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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
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SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4.
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• *KlccU«a of County Olßfcrii on .lloudny
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The following i* « I ini of Candidate* for
County Officer*, to li« elected on Monday, 6lh
January, 18411, to Tar aa we know :
rna clkhk airexaioa » hn larxnioa loiiati,
JAMEK MrLAWS,
JOHN C. rtNEAD.
tna IHKHIPt,
BENJAMIN BRANTLY,
WILUAM V. KERR,
VO a T*X roLLXtTC)*,
WILUAM KENNEDY,
WILLIAM O. EVE.
ton arraiTp.lt or t*x arTra**,
GEORGE M. WALKER,
WILLIAM DOYLE.
rna cnmivxa,
Isaac Hendricks,
JERRY MORRIS,
JOSHUA S. WALKER.
eorarT avavvtnn,
DANIEL HACK.
No mail again last night beyond Chaibwlon.
Our lateat advicea f out Washington city, ara
contained in (he Correspondence of the Charier
(on Courier. The Sjmaker ami Cleik having
keen elected, the only remaining bone of conten
tion ia the offi t of Public Printer, and on the
(aat day’a acaaion. the Home wa* in trouble a-
Soul that. The office* of the counliy. any body
with the smallest perception can are, arc now the
•nly groat .'bjocla ol party struggle, and not a
inaag tko le.iat important of tbeae is the office
of Priotei to Congress. V•***■ afteryear the peo
ple of this counliy are in a ferment ulhiui the o.“-
ticea. They arc operated upon by the puliliciana
who are to reap the profits, under the p utext of
supporting principles. and once under political
excitement, the people themselves become the
mr re tool* of designing men—controlled by the
merest wlfims of (hose who assume to lead, and
made to enact acetic# of the most farcical charuc
ler. The day isfwal in which the offices of this
Country were Riled with men on account of their
Irt'rits. We aro going the mad of ihc nation#
that have gone before us. Thn lisvo of power
and tin lu>l for olliee, on the part of our groat
men, a id the blind infatuation of our people in
a adoring themselves to be perpetually agitated
from year to year, the v.dnatury ibvpas of detnti
■ g iguce, i# part and parcel of the history i>4 the re
public# that have preceded ua. How long it wil|
tie before our I‘residrtU will be uppoinlcil by u
tuilikary mob, like the Roman Emperor# werr >
We leave for thoac to record who may be the
witiie.ucn of the event.
CorrtipnHiUnce of Ci' ChinletUm Cornin'.
WaauixuTON, December 2d.
Neither Home of Con ,re#a 1# In session to-day.
The Moulding Comihillec# are to lie announced
o.i Monday, and therein much ■peculation a# to
their character. The i)uaation i», whether Mr.
Hunter will feel bound lo place administration
u> joriliea on the principal couiKUttiUß, with a
view to facilitate tile progress of public business,
for which the administration ia responsible—or,
whether he will place the business in the hand#
of those gentlemen—l. e , the Whom and Nulli
liora—who elected him. It is a safe and just
parliamentary principle ill it the Committees
ought to represent the imjoiity of the House. If
(he majority arc iricudly to the meusnrea ol the
administration then the t'oionuttees hlioulil be
f irmed accordingly ; but ul tin# theie i# aomo
doubt. The administration have a decided ma
jority fur the Sub-Teeas ry, but it do. a not yet
appear uolwillialunding (lie assertions of the |
Riclnuoml Empnrcr, that the Calhoun members i
r#o called) are ready to go all lengths, on all
questions, with the administration. At e shall
see how they will vole on the printing question
—which ia, undoubtedly, aa fair a test ua the
-“speaker’s election. 11 they could n->t vote lor I
Mr. June#, can they vote for the (llolrc ! It they
can, then the breach, created by the unceremoni
ous abandonment of Mr. I'ickima, may be con
•idered aa closed. Wo have many rumors
■fl 'at, as lo the cou-se of Mr. Calhoun and his
friends ; but none of them are to bo relied on.—
As fist as one obtains currency ills contradicted, \
.and superceded by another. Thu amount of it
■seems to be, that the Duchamm interest ia will- i
-tng to nceive Mr. Calhoun in full communion;
hut that, between him and Mr. Benton, there u
a deep gnlph. We shall soon be able to ham
from Mr. Calhoun’s own lips tire tmth in regard i
la hia present position. I have very little douht
(bat Mr. Speaker Hunter will place Mr. Khettor
Mt. Pickens, at Ihe head of tint Committee of
Way* ami Means, and cast that Committee in
much away as lo facihale the financial measures 1
of the administration, Un the Committee of
Foreign Affairs, he can place a majority of i
Whigs, with It. Cushing us Chairman ; espe
cially us the House is unanimous upon the only
important question touching our foreign relations,
Mr. Wise was excused from serving on any |
Standing Committee. The '‘private leaaon,”
winch he says he had tor making (his request, 1
did net know. It may be, that having been in
lluenlial in the electron of Mr. Hunter, and pro
niineut in the parly that gave their unanimous
support to him, tin Speaker might have been dis
posed tu place him at some post of labor which
hr did not desire. It is pie.sunn d, Uhi, that .Mr.
Wise will he at the head ol a Committee of in
wesligation, aa heretofore.
No champion has yet appeared for the assump
tion of Stale debts. Col. Bouton has thrown
.down the gloe.but no one has advanced to take I
■it up. Some essayist, in the London Bankers' I
Circular, and a writer in the New York Courier I
and Enquire-, are the only advocates of the
•chenree that I have ever heard of.
