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WILLIAM E. JONES & Co. AUGUSTA, Ga. TUESDAY JNfORNING, NOVEMBER 19, 1839. Vol. III.— No. lia
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AUGCS T A.
MONDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 18.
fn our paper to-day will be found a call for a
public meeting to be held at the Masonic Hall,
to-moirow. The object of that meeting is ex
plicitly set forth in the call. The services per
• formed by the Mayor during the prevalence of
the late epidemic, merit the wannest expression
of public feeling, and the most sincere gratitude
of the people of Augusta. While the great ma
jority of onr citizens were reposing in the conn
try at a distance from danger, and while pesti
lencc and death ravaged the city he remained
firmly at his post, exercising , igilance that
slumbered neither night nor day, and an energy
that protected alike the home that was deserted,
and the chamber of sickness too feeble for its own
protection. E»ery point was the scene of his
watchfulness and core, and no personal sacrifice
or privation was ever permitted to interrupt the
continued coarse of his labors. He was the ani
mating spirit of the few who remained, and the
watch!ul guardian of the interests of those who
were absent. The marks of public respect which
it is intended to pay him at the meeting, are due
to him both as an officer ami as a man, for jt
would be a rare thing to find another who would
•o fully discharge every duty enjoined upon him
by his office, and every claim upon his humanity,
and public spirit as a citizen, at a period of so
much danger and so> much distress.
From the New Orleans Bee, of Nov. 12.
From Texas.
The steamboat Columbia, ('apt Windle, ar
rived yesterday morning from Galveston, whieb
plaice site left on the 7th inst., bringing late dates
from Houston and Gahcston. We learn that
Houston and Galveston are both extremely sick
ly. The yellow fever waa raging at these places,
and bad carried off a large number of respectable
individuals. The mortality io proportion to the
population was very considerable. Twenty-six
deaths occurred at Galveston during the time the
Columbia lay in port, (5 days.) We regret to
learn, that among other victims to the epidemic is
numbered “ Plain” John Goodwin, editor and
proprietor of the Galvestonian, a paper to which
he had communicated much spirit and good sense.
He died on the sth instant.
A severe “ norther” was experienced off the
coast of Texas on the 7th inst. Several vessels
and steamboats were forced ashore, without,
however, suffering material damage. One vessel,
the Nautilus, from this port, was sunk. The
steamer Zavala, of the Texian navy, and one or
two other vessels belonging to Texas, will visit
New Orleans in the course of a few days. The
Zavala was to have left Galveston on the 11th.
The amount of Treasury notes in circulation
was about $3,000,000. The public debt is esti
mated at $4,000,000.
We copy from the Houston Telegraph the
following intelligence, which may be considered
of some moment:
Interesting from the West.
By a gentleman who left the camp of the fed
eral forces, thirty miles beyond the Nueces river,
about the 36th instant, we learn that Canales, the
commander of the Mexican federalists now in the
field, has concentrated thirteen hundred of his
followers, and was to move the next day for the
Rio Grande. Captain Ross, who recruited a
company of some eighty men in this city a few
weeks since, and which was designed for the pro
tection of the Nueces frontier, and the suppres
sion of tlie driving of cattle and horses from he
zy/..hd that river, which for some time has been
carried on, hud also joined Canales, with about
four hundred Americans. Added to this num
ber, were about one hundred Indians, belonging
to a tribe living on the Rio Grande, near the vil
lage of Mier, and who are said to be a race of
savages, and considerably skilled in the science
of Mexican warfare. According to this, Canales
had under his command eighteen hundred men—
civilized, half civilized and savage—all pretty
well armed, with considerable ammunition.
There were, however, no cannon. Our infor
mant says the greatest enthusiasm and harmony
prevailed throughout this heferogenious band,
and that a perfect confidence of success in their
desperate adventure for the reduction of the
whole Rio Grande country to the standard of fed
eralism, seemed to be impressed upon the mind
of every one. The first point of attack was to
be the village of Micr, where were some two
hundred Centralist troops; thence down to Mat
amoras. All the different places where were
stationed government troops, or which adhered to
the Central cause, would probably be laid under
■ contribution. If they do not receive a repulse in
their first engagement, and succeed in putting to
route the government troops, we may expect soon
to hear of piping times among the Centralists in
this part of Mexico, These federalists now un
der Canales, are the same who but a short time
since were driven from the other side of the Rio
Grande, by Canaliza, the commandant of the
Central forces in this part of Mexico, and took j
refuge in squads on this side, not having been
sufficiently supplied with arms and ammunition ;
to hazard a battle; they therefore have a fearful
account to settle with their opponents. And now
that they have the co-operation of a few Ameri- i
cans, they believe themselves perfectly invincible
and ore likely to be successful even against great
odds. i
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From the Tcl'ahassce Floridian, 9th inst
FnoM Florida.— On Wednesday last. Mr. i
Joseph Lee, sonUPof Major J. W. Lee, of this
county, who resides about four miles from the ,
Sandy Ford in Jefferson county, while going to j
superintend his negroes at work, was attacked by •
• party of Indians, supposed to be about a dozen, ,
who fired upon him. Mr. Lee was shot through !
