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WILLIAM E. JONES & Co. AUGUSTA, Ga. TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 26, 1839. Vol. III.—No. li«
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CHRONICLE AN 1) SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA.
MONDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 25.
We have read with much satisfaction tlie able
•nd interesting Reportof Messrs.Berrien, Holt and
Chappell, now in a course of publication in this
paper. We concur with the corrcspodent of the
Constitutionalist, that it ought to be published in
pievery paper in the State and read by every body.
We concur too in all or nearly all of the recom
mendations of the report. Its leading recom
mendations, which are supported by a lucid re
view of our present system and the most power
ful a»d patriotic arguments, arc as follows:
A capitation or head tax of one dollar up-
r on every male citizen of the State, to he set apart
■s a fund for the permanent support of common
Schools. No man to be allowed to vote until
this tax is paid. Poor men, w’orth less than a
certain sum, to be designated by the Legislature,
are to be exempted from all other taxes.
2d. All the property in the State, both real and
personal, including money, bonds, notes, &c. to be
taxed according toils value, and the sum arising
from this source to be applied to the defraying of
the expenses of Government, the payment of in
terest on the States’ debt and to create a sinking
fund for the ultimate redemption of that debt.
3d. The immediate discontinuance of the
Central Bank and the collection of its funds to be
appropriated to the prosecution of the State Rail
rood, or in payment of debts already contracted
on account of it.
4th. The unwavering prosecution of that
Railroad, by issuing State Scrip and bonds, either
to pay off contractors or for negotiation.
sth. The granting of aid to the Central,
Georgia. Monroe and Waynesboro and Augusta
Railroads, in order to connect the former with the
Stats Road so as to make it profitable at an early f
/
arc other recommendations, but we can
not at present take time to enumerate them, hut
trust that our readers will peruse the report and
•ec for themselves the reasons upon which they
•re made.
Ram t Rain I
It has been raining gently and almost con
stantly for more than thirty-six hours. This is
the best news we can give. Why 1 Because
me shall have a rise in the river; goods can come
up, cotton can move, the Banks can discount bills
upon that article, which will give a circulation to
money, which will make business brisk, times
easier, and the people happier. Now if the Le
gislature will only “do the clean thing,” we
may look out for the “ good old times of Adam
lid of Eve.”
The Presidency.
We perceive by the New York papers tha*
there has been an immense meeting at Rochester
in that State, of the friends of Gen. Winfif.ii)
Scott, by whom he has been thus formally nom
inated for the Presidency. Whatever may he the
popularity of the General elsewhere, there is but
little doubt that he can more certainly and suc
cessfully carry the State of New York against
Van Buren, than any other man yet spoken of.
Many of the States are holding meetings, and
appointing Delegates to the National Whig Con
vention, soon to he held at Harrisburg, Pennsyl-
These Delegates are pretty generally
either instructed in favor of Mr. Clay, or recom
mended to support his pretentions, and we think
it altogether probable that he will be the nominee
of that Convention.
Medical College of Georgia.
The exercises in this Institution will commence
this day, as advertised, at 12 o’clock. We are
pleased to find the Faculty are prepared to enter
upon the discharge of their duties, notwithstand
ing their recent severe afflictions; and also to
I earn that a very respectable Class is now assem
bling to attend the Lectures of our College.
dj" The subscription lists for the intended tri
bute of respect to the Mayor, will be left, till
Wednesday next, at two o’clock, at the following
places, where gentlemen disposed to contribute,
are requested to call before that time.
Ward No. I.—At the office oj J. W. Mere
dith, Esq.
Ward No. 2.—At the store of Phillip McGran,
Ward No. 3.—At the store of Wright, Bull
Sc Co.
Ward No. 4.—At the store of I. Moise.
The New York Herald of the 19th says:
“The new ship New York sailed to-day, full of
and a fair freight of cotton, flour, &c.
Rie anxiety for news by the British Queen is
ncreased by her non-arrival, and the markets
'generally arc quiet. About 1400 bales of cotton,
chiefly for export, changed hands yesterday and
I to-day, at prices rather more firm.”
From the New York Express of the 20th.
Massachusetts remains in doubt as yet. The
Boston Post and Bay State Democrat, however,
express the belief that Morton is elected by the
people. They claim for him a majority of more
than three hundred over Everett, and contend
that the scu.lenng vote will not reach three hun
idred.
