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CHIiONICLE AM) SENTINEL.
AUGU S T A .
STONES DAY MOP.KING, DECEMBER 26.
In order to give the hands in this office an
opportunity of enjoying the Christmas holidays,
no paper will he issued from this office until
Saturday morning.
Annuals.
This being Christmas day and the season of
Christmas Gifts, wo commend the attend m of
our readers to the list of beautiful English and
American Annuals advertised in our paper, by
our enterprising Booksellers, Messrs. T. H. Plant
and J. W. & T.S. Stoy.
The following gentlemen me elected officers
of the New England Society, for the ensuing
year:
Samvel Hale, President,
Asaph Waterman, Ist Vice President.
Edward Thomas, 2d “ “
Tuomas Paumelee, Treasurer.
William T. Gould, Secretary.
Managers and Committee on Chanty.
R. J.Mkios, W.m. M. Rowland,
A. Sibley, Wm P. Rathuose,
T. S. Metcalf, John M. Ahams,
Ai-kueii I. Huntington.
From our Correspondent.
Mi li.kdokvillb, Dec. 33, 1839.
The Legislature adjourned without a day on
yesterday, about, hah past 2 o clock, A. M.
Thousands in Georgia respond to the heartfelt
wish, that such another may never assemble.
To those who hare observed even carelessly and
cursorily the whole tenor ot their course, it is
superfluous to reiterate the remark ot a distin
guished Union member on the last day ol the
that it were better for the. State of Geor
gin, jf the enti.e proceedings ol ihe winter wore
consigned to the flames; —as an evidence that
many concur in this opinion, you have only to
notice the form of expression employed by al
most all who speak upon this subject, for they re
joice not at what the Legislature have accom
plished, but Inal they neglected to perpetrate so
much which they had purposed. “The Maine
Bill” presents the most interesting subject that
engaged the attention ol the General Asssemhly
on their last day. I tell Messrs. Editors, t .at ■
old Richmond was in the field in the person of j
her noblest sons, when listening to the soul-thrill
ing eloquence of her Jenkins, her Miller and her
Crawford. At the hour of midnight both cham
bers of the Capilol, echoed their sublime semi
meats of the purest patriotism, mingled with ap
propriate and merited denunciations, against the
lawless ki dnnppcrs and their base abolitionist
advocates ol the Stale ol .Maine. 1 hey were
prepared to repel those reckless ag
gressions upon our dearest rights, and to leaih
the world dial Georgia would maintain them.
Other gentlemen participated in ibis unusually
interesting debate. Messrs. Jones ol Lee, Lewis
of Muscogee, Harris of Warren, and others in the
Senate advocated the passage of the bill opposed
by Messrs. Gordon ft. al. The defeat ot the
measure in the Senate, is attributed almost by
common consent, to Mr. Gordon ol Chatham.—
He labored hard to convert this Slate measure
into one of a party complexion, and alas, for the
honornf our beloved and injured State, he was
hut too successful. We noticed with gratified
feelings, bowercr, that Messrs. Lewis, Holmes of
Baker and Crane, disdained the trammels, and
stood up for lilfemaintenance of our rights, our
properly, and all that is dear to us as a people.
Mr. Stephens, in the House, was also un
usually happy iti his ellbrts. Messrs. Chappell,
Glascock, Hunter, and others, joined in the dis- j
elusion. The bill was laid on the table of the j
Senate by a majority of four— it being with the |
honorable exceptions mentioned, strictly a party ;
vote. But I fear that this absoibing theme is en- j
grossing too much of my sited, and must close 1
this hasty notice of in The hill proposing to ;
withdraw from our Slate University, was the last j
one acted upon in Senate. Gentlemen seemed to |
have shunned this question many wicks, but. at 1
length it must be met and acted upon. F> rtu- |
nalrly for the prosperity ol our College, and the .
cause ot literature in Georgia, the good sense of I
the Senate for once prevailed, and it was laid ,
upon the table.
The Bill for the pardon of John R. Bays
passed the House by a majority of four. His .
neck has indeed been jeopardized—convicted of
murder, bo was released only by a majority of
two in one branch, and Jour in the other.
Some resolutions, in relation to a change of
laws and Constitution of the United States,
upon the arrest and delivery of fugitives from
justice, passed from one Stale to another, were
concurred in, hut I fear that they are probably
about as effectual as our thousand protests, peti
tions. resolves, and remonstrances that have ema
nated from the South. As the list of Acts will
show at large al! the Bills that have passed, 1
will leave you to the very reasonable inference,
that the residue, which have from time to time
been noticed, were lost.
M ith the sincere wish, prompted with emo
tions ol State pride, and a just regard for our
e.iaractci, I shall conclude my pleasant engage
ment of corresponding with you, by the expres
sion of the hope, that another year may brightly
smile upon your editorial labors, and that the in
creased diffusion of intelligence may secure us
against the re-election for many long years, of
precisely another political mass.
