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FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 17.
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In our paper of Tuesday, we expressed the
opinion that the present distress among the peo
ple for money, was aggravated by the course pur
ged by our Banks. The circulation of these in
stitutions is now less than it has been for twenty
yeors, and of course the amount of money in the
hands of the people is less. Could the Banks,
by union among themselves and concert of action,
•meliorate the prevailing distress, without en
dangering the currency! We unhesitatingly
believe they could ; and do not scruple to express
the opinion that it is more from a want of will
than of ability that they do not do it. With a
few exceptions, the Banks are now in a state of
suspension, and people do not expect of them to
redeem their issues in specie. That they are
deemed solvent, by the community, is evidenced
the fact that their bills circulate freely, and
are taken in payment for debts of every descrip
tion. That they possess the power of adminis
tering relief, is evidenced by the fact that, while
they refuse to discount any description of mer
cantile paper, they will, at any time, discount
bills of exchange upon Charleston or Savannah,
Whether the drawer has funds against which to
draw or not!! They will thus discount fictitious
bills, when they can wring out of applicants a
double profit from interest and exchange, while
they refuse to discount business paper at the
shortest lime, or of the most approved character.
Here is the process of operation by which these
a institutions reap a usurious interest by “whip
' ping the devil round the slump.”
A B, being desirous of raising money, goes to
a Bank, and says, “Will you discount a bill upon
Charleston for #IOOO, for sixty days 1”
“Yes.”
“Upon what terms'!”
“Interest off.”
The bill is discounted and A B receives #987
60 as the nett proceeds of hie bill. At the end
of sixty days when the hill falls due in Charles
ton, he goes to the Dank at which he obtained
the discount to purchase a draft to meet the bill,
and is compelled to pay four per cent, premium
on #IOOO, lor it. Here then he has paid #52 50
for the use of #987 50 for sixty days besides post
age, being over 5 per cent, for that time, and at
the rate of over 30 per cent per annum! 1 But
suppose he ships cotton to Charleston to meet
his bill, then the Bank wiil sell the exchange
.created by his bill at four per cent, premium, re
alizing #52 50, in sixty days in the shape of in
terest upon a loan of 1000 dollars for that time!!
Why Shylock himself could not beat this!!
We charge that our banks are in the habit of
doing this description of paper, thereby making
usurious profits, and do it too with a full knowl
edge that the party drawing the bill has no funds
in Charleston!! And yet they rigorously refuse
to discount any sort of mercantile paper which
only yields an interest of 7 per cent, per annum.
Now if they have the ability to do this grinding
sort of business, they have an equal ability to do
1 an honest business for the accommodation and
benefit of the public. But by refusing to do a
regular business and compelling their debtors to
pay up, they aggravate the pressure of the times
and thereby constrain a resort on the part of those
in distress, to the usurious system of drawing
fictitious bills. It is by such means as this t,hat
while the people are impoverished, the banks
grow fat! Instead of doing any thing for the
relief of the public, they are every day drawing
the cord tighter and tighter, until finally the pa
tient will become strangled, and then the banks
will very magnanimously lay their hands upon
every thing he possesses. Things arc approach
ing that crisis now—debtors have paid up until
they can no longer pay, not for the want of pro
perly, but for the inability to make property avail
able to raise money—By their former profuse
liberality thhey induced people to go in debt, and
they now seem determined to make use of their
power to produce indiscriminate ruin, by cutting
off the means of payment. Wc shall “continue
the horehound.”
The Virginia House of Delegates have fixed
upon the 23d inst. as the clay for electing a Sen
ator of the U. S.
The Tallahassee Star of the 9lh says, that Col.
Fitzpatrick arrived on Tuesday, at St. Marks
from Cuba with thirty three blood hounds, and six
Spaniards, their trainers and keepers. If these
hounds are put into service, we have more confi
dence in the speedy close of the Seminole War
than ever before. We should like to see this
clique of dogs. It must be a “ bully crowd.”
It is gratifying to witness the promptitude and
fidelity with which the agents of the Post Office
Department in geue,al perfoim their public du
ties.— Vim Buren's Message.
Did Mr. Van lluren believe what he said, or
did he merely intend the above as a part of that
system of humhuggery of wh ch his whole ca
reer has been composed. Since the 15th day of
November last, wo do not believe that one half
of the mails on the great Northern and Southern
route have been received at their proper time
’ There are now three or four due. and it is alto
gether uncertain when we shall e>er get another.
But the people of this country and generation
were born to be humbugged, and they had as well i
bo humbugged in the name of Democracy us '
any thing else; apd perhaps as well by Van (
Buren ns any other creeping creature. “Pune- ,
tuality and fidelity” indeed! In the purer days |
of the Republic, a President would have blushed |
to have made such a statement; but in these
corrupt times, the people will believe a lie if it i
flatters their party prejudices, and Van Buren 1
has sense enough to profit by stupidity.
