. W. W.
Campbell and the Jailor having been aroused
by some persons outside, had just time to make
their escape. Our correspondent has not given
us the names but of two of the unfortunate indi
viduals who met their death in this horrible
manner—namely, John Parr and Hall. A
man and his wife, who were on a visit to one
of the prisoners, were also burnt to death.
The Boston Transcript learns that Mr. F.
Ritchie, the well known editor of the Rich
mond Enquirer, will soon lead to the hymenial
altar, tha distinguished actress and estimable
woman, Mrs. Mowatt.
Fatal Accident. —On Monday last, Mrs.
Sterne, a widow lady of this place, in attempting
to fix her well-rope which had got out of order,
fell into the well. No one being near except a
negro girl, life had become extinct before the
necessary aid to get her out could get there.—
Griffin Union, 3UZ ult.
{ lomthe N. O. Picayune.]
Santa Anns-his reply- lo the Invitation to Return
to Mex no—Vengeance on Arista—Hostile to
the Unit "I States.
The «co tel Cornercio of Vera Cruz, of the
<>tn inst,, ■ attains a remarkable document, being
the repot w Don Manuel M. Escobar, who was
sent by P’e authorities of Vera Cruz to Cartba
gena on | mission to Santa Anna. Escobar was
always I warm friend and political adherent of
this chia and the present publication may be
considerjl tlie premonitory trumpet call to his
friends a I rirstanathema of his enemies. In
the presf't crisis the views presented and the
tone of y document make it worthy of mature
consideJjjHL It is dated on board the steamer
Dee. infne harbof of Y’era Cruz, on the 4th inst,
and is adressed to (>.* G "ernorand Legislature
of VeraSmz.
SenoEsei bar sth’ s that he left Vera Cruz
on the of January, and r ived at Carthage
na on fl of Febn;-u v. He found Gen.
Santa ■re;’’ 1 residing at Turbaco, five leagues
from Cifhagena. Here he had giv en prosperity
to a half'imed town, rebuilt the church, began
a fine nfcadrjiized road to Qarthagena, built
new ho 1 t-', tpned the surrounding wilderness
into a and protected the people, who
blessed i> as their benefactor. Senor Escobar
found Si A Anna in his study, and after an ex
clamatir of surprise at this unexpected visit,
the Gen Psfrst question was, “ What happens
in our "hje? What say the Mexicans?”
He thefl*ke<i;f it was true that another Amer
ican Invßoswas threatened, to which Escobar
replied t mdjipie question of Tehuantepec would
force Ms Jftocede without fighting.”
Senor|“™>'A“ states tuat he then went into
- a t j[ the course of the Tehuantepec
the Goverjujent.
Wfe niW to the
pap£ bipueht * next molning San-
’■' , ,
You?! aiv? has made me pass a very bad
nvMit Htif* i v fi I been affecterl by the unhap
py sit’ireU'nJfk.nr beloved country, the victim
of passios in anarchy, and in immi
nent daffer P losing her nationality. Unhap
py Mexfc! Without revenue; owing a mil
lion andihaiof back dividends on the English
debt anffinar to pay the Inst year’s interest,
or even tte sillies of her officers ■ without an
army, thefrojiers abandoned and suffering the
greatest drasJrT from the attacks of the sav
ages; the 'rorier States undermined by traitors,
influencedanjprotected bv Americans: all this
tolerated for ffe years by inqpt leaders, who are
traitors and off worthy of universal execration.
Lower CaiiHia. too, threatened in such a man
ner that if. mrinvaded and overrun without
resistance. Jicetan sustaining an Indian war
in which if cannot triumph. Tehuantepec
threatened ad it’ military occupation by our
natural enenls delayed until the coming month
of April.”
Senor Esiojir here puts a note to his report
stating thatq) his arrival at Vera Cruz he had
learner) that-i
“The qumon of Tehuantepec had been set
tled in a mailer which must be satisfactory to
ail good citibns which Gen. Santa Anna could
not know -iheH he used the above words.
H<> goes otfto report Santa Anna’s words:
“What a station I But what has the Gov
ernment of lexica done with the millions it
received for Je iniqnitious sale of a great part ot
our territory What ha« it done -with the reve
nue it has cptrolle I for five years, while the
nation hid ranained dumb and resigned in view
of the prodiges which the ominious Government
of Queretarooffered to do ?”
The report states that the conferences were
continued fol two or three days, - and finally
Senor Escoba invited him to return to the Re
public. SantrAnna spoke of his disinclination
to leave the tnnquil life he was leading, to enter
the labyrinth ipened to him in Mexico, of his
vivid recollectnns of his sufferings though the
ingratitude of Hs cotemporaries; of his readi
ness to abtndoifhis residence in Havana at the
call of the natifi, when his wounds were still
unhealed ; of la efforts to repel the invaders
and save his com try; of his great personal sacri
fices to equip hir armies : of his horse wounded
at Angostura: if his clothes pierced with balls
in the Valley o' Mexico : of the burning of his
estate by the irvaders and of the infamous ac
cusation againit him by Gamboa which had
been suffered t« lie for five years upon the table
of Congress, without one single Representative
coming to his lefence, or asking even for ac
tion upon it. tough many of them had been
with him and knew of his great labors.