For the Chronicle f,- Sentinel.
Messrs. Editors: —Your correspondent,
‘‘ Yellow Fever,” in Ins communication of the
14th hist., has committed a great blunder in as
suming that sulphuretted hydrogen is the pecu
liar product of vegetable and animal decomposi
tion, which produces the various forms of levers
—particularly that form which prevailed as an
epidemic, in our city, during the past summer.—
Mai aria is that peculiar prodi/ct. L has no re
semblance whatever to sulphuretted hydrogen,
neither in odor or its effects upon the human sys
tem. 1 would refer him to the following sources,
for much valuable information on Malaria and its
effects upon the health of those exposed to its in
fluence—viz: Lancisi, a translation of his work
may he found in the Ist vol. of the Medical and
Phil. Register, McCulloch on Malaria, the
works of Rush, Bancrolt on Fevers, Johnson on
Tropical Climates, Dickson on Malaria, in the
Ist No. of the Southern Review, Caldwell on
Malaria, in the 16th No. of the American Jour
nal of the Medical Sciences, Miller’s Essay on
Yellow Fever, and numerous other productions
to he found in almost every Medical Library.
His first assumption being erroneous, of course,
his calculations, some of which are equally so,
must be AIJ FUDGE.
Destructive Gale and Snow Storm, East.
SHII’WIIECKS, AND great loss of life.
The New York Star, of the 18th instant
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says : “ Early on the morning of Sunday, it be
gan to snow, rain, and blow with great violence,
and so continued all the night and Monday. At
Boston, several chinmies and trees were blown
down, and houses unroofed. The shipping suf
fered severely—were torn from their moorings,
and much damaged.”
The Commercial Advertiser is filled with the
particulars of the damages done by the gale. In
Boston, Salem, Ncwburyport, Marblehead, and
other ports in the Eastern States,great damage
was done ;o the shipping and houses. We have
no room for the details. The Commercial says—
Thus have we given a long list of the disasters
that have occurred on our shores—making in a‘l -
twenty-two total wrecks, thirty-two vessels dis- |
masted drifted out of the harbor, <Slc., and i
twenty ascertained deaths.'’
Tim Boston Mercantile of Ifilh says:—ft was
fortunately neap tide—-nevertheless the water
rose above some of the wharves, and a considera
ble quantity of lumber was washed away—and
large quantities of boards were blown from the
piles in the lumber yards. Huvcrhill-street, just
this side of Warren Bridge, was this morning
covered with the boards which were blown from
the adjoining lumber yards.
Considerable damage was done at East Bos
ton; the roof of the school house was blown off;
the cur-house was blown down, and some of the
cars much injured.
t lack Ann.— V\ e have conversed with a gen
tleman who left Gloucester this morning, from
whom we learn that the destruction of life and
property in that vicinity has been very great.—
At Ihe commencement of the storm a great many
coasleis entered the harbor, and the most of them
were compelled to anchor at the entrance. About
20 of these coasting vessels were driven ashore,
of which 16 went to pieces, and many of the indi
viduals on board, probably a fourth part, were
drowned. Our informant saw 17 dead bodies
were lying on the beach; —among them was the
body of a woman, found lashed to the windlass
hilts of a Castine schooner; two of the crew ol
this schooner were lost. One of the vessels on
the beach was the Splendid, of S —, loaded
with lumber; also, Ike Mary and Eliza, of Bellas’.
The scenes which occurred during the violent
gale yesterday, were truly heat t rending. The
ve sels which drifted ashore lay within 30 yards
of terra lirma, between which and them dashed
the formidable waves, breaking with great fury,
insomuch that assistance by means of boats could
not be rendered. Some we c washed ashore and
escaped with life—and others on rafts, or by
ropes, reached the shore much exhausted. 18
or 20 sail of vessels, by cutting away their masts,
rode out the gale.
At Sandv Bay. a schooner, name unknown,
loaded, with flour, struck on a re. f, while enter
ing the harbor, and went instantly to pieces. It
is thought thought that all on hoard were drown
ed.
Further Particulars. —Of GO vessels in
the outer harbor of Gloucester, 21 were drived a
shore—of which latter only one, the schr. Delta
of Wiscasset, was not a total loss ! Three sunk
and the crews are probably lost. Os 21 that re
mained in the outer haibor at anchor, all bad to
cutaway their masts but seven. Other wrecks
were seen on the.shore ol Cape Ann.
At Salem, the ship Sumatra, from the Vine
yard, got safely in.
At Charlestown Navy Yard, (opposite Bos
ton) the sloop of war Concord broke loose and
drove against the Columbus 74, damaging both
vessels. Several chimnies and sheds were blown
down.
