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SrHOeek! n ®hrowick& Sm lmeL : V V V V V V WILLIAM E. JONES & Co. AUGUSTA, Ga. THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 16, 1840. y OL |y._N 0 6 lilt; CHKONICLK AXDSBSnXKIi IS PUBLISHED D JLY TRI-WEEKLY, ANT) WEEKLY, At No. 209 Broai-Mrtet. C terms: Bail y paper. Ten Dollars per annum, in advance. triiVualy paper, at Six Dollars in advance or «>ven at the end of the year. * ffkt’kiy ,/ap ir. Three Dollars in advance, or Tour at ■The end of year. CIUIONICLE AND SENTINEL. AUGUST A. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY la. Money. 1 here never hove been inch light limea in mon ey matters, in this city, since it first a>• mimed a commercial importance, as the present. Among all classes the cry is that they ‘-cannot collect people have no money tn pay with.” During the gees ion of the Lrgi-d itnre, ws fed ourselves with the hope l hut a lenient course on the part of that body towards the hanking institutions, would leave them with the power to give some relief; yet, al though the Legislature virtually authorised the banks to do a. they pleased, th are is no reliet felt Those institutions rigorously demand of iheirdeht ars to pay up, and every day decreases the circula tion and cons>*quenlly the means of paying. In • allott time there will be n nlniig to pay with, and then comes the sacrifice of property, bankrupt cies and ruin to many. Then will coma tha real harvest of the banks by getting the property of their debtors for no hing. VVe are the advocates •fa sound currency, and we have always advo.it •d that policy of legislation towards the Banks tyhich would enable them, lo make the I eoplc as easy as possible, without so enameling their issues as to render the currency uus'U’td, but we do se riously fear that the more inditfgenee is shown lo those institutions the le s disposition is manifested h* then to serve he public I lie ,Id hone ol eon vt*ntioii—settlements among themselves, seems to be still a difßcu.iy in the way of their doing any thing lor the public g-md. We intend lo discuss this matter thoroughly, please or displease wh on it -nay. The people are in debt and need indulgence, and the true question now is, do the Banks intend to giee them an oppor tunity of working ont their debts, or do they intend to force every man in the community to absolute bank ruptcy who owes one Ih rd or one fourth of the value of hn property ? That is the question ■' ■' General Harrison mid Gov. Tyler, have both ac cepted iheii nominations by the Harrisburg Conven tion. 'Their le‘lers of acceptance are published in the Fayetteville N. C. Observer, re which paper they were handed for publication by Gen. Owen, the Chairman »f the C onmittee, lo inlbrm those gentlemen of their nominations. In our notice yesterday ol the Massachusetts election, onr com -o-riior substituted a figure 6 for 1, making us estate th ■ number of votes in that State at over 6 JO,OOO ins ead ol IDOJKH). It is staled in the Baltimore Patriot, that. Mr. Gilpin. Solicitor for the Treasury, has been nomi mated as Attorney General of the United Stales. The place was offered to Mr. Dal.as, who decli ned. Mr. Selden’s nomination as Treasurer U. S. has not yet been confirmed by the Senate ! Peo ple begin to inquire about it. The January number of the Ladies’ Compan i ion, a monthly publication of long acknowledged ™ mcr t, has been forwarded ns, and we have peru sed its contents with much gratification. This number is embellished with an engraving of Washington’s House at Mount Vernon, and the surrounding scenery, most beautifully executed. The first number of the eleventh volume of the American Turf Register, edited by W. T. Porter* has come to hand, crowded with matter of inter est to the Sportsman, and ornamented with a beautiful engraving of Charles the Twelfth, the winner of the great St. Lcger Stakes. The arti cle on “How to buy a Horse,” continued from the preceding number, is worth the price of the work for a year.— Charles, on Courier. i£j*The following act was passed by the Leg Islature at its last session. Ax Act To alter and amend the militia law, as relates to the county of Richmond in this State. Be it enacted in the Senate and House of Re presentatives of the Stale of Georgia in Gener al A assembly met , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same. Sec. Ist. That from and after the passage of this act, the limits of the Tenth Regiment, in the county of Richmond, shall extend no further than the incorporate limits of the city of Augusta, and that the Military District without the corporate limits of said city, and within the county of Rich mond shall he known as the Seventy-ninth Re giment, and it shall be, and is hereby made the duty of the Brigadier General, of the Ist Brigade, — Bd Division, to proceed forthwith to the Organ!- ■ Aeration of said Regiment. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act, there shall *w> be four annual parades of the Beat Companies, ol the Tenth Regiment (Independent of Regi mental and Battalion Parades) to take place as follows, viz: the 122 d Beat or District • onipany shall parade on the first Tuesday in every De cember, February, April, and October, annually; the 1 80th Beat or District Company, shall parade on the Wednesday following, in ea hos said months; the 398th District, or Beat Company, shall parade on the Thursday's following, in each of said months, and the 600lh District or Beat Company, sh dl parade on the Friday’s following in each of said months. The said parades shall commence at ten o’clock, in the forenoon, or ear lier in the morning, if the t ommanding Officer ' of the Beat Company deems fit, and shall con tinue from ten o’clock, or ear ier to one o’clock in the afternonn, (Regimental and Battalion pa rades excepted, at which parades the command ing officer shall use his discretion with regard to - the time provided; he shall not dismiss his Bat talion or Regiment, without drilling at least three hours) on each of said days they shall be super intended by a field officer, of the Tenth Regi ment; the field officers to serve in turn accord ing to the commanding field officers mus.er. and the superintending offic re shall be empowered to drill the Companies if in his judgement, he shall think it necessary fur the instruction of said Companies. The same orders sh dl be issued hy the Commanding Officers of the Companies, the same summons served, and the same penalties incurred us in other ca-es of default after Regi mental orders. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That Regi mental Courts of Enquiry, shall be held at such places, within the Tenth Regiment, as the com manding field officer shall designate in orders in each December February, April and Oetolier, in each year, lo try defaulters, at the foregoing pa rade, to which Courts of Enquiry, returns of de faulters shall lie made by the commanding offi cers of Beat or District Companies as returns are now made by law to other Regimental Courts of Enquiry ; such Court, shall consist of not less than five, nor more than eight of the commission ed officers of the Regiment; the same mode of 1 collecting of fines, shall be observed as is now i provided by the military laws, for Regimenta lines. The commanding field officers shall de , signate in orders, some Staff Officer to attend the foregoing parades, to note defaulting officers, and ( make return of them to the Regimental Courts of Enquiry. 'The penalties collected shall lie paid into the Regimental fund, out of which shall be defrayed all the expenses of music now au thorized by law, for the Beat or District pa ades ; the accounts obe presented hy the commanding otiiccts of said companies, to the Regimental Courts and audited by them. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted hy the authority aforesaid. That as an inducement to competent persons, to lake commissions in said Beat or District companies, the commissioned officers of said companies shall, and they are hereby declared exempt, during the time they shall hold their commission, and shall faithfully discharge their duty, from all manner of jury du ty, within the county of Richmond, and city of Augusta, provided nevertheless, that no officer as aforesaid, shall continue entitled to such exemp li tm, -unless he sha'l obtain within the month of January, in each'and every year, a certificate of itis faithful conduct, as such from the command ing officer of the Regiment, and have such certi ficate duly recorded within the same month, in each and every year, in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Richmond county, for re cording ol which certificate the said Clerk shall be entitled to receive from such officer of Beal Company,, the sum of fifty cents ; any officer aforesaid who shall serve for, and during the time of five years, and shall regularly obtain and regis ter his certificate as afoiesaid, shall thereafter be exempt from all ordinary military duty in the tenth Regiment. Sec. 6th. And be it further enacted by the au thority aforesaid. That non-commissioned offi cers in the Beat or District companies aforesaid, > who shall faithfully perform their duty as such for one year, and shall obtain a certificate to that , effect, from the commanding officer of the Rcgi , ment, shall thereafter be exempt from ordinary militia duty within the Tenth Regiment for one year. No non-commissioned officer removing from ore heal into another, shall thereby he ex -1 onerated from his duty as such in the Brut, in ’ which he may have been drawn or appointed, i nor shall he be relieved by joining a Volunteer Company—provided, nevertheless, that the I ’om mantling Officers of Beat t 'ompanies may accept substitutes for non-commissioned officers who shall lie entitled n the same terms to the same ’ exemptions and liable to the same penalties. Sec. 6th. And b ■ it further enacted. That . when an individual shall