The Whig papers, per contra, say that Mor
ton’s majority falls short of 300, and that the
scattering votes in 32 towns are 210, and that the
towns to be heard from will give an increased
scattering vote. Morton, therefore, they are con- ;
vinced, is not elected by the people, and cannot 1
be elected by I he legislature.
In the House of Representatives 449 members
are already elected. The Atlas classes them 234 j
Whigs and 215 Van Buren men. The Post i
gives a different classification, and claims the tna- j
jority. Many vacancies, however, are to be fill- j
ed, and every thing depends upon the political I
character of the men to he selected.
A majority of the Stale Senators, i» is now
conceded, are Whigs. The Senators wore not
all elected in Middlesex, as was supposed on Sat
urday,
From our Correspondent.
Milleiigkville, Nov-21, 1839.
IN SENATE.
Reconsiderations. Mr. Bates—Senate recon
sidered so rmicli of the journal as relates to the
rejection of the bill to admit to citizenship, Geo.
Ward, et.al.
Resolutions Mr. Bryant of Stewart—
To appoint a committee of throe on the part of
Senate to join such as may be appointed by the
House of Representatives, to examine and report
upon the progress and general condition of the
Geological department of this State. This is an
interesting subject, and it is to be hoped that the
honorable committee will he thorough in their ex
amination, and full and explicit in their report.
The Senate took up the resolutions in regard
to the Bank of Darien, and after some discussion,
Mr. Hopkins offered an amendment, proposing
to extend the powers of the examining commit
tee he extended to all other Banks in this State,
that have or may suspend specie payments, the
whole matter was referred to the committee on
Banks.
On motion of Mr. Harris of Warren, the sub
ject of Dower was referred to the Judiciary com
mittee.
Bills offered. Mr. Guess—To authorize H.
R. Foote, to erect a dam across the Chattahoo
chee river, &c.
Mr. Tracy—To create and establish in the
name and for the benefit of this State a Bank,
with branches, to be known under the name and
style of the Central Bank of Georgia, and to dis
solve the charter of the present Cential Bank of
Georgia. This is an important bill and as it is
now being printed, sosoon as received, I will for
ward a copy.
Mr. Scarborough’—To lay out and organize a
new Militia Division, to be styled the 13th Di
vision Georgia Militia,
Mr. Warthen—To-change an election precinct
in Washington county.
Mr. Bryan of Macon county—To authorize
the Inferior Court of that county, to retain the
tax of 1840.
Bills passed. To pardon James Templeton,
of the county of Stewart.
IN HOUSE OP HKPnESKNTATIVEB.
Nov. 21, 1839.
Bills introduced. Mr. Murphoy—To amend
the militia laws of this State, so as to exempt
persons being privates in the militia of the line,
from fines for not being armed at musters, &c.
Mr. Mays of Cass—To amend an act to estab
lish a Bank al .Miiledgevillc, to be called the Cen
tral Bank of Georgia, and to repeal the 25th sec
tion thereof.
Mr. Stephens—To alter and amend ’the 2d
section of the 4lb article of I lie Constitution of
this Slate.
Mr. Clark—To incorporate the trustees of St.
Marys Academy, in the county of Camden.lj
Mr. Campbell—To amend the chapter of the
Monroe Railroad and Banking Company. Also
a bill to incorporate the Macon Iron Steamboat
Company.
Mr. Collier of Baker—To compel those per
sons who reside without the county of Baker, and
who own plantations in said county, to pay a
county tax, for all taxable property in said coun
ty, &c.
Mr. Walton—To incorporate trustees for
Hickory Grove Academy, in Muscogee.
Mr. Clcland—To more effectually prescribe the
method of keeping and auditing annual accounts
current in the Executive, Comptroller, and Trea
surer’s office.
Bills pasted. To repeal tiic act to promote
the culture of silk in this State.
To make permanent the county sites of Har
ris, Coweta, Talbot and Mcrriwelher, so far as
relates to the town of Greenville, in Mcrriwelher
county.
Bills lost. To lay out and organize a new
county from Cass, Murray, Floyd, and Challooga.
For the relief of James L. Daniel, (for the loss
of a wagon and team.)