In the towns in the country many barns,
fences, chimnies, &e. were blown down.
At Barnstable, Cape Cod, ins! at Plymouth,
Kingston, Portsmouth, and New Bedford, the
storm was neither severe nor disastrous.
In Ncwburyport a large elm tree was lorn up
by the roots.
' The Boston Advertiser ol Tuesday says:
One of the most remarkable circumstances
connected with this gale is, that at Barnstable,
only 66 miles from this city in a S. 8. E. direc
tion, it blew hard from 9 in the morning to noon
on Sunday,l iter which, while the gale was most
severe in this vicinity, the wind lulled to a mod
erate breeze, and shilled to S. and S. W., contin
uing through ihc afternoon and night. Early
yesterday morning it hauled to N. E., but was
still moderate ! At New Bedford, only 52 miles
south of this city, the Mercury states there was ,
a brisk snow storm, and the snow fell to the depth I
of several inches. There is no mention of the (
wind, and the anxiety of the good people of that
p ace was only that the by-laws for the removal
of snow from the sidewalks should be dulv en
forced.
I he railroad from Salem to Ipwish was to have
been opened Tuesday, but this event is defeated
owing to the destructive storm. The car house
at East Boston was blown down, and the high
tide has injured the road.
1 ho quantities of snow on the railroad from
Boston to Worcester, det lined the ears.
At Providence, R. 1., .there was a blow with
snow, but no damage.
The following is an extract from the regulu
tions of the Post Office Department:—
CCjT' Remittance by Mail. —“ A Postmaster
may enclose money in a letter to the publisher
ot a newspaper, to pay the subscription of a third
person, and frank the letter, if wiUteri by him
self.”
Note.— Some subscribers may not he aware
of the above regulation. It will be seen, that by
requesting the Postmaster, where they reside, to
frank their letters containing subscription mo
ney, he will do so upon being satisfied that the
letter contains nothing but what refers to the
subscription,
Ihe Great Fraud in Philadelphia.
We find in the Philadelphia National Gazette
of Wednesday afternoon the following authentic
particulars respecting the great fraud committed
in the Schuylkill Bank. They go to confirm
the worst rumors of the affair winch have hereto
fore reached us :
We have been at some pains to collect authen
tic information regarding the act of stupendous
and desperate fraud practised by H. J. Levis,
late cashier of the Schuylkill Bank of this city.
In noticing this transaction it behooves the press
to call things by their right names. A criminal
act, daservingthe penalties of the law, should re
ceive its proper appellation and denunciation, and
it the guilty have a great stake and station in so
ciety. the heavier should be the infamy.
The Directors of the Schuylkill Bank have been
most industriously investigating the concerns of
the Institution since yesterday, and we are ena
bled to give in round numbers the results of their
labours. These will satisfy the rightful curiosi
ty of the public for the present, until a full and
particular statement can be made.
The Board have discovered that Mr. Levis’s
account of Kentucky Bank stock shows a deficit
of over thirteen thousand shares. Besides it is
ascertained that there have been overdrafts to the
amount of upwards of two hundred thousand
dollars—for a large portion of this, however, it is
understood, security is hold. It is discovered
that the fraudulent transfers of the Kentucky Bunk
Stock were begun as far back as January, 1837.
The Schuylkill Bunk owed to the city hanks at
one time previous to the Bank resumption of Au
gust, 1838, about six hundred thousand dollais ;
and to the surprise of many it suddenly paid these
balances. The liquidation of this amount may
now he accounted for by the over issue by Mr.
Levis of four thousand five hundred shares of
Kentucky Bank Stock from February to October
of that, year, (1838). There is to Mr. Levis’s
I credit on the look three hundred and fifty thou- 1
j sand dollars, which he alleges to be part of the
I money.
In May, 1838, according to our informant’s
' statement,Mr. Maxwell, the transfer clerk in the
Schuylkill Bank was aware that the Kentucky
Bank Stock account was overdrawn 10 or 12,060
shares, by wan ants from Mr. Levis. Mr. Max
well left the Schuylkill Bank in May 1839, and
the account was still short 10,000 share.. To
show the utter infatuation of the laic Cashier in
this matter, even if the hank had had a million in
gold (its desposits were a little over n tenth of
that amount) it would have been impossible for
him to have redeemed the fraudulent issues of
stock ; for allowing each" share in the utmost de
pression of the stock market to have been down
to 60 dollars, to have commenced to buy op the
shares would have so increased their entire value
as to place it considerably over this million.