1 “Words cannot define such conduct, and it in
dicates clearly ivhat can be expected from such
citizens. A society thus accustomed to the
physical and m«ral assassination of the leaders
in its war of independence, that does not respect
an observing w»rld, cannot be otherwise than
in the unbappycondition of our country. God
and man must Jpndemn acts that are so rarely
frnnd s n ■'be 7';ws such a course
encourage ou» young menltrprve their time and
theirbest yeais to the benefit of the country,
defying dangel and forgetting all that is most
dear and sweets n life, and abandon all for her
safetv 7 * * *
“ Besides, it is impossible that I can return,
and meet with serenity a c et of men who have
elevated themelves to power without any thing
in past history favorable to them ; or him who
has never been a good son, a good husband, a
good friend, ora good citizen ; men who have
borne the filthy yoke imposed upon them, and
remained impasive even when they saw’ that
nothing was done to save our country from the
aggressions projected by the new van ’als of the
North.
“ Have the Mexicans abjured their passions 7
Do they blush for their follies 7 See the abyss
that is open at their feet? Know they that
they will be absorbed by this modern Rome,
without any resource but to bend the neck, if
they do not change completely their course ?
Have they the presumntion to suppose they
will be saved without effort on their part, amid
the disorders in which they lie, and when it
would seem that patriotism has fired the land of
the Hidalgos, ofthe Iturbides and Guereios 7
“ Shall I present myself on that scene when
no government is possible? When the ties of
obedience. are torn into shreds? When the
wicked rfhd vile Arista has disolved every social
bond, and driven morality and virtue into obliv
ion ? Do they wish me to leave this sw’eet re
pose ? That I shall again risk the term of life
which Divine Providence concedes to me. mu
tilated as I am, to look upon such misfortune,
with the wish, perhaps, to save, but powerless to
remedy because I may not find a loyal and effec
tive co-operation, as occurred when I made front
to the American invasion ?”
Senor Escobar states that to these powerful
truths he could at first reply only with silence,
but that gaining courage, he told the General it
was all true, but that those times were past, that
the hatred to Arista was universal; that fortu
nately for Mexico there was a great majority of
illustrious citizens that had taken no part in
those affairs : that every one proclaimed him as
the only liberator, and that his presence would
cause anarchy to fly. and restrain the counsels
of thos% who’wished to convert Mexico into a
colonv.
After two days deliberation in silon'ce, Santa
Anna told the messenger—
“ That his heart could only be Mexican ; that,
notwithstanding the past, he wished to show to
his compatriots how dear they w’ere to him;
that their misfortunes were his and he could
never be indifferent to them ; that, looking at
objects fromta distance, their deformities were
better seen; that he did not wish that history
should one day s»y that he had been deaf to the
call of bis country when she honored him with
a call to meet the common danger, and that he
had seen with indifference her fate; that he de
sired to end his (lays in the spot he had chosen
as a residence fisr his family; that his only wish
Was_tp see hi/ country happy, and that, casting
aside “pg to detain him, he re
signed hiWself to vivo ‘•“I’li b'"' IJilr
triotism, although history taught him to
confidence in the passing enthusiasm of the
masses.
“ I hold,” hoz’aid, “ that independence is the
greatest of our blessings, and every good citizen
should defend it with all his power, and I cannot
be deaf to the voice of my countrymen, nor fail
to appreciate the high honor they have conferred
upon me, in calling me to help them out of the
labyrinth in which they are involved, and above
all to save our nationality now in such immL
nent peril from the grasping spirit of our neigh
bors and the indolence and treason of a few Mex
icans. Return in the next packet, and in giving
an account of your mission to those who sent
you, tell them from me that in the next month
of March I will leave this spot for the shores of
Mexico.
“On my arrival there I will call around me
those persons of influence who are true lovers of
their country. I will confer with them; and
if I find co-operation, if I find sincerity and a
good will to abnegate capricious and mistaken
opinions; and finally if I find men of heart to
make an obstinate defence of our rights against
the aggressors from the North, and that the
only cry is independence or death, then will I
lend myself cheerfully to new sacrifices, for in
truth I cannot survive the disappearance of the
Mexican nationality,, and I desire to bury my
self in its ruins, if, after the Mexicans have done
their duty, the great Regulator of the destinies
of nations should order for us such a fate. But
if my hopes should not find encouragement equal
to my desires, which never can be other than the
weal and glory of our nation, I will return dis
consolate to this retirement and deplore the
blindness of a people that obstinately believe it
can do everything when it leaves the only path
lelt open to it, and will not imitate others, who
like them, have found themselves in a similar
situation.”
Wheat.—Mr. Wm. G. Calhoun handed us a
few stalks of Wheat yesterday which were head
ed and pretty well filled. It is early for that
grain to present such a growth. From the pres
ent appearance of that crop hereabouts, the pros
pects are flatten ng for a good harvest —Sanrlen
ville Georgian, 29th imt.