Mr. Glascock presented the memorial of the
Mayors and Common Council of the cities of
Savannah and Augusta, praying a loan of State
Bonds, for the purpose of constructing the
Waynesboro and Augusta Railroad.
Mr. Lamar laid upon the table a resolution rel
ative to the pay of absent members.
Mr. Roberts offered a resolution directing the j
Engineer and Commissioners of the Western
and Atlantic Railroad, to suspend the letting of
contracts for grading on said road, until the ac
tion of the Legislature on the subject.
There is no speaking in either House up to 1
this hour.
Milleooeville, Nov. 22d, 1839.
in senate.
Resolutions, —Mr. Williams laid on the table
the following resolution : “ That his Excellency
the Governor be, and he is hereby directed and
I authorized to erect a monument over Gen. David
Brady Mitchell, a former Governor of Georgia,
i who died whilst representing the county of Bald-
J win, in the Senate of the Slate of Georgia, in
- the year 1837.”
Bills reported. —Mr. Guess—To establish two
election precincts in Cobh county.
Mr. Payne—To change the time of holding
j the Superior Courts for the county of Paulding.
Mr. Springer—To compile the militia laws of
I this Slate in pomphlet form, and have them dis
tributed, <fec.
The Senate went into the discussion of the
bill to define the liabilities of the several Railroad
Companies of this State, for killing or injuring
hogs, cattle, &c.
Mr. Miller moved to strikeout the third section
(the operative one, I believe,) of the bill, which
was not done. After some debate, and especially
as to the legal propriety ot requiring, ns this biff
contemplated, the railroad companies to prove a
negative, the bill was lost. '
The Senate took up and concurred in the reso
lution of the House of Representatives relative
to the claims of Trezevant, Elliott and Golphin.
They also met in the Representative Chamber
and elected Peter Cone, of Bulloch county, Major
General, over the head of Brig. Gen’l. Charles
Floyd. Do not doubt it, gentlemen, for passing
strange as it may appear, I witnessed the painful
spectacle. I forbear further comment upon this
fruitful topic.
Win. 8. Rogers, Esq. (of the Federal Union)
was elected, on the second ballot, State Printer.
IN HOUSE OF NEPIIESENTATIVES.
Bills introduced, —Mr. Goode—To incorpo
rate the Thomaston and Burncsviffc Railroad
< ompany, &c., to construct a road from the
Monroe railroad, at or near Barnesville, to Tho
maston.
Mr. Kenan—To authorise and empower Pa
rish Carter, his heirs, &c,, to erect a miff dam
acioss the Coosawattee river, in Murray county
on his own land, &c.
Mr. Stephens—To amend the several acts re
gulating the admission and manner of taking
testimony in the several Courts of law and equity
in this State, in certain eases, &c.
Mr. 1 oombs—To regulate the compensation
of members of the General Assembly of this
State.
Mr. Harrison—To incorporate the Georgetown
Mercantile Company, located at Georgetown, in
the county of Randolph.
Mr. Johnson, of Heard—To authorise Thomas
Lipscomb to erect a dam across the western chan
nel ol the Chattahoochee river, &c.
Mr. Cone—To- lay out a new road in Camden
county, See.
Mr. Woolley—To authorise Arnold Milner to
establish a ferry across the Etowah river, in Cass
county, &c.
Mr. Dart—To incorporate “The Brunswick
Guards,” &c.
Mr. Ledbetter—To appropriate money to pay
Cap:. John Witcher’s volunteer company, of
Paulding county, for services in 1838, &c.
in senate.
Nov. 23d, 1839.
Up to the hour of 12 o’clock, this body was
chiefly employed in the discussion of the bill to
establish city Courts in Macon, Columbus, &c.,
&c. An effort is now being made to lay it on
the table for the present—(it is as to criminal
Jurisdiction.)
IN HOUSE OF IIEPHESENTATIVF.S.
Nov. 23d, 1839.
This morning there was a very brief hut ani,
mated discussion upon the resolution for the sus
pension of operations upon the Western and At
lantic Railroad. It arose upon the question to
lay the resolution upon the table for the present.
The House was equally divided, and the Speaker
casting his vote affirmatively, the matter is “ in
statu quo.”