At the instance of the Kentucky Bank, the
doors of the Schuylkill Bank were closed yester
day by an Injunction through the Sheriff. John
P. Wetherill, Esq. was on Monday elected Pres
ident in place of Mr. Levis,
Onrcity has sustained by this transaction, a
deep, deep disgrace. The best course is for pub
lic opinion through the public press to attach the
proper reprobation to such mi enormous offence
against the morals and interests of society.—
None we are sure are readier to affix Ihc mark of |
turpitude to this business than the friends to the 1
Banking system, properly and honestly conduct- j
I’d ; —and a great evil must accrue to the Banks '
unless their friends arc among the foremost in I
attaching the fullest measure of infamy to this 1
affair.
Ship Villi; De Lvov. —We are gratified to
learn that this ship, for which there has been so
much anxiety fell, is safe, having pul into Ber
muda in distress. The schr. Jane, Capt. Pear
man, arrived last evening, hringingthe gratifying
news of her safety, and that of 200 passengers.
Extract of a letter from Captain Stoddard,
dated Bermuda, November 25 :
“ In a gale of October 31st, latitude 40, longi
tude 43. carried away main and mizcu top-sail
yard, and the fore and main-top-gall,int masts
were blown away without any sails attached. We. 1
were swept clean. After blowing six hours it
moderated, leaving the ship a perfect wreck. On
the next morning, the Ist November, bent ano
ther foresail, and carried away the forcyard in u
squall. On the Ifilh November, spoke the ship
Victoria, Captain Lenox, supplied them with
some provisions. On the 21st November, wind
still from the west, decided to hear up for Bermu
da, and arrived there on the 22d. On entering,
the pilot ran the ship ashore, causing the ship to
leak badly, which will oblige us to discharge the
cargo, or heave the ship out, which will probably
detain us two months The passengers will pro
bably leave in the Alexander Grant, and will
soon be with you.”— New York Herald,
The Governor of Florida superceded.—
We find under the head of “ appointments by
the President,” in the Globe of Tuesday, the
following sentence .-
••Robert Raymond Reid to be Governor of
the Terrilo.y o! Florida, in the place of Ric i
ahii K. Call, superseded.”
Those who read the late message of Gov. Call
to the legislature of the territory, will easily con
jecture why he has been superseded. In that
document be showed conclusively, not only that
the Federal Government had neglected to provide
adequately foi the defence of the fiontier against
the SemLoles and their allies, but that the Gov
ernment agents hud even refused to supply bread
to the c.itiz' n volunteers, in the field to defend
their families from the attacks of the revengeful
savage, when at the s ime time large quant tics of
i provisions were rotting in the government depot,
j We arc inclined to believe that Governor Call
i has been dismissed for being too candid. The
comparisons he instituted between the little that
hail been accomplished in Florida>jnid the thirty
mi/hons expended, were “oderoua.” The new
Governor is, we mule rota ml, a thoroughgoing
hard money, anti-bank Van Burcnitc. —A'. Y.
Times.
“Turn about js fair PLay!’’ —When
Mr. \V ebstcr gels tack from England, and gees
to \\ ashingtou, Mr. Van Duren, if he chooses,
can take him by tbr Hand, and say—“ Mr. Web
ster “how do you dk>?—How is Massachusetts 1”
— Philo. Times,
And Webster ran proudly reply, “She is as
she Ims Itcen ; there she is; look at her; she
needs no eulogy of mine ; she is Whig to the
core. By the way Mjv. President: How-is New
■- York ” —£-. twitstUe.
Court Marti ax^ —Wo tear.* thirty court
martial is to ho convened in tins city, for the trial
ot several officers of tils Navy.,-.and rumor says
that the principal ca*» that will he laid before it
will he that of Commodore Ballard, upon charges
preferred by Mr. Hodgson, late beater .of despatch
es from the federal government to that of Peru.
Wo also learn that oue of these charges is the
brooking open, by Ceittt Ballard, of a packet of
letters, sent by Mr-Hodgson to the American
consul at Lima; ami, also, the breaking open of
a letter in the packet,, and: rending it to the offi
cers of the U. S, ship*North .Carolina.
Rumor also says thutilhis court, martial, will
try the cases of several'officers- of tho exploring
expedition, who hawboon arrested and sent bom*
by its commandant, Lieut. Wilkes.
Humor also says that the case of Commodore
Ell'ult, the subject of ihc court of inquiry held in
this city in June last, may he laid before this
court martial, though we have nob understood up
on what charges, or by whom thev are preferred.
—U >S'. Cut.
Lower Canada. —The Quebec Official Ga
zette advertises for sale, by order of the govern
ment, Ihe lands of nineteen individuals, who have
been convicted of treason, and some ofthem exe
cuted. Among these individuals we perceive the
names of A mire Papinenu, Joseph N. Cardinal
and Joseph and Louis Dumouchclle. The lands
ate soWas.forfeit.
