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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
AUGUST A.
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TUESDAY MORNING JANUARY 7.
The eleclion for county officer*, yesterday, re
sulted as follow*, at the city box:
run laxairr.
Wm, V. Kerr, 480
Bonj. Brandy, 422
10* CLERK furiaio* AND INFERIOR COURTS'
James McLaws, 059
John C. Snead, 88b
ron tax collector.
William Kennedy, (116
William O. Eve. 267
von receiver or tax returns.
George M. Walker, 635
William Doyle, 233
roa coroner.
Isaac Hendricks, 171
Jeremiah Morris, 403
Joshua S. Walker, 269
FOB COUNT? surveyor.
Daniel Hack, 673
CosniiEsaioxAL Election is . Massacuu
betts.—The Boston Atlas of the 30ih, gives us
returns of the recent election in the sixth Con
gressional Dint net of Massachusetts, from all the
towns but one. The result is as follows:
Osmyn Baker, (Whig) 2641
Israel Billings. (Whig) 525
Rodolphu* Dickenson, (Tory) 2131
Mr. Baker falls short of an election fifteen votes
in these towns. The Alius thinks that the re
maining town (Uuckland) has probably given a
small majority against him, and that there is
consequently no choice.
Another dale at (he Mast.
Anot.ier violent gale was experienced along
the Massachusetts const and its vicity.on Friday
the 27th ult., which did considerable damage to
vessels in the several harbors.—The Boston Mer
cantile Journal of Monday, states that the tide
rose in that harbor to an unusual height,—the
wind blowing with great fury,—and overflowed
tho wharves, carrying off large quantities of lum
ber, and Ailing the adjacent cellars. Many ves
sels partial their fasts and drove against each oth
er, breaking off bowsprits, booms, Ac, Among
the disasters, we note the following :
The fine ship Columbiana, of 030 lons, lying
at Charlestown, broke from her meetings, and
urged by the wind, drove, clem on, against
the old Charlestown bridge, with such vio
lence. as to carry away two of the piers, and
daali through the bridge, as if no obstruction,hud
been placed in her way. The ship next brought
up against Warren bridge, which fortunately
‘Withstood the shock, though not without sustain
ing some injury. Tho stern swung round a
gainsf the wharf and demolished to atoms n small
house, from which fortunately the inmates hail
escaped.
Among the vessels injured, are the sclirs. Ve
locity, with coffee, (sunk,) Splendid, Atlantic,
(stove,) Palestine, Cusco, (stove and sunk,) brig
Adelaide, barque Ganges, hermaphrodite brig
with lumber for the West Indies, (sunk.)
O rmpprultticeuf the Baltimore American.
Washinhtoi*. Dec 30, 1839.
■over or ii ehrlhkntati v rs.
After the mailing of the journal of Friday’s
p/oeecdiogK, the Clerk read the names of the seve
ral •Standing Committees of the House. They
made a part of the journal of proceedings
Mr. Granger of N. Y„ after the reading of the
committees, announced to tho House, that his
, colleague, Mr. Kempshall, who had been absent
and unable to be in attendance during the session,
was now in bis seal. Mr. Granger attended Mr.
K smpshih to tho Speaker’s chair and he wts
sworn in.
sllvert,
Mr. Wise then rose in his place, and sa ; d that
before the House proceeded to business he was
anxious to offer an important resolution. To this
end he moved n suspension of the rules for the
,purpose of offering the following resolution:
JiesoJved. Thai, upon the presentation of any
memorial ov piper, relating to the abolition of
shivery in the District of Columbia or any of tho
Tetriiories, the same shall be considered as ob
jected to upon reception, and the motion to re
ceive shall he laid upon the table without debate
or further action thereon.
Mr. Fillmore of N. Y, objected to the suspen
sion of the rules, and Mr. Wise demanded tho
ayes and nays. The House objected, 100 to 77.
(So the House infused to suspend tho rules.
Mr Mice Gnrlnnd soon after presented some
resolutions referring to the subject of slavery in
the United Stales.
Mr. Adams said he should vole for the recep
tion of these resolutions if they could ho discuss
ed. He feared the Previous Question, and was
therefore opposed to suspension. The yeas and
nays were then demanded upon the motion to
suspend. The vote was yens 107, nays 82.
Two thirds were necessary, and the House refits
ad to act upon the resolution.
SMITHSONIAN Ht.gfKST.
Mr. Adams brought forward a hill in relation
(o the Smithsonian Bequest, which, upon his mo
tion, was referred to a Select Committee of nine
members hereafter to bo appointed,
rarxißSST’s mkssaoe.
Mr. Thompson of S. C. upon a motion to re
consider tho vole whereby the House ordered the
printing of extra copies of the President' < Mes
sage, made by him on Friday Inst, spoke at some
length— commenting on and disapproving of the
Maaaago. He thought it n very aide document,
hut * very disingenuous one, and warned the
South not to trust the author of if.
After Mr.T. hint concluded Ids speech, which
occupied about an hour,
Mr. Duncan, of Ohio, moved the Previous
Question.
Mr. Thompson said that in making his motion
to re-consider, he designed to have tho Presi
dent's Message debated. If this could not la*
done he would withdraw his motion. The mo
tion to re-consider was therefore withdrawn.
NEW JERSEY TAN RCIIEN CLAIMANTS TO SLATS.
