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WILLIAM E. JONES & Co. AUOUSTA, Ga. THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER «, lß3a ~ ~ „ *
____ Vol, III.—No, 116-
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CtyROMCLK AM) SKNTIM3L.
AUCi IIBTA.
WE .DNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 27.
W e are gratified in being able to state that the
river at this place is now sufficiently high for
Htea tn Boats to come up to this city. The John
Ram lolph came up on Monday night and wont
dowi i again yesterday. She is engaged in bring
ing t ip some tow-boats, lying below freighted with
£ood:s. Other steamers may soon be looked for.
At the last session of the Legislature, a commit,
tee of five members of that body, was appointed
'to examine into and report upon the condition of
the Penitentiary. Our Correspondent at Mil
ledgevillc has forwarded to us a pamphlet copy of
that Report, which we cannot publish for some
time on accountof our columns being occupied by
the Financial Report. The following is the con
cluding paragraph, which will be seen to contain
an important recommendation.
From the growing population of the State, and
the annual increase of convictions, it cannot bo
reasonably presumed that the present buildings
will remain sufficiently large tn contain all those
sentenced to confinment therein (for already there
are more prisoners than cells.) and consequently
either the present walls and buildings will have to
be greatly enlarged, or a new Penitentiary erect
ed. In the present situation of the institution,
no classification of the convicts can be made, by
which a reformation in the morals of the prison
ers can he anticipated, the moat abandoned and
hardened rogues being, from necessity, placed in
immediate contact, and laboring with those un
trained in vice and crime; and whose confinement
t there may bo traced to the exercise of a rash act
of momentary passion. The Committee, under
these considerations, would most respectfully sug
gest to the Legislature, the propriety of making
early provision, by law, for the erection ofanoth
er Penitentiary, at some point in the State, pos
•eesii|g a more favorable location than tho present
In point of facility in obtaining raw materials and
provisions on belter terms and where the rnc.ins
•t transportation would be superior to those at the
S.Ti?!! 1 location, and where the necessary build
ings and walls could be erected by the convicts
themselves, of imperishable materials, as at the
Prison in the Stale of New York; and
which at no very distant day might become the
only State prison in the Stale.
Massachusetts Election.
The Boston Morning Post of the 21st. has re
turns from all the towns of Massachusetts, the
corrected aggregates of which arc as follows :
For Morton. 51,119.
Fo Everett, 50,548 —leaving a difference of
871, Morion’s plurality. The Morning Post re
marks •
“ We are confirmed in the belief that the scat
tering votes for Governor will not come up to 30 t
in the Slate. The Atlas can gather hut 210.
This will comprise more than two thirds of the
whole.—The vote has been confined to the two
candidates this year much closer than usual, bos
ton is the best criterion, and usually gives the
largest scattering. In 1836 the seatteiing votes
in Boston were 11. In the Stale 220, In 1837,
Boston 74. In the State 237. In 1838, Boston
88. Stale 237. In 1839, Boston, 26.”
The Boston Daily Advertiser, whig, says that
« The number of scattering votes, so far as our in
formation extends, is small. We arc of opinion
that they are not sufficient to neutralize the ma
jority in favor of Judge Morton.”
From our Correspondent,
f. Millkugkville, Nov. 23, 1839.
I.v Senate.
_., Reconsiderations —On motion of Mr. Core—So
much of the Journals as relates to the rejection of
the bill to define the liabilities of the several rail
load companies of this State for lolling and other
wise injuring property. Arc.
Dills reported. —Mr. Gordon nfl'bathnm—To re
peal soinu< h of the act incorporating the Bonk of
the Slate of Georgia, as requires the eslabii hment
of the branch at Mill, dgeville, ar.d to authorise
the discontinuance of the office there.
Mr Porter, of Green—To incorporate Buck’s
Meeting House in Greene c miity.
Mr. Henley—(Two bills'—One for the settle
ment of an insolvent estate, and the ether concern
ing dower, Ac.
’flie Senate, in committee ol the whole, discuss
ed the bill to alter and amend a part of the Ist sec
tion of the 3d article of the constitution ol this
Slate
Mr. Miller moved to strike out the words “being
a seaport town and port of entry.”
Mr Williamson moved to insert the words, “or
in I he cities of Augusta, Macon and Columbus.”
Mr. Tracy moved to insert the words, “or in any
city having a population of 5(i0() inhabitants.”
3 he ques'ion on the last amendment was lost.
Mr. Bates then moved to amend t.le amendment
of Mr VV illiamson, by striking out the word “Co
lumbus;" which was als > lost.
Mr. Williamson’s amendment was then accepted
by a majority ol one vole.
On motion of Mr. Payne, three years were strick
en out and four im-eried
Mr. Kelly .-tiered a sul stiluic for the whole bill,
which was njecled
3 he substitute nemg njec ed, the original bill
was ilien passed by a vote ol 52 to 27, which, be
ing less than a co..sli uu> n d ninjoiity, the hill was
lost.
