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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA.
THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 9.
Theatre.
Mr. and Mn. Barnes, and Miaa Charlotte
Barnes commenced an engagemenlon Tuesday
avsning, and hare been playing to good houses.
This evening “Old Barnes” appears in the char,
acter of “Triptolemus Polyglot” in the new farce
of the “Scapegoat.” Now if this farce and their
character are anything like the thingt we expect
it will be worth a haystack of shinplastera to see
them.
An association has Iwen formed in New York,
for the purpose of distributing letters and small
packages through the city, after the manner of
Ike penny post. Seventy-five places in the city
have boon announced where letters, Ac., may he
deposited. Each package is stamped with the
hour, and taxed three cents, payable on delivery.
Urea* Ci sad*. —The union resolutions have
been adopted in the Legislative Council; and the
Knion resolutions brought forward in the House
r Assembly have also been agreed to. The ma
jority in the Council was B—in the House 13.
By these resolutions, the equal representation
in both provinces, permanent civil list, and the
joint assumption of the public debt, are all agreed
to.
DnaaavvL Explosion.—On the morning of
the 28th ult. about eleven miles below Lynch
burg, Virginia, two boats, having on board 76
kega of powder, were blown up by the ignition of
the powder, together with Jive other loan, and
their entire loads, also killing four |iersons and
maiming one.
The Lynchburg Virginian estimates the loss
by the explosion at between SB,OOO and $3,000.
lin sots.—ln the message of Governor Car
lin to the Legislature of Illinois, at the commence
ment of its present session, the aggregate indebt
edness of Illinois is stated at $11,107,019 44.
Os this sum total, the stale pays interest, at six
per cent on $10,030,000 —making the annual
interest to be paid equal to 8,637,860. The
available resources of the state are put down at
$8,100,000, bank atotk, yielding an annual in
terest of $348,000.
Mississippi.
The following extract from an Agricultural
Report recently published in Mississippi, is belie
ved to contain a true representation of the condi
tion of that great cotton-growing State :
The following calculations are made by a gen
tleman who seems to have devoted a good deal
of attention to the subject, and whose statistics,
I have no doubt, will lie found somewhat under
the mark, though sufficient for all reasonable in
'F duction. The calculation is based on an average
of five years. The debt side stands thus :
1,800,000 yds. of bagging, for 800,000
balea (6 yards per bale) ot 85 cents
per yard is $460,000
8,400,000 lbs. rope, at 13 j cents per lb.
(8 lbs per bale) 300,000
30,000 lbs. twine fordo., 1 lb. for every
19 balea, ie 9,000
$769,000
There were, in 1836, 164,308 slaves in
this State; the expense of feeding and I
clothing each, is estimated at S4O per
year, $0,675,980 ;
There were in 1836, 1,048,630 acres
of land in cultivation in the State, —
cost of farming utenaila of all kinds
$8 par acre is not looked upon aa to
high an estimate, 3,097,060
' " i
Considered neceaaary expenses. $9,431,990 j
There were in 1836,41,239 white male
inhabitants in the State over 18
year* of age—charge them with ex
pending 12 j cents per day in cigars
and liquor, Ac. 1,881,484
Tha whole white population of the
Stale, male and female amounted
in 1836, to 144,361 —charge them
to average, in excess of dress, and
other needless expenses $36 per
annum, 3,608,770
Useless and unneccseary expenses, $5,490,354
Nacetsary expenses, 9,431,980
$14,933,334
To which add interest, paid to com
mission merchants in .New Orleans,
and the chartered bank account of
the Stale of 8 per cent per annum,
it would make about 3,300,000
$18,188,831
Thus making the indebtedness of the State
over 17 millions of dollars. The credit aide of
(he balance sheet is made up of a single item,
300,000 bales of cotton, valued at SSO per bale,
amounts to fifteen millions of dollars, leaving the
balance against ui of over two millions. Thus,
instead of making money, we have been going
in debt annually, at the rale of some two millions
of dollars. In tha estimate of expenses, no ac
count is taken of the annual outlay fur horses
and mules, and also flour, which have been here
tofore considered necessary disbursements. Nor
have I taken into the account the onerous per
sent which we pay for every article purchased, in
consequence of the depreciated state of our cur
rency. If the whole amount were brought into
•span view, the sight would be too appalling to
look upon with tranquility. The question arises
Itow is this very untoward atate of things to be
remedied I I answer emphatically, by retrench
men I in our expenditures, and by raising and
manufactnring those articles of prime necessity
at home, for which we have been hitherto dr; an
denton other countries—then, and not till then,
with the exchange be turned in our favor.
It is rumored here, says the Knoxville Regis
ter, that Col. Polk is to fill Judge White’s place
.an United States Senator. We of course, give it
ji* a mere rumor, and cannot vouch for its cor
rectness. Wi should not be surprised, however,
if the Colonel's aspirations should tend that wav.