voluntarily accept th< appointment of a non-commissioned officer in any of the Beat or District Companies aforesaid, he . or they shall stand bound to perform faithfully . the duties of said office, for the term of twelve months, from the time of his or their appoint ment, and on failing, neglecting or refusing to perform the same, ho or they shall be fined in the sum of fifty dollars, to be collected as other niili- I tia fines are eollec ed. Sec. 7th. And be it further enacted, That for the trial of any commissioned company, or staff * officers within the Tenth Regimqn|, the number f of members of a Court Martial, shall not exceed > ten. nor be less than seven to be designated by the Brigadier General of the Ist Brigade, 2d Di vision, as prescribed by law, from among the offi cers of the Tenth Regiment; the pay ofeach mem ! her of the Court shall lie two dollars per day, to i be certified and paid as in other cases of Court . Martial, under the General Militia Law of this State. * Sec. Bth. And be it farther enacted by the au -3 thonty aforesaid. That should the officers of the Tenth Regiment, at any future time deem it ex ( pedient from increase of population or otherwise to increase the number of Companies in said Re -3 giment, such Companies shall be governed in ev ery respect by the provisions of this act; the com missioned and non-commissioned officers of said company, shall be entitled to the same exemptions, and liable to ihe fame penalties as the officers in the companies already enumerated; the first new * ly create:) company, shall parade on the Satur i days following the parade days of the 600th District Company in every December, February. . April and Oetolier, the second newly created company shall parade on the Mondays following f in each of the said months, the third newly crea ted company shall parade on the 'Tuesday follow f ing m each of the said months, and the fourth , newly createu company shall parade on the Wed nesday following in each of the said months and I so on. , Sec. 9th. And be it farther enacted. That his Excellency the Governor, be, and he is hereby authorised to furnish (from the Slate Arsenal) the 'l’entli Regiment with seven hundred Stand of Muskets and cross belts— provided, the coin | j muiding field officer of said regiment shall give to his Excellency the Governor his bond and se curity lo the amount oft.ie cost of said arms, and I equipments for the safe keeping of the same, and the delivery of the same in like good order and \ condition, whenever the service of the Slate may ( require them. JOSEPH DAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBERT M. ECHOLS, President of the Senate. Assented to 21st Decemlier 1839. Charles j. McDonald, Governor. i Seciiitabt of States’ Office, } Milledgeville, Ga., Jan. Bth, 1840. 5 r I certify that the foregoing is a true copy of 1 the Original Act of file in this office. Given under my hand, and seal of office. WM. A. TENNILLE, Secretary of State. New Militia Oboanization. —The Report of the Secretary of War proposes a new organ rza -1 lion of the militia upon a national scale. The ■ present system, never of much practical use, has 1 j generally fallen into utter inefficiency,and, except i in the case of volunteer companies, the whole has become more a matter of burlesque than of grave reality. The plan proposed hy the Secretary re commends the Division of the United Stales into eighty mihtary districts, in each ol which 86,000 men are to lie enrolled; one half lo he on active duty, and to receive pay, the rate of compensation and the number of days of service in the year be ing fixed by law. The other half are lo consti tute a body of reserve, to be composed of such as have served four years in the active Militia, One fourth of the latter division are to fall into the te scive every year: and one fourth of the reserve to retire from military duty;—the deficiency in the active militia is to be supplied hy new recruits. Twenty five thousand men for each of the cignt districts will give 800 000 for the whole Union ; being about one seventh of the whole numbe* of militia in the country. The remaining six sev enths will ha< e no military duly to perform except as their turn may come to serve in the organized body. This plan promises at least much more efficien cy than the present one. How fur the whole or ganization is to he under the control of the Gen eral Government, in the way * commissioning officers, we have no means of knowing—nor wh: ther in the apportioning of the districts any regard will bo paid to State lines. —Baltimore American. The Opium Trade. —Buckingham, the trav eller. intends to lecture hero on the opium trade tomorro i, although he cannot throw any new light upon the subject. The facts of the ca»e lie in a nut shell.—China paid $1 1,01)0,000 lor opium annually, and only received $9,000,000 h r tea. She had therefore to put a stop lo it or sec the government broken up.