_ I
IN HOUSE OF RtrRFSF.NTATIVKS.
Bids inlrod ced. —Mr. Mr ph, ns— I o define the
liahdi y ot the .eve.al rad road companies in tins
State.
Also, a hi.l to repeal an act to compensate the
ahoritl ol Ta,Liafeiro county Ur summoning jmor
Bills passed--T» establish afu ry across ihe Al
lamahu river hy Reuben .Nale and F.hjah Sapp
To amend an a,i entitled an ael lo eslabii h "
tribunal lor the trial of slaves, so far as relates to
the county of Biynn.
To authorize the Justices of the Infeiinr Court of
Muscogee to lay offa lot on the easi common, for a
jail.
To appoint three new commissioners on the roau
leading from Ellij.iy to Murray county.
To ino irp irate the Methodist Episcopal Camp
Ground of Cherokee county.
To establish,and admit to reeord, certain instru
ments destroyed hv fire in Heard county.
Bills lost and Juned.- To audio ize Ju liees of
the I’, ace mi the several counties therein mentioned,
to net as luslices, ol the Inferior Court in cases of
necessity.
To carry into effect that part of the Ist section of
the 3d article of the constitution, providing lor the
organ.z itioH ol a Supremo Court. Adopted by a
maj ,rily of three.
To exempt all inditing physicians from milili
doty, except in certain cases.
To authorize the sheriff of VVasbinglon county
to advertise all sales m Ihe Souih -rn Advoeule.
3'here was some discussion u on a motion ol Mr.
Gray, to abolish the rule of tho House precluding
debate upon motions l<> lay on the table, Arc , and
an amendment by Mr. Stephens, that the call for tho
previous question should not preclude debate, un
less it he so determined by a mijority oftbe tioiisa
The whole subject was, on motion of Mr Cleve
land, laid on the table fur the balance oftbe session
November 25.
In the House this morning, there was a discus,
sion in which more warm feeling was evinced than
m any debate that ha* occurred since the meeting
of the Legislature. It was on the subject of the
resolution suspending the letting of contracts On
the VV. <fe A. K. Rond, until the action of the Le
gislature. Many participated—Cleveland, Glas
cork, Harris oi Newton, Murphy, Tarver, et. al.—
Th s exciting topic is rallying lo the approaching
contest, more ol the determined energies, of theta
lent and of the animosities of ihe respective advo
cates and upfsisers of this great State enterprise,
than even perhaps theahsorbing theme ol the banks
and finances. It is made the special order ol ihe
Senate for 10-morrow 1 heliev,, and has, by a vote
jusl ibis moment cast,been set down for the const
deration of the House on Wednesday. Us fine is
involved in much uncertainty. Tlere ate coali
tions of almost innumerable interests bought t<»
bear adversely upon the turthor progress, and ulli
m .to completion, of this measure.
From the Tallahassee Star, of 2('th.
Indians.
On Saturday evening last, as Mr. Isler, living
about four miles from town, was out, driving for
deer, with some of his neighbors, the dogs sud
denly took off in a new direction, apparently ea
ger in pursuit of some other game from that
which they had jusl been running. Mr. Isler
was attracted to follow bis dogs from their ex
traordinary movements and wild conduct, ami
aftei proceeding a short distance, discovered whin
he supposed to be a runaway negro, standing be
hind a small tree, ami asked him what he wasdo
ing there. As soon as he spoke, however, he
discovered that, it was an Indian, who raised his
rifle to shoot Isler—and did fire,his bail grazing
the breast of Isler, at Ibis moment a white man
in cotnpiny fired upontlie Indian, and wounded
him. Air. Isler also allot him, and the Indian
was killed on the spot. His scalp was taken oil
and brought to town. Eleven Indians were seen
to cross the Bt. Augustine road, on .Sunday. In >
thirty minutes fom the time the news above re
lated reached town, the minute men were in pur
suit, and tracked the foe tir several miles, bui
lost their winding way id the hammock. On
this occasion, the Indians have evinced great
boldness, having approached nearer to the city
than ever before. Every man should be on the
alert, and be prepared lo deftnd h niself.
From the New York Commercial Advertiser, qf iid
The Desiiiuhatum,—We are gratified to be
enabled to state, that means are in a course ol
prosecution, which wili result in the equalization
of the value of the country bank paper of this
stale, in every part of it.