TThs news from Kielrmoiui is, that (ho ''imprac
ticable* 1 ' have given way, and that Mr. Rives will
be elected to the U. M, Senate.
j
Laua ami a Fiskkut.—Some of nur liahcr
men, who have made voyages to Labrador this
■eas-m are loud in their complaints against the
Americans. From the 29th July, lo the 7lh of
September, one person assured us that they lined
the whole coast —209 sail being visible off the
harbor at one lime. Not content with catching
fish for themselves, the crews of there vessels,
many of them unprovided with herring seines,
make point of following our boats, and whenever
« seine is hauled dipping into it and helping
themselves. Our informant assured us, that but
tor this kind of interference, the loading w hich it
cool him live weeks to make would have Ireetr
rompleted in a fortnight. These Amci Iran Fish-
ermen, in fact, do juxt what they please on the
whole coast—onr people fish under sufferance ol
a superior physical and foreign fiifre ; and the
Commanders of our cruiser*—where are they ?
Ha! Jiix Xwu Scnliun .
Acts ol the Legislature— Cun r luiUd.
187 To rc(H-.d an act entitled an act to alter
and amend an act more effectually to define the
dutu-a of the Adjutant, Division and Brigade In
spectors, and lo regulate their pay, Ac. paused
23d December, 1822, so far as relates lo Division
and Insfiectors.
188 To repeal an art entitled an art to amend
an act emitted so m t to make permanent the site
of public buildings in the town of Hamilton, llar
ri* county, in the town of Newman, Coweta
county, in the town of Talbot too, Tillhjl county,
in the town of Ureenvilla, Meriwether county,
ami to incorporate (he same, A • .
189 To amend an art more effectually to com
pel thn Justices of the Peace and Constables lo
pay over monies received or collected by them in
their official capacities, approved 22d December,
1820,
190 To amend an act to prevent obstructions
I in the Oconee river from lilt; (inane sod Han
cock line, on it# eastern bunk to its coiifiucnre
with the Ucnmlgee river, calculated to impede the
free passage of fish. To appoint Commissioners,
niul to punish those who may attempt lo defeat
the same.
IUI To authorise the CoinmiMioncrs of the
Western and Atlantic Hail Road to pay to the
owners of land sustaining injury by reason of
said Kami, extra damages in certain cases.
192 To authorise the Justices of the Inleiior
( ourl of Cobb countv, or a majority of them, to
levy an extra tax lor the purpose of paying the
(Sheriff mid Jailor, for the time, being, of said
county, for apprehending, confining in jail, and
bringing to ful sundry Irishmen, indicted for
murder in said .-oifnly, and for other purposes.
193 To authorise the Hlulo’s (irant to (Sherrod
Whittington, of the county of Crawford, on hi*
paying into the Treasury of the Htale, tiic. re
mainder of the purchase money of the same,
with lawful interest thereo-i.
194 I'o authorise Thomas R, fluson, hisheirs
and assigns to erect a mill-dam across the Eto
wah river, on rerlaiii conditions therein ex
pressed.
195 I'o provide for the acknowledgment and
execution of Deeds of Conveyances, am) other
instruments of writing in foreign countries; touch
ing property in this (Siam.
19(1 To incorporate the Former's Academy, in
the county of Stewart, snd appoint Trustee* for
the siiiop,
I 9 V To repeal thn Bth section of an act assent
ed lo 24ih Dee. 189(5, changing the nsme of
Lewis McLeroy lo that of Lewis Trucklins.
198 To authorise David Hutchins, of the coun
ty of Floyd, In establish a Ferry across the Gate
ii.ioln river, on bin own land, and to regulate the
ferriage thereof.
199 To revive r.ml keep in fiver an act enti
tled an act to regulate the Licenses of Physicians
in this B(sie, ss-ented to 24tlr Dec. 1835, with
certain provisions therein named.
20.) To prevent the several Banks of this
1-Hate from selling *nd disposing of Exchange at
s higher rule per rent, than herein expressed, un
der conditions, and lo prescribe the mode ol' pun
ishment for ft violation of the name.
201 To incorporate certain Academies therein 1
named, and appoint Trustees for Hut same, ami
to change the mime of Pleasant Grove Academy,
in the county of Decatur, and in repeal an act to
incorporate certain Academies therein mentioned,
<fee. so far as respects the Heard county Arade
my, passed 22-1 Dec. 1892.
2n2 To amend an act to inco penile the town
of Hiunswick, and to extend it# jurisdictional
hunts, ami lor other purposes therein contained,
passed Dee. 1890, Ac.
209 To amend the scvenil laws relating lo the
flenalus Aea Icinicus. and the University of the
Mtnle of (ieorgiii, so tar a# to change the number
of Trustees of the University, nc essaiy in joint
session w ith the Menale lo form a Meinilu# Aeu
dcnii.'ua, and lo constitute a quorum to do and
tninsai t all business at ail meetings of the Board
ol Trustees, and also In legalize the proceedings
of the -SenuUis Aeudemieus, at its lute session.
204 Ti appoint Commissioners to lay out and
open II road through u part of (Jamdrij county,
and to designate the hands who shall he liable to
woik loci eon, also to establish a fcriy across the
(Jrc.it Matilhi River, and to I’tj Ihe rales of ferriage
at the same.
2do To amend an act to revive and continue ;
- in force ana t for the limitation of actions, and
j avoiding suits iu law, passed Hili Dec. 18119.
20(5 To repeal so much of an act entitled an
I act to compensate the grand and petit jurors of'
j the st.vend counties therein mentioned, so far as
relates to the county of Crawford, assented to ;
Dec. 29d, 189 r.
207 To incorporate the Thomaston snd
Bartlesville Rail Komi Company, with power lo
| construct a Kou.l from some point on the Monroe
Kail Road near Bartlesville in Hike county, to the
town ol Thomaston, in Upson county. Ac.