The Washington correspondent of the Charles- i
ton Courier, under date of the 10th, states that
Henry D. Gilpin, Esq., late Solicitor of the Treas
ury, is the new Attorney General, vice Mr. Grun*
dy, resigned. The appointment was offered to
Mr. Dallas and Mr. Buchanan, of Pennsylvania,
but both gentlemen declined it; the latter is now
a Snator in Oongreaa, and is occasionally spoken
of for the next Presidency—but what reason Mr.
Dallas bad for decling the office, is a subject of
marvel, inasmuch as his finances are said to be
in a shattered condition, and this post, would be
characterized by Sam Welter, as one in which
he’d have nothing to do, and plenty to get. Mr.
Burcbetl fills the office of Solicitor, vacated by
Mr. Gilpin.
To the Editor! of s he Federal Unton :
Seeing my name announced in your last paper
as one of the Directors of the Central Bank, I
hand you the following copy of a note to His
Excellency for publication.
A. H. KENAN.
Mii.ikdokvili.e. Jan. 7ih, 1840.
To His Excellency Charles J. McDonald :
Em- —For reasons verbally given your Excel
lency yesterday, (and which you are at liberty to
use,) my declension of the preferred honor of a
Directorship in the Central Bank, with Tomlin
son Fort and William D. Jarratt, Esquires, can
not be unexpected to you. With little or no ex
perience in banking, I should act unwisely to as
sume responsible duties in a direction with men
whose former inefficiency and errors in the man
agement of the Central Bank were censured,
unanimously, by the Legislature of 1837. In
addition, Sir, my admiration for the marly inde
pendence of Gen. Hanford in repelling Executive
dictation, by a refusal to vole for Dr. Fort for
the Presidency of the Central Bank, (for which
I presume the Gen. was excluded the direction.)
forbids that I, entertaining the same views, should
occupy a less enviable position. Very respectful
ly, A. H. KENAN.
News from the Cherokees.
Little Ruck, (Auk.) Dec, 18.
By Col. T. J. Pew, who arrived here late last
evening, four days from Fort Smith, we lesrn that
Jack Nicholson, one of the murderers of Major
Ridge, and an Indian named Terrell, and two oth
ers, charged with being concerned in disturban
ces in the Cherokee nation, have been arrested
by commands under Lieut. Porter, of the 4th in
fantry, and Northrop, of the Ist dragoons. The
prisoners arc now on their way to this city, un
der the charge of the U. 8. Marshal, Major E
Rector, and will be here in a day or two.
The Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Capt.
Win. Armstrong, has received instructions to
withhold all annuities and payments to the Che
rokees, except mere subsistance, until affairs in
that nation shall become in a more settled state.—
Gazette.
The Richmond Whig holds the following lan
guage in speaking of the refusal of the Governor
of New York to deliver up a citizen charged with
stealing a slave from Virginia :
We are wronged in this. Our property has
been stolen by citizens of New York; the authori
ties of that State refuse, in violation of good faith
and of the Federal compact, to deliver up the
thieves to lie punished by our laws. The alter
natives for us are plain and simple; either submit
to the wrong without a word of complaint, or take
steps to redress it, without regard to consequen
ces.
Mn. Jaudon’s nbw Loan.— Letters from
London, by the last packet, speak of a new loan
in market on account of the U. S. Bank. The
project is something as follows ;—Post Notes are
issued by the Bank bearing interest at the rate of
fi per cent, payable one half in October 1841, and
the other half in October, 1842.
The Post Notes, or debentures as they arc call
ed in London, arc offered at 92, which makes the
actual rate of interest about 10 per cent. Roths
child* head the subscription, and there arc depo
sited in their hand as security, State Storks, some
what in conformity to the following list. The
loan is £900,000.
1.500.000 Pennsylvania, 5 per cent stock.
1.500.000 Michigan, 0 do do
1.500.000 Mississippi, 0 do do
250.000 Illinois, 6 do do
250.000 Arkansas, 6 do do
U. States and Texas Boundary The
commissioners of the two countries, appointed to
run and mark the boundary, were at the mouth
ol the Sabine at the last dates. The Mobile
Journal remarks that the boundary to be determi
ned is the same that was established with Spain
by the treaty of 1819. which was afterwards re
established by treaty with Mexico in 1832, and to
the obligations of which Texas succeeds. Con
vention after convention was agreed upon between
our government and that of Mexico, before the
separation of Texas, to have the line run and
marked; but in consequence of the political trou
bles in Mexico, it was never completed. The
line commences at the mouth of the river Sabine,
continuing along the Western bank of that river
till it reaches the point where the 32d degree o(
North latitude strikes the Sabine— thence due 1
North till the line strikes the Red river ; thence |
along the course of the river to the 100th degree 1
of longitude West from London; thence North to 1
the Arkansas river, along that river to its source !
in latitude 42 degrees, and along that paralel to
the Pacific. The determining of these parallels (
of latitude is the object of the commissioners. (
The officers are men of high reputation for sci- (
ence, and have with them very costly and deli- ,
cate instruments. —Baltimore American.