The Clinton Bunk, which has just been organ
ised in this city, at No. -4 Wall street, has gone
into operation on the principle of making no is
sues of its own, but in lieu thereof, receives at
par of its customers, and pa. o out the paper of
every country bank of this Stole, which shall
keep its account with them. Four of the coun
try banks have already deposited the rcquisle
amount of their funds with the Clinton Bank,
and gone fully into the arrangement, viz :—The
Montgomery County Hank, (Safety Fund.) the
Mechanics' Bank of Buffalo, the Exchange Bank
of Oencssee, and the Fanners' Bank of Seneca
county —(Free Banking Company.) The pa
per of these banks, therefore, is al par in this city
with the customers of the Clinton Bunk. Wc
regard this experiment as one ofgreal importance
to the people of this city. Every bank in Ihe
country making this arrangement with the Clin
ton Hank, will possess such decided advantages
over those which keep aloof, as to compel them
into the measure in self-defence. The paper of
those hanks which are kept at par in this city,
will, of course command the emulation, while
that of the other hanks will lie constantly falling
back upon their hands for redemption. Other
batiks in the city will also find it necessary to re
ceive country paper in deposite. or their custom
ers will go to the Clinton Bank with their ac
counts.
For the Chronicle 4- Sentinel.
Messrs. Editors— l am glad to say to you
that great changes and events have occurred.—
My river plantation is some five or six feet under
water, my fence, rice and turnips are all gone
and steamboats passing through it in every direc
lion. Though my loss is considerable, yet mo
ney will buy rice and turnips for me to eat, but
money will not Guy water f>r them to run their
steamboats on. I therefore readily yield my pri
vate loss for their benefit.
HENRY SHULTZ,
Founder of Hamburg, S. C,
H miburg, 261 h Nov.. 1839.
United States Bank—The Philadelphia
North American of Friday has the following:
We learn that the total amount of .labilities of
the United States Bank as exhibited in its late
report to the Auditor General, was twenty six
- "i
i millions of dollars. Os these the post notes and
notes payable on demand amount to twelve mil
■ j lion® ""‘I the debt in Europe to eight millions.
, ! The above statement was made up to the 7ih
of November. Since that lime, wc learn, a far
r! Iher decrease of the liabilities has taken place.—
I J be surplus is estimated at five millions of dol
-1 | Jars. Ot course, from ibis something must bcal
j lowed for a decline in the securities.
Report
I Os the Commissioners appointed by authority
i Legislature, on the subject oftbe Stale
j Finances. — Continued.
The facts and observations which have now
liectt presented, show in what manner Georgia
| originally became possessed ofthal surplus of pub-
J lie money which formed the foundation of her
1 property in bank stocks; what were the fiscal tiuits
ol that mode of investment; how soon after it
was carried up to the maximum, at which it still
remains, a second surplus o considerable amount
rapidly grew up in the Treasury in what man
ner the system of the present Central Bank
sprung out of this latter surplus, and out oftbe
expectation, afterwards realized, of other surpas
ses to come; and what have been the workings
and effi-cts ol that system; in reference to the
three great objects of financial profit, general
commercial utility, and the safety and presvna
j I' oo 01 ihe fund itself, committed to tho manage
ment ti. the Bank; and lurlher the demerits of
the said system, in its bearing on all three of
these objects, have been demonstrated to be of
such a nature as decidedly to require the discon
tinuance of it, even on the supposition that the
present and prospective condition ol the finances,
furnished a basis on which it might still stand
and be kept in iqieration.
But it furnishes no such basis. The whole
substratum in fact, on which the Bank was, in
the first instance founded, and on which alone it
has been, at any time, intended to rest, has been
swept from under it by that course of events
which lias disabled the Stale to be any longer a
distributor ot surplus money, in loans among the
people. For the Bank was created solely because
there was a surplus that might be used in that
way, and the great function assigned toil was,
that of a mere loan office, t-, employ ,he money,
constituting that surplus ai interest, with ns . qua
ble a diffusion as possible among the citizens of
the several counties, and under a strict limitation
not to exceed in the amount of its loans, the
amour t of actual money of which it should he
placed in possession. Nor is this limitation a all
contravened l.y the allowance given to a to issue
its own bills, inasmuch as along with that allow
ance, there is an express requiremcii', that it shall
in case ol availing itself of that privilege, always
retain on hand oilier money equal in amount to
Ihe whole ol its own notes in circulation. By
this restriction, the Bank is constituted in effect,
a lender of capital merely, as contradist nguisbed
Irom credit, and is compelled to c, ase entirely
from the business ot lending-, the moment it no
longer has, in the form of money, a surplus not
wanted for the disbursements of Government.
Well, a period has arrived when it no longer
possesses, or has the prospect of possessing, any
such surplus. As rapidly. ..ml o-cn more rapid
ly. than its means hsretolo.c
can be realized by collections, they ate imperative
ly wanted for the exigencies oftlie Government.
The treasury, now, instead ot being as formerly
oppressed with a financial plethora, is moneyless,
and compelled often to knock at the door of vi.o
Bank, without «l>le to obtain eithe. the large
sums or the pittances, which it seeks to r lieveils
fiscal necessities.