It has been raining all day, slowly hut darkly,
and there is not much debate. Bills are being
read in the House a second time.
Bills introduced. —Mr. Warren—To make it
the duty of the clerks of the Courts of Ordinary
of this Stale to preserve the evidence of legal no
tices in certain cases.
Mr. Woolley—To lay out and organize a new
county from the counties of Cass, Murray, Gil
mer and Cherokee.
The House took up and agreed to the follow
ing resolution (a little severe, I think, upon our
State geologist, Dr. Cotting) :
“ Whereas, the General Assembly of this State
passed a joint resolution, authorising his Excel
lency the Governor, or his successors in office, to
employ one or more suitable and well qualified
persons to undertake the work of a careful and
scientific geological survey of all the counties of
this State—assented to the 28th Dec. 1836
And whereas, also, the General Assembly of
this State did appropriate the sum of SIO,OOO,
for the purpose of a geological survey of this
Stale, by an act of the General Assembly of this
State, assented to 361 h December, 1836, which
sum has been, as now understood, entirely ex
| hausted, in carrying out the object of said resolu
| tion and appropriation, without any benefit to
j the people of Georgia whatsoever—
I Be it therefore Resolved, That the said office
j of a geological surveyor of thi» State be, and the
I same is hereby abolished.
Mr. Stephens laid on the table a resolution, di
reeling our Senators in Congress to insist on the
immediate payment, or deposit with the States
j of the 4th instalment of the surplus revenue.
Tallahassee, Not. 13.
Indians.—We are monstrous tired of writing
this word, but have to record one more freak of
the red rascals. On Saturday night last, they at
tacked the bouse of a Mr. Johnson, in Jefferson
county, and killed three of his negroes. Mr. J.
wo learn, was absent from home at the time.—
Those who are ignorant and stupid, and whose
delight it is, on all occasions, to kick up a fuss
and raise a equable, will now cry out we suppose,
as they did when young Lee was killed, and say
“the Indians areall about in Middle Florida, they
hav'ntbcen rested and driven over the Suwannee
at all.” Fudge—you sophisticating dolts; don’t
you know that the Indians might be in Tallahas
see to-day awl at Deadinan’s Boy to-morrow.—
I'hcio are plenty of Indians all over the country
—the only thing is to catch them. Gov. Call
started them—routed them, and we doubt note
did for the time drive them east of Suwannee;
hut who is such a Hut as to suppose that they,
would not return.— Star..
Mississippi Election.
The Natchez Free Trader of the 10th con
tains a table of the returns of tlie lute elections
for Governor and Members of Congress from 28
counties. The Whig candidate for Governor,
Turner, received 11,663; McNutt, (Locofoco,)
HI .439. The highest Whig candidate for Con
gress, Bingaraan, received 11,718; Davis (Whig)
11,387. Drown, the highest Locofoco, received
11,370; Thompson, (Locofoco,) 11,173.
Jamks Rose, Esq. was, on Friday last unan
imously elected President of the South Western
Rail Road Dank
(jS.-'iinuANTS rou Texas- —On Sunday last,
the ship Agnes, five hundred tons, left the Lon
don docks, and was “ steamed” to Gravesend,
which she was to leave with ihc tlrsl fair wind for
Texas, with a large party of Protestant emi
grants for that country,principally from Petworth
and Arundel. It appears, says the correspondent
to whom wo are indebted for this information,
that France has recognized the Province of Tex
as as adistmet nation, and that America has done
the same, and entered into a treaty offensive and
defensive with it; whilst England, influenced by
the Roman Catholic O’Connell, is prevented
from doing so because the Mexicans arc Roman
Catholics, and the Americans, (principally in
habiting Texas,) Protestants. Thus is the Ro
man Catholic walking his way beyond the pres
ent territory of Great Britain, through the imbe
cility of its present government. Mr. Halliday,
of Petworth, is the promoter of this undertaking
and has purchased nearly 10,000 Eng ish acres to
cultivate. A son of Mr. Holmes, of Drookficld,
accompanies the emigrants with an ample parly
and materials. They are strongly attached to
the Protest ant church, and hope to erect one
there in a short time. The ship is likely to pass
Brighton in a few hours after this paper goes to
press, ond happy should we bo to witness her
passing, with the first Protestant crew for a
country destined by O’Connell, to become a Ro
man Catholic one. —Brighton Gazelle.