Frost.—The Sanderville Georgia, of the 29th,
fißyi: We had quite a frost at this place yes
terdey, we hope it has done no damage.”
Official.
Appointments by the President—By and with the
advice and consent ofthe Senate.
CUSTOM-HOUSE OFFICERS.
Collectors.— Edward P. Little, district of Ply-s
mouth, Massachusetts, vice Thomas Hedge,
whose commission has expired.
Samuel L. Gardener, district of Sag Harbor
New York, vice Edwin Rose, whose commis
sion has expired.
Jesse Sharpe, districtof Delaware, vice Charles
Polk, removed.
James Sands, districtof Annapolis, Maryland
vice Thomas Ireland, removed.
George T. Wright, district of Tappahannock,
Virginia, vice Jefferson Minor, removed.
John Boston, district of Savannah, Georgia,
vice Hiram Roberts, removed.
John H. Harmon, district of Detroit, Michi
gan, vice Oliver M. Hyde, removed.
J. N. Eby, district of Puget’s Sound, Oregon,
vice Simpson P. Moses, removed.
James M. Scofield, district ot San Joaquin,
California, vice Madison Walthall, removed.
Lansing B. Mizner, Sotiomo, California, vice
William W. Gallaer, removed.
Phillip Beauprie, district of Minnesota, vice
Charles Cavileer, removed.
Surveyors.— William C. Barker, at Providence,
Rhode Island, vice William P. Greene, whose
commission has expired.
Asa Gray, at Tiverton, Rhode Island, vice
George Howland, whose commission has ex
pired.
Lyndon Taylor, at Pawcatuck. Rhode Island,
vice John H. Cross, whose commission has ex
pired.
Gordon Forbes, at Feocomico, Virginia, re j
B Flanner, at Wilmington, North
Carolina, John Cowan, removed.
-k-ioc Hutchinson, at Evansville, Indiana, vice
Brown, removal a.**——n— — ■
Appraisers.—O- Prflbtton, at San Francisco,
California, vice George Pendleton, removed.
Phillip A‘. Roach, at San Francisco, Calfornia,
vice J. Vincent Brown, removed.
Miscellaneous.— Charles Mason, of lowa, to be
Commissioner of Patents, in place ot Silas H.
Hodges, resigned.
George W. Manypenny, of Ohio, to be Com
missioner of Indian Affairs, vice Luke Lea, re
moved.
Asa C. Marvin, of Missouri, to be register of
the land office at Clinton, Missouri, vice An
drew M. Tutt, whose term of office has expired.
Benjamin, F. Danley, of Arkansas, to be re
ceiver of public moneys at Little Rock, Arkan
sas. vice Charles P. Bertrand, resigned.
Robert A. YVatkins, of Arkansas, to be regis
ter of the land office at Little Rock, Arkansas,
vice William W. Adams, resigned.
James C. Tappan, of Arkansas, to be receiver
of public moneys at Helen*, Arkansas, vice Wm.
H. Ringo, deceased.
’ William W. Lewis, of Arkansas, to be regis
ter of the land office at Batesville, Arkansas, vice
James H Patterson, resigned.
Henry L Biscoe, of Arkansas to be register of
the land office at Helena, Arkansas, vice Henry
F. Moonev, removed.
Daniel P. Roberts, of Illinois, to be register of
the land office at Kaskaskia, Illinois, vice Ferdi
nand Maxwell, removed.
Richard S. Molony. of Illinois, to be register
of the land office at Danville, Illinois, vice Dan
iel Clapp, removed.
John B. Cloutier, of Louisiana, to be register
of the land office at Natchitoches, Louisiana,
vice H. Y. Waddell, resigned.*
John Connelly, senior, to be register of the
land office at Springfield, Illinois, vice Turner R.
King, removed.
Edward Conner, of Illinois, to be receiver of
public moneys at Springfield, Illinois, vice Wal
ter Davis, removed.
John M. Cunningham, of Illinois, to be regis
ter of the land office at Shawneetown, Illinois,
vice Andrew McCallen, removed.
Samuel K. Casey, of Illinois, to be receiver of
public moneys at Shawneetown, Illinois, vice
John W. Norton, removed.
Harmon Alexander, of Illinois, to be register
of the land office at Palestine, Illinois, vice
James M. McLean, removed.
Wm. J. A. Spark, of Illinois, to be receiver of
public moneys at Edwardsville, Illinois, vice
Blueford Johnson, removed.
Augustus C. Marsh, of Illinois, to be register
of the land office at Quincy, Illinois, vice Henry
Asbury, removed.
Damon Houser, of Illinois, to be receiver of
public moneys at Quincy, Illinois, vice Henry
V. Sullivan, removed.
Eli B. Williams, of Illinois, to be receiver of
public moneys at Chicago, Illinois, vice John H.
Kinzie, removed.