Had su b been the condition of the finances in
1828, the idea of creating an institution of the
character of the Central Bank, could not have
found entertainment in the wildest imagination
i’he very suggestion would have struck all minds
as the offspring of fatuity itself. To have yield
ed to it. would have been with elaborate folly, to
erect a loan ofii. e, without having, or hoping to
have ought to lend. But that very slate ot things,
which, had it then existed, would have render, d
tbe establishment of ibe Bank a causeless and
absurd measure, has now taken place with every
appearance of permanence mid having so taken
place, .enders the policy of keeping up that insti
tution, equally causeless and absurd. The whole
ground woikon which it was built has been sap
ped and taken away within ihe last three years ;
the only function for which it was ever deemed
of any worth, has ceased—has become practically
dead from the failure ol its proper pabulum; it cun
no lunger command any money to I nd. It has,
therefore, in point of fact, reached the lull end
and term of being which belonged to ils nature,
however it may retain a nominal existence, in
point of law, and it has thus becon.e a mere pro
fitless and costly excrescence on our financial
system, and no reason can be assigned to justify
us retention there, or to rebut the strong argu
ments by which, a regard lo economy, and the
necessity of speedily realizing; and differently ap
plying the resources of the Slate, demand its cx
cission.
In the midst of such financial difficulties as
have recently besot the State, uni’ which seem lo
hover also over our future care-, r; ci fficulties most
inopportune in the era on which they have fallen
—an era characterised hy a mighty and consenta
neous effort on the part of our people and Govern
ment, to place Georgia on that glorious vantage
ground of Commercial and Political greatness to
which her geographical position and capabilities
demonstrably dest ne her, if she he hut true, to
herself, — a proposition for winding up an institu
tion, which has been, for more than ten years,
the great depository and manager of her fiscal
wealth, excites a most interesting enquiry ;
Namely, what is the Stale worth, in a strict finan
cial sense 1
A satisfactory answer to this enquiry, can only
be made by stating and arraying against each
other all the existing assets and liabilities oftbe
i State, —an attempt to do >• Inch, based upon the
data contained in an informal statement furnished
by the President of the Central Bank to this
Commission, showing ’.he condition of that In
, dilution on the I Oils of October last, and upon
such o her data as roul.l be obtained, and were
j applicable to the subject, will be found in a sub
sequent part of this report. At present wc will
- look inlo the Ptesident’s statement, simply with
.. view to ascertaining the amount of sound means
available, for the sis. al warns of tile Slate, exist
ing in the Bank on that day.
Hy that statement, it appears, that on the. 10th
day of October last, the whole amount of slocks,
debts, and cash assets in the Central Bank, con
stituting its I'apital Stock, amounted to the sum
of § 1.54 I 300 29 ; —from Ibis aggregate Ibe sum
of 5198.194 53 is liable lo be deducted on ac
count of unavailable stocks and bad debts. The
unavailable stock, is that of the Brunswick Rail
Road and Canal Company $50,000 00
The Uvl debts fading under the
bead of Bonds and Notes received
from the State, amounted on the
sth November. 1838. according to
the report oftbe Committee of In
. vestigation, to the sum of 146,280 55 J
By • l ie- mur<e report, the I uni debts,
under the head of Notea and (Sills
UisexanUid; amounted to 1,619 96
Bad debts, under liie head of Note*
nil the Bank of Macon, amounted
*■’ . , 294 00
Making Hie unavailable stocks and .
bad debts amount to #198,194 53
Which being deducted from the aggregate capi
tal stock ol rile Blink, to-wit, the above staled
sum ot $1,541,300 20. leaves the sum of #l,-
353,1 Os) 76, as the sound and available capital
owned by the State, and existing in the Central
Bank an the tilth of October last; of which
#l,Ol >5.000 consists of the State's shares of
rtock in the Bank of Augusta, the Planters’
Bank es Savannah, the Bank of the Stale of
Georgia; and the Bank of Darien, which if de
ducted, shows that the State possessed on that
day. only a capital of 348,105 76. besides her
Bank Stocks. But if we treat the United States
surplus with Georgia, amount
ing
present and final exigencies, very
much in the same manner us if it was the capi
tal of the State, (and there seems to ho no reason,
why it should not be so regarded,) and add to it
the last staled sum, it shows #1,399,527 85 as
the aggregate of the available means held by the
Stale in tbs Central Bank, independently of her
aforementioned Bunk Stocks, amounting to #l,-
005,000.
And here we are at the end of all the fiscal
resources which the State possesses under exist
ing laws an 4 facts, except those which are to he
sought for in the pockets of her citizens.
