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gn-LUcdi!u €liwnkk&oentind « ■! -11.-sb 1 J--aagaaa*giaMßWte« ■ 1,1 ■ i ■ 1 n — .1:.. -ju. .jr-i-_-:wMrnr-.L..-i - hi i ■ ■ WILLIAM E. JONES & Co. AUGUSTA, Ga. SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 18,1840. y OL IV _ No ~ mm^mw^m 1 'HK WEEKLY CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL IS PUBLISHED AT jhree Dollnrv per wununi Ib»*tb»««i At No. 209 Brood AND SENTINEL. * augustA. FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 17. ' #- r== 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