Naval Officer. — William N. Peden, district of
Wilmington, North Carolina, vice James G.
Green, removed.
Postmasters.— James Dick, Vincennes, In
diana.
Elibu H. Strong, Janesville. Wisconsin.
Thomas J. Henley,San Francisco, California.
John Bowen, to Lo deputy postmaster at €un
Antonio, Bexar county, Texas.
William D. Marrast, to be deputy postmaster
at Tuscaloosa. Alabama.
Alexander Galt, to be deputy postmaster at
Norfolk, Virginia, in place of John B. Leigh.
Thomas B. Bigger, deputy postmaster, at
Richmond, Henrico county, Virginia.
Jacob Carter, to be deputy postmaster at Con
cord, New Hampshire, in place of Ephraim
B utchi ns.
Turner W. Ashby, to be deputy postmaster at
Alexandria, in the county of Alexandria, State
of Virginia, in place of Daniel Bryan, resigned.
Cortez D. Kavanaugh, to be deputy postmas
ter at Huntsville, Alabama, in place of J. J.
Pittnam.
Nathaniel Bishop, to be deputy postmaster at
Marietta, Washington county, Ohio, in place of
Frederick A. Wheeler.
Doctor George A • Cracraft, te be deputy post
master at Wheeling, Virginia, in place of Jacob
S. Shriver, removed.
Edward A. King, to be deputy postmaster at
Dayton, Ohio, in place of Adam Speia, whose
commission has expired.
Samuel R. Anderson, to be duty postmaster at
Nashville, Tennessee, in place of John Shelby,
resigned.
Reuben S. Cheney, to be deputy postmaster
at Jackson, Jackson county, Michigan, in place
of James A. Dyer.
Miscellaneous.— Nathaniel Hawthorne, of Mas
sachusetts, to be consul of the United States at
Liverpool, to take effect on the first of August
next, in place of Thomas L. Crittenden, resigned.
West H. Humphreys, to be judge of the dis
trict court of the United States for the eastern,
middle and western districts of Tennessee, in
the place of Morgan W. Brown, deceased.
William H. Richardson to be Marshal of the
northern district of the State of California, in
the place of David F. Douglass, resigned, to
take effect from the first day of July next.
Russell Bishop, to be register of the land office
at Genesee, Michigan.
Frederick Hall, to be receiver of public mon
eys at lonia. Michigan.
William W. Gift, of California, to be register
of the land office at Benicia, California,
Charles Loring, of California, to be receiver
of public moneys at Benicia, California.
William P. Harrison, of Missouri, to be regis
ter of the land office at Palmyra, Missouri, vice
Lloyd P. Halleck, removed
Joseph P. Ament, of Missouri, to be receiver
of public moneys at Palmyra, Missouri, vice
Robert H. Griffith, removed.
Henry Fulbright, of Missouri, to be receiver of
public moneys at Springfield, Missouri, vice
Marcus Boyd, removed.
Judicial and Ooneressiona! District*.
P. M. Compton, Esq., the Surveyor General
ofthe State, has furnished the Griffin Union the
following statement of the Judicial and Con
gressional districts of Georgia, as arranged by the
last Legislature :
JUDICIAL DISTRICTS.
Eastern Circuit— Wayne. Camden. Glynn,
Mclntosh, Bryan, Liberty, Bulloch, Effingham
Middle Circuit.— Columbia, Washington, Mont
gomery, Tatnall, Emanuel, Scriven, Burke, Jef
ferson and Richmond.
Northern Circuit.— Madison, Elbert, Ogle
thorpe, Lincoln, Hancock, Warren, Wilkes, and
Taliaferro.
Western Circuit — Franklin, Rabun, Gwinnett,
Jackson, Clark, Habersham, Hqll, and Walton.
Ocmulgee Circuit — Wilkinson, Jones, Jasper,
Baldwin, Greene. Morgan, and Putnam.
Southe.n Circuit— Lowndes, Thomas, Teltfair,
Irwin, Laurens, Pulaski, Appling, Ware and
Clinch.
Flint Circuit—Butts, Upson, Pike, Monroe,
Newton, Henry and Spalding.
Cherokee Circuit—Cass, Chattooga, Murray,
Walker, Floyd, Dade, Gordon and Whitfield.
Coweta Circuit— Fayette, Merriwether, Cow
eta, Troup. DeKalb and Heard.
South-Western Circuit— Randolph, Early, Lee,
Decatur, Sumpter and Baker.
Chattahoochee Circuit— Stewart, Marion, Mus
cogee, Talbot, Harris and Taylor.
Macon Circuit— Twiggs, Bibb, Houston,
Crawford, Dooly and Macon.
Blue Ridge Circuit — Paulding, Cherokee, For
syth, Lumpkin, Union, Gilmer, Carroll, Camp
bell, Cobb and Polk.
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS.
First— Chatham, Effingham, Bryan, Liberty
Mclntosh, Tattnall, Bulloch, Emanuel, Mont
gomery, Lowndes. Telfair, Appling, Glynn,
Camden, Wayne, Ware, Laurens, Clinch, Thom
as, and Irwin.