Tnr Moii.mons.—The Pbora Register of No
vember 36th lays ;■ —“It is known that the Mor
mons, after leaving Missouri, repaired to this
State, and remained the last winter in Quincy
and its nmglibunhuod, and that during ilia past
Aimmer they purchased a large tract of land at
iftiehemtaf the Desmoines rapids of the Missis
sippi, on. both sides of the river, including the
town o- Commerce. We have seen a letter
from on*-of the society, written recently to his
friend in. this county, giving some further pa. li
-culars which will be found interesting. Tbe
town plat of Commerce was purchased ~f Dr.
Garland, (Other purchases were made adjoining*
until the quantity amounts to about 900 acres.—
From Vv. G. was purchased also 20,000 acres in
the half breed reservation, lying opposite, and in
cluding cite town of Montrose, formerly Fori
Dcs Moines. The whole purchase money
amounts to 7 0,600 dollars, a largo portion of it
<>n long payments. Thu name of Commerce
has been changed to Nauvoo, (from the Hebrew
or Egyptian,) ami the lots all laid off anew into
three or more classes. Each lot is a block, and
contains (including the ground allotted for streets)
one acre. The prices are graded according to !
ill*. class of tola—tiro fu/it class being about 800 1
dollars. '1 he friend to whom the Idle, before us
is written, is a purchaser of onu of these. Aion
trose, brio; an excellent landing opposite Nau
voo, will probably bo laid off on the same plan,.
Joseph Smith jr.. Sidney Rigdon and Judge.
Higher, liavo justctartrd for Washington to
tition Congress- for relief growing out of vise
Missouri persecutions. Nauvoo has been cho
sen by the church at a late conference, as one of
the points of gathering for the church in latter
days. 'J’iif, Mormons regard the signs of the
times as indicating.the speedy approach of the
Millenium;, and these points are selected as en
sign.. for gathering of the society to csoape the
Judgments- which v ill immediately precede that 1
event.
Wo re< toill that large accessions have been
made to (he number of the society during the past
fall, embracing-many families of great respecta
bility and influence in Adams, Hancock and
M Donough counties. Several branches of the
I church have been established in those counties,
I and the society is represented ns having never
i been more prosperous, or os indulging brighter
j hopes than at picsenl.
Genteel Streets—Guanoes- of Fashion.
‘ * “ Leicester square is a celebrated spot on
tthe map-of London. It is the site of old Leices
ter Place built by tbe great Earl, and the dwell
ings of his and other distinguished families.
James's! unhappy daughter Betsey, also George
the Second’s pouting son Frederick, died here.
It was tenanted once by Prince Eugene; and the
square itself has been honored by the residence of
Hogarth, Reynolds, Hunter the surgeon, and-oth
er eminent persons. It, was once, too, the very
centre of fashion, and all elegant London paraded
its magnificence upon this square. Then ‘the
he iven’s breath smelled wooingly,’ and so it does
no w, towards evening; and shops displayed here
tin ir glittering gems, and cashmeres, and all
manner of millineries, tempting princely custom
ers. Here ‘rich Spencer’s tapering leg,’ cased
in the finest silk, mounted its gorgeous equipage,
while gay and gartered carls gazed breathless up
on the airy step the ficreeful mein, the sparkling
eye, the purple Ifp, and Leicester’s chariot swept
like‘a harnessed meteor’through the square, and
grooms ia painted coats,ao the Houris, ‘doff’d the
world aside’ to let it pass. Alas! the greasy ea
ting-house, or gambling den, now occupies the
palace of the Sydneys, and the foot of nobility is
no more heard upon its pavement. Smutty coal
heavers now throng, and sweeps as black as Bngg
Jargal, where ‘round the coaches crowded while
gloved lieaux;’ the heroes of Blenheim have „ur
rendercil to the French, and plots of campaigns
and fortresses are succeeded by th e Hutterie.de
Cusinc. While the Parisian English inbabh j
the elegant Rivoliand Place Vrndome, the French I
have here their separate quarter, like the Jews,
the meanest of London. A bronze statue, in the
centre of the place, is all that is left of ancient gen
tility ."—Knickerbocker —“77/c American in
London,
Volcanic Matter. —The greatest part of the
coast southwest of /Etna c insists of lava, which,
in times long anterior to all historical records, ran
down its sides, 'five dale of only two of the erup
tions which produced the lava are known—that
of the 961 h Olympiad, and another 1 22 years be
fore Ghri.it. Recupero, the Sicilian topographer
ami historian, estimates the volcanic matter eject
ed in the eruption of 1669 (a memorable one in
deed) at 94,000,000 of cubic pass! (apassi is five
feet) equal to 11,750,000,000 cubic feet. Now l
lhat mass of solid mutter would build a dozen such
cities as London, supposing it to consist of 208,- 1
(tollhouses, and each house to contain 5,000 cu- ]
bic feet of wallk. This same eruption of M 560
destroyed the habitations of 27,000 people.—
Simomi't Tour in Sicily.