Mr. Duncan, of Ohio, brought forward a reso
lution that the five Van Huron claimants of seats
from New Jersey, lie allowed to take their seats
until the Committee of Elections decide as to
their right to seals upon the floor. The resolu
tion was not in order, and was not of course
adopted.
Before the adjournment of the House, various
measures relating to public matters were referred
I) the several committees, and ordered to be
printed. Most of them were the annual atate
m-nts of the aeveral departments.
UNITED STATES SENATE.
Several memorials were presented upon venous
subjects, after the reading of the journal of yes
terday's proceedings.
Mr. Uucnaoan presented a memorial, declaring
it to be the conviction of ihs memorialists that
tht moral, political and pecuniary condition of
the country, would he secured by reducing the
rales of postage on letters, so that the highest
rats of postage shall not exceed tea cants.
Mr. Roane presented another memorial, pray
ing for pay tor spoliations by the French prior t<
1800.
HILLS HEPOBTED.
A bill wa* reported by Mr. Young, for the ben
efit of the Florida, Alabama and Georgia Eai
Road Company. Several bills of this characto
were reported, and referred to the Committee ot
Roads snd Canals.
Mr. Davis, from the Committee on Commerce
reported a hill designed to refund certain dutie
paid by vessels engaged in the whale fishery. Mi
Davis said the hill was one of considerable im
portancc, and he should ask alien lion to it at tht
earliest moment.
RESOLUTIONS.
Mr. Tappan, of Ohio, called up a resolulini
offered by hin on Friday, proposing an amend
ment of the Constitution of the United States, ti
the end that judges of the IJ. S. Courts shall no
serve for a longer term than ton years, and will
the view also of displacing the judges who havi
served twenty years, after one year’s notice.
On motion of Mr. Hu! hard, a resolution wut
adopted, called upon the President of the United
Stales to communicate to the Senate the amount
of money drawn from tho Treasury for privati
claims.
Mr. Benton called up the resolutions offered by
him at the commencement of the session, and
spoke at some length in defence of them —the
first resolution related to the Portland and Lou
isville Canal, and the tolls exacted by the com
pany. which, it was alleged, were inordinate.
This resolution was adopted after the discus
sion bail been briefly continued by Mr. Crittenden
of Ry. and Mr. Smith of Indiana.
The Senate then adjourned.
D'icember3l.
In the Senate, numerous resolutions were in
troduced on various subjects. Home of our read
ers may not bo aware that Mr. Tappan, a Loco
Food Federalist from Ohio, has introduced into
the Si nate a bill to limit the terms of the Judges
of the Supreme Court of the United Slates to 7
years.
In tho House, it being petition day, the lime
was occupied in attempting to devise a plan to
dispose more effectually and satisfactorily of abo
lition petitions, hut nothing definite was accom
plished, and the House adjourned over New
Year’s Day.— Madisonian of Wednesday,
We understand,saystheJGrecnvillcMountain
eer, of Friday Inst, that a kitchen, belonging to
Mr. Hugh Stokes, about two miles below this
place, was destroyed by fire on Thursday night
the 26th nit., between 10 and 11 o’clock, and
shocking to relate, three Negroes perished in the
flames—a man and two of his children. Tho
fire was not discovered until the bulding was al
most entirely enveloped, so that nil efforts to res
cue the unfortunate sufferers proved unavailing.
It is supposed the Negroes had gone to lied, after
which the fire rolled off the hearth upon tho floor,
from whence it quickly communicated to other
parts ofthe building.
Fifty thousand barrels of flour have been ship
ped from Rochester and Oswego this season to
tho Canadas. Considerable has also been ship
ped from Detroit, and Ohio has also sold very
large quantities of pork for the same market.
The Governor of Virginia has appointed Wed
nesday, the I.sth, for an election to be held, to
supply the vacancy in Congress, occasioned by
the resignation of Mr. Mercer.
The whole amount of Treasury Notes out
standing on the Ist instant, was $ 3,758, 335.
Correspondence of the North American.
New Ysiik, Dec. 31, 3 P. M.
Stocks are higher to-day, and Hie feeling more
secure, owing in part to the decline in foreign ex
changes, which has taken a decided character.
Sterling lulls have sold to-day at 8 prom, am!
francs at 6f 35 per dollar, though tho highest quo"
tulion would boa shade above these prices.
The corn market continues very dull—Gen
(lessee flour cannot be quoted over £5.75. for com
mon brands, and £5.50 a £5,75 is all that could
be counted on for all sorts of flour.
The directors ofthe Schuylkill Bank of Phila
delphia have offered a reward of three thousand
dollars for the apprehension of HoseaJ. Levis,
late cashier of that institution.
Senerlkill Bank.—The Philadelphia North
American says that a presentment was read on
Monday in the Criminal Court, by the Attorney
General, charging H. J. Levis, Peter Wager.
William Badger, John Miles, Daniel Saint anil
Robert Donnell, with a conspiracy to defraud
the Lite eleclion for directors of that institution.
i
from the Madisonian of Wednesday.
The Committees. —In the organization of
the Committees, the Speaker has given general
satisfaction to nil parties. It was expend that
the Committee of Ways and Means, and of For
eign Affairs, would be given to the Administra
tion. This was right under tb circumstances.