—Great Britain continued the trade recklessly, because she desi red an occasion of quarrel with China. And that the British government intend to take hos tile steps is very evident, from the fact that the Ministers avoid saying any thing explicit on the subject. If they intended lo remain pacific, they would say su at once. —New York Herald. Ahmed occupation of Flouida. —This Bill, as reported lo the U. S. Seriate hy Mr.. Be nton from the • ommittee on Military Affairs, pro poses to grant to the first white settlers, not ex ceeding ten thousand tr.cn, able to bear arms, who shall settle in such parts of Florida, east of the Suwuncc and south of Cape Sable, as shall be designated by the President of the U. 8., a bounty of three hundred and twenty acres ofiand each, upon certain conditions named in the sub sequent part of the bill. The most important of these are that the settlements shall be in stations, each including not less than forty nor more than one hundred men; each settler to engage in the cultivation of grain and vegetables for his own support or foi sale to others, using the public land about the station for this purpose; each ela tion lo be protected by a block house which the settlers are to put up with the aid of the U. 8. troops; rations and clothing for one year to be supplied by the Government; and arms and am munition furnished on application at the nearest military post. At the return of peace and remov , al of the Indians, each settler who shall have . complied with these conditions, or his widow and heirs at law in case of his death, shall be entitled to a bounty of three bundrtd and twenty acres of land,as named above; the selection to be made by each settler according to priority of settlement, or by lot, when two or more claimants date from the same day of settlement. The bill provides also for frequgnt inspections of the various sta tions; for the survey of the lands referred to in the first clause, and for the opening of three land offices in the district, so soon as the same can be safely done. The lands granted to settlers are to Ire free from taxation, and unalienable even by ju dical sale, until the patent issues and for one year thereafter. Any settler failing to comply with the terms and conditions of the Act shall forfeit all rights arising under the some. , The bill has been rear! twice in the Senate.— , Baltimore American. How to onow men.—Nothing is more ea «y (says Mr. Paulding than to grow rich. It is f only lo trust nobody; lo befriend none; to heap interest upon interest, cent upon cent; lo destroy I all the finer feelings of nature, and be rendered mean, miserable, and despised, for some twenty or thirty years, and riches will come as sure as ' disease, disappointment, ami a miserable death. t I rom the Geoigiu Journal Legislative Sketches... Continued Gen. Jones, of Lee.—We know but little of this member’s powers. We have occasionally beard him debate. His manner needs amend ment. He seems to us to have practised elocu tion in a bad cllool. He is a man of good sense, and mure anxious to accumulate tnuney, th ru to acquire reputation as a legislator. He should learn at once that the tunes of the pulpit.cannot with propriety he transferred to a deliberative as sembly. Wc admire bis boldness and hisenergy of character; and if he will profit by the criticism, the j istice of which must be apparent to every one who has lounged in the gallery of the Senate as we have, wc are persuaded he can occupy a more commanding position limn that ire has hitherto held. Wo recommend lo his study, Hamlet’s advice to the player’s. Mr. Kelly, of Houston, is a striking proof of what can be accomplished by perseverance. Such has been the gradual rise of ibis gentleman, that he is now among the leaders ol his parly. Very patient in labor, of business habits, kind and obliging, bs has won his way to his present ele vation hy rna ing himself seivicuble to his party. Considering h's defect! e education, and the dif ficulties which he has hail to surmount, he has astonished us by the success which has crowned his industry. He has no pretensions to elo quence. Col- John Lanodon Lewis of Muscogee. This Senator is familiarly known as I ang Lewis, We mention this simply that he may not be confounded with Mr. John 8. Lewis, a gentle man of a very different order of mind, and who was sometime a citizen of Columbus, as well as the subject of this notice. This Senator is a very fine looking man. W« should be pleased, from the personal regard wc have for him, it we could commend his judgment. Without the or gan of eventuality, a phrenologist would not he surprised at the Protean phases he has in a very short political career put on. Inconsistencies, such as he, is accused of, justly detract from a man’s influence, and often arc serious blemishes upon a man’s political integrity, Mr. L. certain ly possesses very respectable talents, but they are ill directed. He seems lo have imbibed not a lit tie of that venom against monopolies, banks, cre dit system, See., which is a prevalent mania with a curtain portion of the people. If this gentle man exhibited any judgment in reforming their abuses, or in checking their tyranny, we should make no objection to his course, hut would laud j him for his effort*. As he is, however, he appears ■ ous to need a straight jacket. It has all, douht ) less, proceeded from his being Congress-mad.