Ballooninr.— A Mr. Charles Green, through i
the columns of the London Observer, proposes to 1
cross the Atlantic ocean froip New York to Eng- 1
land in a balloon. The Observer says : f
Mr. C. Green has authorized the following state- i
ment of the grounds upon which he founds his |
assertion of the possibility of making a journey in 1
a balloon from New York, across the Atlantic to I t
Europe. He slates that balloons inflated with ! c
carburctted hydrogen, or common caal gas, will 1 1
retain thi* fluid unimpaired in its buoyancy, and
very slightly diminished in quantity, for a great
length of time; while on the contrary the pure hy
drogen is so subtle a gas, and capable of so great
a degree of tenuity, as to escape through the im
perceptible pores of the silk, whether prepared in
the ordinary manner or by means of dissolved In
dia rubber.
These facts arc the result of observations made
during 275 ascents; on many of these occasions,
a smaller balloon has been filled at a neighboring
gas works, and has Iteen brought a distance of
fiveorsix miles to fill that in which he intended
to ascend, retaining, in many instances, its con
tents nearly the same in quantity and quality for
nearly a week. The toronaut has travelled 2,900
miles with the same supply of gas, and could
have continued its use for three months, if neces
sary. As to making the voyage from America
to Europe, Mr. Green dates its possibility from
the following facts :—On all occasions in which
the balloons in which he or other teronouts had
gained an altitude beyond the lower current of
air, or land-breezes, they found one uniform cur
rent of air coming from the Atlantic, and blowing
west, northwest, or west by north, while the un
der winds, from different causes, were blowing
from points completely at variance with the above;
the ascent of the machine into these upper cur
rents is perfectly easy, and the same altitude may
be kept for an indefinite time with equal facility.
In 1836, Mr. Green made a proposition at Pa
ris to cross the Atlantic in a balloon, when he
received a letter from Admiral Sir Sidney Smith,
confirming his observations as to the directions
of the upper currents, and in which (hat gallant
officer states his conviction of the safety of the
proposed undertaking, and his readiness to ac
company the atronaut from New York to Europe
in his balloon. It must be kept in mind that a
balloon is not borne along as is a ship, by the
force ot the wind, having to overcome the imped
iment interposed by passing through a denser el
ement like the water, but is a body lighter than
the air itself in which it floats, and is waited at
the same speed as thi, air itself travels, as if it
were a part of the moving body. The wide ex
panse of sea offers no impediment to the under
taking, and a machine as large as the Nassau
ballon could easily be fitted up for the reception
ofthree persons, and victualled for three or lour
months, if necessary.
The machine could be lowered to the earth and
ascend as often as it pleased the voyagers, by the
adoption of the same plans as those used in the
voyage to Germany. Mr. Green, having estab
lished the facts of a current of air continually
passing round the earth in the direction of west
north-west, the capability of his machine to re
tain the carburctted hydrogen gas for an unlimit
ed time, and of its power of sustaining itself in the
air for weeks—under these circumstances, and
trusting to the faith he has always endeavored to
keep with the public as a claim to their confi
dence on this occasion, offers to take upon him
self to traverse the Atlantic from New York to
England in a balloon to he constructed for that
purpose, and that he will make the experiment
without any reward for his exertions.
Nkw-Youk Legislature. —The Legislature
of New-York, convened at Albany on Tuesday.
In the Senate, Lieut. Governor Bradish look the
chair as presiding officer, and on the roll being
called by the Clerk, 27 members answered to
their names.
The House was organized by the election of
Geo. W. Patterson, as Speaker; Philander B.
Prindlc, Clerk; Minus Magonn, Sergeant alarms;
Samuel Francis, Door-keeper; Abraham H.Grove
stcin, Assistant Door-keeper. All Whigs. The
V. B. candidate for Speaker was Andrew G.
Chatffeld, who received 56 vetes—Patterson 68.
Patterson’s majority 12. Several members ab
sent.
On the same day Governor Seward delivered
his annual Message which is of immense length,
occupying closely printed columns in the Al
bany Evening Journal.
ll appears from this document, that the gross
income from the Canals during the last fiscal
year, was #1,657,102; being an increase of #165,-
202 over the previous yesr. Nett proceeds from
tolls, #1,057,803.