The Adminislration ire responsible for the great
measures of Government, and our negotiations
i with foreign countries Opposition majorities
on those Committee might have produced only
embarrassment, as their business is more inti
mately related to tho Executive, than that of must
others.
The Committees on public expenditures of all
! sorts, are decidedly favorable to the people.
| They arc all of the Opposition, and will hold the
■ Government to strict accounts ami economical
i habits.
Os the thirty-throe Committees appointed by
tho Speaker, twenty -two have Whig chairmen.
Last year, under the loco Coco administration of
Mr. Polk, it was just the reverse.
Mr. Crawford, on behalf of himself and others,
presented the following protest, which being
1 signed by the protestants was ordered to be enter
i ed on the journals, ond which is as follows, to
j wit :
We, the undersigned, being n portion ot the
minority that opposed the passage ot the bill to
extend the charter of the Central Bank, &c.,
claim in the exorcise ot our acknowledged right,
to protest against said bill, and hereby to declare
the grounds of such protest.
\Vo bold that the principle whi h asserts that
; the people should roly on the Government for
' pecuniary relief, is radically wrong. It is an in
; version of all pn-qier Government. Above all
i others, a republic created by the people should
rest upon the people. As un obvious inference
I from this proposition, we maintain that only the
necessary supplies for the Government ought to
be derived from the governed. Applying these
admitted truths to the recently adopted nuisance,
j it is apparent they have been subverted and out
-1 raged. Its practical operation, and especial yil
[ carried to the extent avowed and desired by its
: advocates will in a short period, exhibit its un
j veiled folly and ruthless oppression. For it
j starts with the outrageous proposition that pi-blic
i
I credit into relieve popular -wants, and will end
to with the certain necessity of universal and heavy
taxation, in order to redeem that publikertdii.
We further hold that so long as w»- have a
a- mixed currency, there must be some
hi standard of value. Among all comt*jci|ff and
er civilized nations, this standard is by tie
in precious metals. Without an adeqMl supply
of these, no sound currency can exist. Mie
c, credit, whelltcr public or private—of a State, or
es an individual, cannot be regarded as a permanent
r. and aubstantial basis of a sound currency; for the
a- obvious reason, it woul lbe wanting in the first
ic and indispenatblc teat; that of easy and immediate
convertibility. In a word, mere credit cannot
supply capital.—ln opposition to these plain
m truths, confirmed by all experience, the bill just
}. passed assumes to make the credit of lb© Slate
to the capital of the Central Bank, and thus under
jt its authority, and in the discretion of the direc
h tors, credit may produce and reproduce credit, to
, v such unlimited extent as must necessarily cause
the bills of the bank soon to circulate, at depro
-16 dated money, and eventually be used un ( y in
j payment of public dues. To this prominent pe
lt culiarily of the bill, was added another still more
c hideous. It is that which declares to be » part ol
the active capital of the Central Bank,ammount
y nearly of two hundred thousand dollars tue the
j State on ancient bonds, and other evidciees of
,c debt, that has been for many years suspended in
i. their collection; and from which, in all pnbabili
ty, not one cent will ever be realized. Thounder
signed were desirous ol restraining the Diectors
of the Bank from extending its issues on this
rl portion of the worthless credit of the Stale, but
were overruled by the general reply that tie dis
cretion of the directors would insure the credit of
the Bank against abuse. We hold that tuc direc
tion and management of the fiscal affairs of the
State, should be plainly ascertained,and cauiious
_ |y guarded. Power, of whatsoever kind it may
0 be, according to the theory and practice of our
r( government, should be resffpncd by abundant
H and appropriate checks. Amfabove all the pow
-7 cr of money, which is usually surrounded by so
many temptations, and often prostituted to mis
n chievous and wicked purposes, should becontroll
j ed by certain and positive law. Discretion can
never lie safely substituted for law. In a consti
tutional view, and in reference to pecuniary nial
v ters, discretion is never allowed when the law
can meet the exigency. When, therefore, the
House gave the Directors of the Central Bank
discretionary power to make issues upon that de
‘ dared to be capital; but, which, in part, was so
> worthless, as unworthy to be called credits, it ei
, ther surrended its legitimate and constitutional
authority over the subject, or tacitly acquiesced
1 in the propriety of the Directors, if they so willed,
I in hanking emphatically on nothing.
i As a State should he careful of its credit, and
not by undue expansion expose herself to the ha
zard and reproach of suspension, we were anx
ious to place such restrictions over the Directors
of the Central Hank, by which a result so disas
trous and disgraceful might be avoided. These,
however, were rejected, and now the State, at all
hazards, is required to supply every want, wheth
er real or feigned. Wo further hold that the
same measure of justice which the State has es
tablished between her citizens, ought, in no wise,
to be modified between herself and her citizens.—
Indeed, exercising the attributes of sovereignty,
and incapable of being drawn without her con
sent, into any form in which her liability maybe
fixed and enforced, she ought to be liberal and
exemplary in her justice. Thus impressed, wo
did urge in behalf of the creditors of the State,
that she should be just before she was generous;
but this maxim universally accepted and applied
in herjudieial tribunals to transactions between
her citizens, was repudiated iu her Legislative
Assembly.