Ilia not to be believed, that he sought the seat of
Governor for its own intrinsic honor, but that it
might seewe aa a stepping stone for his ambition ;
and aa his prospects for the Vice Presidency aie
waning wondrous dim, he will not be unwilling
to oecurc a snug berth in the United States Sen
ate, for six or eeven years. But what will his
party friends in East Tennessee, who are in ex-
I pectancy of the same berth, aay to its transfer to
the Colonel 1- Koui verrotu.
K N 0 ghuttfi effect the eye more unfavorably
Ini than glasses of brandy. So tha opticani sav.
BhL
A lata Liverpool paper has a untie* of an “im
portant invention” of a new steam engine bye
gentleman of that city, which baa somewhat oi
the marvelous touch about it. It is stated that
“the power ie created by air and steam. It will
consume only one-half the quantity of fuel of the
old one; and the rapidity by which a vessel can
be propelled by it, will enable it to perform a
passage to America in six days. Owing to a
particular way in which the power acta upon the
vesaal, twenty miles the hour can be realized with
the greatest possible ease. The weight of the
machinery will be only one-half of that required
by (he old steam engine, and instead of straining
and weakening the ship, will braco and strength
en it. By this method the steam power is more
than deublcd.
On the subject of Bread-stuffs in France and
other parts of Europe, the Paris correspondent
of the New York Courier writes as follows, un
der data of 30lh Nov,
The condition of France is not improving.—
The corn markets are falling, but the diminution
of price occurs not from the o. dinary and legiti
mate cause—plenty; but from the unusually
large quantity of inferior grain on hand, which
is necessarily the first thrown on the market.—
Nothing has occurred to change the report I gave
you three months since of the harvest. It was
perhaps * sufficient ane, but no more—and you
are aware that before it was gathered our stocks
were exhausted.
From Spain we learn that, superb as was the
last harvest, prices maintain themselves, owing
to the large orders from abroad, principally for
seed. From French Africa little wheat has been
imported into France; hut it is understood that
there is a good deal in warehouses at Algiers, and
elsewhere. From Egypt we should have had
some shipments, but for the dearth that prevails
in Constantinople, and most of the provinces of
the Turkish empire, which will be first served.—
From Italy (Trieste and Leghorn equally,) we
are informed that, although there was little de
mand for produce, the holders were holding it,
rather than lower the price. Thus you will see
that not only haa the price of the good article not
come down, but that it is expected to become
exhausted.
This unfavorable prospect l#ftirther justified
by the loss of the seed already sown in very
many districts of France, as well as of England
and Ireland—the rain filtering through the new
ly harrowed earth, carrying with it the seed into
the drains.
Inxbrnal Machine.—The same writer thus
speaks of th* machine which was recently ex
ploded in one of the streets of Paris with suoh
fearful effect :
I lately mentioned lo”you the seizure of hand
grenades or portable shells, at the houses of sev
eral persona suspected of being Republicans, and
I described their form and contents. On Thurs
day night last, at the early hour of 8 o’clock, an
infernal machine of that precise pattern, was
affixed to a house in the Rue Montpensier, which
runs at the roar of the Palais Royal, and dis
charged. The effects were tremendous. Part
of the atone wall of the house was broken down,
and a volley of musket balls (60 or 60 of which
have been found) was discharged, some of which
crossed the street and embedded themselves in the
wood work of the opposite houses.
The machine was placed and fired by a person,
no doubt, who dreaded detection. He watched
to sec the coast clear, and nobody in view.—
Hence the consolatory fact—which the newspa
pers deem a marvellous interposition of Provi
dence—that no passenger was injured by the ex
plosion. None could lie injured, fur there were
none.—This does not, however, diminish the
guilt of the intention ; for accident might have
brought people within reach of the murderous
machine. The affair is likely to remain unex
plained The miscreant actor in it had, in all
probability, no confederate, ft was, therefore, nn
, act of pure unadulterated wickedness, or an ex
: poriment on those death-dealing machines, which
the discontented propose using in lhe:r next in
surrection.
j The following table exhibits the number of
acres of Land in each County, and likewise the
i number of acres contained in the State of Oeor
i gia, agreeably to the Maps and Records in the
! office of the Surveyor General.