the body but we are gratified to learn, will re
cover. He was armed at the time of the attack
and <rallantly returned the fire, and although bad
ly hurt, was enabled to get on his horse and tide
for aid. His negroes fled home immediately ex
cept! on* valuable slave that is yet missing. Cries j
were heard as the others retreated, which in
duces the belief that the slave was probably over
taken hy the Indians and shot. Several citizens
rallied as soon as possible, and started in search
of the Indians. They found the gin house of
Mr. Andrew J. Lee had been set on fire and
about forty bales of cotton destroyed. The In
dians were in the act of attacking the dwelling,
but were driven off and one of their party it is
believed killed.
We learn also that some Indians during this
week entered the field of John G. Anderson,
Esq., near the Ocilla in Jefferson, in open day
light, and were seen gathering and carrying off
corn.
These facts are a beautiful commentary upon
the course of those who would lull onr citizens
into quiet and security, hy the assertion that there
are no Indians this side of the Suwannee. The
blood of frontier citizens who may be seduced in
to a want of vigilance hy the expression of such
opinions, will stain the hands of those who thus
act. We warn them that such is not the case,
and that there is as much, if not more danger from
attacks now, than at any time since the war. The
Indians are, we doubt not, in want of provisions,
1 and they will soon recommence plundering. Ev
ery plantation should be guarded.
The Mexican Trade.
By the Arkansas Gazette it appears that the
body of Mexican traders, from Chihuahua, who
passed down to New Orleans, last spring, reached
Fulton, on their return, a lew weeks since, and
are now awaiting at that place, a rise of water to
enable them to ascend to Fort Towson, where
they take land on their return home. They have
with them goods, consisting of calicoes, prints,
unbleached cottons, cloths, silks, &c. to the value
of about s3tio,ooo, which were taken to the loot
of the raft recently formed, by steamboat from N.
Orleans; whence they were conveyed by wagons
to the head of that obstruction, and transported to
Fulton by the steamboat Mariner, Capt. Nowland
which boat was in the liver above the locality of
the new raft when it formed, and has consequent
ly been confined there ever since.
The company consists of about 100 persons,
most of whom ac merely employed to assist in
transporting the goods, and guard them through
the country of tho Cumanches, which is the only
part of their journey in which any danger is ap
prehended of a warliue nature. They expect to
travel up the south side of Red river about 300
miles, when they take nearly a south-westerly
course, through an open prairie, and nearly level
country, to Chihuahua, the whole distance hy
land being nearly one thousand miles, through a
country admitting of good roads, and affording
abundance of grass for their mules, of which
they have about 500, and about 80 wagons to
carry their goods.
The goods taken out by this company consist
mostly of American manufactures.
Mr. Valois, one of the principal awners of the
concern states that the consumption of Ameri
can goods when they can be procured, at Chi
huahua, amounts annually to upward of a mil
lion and a half of dollars, prime cost, the whole
consumption of the country being about two mil
lions: Chihuahua is in the neighborhood of ex
tensive mines, which are considered inexhausti
ble, producing between two and three millions of
gold and silver annually, and giving employment
to about sixty thousand persons. Mr. Valois
states that if it be encouraged, he has no doubt
the whole of the trade of Chihuahua will be car
ried on with the United States.
The route through Arkansas is pronounced by
this company to be the nearest and every way
most practicable for the prosecution of this trade,
if the navigation of Bed River can be kept unim
peded.
The British tiade with Chihuahua is carried
on through a port on the Pacific Ocean, a dis
tance of 700 miles, crossing the rocky mountains.
It is as yet inconsiderable; and if the proper exer
tions are made to secure this opening to American
enterprise, no doubt it wiH in a short time prove
an important addition to our foreign commerce,
to the almost total exclusion of other nations.
Fire I— Between three and four o’clock, yes
terday morning, wc were aroused from our beds
by an alarm of fire, which but for the interven
tion of a brick wall might have lead to a very se
rious conflagration. It occurred in a warehouse,
with a front door on St. Francis street, at the
rear of the Alabama Hotel, both in the occupan
cy of Messrs. Ellis & Green, and owned by G
A. Wilkins, Esq.
At first it was supposed to have originated
through spontaneous combustion among a lot of
lime stored in the warehouse, but diligent inqui
ry, and information from the occupants, leaves us
to the conclusion that it was the result of incen
diarism. We are informed that the fire was first
discovered among a lot of furniture stored by Mr.