Present productive capita! of the Common
School Fund, #1,978,069. Literature Fund,
#268,164. Bank Fund,#Blß,B2l.
Whole number of Convicts in Sing Sing State
Prison, 805. Received during the year, 209.
Convicts in Auburn Prison, 665. Received du
ring the year, 228. Earnings at Sing Sing du
ring the year, #73.202; expenditures, including
moneys paid foi the completion of the prison for
female convicts, #73,450. Earnings at Auburn,
#60,161; expenditures, #51,671.
Whole number of militia of the State, 180,103,
viz. 7,427 cavalry and horse artillery, 9,256 ar
tillery, and 160,420 infantry.
The present State indebtedness, after making
allowance for funds on hand, is #9,020,899. 'Fhe
estimated cost of completing the Erie Canal en
largement, is #9,292,886; do. of completing the
Genesee Valley Canal, #2,900,123; do. Black
River Canal, #1,550,156. Total, for all these
works, #23,743,165. The interest on this sum,
at 5 per cent, would be #1,187,158.
With a view to avoid, as far as may be, the
burdens which those works would impose upon
the Treasury, if prosecuted rapidly to completion,
Gov. Seward recommends that the plana of all
the unfinished works he referred to com|ietent
engineers, for the purpose of ascertaining what
parts of the same may lie delayed without detri
ment to the public interest, and what expense
may be saved by executing other portions in a
marine! equally effective and durable, but more
plain and economical tlian that hitherto pursued.
The Governor urges a distribution of the pro
ceeds of the public lands among the several
States. Also, that the Slate of New York upon
the “fulfilment of the pledge of the Federal Gov
ernmenl” in regard to the fourth instalment of
the surplus revenue. “The portion of that in
stalment due to this State,” he says, “is #1,338,-
173 57.”
In regard to the requisition made upon the Ex
ecutive of this State, by the Governor of Vir
ginia, fer the surrender of three persons as fugi
tives bom justice, charged with having felonious
ly stolen a negro slave from that State, Governor
SeWard says :
I confess my surprise that it should in any part
of the Union lie regarded as a new and startling
doctrine that the constitutional power of the Ex
ecutive of any other Stale, to demand the surren
der of a citizen of this State to be carried to the
former and tried for an offence committed there
is limited to cases in which the offence charged
is recognized as criminal by the statute laws of
this State, by the common law, or by the univer
sal law of mankind. Nor can I withhold the ex
pression of my sincere regret that a construction
of the constitution, manifestly necessary to main
tain the sovereignty of this State and the perso
nal rights of her citizens, should he regarded by
the Executive of Virginia as justifying in any
contingency a menace of recession from the
Union.
i jsssmm aa^^gßßgaßHßgaM sassssm
fte Chronlet* A Sentinel.
Mtntj. Riiitoh* :— Having seen by the pa
pers that n meeting of the Augusta Benevolent
Society is to tie held on Friday evening next, I
hop# air. the public Will fee! an interest in this
meeting. Especially as the Society has expend
sd all its available funds, and is now penny less.
And we know th|t a Benevolent Society, with
out the means to alleviate the distresses of hu
man wretchedness, is like an angina at a fire
without the means to extinguish the flame
Let us not suppose that liecauso the epidemic
does no longer rage in our city, that therefore the
afflictions of the pour have ceased to exist. No
sir, they do exist, and will exist so long as the
world shall have an existence. We have this
declaration from him who spake as never man
spake. He says “The poor ye have with you
always”—and then ho adds “And whensoever ye
will, ye may do good,” Mark, xtr. 7. So we see
that it is established in the order of God's provi
dence, that poverty shall always exist, and with
it, all, all its concomitant evils. But it is said, to
me, to you. to all, who have bread enough, and
to spare, “ and whensoever ye will," dr Now
sir, Ido not understand by it that it is optional
with me to do, or not to do good; and I should
presume that every individual who feels that he,
or she, is an accountable creature, is sensibly
impressed with this truth, that it is an imperious
duty enjoined upon us, to do good—to communi
cate to our fellow men. who are not placed in
such favorable circumstances as w« are, of the
good things the Lord in hit providence has given
to ue, having the eyes of our mind fixed upon the
last day of accounts, when all our accouts shall
be settled in righteousness with him who lies
made us his stewards, and has said to us, Occu
py till I come. Believing that this enlightened
community views it in this light, I hope there
will be a large and liberal audience, fully prepar
ed to put something into the treasury of the
Lord. W.
Wednesday, January 15, 1840.
We publish the following lines in order to let
the writer see himself in print, and we arc sure
that if he sees himself as others see him, he will
never wish to see himself there again. We
should like to know him !