1 Apgling, 680,436 Jones, 241,920
I Baker, 899,297 Laurent, 450,660
; Baldwin, 166,160 Lee, 340,203
I Bibb, 152,563 Liberty, 393,600
j Bryun, 276,480 Lincoln, 126,720
1 Bulloch, 006,440 Lowndes, 1,238,203
' Burke, 663,600 Lumpkin, 396,026
Butts, 113,030 Macon, 240,308
Camden, 730,000 Madison, 134,800
Campbell, 147,963 Marion, 960,662
Carroll, 483,180 Mclntosh, 433,300
Cass, 439,130 Meriwether, 336,885
Chatham, 268,800 Monroe, 302,623
Chattooga, 823,986 Montgomery, 407,680
Cherokee, 467,780 Morgan, 228,480
Clark, 179,300 Murray, 407,740
Cobb, 406,961 Muscogee, 291,003
Columbia, 320,000 Newton, 366,299
Coweta, 282,881 Oglethorpe, 286,720
Crawford, 250,819 Paulding, 423,617
Decatur, 707,609 Pike, 266,962
DeKulb, 381,263 Pulaski, 615,365
Dade, 112,236 Putnam, 236,800
Dooly, 660,693 Rabun, 349,515
Early, 602,549 Randolph, 619,968
Effingham, 310,400 Richmond, 201,600
Elbert, 327,680 Scriven, 346,600
Emanuel, 763,920 Stewart, 483,170
Fayette, 218,804 Sumter, 369,867
Floyd, 317,343 Talbot, 331,468
Forsyth, 183,515 Taliaferro, 86,400
Franklin, 499,200 Tattnall, 761,600
Gilmer, 630,672 Telfair, 264 960
Glynn, 253,440 Thomas, 900,720
Greene, 368.800 Troup, 280,100
Gwinnett, 347,083 Twiggs, 2^1,680
Habersham, 408,476 Union, 419,168
Hall, 358,377 Upaon, 184 580
Hancock, 888,640 Walker. 399,663
Harria, 297.680 Walton, 264.015
Heard. 166,763 Ware, 879,360
Henry, 333,640 Warren, 274,660
Houston, 392,884 Washington, 416,720
Irwin, 1,269,426 Wayne, 380.160
Jackson, 337,926 Wilkes, 323,840
Jasper. 246,760 Wilkinson, 288,000
Jefferson, 376,320
35.515,526
The New York Times, commenting on the
President’s urgent appeal to Congieas to make
the uee of the public money, by public officers,
felony, pertinently remarks—
“ Anticipating, we presume, that the future log
treasurers will follow in the footsteps of their il
lustrious predecessors, he recommends, to quote
the Isngusge of Mr. Lepsre, that when a safe or
sub-treasury is erected to keep the public moneys,
a penitentiary shall lie erected by its side to keep
the keepers. The President dues not seem, how
ever, to have kept sufficiently in view that sage
maxim of Mrs. Glass, “first catch your hare,” Ac.
Ac. —Would not a ball and chain, sufficiently
heavy to prevent rapid locomotion, be decidedly
useful T” J
Ala a. mi no IftTELtiozNct. — A writer in Bos
ton computes that there are 30,000 persons in
the United Slates of the name of John Smith,
and proposes that Congress transport all hut
6,000.
I- From the Baltimore Sun.
* Report ol the Secretary of the Navy.
' From this document it appear* that the duties
1. of the naval branch of the public service have
“ been assiduously a ten (led to, and creditably per
-8 formed. Our commerce has been protected, and
n the honor of our flag maintained at the various
a stations in the East and West Indies, the Pacific,
a the Mediterranean, the Gulf of Mexico, the
8 South American coast, and various other parts;
“ and in no instance has force been necessary to
8 this end, except at the Island of Sumatra, where
“ an act of piracy had been committed, and two
* American citizens murdured by the natives, who
refusing the restoration of the plundered property
3 and delivery of the murderers, received a full
measure of deserved chastisement, at the hands
of Commodore Read. Commodore Hull is in
I the Mediterranean; Claxton, in the Pacific;
t IVicolson, on the Brazilian Station, to bo relieved
by Kidgoly; Shubric, in the Gulf of Mexico and
the West Indies; and Read in the Indian and
Chinese seas. One vessel has been sent, and I
another is about to follow to the coast of Africa,
to prevent the abuse of our flag by foreigners en
gaged in the slave trade. The exploring expedi
tion under Lieutenant Wilkes, prosecuted its
searrhes as far as the 70th degree of South lati
tude, where it narrowly escaped being frozen up.