The past policy of the State iu investing her
surplus funds in her local monied institutions,
although departed from since the incorporation
of the Central Bank, has never been so far chan
ged as to withdraw such investments, so long as
they wore lucrative. The average profits of the
stock owned by the State in the local banks, du
ring the last ten years, have been nearly eight per
cent per annum; and those of the Central Bank,
for the same period, have been less than five per
centum per annum. With such a clear arithme
tical conclusion before us, in which no other con
sideration was involved, than that of profit and
.loss, we were desirous of keeping the funds of
the State where experience has shown they had
been most profitably cmplooed; whilst the majori
ty, eager in the pursuit oflhe new scheme, re
quired that they should he removed where expe
rience has shown .they had been least profitably
employed.
For these reasons wo enter our solemn protest
against the bill in question.
George W. Crawford, Richard Richardson,
Robert A. Toombs, E. C. Lawrence,
Charles J. Jenkins, Edward Bullard,
John E. Ward, Augustus Reese,
R. W. Flournoy, S. Spencer,
F. M. Stone. Jeremiah Wilcher,
A. H Chappell, H. W. Hagerman,
James L. Seward, T. W. M. Berrien,
P. Reynolds, Thomas Moore Berricm,
B. W. Hubbard, John Millen,
Willis Willingham, Richard D. Arnold,
Lochlnn McKinnon, Moody Hurt,
Lewis Weitman, Lewis H. Lynch,
John M. Milder, William Chester,
William Stroud, A. T. Woolley,
Leonard Pratt, Richard McGoUlrick,
John 11. McMath, Hartsfield Hendon,
Irby Hudson, Joseph Whigham,
Joseph A. 8. Turner, Burwell Greene,
W. H. Blount, W S Whitfield,of Palas.
Jeremiah S. Warren, Anderson Craft,
Duncan McArthur, Jonathan Taylor,
Robert H. Moore, Wm. E. Evans,
Thomas M. O’Neal, William Daniel,
James N. Wingfield, dins. McDowell,
Robert Boyd, A. H. Stephens,
Willis Darden, John B. Martin.
t rom the Georgia Journal
“6th Dec., 18 39.
Messrs. Editors: —I baud you some sketch
es, prepared by a friend, of several members of
the House of Representatives. I venture upon
their publication, as some of them will be recog
nised as faithful portraitures. Os one tiring I
am confident: not u word is set down in ma
lice.
ours,
Doctor Arnold, a Representative from
Chatham county, is a man of education and lit
erary taste, and though not bred in that fruitful
school of talkers, the bar, is quite at home when
addressing Mr. Speaker, or giving a lunge at Mr.
Hunter or Crawford, or to General Glascock of
Richmond. Occusiundy the Doctor lets slip a
> word, or an epithet, so pungent that one might
, question whether it had pot been previously sat
i u.iruted iu the shar|>csl acid of his shop.
Absalom 11. Guabbell, Esq. of Bibb.—
This gentleman is known to the public as being
a lawyer of much eminence. If there is any art
to find the mind’s construction in the face, as
I Lavaier would teach us—be has iu that broad
I expanse of forehead, a certificate of a large vol
‘ ume rs brain. (What a useless substance in a
Georgia Legislature!!!) Conscious ol his own
< ability and information, lie is perhaps rather too
incautious iu not veiling his opinion of himself
, from the censure of those who see, or think they
■ ace, too mnch of the Sir Oracle in his manner.
His power is enfeebled by such un impression
existing in reference to him. He is not an elo
quent man, in the common acceptation of that
term: he makes no appeals to the passions, and
disclaim! any other mode of addressing the House
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than by a close and connected argument —he
seeks to reach the understanding.
Mr. Chappell is said to have made an able
speech on Gen. Glascock's Janus-faced bill con
cerning the Banks —and to have convinced the
most ultra-locofoco in the House, that
As easy could he ibe intrcnchant air,
vVilh a keen sword imprets, as make them (the
Eankn- bleed.
Mr. Chappell is a man of great merit, exceed
ingly amiable, philosophic in his cast ot mind,
independent in thought and action. If there is a
small spice of egotism about him we can readily
pardon it, as it is generally alloyed with the rich
est metal.
Mu. D. C. Campbell, of Bibb, is a gentle
man who was on the last Congressional ticket of
the Union Party. Mr. C. is a native of New
Jersey. It is said of this gentleman that he re
ceived a very high vote for Congress under the
mistaken idea that he was the late Duncan G.
G. Cambpell, whose public services have been
very conspicuous. However this may be, Mr.
0. has a very fine face and uncommon black
eye—his whole countenance is indicative of tal
ent—he is a gentleman in manner—courteous
and intelligent in conversation- We regret that
he gave no exhibition of Ids power as a speaker
during the session just ended. We rather sus
pect lie knows that speaking is not his forte, and
therefore keeps silent.
George W. Crawfodii, Esq. from Rich
mond,— Few men have been as successful as this
gentleman, in establishing such a reputation, in
so short a time, as an orator. Whenever wo
hear him in debate, the enquiry involuntary
forces itself upon us, why has he been passed
over to make room for men of talent by the cat
nlouge 1 With a person not striking, it is only
when he is seen as it were in the very torrent
tempest and whirlwind of debate, rising higher
and higher as he warms with his subject, that we
fancy that there in something rnmarknbje ahum
his face. Distinguished by a very peculiar
voice, by a manner differing from, yet much re
sembling that of Mr. Forsyth, we are pleased al
ways with him—he never tears a passion to tat
ters —he always suits the action to the word—
the word to the action. Mr. Crawford is pre
eminently distinguished for his classic taste—
chaste in his imagery, he has always a rich store
house of troops, and the com muni lores of the
orator, for embellishment or illustration, or for
such use as the occasion may demand. We
fear that Mr. Crawford has but little ambition.—
He does not court as others do, men, that they
may become subservient to his aspirations. He
bus great pride of character—ho could never be
come a demagogue or sycophant. He is a native
Georgian.