208 To make it the duty of the Clerks of the
\ Court of Ordinary of the several counties of this
j Slate, lo preserve the evidences of legal notices J
i in certain cases; and in relation to the appoint- !
i ment of administrators anil guardians in certain I
I cases.
• |
' 2nd l o alter ami change the names of certain j
persons therein named, and to legitimatize the j
same, anil for other purposes therein mentioned, j
210 To give to the Attorney ami Solicitors |
1 General a retailing or tax fee on writs of scire la
\ cias, and on informations.
I 211 To authorise the Sheriff's in the several
counties of Decatur, Thomas. Lowndes, Ware
1 and Wayne, to sell the fractions in said counties.
212 To amend an act more effectually to se
-1 cure thn solvency of all Banking institutions in
I this Slate, passed 241 h Dec. 1892.
219 To incorporate the Cass county Msnufac- 1
1 luring Company,
214 To alter ami change the site of the public
i building* of the county of Dooly.
215 To add the lot of land whereon Reuben
Lawson now resides, in Newton county, to the j
county of Jasper.
2lfi To incorporate the Presbyterian Church, j
at ami near Lawrenceville, Gwinnett county ; '
and lo appoint Trustees for the same.
21 7 To prevent the obstruction of the free
i pass rge of fish up the several creeks and Water
I courses in the county of Burke,
j 218 To admit certain persons therein named.
I to plead and practice law in the several Courts of
j law and equity in this State, and prescribe their
| liability.
(tinvn Back.—Great quantities of goods, on !
] consignment to vario is houses, are in the pro.
Igi ess of transhipment to Liverpool. This is the
sure m >de of decreasing our foreign debt, ami re- |
; lieves the country from the excess of import i- -
i lions.— S. Y. Slur.
j _
Vv’n.ta or SaiKser.uiK, .Milton and Na
poll in.—The lust wills and testaments of these
three great men, are lied up in one sheet of fools
cap, ami may tie seen at Doctors’ Commons, In
the will ofthc hard of Avon, is an interlineation
in his own handwriting; —-I give umo my wile
my brown best lied, with the furniture.” It is
proved by William Buyde, 22d ofJulv, KilC.
The will of the minstrel of Parulise is a nuncu
pative one, taken by his daughter, the great p.ie:
being blind. The will of Napoli- >n is signed in
a hold style of writing; the c aloetl. on the con
trary, written shortly befote his death, exhibits
the then weak stale cf Ins holy.— l.u-if.i
in,--
• Trow the KnD Orleans Hcyune.
• I'ntiiie Sketches.
'' Tm* Wilii Huitsr. — We were water-hound
at - Walnut 1 reek.” The water was too high
to admit of our crosstin-, and for three day* we
had remained listless and idle on the hank of the
i stream. The fourth day catne, and still the wa
r ter confirmed rising; hii.l a« we could not pro
,. cccd upon our travel, three of us, weny of idle
i. ncaa, determined to start in pursuit of hurt do.
J We discharged the old charge* from our lire
„ anna, and, having carefully loaded again, we
I mounted and rode off. As yet we had seen but
1 a* buffalo, and that wm an old hull, with flesh
e| a* tough an bather. We at acted at eight in the
r . | morning, and rode two hours and a half without
u ' seeing a thing that had hie, except the innumcr
aide mn-quitoes, and diet e-<d ground inseeU.
~ M e rode through la-ds of sun-flower* miles in
extent, with their dark seedy centers and radia
ting yellow leaves following the sun through the
u day from cast to west, and drooping when the
i, night shadows close over them, as though they
-, were things of sense anil sentiment. There hnls,
are sometimes beautifully varied with a del cate
s flower of an azure lint, yielding no perfume, hut
. forming a pleasing control to the bright yellow'
e of the *un-flower.
a About half past ten, w| discerned a ereaturo
i, in motion at an immense Distance, and Instantly
t started in pursuit, fifteen fninutes riding brought
us near enough to discover by its fleetness it
ls could not lie a buffalo, yet It was too large for an
antelope, or u deer. On we went, and soon dis
f tingniahed the erected heiftl, the flowing mane,
and the beautiful proportions of the wild horse of
r the prairie. He saw us, and sped away with an
, j arrowy fleelness till he gained a distant eminence.
, | when iic turned to gaze at us. and sulTi red us to
| i approach within four hundred jails, when he
I bounded away again in another direction, with a
r graceful velocity duHglnful to behold. Wo
paused—for to purs ic him With « view of eulrh
| mg him was clearly impossible. When fie ills
s covered wo were not following him, he also
. paused ; and now he seemed to Ire inspired with
i as great a curiosity as ourselves experienced ; lor
after making a slight turn, lie came nearer to us,
, and bounded off again, and still came nearer, till
we could distinguish the inquiring expression of
his clear bright eye, and tho quick curl of his in
flated nostrils.
I We had no hopes of catching, and did not
wish to kill him; but our curiosity led us to ap
proach him slowly, for the purpose of scanning
him more nearly. W. had not advanced far,
however, la-fore he moved away, and. circling
round, approached us on the other side. 'Twin
a beautiful animal—a sorrel, with a jet black
tonne anil (nil. We could seethe muscles quner
i« his glossy Jiuihsas he moved ; and when, half
playfully and hall in fright, he tossed his flowing
mane in the air, and flemished his long silky tail,
our admiration knew no hounds, and we long
ed —hopelessly, voxatiousiy longed to possess
j him.