It promises good results, and the Secretary states,
that if no new discoveries are made of unknown
lands or islands, it will be because that none exist
in that region of the globe. Various surveys or
dered, have either been completed, or are in pro
gress ; two steam frigates have been commenced,
one at New York, the other at Philadelphia, and
a third frigate ordered has not been commenced,
on account that it is contemplated to adopt a mo
del by a distinguished naval officer, to be propell
ed by a different description of machinery from
the others, which are also different from each oth
er, for the purpose of testing their respective
merits,
The number of invalid pensioners is 456, and
the sum annually required to pay them is $38,-
84 4 74. The number of widow pensioners is
330, and the annual amount of their pensions is
$62,064. The number of minor children pen
sioners is 115, and the amount of their pensions
is $14,314; making an aggregate of 901 pen
sioners, and $110,122 74. The amount of stocks
to the credit of the Navy pension fund, Ist of
October, 1838, was $309,832 25 ; on the Ist of
Oct. 1839, $251,139 00; difference 137,693 25;
which sum was applied to the payment of pen
sions granted by acts of Congress, and accounts
reported by the Fourth Auditor and Second
Comptroller. About $55,000 will be required to
pay pensions, which will become due the Ist of
January 1840, and to meet arrearages as they
may bo reported ; which sum on account of the
depreciation of stocks, cannot be realized without
the sale of investments, to an amount not leas
than SBO,OOO or $90,000 ; for which reason it is
presented to the attention of Congress. The na
vy pension laws are considered to be so compli
cated, that it is hardly possible to administer them
fail ly and equally, consistently with justice, and
their revision is recommended; and to one of
them, the act of 3d of March, 1837, is mainly
attributed the decrease of the navy pension fund,
which has sunk in little more than two years,
from $1,115,329 53, to $253,139; and, as I have
before stated, about $55,000 will be required to
meet demands, which will become due on the Ist
of January, 1840.
The oppropriation made in 1835, for the con
struction of a dry dock at New York, with the
exception of a small amount for surveys, remains
unexpended, and has reverted to the Treasury.—
Its re-appropriation is recommended; and the
discovery of Gedney's channel is urged with some
other reasons, in evidence,of the fitness of New
York as a location for such a duck.
The Secretary complains of fraud in the enlist
ment of minors, both as seamen and apprentices.
The former, having deceived the recruiting officer,
by taking a false oath, which is not made legal
perjury, releases himself when ho sees fit, by a
habeas corpus , after receiving advance pay, and
perhaps becoming indebted to the purser, and a
fraud is committed, for which there is no remedy.
Apprentices are sometimes offered by persons
claiming to be parents or guardians, and after they
have been supported and educated at the public
expense, the real parent or guardian appears with
his habeas corpus, and perpetrates another legal
fraud on the country. The remedy proposed for
these abuses is to make a false oath in such cases
penal, and punishable as perjury. The system of
naval apprenticeship has exhibited the most en
couraging results, and the attention of parents,
guardians and magistrates, has been calledj to it
by the Secretary, not only account of the benefit
accruing from it to the navy, but to society at
large, in purging it of multitudes of idle and dis
orderly boys, growing up in its midst as a nui
sance, to the great injury of the community, and
the ruin of themselves
The Board of Navy Commissioners are enga
i ged in revising the old regulations, with a view
to their adaption to laws subsequently passed ;
I and a revised system will shortly bo laid before
I Congress.
I In presenting his estimates, the Secretary has
I contemplated no diminution of the force in com-
I mission, for the reason, that the only sure and es-
I factual means of maintaining the character and
) discipline of the service, is to keep in commis
r sion as many vessels, and employ as many ofli
! cers in active duties, as is compatible with the
j resources of the country. Not the number of
) ships in ordinary or on the stocks, butexpeiicnce,
i discipline and habits of hardy endurance, consti
-1 tutc the only solid basis of a naval establishment.
) The retrenchments, therefore, are to bo looked
) for in other branches of the expenditure; and
) the estimates for 1840 are made with every regard )
I to economy compatible with the interests of the |
3 country. j
9 The passage is recommended, of a law, for .
9 bringing under one general head all special acts
9 for building or rebuilding particular vessels, and '
9 for repairs, as giving the Department the more
9 i ready disposal of all necessary materials, at the'
II ! precise time when they may be needed. It would
8 also simplify accounts, and produce other minor
9 advantages.
3 The Secretary thinksfr that if the $340,000 sp
-5 propriuted for the gradual improvement of the
9 navy, be transferred (rom that object to the cem
-9 pletion of the two steamers, the remaining $4110,-
9 000, which is to lie available in 1840, would not, 1
0 lie needed till 1841, provided the whole anaium
9 of transfers is eventually returned.
9 The growth of the navy and the multiplication
-of records render an additional number of tierlu
6 necessary to the Board of Navy Commissioners;
and * plan of reorganization is prepared in which
j such addition is included. The report concludes
e with a recommendatiod of the creation of a high
er grade of rank, than is now recognized m th*
’> navy.
1 Tax Boot or a Husband Sold bi thx
Widow. —The New York Era tell* a queer sto
e ry of a Mrs. Vondonderskirk, the once wifoof a
r sausage maker, residing on the Ninth Avenue,
'■ between 38lh and 391 h streets, whose former
3 husband died of the consumption, and shethin
* king (as most economical wives always bow
8 to turn things to the best account, thought she
'• might make a speck on the carcase of her depart
y cd help-meet by selling him to the doctors, which
y she accordinglyfdid, after shedding a few tears and
stowing him away in a sack, for the sum of $lO.