William H. Kelly in a part of the warehouse dis
tinct from the lime. It will be remembered for
mer attempts have been made to destroy the Ala
bama Hotel. The losses at this fire amounted to
$13,000; no insurance; divided as follows : Mr.
Wilkins, (buildings) $7,000; T. Lcsesne, (cof
fee,) $ 2,300 ; W. H. Kelly, (furniture,) $1,800;
Ellis & Greene, (merchandize,)sl,ooo. — Mobile
Adv, A Chron. \%lh inst.
From the Belvidere Apollo.
Questions for the People.— Has not the
Jackson Van Horen party, for years, been promi
sing us a sound currency, prosperous times, and
an economical government?
|£gAre not our national expenditures at this time,
36 millions a year more than under Munroe and
Adams?
Have we not had more embarrassment and dis
tress in the country since the party began their
operations on the currency, that we have had for
many years before?
Is not the loss by the government of more than
three millions of dollars by defaulters, evidence of
mal-administratioß, and of the necessity of re
form ?
Is not the issue of million upon million of
Treasury notes by llie government, poor evidence
of its wish and ability to create a metalic cur
rency.
If Tobias Watkins was justly imprisoned for
I years, for a default of $3,500, why does the Pre
j sident allow scores of defaulters for ten and
twenty times that amount to escape with impu
! nity, or live securely in the possession of their
I plunder?
These things are worth the calm and serious
attention of every republican.
I -
Thf. President Steamship.— This noble ves
! sel building at Limehouse, for the British and
' American Steam Navigation Company is nearly
finished, and will ire launched in the course of the
present month. She is much larger that the Bri
tish Queen, as will be seen by her dimensions,
which are as follows;—Extreme length from stern
to taflend (including figure head) 367 feet; ex
treme breadth of deck 51 feet; including paddle
[ boxes 67 feet; depth in the hold 31 feet 6 inehes i
and her tonnage about 3500 tons. Her engines
will consist of two, each of 360 horse power.—
Her upper or main deck is constructed in a differ
ent manner from that of the British Queen, be
ing similar to a double banked frigate and not
‘•flushed” as nauticully termed. Her paddle
wheels arc to be 30 feet in circumference.
From the Medical Examiner.
Remarks on the Uhick Vomit of Yellow
Fever.
HI F. M. ROBERTSON, M. I).
’ Gentlemen :—Should you deem the follow
ing observations, hastily thrown together during
an unusual press of professional engagements,
worthy of record, they are at your disposal.
A most destructive epidemic has prevailed in
our city since the early part of August. Vari
, ous opinions were, at first, entertained as to the
nature of the disorder. The symptoms, course,
and termination of the disease, in connection
with the post mortem appearances, leave no
i doubt as to its being, unequivocally, “yellow fe
ver,” or what is styled in Charleston, S. C.,
“ strangers fever." Some, who still contend that
it is not the yellow fever, assert that the black
matter thrown from the stomach during the life
of the patient, and in it after death, is nothing
more than black bile, mixed with tho secretions
of the stomach, the ordinary production of au
tumnal bilious fevers.
The late Dr. Physick, I think, was among the
first to point out the remarkable dillercnce be
tween the matter of black vomit and the black
bile. I repeated bis experiments, at a post mor
tem examination, to-day. The subject of the
examination had labored under the usual symp
toms of yellow fever, and expired throwing up
large quantities of “black vomit.” Upon expos
ing the cavity of the abdomen, the cardiac and
pyloric extremities of the stomach were carefully
tied, so that nothing could escape from, or enter
into, that viscus: the gall-bladder was secured in
the same manner, and both removed from the
body. The stomach contained about a pint of
black vomit, answering, in every particular, to the
description given by different writers upon the
sohjcet. The gall-bladder, which was of the na
tural size, was (wo-thirds full of deep black bile,
of nearly the consistence of tar.
I first spread the bile upon a white sheet of
paper; it presented the usual dark green tinge,
slightly inclining to yellow. Tho black vomit
from tiie stomach was also treated in the same
manner; the color and appearance were totally
different from that of the black bile. The fluid
part of the black vomit resembled dirty coffee,
while a thick dark sediment, resembling the cof
fee, grounds, was deposited on the paper.
Some of the black bile was next placed in a
vessel containing clear water; it was completely
soluble, communicating its peculiar color to the
water. The black vomit was next placed in a
similar quantity of pure water. Alter the most
violent agitation, the dark floculi would sink to
the bottom of the vessel, no portion being dis
solved, and the warer returning to its natural ap
pearance. One other lest was made; this expe
riment was tried, as we are informed, by Ur. S.