For tht Chronicle It Sentinel.
To the Merchant.
A word or two with you, my friend,
8o listen, for before 1 end,
’Twill perhaps be good advice,
Free from any mean device.
The merchant, not unlike the rest
Os speculators, now at best,
Have their troubles in proportion
To the sum of their devotion.
At the great majestic shrine,
When ’tis required but to sign,
The awful state of thirty nine,
Will prove the assertion not to sign,
Ami tell you that the credit system,
Is not the dictates of true wisdom.
So if you’ve bought no goods this season.
You’ve acted right and with good reason;
But if you have, 1 must confess,
It if too late for much redress.
The coming mouths ace soon at hand,
And oh! then’ll be a great demand.
So now, in time, just state the case,
To the creditors, with good grace,
And ask the favor of extension,
For, my friend, I cannot mention,
Any other mode or manner,
On which to plant your hopeful banner.
For if you wait for better times,
And keep up your spirit with designs,
The note comes on and is presented—
Oh, is it paid—no, ’tis protested.
Three dollars thus is gone, my friend,
So chuese my plan and three you’ll spend.
Jiivenis.
The United States and Texan Commissioners
and their assistants are at the mouth of the
Sabine, preparing for the establishment of the
boundary between the countries.
A young surveyor of the name of McUin
Barrow, assistant to Col. Conway, U. S. survey
or, was lately killed by the accidental discharge
of his own gun.
A young lady, at an examination in grammar,
was asked why the noun bachelor was singular.
She replied immediately and with much naive,
“because it is very singular they don’t get mar
ried ”
Now this is a good story, hut not half so good i
as the following. A young lady was once ask
ed, by hei instructor in school, whether the noun
kiss was ammnn or proper. She decided that
it was Imth.— Acte Bedford Mercuary.
MARINE INTKLLKiKNCE. |
Savannah, Jan 14. I
Arrived —Br brig King Henry, Leach, Trinidad ; i
schr Gen. Warren, Baker, Boston ; steamboat John I
Randolph, Lyon.
Went to sea —Ship Lancashire, Alexander, Liv- 1
crpool ; brigs Havre, Carpenter, Liverpool ; Audu- j
bon, Hickling. Havana.
Departed —steamboat John Randolph, Lyon, Au
gusta.
Charleston, Jan. 16.
Cleared —Ship# Mcdora, Turner, Bordeaux; Eli
za Warwick, Davis, Liverpool; brig Aldrich, Jla- I
ker, .Mobile.
Went to sea yesterday —Br ship Nimrod, Man- '
ning, Liverpool; ships Brooklyn, Richardson do.; j
St. Lawrence, Banker, do.; barque Valhalla, Itorry, |
Antwerp; Bremen barque Diarnant, Ballaer, Bre
men ; Ban. brig Fortuna, Neilson, Copenhagen; Ur
ketch Lottery, Spencer, West Indies.
LAW. —The undersigned having removed tc
Starkvillc, Lee county, wili practice in the i
several courts of the counties of Lee, Sumter 1
Stewart, Randolph, Macon, Early, Baker, Dooly ]
and Marion
Referent**— Col, Joseph H. Lumpkin, Lexing
ton, Ga.; Denning .U. Moore and Capt. Peter Lamar,
Lincoln ton, Ga.; A. J. eo T. VV. Miller, Augusta, ■
Ga.; J. Lnmkin and Dr. Miles K. Hannan, Travel
lers Rest, G*. RICHARD F. LYON,
ocf 35 1 y
IAW DISSOLUTION.—The firm of Olin and
J I utnam, Attornies and Solicitors, is this day
aissolved by mutual consent.
W. MILO OLIN,
G. PUTNAM.
Warrcnton, Oct.Slst, 1830.
N. B. The business of said firm remaining un
settled, will be finished by me, and I am duly au
thorized to collect and receive all debts due the
firm aforesaid, and I will also take this opportuni
ty to inform my friends and the public generally,
that I shall continue in the practice of Law in War
renton, Ga., and any business which may bo intrus
ted in my hands shall meet with prompt attention.
oct 3l 6mw G. PUTNAM.
NOTICE —During my absence from Georgia,
James W. Jones and William Bennett will
act as my Agents. Herebv revoking all powers of
ttorney and agenev herctoiorc giveii oy me.
STEPHEN W. BLOUNT, Ja.
Waynesboro’, October 31, 1839. 2m
NEBUOES AND LAND FOR SALE.
'lt HAT valuable place in Striven county .known
1 as the Mobly’s Pond Plantation, containing
about 1750 acres; a large portion of which is ex
cellent cotton and provision Land. With the land
will be sold, fifty two or three Negroes. For terms
apply to ROBT. HABERSHAM A SON.
no v 29 wtlstfcb
IAWTON &.BEMN, Factors and Commission
_i Merchants, Savannah, Ga.