The Era adds :
- “About three weeks after this business i ran sac
n lion, she married Bans Vondonderskirk, who is
a very sickly looking personage, but who takes
good care to give her a thumping every day over
ll the heaj to lessen that awful bump as much as
possible, and to ensure hi* not being sold to thei
doctor* before h* die*. Mrs. V. yesterday went
out declaring she'd be revenged. Hans learning
the design of his wife, which was to complain of
him at the Police, sent a friend after her, who
whispered that'selling a dead husband wai a
“hanging matter,” and that her living one would
certainly expose her if she persisted in going be
fore the magistrate. This cooled the lady’s
wrath, and sae reluctantly left the office without
.(troubling justice with her compla'ut.”
Imports ixn Exports or thk Stats of
Gkoroia. —We are indebted to the last annual
report of the Secretary of the Treasury, says the
Standard of Union, for the following valuable
statistics. In the tables exhibiting the imports
and exports of the United States, from the Ist of
October, 1789, to the 30th of September, 1838,
we find the value of the imports and exports of
Georgia from 1821 t> 1838.
Years, Imports. Exports.
1821 $1,002,684 $6,014,310
1822 989,591 5,484,870
1823 670,705 4,293,666
1824 551,888 4,623,982
1825 343,356 4.222,833
1826 330,993 4,368,504
1827 312,609 4,261,555
1828 308,669 3,104,425
1829 380,293 4,981,376
1830 282,346 5,336,626
1831 399,940 3,959,813
1832 253,417 5,516,883
1833 318,990 6,270,040
1834 546,802 7,567 327
1835 393,049 8,890,674
1836 673,222 10,722,200
1837 774,349 8,935,041
1838 776,068 8,803,839
Total, $9,208,971 $107,356,964
Lawyers nr Texas. —A Texas paper in
speaking of those who visit that country in hopes
to better their fortunes, observes that “ lawyers
have usually done well here, and there is still a
prospect for some of them to do so ; but it now
requires men of sense and legal acquirements to
succeed; and young men who fail at home had
better not come here, unless they are willing to
dig potatoes or turn soldiers.”
The Population of Cincinnati is estimated at
40,000, divided by national origin as follows—
American, 23,000; German, 7,000; English,
3,000 ; Irish, 3,000; Miscellaneous, 4,000.
I
The Ghost in Spectacles.—l once saw
what nobody, except always the audience of that
- particular night could have seen—the Ghost of
Hamlet’s father acted at Covent Garden Theatre
in spectacles. Armor, of course, was the cos
tume, and chalk the complexion; the performer,
the late Mr. Chapman, who was remarkably
near-sighted. Having acted the Ghost so fre
quently as to have entirely forgotten the part,
(for who can expect people to remember things
forever 1) he had put on his spectacles on the
outside of the casque which covered his “ aun
ciente” head, and, being suddenly called to the
stage, on he went—helmet, glasses, and all—
When once on, to remove the glasses would
have been impossible; a ghost without specula
tion in his eyes, taking off a pair of spectacles,
would have been fatal; and accordingly, the
ghost performed his duty, even to the time of
cock-crowing, framed anil glazed as ghost was
never seen before. —New Monthly Magazine.
Hamburg, 27th Dee. 1839.
William Y. Hansell, Esq.
Sir—The failure of the Bridge Bank of Augusta’
on the 24th of May, 1819, of which John McKinne
and myself, and Bartm McKinne in my stead, fur a
time were proprietors. Although twenty years have
passed away, it was an event engiavod too deep on
my mind, ever to.be erased. It subjected me to a
twenty years unrelenting persecution to obtain
without price, the monuments which my foresigh 1
and perseverance have erected. I was cast from
dungeon to dungeon, from that to the present day,
and it net only stsmpt an odium, but acted oppres
sive on every one connected with its affairs,of
w filch you y ourself bore a'large share. 1 braved m\
tale with nil the fortitude u( which I could master
myself—with a constant prayer for health and life,
long e i.ough to correct the error, if committed by
myself, and to’revenge the injury, if committed by
others. I thank Heaven for the grant of my pray
er*.
I felt the Institution was placed on such a basis,
that with ordinary prudence,and without occurren
ces of unforeseen evils, would bo beyond the possi
bility of a failure. Yet it fell subjeet to that misfor
tune. The pioprietors were possessed of an unin,
cumbered estate to a large amount. The Bridge
was their property and part of their stock —it# in.
come alone paid all the expenses of the Institution’
and their profit as Bankers, was a clear gain.
The position in,,which you were placed in the
Bank, enables you to form a more correct opinion
of the true cause of its failure, limn even the propri
etors themselves. Will you therefore grant my re
quest, and give me your unreserved opinion of the
circumstances producing that failure, even should
the censure fall upon myself 7
In so doing, you will oblige your sincere friend,
HENRY SHULTZ.
Milledueville, 28th Dec. 1839
Mr. Henry Shultz, Hamburg, So. Co.