Cooper; I am not at present aware of any other
authentic instance. Knowing that the intense
bitterness of the bile would be communicated to
any substance, however slightly it might bean
preguated with it, I resolved to try the different
impressions that would lie made upor. the organs
of taste, by the two substances. I firsi tasted the
black bile, which was intensely bitter. After
washing the mouth thoroughly from the impres
sion produeed by the bile, 1 then tasted the black
vomit taken from the stomach. This communi
cated a slightly sour or subacid taste; with this
exception, It was entirely insipid—not the slight
est traces of bile were discoverable from the taste.
This test was repeated by Dr. A. G. Howard, ot
Charleston, 8, C., who assisted in the post mor
tem examination, and the same characters were
recognised by him* The experiments were made
in the presence of the Hon. A. Gumming, tho
indefatigable and public spirited mayor of our
city, and Mr. A. Sibley, one of our most estima
ble citizens.
There are many other facts connected with tho
epidemic, which would not be unworthy of your
notice. My numerous engagements render it
impossible for me to say more at present. If
such facts as these cannot convince the sceptical,
argument would certainly be useless—worse than
“water split upon a rock.”
Augusta, Ga., Oct. 10, 1836.
U.N CHARTERED DaNKINO ASSOCIATIONS IN
1 Alabama.—lt has been decided in the Circuit
f Court of this State, at the late term held in Bibb
- county, that the Real Estate Banks, and other
> unchartered Banking Associations, that sprung
- up so abundantly in this State a year or two ago,
I cannot lawfully maintain suit on the notes and
. bills which they have discounted or purchased.
Suit was brought to recover the amount of sever
■ al bills so held, for the benefit of the Selma “Real
Estate and Banking Company,” and the plea
> was interposed that the Company was unauthor
. ised by law to do Banking business, and there
- fore incompetent to sue. Judge Shortlage sus-‘
1 tained the plea, and the verdict was taken for the
- defendants. The case has been carried up to
the Supreme Court on a hill of exceptions to the
charge of the Court. —Mobile Journal.
, Darkness at Quebec —Sinoular Phe
nomenon.—The Quebec Canadian states that
j on the forenoon of the 18lh October, a darkness
settled upon that city, which rendered the use of
candles necessary for several hours in the fore
j noon. The wind blew from tlie East, but the
darkened clouds came from the West. The at
mosphere was moist. The same phenomenon
occurred on the 17th of October, 1834 ; and on
the lllh of October, 1795.
, The Rag ot Gold.
f BT SAMUEL RUUEIIN.
There lived a lady in the fourteenth century,
near Bologna, a widow of the Lambarlini faini
-1 ly, called Madonna Lucrezia, who, in a rcvolu
lion of tlie State, had known tlie bitterness of
‘ poverty, and had even begged her bread; kneel
ing day after day, like a statue at the gale of the
r cathedral, her rosary in her left hand, and her
" right held out for charity ; her long black veil co
vering a lace that had once adorned a court and
had received the homage of as many sonnets as
r Petrarch lias written Laura.
But fortune had at last relented ; a legacy from
1 a distant relation had come to her relief; and she
was mistress of a small inn at the foot of the
Appeuines, where she entertained as well as she
- really could, and where those who stopped who
I were contented with a little. The house was
still standing, when in youth I passed that way ;
! though the sign of the While Cross, the Cross
■ of the Hospitallers, was not any lunger to be
, j seen over the door—a sign which she had taken,
i I if we may believe the tradition there, in honor of
■ i the maternal uncle, a grand master of tho order,
: I whose achievements she would sometimes relate,
t ! A mountain stream ran through the garden, and
at no great distance, where the Road turned on
its way to Bologna, stood a little chappcl • in
which a lamp was always burning before the pic
ture of the Virgin, a picture of great antiquity
the work of some Greek artist.
Here she was dwelling, respected by ail who
knew her, when an event occurred which threw
her into the deepest affliction. It was ut noon
day, in September, when three foot passengers,
arrived and seated themselves on a bench under
a vine-trellis—were supplied with a flagon of Al
cntico by a lovely girl, her only child die image
of her form herself. The eldest spoke like a Ve
netian, and his heard was short and pointed, after
tlie fashion of Venice. In his demeanor ho af
fected courtesy, hut his look inspired little confi
dence; —Corns he smiled, which he did continu
ally, it was with his lips only, not with his eyes,
and they were always turned from yours. His
companions were bluff and frank in their manner,
and on their tongues were many a soldier’s oath.