W. S. LAWTON,
jan 11 w6t* _ J* H.BEIIN.
NOTICE. —Will be sold on the lint Tuesday in
April next, at the market house in the city of
Augusta, forty acres Pine Land, more or less, lying
in the county of Richmond, adjoining lands of L.
11. Heal and IV V. Dickinson Sold fur the benefit
of the heirs of Agatha deal, deceased.
Jan. 11, 1840. JOHN BOSTICK, Ex’r.
NOTICE. — Dr. NEESON, intending shortly
to leave the county of Burke, requests ail
who arc indebted to him, to come forward und make
settlement; also, all who have demands against
him to produce the same for payment. <123 w3t
LAW NOTICE.—a. K. SLACK WELL, Attor
ney at Law, will practice in the different
counties in the Cherokee Circuit, also the Courts at
Marietta, Cobb county stw* jan 6
THE Trustees of the Wrightsborough Academy
would inform the public through this medium,
that its exercises will commence on the second
Monday in January inst,,underthc direction of Mr.
John Tucker, who brings ample testimony of abili
ty to teach an English ami Classic school. Board
can be obtained on very reasonable terms ;. Tuition
fees low, and situation healthy.
THOMAS H. WHITE,
8. ROBERTS,
EDWARD H. JONES.
an 1
(H a n/A REWARD. —Runaway from my
yj) X t *** plantation on Hack Head, in Burke
county,on the 2Sth day as January, 1839, my ne
gro man named Daniel, a stout, square built fellow,
dark complexion, usually smiles when spoken to,
and he has lost two or three fingers off the right
hand. lam of the opinion that he wont to Liberty
or Lowndes counties,and is harbored. 1 will g.vc
the above reward for proof to conviction of any
white person for civthhng away or harboring said
negro, or fifty dollars for his delivery to me, qr his
being secured in the Savannah jail, so that 1 gut
him. EVERET SAPP.
Burke co , December 18,1839. w3m
(Jj’Thc Savannah Georgian and Milledgevillc
Recorder will copy the above weekly for three
months.
LARGE SALE
O F LAND AND NE«R OE S .
IN conformity to a decree of the Court of Equity,
will he sold on Tuesday, the 4th ol February
next, all that Plantation on Savannah rivor, con
taining fourteen hundred acres more or less, ad
joining lands of John Mosely, Silas Lanier, and
others, and lying immediately on the river below
the mouth of Stephens’ creek ; one third of which
is cleared and in good repair and in a line state for
immediate cultivation ; appurtenant to which is a
valuable fishery, at Bull Slice This tract will be
sold entire, or in lots, to suit the convenience of
purchasers.
The above property is distant seven miles from
Hamburg, by the Martintown road, und has been
found to lie as healthy as any in the countay.
Also, that valuable Plantation on Stephens’creek
and the Martinlown roa<h well known as the Key
place,containing about nine hundred acres.
Also, another tract of land, adjoining the above,
on the Martintown road, containing one hundred
acres, more or less.
Also, the plantation on Chavis’creek, now in the
possession of Win. J Wightman, including the
homestead,containing abouttwclvc hundred acres,
more or less, on which is an excellent Grist Mill
and Cotton Gin, all in good repair. All the above
lands are known and celebrated as being the finest
and most fertile Cotton and Gram lands in the Dis
trict.
Also, a tract of pine land on the head of Sweet
water, containing about five hundred and ninety
acres, more or less, adjoining lands of Reason Lau
ham and others.
Also about TWENTY VALUABLE NEGROES.
Also, Horses, Mules, Stock of Cattle, Hogs, Corn,
Fodder, Farming Utensils, Sfc. Ac.
The above sale will commence on the day above
mentioned, at the river plantation, and continue
from day to day until finished.
Terms of sale—The lands will be said on a
credit of one and two years, with interest from day
of sale, and possession given immediately ; the ne
groes for onc-fonrth cash, and the balance on a
credit unti, the Ist day of January, 1841.
For all other property—sums under one hundred
dollars, cash. Sums over that amount, a credit of
welvc months, without interest.
Resurvoy plats of the land will he exhibited on
j he day of sale. JOHN BAUSKETT, Trustee.