Tiik Hot ai, (ikouok.—Colonel Pasley, tho
gienl English submarine experimenter, at the last
advices, was continuing his cxplos ons ol gun- ]
powder, against tbe wreck of the Royal (ieorge, |
at (■'pithead. The total number of guns recover- 1
ed was already 6 iron 32 pounders, 4 ln«ss24 |
pounders, one brass 12 pounder, and 4 gun-ear
rinses. The hull of this ill-luted vessel had hem I
under water filly-seven years—and what may he
considered very remarkable, 12 tin boxes of pro- i
served I tea no, ma.wooden box, have been rocov
ered from the wreck—stamped ‘•Conserve Anti
eliena de f'ntron, Marseilles.” Neither vinegar
nor pickle had been used—they had been boiled,
and pfaeed in atr-tight vessel*, and were us fresh
ono tit ior use ns wuen rirst tnciuseu.
I MVKKStI. AtTHI UI’TKS OS’ W OMEN. —I
have observed among all nations, that the women
ornament the motives more than the men ; that,
wherever found, they are the same kind, civii, ob
liging. humane,tender beings; that they are ev- '
er inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and i
modest. They do not hesitate, like men, to per
form'n hospitable or generous action; i.or haughty,
nor arrogant, nor oupeneiMoas, but lull ol courte
sy, ami fond (4 society;. iixduHtrioois, wto so mica I,
ingenious; more liable in gwutim to err than man,
but in general, aids, more, virtuous, and perform
ing more good, act ions -t huu lie. 1 never address
ed myscll, in the language of decency and friend
ship, to. a woman, whether civilized or savage,
without receiving a decent and friendly answer.
Willi rnmr it has often been otherwise.
111-wandering over tins barren plains of inhospi
table Denmark, through honest' Ttwedeu, frozen
Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, Russia, and
the wide-spread regions of the wandering Tartar,
it hungry, dry, cold, wet orsitiln, women,htis ever
been friendly to me, and uniformly so; end to add
to this virtune.'to worthy of the appellation of be
nevolence, tflkse actions have been performed in
so free and Mind a manner that, if Hwiut- dty, I
drank the sweet draught, and, if hungry, ate the
coarse morsel with double relish.— iM/yu' d’s Si
lurian Journal.
Bn rut-mar, tv apti.k ax» Uukkiv—ln nn
essay oilihis subject, read at'- meeting of the
Eiigiwlv. Agricultural Ninety,, Bari, Spencer
states-it .to be the result of his rtperience, ‘•that
in most-caws-the ipnilitres of tiJo male parent
predominate in the offspring,” and Hint therefore
those who pay no attention to the description of
males to which they put their females, “consider
usu matter of indifference that on which the pro
| fituhloor unprofitable nutuac of their occupation
mainly-depend*.” -
Cu.m niii KNTAiMi-r-A now county is to he es
tablished in East Tennessee by the name of
Polk- Thudiiil 1 proposes to baptise the county
town Ujxton. In the House-ol Representatives
the other day a Mr. Parker moved to strike out
Benton and insert Chapki.l Hill. The mo
tion was negatived.
Miciuoan City, (ludinmt,) Dec. 4.
A W i lii us it ma,Y appear,
it is (TwreM'ly reponttikund very Udtc- |
ved that a wild child, or lad, is now running at i
i large milling the sand hills round and in the Fish j
j Lake. It is reported to-be about four feet high,
and covered with a li Accoav ol olwsli.uteeolored
hair. It runs with greiibwldttfy, and when pur
sued, as /ms often been the case, it sets up the
most frightful and hideous yells, and seems to
make eflbrls at speaking. It has been seen dt.-I
ring the summer months running along the lake i
i shore, apparently in scorch of tisii and frogs, ami
appears to he very fond of tho water, for it will
plunge into Fish Lake and swim with great velo
city, all the time whining most piteously.
How this creature lias come here, or what its
history may be. we leave to conjecture? hut may
it not be probable that it may have strayed away
i from some emigrating party, when encamped for
I the night, and wandered ofl'into the woods, where !
I it lias grow ii up an associate with the an nails of j
the. forest f We think this may, he tlm case. If i
so, vifnt tutifil have been the anguish ol its parents :
and fr ends, on learning that they were compelled |
to pursue their journey without their tender care? I
It is also supposed UkA it may have been stolen
hv the Indians, ami left in the forest to perish; hut
we eon hardly believe:such to be the case.