Ma. Robert W. Floirvo v, of Washing
ton county.—This Representative is evidently a
man of talent, yet ho has imbibed some utopian
notions of government, which he would do well
to get clear of us impracticable. As the ardor of
youth in one of his temperament is corrected by
the best of instructors, experience, we are per
suaded that he will be a useful member. A man
of fortune, he cou'cl devote his entire time to poli
tics without prejudice to his interests. Wc hope
he, will give to political economy, and especially
to the subject of banking, a little more observa
tion and less of speculation.
General Thomas Glascock, of Richmond.—
This gentleman is n very prominent member of
the Legislature. A year since he was a member
of Congress, and has been again nominated by
his parly for tbo same station. Wc soy his party,
for he is the great General who commands in
every election, and is ever in the rear on all ques
tions until he has had certain indications of how
the battle waxes, and then ho sweeps ahead of
all others in the fury of his onset. This party
fugleman possesses certainly a strong natural
mind; it has, however, been greatly enfeebled by
neglect or other causes—it is a garden full of
weeds, and little else. We should think the
General very averse to study, as we have never
yet heard him utter a profound thought. He
seems content in reference to the discussions of
any of the great questions before the Legislature,
to gather his matter therefor, from the trashy
editorials of a weak, corrupt or lazy editor, and
to trick it up in bits of red and blue, a few set
phrases, always at hand and always used by him,
than to ponder over the reflections and reasonings
olnien whose aim being truth, would best aid him
in fulfilling his high duties as a Legislator.—
The. consequence is, that this gentleman is a
frothy declaiuicr, and to borrow an illustration
from Porsen, “He reminds us of that inimitable
auctioneer, Mr. Prig, who is as eloquent in des
canting on a ribbon, as on the bea ities of a Ra
phael.” The General is a mere hasher up of the
good things said during the debate, which after a
tew protestations of “believing in the sincerity of
his heart,” he serves up with as much assurance
as if every word he uttered was a pearl of ines
timable price. It is said that this man’s nod con
trols a party. How has be regained the confi
dence of the Union parly! His opposition to
Governor* Schley is well remembered, and his
leaning at one time on the State Rights party
when a candidate for Congress, is 100 recent to
have been forgotten.
This gentleman is getting old, and we hear
with regret that his circumstances are embarrass
ed. What folly to be dashed to pieces in the me
lee of politics, when age and duly bid him retire
from a field where he has erected no trophy, and
on which he has felt the battle axe of a stronger
arm than his own.
Charles J. Jenkins, Esq., of Richmond, is
a bright star in that galaxy ot talent which a
dorns the House of Representatives. As a de
batant, we think him the readiest and most im
pressive in the House. With less imagination
than Crawford, he has enough to make him ex
ceedingly felicitous in that high declamatory
strain in which lie often indulges. We are often
reminded when we hear Jenkins, ol the sketch
which Mr. Charles Butler has given in his re
miniscences of the younger Pitt. Mr. J. has a
clear, loud and sonorous voice, a fine expressive
face, full of talent, full of benevolence. His ges
ticulation, though generally appropriate, may be
much improved. He is remarkably distinguished
for never saying a weak or trivial thing, and he
furnishes, by his almost alwoys concluding a de
bate. the strongest proof of superior ability. He
certainly must be confident of his own intellec
tual resources, from the hazard to which he is
constantly exposing his icpulation, by hanging
back until the ablest men have discussed the sub
ject and apparently have exhausted it. Not
withstanding this, Mr. J. never fails to engage
the atten'ion of the whole House. He never
makes a failure. Ho speaks often, and always
sustains himself. He is ever instructive and in
teresting—often times highly eloquent. Posses
sing a calm,rlear judgment,and a sagacity which
is seldom at fault, he is emphatically a statesman,
destined to be among the first, if not the very
first, of the rising young men of Georgia.
Col. Augustus H. Kenan, from Baldwin.—
This gentleman is extensively and favorably
known as tbo Aid-de-Camp of Gen. Winfield
Scott in the recent Creek Indian Campaign, and
in that for the removal oflhe Cherokees. The
high toned independence of character which is
stamped in his commanding person, was so much
appreciated by bis constituents, that notwithstand
ing the Union party, of which he is a member,
is in a minority (so we have heard) in that coun
ty, he was elected by a large majority over any
other candidate. Perhaps no member of the Le
gislature has exhibited so little regard to party
movements and wishes as Col. K. He is so con
stituted that he cannot be trammelled by party
restraints. Scorning all things which do not be
come a man to do—we have heard him in debate,
in burning, withering language, expressing his
deep detestation of any measure which he deem
' ed prejudicial to the interests of the State, and in
compatible with his own loity notions of honor.
He merit* the commendation of the country for
■ the ability, the fearlessness, and contempt, with
! which he encounters very frequently “the curses
not loud but deep,” of an unprincipled set of in
triguers, whom he has foiled so oiten, and whose
• hatred he has secured, because he is ever active
and vigilent in exposing them. Wherever he
. may be placed, he must, by the very force of his
, character, acquire much influence. His talents
, are of a high order. He speaks well, cnergeti
r rally—often ingeniously, sometimes eloquently.