Os all the lirutc creation, the horse is most ad
, ' mired by men. Combining beauty with useful
| ness, all countries and all ages yield It their admi
{ ration lint, though the finest specimen ol its
j kind, a domestic horse w ill ever lack that magic
j and indescribable charm that beams like a halo
around the simple mime of freedom. The wild
( horse roving the prnrie wilderness knows nomas
fer—has never fell the whip—never clasped in
\ its teeth the hit lo curb its native freedom, but
gambols unmolested over its grassy home, where
j Nature has gi ro it a bountiful supp'y of proven
der. Lordly mmhasnceers.il upon its hack ,
J the spur ami the bridle are unknown to it; and
when the .Spaniard comes on his fleet trained
■ slecd. witii noose in hand, lo ensnare him, he
hounds away over the velvet earpcl of the pia
rie, swill aa the arrow from the Indian's how or
| e'en the lightning dinting from tho cloud. We
j might h«vf shot him from where we stood, hut
hud we been starving, we would scarcely have
done it. Ho was/ire. and we 1 lyedhim for the i
very possession of that liberty we longed to lake
from hi m.—but we would not kill him Well red
a rifle over his head; he heard the shot and the
whiz of the hull, cud away he went, disappear
ing in the next hollow, showing himself again ns
he crossed the distant rolls, still seeming smaller;
until he faded away in a speck mi the far hori
zon’s verge.
Just as he vanished, we perceived two dark
spots on a hill about three miles distant, We
km w the n to be bullalo, and immediately set olf
in ti n pursuit.
I
t Goon lit k a.—The Providence Journa
says; —Washington Irving should speedily pub
lish mi additional chap ei to Ivniekerhoeker’s
History of New York, and d -tail therein tho ter
rible war of the Hcldeihiirraeli, the last uprising
of the sturdy Dutch dynasty against the victori
ous Yankees. No interior pen should touch the
subject. Let it re nain sacred In the great histo
rian of the New Netherlands,
Tho Tex tans can whip Indians faster, and kill
Mexicans quicker, than any other people in. or
that have ever sprang from the universal Yankee
nation ; and "as some things can he done as well
| as others,” they are not slow at farming either.
| The U g 'st Gaiolina potato and the tallest corn
stalk that we ever did see. were shown uayester
day. They were raised by Mr. Scott, near Gal
-1 vestotl. —j Wcatjunc,
! M, Casper, of Berlin, has published the fo!-
I lowing table, showing tho influence of wealth and
! poverty respectively upon the duration of human
i life. He takes from the register of deaths in tho
; Almamnk of Gotha a thousand names belonging
| lo the families ol Princes ami Dukes, and from
the otlieial returns of the population of Berlin a
thousand names of persons who had lived upon
charily, and whoso deaths had been carefully re
gistered. Os a thousand rich and poor there
were existing, says M Casper—
At tho ago of Rich. Poor.
5 years 943 C 55
• 1 938 508
13 911 681
j 30 826 576
25 852 653
I 30 776 527
) 36 753 486
j4O 093 446 ,
143 624 306
|SO 567 33
i 55 464 283
j 60 398 276
65 318 172 !
71) 885 1)7 !
75 139 05 !
80 57 21 j
83 29 « ;
90 25 4 1
95 I 2 i
100 go o !
j Among other instances of direct fraud connect
ed with the late Schuylkill Dank, one was men- !
tinned yesterday remarkable lor its magnitude.—
A gmfli'inai) belonging to the interior of the
sialevMd placed in the Bank on special depoaite,
$75,000, ol w hich he a short time since received j
$25,000, and after the recent explosion be called
to enquire about the balance and learned, with
astonishment, that no minute of any such sum j
had been made on the books of the Bank, nor
was there in the Bank any thing by which its di
rectors from first to last, could know of its rcccp- j
lion.— f. . S'duztHe, ♦
......
Kil.l. oh (J fit it.—A doctor was employed by
a poor man to attend bis wife, who was danger
ously ill. The doctor gave a hint that lie had
fears ot not being paid. -I have fnc pounds,” i
said the min to the doctor, “and it you hiH or
cure, you shall have them.” The woman died
in the doctor’s bands—and after a reasonable
time bo called for bis five |K>unds. The man
i asked tiie doctor if• ‘he killed bis wife ?” “No.”
•‘Did you cure?" “No.” “Then.” raid the
! poor man, “you have no legal demand.”
Augusta Miiiical Co lunik. —We were
pleased lo learn, during a I ite visit lo Augusta,
: that this institution was in a highly flourishing
I condition, there being over fifty students and
more having expressed an intention of joining.—
( There are no studies so necessary to promote our
! comfort, as surgery and medicine, nor are there
any in which it is more desirable thai the student
should have the best instructors. Want of
knowledge in medical attemlin s has lieen the
means of huirying many to an untimely grave
1 when by proper treatment they might have been
restored to health.— Alh'ite W It Ig.
! How to Evroitrr. Sitivi r.—The officers of
i the Scotch Criminal Courts create ilU'urhanrehy
I calling‘Silence’to the auditory In Cork, they
' manage the matter better; they write -Silence* in
' large letters on a peep of basti board, stick it on j
j the cleft end of a long white rod, and wave it in j
j the face of any whose voice is heard rising above ;
| a whisper. If tin., does not produce quiescence, !
; the admonition is enforced by a rap on the head i
with the rod.— I‘hreunlng'r.ul Migaz'ne.
.