It would lie nothing hut un act of humanity on
the part of our young, men to turn out ami help
to capture it.— (iaztr/e. J
TO PHYSICIANS. i
rill IK subscriber being desirous of removing from J
K Vppliug, Cohtmbia county, oilers for sole bis ,
House ami Lot in that village, together with about
forty acres of good arable land; within half a mile I
of tire place, one fourth of which is wood land, and !
the balance in a high state of. cultivation. The i
dwelling is a good tw/j story house, well finished j
ami in every respect com for Uhls, together with '
all the necessary outbuildings The lot on which j
the house is situated contains three and three fouith I
acres well improved.
As the subscriber will retire from the practice of I
Medicine in this county in the event of his selling
out, a fine opening will be made for a physician, I’
desirous of entering immediately into practice.— |
Any scch are invited to call ami examine the pro
perty. WILLIAM S. JONIX 1
dec 25 if I
LAW NOTICE.
riIHE undersigned having associated themselves i
J together in the practice of the lavy, under Hie i
firm of Dudley St Crawford, will attend promptly
to all business confided to their care, and will rc- !
gularly attend the Superior Courts of Stewart, ■
Randolph, Raker, Lee,Sumter and Marion counties, I
of the Chattahoochee circuit, Macon of the Flint
circuit, and Do. dy of the Southern circuit. Th./i :
ollicc is in Americas, Sumter county. 6a , where '
one at both of them may be found, when not absent I
on business. CKO. M. DUDI.F.Y.
VVM. ft. CR WFORD.
N. It, The unfinished business of the linn of :
Warren &. Crawford will b» attended to by Win. !
li, Crawford, aided by (ico. M. Dudley,
dec 23 w)m
TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS RFWAHI),
UAN A WAY from the subscriber, in Monroe |
co inty, Ceorgia, on Hie 37th day of October I
last, a iNcgro Man by the name of Joe, about 20 j
years of age, ■> feet 0 or 8 inches high, yellow com- '
plexion, has a mole on the right side of his face, i
cheek bones bi„h, rather thin jawed, pleasant !
countenance.quick spokea. When he left he worn I
off a wide brimmed white hat, a steel-mixed round ■
about. He carried off a set of carpenter’s bene:
planes, saw and hammer, a joint rule, and bo,-
square. It is rny opinion that he will attempt t
pass himself off as a free man, and that lie willtto
in some large place or city, where he can hire him j
self to work at the carpenter's trade. I will giv
the above reward sac the delivery of said negro 1
me, or to the keeper of some jail, and to be place
therein, and information given to the subscribe
living in Fort Valley, Houston county, (la.
WILLIAMSON M. BRASWELL,
nov %% wtf
DIED,
In this city, on the morning of the 31st instant,
*.nhv Mr. a ling, Kpq iii the year o! bin
Al GIJSTA I’llll'Es' tl lIREIfTr
Tju’bsuav, DEcrsisr.K 85, 183 H.
BAGGING — firing, per card 90 a IN
Tim, 14 (i 20
BALE ROPE, per Ih. 8 o 14
BACON' — Hams, “ to a 17
Shoulders and Middlings , 10 n 134
BL 'lTtß — G'<>tn, per lb. ~S a ?i)
Ifirrt Carolina, “ \it a 25
Country , “ TS r -ts,
COFFEE—Green prime (Suba f 44 14 u 15
Ordinary to good, 44 11 n |4
St. Domingo, “ 10 n 14
Brazi!', 44 —a
Laguira, “ 12* a lo
Porto Ulco, “ 12 In 15
Jttn, “ 15 a 16
Mocha, “ IS a 20
• COTTON — Ordinary , “ 7* „ ’ll
fair, * “ 8,1 _
Good, “ 8} (j _
Prime, 44 8} a—
HANDLES — Spermaceti, “ 48 ,1 50
Tallow, 44 29 a 22
CHEESE — American, 44 13} a 14
English, “ 40“ a 50
CIDER — Northern, per hid. 000 a |0 00
In boxer, per doz. 350 a 450
I IGA KS — Spanish, M. 15 a, 20
Aneritan, “ 5 n1 a
( OSi A—- oruslutri' 50 ti 62}
778 M — Herrings, fax 125 a 160
Mackerel No. I “ 111 ne
i( si O t. (.