Sir, —You r> quest roe in your letter of the 27th
mst.,to give you ray unreserved opinion of thecir
cumstanres which produced the failure of the
Bridge Bank on thejt24th of May, 1819, of which
you, John McKinne, and Barna McKinne were pro
prietors.
In answeting your request, 1 would observe, that
there were, in my opinion, several causes, or a com
bination of circumstances, which produced that
event.
Anterior to the lime of the failure oi the Bridge
Bank, there existed in the city ol New York, an ex
tensive commercial firm, known as Pott h McKinne,
one in Charleston, South Carolina, known os Mc-
Kinne & Ludlow; in both of which Joseph P. Mc-
Kinne was a partner ; one in Savannah, known os
Scarborough & McKinne,in which Barna McKinne
was a partner; and one in Augusta known ns Mc-
Kinne it Co-, which was composed of Cole,' John
.McKinne, and James Lamkin. These four firms
were partly composed of three brothers, with the
natural impression that all three firms were connect
ed with the Bridge Bank, but such was nut the fact (
yet the failure ol one would necessarily effect the
credit of nil. Between these firms, there seemed
very projerly to exist a community of intimate
friendship, and a natural, if no other, feeling of in
lerest.
In the memorable spring of 1819, the disasters of
w hich were deeply felt by the entire mercantile com
munity, and the heavy shocks ol which were with,
stood by but few commercial persons or associa
tions, who were extensively engaged in business,
these bouses failed. The first was the house of
Pott it McKinne in N. York, and which had drawn
for very large sums on the southern houses and
also on Barna McKinne, individually, who I hen re
sided in Augu-ta. Many el these dratts on Mr.
Barna McKinne, and on McKinne dt Co., were paid
off by funds drawn from the Budge Bank, and to
t the extent of thee* amounts, which were considera
ble, the immediate available means of the Bank
were diminished. The pressure on the Bank was
daily increased after the failure of the house of Pint
dr McKinne became public; a reaction took place
in the circulation of the bills of the Bridge Compa
i ny, and they were hurried in from New York,
Charleston, Savannah, and other places for redemp
tion. But thero was another cause, tho effect of
which was still more powerful, and in the absence
of which I can but believe that the Bridge Bank
would have withstood all other assaults, and trium
phantly sustained its credit and standing. It was
the opposition and hostility of the chartered Banks,
and more particularly the Bank of Augusta. This
institution had continued to collect and receive the
bills of the Bridge Company, and present them in
auras of from ten to twenty thousand dollors at a
time, and receiving nothing but its ow n bills or
specie in payment. This course was commenced
by the Bank ol Augusta, in the early part ol the
year 18)8, and continued even on to (he time the
Bridge Bank slopped payment, repeating its drafts
sometimes weekly, sometimes tri-weekly, and for
several days before the Bridge Bank failed, those
heavy drafts were made daily—the panic which had
taken place,affording to that institution greater fa
cilities than had before existed, of obtaining the
Bridge bills.
1 he Bridge Bank, from its banking operati .ns and
the continued income from the profit of its capital,
had made money—the lolls of the Bridge were suffi
cient to cover all the expenses incident to its opera
tions, and its discount or interest account amount
ing to I etween thirty and forty thousand dollars
per annum, might lie considered as profit, subject
only to the deduction of bad debts, which were in
considerable until after the failure of the Bank, af
ter which the losses were great, for no one seemed
willing, in country or town, to pay a Bank that bad
stopped payment itself.
1 have thus, in’a concise manner, endeavored to
give you my views of the two prominent causes
which produced the failure of the Bridge Bank, and
remark in conclusion, that from my intimate knowl
edge of the resources, means, and liabilities of the
Bridge Bank at that time, that neither one of those
causes ahme would have produced that result.—
The Bank was never engaged in any speculations,
or commercial enterprize, or business of a Broker
by which its capital or its profits could be endan.
’gered or impaired.
I am, very respectfully,
Your obt. servant,
WILLIAM YJHANSELL.
Consignees per Sooth Carolina Rail Road
Hahburo, January 9, 1840.
W. Hattier; A. Frederick; A. Shear; D. H. Stl
cox; W. E. Jackson; W. K. Jones & Co; W. K.
Kitchen; E. T. Cook; D. Joseph; J. F- Benson;
Bolling, H. & G.; T. H. Howard.
AUGUSTA PRICES CURRENT.
Thursday, January 9, 1840.