On their hals they wore a medal, such as in that
age was often distributed in war; and they were
evidently subalterns in one of those hands which
arc always ready to serve in any quarrel; if a
service it could bo called, where a battle was no
more than a mockery, and tho slain, as an open
stage, were up and fighting to-morrow. Over
come with heat they threw aside their bur
thensomc clonk, and with their gloves, tucked un
der their belts, continued for sometime in earnest
conversation.
At length they arose to go, and then tlie Vene
tian thus addressed the hostess:
. “Excellent lady, may we leave under this roof
for a day or two, this hag of gold ?”
“You may,” replied she gaily, “but remember
we fasten our doors only with a latch. Bars and
bolts we have none in our village; and if wc had,
where would be your security ?”
“In your word, lady.”
“But what ts I died to-night, where then would
it ho,” said she laughingly. “The money would
go to the church, for there would be none to
claim it.”
“Perhaps you will favor us with an acknow
ledgement.”
“If you will write it.”
An acknowledgement was written according
ly, and she signed it before Master Bartoio, the
village Physician, who just that moment called
by chat.ce to learn the news of the day. the gold
to be delivered when applied for, hut not to he
delivered (these were the words,) ta one nor two,
but to the three ; words wisely introduced hy
those to whom it belonged, knowing what they
knew of each other. The gold they had just re
leased from a miser’s chest in Pcrugic, and they
were now on a scent that promised more.
They and their shadows had no sooner depart
ed, than the Venetian returned, saying: “Give
me leave, to set my seal on the bag, as the others
have done,” and she immediately placed it on the
table before him. But at that moment she was
called away to receive a cavalier, who had just
dismounted from his horse, and when she return
ed it was gone, the temptation had proved irre
sistible—and the man and tho bag of money had
vanished together.
“ Wretched woman that I am !” she cried as
in an agony of giief, she fell on her daughter’s
neck, “what will become of us ? Are wo again
to be cast out into the wide world ? Unhappy
child would that thou hadst never been born !”
Aml all day long site lamented, but tears availed
her little. The others were not slow in return
ing totlaim their due, and there were no tidings
of the thief, he had fled away with bis plunder.
A process against her was instantly began at Bo
logna, and what defence could she moke, how to
release herself from the obligation of her bond ?
Wilfully or negligently she bad parted with it
to one, when she should have kept it for all; and
inevitable ruin awaited her !
“ GoGianetta,” said she to her young daugh
ter, “take this veil which your mother has worn
and wept under so often, and implore councillor
Calderino to plead for us on the day of trial.
But if ho will not, go from door to door—Monal
di cannot refuse us. Make haste my child, but
forget not tlie chapel, as you pass by it. Noth
ing prospers without a prayer.”
Alas! she went —hut in vain. Those were
retained against them; others demanded more
than they had to give, and every one bade them
despair. What was to be done 1 No advocate,
and the cause was to come on to-morrow.
Now Gicnetta hud a lover, and he was a stu
dent at law, a young man of great promise, Lo
renzo Martclli. Ho had studied long and dili
gently under that learned lawyer, Giovanni An
dreas, who, thougli little of stature, was great in
renown, and by his contemporaries, was called
the arch doctor, the rabbi of doctors, the. light of
the age. Under him he had studied, silting on
the same bench with Petrarch; and also under
his daughter. Novella, who would often lecture
i to tiie scholars when she was not otherwise enga
ged, placing herself behind a small curtain, least
her beauty should divert their thoughts, a precau
tion in this instant unnecessary, Lorenzo having
lost ids heart to another.
To him she Ilics in her necessity; but of what
assistance can he be ? He had just taken his
place at the bar; but he had never spoken, and
how stand up alone, nnpracticcd and unprepared
i as lie is, against an array that would alarm the
most experienced !
“Were Fas mighty aslam weak,” said he, “my
fears for you would render me as nothing, But
I will he there, Gianettu, and may the friend of
the friendless give me strength in that hour.
Even now my heart fails me; but, come what will
r while I have a loaf to share, you and your mother
shall never want, I will beg through the world
for you.
The day arrived, and the court assembled. The
claim is stated and the evidence given—and now
, the defence is called for, but none is made, not a
syllable ia uttered—and after a pause and some
minutes in consultation, the Judges are proceed
ing to give judgment, silence having been pro
claimed in court, when Lorenzo arises, and thus
addresses them:
, “ Reverend Seignors—Young as I am, may I
venture to speak before you? I would speak in
behalf of one who has no one else to help her,
f and will not keep you long. Much lias been said
• | —much on the sacred nature of the obligation,
and wc acknowledge it in its full force. Let it
be fulfilled; and to the very last letter. It is what
wc solicit—what we required. But to whom is
1 this hag of gold to be delivered ? What says the
i bond? Not to one!—not to two ! but to three!