Kor as there has already been occasion to re
mark, taxation and land fund, which were, up to
a recent date rho most productive branches of
revenue, hav» ceased to he operative; the for
mer having been cut oft'and dissipated among
the counties by f.cgislalivc act, with the excep
tion of tbii lax on hank stock, and one or two
worthless items besides; whilsl the latter is lost
and gone, ir-ecoverahly, by mere exhaustion.
Under these circumstances, the whole weight
of every deportment of public expenditure, has
necessarily fallen, on the only remaining resource
—the means in the Central Bank.
Such being the fact it is of no great moment
to enquire to what special objects, certain por
tions of these fund's have been set apart by laws
founded on a by.gone stale of things, hut which
have sunk into a dead letter under the heavy
pressure of present contending wants. Never
theless, a retrospect of this kind may not. ho un
useful towards developing the vices of our finan
cial management for the last few years, and. to- ,
wards placing in a clear light, the nature of the
financial didicullies in which the State is now in- 1
«olved. together with the immediate causes from
which they have sprung, and the proper means 1
of extrication. 1
As far ha. k then as the year 1821, the policy j
oi permanently appropriating particular funds to ,
designated objects began.
(n that year n law passed setting apart the di
v (lends >u half a million of hank stock, owned 1
by the Stale, to the cause of public, education ; '
and the dividends on another half milhoii, to 1
purposes of Interna 1 I — v < »*— I
leuer oi me tanaMtaiids to this day. INo oilier ,
permanent dWdfcition of particular funds to par
ticular objects took place 'till 1837, when it Was
enacted that one third of the interest arising from
tl»e llsilsl —*s—lW■ ■uT|,luHro,flMl(> deposited with
Georgia, shouW go into the Education Fund.—
And subsequently, in 1838, outlie passage of a
law for borrowing a million and a hall of dollars,
•or Ihe const notion of the Western and Atlantic
Railroad, a provision was inserted in that law-,
selling apart for the payment of the interest on
the oioney so to he borrowed, all the incomes,
profits ami dividends accruing from the hank
stock and other funds of the Stale in the < entral
Bank, such portions thereof excepted, ns were
already pledged totheohjeclof Public Education.
And, by the same law, it was further provided,
that until such time as money could he raised by
loan as authorized, the Commissioners of the Rail
road should he supplied Irom <he Central Bank
with the funds noeessary for the prosecution of
the work. The efforts to raise money by loan
under this law, resulted in failure, except to a
limited extent. Os course the hank became lia
ble to furnish a large purl of the money wanted
during the year fur disbursement on the rail
road.
Upon comparing the amount which, in this
posture of things became inevitably denminiahle
during the year Irom the Bank, with the. amount
which it had any likelihood of realizing, by col
lections and other means, from the resources in
its possession, it is manifest, that the nppropriu
tions above mentioned in behalf of Education
and internal improvements, were in >re than
onought to overtask and exhaust the abilities of
the Institution.
Thus, nothing would he left for other objects.
* But other objects formed a large, inipcruliva
and indispensihlo branch of annual expenditure.
For these other objects were none other than the
necessary support of Government, and various
items therewith connected; all of which, togeth
er, required in the year 1838 the ilighursment of
#186.795 53, and could not he expected to call
for a less sum in the year 1839. liow wcrelhcsc
expenditures to he provided fori The answer
is, that no other provision was actually made for
them than by voting the needful appropriations in
the accustomed general fotrn, which appropria
tions being thus made, were left to shift lor them
selves, and to take the chance ol extorting, by the
greater imperiousness of iheir nature, payment
out of the only resources (those in the Gerund
Bunk.) which the .Stale possessed, resources al
ready overcharged, by specific pledges, in hehidl of
other objects. The consequences were inevita
ble.
The specific pledges were compelled to give
way before the strong necessity which claimed,
for the support of Government. the funds on
which those pledges had been laid.
Thus, the Education Fund has been subjected
to the loss of its long consecrated dues—lenders
to the public to a delay of their stipulated repay
ments. and the contractors on the public work to
the indefinite postponement of large balances of
their just remuneration, for laborious tods.