— We hope, now ins party have made ibeir nomi • nations, that this gemkiuea will have a lucid in ) terval for a couple of years. We are persuaded ! that his is not a confirmed case of political lu i nacy. Some people do this gentleman the singu>ar injustice of supposing all his holy horror of these 1 things is feigned—a mere simulation, and that i under the mask of a hatred even to the knife, he is but operating to advance the interests of some > of the Banks of Columbus. We don't believe ! the Col. is such an intriguer. That would be a deep game. We have seen once or twice in ■our life, some such thing enacted, but it was by I Mler and more cunning men than we esteem f Gsf. L. to be. It is said that this gentleman’s nomination was prevented by Mr. Sturgis. We t think be should thunk MV; 8. for this kindness, I since it affords the Col. an opportunity to rectify seme of his banking crudities—and to study a ■ Uttle more closely the interests of the people. • J. Miller, Esq. of Richmond.— • This gentleman is a lawyer in full practice.— f ■Commencing, as we have heard, in Augusta, very r poor, he has by the application of the highest r kind of business faculties to his profession, attain t ed a very handsome competency, and a very com manding position at the bar. 8o entirely has lie the confidence of the commercial community, in - which he resides, that wc might safely predict 3 that under no circumstances can he hi' displaced ' I’y any man hawever formidable for talent. For 3 several year, this gentleman has been a member. r first in the House of Representatives as a-col- I league of Jenkins, and more recently in the Ben r at'. Wholly unpretending, we should doubt i whether he ever in his lile aspired to the reputa • tion of an eloquent Speaker. He has, in onr 1 opinion, a more lasting reputation than the fleel • ing one gained.by the tinsel of rhetoric—that of ) the soundest practical iudgment. (’tear androool 3 headed, park at in, the examination of every suit ' ject, he is the last man in. Ihe Legislature upon whom the attempt should bo made to put off a sophism. T«n such men arc worth more to a de j liberative body, than fifty, of the most splendid .declaimers, which could be selected from the whole country. ’ Mr. Sfkinof.r, of Carroll.—This is the larg est Democrat of our acqur intniicc. We venture [• (hat no one who have ever seen this megutherion I -of a man can ever forget him. This gentleman j |» more remarkable for his personal, than for his I intellectual endowments. We would hy no means be understood as saying that this person is destitute of either mind of influence—far from it He has a large share of common sen e, and is an | exceedingly good party manager. Very much dis . posed to drop into the current of aggrarianism hy force of parly connexions, we have not basn sur prised that he is particularly partial to “ Free Banking,” and against monopolies, dec. Nnt . withstanding his decision and thorough-going parly attachments, we would much sooner apply , lo Mr. Springer foraid-in any hlreral measure, with an expectation of cordial co-operation than I t 0 many men’of more pretension, andi of more political prominence than himself. We have not , much acquaintance with this gentleman, yet we j have a great regard.'for him, became he is fat,— j He is said to be fuM of fun and anecdote. We f think it very certain therefore that he cannot'be a a ver y h*d man. Oh Falstaff! thou favorite of our youthful days ! how often hast thy ton of j flesh lyren apparent to our eyes, as we have sur s veyed Ine 8 rnalor from Carroll— cap a pic. A . lithograph: print of this gentlisiuan: intended as a , caricature, but an excellent likenesses to be found , in the bookstores of Macon. A bolter likeness, > au inimitable one in profile we saw- in Milledgr ( ftlle during the session of the Legislature, by a . Mr. Brown. What an admirable lavy of nature . is it, that neither giants nor pigmies propagate r their species in magnitudes or miniatures—« rrn j tion of Springers !'—of Titans I!! The mere idea shocks our nerves. . Mr. Tract, of Bi b.—This Senator is a person sul generis —unlike all other men whom wchave ever known. We have some rcrnbrance of him as far bark, or nearly so, as Ihe foundation of • that City of Cotton Hags—Macon—and like oth s er people deemed him an old man—he was them i> called as he now is, “old Mr. Tracy.” We doubt f not that, at that lime; bis white head was of great 1 service to him in his profession; it was as au 1 jhenlic evidence of his wisdom gravity, profound 9 oneeit, ‘'as if his visage bad creamed and man '• tied o’er like a standing pond,!’ We have heard that from his youth upwards, he has. worn this appearance of age—-at (his lime we should think him fut little ov.-r forty—in life and buoyancy of spirits, as young as a boy of fifteen. Full of hu ff mor—sparkling with wit—no barrister whotrav. y els tire circuit adds so much to the general joy of the profession around a winter’s fireside, as this gentleman. He is a most excellent lawyer, n r, better counsellor than advocate. But it is not as 0 we have occas onally seen him at the Bar that J we meant toaketch him.. As a.Senator, we think, t him out of place—and we presume he is as sen i- sible of the uncongeuiality of his position to his y tastes as any looker on can possibly be. Mr. i, Tracy is not an eloquent speaker—fluent enough, e perhaps no man has a greater supply of woids s than himself-—but he, has sueh a mass of queer e ideas always crowding upon him for utterance— a and he usually clothes them in r»di odd raiment, s that we'always feel’ an irrisiatihle impulse lo laugh. There is so much comedy in his veiy ff look.thatwefearthat were we followings hearse, and he in procession, that our thoughts would r, not partake of the solemnity of the occasion. Mr. Tracy is wholly unfitted by nature and habit J for the politician— though he is accounted a won - derful electioneerer. Infinitely superior in sense, . judgment, information and sagacity, to all the whipsters comb inert who have assumed lo lead s the party to which lie is attached—lie has never -1 tbeless been thrust back by one and all of them. He is a very inconsiderable man in influence, compared with the Bate*. Cones, Cranes and Dunncgans. his “right noble allies and compeers” of the Benate, To evince the variety of his ae . complishment as a scholar, be is said to be perfect , ly familiar with seven languages. > Gen. Williamson, of Newton.—There is i something so quiet, so unobtrusive in thisgeutle : man, that we raiioot but leel a grea regard for , him. Unlike those busy, bustling, noisy men, : who seek notoriety—it is difficult to draw this • gentleman out. He Iras a strong clear mind, and r can speak well if he would only shake off some thing of that modesty whirh restrains him. Ex ceedingly popular in his rounty—that populari i ty has been acquirer! by his worth and integrity v r and as it was honestly obtained—so we are per suaded it will long be retained. We bid adieu to the Senate House, having tir. ed you with our triflea, aa we have tired ourrwlvoa , in jieniiiiig them. Written currenle eahtmu wilhout elaboration, or reviaion, and designer! solely to fill out a vacant hour—if they have proved of momentary interest to you, we are re- paid ths slight lalmr they Have cost us; if they- ! I have not. we have no regrets lo arid, sa»s that 1 1 | some sow have escaped our pen. of whoa, we had J mended, and ii would hare been a pleasure to us to hare said a frond word or two. ftiThere is. however another class of men in both branch** of the Legislature, upon whom we must be pardoned tor not expending a line—we have no disposition to add a scintilla to the vanity of a parcel of blockheads by a notice of them, even roughly. They, like warts, would increase in size by rubbing. Yours, &c, Mn. Jones:—Will you please to insert in your paper, the annexed lines on P. 11. D., who died far from home and friends, and oblige your friend and’ constant reader. Anna. How saddning the winds that softly sigh, O’er those who are called with young hopes high. To tenant the tomb) More drooping the flow'ret hangs its head, So lone in the aisles above the dead, As waiting their doom. The gay Happy days of joyous youth, Shall learn but too soon the chilling truth, We lovo but-to mourn: Our hopes and ambition,now so bright, Shall vanish like chatt in airy flight, Hy rude blasts upborne. Toe fondly, alas! we wished the chain, In union that bound us. ne’er again The fates would dissever Its links are bedimm’d with friendship’s tear, And one who a moment brief was here, Has left us forever. A mother’s solicitude of love, A sire, save the one to whom above, , Ilis spirit has flowni To bring him relief, a sister fair, And, drive fnm his brow each gloomy rare, . To him were unknown. Then comrades weep, for the orphan weep, ’Tis noble grief, as one falls asleep, The loved of us all. His memory cherish, while the zephyr’s mourn, While failing, lexves in the autumn strewn, * Are requeim and pall. Hamiuhc, January 13, 1840. G. B. Lamar, Ksq.