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Chtomdi&jSentttieL ' —r ——— ; .• 1 1' S' T I _ B^gSßgggeggßgjg,,,,^,— —_— __ WILLIAM E. JONES & Co. AUOUSTA, Ga. THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER «, lß3a ~ ~ „ * ____ Vol, III.—No, 116- Ti IK CHROKH LF-l AND BINTJNEL PUBLISHED, D .ILY, TRI-WEEKLY, AND WEEKLY, At No. Broad-street, terms: Jtail / paper, Ten Dollars per annum, in advance. Tri ■ Weekly paper, at Six Dollars in advance or S; ven at the end of the year. I Veit :ly paper, Three Dollarsin advance,or Four at th c end of year. 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