Report
Os the Commissioners appointed by authority
of the /.<■«•'•/«>/•»>-,!. on Ike Btthjeel of Ike Slate
Finances,-^-Continued.
the central hank.
For a large portion of the period during which
Georgia has existed as a JStntc, supplies of money
more than adequate to the annual average wants
ol all the branches of public expenditure, flowed
into the Treasury, from a variety of sources:
Ist. From the confiscations and amercements
to which the revolutionary war gave rise.
2d. From the disposition made of the vast ex
tent of vacant lands '" longing to the State, in
the process of converting the same from mere
public domain to private property.
3d. From the payments received from the
United States on the debt of one million, two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, under the
articles of agreement and cession of eighteen
hundred and two—which payments fell dispcrs
cdly along a series of years.
4th. From taxation.
By the operation of these several sources of
supply, and their great productiveness beyond
the contemporaneous necessities of the’Treasury,
a considerable surplus of money gradually grew
up in file coffers of the State, and the attention
of the Legislature was drawn to the policy of
resorting to some means for permanently pre
serving the fund thus accumulated, and for mak
ing it also productive both of fiscal income, and
general commercial benefit. The system which,
tor this purpose, the Legislative authorities of
that day, upon mature consideration, determined
to adopt, may now in the face of the full lights
which a lengthened experience has thrown on its
merits, be with great confidence pronounced the
wisest and best that could have been devised. It
combines the important advantages of simplicity
and safety—of certain and easily realized income
to the State, with a large and permanent utility
to the trade and business of the people.
I bat system was none else than the invest
ment of this surplus public money in the stocks
of the then existing chartered Banks of Geor
gia.
Accordingly, as far back as the year 1811, a
beginning was made by the subscription of fifty
thousand dollars to the Bank of Augusta, which
was subsequently raised to one hundred thousand
dollars, ail of which has been paid. In the next
succeeding year, the State subscribed one hun
dred thousand dollars to the stock of the Plan
ter’s Bank ol Savannah, of which no more than
cightalthousand has ever been paid. And in a
fcw afterwards, upon the chartering of the
Bank of the State of Georgia, and the Bank of
Darien, the State Irecame a large stockholder in
each of these institutions—in the former to the
amount of half a million of dollars—in the lat
ter, to the amount of three hundred and twenty
five thousand dollars. The aggregate of these
investments constitutes the sum of one million
and five thousand dollars of the Slate’s money
converted iqu> commercial Bank capital, in which
form it hasvlttod fur more than twenty years, and
still remains.
The policy of investing in this manner, the
public surplus, commencing with the subscrip
tion to the Bank of Augusta, in 1811, and end
ing with that to the Bank of Darien, in 1818,
opened to the State a new fiscal resource, name
ly, that arising from dividends periodically de
clarer! to her on her several Bank stocks. And
the rich fruits which have resulted from this poli
cy, considered with a view to revenue, have more
than justified the wisdom of the counsels in
which it originated. These investments Irerame
at once, and have ever continued a most prosper
ous source of finance, the value of which is a-
Irundantly evinced by the supplies which it has
yielded to the Treasury.
Thus, in the ten years from the beginning of
1839 to the close of 1838, on the one hundred
thousand dollars of stock owned by the State, in
the Bunk ol Augusta, the dividends received a-
C mounted to $101,310 90. On the eighty thou
sand dollars of stock in the Planter’s Bank of
Savannah, the dividends were $66,800. On the
halt million of stock in the Bank of the State of
(icorgia, the dividends reached the sum of $410,-
000; and on the three hundred and twenty-five
i thousand dollars in the stock of the Bank of Da
rien, the dividends in the same period of time
amounted to $178,760, making, in the whole, an
income of $745,760 90, received by the State in
ten years from her property in the aforemention
ed Bank stocks.
This system of investing in Bunk Stocks had
necessarily Ihe effect of absorbing, as it was in
tended to do, all the State’s surpasses as fast as
they accrued—so that when in 1819 the invest
ments reached the maximum at which they have
ever since stood, nothing which deserves the name
of a surplus was loft on hand in the public fisc.
The germ, however, of a steady accumulating
fuluie surplus was contained in the system itself.