I
’Phe Chinese Imperial Commissioners have
I addiessed a letter lo the Queen of England full
j of warning, reproof an 1 exhortation t melting the
! trade in Opinm. The epistle is written in very
; grandiloquent style, suited to the ministers of a
' potentate who claims kindnd with the sun and
,mm n. It a- eat''s ol the li n thousand kingdoms |
I oft' e earth” which are, subject lo the sway of
j the Celcrt'al Emperor; but intimates (hut he tbc
! said personage, with all his high mightiness, is
very men tfol and well disposed. The f'flowing
may serve as a specimen of the whole, which is
not wilhi ut a gie it deal of good sense with all its
pompoiiKi ess; —
“We therefore now make this on rnniit with
j yon—to the. iml that you lake the total drug
i opium, so hurtful lo mankind, and pul a slop to
!it form er. As we of ti e central Inn I prohibit
our people from using it, so it seems just that
1 yon prohibit the subjects of your honorable coun
| try from preparing it. In respect to that which
| has been already prepared, you will please lo
cause suit" search to he made alter it,and have it
east into tho bottom of the sea, that within the
expanse ol heaven and earth no place he further
given. This done, not only will the common
people o! our central lam! no more suffer its evils,
hut the people of your own honorable country,
having already prepared it, how is it possible lo
gmnd aginnsl their turning to n e it themselves?
On the other hand, if you forbid its being prepar
ed, your own siitl people will escape being injur
ed hv it, anil thus both countries will not only
enjoy mutual peate and happiness, hut by so
d ‘big will you more strikingly manifest your te-
I spoi l and submission,
11 am m in;, S. C. December 13, 1839.
' ('ol. John McKt \n k ;
Hir—My experience and perseverance here i
1 given extraordinary results for the pu he good, |
! and entitle me to extraordinary re vanl. I in- j
I lend to have that reward, and if men w 11 not give
i. I shall take it. Men have clandestinely taken i
■ my purse and my good ii'ine; they shall restore, j
them again. \on were lor a time connected with :
me in those works. I have spoke about them to ‘
the world; will you like a man confirm or deny !
Ihc truth of them I To me gold is trash, when j
principle i.-. in question. I call myself a man I
that can speak truth. I oil myself an honest i
mm: the world d os not admit either. .Vly aels I
shall decide. HENRY SHULTZ. |
At it si'A. December Lilli, 1839.
Hk.niiv ■Sin i.rz, E-q.
Btr—\our note of this morning is received in
quiring whether or not 1 agree with you as to the
correctness of the facts in your letter to the Hon.
City Council of this city—l have no hesitation !
to say. that the statements above alluded 10, are I
entirely correct, as far as 1 know or believe, and
my eonrieflion with them, c .old not otherwise
lliuti make them latniliar to, 5 uurs <Sre.
JOHN Mc K INN E. |
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Altlt.Kimt.viin, 1 Lit Dec. 1839.
Mr. ID.mix Biiultz.
Hamburg, IS. C.
S,r—ln replying lo the inquiries made of mo j
in relation to my knowledge of the alf iirs of tile 1
■•Bridge Company of August, i.” I briefly submit '
the billowing statement ; and nlthougl many j
years have elapsed since the occurrence and im-i- |
dents tool: place, yet there are so inuny circum
stances ol my hfc so intimately connected w ith
mj employment, as an officer ol that company,
and tho peculiar situation in which 1 stood in its
hiisin- ss, that the transactions still remain vivid
and fresh in my memory.
V ou will doubtless recollect, tint in the fall of
the year 181? you visited tins place, and whilst
here, proposed employing me a- a U,ishi r in place
ol Mr. V, Downie, who was dead. That about
the same time, I was written to by Col. John Mc-
Kinne, the other proprietor of the company, on
the same subject; that you found me settled here
with a family, and engaged in the practice of law,
and apparently doing u lair business for one of
my ago at that time; that a proposition of a liber
al salary was male to me by Co. Joint Melvin tie 1
an 1 yoursell; that I hesitated and would not en- 1
gage until I went to Augusta. I did tint disclose i
to you the motives which actuated me at the !
lime. They were, however, su has I believe
any man of ordinary prudence would have adop
ted under like circumstances. At that period,
our Stale was Hooded with what was called
‘‘change hills,” thrown into circulation by indi
viduals and unchartered companies and copart
nerships, mid in many instances, the i-suers
were destitute of means for the immediate ro- I
demption of their hills. The proprietors of the i
Bridge Company were to me strangers, and 1 j
was not content to abandon the pursuit of my
profession, and engage in a business new to me,
on an uncertainty, without first examining for
I niyscli, and being assured of the probableperma
nency. as well as the means or hauls on winch the i
Company's Bank was founded, and which would |
allord a reasonable belief ot its durability. AVith i
these objects in view, I went to Augusta, and was !
readily admitted by Col. McKnine and yourself,
to an examination into tho stale and condition of
: the aflairs ol' the Bridge Bank, its books, and the
j means upon wltieh it was based. There was
] nothing withheld from my investigation. 1 found
; that over and abo ea largo amount of specie,
! current bills ot other hanks, dist minted notes,
j ami the extensive private property of the two
j proprietors, that there had been set apart and j
j pledged as an exclusive capital stock, proudly of i
j great value, consisting of the Bridge over the ■
Savannah river, the lunge of buildings called j
“Bridge Row.” the lot on Broad-st. ou which an j
| extensive building of brick was then erecting, j
I called the -Bridge Bank,’ lands in South t'aroli
• na. and. I think, three negroes, and two vagona
, and teams. This property I found entered upon
the books of the Bank, in the hand-writing of
! Mr. Downie, ns composing a slock set apart cx-
I clusively, to secure the payment of the Bridge
I Company’s hills, and learned that, by agreement
; between the proprietors, that no part of said pro
| perty. so pledged, could be disposed of. oraliena
] toil by either, or both of the proprietors, for anv
j other purposes than that of tho redemption of
! Bridge Hill*, for which ptm/osc ahrtie it was in
violably Ail apart as an nnPhmity to b;ll-holdors.'