« i< 3 U (i
FLOUR — Canal. but. 9 a 10
Baltimore, “8 a S6O
tOster*; “ none
Country, “ 650 a 750
GUNPOWDER— keg 4 6 a 7
Blurting,. “ 4 a 450
GLASS— U)>, 12, Ww 350 a 425
8 * 10, “ 326 a 4
IRON — Russia, 44 ti
Swedes, asstr'od, 44 6
Hoop, lb 9 a 10
Sheri, “ h <t 10
JVaiV ftorfv, “ 7 a 8
LEAD—Bar, 44 9 a
LEATHER—SoIe, lb 2S a 30
Upper, side 175 a T
Calf Shine, dog 30 a36
LARD— lb 12* n 15
MOLASSES — N. Orleans, gal 45* a 60
Havana, “ • 43 a 45
English Island, “ —a
NAILS— lb Si a 9
OlLS—Lamp, gfi !. 50 a 200
Linseed, “ 1 15, <n 1 35
Tanners, “ <>o
OATS— bash 50
PEAS— “ 1
PAINTS—Red Lead, Hr 15
H’Akc Lead, keg 300a 350
Spanish Browm lb A a
Yellow Ochre, “ 3 u>
PEPPER—Bhttk, 44 9 a 12}
PORTER — London, doz 4 a 450
and Ate, American, bbl 3 a 350
RAISINS—MaIaga, box 2 a 250
Moriah I, “ I 50 a 2
Bloom, “ none
RlCK — Prime, 100 Ih 5 a G>
Inferior In good, “ 4 a 6
SUGAR — New Orleans, Ih 7 a 10
Havana, white, “ 13 a 15
“ brown, 44 8 a 9
Muscovadoy 44 9 a 10
St. Croix, “ 10 a 12}
Porto Rico, “ 80 U.
Lump, “ 14 a 16
Loaf, “• 15 a 00
1 Double refined, “ 20 a 22
j ROAJP — American, No. 1, 80 8}
“ A6. 2, .5 a 8
I SALT —Liverpool ground, bush 65 a 75
Turk's Island, “ nou»
STEEL — German, lb 15 a 16
Blistered, “ 8 a 12*
SHOT—AII sizes, hag 2 12} a 2 37}
SPIRITS — Cognac. -Uh prj, gal- 1* 50 a. 2 s<v
Peach, “ 1 a 150
Apple, “ 15 a 65
Gin,
“■ American, “ 55 a 75
Rum, Jamaica. “■ 1 35 u 175
“ New England, 41 48 a 56
JVhlshKPy Northern, 44 48 a 56
“ ’ Western, “ 50 a 75
<• Mononga. “ 7ft a 1
“ /H«A, “ 2 a 3
TOBACCO—& artHna, IN 8 a 15
Virginia, 44 16 a 40
TWINE— “ 30 a 37}
TEA—Bohea, “ 50 n 75
Souchong, “ 50 a 76
Hyson, 4i - 75 a 1 25
Gunpowder, “ 1 a 1 25
WINE — Madeira, get 2 st) a 350
Sicily Madeira, ‘ 1 25 0 175
Sherry, “ • 2 n 3 6A-
Teneriffe., “ 75 a 1 25
Sweet Malaga, 44 40 a 60
Porte, ' >■ 75 a 3
< larct, “ none
, “ iabotXts, doz 3 a 6
Champaigns, 44 5 «. 12.
REMARKS.,
| ; Cotton. —We have to report a decline in the
pike of this article, of about one-fourth of a cent
since our last. This is produced by the love state
1 of the river,.in. consequence of which it is impossi
ble to get off cotton by the boats. There are now
near 7000 bales lying on the river bank, waiting for
a rise in the river to be carried off. There arc two
steamboats lodged 00 one cf the bars in the river
below, wlridr cannot be gotten off. and they block
up the river so as to prevent the pole-boats freight
ed with cotton from passing down. W arrivals
of c .turn for the past week !»»«■ been very heavy,
and planters continue to '•* tftely. We now
quote 7} a 8* a“ ,u ' extremes of the market, sales
being u—'*" tliitfly at 8 a B}.
Groceries. —The market is well supplied with
stock, and a good business has been done. A sat*
of damaged Sugar, at auction, brought good.prices,
yesterday.
Exchange —On Ne**- York at one day’s tight,6 a
6 * per cent, for city hills ; 7 a7} per cent, for coun
try bills j on Charleston, at sight, 3} a 5 per cent.
Savannah 1 to-1* percent, pm.
Specie paying Banks—AM the Banks of Savan
nah, the Hank of Brunswick, Bank of St. Ma/ys,
Mechanics’ Bank Augusta, Central Hank, Colum
bus Insurance Bank, Commercial Bank at Macon,
Branch of the Central Kail Road and Banking Com
pany at Macon, andltbo Branch of the Marine and
Fire Insurance Bank at Macon. The Branches of
the State Bank-in the interior pay specie to all
other* except Banks and Broker.,.
Bank Notes— Savannah, 2 per cent premium}
Charleston and Columbia, 3 adido-; Hamburg, 2 1
3 do.i Mechanics’, fHugusta,) 3 a 4 do.j Agency
Brunswick, ( tuguita. ) 3 a 4do.j other city banks,
i a 1 do.; Hartcu, SO a 25 discount; Rome, 50
do.