For upon the then existing scale of the average
annual expenditure of the State, it was very ob
vious that the bringing of so powerful an auxili
ary as a million and upwards of Bank slock into
the field, in. aid of such of the old and accustom
ed resources of revenue as still remained in acti
vity, would inevitably give rise every year to ex
cesses of receipts beyond the outgoings of the
J reasury. And in point of fact, so considerable
did these annual excesses of receipts at once be
come, aud so rapid, consequently, was the pro
cess of accumulation wnich immediately com
menced, that notwithstanding the supplies from
confiscations and amercements, and from pay
ments on the Federal debt of 1802, were all at
an end, and of the ancient resources of the State
for revenue, none were loft save the land fund
and taxation, and notwithstanding also the sub
sequent bestowal, by the acts of 1523 and the
succeeding years, of one-half of the taxes on the
several counties, still it required not more than
the space of ten years to fill the Treasury with a
a larger surplus than it had ever before possessed
al any single time. We find, accordingly, that
at the close of the year 1828, there was on hand
an idle, uninvested hoard of more than half a
million ($513,101 77) of cash funds. Besides
which, there was also an amount of $355,599 90
in liquidated debts due to the State, and a con
siderable though unascertained amount of unli
quidated demands. Os this entire mass of duos,
liquidated and unliquidated, a largo portion was
undoubtedly worthless:—that another large por
tion, however, was good and collectable, is proved
by the fact, that out of the whole, a balance of
not more than $181,221 10 remained outstanding
on the sth of November, 1838, of which balance
as much ns $34,940 55 was pronounced to he, at
that date, good, by a committee of investigation,
acting under the authority of the Legislature of
the preceding year.
Wo have thus certain data on which to con
clude, that at the end of the year 1828, the State
was possessed of outstanding dues that were good
and collectable to the amount, at the lowest cal
culation, of $209,317 35
The cash surplus then on hand, was 513,101 77
Making tlie entire surplus of cash , ,
and good debts then existing to
have been $722,419 12
While this large surplus thus existed in the
Treasury, at the close of 1828, there were, more
over, at the same time, strong grounds for calcu
lating that it was destined to great and progress
ive increase. For there was nothing to prevent
the two resources of taxation and hank stocks
from producing their ordinary income, and the
vast quantity of the public domain then recently
disencumbered, and soon to be disencumbered, of
the Indian claim, rendered it probable that the
land fund would be unusually productive for a
number of ensuing years. These circumstances
strongly ensured the continued flow of yearly ex
cesses of receipts into the Treasury, and authori
sed the expectation that the surplus, already
great, would soon ho much greater.
In this exuberance of the finances, wc behold
unveiled the grand and potent cause to which
Georgia owes the system of the Central Bank.
The heavy surplus, both present and prospective,
which stared the Legislature of 1828 in the face,
was the indubitable parent of that institution. It
gave rise, during the session of that year, to the
interesting question, what should be done with
this already large and still augmenting hoard of
idle moneyed wealth in the treasury. That it
ought not to be suffered to lie there utterly un
employed, and unuseful, was manifest enough.
Then what bust disposition could he made of it,
with a view al once to the secure preservation of
the fund itself, and to the rendering of it a source
of revenue to the State, and of general pecuniary
utility to the people, was the important problem,
which, though it had been long previously settled
by Legislative picccdcnt and practice, was now
revived and thrown open to fresh controversy and
a new determination. The result was a depart
ure from the tried system of investing in hank
stocks, which had obtained so long and worked
so successfully, both for the fiscal and commer
cial interests of the State, and the adaption of the
scheme of the existing Central Bank.
Touching this institution, the first remark
which presents itself is, that the main, and indeed
it would he more accurate to say, that the sole
object of its creation was to serve as an agency
for distributing among the people, under prescri
bed restrictions, loans of the public money at in
terest.
It is believed that the whole argument in vin
dication of the policy in which it originated, may
he (airly condensed in the following proposition:
That the large surplus which the State possessed
at the period of its establishment, and the future
large surplusscs which it was then foreseen must
come to her possession, could not, with reference
to the three great objects of fiscal gain, general
public utility, and the safety and integrity of the
fund itself, receive a better disposition, than by
being made the subject of loans, in the manne
ami through the agency prescribed by the law)
which create and regulate the Central Bank.