Edgefield, 8. C'., Jan. 6. td
! . AUGYLE. —The thorough bred
racehorse and stallion Argyle, will
' ■ WNK make the ensuing Spring season at
ts uaMr. Win. Smith’s plantation in Lan
\ I rens district, at SSO the season, com
I ing the 15th June. Particulars hereafter.
dec 17 tI6F THE OWNERS.
j REWARD. —Runaway from the sub
' /J) i J scriber, about a year since, my negro
i man, by the name of Norel. He is about five feet
j three inches high, rattier dark complected, very
quick spoken; and speaks in a low tone of voice,
1 and never looks a white man in the face when po
j km to. I think very probably that he is about Au
i gusta Seventy five do lars will he given to any
person who will deliver him tomcat Palmyra, Lee
county Ga., or fifty dollars if he is secured in any
safe jail, so that I get him.
jan 14 wst DAVID 11. JANES.
FIN N. POULLAIN A SON inform their Inemls
; J , and the public generally, that they have
I received by late arrivals, and are now opening a
I fresh and general assortment of GROCERIES, at
the stand formerly occupied by Ularke, MeTeir &
[ Co., immediately opposite Hie Globe Hotel, and will
: be pleased to fill all orders sent them.
Ail Cotton confided to tlicircare will oe sold free
of commission.
A sto k of Scull Shoals Manufactured Goods
will be kept constantly on hand,
dec 12 wtlmay
NO I ICE. —The co-partnership of BROWN A
F OSH EE, of Laurens District, S. ~is dis
solved by Robert Brown quitting the business and
le iving the state. Notice is lieieby given to all
persons not to give credit to the said Robert Brown,
on account of the said co-partnership, and all per
sons indebted to said firm will only make payment
to me, as no other person it legally authorised to
collect. BENJAMIN FOSHEE.
August 3, 1839. wtf
42 4 AA REWARD.—Ranaway from the
UJ subscriber, living on tbc MMledge
villc road, About three mijes from Augusta, a negro
girl named Mary, about 15 years of r,ge, copper
colored, no particular remarks recollected, ha« rath
er a delicate foot and hand. It is probable she it
now living in the neighborhood of this place. The
above reward will be paid to any person delivering
said girl to me, or giving such information that I
may get her.
jan S w3f THUS. N. IIEARDE.
NEW ENGLAND HUM U SALT.
40 bbls New England Rum,
1000 bushcla Salt,
jan 7 trw4t for sa'e by J. MEIGS.
(lAUTIUN. —The public is cautioned against
) trading for a promissory i.uie.made by Samuel
Howell, on or about the third day of April last,
payable Ist of January last, for One Hundred Dol
lars, interest from date, in favor of J. W. Kittles,
and by him endorsed—the same having been lost or
mislaid by the subscriber, to whom settlement has
ocen made by the drawer. TIIOS. BARNES,
mar 6 wtf
NOTICE.
LOST or mislaid, one Note given by Elbert
H dson to the subscriber, for lifty-cight dol
lars and sixty-two and a half cents, dated the 3d
of December, 1838, and due the Ist of November,
183!). All persons are hereby warned not to trade
for said note, ana tne ninacr is nereoy warned not
to pay the same to any person except myself.
JOSEPH DILLARD.
Jetlemtu to., November -JR, is 39.
TW liNTV FI V KDOL I, ARS Hi; W A R f>.
«ANAW AY from the subscriber, in Monroe
, amity,Georgia, en •he 27th day of Gctober
last, a Negro Man by the name of Joe, about 25
years of age,s feet(i orß in hes high,yellow com
plexion, has a mole on the right side of his lace,
cheek bones hi„h, rather thin jawed, pleasant
countenance, quick spoken. When he left he wore
olf a wide brimmed white hat, a steel-mixed round
about. He carried off a set of carpenter’s bench
planes, saw and hammer, a joint rule, and box
square. It is my opinion that he will attempt to
pass himself off as a free man, and that he will itop
in some large place or city, where he can hire him
self to work at the carpenter’s trade. 1 will give
the above rewaid for the delivery of said negro to
me, or to the keeper of some jail, and to b« placed
therein, and information given to Hie subscriber,
living in Eurt Valley, Houston county, Ga.
WILLIAMSON M. BRASWELL.
nov 22 wtf
r/< | gk d k REWARD —Will be given for the
fP |_ JJtJ apprehensionaml delivery to me of
a certain Negro man by the nuhie of Hill, or Wil
liam as he is sometimes called, at Society Hill,
Alabama, or safely lodged in any safe jail in Geor
gia or South Carolina, so that I can gut him. Said
negro is about 35 years of age, 5 feet 8 or 9 inches
high, quite blbck, spare made, quick in his move
ments, answers readily and quickly when spoken
to, s|ieaks broken in his dialect, has some signs of
the small pox, 1 know of no other marks, as 1 have
owned him but a short time previous to his elope
ment. He is fond of music, and is remarkable for
his expertnest in keeping time w ith it by means of
two small paddles or sticks, which he uses in one
hand between his fingers.
