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WILLIAM E. JONES & Co. AUGUSTA, Ga. TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 26, 1839. Vol. III.—No. li« the CHROMILEtAISD BKKTINEL PUBLISH HD, D ULY, TRI-WEEKLY, AND WEEKLY* At No. Broad-street. terms: Dotty paper. Ten Dollars per annum, in advance" Tri-Weekly paper, at Six Dollars in advance or S jven at the end of the year. Weiklypaper, Three Dollarsin advance,or Foai at the end of year. 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.