WitD tliese examinations juii information thua
obtained, I was satisfied that the Company had
secured ample means to insure a successful pros
ecution of iu business on a sure and certain foun
dation; and believing that from its usefulness and
the facilities which it had, and would continue to
alford to the community, that a charter of incor
poration could and would be obtained and the in
stitution become permanent for a seiies of years,
1 acceded to the propositions of the proprietors,
and relumed home well satisfied with the means
; upon which the Bank was baaed, and coimnuni
' cated the results of my information, and tbe,
; grounds upon which my conclusions had been
made up. to many of my friends in this place
who had been averse to my removal. I was uu
der no injunction m secrecy, in relation to the
affairs of the Bank, and therefore conmiunirab d
freely and openly the information I had obtained,
with regard to its stability and property pledged,
i On the first of January. 1818, my duties as
I Cashier, commenced. Anew set of hooks were
opened and kept on the usual plan of books in
oiher banks. The officers were then, William
E. Barnes, book-keeper; J dm T. Lamar, teller;
and inysrll cashier. Thecntr eson the old hooks
as made by Mr. Downie, were transferred to the
new books, and the same properly, as before
mentioned, (with perhaps the exi option of Bridge
Bow) was entered as capital ol the Bank, and so
c, mtimied on the bvik- until my services ceased,
iu the suaimir of 1819.—Bridge Row was sold
after the Bank was removed to the Banking
I house on Broad a'reel, and the proceeds of the
j sale became a portion of the means for redefining
j Bri lire bills.
! The tolls collected at the Bridge, wore invariu
! bly entered i.. the cash account, and went to the
| increase ol the means for the redemption of
Bridge hills. The tolls in ISIS, amounted to
i m ire I lion ?1 8 COO.
1 At the lime y u transferred \ cur inieresl in
; the Company to llama Mi Kinne. I was Cashier.
The irnnsfer produ-nl no alteration or change in
the mode oflransacling the business of the Bar k,
further than a mire c'liingr ifpartners, you go
ing out. and ha assuming your pi .ce—the proper
ty previously pledged as stock, not being in a; y
manner affri led or released from its previous loi
bilitics under which it hail been originally placed
and the entries in relation to it, remained unalter
ed on the boo-s. He simply placed himself in
your stead.—The amount of your individual n ••
count was charged to him. and your account bal
anced on the books. The sale or transfer to him
was publicly known, and announced iu the ga
zettes. As to tlie existence of the Company, and
its being unchanged at any time, or by any sa'c
or transfer, the hills thein.-a Ives show on their face,
a change of partners only.
From the first if January. 1818. up to the
lime the Bank stopped payment, in Mav, Isl 9,
the Bridge Bank promptly redeemed its bids
when presented by individuals, with gold or sil
ver coin, and when presented by officers of other
banks, (which was frequently done in largo sums)
they were redeemed ritheir in the bills id ihe
Bank presenting them, or in spoeie. Tbe
Bridge Bank, at no time, whilst I acted as Cash
ier, borrowed money from any 15ai.li wha'rvrr.
I was present on the 241 hid May. 1 8 IJ, win n
the Bridge Bank stopped payment. The fact
was announced by you to a number of persons
present, demanding payment of Bridge Bills: vou
slated to them, most explicitly, that you had
come back into the concern with all you laid and
would use ail your mean and pars mill exertions
to redeem eveiy dollar of Bridge Bills in ci.eola
tion; that the assets ol the Bank, the pioperly
which had been pledged ly the company, ami
your individual properly, should he applied to the
payment of ihc bills. dollar for dollar, and you ur
ged them not to part with their hills at a sacrifice,
as ail should be paid. The day after tbe Bank
slopped payment, you furnished me with about
$15,000, to pay deposits and wbii ii was appro
priated to that object by theTi Her.
I was in Augusta fur several in.inths after llio
21th of May, IS 10. and know that you devilled
your money and mean ' to a consider hie amount,
in redeeming Bridge Bills at par; and I do nutre
cidlert that Mr. Barna McKiime ever look any
active part in the concern after yon resumed your
original positi n in the company on the day the
Bank billed. I’nlJ-'lin iVicKhme and yourself
appeared to he the only active parlies in the bu
siness.
AH the Biidge Bills which were on liainj at
the lime ihe Bank slopped payment, a :.naming
to about “175,(b’0, were counted and 1 unit in
my presence, a li w days after the Bank failul.
Any funh r in pliries you in iv think proper
to make, shall be dice fu ly responded in ho far
as the subject may have come to my knowledge.
I am, respectfully vnur ob’t snv't.
W.I.LIAM V. HANSELL.
Macon. 3.1 Dec. 1839.
Ilr.snv Siuri/rz, Esq.—Mir—ln reply mvetir
inquiries, I have to stale that whil.-t I wasileikin
the Bridge Bank, it was a matter of public noto
riety that the bridge, the bridge hanking house
nml lands in Meuth Carolina, w as the pioperly of
the Bridge Company. Dublin notice was given
in the gazettes of tire city of Augusta, also to ihc
same effect. 1 have heard you frequently stale
in conversation to various persons and at different
times, that the above named properly belonging
In the Bridge Company, was pledged and bound
for the payment of bridge bills.
When the Bridge Bank stopped payment in
1819, I was present and heard you state to a
crowd of persons wlioAiiromed the door, deman
ding payment, that you had come luck into tlie
concern, with nil y our mentis, and that the pro
perly of the company togetlu r with your individ
ual properly, should be appln d to the redemption
of the bills, and yot advised them net to part with
the bills at a discount, for il wasyour intention to
have every dollar of'hem paid.