Let the three stand forth and claim it!”
i From that day (for who can doubt the issue 1 )
—none were sought, none employed but the sub
i tic and eloquent Lorenzo, Wealth followed fame;
nor need I say how soon he sat at his marriage
feast, or who sat with him.
Larue C a rooks.— The steamer Emperor,
Capt. Auter, arrived at this port on Saturday last
with 3,907 bales of cotton on board, being the
largest freight from up river, on a single boat this
season. The steamer Daniel Webster also ar
rived yesterday, with 3,213 bales on board ; ma
king together, 5,120 bales cotton received by the
! two boats.— N. O. Bulletin.
The Cottage Door.
BY T. E. HERVEV, ESQ.
How sweet the rest that labor yields
Tlie humble and the poor,
Where sits the patriarch of the fields
before his cottage door !
The lark is singing in the sky,
The swallow in tlie eaves.
And love is beaming in each eye
beneath the summer leaves!
The air amid his fragrant bowers
Supplies unpnrchared health,
And hearts aro bounding ’mid the (lowers,
More dear to him than wealth )
Peace, like the blessed sunlight, plays
Around ids humble cot.
And happy nights aigl cheerful days
DiVidc his lowly lot!
And when the village Sabbath bell
Rings out upon the gale,
Tlie father bows his head to tell
The music of its tale:—
A fresher verdure seen s to fill
The fair and dewy sod.
And every infant tnngne is still,
To hear tlie Word of God f
Cli ! happy hearts !—To Him who stills
The ravens when they cry,
And makes the Idly ’ncath the hills
So glorious to the eye.
The trusting patriarch prays, to bless
His labor with increase ;
Such ‘ways are ways of pleasantness,’
And all such ‘paths are peace !’
mTiTR IED ,"
On the 6th Inst, by the Rev. Asa Chandler, Mr.
James S. ()LiVEn,of Desoto county, Miss.,to Miss
Sarah A. daughter of Wm. White, of Ruckers
villc.
COMMERCIAL.
Latest dates from Liverpool, Oct, 18
Latest dates from Havre Oct. 15
Charleston, Nov. 16.
Colton. —The market opened this week with a
moderate demand for middling qualities of Uplands,
at a further decline on last quotations of J a cent
per lb.j holders generally, were however, induced
to push their stocks forward, and effected forced
sales to a considerable extent, the demand being
principally for French account.
The sales reached 4522 bags, viz: 15 at 8A; 78
9, 127,
10A; 28, lOj; 1308, 10|; 691, 108) 922, 11; 233.
IlJ; 222,1 ij) 72, 118) and 78 at Iljc.
In lung Cotton we have nothing to report, the de
mand has ceased, and prices remain nominal.
Rice. —Operations in this staple were almost en
tirely restricted to orders from French ports) the
sales although quite limited, were made at an
average of last weeks prices; 968 tes changed
hands at from $3 to 3j(c perewt.
Rough Rice. —6427 bushels were sold at 80 to
83c per bushel.
Flour. —270 bids, baltimorc sold at $7 j per bbl.;
100 bbls. “ llaxall” sold at per bbl.
Groceries. —The feeling for Groceries this week
has improved, hut we cannot note any improve
ment in prices. 23 hluls. Cuba Molasses weresold
at 28 to 30 cts. per galler.; 40 bags West India
Coffee, at 10 to II j cts.; 47 hhds. Muscovado Su
gar, at 74 to 8J; and 60 common to fair at 7 to 8
cts.; 250 bags Manilla Coffee brought pi ices rang
ing from 11 to 12 cts.; 42 birds. Sugar, were sold
at auction for 74 to 7J cents per lb.
Grain. —2 cargoes of Corn were received this
week and sold within our quotations; 2000 bushels
Outs brought about 50 cts. per bushel. Peas, no re
ceipts.
Hay. —Boo bundles came to hand and sold at 87 4
cents per cwt.
Baron. —Hums are worked off'in small lots, at 11
to 15 cents; and Shoulders at 8 to 9 cents.
Lard. —Very little in demand, worth 13 a 14
cents.
Salt is worth $1 624 a $1 7opersack.
Exchange. —«Jn England, 10 a 104 percent, pre
mium. On France, 6f. a sf. 6c nominal. Bank of
Charleston drafts at sight on New York 2 pci cent,
premium. Specie—4 per cent, premium.
Freights —To Liverpool dull at 4d. per lb. for
Cotton. To the North,Cotton 60 cts. per bale, and
Rice 374 cts. per tierce.
statement of cotton, Nov. 16.
S. 1. Upl’ds.
Stock on hand, Ist Oct. 1973 2733
Received this week, 36 2980
do. previously 60 12560
2069 19563
Exported this week, 00 3679
do. previously, 996 8980
On ship board, 102 3917
1098 16576
Stock on hand, 971 2987
Mobile, Nov. 12.