. 1 Has a public speaker some few have more than
himself of the suaviter in moilo, united with a
, proper share of the fortiter in re, it is his fault,
f He should subject himself to severe discipline in
i repressing every ebullition of passion, and in the
. avoidance of every word, or the use of any man
? tier, which is not perfectly respectful to an adver
. sary. Let him reserve his electricity for great
i occasions and great offenders. Nature has been
. bountiful in every way to this gentleman. Let
t him invoke the assistance of art, in pruning some
. of those redundancies which detract from his
, usefulness. Wc apprehend ho has ambition, but
t as far as we can discern, it lias no fixed purpose,
i John Millen, Esq., of Chatham, is a gentle
. man of quije unassuming manners, a business
1 man, with un easy fluency of speech, which ena
bles him to express the ideas with clearness,
. which he thinks proper to urge upon the attention
4 of the House. He is a fearless, independent
i man, one whose self respect is of that Iggh stan
j dard, that he cannot bo swerved from the line of
conduct which his own judgment approves. He
| seems to possess no ambition. We should be
pleased to have seen more of him, that our sketch
might have been more extended.
Alexander Stephens, of Taliaferro, has a
■ remarkable person, to which he is indebted not a
little for the reputation he has acquired—very
spare—with a pale, wo might, say, a cadaverous
looking face, indicating clearly the deep-seated
disease which is preying on his life—with black
eyes of a piercing unnatural brilliancy—we are
prep-red to sympathize with him before lie lias
uttered a line. Added to this, he has a voice by
some deemed boyish—remarkably shrill and
piercing, distinctly audible in the largest room.
Some persons have fancied that he resembled
very much in person and mind the late John
Randolph of Roanoke. We differ essentially
i with those persons, who have been led to pro
nounce two persons alike, who scarce have in
common a point of resemblance.
. Mr. Randolph was a most extraordinary man,
in every sense of the term. Discursive in his
. oratory—surpassingly keen in ridicule—biting
in sarcasm—unequalled in retort—superlatively
beautiful in his classic allusions—with a face so
refined and cultivated, that he was the wonder
i and admiration of the distinguished in Europe
and America. Wc feel that it is doing an injus
f lice to that man’s memory, to compare him with
any one—or rather to compare another with
him. Mr. Stephens should consider it no cum
i plimcnt to be considered as resembling Mr. Ran
. tlolph. His own consciousness doubtlessly makes
, him loathe such adulation.
Mr. Stephens thinks with clearness, and ex
. presses himself forcibly. Frequently argumen
tative, often declamatory, his style is always pers
picuous, and he never fails to command atten*ion.
With, in general, a sound judgment, with many
qualities which fit him eminently for a delibera
tive assembly; we have sometimes seen him with
■ pain struggling in a morass—involving himself
by striving to be consistent in error —in greater
absurdity. He is a great stickler for the consti
’ tution—it is a sort of monomania with him—so
1 much so, that he invariably contrives by some
means or other, to hitch it in, in every discus-
I sion. He is said to be a very ambitious young
' man, and is certainly a rising one. We wish
1 him an entire restoration to health—a correction
> of a few of his “popular notions”—and a seat in
' Congress.
1 Hubert A. Toombs, Esq., of Wilkes. This
f member possesses high genius, a thorough ac
< quaintance with mankind, and is distinguished
by bis physical and moral courage. Often elo-
I quent, always sensi le and convincing, lie is a
formidable adversary in debate. He is a bold,
■ fluent, sarcastic speaker, ever ready,
n-1 nale and clear in illustration—frank and careless
1 in lii a manner—he appears to be wholly imlifler
ent to rhetorical embellishment. With infinite
1 tact and sagacity, with a commanding talent for
the management of men, it is with himself to se
-1 lect his own rank among the rising men of the
State. We have heard with regret that he has
declined emphatically a place on the Congression
-1 al ticket of the Stale Rights party. Having a
1 handsome fortune, we know no gentleman who
f could so well sacrifice something to the public;
and no one whom we would contribute more cor
dially to elevate.
■ John E. Ward, Esq., of Chatham, is a gen
‘ tlcman of easy address—urbane in his mode of
> debating, and withal a speaker to whom wc listen
; always with pleasure. High minded, his bearing
' has secured to him the esteem of friends, and the
1 respect of opponents. Chiefly intent upon his
advancement at the bar. wc think we perceive
r that the precision of expression to which ho has
" habituated himself, cramps his efforts when on a
' different arena. Wc think highly of his mind,
s ami are persuaded that he is destined to make
great improvement in public speaking, whenever
r he shall have, liberated his intellect from the
manacles of taste and criticism, with which it
s has been too mcch fettered.
\ Consignees per South Carolina Kail Read
j Hamburg, January 6, 1840.
. Ratbhone & Baber; W Hattier; W E Jackson; Mrs
f Buford; Stovall, Simmons Sc Co; T Richards;
Moore & Davis; Bussell, Hutchinson & Co; I N
PonGain; (» T Dorlic; A Wood S; Co; S Clark; I! W
1 Force & Co; Haviland, Risley Sc Co; J Brayton; A
Frederick; Reese Sc Beall; W T Thompson; J P
1 Ring; S H Peck; I Moise; C A Greiner; J! Allen;
s Hand Sc Scranton; T. Dawson; Kernaghan <k Wray;
- Andersen & Young; Dickson Sc S; H W Sullivan;
» G Parrott; D Plunkett; Maher tk. Rooney.