When you sold out your interest in the Briilgu
Bank to Barna McKiime. 1 was still a clerk in
the Bank, and can say there was no change in
its business, further than you, us one partner, go
ing out of the concern, and Barna McKiime com
ing into it and assuming your place,
I know that persitn who bad monry ton con
siderable amount on deposile in the Budge Bank
came, after its failure, (say one or two days,) and
received the amount due them. But I do not
know who furnished the money.
I acted as teller in the Bank for more than two
years and lio business was conducted upon
Banking principles, and the books were kept as is
usual in o'her Banks. Since 1819. 1 have been
an officer in other t anks and have had an oppor
tunity to know how bank books are kepi.
My cash transactions in I lie Bank, as teller,
was regularly balanced and settled with the cash
ier daily.
Youroh't, sorv’t.
JOHN r. LVMAK.
Extract from the testimony of William Lam
kin, formerly Sheriff'of Kiel.incnd county.
In the Sixth Circuit Court of the Uni t(I Stales
fur the I) strict if Georg a.
Henry Shultz, and Christian Bi t it-")
haupt, complainants, I
iw. yin E/uily.
The Bank of the State of Georgia, I
and others, defendants. J
Witness answers, (to interrogatories propoun
ded to him in the above stated ease) that he did.
by the directions of 15. 11. Wilde, Esq., plainlifi's
attorney, levy on the Augusta bridge, and by the
direction and personal assistance of said Wilde
and Samuel Hale, (who requested witness to
summon them to his aid) lake from Henry
Shultz, by violently seizing Ins person, and forc
ing him from Ihe gate, forcible possession of the
Georgia end of the Augusta bridge. Tbe whole
conduct of Mr. Wilde and Mr. Hale, in ihe v ari-
ous transactions connected with the business,
j witness considered oppressive in the extreme, 'etc
■ hibiling settled hostility to Mr. Shultz, and a d >
j termination to obtain the bridge at as greed a sai -
; rifice as they possibly could,
[Signed.] ' W. LAMKIN.
Sworn to and subscriiicd befo c us, this (Jib day
j of .N ovember, 1823.
E'-xv Aujvxiitn, Com’r.
Wm. H. Tuuranck,Com’r.
Geo nr; ia, Richoiond Count u.
t ame before me, Richard Bush, one of the
Just.res of the Peace lor the said county, Joseph
Wheeler. Lawrence Brock. Ezekiel Evans, and
Lewis Barrie, who being duly sworn upon the
Holy Lvangelist, deposeth and saith. That living
present on the third day of March, 1821, at the
Georgia end of the Augusta hri 'ge, William
Lamkiu, bheritiol said county, Richard H. Wildo ,
and Samuel Hale, Esqrs., did dispossess Mr.
Henry Shultz by loree, of the Georgia an I of
the bridge aforesaid.
[Signed.’ JOSEPH WHEELER, \
LA WREN; E BROCK, *
EZEKIEL EVANS,
L. BARRIE.
Sworn to before me, Ibis sth day of May. 1821,
II. IH’SH.J.P.
MAttINK I.vrKK!,Kii;rvcE.
.... Savannah, Jan. 1.
An ti ed since our la d. — f? r ship Intrinsic, Da
vidson. Liverpool ; brig Audubon, Ili -Mi lg, Ha
vana; sebr Mechanic, Litchfield,t barlesu.n.
l li a.hi.r„stun, Jan. 3,
Arrived yesterday — hip Plato i'binnev, Heston;
brig Ha ra Seeki t Hopkins, Frank I n (Lon.)
Cleared —Ships Catharine Deny London ; Ram
oler. Lane. „Ma sei.k-s; baique Neptune, Long,
Hamburg; brigs Eliza & Susan, Dyn, Bordeaux •
.Mai v Ann, Cu tis, Savannah ; selir James Power
Urew, llaltimoii*.
Went to S'tt an Wednesday —Ships Spas P.ich
ai'B, Dickinson, Liverpool j Minerva, Wadavorth,
I .on ilon ; tine ship Anson, Sinclair. .New York ; I*
L brig Moon, stuigis,do.; sehr ostrich, Ellis, West
1 neii> s
he! nr.— Ship Shaw, 13 days from Portsmouth.
(IS. II.)
Zj 'TO TIIK I.or ms OF THE ARTS—
I lie Painting- at Mr. Kici.aiiV Drawing Academv,
(Masonic Hall.) will hrreaftrr be opened to visi
tors, every Sat aid ty afternoon and evening, from
2 o’dock unli ! 9 o‘e oek r. m. At night the rooms
will lie well
a,V KXt'UANO ft O.V NEIV YORK— At7i*ht!
and at one to tw nt>' s sight. For sale by 3
23 OARDELLE & UlllND.
CrJ' S. hi. Slid I FU, AliJ't ST, has opened his
Room s at the Mu -onie I bill. 3d story, where he will
be happy to receive orders for Miniatures.— Correct
likenesses will be warranted.
dec 28 Irvvlm*
if 7 W. G. htIMMO, General Commission Mer
chant, otliee on .‘oclnlosb street, next door to the \
t (instilu;ionalist. n o v 7 *
i Jim tar J. J II It.SON oners bis profes
sional serve es to the citizens of Augusta and its
yiiinity. He w ill be found -.-t his residence, Hie
first brick building above tiuedron’sstalde on Ellis
street, recently occupied by John L. Adams,
jiagl? ’ ’ ts
O’ Or. IV. FUST oners bis services to the ci
tizens of Augusta ia tire- different branches of bis
profession, lie may he found at all hours at the
; ate residence of Air. A. M. Eger!on, second door
! llo, n ihc corner of Aid a tosh and Reynold streets
mV’-iO ly-’
A REAL BLESSING TO MOTHERS.