This result is hut the first instance of what
must annually recur, with aggravation, so long
in our finances are conducted on the principle of
saddling an insufficient mass of funds in the Cen
tral Bank, with the accumulated load of all the
branches of public expenditure. Such a princi
ple, it is true, cannot last long; for rapidly eat
ing out the very fund on which alone it can sub
sist. it acts as the voracious agent of its i wn cer
tain ami speedy death. But whilsl it does last,
and so long as any portion of the fund on which |
it lives remains, it works a practical obliteration
dull designations made by livvof particular j
funds to particular objects. For every class of i
appropriations has, at last, the strong claim of i
law on its side; and Hie general uppr.qniulions I
fur the support of Government must necessarily ;
i attach on the funds in the Central Bank so long j
as there is no other resource to which they can
look ; and attaching them, they must be satisfied
’ tr,,m ~lem - even though it lie to the exclusion, in
whole or in part, of other less urgent wants to
which those funds have been specifically assign
. hereforc until a mighty change is wrought
• in our financial po icy, substituting order for
chaos, and ample means in the place of poverty
ot resources, it is vain and futile to suppose that
m point of practical operation, we have any fond
| occurred to the great objects of Education and In
ternal Improvement, how much soever, otherwise,
the matter may appear on the statute hook. As
things stand the only light in which the stub
horn facts of the case permit us to regard the
mass of public wealth lodged in the Central Bank
is as a fund torn by the necessities of the fisc
from the permanent objects to which it has been
devoted by law, and turned into an universal,
though insufficient resort on which every class
ol appropriations is indiscriminately thrown. In
the wide disproportion thus produced between its
annual uhilitiesaind liabilities, we behold the im
mediate inuse of that financial embarrassment
and bankruptcy which have befallen the Stale.
What measures shall be adopted by which this
most discreditable and ruinous posture of our af
fairs may be at once put in a course of rectifica
tion. and he prevented from again occurring, and
by which State shall he placed in possession
ot means sufficient not only for the discharge of
present pressing debts and the ordinary expenses
ot government, but ample also for sustaining, us
m the present age they ought to he sustained, the
groat interests of public education and internal
improvement, is the vitally important matter
which the last Legislature had in view in institu
ting the commission, the result of whose labors
is now submitted; a matter of which the present
General Assembly cannot deem otherwise than
as having acquired an augmented magnitude,
and a more imposing urgency from the events of
the current year, from the actual state of things
at this moment, and from the nature of the pros
pects which, in consequence of that state ofthings
impend over tho future career of the Slate; and
it is therefore a matter on which the undersigned
will seek to bestow, in the sequel of this report,
the best consideration ol which they are capa
ble.
(To be continued J
OBITUARY.
Died, on Thursday the 20th instant, after a short
illness, Air. Alexandpiv 11. M.vcuews. in the 22d
year ql his age. Few young men ever gave gre rter
promise of future usefulness in life, than did the in
dividual who has been so errly ealieil from the con
cerns of lime,and whose departure from life it is our
painful duty to announce. 11 is viilues and sterling
qualities had greatly endeared him to all who knew
him IV ith a mindof the fust order, and a brilliant
genius, he was enabled o present in an interesting
manner every subject which engaged his attention,
and the correctness of hit. moral feelings supported
by the Christian views lie entertained, were early
manifested in the exc nplary character he iniform
l> maintained, lie graduated at Athens in 1338,
where be was greatly esteemed and highly respec
ted for his amiable qualities and his mental pow
ers. His mind was ardent in the pursuit of
knowledge and his devotion to his profession
gave sanguine hopes of his future eminence,
eal ed him fiom the conedrns of earth to the reali
ties of an eternal world. By this afflicting visita
tion. the anticipation of his relatives and many
friends are blasted. But while they grieve at this
incomprehensible and mysterious dispensation, they
are con-olc I with the belief that his spirit is “rest
ing in the bosom of his father and his God.”
Cantignees per South Carolina Kail Road.
Ham Bunn, November 26, 1539.
W. Thomson; E. U. Mostly; diamond T.j VV.
Johnson; C. A. Greiner; Gould At Bulkley; E. I).
Cooke; \V. O. Ibhe; W right, Bull At Co; Clarke,
Kackett & Co ; 1 oopei At Son; J. W. & T K. Stoy;
Clarke, MeTeir At Co.; A, Ilanta; G Walker; J.
Itosseau; Hand At Scranton; W. K. Bitchier; W. E.
Jackson; Scranton Sc Smith; Stovall, Simmons Sc
Co.; Havilund, Iti-dey Sc Co ; Bolling 11, A; Harmo
ny i <*• H. Taylor; Sibley Sc Crapon; 11. K. Cooke;
M. R. Smith; G. Parrott; Jeffers Sc Boulware; An
derson St Young; H. W. Sullivan; J. F. Benson; J.
K. McDonald.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Savannah, November 24.
I hared. —Brig Junius, Crowell, Philadelphia;
schooner Elizabeth, Houston, I hiladclphiu;schoon
er Magnet, Kelly, New ( cleans.
Charleston, Nov. 26.
Arrived yesterday —Sehr Premier, Sarvis, New
York; sihr Conn la, Nyc, New Lot.don
Chared —brig t ak, Howes, Havre; schr John
Ally n, West Indies.
Went to sea yesterday —Ship Fortitude. Libby,
Ilavri; shipLiverpco ,Graves, Liveipoo’; lire ship
Sutton, Haiikninn, New York; 11. 1,, brig Sullivan,
Brown, New 1 ork; brig Cronstadt, Hatch, North of
Emope; brig Lancet, Kruse, Havana.