(To be continued.J
Consignees per South Carolina Kail Road.
liAHoußo, November 23, 1839.
S. Kncolund Sc Son; T. Dawson; T. J. Par
melee; D’Antignac & Hill; R. C. Baldwin; B.
McCord; Gould Sc Dulkley; Stovall, Simmons
& Co.; E. B. Moseley; McCray Sc P.; I, 8.
Beers & Co.; J. Davidson; J. M. Cooper &
Son; Drumond & Co.; J. D. Crane & Co.; Al
drich Sc Shove; F. 11. Cooke; T. Davis; J. J.
Cohen; F. Lauiback; W. Sc J. Nelson; H. Par
sons; J. Purse; J. Bridges Sc Co.; B. Johnson;
E. T. Cook; W. W. Richards; J. Hutchinson.
J. Otcly; W. Hal tier; U. W. Force Sc Co.; T.
Metcalf; A. Frederick; E. Muslin; J. W. & T
S. Stoy; Reese Sc Beall; Maher & Rooney; J. F.
Benson; Jeffers Sc Boulvvarc.
1 married,
In iCharleston, 8. C.,on the 13th in.t.,by Rev,
Dr. Gadsden, Mr. Job Gardner Hass t» Miss Et
t lenHachel Gardner, daughter of Mr. John
b Gardner, sen., all of that city,
f
; COMMERCIAL.
Latest dates front Liverpool, Oct, 19
| Latest dates from Havre Oct. 16
1 Charleston, November 23.
Cotton. —A fair business was done in Uplands
this week, and the demand continued brisk up to
| closing hour, transactions embracing principally or
dinary to good fair at a still further decline of $ a
cent per ib on all descriptions on the last quota
tions. Buyers in many instances are holding back
‘ in expectation of late advices per British Queen’
1 at New York. The operations amounted to 3677
I bags as follows :16 at Bsc; 89, 9; S, 9s; 118. 9s;
137 9j, 30. tig; 567, I0 S 213, 10$; 893, 10$; 227,
10g;6ll, 10i;
per pound.
, Hies, —Since our last review this article has de
clmed 25c per cwt., but the operations exhibit an
increased activity, the orders were mostly from the
European market. There is a moderate supply on
1 hand, and the receipts very light, 1228 tierces
changed hands at from 2$ to S3J per cwt.
Flour. —2oo bbls Baltimore Howard street were
disposed of at $7 per bbl.
Groceries. —Opel aliens still continue very Un
ited, the demand being generally confined to domes
tic wants. 100 bags Kio Coftee sold at 11 $ a 12c;
at auction we repot, the following sales—l6s hbds
very choice I'orto Itico Sugar, brought 8$ a 9$ cts
per Ib ; 706 Westphalia Hams, at 20 cts.; 5 boxes
Eidam t hecse, at 70 cts; 2do Green, at 374 cts; 8
kegs Sausages, at 40 cts; 50 kegs Herring, at $ 1,524;
15 hampers Seltzer Water, at $2.
Grain —sooo bush. Oats, sold at 40 cts; 3 car
g res I orn were received this week, and sold at
about 65 cents per bushel,
Hay —2ooo bales arrived since our last, and a
part sold at 80 cts per cwt.
Huron —looo Halt. Hams sold at 9$ to 10 cts per
lb. We quote Hams at 10 to 16 cts. Sides at 9to
10, and Shoulders, 7 to 8$ cts.
Lard— is selling at 12 to 13 cts.
Salt—We quote at $1,62$ a $1,75 per sack.
Stocks —On limited demand.
Exchange —On England, 10$ a II percentpremi
um. On France, 5f a of sc. nominal. Bank of
Charleston drafts at sight on New York 3 per cent
premium. Specie, 4 per cent premium.
Freights —To Liveipooldull at $ to §d per lb for
cotton. To the North, cotton 60 cts per bale, and
rice 37$ cts per tierce.
STATEMENT OF COTTON, NoV. 23.
8.1. Upl’ds.
Stock on hand, Ist Oct. 1973 2733
Received this week, 62 6)06
do. previously 96 21459
3131 3029 g
Exported this week, 106 7770
do. previously, 990 13669
On ship hoard, 164 6247
1266 37683
Stock on hand, 866 2016
marine Intelligence .