Second— Muscogee, Stewart, Randolph, Early,
Decatur, Baker, Lee, Dooly, Sumpter, Macon,
Pulaski and Marion.
Third— Harris, Talbot, Upson, Pike, Butts,
Monroe, Bibb, Houston,Craw ford, and Spaulding.
Fourth— Troup, Merriwether, Coweta, Heard,
Campbell, Fayette, Henry, DeKalb and Cobb.
Fifth—Dade, Walker, Murray, Gilmer, Chat
tooga, Floyd, Gordon, Cass, Cherokee, Paulding,
Carroll and Polk.
Sixth — Union, Lumpkin, Rabun, Habersham,
Hall, Forsyth, Gwinnett, Walton, Clark, Jack
son, Madison and Franklin.
Seventh— Newton, Morgan, Green, Jasper,
Putnam, Jones, Baldwin, Hancock, Washington,
Wilkinson and Twiggs.
Eighth— Elbert, Oglethorpe, Lincoln, Wilkes,
Taliaferro, Warren, Columbia, Richmond, Burke,
Jefferson and Scrivon.
VOL. 32--NEW SERIES--VOL-8.- NO 9.
[From Du Fay Co's Circular, Manchester.]
Cotton.
‘ Although some disappointment is expressed
by parties who took too sanguine a view of the
i . prospects of trade for 1853, that.their expecta
tions have so far not been realized ; no change
of importance has, in our opinion, taken
place to frustrate the just and reasonable an tici
pations which prudent tradesmen entertained
at the commencement ofthe year. Unfortu
nately the foreign export trade of the country,
with few exceptions, have not shared the pros
perity which the home trade has enjoyed of
late. The spinners and manufacturers are doing
better than the exporters; this was the case du
ring the past year, and continues to be so at
present.
“The tables referring to the exports of this
country,which we received a few days ago from
the board of trade, enable us to lay before our
friends the following statement, which shows in
a marked mariner that the home consumption
was considerably larger in 1852 than in any pre
vious year, exceeding that of 1851 by 81,021,-
138 lbs. weight of yarn, and an amount of
X8,581,000[; thus changing altogether the pro
portion which our home trade bore to our export
trade, the former having amounted, for the first
time during a long period, to more than one-half
of the estimated value of our production of cot
ton fabrics, namely, X 31,594,000 ofthe total pro
duction of X 61,550,000. .
Estimate of the
. .InrioB 184S > 1848 > ’S' l7 - 1848, 1849,
isao, is-ii, and 1852, to pay for the expenses
of fuel, machinery, drugs for dyeing, printing,
bleaching, interest of capital, and every kind
of wages, profits, &c., after deducting the ac
tual cost of the raw material:
Exports. 'Consum'd (Total Yarn
_ In j iu , Goods. | kaputt.
t lb" I lbs. rSL"
1845 J 136,618,043 221.032.974 109,919,0831527,270.700
Ml 6 159,301.482 217.093,017 150,274.201 533,209,300
1847, 119.422,254 191,969,507 63,804,349 375.296,200
1348, 131,674,230 204.851.157 190.363.013 50T.530 400
1849, 153.761.000 250,200,000 148,142.700|555,163.700
1850, 123.677.000 222.950,000 173,192,000 520,125.000
1851, 139,849.000 205.689,000 191.950,500 577,488.500
1852, 133,301,864 202,585,498 292.972.638 668,800,000
v Cotton j Value of I Excess oft Value of
lear * used. | Cotton. I Products. [Producti’n
lbs. I £ I £ I £
1845, 592.023.222 10.175.400 45,056.000 34.880.600
1846, 508.758,528 11.850,430 44,454.000 32.003.570
1847 , 421.385.238 10,754.100 33 462.000 22,707,000
1848, 501,595.083 10.014.000 44,876,000 34.862.000
1849, 626.710.W0 12.838.850 42.170.000 28.281.150
1850, 584,000.000 17.574.000 50.438.700 32.864,700
1851, 648,408.150 15.634.800 53.092,000 37,557.200
1852, 751,000,000 16,819,300 61,550.000 44,730,700
“ The progress which our table shows to have
taken place in the trade of the country since
1845 is too striking to call for any remarks from
us. nor is it necessary again to trace its origin so
the salutary changes effected in the ' immercial
code of this country in 1846. We ventured to
predict the effects of these changes at the time,
and now only hope that the example of England
will he followed by our continental neighbors in
the adoption, so far as practicable, of those prin
ciples ot trade which have now fully proved
their soundness in the test of a series of years
and which have led in so marked a manner to
the prosperity of this country. The commercial
treaty recently concluded between Austria and
Prussia seems to afford an excellent opportunity
for revising and ameliorating their respective ta
riff's. The latest and surest benefit ot unrestric
ted trade—namely, an increasing home con
sumption, has now also as incontrovertibly been
attained in England. We are no longer afraid
of foreign importations; and though there may
be articles in which this country cannot compete
with neighboring ones, there are numbers of
others produced here which excel foreign pro
ductions. We cannot take largely from any
country without sending our commodities in re
turn. If, therefore, Ftencb wines, or anything
else, be admitted in large quantities—that is, at
lower duty—an increased trade will be the con
sequence. whether such reduction be based on
reciprocity or not.