DANCING Ac WALTZING ACADEMY.
JC. SMITH respectfully announces to the
• Ladies and Gentlemen of Augusta and Ham
burg, (having returned from New A ork:) that he
will re-open his School on Tuesday, the 3d of De
cember, and continue until the 3d of April, (four
months.) There who commence when the school
opens, will have the benefit of the first month gra
tuitous. As the Masonic Hall cannot he obtained
for a schoo -room, arrangements have been made
with Mr. Lamhack for tire large Ice Cream Saloon
at the Lafayette Hall —the entrance is perfectly
private and detached from the rest of the house
Ladies and Gentlemen arc requested to call and
view the premises. Days of tuition —Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays, from 3 o’clock p. M. for
Ladies, Misses, and young Masters: from 7 in the
evening for Gentlemen. Due notice will be given
of the Halls.
OT/ Seminaries and private parties will be attend
ed to. nov 27 trw6t
MERCHANT’S HOTEL,
Corner King and Society-sis. Charleston, S. C.
MTHIS very spacious establishment hav
ing undergone a thorough repair during |
summer, is now opened for the accom
modation of the public. The subscriber bus taken I
great pains to procure an abundant supply ol ser
vants. order y and attentive, and has ftirm-hed
himself with a full supply of the best liquors.—
From his long experience, and his determination i
that his table and all other arrangements diall be
excelled by none, he feels confident that he will be
able to give satisfaction to all wtio may favor him
witli a tall. [nov 16 w4t| WAL GOSS.
MANSION HOUSE,
Edgefield Crout House, S. C.
X—A THE undersigned takes pleasure in an
nouncing to his friends and the traveling
I jSiyUjl community, that he has taken the Hotel
1 in Kitgelleld Village, formerly occupied by Wr, W.
j Brunson, an I is prepared to accommod Ac travelers
1 and boarders, either families .ir sing e persons.—
1 Witp-tiis experience he flatters himself that those
j who favor hitn with their patronage will be satisfied
i am) feel at liorne; to pioduce these ellectt, no pains
i wi I he spared. WM. V. DUNN,
j nov 23 wdt
months after date, app'jration will be
made to the honorahle the Justices of the In
,er'or 10Ult ° r "'like comity, for leave to sell the
h'o e v «i ohn Udg £v d , ec ’ d,iD Burke Col»'ty
- 18 W - ELI WOOTEN. Adra’r.
*ai,e7~ ~
11/ILL he sold on the first Tuesday in Kebrus
.* * L v next - at Lafayette, M alker county le
fortvn©I«'ht' S i U n*'tt*° U " °'. Sale ' lot onp h "ndr^d’and
fmmeHv rt,e? n - mn,h miitlict ' section,
loimerly ( heio»ee, now Walker county. Pold
Com? of HurL ° ldero / ‘ hp honoiablc ,h « Inferior
lo ut of MmKe county, as the property of John
Kil patnr It. deceased. Paid lotortract of laud con
taming one hundred nnd sixty an^
.■ ..WILIAM KfLLPATRICK, Adm’r.
O.,';'*; 4 ‘V' v * RAT MIX’S SALK.
N the first luesday in Tebruary next, at the
court house door in Jacksonhoro’ Striven
"Oii"i t r V .’ W,t f 1 T ,h ! USUaI hour,of sale, will be sold,
r «...? «■ ° f s,t,mte ’ ‘.vingand being in the
cIZ ' im° r T'! ’i 0 " the u PP c, »'<ie of Little ('gee
clue, immediately above and below the bridge
w hcie the Central Railroad crosses, adjoining lands
of Lunday, M«('all and others. The tract of land
is well timbered, good for cultivation, and conve
nient In market, as the rai road passes immediately
tliioiigh it. It is to he sold as the property of the
estate of rlx anas Kelly, deceased, in conformity
vvth an order of the Court of Ordinary of the
romily of Burke, for the benefit of the heirs of the
said deceased. Terms of sale on the day.
CAROLINE KELLY, Adnt’x.
November 27, 1839.
O EXECUTOR’S SALE.
N the fust Tuesday in January next, will be
sold at the court house in Waynesboro, Burke
county, in piiisunnec of a decree of the l ourt of
Equity, all the real estate of Turner Puke, de
ceased. Terms of sale made known on the day
Purchasers to jay for titles.
JAMES H DUKE,
v , Executor Turner Puke.
November 27, 1839., Uw4w
WADTfLVISTR ATOM’S SALK.
li» J he sold at the late residence of Jona
than (,hett, deceased, in Columbia county,
on the ninth day of January next, all the perisha
be pioperty of sail deceased; such as horses, cat
tle, with lour yoke of exen well broSe; also hogs
sheep, corn, fodder, cotton seed, (Petit Gulf,) and a
new cotton gin with oast steel saws and steel
breast of forty saws, also two cutting machines,
useu for cutting straw. Ikeq. also a wheat fan,
threshing machine, Mack smith’s tools, one four
wheel carnage, one gig, one road wagon, three ox
carts, one saw mill carry-lag, household and kitchen
furniture, with other aiticles too tedious to men
tion. The sale to continue from day to day until
ail is sold. Terms on the day of sale.