BAGGING — Hemp, per yard 20 a 25
Tow, « 14 a 20
BALE HOPE, per lb. 8 a 14
BACON—Hams, « 15 a 17
Shoulders and Middlings, 10 a I2j
BUTTER—Gnhen, per lb. 28 a 35
Nort Carolina, “ 15 a 25
Country, “ 18 a 25
COFFEE —Green prime Cuba, “ 14 a 15
Ordinary to good, “ 11 a 14
St. Domingo, “ 10 a 14
Brazil, “ —a
Laguira, “ 124 a 15
Porto Rico, “ 12ja 15
Java, “ 15 a 16
Mocha, “ 18 a 20
COTTON—Ordinary, •• 7$ a 7j
Fair, “ 8 a—
Good, “ 8J a—
Prime, “ 8 j a—
CANDLES — Spermaceti, “ 48 a 50
Tallow, “ 20 a 22
CHEESE — American, “ 13 J a 14
. English, “ 40 a 50
ClDEß—Northern, per bbl. 900 a 10 00
In boxes, per doz. 350 a 450
CIGARS — Spanish, M. 15 a2O
American, “5 a 12
CORN — bushel 50 a 62J
FlSH—Herrings, box 125 a 150
Mackerel No. 1 “ none
« u 2 “ <•
u«3 “ a
FLOUR—Canal, bbl. 9 alO
Baltimore, “ 8 a 850
Western, “ none
Country, “ 650 o 750
GUNPOWDER— keg 6 o 7
Blasting, “ 4 a 450
GLASS— IO * 12, box 350 a 425
81st 10, “ 325 a 4
IRON — Russia, “ 6
Swedes, assorted, “ 6
Hoop, lb 9 a 10
Sheet, “ 8 a 10
Nail Rods, “ 7 a 8
LEAD—Bar, “ 9 a
LEATHER—SoIe, lb 28 a 30
Upper, side 61 76 a 2
Calf Skins, doz 30 a36
LARD— lb 12$ a 15
MOLASSES—N. Orleans, gal 45 a 50
Havana, “ 43 a 45
English Island, “ —a
NAILS— lb Si a 9
OlLS — Lamp, gal 150a 200
Linseed, “ 1 15 a 1 25
Tanners, “ 60
OATS — bush 50
PEAS — “ 1
PAINTS—Red Lead, lb 15
White Lead, keg 300 a 350
Spanish Brown lb 4 a
Yellow Ochre, “ 3 a
PEPPER—BIack, « 9 a 12
PORTER — London, doz 4 a 460
and Ale, American, bbl 3 a 360
RAISINS—MaIaga, box 2 a 250
Muscatel, “ 1 50 a 2
Bloom, “ none
RlCE—Prime, 100/6 5 a 6
Inferior to good, “ 4 a 5
SUGAR — New Orleans, lb 7 a 10
Havana, white, “ 13 a 15
“ brown, “ 8 a 9
Muscovado, “ 8 a 10
St. Croix, “ 10 a 12
Porto Rico, “ 8 a 11
Lump, “ 14 a 16
, Loaf, “ 15 a 20
Double refined, “ 20 a 22
SOAP — American, No. 1, 8 as
“ No. 2, 5 o b
SALT —Liverpool ground, bush 65 a 75
. Turk’s Island, “ none
STEEL—German, lb 15 a 16
Blistered, “ So If j
SHOT—AII sizes, bag 2 12$ a 237
, SPIRITS—Cognac, 4th prf. gal 150 a 250
Peach, “ 1 a 150
Apple, “ 45 a 65
Gin, Holland, “ 1 20 a 150
“ American, “ 55 a 75
Rum, Jamaica. “ 125 a I 75
“ New England, “ 48 a 56
I Whiskey, Northern, “ 48 a 56
> “ Western, “ 50 a 75
“ Mononga. “ 75 a 1
“ Irish, “ 2 a 3
TOBACCO — N. Carolina, lb 8 a 15
f Virginia, “ 15 a 4'i
• TWINE— “ 30 a 374
TEA—Bohea , “ 50 a 7.
Souchong, “ 50 a 7.
Hyson, “ 76 a 1 2.
, Gunpowder, “ 1 a 1 2.
[ WlNE — Madeira, gal 250 a 35i
Sicily Madeira, 1 25 a 1 7-
Sherry, “ 2 n 35t
Tenerife, “ 75 a 1 25
Sweet Malaga, « 40 a 60
Porte, “ 7.5 a 3
I Claret, “ none
“ in bottles, doz 3 a (>
Cknmpaigne, •• 5 c(2
..
marine intelligence.
, . Charleston, Jan. 8.
Arrived yesterday- Schr Viiginia Hodges, Rol
-Ims, Plymouth, (N. C.) 8 ’
T i lO, , P C °P e > Miercken, Liver-
S? i’ E ’ atll *> Kendrick, Boston; brig Leonidas,
y ,! J C! ’ Havana ;C L brig Moses, Loveland New
York I brig Gen. Pinckney, Ford, New Orleans i
tanzas llgent ’ Whitten > d ° 5 Susan, Handy, Ma-
Went to sen yesterday— Ships Catharine, Berry
London; Oceanus, Bonme, Havre; Shaw, Chase
fora Southern port; barque Elizabeth, Swan, Liv
erpool. ’
In the offing —Line ship Congaree, Doane, from
Boston ; the brig Pandora, from the North, for Sa
vannah, was spoken olf the bar 6th instant, by the
pilot boat Caroline.