—.sir—This is the third time that bgavne you notice, that extensive repairs, in- Mnnter, on the lower part of the Augusta Bridge, are indispensible. The first was given in my of fice in Hamburg, when you informed me of having bought the bridge, and was to pay teventy thou sand debars for its: that you had paid twenty thou sand dollars in cash, and were to pay tifty thou sand dollars in two installments, in one and two yean. Upon which I told you it was a hazardous purchase, that you yomsclf were awaieof the sit uation of the title to the property, and of mine and otherclai s to ii, which I should feel ii my duty to prosecute; and I even fhrnished you with some documents at the time, relative thereto, and advis ed you not to pay them any more money, without the Hank would make you a warranty title for your safety, which I did not think they would do, because they knew they had not a good title them selves: and secondly, that the Bridge was old and getting weaker, and became more expensive every day; and that it not only had to withstand the river and drift wood, but the destruction of that cursed thing above, boats breaking loose, and tearing up those highland wharves, and was-therefore indis pensible to keep it, in the best possible repair at all times. If this was done, I thought it might withstand all that but I did not think It could in its present situation. It had stood twenty live years, but bat was no reason that it would stand twenty fivo years more; that the Bank had neglect ed it most shamefully; that they had made all the money they could, and have never made a thorough repair, but was satisfied with patch work, the greater part of which was done by negroes. The second notice was last spring, while you were in Hamburg and Augusta, making a change in the tolls of the Bridge, when I again informed you that essential repairs were indispensable, and to the lower part particularly. Vour reply was that you would come up yourself in the summer, examine and give it a thorough repair, as soon as the rivet wou.d admit. I have been here all the time, and have not seen you making examinations or repairs according to promise. The. river has been low all the summer, and is yet low enough to do all the work necessary. The bed of the Bridge, and the feet of many of the main braces, as well as the mortices in the ppsts, have been much de rayed hy time and the long exposure to the sun and' air during the summer. I spoke to the Bridge Keeper, Mr Frazier, re peatedly on the same subject, during the summer, who informed me that the sickness in Augusta pre vented him fro n getting hands; hut the sickness never prevented him from getting-a man to tak e the money; for 1 found one there every dayduring the time. If he was not there himself, lie had some one in his place, I do not know woids to express my feelings up on this subject. That a struetui* that has been erei ted with great skill, at an enormous expense, that realize* twenty thousand dollars annuaily.and is a common highway over a rebel ious torrent, be tween two cities and two states, by day and by night, in all seasons of the year, for these twenty seven years, and in which the whole community are so deeply interested, and the season so favora ble, should-bo so wantonly doomed to destruction, is an unpardonable crime; for after, once gone, all excuses and lamentations wi’l not bring it back agai ci- In conformity with a duty due to myself, as well as toothers,! feel it im urn bent on me to make you, and the Hank of- the state of Georgia, responsible for all the proceeds and damages that may occur from this neglect; from the day. it was wrested from me, until the day it is returned if a court can bo found la the United States to take jurisdiction. With due respect, I am yours. HKMtV SHULTZ. Hambubo, January 13,1840. Pretident and Dirertnri of the flank of the State of Georgia at Anguntaand Savannalu Gentle nen—The foregoing notice to Mr. O, b. Lamar, is intended as a notice for you, in,all its particulars,of whirh you will pleas* to take due notice. 1 am yours, respectfully, HSABY SHULTZ, j The near approach of the Annual Term of the Supreme Court baa given rise to aome inquiries as to the probable successor of Mr. Grundy in the office of A Homey General. We are unable oujsekea to afihnl to the curious any clew to the jntent*npeltahe Ejccutis- in the matter, but it lni, M" Bla,e that we have heard ' a rumor th«t»rW l %ppointmem will probably bo \ conferred on a citizen of North Carolina. Aa lional Intelligencer of Ilk imt. Lottkh t S r r:c i; i.ati on .—We understand that in Caldwell. Oakey & Pritchard’s Great >J.otlery, not a single one of the prizes came out! • ■bluing rich by lottery is a shrewd doubt, after all, genius who calculated that the chance a of a high prize is about equal to being struck y dead by lightning, was not a bad arithmetician. We have further understood that not less than $' 25,000 worth of tickets in this lottery were sold the day before the drawing! Not a bad specula* tion for the managers— New Or lean* Sun. On the 3d of December the British schooner Skipjack, brought into Montego bay, the Portu guese brig Ulysses, a slaver, with 629 slaves on board, which she captured off the isles of Pines, on the Ist, after a chase of 12 hours. The mas ter, Fernandez, a Portuguese, escaped with 13 passengers, chiefly captains of captured slavers, and six negroes, taking with them 8,000 dollars. —New Orleans Bee. Crimk in Fhanck,—Out of* svery lOfl per i ons accused. 