1 : -■ '•
- MARRIED,
On the 31st December, by the Rev. Mr Ford,
3 Mr. Robert Carter, of this city, to Miss Uveltj*
- P. Nelson, daughter of Major Thomas M. Nelson,
3 of Virginia.
r ~ - 1 —■ ■ ... - -—^
DIED,
On the 21st ult.,of pleurisy, Mr. John S. Coombs,
! in the fiftieth year of his age, who fad been from
r boyhood a resident of this city.
3
; MARINE INTELLIGENCE,
Savannah, Jan. 4.
’ Cleared —Brig Havre, Carpenter, Liverpool; brig
Charles Joseph, Mauran, Havre.
Arrived since our last —Brig New Hanover, Cav
. ty, Philadelphia.
j * Charleston, Jan. 6.
. Arrived on Saturday —Barque Uspray, Bartlett,
1 New York; Bremen brig Expiess, Danncman. Bio
B Janeiro; Brbrig Lottery, Spencer, St. Jago; brig
B Aldrich, Baker, Philadelphia; line brig Huntress,
i Davidson, do; sebr Sophia. Baton, N. York; schr
. Andrew Adams, Sproull, Damarascotta, Me.
Arrived yesterday —Schr Oberon, Hauthorne,
. 1 Newcastle, Me.
; Cleared —Br brig Transit, Newbold,West Indies;
b.ig Alpha, Bonney, Havana.
f {Cr Dr. F M. ROBERTSOX ha? removed his
- Office to No. 302, on the south side of Broad st.,
; immediately opposite the Auction store of Messis.
. Russell, Hutchinson & Co. ts dec 2
' I ~‘-C. M. CURT'IS, House,Sign and Ornamen
? tal Painter, Ml Broad street. —Sign and omamcn
- : tal work done at short notice. dac 3
V 1 \
'Jj A CARD. —Mr. Richards, Tmehcrof D.aw
iug and fainting, will resume his professional du- j
ties in Augusta at an early day. nov 7
CjTO THE LOVERS OF THE ARTS.—
The Paintings at Mr. Richards’ Drawing Academy, ■
(Masonic Hall,) will hereafter be opened to visi- I
tors, every Salurdiy afternoon and evening, from I
2 o’clock until 9 o’clock p. m. At night the rooms I
wiil he well lighted. dec 15» '
| ffj'Dr. B. HARRIS oifers his services in the
practice of his profession to the citizens of Augus- ;
ta and its vicinity. Messages will receive prompt i
attention if left at his drug stoie in Broad street, or
at his residence in Kills street, below Washing- I
ton - nov 7 I
iO-A. IVERSEN is now prepared to resume his f
professional duties as a Teacher of Music. Or- ' 4
ders left at T. H. Plant’s book store, or at Mrs. J
Campficld’s boarding house, will be proumtlv atJ J
tended to nov 26 I
CT PUBLIC NOTICE.—Da. Itaot.teeTn W
Dentist, has returned to Augusta. dec 9 W
rry EXCHANGE ON NEW YORK-Msight
and at one to tw ply days sight. For sale by ,
noy 23 GARDELLE & RHIND.
Cj’ S.M SHAVER, ARTIST, ha* opened his
Rooms at the Masonic Hall. 2d story, where he will
be happy to receive orders for Miniatures.—Correct
likenesses will be warranted,
dec 28 trwlm*
ft?" IV. G. NIMMO, General Commission Mer- |
chant, olhce on Mclntosh street, next door to the
Constitutionalist. no v 7
C O' Doctor J. J. WILSON offers his profes
sional services to the citizens of Augusta and its Jt
vicinity. He will be found at his residence, the
first brick building above Ouedron’sstable on Ellis
street, recently occupied by John L. Adams. V i
ail gl7 __ ts \
Crj- Dr. tV. FLINT offers his services to the ci- '
tizens of Augusta in the different blanches of his
profession. He may he found at all hours at the
late residence of Mr. A. M. Egcrton, second door
from the corner of Mclntosh and Reynold streets
ncv29 \y‘
([y NOTICE. —T he Rail Road Passenger Train K
between Charleston and Hamburg, will leave ay I
follows:
upwAitn.
Not to leave Charleston before 7 00 a m.
“ “ Summervitle, “ - -8 30
“ “ Georges’, - “ - 10 00
“ “ Branchville, “ - UOO
“ “ Midway, - “ . n3O m
“ Blackvillc, - “ . iOO ,m.
“ , “ Aiken, - - “ . 300
Arrive at Hamburg not before - 400
DOWNWARD.
Not to leave Hamburg before ft 00 a. m.
“ Aiken, - “ - - 730
“ “ Hlackville, “ - . 930
“ “ Midway, “ . . io 30
“ “ Hranchvill “ - - HOO
“ “ Georges’, “ - - 12 00 m.
‘ “ Summerville,“ . . 2 OOp. M.
Arrive at Charleston not before 300
Distance—l3b'miles. FareThrough—slo 00,
Speed not over 20 miles an hour. To remain 20
minutes each, for breakfast and dinner, and not 1 fj
longer than 6 minutes for we 1 and water at any
station.