The above named negro left me in Baldwin coun
county, Ga., in July, 1837, and has been seen since
in the lower part of Jones county, and is probably
now lurking about Macon, Augusta, or Charleston,
8. twhere he was raised.
nov 7 firn BKNJ. K. ELLIS.
PRINTING OFFICE FOR SALE, AT A
GREAT SACRIFICE.
TWAHE subscriber offers for sale the Printing es
,l. tablishment of the DAILY NEWS, in the
city of Augusta, Ga.
The newspaper type consists of Nonpareil, Bre
vier, llurgeois.and Long Primer, in sufficien t quan
tity to publish any paper in the southern States. —
The type is very good, and been but little used.
The Press is one of Smith’s patent, of Hoe’s
manufacture, and capable of printing an imperial
sheet—and warranted to be inferior to none in use.
The Job Typi in tlie office comprises almost ev
ery size from pica to twenty line pica, and exten
ive founts capable of doing any work which might
offer. The assortment was made at Bruce’s foun
dry in New \ ork, without regard to cost, and is as
complete as could he desired. 7 here is a large as
sortment of Borders attached to the Job Office.
A large Imposing Stone; a great number of Cha
ses, large and small; a cast iron Roller Mould, Cyl
inders, Erame, Ike,; together with Stands, Cases,
Sticks,Furniture, and every other artic.e necessa
ry in an extensive printing establishment.
The tertns are $1,300. One third cash; a third
on the Ist of July, 1840; and a third on the Ist of
January, IS4I, with approved notes.
Any person wishing to purchase a Printing Office,
will scarcely ever meet with a more favorable op
portunity.
Letters on this subject, post paid, addressed to
Andrew J. Miller,at Augusta, or to the subscriber
in Milledgevillc, will be atten led to.
WILLIAM H PRITCHARD,
j 9 Surviving partner of Pritchard A. Bush.
VALUABLE TOWN PROPERTY FOR
MALE.
I'IHE subscribers being determined to move
west, offer for sale the property belonging to
the firm of Thomas H. White&(*), in the town of
W rightsboro’, consisting of two Btore-honses and
Lots; one of which is very commodious, and well
arranged for a huge stock of goods, with a conven
ience of an excellent well of water at the door.
Alsu, the entire stuck ol Goods, embracing al
most every article usually kept in a Village store,
which have been selected with much care from the
Northern and Charleston markets.
Alsu, the beautiful situation of Mr. Thomas H.
White, known as “ Kachelur'e ('ullage ;”asingl»
story, built two years since, thirty feet long, with
a piazza of 12 feet in front, with live rooms, fitted
up in the best possible modern style, and well cal
culated fur a small family; together with all the
Furniture, consisting of hairs, fables, Bureaus,
Sofa, Carpets, lent re Table, Secretary and Book
Case, Sic. ike., all new. In the yard is a good frame
Kitchen, Meat House, Negro House, Stable, <kc,—
Attached there is 130 acres of land, 90 of which
are in cultivation and in good repair—a good portion
low ground, which has produced this year from 25
to 10 bushels ol corn per acre.
Also, a small Farm, one mile north of the Vll •
lage,containing 130 acres, with a good frame dwell
ing, orchard, ttc., and all his negroes that are not
willing to leave the State. Two or three of them
are first rate house servants.
Also, the much admired residence of Henry W.
Masscngale, known as “Me//use.”with two dwell
ings in the yard; one of which is neatly linished,
havingevtry necessary outbuilding convenient, and
put up sufficiently lummudiuus fur a large family;
ui the yard is as healthy and pure water as cm be
found in middle Georgia; a line and well selected
orchard of fruit trees, having attached near one
hundred acres of land, now in cultivation and Ml
good repair. Alsu, the whole of his household
furniture, all of which is new and of good patterns.
The whole of the above property will be told on
the most accommodating terms.and in such quanti
ties as to suit the convenience of the purchasers.
They would call the attention of those who wish
to merchandize at a place where Ibecusto ners of
the house of fhomas If. White ik < o, of twelve
years standing, art not surpassed for solvency by
any in Georgia, to such tbeie is nut a better eland
in the old counties —to the professional man here
Is a place worthy atrial.
The subscribers, in taking leave of theirold cus
tomers and friends, return their most grateful ac
knowledgments fur the favors bestowed for so ma
ny y.-ars, and respectfully solicit the payment of
all notes and accounts due them by the first day of
January next, as they wish to close their business
after that date as speedily as possible. All notes
and accounts unsett ed aftei the first day of Febru
ary next, will be put in a train for collection with
out further warning
TIIOS. H WHITE k CO.
Wrightsboro’, Ga., Oct. 31, 1839, am3m