UU IF. AT.) A M VFLUBHA TFT) SOOTHING
SYULiIL fur Children Catting their Teeth.- 'Una |
mral ible remedy lias preserved hundreds of cliii
-1-011, when thought past recovery, from convul
sions As soon as uiu Syrup is rubbed on llio
gums, the child will recover. J lie preparation is
I so innocent, s - eifii acinus and so pleasant, that no
j child wi.l refuse to let its gums be rubbed vvitb ii.
j -,v lien infants are at Hie age of four months, though
| there is mi appearance of u-t-lh, one bottle of Hie 1
-.v nip should be used on the giuns, to open the
j pores. Parents should ucvei be without the Syrup
i m Hit nursery where the re are young children; for
i if a child wakes ia the night with pain in ti.e gums,
I die Syrup immediately gives ease, by opening the
| pores ;ml hoalmg the gums; thereuy preventing
I convulsions, fevers, &c. So.d only at Dr. Win.
I Evans' Medical Offlcc, 190 Chatham street, New
i ork. vv.ii-ie the noctor maybe consulted on all
i diseases of children.
Pit OOF POSITIVE OF THF. FI FICACY OF
Ur. r. I A AN' SUOi )idA (i SYU C1 J . —To Ihe Agent
of Dr. Frans’ S oth.ng Syrup: (.-ear Sir —The
great Dcneiit adorded to my sudbring infant by
voiu Soothing Syrup, in a case of protr.ictcd and
•paint'll, dentition, must coin inec every feeling pa
rent how essential an oaiiy application of such an
invaluable medicine is to relieve infant misery and
torture. Aly intent, when teething, experienced I
I si.ch acute .-ud.criilgs. that it was attacked witq '.I
i convulsions, and my wife and family s. paused that '2
| death would ,-oon release tbe babe from anguish. -i
j till we pioeuied a bottle ofyuiir Srrnp; wliich as
sunn as applied to the gums, a wur-dcifui change
i was produced, and after a few applications tnc
i cnbd displayed obvious relief, and by coniimuug in
| its use 1 am glad to inform you the child inis com- H
I plelcir recovered, and no recurrence of that awfu! V
j compl.iii-t inis since occurred ; t.,e teeth are etna
! oaUi g daily and'the child enjoys pen'c, t health.
1 give you my idieerful permission to make this
1 arknow ledgiaent public, undwill gladly give any
I mfoiinat.nn on ibis cin umsti me.
WM. J JH.V-'OX,
TONIC TILLS. — Ibe power of Fen ns’ Camomile
Pitts are such, that the palpitating ncart.thc trem
utous baud. Hie dizzy eye, and the fiulicriog mind, \
vanish before t eir clfert; like noxious vapors be
fore tbe benign inlhiciicc of the morning sun.— i
Pliey liave long been successfully used for the cure
ol iiitcsiruttei;!•, together with tevi is of the irregu
lar nervous kind, accompanied with visceral ob
structions.
'Phis tonic medicine is for nervous complaints,
eneral debility, indigestion and its consequences,
or want of appetite,distension of the stomai :i, acid
ity. unpleasant taste in the mouth, rumbling noise
in the bowels, nervous symptoms, languor, when
tbe mind becomes irritable,desponding, thoughtful,
melancholy, and dejected. Ilypochondriacism, con
sumption, dimness of sight delirium, and all cither
nervous affections, these pills will produce a safe
and permanent c me.
Feans’ Camomile THU were first introduced into
Ame.ica in IS3 i. •
A'lM-VS’ FAMILY A PFUIFNT TILLS arc fIP
purely vegetable, composed with the strictest pre- R>
cision of science and of art -, they never produce K
nausea, and arc warranted to cure the following
diseases which arise from impurities of the blood,
viz:— Apoyhxy, T.ilious Affections, Coughs, Colds, ill
Ulcerated Sore Throats, Sec,riel Fever, Asthma, Cho
lera, Liver Complaints, Diseases of the Kidnies and
Bladder, Affect ions peculiar to Females, a d all ,
those diseases of \vl atsoever kind to which human % k
nature is sir jeet, where the stomacn ts affected. H
J Q
More conclusive proofs of the extraordinary rffi- . ,2
C"Vi/ of Ur. Win. Fvan-r re/ihralrd Cunumile anf*~
A [.orient Anti-Bit., us Tills, in alter,',if ing afflicted
mankind. —Mr. Robert Cameron, 101 Bowery.— J) ;
Disease —Chronic Dysentery, or Bloody i-tux-
Symptoms, unusual flatulency in Ihc bowels, se
vere griping,frequent inclination to go to stool, te
nesmus, loss of appetite, yiausea, vomiting, fro r
quency of pulse, and a frequent flise .argc of a pe!-
culiar fa-lid matter mixed witb I>ljo I groat debility,
sense of burning beat, with an inlole:able bcann;
town of Hie pails. Mr. Cameron i- enjoying per
cet health, and returns his sincere thanks for tht
extraordinary' benefits he has received. / j
Sold by ‘ANTONY & HAINES,
Sole agents in Augusta 1 '
J. M.Jc T, M. TtDlNKß,Savannah
P. M. COHEN & Co., Charleston.
SHARP & ELLS, Milledgeville, -t
C. A. KJ-LS, Macon, f ' *
A. W. MARTIN. Korsvth (/• '
♦Vx. E. XELI.a, Druggist, Allien?
MARK A. LANE. Washington.
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