ITTMILL POND OYSTERS will be received
at the Cornucopia this afternoon.
_ jan 9 11 MICHAEL SHEAHAN.
Dr. F. M. ROBERTSON has removed his
Office to No. 302, on the south side of Broad st.,
immediately opposite the Auction store of Messrs.
Russell, Hutchinson & Co. ts dee 2
CTr-C. M. CURTIS, House, Sign and Ornamen
tal Pointer y 187 Prood street.— ~Sign and ornamen
tal work done at short notice. dec 5
try CLINCH RIFLEMEN, ATTENTION!—
Appear on 3 our parade ground, on Saturday, the
11th of January, at 91 o’clock, a. m., armed and
equipped for regimental review and inspection.
By order of the Captain.
j* n 8 DWELLS, A. O. S.
(XIT’A CARD. —Mr. Richards,Tcacherof Draw
ing and Painting, will resume his professional du
ties in Augusta at an early day. nov 7
CffTO THE LOVERS OF THE ARTS.—
The Paintings at Mr. Richards’Drawing Academy
(Masonic Hall,) will hereafter be opened to visi
tors, every Saturday afternoon and evening, from
2 o’clock until 9 o’clock p. m. At night the rooms
will be well lighted. dec jjy
tfyDr. li. HARRIS oilers his services in the
practice of his profession to the citizens of Augus
ta and its vicinity. Messages will receive prompt
attention if left at his drug store in Broad street, or
at his residence in Ellis street, below Washing-
nov 7
(ryA. IVERSEN is now prepared to resume his
professional duties as a Teacher of Music. Or
ders left at T. H. Plant’s book store, or at Mrs.
Campfield’s boarding house, will be promptly at
tendedto. _ nov 26
(fyPUBLIC NOTICE. — Dr. Munroe, Surgeon
Dentist, has returned to Augusta. dec 9
it y EXCHANGE ON NEW YORK— It sight,
and at one to tw uty days sight. For sale by
nov 23 GARDELLE & RHIND.
GO’ S. M. SHAVER, ARTIST, has 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*
{TrW. G. NIMMO, General Commission Mer
chant, olfice on Mclntosh street, next door to the
Constitutionalist. nov 7
(ry Doctor J. J. WILSON offers his profes
sional services to the citizens of Augusta and its
vicinity. He will be found at his residence, the
first brick building above Guedron’s stable on Ellis
street,recently occupied by John L.Adams.
J*»S_ 17 ts
Cy Er. W. FLINT offers his services to the ci
tizens of Augusta in the different branches of his
profession. He may be found at all hours at the
late residence of Mr. A. M. Egerton, second door
trom the corner of McUtosh and Reynold streets,
nev 29 j y ‘
A REAL BLESSING TO MOTHERS.
DR. 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 wiil refuse to let its gums be 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 youngchildren; for
if a child wakes in the night with pain in the gums,
the Syrup immediately gives case, by opening the
pores and healing the gums ; thereby preventing
convulsions, fevers, &c. Sold only at Dr. Wrn.
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
icnthow essential an early application of such an
invaluable medicine is to relieve infant misery 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 bottle of your Syrnp; which as
soon as applied to the gums, a wonderful change
was produced, and after a few applications the
child displayed obvious relief, and by continuing 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 powerof Evans’ Camomile
Pills are such, that the palpitating heart, the trem
ulous hand, the dizzy eye, and the fluttering mind,
vanish before their effects like noxious vapors be
fore the benign influence of the morning sun.—
They have long been successfully used for the cure
of intesmittents, 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 the stomach, acid
ity, unpleasant taste in the mouth, rumbling noise
in the bowels, nervous symptoms, languor, when
the mind becomes in itable,desponding,thoughtful,
melancholy, and dejected. Hypochondriacism, 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 183 d.
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, Bilious Affections, 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 wl atpoever kind to which human
nature is subject, where the stomach is affected.
More conclusive proofs of the extraordinary effi
cacy of Dr. Wm. Evans ’ celebrated Camomile and
Aperient Anti-Bilwus 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 ftetid matter mixed with blood .great debility,
sense of burning heat, with an intolerable bearing
down of the parts, Mr. Cameron is enjoying pen
ect health, and returns his sincere thanks for Ihi
extraordinary benefits be has received.
Sold by ANTONY Sr HAINES,
Sole agents in Augusta
J. M.& T. M. TURNER,Savannah
P. M. C( IH EN & Co., Charleston,
SHARP & ELLS, Milledgeville,
C. A. KLLS, Macon,
A. W. MARTIN,Forsyth
Wii. L. vVELLft, Druggist, Athens
MARK A. LANE, Washington.
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