“ We have taken, in the calculations referring
to the above table, the deliveries of raw cotton
to the trade of Great Britain (of 36,760 bales
weekly at 393 lbs. per bale, average weight,) as
having been actually consumed ; although it is
well known, that last year’s consumption xvas
considerably less. Finer fabrics continue to be
produced in larger quantities, and the production
of domestics is still further to be reduced, several
makers having entered into an agreement to
work only 40 hours per week, owing to the con
tinued unfavorable state of our market as regards
the value of the article. We have invariably
found, that if cotton rise above a certain price
heavy fabrics are neglected or abandoned from
the difficulty of getting remunerative prices, and
while we do not deny the capability of consu
ming the above named or even a larger quantity
of cotton weekly, we know that this will only
take place when a much lower range of cotton
pl ices pi e v;ils than at present, so as to render
the production of goods profitable. Our
foreign trade in cotton fabrics has been by no
means proportionate to the home consumption ;
the chief cause of this is, that prices which have
been readily paid by the home-trade buyers,have
been found in many instances too high for for
eign markets.
“ The consumption abroad has, probably, not
fallen off, but the dealers and medium men are
disposing of stocks on hand at lower prices than
they must pay in order to replace them gt the
source of production ; and while stocks here keep
as low as they have been until now, prices can
not fail to be proportionately high. Recent ac
counts from America speak confidently ofa larg
er crop of cotton by 200,000 to 300,000 bales
than last year’s, and this circumstance has sha
ken confidence in the maintenance of the pres
ent prices of cotton: increased caution on the
part of buyers, and more anxiety to sell, or to en
ter into contract on the part of sellers, have been
the effects of the last news from America. The
excess in the receipts is reported by telegraph to
amount to half a million of bales: and as the
picking season was unusually pr Jonged, a fal
ling offin the receipts may take place later or
without invalidating present calculations.”
New York Dry Good* Market.
The New York Express of Saturday says:
The week’s business has been slack, but the
Western and Northern trade, it is expected will
be large and profitable. The stocks of jobbing
houses are, however, large, and there is some
greater anxiety for the maintenance of prices,
and buyers indulge hopes that they may do bet
ter a little later. The auction houses have been
well supplied with broken assortments that do
not sell out at top rates. The sale of Barege de
Laines on Thursday was active at rather soft
prices. The remittances from the country con
tinue fair, and there are no signs of any money
pressure leaching the commercial clas»es to a
very serious extent. The large remittances of
money westward, which have perhaps over
strained the means of lenders, will promote the
activity of this market for goods. A fact illus
trative of the course of business is, that in the
last year the exports of Chicago were $10,709,-
333, and its imports $8,358,639, the former, for
the first time since the existence ofthe city, ex
ceeding the imports. The soundness of West
ern business is evidence in the fact.
Although the markets for many articles droop,
Staple Goods are firm. Woolen Goods particu
larly come out at higher cost, and with the gold
country demand for man}' descriptions, there is
little chance of a decline. Heavy Clothsere ri
sing, as are also Blankets. Linens are generally
in good demand, at steady prices. Black. Bom
bazines sell at steady prices regularly. Drees
Goods, De Laines and Prints are in large supply,
and prices droop. Silks, however, especially
Blacks, are in demand, and firm. Velvets are
quick only for male use.
The importations ot the week, compared with
the corresponding week of last year, are as fol
lows ■
1852 1853
Total imports «r,i4».iuz *1,3.10,0 it
Total thrown upon market 1,081.322 1.444,072
The imports since January Ist are as follows .
1852 1853
Total imports $17,636,499 $25,444,063
Total thrown on market 19,450,519 25,587,148
Showing an increase since January Ist of
$6,136,629 of the amount of goods put upon the
market, and an increase ot $7,907,564 of imports
compared with the corresponding period of last
year.
The value of Foreign Dry Goods entered at
the port during the week, is $1,336,014, an in
crease of $187,822 over the corresponding week
of last year. The value which passed direct in.
to consumption from shipboard, is $1,094,898,
an increase of $126,503, compared with the same
week of last year. The total value thrown up
on the market for the week, is $1,444,072, an
increase of $62,750 compared with the corres
ponding week of last year, and an increase of
$61,319 of Dry Goods warehoused.
Domestic Dry Goods Market. —Trade is
only moderately active, a .d nothing of any im
portance characterizes the business of the past
week. Doubtless the stringency in the money
market affects trade to a considerable degree so
far as the sales from first hands are concerned:
Jobbers being thereby induced to operate with
increased caution, and curtail as far as possible
their liabilities. Such a course by them, will
operate in various ways to preserve the market
in a sound and healthy condition, and ultimately
prove advantageous to all interested. It will
tend, together with the high rates of money, to
check in portations and all outside speculative
operations, while it will in no degree lessen the
demand from, or requirements of the interior,
North and East, when these sections come into
the market for their spring supplies.