Cotton. —Since our last report we have received
498 bales, (including 21 omitted last week,) and
shipped to Boston 187 bales, leaving the stock on
hand not cleared, 1,922 bales, against 3,923 bales
the sometime last season.
The operations in our market continue very light,
and the small transactions that have occurred —
amounting to about 2(H) bales —have been confined
to one broker, who is filling up some limited orders
for northern manufactures. The qualities sold
class as “ fair to good fair” and “ good fair” —at 12
1 to 124 c. Under all circumstances, we hardly re
gard our market as fairly opened, and therefore
omit the usual quotations.
Columbia, Nov. 15.
Wc have to notice a considerable decline in the
price of Cotton, since our last quotations—a half to
■ one cent on the liner qualities. Wc quote now,
1 from S 4 to 94. —The late rains, however, wc are
. pleased to state, have caused a rise in the river of
| about 12 inches, so that boats of a light draught,
■ can depart for Hhaileston—by this means, between
2000 and 3000 bales of Cotton will leave in tire
course of this week.
Corn has declined —we quote 624 to 75 cents per
! bushel.
Macon, Nov. 14.
1 Cotton has declined in price since our last. We
now quote 74 a cts This decline is owing to
, tlie fall in other markets. The receipts are tram
, 300 to 500 hales per day. We are still without
river navigation, and freights by wagon to the de
pot arc $2 per hundred pounds.
Exchange on New York, sight 10 per cent, pre
mium,
MARINE L\TELI,IGE.\ C E
Savannah, November 14.
Arrived yesterday. —Brig Romulus, English,
Providence; Sloops William, Luce, Darien; George
Washington, Smith) Ogeechce.
Below. —A ship unknown.
Charleston, November 16.
Arrived yesterday. —Barque Manto, Higgins,
Boston; brigs New York, Merriman, Bath, (Me.);
Nancy Jane, Benedict,Gloucester, (Mass.) John H.
Stephens, Hatch, New York.
In the offing —2 ships unknown ; also, brig Vic
tress, fiom New Orleans, and schr Rochester, from
the North.
Cleared. —Schrs Virginia Antoinette, Place, Ha
vana; Martha Elizabeth, Cromwell, Baltimore.
Went to sea yesterday. —U L brig Moses, Love
land, New York; brig Poland, Shaw, Wilmington,
N. C. brig Majestic, Ames, Georgetown, S. C. schr
Virginia Antoinette, Place, Havana; schrs Martha
Elizabeth, Cromwell, Baltimore; James Power,
Keene, do; Nidus,Cousins, Wilmington, N. C.
'
DR. ANTONY, of Hamburg, having removed to
Augusta, offers his professional services to
the citizens of the city and neighborhood. His of*
lice, for the present, will be at the dwelling lately
occupied by Doctor Milton Antony, on the North
corner of Green and Centre streets.
To tiie citizens of Hamburg, and adjoining coun
try, Dr. E. L’Hoy Antony, feels it his duty to re
turn his grateful acknowledements for the kind
treatment he rcccivad during his long stay with
them, and hopes by future punctuality to merit a
continuation of the same. 1
ELLIB-STREET ELEMENTARY
ACADEMY.
ITU IE undersigned would respectfully inform his
X, patrons and the public that his School is now
re-opened for the business of the winter, at his for
mer stand, opposite the dwelliltg of Mr. H. Caflin.
As usual at this school, pupils of both sexes arc
received. Every thing relative to the deportment
of the pupils, which such an arrangement may be
calculated to require, will be carefully attended to.
C. PIKE.
N. B.—lt is contemplated to open a Night School,
at the same room, as soon as a suitable class can
be collected. C. P.
November IS. trw ts
NOTICE. —The copartnership heretofore ex
isting under the hrm of \V. & J. Nelson Sc
Co., having been dissolved by the death of Mat--
thew Nelson, all persons having any demands
against said firm, arc requested to hand them in and
all those indebted to it, will please make payment
to the subscribers, who will hereafter conduct the
business under the firm of W. & J. Nelson.
W. H- NELSON,
JOHN NELSON.
November 18 w6t
NOTICE. —Agreeable to order of the Inferior
Court of Richmond County, while sitting for
ordinary purposes, will be sold in Augusta, on
Monday the 9th day of December next, all the per
ishable property of James Leverich,deceased j con
sisting of about thirty head of Horses, Mares and
Colts, most of said stock are fine blooded, and five
of them arc now in training, viz: Gano, 4 years
old, by Eclipse, dam Betsy Richards. Seminole,
4 years, by Eclipse, dam Celeste. Agarah Harri
son,(i yearn o\d,by Eclipse, dam Galatia. Wenona,
3 years old, by Andrew, dam Galatin. Highland
Henry, 4 years old, by Henry,dam Highland Mary.