61 arar regularly condemned. Out >f the whole population, I in every 4.4C0 inhab lants is accused. In every 100 crimes, 25 ore .gainst the person, 75 against the properly. Ex perience shows that the number of murders is nnuully nearly the same ; and what i» still- more ingulur. that the instruments or means employ d. aic also in the seme proportion. The incli latiuu la crime is at its maximum in man about he age of 25, in women 5 years later. The roporlion of men and women accused, is 3 to 1. he seasons have an influence on crime; in sum •ier more crimes are committed against the per on—fewer against p-operty the reverse is ths ass in the winter.. The development to tha ucliimlion to crime agrees very perfectly with, hut ot the passions and physical strength; and u the other hand; the development of reason, ends to rustaain the inclination. The greatest hysical strength of man devidopcd between the ge of 30 and 35; and the greatest mental "wers between that of 46 and 50. At this age he griatcat number of chefs d’oeuvre of the 'rencU theatre has ts-en produced. It is a singu ■lr contrast that about this age we find mental, licnatioii most frequent end difficult—Jkrue .ncj/c/u. et Annalts (T Hygiene. Sixrn D; truer or M|is«*ciut>sttsi—We* ,IH '" received a slip from the Greenfield Courier, diich gives us reason to hn ( « for the election of laker, (W big.) in the Sixth Congressional Dis- Irict of Massachusetts. Full returns have beets eccivcd Irom all the towns in the dis* riot except leath whie.h gave a majority of 4f*againt' Mr., taker at the Aral trial. Leaving. Ibis town out • I view, Mr. Baker's present majority is 46, over II other candidates. It is probable that there 1 r,l, y ave been a change in Heath, correspond 'j"K to that in other towns in favpr of Mr. Baker., n that event he is elected by a small majority,— KY. Courier ~f ith. J 3 A suit was lately b-ought in the Circuit Court s Mercer county, New Jersey, by Peter Denny i Co. vs. Hubert* Waddell and others, to recover 863.‘.’3. being the amount' of a< note given for loros rnullicauli- trees last spring. The defence ■t up was a total failure of consideration. The j try returned a verdict for the plaintiffs.— Newark la, ly Adv. Mobile, Jan. 3.—We learn, by a passenger, hat a destructive fire occurred at Pensacola, oa io morning of the 29th ult., destroying five uildings, and the progress of which was only, layed by pulling down two others. The build i figs destroyed were occupied by L, Rogers, John, amphell, E. 8. Worison’s clothing store, J. 0.. mith, drug store, Jenison Jt Eostar, B|ena & .a Kuc, and 8. Darios, No estimate of the loss, I Consignees per South Carolina Rail Road. Hambubo, January 14, 1840. W. IC. Jackson; T. Kichards; G. T. Dorlict S. B. Brooks; A. Frederick; Haviland, Rislty & Co.; P. Carrie; Baird St Howland;, J. G. Dunlaps W. Hat tier; D. 11. Mlcox; J, Mi Cooper St Son; Russell. Hutchinson t Co.; E. &J. A.bnydei; J. L. Frazer- J.F. Benson; Jeffers dt Boulware. ' MARJNE INTELLIGENCE. Savannah, Jan 13. Cleared— Barque Tasso; Cotidy, Havre; brig Philurah, Shearman, Boston. Arrived —Brig Exit, Session. St Augustine; schr. Arator, Bevins, Newport. Charleston, Jan. 14. 1 Arrived yesterday— Ships Camilla, Wadltagton,. Turks Island; Merchant, Sordon, Beverly Maas; Vir.i ia, Hussey, Alexandria, U.tj line ship Sut ton, Bankman. New ,ork; ship Poland, Anthony,, do; bugs Aik, Flanders, do; Nonpareil, Pope, New London; Canton, Pettingale, Su.livan, Me; Br brig Adiianna, Hunt, St. Thomas; Br. brig Woodbine, Shaw, Grenada; Dutch brig Heppins, Shart, Sun-. , nam; schts Peerl, Pearce, Matanzas; Elizabeth Thaiuc, New Orleans. Cleared— Brigs Lancet, Kruse, Havana; Wood stock, Bragden,Savannah. tXKCUTOK’B NOTICE. ALL persogs indebted to Mary Savage, deceas ed, late of Richmond county, are required to make payment to the undersigned; and tho e hold ing (lain s against her, are requested to hand in an account of their demands within twelve months ■ from this dale. Jan. 8, 1840. wCt A. J. MILLER. Eg’r. executor’s notice. ALL persons indebted to Milton Antony, de ceased, late of Kicbmond county,are required to make payment to the undersigned; and those holding claims against him, are requested to hand in an account of their demands within twelve months from this date. Jan. 8.1H4H wf>t A. J. MILLER, E**r. EXECUTOR’S NOT'CE. ALL persons indebted to Robert Dillon, deceas ed, late of Kicbmond county, are required to. make payment to th«.undersigned; and those hold ing claim* against* him. are requested to hand in, an account of their demands, within twelve months from this date. Jan 8.J840. w6t A. J. MILLER; Ez’r. A imirtlfTß % TOR’*) NOTICE. ALL persons indebted to Richard F. Bush dr ceased, late of Richmond county, are requir ed to make payment to the undersigned; and those holdingciaims against him, are requested to hand in an account of their demands, within twalvw months from thi. date. * ‘ ,IT * Jan. 9. 1540. wßt A. J-MU.I «R,