The Jobbers then, with a small stock on their
hands, will be required to make further purchases;
and will be able to offer their customers a new
ly assorted, and fresh stock. This view of the
case is based upon the supposition that the pres
ent state of the money market cannot long con
tinue; that it is only local, and arises from such
causes as will not tend to draw to the seaboard
an undue portion of the means of the interior and
produce n similar condition of things throughout
the country.
As the market is not at present overstocked,
no anxiety is manifested to urge sales of any
staple of goods. Extra inducements are offered
to buyers, in order to close sales of some styles
of fancy goods, of which we wrote in our last
number. This applies more particularly to
those which have been the least desirable in pat
terns and styles. Fancy woolens are sold up
close, and few undesirable styles in the market.
It is also the case to a greater than the usual ex
tent in fancy goods of all material.
Sales early were very large; and the aggre
gate thus far is much beyond the business of last
season, with a much better average of prices.
Movements of Silver.—The Balt. Ameri
can publishes an elaborate article, showing that
the accumulation of silver in China since 1784
has been $425,000,000, as follows:
Import of silver from Manilla $100,000,000
“ “ from the U. States. 100,000,000
“ “ from Japan 100,000,000
“ “ from England, Por-
tugal, India, and other W. sources 100,000,000
Imports of silver from Siam and oth-
er Eastern sources 25,000,000
Total foreign silver $425,000,000
Add to this, for an average produc-
tion of the Chinese Mines of «
000,000 per annum, a'lo yem.s,
and WO have « ‘" tMl °* domestic
“rec" $500,000,000
•j otal accumulation $925,000,000
It adds that since the late shameful war be
tween China and Great Britain, there has been a
constant and copious drain upon the hoard of sil
ver in the celestial Empire, chiefly for the pur
chase of opium imported from the British posses
sions in India. We quote—
“ Let ns see what effect this illicit trade and
its war has had upon the accumulated silver of
China, —for it is by silver, alone, that the drug is
purchased. From 1823 to 1883,the period when
the opium business first became vi"<iroiislv >m
porf-*ntj, thdtvci'DKn wngy 1 Q,W)U Ch/ffstH BD
.nmllir wtofa nrofliififfil in.tte.fwLyeM«.&za.aoQc
000, at the current rates. From 1833 to 1839
the supply did not fall short of 30.000 chests,
yearly, producingan annual drain of 818.000.000,
or 8108.000,000 in the six years. From 1843,
(after the war and re-opening of the trade,) to
1853, the average import may be set down at
45,138 chests per annum, valued at S7OO per
chest, or $31,596,600 yearly, which in the decade,
would swell to the enormous sum of $315 966,-
000 ! To this must still be added the $21,000,000
paid by China to England as indemnity for the
20,000 chests of smuggled opium, destroyed at
the beginning ofthe war;—and we shall then
have the following result! Silver exported from
China for opium from 1823 to 1833, $72,000,000;
from 1833 to 1839. $108.000.000; Trom 1843 to
1853. $315,966,000 : for indemnity. 21.000.000;
estimated consumption prior to 1823,$ 10,000.000.
Making the total loss to China and gain to Great
Britain of silver from the opium trade $526,966,-
000.
If we deduct this sum from the entire accu
mulations of the Chinese Empire, we ‘hall bava
a startling result which demonstrates that the
great bulk of silver must soon be concentrated in
Europe or among the Western nations: —
Total of accumulated silver in China,
in two hundred and fifty years. .$925,000,000
Total of exported silver from China
in about fifty years 526,966,000
$398,034,000
Thus, $10,539 320 have been annual)}' drained
from China for this poison during the last half
century ; but as the appetite for the pernicious
drug increases rather than diminishes, we may
safely calculate that by observing the usual ratio
in such cases, the remaining three hundred and
ninety-eight millions will probably be exported
in less than twenty years. “ Accordingly, the
silver of the active commercial nations of the
West will not be decreased, but may be regarded
as steadily augmenting by twelve or fifteen mil
lions yearly from China alone.”
French Kid Gloves.—This delicate article of
ladiess’ wear, is becoming famous in courts as
well as in drawing rooms, and is handled by
lawyers as well as by beaux, to its great injury,
however, and loss of character and standing.
The evidence in the s'ander case of Fowles ver
sus Bowen, in Nsw York, this week, brought
out some curious revelations. Fowles was a
clerk of Bowen and McNamee, the successors of
Arthur Tappan and Co, and was discharged by
them for quarrelling with another of their clerks.
Two of this firm subsequently gave him a rec
ommendation to a house in Cincinnati, which
dealt with them, but with whom he did not
stay long. One of the latter firm visited New
York and purchased his gloves of another estab
lishment. Whether this fact was known to
Bowen and McNamee or not, does not clearly
appear in the evidence, but Mr. Bowen took oc
casion to accuse Fowles of being a great liar,
and in the trial Fowles brought the glove ques
tion into Court.