WILLIAM CLIETT, Administrator.
November 27, 1839,.
Georgia, Burke county:
W PEREAS Green berry Moore applies for let
» ” ters of administration on .the estate of Eliz
abeth u. Moore, (late Elizabetli R. Belcher,) de
ceased;
These are therefore to cite and admonish all and
singular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased,
to he and appear at my office, within the time pre
scribed by law, lo show cause, if any they have,
why said letters should not he granted.
Given un ler my hand, at office, this 27th No
vember, 1839. T. H. BLOUNT, Clerk.
Georgia, Ktirkc county ;
\i lt/ ItEIIEAS Ezekiel Lester annties for letter!
Hurst, deceased:
I heso are tliereforc to cite and .admonish all and
singular, the kiud.ed and creditors of said deceased,
to he and appeal at my office within the time pre
sc tilled by law, to show cause, if any they have,,
why said letters should not he granted.
Given undei my hand, at office, this 27th No
vember, 1889. T. 11. BLt.UNT,CIcik.
Georgia, llurke county ;
Hit KUE,IN Hubert A. Allen applies for letters
of administration on the estate of Nancy
Ward, deceased: J
These are therefore to cite and admonish all and
singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased,
to he and appear at my office, within the time pre
scribed by law, to show cause, if any they hive,
why said letters should not be granted.
(oven under my hand, at office, this 27th No
vemher, 1539. T. H. BLOUNT, < lerk.
Georgia, llurke county:
HI i EUE AS Benjamin L. Kirkland applies for
letters of administration, de bonis non, on
the estate of Azaruh Puke, deceased i
'I liese are therefore to cite and’admonish all and
singular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased,
to be and appear at my office within the time pre
scribed by law, to show cause, if any they have,
why said Jotters should not be granted.
Given under my hand, at office, this 27th No
vember, 1X39. T. H. BLOUNT, Clerk.
Georgia, llurke county:
U/iIEIIEAS George W. Evans and Elijah
Trapnell apply for letters of administration
on the estate of Thomas Archer, deceased ;
These are therefore to cite and admonish all and
singular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased,
to he and appear at my office witiiin the time pre
scribed by law, to show cause, if any they have,
why said letters should not be granted.
Given under my hand, at office, his 27th No
vember, 1839. T. H. BLi UNT, Clerk.
Georgia, Burke county:
WHEREAS George W. (Tawfoid applies for
letters of administration, de bonis non, on
the estate of Balt Jones, deceased :
'These are therefore to cite and admonish all and
singular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased,
to he and apperrat my office within the time pre
scribed by law, to show cause (if any they have)
why said letters should not bo granted.
Given under my hand, at o.i.ce, this 27th No
vember, 1839. T. H. BLOUNT, < lerk.
TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS REWARD.
UAN AWAY from the subscriber, in Monroe
co nty,Georgia, on ihe 27th day of October
last, a Negro Man by the name of Joe, about 25
years of age,sfeet6 or 8 in hes high, yellow com
plexion, has a mole on the right side of his face,
check bones hi r h, rather thin jawed, pleasant
countenance, quick spoken. When he left he wore
olf a wide brimmed white hat, a steel-mixed round
about. He carried off a set of carpenter’s bench
p anos, saw and hammer, a Joint rule, and box
square. It is my opinion that he will attempt to
pass himself off as a free man, and that he wiilitop
in some large place or city, where he can hire him
self to work at the carpenter’s trade. 1 will give
the above reward for (lie delivery of said negro to
me, or to the keeper of some jail, and to he placed
therein, and information given to the subscriber,
living in Tort Valley, Houston county, Ga.
WILLIAMSON M. BRASWELL,
nov 22 wtf
TETOTICK.—AII persons having claims or de
innnds against the estate of Edmund Martin,
deceased, are requested to hand them in on or be
fore the 2.oth December next, and all persons in
debted to the estate, will please make payment by
that time to C. U. MARTIN,
Oct 20 wtd Temp. Admr.
FINAL NOTICE^
ALL persons indebted to the estate of Hugh
Nesbitt, deceased, for rents, are requested to
make payment before the first of December next
All who are in arrears at that time, will find their
notes and accounts in the hands of an attorney for
collection. Those havingclaims against ihe estate
wil present them for payment before the fust of
December, us the estate is afoot being finally sti
lled. No claim presented afteru ards will be paid
by JOHN MOORE, Execulor.
October 25,1839. 6f