To stop for passengers, when a white flag is
hoisted, at either of the above stations j and also at ,
Sineaths, Woodstock, Inabinet’s, 41 mile T. 0., J
Rives’, Grahams, Willeston, Windsor, Johnsons,
and Marsh’s T. O.
Passengers up will breakfast at Woodstock and
dine at Riackviile; aown, will brcanlast at Aiken
and dine at Summervihe. may 21
A REAL RLESSING TO MOTHERS. "
Wl W. EVANS' CELEBRATED SOOTHING
SYRUP, for Children Cutting their Teeth.— This
infallible remedy has preserved hundreds of chil
dren, when thought past recovery, from convul
sions. As soon as the Syrup is rubbed on the
gums, the child will recover. The preparation is
so innocent, so efficacious and so pleasant, that no
child will refuse to let its gums he rubbed with it.
When infants are at the age of four months, though
there is no appearance of teeth, one bottle of the
Syrup should be used on the gums, to open the
pores. Parents should never be without the Syrup
in the nursery where there are young children; for
if a child wakes in the night with pain in the gums, (
the Syrup immediately gives ease, by opening the
pores and healing the gums; thereby preventing
convulsions, fevers, &c. Sold only at Dr. VVm.
Evans' Medical Office, 100 Chatham street, New
York, where the Doctor may be consulted on all
diseases of children.
PROOF POSITIVE OF THE EFFICACY OF
Dr. EVANS’ SOOTHING SYRUP.—To the Agent
of Dr. Evans’ Soothing Syrup: Dear Sir —The
great benefit afforded to my suffering infant by
your Soothing Syrup, in a case of protracted and
painful dentition, must convince every feeling pa
tent how essential an early application of such an
j invaluable medicine is to relieve infantThisery and
torture. My infant, when teething, experienced
such acute sufferings, that it was attacked witq
convulsions, and my wife and family supposed that
death would soon release the babe from anguish,
till we procured a boltle of your Syrnp; which as
soon as applied to the gums, a wonderful change g
was produced, and after a few applications the f(
child displayed obvious relief, and by continuiug in
its use, I am glad to inform you the child has com
pletely recovered, and no recurrence of that awful
complaint has since occurred ; the teeth are ema
\ nating daily and the child enjoys perfect health.
I give you my cheerful permission to make this
acknowledgment public, andwill gladly give any
information on this circumst! nee.
WM. JOHNSON.
TONIC PILLS. —The power of Evans ’ Camomile
Pills are such, that the palpitating heart, the trem
, ulons hand, the dizzy eye, and the fluttering mind,
vanish bcfoie their effects like noxious vapors be
fore the benign influence of the morning sun.—
They have long been successfully used for the cure
of in tesmittents, together with fevers of the irregu
lar nervous kind, accompanied with visceral ob
structions.
This tonic medicine is for nervous complaints,
eneral debility, indigestion and its consequences,
or want of appetite,distension of thestomach, acid
ity. unpleasant taste in the mouth, rumbling noise
in the bowels, nervous symptoms, languor, when
the mind becomes irritable,desponding,thoughtful,
melancholy, and dejected. Hypochondriaeism, con
sumption, dimness of sight, delirium, and all other
nervous affections, these pills will produce a safe
and permanent cure.
Evans’ Camomile Pills were first introduced into
America in 1535.
EVANS’ FAMILY APERIENT PILLS are
purely vegetable, composed with the strictest pre
cision of science and of art; they never produce
nausea, and arc warranted to cure the following
diseases which arise from impurities of the blood,
viz;— Apoplexy, liilious Ass ections, Coughs, Colds,
Ulcerated Sore Throats, Scarlet Fever, Asthma, Cho
lera, Liver Complaints , Diseases of the Kidnies and
Bladder, Affections peculiar to Females, and all
those diseases of whatsoever kind to which human
nature is subject, where the stomach is affected.
More conclusive proofs of the extraordinary effl
caey of Dr. IVm. Evans’ celebrated Camomile and r l
Aperient Anti-liilwus Pills,in alleviating afflicted ’
| mankind. —Mr. Robert Cameron, 101 Bowery.—
■ Disease—Chronic Dysentery, or Bloody Flux-
Symptoms, unusual flatulency in the bowels, se- '
vere griping,frequent inclination to go to stool, tu
nusmus, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, fre
quency of pulse, and a frequent discharge of a pe
culiar foetid matter mixed with blood great debility,
sense of burning heat, with an intolerable bearing
down of the parts. Mr. Cameron is enjoying per*
ect health, and returns his sincere thanks for tin
extraordinary benelits he has received.
Sold by ANTON Y & HAINES,
Sole agents in Augusta,
J. M.St T. M. TURNER,Savannah
P. M. COHEN & Co., Charleston,
SHARP Ac ELLS, Milledgeville,
C. A. ELLS, Macon,
A.W. MARTIN, Forsvth
’■Vm. E. iVELLs, Druggist, Athens
MARK A. LANE, Washington.
juiy 23
JOHN S. COOMBS, Factor and Commission Mer
chant, Savannah, Georgia.
Reference —G. H. Lamar, Savannah; A. Sibley,
Augusta; Rev. Geo. F. Pierce. Macon,
dec 17 tIF