A clerk of the celebrated house of A. T. Stew
art and Co. deposed that certain gloves, manu
factured by Boivaine and Co., Paris, came in
voiced «o high, that the Siewert house eofc'A xrot
sell them to their customers ; a most marvellous
admission, considering that it is generally under
stood that Stewart’s customers pay what is
asked for fashionable goods without question.
But the Day Book, in publishing the trial,
shows that Bowen and Co. did sell gloves with
the stamp of this costly Parisian firm, and it
also gives an impression taken from the original
“ brass die,” made in New York, for Bowen and
McNamee to counterfeit the stamp of the
French manufacturer. Messrs. Bowen and Co.
are noted Abolitionists, and some time since an
nounced to the public that their “ goods and not
their principles were for sale.” It would be
worth while to ascertain the par value of the
principles of these descendants of Tim Turnpen
ny ; and at what price they would sell in the
present state ofthe money market.— Boston Cou
rier.
[From the Columbus Times ff Sentinel.]
Liquor Traffic.
Messrs. Editors :—Allow me the use of your
columns to make a few remarks on the move
ments now being made for the “ restriction of
the liquor traffic.” The friends of this move
ment greatly desire two things. Ist. To be un
derstood and not misrepresented either ignorant
ly or of design. 2d. That those opposed, in all
fairness, meet the issues made; and do not seek
to force issues which the convention at Atlanta
did not make, nor could have been induced to
make.
The convention did not direct that the Legis
lature be petitioned “ to pass a law authorizing a
majority of the people of any county to determ
ine whether spirits shall be retailed in that
county, with this advantage in favor of the re
striction, if the majority ofthe county should be
opposed to the license, then there can be none
granted in the county, but if the majority of the
county should be in favor of the license, then a
majority of any district may prohibit it in that
district.” As there are several errors in the
quotation above, which I find, are being enter
tained in various places, allow me to correct
them.
The difference is not noticed between license
and retail, which the convention observed. It is
the retail and not the question of license at all,
that is submitted to the county vote. The con
vention prays that the whole traffic be restricted
by a license, that no one be allowed to sell in a
any quantity without license; such license only
to be granted upon evidence that a majority of
the legal voters in the district, where it is to be
sold, desire it sold in that district. Thus the
question of license or no license is with the dis
trict —that is, sale or no sale of it at all, in that
district. As the sale in any way is governed
by license, so the extent of the license to whole
sale down to a quart, or to retail by the half pint,
will be governed by the county vote—it the
county votes for retail, then all the licenses
granted in that county will give authority to
sell by retail as well as wholesale. Ifthe county
votes no retail, then the licenses granted in that
county will give authority only to sell by what
is now known as the wholesale traffic, which
comes down to a quart. The county then ehall
determine whether liquor shall be sold by retail
or not within its bounds; 'hi district shall deter
mine whether it be sold at all or not in its bounds
—all license granted by districts to be controlled
by the county vote for or against retail. 1 hope
I am understood, and the convention also.
One of the People.
Savannah Medical College.—The Legisla
ture of Georgia in 1838, passed an act incorpora
ting the Savannah Medical College, with a very
liberal charter, and apfrointed as Trustees, he
Hon. John M. Berrien, Hon. R. M. Charlton,
Hon. Jos. W. Jackson, Dr. Wm. C. Dan e!,
Rev. E. Neufville, Hon. William Law, Co .
Wm. T. Williams, and Dr. Wm. R. Waring.
The powers granted by that act have never
been exercised until the present time. A ma
iority of the Board met last week, and organized
by electing the Hon. John M, Berrien their
President, and filled the vacancies made by the
deaths of Rev. Mr. Neufville and Dr. Waring.
Yesterday they elected a Faculty composed of
the same gentlemen who formed a Faculty under
the name of the Savannah Medical Institute,
thus blending the two incorporations into one
body.
The Faculty, now organized under the auspi
ces of an intelligent Board of Trustees, will use
every effort to make the Institution a credit to
the city and the State.
The following is a list of the Faculty:
Theory and Practice of Medicine—R. D. Ar
nold, M. D.
Principles and Practice of Surgerv—W. G.
Bulloch, M. D.
Physiology—E. H. Martin, M. D.
Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Child
ren —p. M. Kollock, M. D.
Medical Chemistry—C. W. West, M. D.
Anatomy—J. G. Howard, M. D.
Materia Medica and Pharmacy—H. L. Byrd,
M. D.
Pathological Anatomy and Demonstrator—J.
B. Read, M. D, [Suu. Republican, t39th ult.
Drowned.—Coroner Eden held an inquest
yester 'ay over the body of Isaac, a colored man,
the property of Wm. B. Giles A Co. The de
ceased, in attempting to cross the Canal Lock,
while in a state ot intoxication, fell into the.
Canal and was drowned. Verdict accordingly.
Sovuiinafi News, 29th inst.