Also a few head of Cattle. Terms made known
on the day of sale. P. H. MANTZ,
Nov. 18 Id Temporary Administrator.
EXECUTORS’ SALE. ”
WILL be sold on the third day of January
next, on the plantation be 'onging to the es
tate of Elisha Anderson, late of Burke county, de
ceased,all the perishable property belonging to said
estate, consisting of horses, mules, cattle, hogs,
sheep, com and rudder, one wagon, two close car
riages, an I other articles too tedious to mention.
Sold for the benefit of the heirs. The sale to con
tinue from day to day until the whole is sold.
JANE H. ANDERSON, Ex’x.
JAMES ANDERSON, Ex’r.
AUGUSTUS H. ANDERSON, Ex’r.
November 18,1839.
REMOVAT.
MRS. C. HOFFMAN, respectfully informs her
friends and customers, that she has remov
ed her Stock of Staple, Dry, and Fancy Goods and*
Millinery, to next square above the new building
range, opposite tbc old Planters’ Hotel.
Augusta, Oct. 5 trwtlJ
THE subscriber would
*’ ene - r i,eis n °^
materials, which lie has
carefully selected in the northern markets, which,
together with his former stock, will make his as
sortment complete. He also intends, as formerly,
to keep a general supply of work of his own man
ufacture, which, for neatness, durability and work
manship, shall nut be surpassed by any articles
ever offered in this market. Purchasers are parti
cularly requested to call and examine his stock be
fore they purchase, as they may depend on tinding
his prices to correspond witli the times. Carriages
of all descriptions built to order, and warranted to
please. Repairing in all the various branches at
tended to at short notice.
R. V. GOETCHIUB..
N. B.—R. V. G. is not interested or in any way
connected with any otherestablishmcnt in the city,
nov 7 w6t-
REMOVAL.
CONFECTIONARY ESTABLISHMENT.
BL. NKHR returns his thanks for former
• patronage, and would inform his friend*
and the public, that he has removed his Confection
ary from under the United Stales Hotel to the New
Store in Broad street, recently occupied by H- G.-
Bryson & Co., and nearly opposite the store of
George 11. Jessup.
He has now on hand, and will constantly keep a
good assortment of Candies, Cordii.ls, Wines, &c.
which he will dispose of on modcra'e terms.,
nov 11 trwlS
Geohoia, i
City of Auousta.s
11AKE notice that the Court of Common Pleas
for said city, for November Term, stands ad
' journed to the fourth day, being the first Wednes
, day, in December next, at 10 o’clock A.M. Sui
, tors, jurors, witnesses, and all persons concerned
are requested to be punctualin their attendance..
HENRY ROBERT, Clerk,
November 12, 1839. trwtd
SWEET ORANGES. —Just received, fourdoora
below the Eagle and Phomix Hotel, 7 bbls
of very fine Oranges, which will be sold at the low
1 price of $2 60 per hundred—smaller quantities in
. proportion. WM. H. HATTIER.
nov 13 trw3t
FALL AND WINTER GOODS AND
\ GROCERIES.
THE uundersigned has received his usual stock
of Fail and Winter Dry Goods, comprising
a large and general assortment of Foreign and Do
mestic Staple and Farcy Goods.
He has also received his Fail supply, consisting
of a full assortment of GROCERIES, a\\ of which
he offers for sale at his •Old stand on reasonable
i terms. WILLIAM BOSTWICK.
i nov 7 w4t
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE..
ffMIK subscriber offers for sale, on the most rea-
J. sonahle terms, that well known and fashion
able watering place, the HELICON SPRINGS,
situated four and a half miles from Athens, Oa.—
Attached to tire Springs are two tracts of land,
containing together seven hundred acres of land,
on one of which are erected two excellent saw
mills, both now in operation. One of these mills
will cut from 1600 to 2000 feet of lumber per day,
for which a ready market can be had at lair prices..
Either tract will be sold separate from the other..
Persons desirous of purchasing such property arc
requested to call and examine for themselves.
The land is mostly in the woods, of a good
quality—that which is cleared is fresh and in cul
tivation. JOHN JACKSON.
Athens, Ga., July 10 1539; w&trwtf
A CARD.
CF. HOFFMAN & Co. having taken one of
, the large new stores opposite the ruins of
the Planters’ Hotel, one square above Mrs. C. Hoff
man’s former well known stand, respectfully invite
their friends and the public to call and examine
their large stock of India Silks, French and Swiss
Embroideries, English and German Goods, Fancy
and Millinery articles. See. be., which they offer
low and on good terras, wholesale and retail,
nov 16 tnrfca