Charleston, Nov. 23.
Arrived yesterday. —Steam packet Chesapeake,
Rodgcis, Norfolk, via Beaufort and Smlthville.
i In the Offing. —. Ship St. Lawrence, from New
York.
Cleared. —Ship Liverpool, Graves > Liverpool.
Went to sea yesterday. —Brig Daniel Webster,
Adams, New Orleans
t ’
’ Savannah, November 2l,
i Cleared. —Ship New Jersey, Dickson, Liverpool;
brig Eleanor, Jones, Baltimore.
F Arrived yesterday.— Ship Gov. Troup, Butman,
Liverpool; schooner Doris, Perry, Camden, Me.
November 22.
Arrived yesterday— Bark Gazelle, Allen, Ports
mouth; brig Oglethorpe, Sanders, Baltimore; brig
Freeman, Sparks, New York.
NOTICE. —Agreeable to order of the Inferior
Court of Richmond County, while sitting for
1 ordinary purposes, will be sold in Augusta, on
i Monday the 9th day of December next, all the per
, ishable property of James Leverich,deceased; con
sisting of about thirty head of Horses, Mares and
’ Colts, most of said stock are fine blooded, and five
’ of them are now in training, viz: Gmo, 4 years
1 old, by Eclipse, dam Betsy Richards. Seminole,
i 4 years, by Eclipse, dam Celeste. Agarah Harri
i son, 6 years old, by Eclipse, darn Galatio. Wenona,
f 3 years old, by Andrew, dam Galatin. Highland
t 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 td Temporary Administrator.
f A CARD.—The BILLIARD SALOON~ n thc
8 rear of the Lafayette Hall, is opened at all
seasonable hours for the reception of gentlemen,
' under the superintendence of Mr. 8. B.Hatfield,
j nov 13 w4t
■i TyT OTICE.—AII persons having claims or de
j IN mauds against the estate of Edmund Martin,
deceased, are requested to hand them in on or be
' fore the 25th December next, and all persons in
, debted to the estate, will please make payment by
a that time to C. B, MARTIN,
Oct 25 wtd Temp. Adrar.
6 FINAL NOTICK.
A LL persons indebted to the estate of Hugh
* J\_ Nesbitt, deceased, for rents, are requested to
I make payment before the first of December next,
e All who are in arrears at that time, will find their
y notes and accounts in the hands of an attorney for
i- collection. Those havingtlaims against the estate
r wilt present them for payment before the first of
December, as the estate is about being finally set
tled. No claim presented afterwards will be paid
i- hy JOHN MOORE, Executor.
y October 25,1839. 6t
NOTICE. —The copartnership heretofore ex
isting under the firm of W. 6c J. Nelson &
e Co., having been dissolved by the death of Mat
,t thew Nelson, all persons having any demands
against said firm, are requested to hand them in and
all those indebted to it, will please make payment
11 to the subscribers, who will hereafter conduct the
e business under the firm of W. & J. Nelson,
y W. H- NELSON,
■r JOHN NELSON.
• g November IS w6t
ga HIE subscriber continues business, on his own
J|_ account, at the stand formerly occupied by
tlm late firm of Hopkins, Jennings & Co. in this
city, and has on hand a welt assorted stock of
• GROCERIES. Also, heavy domestic goods, vizi
Cotton Osnaburgs,Shirtings, Linseys, Blankets, Ice,
Ac., and will attend in person to the gale of Cotton
ami other produce that may be consigned to him by
liis friends in the country. L HOPKINS.
* Augusta, Oct. 23, 1839. W6t
FOR RENT—Two comfortable Dwel«
• B ling Houses, on Jackson, between Green
c - > a i and Telfair streets Possession given Ist
of October next. Apply to
aug 3 wtf JOHN B. GUEDRON,
Jssdk FDR K ENT.—The property of the un-
RilPI dem Kned,on “road. Campbell and Cen
‘re Streets, on Mclntosh Street, near the
. Presbyterian Church, at present occupied by Mr.
. Stockton. Apply to
| McKenzie & bennoch.
July 2 wtf
, N. B. 'ihe occupants of the property for the
, year ensuing Ist October next, willglve notes pay,
able quarterly, and pay for the use of the Hy
drant water.